New-York tribune., 1886-02-01

&c p;doo foras has increased the travel to Brook
lyn, but the ferry company has not been seriously
injured The eagerness With which IL graspeu the
lease al an advanced figure shows how unwlSe IL
would have been TO make concession to the COM
pany, as was proposed at the time the demand Ior
lower tolls on the Bridge became pressing Inc
Union Ferry Company has served the puOllc wen
for more than quarter of a century; there need
be no doubt that it will maintain its standard oi
efficiency.
Several tenants in Beaver-st are alleging tha'
that thoroughfare is not properly cleaned. lhIS
viii astonsh nobody. but the allegation that q
downtown street exists that is kept clean "ouAo
create Il sensation.
The recent inyestigations of the small trading
done in this city at the last election have shown
concusiyelv that such deals " as were made were
in the interest OF County Democracy candidates.
Tammany was Disseminated against IN these Dlr-
gains And yet the County Dem"ciary Is tho
Reform Democratic organization, whose cahul-
dates are 50 frequently favored with the support
IF The Nec- York inc5 THE Aec- fo'k LreHtn3 FoSt
and other precious " RctOrmers' with tIp-uited
noses.
There have been several heavy seznres of opium
lately in San Francisco and Alaska. In the last
case the drug was put up in tea chests, and would
probably have passed the Custom House had not the
fact that il was not on the manifest attracted
attention. The Chinese are the most accomplished
smugslers in the world. For five and twenty years
they have been engaged in a contest OF wits Win
the San Francisco customs officers. and the mOaJ
experienced among the latter cannot venture TO say
that they know all tAc ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain of the singular people Denis kcarney
used 10 call "mOOn-eycd lepers" At one time they
sinuRg!ed quantities of OPIUM in tin cases made to
resemble eegs dipped in tar and rolled IN sawdust
At another tmo they hid cylindrical tins IN the
bamboo legs of steamer chairs. Then they utilized
the thick heels of Chinese slippers. Again they
saturated the flock of bedding with opium. and
carried it ashore rolled in their mattresses Their
inventive capacity is prodigiOCs and keeps the
reycnue officers in a constant state Of vigilance and
Suspicion, and profitable Is the opium tGaihc that
probably If one venture in five succeeds the
-nugsiers arc well pad.
There is good sense in Justice Culleu's remark
that iaIge, and other public officials who speculate
in stocks or grain ought not to be over-sensitiye
about having the fact made public The people
want 10 know precisely what mon on the bench
and IN high public station are interested III tie
dealings in Wall street and at the Produce Ex-
change. Let rs have the names.
The statement of the capacity of anthracite coal
mines now open, which appe r. in dispatches in
regard 10 that trade is of considerable importance.
II the mines open can produce in year nearly
3 900 600 tons whereas last year they only pro-
duced abou; 81 100000 tons. aud at that produced
far rlDre than the managers of the different: com
panes expected, it nay be worth while to consider
whether it. would not be better for the companies
rs well as for the consumers TO have done with
tuc,c artificial restrictions and to use their
resources and their facilities to the utmost On the
other hand it may be remembered that the pro
portion of aggregate capacity which was actually
employed last year was considerably larger in the
busucs. of mining coal than in the business of
manufacturing iron, for less than half the caparlty
of tho blast furnaces in the country employed.