The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEINIBE'R 13, 1869.

minen :mount ue ns rourows ADSOIUte liberty of con-
science and protection to all forms of faith. 2. Equality of
civil and political rights for all citizens, without
distinction of creed. 3. Independence of all civil, political,
and religious institutions. These doctrines form part of
the Prussian Constitution; they are, however, very far
from being incorporated in the laws or from governing the
institutions.

AMERICAV AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The cab!e announces that—

" The Erie Railway Company has issued additional
Convertible Bonds to the amount of $5,000,000."

This little message tells more than its own tale. It
explains the reason of the rise in Erie prior to the
Gold Gamble, the failure in which effectually stopped
the manoeuvres of the Erie clique. When Portugal,
or Spain, or Mexico wants a loan, the first step is to
increase the value of the Bonds on the market,
and the Erie Company were simply acting on this
rule, and would have continued the operation had
they not broken down in the gold plot. We give
the table showing the extent to which stocks have
been watered, and it is not very reassuring to in-
vestors; but it is not as bad as it looks, for many
of the lines have been developed and improved to
the full extent of the increase, but in the case of the
Erie, with its credit at the very lowest ebb, money
can only be obtained at a high rate. Our readers
will see on reference to our paper of October 30
that a summary was there reported of the Erie
meeting, and the resolution was fully given which
authorized the Board to attach the Corporate seal
to Bonds for $5,000,000, to be called the Narrow
Gauge Sinking Fund Bonds, secured on the narrow
gauge line, which the sum is intended to construct,
as therein described, and the Bonds now announced
are those thereby authorized. The Times speaks of the
Railway Times, of Oct. 23, in New York, publish-
ing this information as if then new, when it was
fully given in Europe, in our issues of 0ct.30. There
was a report that Vanderbilt would lease the whole
line at a fair rate of interest, and no doubt he
would if the clique could be shaken off. But al-
though the Daily Telegraph, in one of its "sensa-
tional" articles, killed Jay Gould, that individual,
' as far as we are informed, maintains as tenacious a
hold of the railroad as ever. Congress will shortly
meet, and Fisk and the clique will find themselves in
the face of a new danger, for there can be no doubt
that they have exceeded the bounds of toleration and
drawn on themselves the national indignation.
How it will end remains to be seen, but Fisk,
Gould, and Lane are not the formidable individuals
they were three months ago.

The same fact may help the creditors of the At-
lantic and Great Western Railroad Company iu
their efforts to compel the clique to fulfil the terms
into which they entered for the possession of the
line. The services have been secured of the New
York firm of Messrs. Boudoin, Larocque, and Bar-
low, and Mr. David Chadwick left last Saturday
for New York. The committee have published a
circular calling on all interested to unite for vigor-
ous action, and we earnestly hope not only that they
may do so but be thoroughly successful, not so much
for their own sakes as because a settlement of this
question involves European investment in America,
and we cannot too strongly urge every assistance to
be rendered to Mr. Chadwick in his effort to obtain
justice and enforce the fulfilment of the contract.
Apathy on this subject will prove highly injurious
both to those in Europe who have money to invest,
and to those in America who want it, for the two
instead of being brought together will be effectually
sundered if that Erie clique can defraud their credi-
tors in defiance of all law ; if they can insist on
holding all the benefits a contract may give, while
contemptuously setting aside the conditions and the
liabilities attaching thereto.
We have heard a good deal about watering the
railroad stocks of America, and we have heard some-
thing of the corruption which prevails in the great
cities. The following table shows how the salaries
of officials increase, and illustrates how directors de-
.age the value of stock for the public as the unions
deluge thesoup for the poor, while officials take care in
an inverse ratio to appropriate the essence to them-
selves. This table is a szatement of the increase of
the salaries and compensations in the State of New
York, inserted by the Assembly in the tax levies :
Increase.

Clerks, &c., of Board of Aldermen and Coun-
cilmen ... $51,560
Aldermen 25,500
Controller's Clerks 40,000
Strout Commissioner's Clerks... ... 5,000
Law Department Clerks ... 2,500
City Courts, Judges ... 40,000
County Departments 4,500
Judges and Clerks in the County 123,473
A. o,,key Hall, District Attorney ... 37,000
Assistant District Attorneys ... ... 15,000
Clerk of Supreme Court, Circuit ... ... 4,000

Total incremo
~,

...2271,475

The extent to which railroad stocks have been
increased, or "watered," by the issue of new stock and
scrip dividends, during the last two years, is shown by the
following statement of the amount of the capital stock of
28 prominent companies in the United States on the Ist
of July, 1867, and the lst of May, 1869, respectively, the
aggregate increase being no less than $113,648,000, or
an average of 40 per cent. :
Railways. July 1,1867. May 1,1869. Increase.
Baltimore and Ohio $16,152,000 $18,152,000 $2,000,000
Boston and Lowell 1,830,000 2,169,000 339,000
B.)stcn and Mains 4,070,000 4,550,000 473,000
Central of New Jer. 13,000,000 15,000.000 2,000,000
Chicago and Alton 6,311,000 7,550,000 1,255,000
Chi., Bur., & Quincy 10,193,000 12,500,000 2,307,000
Chic. & North-west 26,155,000 30,911,000 4,756,000
Chi., R. 1., & Pacific 9,10 ,000 14,000,000 4,900,000
Cin., Ham., & Dayton 3,130,000 3,521,000 391,000
Cleveland and Pitts. 5,391,000 5,958,000 567,000
Con & Passump. pref 1,511,000 1,822,000 308,000
Dub. & Sioux City 5,662,000 4,130,000 468,000
170:500020:002
Erie
Hudson River 9,981,000 13,932,000 351,000
Hart & New Haven 3,000,000 3,300,000 3,000,000
Illinois Central .... 23,386,000 25,277,000 1,891,000
Marietta & Cincin
MichiganMi
chhvgtulklie Milwaukee ttr.aPl Southerna.u;.l 10,998,000 15,181,000 4,183,000
Morris and Essex ••• 3,51)0,000 4,823,000 1,323,000
12,125,0009325000 1,582253,0001
Nashua and Lowell 600,000 720,000 120,000
New Y 011; Central 26,530,000 51,624,1)00 25,094,000
N. Y. & New Haven 6,000,000 9,000,000 3,000,000
New Prov. & Boston 1,755,000 2,000,000 244,000
Pennsylvania
Phila. and Reading 22,742,000 20,280,000 3,538,000
Prov. and Worcester 1,750,000 1,900,000 150,000

Total 5287,030,0005400,681,0005113,618,000

The most important telegram received during
the week is the following :—" Senor Roberts, the
Spanish Minister, has addressed a note to Mr. Fish,
the Secretary of State, reminding him of the prin-
ciples laid down by Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams, in
their controversies with Earl Russell, Lord Stanley,
and Earl Clarendon, and asking how the United
States can stultify themselves by recognizing the
belligerency of the Cubans after protesting against
the recognition of the belligerency of the South-
ern Confederation by Great Britain and France.
Mr. Fish has replied that the Government of
the United States has as yet no intention of recog-
nising Cuban belligerency. He, moreover, main-
tains the doctrine of his predecessor regarding the
British and French recognition of the belligerent
rights of the Southern Confederacy, and he de-
precates the course taken by the Cubans in the
United States, where they have on several occasions
violated the neutrality laws." We cannot conceive
what could have possessed Senor Roberts suddenly
to assume,
and at so unlikely a moment, that the
Administration was about to recognise the belliger-
ency of the Cubans. America is weary of these
gentry, whom even the Tribune advises to give up
bellowing in New York,
and go and fight in the
ever-faithful Isle. People in vain try to impress on
these patriotic Cubans that "they who would be free
themselves must strike the blow," and according to
some accounts they do not treat the Americans parti-
cularlywell who are deluded into making the attempt.
We hope that the Washington Government will
adhere to their doctrine on belligerency, as well as
to the illegality in the act and the responsibility in
the nation which fits out such pirates as the Ala-
bama, and Englishmen who understand the subject
are aware that the enforcement of these doctrines
are likely to favour England
more than any other
nation.

Another telegram states :--
"Mr. Fish and the Hon. Mr. John Rose aro framing a
new Canadian Reciprocity Treaty."
How could Mr. Fish, who has been casting his vote
iu the New York elections, and Mr. Rose, win) is
quietly attending to his work in I3artlioloinew
House, London, have come together for the dis-
cussion of the Reciprocity Treaty? No doubt Mr.
Rose, some time ago, when he was the Canadian
Finance Minister, was sent to Washington to ar-
range this subject, and, like the Liverpool parrot.,
which did much silent thinking, the Washington
Administration may at last have arrived at a con-
clusion. We may here mention that the Hudson Bay
Co. announce that the payment of the £300,000 for
the trangfer of the Territory will be made on the

of December. £3 per share will be returned to the
proprietors, who will be relieved from all the re-
sponsibility of governing, while retaining not only
the land around the posts and factories, but one-
twentieth of all hereafter to be laid out for settle-
ment within the fertile belt. The company is also
to get $450,000 in gold of the $650,000 awarded
against the United States, but there are claims on
it by the chief factors and traders, independent of
the counsel and witnesses.

The press throughout America express great re-
gret at the death of Mr. Peabody, and publish
highly eulogistic obituaries of the deceased. Geo.
Peabody's last resting-place is to be in the grave
of his mother at Danvers, but a funeral service was
performed over the remains in Westminster Abbey
yesterday. England earnestly wished to do honour
to the philanthropist, and a great public burial was
only prevented by the will of the deceased, which
indicated Massachusetts for his interment. It was
then proposed to send back the body in an English
frigate. It appears that nothing but the unexpect-
edly quick termination in death of Mr. Peabody's
illness prevented the Queen from paying him a
visit at the house of Sir Curtis Larnpson in Eaton-
square. Before he left England her Majesty ex-
pressed her regret at not then having seen him, and
directing that on his return the fact should be im-
mediately communicated. As he was too ill on his
arrival to proceed to Bahnoral he was requested to
visit Windsor on ber return, where he would
not be fatigued by any ceremony, and then on
learning how rapidly he had become worse, the
Queen proposed the visit to Eaton-square. During
the funeral yesterday the bells were tolled in other
American. cities besides Boston, Baltimore, and
Danvers, religious services being at the same time
performed. Even at the Crystal Palace the music
in the afternoon was of a sacred character. The
Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, with theUnder-Sheriffs of
London, took their places in the funeral cortege.
The service took place at 1 o'cleels, the Abbey
be'.ug filled with distinguished persons all in
mourning, including Mr. Gladstone, the Earl of
Clarendon, Messrs. Stansfeld, Holmes, Glyn, and
several other members of. Parliament and public
men ; Charles Reed, Sir Curtis Lampson, and Mr.
Henry Russell, nephew of the deceased, who will
take the remains back to America, being the
chief mourners. At the close of the service within
the church, the procession moved to the grave
where the remainder of the service was continued,
the music being—" Thou knowest, Lord" (Croft) ;
"In the midst of life" (Purcell) ; " I heard a voice
from Heaven" (Croft). The finale was—

Ms body is buried iu peaco,
But his namo liveth evermore.—(Handel.)
The ceremony terminated with the Dead March
in 44 Saul," played with great power by Mr. Turk.
The coffin bore the following inscription :

GEORGE PEABODY, ESQ.,
Born 18 February, 1793,
At Danvers', Massachusetts.
Died in London,
4 November, 1869.

In the procession from Eaton-square were the car-
riages of the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the
Minister of the United States, and the Consul-
General; Sir Curtis Lampson, Mr. Charles Reed,
M.l'., Miss Burdett Coatts, Mr. R. Sturges, Mr.
Moffatt, Mr. Gooch, Dr. Gull, and others. The
Bishop of London will preach a sermon in West-
minster Abbey, to-morrow afternoon, in memory
of Mr. Peabody. The service will be Turle in
D, the anthem " When the ear heard Him,"
and "He delivered the poor that cried." After the
service Mr. Turle will play the " Dead March."
Three other deaths are telegraphed from America.
Admiral Stewart, United States Navy, Gen. Wool,
who is said to be well known in Europe, and Chan-
cellor Vanskoughnet, the chief Equity Judge, who
died at Toronto, Canada West, last Sunday.

Among the deaths that of the Hon. Robert J. Walker
was yesterday reported from America as having died the
day before, that is on Thursday. This gentleman has,
we believe, been failing in health for some time, and al-
though an old and well-known Member of Congress he
has not within late years appeared on that stage. In Mr.
Walker England loses a fervent denunciator; indeed one
of his last speeches was to urge the acquisition of St.
Thomas and St. John, when Mr. Seward was negotiating
their purchase, to enable America to flank and destroy the
British fleet and trade in thn West Indies. Mr. Walker
proceeded to describe the pending annihilation of Eng-
land, but, as we at the time observed, he was merely in-
dulging in a fagon de parler, and as the descendant of an
English family himself, he never really intended the ruin
of his ancestral home.

The progress of toleration and of common sense
is see❑ in this passage :

" The National Reform Ccnvention of Jewish Rabbis in
session at Philadelphia have passed resolutions in favour
of adopting modern languages in the prayers, and of in-
troducing modifications in the dietary, marital, and other
laws."

Conventions are everywhere in session throughout
the Union, and it is impossible for anything su-
premely ridiculous to be maintained in the face of
the constant discussions going on. Another Jewish
movement in America is also being agitated to change
their Sabbath to the C hristi an day. The rail, the tele-
graph, and the printing press, if slow, are sure in
their operation, which is to promote uniformity
among mankind. Buckle maintains that the human
family came from one stock, and that the differences
are due to climate and soil. Perhaps we may get
back to the same stock again, all acting after the
same model. There are certainly hard times before
the idols in Hindustan, and even China begins to
feel the progressive influence ; but perhaps as re-
markable a movement as any is that recorded in
the above telegram.
The suit of Mr. Grenville-Murray v. the Earl of
Clarendon came before the Master cf the Rolls yes-
terday. The plaintiff had filed a bill against the
Earl of Clarendon, in his capacity as Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, to obtain different amounts as
compensation for losses he alleged he had sustained
during the period of his diplomatic connection with
the Foreign-office. To this bill Lord Clarendon
demurred, and the demurrer was allowed.
NEW ionic, Nov. 12.—The United States
Ike:hater Albany, with a regiment of infantry and
some heavy ordnance for coast fortifications, sailed
yesterday from New York for San Domingo to take
formal possession of Samana Bay. It is officially
stated that the revenue receipts of the United
States for the last year amounted to 110 millions
of dollars. This telegram confirms the news we
last week gave, but we must confess at the time
that we attached little importance to the Boston
despatch.
Some gentlemen in the St. Louis Convention in
discussing the removal of the National Capital,
spoke with much bitterness of the Eastern States.
Mr. Stewart, of Alabama, and Mr. Hagan, of St.
Louis, were conspicuous in thus treating the sub-
, ject, alleging for the West as well as for the South
nothing but wrong and outrage from the East. It
is not a little curious to observe how history in
this case repeats itself. Civilization and settle-
ment roll Westward, but as the pioneers advance
they turn round to abuse the East whence they
came. The Eastern States are railed at by the Weot,
just as the Atlantic States railed at England,
and what is now called the West will soon be de-
nounced by the Pacific slope. However, the sen-
timents of these gentlemen were not well received,
and were far from expressing the general opinion.
It is said that the Western Representatives are
unanimously in favour of the change, and Wash-
ington has an uneasy feeling, notwithstanding Gen.
Sherman's assurances, who, though a Western man,
is a Washington householder. We have always
classed this question among American bones of con-
tention, and it may yet give rise to a free fight in
Congress and out of it.
The Union is awaking to the fact that it must
exert itself to compete successf ally against Russia and
the Danubian Provinces in supplying grain to the
United Kingdom and to France. There has been a
great fill in price, and while the South is rapidly
rising in wealth, the West is at a standstill. The
total grain harvest is roughly estimated at
350,000,000 bushels of wheat ; Indian corn,
800,000,000'; oats, 175,000,000; barley, 25,000,000;
rye, 10,000,000—total, 1,360,000,000. The decline
from August 15 to October It, on this total pro-
duct of breadstuffs, renders the decrease in the na-
tional wealth of the country plainly apparent. In
the Money Article of the Philadelphia Ledger the
fact is urged on the attention of the nation. It
says on the subject of transportation that the com-
plaints are loud against all the railwayu, The coot

of transportation on the Mississippi River for a few
hundred miles is now greater than is charged over
live thousand miles of ocean carriage. As an in-
stance, a firm at Memphis imported several casks
of wine from Portugal by way of Liverpool to
New Orleans, and thence up the river to Memphis,
the river freight between the last two cities being as
much within as 50 cents of the whole ocean charge
from Portugal to New Orleans. The same firm
shipped from Xeres to Memphis direct, butts of wine
at $1 25 per butt, and had to pay $1431 for a barrel
of whisky from Louisville. Another Memphis firm
say they get goods from Liverpool for less freight
than is charged from New York to Memphis ; and
a Cincinnati firm can get goods from Liverpool via
Canada► and the Grand Trunk almost as cheap
as from New York to Cincinnati. The advertising
columns of nearly every paper in America will show
almost equal discrepancies. The. St. Louis papers
advertise flour to Memphis at 30 cents per barrel,
and to New Orleans, which is certainly quite as far
again, at but 40 cents." The Mobile Register advises
the Cincinnati merchants to import through Mobile
as the natur shipping harbour of the West. This
the Ledger doubts, but it adds, " One thing, how-
ever is sure, unless the West promptly meet the
European demand the Black Sea ports will supply
England and Francs with any extra supply of
breadstuffs that those countries may require. The
trade is therefore of general inter,•st—to the grow-
ers, to the forwarders, to the carrying companies,
and also to the consumers."

Next year the draft may be completed of the
International Coda drawn up by the jurists of different
countries on the appointment of the British Social Science
Association, at Manchester in 186 G, and the project was
submitted to the American Association, and touched on at
its late meeting in New York. No nation has done more
for international law than the United States. The pre-
sent scheme contemplates a code calculated to lessen the
evils of war, promote peace, intercourse, and good will.
Blunt-schli, a German publicist, has arranged the code,
as before in force. The amelioration of harsh points
and debatable questions can be solved by discussion and
general consent. Thrice within seven years the Republic
has been on the verge of hostilities upon international
questions, twice with Great Britain and once with Spain,
which ought to have been obviated by the rules of inter-
national law. As nations have no common superior,
their mutual relations must be defined by treaties, and
the code proposed is an important preliminary to them.
Nearly all disputes between nations could be settled by
such a code. In regard to the conduct of war, the move-
ment has been gradual, but constant, toward the confine-
ment of operations to the actual combatants, and toward
the obligation to treat each other with humanity. An in-
ternational code would embody this spirit, keeping in
view that war should be waged only against those who
wage it, and that private property and persons should be
placed beyond its ravages.

General APMahon, late Minister to Paraguay,
arrived at Baltimore from Southampton, in the steamer
Berlin, Oct. 23. He confirms the report that the Allies
fired upon his party while with a Paraguayan flag of
truce, and prevented the transmission of despatches. He
gives a favourable account of Lopez's position and re-
sources. Admiral Davis testified, Oct. 27, before the Con-
gressional Committee to investigate the treatment of Ame-
ricans in Paraguay. He denied that they were treated as
prisoners on the Wasp ; said he was obliged to keep Bliss
under surveillance, and discredited the latter's statement,
that he was tortured by Lopez. The Committee also heard
the testimony of Captain Kirkland of the Wasp, who gave
the details of the difficulties in bringing Mr. Washburn
from Paraguay. The Committee adjourned, Oct. 29, to
meet in Washington at the beginning of the following
week. The British Foreign Misister reports the safe re-
turn of four more British prisoners from Paraguay.
The latest New York advices from Havannah are
that the insurgent leader Cavada has given general orders
for burning the cane crop, and that two war vessels are
after the Lilian. According to Spanish accounts a com-
mittee of Germans and Frenchmen have offered to raise a
body of volunteers. A new military movement has begun
in the east centre of the island, and it is reported that the
highwayman Garcia has been commissioned to murder the
Cuban President. The Florida expedition has success-
fully landed, but as our readers are aware the Lilian was
captured by a British. mau-of-war, and taken for adjudica-
tion to a British port. The news is questioned that the
segroes near Cienfuegos had driven off a body of insurgents
for burning the cane crops, but it is evident affairs are not
just now prosperous with the insurgents.

A severe snow storm prevailed October 26 in
Canada and Western New York. In some parts of Canada
the fall was nearly two feet deep. For several days beforo
the weather in Central lowa had been very cold, with ice
thick enough for skating. The storm seems to have ex-
tended east to Cape Cod, west to Buffalo, and soutli to St.
Louis, and many vessels were lost by being driven ashore

Violent earthquakes are reported from South
America. Tt.o town of Chacas, in tho Department of Are-
quipa, was €lestroyed on Sept. 1. Apprehensions of further
earthquakes have caused a considerable decline in house
rents in all Peruvian cities. An earthquake wave was re-
corded by the tide gauge at San Francisco on Friday after
noon, Oct. 22, indicating the occurrence of a violent earth-
quake in some distant part of the Pacific coast. On the
next day a severe earthquake was felt throughout New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia at 15 minutes before 6 o'clock
in the morning. In some localities chimneys were thrown
down and the walls of houses were cracked.

Three explanations have been given of Jay
Gould's story of the President and his wife's connection
with the gold speculations. The first is that it is untrue ;
the other that Corbin pretended an influence the better to
conduct his own operations through Gould and Fisk ;
the third that the Grants were put in by Corbin, who
thought thus to make money for them and curry favour,
which is not unfrequently done in 'Wall-street. Tho last
is the most Probable, as it Las transpired that when the
President sold his Washington house to General Sherman
512,000 of the proceeds went to Mrs. Grant, who placed
the money in Corbin's hands, who was at the time in
Washington on his wedding trip, for investment in land
in the suburbs of New York city. This is the sum Corbi❑
asserted he held as a margin in a speculation, and probably
he thus used it, being a speculator himself, to secure as
large a profit as possible for Mrs. Grant. After much discus-
sion and interviewing, Stone, Nichols, and Co., the brokers
who, as alleged, operated for General Grant, have denied
positively performing any transaction of any kind or
nature in IN hich they had reason to believe either as an
individual or as President of the United'States, that Grant
had any direct or indirect interest. It is clear then that an
untruth lies between Mr. Gould and Mr. Corbin, and it
may lie there till doomsday for aught any one cares, be-
yond the friends of either; but the case differs greatly
where the Pre'sident's name is introduced, who has cut the
acquaintance of this precious brother-ln-law. Ger. But-
terfield, it is stated, owed his appointment to A. T. Stewart,
to whom the President applied to name a man. Mr. Stewart
consulted Judge Hilton, and it was he who made the se-
lection. The charge once before preferred against Gon.
Butterfield has been revived, that when on the staff at the
Battle of Chancellorsville he used tho Government cypher
in telegraphing directions for speculations in Now York
on that disaster. His letter to the President denying the
charges contained this extraordinary passage :—" Being
still an officer of the army, on leave of absence, I have
the honour to request that a court of inquiry, composed of
officers of the army, may be ordered to investigate all
these charges, with the usual power to take testimony aad
affidavits, and compel the attendance of witnesses, that the
whole matter may be thoroughly and carefully investi-
gated." In a letter of the same date to Mr. Boutwell he
was equally exp'icit in his indignant denial and his do•
mand for an investigation. The worst evidence against
him appears to be his own admission, that a member of the
clip?, was looking over his shoulder when he opened his
Washington despatches.

The Wall-street Journal says that, on the 26th
October, Judge Cardozo made permanent the appointment
of Francis DI. Bialey as receiver of the British Commercial
Life Assurance of New York, which had been merged
into the European Assurance Society. " The Receiver is
instructed to forthwith take measures to reinsure all the
risks now insured by the subsisting policies of the British
Commercial Life Insurance Company, or the other com-
panies with which it was subsequently consolidated within
the United States, and registered at their agency in the
city of New York, with some solvent or reputable life in-
surance company, organized and doing business under the
laws of this State, upon such terms as may appear to him
most advantageous to the interests of the policy holders;
and, furthermore, to wind up the whole concern:" It asks,
why will Americans insure their lives and interests in
irresponsible companies three thousand miles away, when
there are good companies at home; and replies to the
homilies read New Yorkers by the English press on
the disreputable gold gamble, by putting this
.ques-
tion, " Have these Pharisees forgotten the celeorated
Poyais Scrip, and the innumerable South American min-
ing bubbles. railroad, steamship, asphaltum, insurance,
and othertai joint-stock with which the soi-disatit
sp e
schemes,
have, during the past
recle capitalists
of
forty years, so perseveringly robbed their follow sub-
jects? letbie affair of Overend, Gurney, and Co. already
forgotten ?
This ilutvicial journal, however, does not let its
own people of, while waving before John Bull the red rag
of his iu:v ai ties, for, with many notes of admiration and
of interrogron, it shows up Brooklyn, the City of Churches,
the sleeping places, it adds, of New Ycrkers. We pre-
sume that at. man has to be so very wide-awake when in
Wall-street -that he is apt, feeling safe, to go to sleep in
church ; but; -we doubt whether in Plymouth Church, under
the thunders of Beecher's eloquence, even a wicked Nov
Yorker °mile go to sleep. The question is, why should
the Brooklyst City Bonds be at a discount when those of
the bad, wick ed city of Now York are at a premium ? One
reason is given, to wit, 78 dinners, 61 baskets of wine, 300
cigars, wWeiry drinks, and gents at par! dinners fcr

drivers, and feeds for horses, $625 ; incurred on the yearly
farce of inspecting the sources of Ridgewood Water,
whence the city is supplied. This bill and a seoond like it
were passed without comment by the Board of Aldermen.
But there is another cause, which we give in the words
of Comptroller Johnson:—" So far as the records of the
Office show, the Bonds of the City of Brooklyn have never
been offered in competition to the highest bidder, except
once, but have always been disposed of in such amounts
and at such prices as could bo obtained for them from
banks and other institutions and brokers, upon their ap-
plication or by application of the Comptroller."
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But this is mild compared with the proceedings
exposed in Chicago. The assessor of South Town was
re-elected in 1865, but, desiring hie term to extend till 18701
he managed to get a bill passed through the State Repro-
sentntives, extending the term of assessor (his office) from
1868 to 1870 This official, a prominent member of the
ring, had hitherto been successful in securing bis re-elec-
tion, but for reasons best known to himself he became de-
sirous to secure another year of office without appeal to
the people. His portion of property to assess amounts to
$140,000,000, on which, in ninety-nine cases out of olio
hundred, his decision is final. Say that property worth 3
million of dollars is in question. At 75 cents per $lOO
the assessment would be $7,500. Half the property might
be omitted, or the whole reduced to half in value, whereby
the owners would escape $3,750. Ou each million or oleo
half a million of the tax, a fee of $5OO might be levied on 0)0
South Town property which would yield a valuable return
to the office, and the incumbent might, by assessing out-
rageously those who would not bribe, make up to the
State the under estimates on these who did. The Bill
having passed the House was stopped in the Senate Chant"
ber, which did not dare to enact so earing a fraud, and
the ring was perplexed; but only momentarily. The
Senate adjourned, but on examining its journal, the record
was there entered that the Bill had been read three thans
and passed ; that a quorum was present, and the Senators
names who voted for it were there printed in the regular
form. The Chicago Tribune, which tells this story, adds
" The general public can understand why no assessors are
to ba elected this year in the three towns included in the
city of Chicago. Those assessors wore members of the
Ring, were useful eiders and strikers for the Ring ; thoi
had a good thing each .of them, but particularly ho of tho
South Town ; and therefore their election was taken away
from the people, and the men continued over in office by
special statute. The power and the effrontery of the Pug
are peculiarly exhibited in this transaction. It shows the
power of absolute control over one branch of the Legisla-
ture, and that, baffled in the other branch, it attained 10.
end by a corrupt and dishonest falsification of the officiat
records of the Slate." In explanation of the oonductof
the Ring, we must add that many citizens of both partied
had become so thoroughly disgusted that they had de
ce eidt."
t 0
to elect to these offices honest men, without referent
their political proclivities, and it was in view of this that,
in utter disregard of the State Constitution, these appoint

ments wore removed from the gift of the people.
The Galaxy, in its number for the present Month'
has an article on Imperialism in America, giving a full:
true, and particular account of the birth, life, and death ot
the Imperialist newspaper, as wall as of the existing orga-
nisation of the T.C.1.0., whose aim it is to overthrow the
Republic and establish an Empire on the ruins. There
was a conspiracy to effect this object before Grant's br
auguration, but neither the Grand Army of the ItePubl,l°
nor any other organisation of the &publican 1)3r,.';
were in any degree compromised. The Imperialist pap"
was started, so it is asserted, by the Democratic parti:
funds being supplied by Democratic State Committees and':
Democratic politicians; the Tammany ring, it is adds
offering to furnish a subsidy of one hundred dollars
et
week, which was declined. The question is wltetilnef
the organisation was the work of lunatics orn;
either of the great parties to damago the other- ""the
.s
Republicans accuse the Democrats of having got 1113
ridiculous conspiracy against the sovereignty of the Pe°r,,l,
and the Democrats declare that it was a ring inside "
bigger Radical wheel. It is much more likely to beer,
expression o! disgust at corruption thus finding
retie and out-of-the-way vent, which public indign9'''
will continue to do till it ends either in a remedy or aII
explosion.
The Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, the veteran Chain;
pion of temperance, writes thus in the November nuntbef
of the National Temperance Advocate on the fatuityt)a
attempting to advance the cause of temperance by
party movements : —" We hold that it is unwise to neg'e-t
1,
the teachings of the past. ' And it is an undeniable f'l°
that none of the prohibitory legislation yet gained in,B„crl
State was ever secured by a 'third political party.'
0d
laws as those in Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts,
such as formerly existed in Michigan, New York, and.0()111.
necticut, were not enacted by men elected by a prohibition,
party separate and distinct from the two great parties 011
the day.' This fact throws some light on the future.
by
seems to have been ignored, an American writer WA

some of our good friends at Chicago."
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Tickets may be obtained at the Scholastic Agency'
Hanover-street, and of Mr. Hall, at the Concert 11005.
Stalls, les. Gd., ; unreserved seats,
as.
We have more than once recommended the
rnation for-
We
in London of a Trust and Loan Compalin to ere h
(1
rate in California ou the same principle as those whic
have been so successful in Australia and New Zeal't9.:
California is the most rising of newly-settled countrie..l
and as such can most profitably employ money. A 'l"Peftt
correspondent of the Standard, in his letter, dated
Francisco, Oct. 18, says that money in that city eenur{l°
from 1 to 11 per cent. and upwards per month. Thel,3tibg,:
hotels for some time past have been overcrowded, y 0
e'
very largest, well situated in the heart of the city, reMath it
half built for want of money, though everybody kuuv„oa
would pay enormously if finished. Now this is g
case to point our remarks. The proprietors would go °of
Loan and Trust Company, and give them
the land and building, say a margin of 50 per pent.,
from 12 to 18 per cent. interest. Such terms could be reurqv
obtained on a security of real estate, to which sec
alone the agent ought to be confined. The money is t. ;
rowed in London, for terms of years, at 6 to 7 per cell°,
the security consists of a small D d
-a- - -UP capital, and a
considerable liability as regards the shareholders of
otelly
company, together with the mortgages with the I`o„,a
loaned, made in California. It is the difference bets..;-0
what contents the investor in England, and what is
for the money in California, which swells the sharereir
ders' profit, almost whose only risk arises /0111
appointment of unworthy agents. It has been fort:, s
answer in colonies, with far inferior oppoi tun
the securityitu
et
the agent of the company, say, in San Francisco, mut° the
st g
the endorsement of the solicitor of the company
loan be proposes, as well as that of two or three 1ead,0376
citizens, checks are brought to bear on the agent elswl eta
found sufficient. Any ono can see that if the coniP anytiog
London inspired such confidence as freely to get lor
of
that the profit must be enormous, and it is a me prise
surprise to us that the best field for such an enter')
should be almost the only one neglected. O"
Its " Occasional Notes" have done most toallY
the Pall Mall Gazette so well known. They are gen,o.• os-
instructive, and often, in a high degree,pirant and g the
ing. The best are transferred to other papers mid Po
rounds, and the :Times used to set this example, who
is
usual, was slavishly followed by the rest of the press-
_o
Pall Mall, however, appears
wee have got into disgin'ito.
Printing-house-square, and presume that the Sich
rary Body-Snatcher's" letter was the last straw wo, to
broke the camel's back. It may be presumption in i,bt
recommend our august brother, into whose den seel,sv `iage
has been thrown by the new street from Blackfriars-r bts
to the Mansion House, to resume these extracts, NI
columns are very heavy and require some such roll°
17,3 vale.

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