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New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

Alas! prophetic souls had warned us! We
feared that with all the encouragement we
could give him, Mr.. Perry Fuller would never
theless give way. He has given way. Not to
speak in an unknown tongue, he "has been
"seen;" his suit with Gen. Thos. Ewing has
been settled; the champion lobbyists have
shaken hands and made friends; and all
our tender, budding hopes of light on
the dark places of the Washington
lobby are nipped with an untimey
frost of compromise Mr.. Fuller threatened,
but he did MT act. Gen. Ewing, born orator
that he is, was too eloquent for the ortho-
graphically independent and politically cratic
Perry. The friend of the Collector may still
hope for a nice business in New-0rleans the
General is still available as the Democratic
candidate for the Vice-Presidency ; the $4,000
go to Trustee !" the pleasant partnership
is meanwhile renewed, and profits shall accrue.
Judge Olin how could you!
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

So far from desiring to give up their Cana
dian possessions, the British authorities have q
steady tendency to make the most of them.
The Under-Secretary for the Colonies has just
announced that the cession of the Hudson Bay
Company's territory will receive the ratification
of the Canadian Government. The cessiOn is
not question simply of purchase but of colo
nizatiOn and development generally, so that
the New Dominion shall DO extended from one
ocean to another. Viscount Bury is 80 charmed
with this extensive prospect that he regards
Canada as the future highway to the Indies,
and scouts the notion that the United States
viii absorb the British Territories. Several of
the London papers have just been urging the
speedy imitation by English capital Of the great
Paclnc Railway enterprise. The recommends
tion made in the Canadian Parliament for the
opening OF communication at once between
Lake superior and the Red River settlement is
a step to this distant end. There will be every
necessity for great Northern road to the Pa
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
amusrmmts. &C.

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BooTHs THEATER. s Edsa
Evening at a. Toe Lazy OF L!OlA ' AS''
xdsTs All Mas Blanche De Bar .-....r ...-. !.
BROoKLYN ACADEMY OF MUsiO'-I his ENoIi"A ~
a." Btrbs Bleae"-irma and AWae ,...-
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh-ave. and fliW- fW
bis Rysning 8-Gnnt Concert Theo Ih0nSS oiene'
ua. Mr. J. Lew. IN
GRAND OPERA House. cor. Eighth-ave. and lWen-
ty4hirdsi-Ths BTeung at s." Parie"
NATIONAL. ACADEMY or DESIGN, corner oil lWenIy11
,brt and Fourth ays-Fory fourth Annual Exhibition DAY ''
Evening ,c.,,
NrBIo,s CARDRN.-This Evening at s." SlnDad'
Sailor" Lydia Thompous Bueqne Troupe ana toe Oo'0eIS
OLYMPIC THEATER - This Evening at g. Inc
New Psbomns 'Hiccoy DieeOry Dock" Mr. g. L. FOX Ai"V
Troupe
This Evening at g." The Court OF Justice ~
THEATRE FRANCAIs-Ths Evening at 8'-"Cml-
pere" Rose-Bel Deseau1as, ke
THE TANNiANY.-Tammany Hall, Fourteenth-st.-
This RveBng At 8-"The Girl ofthe Period" lehDgNe'L
WA1IAcK's THEATER - This Evening at s.
" Sdn Waters Run Deep"
WAvEmEY IHEATER No 40 Broadway Ihls
Yysniug Ixon" Great London Burlesque Combination
WOoD's MUSEUM Broadway and Thirheth-st.-
This and this Evening 8-Buresqne aud Fah0mme
Robinson Crlsoe"
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

We had our first sale of Railroad franchise
yesterday-Mayor Hall officiating as auctioneer'
The route Twenty -third-street) is the poorest
and shortest on which a Horse Railroad has
been asked for and conceded; yet it brought
S15O,OOO At this rate, the Third and Eighth
Avenue franchises would have brought at least
s2,OOOOOO each; and all our City Railroad
grants should have brought enough to wipe
ont our City Debt, New Court House included.
But the Albany Lobby and its New-York con-
nections have carried off the spoils AL ex-
cept crumb OF so that they flung to their
hungry cronies inside the Legislative ratings
Let us hope that this sale inaugurates new
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

The " Y. Times prOnounces against the
validity of the ratification by the late Indiana
Legislature of the XVIII Amendment of the
Federal Constitution, on grounds which seem
to us narrow and superficial. We will put our
view of the vital matter in question into the
shape of propostion-as follows:
II could not hare been the design Of the Con-
uention Which framed the present Constitution Of
Indiana to enable decided minority Of one
House [4 of the 100 Representatives, or II Of
the 80 Senators] to pdrdIyse the action and
destroy the capacity of the lar-making pOtcer.
Such 1--WE believe) was the judgment of the
U. S. Senate in the case of the contested elec-
ton of Messrs. Bright and Fitch, Democrats
such we understand to be the Judgment OF
President COlfax, who was leading mem
Der of the Convention aforesaid. If the letter
of the clause relied on (Which requires the
presence of twO-thirds of the members OF
House to validate its action) should seem to
Justify a contrary Interpretation, we appeal to
the Esprit" that "giveth life." We cannot be-
lieve that q Convention Of sane men ever In
tended to put it in the power OF II ont OF 80
Senators to prevent, by resignation aud re-
resignation, the consummatiOn of a work SC
vital as the choice of u. S. Senators.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
LAIRDS LAW.

The fact that the Messrs Laird have been
driven to the publication of letter in defense
of their construction of the Alabama, only
proves that the currents of public sense and
of public opinion are setting strongly against
them in England. Mems minds must be chang
ing there when these arrogant shipwrights,
who for the sake of private gain have endan-
gered the peace of nations, find it necessary to
Justify themselves at the bar Of society. 1t
was not so a few years ago, when the build
ing of the Alabama was declared by thousands
of Englishmen to be a meritOrious action and
legitimate enterprise. The letter of the Messrs
Laird is the first rational and coherent and
Ineligible response to the speech Of Mr. Sum-
neT.
The plea set up by the Lairds is merely an
attorneys bubble, and however much it may
help them, it proportionately damages the Gov
ernment of England. The just complaints OF
this Republic cannot be successfully met by a
resort to tecbnicalities. If q ship is built in
England, in every respect q man-of-war ex-
cept that she has no armament; if that ship
then proceeds to another port for men and
arms; if from port of England men and
arms are sent out TO her, then we say that IN
equity all thes circumstances must be taken
as part and parcel of one transaction, and that
(as in the case Of the Alabama) the oiiense
which was cOnsummated at the Azores was
initiated in England, and that the beginning is
equally tainted with the end.
But the quarrel of the American Govern
ment, it should be understood, is not with the
Messrs Laird. In demanding compensation for
injuries we ignore them altogether; and whether
they publish five or five hundred letters, our
dispute will stll be with their betters. They
NAV plead, if they please, that England had no
laws TO prevent them from perpetrating o
grievous and contemplate wrong, for the sake
of pecuniary proft-a crime against the spirit
of the age, against humanity and against the
public peace What have we to do with the
defects of English legislation How are we
10 be held responsible if that legislation has
failed TO meet the requirements OF Public Law
That Law should create the statutes, not the
statutes the Law. IL is not for nation to plead
its own neglect. 1t is not for England, In her
own defense, to aver that her legislation has
been clumsy. We know nothing about that.
We are not responsible for her failure to pro-
vide the machinery through which doctrines ad-
mitted by the whole civilized world could be
enforced, just when their enforcement was
necessary. The inadequacy of the law proves
only the incompetency of the lawmakers.
When the history Of these transactions comes
to be considered collectively, the intelligent
reader will be surprised to notice how COM
pletely, from the beginning, and especially in
the cases Of the Alabama and the Rappahannock,
England has relied upon special pleading. She
has never considered, she has never ventured
to consider these questions in the light of the
great, predominatinG principles of Public Law.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

We are reluctantly compelled once more Oh
call attention to the extremely inefficient and
clumsy manner in which persons capitally con.
victed are put to death. On the 2Sth nit. a
man named Truman was hanged, near Frederick
Md, in the presence of an enormous mob Of peo-
pie, who came from all quarters to see and enjoy
the sight. Amateurs in this refined and ami.
able assemblage had, in our opinion, reason to
complain. Instead of being neatly turned of
and dying on the instant, the hempen crayat
being most inartistically adjusted, Truman died
very slowly, and in fact was, we presume, simply
suffocated. There may have been those in the
miscellaneous crowd who enjoyed this prolonga-
ton, and found a heightened sweetness in
these tardy convulsions but humanity ana
art unite in demanding that the thing should
be done quickly.
Again, we implore lawmakers to consider
the propriety of introducing the guillotine or
the garrote. These are instruments which can.
not blunder When the AK falls, off comes the
head When the screw is turned. the painful
but necessary work is completed in an instant
The halter has done good service in its day, as
everybody assures us, save few fanatics,
who signify nothing; it has been main ele-
ment in the advance of civilization; it has
been the grand conservator Of human life, and
it is not to be spoken of with disrespect but
with all the countless Improvements in ma
chinery, it is very odd if we cannot have an
Improved Life EXtinguisher.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

There is pregnant paragraph of six lines
in the Washington dispatches, which is better
than a volume of arguments, in answer to
the carpers at Secretary Boutwelrs policy
He has sold, it tells us, five millions
of Gold, during the month, receiving
therefor seven millions of Currency,
while the three millions Of National
Debt get aside during this time for q Sinking
Fund, has cost less than three quarters of a
million currency premium. Any merchant or
manufacturer who could not see the advantage
of that operation in the conduct of his private
business, would be set down as an incompetent
OF lunatic. But is there after all, any reason
why the same honorable business thrift and
sagacity should not be employed for the bene-
fit of the whole people that are constantly en-
ployed for the benefit of individuals Why
should public affairs, other things being equal,
be managed more loosely and extravagantly
than private affairs
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
TIE BLACKS OF CUBA.

According to a census table bearing date OF
1867, Cuba has for population 1,37O,2l1, of which
number 764,75O are whites, 225,93S free colored
people, and 379 523 slaves. The blacks or col
ored people altogether are 605,461, and hence
not greatly inferior TO the whites numerically
"A fact worth remembering in making up a
Judgment as TO the complexion of the war
The Western Department of the island, com
prsing all districts from the limits of Pinar
del Rio to those of Sancti-Splritus, has 1914
s24 of the whole population, with 31S,2SS slaves
and 120,sSO freed people. In seven districts
of this Department the rebellion is militant.
These districts, with their populations in classes
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

The work of the WOman's Educational Asso-
citation is an earnest showing of the best that
woman can do, and the good that may be done
for her. The resolutions passed by the Associ-
alton impress us as more eloquent and prac-
teal, if a little less sublime, than those which
have been read on bolder platforms. They
insist that it is necessary for young women
not otherwise provided for to be trained
to self-help and taught domestic economy, the
social fault being want of variety, adaDta-
bility, and right remuneration in their employ
ments. This is common sense, and it expresses
a phase of woman's rights, to be helped and to
help herself, which we commend with our whole
heart. Whatever may be thought of other
movements seeking the amelioration of WOman's
condition, this at least is one on which all can
unite, and to which all will wish God-speed.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

It is stated that the Emperor Napoleon has
set the style of "a one-buttoned vest" what
ever that may be. There was time, not many
years ago either, when if His Imperial Majesty
had pleased to go about with nothing but hls
crown on, all France would at once have lapsed
into general nudity; but now we do not thinN
that the lone buttoned vests" will be qule
universally adopted. II. NJ. has evidently q
taste for tailoring. After the last Revolution
he brought out his Patent Reversible Wrapper
which was Republican upon one side and In,
perial upon the other. But nobody can can
him turn-coat now. The time has gone Oy
for turning, since His Majestys present gar,
mont Is Imneriol outside and in, warp and
woof. sleeves, body, tails, and lining
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
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New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

We print some warning and timely exhibits
on our second page regarding the pestilent
evil of the old-style tenement-houses. They
admit no dispute, and point to present
danger. In three districts of the city, having
1859 tenement houses, the mortality in nine
months of 1862 was more than 10000. In one
of these districts 1862 tenement-houses had 1868
deaths, while in 4,1S6 other dwellings there
were only go deaths. 1t looks as If the tene-
ment system, in its slow way, were as deadly
rs war, and we are now at the season when
its dangers become imminent.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

We present in another column some hints
of the discussion among the Friends in session
at the Twenteth-st. Meeting House concerning
the Indian policy, with the execution OF
which the President has intrusted them
1t is pleasant to observe that the
first determination they have reached is
that their representatives in charge OF In
dian affairs must peremptOrily stop the sale Oi
liquor to the savages. Their effort to stop also
the sale of arms may be less successful
but it can scarcely fail to tend also
to good. They are already able h
count one conflict between the Sioux
and Cheyennes, prevented through their inter-
ference. Meanwhile the dispatches from the
frontier, though doubtless more or less e1.
aggerated, continue to show the grayer ano
grayer nature of the task that is upon them'
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
RAILS THAT WILL NOT BREAK.

A correspondent writes us at length in DEM
onstration of the great Importance OF rail
that cannot break OF be broken, which we
omit, as superhuous-two-th thirds of the acci-
dents that occur on our railroads being caused
by broken rails. He proceeds to say that:
"The invention by j. L. Booth OF Rochester, n l., OF
process for Gaping iron rails with solid cap OF steel
about or ihs OF inch in thickness in the opinion Oh
the most experienced railroad men who have examined
IT, meets the requirements Of safety and durability The
rail consists of an iron base with steel cap united TO
the base not by bolts ryets or welding but SIM
ply by campng The iron bar rolled of the required
form and weight after which 1t is passed through the
compressng machine which cenches powerfully upon 1t
the heavy steel cap The subsequent actien OF weight
upon IT, as the passage OF heavy trains Is to grip
the IRON more and more firmly, until the
base and the cap become as firmly united as
fthey we're q single piece Of metal over the expert
mental rails down two years ago near the depot IN
Bualo have passed 10000 engines and 100000 cars The
iron rails adjoining opposite them have, in the interval
hoen ak times renewed No change is as vet observable
in the steelcapped rails and 70 all appearance they bid
fair TO wear out twenty successive sets Of the ordinary
sort.
1.-TWO OF the rails were also laid on tho New-York
Central Railroad, Rochester n. " June T. 1861 On
one tho cap loose and even ratngi on the other
WAS firm They laid continuously, and with the old
stye Of chairs They were placed where seventy engines
and trains daily passed them on the main ine and
where the track used constantly for switching and
making OF trains The rate OF speed over them varies
The through freight trains frequently Joined at this
point three or four in one TO ascend an upgrade They
pass over these rails often at the rate OF twenty-five or
thirty miles an hour The loosecap ra became tight In
very short tme and both in perfect order -Four
sets OF iron rails have completely out and new
sets replaced the opposite side OF the track during the
period Of time these duplex rails have been down"
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

The Spanish news-makers in Havana give us
reports Of heavy battle with the flibusters,
who have advanced from the Bay of Nipe, and
in all probability joined body of the CubanS.
Havana was on the eve of another riot, and,
we suppose, another massacre. If others Of
our advices be well aseertained, the French
steamer which has threatened the detention of
Cuban supplies in the neighborhood Of Great
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

The Indian question is strikingly discussed
in letter which we present elsewhere. The
policy of concentrating the tribes on few
reservations, instead of making them hopeless
vagabonds, and weakening the power OF tno
nation by its outspread over too large .oiii,
tory, is well set forth and the proposition loi ln
Indian republic also merits certain attehtion'
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
pporroTIoY TO HOME INDUSTRY.

The following letter from one OF tno iale ,Ss
manufacturing establishments in PhiladeipniA snO
proper feeling on the subject of Protection
KEYSTONE SAW AND STEEL WORKS
PHILADELPHIA, June ], 1867
1up Tprptr,R The workingmen this estaDienlnsa l "a
ln b,v IN nrocct American industry rs th0rous', ,p
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which send 100 copies OF Weekly negnhnse pnt rrIcAL
T,ll,al,i.I g,l,a,i,,,, ~ ~, 4 VA - HENRY DIsSToN,
HOVNV''i' No 67 LaurelsL, PhiadelphS
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
pPESRr rEPLAN CnnNCILS

The full reports of the Proceedings of the
Two Assemblies in Eew-York, given in THE DAILY
TRIBUNE, will be published in an EXTRA TRIBUNE on
Friday, June An exhaustive article on the early his
tory OF the Church and the Of separation by DR.
GILLETTE win be appended Price, per copy, lOc II for
o., or s. per 100, postage paid.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

Our Woman's Rights friends are not likely to
be much discouraged by their rebuff yesterday
in the Massachusetts, Senate. They have thrived
on worse defeats than that, and we shah pres
emily hear, no doubt, that vote of twenty
two against Woman Suffrage to nine for it is
3 substantial triumph.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

The proceedings in the Law Courts yes'e'.
day make an ugly showing for the losers Uy
the Twenty -third-st. Livery Stable fire. Ac-
cording to the statements now made 1t iook'
very much as if the great destruction OF prop
erty and wanton torture Of so many horses
wonld prove TO have been deliberately plotteo
for the sake of redeeming certain parties irOi'
financial embarrassment.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

We may look to the New Hampshire Legis-
lature, which has just assembled, and gone at
business in business way, for prompt ratif-
cation of the XVIII Amendment. There is no
danger that the course of Rhode Island will be
initiated either by the New-Hampshire Legis-
lature or the New-Hampshire Senators,
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

OF the latter numbers the freed people have
but 44,O73 The Eastern Department, which is
in a general state of rebellion or disaffection,
counts 96,O5S slaves and 66,235 freed people in
total population of 825,3s7 This is the
country in which Cespedes began the revolt.
and it has fewer slaves than any other section
of the island Of equal population. Here are its
nurnharo.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

We Judge the action of our State temper
ance Society concerning the propoSi'ion " as
ford 70 oiionate any from the Temperance
cause by raising needless tests OF poltical or'no
doxy and whatever may be said oil It's snort
comipgs, the Republican party has certainty
done enough to warrant the continued conn-
donce and support of all Temperance men,
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

Minister Dix has made his speech of farewell
to the French. He justly said that the Ameri-
can policy was not war OF aggression, but i'm
provement. That improvement, we trust the
promoters of the imperial enterprise in Mexico
nave felt
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE,

cifc. The building Of this road would be
scheme worthy of the best energies of the
British mind, and policy eminently strength
eninq TO the English foothold in America.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

A member Of the Nova Scotian Parliament
speaks of Annexation or Starvation as the
policy of the United States with reference to
British America. The annexation resolutions
had not yet come up in that body.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

Fisk is at it again, livelier than ever nm
time it is the Pacific Railroad people who ia'ely
sought to carry the war into Africa whom no
is after. We cannot say that at the emu u sd s
last round for the first day he had much au-
vantage.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

The Cable sends us an abstract of official
dispatches by Mr.. Seward and the British Gov
ernment in the'questiOn Of the Alabama claims.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

FIRST PAGE 60, FIFTH PAGE
Foreign Cable News. POhucal'
Uovfian News Personal
WaSSLington News The Drama
prblic Debt Statement. Religious
West Point West Point
The Cuhan Revolution. The Willamsburgh HON.
Various kilograms. lclde. ,,c.r
SECOND PAGE. The WATERS Strlke
The Indian Question. selling Clty RalIIoau.
(iIeapipgs from Ex- National Brewers Con-
changes ventiOn.
Letters from the People. Masonic.
Pure Love and Sacred WOman's Educational AS
Marriage sOelan0n.
Terrible ShipwrecEs. Miscellaneous News.
Interview with Wessner. Marriages, Deaths, and
Life In TenementHOuses, Funerals.
General Notes Special Notices.
THIRD PAGE. SIXTH PAGE.
Law Courts Literary Matters
Transportation Of Grain. Book Advertisements.
Money Market. Real Estate.
Wholesale Markets. Classified Advertisements.
Live stock Market SEVENTH PAGE
The State OF Trade. Real Estate AdV Inehts.
Financial Advertisements Theatrical Advertisem'ts
FOURTH PAGE. Other Advertisements
The Finances. snip News.
Impunity in Crime. kleptomania
IAird's Law. EIGHTH PAGE.
The Blacks OF Cuba. The Turf.
Rails that VIII Not Break SpOrtsmens Convention
Church Union aud Its PO- City aud County Affairs.
Utlcal Bearlngs Crime in the City.
Editorial Paragraphs. EOpement Extraordinary
business Notices. Home News.
Advertisements.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

Inagua Island observes looking after. We are
apprized also of the movements OF marine
convoy of arms in that quarter.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

Such as it is, we hope the new negotiaton
will enter upon it with an improved spirit and
with clear prospect of result.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
Netp'9lork pailp gribmrrk.
1ARLE OF CONTENTS.

THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1869.