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New-York tribune., 1871-03-30
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Our recommendation a few week. ago of
farm-work for women has met, as we OK
pected, unqualified approval from the classes
best able to judge of its practicability; we
mean the farmers themselves, and the agricul-
tural press in the West, where the manage
ment of land by women is no novel experiment,
but an every day matter. The women in the
cities, however, who profess to be starving for
work, and their disappointed spokesmen, find
lions innumerable in the path. We are assailed
by countless objections, the gist of which ap-
pears to be, that they have not the neces-
sary land nor education to become truck
raisers, farmers, or florists. There Is
nothing for which We have more respect
| OK tenderness than tho timidity which
assails a delicate woman in her first essay to
| earn her own livelihood; hence we suggested
this especial work as prominently fitted
to those who, while compelled to labor, pre-
ferred to keep about them the sheltering
privacy of guarded home-life. But modesty
and want of energy differ in toto. The objec-
| tions to outdoor work have, so far, invariably
come from women most anxious for a career
which would insure them publicity. The rais-
ing of potatoes and pot-heFbs must forever, II
appears. remain an inscrutabls mystery to
young girls who are fully competent to decide
all problems, from the political economy OF
the PhGnicians 20 tho Alabama claims. What
professions or trades ladies OF education
are able to comprehend they, of course
are the best judges; but the amount OF
intelligence and culture possessed by the ordi
nary truck-rasers for the New-York markets
does not appear to us unattainable by them
We did not propose that they should take
charge this Spring of Model Farms or gigantic
Nurseries, but that, IL they had two or three
hundred dollars capital. should buy or rent Z
few acres AMI raise vegetables enough a
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

The debate on Mr.. Summers Santo Domingo
resolutions has been Unexpectedly and gratity-
ncly brief, but painfully acrimonious. The
Senate, yesterday, laid them on the table by
vote of thirty-nine to sixteen, only four OF
those voting in the negative being Republicans.
One other Republican, Mr.. Wilson OF Massa-
cbusctts. declined to vote. The Democrats
who have refrained from talking, except when
their leader, Mr. Thurman, could add fuel to the
flame which they fondly hoped was to aid in con-
summing the Republican party, naturally voted to
sustain the resolutions and keep them as long
"A nossible before the Senate as an Indictment
60 acrimonious disputes among their political
opponents. The debate, Of course, resulted in
establishing nothing. 1t is intimated that 1t is
not vet finally concluded, as any member can
ronew them as an amendment to any pending
measure. and the whsle ground may be gone
over again. But the vote of yesterday was SO SO
decisive that we imagine no Republican VIII
be disposed again to introduce the question
until il comes up naturally and properly after
the Commissioners reports are concluded
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

There is not legislator at Albany green
enough not to know what the Erie Hallway
Directors Classification Act means. The
talk about bills in other States or
other countries deceives nobody. and the
men who utter it almost laugh in each others
faces as they talk. Mr.. Smith N. Weeds mi
nOrity report tells the whole story. The bill
was passed for the sole purpose of enabling
the present corrupt but decaying organization
to maintain its hold on the Erie Railway |;
it's repeal is opposed for that sole
purpose; and the money of Erie is
used that the fraudulent possessors of Erie
may, in the Legislature as at the Courts,
maintain every device for keeping up their
clutch on its treasury. We submit to tho
legislators consideration OF the KIND
they can understand and are accustomed
to heed. There 3 not much money
in Erie now. It's on the down-hll road, and
when conspracies like this begin to break up,
they go fast 1t is MT good time for man
to sell himself to Fisk & Gould. Their day
is fast passing, and wise men, to say nothing
of honest men, will note the fact. Stand IRON
Upderl
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30
BJI1 FOB THE PROMOTION or VICI

BILL FOR THE PROMOTION OF VICE.
mischievous bill has been introduced into
our State Senate from that prolific source OF
mischief. the Tammany Council. 1t proposes
TO repeal the law of the 18th April, 1862, reg
Mating public amusements, and all other laws
of that character. 1t will be remembered that
when this salutary statute was passed, the city
was threatened with an epidemic of low con-
cert saloons with female attendants, which
were nothing but open and shameless nurser-
les of vice. The license fees which were ex-
acted, and the penalties which were Imposed
for the violation of the law, served double
purpose. They restrained the rapid and alarm.
ing increase of these immoral houses, and the
money which came from them was applied TO
the support of that most merltorous charity,
tbe House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents.
The measure met with the hearty approval OF
all good citizens, and has been found to work
most advantageously ever since.
Mr.. Tweed now proposes, at the lnstlgation
either of original sin or of some unscrupulOus
intrigue. to repeal this law and throw open
tbe door to every species of public amusement
without reservation. The immediate c0nSe-
ouences Of this act would be:
Withdrawing the revenues which support
tho Uouse of Refuge, that benefcent institu-
t;cn will be compelled to suspend operations.
q All our most public thoroughfares will
owarm with q quickly y-hatched brood of cheap
ond d;srenutable entertainments. which cannot
o., ovo,t the most deleterious effect upon the
the public taste and morals
3. All these unlicensed halls OF amusement
| will at once reinforce their at'ractiohS py the
addition of liquors and immoaest women tt
poison and corrupt the needless yOu'h o.
town and country who may viSit 'hem IL
search of an evenings pastime
We forbear to address any consideration
of decency or proprioty to the immoral des
potism which disposes of us at its pleasure
is the interest of Tweed and his kind tha' tn
masses of the city shall remain as ighor"n
and corrupt as possible. Like tho bouroo'
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

least to keep their families in food. ANY
woman with ordinary common sense can plant
potatoes as easily as pinks, or rhubarb as roses
The largest fruit growing establishment west
of the Allegheny Mountains grew out Oh nall
a-dozen Seeding apple trees in clergyman's
back yard.
But the difficulty in the way OF helping
women to work now is that they are ayerse
to beginning with seedlings OF any sort. inc
largeness of their claims blinds them. They
are waiting for some great social CONFUSION
which will lift them en- mdsse into positions OF
place and profit, where they can work elect
lively and be literally paid. They do not re-
alize that il the famished sewing-woman had
the right of suffrage tomorrow, it would not
add pound of beef to her larder. Her hus-
band has had the ballot these hundred years,
and he has not yet voted himself FULL
stomach or coat to his back. Work with
head or hands-steady, conscientious hard
works. the best chance open now, as it has
always been, for women as for men, and there
is no need Of crying aloud in the market
places to find it. The Seeding apple tree is
rear every man or woman if they have
energy and skill 30 find and dig about it
and dung it. Outdoor work we urge
with the approaching Spring. us tho most
healthful, accessible, and remuncrative
Our advice to every woman Obliged
to support herself is, first, leave the large
cities. No matter what your employment be,
you will find less competition In the country
or country towns, the rates Of living cheaper,
human sympathy warmer, and life itself
healthfuIer and higher. IL you are laboring
woman, there are within an hours ride of
New York hundreds of farmers who are Will
ling to pay good wages to honest servants,
but vet cannot obtain them. While this is the
case, and while the land is waiting to be TILED,
we have less sympathy, probably, than is de-
manded of US for the pauper OF the city.
Seryitude, we are told, is repugnant to the
Independence of most American women. But
when in the next breath we are assured
that twenty thousand women in New-York
must starye, or go into tho brothels, we
feel that independence is here carried
probably to an extreme. We have listened
for years to the dcspairing cry, "Give us
" work OF we die" We suggest planting po-
tatOes, and are answered by thousand
feeble protests, "Where is an acre of ground
&" to plant them in and how should they find
"the train to take them to it and who
would tell them how many to put in hlA
L" and, after they were grown, how would they
discover the price per bushet y
There is a Western story OF q man who was
too lazy to work. and whose neighbors, being
tired of keeping him, determined to drown
him. Meeting the Squire his pity was
touched. "Set him down. he said; "Tll
give him load of corn to keep him alive.'
The victim raised his head frOm the bier
Slened, Squire 2" "No" The head dropped
again. "Drive on, boys, then" The story
has its own moral.
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30
for its readers capacity, it would refrain from
such practicing on popular ignorance and
,tu
THE MIDLAND RAILROAD

We understand that tho managers of this
new artery leading through the hitherto most
secluded portion of our State from tho City to
Lake Ontario, feel confident of their ability to
complete its construction this year, if they
shall be aided by further subscriptions to their
bonds not exceeding $2,OOO,OOO. We trust that
this benefcent enterprise will not be suffered
to flag for want of that sum, but that our
City will promptly supply it. The value of
the Road to our inland commerce will be many
times that amount.
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

Mr.. Buffers proposed amendment 10 tne
Ku-Klux bill, rather than the debate upon
that measure which is now going On III the
House. viii most interest the public. he Is
ready to suggest the necessity of authorizing
the President to call for volunteers to sup
press the Ku-Klux rebellion. He startles the
country by the intimation that the Regular
Army, being largely composed of former keoei
soldiers, cannot be depended upon for service
in the South and that it is not large enough
TO complete the work to be done. lie further
represents that only New-YOrk and Massachu-
setts have militia organizations, and argues
that as a consequence the Shellabarger
bill unameDded as he proposes will confer
authority, but no power on the President.
There is probably more truth in this last un-
welcome suggestion than the House will be
at once disposed to admit; and upon this
proposition the more exciting debate may be
expected. Meantime, why should not the
country have the plain unyarnished facts
about the amy7 What force can be spared
from frontier dutyi The General of the Army
can tell us that. What fraction of the army
is untrustworthyi Can Gen. Sherman or any
one else tell that For ourselves, we dc
not believe that any part of it is treacherous
and DO not doubt that substantially even
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

The Erie case in Judge BlatchfOrd's Court
has not yet been concluded. The counsel for
Gould and Fisk, jr., betrayed signs of weak
ness yesterday by promising, on the part OF
those operators, not to issue any more stock
a. present. Mr.. Evarts, as the opposing cOun-
sci, refused to accept this promise, and the
motion to restrain them by injunction from
any further watering" process will be argued
to-day
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

Our friends may gather from the Connecti-
cut letter printed elsewhere, information as to
the points of danger and the points where aid
may be best rendered and good work most
effectually put in between this and the Mon
day of election. We beg them to believe that
there was never a greater opportunity.
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

Tammany has ventured again to strike at
the Insurance Companies, although similar
scheme to extort money from them-and the
bill pending in the Legislature is nothing more
failed to obtain the Governors signature last
year The Insurance Companies have persist
emily refused to pay one cent to Tammany to
defeat the bill now on its passage. We shall
see if Mr.. Hoffman will refuse to veto this
measure when the reasons which actuated him
q year ago impel him now with greater force.
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

George II. Stuart for singing hymns, is now
supplemented by the Christian honesty of at
tempting to get possession of the Church
which he and his friends built, to which dis
patch elsewhere refers. Mr.. Stuart, 1t seems, is
a good enough Christian to build church for
these reformers, but not good enough to sing
the praise of God in it.
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

The Managers of the Theaters in Newtork have
presented memorial to the Legislature, asking for
the abolition of certain speeal tax, which Is exclu-
siyely levied on Dramatic Performances, with aView
to benefit the Reformatory for Juvenile Denquehis.
The managers represent that the singing out ef
their particular business to bear the burden OF tais
tax casts q reproach upon their pursuits: that IN
fact ths inydous legislation implies that the thea-
ters ought especially pay for the support OF he
formatory for Youthful Delinquents, on the ground
that dramatic performances promote vice anu crime
among the youthful population This protest Is wen
made and we think il ought 10 be needed. No doubt
a Reformatory for young criminals shonld be sup
ported but we can see no good reason for bardenns
any profession or business with speciai chis0
TO this end. In tho event of any discrimination
being made, by all means let it be made for the Ian
shops. They are the soil ont of which youthful de-
prayity springs and all manner OF hdeous evil teens
forth to curse society To make intellectual calling
responsible for the existence Of Juvenile criminals IA
10 insult many good people, and to allow lsnoraLte
and bgctry 20 yitiale the justice ot lpY,
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30
IL was Horatio Smith who addressed to an Egyp-
tian mummy in London the adjuration

"speakl for thou long enough has acted Dummy,
Thou hast tongue, como let US near i's tune
But the clever satirist never succeeded' 80
far as we have heard, in eliciting any ex-
rre.sion Of opinion from the swathed Gypsy.
The Hartford Courant has been more fortutunate
with the distinguished mummy OF that city.
II referred To the accession of the Hon. Gideon WeLes
to the ranks of tho "Sham Democracy'-an express
sion be was fond Of using the old anti-Lecompton
davs This caused the embalmed frame OF the ex-
Secretary to culver under all its bandages and he
has written ghostly letter to The Coudnt full OF
spectral protestaton. The gst of his statement is
embraced in these words:
If there any settled principle in our Y stem OF
free government 10 is that which asserts the right OF the
people OF each State to form their own Constitutions
The right Is inherent in the people u TprH6s fS Cn
Grant-frOm President nor from Congress- Wheneltner
assumes 1t he is usurper, sham irand on irte
When the Republicans, having Obtained power assle u
TO dictate to virginia ana eeofgia anu UIr &
mental law, to aside their legislative enactment. 20
annul their legislature to asPaee tIe GOne[Ols m a
in their stead, they comittod greater oItrasc 80
guilty OF ilagrant violation OF tie Constitution,
than was inflicted upon bleeding kansas
We cannot give the venerable ex-Secretary so
much space as he claims from the gOOd-natured
CouranB especially as his denuncatiOns Of tho Re-
publican party lack originality, and are not what
we would have the right to expect from the mummy
of esprit. We must allow him, however, his un-
abridged confession of faith:
nm q Democrat, but not SceessionfSt, who would
admit that q State has right TO withdraw nom tha
Union aud throw of its Federal obligations am Re
publican but not Enclust0ulst, Who would exclude
States their rghfl representation III Congress-
deny them the right to their fundamental laws,
the right regulate their domestic affairs, or deny
them their reserved unGoubtod exclusive right and
authority punish oenses committed withln tler re-
spectye Jurisdictions This doctrine OF SECESSION and
this d0etriAe of ETcnSion, are each shainS IN
compatble with Federal Union, each incOnsstt ntWh
and in vojstion of the Constitution, aud each sDyerNe
of the Government l. therefore, opposed the Buchanan
Administration and also oppose the Grant Admins
tTation.
The noble mariner still cherishes the halucination
that he is still alive and recalctrant. He thinks
he still opposes and supports things. BY his oppo-
sition to Buchanan he once became q Cabinet
Minister. Perhaps he dreams that his opposition tc
Grant may commend him to Tweed and thereby
float him once more into the still waters of Office.
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30

DIR. Grenyillo S. Weeks of Brooklyn in letter to
tlis journal corrects, on behalf Of what is deemed
the regular Medical faculty, our use OF the term
Alopalhc to characterize that system OF medicine
which rejects the claims of Homeopathy He says:
"f the Regular School OF Doctors Tere Allopathss,
then the structures OF THE TRIBUNE justified But
those Doctors who opposed Homeopathic legislation
were net Aopahio neither the regular profession
The very terms Homeopathy and 'Alopathy' SIGNIFY
two theories of practice, each one-dea theory -ne
former that something like disease Is necessary 10 eRe
it, tho latter, that something dissimiar OF opos' 10
the disease Is necessary to its curs
"Nog the Homeopathists have afiIed the term 'Alo-
pathy upon the regular professon but 1t las no more
place there than tho term Homeopathy This Is TACT
that cannot be strongly impressed The regular tac
uty arc OF scence they do not PROFOUND any one
Theory say that the panscea for the cure oE the
multitudnous ills to which flesh Is heir; but what
soeyer method viii most speedily transform pathoog
cal diseased condition TO physiological or a'ny
one that method they will adopt be that tho method OF
tie homeopathic Hydropathist, or EleerolatmsIi
yha tever patty Is best adapted to hasten the cure OF
any particular form OF disease that they use separately
or combined es required by the changing emergencies OF
she
"It might be asked, Then, why don't the regulars
call themselves Eclectics 3 I answer, for the same
reason that Of wellnown integrity does not heeu
TO inscrbe ON his business sign that he Is honest
Mr., 60 and So All Regular Doctors, who graduate
from irstelass medical colleges, arc educated 10 DO
Ecectcs and only those, passing through abe training
OF those schools not whose stupid
ty or knayery ensayes them to panaceas and onedea
theories"
SO far, DR.. Weeks, by whom we stand corrected
so far as to admit that We use the terra Alopathls
purely for convenience sake, having no other that
more exactly characterizes those who reject what
ever is peculiar to Homeopathy. Re it understood,
then. that, should we ever again have occasion to
use the word Allopathy," We use it in the sonse
aboye set FORTH and do not thereby take the part OF
any school in medicine, nor assume that the term
"Allopathicr is correctly applied to the antrHome-
opathists. We use it for want Of better.
New-York tribune., 1871-03-30
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Ngw-YoRK CmcUs-ScnsatiOnal Bareback Horse
usashir. etc
san Francisco MINsTRELs.--Songs, dances, ec-
errtro acsc
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home governments Of the people. To
weaken The parts 8 to endsnger the
whole.
Half 8 century ag0, when Federal
officers wore accused of interfering with
State electioas, not BY armed forces but
simply By exeEfinP An influence through
the distribution OF patTunage, De MItt
Clinton, then Governor 81 this State.
addresses the Legislature as follows
"As member of sthe American con
fedeEucy, ID is not only Our daty, bue
our interest, to sustain the respectable
81 and to promote thesauthority uf ths
nati0nal governments, b. = patriotic and
enlightened exercise of OIlr sufrnges.
and BY contributing all our energies to
establish q wise and philosophical adj
mlnistratiOn. But IN attending to nans-
uFes SO important, Wa ought not 20 over
look the duties which We owe To our-
selves. Our government ii complex il
its organization, and il IS essentially
necessary - ffssesYa the State govern
ments III their purity and energy. Al
free government could never exist IA d
country so extensive as tie United
States witheht iadici0ua combination
Of the Eedelal and representative prin-
clples. The apprehensi0ns which some
Of our Wisest statesmen entertained. at
the formation of the Constitution. that
the State governments would constantly
encruach on the powers 81 tha national
government, appear not to have been
realized. The practical tandenev -
been In the opposite direction. The
power Of the general administration has
increased with the extension Of its M
tr0nage. And If the officers under its
shall soc fit, as az 0rqsn-
ized and disciplined corps, t0 interfere
IN the State elections, i trust there viii
be found becoming disposition II tfs
people to resist these alarming attempts
upon the purity and independence 0f
their local governments for whenever
the pillars which support the edifice 81
the general government are undermined
and prOstTated, the whole fabric Of na-
tlonal freedom and prosperity win be
crushed in ruin. / have considered il
my solemn duty to protest against these
nnwarraltahla intEuEions Of exfFaneon~
influence, and I hope that TIE national
win mot be regartlless Of its
duty on this occasion
ghese words more applicable now
than then, are SO f0rcibIe and sloonent
that I quote them. in the hope that theY
may impress themselves upon the minds
snd upon the hearts 81 the whole peoDIe.
To depend, for tie peace and order az
localities, on the Federal army "a not
selt-goyernment to substitute the regn-
az soldier with his musket IS 4 peace
ltaeer, in place Of the constable with his
wit. i not 70 preserve the peace but t0
establish the condition VI war; to sur
render elections 10 the control 81 the
President, supported BY armed forces,
5 10 surrender liberty and 10 abandon
,epUhlic. JOEN II. HoFraraN.
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a farmer hired sailor 70 dig q hsaeT,
81 potatoes upon condition 81 haing al-
lowed bottle q whisky To hagin with
III about an hour the farmer went e sea
how the aon ol Neptnne had progressed
with his hasiRess ol farming. when rs
found him holding 10 4 stump. tha hot.
tle lying enpty * his feet, and no po-
tatoes euE HALO. yon Fasel saii
he, s'as this che way You dg pafoess's
II yca want yanr potatoes ane, i7
sailor, hieeoagbine bring 'om Sd. for
I2 not sosaS g E4n aA roand sha iot
alter EN-
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A JOKE IS told IN Washington at
the expense Of I well-knoHn Sen
at0r, who ii notorious FOR taking
two cocktails In succession before
breakfast. One morning. while
the senator was practising at tha
metropolitan bar, . friend put 70
him the pertinent question: sen
ator, why do You take two cocktails
rs . custom Won't one tone yoa2a
The Senator drew himself: II VIII
tell you why I take two cocktails.
When 4 have taken one ii makes
me feel Ike another man. Well.
you see Tn bound by common
courtesy to treat that man 80 L
take a second