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New-York tribune., 1872-03-28
TEvORdE 4DFERTySENEN IS.

II is not always easy to say how far news
papers ought TO be held responsible for the
character of the advertisements in their col
umns, but there are many cases IN which
publisher with any conscience at all can hardly
be in doubt as TO his duty. We do not under
stand how men who make a pretense OF
responsibility can take pay for promoting the
business of abortiOnists or arranging asslgna-
tions. We can imagine no justification for
accepting tho business announcements OF a
notorious swindler, who lives by tieecing the
unwary. Yet large minority of the most
reputable newspapers of this city are aiding
daily in the nefariOus practices OF rascals
whose character is known to every police
officer. The great Geneva watch swindle for
instance of the Eliases, for some time after it
had been exposed By THE TRIBUNE, fOurished
because leading journals were willing to ad-
vertise it, When the exposure was first made
the managers of the concern presented at our
counter column advertisement, suppOsing
probably that they could buy our silence.
The advertisement was, of course, refused;
but it appeared Immediately afterward in The
Times, where it seems to have been effectual.
We succeeded in getting the swindlers into a
Police Court and proving all that we have
said of them. Yet We found yesterday, con-
spcuOusly printed in The Times, The World,
The Express, and The Evening Mail, fresh
advertisement from Elias, giving an account
Of the trial directly the reverse of the real
facts.
We leave the public to make their own COM
ments. We want no help in exposing ras-
caity; but if publishing newspapers is to be
an honorable and gentlemany calling, it seems
to us that the advc cstisements of known swim
dlers must be thrown out from all respectable
nff.pps
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TIE OFrENsEs or THE JUDGEs.

| 1t is really Of triling consequence whether
OF not it shall be shown that the accaSed
Judges have shared with their Crates or
have accepted valuable gifts from favored lit
| igants. Some efforts to establish these charges
| have met with some show of success-nOt con-
elusive, howcvcr-and no testimony worthy of
serious consideration has been advanced in
disproof or Justification. But even were it
established beyond dispute, it would sill form
| only minor charge Of corruption compared
to other charges already proven.
There has been no effort TO show that the
whole system OF References, az contemplated
by the Code, has not been perverted, as
charged, for the benefit of q few indifferent
lawyers friendly Or related to the Judges.
There is no question Of the Gulpability Of
Barnard and CardOzo. IL does not matter
whether they did what they have done cor
ruptly or hOnestly---thc mischief has been done
and the evil consequences have been manifold.
Litigauts have been left without choice, and
either had to accept trial before Judges whom
they doubted. Referees forced on them against
their wills, or employ counsel suspected of
welding undue influence in the courts. The
latter was tho usual resort; general cor
rnptiOn followed of course; and as the dis
honest litigants are apt to he the swiftest
to avail themselves OF such agents, justice in
the natural order of this course of corruption
became grotesquely and infam0usIy perverted.
More damaging still to public prosperity, if
not to public morality, were the results of the
practices of these men, more especially Bar
nard, in the appointment of Receivers. few
favOrtes have reaped large profits from these
sources, and enormous and illegal fees have
been exacted from corporations and business
houses forced by er pdrte applications into the
hands Of Receivers, and subsequently into
bankruptcy. 1t is in proof that railway compa-
MES have been forced to remove their offices
to other States; that whole lines in this
State have been seized and obstructed under
orders of these Judges and that the stock of
Others has been deprecated many millions of
dollars in value by orders granted in mali
cious suits for insignificant sums. American
securities abroad have been deprecated, and
American credit has been paralyzed by the
actions Of these Judges, and the heads of the
largest and most reputable commercial and
financial firms of tho metropolis unite in
Saying that to the misconduct of the aITagued
Judges much of the instability of many de-
serving enterprises may he traced.
All this has been established before the
Judiciary Investigating Committee and made
public. But the worst side OF the story of
this investigation, we arc assured, remains to
bc told. Enough OF tho disastrous cOnse-
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called Christian Church has frequently stood

called Christian Church has frequently stood
in tho way Of progress, every inch OF the
worlds edvonoa II owes ~ the spirit OF
Christ's teaching There has been no step
made in attainment of knowledge, in liberty
for body or soul, in tho divine brotherhood
of humanity, that was not beralded in the
truths preached by the son Of Mary. Many OF
us, especially men engrossed lin contact with
tho emergencies of the times. are too apt to
regard this far-off life on the Galilean plains
as beautiful saving vision which was famil-
lar to our childhood, and will be, we hope,
to our old age. Meanwhile, we deem it fitting
in women and ministers to celebrate Passion
week; we have q vague, pleasant idea about
it, ourselves, of certain pOmps at Rome, OF
music and flowers on Easter altars. But it is
so different from ours, this life of the Divine
teacher, going homeless up and down through
Jewish villages, followed by few fishermen,
working miracles and teaching the multitudes
Of strangely clad and strangely-mannered
people. We feel that they are not less alien
to us than he. We are brokers or journalists;
we deal in sugar, cattle, tea life is made up
for us Of the morning papers, cable dispatches,
a ball, dinner, an odd subscription to mag
uificent church or charity. Would it not be
worth.our while, whoever we may be- i'll this
OF some other week, to read the old, simple
story of Jesus, quietly and alone, putting
aside, if we can, all old prejudices or impress
sions and find how nearer than all others 1t
lies to our own ; how birth and love and hate
and death, which reached their full signif-
cance in his, make up the sum OF every human
life how those strange Divine words ne
spoke to the fishermen take hold of our every
day words and actions with an inscrutable
force like death or life. We may have been
taught that on the cross he paid some mys-
terieus debt for us to God, and so saved us ;
or we may believe that in the awful, uncOm-
pretended struggle of his life and death with
the power of evil. he gained a vantage and
fOothold which the world has never lost; or
we may look upon him simply as an Elder
Brother and a Guide. But it is certain that
no earnest man and woman, whether they
have been called to be prophet or tradesman
or laborer, can come close to this life without
finding in it a higher diviner counterpart to
their own. and therefore, strength and help
such as nothing else can give. Because no
earnest man lives who does not in his own
poor way seek to help his fellow who, when
he is faithful TO direct honesty and honor, is
not liable to be msjudged by enemies, and
misunderstood by friends. The world is full
of unselfsh sacrifices which meet no reward /:
the husband drops half the possibilities of his
nature for his family the mother sinks into
drudge for her children, and no one is the
wiser. Only that far-off cross teaches the
wisdom and glory of remuneration.
He who has in some measure felt the thoms
in his own forehead and the print of the mails
in his own hands, can most nearly grasp the
meaning of Calvary and of Easter.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28
THE FOURIH-AVE. RAILROAD PROBLEM

Two Of our most reputable civil engineers,
one of them Alfred w. Craven, long and hon
Orably connected with the CrotOn AQucduct,
were selected alike by the authorities of tho
Harlem Railroad and by the citizens repre-
senting the different associations of the
Twelfth and Nineteenth Wards, to give a pro-
fessiOnal judgment as to the practicability of
the plan for avoiding the present difficulties
on the railroad tracks on FOurth-ave., above
Forty y-secOnd-st. Their conclusions have been
embodied in the form of report to the
President and Directors of the Harlem Railroad
Company, which is herewith printed We should
say nothing of it, beyond a general cont
mendation of this professional judgment to
the careful consideration of all citizens inter
ested, but for the fact that an attack as
wanton as it is stupid, has been made upon
the professional integrity of those engineers,
on the ground that they were retained in the
matter for the Railroad Company. This is a
day of wantOn attacks in one or two of the
newspapers, and it is doubtful whether they
have LETT themselves much power to
njure ANYBODY or anything Certainly
the engineers assailed need go no further
for their vindication than tho resolution of
the General Committee of Citizens appointed
to confer with the Harlem Railroad Company,
passed on the 12th of January, 1872, and
quoted in their report. On tho motion Of Mr..
Richardson it was resolved that their rcsOlu-
ton be submitted to Messrs. Craven aud
Campbell by the Railroad Company and on
behalf of the joint Associations, together with
the drawings. and that the views of those
gentlemen be obtained with regard to the
practieablity of carrying out tho plan
These views have been obtained, and Will
be found in the report elsewhere given. we
have no other comment to make on them than
the suggestion that there arc u good many
people living in New-York below Forty second
st., and that their rights are also thing 10
bo considered IN any decision on this Case
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28
Il CURIOUS RAILROAD QUdRREL.

Tho flourishing, ambitious cities of Omaha
and Council Bluffs are bitterly contending for
the final possession of the terminus of the
Union Pacific Railroad, which was originally
fixed at Omaha, Nebraska, opposite Council
Bluffs, Iowa. the two cities being separated by
the Missouri Riyer,. When the great trans
continental line was fairly open, five impor
tant railroads completed their tracks up to q
single point in Iowa, on the river, opposite
Omaha aud there discharged freight and pas
sengers bound westward. or received for the
North and East. Transhipment wac made
by means of steam-lighters. But bridge was,
in due time, built across the river by the Union
Pacific people, giving safe and speedy transit
for trains OF every description. The roads
terminating IN Iowa had no right to use the
bridge, except by permission Of the Union
Pacific Company and it appears to have been
designed that the trains of that single com
pany should pass over TO tho five companies
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28
PASSION WEEX.

The most significant sign of progress
throughout the world just now is that, like
good neighbOrs, we are beginning to give to
each other of our best possessions Japan
knocks at our door to borrow our civilization
to test it by her own and if she analyses
it she will find it made up of theories and
practice borrowed from Puritan and Cavalier,
German, Gaul, and Turl-every nation, in
fact, under heaven. We are beginning, too, to
look into or rather through, other religions
than our own, to find if our neighbor may
not have obtained some view of the great
First Cause which we have missed. We find,
at last, the subtle truth in the old Greek my
thologies, and discover that Buddha was not
only hero but a true refOrmer. Close at
hand, Protestant sects (and Roman tOO) begin
to acknowledge that Christianity underlies
and Outies Pope and hereto, shouting
Methodist, or silent Friend. " For no man."
says Perinchief, "can make cup that will
"hOld the universe. Life il always broader
" than our homes" 1t is owing TO this more
tentative and clearer-sightcd Christian spirit
abroad among us that the religious fasts and
feasts peculiar to the Episcopal and Roman
Churches have Of late years obtained author
ity outside Of them. People who laugh at the
infallibility of any respectable old gentleman,
or at squabbles about abs and chasubles, re-
cogpize the common sense and force of the reason
for setting aside certain days in the year for
the study of that life and death from which
we each are to learn how best to live and die.
The history of each of us is, after all, only
the history of fresh battle-ground between
the two great Forces of Good and Ill I; and
whatever our religious creed may be, it matters
much to us to essay to comprehend the life
of that Man. the untaught ward of a carpenter,
into whose words aud actions entered SO
wholly that undeiinable spirit which we call
God, that the light from them falls backward
and forward over all centuries. from
the beginning of the world until now.
Vague hints and beliefs in the coming of such
n man pervaded all Pagan oreeds before his
birth while the definite promise of it kept
the Jewish nation apart from all others; and
sinca he came although it is true that tho so
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28
Aetn!Work Daily Gribmate.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 1872.

Disturbances are threatened in Spain during the cleo
ttons for the Cortes. rich deposit of tin ore has
been discovered In NewiSOuth Wales - WORMS
metal works in Montreal have been burned. - Gen.
Trochu's libel suit against the Paris Figaro has begun.
In the u g. Senate, yesterday, the House amendments
10 the st. Crox Land Grant bill defeated. Tho Tea
and Coffee lin was debated hut without result. In
the House. the deadlock continues the Potomac Rail-
road bill
Senator Sumner was before the Senate Arms Invesi
eating Committee yesterday. =- Mr.. Mcclure has
been awarded his seat in the Pennsylvania Senate. g.
The Ohio and Iowa Republican Conventions met yester
day. 60 British ron-clad fIisate is at Annapolis.
David Dudley Field testified before the Judiciary
Committee =-= Eric fell five per cent. r-= Con-
troller Green visited Fulton and Catherine Markets.
s= Smallpox is rapidly increasing. 80 Gold, 10,
iiOt Th rnometer So, 49, 40'.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

quences of their practices has been established
to warrant early action in regard to the
accused Judges. Their power for further
mischief should be at once shorn. and for this
purpose the investigation should be hastened
TO a conclusion in order that tho Legislature
NAV act. Already that body is talking OF ad-
iournment. OF course this is idle The Legis-
lature cannot in justice TO itself adjourn with
40 important measure of reform incomplete
as the removal or impeachment of Barnard
and CartlOzO.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28
TERMS or THE TRIBUNE.

D,rv TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers, $40 per annum.
.WKpKIY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers, ~ per an.
VEKKIY TRIBUNE. Mail Subscribers, 81 per aunuin'
Advertising Rates.
DAILY rRiRUNF 30c., 40c, 50c 75c., and 81 per Ane'
srnI-W WErKIY TRIBTNE % and so cents per line.
WKEYIY TRIBUNE, 81 SO, and S. per line, ,
According 10 position III the paper.
Icrms cash in advance.
Address. The TRIBUNE. New-1ork
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New York needs no one thing 20 much a. 0

New-York needs no one thing 30 much as ul
readiest and most rapid means Of entraD,,
and exit IL these can bo secured withos,
impairing tbe.value of property on Fourth ave
everybody will rejoice; if they cannot, the h,
terests of Fourth-ave. must give way TO a.
larger interests Of tho city. Some recogntio,
of the fact that there are two sides TO que,
ton like this will doubtless facilitate an ami
cable arrangement. Something must be don.
and that speedily. The present condition d
Fourtb-ave., with the danger to human In
along whole blocks of its course, is simply
return TO barbarism.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

metallurgic processes for utilising this min
eral wealth, and somo remarkable additions
to previous scientific knowledge of the strange
animals and plants Of geological erss.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

That there ore but six votes in the Senate
against cumulative voting is a good sign. OF
course these are Democratic votes, as that
Organization has usually employed system
ot suffrage in this city which gives repeating
as well - secumulative power to each of its
voters. Beyond ascertaining the position of
the senate on this point, not much progress
va, made with the Charter, yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

The lesson of the summary Of current State
mcnts relating to the smallpox in this city,
published on another page, is obvious. The
needed precautions against the threatened
danger are-cleanliness and vaccination.
These neglected, the horrible disease has an
easy march before it. There is no cause for
panic: there is great cause for an alarm
which shall erect every defense against the
piaguc.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

We have no thought Of undertaking the defense A
Mr.. T.. j.. Goilon against the extraordinary sttacI
Of The Times. That gentleman is abundantly able "A
take care Of himself against a much more form,dl
able assault. In this he is asssiled merely wI
volley Of those adjectives Of which 50 plentiful
supply appears to be kept hand in TIE Times osol
for all it's contributors The other day it called co1
OF them miserable crcature;' another, !
few days later. "a miserable coward
who went and sworo 10 q lie1 and nov
Mr.. GOdkin comes in for such choice charao
terization az "bad faith and want Of yeracity'
The question cannot but suggest itself, wbex
the present writers leave The Times what win The
paper say OF themi In the of Mr.. Godkin. - I'd
that Of Gen. scburz ali there Is Of the charges lies
the epithets. The facts in both cases were entiro]
honorable and creditable to tho gentlemen assails
The Times utterly fails to prove the assertions OIL
giDally made ist thst Mr.. Godkin ever ASSUMED
a alias to protect him from tho consequences d
what he might write; and I'd, that he had takon adj
vantage Of an assumed name to avoid making good
before % tribunal the charges he had anonymouaJ
made. This The Times does not even attempt d
prove; but indulges in language still more repre-.
hensibIe than that with which it began this dis
creditsble assault, which has been marked through
ont by tho most unaccountable spite and peryersty
aud total disregard Of journalistic propriety.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28
amua,msnis. ett., abis Gpen'ns.

pco,,;s Tnn.rER.-"As You Like It," MISS lie
Cerco -, -
FIF-rH AVENUE THEArER-" frou-frou' m
GrANp OPERA HOUSE. -" Lalla Rookh.' MISS
ChsnS ~
Nistps GARDEN" La Belle Salvage MIS- JOIN
wool . .,
Oiymrrc TuEuER.-" liumpty Dumpty Recon-
erurted q. l.. Fox
JAMES THEArER.-"M Marriage" j. S. Mackaye.
Union SQUARE, TuE,TER. -" Ernani" variety
ComPsnY , ,y 80.
WArIACK's THEATER. -" The Veteran" Lester
Walsck
ASSOCIATION HAII--At lit: Lecture. DR.. Lord'
As; fe.aisgs vAndenhof.
CoorrR INsrrrUTE.-Dr. Colton's Exhibition OF
isushns Csa =,
SAN FRANCIsCo MINsTREIs.--Bircb. Wambold, etc.
Nrv-YopK Circus Fourteenth-st.. between Third
.rd Fourth -" Cinderella"
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

If thero be anything which We DO like, il isfs
writing in newspaper. The Halijar Nora S0a
hears that tho Prince and Princess of Wales area
their way to the South of France, and straigbtss
bursts into the fSllowfng beautiful language: I'm
soft flowing winds Of the Mcditenmean--of h
purple sea- plOwed ages ago By the gallcys Of u
Greek and Roman conquerOrs Of the ancient world
the beauty of the yine-cad hills overlooking it, sn
the peace and serenity enjoys, which not even h
storm of German war invaded, will do much. D
doubt, to resstablsh the health of the Heir OF IN
Great Empire in whose hands will be placed az N
distant day the guardianship of the conservah"
forces of modern society" 1t Is new to us thst
man must visit the Mediterranean before he can D
considered qualified to guard the conservative iorcs
of modern society-but we all live and learn tho"e
we cannot for the life of us see how tho gaiieySo
the Greek and Roman c0nqnerorS can hal9 any
effect good or bad upon the digestion oi hIs hoya
IIighucss.
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

A correspondent sends us from Boston the wrap
p,r of a French newspaper franked by hembSd
Congress. and inquiries what We think OF theRN
prety Of such use of the franking privilege We
look upon the whole system as an abuse whidl
ought to have been abolished long ago, but the ca
before US is 10 violation of the letter OF tbehsl
According to the statute, Congrcssmen are at b
erty to burden the mails with newspapers busines
circulars, advertising handbiils dirty Linen, or an
thing else, not exceeding two ounces IN weight a..
with public documents not weighing more tia
three pounds. The President, Nice-President a
Presidents, and ex-yice-Presidents may frankls
ters and documents of any size. But for cabinets
ficcrs. heads of bureaus, chief clerks, and thef'
other functonarics 10 whom the franking priuhn
is extended, there is no such liberal prOvisn
These persons are not entitled to frank anythingst
cept official documents and communications az
we therefore denounced the wholesale frsnkag@
copies of The Nee- York Tines recently in one dt.s
departments at Washington ~ RrosS Yl0Aa@ VI
Tue law. But the law itself is a scandal
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

The 1lbany Lrsniay Journal ends column OF os
inaidish scoding Mt THE TErBUNE with the demaha
Now will THE TemUNE gave Us plain answer,
Apparently the measureless contempt IN when tn
venal press is held has not even yet pcnetratei 'n
lead of its conductor. On subjects OF genefal uc,
est il commands no attention; If ii wants 10 DO su
recognized il must discuss Tweeds supervision Oh ~
editorial columns. TerwilligcIs postage stamps 'n'l
the general rule OF twenty per cent On those quesI
tions only is il an authority. There are many ao-
ministraiiou organs in tue state for whose ao'ih ~
aud honesty We have the sineeres respect. t ovs ut
eprons lIbdny EreRiaJ Journal Is bencalh eoh'o"F"
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

Wonders will never cease. Here is The Utica
Hcr0N declaring that it is not the organ OF
Senator Conkling. What can the matter be
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

Times are clearly not az they were in England
when British newspaper (The Morning Ns0S of EI.
eter can say: Ii there is one thing upon which th1
nation has made up it's mind, it is that large pro
portion of the money spent upon beer and kindro(
drinks is money wasted" Mr.. Bass, the grcat
brewer, told the Chancellor OF tho ExcbogGer!
when tho Brewers Deputati0n waited upon hin.
chat he paid 10000 year in the shape OF brew
ers' license. for which he got not one penny back
inasmnch as the amount could not be charged 10 he
public Upon this The Mornisg NeTs sharply CON
ments as follows: "When we find a Buxton dyins
under 30, and leaving personally alone lbcsIde
large estates to the extent of nearly quarter of
million, aud when we find a Bass millionaire.
albeit he gives away 10 the Chancellor of the FIX
chequer f90,OOO a year, the public will hardly b
brought to believe that the condition of the brewe,
is very hard At an Alliance Meeting beld at Nor.
wich on the 5th inst. Mr j. Is. Gould, the Anercan
Consul at Birmingham, made good speech. m
which he said that if the people of England could
only live for one single year under sneh rule ashs
had been permitted tn live undor in America, tAen
Nonld be found very few VINO would WISH @ss
back 10 the previous state vi tmngs'
New-York tribune., 1872-03-28

Mr.. T. Tanner. who is tho editor of me o@"
tan Recordsy religions newspaper printed IN 'l'
delphia. is also "a person of color" lie writes
rs that, having occs zion TO make voyage nr'1 O"'
of the boats of the Baltimore Steam Packet oop,
papv. he was refused accommodation III tne w,
cabin. and was quartercd in - dark deck capln "
the steamer Adelaide place which he desciioe'~ y
noisy and uncomfortable. Being Determined =
write 70 ia Of hi, srie ances he informed tho cie,
of tho boat Of his intention, and that o'ics'
responded. do it aud be id" Mr Tanner la, aS Il
done t and our opinion is that he is ia no daDse' "
evarl,stiug punishment for so dong.