New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-07
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I'M iELEGRAPH 70 THE TRfBUNEJ
BOSTON. Jan. 6.-The great event of the week
the inauguration Of Governor Butler on Thursday.
created very little outward STIR The State House
was oesieged, to be sure, by dense tbrong of tho
unemployed, apparently expecting in some vague
way that offices and jobs were to be thrown ont of
the windows among the crowd as soon as General
Butler was sworn in, whereas the burden of tho
message delivered by that gentleman, in his ia
miliar stumpin9 costume Of evening dress
with button-hole bouquet. was that about
one-third of the offices were to be
abolished, while the salaries of the remainder were
to be cut down one-thrd. The message has evident
ly been more amusing to outsiders than to the cti.
zens OF the State Buffers gascoDading pro-
grammes OF reform have become An old story with
us, and his startling revelations Of wrongs and
abuses have been so often exposed as fiction and
stage-thunder that they have ceased to startle His
discovery that Massachusetts, ilhteracy is greater
than that Of majority of the States is good spec
linen OF the slander and rOorbacks with which this
extraordinary state paper abounds. BY reckoning
in the illiteracy Of his own immediate and peculiar
supporters. the fresh Irish immigrants and the Ca
madam French in the mill towns {" tho Chinese of
New-England,"l General Butler has managed to
put Massachusetts, below Iowa with her German
AMI Swedish immigration In point Of illteracy.
The fraud has been promptly exposed. but the Gov
ernor has for the moment got the laugh upon his
State. This was probably all he wanted, for he
announces that he IS done with the Massachusetts,
GovernOrshp after this year. meaning, it is sup
posed, that he is to enter larger for bigger
political prize. To illustrate the practical value of
bis recommendations. he proposes that the normal
schools be abolished and the pay Of teachers be
reduced TO remedy our illiteracy. In Short General
Buffers debut as Governor is as grotesque and in-
solent as anything in his whole political career.
Nothing new has developed In the canvass for
United States Senator IN which the Governor is
taking an interest and active share not conten-
plated the constitution of the State nor Ia that
of the United States. The humiliation of Hoar Is
hIs only object and it is rumored that be IS atery
veerng to the support of Congressman Grape as hay-
ing more strength than Governor Long, since tho
latters performance at the Oliver Ames lOvefeast
disgusted the square-tOed rustic Republicans
Longs weak side for Butler Is illustrated IN his
having had the Governors room at the State House
decorated In honor of Buffers incoming with the
battle.ags and drums carried by the Massachusetts
troops that went through Baltimore. To make
things perfectly pleasant there. however all memen-
toes of Governor Andrew should have been rgor-
ously removed for Andrews distrust OF Butler was
perfound and never withheld OF concealed on any
occasion.
salvini's reception at the Hotel Vendome on
Thursday was brilliant affair, the very best peo-
pie of Boston crowding past him for two hours for
introductions. Over 400 hundred ladies and
gentlemen assisted. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe acted
as interpreter.
The art-event of tho is the loan exhibition
Of Corots, Daubignys aud other modern French
masters of landscape specially appreciated In Bos-
ton. at the st. Botolph Club. II Is an exhibition
that would create a sensation in Paris.
The first number of the new scientific and educa-
tonal Journal Science, edited by Samuel ii. Scud.
der, late of the Harvard University Library, is
abont ready to appear. Its distinguishing new
principle as an educational journal will be its entire
Independence of the schooI-book publishing trade.
One of its important features scientific journal
will be a monthly correspondence from every EuEe-
pean centre of scientific intelligence from Norway
to Italy, summarizing the proceedings Of all the
learned societies.