The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1875, Page 8

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GERMANIA THEATRE, Trving pluce.—EKHRLICHE AR- WALLACK'S: winged qOCTE” ed “e3 PARISIAN VARIBTIE! Sixteenth street and Broadw: VARIETY, atSP.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, ‘ouse, Broudway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, AMERICAN INSTITUTE, igi sembabiiniciy cise mrace.--Day hadiovening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—THE FLYING ‘SCUD, at 3 P.M. Mr. George Belmore. OLYMPIC THEATRE, 0,604 Broadway.“ CARIET Yat 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 Matinee at 2 P.M. PARK THEATRI Broadway and Freaty.sepoad street. SEMUm MIGHTY DOL- Lab, at3P.M. Mr. and Mrs Florence. GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnum’s ‘Hippodro PLAND POPULAR CON- ‘CERT, at 8 P.M. ; closes ai METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, rt West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. to 5 TIVOLI THEATRI Eighth street, near Third avenue. Ay hlitery, at 8 P.M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Twenty sighth street, near Broadway. —OUR BOYS, at 8 P.M. ; loses at 10:20 P. M. WHEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 6, 1875.-QUADRUPLE SHEEY. H Wenden Phillips in Reply to Carl Schurz. We print two noteworthy letters by repub- and both addressed to the Legal Tender Club, of this city. General Butler’s letter is brief and may be passed without comment, opinio; in detail in connection with his promised address to the Board of Trade two days after the Ohio election. But Mr. Phil- lips’ letter is an aggressive answer to the re- cent speech of Mr. Schurz, and it will attract | wide attention by its ability and ingenuity, | as well as by the standing of the wr It side of the question. Mr. Phillips knowledge of the best literature of the He is not ignorant or stupid, like most of the | inflationists, but crotchety and wrong headed, with unequalled skill to ‘make the | worse appear the better reason.” We will attempt to apply a logical corrective to some of his positions. On the first of his main points Mr. Phillips’ argument would be specious if he did not misapprehend the fact on which it is based. ‘The fact in question is equally mis- apprehended by Mr. Schurz and the dis- | putants on the other side, and it is worth while to point out theerror. It seems to be -accepted as an incontrovertible truth that the actual money employed in commercial transactions is but an insignificant frac- tion of the ordinary machinery of payments, the greater part of busi- ness being done by bank checks. Both | parties to the controversy are misled into | fallacious reasoning by accepting this state- | ment as a fact. In a former letter of Mr. Phillips’, published in the Hrraxp several weeks ago, he put forward this assumed fact, and argued from it that an increase of the greenbacks would ngt lead to dangerous infla- tion because paper money isa mere bagatelle in the whole amount of the currency, which consists chiefly in bank checks, bills of ex- change and other forms of paper credit. Mr. Schurz made use of the same assumed fact in his recent speech, as a means of proving, against Governor Allen, that additional green- backs would not bring money into the hands of the people, since the first thing done with the new money would be to deposit it in the | banks, to be afterward transferred by checks. Mr. Phillips, in the letter we now publish, claims the merit of having first introduced the topic in this controversy, and says ‘‘if Emperor Carl could have afforded to come home a little earlier from his Européan fes- tivities and inform himself of the actual COLONEL “ai eae THEATRE, Brooklyn. TR ARIBTY, at GP. U.; closos ot 1045 P.M. 7 BOWERY THEATRE. Bi —BELPHEGOR, ot 8 P.M. E. T. Stetson. HOWE & CUSHING'S CIRCUS, Righth avenue sod Forty-ninsh street.—Performances day evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, eure ith street. —, WORLPE nitin’ 5 DAYS, 08 8. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Fnac t Od OPERA HOUSE, ree Sixth avenue.—COTION & REEDS NEW ORE MINSTRELS. ato P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. state of the discussion he flings himself in the middle of,” he would know that the in- flation side were aware of this fact, and were “the first to bring it out in this discussion.” Neither side seems to suspect that the pivot of so much argumentation is no fact at all, but only one-half of a fact, and that all this reasoning on it is irrelevant by oversight of the neglected half. It is true enough that checks are the chief medium of payment in the commercial centres, but it is not true THEATRE COMIQUE, Fo, 514 Broadway. VARIETY, a6 8 . M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee woops SRUM, Booted comer of street.—KIT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Motinee a6 2 P.M. Fru THEATRE, Nos. 585 and $87 Broadway ARARTY, at 5 P.M. Fourteenth seret od Bit Grenne—Disach ‘Opies oni i nl Boulle-MADAME ANGOT,U8P.Mo QUADRUPLE SHEET. Sees, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1875, Sao From our ‘reports this morning the probabilities arethat the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain, Tue Henawp sr Fast Man, Trarys.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hud- son River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tux Henatp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Watt Street Yesterpay.—At the closing price of gold currency was worth only 85.38 on the dollar. Money loaned on call at 2 1-2and 3 percent. Foreign exchange was dull. Stocks were irregular, with a down- ward tendency. Gold, after sales at 117 5-8, plosed at 117 1-8. Tue Carme Investicators are now burrow- ing for material in the District Attorney's office. The statistics of obscene literature, which are given before the committee, may well startle e reputable community. ‘Tuenz APPeaks TO BE some prospect of riot- ing at the polls in the Charleston, 8. C., elec- tion to-day, growing out of a conflict of au- thority between the Sheriff and the election commissioners. It is to be hoped that the anticipated trouble may be avoided. Tux Borps or Mr. Carman, the receiver of the Third Avenue Savings Bank, were ap- proved at Albany yesterday at seventy-five thousand dollars. The depositors of the bank may yet have something to say about the ap- pointment of the receiver and the general action of the Bank Superintendent in the matter. a Is exe Court or Oven asp ‘Trnanene yes- terday six persons were set down to be tried for murder and five for manslaughter within the next two weeks. This does not speak well for the condition of the city. It is to be hoped that energetic action will be taken by the Legislative Committee now employed in investigating the causes of the incronse of | crimg jp the metropolis. ‘Tag Frrrn Report of the Canal Investi- gating Committee, a synopsis of which we publish to-day, contains some interesting revelations as to the manner in which the State has been defrauded by the Canal Ring, and especially by the Lords. The report shows with what stern justice, irrespective of elsewhere. It must be conceded that hardly any actual money passes in transactions be- tween dealers and dealers, and if the statis- ties of banks and clearing houses covered the | whole business of the country the amount of | paper money in circulation would ‘be really of small consequence. But the truth is that a great part of the commodities which pass from dealers to dealers by checks are also twice paid for with actual | money in the circuit of business. Food and raw materials are, for the most part, purchased at first hand, with actual money. The farmers do not receive checks in payment for their wheat, cattle, swine, wool, flax, cotton, &., once im a hun- |} dred thousand sales, and the same is true of teamsters, who carry farm produets to the railroad stations or other points of shipment. Wages are generally paid in money, and nineteen-tweatieths of the retail trade of the | country is transacted without any use of | checks. The articles which are transferred from dealer to dealer by means of checks have been previously paid for in actual money for | raw materials and wages, and will be again | paid for in actual money when sold | to consumers in the retail trade. The drover, for example, pays money to the farmer for his oxen, and the butcher sells their flesh for | money, except toa small class of rich cus- tomers in large towns. It is only the inter- mediate transfers that are made by checks. It is, therefore, a great fallacy to reason on the currency, and estimate its necessary | amount on the assumption that transactions between dealers and dealers in the commer- cial centres is a type of the general business of the country. It is superfluous to exam- ine whether Mr. Phillips or Mr. Schurz rea- sons most correctly from premises which we have shown to be false, and which both have accepted on trust from some prominent Eng- lish writers. The use which Mr. Phillips makes of the recent financinl history of France and Ger- many as an argument against Mr. Schurz is | specious sophistry which will collapse like a glittering soap bubble the moment it is tonched. He asks with an air of triumph, | which have been built up since the war with superiority if heard thet Germany, ceived “one thousand millions of dollars from this same France, is herself in deep water, tens of thousands of unemployed men in her streets, no money to be had to start her mills, and one of her | Berlin writers complaining ‘We are in as | Great distress as if we had to pay thousands of millions instead of having had as much to reoeive.’” This will seem a queer argument from the pen of an inflationist to those who are conversant with the recent financial his- tory of these two countries. The fact is that France has steadily and largely contracted her currency since the war, aud is, neverthe- porgens of the Governor's Commis- Soaks axe petiorning the unthenkful but msoful task allotted to thenme ee less, in the state of recuperating prosperity lican inflationists, one written by Mr. Wen- | dell Phillips, the other by General Butler, | as there will be an opportunity to review his | is designed to counteract the great effect of | cent financial movements in Germany as to Mr. Schurz’s speech on the public mind, and | is the ablest argument yet made on that | | of Germany is engaged in a gigantic experi- is | ment of changing her metallic currency from equipped for such a controversy by his | silver to gold and of suppressing all bank | notes of a lower denomination than one hun- subject and his wonderful facility in per- | verting and misapplying economic truths. | | tlement and has been the cause of as much | Mr. | friends to have recognized this, and to recog- | love of honest sport, racing, seamanship, ae if he were exploding his opponent, if | Mr. Schurz has never heard of the sound | condition of French finance and industry | an irredeemable paper currency. THe also asks with the same offensive air of | Mr. Schurz has never | thoroughly English amusement attained having just re- | | many, in spite of the enormous infiux of money, is in commercial distress. A gentle- | man so intelligent as Mr. Phillips should be ashamed to put forth flimsy sophistries which can impose on nobody acquainted with the facts. If an expansion of the cur- rency is the true remedy for our evils let Mr. | Phillips explain why France has recovered her prosperity during a steady and large contraction, If an expansion of the eur- rency has a salutary effect let him tell us | why Germany is in trouble, when, accord- | ing to his own account, her circulating medium has been swelled by a thousand | millions of dollars. Mr. Phillips seems. to have attended as little to the details of re- those of France, The imperial government dred marks, or about twenty dollars. In January last there were one hundred and thirty-five million dollars of small notes in circulation in the German Empire. The business condition of Germany is mainly owing to these great changes which are still in progress, and it is mere irrelevance to cite that country on either side of our controversy. The circumstances are so different that it has no proper application. It is easy to imagine what a disturbance would be caused in this country by the suppression of all paper cur- rency of a lower denomination than our double eagles; but as nothing of this sort is proposed it is idle to drag Germany into our controversy at all. Ifwe could permit our- selyes to treat Mr. Phillips as discourteously as he treats Mr. Schurz we might characterize this branch of his argument with expressive | epithets. We will only say that it is unworthy of a gentleman of his intelligence. Mr. Phillips has an easier command of amusing figures of speech than of sound arguments. When he scoffs at founding the currency on specie by likening it to “Sinbad anchoring on a whale,” and to the artist ‘‘who, in drawing a landscape, took a cow for the fixed point of his perspective,” we can appreciate the rhetorical smartness ; but, for any purpose of argument, Mr. Phillips might as well count the daisies in a field. He overlooks the fundamental fact that money is a measure of valne, and that value can no more be measured by a thing which has no value itself than length can be measured by a thing which has no length. The precious metals have more stability of value than any- thing else, and are, therefore, best fitted for a measure of other values. A twenty dollar gold piece has twenty times the value of aone dollar gold piece, because it costs twenty times the labor to produce it; but a twenty dollar greenback costs no more than a one dollar greenback, and neither has any intrinsic value at all. It is perfectly ridicu- lous for a man to discuss the currency with- out recognizing the fact that the chief use of money is as a measure of values, and who perversely refuses to see that an oblong bit of green paper inscribed with a promise not meant to be kept cannot be such a measure. The Coming Yacht Races. It will be seen that the challenge of Mr. Hatch, of the Resolute, has been accepted by four other yachts, and that Mr. Hatch has intimated his willingness to sailas he proposed. This promises a fair contest in the coming fresh weather. If the breezes will only be good enough to blow we shall have some lively seamanship off the Jersey coast. The vexed question between keel and centre-board yachts will now be practically tested. This problem is as difficult of set- discussion as the formation of the new French Republic. Commodore Garner, whose pen- nant flies from one of the finest centre- board yachts in the service, deserves- the arin and improvement of the health as to the cultivation of the mighty dollar. “Entangling Alliances.” About two years ago, when Mr. Stanley re- turned from his successful and extraordinary search for Livingstone, he expressed the opinion that the work which he had so gal- lantly done was, so far as the geography and resources of Africa were concerned, only an earnest of what he might do, if under the same auspices he could return to Africa and continue the explorations of the lamented and illustrious missionary. Our first and natural impulse was to equip Mr. Stanley and send him out on his new errand. This has always-been the policy of the Herarp— namely, to do its own work in its own way, and without any other relations with our neighbors, except relations of courtesy and the partnership of the Associated Press. But there were certain considerations involved in this new expedition to which we were not insensible. Dr. Livingstone was an English- man. The English people were deeply in- terested in his fate. They had received Mr. Stanley on his return with unusual mani- festations of courtesy and appreciation. The sovereign of Great Britain paid him a com- pliment that had nevor been bestowed on a journalist. In any new expedition into Africa the English would feel more tltan an ordinary interest. It occurred to us, also, that it might be a gracious thing for an Eng- lish and an American journal to go hand in hand in the new expedition. Perhaps we were unconsciously influenced by the ‘‘era of good feeling” which the poets and clergy- men have been anticipating in this centen- nial time. Some idea of the effect upon the popular imagination of the American and the English flags going together at the head of a journalist's expedition of discovery into the heart of this mysterious, unknown and, ever-interesting continent may have naturally arisen in our mind. Consequently, when a proposition was made to us by the London Daily Telegraph, a journal of wide circulation and great enter- prise, to unite with it in the second expedi- tion of Mr, Stanley we consented. The al- liance was made. It was a joint enterprise, the glory and the misfortune to be shared alike; and Mr. Stanley went off to Africa car- rying his two flags with him, the flags of England and the United States. Our readers can, therefore, imagine our sur- prise upon learning by a private cable from our London office that ‘thé latest letters of Mr. Stanley have been used by the Telegraph without any credit whatever to the Heraxp, without any allusion to the alliance, and Canal Reform—Governor Tilden’s Polfey. With the object of depriving the demo- cratic State administration of the party ad- vantage likely to follow the energetic meas- ures of canal reform inaugurated by Governor Tilden, the republican journals, by an ingenions arrangement of figures, are endeavoring to show that the canals have cost more and yielded less im former years under democratic than under republican management. If the statement were true we do not see how it would help the republican party or detract from the credit due to Governor Tilden for his effective movement in favor of administrative reform, No one doubts that the State has been plundered through the canal rings by both political parties any more than he questions that the city of New York has been robbed through the Tammany rings by a combination of republicans and democrats. The leaders in the canal conspiracies belong to both political organi- zations. They have purchased State Legis- latures and manipulated State officers with- out reference to the party happening to be in the ascendancy, just as Tweed was aceus- tomed to purchase Senates and Assemblies with his stolen millions, without regard. to the political complexion of those bodies. Thes fact that both political. organizations have proved themselves to. be venal and un- trustworthy only renders the action of Goy- ernor Tilden against the whole gang of canal plunderers the more commendable, and gives him an additional-claim on the support of the honest voters of the State. Governor Tilden has proved himself to be as determined a foe to democratic corruption as to republican corruption. Jt was mainly through his practical work that the old dem- ocratic ring was overthrown in New York, and that Tweed became an occupant of a felon’s cell, The success he achieved in the city he is now endeavoring to accomplish in the State, and the republican organs are wasting time in attempting to deprive him of the credit due to the effort. The folly of their partisan opposition to Governor Til- den’s reform movement is well illustrated by the fact that while to-day they abuse the Governor for his war against the canal plun- derers to-morrow they exhaust their in- genuity to prove that-those plunderers have been mainly democrats. Meanwhile the Governor has been steadily pressing forward his policy of administrative reform, and he } has not faltered or wavered for an instant because he has found democratic politicians in his way. The people are with him in his crusade, and, whatever may be their views of his ulterior ambitions, ‘they will certainly without giving us time to use them here in advance of the other papers. This despatch is so incredible that we are confident there has been a blunder. As we understand our cable it does not mean that the whole text of these letters has been printed in advance. Their substance has been used in an editorial form. If this is true the whole value of what Mr. Stanley has done will be at the service of such of our contemporaries as are enter- prising enough to buy a copy of the Telegraph and a pair of scissors. A good deal may be pardoned to the nat- ural sentiment of over-anxiety on the part of the English people to hear from the land of Livingstone. But there was alsoa nat- ural anxiety on the part of the Hzraxp to print the news for which it had paid a large sum of money. _We remember at the time that one of our keen-witted contemporaries, who has made great fame as a monitor and mentor in journalism, ventured to chide us ina friendly spirit for not having sent Mr. Stanley out to Africa at our own. expense, as we did before—an expense miuch greater than this of our international alliance. We at the time thought that our critic was in the right, although, like ordinary folks, when they have made a mistake, we did not hasten to say so. There is no harm in say- ing so now, and in quoting for our own edification, as well as that of our readers, credit for the manly way in which he has set the ball in motion. We regret for many reasons that the letters of our yachting friends accepting the challenge of Mr. Hatch, and the further letter of Mr. Hatch, were not sent to the Times at the time they were sent tothe Heraup. If we had known of this omission we would ourselves have rectified it. These yachting events are due to the course of the Times in criticising the short- comings of our various yachts. It was in re- sponse to the suggestion of its editor that Garner sent out his challenge, and it would have been gracious on the purt of our nize also the genuine, manly, Anglo-Saxon cricket and outdoor games, which has characterized the editorial management of the Times as well as all of our contemporaries. We cannot overrate the good that will come from the popularizing of these amusements. ‘The Duke of Wel- lington, as he stood watching a mob of Eton boys at their gambols, said, “This is the training that won Waterloo.” The seamen of England, as they tossed about the tum- bling seas, learned how to win Trafalgar. The newspapers which accustom the popular mind to look upon these outdoor amuse- ments on land and sea, not alone as recrea- tions but opportunities, do the community an unspeakable service. Such a service wo are pleased to acknowledge in the Times. The Americans are gradually adopting the amusements peculiar to European life. We see this at Saratoga in the boat races, which recall the memorable struggles between Ox- ford and Cambridge Universities, and which excited so much interest throughout the country. We see them also in the Newport steeplechases a few weeks ago, where a sudden popularity. It would not surprise | us if we found the game of polo, which has | become so popular in Paris and London, springing up here. The ponies which ere used by the players of the polo come from Wales, but we can also obtain ponies from Canada quite useful for that purpose. The game is an in- nocent one, not at all dangerous and in every way advantageous to those who seek ontdoor exercise and native amuse- ment. We are glad to see these amusements becoming popular in America, for they are necessary to a people who lead a sedentary life and are confined to the hard duties of the memorable words of Thomas Jefferson, “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with. none.” ‘Tue Darix Dusvque Telegraph will be found on file at our Paris reading room, in front of the great Opera House, Tue Broken Savincs Banx.—Bank Super- intendent Ellis has not yet explained why he suffered the Third Avenue Savings Bank to continue to impose upon the public and to obtain deposits on false pretences after his examination of the affairs of the bank had satisfied him that the institution was hopelessly bankrupt. An explanation from the Bank Superintendent is in order. Mean- while it may be well for the victimized de- positors to ascertain how far the officers and directors of the bank, who have been carrying on the business under false and fraudulent pretences, are personally responsible, in criminal or civil proceedings, for the ruin they have wrought. The officers and stock- holders who have squeezed out of the rotten concern since 1872 may yet find that they cannot evade responsibility for their official acts. The meeting of the depositors may develop some plan of action which will test how far the officers and stockholders of a rotten bank may venture to defraud the pub- lic without rendering themselves liable for the offence. Tae War or tue Doxtes.—The war of the Doxies seems likely to overshadow the East- ern question in the Connecticut Valley. The labors of Mr. Moody in the quiet town of Northfield, Mass., continue to excite the pop- ulation and to attract the attention of the Unitarian magnates. The views of the Rev. Mr. Sunderland on the effect and value of strengthen his hands in his efforts to secure a reform in the administration of our State government. Spain and the Vatican. Itseems that the note addressed by Car- dinal Simeoni, as a Papal Nuncio, to the Spanish government created a greater im- pression in Europe than was reported by the cable, and that consequently the act of the Holy See in recalling the Cardinal from his mission assumes a graver importance. Car- dinal Simeoni addressed a note to the Madrid government virtually demanding that the relations between the Holy See and King Alfonso should be restored to their ancient condition, when the Inquisition was an estab- lished institution and when the power of the Church was felt in every relation of life. He claimed also that all matters of educa- tion should be absolutely in the hands of the Church, and that the Bishop should have a power in these matters paramount to that of the King. It was intimated also that if King Alfonso did not consent to these demands the Pope would recognize Don Carlos as the legitimate head of Spain. The effect of this ‘letter was seen in the fall of Spanish secur~ ities in Paris and a general revival of the Carlist movement. It was plainly seen. that King Alfonso could not accept these de- mands of the Vatican without imperilling his crown, The anticipation that the Pope meant a policy of reaction excited apprehen- sions throughout Europe—apprehensions which we are pleased to see by the action of the Holy See in recalling Cardinal Simeoni, have not been justified. It is unjust to the Pope to attribute to him the folly of an overzealous Nuncio. The tendency of the Catholic Church has not been toward reaction. So far as we can read the declarations of the Pope he has recog- nized the wisdom of bringing the Church into sympathy with the people. The Pope sees that wherever the Church has depended upon princes it has been persecuted and de- ceived; that it has flourished nowhere so strongly as under free governments; that it is more powerful in America and England to- day because of the liberty of religion granted by the constitutions of those countries than it is in Spain or Germany or Italy. The ele- vation of an American prelate to the Cardi- nalate, the marked courtesy paid by the Pope to the government of Peru, the interest he has shown in the South American repub- lies, in Mexico and the new Republic in France, all indicate that he feels that his Church will be stronger by the support of the people than by the support of crowns. If the Pope should oppose the legend of “divine right” and ruling ‘by the grace of God,” and should proclaim the far higher doctrine that ‘‘all men are created free and equal,” there would not be @ crown in | | Europe in fifty years. Scaxsaie is to be again tried on the second Monday in November for murder, Tnx Great Powmns are indisposed to stand further nonsense from Servia and have given notice of their intended withdrawal of the the evangelical revivul, which we publish in the Henatp to-day, will be found of much interest. The champion of the Unitarian faith apparently is disposed to damn the Evangelist with faint praise. Mr. Moody cannot shake the Unitarian Church, he be- lieves. Indeed, according to the Rev. Mr. Sunderland, the Church has received addi- tions since the revival work commenced. Mr, Moody may do some good by making the thoughtless thoughtful and the irroligious religious, At the same time Mr, Sunderland does not place mach faith in the permanency of the good accomplished by the Moodys and Sankeys, and fears that the ‘‘reaction” more daily business. We think that as much in- } which Mr. Phillivs describes, whereas Ger+ terest should be given to the development of than counterbalances the temporary benefits of anab revivals guarantee regarding her rights and immuni- ties, A Cabinet crisis and the decided step of a change of Ministers is the consequence, Tue Janome Park Races Yusterpay, un- der the influence of a bright sky, a full at- tendance and good running, were all that could be desired. The extension of the in front of the grand stand has been found to be a desirable reform, Tux Lovisviix: Courier-Journal—Mr. Wat- terson’s brilliant newspaper—which justifies the hopes and the labors of its founder, ‘The State amd City Census. Woe print elsewhere » complete and inters esting acconnt and analysis of the results of the enumeration of this State. It gives some eurious pictures of the rapid growth of the State and the city in population since the first census, in 1698, when what is now New. York city contained less than 4,000 people and the whole province only 18,000, In 1786 the State had 238,897 and the city 23,614 people. Albany éounty had at that time 72,360, Dutchess county 32,636, and Kings county, including Brooklyn, only 3,956 inhabitants. In 1790 New York stood fifth in the list of States in population, Vir- ginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Massachusetts being her superiors. In 1820 New York stood, where she has since re- mained, at the head of the list. Ten years later New York had a greater proportion of the whole population of the Union than be- fore or since—namely, nearly 15 per cent. In 1870 she held but 12.53 per cent of the en- tire inhabitants of the country. We notice that in the State Legislature, un- der the new apportionment, an Assemblyman will represent the interests and wishes of nearly 33,000 people, and a State Senator those of over 131,000. Itis a pity that these con- stituencies could not be smaller. Personal responsibility of legislators is weakened where constituencies are so great. : Since 1865 the State has gained 23 1-4 per cent in population. In the same period this city has gained 49 per cent ; Kings county, 62 per cent ; Queens county, 46 per cent; Albany county, neariy 36 per cent, and in general the increase is in those counties which contain cities. The rural population increases but slowly, and in six such counties the population has slightly decreased. The hard times will, perhaps, drive a good many people back to the country ; but the great in- crease in manufactures constantly tends to draw population to large c@tres. Accord- ing to these tables in fifteen cities the popu- lation has increased in the last ten years nearly 49 per cent, while the rest of the State has gained less than nine per cent. The census of 1790 gave the State 340,126 people. In 1865 it had 3,831,777; in 1870, 4,382,759, and in 1875, 4,722,851. From 1865 to 1870. we gained 550,922; from 1870 to 1875, 340,092. Between 1865 and 1870 the city gained 215,906 inhabitants, and between 1870 and 1875, 113,823. In the same periods Kings county, which includes Brooklyn, gained thus:—Between 1865 and 1870, 109,097, and between 1870 and 1875, 185,692. Tue Unirep Srates Supreme Court gave judgment yesterday in the Lucy Armstrong murder case in Kentucky, which was taken to the United States Circuit Court of the dis- trict under the Civil Rights bill of 1866, the murdered woman and two of the witnessea having been negroes, and as such debarred the right to testify in the courts of the State of Kentucky. The decision of the Supreme Court is that the case does not come within the provisions of the Civil Rights act, and that the Circuit Court had not jurisdiction of the crime of murder committed in the district of Kentucky, merely because two persons who witnessed the murder were citi- zens of the African race, and for that reason incompetent by the law of Kentucky to tes- tify in the courts of that State. Tue Inprans iN Caurrornra.—An interest ing letter concerning the Temeculas, an Indian tribe in. California, and their treat-~ ment by the government is furnished by Mr. Charles Nordhoff to-day. It is one more proof of wanton outrage upon an industrious people for the benefit of greedy speculators, A peaceable and self-sustaining tribe are driven from their homes to a reservation in order to create a new market for contractors. Our Specs, Corresponpence from the Hayden survey and the letter of Senator Allison in reference to the Red Cloud Agency will be found to contain much interesting and valuable information. Tux Inpranapouis Daily Sentinel joins the company of Western newspapers which hava found a home in our Paris reading room, near the Gardens of the Tuileries, Tse Puswisuers of the Sunday Dispatch, ot Philadelphia, inform us that we were in er- ror ig printing their journal as the Daily Dis- patch in the list of papers on file in our Paris reading room. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lord Vanghan, of Liverpool, is in Cincinnati. ‘There are fifteen ladies in the Freshman class at Cor, neil, Mr. James Parton is among the late arrivals at the Union Square Hotel, Ex-Governor Rodman M. Price, of New Jersoy, ia staying at the Sturtevant House, The Cleveland Plain Dealer thinks the issue in Ohio ig hard money vs. hard times, Mr. Jerome B. Parmenter, of the Troy Press, is regis~ tered at the Westminster Hotel. Assemblyman Willard Johnson, of Fulton, N. ¥., a stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. General William Mahone, of Virginia, Is residing tem- porarily at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General John Echols, of Virginia, has taken up his. residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Henry Wattorson, of the Louiswille Comrier-Jour- nai, is sojourning at the Everett House, ‘A correspondent wishes to know whore Morrissey's. canditates for 1876, Moody and Sankey. Major Augustns 3. Nicholson, of the Untted States. Marine Corps, is quartered at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. D. I, Moody, of the American revival team, ar. rived in this city yesterday and is at the Everott House. Congressmen Charles J, Faulknor, of West Virginia, and Rufus 8, Froet, of Boston, have arrived at the Fifth, Avenue Hotel, Mr, Witham D. Bishop, President of the Now York, Now Haven aud Hartiord Railroad Company, is at the St. James Rotel. Colonel John W. Forney ts coming home to take part in the Ponnsytvania campaign He will spenk at Phila delphi, Lancaster, Pittabarg and m other cities, Transcondentalism Mts up ite over-soul in the Hub on receiving the news that Ned O’Baldwin’s last words were, “Have me burted m Bosten,'’ Gono to mect Em. erson. Sir Joseph Horon, of England, who has been visit ing friends in Massachusetts during the past week, ar rived at the Brovoort House last evening and will leavo this morning for Baltimore. Men have heretofore had bald heads all to them- selves, but a St. Louis lady has discovered that twenty. five ladies of ber acquaintance are becoming bald from wearing false hair, Hero is a good chance for the Fra ‘Press wan to say that men are not the only kind of hairpins thas oan be snatched bald-headed, Surgoon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army; ox-Governor Witliam Aiken, of South Curolina; Dr. B. Sears, of Virginia, and Mr, Robert C. Winthrop, George D. Prentice, can be seen by Kentack« ians in Paris atthe Henaxp reading room, near tho Place Venddme of Boston, members of the Board of Trustees of tho Peabody Educational Fund, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to attend the annual meeting of the Board, which | ig to be held at the hotel to.daw