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New-York tribune., 1875-03-03
A NEW DRAMATIC READER.

THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF PRESIDENT JOHN TYLER.
1t IS announced that Mrs. Goodwin of Ala
bama will shortly dramatic reading IN this city
This lady has the heritage OF dramatic talent GA
both Sides being granddaughter OF the late Presi-
dent Tyler who had much skin aud ability as an orator.
and the granddaughter OF Thomas A. Cooper, one Of
the highest ornaments OF the stage, the contemporary
and eompeer OF Kembe, Kean, Cooke, and the elier
Booth.
Mrs Goodwyns father Is Col Robert Tyler, and her
mother Is distinguished as one OF the ladies OF tho
White House" who presided with grace and popularity
for three wears over the house OF the President Of inc
United States. Her mother was tho celebrated beie
Miss FaIlie, remembered with admiration by some OF
our older citizens Mrs. Goodwin has. therefore, pecu
liar claims on the good will and attention OF New
Workers. In her person she combines qualities
most attractive as dramatic reader-beauty ana
sweetness Of expression youthful grace. and powers Oh
voice said 10 he remarkable She has read several
places South and has already gained reputation
there as elocutont with remarkable powers In drs
matte personation.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

Lieut.. Gov. Van Zandt of Rhode Island is a
candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor
Of that State The choice Is thought to lie between him
and Col Henry Lppitt.
There is q unanimous disposition on the part
OF the Republican press to unite prayer Of thanks
giving that Gen. b. F. Butler has only few hours
OF public ife The general opinion TO be that
party does gain In popularity by having bully aud
q blackguard ior " leader In Congress-.
The kitchen organ explains its position on
the Third Term once The truth is," IL says,
I'VE have never discussed the Third Term except as an
abstract question. II President Grant is renominaed
as may response to the demands OF the patriotic
people, we shall rejoice because believe he Is de-
serving and because We believe his decision of character
may needed the troublesome times with which the
country is threatened But have never argued the
Thrd-Term proposition IN his behalf, although we have
been urged do by hundreds Of devoted Southern
Republicans" The Northern Republicans, then have
not been 80 urgenti 1t Is news that the carpet
baggers are ANXIOUS for IT. Their devotion" to the
power which holds them by force upon the throas of
the South Is perfectly natural
With rather indecent haste, The PHILADELPHIA
rusbes into print with Its obituary notice OF the
XLId Congress. Here somo Of the kind things IL
says Of the expiring body: The XLIIId Congress was
not the wses abes and most patriotic body that ever
sat In Washington 1t had many grievous faults aud
made numerous mistakes 1t had its sins Of omission
and commission. and t did not always satisfy pu blic
sentiment have tho public confidence. And yet It
was not wholly bad. Its chief crime was indication
For two years tred with Of the most dangerous
questions that In politics burning ts
fingers and threatening to set the national house afre
Only yesterday did dispose Of the Louisiana case Is
showed remarkable ncapacity for the MANAGEMENT Of
the nnanees an ncapac waion sonstimes sunk to the
depth OF tmbeoilsty And after tnkeng Ut tho subject
almost unlateilktble oeQdiusnes '.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03
AN INSTR UCTIVE VOTF.

The most important of the votes which pre-
ceded the final adoption OF the Force bill in
the House of Representatives was that upon
the proposition to strike out the Thirteenth
Section authorizing the suspension of the writ
rest of the bill might have been accepted with
less wear and tear to the restless cOnsciences
of self-respecting Republicans. 1t is easy
enough to argue oneself into the belief that ceI-
tain administrative measures are necessary to
insure fair elections in districts where your
opponents have majority. But the suspen-
sion of the great writ of freedom is always O
serious matter to men bred in respect for
themselves and the institutions of their coun-
try. When it was first proposed to Lincoln in
the hour of agony in which the war began, he
and all the jurists whom he consulted had the
gravest doubts about its employment, even in
the very cases provided for by the text of the
Constitution, cases of rebellion or invasion. 1t
shows how insensibly the taste for poisons
grows, when we see the House of Representa-
tives, ten years after the war is ended, forcing
bill to give the President this momentous
authority for nearly three years to come, for
no purpose but O political one. 1t is not the
opposition alone who charge this. There is
no more sincere and earnest Republican in
Congress than Mr.. Pierce of Massachusetts.
He preserved enough honesty and cOolness in
the midst of that heated debate TO try still to
restrain his headlong colleagues by questions
like these, which must have sounded to them
as exasperating as the voice of conscience to
a man determined to do wrongs "Are we
mot at bottom working simply and solely
"for the continuance of political party suprem-
"acyi L. not that in fact the motive TO the
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

Now there are great many thousand Re-
publicans in this country, better men than
most of these who go farther than Judge
Poland who not only think such legislation
as this at any time serious and dangerous
business, but who think that Gen. Grant is not
a safe man to trust with these enormous and
illegal powers. They believe that he and his
immediate supporters want these powers
granted SO that they may control the vote OF
certain Southern States for their own imme-
date advantage. They believe that neither
the President nor the men to whom be has
gwen his confidence have much respect for
law or much knowledge of it; and that in
case where their interests are at stake, they
would not scruple to violate the law and to
use all the powers in their reach to gain their
ends. The votes of this sort of Republicans
are necessary to the party, if the party is to
survive. They are numerous enough to defeat
the Administration if their sense OF justice
and decency is to be outraged in this way by
the new leaders Of the Administration party.
We think therefore that this last performance
was as stupid as 1t was reckless and law
less. 1t was intended to help the Administra-
ton. 1t will merely help the country to judge
what sort of Administration it is.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03
TIE CONC SID. or THE SERIOUS.

TIE CoWG SlIDE .2E- THE SERIOUS.
There could hardly be stronger illustration
of the tendency of an irreverent age to make
fun of everything than the recent recurrence
of "Washington's Birthday" has afforded.
If there is great figure in history calculated by
it's dignity to strike the most inveterate joker
dumb, it is that of the Father of the Country. In
the first place, he was himself sobriety incarnate
In the course of long and active life, asso-
cating constantly with his fellow -cOuntrymen
in the discharge of public duty, Washington
was always serious, and carried himself with
kind of aristocratic reserve. We can remem-
ber only two jests attributed to him, and but
one of them was a good one. Almost while
living he passed into the demigod stage, and
he has stayed there ever since, until men,
grown weary of so much goodness and great
ness, have revOlted, and have refreshed them
selves by considering him as q human being
Long ago Mr.. John Brougham, in his short
lived comic newspaper, printed various jokes
based upon letter written by Washington
ordering pair of leather breeches, which he
particularly desired should be made sufficiently
large. Then came the Little Hatchet story, which
took with the public wonderfully, and has
been travestied until its capabilities are about
exhausted. OF course it did duty the other
day, but the most ingenious funny man.
cannot make much out of it now. 1t is o
deal easier 10 start entirely original jokes to
say, as one newspaper does, that Washing
"ton combed his own hair when he was only
" five years old, parting it behind with Won
"derful precision !" or that he never got up
Sin the morning at 9 o'clock, and howled be-
"cause his breakfast wasn't ready ;" or that
"when he whistled his mouth had sanity
expression rarely seen this side of Para
"dise;" while one editor actually speaks in q
free and easy way of &C. w. )" and another
thinks it pity that he had no middle
"name."
People fond of philosophizing might ask the
reason of this hair-raisipg want of venera-
ton. 1t comes, we suppose, as all comedy
comes, from the natural tendency of our
minds to burlesque the really grave 1t is
the same spirit which led Aristophanes to
lampoon Socrates, and Lucianus to make
ridculously human the great ones of Olym-
pus; which inspired the old Italian poets to
sing buffo verses about the Day of Judg-
ment and betrayed Swift and Byron
into tho Same mad liberty. Perhaps
something Of it may be traced in tho grotesque
architectural ornamental tho diabolical oarvinxA
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03
MUSIC.
sIG. NUZIO'S BENEFIT.

The entertainment which Sig. Muzio Is
preparing his benefit at the Academy OF Music on
Friday evening Is varied and comprehensive enough 10
satisfy o multitude OF tastes. Besides the opera OF
"Lohengrin" with Mile. Hebron in the role Of Elsa
he promises the overture to an opera OF his tho
third act OF Crispno," two posthumous composition"
of Rossnis and the French National Hymn. The Ros'
sin relics will be interesting, TO say tho least Inc
"Ave Maria" is graceful and melodious quartet
written with accompaniment for organ ard stringS
During the maesros lifetime 1t often sung at his
private musical receptions and has beon performed
publicly at one OF the Birmingham festivals in England
bur nowhere else. The Song OF the Ttans highy
dramatic composition for chorus OF bass voices IN
unison with somewhat norid accompaniment for run
orchestra IL first given at OF the concerts Oh
the Conservatore In Paris and afterwards at Birmins
ham.
For whatever good work has been done by the Italian
Opera companies OF the past two seasons. sig. Mus'
deserves large share the praise and lovers OF mus
We trust Will remember his services on Friday oven"
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

introduction of the billf Sir, gentlemen know
ait is.n There were very few intelligent men
in the House but felt the truth of these search
ing questions, but they hardened their hearts,
stiffened their necks, and voted for their
party.
Mr.. Pierce was not the only one who made
this sullen and unprincipled partisanship dill
cult and unpleasant Judge Poland also, up
to this time member in the best standing In
the party, was too much of lawyer to allow
an outrage like this to be cOnsummated before
his face without word of protest. he at
tackled with great energy several OF the pro-
visions of the bill, but he opposed with es-
pecial point this shameful section Tor giving
into the hands of the President the power to
do as he likes for three years with the. most
precious safeguard Of popular freedom He
has lately been in the South, and therefore
speaks with authority when he denounces this
measure as totally unnecessary. The courts
are everywhere open and i'll regular Operatiou'
IL the State courts are suspected OF unfrlend-
illness or unfairness, there are always the Federal
courts, of which there are no suspicious. lie
would not allow any ignorant member 10 I'M
agine that the suspension OF the VIII was
anything more than it is. 1t does not give
the President or his officers any right to make
arrests, to "act energetically," as fiery partl-
sans say. 1t simply prohibits courts from In
quring whether arrests and imprsonments
are legal or not. 1t simply places the citizen
at the mercy of the Executive and prevents
any possible justice or redress. Judge Poland
while saying this, was too good Grant man
not to add the expression of his profound con-
iidence in the Presidents prudence and pat
"riotism.n 81 would trust him with the power
Gas readily as any President we have had;
"but the right of tho citizen to have the
"question of his right to personal liberty ex-
aminod and decided should Only be denied
"when the national safety is itself IN peril"
But even so respectful and loyal a present.
meDt OF The case gained no more hearing than
the more sincere and defiant language OF other
speakers One Hundred and Thirty men call
ing themselves Republicans voted to allow
Gen. Grant for two years and more to make
waste paper of the writ OF Habeas Corpus
whenever he may choose. These are their
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03
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Amnscmcnts ano fflectines.

BARNuM's ROMAN Observation-Disclosures Trial
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DAYS FIFTH AVENUE TuRArER-"The Big Bonanza"
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CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRNITY.-Organ Concert
RoBINsox HALL" Begone Dali Care" Mr.. Maccape.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

The charges brought yesterday against the
Controller, in the investigation conducted by
the Committee of the Board OF Aldermen, went
rather TO the manner than the matter of his
discharge of his duties. Some OF the COM
plaints seem frivolous, but their number, the
number of respectable people from whom they
come, and the persistence with which they are
urged. unquestionably make the situation a
serious one for the Controller.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

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New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

Theater managers, hotel proprietors. and
keepers of restaurants in this city do not ap-
pear to be much disturbed by the passage of
the Civil Rights bill. Several say that they
will be guided in their course by the advice
of counsel, while others boldly admit their
determination to evade or violate the law.
Nearly all are agreed in the conviction that
TO give the same treatment to colored guests
"a to white would ruin their business. The
eolorsd people themselves-so far as their
views have been heard in New-York-seem to
like the bill little better than tha hotel men
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

OF course Rufus Hatch could MT last. AS
blatbcrskite and marplOt, he had done what
he could to ruin Pacific Mail, and that he
should soon be kicked out was inevitable.
But that the Pacific Railroads should do it
does move our special wonder
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03
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New-York tribune., 1875-03-03
THE COST OF GRANTISM.

The following comparison between the ex-
penditures of the National Government in the
last complete year of Andrew Johnson's Ad-
ministration and the fifth year of Grants is
so simple and so easy to verify, and at the
same time so suggestive, that we venture to
ask the reader to cut it out and keep it in his
pocket-book for future reference. The facts
contained in it demolish every. speech made
in the last three years by Mr.. Dawes, or MIR.
Garfield, or Mr. Boutwell,, or any one else
claiming for the present Administration the
merit of economy.
There are four branches OF public expendi-
ture regarding which no comparison can be
fairly instituted between 1868 and 1874. These
are Cd the interest on the Public Debt, the
principal of which was greatly reduced by the
surplus revenues OF the intervening years (2)
the cost of the War Department, which in
1868 was enormous, on account Of the pay
ments of bouuties voted by Congress to the
soldiers (3) the payments for pensions, which
are greater in 1874 than in 1868, and ()
the expenditures incident to the collection of
the internal revenue, including taxes refunded
and drawbacks, which items we exclude from
the comparison we are about to make, because
most of the taxes collected through that branch
of the public service in 1867 and 1868 have
been repealed. The totals of the four classes
of expenditure above named omittiDg, how
ever, in each year, the expenditures under the
War Department for "fOrts and Notifications"
and "rivers and harbOrs,' were respectively
as follows, for the years named:
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

Great Britain and invested for the benefit Of the Ala
bama claimants.
When the people call on Congress to re-
trench or blame Congress for not retrenching,
the complaint IS not that too much is paid for
interest on the Public Debt or that too much
Is paid for pensions or bOunties to soldiers.
The charges of extravagance are not answered
by pointing to q decrease of one hundred MIL
lions in the amount paid for bounties to SOL
diers and interest on the Debt. The extrava-
gance complained of is, if anywhere, in the
expenditures embraced in our second table
and the figures that we bring together are
convincing proof that the extravagance
charged really does exist. When Mr.. Dawes
and Mr.. Garfield throw all the expenditures
of the year into one lump and prefer claim
to praise for frugality on the results obtained
by o comparison of such gross amounts they
are guilty of an attempt to impose on the
public.
But the Government was by no means
economically conducted in 1868. For this
opinion we have the very best authority IN
the annual report of Secretary McCullOch for
that year, in which he states that " no depart
"n,ent of the Government is conducted with
"proper economy and makes an estimate OF
what for the next ten years the average an
nual expenditures should be. This estimate
Mr.. McCullOch compares as follows with the
actual expenditures of 1874:
Estimate. Actual.
Civil service S40,0O0,090 S69,641 ,594
War 35,0OO00O 42,3l3,927
NAVY 20,00O,OOO 30,932.5S7
Indians and pensions. 30,0O00O 35,73O.S0
Total. .$125,OOO,OOO s17s,61S,9S5
Gen. Garfield claims great deal OF merit
for that wonderful company of statesmen, most
of whom will tomorrow forever disappear
from the public eye. that they have reduced
the grand total of the expenditures to
S27O, ,OOO which, allowing S1OO,OOO,OOO for
| interest on the Debt, is just $17O,OOO,OOO for
the real running expenses, being SS,ClS,9So
less than those of last year, and s1O,4sS,G37
less than those of 1873. Whether the result
| will be as favorable as he predicts it is too
| soon to tell, but we shall not give the name
| of retrenchment to q reduction OF ten millions
| where We have right to demand forty or
| fifty. Not only the opinion of Mr. McCuli0ch'
but the whole experience of the country from
1900 down to 1860, and the example of the
British Government (Which costs less than 1t
| did twenty years ago, though the trade ana
| manufactures of that country have doubled III
the intervaD, all go to show that the thirty
per cent which has been added to the ordinary
current expenses of our Government since
1868 can be weeded out. to the great benefit
of the soil and its useful productions.
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

All the economy which Mr.. Dawes is in the
habit of parddiDg Ill his periodical speeches
for and against increasing taxes is in three of
the four items above named. Let us now see
how The comparison stands with the remain
ing expenditures. The total expenditures in
1868 were S37O33J, J,134, from which subtracting
the four classes mentioned above we have left
an aggregate of $77,4l8,497. The same pro less
applied to the total OF $685., $500 expended
in 1874 gives us $lOO, OO,333,S8o, showing an in
crease in the six years Of 31,015,363, or n ore
than forty per cent, rs shown by the follow
inc fable:
New-York tribune., 1875-03-03

"Manon Lescautn dramatized has proved 7
failure at the Vaudeville. Paris the piece being ass
eoaEse md dull
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-10

THE NEXT NATIONAL CONTEsT-THE
SOUTHERN MILITARY RING-sECTIoN-
AL POLITICS THE THIRD PARTY
IDIOCY.
What with Democratic successes, Third
Term spectres and Third Party projects,
the political future is to the creduluus mind
overcast with clouds of uncertainty. But
no man who stops to weigh consequences,
or who takes into consideration the influ-
ences now prevailing, will for a moment
doubt the success of the Republican party
in the next national campaign. We donot
mean that a mongrel combination calling
itself the Republican party will succeed.
On the contrary, we mean that the regular
organization which elected President Grant
the first and the second time, and which
will elect some one of his pith and marrow
in 1876, will continue in control of the
General Government. We mean the party
that grew with rapid strides into power at
the time the nation was in peril, and, as
sorting itself as the uncompromising enemy
of wicked State Rights fallacies, conquered
the slaveholders' rebellion. We mean the
party that took up the gauntlet of civil
strife, when it was thrown down by the
enemies of liberty, and liberated millions
of bOndsmen. We mean the party that
assumed the responsibility of reconstruct
ing the Southern rebellieus States upon a
basis of loyalty and submission to the supe-
rior power of the General Government.
We mean the glorious party of progress
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-10

THE New York Times, abiding TO the
prospective campaign in Ohio, says: at
"appears to US, however, that old war
"horses are not fetching very good price
Gin the market just now" This remark
applies directly to the suggestion that cold
Ben Wade shall be the nominee of the
Republican party for Governor of the
Buckeye State. This slur upon the stand
ing of an old Abolitionist and time honored
Republican, who suffered for the cause
long before the unnaturalized editor of the
Times, or "Gin-pig'' Jones, its publisher,
dreamed of the existence of the Republl-
can party, is characteristic of its latter-day
policy. The same remark might be ap-
piled, with equal justice, to other Republi-
cans who were loyal leaders in that State
during the war. But the truth is the
Times does not know anything about the
history of this country, and therefore is
liable to fall into errors regarding war
Governors as well as warehouses. The
next thing we shall hear from it will prob
ably be an attack upon Ex-Governor Den
nison, who is, no doubt, "the strongest
imam connected with the party in the
"Whole State"