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Year: 1879

The Herald special correspondents at Bos-
ton, Chicago, Cincinnati, st. Louis, Hart
ford and other points sufficiently demon
strates that the socialist leaders and the off,
GERS of trade unions do not contemplate
either a general strike or violence on the
Fourth. Rumors of alarm were evidently
based on the desire of the workingmen in
several of the large cities to agitate in favor
of shorter days labor-a day OF eight
hours. We have no doubt that the agitators
whoare responsible for the false impressions
sent abroad would be pleased IT they
could provoke repetition of the summer
that began with the railroad strikes, but we
are assured that they will be disappointed.
Sham workmen and bogus patriots are
not numerous enough to make case
of that kind, and the present move
ment is mainly in the hands of such fell
lows. One thing of value the great strike
summer did prove. 1t showed that hun
dreds of thousands of workmen may be
misled by bad counsel but it also showed
that the workmen could readily perceive
the real tendencies of evil and that nobody
could get out of false position more reso-
lutely and expeditiously than they did.
That experience may stand in the way OF
the agitators now.
Year: 1879

In another column of to-day's HERALD
our readers will find the details of an
interesting interview with Father Genin, a
priest, who has spent ten years of his life
among the Indian tribes of the North
west-notably that portion of the
great Sioux nation governed by Sit
ting Bull Some remarkable state
ments are made by Father Genin concern
ing Sitting Bulls version of the Rosebud
fight where General Custer and his men
died together. According to the Indian
side of the story Sitting Bull believed that
Custer had orders to exterminate his
tribe, and that while endeavoring
to escape he sent warrior with a flag of
truce to Custer. The Indian chieftain says
upon the Great Spirit to witness that he
was not responsible tor the bloodshed
to follow he surrounded the troops and
destroyed them. We also gain an insight
to the Sioux character when we learn
that the reason why they sent squaw
ut Fort Walsh, was because of their con-
tempt for double dealing holding that
as that officer represented government
which never kept it's promises woman
was good enough to receive its ambassador.
Judging from tho statements made by
the missionary Sitting Bull holds the
United States government in sovereign con-
tempt, and the fact shows how necessary it
is that our Indian policy be based on fair
dealing and honest observance OF treaties
How can we expect the red man to keep his
promises when we fail to keep our own?


The manifesto brought by Father Genin
from Sitting Bull contains, in brief, the
story of his peoples wrongs ever since
the ratification of the treaty OF 1868,
showing that none of its promises have
been kept, and protesting that, although his
people have been anxious Tor peace. they
have been bounded from place to place by
the soldiers of the Great Father. He asks for
his lands, or SO much OF them as will support
his people, and wants the protection OF the
''people" as distinguished from the soldiers.
1t is n remarkable document and will attract
universal attention.
Year: 1879

Scarcely has the public heard the story Of
the kilograms and the correspondents about
the excessive severity OF fficial supervision
in Russia ere the distinguished traveller
comes forward and denies it all, and TINS
provokes and forces oil the or ginal chroni-
clers to tell it all over again. Up to the
present time the authorities on record with
the declaration that all is lovely and bright
and beautiful in Russia are three-an Eng
lish bishop, an American plenipotentiary
and an American contractor employed by
the hussian government. Bishops, of
course, are not responsible in this world,
and we suppose that'in the mind of a
bishop who is at the same time an English
man al things seen and known assume
the sweet, placid quality OF his own soul !;
so the bishop may be dismissed as
an unsatisfactory witness. Is the
plenipotentiary any more trustworthy?
All that Mr. Stougbton discovered in
Louisiana on his famous trip to that State
was clerical error. Yet he knew the Ian
guage in that country, read the papers, saw
and spoke with the people, was in daily
intercourse with the whole world of men.
and women who concocted the great game
of electoral vi lany. IT he could not learn
more than he did in such favorable circum-
stances of great movement going on about
him, what could he probably learn in
RUSSIA, where he was not so favorably placed
for obtaining information? AS for Colonel
Gowan, he is a clear-headed person; but.
upon the whole. we inciine to prefer the
evidence of the general report Of the news
gatherers as to the condition of the Russian
capital
Year: 1879

Particulars of the killing of the Prince
Louis Bonaparte by the Zulus are given in
our columns to-day. and do not reflect the
highest credit for nerve and steadiness
upon tho troops with which 1t was his mis-
fortune to serve The story indicates, in-
deed, that the remarkable successes of the
Zulus in the early events of the campaign
had practically demoralized important parts
of the expeditionary column. Evidence
has, in fact, been given already that
Lord Chelmsford himself was demoral-
lied, and the army would be as
anxious to get away as its commander. It
is to be hoped that the Zulu propositions
for peace arc not magnifed by the unsteady
state OF official perceptions. Much is made
of these propositions; but IL should be re-
membered that they are now pretty old
and there is no peace yet. News of these
propositions was in London in May, 30
that the negotiation at least goes very
Year: 1879

all in its power to accomm odate and satisfy
the public. There is no good reason why a
road should be made Extensively noisy, why
the smell OF coal gas should be allowed to
injure the health of the passenger, why
smoke and coal dust should be suffered to
become intolerable nuisances all along the
line, and why the stalrways and stations
should be exposed, inconvenient and un-
com ortable. Il the Brooklyn road is to be
built the people should insist upon the
best construction possible and the absence
of all avoidable nuisances.
Year: 1879

The police have gained such an unenvia-
bic notoriety recently that there is natu-
raj disposition to believe any story of out
rageous conduct that may be told against
any member OF the force. 1t is to be de-
plored that the reputation of some officers is
so bad as to forfeit public confidence tor all.
There are, no doubt, many honorable and
respectable men on the iorce, but under
bad management and lax discipline SO
many police outrages have been committed
that the people look upon every uniformed
officer as the ally of rogues and terror only
OF reputable citizens.


The latest case is that of Officer Joseph
Hall, Of the Fifth precinct. He is charged
with entering an immigrant boarding
house on Battery place in state of in
toxication, and with bran ndishinga revolver,
assaulting the son and the wife of the
absent proprietor, and threatening to shoot
the bystanders, until arrested by police
man of the Twenty-seventh precinct. Ac-
cording to the story told by the young
man and his mother the action of
the rufianly officer was without the
slightest excuse, and was simply the
performance Of drunken, in, uriated
brute. The accused, however, gives his
own account Of the affair, and is entitled to
his defence and to fair hearing. But
what is his explanation? He asserts that
he was IN search of O servant girl, in conse-
quence of his wife's illness, and was in
formed that he might find one at the board
ing house on Battery place that he went
there and was told to wait, and then he con-
tinues his story as follows -


After waiting for some time and thinking ON officer
in full uniform had right to some attention again
asked for the woman. This time spoke sharply
and answered very rudely. then muttered
something about it being skin game" Then 1
fused. and openly said that they trying to
''skin" me and wasn't going to stand it. got up.
and all the people suddenly lett the saloon and I
went after them. As did SO the woman Schmidt
to me. and thought there some put up
job" to rob me assault me, have heard of
such things IN immigrant boarding houses drew
my revolver and pointing it ut the woman aud boy,
backed out into the street. suppose acted little
Queerly, as was very much excited. then walked
would have 10 go to the station house with him. 1
had my revolver in my hand but gave it up. Then
was taken to the Twenty-seventh precinct station
no ouse and made statement. l was delivered to
Captain Aiken, who sent me on duty.


We are willing to accept the officers
story as the true version of the affair, and
we ask whether such u man is fit to remain
on the force and whether the captain who
'ssent him on duty in the face OF such
outrageous conduct is fit to hold command
of precinct? But what will the Police
Commissioners do about it?
Year: 1879

Apparently the Park Commission is not
of great consequence in any concerns as
to which the president of that commission
has made up his mind. Certainly such
conclusion seems to follow from the pub
lished statement of one of the Commissions
ers to the effect that the decision to refuse
the new public bath an anchorage at the
Battery was not reached by the commission
acting as body, but was the Unauthorized
act of the president. Perhaps the president
didn't know it. was loaded" made this
important decision Inadvertently, without
proper consideration of its importance and
without knowing that the authority of the
Board was necessary. However that may
be, we judge that his refusal is to be over
ruled. II So. the sooner the better. The
absurd notion that because an owner of
private bath pays five hundred dollars for
the privilege of anchorage at the Battery
this shall shut out IRON the use Of the river
at that point SO important an institution
as the popular free bath should hot stand
in the way an instant There is room for
both, and one will not interfere with the
other.
Year: 1879

THE WEATuER.-The area of high pressure
resting over the lower lake region yesterday
has moved eastward and now dominates over
the weather east of the Allegheny Mountains
Its centre is now over New York State and the
southern portion of the New England States
The barometer over the upper and lower lake
region has fallen account of the eastw ard
movement of the centre of low pressure which
now is in Dakota and Montana. In the South
ern States the barometric pressure has changed
also exists on the Pacific coast. The tempera-
tlirc has slightly declined in the extreme North
west aud over the New England States and
Nova Scotia. IL has risen in the Ohio and
lake regions and the Middle Atlantic States
aud is very high in the Western
Gulf States. Light showers of rain
have faI en on the southern portion
experienced in the Northwest Over the upper
lake region the weather is cloudy and threaten
ing and in nearly all other sections of the couil-
try the weather is clear and dry. The winds
and over the lake regions and moderate along
che Atlantic coast. 1hc weather in New York
and it's vicinity to-day will be clear, with sta
tionary temperature. Tomorrow the same con
ditions will prevail, followed by increasing
cloudincss.
Year: 1879

The number and range of seaside villages
to which New Yorkers resort during the
summer is something which is without par
alel in the neighborhood of other large
cities. Our letters, published to-day,
describe Fire Island, Ocean Grove and
Asbury Park. Besides these there are
scores Of other points, small and
June to October, and the few scatter
ing miles of coast yet unoccupied is
held at very high figures in anticipa-
ton of the day when cottagers or
hotel keepers will be obliged to purchase
it. This popularity of the seacoast as n
place of summer residence is not entirely
the result of locality and that aversion to
heat and noise which characterizes even our
busiest people, tor the seaward movement
is Of comparatively recent origin. Improved
facilities OF communication have done more
than anything else to make the seaside a
summer home for nearly hundred thou
sand New Yorkers and an occasional resort
of even greater number. The terrors and
annoyances of travel have been rapidly re-
duced almost to the minimum, until the
daily trip, particularly by water, is of itself
a relaxation to the business man whose fam
lily spends it's entire time in the bracing air
that is kept pure and cool by the ceaseless
ocean breezes With such rare advantages
large part of New York's population may
compare favorably in health with the in
habitants Of model country towns.
Year: 1879

QUNrSE is on the free list at last, and man
may low shake with ague without the addi-
tional depression caused by the thought that
the medicine to cure him costs great deal more
than il should merely because one or more
medicine makers want to keep foreign prepara
tons Of the drng ont of the country.
Year: 1879

slowly. Uetywayos readiness 10 make
peace should not. however. astonish any
one. He has always been equally ready
for peace. In fact, he did not want the war
and did not make it. and we do not bel eve
that he is now half so nearly on his knees
as the English reports represent.
Year: 1879

TnE POLICE COMMISSIONERS adopted yestcr-
day Il resolution providing fine or Imprisonment
for throwing rubbish into the streets. Now let
them provide similar penalties, greater in pro-
portion TO the magnitude of the offence for
non-remov;d Of the garbage and dirt already in
the streets, and the city may be reasonably
healthy during the hot season.
Year: 1879

Two FEMALE BEGGARs, who have exposed
miserable, scantily clothed babies to the gaze of
sympathetic public, were yesterday sent to
the Island. The whole of that particular breed
of fmendcants should be treated in the same
way. if only for the sake OF their innocent,
wI.eteIcd children
Year: 1879

Ii Our HOSTILE and uncertain Indians could
only he hurried up to the border now to meet
the Canada Indians, who have crossed in searcl,
of game they might get fighting enough to
satisfy them for the season.
Year: 1879

How AND ON WHAT GROUND did ex-Inspector
Grace get his reappontment Was it for as
saulting Surveyor Sharpe, who is now among
the ''outs,r or because some one in authority
wants 10 show the country that civil service
reform is a farce!
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock market
was dull and there was a general decline In
prices. Government securities were firm and
State and railroad bonds were fairly active and
steady. Money was active and call loans were
made at rates varying from 3l2 to . per cent,
the closing figure being per cent.
Year: 1879

A young man was very anxious to Sc
cure piece of property which was Just
then for sale on very advantageous terms.
He went to confer with friend of his,
who was banker, about the matter, and
to inquire whether it would be prudent to
borrow the requisite sum and paw II in
regular installments. He thought he
should be able to manage all but the first
installment. lie was advised to borrow
from the bank Il sum enough larger than
he wished to raise to cover the first pay
ment. lay it strictly aside and then 90
ahead. but" said his friend, ''you must
spend literally nothing. You must make
a box and drop in it all the money you re-
ceive.' The young man and his wife went
bravely to work to follow his advice. If
it was necessary to dine off a head of boiled
cabbage and salt, they did so and never
grumbled. Every payment was prompt
ly met. The egg money. and the butter
money, and the corn and wheat money
all went into the payment-box, and at the
specified time the place was theirs. There
was an invisible wealth about such hard
earned possessions that common observ-
ers knew nothing of. On the day of the
last payment the young man presented
himself before his friend with a smiling
face and with the money in his hand.
There were no rags TO be seen, but his
clothing was wel-covered with dams
from head to foot. You see / have fol-
lowed Your advice he said, casting a
glance over himself: 'an5 my wife looks
worse than do. But | have earned the
farm and now | know how to earn anoth-
er "CtaciHIsdti Times.
Year: 1879

Mayors Court.-At the Mayors Court
yesterday an old white man was found guilty
OF the larceny OF lot Of iron belonging to
the Old Dominion Iron-Works. and was Or
dered to receive ten lashes. The wife OF the
unfortunate man and two small children
one a mere infant-were present at the trial,
and much sympathy was manifested towards
them.
Year: 1879

There were ten members OF the Jury in
favor Of verdict of no less than five years
in the penitentlary and one for lighter pun
ishment and one for involuntary mans'augh-
ter. The verdict rendered-and which was
really determined upon Thursday evening
was the result OF compromise.


Several OF the jurors stated yesterday that
TO find the verdict they did was one Of the
most, painful things they ever had to do;
but they were convinced that their duty re-
quired them to do no less than they did,


Mr.. Doggett, member OF the jury, was
schoolmate OF the accused.
Year: 1879

At IL O'Clock yesterday morning the
Hastings Court was called to order; the
minutes Of the previous day were read and
signed by the Judge, and the roll-call OF the
jury had. as usual. Two or three members
of the jury looked particularly bright and
cheerful, as il they had prospect OF an
early conclusion OF the case and would soon
be at liberty to hear the sweet songs of the
birds ana scent the buttercups and daises,
as POLITICALLY pictured by Mr.. Young on the
day before.
Year: 1879

Dyspepsia is the national complaint.
Almost every other man or woman you
meet has 1t, and the result is that the
number of pseudo.remedies Tor 1t Is as
numerous as Pharoah's host. They are
for the most part worthless. There Is,
however, searching eradicant of this
distressing and obdurate malady, one
whose genuine merits long since raised
medicines of America. Hostetter's
stomach Bitters extirpates dyspepsia
with greater certainty and promptitude
than any known remedy, and is a most
secretion. These are not empty asser-
tfons, as thousands of our countrymen
and women who have experienced its
effects are aware, but are backed up by
irrefragable proofs repeatedly laid before
the public. The Ritters also promote q
regular habit OF body and give health.
fut stimulus 10 the urinary organs.
Year: 1879

TO LET A COLD HAVE IT'S OWN WAY, is
often to assist in laying the foundation
of Consumption. To cure the most
stubborn Cough or Gold you have only
to use judiciously DR.. Jayne's Expecto-
rant,
Year: 1879

Nobody can prudently predict the conse-
quences of the transfer Of Captain Williams
from the Twenty-ninth police precinct to
the Street Cleaning Bureau. Mr.. Ralph
Waldo Emerson once misplaced sheet of
his manuscript while he was lecturing. A
whist player, in the audience. observing his
way of handling the remainder of the
sheets in struggle to fnd it, remarked
that he was resorting to the desperate ex-
pertinent of shutting. The rather compli-
Gated transfer Of police captains which has
been ordered for the purpose of substi-
tuting broom for q club at Captain
Williams waistband looks like desperate
shuttle to find the right man for very diff
cult place. II Captain Williams only will
swing the broom with the same freedom he
has swung o club the man is found. But
will he? Perhaps that depends on whether
lie can extract fierce pleasure from bruis-
ing ash cans and smashing garbage bar
rels equal to what he used to derive from
punching the ribs and cracking the skulls
of his fellow citizens. But the experience
of pugilists is pretty uniform that there is
much less satisfaction in battering dummy
than there is in a real fist fight Therefore
we do not put absolute confidence in Cap
tain Williams contentment with his new
duties. Still it is an experiment worth
trying, and we have what the camp meet
ing revivalists call trembling hope" that
it will give us cleaner streets. II 1t does
wo will cheerfully give Captain Williams
the credit. At the worst it cannot make
the streets dirtier. That is impossible.
Year: 1879

The Duke OF Argylps American Sketches.


When the next Yankee plans to print i'm
pressions of Europe derived from sojourn
of six weeks the sketches of America which
the Duke of Argyll has begun to furnish to
the press after no longer o visit 10 this
country last summer may serve him for
tasteful model. We print an abstract of
the first of them, relating to the novel
aspect Of American woodlands to an eye
Islands, with some episodes touching the
Indians and Niagara Falls and Canadian
salmon fishing These are comparatively
safe topics for stranger of good
general information to handle after
brief acquaintance. but even in respect to
some of them the Duke falls into occasional
errors of fact and advances inapt compari-
sons. For example of an error of tact, in
lamenting the Disagreement of the banks
of the Hudson River by the paint pot and
recommending its prohibition he is una
ware that there is stringent statute Of this
State against trespasses to deface natural
scenery with advertisements, and that





of the land owners, which we fancy that he
would find difficulty in restraining. 80
that law has done almost all 1t can in this
direction. Again, in respect to his theory
that the decay of the red race is not due to
contact and collision with the civili-
zation of white men, but is solely the
contamination of process that began long
before the white settlements, he is as plainly
unaware that the number of Indians on the
continent is as large now as it over was. II
it has not increased it also has not dimin-
ished. His argument in this connection
from the slight impression European con-
tact has made upon the survival of the
native races of Hindostan will not stand o
very simple test of figures Hindostan has,
by the most recent statistics, only hun.
dred and twenty-one thousand residents of
non-Asiatic origin (and sixty-three thou
sand OF these are British soldiers, not
voluntary settlers), against two hun
dred and thirty-eight millions of the
native races; while in the United States
the proportion of white and black to red
men is about fifty millions to less than four
hundred thousand. The relative capacity
of higher civilization to extinguish an in
ferior race by contact Is therefore vastly
unequal in the two countries, and must
operate much more powerfully here than
there. But aside from these slight errors
and debatable assertions the Dukes
sketches are as thoroughly pleasing ~ it is
natural to expect from trained observer
and excellent scholar.
Year: 1879

THE CANNON STREET house which burned
with such sad results II month ago is reported to
have been without u scuttlc to the roof How
many more residences are in the same condi-
tion, and in those that have scuttles how many
people are there who know where they are and
what to do when they emerge from theml
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were
duiler and prices suffered further decline.
Money was easy on call at to z per cent.
Government and State securities were quiet and
steady while railway bonds were less active and
more irregular. Foreign exchange was weak
and ztes for sterling were lowered twice.
Year: 1879

YoUNG MAcEvoY, who had his brain severed
by circular in Paterson a few days ago.
is dead. The case naturally attracted wide at
tention among the medical profession, for the
tenacity of life displayed by the patient was
anomalous in the history of surgery
Year: 1879

ANOTHER PROPELLER has been dropped from
a steamer. Fortunately the disabled vessel was
not compelled to trust TO her sails, for the
experience of the Circassia several weeks ago
shows how insufficient the sailing rig of steam
ers is.