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Year: 1870

No. NASSAU STREET, NEw,YoRk.


February 18th, Is10


The remarkable success which attended our
Of the Loans Of the CENTRAL PACIFIC
RAILRoAD COMPANY and tho WESTERN Pacific
RAILROAD COMPANY, and the popularity and
credit which these Loans have maintained in
the markets, both in this oountryand Europe
have shown that tho First Mortgage Bonds OF
wisely located and honorably managed Railroads
are promptly recognized and readily taken as
the most suitable, safe, ard advantageous form
of investment, yielding mere liberal income
than can hereafter be derived from Government
Bonds, and available to take their place.


Assured that, in the selection and negotiation
Of superior Railroad Loans, We are meeting q
great public want, and rendering . valuable
service--both TO the holders Of Capital and to
those great National work Of internal improve.
neAt whose intrinsic morit and substantial
character entitle them TO the uso of Capital and
the confidence Of investOrs-we now occr with
special confidence and satisfaction the
Year: 1870

A special meeting of the Common Council
was held last evening.


The order appropriating one thousand dol
lars in addition to the sum heretofore appro-
priated came down from the Board OF Alder
men refused passage. The Council voted to
adhere to their vote passing the order.


Counsilmen Shaw, Tolman and Rice were
Joined to the committee to enquire into the
proper means for the preservation of the map
of the city lately accepted from the coast sur
vey.


Councilman Daveis was excused from voting
on the order giving additional damages to the
heirs of Charles Jones.


All other papers from Board of Aldermen
were disposed of in concurrence.


An order was passed requesting the Mayor
to call special meeting OF the City Council t
some convenient time within two weeks tor the
purpose. of giving hearing to gentlemen from
the Public Library and other associations who
may desire to be heard.


The appropriation bill, as passed by both
branches of the City Government, is as fol-
lows.
Year: 1870

PROBABLY TRIcK.-A dispatch from New
York received yesterday announced the myste-
rious disappearance of "Dr. Walter H. Foster
of Philadelphia, a native Of Portland" and
that foul play was suspected So far from his
being native of this city, he was here but
about six months. He came here last year
with the professed intention of studying medi
cine, and to some who did not know him he
tried to palm himself off as son or relative of
our esteemed citizen, DR.. Thomas A. Foster.
be mad been here but few months before his
true character was discovered, and be was cut
by the entire faculty. He then left this city
and went to Philadelphia. 1t is supposed by
those who knew him here that he is playing
some game in New York.
Year: 1870

French nation with an iron hand; and emu
lous Of his uncle's wicked ambition, but with
out q particle of his uncles military genius,
he made himself an international nuisance, the
enemy of every good government in Europe


For some inscrutable reasOn-perhaps as a
punishment for sin-IIeaven has permitted him
for nearly twenty years to keep the world in
turmoil. At last the end seems near, and
the huge fabric of fraud is breaking up.


Two weeks ago he set out for the Rhine


very much as in 1886 he set out for Stras-
bourr. His object in the earlier adventure was
to march triumphant upon Paris. His object
in the later was to ride in glory to Berlin. In
both cases he was well supplied with pro-
carnations, but rather insufliciently provided
with everything else, and in both cases his
tory will have to record his ignOminlous 1ali-
ure. King William has driven him out OF the
Paatinate as easily as Colonel Taillaudler put
him in the guard-house at StrasbOurg or Puygel-
lier drove him into the water at Boulogne. Inc
sounding speeches with which he began his cam
paign, the carefully arranged theatrical effects,
the tnsel, the rouge, the lime-lights, ana the
tabeaux, what are they now but the dlslnai
ornaments of an unsuccessful spectacle 7
What imagination is strong enough to imagine
the empire of Napoleon III. ever regainlng the
delusive glory which belonged to it two weeks
ago? The edifce which he declared had been
crowned by the fraudulent vote of the Sth OF
MAY is-fallng to pieces like house of cards.
A victory in the field, if it come at once, may
postpone the final overthrow; but for Napo-
leon there is no longer the chance of salvation.
No glory which may hereafter crown the
French standards will be reflected upon
him. He will never share the laurels
of his legions, he will have no part in their
possible trumphs, and their battles henceforth
will not be fought for the support of his
throne. A single conflict on the Rhine from
tier has been his ruin. The noise of single
cannonade has reused France from her twenty
wears sleep; she rubs her eyes, and discovers
that she has been submitting to a sham hero,
who cannot help her in the hour of danger,
and she resolves to trust him no more. What
ever the immediate result of the present bat
! tie in Paris and the threatened battle on the
Moselle, the dynasty founded upon the crime
of the Second of December is already nearly
overthrown. God be praised for it.
Year: 1870

Queen Victorias speech on prOrOguing Par
lament yesterday does not indicate that she
shares the anxiety of her people at the pros
pect of becoming involved in the French and
Prussian war But neither her mild and diplo-
matte language, nor the fact of the adjourn
ment of Parliament during the present import
ant crisis in France, shows indifference on the
part of the English Government to the pressing
danger. The Ministers have acted with great
caution and deliberation in taking steps to
assure the neutrality of Belgium, and have
resOrted to diplomacy only. There has been
no suggestion of the employment of force ex-
cept from the people in the first hours OF
excitement, and their indignant demand that
forces should be sent to Belgium was satisfied
by preparations for action, net action Itself.
Mr.. Gladstone has secured an extension OF
executive power and the adjournment of Par
lament, whose action might have embarrassed
him. 1t is clearly not his intention OF being
dragged, by the enthusiasm of the people or
the tactics of the Opposition, into any com
promising attitude toward either OF the
contending nations. England under Gladstone
will be as cold and passive as England under
PalmerstOn and will content herself with
making money ont of France and Prussia, as
she did out of the North and South
Year: 1870

in making him and them objects OF ridicule
and pity to the very people whom he servilely
initiates. His daughter in mock SATIN ana
cotton lace dragglcs through the sands at
Long Branch a dress whose design and shape
originally lent grace to "a duchess in her own
drawing-roOm. Nor is it the present outlay
which il the sole evil; the mildew OF decay
rots not only the purse but the moral sense.
Calico or silk2 becomes at last the problem OF
life 10 the Girl, as a hired hack or thorough
bred does to her brother. The whole frame OF
society from head to foot is feverish, tainted
with impure and worthless desires.


Nor is it worth while to allege that the fault
lies in the weather. classes, and that the
remedy must come from their reformation.
Effective reforms in any people have always
begun i'm the lower strata, grown out or ther
need, worked upward to leaven the mass.
There is, perhaps, among the mechanics ana
tradesmen of this country larger amount OF
sound practical sense, if less refinement or
culture. than in the classes they initiate. 1t Is
high time that this common sense was put 10
work in their own home affairs as well as III
the matters Of politics and Trade Unions. Let
any one of them look calmly at his own ana
his wife's way of life, and determine whether
a servile outside aping of others, and lgnoDiy
debased ambition as to the ends OF life, ABOUT
the family hearth, will not surely corrupt III
future the strength and happiness OF the
Year: 1870

The President and Attorney General are both
understood to have expressed in decided term,
their disapproval Of the course proposed by
the Georgia Legislature to avoid an election this
Fall, and prolong their own terms of office. The
Interpretation of the Reconstruction acts thus
sanctioned by the President is 80 obviously
inst. that the only occasion for surprise is in
the audacity of the Georgia faction which pro-
noses TO defy it. We trust they will not now
undertake also to defy the Administration as
we'll as the law Of Congress. Do let MS have
an end to these perpetual Georgia compiIca-
ti0Dsi
Year: 1870

It is to be hoped that the police are not de
pending upon the developments of the inquest
for clue to the murderer of Mr.. Nathan.
Thus far there have been 10 facts established
upon which the shrewdest detective could base
a theory which if pursued would promise a
successful solution of the mystery. The ex-
animation yesterday of Mr.. Frederick Nathan
revealed little which the public does not
already know, and nothing which suggests
any explanation Of the affair.
Year: 1870

The latest railroad horror impels us once
more to inquire why, even from selfish con-
sideratlons, railroad companies are not induced
TO adopt measures of absolute prevention
against accidents like the last There is no
excuse for the precipitation of train down
a deep embankment. Let the embankments
be walled up with rough stone to a
hight of say four feet above the level of the
track. Trains could not then go down, and
the amount paid by some roads for the lives
of the passengers they murder would be am
pie for the construction of this life-saving
imprOyement.
Year: 1870

II is hardly an exaggeratiOn to say that Tor


the present the French Empire has ceased TO


exist. Napoleon's attempt to appease an angry


and threatening pOpulace by sacrificing


an unlucky General and subser-


Went Ministry is not successful The


people look upon him as the cause


of ali their humiliation. They denOunce him


openly. They have no hesitation in asking


his abdication. He has no longer the direction


of the country. No reference to him is found
in the debates on the situation except re-


quest that he will return to Paris


and await the peoples pleasure. The
Corps L6gislatif threatens to resolve itself
into National Convention, assumes the en-
tire responsibility of the national defense, and
already contemplates the idea of taking the
sovereign power away from an incompetent
ruler, and intrusting it to a military
dictator who shall be charged, as the
Roman consuls were of old in hours OF
extraordinary peril, to see that no evil happen
TO the commonwealth. The Prince Imperial
has fled to London, and Napoleon, sick as he
is, dares not leave the camp. Practically his
authority is at an end, and it is not easy to
see how he ever can recover it, for victory
which might quel the dangerous excitement OF
the Paris populace would rebound not to his
honor, but to his generals. The Emperor has
proved conclusively his incapacity as a soldier,
and upon what, except military renOwn, can a
Bonaparte dynasty resti If fortune should
once more smile upon him. he may hold yet a
while longer the scepter which he stole in 1851;
but even the army must have lost faith in him
now, and he has no hold whatever upon power
except in the dissensiOns of parties and the
difficulty of finding his successor. If France
had one great general, approved great by sue
cess, Napoleon would have to abdicate to-day.
Year: 1870

Napoleon now and then does bold and


manly deed witch no one can help admiring.
We think his conduct after the defeat of Mac
Mahon and FrOssard was in one respect manly,
for be told the truth and frankly asked the
people to help him. His behavior now, III the
face of the danger in Paris, shows boldness
if not good judgment, for he meets the revolt
by appointing thoroughly reactiOnary Minis
try which may be trusted to uphold him in
any despotic enterprise. But he has gone so
far that even the unaccustomed virtues OF
truth snd courage will hardly save him now.
Year: 1870

The Ne,c- York Times informs its readers that
il does not think well of THE TRBUNE's war
dispatches. VIII it now have the goodness to
inform the Agent of the Associated Press that
il does not wish to avail itself of the privilege
under which it is permitted to receive early
copies of these dispatches 1t will then have
no further cause to repeat it, yesterdays Ia
ment over their cost; or further temptation to
renewed drains on its suffering treasury.
Year: 1870

The closing scenes of the Gcumenical COun-
ell at Rome were not of kind to encourage
the Pope. The declaration of lnfallibility was
received by the people of the city without any
of the evidences of delight which were ex-
pected, and the city wore nothing of the holi-
day aspect common on great occasions. OuI
correspondence on the second and third pages
describes at length the scene and incidents OF
the declaration of the new doctrine, and re-
views the work thus far accomplished.
Year: 1870

1t is to be hoped that the vindcation of the
law in the execution OF John Real may serve warn
ing TO the sneak news thief John Russell Young and all
the other sneak thieves In the city.


Yes but what does The Sun think OF the
journal that prints column after column of
the Special War Correspondence of THE TRIB-
LINE as "EI0m oM litsl Correspondent" at
Year: 1870

The Chief of the Census Bureau is putting
himself in the unpleasant position of "the first
"bringer of unwelcome news" and will find,
if he continues to develop the facts of the
.Ansus as fast as they reach him. that he "has
Year: 1870

The Saginaw Enterprise says young
man Who is at present engaged in survey
ing under the direction of the county drain
commissioner, has just received a notifca-
ton from the Bavarian Government. of
which he is a subject, to return home i'm
mediately and shoulder his musket in the
service Of his country. In case he should
refuse or neglect to return, he forfeits the
sum OF LOCO guilders, which will be taken
from his patrimony provided he is entitled
to one. Should he after thus refusing to
respond, ever visit his native land, he will
be seized and imprisoned. This young
mans passport runs two years, unless he
be sooner recalled. He is in great purtur.
baton OF mind in consequence ofthe sum
mons, and hardly knows what course tc
pursue. His friends, it IS said, advise hin
not to heed it.
Year: 1870




The question of the policy Of further debat-
ing the Georgia bill was discussed in the SEN
ate yesterday, Mr.. Chandler stating very truly
and pointedly that everybody was sick of so
much Georgia ''hash." 1t was deemed impos-
sible, however, under the rules to prevent the
rehashing tendencies of windy members, and
the historical talk of the last few years about
outrages and constitutions and loyalty and re-
construction and the noble fighting qualities Of
the negroes was begun again, with no early
prospect Of satisfactory ending of it.


In the House sort Of guerilla warfare
was maintained all day, number of little sub
jects being touched upon and nothing more
important than the tariff being discussed at
length. Mr.. Cyrus Fields memorial for aid
in the construction of the American and Asiatic
telegraph cable was referred to the Commit
tee on Public Lands, as it asks only for land
grant. In the committee we hope it will be
promptly considered, and that the legislature
of the country will not throw the obstacles
either of delay or parsimOny in the way of
putting girdle round the earth.
Year: 1870

Our time is so prolific Of daring new
schemes for facilitating commercial inter-
course that 1t is only an argus-eyed intelli-
gence like the public press that can keep them
all in view. In these days, when even the
stormy Atlantic is regarded as merely broader
kind of ferry passage, it is not surprising to
learn that bill entitled the International
Communication bill has been brought before
the British Parliament, which proposes to
establish regular railway steam ferriage
between Dover and some point directly oppo-
site on the French coast, the boats to be con-
structed four hundred and fifty feet in length
by eighty feet beam over all, and capable of
receiving railway trains lowered upon them at
tide level by hydraulic apparatus. Special
harbors and peculiar facilities will, of course.
be required on both sides of the Channel; but
the British and French companies likely to be
thus conjoined are favorable to the scheme,
and the capital will not be wanting. This
bold work accomplished who can venture
to say that it cannot be done within the next
FIVE years ?-passengers and freight could pass
direct from Scotland to the extremity Of the
Italian Peninsula without transfer il need be.
One subtle feature Of the onward march Of
modern invention is that each new thing imme-
diately suggests and prepares the way for
another. Fill up the ranks, then, and press
on the column!
Year: 1870

THE CLAIMS OF NORFOLK FORA NAVY YARD
Some of the enterprising citizens of Norfolk,
Va, having heard that the Navy Yard is to be
removed from Brooklyn, think that it could not
be removed to better place than Norfolk.
We remember that some nine years ago there
was very fine Navy Yard at Norfolk, but
that to prevent its falling into the hands Of a
certain Southern confederacy 1t was destroyed,
being partly burned down and partly blown up,
together with the burning or scuttling of q
powerful feet Of United States war ships, and
we are afraid that those unfortunate events are
too fresh in the leading minds Of Congress Con- for
the restoration Ct present Of said Navy Yard.
After while, when time shall have wiped out
oil the asperities of the war and the South
shall have become thoroughly Union in senti-
ment we doubt not the Norfolk Navy Yard
will be restored; for the harbor there has so
many advantages for a navy yard that they
cannot be considered as wholly abandoned by
the government. The New York Navy Yard,
however, must be retained near at hand for
the defence of the all-important harbor of
New York
Year: 1870




The GRANDEUR OF TIE NATION. by tele-
gram from Washington we learn that some
three or four million dollars have been appro-
priated for the completion of the new
Post Offices in this city and in Boston.
The erection of public buildings is among
the most important movements tending toward
establishing the grandeur Of great nation
The buildings Of the Post Office Department
should be among the first recognized. Our
Congress has just appropriated three millions
for the completion of the New York Post
Office. From the foundations of the building
we judge that the structure will be such as
can command, when completed, the admira-
ton Of not only this but the coming genera
tion. We suppose the Boston new Post Office
business will be arranged as satisfactorily as
that of the same character in New York, and
that both structures will become at once orna-
ments to the cities named and an honor to the
nation.
Year: 1870

RELIGION IN THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
Stock Exchange yesterday on the question of
keeping Good Friday. A strong disposition
was shown to put down a movement in favor
of closing the Exchange, but 1t was finally
declared carried. This religious question
appears to be permeating very generally
through all our social systems, and when it
causes an excitement among the strait-laced
brokers Of Wall street we may well consider
1t one Of threatening proportions. So long as
it did not affect their little operations we had
an idea these gentlemen would not care whit
one way or another.
Year: 1870




With all the important public business
pressing on the House of Representatives, that
body has been spending two whole days in the
partisan work of voting to seats men whom
their constituents had elected to remain at
home. In vain did the chairman Of the Com
mittee Of Ways and Means object to this inter
ruption of the consideration of the Tariff bill,
which has been dragging Its slow length In
committee Of the whole for the last fortnight,
not counting the time occupied In general dis
cussion. The dominant majority could not
resist the demand Of party, and the important
business Of the country had to give way to the
petty interests Of individuals. First came one
Of the Louisiana cases, In all Of which the
theory Of the various republican claimants is
that if the negroes had voted, and voted for
them, they would have been elected; and
then came Pennsylvania case, where the
sitting member, a democrat had to give way
to his opponent on equally plausible grounds.
There are many other cases of like character
that are to be called up before the session
draws to q close-each Of them to occupy
time which might easily be applied to better
purpose.


There never was greater farce in legisla-
tive bodies than this one of contested elections.
No matter what their several merits or
demerits be, there is but one conclusion
inevitably to be reached, and that is that the
seat is to be given to the person who is of the
politics of the majority. The unfortunate
individual who trains with the minority might
just as well yield without struggle. Now
and then an unmanageable member will kick
over the traces and vote according to his con-
viction, as the irascible but unstable Bingham
did the other day in the Louisiana case but
these eccentricities never affect the general
result. And the extraordinary spectacle is
questions is submitted to the House of Repre-
sentatives, of the facts being interpreted in
one way by the members Of one party and in
the opposite way by members Of the other
party. What high estimate of Congressional
purity and independence this state of things
is calculated to impress on the public mind


There Is but one remedy for this abuse and
for the systematic contempt of popular cleo
tions which it brings with it, and that is for
the House to renounce all interference with
the matter. Whoever presents the proper
credentials of election should be admitted
to his seat, and If any person contests his
right to it let him do it before the judicial
authorities Of his State. IF the Governor Of
a State pives a certificate of election imnrO-
perly that question should be tested there, not
in Washington. The courts are the proper
forum for the adjudication of the question,
and to them 1t should be remitted. Tho
present system is nothing but gross partisan
trampling on private and public right. What
member will be honest enough to initiate q
measure that will put an end to it and restore
some little confidence in the dnality Of popular
electiOns?