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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04
CURRENCY AND FINANCE-LE2 THEBL

CURRENCY AND FINANCE-LEf THERE
BE TRUTH!
We would fain believe that there is, among
considerable citizens, no dissent from the prop
OsitiOn that our present Currency is National
disgrace Not that the difference of 10 or II
per cent. between Paper and Specie Is neces-
sarily very grave evil ; for we all know that
whoever buys or sells, contracts, or pays, does
so in full view of this difference. He who was
worth 100000 a year ago. and nOws finds
himself worth but 100000, must consider that
the latter sum lin currency represents as great
a value as the former did when Gold stood at
double the present premium. 1t is not, there
fore, on the assumption THAT it rObs one class
or another, but in contemplation of its essential
falsehood, that we protest against perpetual
ton of this Currency. "The United States
"will pay the bearer Five Dollars"-when
where in what How long shall these ques-
tons await some sort Of answerf
"Why don't the Five-Twenty bonds say
they are payable in Specie, if such is the
"factf" some have innocently and many
knavishly asked. They did not say it because
nobody imagined, when the Loan and Legal
Tender act was passed, that there would be
any thing but Specie or it's equivalent to pay
in when those bonds became payable. They
did not say it for the same reason that former
bonds of our Government had been silent on
this point. "Dollarn is not naturally an am
biguous word and when government prom
Uses to pay so many dollars, the language is
not supposed to need a glossary.
The resolves submitted on Thurs day by Mr.
John Eadie to the Chamber of Commerce of our
City deserve earnest and general considera-
ton. We reprint them--as follows:
Resolved That the National BOARD of Trade feel IT
duty incumbent upon them Congress direct the
redemption OF egaltender notes at the option Of the
holder by issuing in their bonds bearing
the rate OF 60 per cent per said bonds being
made payable on demand principal and interest In the
said legsl-tender notes and bo 1t further
Resolped That recommend that the National Banks
be allowed TO count said bonds in the required
be kept by them according to existing laws
Let us suppose these resolves adopted as
the basis of q return to solvency, and the
question /" In what and when are the Green
backs payable 7" is answered. They are pay
able in n bond of the United States which
draws low rate of interest in coin so
long as the holder chooses to retain it and
il may be reconverted into notes which are
legal tender for ordinary debts and internal
taxes. Your Currency il no longer in the air !;
il has tangible, palpable basis, which gives
il an intrinsic and demonstrable value In
short. with the adoption of Mr. Eadies plan,
we return in effect to the basis on which
Congress and the country first assented to
the desperate eXpodient OF making mere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04
EVERYDAY HEROES.
ninistratio

Two simple little incidents come to us in
our exchanges, which seem to us at least as
well worth the telling as the latest history of
adultery and murder. One is the story of
poor acrobat out West, who was dashed from
his giddy hight to the ground and who, when
the crowd gathered about him, raised himself,
mangled and bleeding, to gasp out entreaties
for them ito save the two girls left unsup-
ported on the trapeze. He refused to be lifted
until they were rescued, and in the agony of
his fall and shattered limbs was the only man
in the large audience who forgot his own
necessities and had the cool presence of mind
to direct how they should be brought down
When they were safe, pain got the better of
him, and he was carried as dead off the stage
The women were strangers to him.
The other story is of a little girl who wan
dered on to the track of the Delaware Railroad
as a freight train of nineteen cars was ap-
preaching. AS it turned the sharp top of the
grade, opposite st. Georges, the engineer saw
the child for the first time, blew" Down brakes"
and reversed the engine But it was too late
to slacken its speed in time, and the poor baby
got up, and, laughing, ran to meet it. 81 told
"the conductor" says the engineer, eff he
could jump off the engine, and, running ahead,
"pick the child up before the engine reached
cher he might save her life, though it would
"risk his own, which he did. The engine was
within one foot of the child when he
" secured it, and they were both saved.
" | would not run the same risk of saving n
Child again by way of experiment for all
Newcastle County. for nine out of ten might
mot escape. lie took the child To the lane.
"and she walked TO the house, and little girl
was coming after it when we left" The hon
est engineer, having finished his days run, sits
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

1t is q well-knOwn fact that most very short
persons would like to be tall though never heard
of tall person who would have liked to be shorter
Taking advantage Of this very human weakness,
certain Captain adyertises that he has found
out process by which the stature can be greatly
increased and the symmetry Of the figure beautl-
fully developed, "by means of remarkable
physiological discovery" Il, myself" says the
Captain was only feet inches In two years
have increased my stature to feet inch" There
really seems no reason why the Captain, if he keeps
on, should not grow to the altitude of the London
Monument But it will be readily comprehended
that when a man has this extraordinary power in
his hands he cannot be expected to impart 1t for
nothing SO all the short people, before they told
how they are to grow gigantic, are told that they
must send to the scientific Captain 5s 3d. in uncut
stamps" These received, the cabalistic information
will be impaired and the Liliputians may grow to
Brobdignagians at their leisure Now, such is the
credulity of human nature. and so do short people
chafe under the cruel destiny which made them So
that we have no doubt quite a shower of stamps
comes pouring in upon the ingenious Captain. And
yet there can be only way of adding an inch or
two to ones hight we must content ourselves with
ordering the maker TO put few more lifts on
the heels Of our boots. Perhaps that was the
Captains " secret"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

down the next morning and writes this homeiy
letter TO the father of the child Gin order that
ait NAV be more carefully watched in future"
and thanking God "that himself and the babys
"mother slept TRANQUILITY last night, and were
SPARED the lifelong pangs OF remorse'" IL
does not occur to him to even mention the
conductors name who, he seems to think, did
no uncommon thing in risking his own life,
unseen and unnOticed, on the solitary road,
for child whom he would never probably see
again. The moral of the story to him and to
the good clergyman who publishes it was. ap-
parently, that mothers should keep their chill
dren off the tracks.
1t seems to us to have a different meaning,
which every man can read for himself. we
give the simple little story place, therefore,
among the histories Of the war, and murders,
and records of the Police Court, for no prac-
teal lesson, but just as one would hang bit
of green landscape on his wall on Winter
day. After all, in spite of the transient rain,
there is under all Summer and God. 1t is
worth while to remind ourselves of that now
and then. We believe, too, with the plain
speaking engine-driyer, that the conductor DID
nothing more than eight out of ten manly
young fellows Would have done in his position.
Police reports and the daily press bring the
murders and meannesses of the world so con-
stanty to the surface on week days, and the
clergy open our eyes to human depravity so
clearly on Sundays, that we are apt to over
look the actual honor and integrity in the
mass of ordinary people about u.s. We grow
so bilious in our reforming zeal that it is
worth while to be shaken into more Chris
tian charity, and convinced that it is not
matter Of wonder to find Bayard in the poor
conductor of a freight-train, or man in
circus rider.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

We print herewith the letter from Washing
ton of most valued friend, who proposes
that American Commerce be revived by per-
hitting the importation of materials for Ship
building free of duty. We object to this on
several grounds, namely: 1. 1t would prove
Intellectual 2. 1t would open wide door for
smuggling. g. 1t would give the lower order
of demagogues an excellent lever for upsettlng
our entire Tariff, by crying, "FarmerS! why
should MT you have your Iron, &C., free OF
duty as well those millionaire ship-owners
L" Is MT your industry quite as useful and I'M
portant rs theirs ?"-But the plan won't do
and we will waste no more words upon 1t.
We greatly doubt the practicabity OF COM
peting with Western Europe for the convey
ance by steam of Ocean Mails and costly
Wares and Fabrics CithOut the aid of Govern
ment subsidies. But of this hereafter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

There are various rumors from London,
Brussels and Bordeaux relative to Peace ne
gotiations and prospects of French recon-
struction, but it is not safe to put implicit
reliance on any of them. Count Bismarck
may talk, as it is reported he is doing, to M.
Rouher for ages without arranging the res
toraton of the Emperor, whose interests NJ
Rouher serves because the deposed monarch
used to aid his enterprises. NJ. Jules Favre
and the rest Of the Paris Government may
agree with Count Bismarck on terms of
Peace to be advocated in the Constituent
Assembly; but how much influence these gen
tlemen are to WELD III the Assembly Is at
present very doubtful question. Bordeaux
may assemble in public and nominate future
government in which only the Reds shall have
voice, but who shall answer for the acquies-
cence of the Assembly, Until the elections
take place and the representatives are named
we can know little or nothing of the change
in the sentiments of the people which the
war has unquestionably wrought; and specu-
lations now are idle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04
Neho'Iotk Daily GribMare.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1871.

The siege Of Beor is sti in progress that beng ex-
cepted from the operations of the Armistice. -= a
treaty of peace said to have been agreed TO by the
Paris Government "A new call has been made on
the German L8ndwehT. === Bourbaki' sarmy has been
distributed throughout Switzerland. go Large quant
ties of provisions arriving at Paris but considerable
distress still prevails in the city.
In the Senate yesterday Conference Committee was
appointed on the bill aboshng the offices of Admiral
and VioeAdmiral The bill granting pensions to the
Veterans Of 1912 was passed. =- In the House, the
concurrent resolution for the relief Of the sufferers by
the war in Europe passed. The Naval Appropria-
tjon bill was discussed without result
Tweeds Croton Water bill has passed the State Senate.
- An insane woman at Egg Harbor n. Y, threw two
Of her children into q We'll and then drowned herself
&C. The Kensington National Bank OF Philadelphia
has been robbed Of $4,000 The Indians are depre-
dating in New-Mexico.
Erie has obtained injunction against the Ohio and
Mississippi Railway Company, restraining them from
changing the gauge OF their road. E- william Allen
Buter lectured on the Relations Of Lawyers to Clients
- The Jury in the MILAN malicious imprisonment
ease awarded the plaintiff $4,000 damages == God'
l1t. 11l1, 1ll1 Thermometer, "a, 40, 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

The wall of Mr.. Feydeau over the curse of sterility
which he says is the portion of the year just finished
is clearly not applicable to the world at large. The
mental constitution of Partisan is such that he
can see no light in the world if Paris is in shadow
and chaos seems to him come again if business is
dull on the Boulevard des ltalens. Mr.. Feydeau
said this accursed year would witness no picture,
book, no statue, no invention OF discovery. We
have some hundreds of pictures in our Academy,
many of them so that they must have been
painted recently. We have too many books to read
or review. We have Wards Shakespeare, and
Goulds West Wind besides other statues which are
an affection to the eyes and temptation to the
quill And as for inventions. the Patent Office has
issued during the past year 1881 patents OF which
$40 were to British subjects and 50 to Mr. Feydeaus
countrymen The old age of the world has evidently
not yet arrived.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

One would think getting married to be something
which gentleman would like to do as quietly ana
privately as possible but the new taste Is TO nave
all the particulars of espousa blazoned IN the news
papers, with full inventory of the brides silks ana
satins, laces and ribbons and haberdashery gene
rally Here is an account of q wedding In "yan-
dotte Mich. upon the occasion of when the reporter
INDUCES in the following noble, original phllosoph
cal and moral reflections: IL was evident tht Inc
parting with loved daughter. even though she go
to take her allotted place in life was SAD du'yi
and vet tbe banpv memories should cluster about it
and ballow the day the more il sank away into the
dimness of the past'-which We call good. How
ever, the marriage which more especially affects us
is that of swain of "a years of age 10 damsel Of
~. This Was in Springfield Ohio. This couple can
benin o sing John Anderson, my 10 John" at once.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

One of our municipal Solons has fined man $50
and sentenced him to months imprisonment for
kissing woman in the street against her will. IL
this were done in the interest of deicacy and pro
priety, the Judge must be commended; for the
street is certainly place for Oscuatory greetings,
and moreover, they should never be bestowed any
where unless mutually satisfactory. On the whole,
the punishment was mild; for we have known many
estimable gentlemen who for kissing ladies in the
church. and with their full consent, have been COM
PEELED to pay not less than 5000 to $4,000 year
Tor the privilege ever since the commission of the
imprudence 1t is not often we are enabled to APP
prove of any decision made by Tammany Judges;
but we feel constrained to laud this one, and to
cherish the hope that our aesthetic Solomon will ex-
tend his jurisdiction to the Judas kisses with which
the Sham Democracy are seeking to betray the re-
leased Fenians who have come to our shores.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

The Trenton True American prints our expose
of the bill introduced into the New-Jersey
Legislature to repeal that provision of the
Hamilton Land Companys charter which au-
thorizes it to construct railroad, and, after
talking about and about it, says:
we have been led further in this matter than we had
intended but wish to show that either The TRIBUNE
does not understand the matter we do not"
Yes we both do understand it perfectly.
You belong to Camden and AmbOy, and are
working to preserve its monopoly; we are on
the other side-that Is all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

wealthy and promnent citizens OF their De
nartments generally men of no strong poiiti-
col convictions. but naturally inclined by tem-
neroment and habit to accept existing lacts
and work in harmony with dc tdcfo govern
,norts The Government of National Defense
has thus far had no obstacles 'hro"h III i'S
way by this class of persons. VI the contrary
they have almost universally socohuou eno
efforts of the Ministry to maintain 'ne n'i,i-
tory force and the civil administration at INC
highest point of efficiency since the war Oegan'
The manifestation of Bonapartlst sympathies
in the forthcoming elections, so lar from Deihg
nrevented by this shallow device, VIII DE IN
evtably greatly increased by the natural re-
sentiment of the persons so gratuitously in
srItod The affront to the 0rleanists IL equally
rnc,,led for and futile. The course OF the
Rordeaux faction in this matter is one they
have 10 right to pursue, and II they had the
right il would be most undignliied and I'M
polite.
If il be trne, as stated in our dispatches, that
Mr. Simon has assured the journalists OF Dor
deaux. who with more discretion than their
rulers have protested against this tyrannical
decree. that the Government OF Paris does not
approve it, and will not recognize IT, lLis mel
dent only more clearly shows how desperate
and dangerous is the audacity of the Gascon
fraction OF the Administration. Unfortunately,
this exhibition of Mr.. Gambetta's incapacity,
while it may vndicate the action OF the Paris
Government, cannot prevent the Republican
cause from suffering severely in the important
contest of next week. A house, half-bullt,
and divided against itself, has little prospect
of completion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04
We most respectfully suggest to our British

We most respectfully suggest to our British
cotemporaries that no other people than our
own can be permitted to exercise any super
visory power over the proceedings of the Amer
lean Congress. If that body sees fit to well
come KOssuth, or O'DOnOvan Rosa, or Victor
Hugo, or Mazzini, as exiled from his native land
because of his devotion to its interests or Its
rights, it will do so, and no foreign criticism
thereon will avail. Great Britain has I'M
prisoned and then exiled the Fenian leaders
which is her business. What are shall see ht
to do with them on our own soil Is ours. we
have no counsel to prefer Congress on the
subject; and we assure The Times and other
London oraces that their representations and
wishes will receive no sort OF consideration.
Let each keep his own side of the hedge, and
all will be well.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

At very considerable but most unnecessary
expense, the Government, in response to IN
dignant demands OF Tammany trembling at
the exposure of it's frauds, has settled by
new census enumeration, the highly important
fact that about 1900 persons leave the city i'll
the Summer months and this is all that II
does settle, for it was clearly enough estab-
lished before that the Democracy, by iraudu-
lent counting and repeating, footed UP ma
iorities at elections totally out OF proportion
to the actual population What has Tammany
to demand further
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04
amnecments, ctt., obiO epenins.

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1~eTH-AvLNUE TnEATEE.-At II and at 8; sara
toga"
Dowa" LsuIa KeeEc
Nuuo's G .RDRN.--At II and at 8: "The Black
Crook"
Sr.pr TvyArER-" Mary Stuart" Nine Seebach
VILLAGES THEArER.-At IA: ours" Ats: THE
Clapdesne Marriage"
ACADEMY OF Observation-Disclosures Concert Carl
Bergman.
NFw-YORK CRCUs-At2 81 and at s.: Sensational
Bareback Hon snaaship. Bedouin Arabs etc.
san FRANCISCO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., dances, &C.
ceatdc s.. c'c
WoOr'S MUsTUM AND MENAGERW-At and at
s. Rcd Hands" Lucy Re htou.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

Paris did not heed Count Bismarck's warn
ING, that too long delay in submitting to its
inevitable fate would leave the inhabitants
without means OF subsistence; and the
poorer classes now suffer for the necessaries
of life. The German army has rendered part
of its supplies to the Parisians, but the fear
of famine is not yet happily dissipated. Sup
pies are doubtless on the way from various
parts of France and from abroad, but owing
to the lack of transportation long delay cannot
but ensue, during which time the horrors of
the siege must continue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

The German Diet has been discussing the
proceedings of a war meeting in this city at
which resolutions not wholly complimentary
to the German cause were adopted. The
meeting referred to was not, of course, one
of Germans 1t was held on Oct Q, under the
auspices of the French International Assocla-
ton, and delegations from two German socie-
ties attended, but nobody considered it as III
any sense representing the German popula-
ton of this city,
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do rot wonder that he attempted suicide.
The dispersal OF his entire army across the
Swiss border makes his failure appear more
contemplate than if the army had surrendered
in the open field, while, Judging from our
latest reports, it has suffered as greatly in its
flight to neutral territory as any of those
which surrendered on French soil.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

The last days of the siege of Paris have a
melancholy yet fascinating interest now that
the long agony is over. No more interesting
account of the effect of the bOmbardment, on
city and people, has yet been published than
the series of letters which we publish tins
morning ON the first page.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

The Pension bill which lately passed the
House, granting pensions to the soldiers and
sailors of 1912, was adopted in the Senate yes
4erday, but the provisions were considerably
extended. 1t goes back to the House for con-
earrence in these amendments, bat is not
likely to halt there or in the hands of the
President
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

Thsse interested in Prison Reform-and
righeslad we are to believe that the mum
Der has greatly increased in the last lew
years-will find entertainment and food for
thought in the pleasant account ON the second
page of the effect of public reading on the
inmates of the Massachusetts, State Prison.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-04

No campaign of the war reflects less credit
on the French arms than that of Bourbaki;
and if be holds himself in no higher estima-
zion than history is likely TO award bin, we
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