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New-York tribune., 1870-02-10

mittee told us that certain inquiries proved
practically worthless. They omitted or re-
classified them. In short, they found enough
to do in the way of Improvement to
justify the expectation of better census for
the year 1870 than that of ten years ago. The
House of Representatives did its duty well by
this Census bill, making it before the recess n
subject Of daily consideration. But since its
passage to the Senate it has not secured the
attention it deserves. The general features of
the bill had our hearty approval. The zeal
and labor bestowed upon it by Gen. Garfield
and his Committee were worthy Of commenda-
ton, and so good measure rs they had pro-
duced deserved at the hands of the Senate
careful consideration and some amendment but
not the cavalier treatment it has received.
1t was yesterday defeated, and. as we fear,
hopelessy.
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have brought to trial the Prince whose crime,
in point of date and enormity, has the pre-
cedence of all M. Rocheforts recent press
offenses. Justice in such q case should
begin with the murderer, and not with
the libeler. so-called but NJ. Olivier, IL
not obedent to the plain direction Of Napo-
leon. appears to have been over-zealous and
superserviceable. What is most remarkable in
NJ. Ollvier's dilemma is that the arrest of NJ.
Rochefort Is founded upon the subversiOn Of
most of the principles which the former has
hitherto held. 1.-THE jury does not suffice me"
once said this astute man. "What L wish
." for human thought is complete immunity. |
distinguish the act from the opinion. The
" act falls under the penal code. The opinion
"has only intellectual or moral responsibility.
'There is my theory" There, indeed, is NJ.
Olvier's theory but what has been his prac-
ticeR Simply the pernicious martyrdom of a
man whose sentence light or heavy.
was dictated by the same absolute
power that caused This arragnment,
and whose punishment for slight OF
Tense is to take undue precedence of the trial
of Prince charged with the terrible crime OF
murder. Rather than punish the assassin hrst'
NJ. Olivier would have first slaughtered the
DpoDle.
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II OLLLTIERS COUP DE THE1TRE.


Paris enjoys another interval of enforced
tranquility. BayOnets have administered to
her by moral effect that dose of nauseOus quiet
to which many patriotic Frenchmen have so
bitterly accustomed themselves. The latest
telegram yesterday told us that the beauteous
and heroic city, as an English historian of bar
ricades once called her, sumbered in that
peace which is Empire. Our latest telegram
to-day will tell the same story-tlat the eRtdnt
terrible, child of storm and famine and terror,
changeling of the guillotine and the barIicades,
and the coup dttat, sleeps in her cradle with
All army to do her nursing. But Paris has done
better than could have been expected-and
worse, as some may add. At all events, those
Napoleonists in England and elsewhere who,
as Louis Blanc says, are more Bonapartst
than the BOnapartists themselves, will have
to modify their robust faith in the
tameness and tractability of this syren of
peace and fury of war. The wOrllingmen, the
canaille, the carriOn, as Prince BOnaparte
would call them, have dared to build their
banicades near the Palais- Royal. 1t is true
that the men who held their ground against
the police were driven back by the soldiers for
it is also worthy of note that there was a hesi
[" tary to resort to the use of firearms Both
sides are 10th to repeat the horrible lesson of
the coup dftat; and Paris may well refrain till
a more revolutionary hour
The full details of the two last days at the
barricades are yet unknown to u.s. The killed
and wounded have not been counted, although
it is possible that in the combats of the work
ingmen with the police, and in the advance of
the military, as many lost their lives as would
fall during a riot Of n more ordinary char
acter than one made formidable by barri-
cades. Yet we hear little or no mention
of death or wounds Tranquility is
the order Of both day and night. The Parish
ans pillaged an armory or two, but they sleep
upon their guns. Seven barricades were built
but now they are like the seven seepers
Further report will perhaps give us better
knowledge of the temper and blood of Paris
IN her latest display of anger. Be it ever SO
bloodless, the exhibition itself deserves n
tender thought from those who have France
in their keeping, and must make sure that
every bayonet they hold is firm
1t is now in order to speak of NJ. Olivier
To him belongs the policy which, having
brought about the sudden conviction of NJ.
Rochefort, provoked the disorders which fol-
lowed his arrest The event justifes the sus-
picions of NJ Thiers, NJ. .Estancelin. and per-
haps Count Daru himself, along with an influ-
ential portion of the more temperate
press and public of Paris, that NJ. Olli-
yicr might have with wisdom postponed his
attack upon French deputy. Was it his duty
to have armigncd and convicted NJ. RochefortH
Then, certainly. it was his manifest duty to
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We degenerate theater-goers who flint "a.
FIVE acts of tragedy too many. and ,cbo ~
the short and busting farce which folIou,s !.
refreshing, may well admire the Tbe.nian "a
votion of the Chinese. A Celestial comno,.
has Just finished season at MarysyiIIe caJ
during which, for three whole month. tbo,
only completed the presentation Of a s;ng,s
play, which must have been in sometime H.
five hundred acts. 1t was of the bistor;c,,
description, and, boldly ignoring the unite.
its incidents extended through several con-
turies, so that children in the first act vverc
Methusalels in the last. The authors name !.
not given, but the face Mr. Boucicault NAV
well look to his laurels.
While we ere upon this subject we mar
mention curious performance of "Ilamletp
the other night at Massllon, Ohio. Mr. Edwin
Adams was the melancholy Dane; but when
after incredible difficulties the play was so fai
finished that the skull of poor Yorick was
wanted, it was found that there was ne'er &
cranium (off anybodys shoulders) in the house
A boy sent to borrow one of neighboring
doctor, returned with an entire skeleton Mr..
Adams refused to go on with this, and finally
wooden skull was obtained from q lodge o;
the Knights of Pythias in the vicinity.
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We take courage. A play has actually bee .
id in London; regularly hissed from I >
stage in the old-fashioned, orthodox AnseviBe
way. 1t was called Modern Grange; ar"
although the author, Mr.. F. C. Burnand. ma.
feel little melancholy about it (as Charlr
Lamb did about his farce of " Mr. H-,'D we
would assure him that he is really more of q
public benefactor than if the thing which he
produced had run for fifty nights. We hail
this incident as a sign that audiences intend
hereafter to exercise their acknowledged aid
indisputable right of expressing dissatisfaction.
Having sometimes been caught kissing SOLITARY
"and alone" to our great embarrassment, we
shall join the sibilant chorus with kind OF
measureess content.
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amussmtnts, yttturts, tit., Gbi' Gtrnins.


ACADEMY OF Music, Brooklyn.-ltalan opera
"MNsanieno"-Leiranc
Booru's THEATER, Twenty -third-st and Sixth-ave'
-" HsmleI"-Booth
FIFrH-AvE THEATER--"Surf"
GRAND OPERA House.. Twenty-third-st. and
Eighls.ave-" Twelve Temptations"
NmLo's GARDEN.-"Dukc's Motto" Fechter.
OLYMPIC THEATER-"A Aminadab Sleek, The Spit
fre" G. i, Fox
THEATRE FRANcAIs.--Opera Boufle: "Genevieve
Dc Brsbsnt" Mrs Howard Paul
TrE 1ASiMANY.-"The Glorious Seven &c.
WNIACK's TiIFATFR, Broadway and Thirteenth
d-"schocL" Lester Walaek
Woop'S MUSEUM. Broadway and S0th-st.-From $
N. 10 10 p At2 Pilgrim Of Love" Ms; faust' Giant
CLINTON Hall. ART GALLERIES. or-place-Day
and Bvening.-Mr Waters's Paintings,
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DEsIGN.-Third Winter
Exhibition.
NEwYoRK CIRCUS, Fourteenth-st-Grand Pro-
Tranme Billy Button" BGuestrianism
SAN Francisco Observation-Disclosures per-
formsnceA
Mrs WALTER c. LYMAN: St AIMS Church.
"Digesiiou."
WENDELL PHILLIPS Lyric Hall-"Damel oCon-
nell"
REV H. D. NoRTHRUP; Forty -ninth-st Wigwam'
-" The Beafordshire Tinker
REV. L. DEWITT TMMAGE: Thirty-fourth-st. fres-
bJterisa Church." Rocks on which People Spht'
REV. S. IRENEUS PRIME: No. 2S5 Hudson-st -
Spain and the AlbsHbra'
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Aeto'3lork Daily Gribat1rt.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1870.

Tranquility is reported from Paris. after bloodless
neighborhood Of the Royal Palace. All the
editors Of the MarSeiiidiSe have been arrested.
Disturbances have occurred in Marseies. -
The illness of John Bright, and the introduc-
tion in Parliament Of a bill to enable aliens to acquire
and hold land are reported from England. - An Off
cial account Of the Havana assassination is published
- Dr. Donger's letter against Papal infallbility is
widely denounced by the Ultramontansts.
In the Senate yesterday, substitute was offered for
the House bill for the admission OF Mississippi bills
were Introduced to change the boundaries of the judi
cial Circuits. and TO amend the neutrality laws; the
Census bin was discussed and tablea-46 TO o. == In
the House. the contested election case OF roster ag
Covode, was considered and MIR. CoyOde admitted
20 seat; the Legislative Appropriation bill was dis
cussed but no vote was reached.
The Connecticut Republican Convention renomnated
their old State officers with the exception of Lieutenant
Governor == The Missouri House has amended the
School law by allowing to vote on raising taxes
for school purposes = tornado caused great
damage in Virginia City, Nevada killing one man, and
fnurng several others. = The Hudson River is again
closed with ice between Hudson and Albany.
Gen Roberts ex-Postmaster Of Brooklyn, is charged
with cmbezzling from the Money Order fund. == The
alleged atrocities on the Neptune are specifically
denied. -A bust OF the late James T. Brady has
been presented TO the Law Institute. == Judge
Ingraham Overrules Judge McCunn and discharges
Prison Warden stacom. == Judge Bosworth has been
renominated for Police Commissioner. = Gold l2c !!
1901. l2Oi Temperature, 27, "a, SO. 49,
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1t must be admitted that great many per-
sons in this city deserving Imprisonment fail
to get it, The public has dim suspicion that
our Judges might sometimes, with advantage,
stretch their feelings so as to commit few
doubtful characters. Justice McCunn goes
further. He has penchdnt for imprisoning.
Two or three weeks ago it was, policeman
whose memory was too short on Tuesday last
it was Mr.. Stacom the Keeper of the City
Prison, whose memory vas too long; and In
each instance the alleged oifense was contempt
of court Unhappy court
The second of these rash c0ntemners was
ordered by Justice McCunn to produce before
his Court one John Heflernan, political bully
now imprisoned in the Tombs. But, recollect-
ing that the latter, having assaulted woman at
q disrcputable ball, had been duly tried and
sentenced therefor by Justices Bowling and
Bixby, the Pris0n-k keeper doubted tho propriety
of taking this precious scamp out of jail even
into the high-toncd precincts of Justice Me
Gums Court, since continuous repetition Of
such processes would bc tantamount to gem
eral Jail delivery. Mr.. Stacom having for this
hesitation. been sent to keep company with the
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tho delegation was not united, and he proposed
Shepard +. Knapp. Mr.. Jacobs said Kings
would take care of herself; she did
not want Commissioner. Mr.. Murphy
said these Commissions were to DC
wiped out-thereforc, he would vote
for Judge Bosworth he did not, however WISH
to commit his party to any particular course,
Mr. Field got the wink from Mr. Tweed ana
abruptly withdrew his candidate, MIR. Knapp
In FIVE minutes Judge Bosworth had AZ
votes: James b. Craig, 10; ana MT
Knapp the spitefu Senator Fields
The caucus then went at the Commis-
SONS. several members desiring clean sweep
of the whole lot. Mr. Norton wanted to in
clude the Supervisors, declaring it to be an
infamous body, all of which Supervisor Tweed
took with his usual nonchalance. After two
hours of wranglng, the caucus adjourned
without voting upon the resolutions.
The Republicans, with the becoming meek
ness of minority. went through their busl-
ness smoothly. For Regent of the University
they nominated Henry r. Selden, ex-Leuten-
ant Governor, and gentleman who does honor
to the State in any position. For Police Com
missioner they named Samuel Booth, ex-Mayor
of Brooklyn; and then, having neither spolls
to divide nor quarrels to settle, they quietly
adjourned.
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Some half dozen ladies, if not more.
engaged in the business of popular lectnrn
this Winter; and some of them are meetf
with remarkable success-drawing audiene s
that pay, and receiving applause that is hearty.
The success of those already in the field h''
stirred up quite number of other LADIES
try their fortunes as lecturers, and every IL .
and then we see announcements OF the his'
ventures Of new workers at this business III
a number of cases, however, they seem 10 us
to choose the wrong sort of subjects to insure
success. They should be particular to seieet
themes that they know something about m'~
Field, Miss Logan, and Miss Dickinson unu'i'
stand this
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1t is not often that we have the pleasure OF
agreeing with our Democratic friends in the
Legislature, and therefore it is with surprise
as well as satisfaction that we record the re-
nomination of Judge Bosworth for Police Com
missioner. Good citizens will rejoice at the
event as an indication that, whatever they
may do in other directions the Democratic
leaders are not prepared to overthrow or ma
terialy change the Police organization. Judge
Bosworth is respected and trusted by all
parties, and his presence in the Board will be
a guaranty of good order for the people and
Just treatment of the members of the force.
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Somebody has made out a programme Of
Manifest Destiny which is to include San Do
mingo, Hayti, Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, the
Bahamas, the Isthmus of Darien, Canada,
Columbia, the Sandwich Islands, and the Fe-
jees If there are any other scraps of Territory
lying loose about the tropics, or floating, as :.
were, in waste ocean, Manifest Destiny is willios
to hear of them. All this, too, while we are
tampering with the jealous Dominicans and
leaving the Cubans to themselves, while we
are training up new States in the way th "
should go, and peopling territories, and payih
debts. Destiny has a great deal to do arc
may as we'll DO it calmly. Translate 1t II
Responsibility, and many of us will agree tbi ;
it is best to make haste slowly.
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Rep mai for Iartranft, 259 do. for Grant, 535
The highest vote ever cast in the district was
that of October. 1868, when Gen. Hartranft
Repub.) carried it by 219 majority.
All this does not prove that Mr. Covode was
elected by a majority of the votes legally cast
but it creates q strong presumption that he
was. We trust that the House will do exact
Justice in the premises, whether that favors
one side or the other. We beIiere that Gen.
Fosters nominal majority of 41 votes was
procured by fraud but we would not have the
House so decide unless the proof is conclusive.
SO with regard to the contest from our own
State. The Counties of Orange and Sullivan,
forming the XIth District, are officially de-
clared to have cast in 68 for Gen. Chas. II.
Van Wyck Rep.) 1898 votes; for Geo. w.
Greene (Dem) 1890: majority for Greene, 322.
That district increases slowly or not at all in
population; yet its vote of '6S was TirO Thou
sand more than ever before, of which we are
confident that at least one-half was fraudu-
lent and at least nine-tenths of it cast for
Greene. Purge the poll of illegal votes, and
we have no doubt that Gen. Van Wyck would
be elected by about 500 majority.
But it is one thing to be morally sure of
this and another to be able to prove it; and
we would not have the seat given to Gen. Van
Wyck unless he has been able to show just
where and how much he was cheated, to the
extent Of overbearing Greene's fraudulent pre-
ponderance. Far better submit to injustice
than even seen, to do wrong. We know right
well the mill in which the fraudulent Natu-
ralization Certificates were ground out
which gave that district to the Copper
heads; we do not know that those CertiG-
Gates have been traced up to the hands of the
illegal voters who carried that district for Sey-
mour, Hoffman, and Greene. And, unless they
have been so traced, Gen. Van Wyck must lose
the seat. The fact that the House is largely
Republican should make the majority exceed
ingly careful not to give a contested seat TO
our side unless his right to it is judically
established.
P.S. Since the above was written. the House
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As cruel and unusual punishment is strictly
condemned by law, we read with no small sur
prise that one Mr.. Rooney has been sent to the
State Prison for the extraordinary period of
four years and six months for stealing pOr-
trait of Sheriff O'Brien. This is indeed cruel.
Mr. Rooney was no doubt actuated by (to
him) n laudable ambtion-that is, to put the
ShcIiil-s portrait beside his own in the ROgues'
Gallery. OF course he made grave mistake.
Mr.. OBren, armed with the power, the respon-
sibility, and the dignity of the sheriffalty, is a
very different man from any ordinary person
of that name who may have been intimate
with Mr.. Rooney in other days. While feeling
that the punishment in this case is excessive,
we gladly accept it as better than none mt all.
We also commend the celebrity with which JUS
tice has pursued this dreadful offender the
promptness of his Indictment, the breyity of
his trial, and the electric velocity of the SEN
tence. The terrible Rooney lies manacled in
Sing Sing Prison; the inestimable portrait
swings free on the brass nail of the owner: the
official executioner is avenged, and the world
breathes more free-But pray, good prosecu-
tors, jurors and judges, let us suggest the
same cOmmendable speed and reasonable
quantity Of the severity in the case of other
criminals. If the theft of a picture is worth
four and q half years in prison, at what figures
do you rate the lives of Rogers, Townsend,
and other victims of the assassins who remain
undiscovered or laugh at the idea of passing
under the sacrificial hands of the officer whose
picture was st0len7
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Earl Granville has written letter on tho
postponement of the transfer of the Hudson
Bay Territory, which accOrds with the conc.Ii-
atory temper of the note which Sir John Young
has addressed his rebels through Com
missioner. The citizens of Fort Garry,
whose internal heat survived a mass
meeting in the open air at 20 degrees
below zero, have agreed to elect council of
forty, which shall represent their wants and
demands A bishop and a priest assisted at
this meeting, and declared for justice rather
than for war; The tone of the Half Breeds is
not impacable, and it rests with the Dominion
Government to. lull their fears or 10 awake
tlem
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CONTESTED ELECTIONS IND SEATS.

Every earnest thoughtful believer in repub-
| lican institutions will watch against the IN
hucnces which threaten TO undermine ana
subvert them chief among which is corruption
at the ballot-boxes. Whenever it shall be
established that the officially declared re-
sults of elections do not habitually conform to
the expressed Judgment of majority oil those
who. being entitled to exercise the hght OF
Suffrage, either did vote, or IN good
faith endeavOred and offered to do so,
then the Republic viii be practically
extinct. The forms may remain for ages, as
the savage. bloody desp0ts, who as EmperorS
afflicted the Roman world for the most part of
the first three Christian centuries, affected to
have been intrusted with power by the Roman
Senate and People and to WELD it i'll their be-
half; but nominal republic, ruled through
the nstrumentality of repeaters and balot-box
suffers with the cooperation of false canvass
ers, would be more corrupt, tyrannical, mtol-
cradle. than any unds gused despOtsm ever yet
endured by man.
Subordinate to fraudulent voting, but in close
relationship with it, is legislation by repre-
sentatives not duly elected, but pitch-pOled
into the law-making body by partisan par
tlallly. we enITcdl ItpuOHCdhS VI an PdlbCS
to beware of this 1t may seem hard for a
State or district to go unrepresented in Con-
gress how much worse, then, TO be mis-repre-
sented by one to whom an election was re-
fused, and who goes counter to their cherished
convictions!
One of the twenty-six seats in the House
from Pennsylvania has remained hitherto un-
| filed because Of double return. The House
yesterday delberated and acted thereon. The
World fOresaled its decision by reiterated
misstatements whereof this is a sample:
Thc longpendng contest OF Covode against Foster Of
the XXIst Pennsylvania District, occupied most OF to-
days session Of The House. The point OF this contest
differs from many others, in the fact that neither party
occupies seat nor holds certificate OF election from
the Governor. Foster elected By about 400 ma
joit; but the man who spells Philadelphia with small
maintains that this made up OF fraudulent votes
and that he elected by majority ranging among
those figures"
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There is no such thing as satisfying the
Free Traders" Tie Dry Goods Reporter
in an article complaining of the amended Tar
bill recently introduced into the Ilouse by Nh
Schenck, says: "In fine, all the burdens that
"press most severely upon this great mass G.
consumers are either retained or increased %
Mr.. Wells, in his Report, estimates the du
ties for the current year from imports of tet
coffee, and its substitutes and molasses--
at SG0,O0O,0OO. The amended bill practicall,
reduces these duties at least one-fourth. Is ths
no saving2 The Free Trader would retain III
imposts on tea and coffee, but reduce them
iron, wool, and cotton goods, thus diminishing
the protection We give to our working classes
1t is Labor not iron, or STEEL or wool, or cot
ton, that we desire to protect.
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WMBOR'S COP LIVER OIL AND LME.-Per-
sons taking God Liver O will be pleased learn that
m WRoE directions ~ several professional
emeu oomhing oil and lime in such msnter that is
pleasant aud It's Effects in lung complaints truly wonder
h persons whose were pronounced hopeless aha
taken The clear oil Tor Long tine without marked EJECT nave
been er hv using this urpgaOn De aud get the gen
uue onlr By A. b. MLBoR Chemist No LOO Court
Boston. sold BIS al druggists
WHEELER n WILSON'S SEWING MACHINES
iu BesdWar sale payable IN iustarents
without charge. Also by the month J. T. ELLls
COVERINGS FOR TIE FEET at CANTRELLS, :,
2n Fcurtb-svc, between Niuetrruth aod INenteibstr
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. LlNBS.
Dfoadwav n " Ch-s'uust Phs; 81 Gresnst. Bo'on
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Caucusing at Albany last evening was lively
for the Democrats-dul for the other side
Mr.. Tweed engineered and presided over the
UnterriGed, and at it they went. Francis
Kiernan was nominated for Regent OF the
University, in spite of Mr.. Flagg's mysterious
lint that lie was wanted for higher
honors. With true Democratic thrift Mr..
Kiernan took his small slice readily. On Po-
lice Commissioner there was a more lively de-
bate. Mr.. Creamer hoped this would be the
last time that Democrats would be called upon
20 elect such an officer, yet Le named
Judge Bosworth. Mr. Fields would
not select man by way Of compli-
ment, and reflected severely upon the Judges
agc-he wanted more energetic man.
-IIe would give Kings County chance, but