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New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

sion makes all the difference where Liberties
care taken with n friend and deven this entirely
Favorable condition will not excuse the prac-
"tice TO many where near relatives are
concerned" We should think not, indecq.
Nor can we admit the paliatiOn which Forster
pleads for Dickenss outrage upon his mother.
Mrs Nlcllleby is in no sense " loYeaDe
either in speech or character. To quote the
autLor's words, che is wcll-mcaning enough"
but from the opening Of the story to the end
she is nothing but an exaspeiatng worry
70 her children, a nuisance to her friends,
and butt 10 the rest OF the World
"Diclscns seemed to have no injunction, con-
tinucs The Cdth0Rc World, ''ahout presenting MS
"mothcr in this guise. We fear that he must
"havc been in the habit among his friends OF
"making fun Of that poor lady's rambling, IN
CONSEQUENTIAL talk, us he certainly made illn
"of his fathers pompous sentences. lie toid
" Forster as a capital joke, that she dld not
"recognize her own portrait: Seeing only Is
"'believing, very often isn't that and even
"'bcipg the thing falls a long way short OF
.'brlieying il. Mrs Nickleby herself once
"'asked me, as you know, if | really be-
"'Iicyed there ever was such woman ?"
Il
"zlcwit." of the feelings Of Tom Pinch when
hc found ont the real character of Pecksniif.
alt was not that PcckSniH-TOm's Pecksnlii-
chad ceased to exist but that be never had
"cxisted. In his death Tom would have had
"the comfort of remembering what he used to
"bc. but in this discovery he had the anguish
"of rccollecting what he never was Some
thing like this must be the awaken
ing of those who used to assocl-
ate Dickens with everything that is
tender and beautiful III his stories, and who
see, in the Disseminating Life" and Let
"tcrs," what the actor really was off the stage.
There was something coarse, selfish, cruel, the
atrical and essentially vulgar IN the man ; and
when we remember how readily he could sIls-
mend the brutal fun of ridcuing his parents
70 indulge the luxury of fictitious sympathy
and sentimental rapturcs, we are lneslsllDly
reminded of the popular lines:
When the costrr'- finished jumping on his mother,
lie loves to le a basking IN The sun.
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a CUTlIERIC1L COLONY.

Daniel DerOndas dream of national regen-
erotion has taken the form Of u colonization
scheme i'm the brain of "a brilliant enthusiast at
Constantinople, whom we are more apt to think
of as from London, or NewYOrk or Brocton.
MIR. Lawrence Oliphant, author, diplomatist,
man of business and religious refOrmer, has sub
mtted to the Porte an elaborate plan FOR the
occupation Of fertile tract of land lying TO the
east of the Jordan, which was once the hcrlt-
age of Cad and Reuben, but is now tenantcd
bv tribes of nomad Arabs. This district COM
prising an area of 100000 acres, is owned
by the Government, but little if any revenue
is derived from it, Mr.. 0liphant has appealed
to the Sultan TO intrust the admins
tration of the mountains of ancient
Gilead and the plains of Moab to an
Ottoman colonization company. which will
promote the immigration of the Hebrews"
"people composed of varied nationalites "
from all parts of the world. The protector
anticipates that out of the 200,0 Hebrews
in Asiatic Turkey, to say nothing of the mil
lions in Europe and America, enough capital
lists can be found to constitute a landlord
class. while the actual labor of tillage and
sheep farming will be performed by the fella-
been, who will swarm from Western Palestine
whenever they are offered permanent en-
ployment. A refuge would also be af-
forded to Moslem refugees from Bulgaria
end Roumelis. and the Government. In
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

those of our readers who are av0weGly not
church -g0ers. Are you thrusting Christianity
out of sight and mind along with churches
and sermons If you do, you show neither
the prudence nor justice to be expected
of clearsg GIFTED business men. Don't spend
your time deciding upon the merits
of the cergy or even of sccts or dOgmas.
Grapple with the Thing itself, and prove
whether it is or not, as it pIetends, secnre
basis for your life. You probably regard the
Ch%st beliefs and hopes as visionary and
unreal. ing a practical man, your time IS
spent upon practical realities; the establish
mcnt, for instance, Of a paying practice,
the founding of a successful business,
position in a certain social circle. But 1t
is well to remind you of a fact, the most
practical and certain of any, that one
day you, stark and cold, will be handled and
thrust out of sight like any lump of matter for
which there is no further possible use IN the
world. Whatever your social position you
will lose it that day. What things will be
unreal shams then, and what will be
real You know that the paying practice,
the business will be less to You than faded
visions Nothing will be actual fact but the
two things of which you have thought least
in your lifc-yOur own soul aud God. Ii IS
not best that these two should face each other
with only the remembrance Of a frivolous,
insinccre. perhaps filthy life between. No
Man but one ever offered to come TO your
help IN that day. Surely it is prudent to ex-
anime into the reality of His Office.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

wnicn smith weed became possessed of his railro o
IL mas sincere regret in feeling that the
:, '"Jec' VIII deprive it ofa cherished subscr;t
TTn,0UyerhOr hoDlnson has inst begun to enio, ~.
~ ~imiDuME again. but if this question beo;pS DIS
appear III H. In daily and Offensive InstaImam.o ~ re-
old division of labor whereby tba son Is the
resumed. wiz nave 10 DO
VII GareeIon IA re still able to feel pride in his obs r.
VIII oe All he has left to show for it presentIv IL
thorough canvass of the neyysnanero of D..
sylYania on the Presidential question show th".
DIANE Is largely the favorIte of Republican editor,
ana illden slightly the favorte of Democratic ed,'
'orS' mus there are 90 Republican iournaIs
openly ior Blame, 80 for Grant, and 10 fo,
SHERMAN or the Democratic journals 23 are for
ilIdeh' 20 for Bayard, 21 for Hancock 10 far sa
nimnur' ana Tor Hendricks. Even that hysteric,l
allegiance to Garceon's backbone does NOT @ "a
nave done Hendricks any good II he will cooaQ ~ 70
poidly on ms old ground of unfiuchlnQ opoos;tin"
to hog cholera he NAV save bjmSeT hnf "pp'sitioh
wise. NV ''Hei-
The Maine scandal is about ended. and ready "a
De labelled: Another able Democratic Blunders
) Secretary Evarts declined to tell the Washington
correspondents, on Friday, who the nominees for
the vacant foreign missions were, because ait il
three days before the names can be again sent
10 the Senate. and il is impossible 10 say
what may happen in three days" This re-
mark recalls to the mind of one of the cor
respondents, Mr.. II. J. Rlmsdc a somewhat
similar observation made by General Grant when
his nomination of AttOrnev-General Williams for
Chei Justice was put over in the same way: II
won't tell you. for the newspapers will have two
days TO whack at him II do. and that will kill the
best man in America" The whacking in that case
came subsequently, hut when 1t proved fatal there
was no general impression that America had lost
iGs best man.
II isnip and tuck between Governor Smith
and " Acting-GOvernOr Lamsop as to which of
them has had the most brief and brilliant public
career Smith has wasted "A message but otherwise
he Is no worse off than his predecessor
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

of Opportunism is " Make haste slowly, anu
its chief apostle bdes his time while the masses
are educating themselves in self-goyeinmenl.
Young and impetuOus as he is, he has learheu
the wisdom of Guizot's famous commentary on
French politics: at is with nations as with
individuals: the lessons OF vigorous me are
slower and doarer than the presumptive hopes
" of youth imagine"
The Shepherds Fold seems to have ialeh
under wofsh direction. Twenty-Five children
have been rescued from this den of neglect
and in-usage and allowed to show their pale,
hageard faces IN courtroom. The recital
OF the outrageous treatment OF these NdliS
confded TO the tender mercies OF charity Is
enough to make the blood turn cold. Ihey
have been starved, overwOrked. ana Slowly
poisoned. They have been compelled to 40
all the cooking and household work them
selves, and the girls, only one OF whom mas
reached her fifteenth year, have strained their
backs over the wash-tubs. There have been
10 servants in the institution there has been
little food, and even that little has been un-
whoes0me; and the medical attendance mas
been shocking. These startling facts nave
been brought to light by the Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty TO Children. Inc
officers of the institution promise to repeal the
accusations The first thing for them to do Is
to produce i'm court n child under their care
who Is not covered with sores and gaunt from
starvation.
There are signs of the approaching disSoi'-
ton Of the consprators' Legislature i'll Name
Each house has adjourned until Monday, alter
appointing a committee TO determine what IS
to be done next. The speeches of the leaders
Indicate that an ign0minous. surrender VIII he
the outcome of these consultations. Inc
Supreme Court has prlcked the bubble ana
collapse must follow. The counsel given by
the member from Norway was as chilling ana
depressing as his latitude. He declared that
revolution had come by the action OF the
Court, and that if was the part of wise ana
brave men to submit to the inevitable. lie
confesses that there is one principle i'll the
State Constitution which political bandits and
adventures are bound to respect. TINS gIim
pleasantly about the inevitable shows that
the burlesque on civil government in Augusta
is dragging, and that the curtain will soon be
ung down. The Republicans, meanwhile, are
strongly intrenched in law and are ably COM
manded IN the field. The white flag Will soou
be raised in the allied camp
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

There won't be anything more valuable than wind
disspated IN Maine. Blood Will not flow.
If the streets of this city are to be abandoned
hopelessly to mud why not bnild dam at the Mar
rows put elevated roads in all our thoroughfares
and then turn New-Yorll into second Venice 7
Ten feet or so OF water would be preferable TO as
many inches of mud.
If Mr.. Talmage has a stock of sympathy on hand
for tiarcelon no shoud forward some of it imme-
diately TO Maine The champion backboneist of
the century lies doubled up like jack-knife, with
no one to soothe him.
1t is tolerably clear now that Little Hale I"
knew what he about when he went into the
Fnsion Legislature. IL is also clear that the same
body has not seriously damaged him by bouncing"
him.
While The TRIBUNE is desirous of having the
Legislature thoroughly investigate the methods by
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

For many Sundays past, the law requiring the
closing Of the beer and liquor shops has been pract-
cally dead letter. No one desirous of the drinks
sold in such places has found much difficulty in pro-
curing them upon the L,Ids Day. There has been,
during the past week rumor that more stringent
mca asurcs would he to-day adopted, and that some
effort would be made To enforce the law. We have
never supposed the Gitli yulties in the way OF
d)ng this to be insupcrabc. On the contrary, ii
has been several times practically proved that sun
day lquor-selling can be almost entirely stopped m
New-YorL But efforts IN that direction have been
spasmodic and temporary. For one or two Sundays,
on several occasions, the police have been active
aud they have never failed to accomplish
what they undertook. We have had com
paiativey sober city. and few sober
sundays. Then the nuisance began again.
Little by little the dealers got back TO their old
ways until they hardly made pTetonce OF conceal
ing them. II IS scarcely worth while to begin the
work again. unless the agents of the law, oicc.nen
and judges and all, are in earnest. law fooled
with is infinitely verse than no law al all. The
yioators of the Sunday law are willing to
meet the consequences Of single conviction. If
they are TO be- allowed aierward to 90 on shining
with perfect impuuty. Any whiskey-yendcr IS
ready to shut up for two successive Sundays, II
thereby he secures substantially license 10 keep
open for fifty Hc laughs when he knows that par
ticulai davs have been fixed upon for making
grand police demonstration; h. laughs and upon
these davs ha closes and keeps closed. The law VIII
hr enforced whenever the police wish TO enforce 1t,
and not before
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DnsIne5s &ollres.

"ALDERNEY BRAND"
ruy alway' IoNptNstD @llA
DIR. UNDERHILs WINE from the Cloton
Point VINEYARDS absolutely pure ASK your Druggist
H. X. & J.. h 1HURBER Co.. WhOiesale Agents
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1rANcu orrIcrs or 80 rRnrNr.

IRANCH OFFICES OF THE TRIBUNE
NTv- -YoRK-No. | 23S Broadway. corner Thirty
fIst-st.: No. 3OS West Tweniy-thlrd-st.. corner
Iirhth-ayc.: No. 200 1mrd-avc., corner Forty
fCvCTih-St.; No. 81 East FouTteenth1St.; corner
Iirior-sonarc: No. 1856 Fonrth-ave. 1larlem
MAsHINGTON-NO 80 Est.
IoNnON-NO. 20 Bcdford-St.. Strand.
IAIns-Nn. Q knc Scrbe
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An awful sermon WAS preached yesterday. albeit
Yesterday was saturday. Ia house Of evil repute.
come time during the preceding night, in the very
heart OF the city. u young woman of the town. Au-
ME Martin. WAS found ia her chamber brutay
murdered Though the case might lack
corresponding circumstances of >qualor, il
reminds us Of the death of Nancy beneath the
blnllscon of Bin sykes. Here poor woman was
struck down suddenly. perhaps without time to Mt
fer a prayer to Heaven for protection, or 10
her murderer for mercy. lie, too. when he had
done the deed, skunk away into the night.
with conscience gnawing at his heart.
and with Whatever Of life may be before him
n hell of rcmorse and dire apprehension. The poor
outcast whom he slew lived twenty-thlee years,
and then died without moment allowed her for
repentance, and in the very haunt OF her sin
aud shame. There are occasions when mere NOR
alIzlug seems tame and commonplace. The murder
of Yesterday carries its own lesson There is not
girl in this city, however light-minded degraded
who has fallen into evil ways, who ought not TO
comprehend, in tue light of this example that at
any moment she may be cut oil in the same sudden
manner Think of these poor creatures all
around us 49, dancing and drinking in the
aiums of Water-st i'm the Bowery cellars, i'll the
yiler holes of Baxter-st. Think of them in more
luxurious places, still enjoying spendor which
they must soon abandon. sure are they to go
down and down. until the lowest level of penury
and OF disease is reached
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

The announcement of performance to take
place during divine service ~ church in Brooklyn.
this afternoon. is the most complete illustration
that has recently fallen under our notice
If the prevalent confusion Of ideas be
tween entertainment and devotion. The cere-
mouv. or exhibition, is entitled a Grand
Musical Vesrels," and is given apparently in con-
ncctoD with the regular afternoon religious cxer-
ciscs: Admission. - cents, paid at the door. No
reserved scats.' Tickets and n programme are
forwarded 10 the critics. The performance
Is 10 begin with an Organ Prelude. Then
we shall have Nespors. Goun0Ps Ave
Maria will be followed by the Gregorian
"Mlguihcat -; after which an eminent oreanist
will break forth with the overture to Tampa" 1t
is probably uot IN sarcasm tha. Mrs. c. proposes
thrrcupon 10 sing " But the Lord Is mindful 4
iantasia ON "Emann VIII next be played upon
the FIDDLE: and to this Will succeed appropri-
atclv enough. AMI not too soon. the Psalmlsts ex-
hortatiol, Behold now, praise the Loid.' The
orgauist Will Immediately comply with this invita-
tom bv executing Grand Fantasia on La Flile
du Rogmcut.'' A. the 80 Salutarisn and
"rantum Ergo are on the programme. it is
~ be Inferred that the " BenelctOu of the Blessed
Sacramcnt' will follow this lively medley. The
whole o. conclude with an "Ofirrtory by Lel6bure-
Wcy. All this seems to rs very much like ira
yesty upon religion.
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rERlIS or TIE IRIEUNE.

Postum 6cc IN HeIRifcl Shtiss.
DAILY TRIBUNE. dnciudnE snnoavsl year..Sl2 %
DAILY TRIBUNE. (wiibout sunday -, year.. 10 O0
SUNDAY TRIBUNE. yedr.....-....-..-....-.--- w
WEEKLY TRIBUNE. l yrar. ............-......... VU
AiI-WEFK1N TRIBUNE, ycar...-.s...-...-.. 500
Remit ny =. o. order or III IeglsteIed Letter
Address THE TRIBUNE.
NeW-YOrk.
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Aelu-al Daily 0rib1lne.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.

SUNDAY, JANUARY Is. 1850.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

Tho bound volumes of Hdpsrs Week'y and
Harper's Bd.ar for the past year, besides
presenting all the well-khown characters-
ties literary, pictorial and miscellaneous,
which have made those periodicals welcome
in so many thousand homes are remarkable for a
great improvement in tho quality of the en-
craving. The progress is perhaps still NOR
strongly manifested in the illustrations of
Harpa's Magazine and indeed the publications
of the famous house in Frankhn-square have for
some time past been exhibiting excellent and most
interesting specimens of what may be called dis
tinct American school Of art.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

The Committee on Military Affairs in the
House has agreed to report bill restoring
General Fitz John Porter TO his rank in the
Army. wi,h So, 900 for back pay. The pro-
priety cf This action will be giayely doubted.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

An unexpected verdict in the case of Officer
Nuccnt is denounced from the bench as u
miscarriage of Justice and the seven
men who changed their minds apollo
gize for the result under the plea
that the FIVE in whose Judgment they
aoquiesced were grossly ignorant. They seem
10 have known enough to hold ont. albeit they
were in minority. whereas the seven did not
have enough character to adhere to their con-
ylctiOns.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

"Thc hanginss included This IS Mr..
Smallcy's satire ON the Queens indulgence in
comforting The Star Of India on General Rob-
eits. our cable dispatches indicate that the
Liberals are steadily gaining ground in Eng
land.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

While The TRIBUNE Is desirous of having tn
Legislature thoroughly investigate the methods b.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-18

There won't be anything more valuable than wind
disspated IN Maine. Blood Will not hOw
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
ssThe Republican Tidal Wave Of 1879. /"

1t is well known to the readers-if
not to the editors-of our esteemed Re
publican contemporaries that the eiec-
tons of 1879 showed everywhere that
the Democracy had vanished before the
Republican party as beard before the
razor, and that the Republicans were
about to ride into power upon tidal
wave higher than any recorded in books
of travel. Any doubts that may have
existed on this subject must have been
triumphantly resolved by the discovery
that the Republicans were so sure Of
carrying the pivotal State of New York
that they intended to have its vote cast
without putting the electors to the
trouble of going through the motions OF
an election. 1t is not, however, until
we examine the returns for the individ-
ual elections that the progress made by
the Republican party all over the coun-
try bursts upon us in all its magnitude
and majesty and makes the heart of De-
mocracy sink down into the boots OF
dependency. For instance, there are
the Congressional vacancies. In Cali
fornia the Republicans have elected
three Congressmcn-as they elected
three at the preceding elections; in
Iowa Republican has succeeded a
Republican,; in Missouri and Texas
Democrats have replaced Democrats;
in New York Democrat has
been chosen in a district that went
Republican in 1873. Altogether, in the
language of famous French speech,
Nothing has been changed, there is
only one Democrat the morer' Let us,
if we are not sufficiently impressed by
this showing of immense Republican
gains. consider the popular vote in the
various States that held elections last
year. In 1876. when the Republican
party's vote was at high-water mark,
these States voted as follows:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GEN. BOYNToN, the Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, has
reconsidered his determination of suing
Gen. Sherman for libel, but has instead pre-
ferred charges and specifications against the
latter "for conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman" and asks the Secretary of
War to convene court-martial for his trial.
JERE. HARALsoN, colored, who is
contesting the seat of Shelley from the
Fourth District Of Alabama, has presented
to the House, through Mr.. Keifer (R., o.,
(who moved that it be printed, petition
for investigation into the alleged intimida-
tion and bribery, practiced, as charged, by
Gen. Shelley and others, by which petitioner
was prevented from taking dispositions for
use in his contest until after the expiration
of the time set for that purpose. Some OPP
position was made to the printing of the pc
tition on the Democratic side, on the ground
that it was competent for the Committee on
Elections to order its printing if it saw fit,
but finally Mr.. Keifer's motion was agreed
to.
THE Princess Lonise and suite arrived
at Halifax on the I'd, on the steamer Sarma-
tian.
In recognition of the heroism dis
prayed Dy surgeon JOnn w hOss, VINO VOL
unteered his services during the yellow fever
epidemic of '7S at Memphis, the Senate has
advanced him eight numbers in his grade.
THE President has nominated Alexan-
der Wells, a son Of Madison Wells, for Sur
veyor of the Port of New Orleans.
ADoLPH f. BoRIE, Secretary of the
Navy under President Grant, died at his
home in Philadelphia on the 5th, aged II.
THE Senate has rejected the nomina-
ton of John NJ. Morton, son Of the late Sem
ator Morton, as Collector Of San Francisco,
by vote of AZ to 10, chiefly on the ground of
his not being resident of California.
CINCINNATI will place a marble statue
of Reuben r. Springer in the vestibule of
the Music Hall in that city, which was main
ly built with money donated by him. Pres
ton Powers will do the work.