The daily gazette., 1880-02-23

lie nloh IN Lhh EhlCE OF 1RINT-
ING PARKK,in the last sic months has
been aboutfifty per cent ,randis found
70 BE aheayy tax upon publishers ~
all kinds, Congressman Fort says
thswas occasioned by a combination
betwsent the paper dealers and ItfaIu-
fsctufers: During the past summer
the droughts We're very heavy, of
lcngndhrationaand many of the udIin-
tf5f pspef mills had 10 stop for want Of
@atsF::,,o This Of course reduced the
st9ckSeTylargelB and enabled, few
oaPftaiihs to buy up that which was
M stcre'o and demand an advance.
Tie advance frightened the consumers
and induced them to enlarge their
orders Thus, the market was cleared
apdian apparent scarcity shown to ex-
ist, giving the dealers an excellent op
portppity to practice their game Of
aeeeP4ons and to, bull up the price.
ThsiiadditiOp bears heavy upon the
publishers Of penny newspapers, and
all cheap literature, and it is not to be
wondered at that those engaged in
such Industries should be found united
managing Congress-to reduce the tariff
enpaper in order to counteract the
Combination Of capitalists who have
put it up. Mr.. Forts speech on the
subject is well filled with soand rea.
sons for the introduction of bin to
eject tlis reduction to an ad valorem
ddty 6f4about 9 per. cent, tile pres
sNty tydpty being 25 per cent. Should
the -bilbpass it will take effect on, the
1Se Of July, and cause a reGuctioHin
the price of paper of about 20 per
cent, or over one-half the rise that it
has had in the last six months.
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New YORK A HtNDREp YEARS
Aeo.le1t Used TO be said that New York
was more Irish than Duhli and now
itis admitted TO be more, German tLan
Rerliadi But it was never anything else
than great American city, OF whjrhtbe
whole country and the civi ilized world
was proud. Settled mainly by the
Dutch, 1t is little remarkable that il
SHOULD haye been characterized as mo,e
Irish than Dublin. But that may lie
eSiiy sccopnted for in the more open
Appearances of Irish in the streets, wi hile
tRes Dutch were more secluded in the
shops and active indoor marts of trade.
Rnt n Y not little remarkabe since
1t took its start with7rlIs Dutch that with
Ns hannehse emigration from the FatK-
srlaRa,h II should have become so thor
pugly, AnerirAni1ed as it is, TIE Ger
maaomothes OF New York are still
more numerous by several thonsapd.
than the American mothers, while the
latter exceed by several Thousand ;Le
Irish mothers, Wherelse in the wide
world can be found such STATE Of facts?
In this metropolis of the vast commerce
sud-soon to be the money centre of the
world, and lhe most delightful and beau
tfulby situated of all American cities IS
to-day as it was one hundred years AGO
the residence Of nearly three mothers of
foreign TO one of native American birth.
And yet every great feature of the mod
'ern' Babylon is American. Every step of
progress bears the mark of American
tlvilization. Even the hurried st,p of
its people and their Implements IF in
'dastry and traffic are vastly different
from any of the Old World. Its great
Institutions and improvements. ouistrip
In their inception, all those of European
design, while its great charities are the
wonder Of civilization. II must be pleas-
snt 10 every American mind to reflect
'upon tbei, New York OF 1880 and con-
trast It With what it was in 1850, and we
afind that Mr. Eugene Lawrence, in re-
cent paper, draws an attractive picture Of
that city Of a century ago. -.
bh"The old Dutch custom of aniyersaI
scslling, which was long peculiar to New
hfork, formerly made the day especially
aNew York day. But it has long since
lost that character, and it is now one of