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Year: 1872

Mr. Blaine is quite right in supposing that
TIE TRIBUNE will not regard his latest
attempt at defending himself an improvement
ON its predecessors. lie does not tell the
truth. when he says we charged him, not only
az Representative but as Speaker, Win tne
Pacific Railroad Eastern Division bribery we
spoke of him as Speaker Blaine, just as we
might say that Gen. Dix, in 1872, serVeu
as Adjutant TO Gen, Brown, Does it follow that
we mean to declare that that precociOus gen.
tlenan had not only become soldier at the
ace of ID, but even o GeneralT TO TO, Mr'
Blaine! If you had case you would not DO
quibbling on points like that. No more w0md
YOU be arguing that because you were
not in Congress when tho original
bill was passed, you could not have been sub
sequently bribed by the Company which that
bill created. Take look at the fac sp'lIe OF
tho entry in your case, elsewhere reproduced
from the certified copy Of the list, and then
get what comfort you may out OF the pretenSe
of your hasty defender here that The TRB-
UNR changed Blair" to Blaine"


The Speaker tries his hand again at the
Credit Mobilier business. This time he says
he never received penny hCretrom. trick
ster, shifty enough to climb out OF window
while Butler was watching for him at the
door, might very well cOntrive to say
of moneys received from Cakes Ames, that
he never received them from the Credit
Mobilier. But we do not care to consider the
Speaker too CuriOusly. He has come to that
point that his unsupported word cannot be
taken against another mans oath. Oakes
Ames's letters are confessed. Therein he sets
forth his use of stock for CorTapting Congress.
Col. McComb swears that he called on Ames
for explanations of the way this stock was
used, and got from him the list of members
to whom it was gwen. Prominent in this list,
sworn to as Ames's list, is the name OF
"Blaine of Maine" We take it that it was
no nearer Blair there than in the earlier list
of which we give elsewhere the fac Simite.


Mr.. Blaine provokes contempt by the effort
to produce the impression that TIE Admins
traton only spent twelve thousand dollars in
the Maine canvass. There Is hardly poll
tician in the State who will not regard this as
a preposterous and grotesque caricature of the
known, admitted truth.
Year: 1872

The Grant men Dragged down in Maine
that if tho election had cost them great
deal of money, "they had something to show
for it.n In North Carolina the expedient
of bribery was notoriously resorted to. SO, IN
Florida, q regular assessment of the State
Office holders has been openly levied to defray
the election expenses. Charged with this
moral debauchery, The Florida Union at Jack
sonville, owned by the Postmaster, acknowl-
edges cheerfully the truth of the indictment
in the following shameless and sneering par
agraph:


I'VE do not blame The Republican for feeling bad, for
It's party here has Ocehoders TO and no mem
bers of Congress TO frank s circulars and to see its
opponent. the Republican party enjoy both these lux
uries must be aggravating in the extreme"


We have had tolerably long experience of
political campaigns, but we hardly remember
anything so insolently audacious as this. And
the assessments here so fippantly spoken
of have been regularly extOrted by the Re-
publican State Committee of Florida, as upon
good authority we are assured, IN the follow
Year: 1872

An officer commanding one Of the most i'm
portant forts in our harbOr received lately from
the Chairman of the Grant Committee letter,
evidently written by authority of the powers
that be, calling on him to explain whether
the report was true that he was employing
Greeley men in his work. The officer, with
q manly spirit deserving the highest praise,
replied that. it was his business to get the
work done, to get the best men he could on
the best terms to do 1t, and not to meddle
with politics either on one side or the other,
and that, according to his understanding, the
Chairman bad no moro business than he, the
officer, had to be meddling with any OF his
men. An investigation, however, developed
the feet that majority Of the men employed
were Greeley men, while a majority OF the
foremen said they were for Grant. What is
to be thought of an Administration which
with one hand holds before the public its
promises of Civil Service Reform, and with
the other stOOps to the meanness of attempt
ing thus to pOllute the branches of the Gov
eminent service wherein there has thus far
been some effort to get men employed because
they were fit for their work, and not because
they were good ward politicians Must the
army also be surrendered TO the electioneer-
ing Ihachinations of the party of Addition.
Division, and Slencef
Year: 1872

Registration was in progress yesterday in
Brooklyn. but the matter had not received
large publicity. Readers will be more gen
orally advised of the corresponding day for
registration next week, and it will be well if
they give their attention to it promptly.
Year: 1872

Correspondents need not be uneasy about
the omission of $4,000 fees and the like in
yesterdays discussion of the claims of the
present Collector of the Port to his place.
One thing at time. Let us see what defense
is to be offered in the State cap contract
business.
Year: 1872

The dedication Of the Soldiers Monument at Pitts
field Macs. was an event OF peculiar interest. Tho
statue of the Color Sergeant masterpiece of our
townsnan, Mr.. Launt Thompson, is one Of the finest
works of memorial art produced in this coun-
try 1t is perfectly zeal figure of Northern sol
dier; young handsome, athletic non commissioned
officer of the kind saw every day in the Union
army. But it is at the same time touching and
inspiring poem Of art and patriotism. It's grace and
finish its poise and lightness. make it delight to
the eyes and it conveys, without the least trick
effort the impression of costly sacrifice which all
such monuments are intended to commemorate.
These were the men through whose death the nation
lives to-day. They not clods raked in by con-
scrptiOn not surplus population dragged from pow
erty to battle. They were who held their lives
precious, who knew precisely what they were fore
going, and went with open, intelligent eyes in the
path of duty with no thought of glory. One of the
same kind was Gen. William +. Bartlett, who, as
Chairman Of the Executive Committee, delivered
the statue to the town. And the chiyalrous and
loyal strain of his nature was never more clearly
shown than in his cordial welcome of Mr.. LOwndes,


South Carolinian officer, whom he had last seen, in
Rebel gray, in the crater at Petersburg. Gentlemen
of this character have better work in the world
than TO stand and make mouths at each other after
the fashion of the Philadelphia Platform, for the
rest Of their lives If the war is not over then the
split blood all shed in vain and soldiers nionu-
ments are a mockery
Year: 1872

The effect of recent exposures in TIE
TRIBUNE of the disreputable character of
Senator James O'Brien has been to deprive
him of any chance of the Endorsement for the
Mayoralty of the Reformers on which he had
counted, of the support of honest and decent
citizens generally, or even the open nomina-
ton of the Grant Republicans. But the rumor
now abroad is that the latter viii nominate
candidate in the expectation that as between
three OF four candidates O'Brien may sneak
in. The desperate tactics which in Pennsyl-
vania obtain ind easements of gubernatOrial
candidates from the penitentiary goes further
here, and aim to create Mayors out of peni-
tentiary convicts This is an unanswerable
reason why the Reformers should join with
the Liberals in nominating for the Chief Mag
istracy of the city citizen of acknowledged
ability and irreproachable character.
Year: 1872

Here are some statements concerning Mr.


Summers treatment by the Administration
rather stronger than anything TO which The
TRIBUNE has been accustomed. Every man
"knows that each Senator who voted for Mr.


Summers removal did so solely because the
President had let him understand that only
on that condition could he hope to have any
inAleIce in securing Office for his friends.
" The President has bought Of his OPP
Year: 1872

Senator Sehun, in his eloquent address to
his German compatriots, last night, gave an
admirable resume of the political situation.
His vigorous and manly diction suffers in its
translation into English; but the enthusiasm of
his audience gave abundant evidence of the
character and tone of the speech.
Year: 1872

Nothing savagely geological ever happens in these
miserably civilized regions, though now and then
some enterprising beast breaks out of a menagerie
and a little mitigates the ruling tedium. Out in
Montana they have bears plenty as blind kittens.
The Helena Herald records the capture of Brlin
weighing s35 pounds by the miners of Upper Ten Mile
He was of the black variety and when FIRST trapped
burst his bonds and came very near capturing his
captors. Next day they went after him again
with better success, and his carcass was dragged
into camp. His fore-paw, ten inches long with claws
three inches long, now hangs in the Office of The
Helena Herald This journal has the bad taste TO
support G, and W., but without doubt the braves
who killed the bear are for Greeley and Brown to
man.
Year: 1872

The indications of squeeze in the money
market are increasing. While good mercan-
tile paper is selling at ~ to 1s per cent per
annum, call loans were yesterday pushed up
to per cent per day, and as high as 1 per
cent per day was demanded and paid for the
use of gold. During the month of May, when
money was easy, most of the time from to
2 per cent, and cash gold was
easy at to per cent for carrying,
the Secretary sold ten millions of geld
and bought an equal amount of bonds
and during the month of June, when money
was at but to per cent, and gold at per
cent and less, he sold eight millions of gold,
and bought the same amount of bonds. Now,
when the conspirators are compelling the pay
ment of such ruinous rates, the Secretary an
nounces that he will dole out one million OF
gold per week, and will purchased one million
of bonds. AS he has authority TO increase in
definitely his sales and purchases. will he
come to the rescue of the market, or will he
leave the public to infer that he is in league
with the panic makers
Year: 1872

A dreadful and, apparently, causeless muir
der was perpetrated on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, near Philadelphia, yesterday. Some
wretch removed the joint bolts and plate on
a curve, and thus threw q passing train Oft
the track The fireman and engineer on the
locomotive were killed. 1t is difficult to
imagine any motive which should lead to the
willful murder of these two unfortunate men,
Year: 1872

1t il reported to us that gentleman at the Liberal
Republican Convection to nominate Congressman
in the With New-Jersey District, lately held in
Jersey City, undertook to express the views of THE
TRIBUNE concerning the propriety of making no
nomination. IL is scarcely necessary to say that
TIE TRIBUNE authorized nobody to make any state
ment of the sort.
Year: 1872

e7g@ Horace Greeley once said: "Whenever
it shall be clear that the great body of the
Southern people have become conclusiyely
alienated from the Union and anxious to es-
cape from it, we will do our best to forward
their views" This is true Southern Demo-
cratic States Rights doctrine, and precisely
what the plank on that subject in the Lib
eral platform means. On this question the
candidate and resolution are doubtless in
perfect accord; If Mr.. Greeley should be
elected to the Presidency, there would be
another effort made by the Southern States
to secede, and there is reason to believe that
the philosopher would use all the power OF
the Government to assist them in accom-
plishing their purpose. If the effort at Sc
cession hae been made in the early part OF
Mr.. Buchanan's term, it would have resulted
successfully, or in the impeachment OF the
President. The election of Horace Greeley
would be a step towards the dissolution OF
the Union.-Llter- Ocean.
Year: 1872

"In addressing my third animal message
to the law making branch of the Government,
it is gratifying to be able to state that during
the past year success has generally attend
ed the effort to execute all laws found upon
the statute books. The policy has been,
not to inquire into the wisdom OF laws al,
ready enacted, but to learn their spirit and
intent, and to enforce them accordingly.
submit these suggestions with confidence
that your combined action will be wise,
statesmanlike, and in the best interests of
the whole country
Year: 1872

A STORY has been started that one Of
the Municipal Court Judges Of Boston
recently made out the papers for the
arrest Of an alleged criminal. but his
chirography was 10 wretched that nell
thor the police oti1cer, court clerk nor
himself could read the name OF tho
defendant when he had been secured.
Year: 1872

In the recent balmy spring weather
In Minnesota a baby had its fingers
frozen In It's cradle. We now begin to
see why 1t IL that so few people die OF
consumption in Minnesota-most OF
them are no doubt frozen to death be-
fore the slower disease has time to kill
them.
Year: 1872

BASE BALL.-The Quickstep Base Ball
Club, Of this city, will play match game Of
base ball, on the Fourth, with the Young
Marion Base Ball Club, Of Chester, on the
grounds Of the latter
Year: 1872

ing disputes. and II we have any contest now
with the mother country il is one Of business
only and will be settled by enterprise and not
Canada, and desire to have none. Our
wish is to see the neighboring coun-
tries republican in their institutions,
because we feel that monarchy is . relic Of
barbarism, and that q people can be more
happy and prosperous under system Of self
ever seemingly liberal and constitutional
Canada would be better of to-day rs an indie
pendent Republic in friendly alliance with tho
United States than she can ever be as de-
pendency of Great Britain. The Toronto
Leader, which assumes to be supremely
British in its sentiments, and which lays claim
to a superserviceable loyalty, may not
recognize this fact, but it is known
to every intelligent citizen of the Dominion,
and is the feeling Of the majority of the people
Of Canada to-day. 1t is feeling, too, which
is shared in by the British government and by
Englishmen generally, and the independence
Of the province would be hailed in England as
public blessing should it be announced to-
morrow The United States does not seek
the annexation Of Canada until the Canadians
are themselves prepared to plead for the alli-
ance. But that the time will come when the
waters of the st. Lawrence will not divide the
American Continent into two nations we are
well assured, and all the eloquent wrath of the
Toronto Leader cannot long postpone the hour
of union.
Year: 1872

vuAr; and In bis lecture last night he
quoted English Protestant historians to prove
that the English and Scotch began the slaugh-
ter. But this is what we do not want If
the Catholics killed their Protestant neigh
bors because they were Protestants, then they
were guilty of an atrocious crime which, for
the sake of religion and humanity, should be
denounced with all the fervid eloquence that
inc Dominican can command. There can be
little doubt that a massacre did take place in
a64l, and it is very probable that those who
were killed were Protestants but We have
. right to believe that their religion had
nothing to do with their killing. A
few years before these Scotch and English
adventurers had invaded Ulster, plundering
and expressing the native Irish, and when the
hour for vengeance came the Irish killed them,
not because they were Protestants but because
they were robbers and invaders. It was wholly
. political question, with which religion had
little to do, for the same thing had happened
more than once, though not on such an ex-
tensive scale, while both sides were Catholics
1t is upon this ground that the question ought
to be placed, and if Father Burke thinks it
necesssry for the Irish to apologize for killing
those who robbed and killed them without
much ceremony we shall be glad to hear what
he has to say. But we urge the necessity Of
dealing with the historical question, not from
sectarian or partisan points of view, but on
the broad grounds of morality and principle.
We do not want to see bad cause on either
side bolstered up by specious pleading Our
interest in the present controversy is in the
future, and we want the events Of the past
reviewed in a spirit Of unfinching justice So
far the defence of Ireland has not only been
able, bat it has been free from the one-sided
views Of history and dogmatism which are
marked characteristics Of the English histo-
rian's style; but it has exhibited want Of
thoroughness on delicate points which takes
from it's value as historical vindication of the
Irish cause.
Year: 1872

When the two women now lying in Ludlow
Street JAIL charged with sending obscene
publications through the mails, were first ar
rested we commented with becoming severity,
not only on the crime for which they are in
dicted, but on certain other immoral bearings
of their course, altogether outside Of the
charge as technically made. The success or
failure of the prosecution on this matter is
something fully in the hands Of the law, and
there we are content to leave it. Mrs. Wood
hull, however, from her prison, writes to the
HERALD in defence of her acts and her theories
and once more puts the question of "free
love- before us, but in precisely the light in
which she and certain male satyrs have been
stating it for years past. She and her con-
ceners need be under no mistake regarding
the publics understanding of their position.


It is not surprising that 'the bold and un-
abashed 'front.' which she bears should
carry her into defiance and scream
of prophecy as to the future of the
champions of this 'sfree love- business
It will be noted that the venal, the indecent
and the blackmailing ways, which are freely
alleged against them in other quarters, should
be left without reference, and that the ques-
ton is begged, whether for the express sake of
proving the loose practices Of these people to
be the practices of some others, that revolving
stories should be persistently published to
carry decentralization further. If society places
its foot upon the neck Of this hydra,
and fguratively stamps the power for harm
out of every one Of its hundred heads, it will
be doing right. We have no fear that the
great social institutions are in danger from the
theories Of sensualsts or the acts Of any of
them yet when they overstep the limit Of
the law they should be punished accordingly.
It is matter for jury now whether the in
dicted ones have taken this step, and, without
wishing to prejudice the case at all, we think
that Mrs. Woodruff might let writing mate
rails alone when she can make no better use
of them than will be seen on perusing her
communication in another column of the
HERALD.
Year: 1872

Now that truth is no longer dangerous to
party success, it is positively refreshing to note
the amount Of it being told by administration
organs and politicians. The leading republican
organ of this city disturbs the equilibrium
of its republican readers by declaring that
1--WE have as party yet to prove that we de-
serve to retain the control of public affairs"
Mr.. Squeers would pronounce this s'richness."
We, not hopeless Of eleventh-hour converts,
regard such frank confessions as good for the
soul of our body polite. s'It remains to be
seen," continues the latter-day penitent,


"whether the party can retain that popular
confidence which the elections show SO un-
mistakably that it now possesses. 'sIci Ton
pdrle F}uncois" is the sign of Partisan shops
into which the Anglo-Saxon is beguiled by the
hope of being cheated in his native tongue


''Truth spoken hera' should henceforth head
the bulletin of our frank contemporary. Not
to be left tagging in the rear of the national
confessional, a prominent administration
weekly asserts that there is very positive
public sentiment in favor of civil service re-
form. But sit certainly is not entertained by
the working politicians, who are the last per-
sons to be affected by the considerations which
commend the reform to Independent citizens"
Can we believe our eyes? Did that
civil service plank in the republican plat
form mean nothing2 Was it merely
laid down for these working politicians" to
stand upon during the Presidential canvass,
and now is it to be cut up into Congressional
toothpicks? Our honest weekly actually has
misgivings about the legislators it has sent 10
Washington pledged to institute this neces-
sary reform. Congress will move when it
must, not before. It will move when the
country demands and not before And SO
we are not to have peace after all? The coun-
try cannot trust its representatives, and
people and press are to pass the next four
years in bullying Congress into keeping
solemn oath! Really this is 'smost tolerable
and not to be endured If even worm will
turn, why may not press and people? General
Hawley, a leading administraionist, declares
it sis easy to break the republican party into
warning fragments within six months" Verify,
now that the republicans have taken up their
residence in the Palace of Truth, confding
country has reason to tremble for the future.
Year: 1872

These figures show that In Bel
givm a 23-cent passenger rate and 2
cent freight for all distances would
be more than sufficient to earn $15,-
900 per mile annually. But these
are unreasonably low figures. Put
the rate at 80 cents per ton for goods
and passengers ut u cents for all
distances, and Government would
increase present receipts over ST.
100000 But the great benefit ac-
cruing from this plan would be in
creased travel, by which cities would
be benefited as well as the country,
and an immense impulse given to
industry of every description.


The Post refers to the fact that
the last report of the Bureau of
Agriculture states that large pro-
portion of the flax fiber grown in
the West is thrown to the manure
heap, and the census report in
stances as notorious facts" that
"when corn is selling for 80 cents in
New England it is burned for fuel
in Iowa when wheat is selling for
$1.35 in New York it IS only worth
45 cents in Minnesota, and when
beef brings 81 a hundred on the
hoof in the East, cattle are sla.sgh-
tered for their hides in Texas" But
multitudes of such facts might be
cited to show, what common-sense
sufficiently indicates, that unles the
interior States Of the West can OBJ
tain an outlet for their produce their
property is valueless and labor
thrown away, save in so far as they
suffice for subsistence.


With the view of aiding inquiry,
the following particulars were added
in reference to. a number of our lead
ing rairload lines, located in various
districts, as to the distance wbich a
passenger travels on the line. and
his fare, and "a to the distance
which each ton of goods on an aver
age is carried, and at what cost.
In New York State each passenger
travels on an average of thirty-seven
miles, and each ton of freight is car
ried one hundred and twenty nine
miles