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

roptpos such mouthings, such coarse Ignorance as
would not be tolerated for instant IN any respect
able foreign theater. In Paris, for instance
of like grade attempting to take leading Pai'
would receive such o castigation OF nisSos
as ho would Mt dare face second 'hno
We endure it without one expression vi
disapprobation. One scarcely knows what 10 Won
der at most-the meekness OF tho audience vi 'h1
audacity of manager who presents IA" anu
ridiculous person as the hero OF CHARMING p'"y'
Have we taste 7-have We independence f-haVe we
not breath with which to chasten and denounco'
Az for the Young women who think they are arch
when they omen their eyes very wide and apostro-
phize Ke-oopid, and those tempestuous boys VINO
nronce ND and down the stage aud end every sentence
with n snort-what can say OF them that VIII
do any sort of Justice to the subject!
John Thomas seems determined to smash the head
of his master with that pavingstone Vi his Dec no"
he hourished it yesterday:
"Papers which have made haste to invcigh against
the Administration for allowing DIR. Houard, an Af1er-
to be f. ar& labor cSa for Of Ghss
that Houard was not an American citizen ne haa eA
Government to be an icient that end viz: BY CON
nuOus residence of many years In Cuba by never nav
Ing any DUTY o " was designed to be-
permanent Secretary Fish, yesterday aio tnsss 'c's
before Congress-" --- -
To show tho ingenious stupidity of this defense,
look at the last line. These not "facts." Sec
rotary Fish has not "laid them before Congress-"
What he did send to Congress was not "yester-
davr But the whole statement is equally false and
injurious to the Secretary. In his dispatch of the
9th of March he demands the immediate release OF
Dr. Houard and states that he is citizen OF the
United States. Before John Thomas begins to de-
fend his employers acts would it not be as well to
ascertain what they arei He should beware OF zeal
without knowledge.
In most Southern Legislatures the question OF
civil rights continues to be talked about In the
Senate to-day" writes correspondent in Jackson,
Miss to The Vicksbmg Herald, the tendency OF the
negroes was very defiant fellow remarking that
they are prepared for any issue whatsoever" Now,
let us see what they were defiant" about: "They
threaten political damnaton to those Radicals who
rode into place on the shoulders of negroes,
and now refuse to support the demands
which these blacks, in their arrogance, are
making upon the white people" And what are
their demands thus characterized as arrogant y
They ask we suppose, simply to be treated just as II
they were White men and not Black. Ii " Radicals"
after promising to be fair and true and honest;
after professions of friendly interest in race just
emerging from bondage; after using the sufrages of
/ the BachS 10 ODldln piucc anu P'ii "i'N f"'A'N-
power, have now indicated disposition to forget
pledges and promises, all we have to say Is that
tho. deserve political damnation" and are quite
| likely to get what they deserve.
nice young Gentleman, diapers assistant N
Brighton England was lately arrested for stealing
goods from his employers in magnifcently whole
sale way. In nine months he carried off from the
shop $50 pairs of kid gloves, 319 cambria handker-
chiefs 232 silk do 800 assorted do "a bottles of per-
fumery 32 silk ties. &c, &c.-n all, 1,5S2 articles
CurOusly enough this light-fingered paragon kept
a diary, in which he entered regularly the goods
stolen and the money obtained for them. Before the
magistrate the thief made a remarkable speech He
sverred that he had stolen because lie had
been treated with injustice by his employers;
and notably one occasion " because he was five
minutes late, he was declared from having cup Of
tea" "You have TO steer" he added, between
Scylla and Charybdis in business" Notwiths and
ing this beautiful and fresh classical allusion the
stony -hearted Recorder sentenced him TO five years
penal servitude, whereupon he cast up his eyes,
claiming: " Five years Fit s time for meditation,
butt danns me-" Some of this donkey's ill-gOt ,
money must have been spent at the minor theaters..
Gen. Walker, Superintendent Of the Census has
issued tho Statistics Of Wealth. Taxation, and Pub
lie Indebtedness, forming part OF tho Census Of 1870
The true value of tie real and personal estate of the
Union il S3oOjs,51S5O7 being nearly double the
amount in 1860, when it was $1c.150,G16,06S. The
true value Of tho real and personal estate of New
York is So jo0St 26t; in 1860 it S1,st3,S3S 517.
New Yor; greatly exceeds in wealth all other States;
Pennsylvania the next highest, being S9SOS siO112
Pennsylvania has more than doubled her wealth
since $780, when it S1,46,5O1,Sl8. The increase
in wealth Of tho Union between 1850 and 1860 was,
in round numbers SO OO00O0000; In the last decade
| il vas nearly S14000CC0O00 and this is, Of course,
exclusive of any estimated sum for colored citizens
who were treated rs chattels in tho former
These figures clearly demonstrate that the material
progress of lac country during the last ten years was
extraordinary and unparalleled.
1t is quito as dicnlt, it would seem, to get bit
| of public ground furnished UP and made neat and
! decent in London as it was in New-York.
Leicester Square. told, has long been the DIS
grace of the British metropolis The central area is
q sort Of No-Alans Land containing the statue Of
o horse which once had rider but has
none now Tho Neus tells us that propo-
sails without end haze been made to improve
| this space, but il belongs in sone way to Mr.
Tulk, who has prevented the Board Of Works from
doing anything in tho way of improvement, by
brin ging an action in the law courts. Tho Old horse
it is insisted, in public property. and might be
moved; but not 50 sure If that. There may
be apoher Mr. Tulk who has vested interest in the
horse capable of being maintained bya Bill in
ChanceN. So we get curious Illustrations and vcri-
Gcatons,Erom time TO time, OF tho oldest and least
credible things in Mr.. Dickenss novels. and
especially of the blind reverence paid in England to
established ri ghts and noldy traditions
| We do not l;row when we have read moro COM
fort ahln or r.a aoitatnN nIcLctinn thnn this. Al