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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22
ruCuTING FIREMEN.

The new Board of Fire Commissioners nave
- M, ;sis time. perhaps, found cause to res.ss!
that they did not follow the advice of Mr..
Acton. disband the old volunteer companies,
and until they could reorganize the Depart
mcnt, put the engines in charge Of the police
men whom Mr.. Acton offered to detail. If
they had gained nothing else by such a course,
they would have saved the bloody riot of
Sunday morning In our Judgment they
would also have added strength to their ad-
mUstration, gained the confidence of the CON-
munty at once, periled nothing, and have
been able to collect paid force more independ-
emily and that would have been Immediately
efficient and easily disciplined. We do not
doubt they will accomplish the same objects
in the end-we merely suggest that the
other way would have caused less friction.
In one view, we need not regret the riot of
Sunday 1t cost couple Of lives, but there is
always a price to be paid for experience, and as
the men killed were rioters, the loss to the COM
muniy is not great. And it was certainly worth
something to have the Volunteer Fire Depart
ment give us another brilliant Illustration Of its
peculiar merits and claims To most people
there will seem to be quite original talent for
roting among the excellent members of Engine
Company No. Al. Perhaps we ought to call it
genius rather than talent These patriotic
citizens to whom we have long been so much
indebted for their diSintcrcsted endeayors to
save our houses from the flames, had n stand
ing grudge against other patriotic citizens
composing Engine Company No. 6-to whom,
also, we have long been indebted for disinter-
ested endcavOrs to save our houses from the
flames. The two were well Known as fighting
companes-had fought often and long. We
don't know that one was any better than the
other but it seems that on this occasion No. Al
called strategy to its aid. No. Al hired small
boy TO set fire to q mattress on the roof of house
No. 33 Rdge-st with intent that No. should
thereby be called out to suppress the conilagra-
ton. No. Al, expecting the appearance OF It's
foes. armed itself with irOn.bound clubs and
many shooting rcvolvers-a slight advantage in
fight which No. 6 might or might not possess.
Tho small bog did his duty, and fired the mat
tress; out came No. 9, and the fight began. As
for any such little matter as putting out the
fire, that could be left to squad OF po-
licemen-or it might burn till doomsday for all
No. 6 aud No. Al cared. Their business was tol
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22
The Commercial Adrertiser says:

"nwe are to credit the returns made w the enumer
stors who were employ ed TO take the OF Brook
yn the City Of Churches has been almost at stand
still during The past five years-bayng only 2sls7 In
babitants now against 2i 22 in 1860; an increase OF
265-whie the number Of houses has dminished@the
returns showing 62 less than there was In leo Ihis
reported decrease in the number Of houses stamps the
whole enumeration as false, and shows that the
taking Of the in Brooklyn as in New York. has
been wretched farce
The Commercial seems Obliyious OF the ex-
istence of common fairness or decency. 1t
knows that the accuracy of the Census taken
by Marshal RynderS in 1860 is impeached-
that the question is between the accuracy OF
that and of the present Census-yet it coolly
assumes the correctness of the Rynders Census
as perfect and unquestioned. and thence assails
the present Census as indisputably dishonest.
We do not know that the Brooklyn returns
are complete, as they have not all been re-
ceiyed at the State Department, and the returns
given in our last did not emanate therefrom;
but We do know that, whenever complete, their
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22
THE HOUsATONIC VERDICT.

For once we nave COronerS jury lnat mas
done its duty manfully in case Of railroad
murder. The verdict on the Housatonic case
is given in full in another column-clear,
straightforward, and decisive. A minority Of
two partially dissents, but to no purpose. The
anxiety of Messrs. Seely and Stevenson to screen
the railroad officials will deludc nobody. The
verdict of numbers and the weight Of evidence
is on the other side. Plain rules of the Com
pany were violated by officers Of the Company.
If they had not been violated there would
have been no accident, and the ten
lives on which the inquest was called
would have been saved. We have Mr.. Andrew
WinslOw, master mechanic, Mr. Edward X.
Lyman, engineer, Mr.. Henry l.. Plumb, con-
ductor, and Mr.. Charles Hunt, President and
Superintendent of the HouSatonic Road, ar
raigned and convicted before jury Of their
peers. They and each of them are guilty OF the
ten deaths. "In consequence, says the verdict,
of the careless neglect of simple precautions
by these officers and employees of the road, ten
human lives have been sacrificed. We, the un-
dersigned jurors, having considered the evidence
given to US, do on our oaths say that Mrs. 4.
o. Wakeman, Mr.. Henry Lamberton, Mrs.
Maria Thorne, Mrs. Sarah Eagan, Samuel
Crofut, William Memmott, Thos. OBrien,
Geo W. Mansfield, Samuel b. Deming,
and Charlotte Cable came to their deaths from
collision on the Housatonic Railroad on the
18th of August 1865. between passenger train
and the locomotive Fairfield, which collision
occurred in consequence Of the culpable negli-
gence aud want of proper care and caution
on the part of Charles Hunt, President and Su'
pertinent, Henry s. Plumb, conductor, Andrew
Winslow, master mechanic, and Edward K.
Lyman, engineer on said railroad"
SO say ten good men and true-so say we all
of US. The record stands, never to be blotted
out.
What will be done about it We cannot
say; we do not know what the Connecticut
statutes may permit to be done. If they make
killing by railroad agents indictable
as manslaughter, then We expect the
grand jury Of the county to do Its
duty promptly. 1t is no time to think OF any
thing but duty. 1t is hard for Mr.. Hunt and
the rest of the officials, no doubt. They did not
intend to kill anybody they were only care
less But is it easy for the ten who died
by their carelessness1 Is it easy for their
friends or for the score and more who were
manged and manned by their carelessness'
Surely, if justice is ever TO be
done, if an example is ever to
be made, this is the time and this the example
And whether or not the law is potent to do the
work of justice, public opinion will help it.
These and all other railway officials
must learn that they can no longer trifie
with human life, that if the law is deficient a
law shall be made to reach them, and that when
made il will be executed. So much at least we
hope for from the Housatonic murder and this
Coroner's verdict.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22

Mr.. Max Maretzek has found out secret. 1t
has been, to be sure, an open one in this city
for rather more than quarter OF century, but
Mr.. Maretzek is nevertheless, being foreigner
and comparatively recent resident among us,
entitled to the honors Of first discovery. That
discovery is this-that The Herald is a mon-
strous humbug, and that submission to its
blackmai ling is something more than moral
dclinquency-a huge and losing blunder. That
journal was started and for while maintained
on the principle-the only one it ever had-oi
compelling subsidies from that portion of the
public who could be brought to fear exposure
for peccadiloes committed or presumed; and on
the PRONUNCIATION of such ISLANDERS, or payment
received for not promulgating them, it laid
the foundation Of its vicious prosperity. Now
and then sensitive nature was hunted to its
grave by the outrageous defamation of The
Herald; now and then sufferer took the law
into his own hands and inflicted summary
chastisement for objectionable libels;
more quietly submitted and paid roundy
for immunity. But at length the evil
cured itself, so far as our own citizens
were concerned, and of late this source
of revenue to The Herald has been reduced to
such sums as it could extort from foreign artists
who, ignorant Of our customs and Of the relative
character and standing of our journals, have
submitted TO the extortioDs practiccd upon
Them direct and indirect, from groundcss ap-
prehension that they could not succeed without
the influence Of The Herald on their behalf.
To what extent that system has been carried,
M. Maretzck shows in his letter which
we print in another column; how totally I'M
necessary it was for him and others of the same
class TO pay any such sum, or any sum at oil,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22

for the good will of The Herald. the musical
public and people who spend money for SO re-
fined an amusement as the Opera very well
know. M. Maretzek has found out at last that
the readers of that sheet are satisfied with such
high art as they find in the Music Saloons. The
Herald people spoke for the great majority OF its
patrons, and the truth for once, when it said
that they know nothing of the artistes who are
to appear this Winter at the Academy. They
know nothing of either Art or artistes.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22
fight. The police on the ground were tn -

fight. The police on the ground were too -
to contend with two engine compapias "a
telcgraphed for resnforcements. Before q. .
endorsements came, the fight had attained -.
spectacle proportions, but We have, unf.,,.
nately, no record Of its progress, nor do :.
know to which side victory inclined. WIZ.
the police arrived in numbers, matters GOT . n,
tie mixed. The engine companies fought each
other and the police simultaneously. n.
police having but one enemy speedily prorsd
90 much for the rioters, drove them Dell nan
down the street, scattered the mob arrest.d
the ringlcaders, seized the engines, and ton.
possession of the engine-houses. Two Of N.
rioters are known to have been mort.y,v
wounded, one has died, and a score or 80 -.
injured by pistol shots and clubs.
We apprchend such an exhibition will A.
much to reconcile US to dispensing in futun
with the volunteer system. An engine com.
pany capable ofSetting fire to house in order
to call out its rival company and begin gen.
eral riot, may not fairly represent the whole
Volunteer Fire Department; but it shows that
abuses had grown up in that system as strong
as the system itself. There was no way 10
purify or reform it-no way but to abolish it.
and when the work is done thoroughly and tho
new Department well organized, We shall I'll
sleep sounder in our beds, and expect our iasa.
rance brokerto tell US that the premiums On
fire risks in this city have been largely 70.
duced.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22
FOREIGN NEWS

The last advices from Hayti are to July %
The Rebels still held Cape Haytien sustaining uni;
cannonadng from the National troops. who hau iai'u
to inflict much damage. The lives OF Inc Ai"'i',
and English Consuls had been frequently
the Rebels. owing to their supposed ssi"pA'"' "''
President Geffrard.
The Dominican Government firmly REFUSES " s'en =
treaty proposed by tine Spanish uene'
having the appearance OF a conceSS'on ''o'A wv
nimity OF Spain rather than surfenuoi'
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22

ing to The Press, should be speedily hanged as
an example and q warning We quoted this
paragraph to enter remonstrance against
hanging anybody until trial and condemnation,
and, not thinking of The Press at that instant,
wrote Exchange" We trust this will excuse
what our contemporary so cheerfully and taste
fully calls the venom of the comments"
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22

The philadelphia Press is anxious for us to
state that the paragraph recently copied IN The
TRIBUNE and credited Exchange" was cut
from that paper. The paragraph in question
WAS in reference to the "hellish fendishness "
of man in jail, named Wirz-a man waiting
for his trial, for and against whom a great deal
is written in the newspapers, but who, accord.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22

accuracy can DO tested very promptly and
thoroughly. Let every family that supposes it.
self unreturned make voluntary return to the
County Clerk, and the official rolls in the State
Department will at once confirm or reiute the
presumption. Why not first ascertain, then' IL
YOU NAV, aSsail2
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22

An interesting address by Gen. Howard on
the Freedmen's Bureau, with other general and
local intelligence, will be found on the sixth and
seventh pages Of to-day's issue.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-22
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-28

rebellion and slavery are not yet ended,
and will not be until the emancipated ns<
groes Of the South are placed man equality
before the law with those who were former
'ly their masters. Colonel Alexander a.
Bullock and Hon. William Clafin we're
unanimously nominated for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor respectively. The
resolutions adopted express the utmost con-
6dence in President johnson, pledge him
support in his efforts to restore order in the
South, and sgree with his assertion that
treason is the greatest Of crimes, and must
be punished; call for vigor and vigilance in
dealing with the States lately in, rebellion
and the extirparation of every trace OF
slavery; maintain that the Southern people
cannot be safely entrusted with their civil
government or allowed representation in
Congress till by amendments to their State
constitutions they shall have prohibited
slavery; assert that neither Southern men
who tried to destroy the nation by arms,
nor Northern men who declared war for its
maintenance failure and called for its i'm
mediate cessation, are the proper persons to
be trusted with authority; and, while
avoiding declarationin in favor of extending
the ballot to the negroes of the South, say
that no test can be made which will deny
it to those of them who have borne arms in
defence of the republic and grant it to reb-
Ell soldiers and toraitrous politicians.
Governor Brownlow, of. Tennessee,
thus speaks of the Southern women in his
paper, the Knoxville Wig: "From the
commencement of the rebellion until now
the devil and the ponaen of the South have
been the ablest allies the cause of treason
had in the field. The influence of the wo-
men, backed up by his Satanic Majesty,
filed the ranks of the Rebel armies, and
gave ardor and endurance to hehen.peoked
men that entered the service. Southern wo.
men even petitioned the rebel Congress to
enact the law of CONSUMPTION, SO as to force
all in the service. Through the influence
which women had thousands were forced in.
to the field, and thence totheir graves, who
never would have left home. Playing into
the hands of the devil, by thus filing his
ranks, they had his approval all the time.
Wives gave up their husbands, sisters their
brothers, and mothers their SONS, willing,
nay, an1ious to immediate their lives to the
Moloch of war. The women are willing to
wear homespun, ready to dispense with the
luxuries of table or toilet; ready to fling
all their jewelry into the Confederate oru-
chile; ready to unsex themselves for the
cause of the devil and the Confederaoy."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-28

THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year
TWO DOLLARS for six months; ONE DOLLAR for
three months-payable in egreenbacks.' When paymen,
is made in specie, TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS
per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS
for six months; sEvENTy-FIvE CENTS for three
months. Single copies, TEN CENTS.
G5- Corn, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Lard, Frewood, &C.,
viii be received for Subscription, Advertising Work,
at market prices.
The paper viii be discontinued on the expiration OF
the time for which paymen, has been made Subscribers
who find W cross markUn the wrapper margin of their
paper will understand that the time paid has expired.
G5- Mr.. JOHN R. ALLEN, Post Master, at Chester c..
H., Is our authorized agent for Chester District.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-28
THE coNVENTroN.

n SOIy.t
We publish il to:days paper 3 synopsis
Of the proceedings Of the Convention, from from
the day on which it assembled, tosSaturday
last, inclusive. We inexperienced great
difficulty in procuring the proceeding, ov-
ing to the irregularity Of communication
with Columbia. So far as we have heard,
but.little business had been finished.
The Convention has adopted an Ordinance
repeating the Ordinance Of Secession, and
agreed to the following constitutional clause
abolishing slavery in this State aThe
slaves in South Carolina, having been d
facto emancipated BY the action Of the Uni'
ted States neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, exceptas punishment for crime,
whereof the party shall have been duly con
vieted, shall ever be re.established in this
State" = Gas g - -
+ The Parish system Of representatives 'has
been abolished With but eight dissenting
votes. Hereafter each Judicial District
except Charleston, will be entitled to one
Senator. Charleston will have three-tWt
for the city; and one for the District, ont
side of the city limits. ~, avs
Under the existing apportionment made
by Congress, South Carolina identified to but
four members. The State having had 8
representation of six members in the late
Confederate Congress, it is necessary to re
arrange the Congressional Districts. a
committee has been appointed forsthe pur
pose, but up to the present writing, we are
not advised of any report having been sub
mitted. We are inclined to the opinion,
from what we can learn, that oursown Con
gressional District will be composedof York
Chester, Union, Spartanburg and Green
vile. =
The Governor, Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State, Comptroller General ani
Treasurer, viii, doubtless hereafter be elect
ed by the qualified voters of the State
Judges and Chanosllors are to be appointed
BY the Governor, subject to the confirmation
of the Senate.
tits probable that the judicial District.
in the State viii hereafter be designated al
Counties, a resolution to that effect having
been submitted to the Convention. A
rumor is in circulation that the change haE
bean adopted. F -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-28
OUR MAILS.

The President of the Kings Mountain
Railroad, has been directed by the Post
master General to convey the mails over his
road, and supply the Offices on the route,
SO soon as Postmasters are appointed at
YorkVille and Chester We have heard Of
noappointments as yet. r.
Mr.. JANEY, has informed the editor of
the Pheain, that he has received his com.
mission as Postmaster at Columbia and that
mails would be made up for Charleston,
Winnsboro', Augusta, and routes connected
with. these places on and after Monday last.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-28
MERE.MENTIoN.

A. D. CuRRENoE, of York District, s
member of Company F, 18th Regiment, s
G. v. died at Point Lookout, Maryland, OF
the 17th of May, 1S65........1P Persons in
search of good article Of fche#ing. tobacco,
can find it G. R. Ratchford's, =. =. Gov.
ernor MARVIN, of Florida, has ordered an
election for Delegates to the State Conven.
ton, on the 10th day of October. .........'
Some negro troops in New Orleans. have
been sent to prison for three months, for
trespasaiug on the city cars setapart exolu.
sively for the whites. .''''...'The Boston
Post seys that State apothecaries are forbid.
den to sell medicine on Saturday evening
that is liable to work on sunday........'.
The manufacture of the new Atlantic tele.
graph cable has been commenced. The
Great Eastern has been engaged for cable
purposes for five years. .........The Charles,
ton Courier records the death of r. R.
Carroll He was the author of 'Carroll's
History of the United States, 'Aand several
efher works. s....:.....A correspondents wri.
ting from Macon, Ga, says that, Judging
from the number taking the amnesty oath
in that State, nearly the usual vote will be
polled at the coming election .'.'.''...A
woman who was being examined in a scan
dal case, in the Madison (Ind. police court,
was interrogated by the magistrate, as tc
whether she was the wife of the respondent.
She answered, 81 suppose I am his wife by
brevet" 80. ~
.\A Scotch agent has secured large tract
of land in Virginia, where colony ot
Scotch emigrants will settle in Novembe,
or December. ..........M .Messrs. HARRISON,
GoDDIN & AppERsoN, of Richmond, Va.
offer to engage to furnish farmers with
Swediah emigrants as laborers, on the fol-
lowing terms, per year Able bodied men,
|>2O to so years old, $3.50; able.bodied wo
men, slOo; girls and boys, Is to 20 years
old, S50.......".GEo. MCKNIGHT, bette,
known. as CASA Hartz" has assumed the
editorial management of the Newbern Times
.'..''..'The number of troops now on the
pay aud muster rolls of the United States
Army is as follows: Regulars, $4,000; Col.
ored troops, 10000; white volunteers, 100,
000..........The use of the term "horse.
power" is very common, yet few, except
good mechanics and engineers, attach def
mite meaning toit. It means the power to
required to lift $4,000 pounds avordupois,
one foot high in one minute. .'...'".'The
Austrian Emperor agrees to reinstate Maxi.
milan in all his European rights in case of
his failure in Mexico. .......t.The Alabama
Convention has decided by test vote-5S
to 34-not to repudiate the Confederate
State debt--that is, The debt contracted by
the State. ....'."..'.General :. r. s. RIPLEY,
who was stationed at Charlestopsduriug the
.war, was at Quebec, Canada, ON thez13th
instant, en-route for England. ........:The
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-28
THE AMNESTY OATH.

We learn thro' s;h letter received by a
gentleman of this town, from c. J. ELPoRD,
Esq, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the
Third District, that Civil Officers who ad.
minister the Amnesty Oath, are required to
place Revenue Stamp, of the denomina-
ton of Eve cents on each copy, to render
the oath valid. =.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-28
NEW COTTON.

The first bale of new Cotton, received in
our market this season, was brought to town
on Wednesday of last week, by Mr.. JAS.
BLAIR, and purchased by Mr.. B. F. RAW
LINsoN, at 193 cents per pound, in specie.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-28
NEWSPAPER FAVORS.

We return our thanks this week for late
papers to Messrs. CHARLES A. FRAZIER,
T. D. GILLESPIE, and W. j. YATES, Ed.
itor OF the Democrat, Charlotte, N. G.
Editors of the News, and c. P. A1MAR,
Charleston; Mr.. T. M. DoRsoN, Mr.. A. F.
MCCONNELL, Mr.. MOSES ALEXANDER,
Mr.. RosE's hack line, and Mr.. Mites
JOHNSON, YorkVille.