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New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The Cunard and Inman steamship lines
whose bargain with the British Post Office for
the conveyance of the transatlantic mails
has been repudiated by Parliament, find a
champion in The London Times, which de-
clares that the cost of the mail service can
not be reduced without corresponding reduc-
ton in its efficiency. The Cunard Company
now receives from the British Government, for
two mails week, a subsidy of E79,00O year.
The Inman line, for one mail week, receives
f35,0O0 year. Here is q total subsidy Of
f105,O00 which The Times declares to be the
lowest price at which fast and regular mail
service can be secured. How unfounded is this
assumption appears from the fact that the
United States secures four mails week at an
annual expense Of $3.50, ,0O0-just about half
what the British Government pays for three.
Great Britain also has contract with Ger
man line for one mail week, paying them
by weight instead of a subsidy. The
subsidy system is the great obstacle in the
way of cheap ocean postage, and if it could be
abolished on the other side of the water, as il
has been on this, we believe that uniform
rate of three cents per half ounce cOuld be
established for foreign and domestic letters
alike, without entailing any additional charge
upon the Post-O Office Departments. The Nation
al Steamship Company has offered to take the
mails at q penny an ounce. True, the ships
of this line are slow; but if they can afford to
perform the service so cheaply, other and
faster vessels can afford to do it at the same
or nearly the same rates. If an international
convention were to fix the single letter rate
between Great Britain and the United States
at say three cents, we are confident that the
best steamship lines would be glad to carry
the mails for the sea-postages
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31
TAMPERING WITH BILLS IN THE NEwJERsEY
LEGISLATURE.

TRENTON, March S0-DtScrepancies nave
frequently been discovered ia'ey Rtween the oiin
aA ,u tbe Legislature and the same mss In the hands
- ,,o Covcrpor Not little uproar hasN-.een made
from time to time when such frauds have been 'Seov
cred but the consequences Of the oillS :" 10
modelled having been generally OF no great I'M
Per discovery was lnade which will be hkely 70
nreate more lasting impression II was discovered Una.
The Jersey City Water Commissioners Dln n lie
wenSments inserted by the Jersey city Conneh anu
sdonted by both Houses OF the Legislature havhg inn
ntrocteS from the bill The fact was last evening
se,eranhed 10 the Chairman OF the COMMITTEE on ga
tive of the Jersey City Council aha upO
alton being read the Committee We're
m nee avery effort 10 restrain Gov Randolph IRON ssng
the mutaied act Who the parties are VINO naHs we %
free with the bill is unknown. out menp water Comm
soueT ia suspected the bill it passed the House nav
ing placed restrictions upon the Board OF wa'r va
missioners from which they were anxious " oe
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31
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New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

There is sweet appreciation of the fitness
of things in an appropriation just made
at Washington. Nothing could be more
suitable than that such management as
the Inauguration Ball was blessed with
should devote the surplus funds left from
its economical supper-room and its much
enduring coat and hat racks, to the purchase
of Just such statue as Mr.. Clark Mills can
be expected to furnish The genius displayed
in the one achievement is precisely adapted to
the task of admiring (and paying for the
genius likely to be displayed in the other. By
all means let them buy MIR. Millss statue. and
then let Congress require them to emlgrate
from the Capital with it.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The English Governor General in India, Lord
Mayo, has received visit from Shere Ali, the
ruler of Afghanistan. The visit is considered
in India an important event, and Sheri ALI was
therefore received with great splendor Afghan
istan is the battle ground of Russian and En-
glish diplomacy, and it is a commsn expecta-
ton that, when the smaller Central Asiatic
States shall have been absorbed by either
Russia or England, it may become the battle
field for the hostile armies Of the two great
competitors for the leading control in Asiatic
politics. Shere Ali is an outspoken partisan of
England and his complete success in terminal
ing the civil war which had devastated Af-
ghanistan since the death of his renowned
father, Dost Mohammed, has of course been
received in British India with great satisfaction.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The President of the National Steamship
Company, Gen. ingalls,, assures us that the
highly Objectionable bill in their favor, to
which we called attention the other day, has
been abandoned by the Company, and its re-
vival by Senator Conkling was owing to mis-
take. We are very glad to hear it. Gen. In
gals also says: Should the Company pre-
" sent bill hereafter, it is hoped that its pro-
" visions will be so very proper as to warrant
" your support"-a sentiment in which we
heartily concur.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The change of sentiment in the House, on the
subject of extending the time for taking whisky
out of bond, promises to inure to the benefit OF
the Treasury. The clause making this extern
sion was yesterday stricken out, and the special
Whisky and Tobacco tax bill was then passed.
The substance of the amendments it makes in
the existing statute is compactly stated in the
dispatches. They are mostly in matters of de-
tail, and are believed by the Ways and Means
Committee calculated to promote the efficiency
of the law
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The Irish Church question has been so often
and so fully discussed by the leading men of
all political parties in England, that we cannot
expect to find much that is new in the
speeches which are called forth by the progress
of the bill in Parliament. But after all that
has been said on the subject, the speeches of
Disraeli and Bright from which ex
tracts given on another page. will
find many Interested readers. Disraeli startled
large portion of lilo own party. by
the singular plea that an establishment is
a national breakwater by which a religious
organization is prevented from being too
strong for Government. If the Tories
generally should adopt this theory, it will
alienate from them large numbers of the High
Church party, who denounce the rule of the
State over the Church, and demand full self
government of the Church in all matters purely
rcliOiOus,
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

Whether it is because Of the new Secretary,
or of the Admiral Assistant, or for some
occult reason, is not apparent, but the House
Naval Committee certainly seems in no haste
to further the wishes of the Navy Department.
1t has not yet reported on the request for the
abolition of the Eight Hour law it has decided
against the effort to place the Line above the
staff and now it is reported to be opposed to
the plan for selling useless vessels and placing
the proceeds at the disposal of the Secretary.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The brokers are making up their minds
that the new Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue is man wholly unfit for his place.
He has fully sustained Assessor Webster in
his views concerning the taxability of their
capital; and the Assessor is back among them,
with orders to "push things" AT first, the
brokers thought this matter joke. They now
begin to consider it business of very respect
able and eminently serious proportions.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The Rev. DR.. MullOcke, Roman Ca'ion'
Bishop of Newfoundland, is dead rlo
The Ottawa (Canadal Board OF iraSV .rsstT
have passed resolutions In favor of reeiproo"'
with the United States. =,
Another serious break has occurred ,la, "a
the Delaware and Hudson Canal The breach 10 " '''
IN depth and 200 In width uors
Gov. Wells. Judge Bond and o'I1e,s BEN.
charged with purloning letters from the man ~
mOnd. Va. were discharged YESTERDAY uor,s
M cnocioI Committee on Woman
On ;,ra ~ the Massachusetts Legislature, were
a,ardv NV Imey stone Wendell PhlDs and ot"~
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The Spring freshet already threatens consid-
erable damage along the Hudson, and tho rains
Of the past forty-eight hours are likely
TO carry it good deal beyond its
present hight. The Dutchess and Columbia
Railroad is seriously damaged; all the piers
between Hudson and Albany are submerged; /;
tbe river is rising at Albany; and the ice-gOrge
in the Mohawk has brought it to the highes t
water ever known.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

And now comes the Central Pacific, making
answer that it has received no extra bonds
but that the Union Pacific has that it has
built its road well as it went, and the Union
Pacific has not that it will arrive at Ogden
with its completed track by the Both of April,
and that, to say the least, the Union Pacific
can't do its work, and get there any sooner.
The Union Pacifc's turn comes next; but in
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The House has made second effort to fix a
date for the adjournment of Congress, select
ing this time the 9th of April. If now. to-day,
honorable members will introduce fOrty-fve
more new bills, we shall kROw that they are
in earnest-abOut adjournment.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The long withheld correspondence between
President Buchanan and Secretary Cass, on
the occasion Of the resignation of the latter
at the beginning of the Secession movement,
adds little to the fame of the Secretary, and as
little to the odium that has long attached
to the name of the President. 1t has been
known that Gen. Cass resigned because he
utterly disapproved Of the refusal to re-
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31
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New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The text of the act to amend the National
Ranking bill, which is printed elsewhere as 1t
nossed the Senate yesterday, will command
wide attention. 1t is sure TO DC moul-
fed in the House. The most Striking
proposition yet made is that requiring change
Of the six per cent bonds now deposited by
the Banks as security for their circulation into
q new four per cent bond.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31
A BoAr CAPsIzED--GALLANr CONDUCT oF
YOUNG LADY.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., March SO.-Yesterday
hon, Containing TWO soldiers from Fort Adams and boy
named Lynch was capsized IN Newport Harpor % ,"'
Ida Lewis daughter of the night keeper On mo i%'
Rocks put out in boat and resgea hi ,nS Miss LEWIS
put Inc To' saved life under similar circumstances
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

formity OF caber IL brings nearer to uniformity OF
ammunition than we before, because the oarbiDe
charge ia not sufficient for the musket and when this
Improvement adopted shall have another slight
diversity as in the Of the Enfield OF 81 and tho
Springfield 6s for chamber OF the earbne not
long enough for the musket cartridge and the carbne
charge is not heavy enough for the breechloadng mus
bat
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The defeat of the New-York Cab bill at Al
bany was to have been expected. There is
another pending in the Senate. We shall soon
know whether the swiDdling city hackmen are
equally potent with our Senators.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

The Union League Club gives Ladies Reception
this wednesday, evening, in honor OF the a'"r
versary of the opening of the new Clubhouse 0"
Madison-sQuarc.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31
TABLE of CONTENTS.


FInsT PAGE Business Notices.
Washington Dispatches. TIfTH PAGE.
Albany News. The opera BAH
Foreign News Funeral OF James Harper
Domestic Tecgraphic News Political.
SECOND PAGE. THE Whisky Business.
Agriculture. Lectures Meetings &c.
Tine Sing Sing Revolt. Courts
Trial of Virgil A. Krepps. Home News.
The Case OF Detective Release Of Logan No q
Young. To Correspondents.
The Children's Aid Society The State OF Trade.
Easter Elections. Marriages, Deaths, and Fu-
General Notes. nerss.
Book Advertisements Special Notices.
Money Market SIXTH PAGE.
Markets Real Estate.
THIRD PAGE. Real Estate Advertisements
Ship News. SEVENTH
Advertisements. Advertisements
FOURTH PAGE. EIGHTH PAoR-
British Gold. congress. .,-
President Grant. Murder OF an Austrian
We Want Fruits. Count
The Ordnance Controversy. Latest snip news.
Editorial Paragraphs advertisements
Domestic Teegraphic News
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

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New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

the meantime we take leave to say that every
thing charged against it seems highly probable
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

Attention is called to the article on the III"
% rsnubished from THE TRIBUNE of March H. 1900
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31
THE SPRING FRESHET.
THE ICE GORGE IN THE MOHAWK RIyER-SEy-
ERAL FARM-HoUSEs UNDER WATER.

THE ICE GORGE IN THE MOHAWK RIYER-SEy-
ERAL FARM-HoUsEs UNDER WATER.
SCHENECTADY, March 30.-The Mohawk IL
clear from schohare TO about two miles west
of this place Above the the ice is still in the river
Two miles west Of the ice has formed dam as the
water IS as high as was known. It's oyerio~iny
the fats south side, and several farm a
under water Four miles west OF mere the Waet IL 81
feet deep the road rendering it wholly impassDie'
EXCITEMENT IN RoCHEsTER-A FLOOD Ex-
PECTED.
ROCHESTER, March 30.-There is considerable
excitement in this city, and along the Genesee Valley
above in consequence Of the rise In the river Ordinary
bigwater mark has been reached and the river IL sun
rising Telegrams from above to-day warn the cLehe vi
Rochester that there danger OF an eAtI3oIuiharS
flood.
THE RIVER RISING AT ALBANY.
ALBANY, March 30.-The river in front OF the
city is comparatively clear Of ice but above ana Oeo"
the city the ice be firmly lodged II has accnn
little damage has been done here ana tne wa ad
markably high at present but isstH rising !" hAo i"
all day.
THE HUDSON RIVER BLOCKED SEAk hIDSon. S
UrnsoW March 3O-The ice has blocked at
r, a1cb ronr miles below this city. The water Is
rising here and will soon be over the DOCKS
D.NAGn TO THE DUTCHEsS AND CoLohbA
RAuROAD-PIERs SUBMERGED
porouxpppsIE, March 9O.-The damage to
a. nutcness and Columbia Railroad from the storm is
more extensive than first reported portion OF 'ne
foundation of the heavy trese bridge has given way ana
there have been extensive landsldes Reports from up
the river tonight that the ice between Catsh an"
Uudson Is still stationary but fts departure Is noeu
rily eXnected The tide Is coming IN Iast ahe Ie"s
entertained that there VIII be f Hudson
River Railroad are still running promptly on unIc. ~"
the piers between Hudson and Albany are S"0neis'u
New-York tribune., 1869-03-31
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New-York tribune., 1869-03-31

"The path OF duty Is the way 10 glory.
lie that ever following her commands,
on with toll OF hearts, and knees, and hands.
Thro' the long gorge 20 the far light has won
His path upward, and prevailed
Shah md the topping crags OF Duty scaled,
Are close upon the shining table lands
To which our God Himself Is moon and sun"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-29
GBe poet's department.
no TINE LIKE THE OLD TIME.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

There's no time like the old time, when YOU
and l were young;
When the buds of April blossoued, and the
birds of Spring time sung!
The gardens brightest glories by Summer
suns are nursed
But, oh, the sweet, sweet violets, the flowers
that opened first
There's no place ike the old place, where
you and | were born
Where we lifted first our eyeIids on the
splendors of the morn,
From the milk white breast that warmed us,
from The clinging arms that bore
Where the dear eye glittered DER US that
will look upon US no more
There's DO love like the old love, that we
courted in our pride.
Though our leaves are falling, falling, and
fading side by side
There are blossoms all around us with the
colors of our dawn,
And we live in borrowed sunshine when the
light Of day IS gone.
ThCre are no times like the old times-they
shall never be forgot
There's no place like the oil place-keep
green the dear old spot
There are no friends like the old friends
may Heaven prolong their lives!
There are no loves like our old loYes-God
bless our loving wives!
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-29

UNPREMEDTTATBD ELOQUENCE.-Asa an
example of powerful unprecedented elo-
quence, may be given short answer Of
Curren, the Irish orator, to certain Judge
Robipson-s'ihe author of many scurril-
Gus political pamphlets s'-who, upon one
occasion, when the barris,er was arguing
a case before him, had the impudence to
reproach Curran with his poverty, by tell
ing him that he suspected ''his law libra
ry was rather contracted
''It is true my Lord,' said Curran,
with dignifed respect, "that am poor,
and the circumstance has certainly cur
tailed my library; my books are no. nu-
merous, but they are select, and -hope
they have been persued with proper dis.
positions. l have prepared myself for
this high profession rather by the study Of
good works, than by the composition OF
great many bad ones. l am not ashamed
of my poverty, but | should be ashamed
of my wealth, could l have stopped to
acquire it by servility and corruption. If
rise not 20 rank, | shall at least be hon
est and should l ever cease TO be so,
many an example shows me that an i'll
gained reputation would make ms the
would universally and the more notori-
ously contemplate. .
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-29

Mr.. BRADY's LAST WRITING The
following remarkable passage is the last
ever written by James T. Brady, the emi-
nent New York lawyer, who died not long
since:
''Our brothers in the pilgrimage will
fall at our side, but, however thiekly the
arrows of death may shower, we can,
while our powers continue, do naught but
move on until we reach the awful instant
when we are to exchange the feeble pulses
of transitory existence for the ceaseless
thro5bings of eternal life. There, even
there, at that mysterious frontier, if we
have been faithful and fearless in fhe march
we may lie down obedient to destiny, with
the exalted hope that, after all the objects
of this world shall have become lost for
ever to our mortal sight, there may be un-
folded to our new and spiritual vision
another realm of unimaginable glory,
where we, and all whom we loved on
earth, may realize the promise which the
Great Ruler of the Universe has made un-
to the just"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-29


yet. You might as well try TO sing
long metre tune TO hornpipe as to IN
dertaGe to dance to that polka. 1t would
Jerk your legs out at the sockets, certain,
or else it would give you st. Vitus' dance,
and cripple you for ife.''
''Mr. wilkins, I'm going to tell you
secret"
''Oh, / don't want to hear your Sc
crets; keep them to yourself
''Its about Mary James singing"
''What -
''Mary Jane, you know her singing"
81 don't know, and 1 don't want TO ;
she shau't take lessons, so dry up
But she shall take them
Il say she shan't.''
''She shall. and you can't help it."
''By George, what do you means I'm
master in this house, III like you to
know
''Yes, but she's been taking lessons for
a whole quarter, while you were down
town, and paid the bill out OF the mar
ket money"
Swell, l hope may be shot! Yoa
don't mean 10 say that Well, if you
ain't a perfectly abandoned wretch, hang
me. I'm going to sleep alone after This -
And Wilkins kicked out on to tie floor
and went into the other room.
Bat he made up with his wife, for ]
heard him quarreling with her next day,
because she left a work~basket full OF
! needles on the chair, covered with piece
OF work, and he set down on it.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-29

'sJUsr As / EXPECTED. An old lady
was one night reading passage in the
Bible, which speaks of faith that can re-
move mountains. Now, there was be-
hind her humble dwelling high hill,
which hid the nearest village from view
She had often wished this hill might be
taken; 50 before retiring, che prayed that
it might" be removed, because she had
faith that it would be done. But in the
morning, when she arose, she lifted her
curtain. and 10 the mountain was still
there. Then the old woman said to her
son "Just as expected, John the old
hill stands there yeti
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-29

Too MUcn FOR HER.-A good story
is related of prudish old maid who ap-
piled at a certain fashionable photograph
gallery to have her picture taken. As
old maids are sometimes OF a very inquisi-
tive nature, always poking around whers
they have DO business, she accidentally
looked into the machine, and to her hoT-
ror discovered that objects are reflected
inverted, or as she expressed it, ''upsiit
down" She peremptorily refused to 81
any more, and, adjusting her bouns
ribbons, remarked that "That game q
played out. She wasn't going to be sH .cI
up in that manner, if she never had pic
ture;" and, with swing of the so liter
which would have done credit to New
York Broadway fashionable she sa lied
from the room with an air of Insulted DIG
nifty.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-29

3" KINKEAD, Justice Of the Peace
H. and Claim agent. removed to
the Office formerly occupied by M. Hassou,
Esq. decd, on High St.!sEhensburg. jl3.