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New-York tribune., 1874-01-01
rONTTNG ENEIE.S.

Conoress will be amazed when it comes to
look closely into the expenditures, to hnd
from how many unsuspected cracks the money
rms away. Here are the families OF Secre-
taries and other high officers of State riding
about Washington in bretts and andaus, pur-
chased with the contingent fund" of the
departments. Here is the engraving bureau
of the Treasury Department turning out bush
els of visiting cards for the ladies and gentle
men of the court. Here are perquisites and
allowances to the value of $4,000 year
going to the .White House, and pickings
and stealings of every kind in the
inferior departments of the Government. The
footman who waits Oh you when you dine
with Mr.. Secretary SO-and-SO, is paid by the
United States as an "extra clerk" The coach
man who drives the Secretary's wife when she
shops or visits, draws his pay from tho De-
partment as a "labOrern or fireman" and
the gardeners name appears perhaps on the
rolls as a messenger" The Treasury De-
partment spends nearly sixth of its con-
tlngent fund in carriages and horses. and pays
large sums annually for "hauling" besides.
The Internal Revenue Department. ex-
pends larger and larger amount OF
money every year in collecting "a
smaller and smaller amount of tax. and
contingent expenses account Tor the discrcp-
ancy. The Supervisor of Internal Revenue
for this district, having his office actually IN
Cedar-st., New York, is allowed to fix his
headquarters constructively at Buffalo, so That
the United States can be called upon to pay
his hotel bills whenever he is here attending
to his duty, and similar custom prevails IN
many other parts of the country. Then there
are clerks employed under more or less eva
siye pretenses, in excess of the number al
lowed by law. There are travelling expenses
which it would hardly be unfair to call fraud
ulent; and there are all sorts of lodges and
devices for getting money ont OF tho Treas
ury after the legal allowance has been ex-
hausted.
These indirect methods of drawing upon the
public funds are certainly not honorable, and
some of them are not honest. They are mani
festatons of the same spirit of petty pecula-
ton in which Congressman have charged fancy
SOAP and lemons, and stay-laces to the United
States 3s stationery" and franked the printed
circulars of their friends as private CORE
"spondence" and turned investigating com
mittees into iunketing parties, and drawn CON
structive mileage, and back pay, and various
other perquisites to which they had no right
All through the civil service the office holders
have been engaged for years in g beating" the
Government out Of extra pay in one shape OF
another, until the salaries fixed by law have
come to bear but a small proportion to the
salaries drawn in evasion Of the law, and the
contingent fund iii some cases sn9phes 'ht
greater part of an officers income. If lon'
gress will go at this abuse in earnest, there
will be fine reduction in the estimates But
then the COngressmon ~ bad as the CAB
met and the clerks.
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01

has been no serious disagreement from the
first over the principles which lie at tho basis
of this settlement. The difficulties nave
doubtless been rather with tho methods OF
reparation and the ceremonious satisfaction
such as it is to be paid for an affront to the
flag. than with the traditional American doc
tripe which has received in this affair such a
signal ratification. The proceedings now TO
be set on foot against the owners OF the
Virginius will illustrate still more clearly our
positiop that while we are ready to punish
fraudulent use of our flag ourselves. we Will
not hermit a foreigner to do it for us.
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01
TJE DEAD or rs.

Ths list of those who have died in 1878
which we publish this morning will suggest
many a hOmily to pulpit and newspaper
preachers. The subtlest political schemer Of
the age, the most successful novelist, judges
who wore the ermne unspotted in an era of
unlicensed corruption and fraud, great
scholar who expounded Natures secrets with
a simplicity and truth akin to her own,-here
are texts for sermons such as no living sub
ject can offer. TO us, the sermon taught re-
solves itself to the one fact that they left us
with their work undOne. The pure judges
life was cut short when purity was most
needed; the ink WAS not dry In the magic
pen when the hand that welded it grew stlft
and mOtionless. The curtain which Agassiz
had lifted from before the darkest of Natures
secrets fell when no died, and who Is left to
raise it y
"Th' unfinished window In Aladi.n's tower
UDfnished must remain"
Or when we look at home to find vacant
chair, it Is the one we think who could least
have been spared that is gone. The child,
with all the limited sweetness and strength of
its i;fe to come in its incomplete white face I;
the father, full of his wise plans for his little
ones ; the young man, alert, alive, vigorous
these are they who in the midst of a task, a
sentence unfinished on their lips, turned from
us and went out of the door beyond which is
darkness.
Went out, as their unfinished work teaches
us, to higher work elsewhere. Nature makes
no mistakes wastes not one atom of available
force. None is wasted here, though the lips
of the great dead return us no answer. If
there we're no other proof of Immortality, of
the eternal unity and order of the life here
and the lives hereafter, taken as whole. we
find one here and base our faith on it, not
only for those strong helpers of humanity
who have won name for themselves, but for
our own household dead. They have lain
down in no ignobe decaying sleep; with the
old wit or wisdom, or acuteness or kindly
affection that we knew, and which made them
dear to us, they are at work again elsewhere,
on higher levels. If the dark portal should
unclose on its noiseless hinges for US also to
pass through In the year to come, we may be
sure there is no curtain IN the grave to fall upon
our lives as on finished drama. The tragedy
or comedy goes on, as we have ruled it here.
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01
Amueements ano Aleetinss.

BAHruws GREAT suOw.-At2 and at s: Tho Heroes
of 70" The Rink. Day and night.
RoorrI's TnSArKR Kit" +, s. Chanfrau.
Balm HAu~-At 2so and ats The Pilgrim"
FIyru AVENUE THKATER-At 1870 and ats The Parri-
eide"
GRAND OPERA Houss.--At 1880 and at 8. Humpty
Dumpty Abroad" G. L. Fox
NnIo's GARDEN-At1-3o and at g. "The Children IN
tho Wood" The Vokes Family.
OLrMPro THEATER.-At and at 8; Gabriel Grub"
rosY PASTORS OPERA EoUsR.-At9 and at 8. varieties
UNION SoUARK THIATRR-" Led Astray."
wAIIAcKs THEATER.-"A Man Of Honor" Lester
Maack.
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01
ARBITRAT AND TIE CUBA QUESTION.

ARBITRATION AND TIE CUBA QUESTION.
"It is with somewhat gloomy satisfac-
"tion.n SAYS The London Morning POST we
"recal to mind that we were never among
" those who believed in the Treaty OF Wash
"ingtOD; :" and then it goes on to argue that
the treaty is failure because our dispute
with Spain was not submitted to arbitration.
The fact is, that the only point in the Vir-
ginlus case which could honorsbly and logic
ally be referred to the decision of
an umpire has been left for arbitra-
ton, according to the principle recognized in
our recent settlement with Great Britain.
The question of indemnity for the victims of
the Santiago massacre, IN the event of no
agreement being reached through the usual
diplomatic channels, is to be settled by nell
trail power; and this is the Op'.' part of our
demand which could properly be settled in
that manner. The other items in the account
depend upon well established principles of in
ternatOnal law or of national policy which no
governmental could consistently with self-respect
and honor submit to foreign judgment. There
are some things which every nation must de-
eide for itself.
The American doctrine with regard to the
inviolability of vessels on the high seas has
been very distinctly and emphatically laid
down on many previous occasions, and has
been ratified in most significant manner by
various foreign nations. We hold that an
American ship on the high seas, beyond the
distance of marine league from shore,
is part of the territory of the United States,
and cannot be m0lested, or stopped, or
searched by a foreign vessel in time of peace
upon any pretense whatever. This principle
was admitted by Great Britain in the dis
cusson of the famous Caroline case, and it
is not questioned by any respectable authority.
What constitutes an American vessel must be
decided Of course by the American Govern
ment itself. Every nation has q right to make
its own rules for the registration of
its merchant marine, and to decide
under what conditions it will extend
to a ship the protection OF its fa5; and it
alone can determine when those rules have
been obeyed and those conditions complied
with. 1t follows therefore, that the possession
Of American papers, which are equivalent to
q certificate from the United States Govern
n ent that the ship bearing them is entitled to
the protection Of the United States flag, must
be accepted as conclusive by every for
eign authority. II they have been obtained
by false pretenses, that is an offense against
our laws which concerns ourselves alone. We
can no more permit foreign power to inter-
fere and pass upon question of that sort
than we can allow Spain, or France, OF Great
Britain to Judge offenders against our revenue
laws or our local statutes. The right Of the
Virginius to receive an American register is q
matter with which outsiders have nothing to
do. She did receive one, and if she received
it wrongfully we can hold her owners to ac-
count.
When the official correspondence between
Mr. Fish, Admiral Polo. and Mr.. Sickles comes
" light We presume it will be found thai there
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01
Business Notires.

KALDENBERG's MEEESCHAUMS selling at man.
prices Jobn aud cor Of John and Nssaests
BATCHELOR's HAIR DYE is the best in the
world The ouy perfect Hair Dye At druggists
READ THE STATEMENT OF THE TRAVELLERS,
last page OF ,odaYs Tribune
Business of TRADES SAVINGS BANK, 275 West
ol onehsl point Of ey the equal Of
Dividend for 1874
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01


our second page are commended to the con-
sideration of those who believe that all the
peculiar talent of the country is in tho Con-
gress of tho United States.
Gov. Dix heard the arguments yesterday IN
the BrittOn investigation, ard it now goes to
him for final decision, which it is hoped and
believed will be prompt one. The counsel
for the prosecution cOntented themselves with
briefly summing up the evidence, leaving its
application and the law in the case to Gov
Dix. Mr.. Tracy, for the defense, indulged IN
many generalities, and not few misrcprcsen-
tations of facts, as the Governor will doubtless
observe ON examination of the testimony.
In the review for the year which appears on
other pages of THE TRIBUNE. to-day, the City
of New York, its interests and its annual
currents of commerce, life and death, will be
found to occupy considerable space. On
our fourth page is printed q compact summary
of events which have made 1873 memorable in
our municipal history. The records of the
doings of the charitable institutions are i'm
perfect but the whole exhibit Is, on the
whole, CHEEKY and encouraging.
The letters from Paris which we publish to-
day treat of French politics in various aspects
Both Republicans and Imperialists seem to
have allowed themselves to be involved In
the Bazaine trial to an extent which was
afterward shown TO be a mistake in policy
The Government party, anxious to retain its
power, appears determined to gain more com
plete control over the municipal authOlitles
and over the press of the country. The meas
ures which it favors in consequence are un-
lust and illiberal in the extreme.
The Western railway strike is practically
over From the first, the officials OF the
Brotherhood of Engineers have been against
it but the strike was more difficult to handie
than it would have been if it had been
matter for negotiation With responsible
head. This element, however, has helped
to bring the troubles to an end. Inc
strikers lacked organization and concert OF
action. They finally succumbed to the pressure
of circumstances and the strike crumbed like
clay. Latest dispatches from the West say
that tbe railway managers are cOnfden. that
no further trouble need be apprehended
Our Washington dispatches say that there
is imminent danger of another interneclne
contest in Texas. In TRIBUNE correspondence
published some days since the situation in
that State was fully explained, and it was
shown that two State Governments were
likely to claim legal existence. One set of
officers claim under an old law, and another
under later law. Gov. Davis and his asso-
ciates in office, it is claimed by one party,
should continue in Office until April %, 1874
BY another party it is held that their term OF
office has already expired. Under the present
order of things this question is not to be de-
cided by the local courts. Sooner or later it
will come to the President, and, as in the
Louisiana case the Executive will have the
making or unmaking of a State Government
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01

curious story. this rising Of an exhalation
known as tho st. Joseph and Denver City
Railroad Company. The Details published on
our second page, are commended to the con-
sideration of those who believe that all the
peculiar talent of the country is in tho Con-
gress of tho United States.
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01

To-day for the first timo in many years. there
seems q reasonable prospect of clean streets and
smiling skies. combination to New Workers on
tho first day Of the year. The effect of this meteoro
logical innovation remains to be seen. Perhaps it
will Cause the ruin and flight of scores of hackmen
who have relied upon the business of tho day to pay
their bills of the semester. Perhaps on the other
hand, it will tempt tho wt,Ie population into
rssumng tho good old Knickerbocker custom Of
waiting, which has languished of late years; in
which case there will be enough for the hackmen to
do to convoy on their social pilgrimage those whom
gout and rheumatism have rendered incapable OF
rapid marching. To our younger readers, those Of
good heart ard sinew, we recommend firm reliance
upon shoe leather and twenty -four hours at least Of
temperance.
ridiculous news item about tho action OF the
Farmers Club Of the American Institute on me-
mortal to Congress, which crept into The TRIBUNE
Yesterday. makes it worth while to say with some
dstinctness that this Club has long since Outlived
its usefulness, amounts to nothing as an organizs-
ton for promoting discussion among intelligent
farmers and is practically controlled by half dozen
people, who arc entitled to no respect in agrcul-
tursl circles Il has completely lost its old in
forest ~ to be entirely ignored by tho respectable
papers OF this city dey0ting attenton 70 agrcutuo'
among all Of whom there was formerly the keenest
composition for the fullest and best reports OF Its
meetings.
Il ifs ono Of the special triumphs Of Secretary
Richardson's great plan for specie resumption by
issuing silver in amounts of five dollars and less
that it has boon 80 gradual and noselesa year
ago to-day thcro was scarcely any silver in crcula
ton. Now look at usl Why only 30 long ago as
Last Saturday tho Treasury Department paid out
thirty dollars and cents in actual solid silver
none your plated stuff but genuine half dollars and
ten cont pieces And yet tho operation of resumption
has boon 20 smooth and easy that very few people
have noticed it, and presume that not one news
paper in ten will mention il among the sVeats Of the
HaAl, t- ......
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01

O,,g genius can build great railroad for
st,4OO. But that genius was found ana 'ne
railroad was created if not built IL m
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01

As recent events have excited new and
strong interest in this country In regard to
Spanish affairs, our readers Will peruse with
pleasure the graphic and spirited sketches OF
life and travel in Spain by one OF our most
esteemed correspondents, the publication OF
which we begin this morning. They embrace
Journey from the Pyrenees to CASTLE, with
lively personal mention and conversations with
tho leading men of Spain.i
One of the favorite schemes of the Admin
istration is understood to be the Postal Saw
inrs Bank. 1t has been warmly indorsed by
tho President, and is now before Congress IN
tho form of q bill to establish system OF
banks. The summary of the plan, as given
On the second page of THE TRIBUNE, shows
with what deliberate purpose the Govern
mont proposes to 90 into the savings bank
business.
New-York tribune., 1874-01-01


We saw indeed, great deal of wild life In the coun-
try visited for steamed thousands Of mile. on tho
the sntre nayigable length Of the Ten
nessce Our advertising agent had htte boat OF his
tho tug boat would their upon the
banks OF Of these rivers where there was not
hsotaoS 10 Nsw aa Id y he hs sbronsed With peops In
soue places tho Mississippi especially In ArkansAs
men would come xih ~ Sna Sa proudns roa
the legs of thelr poots-
His autobiOgraphical book abounds in reference 70
lis stage companions, some of whom are sui well
known to che public, while Others are forgotten.
Going up the Mississippi from Cairo, he says tho
Floating Palace passed, one Sunday, the old French
town of Cape Girardeau. Missouri and its Roman
Catholic college on the river bank The boys were
out on the lawn under the trees aud he became No
says as envous Of their lot he had been DO
fore Of man who worked on steamboat OF VINO
danced "in the minstrels' He suddenly resolved
that no would 20 to that college. He was, however,
unable to leave his troupe until after visit 10 6s'-
weston, where he played three weeks Returnila
then to New-Orleans he took passage for Cairs.
whence. owing to the river being frozen he went 70
Cane Girardeau by land. This journey was 10 ex-
pensiye that he had but SS5 left when he reached
there. The good President, Father j. V. Ryan. since
made Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo. did nos
turn him away, and there he spent 10 happy months,
af.er which he went to Toledo and secured situa-
t;on in the Post Office He had been there but few
months. when the idea Of going to Europe seized
him. and no started with $lsl In his pocket. ho
went from Toledo to NewYork a. csttle-drovef'
bought steerage ticket TO London and reached the
English capital during the Worlds Fair in 1909 no
went thence 10 Paris aud almost immediately ieis
that oty for HoidsberG AZ bis capital Of Wv waui3
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Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-01
.Hr SESATORsEIT.

GENERAL. I. d. EDwAE2s. the Rerub
.icau nominee .p- tie Senate. from tie
County + oEnlsls. has been one OF the
mos. active AMI i.huen:i;:i Republicans
IL the State eyes SINCE Nevada was al
nilted into IL. Union lie has heen
one OF the most efficient and faithful
friends of the interests of Carson and
the county ut large. He voted for the
Capitol Appropriation Bill and worked
for i: with all his rowe- He vo.s,; for
tie Fifteenth Amendment in spite OF the
eaio.ts OF clique of unfa.thful RepUb-
leans ard designing sehemers to get him
20 swerys from his principles and
pledges He will cas-. his vote, always
for the advancement of TIE Republican
party and for the best interests of his
constituents. He is taking an active
par, in OUR local movement. for State
Agricultural Society and grounds. He
lives here, has family, passta into
our county treasury and is always
standing in
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-01
NJpTIALlSTlC.

We axe in receipt Of a handsome
budget of nuptial papers containing
these cards and announcement, namely
john C. WEIGH, this is Oh one casdl
Annie L. Wheian, (tLis lame is Oh an
other card snuggied up close to Johns
These are accompanied by a liI',t dou.r
containing the following legend, to wit:
Marriage ceremony Of John c. WEIGH
and Annie L. Whe,an, at the Catholic
Church, Virginia. wednesday evening,
November 18th, 1874, ct seven O'Clock.
Reception at 5 7. II. ct Residence. 81 F
street" We ore prepared to consratu-
late the happy pair. and. if the chance
offers, to kiss the bride. And this, as
follows, is how it came about. (You
will observe, John, that the marriage, is
always accompanied by the rhymster's,
license:-
Says John to Ankle, " will you be
Ny own thro' JOY ard ailin':''
Says Ann to John, " think my dear
That yeu deserve A. Nhalen -
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-01
=. +. JONES.

Ever since the formation of Crnsby
county Mn. s. E. JONES has been iienti-
fed with its interests. For several years
lie was one Of the Board o: County Com
nIissioners. In that capacity he was
wise. faithful and waichiui. No man in
this county is better acquainted with its
wants; no man in the county will work
harder or more inteilisen:.y to serve his
constituency. During the years of his
residence in this county SIr. Jones has
always been recognized as one Of its
most active Republicans. He never hes
ita.ed to spend his means and employ
his energies to sustain the party which
saved the Union and put down the re-
bellion.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-01
TO THE COI.ossED BEN.

Tie Ar:EAL. has been your fsieEd. 1t
has advocated your right to vote. 1t has
advocated the right OF Your children to
admission to the public schools. 1t
counse,s you now TO stand by The party
that has stood 10y you and made you the
white man S equal before the law. The
way to do this is to vote tie entiro Re-
publican ticket just as you see it pub
Hshed in the frs. column Of the edIto-
rial page Of the APPEAL. Any other
ticket than that is fraud. II you vote
any other ticket thar that YOU vote for
tine enemies Of your FACE. Stand 10y the
party OF Freedom e2d you are safe Il.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-01
ALFRED HELM.

! life Of usefulness has been that
Of Nh. Alfred HELM. Tho long con-
rec.ei with public life both in the East
ern States and on the Pacific Coast,
never word of det-ac:ion has been
whispered against him. He knows as
much @: the history AID legitimate ma
cLinery OF legislation as any mar Oh this
coast. lie Is sta.aci, enthusiastic,
uawav.,ius Republican. All his inter
ests and hopes are eeutered here. He
", ba faithful TO lis c-C2iy. his State
az lis eeantry il IL ,l.at he viii be
CAL r:ou 70 u - q member o: the
Wl.-.t'. :ro-e and quite as
.5s-!s,- y w. IL elected,