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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28
MIR. SUMNER.

Mfr. Charles Sumner returned by the Baitlc
on Wednesday, in improved health lie Is
vet far from well and on the score OF health
alone he might properly enough AVOID the
acrid contests wherewth the last session was
embttered, to little good. But, in any case
Mr.. Sumner is not man to diner rom 'ne
Roman veteran of minority, VINO declared
himself unwilling to contend with the keplD-
lie. Cherishing the same views which he mas
80 often and so fearlessly expressed, he VIII
nevertheless make no factious opposition 10
the new Administration of Gen. Grant; VIII
give cordial support to whatever he can APP
prove, and offer manly, open resistance 10
whatever he disapproves. Withal. his Dest
friends hope he may be induced to give "a
little more heed than last Winter to the
monitions of his physicians and to indulge
himself i'm that less laboriOus attention 10
public duty to which his health, his age, and
his past distinguished service alike entitle hlm'
During his short European holiday Mr.. sum
ner has mingled extensively in English ana
French society He has been received with every
mark of courtesy and respect by the leaders IN
political, literary, and artistic circles on both
sides of the channel He has enjoyed unusual
opportunities for becoming familiar with the
condition of public affairs abroad, aud i'm
proving his personal acquaintance with states
men and others to whom his long service IN
the Senate and his eminence as public man
have made him one of the best known ana
most highly esteemed of living Americans,
Wherever he has been we may rest assured
that be has left an enhanced appreciation oil
American culture, refinement, dignity and
intellect. He returns Immediately to wash
ington. Whatever share circumstances may
allow him to take in the direct work Oh
legislation, his presence at the Capital VIII De
an announcement and assistance to the
friends of Liberal Reform, and his influence
will be felt in numberless directions, as 1t mas
been for SO many years. When Mr.. sumner
forsakes the Senate, AZ in the course OF
nature he must some day, we shall miss from
that body one of the noblest historical figures
of orr generation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

them. Outside of the churches n curious, shall
low skepticism is developing itself. Our
neople are perishing," unlike the Jews, not
" for lack of knowledge" but for a surfeit
of incomplete knowledge, froth skinned
from the depths, with which they poison
themselves. 1t has become the custom among
half-read and n-thinking people to chatter
of Darwinism and Tyndall's theory of prayer
and Bastian's so-called discoveries without
single definite idea az to what has been proved
or disproved by science of their old religious
faith; but with vague grandilo1uent habit
of setting God and Christ and the prayer
learned at their mothers knee loftily aside III
behalf of faith in their monkeys origin or
some new and striking experiments, or Bac-
terra boiled or unboiled.
Never have true men of science had such
reason to dread their ignorant followers as
now. Upon this Thanksgiving morning we
would earnestly advise every man TO whom
the day and its meaning have begun to appear
trivial and bigoted, to make his scientific
researches with thOroughness and find how
much of his first childish faith they actually
disprove; or if he have not time for that, to
be sure of one truth-that whatever be the
benefits. known or unknown, whatever dis
covery of laws Science has given or VIII give
to the world, she has not yet, nor ever viii,
touch the idea of the Omnipotent God, the
Power working good behind the laws.
There is not man nor woman among us
| knowing nothing of Science who cannot to-
day find this God for themselves near at
hand; and not alone in matter and its laws,
but within his brain. In the warmth OF his
fire this morning and the wife's and children's
faces about it, in the very thoughts III his
brain, in the history of his life, If he read
it carefully, he will find the Controlling
Power for gOod-always for good. The
more carefully we read, the more GER
tain will we be of its nearness to us; the
more will we understand the meaning of the
day. Even though the inscrutable design yet
be dark to us, though the fire on our hearth
this morning shine upon empty chairs that
shall never be filed
"Amen Whatever fate be sent,
| Pray God the heart may kindly glow,
| Although the head with cares be bent,
| Or whitened with the Winter snow
| Come wealth or want, come good or III,
Let young and old accept their part,
| And bow before the Awful VIII.
And meet it with an honest heart"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.
Aeto.Iork Daily Grib1rtre.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %. 1879.

The excitement in France is partially allayed; a
Cabinet meeting be held to consider the majority
report Of the Address Committee.
The Lackawanna Valley House at Scranton, Pa, was
burned == Baron schlOzer explains the opposition Of
the German Government TO emigration.
Three men were killed and fatally injured by the
careless explosion Of blast at Observation-Disclosures
ffth-st. and seventhave. === report OF the gross
earnings Of the city railroads has been presented to the
Department Of Public Works. - banquet was
given Henry NJ. Stanley by the New-York Geographi-
cal Society Police Commissioner Henry Smith re-
signed and Benjamin F. Manierre appointed to hll
the vacancy = Gold, 1927 Thermometer, 35o 43o ASP.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

We are deeply panied to say that in the
last thirty-six hours Mr.. Greeley's condition
has changed greatly for the worse. Through
out yesterday he remained nearly all the time
unconscious. In counsel of some of the most
eminent physicians of the city, only one was
without hope, but all regarded the case as
critical and alarming
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

Gen. Butler, are compelled to announce, is in u
very declining state Being interviewed" last
week by the reporter of The Boston Times he wished
it to be distinctly understood that he did not desire
the speakership of the next House Of Representa-
tives, which reminds us of the reply of the milkmad
in the ballad to the gentleman who told her that
he couldn't marry her" Nobody asked you
Sir" she said. Il being determined that the General
would not accept tho speakership the next question
in order was. Would lao 10 Governor Of Alassaehu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28
PRUSSIAN And ENGLISH UPPER CHAM
BERS

BEKS.
Mr.. Roebuck, in his early youth furious
Radical, has followed the course of most En-
glishmen and grown into conservatism as he
grew into pOrtly, easy going middle-age. Last
week, at a Cutters Feast at Sheffield, he took
occasion to explain to his audience composed
principally of skilled wOrkmen, the advant-
ages to the nation of a caste removed by birth
or work. Mr.. Roebuek, in fact, set himself to
glorify the House of Lords, and the Tory
press in England have eagerly used his
speech as a text for various lectures
on not only the glory to England of
her titled order, but their absolute utility
as a perpetual model in manners and culture
ND TO which all Englishmen may look and
aspire, and also as "check upon the people"
Every nation, we are told, finds it necessary
to impose this check upon the people. The
Saturday RerieU (Which represents the check
ing class very fairly by its supercilious parade
of ancient beliefs and prejudlces, its keen wit,
its shallow, ill-tempered treatment of all sub
jects outside of its own narrow social outlook)
enters into an elaborate disqusition on the
rein upon the American nation provided by
the wise founders of the Constitution to be
exercised by their State and National Senates.
These dispositions acquire certain present
force and pungency from the efforts making
in Prussia to rid both King and people of
their "check," which they find too heavy a
halter.
The argument used in England in defense
of this Second Chamber, whether il be our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

settsi 81 prefer responded b. f. b.. ito let the
events Of 1873 come in their proper tme1 and kind
IL was Of him TO say il, because everybody knows
that if Gen. B. had chosen not to let the eyents Of
1873 come their proper time there might have been
a general upsetting and conglomeraton Of all chro-
nology. But would MT you like 10 90 TO the SEN
ate y said the polite and persistent interviewer u
have desire TO go 10 the Senate" responded the
General " What do you think of Civil Service Re-
formp 80 do MT think anything Of it, was tho
answer. After this the General proceeded TO show
that he had thought good deal about it, and what
he said is worthy of some attention. The selec-
tions" we are told, are always made from three ap
plicahts who pass examinations in writing Possibly
the first the list gets the place sought ard then
again he DO Mt 1t depends greatly on the strength
Of political influence exercised in his behalf" More
over. the examination in writing is test since if
man keep sober while passing his ordeal, his
red does MT appear the paper' while. if he
is lazy he may show this quality TO its fullest extent
after he has obtained his appointment. In fact,"
says the General, the Civil Service is but lottery
where you pay your money in greater uncertainty
than you would in any other enterprise Finally.
the General expressed great doubts whether the Art
of Printing had ever been of any real benefit TO
mankind. He must have meant tho Art Of Con-
gressiOnal Printing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

The Lord Chamberlain has interdicted the bar
maid shows, which for a number of years have con-
stituted a ridiculous feature in the recreations of
the British Capital. Trim and buxom young
women in endless file. presiding over beer-pumps
and listening to the chaff Of the British snob or tho
pointed batteries of the Cockney Gent arc
deemed by the Lord Chamberlain TO be exhibitions
destitute of high moral purpose, in which opinion
we have the happiness entirely to concur Hence
forward the barmads will be on exhibition singly'
as usual. at the taps over which they respectively
preside, but will no more be paraded in multitudes
for purposes of competitive display This is whole
some and salutary reform, only are moved to re-
greet that it did not go little further, and gently
allow the maidens, each and all, to quit the
business altogether There are many more maid
enly employments, and better ways Of winning
both pence and admiration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

There was grand flagellation at Newcastle DELI
last Saturday. Seven eolored cupritsand one whito
do. were pilloried and whipped. The way in which
the prisoners endured their fortunes is elaDoratey
described in The Wilmington Commercial In one
case the flesh quivered and the tears flowed
freely" Another victim took his punishment
without a groan." third showed no sign OK
pain except slight jerking of the muscles
mulatto, after sixty lashes which he bore withous
shrinking though the blood flowed freely, jumped
up, striking his heels together and saying, told
you was the man to stand it," Finally came John
Caldwell, ian honest, intelligent white man,
respectable in appearance" who stood one honr IN
the pillory and then took twenty lashes with the
utmost sang oid. For him, being white, the largest
sympathy was expressed by the crowd How long
does Delaware propose TO keep up this sort of thing
20 the discredit and disgust Of the whole nationf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

Every one not of the legal profession who has
ever attempted to learn what the Federal law
actually was touching any given subject, and
has had placed before him for that purpose the
seventeen huge volumes o Statutes at
Large" will be thankful for any revision
that will make the laws of the United States
more accessible. Congress has gone on for
the last ninety years legislating on almost
every conceivable subject often apparently
ignorant of the laws passed during previous
sessions, and repeating all acts or parts OF
"acts inconsistent with this act" They have
rarely designated just what they repealed, and
the whole system has become so complicated
and ambiguous that there is probably not a
LAWYER in the country who would dare ven
ture an opinion on any question of United
States law which he had not made his special
study. without careful and abOrious lnvestlga-
ton. The Commissioners who have been en-
gagged in the work of revision for the last
three years have nearly completed their pre-
liminary report, and will probably send 1t to
Congress during the coming session. Portions
of il were printed year or two ago, and have
been submitted to the best lawyers in this and
other cities, with All invitation that improve
ments and corrections be suggested. The
work has received nothing but praise from
every one competent to judge OF 1t. Lawyers
will not alone rejoice to see our statutes put
into Ineligible language and printed III two
volumes instead of seventeen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

Much satisfaction was expressed when the
"SolicitOrs" of the various Executive Depart
mentS at Washington were centralized IN the
new Department of Justice. But it turns ont
that that much-admired scheme does not work
to advantage. The various heads of depart
ments object to being deprived of their legal
advisers, who are needed at their elbow con-
stantly. The Attorney General gives up this
sort of Capitalization in despair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

Kind hearts with generous hands ready to
brighten the Thanksgiving Of the poor. viii thank
us for calling their attention the NOwfork lnians
Asylum of which Mrs G. h. Garrison Is President
Designed for the reception and complete care Oh
homeless infants and Of such needy mothers as ca"
be saved from abandoning their newly-born TINS
Asylum is one of the noblest Of New-forks many
noble institutions yet is poor as It Is deser''s
Let il not DO forgotten by charitable memories ou
Thanksgiving Day Mrs H. IL. Van Auken VIII DO AZ
the Asylum No. "A Clnton-place, ready to receive
donations of money, food OF clothing. all Of which
will be gratefully and separately acknowledged by
note
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

Some important and suggestive figures will
he found in an official report of the earnings
and expenses of several Of the street railways
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In their haste 10 rebuild the burnt district, tho
Boston people are in fair way to forget their first
resolve to straghten The crooked streets. The most
expedien rather than the best plan seems to be The
more popular OF, as The Adr9tisg puts 1t; Inc
most desirable plan is that which, while giving
better streets and avenues, be prosecuted with
the greatest dispatch and with the least interference
with ancient estates A map Of plan proposed m
accordance with this view was published in ne ID
rertser on Saturday last. According to this, very
few changes were to be made. few prominent
streets were TO be widcDed, and Chauncey-st. was
to be extended across Summer TO Franklin End
thence into Devonshre at the new Po3t-Ohice. IhiS
has since been modified far as to make the extern
sion run parallel with Deyonshire, across Allkst,
behind the Old South Church, coming out upon
Washington, near Water. This would make 9 new
street parallel with Washington thus affordng de-
sired relief to that crowded thoroughfare. The al
reriiser published another map on wednesday COM
pletely recognizing the district II provides broad.
straight avenues between Washington, Broad and
Oliver-sts in one direction, and between state ana
Summer-sts in the other, closing up the alleys ami
courts which the other plan leaves as of old such
an arrangement would be eminentiy desirable but
there seems to be no probability Of its adoption.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

We spoke a few days since Of great fires AS one OF
the opprobriums of civilization The London Echo
of the 18th inst writing this subject says: Truly
our civilization yet only at low tide, while We
sit patiently year after year reading of these awful
catastrophes, not knowing but they may any day
reach our own cities our stores our museums and
our homes, aud lavishing care and money on means
of protection which when the hour OF danger al
rives prove to be no protection at ALL and leave Ms
helpless before our fate" The Echo estimates that
the value Of property lost in Boston Chicago. Paris
and London is probably not greatly less than the
huge Indemnity which France has had to pay for her
war" a sum at the magnitude of which the world
stood aghastw 1t is certain, however, that these
terrible experiences will not be lost upon mankind
Some time longer, probably, the world will submit
to great CONGREGATIONS and talk of Providence when
they occur, but eventually it will grow wiser in
this as it has heretofore grown wiser in like mat
ters Populations are destined TO become denser
and denser and towns more and more numerous;
and as this occurs, man in self-defense will learn
better how to prevent fires and to keep them from
spreading when they occur.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

A dead lock still exists in the North Carolina
Senatorship. The Vance men hold their own,
and throw their IS votes compactly. Pool, the
Republican candidate, loses votes; and
Merrimon, Liberal gains 2-there being one
vote missing. OF course the MerrimOn men
hold on with the hope that they will eventu-
ally secure enough votes from Pool to elect
their candidate, when it is found that the
Vance strength cannot be divided.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

Mr. Ruskin. who expresses bis opinion about every
thing has in the Fors ClGrgra for November, given
it of the opening of the British Museum on
Sunday You wish to get into the Museum" ho
SAYS to the workingmen, to recreate your maids,
but are you quite surs that you have got any minds
to he recreatedg" lie is hard upon " the stuffed
birds" and the like in the Museum. Before you
expect edhcatIon from that long gallery full Of long
legged inconceivable spiders and colossal, blochy
crabs did you ever think of looking with any mind
or mindfuness at the only too easily conceivable
short-egged spider Of your own English acquaint-
ance or did you ever so much as consider why the
crabs of Margate Sands minded to go sideways
instead of straight forward ?" Then as TO Greek
sculpture the tart and peppery man says; And
what is Greek sculpture or any other sculpture to
yous Are your own legs and arms not handsome
enough for you look at but you must 90 and stare
at Clipped and smashed bits of stone in the likeness
of legs and arms that ended their walks and works
two thousand years agoi" And finally: | sup
pose YOU will have an agitation next for leave to
smoke in the Museum. Go and walk in the fields on
Sunday making sure, first. therefore, that you have
fields to walk in look at living birds, not at stuffed
ones. and make your own breasts and shoulders
better worth seeing than the Elgin Marbles
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

Great scandal has grown out of the case OF
coolie ship, bound from Macao, China, to
Peru, detained temporarily at Yokohama.
But in this whole matter, of which we have
some account in our Japan correspondence
published to-day nothing is more distressing
than to perceive the completely Of Americans
with the wretched business. Nobody needs to
be told that the coolie traffic is only another
form of slave trade, and as such has received
the ban of illegality by our own Congress.
Yet it appears that Mr.. Thomas Settle, Ameri-
can representative at Lima, gave to one of these
coolie traders letter urging the American
Consul at Hong Kong to facilitate his bust
ness, the general character of which was
stated by Mr.. Settle. We wish we could say
that the U. S. Minister at Yedo has been
active and humane in his efforts to stay the
coolie trade. Unhappily, his inclnations and
Consul Settles example too much agree
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

According TO the German Minister at Wash
ingtOn, his Government has singular expla-
nation of its action in placing restrictions on
emigration to the United States As told in
our Washington dispatches, the Minister says
that Germany is not moved TO this unnatural
course by any unfriendliness toward the
United States, but it fears general European
war. and desires to keep its subjects at home
in order to replenish the army. That such
reason should exist is bad enough, but that a
diplomatist should give it out here is matter
for real astOnishment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

In justice TO the Department of Public
Works, it should be said that Commissioner
Van Sort's records show that his department
has been yigilant and active in investigating
the City's gas contracts. We publish else
where a statement made by Mr.. Van Mort,
from which it appears that his showing of the
case gives him a credit of s534,762 35 saved on
the City's gas bills during the past ten months.
1t is a matter for congratulatiOn that such
great saving has been effected; and it is salts
factory that the Controller and Commissioner
of Public Works vie with each other in just
economy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

Mr.. Henry Smith has account OF sick
ness, resigned his position as Police Commits
sioner and President of the Board. Mr.. Smith
has been for years vehemently stigmatized as
a dishonest man and corrupt politician, by
those with whom he has chosen to form his
recent political associations We do not be-
Iieye that he was ever so bad as their sour
riIOus abuse would have indicated, nor so
blameless as some of them have seemed TO
think him since his declaration in favor of
Gen. Grant. But he has been sick man for
months, and bis resignation removes him from
the field of political cOntroversy,-only a little
time, we presume. before grave changes befall
the Board in which he has 80 long been q
power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

"Amenl Whatever fate be sent,
Pray God the heart may kindly glow,
Although the head with cares be bent,
Or whitened with the Winter snow.
Come wealth or want. come good or III,
Let young and old accept their part,
And bow before the Awful viii.
And meet it with an honest heart"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-28

The suggestion we yesterday made relative
to the need of reforming our Police Courts
both civil and criminal, has happily fallen on
fruitful ground. Already the Bar Association
is at work, acting on this hint, and the bills
of last session which failed for lack of time
to consider them fully will be remodeled ana
offered the moment the Assembly is organized
This is the right spirit in which to go to work ;
and labor thus vigorous will not fail. we
give elsewhere some suggestions as to the
cause of corruption and the cure for 1.-THE
result of conversations with lawyers dong
business in the courts alluded to. They con-
tain reasons why this reformation should be
FASTENED, teven if it reforms the judges, and
courts too, out of existence. The alleged cor
ruption of the judges is doubtless result OF
corrupt system; but if the fault cannot be
remedied except by doing away with BOTH
still there ought to be no hesitation.