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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

ROUGH WORDS on ROUGH SUBJECT
Two days ago We published with due con-
sideratOn after careful investigation and
thorough inquiry, Il sickening narration OF tho
mblushng and unpublished crimes that flour
ish and riot in this city under the very eyes
of the law. With full sense of our response
bility we laid before the readers, who com
prise the majority of 1.-THE cultivated and Cod
fearing people of this community, list OF
monstr0us impurities which are generally ex-
cluded from mention in decent society. There
is but one justification for thus dragging these
rcekinc horrors out of the hauntS where they
are bred into the light of scandazed day, and
that is the imperiled interests of society.
The vice we unvailed was not of that
humble and skullxng class that hides out of
sight in the slums and the shadows. 1t
flaunts in our streets and squares. 1t seeks
its victims in the most reputable neighbor
hoods. 1t is not the resource alone Of starving
poverty and ignorance. 1t pays tribute to the
OVERLOOKING Golfers of vicious wealth; it lays
its tainted hand upon the secret springs OF
our municipal politics. William Draper,
proprietor of some of the dens of murder and
robbery described by our reporters, is man OF
large fortune, Tammany politician OF some
local prominence, part, in short, of that hor-
rible machine of government which Expresses
and plunders at its own dishonest will the
most important city OF the world.
We showed the effrontery of the criminals,
the sordd cOnniyance of tho officers OF
the law, the helplessness OF decent
citizens, the cowardly fear of the unfortunate
Victims Of vice. which altogether formed an
impregnabe defense for the predatory gangs,
and left no means of attack but the destructive
blaze of publicity. We could not hesitate,
therefore, to set upon this mOnstrous thing the
only agency powerful enough to grapple with
it-an aroused and indignant public opinion.
We are glad to know VIC have not spoken
altogether in vain. An immediate response
came in the approving words of men OF good
WILL The revolving story was read with no
thought of indecorum. 1t excited everywhere
even among our languid citizens-a sense OF
the shame and the intolerable scandal IN
volved in the existence of these open gates Oh
hell in the very heart of our metropolis. But
more significant still was the echo our ex-
pOsure awakened among the beasts OF prey
whose haunts we had invaded. They com
pretended at once the Importance OF the
crisis we had forced upon them. The
tight was for life and death, they
knew very well. We do not enter upon these
iSouIsive subjects for nero C:nrice OF sensa-
ton Noti:@s but the hope of destroying tncSs.""
dens could have induced us to touch them.
with the quick instinct which attends the lower
| grades OF animals when their lives aro III
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
&eW'glork Dailn Gr1ibaute.
SATURDAY, MARCH IS, 1871.

The situation in the MOntmartFe district Of Paris ia
unchanged. II "a reported that the Government was
about to attempt the capture Of the cannon in the hands
of the insurgcDt-.==Gen. Uhrich IL a candidate COR
the French emily from Paris.-=NapOlcon was
expected at Dover yesterday. == The Gar has ac-
cepted Coloneley in Prussian regiment. s= The
Italian Parliament viii meet in Rome In July. go
Tsbteen persons lave been killed and 40 wounded by
the explosion OF cartridge factory i'll France.
In the senate yesterday bin was introduced to re-
lieve exGoy Vance from his disabilities. Joint Com
nttee Of Investigation into the KuKlux outrages was
sDpointed concurrent resolution was introduced 10
revive the Retrenchment Committee. s= In the
House bill was passed admitting alien soldiers and
sailors 20 citizenship Mr. Butler made al Intellectual
attempt TO introduce his Ku-KIux bill.
-Four railroad accidents reported this morning &C
COMMANDED by some loss Of life. So twenty-five
bridges have been carried away by floods IN Illinois
81 The anthracite and btuminOus coal miners nave
united and threaten general suspension OF work -
The Pneumatic Railroad bill passed the State Assembly
yesterday
St. Patricks Day was celebrated by parades and ban
quets $500 A post-Ohice defaulter from Atlanta Ca
has been arrested. Gold, ILL., Ills, lll4 IAeIIDo
meter, 4Oo SO, so
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

We dare say there are many small towns in the
United States which would DO glad to establish free
libraries, if they only knew how to do it. The
money might be raised; but few understand how to
arrange the books how TO keep them, how TO frame
rules for the library, how TO make catalogue, and
above all, what books to buy. To meet this citli-
Guilty the American Social Science Association has
caused little handbook to be printed by Hurd Il
Houghton, wherein those who take an interest IN
Free Public Libraries will find plain and practical
Suggestions on their Foundation and Administra-
ton" 1t covers not only the most important points
connected with the establishment and management
of a library but gives a list of about 400 works
which it may be found advisable to begin WITH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

Governor Hoffman evidently has great con-
tempt for the intelligence OF his constituents,
or he would not offer, in explanation of his
very proper veto of swindling bill to give
$4,000 a year to nine unnecessary clerks in the
City Courts, such cheap and tawdry sentiment
about economy and the reduction of taxes as
that which concludes his message We pre-
sumo be thinks it will be excellent to quote
from when he is the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency; but it will be remembered
that while he was inditing this sort of stuff
for public display he was plotting with Tweed
and Hall to impose on the City the Tax bill,
which gigantic robbery is to make his masters
absnlute
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
NEW,JERSEY LEGISLATURE.

THE JERSEY CITY CHARTER ORDERED TO THIRD
READING-THE REGISTRY LAW PASsED-RES-
IGNATION OF SENATOR LITTLE now THz
ASSEMBLY KEPT A QUORUM.
TRENTON, March lin the Senate, to-day,
the whole morning was consumed by the Democrats IN
nbusterng on the jersey City Charter in te vain hops
Of delaying it that it would fail to be ordered 90
third reading. The Republican members did not, how
ever, become either discouraged weaiipd, and TO-
NAMED patiently in their seats, complaclnhy voting
down each and every Of the Is ameldents offered
by Senator Noah Taylor Of Hudson County who also IN
sisted on the reading in full Of the hundred andodd
pages Of the BILL Finally after nearly two hours spent
In consideration OF the bill the Democratic senator
gave up battle and the bill was ordered to have
third reading The Registry bill, providing for the regis
traon OF voters I'm all cities Of the state having 0O n
babitants upward was passed
This afternoon just previous to the adjournment Sem
ator Little sent the President his resignation as Sem
ator from Monmouth County Speeches euogistc OF tho
retiring Senator made by Senators Torrey, j. w.
Taylor and BEETLE, after which the resignation was 40
copied Little has been eight years IN the sen
ati during which time he has been looked upon
OF the abGst members OF that body. He has done mue.
toward preventing unYse legislation, ana THIS year has
heen one VI tie foremost Ia dcnOunce the outrageous
Erie legislation Of last year. He re,Ies from the senate
the duties OF the office Of Clerk ~ ChaneeY'
to which position lie recently appointed by the Gov
The vacancy in the Senate leaves the DenOcids
according to ex-senator Little the privileges VI the hoor
OF the Senate.
In the Assembly, IL was 1Ouhi necessary 20 "oA Nho
door to keep quorum present. Mr. Niles introduceds
concurrent resolution providing that the Governor shall
appoint three Commissioners 10 draft bill providing for
the establishment OF a House OF Correction, TO which
shall be sentenced prisoners for short terms or those
On vieod of niDor oFpuses The Commits siOners shall
present the bill the Governor, with suggestion as to
the location and estimated cost of tie bulls, together
with repOr, as The number Of prisoners Rio would 10
sentenced to such nstutiOnnc Governor to lay all tho
matters before the gislare at It's next session Inc
Committee ON the soldiers Home at Newark reported in
favor of continuing the Home and appgoprlatIg $500,
I'm addition TO the regular appropriations, Tor sewerage
uurpases aud improvement OF the grOuss 1h Is VIC
tory for the soldiers, strong euOIt mas Decn lle W
owners of land the vicinity OF the Home to obtain s
discOntinuance. -.
The bill to set apart the interest accrhng from tle sae
of riparian lands 10 the School fund has passed bOth
Iorsrs wear 20 to-day the then existing Legislature
adjourned. The present appearances are that tne
present Legislature wiz not adjourn leiofe Aptn
There are now over 500 bills the calendar 10 % aeea
upOa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
THE STYLE BOUFF4NT.

There can be no doubt of it Grundy
femme has utterly routed jenkins. A host of
lady Mfrcuries, &" swft-fOOted and winged
Drained" with pens ready drawn, have scaled
all the high places OF interest in the country,
from the Blue Room to the last criminal
court, and put to flight the manly, long-estab-
lished Paul Prys. The country is, no doubt,
the gaincr. 1t seems to be necessary for our
development as a nation that we should be
warned of all approaching marriages among
the very ordinary fashionable people in New
York or Washington, and be posted daily as
to Mrs. Grants lunch-table, or the frills on
Madame CatacaZy's pettcoats. BY all means,
then, let these helps to civilization be fur
nishcd us by the keenCr-sighted sex, who
throw themselves into the business ccA dmOre.
We do not refer to the long existing corps of
lady correspondents, whose old notions of
grave pr0priety are voted obsolete by this
newer and more aspiring band. One of these
last we are told, went lately to a lady whose
story has become historic, and, representing
herself as lOng-ost cousin, was admitted to
her confidence and dressng-room, and the
next day sent off 90 her New-York employer
budget of Bonaparte family gossip, and a
full description of the undrapcd arms and
shoulders of the too confding dame. Here
are the very aesthetics of impudence. Jenkins
can but admire and be silent.
But the point to which VIC wish to call
attention is the introduction into our htera-
ture of a new style by these ladies. 1t is all
their own. All subjects, from Santo Domingo
to the hair of new Senator, weigh alike
in the alembc of their brains and come
back to us marked feminine food forever. Pol
itics, finance, the Fishery question, undergo
the same treatment at their fair hands; are
millinerized, SO to speak are befrlled and
furbelowed with tags of schoolgirl sentiment,
and dance down the stage upon us with as
amazing sillnesses and shippers as the three
conspirators in La Grande DucheSse. One
leading political Lady writer suggests that
the difficult present question Of annexa-
ton be "cooked as a national pien and calls
plaintively on "the coming woman to blot out
at once Mason and Dixon's line, Danish
North, South, East, and West. and convert
the nation into q cOnglomerate whole, q huge
"glacier, or a mountain bowldern Are these
prophetic hintsf When women rule, are all
GOrdian knots, political and religious, over
which our statesmen have wrangled themselves
gray, TO be shipped thus delicately by their
pocket scissorsf Are problems of moral and
social science to be draped in infantine senti-
ment, and points in international policy illus
trated in Congress debates, not by gibes
or the lie given, but by apt quotations from
Mrs. Hemans and l.. L. L. 1t is dream of
Already We rejoice in that sweet femninity
which already begins to soften and blush
through mans ruder work. If this " the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

We have already announced the principal
conditions of the new treaty which settles for
a time the Black Sea question, lately ominous
of war to all Europe. The Conference at Lon
don adjourned several days ago, and its con-
illusions were fully stated at the time in the
English Parliament. Doubt was expressed as
to the willingness of Russia to accept
the treaty resolved on, but the official
organ of the Russian Government alludcs to
it as justfying all that Gortschakoff has done
in opening the question and as cOnccding all
he claimed. 1t is of very little consequence
what the English Parliament may say or do
about the matter which is still before it for
action. 1t rests with Russia secretly allied
and openly aflectiOnato with Germany, to say
whether there shall be war or peace; and
happily her voice, for the hour at least is for
peace.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
MISSOURI.
PROCEEDINGS IN TnE :T!GlsLATURE.

PROCEEDINGS IN the st"!sLAfURI'
ST.. LOUIS, March IA substitute ier the
Constitutional Convention bill has passed lie senate
IroYidiDg for tho appointment Of Committee Of one
from each Congress District TO franc or amend The Con-
situton during the vacation and 70 report at the next
session.
Both Houses have disposed Of the bin to consolidate
the City and County Of st. Louis by passing resolution
bill has passed both Houses, authorizing the sale Of
all and accOuerments belonging TO e state, and
directing the AdjuantGeneral TO call IN al arms be-
longing TO the State from all counties except that Of ST
Louis. This action will disarm the militia Of the State.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
PENNSYLVANIA.
VINO Is ENGINEERING TIRE PHILADELPHIA COM
MISSIONS.


HARRIsBURG, March 17.-lt appears that
Pennsylvania Democrats have been looking 70 fcw-York
city for counsel IN their doings Committee largely
composed OF Philadephians visited New-York last July,
and were received by Tweed. who gave them some In
sight into his Of victory. The ensuing election
was not Democratic success and they again Sought
their adviser They assured Of the efficacy OF gold
When the present legislative session began the movers
commenced sounding the members. When oil was ready
bill substantially identical in form and feature TO That
providing for the Government OF NewYork was broughs
forward behalf Of and by the aid OF few
Republican votes consigned 20 the Committee on Cor
poraons. The Committee deberaed upon the measure.
but dared not report. ..---,,
Tile Speaker the House. learning that tangible argu-
ments had been brought 10 bear upon the committee
added four men Of undOubted backbone TO the Commit
tee and LOT II was found there was but one ma
iority against tho scheme. IL would not he adding
teral point this narrative 10 give names Here men
who were offered from S1Oo0 TO 5000 are neither scarce
nor In ayOwing It, Since the defeat OF the bh
UNIQUE telegrapc correspondence has passed DetWeea
the abiect Pennsyyanians and their indignant New
York mentor, whose last vehement command was TO
pay more money and carry the thng-yOG know how
1t is Yourself" In shape and with more money, 10
is openly declared the bill must sooner or later become
a law. ''What !" said coal monarch do they think
We have money just TO make us rich Not 'auch. We
mean rule. well control this big state and wien
things work Just right, money will make maJOritles
wherever We want them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
POLITICAL.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION

CONCORD, March 17--To days Statespnn sor
,Dae ~ towns give Pike, Rep. for Governor, sa.aa.
Weston, Dem, 1851 and Cooper and soat,er,n -
Tho towns not heard from gave last year-4,,,r o.,
49, ana BodeI' Dem, 2I4 n their vote should bo he
Same as last year. Weston will fail OF an election by Isl
Votes Tic whole vote will I've about co.7Oo Hjbbart,
pluraty Tor Congress in the st District s 300 Belp, in
the No. 300 ana Parkers in the Ill., 100 There are two
Republican and two Democratic Councilors, with 4.
ohoice In the Ist District Five Republican and sir
Democratic Senators chosen, with no choice in IN.
Portsmouth District. The Xth aud XIh Districts ar.
very close and perhaps official count may have 10 d..
ciJe them The Statssmon's list misrepresentation
contains the Of ls1 Republicans and l56 Demo
crats. The towns to hear from expected to sond
Republicans and II Democrats. II 20. the House wiz
stand les Republicans to 1C7 Democrats.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

At Clarendon Iowa, it seems to have been decided
we are at loss TO understand upon what principe
by the Board OF Registers that women were ehti'leu
to vote and, upon this, a number OF their names
were placed upon the voting lists. The sequei was
rather funny, for sundry indignant husbands etaseu
the names of their wives while divers females uiu
the same service for themselves so that upon ei'c
ton day not a feminine vote was cast 10 Nh''
extent the same thing might occur in other places
than Clarendon. we do not pretend to determine ;
but il woull be rather a damper on the success OF
the cause if II should be found necessary TO enact
statute compelling women to vote, OF be fined OF i'm
prlsoned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

We despair. Truth is no longer extant. 1t was
bad enough to have 10 doubt the rosecOOred stories
with which we were persuaded to buy Alaska; but
to be forced this late day to abandon faith in the
primary geography OF orr early days. which pic
tured Alaska as land of ice, which the fuT-clad
Indian sportiyely pursued the White Bear and Wal
rus, is bitterly Disappointing We had aban-
doned all hope of extracting cucumbers from the
semi-oocasional sunshine of that delightful cline !;
and as for cauliflowors and cOwslips we had not
dreamed of them But now it seems that there are
no furs to DO had by u.s. for the Hudson Bay Com
pany get them by Offering better prices; there are
walr.ses and seals and bears, and the fish. though
plentiful seem to have serious objections to dangling
on the anglers line and there is faint suspicion
that the business of capturing them isn't profitable
for tho fools at the other end of the lre while to
complete the painful category of evil, 1t Is now es-
tablished that the Territory won't produce-ice
This is simply hoTri ing to listen to; il is inhuman
to utter it in the Of this nation of sanguins an
nexatonists disconnected with the choice and pick
of the continent, but bent on having it all-goOd,
bad and Indifferent. And onions, too-they
grow but refuse to bear bulbs, ard until some
ingenious cook cOnyinces us that the plant
and not the bulb of that nutritious vegetable Is the
dclicacy which ought TO be cTayed, must despair
of making garden Of Alaska. Even Customs OIL
GERS refuse 10 IhIlNe lntIt, anu ihe liltLSHiDlc
story comes to us that it costs only 500 to
keep open the Custom-IIouse at Sitka. There
are some other curious figures included in the
abstract of the report which We publish this morn
ing but to which we haven't tie heart to refer any
reader with sense of shame left We may be par
doned, however, for intimating briefly that they
show that it costs precisely Sllj55G year to gar
rison a country in which the military detachment
exceeds in number the white population, and TO
collect total revenue of $4,000. Out upon Alaska!
Who will buy it at half price-or at any price,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

The Secretary of the Treasury, we are told,
Is maturing arrangements for calling in large
amount OF the Five-Twenty loan. If by this we
are to understand that he has at last discoV"
cred the uselessness of keeping hundred
millions idle in the Treasury, while paying
interest on u hundred millions of debt which
might as well as not be redeemed, we shall
reckon it one of the best signs Of the financial
futDra
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

In police item appearing in THE TRIBUNE of tho
9th inst as well we believe, in some other papers
it was stated that Mr.. Kellogg h. Loomis was in
volved in the charge of defrauding bank, on which
two other persons, lessees Of warehouse,
were arrested and committed to the
Tombs Yesterday our attention was for the first
time called to the matter, and, on careful eXami
nation of the records of the Police Court we find
that there is warrant whatever Tor imputmg any
blame TO Blr LOOMS in the transaction, with
which he seers to have been only incidentally
connected and to have been sufferer deserving
sympathy rather than reproach. We very gladly
make the correction and should of have made
it Immediately if the facts had been brought TO our
notice. OF there had seemed to be any reason for
questioning the evidence which the original state
ment was prepared.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
TIE TRLBUNE IN EUROPE.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

this morning official correspondence which
fully confirms this statement. and fur
Their shows that Admiral Poor and Minister
BGssett had also notified TO the Haytien Gov
ernmcnt this order of the Executive. The re-
markable tone of this diplomacy is, to say the
least, almost as startling to us as it must have
been 10 Iiayti
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
amnaemerie. etr.. Chs Gpenina.

Boorn's Tnr.rrR-At 1 and at s: much Ado
Abort Eoibng." Edwin Booth -
F,rm-AyENUE THEATFR.--At II aud at 8: "Sara-
toga" 70.
LIN, FpwIN's THEATER.-At Il and at s.: "a ST.
lent Protector" IiucarL
NIpo's GARDEN.-At Il and at s: "Thc Black
Crook" .
OLYMPIC THEATEB.--At Il and at s: "The Ricbeheu
Of the PerioL" G. l. Fox
wAIIACK's TuEATER-At Il: Romance and
Reality" Al g. Ours"
ACADEMY OF MusIC.-Concert Miss Kellogg.
ASSOCIATION HAII.-At 81: Wehli Concert.
NEw- YORK CIRCUs.--At "a and at s: Billy But
toa." Sensational Bareback Hors ..canstp etc
PLlMoUm CHURCH. BIOOhyn.-At 81 Organ
Concert
SAN Francisco MIvSrRU1s-Songs dances, &C.
oeaidc acts etc
STEINwAY HNI-At1: Concert. Miss Nilsson.
WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE.-At . and s {:
Across she Continent"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

The rumor runs that the bituminous coal
miners have joined with those of the Anthracite
region, and general strike and suspension is
threatened. The consequences of such ill-ad-
vsed action would certainly BIO very bad, to
miners as well as consumers of coal. As for
the owners and carrying companies, they could
afford to await their inevitable harvest after
tho compromise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

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According to position III the paper
In making remittances always procure draft on
NoW-YOrll OF a Post Office Money OTder, II possible
Where neither of these can be procured, send the
money, bit ARRAYS IN a REGISTERED tetter. Inc reg,
isfration fec has been reduced to fifteen cents and
the present registration system has been found by
the postal authorities TO DO virtually an absolute
protection against losses Ivy mail Az Posllnasters
T Obliged 10 register letters when requested TO 40 So
IeIms cash in advance.
Address TUE tribune, New-York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18

The World reports u collision at Hell Gate near
Harris island Maps of the country around New
York can be obtained at avery moderate price ana
if The World will buy one it will learn, what most
Now Workers know already, that Hell Gate ana
Harris Island are about II or 10 miles apart No
want our esteemed friend TO find out the SITUATION
of Hell Gate especially for some day the knowledge
VII como handy.