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Exhibitions at the Public Schools
= - lott and Racine Schools.
HIGH SCHOOL,

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s,s5 tro,, stroot...r lila. vjtb Grammar aud dic.
anu from esEoo1-car r'ooS Will sFa,'i"ar a.o "4o'
tlonary In her arms !. tho aey on
which she Is to receive hor ova-'
=: fn1t from nil to ca1orv. aba1l applaud her ~
,tou ~ ~ ,., r,,, "0 r1,p s1.aa1 -,
nols's "s W. :. ~ Nouso', +no .,.a
ronts tako natural pride in tho progress Of
tho;r Children and tho Young men roiolco at the
coming Of tho tiu,o %hon Mr., plokara shall
omnnepate % tic tic bovy Of girls whom ho has hold
III bondage, aud laave them FREQ to be wood
and won by tho Fairy Princes who havo boon
,,noh,o In nntar t1,e n1osc1y.rnarfad 11{ch scbno
w1sr Ann x1nn1x.
Tho Board OF Education dld wisc and kindly
thing when they selected MoVickor's as tho place
for holding these exeroises. It ia central, mud
erowda t,,t .1wava ot,ond ttoso 7ra,,a odro,.
crowds that always atteno .heso gfaha oauea-
tlonol matinees BY tho High School company,
George Howland, Es1.,, stage manager. Ncarly
ali nrosont Yesterday Ind haon at Mcv;c,for'a
hcforo rhcv Ind va,vnea ovor lin ,no,it;op of
peioie tnos n"o sa"ne. o'ot nv luaIi,es VI
ha,G M rulnam OF gfoanea IN spt1' sI., over rover
But yesterday, under tile leadership Of tho Board
+. Of Education, they found tho theatre ro-
deemed, aud tho stage filled with
fair faces aud frcai', tasteful dresses, aud they
interesting than tho speeches in most modern
plays.
THE ArTESpANoE.
Ladies mid with girls. There are sights which it
is impossible to describe. II any ono who WINS
not present wishes to see tho house az 1t looked
yesterday, lot him get drunk on old vino, and fall
with tho portrait of his pwcethcart before Lis
doing eyes, and he will SEQ visions which will
partly reproduce tho appearance Of tho audi
forum at A1oVickor's. Ono side Of tho ntago
was occupied by the fonalo graduates,
and the otter by tho members Of
tho Board of Education eycn tho most
unmarried Of them wearing paternal mir, and
sceming to bo ever on tho point OF saying
s'Bless you, my children" 0fr. Carter, OF tho
Board OF Public Works, was also present, ro-
turning to his frat loves, and mindful Of tho
days when he had lnslcd diplomas to tho grla
Of other yoars AID. Dixon, Moore, and
others wero also present. It is at
, 1873-06-28

The naulos Of
Rate L. Allen,
h1. L. Anderson,
f. II. Dacot,,
Mary Z. 1}ar;roHB,
o. J. Burrows,
II. L. ,Dor1l,aM,
Annio NJ. Collins,
]. A. Ourran,
Wn1. Il. Davis,
1essiB F. DAy,
". L. DoaYo!f,
4. L. Dow,lH,
Jonnic E.Loonard
Kato Mcclure,
F. ". hfc1)oni!ou.
hI.W. N1c1Villlau1s
Nnrn n. hfHttt1nn-
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qnocx 10 Advertisements.


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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-12
A BULL IN 4 CHINA SHOP.

Postmaster Filley, of st. Louis has been
carrying out to its legitimate conclusion the
practice Of levying assessments for various
purposes on the salaries of Government en-
poyes. There is no election pending in Mis-
souri, but the Postmaster has been obliged to
raise money to defray sundry expenses which
may be described as semi-official. For ex-
ample, the Government, ever niggardly in the
matter of Office furniture and incidentally
did not furnish Postmaster Filley's official
quarters with the splendor which a $1,000
postmaster had the right to expect. Then, as
Postmaster of st. Louis, he had to entertain
distinguished strangers. In this representative
capacity he received, dined, and wined the
President of the United States on a recent
occasion at an expense, it is plaintively
alleged, of 5000. Then there were occasional
presents to high functionaries; all of which, we
may suppose, severely wrung the purse Of the
$4,000 postmaster. Mr.. Filey, we understand,
was prosperous crockery merchant before
he embarked in the perilous business of
politics; and when he became an influential
Republican he was forced to allow the china
trade to 90 to smash-if we may use the ex-
preston. Therefore put to his trumps he
naturally thought that one common practice
Of official politics, at least, was good all the
year round. Taught by precept, experience,
and example that the salaries of Government
appointees were the legitimate pasturaee of
the Government Gas peIsonifed in the
ADMINISTRATOR he levied an assessment of
five per cent on the salaries of the cerks
porters, and letter-carriers. These afflicted
persons paid but howled They had been
presented with the alternative of Pay or
Resign; they liked their places, as is the
manner of Government officials, and they paid.
The wary Filley is said to have compelled
each man to sign pledge setting forth
that he paid the assessment voluntarily and
that he approved of the Postmaster's refusal
to give any reason for this untimely levy.
But the news got out nevertheless. Prom
inent st. Louis Republicans Indignantly de-
handed the removal of Postmaster Filey:
the Post-0hice Department was thrown
into convulsons of wrath, and the Presi
dent, who had originally given the
offending official the choice of this Office
among seven or eight other nice places, nrose
in his anger and vowed that the Postmaster
at st. Louis should be removed just as soon
as these alleged facts were formally proved
against him. Meantime. MT. Postmaster Filley
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is amazed that there should such difference
be 'twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.

is amazed that there should such difference
be 'twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.
Republican journals profess much righteous
but wholly misplaced indignation over this
novel business. They eagerly disclaim having
invented assessments of officials for political
purposes. IL is an old abuse, say they, which
we found standing when we came into power.
We have used it industriously but we never
expected it would run into this sort of thing.
As for this offender, kick him out at once.
Fair and softly, gentlemen; you are quite
too hard upon Postmaster Filley. When he
left the crOckery business for Republican
politics he was taught that one of the
first duties of diligent and faithful
official was that of levying and paying
tribute. He knew that his office was
to be farmed out; all offices are
What is the difference between levying
assessments for buying banners, torchlights,
speeches. newspapers votes, and other things,
and collecting similar contributions for Office
carpets and chandeliers, champagne AID ter
rapin for Presidential banquets, tributary gifts
and hospitable entertainment Mr. Postmas-
ter Filley could see none; so he levied the
contributions and established sort of Postal
Sinking Fund for Extraordinary Emergencies.
Wise Filley! Wiser in his day and generation
than the men who believe that the salaries of
Government clerks and employees are as wholly
their own as though they were in the pay of
private individuals or corporations.
We are glad that Mr.. Postmaster Filley has
done this thing. 1t needed some such practi
cal application of an old political rule to show
its utterly mischievous tendency and injus-
tlce 1t was just as right and fit that the st.
Louis Postmaster should collect contributions
from his poor subordinates for the purpose of
keeping up the dignity of his Office as it was
for him (and thousands like bim) to levy as
sessments for the purely political purposes of
the party in power. When he collected a tax
to fit up his Office and pay for the Presidents
dinner, he did no meaner nor more illegal
thing than did Senator Harlan when he
assessed the Pacific Railroad Corporation
$4,000 to carry the Senatorial election in Iowa.
1t was no more illegitmate than any of the
oppressive assessments which were levied in
the Custom houses, Post Offices, and Revenue
Offices of the Republic last Summer, when
money was needed to carry the Fall elections
for the Administration. The st. Louis Post
master may be bull in a china shop; great
is the smashing Of tho crockery whichever
way he turns is ruin. But the party that put
him in there and set his head in the way of
infinite mischief is responsible for the crash
and The damage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-12

see no reason why the process OF catching
murderers should be made a public amuse-
ment any more than catching vermin. No
sane man would treat himself or his boys or
daughters to a visit to rat-pit; yet many jour
nails serve up to them every morning the foul
est details Of the last murder, or adultery
trial. What possible argument can justify
the publicity which precedes, or indeed fol-
lows any trialf When an old and respected
citizen like Mr.. Nathan, or citizen who is
not old nor respected, is butchered, it concerns
every man and woman in New-York to know
that full justice is meted out to the offenders;
but the melting out of it belongs to the
courts. 1t is not any latent love OF justice
which fills the columns of the daily journals
with the history of the pursuit of suspected
men, or insures them eager readers, but the
same taste which draws Spanish women to
see men done to death by bulls or Roman
women to watch gladiators hew and hack
each other.
The Council Of Ten has been much abused
institution so long time that every school-boy
has had bis fling at it, together with the " In
"quisition and the rotten monarchies of Eu-
rope,p as an enemy of liberty; but it had its
advantages. The innocent man was con-
demned by less than dozen masked old
gentlemen, who were bound to keep their own
counsel for their own sakes; the whole nation
was not called in to partake of their injustice;
and the guilty man, as he tumbled into the
canal in sack. had the consolation of know
ing that was really the end of him. He would
not be visited in his last gasp by score OF
reporters, nor have his coffin and corpse pho
tographed for the morning papers. There are
many items of the civilization Of these effete
monarchies which we may study to advantage
if we do not borrow them.
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in the party. Only one man In the Con-
vention walked boldly out from I'M
der Mr.. Buffers incantations. freeman
Clarke stood up and showed the way
That way some of these days, If respectable
Massachusetts, would escape Butler she must
follow in. So long as her good and goodish men
hesitate and bubble and stick to party, so long
MIR. Butler stays and wrestles with them ana a
will not be nut down. And he will win at it
vet Would MT it have been better if al the
honest and respectable portion of the Massa-
chusetts Republicans had stood up in front OF
Mr. Butlcr on wednesday and said with Free
man Clarke. ayes. we do propose to bolt il
"you are nominated, and we give you tne Saine
"privilege if you are not% That would nave
apdad IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-12

SOWING And REAPIhG.

There was some very severe reproot III ex-
Governor Bullock's address at Worcester,-all
the more severe because it was cOuched in
such moderate language. Nothing could have
been more courteous than his illusions to the
President, nothing more cordial than his
tributes to the Republican party; yet when he
spoke of the scandalous Irregularities and
irnmoralitiesn which have sprung up in the
public service, cat first denied, next cOnnived
cat, and afterward condoned under the
"pressure of impending elections" everybody
knew what he meant and was a little startled at
his temerity. Mr.. Bullock is not sensation
alist. He represents the quiet, respectable, well
balanced loyalty Of the old Bay State, and
when he ventures to rebuke the misconduct
Of his own party we may be assured OF
deep seated and general dissatisfaction. Prob
ably it was not the financial irregularities of
certain Republican leaders which stirred up
the little Massachusetts revolt, 40 much as the
corrupt use of the patronage and authority of
the Administration recently exerted to fasten
upon the party a candidate who must disgrace
it. Massachusetts, might wink at the Credit
Mobilier but she could not tolerate an attack
upon her independence.
OF course we are glad that she rebelled;
and yet we do not see how she could excuse
herself for doing so. The measure that has
been melted out to her she has sustained Gen.
Grant in applying to other States. The Adj
minlstration forced upon reluctant Louisiana
not only Governor, but Legislature. 1t
nearly succeeded in doing the same thing in
Arkansas. 1t contracted with Senator Spen-
Ger for the control of Alabama. 1t busted
itself more or less in the private con-
Germs. Of all the Southern States. Nay, not
to go so far from home. what did
it attempt few months ago in New
York; Most Of the Custom-house leaders in
this city are not whit more respectable or
more honest than Gen. Butler, and it was only
a family quarrel which prevented the Admin
istratiou from throwing the whole State into
their hands. The Republicans of Massachu-
sets virtually gave their approval to all these
wrongs, and now they have been reaping the
harvest that they planted
The moral of it all is that, in politics as in
business, honesty is the best policy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-12
TIE NATHAN MURDERER AGAIN.

Whether the police are right in this last
guess at the Nathan murderer or not, one fact
is indisputably proved by 1.-THE ineficiency
and injustice of the system under which they
work. When murder occurs which is fol-
lowed by the offer of a large reward, as in
this case, the sole object thereafter appears to
be the discovery of somebody to hang. One
Door wretch after another is unearthed,
dragged before the public, all his deeds and
misdeeds exposed, press and police striving to
outcry each other in the exposure, and, if it
is impossible to fix the crime upon him, dis
missed in the condition of hare torn by the
hounds. This may be energy, but it is neither
policy nor justice. This pursuit of this very
Nathan murderer has blackened the character,
by SUSPICION, of half dozen innocent men,
and given the criminal every facility for con-
cealment. The police, unfortunately, are not
interested in reestablishing the innocence of
the men they accuse as they were of
proving their guilt They usually, therefore,
after publishing all the evidence against them,
and finding it insufficient, suddenly become
silent, and the victims are regarded by friends
and neighbors thereafter as guilty of some
crime-non-proren, as the Scotch Courts have
it. Whether 1t il most justifiable to take a
mans life for money, or willfully to slaughter
half dozen mems regulations for the same
incentive, is matter of question. We have no
desire that murderers in general, or this
Especial murderer, should be left TO pursue
their ungente vocation in peace, but we do
particularly object to being summoned every
month to admire the dexterity of the police
in catching the wrong man. He who would
trap a rat does not sound tantarara to
fIighten all rats in the house into their holes
solely for the pleasure of hearing himself
blow it.
To 20 to tho bottom Of tho matter. too, we
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UNION SQUARE THEATER.
MIR. RowE's MICAwBER.

On Wednesday night at the Union Square
Theater large concourse OF delighted spectators saw.
for the first time this season, Mr.. George Fawoett
Rowes personaton OF MicGgber-a work that is remark
able for grotesque humor, tenderness OF feeling
and entire symmetry OF form. Mr.. Rowe appeared n a
play written by himself comprising IN three its.
of the best Micawber episodes in the novel OF David
Copperneld" Tits neatly constructed and vigorously
written piece, and elaborate aud adequate than
the brefer sketch in which this comedian appeared at
this theater last Mr. Rowe has elaborated his
heaeeer to the last detail OF finish but. which moro
TO the purpose, he has caught the spirit OF tho
difficult original, and he makes his hero q
man TO be loved as well laughed at.
He was welcomed with the heartest applause and re-
warded with peals of laughter and marks OF honest aud
earnest admiration. The humOr OF Mr.. Rowe, In this
character comcay unctuous like that OF Burton.
but IL is lust as dnely touched with humanity. and.
though in different way. 10 ~ Just rs droli aud his
artistic method is natural, graceful and very TAR re-
moved from the turbulent style Of recent Mcaw-
beers. Mr.. t. r. Mackay was again seen and admired Ia
his strong feline reptile-ko Improvisation OF Heep-
The Vokes Family. laying aside "Fun In Fog" re-
appeared on this occasion in :" The Bellies OF tho
Kitohon;" and. they known 70 be excessively
spirited ana amusing this piece the evening as may
no Inferred was OF general JOY TAs entertainments
"a very strong ono IN humorous ecmentswili keep its
naoe on the square til tho commencement
oi the regular seaaon, on september 80
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-12

In the Canadian railway investigation, D. MeMulen
testified positively to Sir Hugh Alans negotiations with
Americans and Sir John Macdonald notice that the
did not consider itself affected by such evil
dence. 60 Senior salmeron urges the Cortes to give
President CASTELAR, cordial support 80 Liberal
procession at Tralee Ireland was assailed by mob
The Navy Department approves Commander Greer's
course in regard the Polaris. 49, The Massachu-
setts resolutions caused surprise and afford disappon
ment In Washington == The National Pork Packers
Convention in Chicago decided 10 have uniform rules
throughout the trade. The captives Satanic and
Big Tree at Fort sin, awaiting the Indian Council
$50 Postmaster Filley ceDsured for making as
easements by Republican County Committee -
The Mayor Of Shreveport asks for aid because OF
the yellow fever there: St. Louis is sending
some. There we're large fires in Forest Hill and
Redding both IN California. = severe rain-storm at
and near Brownsville Texas, has injured shipping $50
coored celebration 70 prepare for the Centennial Of rs
was held in Camden, n J. =- Mr. Dodge of the Agri-
cultural Department found statistics neglected in Eu
rope g. The senior seul race the Saratoga Regatta
was won by Courtney, Of Union Springs Y, and the
four-oared shell race by the Argonauts Of Toronto.
The Liberal Republican State Executive Committee
issued call for State Convention u be held at Elmra
on oct g. The Senatorial Committee listened 70 the
statements of railroad agents in regard 90 transpora
ton; merchants approved Of the Cooper Institute
demonstration. =-= The State Board OF Charities
regulated the appointment OF visiting COM
mittees. So The Board OF Supervisors discussed
the Tax and Assessment reports. The receipts
of COTTON at shipping ports show vast In
crease In the crop the previous season. ==
CHE police denounced irving, the alleged Nathan
snurder-accompHce, as an impostor. == The examina
tion of the Brooklyn Departments will be conducted by
Aldermen Ropes. So After three dead heats Binga-
man beat Mart Jordan at Prospect Park. === Arthur
M Prime accused Of perjury at the Kelsey inquest was
committed 10 await the cotton Of the Grand Jury 60
mass meeting OF Newark citizens advocated search
fog investigation OF alleged municipal frauds and ap-
pointed Committee Of One Hundred for the purpose.
- Jersey City's Board Of Public Works was aeQuit-
ted and case was tried against two OF Its members
So Gold, Ill, 1ul, lli. Thermometer 90 'Ot' co.,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-12

We print to-day additional dispatches con-
corning the expedition in search of the
Polaris, from which it will be seen that there
is abundant reason to expect that the missing
Buddngton party are safe. The deserted
camp of the Polaris, perhaps, did not yield so
much information concerning the movements
of its former occupants as might have been
hoped. But, unless experts are greatly in
error we shall be able before long to supply
all the missing links in the chain OF the
Polaris mystery by the discovery OF the
missing members of the ships company. DR..
Petermann, the renowned geographer, has
written very warm letter to the Secretary
of the Navy, expressing his qualification in
the noble results of the POlaris expedition.
This eminent authority handsomely aceords
to the American discoveries the credit OF
reaching the highest point in the Polar
Regions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-12

One of the know nothing witnesses before
the Royal Commission on the Canadian Rail
way scandal said, yesterday, that he was
"dull of hearing and bis memory was slightly
impaired" Every one of the witnesses might
say as much; more unwilling and vacant
group of Opponents have not been heard OF
since the days when Cakes Amess famous
memorandum book suddenly refreshed the
memories of about one hundred American
Congressman. The Royal Commission has
been worrying great deal over the
possibility that some of the testimony
may bear upon the icharge that the Govern
ment favored the intervention of American
interests in the Pacific Railroad scheme Sir
John A. Macdonald has at last felt obliged to
give notice that the Government did not con-
slider itself affected by any such evidence.
The fact is that the American influence
bugbear has been too long blind. The only
question to be determined is, Did the Cana
dian Ministry sell the Pacific Railroad con-
tract to Allan and his associates