The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1874, Page 6

NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD ——e——— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR boinc THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorg Herarp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. eee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 PLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. No. 257 © AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT,. MUSEUM, Broadway, corner i bir ADY GF_ LYONS, Ree ye THE GASLIGHT, at8b. M.; closes | at 10:3) P! M, Louis Aldrich and Miss Sophie Miles, OLYMPIC THEATRE, | No, (24 Broadway.—VARIBTY, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 PM. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, THE SCHOOL FOR -CANDAL, at SP. M.; closes at 11 Pou. Miss Fauny | avenport, Mise Sara Jewett, Lewis | James, Charles Fisher. 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TONY PASTOR’s OPERA HOUSE, No, 21 Bowery.—VAKIETY, at 5 P.M. | uM, gd ot Lhirty-flitu street—PARIS BY oP. M. | Broadway and ‘hirteent ON PARLE FRANCAIS, and © ;Closesat P.M. J, L Joole. TRIPLE SHEET, Ct CLERKS, ICI Ue LINE, at 82. New York, Monday, Sept. 14, 1874 From our reports this morning the probabilicies are that the weather to-day will be cloudy with possibly light rains. Tur Jensey Crry Orricens’ Piston Prac- | mice, recorded elsewhere, is well deserving of attention. As the human target may | die, it would be well to ascertain who was the marksman, that the honors of a jury present- ment may be accorded him without delay. To Frexcn Lrrerarvke some interesting | contributions bave recently been made, some | of which are described in our Paris letter to- day. The ‘Life of Scribe’ is one of the most important of these works, as it treats fully of | the principles of dramatic authorship. Its translation, however, seems hardly necessary, as our American dramatists are thoroughly ac- quainted with French and can do the work for themselves. Deer Sza Sovunprycs.—We publish else- where a communication upon the subject of | deep sea soundings, as exemplified in the recent papers ot Commandant Belknap, on the Pacific, in preparation for the laying of a | cable upon the bed of that ocean. The de- | scription of the instruments used and the | manner of making the castings, whereby the depths are ascertained, are of great interest. A detailed report of the soundings made, with the character of the bottom at the various points, is also furnished. ‘Tae Brack Hii1s.—Onur correspondent, who accompanied the Commissioners appointed to locate the new agency for Spotted ‘Lail’s band in their trip to the Black Hills, reports the location made at the head of Beaver Creeg. While there he concluded to take the oppor- tunity of bringing away some of the gold re- ported to be lying around that region rather | profusely, but was unable to obtain even the | color of the auriferous metal. This is a good hint for intending gold hunters in that region. Mr. Caarres O'Conor has given his views upon the present condition of the country, | and while be is not convinced that a national convention would improve it, being ‘not | much in favor of conventions as a general rule,” he is firm as to the importance of a change. His views on the subject of the | South, the democracy, the negro and the New York Governorship ate very fully given. He | favors the nomination of Mr. Tilden, and em- phatically indorses him as the champion of | reform, to whose exertions the downfall of the Tweed Ring was greatly due. All that Mr. O'Conor says will be read with interest, for Le deals with the vital questions of the time, Execvrioy or 4 Munperer.—The old toper who denied that any whiskey could be bad, although he admitted that some whiskey might be better than others, is not supported in this conclusion by the confession of Joseph Michaud, who was executed at Manitoba re- cently for the murder of an unoffending man, Michaud was p soldier, “kind, good natured and generous when sober, but under the influ- ence of liquor @ bloodthirsty wild beast.” Drunk with the worst whiskey, he started out | to kill somebody, and literally cut his victim to pieces, Hundreds of murderers on the scaffold have warned their bearers of the dan- gers of rum, aud Michaud has been added to fue apmber, / | incalculable changes as to leave nothing fur- | | are affected by the common human emotions | in character than rum and idleness will account | | Sunday school saints brought up to receive } Jot the observances that were the Soathern Troubles and the Prospects of Reconstruction. If the Southern States were in a condition ot absolute tranquillity, if the eqailibrium be- tween the two races was maintained justly assured, as they are in well-governed cities, | these facts would be without parallel in the history of humanity. Where has it ever bap- | pened that, with the social foundations broken up bya war which desolated every fireside, with millions of slaves, not merely made free, but endowed with political rights, of whose limitations they could have but a vague com- | prehension; with the entranchised class fa- | vored by the protection and countenance of | | the conqueror, whose generosity is so far abused by his functionaries that he becomes an oppressor—whore with these elements has | it ever happened that the people have taken their places again in the new order with such | | good will, such content, such acceptance of | ther in that way to be desired? It has never | happened and never will happen while men | and passions. Furthermore, we do not be- | lieve it has ever yet happened in the world | that a people accepted the hard consequences of a disastrous defeat with even so much of | heroic patience as has been shown by our own people in the Southern States. So far, therefore, from seeing any just cause for surprise in the occasional ebullitions of fury that disturb the South, the greater reason for wonder is that such events are the exception to the general condition ; that the people, with such widespread unanimity, have returned to their everyday life, to the occu- pations and pursuits of peace, and that the restoration of order and industry measured | by production is well nigh compiete, and that crimes are no greater in number and no worse for in any community equally free. One | might fancy, from the attitude the government | assumes when it hears of a Southern riot— and it never hears of such an event save with | the characteristic exaggeration of the politi- cal adventurers with whom itis affiliated— that it expected the energetic and hot-tem- pered people of the Southern States toassume, |, and life, property and respect for rights were | | moment Napoleon became conditions of the rehabilitation of the Southern | Did Jackson Meditate a Third Term? States? No; it is known that the Southern people are earnestly doing their utmost to | live peaceably—to stand loyally by all the conditions of their restoration to political rights. But no people can be sure of its disorderly classes. No community can give |} a guarantee that murder, arson, robbery or other outrage will not be committed in its midst; neither can the South, more than any other community, give such a guarantee, and to hold that because outrages are committed by the disorderly therefore the whole people must forfeit the position they have gained by the progress that reconstruction has already made, is merely the atrocious pretence of | those who have ends to gain in the general wretchedness of the Southern people. Because of this fact in our political con- dition it is urgently necessary that the people should come to an understanding as apart from the office-holders and functionaries who pretentiously represent them, but who abuse their position to secure their own advantage and betray the cause the nation has at heart, which is the tull and sound restoration of national unity in feeling and purpose. Con- gress has utierly filed, and we see no other | hope for reconstruction such as it should be than a national convention. The Death of Guizot. Another great name has been inscribed upon the scroll of the illustrious dead—Frangois Pierre Guillaume Guizot. The name was already but a memory, for the man long ago had become a stranger to this generation. He was the survivor of a deluge—one of those men whom the waves of time bear out of the strife and turmoil of the world to the serene heights of contemplation and repose. At the extreme age of eighty-seven Guizot could look back upon his life and see in that small, narrow mirror the reflection of the his- tory of modern Europe. career as a simple student the French Revolu- tion had just revenged the wrongs of three centuries. “He became a man almost at the a tyrant, It was not his nature to yield easy allegiance to the conqueror, nor to worship the burning sun of Austerlitz, the fiery star of war. All in the presence of apprehended outrage, the placid demeanor of a procession of litile | the gift in each fat little band of a nice | orange anda pretty picture. But governments wisely administered consider the character | of the people subject to their rule and en- deavor to oontrol them such as they are, and do not put in their places an imaginary people to be ruthlessly crushed if they are not found ready to adapt themselves to some arbitrary standard of good behavior. Judged properly, it is as clear as noonday that not an event has occurred in the South that we had not abund- | ant reason to expect would occur—that was not in fact prepared and made inevitable by the government and its creatures; and also not an event has occurred that would not have — occurred in any Northern State in the same circumstances. Do we at the North in times of disorder control our tempers and our ac- tions so well that we can afford to threaten | military occupation to districts where popular apprehension takes the form of administering | | some swift justice? If in the rural districts of any Northern State it was confessed by indi- viduals of any particular class of the people that a scheme was on foot among their fellows | to spread fire and slaughter through the whole community, who believes that anybody but | the coroners would ever have occasion to in- | vestigate the case? Prepare deliberately the events that will | irritate and excite a people and that must provoke them to violent acts if they are | human; then wait till the violence you have | prepared for occurs, and send your troops to | occupy their cities. Is this the spirit of | reconstruction that is to make the country one again? This is the plan that seems the | ‘wisest to Gencral Grant's Attorney General—to \ | the head of the national department of | | justice. If Mr. Williams proposes to himself results such as were secured by a distinguished man in another department of justice in a | tormer age, he chooses his means accurately. If he wishes that his fulmination of the national justice shall become as famous in this country as was that of Jeffreys in Eng- land, he will continue as he has begun. Already he has narrowly missed the splendid reward of the Chief Justiceship—the price of his services in such a reconstruction of Louisiana as has accomplished the worst pur- poses that the worst of party plunderers could possibly propose to themselves. And again, he lends himself as the ready tool of a further application of similar projects. Grant, indifferent as he seems to opinion, keeps himself out of it, and stays away as if thereby the results might not fall on his record. And the commander of the army, as clear-headed in politics as he i8 in war, though ousted from the national capital by an intrigne, that he might not be in the way of projects to which he could never assent, protests that there is no occasion to send troops into the Southern States. But the man who “reconstructed’’ Louisiana, and who would, if left alone, have reconstructed Ar- kansas, is evidently ready to reconstruct as many other States as the wicked designs of a | plundering clique may require. But even | Jeffreys, with all his atrocities, was at last | compelled to say, ‘I was not halt bloody even for him that sent me;’’ and let Williams be- ware lest at last he shall find himself unequal | to the infamy demanded, and so lose not merely his reward, but even the right to claim it, Our honor as a people is pledged to the permanency of reconstruction, so far as it has gone; to its immunity from any unjust or pitiful interference on our part. Although, to use words in an extreme sense, the lives and property and rights of the Southern people, as they now hold them, may be called the gift of the Northern people, because they were forfeited, yet the mere fact of giving a thing commits the giver to a certain course. We cannot withdraw the gift at will. There was, moreover, an implied condition. They were to accept some laws that we proposed and live according to them, and thus it be- came a compact. By the strongest ties of po- litical morality, therefore, we are bound to respect the progress that reconstruction has already made. For us there is no escape from the compact but its violation from peace and permanent authority. With such a meteoric spirit as that of Napoleon he could not sympathize; the wars the ambitious Corsican made against Italy, Austria, Russia and England were not his wars, and he refused to become even a silent and inactive supporter of the First Empire. It required high moral courage m the young assistant Professor of History in the Univer- sity of Paris to decline to even compliment the Emperor in his’ first address to the students, but this he did. Napoleon could control Europe, but he could not triumph over Guizot. The resist- ance of one man 1s sometimes defeat for which no military victory can compensate. Guizot saw the beginning of the Napoleonic dynasty, and lived to rejoice in its end. At | least, like Moses, he lived to behold the prom- ised land; for though a fourth Napoleon may be possible, a filth of the narae will never be known to history. Guizot began his political life humbly, as | State, and | secretary to a Minister of ended it as the real master of France under Louis Philippe. From 1814 to 1848, when the revolution swept the inter- lude and parenthesis of royalty away, he | was a politician, and, for a great portion of that period, practically the ruler of his natidh, At war with Thiers, op- to make permanent a constitutional mon- archy, Guizat, with few interruptions, held the real power of the government, Whether he ruled wisely it is not our province now to determine; perhaps he might have postponed, but it is unlikely that he could have prevented, the revolution. But when it came his career as a statesman was ended. When Louis Napoleon crawled into the throne the great Napoleon by his sword had won, Guizot was too pure to profit by that treason to France, and when the Empire ended he was too old to give his country any better aid than the example of his life. That Guizot was not entirely great history may decide, but he has never been accused of infidelity to his own principles. He was narrow, intense, rigid, and struggled in vain to establish in France a form of government which is already becoming impossible in England. The constitutional monarchy is an idea of the past; this age lives in extremes, and does not accept com- promises between tyranny and freedom. Yet, though Guizot was notentirely a man of this age, he impressed himself strongly upon France. His political work will pass away, but.his great literary works will endure. He was professor, government employé, journal- ist, Minister, historian, and in all these pur- suits had but one purpose, and in each of them he was eminent. He had outlived his own usefulness, but he could look upon a ca- reer which had many errors but not a single stain. Brecuer’s Sappatu.—Whatever effect the publication of Moulton’s statement may ul- timately have upon the popularity and in- fluence of the great Plymouth pastor, it has certainly not decreased the number of those eager to listen to his words of wisdom or his power to satisfy their longings, if the demon- stration at the Twin Mountain House yester- day may be taken as a criterion. Mr. Beecher preached with all his old unction and power one of his ebaracteristic sermons—based upon words of the great apostle whom he so much admires, to an audience of two thonsand peo- ple, the drift of his discourse bemg ‘What constitutes the true liberty of the Christian?” whom, as is Lis wont, he declares to be a positive and rot a negative creatioe. Accord- ing to our correspondent, Mr. Beecher has not read the statement of his quondam friend and present antagonist, in which fact, perhaps, may be found a solution of the genial state of .mind he is said to maintain; yet, if it has no greater effect on him than on his friends, the Piymouth pastor may read it and still look happy. Tae Carrie Disease in Connecticut has attained such proportions that it has attracted the attention of eminent scientific gentlemen of that State, and an effort will be made to lessen the shipment of Western and Indian the other side, Has the South failed ioe jed_| heen traced, cattle, to which the origin of the disease has When he began his | the inclinations of this man were for order, | posed to Lamartine and progress, striving | low to a reporter of the Hxnratp in the inter- view published yesterday deserves to be refuted and exploded, since, if believed, it will en- | courage the third term parasites of General | Grant. Mr. Brownlow’s statement, made, as | he asserts, on the authority of the late Johy | Bell, cannot possibly be true, It is not always easy to prove a negative; but it so happens in this case that an overwhelmingly conclusive | demonstration can be given that President | Jackson never contemplated nor thought of a | third term. Everybody whois at all acquainted | with the politics of that period knows that General Jackson had hardly been inaugurated a second time before he indicated his purpose to support Martin Van Buren for the next election. This was so well understood that Mr. Clay (Private Correspondence, p. 362) in a letter, writtenein May, 1833, less than three months after the inauguration, al- luded to Van Buren as ‘‘General Jackson's designated successor.” In the following Angust Mr. Clay (Private Correspondence, p. 369) used this language respecting Jackson: — “One thing was wanted to complete the public degradation, and that was that he should name his successor. This he has done, and there is much reason to believe that the people will ratify his nomination.’’ Nothing could be easier than to accumulate proofs that Jackson labored steadily to make Van Buren the democratic candidate for 1836, until he secured that object by his nomina- tion at so early a period as the middle of his own second term. ‘This historical fact is inconsistent with the, idea that Jack- son ever had any thought of a third term. If Grant had caused it to be under- stood immediately after his second inaugura- tion that he wished Conkiing clected as hig successor, if he had pushed his favorite with such vigor as to have got the National Repub- lican Convention assembled last May for the nomination of Conkling, no man in his senses could have believed that Grant had cast for- bidden eyes on a third election, Van Buren was nominated in May, 1835, by a national convention which Jackson had hastened and | which his supporters had packed to make the | nomination unanimous. If Grant had caused a packed convention to assemble last May to } | ‘The surprising statement of Senator Brown- | immediately aiter his entrance on his second term all the third term talk would be su- premely silly and foolish. General Jackson’s motive in precipitating | party action for Van Buren was as well un- derstood at the time as the fact. His purpose was to head off and crush Calhoun, with whom he had had a bitter quarrel in 1831, whom he hated with all the intensity of his impetuous nature and whom he had threatened to hang | in the nullification excitement of 1833, He feared that Calhoun would get the Southern democratic vote, and for that reason he began to push Van Buren and get the party com- mitted to him from the moment of his own second inauguration. Mr. Clay, alluding to Calhoun, in 1833, said, speaking of the demo- cratic nomination:—‘'The contest will be be- tween him and Van Buren.” But Jack- son put his favorite in the field so early that there was no room for a contest at all. It is preposterous to say that while he was thus exerting all his influence to forestall Cal- houn and get the party irretrievably commit- ted to Van Buren years in advance of the elec- tion, Jackson desired a third term. If he had had such a wish John Bell was the last man in the country to know it. Bell wasa promi- have made a confidant on such a subject than Grant would of Senator Thurm :n. It was Jackson's settled conviction that the constitution ought to be so amended as to the people and forbid a re-election. He sent eight annual messages to Congress, and in every message of the eight he pressed his standing recommendation for a change of this from the first message of his second term is a succinct expression of his views on this sub- ject:—‘‘I would also call your attention to the views I have heretotore expressed of the pro- priety of amending the constitution in rela- tion to the mode of electing the President and Vice President of the United States. Regard- ing it as all-important to the future quiet and harmony of the people that every inierme- diate agency in the election of these officers should be removed, and that their eligibility should be limited to one term of either four or six years, I cannot too earnestly invite your consideration of the subject.” The most un- fortunate authority that could have been cited to countenance the third term folly is that of Andrew Jackson. Another Police Outrage. The proper way to punish policemen who are found guilty of outrage upon the citizens they are sworn to protect is neither repn- mand nor dismissal from the force. They de- serve to be tried and imprisoned like other criminals, and as they hold public positions of trust, and have extraordinary authority, their offences should have exceptionally heavy punishment. We have recently reported several cases of the kind, but none worse than the arrest of three respectable women, one of them married, by a policeman named Will- iam T. Graham. These ladies are employed in a manufactory in Broadway, and wore re- turning to their homes at night, having been detained late by their work. They were insulted by some men on the street, and the policeman arrested not the men but the women. They were taken to the police station, locked in a cell all night and in the morning were ar- raigned as common prostitutes. ‘Their irre- proachable characters were, of course, easily proved, and they were discharged, the officer receiving @ severe reprimand from Justice Murray. Here the matter is likely to end unless the Board of Police Commissioners take the proper action. The ladies who were arrested on such a charge, dragged to a cell like felons, brought up in couri as prostitutes, have no desire to attract further publicity, and are not likely to prosecute the officer. But they cannot refuse to attend as witnesses, and it is the duty of the Board to make this policeman an example. His conduct was brutal. He al- lowed the blackguards to go free and arrested the women they insulted. Every citizen is interested in his punishment, and no virtuous woman can be considered safe if such things are to be tolerated. The reputation of many a good girl might be ruined forever by the nominate a successor whom he had designated | nent whig, of whom Jackson would no more | give the election of the President directly to | part of the constitution. The following passage | | these ladies, notwithstanding their bumilia- tion and intense distress, are fortunate that they had respectable protectors’ and stand above suspicion. The New Light on the Geography of the North Pole. The results gathered by the Austrian Polar expedition, of which we have obtained as yot only an inkling, are very suggestive to the many who take an interest in geographical re- search. It is little curious that the an- nouncement by telegram of the region to which they penetrated reached us shortly after laborious Austrian meteorologist, Dr. Chavanne, theoretically indicated the geo- graphy of the unknown region in which lay the scene of their exploration. This last named scientist has recently published in Petermann's Journal the conclusions he ar- rives at from applying to Arctic geography a physical principle which was proposed by Lieutenant Maury for ascertaining the nature of unexplored regions, The principle is very simple, and consists in interpreting the trend of the isothermal lines as a guide to discovery in the ico regions, Many years ago Alexander von Humboldt sagaciously proposed to the navigators on the Chilian coasts, where, during the Peruvian season of the garua (or mist), ships are una- ble to recognize the shores and sail past their ports, to determine their latitude by the local direction of the magnetic curves. An analo- gous use of the isothermal curves, for finding icy and iceless paths in the mysterious regions of the Arctic basin, has been ingeniously fol- lowed up by Dr. Chavanne, with results of great geographic interest. Wore the Polar areas north of eighty degrees north latitude one uniform ocean we should expect, as explorers penetrate northward, to find the climatic conditions of winter and summer approach more nearly to each other than if there were large land masses. A pere vading dampness and comparative mildness | in north winds might be counted upon did the latter blow over an unbroken expanse of water. But an exhaustive analysis of the summer, of all Arctic places whose mean temperatures are known, dissipates and ex- cludes this hypothesis. Great extremes and great dryness ark many of the winds which blow from the yet unseen land north of the eighty-third parallel. The numerical analysis temperatures vary from fifty-five degrees to sixty degrees Fahrenheit—a variation ob- served in no marine districts and wholly in- consistent with the supposition that the North | Polar basin is mainly oceanic. The unavoid- | able inference, therefore, is that much of this basin is insular or continental. spheric indications led the Austrian meteor- ologist to the very conclusion to which, the “telegraph announces, the Austrian explorers came by actual experience, when they found a land mass north of Nova Zembia, and stretch- | ing to as yet unknown dimensions over this | distant and desolate waste of the earth, | points to an extension of the Arctic Continent | far beyond the eightieth paraliel; and Parry's | | journey in 1827, as well as the ice masses cov- | ered with vegetable matter, driftwood covered } with mud, animals rarely seen except near ‘land and a uniform diminution of ocean | depth—all observed by Payer and Weyprecht— | corroborate Dr. Cbavaune’s view. Accord- | ingly, he concludes that the major axis of the Arctic Continent, though probably indented | and disrupted by straits and fiords, lies across | the North Pole, and that Greenland, after running as far north as ecighty-three degrees or eighty-four degrees north, is prolonged in a northeasierly direction. cludes from the data that the sea between the | the warm Kuro Siwo, or Japanese Gulf | Stream, flowing through Bebring Sirait. That this is the case, and that this warm stream, after penetrating the Polar Ocean, pedition. The southerly current in Robeson Channel, the mysterious fact that tho tide rises sooner in Newman Bay than in Polaris | Bay (sixty miles further south) and the dis- | covery ot Japanese driftwood in Robeson | Channel, all attest the existence of a current from Behring Strait to toward Smith Sound. . The final deduction arrived at is that the most promising routes to the Pole are, first, secondly, by the sea north of Behring Strait, along the coast of the us yet unknown Polar land. It should not be disguised that while these elaboretions throw light on the future paths of Arctic exploration they clearly prove the immense peril that must forever beset the ex- plorer. No concourse of physical conditions cau be imagined more fraught with danger to ship and seaman than that brought to light by Dr. Chavanne’s researches and confirmed by the observations of the Austrian expedition just heard from. It must not be wondered at if the old question, cui bono ? is tenaciously put hereafter by those who, not without justice, look upon Polar éxpeditions as suicidal, Ovn Purerrs Yesterpay. @ sermons we print to-day show that the religious season in New York hus begun in earnest, and that the reign of crime during the absence of so many clergymen during the summer will now happily be checked by their return, It would be invidious to point out the best ser- mons among so many that are good, but the reader cannot but profit by the study of them all There are admirable discourses by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, the Rev. A. H. Quint, Rev. Dr. Hepworth, Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thomp- son, Rey. Father Kearney, Rev. Mr. Kelsey, Rev. Dr. Ganse, Rev, O. B. Frothingham, Rev. E. J. Good, Rev. Mr. Dewitt ©. Tal- mage and others. The mere array of names is sufficient to show their value. Those who do not profit by one sermon may go to an- other. It must be a hardened sinner who among 60 many cannot find something to suit his case. Unstrep Staves Troops in Sovrm Cano- u1Na.—Under the instructions of the Attorney General, troops are in process of distribution to various points in South Carolin. Where- fore? The blacks are in complete possession of the State and the State governmen All the powers of the State are in their bunds. And they number four hundred thoumnd in the State, against three hundred thowand whites. fact of hor arrest oa 8 yxostifute. and. | Why, than, phage trpana to ppiniain order in mean thermometrie ranges, both winter and | shows that the mean winter and summer Polar | The atmo- | The theoretic conclusion of the geographer | He further con- | coast of the Arctic Continent and the north | | coast of America is traversed by a branch of | flows over as far eastward as Smith Sound | was apparently demonstrated by the Hall ex- | between Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen, and, | =< »~_——__—__—__—~ South Carolina? 18 it because the poor blacks oro proved acterly incompetent to govern themselves in und"taking to govern tho whites, and conseqn tly neod, the presence of the United States amy to hold them to law and order? If so, ana W fear it isso, why not let the truth be oxtcially made known? The Corruption and Lawiessness of. the Reform City Government. The promise of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction to make a reply to the report of the Commissioners of Accounts is all very well in its way, but it will not jus- tify their retention for a single day in the positions they have so grossly abused. The Commissioners of Accounts are regular off- cers of the city government charged with the duty of investigating the several departments with the object of ascertaining whether their affairs are honestly and efficiently conducted. In compliance with the instructions of tha Board of Aldermen such an investigation has been made in the case of the Departinent of found not only that there is gross incompe- tency and inefficiency in the management of the department, but that the expenditure of nearly a million and a half of dollars has been made in direct violation of law, and that the Commissioners have endeavored to conceal their illegal acts by making fraud- ulent entries in their books and altering and falsifying bills to the correctness of which they are required to make oath. Tho report of these facts by the regular examining officers of the city government, supported by docu- mentary evidence, would alone be imperative cause for the removal of the faithless officers, even if still graver offences were not as good as proven against them, They have a right to be heard in their defence before the people, or before a jury when the wiltul misdemeanors with which they stand accused are tried ina criminal court ;- but they have no right to be lett an hour in office or to be allowed to handle or dispose of another dollar of the public money. Why are they not removed? Is it because Mayor Havemeyer’s son, who supplied the groceries to the Department of Charities and Correction, and the Mayor's son-in-law, who supplies the butter, have been paid moneys by the Commissioners in violation of law? Is it because Comptroller Green has a relative who acts as the confidential clerk of the per- son who purchases the supplies for the de- partment? What influence or what intorest has been powerful enough to suppress inves- tigation into the rascalities of this department and is sufficient to keep the Commissioners in office now that their illegal acts have been officially exposed? These are questions in which Governor Dix has an interest; for among the charges preferred against Mayor Havemeyer is one covering the Mayor's official misconduct in neglecting to properly inyestigate the affairs of this tainted depart- | ment. ¥ “ The pretence of Commissioner Stern, that been to the advantage of the city, is the sublimity of brazenness. Mr. Stern pur- | chased dry goods for the city of his relative, | Louis Sternbach. This he calls “buying in open market.’’ The transaction was con- ! ducted in this fashion :— Louis Sternbach purchases dry goods of a | regular dry goods house to the amount of | $2,000. | Without unpacking the goods Louis Stern- | bach transfers them to the city and charges | the city $3,000. | Mr, Stern certifies his relative’s bill as cor- | rect, and Comptroller Green, after his atten- tion has been called to the dishonest char- acter of the bill, pays the amount of $3,000 to Louis Sternbach. And this Commissioner Stern calls “buying in open market’’ for the good of the city. The purchases of flour have been equally scandalous. ‘The prices paid have been largely in excess of the market price. It remains to be seen whether any favors to relatives have been bestowed at the city’s ex- pense in the flour bills, as they have in the bills for dry goods. Aninvestigation by a | Grand Jury is demanded in this flagrant case, if we are ever to expect honesty in public officers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain Dixon, of the British Army, is at the Breyoort House. General foomas Ewing, of Onio, is staying at the | St. Nicholas Hotel, Commander A, P. Cooke, United States Navy, ia quartered at the Gilsey House. Hon, Charles Francis Adams ts registered at | the United States Hotel, Saratoga. General E. A. Merritt, of Potsdam, New York, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. Kenelon Thomas Digby, M. P., of England, is sojourning at the Brevoort House, ‘Tyndall is now the target for the fire of the little wits who fancy they know all about it, General Wilitam Hoffman, United States Army, has quarters at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Professor J. M. Rice, of the United States Naval Academy, 15 residing at the St. Denis Hotel. Captain Von Eisendecher, of the German Lege tion, is registered at the Clarendon Hotel. Secretary ol War Belknap arrivedin this city yesterday, and is at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Iiugo Heberiein, United States Vice Consul at Gonaives, Hayti, bas apartments at the St, Denis Hotel. Hon, E. P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has returned to Washington irom Marbie- head, and resumed the duties of his office. Mr, Henry Howard, Secretary of the British Legation, arrived from Europe in the steamship Parthia, and leit last eventog for Washington. Ben Butler proposes again to fre the Northern heart and to “avenge the good Union men” who may be killed down South, But who shall avenge the others—or may they go altogether unavenged? Jt is evidently @ bad case tor Butler in Massachu- getty, He has no hope for ® canvass on ordinary party issues, but if he can revive the spectre of the rebellion he may frighten Massachusetts into the fancy tuat he is the only man capable of fight- ing it. General Butler’s argument is that the whole South must be treated like another Ashantee be- cause in two or three places wrong has been done, Suppose the country accused all Massachusetts of Butlerism because one district sends the doughty General to Congress, Found dead and put in the Morgue, identified by bis friends and yet leit to be dropped in a trench with the paupers—such is the latest story of city ine. His sensitive relations “did not want to have their names mixed up with it,” Their names are finer than their natures, President Grant and Generais Sherman and Sheridan -are expected to visit Cincinnatt next Thursday to attend the Exposition, and will then go to Columbus to be present at the meeting of the Army oi the Cumberland. The President and Mre, Grant are the guests of Marshal Sharpe in Wash- ington. They were at the Executive mansion lot Charities and Correction, and it has been | the purchase of goods in ‘open market” hag .