davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14
NemDork Dailp gribmtre.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER IA. 1869.

The Spanish instruction is still active, especially at
Valencia where the Government forces are compelled TO
await regnOrcements before beginning another attack
IL is denied the French Government intends to sus
pend right of reunion, but In view OF some dsordery
meetings 1t s prepared to act with energy The Sultan
Will certainly preside the opening Of the 5uez Canal
Tho Fill islanders according Australian report have
asked the protection of the United States Though
chased by vessel the United States the Cuban steam
er Lillian escaped but Spanish varsteamer is said
TO have gone In pursuit letter has been received from
the African explorer Livingstone, stating that he has
made discoveries on the Nile. The President OF San
Domingo negotiating for the sale OfI5amana Bay to
the United States
The Republican majority in Pennsylvania is 1000 In
Ohio 10000 and in Iowa $1,000. The President has
pointed Major William Belknap Of Iowa Secretary
OF War Admiral Farragut still lies in critical coDdi-
tiOn but hopes Of his recovery entertained col
Ored who outraged q young lady near Fort Wash
ington, Nd was hanged by mob An entire family at
Schuylkll Haven, Pa and two men in lookup IN Char
lotte Monroe Co N " have been burned TO death. An
accident the SusQuehanna Railroad injured
sengers and tho Connecticut Shore Line Railroad
engineer and fireman Another freshet has occurred
Albany and Troy, and the docks again submerged
The deposits In the Freedmen's Savings Bank in Wash.
iugton now amount to s5.OOOOOO. The Social Science
Association elected officers for the ensuing year.
The Board Of Health discussed the fatbong nuisance
again yesterday. but made advance toward getting
rid OF It, Flooding the streets with salt water is the
leadihg idea before the Health Board. 1t being es
timated that less than cleanse daily
all the city below Central Park. Some burglars broke
into faro bank and stole the gambling implements but
got no money. Two boys Tuesday rushed
upon lazy In the street aud tore away
her watchchain. driver has been fined 81 500 damages
for running over The steamer Pequot Will
leave here Saturday to Join the Haytian Navy. The
sAipowners Association held important meeting to
aid the Congressional Committee In determining the
causes Of the decay Of American commerce. Another
injunction has been issued against the Gold Exchange
Bank. Francis Drake, tried in Brooklyn for the
murder OF William Fitzpatrick, found guilty
OF granddaughter. The Right Rev. o. W. Whitaker, Mis-
siOnary Bishop Of Nebraska and Arizona was conse-
Grated at the Rev. Dr. Tyngs Church. Last night din
given to the California Pioneers. Prof. Van
Buren, last night delivered the Introductory lecture be-
fore the Bellevue Hospital Medical College family at
Riverdse poisoned few days ago by false mush-
rooms and child will probably die. Gold, 1904 l3Ot,
I3Os Temperature, 50. "a, 50. so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

Ship building is one thing, ship-owning an
other. Yesterday the ship-owners of New
York met to express their views on the decline
of American commerce, but the only remedy
they could suggest was the power of emitting
vessels purchased in foreign ports to all the
privileges of American bottoms. Failing that,
they ask for the free import of ship-building
materials. And this they would regard
as placing "the shipping interests OF
"this country on proper basisw We cannot
see it. In our opinion such power would
tend quite as much to the encouragement OF
foreign industry at American expense. There
is no need to go abroad for axes to cut down
our own forests Let our native resources be
developed; let American artisans be encour-
aged let trade be cultivated with the nonmanu-
featuring countries of the West Indies, South
America, China, and India, and both ship build
ing and commerce will soon be placed on stable
and prosperous footing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

Up to the day of Asa Packers defeat in
Pennsylvania all the newspaper "intervlewerS"
utterly failed in their attempts to pump him.
1t was for time supposed that he refused to
give his views" because he had none; but 1t
has come out that it was because he considered
it too heavy business. "This thing of talking"
said he to persistent and impertinent re-
porter who lately bothered him, this thing OF
stalking is a serious matter. and we will have
"to give it some serious attention some other
"time.n This is excellent. 1t gives US ground
of hope for Asa Packer-not, perhaps, hope OF
his being elected Governor or President on the
Democratic ticket, but hope that he will es-
cape the luck of other politicians who make
wind-bags of themselves. A politician who has
learned that "ths thing of talking is a serious
matter" has not lived in vain, nor studied
Grant for naught.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14
4 TRIBUTE To INTEGRITY.

We have already chronicled the rejection by
Republican Nominating Conventions, OF every
Senator and nearly every Assemblyman who
voted last Winter for the moDstrous Tax-Levies
which the Tammany "Ring' sought to impose
on this most fearfully swindled city. The
People have vetoed these jobbers and consigned
them to richly merted ignomny.
Two or three Democrats in the Assembly
united with the incorruptible Republicans in
resisting the giant iniquty. along with many
Others Here is the response of the constituents
of one of them:
At the Republican Convention OF the Ist District OF
Queens County represented in the Assembly last Winter
by Mr. Pearsal Democrat held on Saturday last IL was
determined not to oppose Mr.. Pearsa's reelection L.
Bradford Prince Of Flushing. who was Mr.. Pearsalfs
competitor last year. proposed the following which was
adopted:
Whereas The Hon. James b. Pearsall has distinguished
himself among his fellow Democrats by course OF non
esty and Integrity last Legislature where but one
other Democrat was found sufficiently honest 10 vote
against tho infamous TaxLevies; and
Whereas. We desire TO show our appreciation OF up
right conduct in official position wherever IL may DO
found Therefore, A., D..
Resolred That this Convention make no nomination Tor
member OF Assembly in opposition to Mr. Pearsall
SO Mr.. Pearsal will be returned to the
next Assembly by unanimous vote.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

In the enforcement of law, there ought to be
common sense. A man was recently sentenced
to imprisonment for four months as a COM
mon drunkard, and it happened that at the
same time woman was incarcerated in the
same prison as common vagrant. The par
ties managed to get acquainted, and, before the
expiration of their term, both succeeded in
making their escape. Flying to strange place,
they married, reformed and went to work hon
estly. But, before great while, the officers
of the law got on their track, arrested them.
and carried them back to prison to serve out
their term. Now this would have been very
well if the parties had been guilty OF any great
criminal violation of law. But was 1t not more
for the advantage of society that common
drunkard and a common vagrant should reform
and lead respectable lives than that they should
be thwarted and demoralized in order to secure
the strict enforcement of law which was only
enacted as means of preventing people from
leading such lives as they had hopefully ADAM
dOpedt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

TRICK RBrURsED.-Geo. W. Blunt. RED Ranca A.
writes he won't for Horace Greeley TINS bHn.' ~
contest for Congress some years ago. WAS got up Wy
Greeley and his friends TO run as boiling wing
lanes Brooks and secured some 800 votes, when cost
him sone thousands of d0llars-Greeey running lor
short term and Brooks for long term the same eec
comnatriot Greeley IN Y. Express.
The Express has been deceived. We can
not say that Mr.. Geo. w. Blunt was never
"bolting Wing candidate against James
Brooks :" but we are sure he was never " got
up by Greeley and his friends" Mr. Greeley
supported no candidate against Mr. BROOKS III
1S48, when they two were Wing candidates
(for different terms) in the same district put
gave his vote and best efforts to elect Mr.
Brooks trusting to his professions that he was
hostile to Slavery Extension and devoted to the
policy of Protection to Home Industry. IL he
was deceived, that was his misfortune; put
he certainly worked and voted for Brooks, not
Blunt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

The Special Committee Of the House of Rep
resentatives, directed to inquire into the con-
dition and prospects of American Navigation
and Ship building, is now sitting in our City
The Hon. John Lynch of Maine is Chairman;
Mr.. II. c. Calkin is our City member. The
maritime revolution caused by the demon
strated superiority of Steam to Wind as a
means of propulsion. substituting Iron for Wood
as a chief material, has suddenly crushed out
the Ship building of England and of the Cana
das, as we'll as of this country, concentrating
most of it in Scotland, where Iron is exceptionally
cheap, and where the construction of Iron
Screw vessels was early made specially
"What shall be done to revive American
Ship buildiDg9" is the problem which this
Committee is raised to consider, and we doubt
not that it will be thoroughly sifted. We shall
await its conclusions with interest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER H. 1869

as long as it patrons will stand it but tho
first duty of a journalist nowadays is sup
posed to be to tell the truth, and to tell it at
once, instead of letting it out by degrees
If the Democracy have been defeated The
Worlds readers are strong enough to bear the
announcement plainly and promptly. But our
neighbor always breaks the intelligence of
Democratic disaster as tenderly as a consider
ate friend announces an unexpected death.
First the patient is very little ndisposed;
then unwell; then dangerously sick; finally
The World never gets as far as that Its
readers have learned the truth from THE
TRIBUNE long before Democratic organs can
make up their minds to tell it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

The World was as lively yesterday as could
have been expected; but the Arithmetic Man
had evidently had a. pretty hard time. Just
as he complained last Fall that "the returns
"came in very bad shape" so no lamented
yesterday that "the storm interfered sadly
with the transmission of kilograms and there
were hardly figures enough to cipher out the
usual Democratic Gains.n However, he did
what he could with headlines, and proved by
those, to his entire satisfaction, that the Demo
Gratis had carried everything, except Iowa.
If The World prefers to conduct it's business
on such principles. it is of course free to do 80
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

Two brothers named Call went into Kos
suth County, Iowa, fifteen years ago, when it
had hardly an inhabitant. They took with
them less than five dollars each, but they
went there to work. They have kept at
work ever since; and they have earned and
made quarter of a million dollars. There
are many thousand as good chances to-day as
they had; the difference is in the men. He
who tells you he can't hew a farm out of the
wild West because he has no money, is not
the man to do it with ever so good a start.
If you were to offer to keep him in provisions
while he made his farm. he would want some
one to chew the vlctuals for him. What would
suit him best is an Office, in which there is
much to got and little to do.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14
OBITUdRT.
CHARLES AUGUsTIN sAISr-BEUvE.


In the death of Charles Augustin Saint
Beuve which Cable telegram has made known. France
has lost Of her most brilliant writers and eminent
public He born at Bouogne .Mer. Dec. Is
1904 and his father having died two months before h
birth. he left TO the Of his mother lady Of
English parentage, who undertook his early education
At Il he went Paris, where he completed OF
study at the College Charemagne. On leaving college
he studied medicine and received the appointments OF
Surgeon to the Hospital st. Louis Feeling disase fo
his profession and influenced by the Tales and Ballads
OF Victor Hugo, he resigned his situation Surgeon
and devoted himself entirely TO poetry and general liter
ature He was presented to Victor Hugo and allied him
self with De Musset and others In the Oenaee which
extinguished during the revolution of $780, when Saint
Beuye Joined the staff of the Globe the avowed or
gan OF the simonian sect. Growing tired OF
the association, he transferred his services TO the
DIES De,r Mondes in which resumed the series
OF literary portraits commenced in the Rer dc Paris
These sketches to which he recently added formed
important portion OF his literary labors and attracted
considerable attention The National after received
excellent contributions FROM his pen and IN 1887 he
paid visit to Switzerland and there resolved to write
History of Porte Royal" In 1870 he
accepted the post Of Librarian in the
Mazarin Library, and five years later he ad.
mited TO the French Academy to MI the caused
by the death Of Cashier Deavgne In 1880 he Joined the
Consutionne and contributed TO that journal admit
raDe collection OF literary biography ana critlcismt
which form an improved continuation Of his Portraits
and M series Of volumes Soon after the event:
OF December. 1851 he attached to the Moneur and
Professor OF Latin Poetry at the College Of France.
but the characterization Of the students exhibited h
pointed At hs The
sgnaiIed his departure for Algeria at the end Of 1885,
and member Of the q
appointed by the French Academy TO superintend
edition OF the Historical Dictionary Of the French
Language" His poeticsl and prose writings are very
extensive, ana display great versatility. In public
AFFAIRS while edhering To the Imperial
policy. he regarded all liberal concessions
with satis1acton and In differently constituted body
than the French Senate would probably have become
more serviceable statesman The style of NJ. Saint.
~ ia>fknnnn tho literature Of France
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14
&mustmtnts, oct.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC.--This Evening at S-herr-
name the Prestdgtstour
AMERICAN INSTITUTE NATIONAL EXHlBllloN-
TIL, D.T and Evening At the Empire Cts Skating kiok
RooTHs THEATER Twenty-thrd-st. between fhVh
I'D s,.,b.syes- Rveung at a." Leah" Miss BaemAo
FIFTH-AvE. THEATRR, Twenty fourth-st; ana l'n
.,.-This Evening g." Twelfth Night Mrs scOituuouS
NKw-YoRK CRCUs.-ThIs Eyenng'-Urahu OPoh-
log Programme. 49,,
NIBIo's GARD, N.-This Evening ut o. Foin'Os"'
or The Railroad TO Rlln." ., ~, .
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Evening AZ o. Inv
Streets Of NewYork" J. K Mortimer ,s:
SAN Francisco MINsTRELs.-Ihls Evening
eslaneOas performances .,..., -
SOMERvIILE ART GALLERY, NO , - rn'"-"'''
This Day aDd Observation-Disclosures Of The Nine buses -,
T,Ip observation-disclosures Hal. Fourteenth-S''-
,N Rsa,ns =, =. Tot James Mace and Leopold hace
Tuv.rpE FRANCAIs-This Evening-Engllsh
Comedy" Ssm"-F 5. Chabhau - ono
W.I,.cx,s TurATER.-This Evening at s." Pro-
R.ess." Mt John Gilbert nv. -, -.
Woop,s MUSEUM Broadway and 1hlrtleth-St;r-'
- 80, d.. O =. m 10 10 Two dramatic performances dAJ'
~ S PERT" Ats "wp Wan Winkie" and 'Ma'sSneho.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

Speaking of Underground Railroads. the
people of New-York "never are, but always
"to be blessed" We have been so many
times disappointed in this matter that we are
slow to believe the latest report, that
engineers have been engaged for the last
five or six months in surveying and laying
"out the route" Show us bona fde COM
pany of responsible men who actually own
stock, for part of which at least they have
paid; prove to us that contracts have been
awarded; and let us come downtown, some
fine morning, and find hole dug in or near
the City Hall Park for southern terminus of
the road-then, and not till then, will we
really believe that the day of our deliverance
from dirty horse-cars approaches. Year after
year have charters been granted by-or bought
of-the Legislature, and year after year have
the Directors given us fine promises instead
of road. Let the Legislature place the next
company that asks for charter under heavy
bonds to commence the road within year,
and we shall then either see the needed work
begun or have something to pay us for waiting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

diction of the Supreme Court where 1t now
sleeps. "We have now lost even the thread
"of the case,n says an Administration paper,
calling upon the Durango authorities to state
what condition it is in.
But we take it that the state OF the case
ought to be well known to the Supreme Court,
to the Secretary of Justice, and to the general
Administration of Mexico. The government
which keeps an army paid, when can
command the election of a majority Oh
partisans, which can put down lhsur-
rections and shoot men at Will, surely
possesses the means of expediting JUS
tice in the case of one of its own officers ne
late executions make for it dilemma from the
logic of which it can hardly escape and II IL
be right to kill three men, who, 1T is charged
were not fairly tried, and not certainly guilty.
surely there is chance to visit justice
upon manifest murderer. accused OF hiB CRIME
by the Government itself, and for year and
more without trial. The official silence under
which the Canto case has been allowed TO
consume patience is shamefully lamentaHe;
the suspicion to which it tempts, IN want OIL
prompt yindication from the accused govern
ment, is simply horrible. Secrecy in such a
case may be blunder worse than crime, ana
postponement a tampering with revolution.
IL the Mexicans are excitedly suspicious
beyond their unhappy wont, we may guess the
reason. and on all accounts we hope that tle
government and people of Mexico may be aDle
IN yindicate themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

The Star beat all the other papers yesterday
in its election returns from Nebraska. 1t gave
the result (by telegraph of the vote for Mem
bers of the Legislature one year in adrance OF
the election, which is not to take place until
October, 1870. 1t is gratifying to be assured
by The Star that "the Radicals have achieved
"a substantial success" and secured majority
of "a on joint ballot. The Star is the same en-
terprising journal which received 10y Atlantic
cabe) summary of the remarks of The Lon
don AthenGum on the Byron scandal two weeks
before The AthenGum made any remarks.
Such gratifying evidences of energy and
watchfulness on the part of the smaller jour
nails deserve the highest commentator, es-
pecially when we reflect what serious tax the
cost of these special kilograms must be upon
their necessarily limited resources.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

committee appointed by the corporation
of Brown University is now engaged in the
investigation of charges made in Congress by
Senator Sprague which seriously assail the in
tegrity of certain officials connected with the
institution. Under the grant from the Gen.
eral Government in aid of agricultural colleges
the university became entitled to 10000 acres
of land. Part of the land was selected in
Kansas, and, being near the route afterward
chosen for the Pacific Railway, increased
rapidly in value. The whole of the scrip,
worth by that time s1,OOO,OOO was subsequently
sold for $4,000 to Mr.. Horace T. Love, who
was agent for the university at the time of
locating the land, but held no connection with
it at the time of the transfer. 1t is charged
by Mr.. Sprague that the real purchasers, how
ever, were Messrs. Brown and Ives, Love
standing merely as their representative. Brown
g. Ives are members of the university corpora
ton, and are thus accused of inducing the in
stitution to part with valuable gift from the
United States. for one-twentieth OF its value,
and clearing $950,00O by the operation. Mr.
Love has published card denying that the
firm in question had anything whatever to do
with his purchase, and we have no valid rea-
son To donht him. But Brown University
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

Very precise information, from an official
source, has been published on the attitude
assumed by the various sections of the Catholic
Episcopate in reference to the Council. II APP
pears that the Holy See counts on the COM
plete adhesion of the American Bishops, as well
as SPANISH and Italian. The French Episcopate
will ioin three parties--the Ultramontanes, the
Gallicians (led by the Archbishop of Paris), and
the Liberals. The German Bishops will be
favorable to the Court of Rome on some ques-
tons. but will oppose it on particularly
those of political and social character. On
tho whole, the Vatican considers itself secure
of majority; but this will in some cases be
very narrow, even though the perfect submits
sion Of all the American Rishnps be assured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14
THE ELECTIONS.

PENNSYLVANIA has reelected Gov. Geary
over Asa Packer by about 1000 majority.
Henry w. Williams, Republican. is chosen a
Justice of the Supreme Court by about 1000.
The Legislature is strongly Republican in
either House. Considering the bitter hostility
with which Gov Geary was regarded by
many Republicans, which cost him thousands
of votes in Allegheny County alone, and the
apathy which characterized the contest, this is
better result than we had right to expect.
Two years ago, we lost the bDly candidate
voted for throughout the State Judge Will
liams (now eected) having been beaten about
1000 by Sharswood, Dem.
OHIO has reelected Gen. Hayes her Governor
by majority somewhat greater than he re-
ceived two years ago. We hope it exceeds
5000, but shall be content with that figure.
The Chairman of the State Central Committee
gives us reason to hope for more. The
Legislature (hitherto against US in both
Houses) is still in doubt.
Iowa is of course Republican all over.
Though the vote is light, Gov. Merrills ma
jority will exceed 10000.
The elections in Indiana and Nebraska were
only for county officers; and we are without
much information as to their drift.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

"We are still only on the threshold of Con-
federation" says Governor General Sir John
Young and Confederation. we may add, is
only means to nationality and preface to
independence. Some loyal British-Americans
will dispute this, and some will not. while
most of them will agree with Sir John that
each province will be better off in union of
some kind than if left to its own exclusively
local aims - especially with respect to the
great railway needs of Canada, such rs AN
"extended line of railway, say from Halifax
con one side to some port of British Columbia
con the other"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14

During the last two days in 1861 when the
Repeaters, under the Tammany leaders, and the
hosts of false naturalization papers, were doing
service, there were nearly seventy-seven
thousand names added to the Registry
lists. Unless the real voters wake up
and take advantage of their opportunity
when the Boards hold their next and final
meetings, the vote of the city will not be much
more than half as large as it was last Novem-
her, Looking at the Ward figures, as given in
our reports, we judge that the Democracy lose
Just about in proportion to their excess of vote,
so that as between the parties it is difficult
to say which Is the more Indifferent to the
work of registration.