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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

the Princess Louise las artistic and literary tastes
She has published book for children under th'
nom de plume of BrnnefIle a pseudonym iy when
the authOress was understood TO refer 10 tne o"''
OF her own complexion.
The Infarta Isabella the eldest sister Of King Al.
phonso, was seriously hurt the other day while out
with the hounds Her horse stumbled and she fell
off, striking on her head and being much bruised.
She wins pIucky enough however, 10 remount after
her hurt had been dressed and took an active part
in the chase during the whole OF the afternoon.
The home Of Speaker Randall in Washington is a
bright and cosey one In the Speakers study close
beside his desk stands his wife's sewng-machne--a
fact significant of the gentle womanlY influence
which brghteDs his life Their eldest daughter - u
tall and graceful young woman JuSt entering
society.
The President and Mrs. Hayes are both in excel
lent health and spirits. The President sometimes,
but rarely calls upon persons with whom he wishes
to have an uninterrupted conference. Usually,
however. except when taking bis early morning
walk or his afternoon drive, he IL to be iound az
home. and is very accessible. In the transaction OK
business he is prompt and dillgent
sameschima, the japanese Ambassado to France,
has just died.in Paris of pulmonary consumption
He looked almost boyish although approaching
middle age. His name were amablc, AMI ms
and Madame Sameschima's receptions were pleas
ant winter feature of Partisan society In his later
receptions his own countrymen were numerous, but
though Madame Sameschma appeared. they did not
bring their wives The body of the Am Dassador
was shown to n few friends in sitting position,
and propDrd up with pillows as it was wneD gasp
ing for breath he died, and there was ID tne
mortuary chambers a service according 10 the
Buddhist ritual, which BuddlIsts only were invited
to attend.
ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 1S.-The Earl OF DnHern
has arrived here and resumed his duties as Britisr
Ambassador
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mentp SO that although The TKiBUNss 'orrc
spondent did not indeed himself, as stated DIV Sir'
Forbes in his lecture hurry to Saarbruck 10 as
match his telegram he had his message put Oh tne
wires nj that frontier town By his messenger from
tine field. -,
The internal evidence is conclusive pue "a
further proof were needed 1t is to be found In tho
fact that The TRIBUNE correspondent, along WIN
Mr. Ualstead and Mr.. Forbes, was on the Dattlchciu
ON Friday. the day after the battle, after when
time would not have allowed him to reach LONDON
soon enough to write dispatch wired to America On
Sunday night The evidence aGduced also obviously
iavalidates Mr. Halstead's claim that his telegram
sent from Luxembourg was the first about the pat
tie with the exception of the official message sent
TO Berlin. Mr.. IIalstead was on the held the nay
after the BATTLE on which day. by his own ac-
Acknowledgement. ne had an interview with Gererai
sheridan. who was with the German headquarters
staff. This telegram from Luxembourg lhusI nave
been subsequently, dispatched, and must yield the
priority to TIE IRIBUNk's message forwarded from
SaarbTuck.
The "mOre detailed account" promised by the
latter appeared in The TRIBUNE of the Z4th
August having been written in London on the pre-
yious dav and transmitted thence by cable ProD-
ably It is this later account which has been III the
minds both of Mr.. Halstead and Mr.. FORBES; Dut
the fact remains that full account OF the battle OF
Gravelotte was dispatched for THE TRIBUNE by lts
representative from the field. and telegraphed from
Saarbruck rs originally in substance stated by Mr.
Forbes in his lecture
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7HE COMING MIN.

Several Christian churches properly set
apart this week preceding Christmas Tor the
careful consideration of The human character
and influence upon the world of this Man who
WAS born into 1t nearly nineteen centuries ago.
a singular fact, familiar to all students of his.
tory, is that when lie came lie was expected IN
some vague way IN every race and country. 1t
was not the Jews alone wnO looked for
MESSIAH. In India they waited for the long
absent Buddha again to appear The Atheuians
had erected an altar to the Unknown God. The
Parsee MagIans looked daily for the coming of
SOsi0sh, VINO was to teach the truth to raise
the dead, and 10 judge the world. Indeed it
was from among these Magian priests who had
prophesicd dis coming for ages that three were
sent by God, guided by the star, TO the stable
to find their Sosiosh in the child OF Mary.
The tact of ibis universal expectation is not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1880.
r RIPL E S III E E T
THE NEVIS THIS MORNING.

FORFIGS--The London cable dispatch TO THE
TRIBUNE shows that well-defned differences of
opinion on the Irish agitation exist in the British
Cabinet; large maj nifty OF the members of
Parliament favor coerclve measures for
Ireland; Mr. Chamberlain leads the oppo-
siiion to Mr.. Forster the Cabinet the author
tiles place great confidence in the suspension OF the
Habeas Corpus Act as a means of establishing
order. - The Steamer Roman Monarch has
been launched o, the CLYDE 60 The Rev. Messrs.
Dale and Enraght have been Professionally re-
leased from jail - Moscow students have been
fighting with the police. "A native King on
the west coast of Africa has been arrested and
placed on board British gunboat, where he was
sentenced to imprisonment. F. F. OBrien, a
large real estate owner is under arrest forgery
In Montreal.
DOMESTIC General Grant. il is said. intends to
revisit Mexico - Mrs. Katherine Chase Sprague
has begun suit for divorce from her husband.
g BY the postpOnement of an election case
in the courts 1t is said that the organization
Of the Tennessee House of Representatives will be
in the hands OF the Republicans. - rail way
accident at East Derby n. H.. yesterday, seriously
injured several persons - The Bortree trial at
Honcsdale, Penn resulted yesterday IN a
verdict of murder in the second degree.
- A reception given to Archibald
Forbes last evening in Washington. - Details of
the insurance ON the Buffalo property destroyed by
fire Oh Friday are published. - Nine Roman
Catholic priests were ordained at Troy yesterday.
CONGHEss.-There was session of the Senate
yesterday - In the House the Military Academy
Appropriation bill was passed. - The vote on
the Consular Diplomatic Appropriation bill was
not finished.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-Georee w. Williams has
made a statement 10 a TRIBUNE reporter about a
scheme for colouizing negroes in New Mexico. 60
standholder in Washington Market was
probably fatally stabbed by discharged
empioye yesterday. - The Park Comm iss oners
had "a lively discussion in regard TO the chairman
ship. - James S. Morrison, president
Of the Bank of the Manhattan Company.
died -- An experiment was made
in lighting Broadway with electricity. -
A singular accident 10 a boiler occurred in West
Twenty-six hist. - The companies asked for
larger appropriations for lighting streets and public
buildings. "A Christmas match shot at
Creedmoor. - Many changes in the Tammany
General Committee are looked fox - Gold value
of the legal-teDder silver dollar 4l2l2 erains 81 80
cents. Stocks active and buoyant, closing strong at
reaction from the hghes' figures.
The WEATHKR.-IIiBUNE local observations in
dicate partly cloudy clear weather, and lower
temperature Thermometer yesterday Highest,
80; lowest. 90; average. %.
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PERSONAL.

Emile lola wants TO a statue of Bazae
erected and offers n subscription of thousand
francs toward the project
EX-Queen Isabella has been attending reception
at the house OF Madame do Lessops; tho Spaniard
has much faith in the Panama scheme aud has or
dered her bankers TO invest largely ia II.
Miss Blood, who in becoming the wife of one of
the Camp bells viii become also the sster-n-law of
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John W. FOrney assailing John Welsh politi-
cal corruptionist is delightfully."- grotesqus
tace.
Senator Malone does not talk much but his
friends appear to feel bound to make up for his
ticencc by talking a great deal about him. Ono of
them says that if the Republicans will sustain him
he will drive the wedge that VIII split tue Solid
South Let him get his maui ready
SANDER rarely hurts whose record good.
The best answer to the attacks on General Hazen
was his unanimous confirmation BY the Senate.
1t is rather drol that Democratic papers which
have been denouncing Mr.. Hayes for appointing
another Ohio man to the Supreme Bench should sug
gest that he sink party feeling and nominate Sena-
tor Thurman for Judge Swayne's place Perhaps
they don't regard Mr. Thurman as much OF an ONO
man. If so. they are not far out of the way. lie
as born IN Virginia and has never got far away
from Virginia ideas.
The Bourbons in the South still feeling around
Senator Keogg's chair IN gingerly way, but they
have not forgotten how they got their fingers raped
last session.
Senator Brown tells correspondent of The Prori-
dcRce Star that the Bourbons have dealt their last
blow III Georgia rs an organized body. " In the
cent canvass for the Senatorshp," he says, my
opponent had the united support of all the rrecOn
clables. The defeat he encountered was. believe,
deathblOw to Bourb0nlsm IN my State. My sue
was less personal success than it "A trI-
umph OF New Georgia over Old GEORGIA No. do not
believe that the ObStructOni5s aud foes OF progress
in Georgia can ever rally their shattered forces
again. Our State viii enjoy the benefits OF this We
tory IN Thousand different ways, and liberal, pro-
gIes,Iye ideas have now gained an impetus that can
not be stayed"
Governor Foster has not pulled ont Of the Ohio Sem
atOria race but Secretary Sherman appears to have
a long lead OH him and all other candidates.
President Hayes Is showing good deal of back
bone IN retiring veteran Army officers who have
passed the age contemplated by the law as the limit
OF active service. AS a rule such officers want TO
the active list as long as possible on ac-
count Of the pay and authority, and they bring
strong social aud political influences to bear IN op
position 10 their retirement. Ii Is only fair that
younger officers should have "A chance for promotion
and that the service should have the benefit OF Wig
oTous brains and bodies IN the men who manage the
Military Bureaus and Departments
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the history of the Military Academy, and it
shares Mr.. Conger's Indignation.

The versatile Springer was full to the brim
and fairly running over with political wisdom
yesterday. He startled the House by demon
strating that the great financial crisis OF 1873
occurred under Republican rule when the
High Tariff policy was in full force ana tnat
the country has never been so prosperous as
during the recent period of Democratic as
cendancy in Congress. When asked In what
respect the Tariff had been modified since
1878, he referred pompousy 90 the abolition
of the duty on quinipe. 1t required the com
bined efforts OF several Republicans. but IN
the end this irrepresslbe statesman was
tightly c0rked.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

The strange adventures of an iTrepreSSible
boiler are rec united in the local columns.
The fires had been put out at curew, the
workInen had gone home, and the boiler
house had been tightly padiOcked. But at
twelve midnight the boiler popped up like
champagne cork. Root, clOthes-hhe aud teie-
graph wires were broken through like a
spiders web and the boiler went higher and
higher, twenty times rs high as tne moon,
until the policeman on the corner vi Twenty
sIxtll-st. and Slxth-ave. was unable TO dis
cover it with the aid of powerful telescope.
The it came down. Straight as an arrow.
assuming a vertical attitude in a neighborin-;
backyard about Two hundred feet from its
original fastennes. The journey was per-
formed with safety and dispatch and the
boiler was found at dawn little the worse for
wear. A pair of gauges had dropped into a
skylight and startled logger, but otherwise
the boiler was III excellent order, so that few
repairs will he needed. As incidents of this
kind always occur in groups he public should
he cautioned against leaving clothes on the
lines over night. 4 boiler on a bender Is
liable to find an anchorage in any and every
backyard before Christmas.
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BITS OF CRITICISM.

THE EVIL OF MAGAZINES.-lf our Monthly
nts 10 themselves 10 the
strct on If the public 70 the extent that mignt ned
ssly expected from tneu, they must III greater or
less credited with tue puocatiOn,
aud probaby the cOmpOs Un works or SOLID industry,
exhaustive study ami permanent ullltY % many per-
sons who would best writer's If they gave IN III
selves time write rittering away their crudlio,
their deus their power OF illustration in epnemea aud
compost Ons and while they conferrins
but ltte pron upon those for whom they write they
are defraudiug themselves Of true reputation But they
are AZ I'm aicnt rs the publlc themselves. Tdey Will
not wait Tor reward for heir ldbors They write
hastily publish promptly, and lose all purpose ana con-
tiuuy iu fneir work Now and collect their
various cGnLrbutonsto serial publ cations publish tnein
in new form, anu call these 5 BOOK Bat be
tIkep in by the pretence. agazne articles remain
Magazinc articles 10 tue eud, no matter how manlpu
lated.-[I The London Standard
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Mr.. Conger has expressed in the House the
judgment which we formed during the earli-
est stage of the Whitaker case. 1t mattered
very little whether the colofed cadet was the
victlm of persecution or the author of his
own misfortunes. The glazing fact which was
brought TO hight was the wretched spirit of
caste in an institution supported by the Ma
tional Government. The institution needed
Something besides watching. The country
has not forgotten this disgraceful chapter in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

The dispatches from Ireland have been so
conflicting during the past week that our
regular London correspondents review OF
the situation is doubly welcome. He con-
tradIctS the rumOr that Mr.. Forster has at
any time Offered his resignation, and intl-
mates that while Mr.. Chamberlain is the
leading opponent of coercion he will not leave
the Cabinet. Ii is plain that the force policy
has come to he regarded a. a poliu al as
well as public neces ity. The Government
can command very large majority from the
opening OF the session, il coeiClye measures
are proposed. II they show signs of weak
ness and vacillation, they may fluid themselves
III a minority before they have been in Office
a year. Mr. Forster is warmly praised in our
dispatches for his patience, Judgment and
decision. Never III the domestic history OF
the United Kingdom has there been a more
pressing need of all the best qualities of
practical craftsmanship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

Yesterdays meeting of the reconstructed
Board of Public Parks was as animated
as personalities cond make it, The
election of President was finally deferred
and will probably be settled after private con-
situations. Mr.. Wales defined his position in
the Department with his Old-tme cleaIDess
and practical wisdom.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

The British Government solved the qlinine PROP
lem in 1861 as far as India is concerned oy settng
ont the cnchona tree in the Eeligherry hills Oh
India and IN Ceyl0n This was done with such care
and IN such numbers that last summer the lndlan
journals reported millions Of cIncbOna trees already
Welding the Peruvian bark were in healthy growth.
The price of quinine had already fallen IN Cey-
Ion from 50 to 20 cents per ounce" Indian
farmers prophesy that in SIX or seven years ths
Weld in bark will he large enough to admit OF ex-
portation In the meantime the fall in the price
has brought il within the reach of millions OF the
poorer classes who have never heretofore been able
10 buy it, II is urged that soon as India can ex-
port quinine it Will largely supply the present de-
mand for opium and push that drug out OF the mar
ket The English press rejoice that Great Britain
can fireplace the poisonous drug in Der
exports 10 China by SO beneiicent IN its elects"
England as we all know, has persisted for years III
thrnsting the drug INTO China which she knew was
causing the physical and moral death of majority
OF it's people against the earnest protests OF the
Chinese Government. And we should be at loss
TO understand her sudden awakening to conscen-
tious scruples If the reason was not gwen. Qunne
Will prove a much more profitable export than
op;um In the meantime, why should not the cutl-
walton of the cinchona tree be attempted in our
Sou hern : .ates Ii is the more probable that II
would succeed as inferior species OF the tree IS
already md geuous Georgia and the upper part OF
the al her ,uIf States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

There seems to be a recurrence IN this city OF the
mania for - disappearing" The police have now
eleven cases of missing III handthree of those
who are wanted being women. Fortunately, the
worst need not he generally apprehended Disappear
ance does not always mean suicide or prove murder.
Those who away may have their own reason for
doing so. and some of them may be expected to re-
appear when personal troubles have blown over. At
the same time it ought be SUCCESS ell to them that
the course which they pursue IS extremely selfish
and cruel; that they have moral right to subject
those who are interested IN their welfare to need
less apprehension and trouble: and that to
away from difficulties instead of bravely facing
them, is a sneaking and cowardiy business Wien
there has been such a disappearance it is always
wisest to hope for the best We have known fugi
tives to come back suddenly as they left; and
the presumption against mortal catastrophe is al
ways strong one.
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SANDER rarely hurts man whose record is good.
Tho best answer to the attacks Oh General Hazen
was his unanimous confirmation by the Senate.
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Now it is his beer-mug which Jonathan is going
to fill for his brother Bull. At the Brewers Exhibl
ton in London this fall beer made from mixtures
of malt and rice and malt and maize were offered
by American exhibitors ana were received with
much satisfaction. Since then American beer has
begun to command ready sale in the English mar
ket The Pail Man GGsete which is not likely to
oycrrate American products. states that the new
article of beer is bright and pleasant, and points
out the danger to English brewers from American
competition winch Will lie in the cheaper grades OF
beer the supply of maize i'll this country being prac-
tically unlimited. American competition in beer
butter, cheese and canned goods is all limited to
the cheaper grades. 1t IS about time ii at we were
stretching up to the higher rungs of the ladder. In
cotton textiles we have wOrsted the Englishman on
his own ground, not by the unlimited quantity of
our supplies, but by their quality Our producers of
other STAPLES should learn the wOrdold lesson that
success founded on cheap worthlessness is short
lived.
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John W. Forney assaling John Welsh as q politi-
cal corruptionist is delightfully."- grotesqus spec
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

Governor Foster has not pulled ont of the Ohio Sem
atOria race, but Secretary Sherman appears to have
a long lead OH him and all other candidates.
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+" ALnERNEY BRAND "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

The Bourbons in the South still feeling around
Senator Kellogg's chair IN gingerly way but they
have forgotten how they got their fingers raped
MT session.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19

fighting with the police. "A native King on
the west coast of Africa has been arrested and
placed on board British gunboat, where he was
seutenced 10 LII snn mont - Z z Q,Rrien q