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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

owners of the Nova Scotia mines VIII DC manu-
and glove with the Pennsylvania operators III
fixing the prices of their respective products
within six months after the duty As taken Oh
The cry that the Tariff makes Coal dear Is
tLoroupblv fallacious ard dishonest, and we
want to see those who raise II Drought ~
shame and confusion. u
But while we believe most That u. o. ~.
urges in behalf of his own caste, we 10 ne'
credit his imputations OH the working mineIs
We have had considerable experience IN hiilnB
work done, and have not found even ruue'
IGNORANT men so irrational and deprayed as no
makes them. AS q general rule, those VINO
trnot laborers we'll are treated well by them IN
return. There are exceptions; but we nave
seldom met them. The miners demand thaI
they shall regularly be paid once III four weeks
seems to us just and reasonable. Ana yet we
nresume that they can be selfish and rapaclOus
as well as operators and transporters' why
should MT they9
The Main Question now troubling the An
tbracite region. as we understand it, is the
" Basis :" and on that we heartily agree with the
coal-diggers. How much Is tair price loi
digging a tun of Coal, we do not know; we
presume II should DC lnOlC VI iCoo "'NOi"'''S9 w
the width of vein, depth of working, &cp NC;
but nothing can be fairer than that the miners
recOmpense should rise and fall with the
market-in other words, that, when the opera
tors and transporters raise the price on con-
sumers they should allow the miners to snare
their 1--WE will presume fair and righteous,
gains. We like this in every aspect. Whel
Coal is very cheap, the miners must Work loi
! less instead of standing idle; when the opera
tors and transporters corner us consumers II
will console us to know that they are Obliged
to share their booty with the grimy fellows
pecking away in their mines. We beley'
work will be steadier and Iprces more equaOi'
under " the basis than in its absence anC
we ardenty trust that, whatever its presen
fortune, "the basis" will ultimately be estab
lisbed and maintained. If we could onlI
establish mutually of interest between
operators and working miners, we should hop
that they would soon come to know each othe
better and dislike and defamo each other les
than they are now apt to do. We han u.
RS expose as a strong, though mIntenued
I argument for the basis"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26
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BooTH's THEATER Twenty-thrd-st between FI !.0s
nd sIh-avoA-Ths Evening At g. Hip Van "inA'@ ~
Jefferson T;ftv-
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Scventh-aye ana -
,istb.st-Tbis Evening at 8.-Grand Concert Iheo iHO
Levy. 49,, r,.,o,inp at
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Mr. X L. Davenport, Mrs Clara Jennings MI T,yen-
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Troupe q rl,o Oupen of
THE 1AMNiANY.-Ths EyehllngES, Shoe - &c &c
wrI,cK,s TnrATER.-This Evening at D.
$3.50, w a. ~ 'Sojon Shipsle" John 4 Owens Ill, .
Woop,s MUSEUM. Broadway ana clins.e Gl,at sHi
~, WIZ No ,es,1oop and Rveuing-Cbaug the ta'n7''
Admiral fisk jr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26
"PFSpECTABLEo PLAYVRIGHTS.

II is thought to be enough 10y critic whose
article is before us, to say OF certain new
play lust produced in Philadelphia, and called
"Duty,n that it does not aim at any great
"Hterary merit" but then it is respectable
and $3.50, and all right. This is precisely
what we complain of. For several years no
new play has been produced upon the English
or American stage which did aim at much
literary merit and the consequence mas
been that the paint-brush has been the author,
and the patient pit has been fed upon Hoods
of 1ap-doodle. Why will not writer's OF recog-
nized ability in the department of prose-iic-
ton. try their hands at few plays 1t Is
better that We should "aim' and miss, than
that we should go on forever acquiescing in
the paint-pot and barc-lcggcd dramatic
school.
When piece is brought out and dies OF
understanding is regularly g damned In
these degenerate days-the author hastens to
assure us that his work was intended Tor
the closet and not for the thcateT. Why, in
the name of common sense, then, did he not
keen it in his closet and away from the boards 7
What we want in dramatic writing is just the
finest kind of Literary merit l. G., merit
which will adapt itself to circumstances and
occasions, and without putting hashed epics on
the stage, will avoid slovenly stuff in the die
ton of chambermaid writing to an ostler.
Dear men-writers and women-wrters of sub
lime, magnificent and very good novels! If you
will but Try your hands, large or little, at
dramatic composition. who knows but you
NAV annihilate Bouccault aud crush Tom Tay-
lOr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

New-YOrk is very far behind the rest of the
world in some things, and in her dwellings for
the working classes perhaps most of all. How
much Boston has done may be seen by an ar
ticle in another part of this paper, and just as
1t goes into type report reaches us of the
admirable success of Sir Sydney Waterlows
improved dwellings in London. During the
past year the Waterlow buildings have afforded
comfortable homes for 4,515 persons, and not
withstanding that the period has been an un-
favorable one, the profits of the last six months
have been at the rate of per cent per an
mum. This. for London, is a highly satisfac-
tory return, and shows that poor people can be
decently sheltered without receiving aims.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

Two men were hung for murder at Memphis
on the Goth inst. Calvin was fourteen minutes
diving, and Moody eleven and half minutes.
These prolonged dissOlutions of the hanged
are becoming moro and more frequent all over
the country, or else they are now for the first
time noticed and commented upon. We allude
to this case, and if other similar cases come
under our observation we may allude to them
because if public authority must put criminals
to death, humanity of the cheapest kind de-
mands that the duty should be done neatly
and speedily. A slow death by the rope IS an
act of gross injustice to the person executed
and adds infinitely to the demoralizing nature
of the spectacle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

st. Louis has called National Convention 4
Of four delegates at large from each State anu
two from each Congress District, to meet IN
that CITY on the Goth of October to agltate IN
favor of a removal of the Federal Metropolis
" from Washington to the Mississippi valley ~
meaning, of course, st. Louis
We do not favor such removal; yet we trust
tho Convention will be strongly attended, and
that the agitation will be maintained, and IN
tensifed. There are schemes afoot for spend
inc Two or Three Millions more on new puDhc
edGces at Washington; and this Western move
will help us defeat them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26
PERSONAL.

The United States steamer Tallapoosa, with
Cen Sherman Admiral Porter. and Secretary Robson
on board, reached Boston yesterday.
Plny Jewell father of Gov. Jewell, is dan
gerousy III at Hartford and it is thought he cannot re-
cover His sons in other states have been summoned
home.
John Jay Dickey, Chief Clerk in the Office
Of the superintendent of tho Western Union Telegraph
Company in Chicago, has received the appointment Of
Superintendent OF the Union Pacific Telegraph Line VIII
headquarters at Omaha.
Stllman S. COnant, for many years COM
led with the editorial department Of The Times and
left BY Gov Raymond sudden death, in charge Of the
general editorial department of that Journal has re-
signed his position and left the paper
Father Mcmahon is about to represent his
the Secretary OF State, VIII demand damages
for false imprisonment from the Canan an Government
His long confinement has seriously pjure1 his health
and he is suffering from partial paralysis.
NJ. Maneille, one of the greatest of modern
French Cooks died recently in retirement He founded
with NM Simon and Bartheemy (who also dead in
the time Of the first Republic the celebrated Paris
called the Tos Rtres Proreneaur though the
partners neither brothers Provenca 1t to
this historical house that the world the invention Of
pouet Ia Marengo and yet NJ, Maneile died worth only
$4,000 year.
The death is announced of the Hon. Emily
Eden sister Of the late Lord Auckland and OF the present
Bishop OF Bath and Wells Miss Eden accompanied her
brother the Earl, TO India, and remained with him
during his long OF office Governor General Some
OF cleverly written letters home published
few years ago in volume called Up the Country and
excited the interest OF Indian readers especially Miss
Eden wrote the novels Of The semi-Atached Couple"
and The Semi. Detached House," both works being well
known TO modern noyelreaders. IL was her sister
Eleanor who was the first and last love Of Pitt
Gov. Senter of Tennessee arrived in this
yesterday from Washington, and is at the ST. Mich
Olas Hotel.
Gen. Rawlins, Secretary of War; Senator
Carpenter OF Wisconsin, and senator Fowler Of Tennessee
left this city for Washington last evening.
The Hon. Isham G. Harris of Tennessee; the
Hon. f. I. Darlington, Oswego; Gen. John Il. Gray ST.
Louis; Col s. 3. Ellsworth, Penn YAM the Hon. Alex
Murdock, Mississippi; Ii. Z. Lord, Cincinnati, Johh
W. Harker, San Francisco; the Hon. Jas. r. Wilson,
Iowa; the Hon. NJ. c. Hunter Indiana, end Col y. -
The Hon. J; HUXLEY Ashton; Washns'0ni GSS'
Hofmans STAFF; James Terwlliger ana ~ D. N
Mccarthy, Syracuse, are at the tifthave. Hoteis
Col Fendal and f. Hare, esq, OF the $50 REGIMENT AID
Mad. Scott and Capt Fox Powys OF the osth RECIPIENT,
British Army, are at the Clarendon Hotel The Pon. ].
" J.. Pruyn, Albany, is at the Breyoert Hodse. Coz
at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Marquis &c Cham an
Washngt ton, and T. Is. Peterson Philadelphia ~ ths
Aston House Gen z. b. Tower, a. s. % az . .h
Hon c. O. Chaeo springfield No So are ar ,Sa ae linz iso
marie Hotel Capt Baldwin o.. S. Nav is at the Hor
man House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

There is n curious bit of news from China.
The Emperor is said to have warned Prince
Alfred that when he visits Picking he cannot
expect to be received by the Imperial family
on terms of equality Whether his Celestial
Majesty has been informed of some OF his Royal
Highness's carvings On-ln Australia especl-
ally-we do not know; moro interesting IN
ouiry Just now is, what will Prince Alfred do
about it7 The most obvious cOurse-thougil
even this would be rather humilating-would
be TO go somewhere else. But whatever his
Royal Highness does, it is to be hoped he will
neither give nor take any presents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26
To ~, Fdfto, Of The Tribune.

To me EdifOf OF INC IT'O""S'
SIR: VIII you be so kind as to explain to
the public, through the columns Of THE TRIBUNE the
meaning of the following which quote from the BACK OF
Legal Tender Note issued under Act Of July H. 1862;
This Note ia legslt tender and 10
receivable IL payment al made to the United States"
BY so doing you will greatly oDge yours respectfully
New. York. Aug 25, 1869. WALLACE l. O"oo'''
Ans,rer.-The language you quote means ex'
actly this The Government was then borrow
ing, and obliged to borrow, Forty to Sixty
Millions per month; and the act OF Congress-
desiring to give currency and value to its OWE
Legal Tender Currency, stipulated that said
currency should be received by the Treasury in
payment for bonds bought of the United States.
That is exactly the meaning of the clause in
question, and the WhoIe of it, Ed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

men form their opinions according to whst
they may think will be to their advantage,
and they seldom exhibit craftsmanship, which
may be defined to mean consideration OIL
what is for the good of the Whole country.
Should we manufacture within ourselves all
the goods we require, we would have vast
accession to our ranks, for it must DO seen
that just in proportion as we manufacture we
cease to have free traders. That our country
would be immensely richer in whatever consul
tutes riches, if we manufactured our Articles
that are made elsewhere, and at an equai OK !
penditure of power and labor, no one shouio
doubt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

After all the assertions, the gossip. the news
paper stories concerning the estate OF the late
Mr.. Andrew j. Butler, and the ferocious CEN
sures lavished upon Gen. b. F. Butler in con-
nection with the case. it turns out that the
estate aforesaid is insolvent and that no money
remains to be divided among the heirs 1t
seems to be a sort of Jarndyce 4. Jarndyce
business over again. The Copperhead news
papers which have written volumes upon the
enormous wealth acquired by Mr.. A. }. Butler,
of course with the connivance of his brother,
have been deprived by this disclosure of a
stereotyped subject, to which they could at
any time resort whenever they deemed it adj
yisable to blow up the General afore-
mentioned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

A negro lad lately employed as oflice-boy in
THE TRIBUNE has set up as Reporter on the
staff of one of our contemporaries. In that
capacity he attended a meeting of Engineers,
last evening, in the Bowery, whence he was,
by resolution, expelled on account of his color.
1t strikes us that the Engineers are unduly
sensitive. The Lad is intelligent and polite; he
made very good office-bOy for us; we pre-
sumo he makes a satisfactory Reporter for our
contemporary and we don't see why he should
not be allowed the peaceful pursuit of his va-
cation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

A painful story, fresh one but unfortu-
nately no novelty, reaches us from Ireland.
In the hamlet of Nurney, in Carlow County,
twenty-five families, numbering over one
hundred and twenty persons, old tenants
mostly, holding under middle-men, and re-
markable for their industry, sobrety, and
punctuality in the payment of rent, have, upon
the death of the person on whose life their
leases depended, been turned out of house and
home. One morning two bailifis, q sheriff, and
eight policemen, armed with rifles unroofed
the cabins, and drove out the inhabitants to
take refuge in bitches, sheds, and under tenn
porary structures. Into one old cOw-hOuse, on
the land of a neighborng gentleman, there
were hudded together fourteen persons of diff
ferent ages and sexes. This cruelty was prac-
ticed because the owner had determined that
nobody should live on the land.
In the nature of things, the peasantry of
Ireland can have no protection against bar
barous prosecutions like this until the whole
system of tcnures is changed. Existing laws
cannot meet the difficulty, because it is not in
the power OF laws to restrain the landhOlder
whose titles they have been enacted to pre-
serve but legislation which shall enable the
thrifty laborer TO acquire few acres in fee
simple, would not only render rare such cru
elites as we have described, but would give to
the industry of Ireland stimulus which it
has not felt for centuries. The worst possible
titles are those depending upon the lives of
mddle-men and we can see no objection to a
good stiff statute abolishing this go-between
pest in Ireland forever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

1t is MT only the apothecaries who send HUI
man beings prematurely to the grave by blum
dering and culpable carelessness. In st. Louis,
last week, one DR.. Hensley, who to make mat
tiers worse, was Doctor of the homeopathic
species, and favorer of infinitesimal doses,
gave child q powder of morphine, and left
two others to be given if the child did not
sleep. The child did sleep, and is sleeping
now, and never will wake again in this world.
One powder killed it, and so, the two others
being unnecessary, DR.. Hensley carried them
off in his pocket for future use, and because,
possibly, they might be awkward evidence in
case Of trouble. lie is to be arrested, however,
for malpractice, which will be wonderful
consolation to the bereaved mother.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

All things considered, Gold bears q high
premium in the market-higher than it is likely
to bear in the future. The Secretary of the
Treasury has large amount of the precious
metal unemployed. Why not sell it while it
commands good price3 If all our foreign ex-
changes are to be made in grain, cotton and
bonds, of what practical use Will idle gold be
TO us2 Ten to twenty millions can well be
spared. Why not sell it, and thus stop inter
est, and reduce the public debt by the amount
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

1t is to be noted that when free traders be-
come manufacturers they change their views,
and are in favor of protection, So also when
men are engaged in predicting any article
which comes into competition with foreign
one they become protettionists to this extent.
We know wool-groy,ers who are violent free
traders III every fhing excepting wool, for they
claim that lorgn wool should be subject to
duty that u.ey may prosper in their pursuit.
IN ike mohncr importers urge the benefits of
Iroe tr'do, and they make converts of those
V40H'y selfish with themselves. Thus it is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

There have been some most extraordinary
Spiritual Manifestations at the Camp Meet
ing just held at Arlington, Mass. A Miss
Laura Y. Ellis, who is q Female Davenport
Brothers, permitted herself, after entering n
cabinet, to be tied and gagged. Then the
assistant would call upon "a spirit" by the
name of mr. Blake' to be obliging enough
to come down and unloose the sister. This
gentlemanly shade would answer audibly that
he was coming. Upon his arrival, he delighted
tho company by blithely whsting "YGnlec
" Doodle after which ho was supposed to 20
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

If Cuba is not sold within few days, we
Rre warned to expect a great battle between
the forces of Jordan and Valmaseda. If the
Bpaniards are defeated, the patriots are conf
dent that their defeat will be final; but
that depends upon how soon they begin to
run. The Cubans evidently believe they will
stay and be hacked to pieces; but, with all
respect for Spanish bravery, we do not antci-
pate any such bloody catastrophe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

Another-the eighth-annual Fenian Congress
Is in session in this City. The rooms have
been fitted up in handsome style. Erin is
kneeling before cross, and the ancient harp
stands by with its strings broken and its
music hushed; on the ground, as if
trodden under foot, lies the Constitution
of Ireland and her charter of liberty
thrust through with a sword. Amid these
cheerful surroundings the delegates meet to
plan ways and means for the liberation of their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

THE COST OF PERSONAL G0VERNHENT.
A few years back Dion tanner, who ayerred
that the French budget represented in bank
notes the hight of the steeple of st. Benigne,
was arrested on o charge of sedition. But
the tanner was shrewd, and proved his
point demonstrating that the budget, turned
into pile of One-thousand-franc notes,
would in fact tower two hundred metres,
which is more than hundred metres
higher than the spire of st. Benigne.
The financial tower has evidently not stopped
growing since the Emperor commenced to
build. For instance, French expenditure in
1850 amounted to about S3000OOOO0, and it is
now S4SO,OOO,OOO. Remarkable, too, is the fact
that for seventeen years the budget of each
year oveTtOpped its predecessor by more than
S10,000,000. Here is a comparative showing of
Il, nf bo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

Dr. William Davis, ex-ProfessOr in the University
of St. Petersburg is now visiting this city, and pur-
poses delivering course of lectures on his travels in
Southern Russia Bokhara, Persia, China, &C. DIR.
Davis believes that he has discovered in the Caucasus
ndubitable evidences of the sojOurn in that region
for many ages OF the people now known as the
Basques This if it prove to be fact, will afford
key to the solution Of some important pathological
nrnblpmS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

The probability of success for the Harvard
crew grows stronger and stronger as the crtl-
cal day approaches and everybody agrees that
the race at any rate will be a close one The
dispatch from our correspondent g. W. 3"
gives calm survey of the situation, by SIN
gularly unpreiudiced observer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

into the box and unloose the captive Ellis, who
would forthwith come out unbound and olsen
tbralled by the impalpable but obliging MIR.
" Rlal,e.r If this is MT travesty, at once
horrible and laughabie, of the whole doctrine
Of Immortality we should like to know what
rrn,,ld hn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

The Gettysburg Reunion makes an unprom-
lsing beginning, and complaints are E1te among
the officers who attended, as well as among
those who preferred to remain absent, that
the movement partakes too largely of the nature
of an advertisement. Our correspondent on
the field gives the view of the situation which
seems to prevail at Gettysburg.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

We invite attention to the call of the Repub-
aican State Central Committee for the election
of delegates to the next State Convention,
which is to meet at Syracuse on the 29th of
September. The Assembly Committees and
Associations are directed to take the requisite
measures for choosing delegates, according to
the apportionment determined in the CALL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

native country from British thralidom' LA ns
,"oa dome Yesterday beyond organizing ono
of The steps backward is in denying admission
% rcnorters. If their doings will not bear Tue
liobt they cannot be of very striking import
once To the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26

doubt that on the basis of these figures the
French can compute to a nicely the Importance
of a Senatus Consultum, just how much IL Is
worth, and how much it costs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-26
expenses of the Empire {:

The population of France has increased about
a million and half since 1851, and Govern
ment expenses are s12 per head whereas they
were but s. seventeen years ago. Personal
government in these years has cost the colossal
sum of S2,sOO,OOO,0OO more than any previous
French Government during an equal period.
Then, as to some modern items of expense,
here is another money estimate Of French gov