The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1874, Page 6

o NEW YORK HERALD RP NORIO AS ‘ A remarkable practical commentary on one NN STREET. bempupenins. Seed - | of the provisions of the federal constitution JAMES GORDON BENNETT | hos been furnished by Governor Moses and at PROPRIETOR | Attorney General Williams. Moses made application to the President on Friday for LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | ‘PS to suppress domestic violonce in the : ‘ sae town of Edgefield. The Attorney General HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | pov tied on Saturday, informing him that one Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be | company was already there and was deemed received and forwarded on the same terms | sufficient. The grotesque absurdity of con- fessing that the whole militia of South Caro- - | lina is incompeteat to cope with a local dis- No. 272 | turbance which a single company of federal soldiers suffices to hold in awe needs no words to set itforth, It is a burlesque on | that part of the constitution which declares | that “a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be in- fringed.” The South Carolina militia affords Broadway, corner of Tiniy ARH street—Paris By | @ Wonderful “security” to that ‘free State’ NIGH, ac 740 P.M. Me | when it is confessedly unequal to an exigency eae ang AE EACK'S TH! carer THaN | 1or Which one company of the regular army is LIFS, ac 3 P.M; closes at IL P.M. J. L. Toole, ; ample! But this correspondence has its sad as well as its ridiculous side. Governor Dix. as in New York. Volume XXXiX. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. SEL BAILEY'S © @ot of Houston street, East River, tl P.M. and 8P. M, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. ~VARIBTY, at 8 P.M. WOOD'S MUSEUM. Moses’ Black Militia—Sound Views of | report filled about a hundred octavo pages, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, — perenne | The Estimates for 1875—The Duty of the Board of Apportionment. The estimates of the several departments of the city government as a basis for the tax levy p . © | for 1875 will before long be acted upon by the i his collected works, published in 1864, be i2- | poard of Apportionment. Up to the present | Serted all the material portions of that report, | year the practice prevailed of sending in the with a prefatory note in which he expresseS | Gepartmental estimates to the Comptroller, | the opinion that it ‘will not be unacceptable | wig would make up bis own budget there- ata period in which the publia mied is dis | from, bring it before the Boafd at a late date When and among all the productions of General Dix there is none on which he expended so much thought and labor. He still holds fast those well reasoned views, for in the edition of this a) sources of the national order and prosperity. In that very able report General Dix showed that the militia is the indispensable | bulwark of republican freedom, ‘*The | militia system,” he said, ‘is to be regarded | not only as a part of the political constitution | of a State, but as an eminently republican feature of that constitution, fitted equally | With its civil features to maintain and give effect to the principles on which it is founded." He then went on to demonstrate the incom- parable superiority of the State militia to | detachments of the federal army in suppress- | ing domestic disturbances in a State. The quotation which we are about to insert is so clear-sighted and timely as to deserve the rected Wit so much solicitude to the true | and press a vote upon it as a whole. | the budget of 1874 was presented to the Board of Aldermen that body made several reduc- tions in the Comptroller's figures; but Mr. Green opposed the proposed alterations, and they were rejected by the Board of Appor- tionment. When the Legislature authorized the reopening and redetermination of the final | estimate two members of the Board of Appor- | tionment took a stand for the first time against the policy of leaving the duties of the Board to be performed by one member alone, and by their firmness secured the cutting down of the amounts appro- | priated to some of the most extravagantly managed of the city departments and the con- sequent saving of a smal! amount to the tax- | | | ating aretnerseciiennestoneettstonnnritiattanaigeltrate ee. i Net The Challenges of the Irish Riflemen. | and to provide food for thonsands—is a sound ‘The international rifle match at Creedmoor | principle and should be embodied in a law. was made doubly gratifying by the closeness The practice of which our correspondent of the two scores and the perfect good feeling | 80 jnstly complains is only one of a class of between the rival teams, The Americans, no | grievances. Complaints have been made to doubt, are prouder of having won by three | us of the slaughter of ducks on the Chesae points than they would have been bad they | Peake, of the waste of the buffalo, a noble won by fifty, and the Irish have gained a vie- | and useful beast, calculated to perform am; tory in beating all their own previous perform- | important part in civilization, which is shot! ances and eclipsing the glories of Wimble- | from the windows of passing trains merely to don, But “Alps on Alps” arise, and that | kill the monotony of a railway ride across the they are not content with the laurels already won while the American wreath has three léaves more, the letters of Major Leech and Mr. John Rigby addressed to the editor of the Heratp will show. Major Leech, through our columns to-day, desires to return bis thanks and those of his companions and the ladies and gentlemen who accompany them for the hospitality they have received from the American press and public. In return, we may assure him that the warm American heart is a target they could not miss, It is too big not to be hit by such honorable guests, no matter how long the range. The reception of the Irish team was to us one of those duties which are de- plains—of the ruthless destruction of prairie fowl, as well as of deer and antelope. Provi- dence has given us vast quantities of these different varieties of game— enough, with care and economy, to make America the paradise of the sportsman for a thousand years. We certainly should protect these gifts by some law. As to the ducks on Long Island, referred to by our correspondent, they should have a powerful and interested advocate in Governor Dix. The Governor, we believe, has a sum- mer home on Long Island, near Moriches, the yery scene of the ‘‘duck dusking ;"’ and if all reports are true he has during the past sum- mer, in his leisure moments, when off Have- Brosdway, corner of Thirt HW eget shame and scandal that an American State | ™ost profound consideration of President | payers, The charter provides that the de- | prived of any merit by the fact that they are | meyer duty, succeeded in shooting between HAMLET, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:80 P.M, is organized on so falso and unsafo | Grantand all his advisers. “It is a striking | partmental estimates shall be transmitted | even greater as delights, ‘The American pub- | fifty and a hundred thousand birds of various Davenport. | | OLYMPIC, THEATRE, No, 6% Broadway.—VARLETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 Poh. a basis that a petty local émeute threatens to topple it into ruins. Moses gave as his reason pve 6 “ UM THEATRE, needa for spplying for federal troops that “I am TE eye A EO asie | Powerless to enforce my orders except by the | use of the inexperienced State militia’’—ao confession that the negro militia is utterly | worthless in a State where the negroes out- 20. DE TREE Aimee, Mile. Manelly, E COMIQUE, B ts, M.; closes at 10:20 THE No, 514 Broadway.—VA. pM. illustration of the genius of our institutions,’ said General Dix, “that, although we have been at no period without a standing army, the few insurrections which have interrupted our domestic tranquillity have been suppressed | by the citizens themselves. Indeed, the | nature of our political institutions and the | spirit of the people are such that the employ- originally to the Board of Apportionment, and not to the Comptroller, and makes every member of the Board responsible at each step for every dollar that is levied upon the tax- payers for the expenses of running the city government. The action of Messrs. Vance | and Wheeler in insisting upon such economy lic is thoroughly pleased to learn that our visitors have njoyed their trip, and that they are so well satisfied with the arrangements for the match and our efforts to almost deprive it of an international character by making them feel ‘at home.” With this assurance we turn to the challenge kinds, including ducks. His successes in the way of snipe have been the wonder of the country for miles around, who see in him a true sportsman, and consequently an honest mav, and his friends believe these achievements will add largely to hia Long Island yote. Let him not ignore this popularity, bat use his great influence at r | { f ee ie i ee i, ecines . 4 PARK ATRE, | number the whites in the proportion of nearly | me ome | as could be effected in this year’s tax levy was, which Major Leech has issued on behalf of f i Re ee Se eM ar Jone Tse | two to one. By the last census the white | ™ent of any other than a militia force | therefore, entirely proper, and their oath of | the Irish team to the American riflemen. He | Albany to punish the men who ‘dusk duoks » mond. cael | population of South Carolina was only | 0 these occasions would inevitably have | ogice requires them to oppose every unneces- | proposes that the second match shall take | ina cowardly mannor, and thus deprive them corner of THe EEATRE sixth avenne.— | 289,667 and the negro population was 415,814. | the effect of rendering every contest | sary expenditure in 1875. They have now | place at Dublin, in June, 1875, on the same | of pleasure that no woll-bred duck would CONNIE 300 sBoMei closes atl) FM Me | And yet Moses quivers with fear and tele- | ™ore protracted and sanguinary, A regular | guiple time to effect a more valuable reform | terms as that at Creedmoor, each team not to | despise—the pleasure of being shot in a gen- i ats P, and Mrs. Barney Willams. NIBLOMS between Print at 8 P.M; closes at 1 P. {ston streets —THE | local disturbance in a rural town ! M. The Kiralty Broadw DELUG. Family. imputation of cowardice. His estimate of the vaine of his negro militia is probably correct. Nor is it at all surprising that a militia com- posed of ex-slaves is a worthless array of or- PIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, HK ANDAL, at SP. M,; closes at IL port, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis TRE, A PEN, at 5 P. M.: closes at Fourteenth street,—DER WEST 0:30 P.M. MINSTRELSY, ant | We should be slow to cast upon him the | | graphs to Washington for aid against a small free, in the permanent service of the central | | government, is apt to be regarded, however unjustly, as an instrument of power without affinity with the mass of citizens, and when | employed against any portion of the people it | assumes from tbat very circumstance the as- | peet of oppression. But to a body of insur- ganized imbecility. They have never been ac- | gents the spectacle of a military force depend- | for next year than they were enabled to secure | in the present year’s budget; and as they now { understand their duties under the charter it would be a criminal act to neglect them. | A few plain facts are sufficient to prove that our city financial management is not only in- efficient, but is hurrying us on toward bank- ruptey. We have now been living three consist of more than eight or less than six men, at the option of the Americans, There is little doubt of the prompt acceptance of this challenge, and we trust that annual in- ternational rifle matches will be hereatter an established institution. The reply from Colonel Wingate may be easily anticipated. The letter of Mr. Rigby proposes a very tlemanly way by the man who wrote the order in reference to the American flag, who trans Jated ‘Dios Irw,’’ and who, although the pa- triarch of public men, can ride, shoot, walk, fish, hunt and govern better than any of his compeers, and who has so much vitality to-day that the republican party cannot afford ta neglect him. Let the Governor add another ROBINSON HALL, customed to the use of arms. They aro | 8 On the separate authority of the State, years under the present Comptroller's policy, | different contest. Regarding the late match | leaf to his laurels by making himself the pro PREEE Ce a ane FR arenas Sepadl by their conscious inferiority to their | drawn from among themselves and composed | and the result will be seen from a comparison | as a “battle of the rifles’’ as well as a rivalry of | tector of the ducks on Long Island. , aS ERA HOUSE, e | white fellow citizens, almost every man of | 0! 408e who have participated in the very evils 4 of the rumning expenses of the city govern- | the marksmen, he issues a challenge for a > fr Ra ath avenge NEGRO rom js a veteran soldier, tmined in the Which they are secking to redress, presents | mont with tho amount of the tax levy for six | match to be shot at Creedmoor on Saturday, | rough school of war. The negroes have the | moral example of forbearance, order and The figures are as follows : years past. October 3, on the following conditions: —Four A Voice rrom Urau.—The Salt Like City Herald thinks the time has come for a national MASANIELLO, "Bred Weullichy” military qualities of an army of sheep called | submission) to the Jaws which Tust have a ANNUAL APIROPRIATIONS FOR THR EXPENSES OF | or five men shall shoot on each side; each | conyention of wise men, “if we have such im POLITAN ATRE, to confront a small number of lions. | powerful influence oe allaying the violence Of | ogy, TUR ON une. Yen 7 VERSMENT: mount, | side to fire one hundred shots at one thousand he country,” who can discuss and determine —Parisian Cancan Dancers, at8P.M. | Negro soldiers behaved well enough in \ their resolution, If a portion of the regular ieee: “ \ | yards; the Irish team to use muzzle-loaders, this question of peace and reconstruction. iy ee the war, because they were well | &t™Y had been employed aS died phim ua) 7 | the American team breech-loaders, and no | As the editor justly romarks:—‘Lf the prin- ‘MORE'S | arilled before they were put into battle, | Tent disturbance in Providence it may justly | Amount. “Year. Amount, | Cleaning of the weapons to be permitted to | ciples of republicanism laid down by the MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, | and fought in conjunction with supporting | be questioned whether the public order would eet pewereeitars $23,500,019 | any of the riflemen during the contest. In | framers of our constitution havo been so loses at LI M. Mr. Lester ROSEDALE, ats P. M. Wallack. white troops who inspired them with con- fidence. But a raw and undisciplined negro militia, suddenly called to oppose wa: | white veterans, without white regiments on SAN FRAN Broadway. corner MINSTRELSY, ats P.M. 4 ninth t.—-NEGRO AMERICA TITUT! ave been so prompily re-established or the | laws so soon and s0 silently have resumed r-scarred | their sway.” ‘These admirable observations are | penetrated with the very spirit of republican + 23,072,556 1373. 27,093,767 + 28,362,507 1874. 31,822,391 From these figures it will be seen that the | appropriations for the years 1869, 1870 and | 1871 aggregate $85,921,911 and for the making this proposition Mr. Rigby wishes us to state on his authority that he and the other members of the team are not seeking to detract from the well won transformed in a single century that they can hardly be recogniz2d, much less carried out, or if the couniry has outgrown the federal system, it is time that the people in theiz Third aven Dee See Te ed Sixty-fourtn | their right and left anda supporting white | institutions, Their applicability to the Pres- | three years 1872, 1873 and 1874 aggregate laurels of the Americans, but to decide a sovereign capacity should take into considera- sireets.—IN. TAL EXHIBITION. | force in their rear, are little better than an | &™* condition of the South is too obvious to $97,391,880, showing that the expense of run- | scientific question of all but world-wide im- | tion the revision and amendment of the army of sheep. It is not cowardice but | | pa sti Z | 0 R I P L E S H EK EK Te | sagacity which forbids Governor Moses to | The re Indian Cyclone. years has increased $11,469,969. The taxa- | of weapons, which was not tested fully in the development of the country should not be 4 = pti | place the slightest reliance on them. A | - Pass t tion for the three years 1869, 1870 and 1871 | late match, for reasons which we have indi- | ,indered by sectional diificulties or longer cy — OR =| 2 The telegraphic reports clearly indicate & i | hinder y lew York, a. 4 similar perception of their utter worthlessness | 9 Brak P u ) amounted to $67,744,659, while the taxation | catedand which Mr. Rigby clearly explains. | jack of the proper administrative machinery.” N rk, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1874. | se | that the last weather change is due toa very | | ino prop’ y. = oe —- ———— - | cansed Kellogg to act what seemed the part | eeiiie: aibiine a cannes in f the West 1 y | for 1871, 1872 and 1873 reached $87,421,158— | Whether the arrangements at Creedmoor and | This is very true! Nor are the quostions that From our reports this morning the probabilities | of a poltroon in the recent uprising in Louis- | eabig Nee AY pete ry ates ‘ es fa an increase in the last three years of | those of the American team will permit of an | should concern such a convention solely those ees hail te: wlaor aay oe to solaas ‘and | iana. He made the instructive confession | Ree cen 5 an a ne a he ‘ ma | $19,676,499. | acceptance weare not yet informed, but the belonging to the Sonth. In Utah wo have a rainy. that his government cannot stand a day with- | aaah ah palates sis tes ine see fel “| It is the fashion of those who are now | public interest in the national prize meeting | most interesting and delicate problem, which MA To ES out federal propping. When cur fathers | a Ba a 8 area creer Renee eee | squandering the city’s money and destroying | this week would be greatly increased by such | Congress has endeavored to solve without Wat Srcer Yesrerpay.—The bull mar- | declared that a well regulated militia is the | agra se : = an pi i ae ve bat ere Hi | the city’s credit to attribute our increased ex- | a contest, and we hope that Colonel Wingate, | success. Can we permit citizens under the , ket continued, although with less demonst X- | proper security of a free State, they did not | Oe a ud pe pit rapes © Meese ®Y | penditures to the rascalities of the ‘‘old ring.” | Lieutenant Fulton and their comrades will | plea of respecting and obeying their conscience tion. Stocks were still strong. Gold was 1093. | intend to make either themselves or the | Peaie Seas forty. aa nae fi si This is done to cover up and conceal the ras- | consent to enter it. to violate the laws? As we have said, Con. Tue Presipext was in Wall street yester- | Militia ridiculous. They had strong faith in | ra a Mies Bes will ee ays ae calities of the ‘‘new ring.’’ In 1873 the ex. Rifle shooting has always been a favorite gress has vainly tried to solve this problem. day. We ‘uaa yather haye the government | what they said when they made this declara- | ae Aailnsh cada Okita aaa be era pense of governing the city was $30,131,967. | sport in this country, though not till re-| None more grave or interesting could be keep out of Wall street. | tion a part of the constitution, They in- | dais by all ered picks it Y | This year it is $34,822,391—an increase of | cently at long ranges, but the past neg- | remanded to the province of a national com 2 | tended to bear their emphatic testimony to |“, “A a each about $4,700,000; yet out of this latter enor- | lect of orgamization is shown by the | yention. Tae Frenca Assrmty.—The complete | the self-sustaining power of State governments Peep tet races BL eI OULORy | ‘ — ‘ NCI . { 2li-susta ig ) j returns from the department of Maine-et- | which are really republican. Loire show that the republicans have clected their candidate to the French Assembly by | almost four thousand majority. By the theory of republican institutions they express the will of a majority of the citizens. They imply that every man who casts a vote is entitled to carry a musket, and RR | $) Blaine is spending a few days te r Spectra, Desparcurs from Hayden’ : is Satur age A Ma bec 4 e bay a ann ths rom ae ee | that the preponderance of physical strength | ear agh kee ts Seay roe by b id Central Park additional fund stock oe eae ferent competitions, the first of which is for | Chicago. as tha main aivida’of the Bodky Moun. | £0°S With a majority of the voters. Supposing bie in ake ea “gH Bie sid i "00,000 | the Judd prizes, which takes place to-day, | Kuliman, who shot at Bismarck, will be tried Is pas nai } "| this to be the case, the occasions must be rare | Pee Some time on its way from the extreme | Assessment fund bonds, 1874... ( October. tains and of new and interesting fossil re- | js indeed when the government of a State can mains. ‘need any outside assistance in enforcing obedience to its authority. And, in point of fact, there has never been, in the whole period of our history, an insurrection against a State government which was not promptly sup- pressed by the State itself, until the recon- structed governments of the South were organized since the war. The nearest ap- proach to federal interference was in the Dorr rebellion in Ruode Island; but, as Governor Seward said in his next message to our Legisla- Tue Panave of the Knights Templars yes- terday at Prospect Park was a fine revelation | of the strength and excellent discipline of the Order. The prize goblet was won by the Clinton Commandery. Tae Larrst Report from Lonisiana is important, and to the effect that a compro- mise has been effected. An advisory board, | representing both parties, is to have full con- trol of registration. Still, we observe that | there are more troops ordered to the front. of Rhode Island nobly sustained their govern- ment without the aid they hada right to ex- pect from the federal Executive.’ But no application for federal assistance would have been made in the Rhode Island case if a large | proportion of the citizens had not been ex- Ayotner Iranian has been arrested in Brooklyn on the charge of baving been con- cerned in the murder of Torrina. He was con- victed as a counterieiter some years ago, and ture after the overthrow of Dorr: —‘The people | require explanation. their sensational and scientific interest since | toward the close of the last century, when | Admiral Rodney's fleet and convoy of ninety ships and three thousand seamen perished in | one of them. The present cyclone was pre- windward Antilles, and we shall look with in- | terest for the tidings of its effects through the | whole region of its ravages. The curvature of | the hurricane track at the Florida peninsula | from a westerly to a northerly course is now | so well understood that seamen on our | coast, when apprised of the southern disturb- | ance, should be fully warned and armed ‘against the peril approaching. When the | curve of the storm is west of Florida the storm | wave spsads part or most of its violence on the | Gulf coast. But if, with unimpeded sweep, | the hurricane glides along the South Atlantic | coast, as in the present instance, its force is | apparently more disastrous near and north of Cape Hatteras. Let all our vessels south- ward bound to-day look out for the destructive meteor. Epwrn Booru anp His Friexps.—Some of ning the city government during the last three mous appropriation only $1,180,000 is set apart for payment of debt. The direction in which we are drifting may be seen from the following facts. This year there fell due the following stocks and bonds of the city and county, which ought to have been paid :— | New York city stocks ior docks an Six per cent assessment bonus. Seven per cent assessment vou 50,090, 221,900 100,000 » 3,517,700 2,918,500 ion improvement central Pal bonds.... sees : Department of Parks improvement bonds, 1, SIX per cent Improvement bonds... Seven per cent unprovement bonds 8 Seven per cent revenue vous, payable danuary 1 837,000 3,200,497 2,947,200 273,000 900,000 Seveu per payavie in 1874 Six per cent rev able im 1s74.. Soldiers’ substi bonds, i874. oo tees Seven per cent county revenue bonds, payable January 15... Seven pe payanle Seven per 2,034 500,000 820,000 874,700 Pht county revenue bonds, oruary 1 nt cou ty revenue bonds of portance. ‘The question is of the superiority fact that the annual prize mecting this week will be only the second of the National Asso- iation. The list of prizes is given elsewhere; they number one hundred and seventy, and their value is over eight thousand dollars, The matches are divided into thirteen dif- and is open to al! members. The last com- petition will be for the long range champion- | ship, and is open to all comers, and in this | some of the best Irish shots will no doubt take part. Creedmoor, for the rest of the | week, therefore, will be as brilliant as it was 1,172,547 | on Saturday, and the presence of our dis- tinguished guests will make the events of | 1874 memorable in our rifle shooting annals. In connection with the present meeting we have only to say that we hope better mrangements will be made by the Central Railroad Company of Long Island for the transportation of the public. The scenes witnessed on the occasion of the international contest were simply disgracetul. With such | difficulties thrown in the way of the public it will be impossible to render Creedmoor popu- lar even with the best efforts of the marksmen. But if the railway company will not afford constitution, in order that the harmonious PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor Stokley, of Phiiadelphia, is again reportey worse, The Patriarch of Antioch was entertained al luncheon in London lately, General Kulus i. King, of Governor Dix's staff, is staying at the Windsor Hotel. Postmaster E. ©. Negley, of Pittsburg, has ar rived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Godtrey’s cordial is the material with which the British baby farmer secures her crop. Ex-State Senator Charles H. Adams, of Cohoes, N. Y., is residing at the New York Hotel. General John J, Abercrombie, United States Army, is registered at the St. Denis Hotel, Lieutenant Cominauder Francis Morris, United States Navy, ts quartered at the Evereit House. At the London Uriental Congress Egyptian pra- fessors are present, and also men of the learned castes from India. The President, Mrs. Grant and Ulysses S, Grant, Jr., arrived in tits city yesterday and are at the | filth Avenue Hotel. Oid likenesses of Sharkey, the murderer, for. merly published here, are now sold down South for portraits of Congressmen, if there is any other evidence against him the | " : pare 1873, PAYAVIC 11 1ST4...........e0eereeeee 65,000 Bite Mr. Nicholas de Gretsch, Secretary of the Rus- police Zit se t i cluded from the ballot by a property qualifica- | Mr, Hdwin Booth’s friends and admirers are | Annual instalment ol Hoating debe iund "| proper facilities the range must be removed | sian Legation, arrived from Wasuington yesterday ——— tion. The people of the State promptly recti- | about to make an effort to aid him in his prope | SOCHY BUS+-eretereeeeeseeessesessseeee 19763 | to some spot accessible by railroads managed | at the Westmoreland Hotel. | fied this error by adopting a new constitution extending the elective franchise. The previous government was weak only because a majority of the voters did not comprise a majority of the people capable of bearing arms. The reconstructed governments of those | Southern States in which the negroes equal or outnumber the white inhabitants are as un- stable as 2 government would be in which te- Tue Revoxt that the Court of Appeals had stated the old Police Justices and declared illegal the law under which the new ones ex- | ist proves to have been unfounded. The Court has made no decision upon the issue, though it is possible one may be rendered to-day, A Svppry Trars for General Miles was sur- rounded by hostile Indians on September 10, | and troops were sent to its relie? by Colonel Lewis. By this time, no doubt, the trouble | is over and the results of the recent victory secured. against the will of its male citizens, It is ob- vious that such a government could not stand if a controversy should arise in which all the women were arrayed on one side and nearly all the men on the other. There might be a female militia, but *even a female Governor would have no confidence init. On the first Lacer Bern. —The ancient question whether lager beer is intoxicating comes up again in the Brooklyn City Court upon a suit concern. male suffrage had been forced upon a State | ent financial embarrassments, so as to prevent the theatre he has built in New York, and which is so creditable to the city, from passing out of his possession. We give elsewhere some of the facts relating to Mr. Booth’s bankruptcy, as gathered from his schedule on | file in the Court. The effort now announced is a commendable one, and as the sale of the property under a third mortgage is advertised to take place ina few days no time is to be lost if the suggestion is to be made ot prac- tical effect. Curcaco Insvrance.—The Board of Under- | writers is convinced that, so far as ils own | companies are concerned, Chicago is, in the course of time, destined to be without insur Total ste eeseecesesses sess eeeees oo $23)773)513 Of this large amount of debt falling due in 1874 provision is made to pay only $1,180,100, bridging over and carrying on mainly at seven per cent interest more than $22,500,000. In addition to this the public debt on December 31, 1873, had increased $13,054,342 over the amount on December 31, 1872. These plain facts prove the necessity of cut- ting down the city expenditures to the lowest | amount consistent with efficient government, | The Finance Department, the Public Parks, the scandalous Department of Charities and Correction, the Fire Department and others need a thorough reformation, and should be brought down to a reasonable running expense. , For this reform Messrs. Vance and Wheeler by competent persons. ‘Duck Dusking.” The following letter comes to us from the romantie shores of Long Island, and contains an appeal which should not be slighte To THE Eprtor or THE HERALD:— I beg to cail your attention to a destructive | practice which prevails on the South Bay of Long island—namely, the shooting of wiid ducks alter sundown and late into the night, which is called “dusking,’’ wail, it allowed to con- tinue, ultimately ruin the wild fowl shooting on these shores. Asis well Known, the biack duck, pic-tail and teal Jeed princtpaily at night. If per+ mitted to resort to their leeding grounds undis- turbed they will remain in the various bays dur- ing the Gay and afford profitable sport. li, on the contrary, guns are fired among them ater dark, they become so terrified as to quickly abandon the locality Jor one safer and more 1 believe there exists a Sportsman's Clad In this State, Whose principal object is the protection of This method, | It 1s denied that tue Queen has paid the Prince of Wales’ debts; but it seems probable she lent te the Prince the necessary need!ul. Ex-Governor Wiliam B. Lawrence, of Rhode Island, and his sou-in-law, Baron de Klenck, of Germany, have apartments at tue Brevoort House. “1 did not change,” said Guizot, In a@ conversa. tion just before his death; put Thiers never failed | to change bis views on any subject whatever. | What a little wriggier!”” | In England tramps with a sovereign in thetr pocket put it in pledge with the nearest pawn- | broker fora shilling, have a good time on the | shilling and then apply Jor relief at the uniou or | poor house, which they get only if penniless, Bowen says he has a witness for Beecher’s words in “one whois now and always has been one of Beecher’s warmest friends.” That won't Moulion was also a wonderiully warm | answer. ing a license. Many persons have attempted “t ie , gees : - 1 S ’ r i i ; es noe TOW tas Gia WEs RNS HOORY SWiK CA 4 is millones Ls : and ctrer | ttivial insurrection by the masculine part of | @2¢% Unless its government takes better pro- | will be especially held responsible, Tho | S4Me. This association nugit well turn tts atten | fiend; but to solve this question at another bar, and atter : | cautions against fire. The names of j j | Uon to the enactment of a law sudiciently strine | brethren ? srolonged efforts have found themselves too ‘the community she would apply for federal | “ enh gee z Sofanumber | final estimate should be rejected alto- | gent to render Nay unprofitabie to continue this Royalty in Bavaria has ceased to be anything peri decide. assistance against domestic violence. This ie COR pete yy ne ete, Tomoived to. fake 25, gether if proper economy should be PERSACEMERE, MORICHES, Le 1 - F | more than a mere pageant. His Majesty is a sort 5 eciae. . | isks i 0 ity vive! x ‘ A é m1 agape rie —— — comparison is, of course, a little too strong, | More risks in that city are given to-day, and | resisted. We have reached a point in The Sportsman's Club cannot take too | of theatrical King, and one Aa that Sevaton Scwnz has replied to the letter of for the fighting qualities of male negroes are | “ey represent millions of capital. It this | our financial history when further blander- a | with nis known tastes this would the vetter ; doubtless women. trati No State government can be self- sustaining, and therefore no State government can be really republican, in which the prepon- derance of military capacity does not coincide with the majority of votes. We are able to fortify this view of the sub- | ject by the respectable anthority of Governor Dix, who has discussed the inseparable rela- tions between the militia and free institutions with more intelligence, better logic and greater breadth of view than any other statesman. Many years ago, when he was Adjutant Gen- | eral of this State, he made to the Legislature, in obedience to its requirement, a report on ances reported from different parts of our | the militia system more thorough, elaborate restless little planet. “The easth is feverish’ | and exhaustive than anything which has ever again, | haan writtan on this important subject. That Marshal Packard in his recent speech at Macon. He thinks that General Emory is an honest soldier, who is not always a match for @ sharp politician, and that Marshal Packard has used the United States troops for political purposes without the knowledge of their commander. Senator Schurz demands the | removal of the Marshal, in justice to oppressed Louisiana. | superior to those of any class of ArmospHentc ano Suprernanvan Pentonpa- ions. ---A frightful and destructive typhoon at Hong Kong, @ warning earthquake in and around Mount Etna, a heavy and disastrous inundation of the River Segre in Spain, and an earthquake in Guatemala, are among the latest atmospheric and subterranean disturb- But the parallel is nevertheless illus- | movement does not compel Chicago to in- | crease its facilities for obtaining water, we are | much mistaken. Even a minority of the in- | surance companies cannot attempt to carry the city without losing public confidence to an injurious degree. | eX Roppeny was discovered yesterday in the city police courts. In making out the complete return of convictions during the term of Mr. Kelly as Sheriff, desired by Mayor Havemeyer, the clerks found that the records of several years were missing, |The books of some of the magistrates had been stolen, and in other cases they were | mutilated. The impression that these were | but vulgar burglaries is, in our opinion, not | justified. Some of these days the Court House will be burned down to get tid of its damaging contentas | Avotaen Vou j ing, ineompetency and favoritism become crimes. The debt is increasing enormously | year after year, and scarcely a dollar of it is | paid off, Atthe rate at which we are now | blindly rushing on we must soon reach a dis- | astrous end, and it is time that the taxpayers | should receive some protection. | nicer larnsomanes Tue German Democrats intend to form a central campaign, and last evening took the | preliminary steps. | A Srnanox Svicrpe.—A man who could not | live with his wife tried to live peaceably with | another woman. Failing in this, he declared | that “a man who can’t live witha woman | without quarrelling ain't fit to live,” and hung | himself to a clothes peg. This occurred yes- | terday in Newark, and the unhappy man set a yery bad example to the married community, prompt measures to punish wanton practice described by our correspondent. One of the misfortunes attending the growth of | large cities is that for hundreds of miles around them nature is destroyed by art and | civilization, as well as by the selfish savagery of the ignorant und greedy classes. And yet the tendency of our civilization should be to preserve nature in the qicinity of the large cities, to protect the groves from destruction, to see that the trout in the brooks, the wild birds in the fields and all forms of gane are cherished for the innocent use of man, We do not believe in the game laws of England, for there game is cherished at the expense of the farmer and his crops, the laborer and his food. But the principle which preserves these gifts of Providence from wanton destruction, for the amusement end use of man—to tempt him out into the oven air with aun or rod, please the present occupant of the throne, yet he | promises to abdicate. | It is reported that when Bazaine first reacned | Areuenverg the Empress refused to see him. He then sent word that he bad in his possession some | important papers and wished to know what dis- position he was to make of them. He was them | received, Tue papers relates to the Mexican exper dition, Guizot sald “the men of capacity” to whomtt was proposed to give tle suffrage were lawyers and doctors, and irom that to universal sudrage was only astep. Fancy a win, presumabiy a great statesman, permitting himself to be led away by such reasoning and jounding on it the administra- tion of government in a great crisis. Guizot’s last illness exhibited an unusual species: of periodicity, Between five m the afternoon and eleven O'clock next morning 318 mind was a blank. He could not remember dates, facts, persons, edlors, Nor comprebend any olservation. At noom his intelligence returned and was active and clear for severai hours, only to be obscured again at ive eM