Year: 1874

ment has as vet given no authorization for such
measures. 1t wounds the sensiblities of the
Kiowa brave to take away the loot he has
gained on the war-path. and trouble might re-
suit if the General entered bis reservation WIN
any such purpose.


Three additional indictments against Oliver
Charick and Hugh Gardner have been found
in the General Sessions where they will doubt
less soon be tried On the first trial the Oifense
was declared to he technical and the accused
were merely fined, not imprisoned But as
there appear still in allegiance a score more
of similar cases. the offcnse which in single
instance looked like a mistake begins to
assume the proportions of a conspiracy to
affect the result of an election. And this
Offense once shown the severest penalty of the
law would be light punishment for the men
guilty of it.


1t might not be prudent to give full conf
dence to the announcement made from Madrid
that the Carlists have seized 1900 hostages,
men. women, and children, to be put to death
in case they are hard pressed by the Repub-
lican troops But we know already enough OF
the savagery of those intestine wars in Spain
to prevent us from at once rejecting this news,
horrible as it appears. The wild mountalneels
who follow the flag of Don Carlos are much
| less civilized than the Volunteers OF Havana,
| and no one has forgotten the slaughter OF the
Cuban scho0l-bOys in a moment of madness
by sudden impulse of brute cruelty which
! the authorities dared not resist.





After having performed a great deal OF
work in short time by steadily sticking to
! it and not wasting their hours in entertain
ments or excursions the American Pmoogi-
cal Association have adjourned. In the re-
port of their proceedings on our fifth page
there will be found some description OF
slashng onslaught by Prof. Fischer on the
makers of Latin grammars; further eluclda-
ton. by Prof Whitney, of the relation of
vowel and consonant sounds to our ordinary
speech, and other matter of curious interest
to students and scholars. The meeting is re-
garded as one of the most successful
ever held by the Association.


We know nothing of the truth of the charges
against District-AttOrney Bliss which have
been made to President Grant, and less of
the responsibility of those making them.
| Much in Mr.. Bliss's official career seems
to render it possible that the acts now
charged were done by him. Certainly if they
were done his removal ought instantly to fol-
! low this exposure. When a Ring penetrates
| the District Attorneys Office ii treads upon
| the ground of all others most dangerous to
the citizen. The fate of the Ring attorney
who cOnspired to protect Ring criminals in
! BROOKLYN ought to be a warning to Mr..
! Bliss and his associates of the danger OF ylo-
! lating the sanctity of the Grand jury room.
Mr.. Solicitor Wilson of the Treasury Depart
ment made two remarkable discoveries In his
| investigation of the connection of the Secret
Service Bureau with the grotesque Safe Bur-
glary affair. The first was that Whitley and
Netteship are guitless of any completely with
that ridiculous crime The second was not so
satisfactory to Whitley and his associate, but
will doubtless be more so to people III gen
eral He discovered in his researches that
they were as innocent of good as they are of
evil, and advises the abolition of the Bureau
ON the ground of mere uselessness and ineffi-
cheney. The Bureau of spies will probably
think this is carrying investigation to an un-
warrantable length; and may insist that the
public incredulity as to the first discovery
ought to work against any acceptance OF the
second.


To the country at large the most decided