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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10
A RELIC OF RARBARISM.

Philadelphia it seems, again has her " Priv
"ileged Class" In the good old Slavery days,
the mob of Southern Medical Students COM
posing her two great colleges controlled, with
fatal absoutism, not the politics, but the pull
nit and platfOrm-we had almost said the press
of her city. A tiers 6tat, they formed the first
power. The polished imbeciles who held the
Office of Mayor in those days recognized this
power and conciliated it. Unlike New-Iork,
Philadelphia has always had weakness tor
aristocracy in the civic chair Her Chief Mag
strate generally bears some honored family
name. Indeed, it is the only way in which
aristocraey condescends to enter politics. be-
fore Republicanism came in to cOmpllcate mat
tiers, when Philadelphia was the Gibraltar Oh
Whiggery, her Wing Mayor had either
Southern mOther-in-law or his brother owned
hundred slaves, or Henry Clay slept at his
house, In the old days, then, 1T was the chler
function of these hidalgOs to PROSTATE them
selves before the few hundreds of students
who represented in their savage instincts the
might and majesty of the South. Anti-Slavery
Fairs were held for years under the shadow of
violence and threats, and the doors were closed
upon them by the Sheriff, in the name of the
Commonwealth, because it hurt the students
feelings Once, it required the whole police force
of Philadelphia to protect George VIM. Curtis,
whose anti-Slavery, though sound and whole
some, was certainly sandwiched with rose
leaves. And, when he came to lecture again, he
was told it could MT be. The students" were
a by-word and a terror COlored children, and
men and women too held their lives cheap
when they met party Of students on ca
rousal, and sought safety in flight, lest they
should come to the hospital before their time.
Had il not been for their firm friends the
fremen, it would have gone hard with them
in the days when Bedford and SOuth-sts. were
hunting ground for the chivalry.
But after we had met them dareful, beard
to beard" and proved their pistols were no
surer than our rifles their knives no keener
than our sabers, one would have thought the
old rule was at an end. Not So it seems
they are still to give law to Philadelphia.
party of thirty ladies, themselves medical
students of the Woman's College, invited by
the managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital to
attend the usual clinical lecture on Saturday
last, were subjected both within and without
the Hospital walls, to the insults, the kissing,
and brutal mpudence of this most lawless
crew. They will solve the woman question, as
they swayed the free speech of Philadelphia
years ago! The problem of wOman'S right to
the highest education and the broadcast field for
work, before which grave philosophers stand
silent, finds instant solution at their hands !!
Let the city be thankful for her Five Hundred,
| long haired as Greeks, but uniting the barba-
rian graces of the Malay with the chivalry of
the North American Indian
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10
NEgYORK as SHE HILL BE.

The verdict rendered 10y the Inspectors and
Canvassers of the votes cast at our recent
election puts the State of New-YOrk COM
pletely in the power of our political adverse
ries. By the help of Fifty Thousand Repabli-
cans who would MT take the trouble to vote,
of Three Thousand Democrats who voted ten
times apiece, and of the most scandalOus
frauds in polling illegal votes and miscounting
those which were legally cast, Democratic
majority of Twenty Thousand has been scored
up. The Executive, the Legislature in both
branches, the Judiciary, the Canals the Pris-
ons-in short, everything-aTe either already
under Democratic control or become so on the
list of January next. No matter how fOully
won the victory is overwhelming and COM
plete.
Now, then, we say to the victOrs, Do your
work thoroughly We demand such safeguards
for the rights of legal voters, imperiled by
Wholesale systematic corruption and fraud, as
the Constitution expressly requires, and as you
shall deem appropriate and necessary. So that
the end be secured, the choice of means rests
wholly with you; and, if you choose not
to secure the end. the blame will be wholly
yours, and the People will understand aChy you
so violate the Constitution Of your own manu-
facture and choice. Bear in mind that you can
no longer stand off and cavil at what ace may
do you are bound to do yourselves, and failure
to act involves responsibility and invites criti-
csm.
So with regard to State Commissions We
believe in them, as your fathers did when they
enacted the law which gave US Croton Water
and appointed a State Board of Water Com
missioners to execute that law. We believe
that said CrotOn Board and the Central Park
Commission have saved Millions to our City,
vet given us better service than we could have
secured from unchecked Aldermanic rule.
What yoa believe on the subject, the public
will gather, not from your professions, but
your acts. Do your will, then, and look well
to your responsibility Remember that what
ever you leave will be as thoroughly yours as
though you had newly created 1T.
SO with the Police Board Fire Commission.
Health Board, Board of Supervisors, Brooklyn
Water Commission, &C., &c. That the Board
of Supervisors should be abolished, and Its
powers RENTED to the Board of Aldermen, we
have long been convinced The Democrats
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

The Thanksgiving Proclamation of Gov.
McClurg of Missouri is quite model of praise
worthy brevity. His Excellency contents him
self with couple of texts of Scripture, viz:
1.-THE Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear
Him; in those that hope in His mercy !"
He maketh peace in thy borders and flleth
(" thee with the finest of wheat" Then the
people are recommended "to praise the name
"of the Lord" both in family circles and
public places. The Governor signs this; the
Secretary of State countersigns it and there is
the neat little document complete This is un-
questiOnably an improvement upon those long
winded Proclamations in which the people
were enjoined to thank Heaven first for corn.
and then for potatoes, then for the usual ex
emption from cholera, and then for matters
and things in general.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

professed to deprecate the creation OIL 'la'
Board, and to desire its abolition as aIoreSaiu'
Yet, when this was proposed by the hepuoh-
cans in the Constitutional Convention Demo
cratic opposition was at once developed leu py
Judge (now District Attorney Garvin' ana we
believe his party very generally went wie'
him in favor of maintaining the Board as IL Is Is.
And, if they should now abolish IT. theS WI" W,
do so because they must, and not because tne
managers want to. So with several OIL the
Commissions.
Gentlemen opposite! your works must Juuge
you! For ten years, you have been laying 'ne
glaring prodigality, inefficiency, corruption ano
worthlessness of our Municipal rule 10 inc
charge of Republican legislation and kepuOh'
can Commissions. If any Commissions are re-
tanned, no matter under what preten' they
will henceforth by your Commissions MOI
ours. Keeping in few nominal Republicans
as stool-pgeons won't help you nor screen you
shade. You have all power. You cannon
escape nor divide responsibility.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10
VANDERBTLT

One day, steamer nearing a England
rock bound port, was Oyertaken by fearful
storm. To make her moorings, she must dash
through fleet Of twenty sail-craft or go to
splrnters herself on the lec-shore. Captain,
pilot, mate stood stupefcd before the peril.
The engine was stopped the boat was drift
ing straight upon the breakers; when Commo-
dOre Vanderbilt, a mere passenger, who stood
near the pilot-hOuse earnestly watching affairs,
jumped to the wheel, rang on every inch OF
steam, rushed her through the tossing, driving
fleet, tearing bowsprits, unshipping booms,
slcing off fancy sterns and in twenty minutes
swung the steamer safe and sound beside her
quiet dock. The Commodore says that, in the
moment before decision, he laid out his course
through the whole feet and balanced probable
damages all round to within five hundred dol
lars.
This action, fairly analysed, presents the
solid, logical secret of the mans whole career I;
for this career, while brilliant as Aladdin's, a
seeming carnival of luck, is but the logical
fruit of that forethought Imagination, and
Judgment, which compose the executive genius
"a genius superior to the scientific; glance
that, like Napoleon's on the battlefield, sweeps
the situation and detects its every detail; an
Imagination swift in expedients for protection
and success; a judgment as swift and clear to
balance the good and i'll; and all these facul-
ties so vivid and compact, that they at once
create and Justify will strong as a tide and
sweeping all other wills into itself.
But, while the COmmodore's process Of accu-
mutation has employed genius eminently his
own and which cannot be acquired by others,
yet it presents certain qualities, on the other
hand, which illustrate Frankln's simplest saws,
and which any one may emulate, with surety
of respectable success 1t is for the thousands
of young men throughout our country, who
envy the splendid result, but little know the
means which have procured it, that we give a
few new traits of the CommOdore's character
and career.
Contrary perhaps to general belief, his finaD-
cial plans, while bold and rapid in their exc
cntion, are conceived with the utmost thorough
ness and caution. OF the hundred schemes
that assail him in year from every side, not
one tempts him without first giving every hui
man probability of success. He never under
took present debt for q future and contingent
gain; and he accepted the partnership which
opened fortune to him, only on condition that
no borrowed capital should be employed, but
only the regular profits should be returned into
the business. Unlike the majority of men
rapidly enriched whose parlors and equipages
and routs only flaunt their owners wicked
folly, the Commodore has always main
tanned quiet and substantial style in his social
and domestic life. and great temperance and
regularity in all his private habits.
Let every young reader note another trait.
The Commodore, from boyhood, never under
took anything whether to SOUL yaEJ, to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10
KINGS IN BED.

Europe is a general infrmary, says we'll
known Frenchman, where the people are 80
sick of kingcraft that only liberty Will cure
Rut now it is the kings who are III hospital,
the despots who are under the weather, and if
doctors politically disagree about their cases
only the peoples can decide. In fact here are
three majesties actually in bed, o. next thing
to it, and, while as sympathlzng m0rtals
we must cOmmiserate their plight lt Is
nevertheless to be observed, with strict
reference to history, that their loss may
be in some respects the worlds gam. In other
words, their sickness may argue recovering
sign or two of national health There are
clever kings, we grant, and skillful empcrors;
ROYALTY has its virtues, and Imperialism Its
science; despotisms or semi-despotisms are
good in their way for those who like them
and keep them, and the empire may be
disciplinary induction 70 the Repub-
lic-stll the three sick mjesties have no
claim to be wept over by mankind.
Curiously, the trio are not broken down with
moral sacrifices or cares of state Men shake
their heads over the Cars headache, and say
that it is pity he drinks. Those who hope
he does not, consider what manner of prodigy
a Russian incompetence must be, superadded
to the intoxicaton of absolute power. Hard
hearted Paris jests at the imperial diagnosis; but
not in this case do they laugh at scars who
never felt wound. Ask the coup detdt Tor
that Florence rather sympatlises with her
gentleman king, who has lived with the free
old royal license, has kept up the dig
nifty of the Italian state after the fash
ion of born fgurehcads, and, on the whole,
would rather do right than wrong if monarchy
were best served thereby. What are the dan
gers of King Victor Emanuers i'll health may
be best Judged from the anxiety OF Napoleon
touching his condition. The sovereign who Is
affected with IrrecOncilables and what not,
may well be concerned about fellow crowned
head whose disease bears traces of Mazzinism
and Garibaldnism. The general condition OF
Europe is not good sedatiye for royal diges-
ton. Parliamentary dissolution anticipated in
Prussia ministerial unsettlement in Italy and
Belgium, crisis in France, chaos in Spain, show
an accelerated pulse and n popular fever. Were
old King William added to the three inyalids
the list Of great Continental patients would
be complete exclusive of that sick man
of Turkey, who obstinately keeps well
while the Car is ailing Who will calculate to
what extent Europe would be revOlutionizcd
by the death of two Of its kiugs7 Republican
ism rejublant in France would be the signal
for the general explosion of the mine Of rcyo-
luton throughout Europe After that what
deluge might happen we cannot say; but the
washing away of certain despotic landmarks
would not be regretted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

branches in every county and vigilant agents in
every town, might be thought the best arrange
ment. Ample funds would be necessary, and
there would be no difficulty in obtaining them,
since the want of just such an Association costs
this country annually millions of dollars, put
ting the lives of men out of the question. But
these are matters which do not properly belong
to this part of the subj ect.
For the value of one life to its possessor we
have Scriptural authority, but in great num-
Der of cases of accidents" there is the hell of
a holocaust or the mortality of battlefield.
The misery which must follow one great rail-
way accident" is incompatible, though it
may be family conceived. 1t is tragedy OF
blasted hopes, of desolated households, of wild
owhood and orphanage, from the contempla-
ton of which the sensitive mind shrinks aghast.
Let us lower the curtain, and so order our
ways that a repetition of its rising may be as
infrequent as possible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10
Amusrm,nts, &t.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-This Evening at S-ltaan
Opera; " II Trovators." Bro, Leiranc
BooTH's THEATER. Twenty third-st.. between Fifth
and 1tbsVsSThs Evening a. Mary Warner" Miss BaiemAn
FIFTH-AvE. THEATER, Twenty -fourth-st and Filth
sve-This Evening Much Ado About Nothing Mrs so'E
SiddODA
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. corner OF twenty
hrds aud Fourth BIhbnon Of ksintbgs and
NEw-YORK CIRCUs.-This Afternoon at "a anu
Evening sGrand Programme Ali Ben Abdaah Troupe Oh Deu
Arabs Bquestriansm. ...,
NBLOs GARDEN.-This Evening at g." LitIic
Nell" Ahd the Warehouses" LOtta
OLYMPIC THRATER-This Afternoon AT = anu
Evening At 8-"The Streets Of NeS.Yorf" Morume" 49,
SAN Francisco MINsTRKLs.-This Evening'--Als-
tellaBeous performances .,..,,
SoNEpvuIE ART GALLERY. No. 50 Fifth-aVe'-
This Dav and Bveping-B1hibitou Of "The Nine buses
STKINwAY HAII--This Evening NJ o'-Uia"u O0ii
ssr. Nine Anna Bishop Sig. Giorgio RoDco0L
THE TAMMASY.-This Evening at 81 Loru Jun
Ireary" The HAnlonS .
"Home" Lester waaeE ,
wooD,s MUSEUM Broadway and Thlrteth-st;-
o. l, from 10 I've dramatic performances uAJ'
Stl Nicholas Nickeby." and ats. The Yankee Farmer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

With that diffuse but vigorous manner hab-
itual to English craftsmanship, Mr.. Gladstone
has again treated of Ireland in speech at the
Lord Mayors banquet 1t is melancholy for
him to confess that people of noble capacity
"have not yet fulfilled the first conditions
"Of a civilized community, have not yet
"been brought into harmony with British
claws and institutions" Agrarian outrages
have increased among them in the last year,
and the general tendencies to crime acquire
" a painful notoriety and strike the hearts OF
"Englishmen with deadly chill" Ireland
however, with perhaps more than double the
population of Middlesex and London north OF
the Thames, does not exceed them IN crime,
so that not on account OF lrelanus
crime, but of its peculiar causes, have
Englishmen reason to feel shocked. Mr. Glad
stones pledge to treat the Irish question with
due respect to the fact that Irishmen must be
brought into harmony with British Institutions
should not ignore the necessity OF reforming
some of those institutions and of cOncilatlng
those who suffer under them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

Mr. Tweed was on hand yesterday. His
Board of County Canvassers met, and his nomi-
nee, Mr.. John Fox, was made Chairman. Mr..
Jacob Cohen presented protest against can
wasting the vote for Henry Smith for Super
visor, on the ground of gross frauds in
the district returns, and because the
State law expressly declares that no
Police Commissioner shall accept a nomina-
ton or take any other Office without
first resigning his place in the Police Board.
Mr.. Smith had not resigned; all votes for him
were therefore void, and, in the terms of the
law, he was not now a Commissioner Mr..
John Foley offered similar protest Did Mr..
Tweed entertain them9 BY no means He
wrote an order for his people to indOrse. that
all protests should be postponed until the can
vass was finished. Of course there was no
alternative and the dummies nodded approval.
Some innocent reader may ask, What can be
the use of protest after the votes are cOuntedf
1t would be wasting time to explain or argue
the matter. Everybody knows that in any case
such protests are idle. Mr.. Tweed has told the
Supervisors what they must dO-and they will
do it. So Messrs. Foley and Cohen may as
well tear up their protests.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

build an ocean fleet, or organize fifty million
railroad, without determining to do that thing
thoroughly and better than any man had ever
done before him; and he put head as well as
hand to it. He would Outsail another man IN
friendly race, then change boats with MN
and beat him again. After beating every craft
that sailed his waters, he took to beating NM
self by inyenting better models OF hull than
the best ship builders had known before. 80
strong and satisfying was this worthy pride In
action for actions own sake, that in early LIE
he gave his services for ten years at a
thousand a year without asking higher
paw till duty to his growing family
compelled a change. 1t is fact, that his
enterprises producing the most of golden
profit have sprung from this Napoleonic in
stipct of superiority and power rather than
from that of money and a name. His whole
physiOgnomy-One OF the finest In America
and never rendered worthily by any photo
graph, bronze, or picture that we have seen
proyes "the clements so mixed in him.
In a word, apart from the special endow-
ment of executive genius. the Commodore dit
fers mainly from other men simply in this
he takes the maxim, Z" First be sure you re
"right-then 60 ahcadn and drives il with
forty thousand horsep power; while most men
never make quite sure that they are right,
and, when they are, don't ego ahead" as II
they half believed It, We hope that this
statement of these causes, always available, to
success in life, may arrest every young man
who has falsely imagined that the grandeS'
fortune in our country has sprung from wall
st. gambling or reckless speculation anywhere
instead of broad foresight, patient Judgment
and resistess energy of will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

The public will receive with satisfaction the
announcement that Gen. Butterfeld's resig-
nation has been accepted, and success
sor appointed. The vacation of his Office
by the General has not been awaited with that
feverish impotence which some of the com
ments in the public journals would indicate; but
it's nevertheless true that so long as the General
remained in office, a profound sense of dis
trust pervaded the business community. Let
us trust that ex-senator FOlger, who succeeds to
the Office, and that all subsequent appointees
who may in other years and under other
Administrations succeed him, will not
fail to profit by the lesson which Gen.
ButteTfeld's career so pungenty en-
forces. The man who holds position
of this delicacy and responsibility must not
only be free from evil, but even from the sus-
picion of evil The Sub. Treasurer in New York
must neither speculate with the Government
money, nor speculate in Government securi-
ties with his own money during the term of
his office He must be content with the legiti-
mate income of his position, and abstain from
any business interests that might in any way
affect it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

By this time, Mr. Seward has made consider
able acquaintance where magueys and cacti are
the enOrmities of vegetation, and where farmers
are translated into rancheros and hacien-
dados. The refreshment of vision which
goes to the view of Mexican scene
is not easily told but in the exclusive
series of letters which detail for us regularly
the occurrences of Mr. Stewards journey
the spirit of Mexican travel under ex-
cellent auspices is most suggestively
given. What Mr.. Seward saw among
the cocoa palms and banana trees, among the
haciendas and Moorish buildings, among the
sugar plantations and gardens of COlma, where
flowers and fruits are never out of season, is
worth the readers experience also.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10

The work goes on finely. Mr.. Tweed has
competitor in Senator caldwell, who, for cool
audacity, bids fair to beat the Tammany chief.
InWestchester County, in adjoining districts, two
men named Lawrence were Democratic candi-
dates for the Assembly-Edward d. In the
Second, and VIM Edgarin the Third. The latter
was clearly defeated by James W. Hustled.
Republican. The other was defeated by
Howard C. Cady, but by very small ma
iority. Now comes the canvass, and Mr..
Senator Supervisor caldwell moves to
count for Edward d. Lawrence twenty-fOur
yotes cast for William Edgar Lawrence, as
they were found in the Second District boxes.
The Supervisors actually voted to do so.
though they had no more moral or
legal right to count these votes
for Edward D. Lawrence than they would
have to take surplus votes for Mr.. Tweed
from the Seventh Ward of New-York and
count them for Mr.. caldwell. This is an act
for which there is not precedent of
any authority, even in their own party.
1t is of a piece with the wholesale repeat
ing in our city, and only one more evidence
that Sing Sing has been too long deprived OF
men who should have been doing the State
service in dressing Westminster granite.