New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-05

| On n moro careful examination Tho World con-
cludes that in it's present shape the newspaper
| copyright bill is just and necessary measure.
| This, we believe makes the voice Of the respon-
| sible papers of NewYork practically unanimous In
it's favor The same thing may be said OF the cher
papers in every important city Of the continent
Wherever money and talent are literally employed
in collecting the news for the benefit of the public,
I there is to be heard demand that the results OF
tbs enterprise shall not be iilched under tho very
eyes of the owners and turned to the advantage OF
slscets which make no expenditures for the beneht
of the public and count on sustaining life solely by
thefts from those who do OF all silly cries about
monopoly" the silliest is that which objects
to this bill as creating monopoly IN news" The
field for collecting news is as free as air. Who
ever wants to 90 into it can. Friends of this bill
only object to people who refuse to into 1T at ALL
| but sneak around tho corner and pick the pockets
of those who do. How can any honest man ran 10
! agree with Them
An extremely benevolent lady, Mrs. Margaret
Croker of California rect of Judge +. b. CROKER
| sometime Justice of the State Supreme Court ana
! later chief counsel to the Central Pacific Railroad
Company has just completed and handed over 10
| trustees admirably equipped and appointed honie
| for Aged GentlewOmen at Sacramento. The mouse
| and endowments cost 800, 000 and Mrs. Croker
intends to add other buildings in the future Every
| inmate of the Home will have we-furhished and
comfortable to herself, and there are parlors,
reception and dining-rooms to BIO used in common.
| Pictures and books have been literally supplied,
and there every reason to believe that the old
| ladies will be comfortable in their retreat.
The painful operation known to politicomedical
surgery as the horizontal reduction OF MIR. Morrl-
sons concet is now being pushed rapidly forward
II is understood that DR.. Samuel Randall. who has
charge of the case thinks he may recover. William
Eaton, NJ. d. of Connecticut shakes his head.
"Spiritual"l Spiritual"f We don't seem quite
to catch your meaning, Mr. Pulitzer. The Herald
-epresents you as asserting that If MIR. Illden
should be nominated it would be spiritual" Please
say it again aud say 1T slowly next time. The die
tionaries define spiritual incOrporeal" DO you
mean that the nomination of 1ilden would be
very thin: second definition is " not material"
Do Won mean that if Tiden is nominated it Will not
be material third definition is relating to
sacred things" Do you mean that Itlden has ex-
perienced a change of heart since he read The
TRIBUNE Interpretation of the cipher dispatches
Surely baTl DEVOTED to purely carnal money can
not be said to relate to sacred things fourth de-
inition is " not lay.' Do you mean that the nOml-
nation is not Tildens lay" Or what doyou mean
Mr.. Putzerf
1t is gratifying TO learn that Professor Adler's
scheme of tenement-hOuse reform is to be begun
forthwith. Nor will a modest beginning at all tend
to defeat his philanthropic purpose. Miss Octayia
Hill has succeeded in bringing about extensive re-
forms of the same kind in London, and she began
with only ono building, and very small fund for
alterations and repairs. What Is most needed is a
working example of reform. and that can be
furnished rs well with one house as with fifty.
certificates are redeemablo IN silver dollars only.
and that the amount of them in circulation does not
affect the ability of the Treasury to pay gold OH its
obligations, few figures have been compiled show
ing the receipts Of money at New-York where most
of the duties are paid During the week ending
! January o, only 1872 per cent of the amount re-
ceived for customs here was paid in silver certh-
| Gates; tho week ending January 10 PA per cent
was 80 paid for tie week ending January 26 only
2OJ per cent for the week ending February 2, 3O.3
per cent for tho week ending February 8, 26.2 per
cent for the week ending February l6, only l6.4
per cent? for the week ending February %, 22.7
per cent and for the week ending March l. POI per
cent Thus the average for the weeks named has
| been 229 per cent out of S22 597,OS4 paid to the
! United States at New-YOrk for duties on Imports
IS. 85, 900 has been paid in silver certificates in
| stead of gold. Tho effect has been precisely the
| same M respects the ability of the Government to
| redeem its pledges. If 50. 165, 600 silver ceIth-
Gates had beon taken to the Treasury and redeemed
in gold But the receipts of late have been COM
paratiyey small; since public attention has been
drawn to the subject the New-York banks seem to
have taken in fewer silver certificates. and
not mad as many to empty into the Custom House.
When Republicans insist that there is such
| thing rs the Manning Machine i'll the Democratic
party of this State, sundry Democratic newspapers
| Indignantly deny the impeachment. We !, they
certainly will not undertake to impeach one of
their own witnesses, and here is what The ROcheS-
ter MON, whose editor preceded Mr.. Manning as
chairman of the Democratic State Committee, has
to submit upon the point III question: I'VE learn
from The albany 1rguS that rooms for tue New
York delegation to the Democratic National Con-
yention have been seemed at Chicago at he Le-
land Hotel, The list of delegates settled upon
bv tho machine, which seems to be getting in
its work early is not given" This certainly looks
az if The Union labored under the impression that
there trGs "a Manning machine; that it was getting
its work in early and that it proposed to name the
delegates to the National Convention. This trust
worthy information cannot but prove interesting
TO Mr. Flower. It is understood that he and the
Manning machine never speak ~ they pass by. AT
all events the machine doesn't speak
An astrologer is endeayoring to encourage om
Democratic friends by informing them that on the
9Th of July, the date fixed for the assembling OF
the National ConV ention the position of the heay-
enly bodies is favorable to their success" Inc
trouble is that there will not be any heavenly bodies
among the delegates. Indeed, If one should manage
to got in no matter how regular his credentials
might be he would certainly be ruled out by
the Committee on Contested Seats on the grounC
that heavenly body must necessarily reprosen
"tho higher politics." and therefore had no place
in the convention of party that sneors at GeoTg
| II. Peudet0n.
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