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4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yons Henatp will be sent free of postage. Al business or news letters and telegraphic | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1874.— The Closing Year. ‘The year which comes to an end will be re- membered among the noted years of the world’s history. Although not an epoch like those which saw the falling of the Bastile, the Declaration of Independence, Waterloo and Sedan, it has been full of instructive experi- ences. In all the world, with the exception of the Pyrenees, a South American State, a jungle-hidden realm in Africa, an island in the China Sea and a far distant colonial ac- quisition of Holland, there has been peace. But even this peace has been feverish, uncer- tain, and with anxieties almost as intense as those of war. The heavens have been dark with rolling clouds, the smoke of smouldering enmities, now and then lightning flashes and | ominous tokens, thunder and rain. Europe despatches must be addressed New Yorx Hera. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. | Letters and packages should be properly | sealed, | 2 LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, | Subscriptions ond Advertisements will be | received and /orwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XX 0, 365 | AMUSEMENTS 'TO-NIGHT, | | METROPOLITAN THEATRE, gg Broadway.—VARLETY, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 | GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty third street and Eighth avenue.—THE BLACK CROOK, at § P. M. ; closes at U1 P.M ee TONY PASTOR'S OP Bowery.—V ARIETY, at 8 P. M. A BOU-E, closes at 10:40 P.M. | PARK THRATRE, | Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets, —ULDED AGE, st SP. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. Mr. John t. Raymord. | OLYMPIC THEATRE, eee Broadway.—VARibTY, at oP. M.; closes at 10 45 BOOTH'’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street ana’ Sixth a LITTLE EMILY, até P.M; closes as 10:50 P. owe. venue, M. Mr. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Fourth ‘avenue.—BLUE | REARD and FETE AT PEKIN, afternoon and evening, | atdan HEATRE, 8P. M.; closes at ll P. M. TIVOL: Eighth street—VARIETY, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty+ichth street and Broadway.—PYGMALION AND GALA‘EA, at8 P.M; closes at 10:0 P.M. Miss | Carlotta Leclercq. BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO “MISSTRELSY, de, at 8PM; closes at 10 P.M. Dan ryaat METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Fourteenth street.—Open trom 10 A. M. to 5 P. it, NIBLO'-, sropiway--VAGs AND JILL, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 BROOKLYN THEATRE. Washington street.—LED ASTKAY, at> P.M. Mr. Frank | Roach, Mrs. Comway. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner of iwunty ninth stree.—NEGRO MIDSIBELSY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. ML ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street —BEGONE DULL CARE, at 8 P.M; | Closes ai 9:45 P.M. Mr. Maccabe. RE, M.; closes at 10:30 P, M. | 5 BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE. KING JOHN, a:6 P.M. Mrs. Agnes Booth, J, B. Booth. GLOBE T: Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8? LYCKEU ATRE, Fourteenth — street hb avenue.—MADAME L'ARCHIDUC, ar 8 P. oses at 1045 P.M. Miss kmily soldene. WALL. S THEATRE, Broadway.—THE SH HRAUN, at SP. M.; closes at | Wav P. a. Mr. Boncicaalt. | WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of ‘Thirtietn street—MIRIAM’S | CRIME, at 2P. MP; closes at 4:45 P.M. AFTER DARK, avéP. M.; closes at 10457. M. J. H. Tinson WITH SUPPLEMENT. | NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1874, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cold and partly | cloudy, with possibly light snow. | Wart Srnzzt Yestenpar.—Prices in the | stock market were stronger and the close was generally firm. Gold was strong at 111}, | Money on call loans hardened to 4 and 53 per | cent. Foreign exchange was steady. | s.—Ohio and Nevada must be congratulated on the loss of two desperadoes. They steeped their hands in the blood of their fellow men and the law has meted out to them due punishment. No sickly sentiment was allowed to stand in the way, and our Western States may congratulate themselves on pos- sessing juries that will convict murderers and Executives that do not shrink from enforcing the full penalty of the law. Gerrit Surra.—The remains of the late Gerrit Smith were yesterday sent to Peter- boro for interment. Large numbers of dis- tinguished citizens paid their last tribute to | the virtues of the deceased. The children of | the Orphan Asylum sent a floral wreath to be | placed on the casket as a tribute to the memory of their benefactor. To-day the | body will be consigned to earth at Peterboro, | where the deceased resided. Ovr Honorvty Lerrer,—The interesting | letter we publish from King Kalakana’s land will no doubt prove as interesting to our royal | “visitor as to us. The facts in relation to | the transit of Venus will interest all who are | engaged in scientific study. The observation | seems to have been completely succesaful at | this point, and it shows what wondrous and | precise knowledge our philosophers have | acquired of the movements of the heavenly | bodies. The success of this experiment must | have the effect of encouraging philosophical | research and increasing our faith in human | progress. | Uynapry Spary.—Another general has pro- | nounced in Spain. The flag of Alfonso has been unfurled in Valencia by General Martinez | Campos, at a time when the government was making serious efforts to concentrate all their available forces against the Carlists. What- | ever the ultimate result of the new movement, | its immediate effect must be to give Carlism a breathing space, The majority of the Spanish | officers sympathize with the cause of Alfonso, and it may be that General Campos has simply initiated » movement which will sweep away | the hybrid government at Madrid as quickly | tas the throne of Isabella was overthrown. In | ‘view of this new act of treason on the part of | fhe Spanish army one can well understand | the eagerness of the radical republicans to dissolve the armed force and rely on volun- | teers for defence. Tho Pretorian spirit seems to sarvive every change, and antil some power arises in the Peninsula capable of | when this year opened depended upon the | include Vienna in the Fatherland. Belgium, | occupied by one Napoleon and menaced by ambition. Holland is not certain that she may not also become ‘‘necessary to the Father- land.” Engiand thinks that Napoleon's scheme | of a channel invasion may be attempted by the trained soldiers of Moltke, and that a powerful navy is necessary to protect from possible harm the silver-coasted island. | year of peace, has been a camp of discipline. There are more armed men now marching and | these anxious complications we have a re- | ligious question as grave as that which intro- | duced the Thirty Years’ War. | Germany. That astute and daring statesman | | who once formed the Confederacy seem not yet | | Apparently a modern policy, it is reaily a new | tutions. | Germany and the Holy See which at the be- | cans of that unhappy nation gained power | has not forgotten the terrible struggle of the Rhine. All its enmities still live in the yearnings of the Frenchman for revenge and the resolution of the Germans to hold the provinces won with German blood. The peace which was to have come with the overthrow of the Napoleon dynasty is not a peace, but a tumultuous and ostentatious preparation for war. The genius, the resources and the in- dustries of two mighty nations have been sub- verted to martial ends, As we learn from the despatches of Prince Bismarck to Count Arnim the question of peace and war even slenderest chance. History shows how the results of a gigantic war may influence for years to come not only the nations concerned | in the struggle but neighboring nations united | to them by commercial and social ties, The whole political life of Europe during the year 1874 has been controlled by the results of the French and German war and by the necessi- ties which peace has imposed upon Bismarck and MacMahon, Europe has during this year been asanarmedcamp. Russia dreads the ambition of Germany to extend its frontier along the Baltic, Austria fears that the aspiration for a united Germany may seek to | another, is alarmed for the integrity of a do- minion which represents Saxon fear of French So, as we have said, Europe, during this countermarching between the English seas and the Ural Mountains than were ever known in the heighth of the French wars, when Napoleon was master and all Europe | marched to beat him down. As if to add to The policy of Bismarck looks beyond the dream of united emulates the fame of Gustavus Adolphus, and aims to become the leader of a religious reformation. Bismarck’s aim has been to unite Protestantism under the flag of Prussia. | and fora moment threatened civil war. But | loyalty, the ignorance and the provincial prejudices of that peculiar people. So far as we can understand the relations of the oppos- ing forces Carlism is ag active a power as it has been for the last two generations. Rest- ing, as it would seem, upon the time-honored prejudices and traditions of a race as proud and brave as the Basques, and representing the strongest sentiment of local patriotism, it, quered, but must be conciliated. While conservatism hag asserted itself on the Continent, especially in France and Spain, its influence has been felt also in England and the United States, When the year began Gladstone was Premier, and although his power had been weakened by many influences, by the reaction and irrita- tion that arose trom what was “heroic legisla- tion,” few imagined that it would be seriously challenged. An election took place, and the result was the overwhelming defeat of the liberal party and the accession of Disraeli to power. The Ashantee war came to a cruel but a successful end, and the Gold Coast was annexed to England. While the Empire thus grew in Africa another measure of annexation was consummated in the Pacific, and the Island of Fiji became a part of the vast Empire of England. The tory administration has ventured on no special phases of new legislation, Mr. Disraeli’s health has been the source of much concern to his followers, and fears are entertained that now, in the flush, and, as it were, the begin- ning of a power, to the attainment of which he has given a long life, he ill be compelled to resign it. The Tichborne case, which formed so prominent a feature of English social life, came to an end by the conviction of the extraordinary person called the claim- ant. The controversy between Mr. Gladstone and Archbishop Manning as to the real meaning of the Vatican decrees has pro- | duced @ profound impression, and, taken in connection with the contest between Bismarck | and the Papacy, threatens to exercise a pro- digious influence upon political and religious | sentiment in England. This has been a sad, anxious and eventful year at home. The panic of 1873 was in full force when the year opened. We had a hard winter. Legislators made a desperate effort to passa measure of inflation which would have been a measure of practical repudia- tion; but the firmness of Grant put an end to it. Had the President continued in this wise and firm course his party might have retained continuous power. | But the country showed a restless tendency. Maine went republican before this tendency took effect. The third term assumed a por- tentous aspect, and when to this was added the scandals in administration and govern- ment and the desire of the country for a change, the impatience became a resistless im- pulse, and the great party which had saved the Union and secured emancipation was over- | whelmingly defeated. Much of this is due to the misfortunes of the South. The unhappy States | to have expiated the sin of rebellion. In Loui- siana the oppression led to an outbreak which took violent possession of the government, attempt to realize an old dream. Luther's reformation was largely a success because it was a political movement, appealing to the | patriotic feeling of Germany and the an- | tipathy of Germans to Italy and Italian insti- | The whole tendency of Bismarck’s diplomacy has been to destroy the influ- ence of the Catnolic Church. This he has attempted with a merciless sin-_ cerity of purpose, The relations between ; | ginning of the year were simply an estrange- | ment are now those of violent hostility. The Pope hurls his anathemas at the Emperor. Bismarck publicly charges the Jesuits with | having driven Napoleon to war; religious fanatics have taken to the pistol, as if, assassination could ever determine any polit- | ical event. Catholic prelates have been fined, | imprisoned and banished, and Catholic ladies, | even of noble blood, have been thrown into jail for daring to sympathize with their pas- tors’ sorrows. In the meantime, as if to show that the policy of the Chancellor rises above every consideration of the citizen’s liberty | and honor, we have seen him arrest a repre- sentative in Parliament for the expression of | an opinion unfriendly to the government. More than all, we have seen him strain the power of the Prussian governmental system to destroy a great statesman whose rivalry he | dreaded. The prosecution and the trial of | Count Arnim have been among the extraord- inary events of the year, and the result, which is accepted as a practieal acquittal of | the Count, is regarded as the first check which | Bismarck has received in his extraordinary | and brilliant career. ‘ | In the meantime France has been steadily | marching to republicanism, dragging with it | the reluctant MacMahon. The Septennate, t which was to have fallen before its first year | closed, lives mainly because of thé patiént ¢ conservatism of the republican Jeaders. This | admirable policy of regarding republicanism as something to grow, like the oak tree or the | coral rock, to slowly gather life and strength, has preserved order, stimulated prosperity and added vastly to the good opinions en- tertained of France. The only parties who have disturbed France are the monarchists. Republicanism is no longer a destructive but | & conservative force. Whenever the elections | have spoken France has declared for the Re- public. Whether the coming year will deal as gently with the Septennate as 1874, or whether, as is feared now, the intrigues of | the monarchists may compel a coup d'état and a dictatorship, is a problem. But no gov- | ernment that can now be established in France | will live but the Republic. Wisdom lke this | has not been shown in Spain. The republi- | under the leadership of the illustrious and eloquent Castelar. Foolish counsels distracted the party, and one wild purpose | “succeeded another, until the Republic was | stricken down by the sword of Serrano and | the Congress driven by soldiers out of the hall of assembly. Serrano has been dictator for a year, with no one to question him but the Carlists. Aithough his dictatorship has been | recognized by most of the European Powers | he has failed to pacify Spain. The Carlists, | under the lead of Don Carlos, have oceupied | Biscay, All the military efforts of the Span- } striking terror into this military panditti fipain can have for no rest. ish army have not diminished their power. The King reigns through the tauaticism, the | | of American citizens, which took place in | the wisdom of the usurpers and the firmness | of the President suppressed the movement, and since then there has been no serious out- | break. Our relations with Mexico and Cuba bave continued cordial. The capture of the | Virginius and the massacre of a large number seems to be an influence that cannot be a 1873, still remains a subject of negotiation. Our | | national prosperity has not been as rapid as | in previous years. Many scandals have | affected our credit and the consequent | development of the country. Emigra- | tion has fallen off and misfortunes in some | of the Western Territories have checked the | tendency of our people to go West. The | general belief is that these business misfor- tunes really show that the country is gradu- ally settling upon a sounder and firmer basis ; that we are recovering from the false war | spirit of speculation and unhealthy enter- | prise and that we shall enter upon a new | career of prosperity with the year that comes | | rules over France might at any moment give to-morrow. - The death of Mr. Sumner was a national misfortune. The sudden death of | Mr. Havemeyer created a profound feeling of ; sorrow in a city which respected his integrity | and virtues. Our society has been moved by an extraordinary scandal affecting the fame and moral influence of the foremost clergy- man of the Union. This is now before the | courts of the country and will soon be brought | toa trial The visit of the King of Hawaii | has made o pleasant impression upon our | people and contributed largely to the good | relations between the little Kingdom and our Republic. Reforming the Charities and Correc- tion Department. The new Commissioners of the Depart- | ment of Charities and Correction take office | with the knowledge conveyed to them in the } official communication addressed by Mayor | Vance to Governor Dix on the removal of | their predecessors that corruption has ex- | isted in the department. Under these cir- cumstances it will be incumbent upon them, | | for their own protection, to cause a thorough | investigation to be made of the duties and the official conduct of all their subordinates. The | department is so extensive, and so much responsibility is necessarily imposed on the employés, that a strict scrutiny into every | branch is demanded as much in the interests of the new Commissioners as of tho city. | Commissioner Donnelly has a plan by which | he would require the resignation of every officer under the Board pending an investiga- tion, in order that such resignation might be accepted or rejected as circumstances may require, This is all wrong. The country has not forgotten the abuses of power committed by Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, when he held the resignations of the State officers in his keeping, and his example teaches us that no community can consent to such a policy. Investigation is necessary tor the information of the people as much as for the guidance of the Board, and Mr. Donnelly’s plan is objec- tionable from both standpoints. If any of the officers of the Board wish to resign it must be with the understanding that such | resignation shall not free him from punish- ment if he has been guilty of corruption in office. The investigation must be open and public, that everybody may know what wrongs have been committed, and that the wrong. | doers may not escape exposure and punish- ment, Prince Bismarck and the Hei It is an interesting fact to learn, as we do, from the North German Gazette that the Henaup is the organ of the ultramontanists in America. The importance of this declaration seems to be appreciated in London, where the declara- tions of the German organ are discussed by the leading London newspapers. The Augs- burg Gazelle accuses us of having entered into a conspiracy with Count Arnim ‘‘to slander the German Empire." It is the habit of the Hznatp to permit its columns to speak for it, and not to venture ‘| upon explanations which never do any good. The one thing we will never attempt is to ex- plain to the mind of a German editor, espe- cially when under the inspiration of Bis- marck, the exact nature of ‘freedom of the press” in America. It would be just as diffi- cult an undertaking as to explain to a stage driver who had never seen a locomotive how carriages could be made to go more than seven miles an hour. We have our own diffi- culties in understanding many things we see in Germany, We have been told by Editor Medill and Minister Bancroft, in eloquent publications, that Germany is becoming more and more like the United States in its laws and institutions and customs, But suddenly we find a member of Parliament imprisoned ; a great nobleman dragged to jail and his house searched ; newspapers punished; priests taken from the altar by policemen ; bishops banished, fined and imprisoned, and women likewise, for crying over their clergymen’s sorrows. We suppose there is a reason for all of this, but we cannot understand it, any more than the North German Gazette cannot comprehend why the Hegatp should venture to differ with Prince Bismarck without being in the pay of the Pope. The truth is, we live in a free country and print a free newspaper. Weare no more the organ of the ultramontanes than we are of Bismarck. Of the two we much prefer Bis- marck, who, with ell of his faults, has a manly, stern purpose to attain, while the ultramontanists are a mischievous sect, much too good for this world, who should postpone their political experiments until they go to heaven. It ia just possible that our German critic regards as ultramontanists all who are persecuted by Bismarck. We have none in America. The Catholic Church here is liberal. The priests mind their own business. They are not pressed under the banner of a harsh imperial policy, and consequently are not ‘‘ultramontanists."’ The Hezaup is the organ of no man, no clique, no party. It aims to represent the highest and most patriotic purpose of the American people. We support Bismarck when right and oppose him when wrong. We have had occasion to receive courtesies from the Chancellor in the way of special commu- nications, and we made our grateful acknowl- edgments. When His Highness has any fur- ther service of the same character he will find the Hxzaup quite willing to be his ‘organ.” So far as the Arnim matter is concerned, we think the Prince has shown a harsh, mas- terful spirit; that he has taken mean advan- tages of his former friend and rival, and has accordingly arrayed against his policy the general sense of fair play which exists in all men’s minds. What the Heraup si1ys has been said by the leading papers of England and the Continent. Prince Bismarck makes a mistake when he attributes this sentiment to the desire of any newspaper to be harsh tow- ard him. The fault is with himself and not with the Hezatp. Even as great a statesman should leave Germany long enough to learn that a newspaper can be truly independent | without being in the pay of an impracticable, foolish faction like the ultramontanists, or of a poor, battered count, like Harry Von Arnim. If we chose to worship power alone we should adore Bismarck. But we follow justice, whether we support the Chancellor or oppose him. MacMehon’s Reception. In the delicate state of French political parties every action of the President of the Republic becomes important. Holding the balance of power, the veteran soldier who to one of the contending factions supremacy. Hence every act of his is jealously watcled and criticised. The telegraph informs us that the published programme of the official —— | | | reception to be held on New Year's Day has | given rise to much comment. Archbishop Guibert is to occupy the place of honor by the President's side, and this open declaration | of friendliness to the has provoked the liberals and excited their fears. It is looked on as an indication of the adoption ofa reactionary policy, and, whether meant or not, is a direct slight to the Assem- bly. Waat or tHe Law Department?—Mayor Vance reads Mr. E. Delafield Smith a very sharp lecture on farming out the duties of the | Counsel to the Corporation to favorite law- | yers. The object of the contingent fund which has been allowed the | Law Department, the Mayor says, is to | secure assistance to the Corporation Counsel in important cases, not to relieve him of his duties and responsibilities Mr. Smith seemed to think it was the purpose of this fund to enable him to employ other law- yers to do his work. Now that Mayor Vance has so pointedly referred to the | practice of the Law Department in one | particular it is not impossible that investiga- | tion would reveal other practices equally ob- jectionable. As investigation is the order of the day let it extend to the Law Department also, for we are persuaded that a little light upon the workings of Mr. Smith's office will not be hurtful to the interests of the people. The Corporation Attorney's office is another of the subordinate departments where investigation might be profitable, especially as there have been complaints for a long while that the abate- ment of nuisances is itself to some extenta nuisance, Proresson Proctor, the distinguished English astronomer who visited this country last year and contributed so much to the in- | straction and entertainment of the American public by his eloquent lectures, makes an ap- peal in our columns this morning against the injustice which has been done him by a re- viewer in the Aflantic Monthly. The writer of the review, after having been convicted of false statements, made an apology which added insult to the original injury which he con- feases, ond the English astrongmer judiciously ultramontanes | WITH SUPPLEMENT, sets himself right with the American public by addressing it through the newspaper press. In his extensive travels through the United States he found the Hzraup every- where—in all the railroad trains, in all the hotels, at all the news stands, in parts of the country most remote from the city of New York—and, correctly estimating this distinc- tion, which is enjoyed by no other American journal, he sends to us his vindication against his anonymous detractor. We commend it to the attention of his many American ad- mirers. An Official Malfeasance. We have repeatedly charged that Comp- troller Green's financial policy during his term of office has been a policy of conceal- ment and deception; that the people have designedly been kept in ignorance of their true financial condition, and that the real amount of the city debt has been misrepre- sented for the purpose of gaining for Mr. Green a false reputation for economy. The exposure now made in the Board of Appor- tionment justifies the position we have occu- pied and fastens upon the Comptroller a gross official malfeasance, The story can be briefly told. The Board of Apportionment on the revision of the city estimates for 1874 in July last appropriated, at Mr. Green’s request, eight million three hundred thousand dollars for interest on the city debt for the current year. Prior to making this appropriation Mayor Vance offered a series of resolutions calling upon the Comptroller for a detailed statement showing the particulars of the debt which re- quired such an amount of interest. The resolutions were voted down by Mr. Green and the late Mayor, and the information was denied. Toward the close of the year—not more than six weeks ago, we believe—the Comptroller asked the Board of Apportion- ment for ninety thousand dollars additional for interest by the transter of that sum from an uuexpended balance of some other appro- priation, This the Board granted, after re- ceiving the Comptroller's assurance that the total amount appropriated—namely, eight million three hundred and ninety thousand dollars—covered the whole interest on the public debt fur 1874. It is now discovered that Mr. Green has actually paid nearly nine million dollars for interest in 1874 without the knowledge of the Board ot Apportionment. Itappears that Mr. Green found a balance of over five hundred thousand dollars appropriated for interest in @ former year or years unexpended, and he used the same to pay interest on the debt dur- ing the present year, in addition to the amount appropriated for that purpose by the Board of Apportionment, without the knowledge, sanction or authority of that Board. This is in direct aud wilful violation of law, which provides (chapters 303 and 308 of Laws of 1874) that the Board of Estimate and Appor- | tionment shall alone have the power to trans- fer or reappropriate unexpended balances either during the year or at the end of the current fiscal year. Nor is it simply a tech- nical and unimportant violation of law, but one committed for the purpose of deception, being designed to cover up and conceal from the Board of Apportionment and from the people of New York the amount they were actually required to pay for interest this year, and, as a consequence, the real amount of their debt. In justification of this charge, the gravity of which we fully understand, we refer toa communication addressed by Mr. Green to the Board of Apportionment on June 24, 1874. In that communication, which is the revised and amended city estimate for the present year as prepared by the financial | officer of the city, the whole amount re- quired for interest on the city debt for the year 1874 is put down at eight million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Not a word is said about an additional sum of be- tween five and six hundred thousand dollars to be taken from a former unappropriated balance ; but, on the contrary, Mr. Green makes a comparative statement between the total amount required to pay interest on the public debt in 1871 and the total amount thus alleged to be required for the same purpose in 1874, and takes credit for the compara- tively small increase in the public debt in the intervening time. When it is remem- bered that the amount thus secretly and un- lawiully taken from the city treasury by Mr. Green and used to pay interest on the city | debt represents at seven per cent nearly seven | millions and a half of indebtedness the gross- ness and the intent of the deception become | evident. The Board of Apportionment have very properly branded this act of the Comptroller as illegal and unjustifiable. Will they now turn their attention to the share of the Cham- berlain in the offence? The charter peremp- torily prohibits that officer from paying o warrant ‘‘on account of any appropriation after the amount authorized to be raised for that specific purpose shall have been expended.” | Will the Chamberlain, who has been super- | serviceable in certifying to the exact correct- ness of the sinking fund securities, inform us why he paid warrants to the amount of over half a million dollars on account of interest | after the amount of eight million three hun- dred and ninety thousand dollars authorized to be raised for that specific purpose had | been fully expended? The Pacific Mail Investigation— Startling Developments. The testimony taken yesterday before the sub-committee of Congress who are pursuing | the Pacific Mail investigation in this city shows that they have got hold of a clew which is likely to lead to important revelations, Two hundred and seventy-five thousand dol- | lars of the money supposed to have been | employed im procuring the subsidy have been traced to the hands of John G. Schumaker, | member of Congress from Brooklyn. This fact came out in the examination of William R. Bunker, Secretary of the Brooklyn Trust Company. The books of that company show an entry of two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars made by it with the Marine Bank, May 30, 1872, and on the same day three checks of fifty thousand dollars each were drawn against the deposit by Mr. Schu- maker. Mr. Bunker testified that he haa no knowledge of the use which Mr. Schumaker made of the money, but that gentieman should be able to tell when he is summoned before the committee. It must be said, how- over. that he was not at that time a member of Congress. He was a mentber of ceding, or Forty-first Congrosa, and x — ber the present, or Forty-third Congies but ‘he was not in that body when the Pacifidfail subsidy was passed. There seemed tobes -misapprehension on this point amorg the people who hung around the committe pom yesterday, which caused the testimony Mr. Bunker to make a greater sensation tar it would had it been understood that MrSehu- maker was not in Congress at the tne of handling this money, But notwithstanding this circumstase im abatement Mr. Schumaker is placedin a most unenviable light by the testimony sken yesterday. The HzRaxp, wishing to givhim an opportunity to explain and to enablhim to send forth his vindication with the pulica- tion of the testimony, sent a reporta to Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, who madeiili- gent but unsuccessful efforts to find him, It was said at his office that he had ret to Washington, which seemed improbabléin view of the fact that Congress does not ne semble until the 5th of January. Inquiles were also made at his house, whose inmms had no knowledge of his return to Washig- ton, and accounted for his absence on the sp- position that he might be on a visit to is mother, at Claverack, in Columbia coun, It is strange that he should go either to Waa- ington or Claverack without informing ls family. If the transactions in which hes proved to have participated were innocent ait honorable he will hasten to present himsd before the committee as soon as he sees th city papers of this morning, and will explai without reserve his connection with this sup picious business. As he has all alor known that he possessed some of the know| edge which the committee are in quest of i would be better if he had gone to them in ad vance, without waiting this awkward detec, tion, and presented himself as a voluntary witness in the earliest stage of their proceed. ings. If he does not communicate with the committee to-day, either by telegraph or in person, and offer to swear to all he knows, suspicion will be apt to deepen into belief We trust he will appear before the committe, to-day and establish his innocence, notwith standing appearances are so much against hin. Tue Present AND THE Srocx-—Joppne DespatcH.—We have a despatch from Waa- ington explaining the connection of the Prei- dent with the stock-jobbing despatch gent from the Associated Press and cabled to Jon- don purporting to give the views of the President upon Cuba. This despatch, if will be remembered, made a profound impresion in Madrid, menaced our good relation; with Spain, affected the money markets in Etrope, drew from the London Times m in- dignant comment and from Baron Reuter an abject apology. As this despatch came through the Associated Press to the Heraxp; as it was a false, mischievous, stock-jobbing despatch, we of course are bound to make inquiry a8 to its origin. We are told that it came from the White House, / and that the President gave it out for publica- tion. This statement the Washington agent confirms in a despatch printed elsewhere, or at least we understand him as confirming it. This matter must not be allowed to drop. ‘We must have the whole truth about it. The President, under the direct charge of the Washington agent of the Associated Press, is accused of having dishonored the country. What answer? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. And now it turns. out that Hoffman turns up once more. General W. C, Wickham, of Virginia, is registered at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staff, has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Mr, T. Tomita, Japanese Consul for this city, has | arrived at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Commander Edward P. Lull, United States Navy, is quartered at the Everett House. Boston is to have a general representative exhi- bition of works by Hubbite artists. The conundrum of the hour—the meaning of Sheridan’s mission to New Orleans. Proiessor Joseph Winlock, of Cambridge, Mass., is stopping at the Westminster Hotel. Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa, has takea up his residence at the Brevoort House, Lord Napier, of Magdala, has consented vo re- tain his command in India for another year. Norton’a pew picture will represent a ship on the Banks, approuching an icebe'g in a tog. Baron de Schaeffer, the new Austrian Minister to the Court of Japan, has arrived at Yokohama, Lieutenant Colonel Kobert ©. Perry, United States Army, is sojouruing at the Sturtevant House. The Marguis of Bute is reading the Old Testa- ment in Hebrew. He is rich enough to afford the luxury. Mr. Locock, British Minister to Central America, } left Panama on the 15th of December for San José de Guatemala. Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, 18 at the St. | Nicholas Hotel. Sergeant-at-Arms N. G. Ordway, of the House of Kepresentatives, arrived last evening at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, Ir every Schumaker stuck to his last the ex- posures in Pacific Mail would contain the names of fewer Congressmen. Colonei Lamar, of Mississippi, ts said to be the only prominent man in the next Congress who does not want to be Speaker. i Seventeen hundred pounds have already been | raised fur a monument to Dr. Livingstone in Glas- | gow. The work is to cost £2,000, It 18 announced from Venezuela that General Level di Goda has been captured, with sixteen of | his companions, “seeking adventures,” Curiosity is excited in Cambriayille, Pa, a8 to whether Jonn Rightbower’s new wife orders him up in the morning or whether he eucnres her. A bust of Thomas Paine, executed by O'Connor, a Worcester artist, will be set upin the Paine Building, now in course of erection in Boston. Sir James Ferguson, Governor of New Zealand, accompanied by Hon, John Russell and Lesie Hawks, passed through St. Louis yesterday en | route tor this city. President Guardta, of Costa Rica, has visited Liberia, The people nad not taken part im the late revolutionist movement, and the Oficial Gacette gives tuli accounts of His Excellency’s doings, his marches an¢ addresses to his soldiers, and his disinterestedness. * King Kalakaua would like to go up in a balloon, | but will not ascend Ii bis life insurance policy goe up withtt, The King is a sensiole man, voth tn having @ life insurance policy and in refusing to invalidate it, but it must be confessed this is a rather funny glimpse of royalty. ‘Admirat Rivourt, of the French Navy, did not concinde his oficial labors when he leit Noumea, His latest ordinance, dated trom Sydney, Aus~ tralia, directs that M, Le Boucher, Chet of tae Colonial Department, be removed irom office and sent back to France. M, Duvernoy 1s appointed his successor. Lieutenant Crova, alde-de-camp ta the Governor, is to have special survelitance of the “movements” of toe port of Noumea, and | Messrs. Boyer and Lasser are appointed spectat commissioners to continue imgairy into the ea cape of Messrs. Rochefort. Gragsset and other | Communist vrisoners.

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