The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1876, Page 8

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Gold declined from 113 5-8 to 113. Stocks were generally lower, with a declining tendency. Governments were dull. Foreign exchange firm. War has been officially com- menced between Pacific Mail and Panama. Tne Cantass, who started in their prac- tising on the Thames for the great inter- University boat race at odds in favor of Ox- ford, have literally pulled up on the betting books till they are backed at two to one. Has Oxford lost the secret of the long swing- ing stroke that brought the dark blue so often to the front? Aw Exrna Penny on the income tax is Sir Stafford Northcote’s plan to make both ends meet in English finances next year. This is not a popular way of extracting more money, but it is an easy one. Army reorganization cannot be carried on without extra expense, and beer has become too sacred a thing in conservative eyes to be meddled with by a Chancellor of the Exchequer who wants a rnillion or so sterling. ‘Tae Secrerany or War, Judge Taft, and General Sherman continued their inspection of the defences of New York yesterday, not- withstanding the drenching rain. A visit was paid to Governor's Island, the Hell Gate works and Willett’s Point Engineer Station, where the Secretary familiarized himself with the system of submarine warfare by exploding a big torpedo an- chored in the narrow channel between the forts. The experience will undoubtedly give Secretary Taft fall confidence in our ability to receive the enemy with all the honors of war, welcoming him in such a fashion that the subsequent proceedings will be wholly uninteresting—to the enemy. Postmaster James finds himself in a disa- greeable position—namely, custodian of a large and much-used public building, the means for hghting, heating and cleaning which are wanting. We think that Mr. James will manage to let the business go on in spite of the difficulties, as a treditor sure of his money in the end will not let a rich man starve because he happens to be short of ready money. The | Post Office will, we hope and believe, find itself lit in spite of itself; but the Commit- tee of Ways and Means, who, it appears, are responsible for this disgraceful state of things, should at once correct its neglect, or Senator Morton will be furnished with an- other powerful campaign instance of dem- ocratic oppression. Tux Porcr Bux, now before the Legis- lature, is causing much dissatisfaction | among the members of the force. They re- gard the provisions which clothe the Com- | missioners with the power of graduating the salaries of patrolmen and of summary dismissal without a hearing, as exceedingly arbitrary and unjust to the well-conducted and experienced officers. A large fund has been raised by the patrolmen to defeat the bill at Albany, and this movement certainly | gives an extraordinary coloring to the whole | affair, They mean, apparently, to go lobby- ing for themselves. ‘They see no reason why the Commissioners should seek, by legislation, to deprive them of all interest in their duties by placing them at the mercy of the political exigencies or caprices of the Board, disguised as they may be under a plea of official zeal. The question of retain- ing or dismissing an officer should be deter- mined by the merits of the case and not by the favor or otherwise of the Commissioners, and we hope that the Legislature will con- sider the question for once purely from the side of usefulness to the public service, | dable opposition. » April Skies in Politics. The political weather seems likely to be as fitful and uncertain as the physical weather proverbially is in this capricious month. The atmospheric disturbances which follow the spring equinox bring such sudden alterations that Presidential candi- dates cannot anticipate whether they are- to realize o transient burst of sun- shine or a smart drenching shower as their next experience. The republican party is going through a transition period between the settled political weather of the last fifteen years and the settled weather which may again set in when the issues of the Presidential canvass shall have been declared and the candidates selected. The hopes and fears of aspirants accordingly partake of the fickleness of an April sky. None of the republican candidates seems to be so much affected by these variations as Mr. Blaine, who cannot foresee whether he is to be drenched or dry in the next sudden change. Three or four days ago it was the boast of his friends that he was the assured second choice of his party in Ohio and Pennsylvania; but it is now ascertained that he will have only twelve of the Ohio delegates to twenty-four for Bris- tow after Hayes is abandoned, and that the Pennsylvania delegation will go against him en masse after Hartranft has served the temporary use for which he has been named. Mr. Blaine must be filled with disappointment and chagrin at the sud- den turn things have taken in Pennsylvania, his native State. His mortification and the grounds of it are set forth in a Washington despatch to the Sun, of which we insert the significant parts:— The ex-Speaker had wounted confidently on a favor- able demonstration for himself. Ho was born in Penn- sylvania, though ‘a Yaokee by adoption,’ as he recently informed the House of Representatives. He had paid assiduous court to Simon Cameron, cultivated McPherson ana the younger class of republicans, and dined all the active politicians without regard to color or previous condition of servitude, j Sull the ungrateful managers would not touch bim on any terms, though he was quite liberal in bis offers, They thought him enurely too smart, and had a hint besides that coming investigations might make such a candidate decidedly uncomfortable to carry ths summer. Thus, unkindest cut of all, his own nativo State is handed over to Conkling of all other men! Blaine could have borne anything but that. The name of Hartruntt is a mere blind to cover Cameron's policy and programme. It is well known at Washington that the veteran manipulator has adopted ‘tho favorite son of New York” as his political rotégé, and Means to nominate him at Cincinnati if it te atall practicable, In Post Office parlance, Hartranft is ‘ta straw bid,’? and nothing more. He is not in- tended to get the contract. The right man will como in at the proper time. While Pennayivania will be turned over to Mr. Conk- Ing whenever business 1s meant, and the Cameron cian really intend to support him 1n earnest, 1t must not be supposed, however, for that reason that the delogation will stick to him throuzh thick and thin. Sbould it appear that Grant cannot deliver his expected stock of Southera and official delegates, so as with the votes of New York and Pennsylvania to make a ma- jority, the Cameronians will turn their attention to the ‘coming man and make the best terms possible as his “original friends.”? When last heard from Brother Blaine was in asad state of mind. He had gone down to New England to look for aid and comfort. We already knew, from several authentic sources, that Senator Cameron has snubbed Blaine and come to a cordial understanding with Conkling. His motives are of little con- sequence, so long as we are assured of the fact. Whether he will abide by his present choice is also of little consequence, so far as his attitude bears on the chances of Mr. Blaine. If he deserts Conkling it will not be for Blaine. He is too shrewd a politician to throw his influence against a candidate whom there is any possibility of his ultimately supporting. He means to be strong and in- fluential with the next administration. By supporting Blaine in the crisis of his for- tunes he would lay him under strong obli- gations of gratitude ; but to oppose him now and finally come over to his side when Penn- sylvania support was no longer important to him would give Mr. Cameron no claim to influence if Blaine should be elected. Mr. Cameron is too crafty a politician to blunder in this way and destroy his hold on the successful candidate by backing’ and filling. This is not Cameron's style ; it is not the method of any sagacious politi- cian. If he should finally abandon Conk- ling, as he possibly may, it will not be in favor of Blaine, who would never trust him or believe in his friendship after his support of Conkling in the most critical stage of the canvass. The Pennsylvania delegation is in the absolute control of Cameron, whose determination to turn it over to Conkling as soon as the Hartranft ‘straw bid” is withdrawn means that he will in no contingency put it into the scale of the Maine candidate. If he meant to support Biaine at all he would give him a lift when he most needs it and lay him under obliga- tions. In spite of this rebuff in his native State Blaine is making evident progress ; but his gains, if they should be considerable, will be his undoing. The, moment his rivals begin to think him formidable they will have a strong motive for combining to destroy him, each taking his chance for the reversionary interest. The recent boastful airs of Mr. Blaine's friends may be one reason why Cameron has shown his hand at so early a stage of the game. If Blaine had been content to work quietly, without flaunting his supposed gains, his rivals would not have feared him. His weakness in parading his gains is likely to prove fatal tohim. All his com- petitors have a common interest in defeating him as soon as they begin to think him for- midable. With Conkling, Morton and Cam- eron ready to make any temporary combina- tion to put him out of the way, and the whole influence of President Grant wielded against him, Mr. Blaine’s chances at Cincin- nati are very slender. His transient show of April strength is against him, because it | alarms his opponents and leads to a concert | of action for which there would otherwise have been no motive. | The Pennsylvania opposition is a dripping wet blanket on the hopes of Mr, Blaine, Mr. Cameron is a keen observer of political | tendencies, and when a politician of his ex- perience and penetration decides against a | candidate it is a pretty conclusive proof that that candidate will encounter a formi- There was no immediate urgency for Mr. Cameron to declare’ his preference at this stage of the canvass, and unless he is entirely confident that Mr. Blaine | will be beaten he would not do anything so offensive as to give his influence to Conkling, | Bluine’s most hated rival. Such a prefer. | ence is, of course, a final breach with Blaine, | anda proof that the Pennsylvania delega- tion, on which he has heretofore counted, will be given to any other candidate sooner than to him. This decision of Senator Cameron helps i the chances of Mr. Conkling and gives him ® foremost position among the lead- ing republican candidates. With the support of New York and Pennsyl- vania, the two most important States of the Union, Mr. Conkling will go into the Cincinnati Convention with a larger support than any other candidate. New York has seventy votes and Pennsylvania fifty-eight, an aggregate of one hundred and twenty- eight, and there is no likelihood that Blaine will command more than two-thirds of that number. This strong nucleus will attract other votes. It is under- stood that President Grant favors Conk- ling, and it is believed on good grounds that Grant can control a majority of the Southern delegations. It is believed that the delegations from Mississippi and Ala- bama are already as good as secured for Conkling, and if this shall prove to be the fact a large proportion of the Southern del- egations will be likely to follow suit. But although Mr. Conkling is likely to make a formidable show at Cincinnati it would be hazardous to predict his nomination. As the canvass looks at this date his chances ore better than either Blaine’s or Morton’s ; but matters may take such a turn as to put all three out of the field. The nomination of an entirely new man is, perhaps, as likely a result as any. Whoever that new man may be it is indispensable that he be acceptable to the republicans of New York, and that he should have some strength founded on pub- lic esteem outside of party lines. It must not be forgotten that New York is at present a democratic State, and that no republican has any chance of carry- sing it whose personal character will not bring some addition to the strength of his party. As any respectable candidate would carry all the strong republican States the nomination should be made with reference to the doubtful States, which hold the balance of power between the two political parties. The result of the Presidential election is likely to depend on the vote of New York, and if the Cincinnati Con- vention shall be convinced that Conkling can take the State away from the democrats that would be a conclusive reason for nominating him. But ifsome other candidate can be found who stands higher in the confidence of the citizens of this State than Mr. Conkling, such a candidate should be taken in prefer- ence, because the vote of New York is too important and too doubtfal to justify unnecessary risks. Mr. Conkling, with the support of the two great States of New York and Pennsylvania, is a strong and imposing candidate, and if his friends should at last think it expedient to withdraw him it will only be with his consent in favor of some unmen- tioned candidate who combines the same elements of strength and has had the good fortune to escape the personal enmities which assail all active politicians. That isto say, the unknown candidate, if Mr. Conk- ling be withdrawn, should be personally popular in New York, should have the cordial support of the administration, and should be as acceptable to the whole party in this State as Mr. Conkling is to the larger section of it. Until such a candidate is found Mr. Conkling’s prospects for the nomination seem very fair indeed. Freedom in Mexico. Mexico is in the throes of a Presidential “election ;” she is wrestling with a sort of “third term” problem of her own, but she deals with it naturally in the style charac- teristic of her people. Her campaign clubs are brigades on either side; her party plat- forms are pronunciamentos, and her argu- ments are forced loans, applied to convince the uncertain and to sustain the faithful, just as speeches on the stump or articles in the papers are applied to similar purposes in constitutional countries. Porfirio Diaz is the candidate for the Presidency on one side ; the liberal, reform, civil service, investiga- ting, honesty-at-any-price candidate, Lerdo de Tejada, isthe third term candidate. It will not, in fact, be his third term arithmet- ically if he is elected ; but he stands on the essential principle of third termism—that a man who has ruined his country ought to be re-elected at the instigation of his friends and as an expression of the national gratitude for some good services he did in years gone by. He is in office, and is, therefore, the candidate generally of the office-holders, and he evidently means to remain in office if he can, by revolution, battle, murder, conspiracy or any other constitutional means known to the Mexican law. Diaz will be remembered by our readers as one of the heroes of the war against the French—a conspicuous leader in the arduous and obstinate struggle which ended in handing his country over to the disorganization peculiar to a half Spanish Republic. He has often thought that his countrymen should make him President, just as the Americans did one of their $great leaders in the person of General Grant ; and for their failure to do this he rds his countrymen as ungrateful, but does not abandon them, or rather he will not unless his present attempt to get into office fails’ entirely. On every oc- easion when Diaz's chances have seemed brilliant he has been set aside by accident, or intrigue, or patriotic considerations of one sort oranother. He has yielded gracefully to the voice of his country pronounced in favor of some one else; but now that Lerdo is disposed to hold on tenaciously, with the voice of the country against him, Diaz comes to the rescue. Hence the turnout of mili- tary bands in so many States—the general armed movement, in fact, which the de- spatches calla revolution. It is, in fact, an election as nearly constitutional as they ever get one in countries of that sort. If the soldiers firea little they donot hurt any one; not more than our people do in firing a salute, It seems very likely that the canvass conducted on the principles of a general turn- out with firearms will result in the election of Diaz to the Presidency, and then all will be tranquil again. Apyssin1a is desirous of peace, but the terms on which it wants it are not those of a humbled adversary. From this we conclude that Egypt has not gained much by her re- cently reported successes on the frontier. Things will probably remain in sta‘u quo during the rainy season, Mr. Robeson’s Explanation. Mr. Robeson’s explanation regarding his transactions in 1873 with Jay Cooke, McCul- loch & Co. needs, in our opinion, to be a lit- tle further explained. His account can be very briefly stated. On the 18th of September, when Jay Cooke failed, the London house owed the Navy De- partment $900,000. Mr. Robeson was as- sured by Cattell and Bradford that the house would stand, but he knew it must be shaken and was not asafe government depository. Accordingly he sent, on September 24, $1,500,000 to Paymaster Bradford to use in taking up navy drafts if Cooke, McCulloch & Co, should stop. He would not have sent it otherwise, By October 20 Cooke, McCulloch & Co., continuing, according to Mr. Robeson, to act as navy bankers, and honoring, as we un- derstand, all drafts which came in, had paid out only $300,000. They still owed Mr. Robe- son $600,000, and they asked him to advance them a million more, which he did. Then, of course, they owed him $1,600,000, and Bradford had $1,500,000 besides. Why was it necessary to have over three millions in London on navy account just at that time? If it was prudent and right to let Cooke, McCulloch & Co. have another mill- ion, why did not Mr. Robeson order Bradford to turn over to them a million from the million anda half he had in hand un- touched and unused? We hope Mr. Robe- son will answer this question, for it needs a reply. If he really believed the bank sound, then Bradford did not need the million and a half. If he did not believe the bank sound, then he did a grave wrong to trust it with a new million. In any case, he should explain why he suddenly needed over three millions in London on navy account. Cooke, McCulloch & Co. did stop—after they got Mr. Robeson’s new niillion. If he had ordered Paymaster Bradford to transfer a million of the fund he held to the bankers instead of sending them a new million from here he would perhaps be at liberty to say that he mistook the condition of the firm and had more confidence in them than they deserved. But even then, so far from congratulating himself on having done shrewdly, he ought to be ashamed; for in October, 1873, Cooke, McCulloch & Co. owed him only $600,000, and at present they owe him nearly $700,000. That is to say, they got into him, on the whole, $100,000 deeper, in the end, than they stood in October, 1873, when it was in his power to stop transactions with them, because he had then security to cover that debt. The plain truth—taking Mr. Robeson’s own account of the whole transaction—is that he lent Cooke, McCulloch & Co. a million of the government's money when they were in a tight place ; that he enabled them to go on for some months by this loan, and that he had so little confidence in their ability to pay that he kept a paymaster in London with another million and a half to step in the gap when they should stop. There was a time in our history when such a gross misapplication of government funds to private uses would have caused the imme- diate disgrace of the officer who was guilty of it and his impeachment. We do not know what the Naval Committee or the House propose to do in this case, but the President evidently thinks it is all right. Is it all right? Then it is right for any government officer toapply the public money in his charge to the private uses of an in- solvent friend, and to say in excuse, when the transaction is discovered, that he has se- curity and will by and by, after a number of lawsuits and Sheriff's sales, get the money back. But if Cooke, McCulloch & Co. could have a million in a time of panic why not other bankers? Why should they be fa- vored? We advise the committee to ask Mr. Robeson some more questions, for there were many bankers at that time who would have given abundant security for an advance of a million and would have paid a hand- some bonus besides. Corea and Japan. Our letter from Jeddo recounts the success of the Japanese government in making a treaty with the very tough customers who inhabit the Peninsula of Corea. Hitherto Corea has resisted effectively all efforts, by whomsoever made, to bring her to a recogni- tion of the rights of any other nation. Dip- lomatic endeavors and warlike expeditions have alike ended in failure. Some Catholic missionaries. once secured foothold in the country and made a certain progress in the propagation of Western ideas; but if their proselytism is continued at all now, it is very stealthily conducted, for the laws of the country and the spirit of national jealousy are in full agreement to root it out. Only a religious propaganda commands the devo- tion and never tiring energy that were nec- essary to penetrate that country. If trade went up a Corean river, the traders were cap- tured and slaughtered, as was found by the crew of the American ship General Sherman. War and diplomacy, carried thither from European countries or our own shores, reached those inhospitable coasts with spent impulse. But the Japanese have practised on their neighbors the lessons they themselves have learned from the West; and, with a ju- dicious persistency and a proper array of armed forces, have extorted a treaty the terms of which they will see that the Coreans observe. This treaty may not be of the first importance to traffic. It may have very little importance in that respect; but it redeems a thousand miles of seacoast from that barbaric condition in which the shipwrecked sailor of any country is butchered at sight. Our Jeddo letter gives an interesting necount of this negotiation, so honorable to the Japanese, A Lancz Crevasse IN THE MrssisstPrr Lever is reported as having been formed at Davis’ Landing, opposite Napoleon, Ark., and through which the water pours with great force and volume. The recent storms in that region have raised the river levels to an extraordinary height, and weak points in the levees will soon show themselves under the increased pressure of the flood waters. The crevasse near Napoleon is fronting on the lower mouth of the Arkansas River, which at this point empties into the Missis- sippi at nearly a right angle with the latter river, and necessarily creates a heavy wash of the opposite bank, where the crevasse has occurred, The flood in the White River, « tributary of the Arkansas, is threatening 8 serious inundation of the adjacent lowlands. The Hznaxp called attention to the danger on Sunday, and has repeatedly urged the necessity of improving and strengthening the levee system of the Mississippi in view of the annual recurrence of these disastrous inundations. The Connecticut Election. The Land of Steady Habits yesterday pre- served itself to the democracy, but cut down that party's majority of last year. This re- sult had generally been foreseen. The rag money and prohibition vote showed that there were not sufficient fools or zealots in the Nutmeg State to give it a very bad name. The election confirms the opinion that the Belknap scandal would have as little effect in Connecticut as it had in New Hampshire, and, so far at least, this must be gratifying to the republicans. Over the election in the latter State we fear the republicans rubbed their hands in corners and said to each other that ‘it was not much of a shower after all ;” but yesterday's elec- tion warns them that the test of the effect of administrative corruption upon the popular vote is only deferred until the elec- tion isa national one. New. Hampshire is said to have been carried for the republicans by the corrupt purchase of votes. In Con- necticut this has not been the case with the democratic victory; but the diminished majority is a counterpoise which it will be well for democrats to study. It is plain that the country has declined to accept the democracy merely because re- publican rule has produced corruption. It declines, and we cannot say unjustly, to de- cide between the rival claimants for na- tional supremacy until it sees something more than investigating committees and impeachment managers on the side of the democracy. The republicans have still a chance to win, but it hangs largely upon the blunders and possible shortcomings of their opponents and scarcely at all upon their own merits. This, certainly, should not be much for a party to base its hopes on in a country where patriotism and common sense should be the corner stone of all possible national parties. Cheap Cab Fares. At the threshold of an argument in favor of cheap cab fares we are met by the state- ment that the people will have none of them for general use because horse cars are cheap, It would be a little honester to say that because hack fares are extortionate many people who could afford a just rate prefer the cheap and nasty certainty of the horse cars, If our dear American ladies had in buying dress goods to choose between calico prints and brocaded satin we fear the calico would perforce be the material bought by the majority. To the citizen of moderate means the lordly, lounging hack driver, with his seldom-used span of horses, stands as far from the horse car as satin from calico, The hack owners prefer to doo small trade in a costly article; but it is certain, for all that, that there is a large market for cheap one-horse cabs on the four-wheeler and Hansom model, just os there is a trade, for cashmeres in dress goods, There are a thousand people who go to the theatre every night in the horse cars who would be glad to go and return in a cab if the service could be had: for a dollar ora dollar and a half both ways. In the winter season there aro thousands nightly who would go and return from parties and balls in cabs that now use the horse cars. In the fine weather—nine months in the year—there are thousands who would drive to and around Central Park that either do not go at all or use the horse cars to various distances from the gates of the Park. There are thousands of ladies who shop daily on Broadway that would use cabs and who now go on foot. Instead of a fu- neral being the usual and a ball the rare occa- sion on which hacks would be used, we should, with a fair rate of tare, see their use extended to classes that only look on them now as mysterious and costly luxuries. We wish to see our fair city bereft of none of the appliances of modern metropoli- tan life. We therefore demand rapid transit for the masses whose business and homes are far apart. We demand that the outrage of huddling people like hogs in the horse cars should on the grounds of public decency, honesty and comfort, be put astopto. In the same way we urge upon capitalists the good use to which they could put idle money by meeting the want of cheap cabs now widely felt by a large class, All these things are part of the decorous lite of a great city, and none of them should be wanting in New York. Tue Frencn Artisans who are coming to visit the Centennial Exhibition as a delega- tion from the workingmen of France will, we doubt not, be cordially received here, and the fears expressed in their address that they may be looked on as the introducers of lower wages into America are without foun- dation. There are several branches of in- dustry, notably the finer kinds of wood- work, in which the French artisans excel all others, and in which they can receive here wages rather above than under the average. No such question, however, will enter into their reception here. The bone and sinew French brethren as fellow workmen and fel- low republicans—the way they want to be received. é Sraxiey axp Camrnox.—The gallant Af- frican explorer, Lieutenant Cameron, who arrived at Liverpool, England, on Saturday last, has not been able to bring us any direct news of Mr. Stanley. It is gratifying, how- ever, to learn trom a cable despatch, which we copy from yesterday's Telegram, that Lieutenant Cameron heard only good words of the Henaup explorer during his journey. Our direct news from Mr. Stanley is proba- bly of much later date than anything Mr. Cameron has been able to bring in his neces- sarily slow journey from Nyangwe to Loanda, on the West Coast. The rumors of deser- tions which Mr. Cameron heard scarcely date further than the time when Stanley struck off from the regular caravan route between Bagamoyo and Ujiji. Rrcmarp B. Irwin's Storr of his disburse- ment of the three-quarters of a million to get the Pacific Mail subsidy throuzh Con- publican and the other a democrat, we sup- pose they balance each other; but when s< much indignation is expended in the House over Belknap, where Clymer is moved almost to tears and Blaine to blunders over corrup- ° tion, is there not honesty enough to cut out these unsightly wens, King and Schu- maker? Do the Republicans Desire Good Gov- ermment? That Secretaries Chandler, Jewell and the rest should help a democratic House in ite investigations doubtless seems a little hard to them, just as it seems hard to the republi- cans in the Senate to have to pass the bill granting immunity to witnesses whose evi- dence is needed to discover the corruption in General Grant’s administration. It seems to them, doubtless, a case of ‘‘dog eat dog,” and they do not like it. Nevertheless, it is their duty;and the pub- lio wants them to do it, and will make it go hard with the party if these conspicuous members and leaders of it hesitate much longer. It is not a good time for conceal- ment. Matters have been hushed up too long. The people want the truth. The democratic House is trying to get at it, bul at every step in any investigation the com- mittees are balked, either by the spiriting away of witnesses or by their dread of per- secution, or by the judicious silence of some Cabinet officer who, if he would tell what he must know, or if he would even show a half interest in the discovery of maladministra- tion and corruption, could help the country at once to get:rid of and to expose hundreds of corrupt thieves. Here, for instance, is Secretary Chandler. He is, we believe, an honest man, and capable. We will not doubt that he is ad- ministering the Interior Department with right intentions. He has certainly dismissed quite a number of Delano’s pets and protégés, and we suppose he gaye that poor wretch Luckey a place in his department only be- cause the President, who keeps Babcock in his places of profitand honor in the District of Columbia, though he would not trust him any longer to finger over his private or pub- lic papers, insisted on somebody providing for Luckey. We will allow Secretary ChandleY to bean honest man. But is he serving the country, is he faithful to the people, is he deserving of applause, while he omits to give the House committees the most zealous help in discovering the fraud and corruption which went on under his predecessor, Delano? Chandler dismissed Indian Commissioner Smith. Why? Be . cause he was an honestman? He dismissed General Cowan. Why? Because he was an honest man? He has dismissed dozens of prominent men in different bureaus. Was it because they were honest? But we - do not hear that Mr. Chandler has given even a hint to any investigating committee to help its members in discovering the thieves who have robbed the public and bringing them to justice. Is this right or honorable in Secretary Chandler? He is a republican, true; but he is an. American citizen, too, Can he honorably sit in his’ place and keep his mouth shut, as much as to say, ‘Let them find out what they can—I won't help them?” What is true of Mr. Chandler is true of all other public servants. These men are em- ployed by the people of the United States and paid by them, and they are false to theis trust and false to the people if they do not zealously, honorably and with all their might, help to purify the public service, which can be done with their help very easily and becomes very difficult if they only refrain from giving help. Count or Genxrat Szssions.—Althongh the city authorities some weeks back assigned rooms for the use of Part 2 of this Court, we observe that at the opening of the April term yesterday Judge Gildersleeve was obliged to adjourn this half of the Court for fourteen days, the accommodation still being lacking. The authorities should besti1 themselves, as a judge's salary is wasted and the course of justice delayed by their neglect and sloth, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Persia ts to have a navy on her Gulf. Congress needs more pudding and less sauce. Southern California 1s making hay while the sum shines, A statute of Utah permits a convicted murderer to choose whether he will be hanged, shot or decap- itated, The latest felon, J. G. Wiggins, chooses to be shot, Bridgeport (Conn) Standard:—Some statistical gentus calculates that the fences in the United States cost $2,300,000,000, About 5,000,000,000 trouser seatt are annua'ly torn out in getting over those fences, and not a statistic on the subject, Superintendent Killebrew, of the Tennessee Bureay of Agriculture, Statistics and Mines, basreceived ¢ letter from Mr. Samuelson, M. P., who 1 e capital of $25,000,000 invested in iron England, signifying an intention of branch of his house in Tennessee, A Pit! bas also made a proposition to invest in mineral lands, ‘ Wendell Phillips says that the tendesey of otvitizs- tion is no longer to spread, but to cut the: a into cities, Where money and men ar@ there is corruption tn politics. The and | police obey their masters, the rabble. 1 of the trades of America will welcome their | br of European cities 1 always chosen by the « virtuous and conservative elements of society. A self. rehont magistracy puts down drunkonnass,, A petition presented to the General Court of Mas- sacbusetts asks for the,establishmont in that State of a park of five or six square miles of every kind of a face, still partially covered with wood, for a fis9_00- sortatory. Tho idea 18 to reservo this park in $ prim- itive condition and to preserve in it the Kuna ¢d flora ‘of the State. The petition is signed by H. W. pngtel- low, J. R. Lowell, Henry James, Asa Gray an, Joho Sargent. Let New York do the samo, Senator John P. Jones, in his forthcoming sport O8 il silver, will try to make a strike by being popula He ai Deheves that the debtors are the laborors, represtting a the activity of the world. He thinks that for work done should not too greatly control res for work not yet done. Gold, he says, is dimineh™® @8 | & product, while silver must be brought into mor S88: eral use for the sake of tho debtor; while the exptalist will prefer bonds. Isn't Jobn P. mistaken? The New York World, April3, says: ard’s reply the other day to Senator Boutwell’ dent and vulgar diatribe was as high toned as it was rigorous and effective, the passage verbatim irom the The Groton grocer bas not yet explained ing and discrepant accounts which he left of the United States Tressury—the proof dishonesty or incapacity or both, No Shakes the bloody shir.” -