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dividends were paid on his hard earnings wo
could not have opera bouffe. Surely tho man
ia unreasonable.
pdCTFIC OCEAN TELEGRAPHS.

Several bills are or have been before Con-
gress which contemplate subsidies for Ocean
Tcegraphs. We presume none Oh these IL
likely to pass This country's debt is quite
large enough, and the demands upon ITS treas
ury will absorb all its income. since the re-
ductons Of taxes effected at the last session.
Ocean Telegraphs are excellent things; but it
does not follow that they ought to be con-
structed ut the cost of orr whole people.
But ono company, we hear, proposes to lay
n cable along the bottom of the Pacilic, from
California to China, provided Congress
Will grant it an exclusive privilege to land
cables on our Pacific coast for specified
term. II seems to us that this is reasonable
proposition, and we trust Congress will close
with it. A photographic Cable across the
Pacific would be useful TO the civilized world,
but especially advantageous to our people
and, if it can be had without cost to us, and
on terms 10 more onerous than is above
indicated, we trust it may be promptly
authorized and constructed.
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TFRIfs oF TNE TnIETNE.
Ielo-s1otJs ss11<lu G1riilDaa1e,
FRIDAY. JANUARY q. 1871.

Negotiations for the surrender OF Paris are now IN
progress &C Versailles. L0ngUy has capitulased,
the Prussiaus taking 1900 prisoners and 200 cannon
So Tao GaIibadiSns have torn up the railroad
between between Fonioux and burgundy. -= Count
Won Bismarck has been appointed Chancellor of the
German Empire. Dr. Liz ingstone is again reported
70 &c alive.
In ire Senate yeSser6ay the Pension Appropria. On
hil ws passed. The BIZ repeating the Income Tax was
passed 90 % II the House, 4 new apportOn
meht b.li was introduced. The Indian Appropriation
bil. mas finished in Committee Of the Whole.
Ge,rg. 1Icsncr Of Bcston is dead. Tho Trial of
Representative Butler Of Tennessee for forgery Las he
gan ia v ashins;on == eiajor-Gen. Barnum has been
elected Grand Commander Of the G. A. r. OF this state
Several persons injured by tho fan OF build
ipg N Cincinnati. The missionary bic 1iogn-
ing Star hns been launched in Boston.
Yesterday the coolest of tie season The
Tammany Reception Committee returned from fruit
less cruise down tbe Bay TO meet the Fenan eNes
abe Russia Thirty-liye clergymen petition for the
appointment Of s B. butcher Collector OF this port.
g. Count Joannes IS charged with conspiracy.
Colo, 1lOl, llc. llOs. Thermometer. GO, ~. l5'.
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NEW-,JCRSEY.

The last Legislature of New-Jersey incor-
porated the Hamilton Land improvement
Company, and clothed it with power to con-
struct Railroad not exceeding seven miles
in length. IL seems not TO have been gener-
ally understood that this seven miles would
80 connect Railroads already authorized in
the eastern with others likewise authorized in
the western half of the State as to make a
through line clear across, thus damaging If
not destroying the monopoly at first explicitly
conceded, and since practically assured, TO the
Camden and Amboy Company. We make this
concession, though we need not; because it is
not presumable that Democratic Legislature
of Rcw-Jersey can have purposed to impair
or weaken that gainful monopoly.
Buf the act il on the atute-book the con-
cesson is uneQuivocal; and the moral cer-
tainty that nothing adverse to the monopoly
can haye been intended does not amount 10 a
legal presumption. Judcialy. therefore. tho
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27

Pagan the Jew could not have gathered in
qis "fence" more desperate set Of scOundrels
than those who witnessed yesterday the ex-
animation of the body of James Haggerty, the
victim of Reddy the Observation-Disclosures,
bond thieves, prize fighters, and gamblers,
well known to every detective and policeman
in the city, and SO notorious as confirmed vii
qains of the deepest dye that every officer OF the
,peace would be justified in ordering them to
move ou.n And it is questionable II lii
London or any other city than New-York
ouch characters would have been permitted to
assemble in a public place on such an ocea-
sion. 1t is all very well to talk OF the IN
iherent right of all men to meet IN pubhc
when they choose but we do MT fancy the ap-
plication of the principle to congregation
of known Migrants and notorious villains. A
well aud properly organized police, having the
protection of the public at heart, would have
dispersed this dangerous crowd by arrest IL
necessary and righteous Judges, IL any exist
here, would have sent them where they would
temporarily cease from troubling by their
wicked and threatening presence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27

The World recently informed liz readers that
the Senate of Virginia, by party vote, had
voted 5000 for n portrait of the late Gen. Rob-
ert +. Lee, after rejecting IN amendment which
proposed to pay n like sum for portrait of
the late Gen. George II. Thomas. Both being
Virgnians and good soldcrs-thc one attain
ing emncnce in the Union, the other in the
Rebel service--we asked The World to tell its
readers which party voted for Lee and against
Thomas, but il declined to answer We now
repeat the question, and ask The Worlds Mt
tention to tho following leader in late Vicks-
burg Herald:
TnE DirfEnRscE.-Tho following telegram from Rich
mond Ia suggestive:
R0usosp, Jan i9lhs Senate TO-DAY, by almost strict party
vote appropriated 800 ,opurchae pstao Robert H.
and the 'hms vote ' an appropriation fos tho purchase pic
tire Of Gen George II. Thomas
-Thoro wasa time when Virginia proudly voted sworp
to George H. Thomas but that before no raised His
palrcid arm against tho Venerable mother who bolo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27

How admirably Gov. Hoffman feigns aston
khment and indignation at discovering that
frauds are committed at elections in this State !
Ut is fact long patent to all men save the
innocent young creature whom these same
frauds have placed in the Gubernatorial chair
1t is necessary, as he says in his message to
the LEGISLATURE, suggesting an appropriate
amendment to the State Constitution, that
those guilty of bribery, as well as those who
are corrupted by it, should be punished And
In order to act. conscientiOusly and effectively,
bet punishment be first visited on those in high
places obtained by fraud.
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TIITJOTS ,JACOBy.

The sensitive chastity OF the Legislature
must have suffered many n burning blush
during The reading the other day of Johnsons
letter TO jacobs. Johnson is a blind colored
man who desired legislative endowment OF
the Home for the Friend!ess-a Brooklyn
charity with which he is associated. So he
wrote to Jacobs desiring him to promote the
benefaciion, and Offering him parS of the
money voted by the Legislature in return for
his services Now mr. Johnson is undOubt-
cdly fool, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that, in making this rudc assault upon the
virgin integrity of Mr.. Jacobs, he was not only
unconscious of wrong. but thought he WAS
preceding in n strictly correct and orthodox
fashion How could he know, alOof and blind,
and perhaps but dimiy instructed, that to the
tender yocts which bloom in Our Legislative
parteIre breath limiting of Illicit reward
was like Tie breath of the sirocco upon the
gardens of Tomcni Could he have Witnessed
the pathetic and touching emotion with which
the tender head of Tweed dropped upon his
bosom, the floods Of tears which ran i'll CUR
Cling cataracts down bis embroidered shirt
front: could he have seen the manly, the ire
proachable Burns, the chastc and SEN
sitige Campbell, locked in sympa-
thetic and ccnsolatory embrace, as his let
ter was reed, Jacobs the while surrounded
with visible halo of virtue and incorrupti-
blity, he would probably have got Il new con-
ception of the pure and exalted scnsbility Of law
givers, and the impOssibiity of budSing Ja
cobs on u point Of principle. But being blind,
he of course couldn't witness this or anything
else We will therefore instruct him on one
or two points of conduct and morals "a follows:
]. Il is not only sinful to offer bride to
q legislator or other public officer, no matter
on what pretext, but the law anrcxes 10 that
act penalty which we should not like TO see
Mr. Johnson suiicr.
II. 1t would not only he sinful to divert any
portion Of money given by the State to n char
liable institution from tho objects for which it
was given, but to that act also the law a,iiXes a
severe penalty.
III. According to the best moralsts, it is al
ways inexpedient to do evil that good may en-
she aid
". According to those who have "been
"there," it is useless 10 try to bride modern
member of the Legislature with so wretched
sum as thousand dollars.
We hope we have usefully instructed John
son, who we are willing to think meant well,
notwithstanding his striking stupidity. II he
will lay well to heart what we have said we
have every hope that he will keep out o. the
Penitentiary, to which his letter, little as he
imagined it, rather laid him liable
AS to Jacobs, no is clearly the
most respectable man in the United
States. Any one who could 80 haroicaily
refuse twelve per cent Of II legislative appro-
pration, aud so widely certify lis incorrupt-
bilty to the world, inherits the lofty virtues
of antiquity; the Legislature ought to vote
him a thousand dollars TO recompense bin for,
That which lie might have gobbled in the usual
way, but did MT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27

Tammany has been renewing the ancient
enterprise of the valorous French king who
marched up the hill and then marched down
ngain. 1t has sent another delegation down
She bay to intercept the coming Fenians and
impress them into its ranks and service; but,
beyond q raid upon the stOre-room of the tug
in which they sailed, and the capture and
consumption of a large supply of what seems,
from its effects, to have been most poisonous
liquor, the delegates achieved nothing. We
wonder if Tammany will never suspect that
1T has overdone the reception business in this
Instance and Disguised the patriots
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GIVE Us An UNDERGROUND ROAD.

GIVE Us An UNDERGROUND ROAD
No better argument for IN underground
railway could possibly be desired than the
storms of this week have given us. Every
man who has suffered for an hour or so in the
attempt to ride two miles il ciogged and
crowded horse-car, has vowed over and over
again that an underground road is an absolute
necessity, without another years delay. Lon
don has proved that the building of such
roads offers no serious engineering difficulty,
while the profit on them is large, and III New
York it would probably be still larger. Yet,
with the inexplicable patience under Idisgov-
eminent and discomfort which characterize
American communities, we are taking no ac-
tive steps to get what we declare we ought to
have and our legislators are pushing schemes
for more horse railways in almost every corner
of the city. No surface road can do us much
good under circumstances like those of yester-
day. 1t is physical impOssibility to keep the
tracks in tolerable running order; and even
if they were clear it would be impossible
to put on the main routes sufficient
number of cars to accommodate all the
passengers. Until we have new avenue Of
travel, sheltered from the storms, unobstructed
NY anu pIdc"iCdhJ UNI
limited in its capacity, we must bear every
Winter such Inconvenience IA we had to
endure yesterday. We must be ready to
struggle for room on a car so crowded that
breathing becomes labor and motion an inn
possibility, and be carried mp and down town
at the rate of mile and half an hour
getting off the track several times in the
course of the journey, stopped ut every few
rods by snOw-drift or u broken-down team,
trampled by cross and hungry passengers, and
perhaps turned out into the storm in the
midst of the route because the car has given
way or the horses are exhausted. 1t has been
very common, during the storms of this week,
for cars to be abandoned midway of the line,
and hauled off the track while tho passengers
Gncluding women, heaven help them y were
left to shift for themselves in the binding
snow. WIN nobody give us the one remedy
We need I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27

Arguments and protestations and promises
from Senator Sherman have failed to save his
pet measure, the Income Tax, this time. The
Senate, 10y bare majority Of one vote, yester-
day, resolved on its immediate discontinuance.
There are several bills pending in the House
which have this purpose in view and that
body has otherwise and frequently shown its
better sense TO be in favor Of the repeal OF
the obnoxious law by which the tax was ille-
gally continued last year after ii had expired
by limitation distinctly and emphatically fixed.
Let the House now discard its own and act on
the Senate bill at once, that the tax
may be forever intcrdicted before the
senate cal " bacialb.," as It did Oh the bill
ipeahng the franaing Privilege, and recon-
sidGr its yiriI0us vote. II was nrped alat the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27
The Detroit Free Press, in trying to set othen
49,. A., .bn ,,a,n;ne, of Eraa Tr,na s,vs.

The Detroit Free Press, in trying to set others
RIGHT "a TO the meaning of Free Trade, says:
.lhe War OF 1912, undor Democratic administration,
uas fouc ut under "a flag inscribed Free Trado and
sa,rs Rights Free trade, then and now, was simply
the general name of q recognized principle ct raising
revenue indirectly and in the least burdensome uaansf
to the people
The Free Press is long way ont in its
reckoning. "Free Trade and Sailors Rights"
asserted the right of our people TO trace with
foreign nations which were involved N war.
provided our country were not party to thas
war. 1t was our reply to the British "0lders
in Council and Napoleon's Berlin and Milan
DEGREES, whereby merchant vessels trading TO
the ports of belligerent were subjected 10
capture by the cruisers of that belligesentS
enemy, although those ports were not really
blockadcd. Free Trade" then meant resist
anco to nominal blockades and vely real spolia-
tions in consequence; just as sailors Rights
meant tho right of our seamen to exemption
from seizure while serving under our flag and
transfer by force to the decks of British crust
ers, there to wear out their lives igating fox
the British King.
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grant of power Is impregnablc: hence, nothing
remains but to recall it by repeal SO bill
is promptly submitted to the Senate and passed
TO its third reading, which is intended to re-
tract tho grant of power.
The only reason offered for this repeal by
its mover (Ir. JaIrard of Middlescx) a1lrms
that il is unusual to give Land Company
mower to build railroad. Suppose that were
SO, would it justify the proposed repeal
Wopld ID not be M logical to decide that
since it il unusual for children to be BON
with curly hair, therefore a crIly-haired baby
should be killed on sightl
But tho allegation is not true. Mr.. Edwin
Stevens, long the head of the monopoly OBJ
taincd u charter for the Hobokcn Land In
provement Company, ard built under it q
railroad from llOboken to Newark. The
Long Dock Improvement Company excGvated
under their charter the Eric Tunnel. IL is
net therefore, very unusual in Ncw-Jerscy to
allow Land Companies to construct Railroads;
what is unusual is to allow any one to do
aught which can possibly weaken the Camden
and Amboy monopoly. Hence, Mr.. JarraTd's
bill.
We warn tao Republican members Of the
New-JerSey Legislature that they cannot afford
to proclaim themselves the purchased tools OF
that Monopoly. When Democrats do its bid
ding, their constituents chaIitably presume
that the Monopoly pays by swelling the Dem
ocratic vote; but Republicans have no such
hidiug-pace. Whatever Republican fetchos
and carries for the Monopoly, whether in or
about the Legislature, does it for pay-pay
not to his party, but to his own pocket Full
well he knows that to strengthen The Moncp-
oly il to weaken the Republican party.
Knowing this, we shall look nnxiously, yet
confidently, for the Yeas and Nays on this bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27

him. We hail this refusal Of the senate OF Virginia TO
besow honors upon recreant renegade as one OF the
best SIGNS OF the tmes 1t will be sad day for tho
South when our people learn to honor the mon who be
trayed thom and blend the namos Of traitors with the
honorcd and cherished OF those who suffered sna
died our defense We honor the Senate OF Virginia ior
the courage aud uanlness which would mol do honor 10
d renegade.
VIII The World be good enough to tell rs
which of our great National parties Ii hon
ored by tho preference Of The VictstuT1 Her-
aid? and whether it considers that "loil
shcet9
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27

One by one our Illusions go By the board.
William Tell has shouldered his cross-bow,
and marched OF into mythology. Catiline is
proved to have been q seif-sacrifcing patriot,
and CambrOnne made no tine speeches at
Waterloo. And now the news comes from
Mclean County, Kentucky, that the Prince Of
Darkness is no gentleman The afidavits OF
all the citizens of the venue who can write,
attest that he las been residing in bodily pres
ence in n swamp near Sacramento, undeterrod
by that dread name, fox several weeks past.
He makes his bed-at least it is presumed no
does, as no internal chambermaid has been
seen by the awe-stricken Corncrackers of tho
district-among the cypress logs and tangled
briars of his woodland retreat, which he shares
with the Mexican hog and the meditadve
woodchuck. He varies the monotony of this
sylvan seclusiOn by sallying forth occasionally
clothed with fire." and sweeping a tell as
long as Blue Grass pedigree, 10 visit the
blooming maids and matrOns who make tho
sunshine of that shady county. These ladies',
not possessing the pyrophagous tastes of
Semele, do not appear TO relish this fiery and
longicandate syuest, and up TO latest ad-
vices have repulsed his Overtures with scorn.
But not with IMMUNITY as it seems, for this
backwoods Mephisto, with that subtle appre-
citation of feminine weakness which has
characterized him all the wcy down
from Eden to Sacramento, takes q dia-
bOlical revenge by Selling their chignons
with his "long, elastic arms" and vanshes
with edritch yeils and tiendisha caperings int
the chuck haunted shades of the cypress forest.
OF course, the entire community Is
aroused by these nearthly raids, and jnts
switches have doubled in value at the cross
roads variety store. Something must be done.
and the gentlemen of the Ku-klux, which ap-
pears to be the only executive organization IN
the county, have arranged IA hunt for the foul
fend and have sworn not to return withous
his brush. If the devil could really be driven oat
of Kentucky, the politics of the West would
be greatly simpliHed. Sill better would il be,
if like the pied Piper OF Hameln. he could
caper seductively before the pursuing ku-
K]ux. and beguile them all across the Stato
and into the icy waters of the Mississippi.
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A COOT .SHB,JErT

After steady cold for weeks, in which ice
formed rapidly and of remarkable purity and
solidity, came the usual and always-expected
January thaw and with it also the usual
lamentntion-the ice-crop of the season wa1
ruined it was washed above and ahraded be-
low by the freshet, and in some places it was
asserted to be honeycOmbed. The companies,
we were told, had not half filed their houses,
and in spite of an unprecedented season, 80
snow, and favorable weather in which tn
work are concerned, they would be reluctantly
compelled TO charge the consumers the famine
prices of last Summer. We have taken the
pains to make some calculations IA to what
those prices were. lee is nothing but water
in q manufactured form, the process oi manu-
facture costing absolutely nothing, and the
source of supply in this region beng every
where accessible and absolutely inexhaustlble.
What tho commercial value OF gallon OF
water may be in an unrestricted market, where
there can be no monopoly, we hardly Know.
Perhaps ono mill but no one ever counts its
cost But in tho frozen form OF water, rs we
and many of our readers bought IL i'll the
latter part of last Summer at two cents u
pound, we were paying, allowing for the
lighter specific gravity of the ice, exactly
seventeen cents and six mills per gallon for
water.
Here is an article of which tho raw material
costs nothing and tho manufacture nothing.
lts whole cost lies in laryesing--a very cheap
,,voo.,, oul In lonllin., onl trnnapo,fo To-,
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ilimnuticn in the Revenue caused Ivy this ro-
peal will hayo to be made up by imposing
other burdens on the Taxpayers. Let us pus-
gest the wisdom of balancing the account by
the simple process of reducing the cxPendi-
lures by an equal amount. And that tho SEN
atc may begin wisely its upaccustomed work
Of economy, let it pass tho bill repeating tho
Franlins Privilege, wltch costs such an cnor-
nous sum annually in Postal expenses and
unnecessary Public Printing.
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TEE CASE OF TwOMBLY.


SIR | entirely concur with your correspond
emf H. ID. j., In his view Of the and ~ funds ara
needed sustain tho contest, will add my own contrb
ton Of S. or SO and with 1t probably similar amounts
from some Of my ncighbors.
The time has at length arrived when the dcspotsm OF
Tammany must he resisted. The voters Of this state
have been virtually disfrsnchsed ut several previous
elections and have submitted 30 the outrage and now
It seems the DO repeated, and the people of
Assembly district to robbed OF their representa-
tive at Albany by outrage which, though apparently
limited to a single district Is really aimed at the people
~ the entire State for II amounts to seizure OF tho
accommodating power in the Assembly. IL II simply an
act OF naked usurpation act 80 daring and defiant
that IL insults tho manhood Of every voter In the State.
And now beg leave to ask you whether tho people OF
this great State longer submit to these repeated
usurpations without ciously surrcndcring their
power Of cfg0vornmont: md whether each new sub
mission on the part OF voters to these arbitrary ana
dcspotc decisions Of the Tweed Olgarchy does not
rlyet more frny and hopecssy the CHAINS mat pima US
ask you whether the time has not come Tor taxing
decsye stand and whether there IL not some remedy
Oct unricd) that VIII block the game OF Iainm'Dy ana
vert threatened disaster , -
In my own opinion there arc NJ least tw0corses Lct l-
tried hcr of which wOul far 10 meet the dirulty
OF the present situation But lot the people hear rom
TIIr TiInu.p ON tls point. COSKAD WILSON.
Sprin0paie, Lockiand o., ". y, JAN rs, lS'O
[If Mr. Wilson means only that we should
employ every legal, peaceful, constitutional
means to defeat such crimes as have been COM
mitted in defrauding the With District OF its
chosen Assemblyman, we answer Yes.-Ed.I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27

An nPlrieved stakeholder writes to men,
Der OF the Legislature: 81 am poor man,
"and was induced some years ago to buy
with my hard savings 20 shares of the Eric
"stocl at 70. The very first dividend due me
"was passed. Since then | have received
nothing" The stakeholder is mistaken. Ho
gets no dividends in money; but he has the
satisfaction of knowing that lac contributes to
the support of tleater, n militia regiment,
and number OF French actresses, aud IL any