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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-07
The Deficit In the state Treasury.

The Deficit In the state Treasury.
From the annual report of State Comp
troller Hopkins it appears that at the end Of
the fiscal year, September &c. there was an
actual deficit in the State finances of trife
over nine million dollars. Out of the sum of
nine and half millions belonging to and
ostensibly in the various Trust and Sinking
actually less than half million of dollars in
the treasury. Six and half millions Of this
deficit existed before Mr.. Hopkins entered the
Office, the moneys due to the several funds
having been necessarily used from time to
time to defray the ordinary expenses Of the
government and pay annual appropriations
by the Legislature, which have not been re-
stricted, as they should have been, to
the yearly revenues out of which they
were properly payable. To restore these
nine million dollars to the special
funds to which they belong, and to
pay the current expenses of the year, 1t has
been necessary to raise by the tax for 1872 the
sum of nineteen and half millions of dollars
by the heaviest tax ever paid in this State being
nine and three-eighths of o mill on the dollar
This rate, only small fraction short Of one
per cent contrasts very unpleasantly for
property owners with the tax Of twenty years
ago, when it was at the rate Of half mill, or
one-twentieth of the present impost Previ-
Gus to last year our heaviest tax had been that
of 1870, when it reached seven and half mills
on the dollar. In 1871 it was about five and a
half mills. After the Legislature has made
appropriations there is no discretion left to
the Comptroller but to meet them as he best
may. # the money is in the treasury from
the earnings Of the canals, the salt receipts or
the tax returns, the payments are easy enough.
If the treasury, on the contrary, has no money,
he is expected to borrow what he needs or to
use it temporarily from those sinking funds
which have been set apart and appropriated to
specific purposes, and which should not be
diverted The Comptroller justly says ''tem-
porary loans may be justifable to sustain the
credit Of the State in promptly meeting its out
standing debts; but many of the appropria-
tions should cease entirely, or their payment
be suspended until they can be paid out of the
legitimate moneys of the State" 1t is the
duty of q Legislature claiming to represent a
reform party to keep such check upon its
appropriations that the disgraceful deficit may
be fully repaired and the rate Of taxation
greatly reduced.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-07

The streets-Prepsrs for Spring.
Although the few sunshiny days we have
had cannot in any sense of the word be
considered genial, yet they are sufficient to
remind Us of Spring and the revival of bust
ness The leading houses have laid in an un-
usually large stock of goods for their vernal
customers, and signs of activity after the long
torpor of Winter are apparent everywhere
But serious obstacle in the path of business
is the condition Of the streets, which present
hillocks and ridges of frozen mud and snow,
over which toll the spare-ribbed stsed, swear
the uncouth driver and tumble the boxes of
precious goods. In some places these heaps
form an efficient barricade, over which no
driver possessing the slightest regard for his
own neck or that of his horse would care to
force passage. The sun does not help any
nowadays, when the north wind whistles its
tngling lay, and we are forced to turn again to
quarter whence relief is grudgingly and
sparingly dispensed This is the much
talked-of Street Cleaning Commission,
an institution Of great promise and
correspondingly small results. The mag
mates Of the municipal broom have allowed
the time to pass when the snow and mud were
in condition easy to be removed and the
pickaxe will now be necessary where the shovel
would have been sufficient. But these I'M
slightly heaps should be removed at the earliest
opportunity, as they incommode business to
an unwarrantable extent Another nuisance
that demands immediate attention is the con-
dition of the sidewalks in many of the streets
up town where blocks of new buildings are in
process of construction. These streets are
dangerous to any pedestrian after dark on
account of the gaping chasms left in the side
walks by the contractors for the benefit of
benighted passers by. Where couple of mar
row planks are placed across, the danger is
still greater, as they are generally well en-
crusted with ice. It is surely time for the
proper authorities to pay little attention to
the lives and limbs of the taxpayers, whose
money is lavished on the support of depart
ments-myths-fo all the good they do. Some
little return might be made at this particular
season. ur 1856
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-07

SrocK JoBBNe RUMoHs usually abound, at
the close of session of Congress- about Wall
and Broad streets, and they are generally
discounted, too, by cunning operators in
fleeing simpletons The currency question
and Mr.. Boutwell's alleged financial move
ments are seized mostly for that purpose. A
yQw9y that tho foyH-fQY millions Of legal
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-07
TRIPLE SHEET.
New York, Friday, March 2, 1873.
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY,
To-Day's Contents of the
Herald.

sTHE CONFLICT IN NEW ORLEANSl LET Us
HAVE PEACEi"-EDITORLAL LEADER
sixth PAGE.
NON-SUCCESS OF THE NEW ORLEANS RIOTERS
o. THE IRREPRESSIBLE STRUGGLE ES-
TOPPED, WITH TWELVE PERSONS KILLED
,, AND MANY WOUNDED THE CITY IN
POSSESSION OF THE FEDERAL FORCESi
VIEWS OF PROMINENT MEN UPON THE
OUTBREAK THE VICTIMS AND THE
,a ARREsTs-THIRD PAGE.
THREATENING COMPLICATIONS IN, THE
l.s SPANISH SITUATIONS THEIRS RECOG-
NIZES THE CARLISTS AS BELLIGERENTS
INCREASED CHANCES FOR BOURBON
@ SUGGEST! THE EUROPEAN POWERS
y COMBINING AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF
SPAINi-SEvENTH PAGE rt
4 MIDNIGHT HORROR IN THE ISLES OF
SHOALSl TWO WOMEN MURDEREDi
NARROW ESCAPE OF THIRD PER-
SON-SRvENTH PAGE.
RUSSIA PREPARING FOR THE KHIvAN CAM.
PAIGNi OFFICERS AND DIPLOMATS EN-
700 ROUTE FOR THE SEAT OF wAR-SEvENTH
PAGE.
AN ATTEMPTED SHOOTING AND A SUICIDEi
80 SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES A GERMAN
TRAGEDY-FIFTu PAGE.
REPORTED KIDNAPPING OF FRENCH SAILORS
BY A BRITISH SHIP AN INVESTIGATION
SET ON FOOT-SEyENrH PAGE. Har
EUROPEAN NEWS PER CABLEI RUMORED
SEPARATION OF THE MARQUIS OF LORNE
AND HIS WIFE, THE PRINCESS LOUIsEi
MR.. GLADSTONE'S SPEECH Ar THE KING
BANQUET NATURALIZATION OF GERMAN
SUBJECTS IN AMERlCA-SgvENTH PAGE
KILLING AND MANNING TRAvELLERSl A COL
LISBON ON THE PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL
AND A BROKEN-RAIL HORROR ON THE
NORTHERN CENTRALl THE PANHANDLE
DIsASTER-FoURrH PAGE
THE FREE PRESS IN JERSEY THE HERALD
CORRESPONDENT SCOTTFREE THE
tr HENCHMEN OF THE DICTATOR JEERED-
MEETING OF THE CHAMBER OF CON-
MERCE-BOOKS AND BROCHURES FOURTH
D PAGE
GOVERNMENT GOLD In GREAT DEMANDl AN
ADVANCE IN THE RATEi THE LEGAI-TEN-
DER REISSUEI THE SALIENT POINTS OF
THE BUSINESS AT THE WALL STREET Elk.
CHANGES-NINrH PAGE.
A GAY LOTHARIOi THE PENN YAM SCANDAL
THE ASCENDING COUNTY TREASURER
CAPTUREDl HIS ELOPEMENT WITH HIS
BEAUTIFUL wARD-FIrTH PAGE.
WILL THE CHARTER BE PASSED THE MA
NEUvREs OF THE FRIENDS AND OP-
rl PONENTS OF THE BILL-ART MATTERS
NEWARK DIvORCE-FrFrH PAGE. tr
BOW AN ALBANY LOBBYIST POCKETED
$150o0l THE INSURANCE COMMITTEE DO
NOT THINK SUCCESS CRITERION OF
MERIT SECTARIAN SCHOOL APPROPRI-
uRo ATIONSl PROGRESS OF THE CHARTER
SEVENTH PAGE
SUMMERS BATTLE-FLAG ERASURESi THE
'1i MASSACHUSETTS RESOLUTIONS OF CEN
o SURE FIERCELY DEBATED-FoURrH PAGE.
RETURNING FROM THE CAPITALi THE WEST
9l POINT CADETS AND ThE MILITIA RE-
yfa, CEIvE BROADWAY OvATIONi THE
CADET RECEPTION AND BANQUET-FIFru
PAGE. rb f.. ..au
TIE CONDITION OF CANADA, AS SEEN
THROUGH THE GOVERNOR GENERALS
OPTICsi THE RAILWAY TO TIE PACIFICi
CANALS, IMMIGRATION, REPRESENTATION
AND THE FINANCES-sUFFERNGs AT
SEA-FIFTH PAGE.
LEGIsLATING FOR THE LADIES THE FAIR SEX
MAKE AN ANIMATED ASSAULT UPON THE
PRRJUDICEs OF MASSACHUSETTS STATES
MEN-FoURrH PAGE.
LEGAL PRoCEEDNGs-REAL EsTATE-EIGHrz
PAGE roEH Yh
HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER BY A DRUNKEN
NEGRO-THE MURDER OF MRS. ENNIS
BY HER HUsBAND-THE LIBERAL RE-
PUBLICAN GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
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WHOEVER SUPPOSED the Oregon and Cali
fornia spectators in army supplies and the
Indian traders would allow the Modoc war to
end early and easily? No one who knows
anything about those people. Those SNAKE
Indians" who are represented as keeping the
war spirit up among Captain Jacks band, are
most likely to be merely white snakes in the
Crass"
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WELL, then, all the indignation about
Foster has eveporated He has been respited,
and of course, the next thing will be CON-
mutation Of sentence. Thus another stab at
the life of the community is given, and BY
those, too. who ought TO be its protectors.
Well, gentlemen, if you want to make farce
Of justice you must take the consequences.
Now, come on, all ye murderously inclined
Hanging is played out, sure enough. la
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-07

THE ILLNESS OF PRESIDENT THEIRS The
report that President Theirs was seriously
indisposed is contradicted. His effort in the
Assembly in connection with the report Of the
Committee of Thirty seems to have had upon
him a somewhat exhaustive effect. The Presi-
dent has recovered. 1t il we'll that it is 80.
As Great Britain at the present moment could
i'll spare Mr.. Gladstone, as Germany could i'll
spare Prince Bismarck, 80 France could i'll
spare M. Theirs. More than Gladstone, more
than Bismarck, he is the man of the hour in
his own country. Few will regret that the
'old man eloquent lives for new fights and
new victories.
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THERE ARE Two OPINIONS as to Pomeroy's
guilt" says the Cleveland Herald; 'there is
but one opinion as to York's character"
York should make up his mind, Like the man
in the play. 'never to do a good-natuysd
action again as long as he lives"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-07
Sound Steamers In the Harbor-Action
It OF tho Chamber OF Commerce.

Sound Steamers in the Harbor-Ac elton
or the Chamber OF Commerce.
Why should the regular lines of steamers
running between New York and Newport,
Providence and other New England ports, by
way of Long Island Sound, pass round the
lower end of the city, wasting an hour at the
start from OF before landing their passengers
on the west shore? This conundrum. occu-
pied the attention of the Chamber of Com
merle yesterday afternoon, and gave rise to q
warm discussion. It is urged that these large
steamers have no occasion to incommode and
endanger the numerous ferries connecting this
city and Brooklyn by extending their trips
south of Corlear's Hook, when passengers
could more speedily reach homes or hotels
in the city from landing places at or above
Grand street than from their present wharves
on the opposite side of the city. This was
the view urged by majority Of tho commit
tee, whose report was adopted by the Chamber
with only few dissenting votes. One men,
Der of the committee believed that the matter
should be allowed to regulate itself-in other
words, remain as it is. He reasoned that much
of the freight brought by these boats is for
the north and west. and must be carted
across the city or carried round by lighters,
and that in either way its transfer would
cause less inconvenience if made by
the steamers themselves than by any
other conveyance. That this matter
should be subject of serious consideration
is an indication of the great recent growth of
business in our harbor It is obvious that the
change would give Wharfage room along the
North River to ocean steamers which now
find berths ut Jersey City and Hoboken. Be-
tween the east side ferries, Harlem boats, tugs
and transient vessels, the narrow channel be-
tween Corlear's Hook and Brooklyn is
thronged enough without the Sound steamers.
What injury would result from their being
compelled to find landings above the Hook?
Certainly such q regulation as the Chamber
recommends would greatly please ferry pas
sengers, who cross by thousands at the hour
of the steamers arrival and departure. As
the sunken rocks of He'll Gate and its dam
gers are soon to disappear, we may look for
the much more general use of the Sound route
by ocean steamers and vessels, and thersseems
no reason why the wharves along the East
River should not become as valuable and as
much used for the handling of freight as those
ON the Hudson. With the needed conveniences
for rapid transit which the city is sure soon to
have under some one or more of the plans
proposed, the fixing of the Sound steamers
wharves on the east side will effect most de-
sirable saving of time to all who come and 20
by them. Unless there are railroad interests
involved, or other conscientious not obvious
to the public, it is difficult to see any reason
why the proposed change should be opposed.
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tender reserve was going to be reissued by
authority Of Congress has been again used as
dodge to disturb the market When will
these Wall street gamblers learn to be honest
and their victims have little common sense2
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-07

The RHODE ISLAND LEGISLATURE has selected
burying ground as the site for new
Capitol How handy that would be in Ar
kansas OK louisiana
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DEATH OF AN OLD YALE GRADUATE.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, March

NEW HAVEN COnn., March 8, 1911
Timothy Bishsp the oldest living graduate Of
Yale College. and for many years In the West India
trade with this CITY, died here to-day at the age Of
ninety-fiye.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

THEATRE CoM9uE. No. SO Broadway.-'ee; Or
TIE MURpER FARM
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sowERY rHEArRE, Bowery-rLowr.. or THE
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Twenty-third St and Eighth
av.-RouGniNG IT.
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WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, corner Tnrtieth ST.
NECK AND NICK. Afternoon and Evening.
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NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. 72s and $50 Broad
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GRRMANIA THEATRE. Fourteenth street. near Third
av.-MARIA MAGDALENA
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vATHENEUM. No. 6S5 Broadway.-GRAD VARIETY EN-
TERTANNEST ...,.. .. .. ..f
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street-IrALIAN
OPKRA-LK NozzE pI FIGARO.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16

ANNEXATIoN QUESTION IN NEwFoUND-
ND.-The tendency of public opinion
in Newfoundland is strongly indicated
by the fact that the new parliament
which is soon to assemble is nearly
unanimous for pressing the independence
of the island so far as the Dominion is
concerned. OF the thirty members com
posing the parliament, all but two are
opposed to the confederation The only
remains of British authority are a nomi-
nal governor and a solitary Union Jack
over his residence. The sympathies of the
people tend toward annexation to the
United States, and it is believed the ac-
ton of the coming parliament viii be fav-
orahle to the project.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16

THE GREAT WANT - The leading
Western papers continue to publish for
chile articles relating to the great want
of the country, to wit: cheap transpor-
tatiou from the farm to the scaboard.
The West Is the farm of the whole COM
try. The Ogdcaa5Rrg Jolrndl thinks
the great dependence tQFaheap transpor-
tation which would almost equally bene-
fit producer and consumer, must be upo"
water communication, and pertinentiy
remarks that with an American Niagara
ship canal. the expense might BE still
further diminished, because it costs hot
a trihe more. twelve or fifteen hundred
ton vessel on the lakes than il does tlTe
or six hundred tom vessel. SQol . canal
would Increase the commercial facilities
almost imm sasurably, because it would
take no lonrer to pass through large
vessel than a small one. and because it
does not pay to run small vessels GA tong
routes where there is plenty OF freight.
Vessels of $50 tons cannot do aprotitable
business in trading between Chicago
and Ogdensburg, while 400 ton vessel
might act a good profit The fact Is the
great West and its farming and COM
mercial interests have got nearly through
paying high and unjust tribute to New
York. They have determined at last
10 open a canal from Lake Erie to
Lake Ontario. ''rhe interests Of $4,000,
900 of the population of the West are
identified with this canal project, and
they cannot be put aside by the ., 900, 600
opponents In New York They want
CHEAP transportation and they are bound
to'have it,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16

.BRGBERY AND CoRRUPTIoN.-Th Cald-
we'll United States Senator from Kan
sagl Investigation continued on Saturday
with open doors. The most direct testi-
,nonv vet taken was obtained. Judge
Spriggs. former treasurer of Kansas,
testified that Caldwell requested him to
send all such members to the legislature
as would take cash for their votes to
him or to his representative, Leonard
smith. He asked him also 10 see such
as were too heightened to take "oaey
for vote, and if any of them were will
ing 10 let him pay their campaign eX-
penses, GG send them along. Spriggs
knew of but one instance where the
price paid reached $1,000. Most of the
votes bought were $10OG purchases.
He gave full history OF the Fansacv
lions of five or six gentlemen recognized
as the Caldwell committee OF arrange
ments, as these were confided to him by
one of the committee. The story as re-
neated was one of bribery and corrup-
ton throughout.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16

SUDDEN DEATH.-About four o'clock
in the afternoon of Tuesday, the 18th
inst, Mr.. Edward Dane, of Bakersfield,
having just returned from the village
and eaten his supper, went to the barn
to do his chores, apparently as well as
usual. Being gone longer than usual,
Mrs. Dane went out to see if there was
any trouble She called several times,
but got no answer. She then went into
the stable, where she found HIM in an
unconscious state and unable to speak.
Alarm was given, a physician called, but
all to no avail. About twenty minutes
past seven in the evening be breathed his
last without having spoken a word to
console his friends.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16

THE PROCLAMATION BUSINESS. lisa
bella kept up the farce of issuing procla-
nations to the Spanish people long after
her forcible deposition from the throne
and her expulsion from the kingdom,
and now Eugene has taken up the pro-
clamation business. She gravely an
nounces that she has assumed the regency
during the minority of her son, but CON
sidering her present private affection,
and the fact that there is nothing on
earth for her to be regent of, it is a pity
that the poor woman should take upon
herself the additional trouble of writing
proclamatiOns.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16

circumstance having reference to the
locality in which they resided" One
young lady, who had carried out all the
instructions of the master of the cere-
monies, became so dreadfully confused
on being asked by the Pope her place of
birth, that she told her age instead, re-
plying TO the inquiry addressed to her,
''twenty-four, your Holiness" and on
the Pope's replying, 81 do not know that
place, she answered, mo! your holt
ness, pray forgive me, am twenty-nine
next birthday" How charmingly sim
Dle and touchin0p
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Ont of Town Notes.
W ALLINGFORD.

WALLINGFORD.
We are credibly informed by an
eye witness, that last Sabbath morning
twenty-five persons /" slipped up" and
fell down" as they attempted to travel
up the path and rising ground in front
of Dr. Walkers church. "Surely thou
didst set them in slippery places. " " I'm
til | went into the sanctuary of God;
then understood | their end
We very much regret to learn that
Isaac Gail Batcheller and his family are
about leaving town. Their residence, in
future, will be LeOminster, Mass. The
family will be greatly missed, not only
in business circles, but in their social re-
lations. We venture to express the hope
that their absence will not be permanent
but only temporary.
We tried, last week, to tell you
about Harvey Congdon being kicked by
his horse. You changed it to - Henry"
by typographical error. 1t was the
Baptist bell that was rung for school
purposes, not the " Methodist"
Tho chrome question" has little
additional light thrown upon it by the
following facts: Last year under the
almost supeThuman forcing process of
/ having every town in the country can
vassed by agents who had the two
splendidly mounted ChromOs' with
them) the CHRISTINE Union, or the pub
/ lIshers of it, swept through our town
like the wind. Everybody was talking,
critically and artistically. about those
elegant chrOmos that would be such
tasteful and beautiful ornaments for
their parlOrs and boudOirs, for three dol
lars and twenty-five cents, and have the
/ Chy5stiaH URj0H " thrown in TO boot.
OF course we will subscribe. " Ne
elected art must be properly looked
after and encouraged, even if they have
to he bored with a very ordinary dull
/ newspaper. So club was formed in
this village numbering twenty-five sub
scrihers. Those that event in on
- art " had a slow. sorry and tedious
time of it, CAS- some had to wait from
eight months to year before they re
ceived their Chromos) and had, all Of
them. to fall back on their - dun paper ~
there was immense discomfort and I'M
eaSines~ among the subscribers. and
fault finding and complaint about the
/ publishers. The result is that every one,
at the end of the year. ordered them
stopped. This year. 1878, not a copy is
taken here This is (to say the best) an
''irrcguar" method of conducting q
public journal The Rutland Herald
and every other first-class newspaper
/ knows that the money received from the
subscribers should be considered as a
sacred trust to be devoted to and eXpend-
ed on the paper itself Except a small
margin for profit in every possible way
to make it invaluable, in getting all
/ possible news Mt whatever cost, and the
! latest news, aud TO do this a generous,
/ yes. lavish use of the telegraph must be
made The enterprise of the Rutland
/ HERALD is an example to the point !;
/ when they alone took the whole of Prcsi-
dent Grants message by telegraph and
/ published it six hours later in the Daily,
+ one of the greatest feats ever performed
! by any New England newspaper. u.
! WalIngfOrl Jan. 9, 1878.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16

DIVIDENDS National Bank Of
Rutland have declared a semi-annual
dividend of five per cent, free of gov
eminent tax.
The Rutland County National Banks
semi-annual dividend is five per cent,
free of government tax.
The Baxter National Bank paya semi
annual dividend of four per cent, free
of government tax.