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New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

We find in the correspondence Of Boston
newspaper very good account of New Years
Day at Washington. Chiefly and most deeply
are we impressed by the fact that several OF
the young gentlemen of African descent paid
their calls in stylish equipages, and found at
Several houses tables covered with the most
sumptuous repasts, and more elegantly serued
than could be found among the Anglo Saron
"race." We commend this fact to those Dem
"crats" whose political principles are mainly in
their bellies. Surely these Anglo-Saxons will
remit their prejudices, and will not refuse to
associate with those whose fesh-pots are tho
fullest and the fattest; just as those exclusive
folks the Israelites in the desert, hungered
and thirsted for the rich viands of the dusky
Egyptians.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

We feel quite incapable of believing all the
statements that are published about the par
ties engaged in the Winnipeg rumpus. When,
for example, VIC are told that the adherents of
Gov. McDougall are fends in human shape"
we must confess that the allegation is a trife
beyond our powers of credulity. When again
we are assured that General" Rel, the leader
of the macontents, is possessed of all the
refinement and polish brilliant intellect can
"acquire, and combines much of the determina-
ton of Napoleon with the tactics of Cesar"
we must say we find it quite impossible to re-
ceive the assertion with becoming gravity. 1t
is consoling however, to think that if Rel
really be such a tremendous person, it will
take great many fends in human shape to
overthrow him on the field of battle.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

1t appears by the Fire Marshal's report that
of the 1900 fires in this city and Brooklyn
last year, 129, or more than one-tenth of the
whole, were caused by kerosene All this
destruction of property, not to speak of the
loss of life, might have been prevented by an
enforcement of the law regulating the making
of kerosene. There was n long continued
quarrel, during the year, between the Fire
Commissioners and the Board of Health as to
which of them had the authority over this
matter; bat in the mean time there has been
no effective application of the law such as we
have seen in Philadelphia, Providence, and
many other cities We suppose, therefore, that
during the present year we shall have to con
tinue our chronicles of the ravages of ker-
osene.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07
MRS. STOVE'S C1SP.

| The penalty of Mrs. Stoves literary sins has
overtaken her in the almost general consent
with which her argument has been misun-
derstood. Very few of the papers seem to
have comprehended the points upon which
she rested her accusation. These were that
Lady Byron distinctly made the charge on
the strength of her husbands confession that
she was incapable of maliciously inventing the
story; that she was of sound mind and there
fore could not have imagined it and that her
subsequent treatment of Mrs Leigh can be ex-
planned on the supposition that for some time
possibly some years-she believed that the sis
ter had not yielded to the brothers criminal
advances. This is good strong argument if
the premises can be proved We have already
said that in our judgment Mrs. Stowe has
nearly made out her case. Let us explain
wherein her reasoning is strong and wherein
it is weak.
She makes it clear that, if Lady Byron is
worthy of belief Lord Byron confessed the
crime of incest. She makes it clear that Lady
Byron was incapable of wckedly inventng the
story. She shows it to be next to impossible
that Byron should have invented it himself in
one of his mystifyiDg moods. We say next
"to impossible" because this theory is Just
barely tenable, though it is grossly improbable
Finally she shows how the one great objection
to the incest story, namely, the letters to Mrs.
Leigh, is removed by the supposition that Mrs
Leigh convinced Lady Byron for q time that
her husband was insane, and that he had only
attempted the crime, not committed it.
The weakness of her case lies first in the
answer to this objection of the letters. There
is no proof that Mrs. Leigh offered any such
explanation. Mrs. Stoves theory is mere con-
lecture. We may admit that this is the sort of
explanation guilty woman would be likely to
offer under the peculiar circumstances of the
case, and there is indirect evidence that Mrs.
Leigh did represent to Lady Byron that the
poet was insane. But further than this Mrs.
Stowe has nothing TO offer but intrinsic prOba-
bility; of which each reader can Judge for
himself.
If we reject this explanation there is nothing
left but the theory of hallucination, and here
we detect the second weak point in Mrs.
Stoves case. With a good show of reason,
she urges that tho opinion of Dr. Forbes
Winslow is conclusive against this theory Lot
us see. DR.. Forbes Winslow says: Z" L do not
believe that the mooted theory Of mental
alteration can in this case be for moment
entertained. 1t is quite inconsistent
with the theory of Lady Byrons insanity to
imagine that her delusion was restricted TO
the idea of his having committed incest &. q.
Her diseased brain, affecting the normal
action of thought. would In all probability
have manifested other symptoms beside those
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

We are advised from Washington that the
President will send a message to Congress at
its reassembliDg in which lie will explain the
Samana Bay negotiation, approve the policy
Of acquiring fOothOld and power in the tropics,
and advocate the ratification of the st. Thomas
treaty. programme of this kind would not
DO in marked variance from the Presidents
well-known disposition to extend the DOM
iaation of the United States over
the Caribbean Sea. Against the contem-
plated programme, Gems. Luperon and Cabral,
the Dominican reyOutiODists, have offered one
from of protest. Others have been made with
respect to the terms of the Banana Bay bar
gain but We look forward to the predicted
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07
Smustmsnts, gtdur,. ,tt., obis 66rning.

ACADEMY OF MUsIc.-At2i Philharmonic Society.
Ole Bull
BooTHs THEATER. Twenty-thrd-st., between Fifth
and SIhAveL-" Hamlet" Booth
FIFTH-AvE. THEATER.-"The Busybody."
NmLo's GARDEN" Little Emily"
OLYMPIC THEATER.-"The Writing on the Wall"
THE TAMMANY.-" Bad DiclIey," &c.
WALLACK's THFATER, Broadway and Thirteenth
u-"wnd Oats" Lester wallsck
WoOD's MUSEUM, Broadway and SOth-st.-From
toll .. At2 "withOu, Name" Ats "DorIbsla' Giant
APOLLO HALL Twenty y-eighth-st and Broadway
Day sDd Evening. The Cardiff Giant
NKw-YoRK CIRCUS, Fourteenth-st.-Grand Pro-
ttamme. Cinderella" Bquestrianism
SAN FRANCIsCo Observation-Disclosures per
tormaRces
Prof JOHN c. DRAPER: Cooper Institute" Air
aud Respiration"
Prof. DoREMUs: Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Hall
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

The lecture before the American Institute
this evening, in Cooper Union Hall. is by Prof.
John C. Draper, 60 On the Air and Respiration
The lecture will be illustrated by numerous
experiments. The gases which form the air we
breathe will be separated and combined so as
show their peculiar characteristics. Those who
would understand the danger of inhaling nox-
ious gases, and who would effectually guard
themselves and their dwellings against poisoned
air. could not do better thing than to listen
to Prof Draper this evening.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

The Spaniards have lately been carrying on
their executions of Cubans with redonhlOd 40
tivity. They have not only shot and garroted
hundreds of prisoners and other persons found
with arms in their possession, but they have
made victims of innumerable suspects, of ind-
viduals accused of completely with the rebel
lion, of uttering obnoxious words, of holding
correspondence with the enemy, or of being
relatives of men on the insurrectiOnary side.
Beside all these cases, there have boen many
persons slaughtered against whom no charges
were made, but who have fallen victims of the
vengeance of the soldjeTy, the volunteers, or
other bloodthirsty loyalists. The Spanish de-
termination to trample out the nsurrection in
its own blood is being carried out in a fearful
mnnnpr
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07
A UNIQUE ALBUM

A very pleasant reunion of artists and au'
thors took place at beautiful private residence On
SecOndaye, New.lears eve. the occasion OF which ws
Of peculiar interest Mere than two years ago the idss
occurred to lady, whose sympathetic appreciation Of
and constant hospitality to artists and authors rendered
them prompt and cordial In cooperating for her beneV0
lent and tasteful enterprise collect series Of char
acteristo autographs and sketches and dispose Of them
for the benefit OF the Woman's Hospital. Poets ana
painters responded TO the call OF their friend with aae
rity. and the result Is album quite unique In beauty
and value, both artistic and literary Here have inc
fayorite poems OF Bryant. Haleck, Longiellow, ana
other bards in their own handwriting, and with then
signatures. each illustrated with emphatic taste aud sI
by most eminent artists The little finished sketches
In oil. by Church aud Hart Sme Kensett shatuck' anu
other landscape painters their best vein. Darcy
Illustrations Of Reads "Sherldan's Ride" are fun Oh
spirit and truth Mrs. Naterton's beautiful tribute
Col Shaw is accompanied by Edmonia Lewiss bust oi
the hero photograph Mrs Murray contributes one u
her most expressive watercolor heads; Robert Brown
ing has sent autographs poem stono illustrates pr'
Parsons muse, Bradford Whitters, and Huntington
poem by Bishop Coke. Some OF the flower painting "
fair hands exquisite. and It is TO meet with u0
refined and ingenious specimens OF iluminstions thAa
such ombesh the pages OF this album. These syDos
leaves of inspired pen aud pencil admirably arr"nk
level with tho eye thus they will remain until the su
win be sold and the proceeds given 10 the Woman NV
pltAL
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

Gorgons, hydras, and chimeras dire, continue
perplexing the mind of the Cuban reader.
When will the Havana authorities confirm the
story of the surrender of 1900 men, for the
details of which one of their newspapers vainly
calls When will I'll CrOniSta make good its
story of assassination 7 When will Yalmaseda
cease to butcher When will the Spaniards
have done with such stupid orders as those
issued in the Vuelta- -Abajo district? They de-
serve to lose, if only for their criminal want of
sense.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

1t seems that the Provisional Government
which the Brazilans have established over Par
aguay has abolished Slavery" there. We are
glad to hear it. If, now. the Brazilian author
tiles will take some steps toward abolShing
Slavery in their own dOminioDs, We shall be
still more happy to hear of that
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

Some faint hint of the sort of holiday greet
ings with which people have been pelting us
may be gathered this morning from the first
and second columns on our second page. The
hint, however, is only faint one, and the storm
of assaults of this sort grows each day thicker.
Thriving, as THE TRIBUNE always has, on
attack, we are bearing the present onslaught
with what philosophy we may.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

The efforts at an organization of the Repub-
lican General Committee, last evening, were
simply disgraceful. When the men whom
Tammany owns have been peremptOrlly and
finally put out, we may hope for an end of
such shameless proceedings. Till then, we
commend to the study of our readers the report
in another column. 1t may serve to indicate
what manner of men are striving to control
the Republican party in this city.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

The Spanish Minister has active helpers, or
he would not be so prompt in demanding the
detention OF the steamer Annie, or, as he pre-
fers to call it, the pirate Annie, which at last
accounts had put into Charleston. Again the
elements on land and sea seem against the
Cubans, and again we have the spectacle of
brave men in difficulties.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

The Gable repeats the error that Mr.. John
Martin, whose partisans in the Longford Dis
trict of Ireland have been shot at by British
troops is Fenian candidate Mr.. Martin has
never been Fenian, and in no way belongs
to the Fenian organization. He claims to be a
Nationalist and we may add that lie is one of
the most earnest honored and sensible of
Irish Nationalists
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

tender repentance Of this worthy yeoman will Gil
with remorse the unregenerate hearts not only O,
whisky distillers, but of those gentlemen whose
incomes shrink at the time of assessment and
swell Immediately after, TO the astonishmept Of
their neighbOrs. If "COnscience" should be-
come prevalent complaint, we should need a
special and distinct Conscience Commission in
the Department
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07
TERMS or THE Tribune.

DAILY TRIBUNE. Mail Subscribers, $40 per annum.
SNMI-WEEKIY TRIBUNE Mail Subscribers 81 per an
WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Mail Subscribers, Sc per annum
Advertising Rates.
DAILY TRIBUNE DC. 30c 4Oc. 6Oc.. and 81 per line
SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. % and 80 cents per Line.
WEEKLY TRIBUNE. $2 $S. and s. per line,
According to position IN the paper.
Terms cash in advance
Address. THE TRIBUNE, New York.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

1t is evident that it is only the small sins
which excite tho pangs of agonized remorse
and lead to anonymous restitution. Thus a
nameless New-York farmer has Just sent 81 to
the conscience fund" of the Treasury Depart
ment-the amount of tax on several tubs of
battor" duo and unpaid. We trust that the
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

The Legislature has adjourned for several
days. The Amercus Club had its ball last
night. The two circumstances are supposed to
have some occult significance. To us the most
noticeable feature in the transactions is that
the Legislature should have the grace to COM
prehend that dancing would be better than the
Wnrk IL Mns ahnnt
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

message for such decided information as Will
make the action of the Government more
clear than it is now. Meantime, We need only
add that we have never known a case where
it would be more fitting to make haste with
extreme slOWness.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07
Busintss Bottles.

BACHELORS HAIR DYE.-Thc best In the
Instantaneous harmless perfect Applied at Factory No 10
Bond-st Sold evervWhere.
Balls and Parties VS.. Snow aud Rain, or White
Ki Boots aud Slippers, Rubber Doors snd SHOES
MILLER Co, Uuionsquare
TIFICIALITIES-PALMER LIMBs.
BroadWsv ltOs Ch-suutst PILLS. 81 Greenst Boston
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07
TIE Commercial Adrertis.r saws;

TITO UVVFOItI FFJVI
eve prophesy that the Legislature OF 1870 will be no
more economical than any OF the Legislatures OF the
ro9t, aud not u WIT more honest"
deem this Legislature no whit better than its
predecessor; but if Mr. Hugh Hastings will
keep or can be kept away from Albany during
its session, we are confident that its dis
honesty will not be so evident and palpable.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07

The Code of Procedure in the Roman Coun-
Gil is a rare and remarkable document, new to
the American public. In fact, it comprehends
mass of news for which we have hitherto
looked in vain in correspondence. We present
il in full in Mr.. Ripley's letter from Rome.
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07
PERSONAL.

Mario has resumed his duties at st. Peters.
burg There was a rumor recently in London, that b.,
had poisoned himself.
The divorce of Mdme. Cosima de Bulow, q
daughter Of Able Liszt from her husband Herr Hans
Bulow has been pronounced it is stated by the CIVIL
tribunal at Munich Herr Won Buow was formerly
music director at the Royal opera Of Munich and
other noteworthy achievements brought out and con
Quoted the performance OF that incomprehensble rap
sody the Tristan und Isolde OF Herr Richard Wagner
among whose furious partsans he at one time ths
most furious Why Herr Won Bulow resigned his post Is
very generally known; it is also very generally be-
lieyed that Mdme. de Bulow is about TO take to herself
another husband in the person Of the MUSICIAN Of the
Future " himself
Gen. Banks arrived here in the Java, from
Europe, yesterday and is at the st. Nicholas HoteL Gen
Burnside also arrived IN the same steamer aud IS at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel
The Hon. F. F. Low, Minister to China; Sena-
tor Roscoe C0nkng, Utica Gen. Jewell Of Connecticut,
exC0Dgressman Woodbridge OF Vermont Gen. T. A.
Starring. Washington, and 7. II. Garfield. Vermont.
man T. M. Pomeroy aud f. p. Ross, Auburn; judge
BARLEY OF Washington, the Hon W. II. Upson ~
C., Ohio; Major James Forney OF Philadelphia, DrSi-
lard OF Buffalo, and Cesare We'll of Naples at the 81
Nicholas Hotel -= Ex Congressman Thomas Cornell.
Rondout, and Judge Cochran OF White Plains n Y, are
at the Metropolitan Hotel. =-== Gen. John c. Hazard
master Clark and Surgeon Nelson, u. Navy at the
Hoffman House. = Col c. p. Patterson. Washington;
j. III. b. Latrobe, Baltimore; the Rev DIR. Colt and ths
Rev. Joseph H. Colt OF Concord at the Everett House
- DIR. Cubreth. U. 3. Navy Is at the g. Denis Hotel
= The Hon. W. b.,Chandler Washington; the Hon.
James A. Bell, Albany; the Hon. 8. X. Williams. W9B
County N Y; Gen. John c. Fremont, TarrytONn; T.
Morgan, Aurora. ~ v. and the Rev W A. Mitchell,
Maryland, are at the Astor House,
New-York tribune., 1870-01-07
Up.TOWN ADVKRTISEMENTS.

For the accommodation of uptown resi-
dents Mr.. /. IL Brown has opened ONCE at No. %
West Thirty. second junction Of Broadway and Sixth
ave. where advertisements for THE TRIBUNE Will be
received up 20 2. in the evening.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-04
TIE GEoRGIA LEGISLATURE.

The XIvth and XVIII amendments were
adopted on Wednesday, as reported by tele-
graph.
In the House. according to the constitution,
BRYANT objected TO the amendments being de-
clarcd adopted, on the ground that there was
not a quorum in the House, but was overruled.
Bethune's resolution to request Terry to
stop old executions was not taken up. There
was no action on the Radical resolution to APP
point a committee to investigate Anglers
charges against Bullock.
In the Senate, Senator Gambler made an
able speech against their adoption. The Dem
ocrats declined to vote, but Conley compelled
them.
A Radical resolution for the appointment of
a committee to investigate Anglers charges
against Bullock passed, but was not concurred
in by the House.
A resolution was adopted to take recess
until the llth. The recess is u Radical meas
ure, and the adoption Of the resolution wa, was
hailed by them with immense applause. Bul.
lock is apprehensivc Of his removal and new
elections.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-04

SEC. /. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives, of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General AS
sembly, and by the authority of the same,
That all sales of personal or real estate, or
other interest, hereafter ordered to be made
by the Courts of Common Pleas and Judges
thereof, or Courts of Probate, shall be made
by the sheriff of the county in which said real
or personal estate or other interest is at the
time said sale is ordered.
Sec. 2. That in all sales by said sheriff, un-
der the order of Courts of Common Pleas, eX-
ercising common law jurisdiction, or under
the order Of Courts of Probate, the fees of said
sheriff shall be the same as now fixed by law,
for sales by sherlfIs under executions issuing
from the Courts Of Common Pleas, exercising
common law Jurisdictions; and that In all sales
under the order of Courts of Common Pleas
exercising equity jurisdiction, the fees of said
sheriff shall be the same as those now fixed by
law for sales by shcritfs under executions issll-
ing from Courts of Common Pleas exercising
common law jurisdiction.
Approved 9TH day or January, 1870,
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-04

the committee being satisfied that the claim
was a just one, reported favorably. But the
Senate for some reason laid the report of the
committee on the table. No objection was, or
could be made to the building. No exception
was taken to the legality or fairness Ofthe origi-
nal contract. The State is now using the
building, and claims to be its proper owner, and
yet when two OF her honest citizens petition for
the amount due them for their labor according
to contract, the State Of South Carolina, cool
ly, deliberately and without even attempting
an excuse. repudiatcs the debt. Wonder II
Mr. Hoit's claim for repairing the same build
ing will meet the same fate? We opine not.
Mr. H. is q Radical. Messrs. Allen and Owens
are Democrats" -
ASSAULT AND ARREST.
Mr.. Lane, the Newberry new policeman, was
assaulted in Newberry on Saturday afternoon
Gy party Of young men from Edgefcld Dis
trict. From what we learn, says the Newberry
Herald, they were in liquor, and created such
disturbance against the peace of the town as
caused Mr. Lane 10 attempt their arrest, to
which resistance was made, and In which vio-
lence was done him. Assistance being rem
dered him, however, the parties were arrested
and lodged in Jail.
MORE OF THE wHISKEY WAR.
The Columbia Phoenix says: "We are in
formed that Deputy Collector R. NJ. Wallace
returned yesterday evening from Spartan
burg, and reports that the force which re-
Gently proceeded to the neighborhood Of the
Cowpens battlefield to suppress armed oppo-
sition to the enforcement of the revenue laws
met with no resistance, and but two OF three
arrests were made, although Deputy Marshal
Casey had warrants for about fifty persons,
charged with participating in the recent dlm-
culties. Ten distilleries were destroyed. On
the return march, Mr.. q. Cantrell a prisoner,
about sixty years of age, attempted to escape
from the guard, and ran into the woods He
received painful wound before he could be
recaptured."
IN MEMORIAM.
Mrs. Lambert, of Marion, Is dead.
Mr.. Moses Martin, of Marion, one of the ''0ld
men" Of the district, is dead. he was ninety
one years old.
sHREDs OF STATE NEWS.
There was white frost in Marion on Tues
day.
A flrstrate steam grist mill and cotton gin is
putting up at Marion.
Thieves stole six hogs from Mrs. Harrison,
of Marion. II
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-04
THE W.AR IN CUB4I.
A Wholesale massacre of cubnns.

A Wholesale Massacre of Cubans.
WASHINGTON, February 3-P. VI.
Nothing conlirmatory of the following has
been received. 1t was published by the Cnbans
in New York this morning. and 1t is most likely q
canard: ? .,uu ,,,,u
"Intelllgcnce from Havana las been received
that up to 10 o'clock Sunday night about three
hundred anu fifty persons had been Killed and
wounded by tile Spanlards In tumult growing
out of tic Clstanon affair. AT the latest accounts
the carnage had not ceased. The Cubans seem to
have been murdered without any respect to posi-
tions This news has just been received by the
agent OF the Cuban Junta here, Mr.. Ramos.''
Funernl OF Castnnon-ENcitcmc ut
HIutnnZns.
HAVANA, February 3.
Castanons funeral was the largest ever
known here.
The volunteers at Matanzas, excited by Casta.
mons death, demanded that Acevedo and Her
nandez, imprisoned for having concealed arms,
should be given up to them. They fired their
muskets in the air, but failed to get possession OF
the prisoners.