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The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1870-01-06

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New AdvsrtiSements.

" LSoiure Room, for keli Ti0us MsstipsS Rent
must be lew, ADDRESS, "BFAhGBLlsT," Posi-
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

The Stats -Zeitung (Tammany- y-DemocraD OF
this city thus welcomes the Excise provision
of the proposed new City Charter:
I'm regard to the Excise law, perhaps large
part or our German citizens Will feel disappointed che
obnoxious Sunday clause has not been stricken out en-
tirely but it has been modelled that its evasion
easily accomplished and its strict enforcement made
difficult as possibe-hat is in case police placed IN
der city control would at all think OF strictly eniorchs
IT, The Puritan Sabbath observance is retained IN fSn
but still it provided that travellers may eat ana
drink whatever they please the back door Is ao"ed
remain open and beersardens in the suburbs OF the
city need not be in the least disturbed In order TO carry
the law authors have thought it necessary TO maAs
an apparent concession 10 the bgot Doors bauer an'
backwoodsmen OF the interior OF the State Prdciicap'
social liberty will be restricted by it, but In the nef
ests of the principle OF religious liberty, more rad'ea
measure would have been desirable"
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05
THE EASTEPN DIGESTION

simultaneously with the report of an alliance
between Egypt and Greece, comes the an
nouncement that the Russian Government de-
srcs peace. This desire refers to the question
of the Montenegrins, which is the question
equally of Turkey, Austria, and Prussia. Were
the story of the alliance against Turkey as true
rs the slippery Viceroy might wish to have it,
the pacific intentions of the Car might not
be so pronounced. Yet, though the Poyglot
ism of Austria and Turkey has long been con-
sdered fatal weakness, and the Panslavism
of Russia a mighty and aggressive idea, the
world does not expect them to leap to con-
clusions.
Greece and Egypt are, at least, allies in
suspicion, who can neither trust nor be trusted.
Turkey can place no dependence on the ruler
who was once gravely charged with an intrigue
for the annexation of Crete to Egypt, TO aid
which end he was ready to bribe the United
States with an offer of the port of Suda for n
Mediterranean station. Such plotter would
be glad to have Greek help, and to give Crete
away in exchange for it. But is Turkey so
weak that her neighbors can thus administer
in advance upon her estatel The London Ners
makes the statement ridicued by journal of
HlUCI lcSS lHlOlludllOn, lHdt tuc uCN lcOlSdnl-
cation of their army will give the Turks some
seven hundred thousand men in case of neces-
sity, while thciI feet is large and highly
effective. Instead of the old flint muskcts
which The London Times imagines forms so
much of their armament, it is stated that the
Sultan possesses two hundred thousand stand of
breech- loading Sniders and five hundred thousand
Enfields The danger has been accordingly,
not that Egypt would make war upon Turkey,
but that the Sultan would begin operations
for the purpose of crushing the Viceroy once
for all. So far as arms and men may be reck-
Oned, the Turk is judged to be strong, and
very strong; and he has been able to borrow
upon as good or bad terms as ever. What
with his debts and his dangers, war would be
madness; but then the Viceroy would be
equally mad in seeking it. A good part of his
people are wretchedly poor, his taxes are
dangerously oppressive, and now it is said
that the Nile flood has caused S4O,OO0OOO
worth of damages
In all the changes and complications of the
Eastern Question Russia as usual, appears to
hold the surest and strongest hand. NE Mon
tenegrin question, in which it was alleged by
the Austrians that Prussia assisted her designs,
has only served to show the weight of that
hand. The recent remarkable pamphlet of Gen.
Fadejew, in which he maintains that no devel-
opment of Russia is possible without the dis
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05
THE BANKRUPT ACT

As the operations of this most useful law
are being more clearly defined and understood,
the community are becoming more and more
satisfied with its provisions.
We still think it susceptible of advantageous
amendment. Especially do we think the Gen
eral Orders made by the Supreme Court re-
quire revision.
A misapprehensOn as to the effect of what
is called the &" fifty per cent. clause" has, We
think, good deal detracted from the useful
ness of this law. 1t is supposed that no pet-
toner is entitled to discharge unless his as
sets pay fifty per cent. of the claims against
his estate. This is an error. 1t is true that
the act, as originally passed, had such clause,
the operation of which was postponed one
year. Before the expiration of that year, Con-
gress passed an amendatOry act which re-
pealed that clause and provided, in place
thereof, that no petitioner should be entitled
to his discharge after the 1St day
of January, 1869, unless his assets shall be equal
10 fifty per ccntum of the claims proved against
his estate upon which he shall be liable rs
principal debtor, unless the assent in writing
of a majority in number and value of such of
his creditors as shall have proved their claims
before the Register be obtained. There is no
provision for ascertaning the value OF these
"assets - pyimd fdcie, they amount to the sum
at which they are set down in the schedules,
and, in the absence of proof to the contrary,
it would obviously be the duty of the Register
to certify conformity" in case such sum were
equal to One-half of the amount of the claims
proved before him. In large majority of
cases, no claims at all are proved; and, in such
a case, the District Court for New-Jersey held
that, although no assets were reported in the
schedules, yet, as no debts were proved, the
petitioner was entitled to his discharge.
But upon the other branch of the case, the
bankrupt has only to get a majority in number
and amount of such of his creditors as have
proved their claims before the Register to sign
a simple consent to his discharge. This, it
would seem, would be no very difficult task.
The small proportion of the creditors who are
accustomed to prove their claims-perhaps on
an average not one in a thousand-renders it
In many cases no task at all. 1t is said that
in proceedings under the Massachusetts, In
solvent act-which contains similar provis-
ion. though more com"''""ted and difficult
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

upon this boy was officially brought before
the Boarders," and they solemnly resolved
TINT "the charge Of undue violence or unne
cessary severity on the part of the teacher
was not established Good Heavens! will
these Chicago Solons be obliging enough to
tell what testimony and how much of it would
have been Sufficient I" Here was boy with
his brain ruined, child fallen into brute un-
consciousness OF something less, and here was
also evidence that he was reduced to this pitt
full condition through the passionate physi-
cal violence of the teacher; and here,
too, as if it were COroners Jury
sitting in q railway murder case, we are
treated to the everlasting droning verdict
of "Nobody to blamew Why mott Why,
because "the boy had previously been affected
with difficulty in the head" Ergo, all boys
"with difficulties in the head may be pounded
in that region without the slightest restraint
while, upon the other hand, it would be ex-
ceedingly wrong so much as to flip any head
happening to be perfectly healthy. We had
no idea that the Dogberry breed was so far
from being extinct. When we have thus
claim for peculiar tenderness metamorphosed
into an excuse for unrestrained severity, we
begin to wonder what kind of heads 1t has
pleased Divine Providence to bestow upon the
Chicago Board of Education.
We lay it down as broad and general rule
that school teacher who cannot manage his
or her pupils without destroying their brains
by physical violence, is not fit for the business
of education and in these enlightened days
would hardly be thought fit to drive herd OF
cattle, or to be trusted with the care of horses.
Rarey tanned Cruiser by kindness; school
masters and mistresses tame little boys and
girls by free use of the cowhde, which has
been banished from all respectable stables. If
n brutal driver should kill his steed by over
driving or unnecessary blows, the courts of
Justice would have something to say about it;
but when teachers kill little boys, the bland
Boards of Education unanimously resolve that
the victim invoked his own fate, and that
nobody else is to blame
In order that we may not be accused OF In
Justice to the teacher or to any person who
has been connected with this painful affair, we
think it right to add that it has been con-
cluded with one Of those ceremOnlalS called
CorOner's Inquest, and that after hearing the
testimony of large number of doctors the
JuIy found that the inflammation of the boys
brain "arose from natural causes and the
teacher was "exOnerated from all blame in the
natter The fact however remains that
lad subject to brain disease was physically
maltreatcd, and never spoke afterward. We
leave the intelligent reader to draw his own
conclusions
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

Mr.. Lawrence introduced bill in the House
yesterday to alter the present mode of paying
pensions The bill provides that the Secretary
of the Interior shall select in every county a
National Bank, a Postmaster, an Assessor or
Collector of Internal Revenue, or other exist
ing Government officer, to prepare all papers
pertaining to the payment of PENSIONS for pen
sioners, free of cost, and that pensions shall be
paid every three months, instead of semi
annually, as now. Though this is an improve
ment on the present system, yet payment
every three months is not what the pensioners
want. Their necessities demand monthly pay
ments and the impracticability of such pay
ments through the Post Office has never yet
been demonstrated. Two months ago the
House adopted q resolution, offered by Gen.
Butler, asking the Postmaster-G r-General to re-
port a plan for paying the pensions through
the money order department of the Post Office.
We would like to ask why this resolution has
not been acted upon.
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

The inexpressible corruption of the Demo-
cratic municipal administration of this city
has done more than any other single cause
to bring the Democratic party into disrepute
and disgrace everywhere. The World, day
or two ago. said:
1t SO happens that here, in this great focus aud
center, the Democratic party is allpowerful; aud II
shows itself incompetent 10 govern the city wisely the
country will hot likely trust it with the governments
Of the Union If the Legislature should give us bad
city charter fruits would begin TO ripen about the
time OF the next Presidential election"
But what will you do to put an end to tho
corruption The men who organize it, and who
grow rich upon it, are the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party, the authors of its policy, the die
tators of its measures in the Legislature, the
controllers of its appointments. Will you help
lis to break down the power of these bad men.
and to drive them from place. Or would this
also endanger the prospects of the Democratic
party, and the ascendency to which it looks
forward
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05
Smustmtnts. gtdurts. ttt., Ghis Gbnina.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC.-At !: Italian Opera "Masa-
nieu0"-Leirane. At 8: Philharmonic Society CoBeert
ACADEMY OF Music Brooklyn. La Grande
Duehesse de Gerolsen" Mrs Howard Paul
BooTH's TIEATER, TWENTY -thrd-st., between Fifth
col SrthsVcS-Atl: Hamlet" Booth Atbi Meg Mernles
FIFTH-AvE. THEATER.-At and s: Surf"
NIBLo's GARDEN" Dukes Motto" Fechter.
OLYMPIC THEATER.-At and s: "Aminidab Sleek"
"The Spitkre." G. l. Fox
THEATRE FRANCAIs.-At /: Opera Boufe: La
Graude Duehesse." Ats; Bast Lynne" In French
THE TAMNiANY. At 2 and s.: "The Glorious
Seven." &c
WAILACK's THFATER. Broadway and Thirteenth
e-Al; Oars" Lester walaek Ats School for Scandal"
WooD's MUSEUM, Broadway and 30th-st-From
a. tOlO p IN. At2 and 8; "IIOu," etc Giant
APOLLO Hall. Twenty-eighth-st. and Broadway
meBsoys New HbsraieOn
LEEDS ART GALLERIES, Nos. SIT, 49, and SSl
Brosdway-fhe Thompson Collection Of Paintings
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN.-Third Winter
BThibinoB.
NEw-YoRK CIRCUS, Fourteenth-st.-At q and s:
Grand Programme Cinderella" Bouestrianism
PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Brooklyn.-At 4: organ
COBcert
SAN Francisco Observation-Disclosures per-
toruaness
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN AssoCIAuoN.-At 3:
Concert
Mrs. WALTER c. LYMAN: st. AIMS Church,
Bgbteenthsi.-At2: Motherhood"
JAMES FAIRMAN's STUDIO, No. 2l2 Fifth-ave.-
Open ths day FROM to s.
BAYARD TAYLOR, Irving Hall: "Life in Europe
and America"
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05
ENNDING GREENRdCKS.

The redemption in some shape of our Green
backs ought to be no longer delayed. Our
plan is-Resume but, il we cannot carry
that, we are ready to do the next best thing.
Hence, we call attention to the plan submitted
70 The Chamber of Commerce on Thursday by
nsr. W. p. Groom, in these words:
esolred That s the duty Of the Government to issue
60 the holders OF its demand oblixa-
tons interest bearing bonds In exchange therefor
whenever they shall request the samel; ana DO iur
Resored That this Chamber respectfully requests Con.
gress TO cooperate with Secretary OF the Treasury IN
Enforcing the Legal Tender and National Bank acts.
both in spirit and letter; and also TO cooperate WIN nun
offered to the holders OF legal tender to fund them
lat their optionl in OF 81 600 and lts multiple INTO
bearing interest at the rate OF 65O per cent per
annum said bonds dncludng INTEREST," to be made paya-
bic Oh demand in sad legal tender notes.
We are averse to diverse rates of interest
on the National Debt. They tend to provoke
jealousy and dissatisfaction. We believe that,
under proper management, aided by steady
and vigorous reduction of the Debt by pur-
chase or payment, we might rapidly fund the
entire Debt in an untaxable American Consol,
having thirty or forty years to run and draw
ing but four per cent. interest, payable quar-
terly) but, if we keep talking of A. and o.
pcr cent we shall of course be unable to fund
at four. When we get our Consol to selling
freely. we would offer to fund the Greenbacks
therein. and thus bring them to par with Gold
at once. Few or many might be iunded, out
all would he raised to par with coln.-But this
idea of funding tho Legal Tenders IN low
priced bond, itself convertible into Legal
Tenders at the option of the holder, Is deserv-
ing of careful consideration, which we trust II
will receive.
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

The Newfoundlanders have roughly snubbed
their Governor by voting no confidence and
no Confederation in the ratio of 81 to 6, in re-
sponse to an amiable hope to the contrary.
Anti Confederation in Nova Scotia. Newfound-
land. Prince Edwards Island perhaps, and GER
tanly in British Columbia and Rupert's Land,
is stubborn fact. Can the Dominion leaders
go with the tide and manage it, or will they
accept this issue broadly: Confederation with
more and more Imperialism, with more and
more Sir Johns, and Sir Jacobs, and another
Winnipeg or two perhaps-or Independence
with just a chance at Annexation here and
there if they are willing, and-if we are.
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

We give on another page the details of tina
City Budget for the year, as made up by the
Controller and heads of other Departments
We believe the aggregate foots up little less
than the expenses of the last year; but let us
not be in haste to exult over the saving. This
tax levy has yet to pass the Legislature, and
il there are not very heavy additions made
before it becomes q law, it will be the first time
in ten years that such an extraordinary thing
has happened. The history Of the Hodges
Tax Levy, and the hand our present Mayor
had in it, and the almost solid Democratic
vote for it, are not forgotten. If these i'm.
provements on original estimates can bo
wrought in the green tree, what may we not
expect in the dryf Some years ago, at the
critical moment, half million was put in for
judgments against the City, to cover claims
which the City officers had with ostentatious
virtue rejected in their estimate for the levy,
meaning all the time to have them
in. When the present bill is through
both Houses, we shall be able to
get some idea of Democratic economy; bat
even then it would be well to wait until we
have a certified copy, as it has more than once
happened that an eDgrOssing clerk has left ont
words, by accident of course, that entirely
changed the meaning Of section. 1t is af-
firmed that on one occasion a quarter of
million, "or so much thereof as may be neces-
"sary," was appropriated for a Ring job; but
the clerk left out the word thereof" and
opened the door to unlimited expenditure. That
little omission cost the taxpayers five hundred
thousand dollars. The present estimates are
over twelve millions for City purposes alone.
If the Legislature cuts it down, look out for
thereof" in some dark corner. We observe.
as a specimen item. that the Mayor, who says
he has nothing to do, wants SGlOO0 for his
Office. Fernando Wood Was Mayor, and no
one ever accused him of economy in public
funds but he ran the machine for something
less than $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

From the two ways of conducting Indian
affairs suggested in articles which we print
elsewhere side by side, our Government and
people may take a useful hint. One OF them
is a report, and a very interesting one, by Col.
Parker, himself an Indian. and well fitted to
be Commissioner for the Indians, and the other
is by U. S. Consul Blake of Hamilton, c. w.
Col. Parker shows us what policy has become
necessary to save us from the troubles entaled by
a mercenary habit Of peddling and neglect in
our Indian affairs. Canada has better story
to tell. Her Indians are, as whole, peaceful
and satisfied they do not scalp, nor are they
hunted down at a cost of million per Indian.
In short they have served their place as the
natural custodians of the wilderness, and have
gradually been drafted into the service of
civilization In view of the Indian rumors
from Winnipeg, these facts should be borne in
mind.
New-York tribune., 1870-02-05
DHnGREES IN .IIPIN.

Our news from Yokohama calls attention to
the great transformation which i'll ten years
has been effected in the life and business OF
Japan. The ancient but sequestered country
of the Mikados has i'll that time changed It's
primitive condition to one of comparative en-
terprise and, where the steaneDgne was
then unknown, has now twenty steamers
owned and manned by Japanese Its exports
are $4,000, 900 where none existed before and
schools and universities are established by the
Mikado at n rate far from usual to the civil
izatIOn of his strange country.
The Japanese sovereign, who has had the
brave sagacity to pardon his enemies, and to
borrow money to build a railroad, deserves
historian. Some vcntur0us pen will do the
world service by describing the actual gov
ernment and politics of Japan. In the mean
time, with a view to encourage the historian,
we print the following remarkable decree:
ave have heard that great Prince draws after him
his subjects by his virtue, while ordinary ruler meets
them with the provisions OF the law In our opinion the
unnatural condition OF rebellion depends solely on the
possession or want OF kngly virtue in the Sovereign
Now peace has been restored in our doninons aud
settled state OF things established throughout the Empire
it is our pleasure to grant pardons to Ke Y0b0 Adzu
and their adherens and to encourage them to sponta
neous reform Of their ves THUS shall our royal elem
ency be extended throughout the Empre.'
There are a thousand mortal haters Of the
wisdom of forgiveness, and these not thou
sand miles of, who ought, in strict consist
ency, to stigmatze the treason of Keild and
Y6b6 while they denounce the weakness ,1of
the Mikado. But we do not suppose the Mi
kado would have had the sense to bc building
railroads if he had not also the sense to par
don his enemies. He has done well.