The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1879, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. YROPRIETOR, pie ke WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar por year, free of post NOTICE TO. SUBSCRIBE it in dr Y Pont Office money ov procured send the emitted at risk of rs wishing the ir old as woll as their OFFIC: °K OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— UNION SQUA 1¢ HALL MASC BooTH NIBLO’S GARDEN—HeE STAND. GLOBE THE LYCEUM TI BROADWAY THEATER: THEATRE WALLAC. na SHEET NEW YORK, Lhe probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vieinity to-day will be eolder and To-morrow the same conditions are likely to prevail. clear, Wa pAY.—The stock market was very act aud strong. Government bonds were weak, States dull and railroads strong. Money on eall was easy at 11g a 219 per cent, and closed oftered at 2 per cent. An Imvortant Case before the Supreme Court is, Can a husband and wife be jointly held liable for a criminal offence? Tue Wesrcurster Hare anp Hounp Ciup had an ng run yesterday in spite of the bad weather. The age is not so degenerate us some would have us believe. Tue Martua Wasnincton Bax will take place on the 20th of February, so that the young people may dance to their hearts’ con- tent. The 22d falls on Saturday. Camp Rowinson has a new seare. It is feared that more hostile bands are near by, and y naturally, if Indian chasing is so bard and in- consequent as it has been of late. Jersey's First Trran for barratry has re- sulted in a conviction. Some people think Jer- sey an old-fashioned, non-progressive State, but Alderman O'Sullivan is convinced to the con- trary. Tuerr Is a tory Goop Prosvecr that satisfac- ngements will be made between the railroad lines and the ocean steamship compa- nics on the subject of through freight charges from the West to Europe. Tne Coroner's Jury in the case of Henry Madden, shot in a low saloon by Jobn Smith, declared that the shooting was unjustifiable, but withdrew this expression of opinion on the representation of the Coroner. Porice Commissioner Exnarpr thinks that the condition and discipline of the “tinest” police are such as to awaken serious comment. The public have been commenting vigorously for a long time and would like to sce some remedy apy & oF GornamM have seri- work of preparation for the s Carnival at the Academy of Music on the 17th prox, There was a noteworthy assemblage of little mites of humanity at Ir- ving Hall last night. Tue Mayor or Puirape 14 has set a good example to city fathers in general by declaring war on the low theatres in his city, on the ground that they are disorderly houses. This action will benefit publie morality and Be} the interest of legitimate places of amuse- ment. int Tur Tr OMMITTEE is beginning to dis- cover, 28 public Jearned Jong ago, that there are two sides to the story ot every Southern no matter how — chiv us the democrats or how high toned the influential republicans were. ‘The best men of the South do not personally go on duty on election day, but the lowest democrats aud republicans of the North—well, pots shouldn't call kettles black. Tux Wearner.—As predicted in the Heratp of the 24th, the disturbance that was advane- ing from the Northwest during the past few moved north of our district yesterday evening. It ia now central over Nova Scotia, where the barometer is falling very fast. The pressure rose rapidly throughout the lake regions and the Northwest as the depression moved come the Mi astward, causing the gradients to be- y steep in the lower lake region aud lie Atlantic States, Light rain and snow have fallen in the New England States aud some sections of the lower lake regions. In the otherdistriets the weatherhas been generally | } | fair. Morning fogs pre 1 on the Gulf and | Northern Middle Atlant sts. ‘The tempera: | ture fell rapidly in the Northwest yesterday | morning. It has also fallen slight the Guit | distriets, but has risen decidedly elsewhere, The winds have been from brisk to high in the luke regions, the Middle Atlantic, New England | States and the Rocky Mountain districts, and | generally fresh elsewh The storm will be | very severe on the ocean north of latitude forty, the afterwinds being particularly heavy. The winds will decrease to-day over the Middle Atiuntie States, and the prospects of weather for the early part of the | are good, Heavy rain storms are reported to lave continued for sor lays past all over the thern portion of California, The depres- within which those storms have occurved is idently moving through Idaho and Mon- a, und will probably make its appearance in Dakota toanorrow, fine week The weather is unsettled over the British Islands. ‘The weather in New York and its vieinity today will be eolder and oh the same couditious are likely to prevail, tr. ‘To-morrow | Bryant, of N, P. Willis and even of old Fitz | ence in public positions of men unequal to NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1879—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Condition of the Streets—What comes of the Money! Great is the January thaw! Diana of tho Ephesians was a tool to it, and there is no movable festival of the seasons and the elements that can justly be regarded as of greater importance to dwellers in this dis- tressed city. Men of the most diverse views may equally chant pwans in honor of this energetic deliquescence, and the muse of Be- Greene Halleck may fairly be reproached with a neglect of grand opportu i that none of them has fully done justice to this grand theme in the heroic experiences of metropolitan existence. ‘Lhanks to this great thaw the citizen can get a glimpse at the street pavements for two or three days in the worst of winters. Not that the city pavements are in them- selves fine sights or spectacles that an eye educated in pavements would hanker tor ; but in the world of snow and sleet and hail and slush it is comforting to have the assurance of our eyes from time to time to the fact that there really are pavements beneath it all, even though they be vile and crippled and hummocky and eloquent of contractors’ profits. But if the thaw de- lights the public with the reappearance of the true surface of the streets how does it touch the souls of those who should have carted the snow away, and how are the cockles of their hearts warmed as they sce their great enemy gently commit himself to the gutter, when he can find it, and thus give them the chance to charge as if they had removed him, with- out putting them in fact to any expense whatever ? Onr heavy snow came ten days ago, and everywhere, except in Broadway or in one or two other great thoroughfares, it has been with us ever since. In West street, Washington street and Greenwich street, and in all the streets that bear similar rela- tion to the river on the east side, and in all the uptown streets save the few great arteries of traffic that may be numbered on the fingers, the snow lay before the thaw began, not precisely as it fell, but certainly not reduced in quantity by any action on the part of the city authorities. Some up- town streets are so obstructed that even the adventurous milkman scareely makes an effort to get through, while down town snow and filth, ground together and partly thawed, fill the streets with rivers of pasty mud everywhere ankle deep. For the city streets to be as they now actually are is scandalous and shameful. They are in the condition in which one might expect to find the streets of a city which made no pre- tence whatever to the possession of a street cleaning service. Should we imagine a city in civilized lands whose citizens were not taxed to keep the streets in order, and which did not support an army of func- tionaries paid for this labor, we cannot see in what respect its streets would be worse off than ours now are in ten days after a snow storm; yet the people of this city are not merely taxed for this service, but out- rageously plundered in its name. ‘Who can tell what becomes of the money? This has always been one of the great mys- steries of municipal administration—what is done in the winter months with the street money? Never was it so much a mystery as now, because it was never plainer than now that it is not used to clean the streets. Within the ten days since the snow fell what has been done? Some cartloads of snow have been carried out of the great thoroughfares. How many cartloads we do not know, but not many. Only enough to make a show apparently, to pretend to go through the motions, to put in an appearance, as if for the actual performance of service. An im- pression was made on _ Broadway ; but even that street was not cleaned, only the snow was somewhat reduced in quantity, so that when the thaw came it was able to melt away what was left. But ifthere had not been any snow and the authorities had in the meanwhile done their duty as to the streets they must have spent two or three times as much money in clean- ing them as they have actually spent in carting away some hundreds of loads of snow. ‘Lhus the snow becomes an economy tothem. Naturally it should entail an in- creased expenditure, for they should carry away the snow in addition to the perform- ance of their regular service. But they scarcely touch the snow. They scratch for a day or two along the edge of a few streets, but in fact leave the suow very much as it was, and from their ordinary labor they are entirely absolved. No investigating com- mittee of the Legislature could ever find out what is done with the money assigned for these services not performed, but it would be interesting to know. Commonly delinquencies like this in re. gard to the streets are charged to corrup- tion, and, no doubt, that has a great share in the result. But itis not corruption alone that must be overcome to find a remedy, for much is due to incapacity, to the pres- | the duties of the places they occupy. Offi- cials and agents trained for the performance | of the duties assigned to them do not exist outside the army and navy anywhere in the United States; and our public services, from diplomacy to scavengering, are done on the theory that we are a nation of uni- versal geniuses and that everybody is equal to every occasion. Some States are well governed despite this theory, and some cities also, despite it, are reasonably well served in all the departments of muni- cipal administration. But that has not Leen the fortune of this city, for, except in one or two places that it is still esteemed some slight houor to hold, the great depart- ments of government are always in the lands of men not intellectually fit to keep corner groceries, and for this there are good reasons. sucrifice the grand opportunities that como to them in commercial and financial con- cerns ; they will not leave trade industry or finance for the small remuneration of But they will for honor, ‘That is our feeble point. It is not an honor to hold ordinary offices in this city. On the contrary, it is a distinet diseredit, and to official salaries. Men of superior capacity will not | our city government. Funetions that for | heavy damages for the injuries eaused by their proper performance demand a certain amount of capacity must be done without it, and are, of course, badly done. Even where the intention is to act honestly this difficulty is an obstruction, and inexpe- rience and stupidity stand as much in the way of a cheap and effective government as corruption itself. But there is corruption also. he system of regarding public offices merely as standpoints from which to rob the city treasury did not go abroad with Connolly nor die with Tweed, and if the experiences of late years have forced official robbers to be modest and careful the undisguised sympathy for the great ones in the misfortunes entailed by discovery showed that the minds of the mass of their associates and successors were shocked by Do other fact in their history than that of exposure. Fewer chances for the largest sort of robbery have been on foot within recent years, but a ccnsiderable portion of the public money is always devoted to the cleaning of the streets, and we believe that if it were possible in any way to have this expenditure properly investigated and checked against labor actually done it would appear that it isa mine for some- body. With so much money spent and so little done for it much is certainly diverted from its right use. How much of that diversion is due to incapacity and how much to dishonesty is what the public has a right to know. An Indi; Thermopyle. Are there twenty-five white men any- where in the world who can do what was‘ done by the handful of Cheyennes recently hunted down and killed by four companies of United States troops? Probably there are not; but it is certain that if white men had done this, if any squad of heroic pale faces had called upon their oppressors in this style to ‘‘make way for liberty,” and, burdened with their wives and children, had burst from prison, gone through the fire of the guards and, pursued bya whole battalion of trained, disciplined and well armed cay- alry, had maintained their flight and resist- ance for twelve days and only been subdued when the last man was shot down, the world would have been clamorous with wonder and applause over such gallantry, such courage, such adrvitness in the ruses of war, such devotion to freedom and such an unconquerable spirit. But the world will probably say less of these things done by the red man than it would have said if they had been done by the white man. And yet is not such heroic conduct more rather than less re- markable in the savage? Practically we regard it as commonplace for the men of a race reputed inferior to do acts that would have conferred immortal glory on their paler brothers. How the ages have chanted in the sweeping lines of ‘‘Chevy Chase” the achievements of ‘the Percy out of Northumberland ;” and yet if either Percy or Douglas had encountered what the Cheyennes were compelled to face it would have been so prosaic a butchery as to have left no stuff for a ballad. Even the comparison with the three’ hundred Spartans—the most famous of all battles against odds—leaves plénty of honor for these Western savages, for the Spartans were ‘the most warlike people of their time and the best trained and the best armed soldiers of the people, while the Asiatic levies of the great kingdom were a rabble by comparison. But the Cheyennes, poorly armed, owed all their success to their per- sonal qualities, and made a severer fight, not against sheep-like levies that had to be driven up with whips, but against first class troops. In whatever way it may be contemplated this fight has no parallel save in other episodes of Indian history, and the annals of war may be searched in vain for a more brilliant display of all the qualities that ennoble the ever grand struggle for freedom. A Journalist Afloat. Newspaper representatives have been nearly everywhere in the known and un- known world, but Friday night was the first time in which one of these enter- prisiag gentlemen, for the information of the reading public, ever got into a suit of rubber clothing, dropped himself deliberately in the i¢y waters off the Bat- tery, and went cruising sround in a sort of jumble of darkness, loneliness, shark stories and ice-cakes. Tho graphic story, which may be found in another column, might never have been written had not the genius and persistence of Paul Boyton made personal exploits in the water both exciting and practicable, but not only the gallant captain’s experience, but his personal presence also, gave character and success to the wintry swim of last Fri- day night. The narrative may seem quite an amusing one to the reader who peruses itin dining room, ferry boat, rapid transit car or business office; but if the readers alluded to will draw modestly upon their imaginations for an idea of what is required to make euch an after dark cruise as is de- scribed, and to subsequently sit down and write an account of it, instead of calling a hack and driving to the nearest lunatic asylum or public hospital. We refer our readers to our report of the cruise; match it who can? In the account of the tatal collision which occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Trenton, yesterday morning, between two freight trains, appears a paragraph which deserves notice, It is that ‘the en- yineer of the colliding train is said to have been asleep, having been running without yest since Monday night.” ‘Then comes a been asleep ; but no contradigtion is made to the assertion that he had ‘been run- ning without rest since Monday night.” It matters little whether the engineer was asleep or awake at the time of the accident, If he was asleep the fault is not his, but that of the company which permits an en- gineer to be without rest for three or four days. Such a man cannot be fit for his duty, and no blame attaches to him for any be known as a city politician is a recog. nized disgrace, Here, theretore, is one great difficulty in necident that may be occasioned by his ex- haustion, The fault is with the company, which ought to be held responsible in | statement that the engineer denies having | such an unnatural overworking of its em- ployés, Money Changing in the Temple, A very singular and not uninteresting discussion has been kept up in our col- umns for several days under the headings of “Paying to Hear Mass” and ‘Money Changing in the Temple.” The entire dis- cussion is the result of a contributioa to “Our Complaint Beok” by a lady corre- spondent over ihe signature of ‘Lruth,” who related in a few words how she was rudely and violently ejected from a Sec- ond avenue church for refusing to pay for a seat. Her complaint has led to a perfect deluge of communications pro and con, out of which we have been able to publish only a small and selected number each day. No one can complain that we have not given fair play to both sides. But we consider the discussion has been carried far enough, and with the ba‘ch of letters printed to-day we propose to bring it to a close. We desire to repeat here an announce- ment made by us in an early stage of the discussion, that we have no desire to inter- fere with the internal management of the Catholic Chureh or of any other Church. On the contrary, when pastors and con gregations disagree we would rather they would settle their troubles by friendly conferences in private. But when abuses exist, and when appeals to aid in abolishing such abuses are made to the Hinixp, we shall not deny the hospitality of our columns for such worthy objects. All sides and all interests will be granted a hearing. Whether it is right or not to exact money at church doors for admission to the mass is a question, it seems to us, that is set at rest by the letter of ‘‘Canonicus,” who states that the custom is positively pro- hibited by the second Plenary Council of | Baltimore. By referring to the proceedings of that. Council we find the law thus laid down :— “The Sovereign Pontiff, Pius IX., has de- clared that the custom existing in some places of exacting money at church doors from the faithful who wish to enter and assist at the divine mysteries is one that is extremely offensive to him, and which he desires to see entirely done away with. In obedience to the judgment of the Supreme Pastor we will that this custom shall be utterly put a stop to. Besides the ex- perience that goes to prove that the churches can obtain ample revenues by other methods there is another reason for reproving this practice—namely, that it fixes a certain sum and levies it as a tax on the faithful who would assist at mass and hear the Word of God.” It is difficult to understand how, in the face of this solemn expression of the highest Church Council in America, the custom of exacting money at church doors has been allowed to continue. Perhaps the Rev. Father Flattery, who was so swift to speak from his altar of the intermeddling of the | press in Church matters, will be able to ex- plain. The Plugue in Russia. Russian denials of the existence of the plague at Astrakhan are as energetic as Aus- trian declarations the other way. Perhaps it is in great part a quarrel over names. Some exceedingly severe contagious or epi- demic malady is prevalent in parts of Rus- sia, and there are different statements of its origin, Some say that it was brought home by Cossacks, who caught itin Turkey, Others that Moslem prisoners first had it, and that it was caught from them by people neg their places of confinement. By the Russians it is called typhus, and by others plague ; and eithername is bad enough. It is extremely fatal, and the bad condition in which the Russian people generally live, and their indifference to sanitary obligations, are such as to excite the apprehension that this malady may take in a great part of the country. Justice in New Jersey.” Nine public functionaries of Warren county, N. J.,.have been convicted of mal- feasance in office and sentenced to hard labor in the State Prison for periods of from one to sixteen years each, Forty-five years is the aggregate of imprisonment inflicted on all the corrupt officials thus far found guilty. Conspiracy to cheat and defraud the town, and forgery to help out the purposes of the conspiracy, are the crimes of which all these men have been found guilty. As official thievery, more or less extensive, is the vice of the time, and one to be found everywhere, the news of these verdicts will startle the country, and many towns will be stirred up to emulate within their own limits the energetic action of Philipsburg. It may be a bad year for thieves. Palpit Topics To-Day. Sceptics and doubters will be interested to-day in what Mr. Kerr will say to honest doubters, and Dr. Burchard will say on the suggestions of unbelief, and Mr. Pullman on fair dealing with doubts, and Mr, McKel- yey on the reasons of the Christian's hope. Dr. Fulton will combat the theories of some of his Baptist brethren concerning the Beast of Prophecy, making it clear, of course, that the “Beast” is cared for at Rome. Mr. Lloyd will also dive among the visions of the Apocalypse and bring forth the Conqueror upon the white horse for the delectation of his audience; Dr. Knapp will show the triumph of this warrior when He comes to set up His king- dom on earth, and Mr, Richmond will de- vote his talents to the consideration of the character of Christ's second coming. In the temperance gatherings Mr, Evans will talk about husks, ! night in jail, and Mr, Affleck about restora- tion and reformation after repentance by the fallen. Mr. Virgin will tell us how to supply human needs, and will describe a strect preaching scene more than two thou- sand years ago—probably the same that Mr, Moment will cover in his references to Ezra, the Jewish reformer, or to the great revival in Nehemiah’s day. ‘Lhe missionary cause will be ably advocated to-day by Mr, Newton, who will show its connection with the great religions of the world. This is but one of a series on this important Mr. Fitz-Williams about a | topiewwhich was opened last Sabbath by the"Reév. Arthur Brooks, and on which Drs. Washburne, C. H. Hull, C. BR. Baker and others are yet to speak. Dr. Simmons will show how much Baptists’ owe to other denominations; Mr, Searles will describe old fashioned Methodist re- vival work; Mr. Hepworth will have nothing but Christ, and Mr. Davis will shelter himself beneath the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, ‘The man who never was buried will be interred by Dr. Rogeis ; the rich men and Lazarus will be brought face to face by Mr. Jutten ; Babel building will be pictured by Mr. Wilson, and the waste and want of the prodigal by Dr. Fowler. An old man’s conversion will be described by Mr. Ackerley, anid the man- itestation of God be unfolded by Mr, Hull. Dr. Talmage will continue his portraitures of scenes in the ‘‘dives” of great cities, and thus lay himself bare still to the assaults ot clerical critics. Convicted of After a fuir and patient trial Isaac Perl- stein, who was charged with several acts of arson, has been found guilty and awaits the sentence of the law. ‘The evidence produced in the course of this trial was of a nature to startle peaceable dwellers in this crowded city, and the announce- ment that Perlstein has been found guilty will be heard with a sense of relief by all who have watched the proceedings. ‘Since Perlsteim’s ar- rest there has been a notable decrease in the number of fires in the district in which he curried on his nefarious operations. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Arson. Justice Hunt’s condition has slightly improved. Next summer you'll wish that it was this wiater. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, is at the St. James Hotel. ‘The Chicago 7imes calls Cincinnati the London of America. Mr. James Boyd, editor of the Panama Star and Herald, hus arrived in New York. ‘The President has recognized Peter Kartchevski as Consul General of Russia at New York. ‘The wife and son of Governor Lew Wallace, of New Mexico, will soon leave Indiana to join him, Senator Stanley Mathews, of Ohio, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Each member of the Supreme Court gives two or three dinners to his colleagues during the winter. And now it is thought that a statue of John B, Floyd might be made out of- some of his old cannon, It was a Bowery boy who said that there isn'ta man in the United States Senate smart enough to pick a lock. Judge Cadwalader, of Philadelphia, was so low last night that it was feared he would not live until morning. Mrs. President Soto, Minister Soto, and Surgeon General F. C. Valentine, of Honduras, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Captain Brooks, of the City of Chester, who has been visiting Mr. Daniel Godwin, sailed in his yessel for Liverpool yesterday. It is stated by cable from London that Sefior Cas- telar will deliver a course of lectures before the Ox- ford University next summer on Spanish literature. Ex-Secretary of the Treasury and now Judge Rich- ardson, of the Court of Clainm, is a widower, whose only daughter 18 the wife of Navy Surgeon Magruder- General Burnside two years ago became a total ab- stinence man and began to drink apollinaris water, which, since that time, has*become the fashionable drink of Washington. New Orleans /icayune:—“A man indulges in sarcasm when he borrows a dollar for the purpose of advertising that he will not be responsible for debts contracted by his.wife.”” Buffalo Express:—The graceful manner in which several persons who wanted to whip Roscoe Conkling come down and make their obeisance to that gentle, man is worthy of all praise.” Tn Boston the tramps are provided with batbs and nightshirts, the hire of which they must work out the next day. While in the tramp hotel the guest must neither smoke nor swear. According to the Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald the old political friends of General Grant are returning to the Senate and the penitentiary at a rapid rate, Yes, and the Senators get six years, Pages in the United States Senate go about among the Senators with albums to which they solicit signa- tures for people in the gillories who givea slight compensation to the pages for the favor. Detroit Free Press :—“Huxley believes there was atime when men walked on all fours, and he doesn't mean that it was when they were tacking down car- pets or setting out onions. Huxley never jokes,” Senora Dona Celestina de Soto, wife of the Presi- dent of Honduras, is at the Hotel Brunswick, ac- companied by a considerable party, including General ‘Toledo and Don Enrique de Soto, Minister Plenipo- tentiary. Keening Telegram:—“General Joseph Hawley’s re- fusal to allow his name to be used by intriguers against the successful candidate of the republican Senatorial caucus in Counecticut does him great credit in these days of unscrupulous personal greed and ambition. There is no doubt that a different de- cision on his part would have resulted in his election to the United States Senate instead of Mr. Platt by a coalition of his personal partisans with the demo- cratic members of the Legislature; and it is to be re- membered that he was tricked out of an election a fow years ago by acoalition of* just that kind, made by the friends of the late Senator Ferry. The tempta- tion to do as he was done by must have been very strong.” THE BLAINE INVESTIGATION, LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS CONTRADICT REPUBLICAN STATEMENTS. New OnLeans, Jan. 25, 1879, ‘The taking of testimony for the ‘Teller Committee, before Commissioner Lane, was continued to-day, J, 2. Haitman, U. P. Brazeale, G. Moses, William M. Levy and others, of Natchitoches, testified, having been called by the democrats, They generally con- tradict the statements made by the republican wit- nesses ax to intimidation, and showing that they ap- prehended violence, threatened by the negroes, and that their action wi for the purpose of preserving peace, Many negroes voted the democratic ticket, CONFLICTING VIEWS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION, CHARLESTON, Jan. 25, 1879, The Teller Committee to-day took additional repub- lican testimony showing the voting of tissue tickets wrapped up in large tickets at various precincts in Richland county. General Johnson Hagood, State Comptroller Gen- eral, described the mectings hekl at Sumter on Octo- bor 12, testifying that both rac excited and that the whites expected to jean and democ eparately and neither inte: cking of the street by t lored peo- 1 to tro me, and the alarm bell wa ing, but order was restored with peo difficulty, and uo further disturbance took place. PiWhite and colored democrats fro next testified. ‘They asserted that firteen hundred to two t in the county, imd hundreds of them were seen to yoto the deiocratic ticket, Two of the witnesses testified to being cursed, jecrod at and threatened by the colored republicans becnuse they were democrats, one of them being on that account obliged to leave his chureh, The next witness was W. J. Whipper (colored re- publican), who described the turbulent conduet of the democrats and the demand for a division of time jumter county were from nd colored demoetats leton county testified to of tissne balots in that county. In one large ticket there wore fifty-nine tissues, ‘This testimony was flatly contradicted by the demoer County Chairman, who swore to the thoroughness and pencetulner’ of the democratic cunvads Which, with the acceasion of prominent re- publicane after the republican nominations were made, gave the democrats the county by # decisive majority, ‘ intimidation an CRUELTY TO SAILORS, FREEZING THE SEAMEN ON BOARD A BRITISI STEAMSHIP--THE SCOTCH GREYS AND EER CREW'S SUFFERINGS. PuapEcruta, Jan. 25, 1879, British Vice Consul Crump several days ago re ceived an anonymous letter calling his attention to the cruel treatment to which several sailors on the British steamship Scotch Greys had been subjected by the officers of the vessel, ‘The vessel was lying at Washington street wharf, this city, and several per- sons doing business in that vicinity corroborated the truth of the charges, as the Vice Consul found when he began an investigation, At appears that the Scotch Greys lett Port Said on Decemer 24, in ballast for a Philadelphia firm, and, on arriving at Gibraltar, one of the sailors deserted, Caries Peripapiceger yrnecy the vessel, not having 0 at once proceeded to engage Maltese natives to tuke the place of the dense ted _ ped although they had uever had any expe- rience as xscafaring men. Accordin, _ lish) law, @ formal contract Soa Netware Ligh tgers of A go natives, and ey were told what rt they shipped for. ‘They were to receive! $8 50 pig pond month, and of this amount they drew $5 in advance, which ‘wax spent before sailing. Only one of the men could understand English, and hence they lett their homes unprepared to cudure the rigors of winter's voyage. All the clothing they possessed was a thin coat and shirt and pair of pants, und neither of them had shoes or stockings. Last Thursday week the steamer arrived at Washington street wharf and commenced loading with grain for Antwerp. Notwithstanding their thinly clad condition the boatswain, James Matthews, Sept the Maltese at work, ‘The poor fel. lows, in ‘their exposed condition, worked all day while the thermometer was below the freezing point They walked the decks with bare feet and suffered intensely from the cold. ‘The vessel was to have departed on Thursday, but when these facts came to the notice of the Vice Con- sul, he detained the ship and had the sufferers re- moved to the Pennsylvania Hospital, where they were found to be severely frost-bitten. _ They were at once furnished with more comtortable cloth- ing and are now receiving every possible care. ‘ Mr. Crump did not think that the offence Was grave enough to detain the vessel until @ regular hearing could be had in the case, as the yessel was ready to suil and a detention would have caused un additional expense of several hundred dollars per day. Hy does not, how- ever, exonerate the captain from blame, and thinks that'the lutter should have taken proper precautions to look ufter the welfare of the crew. ‘The vessel was therefore allowed to proceed, but not until the Vice Consul had secured the pay due the men. The facts in the case will all ‘be sent to the English Board of bere] ie Se eaneereuce f nother of utch Greys’ crew, an jlishman named William O’Conuell, is at the Semi Hospital suffering from bronchitis, He has made several voyages on the steamer, the present the first one under Captain Bruce, He says this official was brutal in his treatmeut of the sailors, making them work night and day, and not giving them even time to change their clothing when wet through. O'Connell says he wore a suit ed through to the skin for three days without getting time to chang anid hence his present complaint. fe says he would ruther die at the hospital than go to sea again with such men. > FORT ROBINSON TROUBLES. & SUSPICIOUS OUTRAGES—ARE THERE MORE IN- DIAN MURDERS NEAR THE FORT?—TWO HUN- DRED CHEYENNES YET 10 BE SUBDUED. Fonr Roninson, Neb., Jan 25, 1879. Private Sprowl, ambulance driver, started to drive to the old camp, one mile distant, this after- noon, and to-night he was found lying in the road with his skull fractured. It is not known whether the wound was caused by a gun- shot or by falling from the ambulance. His condition is critical, and the wound cannot be ex- amined to-night. . ; On Wednesday night a trumpeter arrived from the old camp and reported that he had been fired at by a party concealed in a ravine. It is believed they were either Indians or bad white men the bluffs. Companies A, B, D, F, I and M, Fifth cavalry, under Captain rivved here to-day, and will leave in the morning for the Sand Hills, where Little Wolt and a band of 200 Cheyennes are reported to be. Companies A, E, F and L,of the Third cavalry, will leave for their respective stations early pext week, thus leaving but two companies at this post. of the Ferris, ar- THE AUTHORS’ CARNIVAL, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] oe Boston, Jan, 25, 1879. The carnival of authors which has been going on in Music Hall here during the past four days, was brought to a close to-night in a blaze of triumph. The entertainment was instituted in nid of the old Souta Church fund and has been an immense success, The amount of money raised has not yet been estimated, or, at least, has not been given to the public, but it must reach $10,000. Dur- ing four nights and to-day’s matinée some two thou- sand people were in attendance on each performance, ‘To-night hall was literally packed full, Many distinguished people were present. Among the num. ber were ex-Governor Rice and Governor Talbot, ex- Mayor Pierceand the present Mayor Prince. Am: the notable ietsocm wie were the exhibition of « Abe,” the Wisconsin War Eagle. He was placed on a perch on the stage. The full glare of the cal- cium light was turned on him, and at the same time the lenge audience broke out into three cheers for him. @ flerce old bird hen ings by ratsing himself on his perch and flapping his wings, with a scream, as he was wont to do in battle on standard of his regiment. . RECKLESS DRIVING. Anna E. Hardman, a child aged three and @ halt years, was crossing Twenty-third street, between First and Second avenues, yesterday afternoon, when a horse and wagon driven by Charles Kormian, offNo. 57 Attorney street, came rapidly up the street. Korman did not see the child in time, and it was knocked down and run over, both the wheels of the wagon passing over its body. The driver never stopped to ascertain the extent of the child’s injuries, but drove on toward Third avenue, followed by an excited crowd of women and men who hed witnessed. the occurrence. Officer Oliver Stewart, of the Eighteenth precinct, joined in the chase and arrested the driver at Twenty-fourth street, The child, who resides with her parents at No, 343 East Twenty-third street, was re- moved to Bellevue Hoxpital. It was there discovered that she was suffering trom iuternal injuries, which will in all probability prove fatal. Korman was ar- raigned before Judge Morgan at the Fitty-seventh Street Court and was held in $500 bail to answer. BACHELOR CLUB BALL, ‘Whe preparations for the Bachelor Club ball have developed more magnificent proportions this year than usual, and to-morrow night there is a prospect of a large and brilliant attendance. Arrangements have been made to put Tammany Hall in ite gaudiest apparel, and decorators will be at work from an early hour to have everything in readi- ness by evening. The demand for tickets is said to be larger than ever betore, Though organ- ized on the cast side, and springing up almost in the places of the defunct Americus and Oriental clubs, the Bachelor Club has representatives all over the city, and the attendance is expected to be of a thor- oughly metropolitan character, JOSEPH BRADFORD, Joseph Bradford, a prominent and influential bust ness man, of Newport, RK. L, died at his residence ip that city at late hour on Friday night. He was en- waged quite extensively in the coal business in New- port and also in Fall River and New York, He studied at Brown University, but on account of iH health was prevented from finishing bis collegiate educa- tion, Itina time since Ne: rt lost ae tive or public ited man than the de« |, and hie doath is considered a serious blow to the place. He relations with the summet had extensive bi residents. He was in his forty-seventh year, and was born in Newport. His life was insured for $30,000, REY, EDWARD WITHERS, Rey, Edward Withers, one of the oldest and most esteemed clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia and rector of a parish in Nelson county, died on Friday, atter a lingering iliness, Ho was s cousin of Senator Withers and a brother of Dr. ‘Thomas Withers, sident of the Commercial Na tional Bank of ‘Potersburg, Va. The body will be buried in the historic precincts of Blandford Ceme- tery. Y. B, LOCKE, P. B. Locke, of the firm of Locke, Austin & Sparks, # well known lake captain, died at Buffalo, N. ¥., yew terday, aged forty-eight years, BENJAMIN WEST. Benjamin West, colored, reported to be 109 years ‘old, died in Baltimore yesterday, He was formerly slave of ex-Governor Bowie and professed to havo personal recollections of Revolutionary day He did not, however, claim to be Mage f ser ot Washinyton, but had seen the Father of his Country,