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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

". Here is the Springfield Armory, there is
the National Printery with Navy Yards, Ar
senais, &C., in half the States. Has the average
product a days work in these fallen off one
fifth, or one-tenth, or to any extent whatever
We ought to know; but the facts have not
even been required When we shall have been
informed, we can tell whether it is or IS not
just to reduce compensation, and to what ex-
tent until then, we are quite in the dark
We urge the workers for wages to consider
the whole matter calmly and carefully. We
do not know that the time has yet come for
reducing the hours of labor to eight per day !;
but, il it has not, we cannot doubt that it
will 1t will come through the progress Of dis.
covery aud invention, making eight hours
labor more effective than was that of ten hours
few years ago, or twelve hours forty years
earlier STILL We do not approve the making
of Government employees a favored, petted,
pampered class; but if the act of Congress
shall result in demonstrating that days work
of eight hours is as productive as one of ten,
it will have done great good at very mode
rate risk and cost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29
zooL0GICAL RECREArIONs

"The Jew that Shakespeare drew" expressed
himself exceedingly offended with one Antonio,
in that the said Antonio had called him not
only a misbeliever but ga cut-throat dog"
Now, for tedious length of time, Mr.. Abbott
was full of wrath because, as he AYERS, Mr..
Sprague had called him q puppy" puppy
originally signifies a young dog. Yet 1t Is
curious that nobody objects to being called q
sad dog, if he be given to the pleasures OF this
life, or an amiable dog. if he be devoted to Its
courteses but the moment man is designated
ga puppy" he is angry beyond measure, and,
unless he be of a timid nature he begins to
strictly mediate the challenge and monomachy
1t does not follow that puppy" is neces-
sarily opprobrious epithet. There may be the
making Of noble dog-a dog of Montargis, a
dog of St. Bernard, dog of Ulysses, watch
dog whose "honest bark" will bay deep
"mouthed welcome as we draw near home" a
dog like those loved by Sir Walter Scott, q
dog like Lord Byron's "Boatswain"-the puppy
is the possibility of some one of these. With
out public puppies there can be no dogs--no
noble dogs such as we find in Congress. Will
an action at law lie against defendant Tor
calling the plaintiff "a puppy :" Is a puppy
necessarily odious or contemplate May he
not amuse us by his brisk gambols, his cnrvets,
his pretty turns upon his innocent tail, his
waggngs, his barkings, his begglngs, his
juvenile fooleries
This, however, is not now of present inter-
est, because the Sprague-Abbott imbrogliO-
what o noble word that is, and what fortune
to the correspondents !-because the late little
affair in Washington has been adjusted felicit-
ously, fraternally, tremendously, and philo-
sophically. But in the general suavity and
serenity of everything. no. are we to be sure
that no Senator in the future will feel a call
to liken his brother to one or the other OF the
beasts that perishP Our idea would be to rem
der such comparisons noble and senatorial by
a rule that only the largest living creatures
shall be selected. AS for example:
MdBlDialiaEle plants, lions, rhnoceroses cameleop-
ards bufaloes goras Royal Bengal tigers. whales &c
Repta-Pythons boas, anacondas, and the great lana
tortoise. &c.
Fishes-Amercan searserpent blue -nosed shark, CO.
Birds Condor eagle, vulture. and the late dodo
MISUNDERSTANDING megatherium, the late Bel
eian giant Mr. Barnums biggest fat girl IF living croco
die Of the Nile tslligators being excuded).
We might write neat little philippe to
show how beautifully all these delicate
creatures would come in. But we are gen.
erous, and content ourselves with this hint.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29
Export Of BIport Of all Iron and gr. Of Lumber and

The reports for 1866 and subsequently are
incomplete, and short of the true amounts, large
values being Jumped under the heading OF
unenumerated manufactures" but enough re-
mains to show that the export of these two
leading classes of manufactures, of iron and OF
lumber, has more than doubled under the heavy
tariff taxes which should, by the Treasury
theory, have killed off all chance to export
them Pig iron. too, strangely enough, figures
quite respectfully as an export The extinc-
ton of the pretended Reciprocity treaty with
Canada also docs not appear to have cut Off
our supply of exportabe lumber; and altogether
the fallacy and folly of the new demonstrations
against the tariff are made overwhelming when
we come to investigate the facts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

If we add something for well-known ex-
port across the line to the Canadas unrecorded
on our side, but shown by Canadian records to
TO be now about 80, OOO, 900 in value annually, we
have an average of eighty millions in value OF
manufactures exported now against about forty
millions under the low tariffs previous to 1861.
These aggregates do not, therefore, look so dis
couraging as they might, and when we come
to particulars the case is still better For in
stance +: the export of lumber and manufactures
of wood. which, being taxed" 20 per cent
since the end of the Reciprocity treaty, it
has been stated are so advanced i'll value that
great msfortunes have ensued; one misfortune
being the impossibility of exporting. Pig iron
is another highly taxed article, under the pres
sure of which taxation it can scarcely be pos
sible to export iron manufactures. But the
figures are as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

canal 1000 feet wide and 90 feet deep from
Lake Michigan to the Illinois River.
SO vast volume OF water would
be drained by such channel from the Great
Lakes into the Mississippi that Chicago would
become virtually seaport, the Falls would
dwindle to one-tenth their present dimensions.
and the st. Lawrence would be nothing but A.
creek. And if the Darien Canal should he
constructed, it is suggested by Capt. Sas Rent
in his lecture on the Thermometric Gatewav, 10
the Pole, that the Gulf Stream might force ia
way through the cut, instead of being DETECTED
as now upon the coasts of Europe, and thus a
sudden change of climate might spread dis
aster through the richest countries of the Old
World, and England become a region of al
most Arctic cold.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

What is to become of this old earth if man
NEEDLES with nature much longer after his
present audacious manner is curious question
for the philosopher. We have been obliterat-
ing the most stupendous barriers between sea
and sea- and compelling the waters of the
Mediterranean to mingle with the Indian
Ocean; We purpose cutting through the noun
tain chain which divides tho Atlantic from the
Pacific; there is plan for turning the lberian
peninsula into an island by maritime canal
across the whole breadth of France; and now,
if we can believe Western correspondent
there is actual danger of the destruction of
Niagara Falls, Chicago contemplates cutting a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

toward the New Dominion, of which the Fenian
raid, the abrogation of the miscalled Recipro-
city treaty, and the proposal to accept Canada
in satisfaction for the Alabama wrongs, were
all symptoms This is a great mistake. The
people of the United States cherish none but
the kindest feelings toward their neighbors
across the border, and believe that sooner or
later they will become and ought to become,
with their own free consent, citizens OF this
Republic. II they feel the influence of our
unsatisfactory relations with the mother coun'
try, that is one of the embarrassments of their
dependent position, and they ought to get out
of it as soon as possible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

We learn from Albany that the Ring are
again making strong efforts to put through the
bill to upset the present Tax Commission and
to place the Office completely at the mercy of
Tammany Hail. by giving the appointment of
Commissioners to the Controller of this City.
It is matter of surprise and regret that GER
tain members of the Legislature, who were
elected as Republicans, indicate disposition
to unite In this scheme for plundering the
city treasury.
The bill gives to the Commissioners authori-
ty to appoint clerks without any limit as to
number or compensation, both Of which arc
now wisely limited by law. 1t authorizes the
employment of counsel by the Commissioners,
whose compensation is to be determined
by that excessively yirtuous Board
of Supervisors who built the Court
House. The existing law provides,
we believe, for counsel at a fixed and moderate
salary. The bill further empowers the Super
visors to cause surveys and maps to be made
of the various Wards without any limitation
as to the expense, branch of the service
which has heretofore been well performed
by the City Surveyor at an expense
of about $4,000 per annum. Ii is re
ported from Albany that the Assembl!
Committee on Cities have agreed to report tn
bill for the consideration of the House. Why
any Republican should vote to report this bill
or to pass it quite passes orr comprehension, or
would if we bad not heard of so very many
queer things being done at the State Capital.
It is a Tammany Ring measure, pure
and simple, and Republicans who de-
sire TO PLAY into the hands of that
Ring may pretend to justify themselves
on tho promise of the Controller to ap-
point two Republicans on the Commission of
four; they may pretend to believe that he
will appoint two good sound Republicans upon
the Commission they may pretend TO tremble
with fear at the threat of the terrible things that
the Controller will do in case they fail to uass
the bill; but, notwithstanding all these excuses.
they will have an account to settle with their
constituents, for this betrayal of their party
and of the best interests of the taxpayers
of New-Y York. Experience has proved
that it is unsafe TO put into the
hands of any Commission, or any body
of men unlimited authority to spend the peo-
pies money and especially so in this city. 1t
is quite unnecessary to say that our objections
to this bill are radical, and would not be re-
moved if it were proposed to make the Com
mission entirely Republican.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

With the amiable feeling which always
prompts the unfortunate to welcome compan-
ions in misery, we observe the wry faces which
the Canadians make at the acquisition of their
Alaska the Hudson's Bay territory They are
calculating areas, reckoning what vulgar frac-
ton of an inhabitant they have to each square
mile, Cooking aghast at the labor and ex-
"pense devolved upon the Government" of
the New Dominion. Altogether they regard
their territorial gain as a new elephant, and
one of the leading journals is grhff enough to
call il so,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

The Mumler trial yesterday was succession
of pleasant surprises and dramatic situations.
The counsel for the defense read chapter in
the Bible, and the prosecution called Mr.. p T.
Barnum as an expert to provo that Mumler
was a humbug. The sacred reading we trust
was profitable alike to the bench, the bar.
The examination of Mr.. Barnum was GER
tainly entertaining, and threw some light
upon n period of the life of the accused to
which we invited attention the other day. We
cannot add that it aided largely in the proof
Of negative which he prosecution is at
tempting to establish but it nevertheless
made novel contributions to the history of
popular decisions. 1t settled the authenticity
of the Woolly Horse, and even established the
fact that Joyce Heth was genuine-at least to
the extent of being very old. Mr.. Barnum
maintains that he ought to be good judge
Of humbugs, and fortifes the claim by show
ing that he wrote book ten years ago about
them, in which he devoted whole chapter to
Mumler.-The actual developments of the case,
thus far, may be briefly stated. 1t is shown
thot the so-called spirit photographs
can be produced by ordinary photo
graphic appliances, aud that this may
80 accomplished by experts so dexterously as
to defy detection. 1t is shown that several
such experts have produced such pictures 1t
is shown that Mumler did produce some, years
ago, which were almost if not quite admitted
by the parties concerned to be receptions
But it is not shown that the pictures in ques-
ton are not genuine portraits of spirits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

The Montreal Star of the cath inst. has the
following editorial:
LET Us SUPPOSE.
They say Gen. Grant is on the warpath He Is blunt
about tho Alabama claims, and though he talks less
than lack Chandler, he thinks more. England grows
tired OF ceaseess badgering and speaks with unwonted
spirit TAe Times says that has gone to the verge OF
humiliation for the sake Of peace but there is limit
and she has reached 1t.
Does this mean war Are the most powerful and civil
ICED Christian nations about to illustrate their devotion
TO the great Maker they profess to follow by cut
ngl each others lthroats suppose it WHAT
our postoni What have to do with the Alabama
clalmsl How are we interested responsible Z
But our territory would be the bloody battle
field in case OF war. The horrors enacted In
and fold Our connection with England would cost us
this while she would be compelled at cruel dsadvan
age waste her blood and treasure in her efforts TO de-
fend u.s. England is weakness In the event Of such
war and should TO her not source OF weakness
only national humiliation. Is 1t not time to ponder
these things and ask how long four millions o. people
ought 10 hang like lubberly boys 10 their good old
mothers apron.strngsi What immense relief IL would
be 10 England II she released tomorrow from her
undoubted duty OF defending Canada In case OF war!
Suppose We should undertake defepse and pad
die our own cancel We have Of quarrel with
the statesand but for these International questions
which foreign to might live with them in per-
petual peace and good neighbOrhood.
Let us hear about tho new nationality and less
about such things perpetuate the state OF tuelage
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

A Temperance State Convention to consist
of two delegates from each Assembly District
has been called to meet in Syracuse on Tues
day. June 1, at noon.
The political duties of Temperance men will
doubtless be discussed at this Convention.
In order to secure full attendance, the
friends of Temperance in each County are
asked to assemble at the County seat thereof
on Wednesday, May 10. We trust that this
notice will receive prompt attention.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29
The Hon. Benjamin II. Brewster Attorney

The Hon. Benjamin II. Brewster, Attorney
General of Pennsylvania, prints this card:
To the Editor Of The Rueni,lg star
Some papers to-day publish an article from The Nae-
York Sum- in which it is said that John Russell Young
"heeced' me of $1,000 This is wholly untrue Never
directly or indirectly did loan money TO That cen'e
man or any one on his account at his request or 'n-
stance Such is my respect for him and his abilities
that would be happy at any time to give him any
help if he required it. Mr.. John d. Stockton, friend
for whom have great regard, did twice or three
times during tho past six months borrow from $500
to 81 1000 of me- but he acays promptly repaid within
few DAYS, and he has not owed me for long time.
He always borrowed on his orR account and
not on account of any other person. This 1
would not now mention, but no states
so himself in his paper to-day. and
the article in The San asserts that had been
"fieeced by Mr.. Young for The Morning Post Twill
conclude by saying tlfss-py loans were those Of
friendship. and WIS too glad, as / will again DO
too glad thus to help worthy upright young gen.
tleman in the honest pursuit of All honest living.
am, respectfully,
BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER.
PHILADELPHIA, April 81, 1859.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

The bill establishing a suitable control over
our Gas Companies passed the Assembly yes
terday, in spite of the recent boasts that a
powerful lobby was sure to defeat it. Friends
of the bill must remember, however, that the
danger is not yet over. When the bill has
gone through the Senate and has received the
Governors signature, the powerful Gas Com
panes of this city may be safely counted de-
feated-not sooner. We ask Senators to see
that the matter is brought to a speedy vote.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

The Virginia Convention accomplished moth
ing yesterday, beyond showing that it was
still under the control of people three
quarters of century old. We know
this because they resolved that no re-
porters should be admitted, save those repre-
senting the conservative press. A BODY c"pa-
BILE of passing o resolution like that neeu oo
nothing more to make plain its character
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29
PHILADELPHIA. April 81, 1859.

We beg leave to remind the Legislature that
the people have not forgotten the bribery and
corruption bill which, having gone through
one chamber, is now slumbering in the others
Let it be taken up and passed at once if thu
Legislature adjourn without acting upon it.
there will be good reason to suspect that hon
eSty has few friends at Albany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

Mr.. Secretary Boutwell, has now resorted Ia
two expedients for getting the good of the Gold
lying idle in the Treasury vaults. One has
failed to prove of any practical ben
eft. The other is to be tried to-day. The
sale Of Gold is to be limited to million, and
its anticipated effect is reduction Of the pre-
MUM and gain to the Treasury from the
premium. Whether this is or is not a good
policy need not now be argued, We think
that. in any event, we can suggest better
1t is simply to obey the law. 1t has never
been repealed, its terms are mandatory, and
| its plain requirement is that the Secretary
should forthwith purchase twenty-s millions of
the Government-debt, and set it aside, with
the accruing interest, as Sinking Fund.
| Mr.. Boutwell, will be among our moneyed men
o-day, and will quite likely be in way OF
comparing views with them. We take the op-
portunity, therefore, to refresh his memory
with this extract from tire law Of February,
1862:
IAN iaiss on imported goods shall be paid coin ths
coin 5 paid shall be set spar, special fund and shall be spp
follows, First the payment coin 81 the interest the boud aud
the United States second % the purchase paymeSof0s
per deJt ofta< Tinted States TO Do mat citr eset
sseaI year after first day CJRi 1862 Vst De st apart
Sinking Fund which shall like be sppd
purchase paymen. Of the Pablo Debt the Secretary tbs
Treasury shall from time to time Direct
1t has been plead, in excuse for neglect OF
this requirement, that clause in the Public
Credit bill repealed it. That clause Is as
follows:
Soa Of the said bearing obligations not sedJ doe shall
redeemed paid before maturity unless at ouch time United s
notes convertible Into coin the option the holder or un
at such time bonds Of bearing lower rate OF inferred
than the bonds be sold a. par eoiu
Nobody asks the Secretary to redeem OF
"pay before maturity" any bonds. what Is
asked is, that he shall promptly and in good
faith begin to carry out law, too long ne
elected, which requires the purchase annually
of one per cent of our outstanding indebted
ness, TO be set aside as Sinking Fund. That
involves neither redemption nor payment be-
fore maturity, but it does enhance the Public
Credit, and make money for the Government
| on the operation. Why not obey the lawf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

The indications in the State Senate yester-
day point to belief among Republicans that
they may as well let the Excise law alone as
RIM the risk of making it worse by efforts at
amendment. On test vote, the Senate re-
fused, by a majority of two, to make it
special order for to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

The National Temperance Society viii hold
its fourth anniversary in the great hall Oh
Cooper Institute on the evening of Wednesday
May 10. The Hon. William E. Dodge will pre-
side, and addresses are expected from Dr. +
X. Lees Gust arrived from EDgl@nd0 the new
j. ID. Fulton of Boston, and others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

alive. for that "the organ business is played
"outn This may be bad for The InteHigencer,
but it is better for Sprague than anything we
have been having lately.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

How does it happen that so soon after a
reduction of nearly one-half in the infantry
regiments of the army, it becomes necessary to
reopen the expensive recruiting systems This
matter seems singular enough to make an ex-
PLANTATION interesting. Who will give it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

school of Free Traders about high prices, tariff
taxation. and the cost of labor, it would natur-
ally be supposed that the export of manufac-
lures of lumber iron, cordage, clothing, &C.,
would have greatly declined in 1866 to 1868.
The facts, as we have at some labor COM
piled them, are however as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29
ourselves

In his speech in the Canadian Parliament
the other day on the subject of the indemnity
claims against tho United States Mr.. Gait
seems to have been animated by tho idea that
there is feeling of hostility in this country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

We have CLEAN Of wisdom from Senator
Sprague. He denies that he has bought The
National Intelhgencer, or has wasted any
money in paying mortgages, making loans, or
otherwise. to keep the superannuatsd journal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29
sqetu'2lork Daily gribmats.
THURSDAY, APRIL 90, 1869.
Table or CONTENTS.

The Long Island Railroad
Disaster.
National Sunday-ScboOl
Convention.
Music.
The Billiard Tournament.
A Card.
Lectures. Meetings, DO.
To Correspondents.
The state OF Trade.
Marriages, Deaths, and
Funerals,
Special Notices.
SIXTH PAGE.
An Appeal.
Real Estate.
Real Estate Adv'ments.
SEVENTH PAGE.
Advertisements.
EIGHTH PACK.
Home News.
Fire at Elizabeth.
Mysterious Murder at
Rye Neck.
Arrest OF a Thief and Re-
ceivers. ...
Latest Ship News.
Advertisements.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29
FIRST PAGE.

FIRST PAGE.
Washington Dispatches.
Foreign News.
Albany News.
Domestic Tel. News.
SECOND PAGE.
General Notes.
Spuitualism in Court.
Museum in Natural HIS
tory.
The Courts.
Pigeon Shooting Match
Broken Up.
Money Market.
Markets.
THIRD PAGB.
Ship News.
Advertisements.
FOURTH PAGE.
Fight-HOur Legislation.
Oncial Suppression OF
Exports.
Look Backward.
Geological Recreations.
NOn-Ohlcial Canada.
Editorial Paragraphs.
Business Notices.
FIFTH PAGR.
Political.