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New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
UONORING THE OFFICE.

If Gen. Grant has not been a successful ad-
minstrator OF the public affairs, has he at least
been reputable and decorous President, who
has kent his Office free from scandals, and
won for his strict devotion to duty the respect
of honest men7 Let us see about that.
He has done what no President ever ventured
70 do before-treated the Presidency as prize
bestowed upon him for his own uses. Until
his time the Chief Executive was regarded as
the chief servant of the people. His office
was not a prerogative but trust entailing
labor and responsibilities, and demanding for
its discharge patriotism and self-sacrltce
Gen. Grant has taken it for valuable piece
of property of which he may dispose
at his own good pleasure. When he
formed his Cabinet, he selected the secre-
taries as a militia general might select his
military family. The departments were not
put under the charge of those who were fit
test, either personally or politically, to direct
them, but distributed among favOrites,-the
men who had given him houses and money,
and befriended him when he was poor and in
trouble. Then came the host of needy rela-
tions. Some he placed at the gate of the pal
ace, where scandal says they took tolls of the
applicants IOT pldcej anu .ho othels ho seht
away filed with consulates, and collectorships,
and post-offices, and the other good things
that fall from the White House table. OF
course these family dependents have disgraced
themselves and their country; but their patron
win not remove them
In time the poor relations were all provided
for; even the Presidents fathe2 had post
Office and then patronage took new form.
Heretofore it had been sheer nepotism now
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
.JUDCE WCUNN REMOVED.

Seven of the eight specific charges against
Mr.. McCunn, late Judge of the Superior Court,
have been sustained. TIE Senate, yesterday,
by a unanimous vote, decided that he be re-
moved from Office, tweDty-eight Senators
voting. SO far as the Senate is con-
cerned, this ends the career of one of the
three corrupt Judges who were first explicitly
arraigned by The TRIBUNE. Of the others,
one, Mr.. CardOzO, has anticipated formal
verdict by resigning, and the other, Mr.. Bar
nard. lemains to be tried The verdict OF the
triers will not surprise anybody, for
the specifications Excepting the eighth,
which was geDeralizauon) were sup
ported by irrefragable evidence. That
in the first charge was sufhclently
explicit, it would seem, to carry the whole
case. 1t was in evidence that McCunD, in the
case of Clark rerSus Bininger, was corrupIy
interested in the appointment of receiver,
the selection of counsel, and in various other
matters concerning tie custody and disposal
of valuable property. If the other charges
were less grave in their character, they were
no less susceptible of establishment, and the
defendant has been found guilty of corrupt
arbitrary, and NAL conduct in office. His re-
moval is an important and needed step toward
the publication of the judiciary of the State.
AS for the eighth charge, that the accused
has by his action brought the administration
of Justice into contempt, and caused deep
seated and general distrust and fear in regard
to proceedings in the State Courts, the estab-
ishment of all the previous counts in the IN
dictment carries this with it. 1t was not so
much O matter of evidence as of o. inion
whether Mr.. McCunn has shaken public conf
dence in the courts; but, since it was well
understood Gas is now proved that he
has been guilty of capricious and corrupt
practices on the bench, the loss of pubic
trust in the courts must, of course, be admit
ted as q fact. We shall now see OF what
avail is the claim of Mr. McCuDn's counsel
that their appeal to a higher tribunal VIII
bring their client off in triumph and with
spotless reputation. In the meanwhile The
TRIBUNE, which initiated these proceedings
against the three corrupt Judges, congratu-
lates its readers on the substantial success
which has been gained in the cases of two OF
them.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
INDIAN MISNANAGEMENT.

One of the conspicuous gems in the chaplet
of honors claimed for the successful Admins
traton of Gen. Grant has been the admirable
solution of the Indian problem. Somehow,
the problem does not, however, stay solved.
Accounts from the South West, continually
accommodating, indicate that the uneasy, hardly
managed Indians of that region are on the
war-path; and so far from being paci-
fed, as is pertinaciOusly averred, they
are more defiant and QuarrelsOme than
ever. The KiOwas, who were placed
on reservation west of the Arkansas, with
much flourish and graduation year or two
ago, are out on q marauding expedition, with
the intention of securing the road from Camp
Supply to the Arkansas River. The Chey-
enues, whose representatives were but lately
in Washington seeing sights, receiving pres
ents, and visiting Sunday schools. are threat
ening; and the commanding officer at Camp
Supply reports that they are likely to join the
Kiowas. They are doing Just what Gen. How
ards Apaches will do as soon as they get
back to Arizona.
NOrthward, the Sioux are not 30 decided in
their demOnstrations but they are uneasy and
hostile. This great tribe is broken into
various branches, but only from those on the
immediate line of the Northern Pacific Rail
road is danger just now imminent. They ar,
said to be threatening the work which is going
on and, with ludicrous burlesque, party
of young gentlemen, relatives of " the Govern
"ments have been sent out to demonstrate
with them. 1t is expected that an exhi'
bition of Interior Department red tape
and good supply of public documents viii
placate these disreputable Indians and insur,
the immunity of the railroad from any attack
Nobody need laugh at this feeble defense
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
tho renom;nat;on came near and it chsged to

tbe denomination came near and 1t chaged to
political corruption. "COmpacts" we made
with Senators and local politicians tGontroi
the Convention. The country press waslteraliy
bought with public Offices Jealous an COM
petent functonaries were turned ahft TO
make room for political managers or to'unish
suspected disaffection toward the "great,Ove-
"mentp for second term. There VS. a
regular bargain and sale between the Presient
and the petty politicians who were suppted
TO control district elections. Please reme-
"ber.n writes one of these small person,
whose letter to Gen. Grant we printed u
other day. "that in a few weeks we entt
"upop a campaign for county officers who an
"to govern and manage the next Presidential
Selection, and it will be beyond my power to
"stem tho tide" unless you let mo have
plenty of offices to give away. And tho com
pact which the President made with Senator
Spencer in Alabama is substantially the same
which he made with Mr.. Tom Murphy anu
Senator Conkling in New-YOrk, and Senator
Morton in Indiana, and other distinguished
statesmen and orators in the other parts OF
the Union.
Now fresh scandals have come to light
One of our cotemporaries publishes the story
of William d. Farrand, who paid $500 tn
the Presidents brO,hcr-in law to get h'm
nominated to consulship in Perm, against
the protests of the State Department and the
opposition of the Peruvian Government, and
who, losing this place because the Senate
would not confirm the nomination, afterwards
paid the same brothcr-in-law 1000 to get him
appointed TO another. We have no proof that
this story is true; but what we know OF the
Presidents disgraccful system of dispens-
ing patronage leads Us to believe it
And we have no doubt that it will
be generally believed. The people have
lost all confidence in the powers that
rule at Washington. They have seen the
Chief Magistracy degraded by the most obi
ous system of nepotism, which has always
been an objectionable oGense in AmcricnI'
eyes, and a selfish devotion TO personal III
terests of which the past history of the Pre-
sidency furnishes no example. They see th,t
our soldier-P -Prosident-paity we dare sly
through ignorance of the duties of civil
ruler-has introduced groSSer corruption
into political life, and brought fresh diScredt
upon an Office which his predecessor had
already done so much to degrade. johnson
merely taught us that high Office could not
elevate vulgar nature. Grant has shown
how the prostitution of great power to base
uses can lower the whole tone of poll ical
society.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
or FRAMING.

As the Postmaster General seems TO be, like
The Postmaster of this city, exercised in his
mind as TO the enOrmity of sending political
documents through the Post-Ofiice under
frank, we beg leave to call his attention to
the doings of Senator Frelinghuysen OF New
Jersey, as developed in the following letter
from a correspondent:
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: herewith inclose you sample OF the manner IN
which 'GrantisuD is developed and the franking priv
lege abused in this community The nclosed envelope
was one Of large package filed with Conklings latest
airings sent under Senator Frenghuysens frank to
gentleman in this place. All but the top one were un-
directed. A. d.
The name of the place TO which Senator
Flelinghuysen sent his little sheaf of franks Is
at the service of the Postmaster-General II he
desire to be made acquainted with it.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03

Dispatches received from Mr. Stanley, the CORE
spondent of The HGGd, who was sent in search Of
Dr. Livingstone establish the safety Of the great
traveller. Mr.. Stanley, in his attempt to penetrate
into the interior of Africa met with
difficulties which would appear almost insur-
mountable. On endeavoring to reach UjJi
he learned that Mrambo, the King OF AiOwa, de-
clared that no caravan should pass Uji except over
his body. Stanley relates that he attached himself
70 body of Arabs who had declared war against
Mirambo. Two villages were attacked and captured
and the inhabitants driven away. The next day the
correspondent was prevented from continuing his
movements by fever the Arabs fell into an am
bush and were routed, and he was abandoned by
most of his iden. He fortified the houses,
and collecting $50 fugtives, displayed the American
flag 1t is difficult to imagine what significance the
barbarous chief attached this symbol but it seems
TO have secured Stanley from attack. He pushed
forward over the de rt for distance OF 400 miles.
and finally reached Ujj At that place he noticed
in the center of group of Arabs, strongly
contrasting with the sun-burnt faces of the
natives, "a hale-looking, gray-bearded white
man wearing naval cap with a faded gold band
and red wooden shirt preserving demeanOr OF calm
ness before the Arabs" This was DR.. Livingstone.
The natural reflection, on reading the account of
Stanley's adventures of few months, is that the
strangest Circumstance of all is that Dr. Livingstone
ever lived to be discovered.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03

from the Department of the Interior; 1t IL 80
mucb like everything else that the Govern
ment has done that it may be taken rs fair
sample Of "our Indian policy" of which we
have heard 80 much. The difficulty Is that
there has been no settled policy in the treatment
of the Indians. They have been the "sponed
" cbjldrenn of the Govcrnment--petted to-day
and punished tomorrow. Scarcely had the
neece policy of the President been fairly inau-
pnr.lted than it was interrupted with warllAe
orders from the commanding Objects OF
various frontier forts. The messengers Oh
peace were recalled by military movements
and these. in turn, were suspended IN
order that the preachers might go forth bear
inc the olive branch and the Word of Life
In Arizona, for instance, tho Apaches nave
vibrated between Mr. Vincent Colyer and Cen
Crook, and Gen. Crook and Gen. Howards
peace mission, until neither Apaches nor
Government can say which rod is over them
that Of peace or war.
This confusion of counsels, this intirmity OF
purpose are bearing their results Everybody
wished well of the much abused Quaker
"polcyr of the President, and hoped that 1t
would be fairly tried before more severe
measures were adopted. Has it been fairly
tried7 Has any policy been fairly tried 7
It really does not seem that the Gov
ernment knew from day to day what
should be done ON the next. We know
that Indian Agents have exceedingly Hour
ished that the Indian service costs S7,42699'
per annum, or more than twice as much as 1t
did three years ago; that a share in the Indian
Ring is worth great deal of money, and that
the red men themselves break out every now
and then in the most unaccountable way. Mean
while, we shall hear sounding phrases from the
stump concerning the admirable manner with
which the Administration has managed the
Indians. The truth remains that the Indians
are no nearer pacifcation or civilization than
they were twenty years ago. What IS the
present policyq
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
Netn'3lork Daily Griibm1re
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8. 1872.

Cen Trochu has resigned his seat in the French Ma
tional Assembly. -= Important changes have taken
place in the New Dominion Cabinet. - The steamer
Fannie has been burned and her cargo captured by the
spsniards. - The between Salvador and Hon
duras Is reported to have terminated
The State Senate, by unanimous vote. yesterday, re-
moved Judge McCunn. z== President Grant returned
Unexpectedly TO Washington yesterday. -, The heat
has been intense throughout the Northern States 80
The Michigan Democracy indorsed the Cincinnati plat
form.
Additional medical testimony was given at the Stokes
trial. THE Eclipse colt won the Hopeful Stakes,
Lyteton the mile heat race and LOngfelOw the Mon
mouth Cup. at the Long Branch races. 60 Seventy
fatal cases Of sunstrOke were reported. == The
Controller reports Increase Of S5,OOO0OO in the
sty debt during June. Gold. 1l33, 1lSi. Their
norneter. SO. 99o.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03

In Bunker Hill, Russell Co., Kansas, to
strike water gives much joy in other regions is
afforded by striking ile" The newspaper Of that town
chronicles every ne spring which Is found as II it were
public blessing, doubt 1t Is, and adds exultantly:
within circle Of about two miles radius, have
flowing water sufficient for 10000 people" There is
demand now for mechanical power 10 raise and dis
tribute this water; there Is TO be regular meeting
on the subject; and altogether Bunker H Russell Co,
Kansas seems 10 be "A lively N0urishing aud decidedly
moist young settlement.
Here is painful story of clergyman, j. Il.
Harcourt by name who died in the. TarTyille Comm
Almshouse recently He was over 10 years old. He was
forced l6 years by the failure Of his voice. give
up preaching; but he obtained q commission as a col
porteur, working for IA years at salary 500 year
Becoming toe feeble for this. he tried TO live by selling
books. This failed. and he found himself In Middletown
without friends money. With some difficulty he got
into the poorh0use he had legal residence IN the
town He seems TO have been rather harshly treated
and finally he was carried to Tariff vile as state pauper
Well his troubles are now.
The ladies OF Augusta, Ga have been taking
active part in an early-closing movement there A
story having been circulated that these fair one aesre
to do their shopping In the evening, they have held
mass meeting anu sosmnly resolved that "they are fully
commtted'o 10 tne proposition OF closing the stores at
o'clock D. M Moreover, Resolved That there ia arm
enough OF the spirit OF seabnegation among our sex
to induce then 10 embrace for shopping other hours
than those sought by young men for innocent
tion should the young men carry their points they
will be more than unratefl IL they do not devo,a
portion Of the time thus rescued from the shon -, &
| sosdety OF their fair champions. ''' ''''P " 'ne
A wreeking expedition, fitted ont nj San
Francisco on the ith of February to recover
OF silver coin said to amount to between ssoo ooo
soooo from the wreck of the Spanish trigate Leocoda
is now al work. on santa Elena the cost of Ecuadr
They have constructed bridge through the surr to
within 200 feet Of the sunken wreck Tbe divor. -
walking along the wreck, picked up three snanI.n
dollars, which are thickly coated with what onnaa
bo chloride OF silver mixed with fine sand. ,ha -
however has lost very little In value IN eonse ono
the presence of the chloride The wreck ia covsrao
mass Of ron-rnst stone' and she'll which ia very hord
and uneven MOST OF VIII have to be raised as 1t con
taDs rich deposits of coin. The persons in ch,r -,
expedition speak very confidently OF their nfS.o VI tue
cess, and the managers lat san Francisco have S
| donce il their Judgment. "N'c eohu
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03

In the time of the late Empire most OF the
rural voters considered the Government ticket
the genuine one, and the Liberal counterfeit
1t would be matter to regret If the Repupiic
should ever gain such superstitious control
as this but it will be good thing for Franco
and for the world if the majority of French
men should come to regard it as the safest as
we'll "a the best of all forms Of government
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03

Western dispatches give some account of
the shooting of United States Marshal by a
desperado, and brutal assault on an editor
by a sensitive ruffian whom he had criticised.
70 call this "Western civilization is one of
those things which seem to say themselves.
The quality Of the assaults, however, varies
70 litt,s from what is witnessed IN older COM
munities every week, that perhaps 1t Is not
worth while for New-YOrk to throw the hrst
stone
If we NAV believe reports from Spanish
sources, the Cuban expeditionary steamer tanme
has come to a disastrous end. 1t is SAID that
the vessel has been burned off the coast OF
Cuba. having first grounded. With the usual
exnlicitness of Havana war bulletins, the
amount of war materials captured from the
exnedition is stated, and the account is
rounded off with the customary announce
pept that the captured men have been
summarily shot.
IL breyity be the soul of wit, the Michigan
Democracy, in Convention assembled, may
iustly claim to have produced the wittiest
rosolutions of the season. They are two in
number; one accepts the principles OF the
Cincinnati platform, and the other lnstructs
the delegates to Baltimore TO vote as unit
We do not see how anything more could have
been said; and so Michigan is added to the
long roll of States which send Liberal dele
cation to the National Democratic Convention
Our correspondent in Southern California
whose letter is elsewhere pubhshed-pictures
the original Pike settler of that region fleeing
before the advancing railroad. The vast
ranges which have been used for the pasturage
~ innunerable cattle are about to be cut up
into small farms. This hint ought to turn
tbither the attention of men who are seeking
farming lands and homes for themselves
Some of the facts embodied in the letter above
referred TO are picturesque; most OF them are
instructive and suggestive.
public interest in the trial OF Stokes for tht
,,,urder of Fisk does not seem to have muci
at,o.ed and the case for the prosecution ha'
S.syn nearly to it's close. The natural order
g .he evidence has brought the story OF th'
~1urder down to the circumstances attending
.ha last moments of the deceased ana tn'
s,,bsaouent post-mortem examination Ih'
Tns of the defense was, it is thought, shadowe'
yesterday by a searching examination on .w'
,o;nts the surgical treatment OF FISK ana Ut tn'
IDENTITY of the weapon with which inc Aiiiin'
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03

is alleged to have been committed. There has
been some attempt to show that the wound
from the pistol-shot was not the direct cause
of DEATH and that the pistol found in the
hotel after the shooting wGs not StOkcs's.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
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1t will be recollected that at the last meeting of
the American Association for the Advancement of
Science the determination of the time and place of
meeting was left in the hands of a committee. 1t
was generally expected that the next place of annual
meeting would be the Pacific Coast but we
learn that Dubuque Iowa. has been finally decided
upon, and the session will begin there ON Wednes-
day, August q.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03

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hotel after the shooting Yves not Stokcs's.
A correspondent of THE TRIBUNE, writing
from Geneva, furnishes some curious particu-
lars concerning the dOings of the Board OF
Arbitration in session in that city. We learn
with some amusement that this grave con-
eress of diplO satists possess no language IN
common, even French being an unknown
tongue TO one or two Of the members. As Tor
what actually occurred in tho private meet
ings of the Board, we have no report more
satisfactory than the Delphic utterances OF the
Count Sclopis.
AS might have been expected the action OF
the German fleet in bOmbarding P0rt-au-
Prince to collect the claims of certain German
merchants has created some excitement In the
Haytien capital. President Saget denounced 1t
as an outrage, and as matter of course the
French Minister, at meeting of the Diplo-
matte Body, agreed with him. But the English
Minister approved the action of the Germans
and our own Minister entirely indorsed IT,
adding certain other truths which must DE
exceedingly unpalatable to the Government OF
Hayti. He advised them TO pay their debts
more promptly in future, and his remarks
were throughout those of an insufieraDly
Candid Friend.
The long heated term, the severest known
in this city for ten years, shows some signs OF
coming 10 an end. Last night, the heat was
less intense cooling breeze perceptbly modi-
flying the temperature in the streets. Yester-
day was apparently the climax of the whole
period of heat, and we may hope that the
worst is over. The total number OF cases OF
sum-strOke reported is very large, reaching to
about 200 since Friday last, when the hot spell
began with the thermometer at 940. BY Sun
day the mercury had risen to 9SO, and % cases
of sun-strole were reported. Monday saw the
thermometer at 1902 in the shade in favorable
localities, and higher in more exposed posi-
tiOns. On that day there were Ia fatal cases
of stroke in this city alone, and 33 in all.
Yesterday, III New-York and Brooklyn, the
mercury ranged at 90, and there were about
100 prostrat0us from the dreadful heat; OF
these one-half proved fatal-a mortality which
seems something terrible to contemplate. Re-
ports from all parts of the country, especially
West and North, indicate prevalence of hot
weather, but there are signs now favorable to
a lower temperature, with local storms and
fresh winds There has been much suffering
in the Northern States on account of the heat;
but its worst effects have, of course, been con-
fined to crowded cities
New-York tribune., 1872-07-03

1t will save the writing of many fruitless letters
to have it distinctly understood that Mr. Greeley is
not an officer of the National Bureau of Migration,
nor of the Lockwood Union, nor of any kindred