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whereas Rossetti a. frat " sW poet snd shough he
too rich and subtilo colorst and master less 10
drawing and composition. vet he has such deep ana
noble thought exoress feel have got much
when have the thought, even without its glowing
dress. Tho photograph or engraving can give bis
thought. his drawing. and his composition and "
must ose tho color ia only smelling the In tbs
dark. But Burue Jones IL more purely decorative
artist. and be 10 strongest IN coor-sked Inner hs
s alsOso that cannot Judge MIN fairly by any b,s
his oOoreJ work. 3nlI any will took closely into
this dra wing. hs wilt lind remarkable kgrouDd or
weedandnettis drawing. and will .ee enough 10
balance. and than balance. the smt OF
armor into which dark tower neither Childe Roland
nor any living man has vet come
Mr. Henry F,rrer deserves praise for cont nued
striving after truthfulnc AMI praise sso. for seeking
his subjects at home ana a. hand. We Wish. for
part, hs taste drd not e III him much TO
ionsi subiectsTwii9bts aud Moonights-or that n bs
must take suo. DO would try Reelection
Of their beauty rather than of their greeBness After
ALL human bongs tako )st pleasure 10 chooriu sights
and sounds tragedy and tho minor chords only ths
olives and safdines Of life, aud though We must baYs
tlom to whet jaded appetite sDmciines We like %
little as will serve II be. Ptrrer would remove tBsss
bitter dshes Of bis should DO glad 10 20 with him
again years ago Into the summer garden, and amid
bloom and Fragrance with the Catbrds violin solo In
the bushes look az dish OF the beautiful fruit he know
30 well to paint With bis 6Do technical skill. and IN.
healthy enjoy mont OF Color he might do some usios
the sunlight we should think. aud as va may.
We oan never made to believe that sunlight and
lighted things not farer tnan moonlight Or thu
cleaning. Mr. Fsrrer's pon-1rawlng tho Wsst Room
does him much credit.
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Hail AND FdREWELL.

Sunny is dead To the outer world il may be
necessary to say that Stumpy was cat which for
twelve years or more had been real terror to the
rats of Tue TRIBUNE Office. She was honest, mild
and amiable, and had an abbreviated tall from
which latter fact was derived her peculiar name. 1t
was never satisfactorily known whether that tail
was an abnormal development. OF whether
it had been untimely locked in infancy
1t was generally believed, however, that the
caudal appendage was O natural characteristic of
the cat-bon with her, SO to speak. Stumpy inhab-
tied the composng-room of The TRIBUNE, aud
though having no regular sit" made herself CON-
foitable and welcome at the case of every compOs-
itor She was not exclusive, but, during long and
peaceful life. she bestowed her company a dstin-
guished Senator sheds his money. on the just and
on the unjust. During the eyentful period Of
her connection with journalism, Stumpy wit
messed many changes. She saw the rise and
fall of Republicanism, gazed undismayed on
Black Friday, rejoiced at the end of the
Rebellion, and serenely saw the types set to an
nounce to the world all Of the great events which
have happened during the last eighth of q CEN
tury When the old TRIBUNE building was demol-
ished she watched its fall brick by brick her atti
tude of pensve observation being only interrupted
by the appearance Of fugitive rat to which print
ing-ofice pest she remained. up to the day Of her
death, o terror and scOurge. Though not q
literary cat, she was the cause of literary
effort from others. During the twelve years
Of her life she was acquainted with
generation Of TRIBUNE editorial writers, and
verses IN her honor were written by men eminent in
letters, among whom such poets as Bayard Taylor
and others were glad TO shine Her friends and ac-
quaintances were among those whom the world has
honored; and her modest subsistence was derived
from fund regularly subscribed by the compostors
Of The TRIBUNE. She was not cat to inger SUI
perfuous; and on the morning Of February &c
after seeking secluded retreat in which to shuttle
of this mortal coil, she waited until the paper had
gone to press. when she too locked up her form in
deaths embrace and, in the darkness of the stereo
type room, breathed her last. She was faithful
public servant, an honest cat, devoted friend
Peace 10 her ashes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-27

There is some little confusion in the average Con-
gressona mind upon such questions as the right to
speculate their legislation, the privilege Of
unlimited voting Of money to themselves from the
Treasury. the duty of bribing Legislatures. and
other such little things but two ofenses getting
10 DO pretty clearly defined. one in the Senate and
the other in the House. In the Senate, Mr. Morton.
the Administration leader in that body, has given
an opinion which may be called authoritative, that
to cram" for a'speech (which consists in a careful
reading of authorties is ofense not to be over
looked, and for person not born in this rapidly
growing and developing country to cram" is cen
surabe in the last degree. In the.House, on Wednes
day. Mr. Cobb of Kansas took o manly and states
manlike step Ia the direction of stamping with
public reprobstion the holding Of great possessions
oot drawn trom tho Treasury or acquired in tho
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PERSONAL.

Mr. Cyrus w. Field is expected home from
Europe some time ia March.
The Hon. 4. G. Curtin and family Of Penn
sylvania are on a visit to Jacksonville. Florida
Gov. Allen of Ohio, with a cOmmendabie
anipathy TO desdheadm, refuses TO accept Any rros
passes.
The late Dr. David Frederick Strauss left
two unfinished works. Life OF Lessins" and Lt'
Of Beethoven"
The fortune left by the late Baron Meyer
de Rothschd, though not so large as expected u
likely 70 exceed sl6,OoO,OOo. gold
DR.. George B. Loring of Boston will delives
the grafton before the literary societies OF Dartmouth
College at the next Commencement
EN-. de Lesseps has had the good fortune 70
secure decree FROM the Car ssnctIonug his sohems
for the construction OF a Central Asian Railway.
The Rev. DR.. John Hall of this city rs
announced Of the speaker, at the Indiana 5acs
Sunday school Convention to be held at NewAoanY'
June 8.
A most unusual case of modest generosity
has come to light in Boston. gentleman who obstr
nately refuses to have his name published has gwen
property valued az 100000 10 Boston university.
The O'DonOghue having been elected In
Tralee Ireland by majority OF three over the Homo
Rule candidate part of the town drapoi in mourn
ing. and the local newspaper appeared with 'l.ok
border.
President Eliot, it is reported, has not gons
to Europe 90 ind to Agasss a. to DO
present at the annual examinations In oxford and Cam
bridge, and to gather thence hints Tor the osDen'
Harvard
The Rev. DR.. Osgood says that Agasslz nos
long before his DEATH declared mat he felt never DO
fore the Importance OF the movement IN behalf OF tne
physical education Of women. lie Was 70 "
IN sympathy with tue views III Dr. o'atAe' 0'oA VI
IN Education.
Mr.. Emerson, at the last meeting OF the
oyerseers Harvard College, declared 10 favor OF con-
pupg the compulsory attendance OF students on chapo'
PRAYERS He argued that prayer the hxnest aot VI es
human mind and that it was not rAgnt 10 taAo ASS
from or TO let young deprive themselves OIL Tue zen
air ~ hat
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TUF FNGLISH OF A STATE PAPER.


Looked at from literary point of view. the Pres
ident's Centennial Message is perhaps the most e1-
traordinary document that has ever emanated from
the Executive Mansion 1t begins by informing
Congress that there have been International Expo
sitions by three of the Great Powers" Can any one
suggest any possible relation which that fact has to
the rest of the Messagef "t seems fitting the Pres
dent goes OH to say that the Tooth anniy ersary OF
our Independence should be marked by an event
that will display to the world the growth and pro-
press of nation devoted to freedom and to the pur-
suit Of fame fortune and honors by the lowest cii
zen as well IA the highest BY what eyentI lhe
growth of what natiOnf Is it the nation IN ques-
ton or the lowest citizen we'll as the highest that
ia in pursuit of fame, fortune and honorsf a
failure in this enterprise" continues the President
would be deplorabler In what enterprsef Success
can be assured by arousng public opinion to the I'M
portance Of the occasion" Success in whatf 10 the
importance Of what occasion; the Tooth annlVer-
sary of our independence or the 3" event. that Is to
mark it, "To secure this end, i'll my Judgment,
Congressional legislation is necessary TO make the
Exposition both national and international" 10
secure what end the arousing of public OPINION or
making "the Exposition" both national and inter-
rationale What Exposition is referred tof Is 1t
ono of the International Expeditions by three of
the treat lOWcTo INC Onil oh'o oPVNNu ''' f'" -
3d. which one OF them
The selection of the site for the Exposition
seems TO me appropriate from the fact that 100
before the date fixed for the Exposition the Declare
ton of Independence which launched us into the
galaxy of nations as an independent people, ema-
mated from the same spot" Was it the selection of
the site or the site itself that was APPROPRIATED
What is the Presidents authority for saying
that the Declaration of Independence ema-
mated from Paramount Park Was the Declaration
which launched into galaxy" different from
that subscribed at Independence Hall, July 4, 1776,
when Paramount Park was Wilderness "Let us
have a complete success of our Centennial ExpOsi-
ton, or suppress it in its infancy, acknowledging
our inability TO give it the international character
to which self-esteem aspires" To what interna-
tonal character does our selfeseem aspire, aud Of
whose seltesteem does the President speak here
his own, the Philadelphia Commissioners, or that of
any larger and if so, what section of the public
The President evidently not in his happiest
mood for composition when he sat himself down TO
indito this message The pen may be mightior than
the sword but whether it be after all depends
little upon the hand that holds it.
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arbitrator between themselves and the Treas

arbitrator between themselves and the Treas
ury. shorn of a largo part of his terrors.
We have not often found 1t in our way to
lovisb encOmiums on the Hon. Fernando
Wood, but we heartily applaud the manly
attitude he assumed when Mr.. Jayne gave his
testimony. Mr.. Wood insists that no more
evidence of that sort shall be received unless
the merchants have an opportunity to con-
front and answer their accuser. This Is I'M
ouestionably just. Private character Is too
sacred a thing to be trihed with, and profess
sional spies should not be allowed to stab at
il in the dark, as they have been doing ever
since tho law of 1857 went into operation.
The meeting Of tho Committee on Tuesday
next ought to be public. The business before
it differs greatly, from its ordinary concerns.
1t affects tho rights and regulations OF a
great number OF private individuals, now hold
forth to the world as smugglers, perJurers'
and cheats who have been fined an enor'
nous amount of money for their crimes
They are entitled to be heard In
their own defense, not only by the Committee,
who can do very little to set them right II
they have been wronged, but by the whole
country before which they have been de-
nounced. And we think it would be well II
Jayne, and District Attorney Bliss, and Col
lector Arthur, and perhaps some other officials,
were specially invited to be present when the
representatives Of the Chamber of Commerce
make their statement. We have reason to be-
lieve that full disclosure of the operations
of the Custom house Seizure Bureau in this
city would develop some remarkable facts which
the Government itself perhaps does not suspect;
and we imagine that in the conflict of tho op-
posing forces the truth is likely to be elected
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amussmenis ano ttlestinss.

Ar.nruY OF MUsc.-italan Opera Lucia al Lam
"ocrmoor." Mme Nilsson.
un,ru,, THEATER.--" Chesney void" Nine. Janau-
schek.
Co,ossrrx-Day and evening "Cyclorama OF Paris by
Night" -,
&C. p,vru AVENUE THE rER -" Loves Labor Lost"
cp.,p OPERA HOUSE." Humpty Dumpty at School,"
q L. Fox
NtaIos GARDEN" Lestberst0cidng"
OLrMrIC THEAIRR.-Vaudeville aud novelty En'er
tainmcnt .
stRrSwAY HALr-Grand Costrme Concert, Caroline
Richngs- Bernard.
ToSY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE -Vsrieties
UNION SQUARE THEAIER.-" Led hstray'
WALLAcK's THEATER.-" Money Lester Walsck'
ASSOCIATION HAIL--Leoture. Canon KINGSLEY
c1yRcH OF THE AsCESsIoS-Lecture. Dr. Smith.
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DEsIGS-Water Color Exhioi
lOn
RoRnsos HAIL.-Lecture IIrs. Susan Everett NJ. d.
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II DSIC
pouRrn sYMPHONf coNCrnr

The principal works on Mr.. Theodore
Thopass programme for next Saturday evening tho
beautiful 5chumsnn symphony ia mo, y, which
played at the last Philharmonic IN Brooklyn. the 81
LeOnora overture concerto for string orchesns Oy
Bach and new serenade by VolkmaGn with yioonooiIo
Obbligs,o for Mr. Lubeck
THE LEIDERGRANz.
The Liedeckranz is to give q concert ut
steinwsy Hall on the 7th Of March testimonial 10
It's conductor Mr. A. Paur when Max Bruch's fine
tsta Of Ulysses" which noticed at the time OF ts
first production by the club few weeks ago. viii be re-
peated This work IL attracting great deal OF notes
Just now In Germany. and will take worry blgb RANK
among tho Wusicof our day.
NILSSON IN BOSTON.
Nine. Nilsson gave a farewell concert Ia
the Boston Music Hall Tuesday night with the assist
of Maurel Capoul Nine. Schiller and an orchestra
she sang Beethoven's All perhdo," Mozarvs "vo che
sapce." and duet from "Rigoletto" with MaureL The
Advertiser says "In response 10 Der recall after the
performance OF An perhdo Mme. Nilsson SANG In Rus
sian, TO the panoforte accompaniment Of Mr.. Behrens
a quaint and very pleasing little love song, which Il
known even In It's land by its French title Of
'Ouber tot This chsnson might derive additional
interest persons from the fact that 1t Is par
tcuar favorte Of the Car for others IL will DO enough
that its melody exceedingly sweet and that s broken
movement and simulated jodel recall the most pleasing
OF tho Tyrolese airs The applause which followed
Vol che sapete imperative, and Nine. Nilsson re-
piled TO it with ballad take from the stock OF Ohristys
Minstres 10 London, oaod please give me penny
Sir accompanying herself upon the piano; and finding
tho audience still unsatsfed. the prlma donna again
presented herself ana gave the Old Folks 81 Home"
GERMAN OPERA
Madame Lucca's name is now posted all over
the doors OF Stadt Theater, and we are Informed
that she will sing there at popular prices with troupe
comprising of best resident German singers
Among them are Nine. LOhtuay, Miss ROnor. Mr.
Phiger, Mr.. Bernard. Mr. Vlering aud Mr.. Franosoh
The conductor is to be Mr. Car Bergmann'
MADAME PAREPARosAS LAST ILLNESS.
Private letters from London give some par
tcuars of the last Illness of Madame Parepa-koss. On
Christmas Eve she passed long evening singing tho
music OF Elsa in "Lohengrn" She was taken SICK ths
next day; and though at first after the birth OF her
dead child she appeared to DO doing WELL the symptoms
soon became unfsyorabe that Mr.. Rosa. who had
reoned his opera company IN tue provinces, returned
TO London. Several days before her death Madame
Rosa lost consciousness and never reganed ~ calling
constantly her dellrium for her child The physicians
expressed the opinion that az her lite could have
been saved would have remained moro wreck. Qua
possibly have become blind.
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Tho British forces under Sir Garnet WOlseley have
captured COOmassie after five days hard fighting The
King Of Ashantee promised 10 sgn treaty Of peace.
- Tho Canadian Board Of Trade in session
"wednesday and Thursday The question Of reciprocity
with tbs United States under discussion for long
time - The weather yesterday tempestuous In
Great Britain and on its coasts.
In the Senate yesterday the further consideration OF
the nsucia question postponed until Tuesday next
motou by Mr. Cameron 70 take up the Centennial bill
rejected as TO as the Naval Appropriation bin
then up and passed. it agreed that the Gen.
tenDsi bill should be taken up to-day after the morn.
ing hour. the Alcoholic Liquor bill discussed,
aud after some miscellaneous business the Sen
ate adjourned. In the House Mr.. Garfield re-
ported a bill, which was passed, allowing the uneI
pended balance OF the appropriation for the Branch
Mint At San Francisco to be available for the contnu
Of tho work the consideration OF the FraDkng bill
was rosumed a motion TO table the bill negatived,
ls 70 40 Oton reconsider the vote Of yesterday
ordering the question laid on the table. l2o to
81 the amendment OF the Committee authorizing delay
in tho transmission OF documents was rejected Mr..
Hses substitute repeating the bill which abolished the
ranking privilege rejected 80 to %; the bill was
thsn rejected. i29 10 l3L
tits proposed to exhibit 10 Boston nfty-nve choice
pictures belonging to the Duo de Montpensier. = An
unsuccessful attempt made to burn school-house
Of Rochester while 300 children were in II. 60 The
sriks Of the Erie brakemen has been settled by
promise in favor OF the men, - Prohibition can
ddstes for State officers have been nominated in Ohio
The wOmens crusade against incompetence is steadily
spreading.
Tho Rev. r Botome preached at the funeral OF Pres
dent Henry Smith. - large class was graduated
from the Bellevue Hospital Medical School -9.
Horace Barnard lecture before the Medco Legal
Society favored modification OF the present system Of
examining experts as witnesses. E- An appeal was
IA thu East da ha of I'm
provements at Hell Gate. - j. A. MscGahsn loo
tured on Travel in Khya-" Three jurors were
obtained in the King murder trial Gold. li2s I1aA
Thermometer. 90, $50, $50.
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THE MERCHANTS IND THE SPIES.


The Ways and Means Committee will re-
sumo its hearing of persons interested In the
Custom house regulations next Tuesday. We
hope there may be no secret inquiries or star
chamber Investigations. Mr.. Jayne, who is
one of the most interested and suspicious wit
nesses possible to summon. was allowed last
week to asperse the character of the mercan-
tile community on whose wrongs he has
thrved, and to represent the brood" of
New-YOrk importers as parcel Of thievish
foreigners, who spend their nights in plotting
and their days in perjury. He has done more
than this he has maligned respectable men
by name and every one of the three or four
thousand persons in New York and Boston
whose property has been seized during the
past FIVE years under the Customs laws has
the satisfaction of knowing that Mr.. Jayne
describes him to the Ways and Means Com
mttee as a common swndler. 1t is not sur
prisng that, after this unbOsoming himself of
the perilOus secrets which weighed upon his
breast, Mr.. Jayne should insist on being re-
leved from Office. In his letter of resgna-
ton, which we print to-day, the e1-detective
intimates that he could appear TO better ad-
vantage before the Committee If allowed to
come in as a private citizen. MI. Jayne is
too modest by half; but the merchants who
have suffered from his exactious have reason
" rejolcs that hs may assume tho role Of
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Bnslness Notlles.
WRITE TO THE TRAVELLERS INSURANCE &c
81 ,tlinrl Coma for life OF General Accident POLICY.

WRITE TO THE TRAVELLERS INSURANCE Co.,
Hartford Conn, = Life General Accident Policy.
NASELINE.
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PcsAps the hair and onres dath Sole agents
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sale 10y oil druggists.
WILBOR's COP LIVER on AND LlME.-Per-
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Or WuR,E succeeded from directions Of professional
tmea combining oil snd lime In snch manner that
pleasant and its effects In UuE complaints truly won
hopeless
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entirely cared by using this preparation he sure and Gel e gen
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WEISS ON SHAKESPEARE.-olx ShaKespeare3n
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Morals and law appear to enter into the
contest over the Alabama seat in the Senate.
Mr.. Sykes was elected by body of men
who met in the Alabama State House and
were, doubtless. the legal Legislature. But
seven members of that body held contested
seats, though they also held certificates OF
election signed by tho proper authorities
Another assemblage, meeting in tho Court
house, chose Mr.. Spencer, it being claimed
that tho seating of the seven Barbour
County members invalidated all of the pro-
ceedings Of the State House Legislature
Subsequently both legislative bodies fused,
and the Barbour County men who had been
holding seats in tho Sykes Legislature were
unseated by the new Legislature. Therefore,
it is argued that Mr.. Sykes has the legal
right to the Alabama SenatOrship. but mott the
moral right. Whether Mr.. Spencer has either
law or morals IN the case is not 80 clear but
he has been and is drawing pay and up
holding the dignity of the Senate with en-
thuSiasm
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Mr.. Hale of New-York was so confident of
the success ot the bin 10 give Congress q
modified form of franking that he refused any
amendments that we're not strengthening to
the purpose of his measure. The bill was
purely in the interest of the frankers. 1t was
defeated by majority of two votes.
The country might be congratulated On this
overthrow of scheme to load the mails
with Congressional speeches; but there is
dark intimation that Gen. Butler, impatient
with Mr.. Packers halfway measures, pro-
poses to sweep the House with bill which
will restore the ranking privilege, pure and
simple. AS much might be expected; but will
Congress be persuaded into such grotesque
act OF stultifcationf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-27

1t is about time that public officers should
try to persuade the strikers On various rail
roads that they must seek some other means
of collecting their bills than the wasteful
stoppage of public travel to which they are
now resorting. There is no reason why an
entire community, depending on the free and
constant use of railroad for intercommuni-
cation, should BIO put to Inconvenience for
days or weeks because the employees have
suffered the railroad to run up bills which
it is not willing or able to pay. There is a
legal method of collecting such debts, and the
pubic baye some rights in the premises as
= III "a the creditors. If public rights are not
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