The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1875, Page 4

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and clear or partly cloudy. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Heraup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Watt Sreezr Yestenpay.—The stock mar- ket was steady. Gold receded from 113} to | 112§. Foreign exchange was stronger. | Tre Hanvest Prospects are brightening | in England, and there seems to be no danger | that John Bull shall be put on short commons. The supply of foreign wheat is large, and the reports from Continental Europe are en- | couraging. | —_————_———_ i Awoto-Frencu Tuxsev.—The British House | of Lords has passed a bill approving the | making of a tunnel between England and | France. Their Jordships were, no doubt, | moved thereto by the memory of those marine j sensations which affect alike lord aud com- | moner who trust themselves to the treach- erous waves that divide the cliffs of Albion | from the merry land of France. H Tue Vicroriay Mavisrry has suffered a de- | feat on the budget and will probably resign. H The local squabbles of the Australians are not very interesting ontside their own country i except in so faras they tend to promote the | desire for federation so ably urged on them | by Sir Gavan Duffy. When this federation of | States is accomplished Australia will be likely to become of some importance in the world. Tax Derzscs 1m THE Movuntare Mzanow | Massacre turns ons cock and a bull story | about an ox that was poisoned by the emi- grants and sold to the Indians. It does not | appear, however, that this story affects Lee, | and eo far no evidence has been offered to clear Lee trom responsibility for the massa- | ere. It would bea good lesson if after all | these years the murderers of the hapless emi- grants should receive the merited punishment of their crime. Tue Taxoany Braves are rallying round | the big chiet at whose belt Langs the scalp | of the redoubtable John Morriscey. Every | small chief in the party now trembles for his locks and hastens to put bimselt on record as | among the reliables. In this way all waver- | ing in the ranks is prevented, and Tammany | It | moves on with thinned but steady ranks. remains to be seen, however, whether disci- pline will effect as much as enthusiasm, i sacaalng | | Tur Crirsor of the diocese of New York intrusted to Monsignor Roncetti, the Papal Ablegate, an address for presentation to His Holiness Pope Pius, expressive of their gratifi- tation at the clevation of Archbishop McClos- key to the rank of Cardinal. The Ablegate, in sccepting the honorable commission intrnsted to him, returned thanks for the kindness ex- tended to him during his stay in this country, and took occasion to say many pleasant things about America and the’ destiny of the | its practical fruits, i nicipal police is quite capable of the worst | own way we have gathered everything we could | | were too high and mighty to deal courteously | was deliberately disregarded and put out of | di a 4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 81, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, em LL A LT The Nathan Murder-A Remarkable Story and an Imperative Duty, The story of the Nathan murder, which we print this morning, is one of the most re- markable police revelations ever made public. It matters little how it is met or what are it is still the same marvellous, thrilling, almost incredible his- tory. The tale reads like the product of a wild and weird imagination. It would be easy to say of its author, what doubtless will be said, that he is insane on the subject of the startling crime which five years ago surprised and shocked the com- munity. It will notdo, however, to dismiss the story upon any such hypothesis, nor indeed upon any hypothesis whatever, except its complete disproof. It matters little, so far as the police is concerned, whether or not Mr. Conklin has obtained a clew to the murder of Benjamin Nathan. The question is one of even graver import than the discovery and punish- meat of a murderer. Mr. Conklin’s clews may be utterly worthless, but they were en- titled to more respoct than they received; and, whatever their value, the action of the police officers high in authority to whose notice they were brought was alike unworthy and disgraceful. It seems incredible that Captain Davis sbould threaten to “bounce’’ a police- man for trying to discover the murderer of Mr. Nathan, or that Superintendent Jourdan shonld say to him, in the presence of the Chiet of the Detective Squad, “If you don’t drop this Nathan business you won't wear the buttons twenty- fonr hours."" At the same time we must not forget that there is something characteristic | in speeches like these—something singularly in keeping with the remarkable revelations before the Assembly Committee on Crime, of which Mr. Conklin's story is only a part. It has been clearly demonstrated that the mu- things charged against it. It has long been known that an honest man has more reason to fear a policeman’s club or a police captain's | power than a thief. Indeed, the testimony | before the Legislative Commuttee proves that Captain McCullough actually procured a man | to be brutally beaten for bearing testimony against his misdeeds. In view of everything which has been revealed within the last few weeks we may well believe that the police would systematically attempt to conceal a | crime, especially if there was some powerful or profitable motive for its concealment. Under such circumstances any indiscreet policemen who should talk about the offence | or show unnecessary zeal for the discovery of the offender would be likely to be treated as Conklin says he was treated, incredible as the | imputed conduct of Captain Davis and Super- intendent Jourdan may appear. In the light of recent revelations, we see nothing that is improbable in Mr. Conklin’s story, and for this reason we surrender so much of our | space this morning to his narrative and to the remarkable tragedy to which it seems to relate. It will be observed that we give only a secondary place to the clews Mr. Coyklin thinks he discovered in regard to the Nathan | murder. They may or may not be important. The first place is to be given to his revelations as they affect the police. In this respect the | substantial truth of his statements is a matter of the greatest importance. Every allegation is capable of verification, and we trust no effort will be spared either to verify or disprove all that he alleges. As the matter now stands the testimony of Mr. Conklin is the gravest charge ever made against the po- lice of a great city. It would be easy enough, perhaps, to argue it away, but it is not a | case for argument. Verification or disproof is all the circumstances will admit. In our | find bgaring upon the case on one side or the | other, but newspaper investigation will not | suffice. Here is an occasion where police | inquiry is necessary for police purification. 9 It will not do to pooh-pooh Conklin’s story or | to pass it by without investigation. This is | the offence of which Superintendent Jourdan and his associates were guilty in the first in- | stance. In their wisdom, or their guilt, they and dutifully by an officer who was earnest, even if he was mistaken. His clews were at | least worthy of inquiry and there was no | reason why he should be snubbed aad | insulted unless, indeed, it was the purpose | of the police not to find the murderer of Mr. Nathan. That is the question we want answered at this time. There is a widespread \ belief in this city, and, indeed, throughout | | the whole country, that the police purposely | ré covered up all traces of that crime—that any | real clew to the discovery of the murderers | sight. Mr. Conklin’s story, while it may or | may not point to the perpetrators of the | crime, corroborates this general belief. | It is rot out of harmony with the offence itself, and it is not impossible | that it may lead to important results; but it is not so much on that account that we de- sire to have the whole question reopened. What is most important at tais late day is a | full knowledge of how the police dealt with | the matter at the time. The air has been | thick with rumors during the whole period that bas intervened since Benjamin Nathan was so mysteriously murdered in his | own bouse five years ago. Few persons could be induced to believe that the | issue had been fairly met or the investigation honestly made. From time to time the case has come to the surince, and each time only to add to the diseredit and dis- grace of the municipal police. And now here, it is again, This time some honest and earnest effort ought to be made to quiet th uneasy ghost by the exposure of all the chi- canery and inefficiency of the Police Department in its deaiings with the ease. Nothing short of this will satisfy | the public; and this, sooner or later, is what | will have to be accorded to public sentiment. It is not surprising that Conklin’s story is | | met at the outset by a general denial. That American people. I Is Sar that a number of shoddy rich in | this city threw every obstacle in the way of the ofiicials charged with taking the census. tf people who dwell in fine houses show dis- respect for the laws Low can we expect the inhabitants of the slums to respect them? The latter may be excused cn the plea of ig- norance, but what plea can be set up for the is a policy which may have succeeded before, but it will not succeed now. not be met with a word and a shrug of the shoulders, Conklin solemnly swears to his | story and gives facts and dates and places to substantiate it. He even gives | mame of his man, of his relatives and of persons who identified him. All | this goes to make a case that must be met in | It is too positive, too cireumstantial, too di- | were Catholic as because they were Irish and | map, except when some opportunity occurred | at that the home rulers and other nationalists The issue can- | the | rect to be destroyed by simple denial. Every- body knows that the Nathan case was never earnestly investigated. Here is a sworn allegation that a man who was pos- sibly the murderer was allowed to go almost without inquiry. The police and the police justice tried and acquitted him without investigation or publicity. If the prisoner was a mere lunatic oronly a strolling vagabond why conceal the fact of his arrest? If the officer was the silly busybody whose conduct merited the rebuke of his superiors, or even the discharge of the prisoner in the way Ryap was discharged, he was unfit to serve on the force, and he should have been tried and dismissed by the Police Commissioners for imbecility. As the issue was not met at the time we mutt meet it now. If we cannot try Ryan we must at least try Conklin. It will not satisfy public sentiment any longer to pursue the policy of concealment. Onr Police Department is becoming infamous in the eyes of the whole world. Day by day police crimes aro brought to light, and not 4 single allegation that has yet been made has been disproved. This is the most damaging charge of all, and the mere fact that it is made requires that the mystery involved in the Nathan case, and especially the agency of the police in complicating it, shall be cleared away. As yet no step has beon taken to meet the issne; but the duty is too plain to be evaded. In almost any other case there would have been a trial, and had the case been committed to almost any other police force there would have been a conviction. The’ case fairly bristled with points which, in the hands of skilful detectives, could not have failed to lead to definite results; but Conklin’s testimony shows, if it shows nothing else, that results were not sought for either by Superintendent Jourdan or anybody else. It is now the police which is on trial, and whoever may be the defendant the «police is the real culprit. Let the issue be joined and determined as soon as it is possible to hear and dispose of it. Tiiness of Andrew Johnson, The news of the sudden and severe illness of Andrew Johnson will be read with regret alike by friend and foe. Few men achieved a more remarkable career, and he could have no prouder epitaph than the gibes of his political enemies. A man who could work“ out for himself @ life so successful, who could com- plete the circle of official honor with so much credit to himself and prove so uséful a citizen in every station, from the lowest to the high- est, must be made of sterner stuff than most mortals. Few men haye dared so much, and yet he prevailed against the obloquy he more than half courted. In the early days of the | war it was clearly to his interest to side with the rebellion and go with his section, but Mr. Johnson was a Union man and clung to the Union. After the war, when the most lament- able event in our history made him President, be quarrelled with his party and went oat of office the most hated and the least pitied public man in the country. If not without friends ho was, at least, with- out a party, and his career seemed virtually closed. But to aman like Andrew Johnson | absolute retirement was impossible. Such was his force of character and such the faith in his integrity that in afew years he was | back again in the Senate hurling his anathe- | mas against those who had derided and im- peached him. Not one man in a thousand could have accomplished a work like this, conquering his way back to power by the as- sent of a party which had regarded him as a | traitor, and in spite of political opponents who had charged him with betraying their | cause. It was his own individuality which | enabled him to triumph against so many dis- | advantages, and his death will leave a va- cancy in the Senate almost as marked as that created by the demise of Charles Sumner. We trust, however, that Mr. Johnson’s life may | de spared, and that he may recover suff- | ciently to occupy his seat in the Senate until the close of the term for which he was eleoted. The O'Connell Centennial. The effort of the ultramontane party in Ireland to make the O'Connell Centennial | a Catholic demonstration is strongly re- sented by the national or home rule party. This is not to be much wondered at, as the ultramontanes in Ireland, as elsewhere, merely use the national fecling for their own purpose. They are more intent at having fling at Bismarck than honoring the memory of the Irsh patriot. In trying to make O'Connell « mere Catholic | cbampion they cat down that great figure many cubits, His lifo was a struggle for the enfranchisement of his people from political disabilities. hese disabilities were imposed | on the Irish masses not s0 much because they hostile to the British connection. It is notorious that the Catholic faction, which tries to rob the Irish nation of O'Connell to appropriate him to themselves, were just as free in the exercise of their religion before emancipation as they have been since. Before that event and since they have distinguished themselves for base and cowardly subservi- ency to England. If they had the power they would wipe out the name of Ireland trom the ot using it for their own selfish ends. Under these circumstances it is not to be wondered who represent the truc feeling of the Irish na- tion should object to the turning of the cen- tennial honors about to be paid to the great champion of Irish freedom into an ultramon- tane demonstration. Tur Lonp Maxon or Loxpon gave o great ball last night at the Guildhall. It was an immense success, and over thirty-five hundred people participated. Many Americans were | among the guests. It was noted that none of | the Ministry present, Reid ib BEEN | Jonxsox axp Covrm have arranged | | another swimming match over the same | course where their first trial took place. Both | men, as usual, are contident, The stake is | one thousand dollars, Coyle still declares | he was drugged in the first match. In the | next race we hope he will test his whiskey | betorehand, so that we need have no repetition quality?” Will they also claim immunity | a different way from morely declaring it @ lie, | of these charges. Every precaution should be from cenanve on the ground of igzorance? | If it ia false its falvehood rust be proved. | taken to secure o fair race, Ring and Secretary Delano. A correspondent of the highest character, whose knowledge of this subject cannot be questioned, addresses us a letter on Indian affairs and the influence of the Secretary of the Interior upon their management which is published in another column. It will be read with deep and painful interest. We have an interesting history of the inside of the Indian Ring and the names of the gentle- men who control that organization. We have the evidence of the report of the committee of the Houso of the Forty- first Congress that the character of this contractor was known to the Secretary of the Interior upon the responsibility of no less a witness than Hon. William Welsh, of Philadelphia, a member of the old Board of Commissioners. We are shown that the Secre- tary of the Interior was informed of frauds at the Whetstone Agency and that the presence ot a member of the Indian Ring, high in the government, made investigation impossible. It is known that as far back as 1873 a direct charge of fraud was made by the old Board of Commissioners against two beef accounts of General G. M. Dodge, and that in spite of this protest the Secretary of the Interior took personal pains to seo that the fraudulent account was paid. Another fraudulent account for cattle said to have been ‘‘stolen from the Indians,” payment of which the law forbade, was paid by Mr. Delano from ‘‘the appropria- tion for subsisting the Sioux.” It is also alleged that in 1873 a voucher for $80,685 56 was paid by the direct order of the Secretary ot the Interior, although the Board of Indian Commissioners only approved the sum of $33,999 45 as being justly due. These payments were made by virtue of opinions from William H. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, who is regarded by our correspondent as ‘‘a pliant tool of the Indian Ring.” and for corn, and gave private contracts to members of the Ring and overlooked breaches of contract, and that even before the conduct of the present agent in the Red Cloud country was called in question Commissioner Smith and Secretary Delano were overlooking viola- tions of the law. ‘‘The facts cited,” our cor- respondent says, “represent only a sinall portion of the thefts accomplished by their aid, either active or passive.’’ Our corre- spondent also shows that so far from the Epis- copal Church sustaining the agent appointed by its members, Dr. Dyer, of the Protestant Episcopal Commission, will testify that Mr. Delano protected the agent in the Red Cloud country after his ‘‘rottenness and corrup- tion’’ had been shown. He shows, further, how this Interior Department in 1873 directly interfered to prevent the exposures of huge frauds at the Red Cloud and Whetstone agencies; how they punished the agent of the old Board of Commissioners who discoy- ered these frauds. It also appears that the ex- posure made by the Heraup correspondents and sustained by Professor Marsh were known to the Interior Department two years ago. Our correspndent explains how the Secretary of the Interior acted directly in the interest of the Indian Ring, and that in every attempt of the old Board of Commissioners to secure effi- cient management in Indian affairs Mr. Dela- no’s official position was used to paralyze their efforts and sustain the robbers of the Ring. Our correspondent shows that be- tween the old Indian Board of Commis- sioners, composed of such men as Mr, Brunot and Mr. Welsh and Mr. Delano, there could be no harmony ; that Delano had resolved upon destroying the Board and had taken the best way of attaining that result. Whenever an agent of the Board indicated the least desire to interfere with the operations of the Ring he was destroyed by the direct influe ence of the Interior Department. ‘In short,” says our correspondent, ‘Mr. Delano, Mr. Cowan and Mr. Smith have at all times shown | an absolute personal objection to economy.” He repeats a rumor that during the last cam- paign for the Presidency Mr. Delano was assessed with thirty-three thousand dollars as his contribution for the campaign, that the amount was paid by the Indian Ring, and “the secret leaked out through a quarrel in the Ring as to the amount to be paid by each member.” It is impossible for Mr. Delano or the Presi- dent to be silent in the presence of charges as grave as these emphasized by our correspond- ent. We say empbasized, because they sus- tain the statements of our special correspond- ent to the Sionx country, whose report of the | manner in which the Indians are treated has } made so profound an impression on the coun-. try, and has been the origin of the present | excitement. Ihe correspondent sustains also the manly testimony of Professor Marsh, of New Haven, who was so prompt with his evi- | dence in support of the statements of the Henatp. He shows the existence of a power- | ful Indian Ring at the seat of the govern- ment—a Ring strong enough to control the administration of Indian affairs; to bring dis- credit upon our country; to call forth from these poor, untutored savages heartrending remonstrances; to threaten us with cruel | and umnecessary wars. At the head of this Ring is Mr. Delano, the Sec- retary of the Interior, and prominent in the epjoyment of its profits wo have the brother of the President of the United States, Wo repeat, that unless an explanation is made of the most convincing and absolute character the effect of this agitation of the Indian question will be not simply to destroy the administration of President Grant, but to cover him with shame. He is personally in- volved. His name is connected with these frauds by the association of his brother with the Indian trading stores of the Northwest. The country will say, unless he acts promptly and with vigor, that he prefers the interests of his brother and of the ring of robbers with which ho is surrounded to the honor of the country and the happiness of the Indian tribes. —— Pumsor.'s Artrtupe.—The sailors’ friend in the Enghsh Parliament is evidently one of those men who believe that “half a loaf is | better than no bread."’ Acting on this sound belief he urged the acceptance of the govern- | ment “Shipping bill,” with some amend- | ments. This course is very creditable to Mr. Plimsoll’s good sense and shows that if he is an enthusiastic humanitarian he does not allow his devotions to what is right to blind him to the difficulties that sometimes besst | the reform of a bad system, His war upon It is averred that the department | | 8pproved exorbitant rates for transportation the men who send sailors out in rotten ships and yearly sacrifice thousands of valuable lives has already borne good fruit, and, no doubt, a considerable instalment of justice may be secured through the government measure at present before the House of Com- mons. At some future time whatever defects continue can be easily remedied. The Police Investigation. The exposure of police corruption does not stop with the story of Martinott nor with the cumulative evidence of panel house black- mailing. The testimony elicited before the Assembly Investigating Committee yesterday Was even more damaging than any that pre- ceded it. In our news columns the whole story as it was told to the committee is re- lated, from which it appears that police cap- tains and their friends, and even the late President and one of the members of the Board of Police Commissioners, were in the habit of feeding their horses at the public ex- pense. More than this, that very virtuous public servant, Mr. Seth ©. Hawley, the clerk to the Board, drew his lacteal fluid from ® cow fed at the police crib. The excellent Hawley was not satisfied with the tood he ob- tained for his horses nor even with that which was given to his cow, but he had policemen detailed to work in his garden and repair his fences. We do not koow by what name Mr. | Hawley would characterize his offence had it been committed by another person, but the public will have no two opinions of the inef- foble meanness of his conduct. This expo- sure of Hawley, the late President Henry Smith, Commissioner Barr, Captains Wilson and Speight and others, is one of the saddest commentaries ever made public in regard to the management of the police, and it is in itself the amplest evidence that corruption is the rule and not the exception in the depart- ment. The duty of the Commissioners in this crisis is a plain one—namely, the dismissal of every officer against whom charges exist. It is unsafe to allow the police administration of a city like New York to remain in the hands of men against whom there are such grave suspicions, not to say proofs. We observe, for instance, in the case of Captain Burden, that the testimony of Martinott is to be broken down upon a statement of the notorious The | Allen. A cause must be desperate indeed which is compelled to resort to a defence so disreputable, and we warn the Commission- ers that they cannot evade their duty by ac- cepting so absurd a story as true. Whatever may be said of Martinott—and it is not to his credit that. he was a tool of Burden so long— Mr. Theodore Allen is not a man whose testi- mony is to be accepted on any oecasion. These are not mere trials of the guilt or innocence of police officers—they are an effort to determine whether men against whom there are such grave charges as those against Captain Burden are fit to be longer trusted with the grave responsibilities of the important stations they now fill, Whether Burden could be convicted of blackmailing in acourt of justice is not the question; and, whether he could or could nop be, the neces- sity of his retirement from his position on the police force is equally certain. The same thing is true of McCullough, Williams, Wilson and Speight and of others whose misdeeds are likely to be revealed before this inquiry is over. It will not do to continue these men in | | power with so much reason for believing the charges alleged against them, and the Com- missioners will {ail in their duty unless they sweep out of the paths of honest men every suspected official. The Census. The work of enumerating the inhabitants of this city is presumably at an end, though the returns for no less than thirteen election districts have not yet been handedin. Persons best fitted to judge state it freely as their opinion that the census is incorrect, and | that fully one-fifth of the citizens have not been counted—that is to say, the census | taking has been a farce, if not a { fraud. The want of reliability is | due to two causes--bad legislation and a poor selection of enumerators. The second fault may be attributed to the first. A partisan Legislature years ago passed a law in relation to the census taking of the popu- lation of this city with the declared object of depriving New York of its natural and just influence in the State. This act of political dishonesty has been allowed to continue, and as the democratic majorities who have | controlled legislation at various periods failed to remedy the wrong done to this city | our citizens must continue to be deprived of adequate representation during the coming | | ten years. If the difference between the num- | | ber of inhabitants returned in the census papers and the real population amounts, as calculated, to one-fifth, there results to this community a very considerable loss of repre- sentation and a corresponding loss of mflu- | ence in the councils of the nation, Wicrsam.—The firemen who have not been paid their last month's wages, and who are | selling their claims at discounts to ingenious speculators who can afford to wait until Wickham and Green have got over their diffi- culty, will be glad to know that the Mayor is enjoying himself at his summer residence. When we consider that this difficulty between the Mayor and tho Comptroller as to the sig- nature of the warrants would be a disgrace to any well managed lager beer saloon, and that | the Mayor could give these poor men their money by devoting an honr or two to the work of signing the warrants, his folly will be ap- | preciated, It is really one of tho most selfish and cruel things that ever happened in the | government of a great city, end reflects the utmost discredit npon the Mayor and the Comptroller. | the detachments from the Fifth brigade of the | National Guard of this State reflects great dis- credit both on the officers and men, We refer | to what occurred yesterday at Creedmoor with reluctance; but the sight of militia intended for the defence of the citizens turned into an armed mob cannot for a moment be tolerated. The Fifth brigade belongs to Brooklyn and seems to be affected by the disordered atmos- phere of the piace. It would be well, however, if an effort were made to remedy the want of discipline shown yesterday by both officers | and men by promptly court martialing the | offenders, | | Crrepxcon.—The conduct of some men of | | | | Justice According to Twebd. When Tweed invested a half million ont of the four or five millions he stole from the people in lawyers, leeches and blackmailers he madea good mov». There was never a thief in the whole history of crime who has been so well protected. The money he stole, and which he should have delivered up to the custody of the Jaw the moment he was ar rested, he has been permitted to keep and de- vote to his own defeuce. Here are lawyers, eminent and brilliant, who are giving their genius to the service of this monumental rob- ber and receiving fees out of the money taken from the treasury. Not only does Tweed defy the law, but he selects his judges. The other day he declined to go before a certain judge because the judge did not suithim. So that he not only uses the city taxes to defend himseli from the just claims of the people, but he ad- ministers justice in his own behalf, ‘Tweed has escaped through the prison bara of one cell, and now, by the aid of Judge Doa- ohue, he seems about to escape through the bars of another. Shortly atter the exposure of the Tammany frauds Tweed, by the aid of some of his minions, robbed the Comptroller's office and destroyed a large number of vouch- grs. These were the forged and altered vouch. ers upon which Ingersoll, Garvey, Davidson and others were paid. These bills and vouch. ers are necessary to establish a case against Tweed. There is legal evidence that they ex- isted and that Tweed had destroyed them, Judge Donohue decides that the prosecutors of Tweed must produce these bills and vouch. ers before they can make good their case. As Tweed has destroyed the vouchers how can Mr. O'Conor produce them? Tue Roav to Rury.—The gross city debt on the 30th of June was nearly one hundred and fifty-eight million dollars, Since January 1 the Comptroller has taken for investment, on account of the sinking fund, one million six hundred thousand dollars of newly issued city bonds, one-half bearing six per cent and one-half (revenue bonds) bearing five per cent interest. This interest comes back to the city. In the same time he has issued one million six hundred and eighty thousand dol- lars consolidated stock, which he has marketed to private individuals and banks at seven per cent interest. This interest goes into the pockets of the moneyed backers and chame pions of Comptroller Green. Just prior to January, 1875, the Comptroller had issued and marketed to the same parties nearly four millions of State sinking fund deficiency bonds, bearing the exorbitant interest of seven per cent, while taking investments for the city sinking fund at five and six per cent. War Rerorm.—England has not been ine vited to the Conference of European Powers which has been called by Russia with the ob- ject of effecting some reform in the usages of war. England does not want to bind herself to any rules which might paralyze popular resistance to an invading army, and she is per- fectly right. ‘The only way to secure reform in the usages of war is to reform war, and the Great Powers have not yet reached that point. Frencn Invunpations.—The Swiss, with characteristic generosity, are making every effort to relieve the unfortuuate sufferers from the late terrible inundations in France. They are moved to these charitable efforts by the memory of many acts of charity and kindness done by France to the countrymen of Teli when suffering from similar disasters. An appeal, which we publish elsewhere, has been issued by the Swiss Consul General to his countrymen resident in the United States. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Professor Francis A. Walker, of New Haven, is sojourning at the Gilsey House. Judge R. D. Rice, of Maine, ts among the law late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. William T, Adams (“Oliver Optic’), of Bos ton, is registered at the Westminster Hotel. Governor Tilden will to-day appoint William T, Peiton Military Secretary, with the rank of Cob onel. Secretary Robeson left Washington last might for Rye Beach, N. H., to spend a month with his family there. Now the malicious Morrissey & Co. say that Mayor Wickbam was formerly an emigrant rao ner. Was he? Miss Annie Loutse Cary arrived at the Everett House yesterday and will sat! jor Europe in one of to-day’s steamers, Indian Commissioners William Stickney and F. B. Smith arrived at tne Fifth Avenue Hotel last | eventng trom Long Branch. » Miss Saran F. Smiley, the Quaker Methodis( woman preacher, has a volume of religious medi tations in Randolpa’s pres’, The HeRALD’s exiles are still a little shaky 12 their tenses, One of them says:—“Captaia Webb, ofthe Emerald, swum twenty miles for a wager. Chieazo Tribune. Easy, boys. You oan’: get the word swam printed in this office. Printers and proofreaders know better, you see; and most of them have been to Chicago, too, Ri A Paris policeman saw a woman down in the street, and a carriage about to pass over her, when he rushed out, seized the spokes of a wheel and thereby stopped tue carriage, fi Acable telegram from London, under date of July 39, reports that Barry Sullivan hada just sailed from Queenstown on the steamer Germani¢ for New York to fnlfil an engagement at Bootn’s Theatre. ‘Three new universities will be establishet in France in consequence of the new law—one at Paris, one at Orieans, and one at Anglers—each with faculties of law and medicine in addition ta those of letters and science. Agreat sensation has becn created in private circles by the remarkable shooting of Genera’ JosnuaT. Owen, of this eity. In the event oft national rife contest next year, Gencral Owex Will become a member of ths American team. General Garfeld has so far recovered irom # long and serious ulness in Washington as to have been avle to walk out yesterday for the first time in many weeks, The surgeous, who performed a dangerons operation, say that he can travel in @ jew days, but Mr. Garfleid doubts whether he wil! tave any part in the Oho campaign, though bs hopes to visit his home in a few weeks. Somebody says a Chicago poet wrote thes¢ “Lines upon hearing that Nilsson was about te | erect cow sheds on her Peoria lots:""-~ Caristine, Christine, thy milking do ‘The morn und eve becween, And not by the dim religious light Ol the fttul kerosene, For the cow may plunge and thelamp explode, Ang tne fire fend ride the gale, And shriek the Knell of the burning town Jn the glow of tne trolten pati, Frank b, Carpenter, the artist, lias gone to his country hom in Homer, N.Y. Bofore leaving Mr. Carpenter finished his picture of Presiueni Lincoln, painted by order of the State of New York. Mr. Carpenter hid peculiar jacilities for this work, as lie lived with Mr. Lincoin jor siz | months at the White House painting trom ife hie | great picture of he Emancipation ¥ clamation, His portrait bas been sent to Albany, and ts pro nounced by all Who have seen it to be a remark able work of art and an exact representation of the wroat statesman of our Modern polition, | | ;