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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-10

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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-10

Ellburnville, Pa.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10
4 NEW.yORK VORLUS FAIR.

There has never been an hour since the
New-York Crystal Palace was opened in Res
ervoir-square that this city has not felt the
impulse it received at that industrial exhibit
ton The difficulties which that enterprise
encountered may yet be fresh in the minds Of
some of our readers. There were croakers
without number who darkened the air with
dismal predictions of its failure. If
we recollect Alright, some of its strongest
supporters gave signs Of dependency at what
seemed a critical period in the history of the
undertaking. Even up to the very day of its
opening, the success of the exhibition was
regarded by its best friends as doubtful
Now, looking back upon the extraordinary
impulse which the Crystal Palace gave to our
city's prosperity, such doubts seem almost in
credible. We can see now that if every dollar
of the original investment had been lost, our
community would yet have been the gamer
by the Exhibition. 1t was not only that
visitors crowded in from a distance. 1t was
not merely that a marvellous display Of at
tractive goods was spread beneath few acres
of glass 1t was not simply that we had
bigger and better "fair" than ever be-
fore. 1t was that New-YOrk for the first
time in its history took rank among
the great cities of the world. Then
for the first did Americans discover that those
who can visit European capitals have no
monopoly of seeing mans finest handiwork.
The choicest products of foreign skill were
then and there placed beside our own. We
saw at once our deficiencies and our superiOri
ties by comparing our work with that of
other nations. Our citizens learned, and
many of them with astonishment, what
money is capable of buying. The change
which came over this city at that time was
naturally noticed more abroad than at home.
1t was almost as great as that between the
DAYS of Nieuw-Amsterdam and New-York.
That which had hitherto been only regarded
as a mart of trade, suddenly became me-
tropolis of refinement. Before that time, in
Europe, anything was good enough to send
"to America" Since then, New-York has ac-
quired a worldwide reputation as the market
for the choicest goods.
1t is therefore with pleasure that we hail what
seems good prospect for the foundation of
permanent Worlds Fair " in this city. The
names of the gentlemen who are at the head
of the enterprise known as the Industrial Ex-
hlbition Company, ought to be guarantee of
its success. We hail 1t because we know that
with the New-York Industrial Exposition of
1876 there will come to us, along with display
of industrial products more vast and magnificent
than any this scountry-probablyt than the world
has ever seen an impulse that shall carry our
city to higher position than il has yet occupied.
In material advancement, in mere accumula-
ton of wealth. great as. has been our recent
progress, this will certainly be the occasion of
new development as rapid as that of 1854
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10
THE PRESS on THE STOKES VERDICT
Wa bave taken Mains TO examine somewhat

THE PRESS on THE STOKES VEhDiCf'
We have taken pains to examine somewhat
carefully the comments of the newspaper
press throughout the country upon the Ver-
dict in the case of Stokes. Here is one Jour
nal which regards it as tardy evidence Oh
the awakening sense of the people OF new
"York to the necessity Of sternly conirohtiig
" the tide of blood and crime which Tor the
" last ten years has rolled in ever-ncreasing
"volume, unpunished and unchecked, over the
" unfortunate city, Here is another which
saws: Commiseration for the guilty man
" has it's place in every heart, but Joined with
/" this sentiment is a surprising qualification
" at the triumph of law and justice" Another
"a Things have changed for the better during
a" the past year, and it may be thatin process OF
time the chances Of criminal for gettlng
" clear by the free use of money and an in
I" industrious use Of the columns of sympathlz-
"ing Journals, may be materially reduced"
Another. speaking of the probabilities of a
communication of the sentence Human life IN
"New-York is at fearful discount. Law ani
"Justce have been degraded almost beneath
contempt, and now is the time when human
" life must be made secure; and Law ana
"Justice must be reinstated and made honor
"ablen Another: at is a relief to know that
"a Judge and jury have finally done their
"duty. and given reasonable assurance that
retribution will, in one instance, prove 10
"lawless wickedness and homicidal passion
" that they are amenable to the stern and sure
"behests of offended law"
We might multiply these extracts, but what
we have given will be sufficient TO indicate
the general current of comment We have
rarely known more unanimous acqulescence
in the Justice of verdict. Pity for the prls-
oner is everywhere warmly expressed, ana
this will meet with approval from every kind
hearted reader; but of the inexorable justice
of the verdict no question is anywhere raised.
Here is the crime, and here the conviction,
and here the plain provision of the law; and
it is evident that any successful attempt 10
save the murderer from the fate prescribed by
the statute will so far bring all laws into con-
tempt as to be infinitely damaging 10 the
peace and safety of society.
This must be our general answer to great
numbers of correspondents who are opposed
(as we are) TO Capital Punishment, and who
wonder how we, with our well-knOwn views
upon the subject can argue that the law
should be enforced. We take the liberty Of
saying that its enforcement has nothing what
ever to do with the expediency or the justice
of the law To disregard the plain provisions
of statutes and to avoid their application by
sophistry, and by substantially yet illegally
ignoring them, is merely to pave the way for
anarchy and for a frightful increase OF crime
We have had enough of this, and we are
anxious for something better.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

Death which does not spare mOnarChs upon
their thrones, is not more fOrbearing to them
in their exile; and whatever may be their pro-
iects for a restoration of lost greatness, there
is one mortal contingency against which all
their shrewdness cannot guard. The strangely
cheouered life of Charles LOuis Napoleon BO-
naparte is finished He has brooded over his
last intrigue; ne has dreamed his last dream
of fabulous good fortune; the utterly selfish
man, who was courageous only in the abstract,
and more than once showed himself wOmanly
coward in moments of extreme peril, will no
more be reused into sOms!bipg Like geniality
by success and no more be reduced to ner-
vous apprehension by missing it, The star with
which he linked his fortunes went down
first in blood and at last in murky and
leaden cloud, and with it has vanished all the
dynastic schemes which came to him as a
heritage, and have cOlored his whole career.
In spite Of its episodical brilliaDcy, it must be
admitted that this life which has just closed
was but q somber one, with hundred fail
ures to set off against few great successes.
There were grave suspicious which darkened
the very first hours of the little prince, and it
was something more than scandal which whis-
pered doubts of his legitimacy. Already his
parents married against their warmest incli-
nations by the unyieldipg despotism Of the
first Emperor, had sought relief from con-
tinual domestic dissensions in separation. He
was born just when the glories of his great
kinsman had reached their hight; just after
the occupation of Madrid; just when the Pen
insulal ulcer has begun its fatal work upon
the bloatcd body of the Empire. Before he
was seven years old, he had received the last
embrace of the ruined Emperor at MalmaisOn,
and was himself an exile from France,
wanderer, and, by the force of circumstances,
an adyenturer. Revolutions came, but they
brought him mo- nearer the purple to which
at one time he seemed to have been born
The direct heir of the Emperor died, an
Austrian Duke, but the prospects OF the
young cousin seemed hardly improved by the
event The restless wa nderer was little better
than a mere politician of fortune, now Co
quoting with Italian G. .qrbonari, and then
with Polish patriots; " rlting and pub
fishing books, Political Rev, ,ries. Manuals OF
Artillery, and other things of no great import
ance; making the absurd den 'onstration at
Strasburg, and the equally absm demonstra-
ton at Ham; with private life, IL TINS tlme'
which came very near at least to peihg dis-
reputable; known in the cities of DO. th CONT
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

and what he Ia doing He has not been so
reputably employed since ne was boy. He
belongs to a class of adventurers who find ID
particularly easy TO beguile clergymen and
laymen specially interested in religious af
fairs-who profess to have been converted
from this "doxyr to the other "d6xy.p
and who usually exhibit the eager intolerance
of neophytes. They are always bitter against
the side which they happen to have left and
to which they are generally ready for suf-
ficient consideration to return. They are
oftenest men of talent, for talent is required
by their vocation; they are not seldom per-
sons of excellent education, for without tbis
they would be at once detected; good Inan-
ners and plausible address they have Of course.
since they could not get along day without
them. They understand human nature; they
can preach well, and make love as we'll as
they preach; and wherever they 20 they
simultaneously take in both the brethren and
the sisters Ecclesiastical history is full Of
the evil and scandalous deeds of these grave
deceivers, and the Reverend Doctor Joseph
mes-Crouch-Arth Henry -Moreton-J. o. X.
Keatinge is really valuable as rare and thor
oughly detected specimen
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

of France 1t il too soon to speak. IL may,
however, be said that it definitely, so far as
we may trust to human foresight, closes the
political history of the Bonapartes. Not one
of them lives with the slightest capacity for
governing even the smallest of the old Ger
man principalites. The pretensions to the
French throne must now be shared between
the Bourbon and the Orleans cousins, with
but limited outlook for either. Now, we may
say, with good hope of good answer to our
prayer. Gop HELP THE FRENCH REPUBLICi
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10
1Ee@'a)ork Dailu Gribmlre.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
FRIDAY. JANUARY 10. 1873.

The ex. Emperor EapoleOn Is dead @= Count Won
Room has made personal explanation in the PrussaD
Chamber Of Deputies 49, The hearing Of Prince Ma
poeOa's case has begun.
The State Legislature has adjourned 70 Tuesday next.
s=== Col MeComb's cross-examinatiOn was concluded
before the Credit MobiDer Investigating Committee.
Two jurors are stin lacking in the Tweed case. ===
The Liberal Republican General Committee organized.
== The Rev Henry Ward Beecher lectured ON "Com-
pulsOry Education" === Gold, 1925. 1l2s. ll2i @=
Thermometer, 80, s2.a, 23o.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

Mark Twain's letters to THE TRIBUNE on
the Sandwich Islands are reproduced in the
SEm-WEEKLY, the first appearing in the num-
ber issued to-day. The philosophy and facts
of these productions have been altogether too
much for our daily editions, which are quite
exhausted but the SEm-WEEKLY will now
supply all who wish to know the humorists
reasons for annexation.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

But in that higher range Of civic progress, in
the march toward her place among the centers
of the worlds best refinement, the Exhibition
of 1875 must be our city's renaissance. There
after. New-York must become the home OF
Good Taata
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

The trial of Judge Prindle has terminated
in his acquittal-a result not unexpected by
those who have paid any attention to the
case. The charges were mainly of misconduct
in Office, and the numerous specifications were
all based on alleged infractiODs OF law and
judicial decorum
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

Those who still labor under the delusion that
Americans care nothing for science will be surprised.
and we hope duly gratfed, to learn that the extra
edition of Professor TYndalls lectures which we
lately published has had remarkable sale, and
the large orders are Just beginning to come IN Inc
total sale will aggregate $1,000 copies over and above
the extra sale of the several regular issues In whch
the reports originally appeared. Many OF the oisy
news stands sold as many 900 copies each OF the
extra sheet and few of them sold less than loa
copies. Several thousands were sold across IHs
TRIBUNE counter in single numbers; and we haVere-
ceiyed more than 800 letters. incosing orders for
from one copy to two hundred copies. No extra
sheet of any sort, not excepting the ones we haVs
issued on the receipt of exciting news, has had
better sale for years past. And the far West and
South have not yet begun to buy; the demand tn'H
far has been almost exclusively from the New-En-
gland and Middle States The sheet contains nearly
as much reading many OF the current books OF the
day: the matter is at attractive and learned
as most of the standard works Of the language, care
fully edited and handsomely illustrated; and the
cost is only three cents. This is a form OF ex-
travagantly cheap standard literature which even
the ingenious and enthusiastic Chambers Brothers
never contemplated.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

A very decided change in the policy Of the
United States on the Cuban question is inti-
mated in telegram from Washington, pub
lished this morning. The Secretary of State
has instructed our Minister at Madrid to make
strong representations to the Government to
which he is accredited on its failure to carry
out its obligations to emancipate the slaves in
Cuba. The dispatch of the Secretary
of State contains o strong intimatiOn,
if not menace, that, unless change in the
Spanish policy toward Cuba shall soon be
made, the friendly and traditional relations
between Spain and the United States may be
interrupted. Considering the positive state
ments that have recently been made in the
Cortes by the Spanish Government, there
seems no good prospect of immediate cOnces-
sions to the request of our Government.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

The City Physician of Springfield, Mass, Is
woman-elected by way of an experiment. She Is
said to have been exceedingly successful, not having
made even one medical blunder since she began her
work One reason for this she gives when she says
that she was very careful about making mistakes.
because she knew that any error would be more
severely visited upon her than it would be upon a
man. She has been economical Official Tor she
has attended hundred more patients than any OF
her predecessors in the same number of weeks, and
for 500 less expense to the city She often acts az
nurse as well as DOCTOR and her practice among the
poor has been in every way excellent. Her reelec-
ton is proposed and if she has proved herself com
petent to the satisfaction of the city authorities
there is no reason why she should not keep the posi-
ton 1t certainly is not agreeable one but If her
devotion to medicine and poor humanity can carry
her easily and usefully through its hardships. she
has right to hold it.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

rell decision. the Attorney General, by
order of the President, recognized the Kellogg
Pinchback Government But the vital ques-
tion has not yet been touched. The Pincn-
backs are in possession, which may be decision
enough for them; it will not satisfy the
country, however; and if the Senate Committee
have not the power to express, at least their
opinions on that subject, they ought TO nave
it before they begin their Investigations
otherwise the inquiry will end in naught
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

After all, it looks as though "Prince Bill
otherwise William C.. Lunalilo, grandson of
King Kamehameha l., might sit on the throne
of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Honolulu corre-
spondence of THE TRIBUNE, herewith pub
lished, gives some interesting particulars OF
the latest complications which have taken
place in the Sandwich Islands. Prince William
has appealed to the strongest prejudices OF
the islanders in his prOnunciamiento and his
request for plebiscitum which shall determine
his claims is likely to meet with favorable
response from the people. TO be sure, the
question of the succession is left with the
Legislative Assembly; and it is said that
foreign ring with true American promptness) is
preparing to buy up the representatives at
81 900 head. But such a popular uprising
as prince Bill" is capable of provoking would
be more than any ordinary Legislature could
stand These being the main facts of the
case we are glad TO learn that the heir pre-
sumptive has suddenly mended his ways and
is behaving like a gentleman-nOt like mere
prince. The best part of the whole story Is
that little or nothing seems TO be said about
annexation to the United States. 1t is quite
possible that the Toy Kingdom may go on
indefinitely with its royal state and pomp and
show of power. With little judiclous Civil
Service Reform, the new King could pay off
his national debt in a single year.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

Another of those obstructive contradictions
which seem to adhere to the Credit Mobiher
inquiry gave pause to the Committee yester-
day. The evidence mainly concerns the shares
of stock alleged to have been held by the Hon.
James Brooks. There is one branch of testi-
mony showing that he bought one hundred
shares, another that he did not buy them,
and still another that he could not have
bought them. This statement is enough to
show that we cannot arrive at the truth of
the case without serious damage to the char
acter of at least one or two Of the principal
witnesses.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

The scheme to commit the City to the pro-
jcct OF building its own underground railways,
mentioned in THE TRIBUNE, the other day,
has made it's appearance in the Legislature.
The Assembly bill relating to this project
provides for four-track road, from the Bat
terry to Harlem River, and is otherwise very
formidable affair. We want rapid transit;
but must the City, with Treasury still yawning
from the drafts of the Ring thieves, provide it ?
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

Newspaper reading continues to be fatal to
jury-serving. If it were not such serious
business, one might afford to laugh at the
ridiculous figure which candidates for jury
duty cut, yesterday, in the Tweed trial, when
confronted with the dreadful question, Have
"you read the newspapersp One man
pleaded that he had read nothing but edi-
"torials = these disagreed with him, and he
was allowed to sit on the jury. By-and-by
people will see the huge folly Of expecting
that a man can be competent to serve as
juryman and be too incompetent to have any
intelligent opinion of events which stir the
whole community. But the Tweed jury lacks
Ouly two of being complete.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

Under the modest title of The Eastern and
Western Railway Transportation Company, a
mighty railroad project is about to appear in
Congress. 1t is nothing less than railway
from the South Carolina seabOard to Leaven-
worth, Kansas, with branch to st. Louis. 1t
is too soon to express any opinion as to the
feasibility of such a scheme; its details will be
of vital importance; but we may be sure that
the shrieks of locality will at once be heard.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

We do not believe there is shadow OF foundation
for the insnuatons against the house of Phelps.
Dodge 4 Co. which have been provoked IN some
quarters by the late Custom-hoGse proceed;
ings. New-York has no great mercan-
tile firm whose business honor is more
securely established. Mr.. Wm. f. Dodge has, in ex-
aminations before Congressional Committees, spoken
his mind freely about Custom-house mismanage-
ment and it is not impossible that this fact may
have sharpened the eyesight Of officials, who
have. before now, been known 10 make a
great noise about seizures for which there
was little or no warrant. The District
Attorney seems to US to have acted wisely in re-
fusing to aid in manufacturing a sensation out of
the matter. New-York merchants have not for.
gotten the possibilities of the seizure system, as
developed last winter; and they cannot persuaded
that Phelps Dodge Il CO. nave knowingly failed TO
pay the Government one penny Of its dues.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

opinions on that subject, they ought 10 nave
il before they begin their Investigations; ;
otherwise the inquiry will end in naught
II is almost unnecessary to call attention to
the very full report of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's powerful plea for popular education,
which we print to-day. Any utterance from
this large hearted orator is sure to command
an eager hearing; and this special
effort on a theme which is near to
the hearts of our people is one of great vigor
and effectiveness Mr.. Beecher sees that the
best type of citizenship demands the best
attaiuable education; he would purify the
ballot-box through the public schools !;
and he would accomplish this by
means of national system of educa-
ton which should be compulsory in
its character Some Of the reasons for
this proposition, and some of the details thereof,
he recited to a great audience last night.
Objections to Federal interference in such
matters will be sure to come. Meantime The
TRIBUNE is glad to afford Mr.. Beeeher a wider
hearing through its columns, and to bespeak
the most thoughtful examination of his teach
ings. r.-
I'm two or three days we shall republish
this lecture by Mr.. Beecher with those of DR..
Bellows, "Is there a God 2" Wendell Phillips,
"Lost Arts" and James Il. Fields, "Masters
/" of the Situation" on single TRIBUNE half
sheet. Price, 8 cents per copy or cents by
mail, with the usual discount to the trade.
| Orders should be sent in at once.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

statue Of Mr. Graeloy has been suggested, to be
erected by the printers Of the United States and
composed of old tpye-metal contributed by the
different printing-offces throughout the country.
The New-York Typographical Union, No. 9. has
taken charge of the matter. OF this Union, Mr..
Greeley was the first President. We publish this
morning report Of the proceedings of q meeting OF
FuE TRBUNE oompostors called TO consider this
tho craft.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-10

Iowa is iubilant. for within her borders new
agricultural treasure hath arisen. This is Tea,
which has been cultivated in Crawford County up
to the point Of 700 pounds to the aere The person
in charge Of the plantation, after making many
experiments in many States, found that the climate
and soil of Iowa best suited the plant and that il
would and could endure thrivingly the coolest OF
her weather No wonder the State is cheerful if not
nebriated with delight Yet we shall await further
adyices. Tea can be grown to profit in East Ten
nessee, and ought to be- AS 20 Iowa-well the
Iowans viii do it, if anybody in that latitude
Gen. Averill protests that the asphalt pavement
has not failed. In enumerating the failures in IN
way of pavements THE TRIBUNE recently mentioned
it az oneOf them, but allusion was made only TO the
concrete denominations composed in part of coal tar
or similar substances, which have been plastercd
over some of our streets to the great annoyance OF
the inhabitants and the loss of the city. What Gen.
Averill means by the asphalt pavement is an en-
tirely different material nearer akin to the French
asphalt and he claims that it is Of special value as to
the very points on which tho concretes have proved
an utter failure