davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16
TIE WHOLE TRUTH.

There ia q general and not unreasonable be-
lief that the Committee of Ways and Means
has narrowly avoided the disclosure OF great
conspiracy in which Gen. Butler and other
prominent persons at Washington have been
concerned with certain public officers at New
York TO make money out OF Custom-house
cases. The Committee has accordingly Dcen
censured for cutting short the inquiry ana
omitting to examine various persons connccteu
with tho Revenue Ring, who might nave
thrown good deal of light upon the secret
history OF tho affair. IL seems to be forgotten,
however, that this is not what IL COM
monty known rs an investigating
committee. Mr. Kelley and his colleagues
have consented to hear statements from mer-
chants and Treasury officers interested in the
proposed reform of the Customs laws. but
they have no authority to search out alleged
frauds, or compel the attendance of Witnesses
All tho testimony laid before them has been
volunteered. For our own part, we are salts
fed that tho Inquiry has not been thorough,
and that the whole truth. if we could get at
it, would reveal q state of things far worse than
the public now imagines. But we do not see tilat
the Ways and Means Committee could have
done any moro than it has done, nor is there
any reason to suppose that it has attempted
to keep back the truth.
1t will be strange, however if some OF the
respectable Republicans in the House, like MIR.
Dawes, or the Hoars, or Mr.. Pierce, do not
see the proprety of calling for an investiga-
ton into the whole subject of the interest OF
Congressman and officials of the Treasury De-
partment in the revenue scandals which are
now spoken of under tho generic names OF
"Jayne fraudsn and "SanbOrn frauds"
Strictly speaking, of course, the operations OF
the two classes of Special Agents are
substantially within tho law, but there is
almost always a large element of fraud min
gled with them, and it is morally certain that
the profits of their transactions are shared In
Washington. Mr. Jayne told tho Committee
that he was obliged to divide more than half
his receipts with other persons, and indeed 1t
required no great sagacity to divine that
person like him would never be permitted to
hold the profitable Office of Special Agent
without rendering handsome equivalent for
it to the politicians in power. His connection
with Gen. Butler is notorious. We ought to
know how far it extends and whether it in
wolves other members of the House.
The SanbOrn case looks still worse. That
scandal almost certainly duplicates somebody
in the Senate and somebody in the Treasury
Department, and there is q strong probability
that the combination also extends into the
House. So much is already known, and so
many clues for the investigation of the case
have been obtained by the public press, that
it is idle to suppose the matter can be al
lowed to rest where it is. We are only curl
Gus to know whether tho credit of instituting
searching inquiry is to be seized by the
better class of Republicans, or left for the
opposition TO appropriate.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN ILLINOIS.
There is a bill for Compulsory Education
now under consideration in the Illinois Legis-
laturc, which by the moderation of its pro-
visions and the simplicity of its details, pre-
seDts the entire question of enforced in
structon freed from most of the complica-
tons which embarrass it in other places. 1t
provides that every parent or guardian OF
child between the ages Of nine and fourteen,
who resides in district where there is q
school within two miles, shall send the child
to some school for at least three months of
each year, unless an equal amount OF instruc-
ton is given at home, or unless the child is
reasonably proficient in the ordinary branches
of English education. 1t is made the duty of the
school officers to prosecute for any violation of
this duty occurring in their respective districts,
the penalty assigned being from one to five
dollars for each week (not exceeding thirteen
weeks in any year) during which the law is
violated. A neglect of this duty, after proper
notice has been given, subjects the school Off
GERS to penalty of from five to twenty-five
dollars for each neglect. Provision is made
for tho supply of books to INDECENT children.
and in cases where they have not suitable
clothing, to supply that also. This bill was
somewhat fully discussed in the House of
Representatives, and although it met with
considerable opposition. it finally passed 1t
has received its first reading in the Senate
but has not yet come up for final action
The opposition to this and to similar meas
ures rests of course upon the broad principle,
which is now never denied, that the ideal of
government is the least possible interference
with the individual and the family. But it is
evident on the other hand that there are GER
tain matters of such vital interest to the very
existence Of society that the State cannot re-
main stranger to them. The public health is
ono Of these interests No plea of individual
rights is ever considered valid to uphold
man in sustaining nuisance which is likely
to breed a pestilence among his neighbOrs;
and no man il justified in resisting any scheme
of sanitary regulations which has been adopted
by the body politc for the protection of
the general health. 1t may be said that
ignorance is an evil of such dangerous import
ance to the public welfare that the same COM
pulsory measures of correction are necessary.
No man can be q safe citizen of republican
government who votes for the enactment of
laws which he is unable to read and the
State, as matter of self preservation, may
seem to have a right to demand that his child
shall not grow up in equal ignorance. All,
or nearly oil, agree in regarding system
Of gratuitous education as desirable, but there
is still some difference of opinion in regard TO
tho desirability of system of compulsory in
struoton. We hayo httlo doubt that tho
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

power 10 provide for it does como within the
legitimate province Of tho State, but the expe-
diency of exercising that power is matter
requiring tho most thorough consideration.
We have no doubt of the right Of the Legisla-
ture TO regulate the traffic in ardent spirits.
but tho experience of years has shown that il
is almost beyond the reach Of human inteli-
gence to. say just what degree of severity in
the law is most effcctual and most easily
executed. The details Of any law
for compulsory education are therefors
of the utmost Importance. If the law be op.
pres5ivc or vexatious IN any of its provisions,
80 as to excite against it the hostility Of tho
ignorant classes for whose benefit it is
intended, it will be virtually impossible 10
carry it into effect. In country the basis OF
whose political system is the Independent
township it is impracticable to carry any law
into effect the details Of which arc in conflict
with the general domestic sense of the citi-
zens. Such laws, when they are passed, after
short period of annoying and rather demor-
alizne contests, remain as dead letters upon
the statute books, to the scandal and the
detriment of good government.
In the State of Illinois, the matter il fr.s
from some of the complications which attend
it here, and the need of some such measure ia
very apparent In 1870, out of an aggregate
population of two millions and half, 8GOO0
could not read, and $4,000 could not write.
making an illiterate total of nearly ten per
centum. This is state Of things which de-
mands the exercise of all legitimate means OF
remedy. The bill proposed seems to be. on the
whole, moderate and prudent measure. If it
is adopted, the whole country will be interested
in watching the success of this attempted
solution of most momentous question, from
a State which has already given us the benefit
of several curious and important studies in
political science
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16
II RIP l. E S Ill E Il L.

The Pope has written TO the Emperor OF Austria
questng him 10 protect the Church within his domin
ions === The ex-Emprcss Of France and her have
broken on relations with Prince Napoleon. Extensive
Preparations have been made for the celebration at
Chiselhurst to-day. Nearly all the British EtrOOps
belonging to the Ashantee Expedition have embarked
for home. == There wasa laree meeting at London
yesterday IN favor OF Feuian amnesty. - Carlist
Of 20 eco is threatened in front and Dy
Republcsn troops 80 The Atcheenese are mastering
for general attack on the Dutch.
Exercises in memory OF Senator Sumner held IN
faneui Hall, Boston The funeral will take place to-
day. Five speeches made in the House OF
Representatives on SATURDAY,. the Transportation
bill - Reports on the SanbOrn and Jayne affairs will
PROBABLY DO made this week by the Ways and Means
Committee. - The revenue from liquors has been
reduced IN Ohio aud Indiana during two months over
$4,000. apparently in consequence of the temperance
crusade.
The Committee in charge OF the proposed meet
Ing at Cooper Institute favored action in opposition to
imitation. === Au insane Brooklyn wachman mur-
dered his wife and killed himself in the presence OF his
i've children. = The Committee Cities practically
eosed the inyes cation in reference streecleaniu
S. Cold. ln.. 1lI l12. Thermometer, 2SO. SO, $40
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16
amrsements ano aIeeiinSS.

90 MIsIc-strskosch italian opera 0o"'p""'
Les Huguenois ,,,. sTbe Colleen
,,ar,.. TnKArKR.-DiOn Boucioau"' i"0 0'''''"
.sxux-pay s"s and evening: "Cyc'orama OF Paris oy
Night" .c..r,,y
cr.,p orERA HoUsE.-Martinetti Family ,,,,. -
,,c,rx TuyATKR.-French Opera boune' La f''N Wv
',M.Same Aneot" Mile. Aimee.
,,,a,o.s GARDEN" Davy Crockett" Frank Mayo.
~, y,,r,c Observation-Disclosures and Novelty En'er'an'
ment
r,srox SQUARE, THEATRR-"Led Astray'
w.,aAoK's THEArER- The Rivals"
.~.y,,ysroosp REGIMENT ARNoRr.-Grand Prom
enade Concert - -. d,
sr,nr TuxArrR.-Germsu Opera: "n Trovatore.'
Luoos.
r,p.r RArr,sr CHURcH.-Leoture: Mrs Susan everett
eoxvpxuIx ART GALLERY.-Exhibiuon or fan'ihss
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16
THE TYPICAL CLOSE OF A NOBLE

THE TYPICAL CLOSE or NOBLE LIFE.
We are all naturally inclined to dwell with
a sadly pleasing fOndness on the last words
and the last acts of those who have been en-
deared to us by the ties of a common blood,
the sanctities of friendship, and the intimacies
of daily life. 1t is at the prompting of kin
dred sentiment, in wider form of its mani
festation, that whole people sometimes pause
to catch the dying whispers which fall from
the lips of men who. during their lives, have
filed a conspicuous place in the eyes of their
cOuntrymen. 1t is felt to be in accordance
with the fitness of things that the life Of a
great man, when it comes to be rounded by
the inevitable sleep which awaits alike the
high and the low, the rich and the
Door, should even in its closing scenes
be brought into some such relations with the
prestige of its past career as shall satisfy our
sense of logical cOngruity, and at the same
time present a picture pleasing to the retro
spective fancy. 1t is thus that the rhetoric of
even the Christian church, borrowing inspira-
ton from the touching "reminiscences, as the
Eyangelists record, that its Divine Head was
parted from His disciples at Bethany and car
ried up into heaven while in the word and act
of blessing them, has not disdained to find in
this significant fact fitting emblem of the
infinite and changeless bepevOlence that was
mcarnated in His sacred person.
1t is vain to urge that undue importance is
often attached to the last words of the saints
and sages, the heroes and statesmen who
have blessed and adorned tho epoch in which
their lives were cast. 1t is quite true that the
heroes of humanity are to be judged rather
by the manner of their living than the man
ner of their dying 1t is easy to SEQ that the
last artculate utterances Of even the strongest
man, when in his mortal agony. may be the
expressions rather of physical in1rmity than
of the intellectual and moral vigor which
once dwelt in tho clear brain and tho stout
heart. A Marlborough. without impeachment
of his valOr, may start at Deaths alarms
when the weakness of his body has reacted
on tho cOnstancy of his spirit; and a Pitt,
without dscredit to his patriotism. may plain
lively call for rico water instead Of breathing
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

strongost antagonists only words of con-
fidonOe, at least in the integrity of their
motives and the purity Of their purposes m
e., this there is nothing novel. Over and over
again in the history of the Republic it has
been repeated. Let us be thankful that even
Death can extort justice, and rejoice for our
own sake that words of Cancellation and for
giveness can bo spoken. albeit they arc
spoken above the sepulcher
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

1t is hardly necessary to say that the widely
circulated Washington report that Mr. Butler
has succeeded in suppressing favorable
report on the repeal of the Sanborn-contract
law is wholly groundless. There must needs
be a powerful lobby organized in the interest
of the shameless grab known as the Sanborn
contracts the only justification of the miser-
able business has been that it was all done
under certain form of law. 1t is now pro-
posed to repeal that law. The lobby will
make desperate fight; and preliminary to
the formation of public opinion is the circua-
ton of the absurd story that the Ways and
Means Committee have decided not to report
in favor of changing the law. On the con-
trary, it is well understood that the Committee
are decidedly in favor of repeal; and it would
be amazing if the House should not be almost
unanimously of the same opinion.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16
Business y ONES.

WHETHER YOU TRAVEL, OR STAY AT HOME,
Genera Accident Policy the TRAVELLERS Of Hartford
To ONE AND ALL.-Are you suffering from
eoaRh c,i ashms bronchitis, OF the various
often terminate consumption hso use WLBoR'
LIVER LIsE s and efhcadous remedy T
10 Qusek PREPARATION regularly prescribed by the faculty
hsnsscarc By NLBOa, CBems Boston. Sod by ali drug
gstN
THH SEVEN SENSES. by DIR. r. w. Raymond,
10 TEIsUSE LEcryRE ENfKA NO. 8. Price 3 cents
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

The letter Of Prof. w. 5. Tyler of Amherst Col
lege from which the following extracts were made
was written to friend, and not intended for publ
cation It's verdict on Bayard Tay yors late remark
able contribution concerning the discovery OF ancient
Troy, is all tho more interesting because Of Prof.
Tyler's well-known standing in the front rank OF
Greek scholars in this country:
THE TRIBUNE has come and have read the article OF
Bayard Taylor with the greatest interest. had just
been reading an article a Greek paper published at
Athens which abstract OF article in the Revue
des Deux Mondes of Paris on the same subject. But
Mr. Taylor has given US more details and madc the
subject clear and luminous. 1t Is the greatest aroheo
logical discovery OF the age The treasures are
real and wonderful, and DR.. Schiemann has opened
mine of new and unexampled wealth IN archaeology. 1t
is a feather in TIE TRIBUNE's cap to have given tho
artice to the public. This is only Of many iustrs
tons Of the enterprise public spirit and wisdom with
which THE TRIBUNE is now conducted. IL was never 20
valuable In tho best day of Mr. Greeley It now is
1t IA scarcely possible TO exaggerate the value to tho
public learned unlearned OF those extras which are
a marked feature Of the present epoch OF TIN
TRIBUNE They In themselves library;
not Of trash poison, like too many
Of the weekes OF the day, but of literary scientific
and religious wisdom, brought within the means aud the
reach OF the poorest and the humblest classes And
the public appreciates, what cannot but admire. the
clear moral sense and right feeling we'll rs the wis
dom and enterprise Of those who now have the man
agenent
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16
TERMS or THE TRIBUNE.

DAILY TRIBUNE. Mail Subscribers. 80 per annum.
SEMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Mail Subscribers SO per an.
WEEKLY Tribune. Mail Subscribers, 81 per annum
AdvertIsIng Rates.
DAILY TRIBUNE 20c Soc 40c, SOC, 75c, and 81 per line
sEMI-WREKLY TRIBUNE. 25 and so cents per line.
WEEKLY TRIBUNE, 81, So and IS per hne,
According TO position III the paper
Terms cash in advance.
Address. THE TRIBUNE. New-York
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

When Mr. Nillard Fillmore died the other day.
most of the notices which hIs death occasoned
mentioned tho fact that his early education was
study of tho law. at the age of nineteen. he had
never a grammar or geography. Yet Mr. Fill
more. both in writing and speech used the English
language with about the usual proprety; and, liko
most of our respectable public men, he never apsed
into any very glaring solecisms. Or his geography
we are not so certain. but his knowledge proba
bly, sufi ent for all ordinary emergencies. IL is the
accuracy with which so many Of our half-eduoated
or self feducated men write and speak English which
is surprising; and there is nothing like 1T. we sns-
pcct anywhere else in the world. Yet tins faohty
does not come from the study of grammar. There
are not ten men in the House Of Representatives
who could parse ten lines of Milton according to the
rules OF Lndley Murray; yet these gentlemen are
never guilty of two negatives employed TO
strengthen the negaton, even when they arc deny
ing charges of fraud OF corruption The Vce-Presi-
dent, who was, when boy, a shoemakers appren-
tice, denied that he had ever been KnOw-NOthing
in respectable English These are facts which may
well lead us to revise our notions of the necessity Of
studying grammar as il is usually taught in
schools. Our American accuracy does not como Of
early drilling 1t is to be attributed to the general
habit of reading 1t is in this way that the majority
become tolerable grammarians by rote and speak
correctly simply because they speak at all The
verbs are made to agree with their nomnatiye cases
instinctiyely and as a matter Of good breeding
Small mistakes are made, as they are by the best
writers: bat nobody notices them except profes-
sional teachers. who. III their turn, make just as
many.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

The Pope is making strenuous exertions to
prevent the adoption of the proposed ecclesi-
astical laws in Austria. If we may Judge
by our latest mail advices, there Is
a strong probability that these bills which, by
the way. are much more moderate than those
which are so vigorously executed in Prussia,
will pass the Reichrath.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16
must have some of the local prejudices OF
resident, and all tho power Of triors

Revenue returns in Ohio give new phase
to the Temperance Crusade. 1t is shown tbst,
in consequence of the fierce onslaught made
on the drinking-places by the crusaders.
receipts from internal revenue taxes have
fallen off in eleven districts at the rate Oh
more than S35O,OOO per month. The revenue
derived from distilled and malt liquors In
those districts is estimated at about % per
cent of the whole amount collected. 1t VIII
be seen, therefore, that the falling of in con-
sumption has been quite large. When the
whole account is adjusted. however, it will De
found that the loss is only apparent: the gam
by the reformation is real.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

The letter from Paris, which we publish on
our third page this morning. contains some
information in regard to various schemes which
are proposed by members of the Right in the
French Assembly to restrict the popular voting
power. However ardently these members may
desire TO deprive large body of Republicans
of the right of suffrage, there can be no doubt
that they approach the subject with many
misgvings.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

The monthly weather review for February, issued
by the Signal Service Bureau, is of double the usual
length and fully equals its predecessors in the value
Of its generalizations There are peculiar features
about several of the storms of the month and two
of them are characterized as violent hurricanes.
The heavy storm of the morning OF the Dtn
ut seems to have been result of the unusual COM
bnation of two storm centcrs, and very rapid
cooling at night of the upper atmospheric regions
causing the simultaneous outbreak Of the stofm
over large area of country. The report introduces
new element by giving the logs of vessels arriving
that ntered storms 1t is evident that II dsts
of this sort can be systematically obtained they may
add much to our knowledge of the laws OF Storms'
they would be especially of use if supplemented
telerraphic reports from the Bermudas 80, by whch
tho approach of cyclones might often De known IN
advance. In the matter of cautionary signals 'ne
o,co annoars TO have erred on the side OF caution.
20 90 ,h on NOT appearing to have been verified and
no ho;n, too late for much service. But tins 10
,na,ter wherein mistaken caution does but little
harr comnared with that resulting from the faiinrs
20 ,;ve warning 1t il possible that the hlgn pc'-
onta 90 claimed of verifcations-75 to U-indics'os
but little of the number of failures to predict anu
that report of these would not be 50 gratiiy'ns'
There is apparently to be no end 10 thei's %
poetry by those whose patron Is Mercury 'S'"'-
than the Muses. Mrs. Emersons sucoess IN 'na~"s
a great many credulous peoplo believe she wiu''
Mr. Cartons ballad of Betsy" has encouraged '"'
men of three letters to'boldsr depredations .naA
ever. young man in Roxbury. named Waket
has stolen Miss Nora Perry's pretty song OF in'
Knot and published It rs his own. Ihs OK
ouisite "I ines TO Waterfowl" known to every
reader Of American poetry for the last half century
appear as original in recent number Of 7As fSrs,'
and S,r,om, aligned G. II. W., instead of w. G. D.
Sometimes these thefts are like other purioininSs-
mersv 20 satisfy thievish instinct and get some
., tor notbinc In these cases the thief sells bis
stoso manuscript to an ignorant publisher. and ths
business operation is easy to understand. But tho
nuboaton is far oftener the desperate resort Of one
who has been led by his vanity to claim the verses
among acquaintances, and who ia, therefore. forced
90 assert the claim before the public. Bes'deA
when ono has told the lie constantly for cer-
tain time. ho begins TO believe it. Ii is related oil
well-known romancor in our navy, that while I'd
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16
Nelp'2lotk Dailp Gribu'te.
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1874.

FOUNDED eY HORACE GREELEY.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

1t is gratifying to be able to say with GER
tainty that the story of Kossuth's destitute
condition is utterly without foundation. Our
London correspondent, in letter printed
elsewhere, gives pleasant account of the
appearance and circumstances of the Hunga-
rian patriot, from which it appears that ne is
by no means the abject sufferer that he has
been painted Furthermore, Mr.. Max Schles-
niger who was reported to have set on foot
this ingenious fable, expressly denies having
had any such pretended interview with Kos
suth. The whole fabrication, which has no
reasonable excuse for its birth, was, we regret
to say, of purely American growth.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

The journey of the funeral train which bore
the remains of Sumner to his native State
seems to have been without marked incident.
But the memorial meeting in Faneuil Hall, OF
which we print full report to-day, was
noble tribute to the great statesman 1t was
fit that these generous utterances should be
made in the old Cradle of Liberty, the scene
of Summers first triumphs, and hallOwed by
the memory of the great names which have
made Massachusetts famous wherever America
is known. To-day the earth will close over
the mortal part of the lamented dead with
such simple ceremonies as we may be sure he
would have chosen for his obsequies.
New-York tribune., 1874-03-16

We publish to-day variety Of information
about the great Temperance movement in the
West. In Ohio, it seems, the opposition have
determined TO assume an offensive position.
Various expedients are to be resorted to, and
some attempts at braying down the crusaders
with brass bands have been made. Never
theless. the army of women marches on from
conQuering to conquer and there seems to be
no diminution in the determination and spirit
of the workers.