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New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

ous witnesses in reserve who will testify that
Mr.. Pomeroy directed them to purchase cheap
variety of law-givers for $500 to s4O0 per law
giver; but the market was too active Tor such
prices. There is also MIR. Bacon, TO whom
Mr.. Pomeroy is said to bave offered sS'VV
for his vote. In fact, the Senator
seemed to have no fixed standard OF legislative
values in his mind, and lavished on the un-
grateful York the sums which well-distributed
would have brought fruitful results
in rural votes. We suppose we shall
now see him working for acqulttai
or tho 4th of March-either will be
precious to what shreds of character are LETT
him. He says he is the victim of conspiracy
This is probably true, and he is the chief con-
spirator he is caught in net spun by NM
self. II this investigation can be pushed vlg-
orously for week, he will doubtless think the
Senate and the almanac are also leagued
oOainst him.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17
POUEROYS ORDEAL.

1t is possible that after all Mr.. POmeroy
came out too promptly from the mystery of
defeat in which he left Topeka. The gage
which he threw down OH the floor of the
Senate was taken up with a readiness new to
his experience. 1t may be that the fortnight
which remains of this session is still enough
to send him home in a reputation of many
colors, measured and fitted to him by
sworn testimony. The Committee charged
with the investigation of his recent commerce
at Topeka meets to-day. The gentlemen COM
posing it are mainly men of good character
and unusual sagacity. II will be difficult to
hoodwlnk them, and impossible to cajole or
corrupt them. Mr. POmeroy has already paid
them the compliment of announcing his in
tention not to conduct his own case, having
fortified himself with the assistance of Mr.
Caleb Cushing. If Mr.. Cushing brings his
client safe through this ordeal, he will add
bright page TO his already remarkable pro-
fessiOnal career.
We get every day new hints of damaging
circumstances in relation to the Senator.
There was enough known, it would seem the
morning after the election. But several wit
nesses have started from Kansas to Washing
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facts, that they are dropping them casually
everywhere they stop. The terrible York is
himself on the way, breathing out threaten
ings which may turn to slaughter before the
Committee. He already begins to riddle
the statements of the Senator without
mercy. Mr.. Pomeroy having remembered,
after week or two, that the money he gave
York was meant as q contribution to the
National Bank at Independence, Col. York is
so unkind as to state that there is no National
Bank III that town. He is also on the
track of the bills which Pomeroy paid him,
and expects to identify the packages. With
the self-immolating York travels one Mr.
Simpson, who seems to be also excessively
nOxious to the Senator. He claims to repre-
sent the Kansas Legislature in the prosecution
of Pomeroy. There are stories, also, OF danger
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17
Ne&u.}lotk Daily Gribatrre.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY II. 1878.

Important statements have been made OF the policy Of
Spain toward Cuba. Disturbances have taken place
An the interior Of Japan
The Senate on Saturday had the Naval bill under con-
alteration. The House passed MI Buffers Geneva
Award bill.
The steamer Henry A. Jones was burned near Calves
ton and p lives were lost The Poland Credit Mo
blller Committee will report to-day.
The walls Of a west side Presbyterian Church fell,
owing TO the weight Of the snow. Stokes has been
granted q stay OF proceedings by Judge Davis. ==
Miss Emily Faithful lectured Our Best Society,"
and Prof g. f. Barker on Stellar spectroscopy." -
Two new cases OF incendiarism reported in Brooklyn
= Gold. uls, n4s, u4I. Thermometer. 500, S6' SI',
857. 3so JJo
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JURIES IN ALABAMA AND ELSEWHERE.

JURIES IN ALABAMA AND ELSEWHERE.
In this part of the country we still entertain
certain Old-fashioned notions respecting the
rights of jurors, although of late the conduct
of some jurors has tended to bring the vener-
able AnglO-SaxOn institution into merited dis
repute. In Alabama we are glad to find that
these officers of the court, for such they really
are although they may submit to dictatiOn
from the bench, have the grace to be sorry for
themselves. Judge J. Q. Smith Of the Circuit
Court of that State does not seem to us, we
must frankly confess, to be model of judi
cial purity, not to say word of judicial dig
nifty. If the reader does not agree with
us, let him give his candid attention
TO the facts. On the 18th ult., in the
Court held for Montgomery County, the case
of the State agt. John Smgleterry was gwen
to the Jury. OF the merits and nature of this
case we know nothing. Very soon after going
to their room eleven of the jurors came to a
conclusion. The twelfth held out little
while, but finally agreed with the rest to find
for the defendant. The jury came back to
the courtroom, and finding 10 judge present,
placed the verdict in the hands of the Sheriff,
who prOpounded the usual interrogatory about
agreement, and then discharged the jurors.
The next morning when they came
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BowERY THEArRR.-"W Will O the Wisp." Charles
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Oh" Mara Smia
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TILE GENEY1 MONEY.

THE TRIBUNE said, the other day, that Con
gress had three points to establish in the distri
hutton of the Geneva Award. The House, on
Saturday. passed Gen. Buffers bill. as 1t Is
called, which settles these points as follows;
(. Insurance Companies have no special claim
in the distribution. 2. Interest on each claim
ia not TO be reckoned from date of loss. ..
The award is to be made by the United
States Courts.
The House has substituted its bill for
that which had already passed the
Senate consequently, there is disagree
ment between tho two Houses This Is
mainly on the third point WHICH we have
named The Senate had provided for the
appointment of Special Commission to dis
tribute the indemnity the House bill provides
that the claimant shall piOve his demand III
the United States Circuit Court having Jurls-
diction in the locality in which he resides, or
in which is situated the port whence the
vessel destroyed last sailed. The ques-
ton between the Senate and the House,
therefore, is a material one.
In the debate in the House, on the final passage
of the bill, Gen. Buffers temper got the better
of his discretion. lie had no right to charge
that Mr.. Eyarts was attorney for the lnsur-
ance Companes and even if Mr.. Kerr had
consulted with Mr.. Evarts as to the legal
points involved in the question, 1t did not
follow that the Congressman was acting as a
mere spokesman for the lawyer. There are
not a few members of Congress whose legal
arguments would be improved by preliminary
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

1t appears that the quiet attempt to draw
attention to the question of aunexing Brook
lyn to New-York has gained strength. There
is said to be a growing feeling in favor of
annexation among Brooklyn business men ;
and memorial TO the Legislature, asking for
the establishment of commission TO consider
the subject, is proposed.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

With the extension of railways in the South
West has come a decrease in steamboat disas-
ters, formerly so common and horrible. The
burning of a steamer plying between Houston
and Galveston, by which twenty-One lives
were lost, is the latest mournful catastrophe
which must be added to the many fatal casu-
aties of this Winter. The cause of the fire
seems yet inexplicable.
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If the Senate had been in earnest in its en-
deayor to prevent amendments not germane
TO appropriation bills from being attached
thereto, it would have accepted Mr. Trumbulps
amendment to the rules. Instead OF resolving
that no such amendments should be received,
the Senate voted that none such should be
attached. This gives the majority the power
of deciding what amendment is germane to an
appropriation bill and what is not. The cOun-
try has not forgotten that the law by which
Louisiana has been revolutionized was tackled
on to an appropriation bill by the majority,
even though Just such rule as that again
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

There is no reason why the clause relating
TO fisheries, contained in the Alabama Treaty,
should be left mexecuted by our Government.
Part of the agreement by which we secured
the award at Geneva was that we should ad-
NIT free of duty fish imported in British colo
NAL vessels another prOviso, Ofsetting that
was that our fishermen should have the privi-
lege of fishing within one marine league Of
the colonial shore line. There is a popular
belief that the fishing clause is one-sided, and
gives more benefits to our neighbOIs than to
us; but it is part of a solemn obligation, and
ought to be carried into effect before Congress
adjourns.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

To-day Will be an exciting one In Washing
ton The report of the Credit Mobilier Com
mittee will be made in the House. In the
Senate, there is some probability that re-
port in the Caldwell case will also be made.
The House is sure to have a contest over the
recommendations of the Credit MObilier Com
mittee; if they present only Messrs. Brooks
and Ames for expulsion, the scene promises
to be unusually lively.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

A few inches of sOggy snow crushed in the
roof of a Presbyterian church in West Hous-
tOn-st., yesterday, and the walls fell like a
house of cards. The fact that the service had
ended and that the dozen children in the
basement escaped should not prevent a rigid
investigation, for even Piety cannot be al
lowed to trust in Providence and endanger
thousands of lives by violating the Building
Law. Churches in this latitude should be
built so as to withstand the pressure of a few
inches of snow and there is no possible ex-
cuse for thin walls and fimsy construction.
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Oldest inhabitants say that not since these forty
years has New-York seen such severe Winter AS
the present. There no public records establish
ing the fact, perhaps, but none that We have will
furnish parallel of this season. The storm which
began on Saturday night, and turned to rain on
Sunday, was one of the most uncomfortable of the
Winter, though travel, always embarrassed by any
snowfall, was not so seriously impeded as hereto
fore. Grumblers at the weather however, may be
reminded that the snow brings work to many poor
fellows who have no other means of gaining their
bread At missionary meeting, yesterday it was
reported that one of the downtown mission stations
had over 100 shovels which were lent out to poor
fellows who earned with them almost the only
money they received during the Winter. Over S9oO
have been gained by these shovels for needy men
and boys who see what so few others in great city
can see-the bright side of a heavy snow-storm.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

Mr. Roosevelt Of this city having made some ex-
ceedingly unpleasant inquiries from his place in
Congress- as to what the Board of Public Works Of
the District of Columbia was doing with the public
money appropriated thereto, some of the able and
influential newspapers at the Capital are stirred TO
unkindness toward him. One for instance. calls
his speech tiradc"-which seems unnecessarily
seyere-and says he has TO take it 10 New-York aud
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

Eastport Me-, and the ladies thereof have recently
been favored with the presence of a young English
nobloman, who exhibited the patrician peculiarly OF
both spending and borrowing money. The interest
ing aristocmt has now disappeared and 1t Is dis
covered that he is clerk from ST. john In order 70
have things in keeping. he should have assumed ens
title of Lord Bolingbroke.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

= The Commissioners on inland fisheries of Massa-
chusetts in their recent report say: Most men if
they have pond on their farm consider its area 30
much waste and there is no knowledge how to use
il. while it may be made profitable. moro so per-
haps. than all the remainder of the farm" The
Commissioners add: "There are in the State, ponds
covering nearly 1900 acres, all of which may bs
stocked and made to contribute to the supply of
food
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

II is awful TO read of the depravty of the British
schooboy. AT the East London Industrial School.
three of the depraved scholars were charged with
attempting to poison OF the Assistant Masters by
putting white precipitato in his medicine. Two OF
the boys were committed for trial. and the other
discharged. How often and how bAiiy the master
had hogged the Juvenile poisoners was not stated.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

The Rev. Dr. Potter an English clergyman. has
treated the public to a miraculous mares nest. Hs
has emitted pamphlet entitled, OF What Religion
is Mr.. Gladstone'7 the object of which is to prove
that the Premier is Jesuit in disguise-a kind Of
political Father Rodn, We presume. A clever man.
doubtless might write an equally convincing pamph-
let to prove Mr. Gladstone to be polythest of the
antique Grecan type TO show that he has leanings
towards South Seal idoairy.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17
adopted by the Senate was then in force. Let
us see how it will work now.

Mr.. Chas. Il. Sherman, Judge of the United
States District Court for the Northern Dis
trict of Ohio appears to the worst advantage
of any of those who figure in the New YORK
Exchange affair in Congress The testimony
of the officers and agents of the Exchange
develops nothing whatever to their discredit'
But Judge Sherman's letters, dated from his
official chambers, are dsgraceful They showthat
he wanted to appear TO the Stock Exchange as
lobbyist, earning his money, whether he was
one or not SO far, not shadow OF sus-
pici0n attaches to the name of any Senators
or Representatives in Congress concerning
their action on the bill to repeal the tax on
borrowed capital. There were merely lot OF
"strikersn on hand, ready, as usual, to prefer
q claim for services rendered in passing Dill
which had gone through Congress on its own
legitimate merits.
The report of the House Committee which
has been investigating the Johnson detaication
in the New-York Sub-Treasury has curious
Sian at the Executive. The Committee think
that the Sub Treasurer is not worthy OF blame
but they think Treasury defaulters should DE
more severely punished than they are; and that
Gin no case of conviction, upon clear proof OF
guilt, should the pardOning power be exer-
cised in behalf of those who steal public
moneys" This, doubtless is meant to refer
to such cases as that of Paymaster Hodge
and the added recommendation that stock
brokers who violate the law by dealing with
Government employees be severely dealt with
recalls that case 1t was said that Hodge
| was pardoned that he might be used against
stockholders who had led him into ruin
Where are the guilty brokers2 Why are moi
those proceedings begun
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got somebody to doctor his laundering 6r,rcs an.

get somebody 10 doctor his bundcring figures. ana
put his scurrlous billingsgste into prcsentabls
English The Star speaks warmly but il IL apt In
when aroused by scurrilous blingsgatev or an
appropriation for the District. We learn from tina
same source that " it is matter Of profound
astonshment that the great commercial metrop-
oils of the nation should be represented in tho
councils Of the nation by person Of the caber Of
Robert b. Roosevelt -. also that his term Of ofca
has been an unmitigated failure" We should be
sorry TO disturb the complaceDcy with which just
now the public is contemplating the moral and in
tellectual grandeur Of the average Congressman and
il the "caiberv Of Nr. Roosevelt is calculated N
exasperate anybody, he ought TO be expelled. The
commercial metropolis" never should be rep
resented by man who is liable to be viewed with
profound astonishment;" and that's the way tho
Washington editors view anybody who asks the
Board of Public Works hard questions.
Some attention has been attracted in England To
an attempt TO induce the schools for girls TO attach
department to each for teaching economical cook
cry and household management. This is old idea;
but though the matter has been a good deal talked
about both in England and this country, very little
in this way has been practically accomplished. The
hest school of cookery is a well regulated, econOm
caIy managed and intelligenty organized hOms
kitchen and if the culinary art cannot be learned
there then it is best acquired in private service un-
der an adequate and accomplished guide The main
thing is to convince young women that the matter
is an important one-perbsps the most important
in the whole round of social science. Once lot
good-hearted and moderately ambitious woman un-
derstand this and she will find out how to cook
well through observation, inquiry, and example IL
a cook book never made good cook,while she relied
solely upon its teachings it is doubtful II teaching
in school. unless of peculiarly skillfu character.
will impart much more practical knowledge than
the regulation manuals We are willing enough.
however to have the experiment tried; but we must
insist that the very first requisite is an intelligent
and even enthusiastic interest IN the subject.
Women under any circumstances, who try hard to
cook WELL usually succeed at last, however dismal
may be the beginnings.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, has made
decision which possesses interest for medical men
everywhere. The Massachusetts, Medical Society.
some time ago, undertook to expel such of its mem-
bers as practced homeopathicaIly, and organized
Board of Trial for carrying out its purpose. This
Board was restrained from proceeding by an injunc-
ton suspending its action until the legal questions
involved had been decided but now the Court re-
fuses to grant further stay, the Board of Trial
being adjudged competent to expel homeopathists,
if they deem the evidence Of medical heresy sufii
cient.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

Very gigantic is the O'Neill family from Ireland
which is now exhibiting in England. They are from
Queens County, near Dublin. The mother of tho
family is 4j years of age, stands feet inches in
hight measures found her arm 26 inches, across her
shoulders 3 feet round her waist feet inches, and
weighs 37S pounds Her eldest son is p years OF age.
stands feet 2 inches. and weighs 81 pounds. The
eldest daughter 20 years of age stands feet inches
in hight and measures round the arm q inches.
across her shoulders one yard and half, round her
waist 8 feet and has the enormous weight OF SO
mounds. On account of her obesity she is scarcely
able TO walk, appears uneasy on her legs and II
sometimes compelled to lean up against the wall for
snpport The vaccination marks on her arms have
increased with age and development of adipose ts-
sue till they are as large as ordinary saucers. This
delicate creature is affectOnately though rather alb
surdly. called oily" by her younger relatives 1t
is observed that though the mother shows signs OF
excessive alcoholic consumption, there Is no disease
complained of; and the subjects do not appear To
suffer from any other affection than the inconVe-
nience of having to support so much TAT.
A Connecticut newspaper quotes the celebrated
Colvn case in New Hampshire in behalf of Mr.. Col
fax. This is the case where they found the entire
remains of murdered man, down to his brass but
tons in Colvin's fireplace; COlyin confessed tho
killing in the most circumstantal way; jury cou-
yicted him. and he was hung. Afterward they found
the murdered man in New-Jersey teaching school.
This story is always cited in desperate cases There
is no record of its ever having made any difference
with jury but they always listen to it with pro-
found interest We had hoped the Nice-President
might escape this, but it was ordered otherwise.
And vet the parallel is not complete. Colyin con-
fesscd.