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New-York tribune., 1873-03-03
THE WELFARE OF WORKINGMEy.

In hearty and painstaking efforts to eluci-
date social problems, Massachusetts, takes the
lead among States. Some years ago the Com
monwealth investigated life insurance affairs,
and after due study and statistical compila-
ton, struck on the bedrock of difficulty be-
tween insurers and insured, and legislated ac-
cordingly. The lapsed-policy law of Massa-
chusetts is the foremost step yet made in that
class of legislation. The schoolship was long
and Jealous attempt, resulting In modified
failure, at solving the juvenile depravity
problem in a marine way The great ques
ton whether the State should control
railroads, and if so, to what extent is
undergoing practical test in Massachusetts,,
with, already, mass of exceedingly important
though not yet final results as the product.
We had occasion not long since to notice that
new police system in Boston had made sue
cessfuly the experiment of dispensing with
professional detectives. Out of the ruins of
Boston's great fire new experimental reforms
are springing one of these, in fire insurance,
restricting amounts at risk in given
areas, being the first attempt ever
made in very difficult but greatly
needed reform. But no one of the
problems Massachusetts, has thus investigated
has the intense human interest of that which
was first attacked by the State in 1869, when
the Bureau of Labor Statistics was organized.
We give extended space elsewhere to an alb
stract of the annual report of this Bureau. Its
last years report excited much comment, and
discussion that in some quarters bordered upon
acrimony. The present report confirms the
accuracy of previous statistics
1t is unquestionably true that before any
material Improvement can be effected in
workingmens condition, that condition must
be understood. They reach out for help.
They combine in strikes and remonstrances.
They starve themselves and their families to
carry out their theories of the way to settle
their problems. Sometimes it is wages, some
times short hours, that they demand. And
they are thoroughly in earnest. This report
gives us figures and facts on these subjects in
stead of the indefinite rhodomontade of labor
reform leaders, and the catch-wOrds Of party
banners. The adult male Massachusetts me-
chanic earns on the average less than $3.50 per
year the women workers. less than half that
amount. A sober, industrious workman with
an ordinary family may be able to lay by in
the savings bank $50 per year. But the num-
Der Of those who actually thus ac-
cumulate for many years is not large.
Within the last three years the num-
Der of Withdrawals from savings banks
nearly equals that of the depOsitors. This
means that sickness and pinching poverty
call out the reserve that was intended for old
age. The great proportion Of the money left
in savings banks is deposited there 10 avoid
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03


Whether it be through the languor OF the
Government or the activity of the rebels It IS
difficult at this distance to determine, but there
is no doubt that the Carlist movement gives
signs of increased vitality and Importance
The official journal of Madrid gives enough
accounts of decided victories over the lnsur-
gents to satisfy the most loyal appetite, but
these reports bear the old unmstakable marks
of Government censorship. The insunectlon
is too frequently and too thoroughly crushed
in these dispatches. The national forces never
meet Carist band without routing 1t with
great slaughter and small effort. But by the
side of these rosy statements stands the un-
promising fact that Gen. COntIeras, commanding
in Catalonia, has asked for reenforcements.
The Carlists appear to have everything their
own way in the North and East, where their
strength is increasing in an OminOus manner.
They are destroying railway stations at Will,
laying towns under contribution, and wherever
Don Alfonso enters a village with his stall
and body guard the bells are rung, flags are
displayed, and the population, in great part,
take the opportunity to present their homage.
The Government recognizes the gravity OF the
situation, at least so far as to propose the
organization of provisional army against the
insurgents of 50 battalions, to consist OF 800
men each an evident confession of the strength
of the rebellion and of the inadequacy Of the
regular forces to suppress it,
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03
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EOuNnER RY HORACE GREELEY.
MONDAY. MARCH 3. 1873.

The French Assembly continued the discussion of the
report Of the Committee of Thirty. - band OF
Carlists has been defeated in Spain. - Two marine
disasters have taken place off the English coast
The Senate on Saturday passed the sundry Civil Ap-
propriatiOn bill a number OF bills were also passed
Yesterday =- The House reconsidered the vote on
the salary question.
The Conference Committee Appropriations has de-
cided TO raise the Presidents salary to $4,000 80
written argument by SCHUYLER COax in favor Of re-
newiug Nesbitts contract has been discovered. -
Congress persists in refusing any aid to Louisiana -=
Negotiations with the ModOcs still in progress.
An amateur convict describes his experiences on Black
wells Island 80 A Brooklyn congregation was panic
stricken ==-= Prof. G.. +. Barker lectured on "The
spectroscope" Local fires caused loss Of $4,000.
80 TIE Credit Mobilier is temporarily restrained
from dissolvng. == Gold, 1141, 115s. 115.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC IN DANGER.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC IN DANGER
The discussion of the project of the Com
mittee of Thirty has begun in the French
Chambers. The first important utterance of
the debate came from NJ. Dufaure, who said
that the Government intended to maintain
the Pact of Bordeaux. AS this tacit cOnven-
ton of parties has been violated as often
as any party has found it advisable, there
seems to be some incOngruity in bringing
it forward at this late day as a
living and binding compact. But the
announcement was received with satisfaction
by the Conservatives, who imagine that time
will assist their purposes, after it is once con-
ceded that the Assembly has constituent
powers and that the form of government is as
yet completely undetermined. 1t is well known
that NJ. Dufaure is more frankly monarchist
than the rest of the Cabinet. and it is proba-
BILE that the Conservative resolutions of the
Committee and of the Government lost moth
ing of their force in his language. But
it is impossible that be should have taken up
such an unequivocal position without the sane
ton of the President. The most reasonable
inference would be, therefore, that the Presi-
dent has resolved, for the present at least, to
manage the Chambers by means of conces-
sions TO the majority instead Of making an
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03
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taxation and is not in any ordinary sense the
savings of the laboring classes. One OF tne most
remarkable facts az to savings banks Is that
the depositors of the native laboring classes
are principally unmarried men, the instances
being apparently rare where married men'
with increasing families, save anything.
That the condition of the workingman mas
been improving slightly year by year, ana that
IL ia far better in Massachusetts, than anywhere
in Europe, we usually take for granted. but
really there is no ameliOration to speak OF with
very great satisfaction, while on the average
for family of more than five persons there
ia annually expended, for the cost OF livlng, d
total of less than $500 per annum. The detaiS
of this expenditure are curious. There Is more
Maid for newspapers and literature by these
neonle than there is for light, or for
society. or for charity: but tWlce do
much is paid out for sickness, and more tnan
that for recreation and travel. Vegetables cost
nearly twice as much as religion furniture
moro than double education. The tendency 10
tbeorize upon such statistics inevitably shows
itself in the Report The manager OF the
Lynn Savings Bank recommends TO the
workman "the reading of the life OF
CDR. Franklin and the study OF inter
"est, simple and compound" But that
the most of the work-people live from hand
TO mouth and save nothing that they are at
times oppressed by debt and penury' and are
rarely comfortable in their circumstances /;
and that those among them who have re-
ceived the most advantages of education are
the best able to extricate themselves and thelr
families from such conditions, are conclusions
which it is impossible to avoid 1t looks as
though the ultimate moral of labor STATISTICS
may be COMPULSORY education.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03
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COOPER Observation-Disclosures. DIR. Cotton
ST. JAMES THEATER.-Burlesque Opera G Swayne
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Tony PAsroR's OPERA HoUsE.-Vareties.
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New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

The newspapers of Paris are delighted at the result
of a little battle which has just taken place among
the Serene Immortals of the Academy. In their
tranquil progress through the Dictionary the Forty
have arrived pretty nearly at the conclusion of the
letter G. In one of their sessions recently, where
words were weighed and winnowed like jewels, the
word "Guillotine" came upfor judgment, and while
it's secondary meanings were under discussion, the
compound word Guillotine-windOw" was proposed
for admission into good verbal society This is
the common designation among joiners of windows
which are raised and lowered by running cords 1t
was about to 90 in as a technical term, when NJ.
Cuvlier.Fleury, the most intensely decOrOus and
dull of all that Orleanst contingent brought in by
NJ GuizOt and NJ. Theirs, objected strongly, saying
that the word was improper" that it excited I'M
satisfactory emotions. NJ. Cuviler-Fleury is so
respectable an elderly gentleman that no one cared
TO dispute the point of taste with him. SO the
culinary carpenters term put out into the outer
darkness Of slang. But at the next meeting Nj. Jules
Fayre was present and contended that lexicography
was not to that extent matter of nerves and taste
there must be words in dictionary not agreeable to
the tea-tabes of spinsters and that word used in
a certain sense by trade must be given in that
sense by lexicons. If nobody would answer N.
Cuyiier-Fleury, nobody could answer NJ Favre, so
the obnoxious word went n and the Twentieth
century may shudder, in turning the leaves of the
New Dictionary of the Academy, to find it among
the other horrors of our cotemporary civilization.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

THE TRIBUNE prints his morning. IN an eJtra sheet Of
eight pages a complete rtsum< Of The entire Cr6d Aobier
inrestgation The reports Wh,eh hare for tioO months
numbered the papers carefully condensed, p'nnoUed
OF erraneous matter, and presented IN clear and net
0snt share eihoa note comment The public thus hare
gathered togeer in a single sheet of eight pages the net
result of the Investigation in form for preservation or
for ready reference Single copies Of the sheet are sent by
mail for 10 eens copies for 10 cents or Ve copies for
as CENTS The usual discount to The trade.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

ture of the bill ia that which dates the IN
crease of Congressmen's pay back TO 1911
This is retained but those who were pre-
vailed on to vote the scheme through nave
submitted to reduction of their grab; thelr
consciences are probably freer.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

Unless some unforeseen good fortune at
tends the promoters of the Agricultural Col
Iege bill, their great scheme is dead for this
Congress. Ninety-fOur millions is a good
round, tempting sum; we may expect to see
the plan for taking that amount from the
Treasury once more alive and vigorous in the
next Congress.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

When two lads each not over eighteen years On
age attempt murder complicated with highway rob
berry, we can only contemplate such precocious de-
pravity with mixed feelings of wonder and regret.
Ira Bliss over seventy years of is station-master
at Burnside, Conn. On a recent evening he was
waylaid. struck down. robbed of his watch and
money and left bleeding and senseless in the snow
to perish upon a freezing night the dastardly deed
being done by couple of boys, Dynes and Graves.
the former being. it is said one of tho most de-
PRAYED lads in Connecticut. They have confessed
the crime, and also the preparation of a recent
burglary. Sngularly enough, at the last account.
they were both babies enough to be crying in Jail
over the scrape which they have got themselves
into. Both will have ample opportunity for reiec-
ton. unless the poor old man should happen to die.
which is said to be not improbable.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

Symptoms begin to manifest themselves of tho
rush. ioste, ebowing and general congregational
disturbance which appertains to Inauguration Day.
Rooms have been engaged at the hotels b. people in
all parts of the country, and front room on Penn
sylyania-ave can only be had upon payment OF
princely sum. The project of Grand Ball has ex-
cited gentleman in Ithaca to write to the Commit
tee to propose Grand Prayer-meeting instead. but
we believe that the proposition has not been favor
ably entertained. 'Tis old story this passion OF
mankind and of wOmankind for being crowded and
for seeing things in great companies The noble
distinction of not having witnessed what everybody
else has witnessed does not to us to be duly ap-
preciated
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

We have already noticed meeting of clergymen
in Boston, called to devise measures to prevent the
opening of the Free Public Library OH Sunday. We
regret to record display on the occasion of what
seems to us illiberalty. The Rev. WIN. b. Wright OF
the Berkeley-st Church, highly respectable clergy
man whose piety has never been questioned and
whose intellectual ability has been equally admitted.
attended the meeting and expressed himself in favor
of opening the Library Sunday. Upon this he
was told that he was an intruder, and was further
given to understand by the Rev. j. ID. Fulton that
he was out of place in that meeting and need not
come to the next" The Rev. Mr. Fulton adopts
a poor way of promoting the object which he pro-
tesses to have so much at heart.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

Unless the story told by certain female prisoners
confined in the NorthGerman criminal prison at
Cutzow is entirely false there is appalling state
of things existing in the prisons of that region. IL
is in evidence that the warden and the matron Of
the female department have a practically unlimited
discretion i'm regard TO the nfcton of physical
punishment and that they make the fullest use OF
their opportunity frequently Hogging ngdecate women
with birch or rattan rods until they fall insensibls
under the torture. One victim of these Outrages
had sufficient spirit to complain Of them and tho
perpetrators have been arrested and the matter il
undergoing investigation. Il is impossible TO say
how long these infamies may have continued before
this energetic woman determined to drag them to
light As long as all inspection, except that OF q
merely formal constructive official character. ~
excluded from prisons and asylums there is no safe
guard against the cruelty and brutal caprice OF
keepers and wardens. The story of the prisoners OF
Cutzow is not without its lesson for our Blooming
dales and Auburns.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

Mr.. Charles f. Fitch delivered lecture on Jour
nasm." on the 26th ut., at Syracuse, N. u, under
the auspices of The University Herald Association
Mr.. Fitch took ii for granted that Journalism has
been elevated to the dignity of profession. requir
ing as well as soliciting the best brain power" AS
suming the necessity of the newspaper. the lecturer
advocated the establishment of Especial schools of
journalism" in which thorough education for
newspaper work might DO obtained, and by which
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

Here is an illustration of what we have ovor and
over again saidthat difference of in the worker
should make no difference of wages. In the Post
Office Department two young ladies' We are told.
who do all the transating for the office The work
very severe and it is proposed TO give each of tho
ladies salary of $1,000 per annum. The place pre-
supposes thorough knowledge of four languages
man filling it would not think himself oyerpaid
if he received $1,000 $4,000. woman, it seems.
does not now get 1000, though hope she will.
We frequently receive communications explaining
to us that women should not receive wages SD high
as mems for the same work, but we have not yet
been converted to any such doctrine.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

We published the other day an article giving the
points of history which came to pass in neghboring
city wherein an American girl threw herself away
for love of dark-eyed Hidalgo, who was taking
vacation from his barber-shop and indulging in the
peaceful pursuit of a dowry The article has reused
the ire of another gentle stranger evidently engaged
in the same business, who, imagining himself the
sportsman referred to- writes to in high wrath TO
yindicate not his conscience but his prudence. He
says:
at happens that the Father had nothing 10 give and
the Spanish Hidalgo too smart to be cajoed into
trap designed to make him take the daughter in dis
honorable The high sense OF honor OF his Cas-
tan pride, has been shoked that he has a very
diplomatic manner withdrawn himself from any further
contact With the family. He Is now enjoying all the
prestige OF society In the very city in which this ia sup
posed to have occurred and little wiser in his exper
encc OF how matches are made and how daughters
disposed discarded from their parents protection for
the sake OF launching them into matrimonial life.
Far from being discouraged, he does not abandon his
profession which Is the study OF the law with an ample
fortune to back him.
He hopes 10 be married, under better auspices how
than the supposed receipt of $4,000 check which
very few fathers In the said community can give aud
less father Of this brilliant daughter OF Eve.
friend in need is IA friend indeed. T.,
February 18th 70. Ledger Ogce
We think that it would be hard to find serener
picture of impudence and baseness than is uncon-
sciously drawn in this letter. since that most mas
terly delineation of a Thoroughbred scoundre in
Thackeray's Luck of Barry Lyndon"
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

This time the Treasury Department has
kept its promises. The reduction of the
Public Debt was s5,277,8SO during the month
of February. The amount is generous, and
the condition of the Treasury is improved.
The last year of the Presidential term closes
with fair financial prospects and leaves good
margin for the new one.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

Gen. Buffers often killed Salary bill has
more lives than a cat. 1t is now in the hands
of q Conference Committee, having been
brought to life on Saturday and tackled TO an
Appropriation. The chiefly Objectionable fea-
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

We must cenfess that indignation has been
greatly excited by letter from a clergyman which
is published in The Adpdnce newspaper. The rev.
erend gentleman says that his salary is too little ;
that ii is not, small it is. promptly paid; that eff
forts to supplement it have injured his work, his
health, and his spirits; that he has sold precious
things from his house at less than half their value
to meet debts; more shameful than all, as we think
three times books from his scanty library have gone
to the auction room, selling of course, at from 80 to
40 per cent below what they cost; his wife has in-
jured her health by over-work; and meanwhile the
parish work is blessed and prospers We decline to
offer a word of comment upon this touching state
ment.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-03

How does a man feel when he is full Of strychninef
Very few persons who have taken dose OF that
potent poison have survived to .ell the scientific
tale. Dr. Harris an assayer at Gold Hill. Nevada.
was taking solution of strychniDe for rheumatism.
In the bottle was only one dose left and there wasa
good deal Of sediment at the bottom, which DIR.
Harris swallowed. Half an hour after, while IN bed.
lie was struck senseless and speeches.. lie WA
reading at this time with candle in his hand, but
he recovered from the shock in time TO prevent the
bed-clothes from taking fire. Then he knew that he
had swallowed strychnine. Shocks and commissions
followed from half past ten TO twelve O'Clock. He
says he felt like a man broken upon the wheel and
the last shock left him helpless and stiff He had
taken two doses of sweet oil, which had some
effect. Then until six o'clock nc experienced shocks
like those of galvanic battery He could not stir
hand or foot, and any attemp. to turn his head
brought new spasm. Soon after SIX o'clock no
began TO recover and at ten o'clock m he was able
to write communication to newspaper. warning
people to beware Of over-dOses and settings.