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Year: 1870

The Isrnelitc Massacre in ROumania--A


Rabbi's Opinion.


1t was natural to suppose that the Israelites
of this city would have made the late rumored
massacre of their co-religionists by the
Christians in Roumania the subject of their
religious discourses in the synagogues. The
remarks of Senator Sprague in the Senate have
greatly exasperated them. On the Jewish
Sabbath the Rabbi Gutheim took occasion to
condemn the Senator's language with great
severity in the synagogue Of Emanuel. He
was unusually severe, too, upon the Christian
priesthood, whom he credited with very little
charity designating their mission as an ''odious,
hypocritical priestcraft, which even in our day
infests the high roads and sneaks through the
byways of mankind" Perhaps the preacher
had some particular class of men in his mind
when he spoke thus for, even under the irri-
tation of this sad news from Roumania of the
wholesale butchery of his people, he could not
have meant to involve the whole Christian
Church in such sweeping condemnation.


With regard to the remarks of Senator
Sprague that the Jews in Roumania had ac-
quired all the wealth, business and property,
by their trade-monopolizing and grasping pro-
pensities, while the Christian population was
in poverty, the Rabbi inferred that the Senator
justified the massacre and would not be unwil-
ling to see wealthy Israelites similarly treated
elsewhere. This was, perhaps, straining an
inference, though many people interpret the
Rhode Island Senator's language somewhat in
the same direction. The Rabbi Gutheim's
words were:-


He takes occasion to hold out warning TO the Sen
ate and the country, from which every true American
will shrink with horror. What does he think that free
American citizens, imbued with the true principles
of liberty will ever be tempted TO initiate those


endish proceedings which are contrary to the law
of God ana mani But the words OF the Senator do
contain q warning most solemn and Omnous. IL Is
this, that even in free and enlightened country
bigOtry and fanaticsm who do not blush to eXtenu
ate the most hOrrid crimes inspired by religious per-
secution They suggest the warning that the
air in which the Senator has been reared.
that the principles which he has imbibed, require to
be purified and revised. They contain the lesson fol
the American people to be careful in the selection OF
their representatives in order to preserve the bless


ing OF civil and religious liberty in all It's purity and
grandeur.


This latter is not an untimely rebuke to New
England puritanism. However, the Christian
world must not be held responsible either fol
the massacre in Roumania or for Mr.
Spragues sentiments thereupon.
Year: 1870

Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, the two antago-
nistc chiefs of the Sioux tribes, have had
long talk and smoked a good many pipes with
the authorities at Washington. Of course, as
in most Indian councils, the talk was all of
peace. Commissioner Parker and Secretary
Cox gave the red men some good advice; but
Mr.. Cox spoke to them as if he were address,
ing so many babies in the nursery, whereas
there was not a banketed chieftain present
who could not buy and sell the Secretary of the
Interior in cunning and sagacity. twas anus
ing to notice how curtly all this aummery was
responded to by Red Cloud. He laid his hand
firmly upon the table and said :-"When l
heard the words of the Great Father permit
ting me to come came right away, and left
my women and children. want you to give
them rations, and load of ammunition to kill
game with" That is the ultimatum of all pow
vows with the Indians. The red man never
talks civilly until he wants ammunition ''to
kill game with" but it is pretty well known
that he seldom wastes bullets on buffalo. The
arrow answers that purpose. The ammunition
is kept for the benefit of our soldiers and white
settlers.


Not much good can come out of all this
interviewing at Washington. 1t has been
going on now these fifty years, and, with the
exception of few tribes on our proximate
border, the Indian is as savage as ever. 1t is
evident that white civilization on the distant
frontier must depend for protection on well
organized military system, and plenty of troops
to carry it out. We are disposed to think,
| however, that the system is far from perfect,
| when we read such news as that from Dacotah
| a day or two ago, to the effect that band of
some three or five hundred Indians were pre-
pairing to make an attack on Fort Mumford,


and the commanding somcer reports that he


had only fifty available soldiers to protect it. Il


our garrison posts are left so thinly guarded


how can the unprotected farmers escape? We
opine that Red Cloud and Spotted Tail and


their accompanying braves will have good
| laugh with their squaws when they get back


to their lodges at their Washington expert


ence, especially if they find the rations and


ammunition there-provided they do not come
| across Sheridan "on a ride"
Year: 1870

ART IN THE OLD WoRLD.-Our special cor
respondence from Paris embraces an able
analysis of the chief works of art which were
presented at the Exhibition in the French
capital The writer takes very ennobling
view of the subject treating the Fine Arts
generally as a means of international enlight-
enment particularly so at the present mo-
ment, when the peoples are approaching to the
perfection oe q cosmopolitan intercommunion.
Year: 1870

RAILROAD CARELEssNEss. The other day a
coal train on down grade of the Morris and
Essex road was permitted to get such head
way that it could not be stopped, and there
was only narrow escape from the demolition
by it of train loaded with passengers This
was gross carelessness. Would not the
management do well to devote to the preven-
ton Of such events the time it gives to fighting
the commuters7
Year: 1870

RELIEVING THE BORDER. will be nice
point for discussion in Canada, and even in
London, that person so potent in our city
governments as Mr.. Tweed, whose word is as
good as the law, is the friend and patron of
the Fenians-in so far that he spent upward
of five thousand dollars paying their home
ward fares. Perhaps this. however, was also
an act of prime friendship for the sadly
afflicted border people on either side the lines.
Year: 1870

A HINT TO THE DOMINION. The General
Court of Massachusetts proposes to resolve
''that it will cordially sympathize with all
those who favor the union of the British North
American provinces with the government and
people of the United States" This is perhaps
too late to comfort the Fenians, who no doubt
would have adopted such purpose for the
sake OF sympathy, but it may be taken in
Canada as indicating tendency.
Year: 1870

IMMGRATIoN.-The cry of ''Still they come"
does not adequately express the overflow Of
the people of Europe on our shores for they
come more freely than ever. Two thousand q
day was the average of last week, making for
six days fair figure over twelve thousand.
Two incoming ships brought upward of ff-
teen hundred each.
Year: 1870

THE FOURTH WARD TRAaEDY.-The pro-
motion Of Burke, the policeman, who shot q
man in fracas in the Fourth ward the other
night, is pretty clear expression on the part
of the Commissioners of their opinion that the
act was one of praiseworthy readiness, and
not of precipitate brutality. The whole cha
racter of the act depends upon what sort of
man it was that was killed He is repre-
sented on one hand as a peaceful, if not sober
citizen, and an the other as rufaan of the
worst sort. On point of this kind the word
of the police may safely be taken, and this
fully justifies the shooting.
Year: 1870

CAPTAIN EYRE, by whose reckless inhu-
manity or stupidity, it matters not which, the
whole crew of the Oneida was sent to the bot
tom, thought it cruel that he was punished by
six months ''leave of absence for that, after
all, was about the amount of his sentence. He
has been appealing against it, therefore, ever
since, and finally induced the directors of the
company to which his steamer belonged to say
good word for him, in an address to the
Lords of the Admiralty, through the Board of
Trade. The Board of Trade replied to Mr..
Eyre that his sentence, &C so far from being too
severe, is more lenient than the gravity of the
offence required" Eyre will understand,
therefore, by this time, that he did not perform
an altogether praiseworthy act in cutting
down damned Yankee frigate."
Year: 1870

Statement OF the Western Union Company.


We have been requested by the western Union
telegraph Company to publish the following as
their statement Of the facts attending the existing
strike among their operators:-
Year: 1870

On Saturday evening last, vessel loading
in our harbor for Vera Cruz was seized by the
United States Marshal, on an affidavit of an
unknown complainant that she was intended
=; convey an armed expedition against Spain.
On Monday the Secretary of State received his
first information of the seizure from The
TRIBUNE. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes-
day the counsel of the owner OF the vessel
was denied the privilege at the Dlstnct-At-
torpey's Office of seeing the aildavlt made
against the ship, on the ground that the per-
son making il did not wish his name disclosed.
Meanwhile the business of the owner Is serl-
Ously damaged.


Suppose it should turn out that there are no
lust grounds for the detention OF this vessel.
Who is to indemnify the ownerf III the Gov
ernment. then who is to indemnify the Gov
erpment for the responsibility incurred on the
affidavit of an unknown person in destroy
ing the business of one of its clt-
zensf Should or should not the secret
complainant whose affidavit does this
damage to what may prove legal mercantile
ENTERPRISE, be required to give securities 1or
indemnifcation to the owner OF the seHed
shipf Or perhaps the case might be more
distinctly stated by inquiring whether foreign
diplomats are beyond the range OF responsible
ity. and can at will and with impunity destroy
interests of United States citizens engaged III
lawful commerce?


The owner of the libeled ship declares that
the vessel is loading for Vera Cruz on per-
fectly legitimate errand, and AYERS his ability
to prove the declaration. If this be true, who
is to pay the costs And is it supposed that
these costs can be reckoned merely from the
delay to the vessel7 1t is a well established
principle in law, we believe-it is certainly
clear equity-that in such cases justly antIcl-
pated profits lost through the seizure can be
recovered.


However these questions may be answered,
their nature suggests one conclusion on whlch
all will agree. There should be no needless
delay in a case like this, and the United
States authorities, having once taken the re-
sponsibility of seizng the vessel on the aff-
davit of this unknown complainant, should
press the case to an immediate decision,
end the suspense, and terminate at the earliest
possible moment the contingent dangers. 10
do otherwise would be a crime against com
merce-which city of merchants Is likely 10
regard as more serious than crime against
law and justice.
Year: 1870

many in freely surrendering its power TO ROD
us. The particular machinery which 1t was
said would effectually curb the natural tend
ency of Democracy was the election OF the
Aldermen on general ticket, and the require
ment of three-fOurths of all the members to
authorize the expenditure of money or to pass
any measure over the veto of the Mayor. IL
was asserted, and seemed plausible, that men
of such high character would be elected to the
Board by the general ticket system that 1t
would be impossible to cOnsummate any more
of those infamous jobs which have been 80
numerous. to the scandal and cost OF the CITY,
But it now appears that Tammany, while CIV
ing us the shadow of protection, has been
careful to retain the power 10 piuhuer'
resolution was passed some time ago TO attach
q natent burner to each of the street gas-lamps
at a cost of s15 per lamp, which was so pal
nably a swindle upon the people that Mayor
Hall WAS compelled to veto it. Going back to
tbe Board of Aldermen, that body, which was
speeially designed to keep the hands OF the
barpies out of our pockets, has just passed the
resolution over the veto by unanimous vote
We presume the Tammany leaders will be so
busily employed until after the Fall election
in tbe manufacture of bogus votes that they
will not have the leisure to explain how this
wholesale robbery came to be perpetrateu
under their new and improved system OF mu-
nicipal government.
Year: 1870

The remarkable dispatch from one OF IHE
TRIBUNE's representatives in the Prusslan
army. describing the battle of Gravelotte,
which we published yesterday, was notable,
not merely as the heaviest ever brought
across the Atlantic concerning single event,
by a single newspaper, but as In some
respects the most remarkable instance OF
conquest of space and time by modern Ameri-
can Journalism. What now seems the decisive
battle of the present war was fought last
Thursday, lasting far into the night nearly
four thousand miles away from us. Every effort
had been made to hinder our correspondents
from reporting the facts, or even being present.
But on the succeeding Monday morning
we laid before the readers of THE TRIBUNE
special dispatch containing full outline OF
the days events, and on Wednesday morning
a vivid description, entering into minute de-
tails. At the time of this publication In New
York-as we were advised by the Associated
Press. and as we also know from private
sources-there were no details known III elther
Berlin, Paris, or London; so that the anomaly
was presented of the first publication in New
York journal of news of a battle In France
that may recast the map of Europe


Readers Of THE TRIBUNE will bear us wit
ness that our custom is to furnish them with
the news, rather than to brag about the news
we are going to furnish them. The exciting
events in Europe have stimulated no new
DEVELOPMENTS in the policy of this journal =
they have simply given us better opportunity
to show what that policy is. If its success
has been apparent, we have left it to other
newspapers to record the fact in terms that to
them seemed fitting.


Holding ourselves bound, by our contract
with our readers, to furnish them, day by day,
with all the news worth their knowing, which
experience, energy and money can procure, we
took steps Immediately after the outbreak of
the war to organize a complete corps of cor
respondents for both the armies and all the
leading capitals, who were instructed to stop
at no expense that would secure for us valu-
able details Up to this hour we have made no
promises but we have printed the news! The
very large and constantly augmenting advance
in our circulation is the best evidence that
readers appreciate the fact.


Our single dispatch concerning the battle Of
Gravelotte cost us Notwithstanding the great
reductions in cable tOlls) two thousand two
hundred and eighty dollars in Gold for the
mere transmission from London to New-YOrk.
There were, besides, the cost of special
courier from the battlefield through
Alsace, Rhenish Prussia, Belgium, and
thence to London, and the pay of the
correspondent himself "a singularly capable
and experienced journalist, recently engaged
on THE TRIBUNE), together with the pay of a
body of no less than five assistants in that
army alone We mention the facts in no
spirit of boasting, but simply to crafty a nat
ural curiosity, expressed in innumerable in
quiries, and to show what rapid strides this
more than imperial city is taking toward be-
coming, at whatever cost, the center of the
wofld's news as well as the worlds trade.
Year: 1870

We are advised of an extraordinary recon-
mendation adopted on Tuesday evening by our
Republican Executive Committee, and to be
made to the General Committee, which meets
tonight. 1t is proposed that the election for
delegates to the State Convention be called for
Wednesday evening next, and that the delegates
for all the local Nominating Conventions be
chosen at the same time. We look to the
General Committee to put peremptory veto
on this proposition. We are not so sure of
electing the majority of our candidates in this
city that we need be in such haste to select
the delegates for nominating them. We
can conceive of nothing to be gained
by it, while the opportunities it offers
for evil are manifest The State campaign
should obviously begin early; but the blndest
might see reason for making haste slowly in
this city. Let us have the proposition voted
down without count.
Year: 1870

(which will make it impossible for france 10
think of future revenge" The delay in the
further advance of the Prussians, which seems
Inevitable. will give both parties time for
serious and wiser consideration. 1t is only
asserted that Prussia will insist on the dis
placement of Napoleon. Here is one point at
least on which France and Prussia will agree
Among the accomplished facts of the struggle
the Punishment of Napoleon from power Is
not the least encouraging for France.
Year: 1870

THE FAILURE OF THE LABOR CONGRESS.


We greatly fear that the Labor Congress which
lately met at Cincinnati did not establish an
indisputable right to its somewhat pretentious
title. There is an impression that the purpose
of such Convention Gas the name implies) is
to discuss matters in which the working
classes have a special interest. This Conven-
ton devoted its time wholly to the cOnsidera-
ton of political questions which are not Of
primary importance to laboring men alone.
The public has an idea that the delegates to a
Labor Congress ought to be workingmen, of
plain and practical common sense, and familiar
with the grievances of their class. We sup
pose that most of the delegates TO this Con-
yenton were actual mechanics at some period
of their lives, but the great majority of them
were, on this particular occasion, very un-
practical thinkers and speakers, who insisted
upon angry debates and complex arguments,
Year: 1870

Now that Mr.. Peter b. Sweeny has returned
from Europe, we may expect an early decision
of the question agitating the Democratic party
concerning the law of Congress regulating
elections. The only fault to be found with
the act is that it strikes directly at the nOtori-
Gus false-vOting done under the direction of
the Tammany leaders. Some of the more reck-
less of the party have proposed special ses-
sion of the Legislature to change the time for
the State election so that the act of Congress
cannot apply except to the choosing of their
own members. The question is open, and its
settlement depends upon Peter B. Sweeny
and VIM. NJ. Tweed. Are these shrewd man
ayers willing to say to the people, "We do
mot want an honest vote-we want to put
&" Hoffman through in 1870 as we did in 1868,
"by forty thousand fraudulent votes" Any
attempt to change the day of election can
have but one Interpretation, and that is that
the corruption of the ballOt-box is the only
chance of Democratic success. The audacity
Of Sweeny and Tweed is almost boundless,
but we doubt if they can (they are probably
willing enough) bring Gov Hoffman to sum-
mon the Legislature for so base purpose.
Year: 1870

1t required no COroner's Jury to tell us that
John Phalen, upon whose body it has sat for a
week in solemn and stupid inquisition, came
to his death in consequence of the collision be-
tween the steamer Norwalk and schooner.
But the jury will never, probably, ascertain
who was to blame for the collision; and unless
the bodies of other victims of somebody's care
lcssness are thrown up by the waves, there
will apparently be no further inquiry into the
matter, and the guilty persons will continue
to make our harbOr dangerous
Year: 1870

From nonsense we may draw some good
A moral there is here,
Winch. when Ills fully understood,


We hope you'll prize most dear
When troubles come. ihe burden bear


With laughter loud and free,
And say to sorrow, gfiel and care,


SHoo FLY, DON T BoDDER NE
Year: 1870

PHILADELPHIA, March 14.-In a
groggery near the corner of 9th and
Walnut streets this forenoon, Lewis
S. Foster was stabbed nine times by
Pat Kelly with whom he had been
playing cards. Kelly ran off but soon
returned with a man named Patrick
Ward and one of them fred a pistol at
Foster who was lying on the floor,
bleeding from from the wounds in
ficted. Ward and Kelly were both
arrested. Foster cannot live.
Year: 1870

II was rumored in Paterson yesterday that the
lost Wyble children bad been found alive, having
been discovered with q family living on the high
way Of the Sterling Mountain. There is no truth in
Year: 1870

of 500 more rnes which found at another place.
and were 10 be brought IN al late hour last night
gives color to the story which was current at the
Time nat an expedition was fitting out here Tor ope-
ratons IN the adjacent parts OF Canada II Will pc
remembered that at thar time pretty definite details
oi the proposed expedition were known. The United
States authorities then received information as 10
tle place where the arms were stored; but the Fe-
mans eluded their vigilance and removed the arms
before search could be made. In all probability the
rides seized yesterday were part OF the same lot
which were then reported 10 be secreteu III certain
harm In the Eighth ward.
Year: 1870

The peculiarities of the day and
night in Sweden strike the traveller
very forcibly, after being accustomed
to the temperate zone. In June the
sun goes down in Stockholm little
before ten o'clock. There is a great IL
Elimination all night, as the sun passes
round the earth toward the North Pole,
and the refraction of its rays is such
that you can see to read at midnight
without any artificial light. There is
n mountain at the head of Bothnia
where, on the 2lst of June, the sun
does not appear to go down at all. The
steamboat goes up from Stockholm for
the purpose of conveying those who
are curious to witness the phenome-
non. 1t occurs only on one night
The sun reaches the horizon; you can
see the whole face of it, and in five
minutes more it begins TO rise. At the
North Cape, latitude ~ degrees, the
sun does not go down for several weeks.
In June it would be about % degrees
above tho horizon at midnight. In
the winter the sun disappears, and is
not seen for weeks, then it comes, and
remains for ten or fifteen minutes, af-
ter which 1t decends, and finally does
not set at all, but makes almost q cir
Gle around the heavens.
Year: 1870

I'at 10y the cage, dear! One more link
Is lost US from the chains that shrink
80 sadly fast, year after year
Now human love unfolds its wings
A1d leaves us and now humber things
Depart, that helped to make life dear
lis but tiny bird, indeed
That lies there mid the wasted seed


But, ah 'tis one songs sunshine fsd
To US il was a sound of home,
And though a thousand songsters roam,
Our one small welcome guest is dead
Among the roses, that will shed
Their snow and blood above is bed,


Come, let us scope little grave.
Oar sweetest flowers where it lies
shall whisper Of the tropic skies


That were it's home beyond the wave.
SO let it sleepi And we? We wait
For what shall be beyond The Gate,


Where our own loved shall glad our eyes.
We know tire are sure to meet.
But when the loved and lost we greet


Say, viii there be a fresh surprise?
And shall we in that dim Beyond
Find all the small links, true and fond
That chung so closely round us here?
Home is so dear on earth. we doubt
If we should know our Home without
The humble things that made it dear.
Pit by the cagel No more, love, here
Twill dabble in the water clear.


Or Tipened stalks Of plantain pull.
But we shall recognize the note
Among the myriad songs that float


In the great world AIl-Beautiful