davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

The forthcoming decree of the French En-
neror will treat of tho process of Transforming
a personal government into liberal empire
and will. as the Cable tells us, bear strongly
unon the principle of ministerial responsibility
No reason is given us, however, to presume
that Napoleon will so fully transform what
is now deformed as to inspire France
with gratitude. Should but a skillful mock
transformation occur it will merely change
empire into empire, and leave France pretty
much as it was, with variations. Yet the draIC
of the imperial concessions as now telegraphed
will ouite satisfy any expectation formed upon
NapoIeon's recent message. lie provides, first,
for the right of Parliamentary initiative,
as well as imperial; second, that Ministers
may be members of the Senate and Corps;
third, that the Senatorial sessions shall be
public; fourth, that each body shall regulate
itself; fifth, that members of both Chambers
NAV interpellate the Government; sixth, that
no amendment shall be adopted unless referred
to a Committee charged to examine the bill to
which it belongs, and communicate to the Gov
eminent thereupon. Should the latter decline
the amendment, the EmperOr's Council Will give
notice to the Corps, which will proceed to
pass upon it finally. Seventh, the budget
will be submitted in detail, instead of in
the mass as heretofore. Finally, notifications
of tariff and postal service by interna-
tional treaties will be made binding only
by legislation for that end. In these conces-
sions Napoleon is apparently as liberal as his
word, though we do not see that they justify
| the intimation that he would be more liberal,
! in fact than his promise. But the reforms, II
well administered, mark new day for France,
whatever be the EmperOrs private wish OF
| nublic will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03
4 PLEA FOE TEMPERANCE.

Certain persons, who claim to be Temperance
men, are getting together in their several
States and making what they call Temperance
nominations for Governor, &C., &c. we have
a word of counsel for those who do not see
the hook thus baited.
The Liquor Dealers understand their own in
terest. so far as it is their interest to remain
Liquor Dealers with impunity. They are
mainly shrewd men; they generally manage to
have such laws as suit them, or else executive
and judicial officers who insure them I'M
punity in violating tho laws that stand in
their way; yet they never nominate lndepend-
ent candidates. They know better than to do
any such thing. They understand that every
mans vote is controlled by various consldera-
TONS whereof his love of Liquor or OF Tenn
perance is at best but one: so to nominate
special Liquor candidates is to insure their
own discontinue by segregating those whose
interest in Liquor absorbs or OvershadOws all
their political or other sympathies, so far as
voting is concerned. They might possibly poll
1000 votes in this State for distinctive Free
Liquor candidates but these would not suffice
to elect half q dozen members TO both
Houses, and would leave them naked to their
enemies. They know a great deal better than
to do any thing like this. They maintain their
organization, raise lots of money, keep a keen
watch over all that goes on around them, and
at last throw their votes just where they will
give them most strength in the States
councils This course insures them at the
worst strong minority, Oftener an ample
and plastic majority, in each and every
Legislature. They win by directing and
floating on the current, where they would
certainly lose if they attempted to breast it
and roll it back
"The children of this world are wiser than
"the children of light" Wiser, that is, so far
as the ways of this world are concerned. But
is it necessary that the children of light should
always act like fools
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

There is horrible sort of grim humor In
the communication from Philadelphia phiiau-
tbropist Ito a Government official OF which
some account will be found in our washington
dispatch. This gentleman has Kept a recoru Oh
the cases of cruelty in the army and navy re-
ported in the newspapers during the past TWO
years-the bucking, gagging tying up by the
thumbs. torture by chains, torture by
the burning sun, torture by the shower
bath. by which it is currently asSerteu
that this tender republic enforces as
ciplne among its defenders. Our Philadelphia
reformer means to present this catalogue 10
Congress and meanwhile he asks for the eSc
adjustment of Society for the Prevention OIL
Cruelty to Soldiers and Sailors Ihiee cases
of the kind we are glad to know are now %"
trial. The chances are that in all OF them Vi,o
complaints will turn out to DO exaggerated;
but we can hardly doubt that there Is strong
foundation for them. At any rate we shall
expect the Investigations to be searching ana
the punishment, if any be judged merlted' 10
be swift and sure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03
TERMS or THE TRIBUNE.
aetu;alotk Daily Grib14'1f.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1869,

The terms Of decree Of imperial reforms in France
are IN keeping with the Emperors recent message and
make marked reference the subjects Of ministerial re-
sponsibihty and personal government. company has
been formed to lay cable from Scotland by way Of
Orkney and Farce Islands, TO Quebec. In London a
Worlds Fair is projected for 1871 and in Italy another
exhibition OF the kind for 1877, in celebration
OF the completion OF the Mt. Gents Tunnel. great
aud orderly demonstration in favor OF the imprisoned
Fenians has taken place at Limerick. Sheere Airs
nephew has risen in CabOO but is now in the hands OF
the East Indian authorities Further advices confirm
the report that Lopez had beaten guard Of the
Brazans and that tho recOnnoissances Of Count dEu
had failed. The Uruguayan continues, and Presi-
dent saymiento has decided not to intervene in it.
President Grant and family, with large number Of
friends pado an excursion to Brcksburg, n j. yester
day The Public Debt Statement shows decrease Of
S1357I4 during the past month. Deputy Sheriff Grggs,
who was wounded in the antrent disturbance in
Rensselaer, County, died yesterday. Complaints are
made of the high rates OF toll the Erie Canal and
majority OF the boats laid up A horse thief was
lynched In Pekin Ill., Sunday, but not before he had
severely wounded several Of the lynchers.
Ameeng was held last night at Tammany Hail. Osten'
sbly to protest against the maltreament Of American
citizens In Great Britain andi Cuba but ready to advance
the Presidential aspirations of Of felOwcitzens
An explosion Of the RasOmeter at NibO's Theaer last
evening caused considerable excitement among the
dience, and temporary interruption to "Arrah-Na-
Pogue" The opening Of Churchst. marked yester-
day by the premature falling OF wall and severe In
juries to half dozen boys. At Rosevlle Park, near
Newark yesterday an ARRAY occurred in which two
ware stabbed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03
TIE rAILORS STRIKE.

,.oo1 r,or, iourneymen tailOrs of our Guy
,,oro rorusod to work longer for the wages
nroffered by their late employers. Ihey Say
thew cannot live at such prices; the employers
say they can pay no more: SO they haNe 'On'0
to a decided rupture. -.
60 far. each party acts within its clear rlght'
Free Labor means that the labOrer shall "oih
only when satisfied with the wages oheIeu-
satisfied. at least, that he can do no Detter
than to accept and earn them. The Journey
men in question believe they can do Detter
and their Judgment in the premises Is Oeyohu
appeal.
We are not fond of Strikes a Strike Is an
industrial declaration of war; ana we Ioathe
war, yet see not how it may IN some cases
be avoided. War is hOrriblei but, II you are
uniustly warred upon, it is right TO deiend
Yourself. And, since nations and governments
are sometimes Unsuitable in wagng war, we
cannot say that wOrkmen are never justified III
inaugurating and maintaining Strike.
But we do most earnestly contend that men
should strike to work on other terms-not TO
stand idle. Here are twelve or fifteen hund-
red men who say they cannot or Will not
make ND clothes for such sums as A., b. ana
c.. offer to pay them for the service very
we'll then do MT do it. But is man doomed
to stand idle because A., b., and G., will not
give him satisfactory wagesf Suppose 1t had
pleased God not to create A., b., and g., would
he then have done nothing for life 7
We insist that the strikers should get to
work at the very earliest moment III they
can It make clothes for A., b., and C., let them
set at once to making for the twenty three re
naming letters of the alphabet The workers
for wages in our City are large majority OF
her inhabitants; they naturally sympathize
with the strikers; many of them are III rags
and nearly all have short supply OF clothes
let the strikers get to making clothes at once
and call aloud on their fellow workmen to
come and buy good articles for cash at far,
living prices.
"The slotlful man SAITH There is lion in
" the way.n No doubt, the strikers can give
forty excellent reasons for standing idle and
calling on others to support them in so dong
But "where there 8 will there g way !
and the striking tailOrs could if they would fine
means to open a store, make up lot of goods
offer them for sale at fair prices, call In the
public to buy them for cash, and thus keep the
mill going. This would not tax their brother
workmen; it would not serve to clear the
shelves of the bosses, to whom strike in dull
times is often a godsend; it would not impe
any one to loaf about the grog-shOps spend
ing what he can i'll spare and sinking gradu'
ally into dissipated and scottish habits. We
insist that those who strike should not stol
working, but only quit unoved employers tc
serve and be sustained by the general public
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03
vkw-vopx nau.y TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. AUGUST g. 1863

distant Mines they may become the easy prey
of a race that too lately could be stigmatized
as a nation of slave-drivers. California has not
as yet seen the propriety of allowing the China
man to testify in her courts. He is classed
with bows. Indians, and idiots. 1t is clear that
legislators should at once give to this peculiar
people special and kindly attention. If they
have no proper conception of the solemnities
of n Christian oath, this alone should not be
taken as a violent presumption that they are
incapable of telling the truth. Juries can safely
be trusted as judges of the weight that should
be attached to their testimony in court Be-
sides. their labor contracts ought not to be left
to the working of the common laws OF wages.
Ignorant of our language, unused to our IDEAS,
insensble of what we call a moral obligation,
by the very constitution of their minds con-
founding the displeasing of superior with the
idea of wrong, the law should make generous
presumptions in their favor and fence them
with wise safeguards against the cupidity the
exacting temper, and the domineering split
of the Saxon race.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

It is fortunate for us that the dog-days are
nearly over. During the heated term whole
seas of soda water arc swallowed by gasping
humanity But as usual when we drink any
thing, we may have been drinking liquid death
from the foamng glasses. The doctors of
Cincinnati have been inspecting the saltwater
of that city, and in one hundred different
specimens they found fourteen contaminated
by the presence of copper from the fountains,
and in ten they found lead also. Then they
boiled the soda water-think of boiling soda
water and "a green scum rose on the sur
face which, upon evaporation, proved to be
metallic. Good saltwater is no doubt pro-
motive Of health comfort, and longevity; but
to solutions of lead and copper there are decided
objections. We wish that it were possible to
know for how many deaths annually in the
United States the misuse of these two metals
alone is responsible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03
PERSONAL.

Karl Formes was married last menth at Frank
on.theM Main DR.. Laura Rausch. COnsuGeneral Muir
ply performed the ceremony
At Guadalajara, Mexico. Carlotta Ferro, q
girl TO- clerk Of the court and secretary OF the city
council and teaches school besides.
Mr. Bob Hart recently delighted the people Of
Omaha by sailing the skating park lake in tub
drawn by six ganders. He upset during the voyage
The Paris Steele of July 16, in commenting on
American affairs refers the policy Of the United States
as shown by the late acts Of Mr.. Boutwell, and Mr..
Fisch"
The Rev. Miss Olympia Brown has accepted
call from the Unversalist Church at Bridgeport Conn
The Rev. Miss Mary Graves has been called by the Uni
yersast Church at North Reading, Mass.
d. Gillian of EasthamptOn, Mass has an adj
vetisement in Ire Springfield Republican which reads:
81 forbid any person harborug my John A. Gillian.
who left my bed and board on Wednesday last" &c.
Md'le Schneider met with an accident the
other night In London which came near being painful,
though she escaped without injury Her dress caught
fire during the performance OF Orph6e Enfers and
was entirely destroyed before the flames extn-
ushed Several Of the audience Jumped upon the stage
TO help put her out.
They have q literary man in Germany who
styles himself "The Poet Wilhelm Carl intellectually
ROM Reincke from Anhalt! Poet OF romancet
Poet Of Dreaml Poet OF Song Poet of musiei
Poet OF the language OF flowers! Poet OF the
Divine Word! and works! and Of theology Fisher OF
Heaven! Spirit OF truth! Martyr Proiedar! impro-
yisator! Doctor! Professor! POetprincel aud from
God anointed prince Of mind OF the world!l Born In
Little Paschclebcn near COthen! in tho year $780, tho
goth Apri At present in Dessau WallstraSse % 1902
the 26th April"
A melancholy little incident is related OF tho
ex.Emprcss Charlotte. This unfortunate Princess mas
been staying for time AT spa The other DAY she IN
sisted with such yehemence playing at roulette tbae
IL WAS impossible TO restrain her. on approaching tho
table she deliberately placed gold piece Oh the HunDer
49, Tho Emperor Macmillan was shot on June ~ Inc
wheel turned and, though 81 chances were against nor,
she won. She smiled sadly, took up the money anu
quietly left the On her cut poor man P"sse
by. She gave him all the money with ihe lhJunouoN
that he was TO "pray for him." It ia known tha' u
Empress Charlotte never pronouIees the name OK AS
milan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

In the record of our special correspondents
trip Back from the Pacific some highly interest
ing details will be found of certain results of
the great railroad which have not yet attracted
a proper share of attention. The growth of
the border territories is so startling in its
rapidity under the new order of things that the
increase and improvement can be seen almost
from day to day; and out into the heart of the
opening country journeys the Chicago bagman,
with his special palace-car and his private
hotel on wheels, scattering dress patterns and
picking up bargains, as the Yankee emigrant
of former times pushed into the West with
spelling books and peddler's notions. The pio-
neer of the coming generation will be a very
different man from his ancestors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

Industrial Exhibitions of one sort or another
are becoming so common that they will soon
attract no more notice than an ordinary coun-
try market. Great Britain purposes having
another Worlds Fair in 1871. Italy promises
to celebrate the completion of the Mont Cents
Tunnel by an international exhibition at
Turin in 1872. A grand display of the textile
fabrics of our own Western and Southern
States opens at Cincinnati to-day; and next
October we are promised at Buffalo an
international Industrial Exhibition, the
trst of permanent annual series
of fairs, at which the mechanical art of
the United States and Canada shall be brought
into comparison if not into competition. The
New Dominion may not just now have much
70 show us, but with the stimulus of this con-
trast so close at hand it VIII have every year
more and more. The managers are wise enough
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

we suppose that lie must be believed. Then there
were people in India with but one leg and one
eve; people with dogs heads, who barked
their views and sentiments; people who never
spoke but only whistled; people with noses,
eyes, and mouths on their breasts; and of these
queer people, including those "whOse heads
"did grow beneath their shoulders" there must
be legitimate descendants living somewhere.
Mr.. Barnum failed to find them, although he
came very near it; but if Mr. Cameron will
but try, after he has discovered tailed humani-
ty, he may be more successful.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

The old pro-Savery doctrine used to be that
White men could not work in the hotter re-
gions Of tho South. 1t turns out just as we
supposed it would, that with ordinary care and
prudence White men can work there as well as
Negroes. We have it on the authority of The
ST. MaryS Qa.) Banner that ten White men
have been working in st. Mary's, on a planta-
ton, during the season, and that they actually
endured the climate, sun, flies musketoes, and
all, better than the Blacks, Other cases of the
same kind arc given. The history of this
world, and of its civilization especially, would
have been entirely a different one, if the White
races of the temperate regions had not proved
themselves capable of withstandng the debil-
itating effects even of extreme heat and cold
In hot countries, deDsely populated, they have
sometimes found it at least more comfortable
to "loaf" than to labor but this merely proves
distaste for work, not incapacity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03
%mnstmnts, &c,

BooTH's THFATER, Twenty-thrd-st~ between ElIt .h
aud STthaytS-Tbs Rvebisg at g." Rip Van Wnkie" Joseph
Jefferson
BROOKLYN SKATING RINK. Clerm0nt-ayeg near
Evening 8-CouSertb BY Doduorhs Orebess
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. Seyenth-ave. and Fifty
bnthst-Th Evening az 8-GsBd Concert Iheo lnowa'' VI
obestrA Mr. J. Lew.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cor. Eighth.ave ana lweh-
ylbri-This Evening a" Bast Lynne" Lucille western
NrBLo's GARDEN.-This Evening at g." Arrah-
EsPogus" .r,
New Pauomne; Eiccory Diceory Dock" Mr. O. L. foL h'J
Troupe 81, ,s -
WNIAcK's THTATER.-This Evening at s. Sell
John & Owens -. a.,
Woop's MUSEUM Broadway and THIRTEEN 81
This Aneaoou a Pee pshow Man" and Founding I'' ~
ing ~ 81 La!a k00kh."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

There is an enthusiastic man of science in
Calcutta, by name Cameron, and as that name
indicates, from the land that produced Lord
Monboddo. Like his Lordship, this Scotchman
believes that all men were originally monkeys.
Monboddo affirmed that in Bengal there was
still nation of manly looking creatures, with
fine, long tails, and no was angry with Sir Jo-
seph Banks for not bringing back full ac-
count of them. Mr.. Cameron, of Calcutta,
places his tailed men somewhere in Borneo,
and he is importuning the Asiatic Society to
send an expedition in quest of them. AS he is
not likely to succeed in Calcutta he had better
try the generosity Of the negrophobists of this
Republic, who would almost give their
ears--and very long ones they are-for such ev-
idence, that the negro is merely an animal with
his tail worn off by sedentary habits
But we hope that Mr.. Cameron will not con-
tent himself with searching for these caudal
creatures only. Augustine declared that he had
himself seen in Ethiopia a people with only
one eye, in the middle of their foreheads; and
as he went to ETHIOPIA " preach tue Gospel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

The longevity of good deeds is perfectly
wonderful. Joe Miller spins a yarn of car
rage stopping the way and of party Of sail
ors who went through it, when the coachman
refused to move on. About two months ago tho
same story reached us from Paris, only in this
case the sailors were gentlemen. Now, with a
kind of lovely freshness, we find the same deed
travelling anew in the newspapers, only the
scene is transferred to New y ork, and includes
both the gentlemen and tho bold mariners.
Thus it is that history repeats itself. 1t is
only justice to the memory of Mr.. Joseph Mil
Ter to say that if the jcsts of that comedian
had not been pretty good, they never would
have crystalizcd into their present Immortality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

The acquittal of the Rev. Mr.. Linn on
charges of immoral behavior at Pittsburgh,
was a conclusion fOreseen some days ago. and
we are assured that the testimony for the pros
ecutiOn was so frivolous that the Court
could hardly keep its cOuntenance. In
fact the sum of the reverend gem
tleman's iniquity seems to have been
that he was "indiscreet in kissing one or two
young ladies'" kissing young ladies may or
may not be immoral, according to circum-
stances; but kissing indiscreetly is distinct
Otfense, and we trust that all gentlemen will
take warning by Mr. Linn's unpleasant expert
Cnce.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

Our respect for the ghosts evoked by Spir-
"tualists' has often been sOrely tried; some
of them rap sheer nonsense some of them
communicate insuilerably bad grammar; and
we remember especially dispatch from "the
spirit off John Quincy Adams which COM
bined both these peeuliarties. We did think,
however, that Spirits would have better
taste than to play the ACCORDION. We were
wrong, it seems, for here is n Mr.. ROwcroft in
London, who reports that he has seen "a spirit
"hand playing the accordeon," and who AYERS
that the music produced was the most "brillant'
he ever heard Ye gods! ACCORDION players in
Heaven, all, perhaps, playing Captain Jinks!'
This would never do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

The friends of Mr.. William NJ. Tweed met
last night at Tammany Hall to once more
nominate our present Governor, the Hon. John
r. Hoffman, as the Democratic candidate for
President in 1872, the previous nomination a
few weeks ago seeming to hang fire. There
were some remarks about Ireland, and slight
allusiOns to Cuba; but the jOvial Governors
promotion was the beginning and the end of
the whole affair. Is he not starting his veloci-
pede rather early7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

We should think that when a woman leaves
100000 to found a school to be called by her
name, her heirs-at-law would be proud of her,
and acquiesce in her disposition of her own.
Not so, however; for Martha Sawin having
bequeathed the above sum to establish SEM
mary of education in Sherborn, Mass, her next
of kin, with all their might are seeking to
Illustrate the intentions of the benevolent lega-
tor. They have contested the testament in the
lower court, have been beaten, and, nothing
dauntcd, have appealed to the Supreme Court.
Inevitably, a good deal of the money be-
qucathed will be used up in making sure of
the rest. Here is another proof of the wisdom
of Mr.. George Peabodys ante-mortem philan-
thropy. If Martha Sawin had built her Acad-
envy before her demise, it would have been
prudent in her, and bad for the lawyers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

Kentucky holds to the creed of Bucllner and
Breckenridge, and of course elects the Demo-
cratic candidate for State Treasurer by an
enormous majority, say fifty thousand or there
abOuts. The Legislature will be the same way
"Ephraim is joined to his idols; let him alone"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03

They arc hot for Cuban Independence, and
want to drive every Spaniard eff the island.
We need not remind our readers that the party
organ in this city has been playing an entirely
different tune Will it change at once, or treat
John T. Hoffman as it treated Frank 2, Blairf