New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-10

ing them glorious In the streets. This Is hard
to comprehend. In Washington those states
men who are most indulgent to their own appe-
tites are precisely those who cannot find 1T in
their hearts to refuse anything to the Prcsl-
dent.
The doubts of the Mayor as to whether he
had appointed Hugh Gardner a Commissioner
of Excise Will perhaps be cleared up by the
facts elsewhere published Early on Wednes-
day morning the appointment was announced
at the Mayors Office: late in the afternoon the
Mayor told TRIBUNE reporter that Mr.. Gard
ner "had better wait until he got the appoint
"ment before accepting it !" and about the
same time Mr.. Gardner said TO another re-
porter that he had not yet decided to accept
Now comes Col. MarplOt Spencer, who declares
| he saw Mr.. Gardner sworn in on Wednesday
morning at the Mayors Office. Is it to be con-
cluded that indulgence in political Juggling
leads irTesistibly to prevaricaton 1t Is incred-
| ible that the Mayor and Mr.. Gardner can have
| been so confused by events as to have forgot
ten in the afternoon the important official acts
of the morning. And it is impossible that the
precise Colonel could have been mistaken.
The late rumOr of the flight of Isaac Badeau,
the indicted ex-Tax Coll of Brooklyn,
surprised no one familiar with tho evidence
against him developed on the trial of Britton.
1t now appears TO be confirmed, and was
yesterday announced in court at the conclu-
sion of the trial of Gill. Badeau's counsel
strenuously deny the flight but admit that
the accused has gone to higher ATTITUDES"
1t was the simplest thing he could do, not
only for his own welfare but that of others.
His trial must have developed much that
would have been damaging to the bank Off
Gals and others who used the public funds by
paying Badeau cheap interest, and a good
deal of responsibility must have inevitably
suffered. BY the way, it will become matter
of local interest to know who was the "Presi-
"dent of q Brooklyn Insurance Company"
who appears to have been his companion
about the time of his flight. Flight, under
the circumstances (his case having been called
for triaD, is a confession of judgment, and
doubtless the people of Brooklyn will have to
be content with learning that Mr.. Badeau has
gone to swell the American convict colony at
Brussels graced by Fields, Cook, Sweeny, ct al.
We have further mass of aiiidavits about
Erie this morning. These later documents
were described in the Associated Press dis
patch from Albany yesterday as follows:
"NOne of the dispositions contain any specific
"reply to the charges made against the Com
"pany, all being almost entirely confined to
"the general statement that the state
"ments of Mr.. Angel and Mr.. Dunan
"were malignant falsehoods." We make
room, however, for Mr.. WatsOn's affidavit.
In spite of his misfortunes and some grave
errors we think him the cleanest man engaged
in the whole dirty quarrel, and are glad to
give his declarations the fairest hearing. But
the public is thoroughly sick of these er parte
statements. The real facts can only be ascer-
tanned by judicial investigation, and to this,
| since the matter has gone far,
trust that neither side will interpose
further objection. lThe only thing that
seems clear in the whole deplorable mudde is
that poor Erie is, if possible, in worse way
than ever A great deal of stockjobbing is
| mixed up with both sides of the controversy,
and among the worst of those concerned in it
are the men who go about with their eyes
rolled up, declaring their own entire virtue,
| and insisting that all the charges against
them came from disappointed stockholders.
|
news from the Western border, which shows
that large parties of Indians belonging to diff
ferent tribes have gone upon the war-path
| and are killing and scalping all the settlers
whom they find unprotected. This seems to
| be one of the most serious outbreaks OF recent
years, as it involves a large number of
tribes, portions of the Northern Sioux, KiOwas,
! Arrapahoes, Cheyennes, and Comanches, being
engaged in it. Their operations extend over
great stretch of country, as the kilograms
of the last day or two give accounts of their
murderous activity at points as far distant as
Pembina in the north and the Cimar-
ron River in the south, and at in
termediate places in Colorado, Dakota,
and Wyoming. No accurate estimate of
their numbers can as yet be made, as the
attack has evidently taken our Indian De-
partment entirely by surprise. and even the
agents on the ground appear to have no idea
what proportion Of the tribes we have men
toned are hostile and how many are peace
able. 1t will probably be unsafe to trust to
the professions of any portion so far as to
leave them in position to be affected by the con-
tagion of blood, and to join their comrades in
the work of murder. With our little army,
depleted by false economy to such point
that its efficiency is almost destroyed, it will
not be easy to subdue and punish these row
ing bands of homicdes. But all that is
possible we may expect will be done, though
every Indian killed will cost the Treasury
about his weight in coin.
Marshal MacMahon sent in his promised
message yesterday, and it gives forth no I'M