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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07
EIET RISE-R1RN1RD.

We had no part originally in tho controversy
about Mr. David Dudley Fields moral account
ability for the scandalous legal proceedings with
which his name has been associated The pub
lie perversiOn of law and justice for the bene-
fit of the managers of the Erie Railway Com
pany is a legitimate subject of criticism upon
which we have written frankly and freely !;
but the personal responsibility of Mr. Fisk's
counsel we preferred TO leave to the judgment
of professional tribunal. Mr.. Field, however
by his reply to our dispassionate and kindly
remarks on the Bowlos letters, forced us to
the consideration of a branch of the subject
which We would gladly have avoided; and
since he has publicly invited an examination
of his professional morality. we have no scruple
in permitting this morning thoroughly COM
petent lawyer, and fellow member OF Mr..
Field in the Bar Association. to begin more
careful inquiry into the personal aspects OF
the Erie litigation than We have hitherto
thought it advisable TO make.
We are impclled to this course by several
considerations. Mr. Field has asked for facts
and specifications warranting tho common
Judgment of his conduct and we are willing to
make some further effort to satisfy him in this
regard. We should esteem 1t a misfortune II
the interest in the case of Field, Fisk, and
Barnard should be suffered to die away with
out producing some more practical result than
has yet followed from it, Mr.. Field is appar-
emily content to remain in the ambiguous po-
siton in which we left him some weeks ago;
but, fortunately for his profession, other mem
bers of the bar are anxious to prosecute the
matter further, and we have reason to believe
that a formidable movement is making in the
legal fraternity to have it properly investi-
gated by the Bar Association. In view of this
movement, the review of the Erie scandal
which we begin to-day, by well-known law
YER having no interest in the case save the
honor of the profession, will attract general
attention. When the story is told, we shall be
quite content to leave the verdict to the COM
mon sense of the community.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

We now see how much truth there was in
tho pretense of Tammany that the Federal in
reference to prevent election frauds was worth
thousands of votes to Mr.. Tweed's party. The
adherents of that model autocrat baye intro
duced bill into the Legislature changing the
time for holding the State elections to the first
Tuesday of October allowing the elections for
congressman to remain as they are in November
BY this plan they hope to carry on, SO FAR as the
State Government is concerned, their TRADITIONAL
tactics of ballot-stufing free from the prying
eyes of Federal supervisors. VI course tho
expense Of few millions, more or less con,
sequent upon having two election days instead
of one, is too trifing detail to be consd-
cred by these worthy patriots. The movement
is not without its significance as tacit con-
fession of the conviction of Tammany that Its
hold upon elections is gone as soon as they
are honestly conducted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07
TILE RLEE OF HAWTHORNE.

We noticed briefly when it occurred the death
of the widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne in En-
gland and there perhaps it is best that we
should pause. When the gentle, quiet life OF
a woman such as this Gibbs away into the gen
tier quiet of DEATH silence over her grave has
more meaning than any requiem. AS cheer
full song, or q happy day III the Autumn fields,
her memory becomes a pleasant tender reality
with us forever; but we cannot, if we would,
impart OF share it with others There Is NOR
bid curiosity through the country, however,
about Hawthorne and all that surrounded him,
arising out of the as yet half acknowledged
feeling that in him America lost her greatest
poet and it is only right that this curiosity
should be 80 far gratified as to do justice to
this woman, whom if he had never loved,
Hawthorne would in all probability have died
undeyeloped and unknown.
No biographer of the great romancer can
ever delineate the strange elements of char
acter that mixed themselves in him, and were
EXPRESSED IN his figure and face; the heredita-
nv abnormal tendencies toward solitude and
Gloom; the almost insane dread of contact
with his fellow-men the obliQue and shad-
owed aspect in which, as he stood apart, the
world appeared to him. Friendly hands may
give us the outside facts Of his life, the cut
of his clothes, the attitude and gestures which
he used to those about him while trying, out
of keen fear of being ridiculous, to fit him
self with their alien habits of thought and
speech; but the only glimpses left to us OF
the real Hawthorne are in his books. The
man was of his own blood, alone, in the world
of thought, and has left no kinsman. Between
him and the outer world came only his wife.
There was something at once comlcal and
pathetic in the dismayed appeal with which he
turned to her when the ordinary business of
life bewildered and Jared on him, and the
alertness and bright gentleness with which
she served as his shield and shelter. She
belonged to one of those old families in New
England who have imbibed culture with the
air. She had An intellect of quick and har-
monlous movement, which found apt and
pleasant expression both by her pen and
pencil. But there are ~ many Of whom all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

Long defenses are apt to be lame, and wordy
explanations are invariably as weak as they
are wearisOme. That of the officers of one of
the principal coal-carrying companies, attempt
ting to justify the part they have taken in the
coal troubles is no exception TO the rule
There are thirteen paragraphs in the memorial
as we publish it, but not one good and sufficient
excuse for engaging in and complicating the
quarrel between the coal operators and opera
tives, of which we who are consumers pay the
damages. 1t is true that it exposes in inter
estng style the conspiracy by which unscru-
pulous Miners Unions and mine-owneTs keep
up the price of coal, but this is not new. 1t
does, indeed, assert what is new to most
persons, that when the coal-carrying companies
interfered and continued the quarrel q
proposition had been made by the miners, and
was under consideration by the propretoTs,
whereby the price of coal at Port Carbon was
not to be permitted to fall below three dollars
| a tun This is an important admission, which
damages the miners and the prOprietors but, as
the railway companies do not claim that they
| interfered to prevent the success of this con-
| spiracy against the consumers, VIC do not see
| that it helps their cause. On the whole, while
| thus exposing the secrets of friends and foes,
| and damaging them in public opinion, the coal
carriers say nothing to Justify their own action
probably because such interferences of con-
trolling monopolies have no justification.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07
THE NEED or THE HOUR.

Those members Of tie present Congress who
were members of the last are naturally tired
of their long Winter in Washington and
anxious to see the coming of Spring at their
own homes. The new members are of course
greatly influenced by the superior tact and
experience of the old ones, and it is to be
feared that in a mere movement of impotence
the Houses of Congress may separate with
some work of momentous Importance undone'
We beg TO call their attention and the most
serious thought of the country to the recent
alarming development of the spirit of lawless
violence in the South, which imperatively de-
mands the consideration Of the legislative and
executive power.
1t is with unfeigned regret and reluctance
that we find ourselves compelled to enter once
moro upon this most unwelcOme subject. The
irresponsible opposition, which profits by these
disorders, contents itself by simply denying
their existence when they are referred to, and
asserting that the object of the Republican
party in endeavOring to put an end to them
is purely partisan one. We cannot waste
words upon so dsCOuraging a manifesto
ton of reckless malignity. We are salts
fed to refer to our authority for
the statements we make in regard to
the existence of the widespread and murder
Gus organization which now ravages the South
We quoted few days ago the denunciation
of the Ku-Klux recently uttered by John c.
Breckenridge. We cited from the columns
of The Ne,o- York World an apologize admis-
sion of their Jail deliveries and murders in
| South Carolina and our latest dispatches
bring the omlnous announcement that the
Governor of that State has asked for force
OF regular troops to protect it from this armed
organization, which, as Governor Scott states
is thoroughly equipped, having its field, staff,
and line officers, and established lines of
d" communication" We print this morning the
charge of Judge Pryor TO the Grand Jury of
Frankfort County, KY, in which this lawless
| organization is described and qualified in
terms which could gain no force in the
mouth of Mr. Sumner and these honest
and spontaneous utterances Of a Kentucky
Conservative are sustained by an indignant
| editorial from The Louisville Courier-,JournoL
in which that leading organ of the Democratic
marty of the Southwest thus denounces the
rufian bands whose crimes now threaten the
ve,v foundations of society in q half-dozen
| States: "They have usurped tho powers of
"Goyernment made murder their pastime and
terrorism their scepter conferred upon their
" adberents the right of private vengeance
"and assumed to protect them from the pen
L" allies of outraged law. No home ia safe, nc
" nlace ia sacred from their invasions. TO
&" show their strength and their utter contempt
Z" for all Departments Of the State Government
"they ill tho vicinity OF the caDitai curing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

this may be said Now, when woman seeks
primarily selfdevolopment, there arc 30 many
artists and authors 1t may do us no harm
to look for a moment at this one VINO had no
other aim than to be simply wife. There
il significance to all women in the fact that,
wbfie the genius and idiosyncracies of her
husband placed him on an entirely different
intellectual level from her own, the infinite
love between them made them one, and fitted
her. with her keen tact and wholesome sweet
ness of temper, to interpret between him and
the world. If it had not been for that cheer
fitness and sunny temper, which kept day
light about him perpetually, the moody genius
of Hawthorne would never have struggled
through its shadows into light. The world
owed great debt to this woman, who was
contented to be only wife.
There is q pleasant hill-slope near Concord,
full of shady lanes and dusky with apple
trees, where Hawthorne and his wife were
used to walk at evening. cheerfully talking as
they went He sleeps there now alone. We
cannot bear to think they will leave the gentle,
bright faced lady to rest in one Of the damp
churchyards of foggy London. But however
that may be, we think that somewhere, where
he waited for her, they must have met ere
now. We like to fancy that the wife's work
is not yet all done; that even in the limtless
possibilities of the hereafter tho homely love
and care which are left behind us here are
needed and waited for; and TO believe that
through the lives 10 come this man and his
true wife will pass on side by side together.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

A crusade against the disreputable lawyers
who frequent some of the city courts was yes
terday proclaimed in General Sessions by
Judge Bedford. We hope the declaration is
not to be the end of this war. The real enemy
IS numerous, well defended by political in
fIuence, and disposed to make vigorous fight.
They should for that reason be vigorously
attacked, and prisoners should be taken and
disposed of promptly. The first strategic point
of the crusader is the Tombs. Let it be taken
by assault or strategy, and the "shysters,"
whether on It's Bench or within its Bar, be
nut to ignominious, hasty flight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

Senator Fenton's bill for the regulation Ut
the Customs, a synopsis of which We publish
this morning, is directed more especially at
the reform of the New-YOrk Custom-HOuse,
but it is applicable in its general features to
the whole service 1t proposes to place all
officers on salary to make their appointments
for four years to permit their removal for
cause only after trial and to deprive them of
all perquisites, except one-fourth share of all
penalties collected for smuggling. 1t makes it
illegal TO compromise any Customs claim, or
to fan to prosecute any offender against
Customs regulations The expenses of
collecting the Customs will be ma
terially reduced. while much of the
money received as fines and penalties will go
to the Government instead of its servants
These points of the bill would seem to indicate
that it is a measure of civil service reform
1t is one we have certainly been long in want
of. The Custom-HouSes have been permitted
to develop into the great political machines
which they now are through a mistaken belief
that their patronage is source of power to
the party administering the Government Our
firm belief is that they have been an element
of weakness, because demoralizing and the
sooner they are reformed and made to do duty
as agents of the Treasury rather than of the
party, the better we think it will prove for
Treasury and party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07
Geto!lotk Qailp Gri6ltl.e.
TUESDAY, MARCH Z, 1871.

Convention Will meet in Brussels to negotiate
definite treaty Of peace between France and Prussia
60 Napoleon is expected TO join the Empress Eugene
1n England - Preparations are making al Versailles
for the reception Of the French Assembly. =- The
German troops quietly Withdrawing within the
limits prescribed in the treaty. Serious troubles
are reported In Ireland
bill has been introduced in the state Senate chang
ing the time Of holding State elections to the first Tues
day of October. 49, The oOal-miners are quiet. - A
large fire has occurred in Cincinnati - James Fisk
A. has been bailed in $4,000 in civil suit in Boston
g. An earthquake has been felt in New-Hampshire.
Judge Bedford denounced dishonest lawyers in his
charge to the Grand Jury - DR.. McCosh lectured on
Remains Life OF Jesus" == Judge White and John
" Gridloy disputed about political affairs in the XIth
Assembly District. Cold Ill, 1lOf, Ill. Thermome-
ter Il 300 40.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

1t isn't a pleasant thing TO know that lgno-
rance stalks about the city, distributing poi
sons under the sanitary plea, and by authority
of the Health Board. Nevertheless, such seems
TO be the fact. The CorOner's investigation
into the circumstances of the poisoning OF
Mrs. May by dose Of carbolic acid estab-
fishes the fact that the man of medicine who
left it in her hands for disinfecting purposes
was as ignorant of its nature as the woman
who drank it. He was not a chemist not
physician; and the only inference left us is
that he got his responsible place by virtue OF
being Tammany politician. To this new
danger Tammany reorganization of the Gov
eminent has exposed us. 1t has demOralized
the Health BOard-now become sort OF
Deaths Staff, on which any one may serve
b. distributing its patronage TO ignorant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

Napoleon III. seems to have been released
with the other French prisoners in Germany,
and he has started for his wifes residence at
Cbiselburst. where he will doubtless set up in
business as a Martyr and live on the sympa-
thies Of Cockneys. Those who claimed that
Bismarck was keeping him at Wilhelmshohe,
preparatory to restoring him to the French
throne. will doubtless be disappointed and dis
gusted to learn that the fallen Emperor was
permitted to take himself off without remon-
STRANGE or attentions from the risen one.
Meantime only his former private Secretary OF
all France has been poor enough TO do HIM
reverence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

Not the least striking phase of the French re-
verses is the huge comfort those sprightly people
manage to extract from trites. Rivers of gay bonn
bast oceans of lofty rhodomontade, flow and circle
about the most ininitesnd cogn Of vantage.
Happy is that typical Partisan, sanguine journalist
and enthusiastic seronaut who naively exclaims
I" If the earth is refused to tho French Republic, in
this long and sanguinary war, the air will remain
its unquestionable dominion; and the air shall win
the day at last do swear by bOundleSs atmospheric
The delicious vanity with which this gentleman
cOngratulates himself upon the dearth Of aeronaut-
ical science among the Germans, and the fact that
during the whole war they sent not single balloon
into the air. is still moro funny. And then the po-
etc pomposity with which he describes the joys of
the patriotic aeronaut, who up in the clouds 81 can
think of his country, of his love- and forget for long
hours Armed Mobs who are jealously watching him.
in horribly aggravated state of mind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

bill now before tho Wisconsin Assembly pro-
vides that whenever eleven jurors, imPanneled to
try any criminal case or civil action, shall agree
upon verdict, such agreement, duly announced IN
court shall be taken and held TO be the verdict Of
the whole jury The proposed change appeals to the
common sense Of everybody. Frequently 1t hap
pens that single obstinate Juror defeats the ends Of
justice, his opinions practically outweighing the
unanimous convictions of his eleven colleagu IL
ia almost incredible that such sbsurdity can 80
long have existed in our present system and tho
Wisconsin innovation will. wo think. be regarded by
both lawyers and the public as decided improve
mont worthy OF more general adoption.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07
amnsemcnie, etc, Chs Gpenins.

Rooy,,,s Tur.rrR.-" Much Ado About Nothing"
Edsiu Bceih.
FIrru-hvrNUE THrATEE." Saratoga
LIMA EpwIN'S TuEATER.-"A Silent Protector
Lanyard
NmIos GARDEN.--"The Black Crook
OrYvPIc THEATER.-"T The Rchclieu of the Period"
G. L. Fon
SrADT TuE,rER.-"IsabellaO rSini" Nine Seebach.
WAIACKS THEATER.-" Ours.p
NEw-YORK Circus" Billy Button Sensational
Bsrebsck HoHemsnship, etc
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs.-Songs, dances, 90
oentdc acts
STTINwAY HUI Lecture: "The Questions OF
To-day" Wendell Phillips
MoOp's MUsEUM AND MESAGERE-At q: BOOTS
al the Swan" Al 8; Dead Heart"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

The work of the XLIst Congress is carefully
reviewed in our Washington correspondence.
The list of acts passed is not long one, nor
can they be compared in importance with the
measures of late preceding Congresses. 1t
must not be forgotten, however, in summing
up what Congress has done, that it refused to
pass a great many measures of unqualified
jobbery, and that it has protected the Govern
ment from the lobby with more than common
fdplify
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

In spite of all the gloomy prOgnostics which
assumed as matter of course that in the
present state of affairs the New Loan was i'm
possible to place, it begins its career with
most encouraging prospects Of success. Mr..
Boutwell, received information yesterday that
subscriptions had already been received to the
amount of S415i 500.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

At last English statesmen recognize the loss
of British influence in Continental affairs and
yesterday the fact was discussed in Parlia-
ment. That the ruling classes there are still
blind to the extent of their weakness is shown
by the suggestion that the remedy is to be
found in a reorganization of the army.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

II was MT precisely natural that the ProvostMar-
shaG enoral who enforced the very Odious but abso
mtely necessary Consumption acts passed during the
Rebellion should win popularity or got much credit
for the performance Of his duties. Private annoy
anco at his legalized tyranny made the most Of
US who were unfortunate enough to come
under his authority forget the Importance
Of his work to tho country. But that Col
James B. Fry, who filled that position, did his dis
agreeable duty faithfully industriOusly and hon
estly, il too well yOuchcd for by his superiOrs,
among them the lamented StantOn,l TO be doubted
at this late day the unsubstantated representa-
lions OF State Commissioners of Maine who ex-
amined into the conduct of the Pr0vOst-MarshaPs
Office without questioning the Provost Marshal him
self These Commissioners with what duty charged
or with what purpose inspired do not know, have
lately asserted in report to tho Governor that Col
Fry transcribed his authority by ruling Of tho law
of 1854, which, they say, made certain enlistment
frauds possible. Col Fry, III replying TO this shows
the ruling to have been Mr.. Stanton's not his own
and thus places the Commissioners IN the
light of setting up Their legal opinion
against that Of a sometime Attorney Gen
eral Of the United States and Justice of
the Supreme Court. This is of little Importance, e1
cept that it acquits Col Fry of the charge, but
LlaJ OHlcbT mdhoS duOOhtI pOlnV III d Oliol
which he has written. which the Maine Commits
sioners will have trouble to dsprove 1t is state
ment general to all the other States narrates facts
which reflect credit the Proyost-Diarshal and his
Department and is worthy the attention of the
Maine Commissioners:
Though had power 10 regulate local h0nnties or
fOrestall frauds I'm them, was, when the closed
actively engaged In the prosecution OF persons perpe
trating these fauds Some 80 40 OF the worst
under arrest by my Bureau: about 20 OF which had
been regularly tried by United States authority.
victed and sentenced TO Hne and imprisonment One OF
these g. NJ. Delaney, witness before these Commission
ers WAS found guy-amODg other things OF defrauding
recruits OF money voted by the towns and cities of Maine
and was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment and
fine OF S45 900. l. az Washington, WAS comparatively
withdrawn from these fraudulent practices carried
the States under the very eyes OF the state and town
officers and understand the law, within their jurs
diCton Yet recall arrests pnnishments for those
crimes In the State Of Maine elsewhere except those
by my bureau.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07
6nsiness Notices.

CoUGHs.-The administration of Medicinal
preparations Tie form Of 7n9s Of all modes the most eligible
and convenient especially regards Cough Remedy BrODA'
Broial TAe" cOugh LOIcuges sAy irritation which in.
coughing giving instant relief in Bronchitis HOsseness
and Consumpave and As'hmstic complaints.
WHEELER g. WILSON'S SEwING MACHINE,
lN BroAdEay Wenvsh sold b. paying SIC down and
so HoaA without charge Machines 70 lst j. T. KILLS
BACHELORS HAIR DYE.-The best in the
world Instantaneous harmless peea applied Factory No S
HosssL Sold everywhere.
Seven hundred dollars day, for every work
ing day for nearly years has been psd benefits BY the
TRAVELLERS LFE AoCDEST Insurance CoNPaNI Of Hartford
ARTIFICIALITIES-PALM LIMBS
CS BrosdsS N Y; l9 Chenut-s. Phl 81 GreeBst Boston
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-07

The Lyceum Of Natural History met s~.
evening and told by Prof b. ea'er
ton with the restoration OF extinct animals. Com
mitteo consisting of PrO JOY and wurts and Mr. squire
drew nm set of resolutions expressing the interest o,
tho Lyceun In the continuation OF tho Woik og ~"
Prof. uaw kins. aud thOI Tc-ioI u '"' WV" N'NN Wv"