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New-York tribune., 1873-03-08
THE RAJLRAY PROBLEM.

The general railway bill, passed by the
New jersey Assembly on Wednesday, will re-
lieve the people, if it become law, OF the
burden of a most oppressive monopoly; but
it is far from even indicating q solution of
the difficulty which is yearly becoming more
serious in the relations of the railroad cOrpO-
rations to the Government and the public.
railroad is essentially monopoly, and it is
not in the nature of things that the relief
afforded by an unrestricted permission to
everybody to build road wherever and
whenever the money, can be raised to pay for
it, should be either complete or permanent.
wherever combination is possible" said
George Stephenson, competition is impOs-
"sible.n No combination of butchers or
bakers can put up the price of meat and
bread, because such tradesmen are too numer-
ous to combine But rival railways through any
section of country must be few, even with the
most liberal laws; and being few they will
inevitably act together to impose whatever tax
they please upon the public. This is what
they have done on the n0minally competing
lines between NewYOrk and the West, and
what they will eventually do in New-Jersey if
the new bill lead to the results its friends an
by statute, or to limit rates, or to exact min
imum of accommodation for freighters and
travellers has ever succeeded. The only effect
of legislative interference has been to fill the
books with unexecuted laws, and to create in
every State Capital as well as at the seat OF
National Government a railroad lobby more
powerful and more corrupt than any other
known to American legislation. Meanwhile,
the influence of the great railway corporations
in politics, and the debasing effect of that in
flueHce, increase at a rate which awakens the
liveliest alarm; and the question is on the
lips of every thoughtful public man, What are
we going to do about it
In discussion of this matter month ago
we suggested one remedy, in the adoption of
few simple general laws, and the creation
of system of competent and permanent
railroad tribunals with broad discretionary
powers, to apply them TO particular cases.
Mr. Charles Francis Adams, jr., has recently
proposed much more revolutionary remedy.
In behalf of the State Board of Railroad Com
missioners he made an elaborate and valuable
address, on the 18th ultimO, before Com
mittee of the Legislature, disposing summariy
of great many prejudices which have almost
become axiOms, and bringing the discussion
of the whole question back to first principles
Mr.. Adams assumes that Gas Mr.. David
A. Wells expresses it) the State Is
bound to interfere when any one
"branch of the business of the COM
"munity is 80 mOnopolized that citizens can no
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

representative Committee Of the students of tho
National Academy of Design have issued an address
to the friends of art in America. praying for assist
anoe In founding class for painting in the Acad-
deny. The drawing classes have certainly made ad-
mirable progress during the last few years, aud
there is doubt that If the necessary funds were
raised for the endowment of course in painting 1t
would be equally successful. A great interest is
awaking among intelligent young msn and women
on the subject of art. two hundred studouts having
been enrolled at the Academy last season.
Many Of these have arrived at such a
point that they are now compelled
to choose between journey TO Europe or
practical abandonment Of progress in their studies
Tho plan proposed is TO collect by subscription
fund Of $4,000 To establish in New-York and perma-
nently endow a school of painting No subscriber
will bo called upon for payment until $4,000 arc
subscribed aud tho success of tho undertaking ia
thus secured. Tue money is then " bo paid into
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08
Amussmente. etc, Chic Guenins.

ACADEMY OF MusIc.-At Q Italian Opera, La
FayoutA" Mile Laces
Boorn's THRATER-Atil Il and at g: mo Thorough
tsre" W. J. foresee .
GRAND OPERA HOUSE. AT u and at 81 Rough
hg IT," Ma John Wool aud John Broaeham.
NRw FIFTH AvRNUE THEArER.-At IL ana ~ O.
"Ahre" Miss Clara Morris .
Nmo's GARpEN.-At II and at g. LEO and Lotos' =
OLYMPIC THEATER-At II and at 8: "Humpty
Dumpty" George L. FoI
Union SQUARE THRATER,-At IL and at .: One
Hundred Years OLA" hsrk smith
wAIIAcK's THEATER. AT Il and at s: David
Garnet" K A. Sotbern.
ASSOCIATION HALr.-At 2: Popular Matinee Con-
cert g; Readings Charles Roberts jr
HARLEM Music HAIL~-"New Years Eve" Daly
Comedy Company.
ROBIEsON's HAIL--Magiosl Entertainment faure
SicOla5.
ST. JAMES Observation-Disclosures Opera u. swayne
Buckles.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08
Nen,'2lork Daily Gribmaae.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY
SATURDAY. MARCH 8, 1878.

The Spanish Assembly has not yet disposed OF the
proposition for a Constituent COrtes.
The United States Senate admitted George E. Spencer
90 a seat from Alabama James Brooks issues an
address to bis constituents The Republican Char
ter is still under discussion In the Senate Committee.
The jury in the scanneli is out over night e.
The Germans held mass meeting IN opposition to the
Charter. - Gen. Fremont is threatened with arrest
t. George vandenhof leetured on "shakespeare's
Clowns" Thermometer. 27o. 400, $40. Gold, l6t
l5t l6s.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

Was Scannell's absurd affectation of insan-
ity in the courtroom yesterday undertaken
by advice of his cOunself Practice In ouI
courts has certainly been brought into con-
tempt of late, but resort to such dishonorable
trick as this will justify the disbarring OF
lawyers of the best repute. The attempt is uni
versally condemned by the bar; let it be
established now whether counsel advised 1t
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

Members of the last House of Representa-
fives who are not reelected to Congress will
be dismayed 10 learn that, in their hurry, they
have not worded their bill 80 as to insure
their back pay, after all. In case the Con-
troller decides the law to be defective in this
particular, the Treasury will save Sl,6OO,OOe,
and the slippery congressman will have the
name and not the game of stealing.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

They must be an exceedingly cautious people "
Westfeld. Conn. First. they give their selectm'"
authority to build bridge. Then, lest by his ov@'
whelming extravaganza and boundless liborality %
might involve the town in ruin. aud build mueA
longer and wider and higher bridge than necessa,'
tho Westielders appointed An agent TO watch 70
Selectman, with authority the moment he began y
spread himself in bridge building to apply " '''
Supreme Court for an injunction. and otherw~
wholesomely to restrain him. The old question:
Who shall keep the keepers has been answered "
Connecticut.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08
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THE TRIBUNE has just printed, in an erra sheet Of
eight pages complete resume Of The entire Credit MobIter
tnDcsiigcton. The reports whch hare for ioo months
numbered the papers caretV condensed, ,cnnOoed
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New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

1t is proposed that the Senate shall adjourn
next Tuesday. This means that the Louisiana
case, as represented in the rival claims of
Messrs Mcmillan and Pnchback, shall be left
untouched until next Winter. Does the Sen
ate need any more bloody warnings on this
grave subjecti The people of Louisiana may
be compared to a mine of explosives ready to
burst into fame and ruin at any time. Blood
has been shed already, and nothing but severe
repression and cool moderation can prevent an
outbreak against the usurpation, deplorable and
distracting in it's consequences. 1t is said that
the President deprecates any interference with
Louisiana affairs unless to seat Pinchback.
Under the circumstances, it is not easy to see
how that person can get the Endorsement OF
the Senate; therefore. it is proposed that
nothing he done now and that the Senate
quietly go home and leave the President to
fight the thing out. He has told the country
on which side he will fight, and Senator'S
seem willing to throw the responsibility on
him. The XLIId Congress committed great
crime in evading this mOmentous question !;
will the Senate be guilty of the same pusil-
lanimityf
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08
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New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

We shouldn't have thought 1t, hut we suppose W.
The EroaOelist newspaper is good authority 'o' W
statement that more than 800 Presbyterian eie,o
men-not counting editors. secretaries. and misS'"
aries-are absolutely unemployed. idle IN the VIE.
yard, without anything TO do in their proieSs',I
The Evaaqelia finds in this fact good reason i0'
multiplying the number VI ministers
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

Another newspaper in Mr.. Amcs's district stsHo'
by him with touching fidelity. and calls Consres
"imbecile' He leaves it says. the honest ns''
who have profted by his sagacty. to haant their ~
maculate virtue in the face of the world. ana ps-
new stealings. But Anes will live in the fse''.
Railroad when they are forgotten in the vile a"'.
of contempt Constitutionally opposed as we '''
to crowdiug the mourpers. we abstain from CUE
ment.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

Dr. Sylvester of Lyons, Ind. is so interested IA
peaches that he has made complete tour OF hs
State to see how the trees getting along tina
Spring He has brought back most mysterious
report the purport Of t being that some peach ouds
are alive and some dead" He thinks that the deaa
ones may revive. if there is plenty of wet rain tins
Spring: we suppose that they will stay dead II ths
rain should happen 10 be dry AS for the living
buds he thinks they will not die, unless the ram
should be too wet and upon the whole the peaea
crop promises well, if something hsppecs or does"
happen All this must be highly encouraging to sa'
growers
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

The course of Lenten readings to be given by n
Favarger. it seems, are to meet with gratifying
success The subscriptions are already numeross
and rapidly increasing. The readings are 10 b
given on three successive Monday evenings at
o'clock, March o. 81 and April Z; and Oh four suc-
cessve Thursday afternoons at q o'clock. March n
and April 8. 10. and H. They embrace choice speei-
mems of the masterpieces of French poetry and.
although Diderot and Rousseau both declared that
the language was incapable of poetic use those who
have heard NJ. Favargers elocution are Of different
opinion. The readings were announced TO take
place at the Chapel in University place. but the sub
scription promises to overflow those modest limits.
In that case the change will be made known in due
time.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

The announcement lately made exclusively in Tn
TRIBUNE of the on-holing" of the indictment
against Messrs. Polhsmus e. Jackson, the broken d
Psymaster Hodge, who proved defaulter ayer
ago. has led to the misapprehension that Judss
Noah Davis. while United States District-AttOmsy.
had advised the abandonment Of the prosecution In
Justice to Judge Davis we are requested to coness
this false impression and though it was in no wi.
authorized, OF even suggested, by The TRrBUsKs
report, we gladly do so. Judge Davis says he nos
only did not recommend the note proseai but wro.s
letter to the Attorney General Ia copy Of which
on file in bis late ofice) urging prosecution. And
further" added the Judge. 81 if Attorney-General
Williams had ordered me to enter nolk pro'eqaiu
that case, should have peremptOrily refused 10
obey" The duty of prosecution scquiescenes IN
the order devolyes upon Mr.. Bliss. the present D4
trict-AttOrney. Possibly, with this example before
him. he may have independence enough to hesitate
and protest before Obeying.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

California has been cursed, among other
varieties of land-grabbing, with peculiar
practice which had its root in the State Land
Department. .Favorites were given hints from
the State Surveyor-G Generals office, in former
times, by which they could claim. under the
State, large tracts of so-called swamp lands,
listed to the State by the act OF
1866. Applications were made by the
ream, rushed through the State office,
and confirmed by the State authorities
The lands claimed were certified as "swamp"
on evidence collected during the Spring
freshets, when they were temporarily over
flowed, though these same tracts would re-
quire irrigation before the hot, dry California
Summer was over. Most of these claims
against the United States are held by sharp
speculators who have, or have had their con-
federates in the State Offices. The United
States Land Commissioner has just decided
substantially in their favor. That is the whole
explanation of the long and learned document
on the subject which we elsewhere print.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

1t seems that we are not yet at the end of
the Modoc war-that wearisOme travesty OF
armed negotiation. The Commissioners have
changed their terms so that the Indians are to
90 on a reservation in Oregon, instead OF
being taken further south. The Modocs, per-
haps. have lively recollection of their being
starved on their old reservation, and refuse to
live there again. Therefore. the war must go
on. IL MT this business a great strain on the
Indian policy, as it is calledf
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

The executors of the estate of the late Thsd-
deus Stevens have resolved TO sell the "Caledonis
Iron Works." with about 1900 acres ofland. includ-
ing ore mines belonging to the estate, situated ten
miles east Of Chambersburg Franklin County, Penn,
and for that purpose have placed the same in the
hands of Mr.. Simon Stevens of this city. The pro-
ceeds of sale under the will of the Old Commoner
in certain event, are to be given " to erect estab
Iisb and endow a house of refnes i'm Lancaster- Pa
for the relief of homeless INDECENT orphans, who have
lost either parent" Mr.. Stevenss will provides that
in this institution no preference shall be shown on
account of race color in the admission and treat
ment-neither poor Germans, Irish, or Moham-
medans. nor any Others account of their race or
religion of their parents, must be excluded"
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

the hands of Trustees elected by the subscyn
who shall vote according to tho amount Of thai, -
scriptons The sum IL to be permanently invs.s-.
and only the interest used for the PURPOSES of -
school. II ia 10 be regretted that this address -.
out signed only by the names Of the students :.
the scheme has the approval of the Council Of a.
Academy. it ought TO 80 appear upon its face.
-
The tyranny of fashion is nowhere more evid...
than in the world of art. There IL positively ~
limit to the prices which painter Ia mod. ma,
demand for a picture The fayorite artist Of u.
Empire was Melssonnier. There was something :
his infinite detail in his undeniable power ~
making pettiness look large, which brought NJ,
into a sort OF likeness to the Emperor himself 4,
all events he was the Court painter most in yos,.
and his popularity has survived the dynasty ma.
which il grew. He has just completed pcturs "a,
the Vienna Exposition. which sold a. sooa n.
was finished to London dealer, for S9OOoO. and IA
stantly resold, at q considerable advance A.
course. to Member OF Parliament I'M,
Bolckowl II is one of the artists Iarsps
works. being ~ by "a inches II represent.
village sign painter who has just given the inisbr,
touches 10 an sle-house Bacchus, showing his band
work TO mine host. Ii is. of course, masterpaees
Meissonnier never paints anything else. But IL mar
safely be doubted whether the next time il ia sn
it will bring one-half the enormous price now paa
for IT, In the sales of the Rue Drouot frequent.d
by the first connOisseurs of Europe where the 6p.
pictures of the great Netherland masters sold },
the SQUARE nch no such price this l3o francs As
inch) is ever paid for Gerard Dow. OF Teners a
Terburg.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

In the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. Spencer of
Alabama, who had first attempted to sneak
into his seat by mingling in a group of Sem
ators sworn in, like small boy stealing into
a crcus-tent, was admitted by an almost party
vote No facts are more notorious than those
relating to the pretended election of Mr.. Spen-
Ger. The Legislature which chose him was not
a legal assemblsge; and it confessed its irreg-
ularity by dissOlving some weeks after the
farce of electing Senator had been finished.
But the question before the Senate was not as
to the legality of his election; it was, in view
of all the patent facts, whether his credentials
and those of the contestant, Mr. Sykes, (who
was chosen by the legal Legislature) should
go together to the usual committee, as similar
cases had previously gone. But Mr.. Spencer
is an Administration man; he had contract
to carry his State for the party; so he was
forthwith given his seat.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

The spirit of the German anti-Ring- Charter
meeting, last night, was admirable and signifi-
cant The speakers and resolutions treated
but one sentiment-oppOsition to corruption
aud misrule. 1t was amusing to NOTICE that
some disturbers of the peace thought that an
alIusiOn to Credit Mobier frauds was partisan.
The frauds may be partisan, though the allu-
sion is not. If the sensitive souls of ultra Re-
publicans are worried by the opposition of
Mayor Havemeyer to the Charter, they may
find consolation in his reply to the Ninth Ward
Council of Political Reform. The Mayor thinks
that the enactment of the Charter would be a
great political mistake for which the Repub-
lican party would be held responsible by the
people.
The news from Spain affords no clearer in
dication of the probable result OF the present
disagreement between the Government aud the
Assembly. There were hopes of a compromise
Yesterday which might obviate the necessity
of the resignation of the ministry. But on the
other hand dispatch comes by way of Lon
don which is grotesquely unfavorable. The
b. Governor of Malaga is said to have sent in
his resignation on account of being unable to
restrain the populace from pillaging the houses
of the rich. We should think that such per-
formances might well cause longing for prl-
yate life in the official breast. bat 1t is hard 70
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08
see how resigning an important trust unde'
such circumstances can be justified In the Iace
of conscience or tho country.

Mr.. James Brooks's address to his const,tu-
eats is better in logic than in temper. HIS
criticism of the report of the House Commit
tee on Credit Mobilier affairs is more nearly
lust than his attack on the individual mem-
bers of the Committee. His letter Is pun
gent; it shows that long and distressing
illness has not weakened his intellectual
forces but we prefer to credit the acerblties
which mark the document to the natural
weariness Of man who has been worn down
with sickness and specially singled out for
investigation to the neglect of others. 1t must
be noticed that Mr.. Brooks does not now pro-
pose to enter into any analysis of the case as
presented by the Poland Committee. His ad-
dress is a promise that he will meet the whole
question, by and by.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-08

One more ghost-and this positively the last. In
the great storm which proved fatal to so many pso
ple in Minnesota, one John Weston of Worthingt0n
was overtaken on his way home through the woods.
Three days after his wife, who was anxously wait
ing his coming heard she thought at the door this
voice of neighbor saying. 81 Mrs Weston. John H
frozen to death" She went at once TO the door, but
nobody was there So, six days after. another
neighb0r saw the missing man standing about hf-
teen feet from his stable door. He addressed bin
WITH Why are you here we thought you wsrs
frozen" When the ghost answered, SOL am, and
my body lies mile and a half northwest Of Her
sey" With this the ghost vanished. The depth OF
the snow prevents searching for the body at present
Well the Administration newspapers do have 0
way of laying on the lather which is perfectly mar
velous. Thus The S. Louis Democrat, in a magnih-
cent and magniloquent burst of sadmirat'on.
exclams Buckle says that in modern timcs
there have been but three men who could command
an army and govern a nstion-Cromwell. Napoleon
and Washington. IL Buckle were now to write an
appendix to his great work, or TO prepare 1t Tor
revised edition, we feel confident that he would ~
least modify this opinion so as 20 include the nsins
of Gen. Grant" We are very happy that IM
Democrat feels confident :" there is nothing IKE
being certain in these small but delicate matters