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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20
HOur Old Eriend.o

Our Washington friend, The Lobbyist,
comes in many shapes, and works in subtle
and mysterious ways. We are never surprised
Lobbyist in the last few months as an intelli-
gent contraband, protector of American in
dustry, on owner OF sewing machines, O re-
formed inebriate, q reconstructed Southerner,
q clergyman, a giver of good dinners friend
ofliberty, distinguished foreigner, gambler,
orphan who lost both parents in the war,
deserving officer, with and without legs, an
enterprising correspondent and in twenty other
shapes, each shape more amusing than the
preceding. But he never came in an aspect
SO plaintive and interesting as on Wednesday
last, when Senator Pratt, of Indiana, intro
duced him to the Senate as ''our old friend"
It seems that Senator Pratt had in his desk
very little job intended to save the Northern
Pacific Railway Company a few hundred thou
sand dollars in the cost of surveys. Congress,
it appears, gave the lands to the Company in
the first place. Not satisfied with the gift the
road did not wish to pay for the survey of the
lands So it engaged Benjamin f. Wade,
who had for many years been Senator, to visit
Congress and lobby the little matter through
There was unusual art shown in the manage
ment OF the affair. Senator Pratt arose and
said that at the instance of "our old friend"
who had been Senator and presiding officer
of the Senate, he would call up his bill.
There was no resisting the appeal There was
''our old friend" no less a person than Ben
o mendicant, with his hat in his hand, and in
the hat his especial little BILL and there was
his Senatorial sponsor, urging the years of
Mr. Wade, his Senatorial services, his honors
in the Senate, his claims on old associa-
tons and friendships, as a reason why bill.
involving large amount Of money, should be
passed. And it was passed.
This is very beautiful. 1t shows that the
Senate has heart. Belisarius begged for an
obolus, and Lear entreated for bread and shell
ter. They were refused. Wade only asked
for his little bill, asked it as an sold friend"
and generous Senate consented. Here is a
fine opportunity for Christian statesmen out
OF office; for the Senate, not, we are assured,
without q cautious thought as to what Sena-
tors may be brought to in the future, seems
disposed to deal benignantly with an "old
friend" II our citizens have any unappre-
ciated measure that drags before Congress let
them address Mr.. Wade, or Mr.. Nye, or Mr.
Pomeroy, or any one of the twenty "old
friends" who shift and glide about the scenes
of their former splendor. Something might be
said Of the indecency of man who has been
as eminent as Mr.. Wade carrying his honors
to the lobby, like q bankrupt merchant with
his jewels to pawnbroker's shop, and selling
than for nrice Many. also. who remem.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Marlborough turned up In Jersey-with bad
headache.
Peter cooper called on Havemeyer. Their chat
was of the glucose order.
Judge Israel s. spencer, OF Syracuse is staying
at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Major v. Sanchez, OF the Spanish Army, ID reGd-
ng at the New York Hotel.
General Basil W. Duke, Of Kentucky, Is regis
tered at the Windsor Hotel.
Viscount de Saint Maurice, OF Paris, has apart
ments at the New York Hotel.
Secretary OF state Henry C. Kelsey, Of New Jer-
sey, ID at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Colonel Orlando B. WILCOX, United States Army
Is CHARTERED at the Everett House.
Major Walter Mcfarland, United States Army,
has quarters at the Glenham Hotel.
Mr.. Jay, American Minister to Austria, arrived
in this city from Washington last evening.
State Senator Henry q. Connolly OF Kingston.
n. Y, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel
Joseph Jefferson. the comedian, arrived in this
city last evening, and is at the HOFFMAN House.
Assistant Adjutant General J. B. stonehouse ar
rived from Albany last evening at the Hotel Bruins
wick.
General Won schwentz German Ambassador st
Vienna, left Washington last evening for Niagara
and Canada.
Cyrus Field has gone to Iceland to see the millen-
cracked up to be.
Judge 0. p. Temple OF Tennessee, member OF
the Board OF WISH .ors to West Point, is soourning
at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Mr.. II. F. keenan, has retired from the manage
ment Of the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel and Will
pass a year In Europe before resuming his proics-
sion.
Dr. Dio Lewis OF Boston, has discovered that
when it is high tide there is generally great deal
OF water in the river. he intends to agtate tho
subject
Butler evidently still believes In defamation. He
believes carry Congress as he tried to carry
Fort Fisher-by making a great noise in tho
neighoorhood.
Coal-colored BARRIERS in the South refuse to shave
their ginger cake colored customers Under the
Civil Rights law they will be prosecuted fox
making DISCRIMINATION on account OF COLOR"
Terre Hautentot walked in his sleep straight
into the room OF damsel possessed OF more ~
less beauty. She knocked him down with lamp,
which is now regarded as a sure cure for somnau-
bulism
Walt whtmans poem on 1.-THE Universal' IL
published. He Is now writing one on the integral
calculus. AS this is subject with which he Is but
slightly acquainted, 1t presents fine field for his
imagination.
Baron Werther, recently at Munich, has been
appointed German Ambassador at Constantinople.
He is not of the same family as the Werther whom
Charlotte saw carried by her on shutter when
she wen on cutting bread and butter"
General Grant mas accepted an invitation to At
tend the ceremony OF the opening OF the ST. Louis
Bridge which occurs on the Fourth OF July. He
has also accepted an invitation to be present al
Rninebeck GU the Fourth. Has he got double.
ganger like the haunted Dutcnmans
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

The RHODE ISLAND SENAToRsHIP hangs in
the Legislature much the same as the election
of United States Senator did in Massachusetts
short time ago. Burnside continues ahead
of his rivals but it seems he cannot get
over forty-four votes, and fifty -four are neces-
sary. Day after day the result is about the
same, few votes being changed only for the
different candidates. The New England
politicians know the value of seat in the
Senate and make stubborn fight for it.
Rhode Island is almost as large as one of our
counties, and yet its Senators have as much
power as those of the great State of New
York So important is the position regarded
that Governors OF States are willing to resign
to accept it. From present appearances some
new man will have to be brought forward
upon whom the rival parties Of the Rhode
Island Assembly can unite.
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The Racine (Wis.) Journal responds to the
and Colorado should have few thou
sands of actual living people resident
within their limits before they are adj
mitted to the Union, and not merely
prairie dogs, antelopes and Indians, by saying
that the admission Of these sparsely settled
and compromise on the part of the trainers 81
the constitution" and that 'the star of the
West is taking its westward way and that
''there is no use in warning against the in
evitable." We admit that the star Of tho
West is doing great many curious things.
and we have great respect for the inevitable.
But because it was prudent, a political
measure, to give Rhode Island and Delaware
in the beginning as much political power in
the Senate AS Virginia and New York we do
not see the necessity of comforting the same
power upon the Rocky Mountains and the
barren reaches of New Mexico. Ii this prin-
ciple of miscellaneous suffrage is to come into
our government as "a concession and a COM
promise Alaska should be admitted. Her
fur seals have as much right to admission a.
the coyotes and antelopes, and there is Ger
tainly land enough in that Territory to make
d half dozen States. The true plan is to base
representation upon population-to admit
States when they have inhabitants. We de
not object to increasing our family OF States.
but we would like to have them come as real
States and not as geographical expressions
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20
ARMY INTELLIGENCE.
CONFIRM ton of PrOmotions-A General
Court Martial.

Confirmation Of PrOmotions-A General
Court Martial.
WASHINGTON, June 10, 1874.
The Senate, in executive session, to-day, con-
nrmed the following nominatons:-
Major AbsaIom Baird to be Assistant Inspector
General OF the army; Captain Robertson, second
artillery, to be Major; First Lieutenant Breckin-
ridge to be Captain and Second Lieutenant Craw-
ford to be First Lieutenant
Inspector General d. b. Sacket is ordered %
inspection duty In the Department OF the Platte.
general court martial is appointed to meet &C
West Point, N. v, on the 22d OF june 1874, or az
soon thereafter, AS practicable, for the trial Of
such prisoners as may be brought before II. The
following Is the detail OF the conrt:-Captan
Thomas II. Hamburg, Corps OF engineers; FIRST
Lieutenant Samuel N. Mills, Eiith aftiiiery; FIRST
lieutenant William +. Reynolds, Jr., First Arti-
lery; First Lieutenant Edward =. Wood. Eighth
artiilery; second Lieutenant William ?. Duva,
Fifth artillery; Second Lieutenant Henry L.
Harris First artillery and Second Lieutenant
Wallace Mott, Eighth infantry, Judge Advocate.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

NApoLEoN1sM. is more unworthy
of the true American spirit than the sympathy
with Napoleonism which every now and then
takes possession Of some of U.s. What is Ma
poleonism but form of violent, ferce selfsh
tyranny What one thing has resulted from
it that in after ages men will care to re-
member? A few gilded names-only names
now-and no more Austerlitz, Jena, Wag-
ram-and what else? And these, what are
these now more than the echoes Of tavern
brawl? What country is freer, what people
are happier, what department OF science, art
or human achievement is further advanced
because Of this system or OF any man who has
illustrated it? What special virtue does it
show to the American mind? Was it the in
vasion of Mexico or the threatened invasion of
the United States in the interest of the Con-
federacy?
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Nominations for Promotion Confirmed
NV the senate-AssiEnmentstO Duty.

Nominations for Promotion Confirmed
by the acknowledgements to Duty.
WASHINGTON, June 10, 1874.
The Senate has confirmed the following n0mina-
tions:-
G. r. 7. Rodgers, to be Rear Admiral; Captain
Caldwell, to be commodore; Commander Philip U.
johnson, to be captain; Lieutenant Commander
silas Casey, to be Commander; Master William G.
strong to he Lieutenant; Ensign holman, to be
Master.
Master William L. Buckley has been ordered to
the Powhatan on the lst OF July next. Captain
George d. Henderson has been ordered to the Navy
Yard at Portsmouth, N. II. Lieutenant J. J. Yates
has been detached from the Canonicus auo OF
dered TO return home and report arrival.
Lieutenant Thomas Perry has been detacn .e.
from the Manhattan and ordered to return nome
and report arrival. Master j. r. Was has been
detached rom the POwnAtan ana granted tnree
months leave OF absence. Assistant surgeon
George H. Forney has been detached rom the Dc.
spAtch and ordeTedtn the Roanoke.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

The PopE's ADDRESS to the cardinals is q
reiteration of the old complaints against the
extinguishment of the temporal power with a
renewal of the refusal to pardon the enemies
of the Church. The wisdom of this course, so
far as the temporalities are concerned, is
questionable; but the matter really calls for
no adjustment, since, like all questions of the
kind, it will finally adjust itself beyond all
hope Of Papal rule in Rome
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

THERE WERE THIRTY-THREE CASES on
Thursdays calendars in which the city is de-
fendant--namely four in Part q Supreme
Court; eight in Part 3, Supreme Court; one in
Special Term, Supreme Court two in Cham
bers, Supreme Court nine in Part /, Com
mon Pleas seven in Part 2, Common Pleas,
after suit clogs the calendars while able law
yers not paid for the opinion assert that Mr..
Green is not Comptroller de J,sre; that the
Charter bills of 1873 are unconstitutional and
that the consolidation scheme of 1874 is
equally in conflict with the State constitu.
tom
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

SPANISH NAVAL PROMOTIONS. 1t is such
rare thing for the officers of the Spanish navy
to receive promotion for services in actual
battle that those engaged in the defence of
Manzanilo against the Cuban insurgents must
regard their good fortune as an episode in the
history of the instruction. These promo
tons were well made, however, as the Spanish
navy has about as much chance to put down
the rebellion in Cuba AS the Spanish army
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when the law is obeyed as construed by the
Secretary of the Treasury. This criticism
seems to us to reach the gravamen OF the
charge against this old and famous house.
Mr.. Foster in his angry and, we regret to
think, not very effective speech, made the
true point We cannot assume the commits
sion Of petty. unusual, extraordinary
crimes on the part of house as
eminent as this Whatever effect the
criticism upon Phelps Dodge 4 Co. would
have is weakened by the tone of the
illusions made by the General to the
personal habits and professions of Mr..
Dodge. The fact that he is q member
of Christian church and conspicuous in his
relations to good Institutions is not peril
nent subject of debate, and leaves upon the
mind the impression that the speaker was
governed by his anger and his prejudice and
not by his reason.
MIR. Ellis FL. Roberts, in the acrid and un-
seemly debate which followed, said, with ad-
mirable force, that if the revenues as now col
lected did not yield more than one-third Of
what Was due to tho government the whole
barbarc system of spies, detectives, informers
and emissaries was o blunder. This is GER
tainly sound. The evil, granting it to be as
startling as General Butler AYERS, can only be
corrected by q revision of customs laws,
so that every tariff shall not be temptation
to crime. There never was revenue system,
and under our laws and institutions the crea-
ton of such system would be impossible
that could, for instance, collect a tax of two
dollars gallon upon whiskey. When our
tariff laws are based upon this theory they
will fail. We think that the General may
be correct in his estimate that the tariff
upon silks, worsted stuffs, laces. satins, jew
els and velvets could be collected so as to
honestly aid the government; but it must be
faults in the laws and in the manner of their
administration; but we do not see how they
are to be amended by an aggravation of their
worst features. 1t would certainly be such
an aggravation to enlarge or strengthen
or in any way seek to perpetuate
the system which General Butler deems
so necessary for the collection of the duties
We trust this debate will show US way to
correct the evil practices, not only in law ad-
ministration, but in law making, that have
so long stained our revenue service, dishon-
ored the good name of the county, degraded
what should be most honorable and useful
calling, introduced suspicion and defamation
and falsehood into our business life, and de-
prived the country of its just and sorely
needed revenues.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

TIE YELLOW FEVER ABoUT-QuARANTIN
VrcnxNcE NECESSARY. We learn by telegram
from Lis. hon that the news had arrived by the
steamship Il ON Rio Janeiro that yellow fever
WINS raging WI, h great violence at Bahia We
have good de- OF commercial intercourse
with Brazil and Son. tn America generally, and
our Quarantine ofBc;o, . cannot be too careful
to prevent the intr6dus non OF tnis terrible
plague into this country. This is the time,
Just as we are entering the b. '''eS. ''''son -
the year, for our municipal auth, or'',eS a'so ~
have the city thoroughly clean. = On'y
proper attention to this matter is nece ''aiy "
make New York the healthiest city Ii 'uo
world.
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,as displayed almost equal incapscity, and i.

has displayed almost equal ineapacity, and in
the canvass of 1876 it is likely to present -
feeble platform as that of 1872. The plank
In the Observation-Disclosures platform, remit
ting the tariff question to the Congress dis
tricts, destroyed one of the live issues left to
the democratic party, and now it seems the
Western infationists are bent upon the do
struction Of the only remaining one-that in
favor OF hard money and specie payments.
1t is a discouraging pr9spec. to find both
parties without either principles or brains.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

ANOTHER MURDER. The shooting of Nor
timer Sullivan by fellow-workman is sad
illustration of the disregard of human life
which exists among certain classes of the
community. The evil is directly traceable to
the want of uniform severity in the applica-
ton of the law. Under the present system it
is merely lottery whether the man who CON-
mits cowardly murder shall be thanked by
the jury or sentenced to death penalty, which,
in all probability, will never be carried out.
Law with us is administered too much
according to our moods to have that restrain
ing effect on the dangerous classes which well
balanced justice never fails to exercise It is
not necessary to be cruel in order to effectively
repress crime, but without strict and un-
swerving application of the law to all
offenders it is impossible ever to establish in
the minds of violent men that wholesome GER
tainty that punishment will follow crime
which exercises so powerful restraint on the
passions of the ignorant and vicious.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

POINTS TO STEER BY.-Now that the repub-
licans in the West seem disposed to 60 off
into strange and dangerous ATTITUDES on the
question of finance, it is well to look back at
the charter of principles adopted at the
National Convention which assembled at
Chicago in 1861 and take careful note of
what was then solemnly proclaimed. For
instance
We denounce all forms OF population as
national crime, and national honor requires the
payment OF The public Indebtedness In the utmost
good faith all creditors at home and abroad not
only according 10 the letter. but the spirit, OF the
laws under winch IL was contracted.
The national. debt, contracted rs IL has been for
the preservation Of the Union Tor all time come,
should be extended over q lair period for redemp-
ton, and II is the duty OF Congress 10 reduce the
rate OF interest whenever II can honestly De done.
That the best policy to diminish our burden OF
debt is 10 so improve our credit that capitalists
Will seek TO loan us money at lower rates OF inter-
est titan we now pay. and must continue to pay as
long as reputation, partial or total, open or
covert. is threatened OF suspected.
These are good points They seem to guide
General Grant in his admirable policy on
finance, and they are good enough for us all
to steer by if we mean to reach the haven of
solvency and credit.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

AN "organ" tuned to the pitch of "God
Save the Queen" claims honor and credit for
the republican Congress because ''its first act
was to repeal the salary grab in obedience to
the demands Of public sentiment and its own
sense OF right" But the republican Congress
first passed the mean salary grab law against
the demands Of public sentiment and its own
sense of right and only repealed it when the
strength of popular indignation made itself
felt. To claim credit for this sort of virtue is
like extolling the honesty of the thief who
hands over the stolen watch as soon as he
feels the grasp Of policeman's hand on his
shoulder.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

SHADows-We have counted largely in our
political calculations upon a continuance of
that spirit Of love that existed two years ago
between the leaders of the democracy and the
liberal republicans But we infer from the
tone of the World towards the Springfield
Republican that some heart burning exists. Is
there any possible way OF rendering our good
Offices? How can we have campaign with
out harmony between the leaders
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

In FoREcAsTING THE POLITICAL SITUATION,
as it will be developed in the Presidential
struggle Of 1876, we are confronted by few
facts which may rs we'll be stated now. The
republican party has lost much of its prestige
because it has permitted The public offices to
be honeycombed with corruption, and has
shown itself incapable of dealing with the
great and important measures OF finance and
taxation. The democracy, on the other band.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

ssCrvu SERVICE IN MASSACHUSETTS. The
Springfield Republican makes some admirable
comments upon the astounding despatch from
Representative G.. f. Hoar in reference to a
weigher in the Boston Custom House, which
was printed yesterday. 'There is said the
Republican, s'no more civil service reform in
retaining an unnecessary or incompetent
clerk because he is Hoar man, or Pierce
man, or q Williams man, than in retaining an
other clerk of that description because he is q
Butler man. To allow Messrs. Hoar, Pierce
and Williams to run the Custom House is
Just as scandalous as to allow their Gloucester
colleague to run it and there is good deal
of 'Butlerism,' both at Washington and in
Massachusetts,, outside of the Butler party"
This is the true view. Mr.. Hoar' conduct in
appealing to the President to sustain par
tisan in Office merely because he was par
tisan, and without considering any question
of fitness, is an utter violation Of every prin-
ciple Of civil service and severe comment
upon the honesty of the professions which Mr..
Hoar and his friends made when they were
opposing the confirmation of Simmons. As
we before remarked, if men like Simmons
make civil service reform a scandal, men like
Mr. Hoar make it impossible.
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SUGeEsrrvE.-The st. Louis Republican calls
attention to the fact that the President has but
one element of strength, his specie payment
measure, and that although he has not had
that more than two months, it is the weapon
with which he is knocking his party to pieces
and building himself lew party.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

COOP TINES CoMNa.-Some of the Alabama
and Georgia journals speak cheerfully of the
cotton crop and tell that if it will only fulfil
its present promise 'there will be flush times
in the fall, the farmers not having been able to
run into debt. y
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-20

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. opened
and closed at 111s, the lowest price being Ill.
Stocks were generally lower and feverish.
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Der honest 'bold," ''blufr' Ben Wade
when he was not lobbyist will wonder what
ne would have said had Senator brought up
"a measure and asked him to approve it to
oblige an 'old friend" who was out in the
lobby at the time