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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20
PENNSYLVANIA COFFEE.

The fluid usually found most potent in pro-
noting Democratic victories in Pennsylva-
MIA is known as Zine Old Bourbon or "Old
Rye" OF pure Wheat" but recent develop
ments have shown that a decoction of "Old
Government Java" or Mocha has also its
uses in an election contest, not as a beverage,
most certainly, for as such the electors in that
market would regard it as contemptibly
weak and juvenile fluid, unworthy of double
voting heroes and understanding braves; but
we now learn that as a tinter and cOlorist of
brandnew naturalization papers of rather loose
and apocryphal dates, "kauphy,' as the Scotch
Alderman spelled 1t, is of unapproachable
merit. Our readers have heard of sharp deal
ers who smoke modern pictures into a sudden
antiquity. The disclosures in the election ease
of Robinson VS. Shugart, in which the seat for
the XXIst Senate District was con
tested, possess a scientific interest. In the
first place, small regiment of laborers
at work on the Tyrone and Clarified
Railroad were brought into Center County ;
and O'Meara, their boss, swCre that he re-
ceived orders to make this transfer because
Center County was "a Republican hole" Most
of these wandering voters were aliens-s0 it
was necessary, if they were to vote at the
approaching election, secretly and swiftly to
make them American citizens and the seal of
the ProthonOtary's Office having been stolen,
naturalization papers were manufactured by
the bale, and furnished to all corners at a
merely nominal rate. Blanks also were stolen
from the Office and an attempt was made to
steal the naturalization record for 1866. II
happened, however, that the record for 1865
was taken by mistake, and upon that of the
subsequent year not one name of all the
hundreds of naturalized voters who voted
upon the Luzerne papers could be found.
Here were three crimes--forgery of the papers.
robbery of the seal, and all the perjury
necessary in pushing through the whole bad
business!
These criminal operations were promoted
and probably suggested by the Democratic
State Central Committee We should like TO
know the name of the particular member of
this most fastidious body who discovered how
to make new naturalization papers look like
old ones by dipping them in coffee pot and.
furthermore, we should like to know in what
other Senate Districts it was found necessary
to dye the documents. What was done in
Blair, Center, JuSiata, Mifflin, Huntingdon, and
Perry Counties was probably done elsewhere
The rascality was 30 plain that Shugart found
at last that coffee wouldn't save him. and tho
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The Holmes homicide in Massachusetts re-
minds us in some respects of the celebrated
Parkman murder, and bids fair to become one
of the most interesting cases in our criminal
annals How far the confession of the accused
may be entitled to belief, we have no better
opportunity of judging than our readers; but
we do not share the prevailing disposition to
discredit it merely because it has been 80 long
deferred. 1t seems to be assumed by many
people that if the killing had been done in
self-defense, Andrews would have confessed it
at once, instead Of waiting until the chain of
circumstantial evidence against him became too
strong to be resisted. But is this fair as
sumptiOn7 1t is an awful thing to take the life
of a fellow creature, even in self defense, and
timid man driven to such deed might well
dread confessing it when it was certain that
danger and imprisonment must follow the con-
fessiOn, and doubtful whether his explanation of
the circumstances would be accepted. Now
that discovery has come, Andrews (supposing
MS story to be true) must see, as we all do,
that frank acknowledgment before the body
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

been negotiating with the Irish Bishops, and
even with the Pope, for the purpose of making
the Roman Catholic Church State Church in
Ireland, by the side of the Anglican. These
movements may hurt in the estimation of the
Anti-Popery men, Dsraeli more than the Tory
party; but they must to great extent neu-
tralize the fiery arguments which will I'M
doubtedly be hurled against the Liberals as
being, on this question, the allies of Popery.
The issue at the approaching election is
properly municipal affair-the redress Of
grievance of the Irish people. But all over
the world, there is no party laying claim to lib
eral and progressive principles which does not
feel the profoundest sympathy with the strug-
gle of the English Liberals. The posisiOn of the
Anglican Church in Irelandis without parallel in
any other country of the world. Other churches
possess odious mOnopolies in countries where
they embrace a majority of the population (;
but monOpoles in the hands of minority
church are elsewhere unheard of. The contest
in England is for the maintenance OF the abOli-
ton of monopoly which has too long outraged
the common sense of our century. We hope
it may receive at the approaching election the
finishing blow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20
THE STEAM FIRE-EEGINE EXPLOSION

Another boiler explosion, and four innocent
persons are blown into eternity; one Is
relieved from his agony by death
soon after, and about twenty others
are now writing in every degree OF torture.
Like the boiler explosions that have preceded
the one so terrible in its consequences on
Thursday night, this last may have been the
result of incOmpetency, negligence, or reckless
ness. If from either of the latter causes, the
engineer, Mr. Patrick w. Hand, makes par
tial atonement for the suflerings inflicted upon
others by the agony which he himself is now
forced to endure. But if the explosion was the
result of his incOmpetency then the parties ap-
pointing him to position which neither his
education nor his experience fitted him to full
fill should be held to a strict accountability. 1t
is too soon, however, to determine what may
have been the immediate cause of the calam-
ity and theories, in the presence OF the
terrible facts, are offensive to contemplate
The only things known now for certain are
that the boiler of steam fire-engine exploded,
that six persons have lost their lives thereby,
and that several of the great number injured
will be disfgured for life. These will recOllect
the events of Thursday night, and no verdict
of q CorOneTs Jury will restore to them their
FORMS now so misshapen, nor relieve them op'
hour sooner from their sufferings, now 50 III
tense 1t is well understood that . great
rivalry exists among the several cOpPahles ue-
tailed for certain districts, and "heir EFFORTS 10
reach the location of fire are at all tunes
commensurate with this rivalry. An ambition
to occupy an exalted position In the estiina-
ton of ones SUPERIOR Is colnmehdaDle; Dut
the ambition shorfd be restrained II, Dy
giving it loose rein, the lives ana hinDs
of disinterestsd citizens are imperiled. Now,
LEFT the course of machine be up or down
hill the horses drawing it are driven at full
sneed; and the only marvel Is that the young
and active, not to think of the aged and
decrepit are enabled to get out OF their
pathway as often as is the case, and are not
crushed to an unacceptable mass under the
hoofs of the horses and the pOnderous wheels
of the apparatus. 1t is possible that this
desire to be first at the scene of the fire may
have impeed the driver of the now demOl-
ished apparatus to dash from his headquarters
before the engineer had placed in his boilers the
necessary complement of water; or it may be
that the anxiety of the engineer to send stream
first on the fire necessitated that he should
begin to work with an inadequate supply OF
water in the boiler. 1t is to be hoped
the investigation soon to be commenced
will demonstrate it to have been be-
yond the power of any human being to avert
The Fire Department has won by its own
merits the confidence of the people. 1t is the
interest of the community that this confidence
should not be weakened by a calamity which
could be attributed to rivalry engendered by
Commissioners straining after an effect.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

Senator PomeDy, in the Senate yesterday,
introduced bill transferring the Indian Bu-
reau from the Interior to the War Department,
and then bill for the relief of exporters of
distilled rum was passed. The bill granting
relief to the Eastern Pacific Railroad was de-
bated to nearly the end of the session, and
then went over until Monday. After disposng
of many private bills, the House passed the
one of Mr.. O'Neill, giving greater protection
to emigrants on board 0 ships. The bill con-
tinuing the Freedmen's B,reau one year was
also passed. The Senate's amendments to the
bill relieving from political liabilities certain
persons were nOn-concured in, AID the resOlu-
tons of the same body thanking Secretary
Stanton were passed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

man who temporarily triumphed by virtue OF
unlimited bales of fraudulent documents was
compelled to give place to Robinson. his oppo-
nent.
Another and most important election is at
hand and the people of this country knowing
the part which Pennsylvania must take in it,
would like to have some assurance that the
Democratic cOffee-pots will not again be
brought into operation. There is no man iv-
ing in the complete possession of his senses,
who believes that the vote of Pennsylvania
was honestly given in 1866 for Mr.. Buchanan.
If ever the secrets of that memorable CAM
paign shall be revealed, it will be
found that, in obtaining the all
important Democratic majority in that State,
men were bought at wholesale like so many
beasts, and that ant-Republcan spectators,
schemers, peculatOrs, contractors, and office
holders in every part of the country, and
especially in New-YO and New England, bled
like cattle at the shambles, to secure his own
State for the Democratic nominee. If forged
naturalization papers were freely used In 1856,
we may be sure that there will be no lack Of
them in 1868, Notwithstanding the new Registry
Law, which was unanimously opposed by every
Democrat in the Legislature and which Will
be unanimously disregarded by the same gentry
whenever its violation may seem practicable.
Registry laws may help to catch rogues, but it
will require miracle to transmogrify them
into honest men. We sometimes think that we
have pretty hard oar to row here in New
York, but we must say that in Pennsylvania
the Democrats seem to have reduced electoral
frauds to sort of science. We have never
arrived here at the perfection of coffee-colOred
naturalization papers. Still, detection and ex-
posure, following hard upon the preparation
of this iniquity, lead us to hope that every
Republican in Pennsylvania will go into the
ee ton with both eyes wide open.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The World declares that the negro vote does
not, after all, endanger our institutions so
much as the white Republican vote. We
therefore infer that if both the Republican
party and the voters possessing visible
"admxture" could be excluded from the right
of suffrage, so that none but the Democratic
party could vote, the institutions of the coun-
try would be safe and the political heavens
serene. The immediate disfranchisement of
two-thirds of the American people by
the remaining one-third not being
feasible, The World proposes to convert
Republicans to the Democratic faith by
persuading the Democratic party to adopt
q Republican platform. 1t seems TO think that
the Democratic party, being only sixteen years
behind the times In which they live, could
stand very well on the Republican platform of
1853. They can at the three next Presidential
electQRa move forward and adopt the Repub-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The Chicago Post kindly suggests that u so
and so, Horace Greeley would be an excellent
candidate for Governor of our State this Fall.
The Post blunders sadly. 1t probably means
that the person aforesaid would make good
Governor if elected, which is intrinsically
probable. But good candidate is quite another
affair, and the man whose running for Governor
of this State would swell her vote for Grant
and Colfax is not known by the name OF Hor-
ace Greeley. He will be found and nominated.
however, and then The Post may be sure that
he is not only an excellent candidate, but will
make capital Governor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20
WE ~ Y Erpress discourses as follows,

"What paltry exhibition the Government makes q
itself with regard 10 John H. Sufratt! Failing 10 mpL
cate him in the crime for which hls mother was exc
cuted and ALEC falling TO sustain the 'teason,
to the enemy Why was not this done long sgoi The
man has been dragged In custody all the wentbs xis
and has been incarcerated many weary sLtn9at
the shadow OF any sufficient eydenfs nersscn,.nn %
which those who Instituted an% now y ought 70
be thoroughly ashamed $780, ga E YER hsn a @s
doings OF the revengef par sS"' WIN oeoare lhas me
war Is not yet ended"
Who OF WHIT is "the Government that ia
treating sdrTatt so eruellyl Who are the
"reyeyseful partisans" so reprobated by The
E4,ressf We havnt heard of Congress TAX.
ing any step whatever in the premises Ne
Radical" is responsible for dragging Surratt
Gin custody all the way from Rome" Then
what is The Express driving att
But it is persecution" it seems, and an
implication that the War is not yet ended"
to put Surratt on trial as party to the con-
spiracy to abduct or kill President Lin
coin. We cannot so understand it. Sur
raft was no belligerent. He was a
Mnylander, and never within the Rebel
lines except by stealth. What has "the War"
to do with his guiltP He was in legal attitude
a COpperhead, though doubtless in heart a
Rebel. If, then, he, while sheltered by his
cOuntry's flag, and ostensibly loyal, conspired
to murder OF even to abduct President Lincoln
and carry him into captivity, why should he
not be tried for it, like any other feloni
VIII you tell us?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20
lSmustmtnts, dc.


ART GALLERY. No, S45 Br0adway-Day ana Eve
nIBgGreat National Painting The New kepuohc VI
BROADWAY THEATER-This Afternoon at IL, ana
Rvspug IA Flash Of Lightning h. Mortimer miss D'Ah0oe
Grey
BRYANT'S NEW MINSTREL HALIGlhis evening
Tsmmspy Building FoueeBtst adjoining Academy Of Music New
York at f." Brysnts Minstreis
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN-This Afternoon at u,
and Evening al 8-Theoiore ThOmass Garden Concerts
INrpru-,vr APT GALLERY corner Fourteenth st.
T and Bucket Kaubaehs Cartoon, The
Era Of the Reformation
FOWLER g. WEISS FREE LECTURES, No. 8e
Bosdway-Ths Afternoon for ladies aud gentemen-Sublect
q The Social Relations"
French THEATER-This Evening.-Benefit to Mr.
Pratt China Shop Too Much for Good Nature and
"Tbe Old Guard"
NBLO's GARDEN-This Afternoon at H. and Even
Eng at IL" The White Pawn" Parsienne Ballet Troupe
OLYMPIC THFATFR - This Afternoon at II. and
Evening a." Huupy Dumpty" @. l. Fox, Mdle Sangah
SAN Francesca MINsTRELs, No. 5S5 Broadway
This Evening Birch, WaDbod, Bernard and BsekuS - .
WMIAcKs-This Evening at s.-"Lottery of Life"
John Brougbam.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The American merchant having complained
that they are debarred o. their rights as neu-
trails in consequence of there being no official
proclamation of the CESSATION of the war be-
tween Spain and certain South American States
when in fact hostile shot has not been fired
in two years-the senate Committee on For
eign Relations are busy framing an American
doctrine which viii cover this and other cases
which may hereafter arise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The Evening Post suggests that the Free
Trade League-in opposition to certain miners
who memorabilia Congress against reduction
of the duty on Coal-circuate petitions as fol-
lows:
"The undersigned, working men and women with small
wages and large families being yaly interested IN mo
nestly request your honorable body TO repeal
the @ y Sos 81 SCOTIA nd
lean coal propreors to put an eZoruonate price upon
their own coal"
If The Post meant only that our present
duty on imported Coal is7a blunder, we could
agree with We are confident that the price Of
Coal does not average ten cents per tun higher,
nor is the consumption of American Coal two
per cent less, because of that duty. A stiff
duty on Iron and Iron Manufactures helps our
cOal-men, by largely extending the demand
for their product, but duty on Coal is of no
account, any more than duty on stone wall or
pine slabs. The article is too bulky in proper
ton to its value to he helped by Protection
We wish the cOal-miners were shrewd enough
to realize this and urge q reduction of tho
duty on Coal to twenty-five cents per tun.
We are confident that the average price Of
Coal in this market would not fall one cent in
consequence.
The Post asserts that American coal miners
"put an ertortiondte price on their Coal" This
suggests comparison, and we challenge IT.
Let us have the average (gold) price of Coal in
all the great commercial capitals of the globe.
Who will supply it
Do let us have facts rather than assertions!
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The Washington Express asserts that Horace
"Greeley has been in Washington to secure tho
appointment of Gen. b. F. Butler as Commits
:" sioner of Internal Revenue" Mr.. G. would
gladly make two visits to Washington to secure
SO excellent a choice; but he has never deemed
it possible. A. j. is not likely to nominate b.
f. b., and b. 1--WE are confdenD would not take
the place-certainly not from A. j.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

On account of the withdrawal of some of the
vessels, the race of the NeW-YorK racnU CIuD
yesterday was not as spirited as usual. The Magic
won the prize for schooners, and the Gussie for
sloOps. The championship rowing match at
Philadelphia, between HamiI andl Coulter
was failure. The latter brole Gt is believed
Intentionally his oar and Hahill won easily.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The Republicans of Duchess County are
preparing for the grand mass meeting to be
he'd at Poughkeepsie on the Fourth of July.
Representatives boutwell,, BINGHAM, and
LOGAN, ard Senator NYE, have promised to be
present With such speakers the meeting
should, and Undoubtedly will, be very largely
attended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

Mr.. Sydney Howard Gay, for many years
one of the editors of this paper, and previously
editor of The Anti-Slavery Standard has be-
come connected with The Chicago Tribune. We
congratulate our contemporary upon securing
the services of such an accomplished writer and
estimable gentleman. Mr.. Gay will add dig-
nifty and polish to any paper which may DC
fortunate enough to command his pen.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

~ Political, Farm Items, The Fashions, Col
Ieqe ComaeRcementS, The FUty-SecOnd-St. Hom'-
eide, Another Remarkable IIU Case The Courts,
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

Ex-Minister Romero is in Washington attend
ing to the duties entrusted to him by the
Mexican Government. 1t is said he desires
new treaty and a loan from our Government,
and is also anxious for the appointment of a
proper person as American Minister to his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20


The N. Y. Times thinks that THE TRrsuse
by waiting day for information from IN.
Times might have
been saved It's suferngs from having heard that see
the principal of the loan OF 1919 due next month %
would have learned from financial article that tn
the United States Loan OF s4sGs with an Abatement
the interest hence TO the LIST OF July when the ion fan
due"
Very good. We understand The Times AZ
agreeing with us that, if the Secretary had
postponed the payment of that Mexican loan
and consented to pay interest thereon even for
a day after it fell due, he would have subseryed
private interests at the expense of the public
good. That being agreed upon, we ask The
Times to tell us why the Secretary has not done
essentially what we agree that he should not
have done in keeping Seventy to One Hundred
Millions of gold lying dead in the Treasury
when he might have redeemed and Cancelled
Herewith at least an equal amount of our in.
terest- bearing National Debit Would not such
redemption, to the extent of keeping down the
coin in the Treasury to Ten Millions Cat most,
above the amount of the outstanding Certificates
of Deposit, have saved the country not less than
Ten Millions which has been paid out at inter-
est on the bonds that might thus have been
redeemed2 Would not such redemption have
signally tended to raise the market price of our
bonds? And would not the Fifty to Eighty
Millions of gold thus liberated from the Sub
Treasury vaults have strongly tended to re-
duce that disparity between Coin and Legal
"Tender," which is universally recognized as
chief obstacle to Resumption.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

Gen. Grants order approving of the course
of Gen. Buchanan in regard to the installation
of the civil officers of the State of Louisiana
has been published by the latter. Gen. Giant
also suggests that these civil officers be only
required TO take the oath prescribed by the new
Constitution
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

lcan platform successfully Of 1850, 1884, AMI
1868, reaching the present Republican stand
point in the year of grace $780, The World 10
frisky, but the Democratic party cannot kees
up with it. They cannot stand these npja
forward movements. .a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The action of the crowd who Kissed George
Francis Train at the Liverpool Exchange ON
Wednesday night was certainly not polite, bus
we cannot call it inexcusable. Train has been
acknowledged for years as the Great Ameri-
can Mountebank. and if he could be hssed
down by every audience whom he attempts 10
address the world would be the better for 1t
and so would The World.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-20

The Whisky Ring in Washington are con-
cOcting amendments to the new Tax bill which
are intended to disgust the members of Con-
gress so much that the latter will kill the
whole bill, and thus leave the tax at 80.