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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03
WJLL PRIN PLAY HIS KING ?

1t Is just about year since Gen. Prim paid his
former visit to Vichy, and took occasion to make
a call in Paris He is now in Vichy again.
and has also been making a call in Paris. I'M
medatey after his former visit came the
Spanish revolution which opened SO magnif-
Gently, and of which Prim was the hero
What is to come of the present trip.to France Z
Nobody has ever doubted that when Prim
went there last year he went to have final
talk with Louis Napol con concerning the enter
prise on which Spain was about to embark.
No one can doubt that Prm is now seeking
counsel as TO the future of that enterprise
which began with so brilliant success,
and looks already as if it were doomed 10
sink into a disastrous failure.
What has been the history of Spain during
the past twelve months7 She has been almost
like that Ozark without pilot in stormy sea,
to which Dante, in memorable passage, likens
the Italy of lis day. The new regme-we
hardly know whether to call it monarchical or
republcan-has been engaged almost since it
first came into existence in putting down in
surrections. The streets Of great cities have
ran red with the blood of insurgents. One
sometimes would hardly have known
that Isabella was not still on the throne
with O'Donnell or Narvaez as her
Minister There have been Republican
instructions, priestly Instructions Isabella
instructions, Carlist Instructions The last
if report speaks true, have been sup
pressed with q sanguinary sharpness al
most worthy of the hands which crushed
the LOLA movement eight or nine years ago.
when even Narvaez himself Ito be sure, he was
not then in Office rose up in the Senate and
protested against the superfuous slaughter.
Spain has, at the present moment, at least six
OF seven political parties actively and fercely
striving for neutrality-suspicious., Union
lists, Progresssts, Monarchsts, and the factions
which should, perhaps, be called conspiracies
rather than parties the Isabellinas, the Carlsts,
and the other bands and gangs which aim at
Selling the throne for this OF that Bourbon. The
Carlist attempt seems, indeed, to have been
stamped out for the present; but the measure
is said to find great favor among the priest
hood, in whose eyes Prm and his colleagues
are no better than the heather. Added 10 all
this is. Of course. the Cuban difficulty. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

These are days and nights of startling in
congruity in dress. The Winter is upon us
though the Summer is not gone Clothing con-
sstent with the sudden chill which yesterday
filed the atmosphere is difficult of access, II
not wholly unattainable, and the public prom
enades Just now present, so far as raiment Is
concerned nothing but pictures of chaos and
wilderment-unnatural alliances OF white
waistcoats and wooden gloves; unhailowed
unions of straw hats and heavy overcoats (;
preposterous antitheses of fragile neckties and
stalwart boots. At the evening play houses
ladies enter swathed and muffied like antique
mummies, and, unfolding themselves with agile
grace, spring forth to the astonished gaze, ra-
diant, light airy and untrammeled, like Venus
bursting from the gloomy deep. And all III
consequence of the audacious intrusion of cold
weather before its time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03
HdNSOM CIRN.

We shall soon have them-not in great album
dance, but in sufficient number at least to test the
value of the experiment, and to enable citizens
to estimate the various advantages which the
new vehicles are expected TO afford In the
course of a few weeks probably before the
end of this month, we are assured, about
one hundred cabs will be ready for traffic
at various stations in this city and Brooklyn.
This is, no doubt, small beginning; but if the
enterprise be conducted as fairly and literally
as tho Directors of the Company promise, it
will rapidly receive sufficient encouragement
to authorize the introduction of an indefinite
number of similar conveyances. Popular con-
vcnience will require that they be reckoned by
thousands, as they are in London, instead of
by hundreds.
For nobody knows how many years, the
most fragrant nuisance, among the myriad
nuisances which afilict this metropolis, has
been the public hackney carriage system
ExtOrtion, discomfort, and the undsguised
brutality of drivers, have been its steady
attendants. 1t has scarcely rcdeeming char
acteristic. Law cannot control, although it
feebly affects TO restrain, its abuses; and the
few occasional efforts on the part of the
community to remedy its errors have resulted
i'll such utter failure, that no course is now
open to citizens excepting either to abstain alto
gcther from the use of hackney coaches, or to
submit INCREASINGLY to the exactions and inn
positions Of those who manage them. For
travellers, there is not even this choice. They
must employ carriages, and, as q consequence,
they must be bullied and plundered The
Hanson Cab Company pledge themselves, in
due time, TO reform all this. They offer a
method OF conveyance sufficiently rapid, safe,
and comfortable, at moderate and strictly
regulated rates. They even 60 so far as to
promise, to Q certain extent, civil behavior on
the part of their drivers, and in fact, q clause
IN their charter provides that none of
these shall leave his cab at any
galway station or steamboat landing,
or move from his stand, until summoned
by passenger Ophelia's doubt as to the
protestations Of the lady in the play may, in
deed, fit across the minds of those who ponder
this announcement but if the Company
seriously propose reforming the present dis
graceful condition of affairs at all, We see no
reason why they should not undertake to re-
form it altogether. OF course this attempt is
only an entering wedge, and whether it can
make ii way against the formidable hostility
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03
Amusrmtnis. ct.

poo1u', THEATER Twenty third-st.. between Fllth
sut,h,y.s-Tbis Eyeulns -" Rip Van Winkie 'oseP"
1,yxTp,I PARK GARDEN. Sevcnthaye and flfty,
80 TIL, BIsuuV at s-Graod Concert IbeO Thomas ."
Lew. , =, , nplav -
NJ K |. Davenport, Mrs Gina Jennings
GRAND OPERA House. cor. Eighth,aye. anu We"
a,Ibird.st-Ths Evening al D." Sea Of lee" L0eho "
NIBLo's GARDEN.-This Evening at 81 ANA
ROgse@ ~. o Tho
OLYMPIC THFATTR This Evening az Vyjr,Ty
Nv Psnlonlnei 81 ieeory Diccory pOek' Nj =" L. f ~
San FR,Nc1sco MINsraE1s.-This Evening'-hiS-
eelaneous performances 800,
SoMFRvuLH ART GALLERY. No ~ fhth-a'o'-
ab, D.,-E1hibi.on Of Paintings ny 6ns'S'e pore
TuE 1AMmANY.-This Evening at s." The queen
Of Hesrts," kc IL ~, .
WuIAcK's TnFATER.-This Evening at s. Ihe
Victims" ami "Solou Single" John x. Owens
WooD,s MUSEUM, Broadway and Ihrueth-Sit- :,
n, dl, from a NJ to 10 D. Two drsmste performances A A.
80 &c Mssapiello. -" Pearl Of SAVOY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03
- tNA,
THE Dr.
THE OPENING SEASON.

THE OPENING SEASON,
The regular season. has come Mp No as
promptly these bracine September breezes. n. ''
Garden first in the field the I'd Of August, whcN
the managers threw buresque overheard and embarked
the legitimate drama. On the night, the Grand
Opera House commenced which has lasted till
now, and bids fair 10 be indefinitely prolonged.
Mr.. Days Fifth Avenue Theater came next,
the 10th. Then the Tammany, the Theater
Comlque, and the wayerley wheeled into line Then
Woods Museum hung out its sutumnal banners and tho
San Francisco Mnsres ratified their uvenescent bones
Next week. the Olympic and the Bowery Will follow
suite Bryants Minstrels begin on the 18th little
later the 10th inst. Mr. Wallack's phalanx will
advance the front; and lastly, the 2Oth Mr. Booth
will close the final gap and the regular will have
thoroughly set in.
DRAMATIC NOTES.
Mr.. Dan Bryant's benefit tonight, at Niblo's
Garden.
The Chapman Sisters are playing at Louis
vile, In the burlesque OF " Ixion."
Mr.. Wallacks new company, for next sea-
lie summoned TO assemble at the theater next Mon
day.
Mr. RObertson's new comedy of Progress,
cage, under the direction Of Mr.. Aiken.
Half-a dozen matinees are announced for to-
morrow as follows at Woods Museum, Zavstowski Sis
tiers; al tie Tammany, The Queen OF Hearts; at the
Olympic, Mr Fox in Hiccory, Diccory, Dock nc the
Fftha avenue Theater Play; at Booths Theater, Mr..
Jefferson in Rip Van Winke" and at the Grand Opera
House, Miss Lucille Western in THE Sea OF Ice."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

Warned by their past experience, the sympa-
thizers with Cuba have determined apparently
70 avoid New-York for the future. and select
rendezvous for their expeditions for the Cuban
coast at points less carefully watched. Our DIS
patches announce the gathering of an expedl-
ton in Georgia, arrangements in getting to
sea, efforts. of the United States Marshais to
intercept it, and general excitement along that
part of the South Atlantic coast. While we
should hardly feel called on to mourn Their
success, we confess to belief that the best
hope for Cuba lies in the presence of plenty OF
arms in the hands of her own sons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

Just as the friends of unhappy Ireland were
congratulating themselves on the triumph OF
measure of long deferred justice in the discs
tablishment of the Church of small minority
of her people, rendering religion in tho Green
Isle matter of personal concern as it should
be. the telegraph brings the unwelcome tidings
that Cardinal Cullen, the head of tho Irish
Roman Catholic hierarchy, has forbidden the
further attendance of Catholic children on the
National Schools-an edict that must deprive
hundreds of thousands of any secular instruc-
ton whatever, This edict is calamity not
for Ireland only but for this country as we'll
which will hereafter be largely peopled by
immigrants whom Cardinal Cullen has thus
arbitrarily consigned to lifelong Ignorance ana
intellectual darkness. The Cardinal has EVIL
IDENTIFY mistaken the Nineteenth for the
Eleventh Century.
The National schools of Ireland are non
sectarian, but not irreligious. They inculcate
no dogmas of any particular church, and they
war upon none. They have been rapidly vim
| dicating Ireland from the reprOach of popular
| ignorance and mental darkness, and their
overthrow will prove sad privation to
millions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

The examination of U. S. Weghers t. w.
Egan and Percy b. Spear, accused of commit
ting fraud upon the Government by issuing
false pay rolls, was concluded yesterday before
U. s. Commissioner Osborn. Egan was held
in $1,000 bail for trial, in default of which he
was placed in the custody of the U. S. Mar.
shai' Spear was discharged. In commenting
upon the evidence the Commissioner remarked
that system Of fraud had been satisfactorily
shown to exist In the Weighmasters Depart
ment of the CustOm-H ouse-to how large m
extent and in precisely how many ways we
eIe yet uniformed. But we have now the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

If it be so administered, it deserves the sym
pathy and the active, practical support Of all
who have at heart the welfare Of their families.
the honor of their country, and the good OF
mankind. Nothing Is trivial which affects the
minds of the young. Nothing is idle which
SWAPS the popular heart. And the stage il
both dazzling to youth and dear to the people.
Those who have it in charge rest under the
burden of a very grave responsibility. They
not only keep a shop, but they keep school;
and the schoomaster, in this age, is greater
than the emperor But their responsibility Is
not theirs alone. 1t rests, in some sense, also,
upon the intellectual and refined classes ia
every community, whose high duty and whose
wise policy it u.s. to sustain in dignity and
honor every institution and every influence
which can advance human civilization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

We trust those who favor q relocation OIL
the Federal Metropolis are not forgetting VIC W.
Convention in that interest TO be held at o.
Louis on the Goth of October. Our own luog'
ment is that New-York is the best ana WASH
ington the worst site for our Capital; but
this Convention will only serve to brihs tne
question fairly before the people. and stop tie
erection of costly pile after pile at Washing
ton with money that ought to be used to re-
duce the National Debt. If Only in that view
the movement inaugurated by st. Louis is OF
great Importance and promise, and we urge
all interested to give it emphasis and support.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

At last we have what seems to be authentic
confirmation of the report for some tiihe
in circulation, that the United States Minister
at Madrid has offered the good offices OIL this
country as a mediator between SPAN ana
Cuba. This comes to u.s. indeed, coupled Win
the declaration that, for the present tho
Spaniards are unwilling to accept such media
ton unless the Cubans should first lay down
their arms but we are none the less IN,
cljned TO believe that they viii finally be glad
70 accent not such conditions as they choose
70 nresc,;be. Int such conditions as their OWE
pressing necessities may impose
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

The Hon. j. G.. Bancroft Davis, Assistant
Secretary OF state and Count Aerschot Secretary Of
the Belgian legation are at the Breyoort House. Mr..
Rangabe, Charge Afaires Of Greece Washington is
at the Albemare Hotel Gen. Gordon Granger, U. s. A.;
exGoy j. Gregory Smith, Vermont the Hon, r. ID.
Rice, augusta. Ne. Dr. c. W. Holland, Florida and
Beach OF Troy; Mrs Henry Winter Davis and family,
Delaware Col. A. X. Mcclure, Philadelphia and Lieut..
W. r. Liyermore OF the Engineer Corps, at the Hon
man House Gen. Albert Pike OF Tennessee Gen. O. c:
Maxwell Ohio the Hon. H. Pratt Prattsve, n. Y, and
Bagley, Detroit are at the St Nicholas Hotel Gen.
j. H. Alexander st. Louis, and Judge Gleason, late y B.
Consul al Bordeaux at the Metropolitan Hotel Pro
lessor Herman Paris and Major Hennessey Washington,
are at the Westminster Hotel Commodore Emmons, u.
+. Navy, is ut the Aston House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

1t it always much pleasanter to lead than to
drive, and this is true even with the most hard
ened criminals. The interesting sketch of
prison reform published in another column
Shows what success may be attained in this
department by substituting moral persuasives
4or brute force, and singularly confirms recent
Suggestions made in our own discussions of the
subject. Don Manuel Montesinos has set our
prison officials an example which they cannot
err in initiating.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

Not single European Sovereign, it Is stated,
is to be present at the opening OF the Suez
Canal. The VicerOy of Egypt issued invita-
tions most literally but the Sultan took offense.
put on airs worthy of the legendary Grand
Mogul, reminded the VicerOy that he is only
vassal and had no right TO invite anybody.
gave him sharp warning to cut down hls
expenses, sell off his iron clads and breech-
leaders, and drop his negotiations with foreign
Governments. The Viceroy, acting on tho
advice of his friends, has given to this missive
the soft answer which turncth away wrath,
and quarrel which at first seemed imminent
has apparently been avcrted But it appears
that the European SOyereigns, or those among
them who thought of going have now very
naturally made up their minds to remain away
The whole affair is curious instance OF tho
anomalous relationship existing between Fur
key and Egypt, and which never could have
existed but for the absurd policy of certain
European Powers. Egypt is country with
future before it. 1t has gone in for modetn
industries, inventions, appliances it is eager
to adopt every new discovery; it has railways
and gas, newspapers and commerce Alexan-
dria is more like great French city than Ike
ANYTHING Eastern. Mark Twain bears testi-
mOny that he even found an ce-cream saloon
there-a fact which ought to render it respect
bic in the mind of every true American. lt IL
q mere anomaly that a decaying, stupid, impo-
tent old Government like that OF Turkey
should exercise suzerainty over Egypt. Tho
first general outburst that takes place in tho
Turkish provinces of Europe will inevitably
herald the independence of Egypt, for there
will he no English Intervention of wariike
kind in Turkish affairs any more. The rebuke
of the Sultan on the score of extravagant ex-
pendture came with a wonderfully good grace
from the most prodgal and reckless OF all
spendtlrift States. "1hat Jenny Twitcher
"should peach on me, / own, does surprise
"me,n says the rogue in "The Beggars
"OperaY That the Sultan should rebnke en-
travagance may well astonish his vassal, The
Viceroy. 1t is Satan rebukng sin indeed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

The National Temperance Convention at
Chicago is likely to be remembered rather FORTS
excellent intentions than its wise performances.
I'VE doubt whether the formation of Temper
ance party in opposition to the leading political
parties now in existence is either timely or prac-
ficable, and we cannot but regret that the
wise counsels which were urged at the Conven-
zion did not prevail
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

opinion of Commissioner that practices some
what different from Irregularities have been
going on; and as so much has been accom-
plished to sustain Government authorities In
investigating Custom House affairs in this city
we hope they will feel encouraged to pursue
their InGNiries, and ascertain just where inc
system of fraud has begun and where 1t enos'
We saall DO satisfied with nothing less.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

Our returns from the election in California
are meager, but indicate light vote, and a
Dojority in the Legislature for the party
falsely named Democratic. 1t strikes us as
not especially creditable to the voters of Cali
aornla that this triumph has been achieved in
Che face of the basest appeals to prejudice in
behalf of caste. The Democratic party ought
to have the decency to change its name.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

We hear of light frosts in New England
and some alarm, particularly about the to-
bacco crop. No damage, however, seems yet
TO have been done. Anything like q genuine
frost now would of course complete the work
of the long drouth on the corn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03
our hest for the witty Mayo

: We did our best for the witty Mayo
s New York who has invented the rare joke
signing his name 80. X" We gave him fun
credit for unearthing the fact, and proving &c
; by the poll books, that, much as they prated
about the necessity of Democratic victory, tho
editors reporters, publishers, pressmen, and
devils of The World all with one miad cared
so little about it that they didn't think n
worth while, last Fall. to vote even once; and
we did not conceal our solemn conviction that
: no such heinous charge was ever before brought
against Democratic newspaper In the whole
history of Democracy. But now comes a de-
fender of The World, with arguments which, we
are bound to say, are persuasively powerful.
How does anybody know" exclaims this
spokesman of The World that the Mayors
poll books are evidence Do we not know
how his people tempered with the Registry,
and voted tens of thousands of fraudulent
ballots Who but an idiot would think OF
presenting pollbooks in this city as proc
of anything9" We confess our error .
argument of this able defender may be bad II"
the Democracy, but it is good for The WOria.
Mr.. 80. K.n is not "or" ahead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03
PERSONAL.

President Grant and Gen. Porter arrived in
Saratoga by the evening train yesterday aud joined the
Presidents family at the Union Hotel.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-30

within her legal boundaries to form a
good-sized German principality, she cam not
find spot of ground large enough to furnish
a Workshop for her vagabonds, and her
rogues and idlers will be forever relieved
from the necessity of honest exertion by the
incapacity of her Councils to agree on the
momentous question of site for the House
of Correction. If the present Councils are
at last really in earnest, let them not stand
upon the order of their action, but act lat
once, buy site, and erect the necessary
buildings as quickly as masons and carpen-
ters can put them up
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-30
ANOTHER SITE FOR A HOUSE OF
CORRECTION.

IT is reported tina Joint committee of the
two branches of Councils has recently visited
a farm of two hundred acres, located near
Holmesburg, which they are strongly inclined
to recommend as cheap and proper site for
the proposed House of Correction. Years
have been consumed in vain efforts to obtain
a property which could command the approval
of the City Fathers, and it is high time that
a decision was reached. Heretofore
the earnest appeals of scores of
Grand Juries and the Temonstrances of
courts have exercised such a slight
influence that taxpayers have been reluctantly
forced to the disagreeable conclusion that
they must be perpetually victimized by idle
and criminal classes, and that Philadelphia
must forever maintain the unenviable distinc-
tion of being the banners paradise. For
years the Invitation has gone forth to the
world;-Come hither, thieves and able-bodied
loafers; the Quaker City will feed, clothe, and
house you well, without ever requiring from
you particle of labor, or inAicting any pun
ishment more serious than incarceration
among a horde of companions as worthless as
yourselves. With enough of territory
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-30

nVe IN Press and will issue at once an entire ne
Swhh anu uniform edition of all the celebrated Move
late O"' VI piiu' ior years. written Oy u
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-30

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