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New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

the Government out Of the duties on silks on
so extensive scale as to depress the market
prices below the cost of importation to honest
dealers, greatly strengthen the conviction that,
if Secretary Bristow needs more revenue, all
that he has to do to get it is to put more
honesty and less political influence" into the
custom-houses and internal tax offices. We
are of opinion that were the revenues col
lected on business principles, after the methods
followed by Mr.. A. Il. Stewart and other great
merchants in the management of their own
vast concerns, thirty million dollars could
sooner be obtained by such reform than by
any conceivable changes in the tax laws.
6. The more money Government has the
greater its power. 1t should not be forgotten
by the friends of honesty in politics, and by
those who prefer that the people should be
the masters rather than the slaves of those
who get their living from the Treasury, that
eighteen months more will bring us into the
midst of the Presidential campaign. The anx-
iety of the President and his Cabinet for in
creased revenues must, we admit, be ex-
plained on the most natural and obvious
grounds. But when we consider that re-
trenchment is so easy, that an increase OF the
net produce or tne present JaAcS is HoI ulhi-
cult, and deficiency therefore wholly mex
cusable and unnecessary, we must say that
some other explanation is imperatively de-
manded, if that we have suggested Is not the
true one.
7. In the calendar year 1874 so far from the
revenues falling below the expenses, there was
net surplus, as shown by the monthly Debt
statements of nearly Screateen million doHGrS
Unless the people have been deliberately de-
ceved by men holding positions OF the highest
trust and responsibility, the expenditures this
calendar year must fall sufficiently below those
of last year to give full thirty millions OF sur
plus revenue to be turned over to the Sinking
Fund, on the suppositiOn of the revenue
reaching last years figures. In all probability
it will show a considerable increase. From
the foregoing statements, all of which are
made on the authority of official reports, and
none of which should be news to an intelligent
citizen, the only possible conclusion is that an
increase of the tareS is rhOlly uVuShfaGie and
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has generally thought 80, and has maintained
profossorship of that language at West
Point. But every few years a movement has
been made to abolish that chair for some rea-
son or another and now Secretary Bellnap is
renewing that ancient assault. We do not
pretend to say anything about the merits oil
the present, or of any past incumbents OF that
post. If the actual Professor of Spanish is
not competent and proper person for the
place, be should unquestionably be dismissed,
and another appointed. But the aboli-
ton of the chair is matter OF
which any intelligent person is fitted to
Judge, and for which no justification can be
urged. 1t may safely be said that 10 other
language is more important to the American
soldier than the Spanish. There are only two
languages spoken to any extent upon this
hemisphere where most of our business and
most OF our fighting is to be dOne-the
English and the Spanish-and it is these two,
therefore, which should employ the most of our
young warriors attention. OF course no military
education can be said to be complete without a
knowledge of French, and this language is very
properly kept upon the list of studies en-
braced in the curriculum at the Military Acad-
emy. But for all practical purposes, Spanish
is the more important. 1t is true that other
languages aro far richer in general literature
and in works upon military science. But the
principal German and French writer's have
been translated into English, and their works
can be studied in that form. If there
we're mot printed book IN existence
in the Spanish language it would
still he an INDISPENSABLE Dart Of the
American soldiers education. 1t is the tongue
of most of our neighbOrs and of almost all
our possible adversarics, and is the sole
foreign language of our outposts and borders
1t is needed every day in Texas, Colorado,
Nevada, ewMexco, Arizona, and Calfor-
mia, and no one knows how soon it may be
of the utmost importance to have our officers
speak it and write it III regions where with
out it they will be walking or sailing in the
dark
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08
THE POKER TR1CT.

There has been a clamOrOus public demand
for the compendium of the rules of poker
playing drawn up by Gen. Schenck for the
use of the nobility and gentry of England.
We take no interest i'll such things except
when they come strictly within the sphere of
news; but we cannot OF course allow our
readers to languish in ignorance of a work
which has given rise to so much remark upon
both sides Of the Atlantic. 1t is not as a
sporting document or n matter of scandal tLat
we regard this famous libretto. 1t only inter
ests us and our public from the literary and
historical point of view. But as the work of
Gen. Schcnck, and as a singulary succinct
and perspicuOus piece of composition, it has
a value altogether distinct from its subject
matter, and we therefore reproduce it in full
this morning, from a rare copy of the original
work. Gen. Schcnck evidently thinks that
anything worth doing is worth doing well,
and he has therefore left little more
to bo said on the subject of
poker Those who follow him must restrict
themselves to gloss and commentary. The
text IS written the foundations Of the science
are laid.
There are those who think this knowledge
not worth acquiring, and we confess we are
of their opinion; but we cannot forget that
there are many of another mind. Indeed,
great American humorist has said, i'll one Of
his lucid moments of serious philosophy, that
the most sublime picture OF moral hcrOiSm he
has ever encountered was a gentleman of
Kalamazoo who wore nankeen trousers joy
fully all Winter because he preferred to spend
his money in draw-poker. To such the pres
cnt publication will be of transCendcnt inter
est the uninitiated will appreciate only the
authors exhaustive grasp of the subject, and
the admirable reserve and clearness of his
style. We hope that the publication of this
tract will not stimulate any of our readers to
acquire the game whose rules and chances it
depicts. If they do insist on learning it, we
hope they will rigidly reject the pennies
and sixpences which Gen. Schcnck mentions
as the prevailing stakes in Great Britain, and
will restrict themselves to bonbons, or if these
are not procurable, to the ordinary white bean
Of co1nmprcp
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TEE TEIrUNT's MONTHLY CALENDAR
IL I'M. f..r.. ll I'M .nn -. -. 1t
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1915.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.

In the election for the French Assembly held yester
day The Republican candidate was 5000 votes ahead Of
Ai, Honaplrti-t competitor. 60 An attack q the
Clrlist, on tie Afon-st-, near Oteza, repulsed
-= F.,G 'cut coLhos take place bet" "een PrOesants
ana Catholic. IG = Eico.
Tic Sclatc debated til FOR the regulation Of steam
lolts. ---- IN TIE House. majority and minority re
u.rts Of tie Poland Committee Arkansas affairs
presented hill for canal from Lake Michigan TO the
Misiss pJi elected mach discussion. The President
euuOuuccs the ratification Of the convention with Mex
leo. == The Pacific Mail Committee took testimony Of
three uCwsIapc writer's and Of other witnesses. re
syect.ug tH. presence OF VIM. Klug IA Washington
lie has been served with a sUbp"nl IN Montreal.
1uo Attorney General gave testimony before tie Com
uuttco on ALABAMA AG4irs.
The Louisiana Conservatives on Friday night agreed
o. plan Of compromise with the Kellogg Government
y.hIcI was af,,raaId icsciadeG. The Congressional
Committee submitted plan, 10y which the Conservative
members OF tlc .siaUrc arc 10 take their seats end
aIc to allow o.. Kellogg .ycrnment to remain undis
turbcd until IA. LoNt election. No action has been
taken on this mD a.ure; hut at meeting OF Con
tcrvayos resolutions were adopted protesting against
any compromises with usurpers. go Several wit
uesses testified before The Louisiana Investigating Com
Inttcc toe fairness OF the late election, and the
friendly relations between the races. 60 Hostile
Cbeyeuncs have come into camp at Darlington, l. T.
Tie captive German girls are in Gray Boards camp.
- Hostile InGiaCs are making raids into Mexico A
war party OF COmIuches have encountered the Uuited
states troops.
Further differences among insurance companies were
disclosed and the Withdrawal OF companies from
the National Board was expected. The signing
OF contracts which early operations by the Oe
odental aud Oriental Company, the rival Of Pacific
Mail. announced. - Representatives, Of prom
inent savings banks agreed upon uniform rules 10
recommend for passage by the Legislature. The
resignation OF William Butler Duncan director OF
the Erie Railway Company vas announced. sz-4.
Joint Committee Of the Assembly and the Board Of
Aldermen listened 20 arguments on Rapid Transit.
Turee men arrested charged with completely an
extensive robbery from the Adams Express Company.
s4-s Thermometer 100, I2o go So Cold. llGt, ma
ila GOid value Of the eglteuaer dollar at the close
s7iI0
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SPANISH AT VEST POINT.

One of the best of the fctiOns told of Presi-
dent Lincoln, which we hereby request future
biographers to omit from their works, was that
of the oflice-seeker who had haunted the ante
room for a month asking for foreign mis-
sion. At last the President, weary of his face
said, ado you know Spanish ~ "No," said
the eager aspirant, "but could soon learn
"it." "Do So" said the President, "and
"will give you good thing" The seedy
politician went home and spent six months in
Ollendolff and golden dreams. He reappeared
with joy in his heart and fine Castilan ac-
cent on his tongue, and the President-pre-
sented him with q copy of Don Quixote.
The only thing true in this story is that a
knowledge of Spanish is q good thing to
have, and up to this time our Government
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

them. Even Thackeray is already almost q
myth to the incoming generatiOn-a Power
rather than q man who with keen scalpel
dlssected human nature to tho very dividing
of bone and marrow; but when we hear him
chanting Little Bilee, or sec the tears roll
over his face as he bids his little girls good
by, we shake hands with him at once across
the gap OF years, and stand side by
side with him thereafter, and are sure
that we too, had something to do with
tho creation of Dobbin, and were old
friends once with Thomas NewcOme.
There is no field in which our own literature
is so mcager as that filled by these go5sipy
human books. Mr.. Stoddard even has taken
his heroes from the other side OF the water
There is no reason either why our early
history should be left like an articulated
skeleton, when life and flesh could so easily
be given to it by books Of memoir and
anecGote such "a make French history real.
There ought to be records, letters, AID ira
ditiOns yet fresh and alive in certain old
families from which such compilations, inval-
liable hereafter, could be drawn. Mrs. Jessie
Benton Fremont has lately attempted to
supply the want, hitherto not met. az far as
her recollection serves her Of memorable men
and women in her own day. The daughter Of
Benton, brought into intimate relation with
the leaders in the political world from Ran
dolph to those of the present time, herself always
a central magnetic figure IN the social world,
ought to give us photographs both lasting and
vivid. so far, however, feminine dclicacy or
ill-adviscd prudence have made her touches
too light, and confined her "reminiscences to
personal anecdotes when they should rather
have been political. The anccdote Of onr
living neighbor is gossip, but when 1t has
the emphasis of death to underline it, it be-
comes u necessary part Of history.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

The discussion as to Rapid Transit, before
Committee of the Assembly on Saturday, was
entertaining and to some extent suggestive, but
was marked by great diversity of opinion as to
methods. The desirabihty of Rapid Transit is
conceded it is for the Committee to discover
some way of making it practicable.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

The fourth annual course of lectures on
Preaching, before the Yale Divinity School,
was begun last week by the Rev. DIR. John
Hall of this city, The substance and style OF
the first lecture (an abstract of which is given
on our third page) afford promise OF another
brilliant and instructive course.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08
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Advertisers ,riH please bring in their farors
bCOre HALEPAST FIVE O'CLOCK IN the
CreHing. We cannot undertake 10 classify those
roco'red after that hour. The greatly Increasing
demand upon our Press room comDeis as 10 send
The UdriOus Pages of TIE TRIBUNE 10 press at
an cartier hour than heretofore, and thus makes
he dJOUe eQurement necessary.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

Our Paris letter, published on the second
page. was written before tho combination be-
tween Republicans and Members of the Right
Center in the French Assembly was formed.
However, it contains some information in re-
gard to the political purposes OF the Duke
d'Audiffret- Pasquer, tending to show how that
combination was facilitated.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

The discovery OF the Hon. VIM. s. King on
the streets of Montreal may dissipate the be-
lief that proper efforts have not been made to
find him, but it is hardly probable that it will
lead TO his appearance as witness in the
Pacific Mail investigation. If Mr. King were
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

on Saturday an army officer, a Grant Repub-
lican, cOlored Republican, a Northern Re
publican resident Conservative member of
the Legislature, and Republican candidate
for the Legislature gave evidence favorable to
the Conservatives.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08
Nurecments onn nlcciincs.

ACADEMY or MUsIc-"Fra Diavolo." Kellogg
rARNUu's ROMAN HprODRoNE-At 1880 ana at
ROOTIf's 1uEATER. 49," Henry ""
RRYANTs OPERA HoUsE.-Minstreis .
DAYS EIFru AVENUE THEATTR.-"Women OF tne pA''
IGcRUM nlKNrER-" The New Magdalen."
OLYMPIC TuUArER-Vsriety Performance
PARK mEAT6R.-Girone Giro1a."
FAN FRANCISCO MINsrREIs Birch and Wamoou'
UNION SQUARE THEATRR.-"The Two Orphans"
wAuAcK's THEATER--" The shaughraun' Diou Douof
Cault.
ASSOCIATION HALL-Reading Prof' hcnaruson'
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF Decentralization OF water
color society
No 81 UNION soUAEE.-Concert Hutchinson Family
p,prNsoN HAL Begone Dull Care" Mr.. Maccahe
TuE THIRTY .sKyENIHsT NJ. L. CHURCH.-Lecture Miss
PLdbc W. CuUzns
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HIGHER TAXES NOT NEEDED.

The following propositions, the truth of
which VIII not and can not be denied, are
submitted to show that tie proposed addition
to the national taxes i3 not called for:
/. For the last four fiscal years the eXpcndi-
lures of the United States Government, ex-
elusive OF the interest on the Public Debt,
premiums paid on bonds purchased for the
Sinking Fund. and the Post Office expenses so
far as they are covered by the earnings of
.Io+ dooortnon+ Lovo hoon oe follows.
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bnsliiess Ncnres

GTNTEAL ACCIDENT Policies BY TIE MONTH
o. 1EAu --i,,rl.,.t' LFa AND ACCIDENT lNscRNcs Co.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

Once in a while human justice gets favoring of
that manly indignation that is like fresh breeze in
a sultry zone. curious instance comes from En-
gland where, short time ago, a poor woman was
tried for the murder OF her husband. The man was
a miserable creature who had lived upon his wfes
earnings and rewarded her by the cruele5t bealngs
At last tho despairing woman. while being thus
tortured threw a steel which entered his brain and
killed him. The jury could do no less than find her
guilty but the Judge refused to pass sentence upon
her. "il the real right in this case" said his lord
ship to the prisoner was on your side all the real
wrong on your husbands. and God forbid that |
should punish you. will not allow it to be said by
anybody that you are convicted felon, for con-
viction is not complete until sentence Is passed.
and mean to pass sentence at all" The prisoner
was then directed to enter into her recognzances
to come up for judgment if called upon and
said the Judge in conclusion "nObody in the world
will ever call upon you-God sforbid they ever
should"
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

disposed to testify it would have been easier
to find him.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

Ye who grumbc at tho discomfort of Wilt r
voyage to Brooklyn or jersey City, how would yOu
like to travel about this time on tae Kansas Pacific
Railroad, with two locomotives pushing you and
two pulling you, with the thermometer at Do below
zero. with the wind blowing q gale and the snow
drifting in sheets with slecpngcars like ice-hOuscs,
with the provisions running short, and with
hundred other dscomfOrtS, conceivable and incOn-
ceivablei We have just read Of the sorrows of one
particular train with tears in our eyes. 1t wasn't
all mOurnful though, for while cars and engines
and tenders and snow-plows were prOmis-
cuousy stuck in gigantic drift, up came
n relief train with cooks and victuals, includ-
ing one hundred and thirty cases Of oysters.
These delcacies were intended for the epicure5 Of
Denver; but necessity knows no law, and the poor
hungry passengers helped themselves. Some inter
estng statistics accompany the account before Us.
One train came into Denver eleven days from Kan
sas City, bringing six tons of mail matter-l2000
letters for Denver alone and 10000 letters for sur
rounding points, ton of newspapers also forming
an agreeable feature of freight. On another wallow
ing, pushing and struggling train there wai
bridal party, which. however warm itself, could MT
be expected to mpart caorc TO tho other shiyering
ones We mention these cool particulars for the
benefit of grumblers who do not know when they
well OFF,
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

1t is encouraging to find another Congress
sional Committee presenting fair and dispas-
sionate report upon Southern affairs. The
report of the House Arkansas Committee
deserves tins commentator. The judgment
pronounced in this sentence covers the whole
ground: "Here we have the case of State
"havins Constitution Republican In form,
"adopted and ratified by large majority of
"its people, manned by officers of their choice,
"and going forward with reasonable quiet and
"peace." Of course there is no occasion for
Federal interference in such a case, and the
Committee so report.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

Leading men in the City Democracy have
been in consultation asst the course to be taken
to get possession of the departments which
they do not now control, as aids toward
victory at the next election. The Republican
Senators stand in the way of legislative
effort in that direction, but Tammany Han
threatens that if Republicans make strict
party question of the Reorganization OF
certain commissions, they will fail of
even minority representation in several
departments at an early day. The Democrats
have resolved to make determined effort to
gain the departments which they cOvct. Per-
haps they might make Improvement in them,
but the people would no. be illcOntCnt to see
unsparing, persistent effort for the most eff
cient and most economical administration of
such parts of the City Government as the VIC
torious party now holds, rather than impatient
eagcrnoss to lay hold on what remains outside
its grasp.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

Some days ago we printed feminine sort of letter
from correspondent hiding behind the initlals ID.
c. L., agreeing with THE TRIBUNE as to its general
political position but complaining that wo were not
tender enough Of the President. THE TRIBUNE re-
Piled asking for a single act Of the Presidents that
we had not praised which our correspondent would
like to have us praise and adding that we had been
searching for such acts as with lighted candle,
and giving HIM praise far more generous than either
he or the public could expect whenever he did as
tonish us by doing anything that deserved it. ID.
c. L. now returns to tho charge with much longer
letter. using great many words, but utterly failing
to specify single act which he would like to have
praised Next!
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

We have thought fondly. however, that every
thing which c0ald be put into the shape of a Reso
luton had been Resolved. But we have lived TO
read of a Literary Society III Nebraska struggling
with the following Resolved. That the works OF
Nature are moro pleasing to the eye than the works
Of Art" If the proposition had read "sOme works
Of Art" that debate would have been easy sailing
for the Ailrmatives Or shall we say " sOmo eyes e
For instance. if we owned Claude worth never
mind how enormous u lot of money, wouldn't it be
more pleasing to our eye than the loYeest land
scape this continent, or any other Our advice
to the Nebraska young gentlemen is that they
muddle not their juvenile brains by wrestling with
any such cOnundrums. Art is a rum un. Nature is
a rum 'uu Why bother about which is the rum
micst Chalk, take it, is unquestionably chalk,
while cheese is indubitabiy cheese. Wouldn't it be
a waste of wind TO gTapple with this: Resolved.
That chalk is not cheese, that cheese is not chalk,
and that cheese is superior to chalk for EATING,
while chalk is superior to cheese for making
a chalk line" If We bad been in that JAR
ticuar part of Nebraska that memorable
evening, we should have reminded the assem-
blcd sages that without Nature we should have no
Art and without Art we should sometimes have 10
Nature and that the beauty Of both is that we
cannot sometimes tell t'othcr from which The first
thing for a young Debating Society to learn is the
true foundations of comparison. There must be
certain likeness before we can even begin TO weigh
and estimate. Which was tho greater man,
Michael Angelo or Gen. Washington r is not
question in the discussion Of which great many
hours could be proftably expended. AS for the
Nebraska puzzle, it would be necessary to settle
first the exact meaning Of tho word " pleasing"
And then to determine just what Nature Is, and just
what Art is. certain amount OF good might result
from the dispute incidentally; but it is hardly
thing to be settled by a show Of hands.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-08

William Cullen Bryant, the most eminent living
American will tomorrow be the guest of the Legs-
lature of the State of New-York This, we believe,
is the first official civity ever extended to Mr..
Bryant By any constituted political body magis-
trate in this country. whether Federal. State, or
municipal We submit this extraordinary fact TO
our readers leaving each for himself 10 draw from
it the lessons with which it is pregnant We will
indulge ourselves with the single reflection that
country must be very rich in public servants that
can afford to leave such man as Bryant for three
score aud twenty years To tread tho quiet walks ol
private usefulness unsolicited and undisturbed.