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New-York tribune., 1874-12-02

He Ia a contumacious and unrepentant Of
fender. He has made no pretense Of restitu-
ton. He defies public sentiment in this re-
spect as stolidly to-day as in the time of his
insolent success, when he bOasted in pub
lished card that he was one OF the largest
taxpayers of Ncw-York. Of course his great
estate has dwindled somewhat since then.
Some of it has gone in one direction, some IN
another. His struggles with justice have alb
sorbed good deal. But q large amount of it
remains with him and his family, and not one
cent, except the fine of $3.50 he paid the
other day, has gone into the public chest,
which he plundered so long and so eifectually.
There is no case for sympathy here. 1t is not
given to many men in century to be aole
to do 80 much evil as Mr.. Tweed did during
the years when he governed this city by the
corrupt and vulgar combination of which he
was chief The money he stole was
but one part Of his criminality; the
worst was his systematic debauchery OF the
political circles around him; the ef1rontery
of vice which he made the fashion OF the
| hour about the City Hall, so that an honest
partisan was made ashamed of his honesty,
as chaste cOurtier of the Regency would
have been ashamed of his innocence. Tho
consequences of this infamous regime are not
| yet over, among the lower stratum OF pol
iticians in this city. 1t will take years to
disinfect our politics of the cOarser sort
of contagion which he brought into them.
But this he cannot remedy. The corrup-
ton ho set on foot is beyond his reach. The
case il not the same in regard to the
money he stole. He can ask for no sympathy
as long as that wealth remains in his hands
or in the hands of his family. He has
made no attempt to conceal it, After his SEN
| tence he was allowed all the time no
required to settle his affairs, and the singular
spectacle was presented of tho greatest
thief of the age, on his way to Jail for
stealing, stopping for q week or two, under
the courteous guard of the sheriff, to arrange
for the disposition Of the property he had
stolen. We are good-natured people, and
the public were so glad to see him sentenced
that no objection was made to this extraordi-
nary lenity. After he had retired to his en-
forced leisure on the Island there was no
disposition to object to his being treated with
humanity. But there will be a revival of
public interest in the matter OF his crimes,
il he is now to be turned loose with all his
spoils. His residence in Jail does not
prevent him from engaging in extensive real
estate operations, in property to which he
has no moro just title than any pickpocket in
| Baxter Street. He cannot eat his cake and
have it. If he desires public sympathy let
him give up the proceeds of his ulefts. IL
he prefers to keep his booty, let him enJoy 1t
in the company of other convicts.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02
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New-York tribune., 1874-12-02

teen failures. A mournful company this, OF
CAPITALISTS whose only fortunes are of rejected
manuscripts and desultory knowledge. The
ranks of the unemployed intellects are not so
formidable, perhaps, as those OF the unem-
ployed hands, but their stories, If they could
be made known, are no less pitiful. Men OF
talent and education feel the rough jostllng
of want more keenly than the men who are
accustomed to give aud take knocks. Men
who are trained to refinement, and then
through their own or others mistakes bnd
themselves adrift on the world are educated
as the poor blind are-until they learn to be
proud and sensitive, and then arc turned into
the streets to peddle brOoms. With the wise
and discriminating relief with which the Win
ters want is to be softened, the vcriest Grad
grind would not find fault, but this is only
rough approximation to charity, after all.
There is distress that lies too deep to be
reached in this way. Let some good angels
seek out the poverty that hides itself.
A strike Of the students is out of the ques-
tion But improvement is possible for those
who will help themselves, not because
thoy will then be helped Of the gods,
but because they will then need no other help
thousand and one applications Of the old, old
sermon are one and the same-superhclallty'
tho American sin. The vast majority oil these
unfortunates are 50 lacking in thoroughness
and so poorly grounded in their trades, that
tho first rude push shakes them from their
places, and they are stranded in utter help
lessncss. The men who are thorough and
painstaking and well equipped, do not
need to seek; thoy are sought after.
Railroads compete for them. insurance COM
panies and banks are glad to get them at any
price, and occasionally there is President
shrewd enough to ask one into his Cabinet.
ANY man who knows how to do even one
thing thoroughly and well, rarely fails to lind
an opportunity to do it.
Another thing 1t would be well if large
number of persons now engaged III brain
work, or in endcavoring to obtain 1t, would
retire from the business-for want Of capital.
There are various people who are trying to
lecture who would make excellent clerks, or
statesmen of any wares but their own; numer-
GUS briefcss attorneys who would succeed
admirably as lawyers managing clerks or
court reporters; countless newspaper people
who would be more useful in the lower walks
Of agriculturc-for there is absolutely no
limit to the number of those who think
themselves fully qualified to edit newspaper,
without once pauSing to consider whether
they have tho requisite training, aptitude
and ability. A whole army of scribbcrs
and gabblers might be gathered to reinforce
the useful trades, if they could be brought to
recognize the impertinence of their intel
lcctual efforts. For many Of them to persist
ia "brain work" is an affront to common
sense, and the popular favor which some of
them secure is dark and discOuragng mys-
terry. But probably more of them are impOs-
ing on themselves than are attempting to de-
ceve others. The tiddles of a number of our
fellow-countrymen are tuned entirely too
high.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02
Netu.2lotk Duilp gribat,1s.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1874.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.

The French Assembly has reelected Mr.. Buffet
President; the IT aosldinoi from voting. There Is
want of harmony the Cabinet the proposed message
OF President MacMaaon. - Tic Cailists have laid
sIege to Berga. near Barcelona. g. The Emperor Of
Russia Is reported TO be insane
Portions OF the Presidents message were submitted
70 tue Cabinet yesterday. The resumption Of specie
payments and Of shlpouiding and other
industries urged IN the strongest language. - II
is proposed TO Increase tho number of mails bet
New-YOrk and WlshlD cton. The American Cheap
Transportation Association met IN Redmond, Va. The
report OF tie Committee on Railway Trans
porlahon points out tAe defects in present
The nineteenth annual cOnclave Of knights
Templar began In Nov ORLEANS. - Qlartermaster
General Mcigs IN his auuuai report says that the
peuditurts OF lis department have been considerably
reduced during tho year. - AT a meeting OF the
creditors O jay Cooke Co., In PHia Iephia the report
OF the trustees was Submitted, showing about half a
million dollars at present available for cash dividend.
- Gov. Chamberlain Of South Carolina inau-
gura,ed at Columbia. In bis address the Governor
refers to past and proscs reform retrench
ment
Tue Common Council adopted resolutions In honor Of
Mayor Hayemeyer, Aldermen Flanagan, Van Schaick,
and McCaferty, Assistant Aldermen Thornell and
Clancy, Corporation C,uuSe Smith and Prof Chandler
nakiug speeches. Tie Commissioners of Police, Emi-
grafton Parks and other Boards also paid tributes TO
his memory. - Mayor Vance declared that he
would pursue q conservative policy during his
administration, aud would make 10 changes
in the Departments The 'longshoremen virtually
abandoned their strike. - second victim Of the
elecuonday murder died. - The Erie iRj JUNCTION
modified to permt the Company pay its interest
coupons. 1t was rumored that negotiations were
pending between the Union and Central Pacific Rail
roads and the associated trunk lines reference to
pro rata freight arrangement - The Sanitary COM
dphtheria. - God, 1l2i. LIZ. 1lli Thermometer,
27o $50 ago
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02
A pTRIlC NECESSITY.

Those who 60 to the Central Park know
through what tIibulatiOns it is necessary to
pass before arriving at that delightful pleasure
garden. There is not prettier park in the
world, and there is not so bad an approach to
any public grounds within the limits of civ
lizatiOn as our own Fifth Avenue. There Is
no avoiding this road; the avenue: on either
side are occupied by street railways, and the
aristocratic thoroughfare pcrched upon the
backbone Of Manhattan Island is the exclusive
straight and narrow path by which the whole
city must go to its breatilg-pla The adj
vantages Of the Park are as evident as its
beauties. 1t is the only spot on this populous
island where the tired citizen can get
breath of fresh air, sight Of green grass and
growing trees in Summer, and in Winter can
see that Nature is not responsible for the de-
fOrmity and ugliness of the season in town.
For people In health, it affords one of the
greatest comforts in life, and for invalids it is
sometimes essential to life itself. But it is un-
reasonable that the well should be jOted on
the way over so wretched road as to drown
their 4 ense of pleasure in evaporation, and
that tho ill should be made worse by this
rude ordeal.
Park is in some respects tho most remarkable
in the world. There is not much variety in
ii, and it lacks altogether that beauty of
lawns and gardens which makes one or two
avenues in interior cities joy and pride to
the eyes of patriotic citizens. But it is the
most wonderful prospect which the world can
present of rich and costly dwelling houses
succeeding each other with scarcely break
for three solid miles. 1t will be tho favorite
drive and the favorte promenade on this con-
tinent for more years than it is now necessary
to calculate. 1t needs, therefore, good pave
ment; one which shall be pleasant for car
riages, safe for horsemen, and which shall not
be any moro noisy than the circumstances of
the case render necessary. Many incline to
macadam, and many are tempted by that ex-
cellent composite pavement opposite the
Worth Monument, which has for several years
recommended itself with gentle persuasive
ness to every one who has caught a moments
peace and quiet by driving over it. Between
these two we should think the decision might lie.
But the credit Of the city and the comfort of
its inhabitants and visitors require that not
much more time should be lost in giving to
this great thoroughfare q pavement at once
safe, agreeable, and practicable. We hope the
next session of the Legislature may do some
thing for us in this regard. a bill came near
passing last Winter. under which the avenue
might now have been in splendid condition.
1t, or something better, ought to be proposed
early and pressed to q speedy vote.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02

THE RIGHT MIN IN TIE RIGHT PLACE.
The friends and attorneys of William NJ.
Tweed are now developing the plans which
they have been maturing for year TO extri-
cate him from prison at the expiration of his
first twelve months Of punishment. Despair
ing Of any prospect of Executive clemency,
now that his most efficient adversary and
prosecutor is elected Governor of New York,
they are seeking to evade the law by means
of law, to get their client out of Jail by the
same way lie went in. 1t is not within
our province to discuss point Of law now
pending before the courts. We have little
fear that the sentence of Tweed will be shown
to have been rendered in haste or ignorance.
He is very rich man; lie has plenty of stolen
money to hire lawyers with. 1t is only
natural that he should exhaust every means
in the arsenal of jurisprudence to save the
remnant Of his life from the punishment
which has been righteOusly assigned him.
We do not think there is any reason for ap-
prehenson that the skill which could not pre-
vent his conviction can now nullfy his SEN
tence.
While we decline to discuss the point of
law now raised, We do not feel called upon to
keep silent in regard to the moral merits of
the attempt now making to restore this great
malefactor to the society he has pillaged and
sought to. debauch. If his ill-gained wealth
had been taken from him and restored to the
public treasury, there would be Little tendency
anywhere to vindictive feeling against an old
and ruined man. But the case ia far different.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02

There is always some truculent person writing to
the newspapers who would like to know" you
know; and not seldom the cry of the correspondent
is out Of all proportion to the wool Of the outrage
Cincinnati man read in tho journals that the city
had perpetually leased part of lots and in Kem-
pes subdivision to the Little Sisters of tho Poor at
an annual rent of ST." His soul was at once in
arms and he sent off letter to The Gazette demand
ing an explanation. Were the corruptions of the
New-York Ring to be revived in tho City Of Pork I
Was this transfer legalf Had they Boss Tweed
among themf All this was sublime and patriotic
and philosophical; 10 was only the explanation
which made the matter ridiculous. The land con-
veyed to the Little Sisters was a small strip Of
ground-a bit Of an old abandoned road II, in-
stead Of leasing it, the city should vacate formally
the road this strip would to the adjoining prop
erty-owners-th Sisters themselves In this con-
dition of the ground, it is hard to SEQ what harm
was d0no BY tho execution cf the perpetual lease:
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02
A STRIKE OF THE STUDENTS.

Strikes interest everybody. No better proof
of the Importance and real dignity of labor
could be adduced than the share OF public at
tention it commands. Labor has only to
stretch out its hand, and the vast machinery
that begins with the bricklayer and ends with
the millionaire is stopped on the instant. The
strike is a peaceful revolution-the Anglo
SaxOn's barricade. Labor was always power,
even when in chains; the trades-uniOn has
made it terror. But there is far more
highly civilized, though Jess numerous class,
who are much more helpless and yet much
less needed. Their wants are often no less pro-
nounced, and yet they can never organize to
make them known. These are the needy men
of brains, unsuccessful writer's teachers, clergy
men, and lawyers men who do not struggle in
the contest for bowl of free soup, who
button up their hunger under threadbaro
brOadclOth. They make no stir in the public
prints, run no candidates for Mayor. organize
no parties on the platform Of o general divi-
sion Of all property but their own, form no
unions, indulge in no strikes. They are in
capable of helping themselves by any but
individual effort, and must be until the full
ness of time shall bring about trades
union Of poets or q strike Of paragraph
writer's. This class of unfOrtunates maintain
such o reserve that the existence of their
wants is often unsuspected, and thus goes on
much Of that silent and poignant suffering
which never reaches the public eye or ear.
The cold Is just as keen when it strikes
through rusty black as when it pierces a
workman's blouse. Hunger gnaws just as
cruelty at the waistband Of the professor as
of the peddler. The stomach is republican,
whatever the social rank Of the brain. The
artist and the scholar must eat as well as
grosser people; and pigments are not pork,
and square roots are not potatoes The class
is by no means small Not a daily newspaper
in any large city that is not overrun with
more applicants for work on any terms than
could find standing room at one time in its
offices. Not o school but is besieged by men
and women ready to teach at starvation
wages; not q school where teachers do not
cling to their posts as with the grip Of death,
even when most unwiss Commissioners reduce
their pitiful salaries. Not a position in the
country requiring brain work for which
score of rivals will not fight iercely
when death or chance makes va
caucy and for every success there are nino.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02
THH pURLTC DEBT.
confidence

The reported decrease of the Public Debt
is A123.427 68 for the month OF November ana
S4140,0O7 Oh in the five months since the De-
ginning of the fiscal year. This is at the rate
of not quite a million dollars month, and it
is clear enough that the prospect for de-
crease of thirty million dollars in the Debt
during the current fiscal year. as predicted by
Messrs. Dawes and Garfield, is not brilliant.
Yet the statement for the month just ended
is m uncommonly favorable one when the
circumstances are considered. November Is
one of the months when the receipts from
Customs are light, being hardly three-iiIths as
much as they are in August, when the I'M
portations are made for the Fall trade. 1t is
therefore emnently satisfactory that the Debt
shows any decrease at all since the 1st of
November.
A year ago lSecretary Richardson reported
an increase of the Public Debt for the month
| of November of over nine million dollars.
| The revenue last month from Internal taxes
| and Customs duties may have been, at the
outside, from two to three millions more than
it was in November, 1873, and, taking the
larger figure, this would leave six million
dollars to he accounted for by decrease of
expenses. This is evidently too great sum
| to be disposed of in this way. And yet the
semi i-official statement of payments from the
| Treasury by warrants, not including payments
| for interest on the Public Debt, were reported
at S18, 7OS, ,62O 70 for November, 1873. and only
| S12,OOl ,9O6 20 for November. 1874. What is
still more remarkable, the payments of this
kind for the previous months of this year had
shown an increase over the corresponding
months of last year. The totals of each OF
the five months of 1873 aud 1874 compare as
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02
Qmusements ano Aleetines.

BoorH's THEArER-" Tho Widow Hant," ana LOU
Tape" J. 8. Clarke. - -. =.
BAKSuM's ROWAN HIPropRoME. aftornoen ~
and evening at g.
BRYAN1's OPERA HoUsB--Minstres. ann,
DALYs FIFTH AvESUE TmEArE2.-' heart Oh "iu'o'
THAN"
GRAND OPERA HoUsE.-"The Black Crook"
Iycsuu TuEArER-Enslish Opera Bouhe; "The aranu
Duchess" Miss Emily Suldenes
OLYNrIc NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Sol. Smith Russell
PARK ruEATER.-" Tae G.ded Age" John T. Ray mond'
SAN FRANCISCO MISsrRgLs.-Sirch and Wambo'd.
Union SQUARE THEATER-At 1880: The HuochoacA'
AIS: "Jane Ere" Miss Charlotte Ih0mpSon
wAyrAcK's TIlEArER-" The shaushraun." Dion Bouei-
caut
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITr-At4' ~ orsan No ~ "
p,popvrn Fp,.oopAI CuuRCH-First Anniversary Ser
REPUBLICAN BALL~-Fair.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02
Total............Ss0,6l3,431 ,431

The greater part of the expenditures of the
Government consists of salaries and pensions
payable at fixed and regular periods. The pen
sOns are payable quarterly, and during No
vember between three and four millions
should have been drawn from the Treasury
in preparation for tho disbursements by the
agents which commence this week. But the
total amount of warrants drawn on account Of
Pensions, Indians, and the Department Of the
Interior, was last month only S2,464,395
against $4,5SO,25O in November last year for
the same purposes. We do not wish to seem
censorious. We simply ask in behalf of the
public, who furnish these enormous sums of
money, that the information which the Gov
ernmcnt publishes in regard to the finances
shall be such as not to mislead. The
statesmen of former generations, when
the aggregate cost of our Municipal,
State, and National Governments was not
one-tenth what it now reaches, always
regarded with dread the tendency of
our republican institutions toward extrava-
gance and fraud in the use of public money
Experience has shown that their fears were
not without good foundation. Those already
pensioned on the public Treasury and those
who are eager to attach themselves to it are
a truly formidable phaanx. We think there
is not single city of one hundred thousand
inhabitants in the Union that does not count
its indebtedness by millions, the greater part
of it in most cases having been wantonly if
not dishonesty appropriated. The people
have chosen representatives only to be be-
trayed and tricked by them. What is now
called for is the clearest statement that can
be devised on all matters relating to public
expenditures, to the end that what is wrong
may be brought to light, tho causes of our
severe taxation understood, and the proper
remedies applied. We therefore look forward
with great interest to Mr.. Brstow's forthcom-
ing report on the finances. We sec much to
approve of in his administration thus far, and
we hope to see a great deal more.
New-York tribune., 1874-12-02
PIANO.FoRTE RECITALs.
DRAMATIC NOTES.

The new Globe Theater in Boston will DO
opened Tomorrow
Mr. Rowe will shortly fulfill an engagement
at tne theater Ia PortaId. Name
Mr. Jefferson began n brief engagement
at Iue WlluuLst. Tneater Pniladeipula on Nov. ~.
Mr.. Frederick Robinson came forth. on Mon
fsii 6ei% 81 "''N AD'''"' ~ . ' ~
Mr.. Davenport's recent engagement at tho
Ga, auutst. Ineater Pniiadepuia MAS notably pros
Mr.. John S. Clarke, the comedian, has con-
trbuieJ slOOo 10 tue CeNtelnII teeorasion fdud IL
PniladepdIa.
Mr.. Charles Gayer, the dramatist, has ar
rived IN No~YOrA, alser prOfessIoAA expedition with
9ir. FIoreuce.
Mr.. Barnum IA preparing to astonish and de-
gal the JIvcue worId, ~ CurislIS' "itd LeW SHOWS
IN his HIppodrome.
NJ. Feval's new drama, which Mr.. Rowe has
trausi ed aud adapted for DoosnS fneater, 10 eGt1ei
A" lac Hero OF the Hour"
Mr. Frederic Maccabo will reappear next
M0hiay, tsiaDl,hiny US dr"i ana amu'He oH'oi'"u'
inent a. BJbnson Hall.
"Yorick' is the title of the new piece, from
the spanish. tnat Mr. pay lntoHLs to produce at tao
Firth Avenue Theater. Dec. s.
Changes OF entertainments have been made
this wees at the O.ymDc fusa.er. at Brydnrs Opera
House, aud at tue san FraDcisco Miustrei Hall.
Miss Rose Eytnge will. on Dec. 7, make her
Tnsne as Targa,et NJ Ss Eor Ia ei,Scs
Mr.. Edwin Booth will act at McVicker's
Tnraler, CHICAGO, the IL "a Of December. BOJtLs
Theater Is sold at auction Tomorrow accordl0R 10
present announcements,
Prof. TObln requests us to state that as tho
UuIou League exceed team, Or It's theater Ia exc,ss
OF thoe originally understood. he wa, rencts ny
compelled 70 d ScOutnI1 his c.Oridm entertainments
at tnat place, but Will resume them Elsewhere.
Mr. Florence has been doing remarkably
In the West, WIN CdIL Cuhe. lilo J. now df
John McCuiiOugAs thrtter la FLHciScO. Waen be
comes back 10 New York he viii Appear Ia play
by Mr.. Gayicr.
Mr.. John Mccullough, in his recent engage
menS Thoroughly slStaiucd tho exalted reputation
which he won III New-YJrk. Crowded nOuscs nave at
tended his performances, In clSs within the last
two months and remark Ia Il hc II tue rrcpie0 OF
profound and evidently honest critical respect. Tue
OF scn an acton II brst agury Tor tue futuro
Of the stage. Mr.. McCuliOuSh IS n'w Ia New Oieabs
which cHy ne VIII VroCood " Siu Francisco On tuo
Gu of December.