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New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

of elepLant and that he has suffered as well as
the rest of lis. We cannot forbear rejecting
that slrewd. worldly-wse men like Jacob
Thompson might have done oetter thah EN-
ployed Slavery as a battering-ram against the
pillars of the Union, at the cost OF hundreds Oh
thousands of lives, worth more than that deadly
institution which men of his kind INSISTED upon
unfolding or themselves perishing. Mr.. Ihomp-
son has even been suspected in the matter oI
burning steamboats, and IN he uuO'-
GUS scandal Of promoting the smal-poA
as an element in the purhcatoh anu
salvation of peoples. But we hide these ana
other shades of his reputation in our general
commiseratiOn of the fact that he has SUI
fered much, and our melancholy pleasure that
be-an old man, little more serious thilh
wont, more humbled before the general Provi-
dence which dspOses of men and nations
more kindly in spirit as to the patriotic
nrobem which he once contemplated only In
| bitterness of soul--has come among US once
more.
We take it to be no unmeaning sentiment
when man of Jacob ThOmpson'S ylcIsSltudes
cOnfesses to his ultimate and impershaDle love
of country. We would rather not entertain
such thought as that any possible oppor-
| tunitv would start the old agent of the Re
bellion ND again into what Union people have
been used to calling treason. lie cheerfully
| ayoys that in the late war =" the power Oh
" arms decided that we should remain one
" people now and forever" and that it was the
common duty of his fellOw-citizens to meet
" the actualities of life with a brave, cheerful
and manly heart, submitting to the lheVita-
"blen He thinks that great destiny awaits
| the people of America, "and we must con-
" tribute our part in working it out" More
over, we feel obliged to Mr.. Thompson for
saying so well that, though he had gone to the
tombs of the mightiest peoples, and though
he learned many valuable lessons, still deep
melancholy followed him and weighed down
his spirits He could never forget that he was
| an American, could never help repeating the
paraphrased expression of the poet" America
" with all thy faults, love thee still lie was
never tempted to change his nationality; for'
whatever he had suffered in it, he thought his
own country the best in the world. 30 has
! thought many a Briton after war; and many
! Gaul in exile but we especially thank such
man as Jacob Thompson for these concessions.
Yes, Mr. Thompson, and so do we all think
this country of ours the best on the planet
the best to earn in. to spend in, to work in, to
| scheme in, to live in, to die in-the best in the
world for Southerners and NOrtherners, Tor
Lee and for Grant, for Stephens and Sumner,
! for Jacob Thompson and Frederick Douglass.
! And with all your faults, Jacob Thompson, we
| shall do our best to love you and yours-to give
you the heartiest hand we may if you care
to give you the greeting of plow and sapde, OF
labor and liberty-trnsting that in right time
all things will be made quite whole again, II one
ANA all of us shall have quite learned to accept
the situation manfully, and go to work with a
| will.
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THE DANISH CLAIM.

To the Editor Of Ths Tribune.
SIR: 1 thank you for publishing my note OF
yesterday Touching your remarks thereupon, ask per-
mission 10 say that do not claim that Mr Seward was
authorized by the Constitution TO purchase tho Danish
West India islands and TO pledge the credit OF the nation
for the payment OF the same; but do claim chat his
action confirmed by competent authority, in spirit
not in FORM in this that when the Danish Commissioner
at Washington in December, 1861 dust before the
vote taken tho slands), for the avowed purpose
Of ascertainng, far possible the feeling" of the
Senate on the question, ne received great deal Oh
announcement from individual members OF the Senate
and Its Foreign Committee, While not voice rased
either by the peoples representative or the press against
the eXpedIency OF the purchase. The objections which
have since been raised not OF force then than
they are and II they had been presented the
proper time, wOUd have afforded Denmark an oppOrtu
nifty OF Withdrawing before she had compromised herself
before her West India subjects. After the cement
the Commissioner received do not see how the United
States without serious discredit 10 themselves
leave Denmark in her present humliatiug position.
AT aHy rate the treaty ought 20 be taken up discussed
aud acted upon at the first opportunity, and not be et
dead letter, unworthy OF any notice whichever. do
you not agree with me, at least, IN tAs Very truly aud
respectfully, Z. Il. CHRISTENSEN.
No. l25 Fionts., May Is, 1869.
[Yes, Mr.. c., we do agree with you TO just
that extent, and no further. AS to your notion
that the s7,OOOOOO ought to be paid, because
certain individual members of Congress spoke
fayorably of it, or were understood to do so,
and that the journals (you say did not object
to it, we cannot see it-Ed.l
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19
JfCOB THOMPSON.

The day should have been sad but auspicious
when that old man, Jacob Thompson, returned
TO his home in Mississippi, not long ago. Wind
and wave Of the stormest politics we have ever
known had washed him away from his moor
ings; years spent in iron hearted cOnnyance as
to the best means Of putting the iron into our
souls had separated him from the tendcrest asso-
Citations Of planters life; wanderings to and
fro in the earth seeking what ho might devour
of loyalty and patriotism had made him a
sadder and slower man; and mt last he wcarily
returned to the friends of his youth. There
is something touching and even tragic, as
Mr.. Carlyle would say, in this return Of
Jacob Thompson. Like Mr.. Rogerss old
man, he had been long wandering, here and
there, +" in quest of sOmethlng-sOmethiug
I" he could not fnd-he knew not what"
Perhaps it was the Union of our Fathers.
He may have come to deposit his bones in
the land of his ancestors, and among the scenes
of his childhood, as some of his cotempornres
have done. The old man." says tho solemn
Mr.. Toodles, "went to his grave, and--he died
There" 1t is not tho fashion with our clever
old men to go to their graves and stay there,
though the national flag is always provi-
dcd for waving over them in case of
emergency. But We think of all old
men when we think of that old man
Jacob Thompson come again. Here ia this
venerable man, grayer and coonier than ever
come to revisit those sepulchal institutions of
his birth from which his departure was like
kind OF resurrecti0n--com to talk to his neigh
bors, the Misssspans, and TO be once more
familiarly 'called Jake by the vulgar, and it
may be Old Jake. We repeat, there is some
thing touching and even tragic in this. His
ghost, if need be, must be laid and not vexed,
but we dare say there is life in the cid man
yet .u i#
Jacob Thompson is not the man to take odds
of us on the side Of sympathy. lie would not
thank us for our pity he would take no sub
scripdon Of us in grieving over his lamentablo
past; he would mako no acknowledgement of
the expense of our sensibilitos in welcoming,
with more q. less depth of good nature, the
return of such willfUl and mischievous prodi-
gal OF other peoples property rs himself,
Still, Ve Fnty Leeob Thompson. We can
not help remembering that, in trying TO
steal great many States out Of the
ugiOa. he Kat hold VI tbe rahidcet klnd
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19
9mnsrmmis. &t.

APOLLO HALL, cor Broadway and IwentiethSV'-
Cuban Relief Fair.
BRooI,LYN ACADEMY OF MUsIC.-This Evening AZ
I-Grsud Opera; "Lurliue." Grand Ballet ,.e,
BooTH's THEATER Twenty -thirdst between d MN
,pJ STayes-Ths Eyeung g." Obelo hr Edwin Boom a.
LgO. , r,;f.,.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. Seventh-ave: and fltty-
nluth-st--This Eveuiug At &-Gnud Conce'" in'0' i
Mr. j. Lew ,r.,,
Firm AVE. THFATFR Twenty-fourth-st. and flith.
,vs Ti, Afternoon end this Evening at 8"lle Hemrs Bell
Nile.
FRENcn THEATER, Fourteenth-st.-This Evening
Al BeuelLI secret Inc llsA 4"o"
Centunan from Ireland, &C.
tbrds-Day and Eyeuiug-C oacert and Veocpede Race
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cor. Eighth-aye. and Twen-
tyhrls-Tbis Evening at &"Ihe Tempest Mt W. ba'uFe'
IRVING Hall. Fourteeuth-St.-This Evening at s.
Testimonial BENEFIT to Mr. ". J. hoich
N,rIONAI ACADEMY OF DESIGN corner Of Twenty
tbifdst and Fourth ave-F0rty.forrb Annual Exhibition
Ntw-YoRK CIRCUS, Fomteenth-st.-IhisA Afternoon
Evening at R,seys Original japanese troupe Al
NuHo's GARDEN-This Afternoon at IA Inc
8-.'The Fo.ty Thieves striking OH in Family Jars L'"''
TLonpsplls BITeslu Troupe go,
OLYMPIC THEATER. This Evening at 81 So me
New Pauomme "Iiieeory Decory Dock" Mr. g. L. FOL- '' ~
Esh. etc
SAN FRANCIsCo MINsTREIs No. 5S5 Broadway
This Eyeuiue a g. The Court Of Justice"
TUEATI,R CONuouE. No. 5l4 Broadway-Ims Even
ing at g." Pluto" Mr. W. H. Lugard
THF TANfNANY.-Tammany Hall tonrteenIn-SSt,- ST.
Th, Eyerr NJ yaretes Rzarel Brothers Robinson OIu'O'
lud bis Sian Fiiag" no 81
WnLACK's THEATER--This Evening at S.-"CaSte."
Miss Ehe Sermon ~,
W,y1.gIEy TuEATER. No. 72O Broadway. - This
RvenBg atg.-Gre8t Lonaou Aureslue Oom''H"''u
yoou.S MUSEUM Broadway and Thirtleth-st -
Tb. Anco and this EeuHg Al. 8BuFesque aod rAnO""
Robinson trlsur'
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

What we have from time to time had to say
of gross mismanagement in our army and
navy ordnance affairs has affected in the
main other parties rather than the present
head OF the Ordnance Bureau in the
War Department. This gentleman, we
see, has been acquitted by the Military Court
before which an investigation of his conduct
has for some months been dragging
its slow length along Other official
proceedings, however, quite as well entitled
to influence careful Judgment as those
of this Court, make it perfectly clear that
grave wrong-doing does exist and has existed
in our ordnance management. Some of It has
been brought to light; there is too much
reason to fear that more yet remains latent
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Chicago, always modest and retiring, but not
to be run over, at last plucks up courage to
assert herself OH the Woman's Rights question.
President Stanton is tartly informed by the
Chicago organ that the tendency of her de-
cision against Mr.. Foster was fatal error.
Orator and Editor Anthony gets the
information from the genuine Womans
Rights paper that her bandying charges of
falsehood on the platform of the Convention
made the scene like those Of Tammany Hall,
and dishonorcd the cause. These mt least we
take to be the precise points aimed at, though
The Womdn'S AdrOcdte, albeit fierce enough in
its general denunciations, displays tender
ness that makes it chary Of naming
names. Meanwhile another response to the
droll doings in Stcinway Hall comes TO us
from Chicago. The women here have sub
stantially put Douglass, Burleigh, Foster, and
other msChievOus men out of their Organza-
ton. A Chicago Christian Association promptly
makes answer No women, it sterny resolves,
shall be admitted TO its membership.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

as first instalment of their claim Of SSOO,OOo
for services which, at the time, they insisted on
rendering gratuitously.
We could go on aud specify other swindles,
but these will do as specimen bricks. Wo
think our true friends in the Assembly erred
in allowing these bills to pass as they came
from the Conference Committees But they knew
that they were pOwerless in their own body,
and therefore allowed them to go to the Sem
ate Had they known that Messrs. Williams
and Van Petten would join the recreant Mat
toon, and would seek to shield themselves by
reference to the course of the Assembly, they
would surely have acted otherwise. Gov. Hoif-
man promptly, and Of course, signed the biila
which the detection of these Republican Sena-
tors sent to him. Ii only remains for us to
nav the two million and odd hundreds OF
thousands additional taxes thus imposed upon
us. aud to hope that 0swego and Madison,
Herkimer and Otsego, Cayuga and Wayne, VIII
give us another year men whose votes VIII
need no explanation and raise no Suspicion
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

Brigham Young breaks ground for the little
branch road that is to run southerly from the
Pacific Railway to Salt Lake City as bayey
rs if it were not sealing the fate of his pecu-
liar community. There have not been wanting
hot heads who sought to have the Government
settle the Mormon problem by war, but tho
authorities have wisely seen that passenger
cars were better than battles. When the flood
of railway travel across the continent is once
fairly poured into the SaltILake basin, whatever
dangers the isolated Mormon community may
have threatened are at an end.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

Mr.. Boutwell, will have to pay to-day the
highest price ever paid in Wall-st. for Govern
ment bonds. If he had bought last week
with the Gold then and now lying idle
in the Treasury-the million of bonds that
he then intended to buy to-day he would have
saved to the Government thirty thousand dol
lars, besides the stoppage of interest. The
Gold he has to sell will also bring HIM
more, and we hope lie may be per
suaded to profit by the fact. Let the
Gold-gambers push up the premium as high
as they please-and let him take advantage oil
1T Give them plenty of Gold, at yesterdays
nrepostcrous figures Make the premium for
the Government while you can
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

st. Louis reports the receipt of an invoice
of teas, only thirty days from Yokohama
This begins to bring the realities OF the
Pacific Railway before us. What changes II
may make in the currents of our trade
and in what near future, the public
even yet has scarcely begun to real
ize. The directors of the Pacific Railroad have
it in their power greatly to hasten and stlmu-
late the business that is sure to pour over their
line, or to repel it in such manner as greatly
to retard their own prosperity. What they
need is to show shippers that their
road is now and is to be kept in con-
dition for the safe and prompt transac-
action of all business that may offer. Do this,
and point of vanta ge will be gained, from
which the litigation of enemies may be re-
garded with equable and serene philosophy.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

We presume that the Directors O., the Atlantic
Telegraph Company will find the new reduc-
tion of tolls profitable, just as the previous re-
ductons have been. The minimum charge for
"a message of ten word or less is now $40 So !;
under the revised tariff which goes into effect
on the 1st of June, it / be $40. The aver
age charge per word long messages will DO
reduced from 81 6S { 81 and the charge on
press messages will b only so cents per word.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

What is tlle matter now9 While Gov Ho1f.
man is urging all good Democrats in the State
Of New-York to buy The World in preference
to The Democrat, The Express, or any other Of
tba Marty nauers. the Democratic members of
the Legislature unite in card indorsing The
Albanu Arqus as "entitled to be considered
" the organ of the Democratic party" and
making some very ugly reflections upon jour-
nals which represent personal caDnces' are
controlled by pecuniary Influences take
"important steps without consultation" and
"malle those mistakes and bunders which, in
great political actions amount 10 party crimes"
They recommend a liberal support of The Argus
os esnecially necessary "while false lights are
"seeking to allure in the interest OF the
"enemy an allusiOn Of whose meaning there
can be no mistake. This, OF course, is none Oh
oul funeral, and we don't know that we nave
a personal preference for any one OF the hungry
editors who are now camOring for the party
provender; but the opinion of disinterested
observer of such family row may be worth
having. and we have therefore no hesitation IN
offering our advice. BY all means let
the standard be placed in the keep
ing of the man who has made tho
least noise in asserting his own claims. Our
friend Brick POmeroy has kept out oil the
scramble, aud it is fair to presume, therefore
that he makes enough to live upon without
fighting for the bones from the rich mems
tables. He is a sound Democrat, who certainly
does not lack courage, and fulfills the condl-
tions which the Senators and Assemblymen
tersely but ungrammatcally demand of party
leader, viz, that he shall be Zone who has
"never weakened nor faltered in times Of
"party danger or disaster" The Argus may
be all very well, bat it is only a country paper
The World, of course, has hOpelessly lost its
position. and cannot be trusted The Erpres
is too crotchety on the subject Of shins and
facial angles. But Brick POmeroy's Democrat
is just the thing. Why can't somebody get up
a recommendation for Pomeroyf
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

every holder of Five-Twenty that shall nave
run five years to exchange 1t Tor CollSoiS VI
take the coin it calls for This is the true way
to reduce the public burdens; and, VIII an
ample revenue and constant reduction In tne
volume of our boaded Debt, iS success eau
not be doubtful nor distant.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

It is not yet made plain to us that the pa
friot Cubans actually hold the vast extent Of
territory reported in their favor by their latest
intelligence The sum Of $4,000 is given as
The total Of their belligerent organization on
,Ie 2sth Of February last, and the assertion is
highly plausible that they still possess numbers
and arms sufficient TO carry on a deadly and
gomewhat protracted debate with their oppres-
sors. The last report from Havana is that
{Le CuDans have burned three more Villages.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

In letter from Alba +, yesterday, the name Of
Judge w. w. Campb, of Otsego County was
placed among those who lyored the Junction Canal
swindle, lately before the Legislature. Our core-
spondent copied tins list from the Assembly journal
and either that or the telegraph is responsible for
the blunder, for such it is, Judge Campbell was
of the most persistent aud unanching opponents
Of that BILL and tried his best TO defeat it.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

SignOr GiOiza is to give musical perform
Thursday evening at the Union League Club.
All the performers will be amateurs aud the programme
win include, beside mscel aueOus vocal and nstru.
mental music. one net of Vacoas " Romeo o Giue,ta'
Miss Dora Harris, sister Of the we'll known
American prma donna, Ia ~ appear IN concert Thurs
day evening 40 StenWay Hall. Madame Tests, Mr.. Pat
tson Mr. kopta and several other artists togother with
d.. kAeulass orchestra, VIA aSslst hek,
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

Whatever may be Judge Cardozos lau,'s'
getting frightened easily in the course OF his
judicial work is not one of them. We take 1t
that the silly performance of sending him
threatening letters, about the case of the young
women of bad repute whom he keeps shut up
in the TombS, will not swerye him hairs
breadth from what seems to be the plain line
of his duty.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

The story of more fighting with the Indians
on the frontier is discouraging. The dispatch
does not show that the savages were
the aggressors, although we have had ru-
mors that the Chcyennes were again about
to take the war-path. We have great fears
that the men of the sword will be ahead OF
the Qualers in settling the terms of our inter
cOurse for the Summer with these Indians.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

We print on the sixth page the interesting
letters purporting to have been written Oy
Calico and John Milton to Louis the UreaV Vi
France, lately laid before the FIench lnSti'uVe'
and now the subject of lively discussion III
English literary journals.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19

We admit their capacity for any desperate self
sacrifice of this description but as the news
reaches us through channels of notorious false
hood, we refuse it present belief.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-19
TABLE or CONTENTS.
Fln.r PAGE.

Vrpsr PAGE Political
Washington Dispatches Hymn OF Peace.
Foreign News The Fight Among the
Which is the Organ' WOmau's Rights People
Outdoor sports. To Correspondents.
Domestic Tel News The state Of Trade.
SECOND PACE. Marriages Deaths, and
Money Market Funerals.
Markets. Special Notices.
Advertisements. SIXTH PAGE.
THIRD PACE. A Literary Discovery
Shin News. Book Advertisements.
Advert isrmeuts Real Estate.
FOURTH PAGE. Real Estate Ady'ments.
Finance No Mystery. SEVENTH PAGE.
A Turn Oi the Nhgllgg. Advertisements
Jacob Thompson. EIGHTH PACE.
The Tax icycs as they Home News
Passed. Another Robbery by the
Editorial Paragraphs. Cart Thieves
Business Notices. Recovery Of Stolen Prop
FIFTu PAGE ertY.
The Drama Mercantile Library As5O
Letters 10 the Editor. catiOn.
The Ilarfs Island. The Courts.
The OrphcOnlst Festival Latest Ship News.
Local News. Advertisements
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-05-28

Il a arFs
We were gratifed to learn the result Of the
silt of Henry stonebrakersrs Stonebraker, Hef-
man and Others, in favor of the complainant,
Henry Stonebraker, the inventor Of Stonebraker' $
celebrated medicines This suit was continued
for nearly two years, during which time Messrs.
Clotworthy L Co., made and sold medicines de-
clared to be the original Stonebraker medicines,
using the certificates given to Henry Stonebra-
ker.
The case came up for final hearing before
Judge Pinkney of the circuit court Of Baltimore,
who decided the case in favor of Henry Stone
braker, and entered decree forever enjoining and
restraining the defendants and their agents from
manufacturing and selling any medicines under
the name and title of the medicines of Henry
Stonebraker, and that they account to Henry
Stonebraker for all medicines and preparations,
manufactured and sold by them since December
10th 1866 and put forth as the genuine Stone
braker medicines t "a r.
Thus has wrong found its just verdict and right
triumphed. We trust that Mr.. H .Stonebraker,
unimpeded by those who would have stripped
him of the reward of his labors, may reap that
benefit from his valuable preparations which he
SO justly merits. 3l .s't