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The New York herald., 1879-09-30
ELIZABETH IN THE COURTS.
PETER GoELEr SUES FOR TIE PAYMENT OF
THE INTEREST on HIS BoSDs-A RECEIVER
FOR THE CITY APPLIED FOR IN THE UNITED
STATES CIRCUIT COURT.

TRENTON. N. j.. Sept. 30. Il

DY TELEGRAPH TO TUE HERALD.
TRENTON. N. j., Sept. 20. 1879.
In the United States Circuit Court horo to-day
fore Judges Mckennan and Nixon. very important.
aud what Is said to bo an unprecedented case,
argued II was application for
An injunction against the financial officers of the
city of Elizabeth. and for the appointment OF a re-
ceiver based suit brought by Peter Goelet and
others against the city. The bill sets forth that
charter OF the city limited its indebtedness
improvements to 100000 per annum. but that tho
Legislature from time to time permitted the amount
TO increase until the bonded dobt is s5405 50o
and the temporary debt sl,O0G.l06 The suit is
brought TO recover $4,000 interest on s12o,OO0
worth of bonds held by the plaintiff. II is alleged
that the money collected by tho city was
not applied for the purposes authorized by
tho Legislature; that thcro extrava,ance and
carelessness I'm the management of the city affairs
that the bonds had deteriorated in value and
almost worthless; that the interest the bonded
debt is unpaid and the judgment in this case
turned Hubd bona; that many reputable taxpayers.
by advice refused to pay their assessments, the
city is on tho vcrgo of ruins that the assessments
due the city amount to ,9U2O OOO with interest
frum various dates. Tho unpaid taxes on July /,
1879. amounted to Sl24,4iO. with interest of ton
ana fifteen per cent. The real estate and per-
sonal property of the city aggregate $1l 1853 213,
subject To deduction account of sworn
liabilities OF siil .O95. The levy last year
s525.O2i. The collection of this levy i'm
good deal of which is paid in rebate certificates of
value to the treasury. The taxable property
decreased one-half 1t was insisted by counsel that
the receiver was needed only for the financial vol.
The New York herald., 1879-09-30
THE HAYDEN TRIAL.
rpY TELEGRAPH TO TIE HERALD. I

(BY TELEGRAPIf TO TIE HERALD.
NEW HAVEN. Conn. Sept 70. 1879.
Tho trial of tho Isev. Herbert II. Hayden tor tho
murder Of Mary Il. stannard. will begin before the
Superior Court in this city Tuesday, October 7.
Chief Justice Parks and Justice Hovey will be on the
bonchs
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this winter is deserving OF the severest CEN
sure. Tho Assembly passed pretty fair
Appointment bill, and sent it to tho SEN
ate several weeks ago On motion Of HAIR
R1s IL was so amended as to become n
grossly unfair BILL and was then returned
TO the Assembly. The Assembly refused to
concur in the amendments, and thcrcupon
conference committee Of the two Houses
was appointed, OF which HARRIS Is Chair
man. Though this took place good while
since, HARRIS has not yet oven called his
committee together. or course, it is in
tended by him TO leave this bill in the same
deadlock where so many others have in
like manner persisted.
Prudent parties do not nominate, rs their
candidate for Governor in close state, men
with such u record as this.
Mr. PoMERoY was the main champion OF
J. +. SMYrH, the Superintendent of Insur
ancc. when that official was on trial before
the Senate last year That trial moro re-
scmblcd a hot party contest for the election
OF supervisor in n country town than
grave judicial proceeding in II case of rare
Importance. Mr.. poMERoY boosted that
SMITHS acquittal was due to his cxcrtons;
anu IL WIS tllbil'l ludl llils WIS MS Dlu lOI
the Govcrnorshp.
Does not Mr.. poNrEoy know that politi-
elan who has figured conspicuously In such
n role is the very man whom cautious
party in a doubtful State will not place at
the head OF its ticket in a heated campaign ?
The Assembly has passed bill for the re-
duction OF the numbers and pay of en-
ployccs OF the Legislature. When it reached
the Senate the Republicans under the lead
OF HABRis. PoltEEoY, and senators OF that
school. seized IL and proposed to slaughter
it instantcr. Amid succrs and ridiculc they
struck out the cuacting clause; but after
having slept upon their prcciptatc action,
they rctraccd their nasty steps, and the
matter Is 90 come up for further considcra-
ton next Wednesday,.
The people of New York don't select their
Governors from that kind of leaders.
But whore il Judge ROBERTSON all this
while? He used to stand foremost among
the Republicans in the Senate. He was then
regarded IA n fair discreet man. Does he
submit under the lash Of HARRIS and PoME-
ROY! II he does not, this Is a good time for
him to come to the front and show himself
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How Grnnt is Profitinr.

ANDREW D. WHITE is President Of Cornell
University.
ANDREW u. WHITE has been nominated by
Mr.. HAYES to be Minister TO Germany.
ANDREW D. WHITE was recently asked by
a reporter:
"Who do you think will be the next Re-
publican candidate for President"
To this question ANDREW ID. WHITE re-
lied as follows:
II think all Indications point to Gen GRANT as the
coming GRASr praiig goi'b ~ Ai' Et'g,1a tair.
and j. oi'eIriaa 'hf Of he J~ge md Gose1uas Of he
e,uabis h T. ri,liag'
We also believe that Gen. GRANr is seeking
TO profit greatly by his European tour, and
that he is AN observing student Of the poo-
pie and Governments Of the countries ne Is
visiting" But how is he seeking TO profit Z;
We fear in n manner not consistent with
the welfare and happiness OF his native
land. Surely, n man who has been Prosl-
dent for eight years does not need 10 90
abroad over Europe and Asia to learn how
10 be simply the President Of the United
States.
No, no, Gen. GRANT Is studying the peo-
pie Of different countries in the Old World
TO learn how people can be permanently
ruled; and he is studying the monarchcal
Governments to learn how monarchcal
Government may be established in the
United States of America; and ANDREW ID.
WHITE, elated and pulled up by the appoint
ment as Minister to the Imperial Court OF
Germany, is already one OF his plastic aides.
This is no imaginary dream. We point TO
real danger.
GRANT is not like WAsHIHGTON. lie was
not content with the highest military rank
ever conferred upon the Father OF his Coun-
try, but craved and obtained higher lie
is not content with the two terms Of the
Presidency which satisfied WASHINGTON
and all his successors til GRANT. lie wants
thlrd-he wants to De Emperor.
GRANT is not an unseltish patriot like
WASHINGTON. He rather resembles ALEX
AMBER, or NAPOLEON, and his unbridled am
btion already menaces the liberties Of his
country.
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When IL was first announced that Col.
THOMAS BUroRD Of Kentucky had shot and
instantly killed Judge ELLIOTT OF the Ken
lucky Court Of Appeals, the announcement
was accompanied by an intimation that the
murderer might, very likely, be lynchcd
We had no apprehension of lynching in
his case. Lynch law. whore it prevails, is
Tor different class 81 offenders.
Moreover. we deem It very doubtful
whether Col. BUfoKD will ever be subjected
to the extreme penalty Of the law. We
should be surprised to see him hanged.
Iii, crime was bloody, deliberate, afro
cious. 1t could hardly have been more
brutal.
still, Kentuckians will hate TO hang n
BUFoRD. We shall be surprised il the very
delibcratcncss and iuhumanlty Of the crime
are not twisted into an argument in his
favor 1t will probably be contcnded that
the prolractcd anXicty about his lawsuit
had affected his brain, and that he was
morally irrcsp on-iblc at the time the dread
ful act was committed.
Col. BUFoED may or may not undergo a
term of imprisonment. We shall be sur
prsed If he Is convicted and executed.
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II the repeal Of tho odious election laws,
and the other proposed legislation, had been
presented to the House as independent
measures. the Republicans would have I'LL
bustercd from the beginning, and would
have prevented by diatory motions aud
other parliamentary devices, any action on
the bills as long as they could hold out and
make their resistance effective. Mr.. RAN
DALI, with far less numerical following.
was able to defeat the Force bill in the Forty
third Congress by his persistent opposition
and expcdionts under the rules.
In the form in which the questions are
now submitted. thoy are perfectly gcrmane
10 the appropriation bills, and can be do
Tended without the least difficulty The
clause iorbidding the presence OF troops Mt
the polls is attached TO the Army ill, where
it naturally belongs. About that there can
be no proper dispute. The jurors test
oath was repealed 10y Republican votes. and
yet, strangely enough. was subsequently
incorporated in the Revised Statutes, where
1t stands to-day as an admonitOn TO Con-
gross against accepting revisions of
the laws without protective examination
against wilful deception or culpablc ncgli-
gcnce. There ought to bc no controversy
on that point as to the plan OF drawing
jurors, so as toprevcnt the scandalous pack
ing now practiscd in many of the Federal
courts North and South.
The supervisors and the deputy marshals
as election agents, alone remain to Ice
considered. They are now paid from the
money voted in the Legislative. judicial.
and Executive Appropriation act. Conse-
quently, there ia no reason why Il limitation
OF their functions should not bc cngraftcd
on the pending bill, after the exposures of
the enormous cost imposed on the treasury
for keeping up this partisan machinery.
The proposed mobilization Of the existing
law takes away the arbitrary power which
these supervisors and deputy marshals have
Extensively exercised, and makes them wit
nesses OF the elections, competent to give
testimony II their fairness should be con-
tested. 1t also protects the treasury against
the systematic and enormous plumber to
which 1t has been subjected for the last six
or seven years, TO keep up this regular
army OF partsans. whose chief business has
been to devise methods for electing Rcpub-
lican tickets.
With Presidential election next year.
when extreme means are likely TO bc em-
ployed by the party in power to retain pos
session, these officers would be of vast i'm
portance, and the number would depend en-
tirely on the discretion Of the managers at
Washington They would not scruple TO
employ tens OF thousands OF deputy mar.
shals, and to enforce at any hazard the
most violent penalties by Derjurcd tcs;i-
mony Hence it is natural Che Republican
leaders should throw every obstacle in the
way of repeal, and seek to deceive the coun-
try as to the real issue. But this game will
not succeed.
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NEW YORK CITY AND THE RAILROADS.
Grievances or which Our Merchants Complain
a I'm OF Particular FIled.

ALBANY, March 27.-The statement sub
miticd by tho New York Chamber Of Commerce TO
the Assembly's Special Committee charged with
the duty OF investigating the methods Of rail-
road management in this State is rather no.
table indictment Of tho companies. After re-
polling rs absurd the assertion that they are
engaged in a destructive movement against
capital invested in railroads, Mr.. schultz and
Ills associates procrcdcd 10 lay bare thcir griev-
anc-s. These might be summed up in one
that the railroads Systematically violate tho
tme-houored principle Of equality on The pub
lie highway.
Specifically, they complain that the roads
carry freight for citizens Of other States and Tor
foreigners at lower rates than for New Workers ;
that there IL too great difference bctwcon local
and through rates. and between East-hound
and Mest-hound through rntes. This is unjust
o. New York PRODUCERS and manufacturers. At
times freight has actually hncn carried from
Liverpool to points In the Jnrcd States L. 900
miles inland cheaper than the snmc limos would
deliver it on the wharf in New York the rail
roads taking their. pro rata share Of the
through rate. The heavy rates charged from
Vow York 10 Chicago nre practically prohth-
TORY on heavy. bulky. chem goods. Another
grievance is the granting oi special rates and
privileges 10 lnNiNidual customers. the case 81
we Standard OH Company being cited as a
Thon, TOO the ratios are made unnecessarily
high for tho benefit Of subsidiary organiya-
tons. such ms fast freight lines. bridge COM
punits, rolling stock companies. local lines
leased ~ cXorhtnnt rates through collision Il
managers, stockyard companies. construction
ana supply comunNies lgltrrase companies
elevator enl other terminal facility CONF
panies; also 10y stock watering. Tho rights
% sio'Nhodrrs are oNerriddcn by the
abuse ,ot IT, proxy -y,icmi and by
as 10 The condition Of the roads. It is suggested
thni the principle OF minority representation be
introduced into the boards ot directors: that
uorioi Ideal denil"d statements ho required that
rates Bee regularly lOsiel at every station: that
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-29

Three Republican members Of the state
Senate aspire TO be the candidate for Cover
nor next fall. They are HAMILTON HARRIS Of
Albany, THEODORE NJ. PoMEROY Of Cayuga,
and WILLIAM II. ROBERTSON Of Wcstchestcr
For the purpose OF determining what sort
of n Governor either of these gentlemen
would make, their record in the Senate will
be keenly scrutinized by the people, and
especially by those Independent citizens
whose votes decide closely contested cleo
tlOns.
And how will this record appear? There
can be but one answer, Il will look very
bad for HARRIS and POMEROY, and not very
well for ROBERTSON unless he turns over II
new leaf without delay. HARRIS and POME-
ROY, and particularly the former, have been
leaders in the conspiracy which has set the
Constitution Mt defiance in order TO prevent
large portion Of tho people Of the State
from enjoying their just representation in
the Senate and Assembly.
In this matter the course Of Mr.. HARRIS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-29
MONEY ron 1HE BRIDGE
a Committee Appointed to Ask Mr.. Kelly to
rny New Works Million.

Tho trustees of the New York and Brook
Ign Bridge met in executive session yesterday
afternoon in their Office in Water street Brook
Ign, fourteen members outof tho twenty attend
ing. Tho result OF the litigation over New
York's payment o. further money forth bridge
WAS announced by President Murphy. who had
tho official notification OF the decision Of the
Court OF Appeals in favor " the bridge. Mr.
Henry c. Murphy Mr.. J. $. T. Strahuhan rep
rcscntng tho trustees for BROOKLYN. and Mr..
Arthur Lcary. the Nicc-Prcsident Of tho Bonrd.
lni DR.. Samuel Hall rcprcs onting the New
York trustees, were appointed 10 wait upon
Comptroller Kelly nj II A. VI. to-day and ask
ior the payment Of 81 .OOO,O00 due from New
York city for the completion of the bridge.
This action was deemed more courteous than
10 serve pcremptory mandamas on the comp
troller but the alternative course Will be adopt
ed in the event OF the Comptrocr's refusing to
pay the money
The Committee is TO rcpor; at a meeting OF
the trustees on Tuesday.
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Manhattan Hank Deposits.

Mr.. George I.iichhed Of ass Eighth avenue
writes to TE Sus shat trustee Of benevolent society
ne was authorized 10 draw from the Manhattan savings
Institution a sum Of money deposited therein tor tie
hcncnt Of the memhers of the nc,ocut society ON
drawing the money Pee saws he wa, not allowed interest
the nfst Of july last hut tnH mp hai tiuo
trcst was allowed Nuc months interest wac thu, lost
Mr. Lwhnci adds that DC told tie tnsner that Dee Nr
ltrhuld was willing 90 leave money l rIr Institution
UNI. The hrst Of JuN next IL ~ that time HWtl interest
would Dee gwen hlm Tie cashier. MT LitchnDd AYERS
eYnIpd lis questions. the po-ltif trlt competed 10
Close the account with the saving. bank
secretary AlVord 40 Tine Manhattan savings Insutu
ton said yesterday that was true that depn.itrrs
Withdrawing their money now from MIt bans receive
interest since thr ur. lf iuN l1st Ih, hrcau-t
tho hu,nVss CO.. the institution of late hasuni warranted
tur declaration of dividend Whom tlU bank received
money from deposit - The only promise made them was
that interest would Ice DECLARED ia thr rInl nruu tt
the bu.nr., of tho bank nuur.lei Ou Tie met Julv
next, however Mr. Avord expected ihet divide nd
would be declared Whether interest on No" siN months
preceding Jan wOuit be- paid would depend UPON ile
recovery OF the S2il go IA coupon bonds taken ino
InuE rtfi
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MRS. WELCH'S MISTAKE.
Painting on being Arrested for Taking Card
OF gilt buttons.

Mrs. Catherine Wcch an elderly woman Of
3is East Eighteenth street entered Daniels store $50
Broadway. yesterday. to match piece u six fringe
which she had she stopped At counter, and as she
was examining card OF gait buttons She noticed,
she saws the silk she desired near hv shc walked H.
ami toueurssv she AYERS carried the card of buttons
in her huuf. over which her shaw had fru SuIern-
tens. 90 William II llil saw tie ana called 10 Of'cr
Nucr Miller is the iar-est of.ccr ON iic police force
lo stand. itrt inches az his stHrkiu-rd oct and
welsh, 90 pounds lie arrested tic terrified Mrs
WEIGH She NrhcncntN protested hoe innocence ~ any
Intention % fffII. tut She ftaru Goo fhe Jefferson
Market Police court When lfral.Hrl before Justice
TANNER shr BOO such ul.rf terror MAT She could
barely sfeaA slo iuIms1ei EVIDENCES of h.r rts.fria
hlitN aus sai fIt lrl BE- engineer 900 fnr Police
Department justice llaWmcr pird the funuur woman
With s"afr hing question. until she fell sNoouug before
hIm into hr arms of the police officers she ttkcn
INTO si room. Whore she seemed 60 hn almost out ~
hrr Wtfl Sic protested her innocence 800 The un-f
staggered from inc court room Snc was neatly dressed
ani U respectable appearance The buttons were worth
cl.utN. -four cents
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BE sure You are Right Before You Go
Aheud.

Our esteemed contemporary, the Chicago
Times, does not neglect the complication in
volying the Mayor and the Police Board Of
New York. Mayor COOPER" remarks the
Tietcs, may fail in proceeding iudlciously,
but in the work he Is at he ought to succeed.
The Police Department Of New York like
that Of every other city ON the continent,
might be vastly Improved
No doubt the police may he improved, but
in attempting such a job the Mayor must
proceed according to law and justice. His
notion Of turning out the whole Board of
Commissioners by a dcspotic ukase, because
some among them may Ice to blame. is a
notion TINT will not answer. Let him first
find out whether the fault Is In the Board or
in the failure Oi the Legislature TO create
the necessary authority for keeping the
streets clean and for disposing of the refuse
II the fault is with the Legislature, and
not with the Board. then the Board
are not to blame for it. II. however, the
fault shall prove to bee with the Board. then
the question is whether the Commissioners
are all culpable. or whether the evil is trace
able to some Of them while the others are in
nocent. These things. however, can only be
ascertaincd bya real investigation properly
conducted. Going about through two or
three miles out OF the three hundred miles
of streets which are 20 be cleaned in this
city. aud finding here and there a few heaps
Of filth not removed, cannot settle the qucs-
ton 10y any Means
No executive department in this country
can be made better by denying 10 its mem
bcrs rights which arc common to all cti-
zcns Arbitrary injustice can never prove
an agent Of reform.
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RAILRoAD CONSOLIDATION
The Air Line Leased by the New York. New
Haven and Mnriford Company.

New HAVEN. March %. - For months
groat interest has been felt in railroad
circles in the lease by the New York. New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company Of tho
Boston and New York Air Line Railroad. run
ming from this city to Willimantc in this State,
which road has cost about S5.0O0,000. and is.
with the connecting roads the shortest route
between New York aud Boston. The move
mcnt was completed last Saturday. Mt u meeting
OF the officers OF the two corporations In New
York. q contract WAS signed. TO take cilrct on
Fob ]. 1879. aud io exist for period Of ninety,
nine years, ry which tho two companies pool
thcir earnings. The Air Line road will take
care ~ all its lpcul business. and the New York.
New Haven and Hartford road vii attend 20 AL
tho through business. The Air Line rond Will
receive six per cent. Of all tho gross enruings
OF the New York. New Haven and Hartford
road. th" AIR Line 90 pay the interest on H. own
bonds. taxes. and running expenses. Tho re-
du'tiou Of the operating expense OF the Air
Limo road will be large Ms under this arrange
mcnt II has no longer to pay any terminal cN-
pcnscs IN this city. The bonded debit % ~" AIR
Line road il sj0O0UO on tho main road and
;2jOUl ON its Colchester branch. The amount
of ureirrrcd stock OF tho Air Line rond Is
t3.OOl 900 which was created by tn" foreclos-
Ing. 10 1873. OF first mortgage bonds TO that
amount OF the New Haven. Middlctown and
Niliimnnuc Company. which Is now the Air
Line. Tho contract rs deemed OF great adNan-
tlgo to both companies.
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AuroNoMr roR ILsIcr-LoRRAINE.
Bismarck Declares that he Feels Bound TO
Meet the MIshcs of the People.

BERLIN, March 2s.-In the debate in the
Reichstag yesterday on Herr Schneegans's mo-
ton in favor Of an autonomous Government for
Alsacc-L Lorraine. the Under Secretary Of State
sought 10 prove that the grievances Of the Home
Rulcrs were not so great rs they alleged. and
that the province had received many benefits
since the annexation. Speakers Of all parties
con'urrrd IN desiring greater autonomy for
Alsace- Lorraine. within limits calculated to
insure lis forever remaining Il part OF the Cor
man Empire. Herr Schneegnns not only de-
clared for the acceptance Of the treaty Of Frank
fort but on behalf Of himself and his colleagues
expressly rcpudiated the idea Of making the
province Etnd 81 neutral territory between
irduce and Germany Prince Bismar'N's
speech was again remarkable for it, modera-
tion. His denial 81 the right Of the province To-
be represented in the Bundesrath referred 10
its being represented on the Same footing as
tho other States. lie was quite willing a. sec Il
represented In modified form, He had boon
asked: Why il conscious OF flaws in the adj
ministrGtiOn Of the province. he had not sooner
proposed n rnmedyy' But he thought the mi
tiative should come from tho people them
selves and. now that they had spoken out. he
held himself bound in all conscience 10 try and
meet their wishes.