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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28

suit of an unchanged purpose. rather tnan W
onv renovation of character or Improvement
In objects and aims. Still. there are some
things get forth in the address accompanying
the call for the meeting this evening tnaI' IL
literally accepted indicate one OF TWO tninss
either purpose to deceive or an Intent
TO commit suicide. For instance, when IL ID
set forth that the new concern De-
lieyes or will believe "in hard money ana Tree
sbipsr it either throws away the GreehpacA
aliance-by which the party gained i's vny
taste of the hope Of success In Maihe '"'v
September-or 1T proposes to continue al o'0
deception. Its demand for " thorough IT,
form In the tariff laws and in the Clvii DER
"yice.D if honest, is suicidal. since the parry
ALWAYS divides when the tariff is an issue, anu
the only Civil Service Reform that means any
thing depletes the party by taking away
the hone of Office. If dishonest, 1t Is only
the same old story. A great and "ho'e,
some truth is presented in the statement
that 1.-the existing organizations (of the Dem
"ocratic party) do not possess the confluence
"of the people, but how reorganization can
amend this state of affairs does not appear.
The trouble with the City Democracy Is
that its animating purpose Is 10 get inc
offices, and there are not offices enough 10 ~
round. Hence "tbe endless divisions ana lac-
" TONS complained of in the address, oy
reason of whose strfcs and contentious Ihe
"principles and larger aims of the party are
sacrificed to merely local ambitions
"and jealousies" The larger aims " so sac
rificed are not hard to guess Ibcy are
"largerr in the sense that Federal Is larger
than municipal patronage. The proposed re-
organization, if successful, must take In the
existing ORGANIZATIONS which " do not possess
" the confidence of the people" That beng
done the new organization will find itself with
all the local ambitions and jealOusies OF the
rival factions on its hands and nothing In the
world to prevent their working out IN the
new relation the old result-forfeiture OF
the confidence of the people. Unless
indeed the new organization has leaven enough
in it to purify the whole mass of their local
ambitions and jealOusIes and this Is hardy
to be expected, since the effect OF this heaven
has already been tried pretty faithfully upon
the party, with no result except to make the
need of reform more apparent.
We repeat to the respectable reforming
gentlemen that the best thing and the only
thing for them to do is not to undertake to
reform the party, but for the party or the
best men in the party to reform. That they
can do by abandoning the old organization
entirely and either setting up Il new standard
or joining that of party already Ill existence
thar believes in something and knows what 1t
believes in.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28
PERSONAL.

General Grant ~ about to visit Troy. where for
NAL reception will be given to HIM by Post Willard.
Clesinger the sculptor. moulded in plaster the
dead face of Nine. THEIRS and will probably make
bust OF her.
Lord Wentworth. the future Earl of Lovelace, i 8
TO be married in day or two to the daughter of the
Right Hon. James stuart Wortey.
Mrs Ramsey, wife of the Secretary of War, is still
so Ill that it is thought she will not be able to
terrain in Washington during the season. Mrs.
Porter too the wife of the Admiral. is in such fee
bic health that her house will probably be closed all
winter.
Dr. J. A. Thacker. of Cincinnati who is devoted
to microscopy, received pleasant Christmas gift in
the shape OF an announcement OF his election to the
Royal Mcroscopcal Society of London. This honor
was the grateful that 1t was unsought and un-
expected.
The late Attorney General Alderman has left a
widow and five young sons living quietly in their
pretty little home Gainesville, Georgia. Mrs.
Akeman u.s. unaided, preparing her boys for college.
See has taught them all they know. and one read
ing Caesar and another Virgil.
Miss Flora Sharon's wedding was brilliant one.
More than thousand guests were taken by spec ial
train from san Francisco to Senator Sharons coun-
try seat The bridal robe is described one a." ht
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28

These figures are Tor fiscal years ending
with September in the years named. They
show that a reduction of more than One-half
in the average charge per ton per mie-irom
l.57 cents OH the NcwYorl Central in 1873,
to 40 of one cent in 1S79-was voluntarily
and naturally made, the traffic having mean
while nearly doubled, and that nearly
corresponding reduction was made by the
Erie, though the increase in traffic on that
road was only about 80 per cent No law COM
PEELED either of these roads to such reduce
tiOn OF 10 any reduction. Moreover, 1t is a very
significant fact that the rate has been but very
slightly raised during the last year, although
the traffic has been so large as to crowd all
the roads, and the great companies have been
bound together by ono of those very pools T"
which it is the aim of the Reagan bill TO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28
FJNlNCHL STORM Signals.

The panic of 1873, as every one knows,
whatever may have been its rcmoter causes,
WAS Drccipitated by tie reckless railroad build
inr and borrowing for railroad purposes
which preceded it. The railroad ITSELF as an
imn,oyed means of communication, was not to
blame. but ii was because capital was being
absorbed into this new channel faster than 1t
could be produced or spared. We are i'll no
danger OF having too many railroads Ill the
country "A wholes, but we may again. as be-
fore, construct them too last, ana they may
he misplaced. Have we not, III fact, just now
a significant resemblance between the railroad
career Of 1873 and the present time
With nearly or quite hundred thousand
miles of railroad i'll operation, built ID the
course of fifty years, at cost OF about four
Thousand million OF dollars. comprising. besides
the accumulated savings OF private lndlvid-
uals, the proceeds OF an immense contribution
from States, cities, counties ana toWhs, ana
about $65, OOO,O 900 from the National Treas
ury. ali OF which must, of course, he drawn
from general taxation, to say nothing of the i'm
mense land grants, it is now proposed TO supple
ment the system by another hundred thousand
niles begun or projected. In this estimate
the Dominion of Canada is included, for IN
ownership aud in junction the lines OF North
America form one system. Not less than five
Thousand miles will be brought into use, and
there will have been five thousand miles more
mt in different degrees OF construction during
the current year.
At An average of say thirty thousand dol
lars per mile for road and equipment, this
calls for an outlay of hundred and fifty mil
lions OF dollars for the year-all. perhaps, well
enough invested for income, bit as capital
virtually placed beyond recall. The balance
of trade III our favor as against foreign coun-
tries has never been placed at over hundred
millions Scarcely over elghty-6ye), and the re-
mainder must have been drawn from our own
surolus over and above expenses or production
and wear and tear of appliances. Next year
the outlay will be twice as great, Tor the APP
petjte for railroad building is infectious; for
every mile completed two more are begun !;
and for every mile begun two more are pro-
iacted. Not "A State nor Territory land hardly a
county in the country but has system oil
projected roads on hand, and some States have
from five thousand down to one thousand
miles under actual Roadway.
Can our money markets stand any such
drain AS this 7 Palpably not. Allowing that
we may expect some assistance from the
money markets of Western Europe, this is a
source of embarrassment as well as support !;
for at the first symptom of our oversirain the
foreign orders are telegraphed over to unload
upon timI market the securities they are
now taking, and thus they precipitate the very
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28
Asw.alorjs Dailn GrlDneae.
FOUNDED Ely HORACE GREELEY.
TUES DAY, DECEMBER IS, 1880.
THE NEVS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGy-John Bright has replied to Lord Car
parvons letter - The Home Rule members of
Parliament held a conference IN Dublin Yesterday
1t is said that China will pay Russia an III
demuitv. - Turkey is still opposed to arbitra-
ton Greece IS less positive in her opposition.
DoMrsrIC-The recent storm caused heavy losses
at the New-Jersey summer resorts. - Joseph
SNYDER of Allentown, Penn, was lynched Tor the
murder of Two persons in whose house he lived.
r. The Editor of The Srccorro (New-Mexico) San
has been murdered. - Sioux Cheyenne and
Ponca Indians VISITED the Interior Department.
60 General Grants views on the subject OF an
interoceanic canal will soon be published.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The Rev. DR.. f. II. Chapin
died Sunday night. - A sharp meeting was held
Yesterday by the Park Commissioners. - The
estimates for 1881 for the Police and Ia alth De-
par'ments were criticised. - The storm Sunday
caused considerable damage at Coney Island. -
Charitable methods discussed at CblckerIng
Hall by Robert Collyer and Others. - case of
smsll-pox was discovered at Castle Garden. -
The Brooklyn Aldermen increased the fees for
l,cen ses - Gold value of the legal tender silver
dollar A12la grains), 87.35 cents. 60 Stocks ac-
tive and generally buoyaDt, closing weak. how
ever, at a reaction.
The WuATHKR-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate cloudy or partly cloudy Weather. with slight
chances of snow followed by clearing aud colder
weather Thermometer Yesterday: Highest. 31';
lowest 2so average. 29a4o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28

for oueen.p "The gown" says . dispason se ~
C6jcaoo Times, was Of . nsw style OF ai.' Aho~s
as th. oyOs do to. tho skirt being ono solid mas ..
embroidery. wrought upon white satin WIN ooaass
crystal and pearls Of tho very best d'scnp'on 'ns
pattern for which was copied from painting OF ~
old court robe, now hanging IN tho gallery OF tns
Iouvre. in Paris. Down the sides OF this emoro'o-
ered front piece were panels Of point GAneesca,1
lace fifteen inches wide, with reverse OF LUZ tg.h
Embroidery The demi-sleeves were nnisneo VIII LII
fail of the same rich lace about two anu :,n,,.
inches wide and above it band OF the EN- oro,uoy
hut the browning feature Of the robe was Tue III.
niece nj lace (aso point d'Angleterre. and the sae
Width as the panes) which commenced ~ the poInS
", tba hodv in front was carried gracefully over tDo
bins and met in the back falling over tho enHIS
tram and reaching to the bottom Of u IN two broa1
waves, being caught to the gown WIZ o""0"'S
white flowers of an indescribabe STYLE"
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes sent this little ve"s
10 Th, Inter-Occaa of Chicago. as Christmas SEN
timent:
Isee the living tide roll on:
IL crowns with Il ming lowers
The icy cape OF Labrador,
The SpanIards' land OF flowers.
II streams beyond the spiiDfered riuge
That parts the Northern showers
From Eastern rock 10 sunset wh'c
The continent ~ ours
TORONTO. Ont Dec. 27.-Archibaid Forbes Eas
arrived here and is the guest of Professor GOODWIN
Smith. Ho will deliver his first lecture to-ni0ht.
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DRAMATIC NOTES.

Mr.. DIgby Y. Bell has joined DAYS company, and
will appear at Days Theatre, i'll " Nisida."
MIR. J. X. Emmett came out last night at
Haverlys Theatre. Brooklyn. in Fritz in Ireland"
"The Black Venus" is to follow Humpty
Dumpty at Niblos Theatre.
Miss Annie Pixley appeared in the Novelty Thea
tire, last night, acting MHSs.
Salsbury's Troubadours will reappear in this city
on January 3, at Haverly's Theatre
Another afternoon performance of " Tho Guv'nory
will be given at Wallaok's Theatre on Wednesday
MI. and Mrs. Mckee Rankin having Just returned
from England. appeared at the Grand Opera House,
last night, i'll 1.-The Danites"
"Olivette" now visible at the Bjou Theatre, will
shortly be offered. with another company. at tho
Park
Miss Katherine Rogers appeared last night at tho
Windsor Theatre, in "L6d Astray the piece
adapted from Octave Feuillet, by Mr.. Boucicault.
Salvini appeared last night at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music. in lie Morte CIyilev This
evening no will act Othello and end his engagement
Ghere.
Mr. Edouin. in Sparks" may be seen at tho
Brooklyn Park Theatre. at present. Mr.. Dennlan
Thompson will appear there next week.
Daniel Rochat " will be presented next week al
the Novelty Theatre. 1t is an intellectual work.
and exercises good influence and its success Is
fact TO justify pleasure
The announced series of Matinees. at the Union
Square Theatre. will begin Tuesday. January 4.
and wall occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays CT sacn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28
rLrJu4TE OR PENULTTuATTS

There is just as great diff renee between
reforming an organization and organizing
reform as there is Detween the verb tranSitive
and the verb intransiive. In the special in
stance OF the respectable gentlemen who are
gong to hold mass meeting 1T Cooper lnsti
tute this evening, it is worthy of remark that
the task they are engaged in differs from the
one they are trying to make themselves
and other people think they are at
work upon, precisely as the transitye
differs from the intransitive verb. The thing
they are actually trying to do is to reform
with the accent distinctly Oh the first sylla-
bic of the compound world the organization.
That is the verb transl i've. The thing they
hold themselves out to be doing is as a party
TO re-forn,-the verb beng intransitive and
accent distinctly on the final syllable. These
gentlemen are setting themselves up as ulti-
mate reformers, when their whole purpose
is SIMPLY penultimate. We do not
charge them with attempting to
deceive their fellow citizens, for it is not I'M
possible that some of them do believe, in
spite of the accumulation of facts that initiate
against it. that the Democratic party is so
bencfcent an institution that any reorganization
of 1t to make it effective and promote its
success is in broad and general sense a re-
FORM Still. the word reform, as before said,
is ambiguous when the syllabes are not dis
tinctly accenIuatcd, and its use offers Oppor-
tunities for deception. We take leave TO
suggest therefore to the Cooper Institute
speakers tonight that they can clearly define
their own ideas of the purpose of the move
ment by making their accent either ultimate
OF penultmate
The great question that interests the pub
lie, if the public can bo said to feel any in
terest i'll movement so entirely partisan in
character nc such time as the present, is
whether the Democratic party OF this city is
to reform OF he reformed. All the causes IN
which the movement has originated all the COM
plants and protests, the suited preamDes and
laundering resolutions the intricate plans and
elaborate machinery, point simply to a form
ing anew and drawing new lines for the Dur-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28
REGULATING R4TLROID TRAFFIC.

Mr.. Reagan of Texas, best known as the
Postmaster General of the detunct COnfed-
eracv. hopes that his bill to regulate inter
state commerce will be passed at the present
session. The committee of which he Is chair
man has not yet been able to agree on any
bill. and is expected to report three different
measures. Mr.. McLane has offered substl-
tute, which provides for a Board of Commits
sioners to regulate interstate commerce. MIR.
Henderson has another substitute, which, like
the Reagan bill, deals in prohibitions and
penalties If the subject ever reaches the
Senate it will probably be found that three or
four more substitutes are in store there.
Unless these differences can be composed by
"A Democratic caucus, and decision TO adopt
and support some bill as a party measure,
there is not much probability OF any action
whatever this winter. Nor is there any visible
probability that Democratic caucus can be
brought to substantial agreement on the mat
ter.
Mere demagOgism is ut the bottom OF nine
tenths of the agitation and the bills proposed,
in regard to transportation 10y rail. Ever since
the Granger movement swept over the coun-
tly, certain cheap politicians have sought a
speeches and Ill-cOnsdcred plans respecting
control of transportation by law. The subject
IS too large and difficult to be safely left to
the treatment of such men rs have been most
impatient to act upon it, and the con-
sequences of hasty legislation in some
Western States have been more disastrous
to the people than TO the corporations. If
the States have the power to regulate
transportation, and if Congress attempts
TO regulate also, the result will be confusion,
not thrice but thirty EIGHT times COMPOUNDED.
By what process. if any, exclusive control of
the whole subject can be secured for Congress
has not yet been pllined. But no person of
practical turn of mind can fail to see that
Congress is asked TO regulate, and commerce
within the States which their Legislatures
have tried to regulate, is 80 vague and shad-
owy that legislation by different bodies would
be perpetually overlapping and conflicting.
Ten years ago it was freely granted by all
impartial observers, and by the ablest rail-
road men also, that there were grave abuses in
transportation. The attempt to put an end to
these abuses by an exercise of governmental
mower has not been as successful, however, as
many expected The one originally most COM
planned Of-the high cost of transportation
from Western farms to the seaboard-has been
more fully corrected than any one then i'm
agined it could be, but not at all by law. In
fact the remedy has come by the operation
of that very principle of competition which it
is the tendency of legislative restraint to
check or suppress. Last week, official state
ments were made which forcibly illustrate the
workings of this principle. The following
shows the number of tons moved one mile,
and the average charge per ton per mile in
cents on two of the great railroads:
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ar0ex TO advertisements.

AMusHM.NTs-3d Page-6h column.
BANKING HOUSES AND BANKERS I'm F'd9e-oth coumn
BOARD AND RooMs--6h Pdge-4th column
BuslSEss CHANCEs-7h Po9e-6th column
BUSINESS NoTICEs-4M Pdqe-lst column.
COMPREHENSIVE n TIcEs-3d Pdge--3d column
CORPORATION NOTICES 81 PAGE 81 column
DANCING ACADEMIEs-6 Psge-4ih column
DIVIDEND NoTIcEs-7h PdQc-5th ana 6tn columns'
DRESS MAKING Sd Page-3G column. -
EUROPEAN ADvERTlsRMBN SIN Fogt-oth column
FINANCIAI-7m Pdgt-3l 4th and ON Columns
For TIN HoLIDAYs-3d Page-3d column.
FURNITURE 80 Pag,-4h column
INsrgUCTION-6M fdge-3d and 1th columns
JEcTrREs AND MEETIN6s-3d Paqe-6th coiumh.
LOsr AND FOUND-3d Pdqe-3J column
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-5h PQge-6tn column.
MININa-3 Sd Fdge-2d co umn 90, 81, go.
MIsCELIAEEoUs-3d Pdge-3d column: om To4e-ot"
and 9th columns.
MUSICAL lNs1RUMrNrs-3d Pcoe-6th column
Nav PUBLIC ArIoNs-6h P0ge-3d column
OCEAN sTEAMERs-3d Pdge-4th column
PoLITIcAL NorICEs-5m Pdge-6ih column.
PEOPOsAIs-3d PGQe-6th column.
REAL EsTATE-3d Page-Sd column.
SAIIs nv AUCTOl an PdGs-6.h column.
MUTATIONS WANTED-MALEs-3d Pdge-2d column;
FEMALEs-:}d Plugged column
SPECIAL NOIiCEs-5M Pdge-6th column. ..
STEAMBOATS, AND RAILROADS.&C. Pdge-4th ana oth
columns
THAcnERs-6th Paae-4th column
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NEW vopx n.uv TRmUNE TUESDAY DECEMBER ". 1851

prohibit and prevent. Now the question comes
home to practical men Of Illinois. Iowa anu
Wisconsn-States which have tried 10 CUT
down railroad charges by legislation-wha'
railroads are there in those States on when .
corresponding reduction Of rates has been
effectedf If none can be named, Is there
reason to suppose that State interference
works better for the people than unrestraineo
comnat,tiouf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28
Amusements amo Ms:tinss Go-nisbt.

ACApYMY or MysC-" Uncle Toms CabiD."
8JOu OPERA House." O,ivettc."
BOOTp's TMzATIx-" Uncle Toms CABIN"
DALY's THsATRE-" Needles aud Pins"
HAvEEL,'s tIfTH AVENUE iBEsfRE-" Fazo.
HAynELy's SYsTO's 4 AHDYN-." Humpty Dumpty"
HAvEnLYs Nth STREET THEATRE - k'ces ourpr''c
Party. -,
MApIsoS SQUARE THEATRE" Hazel Kirke."
PARK THEATRE" YoricS's Love-"
San FRANCISCO MINsTRELs-" Otheo."
BTANpA ri, THEATRE" My Geraldine" -.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE" The Bankers Daughter"
WALLACk's THEATRE" Forget Me Not"
ACADEMY OF DBHGN-Salmagundi skets Club Ef-
hibitton,
IExNcToS AVENUE OPERA HoUsE-Lecture.
STEISwAY UALI-Rchearsal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28

The crying need of the South Is education,
,ut the necessity of intelligent effort Ill giving
1 is as clear as the need itself. The letter
printed III another part of this issue Is
friendly warning against costly mistakes IN
tins diiection--the establishment of colleges and
schools where they are not actually needed,
the indiscriminate recommendation OF pro-
posed institutions by men who have no per-
sonal knowledge of the facts ana do not
know whether the school is projected because
there is a real want of it or because the we'll
meaning man who solicits subscriptions is
ambitious to be college president ; the CIV
ing of money by the benevolent to these
rather irresponsible persons instead OF putting
il into the hands Of the great denominahopal
societies, which know the whole ground. The
suggestions made are as wise as they are
kindly, and deserve universal attention.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28
competition

Those who are anxious for q practical Interna-
,;onol DOWNRIGHT will be greatly pleased by para
grapb in the last issue of Harper's Weekly. Com
mentino on Mr. Charles Reade's notable letter
TO Mr.. Lowell forwarded some time ago ny Sir'
Reade to The TRIBUNE. the Editor says Dill
Reade will be grat6ed TO learn that MS suH-
geston has beer anticipated by the hineii0a"
house which has had this matter
charge Perceiving the injustice which an
author might suffer under the operation OF
this clause it is proposed to supplement 1t with the
provision that after the expiration OF tine 'ni.o
months the foreign author shall still be entitled 10
demand copyrght from any publisher who shall re-
print his book This will not onlv secure the au'hor
in the possession of all his rights but tend TO pre-
vent ALL the other evils which Mr.. hesue
anticipates from the operation OF the CLAUSE
"a it was presented to him." At first sight the oui-
fcation here suggested seems to cover all 'no o'0
tions which have ever been urged 10 tue piopooi'
originally made. by the Ilarpers. IL ID no" ""i'"
considering whether the authors and press Oh t"o
country might not proftably unite on this moditied
proposal aud give it such support as shoulu Secuio
success.
The temperance testimonial TO Mrs. Hayes ~ 10
take two FORMS lifesize portrait Is TO be pahteu
by Mr. Huntington for the White House, anu t"''
picture will be engraved and copy DC sept u
everyone who contributes 80 to the iuhd' Az 10
expected moreover, that the subscriptions VIII
run up so as to leave large SURPLUS
after the picture is paid for and this is to remain aS
permanent fund, TO be named in honor OF MIS-
Hayes. and to be used in circulating total abstinence
literature The ladies in charge of the Testimonial
will be disappointed if this fund does not reach
$4,000. The Commission appeals to churches,
temperance societies and to every generous man ana
woman interested in this work, and gives ample as
surance5 to the public that the money VIII be ap-
Piled directly 10 the objects in view. All re-
mttances should be sent by check or postal order
to Miss Esther Pugh, treasurer OF the COMMISSION
No. "a Bible House. New-YOrh.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28

The death of DIR. Chaplin removes one Of
the most brilliant and most beloved preachers
of this city. During recent years he had not
held SO conspicuous place before the mass OF
our people as during the stirring days OF tue