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New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
TBE STEEET R1JLWAY ROBBEBY

The story Of the robbery Of a Third Avenue car on
Monday evening seems almost incredible. The
deed was done at the early hour Of 10
O'Clock On the vehicle were eleven soldiers
of the 18th Regiment armed with sabres.
Among the passengers there must have been
many able-bOdied men. Yet the villains who
invaded the car had everything their own way.
The collector and the conductor Of the company
were terribly beaten. The scoundrels went off tri
umphantly with their booty. This is perhaps the
first instance in the annals of crime of vehicle
under a strong military guard-for so it
happened to be-captured and plundered without
any resistance worth mentioning. Everybody ran
away who could get away, except the hghwaymen,
who departed quite at their leisure and Mr.. Orr, the
conductor, who behaved very well. The brave but
beery Warriors of the 11th are entitled to the
special attention of their military superiOrs
Their idea that q soldiers duty is to
attend festivals, wear uniform and fill himself
with beer, is hardly one which will win for them
undying renown. As for policemen, the old rule
held good. They were not to be found when they
were wanted.
The worst Of this astonishing transaction Is that
il shows Williams how easily they can perpetTate
crime of the most audacous character. The best OF
it is, that it has demonstrated the necessity
of some system for the protection OF pas
geugerS on lDc sllttt IdiiN ayS AA'Abto-
fore, on some of our roads, there has
been none worth mentioning; and travellers,
particularly at night, have been exposed to all
manner of annoyances and outrages-to the
insults of drunkards and women of the
town, and TO the depredations of pickpOckets.
Complaints have from time to time been
made, but they have produced no reforma-
tion. Naturally, therefore, thieves, casting about
for profitable job, hit upon this plan Of creating
panic and of carrying of the companys cash. They
must have known the road perfectlywell, and they
devised the scheme according 30 Their knowledge.
The Third Avenue Company is the party plum
dered and assaled IN the person of its servants 1t
must take some measures for the future protection
of its own interests and property, however little
it may regard the comfort and cash of the public.
The arrest and condign punishment of these
criminals is of prime Importance. All the resources
of the detective force should be at once employed in
the effort to arrest these offenders. Thousands Of re-
spectacle persons rideupOn street railways after
dark every night and it will be hardly comfortable
for them to feel that in doing so they risk not
merely money but life. No case of murder ever
called in this city more loudly for prompt police
action than this one Of robbery, which might easily
have been one OF murder also. The public will be
reassured to hear that 1t has been successfully
worked up"
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
yrW NAY no SPELL CHINESE

Senator Sargent proposes to spell the old
fashioned word Chinese thus: persons
"by or through whose preaence in this cOun-
try the free institutions thereof would be
endangered" The facts attending the pro-
posa are complex if not unfamiliar. Ten
years or so ago there was great rejoicing over
the opening of free commercial relations with
China, the appointment of Mr.. Burlingame as
her ambassador, and the negotiation Of
liberal treaty. That treaty declares
that the United States and the Emperor of
China cordially recognize the mutual advan-
tage of the free migration Of their subjects
respectively from the one country to the other,
and assures to the subjects of each, residing
in the other, all privileges accorded there to
persons from the nations most favored in that
respect. Soon after this treaty the influx of
the Chinese into California grew burdensOme ;
the Pacific Coast felt overwhelmed by China !;
Cinnamon swarmed in the cities living in
modes which repelled the whites from their
neighbOrhoOds and reduced rentals and values ;
they underbid European immigrants i'll many
employments; and whatever money they
earned, instead of being spent to the benefit
of trade was boarded for a day of return to
their native land. Such, at least, was a COM
mon feeling, out of which there soon grew a
California statute forbidding immigrants to be
landed unless the ship-Owners should
give OnerOus bonds; which measure was
doubtless aimed at, and was certainly
administered against the Chinese. The
Federal Supreme Court promptly decided
this and all Uke laws unconstitutional
because assuming TO regulate the adj
mission of subjects of foreign nations to our
shores, which subject said the Court, belongs
exclusively TO Congress. and not to the States
This decision naturally brought the Op-
pOnents of Chinese immigration before Con-
gress; and there have been pending this
Winter no fewer than four bills, aiming to
exclude the Chinese by name, and by means of
stringent measures. Proposals to impose upon
each Chinaman who comes tax of $3.50, en-
forced by threat of five years Imprisonment !;
to fine any ship-Owner on whose vessel Chinese
are employed from 800 to $500 for each
one enforced by a sale of the ship to pun
ish employment of any Chinaman on Govern
ment works by imprisonment and heavy fines !;
and to lay a penalty on ship-owners of 800
for every Chinese passenger above q compile
ment of fifteen, brought to this country by
any vessel, are specimens
1t is doubtless because all these projects OBJ
vlOusly and distinctly clash with the treaty
that Senator Sargent offers the measure of
which we gave a summary a few days ago,
and which seeks to exclude the Chinese under
cover of general terms. It's first provision
makes it unlawful /" to bring to the United
Estates any pauper, lunatic, convict Grim
" inal (not including political cOnvicts or
criminals), any idiot, deaf and dumb, blind,
"maimed or infrm person, or one unable to sup
"port rthImseh. or any person kidnapped OF trans
"ported against his viii, or any person under
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
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New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
Ne.u,a1ork Dsrilp Gritm1'e,
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE II, 1873.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOPEIGN-Ihe German Federal Council has voted
unanimously for dissOlutiOn the new elections are
TO be held in July. == The Crown Prince is to re-
ceive formally the plenpOtentiares to the Congress
TODAY. 80 Reports that the British Parliament
will soon be dissolved are current in London. --
The Mexican revolutiOnlsts have been defeated at
Los Ladrones.
DoMEsrIc-The launch of the Nipac, at Wash
ington Yesterday. was witnessed by the President
and distinguished party. - Anderson, eX-Con-
pressman Darral and some department clerks teStl-
fed before Mr.. POtter's committee yesterday Mr..
Matthews did not appear, but Mr.. Cox of Ohio, IS
urging him to do so yet. = Alexander II.
Stephens has written a spicy letter to friend
in Georgia in regard to the proposition to rule him
ont of the Democratic party. - Ernest Dichman
has been nominated as Minister to Colombia. =-
- Collector Weitzel turned over his Office at
Cincinnati to his successor yesterday. --= The
Ohio State Republican Convention meets at
Cincinnati to-day.-The CorOners jury at Pbila-
dephia charge Charles Geistlich with the murder Of
his wife and children. == Representatives, of the
Honest Money League met at Milwaukee and issued
an address to the public == Donnelly, the Molly
Mcguire, was hanged at Pottsylle, Penn, for mur-
der.
CoNGRRss.-In the Senate yesterday, the River
and Harbor bill practically consumed the whole
"a
many fresh ones being proposed and acted upon; ;
the whole special Mississippi River improvement
scheme was stricken out the Deficiency bill was
reported and will be taken up to-day as the unfn-
jshed business the Senate passed long list OF bills
which were on the calendar. = In the House,
the sundry Civil bill was debated a great many
attempts were made to have certain items increased
and were resisted and generally defeated.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-SOme remarkable aihda-
wits and letters alleging conspiracy were
read IN the Vanderbilt yesterday. --
Dr. Seymour was consecrated Bishop of Springfield.
-W William Cullen Bryant was not expected to
live many hours. "A meeting of railroad man
ayers considered freight rates. == The Bar
Association advocated the cOnsOlid9tion OF
the Marine and District Courts, and National
Bankruptcy Law. -= Major George p Hart, an
honorary Commissioner to the Paris Exhibition,
was arrested, charged with fraud. - The corner
stone of st. Barnabas's House and Chapel was
laid. =- Lucien Levys committed suicide by
taking strychnine. == The annual regatta
of the Jersey City Yacht Club was sailed.
80 Gold, 1O07s 1OO7s 101. Gold value
of the legal-tender dollar at the close 80
cents. = Stocks active and generally lower,
closing weak
The Manufacturers local observations IN
dicate clear OF partly clOudy and warmer weather
Thermometer yesterday. $40, 63o $50.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
GENERAL Y0rRS.

Brother Jasper, the reverend sun-moyeb
immersed S5s colored converts In bis chureoin ~ hen
mond, va last Sunday The pool was small one ~. ~
when the work was over the water was quite darS' e
has boosted that he can put more converts under Ss
In one day than any other preacher, black or M!iri
Next sunday eight huudred persons arc 20 DC V"F'
In the First African Church.
The London School Board has resolved 20
teach girs how 10 cook One OF the teachers Is 70 so
lessons In every Board school food and Its pIep
ton and the girls viii be required 20 attend IWenb 0s
kitchens are 10 be opened in Londoa aud eael 70 ~ -
wear small wages certainly, II she Is 70 pe e
teacher as well as good cook.
Christian ministers with one consent ale 90.
poundnz Socialism and warning their n0cks asans w
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
NOPE LIGHT TINTED.

Earnings of thirty EIGHT railways, not count
ing divisions separately, have now been re-
ported, twenty-one of them for May and five
months ending May 81, and seventeen of
them for April and four months ending April
80. The aggregate earnings of all these
roads since January /, to dates named,
has been $40, 5,1O7,672, against $42.
1872 for the corresponding months Of
1877. The gain of about $4,000
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

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Terms cash in advance
Uptown leave their tavors for IE
At 2s broadway cor 8lss sos ". 2Sdsi cor shave
Tur WFrKrY TRIBr-yF will be ready this morning
of 8 O'clock in wrappers for mailing. Price cents
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

What a spectacle-a nation trying to brand with
dshonor its highest chosen rulers, upon the tosti
mony Of a sef-confessed perjurer, the champion
liar Of the age! Here are accusing the
chief officials of a Republican administration,
mainly on the evidence of a person whose
scoundrelism is so palpable and complete that
neither those who place him on the stand, nor
his own counsel, have the slightest idea what un-
expected and nexplicable perjury he may at any
moment commit in order to dodge the penalties of
law for forgeries and perjures already committed.
What will calm and cear-eyed History have to say
of the party and the men who have commenced
proceeding at once most scandalous and most dan
gerous, on the strength Of stories told by such
witness as thisi
Baker, the bloody conspiratOr whom Butler
tracked to his lair in the Post Office Department,
proves to be an old hand at it. He cOnspired
himself into cheap Cerkship under the
benefcent reign of Grant, long before
he went into business as a seditious Cabnet-maker.
and discovered Mr. Key. But after all, conspiracy
seems to be an Improbable industry. 1t in
sures no warm climate cOnsulships and provides a
position as mail detective at $5 a day for
no longer than three months at time.
The rush into the conspiracy business occasiOned
by General Buffers revelations is not likely to
sume the proportions of popular movement.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
Business Nollres.

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market Our only places of business are as ABOVE
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

Possibly Mr.. Potter will realize the extent to
which he has consolidated the Republican
party and divided his own, when he reads:
First what the Republican Convention of
Ohio to-day will make the burden OF
its PLATFORM second, the vote yester-
dav in the House Judiciary Committee
upon the Blair memorial and kimmel
bill. If the Ohio Convention had met little
more than month ago. there would undoubt-
edly have been a fierce wrangle over the ques-
ton of approving the Presidents policy. To-
day the convention is expected to devote IT.
self mainly to the work of denOuncing the
Democratic attack on the Presidency, the
question of Endorsement sinking entirely
out of sight when compared with that OF the
integrity of a Presidential election and inau-
guration. Where there would have been dis
sensioD. there will be harmony. This Is what
Mr. Potter has done for the Republican party
The vote Of the judiciary Committee was
eight to one against the Kimmel bill, and
against the right of this Congress to
undo the acts of its predecessor with re-
snrct TO the electoral count or 20 shake IN the
slightest degree the Presidents hold upon his
place. OF these eight votes, five were given
bv Democrats; one Democrat, Proctor Knott,
dissented, and one was absent. This Is what
MIR. Potter has done for the Democratic party
MIR. Potter is doing better than any Republican
had a right to expect.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

Persons leariRg toWn for the season. and Sumner
trareileys can haze THE DAILY TRIBUNE mailed TO
them. postpaid for 81 per month, the address being
changed as often as desired.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

No finance in an Ohio campaign This is
not the least Of the blessings of resumption.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

Persons leariRg toirn for the season. and Summer
trarellers, can haze THE DAILY TRIBUNE mailed 10
them. postpaid. for 81 per month, the address being
changed as often as desired.
No finance in an Ohio campaign This is
not the least of the blessings of resumption.
The ceremony of the conservation OF the
new Bishop of Springfield, yesterday, derived
especiaI interest from the controversies that
attended his former candidacy for the place
he now fills. These were alluded to, briefly
and iudiciOusly in the sermon of Bishop Lay
Anderson is a nice grammarian, If he isn't a
very fastidious perjurer. In writing to Mr.
Antoine he said the bulldOzers would not kill
him; {" they don't propose to put their feet
"iuto it in that way" Anderson seems to
have put his "feet" into it-bOth Of 'em.
Should Lord Beaconsfeld achieve a sub
stantial victory at the European Congress,
the current rumOrs Of an impending dissolu-
tion of Parliament may attain greater cOhe-
reDcy. The inducement, in that event, would
be very strong to take advantage Of
the Liberal dissensOns, and thereby gain
majority which would give Conservatism a
new lease of power. Further delay might be
attended with decline of popularity and the
introduction of new issues.
1t is severe thing to say of the Senate
that it did not look well yesterday alongside
of the House, but it is true. In the House an
organized attempt was made to swell the var
ious appropriations for public buildings just
as in the Senate combination was made to
swell the appropriations for rivers and har-
bors. But the House voted down every
amendment but one-that for the Albany Post
Ohce-yhile in the Senate every amendment
made by the committee to the River and Har-
bor bill, which increased an appropriation,
was adopted, and the whole bill, which adds
more than million to the House appropr1a-
tions, and appropriates about $9,OOO,OOO' was
passed. This River and HarbOr bill is more
scandalous measure than the one which Presl-
dent Grant would not allow to become law
The Senate is in poor business when it is
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

The Vanderbilt viii case, which had almost
passed from the memory of newspaper read
ers emerged yesterday in new and eXtraor-
binary phase. Two Of the three detectives
upon whom the contestant elied to prove the
personation of Cornelius j. Vanderbilt in places
of i'll l.repute, which injured him IN the
ewes of his father, now declare that the per-
sonation was on the other side; that the
Chamcey NJ. Depew by whom they were
employed and the William II. Vanderbilt to
whom they reported, were not the persons
commonly known by those names, bat were
imposters. Scott Lord, of counsel for the con-
testant, alleges that these detectives
we're willing to testify so recently
as Saturday last. and that their change
of front was made the next day. lie
now submits to the Court their original aiii-
dayits and the letter IN which they reverse
the charge of conspiracy and declare that the
personation was for the benefit, and not to
the injury. of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt ana
prays for further delay in the case
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
OutdOing the Democratic House in deliberate


If it be necessary to add up Anderson's mis-
haps every day, here are two that are worth
putting together. He has sworn that Mr.
Stoughton's name was not signed to the
Sherman letter, and yet his friend and fellow
witness for the Democrats, ex-Congressnah
DarraT, testified yesterday that to HIM An
derson made statement exactly opposite, ana
often spoke of the document as - the oher-
man-Stoughton letter." He has also sworn
and repeated the statement yesterday, that
the entire absence of Republican voters
from the Felciana Parishes was III ac-
cordance with a preconcerted plan OF the
Republican leaders, that there might be an ap-
pearance of intimidation; but his letter TO
Lieutenant-GovernOr Antoine. produced yes
terday by Mr.. Reed, showed that Anderson
was hard at work organizing the negroes Tor
election day. The Louisiana witness Is a
person of brilliant fancy, but he is utterly
devoid of the qualities necessary to make sue
cessful liar,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-06-14
Our Boys,

Advertise for clerk or book-keeper, oc-
cupatons overstocked to repletion, aud the
large majority of the applicants are Ameri-
cans Advertise for gardner, a practical
farmer, blacksmith, or a mason, and the
chances are that the less numerous appli-
cants will be of foreign birth.
We have among us a theory that all hon.
st labsr is honorable. But in practice this
is reversed. Few Americans in prosperous
circumstances will make their sans skilled
as carpenters, blacksmiths, masons or in
scores of other so called miuor callings.
The "hunor' apperaining to q trade Of al
most ANY description exists on AS senti-
mental fiction. The mechanic is not really
honored His calling often places him out
of the pale of fashion and society, unless he
combine with it y talent for politics, joins
the legislative or political rings, becomes
contractor and buys his fellow craftmen at
the lowest possible rate, as he would ma
| chimes.
The average American father coyets for
his sou s position as "a ruler and a states
/ maui <huO'iSah Opl HAaiNS ih iAiS iOh
the Presidency The average duration OF a
generstion of men is said to be thirty odd
years. la such period only seven and one
half American boys may attain the highest
Office in the gitt of the people" The rest
must be content with such minor positions
a. Governors, Senators, Assemblymen, Gus
tom ouse Weighen, or Constables,
The great gate and chief entrance to the
goal At Washington is the Law, Entered on
the list ~ lawyer, and the course is open
, gardener- mssons, blscssmiths and carpen-
. ters army only stand without the ropes and
Z look on. 1t is said that the practical Prince
. Albert made each of his sons learn trade,
8 the Prince of WSles has, it is reported, skil
~ shoe maker. Should he, through revo-
luton, becomes, Il wsnderer, as were Loui:
Phllipe and Louis Napoleon at one period
, of their lives, he will have his cobblershiE
: u fall back oH. Here he might, as "a ASH
: ionable Fifth Avenue shoemaker, SOON nc
. cumulate a fortune,
5 But there is li,tle u.e Of advising th
Q American father Ia have his son taught
o trade. There is lirle encouragement for III
n young man 10 enter on ANY calling whic
y may shut him nut from the smile of fashion
}, able society IL can Il nrish only in I'll
= ranss!of law, nsdiciue, divinity, or part
= ner in wealthy firm, or exist aud david
= as rich MAPS son. Meantime, the me
i who are doing the work of the country, lay
he ing its soil and manning its marine al
te largely foreigners. Two-thirds of tue mat,
at in what merchant service is left us are
ir foreign birth. The native born American
of known chiefly AS President, Senator, Co
ne ernor, or tramp. Speak to the next tran
q you meet on the street and see ii be is "a
one of "oar Boys. Grophie.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-06-14
The Use Of Whiskers to q Cat.

The sense which of all theirs is mast def
cient in the cat is that of smell. In this abe
differs most remarkably from the dog. 1t is
said that piece OF meat may be kept in
close proximity to a cat but that, if it is
kept covered up, she will fail to distinguish
it. This want is, however, partly compen-
sated for by an extremely delicate seiise of
tonch which Is possessed to a remarkable ex-
tent, by the whiskers or vibrisss as well as
by the general surface Of the skin. These
bristl.s are possessed to greater or less ex.
tent by all cats, and are simply greatly de-
yeloped hair, having enormously swoolen
roots, covered with layer of muscular fl
bres, with which delicate nerves are con-
N cted. BY means of these latter, the slight.
est touch on the extremity of the whiskers
is instantly transmitted to the brain. These
organs are of the greatest possible value to
the cat in lis nocturnal campaigns. When
it is deprived of the guidance atfGr led by
! light il makes ITS way by the SENSE of touch
| the fine whiskers touching against every Oh,
! Iect the eat passes, and thus acting la pre-.
cisely the same manner as blind man.
stick, though with infinitely greater sensibili
ty. Imagine blind man with not ON
stick, but a couple of dozen, of exquisite
fneness, and these not held ia his hand, bu
embedded in skin, 50 that his nerves com
into direct contact with them, instead q
having layer of skin between, aud som
notion may be formed Of the way ia whlcl,
cat uses its whiskers.