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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02
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FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1869.

From Havana 1t reported that the Cubans moving
on Puerto Plincipe from Washington, that they have
lost hope OF recognition, and that our Government Is O
posed TO buy their island The Third Party in France
are urging upon the Empire the principles Of
ministerial responsibility The English Lords
have secured, among others. On amendment To inc
Church bill guaranteeing the Irish Lord Bishops their
seats and Mr. Gladstone, at public dinner, has made
some verbal concessions respecting the BILL The Anglo
rebel bondholders have made another protest
against Mr.. Sumner Gen. Prlm declares that
his Government viii not attempt coup dddh
and tho Cnrtes have passed revenue budget. Dates
from Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and
Costa Rca report continued troubles. From Peru we
have an important part Of tho message Of President
Perez An accident the French Cable and the laying
OF Cable between Scotland and Norway are announced
The Public Debt Statement for July shows decrease
during the past month OF S6,nolS2 g. Secretary Bout
well has directed the Assistant Treasurer here
10 purchase 100000 Of bonds on Saturday next
Andrew johnson was serenaded at Washington last
evening and made a speech. The damage by the late
storm in Kansas IS uupre- edented and some nifty lives
are reported lost The great Gaines case, in
volving property TO the amount OF S0O0O,N
has been reopened ia Nev-Orcans At tht
dedication Of the Gettysburg Monument, ycster
day Henry Ward BeeCher made the prayer, Gen. Mead
and Senator Morton were chief speakers and BayarC
Taylor rcclted the poem Secretary Seward was warmly
welcomed at Sacramento, yesterday.
Gen. scldes sailed yesterday with his family and sec
retares The schoouCrs that started with arms for th
Cuban expedition have been captured. Davis an'
McHenry, who swOr5 falsely against Colec
tor Bailey and Commissioner Rollins, are sen
fenced to five years imprisonment. Increasing
salaries Of clerks was the business Of Tn
Assistant Aldermen yesterday. The Board Of Revision
have approved the estimate Of Police Board and Boar
Of Health for this year. John Hastings who killed
Ferdinand Bunker In West HoustOnst las boon arrested
in Massachusetts,,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

The old classical quotation about the facility
of descending to Avernus, and the difficulty Of
getting back again, has been refuted by a
circus performer in Paris who jumps down
eighty feet and then flies back to the place
from which he leaped-the feat being accom-
plished by means Of an elastic cord. We trust
that great number of these ropes will be at
once imported into this country for the use OF
politicians, especially Of the Democratic" va
riety, who are down. and who cannot get back
to the hight of original dignity and profit. The
pit in which they are laundering (and passing
resolutions) is not deep enough to prevent us
from Witnessing tLeir c0nYulSiODs and hearing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

The flow of soul which happens after pub
lie dinner has, as some of our own diplomatists
know much to DO with the current Of British
policy Mr.. Gladstone in yielding to such a
cornwall overflow proves that craftsmanship Of
the most positive order Is not proof against
the solvent and emolient genius OF Lord
Mayors dinner. Why else did the Premier
come to confess that the Church bill had many
faults which he would be glad tosee amended
He meant this confession as sop to the Ger
berus Of the Lords, but it strikes us that the
faults of the bill lean not to virtues side but to
theirs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02
Tile LS1HMUS OANAL.

The tropic commonwealth daily disagree
with themselves, but they have at least one
mint Of concurrent procedure. Their obstruction
Of American enterprise NAV take the form Of
ignorancc. or of eternal postpOnement, or OF
unwilmguess TO grant concessions without
being doubly brbcd for the privilege OF having
their unhappy populations benefited We
make no definite charge against them, though
our information from Central America broadly
urges the worst that We might end it in our
hearts to say. The history Of our commercial
defeats in the Isthmus quarter is about as OLD
as the pronunciamento.
Now comes to usa most interesting case in point.
The Boeota Congress adjourned on the 9th
of MAY, after refusing by II against to allow
their Executive to make contract with either
an American or British company for the dig
ging ont Of n Canal through the lsthmus.
Thus, our Interoccanic Canal by way of Da-
lcn is as much a dream as ever, unless we
are resolved to indulge the little Government of
the Colombiaus and 0utbid orr British aud per-
hans our French rivals. The Bogotans have keen
scent for such bargain as shall help their po-
ltical estate financially, and to what extreme
that bargain may be carried we have yet to
see. 'llt Nilp itllltihn WI Ni'N N"''N 80 49,
the Istlmus shall be dead-locked against enter
prisc by united soth and cunning. The Mica
riguans have granted 10 the French what
should have been granted to Americans-the
privilege Of Caualling that State from sea to
sea. The contract given the projectors of this
work under the imperial countcnance of
France only waits the signature of Costa Rica,
which has a partial claim 10 the river Of Mica
ragua, in order TO become operative The bel
licosc Mr.. Felix Belly has damaged the pres
Ggc of his cOuutrymen by quaTcling with
! Nh. Marcolcta, the Nicaraguan Minister in
Paris, but no chance exists for Mic
amgua 10 initiate the example of
Colombia in rejecting the sensible and kindly
proncrs of the United States. The tardy
comfort Of n concession TO Americans TO make
railroad through Costa Rlca to the Pacific,
under capital of SlO,0OO,OOO must be set
down in orr reckoning. What else Central
America has yielded us gracefully we are at n
loss to say. Mexico, Indifferent or unwilling
as we once thought her, has been much in
advance of her sister States In conceding the
Tchuantepec route TO be rallied and navigated
as its projectors may see fit We find it hard
10 realize that Mexico-a tortoise in enterprise,
though not in revolutions-has como TO dis
tance States Of nimber organization and
happier, or at least easier, turn at revolutions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

The spectators who groan over the advanc-
ing credit of the Government will read with
peculiar and pathetic unhappiness the an
rounccment elsewhere that the next
purchase of bonds by the Secretary Is
to be to the amount of three millions.
II may be inferred that the favorable condi-
ton of the Treasury seems to the Sec
rotary not merely warrant bat even
a necessity for overstepping the small
percentage on the National Debt which
the law, according to our construction
warrants him in buying. He can stop the IN
terest on the bonds at any rate, and II they
arc not ultimately to 80 into the Sinking Fund
can await the directions Of the next Congress
about them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

That the French elections would MAKE J a uG.
mond on the Empire for ministerial IesIoHo,
hiIitv was not hard to foresee' Inc ir TtiDd
now made in the Legislative Body by the mr.. ~
I Portv gives the greatest point and influence 10
n "i' demand The Third Party are ex-
n rI'ct TO support the Empire, even II
b. do NOT like the Emperor, or vice
, vmrs They hold the balance of parliamentary
LIVER and il is to their votes, if any, that Ma
noIeop must make obeisance. In asking tne
throne for ga more intimate association OF the
" nnbIic in the direction Of affairs" the THIRD
PARTY act as somewhat dense medium Dc
tween the Emperor and Radicals, and con-
GOV tbe practical meaning of the late vote.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

pathy with the Democratic party. We nave
thousands of them indicted but untried and OUT
on hail ; we have q crowd of Democratic man
o,,ors who were determined to succeed last FAN
at all events, and they did it by polling tens OIL
thousands of illegal votes A Detter org"iliA"
tion and more resolute effort on our side would
have sensibly reduced this fraudulent 'o'1
but no Committee but the Deihociauc oouiN
have entirely prevented It,
We have 5000 Republicans in this Clty Du'
not 1000 of them will do more than vote, wIeh
thev can be persuaded to do even that Ihey
seldom attend q primary meeting; they nc'oi
serve on q Ward Committee; they rarely VI
never scrutinze the registry OF their resperTi'o
districts or distribute ballots at tho polls lh1J
never think of relieving each other IN wa'cn-
inc fine ballot-boxes while tie voting goes OH
and taking care that the ballots are coun'cu do
thew were cast. In short they mind their business
or their Measure persistently, and expect eIcc-
tions somehow to carry themselves lhaV NV
bove any duty in connection Herewith Deyohu
that of voting whom they see tit, mas heNoi
entered their heads.
Now it may be that disbandlng our pie'cn'
Committees and organizing airesh mlghV III
dInca some citizens to discharge the resPoiSi
bilitios they now ignore; but we cOuld no.
warrant it. The plaster seems to us 700 sl"ii,
for fine wound. They have but one Geno'"i
Committee in Kings County, yet did niue pe'-
ter last Fall than we did; while the lower
towns of Westchester County did rather
,yorse-or, at least, very badly.
We are not opposing reorganization. Oh 'no
contrary. we think it might do good. Al all
events, it could make matters no worse ti'"n
tbcv are. But what is wanted is a practlcai
recognition, by tho great mass OF our suOstah-
tiol citizens. of their duty as patriots with re-
card TO elections. Let each of them under
stand and feel that merchant banker
mechanic doctor or lawyer, ought to do his
very hest toward drawing out legal voters anu
l,eeping out illegal yotes-that he should DC
ne Jealous and active in the premises as though
he kent n grog-shop or was oycrseor oil gang
of strcet-pavers-and the State can be carried
Reliance on Committees has long been our
bapc; what we need is firm resolve 10y the
mass of our voters that they will do their own
political work, whether with or without Com
mittecs If we should be ever so well reor-
ganized. and sit down upon that as though II
were the end of our troubles, We should DC III
even worse condition than we arc to-day
Not till our people realize that they owe duties
to their country which cannot bc discharged
by p.oxy can q real reform he effected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

Secretary Boutwell, reports that the National
Debt has been reduced since March l -four
months) by no less than Ihirty-SiS Millions
-Four Hundred and SIXTY Thousand -Four Humid
dred and Seventy-nine Dollars, or at the rate
of more than One Hundred Millions per an
mum. Of course, we cannot expect to keep up
this ratio as Mr.. Boutwell, reports that very
large portion Of his recent receipts are from
miscellaneous sources-probably sale OF vessels
and other discarded enginery of war; but this
is a most gratifying exhibit, and justifes the
most hopeful anticipations. We are working
off a leo shore CALAMITY, with good pilot at
fLn lnlm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

A statement is made us from Washington
that Gen. Sickles is instructed to negotiate for
the purchase of Cuba-on the ground, We pre-
sumo, that such an act would relieve Spanish
pride, end at once devastating war, and secure
to the United States the mastery Of what
might, under imaginable circumstances, prove a
difficult problem. We have no official cOnfT-
nation of the report, and. pending that OF a
denial, no disposition to waste a penny On
SPANS forfeited possession.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

One Of the subjects given to the students of
Yale College who detained for the De For
rest medal on Monday, was "The Law of Be
nevolenco and the Law Of Trade Coincident.'
We do not know what particular view Of this
subject was taken by the young gentlemen Of
Yale, but there arc few old gentlemen out
side OF that College who insist that according
to 1.-The Law OF Benevolencen we should ex-
clusiyely patronize the producers of foreign
countries, and abandon our own TO take care Of
themselves. This is kind of beneyoleucen
which must be its own exceeding great reward,
for it generally runs those who practice it
heels over head in debt, and is highly produc-
tive OF periodical commercial "revulsions.r
The benovolence" which leaves capitalists
with empty pockets and artisans with empty
bellies, ID hardly Of kind 10 DO encouraged,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

oFeelings of amity-over exi5t-H i I'll ySnk
1.-TWO countries" Sc, &c. We begin TO t LILLE
that the effect of hosDitablo victuailns upon
the human heart is worthy of scientific ooSer If
Tnt a Mr. Golden was7a noble advocate e On
International %' amity, but he seems never to nave
hit upon the idea of always commissioning 1dna Hi'"
n 80 GOOD digestive powers as ambassadors
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

breaks in upon tho Democratic party from the
West. We take tho earliest opportunity for
commenting the good sense and sound Judg-
ment of the parry in this regard, lest by delay
we should be dcbarrcd the pleasure on possibly
learning that the Convention passed resolves
opposing instead Of approving the Amendment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

In India, in the dear old days Of unmitl-
gated heathcnism, when patriarch became
too old for the comfort and convenience Of his
family, he was put into q light canoe and sent
floating down the Gangcs Might not some
thing of this kind be done with Mr. Andy
Johnson7 He Is not treating the country well.
When he went back TO Tennessee it was
reasonably supposed that the Washington
places which knew him would know him no
more forever. Still, he will persist in turning
up. Instead of settling down to the rigid con-
temptation Of his latter end, he actually gives
audience to reporters, and has his colloquial
bar-room talk printed in the newspapers. 1t
being rather dry season for Washington
news, tho correspondents are making useful
this politically defunct curiosity, the main
business of whose life is to scold about "hs
successor" We think he should be suppressed
by statute.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

We are beginning TO pay off part Of the
enormous debt for dinners which Mr.. Reverdy
johnson ran up against us in London. At the
feast of the Alumni Of, Harvard University,
last Tuesday, a certain Capt. Brine (nautical
nameD of tho Royal British Navy was present
and, no doubt, masticatcd and imbibed small
installmcnt of our debit. The gallant captain,
being duly toasted, said
But tho reader knows exactly what he said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

A dispatch from San Francisco states that
tbe California Democratic State Convention, re-
Gently in session at Sacramento to nominate
candidates for Judges Of tho Supreme Court,
passed resolutions approving the Fifteenth
Amendment If the lightning tells the
truth in this instance, then it would seem
flat, contrary " the general rule, light
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

their cries. Now and them one OF them cl1wis'
NV aid of feet and finger-nails, little way up
with resolution in his mouth but he IS ptet W
sure to fall again into the place from w1ic iL no
came, He should try the patent Elastic kuDoor
Rnailinnt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

The further minutes of the Church bill de-
bate only show how ecclesiastical death hath lost
its sting, and disestabishment some part Of
victory. The amended bill is to have a clause
securing to the Irish Bishops their seats among
the I lords
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

Gen. Prm has taken the lead in habit of
saying that his Government does not mean to
make a coup Getat lie will do enough if he
can readily persuade us that it means any
thing Just now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-02

Again tis they the Dead
by whom our hearts are oomforted.
Deep as the land blown murmurs of the waves
The answer cometh from thousand graves:
" Not 30 we arc not orphaned of our fate!
Though life were warmest and though love were
sweetest
We still have portion in their best estate:
oar fortune Is the iarest and complotestl
Our homes ne everywhere our loves arc set
IN hearts oi man ana woman, sweet and yemal:
Courage ana Truth. tAe childgen NO beget
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-01

SHREvEPORT.-This place with
all it's faults we have always had
a liking for, and we are glad to
know that its prosperity is rapid,
~ increasing. 1t was a mere vii.
lage when we first went there in
1914, without a brick house in it,
Very few of the old citizens are
left. But those that time has
spared, any town might we'll be
proud of.
Shreveport has three newspa
pers which might, commercially
speaking, be classed as ordinary
middling and good middling.-
The South Western is the best
paper, to its size in the State
The Gazette is above the aver
age, and the News is a long way
below it. The nominal editor, W.
imagine, gives it but little atten
tion.- Claiborne Advocate.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-01

The Supreme Court Of the
United States Tuesday dispos-
ed of the case of w. Fl. McArdle
the Mississippi editor, who was
arrested, tried and sentenced
to imprisonment by the militia
ry authorities, several years
ago, on the charge of writing
and publishing seditious arti-
cles in his newspaper. He had
appealed from the Circuit Court
of the United States for the
Southern District of Mississippi
pi, which had denied the writ
OF habeas corpus. Chief JUS
tice Chase delivered the opin-
ion of the court Diminishing the
appeal for want of jurisdiction.
A decision in favor of Near
die, would, in effect, have de-
clared the Reconstruction Acts
unconstitutional. The case was,
consequently, continued until
Congress could rush to the res
cue, which it did by enacting
that habeds corpus cases were
not appealable. After this lit
tie piece of special legislation
it is suddenly found out thai
the Supreme Court has no juris
diction, and dismisses the case
"Let us have peace, "-peaeea
bly, if we can, forcibly, if VT
must ...
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-01

A New DEFENCE FOR MUIR
DER.-There are perhaps few of
our readers who have not been by
turns amused, disgustedand wear
led at the frequency with which,
of late years, the plea OF insanity
has been urged as an excuse for
crime. Nothing appears so Sug-
gestive of the existence of insanity
previously unsupported us the per-
petration of some outrage upon
society, and nothing so refreshing
to the memories of witnesses upon
the subject of hereditary taints.
1t behooves the thugs and cut
Threats to overhaul their genealOg-
ical registers and to trace, if pos
sible, their relationship to some
ck,brained ancestor, some lu-
matte aunt, or delirious uncle,
whose possible bequest of his ma.
lady may prove an inestimable
treasure: more precious than fine
gold, or even fve-twenties; for it
may save his, or her, neck from a
halter. It,becomes a question for
the consideration of parents,
whether a legacy of delirium ire
mems OF epilepsy be not quite as
valuable an Inheritance for their
children as a life insurance policy.
1t certainly has affected many
times what the letter never has
insured life. Lawyers appear to
be widening their field of philan-
thropy. Some individual in haste
to get rich, commits a forgery, and
he is straightway found guilty
not of crime-but moral insanity.
Again, a man shoots his employer,
and threatens to shoot others, and
he is found guilty of epilepsy. We
do not discover, however, that
any means have been taken to
prevent repetition of these di-
verting eccentrieities of genius,
their perpetrators decided by YER
diets of juries to be legally IRE
sponsible agents, being still per-
United to go at large. And as the
class exempted from legal respon-
sibility threathens to become SO
large that it cannot by any posi-
bility be expelled from society,
would it not be well for the Legis
latures of the several States to
provide sane asylum for the re
ception and protection of all those
who desire neither to kill nor tC
be killed. The abolition of the
death penalty is "a consummatior
most devoutly to be Wished and
should be effected just as soon az
! the assassins set the example.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-01

~ Advices from the country
east of this city is to the effect
that much more land has been
planted IN cotton than last year,
and that enough corn has been
planted to supply home wants. In
the East Louisiana or Florida par.
ishes there is enough interested
white labor to secure a full crop
and the stimulus given to cotton
planting by the high prices will
not cause corn, rice, potatoes and
other smaller crops to be neglect.
ed. The north Louisiana parishes
being also thickly settled by
whites, and freights from the
West, on grain to that section be.
ing heavy, we may look for the
production of enough there also
for home supply.
There will be no surplus in any
part of the State, however, and
the coast and middle parishes
from all accounts have planted
less corn this spring than ever
before Baton Rouge Advocate,
18th nh.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-01
~ Indne q M Rnhar4a e.

~ Judge o. M. Roberts, for
merly chief justice Of Texas, pres
ident of the secession convention,
colonel in the Confederate army,
United States senator elect, etc,
writes an able letter to the Gilmer
Sentinel recommending the adop.
ton OF the new constitution, and
the election of men to Office under
it who will be reasonably accept.
able to Congress" 'EOtherwise,
ne says, ''it will be useless to vote
at ALL" He thinks the interest OF
the State required deliveranee
from military rule and represen-
tatiOn in Congress.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-01
EXCURSION OF WESTERN EDI-I

EXCURSION OF WESTERN EDI-
ToRs.-A number of the editors
of Western papers have recently
been holding a convention with
their brethren ofNew York on mat
tiers relating to business, and, while
thus assembled, resolved to visit
the South. They will go first to
Mobile, where it is thought they
will be well received, and come
from thence by boat to New Or
leans, where they were expected
on the 9th ult. aE .sssf
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-01

A New York paper says the
internal revenue bureau is Or
ganized thus: Commissioner
Delano, salary $4,000; Solicitor
Smith, Delano's law partner,l
$4,000; Secretary, John Delano,
Delano's sony $4,000; Clerk,
Clarke, (Delauo's son-in-law,l
$4,000. As92s
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-05-01

The Great Pacific Railroad
running across the entire con-
tinent, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific-is, the telegraph in
forms MS, complete. A large
number Of people meet to-day
to witness the finishing touch
the laying of the last rail
and driving the last spike.
Cars were built for the road
to rum through, labeled, "From
Ocean to Ocean-Without
Change"