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New-York tribune., 1874-10-27
TILE ARMY IN POLITICS..

One month ago United States Marshal Pack
ard, irritated at some of the comments on his
course asked Gen. Emory to state publicly
whether it was true that he had ever used or
ATTEMPTED to use United States troops for
political purposes in any manner whatever.
TO this request Gen. Emory replied that since
he had been in command of the Department
of the Gulf neither Mr.. Packard nor anybody
else had been guilty of any such improper
conduct; "and if you do desire such use,"
continued the General, ~ do not see how you
care to use them for any such purpose, for
"be assured any such attempt would be
promptly and Immediately resented by both
"ofiicers and men. Those who make such
charges are totally ignorant of the. charac-
"ter of regular troops and the indignation
"that would attend any attempt to use them
"for political PURPOSES Gen. Emory is
good soldier and we have no doubt OF his
uprightness and sincerity.
We now commend to his attention the be-
havior of one of his subordinate officers at
Shreveport. Major Lewis Merrill OF the 7th
Cavalry iG there busy swearing out aiiidavlts
against about ninety white Democrats for an
alleged conspiracy "tO intimidate and control
numerous qualified voters in said district IN
Exercising the right of suffrage, by threaten
cling to deprive said voters Of employment, by
"threatening to refuse to renew the contracts
"of said voters for labor, in violation OF a
"statute of the United States" In the first
place the action with which these ninety citi-
zens are charged IS not violation or
statute of the United States. the statute refer
ring solely to the intimidation of negro voters,
while the agreement for signing which these
Shreveport citizens are prosecuted made no
distinction between white and black Repub-
licans. In the second place it is none OF Ma
jor Merrills business any way, for the en-
fOrcement Of the statutes of the United States
is a duty of the civil administration with
which army officers have nothing whatever to
do, except when they may be called upon,
under proper orders, to assist the Marshals,
ETC., in the execution of writs. And in the
third place, it is plainly and notoriOusly po-
litical prosecution, intended to intimidate
the Conservative voters and break up their
organization. Here then we have an officer
of the regular army making himself the in
strument of scandalOus scheme of partisan
oppression, and we are waiting curiously for
some manifestation from his comrades of that
Indignation" which Gen. Emory predicted
would be aroused by any attempt to use the
troops for political purposes. We are also
curious to see what Gen. Emory himself will
do about it. To be consistent he ought to
administer to his Officious subordinate with
ering rebuke. But is it possible that Merrill
is acting under direct orders from Washing
toni
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27
CHE MEANS HELL.n

Somebody will be saying one Of these days,
after the Honorable Henry l.. Dawes of
Massachusetts has got through rolling to
larboard in the midst of the session and roll
ing to starboard Just before election after the
speeches he has made in Congress charging
his party with the most outrageous extrava-
gance and profigacy, and the speeches he has
made to his constituents glorifying the party
for it's retrenchment in expenditures and its
economical policy, are all bound up together
for cross-eyed generations yet to be to puzzle
over and s.raighten out their vision on; after
be has retired from politics and resumed the
practice of law, some charitable person will
be caught saying "Well, after all, Dawes
"meant we'll" And Dawes does mean well.
We say it now, knowing that he is still in
political life and on the stump. and the
"willin'est" Barkis in all Massachu-
setts to be elected United States Sena-
tor, and that he has to the unregenerate
eve the appearance of saying things which he
does not believe; things which Mr.. Butler says,
and which it is perhaps unnecessary to say
Mr.. Butler does not believe; things which Mr..
Charles Hays said in letter to Gen. Hawley,
and which it is quite likely Mr.. Charles Hays
did not and does not believe; things, in short,
which nobody believes.
It seems almost incredible that Mr.. Dawes
does not make his speech-the one he made
at the Republican State Convention, and is
making now in various parts of the State
with his tongue in his cheek. And yet we do
not believe he Does He does not mean to
deceive the people whom he addresses. We
feel quite certain that when he began de-
claiming about the "bloody outrages" at
the South, he was reasonably conf
dent that there had been actually some
bad goings on down there and that political
differences and disputes had more or less to
do with them. He did not telegraph to the
Secretary of War or the Attorney-GeDeral that
he would raise 5000 men in SO hours to march
South and put down the new rebellion, for he
is not that kind of man. Mr.. Butler did
that. and it was not necessary that all the
candidates should volunteer; it would be
OVERRIDING it. But Mr.. Dawes no doubt hon
estly believed there were outrages, and that II
was pretty necessary to keep the Republican
party in power in order to prevent their
spreading. He believed it not so much a. a
discreet and sober-minded citizen who ex-
amines evidence and judges deliberately.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

complaint does not seem to have c0nfined IT.
self to those specifications of unfriendly acts
which made the note Of the Marquis de ia
Vega-ArmijO so effective at the French For
eign Office. It merely stated that supplies OF
arms and other war material were continually
coming from England to the Carlists, and re-
quested that the British Government should
put stop to it. The question had probably
been fully considered before the Spanish En-
bassador presented it to the consideration OF
Lord Derby. 1t seems to have been answered
with very categorical promptness. The Brit
ish Government has been in the habit for
some years of using remarkably plain
language when addressing the Spanish,
and in this case there was prob
ably an additional inducement to clear
ness of speech in the thought that the
act of Spain was probably at the suggestion
of Germany. At all events the reply OF En-
gland was marked by more than usually terse
simplicity. Lord Derby said that the indefinite
continuance of the war showed lack OF pat
riOtism and energy, and that If the Spanish
army and navy did their duty there would be
no need of asking foreign Powers to help
put down the Carlists. All this is doubtless
strictly true, and may prove as wholesome as
it is bitter to the cabinet of Marshal SerranO.
1t cannot but be regarded at Berlin also as
an unmistakable intimatiOn that England
does not propose to restrict her rights as a
neutral any further.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27
A NEW DOCTOR FOR THE SOUTH.

We are assured and believe that large
amounts of currency and greenbacks have
been boarded in the South, and are now held
by negroes and others who have, on the whole,
prospered since the war. If this is the case,
what would be the effect of Mr.. H. G. Baird's
nostrum for all the diseases of the South-in-
hatiOni If this question of initiation is to be
settled simply by interest and not by princi-
Die (and we have no objection to that stand
ard), then the Southern politicians who favor
imitation are trying to ruin their humber con-
stltuents. Initiation would lower the value of
every note now boarded. Mr.. Baird's letter also
shows most distinctly that all initiation schemes
aresimply efforts to make something out of moth
ing Mr.. Baird says that "the great demor-
"alization of society throughout the South has
"come of the prostration of nearly every in
"terest, and from the extreme difficulty of
finding any field for employment which will
"yield competency, or even livelihood"
That is to say that the South is country in
which men cannot to-day earn living. 1t
must then be q desert in which labor finds no
reward. Labor cannot find field for employ
ment which will yield competency, or even
a livelihood. If this language has any mean
Ing IL muSJ medu tuat mcH VI tuc OUuIu Cau-
not make the soil under their feet support
them, either by raising cotton and exchanging
it for food, or by raising food directly.
Assuming this to be true (although it is alb
surdly false), what is the cure Mr.. Baird
says give them more paper currency. If they
have nothing to exchange, give them more
tokens with which to exchange and see them
get rich If ten men were wrecked on o sand
bank aud were starving to death, suppose they
should tear sheet of paper into bits to "rep-
"resent" dollars and try to start industry,
would it alter tho fact that they were on a
sandbank, which could not support life, and
would the bits Of paper generate any form OF
wealth. If they gambled for these bits of
paper till one got them all, would he endure
starvation any longer than the restf We
may vary the illustration until it
fits the true state of the case. and still the
folly of Mr.. Baird's notion is clear. Suppose
that the men were shipwrecked on reef on
which was nothing edible but cluster of
cocoanuts in the top of q tree. Their axes
aud saws have pershed in tho wreck and they
cannot climb SO high. Suppose now that they
make. the bits of paper ~ before, CON they get
at the c9coanuts by any hocus pocus Of tho
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27
ernor was wrong, persistently. coutemptuously
wrong. at the right time.
TIE CANALS.

Yesterday We searched for economy in the
recent management of our State Prisons and
found none. To-day we take q look at the
Canals to SEQ If we can discover retrenchment
there, The following table, covering the last
Is years, shows Q) the tolls and aggregate
earnings of the Canals; (2) the payments for
superintendence, collection and ordinary re-
pairs, which are made from the tolls. and (s,
the taxes raised on the property of the State,
and paid over TO the Auditor of the Canal
Department for new work and extraordinary
repairs. The sums paid from the receipts from
tolls and raised by taxation for the payment
of the Canal Debt and the interest ON the same
are not included i'm this summary.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27
paperf VIII the paper in any way supply the

paperf VIII the paper in any way supply the
want of, or create, an axi ..,., -.
This is the real case of the South. Il ia not
a desert, but country with rich natural re-
sources and some population, but the good
things it might produce for human use arc
not attainable for want of capital. No hocu.
pocus with paper will bring that capi.
tai into being. The capital was de-
stroyed in the war, and it has got
to be replaced by time and labor employed at
q disadvantage, as if the starving men should
cut down cocoa tree with jack-knives To
produce capital takes time, and the app lication
of labor to raw materials. To try to make ID
in any other way, or to escape the necessity
of creating it by writing the name of 1t on
paper, is only bald form of making some-
thing out of nothing The South is in very
bad way, socially. politically, and industrialIy.
Its last misfortune would be to fall under the
empricism Of the currency quacks. or all
the empirical schemes, for whose success no
grounds either in science or experience can bs
adduced, the 3.65 bond scheme is the purest
charlatanism
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27
amusemenis ano Meetimss.

BoorHs TBEATRR.-" Macbeth" Miss Charlotte Cusn'
BRYANT's OPERA HoUsg.-Minstrels.
DALrs FIFTH AVENUE THEATER.-" MoorcrcH
LYcEUM nIEATER.-" Much Ado ABOUT No'n'"K' '''
Nelson.
OLYMPIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Varieues oi A"o'o"
PARK 1HEArER.-" Gilded Age" joan =. Hay u'onu'
s,y To ,xc,soo MrSsrREIs Birch and wambold.
srr,xw.y uALI-Eutertai taipment by Maccabe.
UNION SQUARE THEATER.-" The Hunchback." Miss
Clara Morris
wALIAcKs THEATER.-"The Romance OF Poor Young
Man."
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR-Annual Exhibition.
ALLEN STREET NJ Z. CHURCH-Lecture Matthew Hale
Smith.
COOPER ISsrTUTE.-Lecture on "Southern CALIFORNIA
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.-Galiery Of Paintings
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

In favor of the address which Sir George
Campbell recently delivered at Glasgow 1t
may be said that he brings TO the considera-
ton of many questions of economy and trade
a mind singularly free from class prejudices.
To his discredit, however, he suggests the
inference that the inhabitants of State are
justified in repudiating debt contracted by
their ancestors 1t is unfortunate that in this
way he should bring reprOach upon many
excellent principles of reform which he so
closely associates with this doctrine OF faith
lessness.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

The Brooklyn Democracy turned out last
NIGHT in mass meeting, and there was no ap
parent lack of numbers ana enthusiasm
Their prominent speakers were francis ker-
nan and Horatio Seymour. Each OF these re-
viewed the situation at length, and each gave
much sffenton 10 fhe financial issue. On this
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

One of the consequences of the long delay
in bringing the safe burglary conspiracy to
trial appears in the behavior of Parker, the
cOlored janitor. He now wishes to deny bis
testimony before the Grand Jury. If the case
had gone on as it was going before Judge
Humphreys took charge, this witness would
Drobably have left town to look after Benton
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

subject ex-Gov. Seymour expressed himself
with great force, and endeavored to hold the
Republican party responsible for all the evils
of imitation. --I-
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27
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New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

Our correspondent in Alabama has Deen
visiting Sumter County. the scene OF the whole
sale arrests by Hester, United States deputy
Marshal and Special Agent, and probably ate
of the Confederate navy. Since these exploits
which are to "give us the State" there Is
indeed reign of terror, but it is among the
white people. A dispatch from Mobile lndi-
Gates that the leaders of the prosecution In
these suits have found out that the disclosures
are not likely to profit the party, and the trials
are postponed till after the election. Sic transit
the outrage business in Alabama.
In the great debate on ritualism before the
Episcopal Convention, the address of DIR. DE
Koven, President of Racine College, is a re-
markabe exposition of the views of those who
are unwilling to oppose ritualistic practices.
His appeal for the right to adore Christ
present in the Sacrament, and his showing OF
the different ways in which men may hold the
doctrine of ritualism, open wide field for
discussion, and the Rev. DR.. Rudder, in his
reply, touched on only one division OF this
subject. There is plenty Of work ahead for
the Convention.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

One of the largest political gatherings of
this campaign was the Republican Ratification
Meeting in this city last night. The speeches
of Gov. Dix and the Hon. Edwards Pierre
pOnt, which we report very fully, were not
able utterances The venerable and dignifed
Governor was, of course, the principal figure
of the occasion, and his brief effort called forth
abundant applause, especially on the sub
ject of the Third Term. Judge Pierrepont
undertook the heavy work of the occasion,
and made an able address of considerable
length, charging the initiation policy upon the
Democracy. He, tOo touched upon the Third
Term business, calling it mad delusiOn, and
promising that Gen. Grant will soon retire.
In the close of his speech he unrolled fright
full picture of the future of the country in
case it fell into the hands of the Democracy.
The Republican managers in Brooklyn have
claimed all along that they could carry the
elections in Kings County against the Demo-
Gratis who are weighted down with the cor
rupt Ring which has so long misruled that
city. and whose local ticket contains the
names of very obnoxious candidates At first
there was a fair prospect of this, but
mistakes were made-amOng the most Sc
rious the nomination of men politically weak
for District-Attorney and County Treasurer.
These blunders have now been remedied;
popular men with honorable records have
been substituted, and behind them is the
whole machinery of the Republicans who con-
troll the Police, Health Board, City Works,
Controllers and Sheriff7s offices. General
Crooke, who opposes Winchester Britton for
the District Attorneyship, is man who gene
rally runs ahead of bis ticket. The Anti-Ring
Democrats have also nominated popular
candidate in D. P. Barnard, who will poll
several thousand Democratic votes, thus de-
tracing from BrttOn's chances.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

Very valuable suggestions to those who
have the training of youth are put forth by
Presidents Porter of Yale College and Chad
bourne of Williams, in their papers read be-
fore the Connecticut State Teachers Associa-
ton which we report to-day. The teaching
in preparatory schools is too often time
thrown away. dim consciousness of the
imperfect and unsatisfactory character OF the
learning they impart, doubtless often crosses
the minds of the principals Of such institu-
tions. They will here find the defects OF their
systems clearly pointed out by men who have
seen much of their perniciOus effects.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

In letter from Tennessee, the vigorous
action of Gov. Brown in reference to the dis
orders in that State is carefully sketched.
This is a side of the story that it is well to
hear before forming Judgment upon the
need of Federal interference in these cases.
1t might have been better if that side had
been fully heard before the United States
machinery for arrests and trials was set in
motion from Washington. The people of
Memphis, who have called mass meeting for
to-day to protest against the presence OF
troops in that city, are very clear in their
opinion ON this subject.
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As an Illustration OF the mmense bel

As an illustration of the immense re-
sources OF Texas, it is stated that one
breeder there boasts that he will have
10, 900 calves to brand this season. lie
says that he branded 03,0O0 last year,
and 20, 900 the year preceding.
Two colored citizens are going for the
Jockey Clubin New Orleans. There IL
but one inference--that all the musk II
town IL used up.
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To Mai. Gen. Patterson. .#.f .
Ordnance ofice, Watervliet Arsenel'

Ordnance Office, Watervliet Arsenel,
West Troy, n. y, April 13, 1874.
My dear General; | am greatly oblig-
ed by your kind and most tempting IN
vitation, but have Cavalry Board In
session, and several reports to make Tor
the officers and ITO the back OF that"
must Try TO get off next week with Mrs.
IIagner on a visit to our relatives. But
warmly thank you tor thinking OF ne
all the same.
Very Truly Yours, my dear General,
To Gen. Patterson. w. HAGNER.
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Very Truly Yours, q


Fort McHenry, Md, April 10, 1874 =.
My Dear Generals 1t will give me
the greatest pleasure TO participate in
the celebration of the "day of Cerro
Gordo" through your kind invitation.
1t is according TO the fitness of things
that our meetings should be coincident
with the 18th and 18th of April. There
is much unwritten histcry in the inter
val between the march from We're Cruz,
and our first separation at Jalapa, of
which my memory still retains fresh
record Should nothing intervene 10
prevent propose to join you at Beth
lehem, on the nth, (where l have q
sun at the UniveIsity,) If that is practi-
cable, and then remain with the eXcur-
sion until the arrival at Philadelphia.
With great regard, very sincerely
your A. A.. q, and friend, ""
"' WM. IL. FRENCH, 90
ia"a Bt. Major General u. S. A,
To Maj, Gen. Patterson.
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Heaiouarters ArllIery school. U. 81.

Headquarters Artillery School, U. S.A.,
Fort Monroe, Va, April IA, 1874. .
Many thanks my dear General for
your kind. note OF the 10th inst, when
did not reach me until this A. NJ. Noth-
ing would give me greater pleasure
than to Oaecompanyy you to -Mauch Chunk.
That most picturesque portion OF Penn
sylvani1 lave never seen, and my de-
sire to visit 1t is great. But am sorry
to say that it is impossible for me to
leave here just now. We are in the
very midst of our annual examination,
and will be so engaged tor the next ten
or twelve days. l regret this contre
temps, more than l can well tell you.
Wishing you pleasant excursion and
thanking you again for so kindly think
ing Of me. remain, my dear General,
. Yours Very Traly,
.F.ltH. #. NM r. BARRY
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Morristown, n. j.. April. Is, 1874

MOrristown, N. j.. April 10, 1874.
My Dear General: should enjoy tie
trip much, especially on the invitation
of ''old soldiers" and your own soliclta-
ton. 1t is a trip l have oiten desired
to take, but must forego the pleasure,
have not been for some week, indeed
months in condition toitrayel, or sub
ject myself 10 any fatigue, or temptation
to "eat, drink and be merry nla-.H tr
am now just recovering, and must
store my strength for lab0rs now COM
mencing here, and be prepared for
another contest at Washington, which l
have hopes Of. -.gf .tGI a5 -t- 90. .
Accept my best thanks for the inyita-
tion, and present them to your friends,
and believe me. ...,. '...s ......
tr 'a Very Truly Yours, di,s.