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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07
A Plea FOR PUGILISM.

There are many who object to legal enact
mcnts in restraint of the baser appetites of men
who would be startled by the drift and scope
of their own arguments, if they could only see
them as they are. We submit the following
as throwing q strong sde-light on the whole
train of logic whereby it is maintained that
the laws should never interfere with mems
recreatons or indulgences 1t Is The sunday
Mercury. which, in denunciatiOn OF Senator
Wilson's bill against Prize Fighting, character
istcally says:
"Prizehghtng has been favorite sport with large
class i'm this country for years To many muscular
Christians II Is sort OF escapevaye for natural OK
uberance spirits and is necessary to Their welfare
as the steam-pipe TO locomotive II these men are
prevented by law arranging and having their con-
tests in the roped arena they will crafty their passions
creation necessary to existence II is an established fact
that man sked the noble art OF sedefense scorns 10
attack the weak and defenseess and he too confident
OF his SECULAR power resort to the pistol Unlike the
PuritanIcal auondam shoemaker they believe In living
and let live do mt seek to prevent other people en-
loving themselves in their At all events they
do not interfere with tho Massachusetts codwater-
drinker at his temperance powwows We call upon the
great champion Of America. the Hon John Morrissey
to squelch this bill in the House We have no doubt IN
fair setto he knock the wind out Of the Naok Cob
bier much quicker than he sent Yankee Sullivan to grass
over twenty years ago."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07
WHAT HINDERS RESUMPTION9

Suppose Congress should tomorrow pass n
proper Funding bill-as it should have done
two months agO-and that the Secretary of
the Treasury, being authorized to fund any
part Of the National Debt at his discretion,
should advertise new Loan or Consol offer
ing to take either Greenbacks or Coin in pay
ment of subscriptions thereto, who does not see
that this would at once reduce our diverse
Currencies to par, or very nearly so? The
Greenbacks, being receivable at par for the
new bonds, would be worth in coin from % to
100 cents per dollar, as tile new Loan or Consol
should be popular and rapidly taken or the
contrary but all possibility of creating a dis
parity between them of even ten per cent
would be gone where the wOodbine twineth
hencefOrth and evermOre.
Suppose, now, that Congress should make
National Banking FTee-that is, should author
ize any person or persons to establish Ma
tional Bank in any part of the Union, and to
issue National Bank notes therefrom, prOrided
that each Bank should make n deposit of not
less than 100000 of the newly authorized
bonds to begin with, on which it should be
supplied with three-fOurths of the amount Of
its deposit in National Bank notes, and that
all existing Banks should likewise be
required to deposit 81 of the new Con-
sol for every So of their issues,
why would not the ConsOl find an eager mar
ket ? and why would not the Currency expand
or contract so as precisely to satisfy the re-
qulrements of business be the same more or
less 7
We insist that there is no obstacle to pres
ent and persistent Resumption, save only the
prevalent repugnance thereto There is no
lack of pO,cer-the only lack is of wiH.
Those who assert that the Banks woud
break-that failures would be universal, &c,
&c.-impeach the solvency of our people. We
do not. We hold the great mass of our banks
and merchants solvent: if any are not, now is
the time to ascertain and eliminate them Ex-
pel the dead flies from the ointment so soon
as possible.
But in fact "the bitterness of death is past
We have gone two-thirds of the way TO Specie
Payments since last Summer, and this without
the help that q good Funding act would have
given us BY sheer force of collecting the
Revenue and reducing our Debt, this progress
has been made. Our Financial ability has been
demonstrated. No one need be assured that
people who have paid all the interest and
full thirtieth part of the principal of its Debt
within the first year of Gen. Grants Admins
tration can pay the residue if it will.
The interest on that Debt is fully
Five Millions of Dollars less than ii
was one year ago. And, now that we have
proved our ability aud our honesty, it is neither
necessary nor right that we should persist in
paying six per cent. per anuum on loans that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

IL the list of passengers 10y the steamship
President, which sailed from New-York for
Liverpool in 1871, and was never heard from
afterward, appeared the name of LOrG tlzroy
George Charles Lennox, the second son of the
late Duke of Richmond. No doubt has ever
been entertained that the young gentleman in
question was really what he styled himself,
and that he persisted with everybody else in
that Inflated ship. But now middle-agcd
man, who signs himself Lord Fitzroy Len
"nox," and dates his advertisements from Al
bert cottages, Battersea rise, announces himself
to the world az the long-lOst brother of the
present Duke, and begs any of his old friends
who may be still living to como forward and
identify him. He declares that he did not sail
with the President, but has ; passed S;.
of his life in obscure retirement, where or
for what purpose he leaves mankind to
conjecture. He has been trying for five years
to obtain recognition from tho present Duke,
or at least an interview with the family i'll
which ho claims membership. The dowager
duchess whom he styles his mother, and long
roll of lords ladies, and honorables whom he
pants to embrace ~ his brothers and sisters
are living, but give him no confidence; Burkes
Pecrage says he died in 1871, and dead he shall
be, The case Of Lord FitGroy L.ennox we must
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

The Legislative Committee on Commerce.
after visiting Wards Island, and taking testi-
mony relative to the riots there, have sagely
concluded that reform is needed. We can
well believe it, Changes are demanded not
only in the quality of the soup and character
of the coffee, but in some of the singular Gus
toms which prevail. The island has become of
late, according to all testimony, resort for
worthless foreign Migrants, instead of being, as
it was intended to be, a temporary home for
industrious emigrants who come to find work
and to do it. An indignant graduate of an
English wOrkhouse declared to the Com
mtsee on Saturday that he considered
the Wards Island accommodations infe-
rior TO those of his late habtatiOns
at home-"As he was a Christian, he had never
tasted hot dinner since he came there"
Not at all improbable, and the reason is simple
enough. 1t is the result chiefly Of a prevailing
custom, said to have the authority of law,
though we cannot find it, which permits an
emigrant to leave the Island in Summer and
return to it during Winter, for five years after
his arrival; and then, if he so elects, be sent
TO Europe again at public expense. Abolish
this custom, leave the idle Summer Migrants
to be cared for II Winter by the other public
institutions maintained for that special pur-
pose, and Wards Island will become place
of peace and plenty, instead of riot and misery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07
aIetu'2lork Daily gribmlre.
MONDAY. MARCH Z. 1870.

France viii probably withdraw her troops from Rome
On account Of the IufanJiuty dogma == Mr. Glad
stone promises that the Irish Land hill will receive every
needed modification =-= The Duke OF Montpensier has
returned to Madrid bu; Marshal Prim declares that no
coup dfGi will DO attempted in his favor Thirty Gov
efnors have been removed transferred by the Madrid
authorities === Two hundred Canadians under Major
Bolton having threatened Fort Garry Gen Riol attacked
them capturing some and compelling the fight Of the
rest. Bolton has been sentenced to be shot
The Senate was not in session on Saturday and the
House sat for debate only. Gov Stevenson OF Ken
tucky has refused accept the resignation OF Mr Cola
day and Speaker Blaine has refused 10 allow him to
withdraw It. = portion Of the Inebriae Asylum at
B,nghamiOu was burned on Friday. - San Fran
CISCO schoolteaoher has received six months imprson-
Inent Tor cruelty punishug pupil. == Three negroes
we're injured by the bursting Of shell at Wilmington,
Del == Rudophe was the winner OF the champion
billiard match in san Francisco on Saturday - The
mercury Pc below zero at Helena, Montana on Fri
day
The investigation into the trouble Wards Islend
develops alleged facts not oreditabe TO the Commits
Uoners OF Emigration 600 Lewis Murray has been
Sing Sing for years for stealing letters from
the Post Office. == Two Brooklyn lads are charged
with stealing money to pay their expenses 10 the late
orze-dght =- Messrs Cooke and harrington OF the
whisky fraud have been discharged; but Mr. Cooke
Immediately rearrested. 60 Michael Tobn, a
butcher states that he robbed Of $4,000 by highway
the Hudson River Railroad Depot =-= The
by the Newark fire is $4,000 Gold, ISL Ia
ll Temperature, Saturday 25 49, 49, 80 Sunday, 2? "a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

Representative Rogers of Arkansas lately an
nOunccd his undying opposition to the female
clerks in the Washington departments Con-
,idcring that, aside from their general useful
uess and economy, many of them are decidedly
peat and pretty bodies, this bitterness of the
Arkansas gentleman, whom we take to be g one
"of the good old kind" of whom Albert Pike
used to sing in happier days, is, to say the
least unnatural. The fair clerks, in expression
Of THEN feelings, have sent the gentleman three
leather medals suitably inscribed. The award
is doubtless all the recognition the attack of
their assailant deserved; but the recognition
was hardly worthy of the gentle donors. There
is no expression of contempt so crushing as
that OF silence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

Through the unaccountabe folly OF num-
Der of Canadians, blood has probably been
drawn in the Red River quarrel, and the breach
widened between the half-breeds and the Do
minion. One Major Bolton conceived the idea
of marching upon Fort Garry, and, not being
strong enough to attack it, he encamped
near the fort. Gen. Riel, who has won
no small amount OF local glory as
a man of enterprise and ambition since
he took the lead of the Winnipeg move
ment marched out upon his two hundred adj
versaries with five hundred men. The result
was mathematically sure. The two hundred
fled or were captured, and their leader Bolton
has been condemned to be shot, probably for
what Gen. Riel justly considered an act OF
treachery, the Red River people being still on
treating terms with the Canadian Commits
sioner, not to mention the conciliatory govern
ment at Ottawa. AS in the case of Col. Den
mis-, who also attempted British maneuver
against the half breeds the cut-throat Sioux
Indians appear to have been called to Mayor
Bottoms aid. We wish we were as doubtful
of this news as we are that Major Bolton VIII
be shot; but, whatever the precise result OF
this last Canadian raid. its effect cannot be
harmonizng, while it may be fatnl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

tionorv in the matter of population, and ac-
cents the teachings of experience ana inc
authority of statistics as an indication OF our
nrobable increase, it would be interesting to
know by what process of reasoning he reaches
tbe conclusion that the less shall continue to
exceed the greater. Hesiod, with more wit than
wisdom. declares that part is sometimes more
than the whole and it may be that the editor
of The Spectator adopts that lively paradox as
the basis of his creed. Or it may be
that he expects us to explode in an
archie discords, and become wrangling and
dissonant assemblage of rival States, while
Britain still maintains her ancient unity, and
holds with undminished authority and una
bated strength the "cmpry of her isles" We
do not expect to explode, although we shall
doubtless incur the varying strifes and vlcis-
STUDIES to which great nations are subject
during their growth as in their decline. But,
whatever comes, the strength and sap OF the
Saxon race will irresistibly aggregate and con-
center here; and if by the primacy OF the
Anglo-Saxon confederation which MIR. Louis
thinks we are about to assume, and which the
editor of The Spectator thinks we are not, De
meant the first power among the group Oh
families which speak the English speech, we
possess it already, and shall enforce Its recOg-
milton whenever it is put to the test.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

"Silycr palace cars are very comfortable
superior in many respects to the old style pas
scngcr cars; but the effort to introduce them
on the railroads of the country at the expense
Of the public and in violation of law, is a trick
upon travellers which will defeat itself We
ale glad 10 see that the Legislature proposes
TO stop this peculiar swindle at its inception.
These cars are built and run at private ex-
pense by private individuals; and the road
managers are thus saved not only the cost of
building and maintaining passenger trains, but
are actually paid for the use of their rails. It
is therefore to tho interest of railroad cOmpa-
MES to introduce as many "silyer palace
Gears as possible on their roads; and
in order 10 force passengers to use
them they keep their old cars in
the worst possible condition of repair and COM
font They are, in many cases, mere rattle
traps, cold, cheeIless and dangerous. The
charge Tor riding in silver palace carsn is
Illegal; tie proprietOrs know it, and when q
Passenger refuses to pay for the privilege, they
take good care not to turn him oalt. Travellers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

Mr.. Golladay of Kentucky is In trouble. lie
resigned to escape the penalty of his msdeeds
in the matter of cadetship sales, but his OoV
ernor refuses to accept his resignation and
insists that he shall establish his innocence
before the House. Mr.. Golladay thereupon
marches TO the bar of the House, demands the
return of his letter and the possession OF his
seat. Both are refused him, and thus, while
his Governor insists that he is of the House
and must establish his innocence therein, the
Speaker declares he is not member, and gives
him no opportunity to explain. Next
the Kentuckian takes his justification in his
own hands, outside of the House. and gives us
a sample of his virtue by asking the Postmas-
ter-General if he will be permitted to use the
much-abused Franking Privilege! Could MT
the House settle the matter decently and III
order and to everybody's satisfaction, In three
minutes, by an unanimous vote of expulsion
Then Mr. Golladay would feel better, because
he would have his doubts set at perfect ana
peaceful rest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

we have now the right to redeem. We ought
TO fund these forthwith in a long bond at a
lower rate of interest-that is, we ought to put
such n bond on the market, and, so fast as we
can sell it at par, devote the proceeds to the
redemption of our Fiye-Twenties. And we
ought not to diminish essentially our Income
till such redemption shall have been enec'eu,
The power to fund on our own terms is baseu
on our ability to buy mp and cancel some NH
lions each month"; and on the fact that We ~
We deeply regret that there has been any
talk of funding our Debt at higher rate 'ua"
four per cent, payable quarterly-the DopoS
untaxable-principal and interest expressly ~
coin. Even though it had cost us l"enV
Millions 70 fund Five Hundred Millions Oh our
Five-Twenties in such ConsOl, we hold tha'
il would have been a great economy 10 10 so'
with Five Hundred Millions so tunded IL.
the course of 1870. we should nave n"o
no difficulty in funding as mucn r n,
in 1871. and an equal amount in 1877. lha'
done the total interest on our DeDt, e'eh
tbouob One Hundred Millions of our Oreen-
hacks had run into Consols. would thence1ortn
no less than One Hundred Millions, whereas IL
ia now One Hundred and Twenty MILLIONS OF
over There is no parity between the case OF
q Government steadily reducing its Debt eaoh
month and one that is seeking to increase i'S
Debt. Only keep paying, and we may make our
own terms with lenders. .,oo-
We ought to have resumed at the close OF 1900
We were less in debt then than we now are;
we owe less now whether abroad or TO each
other) than we shall do after three or four years
more of initiation and non-redemption' Inc
ancient blockhead who waited for the river 10
RIM out before crossing. was type OF the IMAM
cier who would postpone Resumption I'LL we
are ready for it. The way to get ready is short
and smpe-Resume!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07
An EXAMPLE FOR THE RING.

Mr. Dixie, in Greater Britain" gives the
following account Of how things are done in
India:
1.-THE Raah Of Trayancore requiring some small bun
galow to be added to a palace builder contracted to
perform the work for $4,000 After time, he applied to
be let Of and, the Rajah asking him the reason he
said: Your ighness, Of the $4,000 your Prime Minister
will get s5OOO his Secretary, $1,000; the baboos In his
Office 600; the ladies OF the zenana, $1,000; and the
Commander Of your Forces. $500. Now, the bungalow IT.
self will costs5Oo; SO where am to make my prohtF'
The only difference between this and our
own case is that the Rajahs contractor and
family are Asiatic Indians, and Tweed and his
"baboos" and "zenanas' are Tammany In
dams; and, also, Tweed's contractors do MT go
into a thing until they know to penny how
much they must steal to keep their own COM
DensatOn good.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

What has become of the bills providing for
the government of the City and County OF
New-Yolk, more generally known as the Tax
LeviesP When the Tammany Ring found it
necessary to simulate a paroxysm of public
virtue as an incident of the last election, the
opportunities for successful robbery by the
postponement of these bills until the last hours
of the session were forcibly stated. and it was
promised that under Democratic auspices the
Levies would be laid before the Houses in
ample time to permit the detection and defeat
of all villainy. But the session approaches It's
close, and these bills have not been reported
from the Committee on Cities, of which Mr..
Alexander Frear, member for Mr. Sweeny and
superintendent of the concrete pavement, Is
Chairman He can report them at any time,
and the delay is presumptive proof that some
body has financial project to be smugged
through We hope the members will take
steps to secure their immediate introduction.
in order that they may be fully considered and
carefully sifted of all items except those called
for by the estimates required by law. If it is
desired to seriously cripple the Ring let US have
the Tax Leyies at once.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

The Canadian Parliament have under con-
sideration a new banking law which is ex-
pected to work an extensive change IN
their banking circulation. While their
measures respecting American silver are
meant to effect the substitution for 1t
of a Government issue of small change, this
new law is to provide Government greenbacks
to supersede any bank bill under four dollars;
and the banks are to provide half of their
cash reserves in Dominion notes. What
this last clause means is not perfectly clear to
the Canadians themselves; and Sir Francis
Hncks, the Finance Minister, with whom the
bill originates, declared during its discussion
that he "did not propose to trouble the House
with any very definite definition Cste) OF
"the policy of the Government" 1t Is
generally believed. however, that the intent Is
to substitute dollar for dollar of Dominion
greenbacks for one half of the specie of tho
banks-being in effect a abolition of specie
payments Wait little, gentlemen across the
border. Do MT be in hurry to engrave new
issues either of greenbacks or fractional cur
rency. We hope in few weeks to be able to
offer you all of ours, and shall be happy to re-
ceve your gold and American silver in return.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

Mr.. Gladstone, rs the Cable tells u.s. has
promised deputation of lrishmen to make
every necessary modification in the details of
the Land bill. Such an assurance harmonnes
perfectly with the unanimous resolve OF the
Irish CommOners to accept the bill IN prIn-
ciple, but to amend it in particulars. Inc only
question to be answered is rs to the nature OF
the needed amendments; for both lrshmen
generally, and Mr.. Gladstone himself have
notion that it will need tolemble amount OF
hammering on the anvil of legislative debate
before it becomes shapely enough to be law.
ut is Il very tough subject TO deal WITH S'ii
Mr.. Gladstone. land | am much mistaken IL
"the House will not find il so before II mas
"done with it; for with the utmost good VIII
"they will, fear, have to spend consider
cable amount of time upon the bill III INC
"endeavor to make u good measure. In
these modest but Shrcwd words we have m
intimaton that, in spite of the good viii Oh
Parliament and especially of its Irish mem
bers, the bill will require time and ton 'o oc-
come law Its debate should begin to-day
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smps,m,nts. g,dnrts. .ts.. 6bis ebsnins.


BoorHs THEATER. Twenty -third-st. and sixth-aVe'
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KELLY & LEoN's MINsTREIs. No. TO Broadway
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Hsu-' Egypt and the Nile
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07

We have always thought that The pit-adoreIs
nf stage goddesses might do better than To
fling to the objects of their admiration great
punches of frail and perishiug flowers. ot our
mind also, it seems, was an enthusiast !"
Savannah, Ga, who, quite mvlshed 10y 'Ho
histronic excellence of Mrs Oates, tire"
upon the stage "a complete and handsome SET
"of furs" He could not bear TO think poor
man of such glowing loneliness shiverins
with cold. Ne found in this warm peitry a"
emblem of his own feyeriSh heart Perhaps no
felt himself to be somewhat of " mutt ana
so null he presented MS neatly emblemat'eai
Of bis personality. Ii is to be hoped tina TINS
rt,iltorian taste will pass into precedent
We have I'VE regret to say seen actresses 70
whom tLo pifs OF box of soap and another
how ~ towels womb have been most appfo'
pirate. We have seen actresses whose o i',
TO borrow TalleyIands mot began too i"'S ''''',
cleft of too soon" and to whom Few so""'
of tho usual length would have been n season.
ahle donation Flowers are well enough III
their way. but they do not supply the soiii
necessities of the theatrical Indies unless they
are accompanied by iugeniously-hidden green