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The New York herald., 1871-12-11
For the sirls.

Ny graciousi where shall
I begin I have told you
all n out the English,
French AM = erman u0is,
how entirely ai1 erent they
are, Just as ci1erent as
the English, French and
German childfon. and tEcn
all the don's Hxlnrs. Every.
thing t0at you would want
for yourself. NOW ! AM
the DOLLS HOT SIS
every size. With 8 and =
rooms IN each. ParIor,
Kftcbc,, Dining room, AMI
Br.rooms- aud lots OF
Furniture for thes. houses.
Ais every kind of n toy
and gains YOU can think
oil. BaOy Rooms, China
Tea Sets, iiinner sets,
Baskets. Flow T Stores,
anl iois and lots ol
pretty thugs that you will
be delighted with when
you come 10 Gee thom.
The New York herald., 1871-12-11

nOHSES, CARRIAGES, sxC.
ATTHE AUCTION HOUSE or
"A JOHNSTuN VAN TASSELL,
Oaice and SacsIoom 81 Nassau street.
opposite th Pos. ouce.
THE horse AND CARRIAGE BRANCH
The New York herald., 1871-12-11

1hnye taken AL the other
goods out OF my largo
SIKH avenue stnre, aud
filled il entirety lull OF toys
an "a doLs. and.E " % be
tho CHiLDRES'S STORE. until aftey
Christmas. ! could not
begin to tell you everything
we have got there, but
know that you viii say that
you never saw 50
many pretty things together
before 10 your lives.
SA.,IA CLA = 10 going
TO TAKE CHAR II of that
store, and n right Jolly
good old fellow hs
10 can assure you.
The New York herald., 1871-12-11

nsnn "A VERY FINE sTIvERs' SLEIGH, NEARLY
DsUN. new also large assortment OF singIc, Pony
and srsra al Sleiss, Albany style; PorhanJs, trimmed and
un, irpe ianiiy twosrA and ngio scrhs from tyg up
hear o Wolverine, Buiaio ,cnet Robes Bells
from ~ uls ". II. GRAY. ~ 10 - Wooster street.
The New York herald., 1871-12-11

SWISS CAHvED GOODS.
SHELL GDuDS, IN VARIETY.
PtkNUS. Ste. N ~ %.
PAkIAN GOODS, IN VARIETY.
MAGNETIC Toys, 25c. 10 81.
FINE BOHEMIAN 9JODS.
FINE lNLAlD HUxEe.
WRITING DESKS.
JEW r.L CASES. &c.
LIS YOU
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27

forest on its mortgages aud ten per cent diyi-
dends on its stock, and avoiding the penalties
Of that reckless expansion which has dis-
tinguishcd its management, in common with
that of its competitors
The policy contemplated by this immense
combination of railroad and mining capital Is
to maintain coal at Il steady and remuncratlye
price all the year round by limiting the guam
tity 10 be brought to market If it is found that
the supply is getting ahead of the demand,
all the companies are to reduce their tunnage
by a certain percentage, to be agreed on at
council Of the representatives of the various
corporations. A cOlliery which has a capacity
of 100 carloads day will have say, only 80
cars left at its disposal. If 100000 tuus are
transported to market each week, the monop-
0ly-for such it is avowed and intended to b.
will cut down the supply TO 100000 tuDs, or
to whatever extent may be Necessary to keep
up the price, so ~ to afford Il reasonable
"proft" TO all concerned. 1t may BE- asked,
VIII not this monopoly be an Improvement
on the state of things which has existed
for the last three yearsf Is not a COM
bnatiOn of capitalists preferable to p cOmbina
ton of labor unions? Perhaps it is, but the
attentive reader of the resolutions pIOmul-
gated on Thursday by the railroad men and
coal operators will see that they leave the
Miners Union uDshOrn of q single power or
pretension. Should the miners go to work on
the terms proposed in six months the 10000 MEM
members of the Miners and LabOrers' Benevo-
lent Association will be four times as powerful
and four times as closely united as they arc to-
day. That organization will have accumulated
force enough to inaugurate four months sus-
pension. The policy of limiting the supply and
keeping ND the price, together with sense
of security arising from any confidence when
may be entertained in the ability OF the
allied companies to "put an end to strikes
would probably cause the public to be less
prepared for a coal famine than they were
last December. 1t is an Omnous circum-
stance that the leaders and members OF the
Miners Union, almost to man, look upon
those who have taken part IN these
meetings in New-York and Phiiadel-
phia as their mortal enemies Ihcy
credit them with the design of destroying their
association. The miners, if they accept the
terms offered them now, will do so because
they are too poor to carry their resistance any
further. But the spirit of resistance will only
be intensified by their forced submission, while
common sense will enable them to appreciate
fine compliment which has been paid to their
power Whatever else may flow from the de-
alterations of the capitalists, at their meetings
hero and in Philadelphia, the restoration of
right relations between labOrer and employer
or between producer and consumer, is not to
he expected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27
TTfVpOCK-GP4 T-CJIERH4N.

We pint this morning vOlumlnOus extracts
from the correspondence between Gems. Han
cock and Sherman in reference to the former
gentleman's reclamatiOns against an assign
ment which he thought unsuited to his rank
and dignity. The question may be stated
in a ut-shell: Gen. Grant, for reasons of
public necessity was compelled to over
rule certain orders OF Gen. Hancock
in New Orleans: in consequence of this Gen.
Hancock assumed toward Gen. Grant an I'M
friendly attitude when they met in Washing
ton later, Gen. Grant. OH the decease of Gen.
Thomas, assigned Gen. Schoiield to the com
mand of the Military Division of the Pacific,
and did not so assign Gen. Hancock, whose
commission wasa little older than Schofeld's; all
of which he had a perfect tight TO do: nsum,
when Gen. Sheridan went to Europe, Gen.
Hancock thought he should have succeeded
him in command of his Division. The Presi-
dent and Gen. Sherman did not see the neces-
Sity of this change, preferring to retain the
position open for Sheridan on his return.
1t is difficult to imagine what Gen. Hancock
expected to gain by the publication of this
correspondence. 1t represents him as petulant
and jealous to the last degree, deyOured by n
sense of his own Importance, and utterly I'M
able to comprehend how any other officer
could be preferred TO him for an important COM
mand. The letters of Grant and Sherman, on the
other hand, are kind and cOnciliatOry, treating
the offended General like a Maynard boy.
whom they would rather coax than compel
into obedience. The whole affair i'll deserves
the space it has claimed; but it seems pity
not to give Gen. Hancock the benefit Of the
publicity he has so industriOusly cOurted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27
NETWORK DAuy TRIBUNE MONDAY, FEBRUARY e. 1871

but, wiser in their generation than the old
"Indan Ring,r they advocate peaceful means.
Good government" is the new snare lhcy
have seconded proposition to consolidate the
Indian tribes under one territorial govern
ment, in the hope thus to acquire their reser.
yations outside of the Indian territory and
throw open to settlement Che Lands within when
are decided to the Cherokees and Choctaws.
The Indians have prepared constitution
under which thoy design TO form such Gov
eminent, clccting thor own officers. lhc
President approves of this constitution winch
secures tho Indian tribes in their lands, but
suggests that the Territorial officers he ap-
pointed by the Federal power. But the Senate
il urged to pass another bill, which leaves
these lands of the Indians open to seizure
by settlers and corporations without considera-
ton. All this is plain injustice, which ought
not to prevail and the earnest protests OF the
agents, who understand the needs OF the
Indians and the rights of the country ought
not to pass UNDECIDED by the Senate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27
THE NEW WDLfN CRUSADE.


With the approach of Spring We have the
usual outcry that the Indians of the Plains
are preparing for war. 1t ia a warning of
wolf at which the country no longer stirs, for
il has come to be well understood that it is
raised by rascals who find profit III the con
tict they produce. But the efforts now max
ing to bring about actual hOstiltics or to in
crease the army on the frontier, and to frlghten
the Indians from their reservations, are vigor-
Gus and extensive, and threaten to be success
full. The Indian Ring still retains II hold
Oh the Indian Department it has numerous
willing accessories in the army 1t has lately
shown it, influence in Congress- by killing
the appropriation for the Indian Convention ;
and il evidently means to hesitate at nothing
which will help to bring about "A conflict.
Our dispatches and correspondence Ill this
issue partly reveal the nature and extent of
ia late maneuyers. An old and fay0rite
method of exasperaling the Indians has been
employed in Western Kansas. Army officers
and soldiers have been used to insult and an
noy the Cheyennes and ArrapahOeS, who have
their reservations there, and to create misap-
prehensions in their minds OF the III
tention of the Government with regard to them.
To repeated prOyOcatOns from army officers,
officially vouched for in the communications
of Indian agents which we reproduce, the
Indian chiefs have replied with moderation,
giving strong assurances of their desire for
peace and positive proofs of their con
fdence in the Government agents. While
the latter officials, earnest in their ad-
yocacy and honest in their enforce
ment of the Presidents Indian policy, have
taken every care to cOncilatc many of the
army officers opposed to the new method of
dealing with the Indians have apparently
sought only to exasperate them. That they
have not succeeded is due largely to the In
dian agents. that they should not have
other opportunities to continue their wicked
schemes and repeat their malicious misrepre-
sensations the President owes TO the Indian
agents 4: and where one of these army officers
can be proved guilty of tins misconduct or
Indifferent TO its commission by officers or sol
diers of his command, he ought to be recalled
and sent where he can do no mischief.
The "Indan Ring" has apparently been
more successful at Washington than on the
frontier. Judging from the testimony which
has thus far been made public by the Commit
tee which has been investigating the alleged
misconduct of the Indian Office, we conclude
that the Ring by artful misrepresentation,
has induced the Indian Bureau to purchase
large supplies in haste on informal contracts,
and that az a consequence Of dealing with
such fellows, the Government has been swim
died
The land grabbers, too, in every form, have
been busy III schemes ~ doiraud the Indians,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27

We have been made acquainted with
Tammany's method of cOnceaing its frauds by
Legislative enactments which prevent inquiry
by pretending to discontinue 'jobs." We now
have a curious illustration of the mode prac-
ticed by the District-Attorney, who has per-
sistently refused TO prosecute complaints Of
fraud in the Broadway widening, and who
Drowbeat persistent juror, interested in an
investigation. A sequel to this remarkable
story, exposing the like practices of Tammany
Mayors, Tammany Commissioners, and Tam
many Judges generally, will have a peculiar in
terest for taxpayers, and ought to be published
by all means.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27
TILE rroNG H4HEN E0R BorEN.

Ii appears that one of our illustriOus lcgis-
lators, at Washington, is prosecuted on &C
count OF alleged bigamOus practices. We say
alleged, because he appears to be on trial, or
giving bail TO appear, or waiting verdict most
Of the time, so that the little modicum of the
work he can give to his seat in the House
seems hardly worth while; but nothing def
mite ever comes of it. After q protracted turn
in bigamy proceedings, and an eclipse by rea-
son of the shadow cast upon his brightness by
the many women interested in his lovely ca
rcer Bowen, NJ. G., energies, puts on fresh
shirt collar, and takes his seat in the House of
Representatives ~ serene as if he were not the
prize of cOntending beauties, the male Helen of a
lIomeric campaign. "Here am, says Bowen to
himself, when he is left to himself, and sits in
the hall OF wisdom among his homogeneous
peers "hcre | am, and ! wonder who will
come after me next Bowen is not to blame
for being attractive he was born so. But we
question II he Is not too attractive for a mem
Der of Congress The House is tolerably
conspicuous place. Bowen cannot Sit in hia
seat without being the target of hundred
female eyes, half of which NAV be ewes that
have looked on him before and longed Ia have
him for their own Bowen; nay, might not
Bowen Tl5e any day to question Of privilege.
and, laying his hand on his waistcoat. look nm
to the gallery and say, 81 have feeling. Mr..
Speaker that am married, more or less, TO
"half that gallery, and | should like TO have
sit cleared" Such man as Bowen draws
too many visitors to the gallery. There must
be some other sphere of life in which his at.
fractions would interfere less with the public
welfare.
We are not seeking, by mentioning this nit
ieatiDg circumstance of lis fascination, to de-
fend Mr.. Bowen in bigamy, if he has commit
ted IT, or even in poygamy if lac has at-
.....y2g,r., - ,.---ctce that without ts accOGga,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27
Aem?lork Daily Gribnnf,
MONDAY, FEBRUARY p, 1871

The terms of peace between Germany and France are
puishcd this morning. Ii is believed that the treaty
will be Immediately ratified by the French Assembly
60 The Prussian army Is to enter Paris to-day [==
Garibadi has again been invited TO take seat in the
French Assembly. === terrible explosion has Oc-
CURED in an English coal mine so persons being killed
81 War is threatened between Italy and Tuns and
between Spain and Egypt. So The opening of the
German Parliament has been postponed TO March 10.
In the Senate on Saturday, the hin for exposition OF
American manufactures in Philadelphia in 1876 was
passed A Conference Committee was appointed Oh the
South Pacific Railroad Some progress was made with
the Post Office Appropriation bill. - In the House,
the sundry Civil Appropriation bill was debated but
without result.
The English members OF the Joint High Commission
were presented 10 the President on Saturday. - Two
British schOOneTs have been seized at Gloucester, Mass
for violating the coaSting laws. The ice in the
Hudson shows signs Of breaking up. == wooden
factory has been burned at Ballyille, Ohio, and a
hotel at Palmyra, N. Y. The L. S. steamer WOrces
ter will sail from Boston Wednesday with cargo Of
provisions for France.
Father Benson Of the Evangelist Fathers preached at
the Church Of 81. Adams. Rabbi Wise lectuTcd on
ST. Paul. ===- The coal famine continues. Gold,
III 1lb lui Thermometer Saturday, Az ~, 40; sun
day, Az 39o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27
M poOu FOR RHETORIC.

We have had nothing more absurd, TOT
long time, from Washington. than the lnno-
cent nroposition of "A Senator who should know
better. TO take means for securing more com
nlete reports of the debates of Congress in
the newspapers. Perhaps it might occur to
the worthy Senator that modern newspapers
arc not edited in Congress, and are not IN the
habit of asking Congress for information az 10
what they shall publish. They give what
seems TO them of interest, and reject the rest
They would do precisely the same If they
were furnished with reports four times as
long. What Congress needs to learn is that 1t
cannot do better, in this matter than to
mind its own business, and leave the newspa-
pers to do the same.
The business of Congress is legislation
The business of the newspapers concerning 1t,
is 70 give the news about this legislation, and
about the profuse debate wherewth it is ac-
companicd. in such style and with such full
ness of detail as their experience may midi
cate that their readers desire and VIII Duy
Acting on this plan, it not infrequcntly happens
that THE TRIBUNE fills its waste-baskcts with
columns of Senatorial rhetoric, transmitted, TO
no purpose, by telegraph. 1t pays for this,
with an occasional wry face, when the mat
ter Is sent by The TRIBuSE'S agents; but 1t
would emphatcally refuse TO pay for it, if trans
mitted, in yet greater profusion. at their own
wordy WILL by the agents of the rhetorical
Senators themselves. Hands off gentlemen.
Do YOU attend to yOur business of making
many speeches and few laws, and we Will
attend to ours of telling the public all 1t cares
to know about your work, and you
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27
THr NEF ELECTION Law.

TIE NEH ELEC1ION Law.
The Hcrayfs Washington correspondent, an
nouncing the passage of the Federal Election
act by the Senate, says;
1T rs purely partsan IN s character and IA intended
ma final chapter to series Of acts all passed with the
view Of keeping the Democrats from cheating at the
polls"
That il about the truth. The measure IN
question is purely partisan" simply because
the Democrats want to persist in cheating us
at elections az they cheated us out of the
Electoral Vote of our State in 1863, and the
Republicans do MT mean to let them do it, ana
have passed this act for the purpose Inc
Democrats do not all cheat; some OF them are
zoo piOus aud too respectable to do IT, put 'no'
know right well that others are not anu 'i'"'
these suhom felons and rufiians to vote from
poll to poll until they think they have enough
D,scolitv corrurts the ballOt-bO Re6pecla-
bihty carefully looks the other way VIM v"I
iob is done. and then comes in for us dlVluc"u
of the swag The arrangement ~ S'' lS' 49,.
10 both parties, but not to the hepuono.'i'
who only submit to it when they can mop
themselves just now, they can heip 'noii,
selvcs-at least, they can try; ana Iley ~
try. Hcrcupon, Democracy IS alarmed, auiaHcu'
snnalled, aghast, and Mortified at the imminent
neri] of a military despotsm. The Kepuoli-
cans hear all possible changes rung upon TINS
theme for eleven or twelve hours, ana theh
-the Democratic wind being cxhausted-pro-
coed TO pass their bill.
Mr. Eugene Casserly fifty leads the remOn-
strants. This gentleman, though representing
California, was born in this City, and here took
his first lessons in Democratic politics. Right
well ne knows that the 5,40t votes pollcd i'll
our With Ward fOr instance at the Presiden-
tial Election of 1868, and the 6,34 votes polled
at the following State Election of 1869, when
nothing better than Secretary of State was
To be chosen. were swelled to those dimen-
sions by gigantic, concerted fraud-that there
are not more than Four Thousand Voters in
that Ward, which, worked up to its utmost ca
pacity last Fall, only polled $685. Dir. Casserly
understands the whole case precisely as we do
cxccpt that we want such frauds prevented and
he does not. There is not another point OF
difference between us, so far as this whole
business is concerned. And whenever his
party shall be in power, all effective safe
guards against fraudulent voting VIII bt
abolished, with his hearty cooperation Fol
the present they may be to some extent eyaded
and perhaps at times defied; but they are the
law of the land, and they will largely reduce
the Illegal vote of this and doubtless of Other
cities And that is just why the Democratic
Senators fought them so stoutly
We tender the hearty thanks of the often
defrauded and locally ovcrbOne Republicans
of our City to Roscoe Conkling for the stern
resolve with which he insisted on the passage
of this measure of justice, and to the Rcpubli-
can Senators who sat out the debate, resisted
adjournment, and recorded their votes for the
bill. Theirs was Ivy far the best days work
of the Session.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27

A newer report, not more Trustworthy than
that TO the contrary effect which we published
on Saturday, announces that the German Army
is to enter Paris. The announcement Is pos
itvely made, but it will not be wise to accept
it unhcsitatngly. We have hoped against con-
yiction that the Germans wOnld turn their
backs on Paris without more ado, and
add nothing which might be construed
into insult to the unavoidable injury
they have done its people, and we do not like
TO Telinquish the wish. 1t is not at all like
human nature that the Germans should deny
themselves the qualification of fully ayenging
jena, but self-denial and glorifcatiOn would
have been very sublime, and in the long
future would have borne great fruits
of peace and good will to both peoples
The other hard conditions to be ex-
acted are not materially different, according
to this report, from those previously named.
The possession of Metz is to be insisted upon,
and with it, doubtless, ThiOnylle and Nancy,
and the other secondary fOrtrcsses and towns
on the line of the Mosclle, but Belfort is 10
d. fcAhaishod, This "a sila.s-, ~. ~. 90. sa.uo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27
Our advice to clergymen who may be "slandered"

Our advice TO clergymen who may be slandered"
is either to laugh at the scandal, if they can afford
To do sO-which most of them, if altogether blame
less can or else to go straight into a regular Court
Of Justice, and before Judge and jury make their
defamers eat their words or prove them. The more
We read of referees of arbitraors, and of councils
ecclesiastical the less we like them. Here is the
Rev. j. T.. Bell If Reading, Mass, whose Associa-
ton has made charges against his moral charac-
ter" Prove them says Mr.. Bell, and he has a
right to say 50. oh" responds the Association
d" newspaper controversy wouldn't be the thing at
all You pick out two clergymen; We will pick out
two; these shall select or three in addition; to
this tribunal the whole matter shall be referred
All we have to say il. that for poor Mr.. Bell worse
constituted tribunal couldn't be. Clergymen
generally know nothing whatever Of the rules Of
evidence and half the testimony before these vol
uneer tribunals is usually bearsay and judicially
good for nothing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27

Ghosts in our day are becoming very cheap and
plentiful. There is a lively one just now haunting
the residence of the Rev. Mr.. Thrasher of Botecour
County, Wa troublesome apparition, given to
turning beds topsy-turyy upsetting barrels in the
garrett throwing logs Of wood into the rooms and TO
doing all other things which orthodox ghosts have
from time immemorial turned their invisible hands
to. But this Virginia ghost has not only been heard
but seem aud he looks like man. il is said, of which
we have not the least doubt. Sometimes your ghost
is a highly mischievous girl but this kind isn't
usually 80 muscular. The Rev. Mr.. Thrasher may
rest assured that close and persistent investigation
will clear up the mystery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27

Affection has recently taken to peculiar gifts in
Paris. Thus an American lady writes home in a rap
ture Of gratitude that Gem b. had given her ten
boxes of sardnes' the Marquis G.. brought his little
offering of half pound of butter:" Mr. W. laid
at her feet three salt behring's quart of beans half
a dozen potatoes, and "A pound of bad butter" But
could the lady's admirers have given "A more touch
ing evidence of their unselsh deyotionY Perhaps
they went hungry themselves that she might eat
such rare viands as salt herrings and poor butter
She might well be proud; and when it came to
gifts of rat she could MT afford to be squeamish
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-27

Comic" newspapers do have rather hard time of
it everywhere in this country. Here is Frank und
Frei, a German funny newspaper at ST. Louis, gone
TO the cold and silent tomb after brilliant and
ephemeral existence" Now, people who start comic
newspapers in the United States do not sufficiently
consider the extreme versatility of our journals
which make no pretense to peculiar comic vein.
There is a sort of heavy sObriety about French and
English newspapers-great dignity and sometimes
great duness. Hence there is field for Punch in
London and Charirdri in Paris which does Mt exist
here for like publication.