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The New York herald., 1875-02-04

It is probable that the vote in the French
Assembly on the amendment to section fourth
of tho ventavon bill is part Of bargain of
which the other parts are not yet apparent;
because it is not in character for all the repub-
licans of every shade from red to blue to vote
together on any measure without such . def
mite reason ss bargain might involve, moro
especially when the measure in support of
which they are thus grouped is one that may
give soldier and . senatorial clique power to
turn the representatives Of the people out Of
doors whenever they are found obstinate in
the assertion of the national will. Section
fourth Of tho Ventavon bill gave to the Mar
shal President the power to dissolve the As
sembly, and required that in case of dissolu-
ton elections for new Chamber should be
held within six months. The WALTON amend
ment required that the dissolution should not
be on the mere decision of the Executive,
which would put the House always in the
power of a Ministry but should be ''by the
advice and consent of the Senate" q
body the creation of which is provided
for by the bill of Lefevre Pontalis.
Certainly this is limitation of the power
that would have been given as proposed by
ventavon but it is not Limitation that can
be palatable to republicans, for the Senate, if
constructed as the law projects, will never be
body in sympathy with any decidedly repub-
lican system. Half it's members will neces-
sarily be firm adherents of privilege, and the
half that issues from election could only equal
these if such miracle were to happen as that
every man elected should be republican.
Preferred, therefore, even as the least of two
evils, dissolution, as voted, can be very little
better than dissolution as proposed in the
original bill, and the republicans might have
been expected to oppose either with equal de-
termination for soldiers will always be apt
enough at the dispersion of legislatures
where they have the power, and where they
doubt their power it is not in the interest of
liberty to give them the encouragement os
constitutional forms. But it is probable that
oil the elements Of the Left have voted this
measure out of complacency to the republicans
nearer the Right, on pledge that the repub-
licans Of the Right Centre will vote with them
in turn for the modification of the bill creat-
ing the Senate or on some other point to
which the Left may attach greater impor-
tance. The ventavon bill was passed to it's
third reading yesterday, and the Senate bill
will be brought up in week. Thus is the
Septennate endeavoring to emerge from the
prouisoire.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

Az ENGLISH SUBJECT can always feel secure
and confident of protection from his govern
ment in any part of the world. One has been
imprisoned at Aspinwall and consul at that
port has been assaulted, according to our
news to-day Consequently British man-of-
war has been ordered to proceed to the
Isthmus to inquire into the matter-a more
efficient remedy than voluminous dispatches
from our Department OF State.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

CARPENTER DOWNFALL. by one the
friends of Caesar are falling. Butler was
swept away in September, and with him fell
many less famous but not less Jealous adher-
ents OF the Executive policy. 1t was still be-
lieved after the battle, however, that at least
two of the leaders we're saved where so many
nameIess heroes were lost forever. These
we're Chandler and Carpenter. But first the
former was slain, and now we have news
that the latter also is destroyed. There is in
all this most salutary lesson. The people
have determined that personally and polit-
caly our statesmen shall hereafter maintain
themselves upon a much higher level than
was the practice in the last few years, and the
Senate and the country will be all the better
Tor the admonitions which the downfall Of
Carpenter and men like him bring to the at
tenton of our public men.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04
The Pelies Feres-Rsmsniss Dseh.
ward.

The Pelaes Eeres-RsNDsning Bach.
We alluded few days ago to the case Of
Paris detective. who, having been found in
collusion with thieves. receiving money from
them and protecting them from arrest, was
sentenced to five years imprisonment An
example like this is calculated to keep detec-
tive force honest and to make it efficient II
the corrupt officer had simply been removed
from the detective department and put on
patrol duty, or detailed for special service at
hotel. court Of law or some other public
place, the tendency of the act would have
been to demoralize the force and to render
life and property in the city insecure A man
who would oonnive with thieves as deteo-
tive would be very likely to lend valuable as
sistance to burglars as pstrolman.
''They order these matters better in France"
than We do in the United States, or at least
in New York. short time ago the Police
Commissioners discovered, OF affected to have
discovered corrupt practices on the part Of
some Of the captains. It was common
talk among the Commissioners that In
this or that precinct tho captain was supposed
to be in league with panel house propri-
etors and other VIC ators of the law,
and to levy upon such persons regular tax,
in consideration Of allowing them to pursue
their business without molestation by the
police. 1t does not appear to have occurred
to any Commissioner that . captain who
would be guilty Of such conduct was unfit to
be on the police force in any capacity what
ever. All that the Board deemed necessary in
the case was to "break up the rings by chang
ing the captains round into different pre-
cincts. To be sure, there was nothing to prevent
the transferred officers from forming new COM
binations of similar character in their new
precincts or from making over their profitable
arrangements to their successors. The Com
missioners only desired to make show Of
activity and ''reform," and were indifferent as
to what the intrinsic value Of the reform
might be. More recently they have made q
similar stir in the detective department
Having made up their minds that about half
the detectives were in league with thieves and
making fortunes through protecting the.per-
petrators of crime from arrest, they order the
suspected men to put on the uniform and do
patrol duty or detail them to hotels and courts
of law. Again, it does not seem to have 90
CURED to the Commissioners that ununi-
formed officers who were the accomplices of
thieves would be the Same after they had put
on the uniform, and would indeed possess
yet more dangerous power as patrolmen than
as detectives. In Paris the captains and detec-
tives against whom these crimes were alleged
would have been tried, and if convicted would
have suffered the penalty. The action of our
New York Police Commissioners only proves
that the real reform Of which the force stands
so much in need can only be secured by
commencing ct the head of tho depart
Ynent
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

Providsues as . Street Cleaner.
The citizens Of New York are, no doubt,
properly grateful. a. they ought to be, for the
many favors they receive at the hands OF
Providence. But especially should they be
thankful for the evidences of Divine care
manifested in the occasional cleansing Of our
filthy. fever-breeding streets by grace Of the
weather But for this benefcence business
would be wholly stopped during great por-
ton Of the year, and disease would carry of
large percentage of our idle population. A
portion of Broadway, and probably Fifth ave-
nue., might be rendered navigable aud hab-
table through the instrumentality Of what is
humorously called the Street Cleaning Bureau,
and, according to morning contemporary,
this much work would satisfy the taxpayers
that they are receiving the worth of their
money. But as to all other parts of the city, the
avenues and streets where the business of the
metropolis is done and where the great mass
Of the population lives. they are left wholly in
the hands of Providence, and the people should
be duly grateful that Providence sometimes
comes to the rescue and performs the duties
for neglecting which the Street Cleaning Bu-
reau demands eight hundred thousand dollars
year out of the city treasury.
Still, we would suggest to the heads Of that
bureau the propriety of extending little aid
or cooperation to Providence. They draw
an enormous amount of money out of the
pockets of the people-some million dollars
year-and they can keep it or pay it ont to
their army of invalids for all that Providence
cares. But they might at least set few men
to work on other streets than Broadway and
Fifth avenue. opening the cutters and culverts
SO as to allow the water and slush to run into
the sewers. after the snow has been melted
by the thaw and the rain. instead
Of leaving them to overflow the side
walks, food Easements and render tho
roads navigable streams. At present
the Street Cleaning Bureau not only
fails to clean the streets but obstructs the
beneAcent labors of Providence in that direc-
ton. Yesterday two or three hundred able
bodied men could have rendered the entire
lower part Of the city below the City Hall
navigable by clearing the cutters and opening
heavy loads was suspended, carriage driving
was almost impossible and the sufferings Of
foot passengers were deplorable. It is prob
able that o continuance of the present weather
may clean the streets without the aid of the
bureau. But we insist that the men who draw
million dollars year out of the public
treasury must do something more than cart
the slush from Broadway as far as Union
square" and stake Fifth avenue in hand"
before they can persuade the people that they
get the worth of their money aud that "a
new era has dawned upon the CITY,"
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

The CENTENNIAL at Philadelphia promises
TO be something of colossal nature. dis
inguishing feature will be grand inter-
national regatta on the Schuylkill River, in
which the best oarsmen of England signify
their intention of becoming contestants with
our knights of the oar
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

The CoMPTRoLLER's LOGIC. Board of
Apportlonment met yesterday, and during the
session Mr.. Green made use of the following
expression, which the poor, unpaid scrub
women of the Court House and City Hall may
ought 10 be any delay in paying any one to
whom the city owes money" And how ad-
nirable was Mayor Wckham's answer:-"I
am indeed very happy to hear that the Comp
troller has come to that wise conclusion"
Ingenious Mr.. Green Sarcastic Mr.. Wick
ham!
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

The Pennsylvania politicians never do
things by halves, and when one of them begins
to thunder it thunders all along the sky.
Mr.. j. D. Cameron, son of the Senator, be-
thought him OF giving little dinner to Sena-
tor Wsllace, who got the place in the Senate
that young ''Don" wanted. II was an occa-
sion for q feast if there ever was one, and
while the venerable statesman was speeding
his sons parting guests, another statesman,
not 50 venerable indeed. in the language of
the day, o statesman who was little ''fresh''-
got up very different kind Of entertainment
on his own account Almost while Wallace was
slipping republican champagne in the house
Of the young politician there was heard the
cry of Wolfe in the Capitol. Wallace sat
down to dinner in the republican fold, but
Wolfe refused to be seated at the request Of
the democratic shepherd, and seemed intent
on devouring the democratic lambs Nothing
like it was seen or heard since the days
of the Buckshot War, when Thaddeus Stevens
made his famous retreat through o win
dow of the Senate Chamber, and Governor
Ritner asked for United States troops to
suppress o legislature. These were days
of great partisan bitterness, days when no
democratic Senator would drink the wine of
his whig colleague, and we are inexpressibly
panied that the wolves should howl at the
very moment of the display of so much good
feeling in the Cameron mansion. The worst
of it is that nobody is satisfied with either en-
tertainment. The democrats think Wallace
should not have eaten ''Don" Cameron's din
ner, fearful that there is more in Sam Wards
philosophy than democratic Horatios ever
dreamed. Being disposed to be charitable,
we prefer to believe, however, that the dinner
will do the young Senator no injury, except
to his digestion If his stomach escapes his
honor may also 60 uncorrupted. But the
legislative entertainment is q more serious
matter, and we would be slow, indeed, to per-
ceive the fitness of things if we did not see
in it another opportunity for General
Grant. The situation at Harrisburg
was almost identical with that at New
Orleans month sgo While the democratic
Speaker was in the chair, it is said, riot took
place in the Assembly Chamber. Pistols were
drawn and authority was at an end. Above
the noise and excitement was heard q cry for
sheridan and another for "Grant and his
troops" Evidently there was anarchy here,
and we now await with anxiety the decision of
His Excellency. Will General Grant restore
order to Pennsylvania? Will he march SOL
diers to Harrisburg so that if Mr.. Cameron
or anybody else wants to give little dinner
upon the model Of these little affairs of Mr..
Wards there shall be no danger of disturb
ance from the 'bandtti'' of Capitol Hill?
The question is one of the utmost importance,
and it cannot be disregarded by the President
if he would deal in the same spirit with all
parts of the country.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

The CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY was
the theme of an interesting speech by Mr..
Morrill,, of Vermont, in the Senate yesterday,
and we have news this morning that the ques-
ton was afterwards taken up in executive ses-
sion and the treaty rejected. From this we
infer that the public speech is to be taken as
the basis of the executive action. If this is
in fact the view of the majority We must
demur to it, as the propositions of the
Vermont Senator are entirely too narrow for
, rule of conduct between two great countries.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

The mystery In reference to that disttn
guished Christian statesman, Bill King, Coz
tinues without abstement. A our readers viii
perhaps remember, Bill King is the newly
elected member Of Congress from Minnesota
For many years he was Postmaster Of the
House of Representatives and q great sdmires
Of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, who was hi
model Of political propriety and his example
in statesmanship. During his services in the
House he was brisk, busy. eager, sharp-wittsd
and exceeding thrifty man. In the course Of
q few years he saved enough out Of small
salary to become one Of the richest men in the
Northwest Unlike many Christian statesmen,
Bill earned his money before he went into
Congress, and during the last canvass hs
crowned his career by accepting from the
hands of grateful constituency the privilege
Of sitting with the Syphers. the whittemores,
the Roderick Buffers and their successors
who now rule this blessed land.
When Congress assembled Bill King was In
the active enjoyment Of health and prosperity,
having obtained several farms by prudence
and thrift Anxious, like President Grant, 10
improve his stock, he started for the Canada
frontier to buy ten thousand dollar bull
This bull was of remarkable breed Those
who know the delicate points of Bill Kings
character know that his object was to become
member of the Senate. He had become .
member of the House by his Christian charac-
ter, and be wished to become Senator by his
agricultural knowledge He reasoned that
the capture of ten thousand dollar bull, and
the taking of it back to Minnesota, would be
to establish such claim upon the gratitude
Of the pastoral people of that noble COM
munity as to insure his triumphant choice -
the successor of Senator Ramsay. As We have
said, Bill King was last heard from travelling to.
ward the Canada frontier, looking for his ton
thousand dollar bull. Since then no ono has
seen him. The Sergeant-at-Arms cannot And
him. The Committee of Ways and Means
cannot reach him. He Is insensible to letters,
to published cards and statements, to tho
gentle but peremptory influence Of
subpoena. The Legislature of Minnesota have
passed resolutions Of the most interesting and
suggestive character, but he makes no re-
of Tom Fields, Harry Genet or Dick Connolly,
or even poor little Charley Ross. The fao
that statesman Of so much eminence and
purity, SO many Christian virtues, such 70
fined, pastoral tastes, so widely known and 80
universally beloved-the fact that such man
should so suddenly disappear from the public
sight is disgrace to our civilization and Ia
the administration of justice. Is there no
way of finding Bill King? Even if we knew
that he were dead it would be sad consola-
ton. Our anxieties would come to an end
and the citizens of the District which now
mourns member could elect q successor.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

The ENGLIsH LIBERAL PARTY.-The Marquis
Of Harrington has been unanimously chosen
leader of the liberal party in the Parlia-
ment of Great Britain, and will have such
strong men as Gladstone, Bright and Lowe at
His back
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was depressed. Gold advanced to 1151,
but closed at 114i. Foreign exchange was
firm and money unchanged.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

b high advantage. One Of the criticisms
upon republicanism in America is that It gen.
crates class of selfish, sordid. rich men.
without public spirit, who live only for vain
display, who yearn for the titles and COM
plaisances Of couItly life. We are told that
this possession of large wealth deadens public
spirit and patriotism. We do not believe
this. New York and other cities have too
many reasons to be proud OF their rich
men-of Girard and Peabody and Cornell,
Of Astor. Stewart, Cooper and Lick. and
others whose names have become identified
with acts Of munihcence and charity-not
to feel that this stigma Is unjust. Hero is
another opportunity to show how false it is.
When, therefore, we appeal to the rich men
OF New York 70 take command Of this glow
ing, burning, enthusiastic movement; to put
themselves at the head Of the people and give
M rapid transit We appeal to sentiment that
has never been invoked in vain. II is in their
power, by moderate, careful and judicious
measure; in tho power of the men We have
named and others like them, to give New York
an impetus and confer upon the people q
blessing that cannot be overestimated. There
fore, as . blessing to the city and an sdvan-
tage to the country, in public sense and in
. moral sense, as showing that great wealth
does not deaden patriotism, we are persuaded
that our rich men will not listen in vain to
The appeals now made to them by the general
voice of the people.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

TIE CAMxRoNs.-H the Pennsylvania cleo.
tions deprived Senator Cameron of having his
son as colleague he is still not altogether In
consolable, for the defeat Of Carpenter show
that tho clan is still strong in promising sons.
Though we lost Donald we now have Angus.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04
TRIPLE S HEET.
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1878.

From our reports this morning the probdbilities
svs that the ueather today wiu be cold and
clear
The New York herald., 1875-02-04
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The New York herald., 1875-02-04

The IxrxRamAB1z CARIwr WA8 in Spain
seems not to have suffered much from the
accession Of the boy King to tho throne
beyond the cable despatch that ''the govern.
ment troops are advancing VIGOROUSLY" Yet
this is not exactly pew.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04

BERaH AT ALBANY.-It is but natural that
the bill proposed at the State Capital in regard
to Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children should be met with lively objections
Measures that give any right 10 public func-
tionaries to enter a domicile or to interfere
in family with what is regarded so COM
monty as the prerogative of paternal authority
are never looked upon with favor by people
jealous of the encroachment of authority In
this case the proposed law is in the name of a
good cause, and Justly has the sympathies of
many people; but this is no reason why its
terms should not be so guarded as to prevent
any great liability TO abuse. This is the more
necessary because of the association with the
measure of the name of Mr.. Bergh. Mr..
Bergh is a man of good intentions, and men
of good intentions have ruthlessly slaughtered
humanity for ages with the most philanthropic
purpose to make men virtuous. In the hands
of fanatic the best law becomes ready
means Of oppression, and our experience with
the law in regard to animals should inspire
caution in regard to any other laws that are
to be administered in any degree by the same
man.
The New York herald., 1875-02-04
The Mississippi Rtver-Whss Shall Bs
Done with Its

The Mississippt Rtver-Whst Shall BE
Done with Its
Elsewhere We give the report Of tho board
Of officers appointed under the act Of Con-
gress of June %, 1874. in reference to the inn
provement Of navigation at the mouth Of the
Mississippi River The persons appointed 10
this service were three officers Of the En-
Lieutenant Colonels Wright and Alexander
and Major Comstock; one officer Of the Coast
Survey. Professor Henry Mitchell; and three
engineers from civil life, Messrs. T. E.
Sickles, w. Minor Roberts and b. D. Whit
comb. This board visited in Europe and
Africa the various points at which engineer
ing science has triumphed over difficulties
similar to those found in the case before
them. They visited the mouths of the Rhone,
the vistula and the Danube, and examined
the works of the Suez Canal, and in the
light of the knowledge thus acquired made
the surveys in Louisiana. They have now
terminated their labors by the presentation of
q report of that admirable class which gives
all the necessary facts of great case in q few
pages, and bases apositive recommendation on
the facts shown to exis.
It is deemed feasible to accomplish in the
Mississippi all that is necessary in either one
of two ways-by cutting q canal from a
given point in the course of the river through
the land to deep water, or by such construc-
tions of jetties or long piers at the mouth Of
one Of the channels now open as will keep
the current Of the river sufficiently close to
dredge out the stream and prevent deposit, or
at all events deposit within depth where it
could do harm. OF the board Of seven per-
sons six favor the latter plan, ono only
Lieutenant Colonel Wright-being in favor Of
q canal In addition to the various reasons
given in full in the report why the committee
believe tho improvement Of the South Pass
far preferable to the construction of . canal,
the important element Of cost is also in its
favor. To construct and maintain the canal
would cost $11, ,514, 200, and the works at the
South Pass would cost for construction and
maintenance $7,942, ITO.