New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-27

Boston, is rather heightened by the circum-
stances under which he has been arres'ed'
Like Mr.. King of Minneapolis, Mr.. jackson
had been Willing away the hours preceding
his arrest in viewing "blOoded stock !" he had
not quite reached Canada, but may possibly
have been on his way thithor The puzzling
circumstance is that he engaged board for the
season at Keesevle, and was fitted out Tor
seasons fishing. We have the word OF the
gentle Izaak for 1t. that your true fisherman
is ever an honest man.
Controller Green has taken up for investiga-
ton branch of municipal affairs in which ir-
regularitcs have long been suspected. He
says, and it can scarcely be denied, that
$50, 900 por annum is an excessive expendi
ture for the duties required in the Coroner's
Office. The average paid is nearly three times
az much as formerly for each inquest. The
continuous employment of the same persons to
sit on coroners juries has reached such point
that one name of a juryman appears in more
than 200 inQuests, and six persons constituted
100 juries out of the 800 during three months
that are charged for in the accounts of Coroner
Croker. In these and several other respects
this expensive Office does not appear to have
fulfilled the requirements of the law.
The Indian question does not seem to ap-
pr0ach solution The suggestion of the Pres
ident that the Sioux and other northern tribes
should take into consideration a removal to
Indian Territory, is perhaps as good as any
that has been put forward, since it is
evident that they must be sent somewhere,
out of the way of the miners seeking
to enter the Black Hills, out of the
path of advancing emigration. But if
their removal to Indian Territory DO prac-
ticable, and if the feuds between them and
the tribes now there can be healed, it is still
evident that the Indian problem will remain
and perhaps be more perplexing Already In
dian Territory is an obstacle to its neighbors,
and though change in it may be longer delayed
by this fresh addition, the only satisfactory
conclusion of its troubles will DO the breaking
up of tribal relations there, and the introduce
ton of our usual forms of government. 1t does
not facilitate tho present negotiations that tho
President refuses to hear what the Indians
have to say to him.
With the close of the field work Of the fourth
Darien Exploring Expedition, described in
our correspondence from Aspinwall, there
ia fortunately no record of loss among
the officers and men engaged in this trying
work. Against tho hardslips which they had
to undergo and the dangers to which their
health was continually exposed, activity, clean
illness and good food proved efficient pro-
lection But it is evident from this mar
rativc that no such care could be ex-
ercised with laborers employed in the
work of construction, and if ever the Atrato-
Napipi ship canal becomes work accomplished,
it must be at the expense of hundreds OF hui
man lives. The figures of probable cost In
dollars, too, do not diminish with this further
survey and the early estimate of $56,OOO,O 900
for the work is not now regarded as sufficient
We should be sorry to suppose that
Rapid Transit Railroad in this city was as
much thing of the future as is ship canal
through the Isthmus of Darien but we doubt
whether a 1.-THE of the money that the latter
has already cost has been spent In survey
for the former.
While DR.. Cox was engaged in clarifying
the merits of an aboriginal shortcake which he
ate among the Sioux of Wyoming, and in evolv-
ing from his brief experience of tho frontier
the conclusion that no good Indian could OBJ
iect to his rations, three men of q very differ
ent sort were drawing up the plain statement
of the truth which we print to-day. Gen.
Bradley, commanding the District of the Black
Hills, and two of the most intelligent of his
subordnates, certify that tho report made by
Prof Marsh to the President was literally true,
and that the rations issued at the Red Cloud
Agency were ,disgracefully bad in quality and
inadequate in quantity. These officers, all
veteran frontiersmen and gentlemen accus-
toned to weigh their words as accurately as
their commissary stores, voluntarily come to
the support of Prof Marsh, by stating that
the average weight Of the beef cattle which
they saw at Red Cloud Agency was not
more than 35s pounds. The cOrpulcnt beeves
seen in the vision of DR.. Cox and Mr.. Steele
thus vanish into air and become as mythical
as the bull that solved for Europa the problem
of rapid transit on the BOsphorus. This is evil
dence which there is no resisting. These Off
GERS have no axes to grind, no grudgcs to sat
isfy. They are too well acquainted with
Indians and bordermen to make mistakes
about either of them. And on the whole We
think that even Mr.. DelanO will hardly think
it graceful to dispose of this damaging state
ment as "a rumOr set ON foot by MIR. Bradley
" and Others"
ERIE.
| The last turn of that financial Kaleidoscope,