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The New York herald., 1875-12-30

an American Power If our government had
thought fit to come to an understanding with
Great Britain and Mexico respecting the con-
dition of Cuba General Grants administra-
ton would not have exposed itself to the
damaging criticism with which it is certain
vre which the HERALD has brought to the
knowledge of the American people.
President Grant exhibits his contempt of
the most cherished and sacred traditions of
the Republic. The most important of these
traditions connected with our domestic
a third term and the most important one
which relates to our foreign policy is the
avoidance of "entangling alliances" and OPP
position to European interference with the
affairs of this continent beyond the mainte-
nance of their existing rights by the one or
two European Powers that have important
American possessions. President Grant in
suits American sentiment by violating
both of these great historical traditions,
which have become 50 deeply engrafted
in the public feeling of the country. He is
aiming at third term in defiance of one of
these sacred traditions, and he is trying to
bring Europe into question of American
policy in violation of the other. Having
condemned the example of Washington in
his pursuit of ambitious personal ends he
proceeds to condemn and dishonor the
Monroe doctrine in the hope of making
political capital for the third term. No
tradition of the Republic is sacred, no deep
rooted sentiment of the American people is
thought worthy of respect, if it crosses the
unscrupulous ambition Of the present occu-
pant of the White House
1t is easy enough to detect the purpose Of
this absurd circular to all the courts of
Europe It's object is to get European in
dorsement for a policy of interference in
Cuba which does not meet the appreciation
of the American people. President Grant
expects that European Powers like Austria,
Russia and Germany, which have no real
interest in the question and care nothing
about it, will give their assent to his policy
from mere indifference or complais-
ance and he hopes 70 parade their in
considerate Endorsements as proofs that
his designs on Cuba are justifiable. He
never made greater mistake in his life.
When, in addition to the violence he has
been doing to American sentiment and tradi-
ton in seeking third term, he gives an
additional and more sudden shock by in
sulting the traditional sentiment against
''entangling alliances" and European inter
ference in American affairs, he will find that
he has aroused feeling Of indignant remon-
STRANGE which will sweep him into private
life in spite Of his dexterous appeal
to religious bigotry and his hope to get re-
elected on the strength of sectarian animosi-
ties.
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specific provision Of the constitution Con-
gress was empowered to purchase Jeffer-
erature in various languages2 What is the
authority for the purchase of all sorts Of mis-
cellaneous books, having no relation to legis-
lation or public affairs made every year for
the library Of Congress? What was the au-
thority for the resolution of 1924 to send a
national ship to bring Lafayette to this coun-
try on visit9 We think such legislation
can be justified; but We prefer, just now, to
see what the cavillers agai nst the Centennial
appropriation have to say about it.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
he suez Canal pays seventy-ave per cent

The Suez Canal pays seventy-hve per cent
Calfornans had strawberries Tor Christmas
General Logan is as convacsccnt as two pair.
Superstition is spreading among the freedmen
The Khedive proposes new Eastern route via the
Nile
The Pope indicates that he does not hold iull ultra
montane ideas.
Dsraeli says Miss Rothschd is the most sprtuelle
lady in England
Sir Alexander 7. Calf Of Montreal, is sojournng at
the Giisey House.
England proposes laws for purifying rivers. Manu-
facturcrs oppose them.
Fifty million dollars in American property are
nualy destroyed by moths.
tits claimed that Mr.. Morrison's ambition to 60
on the Military Committee of'the House
Mr.. Matt H. Carpenter OF Wisconsin, arrived in the
city yesterday and is at the Hoffman House.
when you accuse an Englishman Of making bad
pun he says you don't understand British politics.
Sam Bowes intimates that Speaker Kerr chose Nor
rison because he hadn't anything better TO choose
The democratic papers insist that ways-and. Means
Morrison is not fool But not one insists that no isa
wise
Congressman James G Blaine, OF Maine, and Senator
Lewis v Bogy, Of Missouri, arrived at the Filth
Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington
James Grant the novelist who is not TO be con-
founded with James Grant, the journalist has abured
Professionalism and been received by the Cardinal Arch
bishop Of Westminster into the folds OF the Roman
Catholic Church.
Miss Cecilia Gaul, the Baltimore girl, whose piano
trumphs eliminating in engagement al Leipsic were
chronicied the other Sunday the HgRALDs Paris
gossip is favorte pupil Of Lszt, and delights IN play
ing the compositions of Chopin and Beethoven She
will return to America next year.
Louise NJ Acott in her next book, will tell the girls
IN N Sufl
she used TO feel that II a mistake that she was
born GIRL because she did not like girls but did Like
boys She praises the Rollon stories Of Jacob Abbott
which she is justified in doing, because they are
healthy.
The Lancet says that the throat symptoms are tho
most Trustworthy for the purpose Of diagnosis in the
initial stage scarlet fever Tho soft part OF the palas
is extensively reddened and not merely tho tousls
Il the case in the nrs instance In ordinary throat
! when this condition Is met with, accompanied by a
very hot skin and very quick pulse, accompanied
preceded by sickness With thickly furrcd tongue,
red borders and prominent papllle. or scarlet
feves may be prepared fc-
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

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Our Spanish Policy.

Oliver Cromwell once said, "a man-of-
war is the best ambassador" and there is a
very practical and vigorous kind of states
manship involved in that plain thought II
you have a difficulty with another nation that
is worth attention deal with it in a way cal
culated to settle it practically; but if your
difficulty is not up to the dignity of that
treatment it is beneath the notice of great
nation. Our case with Spain illustrates this.
In the complications that have arisen in
consequence of the conduct of her men-of-
war in American waters and in the proposed
intervention to compel the termination of the
barbarism with which she rules Cuba the
principle is equally clear We should have
declared our will in such style that neither
the pitiful drivellers in Madrid nor the
butchers in Cuba could have misunderstood
us, or we should have left the case alone
altogether AS it is, having done neither
one nor the other, we have put ourselves in
the false position of nation that maunders
over what it feels called upon to do, and
gropes for pretexts at one time to excuse its
inactivity, at another time to justify its in
reference. Our government has accepted
from Spain the grossest insults, and now il
sends around through Europe sort of cir
cular subscription list for moral support
for proposed interference For some in
scrutable reason it had not the courage to
settle its own quarrel when the case was be-
fore it, and now that the time has gone by
with regard to that issue it imagines q new
one, but simply has not the pluck either to
act or to leave it alone.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

The ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON CRIME ad-
journed sine die yesterday and managed to
end up with little liveliness. This will be
found in the somewhat tart correspondence
we print which passed between Assembly
man Campbell and District Attorney Phelps
on the latters declining to attend before the
committee as witness. 1t contains some
amusing raps over the knuckles for the COM
mittee's counsel, and hint that at ONT time
the investigation was conducted as part OF
the Tammany campaign. On this point
Mr.. Campbell is mistaken in saying that the
''press has never given expression to any
such impression" He can refresh his
memory by reference to the editorial col
umns of the HERALD.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

THE Brown WILL CASE is SETTLED and
Surrogate Hutchings' decision, which we
print, takes the sad family story out of
public view The discarded wife receives
moral verdict but nothing more pecuniarily
than the last will and testament bestows,
except dover right in the realty. The
document has been admitted TO probate, and
thus by the strange whirl of events the dead
mans money will be doled out to his widow
by her who succeeded the wife in the affec-
tions of the husband.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

THE LABoRERs or PENNSYLVANIA IN con-
vontion assembled have passed brief but
emphatic resolution opposing third term OF
the Presidency. 1t is pleasant to know that
the bone and sinew Of that great State are on
tie right side in this important question.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Gold, after
opening at 113 and sales at 1l3 IA, closed
at 49, Money showed q hardening ten
dency, and call loans were quoted after the
market at per cent and ]. 30 bonus Stocks
were dull and heavy, with prices generally
lower
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

The BOARD or APPoETIoSMEST yesterday
passed finally upon the city budget for 1876.
1t provides for the distribution of nearly
thirty-one millions to carry ON the city's busi-
ness during the ensuing year The apportion-
ment of the excise moneys, amounting to
over one hundred thousand dollars, among
New Yorks charitable institutions was also
voted, and the list Of charities benefited
thereby will be found elsewhere.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

CtrcAGo's "CRooKED" WHIsKEY. Yester-
day afternoon seven Of the largest distilleries
in Chicago were seized by the revenue
officers. 1sis does not look as though the
stories about secretary Bristow had any OF
the deterrent effect upon that vigorous
official which it il highly probable their con
cocters hoped they would have had
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

DISTRICT ATTORNEY Burton, of Brooklyn,
has been charged by twelve members of the
Kings county Grand Jury of not cooperating
with them when there was an opportunity Of
indicting certain prominent officials and
thus attempting to shield them because they
were ''his political friends. : What Mr..
Britton says to this charge will be found else
where
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

MISSISSIPPI Is IN THE BLACK Books AGAIN.
A story comes that armed bodies OF law
defying Mississippians have driven an in
ternal revenue deputy collector from pillar
to post, proclaiming that he cannot remain
in his district. Some United States cavalry
have been ordered to the spot TO keep him
there.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

TIE TURKISH DIFFICULTY has not yet been
settled, for the great Powers have not had
Count Andrassy's plan submitted 70 them.
The Sultans frman promises great deal
more than he can perform without outside
pressure, hence it is not likely that Europe
is to be satisfied with simple mandate when
il demands real reform. 1t may be that the
great Powers, with the exception Of England,
who has quietly baggcd Egypt do not care
to see Turkeys troubles brought to an end
lust at present
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

THE STATE OF SIEGE has been raised in
France by the vote Of tae Assembly, except
in the cities Of Paris, Lyons and Marseilles
and the town of Versailles As the three
first named are the only places where there
is the slightest possibility Of disturbance the
measure will change the face oi affairs but
little. The Left voted for the bll on the
halfloaf-bett better-than-no-bread principle
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

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cent free Of postage.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

A TORNADO in Kentucky has wrought
terrible havoc A great deal Of property
was DESTROYED and many lives sacrificed.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30
WITH SUPPLE M E n I.
NEW YORK, THURsDM, DECEMBER 80, 1873.

From our reports this morning The probabilities
are that the 1eather to-day ,oiA be cloudy and
clearing.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30
A Teufelsdroeckh on American Civili-

We were a good deal surprised to learn
that some Of the German newspapers had
been denouncing America and Americans
because Thomas or Thomassen, the self-ac-
cused dynamite fend, claimed America as
the land Of his birth. We could not see the
occasion Of these attacks. 1t was not our
fault if he was born here. Assassination is
not national vice with us, nor is killing for
the sake of robbery more common here than
anywhere else. SO we thought, but now we
learn from our Berlin special despatch that
the Fremde1obldt and National Zeitttng main
tain the Bremerhaven atrocity to be ''psy-
chologically explicable as a corollary Of the
mercantile spirit Of INSCRIPTIONS smartness
fostered by American civilization" This is
very profound and smacks of the ruminative
pipe and the metaphysical bier glass, but it
does not trouble US. 1t might as well have
been called corollary Of the pons asinorum.
We have Jay Gould, and we lately had
.'Boss" Tweed, but they have had their DR..
Strousberg and their war on Denmark, both
of which illustrate ''unscrupulous smart
ness" in different ways. There is no neces-
sity to defend American civilization, the
most humane the world has ever seen,
against such attacks and we are rather
sorry that the American residents of
Berlin thought fit to call q meet
ing and make addresses to disprove
such patent folly. 1t may be that
the Americans in Berlin felt annoyed
at the credence the average Berlinese
put in the libellous statements, but we
have no doubt the Rev. DR.. Thompson in
his appearance and in his lengthy address
has proved conclusively that he, at any
rate, has none of that unscrupulous smart
ness that leads to murder. We hope he has,
and we have no doubt the American resi-
dents went to their beds last night under
the impression that they have ''vindicated
the honor of our flag" This is a merciful
age, or we would recall to them the story of
Uzzah, who put his hand to the ark Of the
covenant, when the oxen shook it. America
needs no defence from aspersions like unto
that Of the FremdenJlaH and the National
Zeihtng.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30
ADJUSTMENTS THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

wALLACR's THEATRE.
Broadway and Thirtsenth ssrest-ThE ROMANCE OF
1oha Gilbert.
PARTISAN VARIETIES.
sixteenth street near Broadway. at = NJ.
GERMANIA THEATRE,
fourteenth street.-CoMTESSE HELENE, At p. NJ
BROOKLYN THEATRE
Washington street Brooklyn.-hENKY " at p. NJ. Mr..
slgnoid.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE,
Broadway ana Fourteenth street.-RosE MICHEL. At
OLYMPIC THEATRE;
so. ga Broadway-vARIETY, at 8 I. n.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
twenty street, near Broadway.-PIQUE, r NJ
fanny Davenport
%. ToN,y PASTORS SEW TTHHEATyRgE,x
PARK THEATRE,
Broadway and Twent y-second street.-The CRUCIBLE at
SP. IL. Oakley Hall. Matinee at z. H.
EAGLE THEATRE,
Broadway and Thrty-third street-VARlETY, At 7. NJ
BowERY THEATRE.
Bowery.-VALLEY FORGE, and l716, at Z. a. Mr..
ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
Fourteenth street.-coMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT. Al 8
+. III. Matinee at r NJ William b. Freligh
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS,
New Opera House. Broadway Of Twenty ninth street.
atSP. AZ.
TIyOLI THEATRE.
ghth street. Third avenue.-vARIETY. At r NJ.
WOODS MUSEUM.
Broadway. Of Thirtieth street-THE oCToRooN.
r. M closes 10 As r. NJ i. 5. ChAnirau- Matinee
at2P. M.
GLOBE THEATRE,
Nos 72S and 73o oBrosdway.-FARIETY, At 8 p. ~
pnoTrt,e Tug ATpE
Twenty-third and Sixth avenue.-JULIUS CESAR
X. NJ. Mr.. Lawrence Barrett.
LYCEuM THEATRE
Fourt eenth street and Sixth PAR DROT DE
COUQUETE. at r. NJ. Partisan Company.
CHTCKERING HALL,
Firth avenue and Eighteenth street.-GRAND CONCERT,
3P. NJ. Won Bu0w. Matinee at p NJ
THEATRE CoMIQUE,
No. 514 ay.-yAKIETY. at . r. NJ
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE.
Third avenue between Thirty drst
HINSTRELSY and VARIETY, at 7. NJ.
COLOSSEUM.
Thirty-fourth and SIEGE OF
PARIS. Open ircm P. NJ. to r NJ aud from ~ + M
4o p NJ
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NEW YORK HERALD
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COLOSSEUM
Thirty fourth street and Broadway yPRTSSTAN SIEGE
PARIS Open / P NJ to 4 r. NJ. and from 80 I. ~
90 10 p NJ.
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wALLACK's THEATRE.
Broadway and Thirteenth street-THE ROMANCE OF A
POOR YOUNG MAN, at r. M. closes 1t 10 i5 + NJ Mr..
LAIN
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THIRD AVENUE THEATRE.
Third avenue Thirtieth and Thirty drst streets
HINSTREISY and VARIETY at $ T. NJ.
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PARISIAN VARIETIES.
Sixteenth street near Broadway VARIETY, at 7. NJ.
Matinee at 2 L. NJ.
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

THEATRE CoMIQUE,
No. 514 Broadway. VARIETY. at 7. NJ
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

GERMANIA THEATRE,
fourteenth street.-C0MTESSE HELENE, At & T. NJ
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

UNION SQUARE THEATRE,
Broadway Fourteenth street.-RosE MICHEL, At
The New York herald., 1875-12-30

BROOKLYN THEATRE,
Washington street. Brooklyn-hEN y, at ?. NJ. Mr.
Rignoi
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-02-11

We hear great deal, nowadays, in the
 papers and in legislative circles, about
 lobbying" One kind seems to be ex-
 ceedingl7 respectable, and another disre-
 putable. Mir. Irwin is gentleman, and
 his lobbying is rather pleasant and agree
 able. So with Mr. Schumacher, who ham,
 dies hundreds of thousands of dollars. So
 with Sam Ward, who promotes legislation by giving elegant dinners to members of Congress, all of them being paid for out of lobby fund. But the little fellow who does the scavenger work on small pay is
 despised, and, with universal acclaim, is
 set down as dishonest Now, Tn point of
 fact, one is just as bad as the other. No man living, who is acquainted with the evidence taken in this Pacific Mail subsi- dy-business, believes, for one moment,
 that Irwin or Schumacher or King. took such vast amounts of money in their hands l to use in securing the passage of the bill
 without supposing that good deal of 1t
 was to be used corruptly. They must
 have known that there would be more or
 less of bribery before the scheme became
 successful. Take the story that Irwin told
 of Senator Cole, for example. The com pany or it's agent in California had been
 rather friendly with Sargent, and in the senatorial contest he won and Cole was
 beaten. But the latter was still in the Senate-his term had not expired-and ne
 was chairman of the committee on appro-
 priations, and he could doubtless defeat
 the subsidy. And it was likely that he l would do it. So Mir. Irwin subsidized a
 relative of the senator's, brought him on
 to labor with MT. Cole, and paid hlm $65. 1000. At first he said it was S10O, 900,
 and then he corrected his statement by
 saying that Whiting paid back S35, ,000. There can be no doubt that he paid an enormous amount of money to this ''rel-
 ative" of the chairman of the Senate committee on appropriations. Now, take | this transaction alone, and where does it leave Mir. Irwin? It gives a clew to much of the lobbying done in and around Congress. The shrewd lobbyist rarely | goes to the congressman himself, but so- l licits his best friend, and in multitudes of cases where members are suspected of accepting bribes, all there is of it is that Q near friend has been selected as
 the recipient of the favors of the com pany seeking aid. The friend is paid
 for his 1abors, and he influences the
 member to the best of his ability with
 out ever disclosing to him the fact that
 he is paid to ''lobby" for the scheme.
 I take it that nobody believes that Matt
 Carpenter would accept 6 bribe, yet
 suppose that one of his political friends
 at home, @ person capable of helping
 him in his senatorial contest, were to be
 secretly retained to come on here and
 aid in the passage of bill, would not
 his influence over Mir. Carpenter natur- ally be immense? This sort of thing is done every day, and it kind of lobby ing that members cannot easily resist =
 Cor. Springfield RepubEican. .aras a
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-02-11

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