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The New York herald., 1875-12-27

TEANsFLUynN NEW YORK The selection
Of a proper plan for laying out the lately an
nexed districts beyond the Harlem River is
something that ought not to be long delayed
by the Commissioners Of Parks. The pres
ent lul in the building trade will not last al
ways. With all the experience Of the past
to guide us, the best and most suitable sys-
TEN Of laying out and draining should be
adopted, so that when capital is loosened
once more, the work Of erecting dwellings
for our increasing population can proceed
in manner that will not require undoing
half century later An unfortunate dead
lock in the Park Commission appears to pre-
vent action being taken, but 1t is to be
hoped that, in view of the public desire for
some result, these gentlemen will hasten
their work in the premises to conclusion.
An examination Of the various plans will be
found in another portion of the HERAID,
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An Appropriation for the Centennial.


There will be an urgent application for
Congressional assistance to the Centennial
Exposition, and we incline to think that, on
the whole, it ought to be granted, We are well
aware that in the original act giving it ma
tional countenance it was expressly stipu-
lated that it should occasion no expense to
the national treasury This was wise at the
time, for the country was then in state Of
great apparent prosperity, and had that buoy
ancy continued there can be no doubt
that the voluntary contributions of citi-
zens, the State pride and city pride of
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, and appro-
priations by the Legislatures of other States,
would have carried the enterprise through
without pecuniary aid from Congress- But
the great panic which set in in 1873, and the
stagnation and discouragement which have
since prevailed, have altered the situation and
dried up resources that might otherwise have
proved abundant. The government has
meanwhile committed itself to the Exposi-
tion by official invitations to foreign nations
and by changes in the revenue laws to facil-
itate the introduction of foreign articles for
exhibition. 1t Is q very awkward thing to
invite guests to shabby entertainment, and
as it is too late to recall the invitations
it is difficult to see any creditable way out
of the modification except by government
assistance. We should be ashamed of our
government it, on any adequate occasion, it
failed to protect the national honor and dig
nifty. The constitutional power Of Congress
to make such an appropriation may be de-
Tended on several grounds In the first place,
all matters connected with our foreign rela-
tions and intercourse belong to the federal
government If the Centennial Exposition
had been merely a domestic and not an in
ternational affair, the credit and Dig
nifty Of the national government would not
have been involved. But the government has
indorsed it as an international exposition
and it may as legitimately appropriate money
to make it creditable as to furnish our naval
commanders with the means of giving enter
tainments on board their vessels in foreign
ports. In the next place the constitution ex-
pressly authorizes Congress to promote sci
ence and the useful arts, and such an Expo
sition will contribute more TO that end than
any patent right ever granted to an inventor,
patents being permission TO tax the people
by a monopoly Of useful inventions. In the
third place on appropriation to the Cen
tennial would not be dangerous as
precedent, since the occasion can recur
only once in q hundred years. We are
aware that there are two sides TO this ques-
ton, but il seems to as that the people
would prefer slight tax for so laudable an
object 70 the national modification which
would attend q failure now that the thing
has gone 50 far. With our population Of
forty millions, the appropriation Of a million
and half, which is asked for, would be
only thirty seven and half cents head,
and we are sure our people would prefer to
pay this small tax rather than have the Gen.
tennial fail
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General sherman and His Critics.

General Sherman's Memoirs, besides be-
ing an extremely interesting book, has done
a most important service for the future his
out large number of writer's participants
in the events he speaks Of, who have, in
criticisms more or less effective, corrected
his errors, or presented events from differ
ent point Of view. The remarkable freedom
with which he has dealt in his book, not
actors in them, was sure to expose what he
wrote to searching examination at the hands
of those he attacked or their friends General
Sherman would probably have been more
comfortable man had he left the book as we
believe he originally intended, to be pub
lished after his death but he certainly
would have deprived us Of a very entertain
ing book, and would have prevented the cor
rection Of many errors. There can be no
doubt we think, that he trusted too much
TO his memory in writing Of important
events. But this does not now matter to
portunity, in the publications Of others
drawn out BY Sherman, to correct the latter's
testimony.
The columns Of the HERALD have con-
tanned a number Of letters from officers who
thought themselves or their friends or GER
tain military operations misjudged by Gen
eral Sherman. A recent number Of the
GALAXY contained valuable article by Gen
eral W. F. (Baldy) Smith, designed to correct
some misapprehensions about the famous
battle of Chattanooga, and last of all comes
General H. v Boynton, in volume which
we cannot help confessing is damaging to
Sherman. General Boynton has taken the
trouble to compare some of the most notable
passages in General Shermans book with
the actual dispatches and orders now on file
in the War Department. He places the two
side by side in successive chapters, and the
result is more amusing to the enemies Of the
General of the Army than it can be to his
friends, for it conyicts Sherman Of careless
ness in statement, of Misrepresentation Of
events, and Of disparaging without cause
some Of his fellow officers. General
Boyntons book is one of the most
important contributions that has been
made to the history of the war. 1t is neces-
sarily controversial; but he has in almost
every case contented himself to let the
official records speak for themselves, and has
thus cast new and interesting light upon
some Of the most important events of the
war. Thus his documentary evidence es-
tablshes that General Grant deserves the
credit of having suggested the brilliant cam
paign against Forts Henry and Donelson.
II shows that there was a sIlrnrise gt Shiloh /;
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The National Banks and the Usury
Laws.


The question decided few weeks ago by
the United States Supreme Court in the case
of the Farmers and Mechanics National
Bank, plaintiff in error, against Peter O.
Dearing related, not to the amount or per-
centage Of interest which may be charged by
a national bank-which is strictly limited by
act of Congress-but to the penalty which
may be enforced against the bank for charg-
ing usurious rates. In the case before the
Court the bank had charged ten per cent, and
the maker of the note which it discounted at
this rate endeavored to enforce against the
bank the Usury law of this State, which de-
clares not only the interest but the principal
of a debt forfeited for usury. The State
courts gave judgment in his favor, and con-
demned the bank to lose principal and inter-
est. The Supreme Court of the United
States, in its decision which has been
made public, reverses this judgment, on the
ground that the act of Congress regulating
the course of national banks not only pre-
scribes that they shall not charge or accept
higher rate of interest than is allowed in
the States in which they are situated,
fixing seven per cent as the maxi
mum rate where no State law de-
fines q maximum, but, in addition, pre-
scribes the penalty which the bank shall
suffer for exceeding such rate; and the
Court declares that. Congress having thus
fixed the penalty, it is not in the power of a
State Court to vary from it or to condemn
national bank to different penalty pre-
scribed in q State law.
According to the act of Congress national
bank charging higher rate than that pre-
scribed loses the whole interest, but not the
principal. If greater rate has been actually
paid twice the amount so paid may be recov-
cred.
Thus the Supreme Court does not inter
fere with the power of State to fix the rate
of interest, nor does it relieve the national
banks from conformity to State laws in re-
gard to interest charges, but only from the
penalties prescribed in such State laws for
the offence of usury
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that Sherman was as much surprised as any
one, and that Buell. did important service
there. This last point is made very plain
also in tho first volume Of Chaplain Van
Horne's important History Of General
Thomas Army" just published. General
Boynton's documentary evidence does JUS
tice to Rosecrans at Iuka and Chickamauga,
and to General W. Sooy Smith, whom Sher-
man blames for failing him at Meridian. 1t
puts a different aspect upon the battle at
Resaca, where Sherman seems to have un-
justly blamed Mcpherson it rescues the
political generals" from the slurs Of Sher-
man it gives to General Grant the un-
doubted credit Of having conceived the
march to the sea it shows somewhat awk-
wardly for Sherman, that he left Thomas
with an inferior force and scarcely any
material of war to check and defeat Hood,
and we are sorry to say it looks q little as
though Sherman had left upon Grant the i'm
preston that Thomas had a much larger and
more effectively equipped force than he
actually left him.
In the matter of the captured cotton we
documents show Sherman to have made in
his book a most unfounded assertion regard
ing Secretary Stanton. But perhaps the
most remarkable, as we'll as one of the most
damaging chapters of the book, is that in
which Sherman's terms to Johnston are COM
pared with the Confederate Postmaster
General Reagan's draft of proposed terms,
and the two are shown to be almost precisely
alike, which was not altogether unnatural,
considering the further fact that Sherman
wrote his with Reagans manuscript lying
before him.
Against documentary evidence nothing
can be said. A log book, fit has been fairly
kept, is unimpeachable evidence and it is
from the log book of the war that General
Boynton has drawn his material. There are,
doubtless, people wicked enough to rejoice
at what will appear to them very decided
discontinue for Sherman. We are not of
them his book is so entertaining that we
must always be grateful for it in this age Of
too many dull books. But every man to
whom truth is dear will welcome such cor
rections as General Boynton has supplied
and thank him for the industry and faithful
ness with which he has done his work Nor
can we help feeling pleased to see the proper
credit given to General Grant for the
earliest campaign in which he distin-
guished himself; and to General Thomas,
beloved of all men, and, in some
spects, the grandest figure in the war.
for the difficulties which he and his
noble army patiently and silently met and
overcame. We do not think General Sher-
man treated his companions in arms very
generously; this was the one grave fault in
his book. We understand that the General
means to wait until his opponents have all
spoken and then claim last word for him
self He will be entitled to it, and he will
have his hands full. Meantime, and await
ing revised and corrected edition, we repeat
that Sherman's book deserves all our graft
tude, not only because it is one of the most
entertaining and characteristic of modern
memoirs, but because by its timely publica-
ton has been drawn out a mass of important
testimony from eye-witnesses concerning the
matters of which he treats.
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NJ THEIRS has been invited to stand for az
election to the French Senate but it is not
stated whether the veteran statesman will
consent Possibly, like 8 true leader, he
may prefer to take his chances in the popular
branch Of the Legislature.
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The OUTRAGE BULLETIN from the Rio
Grande seems destined never to be left with
out name upon il. A Texan storekeeper
has been left for dead BY the bandits who
robbed his store. The Harris case remains
unsettled. Much as We look with aversion
70 foreign complications on the eve Of the
centennial year there is no dosbt but some
thing effective should be contrived to protect
Dur frontier from the thieving Mexicans whom
their own government confesses itself unable
70 control
The New York herald., 1875-12-27

MALARIA. No subject can be more inter-
esting to New Workers than this which con-
Germs the air We breathe and the water We
drink. chapter Of startling information
from the pen Of physician will be found
elsewhere. 1t should be needed BY all.
The New York herald., 1875-12-27

The SToRY or THE WEEcK Of the Deutsch-
land is told in our special correspondence
IS it fell from the lips Of the survivors It
Is the old sad song Of the sea set to new
words The narrative Of the perish
ing Of the passengers during the long
hours when they watched in vain for
help from Harwich is simply heartrending.
There is always In such cases Q heroine. She
Is in this shipwreck Miss Petzold the
daughter of New York doctor.
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LITTLE ALFONSO must not be discouraged
if one Of his palaces is burned down. The
royal houses of Spain have been ''on FIRE" for
o great many years.
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NEW YORK, MONDAY. DECEMBER q, 1875.

From osr reports this morning tie probabilities
are that the tceatser today loiA Be cooler, cloudy
md cledrinq
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Babcock and the Secretary of the
Treasury.

treasury.
By our Washington correspondence in
another column it will be seen that the first
person to connect the Presidents private sec
retary with the operations of the whiskey
thieves was the Secretary Of the Treasury.
This is an odd incident in the history Of the
case. At period in the investigation when
the detectives and lawyers had no suspicion
that the enemy had friend in the White
House they came upon the ''Sylph" tele-
gram. They secured in the Washing
ton Office of the telegraph company the
original copy Of this despatch, and were
then none the wiser as to who sent it. 1t
was shown to the Secretary Of the Treasury
as piece of paper that promised to be Of
great importance, when he Immediately recog-
nized that it was in the handwriting Of Bah
cock. 1t was taken to the White House
and shown to the President, who called in
Babcock to explain it. This he did ITO the
satisfaction Of the President" but not to the
satisfaction Of Mr.. Bristow or Mr.. Wilson, the
Solicitor Of the Treasury. Since then much
other evidence against the private secretary
mas accuIn ulated IN the nandS OF these gentle
men, and has fortified them in their refusal
to accept the view charitably taken by the
President of the innocence Of his favorite.
From that first appearance of Bristow as his
accuser it is in the nature of things that Bah
cock should see the Secretary of the Treasury
behind every charge or imputation and
it is perhaps not unnatural if the Presi-
dent sees, as it is said he does, in
Mr.. Bristow's activity not SO much the i'm
partial discharge of great duty as the
Vaccinations Of rival endeavoring to under
mine the great fabric of the third term. This
view Of the relations of Mr.. Bristow to Bab-
cocks culpability, and to the Presidents
readiness to believe in his secretary's inno-
cence, throws some light on the intelligence
from Chicago which we published yesterday
to the effect that "Sylphs" defence will be
somehow twisted into an accusation against
the Secretary Of Treasury for relations with
whiskey makers before he entered the Cab
met This line Of defence will scarcely es-
tablish the innocence of Babcock.
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Brazil opened its Exhibition at Rio on the
I'd inst, which was the Emperor's semi-cen-
tennial. This advancing State will be well
represented at Philadelphia next year and
its section will be a study for all who desire
to know more of this Land Of the Amazon
and its products
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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AN0 Ann STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
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"CAsTE" IN THE GRAVE. The case Of the
right Of the corpse Of the colored man, Henry
JONES' to be buried in the Mount Moriah
Cemetery, comes to US with sad suggestive
ness from the City Of Brotherly Love. A
colored brother may vote in the same box as
a white man, but, say the cemetery company,
he cannot return to clay in the grim republic
Of the grave by the side Of his pale-faced fell
low citizens 1t recalls the well known lines
which, by the substitution Of one word, will
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exactly apply
Irnam. lhnt- burled HIth mr fsllow cIay.

| dreamt that buried with my fellow clay,
Close to a common .'uigger's1 side lay;
And as go mean object shocked my pride,
Thus like a corpse Of consequence, / cried go
s.scoundrei begone Henceforth touch me not;
More manners learn, and AZ distance rot /"
When, with laughter scowi cried he;-
nProud lump OF earth, scorn thy threats and thee
Here all are equal now thy case IS mine;
This Is my rotting place and that is thine y
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The IsTHMUs or PANAMA is tranquil. The
army Of the State is to be reduced to one
hundred and twenty men, which should
leave very little raw material for revolution.
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-11
The Situation in New-Orleans.

Louisiana under the bayonet does not
stir. There is no outbreak, 10 disturbance
Her people under usurpations without a
parallel, and outrages that almost pass
belief, are quiet The story of their
wrongs has gone to the country. They
wait patiently some action for their relief
by congress, or failing that, the Judgment
OF the nation. Congress is too busy with
Cox in the house and Mr.. Thurman in the
senate made vain efforts yesterday to have
the subject considered, but only succeeded
in elicitiDg some characteristic brag and
buster from Mr. Butler in the house. and
purposeless wrangle in the senae The
statesmen have no time for inqulring by
what authority the army of the United
States is used to break up the legislature
of a sovereign state and eject its members
at the point of the bayonet The Presi-
dent is in command 1t was under his
orders that the army acted in setting up
the fraudulent legislature. and they have
neither the tiIue nor the disposition to
question any of his acts.
So much for congress. Now for the
people. This is such an act of despotisn
so subversive of right and justice and of
the constitution itself, and so fraught with
peril to all the states and all the people,
that the voice of every state in the Union
should be heard. and heard at once, in
denunciation of this startling crime, The
legislature Of several states are either in
session or about to assemble. There
should be no delay on the part of any of
them in entering a solemn protest against
this whole business. This at present
seems to be all that can be done. But
this should be done at once, not only for
the purpose of asserting the rights and
the dignity of the states themselves, and
denouncing so shameful violation of the
constitution, bnt to give the people of
Louisiana, who challenge the admirati n
of the country for their patient and heroic
attitude. assurances of sympathy and sup
port.-N ]. Tribune,