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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

The unfortunates who are compelled to
use our street railroads as a means of tran
sit must have been astonished few days
emily championing their interests and en-
deavoring to remove one Of the many dis
comforts to which they are subjected on
the cars. A proposition was made in
the Board to prohibit the carrying of
parcels and baskets beyond certain size
on the street cars, and the passen-
gers, who are frequently compelled to
pick their way through labyrinth of such
distractions while entering or leaving
crowded car, were, no doubt, grateful to the
Aldermen for even this small attention to
their comfort and convenience. But it
turns out that in this instance, as in all
others, the loyal Aldermen were true to
their valuable patrons, the horse car COM
panies, and were only carrying out
the orders and preparing plan to
increase the profits Of those modest
corporations The proposition is not to
prohibit the carrying Of large bundles and
baskets on the cars at all, but to extort an
exorbi.ant tariff from those who do carry
them The comfort and convenience of the
passengers are not taken into account, be-
cause there would be just as much obstruc-
ton and nuisance to them in bundles that
are paid for as in bundles that are carried
free. But the tariff would bring consider
able money into the treasury of the railroad
corporations, and that is what the Aldermen
are after.
Baskets and bundles are carried on cars
by the poorer classes only. Women who
earn scanty living over the washtub, and
the wives of laborers and others who travel
down to Washington Market from up town
every Saturday night in order to make the
meagre wages 60 rs far as possible in
the purchase of food, are the principal
owners of these distractions. 1t is a
cruelty to seek to extort q sort Of horse car
blackmail from these poor people, simply
because they have no other means OF carry
ing their loads to and from their homes.
II all bundles Of every description of On in
convenient size should be excluded from
street cars except at certain hours of desig-
mated days when they might be carried
free, then the general horse car passengers
would certainly be benefited. But to allow
market baskets and other large parcels to
be carried on the cars ut any time, only
compelling their owners to pay high tariff
for the privilege, would be no benefit to
the general passengers, although very
profitable to the railroads. This is Just
what the Aldermen desire to do. They
thrittily unite bundles and backsheesh.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

THE WEATmER.-The areas OF low pressure IN
tho Northeast and Northwest and that Of high
barometer OIL the Middle Atlantic coast continue
to maintain the relative positions they held ON
Friday. There are indications, however, that
the high pressure will move southcastward
aud leave the area of the lake region and
Canada free for the eastward advance OF the de-
precision now in the Upper Mississippi Valley.
This will leave the whole Of the United
States cast of the Rocky Mountains with an at
aospheric pressure below the mean of 30 inches,
aud warm. rainy weather will follow in the South
ern. Central and Eastern districts, but cooler
weather In the Northwestern and Northern
regions. Tie temperature is now high in the
Southwest attending the storm centre, and light
,ains have fallen in the Missouri Valley Brisk
=, h;oh winds attend both dcprcssions referred
20 The weather in New York to-day will be
warmer and partly cloudy, with brisk winds from
49, southwest and increasing coudiness toward
AiakA
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

GENERAL MCDOWELL believes that the In
dian uprising in Idaho will be confined to
Joscph's band. The news from General Howard
is mcagrc; but it is known positively that one
lieutenant and thirty-three privatcs have been
killed by the savages. Heavy rcinforcemcnts
have been sent to the scene Of hostilitics and it
is to be hoped we shall hear in few days the
end OF the insurrecton. Ii, us has been re-
ported, the agent at that point is primarily to
blame for the trouble he should be punished in
u way to teach Indian agents lesson they will
remember.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24
Happy Br0oklynl

The Brooklyn Superintendent of Police
has issued orders to the various captains IN
regard to the celebration of the Fourth of
July. An ordinance of that city prohibits
the "storage or sale of frecrackers and fire
works of ali kinds and the setting off or burn
ing of any firecracker or fireworks Of every
description within the city limits under o
penalty Of twenty-five dollars Tor each and
every offence. The captains are ordered to
instruct their commands to strictly enforce
this law. A similar ordinance exists in New
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24
our London Gable Letter.

1t looks now as though the English were
working upon each other, saying s'Who's
afraid?" and thus getting up war feeling
The weather is quite warm over there, and
they find it as difficult to keep cool politi-
cally as bodily. The London season,
which has had a spasmodic brill
fancy, is about to melt into space and
leave behind it a sort of war sputtering
which will presently breed fever, and then
Glory, with wooden leg and epaulets will
tempt the young men who are the mould of
fashion into convenient places to pot at the
Russians and for the Russians to pot at
them Meanwhile the Prince Of Wales, who
is field marshal, wants more money to en-
terrain his friends and that small section
of the public to whom he must, at stated
periods, open his doors. If there is war,
and Albert Edward should go out nominnlly
at the head of the army, he would come
back a very much more popular Prince, and
as princes of the blood royal very seldom
are put in the way of hostile bullets
there is little doubt that he would
come back Then his friends would
have no necessity to go around say
ing, 'Pity poor heir apparent,
wot's only got small allowance and has a
mother that lives among the Scotch" The
Anglican Church is troubled about the ques-
ton of auricular confession and seems pre-
pairing, by internal divisions, for the time
when the good sense of England will break
tha connaction hetween Church and State
with few sledgehammer blows The
great Presbyterian Council which is about
to meet in Edinburgh will help to show
how hardy and luxuriant religious plant
may be even in England, although growing
outside the Treasury dollhouse. Theatrical
matters are dull in London, but we learn
that they are about to send us naughty
comedy with a decided French flavor. With
such other bits of gossip as will enliven
the reader our letter fulfls its purpose
to-day.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

Red Tape Bad as the Savages.
After q century's experience of Indian
warfare the government seems to know less
period Of our history. During the past ten
years it has had no other enemy than the
Indian to contend with. Its policy has been
one continuous blunder, resulting in mas
sncres by Captain Jack and his Modocs,
murders by Sitting Bull, the sacrifice Of
General Custer and his regiment and now
by the slaughter of the settlers on the Sal
mon River, in Idaho, by the chief Joseph,
in command of the non-treaty Nez
Perces. Under a wise and just system of
Indian management these atrocities would
not have occurred. But as the past cannot
be changed it is unnecessary now to do
more than refer to the stupidity, indiffer-
ence and greed which have made our Indian
policy disgrace to the nation. The gov
eminent is now confronted with the stern
fact of another war, which threatens to end
in q massacre as terrible as any which pre-
ceded it. Idaho is almost at the mercy of
tribe Of savages who have already murdered
scores Of white settlers and who boast their
ability to overcome the troops now stationed
in that part of the country. They have
issued their defiance to the United States
government and have thus far been fully
able to maintain it.
AS usual, the government meets the rife
of the Indian with red tape. The Indian is
in earnest, but the administration is not
and has persistently moderated the dangers
Of savage uprising this summer. The
mutilated bodies of the settlers along the
families, spared for the time only to meet o
worse fate, furnish an answer to this folly
still nothing is done. General Howard,
whose command embraces the scene of
the outbreak, is concentrating all the
troops under his control, and has APP
pealed to the government for further aid
only to meet with the response that there is
no authority under the law to furnish it.
Thus the lives of our citizens are sacrificed
to the circumlocution bureaus in Washing
ton, and the red tape of the department is
MS fatal as the bullet of the savage. 1t is
indeed even more dangerous for the men
who 90 forth to the frontier under the
guarantee that they will be protected by
the government and in the full faith
that the pledge will be kept, find
themselves deserted and betrayed There
are not troops enough in Idaho now to save
the women and children from fates worse
than that, and If another massacre occurs,
internal red-tapism of the government as to
the cruelty of the Indians. Our little army
in the West is doing its best to stop the saw
ages in their murderous raids on the settle
ments, and ii they fail terrible response
bility will rest on the authorities at Wash
ington.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24
Bombastes Furiose.

At meeting of the Tammany General
Committee yesterday, held with closed
doors, Mr.. John Kelly is said to have ex-
pressed his dislike of the HERALD, and to
have instructed his followers to discontinue
reading this journal, and to use their best
efforts to induce their neighbors'to do the
same. It is natural that Mr.. Kelly should
fear and detest independent journalism. As
an independent press is watchful over the
public good it necessarily comes in conflict
with system which is ready to sacrifice
the public interests to the interests Of q
political clique under the rule Of on over
bearing dictator. But for the HERALD and
other independent journals Kelly might
have succeeded, in 1875, in driving from the
criminal bench an able, upright, fearless
judge, and placing plant Tammany poll
tician in the Recorders seat. The true
motives OF Kelly's vindictive hatred Of
Judge Hackett and of his desire to place his
Tammany agents in possession Of the Grim
inal court and Of the public prosecutors
office might not have been publicly known
but for the information afforded to the
people by the independent press. But for
the HERALD Kelly would have defed public
opinion once more in 1876 by nominating
for Mayor some Tammany politician who
would have done his bidding on all oc-
casions. But the Hackett experience taught
his generally subservent followers lesson Of
prudence, and Kelly was compelled to yield
to Mayor Ely's nomination. But for the
independent press the people Of New
York might not have known the fact
that Kelly, through his convenient
agents, was endeavoring in vain
to force Mayor Ely into nominating
such an undesirable and improper person
as Alderman Purroy as Police Commits
sioner; for Kelly is cunning as we'll as over
bearing, and knows when to stand in the
background and screen himself behind his
working tools.
Of course John Kelly dislikes the HERALD.
Of course he would endeavor to persuade
his Tammany constituency not to read it.
What glorious time John Kelly would
have if not only the HERALD, but all other
respectable journals were out of existence
and he could rule in Tammany uncriticised,
unexposed and unopposed! How speedily
and completely the power of Boss
Tweed would be collapsed by the
power of the new Boss! But we
fear that the great Tammany autocrat
cannot be accommodated ut present. The
Russo Turkish war is being fought out
European and American interests are likely
to be involved. The oppressed Of all ma
tions must be protected. The new policy
of the new administration must have dis
interested champion, who will demand for
it a fair and just trial Specie payments
and national prosperity must be restored.
Our Mexican and Indian troubles require
settlement. The men who have the will if
they had the power to repeat the Tweed
history in our city government need watch
ing. Ina thousand directions the influence
Of q powerful and independent press is
needed for the public good. So we have
not much fear that John Kelly and his Tam
many gorillas will be able to kill the HERALD
just yet, even if they do refuse to spell over
its columns.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

WALL. STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mark ct
was dull and prices were irregular, some show
ing an advance and others decline. Gold fell
off to 1858, the opening price being 1O5l2.
Government bonds were lower, while railroads
were quiet and irregular. Money on call was
easy ut 2 per cent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

President Hayes has addressed circular
to all prominent federal officers throughout
the country, calling their attention to that
paragraph in his letter to the Secretary of
the Treasury in which he lays down the
rule that no officer should be required or
permitted to take part in the management
Of political organizations. canvasses. con-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

The GOVERNMENT is acting wisely in prepar-
ing to meet the Mormon question and put down
any hostile demonstration ut the point of the
tayonct Secretary McCrary has informed
Governor Emory that troops will be sent to the
Territory as fast rs possible this summer, and
General Sheridan seems to think that it may be
advisable to establish additional military posts
ut no distant day within the Mormon dominions
little firmness the part of the adninstra-
ton now may save good deal Of trouble in the
future. The Mormon leaders are in an ugly
mood, and will not give up without n struggle.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

York, but inasmuch al our Mayor and police
hesitate to enforce it, one being frightened
and the other afraid to do SO, 1t will, OF
course, remain dead letter. We shall
envy our neighbors on the other side OF the
East River the peacefulness of their celebra-
ton; provided their police are able to carry
out their instructions effectually. In New
York we shall have to submit to the con-
fusion and danger off senseless practice for
one more year at least, although the law
would protect us provided the authorities
did their duty. If any great calamity should
occur through the use of fireworks, pistols
and cannon in the public streets of this city
on the Fourth the responsibility would rest
with the Mayor and the police.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

HARLEM SPOKE with no uncertain sound last
night in favor of rapid transit and in denuncia-
ton Of its opponents, the street car m0nopoists,
who are robbing the workingman and rctarding
the city's progress to subserve their own selfish
purposes. Rapid transit means cheap and COM
Portable homes for all classes. - sse ssoio
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

MOLLY MAGUIRE OUTRAGEs have again begun
in Pennsylvania, ii despatch from Philadelphia
is true. Two men are said to have been assas-
snated and two others who were witnesses Mt
the late trials are said to have disappeared. 1t
rs hard to believe that the members of this
bloodthirsty organization have ventured to
follow in the footsteps Of their associates
who have just been executed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

RELIEF FOR ST. JoHN.-After consultation
with His Honor the Mayor, Mr.. L. NJ. Archibald,
the British Consul, has opened subscription
list at the offices Of the Consulate, No II Broad
way, where contributions may be sent for the
relief Of the sufferers by the St. John fire. We
have no doubt the response Of New York to the
appeal for assistance for the inhabitants OF the
ill-fatod city will be prompt and generous.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

THE PAST WEEK, which has been exceedingly
interesting in the sporting world, was appropri-
ately closed yesterday by the races at Jerome
Park series Of wel-contestcd games Of polo ut
the Westminster Club grounds, regattas on the
Upper Hudson and OFT Staten Island, an ocean
yacht race to Sandy Hook and return, athletic
sports at Mott Haven, cricket and other events
Of more less Importance. The weather was
delightful on land and water and the attend
ancc at the various points of interest was large.
Three Maryland horses won three Of the four
races ut jerome Park, which was unusual luck
for one State.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
has not been long in existence. 1t has been long
enough, however, to enable its treasurer to make
away with ten or twenty thousand dollars.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

The OCCUPANTS OF downtown tOttering
tenement house prefer running the risk OF being
killed in the ruins to losing months rent. They
have probably just appreciation Of the value Of
their own lives.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

TwEED's LAWYER SAYS the terms offered by
his client are worth far more to the city than the
Sweeney compromise, which is probably true
The compromise was worth a good deal to the
lawyers, but very little to the city.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24

From oar reports this morning the probabilities
are that the areather tn Ner York. to-day riH be
,raymer and partly cloudy, sciM brisk ~nds from
the southeast and Increasing clomdiness toseard
mint
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24
ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.
GU ADRUPLE SHE E I
NEW YORK. SUNDAY, JUNE "a, 1877.

The HERALD rM be sent to any address, free Q,
postage for One Dollar per month.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-24
NEW YORK HERALD


All business ettera teegraphic dispatches must
be- addressed INV YORK HERALD.
Letters and PACK ages should be properly sealed
Rejected comm uuica lions will not be returned
, 1877-10-17


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, 1877-10-17
NAVIGATION NOTES,

The United States stms Michigan left port tast
evening foe Lake Superior. The damages to the
schr lfslen Hood have been axed 1t sSU0 BY com,
tsstou.. The schs savelsnd Is 10 have new top.
sail yard. and tho Ella Murton = soreboom and
ga9....Ths Chicago echF City Of 0rern
sso,l.nd. @ H. VIII Wiz coal l' ios | Montreal. "..
Ths schr Kearssrgs y vietIm VI libels. 6hs had
another placed on her yesterday By Alexander
y wages. Yesterday Deputy United slates Mar.
shal slllIw we'll kuid tie sch1 i. q. Andre to aat-
tafy claim VI $Yl3. saads BY Tho Mutual Life.ln
serance Lau,nany, l3eorgs q. F1nney was Tho
purchaser. Tbs caas 10 tbs drsk QUO Of the kind,
md will probably Eeault In legal contest,
, 1877-10-17
MARINE NEWS.

The schr David @. Wells. atuu! which Soma an1.
icty was c1pstsscd, Arrived ln .oft yesterday al
right The Emma c. llutch!uson, I. taF.ly craft,
also camu In. 10th vessels were delayed by tue
recent gales. They had Susl on hoa1d.
A kingston dispatch tsys The sehs Foster went
ashote 90 Friday night on salmon lsland, md ahat
the schr Picton. wheat lAden, i Ashors on Psea4ue
Island. Part Of the p1eton's cargo ssrved At
Kingston on lighter saturday. and II WA thought
probable she would be gotlen OF that night.
The scbr jameE Couch hxd !. 1D0 tu OF hes carIp
OF grain wet on her lsst trip down, during the
be4vy weather,
Tho Fisk had har gan9vays washed In on Lake
Erie. and the cargo WA damaged.
Detroit exchanges Of yesterday contsjn khe fol-
lowing items:
SUNDAY eftssnoen .bae the .ehz Amesc. VA towing
up HRst tGstA tsl4h4. hah4A the tug 8Atie, ah VIA
run lAt by the aeoN IT 19espn. q IuItd1 hs !ateE
!ot assiaof ~ .3'sf of ths easp@aass - ;aa ~
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s H.. M sS* sie4 ~ T.
but Hc4Iel " ILa iurllcl. 3n3 fsT elvlsh 8ru The
, 1877-10-17

soeetal Dtspa,eh ~ me Chicago Tribune
foET Hunos, Mich., Oct. 1O.-pows-Propn
Vanderbilt, Newbusz, F. ". snuok. Gordon
Campbell, Plymouth and barses. Turner and
barges. Channeey lIutlbut and consort, u. ".
KnAs snl bargca, Tntte and ronsort, N. X. Fair
bank. F. A. Georges. q. Chamberlain and coasort,
Etcanaba; j. F. Curl. Kershaw and eopsort,
1lackett and cons"rt. Araxes and bargcs; schra
Wells Burt, Eric fsel1e, New Dominion. Angus
Smith, y. =. Crosthwalte, II. Csiklns. i. Il.
I.ocke. Niagara, q. ". Osco. ,Iahperalng, blazing
Etar. Ferret. Seabtrd, David Vance. John Ittee.
berry and barges, t'r.dgeon and consort. Nfrci1.
head aud hasRee. A1pens and barness .:hetcorn and
tonsort, Fletcher and corsort; achrs v. u. Phelps,
Granger, Pulaski. l.. ~. Perry. J. d. Wilbor,
Prnaaukec. j. Il. Mead.
Wiud-North; fresh. Weather ane.