The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1875, Page 6

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METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8'P. M. M THEATRE, te . Fourteenth Opera Bouffe—-MADAME nel DARCHIDUC. aS P.M. HOWE & CUSHING foot of Honston street, Eust Rive performances. circus, Afternoon and evening ACADEMY OF MUSTC, ering Pi nd Hagricenth , street. ~AROUND Wor Dix eGiiry Bare ws PM j closes at 11 THE P.M. ) MINSTRELS, omer of Twenty-ninth street, SAN FRA New Opera House, Broadway, ats P.M. AMERIC Third avenne.—Day and ev BOOTIUS THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—RICTIARD ITY., at 6 P.M. Mr. Barry Sullivan. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue—COTTON & REED'S MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. OLYMP THEATRE, rer Broadway.—V ARI. eee. My closes at 10:45 GILMORE’S GARDEN, Jate Barnum's ‘Hipp ND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 5 P. M. ; close: METROPOLITAN M' for 128 West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. toS TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street, near Brondway.—MEXICAN JOVEN. ILE OPERA TROUPE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:90 P. Soledad Unda y Moron. The political situation has become sud- denly grave. No enlightened citizen or true patriot can be indifferent to the action of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention, in its session at Erie, reported in our columns this morning. It is an alarming proof that the inflation heresy is spreading, and that it is likely to exert a dominant con- trol over one of our great political parties. We record with profound regret and sorrow that in an Eastern State, a great and influential State, the State which ranks next to New York in importance, the democratic party has been conquered by the inflation- ists, and repeats and indorses the Ohio plat- form. This democratic madness forebodes an Iliad of woes. It foreshadows a triumph of the inflationists in the Democratic Na- tional Convention next year, and will go far toward reconciling the steady-going business classes to a renomination of President Grant, whose courageous yeto of the Inflation bill makes him the natural leader of his party in a Presidential cam- paign turning upon this dangerous issue. Nobody has doubted that the infla- tionists were strong in the West and South, but it was supposed that both parties in the Atlantic States would make a strenuous re- sistance to the inflation folly. The action of the Pennsylvania democrats is a greater shock to public feeling than the wild anda- city of the party in Ohio. If the New York democracy, in their Convention next week, denounce inflation and stand for hard money, it will be a voice crying in the wilderness. If the democrats carry Ohio in October no section of the party can there- after denounce inflation without subjecting itself to a humiliating defeat in the National Convention next year. Mr. Marble, of the World, who drafted the hard money platform of the New York de- mocracy last year and is elected a dele- gate to the Syracuse Convention next week, will have a more difficult task than hoe ever before undertook in getting the Committee on Resolutions to assent to his views. A decided hard money plank would extinguish the hopes of his favorite Presidential candidate, Governor Tilden. Mr. Marble is the reverse of a trimmer, but unless the draft of a platform which he will carry in his pocket to Syracuse trims on the inflation question he will be overruled in the Committee. Governor Tilden, in his annual Message, put himself in a position to trim on this question, and as he will control the Convention it is pretty certain that he will not “tolerate a platform which would extinguish his Presidential chances. The New York platform will probably be a specimen of skilful dodging, since it is un- likely that Governor Tilden will permit a Convention which he controls to make it impossible for him to be the democratic can- didate for the Presidency. He is not un- aware of the two-thirds rule, and if the demo- crats carry Ohio nobody can doubt that oT eae bey Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; Gloses at 10:45 Broadway and Twe PARK EAI teeet SHHIE MIGHTY DOT- 1 and Twent es PAR eS Pe Mr and Mre lorence. COLONEL SIN es PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VARIETY, at 5 loves at 10:45 °P. Mi CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. THEODORE aiowas CONCERT ate P.M WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ‘Thirteenth street.—Enelish Comic Opern— GRAND F DUCHESS, at SPM. Miss Julia Matthews: Mr THE. 9,514 Broadway Va ; Closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEU Breedway, corner of Thirtieth street. ry, AND SORROW, P.M. FACE TO FACE, at & P. closes at 10:41 NEW YORK, PTEMBER 10. 18 FRIDAY, From our repens this chy the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain. Wau Srreer Yestenpay.—Gold was in re- quest at 1155-8. Money easy on call loans at rates last quoted. Good investment secu- rities are in demand. Tae Races at 1 at Prospect Park Fair Grounds yesterday were very exciting and attracted a goodly company of Brooklynites. The win- ners were Vanderbilt, Countess and Ver- nango, and their competitors gave them a hard tussle in the three events of the day. Sprxver Acceprs.—We knew that a veteran office-holder and politician like General Spin- ner could not refuse. In spite of all his pro- testations he accepts the republican nomina- tion for Comptroller, and he will die in the harness unless he lives to be beaten. Tae Nomration or Jupce Prnsuine for Governor of Pennsylvania is a wgrning to democratic politicians. Nobody thought of him as a candidate, but the inflation triumph was his triumph also. The old politicians are likely to find out that with the new meas- ures will e new men. Ovr Latest Apvices from Central and Bouth America, which may be found in another column, contain a fund of interest- ing news from our Southern neighbors. The war against the federal forces in the States of Bolivar and Magdalena seems likely to lead to very ugly complications with the other Btates of the Confederation, ‘Tae Gutnorp Case, still, ag agitates the peo- ple of Montreal, and bloodshed may yet be the consequence. It is to be hoped, however, that the gravity of the situation is past, and that the counsels of Bishop Bourget to avoid disorder will be respected. There is no real question at issue in this case except the right of the Roman Catholic Church to designate who shall be buried in consecrated | ground, and it is mere narrowness and bigotry, or worse, to see disloyalty to the Crown in any such ecclesiastical action. Rarm Transit,—The selection of the routes, the most important of all the ques- tions on which the Commissioners of Rapid Transit have to decide, being satisfactorily accomplished, the subject next in order is the structure best adapted to supply this pressing public want. There are vafious plans before the Commissioners, and we may eonfidently expect that the same good sense that selected the routes will be equally suc- the emboldened and jubilant inflationists will control more than one-third of the delegates. With Ohio against him, and Pennsylvania against him, and the other sympathetic inflationist States against him, Mr. Tilden could not possibly be nominated, «nd we shall be as much surprised as grati- fied if the New York platform adopted next week is pitched in the same high hard money key as Mr. Marble’s handiwork of last year. Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis, which may be Englished as meaning that Governor Tilden will trim his sails to the ris- ing wind. He will not permit the Syracuse Convention to extinguish his chances of a Presidential nomination by taking high ground for early specie resumption. The draughtsman of the Syracuse platform will be a mere scribe, with as little liberty as any other amanuensis. If Governor Tilden shall have courage enough to permit his Conven- tion to denounce inflation the country will form a more exalted estimate of his charac- ter. Henry Clay, with all his eloquence, never said anything more admirable than “I would rather be right than be Presi- dent,” and if Governor Tilden permits a con- vention which will be pretty much in his hands to take an aggressive hard money posi- tion all right-minded men will do him honor. But his trimming annual Message does not justify this expectation, and the adoption of the Ohio platform by the Pennsylvania democrats will compel him to make a diffi- cult choice between duty and ambition. According to present appearances the in- flationists will capture the Democratic Na- tional Convention, and Mr. Tilden must make on immediate choice between principle and personal hopes. The New York Convention meets next week, and its platform will determine whether Governor Tilden is a possible candidate for the Presi- dency. The indiscreet parade of his assured control of the State Convention will make him individually responsible for its action. If it repeats the vigorous hard money plat- form of last year it will be taken as an expression of his personal views, and will kill him asa Presidential candidate. This reasoning, of course, goes on the assumption that the democratic inflationists will carry Ohio, for their defeat would give quite a new turn to our politics. But it would be dan- gerous for the New York Convention to as- sume that its party will be defeated in Ohio, especially since the Pennsylvania indorse- ment. We therefore expect the New York platform to be specimen of dexterous trimming. It is melancholy and discourag- ing to see one of the great political parties of the country standing on the declivity which descends to the gulf of inflation. But when the democracy of an Eastern State, the second State in the Union in population, wealth and importance, slides in this direction, what can we expect ? From a scientific point of view there is no excuse for the wild absurdity of the in- | flationists. Nothing is easier than to expose their dense ignorance and demonstrate that | | their crotchets defy experience and fly in the | face of financial science. | origin. But our sense of their utter folly must not blind us to the causes in which this folly has its WwW he m we see @ man Troup after quacks find drug himself with their nostrums, it is safe to assume that he has eonsful in the choice of a good, cheap and | long ceased to enjoy good health. The ven- | dors of quack medicines thrive on chronic gafo structure in rapid transit, Gineases. When & sufferee has derived no benefit from the prescription of his physi- cian he is tempted to ran after every nos- trum which brazen quacks ean get flaunted in the face of the community by the arts of pnffery. The fortunes made by ‘impudent quacks betoken the wide prevalence of chronic maladies. The success of the inflationists, like the suc- cess of quack doctors, depends on the ex- istence of evils long felt and notcured. The proposed remedy is insane froth and folly, but the patient is unquestionably right in thinking that something ails him. Since the great panic of 1873 the condition of the patient has been growing worse, and nobody should be surprised that a suffering peo- ple become the easy dupes of financial quacks. The inflation theory is the height of ‘midsummer madness,” but the distemper for which it ignorantly prescribes is unfor- tunately too real, and we must not overlook the gravity of the disease in our just scorn of the impudence, ignorance and reckless self- ishness of the quacks. The tendency to run after quacks is a symptom and proof of the disease. This bad symptom would dis- appear if the condition of the patient should begin to mend. The inflationist delusion, besides being a proof of popular ignorance, is also a proof of widespread pub- lic suffering. Financial distress is the soil in whieh financial delusions take root and thrive, Financial quacks and medical quacks would alike find their occupation gone in the absence of real suffering. The medical comparison which we have suggested might be still further pursued, There are natural laws of health which can- not be violated with impunity, and a wise physician depends less on medicines than on bringing his patient to comply with sound physiological requirements. After ac- complishing this he relies principally on the recuperative forces of nature for a final cure. In this financial disease under which the country lies prostrate the regular physician, is the federal government; but no intelligent patient expects his physician to work mira- cles. The public prosperity depends on in- dustry, thrift and economy as really as indi- vidual health depends upon pure air, tem- perate diet and a clean skin. These are within the control of the patient him- self, and the prescribed medicines are merely auxiliary. And yet the pre- scriptions of a skilful physician are invaluable, often making the difference between life and death. The federal gov- ernment, which is the regular physician, having done nothing for the relief of the country, it is not surprising that the patient lends a ready ear to quacks. We couldeasily show him that he is mistaken if we could only get him to listen; but the misfortune is that quacks have a natural ascendancy over suffering ignorance. The financial question bids fair to overtop all other political issues, and the most imperative duty of the sound part of the public press is to expose and explode the delusions which have be- come so formidable and threatening. The Charley Ross Letters. In the frial of Westervelt at Philadelphia yesterday for complicity with the abduction of Charley Ross the letters of the abductors were read in evidence, and these are printed jn our columns this morning, A more re- markable chapter has never appeared ina newspaper. ‘Terrible as the abduction was in itself these documents add a new horror to the crime of Mosher and Douglass. Anything more brutal than the language in which their propositions are couched it is impossible to conceive, and yet this is surpassed in fiendishness by the propositions themselves. The threat to “annihilate” the child if an attempt was made to bring his abductors to justice is a piece of barbarism at which men with hearts in their bosoms must stand aghast, and yet there is too much reason to fear that the bloody threat has been followed by the bloody deed. The fate of Charley Ross is a mystery which every effort of the police of two cities and all the aid of a sympathetic people has been unable to clear away, and now that the whole story is before the public for the first time our amazement increases at the audacity and success of the reckless criminals by whom the crime was committed. At every stage of the case the story is full of ghastly wonder. The abduction was a horror which weighed heavily on the heart of every mother in the land. What was known at the time of the effort to secure a ransom for the boy's return created a wide- spread alarm as well as deep founded indig- nation. The long and weary waiting without any tidings of the child or a clew to his cap- tors touched the sensibilities ofall. ‘The vio- lent death of the two burglars added another terrible chapter to a volume of tragic and appalling interest. Last of all came the trial of Westervelt, the proofs of his complicity with Mosher and Donglass and the revela- tions of the letters which we print to-day. The latest act of the drama is in keeping with those which went before, and we can only hope for that dramatic justice which will bring joy to many households—the re- covery of the child and his restoration to his parents, Ixpran Arratns are far better managed in the Dominion of Canada than in this country. According to the last report of the Commis- sioners in charge of the matter across the frontier, of which an interesting account is published elsewhere, the savage tribes have been converted into thrifty vil- lagers by a process which combines common sense with a keen knowledge of human nature. The most fertile source of all our Indian wars is the cheating and knavery of white traders and government agents. The Canadian authorities, by deal- | ing honestly with the aborigines, carn their of civilization without the slightest tronble. | Long Branch, according to a favorite Western | phrase, in chunks, This morning we have the sayings of President Grant on the Sara- | toga Convention, and a good many other wise | things besides. Though the canvass in this | State may not hinge on the views of the | President or upon what other republican | leaders are saying by the sad sea waves, their | opinions make pleasant reading in these Sep- tember days, | confidence and esteem and achieve the work | | Pouertcan, Wispom nowadays comes from | Governor Ames Calls for Troops. Governor Ames formally applies to the President, ‘in accordance with section 4, article 4, of the constitution,” to protect the people of Mississippi against domestic vio- lence. He asserts that the emergency is pressing ; that he, the Governor, is unable to maintain the peace of the State, and that immediate interference by the federal power is necessary. It is now reported that the President intends to issue a proclamation reqviring the people of Mississippi to obey the law and cease disorder. There is a part of Mississippi, lying be- tween Vicksburg and Jackson, which con- tains a bad white element in its population— a ruffianly crowd, which is fond of cursing negroes and promiscuous pistol shooting. There is no doubt at ail that this part of the white population forms a pretty numerous, dangerous class, always ready for strife and habitually lawless. It is commonly said elsewhere by Southern men of these people that they are mostly the descendarts of negro traders and overseers who became wealthy in the old slavery times and settled on the rich bottom lands about Vicksburg. However this may be, they are there and ready fora ‘‘row.” There is in the same re~ gion a lawless black element, which uses the powerful negro majority in Warren, Hinds and other neighboring counties to get itself elected to office, and uses office only to steal the public funds and to corrupt the planta- tion negroes. The main cause of trouble arises out of the fact that the black demagogues are the friends and political allies of Governor Ames, who supports them in all their wrongdoing on condition that they shall in their turn support him. He has no philan- thropic affection ,for the negro. Ho is simply en unserupulous politician who plays with the negro vote and who has before now played with the peace of the State and with the lives of colored men for his own purposes. If he had done his duty as Governor there would be no trouble to- day in Mississippi. If he had not played the pat of chief demagogue the evil and dan- gerous class on both sides would not to-day haye the power or the opportunity to set the laws at defiance. The honest and law re- specting part of the community would be predominant. The spirit in which he has ruled Missis- sippi was shown by his course in the Vicks- burg riot, when Sheriff Crosby was driven from the place. ‘This illiterate and vicious negro bronght his complaint to Governor Ames. He heard him in the presence of sev- eral of the most eminent citizens of Missis- sippi, republicans and democrats. These citizens, anxious for the peace and the good name of the State, urged Mr, Ames to pro- ceed to Vicksburg in person, where, they assured him, he could arrange the dispute without difficulty. The Governor refused. Thereupon three citizens offered to go them- selves as a committee authorized by him, and promised to arrange the whole affair justly and peaceably. Governor Ames again re- fused ; but he told the negro (Crosby) to go down and tell all the negro preachers in Warren county on Sunday to instruct their people to come into Vicksburg on Monday with their guns. The poor negroes, accus- tomed to obey Ames, did so, and were met outside the city and shot down by dozens. Governor Ames stands charged to-day by republicans in Mississippi with saying, when reproached with his course, ‘The blood of twenty negroes will help the repub- lican party.” After the poor blacks had been shot then Ames called for United States troops, and with their help rallied the blacks to himself again, because they saw him able to command the federal interposition. ‘What We Soon May Hear. There is something interesting in the efforts of the republican party to obtain control of New York. Whatever mistakes Governor Tilden may have made, whatever errors his record may show, on one point it is clear, in support of reform. We thought that nobody outside of a Innatic asylum would question this ; yet, when we read the republican exchanges, we are amazed to find that all this time we have been laboring un- dera misapprehension. Governor Tilden, we are told, has never been sincere in his reform efforts. His war upon Tweed was a sham. His controversy with the Canal Ring isa pretence. We are asked to believe the whole movement for the purification of the government of New York, which has attracted so much attention, is simply a politician's trick to gain votes. The canvass which begins as briskly as this is capable of any possible range. Our read- ers must not bé surprised at anything they hear about Governor Tilden. We shall prob- ably learn that he was the author of the six million board of audit robbery. Perhaps, if the truth were known, it would be discovered that Ingersoll and Garvey and Corson and Wilbur, when they robbed the Treasury, divided with Tilden. The bottom fact of the whole business is, no doubt, that Tilden was interested with the Court House Commission- ers ; that he shared with Fields his plunder of the firemen ; that he was the real instru- ment of Harry Genet’s escape from justice. No doubt the whole business of Tweed going to jail and Tilden becoming Governor was a shrewd plot between these two great chiefs of the democratic party. Tweed sacrificed him- self in order that his old companion and friend might become Governor ‘and by that means President. When Tilden is President, when he has the disposal of all the public patronage, it will finally come out. Sweeny will be recalled and made Secretary of the Treasury. Tweed will be released from prison and appointed to the sub-treasury- ship of New York. Genet and Fields and the other exiles will be accredited to the European Courts, All the Tammany statesmen of the Empire who, since the fall of Tweed, have been working on the Fourth avenue improve- ment at one dollar and sixty cents a day, will be summoned to the positions | they once held—judgeships, seats in the Assembly and the Senate—to high | stations under the administration. For are we not told that this Tilden is a crafty | old fox; that he whispers his confidences | with Morrissey; that he owns John Kelly; that his ambition by day and his dream by night is to be President of the United States? Since onr republican friends have gone into the canvass of defamation against Tilden SEPTEMBER 10, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET, ——————_———_———————— ov? rt they should go through and not pause, There is no use taking halfway measures in a work of this kind. It is just as easy to prove that Tilden is the partner of Tweed, in secret correspondence with Sweeny, and the creature of the old Tammany Ring, as it is to make the country believe that he is not sincere in his efforts to break the Canal Ring, and that in his war upon the’Tammany Ring he did not act from the highest spirit of patriotism, regarding the good of the people as of more consequence than the success of the party. The Indian Question—Mr. signs. The New-York World informs us that Mr. Orville Grant, brother of the President, has “vesigned his position as an Indian agent in the Sioux country and gone out of all busi- ness.” We are sincerely glad to hear this. Mr. Grant's connection with the Indian agen- cies in the Northwest was first brought into prominence by the Hxnaup. Even the best friends of the President thought it was a disgraceful thing for his brother to be under the Indian Ring. We pointed out to Mr. Orville Grant that so long as he was dealing with the Indians his illustrious brother would be héld under suspicion. This seems to have impressed Mr. Grant, for he now re- tires altogether from any connection with this unsavory affair. Now that Mr, Orville Grant has made this sacrifico—and we have no doubt it is a large one in a pecuniary sense—we trust the Presi- dent will go deeper into the Indian question, and satisfy the country that he means to break up these frauds as rigidly as he is en- deavoring to break up the whiskey frauds. As the matter now stands Mr. Delano, Secre- tary of the Interior, is arraigned, in connec- tion with the Assistant Secretary and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, as directly sharing the spoils of the Indian Ring. The evidences of their incapacity, if not of worse practices, are found in the testimony of Mr. Welsh, of Philadelphia ; Professor Marsh, of New Haven, and a hundred other witnesses, whose evidence comes to us from different parts of the country. We have not read since the beginning of this investigation one statement either from the Interior Depart- ment or from the friends of the Indian Ring which goes to parry in the slightest degree the serious charges made by Mr. Welsh and Professor Marsh. If there is any value in human testimony or in high personal char- acter as sustaining such testimony then Mr, Delano and those with him in the adminis- tration of Indian affairs are condemned, President Grant cannot afford to carry this burden any longer. Nor should his friends ask him to do so, Whatever the errors of his administration no one supposes for a moment that he would willingly take part in any movement to make money by selling rotten blankets and mouldy flour to starving Indian squaws, Yet this is the basis of the whole matter. Our Indian affairs have gradually fallen into the hands of selfish and unseru- pulous men. They have grown so rich out of the profits of this business that they can afford to maintain a powerful combination at Washington and influ: ence legislation, to control the decisions of the departments, to select their own friends in the Senate and House for the Indian coms mittees, and even, as has been shown in the case of Orville Grant, to impose their will upon the President himself. They have grown into this power because the Indians have been far removed from the observation of the country, because the question has never yet been one in which our people could be induced to take any interest, and because, we are sad to think, there has grown up in the minds of many communities the startling and terrible theory that the only future for the Indians is annihilation, and that the best policy would be to kill them at once, But even if we should adopt the policy of annihilation let us do it in a humane man- ner, and put an end to the Indian by some of the swift methods known to science. So long as we have the torpedo system at New- port, and could blow a tribe out of existence ina moment, why should we descend to the degrading business of starving them or killing them with poisonous alcohol ? This is what we are doing; this is what the country calls upon the President to suppress. Grant Re Proresson Manrsu’s Catarocue or Lirs emanating from the Indian Bureau and the Interior Department is a curious study. No officials were ever before so fearfully exposed as are Commissioner Smith and Secretary Delano by the earnest and emphatic Yale professor. One falsehood after another is fixed upon, and they are shown to be utterly unworthy of confidence or respect. Profes- sor Marsh is to be commended for his disin- terestedness and courage in this matter of the Indian frauds, especially as it will be impossible for the Commission to investigate his charges to meet them successfully with a whitewashing report alter such plain speak- ing. We think we can now give notice of two vacancies in important public offices at Wash- ington, and applicants for the positions had better apply personally to President Grant without delay. A Currrrun Virw.—The administration organ in New York takes a cheerful view of the ticket nominated at the Saratoga Conven- tion when it expresses the hope that “Mr. Frederick Seward’s connection with the party which his father did so much to found and labored so strenuously to serve will in the future be marked by less disastrous cir- cumstances.” These ‘disastrous circum- stances” are the attempt of Payne, the mur- derer, to kill Mr. Seward and his father, the late Secretary of State. We gladly share the | hope of our republican contemporary that Mr. Seward, during his connection with the party which has nominated him for Secretary of State, will not be attaeked by an assassin and ‘almost cut to pie A Frence ADMInAT, forgetting, in his en- | thusiasm for the Bonapartist party, his duty toward the republican government which he was supposed to represent, has been removed from a very important command, on account of an ill-advised and startling letter written by him, and has been placed by President MacMahon in a very unenviable position for one lately enjoying the confidence of the powers that be in France. No more signifi- cant rebuke to the monarchists has been committee, given for a long time, and officers of the government there will learn a salutary lesson from the fate of the indisereet Admiral, The Present Era of Crimes While the Legislative Commission new in session in this city to investigate the causes of crime are pursuing their labore it would be well for them to look around and see for themselves the frights ful prevalence of murder, burglary and highway robbery at the present time. The columns of the daily journals are filled with accounts of every species of crime to such an extent that one can scarcely reeoncile sucly reports as # picture of everyday life in great city. It is but natural for the commit« tee to inquire what measures have bee adopted by those constituted guardians of the peace, the police, to correct such a dis« graceful state of affairs, and why in certain sections of the city where crime is being constantly perpetrated rowdies and ruffiang ply their nefarious trade unmolested. Were the police to do their duty fearlessly and honestly thieves and murderers would soom | find New York an uncongenial place, and would be compelled to seek other cities less dangerous to them. A thorough reorganizae tion of the force, commencing with the Com+ missioners, is desirable. The Legislative Commission can do much toward ridding the great metropolis of America of the horde of ruffians that prowl around it at night. There is little use in going back a few years to the investigation of crimes which have either been forgotten or at least are replaced in the public min@ by offences equally heinous and more recent, The Nathan and Rogers murders, terrible though they were, have their counterparta within the past few months. Tho cases of Noe and other victims of burglars are stilB fresh in the police records and the Commis- sion of the Legislature might turn theig minds toward such'subjects and attain mora satisfactory results than by investigating crimes of a less recent date. The evidenca of the terrible crimes committed within tha last three months—and they are many and easily ascertained in regard to authorship—~ can be at once ascertained by the Legislative It is not difficult for interested parties to conceal the traces of complicity with crime or equally criminal negligence on the part of the supposed guardians of the peace, when the criminal calendar of a few years back is alone investigated. ‘There ara scenes of murder, violence and robbery chronicled every day, and the Commissioners need not consult other data than the daily papers for a month past to convince thems selves of the utter incapacity of the present police force to deal with criminals as the pube lic would desire. “Oxx More Unrorrunate.”—If the telew graph correctly reports Mr. Jefferson Davia he declared himself in Missouri yesterday against wresumption of specie payments. He asserted that ‘‘specie resumption was im~ practicable until our exports exceed our imports; declared that Congress had na authority to declare specie payments should be resumed at a certain date, and that in the present condition of the country more curs rency is needed.” We wonder Mr. Davis was not afraid that the ghost of old Tom Benton would rise up to denounce him when he uttered such sentiments in Mis. souri. It is pretty certain that if he had used such language during Benton's lifetime he would have heard some unpleasant row marks from that democrat. Tue Warkixs Recarra yesterday om Seneca Lake proved to be a very brilliant event in the annals of American boating, The victors on the occasion were :—Single sculls, Powell; senior sculls, Reilly ; pairs oar prize, Ellis and Gil Ward ; four-oared race, Ward crew. The Wards were the especial champions of the day. Srankey, the convicted murderer, who esa caped from the Tombs and took refuge in Havana, has become unendurable even to tha. Spanish authorities. He has been sent to St. Domingo, and his return to this city is probable. The Dominicans are not likely to desire the presence of Baez and Sharkey in their country at the same time. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ee Mayor ©. W. Hutchinson, of Utica, is staying at the New York Hotel. Rev, Richard Temple, of Troy, has apartments at the ‘Westminster Hotel. Sherif’. A. Le Biane, of Montreal, is registered at. the Grand Central Hotel. Surgeon Edward Keshner, United States Navy, ie quartered at Karnum’s Hotel. Mr. Henry A. Tilden, of New Lebanon, N, Y., arrived last evening at the Windsor Hotel, Mr. Dewitt C. Littlejohn, of Oswego, is among the late arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel. Sefior Don Juan dei Valle, President of the Bank of Havana, is stopping at the St. Denis Hotel. General SC. Armstrong, of Hampton, Va, hae taken up his residence at Barnum’s Hotel. Congressman W. H, Barnum, of Conneeticnt, is ree siding temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Pay Inspector George 1. Davis, United States Navy, has taken up his quarters at the Grand Hotel. Judge John L. Talcott, of the New York Suprome Court for the Eighth Judicial district, is at the Gilsey- House, The little boy who was caught in the trap rock at Paterson was named Rose, not Ross as at first ree ported. People who like the administration botter than the republican party growl savagely at the Saratoga Con- vention, Charles Francis Adams is likely to be nominated more, and elected Jess than any other inan,—New Orleans Re» publican, Paris papers ridicule Webb's and Boyton’s feats im crossing the English Channel, because a fish can swim still farther, ‘They seem to fancy in New England that Henry 0, Carey is not a sound economist When he is not writing on “protection.” A Boston paper ceseribes “Squire Simmons” asa storm in early winter, when there’ vo good deal of wind, but not much sleighing. Mr, John P. Stockton, recently United States Sena. tor from New Jersey, yesterday arrived with hia family at tho New York Hotel, Bishop Thomas A. Jaggar, of Southern Ohio, who has been summering with his family in the White Mountains, has arrived at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Will Carloton, the poet of “Betsey and I Are Out” notoriety, has not gone “Over the Hill to the Poorhouse,” but is sojourning at the St, Nicholag Hotel. . « Commodore Vanderbilt left Louisville last evening for New York. Louisville folks are guessing that he means to buy the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington railroad when it is sold by the Chancery Court, Was resolution that Mr. Brandreth offered ‘yp request” in the Saratoga Convention intended as a soe of Brandreth’ pill; and was it written by Sylvanng Cobb?