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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
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p,p~rN,,s AMERICAN MUsEUM-Day and Evening.
SO S,oors 70 Cor9ue-A Living GOtls-Van Amburgh Co. :
Menagcne-30OOO Cuuosihes q.
Pro,nw,v TuEArER-This Evening" Dora"
Mrs. D.. y. BoeerS
BrNYAN Hall. Union square-This Evening
"The Pilgrim" 49, -
DODwORTH HALI-IMs Evening Nasts N"ii-
esturamA" Lecture ~ W. II. Norton
EXHIBITION OF BALLS STATUE OF FORREST AS
CoEioIA NUs-Day snd Evening at No 5l2 Broadway
FIFTH-AVE. THEATER-This Afternoon and Even
Ne Grand Queen Bss" Mr. Leugwe Mrs Howard Watkins
French THEATER-'Ths Eyening-"Ihe Grand
Duchess Of Ger0isen'
NFw-YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth-st.-This Afternoon
ana BreningFea Equestrans Pau the Russian athlete
NFw-YORK THEATER-This Evening" Under the
Caslght" The Worrel Sisters
NmIO's GARnfN-This Evening" The Black
Crook'-Great Paisienne Ballet Troupe
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Evening--"A Midsum-
Nights Dream 4,
WAIIACK's-This Evening" Town and Country
J. W Walack, T. L. Davenport
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
NEUSP1PERS.

When Richard Pierce, printer, of Boston, IN
the Colony of Massachusetts,, worked off upon
his hand-press, on the 25th of September, 1890,
the first newspaper ever published in America,
the General Court took the shabby little sheet
into custody, held solemn debate over the dar-
ing disturber of the public quiet, and voted that
il contained reflections of very high ma
"mre.r and its publication was contrary to
law. The poor thing was not allowed to
appear again. Yet if we could read that jour
nal to-day-which unfortunately we cannot do,
because the only copy of 1t in existence Is
locked up in the State Paper Office in London
we should probably find nothing so very
alarming in IL We should probably regard it,
on the contrary, as particularly stupid publ
cation. A newspaper nowadays which
docs not sometimes disturb the pub
lie quiet and indulge in reflections
"of very high nature" has little chance OF
long life and prosperity. We have made
wonderful progress in almost everything since
the generation of our great-great-g randfathers,
but in nothing perhaps has our advance been
so remarkable as in the profession of journal
ism. The newspaper is no longer merely
retailer of petty local gossip, or a summary
record of great affairs Of state or mouth
piece of individual opinion, or social or pollti-
cal essay. 1t is all of these ut once. Inc
province of the journalist is to gather IN
telligence, and to spread it abroad; to tell oil
the anarrels of street fighters and the REVOLT
tions of empires; to chronicle with fidelity the
theft of dollar and the theft of kingdom
to reflect public opinion, and at the same time
TO guide it; to be the organ mt once oil pOpu-
lar sentiment and of individual convictions
the representative and the monitor OF parties,
the guardian of great interests, and the ilreslde
gossip, If poor Richard Pierce could
come out of his tomb he would
be appalled, at the magnitude of the institution
which has grown from his unfortunate enter
prise. If he could compare his rude hand-pr
upon which with much labor and patience ne
struck off perhaps few hundred impressions
in days work, with the complicated ana beau
tiful machines whose steel fingers seize upon
the hugo sheets of white paper, whirl them at
lightning speed upon tho revolving types
and hand them forth by tens OF thousands an
hour all ready for the purchasers II he coulu
contrast his little sheet of four pages zone Vi
them blank) with the forty-eight broad columns
of THE TRIBUNE, each one of which contains
more than the whole of his newspaper; or turn
from lis narrow office to the great busy
world of modern newspaper establish
ment, with its thousand workers its press
men feeding the gathering monster deep IN
the vaults type-setters, with flying myers
busy Mt their eases; carriers pursuing their
rounds; clerks at their ledger; reporters
securing the city and NIL the nelgnborlns
country for items; the telegraph flashing news
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
SALE OF MODERN PAINTINGS.

The sale of modern pictures by Miner
somerville at No s4s Broadway. last night was wen ~
tended Many OF tho best works of DE Jonghe' "sn',
Louis Robbie Patrols, Sunderland, william mar, i
mann and Others were sold generally at goOd rl0e
nne sketch by T. Lining brought so 80; malino
by Musin s4O Paris Winter. L. lasale s.o' @ ssr
iandseape 6y TAFT painted for the sanitary SonSTb
ss9: Dogs Aenrette Knyp Nine BONNER, $40 inc
views Riegen $50; a frmt piece, huyEenI. a.
$50 Winter scene, springher $780, ducks Hen. I
ne - 6elanus $40; tho SayOyard, llagosteih ~
gathering Tlrewood Lassle slS AZ sd sieS'i coast
Meeuz SIS. "The Promenade, sefrue, S pai,rSis Sis
Mopniog ~ lie window" Otto Edman one OF tne Rom
ApisheI n.ctures ever sold IN Ncw-lNrM S-2S nappy
cueI ~ Wll Flowers" Schlcsingcr, s2N lho II tsi
Emilt Moreau $50; and "1ho Old MIL CInV.a Sas
Tbc Market i'm Grand Cairo" by Cent? or b,.t ,'sbt
sacrgeed Al 1000 Only 50 pictures we've SOFA 'S'
rn reulsininc sol viii DO dismissed " THIS eYellhS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

Our last Legislature extended for a year the
term of the Board of COuncilmen chosen in
December 1865, which consists of IS Democrats
to 10 Republicans. The Democrats disregarded
the act and elected, this month, new Coun-
Gil. If, therefore, the Democratic members Of
the old Board see fit to vacate their seats,
that Board will of course be dead; but, should
they not do so, we trust the validity Of the
legislative act will be litigated before the old
Board gives up. Let US See whether Tam
many Hall is really stronger than the Legis-
lature. Nothing political is at stake, but full
Democratic Board will be used, by our Twccds
and Farleys, for personal ends which an honest
minority can and will defeat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Sherman reported
bill for funding the National Debt and con-
verting the circulating notes of the Government.
The bill to change the time Of holding the
annual meeting of stockholders of the Union
Pacific Railroad was adopted. The remainder
of the session was devoted to debate on the
bill to repeal the tax on cotton.
In the House the new member Games r.
Mccormick, DEM from the Hid District OF
Missouri, was sworn in. A bill was reported
for the better organization of jurors in the Dis
t1ict of Columbia. A resolution to furnish
meters to small distilleries was referred. Mr..
Stevens reported his amended Reconstruction
BILL The first section mOdifes the Reconstruc-
ton act so that a simple majority of
votes cast for or against the Constitu-
ton may affirm or reject such Constitu-
tiOn. The third section assigns the num-
Der of Representatives as follows: To
South Carolina G. two of whom shall be elected
by general ticket; to North Carolina s, one to
be elected on general ticket; to Georgia 8, one
to be elected on general ticket; to Florida I; to
Alabama s, two TO be elected on general ticket;
to Mississippi 6, one on general ticket; to Ar
kansas o; to Virginia the number is left blank.
Being objected to, the bill was not received.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the Ju-
dietary Committee to continue the inquiry con
cernlng public affairs in Maryland with all the
powers and authority given to the Committee
onthat subjectby the orders and resolutions which
have been adopted by the House ThejOint reso-
luton to equalize the pay Of the employees of
Congress was concurred in. The bill TO pre-
vent the reinstatement of cashered or dis
missed army officers, except OH reappontment
and confirmation by the Senate, was passed.
The Senate bill to change the time Of the
annual meeting Of the stockholders Of the
Union Pacific Railroad was passed. aud
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

The long suppressed letter of Gen. Grant to
the President, in which he 50 earnestly protests
against the suspension Of Secretary Stanton,
and his hearty Endorsement of Sheridan, more
than justify the assertions of friends who have
claimed that he is in full accord with Congress
and its policy of reconstruction. The letter
and the Endorsement upon Gen Sheridan's re-
port in which Gen. Grant recommended mar
tial law for Texas, were elected by House
resolution of inquiry, and are printed elsewhere
this morning. They will be read with interest
patriot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

The Fenians are suspected of having caused
another explosion at Newcastle-On-Tync. We
hope the suspicion is unfOunded. A cOntinu-
ance of such violent measures, which chiefly
would deprive the Fenans, to a very large ex-
tent, Of that sympathy which the executions in
Manchester have undoubtedly produced The
Englishmen are, however in their present state
of excitement, prone to charge every acct
dent upon the Fenians, that this report of the
accident at Newcastle, as well as similar occur
rences, should be received with great caution
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
TENEMENT HoRRoRs-7HE REMEDY

The account which we published yesterday
of seven persons suifocated in the upper stories
of tenement house, by fire that scarcely
extended above the basement, and which would
have occasOned no loss of life had proper
ladder to the roof or fire-escape been provided,
and the similar tenement horrors" which we
are periodically compelled to record, should
direct the attention of the public to the ques-
ton whether some more efficient means OF pro-
tecting the lives of our labOring classes should
not be adopted. If the building itself, or in
the event of It's destruction, the insurance upon
it, had been liable in pecuniary damages to the
sufferers and their surviving relatives, for the
injuries inflicted upon them by the fire, good
fire-escape would have been provided by the
owner, wider passage ways would have been
left by the architect, and very probably the
ingenuity of both would have been exer-
cised 70 contrive the most effective plan OF
flooding the building with water, and sup
pressing fire at any moment. AS 1t Is,
fire which destroyed only $1,000 worth of the
property of the owner of the building, killed
OF seriously injured twelve of its occupants.
The miserable tenement of brick and mortar
was saved from harm, while the tender human
forms that clothed immortal spirits were sacr-
feed 10 the agOnies of the most painful and
torturng of all conceivable Deaths Our boosted
civilization, in its parsimony and heedlessness,
passes its children through the burning flames
10 its Moloch with hcartlcssness more terrible
than that of the pagans of twilight age,
because it is unshielded by the mantle of a
sincere though superstitious belief in the ne
cessity or picty of the sacrifice. We know that
these periodical sacrifices result solely from the
recl,lessness of those who erect and own the
buildings And since men competent TO erect
them in a proper manner can always be had for
the money the responsibility rests ultimately
with the owners, and with them alone. The
only way of curing the evil is to strike the
owners of these buildings on the pocket
nerve. Let every life taken under these cir
cumstances be regarded as insured, say for
5000, or any other adequate sum, payable one
half by the owner of the building, for which
the survivors shall have lien on the real
ostato aud ono-aif by the city, 40 as 10 secure
the cooperation of official vigilance with private
interest for the protection Of those who wearied
by toll are locked in slumber and unable to
protect themselves. The people have the duty
and responsibility upon them of preventing
these wholesale massacres, and it can be done
by making the authors of the mischief resp0n-
sible in damages to the widows and orphans
whom il bequeaths to the cold mercies of a
world that too often has not time to think of
its sufferers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

The case of Lusk found guilty by Military
Commission, held by order of Gen. Sheridan
under the Reconstruction act, of numbering
freedman, is the first that has arisen under the
law. The proceedings, with the Endorsement
of Gen. Grant, recommending that sentence
of death be executed, have been submitted by
the President to the House, under resolution,
without comment. They should teach the me
" gro-kilers" of the Southern States that mill
tary governments is not quite the paradise they
suppose it to be, and that the sooner they ac-
quesce in the reorganization of those States
on the basis of equal political rights the better
They are liable to get justice done them by a
Military Commission as eifectually as at the
hands of "blacll -and-tan' jury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
2tetuI1lork Omilp grib4tre.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER IS, 1867
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

" The San Francisco Vigilance Committee
a EARNING to our CITY Hal 1biereS-IWorma-
ton Wanted, artists Fund Society Fine Art
Items, the Drama, the Fashions, Bishop Oden-
heinler on the Pdn-AngIican Council, ana the
Regular Money Article may be found on the
second page Of this mornings TRIBUNE; the
Markets on the third; Scientific Items on Tire
sirth : and the Health Of the MeropohS, Lam
Intelligence, and the Termination Ct the Shdoh
Church Dispute on the Seuenth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
REPORTS By TELK0RAPH, OEcEEBKR l7-9AM
Ue0Asr. Htnd Tier Bgr
Mr. Uonrv I Winser Citv Fditor of Tle n

Mr. Henry J. Winser, City Editor of The n. y.
Times described the trip OF the Dunderberg and the Paris
Expedition last evening in the Church Of the Holy Trim
iy The attendance not large, but what 1t lacked
numbers IL made In enthusiasm Mr.. Minser said that
nothing remarkable occurred on the Dundeberg voyage
the breaking down Of the engine, which prolonged
the voyage 20 CherbOurg TO IA days instead Of r..
On landing, the lecturer led his hearers 10 many
points OF historic interest and passed them
IN brief review At Cannes the three fine cathedas
noticed st. Pierre particularly Interested the lecturer
being relic OF the Oden time Its walls are tumbng
decay. The interior Is decorated with many fine paint
ings, but % the American mind the inscriptions on them
seem almost bordering upon blaspheny. For example,
OF the beet paintings bears this egend 81 G. raising
Lazarus from tie dead" In describing the various dining
places Of Paris, Mr. Wnser said that in the Of the
Grand Hotel eating houses where the knives and
forks chained 10 the table; plates dishes are
used, but hollow Is scoOped IN the table,
which waiter fills with soup from q large
fyrngc which hc carries. II the customary
two are not forthcoming he darts the syringe into
lie soup and immediately emptes the dish. The Expo
hliion was then wildly described. In all America re-
ceiyed zoe prizes Concluding Mr. Winser said that
though America has passed through interneclne
81 uhequacd magnitude tie useful arts and trophies OF
peace are moro numerous here than in any other land
Capt. .Waddell Of the Shenandoah is now
lKlug iu lg1lfuorn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

We are glad to learn that the revolution in
Peru appears to be on the eve of an entire
collapse, and that the people generally refuse
to have anything to do with it. The aversion
to revolutions has made of late considerable
progress in most of the SOuth American Re
publics, and is one of the surest guarantees of
the beginning OF a better era.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

goes to the President. In Committee of
the Whole there was discussion upon the
impeachment movement and upon taxing bonds.
Gen. Grants letters on the removal of Stanton
and Sheridan were handed in, and created
unite a stir on the Democratic side. A bill al
lowing free goods to be stored in bonded ware
bOuses was referred.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

Dealers in secondhand books and paper
stock are informed that the Hon. Mr.. Julian Of
Indiana and some other Members of Congress
are badly in want of old documents, reports,
speeches, and miscellaneous rubbish printed by
order of the XXXIXth Congress. A resolution
was offered in the House Of Representatives
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
TO CORRESPONDENTS

No notice can Be Communications Whatever Is
intended authenticated By the and address
necessarily for publication bat guaranty for
hu good faith . . 90,
kew-iork
We ssEl,t undertake to return rejected Communications
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

The latest news from the Abyssinian Expe-
dition is satisfactory. A place has been reached
where there is an abundant supply of water,
and where the natives are friendly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
TO ADVERTISERS.

THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1868 will con-
tain a limited number of advertisements. Its sale IS
enormous and advertisers find IL a valuable medium
through which TO reach all classes Price per page 800
Advertisements should be sent III Immediately.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
Comments by The Tribune.


If the above be a true statement of the case,
then it follows that the Papacy had no sub
stantiye existence down to the time when a
quasi political sovereignty was accorded by
the Emperor to the Pope, about the year 1913.
We judge that no intelligent Roman Catholic
will accept this conclusion, nor affirm promises
which involve it.
But we strenuously deny that there is any
necessary incompatbility between the posses
sion of Rome by Italy and the proper indie
pendence of the Pope as the head of great
Christian church. We deny that the Papacy
has gained in power or prestige by the pollti-
cal sway accorded to its chief. Even were the
Pope made King of Italy. instead of an insg-
nifcant fraction thereof, the Papacy would not
be benefited thereby; and were Rome rs fully
possessed and ruled by Victor Emmanuel as
Florence or Turin is, the Papacy would gain
thereby in dignity and in power. 1t lost no
particle of either during the seventy years in
which the POpcs resided at Ayignon, nor when
Plus VII. was held a prisoner of state in
France 10y Napoleon ]. And, were the Pope
driven from Rome Tomorrow and never again
allowed to set foot in that city, the Papacy
would rather gain than lose thereby. For its
power and influence, outside of the narrow
limits of a little State, is purely spiritual, and
gains nothing whatever from its political sove-
reignty. I'm fact, it was strongest, under
Hildebrand. when its political dominion was
temporarily subverted. And now were the
Pope simply Bishop of Rome, with no more
political power than the Archbishop of Milan
or of Orleans, his spiritual sway would be no
wise impaired OF restricted
We make no pretense of sympathHng with
OF supporting the spiritual any more than the
temporal assumptions of the Papacy. Let each
rest on it, merits, and let those uphold either
or both who shall see fit. We only insist that
this assumption of an inevitable and perpetual
conflict between Italy and the Papacy-that
political sovereignty over Rome lis necessity
q" 20 the Poper-is at war with reason and with
history, and ought no longer'to be counte-
nanced. II is involving the Papacy in an enor-
nous and eyer-ncreasing debt TO maintain y
shadow of authority which is wholly illusory.
Rome, refusing TO be Italian, becomes thereby
not independent. bat simply French And the
longer this folly Is persisted in, the worse for
the Papacy, which is educating AT least Twenty
Millions OF born Catholics 20 loathe 1t as the
implacable foe of Italy and of Human Rights
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
THE WEATHER.

REHlaEs-The Thermometer vas lowest q m Morning londy
hat overcast AhernOonOverca drEug sleet from $40 70
Eng-Overcast bay Position OF the Planets
The bright star which appears the south a; o'clock the
the planet Jupiter On looking while going Broadway at 30
D. M. this planet shows beautifully eleAr and light
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
THE pORTR4JT OF MR.. GREELEY.

THE PORIRAII VI MN, UhELLE1'
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
THE LILLIAN CONFLICT

The n. Y. Times discussing the failure of Ma
poleOn's proposed Conference, says:
Although we have thought that the meeting OF the
Conference might bring about an advantage for Italy u
seems as though the Roman question could not possibly
be solved by such method. The Pope eW not give w
Rome until 10 IS torn from him by force. And Victor I'm
manuel rH give up his designs upon Rome, unless nc
ia restrained by force. Neither of them VIII compromise
nor recede back down the sin gle point in dispute
between hem-which is Rome. And il is hard to see how
either Of them back down II Rome Is necessity 20
Italy il is no less necessity 10 the Pope and, II the
pope would he destroyed by losing Rome, Italy must be
destroyed by falling TO obtain IT, Two starving dogs
never fought for bone under the inspiration OF higher
law Of existence than Pope and King struggle for the
nf -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

Capt. Waddell OF the Shenandoah is now
Swing Boz Baltimore
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
Susintss nOtit,s.

STARR g. MARCUS,
No. D JOHNSr
and Knives the qua OF "heh
,sp aud rnsrsned by T. Mnt Assay prices worthy the A.
Il Of the closest buyers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18

FINE SILVER PLATED WARE.
Prenstory to change Jan we offer AT RETAIL during
the north Of December our stock consisting Of the finest quality
Of NICKEL SILVER and METAL PLATED GOODS also Pearl and
Irorybanded Table Cutlery.
HIRAM YoUNG Co.,