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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

DOGBFPRY. JENKINS, AND THE LAUREL.
The last literary announcement-that of the
autobi )graphy of O notorious thief and rufian
is a straw of a particularly large size and
back breaking texture. Too much biography
will drive us mad. The mass Of limp and
pallid egotism that loads every publishers
shelves, and chokes the columns of almost
every newspaper, grows beyond telling enor-
nous and ridiculous. The hill of Fame has
apparently provided itself with patent ele-
vator, and laurel grows dustily along the
roadside, even as catnip and knOt-grass The
mania of personal description, personal ex-
PLANTATION, and self-laudatiOn is becoming wild
and fearful. There is scarcely pompous I'M
known in all the professions who does not
pant and pine until he gets chance to tell
the world the beginning, the methods and the
degrees OF his unimpOrtance. Actresses OF I'M
savory reputation, brainless politicians, farth-
ing poets and inventors of washing machines
and churns, alike babble photographed
dish-water with serene liberality. An Sir
Dogberry cannot write himself down an ass,
straightway gets he another to do the dreadful
deed. The small-fry among writers, skirmish-
ers along the line of literature, play Boswell
to each other increasingly and con amOre.
The biographical lunacy grows with what it
feeds on-the devil-fish of Pcrsonalism sends
out new arms continually. No man and no
woman, however refined and reserved, who in
any way step out of the commonplace, may
hope to escape the personal sketcher. To
be shut away behind double locks In the
heart of labyrinth would not he security;
these moral dentists would dig you out were
there no other way. Rebuffs are of no USE
possibly will bring upon you worse fate -
something, for instance, like that of the sweet
woman and poet who, after DEATH had the sad
and solitary little romance of her life flung
out for crows to peck at and hyenas to laugh
over.
Says sapient Hofrath Heuschrecke: Bio
"graphy is by nature the most universally
profitable, universally pleasant of all things"
so it is when it is the history, self-written or
otherwise, of souls strong encounters with
its three enemies of a mighty soldier; of
statesman whose devotion, purity, or tineSse
was the admiration of the word of an orator
or writer whose flashing, flaming sentences
were the headlights of his time of prac-
teal man who has hammered out splendid
courage and noble station Oh that rough
anvil, Experience. But when ii comes to
column after column, volume after volume,
of drivel anent nonentities, or, worse
still, the vulgar vices and devices of
thieving scamp-pah an ounce of civet
good apothecary, to sweeten our imagina-
tions. If the kings of the earth are to lie
in glory, then, by all the gods of morality,
propriety, dramatic unity and good taste. let
not murderers, thieves and wantons dig their
own loathsomo graves beside those stately
monuments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20
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80, ~,
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oughfare" The Forenoes - a
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"Bsrbe Bcae" At8 LIS Peuobole
Nmtos GARDEN At and at S: " The Black
Crook"
OrYNpIc THFATER. At and at s: Humpty
DAINTY Reconstructed G. L. Fox
sr,pr TIIrArER.-German Opera "L'Africaine."
Fabbh
ST. JAMES TlEATER.-" Monaldi" J. s Mackaye
UNoN-sQUARE THEATER,-At2 u and at s: Variety
CompsnY.
WAIIaCK's THEETER.-"JOhn Garth" i. Wallack
ASSOCIATION HAI~-At %: Concert. Mrs Imo-
grne Blown.
SAN FRANCIsCo MrNsTREIs.-BiTch Wambold etc.
Nrw-YORK CECUs. FOurteenth-st, between Third
s1a Toarh-syes, at p and at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

Bank defaulters who do not keep mistresses, gam
ble drink, or drive fast horses. but who are sOber
serious, domestic and industrious generally manage
to rake in q little more than the wicked sort. The
Cashier and Teller Of the Rhode Island National
Bank in Providence, who have stolen the funds Ia
the tune of $4,000, were of the serious and cxem
plary description spending their evenings at home
like good family men, as they were, and leading
generally. lives perfectly lovely. Possibly they
were church members, and gave part of the abb
stracted to support missionaries to the South
Sea islanders Another thing TO be observed is that
the Directors of the Bank were among the shrewdes
business men in Providence. Tho general moral u
be deduced from this is that is very uncertain
world. The worst thing about it is that you must
trust somebody. You do so; you arc swndled; YOU
kick the swndler out and proceed TO trust the new
man most atectiOnatey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

In Proposals for Stationery" advertised b,
Postmaster-G General Creswel we find those
specifications of articles for which bids are so
licited:
"25 dozen Pen.knves, Rodgers & Sons, fouT-bladed
buckbOrn handles, genuine, per Dozen
"6 dozen Pen-kniyes Rodgers Sons, small Size, fous
bladed pearl handles. genuine, per dozen
as dozen Erasers, Rodgers & Sons, polished bona
handles, genuine, per dozen"
1t seems a farce to solicit bids for articles
while allowing but one house to supply them.
Rodgers g. Son make good Pen-knives. but so
do several American makers whom this adver
tisemcnt excludes from competing. We insist
that Americans who make as good knives "a
Rodgers g. Son should be allowed to supply
the number wanted, provided they will do 50
as cheaply as will their foreign rivals Is not
this fair
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

Is there any reason why good Christian should
not be a Methodist Bishop because he Is Back'
There have been religious controversies upon
great many nice and extremely unimportant ponts
but here is one which is not uDimportant The Zlont
Herald newspaper considering that the next General
Methodist Conference will have several bishopria
to fill hopes that one of the new "Oyersoers' viii
be o person of African descent. In that case d
thinks that the question of the equality of the races
will be at once and forever settled so far as tho
Methodist Church is concerned; but we must ssy
that the Church might find some reader and mon
decisive way of proving to the world that 1t is
Christian and not q Pagan Association. Black
Bishop will be good beginning, but the interesting
matter to be determined is, how he will be treated
by his brother White Bishops
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20
Aem.2Qork Daily gribM1te.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20. 1872.

terrible marine disaster has occurred Surat So
HindOOs being drowned - The French Assembly
have adopted a compromise the tax question: and a
change in the Ministry reported in consequence The
Germans have imprisoned principal OF French Acad-
,iny because of the hostile manifestations Of the stu
dents. s== The crops in Java have been injured by
Goods - The Indians Of Mexico arc still making
raids on the Texas border.
The lower branch of the louisiana Legislature has
expelled the absent members. == An extensive fire
has occurred at Abbevillc s. c. Two lives were
lost by the burning Of hotel the Albany and susque
hanna Railroad. == The San Francisco merchants are
complaining Of Customs frauds at that port ==- A
Chicago Alderman has been convicted OF bribery.
The Senate Committee examined Col Frank i. Howe,
Mr.. Stocking. and several other witnesses @- The
Committee of seventy adopted new City Charter. =@
The Foster trial is postponed TO Feb 10. - Isabella
A. Titus committed suicide by shooting. Cold 100,
lugl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

The Unitarians of Boston are as nearly excited
they can be by the secession Of Mr. Hepworth; but
upon the whole they are taking their loss, what
ever it may be, phlosophically. There is plenty
of bitterness against Mr. Hepworth as in the Boso1
letter elsewhere printed. But Mr. James Freeman
Clarke. in the sermon to which this let
ter refers. wisely said TO bis congregation
last Sunday: Il should be glad to see the doow Of
all denominations made to open easily both WAYS
not only to take people In, but also to let them
out. IL man is not at home in religious body-n
his tastes and tendencies differentt is best foI
him and best for them that he should go eisewhere'
And 80 Dr. Clarke consoles himself with the thougm
that the principles of the Unitarian denomination
are too broad to satisfy q one-sided man, Whetha
radical OF conservative" But how does tho Unaras
denomination stand with regard to the great body
of men who are neither nor radical and
with whom Christianity, if it is to be anything mud
be rather an affair Of the heart than headt
We feel bound however, to say that Mr.. hepworth
and his friends will make great mistake IL they
undertake to establish church upon the ground
that Doctrine is of no consequence. No doubt it nA
small moment to a considerable portion Of society
but fortunately or unfortunately, Doctrine Ia OF
the highest Importance to all men and women OF
active intellect: and, without any experience We
should think it would be of some importance n
every clergyman who undertakes to teach th
Christian religion, which has its intellectual as well
as it's emotional sde nor do we see how anybody In
the pulpit is to keep small collection OF religions
opinions to himself for his private use and console
ton, without putting them into bis sermonA
What are we to say of Doctrines which 4" i'll not
worth mans while to trouble himself about y
However. it is none of our business. We are only
secular.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

honestly trying to get at the truth. But We ~.
ashamed to say that some Of the Republican man.
bers of the Committee instead of thanking bev..
to badger him, and for few moments il seecod
az if the merchants of New-York were \.
trial rather than the corrupt officers Of IN.
Customs. Senator Stewards behavior wa.
especially offensive, and some of his question,
were outrageous. Do, gentlemen, try To re-
member that you cannot cover up the truth
and you may as well have the credit of di,.
closing it as the Odium Of bolstering fraud
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20
LEET.


The " Times has actually been con-
strained by recent developments to ADMIT Una,
the New-York CustOm-house is not moue'
of propriety. After saying all 1t can III nl'i-
CATION of the General Order" ABUSE 4"
adds:
"But the fact remains that tho profits from the DUST
ness very large. and these pr0bts aro '"N "P
commerce. and a tax the less burdensome ana un
iust because indirectly imposed. II Is clearly estaD
lshod that the business present transacted aio"eu
one OF the partners TO receive between soVVo an" 'o
as his share without giving moro than sngn' peIson''
attention t. and while actually engaged IN oher oc
patlons in Washington This Is q palpabc wrong lho
importers of this community and the immense nuDer
Of consumers who ultimately bear all such purdelS'
ought not to be compelled TO pay any more for inu
ence In directing the machinery, immediate or a'1lary'
OF the CustOm-house."
Comments by The Tribune.
The Times draws 1t altogether too mild Leet
as we are informed, continued to hang ABOUT
the White House and draw full pay and al
lowances as a Colonel in the regular Army
till August 5tb, 1870-mOre than year after
be had obtained control in good part of the
General Ordern business here. Then he re-
signed, taking the benefit of an act OF Con-
eress which offered years pay and extras to
those Army Officers WHO WOuiu wv oo' Az ""'
thus actually paid as Colonel up to August
9Th, 1871 by which time he and his confed-
crates in the enjoyment of this "plum must
have gouged at least 100000 out of the com
merce of this pOrt-a sum which we presume
they have since raised to Quarter OF Mil
lion Dollars.
Of course, this is gone beyond recall. There
is no way of recovering dime of it. But we
insist that the One-Term principle shall be
applied here if nowhere else. Leet a. Co.
havo pocketed their full share. Let them
stand back, and give chance to successors
more needy if not more deserving Our require
ment is at least disinterested, since none OF
our crowd has the ghost of chance to sue
coed these spoiled children Of fortune. But
we insist on fair play, even for those who
hate and malign us. Since the Military Ring
must bear sway, let them do little justice
by choking off Leet & Stocking and giving
some of the one-legged and one-armcd fellows
a turn at this sugar-teat DO MT keep the
same squad on guard duty forever!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20
Legal PROSTITUTES.

The assurance comes both from the Bar AS
ISOLATION and the Office Of tho Attorney Gen
eral that there is to be no halt in the good
work which we hoped would ere this have
resulted in the early impeachment Of Barnard,
Cardozo, Ingraham, and McCunn, the Judges
who have so long dishonored the Bench of
the State, and sacrificed their high dignities
to the service of such legal prostitutes as
Thomas G.. Shearman, David Dudley Field, and
their kind. The delay, thus far, at Albany is
explained as for wise and sufficient reasons
which it is not polite to explain at this time;
and tho expressions Of indignation against
the Judiciary Ring which wo have heard
among reputable lawyers ere certainly en-
couragng to those who have carried on
this fight against the most powerful and
desperate faction of Tammany. Nevertheless,
and this fact the Bar Association might as
well recognize now rs later, the belief prevails
that the fight is not wsgcd with that earnest
meas which the immense stake involved ought
to inspire That doubt breeds irresolution in
honest hearts; it encourages the corrupt
judges and their frlends 10 activity and,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

Just after the Commune was snuffed out,
the French Government addressed diplO-
matte note to the Great Powers, asking what
action each would take upon any demand for
the extraditiOn of fugitive Communists. Great
Britain's reply was that such fugitives would
not be returned; Spain agreed TO give them
up when called for, and Austria compromised
matters by saying that each demand would be
considered as it was presented. France has
given Austria a test case in formal request
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

shameful story comes to US from Kansas,
a journal in that State having formally charged
that nineteen members of the last Legislature
were bribed to vote for a gentleman who now
occupies a seat in the United States Senate.
The assertion is so specifically made that it
seems to demand investigation, even though
the newspaper making it has not, we believe,
any considerable prominence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

We present to-day the latest scheme for
providing City Charter and for creating a
Board of Audit. The latter is the bill re-
ported in the Senate from the Committee on
Cities; the former is a summary of the final
proposition from the Committee of Seventy.
Both of these important measures are exciting
a widespread interest and the bills will under
go great deal of scrutiny and revision be-
fore they become laws
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

Tobacco consumers, despite their abomina-
bic habits, appear to be honest folk, as tax
payers go, if the report Of the head of the
Tobacco Division of the Internal Revenue
Bureau is an authority. That document says
that not more than five per cent of the tax is
evaded, and that the increased tariff on tobacco
has not tended to diminish its consumption.
If men will use the Indian weed whose seed
is said to be Of Satanic origin, it is well that
they pay literally for the privilege.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

The late Emperorof France had the credit Of being
one of the most astute and far-sighted OF modern
mortals, but if he will undertake to predict wnM
may, can. SHALL or will happen in Franco "with'.
six months he uselessly risks his hardly-acqueo,
reputation. He is reported TO have said: -! wiz
give Theirs six months Of the Presidency Oh ,n'
French Republic We understand this. Six mon'M
is rather too gracious a concession, and It wouio "
safer to have said three months, aud still safer y
have said nothing at all. Bat when his ex-Mae',y
added that within half q year N. Gambetta wouia
be in the place of NJ. Theirs and that " the enas.
would DO favorable to tho Imperial cause 'l'
great exile most imprudently INDUCED in particulars
Just as man would who, during Thunderstorm
should point out precisely the point at when ID
lightning must Individually strike. We are s"''~
that l.. n. u. is losing his fine oracuar knaek'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

for the return of NJ. DESERVES. sometime soc-
rotary TO Gambetia and thereafter q Com
munlst This looks like small business on tho
part of NJ. TMers's Government. which has
had glut of Communist prisoners and exccu-
tons. and ought to be secretly glad that any
fugitives are constructively out of reach
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

II seems that the ashes of Columbus, which
have already made almost as many voyages as
the living navigator, are TO be again disturbed.
The Havanese, who have had possession of
the mortal relics of the discovcrer of America
since 1746. propose to remove them TO a new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

or an the curosities of paSani.m there Is ho',
more inexphcable than the superstition "n'.-
turns tombs into well-stocked larders LII ~.
funeral procession of Wong-Hang-Soon' a"eA.~s
Chnaman of San Francisco, there were n'e 49, A.
wagons full of roasted pigs and chickens 70 70 ~.
posted with the corpse in the sepulcner' nov, is,
mourners know very well that ghosts do not ea' ps
thew know equally well that their gods do not ea'n
they do not eat it themselves they at least 20 NV
expect the priests to eat it. Then why in the ns.
Of common sense. do they decorate the cea 81
silent grave with roast pgi We understand nos" s
we'll enough; there is a sentiment in tho flora, s.
f,nereal deposi,s: but why pig' However lev a.,,.
not Laugh. WHY did the wellcultured Gls satsreo
vide the corpse with bit OF Woney !" o'''
GhArnn'a lrrfingo Virtual
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20

cemetery, and erect over them suitable mon
ument Undoubtedly, there are not iew
citizens of the United States who would Dc
glad to give something toward the cost OF
such memorial, especially if they thought IL
would some day DO included within the limits
Of tbp RpnubIic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20
TERMS or THE TRIBUNE.

DAILY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers $40 per snnum.
.Fiu-WETKLY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers 81 per an.
WEEKLY TRIBUNE Mail Subscribers, 81 per annum.
Advertising Rates
DAILY TRIBUNE, SOC. DOC, SOC, 75c and 81 per line
WEEKLY TRIBUNE, 81, So and So per line
According to position in the paper.
Terms, cash in advance
Address. The TRIBUNE. New-York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-20
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Coughs and Colds are often overlooked. a
continuance any length irritation Of the Lungs OF some
chronic Throat Disease BKowNs BRONCHIAL TRocHEs 'e n
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, 1872-12-15
THE TROUBLE AT THE GAS WORKS.

An article appeared in THE TRIBUNE, yester-
day, in relation to the discomfort manifested by
the worknen at the Gus Works. The article
was slightly severe On the men but there are
two sides to every question, and we now give
the statement OF one Of the men working st the
Gas Works. It appears that the cause Of the
trouble WAS originally, the change Of payday
from the first to the middle Of the month. The
second item was the proposed reduction Of
wages from So per day to $3.50. This reduction
the men think utterly unwarrantab1e, in view Of
the fact that they work from O'Clock in the
morning until s o'clock at night, summer and
winter alike; and that the amount OF gas made
in winter is greatly in excess OF that required
during the summer months Mr.. Wat
kins Superintendent Of the Gas Works.
yesterday waited on Mayor Medil1 and
requested him to send posse ofpoGce to the Gas
Works on Monday when the men receive their
pay, in order to prevent an outbreak. The Super
intendent Of Police was accordingly notified This
measure may be g wise precaution, but the men
are quiet enough, and assert that they viii make
is no skilled labor, and that it can be learned
readily by individual beginners, but should q.
whole force Of men come in there will be con-
fusion and failure As there are two gangs Of
hands, and 10 men IN each gang, this sulmise is
correct. The reduction OF wages to
employees would be moro lenient1y regarded by
the public II q commensurate reduction we're to
be made in the gas rates, but as nothing Of this
kind is expected, the reduction OF wages doea
not soothe the men by any public good it is to
accomplish.
, 1872-12-15
Mr.. GREELEY'S WILL.

Tho Deceased Left Five Testaments.
Special Dsspoteh to The Chicago Tribune.
New YoRK, Dec. 14.-It is now known that
Mr. Greeley left no less than FIVE Wills.
Besides the Will drawn by Wm. E. Robin
aon in 1853, and the two wills now in
dispute before the Westchester Surrogate. there
we're wil1s drawn in 1861 and 1868. In the
Will Of 1861 11r. Greeley bequeated to his wife
his interest in their city home at IS East Nine
teeuth street, and also in the Chappaqua farm ;
also four shares Of Tribune stock; to his daugh-
ters three shares each Of Tribune stock. He
also left bequests to his brothers and sisters aud
their children, and to several educational and
charitable institutions. This will is reported to
have been imperfect1y drawn
The will OF 1868 was similar to that OF 1861,
modified to some extent by transfers Of prop
erty. The Chappaqua estate had been decided
to Mrs. Greeley, and he simply quit-c1ainaed
any interest in it. He constituted George Rip
ley his sole literary executor The executors to
this will we're Richard A. Manning. Of this
>ity; Marcus Spring, OF Perth Amboy and
Samuel Sinclair, Of New York
The expectation now is that the pending law
suit will be compromised by Ida Greeleys deed
ing half the estate to her minor sister, Mr. Sin
clair's attorney having indicated that this would
be satisfactory. This arrangement Will not dis
turb Mr. 6inclair's control Of the Tribune.