The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1875, Page 6

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Avnorusr News Fanrication.—The contra- diction of the story of the plot to assassinate the Crown Prince of Germany, reported by | rable, explains how these sensational stories Bre supplied to the London press. They are invented by lunatics and credited by their | dupes. Geverat Wave Hampton made a sensible | ¥peeck to his old companions in the war at Yhe celebration of the anniversary of the | Dattle of Manassas, and while he pointed | with pride to the old flag of the Legion he | reminded those who followed it that it is now | | capitalists | do, NEW Y Projects for a Kapid Transit Road— Some Interesting Pians. The projectors of elevated rapid transit railroads seem to be resolved that the Com- missioners who have the subject in charge shall have a plentiful supply of plans of con- struction from which to make their selection. An examination of the projects already be- fore the Commission will occupy many weeks, and we are told that others are in process of preparation, which, if the opin- ions of their originators are to be accepted as good authority, will surpass all that have heretofore been received. It is evident, therefore, that we shall not be destined to lose the great boon of rapid transit through any lack of ingenuity on the part of inven- tors, and it will be singular if among the multiplicity of projects, many of them origi- nating with accomplished engineers, expert | mechanics and experienced railroad construc- tors, the Commissioners of Rapid Transit should fail to discover one which combines the qualities necessary in such a work— namely, strength, capacity‘ and economy. The question of the practicability of operating an iron elevated railroad in the streets of the city is already affirmatively decided. It would be an easy matter to con- struct such a road and to make it answer the requirements of strength and capacity. But the essential consideration of economy of cost must also be borne in mind, and this is the point to which the attention of the Com- missioners will be directed in reaching their final determination. Rapid transit at a high rate of fare would be worse than no rapid transit at all. It would not only fail to accom- modate the great bulk of our overcrowded population, but would augment the ovils under which we at present suffer by crippling and decreasing the horse car service. We want an elevated road that can be built at a cost low enough to insure five and six cent fares, and such a road will no doubt be found among the many plans for which we are in- debted to our energetic projectors. The main difficulty in the way of rapid transit—probably we may say the sole difii- culty—is the financiai one. If a road is to be | built it is necessary to obtain the money with which to build it. The law provides tor the removal of all other obstacles, if the fact that the road is required for the public good can be established, Should the requisite number | of property owners along the selected route fail to consent to the construction of the road the courts are empowered to intervene, and the consent is dispensed with. It is there- fore the duty of the Commissioners, if they desire to successfully accomplish the work they have undertaken, to satisfy capital that the mvestment will prove remunerative. This can be done by giving the road the route through the city which commands the great- est amount of travel and by adopting a plan of construction that will commend itself to the popular approval by its practicability, its safety and its reasonable cost. The law takes care of all the rest. understand that tho route pays enormous profits to the existing lines of travel, and that the proposed road can be easily built at a moderate cost, and made entirely secure, they will put their | money into the enterprise without hesitation. ‘The profitable character of a rapid transit road has not been questioned. The statistics of city travel show that there will be enough business for such a road, om a popular route, to pay dividends as large as those realized by some of the horse car companies. This is a matter of simple calculation and can be made clear to every man of ordinary intelligence. The difficulty with charters heretofore granted by the Legislature has been that they have been hampered with impracticable conditions and saddied with a heavy burden at starting by the issue of ‘‘paid-up” stock to legislators and lobbyists, who have only “paid up” in ser- | vices at Albany. A road thus licensed has had to start with an amount of bogus debt large enough to add a ruinous percentago to | its cost,and has presented no attraction to capital secking profitable investment. The present Commission takes up the business with uutramelled hands, and by their action can secure the confidence of capitalists. They are independent of the influence of those who | imagine that their interests will be adversely affected by rapid transit. They owe no alle- giance to Mr. Vanderbilt, as many legislators material or political, of wealthy city railroad corporations, stage lines or ferry companies, They represent the people, who are eager that rapid transit shall be secured, and they can do their work with a view to the accomplish- ment of that result alone. Other interests must take care of themselves, It is the duty of the Commission to take care that the road they offer to capitalists shall command confi- dence as a remunerative investment, and that #urled iorever. Yacatisa.—A on ot the Brooklyn | Yacht Olub’s annual cruise will be found en- Mertaining reading by the lovers of aquatic ports, The fleet has reached Greenport, and @ number of interesting contests between the crack vessels are expected to take place this week, scrip) Droveut mr Portucan.—Between flood and Zamine the people of Europe bave met with great misfortune this year. In Portugal the ycrops in the provinces of Minho and Algarve have been destroyed by the drought and the fnhabitants are suffering from hunger. If | France could only have shared her superfluity of tain with Portugal it would have been a | Dlessing to both countries. Roses anv Jarax.—The cession by Russia | ‘of the Kurile Islands to Japan ends a long | dispute between the two countries, and the result is largely due to the mediation of the United States. In our St. Petersburg cor- | wespondence will be found a full account of | Ahe territory ceded and the terms of agree- | ment by which Russia obtains the ownership | wf the Island of Saghalien, which she has claimed for fifty years. Gevenst Granam’s Revorr of the work | when completed it shall afford full accommo- dation to the people of New York at a rate of fare that will open its trains to the laboring elasses. We are inclined to believe that the route, about which there can scarcely be two opinions among disinterested persons, should be deeided upon by the Commissioners at once, as it woald be calculated to give encour- | agement to the friends of rapid transit, and would be accepted as a welcome guarantee of the honesty and capacity of the Commission. The delay necessary for the proper considera- tion of the numerous plans of construction would then be more patiently endured, Some of the illustrations we publish to-day will be examined with interest. The Will- jams and Catherwood cable road is not new. It.was projected some time ago and would probably have been the plan of construction adopted by the Third Avenue Horse Car Company had their bill become a law and had they built any road at all. It is an orna- mental structure, contemplating a single span from street to street of two hundred and thirty totwo hundred and sixty feet. Gen- erals McClellan, Newton and others have ex- amined this project and testified to its practi- | cability. The question raised by some is whether there would not be too much vibra- tion in such a» structure to render travelling idlone upon the docks of New York under his | on it popular or pleasant. The projectors— direction explains his system of construction, ihe extent of his plans for the improvement ot ‘our water front and the condition of the enter- prise. He appends some valuable recom- ‘ynendations, to which the authorities should give their careful attention, The work seems ‘to bave been thoroughly and intelligently done by General Graham, who has already greatly one an engineer well known in the city, | recently deceased, and the other an experi- | enced railroad constructor—insist that this objection is unsound, as the wave motion of a suspension bridge is avoided. The theory | is that when @ train of cars is on any part of the superstructure the rigidity of the trackway Mumproved the docks of the city. main cables over 60 great a space as to I | chosen | They do not want the assistance, either | gives distribution of the strain upon tho | 18] prevent any material deflection at the point cf the load, There seems to be no doubt of the safety of the road, and the estimated cost is not so high as the elaborate character of the structure would suggest. The Meyers and Widmayer project is new and is well received by the Commission. This also con- templates a wide span of two hundred and sixty feet, extending from block to block, the supports being wrought iron columns, curved outward and strengthened by curved ribs and tension rods. The structure is light and tasteful, but whether it possesses the requisite strength is a question for experts to determine. ‘This plan offers but little ob- struction to surtace travel, one set of the sup- porting columns being placed between the two horse railroad tracks and the other set on the outer side of one of the tracks, Thus one track of the horse cars would run under the elevated road and the other track on the outside of its columns. The Ehier arcade scheme is an ingenious one, but is open to criticism. It sandwiches a railroad between the covered sidewalk and the upper stories of the buildings, making the road, in fact, oc- eupy the position of the first story front rooms. Such projects generally look better on paper than elsewhere. Nevertheless, the proposition will be entitled to and will no doubt receive proper consideration, The Morris depressed project proposes a rapid transit road that would be partially sunk in the centre of the avenues and streets through which it would pass, leaving an open cut, walled up, and with bridges over the cross streets. This idea has been popular with a great many people. The Fourth avenue tun- nel, and, more recently, the Harlem Railroad cut along Fourth avenue, are regarded by some as offering the true solution of the rapid transit question, as pointing out to us how we may build a road, neither underground nor elevated, which will be unquestionably safe, and will leave the streets and avenues without disfigurement, and encroached on only to the extent of the width of the rapid made by the projector of the trench road— for so it may be called—is that trains could be run on it ata much higher rate of speed than could be safely used on any elevated of a road on an earth bed would cost less than on an elevated structure. These and other points are for the consideration and decision of experts. The plan is worthy of mature consideration, The Evans plan com- bines arched bridges and cables spanning from block to block. The object of the Com- mission will, of course, be to decide upon a plan of construction that will command the confidence of capital. With such a plan, and the most populous route in the city selected as the rapid transit line, we shall not fail to secure the great improvement of which the city is in such need. Plimsoll’s Victory. In attempting to extinguish the humanita- rian Plimsoll Mr. Disraeli made quite a mis- take, as he has found out by this time. The case of poor sailors sent out to sea by gambling scoundrels, who hope they may never come back, touched a chord of sympathy in the British heart that throbbed to the yery upparliamentary eloquence of Mr. Plimsoll. It was not quite polite of the humanitarian to sbake his fist at the Premier of England and hint that he was in league with certain scoundrels inside and outside the House ot | Parliament who made a trade of sending rotten ships to sea in order that they | grow rich on the insurance money. | But, unfortunately, these charges aro notoriously true, and somehow Jack Tars have always been favorites in the “tight little island,’’ and the people will not see them cheated out of their lives if they can heip it. Therefore, when Mr. Disraeli turned the good-hearted Plimsoll out of doors be- cause he objected to a bill being cast aside that affected the lives of thousands of Jack Tars and Plimsoll shook his fist at the gov- ernment benches, all England—all that Eng- land, at least, that loves honesty of purpose and fair play and Jack Tars—shook its fist also at the government benches, and Mr. Dis- raeli finds he has made a mistake. So the goverument has resolved to back down, and some law will be passed to prevent ‘‘scoun- drels inside and outside of Parliament’’ trad- ing in the lives of the honest sailors, and this result is chiefly due to the unparliamentary shaking of good-natured Mr. Plimsoll’s fist. Memory and Arithmetic. There is a peculiarity about the memories and the arithmetical accomplishments of gen- tlemen who have enjoyed experience in Con- gressional and legislative lobbies. Such persons can, no doubt, remember all their ordinary moneyed transactions—what sums they receive, what debts they pay and what investments they make; but when they come in contact with large sums of money received by them for aiding legislation, their memory | fails them and they are as stupid with figures | as the dunce of the village school. It was so | with Oakes Ames and Schumaker, It is so | with Nolan. Our talented Assistant District | Attorney could, no doubt, tell us just how he | spends his salary and his professional income | to the last dollar, and could give us the cor- rect footings of his grocer's bills and | butcher’s bills if we felt interested in the infor- mation; but large sums coming unexpectedly and earned easily confound his memory and | overpower his arithmetic. He can tell us | nothing about it. How much money he re- | ceived and what le did with it is all a blank | tohim. He does not know who shared his | good fortune, and declines to say whether | any portion of it went to ex-Speaker Husted ory fails him on the point. The investigating | committee affect to be anxious to jog his | memory and improve his arithmetic, The probability is that their efforts in this direc- tion will be abortive. Tar Mormon Massacre.—Additional de- tails of the horrors of the Mountain Meadow massacre are given in the report of the trial | yesterday, and the new testimony strength- ens the evidence that John D. Lee was not only the leader of the band, but that some of the most heartless murders were committed by his own hand. The truth as revealed by this trial should have the effect of making odions the Mormon missions in Europe, yet we presume it will be represented ns a cruel persecution of | the Church by the United States government, transit tracks. One important, if valid, claim | road. It 1s also claimed that the maintenance | might be lost and these same scoundrels | or Aleck Frear—of course because his mem- | The Real Issue After All. Ex-Judge Comstock has addressed a letter to a contemporary criticising severely the recent letter of Mr. O'Conor upon the Court of Appeals. Mr. Comstock is a man of high ability and character. He was the leading counsel in the application of Mr. Tweed to be released from Blackwell's Island. It is not too much to say thit the argument which con- vineed the Court of Appeals was altogether due to Mr. Comstock, Mr, Coimstock fears that the correspondence between Judge Davis and Mr. O'Conor was intended to undermine the faith of the people in the integrity ot the Court of Appeals. The letter of Judge Davis, he thinks, ‘‘presents the unusual spec- tacle of a subordinate judge in public rebel- lion against the highest Court of the State.” He quotes the opinion of Judge Davis him- self and of Mr. Tremain against the justice of cumulative punishment. The sentence of Judge Davis he considers as ‘‘unprece- dented and lawless,” and he thinks there were circumstances attending it that should deprive the Judge of forbearance. He accuses Judge Davis virtually of deception, and tells how the “tremendously cumulated sentence of the Judge fell upon the deceived and wretched prisoner.” He knows of no precedent for such a trial ‘‘since the time when Jeffreys and Scroggs administered the criminal law of England.” Furthermore, he speaks of the Supreme Court of New York as ‘a murky at- mosphere charged with electric passion and vaulting ambition.’? As to Mr. O’Conor, Mr. Comstock pays the highest tribute to his emi- nent talents and unsullied purity of character, but at the same time he thinks he is ‘despotic and intolerant.’ Mr. Comstock’s defence of the Court of Ap- peals will be questioned by no one who de- sires to see all proper respect paid to the constitutional tribunals of this State. The only response that has been made to the let- ter of Mr, O'Conor is a feeling of regret that aman of his supreme influence and power should have felt it necessary to attack this Coart of last resort. The effect will be, as it always happens in misjudged criticisms of this kind, that the Court of Appeals. will be strengthened in the affections of the people. It would bea measureless calamity if the people of this State were to lose confi- dence in the Court of Appeals or were to re- gard it as in former times they were un- happily compelled to regard our local judicial tribunals. So far, therefore, as Mr. Com- stock defends the Court of Appeals, even from an antagonist as illustrious as Mr. O’Conor, his letter will meet the approbation of the people. But the issue that underlies this contro- versy should not at the same time be over- looked. Mr. Comstock is one of the lawyers who has received a fee for advocating Tweed. The money he received was stolen from the treasury of the city of New York. The peo- ple of this city are compelled to look on and see a man formerly charged with high trusts, now a convicted and we may say a confessed robber, using the money that belongs to the people to protect himself in the possession of his ill-gotten gains. It is by the use of this money that he obtains the gupport of in- tellects as subile and experienced as those of George F. Comstock and David Dudley | Field. We have the astonishing principle that a public officer may rob the treasury and with impunity use the proceeds of his robbery to defy justice. The attack upon the Court of Appeals by Mr. O’Conor enables Mr. Comstock to divert the minds of the people from the real issue. The real issue in this case is that it has been impossible to admin- ister justice upon Tweed and his confederates. | The resources of the law have been tested to the uttermost by the ablest men in the pro- fession. They are helpless to punish a man whose crimes have not been exceeded in this century. When we look at the magnitude of ‘Tweed's crimes—and when we speak of Tweed we do not refer to him alone, but to his asso- | ciates also—the violation of public trust, the wounding of the city’s credit, the destruction of justice, the corruption of legislation, the introduction of a false element into society — when we think of the dishonor that his prac- tices have brought upon this State and coun- try we cannot but feel that the extreme limit of the sentence of Judge Davis would have been an ‘inadequate punishment, It is no wonder that a man as impetuous as Mr, O’Conor should lose his temper when he looks at the efforts he has made during the last four years to bring this man to justice and his failure in every attempt. He finds his antagonists intrenched behind the money they have stolen from the treasury. He finds this money used to bring to their aid advo- cates as skilfulas Mr. Comstock and Mr. Field. Whenever a vital point is brought betore the Court he finds, somehow or other, that this point is decided against him, We who are disposed to look calmly upon these transactions may lament this as one of the misfortunes of justice; but a high-strung nature like Mr. O’Conor’s will naturally reach toa different conclusion where all the victories are on the side of wrong and where justice is paralyzed at every step. He may well believe that there is cause for anger if not for suspicion. Tue Mernops by which the Tammany | Committee proposes to put Mr. Morrissey and his comrades out on the doorstep of the Wig- wam are explained in an article elsewhere, Curatixe at THe PouLs aNd IN THE Juny Box.—Two of the meanest of crimes are be- coming common in this country because of the light punishments inflicted on their per- petrators or the neglect to impose any punish- ment. These aro cheating at the polls and | the corruption of juries. The first is a crime against the sovereignty of the people and is morally equivalent to treason, The second makes a mockery of justice. prisonment for two or three months a man convicted .of fraudulently changing elec- tion returns deserves imprisonment for ten years, and those politicians who “count out” a majority and put the minority in power | ought to be locked up for life. But the pun- ishment of such offences is so utterly dispro- portionate that ‘counting out’’ is considered a virtue by professional politicians. Men who ‘fix’ juries are not less contemptible, The case of a plaintiff in a suit in the Marine Court, who is charged with attempting to bribe a jury, came up yesterday for investiga- tion, and, if the testimony given is true, the Court he has outraged and insulted should make Lim an example, Instead ofim- | KK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, John Morrissey Challenges John Kelly. It is with a proper sense of our obligations under the rules of the P, R. that we lay before the world the annexed ringing defi- ance—the challenge of the Hon. John Morrissey to the Hon. John Kelly:— Saratoga, July 26, 1875. To TH Eprror OF THE HERALD:— Please ask Mr, ns. to convene th Kelly, through your colam ¢ General Committee of Tammany Hall he question a@ to y have his site--aiid on his side wereby oblige IOHN MORRISSEY, From which it will be seen, as it has been seen before, that Morrissey is a man you may be sure of “every time.” He never gets be- hind the door, and very seldom under the table; and if he has ever on apy occasion failed to face any music that was good, or bas consulted his safety by flight or subterfuge, the case is not onrecord. On the contrary, he has always met his enemies face to face within 4 definitely limited area, and there discussed the cases between them until some one was . convinced ; and his admirers will be rejoiced to hear that there has been no change in his chivalric disposition in this respect. For our own part we have no doubt that Morrissey can convince Kelly as he has be- fore this convinced stouter fellows; and if Kelly will stand up to him long enough, then Kelly will certainly go away an altered man. Whether the alterations would be improve- ments would be a matter of opinion and standards of taste, Now, then, what will Kelly do about this challenge? Will he pretend that he was in the country when the paper was printed, or that he only reads.the Tribune, and never heard of it till too late? That will hardly satisfy the stout democratic heart, which pizs its faith upon a champion and adores one who not only never refuses to see an occasion | to crush the foe, but makes occasions. Ordinary people will naturally sympathize with the alarm that will seize upon him at the thought of suddenly coming face to face with the man whom he thought to oppress in safety while absent ; but the fierce democracy will sympathize with no such milksop senti- ments, and the truth is that if Kelly does not come out boldly and roar lustily, if he does not meet Morrissey and make at least twice 8 much noise as Morrissey does, he is a ruined man in democratic circles, ‘There must be regularly drawn up articles, and the contest must be rigidly governed by rules at least as good as those of the P. R. It must be provided that neither disputant shall punch the other's head unless the argu- ment advanced is absolutely unanswerable in any other way. Of course there must be a ring- Tammany has got a great many rings, Some of them have been broken—but one can be put together again for the occasion, All the arrangements in regard to ring and rules, &c., might be safely turned over to ’Arry ’Ill and Sammy Tilden, two men who have had more experience in rings than any others in this neighborhood. If itis found necessary to use Comptroller Green in any way, especial care must be taken not to let him get his hands on the stakes, for that would be the last of them. Meanwhile both champions must go into training, intellectually. Morris- sey is already in pretty good condition in this regard, but Kelly is as soft as a baby. He must begin with simple sentences in the English language and the deflaition of words of two syllables, and by degrees take harder words, and when he is able to master such a phrase as “Bogus returns of Sheriff's fees for the ex- ecution of superfluous Irishmen,’’ then the dispute may begin. On the Wrong Scent. Tammany Hall and its renowned leader have evidently got on the wrong scent and committed a grievous blunder in their attempts to purify and harmonize the organ- ization, That powertul statesman, John Morrissey, and his harmless henchmen have been practically kicked out of Tammany for the offence of having denounced the reduec- tion of the city laborers’ wages and sympa- thized with those who hold Tammany Hall end John Kelly responsible for that policy. Their course is declared to have been unjust and revolutionary, inasmuch as it is claimed that Tammany Hall and its renowned leader have in fact ‘‘clearly and forcibly placed themselves on record as opposed to the receut reduction of wages in this city’’ and have “thoroughly aud fully condemned” such re- duction. If this be the case, it is manifest that Will- iam H. Wickham, and not John Morrissey, is the mischievous and refractory member of Tammany Hall. Mr. Morrissey is a plain, blunt man, not educated as a lawyer—acute, in the worldly sense, but not a pro- found thinker or close reasoner. He may be excused for believing that Tammany Hall is responsible for the deduction of forty cents a day from the laborers’ pay, because he argues that Tammany Hall is John Kelly ; that John Kelly is Mayor Wickham ; that, as | Wickham redaced the price of labor, the re- duction must have been known to and fa- vored by John Kelly, and, ergo, by Tammany Hall. Indeed, the present proceedings against Morrissey prove that John Kelly is Tammany Hall, and as Kelly publicly claimed Mayor Wickham as ‘my candidate’ it seems only fair to conclude that he is responsible for the Mayor's action, But if the assertion of the committee that “disciplined’’ Morrissey be true, and if Kelly and his organization have in reality ‘thoroughly and fully condemned’ the reduction of laborers’ wages and ‘clearly and forcibly’’ placed themselves on record against it, then William H, Wickbaw’s brief career in Tammany Hall ought to be ter- minated, and on him, instead of on Morrissey, the brand of the political pariah should be set. His appointees in the departments cannot well be reached, since none of them belong to Tammany Hall. He must, therefore, bear the punishment alone, As the nowince and representative of Tammany, and as its leader's ‘my candi- date,’ he has initiated a policy in the city government in direct opposition to Tammany’ s interests and wishes and in defiance of its ‘thorough and full condemnation.” If he took such an important step without con- | sulting Kelly and Tammany he was guilty of insubordination and that very ‘‘setting up for himself” of which Morrissey is accused. It he reduced the laborers’ wages in defiance of the “clearly and forcibly recorded opposition” of Tammany and its renowned leader he is ® more incorrigible rebel than the O'Brien him- self, Will the Committee on Discipline take these suggestions into coasideration aad vro- coed to investigate the political loyalty of Mayor Wickham? The Value of a Precedent. The precedent established by Mr. Justice Donohue, in deciding that a bill of particulars must be furnished in the Tweed case, has not been without its effect in other quarters. As our readers will understand, the value of thia precedent is that whea public officers plunder the treasury they have only to steal the forged vouchers or any documents in the archives that will establish their guilt to be free from prosecution. We learn from Albany that important records throwing light upon the canal question have been abstracted from the office of adivision engmeer. It is believed that the abstraction of these documents will defeat any investigation of the canal system of New York. If it should be found neces- sary at any time to bring a suit against those members of the Canal Ring who are supposed to be guilty of frauds the absence of these records will enable them to escape with as much impunity as Tweed himsolf. Every year adds something to our knowt- edge of the practical operations of the law. It is a great deal to know that if one steals a ham under certain circumstances he may be sent to prison for twenty years; but if he steals five million dollars he has only to pay a half million to lawyers, leeches and black- mailers to remain in undisturbed possession of the balance of his spoils. If there should by any means be a probability of justice working its will upon him all possible trouble can be removed by repeating the robbery, forcibly entering the archives of the govern- ment and destroying the public records which might lend a jury to pass an ugly opinion upon the crime. The voice of the home ruler is heard not only in the anteroom of Mayor Wickham and in the streets of New Orleans, but even in far away Japan, In the beginning of this present year, while the New York short hairs were growling at Fitz John Porter; while the Alabama democrats were digging out Senator Spencer; while Packard, in Louisiana, was making his last secret effort against the Wheeler adjustment; while the President was sticking Brooks and other carpet-baggers into federal offices in Arkansas; while the carpet-bagger was setting up his final howl of despair, the Meiroku Society held a meeting in Jeddo for political discussion, in the course of which, according to a report before us, Mr. Mori remarked that, in ‘his opinion, the talk about the liberties of Japan was all fudge. ‘The power of the people has become so weak that it has almost disappeared,” said Mr. Mori, and added the following to illus- trate his meaning: — Aman from Satsuma becomes the Governor ot Kaga, and a man from Choshia becomes the Gov- ernor of Oshiu. But these men, not being natives of the provinces they were appointed to govern, take a0 suficient pains to acquaint themselves with the state of afairs of the provinces they are thus sent togovern, 1 judge, therefore, that the power of the people to-day 18 weaker than it was during the time of the datmios, and in proofof w& Tadduce this fact, that the people of @ province cannot choose their Governor from among the natives of that province, but rest contentedly under the rule 0/ a man who comes from another province, This seems to me like @ person living in a house submitting to bave bis Met et | affairs controlied by his meighvor, Surely this cannot be culled independence! I am a man of Satsuma and | would not permit a man ofany other province to rule over me. 1 would tak down and have a man of Satsuma putin bis pi ‘The government ofa province can only be accom. plished with success by a native oi that province, But if the Fae ed obey men from other provinces who are appointed to rule over them it cannot be said that they understand their rights, Here is a text for the home rulers. A man from New Jersey comes over to rule in Man- hattan. A man from Maine is sent down to rule in Louisiana. Let us have peace! Japan. Tae Dancer Bony Ropsexy.—The police, who should have been grateful to Mr. Bar. nard for the information he furnished of the Dancer bond robbery, with not unusual stupidity arrested him. He was accused of complicity with the offence which he was really trying to have punished. The investi- gation of the case yesterday exonerated Mr, | Barnard, who was honorably discharged by the Court. Moral—Let Mr. Barnard say “I will never do another good natured action in my lite."” ‘Tar Far Wrst.—The interesting country | which the Hayden expedition has penetrated | is graphically described by our correspondent in a letter elsewhere. The exploration of the region has been successful and the discoveries made are of much value. Uncompahgre Peak, one of tho highest in the Rocky Moun- tains, has been photographed at last under circumstances of unnsual difficulty, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, A few ladies have veen among the visttors at the book fair. General J. B. Stonehouse, of Albany, is stopping at the Hotel Bruns wic! Major H. Dougias, United States quartered at the Gilsey House, James Miller is preparing a household editton of Mrs, Browning in two volumes, Paymaster E, Mellach, United States Navy, ts registered at the Brevoort House, Congressman Charies O'Neill, of Philadelphia, te staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Assemblyman George West, of Balstou, N, ¥., has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr, Jobn H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore, ts among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Senator William Plokney Whyte, of Maryland, has taken up his residence ai the Windsor Hotel. Anew edition of Dickens’ works, in filteen vol- umes, wili soon be issued by George W. Garletom & Co. Ex-Governor Francis Thomas, late United States Minister at Peru, returned home oy the steamer Acapulco from Panama. Colonel Jedediah H, Baxter and Captain Lorenzo Lorain, United States Army, have apartments at tue Filth Avenue Hotel. Judge Joon Erskine, of the United States Dis- trict Vourt tor Georgia, arrived at the Gilsey House Army, Is Harper & Brothers will publish “The Way wy Live Now,” @ novel by Anthony Trollope and “eglantine,” @ novel by Halves. Macmiilan & Co, will soon publish 4% “Heclest- astical History of Ireiand,”’ from the earliest times to the present day, by the Key. M. D, Killea, D. De of Beliast. at cent sitting of the Frenca Academy @ Sciences M. J. Riban read per on the to tion of camphor by ch means. For this p pose he takes camphe hydrocarburet derived from oil of turpentine by treating it with bt bromate of potash and diluted sulphuric acid; tne latier, however, Im iasuficient quantity to sata- rate the oxides resulting from the reaction, The mixture ia heatedin a phial surmounted by a wide tube; after the iapse of a few ni amphor is seen to crystallize in the cooler parts of the ap- paratus, This substance t# really the same aa natural camphor, since it has the sawe compost tion, appearance, pungent smell and meiting point; the only difference t# that instead of beim right-handed uncer tue polarimecer thexnie tie comirary cayaliga.