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The New York herald., 1874-12-18
THE COMPTROLLERSHIP.

The new administration which will come
into power at the beginning of the year must
give the country an earnest of its sincerity in
the work Of reform. There can be no better
evidence OF this sincerity than the removal Of
Mr.. Green from the Office of Comptroller. No
matter what arguments may be adduced in
favor Of Mr.. Green's retention in ofice-his
successorship to Mr.. Connolly, his en1nity to
the Ring and the fact that he was nominated
as an agency of accommodating is clearer
than that he has forfeited the confidence Of
the people. As Mr.. Dana tersely expressed it
in letter written before the election, if Mr..
Green does not pile up the debt as swiftly as
Tweed he does it as surely. He represents
the policy which stiles New York, and 50
long as he remains in power there will be NO
real reform-no reform that means life and
progress.
The duty Of the new Mayor is to remove
Mr.. Green. This act of removal must be ap-
proved by the Governor. But as the demo-
cratic party laid down home rule as an es-
sential plank in its platform, and As the
Comptrollership certainly belongs to New
think of interfering with the Mayor in the ex-
preston of his belief that there should be q
new Comptroller in the city.
There are many eminent and capable men
who could fill this Office with acceptability to
all parties. Let us indicate few from whom
Mr. Wickham can make a selection:-John j.
Cisco, Frederick Tappen, President Of the
Gallatln National Bank; w. Seymour, the ex-
President of the New York Stock Exchange;
John T. Agnew, E. P. Fabbri, Of the firm
of Fabbri & Chauncey; Edward Cooper,
John S. Hume and Abel Dennison, q re-
tired merchant and President Of the Ware
house Company. Any one of these gentlemen
would make an admirable Comptroller; one In
whom the people, without distinction Of party.
would have confidence, whose appointment
would add to the credit of the metropolis and
be the augury Of better and brighter times
The new regime, however, will only begin
when we have an end Of Mr.. Green's Comp
trollership.
The New York herald., 1874-12-18

Our --LATEST REPORTS FROM BERLIN state that
Prince Bismarck had been in consultation
with the Emperor, and hopes-or fears-were
entertained that his threat Of resignation
would not be carried out. The opinion seems
to be general that the Reichstag did not mean
to express want of confidence in the Chancel-
lor by its vote of yesterday. 1t is said that
in any case the Emperor would not accept his
resignation, and we presume that the diff
Guilty has been settled, as such difficulties
generally are. But there is moral
in this event which the American peo-
pie cannot fail to perceive. Here is the
most powerful man in the most powerful
monarchy in Europe SO sensitive to the opin-
ion of the nation that he offers to resign his
great ofIice--not because he is formally GEN.
sured but because single act of his is OBJ
jected to by the national Legislature. In
the United States we see the contrast of
an entire administration condemned by q
popular vote, and yet all the members Of the
Cabinet clinging to Office in defiance of the
expressed opinion of the country. Bismarck s
readiness to resign forcibly illustrates an ar
gument which we have been Of late reluc-
tantly obliged to use.
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/ not space to pursue this history. Suffice it to
state that in the messages of Jackson and the
speeches and writings of Clay there are re-
peated and vehement recommendations of an
amendment to the constitution limiting the
President to one term. In the great work Of
De Tocqueville, the ablest and most philo-
sophical foreigner who has ever written on
our institutions, he qualities his admiration
by depicting in strong and lively colors the
dangers and evils Of permitting the President
to be reelected.
Efforts to amend the constitution in this
respect have heretofore been unsuccessful,
because popular sentiment, the great pro-
pelling force in all reforms, was not thor
oughly aroused to its necessity. The third
term controversy, which has agitated the
country from end to end within the last year,
has broken up and mellowed the soil for this
great reform. The mighty popular impulse
by which third term hopes have been swept
away like chaf before o hurricane needs only
to move on in the same direction to tear up
the whole evil by the roots and lay it pros
trate We are in the most favorable con-
juncture possible for removing the worst
abuse of our political institutions. The re-
publican party, which has suffered so signal
humiliation in the strong popular verdict
against third term, can more than recover
all it has lost by this question if it will plant
itself on the idea of jefferson, jackson, Clay
and many other eminent statesmen, and sub
NIT to the people at this session an amend
ment which will not only forever supersede
the third term question, but remove for all
coming time the temptation which besets our
Presidents of exerting their power and
patronage in subservience to personal ends.
The democratic party cannot oppose this re-
form, if it be pressed in earnest without
speedily exchanging positions with its de.
feated adversary.
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PRESS NOTES.

bury Conn., American, hes very Ill.
w. p. Powell has assumed editorial control OF
the Southern catholic, Memphis, Tenn
Mr.. McGeachy, who has been ediMng the DAN
bury Nesrs during Mr.. Bailey's absence In Europe.
has resigned. Cause-Troube in the wigwam,
Colop.e Samuel Pike, said to have been the
oldest editor IN the United states, died In Lees
burg. Ohio, on the 18th inst. he Is also said "a
have been connected with more newspapers than
any other man in the world.
Colonel Anthony, OF the Leavenworth Times, has
been nned $1,000 and sentenced to years. I'm
prisonment for libel growing out Of pers0aA
auarrel OF some kind.
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-. their prosperity Legislatures would
railway bills until they became
-ith corruption. Private corpo-
4 to build the road, but
' Pis'0if' : it One interest after
e'ei o0ii0 d to postpone this
another has superven~
needed reform. :. ~ ;,....
New York now demands o. h.. oo
shall further interfere The tino ;r.o
Tor rapid transit The new Men who nr
power must give it or show that they sre
worthy of the confidence of the people, =
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The CHnDREN. has been no more
graceful movement than the organization Of
society for the prevention Of cruelty to chill
dren. It comes at the 6ttest time Of all the
year, as We are about entering into the hal
lowed festival Of Christmas. The purport Of
the society, as we understand it, is to rescue
children from ill-treatment and neglect. As
Mr.. Gerry well said, in expressing the inten-
tions of the founders, "Boys of brutal parents
swell the ranks of those who disturb peaceful
society, and the girls are lost, body and soul,
before ther arrive at maturity" We can
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CAIN Is, WE THISK, much abused indi-
yidual. He was the first murderer, it is true,
but far from the worst The spirit Of Cain"
was gentle and kind compared with the spirit
of some. of our modern murderers, as, for in
stance, the negro whose bloody deeds near
Manassas, Va, are described in letter from
that place this morning. The cold-blooded
cruelty of such monster shows how greatly
murder has been improved since Cain first in
trodnced IL to the world
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prises that are necessary to tbs national
growth are too great to be done. save by ma
tional assistance, and the greatest evn of
villanies like the Pacific Mail subsidy is that
they tend to discourage and put away into
the indefinite future enterprises which the
nation must inevitably and necessarily assist.
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The CoaoNEB's VERDICT in the case OF
Mosher and Douglas was rendered yesterday
The Messrs. Van Brunt and their companions
were properly commended for their courage
and the killing was declared justifable. We
present the evidence taken yesterday. Un-
happily nothing new has yet been discovered
in relation to Charley Ross, but the police still
hope that he will soon be restored to his
family
The New York herald., 1874-12-18

Our CORRESPONDENT in Berlin, in letter
written on the eve of the Won Arnim trial,
says that many of the friends of the Count
held the opinion that his true course would
have been to have appealed to the judgment
of the world This appeal must ultimately
be made, for no Court can settle the questions
involved in SO remarkable q case
The New York herald., 1874-12-18

Mr.. TWEED appeared again in Court yester-
day, and it is plain that if the law offers any
method Of escape for him his lawyers are re-
solved to find 1t The grounds on which he
demands his liberty are published to-day
The case was postponed till next Tuesday,
when the Court will probably decide it,
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The LoNGsHoREMEN strikers have gone to
work, where work was to be had, and the rest
are, no doubt, anxious for employment.
Union No. still holds out, but this action
can do no good to the men nor any harm to
the companies. If united strike failed
what success can be looked for by partial
one?
The New York herald., 1874-12-18

THE ABUSE OF POSTAL CARDS. The prose-
cution of person charged with having sent
annoying and scurrilous postal cards to a
debtor will be productive Of good. These
open cards were intended as public conven-
ience. If liable to be used in an offensive
manner they would become public nuisance
Their abuse is severely punished in England
The New York herald., 1874-12-18
THE COST OF STREET CLEANING.

The expense of cleaning the streets of New
York for the month of November, or rather
the money taken out of the pockets Of the
people under the pretence of cleaning the
streets, amounted in round numbers to fifty
two thousand dollars, or little less than two
thousand dollars day. For this amount
number of decrepit hangers-on Of ward politi-
clans have been supplied with living at the
public expense as sweepers over twenty
three thousand dollars has been paid for
months cart hire, mainly to the same
worthless; some OF the more particular friends
of the Police Commissioners have enjoyed the
better paid positions, such as superintendents,
been kept in as filthy condition as usual. 1t
is notorious that half the money thus squan-
dered by the Street Cleaning Bureau might as
well be thrown into the mud and slush which
are seldom removed from the streets for any
benefits received by the public from its expen-
diture. The only streets of the city that
are really kept clean and in decent
order are those which are swept by private
parties hired and paid by the residents. The
people who are heavily taxed for the expenses
of the Street Cleaning Bureau must pay
private contractors over again to clean their
streets, or make up their minds to live in
perpetual filth.
As the Police Commissioners, or some Of
them, have complained that the amount ap-
propriated to this bureau is not sufficient to
enable them to do the work effectively it is
well to compare our own expenditures with
those of other cities. Paris is model Of
cleanliness. It's police organization is good
and its fire department effective. Paris has
two million inhabitants-just double the
population of New York. Yet we find
the annual expenditures in Paris for last year
to have been:-
For Police and Fire departments CON-
Street cleaning g......................... 10000
TOTAL. $4,l4o OOO
The appropriations for these purposes in
New York for 1875, under the provisional esti-
mate recently passed by the Board of Appor-
ionment are as follows:-
Police, without Street Cleaning Bureau 3,3s7, 900
Street Cleaning Bureau. $780, 900
Total.......... ....................$ 81, ,557, 900
Total spent in Paris. 4148,000
Excess spent In New York ........... 81, ,4O9, 600
Thus, with city one-half the size of Paris,
we pay nearly one million and a half dollars
more than is paid by the Parisians for the
support of the Police and Fire departments
and for cleaning the streets. At the same
time the service is not one-half so we'll per-
facts deserving the attention of the taxpayers
and Of the Board Of Apportionment.
The New York herald., 1874-12-18

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. stock
market was dull. Gold steady at 11lI, and
money on call loans from four to five per
cent. Foreign exchange closed weak.
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THE RETURNING BOARD in New Orleans has
decided the elections in TWEEN y-three parishes,
which give the House thirty-seven conserva-
tives and thirty-three radicals. Now for the
rest
The New York herald., 1874-12-18

From our reports u.is morning the probabilities
are that the ,oeather today ,ciu be partly cloudy
and colder, ,rih brisk northeast ,oi1sds.
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BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PRoPRIET
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imagine no wider field of usefulness than lies
before the members Of this organization, and
we are sure its officers will receive the warmest
thanks and support of the community.
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.
BRYANT,S OPERA

FIFTH AVENUE SHEATRE,
Twenty eighth street and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ASSr r.
ANCE, 1T r. NJ; closes at 10 30 r. NJ. Miss Davenp TT
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NEW YORK HERALD


NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
PROPRIETOR
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.
FIFTH AVENUE SHEATRE
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MSsrREEsY, ac. ~ at p M n; closes at 10 F. H. Dan
Bryant
washington ,.ss9zSE sso9kSET sTEE TEEA1sF Miss Char,
loe Thompson.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs
SoTHe5 a q ciasss at m P
Sixteenth srsesaaSs2 fas!Ss2s bthE JUL CARE Mr. Mac
GLOBE THEATRE.
sroadway-vARIETY, at p M closes at 10 30 P. NJ.
LYcEuM THEATRE.
H. closes At io.ss n Mss Emily soidens At
NEW PARK THEATRE,
Fulton street Brooklyn.-THE ORPHANS R. N. Car
roll and
Fourteenth rsst1WiSkELsc HSHhtz ahk hsEfskR usrM
WOODS MUSEUM.
Broadway. corner Thrtieth street.-0LIVER TWIST,
at2P NJ ROBE RT MACAIRE aud QUITS at8P NJ:
closes al To- ?, NJ J. Linsoa
METROPOLITAN THEATRE
No 5S Broadway at r. M; closes at 10: 80
M 90. a,o,av.xysRISry oLyNRIS THEATRE ,,..,
GRAND OPERA HOUSE,
Twenty third street and Eighth avenue-rHE BLACK
CROOK. a, p H. CLOSES AZ II p. M.
PARK THEATRE,
Broadway between Twensy,h,st ana Twenty second
Mr. John T. Raymond.
NEW YORK STADT THEATRE
Bowery .-LCC1NDE VOM THEArER, at S r n. closes
atl0 80 P. N. Miss Lima Mayr-
THEATRE CoMIQCE,
So 5H BrOadway-VAKIEry at sP NJ closes at 10 30
BOOTHS THEATRE.
corner Of twenty third and sixth avenue-THE
HERO OF THE HOUR at 8 p. NJ closes at 10 40 T. NJ
Mr.. Henri Stuart
ROMAN HIPPODRoME.
Twenty six tn street and Fourth aveaue.-FETE AT
Pkkls, afternoon and evening st2 and
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VOLUME XXXIX............... S52
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BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE
West Invent third street Sixth aveuue-NEG RO
MINsTRELsY, DC. at p. NJ; closes at 10 r. n. Dan
Bryant
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SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS,
Broadway, corner of Twenty ninth street-NEGR(
at 8 r. NJ; closes at ~ r. IA.
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BHOOKLYN THEATRE,
Washington street-JANE EYRE, at ". VI. Miss Char
loe Thompson.
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NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1874.
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ROBINSON HALL,
Sixteenth street.-BEGONE DULL CARE. Mr. Mac
nah
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GLOBE THEATRE,
Broadway.-yARIETY, at p NJ closes at 10 30 P. NJ
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LYCEUM THEATRE,
fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.-CHTLPERIC at
Y NJ; closes at l0:45 r N. Miss EmIly sodene.
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NEW PARK THEATRE,
fulton street. Brooklyp-THE ORPHANS: R. NJ Car
roll and sons
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-25

4 BILL TO PREVENT RAscALITY IN OFFICE.
The following bill has been introduced iuto
the Ohio Legislature:
SECTION l. Be ii enacted by The General
assembly Of ONO, That no officer Of the
State, nor any officer Of any county, town
ship. city, or incorporated village within
this State, who hold. his official position by
election of the people, shall be required to
execute or give bond for the faithful dis
charge of his official duties.
SECTION 9. That all moneys received by
any such officer in his official capacity shall
be deemed and held as public moneys, and
10 such officer shall Use, loan, convert, de-
post it, or apply such moneys, or any part
thereof to any other than the legitimate pur-
poses for which the same was entrusted with
said officer.
SECTION 3. That each and every violation
of the second section shall be deemed mis-.
demeanOr, and any ofli"er so offending, on
conviction thereof, shall he imprisoned in
the penitentiary and kept at hard labor not
more than fifteen nor less than three years.
SECTION 4. The State and counties, town
ships, cities, and incorporated villages, in
their corporate capacity, shall be liable for
all defalcations Of their respective officers
elected as aforesaid: and counties, town.
ships, cities, and Incorporated villages shall
be compelled, by suit or otherwise, to pay
the amount due to any person Oh account of
such defalcation.
Under such law as this the people would
be very careful who they elected to office.
Punishment would be much more certain
than it is now. We hope the bill will be-
come Il law Wheeling Luteligencer.
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Amendments or the Virginia Con-
ference of tho Methodist Episcopal
Church, North.

Church North.
R1cuMoSp DISrRIcr-E. p. Phelps, pre-.
siding Richmond, John T. Otis;
Norfolk, S. L. Coplan; Portsmouth, 4. L.
Barton Chesapeake City, James Murray !;
Surry and Williamsburg, Charles W. Bull !;
AleXandria, James s. Boyer; Falls Church,
Robert A. scott: Vienna, Joseph B. North !;
Herndon. Henry Clement; Leesburg, Will
liam H. Forsyth; Hillsborough, Samuel A.
Bull and f. Ii. Vaughn; Berryville and
Loudoun, w. T. Schooley and j. NJ. Ste
phenson Manassas. a. J. Porter; Acco-
tink, Owen Hicks; Falmouth, d. 81. Muters-
baugh.
ROCKINGHAM DISTRICTS. Richardson,
a. Nj. Chappell and 5. Feltner; Middle
brook. j. f. Evans; Staunton, Coyington,
aud White Sulphur, G. W. Carpenter
Rockb,idee, George w. Graham: Sweet
Springs, Charles N. Nefr; Monroe, G. B
Wanle>s and G. W. Bruly; Forest Hill, q.
w. Linton; LewisGurg, John 5. Wicklinc,
one to be supplied; Greenbrier, A. w.
| Richardson; Pocahontas, L. w. Harper;
Highland and Bath, j. ". Forsyth; Fin,
castle, Byrd s. Turner; New River, Floyd
Sarface: Craig, Joseph NJ. Hall.
ABISGDoN DI>TRIcT-J James Mitchell, pre-.
| siding elder. Washington, II. j. Crumicy
North Fork, b. B Redwine; Lee, j. NJ
Adams, J. 81. Chandler; Puttonsyillc, George
NJ. Hicks; Scott, ". Alliburn, one to be sup
piled; Wise, j. \. Penley, j. Il. Giles Buc'
banan, j. Cole /; Russell, N. Good, A. Tin
gle Smyth and Tazewcll. W. Is. Vaughan
Wythe and Bland, J. w. Graham; Grayson
and Carroll, Thomas Wright, one to be sup,
piled Auburn. j. S. Weaver, ". 3. Wick
| ham Roanoke, j. ". Rams ey; Floyd, G
A. Conner, w. a. Thomas; Franklin, A. n
Brown, G. w. Reese.
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Important .TeetinG OF the Tobacco
tssoriut: . n.-iiailEoad Matters
Charges for selling Tobacco.
aV"
tC"Tr'aIoaGcuce OF the Richmond Dispatch.


tAHy!LLE, VA, February %, 1874.
n tl>Wcr toacall CT the President Of the
.'!aEeo Association Il large meeting of the
i.'',"!"r' 81 Inc Association and of The
o.,-.'.t>>-E!ra generally was held this eve
".Is. ! preamble and resolution were
'4",a;eN expressive Of the Importance at
''F..rd ~ TIE pcnpl" Of Danvilc to tie early
'n.rI'n OF the Lynchburg and Danville
.1!E"Nd, and requesting the president 10 ap-
i'"'"t commI,tvo 10 appear before the Com.
mon Council and urge that body 10 ap-
i%lnt committee, who should "confer
"HA like committee on the part of the
i.'ncahur2 and Danyille Railroad Com
ian!, and nuke such arrangements as will
>'to'" I" The town Of DanvI le free bridget
he arrangement desired is that the depot
shou!H b. located on the north side, and
'Aa' ~ return for the expense thus saved d
ne "Tagc should be provided.
y second rc-olution was adopted, which
may !Etrrcst the planters, and perhaps The
SIanscIs. lBythc-way. the grapgers ore
distributing their circular throughout this
'""tOn OF the country, the main item OF
"Aich Is complaint as to the manner in
which they think the tobacco trade is con-
u"cled.) Tke resolution referred to pro-
i"'c> on account Of The large increase of
'ar tobacco trade" of DunYile, and "to
2Ie'i The demands Of the buyers, that the tax
caaige Of onc-half per cent. be abolished, and
t"aI commissions be reduced 10 two per
'tn'', or TO whatever per cent. the Associa-
,!"A' Who are disinterested parties,' may de-
'"'hinc rs best; the said changes "to take
;4"0 tuesday after the regular meeting in
N'I'i mex. The president appointed q
@-im'lttc 81 five members to recommend
;c'irn under his resolution to the Associa.
''"' ALPHA.
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" HoLE>ALE HYDRopHomA.-In CHICAGO,
81 'riaay last, a ,nad.dog appeared upon
."e H'!ec' ana made q raid which resulted in
~" 3I'lnS OF score OF people and at least
iH'y 'anlnes. The Chicago Times SAYS.
= lie vas !1rse. fDe-lookiug doc, Of the
Huniing species, and his eye lrzed With the
"ehf'um he was suffering, and clots of moi.
,oho'ts roth dropped from his open laws.
ne WAS first observed by Mr.. A. Wander.
puTsh, who was standing on the sidewalk in
'front.' OF his residence. As the furious ami.
'isi neared him he undertook to avoid hi,
attaek by retiring within doors, but the dog
SPiang at him with the greatest tiercencss,
tylns al his face and fastening bis poisonous
lahss IN his upper lip. The unfortunate
man was pulled TO the ground, and the rabid
monster left inoculating wound, in his right
arm and left hand before be continued his
course. Women and children. of whom
.hersWere many on the street, sought their
houses and shut their doors to keep ont the
cause Of their alarm. Men who were bold
enough pursued him, but the fear OF the
dreadful disease which he had would Dro.
uuce caused most Of them to fly to- places OF
safety. The chase OF the rabid cur was con.
t'nued for two hours, during which large
ae4mber OF persons were bitten at lene b
Inc -og was chased into dwelling bou.e.
Where sc ~. He'd -sa