The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —_-—_—— NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—-On and piter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Herat will be tent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Wwelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly fealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. WARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms ns in New York, pclae NOLUMR XE usgeietlaereess« es ca avs NO. 204 —— — AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. Sa FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Pek: street. near Broadway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 at 10:30 P.M. BOWERY THEATRE, Foe teees THE SHOWMAN, at 8 P.M. John om psoL. HOWE & CUSHING’S CIRCUS, | ba ‘ourteenth street, opposite the Academy of Music.—Per- rmances day and evening. Wood" roadway, corner of Thi ROAD TERROR, at Pw i ate Fisher. Matinee st joses at 10:45 P.M. Miss TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE, os. 585 and 587 Broadway.—V. ARIETY, at 8 P! M. LYCEUM THEATRE, ‘ourteenth street and Kichth avenue. aeremee Opera joufle—LE CANARD A TROIS BECS, at § P. M. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, BS avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets.— ABIETY, at's P.M, GERMANIA THEATRE, Bee ses near Irving place.—EHRLICHE AR- ‘ALLA THEATRE, roadway and Wine h street.—THE OVERLAND OUTE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. John Gilbert, iss Ada Dyas. PARISIAN VARIETIES, Bixteenth street and Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. DARLING'S OPERA HOU! NEW YORK AERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. — The Anti-Democratie Character of Tammany. We are more and more convinced that the democratic party of this city made a capital mistake in undertaking to reorganize and reform Tammany after the disgrace which fell upon it in the astounding exposures of 1871. Such an organization is inherently vicions and anti-democratic ; it is a thing to be abolished, but not reformed. The fact that it was capable of being used for such corrupt purposes as were accomplished under the Tweed régime is a sufficient reason why its existence ought not to be tolerated in a democratic community. The argument against it is of the same nature as the argu- ment against absolute monarchy. It has sometimes happened that despots have been just rulers, but that is no defence of absolut- ism. Power always tends to abuse; it is never safe for power to be lodged where it cannot easily be controlled. The mild despot of to-day may be sneceeded by the tyrant of to-morrow ; the despot who has been put in fear by a recent rebellion against his predecessor may not go to all lengths | while memory of past abuses is fresh ; but the evil tendencies of the system remain and will produce their fruits. Such an organiza- tion as Tammany cannot be reformed although it may temporarily be restrained. Mr. Kelly is not another Tweed, but it is the tendency of so anti-democratic an organiza- tion as Tammany to create one. healthy public sentiment of the democratic masses and of the best class of democratic leaders has always been opposed to such political cabals. There has never been in American politics an organized cabal so objectionable and dan- gerous as Tammany, although the famous Essex Junta and the hanily less noted Albany Regency bore some resemblance to it. The point of similarity is the success of | aspiring cliques in usurping functions which | belong to the people at large. The Essex Junta and the Albany Regency, by the inevitable tendency of organized political cabals to abuse their influence, became odi- ous to the people, and they stand as blots in our political history. But neither of them | sunk to such infamy as stains the record of Tammany. The Essex Junta, a clique in the old federal party which aspired to rule it, was quite free from pecuniary corrup- tion. It aimed only at political influ- ‘ence, and its history demonstrates that this motive is strong enough to sustain an organization which aspires to take the control of the government out of the hands of the people. Even if Mr. Kelly is actuated by motives not more objectiona- ‘SE, eee third street and Sixth avenue.—COTTON & REEDS KEW YORK MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. THEATRE COMIQUE, be Brosdway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Third avenue and Sixty-third street.—Duy ind evening, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Kew Opera House, Broadway, commer of Twenty-ninth street, BATRE, enue. > Rretish Opera— enty-third street an HE LILY OF KILLA! at 8 P.M Miss Clara ise Kellogg. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bee 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M’; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE, Brcatrss 2 and Twenty-second street. —THE MIGHTY DOL- tS P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. GILMORE R GARD! ble than those of the Essex Junta, Tam- many deserves the fate of that celebrated cabal. The Albany Regency is a case more in point, because, like Tammany, it main- tained itself by official patronage. It went on from bad to worse, until it was repudi- ated and extinguished by the people. The following extract from an editorial in the Heratp in the autumn of 1841 truthfully depicts the moral descent of the Albany Re- geney :—‘‘The shameless profligacy of the Albany Regency, and their coadjutors in fraud and corruption, the pipe- layers of Wall street, cannot much longer be concealed from the public eye. Let one EN. AND POPULAR CON- Yate, Barnum’s “Hippodro Cees s at 11 P.M. ERT, at 6 P.M; EAGLE THEATRE, Broadway and Thirty-third street.—VARTETY, at 6 P. M. rs METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Ee West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. toS STEINWAY HALL, ‘ourteenth street.—GRAND PIANO KECITAL, at 2 P. M. ime, Arabella Goddard. TIVOLI THEATRE, zal street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. aw YORK, mv SAY, OCROBER 21, parses Tue Hxaasp py Fast Mam Trarys.— News- flealers and the public throughout the States of New Yorke, 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 Tun Henan, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. From our reports this morning the probabilities gre that the weather to-day will be warmer und clear or partly cloudy. 1875, Watt Srngrt Yesterpay.—Rag money was worth about 85 Gold closed at 116 3-8 after sales at 116 5-8. Stocks were firm and petive; foreign exchange was dull, and money on call closed at 3 per cent. Drep, at St. Louis yesterday, at the ripe age of thirty-six years, Jack Rossiter, a once famous trotting horse, who ontlived the popular remembrance of his achievements, The paths, even of equine glory, lead but to the grave; but sometimes it takes them a great while. Flora Temple is now in her thirty-first year. ‘Tux Letren or Dr. Haves, the eminent Arctic explorer, criticising the Pandora's voyage, will be found full of interest. The reminiscences of the sad fate of Sir John Franklin and his fellow explorers contained in the letter will give an idea of the terrible difficulties and dangers attendant on Arctic exploration and the horrors of being hope- Jessly locked in the Polar ice. Aw Astoyisuep Assempnace.—Some three thousand persons were gathered yesterday, at Prospect Park, to witness a trotting match be- tween Mr. William M. Parks’ horse Prospero and Mr. James Weaver's Honest Dutchman. The stakes were ten thousand dollars, anda close race of great interest was anticipated, all of which anticipations were coolly brought | to nanght by Prospero, who distanced the other horse in thé first mile in 2:22 1-2, Gurmorp.—This defunct personage is cer- tainly the most exciting dead man they ever had in Montreal, or, perhaps, in any other | city; and there is yet a fair prospect that before he is comfortably buried arrangements will | be made in virtue of which he will be accom- panied in his journey to the other world by | the souls of as many slaughtered persons as ever enlivened a faneral in Dahomey, where fs man is hardly deemed respectable if two or three hundred cannot be killed at his funeral. tithe of their rascality be exposed, and not one man among them can withstand the in- dignation of an outraged community. The old Albany Regency was justly censured for its want of integrity and disregard of the in- terests of the State ; but there was talent and manliness and good faith toward their associ- ates in that famous body, while the present cabal is utterly worthless and contemptible in every respect. The slight hold which they now have upon their followers in the interior of the State will soon be destroyed, and then they will go into obscurity with the scorn and detestation of all parties.” This prophecy of the Henan in 1841 was remarkably fulfilled in a few years. The best feature of the fulfilment is the fact that the Albany Regency, a democratic oligarchy, was overthrown by the democratic party itself. The Convention of 1846 for revising the State constitution was under democratic control, and it made a future Albany Regency impossible by destroying the official patron- age on which the Regency had subsisted. It struck et the roots of that kind of cabal at the State capital by making all the officers elective by the people, including the judges, and it required the members of the Legisla- ture to be elected in single districts. A political cabal ordinarily maintains itself by patronage with which it can reward its sup- porters. The Albany Regency was abol- ished by democratic action, and the more scandalous usurpation of Tammany will yet be suppressed by the party whose interest it pretends to serve. We predict this as confi- dently in 1875 as the Henarp predicted the | extinction of the Albany Regency in 1841. Tammany is more anti-democratic and cor- rupt than the Albany Regency was in its worst period, and the democracy will sce that it is a load which the party cannot carry. The enormous pecuniary corruption of Tammany under Tweed has tended to blind the people to the political grounds of objec- | tion to such organized cabals. The impres- sion which the supporters of Mr. Kelly aim to produce is that Tammany is unobjection- able if it ceases to rob us of our money ; as if robbery of our political rights were of less consequence. But, except in the most vulgar class of minds, love of power and distinction is a stronger motive than love of money, and it is more danger- ous to public liberty. ‘‘Reformed” ‘Tam- many, even if we take it at its own valuation, is simply old Tammany without its pecuni- | aty corruption. Mr. Kelly is too shrewd, and, we trust, he is also too honest, to fol- | favor, it remains none the less trae that the filehing of power which rightfully belongs never hesitate to sacrifice their | people | property in defence of their rights, and a people would be base indeed | if they consented to barter their rights for pecuniary gain. of Tammany to say that Mr. Kelly is nota vulgar thief like Tweed. is whether such an organization as Tammany is consistent with the control of the people over their own affairs. It is one of the most Ifthe mob interferes again, as they threaten, itis evident that the mob will get enough of it, alarming signs of political degeneracy that a The | low in the footsteps of Tweed in his gigantic | swindles. But, with this admission in his | to the people is as indefensible as the filch- | ing of their property. A proud and spirited | It is, therefore, no defence | The real question | portion of our citizens seem willing to tol- erate Tammany if it usurps their rights with- out stealing their money. The fundamental objection to such usurping political cabals is that they deprive the citizens of the con- ‘trol of their own affairs and subvert the foundations of democratic government. It is no valid defence of Tammany or its alee: chief to say that they keep their ds out of the city treasury. History sup- plies examples enough of exorbitant love of | power unaccompanied by sordid greed of wealth or even ambition for office. The Order of Jesuits is a striking illustration. The members of that Order never violated their vows of poverty ; they were bound by | their rules never to accept a bishopric or any ecclesiastical office of emolument, and yet their rapacity for power was so great that they were banished from several Catholic countries, and in the early part of the last century Pope Clement XIV. issued a deoree suppressing the Order, which was rescinded only about sixty | years ago. The history of the Order proves that the love of power for its own sake is one | of the strongest of human motives, and ex- | amples of a similar kind so abound in his- | tory that we can easily account for Mr. | Kelly's passion for control without ascribing | it to sordid motives. It is all the more dan- | gerous by its freedom from Tweed's vulgar | thirst for luecre. Such a political society as Tammany is repugnant to the spirit of dem- | ocratic institutions, because it substitutes | an irresponsible oligarchy for the will of | the people in the choice of their offi- cers. Like the old Albany Regency and | like the Tweed Ring “reformed” Tam- many maintains itself by patronage. General Porter was brought from New | Jersey and putat the head of Tweed’s old department, that of Public Works, because he was willing to make over its patronage to Mr. Kelly, who needed it as a means of maintaining his authority. It is the method of Tweed masked by a respectable figure- head. Mr. Kelly also adopts Tweed’s method of packing conventions and dictat- ing candidates. Tammany under Mr. Kelly is just as usurping and anti-democratic as Tammany ever was under Tweed, although | its present chief has been taught by the fate of his predecessor to avoid the pecuniary corruption by which he fell. It is so utterly repugnant to the principles of democratic government that it cannot stand. Parties in France. Exactly which party is very well satisfied with the present aspect of things in France, and which party finds its good nature sadly disturbed by the same aspect, is well exhib- ited by the two speeches of French poli- ticians, of which the cable has given a synop- sis within a few days. To-day it tells what M. Rouher said at Ajaccio; day before yes- terday we heard what M. Thiers said at Ar- cachon. In the words of the ex-President, there was a self-satisfied spirit of equan- imity, which suggested that the feath- ered saviour of Rome was suspended at the loftiest possible point for his party. The republicans were better than people thought, and their full advent to power would not produce calamities, but peace and order and good government. From the ex-Vice Emperor comes only the heavy rumbling of a ponderous wrath for all men and things as they are, denunciation fierce and savage for Thiers and MacMahon, and a wicked world that seems disposed to take breakfast and dinner in the usual way, without stopping to secure previously the services of a very willing young Emperor. From these different tones it is not a violent inference that, in the judgment of these two veteran politicians, the Republic is surely gaining ground in popular esteem and the projected Empire losing it. Tae Canat Investications.—Another chapter of the history of the robbery of the public treasury under the cover of canal improvement schemes is given to-day, and continues the exhibition of the curious fact that financial talent is always arrayed against the public service and is never found in its favor. In the story of the extension of the breakwater at Blackrock Harbor it is shown that the State not only paid for cer- tain work considerably more than double what it was contracted for, but, further, that for this very work, whether at the contract price or any other, there was no need what- ever. How magnificently our finances would be handled if one of the sort of men who mancuvre these schemes would honestly take charge of the public treasury. Pusric = Iyiqurtms.—Commissioner Fitz John Porter was on the rack of investigation yesterday, and gave an account of the opera- tions of his department that taxpayers will, perlaps, find amusing. There are so many quaint surprises in this literature of investi- gation; it isso comfortable to find that the Commissioner regards his system as all that could be desired, and so funny to see him admit in the next sentence that it is very bad; it is so monstrously comical to find that Mayor Wickham’s father is a person of such consequence as to entitle his pavement to special attention; in short, all the course of investigation has such a piquant flavor of scandal in it that we doubt not the wicked public dearly loves to read it, and we hope it will continue. Enouand AND Cuina.—Mr. Wade, the Brit- | ish Minister in China, has given to the for- | eign legations his own account of his recent | | negotiations with the Pekin Cabinet, and, | ashe presents it, his course appears to be well taken in the interest of all nations | whose subjects trade with the Chinese in | | their own country. But it would be prema- ture to accredit England with a general cham- | pionship of the commerce of Western Powers until we hear what the Chinese say on this | subject. In their report we shall probably see | the peculiar kink in the coil which twists the negotiation in the special interest of | British at the rida te nse of other traders, Bavrmmone I Races. In another column are reported the events of the second day of the | | | Baltimore meeting. Their attraction is rather for those interested in the winners | than for the world of horsemen generally. | First Chance, Rhadamanthus, Shylock and | Minnie Mc were the winners, respectively, of the dash of one mile, the race of mile heats, the mile and three-quarters and the trial steeplechase How Our Taxes Can Be Reduced. Governor Tilden on frequent recent occa- sions has told the people that if they desire a reduction of State taxation they must send to the Senate and Assembly representatives who will be true to their interests. There is nothing very new in this suggestion, but it is good sense for all that, and is offered at the right time. We are about to elect a new Legislature in both branches, and while we can scarcely hope, with the Governor, that honest leg- islators can reduce our taxes in two years fifty per cent, they can no doubt effect a very great saving. The burden of taxation has mainly been increased through corrupt appropriations and through a culpable looseness in incurring liabilities instead of paying as we go. New York has especially suffered from this reckless legislation. Our financial policy for four years has been to postpone the day of payment and roll the ball of ever-increas- ing debt before us. Take one law passed in 1873, being chapter 756 of the Laws of that year, as an example. The first section empowers the Comptroller to issue two million dollars of bonds—(1) for the payment of any claims against the city of New York incurred prior to January 1, 1872; (2) for the payment of any judgments “which have been or may be obtained against the said city and county,” and (3) to make good any deficiency existing in any trust or spe- cial fund through the diversion of money from such funds by the Park Department for parks, The second section empowers the Comp- troller to issue consolidated stock of the city and county of New York for the purpose of “bridging over” as they fall due and extending to a future day the payment of the following bonds:—(1) Eight and a half million dollars of revenue bonds authorized by chapter 9 of the Laws of 1872; (2) seven and a half million dollars of revenue bonds authorized by chapter 29 of the Laws of 1872; (3) an unlimited amount of revenue bonds authorized by chapter 375 of the Laws of 1872; (4) the two million dollars of bonds whose issue is authorized by the first section of the act. Also similar con- solidated stock to pay deficiencies in as- sessments and outstanding assessments upon the real estate of the city. The third section authorizes the Comp- troller toissue assessment bonds to ‘bridge over’ and extend the time for payment of any old assessment bonds falling due, with- out limit to the amount. The sixth section authorizes the Comptrol- ler to issue one million dollars of city parks improvement stock, in addition to all amounts theretofore issued, for the improve- ment of the parks and the construction of an observatory, such stock to run for thirty years. This is only a specimen of the legislation that has prevailed in relation to New York city finances for four years. If we are to have any lessening of the oppressive burden of annual taxation we must commence by abandoning the “bridging over” policy and pay as we go. To accomplish this we must elect a better class of men to the Sen- ate and Assembly than we have elected for the last fifteen years. Governor Tilden’s ad- vice on the ject is more important to New York city than » any other part of the State. a The City Suits of Recovery Against the Ring. One of the convicted Ring thieves, James H. Ingersoll, a few days ago again appeared on the witness stand to testify in the suit against the estate of the late County Auditor Watson to recover the amount stolen by the conspi- rators from the city treasury. Ingersoll re- peated the history of the frauds and forgeries by which he and his associates managed to plunder the city. His reappearance on the witness stand revives the question why he should be allowed to retain and enjoy his share of the robberies. It may have been expedient to extend a pardon to him and to relieve him from the farther penalties of the criminal laws in consideration of his turning State’s evidence against his accomplices ; but there can be no justice or propriety in suffering him to retain his share of the stolen money and live in affluence upon it. Ingersoll, Garvey, and all the other thieves should be made to disgorge and should consider them- selves fortunate in being spared the convict’s fate. Tweed has been in jail longer than Ingersoll was; yet we insist that he must make restitution before he is suffered to re- gain his liberty. Why should not Ingersoll, Garvey and the rest also be compelled to restore to the city the stolen money they now enjoy? It is unforbanate that up to this time the city has been unable to restore to the treas- ury its stolen funds. The attempt to re- cover has thus far only taken more money out of the taxpayers’ pockets. In Tweed’s an- swer to the six million suit, filed last week, it is stated that a portion of the money assigned by Keyser, one of the Ring plunderers, to Jackson Schultz, for the benefit of the city, has been received and handed over to the people’s lawyers ; but we do not remember to have heard of its reception by the city. Where is it? Has it been placed in the pub- lic treasury, and to what account? If all the money recovered is to be swallowed up in legal expenses we do not see that any- body but the lawyers will be benefited. These civil suits are desirable, in addition to criminal prosecutions, because they justly take from the robbers the plunder they se- cured and which they have no right to enjoy. They ought to be pressed against the whole gang, including Ingersoll, Garvey and Key- ser. But if the city treasury is not to get any of the fands recovered such suits will not be profitable to the people however satis- | factory they may be aos a means of punish- ing the public robbers. Rea Estate Sates,--Some large sales were made yesterday, as reported elsewhere, Unlike the sales of the previous day, the prices had some relation to the real value of the property; but it must be noted that a great deal of this property was on or near | Fifth avenue, in the Central Park neigh- | borhood. Lots brought all they were worth, probably; but even here the prices fell far behind the fancy rates at which the lots have been held, and even far beldw the rates at which a portion of the property has previ- ously been sold. the maintenance or improvement of the | The Broken iieivinge Bank's Suspicious Propositions, The proposition to reorganize the Third Avenue Savings Bank, recently suspended, and to run it for the benefit of the depositors may be a good one, but it should be cau- tiously entertained and very thoroughly scru- tinized. An array of figures is made, in- tended to prove that the bank can be mado self-supporting upon its present resources with one hundred thousand dollars in dv posits added, But to this pleasing pro gramme are added the condition that Mr. Carman, the receiver, who has got his grasp on the assets in the interest of the bank and not by the will of the depositors, shall be allowed to retain possession, and tho announcement that no further statement then that embraced in the January report will be given to the public at present. As the January statement was fraudulent, de- signed to represent the bank as solvent, and as Mr. Carman is understood to have sanc- tioned that statement, some exception may be fairly taken to both these provisos. It is very evident thatthe depositors can have no confidence whatever in Mr, Carman or in any other officer of the institution by which they have been victimized, and that, if any such arrangement as the one proposed be feasible, it can as well be carried out by some other competent receiver as by Mr. Carman. The danger is that these tempting baits may be held out by the bank for the purpose of inducing the depositors to leave the affairs and the books and papers of the bankrupt institution in the hands of itg late secretary. The proposition only strengthens the suspi- cion that’ there are matters connected with the management which the bank people are anxious to conceal, All manner of injurious rumors are afloat; rumors not only of mis~ management but of direct dishonesty, which ought to be set at rest. The menner of Mr. Carman’s appointment as receiver is full of suspicion. After the Bank Superintendent, with a knowl- edge of the bankrupt condition of the concern, had suffered it to continue its busi- ness and enlarge the circle of its victims, the bank was allowed to steal up to Albany without the knowledge of its creditors and to get its own receiver secretly appointed without their consent. Before the swindled depositors knew that their money was gone the bank doors and the bank’s books and papers had been closed to them and they were utterly powerless in the matter. It is clearly the interest of the depositors and of the public at large that a new receiver, not mixed up with the bank, should be put in charge of its affairs. Let the whole trans- actions of the concern, and the whole action of the Bank Department in relation thereto, be brought to light. As we have said, an ar- rangement such as is proposed, if practica- ble, will not be retarded, but will be promot- ed by the appointment of a capable receiver on whom the depositors can agree and in whom they have confidence, and the first thing advisable to be done is to secure the removal of Mr. Carman and the appointment of a new receiver in his place. The Coal Combinations. Notwithstanding the abundance of coal in the great Pennsylvania coal regions, and the facilities for mining it and bringing it to mar- ket, the prices are extortionate whenever the article isin demand, not on account of an actual, but because of a fictitious, deficiency in the supply. There is no article of con- sumption in the country which ought to be so cheap and yet is so dear; and what is worse is the fact that prices are highest when the demand is greatest, while thousands of miners are idle in order that the supply may be kept as low as possible. This, as everybody knows, is the result of combina- tion, the market being controlled by the great coal companies, as if fixing the price of fuel was their special prerogative. Even great 4 companies like the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company and the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company agreed to suspend the shipping of coal two wecks during the present month to allow the other members of the combination to fill up the quota allowed them for the present season, and it is a matter of great complaint that the former company failed strictly to keep to its agreement. It is hopeless to expect, how- ever, that the prospective quarrel will not be patched up. The combination is too selfish and too powerful to allow any slight differ- ences to mar the harmony of their action in controlling the market. Having both the consumer and the miner at their mercy they will forgive each other many things before they allow the combination to be weakened. Indeed, we are already told that the com- panies will not store coal this season, and that there is to be a general suspension of production about the middle of December. In other words, the miners are to be thrown out of employment that consumers may be compelled to pay an enhanced price for coal. This system is simple robbery. It is unjust alike to the consumer and producer, and it is as contrary to the laws of trade as to the rule of morals. Some means must be found to restrain the selfishness and the wickedness of the combination ; and sooner or later the necessity of self-protection will demand legislation to compel the companies to deal honestly and fairly with the public. Tur Rixo Svurrs.—‘‘The old, old story” of how Watson and Garvey and Ingersoll and Tweed and the rest of the precious company pocketed seven millions of public money is | told again to-day in our report of the suit to | recover a portion of this money from the es- tate of half a million left to his widow by | Watson. Although old it is an ever startling record of the facility with which a great and rich city may be robbed when its government falls into such corrupt and abusive applica- tion of the one man power as appeared in ‘Tweed’s glory and is continued now in the domination of John Kelly. Tue Crvu Justices any Coronens.—In making the nominations for civil judges and coroners the Tammany democracy generally appear to study only the interests and ambi- tions of the lowest class of ward politicians. This year many of their nominations for the | civil justices’ courts are shamefully bad. The positions are of great importance and should be given only to reputable and eapa- ble candidates. In scrutinizing the nomina- tions of the different parties the respectable | portion of the community should bear these facts in mindy The Navy in Time of Peace. Fortunately the corruption which has brought into disrepute some of the civil de- partments of our government has not yet in- vaded either the army or navy, the right and left arms of what may be called an ambidex- trons power. These forces are equally pure and boast and enforce a higher code of public morals than that which is tolerated in the civil administration. Army and navy officers are required to maintain a high sense of per- sonal honor, and the esprit du corps hasa strong moralinfluence. No military or naval officer would dare to engage in such doubt- ful enterprises as are common in the Indian Burean, the Post Office and Treasury depart- Rents, the custom houses and Internal Rev- etme, and those who should dare to make thdr rank the basis of pecuniary specula- tion would be punished by expulsion from the tervice. For this reason the country appro'es the proposition to place the Indians under the control of the army, which would putan @d tothe present system of cruelty to our saage wards and robbery of the gov- ernment. \We have equal reason for pride and confidyice in our navy. It emerged from the we with our flag nailed to the masthead, brithter for the battle smoke and unstained by any act of treachery or fear. Yet there is a disposition on the part of the government to neglect the navy in time of peace. A well-equipped fleet seems to these alse economists a super- fluous luxury, unleg the nation is at war. Yet nothing more efectually upholds the honor and credit of theUnited States abroad than our navy. The reeption of Admiral Worden and his officers br the German gov- ernment, the services of theAmerican squad- ron in China, the scientificexplorations of the Pacific Ocean bed last yea, are instances of how the navy represents the lignity of the government and seryes the cogmon inter, ests of mankind. Now the Hatford, the famons flagship of Farragut, haé returned from her three years’ cruise in Asiaty waters. Although this cruise was generally wevent- fal the single service which the Eyrtford rendered at Tripoli was sufficient refuation of the theory that a naval force is not tgees- sary in peace. Her presence at Tryoli brought the full authority of the Unied States visibly before the Turkish authoritig, and was an important means of obtainity prompt reparation for the insult they hac offered to our flag. The navy in peace is not, only the conservator of the force which is needed in war, but it is then able to execute special services to science which no other arm of the government can perform. The return of the Hartford and her gallant crew to this port suggests an acknowledgment of the usefulness of the American navy to the interests of civilization and the importance of maintaining it in a condition worthy of the nation whose flag it carries to all quar- ters of the globe. Von Annm.—At last we have apparently the last of this case, which in its final flicker goes out quietly enough, in the approval by the Supreme Court of the Kammergericht verdict. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Professor Dana studies New Exgland’s glacial period. In Massachusetts they make molasses from water- melons. Mr, Rice, in speaking for himself in Massachusetts, has hurt his chances. Wild geeso are flying South, and Congressmen are filling up Washington. San Francisco has a one-cent paper; but one cent in that city is a curiosity. In Mississippi the supply of labor is far short of the demand, on which account much of the crop will be lost. Emerson says that Oliver Wendell Holmes is so full that he can write at any time. Lowell, on the contrary, * broods over his work. There will be a reunion of the Twenty-first Lilinoia regiment, at Parts, Il, on the 21st inst. This was Gen- eral Grant’s old regiment, The Cleveland Jerald (republican) says itevas the vote of the Western Reserve which saved Ohio, and that the vote was brought out by the school question. A Georgia judge instructed a jury a few days since to the effect that an officer who shoots a man whom he is trying to arrest for a petty offence is guilty of murder. ‘A cargo of whiskey was sunk in Lake Michigan twenty-five years ago. It has been recovered, and now the Chicago people do not like the flavor of the water. General Butler has leased one of his Capo Ann gran- ite houses, on Capitol Hill, Washington, to Senator Jones, of Nevada, during bis present Senatorial term, for a large sum. Ex-Senator E. G, Ross, of Kansas, has been ap- pointed managing editor of the Lawrence (Kansas) Standard, a democratic inflation paper. He has been setting type since he left the Senate, London Fun :—Old party (who stammers, comes ia for some ipecacudnha)—“‘Oh, if you p-please, young m-man, I w-want some ip-ip-ip-ip——" Festive assist- ant (fired by recent reminiscence)—“Hurrah !"” ‘The report recently published that Reverdy Johnson had withdrawn his offer to the Baltimore American, to plead its cause in the suit of Governor Groome and Comptroller Woolford, is authoritatively denied, Geghan ran largely behind his ticket, receiving 999 fewer votes than the next lowest candidate on his ticket for Representative, and 1,775 less than the highest. He received 2,925 less votes than Allen, and 1,424 less than Caroy. The Charleston (S. C.) News casts off the New York democrats, and says that the democracy of ‘the South and West must be pusillanimous indeed if they sub- mitany longer to their insolent and unscrupulous dic- tation. The following persons are candidates to succeed Hon. G. W. Wright as Unitea States Senator from Iowa: Ex_ Senator Harlan, Genoral W. W. Belknap, Hon. George W. McCrary, Hon. Hiram Price, and Hon, Samuel J. Kirkwood, Governor-elect. Colonel Jack Cocke, who was shot in a terrible ren- contre with B, McHenry, at Senatobia, Miss., on'Satur- day night last, and who killed McHenry with a knife after being shot, died at six o'clock last evening from his wound, Hoe was a prosperous merchant, and his logs will be deeply felt in North Mississippi. ‘The Sacramento Union, speaking of mining stocks, says:— It will then be seen that values have shrunk by the seores of millions already, and that even in dividend paying mines there have been declines ranging from one or two hundred thousand to one or two mil- lions of dollars, The question arises, therefore, it these were real values, what has become of them ?"” John King, in 1862, lived in Tennessee. Soldiers ot both armies raided on his farm. So he removed all nis produce to @ cave in the Cumberland Mountains. A storm threw down a rock which closed the mouth of the cave. Thereim he lived for thirteen years, in the dark, eating from his prodace and drinking (rom a spring. Tho other day a railroad company, blasting for ‘a tunnel, blasted him out. So says a paper. General Sheridan was given a banquet in San Fran. cisco last week, and in the course of his speech he re- forred to the Franeo-Prossian war. Ho spoke of the wonderful discipline of the Gorman army, and re- marked that had av American army moved upon the soll of France in such a manner it would have vaten up the entire country. He expressed his surprise at the comparative weakness of the French urmy, and, though acknowledging much sympathy with the Froncn peoplo, said he was disappointed in the lack of patriotism that was apparent among them during the wag,