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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11
THIS FALL.

An eccentric individual recently suggested
that it might, perhaps, be advisable TO hold an
election in our City next November. The
novelty of the idea insured it an attention not
dependent on its intrinsic merit; hence it has
been canvassed in sundry wayside groups and
casual gatherings, and in some Of them has
| been regarded with favor.
All understand that what are called elections
have in this City for years been very expen-
sive and very transparent farces. More or less
people have voted; but their votes had little
to do with the declared result of the poll.
In 1866 the managers calculated that Sixty
Thousand majority in this City and its suburbs
would lay out Gov. FentOn and install HOf-
man in his stead: they returned the Sixty
Thousand accordingly; yet the rural districts
not merely, but Albany, Troy, Syracuse, Roches-
ter, Buffalo and all the inland cities, had gone
so strongly for FentOn that their calculation
slipped up and their man was defeated Not
to be cheated so again, they raised their ma
jorities in the City and its suburbs to more
than Eighty Thousand last Fall and then-to
make assurance doubly sure-drected their
country cousins to telegraph from every sec
ton to Tammany Hall Immediately on the
ClOS6 VI pOllSt WIJuOuI waiting lot any
votes to be counted, about how the thing
stood so that, by holding back the count here,
they might add Ten or Fifteen Thousand to
their majority in case it should be needed.
They took all the chances, aud won. One of
their most active and serviceable instruments
has epitomized their philosophy in the axiom
"In contested election, good counting is the
"main point"
Every Fall, Primary Meetings are held by
either party, Conventions assembled, and nom
nations duly made and next mornings papers
gravely announce that, at the convention held
last evening at Tammany Hall, so and so were
after an animated cOntest-presented as the
regular Democratic candidates to be supported
at the ensuing election ; and all the time every
one who knows anything knows that these
candidates had been nominated and virtually
elected long before, and that they owed their
good fortune, not to the voters, nor yet to the
Convention, but to the magnate who oiled and
run the machine, so completely that it is sub
stantial truth to say that the Democratic party
of the City of NewYork has spent the Sum-
mer in Europe, and has just returned re-
freshed and reinvigorated to open the Fall cam
paign.
Several dynasties have succeeded each other
in the government of our City through Tam
many Hall. 1t is hardly dozen years since
William d. Kennedy was "bg Indian :" then
Fernando Wood seemed for a time to stand
on the slippery steep then Boole was for
spell the figure head, and perhaps Gas he
fancied himselD the handspring but for the
last five or six years, the power has been
welded by Charles G.. Cornell, William NJ
Tweed and Peter b. Sweeney, of whom the
first has gradually fallen to the rear and the
last drawn to the 'front.' until the multitude
recognize but Tweed and Sweeney and of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11
Getu'alork Daily gribmtrt,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Ii, 1869.

NAPOLEON yesterday visited Paris, aud. according 10
official papers has quite recovered insomuch that MS
Empress will probably go East The Egyruah NlcerOy
has yielded all points except as TO budget Ioahs anu
the European Powers are endeayJring to restrain
the Sultan from making extreme demands. IL Is
denied that negotiations in progress FOR the union
OF Baden and Bavaria with North Germany. The Per
sian boundary question settled In Holland the Sats
teal Congress has opened; and in NewZealand re-
belion is on the increase attempt to assassinae
ex.Minister HOLSTER has been made In Hayt-
Telegraphs from several OF the Spanish commanders
are to the effect that negroes and Cinnamon in large
numbers are joining the Cuban insurgents Ihlrteeh
Cubans Fernando Pc have arrived at queenstown
The London papers varOusy comment on the supposed
threat of recognition and project for the purchase OF
Cuba by the United States Letters from Panama snow
that the FAN predictions of extraordinary earthquake
have not been fulfilled great business decline has
taken place IN the Isthmus.
The statement Of the expenses Of the Government Tor
the past year shows decrease Of $5OoO0OO compared
with the previous year. locomotive has expioded on
the Erie Railway Port Jervs and killed four men,
Eighteen vessels have been wrecked in Dutch Island
harbor New-Mexico has elected Republican delegate
10 Congress BY the premature falling of an old build
inx in Newton N j. four men were buried in the RUNS
planter at Napoleon, Ark, has been shot ana Keu III
the presence of his family.
fire at Canal and Centersts, last night. destroyed
three buildings loss sl5OOOO The Brooklyn Bridge Com
issoners promise TO go immediately with the work
The alleged diamond thief is held for examination There
WAS some very indifferent racing at the Westminster
County Fair yesterday but the Fair itself is success
Subscriptions to the Rawns fund now amount to s3SOO
Ladies are. very properly to attend the Humboldt ban
0uet Chancellor Zabriske has decided concerning the
Communpaw Abattor that they must 2ot Keep hogs Tor
more than hours. Cold 1885, 1853, 1854 TemPera-
u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11
Smnstmtuis. et.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE NATIONAL EXHIBITION
This Dsy Evening Az the Empire City skating kiuk
Booru's THRATRR Twenty-third-st between Flith
,nd Afternoon at 2 and Evening at - KIP "
WiBke" Joseph Jefferson .
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. Seventh-aye and rI't
siptb-st--Ths Evening at S-Grand Concert Tbeo' i"
Lew. Two orcbestrsE ,,.,,
FIFTH-AvE THEATER Twenty fourth-sL ana blyso
sve.-Ibis Afternoon and Evening at a. Dreams ' "
port. Mrs. Clara Jennings
GRAND OPERA House. cor Eighth-ave' anu W. Hes
rthut.i This Afternoon at 2. aud h'sHHa a. o. " " ~
Luclle NesterD -, -.
NIBLOs DRN.--This Afternoon atZ' ahuI- 'oii'e
std Formosa; or The Railroad to RH'H'
n, $50, IT,, ,rvp-Tbis Afternoon at 2, and Even
pg At incl. Toms Cabin" Mrs g. G. Howard !" L. F"h
SAN FR,xc1sco MINsTRELs.-This Evenng'-MiS-
oelaneous performances , -, = I,,,o,,
TuEATRF FRANCAIs.-Fourteenth- st-lhis ER s,
Enrl,sb Oners The Purtsus Daughter NINE r''ep
The TAMNANY-Tammany Hall, FQnrteen ~, u
1b, Afternoon and Evening al 8The Queen oil heAf''' "
WALLAcKs THEATER-Ilis Afternoon az t ZJ indian
10, Bepsst ets Evening at g." Scion Shing'e AHu INV ~
John X Ovens r,..,..t -.
WooDs MUSEUM, Broadway and Ihlrtlet .n-S.I,
o. S.Is from Q M 20 10 D. Two dsmane |
At9 Pearl Of savoy" Ats " hasanieHo. Nnans @ -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

The kilograms of the Spanish generals, which
have so often appeared in our special Havana
letters, may have excited the wonder of the
Captain General as to how we came by them
but we have no doubt as to their substantial
accuracy in translation. The testimony OF
Gems. LetOna, Lesca, Pueblo, Pelaez, and Others
to the failure of the Spanish power. has
been heard and now we have number
of significant dispatches from the Governor of
Trinidad and several other commanders. One
of them cannot content himself without re-
enforcement of 1000 men, which it is not pos
sible for him to receive. Another reports an
accession of nearly 1000 Cinnamon and negroes
to the insurgents. This looks as if the sandy
foundations of Spanish power in the island
were quito giving way. Perhaps the most
miserable sign of its decadence and insanity is
the scheme just reported, whereby the negro
traders of Cuba count upon the restoration OF
Slavery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

There must be method in the Emperor
i'll health, or, to use a milder EXPRESSION III
his varying recovery. Yesterday he was we'll
but still sick too day he is restored, but yet
an invalid. The actual terms OF the oihciai
news by Cable are that the Emperor has
completely recovered from his indispostion :
but the Opinion National of the same date
fears an early return of his majesty's weakness
(ofdibliSsemenn. Yesterday he visited the
Boulevards, but only to return to ST. Cloud
In short, the Emperor's sickness or health
varies like a barometer or the market. lie
NAV be well, but at all events it is of some
inheritance now to seem well. The demand OF
one of the Paris papers that the Emperor
shall give effect to the Senatus COnsultum, and
leave to France a settled constitution IN the
event of his final indispostion, does not inspire
an unquestoning faith in the official health
bulletins. "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11
In "a, U Sl1t,h In Enala,d
Total.

The argument, Of course, is that the British
wages, though nom nally inferior, will give the
laborer better support and more comforts than
the nOminally higher wages paid in this country
Now we oppose to this untruth fact of uni
versal notoriety-that these well paid and we'll
fed British workmen are running away to The
low wages and poor fare of this country as
fast as they can get away. Free Trade figures
cannot override the statistics of immigration
on this point. One in hundred of the work
ingmen who come to this country may return /;
but these are generally such as cannot get on
anywhere, but have to be taken in and done
for by relatives and friends. No American
born thinks of going to Great Britain to earn
the wages of an ordinary mechanic or artisan,
any more than he thinks of entering the poor
house to secure the luxuries of frst-cliss
hotel.
If, now. it is true that the water at the foot
Of Niagara Falls is two hundred feet higher
than that just above the Falls and that this is
the cause of the renowned cataract, then 1t is
true that British workmen are better paid than
ours; for the evidence in the two cases is sub
stantially identical
In the British manufacturing districts, not
only are those workmen coming to this country
who can pay their own passage, but in many
cases those who remain are clubbing their
scanty means, and employing them to send over
favored persons from among their number, so
as to enable as many as possible to enjoy the
blessings of this home and goal of the indus
trious poor.
Now contrast the above table of false prices
with statement OF real prices of British
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11
Labor, as we find them embodied IN an edito-
rial of the Free Trade Ner- YORK Times:

nTbere are at this moment, $4,000 men, women, ana
children, starving in two Engsh ,ho Il
heeu reduced TO want by a strike among the
Thev sav that a GOOD steady workman can ony earn
twelve slincs week-say four ana hail uoliars, cur
rency-and that out OF TINS ilsuo t"n, Tor the
ged to nav 'bis share OF smitnyre luei loI '
hlasf ana the cost OF conveyance TO the warehouse SO
that the remainder is insnn'cient LOT pau MAJ AZ
tenance.' II appears tm,'' ~ dDrae Of suffering
exists The thoughts OF the sufferers natuIaily
turn toward emigration as their only MEANS vi
relief; and wemay ancipa.es ,h nert two months
This is the class which England Is least disposed 70 ose
but what is She TO do, since she cannot aiiotd poo
for themi They come out here ana ddtTtSe tn $1,000
home so IN sneak They send letters 10 their Iriehu
describing the Improvement which they nave naeo ~
their ot and these letters are shown about III every ow
or Wills where the writers known ms Keeps INC
channel ever omen American has been lecturing III
England ON the advantages of emigrang 10 the
States But the working classes over mere ee o tbr
from that direction. They where they near taC t
compauioDs have already succeeded Ii VIII rake ai1
Lectures IN divert the current OF emigration Irom wv
York. and onward 10 lhe " est WHICH 10 s0' wy or
yet by the hand OF man.
These letters you see, from British ar
tisans and laborers, who have come over here
and gone to work, are what do the business
Then know-do MT they 9-whether their Blush
or tbe,r American wages afford them the fairer
livelihood, and they write to their old shop mates
accordingly. They don't pretend to be very
deeply read in Adam Smith or Stuart Mil (;
but they know where they couldn't afford
butter TO their bread, and where they can az
ford if, lust as well as any lecturer on Pollti-
cal Economy. Suppose you try to make them
send over such comparisons OF wages as that
paraded by The World, and let us see how you
get Oh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

We rejoice to see that the Com missioner Vi
Internal Revenue has refused to compromise
with Mr. David Gibson of Cincinnati VINO Is
charged with completely in the notorious mobile
whisky frauds 1t is reported to us that Mr..
Gibson offered to pay the Government s'o'VV0
TO close the case. Such an oner, IL maui
would seem to be confession OF guilt ii thiS
be SO, we know of no one who would be a
more proper subject for the making OF tit and
stern example than Mr. David Gibson. Let the
Government commence with the respectable
whisky-dealng rascals; we have had enough
of patering with the small fry and the disrep-
utable crowd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

The table of revenue receipts for the fiscal
year 1858 presents IN interesting ana valua-
bic summary OF our foreign trade, and the only
Jity is that it has been so long delayed The
largest amount of duties paid by any one class
Of articles is yielded by sugar and molasses,
Which are credited with S3i,7OO6j. Next
come woods and wooden manufactures, yielding
81 As, 49, coffee. SlOGj7,s45; women's and
shildren's dress goods and Italian cloths, slO,-
BjO.0Ol; iron and steel, slOj2l O24 ten, S9,414,
6Gi cotton manufactures, S1,2O2,Sl; spirits
and wines, 5000, j23; fax and manufactures
thereof si,Gi5,O43; dress aud piece goods,
S4,j2G7OG. The next years report we are
promised in better season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11
ARREST OF CouNTRRFEITERs.

Yesterday Col. Whitley of the Secret Service
Division Of the Treasury Department arrested James
Coddingon and George Merriam on charge OF passing
counterfeit money and In their possession found nearly
81 600 worth of counterfeit IS cent currency They
said they bought tho stamps OF j., woodward,
formerly well known In Georgia Judge Woodward and
he arrested. All the prisoners were locked mp
at Police Headquarters Col. Whitley claims thab he can
prove that Woodwar IS the man who several months
ago $50 worth Of tobacco stamps To various deal
In North Carolina portion Of the tobacco seized by
Col Train Internal Revenue Collector. had some OF
these stamps the WOodward's connections In
Georgia and elsewhere the South very wealthy
before the war and he moved In the best society. lie is
years OF age, aud native Of Georgia. Merraim s so
years OF age and lately boarded at Tayors Hotel In
Jersey city Coddngon Is also about 90 years Of age,
aud resided In Brooklyn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

The London Times, in discrediting the story
of Minister Sckles's ntimation that the United
States stood ready to recognize Cuba says that
Spain confesses she must ultimately consent to
abandon the island. This she surely does IN
hundred moral ways: her diSsOlute course at
Havana is suicide. which. as Webster said Is
confession: and the desperation of her public
opinion, as expressed on the first supposed
threat of recognition, was another form OF
confession. But Spain has not said, III
any way other than by her wounds. her
distress, her bankruptcy, that Cuba shall be
given up. Given up it must be, sooner or later
but our faith is not strong that the giver will
be able to make good bargain by the sur
render. The rrlmor commented on by another
London paper, to the effect that the project to
purchase Cuba has friend in the Spanish
Government, may be measurably true. Neither
Serrano nor Prim are believed to wish the re-
tention of the island but Spanish statesman
is one thing in public, and another in private
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11
following results:


Il have here given the official returns Of our Ma
tiona tunnage for the year 1924. WHEREIN Mr. web
ster talked above also for the four years preced
ing and the four succeeding respectively. so as to
show how far the facts cOrresponded to or differed
from Free Trade antiopations. Nr. Webster as
sumed as inevitable that our Tunnage must be re-
duced and our Navigation dwindle If the Iarlf bill
then pending should pass but it did pass neverthe-
less and the four years following showed an aggre-
gate of 63l9303 tuns, against 62iO59O tuns IN the
four wears precedng-an increase of twenty per
cent And the official returns further show that,
whereas 2.2S5 vessels in all, aggregating 253.994
tuns were built in the United States in the four years
prior TO 1924 no less than S4 vessels with aggre
gate capacity of 4S9.l5S tuns built during
the four years succeeding the passage Of that BILL
In the light of these facts ask attention TO the
following extract from the memorials of our Citys
Chamber of Commerce, protesting against the pas
sage of that same bill
Besides the diminution of the revenue which
would arise from smuggling there would be still
greater reduction IN consequence OF the enormous
duties contemplated by the proposed bill: All the
lOwerpriced cotton goods tannels, and other coarse
wOOlens hemp. alum, copperaS gums, most Oh the
enumerated articles of hardware, and many other
articles which now pay TO the Treasury large sums
in duties would either cease TO be lawfully imported.
would be brought into the country IN small guam
titles; and the Government would have 70 resort TO
some lotheTl mode Of taxation bearing upon every
part of the community in order 10 supply the de-
tciency caused by extensive encouragement to
particular interest.
THE Revenue would also decrease from genera!
decline OF Commerce and Navigation If We prohibit or
extravaganty tax foreign products. they cannot DO
imported into our country: and, if we do not buy
from other nations what they have TO sell and what
we want can il be expected that they will take from
us our commoditiesf Ii we do not buy, We cannot
sell for on the supply of mutual wants Is founded
all the intercourse and all the Commerce Of Nations
and when they cease TO be mutual they cease to
exist. Restrictive systems first operate on Com
merce, then on Navigation and Agriculture; and,
when those great interests Frustrated they neces
sarily bring down with them the Revenues OF the
Government"
The Treasury returns' show that tho receipts of
Government from Duties on Imports for the four
years preceding and the four succeeding 1924.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

For the attempt to assassinate ex-Minister
HOLSTER we are assured that the anti-Salnave
or Caco faction in Hayti are responsible.
Worse than this-if we credit what we suspect
is Mr.. HOLSTERS own informatiOn-the life of
the present United States Minister has also
been under threat. Salnave as distinguished
from party of rascals and assassins, may be
worth recognizing, but certainly not at the ex-
pense of brace of murdered ambassadors If
all that we have to recognize is the fact that
Salnave cannot secure to our Ministers their
lives, our best envoy in future will be gun
boat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

The week of horrors ends with the brightest
announcement we have been able to make this
many day. Our dispatches from Washington
assure us that the forthcoming report of the
Treasurer of the United States will show that
the expenditures of the Government for the
late fiscal year were s4S5,OOOOOO less than the
year before. We make no comments whatever;
we merely ask our readers to remember that
in the face of this enormous economy in the
national expenditures we have been steadily
reducing the principal of our debt. The skies
are frightening, and the firm land is in sight.
The day when reputation or national bank
ruptcy was possible is well nigh past.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

A more circumstantial account of the battle
of Las Tunas dissipates the misty and contra
dictory exhalatiOns of passing history which we
received the other day. Valmaseda had indeed
four thousand men, more than half of whom
were regulars, and the Cubans six thousand,
two thousand of them alarmed. These figures
bear the features of justice; but alas Valma-
soda was whipped-which will never be be-
lieved in the Office of Ell CrOnista.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

One Of the New-York evening papers was a
little shaken by the various disasters of the
week. 1t remarked yesterday that during the
gale "strong men were literally lifted from
their feet and dashed again to the earth,
with immense losses in valuable property
and in the same editorial it said, "the body
:" of Mr. Evans was found with n son embraced
Gin each arm. The anguish of that wife and
"mother was most affecting as she ran up
"that road distracted with grief"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

We have given our readers the best accounts
of the International Boat Race all through, and
this morning we present valuable supplement
to the previous narratives in the form of a
letter from Mr. Thomas Hughes We con-
graduate our readers and ourselves upon this
highly interesting contribution from so dis
tinguished a pen. Whatever "Tom Brown"
has to say upon such a subject is certain to
be read in every corner of the United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

John Bright writes hopefully that Lancashire,
which now needs cotton and not taxes, will be
made whole again with sufficient crop The
trouble is as The Times suggests that the crop
which England once monOpOlized is now taken
up by other factories than hers. Not because
we are unable to raise crop equal to our
best, but because we have to meet a larger
demand than ever, must England turn her eyes
IN npw fields
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

The address delivered at the close of the New
England Fair, and printed in THE TRIBUNE
this morning though long, is well worth care
ful reading for the importance of its subject
and the aptness of its Illustrations. How manu-
features and agriculture are mutually depend
ent; how the fostering of one is the encourage
ment of the other; how protective tariffs have
benefited this country, and built up the pros
perity of England, and the other great nations
of Europe are the principal topics of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

Two hundred negroes are said to be studying
for the priesthood in Rome That is sign
that if the Pope is shrewd propaganda, he
is certainly not bad humanitarian. These
colored men are intended for their brethren in
the South, to whom Rome's first argument is
that it has educated two hundred of their kind
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

Lecture Committees, Lyceums and other organiza-
tons seeking the services of lecturers for the coming
season will lind that the American Literary Bureau.
whose advertisement has for some time appeared in
our columns, affords trust worthy and convenient
means of perfecting their arrangements. The Bu-
reau is now in It's fourth year. aud is supplying lee
turers over the whole country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11
SHOOTING AFPRAY IN BROADWAY.

Early last evening, Richard Cody, young
man, and a number OF companions entered the esab-
hshment OF James Southwck at No. 6l3s Broadway and
engaged In a scufe with Southwck which the latter
thrown. In the midst Of the alteration. the wife Of
southwck shot Cody in tho ritht shoulder causing "a
very painful, but not dangerous wound The woman
was arrested by officer Rush, and locked up In the
spring.st Police Station. Cody was taken home TO No.
$50 West SaYantehnth.st