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why we Call the Editor of the Tribune Jay
GouIds stool PiaeOnt

To THE Error or THE SuN-Sir: For several
he Neo ioif I,ibH. have always considered Il an
able and we.co1ducted paper aud % 80 consider II
Rave also rssa VITO good as@i q Interest, Bgi
oouds Young edtSr pigeon &C. ihus cSst
Now DO not desire TO be impairment, yet confess
m nbSs 70 f RS TeE you ca sGsh
man OF talent OF education OF refinement VI respect
o does &c 's mean 3 es2r OF po tho
uon-a position that ought 70 degraue him IN the
My opinion has been the reverse of this. Have been
samea the duties Of edor OF e ISMusy ID es s
tanly must be gentleman of great PATIENCE forbear
ressie wSes asssetsd Why does he SoIS ~ "0u'u
HIGHLAND, n. " Feb. 2. N. WILLIAMS.
The reason why we call Mr.. Reid jaw Gould's
stool pigeon Is because he edits the Tribune IN
the stock jobbing interests Of that unscru pulous
stock gambler. Jay Gould owns the controlling
interest In the Tribune and otically governs
its financial course. To deceive the public he
put his stock In Mr.. Reld's name. In consent
ing to be party to such deception, and In bar
gaming to use the Tribune to further ~ @ ould's
stock jobbinG schemes, designed for tue plun
dering Of the public, Mr. Reid did what no gen
tleman and no man Of honor would do. lie oc-
cupies the place OF fraud and humbug, and
Is just what we call him, the stool pigeon OF jaw
Gould-tho creature employed by gambler TO
decoy unsaspecting victims into his nets. As
To his patience, forbearance, and long suffering
we can only say that we do not so call his timId
silence under charges that no man OF self respect
would for day leave unanswered-that is, II he
could answer them. The trouble with Mr. Reid
Is that he cannot deny that Jay Gould IL the
owner OF the Tribune, and that he acts as his
editorial stool pigeon.
The fact Of his holding the place he does and
pretending 10 be an honest editor while he
Is really prosttuting journalism TO Jay Gould,
Is SUFFICIENT evidence that MIR. Reid Is un-
worthy Of being called either refined or respect
able. His position ; assuredly one that ought
to degrade him In tn eyes Of respectable people.
AS TO the TrtbuHe's value M an organ OF thought
and platform OF discussion we must leave M
williams to form lis own opinion. II he has
read THR sun with care, he probably knows ours,
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MIR. Booths sou,hern Enlargement.

Edwin Booth is paid 5000 per night. His
contract Is for atty nights, and for this period
he receives $4,000 When Mr. Ford went to
him TO make the contract, he proposed To give
New York. sir. Booth told him that he could
make $3.50 per night there. Mr.. Fod offered him
tnat much, ana bargain was made. Every
nights performance costs the MANAGER of this
company $l,OJO One of the terms VI the con-
tract is, that SIR. Booth is never to do any night
travel, ana never In leave stopping place he
fore eleven o'clock In the day, unless he chooses
TO DO so, Notwithstanding his heavy expenses
M Ford calculates upon making 5000 or <4.UUO
clear money during his Southern tour, Mr.
never on Friday nights.
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That the President is to testify in favor
OF BAnCoCK on the trial At st. Louis this week
IL confirmed by Mr.. EMERY A SroRRs, OF Bah
COCKS counsel "Gen. GRANT will be a very
important witness to u.s." sail Nr. sToRRs to
reporter OF the Herdtd ave don't want the
President TO stay here during the trial 10 order
to watch its progress, but shall simply call him
to give his testimony, and, after having done So
he will at once return to Washington. We
thought at one time that we should use his dep-
oslton but there is no magnetism IN deposition"
IL Is the personal influence OF Gen. RIA vt and
the official innuence OF tho President that Mr.
SroRRs expects to use in behalf Of the indicted
military secretary.
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BRISTO AND CoNKLING.
They have not Quarrclied. vet They Uavo not
seen Each Other Ter Month.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-Numerous inqui-
ries were M de Of Secretary iristow, this morn
ing as tn the truth of e Telegram sent hence yes.
terdsy, and which came back to Washington In
printed fOrri TO-DAY, alleging that Senator Conk-
ling had had n passionate interview with the
Secrei AIRY on lhlrsday, and that at tho Cabinet
meeting yesterday the President aud the Score
tary had "high words" the latter re iring
amid excitement" Sc. The secretary Informed
all inquirers that there was not one word OF
truth in the statements, and further that no had
not seen Senator ConEling for over month.
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No. 49, LOCATION OF THR UNITED STATRs,
ATuESs March !, 1875, (ieceyeo Aprl 81
the Sd instant. On that occasion The American Minis.
ter had the honor 10 be selected 10 lead
Tue tpI,ious salons were allied at half past nine and
the festivities continued until half past Ave m the
morning. The arrangements throughout were OF the
most admirable character. An elaborate suppar Tor
ger and In the two large adjoining rooms, lille
ministers o. state and the diplomatic corps
tanned ny IN King ana Queen In the beautiful private
Apartments OF thelr haJsties,
The palace Is well adapted for social nssembages
upon grand scale. The ample entrances aud stately
corridors are adorned with rare plants AMI nowers.
IN rbe floors. On eltherhahd double row @! stieaa
ants display the splendOrs OF the national costume
Tue two principal bali rOpma OF vast siae. Their
highly decor ted walls ana lofty ceilings stand rfredfd
OF Greek portraits ana historic Dctures II likewise In
vested WIN special interest when one walking
therein moi orY the defendants OF heroes out some
tmrs even hero himself, hka the venerable aud illus
trious Admiral X ANARia.
The names OF MAvaOcqRDAro KoLOKorRouIs BOT.
lAhls, Afo ~ hlA, ana muuy more which long ago
nretee HVm' ustratlOns In the seeun aud third gen
etau"t. These representatives. OF glorious past pace
'Ody beneath the paintings which tell graphic ways
their anCt stors' heroic story.
Tru} the near aud the remote history OF this
teen with sue examples OF lOty patti tlsin en-.
during cOur &c may well bCget confidence in thrlr
eient cOndl on aud insDire hope for thelr future
lrssress. lhave &c, JohN MEREDITH READ.
Oh, that PHIDIAs or PRAXITELEs was
alive to put in immortal marble the form
of this representative of American man
hood and democracy, grandly syeopaantio
and augustly flunkyishs In the light of
those two thousand wax candlesl MONROE,
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In the senseless panic, which occasioned
the killing and woundng Of 80 many people, in
the Opera House at Cincinnati, on Saturday
afternoon, the stronger seems TO have made
Itself infamously conspicuous. According TO
the teleeraphc report Of the disaster, "men,
terror-stricken, struck down the helpless wo-
men and children tn front, or climbed over their
heads To the top OF the staircase and threw
themselves upon the screaming and bleeding
mass OF women and children in the hallway"
II this be the truth It is a disgrace To tho coun-
try which should make the checks OF every
American citizen tingle. what becomes Of our
boasts Of civilization and progress, when our
men show themselves so cowardly as to seek to
their lives by trampng upon and crushing
to death women and childrenS Every Of
these men who thus escaped from the Opera
House ought to be branded as a coward and
scoundrel. and his further abode within the lin
Its Of the United States made Impossible.
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Two Thousand Wax Candles!

A common incident In the settlement of
the Connecticut Fire Lands in that portion
ofOhionow called the Western Reserve, was
the household use of torches of pine knots
or bundles of hickory bark, for want of a
candle or lamp. The FIRST occupants of
the log houses were poor people. There
are many men in the Eighteenth Congress
district OF Ohio who learned TO read when
children by the light OF the flames that went
up the chimney, lying on the hearth with
their little heads TO the fire. careless OF the
heat that burned the cheeks and scorched
the hair. A tallow dip on the Western
Reserve marked progress in wealth. and il
rarely was lighted IN the log house before
the second year. The third year generally
had to wait for this addition to comfort, this
token OF slowly earned prosperity.
Now, Mr.. JAMES MONROE of Ohio, Re-
publican, formerly student OF theology and
then Professor in Oberlin College, ut pres
ent NJ. c., and member OF the Committee
on Foreign Affairs. please recall 10 your
mind this scant illumination OF their homes
TO which the near ancestors of most of your
constituents were restricted, and how ire
mendous to you must seem two thousand
wax candles all ablaze in n single dwelling !
That is a Himalaya of light. MONROE. 1t
inspires awe. 1t makes you silent, Us Nj
ngara does.
Mr.. MONROE, there Is a land at the east
OF the lovely sea softly folded between
Europe and Africa, richer than all other
lands In ancient art, and the history Of an
admirable race matches In literature and
philosophy, the heroic in war, the wise in
government. the beautiful in every form
OF life. That land Is Greece, and Athens is
it's capital; and in Athens is a palace, and
in the palace king and queen, who have
a tough time In squeezing taxes enough
out OF their subjects TO live regally on.
For Greece is but goat pasture. An emil
nent American hns been sent TO maintain
diplomatic relations between the United
States OF America and this king and queen
OF the goat pasture. Those relations mani
testify are of transcendent moment. Our
relations with Patagonia do not begin
to compare with them in commercial or
political consequence. The choice of the
diplomatic link to tie the United States to
this goat pasture was the supreme effort
Of HAMILTON FIsH's unerring selection of
excellencies. Our Minister to Greece IL
JOHN MEREDITH READ.
Shame to say, there be parsimonious,
perkng, penurious. pusillanimous Con-
gressmen who would reduce the cost OF
this mission. rs we have heretofore ad-
vised you. We are enragcd TO say there
be those who would wipe it out, rs some
thing useless and ridiculous. You, MONROE,
have generously made yourself the cham
pion Of this mission. Let us arm you with a
new weapon Of defence. When the debate
on the curtailment of the diplomatic ex-
penses comes up, and some envious CAscA
rises to MORALLY stab the Greek mission,
or cut away the rounded completeness OF
its present waste, seize the floor aud read
this despatch from JOHN MEREDITH READ
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nIgh Life In WashInrton.

In the grand reception given on last Mon
day evening, IN Washington, by ext Governor aud
Mrs Shepherd, the centre of the group is Mrs
shepherd receiving President Grant; behind
Ex-AttDrnev Williams Is entering the room
Near the door SITS Senator Morton, and on The
islt are Secretaries Fish, Rooeson aud Belknip.
Gan. Hutler. 'N' $3.50
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The Cuban patriots gave the new Cap
tain-General, JOvELLAR, warmer reception
than did tho truly loyal Spaniarjs Of Havana.
They celebrated his arrival on the Island by
burning his sugar estate, "San IldefOnso," at
Guantanamo
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Why does the proposed overhauling Of
the Albany lobby by committee Of the Assem-
bly, get along so slowly? by the by, amid all
the denunci ,tions OF the lobby on the floor OF
the Assembly, has any member called any lob
byst by manor Are members afraid to speak
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read this despatch twice over 10 the House,
and compel even the mcanest member to
believe that JonN MEREDITH READ aud
the Greek mission are cheap at any price.
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Amnsements To-day.

peeths Theatre julio, Cesar
Breeklyn Theatre Jsu, Eyr..
Ceiesssun-stsr. .fFaa
Eagle Thestrs-Dd 81. a., o. ~, 81. Led A,u.y.
fhth Avss-e Thcstrs Pqu.
nstiensi Assde-y Of Design Annual kIAibue.
ebsris Theatre VARSITY.
Psrisiss vsrietIes-isu st. ..a br..i-.y
es. Frs-eisse Minstreis -vriay.
Tbestre Cemiaue variety
Te.y Pastors Theatre--v.ri,ty.
Third Avenue Thestre Lots Tuu. n. vsis..e,
rhirty fourth Street Thestrs-P.rH.s p.lI.a
uiven 1hsstre-A Slider for Love A.
Tales SQUARE Iheatre-Ro" Mleh.l.
Ws1Isek's Theatre M.ri,d 10 Hmu.
Wee<'s hsseum Chain Of Quit H.uss..
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Which Wavf

The irst important act OF the present
House of Representatives was to pass, on
Dec. 10, the following resolution, offered
by Mr.. HOLMAN OF Indiana:
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From the London Telegraph
A Horse Census,

According to the last census taken In the
whole German empire, ns it is at present
constituted, on January 10, 1873, the num-
Der of over three year-old horses amounted
to 1908, 800, or SG per cent of all equine
quadrupeds. The number of young horses
under one year was 1872, $50, between one
two years 1862, 54S, between two and three
years 1873, 272. There were no less than
los, 74S army horses, or 32 per cent of the
whole, aud 9G, 2S6, or 20 per cent of the
whole, saddle or light draught horses of
civilions, which would become under the
compulsory law saleable TO the army adj
ministration in case of war. The empire
possesses besides 2,347,775 (scventy-fve
per cent? agricultural horses, 33S, 363 for
locomotive and industrial, purposes, any of
which may be also picked out and bought
for ready money at prices fixed by experts
for purposes of mobilization Of troops.
There are in Germany 1857 entire horses
for breeding purposes and from 1861 TILL
1872 the average yearly import OF foreign
horses surpassed the export by nearly 3d.
| 600 There was in tlrese four years an
average yearly export of l,5lS, and ar
| import of 5S,2l5 Prussia possesses clever
! government studs, with 1889 stations
| There are among those owned by the state
| 100 thoroughbreds, 204 hunters, 707 iol
| breeding heavy cavalry remounts, 404 fol
breeding carriage and cert horses, 10 o
the Osfriesland and Oldenburg races, 81
Percberons, II Suirolke, PInsgauers (,
| ,,atiua and RI 4 vide cd log
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Bills Before Congress.
PRESERVATION OF FOREST TREES.

~
The house committee on public lands
have before them the bill of Representative
Dunnell for the appointment of a commits
sioner for inquiry into the destruction of
forests and into the measures necessary for
the preservation of timber, it being assert
ed that the supply of timber within the
United States Is rapidly diminishing aud
that great public injury must result from
Its continued waste unless adequate means
are taken for its preservation and produc-
ton. 1t is proposed to appoint man who
is practically well acquainted with methods
and statistical inquiry asd who has an in
innate acquaintance with questions relating
to the national wants in regard to timber
and with the measures that may be best
calculated to meet these wants as they ar.
rive, to be commissioner OF forestry. 1t is
made the duty of the commissioner, under
the direction of the secretary of the int
ror, to prosecute investigations and inqui-
res with the view Of ascertaining the annu-
al amount of consumption, importation
and expectation of timber and other forest
products, the probable supply tor future
wants, the means best adapted for their
preservation and renewal, the influences of
forests upon the climate and the means that
have been successfully applied in foreign
countries or that may be deemed applica-
BILE to this country, for the preservation
and restoration or the planting of forests,
and to report upon the same to the secreta-
ry of the interior, to be by him transmitted
to congress.
MIR. JESKs's PENSION BILL.
The bill reported by Representative
jerks, from the committee on invalid pen
sions, provides, among other things, that in
the administration of the pension law,
whenever it shall appear that higher order
of proof cannot be obtained, evidence of
cohabitation and general recognition of
husband aud wife, or other evidence which
would constitute proof of a marriage under
| the common law, may be accepted as suiii-
cient to establish the fact of marriage and
| that from and after the LIST of January,
| 1868, parol evidence alone shall not be
sufficient 10 prove service for which any
bounty-land warrant or certificate shall be
allowed for any service not shown by
record evidence, provided, that where the
service was performed by substitute, the
fact of such substitution may be shown by
parol evidence.
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Bishop Ravens theory Of the vice-presl-
dents csse-that the Lord smote him for
his presumption in criticizing Grant-does
not seem to have commanded acceptance
in congress. at least, we don't find 1t al
luded to in the eulogies.
The newspaper organ of the Connecticut
prohibltionists states that Rev. DR.. Joseph
Cummings of Middletown, ex-president of
Wesleyan university, will be the prohibit
ton candidate for governor. The same
gentleman has also been mentioned for the
republican nomination.
1t is the remark of his friend, the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, that "Mr. Beck has
certainly shown himself a man of flrst-class
abilities but he has restricted these to
purely partisan work he has been most
vigorous, most untiring and most relia.
BILE democratic prosecuting attorney"
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died on Friday evening. The Province
journal says Of him "IIon Charlesch-
son was the oldest manufacturer of title
fabrics in the state.
The Boston committee in charge the
Bunker Hill souvenirs for the smern
commands which visited Boston, lasune,
arrived in Charleston, =. G., Sundayorn-
ing, and were given generous wome.
During the day they attended divine vice
at the Ancient Colonial church st.
James at Goose Creek. 10 miles fri the
city. The. presentation of the sopnirs
will take place next Thursdsy event.
Col. Ira Mel. Barton, of Newpt, N.
H., died on the 10Th inst, after n br' i'll
ness. He was the Oldest son of theIon.
Lew w. Barton, and ut the time his
death was ,hirty.fve years old. Heas a
member of Dartmouth college in Is, and
at the first call for men in the openg OF
the rebellion, young Barton, who " moi
then twenty-one of age, was the first an in
Sullivan county to enlist. He went Con.
cord and was appointed recrutingncer
and Immediately recruited forty mu ii
Newport.
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Latest News by Mail.

The international society is noisy in Bel
GUM, workmen demanding bread without
payment.
Patent Medicine Helmbold was sent
back to the Philadelphia insane hospital,
Saturday.
The town of Woodstock, Ulster county,
N. Y, paid bounty on forty foxes, fifty
five hawks and one wildcat during the past
gear.
The well-known racer Wild Idle, has
broken tendon of his right fore leg, and
will never be able to run again. He was
valued at Sl5,OOO
The pigeon show, which closed at Port
land, Me-, on Saturday last, is said to have
been the finest exhibition that has ever
taken place in the United States.
There was exhibited at a store in Boston
on Saturday, splendid specimen of pick
erel caught by E. NJ. Jones at Marshpee.
1t weighed upward of FIVE pounds and at
tracted considerable attention.
Four liquor dealers of Lowell, Mass, for
violating the license law, were Saturday, in
the police court, fined $50 and cost apiece,
and sentenced to three months in the house
of correction. All appealed.
The New Jersey historical society are
going to have centennial celebration at
Princeton, July 2, the Tooth anniversary
of the day when New Jersey declared her
self free and independent state.
There is trouble among the faculty of
Hobart college at Geneva, N. Y, President
Van Rensselaer, and two professors have
resigned, many students threaten to leave,
and altogether things seem in pretty bad
way.
On Thursday the Carllsts got in reach of
San Sebastian with their cannon, and bonn
barded it, killing several citizens. This
activity of the Carlsts shows that Spain
has still too much on hand 10 deal effect
ually with the insurgents in Cuba.
Cleveland county IN. c. farmers have
resolved very sensibly for the coming year
to raise on their farms, first, the necessaries
OF life meaning bread, meat, ETC.; and
after that cotton, or whatever staple they
may desire for export and sale.
AT the annual meeting of the Maine State
association for the protection Of fish, ut
Augusta, Friday evening, the old board OF
officers was reelected, and matters relative
to the fisheries were discussed by the fish
commissioners and others.
The new Rensselaer, mill at Troy, N. Y.
which has been idle for two months, hal
started up with 200 men, and the Syracus,
iron works, which have been closed fo
some time, have started again with nearly
a full complement of employees, at reduced
wages
Charles Jackson, who was often mem
Der of the Rhode Island legislature, and a
one tins speaker of the house Of represen
tatives, and in 1845 governor of the state
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Joseph LaPage and the Ball Murder
New Facts Coming TO Light.

A st. Adams correspondent gives the
following account Of the discovery of new
evidence in relation to the connection of
LaPage with the murder of Marietta N.
Ball For the past few days, since Justice
Farnsworth's return from Concord, where
he was in attendance upon Lal'ages trial,
the justice has been quietly at work on
another thorough investigation into the
Ball murder He and others OF the ai-
thonties have been among the residents OF
the Franch settlement to get facts. After
careful conversation with the persons
who swore that LaPage was in the hay
field and also berrying on the day of the
murder, and upon which evidence LaPage
was discharged, the justice discovered that
this testimony was all false that the par
ties did not see him haYing at all, but only
heard him say he was that they did not
see him the day of the murder that they
were not berrying with him when no
claimed to have been poisoned by the ivy /;
and furthermore, that prescription gwen
him for the poison marks on his face, he
claimed, was after the murder of Miss
Ball.
1t was also ascertained thai La Paize
wore pair of moccasins on the day of the
murder, which accounts for the non-ap-
pearance of any tracks, and also that he
was an expert In tying things with withes,