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Year: 1876

1t should be understood at Police Head
quarters that the people of this country do
not sympathize with the sort Of persons who
came here on the Mackenzie-Brydges excur-
sion few days since, and have no peculiar
inclination to interfere for their protection;
but they are very jealous of every invasion of
private life by public authority and are of
opinion that if the police can arrest certain
persons without warrant, without charges,
without violation of our law, without
demand for extradition, without any legal
process whatever, on the mere allegation of
immoral conduct, that no person is safe for
an hour and that all the laws made for the
protection of the people from the arbitrary
exercise of power have been made in vain
In his defence the Superintendent of Police
expresses his conviction that if the letter of
the law cannot be exceeded by the police in
pursuit of rogues they cannot be caught
This may be true and if it is the police had
better let them 60, for we are not yet ready to
burn down our own house in order to roast
chestnuts for the people in Montreal. But
the Superintendent claims that case
to justify his action was not made merely
because the lady's friends were consider
ate. He says :-"Mrs. Mackenzie's flight
with property belonging to her husband
could easily have been made grand lar
ceny." Well, suppose it had been? Under
what authority can any person be arrested
here for grand larceny committed in Can
ada2 Is there any other law on this sub
ject between us and the Canadians than the
Extradition Treaty, and in what part of that
treaty does the Superintendent find any ref
erence to grand larceny2 All this action was
taken in truth in pursuance of sort of po-
lice free masonry. One chief telegraphs to
another, ARREST Brown, and it is done T; for
the fact that the telegram is sent is regarded
by him who receives it as, evidence that the
person to be arrested is guilty of On act that
places him within the pale of the law" 1t
is easier to believe that Brown is rogue
than that the other policeman has made a
mistake. Perhaps it is bad for Brown, but
then the police of different cities must be
civil to one another. In the meantime how
ever, it is provided by the constitution of
this State that no person shall be deprived
of liberty without due process of law. Z"
Taking persons from hotel and locking
them up at the station is ''depriving them of
their liberty" and a telegraphic request from
Canada that this be done is not "due pro-
cess of law.
Year: 1876

Winslow, if all is true that is reported Of
his escape, seems likely to get fairly away
with heavy plunder; and may, accidents
aside, enjoy indefinitely the fruits of his vii
lany in foreign land and snap his fingers
Mt Justice. Such a result Is demoralizing
and encourages and cultivates crime 1t
should be made impossible and it is not
merely On advancing civilization which
seems to demand this, but the great develop
ment Of means Of communication between
different nations At the present time q
fugitive from justice can get to country in
Europe easier than he could have got from
this city TO Boston century since; yet in
that comparatively handy asylum he is as
much out of our reach as he would be in the
middle of the Chinese Empire. Yet the ma
tions which thus afford an asylum to our
rogues possess the same civilization with
ourselves have the same interest in the pro-
lection of property and the administration of
justice, and complain from time to time. as
roundly as We may now, that we shelter per-
sons who have offended their municipal laws


This anomaly seems to result from the fact
that the administration of justice has not
kept pace with the growth of society in other
respects. In one hour we can communicate
with Europe and get an answer but the
conceptions of governments as to extradition
are nearly what they were when this process
required from two to six months. Every
government that has any interest in the well
fare of q civilized people is the equal enemy
Of criminals, for crime is neither territorial
nor national and State mi0ht as we'll sal
Year: 1876

THE SPANISH WAR still goes on, without
prospect Of any speedy settlement The
accounts from the late battles near Hermann
and Vera show that the Carlists possess q
greater degree Of strength than their oppo-
nents would have us believe. Of course the
inevitable simultaneous" movement is to
be made by the Alfonsists in the province Of
Navarro, the result Of which will be the
annihilation Of Carlism. We have heard so
much of those formidable movements in
Cuba. as we'll as in the Pyrenees, and realized
80 little in the results, that it is pretty GER
tain that Don Carlos and his followers will
keep the boy King actively employed fol-
many a month to come
Year: 1876

apart q portion of It's ownterritory and de-
clare that therein criminals shall have i'm
munity from pursuit as to neglect any step
for obtaining extradition laws, without
which fugitives have only to run few steps
further across the frontier. Extradition
simply gives legal force to the general con-
sent of all societies that men shall be pun
lshed for certain recognized crimes and we
do not believe that single nation in Europe
would now refuse 10 make a treaty with US
for this purpose.
Year: 1876

MORE VOICES FOR SPRING ELECTION.
the meeting of the anti-Tammany General
Committee, at Irving Hall last evening, that
sturdy body put itself manfully on tho
record by demanding spring election for
municipal offices, ''when all good citizens,
irrespective of differences upon State and
national issues, can join hands in support of
reform" Upon this solid ground they can
advance to an easy victory over Tammany
Hall
Year: 1876

DoLAS's CAsE.-The case of Dolan, who
was cohvicted Of the murder of Mr.. Noe, and
who narrowly escaped the gallows q short
time since, has been acted upon in the Gen
eral Term of the Supreme Court and the
decision is unfavorable to the hopes Of the
prisoner. There remains now only the Court
of Appeals between the unhappy man and
death
Year: 1876

THE SING SING MANAGEMENT stands good
chance now of being thoroughly overhauled
and its career of bungling and incompetency
brought to close. The State Prison Inves-
tigating Committee have brought the subject
in most unequivocal terms before the Assem-
bly
Year: 1876

The EmoRANT COMMISSION report TO the
Assembly some interesting facts regarding
that department. showing conclusively the
importance of preserving and fostering it.
so that the vast number of immigrants who
come to our port may receive proper protec-
tion and care, and pointing out many abuses
which demand immediate attention.
Year: 1876

THE DIRECT CABLE is announced to have
resumed business, the land lines of other
companies having been placed at its disposal
from Nova Scotia TO New York. We now
hope that both sides to the controversy as to
the breakage will assist in reaching the truth
ahnnt IL
Year: 1876

the COMMITTEES Crime'1 Proposals.


One of the subjects with which the report
of the Assembly Committee on Crime will
deal is of nature which makes ihu discus
sion in public prints matter Of great deli
cacy and difficulty. We may not be- sur
prised that in France the Revolution left
room for the growth of public opinion
which could treat the subject in question as
q hard and sad reality, that might be amelio-
rated, but could not be extirpated. The
great French cataclysm that begun in 1888 is
mostly referred to for the Utopias that it
hungered after but it was eminently utifi-
tartan, and gave free scope for discussing
subjects which the Church had declared for
bidden and effecting reforms which since
have one by one been adopted out
side of France. One of these was
the bringing of the ''social evil under gov
ernmental regulation. In England the mat
ter was left to take care of itself until about
decade ago, when o law was passed apply
ing the French system of supervision to the
garrison towns as a sanitary measure for the
protection of the troops. Since then the
scope of the act has been enlarged. In
America the system of supervising houses
of ill-fame has had but little trial. as in st.
Louis, for instance. 1t would appear that
public sentiment is too sensitive as yet to
treat this matter widely on its mere hygienic
merits, because it is so involved in the ques-
ton of morality. The Committee on Crime,
however, propose to take up the subject in
their report While hestating it is stated,
to recommend licensing system with
medical inspection, on the ground
we have just noted, they will sug-
gest o compromise by which these
houses shall be placed under absolute
police control. Now, whatever may be urged
in favor of the licensing system as q sanitary
measure looking to the health of the present
and future generations, nothing worth list
ening to can be said in support of semi-le-
galizing these houses by handing them over
to the police. The very revelations made in
the course of the committees investigation
all show that the police have had these
houses practically in control for years past;
that there is little doubt that, from the cap
tain to the patrolman, shameful revenues
have been derived from them, and that police
corruption has only made bad worse by CIV
ing immunity to the vilest, and without the
slightest protection to the public. New
neighborhoods have been invaded by them,
and the vicinity of public schools made dan
gerous to youth. Public decency has been
shocked by parades of fallen creatures through
the streets, after the ''raids" of new clean
the police TO harass if not to punish might be
made manifest; but no real good has been
done will be done by mere police
control"
Year: 1876

WEST PoTNT. The democratic majority in
the lower House of Congress yesterday car
ried the first of their so-called retrenchment
measures, the reduction of the appropriation
for the Military Academy at West Point.
Year: 1876

correspondent writes us a letter, which
we print this morning, in relation to the
necessary reform in our street railway man.
agement, in which he takes the ground
proper to be taken under the circumstances
no seat no fare. If the Legislature will pass
an act forbidding the collection of fare from
passengers unless seat is provided the in
creased accommodations will speedily follow.
This may be done by increasing the number
of cars or by increasing the capacity of those
already in use. 1t is certain, however, that
until the collection of fare is made depend
ent upon providing a seat for each pas
senger things will go on in the old way.
Our railway corporations are too grasping
for any other policy to influence them SO
long as q strap can be made to pass for a seat


A change will not come over their spirit
until the packing process is disallowed by
law but with the packing process forbid
den, double declxers will almost Immediately
take the places of the present vehicles. Now,
only twenty-five passengers can find seats
in car, while, with seats on the outside as
we'll as in the inside, at least forty persons
could be accommodated. No car drawn by
two horses should be allowed to carry more
than forty passengers. Let the people Of
New York insist upon the policy of no seat
no fare, and the reform will come very soon
Year: 1876

THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE appointed to in
vestigate the affairs of the Quarantine Com
mission and the Health Officer have made
report highly complimentary to the latter
official and suggestive Of change in the
present system by abolishing the Office of
the commission and vesting the Health
Officer with its powers. They also recon-
mend that the Presidents of the Cham
Der of Commerce, Shipowners' Associa-
ton and Board of Health be appointed as
board for the purpose of deciding appeals
from the decision Of the Health Officer !;
that the latter pay the salaries of all en-
ploy6s in Quarantine out of the fees collected
by him, and that hereafter no appropriation
be made for the maintenance Of Quarantine
except for necessary repairs. Those are the
/ principal points of the report, which will
decide the question whether Quarantine
shall be self-supporting or continue to be q
! burden ON the State.
Year: 1876

will continue to be in the future, as it has been
during the last three years, the unflnching ad :
vocate of the rights of labor in the conflict
against the unjust encroachments of capital.
AS the oldest and only exclusive anti monop
olist in Chicago, the AGE will be thorough in
its opposition to the injustice of concentrated
capital towards the producing classes; and will
lend all its influence to the work of placing
capital and labor upon an equal footing


tinue to oppose class legislation, unequal tax
alton, official extravaganza and corruption, and
all else which tends to oppress the laboring
millions and threaten the stability of the Amer
lean Republic.


Believiu that reform can be secured only
through independent political action, the AoE
will throw its influence in favor Of the
Year: 1876

Museum. The introduction written by Dr. Kimball,
goes TO say that the autobiography contains de-
scription of the principal adventures OF the life of Sit
ting Bull who is an INK papa chiec II was ssechcd
by himself In the picture language in common use
with the Indians. Since the establishment OF
Fort Buford, in 1865. Sitting Bull, at the
head of from sixty to seventy warriors, has
been the. terror OF mail carriers, wood choppers,
and small parties the vicinity OF the post. and from
100 to 200 miles from II either way up and down the
Missouri River. During the time from 1866 to 1870,
when the biography written this band had several
times captured and destroyed the mall and Lad stolen
and run off 200 head Of cattle and killed ncar
of white in the immediate vicinity Of the fort.
Tho Unk pa pas tribe OF the great Sioux nation
living the Yellowstone and Powder River countries
Tho book was bought OF Yankton Sioux for 81 30
worth OF provisions The is No. II OF the
series of nityhve This sketch has been selected it
is the most representative the series and best


illustrating the history which Sitting Bull narraes in
his rude and primeval way. His autograph is shown
in the right hand upper corner being as 1t appears
sitting bull AS warrior, Sitting Bull takes the usual
shape OF the Indian, and is seen mounted
on his charger, with In the present case, his brother
riding behind him while he attacks and kills white
soldier In the original picture the soldier is ndi-
Gated by blue pants and the fact that he is white
man is further indicated by the stoveppe hat. The
shield Of Sitting Bull is swinging the side of his
horse, and is embossed with an eagle, which he in
vokes as his medicine," or patron. by way OF good
luck. II will be that the picture of the animal
sitting bull is connected by limo with tho mouth OF
tho warrior Sitting Bull This indicates both that the
warrior is the famous Sitng Bull and that at the
moment OF the attack upon his enemy he has shouted
out his terrible name intimidatc his foe
Year: 1876

A Wisconsin trader discovered two
men disguised with wells, robbing his
store one night recently, and went fer
them with a revolver. The rogues fled
and he followed, firing as he went, but
the thieves apparently escaped. The
next morning man was found dead
in the road, with a veil over his face,
and he proved to be the traders
brOther-iu-law
Year: 1876

A Meteorological Growl.


o. SEVERANCE.


In language emphatic


Our meiodramatic


Old friend in the attic
Wishes 10 know Of Us what hydrOstatic,


Lymphaiic fanatic
Il Gle Of this weather. so very aquarici


And whether this weather


Would altogether
Be metamoTPhosed and most hugely improved,
Should we have that weeping old fogY removed
'Tis plain that the rain


VIII never abstain
From this persecution so long as the
Persistenty pointing southeast shall remain
For more genial weather is Uainiy expected,
While fall 70 that quarter its point is directed,
And no sensible feIler,


Be he sober or meIIern
WIN venture travel without an umbrella,
The humble and proud


Both grumbIe aloud
No matter with what sort Of weather endowed,
If a cloud should enshroud


The sky, the whole crowd
OF mAieontents swear it should not be allowed
Or, if clear it appear,


They declare with one mouth
It's certain the crops will be ruined by drouthi
It's rgid II frigid-


It's horrid, IL torrid.
And they at the temp'rate till they grow orid
But, again When the rain


Drives n fellow insane
With its constant tattoo the roof and the pane,
We own he has mighty good cause to complain,
And earnestly call Cor another refrain,


Hence, We feel like eIcusing


Our friend for abusing
Said clerk in a language that's of his choosing.


S. F. Chronicle.
Year: 1876

clasping them securely in front. Even
her rage was beautiful! Blushing
scarlet, uttering little stacatto shrieEns
OF anger, stamping her feet violently on
the ice, she made it evident to all, that
good-breeding in her country admitted
OF no such performances.


Arthur called out to the young man
to dssist, but he declared that Il was
bis intention that the young girl should
ny with him to her home, and that once
there he would rescue the rest OF the
party; Arthur and Inman exclaiming
that such conduct was an outrage pro-
ceeded to take him from the person of
their young person by force. But be-
fore they had reached him the Young
girl, thinking perhaps that they ali
meant to detain her by force, moved
her wings and was Instantly far above
the reach Of any them, save the young
man who still clung to her. In anoth-
er moment she had mounted still high
er, and then furling her wings fell for
q distance or hundred feet and turn
ing meanwhile such summersault as
brought the young man forward heels
over head and then suddenly spreading
her wings again freed herself from her
unwelcome burden, and the poet was
soon, struggling in the water below.
AS his body, however, was 80 light in
comparison to the density Of the latter
element, he had no difficulty in swim
ming to the iceberg and drawing HIM
self up on it again, where he repented
at his leisure his rash enterprise. 4
Their visitor soon disappeared in the
distance, and again loneliness, bordering
on dispair, settled down upon the little
company. However it was of short du-
ration, for within three hours the sky
was black with flying creatures. led by
the beautiful young girl, who brought
to the men whom she discovered the
means of rescue.


To be continued
Year: 1876

IMPORTANT ACTION OF VARIOUS COMPANIES.


Yesterday meeting held at tho Metropolitan
Hotel ofvarous freight representatives OF the leading
railroads for tho purpose of considering the question
the continuation existing contracts after the end
OF this month. Although the discussion private
one enough learned warrant the assertion that
the present contracts with shippers will be annulled
after March l. II believed however, that the final
decision OF the whole will bo referred TO the
presidents OF each OF the trunk lines for final ratca-
tion. A HERALD reporter waited of the princ
pal officers OF The Cheap Transportation Association
learn his views regard to the matter and that gen.
tleman said that the railroads doubtless prepared
to eqralize the tariff ar that within the last days
the of freight had four cents per hundred
to the Baltimore schedule from the West, and
hoped before another fortnight the rates would be
still alike, that the discrimination
against New York would be but little If any
on the whole he believed the railroads
now alive TO the damage already inflicted on
the commerce OF this city and were moving OF their
accord to adjust the differences One OF the chief
reasons Tor the diversion of foreign trade TO CINCINNATI
ST Louis and other largo western cities, was the law
authorizing transportation in bond, and payment OF
duty AT the place Of delivery OF the goods and now
the Western wholesaler instead OF making purchases
from the New York merchants, goes 10 the foreign
market direct An cxamnaton OF the customs receipts
at the western ports viii prove TINS iacL Then teas
come by way OF San Francisco and overland TO Chi
cagO and st. LOUIS, that New York has lost her old
control OF this great and profitable trade. The same
holds good as to conce. Baltimore now almost monop
olizes this trade


THE STEAMSHIP SOUTHERN FREIGHT
also yesterday railroad representatives at the
Office of ID. II. Hasoll, No 3l7 Broadway, for the pur
pose ola classification OF freight Nothing definite
however, arrived at The Erie Railroad has issued or
TO its agents that all verbal contracts shall DO
auashed aud that reduction OF tho regular tariff to
the West shall be made


a REDUCTION OF FARE TO NEW YORK


from Philadelphia takes place the Pennsylvania
Railroad on and after March /. The price for single
passenger is TO be s. IS in place OF So 25;
tickets, costing $5, will be issued good for five days,
and all commutatIou tickets TO be Withdrawn. TINS
Is movement In the right direction, as the fare be-
the two great cities has always been considered
excessive


WORK oN TIKI DELAWARE, LACKAwANSA AND WESTERN
Railroad begun yesterday IN the alteration OF tho
company's track from wide to a narrow gauge Ono
thousand workmen commenced this labor on full
time The cost OF the alteration will be about
al, 0O0 the principal items OF which will be Tor
the alteration OF the rolling stock, the locomotives
being the most expensive TO change
Year: 1876

The charges against MT Bowen, made by Plymouth
church, will be considered at adjourned church
meeting tomorrow evening to which admission by
ticket only will be permitted. Mr. Bowen bas been
served with summons TO attend this meeting, but Mr.
Shcarman stated yesterday that he had been given to
understand that Mr. Bowen would not attend, and
would thus leave the church to decide what should be
done in reference to his 1t is believed that ma
jority of the members in favor OF at terminal
ing his membership, and yesterday Mr.. shearman,
Deacon Howard, Ross Raymond and other adv-
sers of the pastor OF Plymouth church,
MIN at his residence and discussed the point Mr..
Beecher objected TO any immediate hasty action in
regard the dismembershp Of Bowen and favored the
idea of putting the entire matter into the hands OF
what is known the Scandal Bureau. This committee
will be empowered ami will be ready to receive
and consider any statemen Mr. Bowen may have to
mako within sixty days. Ii Bowen does not appear
before their within that period, or if he does, the
committee Will make its report TO the church at the
en1 Of the sixty days and then the members will decide
on the case.


Mr. Bowen stated yesterday that he not prepared
TO make any statement to the committee, as they were
mancsy opposed to him. and further that he had not
intended to reveal any facts except to committee