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New-York tribune., 1879-12-11
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY DECEMBER H. 1879

teriap hell, but Le doubts il even that can do justice
20 some If the persons he saw IN louisiana opser-
vrrs. who have examined the pienoncha at ui5-
tance. have reached a similar CONCLUSION.
There is big boom IN Massachusetts in favor cf
Butler for Dictator OF Mexico.
The Tfdcn faction in this State does not seem IN
clned TO concliate Tamnany at all. One OF the
most devoted 1Ilden organs The Troy Press nom
mates Tilden for the Presidency, and IN the same
breath calls Kelly "pig-headrd buily. Ihat -
moi the way TO secure harmony ~ the party.
Ben Hill has arrived in Washington. and the
anxious Democrats are waiting in trepidation for
the coming of Blaine.
The last chapter in the Yazoo tragedy is as dis
graceful as the first. The Grand Jury OF the
county has declined to find an indictment against
the man who shot Dixon in the back. and there IL
great local rejoicing over the decision. The Yosoo
Herald says the jury was one of the most lnteiIi-
gent the county over had. that all far-minded men
are satisfied with its finding and that II is to be
hoped that the enemies of the - young gentleman"
who committed tho indiscretion "will cease from
tins time henceforth to speak of him az one who
had taken the life Of another wthoui cause or any
provocation to Justify it," 1t the obseryeS with
the nice of justice peculiar TO the buldozers
"The law Is rs powerful In punishing the wicke,
it is in shielding the innocent" For Wicked
read Republican," and for "iDnocenT read DEM
ocfal, anu LHe coOc ol JuSbiCc III i""'" -
vealed.
The news comes from Indiana that if Grant is not
a candidate the Republican delegation VIII be sold
for Blaine.
1t Is sometimes asserted by Democrats that the
Republican party has no right to assume that the
negro vote when unrestrained. will be cast for ITS
candidates. Parker Lorng, an ex-slave oil Louisi-
ana, answered this observation with rare eloquence
when he SAID during the recent campaign there:
~ was dead; the Republican party touched me and
lived was in bonds. and if made me free was
a thing, and 1t created me man. IL eyer for
get it, let the Just God take me hence Tor sial no
more be fit to liver There is moi a negro IN the
South however ignorant who doesn't feel that SEN
tIment burning In his heart.
Hendricks has gone home to Indianapolis ana
startled his friends with the opinion that he does
not consider himself necessity to party success
next year. Uncommonly sound conclusion, Dut
what an uncomfortable time 1t has taken him 10
reach i'll
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11
PERSO

General Sheridan is again i'll and is threat.
ened with pneumonia.
General Grant is to be invited to the Nash
VILE Centennial celebration next April
Senator Wade Hampton has been invited by
the Pttsburg Grand Army Posts TO give address be-
fore them.
Mrs. Legge Is an old lady now living at Mar
tha's vineyard who. "A native of 81. Helena,
bers going 10 tho schOoroom door TO Napoleon no
went on his to Longwood. Mrs. Legge's daughter
married one OF the crew OF an American whaer, who
brought his wife and ner mother to live at the Vine
yard
Miss Kate Sanb0rn has been invited by the
Senior Class Dartmouth to give before them her lee
ture ON Pets OF Noted Persons" Ths prophecies evil
denily has honorin ber country. Miss sanborn VIM
New Century Club OF Philadelphia. and short series
to be given in this city,
The late Prince Alamaya, of Abyssinia, was
extremely delighted when. rs lltile fellow he nrst
landed IN England. AS he walked about the dockyard
Plymouth, he exclaimed. with childish glee o this
beautiful country! l shall go back :" and hs
did, indeed. never go back At the time Of bis death
he mad nearly forgotten his native tongue retaining
only word or two.
The Comte de Paris says that his going
three times to Spain in less than fifteen months once
for marriage and twice the great domes-
tic sorrows. has greatly delayed his work his history
OF the American civil That work constantly grows
harder as gets more documents aud more informa-
tiOn lie Will shortly undertake Grants Chattanooga
campaign.
Mr.. Ruskin remains impatient. My dear
Furnival" ;" he writes. not one $1,000 In tho
nineteenth century knows, know, what any
hne-or any word -means. used by great writer. For
words stand things that seen, things that
are thought Of and IN the nineteenth century there Is
certainly not man In $4,000 who ever looks at any
thing and not one In 100000 capable OF a thought"
Mr.. G.. A. Sala is in Baltimore, where he has
expressing to reporter OF The American MS opin
TO the newspapers Of the United States He
that they have surprised interested aud appointed
him. Their free offhand. good-humored treatment OF
serious matters especially those OF government
eriainlug to Englishmsn. aud, no doubt, is char
accrisc OF the American people but 10 detracts from
the dignity and influence OF the press institution
The political articles In American newspapers. he
thought, were generally superficial; while those In
most English newspapers command the consideration
even Of and often shape their course. To
this attributed lack OF the recognition OF Journal
ism as fully entitled stand equal t., # not In the lead
Of the other learned professions Journalists III the
United states IN his estimation, had the abilty ana
opportunity, aud entitled much social inn
ence az France or England The faux often lay IN
the fact that what they write Is not sufficiently ser
Gus TO be strong Or the great enterprise ana nOvc
interest OF American newspapers there can DC no uouDs
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SOME UE1K EXCESE.S.

Statesmen who all at once are troubled
with nervous dread of disturbing the
currency-or mcdding with the currency, y
as the phrase goes-would do well to remind
themselves that the currency is in chronic
danger of disturbance so long as 1t has
no changeless value of its own. The
sure way to secure stable currency and put
il above being "medded with " to the coun-
try's hurt by Congress. is to prepare at once
for a return to first principles, so that a
promise to pay dollar cannot be legally
made to do duty as a genuine dollar.
Statesmen who say that they favor the
recommendations of the President and Sec
retaIy of the Treasury, but yet advise the
policy of waiting for better times, or some
more convenient season, should remind
themselves that the Democratic party al
ways opposed the Resumption Act on the
same theory. They wanted to " drift into y
resumption, or "grow up into " resumption.
People are not in the habit of growing up OF
drifting into the payment of their debts.
Some rule of action must be carefully laid
down and sternly and persistently followed.
Without the Resumption Act there would
have been no resumption. Nor will
the payment of the debt represented by the
Treasury notes ever be accomplished without
legislation. The retirement of these notes is
as the President put 1t sharply in his message
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11
GENERAL NOTES.

Two sweet young things Of opposite sexes,
each aged sixteen ran away from their homes last week
and were united in the bonds of matrmony by magis
tra.e of Paris Tenn. The bushing bridegroom asked
the Judge II Il was hs To receive fees, and when
assent gwen the proposition, the happy lad drew
from pocket dozen sweet crackers and Invited tho
Judge TO help hinsef
A walking match for new hat, between
James Bassett, aged seventynine, aud Richard wech.
aged seventy five, the talk Of suburban Boston ass
Monday. The old gentlemen hobbed along aud peegrd
away they had muleted circuit Of three miles
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n step in our progress toward safe and stable
currency" That is just the line in which
We ought TO travel. Every dictate OF prudence
and honor and honesty should prompt our
legislators to immediate actitu, and there can
be no excuse for any delay in stripping from
the greenback its compulsory power as legal
tender. There never comes again so favora-
bic an opportunity for doing good work MS
to-day.
Statesmen who pass fiuently from the advo-
cacy of one system of finance to the support
of another, and statesmen who stand ready
TO adopt any financial opinion, or WHO
desire to conceal the opinions they pos
sess, so that they may inhict no INJURY
upon their party in the next Preslden-
tial canvass, should remind themselves
that the party which wins next year
will be party with convictions, ana
party which does not shrink from expressing
them. This is one question which must be
sauarely met II cannot be kept out Of a Presi-
Dental canvass. Senators and Representa-
tives must take sides, and it would be
the part of wisdom to choose the
right side and choose it at once.
There is q dominating moral element III the
financial questions which have been before the
people for the last twenty years, and with the
history of these years fresh in mind, the
man who cannot trust the moral sense OF
the people is worse than an intdel.
The country has collective conscience. 1t
believes IN paying debts, and paying them in
the spiit of the contract. The Republican
party has achieved its most signal successes
when it has declared most openly and earn
estly for honest money. even in States which
have been swept over by financial hereses.
II that party wins next year, it will win be-
cause il takes the highest moral ground on
this and every other question at issue. The
fact, therefore, that 1880 is Presidential
year, so far from justifying or excusing
the chosen Republican leaders for hesita-
tion in taking advanced ground on this sub
iect, is the most urgent reason for prompt
and vigorous assertion of their faith. The
men who serve the party best are the men
who stand ready to fight for the best ideas OF
the best element of the party, and not the
men who skulk to the rear in the hope OF
keeping in the good graces of the moral
stragglers
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

in which Petyorsky first deGantly vaunts all the
wickcdDess Of his nature-in mood Of sardonic ftp
pancyand suppressed passion and then, reasscrtinq
the nobility which genuine love has aroused. lifts
himself TO a level with his enemy. and wins the
right to he treated as a gentleman. - a remarkably
fine piece of work aud this alone will probably
suffice to give currency to his drama II certainly
ircights 1t with meaning. and wins for IL an intel
jectual respect. The lesson that is taught IL the
lesson of Longfellow's lines that
{" In the wreck OF noble lives
Something immortal sin survives"
iEsteile" has been presented at Wallack's Theatre
IN a remarkably picturesque attire The scene Of
the ruins u really beautiful composition recall
ing that fine picture with which Mr.. Wallack long
ago embellished the " Romance of a Poor Young
Man, The scene Of the illumination Of Rome.
with ST. Peters outline in silver light IL tastefuly
magnificent The other sets carefully made.
and rich and handsome The cast OF parts which
is given below, is seen to be judIcious.
Mr. Robinson bears himself with noble man
illness, in this piece. and gives a tame
character the weight of intense feeling and the
grace Of perfect mechanism in expression. The
nice gradations Of his portrayal OF icy scorn, the
noble gravity with which he recognized the sudden
claim Of noble conduct. and his thorough profess
sioDal skill the duel scene. will be observed with
delight by all who know and admire the art Of
acting. There a rich womanhood In the persona
tion of the heroine by Miss Ada Dyas. She makes
actual the ideal of woman for whom love might
make hero out of criminal, and lead any man to
face death. Her passion in the bracelet is
afectcdy human, and deeply pathetic Mr..
Eyre, If somewhat lacking in the indefnable quality
that fascinates, is yet earnest and strong as tho
unfortunate adventurer Miss Rose Wood might
well be less artificial in demeanOr. and wond be wise
to recffy strong tendency TO nasal enumeration.
Mr.. Harry Edwards has but a slight opportunity
slighter even, than afforded to him in the
comedy Of "Our Girls In that he could and did
depict, with subtle Skill the pathetic condition of
broken down gentleman. In this he has but to
press, With dignity and sweetness. parents solici-
tude. The characteristics of this actor are noble
presence fine intellect, rich, sweet voice, lively
humanity. and therepose of perfect IN action.
He certainly can fill higher and more complex
ideal than that OF the worthy stage father Mr.
Beckett, Miss Germon, and Mr. Holland present
different types Of comic extravaganza, all clever
aud anusnc. This is the cast:
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

FoRmGv.-President Guiliermo, OF santo Do
mingo has fed to Porto RicO.- Or. f. Wetihas
been elected President of the Swiss Coniedera-
ton - American trade is increasing in Mexico.
- I. J. Smyth one Of the Irish Home Rule lead
erS, declines to visit America.
C-Ex-Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota.
has been sppoutod and confirmed as Secretary OF
War. =- Mrs. Hayden testified in her husbands
behalf yesterday at New-Haven. - General
Grant received a popular welcome in Louis
vile. = The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral
in Chicago cOnsecraied yesterday. -
Governor Robinson has reprieved Greenfield
to January 80. 80 The mandamus case
against the Secretary Of Maine was heard yesterday
at Augusta. - The Democrats of the United
States Senate have resolved not TO remove any
more Republican employees. == Two National
Boards Of Trade are in sessOn in Washington.
CoNGRrss.-The Senate adopted the House adj
journment resolution. Mr.. Davis's war claims reso-
luton was passed. Mr.. Conkling introduced (by
request a bill to prevent the unloading of garbage
etc. in the waters about the port of New-York
- The bill providing for the publication of
Supreme Court reports was passed IN the House.
The Political Contribution bill was briefly dis
cussed.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-A National Agricultural
Society was organized in New-lork yesterday.
R. NJ. Littler. Thomas Whitaker and S. $.
Gardner spoke at the Dairy Fair.==rhe Ne E-York
Central piers were inspected. = preliminary
report on rapid transit above the Harlem was
made. =- Pietro Balbo was found guilty
OF murder in the first degree. - The appeal in
the Reinhart case WAS argued. - The
trial of the VOkmers was continued. 60
Gold value of the legal-tender silver
dollar il2l2 grainsD. $500 cents. Stocks opened
buoyant and excited. but closed feverish and un-
settled
THT WEATHFB.-1RIBUNT local observations in
dcate cloudy weather, with occasional light rains,
followed by cooler and clearing weather Their
mometer yesterday Highest. 80; lowest 40' !;
average. 500.
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amusemenis ana fllsstinss Co Night.

roorr's TuEsTRv-O Opera Boufe- La q anae p"o'SSS
BROADWAY OPEHA HOUSE," Siratefi,t.
DAYS THFATRt--" An Arabian Night
FiFTu kvRNUE tarATRi H NJ = fih"'o'V'
CRANp OPERA HOUSE, Dundregiy
HAvFR,N's mrArni-" The Galley slave.
NEw-YOpI AQUARIUM N-bav and fN.nihS
PARK I'm NTRF Friiz IN ileiand-
: .S I,t,Nc,sco NiNs1REIs' orERA iloCsE-Variety.
IINIoN sorARr THEATRE " French ~ Is =,
WAIIAck's THEATRE Esteilc; OF. false and True.
AMERICAN ART GALtFEN-fhc fsusAm DlaWinES'
AMERICAN lN.rIruIf-Dairv Fan.
CuIR RCH oF rnE DtSCIrLFs-icri"rr ,..a
FOURTEENTU sTKEET PRfsRNithlAN NhVbNh Nh-'-''"'N'
kOsTER & EINL's GkRDEN-tOuccri-
MADisoS SQUARE GARDEN-CGtle show
sTEINwAY HALI-L@cturc
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Win Blackburn, the wiper wipe no morel

1t is noticeable that the bold Congressman no
longer looks upon the President as a =" weak man."
The whole Democratic party keeps safe distance.
and shudders at the mere mention of fresh tussle
with him. Congress has been in session nearly two
weeks and no member has even called the Presi-
dent fraud" Let it be recorded that the
Dunderheads have learned one lesson.
Senator Cameron. of Wisconsin. has returned from
Orleans deeply impressed with the versatility OF
the Louisiana liars who exhibited themselves before
the Kellogg Investigating Committee He declares
himself firm believer In the old Scotch Presby-
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

The United States Government, it seems, Is
to be asked to take the measures for the pro-
lection of New-YOIk HmbOr which even the
instinct of self preservation will not lead the
people of this city to take. \ bill introduced
in the Senate yesterday by MI. COnkling for
bids the depOsiting of garbage or strcet-sweep-
ings i'm the harbOr, or in either of the great
rivers, or in the ocean waters within five miles
of Coney Island or Sandy Hook, and provides
for the appointment by the United States At
tornoys for the New-YoTk aud Brooklyn Dis
tricts of special officers who shall have power
to arrest persons violating the law. Mr.. Conk
ling does not commit himself to the bill, but
there can be. apparently, no question of its
constitutionality, and as little, we should say,
of its needfulness. If the protection of our
noble harbor is left to our local politicians,
that work will drift hand in hand down the
ages with the unsOved problem of street
cleaning: and tue New -Zealander of the iu-
ture will be unable to find that there ever was
any harbor, and must deny himself the
River Bridge and sketching the crumbling
walls of Trinity, because both of those splendid
structures will have disappeared long before
beneath the accumulated mud of centuries.
This bill proposes a roundabout way, perhaps,
of protecting the harbOr, but at first sight it
seems practical. And it would be a pleasure
to see q practical element introduced into this
queer business, for while the harbor is filling
up the streets are not being cleaned.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

There was a singular proposition yesterday
IN the House of RepresentatIves-that none of
the dissenting opinions of the Supreme Court
Judges should be printed in the Court
reports. As member aptly suggested
such a rule would have suppressed the minor
ity opinions in the Dred Scott case. Only two
votes were cast in favor of this amendment.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

The new Rapid Transit Commission, of
which Richard NJ. Hoe is chairman, has made
a preliminary report to the Mayor. In this
it is stated that it has been found
necessary to submit to the courts conflict of
authority which has has arisen with the old
Commission. 1t is hoped that this will be
considered by the General Term in January.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

Chicago has outstripped New-York in the
building of a Protestant Episcopal cathedral.
The editce was consecrated yesterday. Bishop
Doane, of Albany. preaching the sermon.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

Briefly last Summer, that astonishing Society for
the Promotion of Marriage in Cincinnati was dis
cussed in these columns and the opinion boldly ex-
pressed that il would " fizzle OUT 1t married
couples at picnics. and promised TO present them
each with $75 to begin domestic life with. August
Myers was one of the victims. and he says that he
got only $25 of tho amount promised. Having q
sick wife and beng in want. hc went to the man
ayers of the matrimonial picnic to demand the re-
mander and couldn't get it, for the reason that the
S. Z. NJ. has broken up, exhaled, dissolved aud
stepped out. The association, told. fell into
the hands of low politicians who were thinking
much less of marriage than of money, of which
SO. 900 were made at the bridal picnic. 1t was an
awful swindle. All the brides received gratuitous
gold rings which turn out to be brass Moral (:
Don't be married at picnic under the auspices OF
chairman
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

Governor Halliday, in his annual message to the
yirg mia Legislature, speaks strongly in favor of
the enforcement Of the Mohet liquor law
better known the bel-punch law. There
IL an impression everywhere. among drink
ers and non-drinkers, that the profits of re-
tail liqnor selling are enormous; they certainly
are in Virginia, if the Governor is right. He says
that the net profits all drinks sold are at least
one hundred per cent and frequently even two. He
comes TO the conclusion that there are millions
In it," and that handsome revenue might be real
rzed from the traffic without being felt much by the
imbiber. Some moralists might not regard this as
desirable; Others might take an opposite view;
bur all morasts it is to be hoped, will be charmed
TO learn from Governor Hallidays message that
Virginia does not Intend to repudiate her debt"
whether the bell-punch sounds or is silent in her
baunts of fluid refreshment.
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bnsInrss Notirrs.
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CHRISTMAS Is CoMING.-If you wish beaut-
fn boots shoes gaters and toilet slippers useu anu ap"
PIRATE gifts for the holidays. paronize o,,..,..N.
HoLIpAY PRESENTS in elegant Mrerschaum
pines and clear also fine Amber Goods al prices 70
suit ihc tines C. sTEnE 3i7 Broomest. under Occidental
Hotel.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-11

The talk with NJ. Gambetta, which will be
found in our Paris letter. is politics in
charming form-a declaration of Governmental
policy made by the President of the French
Chamber of Deputies IN the comfort and quiet
of his own snuggery, speech from the throne
delivered before wood fire and in an easy
chair. The talk is, in some respects a
remarkable one. He shows with great clear
ness how far-sighted the great Frenchman is
in his craftsmanship, and for what remote
results he is shaping the course of the Re
pubic at the same time that he is busy with
the immediate concerns OF Government. What
he SAYS concerning the need of better educated
women and. at another point, of puer
wine in France sounds little strangely in
the ears of Americans who are not accustomed
to seeing social philosophy influencing the de-
tails of tax budgets. No one who reads this
talk can fail to conclude that Nj. Gambetta
naturally used the true word when he spoke
of himself as stimulating the work of the
Chamber. One brilliant man can push forward
whole Legislature, and it is not too much
to say that this man is the motive power of
the French Republic.
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There is nothing in this world more troublesome
unmana geabe. or. for that matter. more IN
comprehensive than n conscientious scruple. mat
IS what troubles John Brown Smith, NJ. d., for
it has kept him in Jail at Northampton, Mass, for
ten months The fact is that John Brown Smith,
NJ d.. had rather remain in state OF incarceration
for life than pay his poll tax. He is comfortably
supported in Jail by the town of Belchertown, which
las already paid the neat sum of $40 for his board
the tax itself being 50. But then there is primer
ple involved, and principles are expensive Belch-
crtown being entrcated to let out John Brown
Smith as a mere matter of public economy, doesn't
see it in that light and possibly Bclchertown is
right TIE number of people in this free and happy
country who have no passion for paying their taxes
- large, and they are quite ready to have cOnscen
tous scrupes if these secure them the privilege
of enjoying the protection of society without con-
uibuting to the expense. The truth is,
poll tax or any other tax is debt
due for value received. DR.. John Brown Smith has
had the privilege of living in Belchertown. HIS life
and his happiness have been watched over. He has
walked or driven over roads made expressly for his
accommodation. He has been enabled to enjoy life.
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and now lie is
unwilling to pay first cost of these luxuries-the
simple expense OF securing them. He had rather
go TO JAIL where he lives IN a great glory OF martyr
DOM although if everybody should keep a con-
science as he does there would be jail for him to
90 TO- We should not think much of man bent
upon martyrdom. and with peculiar relish for ii.
# lie should refuse to contribute to the cost of the
fuel. Tue Belchertown people have solemnly voted
TO keep the Doctor in quod until he shall pay ND ;
and we are inclined to think that there is COM
mendable economy in their resolution.