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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-08
The Park Department-Let Us Have
Light.


The facts and figures supplied by the
official records of the Department Of Parks do
not show to the credit of that department or
of Comptroller Green. They prove that a
Commission which has been supposed to be
serving the city without compensation has
been made the means of enriching at least
one of the members of the Board,
and they naturally suggest the question
whether any other of the Commissioners has
been enabled to deplete the treasury in o
similar manner. 1t appears, from the commu-
nication published in the HERALD to-day, that
Comptroller Green, while acting as Park Com
missioner, drew from the pockets of the tax
payers, in one shape or another, in ten years,
the large amount of over one hundred and ten
thousand dollars, or more than eleven thou
sand dollars q year. Some of the claims made
against the city by Mr.. Green appear to be
especially Objectionable and in direct violation
of the spirit if not of the letter. of the laws in
relation to the Central Park. We repeat our
demand upon the present Park Commissioners
for an official statement showing the exact
sioner from the treasury of the Park Depart
ment from the creation of the Commission
to the present time. The Foley disclosures
render this information important for there
has always been a suspicious mystery about
the affairs of this department, and the people
have right to know how far the laws regulat.
ing have been abused by the Commissioners.
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WILLIAMS WrrHDRAws.-The important in
formation came from Washington last night,
In confirmation of prophetic intimation
published heretofore in the HERALD, that
Attorney General Williams has requested
the President to withdraw his nomin-
alton for Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court from the consideration of the Sem
ate. Among the speculative rumors which
have already sprung up in the capital as to
the question of who will now be nominated
for the Office is the one, of an event hitherto
reported as possible upon the withdrawal
of the nnme of Williams, that the Hon Caleb
Gushing will be designated to fill the honored
place OF the lamented Chase, and that Solicitor
General Bristow will be offered the mission to
Madrid. President Grant has done well to
heed the evidences Of public feeling which
have been SO abundant regarding the vacant
Chief Justiceship, in limiting to his nominee
the acceptability of the request which he has
tardily made, and the country will undoubt-
)edly express approval OF this saRacious course.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-08

Robberies by armed bands in the vicinity
of New York have become the order of
the day. 1t is not 80 very long ago
since depredations of this character were
confined to remote places and wild and I'M
frequented localities. No one was very much
startled at hearing of robbery and murder per-
petrated at some lonely ranch. The occa-
sional rumors which from time to time
reached the metropolis of deeds of violence and
bloodshed accomplished by marauders upon
the occupants of some solitary homestead
were recognized as something to be expected
when the character of the locality where such
events happened was taken into considera-
ton. But the masked burglars of to- day and
the enormities they are committing present
themselves under very different conditions.
These crimes, which defy every law enacted
for the protection of the citizen, are committed
under the very noses of those who are sup
posed to be watching over the lives and prop
erty of the citizens. These masked burglaries
prove that we need more extensive and
thoroughly efficient mounted police. But,
since so many of these masked burglars are
now in custody the most effective mean
of preventing a speedy repetition of such
outrages would be the prompt and very severe
punishment of the criminals. The series Of
offences has been perpetrated with so high a
hand, with such audacity, it has been con-
Quoted with such eminent success and on so
large scale, that no punishment that can
legally be inflicted will be too severe. Speedy
and rigorous retribution is the cure under
whose operation the public will be apt to feel
most safe; and if to this measure be added
that of more numerous mounted police
force two very valuable steps in the right
direction will have been taken. Happily
these masked burglaries do not belong to the
order of crime over which maudlin sympathy
is apt to be wasted. They strike too obviously
at all our practical interests for the most senti-
mental of us to refuse to look at the matter in
the severe light of common sense. Punish
the villains severely and increase the mounted
police force, and both burglary and brigandage
will soon be put down.
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The state Comptroller,s Report.

Comptroller Hopkins reports the funded
ing fund, $2,744, 400. and the canal debt,
Sill, 241, 420. The tolls received on the canals
for the season ending September 30, 1873,
were s3,012, 527, and the disbursements,
So, 1877, 551. The bounty debt, after deducting
the unapplied balance of the sinking fund,
amounted to s1O 966, 665. This debt falls due
in 1877; hence but four years taxes can be
contributed, including the levy for the current
year. The Comptroller thinks that with care
full management rate of two mills on the
present valuation will pay the interest and af
ford ample means to redeem the principal of
this debt at maturity.
There was expended during the last fiscal
year for educational purposes s3,012, 533, of
which So, ,784 were the proceeds of a
direct tax of one and q quarter mills for
common schools. The asylums and hospitals
for the deaf, blind, insane and idiotic cost
1868, 500. At the end of the fiscal year 1868.
five years ago, there was surplus revenue Of
S1,85O,00O. Since that time liabilities have
been created, chiefly by appropriations made
by the Legislature, largely in excess of the
revenues and tax authorized to meet them,
which had made, at the meeting of the Legis-
lature in 1872, deficiency in the canal and
general fund of some six and half millions.
To remedy this growing evil, in part at
least, the Comptroller calls attention to the
irregularities of taxation and to the many
schemes forfdepleting the Treasury. He says
compensation for many unauthorized and
unaudited claims find their way among
kindred items into the Supply bill, which has
grown to be formidable instrument
to increase the taxes and deplete
the Treasury. He denounces this as
corrupting and demoralizing, and as an in
vitaton to all jobbers and dependants-an
their name is Legion-to present and urge
claims. He is very severe, and properly, in
his language on this matter. The canals oc-
cupy good deal of the Comptroller's atten-
ton. The importance of facilitating trans
portation by these is pointed out. In doing
this the Comptroller shows the comparative
cost and advantages of transportation by the
Canada and St Lawrence route and by our State
canals to this city. This is subject calling
for the serious consideration of the Legislature;
for it is evident large portion of the trade
with the West will be diverted from this COM
mercial metropolis if increased facilities for
transportation be not made by our canals and
railroads, and especially by the canals, which
carry freight much cheaper than the railroads
The Comptrollers report, on the whole, is q
practical and sensible document.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-08

Only few years ago the men who asked for
political rights for the colored people were
looked upon as impracticable fanatics, and the
idea OF negro standing in the place of John
G. Calhoun would have been secuted as i'm
possible. Nature, it was deemed had erected
barrier between the white and black noes
that no legislation could break down. The
inferiority of the negro was assumed to lie. not
so much in his difference of color as in his de-
fective mental organization Experience ia.
however, rapidly exploding this favorite
theory, and the men who still cling tena-
ciously to their old prejudices find themselves
met in argument and overthrown by the very
negroes whose inferiority they love to pro-
claim. It was strange scene in Congress.
and brought the wondrous change in our
institutions strongly into relief, when col
ored representative rose to reply to Mr..
Stephens, ex-Vice President of the rebel
States. Mr.. Elliott spoke we'll and pointedly
in defence of his people, and was listened to
attentively and respectfully by the House.
His speech as reported bears no evidence Of
the mental inferiority charged against the
colored race. 1t is keenly argumentative, and
the cutting illusions to Mr.. Stephens course
of action were as telling as they were free
from coarseness or vulgar invective. In view
of the provocation to which >the colored mem
bers had been subjected by Che unparliamen-
tary conduct of Mr.. Harris, the dignifed re-
buke given to the white Representative
showed that Mr.. Elliott possessed self-control
as well as oratorical ability. In future the
worshippers Of a dead past will be moro
careful how they attack the negro in
Congress-. They have no longer the field to
themselves, and their assumptions of superb
ority are strikingly disproved by the logic Of
facts Colored oratory contrasts favorably
with the vapid nonsense talked and written by
the men who advertise their contempt for the
so called inferior race. Not few of the
white representatives must have felt their
mental inferiority to Mr.. Elliott while the
black orator was castigating the ex-rebel Vice
President and his friends. The character Of
colored oratory is impassioned, keen aud
argumentative 1t naturally attracts the SYM
pathy Of the nation, because it speaks in
behalf of the downtrodden and oppressed. II
aims at the final overthrow of caste and the
conquest of the right to equality for all men,
and recommends itself by it's moderation az
we'll as ability,
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The DUTCH IN SUMATRA. latest news
from Acheen is to the effect that cholera and
other dangerous diseases are prevailing to a
fearful extent in the Dutch camp The native
allies are, we are told, the greatest sufferers.
The news does not at all surprise us. Sumatra
is tropical climate and directly under the
Equator. In such climates dangerous diseases,
cholera included are inseparable from large
congregations of men. At Mecca year by
year, on the occasion of the annual pilgrim
ages cholera is a most faithful visitant In
tropical regions, especially where rain is prev
alent cholera has always been more destruc-
tive than war itself. In spite of disease, how
ever, the Dutch must win the day and become
masters of Sumatra. We cannot but wish
them success, for they are doing in Sumatra
what the British are doing in South Africa
they are widening the area Of modern civil
Zation.
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Judge Donaldson, Of Pennsylvania. Is at tho
Windsor Hotel
Judge Israel s. Spencer, of Syracuse, is again at
the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Captain W. K. Mayo, United States Navy, is quar-.
tered ct the Aston House.
G. Carleton CONN, OF the Boston Journal. is stay.
ing at the Windsor Hotel.
Senator John P. Stockton. Of New Jersey, has
apartments at the Astor House.
General B. F. Bruce, of Madison county, N. "
has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel
Ex-Congressman John F. Benjamin. OF Missouri.
is temporarily residing ut the Astor House.
Chief Engineer william W. W. Wood, United
States Navy, has quarters at the Union Square
HOTEL
Assemblyman D. s. Lynde. OF st. Lawrence
county, Is among the late arrivals at Barnum'a
Hotel.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Allen @. Beach, Of
WATERFOWL. N. y, arrived yesterday at the st.
Nicholas Hotel
At the meeting Of the Bengal Qndia) social Sol.
ence Association Sir George Campbell was elected
President for 1874.
The Thakore of Rajcote and the heir presumptivs
of the Jam Of Nowanugger, accompanied by Captain
Lowther Mutt and large retinue, who hava
started on tour through India. are in Bombay.
Colonel Count Charles Edward Stuart has re-
ceived in London, from Don Carlos VII, of Spain,
the Cross OF knight Commander Of Isabella tne
Catholic for distinguished services rendered to ths
Carlist cause.
On New Years Day Judge Jackson, our cOnsulal
representative at Halifax, N. s., was treated
with marked consideration. He was called upon
by distinguished officers OF the army, the CHIEF
Justice, members OF the Dominion Parliament
members Of the Provincial government, the Mayor
and Common Council, several clergymen ana
wealthy business men. Judge Jackson and hia
amiable lady are very popular IN the Province d
Nova Scotia and are held In high esteem by the
Dominion government
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-08

vReINIUs DOCUMENTS. In the copy Of the
papers relating to the Virginius sent to Con-
gress we find nothing of interest or value not
already given in our Geographic summary. A
considerable portion of the document is taken
up with the dispositions and testimony taken
before Mr.. Sidney Webster and Mr.. George
Bliss, which established to the satisfaction of
Mr.. Williams that the ship was not entitled to
call herself an American. More reliance
could have been placed on this testimony if
counsel for the accused owners had been pres
emit when il was taken.
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and our great epizootic epidemic of last year
was undoubtedly connected with frequent and
dense mists produced by northeasterly winds
on the Atlantic seaboard
The subject is one of great sanitary and
scientific interest, and our medical investiga-
tors will do well to follow it up and unravel
its mystery. The HERALD has before called
attention to the kindred subject of the predic-
ton and prevention of fogs, and we are glad
to see it has been taken up ON the other side
of tho Atlantic.
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CAUTION SIGNALS AT CAPE HENRY.

NORFOLK Jan. Z, 1874
To-day cautionary signals were hoisted at half
past two O'Clock A. NJ. at Cape Henry for the first
time.
Ten carpenters have left Norfolk for the purpose
of erecting II life stations between Capes Henry
and Hatteras.
The new telegraph line for the United States
Signal Bureau between Norfolk and Cape Hatteras
reached point to-day II miles below Cape Henry.
and is being pushed rapidly to the dangerous coast
OF Hatteras.
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GOVERNOR Moses of South Carolina, is
accused of stealing Macaulay's essay on
Milton and dovetailing it into his Message.
0, Moses! Has official roguery come to
this? The idea of stealing the livery Of
Macaulay to serve Sambo in Shameful
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-08

Naples might become invincible abroad and
be able to stife all manifestations of discon-
tent among their subjects at home. But the
three kings, feeling themselves strong in
augurated policy of bgoted resistance to all
popular demands and bequeathed this policy
to their descendants, with this consequence,
that the Bourbons are now outcasts, having
ceased to reign anywhere.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-08

A RECESS AT ALBANY. The Legislature has
adjourned over to Tuesday next, in order to
give the Speaker of the Assembly and the
ment OF their standing committees. There is
some curiosity to know whether these COM
mittees will be formed in the interest of GER
tain rings and lobby cliques or for the protec-
ton OF the State and the people, and particu-
Assembly. There is an old maxim which says
that ga new broom sweeps Clean" but there
is another which informs us that 'the tree is
known by its fruit"
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Naval Orders,
WASHINGTON, Jan. I

WASHINGTON Jan. ., 1874.
Commander ]. f. Garrett is detached from the
command OF the Dictator and ordered to duty al
member of the Board OF Inspectors. Captain
W. S. Spencer Is ordered to the command OF the
Dictator. Lieutenants George T. wilkins aud VIM
c. Gibson are ordered to the Roanoke.
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The AsHANTEE WAE-We print in another
column long and valuable letter from the
special correspondent Of the HERALD with the
British army moving on Coomassie. This
correspondence speaks for itself and requires
no extended comment. We venture to say
that no journal has before published an ac-
count at once SO complete and graphic, giving
in condensed form the curious history and
customs of the Ashantees and their less
numerous neighbots. 1t is particularly inter-
esting as presenting in vivid language the
features of rich tract of territory, which
ultimately may be Incorporated in the British
Colonial Empire.
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BANK DEFALCATION.

BOSTON, Jan. Z, 1874.
+. 8. Bacon. Cashier OF the Holyoke Nations
Bank, Is q dcfauter to the amount OF $3.50. 1he
bank Ia secured by Bac0n'a bonds.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
Twenty eighth street and Broadway.-MAN AND WIFE,
al r. NJ closes ii +. NJ MT. Harkns Miss Ada by as
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE,
Eighth avenue and Twenty-third treet-HUMPTY
DUMPTY ABROAD at 745 r. NJ. closes at 10 - p. M
.Air "a. L.. FoA.
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MRS CONwAYs BROOKLYN THEATRE,
Washington street. Brooklvn.-LITTLE SUNSHINE, q
s Z. NJ. closes at IL p. NJ. Miss Lillian Conway.
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NIBI,O's GARDEN
Broadway, between Prince and Houston I,, streets -
ROMEO JAFFIEK JENKINS, at T. d. ~ ~ BELLIES
OF THE KITCHEN. at =. NJ. closes at ioD +. M.
Nokes Family, Mr. Lefingwel
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Supplies.
NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 7, 1874.
The United States steamer Powhatan. Captain
j. 3. Beaumont. left the Navy Yard to-day, al
noon, for Newcastle, Del. to tow the monitor
AJAX to Key West. The Powhatan carried from
the yard quantity OF torpedo fixtures. boOmA
&C., and other naval supplies Tor Key West.
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AMUsEMENTs THIS EVENING.
NIBLO,s GARDEN,

METROPOLITAN THE
95 Broadway VARIETY ENTERtAiNhENi ~ fao
?. M. closes at ~ 80 z. NJ
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WOODS MUSEUM,
broadway corner lhrtieth street-H USBAND TO
ORDER at : 2. NJ. closes az = ~ = NJ: STREETS OF
NEW YORK at +. NJ. closes at Ii r. NJ
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wALLACK'S THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirteenth street-A MAN OF HONOR
at r. NJ. closes at 10 30 r. NJ Mr. Lester aack Miss
Annie D(Aaud
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DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM.
No. 688 Broadway. AND ART.
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Cool EVEN FOB MADR1D-The comments on
President Grants Message.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE,
Broadway, between Houston Blocker streets
GABRIEL GRUB. at p. VI. closes 1T IL r. NJ MaIilton-
Raynor Family
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ROBIN son HALL.
Sixteenth street.-NAGICAL ENTERTAINMENT AND
LAUGHING GAS, at 8 p NJ closes at 10 80 NJ.
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Balm HALL
Great Jones street. corner Lafayette pace.-THE Pill
GRIM, at p. NJ. closes at 30 p. NJ
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BRYANT1S OPERA HOUSE,
Twenty-hrd street, corner OF sixth avenue.-C1NDER
ELLA IN BLACK, NEGRO MINSTRELsY, DC, at r.
". closes at IL p. NJ.
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BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE,
opposite CITY Hail. Brooklyn-J0HN GARTH at P.
NJ closes at IL r. NJ. Miss Annie Firmin MI John Jack
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BOWERY THEATRE,
Bowery-CATARACr OF THE CANOES, at 8 p. NJ.
closes at H. =. NJ. Miss Kate Fisher
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE.
No. 0l Bowery VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at T.
n. closes at II p. NJ.
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GERMANIA THEATRE,
Fourteenth street-WILHELM TELL at 8 p NJ closes
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
Twenty eighth street and Broadway-MAN AND WIFE,
at NJ. at II r NJ MT. Harkins, Miss Ada Dyas.
co ,e THEAJHE
s ?. N. closes II p NJ. Miss Lillian Conway.
wALLAcK's THEATRE,
ats M closes at 10 30 p NJ Mr. Lester Nallack Miss
Annie Deand.
BOOTHS THEATRE.
h Ana a S os a.
P. NJ MI. r. $. ohanfrau Miss Bella Pateman.
OLYMPIC THEATRE
broadway, between Houston ana bleecker streets
GABRIEL GRUB. at p ~ closes at II r NJ Maiilton-
BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE
closes at IL P. NJ. Miss Annie Frmin John Jack.
Bowery.-CATARACr OF THE CANOES. at P. NJ;
closes at II. p. NJ Miss Kate Fisher.
GERMANIA THEATRE,
Fourteenth street-WILHELM TELL, at p. NJ closes
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE,
NJ; closes at ii P. N. 49,
BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE.
ELLA N sEAGk,, SEdRo HISsTkELsY' &c, at ST.
sixteenth R3sNsoN H HA AND
LAUGHING GAS, at s p NJ; closes at 10 80 NJ
Balm HALL.
Great Jones street. corner Lafayette pace.-THE Pill
GRIN, at p. N. closes at 9 30 ?.
DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM.
No 6S8 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND ART.
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WAIIAcK,s TuEArPI
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-03-18
STATE OF MAINE.

pEN0BSCOT ss.-Court OF County CommisSion-
eys. January Term A. ID. 1874.
Ipon the foregoing petition it is considered by the
commissioners that the petitioners are responsible
and that they ought to be heard touching the mat
ter set forth their petition, and therefore ORDER
That the County Commissioners meet at the dwell
ing house of William II. Smart IN SAID whitney
Ridge Plantation, in said County of Penobscot, on
Wednesday, the tenth day of June next
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, for a nearing ~
the premises, and thence proceed to view the route
mentioned in said petition Immediately after when
view hearing of the parties and witnesses VIII pe
had at some convenient place in the vicinity, ana
such further measures taken in the premises as the
Commits sioners shall judge proper. And 1t Is FUR
ther ORDERED, That notice of the time, place and
purpose of the Commissioners meeting Aforesaid
lie given to all persons and corporations interested
bv serving attested copies of the petition and this
order thereon, upon the Clerks of the towns Of
Rowland and Maxtled and by posting up attested
copies as aforesaid in three public places in each
of said towns thirty days at least before the time
appointed for such view, and also by publishing
the petition and order thereon three weeks success
sivev in the Bangor Weekly Courier, newspaper
published in Bangor, in said county, and six weeks
successively in the Kennebec Journal, which
is the state paper, published in Augusta, in Ken
nebee county, the last publication to be
thirty days at least before the time of said view,
that all persons and corporations interested may
attend and be heard if they think fit.
Attest: E. c. BRETT, Clerk.
\ true copy Of the Petition and Order thereon.
fxi2 Attest: f. G. BRETT, Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-03-18
STAR LAMINA WARE

TABLE SHIELDS, PLATE. WATER PITCHER, TEA
AND COFFEE PoT STANDS, &c. send one dollar and
receive prepaid a sample of this elegant and useful
Plated Table Furniture, round or oval. Every
family needs and will buy these goods. Agents are
making money. More wanted-lades and gentle.
men. Jan2I4W
STAR LAMINA WARE, so Beekman ST., n. Y.