The Sun (New York) Newspaper, November 13, 1871, Page 2

have better better able We do not mean by this that every pereon conecrned in adminis tering the municipal government should be sen by the people; on the ¢ iter that a large propor tion of thom should be appomted by th Mayor, and should be responsible to him Tt is true that this will give the Mayor more late yenrs ho has possessed ; but the experiment of making Lin powerless 11 that we should Whether ho shoud appoint the Comptroller, the heads of the Police, the Commissiouer of Publi rk Department, the Board of Excise, and the Board of Docks, is n question upon which opinions will be likely to differ; Lut our judgment is that it will be better to put all these things into his hands and to hold him responsille for the correct adminis tration of every department. ‘The city elections sould be separate froin those for State officers, members of Con- members of the Legislature, so that the citizens may not be led away into voting for bad aro nominated on the ticket of this or that political party. should be carly in the year, and probably February or March would be the best month exclude bad Sun. NOVEMBER Amusrments To: Academy of Mu wan's Grent Munem, de, Mpera Mouse av Tie, Ad ay, and 64 ok power than haa not turned out desire to contin opyasite Academy of Mate, Works, the heads of the P Sods Menem The ley Detective, We. For the accommodation ot persons resiting ao BAA vertiscmente for THe SUN wil) De Feeety.a at evr regular rajes at the ap-town adverusement ofion, 4 16:2 Wert Thirty-second street. at and Sixt avenue. trom 8 A. ML. 10 P, M gress, and men beeause the FOR PRESIDENT nunicipal elections Our Tater Dr. HORACE GREELEY, OF CHAPPAQUA, Franklin, Another matter of the scravest importance ie the levy of our city and county taxes, © And then eld Fre 3 ) y only redeeming feat Twaxp's charter is that it removes (his subject from the I it has alw ion of Tur Sen a ing the last week, ending Nov. 11, was 119 6 Leen ® most fruitful source of corrapt to a reponsible body n, and confides it f city officers, trust that in some form this The Tex s Tyranny. eature will The sitaation in Texas daily gre fiteresting expleitly provides that the Legislature and thirty composing that body shall only hold office for two years from the day of tl This election took place on the dast day of November and the first three days of December, n the new charter, fon, let us be spared the spectacle of a great throng of claimants and swindlers rush ng © Constitution of t Representatives to latare into providing that the city of New | York shall pay them money to whieh have no legal right ally, we earnestly appeal to the licau majority in the Legislature, and to all | U he te ol 4 9, and the term of | infiuential Republicans thron authority of these officials expires with the mber of the y In July, 1870, this Leislature p: taw, which was ap; hout the State to eschew all idea of party advantage in the preparation of the new charter. sience onght to teach them that ae pol ti nly wise course, cling to tho single purpose of giv sion of the I metropolis an honest, cfliefent, and incorruy ould begin on the lay of January, the first year of their official ex partisan ol ject; ras thoy succced they will do the Lest thing possible for their > he they wer Tonger than the time for v and Stock Jobbing Tweed Onttone. son -in- Se prov.ding for | If this plan of Apparently t control of the m antél after the ; but whatever this purpose ma: it docs not appear to have Lee Grant's renom tion should be secu the Presidential of fntimidation that v and if that nomina. to bring ino play at exeented to any such extent as the at the polls os visors at Waal Bure upon t endent of statutory insurer of tho The aet of the Legis refer limite this lability it provides that Landlord of the lotel shall keep a safe in the office in which to place certain speci fed articles belonging Constiiatio: ovis, caPeTAtty j certain casos officers, and we hope never to hear of it Let all parties be obliged to sub mit their pominat.ious to the whole body of to his guests, and The designated articdes pF ornaments. A anttemoweamne to t goin plac low. It is probable that th waking in the morving, both watch and money had Leon etolen ‘Thereupon he sued the propr: hotel for fifty dollars, being th moncy lost, and for the value of the wateh, which was about three hundred and fifty dol Jara, On the trial, evidence was offered in behalf of the defendant to show that the notice had been given which the law re- quired, Tho plaintiff obtained a vortict in his favor for the full amount demanded, nnd an appeal was taken from the judgment. The Court ef Appeals holds that the plain. tif cannot recover for the loss of his money, lure on the part of the requ site statutory As to the watch, ite conclusion different, A wateh is not money or jewelry It is worn ont of where there is no hotel-kocper to give th notice. neither is it an ornament, sight, aud cartied solely usefulness, Not being one of the articles men tioned in the statute, the common-law lig ity of the innkeoper as an insurer attaches, and ho is responsible for This decision d which hotel proprietors may lingt their lia bility nuder the existing laws of our Staic Wo are glad to see that the new Conrt of Appesls shows no d sporition to pe Limitation by cit cartiore, oxcopt in the clea press contra: President Qnanr is again the Republicans of Tennessee proper persons to fill local was lately reu States Attorney nesaen, at the and Represent: by rome jifla Preaident to r Monnt Vernon, when fl i toe! was displaced from th ternal Revenue to | Many fortunes have beew the fluctuations whiek hav ment of the oil trae; and + up the bustacs influence to create | he while the country papers, prin the towns thr respective neighborioods, with extravagant’ puffs of showering such attentions upon th AE su #11) also give the notice which preecribed as to euch 6 liable for the Joes by thott or otherwise of any property of that description not deposit ed with him in eompliane he shall not be with the notice. of the largest hotels, and took @ 1 7 to bed at night, he locked his door and his wateh and money under the pi out of every ten strangers who visit New York do th g under )ke circutastances, amount of pn account of ite ines the preci« r innkeepers or common or its equivalent, niled by the squires wad nobl hia abilitios groat usurp: er in England, it is hoped that the Froach na tional vanity will bo coucitiatod in bis favor ; and sini ak TER TR A Ona el cease 1t Bhines for AIL already the Napoleonists in Paris poivt to the manner in which their master is received an Eng- Ind as an evidence that in the eyes of the world Sedan is ignored and the ex-Emperor regarded as aman of profound wisdom and unselfish pa triotism, Tu the isternt of offic, The public on ei/ner side of th menace to the permanen tis that thriving re © of the British mons may appoar the mort likely to imperil the success of republican. ism in any country will receive the warmest «up arehy, and whetever measur peitof the Nugliel aristocrauy.and ite organs... — Wo foel ourselves authorized to pay that the Shandley Legion will not parade on Thanks giving Day ee The celebrated caso of BF. 8. Stoxrs against James Prax, Jr., comes up before Judge Bnapy at the Supreme Court Chambers to-mor- Tow on a motion to set aside the remarkable in- junetion recently grauted by Judeo Pratt of Brooklyn, Mr, Stoxes says that be has made no o promise with Fisk for $70,000 or any other sum, that be has vof surrendered any papers re- lating to the case to Peran B, Sweex or body else, and that ie will not sottle the coutro- other basis than the docision of a court of justice, We are glad that the quostions involved in this 1 vorsy on cuse are now to be passed upou by w magistrate Uke Judge Beane, agaivst whom no suspicion t been ail: to decide eve right and law, Seneca ged, aud whose only purpose is suit ia strict accordavee with While the new Legislature is reformiag: ent of New York, let it by no ret BD: klyn. The robt here are frigghtfal, and the frauds committed in every elo tion surpass belief, If lynching and hanging by the gover eons fi the people could ever be myht, it would be in okiyu now, Let the Legislature act, and prove that a commitive of vigilance is uiterly un. necessary, ny distinguished men, aud among them Rev. Huxey Wann Bercien, have strongly donned the practice of kvep world wonld have lost not @ little entertaining reading if suc had been the viow of all authors As it is, we are disposed to think that there must be mang unpublisted journals of daily Ufo h , ud, The fale hit would profi lowing transeript, from the S:otenan, of the prob avis diary kept t t 1 in the north of Eugland bas strengthenet thi ression: “Monday, Bre t st ul > Kat wine with ler Josed pert 0 i : Hove 1 sorsin “ vewrun, wid fed Flite i, and nt disasters to. th tae Meditor 1 9 gya the “wu norant of the law, W captured they are Iragged to @ police station and thrown into « stone cell without bedding. In the mor ssociated with the thiow 1 a police court, After —— Py ae ! : caly of a tow m\ ‘ 5 ful Cou , or wits emacs pi F y s Tt is gratit to 1 that r b fi f the fet that t ¢ war, whatever t ma vionsiy existed, It ts not now deemed a that r ' iets ) t f for the 7 , Tio Dutch colonies matra have | dio Great Britain, avd the Netherland India ¢ held a meet 1 , 7 ‘ ! in the virgin t Vpey t at vt I \ fll ter ‘ } 1 1 t ' ' r » of ADIN as been introduced in the Ten " House of Represent providing that the jnterventyyn of a jury, unless the parties, r f them, demand a jury trial by fling application with the clerk of the Court before the first day of th n at » tha action is brought, We don't believe in this now syste but remain of pressed by the 6 opinion often & soy, Ife used to say 1 jury formed tho most just kind of tribunal ever patituted, and that no boly of Judgos could be relied on to do justice as woll as & Jury, late James ‘T. B IRANCI GRAIZ Rrown POLITICS. STINDS ON ABSTINENCE PLATFORM ine spirit, the London Jimet | He ta Wilt for [lio whether they tmbi Brom the Foy A short time since, at ther vinoting President Guaxt at the expiration of t of a number fe wrote a leater Ww Cin that eonitetet Atlantic is a standing tion thet of all Liberal Demucracy of How county aud of Hieved they would even prefer voting (or hi sition Kypublicw ea rotten Derr oeraite padorm war if for a Rott gi Democratic tere des er pone or tine tart tat + party, or to young to him, frank the wieh of the parry this county, and also in Aissourl, (@ take honest Democratic ficnt on a tw cratic platform, wite a sound Democ standard bearer. to Bghe Grant and Ka-Kiug laws in w Our prty and the the country might thin| to we asked wov, Brown have govorued lim im Wwe conduct of our and which Were enunciated im the Missouri Canpaizn taat mate aim Governor, wonld be w! herred to and maintained in wis fuuire cou se and enclosed to ot our exchun 10m, aNd called Lasaitention to It, 1 the receiot uf best In tue fever referred Mf the principles wih him with intem pe: browa promotly kcanowle: our letter, anil repiioa in a very fal manner, and thoueh the questions Were prop so wolely LO SAlisIY GUE OWN Av mauter that will be of tn e. and 60 marked, Out the Wwalienity w bas oven paint uf his principles UL veast #ee 1 1b Mia, wleated, wad Oe wich Gov, Browa quires that hits Iriewaw Ken on vurselves Pubic that part of Mis b letiors relerriug to two subjects . BROWN'S LETTER, Executive Drv's, CTY ov Jervei J Mt. Robinson, Bix Dean ou: Tau jast tn receipt of your letter fost, and have to thank you f fis comtuing, sured Utat the principles which Lave corerned me ar in the conduct oF our ved to the end withent any deviution WIN Heriect Frumeness, toat T believe th reesions toward my Pd fraternity. In regard to another motter to which you refer— the cireulation of prejudieisl reports eb peranee, itis but Justice to mysel! ay Wal they ave wnworranted and untrue—tue mere exaggerations or Inveuiions of parti» ¥ have occasionally token & sumulant in ordinary socioty in times past, is uot a naiter with cross intom tl eder be reiuied rather than by 1 ean cay to you (hose who have eiven me their eonddenes 1 geuersl conduct o ny word of prote one walishiction, thag rm ng that ovr er cler of Hts execa- public contidenes PRAYERS. aii bis stables wer Honse stanios are now eiziiwon Enura Poteet San France at the arguments im Supreme Court The decision apon the epplication for a new Wial Will be made next week GRANI'S ADMINISTRATION IN LGYPT ibe-Taker for United States Cons Generat—The Operations of Geo. HW, Bute ler—A Strange Repatsive History. Correspondence of The si Avexsxoais, Egypt, Sept. 1%, 1871.-The abominitions of onr Consulate bere, #0 diseracetul to the good usme of Americans, have acquired {rest notoriety from the le.ter of Consul-General Butier to the Americun Register in Paris, in whicir he made the assertion that Mr, tstrang is not a missionaey. As tis statement is known here by every une wo be untrae, it would have created a good deal of aurorise, IC It Were possible fur any exhibition of menducity or folly on the part of the principal representative A United States of America in Egypt surprise in those Who have lad an opvort becomtn vainted with tho distinguistied cuarac teristics of tho man, Mr, Strang, altaouga nut a clergyman, 19a missionary racusarly appuinted by the General Assembly of the Uuited Presbyterinu Chareh ; for Ave yours he bas had the charge ot the Americna Mission press in Egypt, and be ts well known eve, nob only as one of the most eficient workers among the band of devoted men who have fiven thelr lives to the work of improving the con- ition of taeir teow beings, Dat as ope who enjoys in wn eminent degree tiv respect andgoufidence ut tuone Wilh Whom ia associated in missionary labor, For Col, Bu im the face of th facta, #0 generslly kuown, to make the a»seruon be did in che Register, sows’ a want of commen sense gull cient io wrk lis entire incompetency tor the re sponsiole pusition jato which he has be thrast, leaving bis mauitest Lek of moral principle quite out of the question, TI have trustworthy inforua. on Gat ale toe fee In relation. to two assault on Mr, Strung have beew prought to the atiention of tue powers that ve at Washington by a commutee A oO tie Mission Burd in Potladelpota; whetver President Grant will give the matter any attention, JU cing Lom Mis previous action, OF Kater Want of sction, Reena Very dombidl, Bok there i ne doatt UWE De Hos Leen iurnisned with ample evid (ie diseravenm| wLae ot Mf tre DOW existing Col, Luter not lune ago gave # curious « pee ed iusiration of his regard tor the honor ot the fee winicu he hut so sha nerully dragsed in wie wire, It may be recoltecied that a great deal of inflaeres was exeried by tolelegent Europeans and Americans to orocare Ue on or Mastaphis Away Consular Agent at Theves, and as the pre Ure Wak loo sirong tO be prudeutly Wis allowed to continue in tne wolle, But ween Bu tor went ao the Nie on (hot famons spree whics lus become nitor he discovered that voor Mastapna had p tre English flor on his house hither than the Americ one, and for tuts insult to may Ratioual honor Le was summarily dis- sed and nis pl y whac Was due to tie star-stungied banner, but ished Ocul wuo gave Lim lis position, and In ws itieficlory manner I hose Wi0 have read Sir Samuel Buker's vook giv cap vecoun’ ot bis adventures sm the Waite Nite inser wis ueseri pt cortuan oben’ waste Americ at Koarcoum, w sho, under (be projecting tlds of tne Aineric fig, carried On an exieusive Business iu k slaves jn Ceutral Airies and wenutug tho rw ior sale, Mr, Mate, Woe last Cousul bere, on decvores to dismiss the wan, but he, nevng on tie vie that when one nas 4 good tine it ie be ©, Very juditclonsty declined to acoeus tis COnke, and FelWeed W Lake Gown bac Amerivan ar vou tLe ouiding Whiea Was the headquarters of hi e circu usiaugos Mr tesaovw trafic Uniler t out ted Sir Samuel Baker to twar then town sgould ne tid them sul tere Waen be went UD ‘th be erewt expedition Last yeor, Muder the atispices O° the E.vpuun Government, Tt wie 4 son of this Shomvodes, tue O14 thant ne Who Agured in the celebrated st.b.e megotiat AB consusite azeney, u deser) @ Which bay been extensively pnulisbed im the Uoved nates 1 f inveresting sequel to tame story. None of phomuwe © Vuitd Until confirmed at pe, and thouga the #on of the vid save # st Gews!Ul in lis Megoliativny wilu our Joneral, be fodud on reaching Knartoum coat the Geveror there Would not recocmize aim us ire arry of Lis luther's lucrative busiauss dader Ub store abost ives, A crustwortuy bocti-b wequain nce Who lives i Cairo ii,orums me aaat one uf iy Teucs ius received 4 coumssion from the Kur Oui Wan tO spena SAY Wore W Becuriag bau Fe quisite Goverciment BUCLOTIZ.UOM vl iis ni cnt attie sume time waytug tat + WAS. 86, Ska AB OWN revmas to ik el aud iabod Ws secure the recyen euis in Constintimopic, and wits ‘ion bis appomitineni® are not worth tue olan Ow Wien they ure Weitien, as te Govern CHL AES 18 quite WO sireWd tO Kocugmiae them Wit OUL It LHere Ore Lie POOF peoKe WHO pa ange ‘or such appointments ure We v (us trousparent 4 fraud a © was rated by uy Of tue raxcats described im fue ». under the ve Amuse BWP Hers.” er stron e, ut t orn y the lets Anotner point Worth notierng ts tals Fhe Uaived States baw presertves th tera ot a consular ugenl €xi ies Ou vie Tees |, resignation, oF desta of Lae CORR! OY Whom be Was appotited ; (aleo Ceclare= that every consolaryeent's nan stall Le. sent to the State Department for conflems. tion, Tetrongly suspect that Cul, Batter, while Watlag Hinsel: of (ie frst-named provision Of (we awo Make ubpointmenis, ous seen fl to quicuy ignore tie incier, and relieve te Siate Department y responsivih yiu tie matter, [have not sea Wot toe last Consular list, wLteh ts resued at ty by the State Deoartment, bac that will #how ria rect t fupaurition, Alex the law encom We tee panos ¢ | t United Ja Wis acco ron | tert 4 | ou Under the Wate of The equivoe | usse ublages whi trom time t bigot last, U0 House’ of Kepreson | stave anu eit ofictals and mem | tures wae ma ie tu 0 . J sien oF the erty ut rn AMUSEMENT Opera Ualian, German, and Preneh. rt 1 1 r Postiiton.” He dep esa” will be ‘1 Edwin's this we 1nex A bringe man rm "Ls fo Barnam's Great Show A Card (rom Mr. Floren | | Kiad 4 tM andl nent, Your inost A Card fromta Co yiates Usstan Arm rival in Atneriea of Misty Hizhness te | Grand Dake Alexis, 1 have i 0G Aid thet Lie aul?or of | | assertions and expeestions were ev aud entirely torsiga to ne, Kesnectfully yours, K OEDINETE, Nov. 1, 2871 apiain of the Kuseian Ariuy AUNT PAMS. —It in asserted that bavanas can be succeag, faily erown in 8 outhern Caiiforita =A fretory for preserving wood and rendering It Incombustibie Was destroyed vy fire in San Franeige €0 reconity, —New Orleans thinks it has made a mistakein ormaniai tot In the last libel suit aginst @ new: Texas Camager wera iad at $12,000, awarded sixty conte, A Chicago paper of recont date says: “The ArH divorce suit Fince the Oro has been entered, Ma we are once more city." reported that he coulda’ e onary, because“ the biasted. book hadn't got an index." —At Ottumwa, Iowa, at the tate election, @ Democrat voted @ last year's printed tleket, saying he © aia't want any new departure in bis'n,” —Some twenty families are coming from Eng land to Jorn the Shaker Society at New Lebanon, N. ¥5 the result of Eider Evane’s lanors abrond. —Troof Positive: Good young Indy— Little boy, have youever beon Onprized ? Small beathen~ Oh, ves, mom: I've the mark here on my arm, —The Saturday Review thinks that so long « some of the minor poets puntish volames, erocers need not fear lest waste paper thowlu prove scarce. —A young man generally gives a lock of bh hair to hie sweetheart be(ore he merrios her. After marriage she sometiMes helps herself, aud dosent use semior’s v0 had some advantages that no other mare Hed woman ever enjoyed, chiof amons which was th fact that her hustand could never lacerate her bea Dy Lelling ** how his mother used to cook.” Miss Porkinson, atone time a patient in © San Franciseo borpital, has eed @ physiolan far dame agen 10 publieling @ history of ber disease and ite treatment in a medieal macazine, and has lost her enre. —An old lady walking with her tvo growa nicht night. displaye’ har kaowis elge of astronomy by pointing bi ward and ex claiming: “Ob, my dears, do Joox at them beantifad stars Juntner and March —In «New Maven church, an fntoxicated man the caliery listened Imtea'ly while tae soprano eang Asolo, and aftor the had fnishel he #tood up on the seat, waved ale hat. and shouted * Bally tor yout” te the consternation of tie audience. —The French army is soon to be uniformed Anew a+ foliows: fark blue cap with red turban, orn tomic, wit (wo rows of brass bnt‘ons and red trim. rinse; and gray troveers wit) re: stripe —A Berkshire papa put it thus to his daughe but 1d: n't want you hanging around antess yoo wean vasiness, Tf voatotend to marry ber, hurry ap, fork can't be kept aweke olghts longer,” —A gentleman engaged in investigating th charges of carctersoess azaiast the workmen in the Scranton mines, found afterward that, during the tne Yestigation, he liad been given an onen kez of powder 0 FIL ON, w hile Be hela w Nichied candle In his hand A Westorn editor was serenaded, and in the DeXt Hen Of his paper eompliinented ihe sereuading natty om their“ Judieious taste tn the selection of Neattos. that they had played ths * I paper in pd the jury aughters on am zne's Maren.” —An old market woman accosted two gentle. men to Quincy Market, Boston, ove day, with \te ‘ole lowing negative irquiry: “Gentleman, you ha'n't hone on you eo) nothing of no sau Dox nowhere round here no to-day wita mo snud io Mt, ha'a’e —A committee of the Wushington Territory Legislature a's that coaviots 1m tne Tercito tal Peat TOusiAry CONp'AID Laat thew Are BOE EUppLiEd wich to becca, And the raid commitier, moved with compare ecommena @a act of ihe Le,isiatare for (help Professor Henry says that the observations the Smithsonian Inatitation, whieh extend over a ps- 1 of twopty vears, linve as yer tailed to conficm the pop a Wenet TOMOVA: UF (he lures 8 aus the cnluvatioa of (no soil tend Co dinnaisls the amount of valnfalt, The Old ( vy Ralrowd io Maysachneetts in 1Se8 gave a free (a88 10 ali Who would dulld houses to he village of Wollaston Melshte, The resait bes or that the paying parsencers trom Coat station wo and from Boston are more thea (ea (aos as many now as Carve years azo. —At a horse ease tried in Northampton tho edicive was need {n (he treutment of tne élinprtated anual, anid that "he woul be oygied if'ne Kuowed but he rather gucesed 1¢ was auatchy.” May bethe man meant sentea -A Chico boot-black recently appeared in | ; | . 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