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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

Another curious instance of the species of
infatuation which sometimes impels people to
accuse themselves of crimes they never COM
mitted is reported in the London newspapers.
A servant lad was arrested on his own con-
fesson that he had poisoned his masters
daughter, but careful post-mortem examina-
ton of the body proved beyond question that
the death had been the result Of pursl- - ..,,,
raj causes. The boy arrcr,wcsssa acknowledge
that his story ~, 49, "a i. entire faicsnk. What
motive prompted such an extraordinary impo-
sltion 1t Is hardly possible even to conjecture.
A morbid thirst for nOtoriety pushes people
sometimes to strange extremes, and instances
are not wanting of its pushing them even TO
the foot of the gallows. During the excite
ment of a recent murder case in New-York, it
will be remembered that man confessed
himself an accomplice, but his confession
proved to be lie, and he was ANONYMOUSLY
turned out of JAIL Several years ago a man
named Bourne, in Vermont, was convicted of
murder on his own confession, and was about
to be hanged, when the supposed victim turned
up alive and WELL The easiest way to account
for such eccentric methods of lying is on the
suppOsitiOn of mOn0mania.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

Thus it will be seen that the United States
sends more kilograms than Great Britain,
France, and Austria combined, although those
countries have collectively population nearly
three and half times as large as ours. The
only country which approaches ours in the
proportion of messages to the population Is
Belgium, a busy commercial state where the
centers of activity are near together and
messages very cheap, the average cost Of
dispatch being only "a cents. In Great
Britain where the lines are also short, the
average cost of message is Ga cents Gamer
lean currency; in France it is 50 cents; and
in the whole of Europe it is S1s cents. The
average cost in the United States is 81 cents,
which is cheaper even than the cost In Bel
GUM if we take into consideration the relative
length of the lines upon which the tolls were
paid, being 6,146 miles in Belgium and 1864
in the United States.
1t will not be claimed, even by Mr.. Orion,
that the telegraph business is yet conducted In
this country as well az 1t might be; but i'm
provements are going on rapidly, and the
service is much better than any we should get
if the lines were managed, as the Post-Ofilce
is. by Government. The Postal Telegraph bills
introduced at the last session Of Congress we
presume may be considered dead, and Mr.
Orton's report furnishes excellent reasons why
they should not be revived.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

On the cath of September, A. d. 1862 Henry
C. Brockmeyer, esq, attorney-at-law of ST..
Louis, was seated in his office, diligently en-
gagged. we suppose, in the manufacture of
writs. To him entered Mr.. VIM. III. McGinnis,
Deputy United States Assessor. "Why don't
"you take out lcense" said Dir. Assessor.
This question Mr. Attorney answered in Pc
culiar complicated, and elaborate way; for,
rising in his wrath this legal lion kicked poor
Mr.. Assessor out of his door. The bold servant
of the Treasury refused to stay kicked out,
but returned to beard the lion. That beast at
once renewed tho kicking-out method of pay
ing his taxes, but this time the Infatuated
Assessor grappled with him, like veritable
Van Amburg, and for a moment the tussle was
SO tremendous that it was impossible to decide
whether the United States of America or the
St. Louis attorney would win the laurels of
victory. At this moment the bystanders rushed
in, and the belligerents were sundered. Poor,
foolish Mr.. Brockmeyer will be indicted, and
will have an opportunity of writing history
of the battle in Jail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06
Netn'29otk Daily gribmtre.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1869.

The Spanish Cortes considering the proposal to sus-
pend individual guarantees though martial law has been
already proclaimed in Andalusis and Catalonia. The
Republicans in Murca and in the town OF Reus have
been beaten by the Government troops. King Williams
speech before the North German Parliament will be
pacific I'm sentiment Napoleon purposes TO goito Com
pegns Another great independence meeting has been
held by the Canadians with the Hon. Messrs Young and
Huntington the chief speakers The case OF the gun
boat Hornet before the United States Commissioner al
Wilmington is to be continued, to give the Government
time TO call its witnesses.
Further particulars OF the recent storm show that the
damage was most serious the States the loss
in New Hampshire being estimated at over 100000 The
Board of Foreign Missions opened their 6Oth Annual
Session at Pittsburgh yesterday. Judge Dent
Rives a fattering view Of his own prospects
for Governor in Mississippi. The persons en-
gagged in the attempt to assasinate Revenue
Oniccr Brooks in Philadelphia have been arrested.
The rshops of the Union Pacific Railway Company at
Omaha have been destroyed by fire. Gov. Clafin has
commuted the death sentence Of murderess to mprs-
onment for life Mr. James Fisk jr, charges that the
Presidents brOther-inlaw, Mr.. COrbin associated
with in the late goldgambbng operations, and Mr.
COrba cmphatcsy denies the charge as false and SIAN
derOus.
Robert Fry, colored man, set upon yesterday in
restaurant by several roughs all armed with hatches
knives and pistols the ARRAY ending in Fry shooting
Patrick Rooney dead On Monday Jerry o'Brien at
tempted 10 OaIOIne hebPof VI q
Greenest but failed Over six thousand dollars
worth of diamonds stolen from Bishop Rein. The
bark Sarah Elizabeth from Bio Janeiro ia ashore near
Amityvlle L. l. Mr. Erastus b. Bigelow delivered an ad
evening Wool at the American Institute Fair
The city mortality the third quarter of the year was
1880 against 1858 in 1866, the population being estimated
atlOOOOOO Walst begins TO be quite lively and bust
nsss to move on as usual The budget Of Brooklyn for
the year s366OOO Mrs States some time ago
prlma donna here has obtained divorce for treat-
ment The Dry Dock Railroad Company are trying to
prevent the city authorities from building sewer in
Grandst Mrs. Jane White, wife OF photographer In
srth-ave has committed suicide. The crOton water sup
ply Ia again plentiful The Jerome Park Races begin
to-day The villages in Hudson County n j. have voted
for consolidation Hoboken alone refusing to come In
Gold 1884, ISO, $780, Temperature IS, CT, 81, &C.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

Pennsylvania and Ohio are to be brought
face to face next week with the question,
Shall the National Debt be honestly paid and
we cannot doubt what their answer will be.
The Democracy of Ohio follow leader who
openly avows the principle that the debt shall
not be paid according to the terms of the Ma
tional promise. The Democracy of Pennsyl-
vania have nominated candidate who by re-
fusing to commit himself on the subject indi-
Gates his purpose to favor the same dishonest
policy. That debt was built up by the money
we borrowed to carry on the war for the
Union.-the money that enabled us to fight the
battles of Gettysburg and Chickamauga. Can
Pennsylvania and Ohio, with the memory of
those glorious fields ever present to their
minds, vote that our debt shall not be paidf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

Practically, the worst that can now be said
of the steamer Hornet is that her case Is to
be continued. Her captain, Higgins, in dis
patches to friends in New-York, was unrea-
sonably sanguine that she would net be seized.
But her case has come regularly before a
Commissioner, and her officers are arraigned
on the charge of taking the commission of
Cuba and levying war from these hosptable
shores on a nation with whom We are at peace.
The defendants resisted the motion for con-
tinuance on the claim that their vessel was
commissioned by regularly organized govern
ment-a claim which, in one sense, seems to
admit great part of the case. The Commits
sioner of the United States has. however.
resolved to continue 1t, to enable the Govern
ment to call witnesses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

The Irshman who thought that Smith didn't
like him very well, because he had kicked him
down stairs, (Which lie took as a hint to leave)
was an uncommonly astute fellow. He wouldn't
do at all for member of the New York Gold
Gamblers Ring. There they take n knock-down
blow, planted fair between the eyes, as proof
of warm personal friendship, and at once go to
printing affidavits of amity and alliance in the
newspapers.
Whether Mr.. A. X. COrbin was or was not
associated with the notorious gamblers who
were lately driven in crushing defeat from Wall
st. is a question about which we have not
largely concerned ourselves. He says he was
not; the gamblers say he was. AS he is
gentleman of hitherto unblemished reputation,
and they are-what they are-it would be
pretty hard to pick out dozen respectable
men in New York who would have moments
hesitation as to which side to believe. But
this is matter of small concern. Our wives
relations are not of such public consequence
now as Artemus Ward thought they were in
the times of the draft. The peculiar beauty
of the sensational effort at injuring the Admin
istration to which we are now treated lies in its
logic. "These gamblers say Mr. COrbin was
associated with them and Mr.. COrbin rises
:" from his sick bed to pronounce the accusation
" false and slanderous. Therefore it is evident
" that the President, who smashed the Gold
"Ring, was a member of the Ring" Logic is
logic that's all we say.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

1t Is remarkable how soon men of real ability
are forgotten in the United States. Mr.. Rufus
ChOate's politics were as bad and untimely as
possible, for he was Roman of the patrician
class and although latterly he called himself
"a Democrat" with real Democracy he had not
even q theoretical sympathy. He was, how
ever, an excellent scholar, capital nisi prtus
lawyer, and when he had his rhetorical affluence
under control he was ian excellent public
speaker. His life, by Prof. Brown. is again,
for the fourth or fifth time. announced for
publication, and, upon this occasion, by an emil
nent Boston house. We think that, if compiled
with reasonable dexterity, with good deal OF
Mr.. Choate and not too much Of Prof. Brown,
the work will be at least entertaining. especially
If no attempt is made, through mistaken no.
lions of the dignity of biography, to conceal
that grotesque humor which was a prominent
characteristic of Mr.. ChOate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

to refer to Uncle Toms Cabin" The groes
stupidity of both writing and publishing such
contemplate stuff as this will be understood
when we refer to the extremely complimentary
review of Mrs. Beecher Stoves latest produc-
ton. which The Times has recently printed.
Both Mr.. j. II. Estcourt and Mr.. Sampson Low.
ir, thought it necessary at once to write to
The Times in defense of Mrs. Stoves literary
ability and of her yeracity. Why they should
have thought it necessary, We do not exactly
understand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

The cacoethes of outre titles continues to at
flct the British novelist Thus we have an
Dounced, "Wrecked in Port" "Cut Adrift'
"Wise as a Serpent" Glove Ne for Ny Love-"
"Simple as a Dove" and "Only Womans
"Love" One objection to such titles is that
they are in exceedingly bad taste. Fancy
Fielding christening "Tom Jones" by the
name of "Going it Fast" Think of Walter
Scott calling Kenilworth" by some such title
as "Amy Done Brown Conceive OF Thack-
cray baptizng "Pendennis" as "The Doctor,
"the Nephew, and the Uncle" A great work
of fiction will support the simplest of titles.
If the names of some of Shakespeare plays
should be adduced in defense of the new
fashion, it may be answered that they were
conceits such as were then in vogue, while the
names Of the greatest plays and of all the
tragedies are simple and unaffected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

Women DESTROYS of becoming Doctors OF
Medicine may well feel encouraged, when the
Allopaths and Ininitesmals of Chicago are
contending for their approval and distinguished
consideration. The Hahnemannic College comes
down vigorously upon the Heroic Dose College
for the assertion that it was the first to open
its lecture-rooms to the fair students, and
claims to have done the same thing eight
weeks previously. 1t seems to US pretty
even thing, any way, and hardly worth dis
pating about; but it did not require prophet,
or the son of prophet, to foresee that if one
College did the gallant thing, the other would
not be slow in following the example,-a re-
suit. we may add, over which we heartily
reinice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

Different versions have been given to the
press of Secretary Fish's letter touching the
steamship Euterpe; hence variety of erro-
neous differences as to the disposition of the
Government In the copy of the Secretary's
letter, as printed by us, we were made to I'M
derstand that "while on American waters a
convoy cannot be given to the vessel But
the letter as redeemed from the errors of the
telegraph, and as corrected by the agents Of
the press, more properly reads that ION a
"mere rumor a convoy cannot be given TO the
vessel :" and furthermore, that "the United
Estates WILL if a vessel carrying their flag is
"mOlested on the high seas use all their power
"to punish the offenders, and prevent repe-
"tition of the of1ense." Surprising. then, that
the Euterpe carries the American flag, she has
this much official comfort, and no more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06
Smns.rn.nts, &c.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE NATIONAL EXHIBITION
This Day and Evening At the Empire City Skating Rink
BooTH's THEATER. Twenty third-st, between Fifth
and SKth'sveS-Ts Evening At Leah" Miss Bateman.
FIFTH-AvE. THEATER. Twenty -fourth-st. and Fifth
sve-Thh Evening a. s-"Twshh Night" Mrs ScOttSiddOnA
EIBLo's GARDEN.-Ths Evening at S.-"FOrmosa
The Railroad 10 RRA"
OLYMPIC THRATRR-This Afternoon at 2, and Even
Ing 81 e." The Streets Of New-YOrk." }. X Mortimer.
SAN Francisco MINsTREIS-This Evening.-Mis-
eelaneous performances
SOMERvnLE ART GALLERY No. 81 Fifth-ave-
This Day aud MISREPRESENTATION Of The Nine Muses."
STRINwAY HAIL-This Evening at 8-COncert
Hiss Csrlotta Patti.
The TANfMANY-Tammany Hall, FOurteenth-st.-
This Afternoon and this Evening at g." Tot james Mace
aud Leopold Mace.
WAIIAOKs THFATER.-This Evening at S.-"Pro-
gress" John Gilbert J. W. Wallsok
WoOD's MUSEUM, Broadway and Thirtieth- St
Open 10 Two dramatic performances daily
At2, " Rip Wan Wrinkle" Ats, " Peril"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

. The Toronto Telegraph denounces as an entire
fabrication the story that while Prince Arthur
was in London, c. W., an American flag which
had been hung among the decorations in his
honor was pulled down and torn in pieces.
Very little notice has been given and still less
smportauce attached to the story in this quar-
ter: but in the interest of truth we should like
IN know with whom and with what motive ii
originated. Several American flags, we are in
formed, were hoisted in London during the
Princes visit, and were in no manner insulted'
This news, which has an appearance OF hkeli-
hood. ought to quiet any solemn apprehension
that Canada intends to provoke war with us
iust now out of pure loyalty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

shocking suggestion has been made. The
bottom of Southern society we fear is about to
fall out let us throw In word of warning
while yet it holds together. In the Scott County
Court of Georgia, last week. Gen. John {.
Breckenridge proposed that hereafter all mill
tary titles should be dropped, and plain Mr. "
be substituted. The presiding judge, in mo-
ment of frenzy. expressed himself pleased with
the suggestion, and proposed to act upon it
In the future. We dare not contemplate
the consequences. In the words of that
sentence which the late MIR. Burton
always left unfinished, There is a
point beyond which," To meet high
toned Southern gentleman; to know that he is
about to invite you to share social glass; to
raise the brim of your broad Panama, and then
instead of Major, or General, or Colonel, to
insult him with plain Mr." VIII not the
buried chivalry rise up from their gravesf
What will Southern novelists dof What
epithets can supply the lost titles9 The brave,
generous, Mr.. -, the fascinating faultless
Mr.. -; this will never suit. Take back your
suggestion dear General; the very thought is
sitting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

We print on another page an instructive
address upon the Wool Trade and hanufac-
lures of the United States, delivered before
the American Institute last night by the Hon.
Erastus B. Bgelow, President of the National
Association of Wooden Manufacturers. The
address gives a mass of facts of great interest
TO all who believe in the advancement OF
American industry, discussing particularly the
points of tariff, protection, and free trade, the
wisdom of Congress in the matter, and the
causes of the present depression in the trade.
We bespeak for his remarks a careful consid-
eratiOn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

Boston and Cleveland, for Instance, few
years ago were owned by five different compa-
MES. and there were consequently five distinct
charges on a message from one of those cities
to tho other. The Western Union Company
have been constantly laboring to systematic
and equalize the rates as one line after another
has come under their control. and the general
tendency of their changes has uniformly been
towards reduction but the labor of course has
been complicated and progress consequently slow.
The company own nearly 800 stations, and each
must have distinct schedule, giving the rates
to $500 places. A plan has now been devised,
however, which will greatly simplify the labor
of preparing tariff tables, and enable the COM
pany to graduate the charges entirely by air.
line distance The whole country has been
mapped out and divided into five hundred
squares of fifty miles each, and each Office Is
provided with book giving the rates from Its
own square to any other. A message in going
from one square to the next may have to take
circuit of several hundred miles, but 1t will
be charged no more than If communication
was direct. The average reduction under the
new system will be about fifteen per cent,
although during the past year charges have
already been considerably lowered even on
routes where there is no competition.
Mr. Orion evidently believes that the true
policy for telegraph company is to develop
custom by low tariff 1t costs no more to
send hundred messages day than to send
ten. Every tun of freight carried on railway
makes sensible difference in the expense of
operating the road, but with telegraph the
case is very different. The Atlantic Telegraph
Company have done more and moro profit
able business with each successive reduction
of tolls; and the Western Union Company we
presume could tell the same story. TO men
who have once acquired the custom of using
the wires for private correspondence their use
becomes daily necessity, habit that grows
upon them. Already we make far greater use
of the wires than any other people, as the fol-
lowing table will show:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

The World treats the conduct of the Demo-
cratic Supervisors of Brooklyn in appointing
inspectors and canvassers of election exclu-
sively from their own party, as grave mistake
and a serious wrong. "The course adopted in
Brooklyn" says our contemporary, " is an in
"vidious assault upon the ballot itself by tend
"ing to destroy confidence. in the result which
the ballot should declare" We are glad to
see The World adopting so brave and just a
line of conduct in this matter. IL it always did
tho same its influence would be great deal
strnnRer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

We see it stated that it now takes two hours
to marry pair enthusiastically" Never having
been married in that gorgeous way, and never
having seen any couple joined by such tre-
mendous and elongated ceremonial, We cannot
vouch for the accuracy Of the statement; but
we do sincerely hope that this elaborate style
of making two into one will never be intro
duced into Chicago; for if it should be, it Is
our decided opinion that two out of three
couples would be divorced before they were
fairly married.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

A WOman's Parliament, as described by a
sprightly defender of Sorosis, in another col
umn, would be an excellent thing. We hope
indeed to see it tried on broader scale than
there suggested, and with wider
if not higher aims. We entertain no
doubt that the proceedings of such a
body, properly organized, would command
prompt attention, and do incOmparably more
to reform legislation concerning women and
better the condition Of the sex than could be
attained in the same time in a scramble at the
Dolls
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ARRAY is to be regretted. though we have no
sympathy for ruffians who wantonly attack
peaceable citizen, whether white or black. Out
RACES Of this nature cannot he tolerated. Fry
may have erred in resorting to the pistol Tor
protection, but the general judgment of the
community will certainly be in his favor, and
the verdict "served him right"
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06

Yesterday gave one more illustration OF the
spirit of brutal lawlessness that exists in this
city. An inoffensive colored stableman, named
Fry. was set upon by a party Of roughs with
knives, hatchets and pistol-evidently tor no
other reason than because his skin was black
Finding himself getting the worst OF 1t, Fry
drew out his revolver and killed one OF his as
sailauts. Such disasIQw termination ,0f the