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Year: 1875

Ames is about year behind the age. The
carpct-bag politicians, of whom he is such a
highly finished specimen, ruled the South for
a long time at the point of the saber because
they succeeded in imposing upon the kind
feelings and just instincts of the American
people, and turning their most credtable
intentions into instruments of oppression.
They made the country believe that they alone
stood between the timid freedman and cruel
and bafilcd tyrant. They persuaded us that
the whole South was a nest of conspiracy and
murder. and that no colored citizen would
ever be able to enjoy the suffrage without
a guard of federal soldiers posted at the polls,
a deputy marshal waiting in the nearest bar
room with his pocket full of blank warrants.
and full board of Republican election Of
ficers to exercise a wise discretion in the prep


aration of registry lists, and the counting and
declaration of the vote. Ii was under the
false impressions purposcly created by these
political adventures that the enforcement
laws received strained and oppressive con-
structIon, and that the Force Bill-crOwning
Year: 1875

large sum of money has doubtless been wasted
in this way, but it is wiser to stop short than
to throw any more away upon defective
plan. The system appears to have been so
faulty that practical men like Mr.. Dimock
and Mr. Wales at once suspected and soon
disclosed it. 1t is q strong argument in favor
of Mayor Wickham's policy of appointing
practical men rather than politicians to high
places. He intends to add further to the
public obligations to him by appointing to
the position of Engineers to the Board men
like Gen Gilmore, Gen. Newton, and Allan
Camnhell
Year: 1875

pIiies the problem Of the citizen who now has
to look out at every crossing for danger from
both directions, and really runs more risk IN
his daily walks than in travelling in steam
boat or on o railway train.
Year: 1875

If Superintendent Walling and detectives
will now furnish proof of the guilt of the
negroes whom they have arrested, charged
with the murder of the peddler in Westches-
ter, they will relieve the police in part OF the
suspicion of ineficiency under which they labor.
Year: 1875




The above summary embraces, we believe,
all the important facts in relation to the
changes which have been made in the paper
circulation of France. Bold and energetic as
the action of the Bank has been, no injurious
effects on trade are visible. General business
for two years past appears, in fact to have
been much better in France than it has been
in either England, Germany, or the United
States No candid man can extract from the
conduct of the French Government and Bank
a particle of cOuntenance for any of the quack
money schemes which have been broached
among us. They have fixed day for re-
sumption, as we have done, but not
without making provision for decreasing
their paper and increasing their specie. They
have not aimed at cheap currency, with the
maximum of paper and the minimum of coin.
They have not confounded gold and Govern
ment bonds together. and deluded themselves
with the idea that there is no essential differ
ence between the two. The end to which the
Bank of France is aiming is to make its
notes at all times and under all cir
cumsiances convertible into specie, and
to accomplish that object they know that
they cannot safely issue all the notes
that the business community will absorb
in times of confidence, nor do they trust to
any other resource in times of difficulty than
an ample stock of the precious metals in their
vaults. This, as we understand the matter, is
the lesson taught by English German, Dutch
and French banking-always to have on hand
full supply of the exportabe precious metals
in order to maintain the credit of the nOn-ex-
portable promises to pay those metals.
Year: 1875

Gen. Spinner is always an entertaining letter
writer The bluff ex-Treasurer says exactly
what he thinks, and, like the man whose sand
had dribbled out of the tail end of his wagon
all the way up hill, he thinks strong. This
time it is the National banks he is after. In
the name of the people whom they are op-
pressing, he admonishes them not to kick
sleeping dog. n. B. The people are the dog.
Year: 1875

Some uneasiness has been aroused in Brook
lyn by the discovery Of case of unmistak
able yellow fever in the City Hospital. The
sailor who is victim to the dreaded malady
came to the city in brig from Matanzas,
Cuba, and gave information that others on
board were afflicted with the disease. A
search along the wharves has failed TO discover
the vessel, and it is considered not improbable
that she has gone TO sea again. The
precautions, which were taken promptly and
thoroughly, to prevent the spread of infection
flom the hospital, render alarm OH that score
supeIluous, but il is certainly important to
ascertain beyond shadow of doubt that the
vessel from which the sick sailor came has not
scattered the seeds of disease and death in any
part of this or neiehboring cities.


The result of the inquiry by the Dock Com
missioners and their Chief Engineer into the
bulkhead walls built by their predecessors on
Gen. Charles X. Graham's modification OF
Gen. McClellan's plans will astonish the pub
lie. According to their story, the plan was
defective, and the walls constructed on the
system of Gen. Graham are practically worth
less. 1t ia difficult to believe that Gen.
Graham could proceed, or be permitted by the
Dock Commissioners to proceed. with such an
important work for any length of time with
out discovery of his great blunder. A very
Year: 1875

Incoming vessels bring further reports of the
destructive work of the cyclone which swept over
Indianoa and Galveston. These show that,
while remarkable for its extent, the storm also
surpassed most Of its kind in other peculiarities.
The captain of the steamship State of Texas,
which arrived here yesterday badly damaged
by the gale, mentions that the barometer sank
to 26.O4-a lower point than he had ever
noticed in long coasting career. His observa-
tons also furnish interesting data as to the
track Of the hurricane.
Year: 1875

Commissioner Disbecker has not been long in
public life, but certainly long enough to know
that merely calling his accuser hard names is
poor defense for himself. Until he refutes
the proofs offered for the charges before the
Committee of Crime, that he improperly secured
the appointment of policemen for country AS
semblymen, people will remember only that John
ID. Townsend, whom he berates, was years ago
prominent in the movement which relieved us
of Cardozo and forced the retirement of Police
Justice Bowling.
Year: 1875

Egypt being land of exhaustless interest,
it is pleasant to learn from the letter of cor
respondent, printed elsewhere, that she pur-
poses sending part of her ancient treasures to
the Centennial Exhibition. 1t is more gratify-
ing still to find that perfect mania for edu-
cation has laid hold upon the people who live
on the banks of the Nile, and that the Khedive
is intent upon remodeing the towns and build
ing more railroads.
Year: 1875

The gift of monument or statue of Stone
wall Jackson by some distinguished English
admirers of the Confederate chieftain has
ginia- There is no reason why America
should not honor this soldier who will be
remembered with the great men of history
and honored by all who respect valor and
fortitude and sincerity, even though they
may spurn his cause The erection of
statue to Stonewau Jackson in Richmond is an
event which excites as much interest among
Northern men as among the late Confederates.
The war is past, and is far enough remote for
us to accept Stonewall Jackson, not as @
rebel, not as an enemy of the Union, but as
a citizen of whom the country may well feel
proud. His place will be in our Waihalla,
in our hall of fallen heroes. 1t is, therefore,
with regret that we note in the ceremonies
attending the reception Of the English gift
in Richmond that the statue was veiied in
the flags of Great Britain and Virginia. 1t
seems there was no place for the flag of the
United States and yet it was under the flag
of the United States that General Jackson
was born and educated. In its army he
served as young man, and the bronze which
will for ages commemorate his career will be
under the protection of this flag. 1t does not
give us pleasant feeling to think that in an
honor paid to Stonewall Jackson there is no
place for the flag of the country which he
opposed as valiant and courageous soldier,
q country which would never hesitate to do
his memory honor.
Year: 1875

bosom friend of OMorrtssey, Hayes, eve /


Tammany Hall cannot control this great


metropolis. Ifez-Sherif Kelly nominates an


unexceptionable ticket for the Judiciary, if he


keeps in Office the men who have been


worthy and adds to the list others of high


character and attainments, there is no reason


why he should not sweep New York. especially


with the impulse given to him by the sue
cessful administration of Governor Tilden.
But the O'Kelly cannot give away these high
places to favorites and fatterers. to parasites,
to men who follow him that he may serve
their turn. The alliance under Won Shafer
is dangerous enough to compel O'Kelly to
do his best to meet the wishes of New York.
Although it is now composed of con-
tending and diverging elements, and men
who have no interest in common, who lack
money and organization and power, still,
parties like this under the impulse of
sudden enthusiasm, may accomplish great
results. Therefore, although the battle looks
as though it were a sure victory for Tam
many Hail. its leader must remember that
the battle is not to the strong alone, nor the
race to the swift, and that, unless he con-
ducts his canvass with perfect sincerity and
respect for the popular will, the crest of Won
Shafer may be seen at the close of the poll
riding triumphantly over a well fought field
Year: 1875




The water supply controversy, now occupy
ing the attention of our Aldermen, is very
well understood by the people of New York.
The city has outgrown the supply and the
means Of delivering the Croton water. With
the increased demand we need larger mains
and more of them. In many localities the
consumers are put to great inconvenience
daily through the lack of sufficient head of
water and the engineers Of the Fire Depart
ment declare that, with the present made
quate supply and the inadequacy of the mains,
some of the most crowded and hazardous
neighborhoods are in danger of total de-
struction in case heavy confagration should
occur. We are approaching the cold months.
when it will be impossible to lay down
pipes, and when the lighting of furnaces IN
creases the risk of fires. The necessity of
~ereasing the means of distribution does
no. -'st on the assertion of the Department
OF fuDr~ Works alone. 1t is urged by the
rire Depai -nent, by the insurance COM
p@nies' oy ene Sanitary Department, and is
apparent 10 every resident in the INSULT
ciently supplied distrlos But the work of
laying new mains and mixing the other
necessary improvements must b. done under
the control of democratic public ,fficer-
the Commissioner of Public Works md
democratic laborers would be employed
thereon. Hence the republican Aldermen
oppose the ordinances providing for the
work. They are willing that the consumers
should be inconvenienced, that the health of
the city should suffer, and that the destruc-
tion of whole blocks by fire should continue
to be an impending danger, rather than that
a few hundred democratic laborers should
find employment under democratic city
government The leaders of the factious
movement are Aldermen Vance and Morris


1t is idle for these Aldermen to pretend
that they are without proper information
from the Public Works Department, or that
their opposition to the necessary improve
ments is occasioned by the incapacity of
A few months ago, when republican was at
the head of the department, they lauded its
management, professed to know all about the
affairs of the water bureau, and favored the
very work they now oppose. The Croton
Bureau is practically under the same manage
ment now as it was under Commissioner Van
Mort, and three or four months cannot have
obliterated Aldermen Vance and Morris
knowledge of its condition and necessities.
They are simply playing partisan game. at
the expense of the people and at the risk of
destructive calamity. 1t is fortunate that
their term of Office is so near its expiration.
Year: 1875

THE OLD-NEw WoRLD.-The prehistoric
times, hitherto shrouded in q veil of impen-
etrable mystery, are becoming family lighted
up by the researches of science in these mod
ern days, and the more cultured minds
throughout the world are on the tiptoe of
expectation for new and startling develop
ments in this branch of human knowledge.
Perhaps no more interesting and suggestive
localities for these researches can be found
than in those vast barren wastes in New
Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, where are
presented innumerable evidences of race,
or, more properly speaking q series of races,
which ages since passed into oblivion, and
which range from the lower order Of cave
dwellers to a people considerably advanced
in the arts of civilization. But recently a
division of the Hayden surveying party has
entered this interesting locality, and we this
morning publish q letter from our CORE
spondent with the expedition, giving a
graphic account of what has been discovered
there.
Year: 1875

The LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON CRIME
wasted great deal of valuable time during
yesterdays session in discussing questions
relating to their counsel, Mr.. Townsend, and
the hero of the Harlem flats, Commissioner
Disbecker. They also consume much time
in investigating crimes of the past and for
get to look around and see for themselves the
frightful condition of the city at the present
time. Murder, burglary, highway robbery and
other offences against the law are now more
prevalent than during the period of which
the committee seem so desirous to know all
about.
Year: 1875

THE FALL RIVER STRIKE The manufac-
turers of Fall River, who, in the present
condition of their stock and of the market,
are somewhat indifferent to the resumption
of operations in their mills, have taken ad-
vantage of the necessities of the operatives
to aim blow at the combination among
them, which, if successful, will place their
employees entirely at their mercy in the
future. A meeting of the weavers took place
yesterday, in which significant illusions
were made to the bread riots in England
and Wales and open and covert threats of
violence were resorted to. The men are
fiercely determined not to submit to the de-
mands of the owners, and if these are per-
sisted in it is evident the end is notYet
Year: 1875

In another column will be found, in q
Vienna letter. an interesting resume of the
comprehensive views of Count Beust on the
relations of the troublesome countries in the
border land between Turkey, Austria and
Russia to the general politics and peace of
Europe This experienced statesman is of
opinion that, in the present conditions of
national existence, small States are impossi-
BILE in that part of the world, simply because
small States cannot maintain the military
force that is necessary to keep down tur-
bulent population. For this reason, there
fore, he has no faith in the proposed solution
of the Servian and Bosnian difficulties by
giving those States semi-independence;
for, if his view be correct, they would then be
more troublesome neighbors than they now
are. But for this presumed danger Austria
would make no objection to their possession
of autonomy but Austria must have peace
on her frontiers and safe navigation of the
Danube, and would regard these as i'm
perilled by the erection near her of several
small self-governed States constantly in
turmoil of local feuds and little wars All
that country, therefore, must belong to one
of the three great Powers near. Austria does
not desire more territory neither does
Russia. Turkey may, therefore, retain it,
and, with some notifications of her
relation to the people, these would
be better contented under her au-
thority than in any other way. Count
Won Beust's opinion of the only modification
of the Turkish system that would be practical
involves his project of an Indo-European
railway. He would vivify Turkey by send
ing the great tide of traffic and travel across
her desolate plains and down her abandoned
rivers. He conceives the city on the Bos-
phorus as becoming once more the great
emporium that it was in the earlier days of
human history, and of the barbarism, ignor-
ance and bigotry of Moslemism as melting
away in the presence of commerce and in
dustry All this is the settlement of polit-
ical problems by economical forces-a set
tlement that is in the spirit of the age ; bat
we fear that for the present occasion this.
must be regarded as a visionary remedy.
Year: 1875

YELLOW FEVER is said to have reached
Brooklyn in the person Of poor sailor,
home from a cruise at the West Indies
Jack, however, has been carefully quaran-
tined in a ward in the City Hospital, and
there is little or no danger of the contagious
disease affecting the City of Churches.
Year: 1875

have been sinking the foundations OF
wall in the North River which was sup
posed to resist any action of the tide. But
the present chief engineer says it will not,
and he ought to know. He objects to the
plans of his predecessors and warns the
Mayor against adopting system of sea wall
which his divers have proved to be unsafe
and unsatisfactory.
Year: 1875

THE COLLISION between the Rockaway
steamer Americus and a steam launch, which
took place on the North River over month
ago, is now undergoing investigation at the
hands of the United States authorities One
important point has been established so far
by the testimony-the danger incurred by
any small craft in venturing upon the river
after dark without lights. The most lament
able feature of the disaster was the drowning
of the engineer of the launch
Year: 1875

GOVERNOR ALIENS WAY TO SPECIE Pay
arESTs. Ts.-They have just resumed specie pay
ments in Montevideo "The attempt Of the
government TO issue more paper money has
proved a complete failure No one will take
it, and gold is the only medium of circula-
lion. That is precisely the way Governor
ALIENS platform would bring the United
States back TO hard money
Year: 1875

THE AERIAL FIRE LADDER JoB.-Now that
the inquiry into the aerial fire ladder calam-
ity has closed it will be well to institute an
inquiry into the whole scandalous job of its
purchase by the city. Were any other Off
cials than the chief clerk of the Fire Depart
ment interested in the arrangement by which
the profits were divided between the reputed
owner of the patent and Secretary White2
Whose money was paid to Mrs. Scott Uda
by the chief clerk? How did the claim
happen to be paid Immediately after the pur-
chase by White? Are there not checks in the
Finance Department by which, before
claim is paid, its bona Jide owner can be dis
covered? These and other questions are of
interest, and certainly the. whole affair is
suspicious enough to demand some sort of an
investigation.
Year: 1875

In SPAIN the principal topic of public in
terest is still the extraordinary demands OF
the Papal Nuncio. The Ministry, it is
said, will make no concessions pref judicial to
the independence of the magistrates in deal
ing with the bishops, and especially the
Bishop of SEQ de Urgel. 1t is probable the
indictment hanging over the head of that
dignitary had a good deal to do with the
attempt to revive, in favor of ecclesiastics, an
immunity from civil and criminal punish
ments that has long ago fallen into disuse.
These repeated promises of frmness and
vigor on the part of the Ministry, coupled
with the delay in taking action, SAVIOR OF
timidity. The Nuncio has been replaced
and returns to Rome
Year: 1875

The Red Men and the Green Ones.


1t is proposed to put such tremendous
coat of whitewash on Secretary Delano and
the Indian Ring men that the country will be
actually forced into recognizing them as men
with characters to lose-therefore as men
who can be lbelled-and then upon this
foundation to build fine fabric of libel
suits with which to crush Professor Marsh
1t is of course, confidently believed that an
exhibition of this sort will deter any other
public spirited citizen from meddling at
any time in the future with the little games
of the powers that be. In reading the en-
thusiastic bulletins of the people who pro-
pose this campaign against Professor Marsh
the public will for moment have its mis-
givings of that gentleman's position, and
may naturally wonder whether he has been
imposed upon whether he has been YER
dant enough to become the tool of any
hostile interest, and so has put forth
charges that cannot be sustained. But
moments reflection will convince every
one that if there is any glaring verdancy in
this case it is not on the side Of Professor
Marsh, but ON the SIDE OF those who have
persuaded themselves that they can get rid
ofpublic opinion in this manner There is
no room to hope that any Of the parties con-
cerned in Indian frauds will sue Professor
Marsh for libel, because they know that
courts are one thing and investigating COM
mittees quite another. But if there should
be among them any such faith in legal tech
nicalities as will lead them to take this step
we shall then see the unusual spectacle of an
administrative attempt to crush man who
has denounced corruption in the interest Of
public honesty. In that case the man will
not be left alone to bear the burden of such
duty as his defence, but the public, in whose
interest he has spoken will rally to his sup
mort
Year: 1875

From RUSSIA It IS reported that the Cos
sacks of the Ural are resisting the conscrip-
ton law, and that some hundreds of them
have been sent to penal colony in Turkes-
tan. 1t is added that more are likely to
follow The new military law in Russia is
extremely rigorous, and must press very
heavily on the families of the poorer classes.
But individual suffering will not be allowed
to stand in the way of State necessities, and
Russia has stern and summary method of
dealing with disobedient subjects.
Year: 1875

The HERAID's Augusta correspondent
sends, in a letter printed elsewhere, some
extracts from the testimony of several col
ored men who were witnesses in the recent
conspiracy trials in Georgia What they
said is very curious reading 1t shows ex-
traordinary ignorance in the blacks, and
capacity to be easily misled by designing
and INSCRIPTIONS men. 1t discloses also, as
it appears to US, the fact that there are men
capable of misleading these negroes by
vague talk about their ''rights" and about
the necessity of asserting them Such dem
agogues appear to fill the minds of the
blacks with exalted notions of General
Grants power. They connect his name
with the old story of 'forty acres and
mule" and persuade the negroes that they
must depend upon the federal government
for 'justice" and have no need to care for
the State government or State laws


In fact, the negroes have taken literally the
oft-repeated cry that they are 'the nations
wards, and they prefer to live under such
guardian and entertain very absurd ideas of
what the federal power can and will do for
them. 1t is very necessary to disabuse them
of such notions, which can only lead them
into troublous waters and the duty of the
real friends of the black man, just now, is
to explain to him very clearly that he has
been made citizen ; that he has all the
rights and responsibilities of a citizen, and
no more. and that the federal government is
neither going to give him land nor protect
him in idleness or evil doing.