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Year: 1875

The announcement that ex-Court House
Commissioner Walsh has, under the advice
of friends concluded to settle the claims
against him by paying twenty-five thousand
dollars, is one of the bost illustrations of the
progress Of the reform movement The case
of Walsh, as we understand it, is technical
one. He is not charged with positive crime,
but with neglect of duty, and consequently
there is no reason why he should be treated
harshly, or as any other than an officer who,
by inadvertence or negligence, brought him
self under the law. The fact that he proposes
to restore the money which was lost to the
treasury through his fault shows the begin
ming OF a new and better spirit. When the
Tammany Ring fell it became evident that the
city had been outrageously robbed. -Four
courses remained open to the robbers. The
first was to run away, and the ability and
promptness shown by Sweeny, Connolly aud
the rest in accepting this alternative was sur
prising The second course was to become
informers; to buy immunity by confessing
their share of the crimes and naming the
partners We have had brood of informers-





who took this path. The third course was to
pay back, and the fourth to go to Jail. Boss
Tweed has taken the last. Walsh proposes
the third. He will pay back to the treasury
the money lost through his acts.


The example Of Walsh should not be for
gotten. Why should not the informers return
some of the money they stoleP There is
Garvey, for instance who is only out Of prison
by the courtesy of Mr.. OConor Has he re-
turned a dollar to the treasury of the vast
sums he avowedly accepted from Connolly
How much has Davidson, the safe maker paid
over2 What has become of Keysers gains,
and especially of the assignment made to
Jackson S. Schultz2 Has the city ever realized
dollar from that? How much of Ingersolps
money has Comptroller Green received? Who
has heard of any money from Wilbour and
Corson and the printing gang? Connolly is
said to live in sumptuous splendor abroad.
Has he proposed to give dollar Of his i'm
perial revenues to the treasury2 Tweed said
to reporter the other day that he had paid
half million of dollars as 'lawyers' tees since
his trouble began In other words, rather
than restore one dollar to the people he
robbed Tweed prefers to waste the public
revenues now in his keeping upon lawyers
and leeches and blackmailers. He has money
to hire lawyers to browbeat judges, but not
one dollar for the treasury.


Walsh has set good example. Let it be
understood as an infexible rule in dealing with
the thieves who brought SO much shame and
sorrow upon our city that there can be no
mercy until there is restitution.
Year: 1875

THE FREQUENCY with which daring rob-
berries are committed in this city in the day.
time is becoming alarming. Within two days
two ladies were assaulted and robbed in their
own houses, and in neither case has the
police the slightest clew TO the perpetrators Of
the crime Such offences would not occur at
all if immunity from punishment was not
almost certain because Of bunehng police
management. In the last five years the
Metropolitan Police has scarcely made a
single clever arrest and the certainty of the
escape of daring criminals seems to grow
greater with every year. We shall see whether
the perpetrators OF the bold crime il Eleventh
street on Monday, and in Mangin street yes
terday, are arrested but their escape, which
is more probable than their punishment, will
be another evidence of the worthlessness of
the police force OF the metropolis as at pres
ent constituted
Year: 1875

RAPID TRANs1T-THE FIRST FALSE STEP. -
The meeting Of the Rapid Transit Commits
sion yesterday was the occasion of many loud
complaints on the part of inventors, who were
denied access to the presence of the Commits
sioners. These persons could hardly expect
hearing at so early day, and there is yet
ample opportunity for all of them to be heard
but, while they will lose nothing by this ao-
ton of the Commission, we think that in
itself it was very unwise. Cause for objec-
ton and criticism is thus afforded at the out
set, and the least the gentlemen composing
the Commission can expect on account Of
their absurd resolution is to be laughed at by
the press and people. II is always o false
step for any commission or committee charged
with the public business to attempt to do it in
secret, and the Rapid Transit Commissioners
will find before they are through with their
work that their snobbish action Of yesterday
has lowered them in general respect and con-
fidence. In oil kindness we would advise
them to reconsider their course and give
public hearing to everybody who has plan
to present They have no right that we can
see to sit in secret session, and even if they
have the right they are only making them
selves laughing stock by doing so.
Year: 1875

French frontier to suppress the Republic. 1t
was at the feet Of these armies that the head
of the King was thrown as q defiance. 1t
was not until the republicans in Spain began
to despair of any honest sympathy or recog-
milton by the dominant classes of the nation
that we had the Intransigente outbreaks,
which held possession OF Cartagena and
threatened at one time to precipitate Spanish
Reign Of Terror.


The events that we may anticipate in Spain,
according to the Madrid correspondent of the
London Times, threaten TO be OF the gravest
character. The new King has never had
firm seat ON his throne. His accession began
in military usurpation, an act of outrage
and violence more detestable than the coup
detat of Napoleon I'LL He was opposed by
the Carlists, who represented large part of
the Church and the nobility, and by the re-
publicans in whose ranks are nine-tenths of
the young men. He had no personal qualities
TO endear him to Spain He was in no respect
q king. A boy Of very ordinary intellect-an
immature boy, fresh from his tops and ponies,
a boy who had been raised in exile and under
sad infiuences-was in no sense calculated to
govern turbulent, volcanic country rocking
in the throes of revolution. Even Spain could
see the difference between republic under
such men as Figueras and Castelar-frst of
their race and time whose genius commanded
the admiration of the word-and a raw,
amiable, hah-grown boy, whose mind had
been formed by confessors and ladies-in- wait
ing to Isabellas unwholesome court A king
who was in no attribute king, and behind
whom there was no sincere party animated
by principle, could not hope to maintain the
Spanish throne. Consequently the new mon
archy has been like sapling planted in the
sand Every breeze has turned it hither
and thither, and every sunset sees it
dropping more and more into decay.
II wanted life and nourishment. The only
two parties in Spain to-day are the Carlists
and the republicans. There can be no
middle party. Louis Philippe, who was
really great man, wise experienced and
widely gifted prince, and behind whom was
the powerful and wealthy middle class failed
in similar effort Don Carlos means the
Church and the army with all the splendor
of absolutism. He means to be king in the
old fashion, by the grace of God, and
not with the let's and hinderances of
constitutionalisn. The republicans mean
the Republic. II the Alfonsists were wise
as wise, let us say, as Theirs and Buffet and
the famous partisans of Orleanism in France
they would accept the Republic. Let them
proclaim it and make it conservative. When
once the people are resolved the wisest men
are those who follow-and in doing SO really
lead The danger is that constant opposition
to the people, renewed military outbreaks
and attempts to sustain the throne on
bayonets, may lead to revolution. The char
acter OF the Spanish people is such that
revolution would be more appalling than the
Reign of Terror. The wisest men in Spain
are those who see that the Republic means
peace, and that without it there can be no
peace.
Year: 1875

THE Pope has sent donation of four thou
sand dollars to the sufferers in the devastated
districts of France. This donation from the
treasury of the Holy See, which is not in
the most prosperous condition, is a mark Of
kindly sympathy on the part Of the Pope
that cannot but make good impression on
the world. Acts like these do more toward
uniting the various nations in bonds of Chris
tan and fraternal sympathy than any other
influence
Year: 1875

the people themselves. If rogues who ap-
pear as plumbers are let in it is the fault Of
the occupants themselves that there Is ma
terial to attract them. Where the honey is
there will be flies. Robbers do not venture
these expeditions at random. They knew all
about the bonds before they went there; they
knew all about MIR. Dancer; they had studied
their game as keeper studies his foxes or
his pheasants; they knew the habits of the
household, and went there with full knowl-
edge on every subject related to their pur-
pose; and the people who tempt to such
enterprises, by keeping large amounts Of
portable values in their possession, and who
leave their bank to the protection of one old
lady, are the only persons upon whom blame
properly rests for attempted robberies Like
this
Year: 1875

FnKNs' FATE. story of the finding
of skeleton supposed to be the mortal re-
mains of Fllkins, the express robber and
would-be murderer Of Halpine, deserves to be
sifted to the bottom. The escape Of so des-
perate a criminal in q mysterious way from
custody reflects infinite discredit on the
American prison system, and it is very desira-
bic to find out if the newly discovered skele-
ton is really that of the robber FIll1ins. AS it
is known that Filkins had lost his upper teeth
and the toes Of one foot, it will be easy to
identify the skeleton. If it has not these dis
tinguishing marks the skeleton must have be-
longed to some other body, and the question
arises how it came where it was found Some
suspicion hangs over the officials of the
prison which this skeleton may serve either
to confirm or clear away.
Year: 1875

The COMPTROLLER AND TIE REPUBLICAN
Aldermen are evidently in sympathy in their
united attempt to obstruct the business of the
city government Mr.. Green. like Aldermen
Vance and Simonson, can discover nothing
offensive or dangerous to the public health IN
the stencil that arises from the Harlem flats.
They appear to forget that hundred thou
sand people who pass the abominable pest
hole daily or live in its neighborhood are
witnesses Of the dislngenuousness Of such an
assertion. The car passengers as they ap-
proach the infected district are nauseated by
the sickening smell. The testimony of every
medical man whose opinion is worth having
is conclusive as to the perilous character of
the nuisance; police surgeons who were en-
trapped into contrary statement have one
by one declared after a personal examina-
ton, that the present condition of the flats
threatens pestilence; the Board of Health
have presented the district as public nuis-
ance, yet Mr.. Green and his two allies in the
Aldermanic Board tell US that the Disbecker
garbage is neither offensive nor dangerous
and that there is no necessity that any steps
be taken for the protection of the
health and the lives of the citizens.
They. should find some more plausible
excuse for their action than one which is
known to be false by every man, woman and
child who breathes the tainted air of the foul
district. Every person knows that their op-
position to the necessary work Of filing the
pest hole is melted by desire to prevent the
employment of laborers by the Public Works
or Health Department. The republican AL
dermen, who acknowledge this to be the mo-
tive of their action, are at least entitled TO
more respect than are those who attempt to
impose upon the people with such fimsy ex-
cuSes
Year: 1875

THE ACTION OF JUDGE KNAPP Of Jersey
City, in refusing to debar the jurors in the
Kehoe murder trial from reading tie news
papers was wise and win meet with general
appreciation. If juror can be trusted to de-
eide case intelligently and conscientiously
he can be trusted to read the newspapers,
even though they should contain comments
on the trial 1t is time the narrow view of
this matter usually held by the courts should
give way To common sense.
Year: 1875

CENTENNIAL EXAMINATIONS. Nothing could
be more important than the objects proposed
by the newly organized New York Centennial
Association, and we hope the society will
meet with much favor. This city and State
were the conspicuous theatre Of events in the
year 1776, and it is proper that the trials and
suferings as well as the achievements Of our
ancestors should be ftly celebrated on the
Year: 1875

The victory of the Cornell Freshmen at
Saratoga yesterday was a surprise, especially
to the partisans of the Harvard crew, but its
effect can scarcely fail to prove salutary 1t
shows that the favorires cannot always win,
and that the newcomers are having q chance
even against the crews of the universities with
boating history. Ia this aspect it is an
event to be hailed with great good
humor. Nothing could more conduce to the
best endeavors Of the Freshmen crews of
next year, and we may expect as the direct re-
suit of this victory more general participation
In the preliminary race of 1876 and better
crews. After the experiences of many years,
the Freshman is the only class crew that has
survived, and, without applying the Dar-
winian theory of the survival of the fttest
to college boating, we may say it is the only
class crew that ought to survive. The Fresh
man race, to be followed on the next
day by the University race, with the
walking and running matches for
the closing exercises Of the college
sports, make programme that can
not be improved upon; and if oil are
worthy of each other race week at Saratoga
will increase rather than diminish in interest
year alter year. The university crews should
be annually recruited from the Freshmen
crews of the year before, and in all of our
colleges both should act together for the COM
mon welfare. 1t is only in this way that the
true interests of college boating can be best
promoted, and if Cornelrs victory conduces
to this result Harvard will have nothing to
regret in yielding the palm for once to her
younger competitor.


La connection with our very full reports Of
the racing at Saratoga yesterday we print this
morning an equally graphic story OF the Cape
the season have excited more general interest,
and none of them have yielded better sport
There was a splendid race and brilliant COM
pany to witness it The minor honors were
evenly divided between the New York and
Brooklyn clubs, while the chief victory of the
day was accorded to the splendid sailing Of
the Mohawk Old Ocean has seldom wit
messed finer scene Even Virgil's muse
could scarcely do full justice to the occasion;
but we are sure the balder prose in which we
attempt to reproduce the struggle of the
yschtsmen will be read with avidity by all
who are interested in aquatic sports.


These events, So interesting in themselves,
will be followed by the great event Of to-day
the University race at Saratoga. The victories
Of yesterday, both on the ocean and the lake,
will only Whet the apnetita for n hot is 20 ocroo
and our aquatic reports Of the two days sport
will be high testimony to the progress that
has been made in the last few years in the
management OF the sail and the oar Never
before has the aquatic season been more brill
liant OF more enjoyable, and we see in the
successes Of the year the highest hopes for the
repetition Of these glories for many seasons
which are to follow.


In THE TWEED CASE the nofion to ,yoco4.
Year: 1875

THz SITUATION IN BELGIUM is the subject
of very interesting letter in the HERALD this
morning. So much bitterness is evinced on
religious questions that even the monarchy
itself is not free from danger. The whole
subject is one that viii excite general atten-
ton on this side Of the Atlantic as a sign of
the complications which are likely to beset
European politics during the next few years.
Year: 1875

TIE MONMOUTH PARK RACES continue to be
the attraction at Long Branch. There were
four interesting contests on the Monmouth
track, and in three out of the four the favor
ties were beaten
Year: 1875

THE INQUEST in the South Side Railroad
slaughter seems to establish culpability on
the part Of Conductor Hibbard and Manager
Poppcnhusen, but that their faults we're errors
of judgment is plain enough. AS we said in
tho beginning the accident was chiefly due to
the system upon which the trains are run by
cast iron rules instead of intelligent direc-
tion. IL is due to the public that these blind
methods should be discontinued, and that our
railway system should be managed with such
knowledge and foresight that similar acct
dents in the future will be impossible.
Year: 1875

In THE TWEED CASE the motion TO vacate
the order Of arrest or reduce the bail re-
CURED was argued in the Supreme Court
yesterday and will be continued to-day. 1t Is
plain that every step toward trial is to be
contested, and the first battle appears to be
upon the point whether the suits can be main
tanned at all
Year: 1875

THE REVELATIONS through the investga-
tions of the Assembly Committee on Crime are
becoming more and more interesting. If they
continue we shall know before long how New
York is 1nisgoverne1. The police captains
ore TO appear before the committee on Fri
day. Their testimony ought TO be made the
basis Of q still more searching investigation,
and il most Of them impress the committee as
Captain Mcdonnell has already succeeded in
doing it is not impossible that some wise sug-
gcstions as well as important revelations will
be tharesnlt Of the inouirE
Year: 1875

THE CHARGE or PERJURY AND FRAUD AGAINST


THE oFFIcERs-THE EXAMINATION CON-


rINUED-AN EXPERT ON THE VALUE or


STATE BONDS.


The examination into the charges ofperury and fraud
against the officers Of the late Third Avenue Bank
was continued yesterday afternoon In the Fifty
seventh Street Police Court All the accused
present, but the complainant Mrs. Leven
value OF State bonds being recalled, testi-
fed that the Louisiana levee bonds for
1873 quoted at from so TO 5s for three years;
for 1874 they from 20 to rs and the Kansas bonds
have not been quoted the Stock Exchange at all
during the past FIVE years. tho Georgia State bonds for
1873 were quoted at 9l the highest and 10 as tho
lowest for 1874, 92 to 81 Alabama eights, for 1S73
from 80 to as Alabama eights for 1874 from SO 4o
Virginia sxes old from ~ to 32 new 81 to 35 for 1874
46 to 2S; new, AZ to 2S.


The witness on cross examination said that these
figures given by him from the Financial Chroice
which had obtained them from the Official lists OF tho
Stock Exchange could not say whether he had him
self bought or sold during the years 1873 or
1874 any securities, and could not say whether
he had witnessed any either bought sold besides
the Kansas State bonds Colorado and Nebraska bonds
are not bought or sold on the Stock Exchange wit
of the opinion that the market value OF State
bonds could neither be higher lower than the
prices brought at the Stock Exchange; bonds
which should not be quoted the Stock Exchange
for a year would not have a market
value they would be unstable for that year; If
tain bonds were not sold the Stock Exchange for
period OF two years. and during that time there
numerous private bond fde sales for cash or its equva
lent the prices brought would be the market value Of
the bonds State bonds that bought sold ho
Stock Exchange and pay their interest have market
value Of 80 10 100; witness had no opinion as TO
whether the reports Of the Bank Examiner appointed
by the Bank Superintendent could be taken the
ket value OF bonds he should give the same answer
regarding reports from the Bank Superintendent
HIMSELF he should however, regard such reports
pripa cie evidence, subject 10 rebuttal by better
evidences the Stock Exchange Is considered the only
open market New York for those bonds called in
list for bonds not upon that dist tho open market
Is IN the street among brokers.


Carney Lamoreaux, real estate agent in Tarrytown
for thirty years back called testify tho value
Of farm held there by tho Third Avenue Savings Bank
He not able to locate the property and therefore he
not competent TO place a value upon IT, The
ination was thereupon adjourned
Year: 1875

OK BOARD rHE U. s. STEAMER DICTATOR,


Nov. 20, 1875.


To THE EDITOR rHE HERALD


The grumbling crow OF the United States steamer
Dictator have once found Il in their hearts
joco that ardy process OF which has for
the past six months been consistently applied is al
length partially relaxed Bean soup served again,
instead OF boiled rice and molasses 70 which
have evinced an unaccountable repugnance, II s not
the bad for myrads OF insects have lived
and thriven upon It. and the doctor has given IT his
opinion that such food is good enough for us The Inn
placabilty OF Is perhaps constitutional de-
feet hence the persistent clamor for governments
allowance Tho bread is considered unsuitable because
Ii is permeated with cobwebs and burrowed by cock
roaches tho very things TO which owes It's excellence
every Cninaman knows But Jack is ignorant and
will not have uxuries preferring what ho procures at
his own expense, Nor no be familiarized 10 the
Of this article OF food the repeated experiments
that have been made for the purpose will show. A
large quantity Of condemned stores is kept
hand and regularly issued when tho small
supply OF Wholesome food Is consumed.
BY this means II Is hoped thai Jacks antipathy to
bad bread will ultimately be overcome, and that he
will lose all power or discriminating between what is
good and what is not As before stated, this is ms
take for a sailor can smell blue mould from q hard
tack barrel 200 yards OF, and In spite OF this well
known fact, is II not shame that be must be made
victim 70 avaricious experiment objection 10 this
treatment Is frequently made, but " Is month, AZ
least before any satisfaction follows and then there
is certainty whether II will last month, or only
a week II is always feast famine with him-a
ossup whether his maintenance Is 10 be borne by the
government or by himself OF course he has perfect
right TO indulge expensive folly, but u is mean-
choly 70 think that there only one man In particu-
lar who offers him any sympathy This is The pay
masters yeoman, q smiling, little cherub who is by
spoiled by the dignity which cheesecutter
coniers In fact SO careful Is no Of our ecngs that
rather than insult us with what we do not Ike he
issues provisions In the smallest quantities, Just
enough TO acquit him OF having performed hts duty
- S-' - - sTUBBs
Year: 1875

Superintendent Ellis who is engaged in the cxamina-
ton OF unstable banks has quietly but surely studied
the situation having the advice OF leading bankers and
is in position to understand the situation fully.
He says the worst is over, but that he will
continue his work till every unsafe bank is closed
Their trustees will be obliged to secure the depostors
by advances Of cash solid security. Very few OF
them will have retire from business except those
which have not sufficient deposits 10 enable them to
meet expenses New banks will only be established
where there is absolute public necessity for them
Year: 1875

John Ramsey, the keeper OF a notorious gamblinsi
house Exchange place Jersey City called up for
sentence the Court Of Quarter Sessions yesterday
Judge Hoffman informed the prisoner who obtained the
rank of bricadier general OF volunteers dur
ing the late war that the Court could impose
a sentence Of two years In the State Prison and
fine Of $500, but the main object or the law i5l
the breaking up OF an infamous business the Court
would suspend sentence on payment Of costs Tho
Court would appoint officers 10 watch and enter tho
place and II the business should be resumed by
kanser TO another party Ramsey would be brought up
Year: 1875

photography and How Write tn is the subject Of
FREQ lecture 70 be delivered this evening No s91
Fourth avenue, by Mr. r. snipcs under the auspices
OF the New York Photographic Society. The lecture
will be ILLUSTRATED with blackboard examples and
cisos and tho object is tho diffusion OF general
knowledge OF shorthand writing