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New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

IL said to have lost 5000 900 francs by the fanrs
OF the Un.on Generate. The Orleans Princes ,ost
about 36.OOOO00 francs The Vicomtesse de IA
Panonse, better known az Mile Marie Heilbrou ,st
her iCltune, II Is said, and her holse in th Para
M0nceau Is offered for sale
Among the presents received by Alexander IT
Stephens on his SEVENTEEN birthday was an auto
graph album containing tho names Of many proini.
Dent men. The velvet case of the album was orpa-
mented with painting of Liberty Hail." whose
portals have been closed recently against prornis-
clous hospitality for the first time IN forty wears
Mr. ,tenhcns has passed twenty-five Of his birth
days III Washington.
writer in The Boston Adrrtisv says Of the late
hun-ilua-Ko: "The Professor was genial man. Of
a kindly nature, warm in his attachments loyal 10
friends, high-minded, honorable gentleman. His
emlnently social dsposii ion led him 10 cultivate
society, and in its ranks he strove to make himself
agreeable to all. No one recognized more quickly
than he the claims If Others upon his time aud al
tentiOn. Ills memory Of faces was remarkably re-
tentye; he never forgot person he had once met
never found him at fault but once on quotation
81 once remarked to the General" says CORE
spondent of The Cologne Ga.ette who was with Cen
eral Skobeleffd during the Russo-rurki,h war, that
he acted very imprudently in constantly exposing
himself to the enemys fire without the slightest
necessity for s. doing do you suppose was ne
answer that it gives me any pleasure to let the
Turks shoot Il met II | 20 into danger have good
reasons for it,. My supcriors envy me account Of
my success. and would gladly take an opportunity
of getting rid OF me. The only way, therefore, Of
keeping my place is to make my trOOps enthus1s-
tcaIly attached 10 me that they vi II follow mo
anywhere and make me indisp ensahle and in order
t. DO this must behave with that reckless bravery
whlcl always endeaTs "A commander 10 ms men,"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-General Sherman has III
vited Generals Sheridan. Hancock Howard and
Terry 10 be present at the CARTE memorial services
IN the Capitol on February q. Having received
the thanks of Congress for public services, all Of
floor N that occasion....Judee French As
sistant Sc rctary of the Treasury, is cOnya escng
rapidly from h' recent illness, and expects to bo
able to resume his official duties on Monday.
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

witnesses signed at the foot the other half
was written on the other page, and then came
the testator's signature. This instrument was
discarded, because the witnesses did not sign at
the end OF the WILL Common sense ought to
tell anyone that any important paper ought to
be completed before the signatures are affixed.
The New-York rule rs to signing and witness
ing is that there must be two witnesses; the
testator must sign in their presence, inform
them that the paper is his will Che need not tell
them what is IN it), and ask them to witness it 4;
and they must sign their names and Iesl-
denceS as witnesses at the end of the will.
They usually sign below a brief memorandum
certifying that these things were done; but this
memorandum is not strictly essential. Keep
the will, when completed, in safe place. In
Massachusetts, lately, q will was contested be-
cause rats had eaten the signatures. Lord st.
Leonard's will was lost AMI was established
only by the fortunate fact that his daughter
was able to repeat the substance OF it from
mo
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

his previous speech mt the Cock lepe pan
ouet. the text of which we find in the English
exchanges. The martial glories OF the Iekke
expeditiop and the diplomatic intrlcacles OF
Russion intrigue in Central Asia and Persia
could NOT keen back what was uppermost in
his mind. When he came to discuss Panslav-
ism as a question legitimately arising from
a tbousond wears of historical existence, and
bade his auditors remember that they pelongeu
IN n race some of whose families were even
then prosecuted and oppressed, he ostenta-
tiously exchanged his beaker OF WINE fof u
glass of water. as proof that he was III Ms
sober senses He inveighed bitterly against
the intellectual classes for invariably neg
Icctinp TO respond to the Gar, and de-
clared cmphatically that cosmopolitan
Europoanismr was not source OF
strength, hut an indication OF weakness.
Cosmopolitan Europcanism is the influence
of the Teutonic race by which the westward
extension of the Russian Empire had been OBJ
structed and the absorption of the Balkan
Peninsula as a series of outlying provinces OF
the Northern Slavs deferred if not absolutely
prevented II is by appealing to the Slavophl
dislike of everything German and by unfold
inc the historical mission Of Russia as the
foremost nation of the Slay world that he
hopes to excite the highest aspirations OF all
his countrymen save the "homc made for
eieners " whom he affects to dcspise.
When Skobelef addresses the Scryian
students, = is in sympathy with 5'5Oo'oOo oil
Southern Slavs, at least 100000 OF whom,
as subjects of the Hapsburgs, are secretly dis
affected, because they distrust the Teutonic
influence which predominates at Vienna. Wlth
the community of feeling existing between the
Northern and Southern Slavs, those Servlan
students can respond to the dashing soldiers
excited harangue. If there is ever to be
common battlefield for these great divisions OF
the race, the foe must be the TeutOn. Whether
Skobelelf pledges the students in wine or
water, he undoubtedly knew what he was
about and his master knew it also. The Gar
IS striving to re-RusSianize his Empire. ~
popular soldier pleading the historic glorles
and race enmites of Panslayism helps Oh the
work
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

and sold it readily at dollar a seed After the
scout came an elegant gentleman styling
himself Carlo Corella, botanist to the Court oi
Brazil. and announcing that he bore some rare
lily bulbs as a present from Dom leoro 10
Mrs. Hayes. The great scarlet beliS "crc
elaborately described, but the f0ral envoy
failed to receive n remittance from the hoihe
Government, and he was Obliged 10 sell some
of the bulbs, which he reluctantly dld' receN
ing 81 apece for them Cheap lmita'olS Vi
these princely pedlers-men who Zeal i'll olue
gladiolus and scarlet tuberOses-haye a"ayS
been numerous, but their enterprise ana sue
coss have rarely eoualled that of the market
woman who laid away stocking iull oi green
backs by selling clover seed for red mignonette'
WHY the modest wash-rag man should have
been selected from this wOrshipful company rs
an example of total dCpravity does not appear
His offending il OF mild type when com
p9red with the heroic lies OF his predecessors
His case. however. will answer rs well as any
other to point an obvious moral, and that Is
that many people of average Intelligence on
other subjects will believe any marvellous tale
thev hear about seeds, plants or trees. The pro-
cossps of vegetation are going on constantly be
fore their ewes, and yet they will accept without
oucsfion anv statement in REGARD to plant
growth or structure which cOntradcts all ex-
pcrience and outrages every teaching OF rea-
son and common sense. They could hardly be
induced to buy an egg warranted to hatch ont
q purple chicken with four legs, but they Will
nav roundly for any seed which an unknown
pcdler assures them will produce some I'M
possible frut or flower; and when they en-
counter the highwayman who sells vines which
bear grapes in the winter time they VIII prob
ably surrender for he will demonstrate the
truth of his claim by displaying bnnch OF
Malagas and asserting that he has just plucked
them from vines growing in his own garden.
When good people are solicited to invest In
some horticultural eccentricity, 1t Is proper
time for them to remember that there Is no
seed plant, shrub or tree having any economic
or ornamental value in this climate which can
not he procured of Trustworthy scedsmen,
florists and nurserymen. The enterprise OF these
dealers makes it certain that they will have
every novelty in the trade which has any value
as soon as it can be procured, besides good
many novelties which have no value. 1t Is a
pretty safe rule for one who is attacked by the
planting fever to buy nothing which has not
an approved and firmly established worth, and
to bny exclusively of responsible and regular
dealers.
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19
Amer To Anpernsemenls.


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New-York tribune., 1882-02-19
REPORT or IyDI1Y coMuISsIOyrRS

The Board of Indian Commissioners have
lust submitted their annual report, from which
it would appear that they think it fit to come
partly round to the policy with regard
to the Indian which has lately been advocated
by the advanced press and the practical
Christian people of the country, but which
has hitherto met with little favor from Indian
Agents and even Commissioners They report
thar peace has prevailed during the last year
with the tribes Except the disturbance with
the Apachcs), which fact may be accounted for
nationally by the growing disposition of the
majority of Indians to adopt civilized life, and
also bv the agitation of public feeling on their
behalf, which for the time forced agents and
commissioners to deal honestly with them.
After the Ponca business had drawn the eyes
of the country on Indian affairs, it would hardly
have been safe to commit any gross IN
iustice to the tribes either in Washington
or on the servatiOns. Hence, III all
probability, their Wwonted quiet. In the sole
instance in which the peace was broken, that
of the Apachcs, the difficulty, it will be re-
mcmbercd, BEGAN with the AGENT and his at
telnpts to secure a valuable piece of property.
The report advocates the granting of larl
in scyeraly and indorscs Secretary Kirk
woods recommendation of the establishment
of courts and extension Of law over all tie
reservations. This is the policy which The
TRIBUNE has urged for years, excepting that
the Commissioners appear TO be afraid to carry
it out to its legitimate conclusion. For ex-
ample they appeal for funds to establish
training. schools similar to those at Hampton
and Carlisle, which are good as far as they
90. But what the Indian needs is to be re-
moved as quickly as possible from the position
of a picturesque savage raupcr whom the
Government rObs with one hand and feeds
with the other to that of self-Supporthg
citizen standing on the exact level of the
white and the black, with his own individual
land to till SELL or waste as he chooses; with the
chance to work or be lazy, to be sober or drunk,
honest or thief, like any other man. and
with the same certainty of justice awaiting
him whether he do well or i'll. Once give him
law, courts, public schools, legal right to own
property, to trade, to sue and lie sued. and we
grappe him with thousand tentacles Of So
cial and commercial life, and drag him into
civilization, and sweep away the whole ma
chinery of traders, agents and commissioners,
which for a hundred years has pauperized
the red man and disgraccd the white. AS he
is now, he is shut off in each reservation as
in prison, from all communication with the
everyday life of civilization; and an amount
of power is placed in the hands of the few
white men who are permitted to approach him
which places premium on their dishonesty.
A few years ago we set the black man on
his feet, removed all legal disabilities, and
gave him a chance to show what stuff was in
him. The Indian deserves the same opportu-
nifty, and as long as we refuse il we give the
lie TO our claim to be a free republic
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19
TWELVE PAGES.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRrIGN.-The London cable dispatch to The
TRIBUNE says that Lord Salisbury devised the
scheme TO investigate the workngot the lrlsh Land
Act =-- The Conservatives admit that they were
utterly mistaken in suppOSing that the Govern
inent may be defeated on the cloture clause. ==
The Metropolitan of Moscow has criticised the con-
duet of the Gar in remaining in secluSion. =-
Tie Berlin papers are indignant at General SkObe-
leff's recent anti-German speech to the Servian
students. 60 The English steamer Tiber has
toundered off Puerto Plata. - Precautions
against Irish plots were taken in London lately
when the Queen held reception at Buckingham
Palace.
CoNGRESs-The Senate was not in session yes
terdav -- The House passed the Immediate De
fciency bill, which appTOpriates 81, ,S22,9S by
vote of 155 10 26.
DoMEsnc-The loss by the Haverhill Mass
fire was over $2,000000; over 800 firms
were burned out; three lives were lost.
g. Fires are reported from Chelsea, Mass.
Pittsfeld, Mass, and Milwaukee, Wis -
Alexander Bancus, of Saratoga, has been nominated
by the Democrats to succeed the late Senator Wag-
ner- There was ice yachting on the Hud-
son yesterday - An anti-polygamy
meeting is to be held at Troy
The Merchants Bank, Waertown, n. Y, has sus-
pended - The resolution to censure Senator
Malone has been indefinitely postponed in the Vir-
gna Legislature. --= The widow of Bishop D. 5.
Doggett died at Richmond Va. = John ii.
Chamberlayne, of The RckmOnd, Va, State is dead.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-A reception was gwen by
fhe Lotos Club last night TO Sir Henry Parkes.
IA suit was begun yesterday to re-
strain the increase of the capital stock
OF the New-Jersey Central Railway. -
The County Democracy denounced the
action of Tammany at Albany. - fire caused
n loss of 500, 900 in Hague-st. - The Russian
yice-C CONSUL Edward Stern. caned by his father
in-law - Gold value of the lega'-tender silver
dollar 412i2 grains), S7.32 cents. - Stocks were
generally dull but feversh and irregular and closed
unsettled.
IHE WEATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dicate clear or fair and mder weather followed by
Increasing cloudiness and chances of light snow or
rain late in the day. Temperature yesterday High
est 23o lowest. 14o; average, 1879.
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19
SKORELEEES SPEECHES.

Daredevil SkObcleff is as vcntIrcSOme in
peace as in war, if he has really used the ex-
cited language attributed to hIm by the Jour-
nal de France. He is reported to have de-
cared to a body of Seryian students chat the
sword was the only means the Russians had Of
riddng themselves of the incubus of German
influence, and that the struggle between the
Slavs and the Teutons would be long, san
culinary and terrible" lie went so far rs TO
anticipate crisis in which the States OF
Southeastern Europe would be molesicd, and
Northern and Southern Slays would meet
OH a common battlefield. Such utterances
as these have an Ominous sound. A
Russian General speaks very much as lie
marches or fights - only when he has
special orders from headquarters. If he has
made this warlike speech, lac must have known
beforehand that it would not excite any dis
pleasure in the palace. A war-ship has re-
Gently been named after him, aud a state lin
ner has been given in honor OF the anniyorsa Y
OF the capture OF Cock Tcpe lie is reported
to be on intimate terms with Katkon, the
leader Of the National or Slay party, whose iuha-
encc in Government circles is steadily lncrcls-
ing. As the most popular soldier In the Czu's
service he would be most convenient instu-
mcnt, if his master happened to need mill
tary Interpreter oil foreign policy.
This new outburst is wholly in keeping with
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19
To him that lives Alright


Christmas cOmc'h every day.
These lines enforce the doctrine OF the equal
ity of days. And, rightly defined, is it not IA
good doctrine2 We who uphold the republic
can governmental system believe that one
man is as good as another all the world over
Would 1t not tend TO good living if there was
general concurrence in the belief that, in
sense, one day was as good as another day all
the year round, and that each day was the
Lords day.
Certain it is that regarding the majority Of
our days as "secular,n the tendency is to pay
attention to the divinity that stirs within us
only once a week, and to live upon low
plane of aspiration and endeavOr during the
rest of the time; to devote six-sevenths of our
life TO the immediate and the temporal, and
only the remaining seventh to the things that
relate to the ultimate and the eternal. Under
this parcelling out of time it is obvious
that our better selves have so comparatively
few better moments that they do not have a
fair chance. Quaint George Herbert is to be
regarded as an exponent of this doctrine of
tie equality of days. In singing
Who swecps for Thy law
Makes it and the action fine,
he certainly must be understood as protesting
against the assumption that any day, however
mean its round of duties was not to be re-
gardcd as the Lords day. His lines constitute
a fitting pendant to the sublime Injunction: :
whether, therefore, We eat OF ye drink, or
whatsoever yc do, do all to the glory of Cod
What is the Significance of this command
Surely no violence is done to it il we interpret it
as meaning that in reality there Is no such
thing as a secular day. Appreciated at Its
true value, lived Alright, each day can abound
with the love that will make il Christmas, the
gratitude that will make it Thanksgiving, the
rrnitcutial sorrow that will make it Lrnten
season, the radiant hope that will make it
Easter. According to Emerson, each day is
ga King in disguse.' Call each day the
Lords day and yOu remove the disguise.
In this hurying. nervous are of ours, in this
bustling metropolis of ours, the pace is so rapid
that each recurring Sunday, even to the most
thoughtless and selfish is an inestimable boon,
since 1t means a pause in the tumult and havoc
of the battle for food, shelter, position, fame.
TO the rest of the community 1t Is full OF IN
spirations toward higher life. May the day
never become less. Heaven preserve our Amer
lean Sunday in its purity, III its auStenty, II
vou please to the end OF time. But would that
the other days in the week could be placed
upon a higher level, that men could come to
ieel that no day was common. Would not the
average of living be higher if each day instead
of one day in seven, was generally regarded
as Of divine origin?
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

The love of ones country and the desire to
serve his felow-citizens apparently have not
died out in this land, for Mr.. Ripley Ropes,
The City Works Commissioner of Brooklyn, has
resigned position of trust in business life,
worth ten thousand year, to remain in Office
for half that sum. There are men who if they
had done such thing, would lay themselves
open to endless insinuatiOns about the spos of
Office; but when it is remembered that Mr..
Ropes's appointment was received with disgust
by the professional politicians in Kings County,
ii is not likely that his action will be mis-
construed.
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

In his letter on Jew-baiting in Russia our
London correspondent expresses scephcism III
regard to the utility of the Mansion House
protest. He thinks that foreign criticism in
vaTiably exctes resentment in st. Petersburg,
and that there is Only too much evidence that
the Government does not want Hebrew sub
iects, but treats them as aliens. Certainly
English remonStranceS in behalf Of the Poles
were never taken to heart on the Ncva. 1t is
the plain duty of Christian nations TO protest
against the horrors of persecution, albeit out
bursts of sympathy and Indignation may do
no practical good far as the victims are
concerned. Cur correspondent makes the dis
eliminating comment that whereas leaders OF
various religious conImuniOns were represented
at the London meeting, the prosecutions against
which they raised their voices were social
rather than RELIGIOUS. A fact which cOnObO-
rates this assertion is the conspicuous part
taken by women in the riots They were en-
vous of the fine clothes and shOwy jewels
worn by the Jewesses, precisely as their hus-
bands hated the prosperous race that made so
much money out of the Slavs.
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

A few months ago the large Quaker College
of Swarthmore in Delaware County, Penn, was
burned to the ground at night. the students barely
escaping with their lives And now we have the
State Military School at Media, within few miles
of SwarthruOrr, burned. The ire IN both instances
Originated III tie labora DRY, and in all probability
from the careless handling OF dangerous chemicals
by inrxrcr lads. Here is oss Of over half a
millions worth of property from tAe same cauSs
and one which exists in every larg boarding-ochoo
Tn, moral is obyous Laboratories eS sn0ul1 be IN
building entirely separate from the school.
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

The Government majority for the new rules
In the Commons is now estimated in our spe-
cial cable dispatches as forty at the least Mr..
Gladstone does not appear to have used any
threat of resignation as means of cOerclng
the rank and file of his party. He is not a
statesman who can degrade himself by vulgar
menaces of that sort. Yet it seems TO have
been generally understood that he would re-
tire from public life if he were to be beaten
on the reform of parliamentary procedure.
That calamity has been avertcd by the rees-
tablshment of Liberal discipline. He cannot
yet be spared from the Commons, although
this is his iiftieth year of service.
New-York tribune., 1882-02-19

The young woman who was arrested the other
day in mems clothes excused herself by SAYING
that she was able thus to find work more
readily than when she wore the conventional
dress of her sex. This does not call for tears
or contributions. AS she has spent most Of her
time as a waiter in a restaurant, her excuse
loses considerable force for there are about
.,s many places in the city where respectable
women are employed as walters as there are
where the attendance is by men. Was there
any reason why this young person should fre
quent liquor stores and talk about the last
prize-fght2 She took ale and cigars; now she