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Year: 1873

The details of the great railroad c0ns0llda-
ton which we publish to-day are OF COM
manding interest to the commercial and trav-
cling community. The system now nearly
completed has been long in course of silent
preparation and, though the project seems to
have sprung full l-grown from the brain of some
fertile inventor, it is the work OF years. "A
glance at the map printed on another page
will show how comprehensive is the scheme,
so far as it relates to the interests OF New
England Canada, and eNew-York. con-
sidered together. The New-York, Boston
and Montreal Railroad, with its New
England branches, win embrace a great man
ufacturing region. But its connections with
the Erie Railway, and with the New-Jersey
and PENNSYLVANIA system of railroads. Will
bring it into vast coal and iron producing fields,
clasping together the great sources OF product
and the workshops of the nation. Besides, there
will be made easy connections with the trade
centers of the seaboard and the interior.


IL is too early to calculate any of
the results likely to flow from
such combination of railroad interests
and it will take some time for the problems
connected with the speedy change in business
and trade currents to be wrought out. But
enough has already been shown in the dis
cussions of this new project in the columns
of THE TRIBUNE, to point the signifi-
cance which it has in the business of
the country. Old means of communication may
temporarily suffer, but the eventual result of
the new arrangement of lines will be
beneficial not only to New-York but to the
whole country,
Year: 1873

A GOOD YEAR FOR IRON WORRERS.


The direct connection between the use of
iron and the advances of civilization gives
general interest to the review of the iron in
dustry which we print elsewhere. High prices
having ruled at home and abroad, the prOduc-
ton of iron in this country has been greatly
stimulated during the past year. Since the
war and the change in the relations of labor
in the Southern States, the tendency in that
section to the development of varied indus
trial resources has added largely to the IRON
producing area. The chief difficulty has al
WAYS been in respect to the means of transpOr-
tation and the growth of our railroad system,
greater last year than ever before, has been
more than ever directed toward internal i'm
provement-to speak specifically, toward de-
veloping coal and iron industries. This was
true last year of many States, but chiefly of
Virginia, Alabama, Missouri, Indiana, and
Michigan, if the proportion of new railroads
to those previously existing be made the basis
of estimate. But many OF these few enterprises
are scarcely yet completed, and the produc-
ton of last year affords but little indication
of the work that has been actually begun.


We may expect, for various reasons, great
increase Jn the pfOuucJiOn Ol IRON uuIlnR the
present year The demand for it has very
largely increased. 1t never was so largely
used as now for architectural purposes, and
the recent experience of the danger Of great
fires will increase its use in place of wood.
The public is even inclined to the belief that
iron fronts are safer against fire than stone;
the fact being that safety depends less upon
material than on construction. It will give an
idea of the extent to which spepiaities in such
industries are carried. to mention Aat there is
near this city large manufacturing establish
ment which confines itself TO making Che iron
work of gas-hOuses The demand FOR rails
increases with the increasing growth OF rail-
roads. There are also many circumstances to
occasion large supply of iron, aside from the
stimulus of high prices. We have many in
ventions to dispense with costly labor. The
method in use by our rolling mills turns out
onethird more rails to set of rolls than that en-
ployed abroad. The Danks pudding machine
which has just gone into use, is destined to
dispense with the services of the puddler, and
very greatly hasten as well "a cheaper the
operations that produce wrought iron. The
discovery Of coal that Can be used without
Year: 1873

GRATIFYING INCREASE IN THE PRODUCTION or


PIG IRON-GRADUAL DIFFUSION or THE IN


DUsTRY-HIGH PRICES INEVITABLE AT H0NE


AND ABROAD.


During the early part Of the year iS7 the iron in
dustry was depressed by the reduction Of the duty
on pgiron and by the disturbed condition Of trade.
owing to the Franco-German war. Toward the
close of that year prices advanced aud continued To
give remunerative return during the last twelve
months. This advance was due TO the supply being
unequal to the demand both in this country and in
Europe, resulting from the new and Varied uses TO
which iron is applied well az the natural growth
of nations. Yielding to the representations that
iron was dear account of the duty Congress took
off 10 per cent by the act which went into effect in
August; but prices afterward were higher than be-
FORE proving the incorrectness of the many calcula
tons based on similar data The prices Of No.
foundery pig-iron in NewYork during the year wero
as follows:
Year: 1873

It. was only a little while ago that there
was an indication Congress would ask 'haV
the temptation of q surplus OF pubic money
be removed. 1t was suggested that
the revenues ought to be cut down
in order to relieve the plethora OF
the Treasury. There will be no occasion
for any such heroic remedy for financial sur
felt. The House has shown an eager DISPOSE
ton TO make the most OF Its opportunl-
ties and vote away the accumulatlng
nublic funds. At least, the overwhelming
feeling in favor of the immediate discussion
of two or three gigantic schemes OF internal
Improvement, which was manifested in the
House, Yesterday, is fair indication of what
we may expect. There is the Virginia
Ship Canal scheme there is the James River
and Kanawha Canal project; and the
plan to connect the waters OF the
Tennessee and Savannah Rivers by the COosa
River Canal These are all treated as mere
bagatelles with which our new system of in
ternal improvements is to be begun. How
many millions are needed to carry out the
whole grand project, we know not yet. A
trifie of round S6OOOO,OOO is asked to begin
with; the details of the other raids will come
after a while.
Next. is an extensive plan for a National
Board of Trade, which is to be composed OF
all the members of the Cabinet but two. This
grandiose organization is to have charge OF the
commercial interests of the country generally,
and of the merchant marine IN particular. III
is to ascertain the tunnage OF the merchant
feet of the United States and to subsidlze II
at the rate of $15 per tun for steam vessels
and SIP per tun for sailing vessels
| This is the first item of the duties Oh
the High Commission; the other par
ticulars will, doubtless, embrace pater-
nal supervision of the railroads, canals


and telegraph lines of the country-when
these become national property. The job is
evidently cumulative. When Congress takes
to building ship canals from ocean to ocean,
we really cannot say what the end will be.


This is all in dead earnest, so far as Con-
gress has gone with it. 1t is in fact, more
| Union Pacific Railroad building. One would
suppose that, while the country is yet ringing
with the scandalOus waste of the peoples
money in the construction of the
transcontinental railway, Congress would
be little diffident about considering any
more such jobs. Some S30,0OO,OOO OF fraud
ulent prOnts nave just Deeu ui'iueu Wy
the Credit Mobilier shareholders. Where
are the Congressman who want other
and bigger rings licensed by Congress to
divide more millions in building canals
all over the United States3 Is it possible that
the unctuous developments of the Union Pacific
Railroad Ring have set the mouths of other
sharpers to watering, 80 that they Will
not be content until the country is trav-
ersed by more lines of bonds and
greenbacks double banked What with
subsidies, subventions, and other Government
aid to these rapidly multiplying projects,
we see nothing but new national loans and
national bankruptcy ahead. 1t is time to call
a halt The country should not stand more than
one Credit Mobiher fraud in generation.
Let us have no canal building to sluice Off
the contents of the National Treasury.
Year: 1873

CIVIL SERVICE Reform IN THE CABINET.


When the Presidents new rules for the re-
form of the Civil Service are once fairly i'll
operation we shall have to consider whether
they cannot be extended with profit to de-
partments of the Government not embraced in
their original scope. If it is one of their OBJ
;ects 70 secure an efficient administration of
public affairs, they certainly ought to apply
TO the great Offices as well as the little ones.
When the chief of a bureau is an ignOramus
there is not much to be got by reforming his
clerks; and it seems prepOsterous to make all
this pOther over postmasters and tide walters
if the Cabinet is to be full of excellent and
Jealous gentlemen who don't know the duties
and powers of their Office.


Here is Mr.. Fish. f9T instance, who does not
know that one of the most essential qualifca-
tons of a minister of foreign affairs is the
ability to hold his tongue. He writes so fierce
dispatch to Gen. Sickles that our astute
diplomatist at Madrid cannot formally present
it to Senor Martos, and then Mr.. Fish aggra-
Yates his indiscreton by causing it to be
ptinted. When the indignation of the Span
lard has been thoroughly aroused, Mr.. Fish
feeds the fire by printing private dispatches
from Gen. Sickles as his Justification" and
the only possible result of this chatterbox
style of diplomacy is to bring our relations
with a friendly country into dreadful mess,
and possibly to make necessary the recall of
one of our ablest ministers. Under almost
any other President than Gen. Grant it would
probably involve the retirement of the Secre-
tary of State.


Then look at the Treasury Department. Mr..
Boutwell, has been for some time in danger
Gus state of uncertainty about his power to ex-
pand the currency. He has claimed authority
for the secret issue of forty-fOur millions of
greenbacks, and has gone so far as to put
part of this amount in circulation, by an exer-
else of such discretion as was never committed
to any Secretary of the Treasury from the be-
ginning of time. What he might have done
if he had not been promptly taken in hand by
the Finance Committee of the Senate. and in
structed in the laws regulating the powers of
his own Office, we cannot predict


Mr.. Creswell is another Cabinet officer who
needs official education. A little while ago, in
Year: 1873

preliminary conversion into coke, provides
another means of saving time and labor.
Great improvements have also been made in
the American processes for manufacturing
Bessemer steel, so that the works already
existing turn out considerably more rails than
formerly, and several new works of great
capacity are projected or have come recently
into operation. The iron-makers reasonably
anticipate a busy and prosperous year.
Year: 1873

Mr. John Graham found Mr.. Garvey the
Plasterer most Improbable witness. He was
so ready to admit he had been party to the pub
lie plundering, and testify for the prosecution
against MesSrs. Hall and Tweed under an ar
rangement which secured his safety, that there
was nothing left for the defense to establish,
and it has not yet attempted to controvert his
facts as sworn to on Friday.
Year: 1873

II will not do for the New-Jersey Legisla-
ture to refuse TO pass the bill already before
it. for new railroad across that State, on
the old excuse that the charter is sought only
for the purpose of blackmail. The names of
the corporators, including such eminently re-
spectacle men as William Walter Phelps and
ex-Gov Newell, establish the good faith OF
the project beyond question.
Year: 1873

The gentle Italians who have lately dsv.ipprf un-
suspected energy in cleansing streets threaten
to rival lrishmen as navvies in digging canals and
building railways. An importation of them has
been carried to Virginia. where they have done
well and contractors in charge of another largs
force yesterday applied 10 the Superintendent of
the Underground Railway for work
Year: 1873

There will be great surprise throughout the
country at the summary repeal yesterday OF
the Bankruptcy Law by the House of Repre-
sentatives 1t looks very much as if the Sen
ate would also concur in this repeal, as bill
TO that end was favorably reported from one
of its Committees. The law has not been so
successful in its workings as its friends ex-
pected, but the temper of the House on the
subject was not anticipated.
Year: 1873

The Right in the French Assembly has ex-
pressed itself uneQuivOcally in opposition to
reform Ill the school system of France. By its
course on the motion to censure the Minister
of Public instruction for his circular of last
Autumn, it has shown itself disposed to favor
the pretensions Of the clergy to exercise
controlling influence over education. For
tunately, however, the vote in the Assembly
yesterday indicates that there is likely to be
a small majority opposed to these preten-
siOns.
Year: 1873

The Italian Government is so aLxious Ito
keep the population of Italy from wandering
abroad. that the frauds on immigrants in this
country are readily seized upon as reasons for
interference. The introduction in the Italian
Parliament of the subject of the cruel trick
perpetrated on the Italian immigrants who
were lately landed at this port shows what
good use can be made of this untoward affair
in the Encouragement of emigration.
Year: 1873

The Western Union Telegraph Company has taken


good stop in its reduction of about % per cont on
rates. especially to the more distant Southern
and Southwestern points. We believe it
will find its account in this policy
and will yet see the expedency of carrying il still
further. Meantime it deserves the thanks of the
public which the telegraph for thus increasing
the facilities of communication, and PTesi-
dent Orton. who has long been warmly in
favor of the reduction, WILL we are confident. find
its business expanding under it in a manner which
will make his next report even more satisfactory
than his last.
Year: 1873

A friendly correspondent complains of the space
which THE TRIBUNE devotes to reports of meetings
and lectures that are not of strictly orthodox
character He appears not to have taken in the idea
that the first duty of daily journalist is to an
nounce the events of the day without regard to Sec
tartan or party interests. Having no instrument
with which to test the sOundness of the discussions
which we are bound to record, we can only give
them as they come without asking whether they
are Catholic or Protestant, from Jew or Gentle, of
orthodox faith or of deplorabe heresy Our readers
are not generally frightened at the statement of
novel ideas. and we must continue to report them as
part of tho news of the day.
Year: 1873

So much of the line Of defense as has been
developed by the Caldwell interest in the
Kansas Senatorial investigation indicates a
design to obscure the issue by abusing the
orosecution witnesses. 1t must be confessed
that some of the witnesses who have been in
troduced in this case do not seem to
De shining lights of morality but
40 much has already been established
by a multitude of concurring atlantis
that it seems impossible to break down
the main charges. 1t does not help Mr.. Cald-
wells case at all to attempt to prove that the
men whom he is said to have bribed are his
enemies, or that they were dissatisfied with


the pay they got from him. But some such


Ssfenss ~ this il OQtlined. For the sake OF
Year: 1873

It is stated that Prof CUTLERY has demon
:trated anew the powerful antisepite properties
of carbolic acid in some additional experiments
lately made. He enveloped fresh corpse in
a cloth saturated with solution containing
two per cent Of the acid, and after four or five
days pouring more of the solution over the
body. By this treatment putrefaction WAS
entirely prevented, the body after six months
exhibiting no signs of decomposition, and being
hut slightly altered in appearance. At the
Morgue, in Paris, solution containing one
twentieth of one per cent of the acid sPrnkIed
over the bodies arrested putrefaction even dur
ing the heat Of the summer.
Year: 1873

The whiskey trade in West Virginia is being
disturbed by the West Virginia Legislature
The Senate has passed bill providing against
the sale Of intoxicating liquors. Il does
away" says the Charleston Courier, with
the screen and frosted window business, and
states in explicit terms that wives and children
Of drunkarks shall be entitled TO damages
where their interests are prejudiced by the
neglect on the part Of the saloon-kecpers Of a
strict regulation which is laid down in tho
bill.
Year: 1873

EXACTLY So.-An editor is a man who lives
on what other men owe him until he starves TO
death. A subscriber is a person who takes q
paper aud Gays be is very much pleased with
It, and he tell. everybody else that they ought
to subscribe" After he has subscribed
about seven years, the editor writes to him and
asks him to let him have two dollars and fifty
cents, and then the subscriber writes back to
the editor and tells him not to send his old pa
per auy more, for there is nothing in it, and
then the poor editor goes and starves some
more.
Year: 1873

The New York Evening Post, admnistra-
tiUn, says!


at is hardly too much to say that it would
be better for the country if the present session
could be wiped out altogether, for the investi "a
tions in which it has consumed much ofits time
are modification to the people aud lasting
disgrace to this Congress. That it should
have voted at the asst moment to give five
thousand dollars extra pay to each Of It's mem
bers, on false pretences, is perhaps the best
commentary that can be made upon It's char
acter, aud should suggest To everybody that
the less said about it aud the sooner its exist
ence can be covered up out Of sight forever,
the better.
Year: 1873

A BEAUTIFUL INcmEST.-Anclent history
records beautiful incident Illustrating the
mower and uuselfshness of filial love. In the
ssigc Of a certain city, two young men within
its walls had rendered great service to the
general, through whicbit finally fell into his
hands. Ia return he ordered their lives to be
spared and gave them permission to take with
them out of the city as much treasure as they
cauld carry. They accordingly both appear
ell at the gate, one carrying his mother on his
back and the other his father, showing by the
act how much more precious they were in their
eyes than any amount Of jewels or gold.
Year: 1873

Reflect That sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connublal
happincss Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes n weary pilgrimage the
prospect hourly darkens to tho view, tho mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and iled with
the melancholy reflection that tue happiness OF
-a.o.Anr i. llinht Cd with nur OWN.
Year: 1873

OUR NEW IMPROVED MACHINE


Stands without rival, and should find Its
way into every family. 1t has reached the
highest state OF perfection of the Sewing Ma
chine yet produced, and its sales are constant
~ increasing throughout the world.
Year: 1873

TEE Health Officer addresses 10 the
people Of this city, through our columns,
this morning, some earnest and practical
recommendations in regard TO sanitary
precautions against cholera. We trust
they will be needed. Whether the city Is
in danger Of cholera visitation or not,
lie and sickness will be saved by careful
attention to these suggestions. But the
symptoms in tho Southwest are such as to
leave little room to doubt either that YER
liable cholera in epidemic form already
exists there or that the existing disease,
already attended with alarming fatality,
will develop into the most malignant form
OF cholera and spread throughout tho
country. About the only thing definitely
settled about the nature Of cholera is, that
II can be dlsarmed Of It's terrors by rigid
Rnd thorough publication; that the exhRl'
auons from every kind offlIh, but espec'
iaIly feculent matter, furnishe the vehicle
Tor Its transmission and add TO It's mallg-
nancy; and that the most effective pFeVen'
tive Is in the frequent and regular use oil
powerful dIsinlcctants which destroy pos
onous exhalatons. DR.. JAMES, Of New
York, whose suggestions on this point we
printed few days ago, recommends cop
peras and carbolic acid. There arc other
substances scarcely less valuable; and
some Of these should be used not once, nor
occasionally, but with frequency and reg
ularity during the hot season. We call
special attention TO the suggestion Of the
Health Officer on this point, and repeat the
hope that all the houSeholders in the city
will give it their heed. There Is no need
tor any unusual alarm, but there Is abqp,
dsut reason, as every intelligent person
who reads the daily report from south
western cities must understand, for such
measures ol prevention as will render
alarm unnecessary.
Year: 1873

The only place where the genuine
interchangeable Pebble Spectacles can be
found is at Fisher & Cos Jewelry store, 67
Main street. They are made of the best ma
terial, uniform in density and OF high refrac-
tive power. Come, all ye who live TOR good
eye-siyht and try them
Year: 1873

gS- All men ought to know that all kinds of
gcntlemen's Clothing will be made with neat
ness and dispatch by a regular tailor The
making and trimming of Woolen Mil cloth
Is specially at d. W. Fitzpatr,ck's, corner Of
Court and Spring streets.
Year: 1873

Ba- The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting In, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two.
Year: 1873

we have on sale and to lease, we feel confident
of success, and that Is half the battle won.


Our motto is onward and upward with the
watchword, Know Thyself, the which we
study 50 we fiatter ourselves that
Year: 1873

New YORK, April 2.-The following
issthe continuation of Mr.. w. w. Good,
rich's testimony before the jury of in.
quest yesterday:


The witness said this letter was the
only indication he had had of anything
wrong on the part of his brother; hi;
father got, on Monday or Tuesday, al
exact copy of this letter; witness went
to his house to see what it meant; read
the letter to his brother, who stated thai
he had met the woman in New York
and had put her in as good a place as
she had left; witness said he saw the
dress of woman as she passed into 6
room in the house; thinks his brother
said her name was Amy Sloan, or Hone
his brother said the letter was written tx
blackmail, and that the woman had moi
had child.


Several witnesses testified to seeing
the deceased with lady who resembleC
Mrs. Myers.


At the conclusion of the testimony
above the sitting was adjourned to to.
day.


The NeaOs says that new circumstan-
ces have been brought to light in the
Goodrich murder case, which, if they
prove true, will make this one of the
mast romantic and startling murders Oh
record. 1t is certain that neither Ros-
coe nor Mrs. Myers had anything to dc
with the crime. Goodrich, it is proved
was killed on the morning his body was
discovered. Private parties are now
working up the circumstances alluded
to.


The man supposed TO be Roscoe re-
mains in custody, and will be held
until his identity can be settled beyond
doubt.