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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20
THE REAL ESTATE MOVEMENT

Thackeray tells us of little miss with whom
Nicholas Nickleby.-like less pleasing person
age mentioned by the poets-had all seasons
for his own. When she wanted amusement
she read Nicholas Nickleby. When she wanted
instruction she read Nicholas Nickleby. When
she was busy she read Nicholas Nickleby.
When she was idle she read Nicholas NlckleDy.
When she was sick she read it, and when she
was we'll she read it over again. Somewhat
similar are the views of capitalists concerning
Real Estate. When it is low they invest
in it because it is sure to rise. When
it is high they invest in it because
it is going higher. When money is
plenty they invest in it for speculation. When
money is scarce they invest in it because it is
q good investment. When business seems
sound and the finances are satisfactory, they
invest in it because of the advance which the
prosperity of the country is sure to give 1t.
When business is unsound and financial
crash is anticipated, they invest in it because,
while banks may break and bonds go down,
nothing but an earthquake can affect the per-
manency or safety of real estate.
In the long run no wider or more stable
fortunes can be found than those depending
for their solid basis upon such purchases, and
no surer mode of attaining fortune has been
found, among all the busy brains Of our teem-
ing population, than in judicious purchases of
real property on Manhattan Island, or in
its vicinity. How marked the movement Is
Just now in this direction our advertising col
umns bear witness. A page and half, nine of
our broad columns, are filled with a chronicle
of the transactions, and single days an
nouncements of offers by the real estate agents
and property holders. High as we thought
the prices last year, they are nearly
or quite twenty-five per cent higher
now, and the volume of business is in
creased in even more than the same proper
ton. Lots are rising steadily in nearly all
directions in and about New York; though the
most marked advance seems to be in the upper
part of the city, around and beyond Central
Park. THE TRIBUNE this morning spreads
before its readers, in its fresh and full advices
from the four quarters of the globe, n wonder
full exhibit Of the varied resources of a modern
newspaper but it has nothing of more general
interest TO those who mean to make their
homes or conduct their business on Manhattan
Island than its presentation of the Real Estate
movement on the eighth and ninth pages.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

or appointed to office; and we are sure The
Times will agree in our conviction that Office
holding has generally done them more harm
than good and yet we should both object
TO q constitutional exclusion of our guild from
office "a unwarranted and insulting.
This is no new question. The Constitution
of our State for half a century excluded clergy
men from Office. Now there is no dissent
among clergymen or laymen from the propo-
sition that, as a general rule, clersymen are
not. as a class. well-ftted for civil trusts, and
that it is better both for the church and the
world that they decline to seek them. Ana
yet our present Constitution abolished the ex-
clusion. and all the people wisely said Amen
We do not remember that clergyman mas
since been candidate for an important ONCE;
we have never proposed nor desired to elect
one; vet we should resist reimpOsitiOn OF the
interdct as a needless and unjustiiable restric-
ton of the peoples right of choice.
We do not assent to the proposition that
White constituency will never elect Black to
Congress. That is quite too sweeping. If we had
Toussaint among us land who can surely say
that we have not y we should wish to see him
in responsible position, and would gladly
vote for him in preference to less capable
White. Yet it is plain that negroes are most
unlikely to be often found in office; but that
by no means proves it proper or of no conse-
quence that they should be forbidden to hold
Office if the people should see fit to elect them'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20
Smustmm!s, &c.

ACADEMY or MUsIC-This Afternoon at Italian
Opera; "EAfdcain" hiBt. La Grange. -,
BoorH's THEATER. Twenty third-st between t r,nn
Adams
BROADWAY THFATER.-Ths Afternoon at - anu
this Evening at 49," Mia; or Wonan ConstareJ Ss' "~'
BEoUGHAMs THEATEB. Twenty-fouTth-st = IN us 5
E,enDg AZ a." IA Irish StcN"-"Ihe Dramatic h'' VI ''
BnYANrs NEW MINSTREL HAIL. Tammany Build
mr. Fourtteu-,L, adjoining Academy Of Ause-ih' h'eHS
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cor. Eighth-ave and Twen-
tyhiT AGeT1oSn 5 Duchy GuiiOu
Duclos &c Nous. Choaaeury."
Ipv,NG HnL-To-morrow Evening.-Concert by
the Mendelssohn Union aud Lew Concert Troupe
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Twenty -thlTdst.;
corner Of aud Evenng-Sesoud Winter Exhibition Of
Pictures aad Sculpture.
NwYoRK CRcUs AiternS9 ',i
FIX and ma M hsi9Hs Roa1d S,sIaey etc
NEw-YORK THFATER. - This Afternoon ~, M NJ an
London Assurance" This Evening at a. ohelo' ~" '
buchanan aud MI Warner. ~:
NBo's GARDENThs Afternoon "a at ana J snls
Eveupg at 8-"Tle Pory thieves or oiiA'Os WI ~ '
LYDIA TbompsoD's Buresque Troupe
Orynprc THEATFR-This Afternoon at H. andthis
Ryenirg SThe Second Vone OF humpy DanPV u f"i
Mile ssnssB
SAN FRANCISCO MrNsrRELs, No. 5s5 Broadway
This Evening" The Forty Thieves
STETNwAY HAIL, Fourteenth-st-This Evening at
dsy Conoert --Tbeo. Thomas Orchestra
THEATRE FRANCNs.-This Afternoon at J. and
This Evening at B-Opera BOuGc GeBveyede bTaOanL Mic bose
Bell
THE TAMMANY -Tammanv Hall, Fourteenth-st.-
This Afternoon at 2. and this Evening st 7l-Nantue@
WAIIACKS IHEATIR - TINS Evening AT o.
much Ado about Eohls' Mr.. Lester Wallack
WAvEHLEY THEATEE, No. 40 Broadway - rms
Evening nj a. LScreua Borga NJ u n
Pretty Piece Of Business" The Elise Holt Burlesque Troupe
WooD's MUSEUM AND METROPOLITAN IHEAIIEk,
prosdwav and ThtthstMaiu6e al O'clock; hS9 anu NJ"
Evening 1fra DisVo0-Aii nI
Ioepce-'The Fled the Cloth ofGod" Throughout ue &
The Enger and FOOte Combination and Grand VI
Wild Animals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20
In fine Supreme Court yesterday the last legal

In the Supreme Court yesterday the last legal
Technically in the discharge of the case OF Mr.
Jefferson Davis was complied with and the
ex-President of the Confederacy is now freed
from even semblance of prosecution or
trial We do not expect to hear
the clamOr now that much simpler and more
evidently just steps in the same case evoked
some time ago; and yet we fail to perceive
why, if this thing were TO be done. it might
not better have been done without the pro-
longed incarceration and the other chapters of
the discreditable history.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

The report of the majority of the s'na.e
Committee in favor of their OmnibnS lac,"S
Railroad bill, gives many excellent reasons 10,
the building Of these roads. In the heat u
their argument, however, to prove what every
body believes, they conveniently forget TO e,u-
cidate the precise point on which all the trouvo
arises. Why must we necessarily uhder'aso
to build two or three more railroads across .co
Continent just nowi Important as ra''",
Railways are. are they nevertheless as i'npo's's'
as National solyency3 Which is the moro ~,
mediate, pressing want of the hour-oiee q"
tirelv new trunk lines to the Pacihe' "
such economy and consequent app'.ou
alton of National credit as s .:a,
smooth the way to speedy resumpuO.,
of specie payments and reduction of taxes IS.
Gentlemen of the Omnibus bill those arc ''V
points on which the public want Information.
Everybody agrees to the Importance OIL ''"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20
THE CAMPAIGN OF The CUBAN PATRIOTS.

Il
The military situation in Cuba, eliminated
from the crowd of strange names and confused
particulars in the daily dispatches, may be
briefly stated population of million and
half. spread over an island eight hundred
miles long, with backbone of mountain fast
nesses running through nearly Its entire
length, is almost unanimously in SYM
pathy with the Instruction. The insurgent
forces are constantly swelling, and they spring
up in every unexpected quarter throughout
the island. Against this disaffected popula-
ton, Captain General Dulce is able to bring
force not numbering, all told, $4,000 regular
troops, of whom whole regiments have already
been demoralized by cholera and other diseases
arising from the climate. lie attempts to sup
press the insurgent risings, but the places
which his soldiers leave break out into insur-
rection before those TO which they march
have been reached. His most prominent COM
mander in the field, Count Valmaseda moves
against Bayamo Arrived before its smoking
ruins, which the insurgents have abandoned,
he hears of the outbreak at Puerto Principe
behind him. Turning thither, and skirmishing
a little on the way, he reaches that city in time
to hear of simultaneous rsings at Espir-
itu Santo, Trinidad, and Nuevitas. Toward
each in turn small bodies of troops are de-
tached, but, before order is restored at either
we have popular connections in Matanzas,
risings at Cienfuegos, the American Consul at
Trinidad leaving his Office to join the insur-
gents, occupation of Tunas, seizures of tele-
graph lines and stoppage of mails throughout
the whole central and eastern parts of the
Island.
In these occurrences may be read two signs
one favorable, the other not unfavorable, to the
insurgents. The sentiment of revolt against
their Spanish rulers is universal. The insur-
rectonary leaders develop no harmonious or
comprehensive plan of campaign, beyond
the effort to distract and wear out
the raw, unacclimated Spanish troops,
by multitude of minor outbreaks.
Cespedes and Quesada, the two conspicuous
Creole chiefs, mean to avoid general engage
ments /; to make no effort to burden themselves
with the care of captured cities; to harass the
Spanish troops by sudden appearances, ana
retreat, when hard pressed, to the mountains
of the interior to keep the standard OF revolt
raised throughout the whole island; ana 10
take Time for their ally. Three months
more of such campaign VIII bring
the Spanish troops into the sickly
season. Meanwhile, the Cuban revenues
of thirty three millions year, on which the
Home Government so largely relies, will have
been cut off, and the difficulties of the stua-
ton at Madrid may fairly be expected to
have become so pressing that there will be less
disposition to keep up the strain of long
effort against Cuba. Then will be the Creole
opportunity. Till-then, Cespedes aud Quesada
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

SECOND PlGR-Lettsr from Freedmab-The Draml--Music-
General Notes-CrIne.
POUKrH PAGRMeIieO.Wba has been selsd-NeW.York and
Wesehes,eLA Queston-Our State Institutions York
Legislature The Last Of The Coufedeses The MoIenry Per.
jury Case-The Ocean steamship Raes-The Star Insurance
Company Bsnk ROBBERY
FIFTH PAGE-Ihe COuGA wOmsnE Rights Joupsl-Ltsrsy
Items.-Shipping Intelligence.
EiGHTH PACE Real Estate
ELEVENTH PAGAPrOenon Discrimination account OF Edu.
estisn-Tbe Patent OGe FraudsThs Pranking svindls-
John Bright Capital PunshmentTbe Ritual Question
The Georgia Legissture.-A New IuTeutob.-Ths Money
MARIE
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

The efforts to throttle the resolution requiring
such suspension of the issue of bonds to tho
Pacific Railways now nearly completed as may
he necessary to furnish a guarantee tha'
they will finish and equip them IN a
satisfactory manner, has an ugly look
This measure, in view of the reported facts,
seems to be a natural and necessary step OF
self-protection, and we hope to see it adopted
with or without the recommendation OF the
subcommittee that has had it in charge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

We have further reports from Atlanta, Ca,
of what seems to be a disreputable squabble
among protested friends of the incoming Adj
ministration. AT this distance it would seem
that the real friends of the Administration of
Gen. Grant in Georgia are not sufficiently nu-
meFQgs 70 form two successful parties in that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

We notice that the House OF representatives
has repealed the provision IN the lax law
which allows the railroads to charge an addl-
tional one cent fare because the Government
charges 1-1Gth of cent tax. We are glad that
this has been done. The extra penny has al
WAYS appeared to us to be great imposition
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

The House found, as it seems to us, very
moor reason for its abandonment of its pc
remptory reduction OF the army. what the
Senate might or might not do was a thing for
Senators to take the responsibility of. The
thing for the House to do was its duty and
what it supposed to be its duty we presume
its action in Committee on Thursday may be
taken as showing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

The attractive letters printed this morning
from our special correspondents in Cuba, Mex
leo, China, and Japan renew the illustration so
often given of the fact that the foreign cor
respondence of THE TRIBUNE is incomparably
superior to that of any other journal In the
country,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

The British Government announce to Mr.
Seward the release of the Fenian prisoners,
Costello and Warren. We are without a
statement of the grounds on which the release
was ordered, as we have been without sufii-
Gent evidence of reason for the incarcera-
tiOn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20
State, nor, as it would seem, to infuse con-
trolling wisdom into the councils OF either

The latest phase of the Congressional GLOBE
business, being divided report OF the JOINT
Printing Committee on the subject, is presented
elsewhere, together with an outline sketch OF
tba whole nublic printing business
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

The East River Bridge bill has worked its
way through both Houses, and up to the Gov
ernor, where there seems to be no probability
that 1T will be checked. The features of the
final amendments are given elsewhere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

The Patent Office Stationery frauds nave
already been commented upon in our columns,
and the main facts have been given; but we
print on the eleventh page a full abstract OF
Mr.. Elias report on the subject
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

The opponents Of capital punishment have
an eloquent advocate in John Bright, whose
letter on the subject will be found in another
column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20

"a SLIGHT Cold" CoUGHs.-Few are aware
the importance checking cough slight Od in its tr'' stages
that which beginning would yield to mid remedy neglected.
oeu attacks the lungs Browns BRONCHIAL TRocHE give sure and
almost immediate relief The Troches have prO7ed their efficacy by
test of many years and received testimonials from eminent men
WIN h,vs "a Thorn
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-31
THE FATE OF A CAWNPOIsE CAP
TIVE

Canadian paper says "A report comes
to us from India that one of the captives
taken at Cawnpore, during the Sepoy war,
still survives. When Gen. Wheeler and
one of his two young and beautiful daught-
ers were maSsacred, the other young lady,
a girl of eighteen or nineteen years of age,
disappeared, having been carried up the
country by her special captor. However,
before long her friends were relieved
from the suspense which was caused
by an uncertainty as to her fate,
by the arrival of an authenticated
story. 1t was asserted that Miss Weller,
after having stabbed her master, his wife,
and three children, had flung herself down
a well and put period to her own exist
ence. There was no reason to doubt the
story, and it has been believed to the
| present time We now discover that the
| story was a fabrication from the first to the
| last, and that the poor young lady has sur
| vived to this day as a slave under Mo
| hammedan name in the family Of her
master, who escaped hanging by the
| amnesty. An Indian civil servant, while
| encamped near a village up the
| country on one of his official
| tours, received private intelligence that
| Miss Wheeler was the inmate of the harem
of a petty Prince or Rajah. This gentle
man, Mr. c., wrote a letter TO Mis-
Wheeler, offering to procure her release
from her slavery and her restoration t
her home and friends. But the unfortunate
lady replied that, having been SO long IL
her present position, she felt too degrade'
to return to her friends, and wished then
to consider her as one dead. 1t appear
that she has borne children 20 her hus
| band.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Smallpox prevails in Clinton County,
Kentucky.
Strawberries are in bloom for the third
crop on a place near Oregon City.
There are five factories for canning
salmon on the Columbia River, in Oregon.
Mrs. lydia Sexton has been appointed
Chaplain of the Leavenworth Penlten-
tiary.
Josepb Mosher fell dead while shaving
himself in a hotel at Detroit on Sunday
evening.
Near Cabell, West Virginia, dear was
killed, a few days ago, with stone
thrown by mannamed Long.
A young married woman named NC
Quail, in Scott county, Indiana, cut
tree so that it fell upon and killed her.
Scott has inaugurated the manufacture
of paint in Kansas, and has abundant re-
sources, both of lumber and yellow ocher.
Nine persons have been drowned in
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, since last spring,
and none of the bodies have been found.
The large tobacco factory of Rives
Brothers, nearly completed, in Henderson,
KY, is the fourteenth large building OF
the kind in that place.
The Topeka Record states that Mr;
Thomas ]. Gray and Rev. j. Lee, OF
England, have negotiated with the Ma
tional Land Company for 20, 600 acres OF
land
Mr.. Wright, of Boston, Massachusetts,
purchased 1900 acres of land near the
mouth of Mill Creek, Bourbon county,
Kansas. on the goth instant, and ID going
to establish a stock farm.
A boy named Webb, Is years old,
while assisting his father TO dress some
hogs. near POtosi, Missouri, on the lIth
instant, fell backward into tub OF scald-
ing water, and died in few hours.
The Portland Orcgonidn, of the 18th
instant, acknowledges bunch of delicious
second crop Isabella grapes from the gar
! den of DR.. Glenn, who has taken Dushel
of sccond-crop grapes from the vine.
In Coldwater county, Michigan, Gains
Hamilton, fOi years old, recently received
a little over $500 from the United States,
on account of a claim prosecuted In his
behalf for a son lost in the late war, VINO
was his only support.
Near Jonesboro, Ind, one day last
week, a young man named George Nelson
was sharpening his knife, and when his
sister asked him what he was whettinS II
for, he answered, ''To cut my ID
throat :" and Immediately drew the knife
across his throat, cutting severe gash
but it is not supposed to be fatal
Nearly 81, 800 reward is offered for The
capture of Felix Whitworth, the alleged
murderer of Deputy United States Marshal
| T. w. Moses, in Missouri. This amount
includes the 1000 offered by Unites
States Commissioner DelanO, $500 Offered
by Gov. McClmg, and private subscnp
tons.
The residence OF Green LOudcrback'
near Bethlehem, KY, was entered by
some one unknown, who took from th'
family room (while the family were IL
the kitchen) a trunk, which was carried
TO the parlor, where it was broken opel
and rifled of seven 500 bills, laid in tn
folds of new dress pattern, and abou
800 in gold and silver.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-31
4 CONTESTED FUND or ONE AND
HALF MILLIONS.

During the war the amount OF money
taken from deserters from the Federal
army. as they were arrested, reached the
s1m of q million and half dollars, all OF
which was conveyed into the Treasury IN
1867, but is daily refunded to the parties
from whom it was taken as they establish
their claims thereto, on the ground that II
was then private property, but taken from
them by the military. At recent session
of the Board of Managers of the Soldiers
and Sailors National Asylum, Gen. Ben. +.
Butler, one of the Board, was designated
to look after the finances of the institution,
the law establishing the asylum having
provided that ali pay forfeited, fines, pen
alties. etc, of soldiers or sailors be set
aside for the support of the institution.
General Butler has therefore made de-
mand upon Secretary Boutwell, for the
million and q half above mentioned, but
Mr.. Boutwell, has refused, on the ground
that this money is the private property OF
the persons from whom it WIS taken and
must be repaid to them. The matter wall
probably come before Congress for settle,
ment. The Board of Managers have
already received about two millions OF dol
lars forfeited pay, fines, etc.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-31
WHY FATHER HYACINTH Z
CAME HERE.
a Boston widow the AitrslCtiOn--Ai-
most rs Romantic as HeEOlse and
NbeiaFd.

a boston widow the AttraCtiOn--lAi-
most rs Romantic as felOisc and
AbeiaTd.
Prom the New York sun, Dec. 10.
During tire summer of 1867, a Boston
gentleman, together with his wife and
widowed sister, were in Paris. OF course
thew, among the other wonders OF the
French capital, went to hear Pere Hya-
cinthe. The widow, who is young, has
but one child, and is quite wealthy, fell IN
love with the Pere. Finally meetings were
brought about, at which she expressed so
much 10Y that the feeling became mutual.
Although the Carmelite had begun to ex-
press himself freely in public regarding re
hgious matters, he did not go far enough
TO suit his female adorer, who had more ex-
tended views, both religious and political,
regarding matters IN monarchlal country,
where Church and State are closely allied
Under the tutelage Of the Boston lady the
priest bScame more and more OutspOken
in his views, and, finally, events culInlna-
ted in his retirement from his monastlc or
der; and it was supposed he had gone to
Pessy to keep quiet. Il was not known
for some time in France that he had gone
to America; but he, as everybody now
knows, came here, and after remaining IN
this city some weeks, so as to get rid of all
faint of suspicion, went to Boston, where
he met the lady who had drawn him hlth
err It Is with the intention of settling pr1'
vate affairs in France that he returned
but before long, as has been limited, ht
will return to America and probable re
main here, and marry the lady who ha'
| drawn him away from fatherland and moth
| er church.