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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04
QUARANTINE ABUSES.

Gov. Hoffman refuses to listen to informal
"and anonymous accusations made against
"public officer through the columns of the
"newspapers - but he invites any citizen
who has knowledge of misconduct on the part
of the Health Officer to make q written state
ment of the case, with memorandum of the
evidence. We believe the Governor is wrong
in taking this position Accusations made by
leading newspaper on its own responsibility,
with particularly of dates, figures, and other
Details cannot be considered either informal
or anonymous, and it is the duty OF public
functionaries to give them respectful atten-
ton. Moreover, we have shown excellent
reasons why the burden of prosecuting the
Health Officer ought not to be imposed upon
the merchants who suffer from his ex-
actions Before the evidence could be sifted
and the case closed, any shipping merchant
who took prominent part in it could be
ruined by redoubled exactions; and 1t is one
of the most serious charges against Dr. Carno-
chan that he has made commercial men afraid
of his vengeance. His powers are 80 extern
sive that an importer may be excused for
dreading his displeasure, when it may involve
absolute pecuniary ruin. What would Gov.
Hoffman think if the District Attorney should
refuse to prosecute ROsenzweig because Alice
Bowsby never made a formal complaint
against him.
But since the Governor declines to order an
investigation until the merchants personally
recount their wrongs, we have only to urge
these gentlemen to speak boldly, promptly
and fully. Our disclosures have so dismayed
the officials at Quarantine that the task will
be an easier one now thaa it would have been
a month ago, and Gov. h N,Sman has promised
to give their complaints his most careful
attention. Let every man who has suffered
from illegal Quarantine fees, OF extoltionate
charges for Tightening, stevedoring, and tow
ing, now accept the Governors invitation.
Combined action may bring about a ffefoim
but the Governors letter to Messrs. C. II.
Marshall e. Co. is q distinct notice that DR..
Carnochan's exactions will continue until the
victims speak for themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04
home, wondering what the world Is coming TO
If this is the way they oppose all manner OF
Radicalism In the Old Dominion. ~ Y ~
THE MEETING TONIGHT.

The meeting of citizens at Cooper 1nsti-
tute tonight will be Of such character as 70
impress profoundly the State and the Union.
1t will set forth the grievances OF our tax
payers 80 perspcuously that no impartial mina
can fail to be impressed by them. 1t Will
show that the expenses Of our Government !or
legitimate purposes have been systematically
increased on every hand, until we have
more Judges, more commissioners, more CLERKS
&c. &C., than we ever had till recently
and they are paid double and treble the
salaries that satisfied their predecessors. JUDI
ciary, Finance, Tax-assessing, Printing Elec-
tons, and almost everything else, cost enor-
mously and oppressively. The smallest OF our
one horse Courts is run by judges who receive
far larger salary than does the Chief Justice
of the United States. Seven of our Police and
Civil Justices, whom nobody would think Oh
employing to defend suit involving ., q
thousand dollars. receive more pay than all
nine of the Justices of the U. y. supreme
Court. In short, the machine has been over
loaded till it has broken down.
Such is the view of the matter which must
be obvious to every one. The City and
County Debt has constantly and largely in
creased since the War, while other municipal
tiles have generally reduced their debts or
paid them off altogether. And it is plain that
the income of the present year will be largely
exceeded by the expenditures.
1t is simply impossible that this should go
on. The only question is one of months or
days. Whether it come tomorrow, next week.
next month, or next year. crash is inevlta-
in 6popninrinO DOStDOne
but cannot avert it.
But our municipal masters are popularity
.assailed as worse than prodigal and spend
thrift they are moreover, impeached as pup
lie, wholesale robbers. 1t is directly charged,
land their own accounts are relied on 10 sus-
tain the charge,) that they have paid out MIL
lions of Dollars of public money in satisfac-
ton of claims which had no just foundation
whatever-for plastering and plumbing that
was never done, carpeting that was never FUR
nished, stationery never had nor wanted, &c,
&c. Over Six Millions of Dollars of these bo-
gus bills were passed, says ex-Supervisor Foley,
at single sitting by Special Board OF Audit
created by last years Tax-Levy, and composed
of Mayor Hall, Controller Connolly and Com
missioner William NJ. Tweed.
These are very grave charges. They seem
to us not to have been met as such charges
ought to be. No man can afford to stand
mute in the face of allegations so specific and
so damaging. And the functionary thus i'm
peached who cannot answer should resign at
once. He cannot earn his salary with repu-
tation thus stained, name so dishonOred
Go to the meeting tonight. Go to hear
what shall be offered, and to resolve on
course of action which shall prove at once
unexccptionable and efficient.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04
POLITICAL.
BUTLER's ATTACK ON HAwLyY.
MORE LIGHT on THE SUBJECT.


HARTFORD. Sept. 8.--Gen. Hswley hax vv,fs,
ten circular letter In reply 10 Gen Buffers rsap.<S
concerning him in Worcester After replying TO soma
Buffers contradictions, evasons and msrcpresent.Ao
he disposes OF his assertion thst the Chairman N ~
Nominating Committee Of tho Society Of tho Army a, ~
James had written him that Hawey could not hs,, b..
elected President OF the eoeety had been know, Ss
he was unfrendly 10 Butler by quoting from ettsn,s
ceived from Gen. Alonzo Alden Of Troy the Ch.t,,..
referred to- which follows: at had The honor ~ ~,
ing the Chairman Of said Nominating Committee. hut
have made no such statement - reported nor hsysv
written any letter the subject Of the reunion or
thing pertaining to 1t, to any man" Gen. Hawey can
cludes his letter as follows:
have studied Gen. Butler for years and know b,,.
well am told he said be would punish ma Ma
thought he could start lie By telegraph several davs
ahead Of my contradiction by the papers and malta He
wss mistaken All his Springfield attacks carefully
Hawley was discreded and degraded an ofncer, he
may deny It, But people viii say there must have been
little foundation for It, some pretext or Butler
would have been too shrewd 10 make the charge That
Is quite natural I say TO my friends, upon my
honor that Buffers charge, In any OF Its several yara
without shade Of Imaginable basis. think Gen Bnt.
Ter the most reckless interruptions, DANGEROUS dema-
gogue this country has since Aaron Burr and 1t 10
to me patriotic duty and high pleasure TO op-
pose him. There Is satisfaction in the reflection that
with such hole In his head where the moral facul.
ties ought to h., cannot have good Judgment or real
shrewdnesS. H. may make good deal OF trouble but
he Will kill himself lie might succeed In Paris as ROhes
pierre and ROchrfort succeeded, but be- Is mOustiosity
In New England"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04

Our Washington correspondent furnishes
some curious statistics of population from the
Census Bureau, particularly relating to the
part which the yellow, black, and red races
play in our social dynamics. The Chinese,
though feeble folk in number, are scattered
all over the Union from Maine to California
Nevada, which has made much ado about her
heather, has less Chinese than Idaho. The
Indians show a large apparent decrease,
while the negroes have actually increased half
a million, and have not left the South in large
numbers, despite the old predictions of their
dying out and their general dispersion. The
proud Caucasian can comfort himself by
analyzng these interesting tables.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04
Beamish and Knight, and STAFF Commander

Beamish and Knight, and Staff Commander
Kiddlel is placed on hak-pay. Censures are
literally distributed among the officers OF the
feet who saw the danger and did not try to
avert it. This stern and unrelenting judgment
seems thoroughly approved by public opinion
and by the Press. The question Is asked,
"Should long life of honorable service be
" overlooked in the punishment Of this one
"faultr and the answer appears to be un-
hesitatingly, Yes.
1t is not without feeling of hopeless envy
that we look upon these acts of an effete and
bloated aristocracy. This envy is greatly en-
livened and emphasized by recent occur
renee in our own Navy. On the Goth Of July
last, the day being clear and fine, the United
States steamer Guerrero name full of the
glorious memories of our early naval renOwn,
ran deliberately ashore on the Vado reef, near
Leghorn. Measures were taken to float her
of, but an earthquake came kindly along and
helped her promptly out of trouble, after she
had well-nigh bumped herself to pieces on the
rocks. She lies now at La Spezia, and
disguised sailor writes to us that it will cost
all she is worth to repair her damages.
Is there anybody 80 innocent as to think
there will be an Admiral or Commodore, or
the smallest mouse of midshipman, brought
to book for this disgraceful carelessnessf If
So let him consider that, just one year before,
this same vessel, with the same commander,
was stranded on Nantucket Shoals, in
the most shiftless and shabby manner,
bearing on board the honored clay of
our greatest Sailor. Every one in
this good-natured country has probably
forgotten the feeling of sheepish disgust which
came over us all when the pitiful news was
told and the ashes of the heroic Farragut
came ignobly to our wharf in one of Mr.
Fisk's boats. A few jokes were cracked In
the usual pusilanimous American style, which
we always use when our servants rob or insult
u.s. and the criminal performance of the Com
mander of tho Guerrero was passed over. IL
we must keep ships and captains for such
farces as these, let us hope Mr.. Robson will
retain them at home, and not waste our fun
by amusing Europe with it.
We are certainly q great and magnanimOus
people. We allow our officials to rob us and
then make puns about it in the weekly press
Rogues steal our railroads and we make
colonies of them. Our car-drivers break our
skulls in the street-cars. Our tlcket-sellers
call us names when we patronize their lines.
Our great corporations blow us into eternity
with rotten boilers, and smash us into
splinters with Grant locomOtion and
all this we bear with the equanimity
of oysters Once in while we rouse
ourselves into spasm of self-respect and de-
mand justice on culprits. We sentence Eos
ter to death, but Pratt lets him go. We put
Vanderbilt in the Tombs-for five minutes.
And it remains to be seen whether our Navy
Department will ask any impertinent ques-
tions of the captain of the Guerriere as to
what he has done with his vessel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04

Some Of the Communists have been promul
gated in Versailles. The German Minister has presented
his credentials There four deaths from cholera in
Paris last week The anniversary OF the surrender
at Sedan was celebrated in Germany on Saturday. g.
An American actor has committed suicide in London A
boiler explosion took place at Cardiff Wales, two persons
being drowned. - A Carlist rising is Threatened in
Spain.
Government will buy t4,OOOOOO OF bonds and sell
100000 of gold during September. 60 Serious cleo
ton riots have occurred in New Mexico, several per-
being killed aud many wounded. go Sixteen
KuKlux have been arrested in North Carolina by U. g.
troops. - woman las been killed and IT emigrants
injured by collision the Detroit and Milwaukee Rail-
road. 60 Destructive fires have occurred in Boston,
Meridian, Miss, and Railway, y. j.
Emmanuel Church. the Rev. Geo. E. TDrall, Rector has
adopted prayer-bOok and withdrawn from Bishop
Peters diocese. John Riley, Brooklyn shoe
maker has been fatally stabbed by his WIFE John
B. Olivier Of Brazil has been drugged and piundered.
- seduced girl, age Is, smOthered her child in
Madam Van Buskirks house Of abortion in st. Marks
place. - An Orange fcud between two families
suited In attempt at poisoning. - Walter L. Con
Lin aud Alice A. BOwsby, victims Of the Rosenzweg
tragedy, were bsried Saturday. - gang Of New
ark rowdes inflicted fatal injuries On Officer Wilde.
Gold. lI2I lis. 1I2l Observation-Disclosures 7l9 soo
No Sunday, 76o 7S', 1872
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04

The alacrty with which the French have
paid up tho whole of the indemnity due on or
before May 1, 1872, is explained by our Berlin
correspondent. 1t appears that the negotia-
tiOns for the evacuation of France by the
Germans were complicated by the question of
admitting German manufactures to France free
of duty after September 1, at which date the
agreed arrangement for passing such goods
duty free expired. The French were offered a
speedier Withdrawal of the troops if these
privileges to the Germans were continued, but
they now are in a condition to demand the
evacuation as a right under the Treaty of
Frankfort
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04
PROTECTION TO LIFE And LIMB.

When Jacob Vanderbilt, President of the
Staten Island Ferry Company, was arrested for
manslaughter and sent to the Tombs, though
only on the action of the COroner's jury, the
public sense of justice was gratitied, and q
more healthy tone was at once given to the
public confidence. Jacob Vanderbilt in Jail
was an inspiriting spectacle, under the circum-
stances, not because he was an influential man
who had been suddenly Inundated nor a rich
man who found that his riches could not keep
him out of the house of detention. but it was
an earnest of the ability and determination of
law officers to find who was responsible
for loss of life and limb by travellers, and to
punish the guilty parties. And now that Mr..
Vanderbilt and his associates have been in
dicted for manslaughter by the Grand Jury,
we have taken another decisive step in tho
right direction. Certainly we are getting on
bravely toward a fair understanding of the
rights of the often-propounded problem, Who
is aIsponsibe 7
Ip'is cruel commentary on the inhumanity
of man to man that we cumber the statute
books and besiege the courts to mulct in full
amount of damages those who destroy our
property by negligence or false economy, while
and land to 90 scot free by dividing the
responsibility among their employees and the
visitation of God" During the month of
August, by six of these accidents" there
were about One Hundred and Seventy persons
killed in the United States, to say nothing of
minor disasters, which put only score or so
out of lite. This CORY chapter in our national
history has its obvious lesson, and it will not
have been an unmixed evil, if from it shall
arise wholesome legislation and determined
enforcement of the laws which shall ade-
quately protect the life and limb of such as
trust themselves to steam vessels and railroad
trains. The Indictment of Vanderbilt, Brais-
ted, and Robinson means that the era of ire
sponsibility has passed, and men who under
take to carry passengers shall safely deliver
them. the ordinary perils of the sea duly al
lowed, or suffer all the consequences.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04
ANOTHER GERMAN PROTEST.
HOW TO DO 1T.
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: In your issue of to-day you 81.


"If the next Legislature TO be no improvement On
the last morally and intellectually, We trust VII ~
unchanged politically We do MT want lnesi SUCCESSOR
IN the radical saints and 'whiteneckclothed seonn
dres whom The Albany Argue charges with recen ~
AT brtbes to pass abOmnabe Tax Leyies out ol to
Millions stolen from City In the guse OF bills Ior car
nets never woven and pasterng never done. SUI
cattle shall buy or steal Republican nominations, knife
them |"
True. every word Of It. But what want TO know is,
How am to tell whether person nominated Is ono ',
the cattle" you advise me to 81 nifer neD
,,,uan, q, Winans there would doubt But In my
district report says is likely to be nomina'os
whom don't believe morally or politically honest sns
form my opinion after careful inquiry as 10
facts connected with bis public career Iei ns' Few
frtend, and controls the "machine." L anu = IA
Others bolt he will be pretty surely defeated ou' hst
others think we can prevent bis nomlnauon'
shall we dof -.
Prevent his nomination, certainly; and 10
rrudge q weeks work to that end We ns'' nov
have men Of doubtful integrity for candidates. io'
such will surely be defeated.-Ed 1rb.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04

The Versailles court martial has convicted
fewer Communists of crimes worthy of death
than was generally expected at first. Lullier
and Ferre are the only men 80 far sentenced to
die. Ferr6 is yet a young man, being only 25
years old, but he has q bad record, and has al
ways been a champion rather of disorder than
Of liberty. He was indicted for setting fire to
the Palace of Finance, the Prefecture of Po-
lice, and other buildings, ordering the as
sassination of the hostages, and usurp-
ing civil authority. He was Procurator-
General and also Delegate to the Prefecture
of Police during the reign of the Commune.
Lullier, who is known as "the mad lieutenant,n
took an active part in the defense of Paris
against the Versaillsts, and was commander
of the artillery of the 9th, 18th, and Goth
Legions. He was conspicuous for his dashing
ferocty, and was indicted for leading move
ments designed for the pillage and destruction
of Paris The conspiratOrs whose crimes were
not all proven, or were more veHial have es-
capped with their lives, and some of them are
probably surprised at their deliverance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04

A good example of the pettness which char
acterizes the sort of politics chiefly affected by
the Democracy is found in the apparent ne
cessity which exists for an exhibition of
Speaker Blaine's personal affairs. Democratic
newspapers have nothing more serious to con-
slider nowadays than the garments, personal
habits, diet, and domestic relations of their
political opponents. Speaker Blaine, among
the rest, has been daubed with this sort of
personal abuse and has felt obliged to confess
that he is not millionaire, and that he came
honestly by the modest property that he'owns.
1t is humiliating that any public man should
have to do this sort of thing but if any shall
be obliged to, it will be fortunate for him that
he can make as crcditable an exhibit as Speaker
Blaine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04
A COON EY1MPI Y

1t is more than hundred years ago since
British Admiral, of an ancient and honorable
family, was sentenced and shot for conduct
which in our service would have been con-
sdered harshly punished by a reprimand. He
had attacked the French feet at MinOrca in def
ance of the unfavorable opinion of council of
war, and had been repulsed. There was nothing
certainly in this action to justify charge of cow
ardice. But the charge was made, aud the
Court found that Admiral Byng had not done
everything that was possible against the en-
envy, and sentenced him to death, with rec
ommendati0n to mercy. The recommendation
was scorned and the sentence executed. This
DracOnian severity sent shudder over the
worlG 1t incurred the terrible invective of
Voltaire, who, after a passage of fiery indig-
nation, sinks into that icy sarcasm which
has since grown so famous: "In England
"they shoot their officers to encourage the
"others." While we share in the denunciatiOn
of the murder of this chivalrous sailor we
cannot avoid certain feeling of respect for
Government who could commit such brutal
ity. We know only too well that no neglect,
no fault so gross, could be perpetrated by an
Admiral of ours that we could shoot him for it.
Inc recent BtTdDulHS VI .Hc ASlnCOtut, one
of the finest of the English iron clads, at
Gibraltar, has been punished with a severity
equal to that employed upon the unfortunate
Byng, when we take into account the nature
of the case and the advanced civilization of the
age. The neglect which permitted the acct
dent was certainly gross and fragrant. One of
the greatest ships Of the navy, in open day
and pleasant weather, under the eyes of two
Admirals and the whole feet, steered upon
shoal known to every mariner and marked in
every chart. A cOurt-martial reprimanded
Capt. Beamish and Executive Officer Knight,
and admonished them and Lieut.. Bell to be
more careful in future. Public opinion re-
garded this verdict as 30 extraordinary in Its
lenity that it positively demanded revision
of the sentence. This the Board of Admiralty
have done, and they strongly censure Vice
Admiral Wellesley, who commanded the
squadron, and, while giving him credit
for former distinguished services, feel
constrained to mark their sense of his
"grave default on this occasion by ordering
chin to strike his flag" Rear-Admiral Will
mot, who was on board the Agincourt, lead
ing q division, Is superseded. Us are also
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04

The World is surprised that THE TRIBUNE
should denounce the payments from the City
to the New-York Printing Company as exorbi-
tant, when one of the stockholders in that
Company is also q stakeholder in THE TRIB-
UNE. The gentleman thus situated may per-
haps have share in the conduct of the Print
ing Company; he certainly has none in that
of THE TRIBUNE. If he has made no worse
investments than those above indicated he
may fairly be congratulated on his sagacity
and his thrift. If he owned half THE TRIB-
UNE, instead of twenty-ffth part Of it, our
opinion that the New-York Printing Com
pany has received far more than its honest
due from the City would be just what it now
is, and just as freely expressed. We mean to
uphold the cause of honest, frugal rule, and to
do this without fear or favor. When The
World finds us justifying pecalation because
its benefciarics are our political or personal
friends, then it may criticise US with reason.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-04

This is an amazing as well as amusing
world. The other day the " Conservatives"
of Virginia met in convention at Richmond
nearly all of them Rebel Generals or Colonies
and laid down their platform-Op Opposition to
every shape and shade of Radicalism. Just
then deputation from the Conservative
niggers of Richmond presented their black
faces and were received with all the honors |!
Old Jubal Early took this harder than any of
his defeats BY Sheridan, and put out; but the
Convention decided that it could better spare
BIN than the niggers; for he represented one
vote, they perhaps hundred, with large pos
siblities of increase. Jubal went ruefully