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CREDITORS-RED And YELLOW.

A pitiful feature in the records of The Lon
don Court Journal lately is the presence of a
certain yellow skinned, white-haired old man,
who, with his two sons, haunts all the State
dinners, drawing-rooms, and public meetings
to which he can gain admittance, giving a
donation wherein there is a chance of buying
a little popular favor, and making an anx-
iously cOnned speech thanking the English
press for its justice to him and to his claims.
The old man is the Nawab Nazim of Bengal,
and the claims which he has made this long,
weary journey to present have been due to
his family from the English Government since
1867. The story of this Indian Prince is Curl
Gus as bit of history, and may serve as a
hint to our own people in their present difficulty
with their red-skinned creditors of how a
great nation may become a defaulter and a
perjured cheat and yet retain its prestige of
honor and probity, if it only choose for its
victims helpless pagansm or poverty.
This Nawab Nazim is the lineal descendant
of Nicer Jaffier, the friend and ally of Give,
who turned the scale in favor of the British
at the battle of Plassey, and first gave the
East India Company footing in Bengal. By
the treaty in 1867 between this Prince and the
East India Company the latter was permitted
to trade in his dominions, paying for this priv
ilege military service as a feudatOry, and the
annual sum of f518,000. The Company also
entered into solemn agreement never to inter-
fere with the government of his kingdoms Of
Bengal, Behar and 0rissa. The subsequent
story is a hackneyed one. The supine scholarly
Indian has but little chance whenever the
grosser avaricious Briton sets his heavy foot
upon his soil. The annual payment was low
cred afterward by treaty to f31s,OOO, which
agreement, the Company added, "should, by
the blessing of God, be inviolably preserved
forever In ITO, however, the Nawab being a
minor, the Company judged it prudent, consid-
ering his tender years, to pay him less than one
half that sum, and in the century that has passed
since has apparently acted upon the presumps
ton that he was growing more under age
with every year, until the present Nawab
receives but E73,200 per annum. Not only has
the government of his Kingdom been taken
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from him. but he is placed under surveillance
i'm his own family; his servants are appolhted
or discharged against his will; even the toiips
of his ancestors are removed from his care
the crowning insult to a Bengalee Inc
curious point is that no attempt Is maze by
England to deny her debt or her cruel
injustice to this man, nor the fact that she
is bound in gratitude to him personally Tor
valuable services rendered in the behShi
mutiny of native troops in 1857. Mr.. ha'iiaiiu
Burke calling for the Nawabs statement III
the House the other day, MIR. Grant Dlh
coolly disposed of the matter by saying the
document was long and tedious ana OF no
interest to the House. The sole reason when
honest John Bull gives for not paying the
debt is that the creditor is helpless Indian
or, as The Saturday Reriew alphabetically
states of a similar claim made by wales,
"The claimant is without any available power,
"and is, therefore, justly outside the range OF
"current politics. Perfdious Albion has grown
so old in evading her obligations that we
would expect more expertness from her. her
ruses are intolerably awkward and dull. The
Nawab's statement, (which was full resume"
we are told by The Cicil Service Gazette, of
- evidence ICVtlNN" III
(Which left the whole case ready for immedl-
cate adjudication" was placed in the hands
of the Secretary of State year ago, and could
have been decided upon in day. MIR. Grant
Duff, however, has sent it to and from his office
in London to that in Calcutta, contriving that
il should be occasionally "lost among the
freight 1t is now in India, while the old
man who left his home year ago to secure
his children's rights before his death still stands
beggar at their gates.
This circumlOcutary method of how not to do
it appears wanting in spirit and decision.
John Bull should take a lesson from JON
athan. Our Indian chiefs also come
knocking at our gates with musty claims;
they do not, like the Nawab, task
" from our kings barbaric pearls and gold"-
only the land we robbed them of, and the
right to live. Their grave, moderate story has
been told so often, like his, that it is given
over as fit game for the wit of our cheap news
papers. But we certainly do not go to the
trouble of playing battledOre and shuttlecock
with their petitions, like the Secretary of State
for India. Choking, we assure Mr.. Grant Duff,
is much prompter mode of satisfying a cred
itOr, and the one preferred by our young peo-
pie and the soldiers who have taken in hand
to settle this matter for us. Their reasoning is
logical and sharp. This debt we owe these
people, if paid, will stand in the way of Chris
tanity so, in the name of Christianity, put
pistol to their heads! The only difficulty in
our way is that our Indian claimants are nu-
merous and understand the trick of throttling
as well as ourselves. Only with their women
and babies, or in the lucky case of a village
weakened by smallpox, can our gallant sol
diers efiectually silence these annoying claim
ants. But if we, like England, had only an
old man and two boys to deal with, we would
make short work with them.
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Neho'Work Oailu Gribl111e,
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1870.


The Irish Land bill debated in the House of Lords
yesterday. Mr.. Dickenss funeral sermon will be
preached in Westminster Abbey Sunday. - The
persons implicated in the plot against Napoleon have
been summoned for trial =-= violent earthquake
has occurred in Japan several villages being destroyed
An active volcano has also been discovered at sea- about
200 miles from Yokohama.
In the Senate yesterday, the bill confirming the title
of Mrs Parker TO two guano islands was passed The
bill abolishng the Frankng Privilege was debated with
ont result $50 In the House, a bill was reported abo
fishing the duties coal but after some debate was
recommtted The Cuban resolutions were considered at
great length but 10 vote was reached.
The Republicans Of Maine have nominated the Hon.
Sidney Perham as their candidate for Governor. 60
The International Convention OF the Young Mems
Christian Association will meet in indianapolis on the
22d inst - Three lives have been lost by the capsiz-
ing of a boat in the schuyd1. 49, The Governor of
south Carolina ordered the formation Of regiment
" State troops for active service.
To-day at noon, Red Cloud will be received at the
Cooper Institute == Detective Farley has arrived
with 81 600 bond counterfeit plate of the Central Pacific
Railroad seized in Paris. Judge LaTremOre has
retired from the Board of Education and Smythe
has been chosen President. ==- The people OF the
Nineteenth Ward demand better and more cOmmodious
DOCKS s- The American Institute Of Civil Engineer
ing held ats second annual convention yesterday -
Gold 1924. llS, 1884. Thermometer, II, 49, rs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

Parker's Landing, Penn, is not exactly the
paradise of suitors, especially of suitOrs who
happen to be obnoxious to the brothers of
their fair inamOratas. One Alexander Fleming
has just discovered this by bitter experience.
Fleming had been visiting the sister of a Mr..
Greenwood who, not approving of his atten-
tons, warned him to keep away from the
house. Persevering, however, in his suit, in
spite of the brothers circumstances, the latter,
on the 18th inst, shot the importunate Elem
ing; three shots took effect, and the wounded
lover died within half an hour. 1t remains to
be seen whether Pennsylvania jury will con-
slider that the visit of an Objectionable suitOr
to ones sister justites giving full scope to
ones latent insanity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

Gen. Mcclellan and wife have been for some
time stopping at the International Hotel Niagara Falls
Mrs Mcclellan is invalid great fears being enter
tanned that her health will never return.
The Rev. DR.. Whittemore preached what Is
known as the Flower Sermon, whitruesday, at one
Of the old churches OF London The young persons at
tending this special service always carry bouquets anu
the sermon is some floral text
After a continuous absence of SO years at the
Hlo Station, Hawaiian Islands the Rev. Titus Coan h's
arrived In Chicago, where his preaching has attracted
crowded audiences Mr. Coan will also visit the East
before returning from the single vacation OF his lifetime
to the field OF his successful mission.
On the Goth birthday of the German his
toran Won Raumer the order OF the Red Eagle was be-
slowed upon him by the King In addition TO ths honor
the Crown Prince OF Prussia In special telegram rom
Carlsbad give pleasant greeting 10 his Old fIiond and
teacher eIne old man had perfect ovation from al
classes o. people IN Berlin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

The fate of poor Tommy MADDEN is grew
GUS one. He has been prominent citizen OF
New-York for twenty years or more Inc
primary elections which he has controlled or
broken up in the interests of Tammany may
be counted by, the score; the ballot boxes he
has stuffed by hundreds; while the false votes
he has cast and caused to be cast are simply
innumerable. No man knows the number OF
sailors he has robbed in his Water-st. den and
sent to sea intoxicated and pennl-
less. His vast possessions in this great
and wealthy city embraced every class
of houses for gambling, drinking, and
prostitution. All sorts of human beings came
and went at his beck, from the poor prosti-
tutes of his den to the politicians whom he
made and owned. He carried, as he frequently
boosted, Aldermen and Police Justices in his
breeches pocket; and was monarch OF all he
surveyed from his den in Water-st. all round
to the sea. He was emphatically lord of the
fowls and the brutes who make up large
part of his party in this city. But not con-
tent with this wide dominion MADDEN, ambl-
tiOus of other sports, made descent upon
Jersey sands, and was caught in the tolls. He
has been sentenced-we write it in great sOr-
row-to ten years in the Jersey State Prison.
And this, tOO-and there's the rubin the full
flush of success that promised to induce others
of his class to- follow him to pastures new.
And now they will be deferred by his fate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

Congress, which hesitates over rule to reg
ulate contests for seats in House or Senate,
may take valuable hint from a late judg-
ment of the English Commons in a contested
claim. The Committee in reporting their de-
cision added the words: "The petitioners are
to pay the COST A claim to q seat there
takes the nature of petition from the con-
testant and his supporters, and the expenses
are paid by the party failing in he contest
instead of by the Government. This arrange
ment is doubtless far more agreeable to the
taxpayers than our system, and more likely
to deter claimants who have greater hopes
than grievances from indulging in expensive
contests
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

Brown of Calaveras showed his wealth of
sarcasm by taking several opportunities to
"clean out the town. According to this de-
fnition our Brown is wofully lacking in this
qualification, for such an amusement has no
attraction for him. Other City officers, how
ever, make up for his deficiency, and succeed
not only in playing winning games with old
cards, but in devising new methods of devour
ing public revenues. Witness the immense
sign on the corner of Broadway and Park
place" Department of Public Works" Here
we have been taxed year after year to pay for
a new Courthouse for the accommodation of
these city protectors, or pilferers, and yet
when a new Department is organized, one of
the heaviest rents in the city must be paid
for its accommodation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

dren who enter the primary schools OF thls
city 20 out from them, for this reason, before
tbev are able to read well an ordinary news
MINER If they were allowed to attend SHOOT
some small part of each day, this untimely
stoppoge of their schooling might be prevented.
Heretofore business education and theoret-
cal education have been set III opposition, 10
the disadvantage of both. They should be
allies in the "struggle for existence" whlch
most children must sooner or later enter upon.
AS things are, the child has to choose between
the two when he is in absolute need OF both.
He wants the education offered by he'school,
and he must have the education to be got IN
the workshop, on the farm, or behind the
counter. Under the change we propose he
would have an opportunity to pursue both TO-
gether, and this without the least sacrifice OF
theoretical education. Another beneiicent effect
of this wedding of business with scholastic
training would be the removal of the objection
that the tendency of the school is to foster
sentimental habit of thought and distaste
for work. When boy has been kept at
school until he is-n his own estimation at
least-a young man, he feels above doing boys
work, and is unwilling to begin at the bottom,
and so acquire that practical familiarity with
the details of any business which is essential
to it's thorough mastery. Educated" young
men, so called, do not like to put on rough
clothes and soil their hands with common
place drudgery, and the same holds true with
girls. As a rule, they cannot devote to study
the time now required by the schools and at
tend to household duties also. The conse-
quence is, housekeeping is fast becoming a
lost art among educated" girls. If the girl,
by having half the day free from study, could
pursue this very important branch of "techni-
"caln education in connection with her theo-
retical studies, and the boy in like manner be
learning in his fathers shop or office the prac-
teal application of his school-lessons to the
affairs of life, we should have fewer helpless
young women and educated young men seek
ing in vain for respectable" employment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

Our neighbors in Philadelphia have lately es-
sayed method of publication at once cheap
and novel. The relapsing fever having broken
out in certain Bedford-st, where filth and
iniquity smell rank to heaven, q solemn dele
CATION of Quakers, armed with municipal au-
thority visited it and changed the name to
Alaska. Regeneration by baptism has long
been mooted question on which we all have
differing opinions. This experiment ought to
settle it. We await tidings from the freshly
christened Alaskans with interest If they re-
port themselves as swept clean and garnished
from gin shops and fever, this exercising
mode of cure no doubt will become general.
Is it only drunkenness and disease that vanish
before this christening Abracadabra, or will
bribery or corruption and the lower deep of
damned spirits" troop home to their wormy
beds before it3 What if we rebaptize Con-
gressl or Tammany9 The thought over
bowers us.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

At last we hear from Rome of the adoption
of the dogma of Infallbility. The remarkable
struggle experienced in the attainment of this
long sought result is the best evidence that it
does not tend to promote the harmony
of the Catholic Church. OF its political
effects it is too soon to speak; but, unless it
be passed by as of no practical significance,
which would perhaps be the wisest course, it
seems sure to produce complications, more or
less serious, in several European countries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

The fact has been developed in the testi-
mony in the Alexander Gardiner case that the
$1,000 left by the dead man to pay for
a lot and monument for him in Green
wood Cemetery has been given as fee
to the lawyer now engaged In trying
TO exclude his heirs from their rightful
inheritance. "Mean enough to steal a
meeting house" was once thought to be a
mere Yankee figure of speech. Z" Mean enough
"to steal a tombstone is hereafter, it seems,
to be an accurate description of at least one
of our New-York lawyers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

The withdrawal of the English steamers from
the line between Panama and Australia, for
lack of freight and passengers, ought to give
pause to the Senate Committee which proposes
to report 100000 subsidy to an American
line from San Francisco to the same non
exporting and little importing colonies. 1t Is
an experiment which has small chance of com
mercial success. The trade is tritling. The
travel is less. Further than this, we have line
already in operation, under Government sub
sidy of $4,000 per annum. Its steamers run
from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands,
there connecting with an Australian line, and
forming route direct and quick enough for all
present practical purposes. To give 100000
to such line will be palpable swindle not
only on the American people but on the
Australian cOonists, who have pledged them
selves to grant an equal amount. Americans
owe too much and Australians are too poor to
stand such swindle with patience. A joint
subsidy Of $4,000 a trip may pay the steam
ship company, but certainly the traffic and
travel of the Australian Colonies won't We
don't know what has become of the PROPOSE
ton We hope it is killed; but as schemes OF
the nature of this have queer way Of reap
pearing in Congress and Sinking through III
disguise, we should like TO know positively
that this particular fraud is finally exploded.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

The Cuban debate on Tuesday was spirited,
though virulent. Yesterday it was not dull,
but very ridiculous. The public were treated
on Tuesday to legislative criticisms on the Ex-
ecutive. Yesterday we were RECALLED with
members opinions of each other. A final vote
was delayed by much vituperatiOn and many
idle statements, but test vote taken on a
motion to adjourn indicates the adoption of
me House resolutions by considerable major
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

Another letteg from Prof Goodwin Smith
appears this morning. The Professors former
letter to Disraeli, recently given to the public
through our columns, has been made the text,
by some journals which ought to have known
better, of much fippant and unjust comment.
Whatever Prof. Smiths alleged lack of tact
may or may not be, it i'll becomes journals
which profess to cherish gratitude TO those
VIC WeIe our siAccIest friends at a time when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-16

The umor that Attorney-General Hoar is to
resign is again revived. Coupled with 1T is
the statement that the President will offer the
position to Senator George II. Williams OF
Oregon, whose term expires with the present
Congress, and who cannot hope for re-
election, in consequence of the result of the
late elections in his State. Mr.. Williams is
strong man, and has won influence and repute
i'm the Senate.
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The London Nears advises English authors
not to be over sanguine as to the result of the
pending negotiations for an International Copy
right between Great Britain and the United
States, and insists that the American Senate
will not ratify treaty if one is concluded.
We shall be glad if the Senate has an early
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sandorOus.
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One of the truost of our English supporters
he has likewise been one of the most vlrulentiy
maligned; and the attitude toward HIM to-day
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In the House of Representa-
tiveS.

April 18th, 1870, Mr. Loughridge,
on leave, introduced the following
bill, to provide for the equalization
| Of bonnties TO soldiers.
BE il enacted by the Senate and
! House of Representatives ofthe Uni
ted States Of America, in Congress
assembled, That all laws heretofore
passed granting bountics to soldiers
are hereby repealed.
Sec ,. And be it further enacted
That every non-commissioned officer
and private soldier who served for
ut least one month in the army of
the United States in the late war
against the rebellion, and who was
honorably discharged, shall be paid
from any moneys in the United
States treasury, not otherwise appro-
prlatcd, as bounty, the sum of eight
and onc-third dollars per month 10.
the time such soldier was in the ser.
vice Pforhjed, That where any such
soldier has received bounty nnder
any OF the heretofore existing laws
granting bountlcs TO soldiers in said
war, the amount SO II ccWc shall be
deducted IRON the amount granted
10y this act: Aud provided further,
That the provisions Of this act shall
not apply to oilicors and soldiers of
the regular army.
Soc. ,; And be it further enacted.
That all applications for bounty, on
file ic1ore the passage Of this net,
shall, be considered as made under
the provisions OF this act, and shall b..
settled and paid in accordance there
with