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Year: 1874




As it is by no means probable that all the
burglars will be killed by their victims in
the country, and that some will return to
the city where we have not yet learned the
advantage of the summary method OF deal
ing with thieves which has become 90 pop
ular and etfectual in the rural districts, 10
may not be inappropriate to direct the
attention of the police to some OF the fOrmid-
able allies of the criminal classes Who reside
in quasi respectable association in the city,
and who afford greater encouragement to
the commission Of crime ehan any other
class ever tolerated in decent community.
1t is hardly necessary to say that we allude
TO persons OF apparent reepectabiity, both
male and female, who live in reputable
houses and present q genteel appearance.
and yet are the known or suspected meais
between thieves and those from whom they
have stolen The police can scarcely be
ignorant of the existence OF SUCH
class They are every rywhere-well dressed.
well onnected-well supplied with money!
thoroughly informed of the pursuits and
proceeds of all the most notorious and sue.
cessful hOusebreakers and pickpOckets and
always ready to suggest the very sum that
would insure the recovery OF lost watch
or necessary pocketbook with valuable
but not available contents. These people
might be very properly classed with va
rants but for their respectable connections;
tor they really have no visible means OF
support. They should be taken care o..
and the sooner the police take them IN the
better. They do more to encourage crime
than the fence-houses, which are not halt as
numerous as they used to be, and are the
more dangerous because they are most likely
to eiude the suspicion of those for whose
ostensible advantage they offer their ser
vices. When the officers OF law shall have
succeeded in getting rid of these adluncts
of the various grades of thieves who live in
this community, there will be no trouble in
getting rid Of the thieves themselves.-Neac
York Ne,ss.
Year: 1874

There is in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a
collection of pictures painted twenty years
ago by George w. Mark. The artist had
the odd idea that the prominent figure in
picture ought to be of extraordinary size.
Thus in one work Washington appears as
giant in the midst of q pigmy cabinet, and
the same unappreciated principle OF art is
carried out in the whole collection.
Year: 1874

was about TO happen. In this way the managers
would be able to secure reputation for foresight
and enterprise without any expense. In this way
the dating Of Saturdays paper a. Sundays issue
might grow into a custom, and the managers in
question would avoid being ciassed as persons OF
deceptive promises and very sharp practices. The
result OF the present venture in the enterprise
business has not been very satisfactory. The peo-
pie showed such strong inclination not TO buy
Saturdays paper Tor Sundays that the person in
charge o. the consignment was Obliged to scatter
his papers IN something OF the same manner IN
which well known mountebank sows broadcast
over the country his advertisements.


AT Albany and Troy the same scene OF excited
expectation on the part Of the local newsm en- and
promptness on the part of the crew OF the HERALD
special was observable. Out went the hastily
folded, rapidly numbered quickly tied bundles as
before Greedily they were seized as ever, ana
carried OF with tho same avIdity. The HERALD
special arrived at Saratoga before ten o'clocy .
and here the excitement was At high pitch yhe
arrangements, however, were perfect, and as
the tram drew up and before 1t sts pped
the eager HewsbOys were pos Sjesslon
Of their bundles and scampering OF Il
the great hotels, where the Thousands
OF offashionabes leisurely discussiag5the morn
ing meal. All were anxious 70 leaSn what the
HERALD said or the great race OF Saturday, and


after q wondering guess at how the hERAH
| managed 70 have map with the posi-


tion OF the boats At the fhlsh the morn
ing after the race, they dived into
the news, and discussed yhe HERALD boet, the
HERALD special tram, DocKrays chances. the
Brooklyn scandal ana the Thousand ana one items
that go to make up fulEissae OF a live journal.
The HERALD special train had meanwhile gone
throbbing on its way to repeat its mission at Lake
George.
Year: 1874




Attacked by Them.


Patroiman Mckenzie, OF the Thirty second pre-.
cinct police, was found by Ofncer Quintard, of the
same precinct, lying on the sidewalk in ll7tn
street, near st. Nicholas avenue, at early hour
yesterday morning in an apparently unconscious
and dangerous condition. 1t was the hour f0r
changing the men, and Quintard had got to the
usual point to relieve his comrade Not md
ing him there Quintard became uneasy and
wenS over considerable portion OF McKenzie's
post without being aole to discover him, and was
denly stumbled on something on the Isl side H ewalS. ak
sisSSSssns ss Scksa5ie ;s close ssa$lqs
hurt on the head and bleeding at
the left wrist. Quintard summoned assistance and
sent intelligence OF what had happened to the sta
ton house. An ambulance was promptly SUM-
moned and the wounded policeman was conveyed
TO the Ninety, ninth street hospital There he lay
all day yesterday lnseDsble, without the power OF
ner OF his assault. Captain speight remained near
elesm Of Intelligence that would direct his re. re-
searches for the murdeiOus and cOwardly assall-
almost hopeless task, and fears were ente rtained
that Mckenzie would pass away without giving
any any tran M Of the mystery. adding another to the
however, momentary ray OF light broke upon the
suffering .policemans mind and remained
there just long enough to enable him to repeat
to Captain Speight some part Of the story.
First, his mind then being under the shadow
Of returning intelligence, be SAID party OF
drovers had met and beat him. Tnis he after
wards corrected wnen fully sensible, and said
that while going over his post and when in the
act OF trying the doors OF some OF the residences
on 1t 10 ascertain II they were securely fastened
he came suddenly upon batch OF burglars. They
were in the act OF prylng open door lock with
Impements and he at once arrested two OF them
without giving them time TO recover from their
surprise, he started Tor the station house in 152d
street and Tenth avenue. Seeing he had long
lonely distance to travel and not much chance or
being able to secure help, some companions OF the
thieves VINO were secreted near the house made q
sudden attack upon him. He retained possession
OF his prisoners as long as possible, but finally
received q blow on the head rrOm a short club in
tie hands OF one OF the rescung party and fell
unconscious to the sidewalk. They all he supposed,
then escaped. Alter getting this news Captain
Speight hastened to the station. and forming a
squad OF men In plain dress sent them out to hunt
the town for the thieves. Mckenzie, though still
in dangerous state, was improving last night,
and hopes are entertained OF his recovery. The
effort OF relating the occurrence was so iatigung
that the poor fellow Immediately after swOoned
away. He bears most excellent reputation in
the precinct.
Year: 1874

tFrom the Reading tPa.) Eagle July 1871


On Thursday night Chief Cullen received two tele.
grams, one from Allentown and the other from
East Pennsylvania junction, that suspicious gen.
ueman was on board the train from Allentown
with child supposed to be the little fellow Lieu.
tenant Lotz, Sergeant Kissinger and Oficer Moore
were at the depot when the New York train or
rived, at quarter past ten, and investi-
gated the matter, but the child did not
seem to answer the description Of the one
stolen. This morning telegram was received
from Pittsburg to the effect that the party above
alluded to had been arrested In that city. It Is
not believed here that the parties In custody are
the proper ones.


later telegram received states that the man
navlng the boy IN charge confessed that the boy
was Charley Ross. From the nature OF things
there Is very little reliance to be placed on this
report.


1t Is alleged now by Reading Official that the
BOY examined by the Reading police at the outer
depot was not the one the telegram referred to,
put that another boy was kept in sight, while
Cnarley boss was covered up somewhere on one
OF the seats In the car. II Is also stated that
Charley Ross curls we're cut of at Allentown.
There are various reports in Reading this morn
ing, and we give them for what they are worth.
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes In
the temperature for the past TWEEN -four hours, in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as Indicated by the thermometer at hud-
nuts Pharmacy, HERALD Building
Year: 1874

who deliver not merely their own thoughts, but
the messages of an army of witnesses, of trans
cendent power and purity, on subjects OF the
most momentous Importance. For an hour ortwo
at least in every week the church-gocr Is Drougn'
face to face with great and lofty Thoughts Is
forced to contemplate series OF images anu
symbols which have done more for the woriu
than thousand legion5 of soldiers could uo'
and is made to mediate with more or less
earnestness upon his personal relations TO hlS
Creator onJ his fellow-men. There is no rule
Inv which we can compute the sum OF the re-
snlt. The good resolutions formed, the evil
nurnoses relinouished, the hearts quickened
TO higher ends and softened to works oi
charity and kindness, Oh every Sunday in this
oourtry ara simply past our imagining. The
n,us;c Of tho thousands of bells that fill the
air of the morning is an audible ana eVideh'
expression of q common sentiment as sweet "S
il is onnobling; but there Is o far deeper mar
mony in the millions of prayers ascending AZ
the same moment from the earth bearing inc
unutterable sorrows and aspirations OF men.


T. NAV be said that Sunday amusementS VIII
not interfere with the rest and the worship 10
which the day has been hitherto devoted, But
il is sufficient answer to this, first, that the
prevalence of such amuscments has direct
tendency to diminish church going, especially
among the young, who could hardly be eX-
pected to resist the temptations held out to
them by pleasures which appeal to their
strongest inclinatiOns. And secondly, if such
amusements become general they will employ
vast number of persons, to whom Sunday
will cease at once and finally to be day OF
rest. The Just instinct of irrcligious people
leads them to allow certain degree of rcpose
on Sundays to those whom they employ. Tho
community ought to allow to its servants, who
furnish its diversions, the same opportunity
for rest and recreation The little additional
money they would earn by playing every night
in the week would be but poor compensa-
ton for what they would lose. In their inter-
est as well as in that of the public good, we
hope that the attempt to secularize our Sun
days may not succeed. 1t is hostile to all our
traditions The Christian Sunday Is as much
an Anglo-SaxOn possession as trial by jury
1t would be q national calamity to see tive
will not say desecratcd but-degraded.


The law, for the enforcement of which so
many of our best citizens now appeal, was
passed a few years ago in view of the rapid
increase and dcmOralzing influence Of Sunday
theatricals chiefly of q low character, and at
tended by large numbers of the young of
both sexes. On an appeal it was affirmed by
the Supreme Court, and we know not why, 80
long rs it remains upon the statute book, it
should not be enforced like any other law.
Many of the proprietors of respectable theaters,
and far greater number of the artists en-
poyed by them, will heartily favor it.
Year: 1874

suits the genius of the American people to
" help themselves than to depend on the State"


Doubtless when the hungry crowd of legis-
lators that is now assembling at Washington
begin to comprehend that Postmaster Jewell
intends not merely to talk about reform, but
actually to effect it, there will be frantic efforts
to thwart his undertakings. He has no light
work before him in meeting the combl-
nations that will be formed against him,
when he proceeds TO cut off the excrescences
Of his Department, to turn out OF it the IN
competent employees who owe their places to
political favor and to reduce expenses by
rigid economy. But he will be supported by
strong public sentiment, so long as he sticks
to the principles of simple business honesty
which he has proclaimed.
Year: 1874

The jury in the Conspiracy trial has acGuit-
ted Williams and disagreed upon the other
prisoners, the division standing four for con-
viction and eight against. The result is dis
appointing in one sense but i'll another it is
only what the public has been prepared for.
We presume That no intelligent man out of
Washington doubts what the verdict ought to
have been, and what it will be on the next
trial if the prosecution is allowed to DO Its
work without government interference. Wit
nesses were put out of the way, the principal
accused berson himself being allowed to usurp
the functions of the District Attorneys Office
The President threw the weight of his per-
sonal influence against the prosecution. The
Presidents relative, Marshal Sharp, selected
the talesmen with such art or with such luck
that q considerable number of the jury turned
ont to be more or less closely connected with
the District Government, in whose interest
the bogus burglary was committed. We do
not suspect these jurymen OF conscious dis
honesty, but that their natural bias was
strongly in favor of the prisoners can hardly
be questioned.


Again it was the misfortune Of the prosecu-
ton that it was compelled to use witnesses
whose characters would not stand the test Of
rigorous inquiry. The case was founded upon
the testimony of acconplces in the crime, and
of course the instruments chosen to aid in q
conspiracy Of this kind were not gentlemen
who would have distinguished themselves
as superintendents of Sulday-schOOls. If it
was impossible to destroy their credibiity-
and it must be admitted that the evidence of
Hayes and Zirruth was clear, consistent, and
apparently straightfOrward-it was easy enough
50 to befOul their reputation that a sympathetic
jury would have fair excuse for pretending
not to believe them. Upon the whole it is
rather creditable to the jury that so many as
four Of its members were ready to convict.


A new trial has been ordered, and we hope
it may be resolutely pushed. We arc not
sanguine as to the result; but even if there
should again be failure to agree, or an abso-
Lutte acquittal, the new trial may expose as
this one has done, some of the back secrets
of the Safe Burglary affair which involve per-
sons Of much greater consequence than either
Harrington or Whitley.
Year: 1874


vincing illustration of the iron despotsm of
association among ignorant men than that
presented by the latest phase Of the Long
shoremens strike. The entire organizatiOnleft
off working yesterday, including those MEM
bers of the Unions who had been employed at
the old wages. In this act of madness, as was
set forth in TIE TRIBUNE yesterday, the un
prccedcnted spectacle was shown of body of
laborers compelled by the tyranny of their
fellows to strike for lower wages than they
were receiving. The demand of the Unions
at present is for forty cents per hour for day
work and sixty cents per hour for night work.
Now considerable number of 'LongshOremcn
are employed by sailing vessels at forty and
eighty cents for day and night work re-
spectively They are forced by the last orders
TO give up their well-pad labor, so as to COM
pei the masters of the sailing vessels to join
the strikers against the steamship companies.
1t is inconcciyab'e that such ignorance of
business laws and human nature should exist
among men who have force and character
enough to remain at the head of these labor
organizations. OF course the attempt to CO.
cree the sailing vessels into cooperation with
the Unions against the steamers will be per-
fectly futile. The masters of the sailing ships,
by this wanton attack, are driven into the
combination of the proprietors of the steamers,
and thus the Unions assume the responsibility
of SO many more hungry mouths to feed and
idle hands exposed to mischief.


Even at the reduction which has been pro-
posed, and against which this unfortunate
revolt has arisen, it is doubtful whether all
the Longshoromen in the city could have OBJ
tanned employment this Winter. Tn" tines
Year: 1874

The generality of men would never know how
happy they are, if once year they were not re-
minded of it by tho Presidents proclamation and
tho minister's sermon. III like manner We are COM
pelled once in n while TO let readers know what
reason they have for Thanksgiving in The TRIBUNE.
OF course We understand 1t is orr duty and no more
than IS expected of Us, to furnish more news, and
fuller news than any other paper but it does not
often happen to the best of journals to be able
TO give its readers the advantages we have given
ours in the last week. Every day has brought its
trophy We have published this week, exclusively,
Mr. Gladstone Political ExpostulatiOn: exclusively,
Mr. Charles ReaGos Incompatible sketch of a
Hero and Martyr;' exclusively, the Report Of the
Secretary of the Interior exclusiyey the charge Of
judge Humphreys in the Washington Conspiracy
case; ; thus giving tho readers Of HE TRIBUNE the
exclusive privilege Of reading in their first fresh
ness tho most important news Of the week. This
was done without detriment to our settled custom
OF printing all the news, and giving every morning
IN an Ineligible and attractive form the history of
the world Tor the preceding twenty-four hours. Our
friends are so accustomed to these successes that
thcy have ceased to be objects of surprise, bat it
would be little less than wicked III Us to let them
pass by without including them in the Incentives 10
ThaukSpiV
Year: 1874

After making long frec-trade argument in
their report to the Chamber of Commerce, the
wool merchants conclude by recommending
that Congress be urged to change the tariff so
as to make one uniform ad ralorem duty OF
rs per cent on the impOrtations OF wool.
There is disposition among all the trades
thus far heard from to move for the abandon
ment of all specific duties and the adoption OIL
a strictly al valOrem system.


Attention is called elsewhere to late de-
cision of the United States District Court
that persons represented as stockholders LII
National Banks are held liable for its liabili-
ties even though they may have transferred
their shares In other words 1T Is made the
duty of stockholders to sec that such transfer
is made on the books of the bank. ms con-
struction of the law will probably annoy
many persons who have transferred their
stocks without relieving themselves OF future
liability.


Mr.. Gladstones pamphlet on the effect Oh
Vatican DEGREES on the allegiance OF Koman
Catholics to the civil power, which has createu
moro marked sensation than any polemical
essay of recent years, is published In full thls
morning in TRIBUNE Extra No. 20. \ discus
sion of extraordinary vigor and interest mas
been created on both sides of the water by TINS
remarkable manifesto, and We have included
with it in the Extra, the replies of Lord Acton
and Archbishop Manning, the address OF the
latter at Westminster, and abundant reviews
and comments from foreign sources, as well


fr0m tha
Prof. Bonamy Price. The price of this Extra
is ten cents. which includes postage to any
address.


The report of the Controller of the Currency
is largely taken up with the workings OF the
Rcdemptlon Bureau. 1t is now hoped that q
sufficient amount of circulation will be re-
deemed by this agency to supply all the appl-
cations of banks for some months to come !;
and after this there viii be calls upon
those institutions IN three Eastern States that
now have more than their proportion OF cur
rency. The Controller cOngratulates the
country upon the fact that only 4G out of the
G,0OO plates used in engraving bank notes
have been successfully cOunterfeited.
The question of rcdeeming small
notes and fractional currency is dis
cussed and an estimate ollered as to
the amount of specie this would require. BY
far the most agreeable feature in this report
is the expression of a hope that the exchange
of one piece of paper for another, which now
constitutes the chief business of the Con-
troller, "will be superseded by true redemp-
" tion-namcly, the payment OF National bank
"nOtes in coin."
Year: 1874

Attorney General Williams this afternoon
sent letter to the President respectfully seques-
ting that he Withdraw his nnme for the position
OF Chief Justice, merely embodying tAis in a
short letter without setting forth uny reason.
The President it Is understood, will withdraw
the name tomorrow, and rumor has il thai
Caleb Gushing will be nominated in his place,
that Williams will retain his seat in the
Cabinet, and that Solicitor General Bristow
will succeed General Cushing as Minister tc
Spain.
Year: 1874

R IT'S DECENT BURIAL YEsTERDAT.


The Southern republican members who are
natives of the section which they represent all
agree that the Civil Rights bill, as at present
framed, will work injuriously to the public
school system Of their States. They say that
if the colored children are forced into the white
schools, instead Of their being separate schools
for the two races Is at present, 1t will virtually
break up the public schools
Year: 1874

The laid down for these steamers and followed
cape Race Although the voyage Is thus heightened
about 100 miles heer weather WITH and there is
much greater freedom from fogs and noafing Ice and
the danger OF navigation consequent thereon
Year: 1874

LAVE PROVED, FROM THE MOST AMPLE
" experience, an entire success. Simple prompt


efficient and reliable. They the only medicines
perfectly iapted to popular use-so simple that
mistakes cannot be made in using them; so harm
less as to be free from danger; and efficient
To be always reliable. They have he highest com
mendation from all, and will always render salts
Year: 1874

AN ASTONISHING Pony. yesterday,
says Southern Colorado exchange, we
saw man, woman, a good-sized boy,
two babies, five or six blankets, buffalo
robe, and two strings of chill on a single
pony. Every available inch from his ears
to the root of his tail was taken" The
poor animal was very small, thin as tow
ell rack, of sickly pale color, and one
foreleg was about FIVE inches shorter than
the other-the knee joint of that leg was
very large, so We supposed that the miss
inglpart of the leg was driven there by the
weight above, SO that when it was relieved
the leg would stretch out again like tur-
ties head. In fact, all his legs were short,
and the crookedest convention of legs that
we ever saw Incredible as it may seem,
the wiry little animal passed US on trot.
When be came down on that short leg,
and the family "kerplumped" with it, it
would have made the Oldest man living
laugh. Both the children were sleeping
soundly, for the motion of the horse served
all the purposes of crade-Denuer (Col. J
NeUs