The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1876, Page 6

"| 6 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1876.—-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, midlished every day in the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youk Henaup. erg and packages should be properly sealed. : Rejected communications will not be r turned, PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STRE LONDON OF E OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 46 PL wa) PARIS OFFIC AVE Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. TOLUME XII- AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BOOTHS THEATRE. SARDANAPALUS, at $1" M. Mr. Bangs and Mra Agnes oot! ‘S THEATRE, 8 P.M. Mr, end Mra Flor | WALLA TUE MIGHTY DOLLAR, mee. THEATRE, tS P.M. * UNION Si YWO MEN OF SANDY BROOK THEATRE, DAVID GARRICK, at 5. M. Sothern. BOWEKY THEATRE. MOSES, at 8 P.M. Mr. John Thompson, WOOD'S MUSRUM. UNDER THE GASLIGHT, at8 P.M. “Matinee at 2P. M. GILMORE’S GARDEN, CONCERT, at 8. M. FIFTH MONEY, at 8 P.M, € cH VARIETY, at 8 P.M. OLYMPIC VARIETY AND DRAMA, at 8 P. M. 5 COLUMBIA OPBRA HOUSE, VARIETY, at 82. M, THEATRE COMIQUE. VARIETY, at 8P. M. “THEATRE, TIVO VARIETY, at 8 P.M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, ats P.M. SAN PRANCiSCO MINSTRELS, asP. M. RELLY @ $ MINSTRELS, a8 P.M. BAG BURLESQUE, OL[O AND FA TRIPLE “MEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMB From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day wili be cool and partly cloudy or clear. Watt Srneet Yxsrenpay.—Stocks were active and higher, and the market closed feverish. Decided improvement was shown in some of the coni securities. Gold ad- vanced to 110 1-8. Money on call was sup- plied at 1 and 11-2 percent. Government ond railway bonds were steady and in fair request. GrxeraL Suenman has gone to meet Crook to prepare for a vigorous winter cam- paign. A vigorous summer would have been more certain of results. Governor Hayes is kept busy denying the charges made against him. This morning he refutes the story that he was a member of the American Alliance. Weak inventions of yesterday and sent to the State Prison for five years by Recorder Hackett. This exam- ple may have a salutary effect upon other persons engaged in the same business as that ch led: to the downfall of the dra- inatic Simmon: 2K, SPS FF Tux Turns have not been able to follow ap their ad and the Servians are stronger now than before the recent battles. Afterall, there may be policy in the apparent Turkish inactivity, as the real danger to the Ottoman Empire begins with a complete triumph over the Servians. antages, Asorner Tr x Dratn from hydro- phobia, o med by the bite of a Spitz dog, is reported this morning. Medical skill is unequal to tho treatment of this frightful s Prevention is the only safety, and mostly in discarding the fa- vorite Spitz. Tum Hostiix Savacrs are covertly creep- ing back to the agencies to be fed during the winter, so as to be the better prepared for the next summer's campaign. So little is known by the military authorities of the Indians really engaged in the Sioux war that most ‘of Sitting Bull’s warriors are not only likely to escape punishment but to be eeceived with open arms. The arrest of John Grass, the Chief of the Blackfeet at Standing Rock, has created a sensation, John pro- testing his innocence of the charges against him with avehemence that is sure to touch the hearts of those who deal with the gentle Bavage. Mx. Lucius Ronrxson, the democratiz can- didate for Governor, gives to the Heranp this morning some interesting information touching his political antecedents. Orig- inally a» democrat, he was estranged from the democratic party by the repeal of the Missouri compromise. During the war he acted with the republicans, but he tells us a very pretty story of the way in which Dean Richmond calmly led him back into the democratic fold. Mr. Robinson is evidently “making himself solid” as a democrat, both personally and in the principles he an- nounces.,as those which would govern his administration of the affairs of the State, ‘Tux Barrie or Hantem Prats, which oc- curred one hundred years ago to-day, was an event insignificant in itself and in its mili- tary aspects, but important on account of its influence over the patriot army. A year of inaction after the battle of Bunker Hill was followed by the disaster at Brooklyn Heights. Boston had been evacuated, but New York was at the mercy of the enemy. Howe could oceupy the city or send his ships round it at his pleasure. Washington, on the other hand, could neither hold it nor avacuate it with safety. To stay was to be surrounded and probably captured by a greatly superior force. To go was to carry insubordination to the extent of mutiny. At this juncture the victory at Harlem revived the drooping spirits of the Americans and humbled the pride of the British foe, so that the retreat which followed was neither dis- honorable to the commander-in-chief nor detrimental to the cause, The American Victory at Creedmoor. The great rifle contest at Creedmoor is finished, and again victory has come to the American riflemen. We should do ourselves a wrong if we should fail to acknowledge the pride we feel in the success of our coun- trymen. There are only two places in America which are reserved exclusively for Americans—the Presidency and a place in the rifle team in international matches, We sometimes differ among oursolves as to the merits of our Presidents, but there can be no two opinions as to the skill of our rifle- men. But even in our triumph we desire to bear ourselves modestly, as men worthy of victory. Our antagonists were in every way worthy of our skill. No match was ever bet- ter contested, and the final triumph was doubtful until the last. At the outset the Australians led, but before the first day's work was finished the Scotch team had tho highest score and the Irish had taken the second place, leaving the Americans nine ‘points behind the Scotch and the leaders of the morning in the dim distance. This was all reversed, however, and now the Irish come second, with the Scotch in the third piace and the Australians in the fourth, A glance at the grand totals will show that in the end the figures were decisive, though only sufficiently so to mark the fortune of the winners while exhibiting the skill of all We rejoice in this result, but should have been, equally rejoiced had fortune con- ferred her favors upon others, Now that the match is over, that there is no longer any anxiety about the result, we enn turn to the social duties which hospi- tality requires at our hands and let the toast pass while we find in the skill of all ® sufficient excuse for the glass. But, while recognizing theso duties for ourselves, we must be excused, even in the flush of victory, if we insist that others have duties as well as we which they are bound to per- form. The English riflemen held aloof from this match, and as the Americans had only beaten the Irish teams in the previous inter- national matches, we could not demand their presence as a necessity imposed upon them. Now we havo beaten the Scotch, the Australians and the Canadians, as well as the Irish, and no excuse will avail to pre- venta match between ‘the English and the Americans. As we are the champions the challenge must come from the other side, and we can promise in advance that no ob- stacle shall be thrown in their way to pre- vent their complete success at Creedmoor. As such an event is a necessity of yester- day's shooting we trust there will be no de- Jay in coming to an understanding in the matter. There are two aspects in which the influ ence of these modern Olympic festivals is to be regarded—their power to promote the kinship of nations and the encouragement they bestow upon the healthy and invigor- ating sports of the age, It will be difficult for kings or ministries or policies to pit na- tion against nation so long as the people who compose them find pleasure in meeting each other in friendly rivalry. The tie of sympathy which matches like that at Creed- moor yesterday and on Wednesday are cer- tain to create will be found as close as those between the Scotch and the Irish and the Irish and the Australians n the first day’s shooting, and between the Scotch and the Americans at the eight hundred yards range in the final struggle. Then, again, one in- ternational contest not only gives rise to an- other, but a festival like that at Creedmoor gives a wonderful impetus to athletic exer- cises and trials of skill in all the countries participating in the international match. Before many years we shall be compelled to send a-rifle team to Australia, and a polo match on the Bosphorus will almost inevita- bly follow the settlement of the Eastern ques- tion. Indeed, if things go on as they have been going for the last ten years it will not be long until people forget that there is an Eastern question at all, and Olympia may again become the friendly battle ground of the world, as it once was the chief theatre of the manly contests not only of all Greece, but of everything that was Grecian. In respect to the first of the proposi- ticns we have laid down many deductions might be drawn. An international contest like that at Creedmoor, or like the one which preceded it on the Schuylkill, is a great peace congress of the nations. Those who have watched the political events of the last quarter of a century are aware that diplo- macy has taken a new phase and that men of science and iearning, men skilled in the arts, in manufactures and in commerce, have practically assumed the direction of affairs inell civilized lands. Fish and Beaconsfield, Bismarck and Gortschakoff can no longer, or not much longer, dictate the terms of the treaties between friendly States. Every in- terest has its congress, and these congresses represent the united Btates of the world, Victor Hugo was not so far wrong in his dream after all, though his wish is being re- alized, perhaps, in » very diffgrent way from what he expected. At Vienna, in 1873, every branch of science, of art and of mann- factures assembled its delegates from all parts of the world to compare views and in- | terchange opinions, At Philadelphia this example has been’ followed with the very best results. The statisticians, the geogra- phers, the scientists and the scholars from every quarterof the globe meet in frequent session to consider their specialties, Ameri- can antiquities were not long ago discussed in a congress at Paris, The cotton trade has just had « congress in London. Protestantism recently asserted its uni- versality by s meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in this city. Even the Roman Church has called an American Cardinal to take his place in the councils of the Holy See, Arevolution has been accomplished without bloodshed and almost without ob- servation which makes misunderstandings between nations in the future next to impos- sible, and among the influences which have contributed to this revolution international contests like the one weare now celebrating have borne and will continue to bear a very important part. Nations will not readily go to war when the people of both have learned to know and to respect each other. It is in promoting this knowledge and respect that international contests find # special work, They touch the social side of the relations of nations and promote international ameni- ties and courtesies, as well as test the strength, the dexterity or the skill of the chosen representatives in an international match. We like the Irish all the better from meeting them at the butts, and they feel not less cordially toward us because of our suc- cesses, Yesterday's result cannot fail to in- crease the attachment and respect of all who participated in the match and of all who watched for vietory and hailed the victors. In every respect it was a well-contested trial of skill, and we have every reason to antici- pate that it will leave no heartburnings behind it. The impetus given to manly and athletic sports by these matches isa theme upon which we need not dwell at any length. Ten years ago few Americans could shoot at eight hundred or a thousand yards, fewer still could handle the oar with skill, and none even thought of games requiring the strength and dexterity of polo. Now we area match for all comers, which. is saying a great deal when our riflemen are pitted against antago- nists who can make fifteen bull’s-eyes in suc- cession and compelled to contend with teams which exceed the best scores ever made at Wimbledon. With such results attained in so short a time and with so little practice, with an almost equally brilliant record with the oar and the sail, the fature must be as rich in promise for us as it is for our more experienced rivals, The only trouble is that the standard is becoming so high that the next generation will be compelled to take up the plaint of the old theatre-goer, who never sees such acting now as he saw in his youth, and deplore the decay of long range shoot- ing. Ifinternational contests ever fall into desuetude it will be out of despair st reaching the brilliant records of the present epoch, Peace Negotiations. The British Ministry appears to have reached the conclusion that its only escape from the difficulties of the Turkish question must be by assuming the attitude of the most vigorous of the peacemakers, and tho world is consequently called to witness the queer anomaly that England, which sup- ported the Ottoman government in its re- sistance to a joint programme of reforms which might have averted the war, now prac- tically compels that government to accept terms of peace that will be palatable to the friends of Servia. On Wednesday of last week the Sultan’s Ministers were determined not to grant an armistice, and to propose to the representatives in Constantinople of all the great Powers terms of peace that it was known beforehand could not be accepted. In other words, Turkey was determined to continue the war, to crush Servia and to trust to the mutual jealousy the great Powers have of one another to prevent their acting in concert to restrain her. But she did not notice that there was 1 new element in the case; she did not consider that indigna- tion which her acts had excited in England. Her Britannic Majesty's Ministers, how- ever, considered it, and when they learned on Wednesday night of the refractory tem- per in Constantinople they perhaps sent some peremptory messages thither; and then, in order to keep up the appearance of not seeming to govern Turkey altogether by their own will, they invited the other minis- ters to join Sir Henry Elliot in new remon- strances. All that was done, and the Turk has consequently modified his course and is likely to accept moderate terms. If the whole trouble passes away thus the British government may congratulate itself that it has escaped from a great difficulty very adroitly ; for to have stopped the pressure on Turkey by making the war, and to avoid recriminations for the war by making peace, would be to succeed, as the world goes, in the way of diplomacy. But the success is nota solidone. Just now the discussion, it is true, is not on the original issue ; it is on making peace and saving Servia. But the other issue will not down. Peace once made, Turkey herself will be the first by her acts to force the great States to return once more to the consideration of that gross misgovernment and oppression that led to the insurrection ; and England cannot inter- fere again to save Turkey. Tweed's Extradition. It seems a waste of energy for any one to trouble himself as to how or why it is that Tweed is surrendered to us by the Spanish government. “There is no doubt of the fact that he is to come hither, and the fact is what is important; and the whole public must equally rejoice that, whether his com- ing is or is notan embarrassment to any person or any party, the discredit of his‘ escape through the élippery ways of our local prison keepers may yet be effaced by his punishment for tho offences of which he has been guilty. It is, however, but natural that it should stir the wonder of the people to find a man thus snapped up and handed over to justice by the authorities of one of the countries with which we have no treaty for the surrender of fugitive offenders, and a country within whose limits it is commonly accounted that a criminal from this country is safe. There is no end of queer surprises in the administration of justice, but it is o very queer surprise indeed that if Tweed had gone straight to England—a country with which we have atreaty—he would have been safe and might, like several other fngi- tives, have snapped his fingers at us, while his roundabout journey to a country with which we have no treaty simply lands him at last in Ludlow street. In Spain the gov- ernment order on a subject of this nature is supreme. Though nominally o constitu- A Call to Order. There is no reason why a Presidential can- vass should not be conducted in the most honorable and truthful manner. What the voters want are facts; what the country needs is that the best men shall be chosen. Both parties have faults ; both have depend- ents and hangers-on who are neither wise nor good. The interest of tho country is that that party which on the whole will most wisely govern it shall succeed, and the party leaders, speakers and organs, on both sides, should, in presenting their cases, en- deavor to do so in a calm, temperate and, above all, truthfal manner. It is the partof the independent press to point out where either or both violate this sound rule ; and the Hxrarp, which has often before acted the part of moderator to the great assembly, will continue to do so in this canvass. Here, for instance, are certain republican journals and speakers—prominent among them we are sorry to notice Mr. Wheeler, candidate for the Vice Presidency—who are making a noisy issne of the late war ; of the fact that persons who served in the rebel army have since been elected to Congress, and of exaggerated and false accounts of proscription, so called, and outrage in the Southern States. Now this is all wrong. The war is over; the ‘‘ex-Confederates,” so called, would not be in Congress at all if the republican majority there had not rightly re- lieved them of their disabilities, and if repub- lican misgovernment in Southera States had not united the majority of the people there into an opposition party. The Southern question is not an issue in this campaign ; it is very well known that Governor Hayes does not defend the misconduct of the so- called republicans in such States as Lousi- ana, and that if he is elected the Kelloggs, Packards, Spencers and Pattersons will get nosupport from him. While ho insists that all the amendments are sacred and must be obeyed as the supreme law of the land he will not exercise or tolerate federal inter- ference in the local affairs of the Southern States. Those republicans, therefore, who try to excite anew the animosities and sus- picions of the North against the white people of the South are not only unpatriotic, but they are trying to introduce into the canvass a false issue and to place the party and its candidate in a false position before the country. If the republican party had no better appeal to the suffrages of the voters than the old cry of the “bloody shirt” it would deserve defeat and would undoubtedly be beaten. On the other hand, certain democratic organs and speakers are no less unfair and unwise. Here, for instance, we find an ar- ticle in a leading democratic organ compar- ing the federal expenditures during demo- cratic administrations before 1860 with those under the republican administrations from 1861 to 1876, including the whole cost ofthe war and of its consequences. Mr. Buchanan spent seventy-eight millions o year, this journal tells its readers ; but the republicans an average of nine hundred millions a year. There are, perhaps, readers ignorant enough to be taken in by such ao statement; but is it not discreditable to take advantage of their ignorance? The fact is that the war was begun in an utterly inexcusable manner by the democratic party in the South ; that the Southern demo- cratic leaders were encouraged to begin it by their Northern political allies, and were persuaded to continue it for at least two years after it had become a hopeless strug- gle by the silly and unpatriotic attitude of many influential Northern democrats. The democratic party may therefore be justly held responsible for the expenses which the war entailed and continues to entail upon the country, and it is not wise in the democrats to put forth statements which necessarily recall this fact to the attention of the country. Let us have fair dealing on both sides. Neither party can win by misrepresenta- tions and false issues. What the country demands is a reform of the civil service, so as to place the government service on the same footing with private service and secure fidelity and capacity in the transaction of the government business. What it wants besides is a settlement of the currency and a revision of the tariff, so as to enable us to sell abroad our surplus manufactures, and thus set the wheels of industry going again, Whether the democratic or the republican party is most likely to give us these reforms is the question which the country will de- cide next November. The cry about huge expenditures is nonsense, for where the democrats have ruled, as in this and other cities, they have been even more extravagant, wasteful and dishonest than the republicans at Washington. We shall have economy only when we get an honest civil service; and we need that here in New York and in all our city governments just as much as in the federal administration, and seem to be even further from getting it. Reaction of Coal Combination. Commonly the only perceptible effect of such conspiracies as the great coal combina- tion is seen in the misery of the poor. But they have other effects, and those other effects are now seen in the miseries of the rich—— in the sudden poverty of some not used to it and in the limitation of the resources of persons hitherto opulent Comparatively little is heard except as it is reported in the newspapers, when, in the cold and fierce winter, the dreadful tyranny of the great railroad corporations and the exactions of speculators and mine owners grind the wretched to the earth. They die in silence in their frozen garrets and cellars. But the New tional country the habeas corpus is not a |*Jersey Central, the Delaware and Hudson thorn in the'side of justice, and there is no point of support in the law to protect a fugitive rogue from the supreme authority, An extradition treaty in such circumstances is not necessary. It is only necessary to have the good will of the government, and that, it appears, had been gained by us in this case by an act of the samo nature, our government having delivered to the Span- ish authorities a fugitive from justice. It is said that in so doing our government arbi- trarily trampled on the law, which might be a nice point for courts to deal with, but its discussion elsewhere would hardly be profit- able. It must be remembered, however, that Mr. Seward was not ignorant of our laws and not the man to wantonly offend them, Canal fall upon evil times, and the world becomes eloquent with sympathy for the losses of innocent share and bond holders whose all was invested in these values. And this is the other end of the history of the great coal combination for the direct robbery of the poor and the oppres- sion of every industry by which the poor might thrive. Inthe great scheme of the coal combination one of the worst points of the iniquity was that the transportation companies really collected a royalty on every ton of coal consumed in several great cities. This was put in the form of an exorbitant freight ; but it was none the less a simple plunder. Allured by the fancy that this spoil was to be gathered forever tho com- panies neglected those habits of economy and thrift which made success possible with ordinary gains and plunged into extensions which required these enormous dishonest gains to support them, Then these gains sud- denly failed and the companies were left at the verge of bankruptcy. lesson of these facts that great combinations not only oppress the poor but ruin the cor- porations that make them. "The present con- dition of what we call “coal stocks” is the legitimate consequence of the coal combina- tion, It follows that the owners of the great lines of transportation ore eventually as much injured by these wicked and mischievous combinations as are the coal consumers themselves. In- deed, their position is worse; for the loss to the consumer is distmbuted over the whole public—over a population of many millions; but the loss, when the reaction comes, falls necessarily upon the few share- holders. In the present condition of joint stock companies it does not seem possible for the owners of the lines to so fur influ- ence their management as to be able to pre- vent these abuses, even if they wished to; and what, perhaps, is most felt by the own- ers is that while all the loss falls on them when loss comes, the great gains do not al- ways get into their pockets. Great abuses in the management of corporations like these, with ruinous results, and the inca- pacity of shareholders to prevent them, seem likely to ultimately greatly discourage all investment in shares of great corpora- tions. The Isthmus Canal. An isthmus ship canal, by which vessels of any size could pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, wasan important point in our national schemes and dreams of com- mercial grandeur in the days when the proj- ect for the Suez Canal seemed the vaguest possible speculation, But the Suez Canal has been made, an enormous tonnage is passing through it yearly—while our great project has almost dropped out of men’s thoughts, and though the government still maintains some sort of traditional relation to the great idea it is not likely that an eco- nomical democratic Congress would give twenty-five cents for all the isthmuses and the two oceans together. Such is the consequence of economy when parties have it badly with a view to political effect. It will not answer to say that the Suez Canal was built because it was in the soil of effete" and ‘‘unprogressive” Egypt, and that ours was forgotten because we are so tremendously progressive and energetic and wide awake. We may better say that they had peace and we had war; and as we may always say of such great projects, ‘‘These are imperial works and worthy kings,” we may say here that the Khedive played tho sovereign handsomely in his princely en- couragement of a great enterprise, while we, the sovereign people, played the same char- acter very meanly in a similar relation. Now, however, the isthmus canal proj- ect is brought to the attention of the world in new relations. There has recently been organized in Paris a body especially for the preliminary study of this subject, which body has ostensibly strictly geographical relations, but the prac- tical nature of which is guaranteed by the fact that its President is M. Ferdinand de Lesseps, who made the Suez Canal. The Vice President is Vice Admiral Ronciére le Noury, and the Secretary M. Léon Drouil- let, an engineer. The nucleus of the body thus formed is a committee of the Paris Geographical Society, which jinvites the co- operation of all other geographical societies in the world, specifically to determine by minute study of the geography of the isth- mus at what point and in what conditions it is possible to make the canal. This body starts, of course, from the assumption that the enterprise has not hitherto beon effected because of the contradictions involved in the numerous surveys made and because of the impossibility of reconciling the various in- terests related to these surveys, and it fur- ther assumes that the very contradictions in- volved are an evidence of insufficient study of the country. Its proposition is to or- ganize, therefore, at present simply for the thorough geographical study of the district. Its labor will certainly have the sympathy and encouragement of all who desire the success of the more substantial points of national progress, Paris Exposition. Work was begun in August on the fair to which the city of Paris invites the nations for May 1, 1878. Tho edifice is to be com- posed of the now generally accepted mate- rials of glass and iron, with the exception that the two extremities, or two grand fagades, will be constructed in dressed stone, on a grandiose design, ornamented with statuary. It is to be erected on the grand Champ de Mars, of which it will oo- cupy two hundred and forty square metres, or nearly thirty hectares. One of the fagades will look toward the Seine, the other toward the military school, and there will be the shorter sides of the parallelogram. There will be no restaurants or cafés, theatres, con- cert halls—in short, no establishments what- ever of a catchpenny nature within the limits ; but every enterprise of that nature may spread itself on the Trocadero just over the river. There will be a double classifica- tion of all admitted articles, They will bo classed by nationality as well as by indus- trial or artistic character. This most desir- able result is secured practically as it was in 1867. The passages cross one another at right angles. If one follows an alley in the direction of the length of the edifice he will be always in machinery or porcelain or fur- | niture or dress goods, and so on. If he fol- lows an alley that crosses the building he will keep always in one country. It seems ‘to be the intention of the government to ex- haust the resources of the national in- genuity in the endeavor to make a grand success, Fatuur Brcxx, the General of the Jesuits, is to be made a cardinal, and is the ultra montane candidate to succeed Pins IX. in the Holy See. The antipathy to the Order, especially in Catholic countries, is almost a8 great now as at any time since its creation, and the elevation of the chief of the Order to the Papacy might produce results for which quietly disposed people are scarcely pre- pared, It is the obvious | Eastern and Western Custom Houses. We should like to ask the Secretary of the Treasury whether there is any difference in the management of Eastern and Western custom houses? The expediency of estab- lishing custom houses anywhere except upon the border, and of receiving duties upon im- ported goods anywhere except at the port where they are landed, is doubtful, to ssy the least. It is certainly wasteful, for under tho system of interior custom houses which has grown up within a few years the gov- ernment is forced to employ several sets of officers to do the work which could be done by one. For instance, goods landed in New York or Boston, and which could be examined, appraised and admitted there, may now be sent in bond to Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Memphis, to be there appraised and admitted by different sets of customs officers; and thus the number of office-holders and public servants is need- lessly multiplied. . But a much more serious matter remains. Every man conversant with custom house business knows the great difficulty of secur- ing for the work of examining and appraising the various kinds of imported goods men who have the requisite skill and honesty. In New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Bal- timore a large force of competent appraisers is maintained, and each has a specialty. One is an expert in silks, another in iron and steel, another in woollens; another in other products, It is said that at these Western custom honses, where the business is just as various but much less in amount, the Treasury keeps but one or two experts to examine: and appraise all the varieties of merchandise brought thither for payment of duties. Evidently this exposes tho government to a risk of loss by under- valuation, owing to incompetence in the appraisers; and not only this, but if the government suffers such loss the Eastern importer is at even greater disadvantage and loss as against his Western rival. We have been told that in actual practice it is now possible to get goods in cheaper, on an average, by ten per cent, in one of our Western custom houses than in New York or Boston, and that this very great advan- tage is sensibly appreciated by the importers of the city in which this custom house ig Ploced. It is in truth a difference suffi. ciently great to induce Eastern importers to remove to the West, for it is great enough to enable the merchants thus favored to under- sell Eastern importers and control the mar- ket. We call the attention of Secretary Morrill to this matter, which involves, if the report is true, as we have reason to believe it to be, both loss to the government and wrong and loss to Eastern merchants. It is too serious @ matter.to be neglected. A dif- ference of even less than ten per cent in the duties levied, in favor of Western cities, would surely sap the very foundations of our prosperity in New York and destroy a large part of our commerce. ‘ Tar Wasuinctox Monvsrent.—The un- finished Washington Monument is now one hundred and seventy-four feet high. It was begun in 1848, more than a quarter of a century ago, and until this spring it stood in the centre of an unsightly square of mud, which is now a pleasant park. It has cost, so far, two hundred and thirty thousand doflars. Congress, at its last session, voted two hundred thousand dollars toward its completion; but a circular of the Monument Association informs us that this sum is not sufficient for the purpose, and was not in- tended, in fact, to complete it, and the society appeals tothe generous and patriotic to send in subscriptions, in order that the shaft may be soon finished. Would it not be well tq publish a statement of the esti- mated cost, and the time required to make an end of this too long delayed work? If this were known no\doubt renewed zeal could be aroused to secure the sum needed, aside from the gift of Congress, to finish it, How much money does the society require ? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Buffalo Bill ts on his way East. General Hancock 18 in St. Louis, Cider 13 very cheap in New Eugtand. Dr. Damrosch has arrived from Germany, William Callen Bryant 1s still in New England. David A. Wells, the social scientist, will support Tilden. Baron Bletchréder, of Germany, ts at the Fifth Ave. nue Hotel. H. V. Redfleld thinks it Iikely that South Caroling will go democratic. ps The price of a South Carolina negro who turns dem- ocrat Is a pair of shoes. Vice Admiral Stephen C, Rowan, United States Navy, te at the New York Hotel. Mr. Georgo Jones, of the New York Times, arrived home yesterday from Europe. While Lord Derby is talking the Turks are abusing and murdering girls ta Bulgaria. William Black, the novelist, has features as fine ag a girl's, and he wears spectacles, A Baflalo girl says, “Ifyou don’t like tho puliback don’t make euch a bustio about it”? Princo Liecntenstein and Prince Montenuovo, of Vienna, are at the Drevoort House, Vindex says:—*' Tweed was en route to the Turks, They long ago said he is the Bos phor-ns.” The Sutro Tunnel still creeps into the Nevada golé hills, and the Seligmans havo buoyant hopes. Mr. J, W. Walters, M. P., of the London Times an rived yesterday in New York, with his family, Count W. Von Arnim, of Germany, arrived from Philadelphia yesterday at the Brevoort House. The President and Mrs, Grant arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotei yesterday afternoon trom Long Branch, Professor Sumuor, tho financial writer, inclines tow. ard Tiiden as a positive hard money man and free trader. Burlington Hawk Fye:—“Did you ever see Governos Tilden’s mark? Often and often you wonderod what it meant—‘8, J.—1803—X.""” Wade Hampton says that he mast have 10,000 colored votos if he wins an election in South Carolina, Biaino will speak m New Jersey. The Dotroit Post says that the Nrw York Hrrain is tho paper to which both parties appeal when they want a roflection of the impression that events make apoa the public mind. People have wondered what J. M. Batley:couid find to lecture about In “England from a Back Window; bat we read In his Jast articlo that “tucks aro taking tho place of the old fashioned raftls,” Postal card John Hill is strong for the repudlican nomination in the Fifth New Jersey district, the Pate erson Press boing favorable to nim. Ho certainly is jerable to that nobody, Charles Voorhis. Louisville Courier-Journal:—“ ‘Tho New York aus thorities aro complaining that too much water is used in that city.’ As it's understood that abouts one-third of the authorities bas each a whiskey saloon of his own, the complaint would seem to be not wholly un- reasonable." A European critic says that the tendency of Russian life, as retlected in {ts novels, is to show the unrest of the lower classes, the peasant aspiring toward adjust. ing the powers of the government, and the upper classes, steeped In licentiousness, waiting viindly fora popular revolution, ° ~~