New-York tribune., 1874-11-17
some of the obscurity that has been thrown
around it by the testimony of the defense

Our Louisiana dispatches bristle with reports
of attempted frauds in election returns ana
consequent arrests. This is a better condition
of things than the hopeless submission OF 1917.
Where these things can be settled on the spot,
there will be neither need nor excuse for in
terference at Washington.
Although the students of the University of
Glasgow did not elect Mr.. Emerson as Rector,
their vote of 500 out of 1900 cannot be re-
garded as less than compliment to the sage
of Concord. There are few men anywhere in
the world who would have obtained so high
vote against such an antagonist as Disraeli.
For so small defalcation, that in the Pa
ciic Bank is very unpleasant mess. The
defaulter IS closely related to the President
and other people in the bank; he is missing
and cannot be found and the "woman In
| "the case" is annoying the officers OF the
| institution by q cross-action for trespass.
| II is reported that the civil war in the Ar
| gentine Republic has come to an end through
| the agreement of Senior Avellaneda to submit
| to new elections. Although such an arrange
ment is highly expedient, we must bear in
mind that this intelligence comes by way OF
Paris which is not the best channel for in
formation about affairs in other countries.
Transfers of police officers and employees to
secure greater efficiency in the service are
! highly to be approved. But when the Police
Board orders additional transfers on the plea
of breaking up "petty rings" and stopping
af;o
| Commissioners are trihing with grave duty.
| There is no cure for corrupt officers and raDld
| dogs but decapitatiOn.
A State law requires that eight days notice
shall be given before application to court to
appoint a receiver of broken bank. de-
cison by Judge BlatchfOrd yesterday in the
case of the Eighth National Bank seems to
indicate that this does not apply to other than
| State institutions. And for that matter 1t
seems to be dead letter so far as they, too,
are concerned.
We have another installment of the outcry
| from California about the importation OF
| Chinese women. year or two ago one of
the chief objections urged against Cinnamon
in this country was that they brought no
women with them, and there was great fear
for our Irish domestics. If the opposition of
the Californians to Chinese male immigrants
were not so notorious, their objections to
Chinese women would be less open to sus-
piciOn.
No effort is to be left untried to obtain
Federal interference in the Arkansas con-
| spiracy. Smiths adherents are said to be
arranging to set up bogus State Government
at Pine Bluff or Helena, and Senator Dorsey
| has q dispatch that would have made the
fortune of the Chattanooga Convention, describ-
ing White Leaguers as raidng over the State,
perpetrating plentiful Outrages. and creating a
reign of terror. The chief trouble about all this
Arkansas business is that it is little too date
in the season.
In the course of Secretary Bristow's inves-
| LEGATIONS about the OutgOes of the Treasury
! Department, he comes squarely against the
unchecked expenditures of Architect Mullett
on public buildings. 1t is about time that this
business should be looked into; we have at
times opened few pages of it, for inspection,
in TIE TRIBUNE. The Secretary thinks that
at least the duties of Architect, Supervising
Architect, and Disbursng Officer should cease
to belong to one individual. Even the Pom
tifex Maximus was not 30 authorized.
The official canvass of the vote of New
York County will be formally announced on
Wednesday. Meantime we CRAFTY the impatient
politicians by giving the figures this morning.
1t will be seen that on the State and County
tickets, the earliest counted, the official figures
differ only few hundreds from those given
in TIE TRIBUNE the morning after election.
In the press reports of those counted at late
hour of election night few errors crept into
the totals, but nothing serious enough to affect
the result as first announced by us.
The officers of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada evince no reader disposition than
those of the Baltimore and Ohio line to enter
openly into the combination of the other
trunk lines. But while they decline, or at
least hesitate, to accept the Saratoga compact,
they intimate that they are not 10th to adopt
the increased rates contemplated by the COM
bination. All the roads are naturally anx-
ious to increase the freight tariff, and doubt
less such increase will follow in spite of the
Trunk lines.
The folly of striking is probably already ap-
parent to the 'Longshoremen. If not, day or
two must clearly demonstrate its absurdity.
At this unfortunate season, both of the year
and of business with thousands of idle hands
ready to do any work which will feed their
hungry families it is in the highest degree
unwise to strike either for higher wages or
against a reduction of pay. We had hoped
that better cOunsels might prevail, but the