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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-07-07
rHE EXEMPTION or CHURCH Pnor.
ERTY.

THE EXEMPTION or CHURCH PROP-
..r ERTY.
Clssiss Words Of Hamartslss Does
the Catholic Church Support Her Own
schools.
n ne Efitov Of he Nahiorai Republican,
Sun have read with much interest the dis.
cussion In the REPUBLICAN on ''TAxing Churcn
Property but "a Subscriber" In your paper Of
the ID instant mates q statement which deserves
70 bc challenged. He says "the Church OF which
I am member educates nearly three thousand
children, many Of them grasuitously," and "lei
II be repeated. over and over sssin, that u saves
aniinully, to the District government between wee
sisty and seventy thousand dollars The gne =,
oh naturay arises whL does .lne onn,rn f Ss
such iI,jetslitt' .The Church & not asked 10 DO
II, and the Dstfftt soter1rneut ~ fully able an.
willing TO provide schdUfs Tor gu the childfsn.
church." In order 70 tfsih three thotssud chm.
den IN ne dogma that The ss nc 81
s willing to pay for said privilege. y e. there.
fore, not fair to say that they educate the
| children, In any sense whatever, according 70
our American system, for We, a. citizen, believe
that our primary allegiance ls due to our native
land, and any Church that chooses 70 tea ~
right to say that It caves the District goyernmen,
or the people any money. As q speculation y y
| worth to ''the Church" all u costa, for, "nke
bread cast upon the waters" u shows Itself u
after years In rich legacies, by which I'M
| Oiled Golfers, and acknowledge the ownership o
one. fourth Of all the church property In me DIS
tficti ORIENTAL.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-07-07

40 NICE suxMAs DRINKS, 4Jo
Pure lemon and raspberry syrups at tl.b0 per
gallon at 40, nearly opposite the National
hotel. eObt
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-07-07

CAsToRIA Ia more than q substitute for Castor
OIL 1t IL the only safe article In existence which
u certain TO regulate the bowels, cure wind
oholio aud produce natural sleep. II 10 pleasant
babies.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14
DIPLOMATIC ASPIRANTS.

1t is sincerely to be hoped that Judge Pierre
pont will not decline the Russian mission
which has been rendered him by the Presi-
dent He is gentleman of good abilities and
unblemisbed character, and will transact in
creditable manner any diplomatic business
which may come before him at ST. Petersburg.
But there are still stronger negative reasons
for rejoicing over his appointment. 1t is
much better than we had any right
to expect Before Mr.. Orr was dressed
for his funeral, we were informed from Wash
ington that the selection would be made from
among four politicians out OF place-Mr. Bing-
ham, Mr. Settle, Mr.. Pool, and Mr.. Nye. 1t
seemed matter Of course that if a mission
fell vacant it must be given to Congressman
whose district was tired of him. This has
been the rule from the foundation of the Gov
ernment down to this hour. Silas Deane
was sent to France after losing his
place in the Continental Congress, and the
appointment did him no more good than 1t
has done to dozens like him since. The dis
placed Congressman asks for mission be-
cause the time spent in politics has united
him for any other labor. He cannot dig-tO
beg he is not ashamed, and so he makes him
self unpleasant about the State Department
and the White House, worrying for commits
sion as Envoy to q country Of which he
knows nothing, to discharge duties of which
he knows less, and to mingle in life of
which he knows least of all. 1t is not a kind
ness to appoint him. 1t may break his fall to
private life to be exiled at Government ex-
pense for year OF two, but he usually finds
it more expensive to him than to the Govern
ment The salary which appears so princely
TO country lawyer or merchant, dimiuishes
TO less than bare subsistence in European
capital. The life which appears blissful to
ignorance becomes dull and irksome TO ex-
perience. The man who was always q person
of weight and consequence at home, whose
every word was listened to and respectfully
recorded, finds himself cipher In this new
and ill-ftting career, where the language, the
habits and even tho thoughts of his colleagues
are alike strange and alien to him.
This is the case even among aspirants of
the highly respectable class to which Mr.
Bingham belongs. He is capable of good and
efficient work in almost every career which he
might attempt, excepting only the one he is
now striving to enter. In this every good
quality he has would be utterly wasted,
every defect exaggerated and brought
out into bold relief. And if this
be true of man of such real worth
as his, what can be said of the
absurd and DreDOsterous pretensions Of Settle
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14
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THE VIRGINIA DUEL.

One of the most foolish things in this world is
a duel This private war is unlike public war
because it settles nothing When nations fall
out, and fight it out, there is usually treaty
which comedies some claim to one party or to
the other. When two quarrelsome men have
a misunderstanding, when they go into the
field, when one is killed or wounded, or both
are, the cause of the falling out remains the
same and the little honor which is to be
gained by such display of courage must be
shared by both. 1t is not common, whatever
the result, for either party to admit that he
was in the wrong. The apology is not forth
coming-the time has gone by for that. After
all the handshaking and polite speeches which
follow an exchange of shots, a real recOncilla-
tion ia very uncommon. The custom OF fight
ing duels has gone out of fashion, we think,
very much on account of this intrinsic abb
surdity. 1t is only relic of long ago buried
feudalism.
Virginia has always been famous for her
duels. and she has just witnessed one which
proyes that the custom is not quite obso-
lete within her ancient borders. We allude
to the duel between Mordecai and McCarty,
which has Just occurred near Richmond. AS
usual, lady was at the bottom of the bloody
business. She had been, long ago, upon
friendly terms with McCarty, but difficulties
had arisen. and they had become estranged.
Afterward they met at ball, and having been
accidentally placed els uis in the German.
they danced together Upon this very stu
pid sauib was published in The Enquirer and
it turned out that it was written by McCarty
himself. Mr.. Mordecai in club denounced
the verses, and mildly observed that the
writer was "a scoundrel, poltroon, and cow
ard.n McCarty, who was present, avowed
himself the author, and the duel seems to
have followed as matter of course. Both
men were badly wounded-one Of them, per-
haps, fatally.
Now what strikes us at first in this, as IN
accounts of almost all other duels, is the utter
triviality of the cause. In the whole history
of single combats. it is almost incredible tn"t
80 many men should have risked their liVeS LOT
reasons of such utter unimnortance. hundreds
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14
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of men have fought dueis an,' have been killed
because they would not yield upon points Of
no consequence whatever. DuS'ing Ia the
wickedest and the weakest Of all tr.fing with
human life, apart from its other iagrained
and inevitable absurdities. Admitting for q
moment that resort to it is sometimes sons.
what reasonable, it cannot be denied that men
engage in it oftenest not because they have
any deep injury TO avenge, but merely for
fear of being considered towards, just as tive
knights-errant used to meet and to fight with.
out the slightest occasion, and simply because
they thought it necessary to fight whenever
an opportunity presented itself. The Virginia
combatants, gentlemen as they may be, were
in respect of fighting, no moro reasonable
than two whisky-sodden Irishmen cudgelins
each other at Donnybrook Fair.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

and Pool and Nyef What shall be said of
the taste or judgment of an Administration
which seriously considers their clamors And
above all, what Is the state of public opinion
which permits such men to dream for one in
slant of any such position 1t ought TO seem as
ridiculous for Mr.. Settle to think OF being
foreign minister as of being hrst TENOR Oh
the Italian opera. 1t is really as ABSURD tor
Mr.. Pool to imagine himself fit for Envoy to
Russia, as it would be for him to insist upon
playing Hamlet. Language fails us when we
try to find a simile for the genial iudicrouS-
ness of Mr. Nye's diplomatic aspira-
tons. Yet this is the sort OF names
which are daily laid before Mr. FISH
for the dgnifed and important posts nomi-
nally at his disposition. He knows as weii as
any one how grotesque these recommenda-
tons are; yet many of them are ioi-
lowed by appointments under MS manu-
and SEAL 1t is time for gentlemen Oh
integrity and culture who sustain the Admins
tration to throw off the respectful reticence
which has hitherto impeded oil crit-
icism of this class OF appointments.
IL has been taken too much as matter OF
course that the diplomatic service was gOod
for nothing, and that anybody would answer
for q Minister. The scandal at Vienna shows
how this carclessness may bring us to open
and enduring shame. The President ap-
pears to care little for these things,
but he does care for the support
of the better class of Republicans, and
faithful admonition from them would bring
good results. Already it is suggested that
Mr.. Marsh one of the ablest and most digni-
fed representatives of the United States In
Europe-a man whose personal fame adorns
and illustrates his official station-is to be re-
called to make room for some one of these
displaced Congressman. Those who think
best of the President should do most to pre-
vent such mistakes as these.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14
IN.IUNTICK.

What on earth can some second-class Phla-
delphia papers mean by asserting that the New.
York press is habitually and persistently dis.
paraging and striving to damage the Centen.
NAL of 1876f To suppose that any Phia.
delphia editor does not read the New-Yori
newspapers, is as prepOsterous as to imagin,
that man would blindfold himself at Niagara
and be content to listen to the roar of the
torrent. From no quarter has the Philadelphia
or, as we choose to regard 1t, the National
Centennial in Philadelphia, received stronger
words Of encouragement than from The IRIB.
UNE. In season and out Of season have We
urged its claims on popular consideration, and
if, as of late, we have mingled with thh
urgency some grave words OF counsel. the
expression of o hope that Philadelpbis
would in social and moral point Of view,
put her house in order before the guests are
bidden to come, we have done nothing but
what every nght-minded Philadelphia in biz
conscience approves. 1t is the stOlid indiffer.
ence which that community manifests to the
outrages of the infamous Ring which governs
it, and the shameless frauds by which they
secured the power they abuse, that make the sad
symptom of the present and the dark augurl
for the future. viii not 1876 dawn more
brightly if no such mephitic cloud rests upon
Philadelphia Our neighbors would have much
more reason to complain if we were silent "a
to the wrongs they endure, and professed the
faith that the great prospective commemo-
ration would be successful whether conducted
by honest men or rogues.
If we understand it, its initiate sue
cess thus far has been mainly owing Ia
no shadow of suspicion resting on ia
administration. 1t has been managed with
perfect integrity and, in our judgment with
eminent good sense. We have lost no Oppor.
tunity not only of saying this but of express
ing our hope and opinion that the time is not
distant when New-York and other communi-
ties will actively and generously cooperate.
In the mean time. sure are we that nothing
is to be gained by expressions of local jeal'
ousy and idle sectional elimination.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14
Neu'2lork Daily Gribnate.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY, MAY IA, 1873.
Il RIP l. E S III E E T.

The financial crisis Vienna has affected transactions
In other European cities. Carlst conspiracy has
been discovered at Madrid.
Fifty sixty lives lost by cOlliery explosion in
Nova Scotia. == The Congressional Conference as
sembled at St. Louis. 60 The Ohio Constitutional
Convention elected officers.
Three killed by the fall Of stable. and four
by collision at Hell Gate. === Commencement exer-
cises of the Law Department Of the University Of the
City of NewYork were held. 49, Startling disclosures
made relative to street openings in Brooklyn. -
Preliminary work the Boulevard extension Is pro-
ceeding rapidly. 80 Gold, l11i, INA Thermometer,
k6o Coz h2o.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

Now that rapid transit in this city is thing
assured, there is o race to see who snail get
the most privileges of building. The Third
Avenue Railroad corporation, which opposed
nm elevated roadway as "a nuisance" last year,
has secured favorable consideration in the
Assembly of q bill to give it just such road.
This is plainly case of change of mind-if
not of interest Brooklyn, we observe, pro-
noses for itself quick transit line with the
suggestive title of the Brooklyn Elevated Silent
Safety Railway.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

An English correspondent, who discusses
some social topics on our third page, gives
graphic account of the late demonstration in
favor of Manhood Suffrage, made on Newcastle
Moor by GOOOO coalworkers. To say that
100000 took part in the days proceedings. that
sixty brass bands were in the line of march,
and that more than thirty special trains were
required on the railways only family pictures
the great features of the occasion. The demon
stration was orderly, peaceful, and manly.
Better still, the proprietors and authorities
gave countenance and sympathy to the great
affair and the result was that the vast army
of laborers proved conclusively that their pur
pose is not disorder.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

Albany correspondence says that the Gov
ernOr is averse to Westchester annexation and
hostile to Local Option Liquor Prohibition. 1t
is little singular that it should be necessary
now to recall the fact that the Republican
Convention which nominated Gov. Dix in
.,cOryOrated Local Option into the party plat
form But this is what the advocates of the
measure now remind the majority in the Legis-
lature was actually done.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

THE TRIBUNE was largely instrumental last
year in breaking up the system of swindling
which was conducted in the Corporation Coun-
sers office under the disguise of the "Street-
"Opening Bureau" 1t seems that the Brook
lyn Board of City Works has a similar Bureau,
some of whose impositions on Taxpayers are
exposed elsewhere. 1t is evident from this
incomplete story--fOr there is much more yet
to be told-that the people of Brooklyn are
the victims of a skillfully devised and brazen
scheme of plunder.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

Just now, there is lull in the moro active
political affairs of Japan. That vigorous and
novelty loving nation has no other crisis at
this time than financial one. The Yedo cor
respondent of The TRIBUNE, whose letter is
printed on the third page, in summing up the
prospects of the country for the current year,
places the money difficulties of the Govern
ment among its chief trials. Like some other
and younger nations, Japan is afflicted with
a corrupt bureaucracy which resists all at
tempts at financial reform with exasperating
persistence. While the sympathy of the world
is with Japan in its more sentimental strug-
giles toward the light. it looks as if ship
wreck might be made on the rock of practical
financial scieuce-a woful fate for such a
noble experiment. Another subject discussed
by the same correspondent is the coOlie trade,
especially that illustration of it known as the
Maria Luz affair Here, we are compelled to
say, the Japanese Government appears to
better advantage than our own. But as our
misrepresentation has been recalled, we may
console ourselves that the past has been 80 far
atOned.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

There is a Convention at St. Louis of
which the alleged subject and object are Con-
gressmen and Internal Communications. AS
will be seen by our telegraphc advices and
rs is foretOld in an interesting letter from st.
Louis which we print on our fourth page,
the welcome, the Father of Waters, the
wine of Missouri, and the need of
cheap freights, are pressed upon the
assembled Senators and Representatives with
treless assiduity. The Congressman seem to
have been taken in hand at once; interned
like Carlists crossing the frontier; driven in
a body to the public hall; overshadowed by
flags, banners, shields, and emblems. There
is to be an excursion TO Carondelet and the
Iron-works, and the molten contents Of some of
the largest furnaces Will be poured out, in
Welcome to the guests. There is river ex-
cursion which is to take another day. And
there is banquet whereat the blood of the
Missouri grape will drench the altar Of hospi-
tality. All this being accomplished according
to programme it remains only on the fourth
day fer the Congressman to step into tho
palace-cars and start on the excursion to Texas
which closes the Convention. We might
mention that the object of the Convention is
to consult on the proper means of meeting
the Western farmers outcry for cheap
transportation of produce TO Eastern mar
kets. But perhaps we need not go into
this matter here and now. 1t is evident that
the Convention will not. True, the farmers
are terribly in earnest They consider them
selves the victims Of impudent, grasping,
soulless monopolists, who tax TO ruin every
thing carried on their railroads-except Con-
gressmen in palace-cars. But then the farm
ers may congratulate themselves that if this
Convention does them no good, it at least
viii do them no harm. In point of fact,
compared with the last time these Congress-
men were gathered together. this should be
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

The number of violent deaths in the city
yesterday afternoon was unusually large.
Three lives were crushed out by the fall of a
top-heavy stable which had been loaded be-
yond its capacity two men narrowly escaped
the same fate III the ruins of a dilapidated
tenement-house which toppIed over unexpect-
edly; four men were killed by steamboat
collision at Hell Gate; and seven or eight
violent deaths occurred from other causes.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

A shocking case of criminally careless scandal
recently occurred at Omaha. The charge was thai
a clergyman of the city had eioped with lady-ons
of his parishionerS-" an active church member,
Sunday school teacher, and liberal in her contIbu-
tons to all religious objects" The only foundation
of the story was that the lady had gone East to visit
her mother and that the pastor had gone East 70
visit somebody else. The omaha Herald published
the slanderous story, with heavy head lines and
vulgar Details" in its Sunday morning issue. The
friends of the lady at sent TO her the facts and
cutting short her visit she returned to Omaha
Here she called together her church associates and
established her innocence conelusiyely. From thu
we infer that she is woman of grit, and not likely
to die of broken heart because feols have tam
pered with her reputation. But all her sisterhood
are not ike her. Some Of them thus dealt with
would have gone to the nearest water or oougn'
poison and taken it. Some would have pined away
and finally have died of a broken heart. Ii must De
noticed too that the husband of this lady behaved
bravey and sensibly aud never for moment lost
faith in her. for which he deserves good WIFE, and
has certainly got one,
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

speaks to-day. Between the two. we ought
TO be able TO find out what the friends OF the
measure really want.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

We are just beginning to discover the curl
ositics and resources of that part of this con-
tinent which was, q little while ago, marked
"Unexplored Regions" on the school-maps
Lieut. Wheeler's expedition, of which some ac-
count is given on the fourth page of THE
TRIBUNE, to-day, has found not only unique
remains of an extinct and highly civilized
people, but the rarest minerals, crystals, fos-
sils, and other works of Nature, ever found
together in so narrow space. These treas
ures, with enough Indian adventure to make
things interesting, seem to give zest to life
in the Colorado basin which fascinates the
average reader.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

accour ted an occasion of supreme rejoicing.
The most profuse hospitalites are but q orop
in the bucket beside the "salary steal
New-York tribune., 1873-05-14

If the National Government must needs sell
the Revolutionary trophies at Watervllet
Arsenal, it is a relief to know that the State
of New-York may buy them. The Assembly
has passed resolution authorizing such a
purchase, and it is not likely that the Senate
will hesitate at concurrence. The better plan
would be for the War Department to with
draw from sale so much of its catalogue as
includes historical relics; but it is not reason
able to expect that officials who have con-
sented to such wanton sacrifice could be
induced to see their error.