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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06
IN AMERICAN WIMRLEUON

The movement to introduce long range rifle
practice as part of the drill of the National
Guard deserves more attention than the pub
lie seems disposed TO give it. The improve
ments in breech-lOading fire arms have made
accuracy and rapidity of shooting the most
important elements of infantry training. The
great military nations of Europe have rccOg-
'nized this fact, and spared no pains to organize
large bodies of skilled marksmen, not only as
q source from which to draw regular troops in
time of war, but as the only effective system
of home defense. England has thus obtained
magnificent body Of volunteers, who
know how not merely to carry n gun,
but to shoot with it, and the Rifle Associations
of Canada have built up similar corps which
would be found formidable antagonist in
case of invasion. In the United States we
have never got beyond the old days of muzzle-
loading smooth-borcs We make the best
arms in the world, but our own militia do
not know how to use them. Regiments are
drilled with infinite care in marching and
tactical evOutiOns, clad in splendid uniforms,
and armed with good weapons; but many q
man serves his whole term Of seven years i'm
the National Guard without dischargiDg IL
cartridge.
The National Rife Association, organized in
this city with Gen. Burnside as President and
n number of well known citizens on its Board
of Directors, is cndeavoring to unite the Ma
tOnal Guard in an effort to abolish this re-
pioach upon our militia and to persuade the
State military authorities to make rifle practice
part Of the regular course of instruction
prescribed for our citizen soldery. The Asso-
citation purposes securing riile-range as near
New York rs possible and fitting " up on
the principle that has been no successful at
Wimbledon in England, and it will also cs-
tablish periodical contests with prizes for the
best shots. 1t Is to the National Guard of
this State that it looks for its chief support OF
the enterprise, at least in the beginning; but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06
0vesn!11ork Daily gribma1e.
SATURDAY, APRIL G. 1872.

An unsuccessful attempt has been made to assassinate
thc Mkado of Japan. An abscOndDg cashier has
robbed Limerick Bank. - Election riots have taken
place at Villslba SPAIN 60 DIR. Minor will shortly be
sent 10 an insane asylum in England.
In the IT, s. Senate yesterday, the Indian appropra-
iion bill was considered. bill was introduced regu-
atnc the carriage of freight and passengers on the
Union Pacific Railroad and its branches. - In the
the Shipping Commissioners and army appropria-
ton bills passed.
The new Spanish Minister, Admiral Polo was formally
recognized by the President yesterday. s. The Hud-
son River ia rising at Albany 60 feargers Hour Inill
in ST. Louis has been burned. Charles A. Dana tes-
tilted before the Naval Investigating Committee yester-
day. So Senator Woods case has again been postponed
Ia the State Senate. The Board OF Public Works at
Little Rock Ark has been arrested for embezzlement.
Attorney General Barlow has instituted suit against
Gould and Lane 60 Prof MOrses funeral was held at
d. Adams's church in Madisonsquare. - The Judici-
ary Committee continued the investigation OF Judge Nc
Gums case The Hon. Charles ]. McCurdy lcctured
on Life Insurance" Prof Perry and Horace Gree
Icy discussed " Free Trade"-GOld, f1Os 1IO5, 1lOl.
thermometer AZ, Coz. 80.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06
DJLLYING WITH OFFFNSES.

Judge Seldens defense of Senator James
Wood had, at least, the merit Of being lawyer
like and skillful-a cOunsers able plea; but
Senator WOOdin, who took the floor, yester-
day, as volunteer attorney, did not distinguish
himself in any way, except as passionate
and illogical speaker. He seemed to think
that the Senator who had been cruel enough
to move for the expulsion of the accused Sem
ator was more worthy of blame than he
who had been proved guilty of accept
ing doubtful loans from doubtful men,.
The fiimsy web of s0phisry which
Mr.. WOodin endeavored to spread over
Mr.. Woods faults is easily demolished,
being all spun from the testimony of Tweed
and Jay Gould. Are these men, who are par
Elephants in this and innumerable other crimes,
competent witnesses to establish the innocence
of a Republican Senatori
And, even if the evidence Of the accused and
his partner Chamberlain be admitted, there
are so many irrecOncilable discrepancies in it
that the whole fabric breaks down. Did Mr..
Wood, or his partner, go and ask Tweed for
money! The three men-Tweed, Wood, and
Chamberlan-are utterly at variance upon this
important point. One says that Chamberlain
went, and that Tweed said he would lend
the money if Wood would indOrse the
note; another AYERS that Wood himself
asked for the loan and got it forthwith. Can
not the three principals agree in one thing
A similar confusion exists in the evidence con-
corning the Jay Gould loan. But this whole
painful affair is in the hands of the Senate it
has already been decided in the popular mind,
and those who think that Senator Woods
transactions with the two notorious men were
honest are few.
Yet we give hearty thanks to our Reform
Senate for at least one thing. They are at last
beginning to let us see what they think of a
bankrupt Senator's borrowing twenty five thou
sand dollars from his political opponents, with
out security, and thencefOrward voting with
them on questions which were VIGOROUSLY
Influenced by gross legislative corruption. We
take no exceptions, at present, to the approval
of this sort of thing some of them choose to
express. Our main concern is to find where
the Reform Senators stand, in case of this
kind, and how many of them propose to accept
Mr.. Woods conduct as Senatorial. Don't put
Mr.. Wood out gentlemen! if you prefer to
have your Reform Senate made up of that
sort of material; but show your hands. We
want to know Mr. Woods friends-that is ALL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06

POPULAR EDUCAIION Ar ME DObIH
The problem of Universal Education, in a
community made up of diverse races and colors,
is at once difficult and vital. Especially where
one of those races has just emerged from
bondage to the other, which regards such
emancipation as its own defeat and overthrow,
is this problem presented in It's most formi-
dable aspect.
The Southern States, prior to our late strug-
gle, were very lightly taxed, and with good
reason. Property was Omnipoent in legislative
halls, and Property did not choose to tax itself
heavily. So 1t dispensed with Common Schools,
and with all manner of public provision for the
support of those unable to support themselves.
The Poor Whites were densely ignorant, and
chose to remain so the Blacks were dumb
and powerless; the wealthy gave their own
children such schooling as they might and let
the rest 60 without.
Emancipation and EnfIanchisemcnt chan ged
all this, but far sooner in conception than in
execution. 1t was easy to enact that all chill
dren should be educated; not so easy to
enforce that requirement. Even the great
landowners were needy and in debt; their
broad plantations yielded them little or no
income; they could not sell their lands
could hardly give them away. The poor of
whatever color were gery poor; they had too
little work, which was often scarce and wages
meager; and then the Poor Whites,
having always been accounted a supe-
rior class while they were supremely
ilhterate, were not unnaturally distrustful of
an education offered them in common with
the negroes whom they had always looked
down upon ms interiors. Under such auspices
were school houses to be built books pro-
yided, and teachers secured, by people just
emerged from On exhaustive, calamtOus Civil
War, which for three years had subjected
their States to the dcsOlating tread of alter
nately advancing and retrcating armies. What
wonder if success were not at once achieved 7
Mr.. Thomas w. Conway was made Superin-
tendent of Education for Louisiana under
such auspices. The State had had an Auditor
under whose rule the School Fund was stolen,
as the proceeds of many tax and loan have
been stolen i'll other departments Of that
States service everything was to be done,
yet the means we're deplOrabIy insufficient
Then this question of Race or Casio was n
formidable impeachment men who hated TO
pay their vastly enhanced taxes clamoring
against the extra burden involved in tbc pro-
vision of schoOl-hOuses and schooling for the
negroes who lin their conception were sill
rightfully their property, their slaves.
Two years have since passed, and Mr.. Con-
way officially reports gratifying progress.
More than one thousand schools have been
estal lished and arc now in full operation;
no County being without one or more Of them.
The Whites, who at first declared that Hei,
4: IN Il. Io oil oil n IA
with negroes have in many in stances recon
sidercd tie matter, and come to \ wiser con
clu,ion. Teacher ia abundance have been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06
TILE EIGHT RESUMHD.

II il not enough that bad men shall be de-
posed from power, and their careers OF wrong
cut short, if they are to be permitted to slip
away with their spoils, forfeiting their bail,
as Connolly has done and as Tweed
would gladly do IL his bail were not
in itself fortune. IL is not enough,
indeed, that the moneys which they
have stolen shall be recovered, though this is
still possibility as long as the civil suits OF
the Attorney General can be pressed in courts
not presided over by tho corrupt judiciary OF
this district. The great requirement OF the
public. the paramount consideration In which
all others are swallowed up, is that bad
deeds shall be exposed to scOrn, and bad men
be punished.
1t is in this view Of an important question
that the prosecution of Jay Gould and
his confederates resolved upon by the
Attorney General and begun in the Su-
preme Court, as we announce this morn
ing, becomes matter of universal con-
graduation. Jay GOuld has been the per-
feet counterpart of Peter Il. Sweeny, save
that one was a miser, the other
guilty getter Of power Fisk, jr, was
the mask one wore, as Tweed was
the shield behind which the other
crouched and schemed. Both have fallen
through the lack of shrewdness or the reck-
lessness of their chief tools, and each is now
out of place, scheming to defend himself and
to regain his lost power Whoever suppOses
that Sweeny and Gould are idly bemoaning that
they have lost, or bewildered, are sitting down
disheartened because discounted, is not fitted
to fight them, for he does not know them
They are desperate in defeat, and more dan
gerous now than ever. Whoever would de-
stroy them must push them harder now than
ever before.
And it is eminently for the public good and
public peace that these men should bepunished.
The suit against Gould now instituted cannot
but develop much to help the reformation
which halts but does not turn back Longer
daliance with Tweed and Sweeny and Hall
and the rest is not merely unadvisable, but
dangerous. The suits against them ought to
be pushed at the first opportunity, and people
are wondering why they appear compromised
or discontinued.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06
SENATOR CARPENTERS ERROR.

We want to like Senator Carpenter, and
heartily wish he would not so often put him
self in the wrong. He has winning qualities
but seems to labor under an incurable pro-
pensity to blundcr. Let lis tell him exactly
where he misses the mark with regard to the
Arms investigation:
cit is charged lhe saysl that Government made
sale of persons known TO be agents of France
under circumstances which made such u sale violation
OF the law Of nations If then this Government sub
eced itself TO the Just criticism of other nations and
gave to Prussia cause OF war against us"
Now it has not been charged that oul
Government" made any such sale; and if il
had been, the charge would have been absurd
An officer (nO matter how high in rank) is not
"Our Government" save as he acts in Obedi-
cncc to our laws. Even if the President him.
self had sold arms contrary to law (Which We
have not seen "chargedw, his lawlcss act
would not have been that of "Our Govern
"ment," but that of an individual. SO of any
other functionary.
The simple question before Congress is this
--"Wcrc our laws Obeyed or violated in the
I" sales of arms in question: IT they were
Obcyed, what and where nre the laws that
authorize such salesr' The admitted
facts SGT forth in Mr.. Summers original pre-
anble were amply sufficient TO require in
v,stigation. We do not pass Judgment ON
what has been proved; let M await the COM
pbtion Of the scrutiny. We only say that
w had no previous conception that
Thousands of stands of bright, new, brccch-
loiding rincd muskcts could DO sold out of
our great armorics, and hundreds of rounds
"a. l.. n
thm, without the express authorization of
Congress. And we cannot yet see how the
authority given by tho act of 1903 to sell old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06

cannon and other unserviceable mafericl for
which the War Department has no further
use, can be stretched to cover the sales Of
1901.
But VIC write without the act before us, and
may have misrecolected its language and pur-
port. IL the sales in question can be shown
to have been authorized by law, that closes
the chapter. But Mr.. Carpenters notion that
"our Government" made the sales in question
begs the vital matter in dispute. Whatever
acts are lawless cannot be those OF our
Government"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06
Amnsemcnie, etc., CHS Gpenins.

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BooTH's THEATER.-At II and at 8: The lunch
tsC-" MIS- lie Clercq
FIFTH AVENUE THFATER.-At II and at 8: Ar
tielc a." =.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE. AT and at s: Italia
Iookh" Miss CbaliS
LIN, EpwIN's THEATEB.-At and at s; The
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NBIos GARDEN. AT . and at 8: "Poll and Part
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OLYMPIC TnEATER At and at s: "Humpty
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US1oN.soUARE THrArER-At q and at s: Variety
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WAIIACK's THF ATFR.--At II. Italian Opera; Mar
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ACADEMY OF Music, Brooklyn - Philharmonic
Concert.
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EMPIRE R1vK.-At and at s: Barnum's Museum,
Mersgcr.c lippodrOme and Exhibition
Nr,v-yopK CRCus Fourteenth-st.. between Third
,,d Toa,,vcS AT "A and al Jack the Giant Killer"
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there is no reason why it should not be made
a national affair, attracting competitors from
all parts of the Union and giving general
impetus to rife practice all over the country.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06

The Board of Police Justices met, yesterday,
and talked of the dreadful complications into
which Ring legislation had brought them and
the Court of Special Sessions, but no action
was taken. That is reserved for the meeting
to-day. Among other things to be decided
upon is whether the Ring" Clerk, Mr.. HOugh-
falling, or Mr.. Robert Johnson, the present in
cumbent, shall be declared Clerk of the Court
"a il is to be reorganized We hope it is not
necessary TO remind the Board that this city
still has as many Ring officials as it can very
well support, and that this is not precisely the
proper time (when a Republican Legislature
makes or unmakes Police Justices by single
bin, 10 defeat rhich money enough has not get
been faIly saJseriLed) 10 discharge faithful Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06

The review of the doings OF the session of
the New-Jersey Legislature which has just
closed, furnished by the Trenton correspond
ent of THE TRIBUNE, is not creditable to the
legislators; it is not credltabe to the State
where such legislation is possible. Year after
year the railway mOnopolies, appearing under
different names, pervade New-Jersey, and so
substitute their motive power for that of the
people that almost no manifestation of popular
will is perceived when the so-called law makers
come together. The Legislature which has
just adjourned has done nothing to redeem
New-Jersey from the stigma of being a
monOpoly-ridden State. 1t has fixed the re-
proach more firmly than ever. Our CORE
spondent, on the 18th of March, gave list of
the pending measures which were marked for
life or death by the ruling railway junta; the
work has since been done exactly as it was
predicted it would be. This state of things
has served to develop the exact strength of
the railway ring in each House The organ
izatiOn has been complete and united; but the
State has not been well served. Are New
Jerseymen willing that their Legislature shall
always be a mere recorder of the will of rail-
road corporations?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06

The testimony Of ex-AsSistant Appraiser George
+. Gouraud before the Custom-house Committee on
Wednesday eflectually disposed Of the charges OF
Special gent Brush who IN the most unwarrantaDie
manner had accused Col. Gouraud OF completely
with Naylor & Co. in the alleged undervaluatlon OF
steel Col. Gouraud showed that he could not nave
been in any way responsible for the appralsemeht,
and gave some very emphatic evidence in favor OF
the importing firm whose persecution by the Gus
tom house agents has been the subject of 80 mucn
remark. According to him, Distrct-Attorhey
Davis, when the matter brought before him, ex-
pressed indignation and surprise that the Collector
should have proposed to prosecute SO himsy case
COL Gouraud, after resignlng his office, was re-
quested by the English branch Of the firm to act
for them in their controversy with our Government
Before consenting to do 80 he tells the Committee
that he made thorough examination of the books
and papers of the firm in London, and ascertalned
beyond doubt that all the goods which they are
accused of undertaking. were invOced at the exact
price which they paid for them to the Sheffield man
ufacturers. The more this Naylor case is examined
the worse the position Of the Customhouse authori
ties seems to DO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06
BANKING HOUSE OF
FISK 4 HATCH,
No. 5 Nassau.st., New York,

We selling the CHESAPEAKE OHIO RAILROAD FIRST MORT
GAGE SIX Per CENT srsts investment security
u the rate Of accrued interest They In denominations oil
sl $500 and 500 registered coupons attached interest
payable Msy End November in United States gold coin principal pay
SHE in ls9o also in gold coin
Descriptive pamphlets with full information furnished application
We bay and sell GOVERNMENT AND CENTRAL BONDS
All receive them in exchange r CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO BONDS at
heir current prices. FISK HATCH
UAHvsT PIX,
4. s. HArCH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06

A wise and benefcent act was passed by the
House, yesterday, in the bill for the protection
of seamen. II provides for the appointment
of a commission which shall have charge of
all matters relating to the shipping, paying
and commercial engagements of seamen. This
bin has been demanded by the condition of
sailors who are Outrageously abused and swim
died in the principal ports of the United States
IL will, we hope, become law.
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TRIBUNE Advertisers residing up town may
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sccond-st or No. 3OS West Twentythirdst, opposite
i;fand Opera House. Mr. Brown receives advertise
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TuF WITYTss WINS IRIS WAY.

THE WITNESS WINS ITS WAY.
twill he seen following that circulation dropped on
M uug the month the sale at the ferries ard on
the street ns The present figures however enhe
Tas WINES to high place evening journals The REGULAR
psIvERY RI CARRIERS increasing every day tbs WITNESS WI"
t. ay e, sent the oace NssSaust next to Tribune
Of az, ,..n ,o-,
JoHN DouGALL, esq.
DEAR SIR noose memorandum Of the number OF the Daily WI"
Res printed Independent during the month OF MARCH, 4o
oamber g9 900 making average s2i daily Yours truly,
CT. BAKER, Business Manager.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06

An enticing Mississippi damsel is described by
correspondent of The Chicago Journal. She is the
daughter Of welltO-do Methodist planter and is in
the habit of staying in bed until noon, smoking her
pipe. She consumes from $50 to 800 worth OF to-
bacco year. She is also addicted to opium, and
likewise to morphine, and moreover to chloroforn,
when she can get them through the agency OF the
negroes. This lovely woman, it may be easily i'm
agned, did not exercise an aneliorating influence
in this vicinity, inasmuch as, within circuit OF
some twenty miles, there had been fifteen murders
committed since the war. The writer, naturally
enough puts the question: "Who could live in such
a section of countryp Clearly life must be disa-
greeably uncertain there; and if a man were mar
ried to the aforementioned maiden, why should he
care to live at ALI The old planters and families
must die out it is said, before better class can be
induced to settle there. Well, they must die out
that is comfort as well as a certainty; and should
wo be thought very hard hearted for adding-the
sooner the better,