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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16
THE FACTS ABOUT ICE.

Residents of New-York yet young in years
remember when a benefact0r of his race, Ia
miliarly known in every household as "Old
WOrtendycke," sold ice in any desired guam
tity at ten cents per hundred. Ii was pleasant
to the people to have an article which even
then had become a necessity brought to their
doors at price which put it within the reach
of the poorest; and it is also pleasant to
record that the man who was cOntented with
a rate one-twentieth of that now demanded,
reaped the reward of the just and retired with
a fortune after few years of honest industry.
Since his day the KnickerbOcker Ice Com
pany, which has gradually absorbed the bust
ness until only one small rival is left, has re-
versed his practice of large sales and small
profits so completely that New-1ork consumes
only about 100000 tuns of ice per annum,
which is little less than two pounds per day
to each inhabitant. The bulk of the supply,
however, is taken by the large consumers, such
as butchers and hotels, so that 1t Is evident
that the exorbitant rates not only OF the
present but of late years have precluded the
majority of householders from using the arti-
clio at all. 1t is also clear that the Com
pany which exhausts its producing ca
pacity in meeting the present demand
is making more money by small sales
at tremendous profit than it would by large
sales at small profits, and has no desire to in
crease the trade. TO establish a proposition
seemingly so absurd, it is only necessary to
remember that, Notwithstanding the increased
cost of labor and machinery, the Knicker-
booker delivers ice of its own harvesting to
the consumer at a cost, wastage included, of
not more than 50.
We have stated these facts to point out to
our oppressed people a means of relief from
the ice-extortion, and to capital and tact
sure road to swift and large reward. Ice
delivered in this city at twenty cents per
hundred will yield a profit of at least fifty
per cent, after making all allowances, and
being sold at that price, the demand will be
trebled. There is room in this city for
dozen small companies selling at this rate,
and capable of supplying $4,000 tuns each per
annum, and they can be established at cost
of few thousand dollars each. They must
be formed, or ice will soon be attainable only
by the very rich, through the rapacity of the
Knickerbocker Company. They can be most
effective if obtained by the cooperation of the
masses of the people, and we hope to SEQ
them created i'm that Way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16
Netn'2lork Daily Gribltrre
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1870.

There was heavy fighting near Metz during the past
two days. both sides claimed the victory on Sunday but
the Prussians were said to be victorious yesterday.
Many German families have been banished from France
The Emperor and the Prince Imperial are said TO be in
Verdun but an English paper still claims that the
Prince is in England =- MaZZini has been arrested
in Ital, 1t is reported that DE ROdas rendered his
resignation TO the Spanish Government but that 1t was
not accepted 1900 Spanish troops are to be sent
TO Cuba. A destructive fire occurred in Quebec on
Sunday
The President left Chicago yesterday for the East -
The Kansas Pacific Railroad has been completed to Den
YER = The n. Y. State COlOred Convention Is post
poned until Aug. d. 80 A pedestrian in Quincy ILL.,,
walked for hours without sleep rest, and is now
suffering from paralysis. == shoe factory in San
Francisco burned yesterday; Chinese were en-
ployed in it. - Destructive fires raging in the
woods in Washington Territory.
The expected riot between Orangemen and Ribbonmen
did not take place. twelve Of the latter arrested
$500 Flags at hafmast on the shipping out OF re-
spect 10 the memory of the late Admiral Farragut
The Bar of Brooklyn has taken preliminary action in
relation TO the death OF Grenville 7. jerks. - The
Executive Committee OF the German Patriotic Society
acknowledges the receipt Of over $4,000 49, Gold, 117k
Il6E. 1l7l. Thermometer, GO, So &C.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

Another overwhelming misfortune has over
taken the British Empire. Musketoes have,
for the first time, appeared in England. AT
Woolwich they are reported to be already 4" a
"pest." They hover about that military station,
and we suppose that their filmy wings sing
all night the old song, 81 smell the blood of
"an Englshman, Dead or alive will have
"some.' Thus do great changes take place,
and perhaps they have already snakes in Ire
land-real snakes we mean, and not human
limitations, of which there has not been much
lack there. AS for our dear native musketo,
if Bull has heretofore escaped that, has he not
been plentifully bled by Bishops, and Peers,
and Landowners, and by the great Pitt Mus
keto sometimes called the National DebtP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

that the hope of securing higher prices for
British Iron in 1870 than had prevailed in 1869
was based on reduction of the American
Tarif-an aspiration which has not been re-
allied.
Gen. Webb advocated the admission of
foreign materials for ship-building free OF
duty. We demurred that the lower order of
our demagOgues would tbereupon raise cry
that we were favOring the seaboard at the ex-
pense of the interior-the shippers at the cost
of the farmers-and would demand that these,
too, be allowed to import Iron free OF duty.
Is not this obviously true And why Is it
"impudent' to state it
The World asserts that our late Civil War
stimulated, instead of rctarding, the growth of
American Mountaineering, in spite of our
inflated currency, high wages, and the absorb
ton of our people in the prosecution of the
struggle, the increase not only OF WOODEN out
of Cotton Mills was beyond precedent. Now,
that these increased faster under Protection
than they had previously done under Free
Trade, is very true; but did they increase
faster in war than they would, with like Pro-
lection, have done in peacef We maintain
that they did not, and those who know will
sustain our position.
The World says that our manufacturers COM
plain of over-production.
8" And vet with all this development and impulse a
par OF ye-pound blankets cost 100 per cent more here
than in Dewsbury in Yorkshire. while in both countries
the raw material at least 70 per cent OF their cost 80
pauper labor plays an insignificant part in it,"
Reply.-Mr. A. Il. Stewart, a prominent Free
Trader, is probably much the largest seller OF
blankets in in this country, and he is now
running two factories which Gas he recently
assured us) are Improbable. Now, no man
will believe that Mr.. 5. makes other fabrics to
no profit when he might realize large
gains by making instead blankets, for which
he has himself an ample market. Need we
add a word to disprove The Worlds assump-
ton than blanket making is highly profitable
among us
We do not doubt that something called
blankets are sold remarkably cheap " in
"Dewsbury )" but that any such blankets,
made of such material az the American, are
sold &" 100 per cent. cheaper" is not the fact.
We not only make our blankets of better ma
terial than the British, but we pay our farmers
a better price for it than theirs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

We understand what "A Conservative" is in
England, where the word implies morbid hatred
of change; but what politically speaking, is "a
Conservative in the United Statesi We ask
the question, because we read in The 81. Louis
Democrat that Mr.. Louis L. Koch, heretofore
a Republican, has announced that for the flu
" ture he shall act with the Conservative
"party.r Who Mr.. Koch is we do not know /;
but we congratulate him upon his prospect of
belonging to party conveniently small,
should there be any bread and fish to distrib-
ute. Ever since we have had anything to
do with politics, we have, from time to time,
heard of the formation of ga Conservative
PARTY which was to do great things, but
which never seemed TO do anything except
" gin out" In old Jackson times, there was
"a Conservative Party" formed, which John
Quincy Adams killed simply by saying that
+" you could put the whole of it into an omni-
"busr Later, the Bell-and- Everetts were
Conservative" in profession, but so little so
practically that they could not even ICON
server themselves. If we need anything OF
the kind at all in this, the comparative In
fancy of the Republic, it seems to us that
"the Democracy $50 called) is quite suffi-
Gent 1t is always talking of getting back to
some state of primeval political bliss; but it
always talks generally and we never hear
particulars, and it seems not so much Con-
servative as a Restorative Party. We nave
usually found that when man sets up as
"a Conservative" it is because he requires
some remarkable way of attracting public at
tentiOn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16
The WOrLd SAYS:

'The great fact cannot be denied that though Great
Britain has purchased great part Of the vessels that
used to sail under flag her shipyards are as
active and busy as they were before"
That this is not so, has been abundantly
proved in these columns by citations from
WhHtakerS [Londonl Almanac for 1869, the
London correspondent of The ". I. Times,
&c, &c. VIII The World confront the facts
thus set forth through Free-Trade channels,
and revise its statement ct will find the
citations most readily in Greeley's Political
Economy PIP. 226-3O)
In fact, acooden ship-building is deader not
only in Great Britain but in the Canadas than
in this country. Iron has superseded it. And
most of our ocean steamships already built are
laid up for want of profitable business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

Too much photography has borne its natural
fruit. The new Freshmen class at Amherst
passed very poor examination in photography,
as did the new class at West Point. Charles
Lamb used to aver of one of his correspond
eDts, that he wrote frightfully to conceal his
bad spelling One reason of GEOGRAPHY is
that it is a matter of fashion, and that people
follow the dictionary makers rather blindly.
Moreover, different printers have different
methods and writer, if he sends Ms. to
one magazine, must strike out about two
thirds of his GUS" and "rs,n or the proof
reader will do it for him. 1t is a good deal of
middle, but fortunately not so dangerous to
human life as our friends the photographers
seem to think it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16
INCOMPETENT DOCTORS.

The public felt slight SILVER of distrust
last Winter when it was shown during the
examination of person in Philadelphia,
charged with furnishing fraudulent diplomas
of medical colleges to persons who wished to
start in business as Doctors of Medicine with
out previous study that the diplomas were
genuine, and the accused divided the proceeds
of the sale of the parchments with the col
leges that issued them. In short he was
broker for the institutions; he procured the
customers at prices agreed upon for their
diplomas; the colleges themselves filled in the
names, which he furnished, upon the honorary
sheepskins and the graduates were thus
duly constituted, having authority to practice
without particle of medical study or knowl-
edge.
But the proceedings of medical colleges, it
may be inferred from the statements of one
of their number, of which an abstract is given
elsewhere, scarcely indicate a much higher
standard of scholarship as a requisite for grad
uation, in many instances, than would be OBJ
tanned by selling diplomas outright. A student
may walk through their course of lectures for
ten dollars, and graduate on just about ten
dollars worth of knowledge. The depreciation
of instruction keeps pace with declining fees,
"poor pay, poor preach" applying to teachers
of medicine as well as to ministers of the
gospel. For more than twenty years the
American Medical Association has struggled to
prevent the progressive decline in the standard
of education required for graduation in many
medical colleges, and has at length resigned
the effort in despair. A competition between
these institutions as to which shall have the
greater number of students has resulted in
lowering at once the fees and the scholarship
required. This brings in class of students
who have scarcely acquired beforehand more
than the rudiments of an ordinary education !;
they attend the lectures not to acquire knowl-
edge but " obtain diploma they ultimate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

The confidence of Mr.. Whittemore in his
success as a candidate for the next Congress,
and his admission if elected, is not so great
as his impertnence in seeking nomination !;
else he would not withdraw from the canvass
as he has done. He has announced his inten-
ton to retire to private life-a conclusion
whose wisdom and taste we heartily approve
We are sorry we cannot wish him a peaceful
enjoyment OF his retreat from the public
position he abused, but, feeling that he still
owes the State some service, we rather regret
that the United States District Attorney for
his State does not recognize the fact and in
sist that the debt shall be paid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

The wealth of correspondence about the
war, from the numerous correspondents of
TIE TRIBUNE at the leading capitals and in
the field ills out this morning the details of
the sketch which our cable dispatches have
already drawn for our readers. Our whole
second page is given up to it, beside parts of
the first, third, fourth and fifth. Of all the adj
miIable letters, those of Mr.. Ripley will attract
the most attention, and command the widest
confidence in a country which has already
learned 20 accept his judgments as always
honest always able, and always clear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

The circular of the Currency Controller ex-
planning how new National Banks are to be
organized, will be read with eagerness by bank
ers and financers generally. The suggestions
in regard to the organization of banks to issue
gold notes are particularly interesting. We
hope to see one or more of these banks estab-
Ished in all our seabOard cities having large
foreign trade. They will not merely facilitate
exchanges, but will practically prove a step
toward The resumption of specie payments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16
THE OPERATIONS ON THE MOSELLE.

THE OPERATIONS ON THE MOSELLE.
Marshal Bazaine has not been permitted by
the enterprising PTussians TO abandon the line
of the MOselle without interruption. The
vigor which the Prussians displayed i'll open
ing the war has not relaxed, and the second
line of defense chosen by the French has been
carried. The first was broken by brilliant and
daring movement accompanied by hard blows.
The second has been carried by strategic
marches against the right flank and
center of the French army ct Nancy
and Pont-a- MOussOn. With their right
wing at Nancy turned, and cut off from
communication with Metz, no alternative
was left the French but to abandon the line
altogether. MacMahOn appears to have sue
ceeded in evacuating the "Open" city of
Nancy without trouble, and we are left to
infer that he has retired to Toul, fortified
town defending pass in the low range OF
hills which, running north and south, divide
the waters of the Meuse and Moselle.
The evacuation of Metz and the passage OF
the Moselle at that point appear to have been
attended with greater difficulty, and to have
resulted in a serious engagement between the
French rear-guard and the Prussian adj
vance. The passage of the river began early
on Sunday morning. One half OF the
army had crossed without interruption,
when the rear-guard, consisting of the
corps OF Ladmlrault and De Caen, were
suddenly and Unexpectedly attacked by
the aeyance force of the Prussians,
consisting of the First and Seventh
Corps. The hour at which the fighting began
Is not stated in the dispatches. but We infer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

For each of the ten provinces of India geo.
graphical statistical gazetteer ia in OF prepara
ton aud these ten volumes combined will furnish mate
rial for great alphabetical compendium of miscellane-
GUS information about India after the OF 1871
This system should be applicable to Great Britain and
other countries w well ~ India
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

1t appears from the letter of Messrs. Dent
& Paige, attorneys of Washington City, that
the chief obstacle to the negotiation of
S5OOOO,OOO of Cuban bonds was the refusal of
the Cuban Junta of this city to pay brokerage
to Messrs. SOutter g. Co. and Henry Clews g.
Co., who offered to negotiate the funds. To
this one error of the Junta the Cubans owe it
that they still struggle without arms and am
munidon against the Spanish power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

For the accommodation of uptown resi-
dents. Mr. T. H. Brown has opened offices az NO o. west
Thirty junction OF Broadway and SlxthaVe
ard at Eighteenthst between Broadway and
Fourth ave where advertisements for THE TRIBUNE will
he received up 10 "a in the evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

The World magines it was Falstaff and does not
know it was Solomon, who said that living dog
was better than dead lion" We lately had occa-
sion to recommend an elementary geography to this
journal. 1t now seems that we ought to add Bible
Will that excellent organization, the American Bible
Society, take notice Twelve mo. sheep would, we
think, be about the thing-though possibly half
calf might be better.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16

Lately the ladies were recommended not to
wear jute switches as head dress, for the rea-
son that they contained insects; and there
was given the awful example of young
woman in Waterville Me-, who fell victim
to the bites of these concealed destroyers. 1t
now turns out that the story was hoax. In
the first place, there was no such lady, and, in
the second place, she is still living. The great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-16
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TRussFs.-Marsh g. Co.'S Radical cure Truss
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TEENS OF THE TRIBUNE.

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knobs over the cerebellum will now be worm
we fear, larger than ever. There Is notning
more curious than the despOtism OF fashion
Morals gown left every beauty free, to rise or
fall as Nature pleased; but nowadays 1t
seems to be the rule to make hollow where
there should be a hiIlock, and to raise noun
tain where there should be valley. We give
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W,ops MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE-At al" o.
The kc, Of srales." Albert W. Aiken
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-04-01
BAD FOR THE DEMOCRACY of THE
10th DISTRICT.

We omitted 10 call attention to the fact,
that IN the cadetship investigation, couple
weeks ago, it was discovered that one Gen
eral Alexander Fl. Cofroth while represent
lug this District, some years ago, in Con-
gress, was unable to find acompetent Demo-
cratic boy in the whole District and was
obliged to 90 away up to N. Y and Boston,
yes, even to hated New England, to find two
boys able to enter West Point as cadets
Il has been unkindly hinted by evil minded
parties that the immaculate General was
paid for going so far from home to find
cadets. As Congress has refused to in
quire into the performances of Ex-members
in the cadet ship business, the world will
never be enlightened on this point Now
ia all charity, we will not charge the Gen
eral with having sold his appointments, but
we are forced much against our will to
conclude that after searching the Democrat
ic families in the 10th District and perhaps
making a weary pilgrimage to other and
remote parts of the State and finding no
scion of Democracy bright enough to enter
West Point, he, in this dire extremity be-
took himself to New England and there
soon found two likely yankee boys, whom,
out of pure love to New England, he
FASTENED to install in snug berths at West
Point. It was a generous act, characters
tic of the General, no doubt But then
what shall we say of the dullness and stu
pidity of Pennsylvania Democracy in whose
ranks not even one boy bright enough for a
cadet could be fonnd Well we are not
equal to the task Of explanation. We will
leave that to the General aud his Democrat
ic friends on the one condition that they
must not charge him with having received
pay. The Generals above that We hope
the Democracy win present some brighter
boys the next time they send Democratic
Congressman from this District