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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
A SPECIMEN BRICK.

In view of the persistent efforts in Congress
to repeal or reduce Taxes, especially Duties on
Imports, we were impelled to say on the 10th
inst:
Feieral Revenue ought not 10 be reduced
until sitter Debt shall have been funded lower
has been repeatedly proclaimed The Income Tax En-
pes by with the AMI that will reduce the annual
Revenue BY some Twenty Millions per There rouh stop
weekly purchases Of Bonds shall have cleared the market that
Treasury fund the Five Twentes at the lowest
possible thereby saving Twenty Thirty Millions per annnm now
paid in interest six cent Meantime let the whole su
be carefully studied the reduction Of when made shall
the greatest benefit Of People and their Industry This
way dealing with the Financial problem We have be-
eve still believe bes. thing Congress likely to DO
frankly and promptly We shall let the Tariff alone for the session
Understand this and proceed with yoar business accordingly"
We then proceeded to object more especially
to any petty reduction Of the Duties on Tea,
Coffee, &c. which would never reach the great
body of our consumers, and proceeded:
"Usny change be made the Tariff at this session with view to
reduction say Enlarge the Free List Add itiory sixty
hundred hundred articles If so be afforded that do not
compete products OF industry and relieve them Of al
mpo whatever Take Cocoa Spices India Rubber AMI the whole
range tropical products beginning with tho which yield least
revenue them utterly from tar far the Treasury spare the
income yield This will simplify Revenue system enable
dispense many officers and sensible reduction Of cost to
oonsumer&"
The Erening Post, with this article before it,
proceeds to give its readers this account OF 1t {:
1.-THE TRIBUNE, in common with the great mass Of the
people, that reduction Of taxation pos
sbe and necessary and yesterday II demanded that Con-
gress should pass short bill, putting large number Of
articles the free list and thus at once reducing taxation
and relieving home industry. 1t is good omen
for the country that the believers in protective tariff at
last admit the necessity Of reducing taration and largely
adding 10 the free list"
1t may be that The Erening Post has al
ways taken such liberties with the opinions of
Others; but we hesitate to believe so. We are
confident that we have known that journal
when it would have shrunk from thus misrep-
resenting an opponent with loatEing and horror.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

1t became known, or was at least suspected,
on Tuesday night that Mrs. Richardson's state
ment would appear in the next days TRIBUNE,
and various schemes were devised by reporters
of other papers to get surreptitious copies OF
it. One of the editors of The Sun offered a
person employed in our press-room - for
sheet containing the statement, and we regret
to say that his offer was accepted. The sheet
he received, however, was only an old Weekly,
with new heading pasted on expressly for his
convenience. OF course it was not right to
take the poor mans money, and now that the
affair has been brought to our knowledge we
shall be glad to make restitution. If the de-
luded person will call at our counting-room,
and sign receipt, acknowledging himself the
fiat who was foied in his efforts to tamper
with our pressmen, the money will be refunded;
or, if he prefers, he can have IA genuine copy
of the paper he wanted-and he may keep the
one he bought, too The price of TRiBuNEs
rose yesterday, and copies were sold uD town
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
consider that the Company had practically
enlarged the Public Domain by not less than
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consider that the Company had practically
enlarged the Public Domain by not less than
100000 acres.
". have personally traversed and scruti-
nized most of the lands ceded by the Govern
ment to the line of Railroad already completed
from the Missouri to the Sacramento. Most OF
those lands, | judge, are Of very little value,
and cannot be sold, nor even given away, to
actual settlers even pih Railroad running
through them; but that what are left to the
Government are worth a great deal more, and
will attract and retain many more settlers
wiM the Railroad than the whole did or could
do withom it, can no more doubt than can
doubt my own existence.
V. Mr. Keyser seems to think that the Rail-
road Companies will seek TO entail them
"selves upon us and posterity as giant land
corporations" There is no shadow of dam
ger of this. The Companies would soon be
taxed out of any such foolish cOncet. They all
need money, want to realize, and Will naturally
seek to sell their lands so fast az they can.
The real danger is that individuals may buy
tracts of 900 to 10000 acres each and hold them
for high prices; and l think this should be
guarded against in the acts which grant the
lands. Require the companies not to sell more
than GAO acres to each person interested in the
purchase, and fix maximum price which they
are not to exceed, and l judge that no far
Their restriction is needed.
vi. There are many millions of good land
belonging to the Government which any one
may appropriate, to the extent of 100 acres,
by settling thereon and paying $16 for Land
60 30 Naf ms
of settlers pass these by, and settle instead on
Railroad lands which cost them s9i to So per
acre. ! submit to Mr.. Keyser that this fact
is an argument. Very few are so poor that
they will not pay So per acre for land near a
Railroad rather than 80 cents per acre for
just such lands 100 miles from station.
think this choice should be respected by the
Government, and even by Mr.. Keyser. II. G.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

Mr.. Schenck yesterday displayed his happy
faculty of disentangling legislative knots and
throwing oil on the troubled waters of debate,
by reconciling with word or two of sage
advice and mild rebuke the factions violently
contending over the Northern Pacific Railroad
bone. He seized the same occasion to express
also his sOlicitude that the business of
the nation should not be delayed by an at
tempt to force the bill through against the
wishes of respet atle minority disposed to
"filibuster." MIR. Sclenck can now at once
display his ability in reconciling disputes, and
satisfy the public of his earnest wish to quicken
legislation by cOnsenting to drop the useless,
uncalled- for Tariff bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
MIR. SPENCERS OPENING IN THE McF1R-
ND CASE

The theory of Mr.. John Graham, that most
amiable refined, and scrupulous of advocates,
respecting the opening of a defense to the jury
in a criminal case, is simply that counsel have
right to say whatever they may think proper,
suggest whatever they please, declare that they
are ready to prove that which they well know
to be impossible of proof, and, generally, to
fill the heads of jurors with all manner of irree-
want notions, without observing the least dis
tinctiOn between what is and what is not COM
petent evidence. 81 have no fault to find"
said Mr.. John Graham, with Mr.. Spencer's
"opening ut all.n 81 don't find fault retOrted
Judge Davis, with its statements of fact all
"fnd fault with is its almost unparalleled
Statements of falschOOd" To this Mr..
John Graham vOuchsafed no reply at
the moment He reserved his response
until the adjournment of the Court, when
with much rbaldry and many Oaths he assailed
Judge Davis, and made to all the spectators a
demonstration of his proficiency in the use of
profane language. No wonder the unfortunate
prisoner at the bar with his life depending
upon the good conduct and judiciOus manage
ment of the case, cried out in well grounded
apprehension: "Hush! Mr. Graham, hush !!
Don't you know that you owe something to
"me3" An unfortunate culprit indeed! One
of his lawyers had already, after doing him
infinite damage, deserted him, while the other
remained only to cOmplicate and intensity the
immortality of the defense.
1t may be true, as was observed by the Re-
corder, that counsel are to be allowed great
liberties in opening case, or Ito use his own
language) that "the widest scope, the utmost
license, should be given where man'sllife
ais involved" But surely his Honor never
intended to express the opinion that an advo-
cate is at liberty to
Distort the truth, accumulate the lie,
And pile the pyramid OF Calumny"
Surely his Honor will admit that if great
freedom is allowed in an opening speech to
the Jury, he who makes it is responsible in
some degree to the Court of which he is an
officer, to the public of which he is a servant,
and to justice of which he is q minister.
Surely the Recorder will not affirm that even
in the discharge of delicate and difficult
duty, an attorney for the defense may properly
disregard all distinctions between truth and
falsehood, and dole out to the panel with a
simulated sincerity, theories which he knows to
be bottOmless, and notions which are simply
the creations, dirty and distorted, of his own
malicious ingenuity. IL lawyer to dis
regard all the suggestions of honor, and
to run muck against innocent persons
who may cross the path which he has
pleased or has been forced to takei Is it con-
sistent with professional purity judging by the
accepted standard of the profession itself, to
anticipate impossible proceedings on the part
of the prosecution, and upon the strength Of
such surmises to toss to tho Jury all manner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

No reasonable objection can possibly be made
to any of the Republican candidates for the
Court of Appeals. They are all gentlemen Of
high personal character and professional emf
nence. The offices for which they are pro-
posed are offices of the very highest import
ance, and every citizen has direct interest in
their being properly filed. How then can an
honest and intelligent voter remain indifferent
to the election of next Tuesday, We shall
never get pure Judiciary if honest men will
not take the trouble to vote for good candi-
dates when they are nominated. We cannot
better emphasize our demand for reform Of
the bench than by casting heavy ballot FOX
the unexceptionable men who are proposed by
the Republican party for the highest court in
tie State,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

Vice-Admiral Porter, in letter to Mr.. Cyrus
w. Field, advances very strong arguments in
favor of the proposed Pacific Cable. They
are not merely the naval views which he gives,
and which might naturally be expected from
him, but he states clearly the commercial and
political advantages which completed Pacific
telegraph would give America in the struggle
for supremacy in China and Japan. With the
shortest route to the East and the quickest
communication with the powers that rule there,
the victory in that important and inevitable
contest would unquestonably be with Ameri-
can merchants and the American Government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

The most marked impression ever produced u
single day by the writing Of any woman was 'nS'
wrought yesterday in New-York and throughout 'l'
Country by the pitful story of Mrs kienM.
son. as published in The TRIBUNE. This remarkaO'
document was given us by Mrs. Richardson OH hVu.
day afternoon, with the single injunction Una,
under no circumstances should it be published un.'
after the verdict had been rendered IN the h'r"
land case, so that by no possibility could IL a.o'
the chances of the wretch who was once het nun
band 1t was put in type from the manuscript IN nc,
own handwriting, with here and there her o"n
changes. erasures and interlineations, on TUESDAY
afternoon, in the belief that the chns
and verdict were not TO be eAio'rI
until the next day. and that there "ou'u
TINS be ample time for her revision. AS IL was "o
were compelled to go to press without her hs'i"s
had an opportunity even to read all the Proofs
few people, who are free TO express opinions "'''o
knowledge have complained that the s'r'A,"s
sealed letter of Mr. Richardson's left to be opened ~
case Of his death, was not offered III the ui"i
they had taken the pains to read the evidence Is ~
ported they would have seen that it "d' oer'd' """
ruled out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

Andrew j. Garveys big bell, which gener
ally wanders around our streets previous TO
every election, performing a sort of last trum-
pet duty in rousing Tammany repeaters from
their lethargy, has again made its appearance.
For common decency's sake it ought To be sent
where "the wOOdbine twineth.' Not because
it makes both night and day hideous, nor b.
cause it has proved public nuisance in block
ing up our streets, but because its presence is
a painful reminder that Mr.. Garvey, like Mon
sieur Tonson, has again come to town, with
his annual bill against the city of two or three
hundred thousand dollars for plastering the
new Court House, armories, and other public
buildings. A. Oakley Halls glib tongue has
done much for its owner among the De.
mOcracy; but the brazen tongue of Garyey's
bell in its appeals for its proprietor, seems to
be more effective.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

If the mania for throwing away good money
on useless decorations and needless additions
to the public buildings at Washington was not
q chronic disease of the Congressional mind,
we should conclude from the very positive
votes by which the Senate yesterday appro-
priated another round million of dollars for a
new State Department and an enlarge
ment of the Capitol grounds, that tie
few members who urge the removal
of the Capitol to the West were doomed to
suffer disappointment. 1t is very distressing
to observe that bills abstracting from the
Treasury as large a sum as 100000 are de-
cided on sectional considerations. 1t viii be
seen that nearly all the Mississippi Valley Sem
ators voted nay, for which We give them
thanks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

1t may interest some people to know how
sensational newspapers get certain klnd oi
news On Tuesday evening Mrs. Richardson
in company with another lady and gentle
man, were walking toward the Jersey Cly
ferry on their way home, when man was
seen following them and listening to Their
conversation. He kept behind them for seve-
raj blocks engaged in his noble occupation
until somebody directed the attention OF the
party towards his conduct when he took TO MS
heels. He proved to be Mr.. Richard Tread
well. one of the editors of The San,-doubtess
the one whose imaginative faculties were tes'ed
in the invention of the mdicrously absurd re-
ports Yesterday concerning THE TRIBUNE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

1t is difficult to determine from the debate
precisely why members of the House oppose
or advocate the Northern Pacific Railroad bill
with such warmth and vehemence. Certain
diverse and rather mysterious influences seem
to be at work to delay and confuse action on
the subject; and the bill, on which the "pre-
"vious question" had been ordered, has, by
some practice which may be parliamentary but
is very complicated for all that, been returned
to the Committee 1t is bill to which there
ought to have been little opposition from the
start, and about which there certainly is no
need for members to display so much violence
and sarcasm i'm debate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
for great deal more than go; but barpai,
is bargain, and The Sun may still have il q,
the stipulated price.

II appears that the Ncw-York Shipping Mc7.
chants who demonstrate against the presep,
effort to revive American commerce obiec,
only to the proposition granting subsidies. AZ
least so we gather from the statement preced.
ing the list published elsewhere. To such re-.
monstrance we have not the slightest objection
We join in it, whatever their motives may he
not because we do not wish American Commerce
revived at any cost, but because we do not
believe that the granting of subsidies is
proper and effective mode of doing it. From
that part of Mr.. Lynch's argument we dissent
though with the objects which the bill seek.
to attain we heartily sympathize. We BE-.
leve that the proposed rebate OF
the duties on imported materials would
be encouragement enough without the grant.
ing Of any direct subsidies at all. Mr.. Lynch,
bill is now before the House, in which il /,
evidently to be thoroughly debated. There
are also other bills, proposing subsidies to
four steamship companies, still under consider.
alton in other committees, but all of which will
doubtless be introduced in few DAYS.
We know little of the merits or dement's Of
these bills providing for individual interests.
but our frmest faith lies in bill which will
offer encouragement to all classes Of shipping
merchants and all kinds of sailing craft Our
commerce is to be revived only by wise meas.
ures general in their application.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

The great meeting to celebrate the fifth an
niversary of the National Temperance Society,
which filed the large hall of the Cooper In
stitute on Tuesday evening, was at
once one of the most significant and
one of the most important Temperance
revivals which our rum-cursed city
has seen. The unusual pressure upon our
columns on Tuesday night prevented us from
giving an adequate record of it then but we
present on the second page to-day the most
important facts reported at the meeting and a
brief mention of the speeches.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

Mr.. Henry C. Bowen, having been announced
by a COpperhead sheet in Eastern Connecticut
as aspiring to seat in Congress from that
New London) District, has been moved TO
contradict the report which he emphatically
does by card in The independent Let us
presume on the privilege of an older if moi
better soldier in the journalistic field, and
affectiOnately counsel Mr. b. never to repeat
this folly-for folly it surely is. The Norrieh
aurora, having achieved an unwonted nOtoriety
by its canard, will repeat the experiment at an
early day, and probably parade Mr.. Bowen as
a candidate for a dozen different offices within
the next year. 1t is no crime to be or not to
be an aspirant to office; SO just 90 on your
way, and let such reports die natural death.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

We have a story from Peru that the United
States Consul at Tumbez has got himself into
fail by slapping the face of a Postmaster. Of
course consuls are not to be handcuffed and
fettered for little indiscretions of that sort,
and we are glad that Rear-Admiral turner
has taken the matter up; still p0smasters
have rights which even cOnsuls are bound 10
respect. AS soon as the Peruvian authorizes
have discharged Mr.. Weir from DURANGO ana
apologized for the arrest, we suggest that MI
Weir should apologize for the slap and then
be discharged from his cOnsulship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
THE EprNCH TDTE.

There is always reason enough OF course why
Napoleon should count upon majority when
ever he chooses to permit the French people
to vote. In the language of a California MINER
reDorted by Bret Harte, "You see it Amt no
"square game they we put up the cards on
"that party from the start" But in submitting
the plebiscitum to the vote the advantage re-
tanned by the Emperor was so enormous that
the most sanguine of the Liberals could hope
for no serious manifestation of their strength.
The question was worded in form which re-
duced the people to dilemma. They were
asked: "Do you approve the liberal reforms
"introduced since 1860, and the senatus con-
"sultum of April 1870 ~ If they voted " Yes"
it was to be taken as a ratification of all that
Napoleon had done or would do If they voted
"No,n it would be said that they wanted no
liberal reforms, but preferred strict personal
government If they abstained from voting,
it was announced that the number of absentces
and blank votes would be divided between the
affirmative and negative in the ratio of their
respective numbers so that if the former were
five times as many as the latter, four-ffths of
the blanks would be counted for the govern
ment Thus Napoleon was sure to win, how
ever the baloting turned ont. That the vote
of the opposition under these circumstances
should have been so heavy is remarkable
indication of the temper Of the country. Com
pare the figures with the results of the two
previous elections at which Napoleon appealed
to the whole peOple-namely, the election of
December, 1851 which made him President for
ten years. and the election of 1852, which rat
flied the establishment of the empire:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.

DAILY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers. $40 per annum.
SEMI-WEEKIY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers, 81 per an.
WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers, 80 per aInum.
Advertising Rates.
DAILY TRIBUNE 2jc.. SOC, 40c, 6Oc and 81 per line
SEMI- WEEKLY TRIBUNE. % and 80 cents per line
WEEKLY TRIBUNE, 81, S3, and s. per line,
According TO position i'll the paper.
Terms, cash in advance.
Address. THE TRIBUNE, New-York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

The best way to force the Democracy to
nominate honest men for judges, Is to cast as
large vote as possible for our own can
didates. A large Republican vote next Tues
day, even though it should not be large enough
to elect the ticket will be felt in the neA'
nominating convention of our opponents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

The House appropriation of S25,Ooo for the
Bureau of Education is to stand, the motion
to reduce it to $4,000 having been rejected by
the Senate in a vote so positive as to encour-
age the hope that the usefulness OF this new
Office of the Interior Department is not to be
crippled We could better spare the half mil
lion which was yesterday voted for enlarging
.be Capitol Grounds to this wiser scheme.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

them Infamous. But we nevertheless insist
that they were Observation-Disclosures they
had disordered their mental faculties by excess,
or wrong of some kind, and were therefore
responsible for their evil deeds. And we have
always understood this to be the law OF the
land
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12

yesterday and to-day detail the good that
has been done and the work that IS pro-
posed. Every year our people grow more
liberal in their support of the organized chari-
ties of the city; fact on which the people
are to be congratulated not less than the so
cieties who expend and the pensioners VINO
receive their gifts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
MRS. RICHARDSON'S SETTLEMENT.

Notwithstanding the largely increased num-
Der of the regular edition Of THE TRIBUNE printed
yesterday the demand for Mrs Richardson's statement
compelled us to print it in an extra sheet Having
the plates stereotyped, are able to supply an I'M
tmited demand. Price two cents; If by mail, postpaid
our cents Address THE TRIBUNE, Ne"-1ork.