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New-York tribune., 1874-07-31
care to read these. >d0n't care 10 talK 10

&" care to read these. ~dOnt care to talk to
"them."
In all of which there appe>a ars to be an odn
misconceptiOn of facts U5unV, ootn "ith
our American thinkers and their ,pritISh kIhS-
folk Of like caliber, "the passionate desire ID
in them to lecture rather than in lhe audi-
ences to hear. Nothing would please tiem, or
have suited Mr. Ruskn himself, in days not
long gone by, better than a mob at the doors
of their lecture rooms, demanding their " con-
"serves of knowledge" The lecturers, how
ever unfortunately for Mr.. Ruskin'5 argu-
ments, are much more vehement IN their de-
sire to sell the knowledge 1t has cost thehh
half their lives to acquire In as small peiieCS
as may suit the market, than the people are
to buy 1t is they who exhibit the pestlieh-
"tia and abominable vanity" on the SUBJECT
if any such be shown. AS for poor Dickens
the cause of his death was certainly no over
weenng anxiety Of American mobS to near
him, but his own feyeriSh desire for outward
excitement. and for more money to keep up
that excitement Let us be just to the living
"a well as the dead. After all, ought the
"mobn TO be censured if they show Iaud-
able desire to obtain the cream and essence
of AIr. Ruslin's knowledge, or that or any
other man These are not the days OF Methu-
saleh. when a man had a life OF scores OF
years in the patient tranquility OF the desert
in which to study into the heart OF the Scanty
knowlcdges then open to him. He has barely
time to learn the alphabets of science ana art
when he is driven into the market to earn
his living. Nor are these the days OF our
grandfathers, when a few Latin and Greek
i an
closed the range of study accessible to them.
Facts and truths in countless myrlads press ID
on us on every side; the age IS breathless'
unrestiGg one.
Pleasant as it may be to men OF RuSklnS
poetic temperament to order the average man
TO become a thorough scholar or to remain an
ignorant boor, the fact Is that he VIII be
neither one nor the other, but by dlnt OF the
daily press, of snatchcs of study here ana
there of the very lectures which our enthusl-
astic reformer cOntemns, and by the s1rewd
constant keen u.s. of his eyes and ears, he Will
gain a superficial but tOlerabiy accurate idea
of the world he lives ,in and the people who
El it. The haste and uneaslness or the age,
too, compel men to be brief, clear ana COM
pact in their statements to the world, II they
want to be heard. The textbooks put
into a BOYS hand at ten years old contain the
truths which it required generations OF plilos-
ophers 70 discover They would have been in
credible to Bacon. To the boy now they are
matter of fact Us his a b C's. If Mr.. Ruskin
or any body else wishes to instruct the world,
the more he condenses his teachings, the better
for the teaching, the teacher and the taught.
And after all there are very few men who
could not boil down all the original and GER
tain truth which they have acquired during
their lives, and which is worth communca-
ting, into "pelcts" quite as small as an ordl-
nary lecture. and much smaller by the way
than FOrs Clavigera.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31
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BOARD NND R0OMS-Third PIGe-3f and 4th columns.
BUSINESS NOTICEs-FOuFth PaJe-lSt column.
Dividend NpTICE>-Ser Pdge-6 n column.
EUROPEAN ADYERTISEMENTsS ScrcHt1 Pdge-6th coiuuhh'
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SAYINGS RANEs-Scretfa PdGe-6th column.
SITUATIONS WANTED. NALEs-Thtd P1Je-ith ana 5th
column: ILN ALES-Ihird Ptge-5th column.
SPECIAL : roTt.Es-fiti PdJe--6tu column.
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CoUsgRI-Iiird Page-6.h column.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31
PUBLIC OPINION.

There is not man in Congress whom the
Republicans dare for President. except PERHAPS
Blaine, and he has about as much show as Name n1t
years ago. when the Government was so vulgar ri-to~
Paul Dispatch und)
The policy of reconstruction pursued oy
that could be conceived. but the Abandonment OF nS
exmasters would not have bettered matters Ia aug
particular.-lTroy Times (Rep.l
The Omens are auspiciOus. We go into ths
contest in this State with the prestige OF numerous
cent Democratic victories IN our own "a ana Ter o,sn In
temen who have been prominently named as elis SRus
the leadership. Democratic victory Is assueu-I"~
falo Courier (Dem)
Whoever induced the President 10 break
his golden rule OF silence and make that speech %
Atlantic CITY was no true friend 10 him. We hnon -
no man with whom silence IN public is more tuy @
GOLDEN or whose speech is "A more hmsy kind OF cur
rency We think he would do well to STICK 10 tue
basis in tins matter OF speech masins-lbostsl us'S~
Ind)
The new party stands on principles OF un.
compromising anagonism with the men IN whose Veu, 9
pauy the President has been Working FOR hVe yeas sr
he rs leader is responsible more than MS coinPay
the work Under these circumstances IL woulu vo -
act OF suicide in the independent or any new ParS P Ss
nominate Grant and take the thiru term osIo =" s~s@S
hearts, sacramento Union Vnd)
It was n great mistake in originally corners
riug SO power the President anu h se,ors
OF every treaty by both Houses OF Consess Lnuoous
we do not think it woud be extreme cauon " elui -
@ vi, n % consnpmoteo We expect the tune TO come whea
al laws will have 10 be thus faHnou w wv peVp4s'
Syracuse Standard (hep) 81,
The narty securely in power, whether IN tho
the state or has been too far controlled
Nv those W no use parties only for private aims oh-
scrupaous men, VINO en n contpoP p"mn.tions Then
Marty discipline does the rest The remedy Is near
hand-ndependenee OF party dietaton when ,nas ln !.
comes the Republican party is more likely than su Z
other now existing TO become the effective nstruneas
vi gepuiae refoyWs,-lSt kouH Democrat sRepl
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31
PUSEINS LAST PRONUNCI1NIENT

Why the RefOrmer, giving his life for the
good of his race, should usually feel it neces-
sary to make himself testy bore and bug
bear in the circle Of his acquaintance, is a
crooked corner in human nature which no
man can straighten. John Ruskin, the most
sentimental and irritable of philanthropsts, is
before the public again with one of his spurts
of ill temper by which he urges on his vision
ary schemes of reform. The occasion was an
invitation from the Glasgow Lecture Com
nittee, given week or two ago, asking him
TO lecture before the Athen1um in that city
this coming Winter. To which civil and en-
tirely business-like request Mr.. Ruskin re-
plies by vehement anathema upon all lee
ture- -goers in Glasgow and the world in gen.
eral, who have "pestilent desire" to listen
to lectures. "TO be excited for an hour to
" get the knowledge it has cost a man half his
life to gather, first sweetened to make it
"palatable, and then kneaded into the smallest
" possible pills; to swallow it hOmeOpathically
{" and be wise-this is the passionate desire Of
the multitude" At which Mr. Ruskin in
Weighs with his usual fux of angry words,
exclamation points, and dashes; the =" lecture
"is a e-wOrking, smooth, downy y-curry,
straw berry-ice milk punch altogether pesti-
lent and abominable vanity" going on to
deplore the miserable death of poor Dickens,
"was eighty but for the pestiierOus demands
of the mob" He takes Dickenss death as a
solemn warning to himself, and points the
world to his books and monthly letter, Fors
Clayisera, for his oracles "I they don't
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31
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death to carpet-bag governments; and II the
people will but bide their time, the slow,
steady work of education and enlightenment
will render black and white equally fit for the
duties of citizenship, and divide between them
the honors and the responsibilities which the
one now refuses to share with the other The
twaddle about a third term ought not to Ill
vert them for moment from the serious task
they have in hand. Appeals to stolld Presi-
dent or benghied Congress must be equally
frutless. The work is before you, brother
of the South
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

sketches bis daily troubles At daylight he IN
vestigates bis con-bills for cut-worms. Then be
gets up appetite for his breakfast by crushing
codling-moth larv@ with hoe-bandle. During the
forenoon he deuges the potato-bugs with solu,s,p
Of paris green. His post-prandial pleasure ia In
scald tho ohinch-bugs. His evening delight is To
smudge peach trees to keep down tine curculio
When he wakes to another day of toll, he hears
fresh grasshoppers tinkiing against the pane.
Happy husbandman
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

the political atmosphere of a great deal of
fogginess and foulness. And yet we have to
remember after all that there be platforms
and platforms, and that we have had great
multitude of them, and that parties which use
them to get into power have very often kicked
them down afterward. The great thing gained
in such platform as the one suggested by
the Illinois Democrats is that it is short,
sharp, and decisive and there is no fog in it.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

Our Paris letter gives an ineligible account
of the late crisis in the French Ministry and
the proceedings of NJ. FourtOu against a licen-
tious press, which must make men like Poland
and Shepherd regret that their lines were not
cast in the pleasant places where no paper is
allowed to run at large without a muzzle.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

The performances of the locomotive whistle, we
are told. have been systemltized on Western rail-
way Seven whistles are to indicate " down breaks =
81 whistles, mp breaks 80 whistles and two snorts,
a back up" The instructions add: In case of
doubt whistle Ike the d." at street crossings
whistle "considerably.p Again: always whistle
before dinner Require the fireman to keep the
whistle valve open during dinner. After dinner.
whistle and squirt water; then back up. Then go
ahead with whistle. squirt, and ring ms
sibillant method being achieved, may we not hope
that the scream of the engine may in time be modl-
fed into something melodiousl 7 Then, indeed. we
might have such instructions TO the driver as these
For down breaks play the chromatic scale; for
up breaks the scale in G.; for back up, the first
six bars of the Overture to Tampa IN case of doubt
a double trill: and at street crossings. series OF
significant runs This. with some wild adagio to
bo performed after accidents, should the locomotive
be well enough to appear. would render the signal
system very complete.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

The Commissioners of Police are using des-
perate efforts to make policemen understand
that their clubs are given them for defense.
We do not despair of the success of Mr..
Disbecker's lectures TO the delinquents on this
point. but we cannot help thinking that one
good example made of some gross offender
would accomplish more.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

The Brooklyn authorities contemplate a
raid upon the confectioners who sell impure
candies. THE TRIBUNE investigated this sub
feet two years ago and discovered that for
every manufacturer of pure confectiOns there
were a dozen adulteratOrs.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

Gen. Sheman's views on the Indian trou-
bles may not be absolutely sound, but no one
will deny that they are refreshingly positive
and emphatic. Whether the Indian is gov
erned by bayonet or Bible, he says, perma-
nent peace between the two races IS lmpos-
sibe. II is some consolation, however TO
know that, in the Generals opinion, the IRE
pressible conflict this Summer is not likely 10
be serious, and that our army, small as it is,
is sufficiently strong to suppress any alarming
outbreak.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

A gill of ten was yesterday arrested for
shOphfting. The story seems incredible. Let
us charitably hope that it may prove to be
one Of the prevailing social scandals.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

Tie recess of four months proposed in the
French National Assembly will probably be
approved on Friday, when the subject is ex-
pected to create a stormy debate. The coun-
try will be all the better for season of
repose undlsturbed by the interpretations OF
the Left or the moDarchist intrisues OF the
Right.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31
Gnsiress NoIltcs

THrTE HUNDRED THOUSAND ACCIDENT Pol
8, WI -rrS y me Travellers CcNPANr, Hartford
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

There is trouble among Christians of color in Oak
land. Cal. The Rev Mr. Handy pastor of the NJ. T.
African Church there, has a mortal quarrel with
The Eieraior. the colored peoples organ. The Rev.
Handy is belligerent and muscular Christian and
he has challenged the editor to fight with swords
pistols, clubs, rocks, FISTS boxing gloves. daggers'
We do not understand that ho proposes to use all
these weapons of oense and defense simultaneously.
Expert in the use of all OF them. we suppose that
from this formidable miscellany he allows his antag
onist to make choice. The Rev. Mr. Handy is said to
divide his time between preaching. whitewashing,
and saving wood.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

The suspensions yesterday were not OF great
conseouence, and we do not believe they can
he used TO create unnecessary alarm. But
they do serve very plainly to lay hnger on
the sore spot in the financial world. Wherever
men are straining their credit to carry heavier
stocks than they can manage, IN the nope oi
a speedy return to ante-panic prices, or
wherever they are engaged III nursing SickJy
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31
Amnssments ano aleetines.

BARxun's ROMAN HIPropRoMs.-Ey yhibition at 2so aud
ats
NIRIo's TaEATER -" Evangeline."
The CoLossgUM.-'L Loudon 10y DtS," from 10 a. m. TO
y.
onion SovARR TnEArER-"W VITA the Tide" Mss Katie
Mayhew.
CENTRAL PANK GARDEN.-TheOdore Thomas's Summer
Nights Concerts
IEAytTr Arr GALLERY.-Flue Art Exhibition.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

The great victory" which the Carlists
claim neaI the French frontier is not likely to
improve their fortunes, seeing that the armies
of both belligerents are concentrated near
Estella, where the campaign will probably be
decided The menacing attitude of the Great
Powers toward them must also neutralize any
advantages they may gain in the field
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

1t appears that the law abolishing moleties
is not so extensive in its scope as WAS sup
posed at the time it was passed 1t applies, it
is said, merely to the Customs Revenue laws,
and does not affect the perquisites of Post-Oiice
special agents. One case in particular is cited
which appears open to gross abuse. Under
the law against the transmission OF i'm
proper matter through the mails. Mr.. Anthony
Comstock, the special agent of the Treasury
Department, receives as compensation one
half of the fines imposed. Mr.. ComstOck may
be immaculate, but the purity of the mails
can and ought to be secured by less de-
moralizing system.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

He was young and serious and in the fair gloam-
ing he escorted his wife to where the sparkling soda
gushed from marble fountain. Gravely he gazed
at the man who asked. what srup ~ and answered,
Crusade" Lifo seemed beautiful at that moment,
but paralyzng ,horror seized him as the gentle
young wife said she'd try some, too. He laughed
family it is said, but he felt like the silent tomb
a luDatic asylum-it didn't much matter which.
However, the soda man nobly fulfilled his trust he
preserved his presence of mind and handed the
wife dose of particularly energetic ginger, while
the alarmed husband was comforted with the fagon
he desired. He wishes never to stand upon such an
apex Of agony again.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

A mild regret agitates The London Spectator. 1t
considers the fighty and degenerate ghosts of the
present day and for the dignted old appari-
tions who behaved themselves in the grand STYLE
1t hath reason tho prancings and dancngs, the
familiar ways and frivolous conversation of the
modern ghost have lttlo of the impressive tone
which we naturally look for in members of that
family The fine old ghost of the ancient time had
pompous. measured and blood-curdling air. He
stalked and wore his good clothes IN the toga
fashion, and when he said things he said them in
deep and dignifed manner one would be apt to re-
member, Whereas his weak-minded descendant
pokes an unblushing face through holes in walls,
plays the light guitar and altogether acts as no
proper ghost of other days would have ever thought
of acting. 1t is calculated to awaken profound
gloom to reflect how the superfciality of modern
society has invaded the ancient, highly respect
able and awful family Of ghosts.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

The Western farmer can hardly be having a
sweetly pastoral VIZ VI it. A peWspaper there
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

railroad, there is trouble, whether it yet shows
ON the surface or not.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

The unwholesome sore in the Brooklyn body
social is still running, and, greatly to our own
dissatisfaction, we are still compelled to take
note of the discharge. Mr.. Francis ID. Moul-
ton seems to he the witness fer whom the
Court waits. He has had great deal more
prominence thus far in this unsavory matter
than a diligent course of minding his own
business would have led him to and now,
,-hAm for the frat TINA it h- h-admcss iia claar
and imperative duty to act, it is pity that
for the first time he should seem TO have any
hesitation. Meanwhile Mr.. Beecher and his
friends should understand that they are wear
ing out the patience of a community that has
meant to be very slow indeed to think evil of
them. There stand Mr. Beecher's letters. We
are told that he can explain them, and that
his statement is ready. He cannot furnish it
an hour too soon, or make it too frank and
cOmplete.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

Think not the cat hath not friend. The Atlantic
Monthly recently attended to a case in gentle and
entertaining manner. but it remained to an English
doctor to write of her with enthusiasm. He tells in
book specially devoted to her. all sorts of tales of
her sagacity fidelity and humanity, and particu-
larly interesting is this concerning the tabby of
Scotch plowman: The man was ill and poor. The
doctor ordered meat and WINE, and the goodwlfe sold
her wedding ring to buy the last. But what to do
for meat Oh, most excellent catl That very
night she brought fine rabbit and laid it beside her
suffering master And not once did she do this,
but every night for a month, now a rabbit, now a
Bird when, the man having got well and gone
about his work, she ceased her purveyiug Let the
traducers Of cats read and blush.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-23

A WIRES WEARY WA1TING.-T strange
old woman, Mrs. Fander, who for many
days in, daytime and nighttime, and in
summer and winter weather, stood on a
little board at the crossing at the corner of
Plum and Lopgworth streets looking for
her husband who never came, is still keep
ing up her vigils. She now, with q hand
kerchief on her head, stands in the door
way of house on Fifth street, near Park,
where she occupies little room and works
at mantua- making. She glances up and
down the street without seeing the coming
of the one she is looking for. The husband
is reported to have been killed in the Next :
can war, and is supposed to have been, but
the wife hopes that such is not true. The
poor woman is said to receive at regular
periods small sums of money through the
Adams Express Company, from whom
nobody can tell. The recipient believes it
comes from her missing husband, and that
in place of the money he will arrive some
day.-Cincinnati Commercial.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-23
Four Hundred and Forty-Four Miles, at Over
Forty Miles Per Hour, and Three Stops.

An evident Improvement in tho direction
and appointments of the principal American
railways is in progress, an example of
which ia seen in that portion of the Penn
sylvania Railway between New York and
Pittsburg. The road is provided with GO
h. steel rails, oak ties, broken stone
ballast, and the best splice joints. The
bridge work is of the most substantial
character, the superstructure is smooth and
solid, the cars and locomotives superior in
construction, ALI the latest appliances for
safety being likewise supplied, such as
Westinghouse air brakes, safety platforms
switches, block telegraph signals, etc.
The run of 444 miles FROM Pittsburg to
New York is made in eleven hours, with
only three stops, being an average rate of
over 40 miles an hour, as follows: Pitts
burg to Altoona. III miles, stop minutes !;
to Harrisburg. 1872 miles, stop 20 minutes |;
to Philadelphia, los miles. stop minutes !;
thence to New York, 80 miles. The
locomo olives dip up water from side troughs
at certain stations without stoppage. The
trains are comprised of magnificent Pull
man parlor cars. 1t would be difficult to
name any stretch of railway in the world,
of equal length, where passengers can be
more expeditious!y and luxuriously carried.
The railway mileage of the United States
now exceeds the combined mileage of all
Europe, although the population of Eu-
rope, 2S2, 100000, is seven times greater
than that of tins country. Every year
adds to the Improvement as well as the
length of American roads. How to make
our railways better and safer is the con-
slant study of the legion of engineers, in
ventors, and managers who are connected
with them. The practical results of their
labors will be naturally manifested in
gradual changes for the better in all
branches of railway service.-Scientifc
american.