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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

The debate in the Senate on the bill for a steam
revenue. cutter Is worthy Of note from the light it
throws ON the ideas entertained by some gentlemen
on the subject of Government expenditures. 1t has
been the custom of late years, during the severest
weather of Winter, at which time the revenue.
cutters are least needed for revenue purposes, TO
send them to cruise off the coast for the relief and
supply of vessels which, at that Indictment season,
are apt to find themselves in distress. This, like
the employ in some recent cases of Govern.
ment vessels to convey provisions freight-free to
starving communities abroad, is one Of the new
modes in which Government establishments have
been made to contribute to the supplementary relief
Of suffering individuals. Among other reasons for
. steam cutter, it was suggested that one so fitted
out could be made efficient for this supplementary
service.
This suggestion, however, made but an uniavora.
bic impression upon Mr.. TOOmbs. He saw in it
only reason for opposing the bill. For Govern
ment to volunteer for the relief of individual suf-
feripg and distress, is thing in which he can see no
propriety. Even the saving of property, matter
moro within the scope Of his ideas, provided It is
only "for the benefit of insurance companies" and
"people engaged in commercial pursuits" did not
appear to him to be within the legitimate scope Of
Government expenditure. The bill as originally in
troduSsd proposed steam cutter for the service
exclusively Of the port Of New-York. This provis-
ion was struck out, and the new steam. cutter was
thus left, Like the other vessels belonging TO the
Revenue Department, at the discretion Of the
Secretary of the Treasury, ~ be employed a. he
might direct. 1t was suggested that steam cutters
M ght be advantageously employed from other ports
beside that Of New. York, especially in the matter
of afordipg relief to distressed vessels. This
change, however, only made the matter worse in
the eyes Of Mr.. Toonbs, since it seemed to look to
the relief ard benefit of not merely the mariners,
irsursnce-oficts and commercial people of the City
Of New York, but of those of the whole country.
An attempt was made TO sppease Mr. Tocmbs BY
suggesting that such steam cutter might be bene-
6cially employed as an additional safeguard against
vessels fitted out for the African slave-trade; but
this was but adding gall to bitterness. 1t was pro-
nourced by Mr.. ToOmbs ga very singular argu-
melt;" and, indeed considered as addressed to
him, ii certainly wac so.
There was, however, another suggestion which.
bad /. been seascnab'y aud ski fully made, nigh
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

The Treaty recently negotiated in London be-
tween our ambassador and the British Secretary
for Foreign Affairs, which would seem to have
been surreptitiOusly procured and published, is
transferred to our columns to-day. We desire to
have it distinctly understood that we do not incite
our correspondents at Washington or elsewhere to
purlon or puryey Treaties which are stu withheld
from publication by our Government, and cherish
no ambition for eminence in that sort of enterprise
If this Treaty had been procured for and offered to
us exclusively, we should have felt bound to de-
cline or withhold it. Since it is already public,
however, we print it, presuming it to DO substan-
tally like the actual Treaty though its literal ac-
curacy is of course not to be relied on.
This Treaty is one of very grave character. 1t
has no parallel in the past diplomacy of our Gov
eminent but that negotiated between Messrs. Clay
ton and Bulwer, which it far outvies in all that
rendered that instrument remarkable Its recog.
milton of the Mosquito savages as an Independent
power, with large extent of territory; its stpu-
lations that our Government, in connection with
that of Great Britain shall un lertake to settle
the reciprocal limits Of Nicaragua, Costa Rica
and Mosquitoes its singular and complicated pro-
visions with respect to Greytown, or San Juan
do Nicaragua; it's express recognition of Brit
ish Honduras and attempts to define her
boundaries, are at least far out of the ordinary
course of our diplomacy, contrast strongly with
our current eers at British assumptions with regard
to Mosquito, and are just such as none other than
Democratic Administration could reasonably hope
to carry through the Senate and sustain before the
country. On the whole we are inclined to approve
and uphold this Treaty, though not without mis-
gvings that it will ultimately involve us in worse
complications than those it resolves. We consider
its stpulatiOns in the main fair and equal, though
entangliBg, and We are inclined rather to regret
that exigencies exist which demand such Treaty
than to complain that those exigences have not bean
more wisely met
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

We have received q pamphle. containing two
vigorOusly.writteu Letters On the Public Schools
Of Philadelphia which the writer, Mr. Thomas
l.. name, describes as thrown away ON the Board
Of Controllers The authorities Of that goodly
city are also apparently meeting with the same
difficulties in respect to education as those of our
more wicked metropolis. Mr.. Kane certainly
does not draw hattering picture: "Con.
"plsints arising from all quarters, from owners Of
dwellings, stores, wharves and workshops, of the
youthful beggars and youthful pilferers! Every
magistrate called upon to commit boy thieves
"boy incendmiies, boy rioters, shop-lifters and
"house-breakers. The jails full, the Magdalen and
"Rosine Houses full, the House of Refuge also a.
"a yearly cost, including interest, of S54,O OO."
Out Of the 3s7 children in the Phiadelphis House
Of Refuge between the ages Of twelve and fourteen
four-,evenths cannot read at ALL and but one
eighteenth can read understaudingly. OF the
Q,Q00 children under six years who are Old enough
to be tett to school, 10000 are almost entirely
neglected BY their parents, ard left on the streets.
Ia the Public Schools, which, in Philadelphia, 40
bete. have brokeu up maiy Of the private schools,
the lumber of children in ai.stiaLc between the
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

ages OF PIX ana sUReu, ID CouPuo~ '"A - 49,
1854 at a. SOC; the number of persons OF the same
age in the city, by the United States Census "
given at 100, 256-showing non.attendauce OF boys
and girls during the years when schoo-srainlng
most valuable of over $4,000. The proper
tion, also, of attendance il declining. The
increase of population in Philndephia since
1850. being 30 per cent; Of attendance on the
Public Schools, only l4.4 per cent; showing that
the increased population does not at all bring with
Il proportonate interest to share in the means OF
education.
These are astounding figures to be given OF city
like Philadelphia, where Police control can be exer-
csed so much more efficiently than in New-YOrk.
There are is true certain causes for this state OF
things there, which do not exist here one principal
reason being an absurd law forbid ling the Public
Schools to receive any child under six years OF
age. Still, the numbers of children between six
and sixteen who do not 60 to school, show
substantially the same evils which our schools
suffer from here, and that there is large
Increasing, dangerous class, whom the means Of
education do not reach. Tho public schools,
whether of Pennsylvania or of New-YOrk, are
EOO0: Dut IOr SOME IthboE, WulCu thC PuohS oA"oio
understand, they are not educating the masses who
most need education. Let this great want and
danger be plainly kept before our citizens. Here
are in the City of New-YOrk, your fifty thousand
boys and girls, growing up without that special
cultivation which we have hitherto thought indis-
psnsable for the safety of the commonwealth. They
are to be, we will not say vicious, but ignorant, uu
trained, men and women. They are to enter
on the duties Of citizenship, without being able to
read even newspaper-liable, of course, to be led
by the nose by every ranting demagogue. They are
to be fathers and mothers without vauing or in any
way aiding in the education of their children. The
greatest safeguard against ntemperance, lasts for
intelligent pursuits, they will never have. Many Of
them will be drunkards, many idlers, some prosti-
tutes, some thieves and vagabonds. AT the best
and most hopeful view, they tend to form great,
ignorant, undevelOped class at the base Of society,
dangerous Ikea similar class in Europe, because
ignorant.
How is this impending calamity to be met :
This is the question for our citizens and our City
Government. We have already sketched q plan for
the formation of Public Schools by the Board of
Education, which shall absorb the Industrial
Schools already established by private benevolence
to meet the wants of this class Of children. We
have reason to believe that much attention has
already been given to our suggestions. OF course,
the details of luch plan must be worked out BY
those more thoroughly acquainted with the subject
but at least we may soy to the gentlemen in the
Beard of Education, that the time has now come
for some action, and the public await their remedy
for these widely extended evils.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

Of the residue Of his victims whatever sum each
may have had-from S. up to $1,000. He seems
to have calculated-we cannot say how justiy-
that any woman who would answer an advertise
ment for wife might safely be counted on as ready
to be persuaded into any further in iiscreson; and
that boundless continent Of wealth and pleasure
wss thus opened to his enterprise and insinuating
manners.
But all things have an end-s career Of prosper
GUS villainy is seldom long in finding one. A Yam
kee whose sister he had unmistakaby seduced came
down here one morning with pistol, intent on
making hole in the wife-hunter's head to deter
mine whether he was az devoid of brains as Of
heart. The tidipgs of this advent fastened tho
bepirs of our adventurous subject, and the next
day heralded the fact that DR.. Samuel Thresher
Lyons-(for such was bis more usual and we DO
Geve bis earlier appellation) had departed for Lv-
erpool, giving out that he was on his way to Aus
tralia. Should he continue bis travels so far, we
presume he will take care not to take up his re-
sidence within thousand miles of his former abode
on that continent.
There is moral in this history which we pre-
fer that confdiDg young ladies Of romantic dis
position and easily fascinated BY o pair Of flowing
black mustaches Especially if attached to per-
feet strangely, should draw for themselves.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

Some eighteen years ago, young American In
Paris appealed to another of like origin but sfunlike
circumstances-No. 2 having something over, while
No. was decidedly shOrt-a too common case, we
lament the necessity Of saying, with young Ameri'
cans in Europe. No. 2 loaned No. two hundred
doars, wherewith the latter was enabled to obtain
. clearance for London, where he was soon after
arrested on q charge Of stealing watch from
woman in house of i'll fame, convicted, and sem
fenced to death. By the interposition Of No. aud
other Americans in influential quarters, his sen.
tence was COMMITTED into transportation for life,
and the next year saw our young countryman at
work in feon's earb in Australia. How long he
remained there, we have not learned; judging from
his dislike of work snd fondness for good society,
we infer that it was not very long; but seven
teen years from the date of bis transportation afore-
said, No. hailed No. in the streets Of this city,
and alluded 10 that trine of loan which be voun.
tered promise to pay-a promise not yet fulfilled
No. continued TO flourish in this city for some
months afterward, giving some attention to poll
ties De was "Natiopal" American), but deyOting
himielf mainly to the fair sex, of whom it is COM
puted that he deceived, seduced and s1indled some
hundred or twO-gaining an interview with each
by advertising for wife, governess or house.
keeper, making violent love on the instant, and
generally robbipg each Of her virtue, If virtue she
hsd TO lose in The course of one or two days &C.
quantsnee and her money BY the end of the weel.
From one married woman he obtained 81, 100, AMI
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

we imagine, have silenoed Mr.. Tooubs's objections.
He might have been reminded that the revenue
cutters beside being occasionally employed in the
relief Of distressed vessels and for the special benefit
of insurance offices, and persons engaged in CONNER
cia pursuits have also occasionally been employed
for the relief of distressed shareholders, and to as
sst and Operate in the enforcement of the Fugitive
Slave law. II We are not very much mistaken,
they were put to this use in some Of the Boston
Slave cases; and it must be apparent that steam
would render them more efficient for this as for
other purposes. Whatever objection Mr.. Toombs
may entertain to the employment Of revenue cut
tiers in the relief of distressed vessels and for the
benefit of insurance companies and people engaged
in CONNER al pursuits, he would doubt ess consider
their employment for the relief Of distressed slave
holders, ard 10 the enforcement Of the Fugitive
Slave law, as entirely within the Constitution, and,
indeed, imperatvely required by it; so that de1.
ferrous use of this suggestion might have converted
him from an opponent into supporter Of the bill.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

RyruRFrsc TO "PARLirrxEL LTE."-"I have re-
GENTLY given sp all idea Of women folks and came
hsck 70 psskel life. am more at home In this line
bsn Ia iunn The fair accts. Angis in pettkotes au
skts me qrioks is purity to look a. an gan IN. bit
fsb for 'em and get bite you somehow or other find
xoor Ell al the wrong end Of the line; they've cotched
yyou, An when you've stuffed 'em with peanuts,
O. " ard doggeripes they throw you away a. they
would cold fato. Lesstxise that's been my expert
60 But I've done with 'em nsw The Queen OF
81. be-. The S'eepin Beauty. Ksopaty's Needle
pon nsss Pillar and Lots wife with STEAM erginc
g. Leln 'en, Couldn't tempt me. The .ery site OF q
LObnu .lles me all ever. lroi'iAau Aia"siP"
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

A new question has arisen in the House of Rep.
resentatives, which, as affecting the perquisitss
of Members, may be presumed to excite some in.
terest on the floor. We will give some idea Of it:
On the 9TH of July last, the House, after defeat
ing the usual efforts to amend lay on the table, &C.,
passed yeas "a, Nays SPY the following resolve:
Tina. c1 Il Of sh the MSu:s s of ties
Hou present who have not already received
the andPay for the came out Of the CONTINGENT fund Of
furnished to the new members and DELEGATES
IN the ls;. Cone 9Ede the Joint reSution o. az
20 e Prorded That they be furnished at prices not exceed
ing ho. for which they were heretofore supplied to such mem
bers and delegates"
Some five or six weeks after the passage Of the
above the House amended and passed the Senate's
famous Compensation bill, of which one section
reads as follows:
"sEc5 And further enacted, Tia. i any books shall
h
psorded ioTere That this shall not extend to books
TO be Rhe e 81 % naiss
We do not perceive any inconpatibility in
these two provisions. The clear intent Of whoever
drafted or shaped this section was not to cut off
the books already voted to the new Members of the
present Congress, but to interdcs and prevent all
similar provisions for Members of future Con-
crosses. Judging from what has hitherto been
done in like cases, we presume the Clerk
will be enabled to fulfill bis cOntracss-in.
deed, We do not see how the House could
leave him in the lurch, il the facts be
as stated-namely, that the Clerk had already con-
tractcd for the books, under the resolve above
quoted, before the Compensation bill was enacted
There may be struggles but the new Members will
finally get their books; and we trust they will pay for
them by q careful lewiston and amendment Of the
Compensation Act Reduce the Mileage to ten
cents per mile for short and long routes alike,
straighten its worst curves so that no Member shall
charge more than fifteen cents per mile by the
shortest mail route, and make the fine for volun.
tary absence from each days session not less than
thirty dollars, and few will ask or care whether the
Book distribution ceased with the XXXIIId or
the XXXIVth Congress.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25
A TERRIBIE ACCIDENT AT LACYvILLE, Pa


MAN AND HoRsE THROWN Dowx PREcITIcE TwEST1 FV
proprietor of the Lacyye Hotel met with acca an
On The euug the 2st Of October As he was ding along
the towpsth the canal bic horse became frightened anu T hs
denly plunged down pecipice twenty-five eet asep Inc
horre instantly killed and the msnsed body oil M sPIn
ra carried home to his afflicted parents as corpse.
We here give the fathers evidence Is To the result o lS
accident: $1,000. . .u
On looking the bleeding and msnsed face Of my son my
heart sickened never such horrd sight before All
biz front knocked out large holes were cut through
h throat chin into his mouth his jaw was broken sno
his body was Of bruises and cuts Every one thought MN
dead many said they would much rather mud him dead
than alive. work and washed the blood from his lace
and WOUNDS for thirty six hours rubbed bis whole oody
with remedy-God bless that will never be forgotten
Rsdv avs Ready Relief He then became sensible TO pam
seemed a. il life had entered his msnsed body After
this applied the Ready Relief five minutes for three days
Al w nights To the cuts and WOUNDS applied hadwa
Ready Relief and milk He IL now nearly well and
waking about house; bis wounds healed and bu nte
scsIrd the all well If any require further in
formation let them sddress at Lscyvie Pa am the pro-
prietor Lacyve Hotel this place aud well known 10
this State. ~ opKaS.
To bessrs. RAILWAY 4 Co Monday Dec. g. 1876.
The original Of T. D. Spring, ESQ., be on APP
pcsion Office Railways Ready Relief quckens the
sccn heart and equaes the circulation OF the
establishes in the system Of the weak crippled feeble aud
fhoe who with modem accidents falls By which, to all
organs of the system to perform their
functions new life Let those who In pain give RadwIy
Ready Relief trial Sold by Druggists Merchants, and
Others. RAILWAY Co., No. I62 Futonst, New-York.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25
Mtw9l 1aHp @tibnaoe
THURSDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1856.
TO CORPEsPONDENTs

No notss Be taken Communicated Wat
ever offended for insertion must Be authenticated the
name address THE writsrnot necessarily for puooe'
ton, but - q guaranty Of his good faith
We ndertake return rejected commandments
eubse iber In sending emittanccs frequently omit 70 me
Non the name of the Post-Ooe, and frequently the
name of the S,ste which their p<per TO be sent Al
vays nae ption the name OF the Poet QGee and State
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

In the HOUSE, yesterday, the Coinage Bill was
postponed for two weeks.
Mr. RICE introduced bill authorizing the people
of Minnesota to form Constitution aud State Gov
eminent.
The SENATE was not in session.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

Today, Icing Christmas Day, zoe shall issue no
Erenisg Edition.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

The RssseV Family, by ANNA HAsTIscs, the title
of religious story, founded on real life, and intended
especially for Christian mothers. (l2mo., PIP. POI.
n. w. Dodd.)
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25
G0In AND SILYER MATCHED,

D.uorp RINGS and PINS JEwELRY and SILVER WARt iof
al. a. hoessIe and retail at less than the usual pces Dy
AIN Importer Of Watches and Jewey, No ii "sus's
sscopd Aoor near Broadway.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

AtNo SIC BRoApwAy, New. York; No. SO Chessnatss,
ptids Jrhi.. soripe6eid Mass-THE
IInn 1vEs EvgNrKp and In In America and Europe,
a sduassd by the Scientific Jurors at the Worlds Fairs 1t
snd sTst Surseors In America Pamphiefs ssnt gratis
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

The whole sock embracing every variety of Dolls Game:
Tovs &C. AZ RoeERss extensive Fancy Store No. 491 BROAD
Ito be cold of this month"; less prices than ever before
cstyed In this city H. S. ROGERS, No. 499 Broadway
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25
IT'S FOR GENTLEMEN.

PRESENTS FOR GENTLEMEN.
hiopsble COLLARS Rrich ScARFs ,s
Fux GAUETLETs, TRAVELLING sHAwLs SILK s ohnasS 10
Ira Pm 4 Sos. No. 81 NRtsaust
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT, THE GRAND ExTER-
N. R,mEpy-Rubbed on skin will penetrate the pores
the dangerous inward complaints
bitb. rto improbable.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

At that period the expediency OF common deiberar
ton seemed equally TO meet with the approval of the
courts of Vienna and London. While this measure
was made the subject of confidential communications
exchanged among the various Cabinets, a new incl
dent up to chow the necessity for recurring to
immediate meeting of their Representatives. That
incident grew out of divergence of opinion which
divided the Commissioners Of the contracting powers
charged with the duty of laying off the boundary
of Beessraba. IT. up to that time, their abo promised
speedy and satisfactory conclusion, 1t Is but just to
advert to the share which the Imperial Cabinet Of
Russia contributed to this result. Whenever the
Commissioners, answerable for their acts, met with
local difficulty which it not their province to re-
move Of their own authority, an immediate decision,
transmitted by order Of the Emperor, dispeled the
doubt and made easy their abors by exercise OF per-
.ect spirit Of Cancellation. Two facts will be sufficient
justify the truth of this assertion. In virtue Of article
twentieth the frontier beginning one kometer east
Of Lake Bouma Soa was to have fallen perpendiculahy
10 the highway of Alderman. This line bsected tho
Lake Hadji Brahim and left the whole of Lake Basi-
lam to Russia. survey of the ground had demon
trated the improperly Of such limitation, and the
imperial Cabinet Immediately authorized its Commits.
soners to remedy this inconvenience to include
both lakes within the Moldavian territory. In tho
second place, article twentieth called for the termina-
ton of the frontier at Katamori on the Pnth. The
text Of the treaty did not define whether that spot
should belong to Russia or to Moldsvia. The Impe-
rial Cabinet removed the difficulty byts consent 10
the anne Ration Of Katamori TO that principally.
But there is something than this At the time
when the Congress sat at Paris the outline Of the new
frontier had already been adopted 10 Conference, when
the Penipoi entiaries Of Austria, France and Great
Britain proposed an amendment which required the
frontier to terminate distance Dorth Of katamor
The Plcnipdentiares Of Russia were constrained TO
dissent from that proposition, from the oonsidern''c
that the limitations laid down in article 70 had receiver
the sanction Of his Majesty the Emperor. Meeting Oh
the spot, the Commissioners Of Austria, France, Eo
gland and Turkey exhibited an amendment which hsa
rot been adopted in Conference. The Imperial CABS
net auihc,zed Ifs Deieg ates to accede to that Plsa
which allows the Media, froOter TO be further OK,
tsneed aopy Inc PrQth than prescribed ~ the tex y
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-25

ToUpEEs have improvements peculiar to the house.
They celebrated all the world tor graceful beauty
charm. The largest and best
the world Twelve private rooms for applying his ia
mou, DYE Sold at BATcHELoRs, No. 2S3 Broadway.