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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

The Legtimist Restoration business seems
IN be extending. The conference at Antwerp
of the friends and supporters of the hopeful
gentleman who claims to be Henri w. King
of France, has gradually swollen to general
convocation of advocates of all kings out of
business. There are the friends of tho ex-
King of Hanover, and the ex-Monarch HIM
self, the followers of the depOsed Isabella of
Spain, Ultramontanes who want the Pope TO
have his temporalities again, and conSidera-
BILE following, no doubt, OF the dissatis-
fed Grand Dukes and petty ex-soverclgns OF
consolidated Germany. This is novel as
well az pitiable spectacle; it represents the
reactionaIies, the fossils, the "has-beens." 1t
would afford an instructive. as well ns
amusing. lesson to progressive humanity II
we could have fair showing of all tho de-
posed kings and kinglets. Why not enlarge
the list and have the heir of the Mexican I'M
perial throne, q handful of throneless African
kings, and the Emperor SOulOuque with his
royal retnue of the Duke de Charlotte Russo
and the Count Pate de Foie Gras 7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23
Nesp'31ork Duilu GribM1re.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY %. 1872.

Two Paris newspapers have been suppressed -
The Pope Is urged to hold the cumcnical Council In the
Tyrol. 49, An International Congress to establish
system of cheap and uniform postage 10 proposed oy
Prince Bismarck There is formidable Gatherins
OF Legtnists in Antwerp.
wasbiDgton's Birthday was generally observed
throughout the country. Two mills have been
burned IN Albany 49, one man was Killed and several
cars wrecked by accident the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad 49, An extensive fire has occurred at Selma
Grove Penn causing 100000 damage,
The celebration Of WashiDgton's Birthday included
three parades and lecture by vicePresident Colfax
Evidence given concerning the extortons prac-
ticed on coffee Importers hyDr Carnochan Board
OF Audit approved o large number Of bills. go The
Union League Club adopted resolutions recommending
various legislative measures. - Thermometer 49,
go 400
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23
TARTFF TINKRRING.

Many readers will remember cartoon of
Punch, issued when DisraeG, making his last
desperate struggle for continuance in power,
was confronted by an unforeseen and formid-
able difficulty in dealing with Irish demands
and exactiOns. In the cartoon, Dizzy" appears
as an English lout intent on impelling drove
of Irish pigs in the way they are evidently
determined not to go. Their diverse and mani
fold exhibitions of pOrcine perversity have at
length exhausted his patience and he turns to
the reader a cOmically pitable look Of per-
plexity and despair as he exClaims, "Oid lOike
ito see any of y0a DROVE un,' The reader
gives it up.
1t was months since announced, with much
flourish of exultatiOn, that the present House
of Representatives embodied a Free Trade
majority, and that Speaker Blaine, deferIing
to that majority, had given the Free Traders
prepOnderance in the Ways and Means
Committee. That Committee forthwith adj
dressed itself to the task of revising and
recasting our entire Revenue system, with
primary intent to reduce taxation and diminish
the revenue, but it was understood that Pro-
lection must suffer by the process. Coal,
Salt, and several other protected industries,
were bound to suffer any how, while Woolcns,
Cottons and Metals, were in imminent danger
But while the Committee is celebrating and
revising, the House takes the bit between its
teeth, and, on motion of Mr.. Mercur, q Penn.
sylvania PrOtectiOnist passes, by three OF
four to one, bill repeating all duties on Tea
and Coffee, adding these important articles IN
the free-list. and reducing the revenue by
some S2O,OOO,OO0 per annum. This is our first
installment of the much Wanted Revenue
Reform"
The earnest Free-Traders are disgusted and
mortified at this unexpected turn of affairs,
and The World gives vent to their vexation
in vigorous denunciatiOns of "demagoguesn
and their "preposterous action" of the
Tariff is to be controlled by demagogues,
"and not by political economists" says The
World, eve insist that tho demagogues ou0ht
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

Washington's Birthday was celebrated IN
this city with sufficient spirit and enthusiasm
to indicate that popular patriotism still needs
but an occasion to demonstrate itself There
are multitudes of men who are proud to wear
their country's colors and carry its colors IN
procession. The civic feature of the celebra-
ton was spirited and imposing, ana
tho military parade quito brilliant. inc
boisterousness of the weather did not seem
to interfere with the general observance Oh
the day, and the completeness of the pogean,
and unusual suspension of business mere anu i,
elsewhere, show that Americans cherish WlVh
genuine enthusiasm the memory OF "ashing-
tom. and take delight in honoring any day
which commentaries a portion of our national
history.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23
THE C0N5TyTU1ION or THE SUN.

The astronomy OF the ancients was empirical.
They foretOld with a distant approach TO accu-
racy in time, most OF the lunar and some OF
the solar eclipses. These Vaccinations were,
however, based not upon any knowledge Of
the real orbits of the earth and Its satellite,
but on expectations OF the recurrence OF
ecipses in the future as In the past, at certain
intervals OF cycles of time; the calculations
being somewhat aided by observations of SINH
Lar cycles in the apparent motions of the sun
and moon. The first great steps which
lifted astronomy out Of the specnlatiOns Of
fancy and the superstitions of astrolOgy, and
established it among the exact sciences con-
sisted in applying the ascertaiHed laws Of mo-
ton and equilibrium, as observed on earth, 10
the movements of the heavenly bodies. II was
upon the assumption that those laws were the
same throughout the universe, that the group Of
Italian matbematicians among whom Calico
was the most prominent figure, demonstrated
the movement of the earth around the sun /;
that Newton deduced the doctrine Of gravity !;
that Laplace evolved the nebuar hypothesis.
Till very recently astronomy simply added
new facts to the already abundant evidence
that the forces actuating masses Of matter are
everywhere inc huiuoJ Hut NiNiiu Itiit UOIe
than decade it has been demonstrated that
the matter itself, the very substance of which
this earth is formed, is identical with that OF
worlds beyond the sky
We are yet too near the discoveries of the
present to recognize their magnitude, and we
can with difficulty appreciate the immense
strides which the science Of to-day is making.
1t is very doubtful whether any previous de-
vclopment of knowledge In the history of our
race is as great as those which are ushered
in under the names of 1.-THE Conservation of
Force" "The Mechanical Theory of IIeat,n
and the wonders which follow in the wake of
Spectrum Analysis" Great rs are these adj
vances, they nre probably only the outskirts
of still more marvellous discoveries, the dawn
of which is already Illuminating our horizon.
IL is chiefly, however to the lastnamed
means of research that we are indebted for q
knowledge Of the materials of which other
worlds ore formed. We know that all sub-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23
4 COM.NONPL4CB MAN.

Some of the specimens furnished by our
young friends at Yale of their recent attempts
at Journalism are full of philosophy and jokes
of the inevitable college quality. Boys will
be boys, from generation to generation; and
we have no right to laugh at these young
fellows, when their raw youth manifests itself
Extensively. We were every whit as positive
and cOnceted in our day; quite as apt to
cackle over our new-fOund ideas, and TO
thrust them ut everybody we met with loud
logic; quite o. certain that the world was out
of Joint and that we were to be made A. BIS
to set it right. The boys too, nowadays, rely
on genius as the salvation Of the age, just as
we did. It is the brilliant fellow who learns
without study, and leaves his Alma Mater in
crackle of eloquent fireworks, that ia the
demi god among them. They are apt too, to
cherish q tender belief In him always. When
he is missed on the roll Of "few and immor-
" tai Names" they blame tho world so slow
to recognize genius, and rank him with Chat
terton, one of the wondrous boys who have
gone down not into the grave, but country
offices, dry goods shops, and groceries.
We wish all these hero worshiping boys
(who are earnest, sincere fellows, if little
feverish) could read with older eyes the life
Of 0 man who died few weeks ago, and UNI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

expediency Of desired reforms, but ,bo,
too much tho creatures of habit not 70 -
from determination TO carry those ,eta-11
INTO execution. Thus, while the Ultra RaM
Gals and the NOnconformists heretofore 49,,
tho Government to take the initiative in mo.
uros for the correction Of their own 90
ances, although Mr.. Gladstone may havo
theoretical support from a majority of -.
voters Of the Kingdom, it il certain that =
taking such initiatOry steps, he would b,,.
failed Of an actual scTyceable 8 n,n..
from tho country. Nor could he afford -
utterly ignore the demands Of the Radical, ~
any detection Of the latter, even without ,h,t.
accession to the Tory ranks, would be srr
cient to place him in an unstable position. a
is in this contingency that an event baa a.
Cured which, il not managed skillfuIy. ma.
endanger the Gladstone Ministry. We refs, ~
the position taken by the NOEcOnfOiuists. Nh,
recently assembled in conference at Manehss
ter, and an account Of whose proceeding, !,
given in letter published on another nae.
from correspondent of The TRIBUNE 4,
London.
The NonconfOrmists have at Jast adonted
the general, well-defined principle of secpla,
education throughout the United Knedg,
They have also demonstrated against 4.
operations of the English Education lin,
while, on the other hand. the Lord Adyoca,.
has committed the Government to a Scotch
Education bill, which includes all the obes.
tionable features Of the first scheme Of
+bo En0I;sh hill of 1870 end wouIJ 49,,
instruction to be less secular than it /,
at present in England. IF the Govern.
ment adhere to their pledges to carry tn.
Scotch bill through Parliament, ard the Mem
conformists maintain their attitude IN favo,
of secular instruction, it may possibly be IN
the power of the Tory leaders 10 force the
Ministry to resign; but they in turn viii
hardly be capable of forming a Ministry which
will contain any elements Of permanently.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

A few members of the Union League Club,
at hastily called and unusually small meet
ing, held last night in its parlOr, undertook,
IN addition to the business for which the call
had been issued, to express its judgment on
the Sevcnty's Charter The weight of opin-
ions advanced by men who admit, in their
speeches, that they have not even read the
document they commend, is not likely
10 prove considerable We hope to see
the substantial features OF the present Charter
successful, but it is not helped by this sort of
support and for the sake of the Club it may
well be trusted that hereafter its opinions will
be expressed only after full notice, and at
meetings representing more than the one-ff-
teenth of the membership, last night as
scmhled
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

The right to abuse opposing counsel; to
browbeat and confuse witnesses; to conceal
and dstort facts, and to make false applica-
tons of fragmentary evidence, has generally
been conceded as among the undeniable priv
ileges of lawyers. And though wo wish to be
understood as emphatically dissenting from
such propositions, we do not stop to discuss
them; for just now it is desirable to know II
lawyers in good standing claim also license to
use forged prescriptions and falsifed drug
gists' books, to build up an abb transparently
false to save o criminal VIGOROUSLY guilty.
The important suppressed evidence In the
Moore case is fully explained in other columns,
and it appears that in order to save this old
culprit from State Prison two other crimes
were committed by his friends. And we sub
NIT that Mr. Clinton and the distinguished
| legal luminary of the TOmbs with whom lac
was associated in MOOre's defense, owe it to
themselves and decency to explain why after
bringing this evidence into court for the use
of the defense they strenuously insisted that
the District Attorney should not employ it to
convict. Lawyers of repute can no moro
afford to conceal truth by technical objections
than to employ manufactured evidence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

II may be that the next session of the Gcu-
nenical Council will be held in Austrian
dominions; but even if it is, there is no further
possibility that the Pope will leave Rome, as
1t was reported he would, in that event. 1t is
now said that the Pontif will be present at
the Council by proxy, and though this need
not make his departure from the Holy City
impossible, it renders it highly improbable
The convOcation will be invested with GER
tain pathetic interest to all good Catholics by
tho apparent necessity for its being held on
other than Roman soil.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

"fo BE- consistent Precisely but did you
over know them to be sol We Protectionists,
Won cannot deny, do make Protective Iariiis'
when wa con but whom did the Free-Tradcrs,
"a n bodv. ever even propose q genuine, con-
sistent Free-Trade Tariff Tell us, you
can. when forty Members of Congress ever
recorded their votes In favor of Tariff that
was thoroughly consistent with the principle
of Free-Trade
The World is not deceived. 1t did not sup
pose when it urged the election OF william
II. Barnum, the eleven Democrats from Penn
sylvania, Messrs. Rogers, Warren, &C., of this
State, that they were Free-Traders. 10 sup
ported them as Democrats, just as wo sup
ported Republicans who were not Protection
lists. We did the best we could so did me
World. But we do not scOld those Repub-
lcans who talk Free Trade; and TIE Worh
may wisely forbear castigating the Democrats
who vote for Protection. They will do as
they SEQ fit, and there is no help for it.
1t is very easy and safe for demagogues
to invegh against any form OF taxation our
great National Debt, our enormous Pension
List, and other requests of our terrible CiVli
War, will Oblge us to bear high taxes Tor
some years to come. THE TRIBUNE believes
in reducing that Debt vigorously and inces-
sanity till tho last dime shall have been paid.
Hence. we are not enthusiastic over tho pas
sage of the Tea and Coffee bill by the House
We should much prefer to let tho Tariff sim
ply alone until our National Debt shall have
been very considerably reduced from its present
magnitude of over Two Billions. But, ii
there is to be mining, there will of course be
counter-mining; and the vote to free Tea
and Coffee from tax clearly proves that nc
hearty, intelligent purpose to overthrow Pro-
lection is cherished by q majority OF the
House. For this reason, we rejoice over 1t
and advise The World to treat its "dema-
"gogues" as gingerly as it may.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

The Legislative Committee on Railroads Is
to give the Erie Directory final hearing on
Tnesday noxt Meantime beg LEGISLATORS,
and their constituents too. to ponder on the
facts contained in another column most appro-
priately headed "Erie Vultures." They will
learn from perusal of it how it has happened
that Erie stock is quoted as the lowest in the
market, and Erie Directors are reputed as the
richest in the country, and why the road has
been a mine of wealth to all interested in it
except the owners. There is indeed very little
to be added to the story there detailed. 1t is
briefly tho statement of which we have in
dubitable proofs, that thirteen ont of the
fourteen Erie Directors are interested i'll
businesses whose profits are derived from con-
tracts made between themselves as individu-
ais and themselves as Erie Directors. And
the exceptional fourteenth Director Is Eric's
lobbyist at Albany, and the man now most
busy with stolen Erie funds endeavOring to
prevent the repeal of the Classification act.
There is a second chapter to this remarkable
romance which explains how slate-roofing
company in which Jay Gould is interested has
had contracts to roof every building on the
line of the road, and has rooted one of the
depots twice in q single year. We have no
further comment to add in submitting these
startling facts to the Legislature and the pub
lic except to assert again that they are true.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

The Labor Reform Convention at Cincinnati,
yesterday, did quito q number of sensible
things, among which was indOrsing the One
Term Principle, Protective Tariff, and Uni
versd Amnesty. But the effect of much of
this was spoiled by the refusal of the Labor
Reformers to declare the equality of race and
color in all fields of labor An organization
which examines laborer's cutiCle and tibia
before permitting him to compete in the race
for wealth and happiness, cannot expect to
command great respect from anybody.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23
MORE LIGHT ON TIE ARMS QUESTION

MORE LIGHT ON TIE ARMS QUESTION:
AS n contribution to the secret history OF
the sale OF arms to the French agents, we pub
lish to-day letter of Mr.. Bellaigne de
Buchas, the Consul General Of France in this
city, written to NJ. de Reuusat, the French
Minister of Foreign Affairs. All that is to be
known OF this crying scandal must be ols-
closed by the independent press, as the action
of the Senate on Wednesday in adopting
Conkling's amendment will probably prevent
any friends Of sincere investigation from
being placed on the Committee, il it is ever
formed. This letter Of Mr. BellaiGne ia very
awkward one in its charges and Its In
ferences He shows that the bills OF
Mr.. Remington against the French Government
bear no relation to the prices OF arms gwen
in the inventory of our own War Depart
ment. Springfield rifles, inventOried by our
Government at prices ranging from 60 cents
to So 50, are bought by Mr. Remington
at the rate of 50 30 to $12 80 each. It does
not need the mild insiauation of tho Consul
General to mako US remember that, if the
price were doubled, Mr.. Remington's five per
cent would by that act be doubled also.
Mr.. Remington says, it is true, that competition
n00 cDnaICCu iHb pIACC VI 'HO 6"''"'
but Mr.. Bcllaigne insists that this competition
consisted of Mr.. Remington's animated bids
against Mr.. Remington, which continued until
his five per cents attained satisfactory figure.
Another fact mentioned by the Consul is not
without it's significance. He asserts, and sends
nm affidavit of a clnrk Of Remington to prove
tho assertion that that thrifty manufactures
had caused three copies to be made
of his books, and had altered them
for this occasion. These are all
matters which absolutely demand investiga-
ton The assertions Of Mr.. Belaigne were
not allowed to appear in the recent trial
OF Victor Place in Paris. In tho absence Of
this and other similar testim OnN Place
was convicted and Mr.. Remington re-
ceived a full exoneration at the hands of
the Court. If we have an investigation which
is worthy Of the name, we ought to be able
to find out the facts in this tangled web OF
fraud and spoliation. II must be confessed
that the action of the Senate on Wednes-
day does not give US very lively
hope as to what they will do to-day In pass
ing the frivolous and hbelous amendment Of
Conkling, they have excluded from the Com
mittee the men best calculated to be of SER
vice in it, and if they do not now act on
the motion OF Mr.. Trumbull to reconsider
this vote, it will indicate either a studied at
tempt to smother investigation or q criminal
indifference to a question which gravely con-
Germs the national honor,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

Some special details Of the Quarantine
abuses were drawn out, yesterday, by the
Legislative Committee now looking into this
business. The evidence of merchants engaged
in the coffee trade was conclusive as to the
shameless exactions imposed on commerce be-
tween this port and Rio JaneirO. The frantic
vigilance exhibited by DR.. Carnochan and
his myrmidOns cannot in reason be credited
10 any desire to serve the city; the
question Of contagious disease was, evidently,
made an excuse for continual rapacity. And
these exactiOns have had their legitimate
effect in 1869 New-YOrk imported 439, 900 bags
Of coffee, and Baltimore 100000; in 1871 New
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

Great Britain has made short work with her
grievance with the Spanish authorities. The
schooner Lark was seized week or two ago ;
there was a roar from the British lion and
some effective remonstrances from the British
Consul G eneral in Cuba, and the vessel Is re-
leased forthwith. 1t makes all the difference
in the world whether there is vigorous action
in department for foreign affairs in a case
like this. The American steamer Hornet was
tied up nearly year by mere threats of the
Spanish sea-rOvers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

Pending the action of the French Assembly
on the bill to give the Government increased
power over the Press, the authorities have
quietly suer"ndnd the publication of lie G"'''"io
and HAYmte. Since acts of this kind are so
easily managed, one wonders why the French
Republican President feels the need of any
more power to mu2zle the Press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

Here Is a curious instance Of legislative book nan.
ufacturng at the expense of unfortunate taxpayers
Tho Commissioners of Inland Fisheries for Massa-
chusetts have published report fox last year 1t if
a volume Of $50 pages, of which the appendix con-
tains 9TO pages, being collection of all the laws
latlng 70 i1Iand fsh6Lss passed by tie Leg.laturs
from A. d. 1923 20 A. d. 1871. 1t is intimated that Il
the information contained in the report proper had
been condensed to something like " pageo 1t migAs
have been of some use TO mankind, while the bene-
tit to be derived from the appendix passes conls0'
ture. The expense Of public printing IN Massachf'
sets is declared to be larger than in any other sta
and las one Boston newspaper says the lumbcnns
reports of tho State Commissioners seem 10 gios
longer and longer every year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

Missouri is not likely to elect Collectors
of Internal Revenue and Postmasters
20 the National Republican Convention,
whatever other ofical-ridden States may do.
The State Republican Convention at Jefferson
City, yesterday, settled that question in adj
vance by refusing to renOmiDate President
Grant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

York's import had dwindlod to $4,000, and
that of Baltimore was increased to $4,000. 1t
is easy to see. with such figures before u.s. how
the commerce of this Port is driven away by
the Quarantine gang.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-23

The Methodist ministers OF Boston have had agresi
debate. the question being whether women should
be admitted to the ministry. Nothing very fresa
was said, nor anything specially entertaining We
except the following declaration made by the Rev.
Mark Trafton, who was once, we believe, Know.
Nothing Member Of Congress: II think the most
miserable of all objects under heavens henpecksd
husband and if were one would leave the cOun-
try, so help me God~ Mr. Trafton appears to hsTs
spoken feelngy. But suppose that MI Irafton
should be henpecked without knowing it-whss
would he do thcnf Many an excellent man has
passed his whole married life in that condition ana
has been really happy under the nhiction. 1t all
depends upon the MAINLAND the woman