The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD! _—— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Proreiegtos — 2 NOTICE TO SURSCRIBERS.—On and after Jannary 1, 1875, the datly and weekly editions of the New Youu Henazp will be rent free of posters. ——— THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic Modern Journalism. The appreciative obituary, sketches and accompanying editorial articles published yesterday by our contemporaries on the occasion of Mr. Frederic Hudson's lamented death were fitting tributes to the memory of aman who, so faras his old associates are eware, never made an enemy, and a journal- ist who, by universal recognition, had sin- gular aptitude for that fanction of jour- nelism to which the active part of his life was devoted. Our own sense of | Mr. Hudson’s character and services has been expressed by writers who were long associ- ated with him, and need not be repeated | here. He was ‘a man born to be loved,” _and it is gratifying to those who had the | best opportunities of knowing him that he | made the same impression on men whose ac- despatches must be addressed New Youx quaintance was more casual that he has left Tenax, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Tejected communications will not be re- sarned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STR J PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE LOPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, NO, 296 AMUSENINTS ‘THMS APTERNOON AND EVENING, Fourteenth street ‘oppos' formances day yep even! M, —-ROAD TERROR, at Broadway, corner Mins Kate Fisher, Matinee SP). M.; closes at at2 P.M. TONY PASTOR'S Nos..585 and 587 Broadway. — Bt 1230 P.M. KW THEATRE, KIETY, at SPM. Matinee LCE! mirteenth street and uife—LE CANARD A at wor. M, THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, hird avenne, between Thirtieth ond Vhirty-Arst streete.— PigseiELs and VABINTY, ut 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 r a ae Cage beige pagan, eet, near Irving place. RLICHE AR ban wer * WALLACK’S THEATRE, Thirteenth street THE OVERLAND joses at 10 » M. Mr. John Gilbert, jatinee at 1:30 P. M. and BP. Broadway Bre PARISIAN VARIETIES, Sixteenth street and Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M, Matinee at 2 P. M. DARLING'S OPE HOUSE, ‘Teputptied ctrvet and Binth avenue. —COTTON & REED’S NEW YORK MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P, M. Matinee at 2 P. M. THEATRE COMI Ui No. 514 Brondway.—VARIETY, at Me; loses at 10:45 P.M. Matinee a2 P.M. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Third avenue and Sixty-third street.—Day ind evening. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Row Opera Hone, Broadway. corner of Twenty-ninth street, ma SP. M. Matinee at 2 P. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Trenty.third street and Sixth svenue.—Enelish Opera— THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, at 8 P.M." Mile. Van Zandt. Matinee at 130 P. M.—THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. Miss Clara Louise Kellogi. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No, 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, at P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at 2 PARK THEATRE, yr. apes 4 and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- LAR, at8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence, Matinee at 1:30 GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, Jate Barnum’s Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON- CERT, at SP. M.; closesat 11? M Matinee at 2 P.M. Broadway and muiny-tiird quest VARIETY, at P. a, irty-tl treet.—VAI oe a Mane st?h. MS METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ae hes Fourteenth street.—Open from 10'A. M. toS STEINWAY HALL, Poarteenth street.—VIGLIN and PIANO RECITALS, at 1a) FIFTH AVENU eighth street, near Bi P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. 3 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fonrteenth street.—Gerwan Opera—POSTILLION DU LONJUMEAU, at 2 P.M. Wachtel, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. ZYKES THE SiIOWMAN, at 8P.M. Mr. John ‘Thompson. Matince us 2 P. M. GRAND OPERA MOUSE, of Twenty-third street and =e avenue—UNCLE FOM'S CABIN, at 8 P. M.; clones at 10:40 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1875, —s= eo = Sacer NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Owing to the present pressure of advertisements for the Sunday Hxnaxn aitvertisers are requested to send in their notices early to-day, in order that Usey may be properly classified. From our reports this morning the probabilities are thatthe weather to-day will be clear or partly cloudy. Toe Hera wr Fast Man, Trares.—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 Tun Henarn, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers ly sending their orders direct to this office Watt Street ‘Yustenpax.—Several fancy stocks wore higher. Money on call was abundant at 3 per cent. Gold receded from 1161-8 to 115 1-2, closing at 1155-8. One hundred dollars rag money at this price is worth $86 47. ‘Tur Prespyrenians are holding a very im- portant meeting of the Philadelphia Synod at Pittston, and over six hundred ministers are in attendance. Tue Frencu Assuwmiy is to be convened onthe 4th of November. A stormy session may be anticipated, as the future form of government will continue to be dis¢ussed while the present legislative body lasts. Wuex Lonp Densr Srzsxs on England’s position in Europe he is apt to express the | sentiments of the average Englishman on most topics of immediate importance. His speech at the Liverpool banquet, which we reproduce this morning, is an illustration of this characteristic. Taene Is No Reasox, perhaps, why Amer- mm manufacturers of print cloths should not send calicoes to England in competition with the Manchester mills, and if the fact reported by cable this morning on the au- thority of the Drapers’ Trade Journal is true, | on themselves, who saw him in all hours and | all moods through the years of his activity. His conscientiousness, his loyal fidelity to |every honorable obligation, his cour- tesy, not superficial and put on for occasions, but springing from the perennial kindness of his nature, are quali- ties to which all members of the press who were brought into personal relations with him bear testimony with varying degrees of warmth proportioned tothe intimacy of their acquaintance, but with unbroken unanimity. To his faculties as an organizer of the ma chinery for gathering news the testimony has been equally uniform and admiring; buta portion of the press has availed itself of what is, no doubt, a fitting occasion for expressing © critical comparative estimate of the prov- inee of journalism in which Mr. Hudson ex- celled. This is a fair topic of discussion, upon which we may, perhaps, be indulged in adding our views to those of our contem- poraries, | Even if it were conceded, as some of | our contemporaries maintain, that the prompt publication of important news is not the highest function of + jour- Ince | Nalism, the concession would not de | tract from merits of journalists whose | gifts lie in that particular direction. A great | journal, as journals are now organized, can- | not be conducted without a diversified as- semblage of talents and such a division and apportionment of labor as to assign to each | man the task for which he is best fitted. | Journalism is as various as literature, and | although Shakespeare could not have writ- ten “Paradise Lost,” nor Milton have writ- _ten “Hamlet” or “Othello,” nor either of them have produced the ‘Essay on the Hu- man Understanding,” it is no derogation from the credit of an author that he is great only in his own department. A newspaper employs every kind of talent. It owes its success not merely to the editor who sits at the central receptacle of news; nor to the vigilant domestic and foreign correspondents whose letters explain the news which they communicate ; nor to the able specialists who are subsidized to write on questions of law, finance or science when these happen to engage public attention ; nor to the picturesque descriptive writers employed on scenic occasions ; nor to the dramatic, musical and literary critics ; nor to the reporters of legislative proceedings and judicial trials ; nor to the industrious cullers of local news; nor to the corps of editorial writers ; but to the combined activ- ity of men whose faculties and attainments are as various as the multiform affairs of the world, of which only their joint labors can give a complete and lifelike picture. It hence follows that @ public journal is immeasurably greater than any individual man employed on it. We find ourselves out of accord with any tone of remark which implies that a journalist is defective because he has not shown equal excellence in every branch of so diversified a profession. : We also dissent from the estimate of som: of our contemporaries who rank an able purveyor of news below a sagacious expounder of its significance. It is the indispensable qualification of the director of a public journal that he be a sound and prompt judge of the value of news. How else shall he know what to instruct his correspondents and sub- ordinates to report? How elseshall he know what space and prominence he ought to give to particular features of the news, and dis- criminate between that which requires elab- orate comment and that which only deserves a passing mention? The part of a newspaper which requires the most consum- mate sagacity and comprehensive knowledge is the forecasting preparations for farnishing every kind of news with promptness, giving to each oa fulness proportioned to its value. To discharge this function ably requires wide knowledge of what is going on or is likely to happen in every depart- ment of human activity in every part of the world, and a man must have an intuitively sound judgment, as well as great knowledge of contemporary affuirs, to anticipate and provide for the demands of public | curiosity snd discriminate between oo- | currences which gratify a love of novelty and those which affect im- | portant interests. The editorial page assists | the public in estimating the value and bear- ing of the news; but if this estimate had not | been previously made by the director of the journal he could not have provided for prompt publidation of the news with suitable fulness and prominence. We think it a | narrow view of journalism which overlooks the great diversity of gifts needed for giving a perfect mirror of transactions. We think it a fatal misconception to assign to com- ments a rank superior to the news on which they are founded. We set little valne on one-sided opinions, | although they are sometimes suggestive, But if we were compelled to adopt any nar- row view of journalism, any view which NEW YORK HERALD, SATUR would curtail its ample proportions as a | universal picture of all that men do or think, we would sooner take the one-sided view of ‘the late Mr. Cobden than any other. We mention Mr. Cobden because the two of our city contemporaries which compel our dis- sent are ardent disciples of that great states- | man, the most modern of all moderns, and the most progressive public man who has appeared in our time the opinion that any single number of the London Times contained more valuable in- formation than is to be found in all the pages of Thucydides. We do not accept this dic- tum, which he probably did not intend to be taken literally, but only as an emphatic expression of his estimate of the wonderful variety of information to be found in a first class modern newspaper. We will dis- miss Thucydides from the discussion, and merely recognize the high value which @ statesman of Mr. Cobden’s genius and abilities puts upon modern jour- nalism, as exhibited in the specimen with which he was most familiar. He has not left us in doubt as to what it was that ho prized in modern newspapers when he ex- tolled them above the ancient classics. Was it their editorial articles? No. Although the particular journal which he compared with Thucydides is remarkable for the great ability of its editorial writing Mr. Cobden did not have this in view at all when he pro- nounced his splendid eulogy on the London Times. For it was his opinion, expressed with emphasis on another occasion, that it would be better if journals would merely publish the news without any comments at all. We have too much respect for Mr. Cobden’s good sense to suppose that he intended this opin- ion to be taken literally; it was merely o strong way of saying that the news given in a first class journal is altogether more im- portant than its opinions. Ho assumed that intelligent men can intepret the news for themselves. He knew that events of real importance produced their own impressions without comments, ‘To illustrate by a refer- ence to our own affairs, what torial remarks on the fall of Fort Sumter added to the profound im- pression made by the event itself on public feeling? The public mind is edu- cated chiefly by great events, which the people interpret for themselves. How feeble were the great arguments of Webster and Calhoun in comparison with the facts of the civil war in settling the question of seces- sion! We always recognize the same prin- ciple in literature. We skip the moralizing of a novelist to follow his story ; wo are impatient of a dramatist who substitutes declamation for action ; we pronounce a his- torian unskilful who cannot narrate events in such a manner as to make them con- vey their own meaning. It was proba- bly on analogies like these that Mr. Cobden rested his opinion of the inferior value of the editorials of a newspaper to its reports of facts. Mr, Cobden was wrong, but his error leaned to the side of truth. When readers of his grade of intelligence are furnished with the facts on any given subject they have complete security for every conclusion they want. But news- papers are not published merely for states- men and philosophers, and the inferences which these classes so easily draw cannot be deduced by ordinary readers without as- sistance. No person has a correct concep- tion of journalism who underrates the im- portance of any of its multiform parts ; but the characteristic part around which all the rest revolve, and to which they are subordi- nate, isthe prompt publication of news on all subjects of human interest. The Forthcoming German Budget. The deficiency in the German budget, ac- cording to the estimates reported by cable this morning, does not speak well for the financial prosperity of the Empire. There have been no sources of extraordinary expense during the past year, nor are there likely to be any in the year which is to come, and yet the government finds the expenditures to exceed the revenue by several million dollars. Notwithstanding our civil war and the debt of the United States, which was its consequence, a like misfortune has not hap- pened to us, and yet business is prostrate and times are dull in a great measure be- cause of the national burdens. Were the revenues so far unequal to the demands upon the Treasury we should begin to talk without reserve of impending ruin and in- evitable' bankruptcy. In a time of peace, with all the machinery of the Em- pire in operation and the country as prosperous as it can expect to be under present conditions, Germany is ranning behindhand at this fearful rate, What, then, would be the result should Ger- many go to war anew, or be compelled to defend her dearly purchased unity by the mobilized strength of the Empire? It is the vast expense of the military establishment, doubtless, which causes the present deficit in the estimate for the ensuing year; but with such a deficiency in time of peace it is easy to predict what it would be in time of war. Evidently the Empire is not so strong as its friends hoped and the world believed. Tho standing armies of the Old World, and especially of Germany, are becoming too great a burden upon the people, and either the American system of getting along without soldiers will have to be acquiesced in by the crowned heads or Victor Hugo's United States of Europe may prove to be not so chimerical after all, Rervatacan Larmication.—The republi- cuns of this city held their first meeting of the campaign at the Cooper Institute last night, the principal object of the gathering being the ratification of the State and county tickets. Mr. Salem H. Wales presided, and the important speech of tho evening was made by Senator Conkling. Much enthusiasm prevailed, and the names of Hackett and Phelps especially wore bailed with deafening applause. Though this was distinctively a republican gathering it was not less a pop- ular demonstration in reyard to the necessity of keeping tried and faithfal public servants in the places they have filled so acceptably to the people, and it was still further proof | that Tammany dictation is to be overthrown. Mn. Frank Movston is not to be tried on the charge of libelit nry Ward Beecher, Yesterday a nolle proseyui was entered in this charge, and the indictment of Tilton was disposed of in the same way. Under all the circumstances perhaps this ix the best, for it would be wearisome indeed to have another Beecher-Tilton trial, Tur Caxat, Fravos.—The Canal Investi- it is indeed significant. It is extremely de- | with such a ballast of sound judgment and | gating Commission have published their | eighth report, an abstract of which, contain- demonstrated, as a new impetus would thus | Cobden had a just appreciation of one side | ing the principal points, will be found in \ of modern iournalism, He once expressed | another column, sirable that the ability to do this should be bo given to business of every kind, correct knowledge of modern affairs, Mr. edi- | The Coming of the Kings. The kings are coming to America—not merely their descendants who rule New York except during periods of occasional revolt, but real kings, who wear crowns instead of hats and use sceptres for canes and when they interchange visits say to each other, “Will Your Majesty take throne?” It is wise for these kings to makea personal study of republics in these days when monarchies are becoming more republican and when the greatest of republics has been for six years growing more and more monarchical. This is apparently the opinion of His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, who intends, with Her Majesty the Empress, to take an eighteen months’ tour of America and Europe. The singular spectacle is afforded of an Emperor asking his people to grant him leave of ab- sence, “soliciting the necessary permission to leave the Empire temporarily.” This permis- sion Parliament could not refuse to give, so we shall see Dom Pedro IL next summer at the Centennial Exhibition, In his own courteous language he wishes to “improve the opportunity to be present at the opening of the Exhibition in Philadelphia and to learn and witness the developments of the great nation.” The Americans will appre- ciate this compliment. ‘He that plays the King shall be welcome; His Majesty shall have tribute of us.” ‘The other king who is likely to be one of our royal guests is not yet a king, but will be one, like Macbeth, hereaf- ter. This is Frederick William of Prussia, the Crown Prince, who has not yet, we are sorry to be informed, finally decided upon the visit. It is a matter for his own decision, for he does not need, we believe, to ask per- mission of the Reichstag. He should not fail to come, for his visit would do much to strengthen the cordial feelings that exist be- tween Germany and the United States, He would visit New York, the third city in the world in German population ; he would see our progress expressed in the Centennial Exhibition, and would be universally re- ceived with republican hospitality. We trust that le will let nothing prevent the visit except a war in Europe. In that case, of course, he would be excused. Others, perhaps, may come besides Dom Pedro and Princo Frederick William, and we wish they all could. We should like to see Queen Victoria, the Ozar, the Prince Imperial (with- out a crown at present), King Victor Em- manuel of Italy, the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and all the little ‘kings whose names we do not just now remember, but which can be found in the royal direc- tory—happily assembled in Philadelphia There they might see the flower of republi- canism unfolded, the fruits of freedom gar- nered, and would have the novel experience of shaking hands with a President as power- fulas the most powerful of them, and not the less monarch becanse he has the sub- stance without the title. The Rejection of Jarvis Lord, The advantage of not having a secret or- ganization like Tammany Hall at the head of the democratic party is illustrated by the ac- tion of the Democratic Convention of the ‘Twenty-eighth Senatorial district on Thurs- day last. Jarvis Lord is all-powerful in the district. His wealth and patronage are freely used for political purposes. With amazing effrontery his name was proposed for renom- ination for the Senate, but the Convention indignantly rejected it and nominated Mr. Lamberton in his place. According to John Kelly's essay on political morality Tam- many Hall would have been compelled to renominate Jarvis Lord as they renominated Kelly’s predecessor, William M. Tweed, after his rascality became known, because he was powerful in the district and his rejection would have tended to disorganize the party. Mr. Kelly is no doubt correct in his state- ments. He knows Tammany well and is familiar with the policy which prevailed un- der Tweed and other rulers, and which he is himself compelled to pursue. When he tells us that for ten good nominations Tammany is forced to accept two bad ones, and that in some districtstheruffianly element must be suffered to control the selection of judges, legislators, aldermen and coroners, in order that the “organization” may not be injured, he speaks only a truth self-evident from the very character of that organization. To make his rule over it secure he must have willing and ready tools. To get ready and will- ing tools he must throw them here and there the bone for which they clamor, and hence his naive admission that Tammany is forced to swallow bad candidates in some districts in order to “‘keep things straight.” In the Twenty-eighth Senatorial district there is no Tammany Hall to hold a secret but overmastering power over nominations and to force the democracy into placing | “slated” candidates in the field. So Jarvis Lord was rejected. The action of the Con- vention was dictated by a sense of propriety which must gain general approval. Senator Lord’s connection with the alleged fraudu- lent canal contracts and work demanded that he should stand aside, at all events pending the investigations inaugurated by Governor Tilden. But had his district been a Tammany district, according to John Kelly he would have been renominated in order to preserve the harmony of the organization, Ler No Gumry Man Escars.—Some time ago a whiskey swindler intimated to the revenue collectors, who had pressed him | closely, that if they cared for their valuable places they would leave him alone; hinted, in fact, with the generous spirit sometimes found in people of the sort, that he did not want to hurt them nor do any act that men | of nice discrimination would regard as un- | handsome, but that if forced to defend him- self he would exhibit the possession of a capacity to remove from office all persons who might prove obstinately inimical to his | little games. Was thata slander? It ap- | peared so, for when the news of this hint | sum of twenty-seven thousand dollars where went to Washington General Grant addressed | to the collectors instructions aimed at this | device of the enemy, and specifically said they must ‘let no guilty man escape.” Now there are allegations that certain swindlers boast the protection of a person named Casey, and it will be seen whether this is to | save the gnilty. ‘ | gers and they brought more baggage this DAY, OCTOBER 23, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. escape. This is an old story, however, as are most of the other allegations of the wit- nesses ; but so much idiomatic English was employed on the occasion that our report this morning will be read with great interest. The Suits Against the Ring and the Keyser Assignment. There now appears to be a good prospect of recovering some half a million dollars of the city’s stolen money from the estate of the late James Watson, who as County Auditor ‘Was one of the principal partners in the con- Spiracy of the Tammany rulers and their ac- complices to rob the city treasury. Watson was killed by an accident when the Ring ruled the city, and the occurrence caused a panic in Tammany circles at that time; but his death should be no bar to the recovery of his share of the plun- der, In like manner the long impris- onment of Tweed, the short imprison- ment of Ingersoll and the evidence given by Garvey should be no bar to the recovery of their portions of the stolen moneys, Inger- solland Garvey have both confessed their criminal acts, and by their hasty assignments and tho fictitious sales of their property to relatives and friends when their robberies were first detected they have pointed out where the booty is to be found. The city’s lawyers should take possession of it at once, for neither Governor nor counsel has any right to suffer the thieves to retain possession of the people's stolen funds. Any one of the gang, by turning State’s evidence, may save himself from a felon’s cell, provided he is ac- cepted as the people's witness; but the money in his pocket belongs to those he has robbed, and no other persons can give him authority to keep it, A million or a million and a half of dollars ought to be recovered from Ingersoll and Garvey. More than this amount of the wealth on which they are now living in afflu- ence belongs to the city. Tweed and the other conspirators against whom suits aro pending, and who can be proved to have shared in the plunder, might then be in- duced to restore a sufficiency to cover the balance of the city’s claim, with interest, and the expenses to which the people have been put in the several prosecutions, This done, there might be some reason in the pleas for mercy to Tammany’s late ruler which are constantly being made, As to Keyser's share in the plunder, it has been stated that the money has been realized on a portion of the securities and property assigned by him to Mr. Jackson 8. Schultz for the benefit of the city. We do not remember to have heard of the restoration of any of this money to the city treasurer, and it is not publicly known how much has been received. Prob- ably the lawyers engaged in the suits on behalf of the people can furnish the informa- tion. It would certainly be interesting in- telligence for the taxpayers of New York, who have a right to know what progress is | being made toward the recovery of their | stolen money. If any rents or interest under | the assignment have gone into Mr. Schultz’s hands he has of course made the same over to somebody on behalf of the city. Probably it would be well for him to publish a state- ment of the exact condition of the trust, Contempt of Court. Mr. Shafer has pronounced on the scene of his offence a manly and straightforward apol- ogy for the improper expressions he used in reference to Judge Davis. All must rejoice at this who perceive the importance of the retention of a proper tone in the public ser- vice, It is one of the vices of democracy that it is unduly jealous of every superior- ity and every dignity, and that it tends to the too liberal assertion not merely that one man is as good as another, but also that one man is as bad as another—the declaration of a wide equality of all with the worst. Out of this comes that ready freedom of defama- tion in the operation of which no name is spared and no allegation of bad motives is withheld. With the uninstructed many this is natural; with a licentious press it is a pol- icy; but, if lawyers are to fall into the habit of thus vilifying the very judges before whom they plead their cases, what is to re- sult but a further encouragement of the peo- ple in the pursuit of this bad tendency? In some countries these cases are dealt with very vigorously, and the dignity of courts is maintained by the punishment of uncalled for expressions derogatory to their characters; but this is a point of great difficulty with us, because of the assumption that public opinion is a final tribunal before which judges and all must come, and the further assumption that the utterance of any man's spleen is public opin- ion. Mr. Shafer has done a good thing, therefore, in his apology. He acted certainly on a precedent established by the Judge of whom he spoke, who could not justly complain of what was said becanse he has shown flagrantly his opinion that judges are not to hold themselves superior to criticism. But, despite the precedent, the course is a bad one, and it is in all respects praiseworthy that the offender has seen and boldly rec- ognized this fuct. Sricots anp Buxonones IN THE Custom | Hovss.—It is evident that some public money dribbles away at the Custom House spigots. One of the spigots not tight has | evidently been the collection of revenue on assengers’ baggage at this port. There is P | some reason to believe that the Treasury has | sometimes lost by that loose tap the startling sum of eleven thousand dollars in a single month, This loss is not authenticated, and we trust that further investigation may re. duce the amount and thus relieve the natu- ral anxiety of foreign holders of government bonds. It appears that in September of this year the government coll d, bya more vigilant scrutiny of people's baggage, the last year it only collected sixteen thousand | dollars. Perhaps there were more passen- | year, but perhaps this was a legitimate | | Acconprxa ro tHe Testimony taken before | the Assembly Committee on Crime yester- day the authorities at the Sing Sing Prison | | have a naive way of allowing prisoners to | result of the brilliant policy of impertinence, In the meantime we notice that, while the whole Treasury Department has concen- trated its efforts to prevent the dribble at this spigot, the proper persons seem to have forgottenthe bunghole, and the estimate of goods smuggled by official connivance with one smuggler is four million dollars. * | doubt } and Shall We Investigate Investigation? It appears that there are fow things which goto make up the stock in trade of a political party that are so cheap as whitewash or that repays more handsomely a judicious in- vestment. In the late report of the Indian frauds exposed ‘by our correspondents, by Professor Marsh and others, we are to have an illustration of these truths. No person capable of comprehending ordinary facts, who has watched the history of these ex- posures, doubts or can doubt that the allega- tions of fraud were true or that they rathe under than overstated the rognery. In- deed the case was so clear that General Grant himself recognized the facts, and finally acknowledged by his action that he. must even yield to public opinion his personal disposition in favor of one of the delinquents, But behold! now they have all been beauti- fully covered with whitewash, so well put on that people at a distance might believe it the resplendent purity of their official robes. In fact, investigations in the control of people interested in the offenders is a foolish farce in any and every case—only one more wriggle of the same rogues. ‘ The Shooting Season. With us the shooting season comes at any time in the year, but we do not commonly, as has just happened, find three cases in one day's paper. Andrews went out with his gun in Arkansas, and the only game that came along was a doctor, who was brought down with a single barrel. He asked An- drews to help him up, which this amiable person did and then blew off his head with the other barrel. If there is any man whose taste for sport would clamor for more than this he must be a thorough glutton, Griffin, of Nashville, Tenn., and Allison, his friend, went out with their little revolvers. They met Colonel House, into whom Griffin put the contents of five barrels, and House's son, who only got the contents of a single barrel—perhaps because he was a little fel« Jow. Allison skirmished around, but where he deposited the contents of his portable arsenal does not appear. Young Hicks, of Scranton, Pa., also went out, near to “Tripp's Ravine.” He saw something move in the bushes. It was, in fact, an esti- mable citizen anda good man. But Hicks thought it might be a desperado. This maddened his impulsive nature, perhaps, so he “whipped out his revolver and shot him.” Grand total, three dead and one wounded. Each person goes out with a gun on his shoulder or a revolver in his pocket, and if any man has a different opin- ion he opens fire ; or if there is a possibility that the approaching person has not a fine moral character it is then proper also to blaze away ; and presently people will no longer say ‘Good day!” They will only exchange shots as they pass. Tue Lisertan Trovpixs, according to a letter from Henry W. Dennis, the Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic, which we print this morning, are owing to the machina- tions of some Englishmen who are holding out hopes to the natives of British recogni- tion. There is every prospect, however, that the insurrection will be speedily sup~ pressed, and we trust the wished for aid from, the United States will not be required, Tuer. Wenz Two Mone Convictions of homicide, one of murder in the second and the other of manslaughter in the third de- gree, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday. In the case of Callahan, the matricide, there was an exhibition of unpar- alleled brutality, and the utmost limit of punishment allowed by the law is scarcely severe enough for the crime of which this man was convicted. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Coffee can be cultivated in Lonisiana, Alabama and Florida, ‘The most important book since Genesis is “Logic for Young Ladies.” Five of the daily papers of Ohio holst the Hayes and Woodford banner. Senator Anthony owns two-thirds of the Providence Journal, which cleared. $70,000 last year, Senator Newton Booth, the statesman without a cone stituency, is visiting his old home in Indiana, Rejected loyer—But couldn’t you learn to love met Young lady—1 might if—if I never saw you again, Striped stockings are now tatted. Those that Cap- tain Cook saw In the Sandwich Islands were tattooed, Timber is reported to be quite plentiful in the Black Hills, and the miners will not have to go far to hang a man. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in this city yes- terday morning from Boston and left last evening for Washington, OW. HL RL” writes:—“When shall we have Indian summer?” Owing to Delano’s frauds there won’t be any this year. General Joo Hooker has left Garden City, I. L, where he has of late resided, to spend the winter af the Virginia Hot Springs. ‘There are said to be 1,000,000,000 bees in California, There may be one more or less, but for ordinary sting- ing he wouldn’t be m i * In San Francisco a Chinaman died ina dark sub- collar, His food was rats, While he was dying rate ate at him, He had $40,000 in bank, At tho Meriden (Conn.) fair last week It was die. covered that the barley which took the premium had been swollen unnaturally by soaking it, Lieutenant Colonel Hon. &, 8. Littlejohn, of the Grenadier Guards, has been appointed Military Secres tary to the Governor General of Canada, A Freneh widower says that when a Frenchman loseg his wife it is at irstadaty to ery over his loss, and ues 4 habit and finally # pleasure, phave just discovered that Cochituate water has been unwholesome for along time. A maa tasted some the other day and mare the discovery, Jonnre June writes that she did not really say that men were not iitted for the higher duties of journalism; ow the average Congressman turns pale again, The castor bean is eultivated in Kansas, and a castor oil factory has been erected at Fort Scott, Even the Weat is not without this pleasant and exhilarating bev. erage, San Franciseo hotel waiters are usually white mon who have gone to Califorma to pick up gold in the streets, Mut the new Palace Hotel will employ negroog from the Kast Sir Alexander T. Galt, the British representative im the commission which is to settle the fisheries question between Canada and the United States, has arrived at the Gilsey House from Montreal. “It takes 'em balf an hour to get the big English | eannon ready to fire, and by that time a fellow could dodge, heel ft aroand the corner and tuck himson away in a dry goods box.""—Exchange, ‘The New Orleans Times say “The question which will naturally arise in the minds of intelligent partisana ix, Ie the financial question of sufficient importance to risk upon that issue almost certain defeat?” Mr, Nicholas Chichkino, the successor of Baron Henri Offenders as Rossian Minister at Washington, arrived from Europe, with bis family, in the steainship Abyse sinia yeetorday, and is at the Clarendon Hotel, Springileld, Vt, has a co-operative factory, The forty-five people live all together im ono house, Mem are required to wave one-fourth thelr wages and womea | ono-wixth, ‘Tho capital increases $5,000 a yeas,