New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-03

| TO be concluded within the prescribed time.
| Prof. Grote's new scheme for an interna-
| tional scientific service to solve questions OIL
authropology will attract attention principally
because its originator is very much In earnest.
He has done excellent work in special re-
searches, and his personal exertiOns have
largely helped in causing the City OF BunalO
to be held in very pleasant remembrance by
scientific folk.
Admiral Porter adds his name to the list of
those who favor the plan of Arctic explora-
ton which Capt. Howgate is urging. The
chief difficulty that the Admiral fOresees is
that home sickness is likely to Cypress the
colony during their seclusion in the frozen
, zone. Various details for the undertaking are
suggested, and there is a prospect that 1t Will
soon assume tangible shape.
The financial embarrassments of John Cross
ley of Halifax, it appears, are owing to loss
of from three to four million dollars in forming
new companies. When a member of great
| firm, employing about 5000 people, is TINS
| involved, there is reason to apprehend that
many British enterprises of the limited liability
! class are on an unsound basis. For some years
| speculatOns based on them have been simply
| legalized gambling.
Being invested with arbitrary powers, the
British authorities are taking rigorous measures
to prevent the spread of the rinderpest among
the herds of the United Kingdom. The public
alarm arises from infected cattle having been
| landed at Deptford from Germany, where III
| Silesia and the Hartz Mountains the plague
| exists to a dangerous extent. Fearing scarcity
| from this pcstilence, the English journals call
| on us for more American beef People OF all
| classes we are told, buy it, and the average
| weekly importation already reaches 6Oo,OOO
pounds. Great surprises are evidently In store
for those who supposed our transatlantic trade
had attained its limit.
II was Salmon p Chase who first said
"1'he way to resume specie payments Is to
resume" Does anybody doubt that if he
were now alive he would give the most ener-
getic encouragement to President Grants
proposal TO do just that thing7 Here
is gold lowering about 105. On one
or two DAYS this week "a decline of
four per cent in the premium would have
practically equalized gold and grcenbacks.
1
ness is so dali that the slight jar and shrink
age of the plunge to bed rock would
hardly be felt All the circumstances com
| bine to urge that the cheapest and easiest
way TO 20 to specie payments is to go at once.
The moment we get the Presidential question
out of the way, Congress ought TO deal shortly
and declsively with the currency.
| C. NJ p,oroIict hos ori.pn
| with boldness enough TO say that Reform
begins at home. And if he should, after yes
terda,'s vote in the House. he would I've dis
PLAYING more than his ordinary contempt for
facts. The Democrats of the House had a fire
opportunity yesterday to demonstrate the IN
| selislness of their retrenchments by reducing
their own salaries. One of the party leaders
appealed to them TO take this action III order
to prove to the people tliat they were as much
! in favor of reform after election as before.
But at once there was general Democratic
protest against this two-cent economy" ana
| it was overwhelmingly defeated. This decision
was doubtless proper enough but the method
of il WAS instructive. There is no telling
what all election day may bring forth. What
was before retrenchmcnt and reform is
| now "two-ccnt economy"
|
The VIM. r. Martin school of political econ
omy is no more. Ii died yesterday by the
| hand of Mr.. Martin llimself-a clear case OF
economic suicide. Yesterday the wages of
those few privileged persons to whom the
| world owes a living which the Park Depart
ment has made it its business TO supply, were
reduced from So to 81 60 a day. without a
word of explanation or apology from Che Pres
idcnt. Does Mr. Martin no longer think that
the world owes anybody living, or has he
| come to the conclusion that to pay labOrers
| more than the market rate, simply as All in
vestment for his own political profit came
| little too near to absolute fraud 10 be safeP
| But now that he has abandoned his theory i'll
Difference to the preiudices OF people who
know that money thrown away is as good as
| stolen what is to become of its panpered
| yotares9 Unless they choose to accept the
new order Of things, they are thrown out on
cold. cold world, which pays only market rates
and scOfs in cruel way at the Martin rule OF
wages. Somebody clearly owes these injured
beings a living. IL seems to be Mr.. Martin.
| Prof. Packard, who is of high authority in
such matters has hopes, as will be seer by
his letter which we publish this morning, that
| the Western farmers can be i'll great measure
protected from the grasshOpper plague. 10
| effect this result however, there must be
| co0neration in the measures adopted, and they
must be carried out in the remote regions of
the Rocky Mountains, whence the locust
fights originate. At present enough is not
l ~ in