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Year: 1872

While our fine girls are bemoaning
the lack of the young men and the
scarcity of beaux who are marriagea-
bic and mean marriage, there is a
class whom they do not recognize at
all, yet who Will furnish to the next
generation its men Of enterprise, of
power, of position, and of wealth. 1t
is not the son of the rich who VIII, as
a rule, remain rich. The sons of the
poor Will get rich; and these are to-
day drudging in Offices, and counting
rooms, and store-houses, and machine
shops and printing establishments
the men who in twenty-five years
will control the nation socially, polit-
cally and financially. Every man OF
them means to be married; they viii,
as rule, make excellent husbands;
they are all at work trying town sue
cess. They are men who would be
easily improved by a recognition and
by bringing them into good, intelligent
society; yet they are as little noticed
as if they were SO many dogs. Virtu
GUS young men from the country
come into the city and live for years
without any society, and are regarded
by fashionable young women with in
difference or contempt; but thes'
young men have hold upon the fu
ture, and when their success is won
in whatever field of enterprise it ma.
be, the fashionable may be glad t.
receive them as belonging to thei
own number. We regret to say, as
rule, the young men for whom pos
ton has been won by viirtuous ant
enterprising fathers, amount to bu
little in the world; and we rejoice t.


say that companions chosen from
those who have their fortunes t
make and their positions to win, ar
those to whom well-bred woma
can generally with safety entrust he
happiness and herself.
Year: 1872

The RED SEA.-An sorts of tales
are told of the Red Sea navigation,
says James Brooks, some of which
are true; among them one-that at
times it is 50 hot there that passen-
gers on board the ships drop down
dead from heat, apoplexy or exhaus-
ton. Now and then it is so hot, the
steamers running down the sea with
the wind are obliged to change their
course and go backwards to catch
some puff of air, both to preserve
the lives Of their fremen and passen-
gers. The hot air of the deserts
the si1noom it may actually melts
people, when shut up in this Red Sea
furnace. e. .. g..
Year: 1872

| Nothing has recently created a
greater sensation in the religious and
scientific world than DR.. Carpenters
opening address before the British
Association for ths Advancement of
Science. There has been an expecta-
ton that he would developehis special
subject, the results of the deep sea
soundings, In which he has been engag-
ed, and by which hehas secured great
honor. But he preferred to enter
the field of metaphysics, and to re-
buke the arrogance of science, falsely
SO called 1t has become fashionable
with many scientific men to ignore
everything but matter and immutable
laws. No God is needed; butmatter
and laws are enough to explain all
that we know or can know IN this ma
terlal system But DR.. Carpenter
takes the ground that the notion Of
force above law is elementary and
necessary to the mind, and that laws,
without force, have no power, and
that the source of force is mind, con-
trolling by law the sequences of mat
ter. Thus the conception of force
implies God, and to reject Him, and
absorb all things in matter and laws,
he afGrms to be "as arrogant as it is
unsophistieated" He thus vindicates
a field for the science of theology
He justifes science In occupying the
field of the order and sequences of ma
ture; but when it attempts to make
these o sufficient cause of the system,
and to ignore God, it intrudes on
province not its own, and exposes
itself to just hostility of those who
are its truest friends He thus closes
his address: "Whilst the deep seated
instincts of humanity and the pro-
foundest researches of philosophy
alike point to mind as the one and
only source Of power, it is the high
prerogative Of science to demonstrate
the unity Of the power which is oper-
ating through the countless extent


and variety of the universe, and to


trace its continuity through the vast


series of ages that have been occupied
in its evolution"


The position of DR.. Carpenter as
President of the British Association,
and his eminence as q scientific man,
clothe these utterances with an au-
thority in the scientific world which
the statements of theologians could
not exert, though their discussions
have long since clearly established
the same conclusions. It is o cause
of Joy that the party Of scientific
| atheism has been exposed by SO keen
metaphysical analysis, and has met


with so decided rebuke.- Eastern


Exchange.
Year: 1872

Washington was once at dinner
party where his host seated him with
his back near a red-hot stove. Find
ing it too hot for comfort, after some
skirmishing he beat retreat to a
more comfortable position, at the same
time explaining the reason 'Why,"
said the hostess iocularly, Il thought
an old General like you could stand
fire better than that"


'I never could stand a fire In my
rearI" replied the General.
Year: 1872

There is general rejoicing over the
defeat of Dan. Voorhees,. His sup
port of Greeley was SO transparently
for the purpose of securing his re-
election to Congress, that his defeat,
after such abasement, gives great sat
isfaction to the honest men of all par
ties. He richly deserves his fate, and
the people have a perfect right to
laugh at him.
Year: 1872

The switch of the tail of Mrs.


OLeary's COW has made that lady IA
nous; and that isn't all. The ire
pressible inhabitants have determined
to give her benefit ball-tickets one
dollar each. They do this out .ot
consideration for the vast improve
ments consequent on the result Of
that energetic switch which fired the
Year: 1872

The Cincinnati Commercial, on
behalf of the Liberals, throws up the
sponge, in regard to the Presidential
contest by saying:


Taking the late elections altogether,
the conclusion is forced that the luck
of General Grant, in politics as in
war, is likely to be confirmed in his
reelection to the Presidency. The
Liberal and Democratic organization
is not SO compact that it can with
stand the repeated shocks of defeat.
Year: 1872

A local reporter, during a backward
spring, wrote an item In which occur
red the quotation about winter lin
gering in the lap of Spring" But the
remorseless editor cut it out. He said
the idea was good enough, and origi-
inal, and all that sort of thing; but it
would not do to publish, because the
'chigh moral tone of the paper had to
be maintained in town full of semi
nary girls"
Year: 1872

What the Greeley movement lack
edit is proper to use the past tense
was bottom. It had too much tai
ent and not enough bottom, plenty
of brigadiers and few privateers, no
end of feathers and no body.
Year: 1872

gentleman was seen few days ago after
thanksgiving walking quietly down Main
street Buffalo, with Il small placard on his
back inscribed, "Choice Poultry Inside" He
says nc will be careful how he leans against
anything near provision store after this
Year: 1872

The situation in regard to the labor
strikes remains practically unchanged,
but all Indications point 10 an early
termination of the movement and q
failure of the strikers. The boss sugar
refners and their employees are likely
to have q satisfactory settlement of their
difficulties. The men do not demand
eight hours, but only an increase Of
wages.
Year: 1872

THE CONFERENCE OF NEXT THURSDAY.


We published yesterday circular which has
been sent by few gentlemen of high charac-
ter and position to several hundred others
who have been identified with the movement
of opposition to the reelection of Gen. Grant
which eliminated at Cincinnati in the nomi-
nation of Messrs. Greeley and Brown. 1t in
vites the persons to whom it is sent to con-
ference in New-York on the Goth of this
month for the purpose of securing concert of
action among all the elements of opposition
to Gen. Grant.


There are some who regard this movement
as hostile to the Cincinnati ticket. We decline
to so regard it, We prefer to consider it as
in good faith what it purports to be, confer
ence between the few who are dissatisfied with
that ticket and the many who nominated and
cordially support it, to determine what is the
best and most practicable course now open
to the Liberal party, to prevent the
disaster of the election of Gen. Grant.
If the greater portion come together with
these motives, and we have no reason to
doubt that this will be the case, nothing but
good can result from such conference. OF
course in such meeting the per-
sonal friends and partisans of Mr..
Greeley would have no place. Neither
would the call appear to include those
who, having joined the Liberal movement and
sustained it at Cincinnati up to the point
where their individual preferences were disap-
pointed in the nominations have since re-
nounced their opposition to Gen. Grant and
have declared in favor of his reelection
against the candidate of the Liberals. There
could be no possible agreement between
people who have, on either side, assumed so
definite and positive an attitude.


While we regard with the greatest respect
the opinions and even the prejudices of those
who have not yet been able to subscribe cor
daily to the platform and the ticket which
were adopted at Cincinnati, it is impossible
for us TO see any other way open to prevent
the election of Gen. Grant. AS State after
State holds its Convention, no sign appears
of the discomfort Of which we hear so much in
few newspapers. The unanimity and cordial
feeling with which the entire Democratic party
accepts this opportunity of progress and re-
generation, betOkens revolution the most i'm
portant and most beneficial that the history of
our politics has ever shown. II is too late to
stem this steady and powerful current. We
confidently expect that the coming con-
ference will recognize this evident fact.
In the political as well as in the moral world,
we are held responsible only for what we can
do. We believe, as all the gentlemen signing
this circular believe, that the election Of Gen.
Year: 1872

dNOIHEh CHANCB run ~ 49,


The list of the new Spanish Ministry forms
q striking commentary upon the letter OF our
Madrid correspondent, Senior Castelar, Whlcn
we publisb this morning The eminent Re-
publjcan gives clear and graphic statement
of the errors of the Sagasta Government, ana
of the unprecedented blunders which led to Its
downfall and then, while predicting the ap-
pointmcnt of a Conservative Cabinet, shows
that such a. Cabinet could have no hope OF
permanence. 1t is at once striking PROOF OF
his foresight and of the mutability of Spanish
Governments, that since his letter was written,
a strictly Conservative Cabinet, under the
leadership of the Duke de la Tore, has been
formed and has fallen; and we see in the new
Ministry the most hopeful promise for good
government in Spain which has been presented
since the death of Marshal Prim. The hlng
appears at last to have learned the lesson OF
his repeated parliamentary defeats far enough
TO break loose from those Palace influences
which have so long kept him in the hands
of the Liberal Union, and has gone to
the majority for his Ministry. In this
way he not only shows proper regard 1or
the Constitution of Spain, but he calls to his
councils the men who represent the best
thought and the most reasonable aspirations
of the country in the direction of liberty and
progress.


The Cabinet is composed exclusively of Radl-
calls. that is to say, of those Deputies who, up
holding the Monarchy, wish to reconcile 1t with
liberal and democratic principles 1t contains no
Republcans. of course, because the Republicans
will accent no Government offices; but 1t Is


hat fha RppuDll-
cans will probably make no violent or tac-
tious opposition to it, They Will probably
regard it, as CASTELAR, himself proposed last
wear, Gin an attitude of benevolent expec'a-
tion.r The President of the Council is Ruiz
Zorrilla, who has justly been regarded as the
leader of the Progresistas since the death OF
Prim. Gen. Fernandez de Cordoya, one OF the
oldest and most distinguished officers OF the
army. is to be Minister of War. Admiral
Beranger is to resume his Old position
of Minister of Marine. Gomez goes back
TO the Department of Finance. Senor Eche-
garay is once more Minister of Public Works
the place he filed under Prim. Gasset ls MIN
lister of the Colonies he is Democrat and
journalist and MartOs, the best head and
purest character in the Democratic party, is
TO be again Minister of Foreign Affairs, and,
for the time being, also Minister of the In
terror


There ia no better Cabinet in Europe than
this. If there were as much patriotism in the
COrtes as there is party spirit, there would be
no reason why it should not last. But it will
be bitterly opposed from the outset by all the
reactionists, by the personal following of the
fallen and disgraced Ministry of Sagasta, by
the office-hoders and lifelong oflice-seekers
of the Liberal Union and with such opposl-
ton, untiring and unscrupulOus as it will be,
there can be no certainty of its duration. But
it is easily the best Cabinet which Spain hos
seen since the landing of Amadeus OF Savov
Year: 1872

TURES


Mr.. Dawes has taken the responsibility OF
sending broadcast through the country rosy
comparison of the expenditures of the United
States Government in 1871 with those of 1850.
This statement is doubtless intended to serve
as a campaign document, since it purports TO
show that the cost of the National Government
under Gen. Grant has been less in proportion
TO population than that Of any Administration
since Van Buren's. The figures appear to have
been furnished from some official source, and
are intended strongly TO impress the unin-
structed reader with an idea of their fairness
and completeness, The process of cOmputa-
tion is as follows; Deduct from the total ex-
penditures of each class the expenditures direct
ly or indirectly growing out of the war, and
contrast the remainder with the total expendi-
lures in 1860. AS we intend, at no distant
day, to subject the financial record of Con-
gress and the Administration to careful in
vestigation, we shall content ourselves here
with stating one or two obvious criticisms OF
the methods by which the extraordinary
results promulgated by Mr. Dawes have been
obtained.


The salaries paid in the Treasury Depart
ment in 1871 are corrected for expenditures
"arising in consequence of the Rebellion" by
the simple process of subtracting the amounts
paid in 1860, and taking the entire remainder
as the additional expenditure caused by tho
Rebellion. This is exceedingly simple The
only objection to it is that it takes
for granted little more than tho
author sets out to prove. In the samo
way, the deduction to be made in the cost
of collecting the revenue from Customs, being
the extra sum which tho Administration was
necessarily required to expend in order to OBJ
tain the increased revenues set apart to
meet the interest on the Public Debt, is
arrived at>by subtracting the cost in 1860
from the Gosh in 1871. In the matter of pen
sons the process of correction is still moro
summary. The sum of $3,9j5,6S6 80, which
Buchanan's Administration paid out, is left
standing against him, while the whole item OF
$3t,4i3,S94 SO is struck out from the account
of Grant, "as it is not reasonable to suppose
"that many persons who would be entitled to
"the benefits of the old Pension laws are
"nOw livingw 1t certainly seems q little
hard to hold Buchanan responsible for the
war of 1912, the Indian wars, and the war
with Mexico. If pensions are to be deducted
from the cost of Government in 1871, they
ought also to be deducted from its cost III 1860.
In the same broad and effective way the whole
yearly interest on the public debt in 1860 is
charged against Buchanan, adding $S,17ISl6
to his account which does not belong there,
Buchanan having had no more to do with the
Mexican war loans than Grant did with those
of the Rebellion. 1t is not creditable to Mr.
Dawes that he should have taken any part In
the attempt to palm off on the country such
tissue of absurdities and falsehOods as those
he Incorporated in his report of the 4th instant
from the Conference Committee on the Tax
and Tariff bill. The fact is, that Grant and
his household do cost the nation trifie moro
than did the old bachelor, Buchanan.
Year: 1872

Great are gas and gabble. There is one
thing certain-the gentlemen who are now
making the preliminary denomination, or we
may say, Succession speeches, seem to be
rather harder on their lungs than on their
brains and to have an absolutely unlimited
faith in the formulas which the Administration
has prepared and published for those who love
its pots of pap and of other prOvender. 1t Is
useless and insufficient to talk of the smlll-
tude of pair of peas, for they are widely
dissimilar in comparison with brace
of pro-Presidential harangues. When an
Administration orator gets upon his pins for n
good, rousing, convincing and confirming
campaign speech, we know perfectly well be-
forehand what the galvanized enthusiast will
say. Here was q meeting last Wednesday
night over in Williamsburgh which was neither
very great nor very small, but which will serve
as O specimen of denomination meetings In
general There was speech by General
and speech by Colonel, and it would have
been all the same if the COlonels speech had
been made by the General, and if the Cen
erals speech had been made by the Colonel
Let us see


First comes the General, and he is nothing





about "the fiery days of the Rebellion" when
" the pillars of the Republic were shaking;"
about :" the years of gloom and terror" about
" the spirit of treason" about " the soldiers
grave.n And then comes the Colonel, and
he has great deal to say about Fort Don
" elson,n and Shiloh" and "Vicksburg," and
d" SPLENDID victories" and Strategy" and
" Union banners" and the long and bloody
&" "struggle,n and "the decisive triumph" for
which the Lord be thanked, not forgetting to
thank also the Lieutenant-General, and the
Major Generals, and the Brigadiers, and all
under them in authority The duet
la miIitaire being over, what could more
appropriately follow than resolution IN
the same style of the tented feld2-a Tes0lu-
ton in which all those who, in the exercise OF
their unquestionable political right intend to
vote for somebody save the same General
President, are compared to the Secession
lists in armsl 1t is high treason then, IL
seems, for any man to refuse to lend
his nose to the Administration thumb
and fngerI Fort Lafayette still stands, but
we hope that martial law is not still in sufli-
cient force to warrant the consignment to that
keep, of freemen guilty of voting against
Commander-in- Chief! Who knows, when the
Williamsburgh successionists are so good as TO
assure all Liberals that il they will surrender"
for that is the very word used-if they viii
surrender and "take their seats in the
family CIRCLE then " all will be forgiven"
This is kind indeed! A Colonel and General
(to employ the language of the reSoluti0n) In
form us that their "arms are sill affection
lately opened" and, as "wayward BRETHREN"
we are urged TO come to theif embrace, while.
If we do not come.-but let us not entertain the
cruel conjecture


If the steam eau be properly kept un. and
Year: 1872

The increasing unpOpularity of NJ. Theirs
has resulted in a determination by the Right
in the Assembly that he shall reOrganize his
Cabinet and carry on the government more in
accordance with the views of the majority.
PersOnalism is just now the most alarming
symptom in the administration of M. Theirs, and
the effort to infuse little more repubicanism
into it meets with the Presidents resistance.
He is reported, however, to be willing that a
President should be associated with him
in the Executive Office but objects to what
he calls ga Trumvirate.n
Year: 1872

When the Prince of Wales was sick, it was
reported that his morals would surely mend
with his body. When he got well he did not
justify the expectations Of his friends In
Paris, TRIBUNE correspondent tells us, he
rushed about as if only anxious to find where
were the most indecent plays. No wonder
l4he Parisians thought accounts of his illness
had been exaggerated, since he was able after
Year: 1872

from the Health Board some action which will
secure, first, the removal of the dumping
grounds; second, the separation Of garbage and
ashes by housekeepers; and lastly tho keep
ing in repair and healthful condition the horrl-
bic dens known as teDement-houses. These
are the first steps necessary to secure safety.
Year: 1872

Revenue cutters have not generally proved
themselves of great service in times of peace.
The Northerner has been useful for junketing
parties of officials, mayhap but not for much
else. The skipper of that costly craft is out
with an explanation of the escape of the So
called Cuban steamer Fanny. He makes a
curious story, whether creditable to the sagacity
of the revenue marine or not.
Year: 1872

On the fourth page of tO-day's TRIBUNE will
be found some interesting notes of what is
doing to make the Capitol more fit to work in,
and the capital more inviting. We shall have
more experiments, probably, in the art of
pumping hot air, cold air, dry air, and warm
air into the Cave of tho Winds, as Dom
Piatt describes the hall where the Represen-
tatiyes meet. And it will be a mercy if the
new plan do not contemplate a rebuilding of
the whole vast pile.
Year: 1872

reform and a dissemination of liberal prin-
ciples. Their action is but an index OF the
direction of the popular current. Mere poll
ticians may well be dismayed. 1t looks now
as if the people had taken things into their
own hands and were bent on doing outside OF
party lines what selfish partisans have refused
IN do
Year: 1872

New life has been gwen to the trades
"strikes" by the demonstration of the iron
and metal workers generally. These number
several thousand men, and as they are said to
have considerable money in their treasury,
their accession is accounted notable one
Still it must be confessed that spending money
in this way is not good economy for anybody.
1t is a great pity that it is thought necessary.
Year: 1872

Scant space is given nowadays to the descrip'
ton of any Worlds Fair " these have be-
come too common for special mention. But
an international exhibition, now open in Lon
don, seems to deserve more the adjective
which distinguishes it than many which have
gone before. A sketch of the show, printed
on the third page of The TRIBUNE, to-day
invites attention. and will give many pleasant
hints to the reader.
Year: 1872

Some very sensible and frank suggestions
are made to the National Banks, in reference
to the Presidential contest, in an article from
The st. Louis Republican, which is reproduced
on our second page. We deprecate anything
like union of these corporate and favored
money interests against the Cincinnati ticket,
but if there should be such a union it will be
the surest means of consolidating popular
sympathy on the other side.
Year: 1872

Tue New York World is responsible for the
statement that there is not single important
branch of manufactures in which Americans are
now able to compete successfully either with
Germans, or Frenchmen, or Engishmen, in the
markets of the world
Year: 1872

ABOUT the commonest social vice, and the one
that is most abhorred, is advice.


A Grant.uewspaper publisher lately gave notice
that he intended to spend fifty dollars for "a new
head for his paper. The next day one of his sub
scribers dropped him the following note: "Dont
do it-better keep the money and buy new head
for the editor.
Year: 1872

IT is bad, but there is no help for it. The
Saturday Reris,c has decided that, under the
transmitting power of climate, the people OF the
United States are in course of assimilation in
body and mind to the aboriginal inhabitants"