The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1875, Page 8

' * approach of danger all over the British | son to believe that the Grand Jury now sit- ting in + 8 NEW YORK ITERALD STREET. . BROADWAY id ANN § GOR DON BENNETT, JAM NOTICE TO SUBSC RIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henarp will be sent free of postage. welaaca A All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hernan. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, pean LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL..-.-----++- AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. | SAN PRANCISCO MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broadway, coruer of Twenty-ninth street, | ae THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, ‘wonty-third street and Sixth avenue.—PANTOMIME, at 5 MG. L. Fox, CHICKERING HALL, Fifth avenue and Bighteenth street,—GRAND CONCERT, wi 3PM. Von Bulow, PARK THEATRE Broadway and Twenty-secoud str: DAK, at5 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. I THE MIGHTY DOL. BUM OF ART, METROPOLITAN MI ~ Open from 10'A. M, to S fi, 128 West Fourteenth street. ACADEMY ( rst : ourteenth street.—German Opers—iL, TROVATORE, at 8 M NUE THEATRE, Broadway. —THE NEW LEAH, M. Miss Clara Morris, Twenty-ei ws POM, EAGLE THEATRE, Broadway and Thirty-third atreet.—VARIETY, at SPM, | STADT THEATR Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.—THE ROB E. ERS, at 8 P.M. GLOBE THEATRE, Noe. 728 oni \1 730 Broadway.—MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, as Woop’s MU Broadway. corner of Thirtieth street—ROB ROY, a 6 WM, closes at 1045 P.M. Mr. Joseph Proctor. 2UM, NEW THEATRE, VARIETY, ut 8 P! M. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, fhird avenue, between Thirtioth sad Thirty “Brst streets. — MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, at 8 LYCEUM THEATRE, ¢ Sixth avenue.—LES DECX OR- |. Parisian Compauy. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place. —LEMONS, at § P.M. | TIVOLI THEATRE, Bighth street, near Third avenue.—VaiETY, at 8 P, M. BOWERY TH Bowery —MARKED FOR LIFE, cCOLos: Phirty-fourth street and Broadway.—PRUSSTAN SIEGE OF aa Open from 10 A.M. to OP. M. and7 P.M. to 10 | OLYMPIC THEATRE, Wo, 624 Broadway.—VARIBTY, at 8. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —CASTE, at 8 P. M.; closes wt 10:45 P.M. Mr. Harry Beckett, Miss Ada Dyas. PARISIAN VARIETIES. Sixteenth street, uear Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. SHEET. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, Nov EMBER a = From our reports this ER eRe probabliies are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, with @ possibility of rain. QUADRUPLE co Tae Herarp sy Fast Man, Trarss.—Nevs- dealers and the public throughout the Slates of New York, New. Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Taz Heraup, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements Offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Watt. Srneer Yesterpay.—Stocks were dull and the market without important feature. Gold closed at 114 3-4. Rag money is worth 87.14. Money on call was easy at 3 and 4 per cent. | John Agnew would make ‘an admirable suc- cessor to Fits John Porter as Commissioner of Public Works. ASprcrat Despatcu to the London Times from Calcutta represents the Burmese tron- ble at Rangoon as only the result of the at- tempt of a band of robbers to seize the ar- yenal, and as having no political significance, By 4 Capie Despatcn from Madrid we are informed, on the authority of the Cronista, | that “the present satisfactory situation promises a favorable and early settlement of all pending questions affecting the relations with the United States.” We wish we could believe in the Cronista’s happy tiew of the situation. Tux Reronts rrom England of the de- struction of life and property in the recent gales on the coast are contradictory. It ap- pears certain, however, that much damage has been done, notwithstanding the excel- lent arrangements for warning ships of the coast. Tax Wiser Fravps.—There is every rea- » Louis is bent upon doing its utmost to bring to justice the parties impli- | eated in the whiskey frauds. The Henano’s | despatch from St Louis states that | Sicily ; | thing at all it means that there shall be the | to control the democratic party, and to hold | and ripened into Tweed. NEW YORK Tammany Hati—ts antaguatsm to Re- publican Institutions—Should the De- mocracy Be Governed by @ Secret, Know Nothing, Dark Lantern Or- ganization? Our contemporary, the Evening Post, has published a series of interesting papers going to show the real character of Tammany Hall | as a political influence in New York. These | papers confirm, in a remarkable degree, the arguments adduced by the Heraxp in its war | upon the one-man power of John Kelly and | its opposition to the attempt to reduce the great democratic party into a mere satrapy of an organization whose greatest triumph has been the enabling of Tweed and his con- | federates to rob New York of millions of the people's money. We see how a society be- ginning as the expression of a patriotic and | social impulse on the part of our fathers, who had stood shoulder to shoulder during the Revolution, and who knew the | value of confidence and friendship, could be diverted to the uses of politicians like | Aaron Burr, who at an early day took pos- session of the machinery of the society and bent it to their own ambitious and selfish schemes, It shows how history repeats itself with almost unerring fidelity. We see the society which served the corrupt and infa- mous ambition of Burr seventy years ago doing the same office for the still more cor- rupt and infamous Tweed. Honest demo- erats who may have had some scruple about fighting an organization that claimed to be “democratic” and “regular,” will be com- forted in knowing that men as illustrious as Alexander Hamilton and De Witt Clinton gloried in doing the same thing in their day. In the beginning Tammany Society was a proper organization. Its purposes were humane and in harmony with the temper | and habits of our people. It was the rival | of the old Society of the Cincinnati, which was open to the grave objection of endeavor- ing to perpetuate a military, hereditary system, which might have grown into an order of nobility or something akin to it. But there were seeds of eyil in both the Cincinnati and the Tammany societies. In the former the good sense of the members soon stripped it of its dangerous features; but the other was not so fortunate. The secret feature clung to it. Its members soon became politicians. The astute and unscrupulous intellect of Aaron Burr, like | that of his successor, and, in some respects, his imitator, Sweeny, saw the enormous advantage that would result from a power that was secret; that worked in the dark; that was not responsible to any legal influ- H ence or to any political or social tribunal ; that could dety impeachment or censure ; that | destroyed its adversaries in the night time, like the emissaries of the secret societies of that claimed to govern by clamor and mob violence, like the Jacobins, who com- pelled a reluctant and dismayed convention to vote the death of aking. It isa mistake, therefore, to assume that the evil of Tam- many Hall is of recent growth. It was en- | grafted upon the twig by Aaron Burr, and its | fruits were gathered from the matured tree by John Kelly and William M. Tweed. Looking atthe whole matter clearly and not through the mists ofa party canvass, how could it be otherwise? How can any | secret association that takes part in politics be other than an enemy of true democracy ? | The very essence of democracy is the light. Democracy means the will of the people ex- pressed without limitation or menace, openly, freely, before all men, with opporta- nity for debate and inquiry and a compar- ison of opinion. If democracy means any- utmost freedom in the selection of candi- dates, in the development of a platform | of principles in the sdministration of | its affairs, in the enforcement of that | gentle and fraternal discipline necessary | to the harmonious existence of any party This is the basis of all true democracy, the | principle of popular sovereignty propounded by the “glorious Douglas, and for the defence of which he was stricken down by the slave power, whose leaders were as hostile to pure democracy as Aaron Burr himself. For more than two generations Tammany Hall has been the expression of the ambition and the eupidity of men who used its machinery power over the sufirages of the people, the | patronage of our city and the disbursements | of ourtreasury. Taken as a whole the history of Tammany Hall shows that it has, as a general thing, been an evil to the democracy. If we go back to the time of Van Buren, under whose political reign the Albany Regency and Tam- many Hall were in alliance, we shall find that it has rarely been victorious except at the sacrifice of principles or hopes which should never haye been put in peril. Look at the | late election as an example, Here were good men in nomination, men who had a right to pect from the democracy a recognition of the ir services, their personal character, their desire to stand well with their fellow men. If the democracy of New York could have had an opportunity of voting for such men, untrammelled by the behests of a secret, dark lantern, Know Nothing Order, these men would have been chosen to place. But this was not permitted in any way. The democracy were compelled to submit to the one-man power before they could express their will. They struck it down, and worthy gentlemen like Judge | Freedman, Mr. Olney, Mr. Smyth and Mr. | Calvin, against whom not a word could be spoken and whose election would have been a gratification to all citizens without distinction of party, were defeated rather than that their election should be in any way an indorse- ment of a system»which took root in Burr If we search the ean were brought in yesterday, two of which were known to have been | found against ex-Collector Con Magnire and Mr. William McKee, whose wealth and polit- | ical influence, it was supposed, would secure him from prosecution. It is believed that General Babcock will assuredly be found among those who will be compelled to sub- | independence of the Bench. mit to a trial and that the conviction of McDonald is almost certain. It is to be | his party because of itself and not for selfish history of this most mischievous and dan- gerous society we shall find it full of the same examples, beginning with the time (nearly fifty years since) when Mr. Noah | broke its power in a municipal contest, and ending with the remarkable triumph of Hackett over an attempt to strike down the Clearly, then, every democrat who loves hoped that the investigation will go to the | motives should take part in this war upon root of the iniquity and that the persons im- | Tammany Hall. olicated in the frauds will be exposed and punished, no matter how high the social or | racy. Its leader, whether a good man like | them as a means to plunder the public. political position they have heretofore occu- Kelly, or a bad man like Tweed or Burr, is | Rapid transit we should have had years ago Ried As we have shown, it is in every respect an outrage upon true democ- as absolute as the leader of @ band of Italian | | nal whatsoever. | attack, whether it be from a convention or a Like Tammany Hall, that society met in secret in a lodge room. Like Tam- j; many Hall, it named its candidates in | their character or their ‘capacity. HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 41, 1875.—QUADKU PLE SHEET. brigands who take into their hands the power | of life and death as well as the disposition of the property of citizen and State. He is re- sponsible to no man, to no party, to no triba- He cannot be impeached. | He cannot be censured. Censure falls with- out effect upon a society of men who call | themselves Indians and sit in a secret lodge and know one another by grips and signs, who are bound by oath and compact to defend themselves from any public protest or the press. But one influ- | ence can reach such a body—that of the democracy themselves resolving to make the same war upon Tammany Hall that was made upon the Know Nothings twenty years | ago.. The cases are similar. Then we had a secret society for the ostracism of all men of | foreign birth and of the Catholic faith. secret, not.to please the people, but leaders, who parcelled out offices as Burr and Tweed and Kelly parcelled out the offices of the city of New York. Like Tammany Hall, it punished every independent citi- zen who did not fall down and wor- ship its leaders. Like Tammany Hall, it aimed to take possession of the country and to administer the laws not according to the constitution, but as directed by o hidden irresponsible cabal. Like Tammany Hall, those leaders were notopen to any censure or any criti- cism. They were their own masters, and | their ambition was to become the masters of | the nation. But in time that Order fell. Its | very name became a reproach. Its leaders | hastened to disavow it. They have lived | ever since with no higher hope than to sink from sight and memory their connection with the once powerful Order. The time is coming rapidly, we are profoundly con- vinced, when Tammany Hall will fall into the same oblivion, and when men who only yesterday gloried in the name of Tammany will think of it in sorrow and shame. A Few Questions About Hall, What is the Tammany Society ? It is a secret political club. Who are its members? Persons mostly without eminence in the community, without public desert, without claim to public influence or position, except by their membership in this secret society. What is their object ? | To rule the city of New York by controlling its heavy demoeratie majority ; and to con- trol the State by commanding the vote of the | city, With what purpose do they wish to rule? In order to advance and increase their personal and political fortunes and those of their friends and adherents. In what spirit does Tammany Hall rule? It proscribes those who refuse to serve its | aims and purposes, no matter how eminent they are or how meritorious has been their public service. It promotes and rewards out of the public funds those who obediently serve it, no matter how low and despicable It aims to crush its opponents and to advance its allies, regardless of character or ability. Long and honorable public service and acknowledged capacity have no claims upon it. Its leaders strike down the possessors of these, and they favor inefficiency and corruption wherever such a course promises to serve their per- sonal aims. A secret political organization is always a mischievous force in a State, and particularly | in a free State. It is certain to become the | tool of its worst members, and the more pow- erful it is the more sure it is to be controlled for bad purposes by bad men. This was true of the Know Nothing Society, and it has been conspicnonsly true of the Tammany Society. Why, for instance, are the prop- erty owners of New York to-day burdened with a crushing debt? Why are the poor obliged to pay high rents for uncomfortable tenements? Because of the misrule of the Tammany Society and the use which was made of this organization to electand keepin power corrupt men, the heads and chiefs of Tammany Hall. When we speak of Tam- many do we think of patriotism, of devotion to the public good, of economy, of love of | public order? Not at all. We think of | Tweed and his corrupt Ring; of public | plunder; of general demoralization ; of the most shameless and long-continued schemes for robbing the people to enrich the least deserving part of the community. When we recall the eras of reform and of efforts toward good government in the city we find them coincident with the temporary overthrow of Tammany’s power, and with some instance of successful resistance to its predominance | in our politics, such as marked the efforts of | Miles O'Reilly, of General Patrick Jones, and the overthrow of Tweed’s power. @ Again and again honest men have at- tempted to reform Tammany Hall and to | use its power for patriotic and good ends ; | and again and again they have failed. Nota few honorable reputations have been soiled in these efforts for purifying what in its nature is corrupt and corrupting. Tammany is evil, not by the accident of its politics, | but by its nature and constitution as a secret political society. It is of no use to try to make it honest, for it will not remain so, It | is time to abolish it, or, if the few honest members of whom it boasts, and who are powerless in the hands of its evil controllers, cannot do this, then it is time to fix upon it the mark and stigma of a political Cain—a murderer of the public good. An organiza- tion like the Tammany Society has no proper place in our politics. It is a mere | hole for political intrigne, a shelter for planderers, where they may, in safe con- cealment, plan their robberies; a means for controlling the people, for falsifying their | will, for robbing them of their property, and | for preventing all needed improvements. If we look around New York which one of | its acknowledged glories or beauties do we owe to Tammany Hall? Not one, The Central Park was created without Tam- many's help, and was nearly ruined by Tammany interference. ‘The streets and | docks were its prey for years, and were nearly ruined by its corrupt chiefs, who used Tammany | United States | through illness, and an adjournment till | Saturday next took place. had it not been for the inexorable detormina- tion of Tada to prevent every plan looking to this end which did not heavily subsidize the Tammany chiefs. So furious was their greed, so hostile were they to every improvement which they could not control, that they even caused the indictment of the present Elevated Railroad as a public nuisance, and tried to break down what time has proved to be a most im- portant convenience to the public. John Agnew would make an admirable sue- cessor to Bitz John Porter as Commissioner of | Public Works. Turkey and the Great Powers, Negotiations between the great Powers with regard to the treatment of the Herzego- vinian revolt have reached an important and perhaps critical stage. Some three weeks: ‘since we pointed out that these negotia- tions—the most importunt that have engaged the attention of all the cabinets since the Treaty of Paris—were in very earnest prog- ress, though the fact was kept from the pub- lic, and that the result would depend neither upon the afllicted subjects of the Sultan nor their oppressors, but upon the conclusions that would be reached in one or two capitals when the pressure of the negotiation at some nice points had determined what sort of hands were held by the respective parties to the great diplomatic game. It has fallen out as we hinted, and the case presents a charac- teristic phenomenon of European politics, thongh, indeed, it is rather the European politics of the older than of the present time ; that system in which the course of govern- ment is not taken from notions of the inevit- able ultimate attitude of the people, but in which cabinets endeavor to determine the course of history without consideration of the more important elements of national vitality. It is now recognized between the capitals that Turkey has no friends who can save her, and therefore that she must relinquish her hold upon the Christian populations now in revolt, and must be put in such a relation with the remainder of her subjects in Europe that travellers of the next generation will have to visit Asia Minor to see an Ottoman capital. This is what is really meant by the news from Europe that negotiations are in progress based upon the retention of the statu quo. It means that the negotiators are endeavoring to conceal each from the other their recognition that the continued reten- tion of the statu quo is impossible, and that they are themselves a sort of coroner's jury on Turkey in Europe. Their true thoughts come out more clearly in other declara- tions—the thought of Russia in the article published in the official Messenger in Octo- ber ; the thonght of England in the article of the Times declaring that the millennium would be near if Herzegovina should fall into the hands of Austria, Russia did not declare that the Turkish abuses ‘‘must end” till she was sure that none could dispute with her the ultimate results of that ending ; and England was not so fond of Austria till she saw that Turkey was in her agony and that this was the only Power that could be urged as heir to keep the succession out of the hands of the Northern colossus. John Agnew would make an admirable suc- cessor to Fitz John Porter as Commissioner of Public Works. Palpit Topics To-day. The Baptist pulpit will be topically repre- sented to-day by Revs. Osborn, Knapp, Car- lisle, Kennard, Leavell and Jutten, who will tell us how to win souls, appease the great heart cry, demonstrate that seasons of tribula- tion are the harvest time of the Church and areChrist’s calls to repentance. They will de- scribe to us some of the things that do or should accompany salvation in every human heart and life, and will present us a Scrip- tural view of the Christian's present and future state as founded upon the everlasting words of Jehovah, and make plain to our un- derstanding that impartation is the law of Christian growth. The Methodist pulpit will be represented by Revs. Terry, Lloyd, Corey, Nathans, Harris and Johns, who will urge the importance of taking Christianity into the home and the business life, and the setting up of Jesus as King overall. If this is done there will be no peril attending the hearing of the Gospel, and no danger that a Christian life will not pay. The yoke will then appear easy, and Carmel and Calvary will not be so far apart, for Mercy and Truth will meet together and Righteousness and Peace will kiss each other. The Presbyterian pul- pit will be topically represented by Revs. Kennedy, Phelps and Hugo, who will explain the kind of revival that we need and with which the Church will not be ship- wrecked, and will present the anti- Catholie position of people on the public school question. The Universalist pul- pit, through Revs. McCarthy and Sietz, will show how the conversion of the world has become the great problem of the Church to-day, and how certain great evils may be avoided or overcome. The Unitarian pulpit, through Mr. Alger, will define the religious and theological position of the denomination among Christian sects. The Reformed pul- pit, through Mr. Merritt, will spread itself over Joseph, and the Swedenborgian pulpit, through Mr. Giles, will teach us how to see | the interior or spiritual and real meaning of the Holy Scriptures. The man of fire, the pastor of Mount Zion, who gloats and glories over the destruction of mystical Babylon, will tell us how it is to be accomplished, and theancient Theosophy or Spiritism of the past will be explained by Mr. Sothern in Republican Hall this evening. Juper Benepict was detained from the Circuit Court yestexday The motion for an arrest of judgment and a new trial in the case of ex-Deputy Collector of Customs Des Anges will then be decided. Tue Question is sometimes asked by those | who are deeply interested in polities whether General Grant, in his Cuban filibustering letter to the Spanish government, was actu- ated by any desire to commit the party to a policy which would make a third term a necessity in the next canvass. We do not venture to answer this question, except to say that, in the event of such a nomination—— bad for the revwhlican vartw 4 Assessment and the Bureau of the Receiver | ments will be removed. Original works and How the City Expenditares May Bo Reduced. One of the greatest abuses under the city government is the system of day labor. In every department the public works ought all to be done by con- tract, open to competition, When the heavy payrolls of the day laborers, which are so many robberies of the taxpayers, are dispensed with, the most objectionable fea- ture of the political influence in the depart- repairs should all be done by eontracts given to the lowest responsible bidders. The inspectors on the part of the city should be appointed by the courts, as commissioners for street openings are appointed, or by some other authority outside the department by which the contracts are made. This would render less probable any collusion between contractors and inspectors, and would in- sure a more faithful performance of con- tracts. The needless bureaus should be abolished, some of the existing departments should be consolidated and a number of high-salaried commissioners sweptaway. The Finance Department should have charge ofall the financial business of the city—of the ‘Taxes and Assessment Department, the Cro- ton Water Bureau and the Encumbrance and Licensing bureaus. The business now dis- charged by the Department of Taxes and of Taxes should be performed by the same set of officials. When the assessments are being made the receivers of taxes have nothing to do. While the taxes are being collected the clerks of the Assessment De- partment are idle. These and similar econ- omies, which might be enforced without detriment to the public interests—which would, indeed, increase the efficiency of the city government—would save the taxpayers from five to eight million dollars a year in the city estimates. If the Comptroller will bring about these reforms, and we think he can, we shall no longer oppose him, but sup- port him to the best of our ability. Excrrtva News rrom Texas.—The Galves- ton News has a special despatch from Browns- ville, Texas, bringing intelligence of an ex- citing character from the Mexican border. A band of Mexican robbers, having made a raid into Texas and driven off a quantity of cattle, were pursued by acompany of Texan rangers, numbering thirty-five, led by Captain L. H. McNeeley, formerly a gallant cavalry officer in the Copfederate army, who has re- cently been commissioned by the Governor of Texas to protect the property of American citizens on the border. Captain McNeeley and his force killed four of the thieves, but before they could reach the river on their return were surrounded in a gulch. The Mexicans are gathering in force and de- mand the surrender of the American party, with the intention, no doubt, of tak- ing all their lives. The United States troops cannot interfere, but it is probable that Texans will hasten to the rescue of their fel- low citizens, and it is not easy to see where the trouble may énd. Captain McNeeley will make a desperate struggle for life, and it isto be hoped that he and his followers may yet escape. In THE Boarp or ApporTIoNMENT yesterday Comptroller Green offered a resolution in- structing the Corporation Counsel to oppose by all proper means the effort to secure a mandamus to compel the Board to raise money by tax to build an armory for “the Seventh regiment. The resolution was ac- companied by a preamble giving a concise history of the whole matter, but this, being for some reason objectionable to Mayor Wickham, was rejected by the votes of the Mayor and Alderman Lewis, while the reso- lution, pure and simple, was adopted. The Comptroller also submitted a com- munication favoring a general reduction and equalization of the salaries paid to city em- ployés. The subject was evidently distaste- ful, and, on motion of the Mayor, was referred back tothe Comptroller. These indications of adesire for economy will, it is hoped, be followed by the practical reduction of the enormous expenditures of the departments. The Board of Apportionment has it in its power to cut down the estimates for 1876, and should apply the pruning knife unspar- ingly. The provisional estimate is at least | four million dollars too high, and by treating the departments as business offices and not as political asylums fully this sum can be saved next year. Derxr Oxsrnvers think that the effect of the action of independent republicans like Carl Schurz in a canvass like that in Ohio, where they threw aside personal feeling and worked without question or even hope of recognition for the republican cause, will give them a powerful attitude in the next convention, and that the effect of this influ- ence will be to prevent the nomination of General Grant for a third term. If this rumor is true, and such men can only wield their legitimate influence to prevent sucha nomination, we can only say——-good for the republican party. Tar New Deverormeyrs in the Charley Ross abduction case seem really to promise more than any preceding discoveries have accomplished. If the facts as related in our special report are reliable there appears to be some hope that the boy whose track the detectives are now following may actually prove to be the missing child, The relation- ship between the woman in whose company | the child has been seen and the dead burglar Mosher is established, and this, joined with the fact that she is evidently seeking to avoid detection, gives color to the hope that the right clew has been found at last, John Agnew would make an admirable suc- cessor to Fite John Porter as Commissioner of Public Works. Tue Caprarn Generar of Havana went to | the field of operations against the insurgents yesterday, accompanied by two officers, rela- | tives of King Alfonso. It is not stated whether Valmaseda goes on a pleasure ex- cursion or a fighting mission. A Jony Was Oxraryep in the Scannell case yesterday, after five days’ labor. The jurymen are all business men, and will no doubt try the case faithfully. There are to be evening sessions of the Court unti! the ! trial ends. iets Sewerage and Drainage of the City. Elsewhere we give a full and instructive letter from Mr. Charles H. Haswell, the well known engineer, in which he handles with knowledge and capacity the problems within the sphere of his art ‘that relate to the bad condition of the city as to sewerage and drainage. It iso fact sufficiently notorious that the health of the city is exceptionally bad, when the circumstances are within our reach to make it exceptionally good; and while this fact is obvious the needs are that the specific sources and operations of the causes of our bad condition sanitarily should be pointed out and the remedy distinctly indicated. It is for the physicians to do the first; and the second is evidently within the domain of the engineers. Tast Sunday we laid before our readers in the convincing, effective and earnest letter of Dr. A. K. Gardner, from which the signature was inadvertently omitted, the outline and nature of our troubles with regard to public health, It was therein shown that we are practically saturating ourselves and everything about us with deadly miasmatic emanations ; that the made and undrained land on which so many thousands of our houses are built is packed with miasm ; that it comes to us on every breeze ; that we drink malarious water cooled with masarious ice, and live and sleep in an atmosphere stifling with sewer gas. All the evils that produce these troubles in- volve for their remedy problems with which it is the province of the engineer to grapple, and we recommend to the thoughtful atten- tion of the public the suggestions made by Mr. Haswell. John Agnew would make an admirable sue- cessor to Fitz John Porter as Commissioner of Public Works. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, * Jay Gould's father brought him up as a tanner. Colonel McClure has narrowed his columns but not his politics. Professor Seeley is engaged on a biography of the Baron von Stein. ‘The times are so hard that people are getting down to flannel weddings. Von Bilow says no person can be a musician who cannot see the sunlight. About half of Glendenning’s proposed Illinois con- gregation are opposed to his being their pastor. John Agnew would make an admirable successor to Fitz John Porter as Commissioner of Public Works, The story is that Paul Morphy, the once world re- nowned chess player, has become a hopeless maniac. Palace Car Pullman sails for Italy on the 24th, to su- perintend the placing of his cars on Italian railways. Dio Lewis’ nervous system is prostrated. Now, don’t he wish that he and Mother Stuart used to drink? M. D. Conway says, “There never was a fat devil?” Like Smike in “Nicholas Nickieby,’’ he kept thin, even on sulphur, Dr. C. £. Appleton editor of the London Academy, has just returned to England after athree months’ visit to America, Mrs. J. E. B, Stuart, the widow of General Stuart, ot Virginia, is now the manager of the Southern Female College at Richmond. “The American girls,” says Von Bilow, “put more son! into their playing than the English girls do.” Ho says that in America, “In California, ostriches are being propagated for domestic purposes."’ And now a big bonanza man cag have all the egg nog he wants. Fashion has decreed that wedding tours may be dis. pensed with. Young married people can enjoy their honeymoon at home and still be fashionable. General Roger A. Pryor has been chosen to deliver the annual address before the Washington and Lee (Virginia) University literary societies next June, A Wisconsin schoolmaster whipped a miss of six teon for putting up her back hair {n school hours, then he had to fight her brother, and now he is in jail, ‘Another warning to all who seek to discipline the con- trary sex. Miss Kimberly, a poor music teacher of Newark, N. J., wrote the very popular Sunday school hymn, “I Want to Bo an Angel.” It is only fair that she should thus be known. She made no money from the pieco. Now comes forward a Dr. Harrison, who says that the tables of death rates show that intemperate men live longer than temperate men. We have yet to near of a man who died from temperance; though Secretary Chandler is in delicate health, John Agnew would make an admirable successor to Fitz John Porter as Commissioner of Public Works. Congressman Holman has announced that he is nota candidate for the democratic nomination for Governor of Indiana next year. His withdrawal is to make Mr. Niblack the most probable candidate, although Generat Benjamin Harrison has very strong backing. A shark has to turn over on his back when he bites, because his mouth is where his necktio ought to be. When Paul Boyton was attacked by a twenty foot shark he lay down on his back on the bottom of the sea and laughed at the dish which could not get at him, The Khedive of Egypt has invited Ole Ball, in his tour round the world, to give a farewell concert at the base of the Pyramids. The entertainment will be in- complete unless the American “‘bboys"’ sit on the apicos and shower the shell of the fragrant peanut upon the crowd. Governor Rice {s invited to put a lady on his staff. Now there is a man who stands between popularity and domesticity. If be don’t put a lady on his staff what will the people say? And if he does, what will be the amount of hair on his head when they get wind of it around home? The Chicago /nter-Ocean finds the causes of the pania in decrease of circulation in the South through loss of Confederate currency; in growth and spread of popula. tion, in the taking of currency to the Pacific slope, in government contraction, in ocean disasters andina falling off of the tariff, A wild goose flew into Oregon, and its crop being opened revealed anew kind of grain. From the seod forty bushels have been raised, and the Oregon farmers are sitting on the fences with their elbows on their knees wondering what they shall call the new kind of whiskey they will make from it, Now itis logically proved that Nahash, who was thought to be the mother of David wasa king. Thug Nahash, Ahasuerus and their friends descend to the level of boarding house criticism. But breakfast boarders always would split hairs, notwithstanding that Nahash was better as a reduetio ad absurdum than some hash. John Agnew would make an admirable successor to | Fitz John Porter ag Commissioner of Public Works, Southern journals, while professing a great deal of magnanimous humility {n choosing candidates for Speaker and President, at thesame time affect to despiso the spirit ofthe North, The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutional- ist talks in this way, But we doubt that in the end thoy will make anything by affecting to be superior in | soul to everything else. Persons and newspapers who part their names in | the middle must be prepared to take a joke once in a | while, The following from the Glenwood (Iowa) Opinion is not bad:—"It is understood that, when J. Sterling Morton becomes editor of the Chicago Times, during Storey’s absence in Europe, the name of that paper will be the ©. Illinois Z¥mes."” No better criticism could be made upon the nar- rowness of ideas among provincial politicians than ta made {n the remarks ot the Sacramento Record-Umon:— “We think the present a good time to suggest that Congress might with justice be requested to assist the recovery of Virginia City by making a reasonable ap- propriation for the erection of the governmental bulid- ings there.” ~ Mr, Edward Young, of the Bureau of Statistics, in- forms the country that the public debt of the United States was at the highest point im 1866, whea it amounted to $2,783,425,879, On the Ist of the present month the debt amounted to $2,118,307,212. It would appear, therefore, that the debt has been reduced $665,028,067 in nine years, or at the average rato oF nearly $74,000,000 4 vear