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Year: 1875

THE CONFESSION OF JACK CANTER one of
the most noted convicts ever imprisoned at
Sing Sing, which reaches us from Philadelphia
this morning, is a remarkable commentary on
the management of our State Prison. The
worst feature about this story is that it is
probably true. We have long feared that an
exposure of this kind would be made public
sooner or later, and we are not surprised
that it comes from such a source as that from
which this Cantcr confession emanates
Governor Tiden must give the matter his
earliest consideration.
Year: 1875

time. Within the last few days murders
have been unusually frequent, to which our
columns this morning bear too ample testi-
mony. Among the many crimes which it is
our duty to chronicle none is more
remarkable than the deadly assault by
In this case there is a great similarity to the
Nathan murder, 'dog" being the burglars
weapon, and the details are as terrible as it
is possible to conceive. A citizen was as
sailed, robbed and left to die in his store,
and, as usual, the police are without clew
to the perpetrator of the crime
Year: 1875

OLD KINGsBR1DGE RoAD.-The necessity of
providing for the improvement of the old
Kingsbridge road was long patent to the in
habitants of the upper part of the island,
and the Board of Aldermen has provided for
grading and paving it, Though the resolu-
ton was passed eight months ago, nothing has
been done as yet The whole subject is pre-
scnted in another column and is worthy of
general attention.
Year: 1875

Mr.. BEEcHER preached a Characteristic dis
course under canvas to an immense multi
nde at the Twin Mountain House yesterday
Regeneration was the distinguished pastors
heme. and in the course Of his sermon he
developed the idea which just now is at the
bottom of his heart. A happy household he
described as a human heaven, and throughout
his discourse he uttered thoughts which could
only have been drawn from his recent un-
happy cxperienceS
Year: 1875

The TRAMP NUISANCE, like the power of
King George, ''has increased, is increasing
and ought to be diminished;" and some ex-
tracts which we print elsewhere show that
the country people and authorities in several
States are taking the matter in hand. 1t is
high time; for most of these "sturdy beg
gars" are only thieves and highwaymen thinly
disguised, whom threat of employment
will drive away. Hard work is the last thing
they want. Let the vagrant laws which exist
in most of the States be sharply enforced,
and let the people in country neighborhood
turn out promptly to capture and punish the
first thief or robber who comes among them,
and the tramps will disappear. If anywhere
there is a number of persons out of employ
ment and actually willing to work organi-
cations can be easily formed to send them to
parts of the country where laborers are
needed. The Southern States need working
men, and thousands can there find constant
and remunerative employment at this very
time. There many enterprises suffering
there for lack of laborers.
Year: 1875

innocent craft that ever floated on the waters
is about to carry few pounds of powder to
ton becomes active as if by magic We
wonder how it happens. We wish the Span
ish detectives would let us into the secret of
managing our officials
Year: 1875

THE APPEALS in the Tweed six million suit
may be argued in the Supreme Court, Cen
eral Term, to-day. The question never
comes up without a display of legal sparring,
and unless counsel forbear on this occasion
the argument may go over until October.
1t is too much to expect we presume, that
this case will be acted upon and disposed of
as any other cause would be heard and
decided.
Year: 1875

We note in one of our telegraphic columns,
buried modestly among less important de-
spatches, that there has been controversy
in neighboring town between the Irish
and the Italians. In order that the story
may be properly understood we reprint it in
full -'Serious trouble is threatened at Dan
vers owing to jealousy between the Irish and
Italian laborers on the new hospital About
sixty of the Italians made a raid this morning
on the Irish boarding house, damaging the
interior considerably and driving the occu-
pants away. No one was injured. The
lesson we gather from this transaction
we cannot too earnestly impress upon our
New York rulers, those descendants of the
Irish kings who, by the grace of God, are
permitted to control the destinies of New
York. SO long as these monarchs continue
harmonious there is no trouble about New
York. We are docile people and loyal to
authority. Once that we see above us the
OMorrissey and the O'Kelly and the
OCreamer and the O'Murphy, and feel that
these representatives of the great rulers of
far distant past are united, we accept the stu
alton. We pay the taxes. We go on from year
to year acquiescent, submissive, thankful for
the many blessings that are vouchsafed to us
and yielding to no people in our reverence
for the law and its ministers. But the dis
sensions that have for the last few months
arisen in the councils of these imperial
rulers will result in the same state of affairs
that we note in Danvers.
Year: 1875

The Washington Chronicle takes con.
ISOLATION In anything that comes handy:
"Ihat the Republican party needed a
sudden. rousing 10 drag it forth from
its fancied security. no honest-minded
Republican will deny; and that there
Ia tidal wave setting In the oppo-
site direction, however, Is very plainly
evinced by the recent elections In
so ne OF the Eastern htates, and, al
though We cannot as a party expect
to regain at one grand stride the
ground We have In our apathy lost,
We have at least learned one ealutary
lesson, that We have q willy foe to
ceal with-oR whose vigilance Is the
most commendable trait In his CHAR
acter, and who will make desperate
night to maintain his hold upon his
hardly gained position"
Year: 1875

An enterprise quite original in its Or


ganizatiOu is about TO be started IN Berlin


which is indisputabiy calculated tcFinterest


all educated women everywhere. Under
the special guidance Of the Berlin "Protec-
tiOn for Women founded by a Mrs. Mar
lin Of that city, a number Of educated
women have formed a society, the end and
o ject If which is to render dress-making-
or, more strictly speaking, the making OF
all articles OffeI1ale Wear-a branch Of in
dustry for the higher classes, and thus i'm
part 10 these works Of the needle art
a higher significance than ever before
conceded 90 German hands. This first
'sAteliT,7 as they call it, (studiO or work
shop, if you Please,) connected with this
protection union is presided over by the
wife Of a physician residing in the capital.
Seconded by a select circle of ladies', by
their exquisite trimming as well a. their
handsome make, the first productions Of the
society are generally admired. The ladies
of the "Atelier" seem TO have drawn sharp
lines as to the qualifications for admission
in regard 20 education, as we are informed
that only such viii be permitted to join
them as have in their possession a certif-
icate Of having passed the first class Of
some higher female seminary. Moreover,
those ladies who desire to learn dress
making simply for their own use, and do
not wish to be accomplished, so that as q
matter Of business they may be able to act
in the capacity Of a principal Of some
g Ateliera in smaller towns, win be in
structed by regularly examined and passed
teachers.
Year: 1875

There seems q good prospect that the Com
mittee of Investigation appointed by the
Legislature will secure such an overwhelming
amount of evidence against some of our
police officials as will compel their retirement
into private life. So far the revelations are
most damaging to the police, even Police
Commissioners not escaping suspicion of
One of the worst features of the case is the
alleged attempt of some of the police captains
to suppress, by system of terrorism, testi-
mony calculated to tell against the depart
ment Enough has already been elected
from reputable witnesses to call for
the strictest investigation into the man
ner in which police administration works
in this city. If the statements made by the
witnesses already called can be satisfactorily
established the police must stand in the pill
lory as the accomplices and shiclders of
thieves rather than the protectors of the
property and lives of the citizens. This is q
state of things that cannot be permitted to
continue. No doubt the accused members of
the force depend on political influence to
secure them against the consequence of their
acts, but in this they are likely to find them
selves mistaken. Too many interests, wholly
independent of party politics, demand that
persons charged with the care of life and
property in this city should be above suspi-
con to permit the continuance on the police
force of any man against whom there is satis-
factory evidence of dishonesty, no matter how
powerful may be his political friends.
Year: 1875

spiracy to defeat the attempt at self-govern-
ment and hand the country over to the
shadows and feeble relic of the military tyr
amy. One man especially must find his
relation to this trouble such as to fill him
with poignant chagrin. Mr.. Rouher, chal-
lenged on the subject declared in the trib-
une on his word of honor that there was no
such committee to his knowledge and that he
at least had no relations with it. But if there
was anything plainly disclosed it was that the
committee met at this gentleman's house and
that he was its head. With all their political
faults in France they have not such an easy
political morality ns permits people to treat
such circumstance with tho lightness with
which we treat the Pacific Mail declarations
quently finds himself left in painful posi-
ton.


But though Imperialism writhes in the con-
flict like q wounded snaks. it has managed, as
the reptile might, to strike not inconsider-
able blow with its dangerous fangs. 1t has
driven the government to a declaration that
it regarded the Bonapartists as holding out
the constant menace of conspiracy on one
hand and the Left as presenting an equally
constant menace of open revolution on the
other; and this impolitic and unnecessary
declaration bas brought division between the
government and al important faction that has
supported ii. Out of this results Of conse-
quence may flow, for the Bonapartist battle
has only developed more clearly difficulty
that was in the nature of the parties between
the government and those whose votes helped
to carry out its programme; there was no
ence of common enemy. There was, on the
contrary, a latent hostility with which
they are now brought face to face, and
which it is not obvious that they can readily
overcome.
Year: 1875

We print this morning very interesting
RESUME of the anarchy which exists along the
line of the Rio Grande, together with long
list of the murders, outrages and robberies
committed by Mexican marauders upon
American citizens. This summary is the
work of committee of citizens of Browns
vile, Texas, who have gathered the facts for
the information of the State Department. with
the view of demanding the interference of the
government in their behalf Ever since the
close of our civil war Cortna and his band
of thieves have been paving the way for war
with Mexico, and sooner or later it is sure to
come unless these murders and outrages
cease. The Mexican authorities have II in
their power to put stop to all these wrongs
by the summary punishment of Cortina, now
in their hands, and if they allow him to
escape and return to his evil practices on the
Rio Grande they must expect to take the full
responsibility for all his acts The anarchy
on the American frontier has continued too
long already, and our people are in no
temper to allow fresh outrages TO be
added to the long list OF those
already committed. There is no necos-
sity for actual war at any time between
the two countries unless Mexico chooses to
make il; but if the Mexican authorities are
too weak to prevent the incursions of maraud-
ing bands into American territory the United
States will have to take the matter into their
own hands. Should war result from an effort
to suppress these outrages, while we would
regret it we would be compelled to accept it
as inevitable; but, whatever the cost, protec-
ton must be afforded to our citizens on the
Mexican frontier. No further wrongs, such as
arc detailed in the startling list of the Browns
vile committee, are to be allowed, and this
must be understood both in the American and
the Mexican capitals.
Year: 1875

The proposal to build o rapid transit rail-
way in Brooklyn is accepted with pleasure by
the people. But when the route of the pro-
sistent and screeching dissent. Property
holders on Myrtle avenue come forward and
scream against building the road on that ave-
nue.. Well, some avenue must be found, and
why not Myrtle as well as another? 1t runs
to Williamsburg into the most densely popu-
lated region of the city, and will open up the
country beyond.


This strife about q route in Brooklyn will
be repeated in New York. We all want rapid
transit, but no one wants to have any trouble
about it. Citizens on one avenue insist upon
using another, and so on. If we listen. to
these strifes we shall never have rapid transit.
The true way is to select the natural routes
the routes that will serve the public conven-
ience-and there build the road.


1t is mistake also to suppose that q rapid
transit elevated railway Injuries an ave-
nue.. Take Greenwich street as an
example. We have had an elevated
railway there for years, running over
the sidewalk. But Greenwich street is
as much a highway as before. The stores
are as prosperous as ever. The people come
and go and walk and drive on Greenwich
street as they do on the Bowery, and the
street is not as much injured by the elevated
railway as Myrtle avenue is by street rail-
way OF the two we think the street railway
the most Objectionable. If business man
had his choice, with Greenwich street as an
experience, he would much prefer the elevated
railway to the surface railway.


This is a trouble that we have Whenever
there is anything new. There was the same
clamor when the street cars were first run. The
stage coach people were furious and citizens
protested against surface railways as an inva-
sion of property. So when we had railways.
Steam would frighten the game, said the
nervous old noblemen, some of whom, like
the late Lord Derby, are millions out of
the increase of their property from the advent
of steam cars. Rapid transit will do no harm
to any avenue. horse or two may Jump,
but that will be all. On the other hand, it
would not surprise US if the building of O
rapid transit elevated railway along Myrtle
avenue would not largely enhance the value of
that highway, both for purposes of residence
and business.
Year: 1875

RECEPTION TO THE AMERICAN TEAM. The
half dozen gentlemen who are known to
fame as the joint committee of the National
Rife Association and Amateur Rife Club
met yesterday in secret session to devise some
mode of receiving the American team on
their return from Ireland. AS the members
of the press were excluded the public lose
the benefit of the oratory Of the discussion,
but by the great courtesy of the 'Star Cham
Der" are furnished with the decision arrived
at Though the joint committee dislike taxi
ing the public into their confidence they have
no objection to receiving the money of the
public to carry out their projects. On the
motion OF Colonel Wingate it was resolved to
present each member Of the returning team
with handsome testimonial, and the public
are asked to send in their subscriptions. The
members of the team deserve all the honors
that can be paid to them, but the 'joint COM
mittce" would do well to remember that with
out the aid of the public and the press their
efforts would amount to simply nothing at all.
In the interest of the team reception 1T might
be we'll for the Star Chamber Committee to
keep this fact in mind.
Year: 1875

If JEFF Davis had really been hanged on q
sour apple tree he would have been spared
many annoyances, much weariness and great
vexation of spirit. Having been permitted to
survive, and having outlived the glory Of his
relations to a great attempt, he has fallen
upon the evil days of q historical recital of
events on our side and malignant criticism
of his finite genius on his own side. His
latest experience is sad. General Creswell
in 1864 quoted a speech made by Davis in
1861, in which he said, "We will carry the
war where it is easy to advance, where
food for the sword and torch awaits
our armies in the densely populated
cities" Shocked to hear of this and
convinced that the amiable Davis was not the
sort Of person to use such words, Mr..
Perry wrote to him on the subject and the
ex-Presldent of the Confederacy readily
enough said che had no recollection of these
Year: 1875

CuBL-The reported interference Of foreign
Powers in favor of a peaceful settlement Of
the Cuban question is authoritatively denied
No steps have been taken of late by our gov
ernment and the Monroe doctrine will be
rigidly enforced, so far as other nations are
concerned. Still, it is pity wnsting, use
less war should be continued in Cuba when
the possibility Of Spain's holding the island
is already at an end.
Year: 1875

A CIRCULAR addressed by the French Min
ister of Foreign Affairs to the Consul General
of France in the United States will be found
in another column. It confirms officially the
reports already furnished by the press of the
extent of the calamity that has fallen on
France, and appoints a direct channel by
which aid can be furnished to the sufferers.
Year: 1875

TwEEDs LAWYERS have been successful in
their motion for a bill of particulars in the
suit Of the.city for the six million dollars the
Boss is charged with stealing The reform
lawyers will make moro money out OF the suit
than will the CITY.
Year: 1875

The RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSIONERS are
getting ready for the tussle with the crowds Of
inventive geniuses having systems to propose.
Contrary to general expectations the inventors
are neither numerous nor bold. There is nc
knowing, however, what the future may
bring. There are some evidences already
that the eccentricities of genius will be repre-
sented in the plans submitted, but these can
easily be disposed of. What the citizens want
is cheap and practical road, rendering il
possible to go from the Battery to Westches-
ter within halt an hour, and any system that
will accomplish this is sure to prove satIsfac-
tory to the public
Year: 1875

words" but recollected what be thought, and
it was not that Hereupon up comes the
respectable person who reported the speech
and telegraphed it to the Nashville Banner
and who produces the documentary evidence
that the men of the town where the speech
was delivered declared at the time that it was
a correct report. Davis is somewhat in the
same box with Beecher. He needs to be saved
from the friends who trot him out to prove his
virtues on all sorts of unnecessary occasions
and constantly get him deeper in the mire.
Year: 1875




A New Party-Tho Moro the Merrfer.


The beef-eaters have taken to quarrelling,
and now we have two rival republican organi-
cations. This new concern does not accept
not know its special grievance, but if the truth
were known we suppose it would be that the
members had not all been appointed to the
Custom House. Now, boss with Custom
House behind him can do many things. but
he cannot put thousand pegs into five hum
dred holes Boss Tweed used to come near it
when he had Garvey and Ingersoll to arrange
the bills, but the national government does
not permit this kind of finance. The result OF
this inability of Boss Tom Murphy to squeeze
his thousand pegs into five hundred holes is
naturally ''new party" The split in the
beef-eaters adds another to the many factions
now drilling for the fall campaign. We have
the beef-eaters, under Boss Tom Murphy
eager for Grant the third term, back pay and
all other comforts. We have the swallow tails,
under John Kelly, who hold that the true
duty of democrats is to vote the edicts of the
Manhattan Club card tables. We have the
short hairs, under John Morrissey, who con-
tend that the rank and file, the stalwart
heroes of Mullingar and Tipperary, who vote
early and often, have some rights which the
Manhattan Club should respect. We have
the plug uglies, under Boss Tom Creamer,
who are willing 10 take what they can find
Now comes the new party the discontented
~ r.. z%l
Grant, because Grant does not support them,
and who, we suppose, must be known as the
hash eaters, or men who are compelled to eat
that simple, wholesome, if not always accurate
compound, in the absence of good, sound
wholesome beef We welcome the new party
into the contest The more the merrier
Year: 1875

been for sometime past working his mines in the Castle Dome Dis trict, left by stage last Thursday for his home in Los Angeles, he ing called there by news of the illness of his wife. We hope for the speedy recovery of Mrs. Dock weller and that Henry will soon return to the Territory, for he is a live man and a good energetic citizen. We are glad to be able to say that he has been taking out a large amount of very rich ore from his mines, and that he is in good heart and perfectly satisfied with his prospects.

 But MT. DOckweiler's forte is hotel keeping, Every body who knows anything, knows that hO- tel keepers are born, not made, and Henry is one of them. You can't make a hotel keeper out of every man, any more than you can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. We have alively re- collection of many a good meal at Henry's table when he kept the Lafayette Hotel in Los Ange- les.

 But those happy days are over, and now the genial old landlord is turned into a lousy but rich miner. Come back soon, Henry,
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, May 5.-CrOp re-
ports received to-day from various parts
of the State, show that in Sacramento
valley the yield of wheat will be from q
half to three quarters of an average. In
SolOnO county the prospects are good for
q fair crop; the same in Napa and SonO-
mo valleys. In Saa Jauquin valley crops
are very bad, and in many locaIi-
ties will not produce seed. The
whole valley will not probably
average over quarter of crop The
San Jose valley will produce a good half
average. In Salinas valley the wheat
ls in splendid condition on the higher
land, covering about seventy-fiye thou
sand acres, but on the river bottom half
crop is the extreme estimate. In the
southern counties grain generally is in
good condition, and the increased area
planted will probably afford the usual
surplus.
Year: 1875

THE New Orleans Bulletin presents
William S. Calhoun, long a political
chief in the parish Of Grant, long q
member OF a corrupt radical legislature,
long a prominent radical manager, long
the cherished isvoTite counselor and
agent Of a large and wicked negro con-
stituency, long the political dictator and
dispenser Of offices in Grant parish, the
active and knowing producer Of the Col
fax tragedy, and how a tried, proven
and convicted felon, as a sample radical
politician and office-holder Of LOuisi-
ana; and adds that "if it is any comfort
to his friends, We will say that he is no
worse than the average Of the men in
Office by whom our State is and has long
been afflicted. BY Calhoun as a sample,
the radical chiefs of louisiana may be
Judged"
Year: 1875

New York Evening Post.


Ii was remarkable preteDse Of some
Of the speakers-we refer particularly to
Mr.. Adams s-that it is possible for third
party to be organized under the title Of
independent" that shall alternately
favor one or the other Of the two great
parties which always contend for the
supremacy. The assumption that a
third party can long exist in such a re-
latiOn to the other two ia contrary to all
political experience. 1t must inevita-
bly, yield to bad control, or modify one
of the two so as to merge in it, or else
dwindle into insignificance. In any
event its mission and career are bound
to be temporary. Independence of part
isan control on the part of the individual
voter is one thing, but the permanent
organization Of body OF voters to be
bid for like goods at an auction sale is
something very different.