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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29
HIST THINK OF 1T!

The voters of the State of New York are
summoned to accept or reject their Amended
Constitution at their State Election on Tuesday
next. No other question of equal importance
has been presented for their decision. For
good OF for evil, the fate of that Amended
Constitution is of the gravest consequence to
themselves and their children. Yet how many
of the Eight Hundred Thousand have even
carefully read this document! How many less
have compared it carefully and critically,
section by section, with that for which it is
presented as substitute!
Our present Constitution has been tested by
experience, and grave defects thereby brought
to light. Its Judicial machinery has utterly
broken down. Its Judges, sitting in the Court
of Appeals, review and (Of course) uphold the
decisions made by themselves in the Courts
below. Every one perceives that this Is a
gross abuse, the Amended Constitution cor
reefs that abuse. It's Court of Appeals is so
choked and glutted with untried cases that
justice is practically denied to great portion
of suitors. A school teacher, who was from
spite denied his pay, sued for it, and of course
obtained Judgment. The defendants appealed;
carried up their case to the court of last
resort, and kept the teacher seven years out
Of his pay. This is one case out OF
thousand such any knave, who has obtained
possession of some honest mans property, may
keep it till he is weary Of 1t. by virtue of "the
+" Laws delay.p The Amended Constitution
tries hard to correct this abuse: You can vote
for the Judicial part and against all the rest
if you choose. But there are at least twenty
points on which tho Amended Constitution il
decidedly superior to the present, especially
in it's provisions against Electoral and Legis
lative Corruption, against Fraudulent Voting
against the holding by ono person of two OF
moro Offices, &C., Sc. II tho People were re-
quired to lOso that Amended Constitution Of
Ten Millions Of Dollars, they might far better
afford to lose tho Ten Millions; for they would
save that amount by it In less than ten years
But We do not insist on the duty Of votinI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

If the Capitol of the United States is to be
removed to tho Valley Of the West. or, indeed, to
any other location. i is. for hundred reasons,
desirable that all preliminary discussions of the
measure should be conducted in an amicable
spirit, and that all sectional feeling regarding
the question should, for the sake OF our future
safety. be discouraged. We Therefore regret
to find one or two gentlemen in the Conven-
ton at St. Louis talking in a tone of SEMI
secession, and using kind of argument wf}Jch
two much resembles threatening. The presence
of Mr.. Stuart of Alabama in the Convention
was to say the least, ominous, for Mr.. Stuart
was noted Secessionst, and he took no pains
to conceal the fact from the delegates but
avOwed it with an unpleasant sort of bra
vado. Again, Mr. Hagan of st. Louis was
exceedingly violent in his denunciation of the
Eastern States, from which lie claimed that
the West (and South also) had suffered
y" nothing but wrong and outrage 1t is no
wonder that the warmest friends of the West
and South West were alarmed by the turn
which the discussions were taking, or that Gov
Pile Of New Mexico advised the Convention
not to provoke the enmity of the West until
it knew better the real state of Eastern Opin-
ion. The wrong and outrage" which the
West has suffered at the hands Of the sea-
board States has consisted mainly in an I'M
limited supply Of money and an equally I'M
limited supply of men, without which there
would have been no West to speak of at
all. However, until is is absolutely necessary,
we shall not suffer ourselves to be betrayed
into rccrimination. The matter is too import
ant for passionate consideration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

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for tho Amended Constitution. We urge only
tho obvious duty Of voting upon H. - :
has meeting been held. except by the lawyers
at Albany, to discuss itH Where are me VoteEs
rallying and registering with especial reference
to this momentOus issueH Because no party Is
TO rise or fall, no candidate to DO elected or
defeated, no "spoils" to be distributed, shall
wo permit Constitution to be saved or lost
by fewer votes than we poll for Canal Com
missioner or State EngineerH Why should not
the fate of a Constitution evoke as earnest if
not as lively an interest as the issue OF dog
fghtP ID.
Men Of New.York! we entreat you not to
let it DO recorded that you voted down Con-
stitutiOn which you had never carefully read,
nor that you allowed so grave an issue to DO
decided without recording thereon your vote !
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29
JAPANESE HOSPITALITY.


Considerable surprise is expressed in England
at the promptness and cordiality with which
the Duke of Edinburgh was received by the
Mkado of Japan, and no less perplexity and
indignation at the refusal of the Majesty of
China to grant His Royal Highness an inter
view. The conduct of she SOvereigns Is con-
trastod in q tone that once more shows the de-
termination of English writer's to consider
these two Oriental empires from the same
stand-pOn The fact is, that there is not the
slightest similarity either in the character OF
the people or the principles of thoir Govern
ment The exclusiveness Of China is a policy
which has existed for hundreds Of centuries,
while that of Japan is of comparative
" recent origin. The natural temper
of tho Chnese--at least of those
in authority-is suspicious, reserved. and
selfish. That of the japanese is confding, open,
and generous. Foreigners have only them
selves to blame for their rigorous exclusion
during a period of moro than two hundred
years from these f1ourishing islands. Their
first visits were welcomed with delight, and,
under tho teachings of Francis Xavier and his
followers, the simple Inhabitants were rapidly
embracing the Christian faith, when tho pOlitico-
religious iutIIBueb OI lH0 uuu
threatened tho security Of tho throne and
destroyed the tranquility of the entire nation.
SO fragrant were the crimes Of the contending
colonists that Christianity presently became tho
synonym, in the apprehension of the native
rulers, of every species of disorder, treachery
and cruelty. Their expulsion was simply an
act of self-preservation on tho part of
the Japanese Government.
Subsequent events, from reign to reign,
did little to soften the bitterness of this con-
yiction. The occasional Visits of English French,
and Russian ships were almost invariably &C.
companicd by barbarous brutalitics. and it
was not until - the expedition of Com
modore Perry, whose attitude toward the
islanders was az courteous and considerate as it
was dignifed and firm, that their hostility to
foreigners was in any degree abated. dince
that period, the Government has consistently
displayed it's willingness to enter gradually
into communication with tho outside world.
Japan Is not free from internal troubles, and
the jealousy Of certain powerful mobiles Is still
an obstacle to the accomplishment OF the de-
sired result. But at no time has there been
anything in the behavior Of the leading officials
at variance with tho hospitality just now ex-
tended to the English prince. .'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29
NOK. REGISTERl


This Day, the work of registering the legal
voters of our State is resumed in all the City
and Village Districts, and will be completed
this evening except in this City and Brooklyn,
where it will be resumed tomorrow morning
and completed in the evening of that day.
We urge every citizen, without distinction of
party, to see first that his OtoR name is
duly registered and then call on his
friends and neighbOrs and urge them
to do likewise. We desire that the name
of each and every legal voter shall be
duly registered in the district where he
lives, and that no one else shall be permitted
to corrupt the suffrage and destroy the rights
Of legal voters. Remember that lie who would
despOil you of your Right of Suffrage by
voting himself, or melting others TO vote
illegally, is just as clearly an enemy to
Government by the People as though he
denied and defeated your right to vote at
all.
Honest men of all parties register your
names as voters To- DdV-nake this your first
business-and then urge all other legal voters
to follow your example!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

Dir. Parker PiIlsbury, who has been visiting
South Carolina, and delightinE the souls OF
Democratic journalists by exaggerating the ig-
norance and debasenent of her CelOred people,
is very temperately ADD thoroughly reviewed
by The Charleston Republican. Mr., Pillsbury's
assertion that the negro cnEed nothing for the
right to vote, is thus dealt with;
the negro cared nothing for this VOTE ard Is 80 tx
nOraut Of It's use why IL that DO Democrat who oar
20 nvow political creed be elected by negro V0tes
God knows 10 IL not because they do not Try nave no
hestancy In saying do entertain fears or success
full contradiction that people were ever more Jealous
OF their franchise than the black man or bonth CAROLINA
many portions Of this State, they have been driven
their homes, scourged aud even murdered because
Accepting Psbury's statement fact In some lew
instances innu neTabe can be cited In which they
have ered the greatest injury because their votes
could not DO tempered with-nstRnees where ihterato
have thrown the G0is OF their protection auout
their husbands votes lest they shod suecumb one so
Is said occurred Ia this city during the late munc
pal contest freedman the of
10 his house large lot OF provisions HIS wife, on eal
ing he had procured them by promising TO vote be
Democratic ticket refused to receive them hnd STRIKING
him down with AK, exclaimed: You have voted 10
disgrace me and my children. Whatever may DO said
Of the crime certainly exhibited as much herosm as
aid the wife OF Hasdrubal, the CarthaTeDian general
when she herself aud children In the presence
OF her husband believing he had dsgraced his ably py
his ignOble surrender to the enemy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

OF course, it is impossible for us TO note in
this part of our paper every fatal accident from
kerosene explosions which comes to our notice )
bat it is fit that the more remarkable should
be alluded to, in order that, sooner or later,
this miserable adulteration which perils mems
lives so frightfully may be prevented by the
strong arrl of the law. BE it known, then,
that Mt Cincinnati, last Monday evening, Will
heimina Huebner was burned to death, her
husband burned less severely, and her child
considerably injured, by the explosion of
kerosene lamp. which the child overthrow.
There is nothing special about this calamity,
except that the lamp was left within reach of
q child only eighteen months old-the simple
fact being that the child might just as well
have been left to play with bunch of matches
and 4 keg of gnnpOwder.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

The extravaganza curiosity of the Prince OF
Wales to visit Traupmann, the Wholesale Paris
murderer, appears to have stricken the French
pOpulacc with something akin to CONSERVATION.
His request was very properly denied, and the
august suppliant was compelled to return home
with his morbid desire unqualified. This pas
sion for Interviewing distinguished criminals
is not altogether new in the history of the
royal family of England, although, we believe,
it has sfumbered for many generations We
can recall no other instance later than that OF
James the First, who not only prepared the ex-
animation Of Guy Fawkes, but, according to
tradition, repeatedly visited that explosive
maefactor in the dungeon of Little Ease, and
was, moreover, accustomed to regale himself OF
an afternoon by going down to the torture
cells of the Tower and luxuriating in the ago
MES of those who suffered by the rack. Scenes
like these, of course, can never recur, but the
revived spectacle of an intimate cOmmuniea-
ton between murderers and mOnarchs would
DO one not calculated to add to the enlighten-
ment of the nineteenth century.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

the truth OF the internal TeYepgs r2tuTps
which it published yesterday in proof of the
greatness Ct its circulation, any moro than TO
argue the truth of any other ptepOsterOus state
ment it may fancy to its interest to publish.
We repeat, however, once more, what
we have said on former occasions that we
impugn those returns as fraudulent, and
not representing the real circulation of all
the journals mentioned in them. 1t is noto-
rious that there is O class Of Adventures
in New York who are in the habit of returning
to the assessors an income far in excess of
what they really enjoy, being content to pay
the tax upon imaginary wealth as the price of
increased credit and consequence, This species
of deception is not confined to individuals ;
but there are newspapers which advertise
themselves in similar manner by tho return
of fictitious sales. We renew the proposal
which we have several times made heretofore.
We will submit our books. and the proprietors
of Tie World shall submit theirs, to the exam
ination of competent and impartial judges, and
if our daily circulation does not prove to ex-
coed that of The World We will pay $1,000 to
any non-sectarian city charity that may be pre-
viOCsly fixed upon: it being also agreed that
the result of the examination shall be cOnspicu-
Ously published for tbree successive days at the
head of tho editorial columns of both papers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

Really we don't know what to make of this
World: it goes on from bad to worse. just
see what it has been doing of late by way of
helping its own party:
1. Mr.. William N. Ireed. This gentleman is
ono of the Democratic candidates for tho
Senate, and The World calls him % "corrup-
zionist Of the Ring"
2. Mr.. A. Oakley Hall This gentleman is the
Democratie Mayor of New-YOrk, and only a
little while ago was offered by Dir. Marble
the responsible post of city edition of his news
paper, and yet The World couples him with
Tweed and denounces tho shameless and
cunning frauds by which he altered the
maiorities at the last general election.
o. Mr.. Samuel Il. Garrin. This gentleman is
the Democratic candidate for Nstrict-Atterney,
and The World charges that he was obliged to
leave Utica "to avoid storm Of public indg-
nation because he had Gorruptly entered q
mol pros. in the case of q prisoner who was
rich enough to pay for his release-a charge
which The World now declares TO be entirely
false.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

A juror in Chicago the other day. in order
to brighten his mind and enable himself to
look with the eyes of lynx through the
thiekest of legal mill-stones, approached the
shrine of Bacchus, and did worship there to
the extent of rendering himself quite incapable
Of distinguishing between John Doe and
Richard Roe. 1t is evident, therefore, that this
gentleman must have been in q condition to
decide with the most rigid impartiality; but
singular to relate. the Judge did by no means
approve of this self-devoted obfuscation. In
deed, his Honor so violently disapproved that
he ordered the juror not only to be kicked
out of the Court but also to be fined. Nothing
remained, we suppose, to the unhappy man but
to 20 back to the Temple of Bacchus for con
solation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

Mr. Samuel j. Tilden has issued as Chair
man of the Democratic State Committee, new
Circular to his henchmen throughout the State
urging them to mako careful lists of oil the
voters in their respective townships and cleo
ton distriots-to visit all those who can be in
duced to vote tho Democratic ticket, and make
them promise to como early to the polls-to
provide teams and 60 after every one who
does not mako his appearance in due time,
&C., &C., &c.
All this Is well enough in its way; but we
find no word or hint Of apprehension from Mr..
Tilden in this secret circular as to the polling
of illegal votes. lie evidently does not believe,
suspect, nor imagine. that the Republicans will
seek to poll any, and he ia equally clear of
deprecating any fraud on the part of his dis
ciples. We shall have to talk to Mr. Tilden
again. .....
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

MI Charles A. Flammer is the only Repabli-
can candidate for Assembly in the XVIIth Dis
trict. comprising the lower part of the Twenty
second Ward. Mr.. Flammer is q graduate of
the FREQ Academy, man of integrity and
ability, and will receive the support of the best
citizens, irrespective of party. This is,one of
the districts where, with proper effort, Repub-
lican can be elected. Therefore, let all Repub-
licans and Independent men of this district, who
desire an incOrruptible legislator at Albany, DO
sure that their names are enrolled on the
Registry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29
LOOK oUT FOX REPEATgRs ,

LOOh UUI FOh hEIEdJ emo
We learn from trustworthy authority that
the Tweed Democracy have made arrangements
for Wholesale repeating in the river counties,
especially in the cities and large towns. They
will operate heavily, if not preyentedby timely
activity on the part of honest voters in
Goshen, MiddletOwn, Newburgh, Fishkill.
Pougbkeepsie, Rhinebeck Hudson, and other
places. They will also try their shameful
work in Utica, Rome, Rochester, and other
cities. Let it he the business of every honest
voter to expose this trick to watch the regis
try, and spot every suspicious character who
may appear. The Democrats knop they cannot
succeed in an honest poll, and no degree of
knavery will be left untried to defeat tho will
of the people
Friends, and honest men of all parties do
not let the great Empire State be again dis
graced by the shameful frauds that made the
election of 1868 an ineffaceable stigma upon
popular government Watch these plotters
against liberty henceforth to the going down
of the sun on Tuesday Let them knOg that
your eyes arc upon them. One resoluto man
can scare away regiment of their jail-birds,
and keep dozens Of false ballots out of the
hnYos
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

We have the singular news from Cuba that
the negroes near Cienfuegos have driven Oft a
body of insurgents, which, we imagine, answers
in some way to the general order of the
patriot Cavada for burning the cane-crOp.
These things, however, are not the worst of
our friends of Spanish descent as seen through
the transparent ingenuity of those from whose
stock and kind they are supposed to have
descended. and in whose direction moral
ascent seems just now sheer impossibility.
The Cubans may make them worse still If
they quarrel overmuch among themselves; and
if there is any danger Of this for want OF q
strong executive arm in the Junta, by all
means let the arm be found and put in its
eight Mace
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29
For DistriOt-Attorney,
SAMUEL II. GARvIN..

We print herewith letter of Mr. Nathaniel
Sands to Secretary Boutwell,, discussing the
Finances and Financial Policy of tho Govern
ment. If :" in q multitude of counselors there
4" is safety" Mr.. Boutwell, ought to be the
wisest fnancicr who ever lived. for he has had
advice enough to sink a seventy-fOur. Happi-
~, no is not obliged to take it. .....
There are some important facts and many
good suggestions embodied in Mr. Sandss let
ter but he overstates the proportion of the
cost of our great Civil War that has already
been paid, and is quite too impatient to stop
payment on the residue. The nations Of Eu-
rope are all cursed with vast debts, which
burden their people and Cypress industry.
They are thGs oppressive because rulers have
always chosen to reason as Mr.. Sands does,
and take of taxes at the close of war, leav-
Ing the debt to romain a burden forever. We
insist that one public debt should DO paid OIL
before another is incurred-that one shall be
paid off so promptly that another may be con-
tracted at favorable rates should n necessity
for it DO presented. But We will not pursue
the discussion, choosing to leave Mr.. Sands's
views to the consideration of our readers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

With diminished taxation there is On increase
in the Treasury receipts for the six months OF
the present year, ending on the Both Of Sep"
TENDER, over the corresponding six months Of
last year of S2t,49O.197. In the same time
there Is decrease of expenditures as CON-
pared with the same period last year Of $77s.-
1856. These facts are 10 be brought out in the
Annual Report of the United States Treasurer.
They furnish the best answer to the meaning
less complaints about extrayagance in public
expenditures and impending bankruptcy with
which Democratic professions Nowadays are
garnished and the comment which the people
will make upon them may be expected at the
polls next Tuesday. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29
prrnpM TIE JUDLCIdRY.

There ia n large class OF our citizens TO
whom politics and political issues are dlstasteiui'
,r,,,v have q faith which they sometimes
erunciote. to the effect that after all there Is
little difference between parties; that IL is only
q question of tho election of this maR OF 'hat
with neither of whom they have any personal
acquaintance; and that, whichever set Oh men
get into Office, things in general VIII 20 Oh
pretty much as before. Except on natiohai
issues, they rarely vote. 1t sometimes, now
ever, has happened that matters when Involve
the honor of the State, or the city, OF aHect
great questions of reform, arouse thelr atteh-
tcntion sufficiently to induce them to exercise
the privilege of the citizen.
All men have viewed with regret and dlsmy
the gradual debasement of our Judiciary Inc
recent illustrations have been so glazing as TO
occasion comment even in foreign journals by
no means hattering to free institutions WINE
the entire press of this country has united III
denOuncing the more notorious proceedings Joy
which the Bench has been disgraeed. 1t rs
scarcely necessary to recall the spectacle
afforded by the railroad injunction suits, where
rival interests procured clashing enactments
from different Judges at will, and competing
receivers, each with separate posse eOmitdtas,
struggled for the mastery. 1t is impossible to
be blind to the facts that there are men
belonging to the most dangerous classes OF
the community whom certain Judges handle
as tendcrly as though they were pet lambs;
while no severity seems to these functonarios
too great if applied to policeman who has
been too Jealous In the use Of weapons when
arresting those objects of judicial affection. Ii
is unnecessary to recount the evidence of the
wholesale manufacture Of fraudulent naturaliza-
rion papers that disgraced all parties concerned.
Even in such matters "a divorce suits, recent
exposures have exhibited judges ready toindorse
the performances of their referees, and carry out
in secrecy the vilest injustice.
These things cry out; and even men who are
Indifferent to politics must hear The opportun-
ity is to be afforded at the coming election to en-
able the People in 1873 to vote on the question
of continuing an Elective Judiciary. The point
to be settled il, whether that class of citizens
that is habtually regardless of law shall, in the
districts where il has numerical majority, elect
the officers who interpret law. This issue at
least, if no other, should oblige any man who
values our institutions or has pride in the repu-
tation of our State to attend the polls, at what
ever cost of personal discomfort or interruption
to ordinary avOcatiOns.