New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-29
note or coin, but also, If possible, the knave who
sent it or helped 1t forward on its mission Of

cheatery.
Notwithstanding the hard times the ball season
for 1878 has opened with unusual vvacity and suc.
cess. Thus far two balls of representative clan
have been held and both successful. though in
different ways. The French Ball was probably tina
vilest held in this city. Excuses at previous
gatherings Of this kind had led to police prohibition
of masks at all bas but this regulation affected
the decOrous entertainments Of the Liedcrkranz and
Arion Societies, it rescinded as too sweeping
and unjust Tho mismanagement of the French
Ball this year ought to result in the prohibition Of
future entertainments by the Cercle Frsncais
do DHarmonie. The bad character Of this
one ball, however, ought not to injure thu
prospects of the Liederkranz, fixed for February T.
Ladies and gentlemen who care to indulge in the
lively entertainment of masquerade need not fear
to witness at the Liederkranz the coarse and vulgar
exhibitions of the French Ball. The class of people
who attend the great German mask is select and no
improper characters admitted. The general dis.
satisfaction expressed at the Old Guard Ball with
the excessive charges and poor service in the supper
rooms may deter many who you'd otherwise at.
tend the Charity Ball But this mistake is not likely
to be repeated.
/ The Massachusetts, authorities, last Summer
adopted the expedient of sending out their Chief
by tramping with them. to find out their ways. Il
was discovered that most of these wanderers were
thieves, who would much rather tramp than work
at the trades at which they were adopts Some Of
them were avowedly on their way to join the rail.
way rioters in the Middle States, and some were
waiting for similar riots to break ont in Massachu-
setts They all lived rather by robbng than by beg
gng. There among them Germans, Dutch.
men, Irshmen, Swedes, Frcnchmcn and minority
of Americans They seem to have lived pretty well.
mainly upon stolen chickens, eggs, potatoes. One
wandering gentleman had four bottles of gin in a
large valse Many of them had tramped from five
to eight years. They only worked when they wanted
money to buy liquor, and not then if they could
steal it. This report proves them to be precious
lot of lazy scoundrels whose proper place would 10
the workhouse or the State Prison.
If there is anything which should be sacredly safe
from puroining fingers it is letter intrusted to
the Post Office for carriage and delivery Yet il las
recently been discovered that Carl Namuth. at Chi
cago has stolen than three thousand letters from
the street boxes in that city. He waited until near
the close of the day. when the boxes would be so
full that he could put in his fingers and pull out sew
eral of the letters This would seem 10 show the
need either of new style of boxes, or a more fire.
quent emptying Of those now In use The present
plan doubtless a convenient one, but il the public
once gets the notion into its head that the boxes are
not SAFE it WILL at any Inconvenience. refuse to
them. Perhaps, if ther.present size is too small, il
might do no harm to enlarge them. We offer the
suggestion with some doubt; but we are perfectly
sure that the Department give Us box entirely
safe, and we may add that we believe it will.
1t must be surprise to Republican officials in
Orleans to find that their arrest by due process
of law is no longer considered domestic violence Of
such an aggravated type that troops" are needed
to suppress it.
Recent developments would seem to indicate that
the Republican party of South Carolina was neve:
quite large enough to give hospltable shelter to all
the cOrruptiOnists of the State.