The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD ™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR as NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and ‘iter January }, 1675, the daily and weekly ditions of the New Youx Ienaup will be sent free of postage. eteaceagihiientinnee ‘HE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- pual cubscription price #12. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. —- > LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Sutseriptions and advertisements will be geceived ond forwarded’ on the same terms ‘pin New York. 8 P.M: closes Al osdwar-THE 4 Mr, Nontague, Matinee Br OF L' at 10:40 P. 7 Miss Ada Dyas, ati Bo P. ARK ae JEATRE, Broadway. —rrauias WIPE, at S$ PPM. Miss Howard, BOWERY OPERA HOUSF, I ad Bowery.—VARIETY, ut 3 P. M.; Closes at 1045 ROBINSON HALL, teenth — sireet.-- lng! Silore as. 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Matinee at nue. —GIROFLE- + Matinee at 1:9 STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—CENTANNIAL | MUSICAL PRA: ORICAL ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P.M, TRIPLE $ SHEET. Sag BDAY. MAY AND 2. F From our rreorir this morning the probabitities are that the eather to-day will be partly cloudy or leer Watt Srreer Yesterpar.—Stocks were un- fiettled, the market drifting into an inquiry if the bear movement had tonched bottom or not. Gold sold at 116}. Bismarck is a statesman of amazing impu- dence, but he has almost surpassed himself in asking that religious processions in Belgium sball be prohibited. Frertwoop Park was the scene of some re- markable trotting yesterday, seven héats fail- fog to find a wiuner for the 2:24 purse. The race will be finished t vay. Tae Semen Drastex is still fresh in the minds of all our reacers, and the details of hat event which we print this morning will be read with an interest second only to that which followed tht annonncement of the ois- aster itself. Taz Frexctt Cowmexists who recently es- caped from New Caledonia disquiet to the gentle people of New Zealand and Australia. All kinds of complications are anticipated, and, indeed. may be expected, so long as the French government persists in are a source of its rigorous conrse in Poris and allows a tox sdminictration in the penal colony. Tae Tame Trem.—We print an inte communication in another columa this ing from a republica New Orleans whi throws some light upon the statements by various politicians that General does not propose to be a candidate for the Presidency for a third term. These his cal facts, coming from a trustwortny aud dis tinguisbed writer, will be an int: wibdation to the literature ot Cw Grant tori- resting con- arism. A Contors Qvrstiox, involving the right of 8 Roman Catholic priest to accuse a person married ontside of the Charch with living mortal sin when the accusation is without malice and only with the intention of dis- charging his duty as priest and pastor, is to be tried in the Boston courts. We are inclined to think Father McGlew will find that be may not slander people even in church and with the in design of saving their souls, and somehow we think he ought not to have done it, even if his wicked parishioners were cast away in per- dition. Tae Cextessran Cowsteeron re-elected eral Howley us its President nected some other routine bnesiness yesterday Among the reselniion« which were pasted was one which we ure especially waxious te sormmend, for wrecopnize in it the fine band of Mr. L. A. Gobright, of Washington. who i not only pleased with the progress made in the construction of the Exhibition building. but is especially happy that the evidences of ar tistie skill in the goverat arrangement are to “show to all nations that, while the peop) the United States are pre-eminently p soncerning mechanical industries, they are not indifferent to the agencies which combine utility with refined taste.'’ Mr. Gobright's ‘eountrymen are much indebted to him tor this neat compliment, but we are afraid some ef them will fail to appreciate bis services. | general law. | effect closes at 10:45} i | be thankful. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1875.—TRIPLE SITEET, i Success of the Husted Rapid Transit Dill. | This excellent bill is quite certain to pass without any amendments which essentially | impair its efficiency. The Assembly, in which ' | it was first introduced, made an acceptable | | | amendment by transferring the appointment of the commissioners from the (Gov- ernor to the mayors of cities and | | the supervisors of counties. Governor | ; Tidden himself does not disapprove of this | | amendment in the interest of home rule, attaching too much importance to the eal stance of the bill to desire an authority which | is as safely lodged in the hands of Mayor | Wickham; for the broad provision which in- | ciudes other mayors and boards of super- | visors is mere surplusage to bring the bill | within the constitutional requirements of a | In intention and practical it merely a law for rapid | | transit in New York city alone, and no- body distrusts the fidelity of our present | | Mayor or the intelligent pains he will take to | select fit men to organize this great under- | is vicious amendment was offered by Mr. Lord, | of Canal Ring notorioty, and adopted in Com- | mittee of the Whole, restricting the opera- tion of the bill to the two counties of New York and Westchester, which | would have wade it ‘void by repugnance to the constitution, which forbids local laws for | railroad tracks, This hostile amendment was | afterward thrown ont by the Senate, which, however, adopted some others of doubtful utility, The bill was then passed, sent back to the Assewbly for concurrence in the | amendments ; concurrence was refused ; a committee of conference was ap- pointed; a report was made from that committee with modified amendments, and the bill was triumphantly passed Jast | evening by the Senate, with an assured cer- tainty that it will also pass the Assembly. So | we are at last secure of # good, practical law for rapid transit, for which our citizens will It passed the Senate by the | strong majority of twenty-four to six ; and, as the Assembly passed it unanimously, there is no doubt that they will repass it as it came from the conference committee, whose amend- ments are not unfriendly to the purpose of the bill. A point worth notice in connection with the | Rapid Transit bills is the practical inefticacy of | those provisions of the amended State con- | stitution which forbid the passage of special or local laws. Such prohibitions are easily avoided in substance while complying with their form, of which there could not | be more striking illustration than is furnished by the Rapid Transit bills, They are intended to apply to New York alone, no other city in the State needing or desirin such facilities, Each of the Rapid Transit | bills is really a local law intended tor New | a | York eity alone, but each is so framed as to be applicable to the whole State, althongh | was expectation on the part of their framers that they would be put in force except jn this one locality. The pr tion of local laws is valuable and salu- tary in all those cases where the same kind of wants exist or are likely to arise in all parts of the Commonwealth; but when some partic- ular locality has wants peculiar itself the requirement of general 4.’ OE no value, though pot an insurmountable obstruction, A great deal of tbe sparring and wrangling | which have attended the discussion of the Rapid Transit bills might have been avoided | had the Legislature been at liberty to make the plaster no broader than the sore. The hills might have been simpler in form, re- quiring less ingenuity to draft them, and have given less opportunity for the cavils of the enewies of rapid transit. We are glad that a bill has at last been put | in a secure way to passage which meets all the covstitutional requirements and makes it safe for capitalists to invest their money without fear of annoying and obstructive lawsuits in the prosecution of the enterprise. There was ® pretty general appréhension both in the | Legislature and out of it that the Moore bili was exposed to this danger, and all wise friends ot rapid transit will be glad to exchange it for the more careful bill, which will be sent to the Governor for his signature | and is kpown to have his preference. The 20st that was expected of the Moore bill was Vanderbilt might be induced t noder it and bnilda rapid transit road on Fourth avenne, connecting with the pres- | there no to | laws | Commodore ent steam roads at the Grand Central | depot. H» cwns the horse railroad on that venue and the tannel which extends quite a ice below Forty-second street, through | pid transit cars could be ruo, and he | i denve great advantages from an ex- m of bis steam lines to the City Hail. | though a great deal better than nothiog, ild still be very inadequate. Jt wonld the public convenience ovly below Forty-second street From Forty-second street to Harlem the accommodations would probably be no better than they are at present. | Tt ss essential to the idea of a good rapid transit that it should saccommodaie the great bedy of citizens ; that it should have frequent for taking and setting down passengers ; a convenience hardly to be expeeted on Fourth avenne, between the Grand Central depot and Harlem. Inthe first place, such | stations on that part of Fourth avenue, even ould expect them, would not accom- snbserv road our siations up ifs modate the people. A great part of the way there are wire cos om hoch sides of the toute which consist of vacant lots, and people wi have to walk jong distances to reach the cars or ther horas. which would te very anwoyiog ™m bard weather, espectaily th the winter seasit.. In the next place, Com- rodore Vande ‘could not give the needed wat stations atentiy with secommoda for the through travel. The cars of three througl lines rap on Fourth wenne between the Grand Central depot and Harlem, and so oeenpy the roel as to pre & constant suc- on of way trains every ‘few minutes, wita six or seven way stations between Forty- sevond street and the Harlem Bridge. The ng is impracticable on a road over which all the New Englind travel, the North New York travel and a Inege portion | f the Western travel. Rapid transit in a form adapted’ to the internal wants of city is impossible on Fourth except below Forty + second thir ture avenues, | of construction, _and cheerfulness, | with which the road can be brought into use. | ing | the street, whereas we neod it for the whole | length of the island. The Moore bill might have given u3 rapid transit on the lower part of Fourth avenue, because some of the ob- structions which hedge the way of other capi- talists would not exist for Mr. Vanderbilt, who is im no danger of htigation from a horse railroad company. But what the city needs is steam cars running through to Harlem and beyond every few minutes, with stations all the way at short intervals, on a route through the most densely and contiguonsly populated part of the city south of Harlem Bridge. signed by the Governor in preference to a law of more limited utility. Now that we are sure of a law which gives rapid transit ‘‘an open field and fair play,” we look with confidence to a speedy supply of this great public want. We have no donbt | that the requisite fifty public-spirited citizens | will immediately be found to petition for the | road, when it will be the duty of the Mayor to | taking, When the bill went to the Senate | appoint the five commissioners. Ho will not | be hampered by a necessity of having his ap- pointees confirmed by the Common Council, and he has every motive to make good seleec- tions. The construction of a rapid transit | roud will mark an epoch in the history of the city, and the Mayor under whose superintendence it is satisfactorily done will earn a reputation that will ren- der his administration always memorable. He will of course take the best and soundest advice, including that of the Governor, and will appoint a set of commissioners the an- nouncement of whose names will inspire con- fidence. Tt will be their first duty to select a route which will accommodate the greatest number of people. This Will perhaps be an easier task than to decide on the best plan The plan must not be so @xpensive as to repel capitalists. As the road can be bwilt in one of the avenues, no | great expenditure will be necessary to secure | the right of way, which dispenses with what | has heretofore been regarded as one of the heaviest elements of cpst. In pomt of economy there is no comparison between an elevated and an underground road, any more than there is in light or in the rapidity Anelevated road can easily be completed to Harlem in less than two years. Under the excellent new bill which will to-morrow go to the Governor for his signatare we have high and copfident hopes of | the immediate commencement and speedy completion of an enterprise = which | will give a powerful new impulse to the growth and prosperity of the city. The pros- pect is an ample reward for the persistent veal and unflagging efforts of the Herap in agitating this great subject and push- it upon the attention of the people and the Legislature, We feel that we have as much reason to con- gratulate the city as when, after years of strenuous advocacy, the Heraxp had the satisfaction of seeing the law passed for creating the Central Park, that great and health-giving ornament of this metropolis, the pride and boast of our citizens, which is ‘‘a | thing of beauty and a joy forever.” Mr. Delano Defamed. Lone Horn may be both a bold Indian and | | an able orator according to the Indian stand- | ard, but he has a plainness in his speech that | marks him as a bad politician. No Tammany brave could have been louder in defaming | that good man/ Mr. Secretary Delano. This terrible Sioux, not content with the thousand kindnesses he had received throug the Secre- | tary of the Interior, actually bad the temerity | to acense that functionary of lying. Had he merely said that all the good intentions of the Secretary had not been kept or that the | promises of the department had never been fulfilled it would have been all right, but to tell the President that a member of bis offi- cial family had lied was talking altogether too plainly even for an Indian. evidently thought so, and feared the im- mediate consequences to the Sioux if words ot the savage should be at once reported to Grant, What the Presi- dent wonld bave done but for the discretion of the interpreter it is impossible to predict, and what Delano will do upon his return to Washington is equally past finding out. whole issue now depends upon that event. | ~ The President will not speak; indeed, although it is universally ackuowledged that he isa good listener, he will not so much as hear until Mr. Delano is back at his desk. Perhaps this is just. His Secretary of the In- terior has been maligned, traduced, vilified. An Indian, and a S.oux at that, has had the boldness to call a good and truthful mana liar. If things go on in this way there will be no safety for anybody, and the savages of the Far West will become as dangerous to imno- cent people like Delano as democratic mvestigating cominittees are likely to be dur- | ing the next Congress. Tax Forest Fires in Pennsylvania and | New Jersey are of the most serious ebaracter, and embrace many miles of territory and property of immense value within the range of destruction. Unless the predictions of Old Probabilities are more than veri- fied by a rainfall’ during the day the | ravages of the fires may te oven more destructive within the next twenty- four hours than they were yesterday and the | duy before. The secret of these firds ix to be found in the gener] inattention to forest eul- ture in this conntty. Where woodlands exist at all they are utterly neglected, and among the mountains of the two Statex now saffering jvom forest fires whole townships aud counties ere as inflammable «sa W Vath the laws provide for the pres and protection of forests we may expect these ever-reeurring disasters, and it seems it is only while the fires ste raging thet anybody thinks the subject worthy of consideration. We trust the matter will not be much longer neglected, jor until there is some pract legislation on this question, applicable alike to all the wood-growing States, there will not be even so much as an attempt at making | these terrible visitations impossible. Revesvx, Rerorm has come to be a prac- tical question, and it is to be hoped that the mesting of impurters yesterday to consider the subject will prove to be the first step in the direction of practical measures, We rejoice | | inthe certain passage of a bill which renders — | such a road practicable and is sure to be The interpreter | ‘The | The Black Hills and the Indian | The Chair of Burglary at Princeton Question. We print this morning an interview with | the distinguished General Custer, whose name fs familiar to all who know the history of the’ rebellion, as well as to those who have | observed the operations of the few gallant | men who haye protected our Northwestern | frontiers against the merciless Indian tribes. General Custer’s interview is a narrative as well as a protest. He explains clearly the exact condition of the Indians in the Southwest, our relations toward them, all the troaties that exist between these tribes and our government, and the manner in which these treaties are daily broken by rapacious | Indian agents. It is impossible to read this narrative of an officer who speaks from his | personal experience and whose word is beyond i | suspicion without feeling that, unless Presi- | dent Grant should interfere as resolutely with | the operations of the Indian Ring as he has | interfered with those of the Whiskey Ring, we | | shall either have a war of the most disastrous character upon our hands in a very short time or the administration of Indian affairs will be covered with additional and just reproach. From diferent parts of the country we have stories of expeditions of adventurous people | forming to enter and settle what is called the | Black Hills country. Itseems, from what we | are told by General Custer as well as other | distinguished officers who have traversed this | region, that the Black Hills country is rich with | gold deposits and has many advantages for settlement. General Sheridan reports that gold | does really exist near what are called the Big Horn and Tongue rivers. This country, how- ever, has been ceded to the Indians by a solemn treaty. The reservation extends west from the Missouri River about two hundred miles and from the northern boundary of Nebraska to the foriy-sixth degree of latitude, embracing a territory, we should say, as large again os | the State of Pennsylvania. The reports | of owt military commanders have inflamed | the imagination of that large portion of our people who believe that wealth can be obtained in nearly every method except by | working for it. We have stories of organiza- | tions in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Mary- land, Maine and even in Canada, all waiting | | for the door to open to this new Eldorado, It is estimated that the number of emigrants preparing for this exodus is from fifteen to twenty thousand. The government has ex- pressly forbidden them to intringe upon the reservations, and the troops have orders to turn them back. | Fifteen or twenty thousand stalwart men intent upon occupying an open country offer a problem to the government, which, we fear, has not power enough to in- terfere with their purpose. We have no doubt, therefore, that in a few | months more we shall have the same emi- gration to the Black Hills that we had to | California. ‘There is something in gold that | the imagination of men cannot resist. Twenty- five years ago thousands of our young men crossed the wide plains to found an em- , pire in California. This road to the Black | Hills is an easy task compared with that. Whether the government succeeds or not in | extinguishing the Black Hills treaty we shall | probably within another year have a new | State on the banks of the Upper Missouri | River. General Custer’s evidence, however, as to tne existence of gold is carefully given. | | While corroborating what General Sheridan says, as to the fact that gold is to be found in the Black Hills country in various quantities, | he is uncertain as to whether it is in sufficient abundance to justity miners in expecting re- | sults like those that nave been gathered in | California. Our own impression is against | the theory that there is gold enough in the | | Black Hulls to make the mining of it an ad- | | vantage. We have no scientific reports that | justify us in believing the narratives that have | come to us from feverish and illy equipped in- | vestigators. The true value of the Black Hills | country will ultimately be agricultural. In this respect the history of the emigration | wall no doubt repeat the history of California. Rich as California has proved to be in gold, it | is meher to-day in wheat. Gold acted asa | stimulus to attract emigration, but many of | the men who went to the Pacific coast to dig the soil for minerals have remained to till it. The question of extinguishing the Indian treaties, as presented by General Custer, is a delicate one. It is diffieult to see how the | government can resist the feverish and natural | desire of cmigrants to possess these lands ; nor can that be a just policy which forbids any citizen of the United States from meking his home in any part of | | eur dominions so long as he obeys | the laws. But here are sacred trea- ties, as General Terry presents it, which we should not even ask the indian to cancel. | We should wait the suggestion trom the In- dians. General Sheridan, on the other hand, thinks that the (reaty should be cancelled any- | how by our giving to the Indian a just return | for the surrender of his rights. It is diffienlt | to deeide between two authorities as distin- | guished as General Terry and General Sheri- | dan. We should much rather accept General | | Terry's idea of what is due to the Indians, but | at the same time we cannot resist the teeling that General Sheridan takes the practical view. We are atraid that the fact must | be conceded that this Black Hills country | is too useiul to the people to be longer given over to the savages. The first | duty of the goveroment is to protect treaty rights so long as these rights are in ‘This it is proposed to do by the troops | under the command of General Custer. If properly done we shall be spared a bloody | India war. Al the same time, the advice of General Sheridan in favor of taking active steps toward extingnishing the tithe and re- moving the Sioux fo other sections ot the West is w trust that it will be acted npon with promptness, kindness and torce. and we perfeet good faith. fee Bros var, IMprovEMENT of the water sopply in some of the distriets vow de- ficient, which authorizes the laying down of mains where they are required, is held back in the Senate through the efforts of Comptrol. | ler Green. The President of the Board of | Underwriters urges its passage, and states | that unless it becomes a law the danger of conflagration in the insnfficiently supplied localitres will compel the fire insurance com- | panies to increase their rates of insurance. | ‘Tho opposition of Mr. Green to the bill is in- | daced only by his: unfriendliness to the De- | partment of Pablic Works, Senator Booth is | responsible for the fate of the measure, YOR and Rutgers. Princeton College bas many learned pro- fessors and valuable professorships, but the blic was scarcely prepared for the discovery t a Chair of Burglary is among the ad- juncts of that venerable institution. We have not yet heard who fills the important office of Instructor in the Art of Housebreaking, but the exploit at Ru‘gers the other night shows conclusively that he is a very accomplished teacher. From the skill and ingenuity exhibited in breaking into the museum of the rival college wo have the evidence that Princeton's Professor of Burglary” is a man as profound in bis art and as capable of imparting it to others as any of the Ph, D,’s associated with President MeCosh iy elevating the curriculum of the college. If we remember aright one of the distinguished graduates of the College of New Jersey so- journed for a time, some years ago, in the New Jersey Penitentiary, and while residing in that quiet retreat at Trenton employed his leisure in writing a valuable treatise on the Art ot Burglary. It is possible this gentleman has returned to his Alma Mater and trained affair at New Brunswick for the haz- ardous attempt at housebreaking they carried into execution on Thursday morning. Assuming that this must have been the case—for no untutored burglar could have trained the Princeton lads 80 well—we have only to add that if Professor Fagin can only be induced to accept the Chair of Petty Thieving the venerable college will be pretty well equipved- to occupy a unique position among the notabie universities of the world. In course of time, too, Princeion may be able to supplement its Chair of Politi; cal Economy with that equally important de- partment, Political Corruption, and we have no doubt some eminent Christian statesman might be induced to accept the professorship, if it is richly endowed. Thus the triflmg affair about the cannon would lead to the most valuable and important results. Let not the partisans ot Rutgers think that in bestowing all this praise upon a rival in- | of the merits | stitution we are unmindfal which belong to the college at New Brans- wick. Everything in New Jersey is equally dear to us.. We would not do injustice to one institution of learning in. that State even in doing justice to another. We, therefore, say, with that sense of fair play which we hepe | may never forsake us, that if any young gen- tleman desires to study the Art of Burglary under some other teacber than one of those expert gentlemen in Houston street, and is not satisfied either with that great school at Sing Sing or the not less famous college at Princeton, there 1s no place we would be so happy to recommend to him as Rutgers. The original thett of the cannon by the Rutgers students from the Princeton campus shows an expertness that |, speaks volumes in favor of the High Handed Stealing Department of the institution. To the professors in both institutions and to the friends of each we have only to say that the Faculty of neither ought to be held to accountability for an event they could neither foresce nor prevent. At the same time the acts of a few young men reflect infinite dis- credit upon both colleges and make us feel that the Chair of Burglary occupies the place of honor in the courses of study promoted by these excellent institutions. ° The Comptroller's Interference with the Department of Public Works. | permitted to continue for so long a time, Cortina be really in coramand of the Mexi-, should Mr, Green refuse to pay claimants ou the vouchers of the Public Works Depart ment the courts will bring him to terms, as they have often done before, Still, action of the Common Council may be required to com- pel the Comptroller to obtain receipts to the two vouchers sent to him and to return one of them to the Public Works Department. In this view the ordinance prepared by-General Porter may be desirable, and the Board of Aldermen should adopt 1t at once. Cortina’s Exploits, Once more the man intrusted by the Moxt- can government with the command of its troops stationed on our frontier has signalized himself asa murderer anda brigand. It is notorious that this man is and hes been foi years the leader of the border ruffians whe constantly raid into Texas, committing mur der and robbery with impunity; yet no serious effort has ever been made to suppress him by the Mexican authorities. Though commissioned by the general Mexican government he is in reality an independent robber chief, wha acknowledges the government only enough to’ shelter himself from attack by the Texans the young men who participated m the late | under the Mexican flag. It is not creditable either to the authorities in Mexico or in Washington that this farce should have been If can troops our neighbors must accept the re | sponsibility for the acts of plunder and out | rage committed by his followers and the mer he protects. If he is not, then some joint action should be taken for his suppression. Owing to bis intimate acquaintance with the country lying between the Rio Grande and Monterey the Mexican government has al ways found it a difficult matter to bring this free- booter to terms, and has generally ended by granting him an amnesty and permission to retain his rank and his ill-aequired gains. If the matter were a purelv Mexican one we could afford to shrug our shoulders ; but when the property and lives of our citizens are en- dangered by the operations of this bandit General some steps should be taken by ouz government to secure his fina! extinction, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr, Potter palmer, of Chicago, 1s registered 2 the Windsor Hotel. Rey. Jonn F. W. Ware, of Boston, 1s sojourniay | at the Grand Central Hotel. M. Letaivre, the new French Consul Genera) arrived at Quebec yesterday. Governor Willam k. Taylor, of Wisconsin, ha apartments at the Hofman House, vrolessor Joseph Winlock, of Cambridge, Mass, 18 staying at the Westminster Hotel. The Prince de Cecctt drove & four-in-hand o donkeys in the Bois de Boulogne iately, Professor Alexauder Agassiz, of Cambridge is residimg temporarily at the Evereti Rear AGmiral George F. Emmons, United State: Navy, ias taken up his residence at the Gilsey House, Mr. James F, Joy, President of the Michigan Cen- tral Railway Company, has arrived at the Bre- voort House. Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, ar- “rived in this city last evening and is at the Fifth | Comptroller Green, in accordance with his | | usual policy, is endeavoring to obstruct the | business of the Department of Publie Works | by petty and annoying interference with its | management. It seems, however, that he wiil have no easy task in dealing with General Fitz John Porter. The practice of the depart- | ment has been to require three vouchers to be | made out for all claims against the depart- ment. One of these vouchers has been re- tained in the Public Works office and two have been transmitted to the Financial De- partment—one to be tiled with the Comp- troller when the claim has been paid and the voucher receipted, and the other to be also receipted and returned to the Department of Public Works. This system is in conformity ‘aim originates an official copy ot the youcher, which is useful in case those sent to the Comptroller «shon!d be lost or mislaid. By requiring that two vouchers shall be re- ceipted when the claim is paid, and one re- Avenue Hotel. Licutenant Colonel Berard, of Governor Gen- eral Dufterin's staff, is among the late arrivals at the Gilsey House. Thiers is of the opimioa that the republican party is the only one in France that in these days does not commit any follies, Protessor J. &. Nourse, United States Navy, satis for Europe, per the steamer Baltic, to-day, on special duty for the Navy Department, Hon. Mr. Shes, of Newloundland, is expected im Ottawa shortly to meet the Yominion gove.nment on the subject of Newioundland entering the con, federation. The Marguis and the Marchioness of Bute are just about to start for the Holy Land, and they are taking a photographer with them. There 1s some talk of the Marquis 01 Ripon accompanying them, Hon. D. A. MacDonald Was yesterday sworn in at Toronto as Lieutenant: Governor of Ontario, in place of the late lion. John Crawiord, The oath of oMce was administered by Catef Justice Draper, Colonel Fred. Grant was atst. Paul, Minn,, on the way to the Big Horn couutry via Bismarck and the Missourt and Yellowstone rivers, This is not tne Custer expedition, which is preparing to jeave svon, His Majesty Kalakaua, King of the Sandwier islands, is absent trom Honolulu enjoying a rus on the island of Hawai, The United States snip Pensacola was to proceed to Hilo and, if possible, bring His Majesty back to the capital. An advocate in Baris appeared at the Bar wear ing his mustache, and the resident calied hit | attention to the fact that mustaches were for- with an existing ordinance of the Common | Council, and its advantages are manifest. It | preserves in the department in which the | turned to the original department, provision is made first against the corrupt mising of a voucher, and next against the stealing of re- ceipted vouchers, from both of which prac- tices New York has suffered. The return of a receipted voncher to the original department is also necessary to enable its officers to know the correct amount of their unexpended ap- propriations. Withont ths check they do not know @hether the claims against their department have been paid, aod it wny deduc- | | tion is made on payment from the amount as it leaves the department, which is often the case, the accounis ot unexpended balances kept in the department will not agree with the Comptroller's books. It is scarcely credible that the Comptroller conld desire to interfere with this efficient | system of checks. the triplicate vouchers falis on the department | The trouble of making | with which they originate, and not on the | Comptroller. Yet. in pure love of obstructive- ness and «rrogent dictation, Mr. Green has | | bearing the treaty of rectprovity Iately ra directed General Porter to change the prac. | tiee and to require only a single voucher to be transmitted to the Finance Department. He claims the right to make this unnecessary and impertinent demand on the authority given him by the charter to ‘prescribe the forme of keopivg and regulating all city aceonnts.’ The keeping and | vegnlating of city accounts does not embrace the right to prevent a bead of an indepen- dent department from adopting sueh rules as to his own vouchers, their number and their bidden, “Well,” said the advocate, 1 never knew before that the sword of justice "as a razor.” General Hi. R. Jany, Raving resigned his positions as Venezuelan Consul in New York, has been ap pointed py the Venezuelan government Consul for Chih, General Jany goes to Chili in order to rep resent his country at the Exposition to be neldis Santiago de Chili. She was beantiini, but she had large feet, ect as they seem to have in Chicago, and wnen she was just recovering from iliness and said, in re- sponse to an inquiry, that “she could jast put ope feot beiore the other,’’ the spiteril friond ree sponded, “And that is a great deal.” Tne Lieutenant Governorsbip of Ontario, made vacant by the death of Hon. Mr. Crawiord, bas been tendered to Hon. George Brown, bat grates fully declineu, No appotntment has yet been made, but the names of several prominent men are freely spoken of as likely recipients of tha high position. Rowen and Bacon are now at one another. Bowen ts probably the man who begun it al Bacon is certainly the min who brought it allout, and as the public Would have had no scandal bus for these two any little games they may respec tively develop with regard to one another will be enjoyed by the people. ‘Three painters stopped at an exhibition in front of the picture of their friend @ fourth painter wha was not present. “Whattalent he has!’ they ex- claimed with a common impulse. “And wnaita pity.” said the first, “that with such @ talent he is not & better desiguer.”’ “or 44 better colorist,” “or that he cannot compose!’ A spectal letter from the Sandwich Islands te the Heap informs us that Commissione: the United States Senate, arrived at Honvlula on the Sth of April. The wildess enthusiasm pre- yatled. A <orcklight procession, with the royai band, procesded to the residence of Mr, Carter, aud from there to the palace, Hie Majesty the King of the Sandwich Ieiands has been pleased to confer the Order of Kame. hameta the First upon several officers of the United States Army ana Savy. Tone:—To be Knight Commanders—Rear Admiral J. J, Aimy, | Captain Hopkins and Captain Tomple, United place of custody, as he may deem necessary | for the protection of the city and ot his own | department. The attempt of the Comptroller to exercise such an authority is a piece of impertinence which has very properly, been rebuked by General Porter. ‘The latter asks the Common ‘Council to pass an ordinance regulating the matter. as necessary, General Porter can continue the system he has hitherto pursued, and States Navy. Koignt Compantons—tientenaus Commander whiting, United Stares Navy, and Colonet Wherry, United States Army. A baten of emigrants irom England, forwarced by the Brijish government, arrived at Auckland, New Zeaiand, just lately. Many of them fouva their way to prison almost immediately on | charges of theit. Three were s:nt ashore from the | Bhip to the Jockup onacharg+ of stealing shipw We do not regard this | stores and broachtug eargo. Six of the crew were sent to jai for the same offences. Another of tne immigrants had not been ashore twelve hours belore an'in® for stealing @ rug anda dog. Macaniay’s New Zealander must soon ves out for London, ‘ ~