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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

A Director of the Union Pacific Railroad
sends us some refreshing statements about the
conduct and motives of another Director whose
caustc report we recently printed. We have
not yet felt impelled TO deny or doubt any
thing that any of these Directors have told
us. Mr. Shows report did not seem to us essen
TALLY incredible; neither does Mr.. Bushnells.
While thus maintaining a judicial and frigid
impartiality, we cannot refrain from commencing
one of Mr.. Bushnell's declarations. He assures
us that his Company means to expend millions
in perfectng its road, but not one dollar more
"for black-mail." We tender him our very
hearty congratulations. He and his associates
,,;,bt bettnr no M rnnnlod this Wise conclusion
.IIfur; But-we must not look gift-horses in
the mouth. Spend your money henceforth- rs
you promise, rather on your road than in black
mail. and you can soon afford to laugh at the
litgatiOns your course may provoke.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04
CLUB-H0USES FOR WOMEN.

The Sorosis, which has long been name,
has at last, we hear, local habitatiOn. 1t
wisely exchanges the fixed monthly luncheon
Of uncnviable celebrity for the chance inter
course of every day 1t wishes to prove to an
incredulous world that it is not sensation of
the time, but the clear answer to an urgent
social question. This permanent home of the
sorosis is the high-water- mark of feminine
encroachment on the traditional domain of
men. For, as We understand, this Society does
not resolve that all rogucs be hanged, nor dis
cuss any scheme of universal reformation, nor,
however haltingly, make tracks for the
Unknown" as Thoreau has it. The Boston
Woman's Club, as is inevitable in Boston air,
proposes to make all women better, or at least
more ddactc. But the Sorosis, hike the New
York Club, or the Century, or the Travellers,
takes broad ground and invites it's members
simply to SEQ each other and to have a good
time. And this position opens the whole ques-
ton of the prOpricty of Club-IIouses for
Women. And their prOpriety cannot be dis
puted if their necessity exists.
Men found clubs as associations for pleas
ure, convenience, and the cultivation Of eligible
acquaintanceship. The conditions of member
crct. In consideration of certain payments, the
member possesses an elegant house wherein to
read his papers, to meet the friend with whom
he had not time TO talk in business hours and
at whose house he does not call, to play bill
lizards, TO write letters, and TO breakfast or
dine at perfectly appointed table, and at ex-
tremely reasonable prices When his cousin,
the late Envoy Extraordinary to Mantchouria
arrives in town, proposing to exchange his
loot for an abode in this cheap and clearly
city, the member takes him to the Club, intro
duces him right and left. and he is straight
way at home in very good society. The Clubs
thrive because there are hundreds of men who
want theiri advantages and are quite ready
to pay for them. Possibly, Also because
there are hundreds of men who
want their disadvantages and are equally
ready to pay for henl-these disadvantages
being an inordinate harvest of gossip from
very small seeds of fact sown broadcast by
newspapers and tale-venders an undue pre-.
ponderance of billiards over business in tho
schedule oil life familiar to most club-men, and
a growing habit of familiarity with a native
decoction bearing tho French label and which
it is poltest TO call the rosy" in remem
brance Of the poetic Richard Swiveller, esq.
Certainly, thoughtful women do not demand
place of resort which shall copy the blem-
isles of those which careless men maintain. But
among ladies in our very best society the de-
sire for some general center does exist. The
name may be thrown as a sop to Cerberus
whether it be drawing-room, or reading-room,
or parlor in its fine sense, place for fine
talking, or clubhouse. In huge, unorganized
city like this New-York Of to-day, the social
graces have scant room and scantier soil. Our
Madame Recamier has no salon, because cult
Yaled men arc toy Rgsy ~ come, md cult
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

We have a report this morning from Cuba
that a meeting of representatives from all parts
of the Island was recently held under the pres
idency of Cespedes, and declared unanimously
not only in favor of an energetic continuation
of the war, but of annexation to the United
States. Gen. Quesada is SAID to have again
been elected Genoralissimo of the Cuban
forces. Nothing has heretofore indicated that
the desire to be annexed to the United States
prevailed among the Cubans, and the above
report of the unanimous passage of resolutions
advocating annexation stands, therefore, in need
of confirmation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

The appointment of 4 successor to Gen.
James Watson Webb, as Minister to the Empire
of Brazil, is at last definitely made. Mr.. Henry
II. Blow, of Missouri, who takes this most inn
portant of the South American missions, is q
native OF Virginia. long identified with the
business enterprise and commercial prosperity
of St. Louis, and long Jealous Republican in
the times when to be a Republican on the
Border meant something more than to belong
to the party that had the Offices. He is a gen
tleman of culture, social position, and diploma
tic experience beftting the post, and his APP
pointment will rank with the wisest President
Grant has made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

While we do not credit all the fine news we
hear from the Cuban instruction, nor yet all
the bad news we hear about the Spaniards, we
concur very heartily with the opinion attributed
to President Grant. lie is credited with saying
that whatever may be the immediate operations
in Cuba, it is certain that Spain is now putting
forth her full resources, while the insurrection-
lists, actual or possible, have still large
latent strength on which they can draw when
the time of need has come. Believing
this, We attach the less importance to
any apparent inactivity of the insurgents.
They have acted with wisdom worthy Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04
rNGRArENnL AMERIcA.

One OF the chief arguments of The London
Times in discussing Mr.. Summers speech upon
the Alabama Claims may, for the benefit OF
those who like to run while they read, be sue
cinctly stated as follows:
A and b having engaged in desperate com
bat, C, passing that way, takes the opportunity
of picking AS pocket. The fight being over
discovering the larceny, hOstilities having
ceased through the total discontinue of B. the
aeerieyed A demands restitution of G. This
felOnious parsonage, with more than the brass
of his craft, responds-but we VIII let me Lon
don Times Quoting from the telegrapmc alb
stract of its article) answer for him:
The Times argues that although according to Mr.:
England the only foreign poWerin te worid
impacaby hostile to America f is MOI 100 npgn 20 say
pended on the voice Of England, whose sword thrown
into the would have decided the contest ana snows
the unfairness bordering on lnfatuaton winch leaves
this consideration cut Of account
-"Shows the unfairness," we take 1t, is the
private opinion of the gentleman on the Othef
side of the water who made up this abstract.
1t is not quito agreeable TO be told that you
are bordering on infatuation;" but at the risk
of being charged with downright lunacy, We
must confess that we do not see the necessity
of taking "tbis consideration into account.
Here is a prOdigious credit claimed for rather
unusual magnanimity, because England did
not throw her sword into the SCALE and
so establish the Southern COnfederacy
upon the ruins of this Republic! What charm
ing amiability what engaging disngenuous-
ness al have your pocket-book, it is true"
says c, "but as 1 did not break your head
"when could easily have done so, / suppose
"you will allow me to keep it. Oh you will
mot allow me to keep itR Very well, then.
"beg leave to inform you that / intend to
" keep it; and am quite ready to break your
sc head this time without any mistake what
"ever."
A moral poet once observed that Heaven was
sick and Earth was weary of the hollow words
which States and Kingdoms utter when they
talk of justice. Hollow" is good word, but
"silly," at present, seems a better one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

could not possibly reimburse her outlay
thirdly. cut Tor have the Federal Government
cut) a magnificent shunpike around Niagara
Falls. so as to deprive that Canal Of half its
natural traffic. We should have to send to
Chicago for fnanciers competent to demon
strate the advantage to our tax payers of these
dashing operations.
Finally, the recent Convention of Boards of
Trade at Chicago adopted the report OF its
Committee, concluding as follows:
Thdy: Your Committee asks your consideration Of the
project OF organizing during the ensuing for the
purpose Of pressing Congress the necessity OF and
canals to the people of the United states for the
Of bS SsSsra fs Ef T the S
eminent. All Of which is respectfully submitted.
This goes to the root of the matter. If Con-
gress shall see fit to devote One or Two
Hundred Millions or so of our surplus revenue
Cd to the purchase of the Erie and Oswego
Canals, and to doubling their capacity, and to
making Ship Canal around the Falls of
Niagara, Chicago can doubtless hold her pres
ent Grain-Trade, and probably increase it..
But st. Louis, and New-0rleans, and Cincin-
natl, and Memphis, will hardly be "enthused
by the prospect; nor will Norfolk and Balti-
more, Pittsburgh and Wheeling, be likely to
see their account in it. On the whole,
we cannot realize that this new-old
scheme of "paying the taxes out Of the Treas
"uryn has living chance of success. Our
Pacific Railroad experience is yet fresh and by
no means assuring; and we apprehend that
Uncle Sam feels too poor to buy or dig Grand
Canals Just at present SO we submit that the
proposed purchase of the Erie and Oswego
Canals by the Union-much more, the cOnstruc-
ton of a Niagara Ship Canal with Federal
funds-must stand over for further and very
deliberate consideration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04
GtELNG rAMMANY OUR TAxES.

What corrupt influence tempts Republicans
TO the folly of giving Tammany Hall the con-
troll of our taxes7 We arc advised from
Albany that there has been mutual agree
ment to consider the Tax Commissioners bill
to-day, and that the chances are in favor of its
being ordered to third reading. We want to
see what Republicans vote for this,-we need
hardly ask for their reasons.
The proposition is to give over the Tax Com
mission to a servant of the men who engn-
eered last Falls Tammany frauds to present in
the name of professedly Republican Legisla-
ture formal surrender of this most important
of our interests to the Democratic party; to
make this surrender so complete that even the
restrictions with which we have hedged about
our own officers shall be removed when
the work passes into the hands of
theirs Now Counsel is engaged for the
Commission at fixed and moderate salary.
When Tammany is generously given the choice
of the Commissioners, it is proposed that they
shall also select their own counsel, and that
the body that built the New Court House
shall pay the bills Now surveys and maps,
when needed, are prepared, at trihng expense
10y the City Surveyor. When we turn things
over to Tammany, we leave this like the other
expenditures, to its honor, and impose no re-
strctons
Was ever a Republican Legislature impor-
tuned with n more marvellous petition to sur
render to the enemyl Let us see who the
men are that want Tammany to have the nam
ing of our Tax Commission, and then want TO
give its creatures a license we never before
dreamt of intrustiug even to Republicans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

The Sherman Courier Rebel Democratic
organ in Northern Texas, thus drew the lines
against its political adversares when il antici-
pated the election Of Seymour and Blair:
owe now while all is yet calm, say to our feowciti-
zens Of all political opinions, that the time has
when must identity yourselves with that party which
is in favor Of negro political and social equality you
must join those who oppose it. You cannot adhere to
the Radical party and refuse TO ndorse their Chicago
Platform. We have recently heard several OF you
say that If that principle was embraced in the plat
form you wOud quit II. II Is done, and you must
come TO 1t. or, like men, repudlae It, We know the
spells Of Office Incentive but the eternal
aud everlasting infamy and disgrace that will forever
close its lecherOus clutches around you and yours is
worse. Choose, and choose now. resolve Is deep
buried In the hearts OF this people that all who de
termine to be negroes shall be negroes III their OF
office and canting hypocrisy them to choose that
path then the time is rapidly approaching when their
only associates Will be the Ignorant African. Before this
campaign closes, no negro toh ohe skin iciH be per-
united 10 enter any white mans house only negro.
Be warned In time Ii is coming and wO be 10 him who
continues to make his bed with Cuee. The reaction
coming. and it will be more terrible than army with
banners"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

If YOU want to hear news about home go
abroad. The Pail Mall Gazette has lively
picture of the velocpede fever in New York,
from which one would infer that the light and
airy bicycle was driving all other vehicles from
the thoroughfares "The velocipedes," says
this London journal, "have of course taken uF
"a good share of the streets, and New-Iork,
"always an ill-regulated city, must now pre-
"sent unusual dangers to the unwary pedes-
"trian. The aldermen have interfered, but no
zone minds thom Young America is not to
abe checked in the path of distinction by an
"edict from the City Hail."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04
9musfmfnis, @t.

IrorIo Hall. cor. Broadway and Twentieth-st'-
Cuban Relief Fair ,,.f.,
Pooyu,s THEATER. Twenty-third-st, between fllth
I'D SItisysa-Ii B,euiug at - Oheo" MI ba"in DOO "
Isgo Cuban
Meeting HEM Wand Beeebrr aua oihe'' ,,.f.t
FurH-AvE THEATEE Twenty fourth-St. ana ii'N
,vs This EyeuinZ 8-Opcrs Boute: La Grande pu'"
GRAND OPERA House. cor Eighth-aye ana
&, birlst-T This Evening at 8."1be Tempest Mr D. -
aud W. Daydge 81 puI,ard
living HAI1.-This Evening at S-Grand biliiaru
Toausmeut Afternoon and Eveu.ug. 800. Y,.:.,.
INV YORK Circus, Fourteenth 9;1i ni' ''--'-e
~ n -Risley's original japanese Troupe Al nkN ~, =,
NnIos GARDEN-Ths Evening at s. nG S .,o5.
II @ ar strkipg oil in Family Jars" Lydia thompson Ou'9
Troupe =, -. - Thu
OIy,,prc THFATER This Evening at s. s. me ne
Sd ygs Of "umpty Dumpty" Mr. g. L. foi pic oShES' '
S,N FRANCISCO MINsTRELs, No. 5S5 Broadway
s1i. FveBipr-.' The Court Of Justice"
TuEATFR COMQUE, No. 5l4 Broadway-lhs Even
Co.. ia Piuto'' Nj w. II. LIugsrd
IT, T,,OIANy.-Tammany Hall, Fourteenth-st-
~ PTsrr al R1are Brothers Robinson Crnsoe
AID bis Man Fuday'
WAIGACK's THEATER.-This Evening at g.
caste" Miss Bhe Gernon
WAyFRIEY THEATER, No. TO Broadway'- Inns
Evening at b." Paris" Miss Elise Hot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04
THE REV. DIR. LEAvrrr VERSUS TRUTH.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: In the Rev. DR.. Leavitt's Golden Club
Prize Essay" find the following sentence:
1.-THE Protective policy cannot stand in America, bp
tho admission OF It's advocates except It Is deemed
expression OF hostility against England"
In the dispatches received by the Atlantic Cable, pub
lshed in The Ereng Post OF Saturday. The Times lion
dom is reported TO the following language:
"The Protective Tariff system is strong In the United
States only because UOrks injury % Gred BrItdihL"
The Times without doubt took from Mr.. Leavitrs
gold medal essay. 1t seems to that the Reverend
Doctor instead Of promoting improved political and
commercial relations between Great Britain and the
United states7 is likely to make them hostile to
each other by this sort OF misrepresentation. have
conceived the ground OF our Tariff 10 be tie
eessity OF rereHus 70 pay heN iHteres, our
Ptblie Debt 1 am sure that the aBmus
OF Congress adopting IT, and, while some votes may
have been partly influenced by a feeling of indignation
toward the British Government for opening all her colo
NAL ports TO pirates engaged in the destruction Of
lawful and peaceful commerce, hazard the assertion
that the necessity Of was and the basis Of
present Tariff system.
Mr. Leavitt patlng prejudice and malice into British
ink by false statements The London Times is, perhaps
excusable for taking authority serious essay written
deliberately In the closet by attach6 Of professed
Republican Journal but its belief and that OF other En-
gish Journals that the principal measure OF our Geo
monte policy has been adopted by National Congress
in pure vindctiveness toward England is certainly cal
culged to STIR the pot anger between the two cOun
tries.
II is equally false thot the advocates OF the Protective
system have ever admitted any such thing that the
system cannCt an6 except it Is deemed an expires
SION of hostility against England" h.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

The Wall-st people don't believe in paying
out anything, save in the precise way IN when
Falstaff pOuld MT give even so cheap thihs
as reasons, to wit, on compulsion. They nave
served notice of their intention to carry 10 tho
Courts an appeal from the late decision Oh .he
Commissioner of Internal Revenue sustaining
the positions originally taken by Assessor MeO-
ster, and now held by his successor we take
it for granted that they have little hope OF
preventing the application of this principle for
the future. The judicial contest probably means
back taxes-a very serious matter to the bank
ers and not at all insignificant to the Treasury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

The effort to annul the Bribery bill at
Albany yesterday seems to us unwise. Per-
haps the bill is not the best that the wisdom
even of our present Legislature could frame
We dare say it might be made much more
stringent, without making it too severe for the
wants of the case. But to attempt amend
ments now, on any important bill which has
been through one House and is sure to be re-
sisted in the other, is TO make its passage very
doubtful, if not to insure its defeat. Let us
take our half-loaves, from this out, and be
thankful therefor, rather than clutch for i'm
possible whole ones, and go hungry in conse-
quence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

The phenomena of Spritualism may or may
not be genuine; spirit photography may or may
not be delusion, for oil Justice Bowling has
decided. The Mumler arrest has ended as was
to have been foreseen from the be
ginning. The prosecution undertook to
prove that the sbadowy figure which
Mumler produced in the background Of pho
tograph was not the portrait of spirit. 1t
failed to prove it to the satisfaction of Justice
Bowling. II proved that such pictures could
be made in dozen different ways. by secret
or recognized Photographic appliances, but it
did not prove that this one was made in
any of these ways. 1t proved that photo
graDhers could, by dexterous manipulation,
deceive anybody by the production of bogus
portraits of spirits, but it did not prove that
this photographer did so. IL proved some
pretty damaging things about his history,
and the history of his art; but it stopped
short Of proving that tho picture in
court was not n genuine portrait Of a genu-
inc spirit. I'm short, it failed in its evidence
precisely where the conditions and limitations
of the :" sc made it certain beforehand that it
must Iai. The result seems wholly iucmclusivc,
rs any similar effort would appear likely TO be
until physical science can carry its 0emonstra-
ons muc5 rGrthor than at present into
gh-s IL By tue exclusive domain of
tho sp. hal Meanwhile the facts
presented in the communications printed
on the subject are sufficiently strik-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

The National Convention of the Grand Army
of the Republic will meet at Cincinnati on the
18th of May, and The Cincinnati Enqairer's
equanimity is much disturbed at the fact
that the City Council have appropriated
81 900 toward defraying the expenses of
the Convention. We remember that The En-
quirer was not pleased with the dOings of the
Grand Army of the Republic at any time from
4 ef 70 1QG5
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

Correspondents and journals suggest that tho
Commissioners recently appointed to secure
a change in the designated site of our proposed
City POST Office, should seek location outside
of the City Hall Park The Commissioners
have no power to do any thing of the sort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

Institute in West Twenty third street, Tor the
post. We know DR.. Gercke as one OF the very
best teachers in our City; and, though the sug-
eestion comes late we hope it is not yet too late
TO secure his appointment. There are very few
so well qualified for an intelligent discharge OF
the duties of the position as lac is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04
for this city.

The English House Of Commons in Commit
tee yesterday considered that part of the Irish
Church bill which refers to the abolition of the
Regium Donum or tho annual grant of 100000
TO the Irish Presbyterians and to the compen-
satiOn which the Presbyterian Church is to re-
ceiye. Some slight amendments to this section
xVore adonfpd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

The German Republican Central Committee,
Bt meeting last Sunday evening, resolved to
esk for the appointment of German as one
bf the five Republican Commissioners Of Schools
under the new act, and agreed on Dr. Hartwig
Oercke principal Of the German American
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04

BY bare majority of three an amended
State Registry bill was yesterday ordered to a
third reading in the House. We print in an
other column the text of the new measure,
which has aroused bitter Democratic opposition.