New-York tribune., 1873-01-01
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FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1. 1873.
Mr. Robert Bowles has been committed for trial in
London ==== report has been made in the case Of
Marshal Bazaine.
The ice at Cincinnati did considerable damage. -
Destructive fires occurred at Montreal, Galesburgh, Ill.,
and elsewhere. -= A wife murderer at Indianapolis
committed suicide.
Commodore Vanderbilt. Horace F. Clark, and others
testified IN the stokes trial. Fragments OF bodies
were found in the Centre-st ruins. === fve-story
paper warehouse fell in Brooklyn. - Prot. Tyndal
delivered his closing lecture. =- Gold. 1l2, 1924.
Thermometer, go, 800, $50.
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THE TRIBUNE will republish tomorrow, on
a sheet of four pages, the full series of its
reports of Prof. Tyndall's Lectures, carefully
revised and corrected, with all the illustrations.
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We are told that Mr. Wheeler II. Peckham
is trying to establish his reputation as a
lawyer in the Ring cases, by abusive news
paper writing. We can tell Mr.. Peckham a
better way. Let him frame an indictment
that will hold together. When he does that,
he may be sure of plenty of praise.
David Strauss shares with Ernest Renan the
leadership of the ratiOnalists of Europe. His
new wOrk-"The Old and New Faith n-seems
to be a declaration of war as well as declara-
ton of faith. Our Berlin correspondent, whose
letter is printed on the sixth page of THE
TRIBUNE, to-day, gives a fair summary of the
main features of the work. which will interest
the curious.
1t is curious comment on orr present sys-
TEN of Civil Service that rlhl0r of the res
ignatiOn of the Head of a Department does
much to demOralize it, 1t is complained that
the Cabinet officer in question Is annoyed be-
cause his subOrdlnates believe that he will go
out of Office, and "behave accordingly"
What is it to behave accordingly And is
not behaving accordingly direct violation of
our admirable Civil Service rulesf
Ont of the ruins of the Centre-st fire have
been recovered the remains of but one human
being, known and identified The finding,
Yesterday and day before of few poor frag-
ments of something that was once man or
woman, tells a tragical tale. The fierce heat
of the funeral pyre must have utterly con-
sumed most of the remaining victims, OF whom
six are yet unaccOunted for. The tale of the
dead can never be completed.
One of the curiOsities of Indian warfare is
the introduction of howitzers and shells in
the siege of the Modocs of Oregon. The In
dians are intrenched in cave which, with Its
ramificatiOns, embraces an area of several
acres in extent. To dislOdge them will be
next to impossible, unless they are starved
out; in which case, we must suppose, they
will be exterminated by the besiegers, and
there will be a prompt solution of the whole
question.
The German Minister at Washington is 80
sensitive for the credit of his country that he
has been betrayed into some irritation. His
letter to Washington journal denying the
statements that German cOnvicts had been
banished to the United States, instead of be-
ing sent to Jail, shows some natural indigna-
ton; but it does not seem possible, as the
Minister intimates, that any person has in
vented these tales in order to ALLEVIATE Ger
man. Americans from their native land.
Whoever else may approve of New Years
calls, it is very clear that Gen. Myers does
not. Ever since he took charge of the bureau
of meteorolOgy the First of January has been
absolutely impracticable in NewYork, and
to-day promises to be no exception to the
rsle. There will not be carriages enough in
the city to-day TO serve the pilgrims of sOci-
ETY., and dried pease in the penitential shOon
would be nothing to the trials those luckless
ones will undergo who essay their tour of duty
ON foot. A few more days like this and We
shall come TO sending our visiting cards by
mail. as is the lazy custom in many capitals
of Europe. The subjects of effete despotisms
have, however, this advantage over us, that
their post-oiIices really deliver their letters.
Even in Nevada there seems to be popular
dissatisfaction with the caucus system OF elect
ing Senators. We are gravely told that
" notwithstanding the fact that Jones, the
regular affinity of the Republican party, is as
good as elected-thOugh the Legislature has
not cOnvened-there is q strong effort to secure
a coalition of disaffected Republicans and
Democrats TO elect another man. This IS
bad business; the local Administration organ
evidently thinks 50, for it says if the public