The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1874, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD OH ARNE OS AL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. "BENNETT, oR. JAMES GORDON PROPRI THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Votame XXXIX,............... }» BAZ AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | —_— WooOp's MUSEUM, ner of Thirtieth sireet —TH Katz PM. ts P.M. Or NBW FM. Lo Houston streets — u8 OF ACADIA, at 8 P.M oseph Wheelock and Miss lone Rowery —\ cluwes a6 10:50 P.M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Parisian Cancan Dapcers, at? P.M. M. No. and ats CENTRAL PARK Fifty-ninth street and Seventh CEST, at3 P.M; closes at 10: COLO. OMAS' CON. | Broadway. corner of Thirty-Atth ‘sireet LONDON BY | #aY. Open irom 10 A. M, till dask | ROMAN HIPPODROME, jadison avenue and Twenty-sixth street.-GRAND PAGEANT=CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at :30P. M. and acre WITH § Wew York, UPPLEMENT.. 1874, Saturday, August 1, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. ‘To NEWsDEALERS AND THE PuBLIC:— The New Yours Henarp will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- | ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Herarp along the line. Newsdealers | and others are notified to send in their orders to the Heaaxp office as early as possible. | From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, wilh light rains. Watt Srreer Yestrxpay.—Stocks were | heavy and generally showed realizations. | Gold opened at 109}, sold at 109} and 109 and closed at 1093. Tae Lines Anz Crosery Drawn in regard to steamers plying between Canadian and American ports by a recent order of the Secre- | tary of the Treasury. | aia | Tae Fourra Day or tux Goopwoop Races | closed yesterday after a good day's sport. Seventeen horses contested in the struggle for | the Chesterfield Cup. Mr. F. Smith's three- year-old Dalham won the cup in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. Cuemtsrry in all its mu! dinous branches has become such a boon to mankind in its ‘wondertul results that the centennial celebra- tion of its discovery must be interesting to all. dn another column will be found an account | of the ceremonies over the grave of Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen and one of 2he most distinguished chemists in history. Tsar Nationat Department oF JvstIcr, according to our latest telegrams, is in a state of unwarrantable excitement. Rumors were extensively in circulation in Washington yesterday that an accident of a serious nature had befallen Attorney General Williams. The omniscient telegraph, it scems, could not find his whereabouts. A Basy Murpeness, whose only excuse for | her crime seems to be a morbid feeling lead- | ing towards such an awful state of mind, isa fiend upon whom the utmost penalty of the Jaw should be inflicted. We have to-day the case of a young girl up town who indulged in @ mania for baby burning and who exhibits a ferocity in crime simply astonishing. Her case is asad comment upon the entire effi- ciency of our public schools. Tae Axsmerican Bast Bari clubs’ repre- sentatives continue to attract a considerable share of popular attention in England. The Red Stockings, of Boston, won the second exhibition game at Liverpool. The weather was not very favorable, and the attendance of | people was rather meagre. John Bull is be- coming interested, slowly, it must be acknowl- edged, in the new tield sport. It is difficult to move our friend John from his ancient base, but when he has been so moved in times past he has kept the ball going in quite a lively fashion. Tax Aspucrep Carp, over who the Philadelphia police have been siderably exercised, and whose fate is yet dn the land of uncertainties, is an interest- ing study to all newspaper readers. The dar- ing abduction of this child from one of the most crowded districts in a great city and the immunity enjoyed by the kid- mappers presents a phase of American social life in comparison to which social scandals sink into insignificance. The Phila- delphia police have been proved in this instance to be deficient of the most ne- cessary qualities supposed to coustitute etlicient guardians of the peace. so con- Mortow on tHe Stump.—The first siguifi- -cant speech of the opening Congressional Senator Morton, a digest of which will be | agents cannot readily be inquired into. a NEW YOKK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Indian Policy—A Wanted. No subject that comes before Congress has been more elaborately discussed and less efficiently treated than that of our Indian policy. Year after year we have exposures of the inefficiency of the existing system and | debates on propositions for reform; but hitherto they have been unproductive of practical results, and the evils are_per- mitted to continue in spite of the accu- mulating evidence of their enormity. | There is a universal recognition of the cor- ruption of the Indian agencies; of the failure | of the praiseworthy efforts of the Peace Com- missioners; of the folly of expecting to bring a savage race into civilization by the teach- ings and persuasions of a handful of excellent men. But we still keep on in the old rut, | appointing agents, appropriating moneys and perpetuating the errors of which we complain. When some such horror as that of the lava beds occurs, or when the summer months | bring in their regular Indian outbreaks, we | momentarily awake to the necessity of a change in our policy. As we read of the de- | vastation of settlements, of the outrage of | Women and of the slaughter of men and chil- | dren, we feel naturally indignant at the system Oar Statesman .;, which, under the specious guise of humanity | towards the savage, withholds or paralyzes the protection that is due to their victims. But when the necessities of the Indians drive them from the warpath and compel them to throw aside the tomahawk and the scalping knife | we are too ready to accept the excuses made for their crimes and to return to the policy which regards them as erring children. No doubt the inefficient treatment of the Indian question by Congress is due in great measure to the large interests involved in the Indian Bureau. Patronage, salaries and perquisites are at stake, to say nothing of the illegitimate gains that are said to be attached to the Indian agencies. The evils are far removed, and the conduct of the If the borders are undisturbed during the ses- sion of Congress, if there are no raids, mur- ders and outrages while our legislators are debating, the people are too apt to pass over the subject as one of only remote interest, and to look upon the result with indifference. Now and then some startling story of the corruptions connected with our Indian policy attracts attention, but it is soon forgotten, or is overshadowed by matters that affect us nearer home. The warning words of some intelligent and thoughtful soldier may make a momentary impression on the public mind, and there may be a spasmodic de- mand for reform in our treatment of the savages; but while the politicians remain indifferent or are interested in | the continuation of tho existing policy it is useless to hope for change. If the red glare of burning villages could cast its reflection on the Capitol; if the shrieks of women and children could ring in the cars of | if the recking scalps | our representatives; of the victims of savage be held before the eyes of tors and Congressmen, we might expect some efficient legislation on the Indian question, But these practical evidences of | the evils of our Indian policy are reserved for | remote regions, and only the persuasive voice of the Indian agent is heard in our legislative | hatls. So we travel on from year to year in | the same rut, playing into the hands of the | venal agents, sacrificing the lives of our soldiers and citizens, making a weak and in- | effective war against the savages, feeding | them in the winter, striving to win them to civilization, and all the time laying the ground- work for new outbreaks and horrors as soon | as the grass grows and the buffaloes are in | good condition for killing. There have been numberless suggestions in regard to the treatment of the Indian tribes. | The best of them have come from experi- | enced officers of the army, men who are | familiar with the character of the savages and | with the subject of which they speak. | These counsellors all concur in opinion that the bullet and the bayo- j net are the best rulers in Indian | territory. | of war makes such advisers merciless; but | thisan error. A true soldier is always hu- | Mane and mercifuR No peace advocate would go any further in the effort to prevent needless | bloodshed than would such men as Grant, | Sheridan or Sherman. But they understand | the Indian character, and they know that the | savages must be controlled by the strong | arm; that where an outbreak exists | the sharpest and severest punishment is the been almost unanimous in the opinion that the whole Indian management, in peace as well as in war, should be vested in the army, and we believe that the people at large indorse | , this proposition. Army officers are, as a rule, upright, honorable men, and | the business of the agencies would be more honestly administered by them | than by politicians or the friends of | politicians. Outrages are practised on the Indians by the agents, and, no doubt, the wrongs the savages suffer are often the main cause of Indian outbreaks. be removed by the transfer of the business of the agencies to the United States Army. At the same time few persons would be disposed to condemn or discourage any well directed efforts to civilize and Christianize the Indian tribes. If should transfer to the army the conduct of our peaceful trans- actions with the savages we believe we should remedy many of the evils that lie at the foun- we dation of all our Indian troubles, and benefit warfare could | ally concealed from the people? There | ena- | the | It is sometimes said that the trade | | truest mercy. Our military commanders havo | This evil would | Indian mind on civilized pursuits. Whilo the Indians are allotted reservations just beyond the borders of civilization, and are left to fol- low such pursuits as they may please and to herd together, raids and outbreaks with their attendant horrors must be of constant occurrence. The most. important step in a new and wiser policy would seem to be to separate the tribes as far as practicable, to put them on reservations in the rear of the advanced march of civilization, and to find employment for the young and active men. The latter might be accomplished by the for- mation of a large Indian branch of the United States Army, officered by white men, and in the training and employment of young Indians on the public works, Many other sugges- tions offer themselves in the same direction ; but these erude outlines of a plan may be worthy of consideration—the transfer of the business of the Indian agencies to the United States Army; the strengthening of our forces on the borders, with orders to make such warfare as may be forced upon us short, sharp and unsparing, in the cause of true mercy; the settlement of friendly tribes with- in the bounds of civilization; employment of young and active Indians in the army, on public works and in other directions. These are reforms in our Indian policy that seem to deserve the attention of any statesman who is ambitious of winning fame and deserving the gratitude of his countrymen. Our Financial Figures—Let Us Have Light, The questions put to Comptroller Green by Assistant Alderman Thornell are caretully prepared and should be explicitly answered. It is notorious that the statements laid before the people by the Finance Department are de- signed to conceal our true financial condition. We do not know to-day how much the city owes, | what amount of matured debt has been re- newed since the present Comptroller assumed office, how much new debt has been created, what is the amount of claims against the city or what is the exact condition of the Sinking | Fund. Mr. Thornell's inquiries cover these | points and others of like importance, and the | immediate attention of the Comptroller to the | demand for information should be insisted upon. If the accounts of the Finance De- partment are properly kept there can be | no difficulty in making a prompt reply. | With the liberal appropriations made for | clerk hire in that department, largely in ex- cess of the expenditures of any former ad- ministration, the Comptroller should be able | | to furnish the figures as readily as a bank | | president could supply a balance sheet of his | business for the last year. There are reasons why these questions | should be put at this time and answered in a | truthtul manner. Mayor Havemeyer has ex- | pressed himself on more than one occasion | | recently as dissatisfied with the manner of | | conducting the financial business of the city ! and as disposed to “let the people know the truth.’’ The truth about what? Is the true condition of the city finances actu- | is enough to justify such a suspicion. | The Comptroller, in his debt statement up to | the last day of December, struck out $665,000 | from the debt, which was not paid until | January and February, snd thus made an ap- | parent decrease of double that amount, de- | | ducting it from the total as “‘warrants paid,” | | and still leaving it in the Treasury to be de- | ducted again as money on hand. In the same | statement he represented the outstanding re- | venue bonds to be eight or nine million dol- | lars less than their actual amount. It has | | been found impossible to obtain from the Finance Department any information as to | the amount of outstanding claims against the city, or as to the amount of judgments and | law expenses. A report, said to have been | prepared by the Commissioners of Accounts, | | on outstanding claims has been suppressed. | All that we do know is that the Corporation | Counsel reported some time since that suits were then pending against the city and | county to the amount of about seven million dollars. The only report ever made by the | Commissioners of Accounts on the condition | of the Sinking Fund showed a singular dis- | crepancy between the amount of securities ; called for by the books and those actually | found in the tin box in which the securities | were kept, and, while that report was liberally | abused and denounced, it was never satisfac- | torily explained. Under these circumstances | Mr. Thornell’s questions must be regarded as | timely. Will the Comptroller answer them at | | once? Italy and Germany. Some two days ago we learned that Emperor William had made up his mind to make a visit to Rome on an early day. Taken in con- | nection with some other facts of the moment this projected visit to Victor Emmanuel is not without significance. Germany is cultivating | the most friendly relations with Spain; and it would seem as if the German government | were determined that the most stable govern- | ment in that country should have reason to regard Germany as a friend. All things indi- cate that the German government is resolved to take a position in Europe worthy of itself | and commensurate with its power. Italy, for | the first time in many centuries, has made a haughty demand on France. The steamship | Orenoque, stationed at Civita Vecchia, has | been a standing insult to the Italian people. It has been kept there ostensibly for the pur- pose of sheltering His Holiness the Pope in the event of his attempting to escape from Rome. Fallen as France is from her high estate, would Italy have dared to wake this demand without encouragement and promised the government, as well as the Indians, by support from Germany? We think not. It | putting a stop to existing corrup- | tions. [f, when outbreaks do oc- cur, we should crush them with ao strong and severe hand, we believe that we campaign is that delivered last evening by should be merciful to the savages and just to | But we need a policy in | M. Gambetta defended the French Republic | onr own people. is quite manifest that Germany means, by alliances and otherwise, to keep France in her | own proper place. Some trouble, however, may grow out of this Italian demand. Tar Frencw AssemBiy To Take A Recess. ~ found elsewhere. The avowed oracle of infla- | addition to this—a policy that will rid against the Septennate and the monarchy tion tonches upon the subject of finance some- | what more cautiously than was his wont in the Senate last winter. He, however, joyfully in- law as indicating that the ‘threat of con- traction” will not be accomplished. Senator Morton advocates the perpetuation of the na- tional bank system, the Civil Rights bill and Congressional regulation of railroad traffic and inter-State commerce, denounces free trade and reciprocity, and forcibly denies us the most speedily of the neces- | sity of supporting the red men | peace and of exterminating | Christian man. This is a subject which may well attract the attention of our statesmen, for in the success- ful solution of the question fies a triumph greater than can be achieved in any other direction. The’ main dif- during the session of the Assembly yesterday. in His address was interrupted at times by them in agitation terprets the passage of the new Currency war—a policy that will make the Indian a the members. civilized human being, a self-supporting and and tumult on the part of The Ministry, in reply, defended the Septennate and, in it, the | right of MacMahon's government. A motion to raise the state of siege was defeated. The Cabinet proposition for a legislative recess, from the 6th of August to the 30th of Novem- | ber, was carried by a large majority. And | thus will France breathe and wait. What that President Grant is in any way untrue to | ficulty appears to be in the separation | will come after the recess? A very difficult the party which elected him. of the tribes and the concentration of the | question | Cast a The Governor, the Mayor and the Politicians. . The cry put forth to save Mayor Have- meyer is not flattering to that unfortunate in- dividual, nor is it likely to deter Governor Dix from taking such action on the charges now undergoing investigation as his duty may require. It is that inasmuch as Mr. Have- meyer's term of office is so near its close, and as the peril he has encountered will teach him pradence for the short remainder of his official existence, itis not worth while to re- move him, The plea for mercy is a danger- ous one, and should not be admitted. In this affair Mr. Havemeyer is nothing—the Tam- many politicians are nothing, The public interest is alone to be studied, and if the Mayor has been guilty of such official miscon- duct and such disregard of law as to deserve removal he should be removed if only a week of his official term ro- mained. A great principle is at stake. If the Governor should refuse to exercise the power vested in him by the law it will be accepted as an admission of the right of a Mayor to reappoint a public officer after he has been convicted of a violation of his oath of office and stripped of his position by the law. It will deprive the power of removal of all influence in the future, and will reduce to an absurdity that provision of the charter which declares that a conviction of a public officer on a charge of violating the law shall disqualify him from holding office under the city government thereafter. It would be establishing a most objectionable precedent if the Governor should condemn the act of the Mayor and yet suffer him to retain the position he has abused. LEither the Mayor has committed such an act as demands his removal or he has done nothing inconsistent with his duty as the guardian of the public interests. If he deserves censure, then he is unfit to be Mayor of the city of New York. Governor Dix is not a man to shrink from the performance of a duty, and we believe he will take just this view of the case. Besides, the plea that Mr. Havemeyer will do no more mischief must be received with doubt. It has been asserted by his nearest friends that tho dismissal of the signal for a general raid on all the public officials who have incurred his displeasure, and that the scandalous turmoil and con- fusion in the government will be increased. It is as well that the Governor should understand the political considerations under- lying these appeals to his generosity. In case of the suspension or removal of Mr. Have- meyer Mr. Vance will be Acting Mayor of the city. Mr. Vance as an administration repub- lican pleases neither Tammany Hall nor the ‘iberal’’ republicans. He does not please | Mr. Green either, for the reason that he has taken a determined stand in favor of economy in the public expenditures and a thorough re- form in our financial management. The Tam- many politicians have carried the war against Mr. Havemeyer just as far as they desire it to go. They have proved his misdeeds and have stigma upon such “reform’’ he represents. They would now rejoice if Governor Dix would identify himself with Havemeyer's follies, blunders and offences by refusing to remove him from office. They desire that the present squabbling and inaction of the city depart- ments shall continue, and would regret that Mr. Vance should have the opportunity, in five months of authority as Mayor, to redeem the character of ‘‘reform’’ and fix its failure un- mistakably upon one unfortunate selection. The “liberal’’ republicans do not wish to see Mr. Vance in power for obvious reasons. They do not want him as the next republican and reform nominee for Mayor. These are the reasons why the democrats have grown suddenly anxious to save Mayor Havemeyer, and why the “‘liberal’’ republicans think that, as his term of office is so near its close, it is not worth while to turn him out. Governor Dix can see through such advice without the aid of glasses. Tse Vickssura Feop.—Throughout the struction which had for its object the con- tinuance of a party in power rather than the best interest of the section are manifesting toward each other which promises the most disastrous consequences, In Vicksburg, where the feeling at one time seemed likely to culminate in bloodshed at an early day, the catastrophe has been, for the present, happily avoided by the firmness and forbearance of the white citi- zens, added to the sober second thought of the colored people, and the city, as stated by The former are preparing for an energetic campaign in the forthcoming municipal elec- tion, by which they hope to relieve themselves from the rule of the ignorant blacks and cor- equal to one-fifth of the taxable real and per- sonal property of the city. Governor Ames Executive, with a discretion it might well have exercised in previous cases, declines to furnish. Tar Retations or THE SPANISH AND FRENCH Rervusuics are becoming exceedingly compli- cable news reports, to become still more 50, The Spaniards allege a formidable bill ot indictment against the French, charging the Versailles government with constant favor of the Carlists. In the meantime it is anticipated in Madrid that the advent of the | German squadron to the coast will cause the | Spanish navy to pronounce in favor of the Carlists. A Paris journal alleges that a new portion of the proceeds forwarded to Spain. Will the German and Latin royalists be able to extinguish the Latin race Republics in Europe? or will the crowns have to meet the revolution? Tne Porr’s Appress To Yoururvt Priests. — livered a short time since to a number of young clergymen, representing many of the fold of the Universal Church—America particu- larly—is published in the Henatp to-day. It is one of the most emphatic and important utterances which has faiien from the lips of the Holy Father since the ovening of the charges now made against him will be the | South the legitimate results of that recon- | | enjoyment of a simple, virtuous life, and sar- | themaclves daily, and the two races are gradu- | ally crystallizing in an attitude of hostility | our correspondent, was never more peaceful | rupt carpet-baggers, who have rolled up a debt | reiterates his call for federal troops, which the | cated, and likely, if we can judge by our , and glaring violations of neutrality in | Carlist loan has been successfully placed and a | The address which Pope Pius the Ninth de- | great nationalities which are embraced in the. Vatican Counoil. He cautions the missionaries against pride and against intricate and cum- bersome doctrine, and exhorts them to the endarance of a continual fight against tempta- tion, particularly against the temptation to one sin, which ho indicates pretty plainly, and which, we may observe, is the one the commission of which is alleged with so much vehemence just now against the most distinguished preacher in America. The beautiful and apt use which Pio Nono makes of the narrative of David's victory over Goliah, after David had been re- lieved from the heavy armor of Saul, proves in a moment the aptness of the Ponuff as an illustrator of Bible history. Iceland. There ore few of our readers, no matter how much they may be absorbed in immediate and personal affairs, who will not give a thought to the interesting people far removed in the cold and lonely northern seas, who to- day celebrate the thousandth year of their national existence. It is difficult to think of Iceland as a real country with a real people, and a history also of more than ordinary in- terest. It has grown into a fable or a poem in our modern thought, and we think of it as we do of the land of the ‘Arabian Nights’ and the cities of Haroun al Raschid; as a country of the imagination, existing only in the fancy of poets and writers of fairy tales. To be sure, we should have more than an ordinary interest in Iceland, as the home of those hardy Norsemen who, according to Scandinavian legends, first discovered Amer- ica. It was something to have found this Continent, even if these Norsemen afterwards lost it, and we are not without hope that the scientific men who attend this celebration— -men, for instance, like Dr. L I. Hayes, the celebrated Arctic explorer, who represents the New York Herap—will bring back with them new data to enable us to determine how closely we are related to the Norse- men, or whether the influence of those early discoverers is at all impressed upon the character and traditions of our aboriginal tribes. It has long been with us a debated question whether the various forms of human life and development that existed in America before the advent of Columbus were independent of the forms that ex- isted in the older commandments. The tra- dition that some of the early discoverers of America remained in this country and became assimilated with our Indian tribes bas long existed in Iceland, and it would be in- teresting to discover whether or not it is true. In other respects Iceland is a country well worth the closest study. Here are manifesta- tions of nature, wild and bold volcanic and Arctic forms, peculiarly interesting to us in an age when there are no seas to explore but those around the North Pole. Here is an island not more than two-thirds the size of Pennsylvania, with the population of o second class American inland town, that is simply a desert studded with geysers the fur northern ocean, and around the rim of which still clings a small, resolute, intelligent and patriotic population. Although every natural and supernatural influence seems to have combined to make the island impossible as the home of men, those who dwell there show a love for it unsurpassed by | that of the Frenchman for his vine hills or the Swiss for his valley. For centuries it has been o bitter and almost hopeless contest. Here man has had to battle with the ice and the frost, the earthquakes and the | volcanic eruptions; the winters when there is no day and the summers when there is no night; the barren soil, which grudges a meagre harvest; the absence of the resources and com- forts of ordinary civilization; a country without shops or prisons or carriages; without an army, @ navy or a policeman ; withoutan established Church or militia—simply, as we have said, one vast desert, fringed bya belt of pasture | land. Yet, as showing how, even in the most adverse conditions, mankind is equal to any duty Providence imposes upon it, in no coun- try more than in Iceland do we find a cul- tured, kind and honest people, content in the passed by none other in intelligence, courage | and patriotism. Trouble in the Parks. | réyime in which the public of New York take a special interest the Department of Public Parks stands first. The labors of the gentle- men in charge of this all important branch of the city government for some years past have been encouraged in every way as long as their efforts were directed toward the improve- ment of what has been so aptly named “the lungs of the motropolis.” But trouble has arisen even here. One of the Commissioners, Mr. Stewart, records his veto against the pay- ment of sundry bills in the Department of charter prohibits the payment of any salaries to his brother Commissioners, the President alone excepted, and he decidedly puts his face against granting any further emolument to Superintendent Ryan beyond that which he enjoys from the rental of restaurants within the confines of Central Park. The obdurate Stewart alleges that an employé of the city government engaged in business of this kind is acting in direct violation of the terms of the charter. It is quite an exciting question | of debate in city matters and may reach be- | yond the ken of the Park Commissioners. | Benovarep Hompvuro.—We publish in an- other column an interesting letter on the | present state of Homburg. It was expected | that the abolition of the gaming tables would | ruin the town; but, strangely enough, the dis- | appearance of the elegant blacklegs who | thronged nightly around its gaming tables has | been followed by an influx of respectable visit. | ors who more than make up for the disap- | pearance of gambling noblemen and the very | questionable society by which they were sur- | rounded. There isa healthy lesson in these | frocks which ought not to be lost on ourselves. j Persons friendly to gamblers and blacklegs have urged that the suppression of games of chance has had the effect of driving Western merchants away from our marts. It this be | true the loss is more apparent than real. Western merchants who come to the city to gamble must be a dangerous class of custom- ers, and New York need not weep over them. By and by the reward will come, for as the black sheep disappear honost people will come to us with greater confidence, and, like Hom- and volcanoes, that has been abandoned in | Of all the departments under the municipal | Parks. He is of opinion that the present city | ti burg, we will find that the best basis for pros- perity is strict honesty. Street Clea: g—The New Brooms, The newly constructed Police Board ig making an effort to clean the streets, and cer- tainly with some improvement over tho old system. Under the rule of Gardner, Pres- sident, Charlick, Treasurer, and Thorne, Superintendent, the cleaning and sweeping were confined to cleaning out the Treasury and sweeping the money into the pockets of a contractor's “ring.” Except where a profit was to be made out of manure or by ‘“dump- ing” at Hunter's Point there was but httle done in the Street Cleaning Bureau beyond drawing the monthly payments. Now the Commissioners appear disposed to exert themselves on behalf of the people, and to give some return for the liberal appropriations made for the bureau. To that ond thoy are inviting suggestions and making personal in- vestigations with a view to an improvement in the manner of doing the work as well as in the personnel of the force.’ Probably the best thing they can do will be to begin at the head of the bureau and work downwards, instead ot beginning at the foot and working upwards. By the dispensation of Providence and the verdict of o jury Gardner and Charlick have been disposed of ; but Thorne remains. The Police Commis- sioners, being better informed men than Mayor Havemeyer, may have heard of the existence of a legislative investigating com- mittee last winter, before which testimony was taken in regard to the management of the Street Cleaning Bureau. They may be aware of the fact that a report was made by that committee, in which acts of official miscon- duct and incompetency were charged against the bureau; but they may have forgotten how far the evidence and report im- plicated the head of the bureau in the alleged offences. It would do no harm if the present Police Commissioners, who are supposed to be independent of In- spector Thorne, would glance over the logis- lative committee's report and then decide whether tho Street Cleaning Bureau ought to remain any longer under the management of a superintendent placed there by Gardner and Charlick, or whether any great improvement can be expected in the street cleaning busi- ness until the evils enumerated by the Assem- bly Committee shall have been remedied by the removal of their principal cause. There is no more important and no more. difficult work to be performed under the city government than the cleaning of the streets, Up to the present time no attempt has been made to perform it honestly and thoroughly. It seems to have been regarded as a placer to be worked for the benefit of contractors and officials, and not a duty to be discharged in he interest of the people. How much can be made out of it, and not how can it be well done, has been the query suggested to the minds of those having control of the business, If the present Police Commissioners are hon- estly resolved to reform all this and to keep the streets clean the people will applaud their determination and will not begrudge them a libetal appropriation. But thero will be little use in adopting lesser reforms and leaving the Management as it was when an invostigating committee found that the fands expended on the work had been shamefully wasted, that corruption permeated the bureau and that incompetency linked with dishonesty marked the whole conduct of the street cleaning business. The Police Commissioners have given us a good Superintendent of Police; let them now give us a good Superintendent of the Street Cleaning Bureau. After that they may hope to secure a lasting improve- ment in this important branch of their duty. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Chief Justice Waite is at Toronto, Secretary Belknap returns to Washington to-day. Mr. John McCaliough, the actor, 18 at the Sturte- vant House. General Butler has had a town in Minnesota called aiter bim. In Nevada they explain “nest-hiding” as “Hen- | Dery’s favorite lay.” + Henry Clay Dean wants to change his habits by cleaning Schurz out. Mr. Eugene Schuyler'is spoken of as American Minister at St. Petersburg. Rev. Dr. J. R. Wilson, of Colambia, 5S. C., is regts- tered at the Everett House. General R, L, Gibson, of New Orleans, is atop ping at the New York Hotel. Congressman Clymer, of Pennsylvania, is resid- ~ ing at the Unton Square Hotel. General Thomas L, Rosser, of Minnesota, is quar- tered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. Jolin W. Forney, Jr., of Philadeiphia, haa | arrived at the Westminster Hotel. Senator James K. Kelly, of Oregon, yesterday arrived at the Grand Central Hotei. Ex-Governor Richard C. McCormick, of Arizona, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Some peopie think Moulton is a candidate for President—he 1s 80 like the spninx, Mr. William M. Long, United States Consul at Panama, is sojourning at the Astor House. Congressman James S. Negiey, of Pittsburg, ta among the recent arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Governor Carpenter, of fowa, is a genutne gran- ger. He ts now harvesting on his arm ia Webster county. Mr. John Newell, President of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, has apartments at the Claren- don Hotel. Secretary Bristow arrived in the city yesterday morning trom Washington, and is at the Pith Avenue Hotel. Now that Batier's fine [talan hand can be de- tected, the St. Louis Globe thiaks Mr. Beecher may as well begin to rehearse. Lieutenant Colonel Meares, of the Twentieth tn- fantry, British Army, is at the Grand Central Hotel, He will sail ior England in one of to-lay's steamers, General Andres Simon Ibarra, Secretary of the | Venezuelan Legation at Washington, and brotner- in-law of President Guzman Blanco, has rooms at the Fith Avenue Hotel, Isn't it about time the New Bedford Standard took down that picture of Vharies Sumner it has keptinits advertising columns for weeks’ itu hot the right tuing that be should be used to adt- | Vertise the town tailor, Frank Lamadrid was seized with a fit ata batt, and died soon aiterward, and 18 widow sues cer- tain Knights of Pythias for $100,000 damages, alieg- ing that her hasband’s death was caused by (aja- | ries received at nis initiation into the Order a short lime before. Baron Geymfillir, Mr. Van Hengelmiitier, of the Austrian Legation at Washington; Count Campo Alegre, General J. H. Martindale, United States Army; Colonel F. Reeder, United States Army, and Mr. A. Vanderpool, sail to-day in the steamship Glty of Richmond for Europe. The whole police force of Jefferson, Texas, were fecently arraigned before the Mayor of that thriv~ ing city on the cbarge of vagrancy. The cuarge was preierred by the families of the policemen om the ground that the officers had no visible meana of support, aa they had received yut $12 from sae ity to che last five moatha.