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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

NOR when a priest was made Controller or the
Mini nreachcd fierce little financial sermon
ON that subject and Bernard Gilpin did not
scruple from the pulpit to teach King Edward
his political duties considered IN rehslous
light. Making great leap from that far-olf
t;ma tn this. we find the Rev. Mr.. Bartol,
in Boston, last Fast Day, plainly preaching OF
" the movement for inhatiOn.' and reading, Ia
fact, money article from the pulpit with
oood deal of that morality sifted in winch
money articles 700 frequently lack. There
should be nothing surprising IN this, consider
ing that Christianity, as a rule, keeps no terms
other with lies or with liars and this, indeed, Is
tbo nlain WAY in which the Reverend Doctor
mt the matter: We print" he said " the heads
"of honest men Of the former age on the Gov
"ernment Lies Of the present time" lie
protested against "everlasting, irredeemabie
"paper,n aud added: Our paper, our ground
" less promises to pay, will be protested at the
Day of Judgment, and that day Will come
"to lis as a people before the angel blows his
90 last trump.n And then with very effective
Alacrity at Sinking, the Doctor likened this
great and glorious Government" to miikman
watering his milk "Not a handsome or
q" dignifed figure" said the Doctor. and almost
everybody will agree with him.
This Boston divine's financial opinions are
not those. ii ia evident, of the great PanurSe,
who was so in love with lending and
borrowing that he could not conceive OF
nation as happy without Ss0ne rev
Centuries of debit and who lost himself
Gin the enraptured contemplation OF a
world in which "every one should lend
"and every one borrow Tho point, after all,
is one of simple veracity National falsehood
differs from personal falsehood only in degree
and not in kind; and churches are built
and endowed and maintained, theoretI-
cally at least, az so many permanent
protests against falsehoOds of all sorts, IN
Guiding those spoken or printed or even en-
acted by the National Government The solid
men of Boston who met in Faneuil Hall last
Saturday took this view OF the matter
Government promised to redeem It's notes
Give years ago at the earliest practical period
"When is that period to come ~ asked WI
liam Gray one of the most honest OF mer-
chants and of gentlemen. Others coupled
"currency ir6ationr with National dis
"honesty." The tone of all the speeches, as
our readers have already been informed, was
throughout the same. 1t was made as much
o matter of morality as of money.
We content ours lives with asking if moral
considerations are necessarily and righteously
to be excluded from political speculations.
Can Government do no wrong7 Is Treas
ury bound, if possible, to keep its promises
If, prima JtIcie even, il has broken these prom
ises, may the sin OF it be discussed like any
other SIM We keep solemn days of humilia-
ton, fasting aud prayer in special view of the
concrete sins of the body polite. If falSehood
turns out to be one of them, is it wrong for
the preachers to take notice of it because the
| preachers do not chance to be members of
| Conprpss7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08
;&eap'Iork Daily GribMa1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL s, 1874.

The French Transatlantic Company's steamship Eu-
rope has lost All her passengers and crew
were taken of by the steamer Greece. r.. Marshal
Berrsno has renewed his fire upon the Carsts before
Bilbao The town Of Corona has paid heavy contrbu-
ton to the Carst General Sabals. go Captain-Gen-
eral de la COncha has Issued proclamation In which he
promises the elimination OF expenses Cuba, and Gays
e will permit the existence Of political parties OF
auy kind. The office of Political Governor of Havana
has been abolished.
In the Senate yesterday the calendar was taken up
and large number of bills disposed OF. In the House
several speeches made the currency question:
the most notable OF which by Mr. Cox in favor
OF specie paymen Mr.. Sanborn again before the
Ways and Means Committee in reference to his con-
tracts. Several witnesses were examined by the Dis
trict Investigating Committee.
The supporters OF Gen. Banks for United States Sen.
ator from Massachusetts abandoned him yesterday.
- Gov. Dix sent strong anti-nhation message
20 the Legislature, which adopted resolutions
OF a similar nature. - The Democrats carried Gin
cinpau by about 5000 majority. 80 The anthem
perance victories in Dayton and Bucyrus Ohio resulted
yesterday in gross insults TO the prayer crusaders
Latest returns from Connecticut put Ingersolls ma
jority at about 1900.
The master mechanics decided TO adopt the ten.hour
system Prof, Proctor delivered his farewell leo
ture In America. - The ladies organized for TEN.
perance crusade. 60 The Brooklyn Committee OF
Fifty protest against the amended Bridge Charter. So
Gold ll3i. 49, llSa. 80 Thermometer 4O' Az, ~.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08
Mr.. PROCTOR'S VISIT.

With the final lecture Of Mr. Proctor which
we report to-day, his visit to this country
closes. There can be little dOnbt that as a
lecturing tour 1t has been good success. In
the outset he attempted the somewhat hazard
GUS experiment of delivering his lectures in
minor towns and cities and it could not
have been certain until he came before a
New-York audience whether much eclat would
follow his footsteps. But with his ap-
pearance on the platform in ., this
city his success was assured. 1t mattered
not that an eccentric series of journeys was
marked out for HIM by his manager, so that
he had to rush from town to town and from
city to city all over the land to meet mis- en-
gagements, or occasionally Fin the exigencies
of Winter travel, to fail in meeting them.
His reputation constantly preceded him, and
The TRIBUNE's full reports of his lectures
enabled the press of the interior to enhance
his fame and their own by copying these re-.
ports as theirs, when the lectures were deliv-
cred at their doors.
Messrs. Tyndall and Proctor differed
more widely in method than in sub
ject Prof. Tyndalrs lectures proceeded on
the superstition that his audiences were
composed of intelligent people who had
made no special study of the topics to be
brought before them. Hence he was careful
in his explanations to include in each
instance a sufficient amount of the funda-
mental q. science of the textbooks to
enable an average hearer to form
a fair comprehension of the principles
involved. Then with apt illustrations he pre-
scented the subject, turning it about, as it
were, in different lights. and looking through
his audience as it, like Choate addressing
jury, he was watching for the CLEAN Of appre-
henson to break over the countenance of the
most stolid. Mr.. Proctor, on the contrary,
from the first, has presupposed on the part of
his audiences general acquaintance with the
ordinary information of the textbooks and
his lectures have been from first to last re-
plete with precisely that which the books do
not furnish, not less as being for the most
part novel than as rather of a theoretical in
stead of technical character. To hearers
who knew nothing beforehand Of astronomy,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08
MR.. BLISS AGAIN.

Mr.. District-Attorney Bliss has sent letter
to the Committee of Ways and Means, and
has favored us with copy of it. His pur-
pose is to show that Judge Noah Davis speaks
of the Custom-house with much less respect
in 1874 than District Attorney Noah Davis did
before the Senate Investigating Committee in
1872. That if it il a fact, is not matter of
great public concern, and we certainly do not
take enough interest in it to print the parallel
passages by which Mr.. Bliss attempts to
establish his proposition. Into personal ques-
tons between Judge Davis and Mr.. Bliss we
shall not enter. But it may be worth
while to state that we are tOlerably familiar
with the investigation of 1872 as well as with
the inquiry now pending, and it Is apparent to
us at glance that Mr.. Bliss grossly misrep-
resents his predecessors opinions. If it were
worth while we could show how the District
Attorney has garbled quotations and suppressed
important passages, so as to make it appear
that Judge Davis contradicts himself, whereas
in truth we believe there lis no contradiction
on any of the four points which he cites.
This, however. is matter which may be
left to Judge Davis himself. The present dis
cussion is not about any mans consistency.
1t is about a needed reform In the law, and
we do not see that any light is thrown upon
the question by petty communications which
would hardly be considered reputable in a
young mems debating society.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

Mr.. Proctor's lectures must have been wen
nigh incomprehensibe.
But there were still wider differences
between the two lecturers. lyndaii was
slow, deliberate speaker, with lew OF the
graces of an orator: but his kindly earnest
ness shone through his speech, and his
audience warmed to him with species of
affection. Proctor was the most rapid and
fluent speaker that has for many years taxed
the swift pencils of our reporters. lie seemed
never at "A loss for breath or words, ana MS
rapid oratory often rose into strains Oh
eloouence. Tyndall gave the public a
series of magnificent experiments, upon which
he and his skilled assistants spent much labor,
always rehearsing the entire exhibition before
each lecture, so that no portion might fan OF
success. The appeal to sight, the actual per-
Torrance of experiment, is usually more I'M
pressive than the finest address to the ear
Alike to the wise and to the uneducated, seeing
is believing.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08
FINANCE IN THE BOSTON PULPIT

The American pulpit has to a considerable
extent regained the independence which dur
ing the stormy days Of the Slavery discussion
it was in some danger Of losing altogether.
During our Revolutionary struggle, and long
before, clergymen had preached freely of
morals as well as of religious doctrines-of
the Stamp Act and the Boston Port Bill as
well as of Predestinatlon and Pleriphony of
Faith. At later day, jefferson and Madison
knew well what it was to be criticised by the
parsons of New-England, to the great comfort
Of old John Adams, who had long before put
upon record his opinion of the perfect fitness
and propriety of political preaching. The
truth is, that the clergy in all ages, with no
limits save those of conscience and good sense.
have always claimed and exercised this right of
discussing public morals. The golden mounted
Bishop of Constantnople preached against bind
ing q female slave to bed-post and then
logging her-an amusement in which some OF
tho sisters Of his congregation INDUCED. Lati-.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

the carrying Of both branches OF tho Legisla-
ture by such decided majorities. 1t was to
this point that the Administration State Com
mittee directed their most strenuous efforts, IN
order to secure the reelection of Senator Buck
ingham. Instead of gaining, they lost repre-
sentatiyes in towns which were considered
Republican stronghOlds, and Senatorial dis
tricts which have been Republican from the
organization of the party. This was the point
too where the voter touched National politics
directly. There was no issue raised In the
election of members of the Legislature other
than that involved in the choice of Senator
Attempts were made to frlghten voters with
the probability that some unht or unworthy
man would be elected to the Senate II the
Opposition came into power; but they
met it sauarely, and said at any rate they
wanted change. There is no use trying to
evade the significance of it; it will be fatal
error to misinterpret its meaning. The voters
of Connecticut SAID on Monday, simply and
directly. that they had lost confidence in
tho present Administration, and would no
longer keep men in Office who support
it. This is hardly denied by the or
gans of the party in the State, one
of which goes so far as to say that had the
passage of the Initiation bill in the Senate
been known on the morning of the election,
the majority against the Administration would
have been 1000 greater than it was.
With these patent facts before them. will
the party leaders at Washington read, under
stand, and profit by the lessons Of the Con-
npcticut election
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08
Amusements ano Alectinss.

ACADEMY OF MUsIc.-Italian Opera LINDA di Cha
mounix." Nine. Di Murska.
BooTH's THEATER.-"Zp." Lolita.
BROADWAY THEATER.-" Humpty Dumpty." G. L. Fox.
CoLossEuM-Day and evening: "Cyclorama OF Paris by
Night"
DAYS FIFTH AVENUE THEArgR.-"Charity."
GRAND OPERA HOUSE," Eileen 0ge." The Florences.
LYCRUM THEATER.-The Grand Partisan Folly.
NBLos GARDEN" Davy Crockett" Frank Mayo
OLYMrlC THEArER.-Novelty Entertainments
UNION SQUARE THEATER-" Led Astray."
WAlLACK's THEATER." The Veteran" Lester WALLACE
ASSOCIATION HAu.-Lecture Mrs. Lyman.
CLINTON HALL.-Art Sale.
TERRERo's ASSEMBLY ROoNs.-St. AIMS Cathohe fair'
PLYMOUTH CHURCH, BrOoklyn.-At - p H. Lecture
hrs. DR.. Susan Everett
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08
Rnslnees Monies.

WRITE TO THE TRAVELLERS INSURANCE Co.,
Hartford. Conn, d life OF General Accident Policy.
Grr TIE GENUINE ARTICLE.-The great
popularity Of WunoRs CosPOUND OF COP LIVER or AID LlHs
pied 20 attempt 10 palm on SIMPLE
article quacture but who rs suffering nom
CouEs Consumption should be careful where they purchase
article pung the results following Its use are It's
best and the proprietor has ample evidence on ne 81
pulmonary Complaints The phosphate OF
line POSSESSES mlr7eous healing combined with the
lure Cod Dr. Wilbor. This medicine Is regularly pre-
80 by medical faculty. Sold By A D. WILBoR, Chemist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

Tribune Extra No. 49, published this morning,
Is an eight-page sheet containing Bayard Taylor's
letter describing DR.. iSchLemann's Discoveries on
the site of Ancient Troy; sir lectures on the
Nerves by DR.. BrO,cn-S6Qtard; and the
four new lectures on astronomy Just de-
huered by Mr. Proctor. From the necessities
of space it has happened that but Jew Of either
of these series Of lectures hare been fully reported
IN our daily issues: in the Extra they are COM
11Lete. The price Of this Extra is 10 cents, inclUd
ing mailing TO any address We shall also issue
81 in about a week IN pamphlet form, at double
this price. Orders receiued NOR, and filled accord
tng 10 the date Of their reception.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

Thanks are due Gov. Dix for his timely
message protesting against the infiatiOnist
tendencies of Congress, and inviting the
Legislature to give expression to the over
whelming sentiment in the Empire State
against the cheap money insanity. We have
now been subjected for five months to the
influence Of Mr.. Richardson's over-issue of
legal-tender notes. Trade, industry, and con-
fidence remain as much depressed as ever,
proving that the difficulty is not owing to any
scarcity of paper money. All rejecting per-
sons must recognize this fact sooner or later. The
absurdjtY of initiating the currency six months
after the pressure in the money market has
entirely disappeared is patent. The majority
in Congress vastly undeTrate the intelligence
and honesty of the people, as well as the in
fluence which honesty and intelligence can
and do exert in this Republic. The words of
Gov. Dix and the noble protests of the most
hOnOred of our Senator'S at Washington will
be felt throughout the Union. The chips and
garbage which float in and out of our harbor
with every tide are not the forces which
cause the Oceans ebb and flow. The words
of statesmen are remembered and needed
long after the sophistries of demagogues are
despised and forgotten.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

Belisarius has appeared in London. A large crowd
lately collected in the street. and the cause OF tue
assemblage was found to be gentleman III major
uniform engaged in sweeping the crossing lie wore
Crimean and Indian medals on his breast-signs oi
patriotic vaor which did not prevent ms instant
arrest HIS conduct is explained by recent bntisn
military arrangements bearing hardly upon MN anu
brotber-onicers One of them sought to call public
attention to his wrongs by personal assault, not
LONG AGO. upon the Chief; Major
,Johnsons performance, if rather melo-dramatic is
certainly more effective. Whether he won 910h
with his broom not told; but ne had TO enter
into recognizances for $50 to keep the peace for
three months-a proceeding which would probably
have appeared queer to the Belisarius Of old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

Mr.. Ruskin has been guilty Of a clever utiitarian
idea He is tired he observes, of seeing the Oxford
undergraduates waste all their physical energy In
cricket matches and boat races and so he suggests
that the young men should proceed to do good to
mankind and beautify the neighborhood Of the city.
Accordingly the University lads have picked up the
shovel and The hoe and have out to the number
of fifty or sixty to dig bitches, mend roads and
hedges and generally adorn the British landscape.
There has not yet appeared any proposition of an in
tershoyeling competition, but that will probably
come in time Mr. Ruskin's suggestion is much to
be commended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

The French Transatlantic Company have
lost another steamer, the Europe having sunk
at sea. Fortunately, however, the disaster Of
the Vile du Hayre was not repeated, all on
board having been taken of by a passing
ship. We have no details of the wreck, but
it would appear that the Europe foundered in
mid-ocean while on the voyage from Hayre
10 New-YOrk.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

From report laid before Congress yester-
day, we learn that the scheme for construct
ing the James River and Kanawha Canal is
regarded as most feasible by the gentlemen
who have surveyed the line. The only diff
entity in the way is the necessary tunnel.
This. however, is waived off in the easy man
ner which was affected by the late Dir. Pod
snap. 1t is a mere Mount Gents matter. The
Mount Gems tunnel is about eight miles long,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

and cost $1s,OOOOOO. Of course. no such great
and generous nation as ours can afford to
stop at a triAe like this.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

Sanborn before the Ways and Means Com
mittee, yesterday, seemed satisfied with the
ruin he wrought the day before. He devoted
himself to screening somebody, or several
somebodies, for whom the Committee were in
search. Sanborn received $4,000 as his share
of the money paid into the Treasury on
demands which he did not discover"
He paid out moro than half OF this
amount as Counsel fees" etc. Why he
should pay these enormous fees in process of
collections which he did not make cannot be
explained. The most natural hypothesis is
that Sanbom divided his plumber with
some mysterious person who was con-
cerned in the original passage OF the
bill under which the contracts were awarded.
This figure in the background is supposed to
have introduced Sanborn at the Treasury De-
partment and to have befriended him at sew
eral perilOus places along his way. That
potent person is suspected by some to be a
member of Congress from Massachusetts by
the name Of Butler.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-08

Captain-General de la Concha has issued
proclamation in which he says he will dimin-
1sh the expenses of government in Cuba and
devote sums of money to the amortization OF
the public debt But no one very well
acquainted with his former rule in that country
can place much reliance on these promises with
out giving evidence of an astonishing amount OF
credulty. 1t was he who squandered the
public money to such an extent that the
treasury was impoverished, and it was through
his maladministration that the foundation
was laid for the financial embarrassmentS
under which the island now labors. He en-
tered upon his Office formerly when the wealth
of Cuba was proverbial. Fortunately for his
reputation he was recalled before all the re-
suits of his misrule were apparent. 1t Is now
likely to be very different, for the emergency
is one where the clamor for expedients Is not
likely to be satisfied by the oppressive meas
ures which this proclamation shows the Cap
tain General is on the point OF Introducing
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-04-10
The Fire District SHIFTS.

1t is a matter of some wonder to lis
that the suits to enforce the Fire ordi-
nance stand as they do. We cannot
understand, for instance, why it is that
in fifteen cases judgments have been
obtained and proven up, when in seven
or eight others, in which Judgment
was confessed, the Judgments were not
against three of the owners Of wooden
buildings in the Fire district no action
whatever has been taken. Wc cannot
understand this. Tho city officials
have insisted upon the strict enforce
ment of the ordinance establishing a
Fire district, but We do not find the
performance commensurate with the
profession.
Tho 1ntettigenccr asks us, if the
parties sued by the town in order to
enforce the ordinance making Fire
district, were willing to abide by the
decision in one suit, why did they not
say so? We reply that, after the suits
were actually brought and service
made, the only agreement that could
be made was the agreement actually
made by the attorneys in court, that
one suit should decide the result in
each suit. The City never proposed to
the owners of wooden buildings to let
one suit decide the entire twenty-six
suits, but proceeded, without any pro-
posal for such 4 compromise, to bring
suits in the entire twenty-six cases.
VIII the editor of the Inteiiigencer tell
us what amount he has received in
fees, as Clerk of the Court, in these
cases from the City, and how much
might have been saved to the City by
securing the agreement volunteered by
DEFENDANTS counsel in these suits? His
answer will materially aid in showing
the useless costs incurred by the City In
these suits. Will he also explain the
difference we have pointed out in prose-
cutting these suits and bringing the
parties to Judgment? IL there favorit.
ism in the matter: