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New-York tribune., 1874-12-01
FINE ARTS,
BROOKLYN ART AssoCIATIoN-oPENING or THr YAH
EXHIBITION.

II is. doubtless, by some special arrangement
that the yearly exhibitions OF she Brooklyn A,socs
ton always open upon some preternaturallY cold OF
stormy night. OF IL Is easy 10 see hrouGh tht
design OF the Committee IN making these drafts upos
Old Probabilities they wish TO double the elect Of tht
brightly lighted rooms. buzznS with eheerf1
talk. and hled with handsomely dressed
people Coming out Of the frosty tnglini
aid and out of the Brooklyn streets that Irpass IN dis
maness the streets OF any other city We know. I1os'
rooms make such amends for the ferryboat the hoSS
cars and the general funereal aspect OF ouf sister c
that We straightway forget all about them and decd'
unanimously in favor OF Brooklyn ~ . dWeling place.
The Exhibition .ihis year Is moV attractive thai
usual: there are few pictures striking by their sze Ou
te average excellence Is considerable. Ia the Han %
the Association the place OF honor Is held by MI De
Iaass "Farragut passing the Forts at Nc"-Of'eAhs'
but better work more genuneY lhtereS'n-
Mr. Heay's THE Peacemakers," tho suOec'
being the Conference In tho CABIN OF 'h'
steamer River Queen on tho Potomac between
President Lincoln, Sherman, Grant. AMI Porter Gen
Sherman pointing out the position of Gen. Johnston
and his army and is explaining his own plan OF cam.
paign This Is q well composed interesting group ano
contains the best and most satisfactory portrait oi
President Lincoln with (which We are acquainted.
affords, too, suggestion Of just the Ainu "
statue We should like to see made OF tns
man who has thus far been more unhapphy
misrepresented ana traNesueu III sculpture '"""
any great man that lived, because artists ha"
insisted on treating HIM II he ht subject ot
heroic or sentimental statuary whereas he can on oe
wisely dealt with by realistic sculptor rdhAV
accepting and using all his Characteristic unganhhcss
and awkwardness. II Mr.. Heay's fguto Of the PFesf
dent could be put into marble just IS IN his picture
1t would suit, venture TO think world o. ptope
who cannot like any that has been made oil ho'
We By no means wish to dlsparage Mr.. Dc Haass PIC
l,ac alma IA
this artist Is always II seems TO us, more bent on P'o
duclng picturesque effects than simple uuth'lehs,
and simple truthtehng III landscape is field enough o'
the most ambitious, aud is always ia the END most S''v
fyiIg.
Mr.. T. A. Brldgman, artist who went some years
ago from Brooklyn to Paris 10 study, and who mas f"
would appear made up his mind stay Europe sends
or has sent him two pictures that sueeeed'
even IN the remarkable Salon OF 1870, in attracting
teption aud making mark w, ,thAs Soaax ssus% ~
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01
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ukel h0rOu,hly welded together a1I rolled 10 the
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New-York tribune., 1874-12-01
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

SIR: VIII you please see that the amount OF
the ncosed check for 500 applied for the benefit OF
the Kansas Nebraska sufferers from the devastation
caused by the grasshopper OF the past sumner Trust
ing that this amount will be used for the above purpose
by who are known by you TO be trustworthy per-
for its Distribution remain, very truly yours
ID. ii. MCALPIS.
Nos 146 to 15s Arenue Corner Of Tenst), New York.
Nov. 27, 1874.
I'VE shall take pleasure in promptly forwarding
the above together with an additional sum of
S9S 81, being the amount already received and
acknowledged in The TRIBUNE for the same pur-
pose to Alvin Saunders, Ex-Governor of Nebraska
and Treasurer of the Nebraska Relief Fund So
ciety, Omaha, Neb.-Ed.l
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01
LOST OPPORTUNITIES.

The Mayors death illustrates afresh the pc
culiar ill-uck which has attended all the
efforts of the Administration to control the
politics of New-York. When President Grant,
selected Thomas Murphy, iG gorge Bliss, jr.
and John |. Davenport, as his political repre-
sentatlves and managers, to crush the Gree
ley wing of the Republican Party in
New-York, to secure the State for the
unouestioning support of himself, and TO up
hold Mr.. Conkling as his immediate repre-
sentative, he started on task which the
pOwer of his Administration seemed TO make
easy. Bat his managers proved themselves
utterly incompetent. They had little cOmpre-
henson of any class of the people of New
York, save the ofiice-hunters and the follow
ers of James O'Brien; and they had no idea of
any other mission for the Republican party
than to divide the spoil.
For some years now they haye done nothing
but bunler and fail. They forced the election
of Mr.. Havemeyer as Mayor, and secured the
appointment of the Chairman of their Gen
eral Committee as Police Commissioner. But
the Mayor soon turned upon them,
and their Police Commissioner was
put out of Office. They undertook
next to nominate somebody who would
suit them for Governor in 1872; but Mr. Thur
low Weed calmly showed them aside and nom-
mated his friend Gen. Dix. They tried to use
Gen. Dix, but failed. They thought then they
had cooked up plan with Mayor Havemeyer
by which they could use him, and forced q
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

are to be trusted thousand times moro than
tho drugs of the Iuaationists and the ex-
pedients of those whose longing eyes are
never removed from the Treasury. This, we
believe, is tho opinion Of the great majority
Of all classes OF the community. This is the
lesson of the elections. The people do not
want moro of the kind of government which
has emanated from Washington for the last
half dozen years, but less. Let the majority
take heed.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

As announced yesterday in TIE TRIBUNE,
William NJ. Tweed will be brought into court
to day on writ of habeas corpus. This Will
be the beginning of proceedings for his release,
at the final success of which none acquainted
with the uncertainties and absurdities Of the
law would be surprised.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01
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New-York tribune., 1874-12-01
UNION SQUARE THEATER-A CHARITABLE EATER'
PRISE.


For the benefit of the St. Johns Guild he.
lief Fund, hat used in aiding ho poor OF iAe cJ's
dramatic performance viii bo gwen at the CIiSn sdd-o
Theater on Wednesday afternoon, Dec = I1e II ihcn
back" will be ac,ed-Mrs Sheridan shook appearing 10
Julia and Mrs. Bessie Fox as Helen The piece WIZ De
set and dressed the occasion OF II" recent
rev,va t ,bis theater and the east employ the
talent Of Mrs. Shocks clever Dramatic AssocIatiOn
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

q Gen. Butler has so far recovered from the
paralysis brought on by the recent election
that he has begun to pay his debts after the
popular fashion of politicians of his own
school. An anti-Butler man had an in
spectorship in the Boston CustOm-h house; a
Butler man had been promised the place;
Gen. Butler spake the word and the Butler
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

The announcement that Col. Mcclure had
obtained possession of The Philadelphia Press
excited so much CONSERVATION among the poll
tlcians of that city that they have prevailed
upon Col. Forney to recede from his bargain.
The straits to which the Ring leaders of the
Quaker City are reduced must be very serious.
They must have feared unutterable things
from Mcclure to be so anxious to retain
Forney, who himself does not spare the rod
nor spoil the Ring. Perhaps 1t is an organ of
soft money they want in Philadelphia, as Col.
Forney has seen that misguidng light some-
where on his journey from Paris to London.
At all events, it seems settled that FOrney,
and his party, whatever that may be, retain
The Press, and the redoubtable Mcclure is to
set out on the war-path about the first of
January with an Independent newspaper of
his own.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

man went in and the anti-Butler man went
out And yet scme people maintain that the
Civil Service rules are enforced.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

The annual report of the COmmissary-
General of Subsistence to the Secretary of
War is brief and business-lke document,
mainly interesting to the officers of the army.
His suggestions are evidently the outgrowth
of experience, and their practical air gives
them weight.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

The efforts toward federation of the Pres
byterian Churches contemplated by the meet
ing called for Thursday in this city are
practically steps toward Christian Unity, and
as such will be watched with interest and
approval
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

There have been frequent threats of the
establishment Of a rival line to the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. The news of this
morning will probably convince people that
,hey were something more than idle.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

The Arkansas war still exists only in tho
newspapers supplied with information from
the imaginative brains of friends OF Lieut.
Gov. Smith. Gov. Garland seems to find no
opposition other than words, and his seat is
not in danger unless the Federal authorities
unwarrantably interfere in behalf of claim
ant who has kept in hiding ever since he
ventured to assert his claim.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

The recommendation to consolidate the post
Offices Of New-YOrk and Brooklyn will take
most people by surprise. At first blush it looks
like a measure in the interest of economy
and simplicity of administration. The busi-
ness at the Brooklyn Office is not so large as
that at the Bible House station of the New
York Office, or indeed at some others, and would
be quite as easily managed. The cOnsollda-
tion with New-York would relieve the Trea-
sury of considerable expense, would secure
unity of management, and would prob
ably give Brooklyn much better postal facili-
ties. Brooklyn politicians are not likely
to think well of it, but it seems probable that
the people of Brooklyn would have reason to
regard it with favor
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

The apprehension of war with Spain in
consequeuc. of the Virginius affair was turned
to good atnoaut .by the Navy Department III
placing o considerable number of our disused
war vessels upon war footing. The report
of Chief Engineer Wood to Secretary Robson
gives q detailed statement of the work done
under his supervision to this end, together
with full review of the operations of the
Engineer Bureau of the Navy Department
during the past year. Mr.. Woods remarks
concerning the small number of qualified ap-
plicants for positions in the Naval Engineer
Corps recall subject of growing importance
Well educated and thoroughly trained
engineers are as necessary to the efficiency of
a navy as are surgeons, paymasterS, or even
officers of the line, but we imagine that the
number of such persons entering the service
will be smaller every year until the Govern
ment offers to the graduate pecuniary induce
ments equal at least to those soliciting his
acceptance in the practice OF the same pro-
fession in civil life.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

The plain English of all the long story told
of the latest legal embarrassments and tinan-
cial subtcrfuSes of the Erie Railway Company
will probably be surprise to some of its
directors, and certainly to some of those of
the Buffalo, New-YOrk and Erie Company,
which it is proposed to sacrifice in order to
save the failing credit of the main line. The
Buffalo, New-York and Erie is company
which for eleven years has been under lease
to the Erie Company. Its stockholders, we
believe, received seven per cent from the Erie
Company, though why the Erie should, under
a reformed management, have purchased its
per cent Obligations at $50 while it was sell
ing its own in the London market at 90 or 70,
is one of the mysteries which neither
American bookkeepers nor English experts
can find out But to load the last road
with a mortgage of ten millions now would
seem to be to swamp it absolutely. Doubtless
the Erie needs the money very much, but as
the bonds have not been issued the suit begun
Yesterday in the Supreme Court may prevent
the success of the scheme
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01
Nclp'2}otk Daily Griba1ate.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1874.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

The proprietor and superintendent of the
Fourth Avenue Stage line, lately convicted of
cruelty to animals perpetrated by their em-
ploy6s, were very properly released yesterday
after light fine. Personally they had COM
mitted no offense; technically and legally they
were guilty. We hope that other owners of
stage lines will recognize that this decision
and action establish the authority of the
Society which appeared as prosecutor, and
will cease to oppose the humane laws it en-
forces.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-01

A bit of by-play that enlivened the Brook
lyn tragedy in which regulations are muir
dered was brought to close yesterday. 1t
had been moved by Mr.. Tilton's counsel as a
diversion that the Court should order that
either the criminal or civil suit should pro-
coed on December 8. The Judge has denied
the motion. In the mean time counsel had
agreed among themselves to try the civil suit
on December 8, SO that it may safely be
assumed that on that date the picking of the
few grains of truth from the immense mass Of
scandal Will begin.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-05
State Grange Patrons of Husbandry.

At q recent meeting of the State
Grange of Missouri, the following res
olutions were reported by the commit
the and adopted.
1. That we fully endorse and approve
the declaration of principles adopted at
tee late meeting of the National Grange
at st. Louis.
2. That as cultivators of the soil we
have been too long governed and con-
trolled by the great moneyed power of
the land, and by rings which are against
us simply because we have been ignor-
ant of our own strength in our defense,
or have wasted it wrangling with each
other.
3. That as retrenchment and reform
IS our motto, as true patrons we should
begin at home, and while we demand,
as we have right to, that our legisIa-
tors and rulers shall be economical in
the expenditure of public money, let us
not be prodigal in expenditure of our
private means while we condemn ex-
travagance of public officials and COM
plain of wrongs inflicted upon us by
those whom we have entrusted with
power, let us not still further wrong
ourselves and families by living above
our income and involving ourselves in
debt, thus sacrificing peace, comfort and
independence at the shrine of fashion
and show.
4. That we invite the hearty support
and cooperation of the sisters OF our
order in our reformatory movement
that woman's true position is God-given
and the divinely sanctioned one of help
meet to man, therefore her place Is by
his side. Hers Is a high and noble
position, and if rightly improved, will
rear to her memory monuments more
durable than marble, and leave an in
heritance to those that viii come after
her more to be priced than wealth or
honor.
5. That in republican government all
power is vested in the hands of the peo-
pie, and IN ours a majority of people
belong to the producing classes yet
the power and strength of these classes
have been used by less numerous and
unscrupulous class for the advancement
of their own selfish purposes.
6. That although ours is not a politi-
cal organization, and especially ignores
political or partisan questions, yet we
call upon our representatives in con-
gress and state legislatures to listen TO
the appeal of more than one hundred
thousand patrons of Missouri, to eoonO-
mize the resources of the government
and to stop currents of extravaganza
which have borne us TO the very verge
of bankruptcy and ruin.
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a !" oentenniaI,, Almanac.

a copy of The Virginia Almanac
for the year of our Lord God IVA"
has been discovered, which thus winds
up the twelvemonth "Decennber. like
the fag End Of a bad Market, comes last
Of all, making a great Hole in that
which was gotten in the other three
Months for toward the 25th We may
expect TO hear of a great mortality
among the Hogs, Sheep, Geese, Capons,
Turkeys, etc, especially IN Farmers
Houses in the country. who show so
much Respect to those poor Sufferers
that they set them up at the Table, (af-
tar they are dead and roasted) among
the best of our Guests, to make them
merry at Christmas. Much good Lii
quOr will likewise be consumed this
Month, and Cif the Weather prove cold)
a deal of Goals and Wood, not TO men
tion the Devastation that will be made
in the Pockets of losing Gamesters.
The weather being cold, may induce
some Men to fall into the Pit-fsil of
MatTimony, not considering what Fears,
Jealouii Is, Dangers, Anxieties, and
Troubles, attend on q married Life.
War is 50 eet to them that know il not
They that never endured Hardship nor
came within GunshOt more than in Con-
temptation think il an excellent Thing
10 be q Soldier when they read of the
Conquests of Alexander, the Triumphs
of Caesar, the Trophies Of Achilles, and
the like. So whilst they spend their
Time in Kissing, Toying, Fooiing, and
Dallying they think themselves In Par
adise, they have strange OhimeTas OF the
Felicities of welded life, and become
in Love with tiieir Yoke, long for their
Fetters, and are mad till they have lost
their Freedom and are utterly undone.
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tum1ers, an he filed 'em all up; an ne
fotched out a whole jar o. sweetmeats,
an great dish o honey, an pickles =
oh, LoF' such heaps o. things An all
the time Sam said, so polite, Ladies
an gemmen, hep yourself, there's mo-
in mah'sr's cellar 2
An they did hep themselves, an
they eat an eat sn' eat till they couldn't
stuff another moufful. An while they
was all stuffin', an Sam was gwine
round with a bottle of wine In each
hand, sayin', so polite, Ladies and
gemmen, hep yon'self, there's mo- in
mah'sr's cellar he happened to look
up There a0Gs his 11Qh'sr -
As Sarah said this she gave horrible
yell, and sprang forward, clutching in
the air, as though to seize them and
her spell-bOund listeners screamed, and
some of them fell over backwards.
Delighted with the effect of her trag-
edy, she waited till they gathered them
selves up, with awe-struck faces, TO lis
ten to the end.
She lowered her voice to ghostly
whisper.
The mah'sr sprang to get Sam, but
Sam let out a soreech nuff to raise the
dead, an claTed out thro' the do s tho
the debil was arter him. The rest of
the company skunk cut 'thout akin to
be 'xcused, an was in bed every soul of
EN- in two minutes, an snorin' fit to
raise the roof. Sans mah's run till he
got done tired out, an then he dragged
hisseH home.
Sarah stopped. After waiting a few
minutes, Rush asked, in a sacred sort
of a voice, what became of Sam.
Sarah rolled her eyes, shook her
head, dropped her jaw, aad said,
slowly:
He n-e-v- e-r was heard of agin.''
" Run away ?" suggested Rush.
I" "S'pose so. Mebby up norf this
very day, FIR all I know" And Sarah
turned to her works.. Nicholas for
March
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am that self-love is almost the only key
to their characters. Now, character is
made up of habits of the soul and Of
the mind, mingled, it is true, in une-
qual doses. and 1 am strongly led to
believe that the sex Of which clever
men have said that nobody can under
stand it, owes its mysteriousness to an
almost total absence of character"
Jean Paul Richter, who had learned
as much of 6fe, though in q very differ
snt way, as Mirabea1. hings the same
thought into one of his incomparable
images Women are like Spanish
houses, which have many doors and
few windows. You may find your way
In easily enough but. once in, you
can't so easily find your way out. ;"
Possibly, after all, this simple thought
may be the sum of wisdom concerning
womens SO far as theory goes. For the
matter OF practice, there is no doubt
chat delightful cd Foutenelle pointed
to all of us tho true way, in which he
had himself walked, when he said
There are three things which I have
always loved, without understanding
anything about them; painting, music,
and pretty women 20
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The Earthquake Terror of 1850.


OF the memorable incidents connected
with the foundry, the earthquake of 1850
is still recorded. On the 9Th of Febru-
Gry all London rocked t0 and fro with a
terrible convulsiOn, and the people
rushed into the streets to avoid being
buried IN he tOttering houses. A month
later, when Charles Wesley was holding
the five o'clock morning service at the
foundry chapel, a far more violent
shock passed beneath the city. The
earth moved westward, eastward, and
then westward again, followed by loud
noise like thunder. Wesley had Just
given out his text, when the foundry
was shaken violently as If the roof
would fall. The women and chiloren
cried out, but the preacher, chanting
his text, read aloud, Therefore, we
will not fear, though the earth be
moved, ETC., and soon filed his audi
ence with his own unshalIen courage.
The general terror rose almost 10 mad
ness when an insane prophet declared
that on the 4th Of April another earth
quake would level London and West
minister to the dust. A wild excitement
ragged through the city as the fatal day
approached. Thousands fed TO the
country. Women and children ran
through the streets weeping and lament
ing. London looked like city sacked
and ruined. Every open space was filed
through the anxious night with multi
tudes of the rich and poor awaiting the
expected shock. The churches were
crowded with unaecustomed worship-
ers. WhitefieId stood mp in Hyde park
at midnight, under an iDclement sky,
and spoke with his sOnorous voice to an
uncounted multitude and Charles
Wesley, surrounded byimmense throngs
at the foundry, preached written "
sermon and chanted some inspiring
hymns. The next day passed away in
quiet. The people came back to their
houses, and London has never since felt
so universal q terror as that Of the year
OF the earthquakes.