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Year: 1875

THE GREAT ANNUAL AMATEUR CONTEST.


Every person interested in base ball matters
bers well that fine game between the picked of
New York and Brooklyn which took place one year
ago the Union Grounds and which resulted in favor
of the from this city by the of to O. and all
such persons wish most earnestly that another such
game may be played this year and every year here
after These wishes likely to be gratfed certainly
in regard to this year, Wednesday next a ten
representing each of the above mentioned cities will
play tennnings game on the Union Grounds


Although last years game remarkable for the
excellent play, the game next Wednesday promises
to be better exhibition Of the skill and judg-
ment necessary in national game, as both teams
stronger in playing quality, and more evenly
matched In last years game the fielding powers of
the about equal, but the New Yorkers out
batted their opponents. This year Brooklyn has been
careful to select good batters well helders and
will present the strongest batting team that city has
produced This match will be particularly interest
ing from the fact that from the twenty who are
to participate in it, ten to be selected TO represent
the two cities in a match with ten picked from
Philadelphia and Germantown in a game to
be played before the end of the season.
Mr.. Cammeyer proposes to offer four prizes
for the best batting and fielding either sde He ap
pointed Mr.. J. W. Mcdonnell, of the Flyaways OF this
city, and E. B. Brasher of the Nameless of Brooklyn
to superintend the awarding of these prizes They
cided TO appoint committee of three to decide to
whom the prizes shall be given and chose such
mittee Messrs F. A. O'Donne of the Fyaway Club; J..
r. Carpenter and NJ. j. Dillon, of the Confidence Club
OF New Rochelle.


Suboined the names and positions OF the players
who will participate in the contest and of the
comparative merits of the IL will be seen that
none Of the Chelsea nine Will assist Brooklyn in tho
match. This is owing, not to want Of invitation but
the dsinclnaton of two three members OF that club
taking part in game on the Union Grounds
Year: 1875

Nova Scotia newspapers publish the statements of
the commission appointed to examine the charges OF
outrage made against the captain and of the brig
Mary Jones' on which two daughters Of the Rev. Mr..
Sunderland OF Sheburne drowned. One COM
missioner entirely exonerates tho captain and crew,
the other calmly says that in the statements of the
survivors there is ground for suspicion that che cap
tain and acted cowardly There to be no
evidence of outrage. The father Of the girls seemed
TO be satisfied to the testimony The affair will re-
main a dead mystery.
Year: 1875

We observe that the Senate committees in
discussing the appropriation bills have shown
disposition to cut down the salaries of the
officers of the government One of the COM
mittees reported that the salary of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue should be re-
duced from six to five thousand dollars. A
letter was read from Secretary Bristow oppos-
ing the reduction, and the Senate finally de-
clined to agree. We think the Senate was
right Nothing is more certain in the affairs
of government or of private citizen than
that bad pay means bad work. The collection
of the internal revenue is most important
function In fact there are few more impor-
tant in the machinery of our government


The head of it is responsible for the handling
of millions of dollars. Certainly If he does
his work well he is worth six thousand dollars
year. We believe in the policy of putting
first class men in these first class places and
giving them first class pay. Much of the cor
ruption that we have seen in the management
Of our financial affairs--in the collection OF
taxes and customs and imposts-may be at.
trIbuted to the miserable policy which votes
hundreds of thousands of dollars to thievinp
corporations and endowments to worthless
railways, and bothers over the income of 9
hard working, necessary and efficient officer


If our Congressman want to save money i
l. will not be by cutting down the Hagea pf i'm
Year: 1875

Mayor Wickham has initiated the policy of
calling the heads of the several municipal
departments together in his office for consul
tation for the purpose of securing harmony of
action in the whole city government This
policy was contemplated by the charter,
which provides for such council, but the
late administration never availed itself of the
provision. The departments for two years
have been snarliDg, jealous and inharmonious,
and six months ago such gathering as that
held in Mayor Wickham's Office yesterday
would probably have resulted in free fight.
Mayor Wickham has resolved that this spirit
Of contention shall cease, as it is detrimental to
the interests of the city. He is resolved that
each head of department shall confne him.
self to his own duties, without iptermeddling
with those that do not pertain to him, and
that among them all there shall be harmony
and unity of action in all public affairs. The
meeting of the heads of departments cannot
In any manner interfere with or infringe upon
the duties of the Common Council The
Board of Aldermen is a Legislative body. The
Mayors council is purely executive council,
and stands in the same relation to the Board
OF Aldermen as the Cabinet bears to Congress.
We have no doubt that the Mayors new policy
will be found advantageous TO the interests Of
the CITY,
Year: 1875

1t is now reported that the British govern.
ment has instructed its representative at
Teheran to support the case of Baron Reuter-
officially 1t has taken John Bull long
while to determine that this was a proper
course. Reuters concession was first made
generally known in 1873, and had to the
world at large the appearance of giving to
British subject contract for the industrial
and commercial organization of Persia. But
the British government fought very shy of the
great contract, Notwithstanding the British
love generally for contracts and concessions
and grand commercial possibilities. of this
sort. But the liberals were then in
power. They wanted to ameliorate the con-
diton of the people, get the ballot and man
age Ireland They had foreign policy
which inculeated the wisdom Of leaving alone
everything !hat they safely might They did
not see that unless They Supported gs9tss.s,
concession it would inevitably give place TO
concessions which might prove less agreeable.
Now, however, Russian has come upon the
scene, and his concession seems to John
Bull palpable menace, threat that the
short cut to the East shall be in hands that
are inimical to British traffic as we'll as British
policy. Hence there is now sudden impulse
to support the news-gatherfng Baron, and
through the name of Russian he has secured
what lis great parade of the Shah in Europe
did not obtain for him. Does the support
come too late? 1t may prove that Reuters
concession has expired by its terms. He
should have faunted the name of this Russian
like red rag in the face of John Bull some
months earlier.
Year: 1875

The extraordinary trial which goes on from
day to day in Brooklyn has many dramatic
phases that may be dwelt upon by a news
paper without presuming to interfere with
the decision of the Court or the jury. In fact,
the trial is so much of comedy and 30 little
of an actual judicial investigation that it
would be unjust to all parties to ignore the
prominent features of it The first stage OF
Mr. Tiltons case has been passed in the ex-
animation of Mr.. Moulton whose cross-ex-
animation is the first stage of Mr. Beecher's.
No especial fact has been yet brought to
light that is not familiar to our readers.
good deal of the strength of the case will de-
pend upon Judge Porter's success in break
ing down Mr.. Moultons testimony Thus tar
the witness has shown great ability and the
impression his evidence makes upon the mind
of the reader is that he made o great mistake
when he chose his profession IN not entering
the law, and that it would be better, perhaps,
for the interests Of MIR. Tilton if, at the con-
elusisa = As sza9!gst!sR; as s2Gz n sSs'Ss'
part III the manag cement u tle case.


The stage managers of the proceedings
have relaxed their efforts in the way Of
flowers and dramatic incidents. This is, at
least q decent concession to justice. The
rulings of the Judge have thus far been ap-
parently fair. although the fact that contest
was made by the counsel on both sides for the
purpose of securing a judge who would be
favorable to the one side or the other tended
to throw suspicion upon the selection finally
made. If the selection Of Judge Nelson as
presiding Judge was triumph of the Tlton
party he has not made it appear in the
course of his rulings One of the extraordi-
nary phases of this proceeding is that nothing
has been taken for granted. Everybody was
supposed to have side-judges, jury and ALL


The whole trial is an extraordinary COM
ment on the state of society and religion in
Brooklyn. There is no knowing how it will
end. We have seen nothing in the evidence
of MIR. Moulton to prevent his resuming the
relations he once held toward Mr.. Beecher
and Mr.. Tilton. These gentlemen are alto
gether of so emotional character, are cast in
US to learn any morning that the case had
finally come to an end that fearful letters had
been interchanged between the contending
parties, that Mr.. Beecher had exonerated Mr.
Tilton and MIR. Tilton Mr.. Beecher that the
plaintiff had resumed the editorship of the
Independent, while the defendant had con-
tinued his mnistrations in Plymouth church;
for this is case in which any result is
possible.
Year: 1875

There seems little doubt that what we may
call the Kitchen or, to use still more
accurate phrase-the "barroom" Cabinet OF
force the country intoa new policy of "vigor,"
turbulence and, probably, war. There can be
no concealment of the fact that the President
is surrounded by class of men who will take
desperate chances to perpetuate power. They
see, what we fear is only too true that
nothing would so assure continuance Of
power as hostlities Once involve the country
in an armed conflict affecting its honor and
its flag, and the people, with aroused patriot
ism, will follow that Saxon instinct for fight
ing which, we fear, would prefer an unjust
war to just peace. The President would
easily enough retain power


The attempt to revive the spirit of rebellion
by provoking the Southern States into an
armed conflict with the government has failed.
Nothing remains but Spain. We certainly
have an issue with Spain. The President
might give us many reasons for dealing firmly
with that country but we have borne with
its rulers g long, and the issue 9f 49, ne Nc
matter how successful, would Be 50 expensive
and so bloody that IT would be calamity.
Such war, carried on for party ambition,
would not only be a calamity but crime.
There is evidently purpose on the part of
the men surrounding the President to force
this strife. We have constant indications of
their activity. Theannouncement in the Wash
ington organ the other day was only straw
showing how the wind blows We trust that
patriotic men, without distinction of party,
will set their faces against these shameless
and wicked intrigues, and deal with any at
tempt at war as national crime
Year: 1875

One of the great faults attaching to our de-
tective system is the publicity courted by the
detectives Most of them are as we'll known
to the criminal classes as the principal thieves
and burglars to each other Some of them
stand in Broadway from morning till night to
exhibit their good clothes and what they esteem
their good looks. Those of them whose names
most frequently appear in the newspapers are
as familiar to the public as the most active
and prominent politicians in the city, Even
the most ordinary arrests are made by detec-
tives. The other day young man passed o
forged check upon an unsuspecting gentle
man, and although the offender was known to
his victim the case was given to detective
''to work it up" The latter stood by the poor,
victimized individual so effectively that he was
at the victims side when the forger returned
to repeat his previous success by means of
another worthless check. The swindler was
at once arrested by the detective, whose name
appeared in all the newspapers the next day.
AS matter of course all the thieves now
know Mr. Detective Avery, and his usefulness,
except as an ordinary policeman, is at an end


We contend that it is not the business of de-
tectives to make arrests and thereby familiar
ize themselves to the criminal classes Assoon
as the thieves feel that no unseen eve is
watching them they know how to avoid detec-
ton, and it is an unqueshonable fact that the
thieves of New York know more about the
New York detectives than the detectives know
about the thieves. In this single fact is the
complete condemnation of our detective sys-
tenn. Until the criminal classes of this city
are taught to feel that all their movements are
known by persons unknown to them there
will be no check upon crime and this cannot
be done while "well known detectives and
'wel known thieves" are acquaintance or
even friends. We present elsewhere to-day
some useful hints on this subject.
Year: 1875

The scrub women episode in the Board Of
Estimate and Apportionment illustrates the
sort of financial management to which the
city has been subjected for the past two
years. The pay roll for the services of these
poor women tor the month of December was
sent in to the Comptroller at the usual time
and remained in his hands unpaid up to yes
terday, the excuse being that the appropria-
ton for cleaning the pew Court House was
exhausted. The Board of Apportionment
could have been called together in half an
hour and the amount of the pay roll trans
ferred from any other unexpended appropria-
tion in the Public Works Department, but no
steps to obtain the money were taken by the
Comptroller and the poor women were left
unpaid at season Of the year when the
money was most urgently needed. Mayor
Wickham very properly denounced such man
agement, insisted on the prompt payment
Of the suffering women, compelled Comp
troller Green to provide the means by the
proper transfer within forty-eight hours, and
notified him that such claims must not in
future be delayed or contested. Wnen asked
by the Mayor whether the scrub women could
not have been paid promptly ont of some
surplus money laying over from former
year, Comptroller Green replied that it could
be done but would be an ''injudicious and
improper" act Yet the Comptroller recently
used over half million surplus to pay in
terest on the city debt, without the knowledge
or approval of the Board of Apportionment
and in direct violation of law. He also
asked the Board of Apportionment in
December last to transfer an unexpended bal
ance of some fifty thousand dollars to his own
Office to pay the salaries of extra clerks. Was
this improper and injudicious?


Mayor Wickham, taking business, prac-
tical view of the duty of the financial
officer o the city government, insists
that he has no right to throw any OBJ
stacle in the way Of the payment of a just
debt On the contrary, the money or war
rant must be delivered to the person entitled
to receive it just as soon as the necessary
forms have been completed, and in case of
the exhaustion of an appropriation it is the
Comptroller's duty to see that the necessary
amount is supplied from any source that can
legally be resorted to for the purpose. Mr.
Green has hitherto thrown aside claims and
pay rolls whenever it has suited him to vent
his spleen against some department Of the
government with which he did not happen to
be on friendly terms, and the city's creditors
have suffered. The lesson administered to
him by Mayor Wickham will probably con-
vince him that this narrow policy is at an
end, although the best method of eradicating
it altogether is by removal of its author and
the appointment Of q capable financial officer
in his place.
Year: 1875

monng every subject into the field and the
sister nations striving to surpass her in the
mad and fierce emulation-is dismal enough.
Nor do we see the end. The history of to-day
only repeats the history of hundred similar
epochs. Europe arms now as she armed
against Napoleon, and is further from peace
than after Waterloo. There can be no end
but in republcanism. We do not cherish the
gaudy vision of GaribalG and his fellow
dreamers, that there will one day be con-
federation of European States, bound together
in a system like our own. An international
Senate, with statesmen" from Prussia and
Hungary and Spain, would be an impossible
and in no sense practicable assembly. But
We pray for system which will recognize the
greatness of all nations, which will respect the
nobleness of Germany as well as of France
which will believe that civilization has
higher aims than to teach improved
methods of murder and devastation, and
that the world is large enough for the
races sent by God to dwell upon it. If this
is vision let us cherish it, and let us see
beyond the dark and omjnons ssaa2Xs q 1ns
hour the hope it inspires. If the "gfsat
crisis which forms so important q part Of
the current prophecies of European states
men will in the end insure republicanism
then we shall look upon this time, with all its
dangers, as indeed blessed time. But be-
fore the nations reach this Beulah land they
must pass through many valley of war and
desolation and death.


No.
Year: 1875

THE CHARLEY Ross MYSTERY seems to
have died away. The country is now con.
cerned ab9st what may be called the 'Bin
King mystery Bill King, as his friends
proudly caH him, is the member Of Congress
elect from Minnesota who received we don't
know how many thousands Of dollars from
Mr. Irwin, and whose presence is desired by
the Ways and Means Committee to tell what
he did with this money. We should think the
one thing Bill King would hasten to do would
be to go to Washington, boldly enter the
presence chamber and tell his story, either in
the witty and Horatian style OF Sam Ward, or
the business manner of Mr.. Mcfarland. But
Bill King cannot be found. No one has heard
of him. The detectives cannot find any trace
of him He was last heard of on the Canada
frontier, looking after prize cattle tor his Min
nesota farm. The only conclusion we can
reach is that Bill King is lost We think that
Congress should offer reward for him, and
give our detectives chance to recover some
OF the glory they lost in their effort to find a
clsw to the poor child. Charley Ross.
Year: 1875

The UNION LEAGUE CLUB is troubled about
the Louisiana affair, and the secret debate on
Monday evening-which becomes n public de-
bate in our columns to-day-shows decided
difference of opinion. The issue was made
upon the credibility of the Presidents Mes
sage and that of the subcommittee report,
and the majority of the club declared its
confidence in the President by resolutions,
which, however, do not approve his action.
The minority report is stronger in its censure,
and the club evidently did the best it could
10 reconcile it's respect for the violated const-
tuition with its allegiance to the ruling party.
Year: 1875

WALL STREET YESTERDAY The stock mar
ket was without feature, the advance and
decline being about equally represented.
Gold receded from 1124 to 1124. Foreign
exchange was steady and money loaned on
call at % and 3 per cent
Year: 1875

The HOUSE yesterday debated the question
whether its privileges were invaded by the
arrest of witness it had summoned, and ap-
pointed committee to examine and report
upon this subject.
Year: 1875

DISCOVERY OF JOSIE LANGMAIDs HEAD 10 RODS
FROM THE BoDY-ARRfsT or The POSSIBLE
MCRDFRER-THE CIRCUMSTANCES or THE SEARCH
Fog THE MISSING oSE.


GBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l
CONCORD, n. H., Oct. 5.-The terrible ont
'rage at Pembroke reported late last evening, has
aroused intense excitement all the state and humid
reds are throngng the trains in their curiosity to
visit the scene Tho discoveries OF to-day have been
Miss Josie Iangmad ls years OF daughter OF James
L. Langmaid who resides mile and half from the
Pembroke Academy, left home for the academy at 8
o'clock yesterday morning. The road Is lonely one,
and in the distance OF mile and half there are but six
houses Josie was TO pass the house OF Mr. Amos
Hoytt fourth Of mile from her home, but after that
,he was not seen alive did she reach the academy
She was not missed until evening, for her younger
brother supposed that she had remained at home. Her
father of once aroused the neighbors, and systematic
search was begun on both sides OF the road.


Shortly after o'clock, Mr. COPp, one OF the party,
came upon her headless body in dense underground Of
brch about eight rods from the road, and mile from
home The father was the third fourth to it,
and as his eyes fell upon the sckenng sight he ex-
claimed 4" on, my God 70 and threw himself beside the
bloody corpse alternately kneeling beside 1t and en-
bracing it, The ground and leaves for quite space
were completely saturated with blood, as was the butt
OF the tree. The clothing Of the girl was torn into
shreds Three bones OF the right hand broken,
n the hand had been struck when vanly attempting
TO ward off blow The head was cut of
ceanly. IL by large sharp knife The spinal col
umn severed between the first and second yertebrn
II was the unanimous opinion Of the physicians that de
capitaon performed or begun before the girl was
dead of the pofuse evidence OF her having bed
freely The body otherwise brutally mutilaed Two
rings one Of plain gold aud one Of rubber, and gold
euameled beastpn aud earrings, were not to be found
on the body


The body was taken home By the neghbors aud placed


in the position when found tho right leg doubled
under the left right laid the breast the
left one under the body. AT dawn, search WA
Year: 1875

begun by large party for the missing
head, books. and waterproof cloak. About o'clock
Horace Aver found the head, partly rolled up In the
waterproof about 70 rods northwest OF where the body
found in the same piece OF woods 1t was partially
uncovered resting the waterproof, which was care
fully thrown IT, but not quite concealing it. There
wound each side, several inches long, and cut
the top; the right cheek there was weldenned
imprint OF boot heel OF medium size. There also
her cheek just in front Of the left ear that was
probably made by sharp instrument few min
utes later the books found, and near by heaVy
oak stick, considerably stained with blood.


At about 10 o'clock Deputy Sheriff Ildreth took one
william Drew OF Pembroke into custody on suspicion
Drew is young % years of age of dssoute habits
and lives about half mile back OF the woods where the
murder was committed. He is married to woman
equally dissOlute. 1t thought advisable to lock
him up though there is yet direct proof pointing 10
him as the assassin officer IIildreh was obliged TO
draw his pistol the crowd when he locked Drew up at
sunoook. Tho COroners inquest was begun and ad-
journed to Thursday.