davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The New York herald., 1868-01-17
TEE pRICKLAYEaS NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Fourth Days Proceedings.

Fourth Days Proceedings.
Tho Convention rcassombed yesterday al nino o'clock
A. NJ Various communications aud petitions from
local unions wcro handed in and read asking an cxtcu-
sion Of tho apprenticeship system. 30 that journey
having sons might DO allowed to instruct them in tho
trade without prejudice TO the right OF bosses to have
two apprentices; also requesting that some action bs
takon by tho National Union upon the matter Of the
eight hour law.
In tho afternoon session new business bong declared
In order motion was mado to appoint committee Of
two TO visit tho ocers OF the Operative Pastcrers So
ciey In this oty and ascertain feeling in the
ter of tho brickayers sending delegates 10 the Pias
terers National Convention, and enccting union OF
both trades motion prevailed to lay the whole matter
The following new articles wsro proposod:-
That the charters Of Unions not sending delegates
onaI Onion be declared void " ''
That subordinate Union beng two or more months I'm
international Union.
These several amendments were referred to the Com.
mistss % on the CO GSn,si'aon; ~ ~. n.os, :, NJ u :,
Hartford that section Of article IL Of tho constitution
be amended TO permit local Unions 70 regulate ~
they soc a. the number Of apprentices that may %
va, S's dlSSss'n l.lnsd n. tho H.S fSss No. % Gns
wsn ISan e. oansuon S o. q: in,s,as.ena @ Union NJ
Blackman thereupon declared ~ without status in
tho Convention aud not entitled 70 the p'vege OF the
floor unless BY consent OF the Convention On motion
tho Convention went nse Committse OF the Whole foe
the consideration Of this question. The necessy q
stroDsiy urged By assSasss from the Ess.ern staio
who stated The niposabity or continuing their organi>
saeas unIes granted some indulgence In that respect
bS can n Committee OF the whols dscldsA
laying arsbriek 70 Be brckayns In Tho sense Of tho
The Con.:n.ios adjourned 70 meet ibis mag 40
nine o'cloek.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

The bill to modify the power that the consti-
tuition gives to the Supreme Court has passed
the House and gono TO the Senate which, no
doubt, it will also pass by tho usual party vote.
1t provides that no law Of Congress shall be
set aside for unconstitu,ionalty unless two.
thirds OF the judges pronounce against ii. No
proposed law was ever more positively at
issue with the constitution. There are certain
cases In which the Supreme Court has juris-
diction only "with such exceptions and under
such regulations as the Congress shall maken
They are cases Of appellate jurisdiction, and
the constitution itself specifies what they are
But in all cases in which State shall be q
party" as in these reconstruction laws, original
jurisdiction, without qualification, Is given
simply and distinctly to "she Supreme Court
To tho court not TO any given number OF
judges, nor in any required way, but plainly
to the court. These words are TO be taken, OF
course, in their ancient, well understood, COM
mon law sensc-in which the "courtr means
majority Of the judges and in this sense, in
which those words have been understood ever
since the Supreme Court had an existence,
that court will undoubtedly still understand
them, and therefore will certainly pronounce
the law unconstitutional and refuse to bo
governed by It. But there Is one way In
which Congress can get at the Supreme Court
Although the constitution established tho
court and declared It's powers, il left Its or
ganization to Congress, and this was fixed by
the statute Of 1889. That Law organizing the
Supreme Court Congress can repeal, and,
making another, can reorganise The court TO
suit its views The constitution requires that
there shall be chief justice, which implies, Of
course, that there shall be some associates but
90 no number Is called for the court may be
so organized that Q majority would be two
thirds Hero would be an act quite 10 the
revolutionary spirit that prevails; but there
would be ODE difficulty. The President would
have the appointment Of tho judges, which
would not suit Congress so well, unless, To-
deed, having gone 80 far, Congress Would not
be stopped by ono more constitutional pto.
vision, and should BY another law, going just o
tribe further than the Tenure OF OHc6 Law,
PLACE the appointing power sonsNhatS sld6 =
The New York herald., 1868-01-17
The Latest Enterprise In italian Opera

The latest attempt to establish Italian opera
in this city, inauguratcd at Pixies Opera House
by Slrakosch, has been very successful so far
and the magnificent Opera House and the great
artist--La Grange--have attracted many ad-
mirers every night. The manager, with such
a good start, should win In the grand race for
public favor in which every place Of amuse-
ment is entered for the season. He should
remember, however, that nothing short OF per-
petual novelty-and that always Of a first class
standard--can insure tho success OF his enter
prise. Tho troupe engaged at present at the
new Opera House Is On excellent one and will
do very well for this season. But for subse.
quent seasons tho fat OF the public Is novelty
either in artists or operas. Tho non-observ-
public of the metropolis was the rock on which
Maretzek was wrecked. In compliance with
the wishes Of the stockholders of the old opera
house the shortsighted impresario persisted
in thrusting forward third rate artists before
the public, and he met the fate that every one
who adopts the same course must suffer. The
present manager has now everything in his
iavor-a splendid house, an appreciative public,
with plenty Of money and no stockholders. II
is unjust to charge a want Of taste on the part
of the New York public because Italian opera
has bad so many disastrous failures We send
away fnc artists to Europe every year who
rise TO the highest positions in art among the
magnates Of the Old World. A taste for music
has, Of late years, increased among us to such
an extent that there are few II any families
who do no. claim an artist or an amateur as
one of their members. All that is necessary
for the success Of Italian opera is to present
frat class talent, good operas, constant novel
ties, aud to keep clear Of oil cliques and
monopoliea by steadily pursuing this course
the present home Of the opera on Twenty-third
street viii be permanent one.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

THE New WHIsKEY LAw.--Thero Is weeping
and gnashing of teeth among the whiskey
rings, and the fraudulent bondholders refuse
to be comforted. A legislative bombshell, in
the shape Of the new Warehouse law, has
fallen in their midst and scattered to the winds
all their ingeniously contrived plans OF de-
frauding the revenue This whiskey law will
affect capital to the extent of ono hundred
millions Of dollars, and will inflict incalculable
injury on tho myriad clques that combine
against the revenues Of the government AL
ready the whiskey interest Is up In arms and
Eliminates threats and remonstrancos in many
On indignation meeting. The manufactured
article is kept in the Western warehouses, and
the convenient transfer business ID suspended
until the legal tax Is paid. This law will re-
move the necessity Of resorting to violent and
obnoxious measures to punish frauds on the
revenue. II will enable the on1csrs Of the
government to distinguish between those who
obey the law and tho real transgressora II
will increase Che revenue accruing to the ma.
tional Treasury from this source, and In break
ing up the whiskey rings u will benefit lssiti.
mate dealers TO large extent A nitro-gly-
cerine explosion could scarcely produce more
dismay than tho new Whlskey law has done
among the sharp practitioners Of the whiskey
interest
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

STILL ASorHER.-S. s. Cox, famiiarly called
Sunset Cox, from his graphic description
Of wonderful copper colored sunset some-
where over in Jersey, has been nominated 10
The Austrian mission. or course, as CAM
paigning democrat against Old Ben Wade in
Ohio last fall, he is put up by the President to
be knocked down by the radical hammer OF
Old Ben Wade in the Senate. One good turn
deserves another. This makes the bakers
dozen of unfortunates set up and knocked
down or resigned on the Austrian mission.
Who comes nexts Motley is the only wear"
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

Fernando Wood ns n Parliamentary Martyr.
for the official reprimand he received in the
House on Wednesday. There can be no
doubt that the language he used was unpar-
lamentary. IIe is to blame in the premises
more deeply than the House blamed him. He
is to blame before his constituents for forfeit
ing, through the use Of Incorporate language,
the opportunity to crticise and denounce in
his place an outrageous bill. II is said that
half the money spent in litigation is wasted
through the ignorance Of lawyers who give bad
advice and fail 10 improve proper oppor-
tunities and it is at least equally true that
half tho harm done in violent legislation is
done through default Of vigorous, intelligent,
clear-sighted and ready opposition. Mr.. Wood
could have denounced this truly infamous Re-
construction law, could have characterized it
in terms as forcible as he chose and been
right; but in going aside from that legitimate
course to denounce the body of which he was a
member he lost sight of the common propriety
of his position, and radicalism naturally seized
the first opportunity to smother hostile ex-
preston for the bill is 80 Objectionable, so
open to denunciation, that its friends wisely
fear every adverse breath.
Mr.. Wood Is type Of the average Congress-
man in his ignorance of the proprietes of de-
bate, and this only illustrates the result OF
sending to Congress men utterly worthless
through inefliciency resulting from the want of
the right intellectual training. Constituencies
that send this class Of men to Congress practi-
cally deprive themselves OF representation.
But in another view it Is no wonder that Mr..
Wood did not deem it necessary in this Con-
gress to conflne himself to the use Of proper
and respectful language. II is not strange il
he and others have grown into the habit OF
thinking that there is a general license for the
coarsest blackguardism of which our speech is
capable. 1t has been common practice for
members in debate to indulge in tho use OF
words not only disrespectful, but snecring, con-
temptuous, coarse, toward a coordinate branch
of the government, and for such words Speak er
Colfax never had any rcbnkc. They were
never out of order. Thus Tho proper regard
for tho propriotics of speech was lost in the
House, and the language Of reference to others
became demoralizel, all through the direct
culpable neglect OF his plain duty on the part
of Mr.. Colfix, who, If not tho most incompc-
tent man for bis place ever known, must GER
tainly DO the meancst spirited partisan that
ever breathed air.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

Las. evening" tho Academy Of Music was the scsnc Of
one Of Tho oss popular and successful reunions Of the
season. The ocosien the eleventh annual ball &c
the above society for the bsnsnt Of the Roman Catholic
Orphan Asylum Of New York. Tho arrangements we're
OF the most complete kind and the COMMITTEES Of Mar
sssmsns seemed 10 have left nothing undone to insure
tho success OF the prsseworhy undertaking For the.
time being the millionaire and the mechanic cams
together on common lovef and by their means con-
tributed TO deserving charity. The lady paronosssa
of tho socety turned out en- ass with superb toilets
ana By their winning smiles and easy grace contributed
10 the general pleasure Of the evening Dancing COM
menced Al ten o'clock and kept up Until late In tha
morning The occasion will long be remsmbeT<d bY at
whose fortune Il IVES 70 ho present,
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

want Of provisions Seven millions in gold
for such place Is surely waste Of money,
especially when we can get the spacious land
locked, deep and beautiful bay Of Samans, in
Dominica, for, as we understand, less than
half the money. Aa q naval station, where
these unpleasant upliftings of the sea roll huge
ships Of war over the town, ST. Thomas is too
shaky.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

oUvpER Which KNo "--Tho leading Seward
organ Of this city is fighting tho radicals Of
Congress with the unotion Of "vetcran OBJ
server" who has heavy account against them !;
but what does IL say Of General Grant, Sup
porting johnson and Grant as on the same
platform will no longer DO. II Grant Is with
iho radicals whore ID this orEAp Of Johnson
The New York herald., 1868-01-17
Hudson Amateur Rowing Associ

Az TOO regular aunuaI meetug OF ti10 HuusUH Auidr
teur Rowing Association, held on Wednesday, 10Th
inst, ut tho Atalanta Boat House, the follow
ing officers were elected for tho ensuing year,
President. David Banks, Jr, Of the Atalanta Club:
First Vice President, j. G.. p Holden OF tho Palsade
Clubs Second Vice President, A. G. Graves, Jr, Of the
Mutual Club; Recording Secretary II. G. Hasbageu, a
tho Columbia CLUB: Corresponding Secretary, r. q.
a Atlantic CIull
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

QyroervSArE ST. THoxAs..-still troubled
wi& earthquakes, thi, unlott.uas,e and spppsr.
eatlS God;iofsaksn sterile little island = re-
ported row TO be suffering from pestilelos
shd iAhsda Afsam follow lsfek cholera and q
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

COIuIubIu ROnt Club.

Columbia BOnt Club.
Al the regular annual meeting Of tho Columbia Boat
Club, held January H. 1885, the following officers were
elected for tho ensuing year:-Presdent, H. @. HASH
hagen Vice President A. Moreiith secretary George
NJ Young; Treasurer, w. A. Martin.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

ANOTHER ANNA DIcKISsoN.-Miss Sallia
Bronson Goodrich lectures the newsboys TO-
nigh. at 1913 Fulton street. Boys, behave.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

WENDELL PHILLIPS 10 . perfect Ma Caudles
In his last lecture he says that the "x,nerisaa
people are drunk with Grant and monsy bagan
What sort Of liquor is that?
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

this revolutionary scheme In the interval 10
next November, when the people will have
something to say that will settle all these vexed
questions. IF Mr. johnson, however, should be
impeachsd aud removed meantime bis
removal will be 10 him an impershable
crown Of glory for il will make him. by the
spontaneous concentration around him Of all
the conservative elements Of the country, our
next President, even against General Grant as
the radical candidate. We saw in 1852 how
small was tle influence Of General Scott's
military achievements against the popular ideas
Of that day on the slavery question; but the
issues Of universal negro suffrage negro politi.
cal and social equality, Southern negro su-
premacy and Southern negro political
balance Of power WILL in 1868, have much
greater influence on the public mind than the
idea ofpeace on the slavery question in 1862.
The radicals Of Congress have some appre-
tensions Of this SORT They are fighting des-
perate battle for the perpetuation OF their
power. Their purpose Is, with the negro
vote, to add the electoral votes Of the ten out
side Southern States to the vote Of the North
for their Presidential ticket for they think that
these ten Southern States will more than
neutralze all their Northern losses. They
must be defeated In this game, or this election
Of 1868 may be the last under the constitution
Of the United States. With Grant fairly in
their tolls, the radical Directory at Washington
will henceforth be bolder than ever in pushing
forward their designs. Upon whom can the
opposition Union and constitutional elements
of the country successfully combine to defeat
the radical ticket? Can they have a better
rallying cry than Johnson and the constitu-
tion?
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

NEW YORK HERALD.
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
----~-~-~~~->~->~-~>~~~-
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
FROPR IET0R.
'-
Volume XIiI............"....,........ No. I !
ANusEMEsrs THIS EVENING.
RiBLo's GARDEN. Broadway.-Tns wHirs rAws
wALIACK,S THEATRE. Broadway AMI i3,h s,rsel -
CHiAM OF THE WAroa-woopcocK's LlIrtE CAMS.
BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway. opAr
FRENCH THEATRE. Fourteanta street -MARts Az
ToIsErrE
ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth ,treeL-MAnraA
BOwERy THEATRE Bowery.-NARcIssE-wAspKsi pKsiSe
MiNsrEEL-RopERr MAcARr
PIXIES OPERA HOUSE. 2sd ST., eorn.e Eishta av-
LucRETIA BoRGiA
NEW YORK THEATRE. opposite New YORK Hotel-
UNDER 1HE GAaLicHr.
OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadvay.-A Hipsrnxea
NIGHTS DREAM
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Brooklyn.-CaARtrs picExys
READINGS.
BANvARDS OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad
way and Threth street-fRosr KING.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. Nos. Q and { IVES. 9Th
streeL-FAkiG or BRAAAH.
NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth t.-GYaSAsrtcs
EoUEsTRiASiSM, &c.
THEATRE coMIoUR. sl4 Broadway. ccxu,.
NATION TRoufE. Matinee at st
KELLY Icons MINSTRELS, 100 Broadway SONGS,
DANCES EccrNrRicIrIEs, B6GLEsQURs, &c.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs. SIS Broadway.-Eraio.
ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DascisG BuRLEsQUg
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, col Bowery.-Coxlc
vocALIsM NEGao MINsrRsLsY. &C.
BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE T2 Broadway.-
BALLET. FARCE, PANroMIMR, &c.
BuNyAN HALL. Broadway and Fifteenth strcel-TaE
PILGRIM. Matinee ~, 2.
DODwORTu HALL, No. so6 Broadway. -vASDESuo,Fs
READINGS.
PARK THEATRE. Brooklyn. .-AMBrrioy.
HoOIEYs OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn. .-ErutoriAy
NiNSTRpLsy. BALLADS BURLEsoUEx
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. ols Broadway.
SCIrNCE AND ARE
New York. Friday. January ~, 1S6S.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

wALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway ana illh s,rsel -
CsfIAN OF TrIE WArcH-W oopcocK's LiIrLE GAME.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway -Psns o'pAr
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

FRENCH THEATRE Fourtcanla street -NARts A,
TofsErrE.
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

s,BLo's GARDEN. Broaaway.-rus wHlrs r.ws
The New York herald., 1868-01-17

ANusgMESrS THIS EVENING,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-26

will not blow his own trumpet, and bid for
votes by his voice.
Nor does he need to follow Mr.. Seymour's
example. Here is the precise point, Indeed,
to which we call attention. seymour was
fairly driven TO take the stump by the piteous
cries of his friends. Graut rests confidently
on the public appreciation of his course,
already made manifest, and needs resort to no
ewprofessions. Seymour is forced TO speak
to convince his own oOuntrymen that he and
Blair do not mean war. Grant said, and the
people believed and have responded, "Lst US
have peace" Grant will be elected without
lowering his dignity, breaking his self.
imposed silence, making any dis play of ex-
plantations or excuses, or personally putting
forth aoy claims as orator, fuancier, states
man, or general, or anything else. Seymour
will be defeated, after having been driven TO
the desperate expedie4t OF elecLioneeriug for
himself.
We say "electioneering for himself" be-
cause that is precisely what the Worla says.
1t urged him to speak, simply in order to get
votes, and now that he has spoken, it counts
up, with a well-f5igned enthusiasm of credu-
lity, the results of the speaking simply in
electioneering figures. The important practi-
cal question is, says the World, chow many
new votes will thereby be brought to the
Democratic side" Not less than four hundred
in Indiana, and four thousand in Pennsyl-
vania." Bah The World has already as good
as told its party that Seymour was a dead
cock in the pit; ana now does it believe he
can win by crowing? Americans are not such
simpletoDs as the Worid would imnly, or
otherwise they would long ago have obliged it
by taking its brags of carrying Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Indiana for prophecies, and its edi-
torials for gospels; nor will they now fnd
Seymour's eleventh. hour appeals for his cleo
tion more inspiring than Grants attitude of
perfect confidence. Seymour was driven up
to the rescue of his own party; but Grants
soldiers and friends and countrymen did for
him all the talking required. Nor were their
words needful; they need only ha e pointed
to their leaders, deeds and "bid them speak
for him.
The World, we repeat, has smoked out Sey-
mour. In escorting him 30 the footli shts, it
attempts to disarm the criticism which his
Ominous appearance Gas ii to make his last
political will and testament) instantly sug-
gests, by villpending his great rival for not
making the same show OF himself. "Grant, ~
it says, 'is as dumb as an oyster;" it affects to
despise "the torpid intellect of the swords
man'-his "narr0w, barren intellect" With
the disdain of conscious superiority it ex-
claims, "Be think - To all of which, and
several columns more in the same vein, we
simply reply. that kind OF talk did not carry
the October elections, and it will not carry the
November The Worid says Grants silence is
''no weapon al all.' 1t is a better one than
slander. Grants is the expressive silence"
which is supported by historic deeds, more
potent than winged words. The weapon of
detractiOD is one that kicks-its load is not SO
destructive as its recoil.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-26

Congress might meet with an "outrags'' fresh
to it's hand.
Run over this catalogue now. See II there
is one of these lamentabla evils that has not
been to the advantage of the radical party.
Memphis and New Orleans gave them a two
thirds IN the FOrtieth Congress. Camilla
helped win them Pennsylvania, Indiana, and
Ohio. BY every single one of the g outrages
radioalism has gained. BY every single oul
the Southern people have lost. Which, then,
of the two is the more likely to have pro.
volSed them 7
Radicalsm the party Of peace The party
rather OF bloOdshed, of cold -bloOded oalGu.
lating, predetermined murder. 1t was to have
restored peace. Why didn't it do it2 TIE
President, the Supreme Court, the Southern
people, the Democratic party, were all power
less before it. 1t said TO this man go, and he
went TO this man come, and he came. The
whole power of legislation in this country, q
power uneXamp pied in magnitude siHce it CON.
prised all inside aud all outside of the COnsti-
tuition, was at it's disposal, aud, backing up
this power, the sword and the purse the ma
tional treasury and the national troops.
Where is tue peace we were to have2 Where
the fruits of these two years of absolute
radical supremacy Where the ''adequate
protection for life and property in the South
that was promised? The Rebels have pre-
vented it But you were to do it in spite
of the Rebels. You knew when you took hold
of this matter that the Rebels were a part of
the problem. Why, if you are statesmen, did
you not allow for that in your calculations
Aud how dare you, as the recipients and
wielders of the entire power of this great
country, rise up and say that you haven't
given us peace because the Rebels wouldn't
let your II so, they have outgeneralled you
they, poor, beaten, dssClate, helpless people,
have beaten you with your own weapons aui
at your own game. But you know, ye cowardly
blunderers, that fthe truth is far otherwise;
that the country is really in its present condi-
tion of agony because of your truculent inefi-
cheney. You haven't solved the problem be-
cause you can't solve it. You have no policy
but hate, and no stateoraft that reaches beyond
bloodshed. Stand aside with your bayonets,
and let the principles which ruled this country
for half century in glory now restore it to
peace.