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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
FERyJNDO WOOD 70. TIE CITY

Judge Barnard has dissolved both of the tenn
porary injunctions previously granted restrain
ing the Controller from executing leases of Mr..
f. Woods premises, Nos. lis and III Nassau
st., and seeking TO. have the alleged contract in
the premises declared invalid. The PROPOSE
tons distinctly set forth on behalf of the City
were these:
1. The stipulated rent (S21,OOO per annum)
was palpably and fiagrantly exorbitant.
2. The term (ten years. was glaringly exces-
sive, as the City was completing, at enormous
cost, a new County Court House, wherein
apartments were expressly constructed for the
officers in question. The fact that certain
municipal functionaries undertook 20 lease for
ten years outside premises for these offices of
itself argued guilty breach Of trust.
g. The late Mayor and majority of the
Common Council of 1866 were directly bribed
to involve the City in this prodgal expenditure,
by the payment to them of $4,000 in cash.
Such are the allegations on behalf of our
taxpayers which Judge Barnard has seen fit
to override, in dissolving the two injunctions
and ordering the Controller to execute the ten
years lease demanded, binding the City to pay
Mr. Wood $4,000 for NE use of premises
which would be dear at 100000, and which she
will soon have no use for at any price.
Judge Barnard's reasons for these most as
founding decisions we propose to pass i'll ST.
lence, intending never more to evince con-
tempt of court when it is possible to conceal
it, But we cannot refrain from speaking OF
the effect of these decisions.
Unless they shall be reversed by some
higher tribunal, the City will have to pay Mr..
Wood the uttermost farthing of the $4,000.
There is no escape from this. The lesser has
only to wait till his money is all due, then sue
Tor it, and it cannot be withheld. All that may
be said as to the merits not being touched by
these decisions, must not blind us to this
truth. For, if the defenses set up by the
City cannot avail to protect the Controller in
refusing to execute the lease demanded, they
can never be made available in defeating the
enforcement Of its express stipulations. If
then, the Controller shall now be coerced to
execute the lease, we shall consider the $4,000
virtually lost to our taxpayers. Is there no
Justice for this most plundered community?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
TILE ANTLSLAHERY SOCIETY.

The report we give to-day Of the anniversary
of the American Anti-Slavery Society en-
phatically shows this fact-that so far from
considering its work ended with the abolition
of Slavery, it believes that that victory I'M
poses upon it the duty of another struggle
1t does not admit that the enemy is overcome !;
Slavery is dead but the spirit of Slavery lives,
and it holds that it is pledged by the past to
fight till that spirit is annihilated. The heads
of Hydra must be scared or they will grow again,
and as it agitated from 1880 till 1861, it is
ready to agitate now. IL we understand Mr..
Wendell Phillips, whose earnest speeches we
print in full as the procamations Of the new
war, the immediate duty Of the people is to
prevent the Republican party from winning
success in the Presidential cam paign by
the sacrifice Of absolute right To the
greatness of the Republican marty Mr.. Phillips
bears testimony not unwillingly. AS well, he
says, might the people in the Deluge have
tried to build a new ark as Americans now
think to make another party Of progress.
Yet he seems to think that arks do
not of necessity rest on Ararat, but might DO
scuttled and sunk, and that political parties
may be ruined in the moment of success. On
the one side are the people, earnest, anxious,
unwilling to surrender an atom of principle; on
the other the politicians, sagacious, irresolute,
not DESTROYS of giving up principle, but resolved
to have success. Therefore it is, that in the
opinion of the And-Slavery Society its work Is
far from being ended. 1t is to stand, now as
before, outside of all parties, and appealing to
the conscience of the people. We do not com.
ment on these views; we merely state them, and
point out the important factthat the Anti-Slavery
Society is beginning new period of its existence,
and is ready to fight the South and the North,
the Democratic party. and tho Republican party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08

Some base rufian has invented paragraph
about Randall Up. NJ. g. resigning. This state
ment is promptly denied by an anxious CORE
spondent We are assured that the story that
Randall has resigned, or ever contemplated re-
signing, or ever intimated that in any possible
contingency he would resign, is false. The
assurance is scarcely necessary. We believe in
Randall. He will hold to an Office as long as
any member of the Johnson party, which is say
ing great deal. lie may die-wbich Heaven
forbid-he may be chosen to higher place,
which the people fOrbid-but he will never
resign. If any of our anxious politicians hope
to get into Randalrs shoes, let them be patient,
and wait. With office-hOlders like Randall it is
only question Of time-but still it is a question
Of time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
Comments Jy The Tribune.

The articles selected by The Sun do not fairly
exhibit the case as it is. Last years crops OF
Indian Corn, in the South generally, and III the
North West especially, were cut short by Drouth
and by Frost and Corn is the basis of Pork,
and to n great extent also of Beef. Wheat was
a very general failure. We doubt whether
there was half crop throughout the country.
Hence, Flour and Meat are exceptionally dear
-dearer by % to so per cent. than if last years
crops had been good. 1t were absurd and UNI
Just TO insist that mechanics and artisans
should wholly evade the consequences of so
general failure as that of the crops of 1866.
When we came TO this City in fesi-nearly
SO years ago-the average wages Of mechanics
here was less than 50 per week in our trade,
(printing) they scarcely exceeded 50 per week.
Now, the average is not less than $40 per
week while the cost Of living has surely not
advanced in equal measure with this. Substan-
tial, wholesome food is not twice as dear as it
was; Coal is actually cheaper; Wooden fabrics,
in the average, little dearer; Cotton fabrics not
twice as dear; and shelter not twice as dear in
the average; since laborer may now 1.-Two in
Harlem or Morrisania, yet do mans work III
this City, as he formerly could not. The horse
cars have practically quadrupled the area
whereon our Laboripg Glass can comfortably
live.
f. Understand that we affirm the right Of the
laborer to fix his own price for his work, and to
take all it will bring. OF two lawyers in at
tendance on one of our courts, one may be
willing to manage your case for s., while the
other asks 500, yet the latter be actually the
cheaper of the two. Journeymen, like bosses,
have a right to all their labor or product is
worth, no matter whether pork or potatoes be
higher or lower. If you don't choose to have
their work at their price, you may just let it
alone. And il employers meet all demands for
ali advance in wages with the argument that
wages are proportionally as high now as for
merly, they are guilty of gross impertinence.
It is none of their business whether their jour
neymen have two children each or half
dozen; whether pork is geo per barrel or $40.
Any kind of labor Is worth just what some
competent person is willing to do it for; and
wages are not aims doled out by Capital to
keep Labor from starvation, but fair. honest
equivalent for service rendered. Let laborers
resent all assumption that their condition is a
mitigated pauperism, and demand to be paid,
not what will keep them out of the poor-house,
but exactly what their product is worth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
just as it fought them all before John Brown
was hanged or Slavery abolished by Lincoln
WAGES IND LYING.

The current agitation for an increase OF
wages, or a reduction of the length of
days work, or for both of these together
though it occasion temporary Inconvenience
and loss, is sure to result in clearer and juster
views of the reciprocal relations and duties Of
Capital and Labor. In the end, we trust,
very large proportion of the more intelligent
and prOvident journeymen will, by cooperation,
become their own employers, and thus regulate
their hours of labor &C., precisely as they see
fit. Take the ancient and honorable fraternity
of Cordwainers, for illustration: Surely, one
thousand journeymen can be found who can
invest 5000 each, making joint capital OF $780,
OOO OF this sum, let 100000 be invested IN
machinery, implements, and fixtures, S5O,OOO III
stock, leaving $4,000 for working capital; let
the very best of the co0perat0rs be chosen as
foremen, with competent statesmen, book
keepers, &C.; and let the public be advised
that the company is ready to make every
variety of boots, Shoes CATERS, pumps, Slip
pers, &C., for customers at the shortest notice,
or TO sell them Offhand from its shelves. Such
a company, properly advertised, would have a
good run of business from the start, and would
have O right to claim the sympathy and sup
port OF working men anu NOmcn, lnouSh :"
might or might not receive them.
As the Yankee said after gaping his first
half-hour fxedly at Niagara, "Wlat IS to hen
"der2" And why should not such concern
enjoy as great and as stable prosperity as an
ordinary partnership boot and shoe establish
ment, which has often a smaller capitalY
We understand quite thoroughly that the
thousand workmen thus self-employed might
sometimes have to sell their shoes cheaper than
at others-perhaps, even, at loss that IS to
saw. for less than the fair cost of stock and
Labor But any shoe concern is subject to that
contingency, and worse: for a shoe-house, as
now constituted, must often sell for less than
its actual outlay; whereas the cooperative con-
Germ could, at the worst, only lose part OF the
fair reward of its labor. And II tue Cord
wainefs ,ciH not employ misunderstanding no
"boss but the shQebuying public-wby should
they find fault with those who do Tor Wild
employ themf
The San favors its readers with the follow
ing:
COMMODITIES AND wAGEs-The argument with when
employers meet all demands OF their worKinen LOT az
yanced wages Is that wages are pr0pOrt0naNy as Dyh
now az they during the and that they are on
level with general prices. Tho following ngures whe
indicate the prices OF four leading articles OF consumption
during the last ten years, sufficient 20 snow lat
wages have not advanced TO anything Like the extent OF
/ IS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
THE TORIES YIELDING.

Only few days ago we remarked that the
effect of the popular agitation In England for
an extension Of the franchise would be to re-
move the question of Reform out Of the arena
of Parliamentary party strife, and to compel the
discussion and ultimate settlement Of it on tho
broad and elevated platform of the peoples
rights and interests. This is coming to pass,
however, much sooner than we anticipated
The Reform BILL now in Committee " the
House of Commons, is no longer the Govern
ment bill, for twice within the short space Of
four days have important amendments, pro-
posed by the Opposition, been accepted by the
Government. OF the nature of the amendment
which the Liberals carried 80 triumphantly last
Friday, we have, as yet, no infor-
nation, although we are justified in
presuming that it had relation to some
material point in the bill; but Cable
dispatch. which appears in our European sum-
mary this morning, brings the news that
another Liberal amendment, providing for
Lodger-franchise, las been accepted by the
Government This amendment changes the
entire scope of the measure, inasmuch as it
has the effect of securing household suffrage,
pure and simple, by ignoring the main prin-
ciple of the bill, as introduced by Mr. Disraeli,
viz: The payment of rates, in one shape or
another, as an indispensable qualification for
the exercise of the elective franchise. The
concession of the LEDGER franchise means that
all householders, whether occupying a whole
house. or only part of house, and whether
personally paying rates or not, shall be entitled
to vote in virtue of the fact that they are
householders. This materially simplifies the
vexed question of Reform, and is an i'm
pOrtant advance toward manhood suffrage.
In household suffrage there will be, we sup
pose, conditions attached to the exercise OF the
franchise-amOunt of rent, and term OF resi-
dence for example; but we doubt not that
those conditions will be made as easy as posi-
bic and we believe that III the course OF time
the grand principle of manhood suffrage, toward
which the Lodger-franchise is but a step, will
be established in its integrity. That the Tories
should yield as they have done in this matter,
shows to what desperate condition the party
has been reduced, and what tremendous strides
the cause at no9ular liberty has pa@e
in England during the last twelve months.
Time was when a defeat like that q
last Friday would have led either to the
immediate resignation of the Ministry, or to
dissolution of Parliament, and an appeal to the
constituencies. But in the present temper of
the nation, resort to the latter course would
have resulted in an ingloriOus defeat Of the
Tories at the hustings; and so Lord Derby
and his colleagues determined, it seems, under
all circumstances, to stick TO Office have
quietly accepted the situation, and are now
doing the work of the Liberals. The political
revolution so long imminent in England, has
at length been fairly inaugurated, and the en-
emies of Liberty seem destined to help in
insuring its triumph, even in spite of them
selves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08

The friends of foreign free trade are des-
perately Jealous in the attempt to make Protec-
ton unpopular. They placard the streets from
day TO day, and hold Protection up as bug
bear of cost and folly. But self-evident truths
it is hard to destroy, and the Free-Traders
have difficult game. 1t is plain, how
ever, that those who wish the foreign
importer to dominate in the place of the
native producer and who desire nothing
better than a freedom of trade which shall
leave American industry almost without elbow
room, are madly bent on carrying out these
Sef-sacrifcing theories. We think they will
fall; but watchful counter-effort will just
now be opportune and timely, and we look to
such an organization Of the friends Of Amer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08

The report that England intended to sell the
Pacific portion Of her North American posses
sions to the United States seems to have
added largely to the annexation tendencies
among the people Of those provinces. There
has always been a party in British Columbia
favorable to annexation to the United States,
and last year a large meeting was held Of
those who favored this measure. According
to The Victoria COlOnist, paper which has the
largest circulation in Vancouver's Island nine
ont Of every ten men in the colony desire
annexation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
annexation

The japanese are the Yankees of the further
Orient. being distinguished for ingenuity,
assiduity, and industry. Learning, during our
late War; that we were doing great things III
the way of war steamers, especially iron -clads,
they intrusted very large sum to our Minister,
to be by him expended in those necessary
marine defenses. In due time, the vessels were
sent; but it is reported that they have not
proved satisfactory-tle Japs considering that
they have not recei$a the worth of their
money. The present Embassy is reported to
business
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08

We print herewith the concluding part of
Speaker Colfax's Monday nights speech. 1t is
we'll worth reading for the sake of sound opin-
ions eloquently said: tILf--
ing provisions In the Constitution for universal ed
ucaton as condition OF reconstruction did not prevail
but hope the good sense OF the southern people will
tabsh IL voluntary ihsurlng them warmer welcome as
they return to the council board But cannot omit to
state that OF the essentials to the reconstruction
policy the election Of Congressman who honestly and
truthfuy take the oath REQUIRED by law We should have
;s STn II; asS asft
BY Ehsn the wayeS treason swept over all that re,
knee to Baa Branded traitors to the Confeersey be-
cause they would not surrender their bifthright,
they never sweryed from their allegiance. Punished
by eonseation ana robbery threatened In , 9aI
could longer live peacefully at their homes they
fed the mountains, the caves, and the swamps, ana
said Welcome conscaton robbery, exile or death Dut
we stand by the Stars aud Stripes 20 the last drop OF our
bless these faithful Union They are TO lead JACK
these States, clad In new robes OF liberty ana Justice
and we should have had "Anathema Marantha" writ
ten on our doorsills II we had abandoned tnein IN
great party which has these trumphs and estaD-
ished these principles IL has been so brilliantly success
full because IL recognized liberty ana justice as les
cardinal principles aud because seornng al peJuuces
of the humble and sought TO enfranchise
not TO enohain 10 elevate not 10 tread aowh 10 pro
tect never abuse It cared for the humOest raIher
than for tho mightles-fOr the weakest rather tnan
the strongest II recognizes that the glory OF states ana
nations was Justice 20 the poorest and feebest And
another OF s wondrous strength was that iuny
adopted the striking injunction OF our murdered CHIEF
With malice toward pqpe, WITH charity Tor all but with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
AMERICAN (WALrnAMl WATCHES.
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gotf RVpryWheTe.
SOM FOLKs CANT SLEEP NIGHTS.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08

We are sorry that our anniversary friends
should see New-York under the weather"
Our city is strangely somber These endless
clouds-these shuddering ague breezes-these
constant showers, drip, drip, drip-dO not give
our friends the royal welcome of metropol-
itan city. Those friends come on errands OF
mercy, and love, and charity. They deserve the
brightest welcome-sunny skies and bright
avenues, all that is good, and sweet, and beau
tiful in the great city. Patience and good tenn
per, and let us hope for the sun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
The 81. Paul Press, contemplating our advic


TO "Buy Land,n grows pOetical over the at
fractions of its own State-as follows:
In Wheat and Wool, as Mr.. Greeley says, Minnesota
stands unrvaled she does in many other things Dut
there ia other staple of Minnesota product which no
forgot to mention lin which she far eNcels all other
competitors for the westward overflow Of the worlds
home seeking and land-buyiug surplus-and tnat Is
Health. Under her respondent sky not only POTATOES
thrive, but men; not only wheat and barley nave Igvt
GUS growth but chdren not only are iu.
fu, but-well, matter. Far more than Ian oi th1
material wealth Is that capacity OF enjoyment shrn
comes Of robust physical health To good tne
coarsest fare is richer laxuIy than the most 9e'
cate vands to the dainty palate OF the dys.
pectic-and so the Astounding physical neal.n
enjoyed by men aad women in Minnesota doubles .hs
value OF all that toll skill produces by enhancing h1
capacity OF enjoyment and adds 10 the value O Ins
making e richer aud happier AS mere instruments
production men worth far more IN Mnbesota ns ,,h
the South I'm Illinois, for the reason a ia
more animal vigor they capable OF inors % ana
therefore OF producing more. But not ons nhanes
climate Of Minnesota sharpen the appetIe anu , ,aeu,
the zest OF enjoyment but air and earth ana wa.ei %
with abundant means crafty the keen relish LOT st
things 10 which all the attemlered ine ~,
soil OF the prairie and the clear waters OF lake ana &
the picturesque landscape and the glorious SKY VIC
geons bloom OF the fruitful sammer ana the ,h tne
splendors of the ioeund Winter, all combpe 20 ,hose
opulence Of Nature, In her most generous inooa on
Who come 10 dwell with her In Minnesota
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08

lean industry as will thoroughly meet and quell
the vicious sOphstries put forth under free trade
Such an organization we shall have. A confer
ence of the leaders of American Production Will
assemble at the Aston House to-day at twelve
o'clock. 1t is called by such representative men
as the great economist, Henry G. Carey, Peter
Cooper, Judge Kelley, John A. Griswold, John
Williams, and by two or threescOre of the most
prominent producing firms Of New-York and
PHILADELPHIA,