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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

da,;or that for the credit of the Church an
exhaustive examination by the tribunal of last
razor, sbouJd have been ordered without de-
Law Rpt while the charges of fraud and mis-
management were still practically undecided
tho trials having resulted in what was equiv
oleot to tbe Scotch verdict of "Not proven"
the opponents of DR.. Lanahan preferred an
Indictment against that gentleman, and in
October last he was suspended from his office
of Assistant Book Agent until joint tribunal,
composcd of the Book Committee and GER
tain number Of the Bishops should decide
unon his guilt or innocence. The Oiienses laid
ot his door were described as official misCOn-
duet and malfeasancc, neglect of official duty,
untruthfulness, Feasibility, slanderous DISPOSE
ton, msubordination, inefliccncy, &c; but the
specifications resolved nearly al these into the
one capital crime of impugning the honesty
and efficiency of the management OF the Con-
Germ. DR.. Jonathan, in his answer, said in
effect 81 have asserted that frauds and cor
"ruptiOns exist in the management of the
Book COnvern, and | stand by my words
The trial began on the 18th inst. a whole
week was passed i'll taking testimony and de-
batting rules of practice before The excellent
gentlemen composing the court realized the
position in which they had placed themselves.
Nothing was proved on a single charge. IL
was evident that nothing could be proved. TO
every accusation against the Assistant Agent
that he had made such and such slanderous state
mcnts respecting the Book Concern, the an
swer was the same: " / admit the statements !;
" they are not sanderous | am prepared to
prove them" To go to trial on such an issue
WAS rs if the Court of Sessions should suspend
the trial of indictments until it had first tired
the District-Attorncy for Islander in drawing
them up.
The Methodist tribunal seems finally to have
realized that in practice, if not in theory, Dr.
Lanahan is the prosecutor in this controversy
and the Book Concern is the defendant, and
the attempt to put the prosecutor in the dock
and the accused on the stand is Il travesty upon
Justice The trial is abandoned. The Assistant
Agent is restored to Office. A special commits
sion is appointed to probe the affairs OF the
Book Concern to the bottom with the assist
ance of experts, and the charges against Dr.
Lanahan are referred to the General Confer
ence for such action as that tribunal of last
resort may deem proper. This is sensible
course at last. The Conference does not meet
until 1872, and there will thus be opportunity
for learning whether Dr. Lanahan's charges
are true before he is indicted for making them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23
THE INCOME Tx.


Cen. Alfred PleasontOn, soon after Gen.
Grants Inauguration as President, was APP
pointed Collector of Internal Revenue in this
City, and, one year thereafter, was transferred
10 our most important district. In either pO-
stion, he fully justified the confidence reposed
in him by integrity and devotion to his duty.
He had no difficulty in keeping his accounts
straight and lucid from the start, nor IN set
Ting them at the close. The Bureau was never
perplexed nor annoyed by any OF his acts. lie
was at length called by the President to take
charge of it, and direct where he had served.
Whatever misgivings may have been felt as to
his ability to discharge without error the i'm
portant and manifold duties of Commissioner,
there was no question raised as to his integ-
rity.
Gen. Pleasonton has signifed to the Ways
and Means Committee of the House his disap-
probation of the Income Tax. In that judg-
ment, we are sure that nearly all who have
considered the subject concur. His objection
is pithy and practical-Ihe Income Tar (as
modiied) ,cW not pay. An army of deputy
Assessors and other functionaTies is required
to levy it; millions must be served with
schedules, compelled to expose their most pri-
course of hard swearing-and all for naught.
The net receipts into the Treasury, after the
country has been turned wrong side up to
secure them, will not amount to one dollar
for each false oath that viii have been taken
in the process of securing it. Gen. PleasOntOn
considers this poor business, and such is the
general opinion.
We had not purposed to say anything more
on this subject. We desire that the Revenue
should be ample and would prefer not to re-
duce its volume till after the Treasury shall
have succeeded in funding the bulk of the Ma
tional Debt at lower rates of interest than the
present. We believe the country will be COM
PEELED to pay many Millions in extra interest
for every one it gains in reduced taxes by the
reductions of last Summer But Congress then
saw fit to extract all the substance from the
Income Tax, while stubbornly holding on to
the shadow. Gen. PleasOntOn perccives that
what is left of it will make a great deal OF
work, call for millions of blanks, exhibits, and
affidavits, yet bring very little into the Treas
ury: so be says, Let us have an end of it !!
This is eminently sensible and we pray Con-
gress to give heed to its reason rather than Its
temper, and sweep the resduary rubbish Oft of
the statute book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23
TERMS or TIE TRIBUNE.
3.1.u's'] qrk Dailu Grib1GlrG
MONDAY, JANUARY 90, 1871.

Gen Won Goobcn has defeated the French Army Of the
North taking geo proners and one cannon $500 Cen
Won WeIler is pursuing Gen. Bourbak. == The IruS-
salslalt again occupied Tours. == observation-disclosures
cfIaYsuy continues vigorously, the town being inime
Tire PrIs Ian tirc Paris for three days has slack
cncl Lu, is 10 begin again with renewed severity =
Peace uceo:aons It's reported were in progress in
versatile but have proved unsuccessful === Dplo-
matte t..coaIsC has been suspended between Italy and
GWis.
Another terrible Ku-Klux outrage has occurred in
Georgia, eight negroes being whipped and mutiated
and orc rilfed. = conCratulatoTy letter has been
s.ut T. Victor Emanuel from Boston, signed by Gov.
Caan and other prominent citizens Of that state. +
Three persons have been killed and one injured by
boiler explosion in Illinois. Another Pacific Rail
read robbery has occurred, $4,000 being stolen. =
Carts won the Champion Skating Match at Buffalo on
Saturday. == Cattle are dying in some portions OF
California for want Of grass. == Seven Illicit disu-
lcr.cs have been broken up in Tennessee. == The
Senate was not in session Saturday, and the House
held a session for debate only.
The Methodist Book Committee has formally rein
stated DR.. Lanahan. ==- The fOrger Van Eaton has
been brought 10 this city. There was almost riot
III Jersey City between the militia and police. Gold 100
1CE H7 Thermometer. Saturday, $40 49, 39o sunday,
90 Zso. 10,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

A fascinating invitation is extended through
our advertising columns to those having mind
TO seek homes in less crowded cities, more
healthy climates and more luxurious ATTITUDES
than this. 1t is nothing less than an offer OF
land without cost, city lots without price,
free Of taxation, and situated near one
of the richest sheets of water and in
one of the most productive Of peninsular
tracts on the Continent. The scheme of
colonizing Lower California, which is set forth
in the advertisement alluded to, is an old one.
begun several years since, but only lately per-
fected and organized The name of Mr.
Schell. as President, is a sufficient guarantee
of the responsibility of the company, and will
be accepted by business men as an assurance
of the success of the enterprise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23
DANGER TO PARIS From WITHIN.


Evidences of the desperate condition OF
Paris accumulate with such distinctness and
in such strongly couObOrative form as to in
dictate the almost immediate surrender of the
CITY. The last overwhelming defeat of Gen.
CEanzy 1T lie Mans left the Capital
without hope Of succor from the Prov
inccs. and IFS own military strength
had long since and repeatedly proven
INADEQUATE. Reduced to question OF endurance,
surrender became inevitable. The people have
suffered patiently and endured nObly, but, as
was easily foreseen from the beginning, In
vain. The resources have, by economical adj
ADMINISTRATION greatly to be admired, and by
heroic submission and discipline Of the people
above all praise, carried the city far beyond
the period to which even its Governor and
Commander thought resistance possible. Gen.
Trochu, in retiring his troops to the defenses
of Paris, unwisely permitting, without resist
ance. the German investment, which ne might
at least have retarded, declared that the city
was provisioned for two months. 1t is now
more than double that time since supplies OF
any kind entered Paris, and it is not strange
that its two million inhabitants lack food ana
fuel, and, in spite of past patience, grow clam
The latest information fully indicates the
distressing scarcity of food and the alarming
prevalence of the dreaded discomfort among
the people We published details of the fuel
famine and the riot which convulsed Paris
nearly month ago; and these have prepared
us for the announcement now made that coal
els entirely gone" and that other fuel, with
"the exception of what could be obtained
"from the fences, is exhausted" Mule-meat
during Christmas week was worth - per
pound, and dog-meat sold for only
a little less Horse-iiesh had entirely
given out at that date. This, 1t must not be
forgotten, was nearly month ago, and during
that time the needs have certainly not lessened,
while the demands have certainly been more
positive. The increasing demoIalizaion OF
the Paliaians las been cyinccd. since the not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

the COmmuncs, in frequent public demands
for the abandonment of TrOchu's policy of
waiting. The Paris papers have not hesitated
TO declare him incOmpetcnt and he has been
forced to defend his staff and subordinate
Generals from charges of treason boldly
uttered by disaiccted men urged thereto
by prevalent sentiment freely uttered in pub
lie meetings. There is no more terrible or
significant cry than that of Orator on the
lips of French mob. In their despair they
always seek a victim, ard invariably in the
highest places. Reports of the removal and
Imprisonment of Gen. TrOchu need confirma-
ton before they can be accepted as lllnstrat-
ing the desperate frenzy 10 which the fariS
people have been reduced; but there are facts
enough to show without these that the suffer
ing pOpuacc threaten an early revolt against
the policy of their Military Micawber," which
increases their misery without raising their
hopes
NEGOTIATIONS of some sort appear to have
been ouened between Paris and Versailles on
January T., and IL cessation of the lombard
ment ensued. We trusted that 1t was pTeiilll-
nary TO the Inevitable surrender which VIII
end the war; but if the negotiations were Tor
this purpose they evidently failed, Tor
hostilities were resumed on the 10Th by the
French in a sortie from Fort Mont Valenen.
The French leaders have resOrted on several
occasions to negotiations for peace a means of
encouraging their own people, and of placing
Germany in the light of the strong Power de-
handing unreasonable terms of its captive.
Peace negotiations have ended invariably in
violent denunciatiOn of the German demands
as dishonoIablc, and French hearts have been
fred to renewed resistance. 1t is not imprOb-
able that such was the purpose had in view in
opening those of the 18th inst, and
such indeed the effect. But courage OF the
most heroic sort cannot contend against hun
ger, and the discipline of an army, much more
that of the people, cannot be maintained III
the face of famine. This, we doubt not, must
compel the surrender at an early date, and the
great fear is that will be forced upon the French
commanders by the populace within, rather
than 10y the enemy without. In the event
of Gen. TrOchu's continuing resistance by
the army beyond the powers of endurance OF
the people, a revolution within Paris may re-
suit in the most terrible of scenes. And 1t Is
very discouraging to add that while the news
this morning suggests, without positively de-
cIaring. that the decentralization of the people
increases, there is not the slightest evidence
that the Government gathers wisdom or grows
in discretion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

Coal and other materials. A tunnel nearly
mile long will be traversed by the railroad
trains that cross it from the river bank to the
great central depot in the heart of the city.
Thirteen railroads now terminate on the
Illinois shore opposite st. Louis, and will OF
course send their trains over the great bridge.
Eleven Railroads either already do or soon
will leave st. Louis on her landward side.
Missouri is now thoroughly permeated by these;
by which she is connected, through Kansas,
with Colorado, Utah and the Pacific slope, as
well as with Nebraska and the Upper Missouri
Yet st. Louis has not pushed her railway sys-
tenn so vigorously as she should have done.
Little Rock, Galveston and Santa 70 should
have been reached by her ere tins, securing
her the vast Cattle trade OF Texas rs
we'll as her young and growing nyai'
the Plains. We're st. Louis as thoroughly
connected by rail with the regions south ana
west of her as Chicago is with those which
bear corresponding relation to her, her trade
would now be double what it is and her next
Census would give her population OF One
Million. As it is, her $4,000 inhabitants ION
an area of scant 20 square miles, while
Chicago has 207,718 on 3li square miles0 will
doubtless be doubled before 1880.
Mr. Reavis gives the aggregate length of
our country's Railroads as 47,24 miles, while
all the rest of this continent, with its islands,
has but 4,416 miles. Europe has G1,Oi3 miles,
Asia 474 miles, Africa 1888, and Australia
7S9 miles so that more than One-third in
total length of all the Railroads on orr planet
this day traverse a single republic Of the New
World which sprang into life less than CEN
fury ago.
We would gladly draw'further on the store
house Of facts which Mr.. Reavis has collected
in honor of the city which is his home and
his pridc--facts which her public-spirited
citizens are wisely disseminating without
price. There are few manuals which embody
q wider range of statistics of general interest,
while most of them are ingeniOusly, not UNI
fairly, made to glorify ST. Louis as prospect
lively the greatest inland city of the globe.
Missouri and her Resources-her Iron and
other Mincrals-her rapid growth and limitless
capacities-are so lucidly and fOrcibly set
forth, that we believe her interest Will be sub
served and her prosperity enhanced by wide
diffusion of this instructive compend.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

United States and Russa-two powers which
protect their own Industry-took no less than
517.219 tuns, leaving but 1893 tuns as her
total export to all other countries. turkey
Italy, and Portugal, seem not to nave taken
any worthy of specific mention, though those
countries still need Railroads and are under
the influence of British economic policy we
protcctjonists. who are charged with lettering
and paralyzing international commerce, anoru
to Great Britain nearly all the markets. Ior
her Rails that are of any consequence, "hile
her Free-Trade allies and servitors are 100
poor TO buy of her save meagcrly and neon
siderably. VIII she always insist on killing
the goose that lays nearly all the eggs she
gets
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23
ST. LOUIS-PROGRESS

Mr.. Reavis has issued a new and enlarged
edition of his "St. Louis the future Great
"City of the World" whence we CLEAN that
the Manufactures of that city, according to
the census just completed, have grown as fol-
lows
Capital invested .s2,7339as &s,3s75O 2si per cent.
Materials used l62l2699 63.i275C9 900 per cent.
Annual product. 27,6lOO7o 1Os,5l395o 2s6 per cent
Home Manufactures are habitually treated as
specially Northern interest; yet here is the
chief city of the Great Valley showing an ex-
pansion and thrift in this department of
Industry which no city in New England or on
the seaboard can rival. And it is plain that
the progress made during the last decade is
destined, under favOring auspices, to be not
only maintained but exceeded during the next.
The Vulcan Iron Works just going into ope-
ration will turn ont 80 tuns of Pig Iron and
rs Of Railroad Bars per day, employing 400
hands and capital of $2,OOOOOO.
st. Louis erected I, 1886 buildings during 1870,
Mt cost of $5G27 1O6. One of them cost
100000; several others more than $4,000
each. She owns 200 steamers and 800
bsrges, of total value of S6,s44,2O0.
IltT VI w HtdU Ill lou were 2oll0,USS
bushels; of Coal, 23,931 ,475 bushels-a large
excess over those of any former year. Her
debt is $13,7A,OoO; being exceeded by those of
New-York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Baltimore,
and Ncw-Orleans. Her taxes for 1870 were
$4,366,948, being exceeded by those of Chicago
and each of the above-named cities except
Baltimore In the ratio of taxation to prop
vert, ew-Orleans takes the lead of all her
sisters closely followed by Detroit, Brooklyn,
Buffalo and Chicago. Cincinnati, New-York,
st. Louis, Louisville and San Francisco form
the next group; Philadelphia, Boston and Bal
timore dropping considerably astern. But the
valuations of property are so arbitrary and
unequal that no positive conclusions are de-
ducible from these data.
st. Louis is clearly destined to be great
city. Her bridge across the Father of Waters
is TO be finished this year, at a total cost of
nearly sj,0000OO. IL will give an impulse to
Arg manufactures " diminishing the cOoI oil
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

There is nothing, says The Baltimore i"0"""'
that shows more clearly the character OF the
ton through which Maryland has been passing IMAM
the contrast between the condition OF the So"oo'
bcfore the war and their condition now Ir''lo"'
To 1865 the schools of Maryland were poor = hoo'
moor in quality, and patronized only ny W, Poo,
In most of the counties the wealthy sent thtir 'ni
III "'' IN =, do l,.,t coyerudSses in
u'o.' a. -. -. ,,ot,,,,i,od nriyate schools and
academies so called. What are calico 'I iu'"'''o
class of society allowed their sons ana dauh 20,
attend the public schools paying Their qua'''i oi'''
however. as an assertion of their lhdeP'hu'"'''
while only the INDECENT received lor "Ouf "'Of'
e0, y Six ,,oars only have ELAPSED iand now
bnt few send their children abroad; not org Cover"
ess is found for fifty that there used To ~ anu "
large majority of the counties there Is not siSo
private school. The whole dependence OF the pVolo
for the education of the young is on the Free Iuph
Schools The system incorporated IN the OoiS''
tution framed by the Convention that aboiiSh'o
Slavery. The system is good 50 far as II goes pu'
The american complains that the schools eStaolSneu
under it still need improvement. The salaries pau
10 teachers are SO small that competent persons VIII
not engage in the occupation, and hence tpe Sehoos
are poor and great portion of the chi oil li''
State are growing up III ignorance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23
AMERICAN and FOREIGN FABRICS.

To the EdttOr Of me Tribune.
SIR: Why is il that American goods are
inferior TO French and Engsh' went into my taorS
shop TO buy suit OF clothes month ago. The cloth was
laid out for to select "This is s5 the suit; ana t'
$50" The patterns were exactly alike and the quality
apparently the same asked what made the difference
in the price and was told that would fade and the
other would not asked him whg Americans could not
make fast colors as well French and English. He
said they did not could not tell the why Can
yOu? Yours b. H. c.
Comments Jy The Tribune.
Our CORRESPONDENT is shown an American
fabric from which he is offered suit Of
clothes for S35; also foreign rival, from
which he can likewise be clad for $50. lie Is
surprised that the S3j cloth is not in all re-
spects equal to the $50. Was that reasonable?
American fabrics generally have bad name,
and in part for this very reason Every one
expects TO buy them cheaper than foreign. lie
will buy French Delaine for fifty cents per
ward and an American for thirty, and remark
that the French is the better fabric Why
should it not be
We have bought good and inferior fabrics,
both foreign and homemade; but we never
expected the cheaper fabric to be equal in all
RESPECTS 10 the deaIer, no matter whether
homemade or foreign But too many buy
cheap fabrics, and then marvel that they do
not prove as valuable as dearer This is what
they should have expected.
The modern art OF making and dyeing our
best Wooden fabrics is the result of thousand
years patient, toilSomc effort Certainly q
hundred, perhaps thousand. successive dis
coveres and inventions have contributed to
the perfection of the cloth you now wear. To
find dye that will not only gire the desired
color, but hold it, in defiance OF heat and cold,
rain and sun, acids and alkalis, frut-stain and
irOn-rust, is a great art-beyond the reach OF
any one man that ever lived. It has been
built up of happy inspirations, patient ponder
ings, multiform experiments, infinite failures
and dsappointments. If it were all yet TO do,
no million dollars could produce a coat equal
in all respects to that worn by any we'll
dressed American. The cheaper fabrics,
whether of the Old World or the New, do not
hold their color as Obstinately as the dearer ;
and it may be that our dyers have not yet
mastered all the secrets of their most skillful
European rivals. If they have not, they must
and we must have patience with them while
they try. The Irishman who decided, after
giving them hard pull that he should not be
able to get on his boots till after he had worn
them day or two, was first cousin to the
American who hears that our cOlOring Is not
vet perfect, and thereupon decides that he
will wear foreign cloth till the American has
become better as well as cheaper. Ed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

The report by way of London, which repre-
scented that the Uruguayan revolution had
ended, is contradicted by later dispatches direct
from the besieged capital of the republic. Mon
tevideo had not fallen on Dec. II, though the
besiegers had gained important positions, and
had captured the Government fleet OF four
vessels. South American wars usually end
after q signal victory by one side or the other,
hut this seems to be an exceptional case.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

A person who seems not to agree with mo
public in their approval of our structures OH
Messrs. James Fisk, jr., & Co. writes 10 say
how much he would like to cowhlde us DuI ior
our gray hairs, &C., &C., closing with T. .,
"If you print the ADORE, ont pm my name.
As Artemus Ward would say, This Is Sar-
" kasum y but the writer didn't suspect IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

The reorganization of the Paraguayan Gov
eminent, which is announced this morning Is
gratifying for several reasons, among which
was the belief that Brazil designed to occupy
and absorb tie little Republic. 1t is not at
all certain yet that she has abandoned such
purpose, for her entire fleet crowds the Para
quay River without any obviously good excuse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-23

French journal attempts to explain tho
mann, INSTANCES IN which the mpetuous warriors OF tho
on5e y,,ou bave taken "French leave on the tcld
NJ hattie by calling "a mind the fact that ting Fonehman
has naturally finer organization than the German.
more delicate nerves, and consequently more llene
ana over strIing fear OF death, ana thtlti"e-u
rlu In face of tho results OF the present war - az
is probable that the Germans have no wish 70 excAhSo
organ!la tlvus NJ AZ lAvl FRENCH Ielshbors.