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New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

One of the Spanish papers published In lia-
vana Admits that an expedition OF Spanish
troops into the interior IN search OF provisions
md supplies, had returned without success, and
that the Rebels have seized the mails at vorious
points within the disturbed district Tins seems
to indicate that the insurgents actually control
a portion of the Eastern district. No change
in favor of the Government is expected so long
as Lersundi acts as Captain General His sue
cessor, Gen. Dulcc, is very popular among the
Cubans; if any Spanard, he is the man TO re
store quiet. But there is in Cuba party
which, under all circumstances. will work for It's
independence; and whenever full liberty OF the
press shall be established in Cuba this party Is
likely to grow.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10
AMoINT oT sALTs oP RfTAlL tIQrOR pEALERs.


The mere value of the liquors drunk by the
people in one Iyear in the United States is
therefore, nearly Fifteen Hundred Millions of
Dollars, or three-iifths of the National Debt.
As the amount of tayss paid by the retailers
is proportionate to the amount of their sales,
we might safely assume that the real quanti-
ties sold are much larger, but we are content
with the retailers own figures. But this is not
all. In the manufacture of this amount Of
liquor it is safe to estimate that the materials
used, including corn, rye, potatoes, hops, and
other crops, and the labor, arc worth fifty per
cent of the liquors produced. This leaves the
distillers and brewers a net profit of one hund-
red per cent on their active capital invested
every time it is used, which surely ought to be
enough, as they can "turn' their capital four
or five times in year. IL this estimate he
correct, there are destroyed or consumed in
making these liquors $75O,0OGO0O worth of
grains of various kinds. potatoes grapes. hops,
and labor C., this value of these articles is
deducted from the sum total of the useful in
dustry Of the country, and contributes in no
degree to its support. The rye consumed in
making whisky would have made bread and
its withdrawal from the supply of rye for bread
makes every loaf of bread dearer. So of the
other grains; Adding the value OF the food
products and labor which are withdrawn from
all useful channels and practically destroyed
in the manufacture of 'spiiituous liquors, we
find the total destruction of values amounts to
,25O,OOOOOO per year, or considerably more
than the Understanding portion of the Ma
tOnal Debt.
But this Is not the entire taxation which the
people pay to sustain Free Rum" To arrive
at the grand total we must still add the loss
to the labor, health, and industry of the people
which results from its consumption. Scientific
research has shown, and scientific men sub
stantially agree, that Alcohol contains no nu-
tlitive principle whatever; that it acts while in
the system like ether clloroform, or any other
poison, to derange the healthy action of mind
and body; that all men, without exception, can
endure more heat or cold moro labor or ex-
p0sure, more deprivation and pain, more mental
or physical toll, without it than with it and
that ii is no sooner taken than lungs,
stomach skin, intesines, and every other organ
of the body combine in common effort to
expel it. Indeed, the only instance in which
its utility is clearly proved is when poison
has been introduced into tho blood, as by q
snake-bito for instance, and it is necessary to
saturate the system with some antagonistic
poison equally venomous.
While tho benefits Of this vast waste Of
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10
THE LOOM AMONG THE IYDIAAS.

Wa have long been of the opinion that the
frat step toward the intellectual, moral, ana re-
Iipious reform of Indians as well as OF white
mon ia TO teach them civilized industries. we
ore doubtful If tribes of Indians can be con-
verted from hunting directly to plowing. Or
rather We are sure they cannot. But they can
be won from hunting 10 grazing, ana the secoho
generation of men reared among iiocks OF sheep
and herds of cattle would contain many farm
ers The distinction to-day between the hostile
tribes and the peaceful tribes is simply dis
tinctjon between the rich or grazing tribes,
whose herds are ample for their support, and
the moor or hunting tribes, who, when game Is
scarce, are compelled to steal, murder. ana go
on the war-path To send troops against them
and thrash them is like sending infantry against
musketoes. The muskctoes suck the blood OF the
infantry till they are filled, and the Indians get
q better support from the waste and stcallngs
which they obtain by hanging OH the TANKS OF
our trains than they could get by keeping their
treaties of peace with our Government
MFR. s. NJ. Goodale of Ohio has a, plan for
ciyilzing the Indians by teaching them how
TO weave their own blankets from bright
i colored yarns, to bc furnished necessarily by
the Government. 1t Is thought that the fond
ness of the Indians for bright colors VIII at
tract them 10 this mode Of employment, and
that by the use of two thousand dollars the
| Commissioner of Indian Affairs could thor
ouglly test the experiment. We greatly fear
that not only must men become. .grazlcrS before
! they can be farmers, but they must advance
! To farming and mechanical trades before they
can ploitably he taught manufactures, OF now
ever simple kind. Until the Indians can be
! brought 10 grow the wool il is futile to attempt
! fo teach Nicm TO weave it. Ii is even doubt
ful IL looms could be introduced among them
prohtaby snd permanently, unless their me-
/ chanica skil. we've brought up TO the capacity
/ 10 mend land even make the looms In cdu-
eating -tc Indians we must advance rs
VIC &c With infants-the alphabet first
and aCcrNard the Latin grammar. They
must bc farmers and mechanics De-
/ fore thcy can be wcavcis, and they are not
now ready even to bc farmers. Their first
step that which some of the tribes have al
ready accomplished for themselves, that which
all of them are ambitious and competent to
take, il raising the tougher varieties OF horses.
cattle, sheep, and swine. This has long since
been accomplished in South America and Mex
! leo not because the Indian there was more in
tclligent, but because the Spanish and Portu-
gucse settlers of those parts were more mao
lent than the English and French settlers OF
North America, therefore more inclined TO
grazing, and therein better fitted by meeting
the Indian half way to ciyllize instead OF
destroy him. Hence Mexico has IN Indian
President while the United States does not
rise even to an Indian Policy, unless it be that
! of determination.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10
WHIT SHOELD BE.

We may now invite immigrants from other
lands to flock hither with the assurance that
our whole land and not merely the northern
third Of its area, IA heretofore, is
opcn TO their industry and capital.
Within Grants four years OF Peace
our immigration should rise to half a million
souls per annum, two-thirds of whom will 90
to build up the waste places of the South
With proper protection to American Industry,
this food of immigration should bear to our
shores not mainly unskillcd laborers or starv-
ing paupers, but the most skilful miners, me-
chancs, and artizans of Europe. 1t should fill
all our interior cities with the hum of manu-
factuies, and thus tend toward that diversity
of industry which mparts the largest profits
and the highest civilization and happiness to a
people: and renders it in the industrial sense
free and Independent.
Eighty years ago We freed our Government
from Great Britain. Let IT'S now free our
industry from subordinaton to foreign in
dustry. Within eight years we have made our
laborers free, let us now combine to keep their
labor profitable. Ii is n moro vital condition
of dependence to have our cloth woven in
Manchester than to have our laws drafted in
LOUuOI. Oul HhtiohNi opNhbeh VIM S"i"i oO
moro rapidly from setting up in the Alissis-
sippi valley the ten thousand manufactures
which make our clothes than from founding in
Washington the one which turns out our
laws It more nearly affects our national
wealth to stop the outflow of two hundred mil
lions of dollars per annum to pay for manufac
lures which we need to produce in America
than to contest the payment of the stamp tax
on tea.
The election OF Gen. Grant settles rccOnstruc-
ton aud all financial questions, and leaves
Congress free to adopt such financial policies
as tho exigencics of the country may require.
The return of our Government, banks, and
people to specie payments cannot be long de-
layed. The Government being no longer q bOr-
rover, our bonds must soon rise to par
with gold in the markets of tho world
carrying our currency with them. Gen. Grants
election gives the assurance Of vigorous pro-
lection to all who take their capital or merely
the labor of their hands into tho South, and
prompt punishment to all who trespass on tho
sovereign right of an American citizen to 90
where he will, settle where he likes, and say
what he pleases. Millions of capital could not
80 enrich South and North East and West, as
does this verdict of tho people in favor Of
equal rights and republican liberty.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

We learn that arrangements have been pa =
fected by which the construction of the Eass
India Telegraph will proceed forthwith Tia
subscription books will remain open up TO th'
Goth inst, IL Accordance with vii; ::ha Company
advertisements but whatever balance of sto, Z
shall then be uptaken will be subscribed | Y
capitalists already interested in the enterpris .
An agent will at once proceed to Europe 0
purchase the cable, which will probably 10
found already manufactured. We rejoice til 4
the success of this enterprise is thus assure |.
and by American capital alone. 1t is unde :
stood that pecuniary assistance could have be, a
had in London, had it been required; but it Is
settled that the stock will all be taken. ard
the cable built, though no share should be sua-
scrbed for abroad
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

make this comment with any direct or indirect
reference to his Administration it is the prin-
cipls for which we contend. 1t was not neces-
sary to pass this law over Washington, Jeiier-
son. and Adams but it becomes necessary
after we have been taught by Jackson, Buch-
anan. and Johnson to what base uses the pat
ronoee of the Presidential Office can be devoted.
We trust the law will be carefully amehocu
and digested, and that upon 1t may DC en'
grated some of the features OF Mr.. JenckeS
Civil Service bill but we are decidedly against
any change of the wise policy which took from
the Presidential office its monarchlcal ana deS-
potc character.
This is our deliberate judgment, and we
think il is also the judgment of Gen. Grant.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10
1HE rRAUOs IN COrNMC.

There is q fatality IN crimo that 10 - reret
quite so skilllul 90 to avoid making bIundera
sufficient, il rightly used, for It's detection aud
punishment. Notwithstanding tho stuii'i X OF
the Registries of Ncw-York City with lOOOO
more names than there wero actual voters, and
despite the issue of IS 900 naturalization papers
broadcast, SO that whoever wished could get
them for \ dollai aud promise tc vote tor
Hoffman. and finally. IL spite Of the secret cir-
cular ISSUED III the namo cf Samuel - 1Ildcn.
and which accomplished lts puirosc Just as wen
ms il he had sgred Il, whereby the Inspectors
and CanyasscIs IN New York and Brooklyn
were warned 10 hold their pcll-lsts and ballot
boxes open until the rural districts were heard
from, so as 10 stuff them at The last moment with
the votes required to elect Hoffman, the remain
ing piccauion necessary TO avoid the detection OF
the crime was wholly omitted. In twenty dis
| tricts Of Ncw-IOlk City the rogucs neglected to
stuff as many new names into the registry lists
| as they were adding votes for Hoffman, and so
| the entire vote of these districts Is rendered
void by the fact that there are more votes polled
than there are names registered. As the men
engaged in this ballot stufing operation are
men of ordinary shIcwdncss il may safely lee
estimated that where one of them exceeded his
registry list, at least five must have been care
full enough to examine it and see that they did
not If this estimate be well founded, We may
assume that in at least one hundred election
districts the returns were manipulated" and
new ballots added to insure the election Of
Hoffman And if the exclusion of the returns
known to be fraudulent diminish IIolmau's
majority by 4,3S5 il is not unlikely that the
exclusion of all the districts in which ballot
stufng was practiced would still further di-
minish his majority by five times that number
or say twenty thousand votes. There is fruit
full field for investigation open to the commit
tee who have that work in charge. We hope
they will "push things"
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

wealth are thus reduced to the minimr,.
no limit can be assigned to the ev,,.
resulting from its consumption in -.
form of liquors. Twenty-Five cents wor,s
of these fluids may unfit man o..
business; fifty cents worth may place h;.
entire property at the disposal of a swindla,
and seventy five cents worth may cause him !.
murder his wife, his parents, or his chidrsn
But merely the time wasted in intoxieato,
and the destruction of property resulting fro,,
the carelessness and crimes Of intoxicated nor
sons. may be estimated at s3OO,OO 900 per a..
NUN, and even this is far below the tru,.
This brings our annual taxation for "Pra.
Rum" up to S25,5OO, 100000, or considerahI~
more than the entire principal of the Nations,
Debt In other words, if there were no snr;t-
nous liquors drunk in the United State. N.
people would save enough thereby to nav al
the entire National Debt within one wear. Tn.
people of Great Britain, France, Prussia. Ana.
tra, and Russia could do the same with tbe;-
respective debts. Is it not strange that IN.
Democratic party should feel so grievously IN.
burden of the National Debt, which taxes ia.
entire population of the United States less than
one cent per head per day, while they unaui.
mOusly support Free Rum. which taxes TIA
same people 81 IS per head per day.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10
NOW OTR NATIONAL TAXES COMPILE
NTH ORR Run Tx; ..,

The Democratic party delight TO expatiatc
upon the "load OF taxation under which the
people are eroanins" by reason of the Ma
tonal Debt. They cannot magnify pit enough,
nor paint its horrors in too vivid oolors. Yet
this party are everywhere the champions of
Free Rum which taxes the country every
year to an amount exceeding the whole princi-
pal Of the National Debt. Let us look at the
figures. Commissioner Wells reports to Con-
gress, from the official and sworn returns of the
retail liquor dealers of the United States, that
the value of the liquors retailed by them over
their counters and dunk when sold is as
follows
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

~ Journeys Around Home, Sale of Un-
claimed Merchandise, Music, Naturalization
Frauds, City Gorernment, Base Ball, the Sir
teenth Ward Homicide, the Caiicot HaJeas
Corpus, Quarantine Residences at Coney Island,
Mr.. Hoffman at Sing Sing, the Boys in Blue,
the Kentucky Bourbon and other Whisky cases,
Fatal Accident 10 a Contractor, the California
rthguakes-Repairing Damages, Terrific Gale
on Lake Erie, Singular Murder Trial in Connec-
t.cut. The Mother of CO!far, Contest Hofman's
second page ; the Money Article. the Markets and
Shipping Intelligence, on tie third New Pubi-
cations on the sirth, and Real Estate on the
sepenM pa0e
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

Counselor Binckey, who made so poor list
of exposing the Revenue swindlers III our Clty
and elsewhere, has been wisely succeeded Dy
judge William Fullerton. who has for some
weeks been quietly following the clues placed
in hls hands, with ntcntyto bring the robbers
official and unofficial. to justice. We have sell
dom found occasion to praise Andrew JoIh-
son; but in Judge Fullerton he has
found the right man for the work IN
hand-one who can never be bullied nor
bought His character il proof against dctrac-
ton and we do not credit the report that the
Ring have conspircd to indict him for follow
Ing up its members so sharply. They are
simply irving to frighten him. but they have
mistaken their man. We heartily wish they
,rouId get him indicted that would brlng them
TO close quarters at once. But they will think
twice before proceeding to that extremity.
We cxhort Mr.. Fullerton TO "hew up to the
" line, let the chips fall as they may" We dc
not guess who are the culprits, but the wounded
pigeons will I've known by their futteilng
Only let the President back Mr. Fullerton I'M
reserycdly, and Millions will be restored To th'
Treasury that have been diverted into the
wallets Of lnaycS. Courage and unseliiSi
devotion 10 the public interests now may save
The Treasury from embarrassment II mol
bankruptcy in tho neai future Let III eacl
keep an eye on this proceeding for nch dc'cl
opmcnts cannot be far OF.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

The report maintains itself that the Spanish
crown will be offered to Marshal ESparero'
There is most probably no prince IN Europe
who, if elected Spanish King. would be able to
rule Spain as well as Espartero. who once be-
FORE as Regent of Spain. has given PROOF oi
great administrative ability Next to proclaim
ing a Republic this would be the most liberal
step with regard TO the future government OF
the country that could be taken.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10
CENTRAL PARK.

The following valuable donations have lately
been made TO the Geological collection at the Contra.
Park: Bear Cub, presented by Jno. j. Crooke: Baa
Eagle. by Harry Hill; and Black Bear, by Col II pt,
fee The Black Bear about two years old WAS presen"
to Col Durfee by Chef Of the Usage tribe of Indians
very tame. having been reared as pet. pal, o.
Rasse Cats, combination Of the ioa
monkey and the ordinary cat brousgys
from the island Of Java were presented by Charles :,
Werner OF Albany bald eagle by the Amerious ciuo.
bear from Singapore, lnda-a very curious and nte o
ing anmal-by Washington Irving. Paymaster ". =. p
Navy toucan, by Capt. John NJ. Dow three oo,onl
OF honey bees, by Ehrlck Parmly; oceot by Freass
Phillips NJ. d., Surgeon Panama Railroad ComPany ~
Panama leopard from Africa, by Augustus ol.e'
q deer from Mexico, by Gen. Stunn ana sanem n
very peculiar aud interesting speolmeu. T wuua~ -
ulrrSOu,
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10
The ~ 7. Times, which suppeited Mr. Hons

The n 7. Times, which supp"1ted Mr HoFs
man for Mayor, and did not do much to cpposs
him for Governor insists that the invest:ga.
ton which has been ordered by the Union
League shall proceed, that it shall be " III
"certain sense non PARTISAN that Mr. Hon.
man shall not be disturbed, for the prop
osition to contest his election is certain 70
"awake partisan feeling" and damage "tha
material purpose of the inquiry 1t also sug-
gests that some other gentleman should make tho
contest, and names a candidate whose minor
ity in New-York City is somewhere in tho
neighborhoOd of 10000. This is all child's
play, and Tie Times does not mean what &c
says. What it does mean is to throw wha.-
ever influence it may possess against the in
vestigation of these frauds, and protect Mr.
Hoffman, so far as possible from an inquiry
into the manner of his election The present.,
position of The Times is only another Of
the many evidences it has recently given
of its secret devotion to Tammany Hall. What
with deliberately praising Peter b. Sweeny
for doing an act which if he had refraine,.
from doing he would have been subject to fine
and imprisonment, and now insisting that Mr..
Hoffman shall be undisturbed in the possession
of the Office of Governor, and that the Republ
cans shall take no steps to detect the tremeI
dous frauds which have debased the franchs
The Times bids fair to become as good Tam
many paper in 1868 as it was in 1896.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

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Grants FIRST order is good one. He directs
the destruction of all letters asking office, and
Gen. Badeau is chief executioner. When Gen.
Grant wants men to hold Office he will proba-
bly, send for them. Just now stationery, rhet-
oYic, and postage stamps are wasted.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

Prof. Goodwin Smith arrived In the steamship
Weser. from Southampton. on Sunday morning ana
left last evening for Ithaca to assume his duties ~
the Cornell University. Prof Smiths health IS NOV
as good as could be wished. having suffered consd
erably by the roughness of the voyage, yet no feels
able to undertake his work Mt once. Prof. Snita
was obliged, by the delicate state OF bis health 10
decline many hosptalities extended him durpt
his brief stay in the city.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

IL is a great mistake-entertained however,
only by those who have not read the Rev. Mr..
Abbotts biographies-tO suppose that NapO-
leon l. was not in all respects an eminent
Christian character Whatever we may have
thought before, the impression which one gets
after reading Mr. Abbott is that Bonaparte
was mot merely good, but goody:'
"a perfect ruler, nobly planned.
TO warn, 10 comfort. and command
A fine old lady still aud bright,
With something Of an angol light"
We read in the Paris newspapers that Bel
giau clergyman lately shot himself at the tomb
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

The Board of Aldermen yesterday directed
the Street Commissioner to remove the bioau-
way or "Loew" Bridge within five days, and
place it at the disposal of the Central Park
Commissioners. Mr. Loew need have no Tears
of losing his Immortality, however. There Is
many another monumcntum are perenniaS OF
Ring wastefulneSs and rapacity.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

The World Arithmetic Man is not dead. He
has turned up in South Carolina. On Sunday
he sent a dispatch from Raleigh, n. G., an
nouncing 5000 Rebel majority in South Caro-
lima. We print this morning dispatch from
Charleston giving a Republican majority OF 1900.
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

Judge Barnard, in the Court OF Oyer and
Tcrminer. yesterday charged the Grand Jury,
in q very gingerly manner, to look out for the
election frauds. lie was particularly emphatic
in cautioning his jury against finding indict-
msuls on insufficient evidence, remarking la
New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

John NJ. Crebs, Dem, is elected to Congre e
over Gen. Green b. Raum in the Cairo Di
trict, another Democratic gain. The lulno
delegation now stands ten Republicans al \
four Democrats.