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Year: 1872

If the tariff on type used by the
American printers were removed, type
could be bought for about threefi fitths
of the present price. Ifit be claimed
that type founding is an American in
dustry that is entitled to protection,
we answer sol printing an Ameri-
can industry, hundreds of times more
important employing hundreds, per-
haps thousands of times as many me-
chanics and as much of capital as type
founding. Printers are manufacturers
of no small Importance. Any bounty
or tax upon their tools and imple-
ments is a tax, not only upon one
of our great industries, but a tax upon
knowledge and education. Tax on
type makes the primer and spelling
book cost more to all the children OF
the land, to say nothing of its being a
clog upon all public and private libra
ries.


If it be true, as we state above, that
the printers of the United States pay
two-fifths of their type purchases, as
a tax to monopoly, is it not about
time they represented the fact to their
members of Congress This tax does
not go to the Government, because
scarcely any type is imported. Itcan
be removed in three months, if every
newspaper publisher will address a
letter to his member of Congress sim
ply asking to have it removed. No
tine-spun theory of protection will
help retain a tax so unjust to SO large
an industry, so useless for revenue
purposes, and so detrimental to the
educational advantages of the nation
just one page of manuscript from
every editor that reads this, will re
move the tax, as surely as the people
ule.-Nerspaper Reporter.
Year: 1872

In thus casting aside these three ad-
juncts to its success, the Republican
party clearly demonstrates it's strength
in the State. The voice of the Demo-
cratic press has been directed against
these bills from their first introduc-
ton down to the present time, and
now that they are no more, we trust
that our opponents are satisfied that
we have thus early signitied our in
tention to combat them ON a field of
their own choice, in the next CAM
paign, at the same time upon the
subject of reform, they can do no less
than joining with us in rendering
honor to whom honor is due-Gover-
nor Warmoth and a Republican Leg
islature,
Year: 1872

We copy this from the New Orleans
Republican of Wednesday:


The Democratic Parish Committee
and the presidents Of the ward clubs
were in Council last evening, the sub
.iect under discussion being the formal
recognition of the compact between
the Custom House Republicans and
the Democratic party, and the policy
of continuing the league SO as to in
clude a joint party organization and
division of nominations for the cam
paign of November next. Our infoTs
nation is to the effect that perfect
harmony did not reign at this. conclave
of the Democratic brethren, some of
the fiery ones denopncing coalitions
with Radicals, of whatever class on
degree others objecting to action at
this time, which might hereafter prove
binding Tor at least embarrassing,
even if the Custom House ring should
lose the power of assisting the Democ-
racy; but the majority seemed to fav-
or the continuance of the coalitions
on the ground that no Democrat has ii
chance for office if the split in the Re
publican ranks is not kept open and
widened.


What will be the final decision of
the Democratic sachems, we care not
to prophecy, but we candidly acknowl-
edge our hope that the league, with all
its conflicting and incongruous inter-
ests, will be maintained. We have no
fear of the Republican masses. They
can not be seduced into the Demo-
cratic ranks under any specious pre-
text; and all of those whilom leaders
whose ambitious schemes have led
them into dark and treacherous ways
are far less dangerous as open enemies
than as false friends in eur own ranks.
In fact, the principals among them
have very little choice in the matter.
They can never, by any possibility,
regain their lost standing in the Re-
publican party. The great principles
and vital interests they have betrayed
will be carefully guarded from their
control henceforward. And, certain
ly, the Democracy are welcome to
take these aspiring leaders without
| followers, and make the best of their
bargain. How many fat Offices they
will resign to such allies may be judg-
ed by the traditional policy of that
party to " get all it can and keep all
it gets.n Let the coalition be main-
tanned.
Year: 1872

Late Panama papers just received
confirm the destruction of the city OF
Orgon, in the Argentine Republic, by
an earthquake. Not house was left
standing. Fortunately only one life
was lost. A volcano has appeared in
the vicinity.
Year: 1872

Fhe friends of the President are not
the only persons who will be heartily
glad to learn that there is not word
of evidence which tends to implicate
Mr.. Grant in any of the scandalous
transaction with which he has been
charged by partisan opponents in con-
nection with the custom house. There
is proof that he was imposed on in the
matter of the general order of bust
ness; there is proof that his name was
used to impose on others; there is
some reason for suspecting that one or
two of his intimate associates connived
at this use of his name. But the evi-
denee affords no excuse for assailing
his personal integrity, and journals
which have INDUCED their temper in
aspersions of this kind would act wise
ly to retract them at once.-N. L.
Erfaing Post. a.
Year: 1872

The dedication to-day of a new monumental
memento of Shakespeare in a great city which
hardly had an existence while he was writing,
does not so much suggest q critical estimate
of his genius as q consideration of the curious
and unique character both of his work and Of
his fame. There is hardly any man who has
achieved so enduring and general reputa-
ton, and there is no parsonage of whose
outer personality so little is accurately known.
1t is as if he had bequeathed to his critics and
biographers some fragments of his own limit
less imagination. Those who reverence insist
upon painting ideal portraits of him, and,
in the absence of biographical particulars,
we make the most of trumpery lot of le-
gends which are neither authentic nor of
much Importance if they were so. Then it
would seem as if the huge proportions of his
genius had grown less imposing to us through
the friendly influence of his simple humanity
and we venture upon taking liberties with the
demi- god, like children playing at the feet of
the Phidian Jove. We do not so unreservedly
reverence the seer, because his revelations
have become part of our homely and every
day stock of wisdom. This, and the influence
of scenic representation necessarily made
duate, have made us less respectful, and taken





something of the divinity out of his fame.


1t is remarkable fact that no great writereveI
had such a shabby company of critics. His
works were originally printed without any
literary or mechanical advantages and thou
sands of pages have been written about their
typographical errors. 1t is quite evident that,
either from literary or commercial jealousy,
Shakespeare was stupidity found fault with,
not only by Jonson, but by much meaner
men. The little epitaph by Milton is charm
ing, and occasions us no surprises but who
was there afterward who seems to have had a
tolerably adequate estimate of the poets great
nessf r., The hum and the haw and the hair
splitting, the now-up and the now-down of
the mass of English commentary OH Shake
speare, from Dryden to DR.. johnson, is
exceedingly irritating. 1t even reminds
us Of the blasphemous Frenchnan who sud
that if he had been consulted at the creation
of the world, he would have saved the
Almighty many absurdities. Dryden was man
of genius and scholar, and could not help
having a glimpse of Shakespeares greatness
but, for all that, he had no doubt OF his
ability To improve the plays. lie was always,
Year: 1872




The porIlar and almost universal demand
that the civil war should be considered closed
has had at least one benclcent effect; it has
given us partial Amnesty. We heartily thank
the Senate for the great concession made yes
terday in the passage of the House Amnesty
bill. The country will be grateful and glad,
and it will be everywhere considered as a
triumph of the popular will that measure
so wise and kindly as Universal Amnesty
should at last receive the partial approval of
Congress. By the passage of this bill, which
has been signed by the President, over 10000
men, active in affairs and recognized by
the Southern people as leaders and form
ers of public opinion, are released
from political disabilities which have re-
strained them since the close of the war;
They are eligible to Office and are henceforth
restored to all the privileges enjoyed by any
citizen of the United States. There yet re-
main some four or five hundred persons politi-
cally disabled under the clause which excepts
from the provisions of the bill Senators and
Representatives in the XXXYIth and
XXXYIIth Congresses; officers in the Judi
cial, Military, and Naval Service of the United
States; heads of Departments, and Foreign
Ministers of the United States. In this COM
paratively slender category some prominent
names will be recalled. Many of the men on
whom the stigma would have yet rested are
passed away.


1t must be regretted that this generous
measure lacks completeness and universal ap-
plcatiOn. 1t stops just short of Universal
Amnesty in order to punish few individuals
whose oilcnses are not more fragrant than
were those of the men now restored to the
privileges of citizenship. People will ask why
the Vice-President Of the COnfederacy should
be received back again while an obscure Mem
Der of the XXXYIth Congress continues under
the ban. The concession, large as it is, is not
complete enough to make an end for
ever of the ancient contentious which
have come down to us with other
relics of the last decade in our civil history
Why fan these lames2 Why permit the root
of bitterness to remain in the ground to spring
up in rank growths hereafterq But, with all its
shortcomings this partial amnestyis better than
the miserable and exasperating law of disabili-
ties which has, for six years, kept the natural
leaders of the South out of the work OF re-
forming Southern opinion. Though an imper-
feet remedy, it will do much to alleviate exist
ing disorders.
Year: 1872

ton did not originally proceed from
within but from without the Church.
The triumphant election of candidate who.
q year ago, was supposed to he the least likely
man in all his denomination to receive its chief
honors, is an unexpected proof of the latent
yet potent radicalism of thought which, like a
bodies as well as in political parties. 1t is
not our province, as secular journal, to pass
judgment on the episcopal elections of yester-
day-to say whether they were wise or otherwise;
but so signal an event as the election of the
chief radical of great religious denomination
to the most elevated and conservative
office in its gift, is one which could never
have taken place in any other country than
America, or at any other time than the era of
Spencer, Tyndall Huxley, and Mill.
Year: 1872

tempt for the universal voice of warning they
havo received from their constituencies.


This is fact of especial significance. 1t
would not be difficult to imagine the reasons
which might induce Senators, anxious for in
fuence at their Ostensible homes and afraid OF
their own people, to vote this force bill against
any objections. But the fact that the Admin
istration members have supported 1t In solid
phalaDx shows that it is earnestly desired by
the Executive, and that this strong and
unscrupulous will is silently exerting it
self to accomplish this temporary Dictator
ship. If it were not for the stimulus OF q
powerful self-interest there would be no dis
position to endure the open ill-will which even
the prospect of this legislation has excited in
every part of the country. The measure Is
clearly political one. Its object is to use the
army in the canvass in the interest of the
faction now in power. The present military
Administration has determined to remain III
Office. The men who are strongest in it are
men who know but one way of accomplishing
their purposes-by direct and not very pune
tlious action. They can easily persuade
themselves that the good of the country re-
quires that they shall be continued in place.
When you make q soldier Dictator and Presi-
dent, and virtually give him the classic
charge, q" to take care that the Republic shall
receive no detrmcnt"-you give him very
wide range. In his opinion the Republic
could receive no greater detriment than to
fail to rcGlect him.


We still have strong hopes of the House OF
Representatives. They have once or twice
shown favorable symptoms of Discrimination
to be mounted by the rough riders of the
Government They are nearer to the people
than the Senate and this fact serves to
preserve in them a certain sense of responsible
ity. We believe they will refuse to join in this
last desperate effort to revive the old policy OF
hate and distrust which has ceased to have
any reason for existing. 1t is time, now If
ever, for q resumption of the reign of law.
1t is time to sheath the sword which has
been brandished too long over the people of
the South. Let us have a true republican
government once more. In the South, as III
the North, let us have peace.
Year: 1872

SHALL A CANDIDATE BE DICTATORP


SO far as the Senate are concerned the coun-
try has abdicated its right of self-gOvernment
during the Presidential election. The law en-
powering the President to suspend at his dis
cretion the writ of IIabeas Corpus yesterday
passed the Senate by vote of 2S to 10. There
was little genuine discussion in regard to it.
The partisans of the Administration and tho
men who hope to be reelected by bayonets,
wasted few hours in vague or scurrilous talk.
The ashes Of the extinct Rebellion were raked
and blown upon in every sense, to see if some
lingering spark of danger could not be cOaxed
out of them. The fact that seven years of
constantly increasing quiet and tranquility
have passed since the war; that throughout
the South it is the first wish of nine out of
ten of the population that peace and order
should prevail, that immigration should in
crease, and good will between the races and
the sections be restored-all these evident
facts produced no effect upon those stoid pol
iticians, intent only upon drawing possible
ephemeral advantage from their reckless and
ungracious act. They have seemed to
care as little for the North as for the
South. Every utterance of public opinion
has been against this deporable leg
islation. The great majority even of those
papers which sustain the Administration have
deprecated the further extension Of this Ku-
Klux Act, as useless and dangerous. But certain
Senators of the South have appeared to thin


they could gain more from the presence of tho
soldiers than they could lose 10y voting to
bring them, aud their Northern allies hayd
steadily SUPPORTED them. Hih d sulen COM
Year: 1872

Think of woman Of 43 years of age, in Detroit.
suing boy of 10 for breach of promise OF marriagei
If a minor can make contract of that kind, it will
always be suspicious one when the female party
is over forty; nor will jury give very stringent
damages for the loss of husband who, in the eye
of the law sunable to make any of the ordinary
tracts of bargain and SALE to convey real property
single woman at 43 is not supposed to be very
cepble to the tender passion, unless she is fool;
and so this Detroit woman ought to get no damages
for the injury to her feelings. Such a case ought
not to keep the least intelligent jury out more than
forty yeight hours.
Year: 1872

A Moral Social Science Association, it is stated,
is to be formed in Boston, the object of which viii
be to ameliorate the condition Of fallen women, and
where it is possible, to reform them. We know
nothing particularly of those who are to be engaged
in this work, nor of the machinery which they in
tend to employ; but it is something to find virtuous
women in Boston anywhere else who find no con-
tamination in one of the most important and we'll
defined branches of Christian work
Year: 1872

In the midst of these heated days of political
discussion and nights of canyassing, Boston
serenely pursues the subject of industrial edu-
cation. An essay on this subject by an emil
nent divine with animated discussion thereon
is epitomized for the readers of THE TRIBUNE
and will be found on the second page of tins
journal.
Year: 1872

People who are anxous to die might better not move
to Durham Conn., for there is something N that To-
cality which leads to longevity. There is specimen
old lady there who lacks only one year of 100. Dur
ing the last year only eight deaths occurred in the
town in a population of l,lO0; and the average Of
the lives of the inhabitants was twice as great in
the State at large Among other steady habits
there folk seem TO have a steady habit of living.
Year: 1872

The New Jersey Republican Conventionmeets
to-day It's business is on behalf OF the Ad-
ministration Republicans of New-Jersey, TO
declare for the denomination of Gen. Grant
Considering that this is substantially already
achieved, it seems good deal of trouble for
very small result. But the renominationlsts
prefer to make great fuss about settled
matter.
Year: 1872

The failure to obtain legislative investiga-
ton into the municipal affairs of Brooklyn
appears all the more TO be regretted since the
new Commissioners of the recognized de-
partments elected by caucus of Federal
office holders on the express condition that
they support President Grant for denomination
at Philadelphia) continue the old policy of re-
fusing to permit investigation by the tax
payers themselves. The success of the Com
mittee of Seventy-fve in securing such set
of partisan Commissioners was not remarkable
as a reform measure, while the Committee of
Fifty seems to have had no success at all.
The latter organization INDUCED, yesterday,
in a long complaint, of which we can find
room only for a brief but comprehensive sum-
mary, to the effect that Ring influence at
Albany had deprived them of the right of
petition, and that their application for relief
had been pigeOn-hOled by the representatives.
Year: 1872

Some notion of the character of the line OF
defense to be adopted 10y Judge Barnard
before the Court of Impeachment may be
gained from the proceedings of yesterday
Briefly it is-object to everything. This plan
of tactics is likely to prolOng the trial, and
we must expect that the Court will comfort
ably settle down for long Summer session
at Saratoga, beginning with July II.
Year: 1872

The Chancellor of New-Jersey has refused
an Injunction sought against the building OF
n railroad bridge across the Raritan River.
This bridge is an indispensable part of the
work of the New-York and Long Branch Cor
Southern New-Jersey) Railway. The progress
of the enterprise has been steadily opposed at
every step by the railway monopoly of New
Jersey; and the defeat of the opposition at
this point gives some assurance that selfish
and obstructive policy will not longer be able
to deprive Southern New-Jersey of an easy
outlet for its products.
Year: 1872

The arralgnment OF stokes, yesterday, ulu
not result in the opening of trial which, fol-
many reasons, ought to have been concluded
long ago. Another special plea i'll bar was
submitted, and the case went over for the
day. But if nothing else was developed 1t
was established beyond doubt. what most
reputable lawyers have trusted was a false
report, that John Graham, one of the original
counsel for Stokes, and the one responsible
for the stupid policy of delay, had actually
abandoned his client in his great extremity
This action, now officially announced, is gen.
orally regarded by the legal profession as no
more to be justified than the abandonment by
physician of patient in a critical state OF
disease because of failure to follow his
every direction.


The minor troubles of life and small frauds
upon housekeepers are after all, the most vex-
atiOus. We take pains to point out some more
of the latter this morning, with no very def
mite idea of how to secure their correction, but
satisfied, from our past experience, that there
is virtue in publicity, and that it will help to
defeat the small rOgues who practice the
cheats We speak of the swindles as small,
but the aggregate of money lost to consumers
is immense, and the rOgues are certainly not
few in number. The exposures we are max
ing, and which we shall continue from time
to time, until we have told who is responsible
for the adulteration of our tea and coffee and
sugar and spices and bread, as well as meat
and milk, are worthy the serious study OF all
household economists, to whom we commend
the articles, and in whose interest they are
Year: 1872

LATEST NEWS FROM ALI POINTS


SOLIcITOR GENERAL BRIST0W RESIGNED


COMPLIMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT
EXTENT OF THE POULTRY DISEASE
DR0PsY IN HORSES AT NEW YORK
PRAYERS FOR FRENCH ASSEMBLY
DAMAGE BY STORMS AND HURRICANE
THE CHOLERA IN RUSSIA
EIGHTY THOUSAND DEATHS
PRINCE NAPOLEON SUING FOR DAMAGES
ANOTHER FIRE IN BOSTON
HIPP0PHALGIA COMING SOUTH
FIRE AT BATON ROUGE
THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURES
Year: 1872

The ladies' fair on Eighty.four street, between
Third and Fourth avenues, which has already had
run Of over three weeks, will be continued for
another week in the school house attached TO the
Church of st. Lawrence. The object Of the fair Is
to raise funds for the erection OF new church,
which, when finished, will not alone give ample
will also contribute, In an architectural way, to
the ad0rnment OF that portion OF the city.
There are many things OF interest In the fair. Not
withstanding its somewhat out-of-the-way location
1t finds its share OF patrons and is nightly increas-
ing In popularity. In the forthcoming week 10 Is
IL and the means secured to accomplish the pur-
pose for which the fair was started. Father Cock
Johns College to visit the fair and contribute to
the object.
Year: 1872

Considerable excitement was caused at Police
Headquarters yesterday afternoon by the an
nouncement OF the reception Of despatch from
the County Canvassers, ordering all the po-clcrks
and inspectors or the First, Second and Third As.
scmbly districts TO appear before those gentlemen
About three hundred persons had to be notified of
OF the desire ol the canvassers to interview them,
and 1t was evident from the looks fsome OF Them
as they hurried to Headquarters 10 find out what
was the matter that something had really gone
wrong. Whether the election officers were ac-
quanted with the danger In which they stood or
not could not be ascertained but the public will,
no doubt be duly informed OF the cause and mean
Ing oil the laundering despatch.
Year: 1872

Collapse Of the Market Of New York-A Feeling
Of Insecurity Prevalent and Fears for the
Stability Of Three or Four More COM
panies-A Legal squabble for the Re-
ceivership Of the International


Suspension Of More Out Of


Town Companies-The Hoff.


man Perfectly Solvent