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long after, accepted patent in the customary
form, barterng principle for the four pearls
of his new order. ll
OF late years, whenever an exceptionally bold
stand has been made by the House of Lords,
reaction has been inevitable. 1t was 80 IN this
instance. Their point having been gained, the
peers had leisure to reflect upon the storm OF
Indignation they bad aroused, and one result
Of this reflection was the sudden admission Dy
that questionably nick named Rupert OF debate,
Lord Derby, that some sort OF reform certainty
was needed, and that in case OF any future
question arising between the proper means Oh
administering justice on one side, and the PRIV
ileges of the House ON the other, ne was 1or
waving the privileges. We do not find that
this tardy concession was received with the
derlsion it deserved. No advantage, however,
was taken of it. and for thirteen years the
whole question has slumbered. 1t is true that
suggestions have from time to time been made,
to the effect that the peers should transfer
their judicial powers to some more competent
and ready tribunal; but, like so many noble
dogs in an aristocratic manger, unwilling 10
fulfill their own duty or to allow others 10
perform it for them, they have rejected all such
ideas and nothing has come OF them. we are
pleased to see that Earl Russell has the pluck
to return to the charge once more. we shoulu
be better pleased if he had proposed to totally
deprive the lords of this particular function; but
although the political world does move in Eng
land, it moves slowly, and too much progress
cannot be expected at one step. But we may
hope that, this time the ancient precedents
will not be too strongly relied upon. 1t Is not
now a question of dead monarchs right in other
days to confer q dignity but of the living
peoples right at the present hour, to have
useful servant placed in the position where
they need him. Whether the House of Lords
will Just now accept this view is, as we have
said, extremely doubtful. There is a chance
that they may; and in that case, II Lord Der
by's gloomy propbesy should be fulfilled
though nobody probably expects such thing
less than he--tbere are at least few among
the great minds of England who could calmly
contemplate even that catastrophe.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

What curious book might be written on
the history of suIcdes The ingenuity of dis
torted minds in discovering strange modes of
death seems inexhaustible. An English car
penter few years ago turned his mechanical
skill to account in constructing guillotine for
his own decapitation. A New-York merchant
very recently hanged himself, and after put
ting on the moose adopted most ingenious
way of tying his hands between his legs so
that he could not release himself should his
heart fail him at the last moment Religious
mania has been known to drive men to self
crucifxion. The most horrible case of suicide,
however, that we remember, occurred few
days ago in London, where man emptied a
can of parafine oil over his person and then
set himself on fire. This, we believe, is as far
as anybody has yet gone.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

The final severance of Egypt's dependence
upon the Sublime Porte seems to be ques.
ton of but very little time. Practically the
autonomy of the country is already nearly
complete, and the purpose of the Egyptians to
assert their independence is so general that
there is little discussion except upon the best
method of doing it. There are some who favor
an immediate appeal to the European Powen
while others would quietly ignore the Sultans
authority and proceed upon the assumption
that their independence is already aeknovl'
edged. This would certainly be a pleasant war
of effecting great political revolution, yet who
knows that it might not succeedf The French
newspapers of Egypt, which are generally sup
posed to be subsidized by the VicerOy, con-
gratulate the country upon the increase OF the
Egyptian army, which will enable the Govern
ment "to wait upon events and perchanoe TO
"profit by them at an early period The con-
pletion of the Suez Canal, now close at hand
will bring to Egypt great increase OF CON-
mercial prosperity, and the Western Power
cannot remain Indifferent TO its political Goa
ditiOn,
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

Nothing could on the face of it, be more
reasonable than the suit of Mr.. Elihu Sperry
against the Erie Railway Company. He owns
preferred stock, has received no dividends, be-
lieves the Company has earned money enough
to pay them, and wants to know what has be-
come of it. If now Mr.. Sperry will retain a
brigade of lawyers and two or three courts,
and will set aside few hundred thousand dol
lars for the needful expenses of this search
after knowledge, we may hope to have some
revelations about Erie quite equal in interest
to those which Erie has given us about Union
Pacific,
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13
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D,, Tnr,TER Twenty between vSe Rpo,h Gai.
Dull -This Evening at a." Oihelo hL b :, Tba
"'o :, TepATrR.-This Evening at g. "0
:, ,d Rjns" Mr. and Mrs Barney Nhha%S uifth
,uTuAyF THEATER, Twenty-fonrtn .,s. ~ To,iee
. Th. Eseung at g." La Grahde Daches'e 'i Tu,en-
GRAND OPERA House. cor, Eighth-aVssi Mr. < L DsTsn-
tttbird-st This Evening al e. ipe i''
port and W. DSyidge 4, =. This Evening
:, ~ n,n,.Io ~ Athletic skill The Brothers
DsBsrR StickneT' etc - ,,.rino at s." The Forty
- hIBLo . stHias on IL Family Jars" L!dlA ino"I
Troupe EvaDinp at Is Tho
OLYMPIC 4IBt, Dumpty." Mr. g. L. Fol Mile S'nsN' wv
G., Tn,Nc1sco MINsTREIS, No. 80 broau""S-
- soAN n E ~ :. The Court Of Jusics' =,
THEATER CoMIQUE' No: 5li broau""S A"''
n,,ta-" Pato" MI W. H. Lins1'u o Ooo
Tgr.TRE FRANCAIs.-This Evening, az o'-OPeiS
aossa " La Vie PGnsienne o.,
THE TAMMANY.-Tammany Hall. Fourteenth-St-
This Evening at 7k-VSreueS =
WUIAcK's THEATER. - This Evening at s.
.. school1 Mr.. Lester Wallsck aud Miss khe Germoh
WAyERIEY THEATFR, No. 40 Broadway lhis
E,suine AT a" Ivanhoe" Ms. Eise Holt.
WOoD's MUSEUM, Broadway and Thirtieth-st;1..
This Afternoon at p" Aladdin This hvenng ~ FS1'' "
Italian Wife" Mss Marriott
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

Our johnson 1--WE may thus distinguish him
from our other Johnson, who didn't get ms
successor until yesterday has met his match.
Henry s. Foote has written letter
against him. Mr.. Foote has been doing
better of late than his antecedents would have
led anybody to expect-just as Mr.. johnson
has been doing worse-and we will
back the ex-senator from Missis-
sippi any day for capacity to write
just as many and as long letters as Mr. John
son can make speeches We wish the poor
distracted State of Tennessee joy of its acquiss
tions and fervently hope the fun may go on.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

for it Is more glorious to be the first than the
last of family. Thus in whatever light we
consider the subject, it will be seen that the
only method by which the laborer can be re-
leved from what he calls the pressure of capi-
tai, but which really is the weight Of his in
active self, is to acquire the habit of saving.
whether in cooperative or in an individual
capacity, that he may place himself upon the
side of capital and secure the advantages which
it brings more or less; and thus he will corre-
spond to society, which, as a unit, insists upon
the accumulation of reserve to be drawn upon
IN times of necessity.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13
language held concerning the Provisional Gov.

language held concerning the Provisional Gov.
ernments established by President johnson ia
very guarded, although it is open to
the inference that the Court agrees with
Congress in looking upon this act as
an usurpation of power. The present Govern.
ment of Texas is, however, fully recognized,
and the validity of the acts done by its
predecessor, the Government established by
johnson, as approved by it, is sanctioned.
The whole decision Qrom various points of
which Justices Swayne, Miller, and Grier dis
sent) deserves careful study, and is likely to
prove landmark in the settlement of consti-
tutional questions arising from the war.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

There is still much discussion as to the
amount of truth in the confession of the un.
fortunate wretch Twitchell, whose death is the
sensation of the hour. Mrs. Twitchell was ac.
quilted and her husband convicted. For one
purpose, however, the course pursued by the
condemned is valuable, however small the con.
fidence placed in his narrative. 1t shows how
ready man may be to add crime to crime,
merely to preserve miserable life, and how
little prepared, morally and religiously, those
who are executed must be for death, If there
be any such thing as judgment and expiaton
hereafter, as many of those who advocate
Capital Punishment sincerely believe. The
first thing which strikes the reader OF
Twitchelrs statement, even before its improb-
ability, is the dreadful degradation of hus.
band who can seek to save his own life by
destroying that of the wife of his bosom, or,
rather, by rendering her an object of such
public adherence that her life will not be
worth having. Upon the brow which he had
so often affectionately kissed he sought 10
stamp the indelible brand of parricide One
loving q wife as she should be loved would,
even if she were guilty, have gone down to
the grave with his lips sealed for her sake, and
the secret of her sin would have been buried
with him. We contemplate confession like
this with something like antique horror. We
regard as the Grecians or the Romans would have
regarded it, this deplorable lack of manliness.
We stand aghast at the pusillanimty which
could seek to shift this heavy burden to the
dropping shoulders of a weeping woman, and
that woman the wife of the confessor!
We haye asked attention to this case, be.
cause it proves the morbid intellectual condi-
ton into which a sentence of death must
plunge the convicted All moral responsibility
is at once discarded, and all moral strength
at once broken down. In view OF impending
doom state of mind analogous to insanity
ensues, and the wretched being finds it i'm
possible to contemplate his condition with
equanimity. He preserves but one animal in.
stipct--the desire of escape. He will say his
prayers and tell falsehoods in single breath.
and when he seems to be the most pious and
penitent, he would save his life If he could by
cursing God or by repeating his crime.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13
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New-York tribune., 1869-04-13
THE FIRE ExTINouIsHED IN THE Co'D -
MINE. .

SAN FRANcIsco, Cal. April l2.-l%
HIN Mines were uncovered to-day. and no
were observed Lights were sent down q" - .
almost Immediately By the foul sir. Ihe -.
eral OF the mines were set in operation S'd ,'r,s
water turned Oh. with the expectation o. eAp P,sp
.pcisonous atmosphere and absorbing lho ,a,s
tions have been made 20 remove tne 1ss" m,ne.
soon as AZ rs possible 10 entoI .IS0.,ow w tbe Y
SoyIy. ,oy descorded 10 point Coc feet oITs
~ the mines but the air extmI IniSled Nsh Nin noi
Immediately gave the signal 10 oisi , w A. rnarlr
to ascertain the damage to the luiues; I"t soE z .
low Jacket. Crown Point, ana henln,h ln,,stOn q -
vance OF Saturdays quotations, IN ah'io'P"
damage by tie Dire
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

Cannot the car-drivers on the Second-ave.
Railroad, who are striking for higher wages,
or fewer hours of labor, remember how un-
wise and disastrous any attempt heretofore by
discontented laborers to employ force to
prevent other men, who are willing to
work, from taking their vacant places has
always provedi Carry on your strike, if you
will, but don't put yourselves in the attitude
of law breakers. It's bad position from which
to operate for a redress of grievances.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

The Controller puts into the City Tax Lew
an appropriation of $4,000 for repairs to VCtlS
buildings. Now, if we remember that thsNh
applies only to the offices Of the Mayor Con-
troller, Street Commissioner, Corporation VS'l.
sci. and Croton Board, the District Courts~
the Markets-all the other public Offices ben
provided for in the County Levy-it will be Z"
dent that the sum demanded is preposter%
Perhaps third of it, at most is homes
needed.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

Chief-Justice Chase rendered yesterday, with
the concurrence of majority OF his Associates
in the Supreme Court, decision which VIII
challenge the widest attention. 1t involves
the verdict of the Court on the much-vexed
questions whether, after the acts of Seces-
sion and Rebellion. the Southern States were
or were not States in the Union, and whether
the existing governments in the unreconstructed
States are entitled to legal recognition; while
it intimately affects, without absolutely under
taking TO decide, the cOustitutionality of
the Reconstruction measures OF Congress. The
decision is marked by all the lucidity
OF thought and terseness of expression
characteristic OF its author. 1t says of the
constitutional clauses quoted against the doc
trine of Secession 4" 1t is difficult TO convey
"the idea Of iudisSoluble unity moro clearly
ethan by these words. What can be indissol-
"uble if perpetual Union made more per-
"fect is not ?" And it sums up the ar
gument on this point by declaring that
The Constitution, in al its provisions looks
I" to an indesructible Union composed of mde-
"structble States. :. :. The union between
Texas " and the other States was rs complete,
cas- perpetual and as indissouble rs the union
"place for reconsideration, or revocation, ex-
"cept through revolution, or through consent
"0f tho States Considered, therefore, rs trans
actions under the Constitution. the ordi-
"nance of Secession adopted by the Con-
" "venton and ratified by u majority of the
"citizens of Texas, and all the acts OF her
Legislature, intended to give effect to that
Ordinance, were absolutely null. They were
utterly without operation in law. The obll-
"gations of the State, rs member or the
"Union, and of every citizen OF the State, as
"o;tizcn of the United States, remained perfect
land unimpaired 1t necessarily follows that
"the State did not cease to bc State, nor her
"citizens to be citizens of the Union" But,
the decision continues, "All admit that during
"this condition of civil war the rights of the
Estate, MS a member, and of her people, as
"citizens of the Union. were suspended" Tho
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

Among the diplomatic nominations made
yesterday are those Of two colored men, Mr. ..
A. Hudson Of Iowa to be Minister Resident
in Guatemala and Mr. i. ID. Bassett OF
PENNSYLVANIA TO be Minister Resident in ltayh.
Tt is understood that Slr. Frederick Douglass
declined the latter position-the only reason
which could warrant the appointment Of any
other persOn of mis- race to it.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

The aqueous augmentation Of milk is nui-
sance and swindle which the good people OF
Massachusetts are by no means inclined to put
up with. If there is to be any watering of the
original fluid they prefer to have the extension
take place after the purchase. Some dealers
have highly innocent way of pleading their
own honesty, and of attributing the watering
to some person or persons in previous posses
sion. A new law has just been passed to meet
the case of these gentlemen. If they sell
watered milk they are to be fined, whether
they knew that the water was in il or not.
This seems rather hard upon injured innocence,
but injured innocence must be careful whom it
deals with, and have no transactions with
those who cannot tell pump from COW.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

The return of tue Internal Revenue nomina-
tions for this city to the Senate to-day, will at
least serve to show the value of the reports
lndustriously circulated by the Whisky Ring,
concerning the certain failure of some OF
them. 1t is announced that they are to go
back entirely unchanged; and as they have
already received the approval of the proper
Committee, we presume their confirmation is
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

1t ia announced that the Mexican Mis-
sion has been rendered to Gen. Sickles,
that he has declined it. and that lie
Is to be assigned to duty according to
his breyet rank in the command Of Louisiana
"a post for which his previous success in
South Carolina exempliled his fitness. Mr.
Sanford, present Minister to Belgium is to be
nominated to-day for Spain, and the rest of
the Diplomatic nominations are also expected.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13
RAILROAD ENTERPRISE IN LOUISIANA
DTroR DIFFICULTY 4

NEw-ORLEANs. April ia nlee','s 's,ro.a
directors Of the New-Orleans and JseSSo' ".t sap
held here to day The reports Of the q. III.
tendent, and Engineer all favor the ch'en' !, LOUIS
10 Decatur Representatives OF tie s'a', asiug -
and Mississippi were present the latter a the
sharos but IT is claimed by the Dlanage 10 yoe.
maj INA ,n"S ibn n"E1 Eec,iun Directors viii be neS e
DAY. Tho New. Orleans ana ops'' Vconiraci
Company has just coneiude" superior qS
YeSt.rdsS a quantity Of valuable dce9msd he Ag
ereG t' in the badns IN which Is !, ioGsIs GSsDsG ss9
olise portion Of which IL soOVo .s,5 y. no los
pons As lar as the case mas p'oh'
State has been discovered
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

The last elections in Hungary appear to have
been more favorable to the Government VI
Deak party than the first A Cable diSpa'cn
from Pesth claims for the Deak party q mayor
ity of one hundred, a statement whlch cannot
be harmOnized with the accounts IN our latest
European papers, according to which the Deak-
lists had majority of fifty, with only seven more
elections to hear from.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

From Paraguay it is reported that an expe-
dition of 1900 men will leave Asuncion in
search of Lopez, who seems to be determined
not to give up his resistance.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

We heartily second the suggestion that the
debates in the Senate on the treaty for the
Alabama claims should be public. We
believe one chief difficulty in the way
Of a proper settlement of the ques-
ton is to be found in the surprising ig-
norance of Great Britain concerning tho real
feelings of this country. The spectacle OF q
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

Senate containing scarcely q solitary meniooi
ready to uphold the treaty on which 'hey
have been lavishing their enthusiasm VIII
prove a valuable. popular educator Tor our
friends across the water.
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13

A jury of six whites and SIX TX. O,%s wSrs.
summoned at st, Paul to try negro TN D,,oous u
unanimous tog .scoul,saL tlie blacks u""H'"
yQtlon,
New-York tribune., 1869-04-13
TABLE or CONTENTS.
RrRsr PAGE.

v,psT PACE YIYTH PACE.
Washington Dispatches. Foreieh Ne"s'
I1haVv News The Drama.
srnc,,t,e Annointtpepts The Free Trade Question
nomestic rel Nsws Formidable r. X. Strike.
aYCOSD PAGE. The Sheriffs Fees.
IJuiversalisIn in America Local News.
the CourtS The State of Trade.
General Notes Marriages, Deaths, ana
Book Advertisements. FUNERALS.
Money Market speelal NOlces.
Markets. hlAih fAuE'
THIRD PAGE Real Estate.
shin News Real Estate Advments.
Advertisements. SEVENTH FAYE
FOURTH PAGE. AdVcruselnehts
The Diplomatic NOmina- EIGHTH rAGs,
tons. SaH Stato oo0ouo'
80 Peeraoea in Great Home News.
p,5taJn Photographic Swindler.
stseen,no and scTubbing Latest Ship News.
Editorial Paragraphs. AdVeIusetnenus'
Notices.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-05-25

street. Ten or twelve workmen we're stand.
ing by the engine house but miraeulously
escaped injury. One man-Pat McKinseT
was on the top ola column on level with
and nearly touching the top Of the Rasome.
ter. He was not blown off By the explosion,
though his clothes we're all burned of and
his entire body was crsped so as to cause
his death in three hours. Dick and Paul
Sheridan were driving lumber carts near The
scene and they and their horses were severe.
y burned. The men will recover, bur the
horses will probably die. A man named
Charles Kelley walking by on the opposite
side the street WAS badly burned. The
foliage on trees four hundred feet distant
was scorched. The ueighboriug holders
were injured by the conclusion, SO badly as
TO leak.
The report was heard at great distance,
Great crowds Of people went to witness the
scene and much excitement still prevails.
The loss to the Gas Company will be So.
900 RumoTs are adoat that much more
injury has been suffered.
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