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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

AT last we have the cnemy's batteries I'M
masked. Hereafter We shall probably hear less
concerning the outrages of Radical Legislatures
in the way of granting charters for street rall-
roads Mr.. Henry Genet, whose opposition 10
Tweed is young and suspicious, puts IN a
bill with such modest provisions as these
"The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
"shall offer at public auction the franchise for
"the construction Of a railroad along the fol-
Glowing streets: Commencing at the South
Ferry, at foot of Whtehal-st., and running
"thence along Broadway to Bowling
"Green upper side. thence along
broadway to Union Square, Fourth-aye,
{" Twenty third St, Lexington ave, with
a.. inches therefrom along Sixtieth, Seventy
.. so"ar, and Observation-Disclosures. to
60 Ce,tr,i Park. The Company purchasing
" the yicbt NAV n, 1nge with the Broadway
.. and Seventb-ave. Railroa,t Company for use
of any portion of the latter's TN. n '''ii'"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

more dirt than any equal number of other
people. European or American. AT the same
time the men, as well as the women, are match
less as nurses for babies, as chambermaids %
washers and ironers, cooks, aud gardeners
English machinsts, acknowledged to be at the
head of their art, have to give place to this
people INCA fair competition. The British own
ers of the large machine-shoD at Singapore
have gradually removed their English work
men, and replaced them with Chinese, because
these were more docile, sober and enduring
and were equally skillful.
But enough. Texas has three hundred Chinese.
Let her foster them. When she has three
hundred thousand she can rise up and call
herself blessed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

Many and important as are the services
which the Union League Club of New-lork
has rendered to this city and the country
there is no one more deserving of grateful
recognition and earnest attention than the
report secured by it from DR.. Francis Lieber,
the Chairman of its Committee instructed To
consider the abstraction of money from the
public treasury for Scctarian uses The figures
presented by DR.. Lieber are startling. In one
year there have been taken from the
common schools over half million dollars
for the uses of religious sects; and
of this sum a single sect has received over
100000 The same sect has received as free
gift from the City Government nearly three
and a quarter millions of dollars worth OF real
estate We welcome every expenditure by
every sect on its own account, for magnificent
churches schools nunneTies, or aSylums, but we
protest most earnestly against the withdrawal
from the Common Schools. which are the chief
guaranty of our republican government of
moneys, raised by taxation upon the whole pub
lie, for the benefit of any sect. The startling eX-
hbt made in this report will, feel sure, go far
to confirm the opinion urged again and again
in THE TRIBUNE, that the teaching of religious
matters must be withdrawn from the Public
School system as the only security for the. sys-
tom itself
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

Mr.. Wendell Phillips was amabe, yesterday.
He thought soldiers were not so much
needed for the South as leader; and, in
this case, was sorry not to have the
military services of Gen. Butler rather
than of Cen Grant. He thought Senator
Trumbul a half baked lawyer. Finally, he
deplored his inability to place Horace Greeley,
stripped, in the midst of a prairie, and tell
him to root, hog, or die Horace Greeley
lcaS placed, not in the midst of generous
prairie but of an Ovorcrowded city, with no
resource but his hands, good many years
ago. Mr.. Wendell Phillips has meantime en-
joyed good many observation-disclosures omit
ting his tongue Horace Greeley has got
on fairly without much assistance.
He has besides given good deal OF
assistance-in the way of circulating Mr..
Phillipss views and otherwise-to his critic
and expects to have yet more of the same
work before him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

We hear of quite political Selkirk in Oneida,
Brown Co., Wisconsin, viz. Mr.. Edward A.
Goodrough, who states in petition to Congress,
that he is the only citizen of the said Brown
County. All his neighbOrs are Indians; he
supposes that none but citizens are expected
"to sign petitions; and he unanimously petit
"tions for the abolition of the Franking Priv
"iege." Bravo, Mr. GOOdrough! IT there be
Mrs. GOodrough in those wild and desolate
regions we lay aside all objections, and pro-
pose that she be presented, by special enact
ment. with the right of suffrage. This will
lend interest and excitement to the town
meetings, always supposing that Mr.. and Mrs.
Goodrough take different sides, as We have no
doubt they would.
Good! better, best! Mr.. Senator Cameron
has given notice that if :" the Franking Prv-
"lege shall be abolished, it is his intention to
"vote against allowing Members of Congress
"any postage stamps" "For,' said Mr.. Cameron,
pathetically, eff the Government allows us
certain amount of dollars in postage stamps,
eve shall be subject constantly to the charge
"of appropriating them to our own use.' 1t
isn't often that Mr.. Cameron hits the nail
more fairly and squarey on the head. That Is
precisely what the people would be likely to
say: of course, politeness fOrbids us even to
insinuate that honorable Senators would give
the people the least good reason for saying 1t.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

Mr.. Dawess speech yesterday in defense of
his notable appeal, q few days ago, for more
economy in the estimates for appropriations,
was strong and manly. Before receiving a
full report of the detailed items
and figures, we cannot undertake to
say that he vindicated fully his previous state
ment of the aggregate amounts of these esti-
mates; but the whole tone of his speech is
sincere and the whole tendency of it is
good and only good. We commend Mr..
Dawes, and beg Members of Congress
to understand that they will make more polit-
ical capital for themselves and for the Admin
iStration by uniting with him in the effort to
reduce appropriations, than by assailing him
therefor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28
ampstm,nts, xsaurcs. ,t,., abis Ginning.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC.-At p: Philharmonic ke-
nelrsaL
ACADEMY OF Music, Brookyn'-German Opera
DrrF reschlet1'
APoIro HAIL Twenty -cghth-st. and Broadway
M,Eyoy's New Hberuieon.
BoorHS THFATFE. Twenty third-st., between tlith
an S1tbave~-" Hamlet booih
lIITu-Avr THENEE.-"Surf'
NIgIo's GARpEN.-" Dukes Motto Fechter.
OLYMPIC TIIEATEE-"Pa Pry,' Robert Macaire.
G. L. Fox
THEATRE FRANCNS.-Opcra Rouiie: La Grande
luchessc de Gesostciu." Mrs Howard Paul
The 1AMNiANY.-" Bad Dckey' &c.
WuIACK'S THrTER, Broadway and Thirteenth
e. "Oars" Lester Wsl1ck
Woop'S MUSEUM. broadway and S0th-st-From
q n to Do D. "a. At2: william Tell" ATS: "lxion etc Giant
LEEDS ART GALLERIES. Nos. ST., $40, ana $40
EroldNsr.-Tae Thompson Collection OF Paintings
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN-Thrd Winter
Exhibition.
Nrw-YoRK Circus, Fourteenth-st.-Grand Pro-
sr,nme. Cinderella Kauesrabism.
SAN FRANCISCO Observation-Disclosures per
foruaaccS
Hon. ISRAEL s DWHI. PeTry-St NJ. l.. Church :;
Oreuis' and Bible Lands
is. NEwBFRRY Cooper Institute" The Colorado
Plateau %, Canou and Ruined Cities
Prof DoRplUS: Young Mems Christian AsSocla-
ucu.
Prof T. CIARKsoN TAYLOR: Lyric Hall-"Iho
Woulcr,ll 40 Semitic valley
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY o. 1870.

A strong effort was made in Councils to draw
attention to the condition OF Bedford ST.,
region whose horrors of human destitution ex-
coed that of the Five Points at their worst
days, and also to the fact that seventy six
thousand vagTants-men and womcn-last year
sought shelter in the station-houses for want
of place to sleep. But the dog bitten ladies,
in their sweet enthusiasts, were deaf and blind
to all protests. Ii is probable that their Tenn
porary Home for the nobler breeds of ours,
therefore, will he built.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

Readers of THE TRIBUNE have already been
made familiar with the interesting questions
raised by the late explorations of the Colorado
c,6ons. the official report of which first
reached them through our columns. The
wonderful region TINS opened to scientific ex-
uloraton, with its remarkable feature of a
1iger wearing its path, through hundreds of
miles. in a chanuel nearly mile deep,
through solid rock, will attract more interest
elmn almost any other feature OF recent sclen-
t.ac inquiry. Professor Newbeny OF Columola
College lectures upon it this evening IN the
Cooner Union Hall, recounting his own expo
,icpce and observations Of the country, and
,ioscribipg the remains still to be found there
80 former civilization. The lecture Is the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28


The Board of Assistant Aldermen have struck
a mine. When they have no other use for a
repeater or naturalization miller, they can make
an Assistant Clerk of him and so use him az a
sort of faucet through which to draw another
$4,000 year from the City Treasury. To be
sure, there is State law forbiddlng the Com
mon Council to create any new offices, but then
Tweed and Sweeny own the Legislature now.
and they'll soon fix it so that the "SCfh Tor
"the sixtietl) Assistant Clerk of the Board Of
Assistant Aldermen" and the "Eighh Assist
"ant Clerk of 1.-THE Common Council" will, Of
course, be instated and shortly commence their
labOrs of robbng the City.
The English Com MONS grOaning under the
exactions and expressions Of the clergy (the
Tammany Ring of the Sixteenth Century in
their famous Act Of Accusation" presented to
the King in 1922 charged that the spiritual
"ordinaries do daily confer and give Sundry
"benefces unto certain young folkes, calling
"them their nephews or kinsfolk, whereby they
"do keep and detain the fruits and profits in
"their own hands, and thereby accumulate to
themselves right great and large sums Of
"money and yearly profits, to the most per-
"nicious example of your said lay subjects"
The Lord only knows now many "nephews
"and kinsfOk" our masters at the City Hall
have; we have supposed ourselves nearly at
the end of the list, but it still seems that, as
the auctioneers say, there are few more of
the same sort left.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

A LabOrng Man. who says he is too mnch
OF Democrat read TIE TRIBUNE writes rs inqntinr
how his class be benefited 10y Protective lailh' -
he had read THE TRIBUNE during years past be "ou"
not have asked the question. volume OF 3Si pages mas
just been issued. containing many Of the articles on W,
subject OF Protection 10 Home Industry. which appear"
in THE TRIBUNE during 1869. one Of the chapters &c
voted especially to the "Laborng Cass-ts Rlsh'S' III
tcrcsts. Duties, and Needs" II Is book thd ever,
voter should read and il costs only 81 co. Tor SAFE '
THE TEIBUNE Office.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

The last dying words of eminent men, OF
which we frequently see collections in print,
must be received with certain degree OF
skeptcism for they are very often indls-
tinctly cnunciated, and the temptation OF the
bystandcrs to make fine and impressive re-
port of them is frequently too strong to be re-
sisted. We have before us two accounts oi the
death of the late MIR, George ID. Prentice. One
of them aliirms that his last words were, II
want to co. which he repeated three times :;
while the statement OF Nh Prcntlccs own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

The admission of one of the Senators and
several of the Representatives of Virginia, yes
terday, to their seats in Congress is the out
ward and visible sign of the com
pletion of work too long delayed,
but sure, nevertheless. Of generous
welcome on its tardy coming. The recon
struction of Virginia is complete, and the
Ancient Dominion is once more restored to
her position in the Union from which she
vainly attempted to secede. We bid her a
hearty aud cordial welcome back.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

newspaper is that his final utterance was, al
b" would like to know" Which is unGoubt-
eddy more pOetical and impressive than the
other version. AS a general rule, dying men
have something of more Importance to think
of than pointed sayings; and when Goethe
gasped out More light" he probably wanted
n curtain drawn aside or another candle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

We take it for granted that the liberal Ocean
Steamship bill, introduced yesterday by Gen.
Washburn in the House, stands no sort OF
chance of passage. The time for pledgng the
Government to pay subsidies of half million
each TO four several lines of steamers has
hardly come. The spare half millions at or
disposal can be better used in paying our Debt
end stopping the interest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

we strongly unite with the House Commit
Zoe ON Military Affairs in urging a reduction
of the inordinate salaries now PAID some OF
the higher officers of the army. There Is
neither sense nor decency in paying the Gen
cral OF the Army, in time of peace, nearly
three times as much as the Cbief-Justce OF
the United States, and more than double as
much rs the Secretary of War.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28
8usintss i7utitts.

TUF GREAT SALE OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY
or DANnND by order 81 T. H. BUR- kF
rlvrR Will be continued DAY hsfp 10 o'clock at the
ggps AKT GALLERIES 8lg Broadway. Every article
susut,ed sold without any whatever to the highest
A.l'rr
MEDICAL EXPERIENCE.
In numerous bsd opportunity OF trying the elect o.
IoyFs NT FNrRACr found unsurpassed Strengthening aud
uour.SilnZ remedy.
BACHELORS HAIR DYE.-The best IN the
Instantaneous harmless perfect Applied al Factory, No 10
Sold evervwbsr-.
TIFCIAIITIES-PALMER LINES
SO Erosdusv y y CbsuutsI Pha 81 Greeust Boston
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28
T-p.TOWN lDTERTISENENTS.

For the accommodation of uptown resi-
dents Mr. +. H. Brown has opened Office at No. "a
West .secondst junction Of Broadway ana sixth
ave where advertisements for THE TRIBUNE viii be
received up 10 q in the evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

We thank Gen. Farnsworth and Mr. Hill
most heartily for the prompt and thorough
manner in which they put through the House,
yesterday, the bill abolishing the franking
niQuity. If the Senate will only act with similar
vigOr, we may soon have an end to what has
long been one of the Odous eXcrescences of
the Government, and may secure consequences
now little thought of. Foremost of these, we
believe, will be an immense-almOst an
incalculable reform in the matter of printing
public documents. Let us put an end to the
gratuitOus distribution of printed matter which
nobody wants. and the frightful expense which
it entails. We give below the names of
the fourteen who stood up in the face of the
House and of the country to record their votes
in favor of retaining for themselves the prvi-
lege of this paltry swindle upon the postal
revenues These are the men who want the
postage on the letters and newspapers Of their
constituents kept dear in order that their own
may go free:
Eggs Del JobHSo,i Cal. Roots, Ark
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

last OF the very successful course before the
American Institute, and is sure of crowded
Middletown transcript., 1870-08-13
is a poor man and a farmer"

is poor man and a farmer"
" Yes," she said, 81 know. 1t means
better life than have lived 1t means
something nobler than I have ever known.
Ben West is the only man l ever loved
and l am going with him. Goodnight" "
And she was gone.
{" She is won; they arc off over bank
bush, and scaur. They'll have feet steeds
that follow, quoth young Lochinvar," l
said to myself as sought my pillow.
You can imagine the next morning. A
little note told the story, and Edith St.
Ledger's naughty father crushed it under
his heel, and cursed his daughter forever.
But curses are no tas fatal and terrible
as they used to be in this cursing age
For Edith West is very, very happy. she
writes me, and her husband is dearer to
her every day, and her beautiful children
are the flowers of the West. And she
hasn't a bit of pride left. Besides all
this, her father and mother were out to
visit her last fall, and he brought back
with him, and showed me proudly, curl
of " the baby's" hair. So it ends like a
fairy tale, you see. Surely love casteth
out pride.
Middletown transcript., 1870-08-13
YOUNG ME v IN SOCIETY.

A modest and virtuous young man, on
first going into society, is apt to be sorely
perplexed upon the question how to mako
himself agreeable to ladies. He need not
be ashamed of his perplexity. Washing
ton Irving, in one Of his early sketches,
confessed that a well dressed lady was an
object perfectly I" awful to his young
Imagination. We we're once acquainted
with a gentleman Of distinction in public
life, the father of several accomplished
daughters, who could not, even to his fif-
tioth year, enter drawing room where
ladies were presented without painful en-
barrassmcnt. 1t is certainly good sign
for young man to stand in some awe OF
the beautiful sex. A person of coarse
and vulgar mind, who thinks more Of
himself than his best friends think of him.
and who knows lit le of the worth Of q
good woman's heart, rushes fcarlessly in
where an Irving or an Addison would
blush to tread. Bear this in mind, young
gentlemen who blush and stammer in the
company of young ladies'; the girls are
as much afraid of you as you are of them.
You are awkward in your manners, you
think. If you think SO, it is likely that
your youg friends think otherwise; for
the really i'll bred fellows that we have
never suspected cir ill-brecding. And.
after all, what is good breeding but hab-
itual good nature? The simple fact that
you wish to please is proof that you
possess, or will soon acquire the power to
do SO. The good heart and well-informed
mind will soon give grace to the demean-
or, or will so abuudantly atone for the
want of it, that its absence will never be
noticed. Besides, the ladics-that is most
of them-like man who is simple in his
manners, provided that they sec that there
is substance and worth in him. Graceful
manners and ready wit are good as far as
they 60. But be sure of this, Q bashful.
blushing youth, that, in the society of la
dies and of men, you will pass, in the
long run, for what you are worth-no
moreno less. The art of pleasing.
therefore, is nothing more than the art
of becoming an hon est, kind, intelligent
and high-minded man. Such man, be
he graceful as Chesterfield or awkward as
Caliban, all worthy women trust and love.
Middletown transcript., 1870-08-13

gave one-ffth the amount of tax for
bonds $40, ,000-ahd subscribed literally
to build the road, and yet a few men rep
resenting in all moi more than $4,000 or
$40, 900 worth of stock deprive this por-
tion of the county of any benefits of the
road.
Strange that stockholder should ex-
press these views, Is it not? Will it not
tend to depreciate the bonds and make the
stock worthless Bah! why sing psalms
to dead donkey? What use can there
be in putting up a defunct enterprise?
All parties in any way interested had bet
ter know at once that the Road was stran-
gled in its infancy by its dry nurse, the
Board of Directors. The clear sighted
prudent men who held the bulk of the
stock were kept back, and their influence
nullified by batch of bogus votes manu-
factured for the occasion, and now, that
their money is sunk and with it the inter-
ests of all others, no one must complain
lest the stock should be deprecated. But
perhaps there will be change; the road
may not curve but be continued to its :
proper terminus on the Chesapeake.
The only foundation for this hope is that
when the road reaches Chestertown the
funds will be exhausted and the P. w. &
B. Railroad, with its Delaware branch.
may take the Kent branch on its own
terms and finish il. viii they? They
had as well do so for it is under their con-
troll anyhow, they might make it pay and
the people of Kent would be accommodate
ed with Rail Road facilities.
Yours, &c. PIPER.
Middletown transcript., 1870-08-13
MDETOWN CASTLE COUNTY,
Selett poetrp.
ONLY A BOY.

ONLY BOY.
Only boy, with his noise and fun,
The veriest monster under the sun;
As brimful of mischief, and wit and glee,
AS ever human frame can be,
And as hard to manage as-what? all me
'Tis hard TO tell
Yet we love him well.
Only boy with his fearful tread,
Who cannot be driven, but must be led;
Who troubles the neighbors' dogs and cats,
And tears more clothes, and spoils more hats,
Loses more kites, and tops, and bats
Than would stock store
For year or more.
Only boy, with his Wild strange ways,
With his idle hours or his busy days;
With his queer remarks and his odd replies,
Sometimes foolish and sometimes wise,
Often brilliant for one of his size,
As n meteor hurled
From the planet world.
Only boy, who will he a man,
If nature goes on with her first great plan
If intemperancc or some fatal snare
Conspire not to rob us of this our heir,
Our blessing, our trouble, our rest, our care,
Our torment, our joy
"Only n boy"
Middletown transcript., 1870-08-13
QUEER PEOPLE The Dunkards, that

QUEER PEorLE.- The Dunkards, that
peculiar sect of religionists, who have
several settlements in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, have recently started another near
Knob Noster, Mo. They build no church,
cs, but hold their religious services in
barns or in the open air. They support
no regular ministers, but each one preach
es who chooses, or can get an audience to
listen to him. Candidates are admitted
to membership by being plunged three
times, feet foremost, into the water.
They have stated feasts of bread and NUT
ton soup, after which they administer the
sacrament very much as other Christians
do. Among their religious rites is that
Of washing each others feet, which is
done in very solemn and primitive style.
Compared with ordinary churches, the
Church of the Dunkards is the extreme
of simplicity,