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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1873.

The Week.

[R. BOUTWELL has appeared before the Committee of Ways and Means to explain his dealings with the Syndicate, and obtain from it an expression of opinion as to the propriety of his disposing of the remainder of the five per cent. loan on the same terms and through the same machinery. His account added little or nothing to what was already known; he made no attempt to deny that he had broken the law, but pleaded the necessity of the case. He at first appointed a great number of bankers, including the whole of the national banks in this country, as agents for the sale of the loan at the legal commission of a quarter per cent.; but none of them except the national banks did anything, and they only took sixty millions, which Mr. Boutwell says was largely due to "a feeling of patriotism," but no "patriotism" could get them beyond this amount without more inducement in the shape of filthy lucro. He, therefore, tried what he called the "new system," or in plain English disregarded the Act of Congress, and offered terms to the Syndicate which he had not offered to the banks. He gave the Syndicate new bonds in exchange for old ones-but the old ones were not deliverable for three months after the subscription of the new ones, and during these three months interest amounting in all to eleven per cent. per annum ran against the Government on both bonds; in other words, the Syndicate got one and a half per cent. commission for placing the loan in the shape of interest in the first instance, then one-eighth commission, besides whatever remained out of the one-half per cent. allowed by law, after the expenses, such as the printing and engraving and advertising of the whole loan of $200,000,000, had been paid, and what was left of the commission which might have been paid, but was not, on the $60,000,000. The question, of course, will suggest itself to everybody's mind, now that he proposes to repeat this process-why does he not go into the market, and offer to the whole world the terms he offers the Syndicate? He has never tried this; why not try it now?

Mr. Boutwell has offered his resignation, and Judge Richardson bids fair to succeed him, though Mr. E. D. Morgan, of this city, is talked of; and some people say there is a strong probability that the State Department will be offered to Mr. Adams, as a sort of concession to the Liberals. Mr. Morgan would bring to the Treasury the strong common sense and experience of a successful business man, whose head has never been ravaged by political nostrums, but even he is unfit to "move the crops." Mr. Adams's appointment would be very valuable to the country, if his advice were taken on matters outside his own office, in which there is at present nothing very important going on. Judge Hoar is talked of for the same place, and with some probability. Mr. Boutwell's administration of his office is admitted on all hands to have been eminently honest; but he has been one of those honest men who, in this world, prepare the way for thieves. His views of the civil service, of the force of law, and of the value of human experience, and of statistics, are those in which thieves delight, as they afford the fullest play to their ingenuity. Nothing has, however, more amused and excited all the loose fishes of the community than his views on the subject of "moving the crops." Since he has revealed his opinion of the duty of the Treasury in this particular, his place has become an object of passionate longing to thousands of "financiers," who never cared a cent for it before. The idea of being able to issue greenbacks every fall" for the relief of the community," is one that fills their imaginations as no earthly dream has ever done before. Hundreds of men in Wall Street would give ten years of life to be allowed "to

move the crops" for even one year, and look on Judge Richardson as one of the luckiest dogs that ever drew a check.

The Louisiana Committee have published an address to the people of the United States describing the recent occurrences at New Orleans. It is on the whole a clear and temperate document, and its statement of facts leaves, in our opinion, nothing to be desired. The facts are these—and we commend them to the carnest attention of our readers. There was an election on the 4th of November of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and members of the State Legislature, besides the Federal officers. The candidates for the governorship and lieutenant-governorship were Kellogg aud Antoine on one side, and McHenry and Penn on the other. It passed off quietly, and the returns were duly made to the Board of Canvassers. This Board consisted, under the State law, of the Governor (Warmoth), Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, and two other persons named Lynch and Anderson. The Secretary of State was then a person named Heron, who had been put in the place by Warmoth in place of one Bovce, removed several months before, and the legality of this removal was in litigation before the State courts. When the Board met, the majority resolved that Pinchback, the Lieutenant-Governor, and Anderson were disqualified, as being themselves candidates for office, and Warmoth removed Heron, the Secretary of State, "as a defaulter," and appointed one Wharton in his place. The Board then consisted of Warmoth and Wharton and Lynch, Lynch forming a hostile minority. The excuse Warmoth made for removing Heron was that he had detected him in a plot to falsify the returns, which may or may not have been true; but it was true, and looks suspicious, that Heron had got a duplicate of the great seal of the State engraved several days before in preparation for a possible removal. The majority then proceeded to fill up the vacancies by electing Hatch and Dupont; but Lynch, allying himself with Heron, also proceeded to fill the same vacancies by electing Longstreet and Hawkins. There were then two boards-one presided over by the Governor and in possession of the returns, and the other composed of Lynch, Heron, Longstreet, and Hawkins. Things were in this position when the State Court decided that the removal of Bovee and appointment of Heron to tho Secretaryship of State by Warmoth were illegal. This brought Bovee back into office and into Board No. 1, and left Heron "out in the cold." The state of things was now pretty bad, but it was one with which the State law was abundantly competent to deal.

Now comes the usurpation complained of: Kellogg and Antoine, the two candidates on one ticket, without waiting for either Board of Canvassers to make its count or announce its decision, rushed into the Federal Circuit Court and filed a bill in equity under the Enforcement Act, making Board No. 1 defendants, alleging that they had a majority at the polls, that 10,000 of their voters had been prevented from voting, and praying to have Warmoth's Board restrained from acting. Pending the suit, an ex-parte order was granted in Kellogg's suit based on the charge that Warmoth's Board had improperly made a proclamation and return, directing the United States Marshal to seize and hold the State House, and prevent all persons assembling there under or by virtue of the Warmoth canvass, but to permit the entry of such persons as he (the Marshal) thought entitled to it; in other words, a United States Judge directed the Marshal to seize the State House and pass himself on the qualifications of all persons presenting themselves at the door and professing to be State legislators. Another order issued in Antoine's suit enjoined the Governor of the State from counting the State votes except in the presence of officers appointed by the Court, or from organizing the State Legislature or the Senate, or from interfering in any way with the returns of the Bovce Board; forbid

ding twenty persons by name from taking seats in the Senate unless they were returned by the Bovee Board, and one hundred persous in like manner from taking seats in the Lower House; forbidding the clerks and officers of both Houses and the Secretary of State from recognizing as members any persons whose names were not on Bovee's list; forbidding the Metropolitan Police from interfering with the assembling of persons returned on Bovee's list; and forbidding the Governor's Board from acting in any manner. Under these orders, the Marshal, in command of a body of United States troops, took and held the State House as directed. comment on this is unnecessary; but it must be borne in mind that all this was done under that little clause of the Enforcement Act which gives persons the right to sue for the recovery of an office of which they allege themselves to have been deprived by reason of the denial to some person or persons of the right to vote by reason of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The State government thus set up was promptly recognized by telegraph by the President.

wars. The recovery of the editor of the World from what the Times believed to be a fatal illness appears to have exasperated the latter paper exceedingly, and he had hardly begun to show himself once more in public when it called him "Mantilini Marble," and accused him of accepting a house on Fifth Avenue as a bribe from the Ring. To which the World responded by calling the editor of the Times "Jennings" and an "unconscionable ass," and accusing him of ceasing his attacks on the Dock Commissioners in consideration of the appointment of his father-in-law to an office. This seems to 66 All have staggered the Times a little, but it came up smiling," aud acknowledged the appointment of the father-in-law, but denied that it was made at its request or with its knowledge or approval. Whereupon the World uttered a whoop of triumph, and called for the name of "Jennings's" uncle, in order that he too might have an office. To which the Times made answer by reproducing a letter of the editor of the World, published some months ago in his own paper, as that of "a lunatic," and announced that the author was "off to Bloomingdale." On the other hand, a treaty of peace and amity has been concluded between the Times and Sun, the latter having been moved by the spectacle of the Times's efforts in behalf of "the poor children"; and the two editors, each of whom has repeatedly within a year made public proclamation of his belief that the other was a frightful scoundrel, are now supposed to be cooperating in works of philanthropy. The Tribune, in the meantime, maintains its attitude of decorous calm, and surveys the field with rapt prophetic gaze." But it must often feel, as it hears the rattle of the mud and stones on the tin armor of the combatants, like the pious young man who exclaimed, on his return from his

The only answer to the address of the Louisiana Committee from the friends of the Administration appears in the New York Times, in the shape of a "dissection" of that document, in two anonymous letters. The main points the writer makes against the committee is an allegation of the moral badness of the Warmoth party, which we suppose there is no denying, and the somewhat sophistical statement that, as Judge Durell's injunctions were levelled against certain individuals by name, they could not be said to be directed against the State Government. "The bill," he says, was drawn by one of the most experienced chancery lawyers in Louisiana, and the proceedings were in all respects in conformity travels, "Ah! what a good time I might have had in Paris if I had

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with the law and practice of the court"; and he evidently thinks that with these securities the people of the United States ought to be fully satisfied. All that Judge Durell has done, it appears, is "to decide that the returns of the election should be deposited in his court with the clerk thereof, that they might be counted by the legal returning officers." Unfortunately, as the Judge decided himself who were the legal returning officers, and employed armed force to prevent the meeting of any legislators not returned by these officers, he may be said to have organized the whole State Government himself, and he did this because some one swore before him that he believed that a wrong was going to be committed against him by a board which had not yet acted. Under this "chancery practice," Judge Blatchford could take charge of the entire election machinery of this State on the morning of the election every year, for there are hundreds who would "file bills declaring their belief that somebody was going to cheat him out of an office or vote. At the pace at which we are now travelling, every District Judge in the country will be converted into a French prefect in about five years, and his "law" would be the queerest mixture ever administered.

We have received a letter from an advocate of the Postal Tele

graph who is disappointed that, in our discussion of the subject lately, we both admitted that the Government could cheapen messages and showed that this could not be done by reducing tariffs. He professes to have read Sir James Anderson, and admits his authority; but his recollections of the work differ from our statements. He also calls attention to errors in estimates made some years ago as to the number of messages transmitted in this country. We need only say that we took pains to get at the facts, and have ascertained our own figures to be correct; that in quoting Sir James we spoke from the book, which emphasizes by capitals, italics, and separate paragraphs the résumé of principles to which we referred; and that only a very hasty reading could have led him into his The Nation is trying to give its readers the material for an impartial and intelligent judgment on this subject, and our correspondent will probably be better pleased when we examine where in a Government telegraph is cheap.

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After a brief period of calm following on Mr. Greeley's death, journalistic circles" are again agitated by wars and rumors of

never experienced a change of heart."

The snow-storm which followed upon the heels of Christmas promises to give character to the season, of whose severity, indeed, we had unmistakable premonitions in November. The obstructions to travel, however, have not been in proportion to the magnitude and vast extent of the storm-embracing the eastern half of the Mississippi Valley, and the coast-except in the large cities, where a heavy snow-fall has always about the same effect as the horse-distemper for corresponding periods; and except on our suburban lines of railroad, whose managers seem to regard the snow-plough either as an invention of the adversary, or else as an instrument very convenient in the West or in Canada, but not worth keeping on hand in this part of the world. Their superstitious dread of the telegraph, too, in such emergencies as overtook them on Thursday last, is equally noticeable. They permit the suburban resident doing business in New York to cross a great river full of floating ice, in a dense fog, and to spend half a day in a close and crowded waitingroom, without making any effort to inform him of what is being done to clear the road, when the first train will start, or what his chances are of getting home that night. All this might be posted conspicuously for his benefit on a blackboard this side the ferry, with a great saving of his time and peace of mind. But such forethought would be almost miraculous.

Somebody is writing in the New York Times about the ErieGould transaction in a state of gross ignorance, to which we beg to call the attention of the editor. To talk as he talks about the Erie directors "compounding a felony," in accepting Gould's money, is to make a sad display of mental darkness. The suit of the Erie directors against Gould was a civil suit-and had the Erie directors prosecuted it to the last extremity, and got a verdict, they could larger at the outside than $9,726,541 26 and costs. not have obtained from Gould anything but a sum of money, no A few minutes' reading of the New York Code, or a few minutes' conversation with any lawyer, would therefore have prevented the Times from indulging in the "moral" blatherskite to which it has been treating its readers on this subject for the last fortnight. The Erie directors have got all from Gould they could have hoped to get by their suit;

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