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New-York tribune., 1869-03-29
CONNECTICUT.

In October, 1865 few of the Republicans
of Connecticut dealt their party damaging
blow. By failing to sustain and adopt the
amendment of their State Constitution which
would have made Suffrage Impartial by exclud-
ing Blacks only for reasons equally potent as to
Whites, they practically melted and encouraged
Andrew johnson TO enter on the perverse
career which has so long kept the country dis
tracted, and so long threatened to drive the
hearty Unionists from power. Those Repub-
lcans who thus voted against, or refused to
vote with, the great body of their party, have
no right to reproach johnson. They, and not
he, gave their State over to the adversary.
We ask them to ponder these votes:
1858. Impartial Suffrage Yes....272l7 Mo-. s9,lso
1866. .Hawley .43974 English. 3IS3
1867. .Hawley 4G,57s English. 1865
1865. Jewell 4s,777 English. 6O5A
1865. President Grant .5O,99s seymour79 95l
We beg those Republicans who in 1865
voted the State into the power of the Copper
heads by opposing or failing to support I'm
partial Suffrage, TO contemplate their work.
They are responsible for English's repeated
triumphs. by conspiring to withhold the Right
OF Suffrage from Two Thousand unanimously
Republican citizens, they enabled the Demo-
They laid their own necks on the ground, and
virtually requested the COpperheads TO trample
them into the mire. Whose blame is it that
this was dOne1
Some Of those who perpetrated this mean
foolishness have kept on with Dixon and Bah
cock, and are now in the Democratic party.
To them, we have nothing to say. But we
ask those who recoiled from this abyss and
voted last Fall for Grant and Colfax, now
to stand with them for the XVth Constitu-
tiOnal Amendment, whereby Equal Rights
are guaranteed to every citizen. They
who faltered in 1865 are morally bound
to do yeOman service now. Let US
have an endlof all fruitless controversy about
races and colOrs, by securing to every man the
rights of manhood (unless he is proved incOm-
petent to exercise them) till he fOrfeits them
by crime. Every other New-England State
already stands, and has long stood, on that
noble platform. Many other States have re-
Gently adopted and now occupy it. No State,
having once deliberately advanced to 1t, has
ever thereafter receded Its adoption quiets
agitation and arrests controversy. Connecticut
will now probably decide whether the XVIII
Amendment shall or shall not be adopted in
1SG9-whether we shall or shall not stop
wrangling about questions that the issue of
our great struggle have virtually settled and
proceed to the order of the day. which is re-
building the fabric of our country's industrial
prosperity. "Let us have peace"
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

The indications at Washington point to re-
fusal by the Senate to abandon its modification
of the Tenure-Of- Office act. and to growing
sentiment in favor of the act in the House.
The readiness with which all manner of people
have been setting up as spokesmen and cham
pions of Gen. Grant i'll the matter seems to
have dsgusted the President himself, as wen
as his judcious friends; and he is now quoted
again as quite ready to accept the Senate DILL
and decidedly anxious to be rid OF the subject
Meantime, the delay already caused has so
hindered necessary business that an ad-
journment is not now expected before the mid
die of April. 1t will come too soon, even then,
if it come before the passage of an effective
bill to prevent the corruption of our elections
by the enormous issue of fraudulent naturali-
ZatiOn papers.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

The news from Japan which has just reached
San Francisco does not confirm the announce
ment recently made by the diplomatic agents OF
the foreign Powers, that the civil war is at an
end. On the contrary, it is reported that the
Admiral of the late Tycoon now holds posses
sion of the whole of the Island of Yesso, the
second largest and nOrthernmost island OF
Japan; that his forces are rapidly increasing
and that the Mikado will find it difficult TO
overcome him unless the exiled princes be al
lowed to return and the Tycoon be sent to
them as their ruler. The Mikado had recently
been at Kioto, where he was married; but a
difficulty occurred between the two most
powerful of his partisans, in consequence OF
which several streets of the city were purheu'
and the Mikado fed to Osaka.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
there now stretches continuous line of rail,
with only single gap of twenty-six miles, in
the entire distance across the Continent But
it is omnous that, with the arrival of the dis.
patches making this announcement should
come also the message from Gen. Warren,
warning the Secretary of the Interior that be
regards the Western end Of the line as no bet
ter than the Eastern in point of honest con-
struction. What he thinks of that we know.
His declaration ought to be suficient-though
we fear it will not be-to spur Congress into
tardy effort to preserve yet some safeguard
against loss from the failure of these roads to
fulfil the contract on which the bonds are
,a1
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29
Jnst before the Last Parliamentary election in

Just before the last Parliamentary election in
England, a newspaper was started at Windsor
to serve the interests of the Tory candidate foi
that place. 1t was fraud from the start.
having no circulation, and no visible means of
support except liberal allowance of Govern
ment advertisements. 1t was even an illegal
publication, its proprietor having failed to COM
ply with the law of registration. When it was
discovered that this make-believe journal had
been fed from the public treasury the affair
was deemed so scandalOus that it actually
staggered public credulity. We manage such
things better in America. What would the
British public think of our New- York Trans.
cript, and similar swindles, which are not only
established for the sole purpose of drawing
pay for Corporation advertisements to which
they are incapable of giving publicity but are
owned by the very officials who vote the pub
Lie money to sustain themf
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

A bill has been reported favorably in the
Assembly authorizing the Board of Supervisors
to hire room, at a rent not exceeding $1,000
per annum, for the use of the Exempt Fire
mems Association of the City Of New-York
This is very small swindle. and it might az
well be nailed. Why should the Exempt Fire.
men ask the public to pay fora club-room for
their comfort We shall next have provision
in the tax-levy to furnish q smoking room.
card-room, bowling-alley, and hquor-shOp on
Broadway for the use of ex-members of the
Common Council, and then bill authorizing
the Supervisors to pay all the expenses of the
Americus Club
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

We are in receipt Of the two following letters
from the Post Office Department requesting the
insertion of two advertisements in THE TRIB-
UNE: .s.Eff l.s.
U. s. Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, CONTRACT OFFICE,
WA.HISGToN, March a. 1869.
SIR: The General requests you TO insert
tho iBclosed advertisements dated March 10 1852 inviting
L5" Nd fSs S GSSbsyS tSs yES u S from july 1852
20 jane So lS3Once week for six successvo wecks IN
Tas RswYonE TeInJSh provided y can m pc dome Ipr "a
the nrst punber Issued after the receipt hereof which
number you will please transmit 10 the Contract Office as
soon as published. When the publication is
peted. staSe account against the United states ana
a. WIN one ScPy Of M eSn zen psP ~ tbe tbe
Auditor OF tho Treasury for the oicc Department
Respectfully, &C. &c. GEo. W. MCCLELLAN
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
Proprietor OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Hew-York n Y.
o. S. PosroFrIcE DEPARTMENT. CONTRACT OFFICE
WASHINGTON. March "a. 1862
SIR; The Posmaster-General requests you TO insert
the nclosed advertisement dated March 10 1862 inviting
proposals for conveying the mails on Mall Messenger
Route No. 1873 In the City OF NewYork from July l.
weeks. In TIE NEwYoRK TRIBUNE, provided 1t can be
done for not exceeding forty dollars sO Let It
appear the fret number Issued after the receipt here
oi which number Will please transmit 70 the Contract
Office as soon as published When the entire publication
Is completed account against the United states,
and forward H. with one copy OF each paper containing
the advertisement as evidence OF the publication 10 the
Auditor OF the Treasury for the POsOmce department
through whom payment Will be made Respectfully
60, &c, G. W. MCCLELLAN
Proprietor OF THE NEw-IoRK TRIBUNE, NeW-York
Inasmuch as the publication of the two ad-
vertisements in THE TRIBUNE would cost at
our lowest rates, SS2 80 and S105 respectively,
we cannot, of course, insert them for $50 and
$40 respectively. The prices named would not
cover the cost of the white paper required to
print the notices in The TRIBUNE, and we
know of no reason why the Government should
osl, mo IN do ita work for n lass nrca than busi-
ness men pay If the law limits the amount
that can be paid, we advise Congress to modify
the same SO as to enable the Departments to
insert their advertisements in newspapers where
they will be read by those interested. We are
always pleased TO insert whatever unobjcctlon-
able advertisements are offered, but one mans
money is as good as another's, and we must
charge all alike. No newspaper with any cir
cuation can afford to insert advertisements at
the rates named.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

Theoretically our Government is controlled
by the voters; practically, of late, by the men
who count the votes. This, aforetime. might
have been mysteryj but since such perform.
ances as those of Tammany, last FALL in
manipulating the returns, the times have made
it plain. We have taken great pains to hedge
about the ballot-box, that no illegal ballots
may be put into it; aud have then left a
broad and beaten highway, along which fraudu-
lent returns may be sent up with comparative
safety. We carefully warn off unofficial inter-
lopers, in order that the guardians of the
genuine votes may uninterruptedly work their
will upon them. Mr.. La Bau's bill, introduced
on Saturday, in the Assembly, is intended to
remedy this systematic and skillfully organ
lied folly, by providing proper punishment
for frauds in canvassing, counting, or returning
votes. Such q measure has been imperatively
demanded by the wants of every recent
election in New-York. On no &C, 0 Int whatever
should we suffer ourselves to re left without
the safeguards of this bill till another election
is upon u.s. Let US have the miseounting of
votes now made felony, with prompt and
severe punishment. viii not members of the
Legislature see to it that nothing be suffered.
under any circumstances, to prevent the pas
sage of o law securing the objects Of Mr.. La
Baus bli2
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

The English residents in China are greatly
dissatisfied with the treaty which has recently
been concluded by Mr.. Burlingame with the
English GOvernment-especally with that part
which refers all difficulties to the Central
Government at Pekin, and forbids subordi-
nate diplomatic agents TO commit hOstilities
against Cinnamon on their own account. Sew
eral new difficulties have recently occurred
between the Chinese and the English, and in
each case the English authorities have under
taken to enforce their claims without waiting
for special instructions.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29
A CARD FROM c. X. lands.

To the Editor Of The Tri6Wne
SIR In discussion In the Farmers Club, l
see that you have represented Vneand to be plotted
in fye-acre farms. This is mistake only laid ou'
three hundred acres in veacre lots Vneland laid ou'
in farms of twenty aud upward fully concur wiz
you In tho opinion that farms ID THIS country no'
- md vet the fault With people is that they usu
aIly attempt 10 work too much land There arc many
farms upon Vineland Of from forty to one hunorsa
~ Land IN had been visionary a. 10 nave ploseu
ali ont in tiyeacre lots 1t would have insured tne
of my colony win you please correettne mistano Voi0'
the Farmers' Club, Is s calculated 10 90 injury
~ Your friend and servant, CHARLES n ASDN'
Vineland, March rs. 1862 n..v;n.-
mfr. Lands is in error. We never stated tns' ',n
land was all cut up into plots of FIVE acres OF e''
that part of it was, and that this was ti0i ..'
who try to live by cultivationl a mistake ~,
simrlv confirms what he seems to contradic1-'''
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

We hear of an excellent beginning in the
way of retrenchment in the Treasury Depart
ment and elsewhere, at Washington. We re-
joice and applaud, but beg Mr.. Boutwell, and the
rest to remember thatthe difficulties of their task
are only beginning Within week every dis
missed clerk will be boring with fOrty-Senator-
power for readmission. Then the real trials
commence. Every previous Secretary has sue
cumbed, and, in spite Of the diminished need,
the clerical force has gone on steadily swelling.
Mr.. Boutwell, and Gen. Grant will do better,
We hope and trust; but they will only succeed
by comprehending in advance the nature of
the assaults to which they are to be subjected.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

While we have opposed the bill proposing a
new School Commission for our City, we
have not been insensible to the defects of our
present machinery for School management,
especially Of those so forcibly depicted in the
letter of Peter Cooper, printed by US months
ago. 1t is true that our schools cost too much.
1t is true that their expense increases too fast.
1t is true thar we are paying enough to edu-
cate all the children in our City, while
not educating much more than one-half OF
them. 1t is true that our School Officers are
not, in the average, of so high character as
they should be- 1t is true that the people dc
not take sufficient interest in the choice oi
Commissioners and Trustees and that the
elective system has thus proved not success
1t is true that we ought not to be taxed to
give a few children collegiate education.
But will the new bill give us better
guarantees for the requisite efficiency, economy
and integrity in our School manage
ment? As it stands, we fear it will
not; yet it might be so amended that it
would. The political minority ought to be
clothed with power at least to veto needless
and wasteful increase of expenditure. They
should have power to prevent the dismissal of
teachers on political grounds, and the leyying
of political contributions on them for any pur-
pose whatever. Give tile minority power, if
not to effect positive good, at least to prevent
evil. and we think the proposed Commission
would be an improvement on our present sys-
TEN. Let us see what shape the bill may
assume before approving or condemning it.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29
THE WIDENING OF DOWNTOWN sTREEls'

70 the Editor Of The Tribtne' .u5
SIR An old subject has been ia'e! iS.i =. o.c..
by one or two OF the leading journals OF q
sionaly publishing articles in regard 20 .no the tO
downtown streets II THs TRIBUNE viii P9pSSb s tSs basnes.
lowing paragraphs IL would obhSe na ua ward What
men and property holders Of the secone ais The
cessy exists for widening the are transfer.
very time when most large wholesale % the case Of
ing their places of business northwaruh compel 500
the second Ward especially Futon-st Nh ,hns leaV.
TO 5000 business men to quit the sbored for
ing mart of the city IN which tney hant hasu nropery
years comparatively deserted Why pn heir prop
holders In that vicinity from selling or hsen pre-
erty as property holders in Church-st ns sYIendng
vented on account OF the inien9,eu, hs proy6
of that street Could not excellent rene, hs rsroad
ed for oyercrowded steets by comlens, ,sr we end Of
comnanies 10 Law circular tracks at the Stns do
park instead OF stopping fer apC o Se running
pot ont Of pubc Thoroughbred Would nov r.rry line
nart OF the BrookyR ferry boats OF the
~ the foot OF Chambersst, East River be vrS 81
es the engineers in surveying for the Ddge ~ Fulton
wards nearer to Chatham square from the 1901 River
AZ Rrooklyn, to the foot OF ChamOersst sons Of
than any other routei These are only eIoS lew would
the very many the writer OF tns igt be avoided
suggest But any enterprise (which nsal sslsrs IA much
Involving an outlay OF several millions OF uoNN
worth the examination demanded for u py oDa ward
MANY PROPERTY HOLDERS OF tne o00'-
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29
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New-York tribune., 1869-03-29
"wir pruben IN summer Nacht ihn Elm
Und der nation Lanterne Geiilmmer."

We know nothing of Gen. t., the unfortu-
nate warrior who fought, bled, and died as
above, but this does MT happen to be German
of the seventeenth century at all.
In the second place, there is q stanza in
Wolfe's poem which could MT possibly have re-
ferrcd to anything that happened in tho sew
enteenth century, at the siege Of Dantzic'
- "But half our heavy task was done
When the clock struck the hour OF retiring;
And we heard by tho distant and random gan,
That the foe was sulienly firing"
This was on allusOn to passage In Tho
Edinburgh Annual Register: "The interment
(" was hastened for about eight in the morning
Z" some firing was heard, and the officers feared
I" that if serious attack were made, they should
abe ordered away, aud not suffered to pay
their last duty"
In the third place, Wolfe says:
Lightly they'll talk OF the spirit that's gone,
And DER his cold ashes upbraid him"
This was In reference to the criticism which
had been freely lavished on Sir John Moore's
movements by his countrymen. Did Gen.
TOrstensen have the same dflcultyP
Lastly, it Ia not true that Wolfe never wrote
anything else of value. He did not write
much, for he died at the age of thirty, but he
left several beautiful songs-"0 say not that
"my heart is cold;' of l had thought thou
"couldst have died"-which, without its histori-
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

The time has been when the duty Of Grand
Juries was to discover criminals and indict
them. Now we find, however, that they are
expected, within the jurisdictions of Democratic
Judges, to discover and indCt people who tell
the truth. Not long ago our commission of that
offense against his Honor led New-York
Judge to call on his henchmen to find true
bill against us. Now comes the Grand Jury of
Atlanta, Georgia, directing its attention to our
Southern dispatches. We wish it JOY Of the
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

The petition of the Life Insurance Compa-
mics in favor of having the next census taken
throughout the United States in sin
gle day accords with views already urged
in these columns The difficulties are
undoubtedly great; but we still trust that
some method may be devised, if not for COM
pleting the work in one day, at least for
greatly reducing the allowance of time from
that now contemplated by the Census Com
mittep
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29
cal interest, have all che merit and manner Of

cal interest, have all the merit and manner Of
!" The MonOdy." ~ - y c-LC - AA-t
Ingenious gentlemen may think it very
pretty sport to strike at the fame of an unfor-
tunate young poet, who is dead and cannot
speak for HIMSELF For our own part, we deem
it rather heartless business. There is, we
believe, a volume of Wolfe's Remains" 1t
seems hardly worth while to attempt to
steal the laurels from the grave of hard
working Irish curate, and to bestow them upon
some suppositious German. %
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

The news that three more vessels have been
ordered to our West India squadron will be
welcomed by the Country. The rights of our
citizens nowhere else need protection now as
they do in Cuba. We hope to avoid cause of
quarrel with the Spaniards who are continuing
the vain struggle to put down an insurrection
in the name of Insurrection; but they must
know that it is equally important for them to
avoid cause of quarrel with us.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

The House Of Representatives has twice
passed bill granting the right Of way to the
Memphis, Ell Paso and Pacific Railroad Com
pany. We understand that this bill failed at
the late session, because the Chairman of the
Senate's Committee on Pacific Railroads insisted
on having the House bill referred to his Com
mittee, promising to report it promptly, and
then forgetting to do so. Now, the bill is again
in the Senate, and we ask that it be promptly
reported and acted on. If the provisions Of the
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

There is rumor that Gounod, pens s,,s
pomo IN feeble state of health. has resolved
the church. The rumor however comes from '.oa,
paper. and therefore needs corroboratlon .nsr 70,
may not be generally known, early in life dia '''N
the priesthood ,.,
The Court of Appeals at Naples itas, C.,soa ~
decided that tho marriage OF priests Of the a..
Church is legal This decision establishe sthe al
dependence OF the state in It's relations with the
and determines the position of priest In pteseDo
law 1t is hoped that the Ecumenicai Codncl .sa To-
to meet at Rome in December nex.. wiz confirm Nv
d0rso the decision.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29
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New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

The sudden and sweeping reversal of the
order concerning the relations of the Staff
Officers in the War Department to the General
of the Army, with which the accession OF Gen.
Sherman was recently signalized, is remarka-
Bile. What is its meaningf
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

bill are imperfect or defective, let it be properly
amended but we protest against It's peing
smothered Perhaps no Pacific Railroad can DE
built without Government subsidy but here
is Company which proposes to do just that
and we insist that it be afforded chance
Should it fail, there will still be time to sub
sidze a road but let us first see if we cannot
hove ono without
New-York tribune., 1869-03-29

What curious commentary on the worlds
progress is contained in this little item OF
news from Rome The Pope is organizing a
corps of shorthand reporters for the General
Council, and q Piedmontese ecclesiastic who.
before he entered the Church was official
stenographer to the Parliament of Turin, he's
been appointed chief reporter .f.