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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

pleasure in correcting another report about
Gen. Sherman. There have been damaging
stories that in this time of extreme need, when
the people, burdened with the results OF the
war, appeal for retrenchment and economy IN
every department of their Government, and wheh
his old comrade and chief, the President, mas
such retrencbment and economy an indispen-
sable necessity to the continued success OF MS
Administration, Gen. Sherman, of all men, mas
been found protesting against reduction III
the pay of the higher officers of the army from
double and treble the rates allowed III the cor
responding grades of the civil service, to, say,
not over one-half more than these civil rates
1t has even been said that Gen. Sherman has
protested against reduction of his own pay
from something like three times that OF the
Chef-Justice of the United States to trlne
less than double as much, although 1T would
still remain One-haf more than that OF bis
official superior the Secretary of War. Let
the General write to us denying these damag-
ing stories, and he will see with what delight
we shall hasten to give him the benefit OF the
correction, and the public service the encour-
agement of his example.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

color, was adopted There are those who VIII
not be slow to conclude that the extension
thus proposed was for the benefit of John CHI
naman. A direct proposition to exclude him had
just been defeated by vote OF twenty-three
to twenty-five The latter vote was the same
as the negative one on the proposition to strike
out the word white" and would seem to
mark the strength of the opposition In the
Senate to the naturalization OF the Chinese.
But this remains to be seen. The proposition
to cOnstrue the law against the admission OF
Chinese was renewed, and the Pacific Coast
Senators opened a debate on it which Is to be
continued to-day. BY common consent the
Fourth of July was accepted as proper Oc-
casion to adopt another measure reaflirming the
sacred Declaration that all men are created
free and equal. The previous votes, we i'm
agine, cannot be accepted as indicating the
final resolve of the Senate on this question.
No matter what the result may be in the Sen
ate the amendment to be discussed renders
very doubtful the fate in the House OF the bill
to which it has been attached.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

1t was explained on Saturday that the
difficulty over the Indian Appropriation bill,
whose passage is imperatvey demanded in
the interests of peace, was a dispute which has
arisen as to the treaty making power of the
Senate. The House claims that the Senate
can make no treaty which binds the Repre-
sentatives to make appropriations the Sen
ate insists on the contrary. We are not
disposed to discuss this intricate question, but
we insist that Congress shall promptly put an
end to the present Indian policy, and not by
its delay bring about a war while the two
Houses settle legal point which our barbarian
brethren and a good many civilized ones will
never understand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04
THE CROWY GIVING Up PREROG4TITE>

THE CROWN GITING Up PREROG4TIVES
In the midst of the remarkable practical re-
forms which have been made in Great Britain
during the last few years, one very significant
change has been so quietly effected that it has
passed almost without notice. Of all the de-
mands of the Long Parliament there was none
which Charles /. resisted so obstnately as the
demand that he should surrender to the pop
ular representatives the control of the army
The supreme military authority was one of
the most ancient and most valuable of the
royal prerogativcs. 1t was again recognized
as an attribute of the crown after the
Restoration, and it has remained such
up to the present year. True, Parlia-
ment has gradually hedged about that
authority so that its exercise against the pop
ular will has long been q virtual impOssibility /;
but the dignity has remained with the sovereign
and limitations have been imposed only indi-
rectly. Parliament, for instance, could at any
time parayze the army by Withholding sup
plies, or deprive the officers of all control over
their men by suspending the Mutiny act, which,
since 1859, has been enacted only for year at
time. These powers have more than once
been used to compel the resignation of
ministry which had lost the confidence
of Parliament. The sovereign, however,
retained the right of appointing the Com
mander-in-Chicf, and thus controlled an
immense army patronage, while the Com
mander-in-Chief was entirely irresponsible to
the ministry and independent of the War
| Office.
Within few days the Queen has vol
UNFAIRLY resigned this precious and time
honored prerogative. She has signed an order
in council making the Commander-in- Chief
subordinate to the Secretary of State for War,
and thus virtually placing the army entirely
under the authority of the House of Com
mons. The power which she has thus laid
down is indeed small, but the dignity of which
she has stripped herself is great, and in any
mOnarchcal country must be highly priced.
She has undoubtedly perceived that the time
is not far distant when, willing or I'M
willing, the crown must resign that
prerogative but there has been no crisis as
yet to force a change, nor any serious clash of
authority between the War Office and the
Horse Guards. Her resignation, therefore, is
not only significant recognition of the
| progress which Great Britain is making toward
popular government, but a graceful and digni-
fled act which does her the greatest honor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

The Commercial Union of the State of New
York meets at Rochester on Friday, the 18th
inst. We have small faith in the oper-
atiOns of its President, but we have unlim-
tied faith in the necessity for the work which
this Union processes to undertake, and
trust that the members engaged in it are men
who can be more fully depended upon in an
emergency. The object of the meeting is to
discuss: /. The Introduction of Steam on the
Canals; 2. The Wisconsin and Fox River I'm
provement and the Water Communication be-
tween the Mississippi and the Lakes; 3. The
subject of Cheap Transportation in all its
phases; A. The whole subject of Improving
the Canals and their Trade. Let us hope that
discussion may lead to action.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

Superintendent JOurdan's order concerning
the Sunday liquor traffic resulted in an in
creased number of arrests yesterday for viola
ton of the Excise Law. But while it secured
more general enforcement of the law by
the police, little attention was paid to it
by the liquOr-dealers, who accepted the
order as intended solely for effect. 1t
simply meant to them and to drinkers
that there must be less display in the manner
of drinking. The dealers believe they are en-
titled to some consideration from the City
Government they have aided to create, and
trusted to their past deeds and misdeeds in
the interest of Tammany for protection. We
hope this confidence is misplaced, but Superin-
tendent Jourdan must do better than he has
done to prove it. The law must be enforced
absolutely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

There is rumor that the Miners Union
has ordered general strike throughout the
entire anthracite coal region, to begin on the
18th inst for the purpose of enforcing the
eight-hour system. Nothing could be more
inopportune for the miners than coal strike
in the middle of Summer, and especially when
the attention of capitalists is turning toward
the Chinese for a supply of cheap labor; and
nothing could be more injurious to the best
interests of the workingman than this violent
method of redressing his grievances. We
trust that the report is without foundation,
and that the miners are to be spared repe-
tition of the fruitless su1erings which they
seem periodically destined to undergo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04
REG ULATION And EXTENSION or NATC-
R4LLZ4TION

We hope the House will have recovered from
the panic into which it was thrown by Mr..
Davis's Naturalization bill, before the Senate
amendments, adopted on Saturday, reach it,
1t is eminently desirable that these amend
ments should become part of the bill, and
that the bill should become law. The
additions give it its only strength. Avowedly
framed for present application in this city,
where the naturalization frauds are most
frequent and fragrant, the House bill as
it left that body would have been
Ineffective for the simple reason that it left
to the Courts, created, in too many instances,
by those very frauds, the punishment of the
offenders who committed them. There can, of
course, be no reformation of the abuse under
such circumstances. The amendments of the
Senate do not wholly remedy this grave OBJ
lection. They authorize the appointment Of
Commissioners by United States Courts to ex-
anime the papers of naturalized citizens, but
these examinations are to be at the polls, not
in the court rooms, and at the time cit
liens offer to vote, not when they are made
voters. All this is bad-yery far from what
we require in this city-but it is, unfortunately,
all we are likely to get just now.
The original bill proposed by Judge Davis
was precisely what New-York City and State
needed, but it was made antagonistic to every
other section of the country in which these
naturalization frauds are not present political
grievances. Members from the West and
South, unacquainted by experience with the
extent to which these frauds are carried in
this State, and looking upon the bill as calcu-
lated to prevent the immigration their sections
so impeTatively require, voted for its rejec-
ton. 1t was apparent that bill with any vitality
in it stood little chance of success in the House.
Saturdays debate in the Senate further disclosed
that the same influences rendered doubtful
there the success of such bill as New-York
demands. We must perforce he content with
what we can get, and we earnestly entreat the
House to let us have the little which the SEN
ate grants. Armed with that little power,
New-York will attempt to reform the great
abuses which, formerly affecting only the City,
now involve the whole State, and threaten at
an early day-earlier than our Western friends
appear to suspect-to complicate "a general
election and decide, by fraud, the selection of
a President other than the choice of the whole
people.
The Senate was not content with its effort
at regulating naturalization. Ii also voted to
extend it, and an amendment striking the
word white" from all acts of Congress rela-
ting to naturalization 80 that there shall be,
in future. no distinction on account OF race Oh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

Since the people of New York appear to have taken
wood payements very much INTO favor it is a relief
to believe that likely to be adopted TO pre-
serve wood used for pavements from decay. This
the Preserved Wood Pavement Company propose to
do by what is known as the Robbins process which
is substantially as follows: Wood blocks placed
in iron, ar-tight chamber connected with retort
or still. The retort being filed with dead oil
dstillaton from coal-ar. heat is applied to it. As
the temperature rises, the different substances
posing the oil yaporized First appear the light
er oils as benzine naphtha and cuInol oil, which
boil at 40 to 80 degrees The heat Of these oyap
crates aud drives out all the moisture in the pores of
the wood, and coagulates the albumen Of the sap.
The heat rises, and earboc acid which vaporizes at
400 degrees comes over and Immediately penetrates
the inmost recesses of the wood. The yapor ol the
heavy oils AZ naphthalne and para-naphthalne. fol-
low the carbolic acid and saturae completely all the
tbrous parts OF the wood Az the heat ia withdrawn
all the oils condense and the wood So treated is sea-
soned, filled with OIL and thus preserved from decay.
Dr. Sayre discusses the subject of Street Payemeuts
III another column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04
THE GREAT YORK.

Amid the noisy demonstrations of joy with
which the National Holiday will to-day be
celebrated, one cause, one substantial cause,
for hearty rejoicing should not be overlooked
the steady and increasing reduction, month
by month, of the National Debt This reduc-
ton during June is the largest that has taken
place in any given month, and is nearly six
millions more than the great decrease OF the
preceding month of May. The whole reduc-
ton of the debt in the sixteen months OF
President Grants Administration amounts now
to $I3s, lO1,59O. There is also in the
Treasury (besides the certificates of special
gold depository a coin balance of over S1S,-
OOO,OO0-a considerable proportion OF which
will be paid out during the current month for
the half-yearly interest on the Five-Twenty
bonds. While undergoing this diminution, the
coin surplus will at the same time be replen-
ished by the receipts of gold customs within the
month; and the Secretary will be abundantly
able to make such sales of coin as he may
deem desirable.
The reduction of the debt during the month
will seem quite surprising to those who have
seen the numerous statements recently pub
lished for the purpose of aiding specula-
tive interests, to the effect that there would be
but little if any reduction in June, on account
of the heavy disbursements the Government
had to make for the Army and Navy, and sew
eral civil departments of the Administration.
We hope that these financial prophets whose
skies are always filled with black clouds, and
whose spirits are always depressed, will be
consoled by seeing the facts of the case, as
presented in simple and compact form by Sec
rotary Boutwell,.
"This country can never pay OIL the war
"Debtw we were told by the Democrats every
day from the close of the war till the election
of Gen. Grant. Even We who took a radi-
caly opposite view, and urged it on grounds
of principle and interest, can hardly say we
ever believed that the country would pay off
the debt at the rate it has been paid off dur
ing the last sixteen months. We are rejOced
to say that our great expectations have been
surpassed by greater realizations.
The result before us has been accomplished
in very simple way,-nOt by any fearful and
wonderful displays of financial gymnastics,
but merely by carrying out measures of Ie-
trenchment and economy, faithfully collecting
the revenues, and hOnOrably maintaining the
credit of the Government. 1t is only by per-
severing in the enforcement of the same meas
ures and principles that we shall, in due time,
accomplish the remaining part of the great
work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

AT the last session of the Board of Health
both the City Sanitary Inspector and the
Street Cleaning Inspector submitted elaborate
essays in favor of Browns scheme to compel
citizens to put out ashes and garbage in sep
arate vessels, which the Board lately refused
to entertain. Brown is frank enough to tell
us through his advocates that there is profit to
him in the additional inconvenience he pro-
poses to put upon the people. We do not
doubt it, nor do we deny that he may find profit
also in the burial from the public gaze of the
police reports of his omissions to do his work,
and in the strange neglect of the Commission
which supervises his doings to inform Judge
BoswOrth, who, as President Of the Health
Board, is entitled to be present, of the times
and places where his bills for work not done
are approved and paid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04
oEEG02)orIs DAILY Gribm1te
MONDAY, JULY a, 1870.

Earl Clarendon's funeral took place on Saturday.
Tic Cork Cothers are still importing Germans to fill the
uaces OF the strikers and ii feared the rOng will be
renewed About 1000 emigrants left Liverpool for
American ports last week === The Corps Legislatif
has rejected the petition Of the Orleans princes by large
,,ai,ritv The Emperor will mourning for Jerome
Paterson ROuaparte Of Baltimore. == The Czech Ro-
man ca holes Of ST. Petersburg threaten TO join the
Greek Church if the Infability dogma be adopted.
- Tho town of Srtoria, in Greece has been destroyed
a.d IAN island cngulfed by earthquake - 1t is
81, iaiy denied in Madrid that DE Rodas has asked 1or
rrCurLroemcuts for Cuba.
In The Senate on Saturday, bill reported estab-
u,,ug "a Transatlantic postal telegraph system by an
A,ca1 cable The Naturalization bill debated at
lgt,, an amendment being adopted striking the word
white" from all naturalization laws == In the
Io,lsc large number Of bills in relation to the public
lands was passed. A Conference Committee was
appointed on the Indian Appropriation bill C. Il. Oar
rell was admitted to seat from Louisiana.
The Assistant United states Treasurer in this city has
heen directed 10 sell SOO0OOO of gold, and purchase
bg0O3 OF bonds during July. == Negotiations for a
new Postal Convention have been reOpcned with the
French Government. The town of Oryille, Cal,
has been nearly destroyed by fire. === One man was
killed and several wounded by an accident on the Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad. = Saturday was the
hottest day the in California the mercury be-
ing ll5 in the shade.
President Grant passed through this city for Wood
stock Saturday. - There were l4o arrests lor III
,o,ication Yesterday ===- Mrs Barnard OF Brooklyn
was poisoned on Saturday through the careessness of
rug clerk === The Synagogue Berth Jacob, Brook
lvp. f. d., has been dedicated. $3.50 woman while
drunk killed her husband on Saturday night - Gold,
u21 1llz l12 Thermometer Saturday, g. 49, GSi Sun
dav ~ GA.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

It is reported that powerful railroad ring
has been lobbying in Washington to secure
the reimpOsition of the income tax as means
of Kidding themselves of the tax on gross re-
ceipts. SO the railroads are carrying their
tyranny into every household, and purpose
now to burden us in time of peace and pros
perity with an exaction which, like the draft
and the legal-tender act, could only be justi-
fled by the extraordinary necessities of war.
These measures were all three properly war
measures, and all ought to be swept away
together.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

Gen. Sherman informs us that we have been
misled by the current reports concerning his
action in dispossessing certain negroes from
their lands in Virginia These reports, it
seems were without foundation, in so far az
they asserted that the General acted either on
his own responsibility or on instructions from
the President unknown 10 the Secretary of
War. The Presidents orders were transmitted
to the General by the Secretary in the usual
form; he simply obeyed them, and is therefore
relieved entirely from any ccnsure whatever
in the matter. We take pleasure in making
the correction. We would have still greater
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

The Senate resolved by a majority of ten
not to reGnact the Income Tax. When this
resolution was reconsidered only three Senators
were found to hare changed their minds, viz,
Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, and Wilson. What
else, then, can we call the reGnactment, in a
thin House, of a law which has a clear ma
jority against it, but legislative trickP The
three converts and the five absent supporters
of the tax added together are not enough to
counterbaance the previous majority against
the law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

BY n singular coincidence the Fourth OF
July is not only the anniversary OF American
Independence, but it is also the first ami
versary of the birth Of certain fawn-colored
and white heifer, the property of Mr. William
+. Baker of the Ridge Hill Farms, at Wellesley,
Mass. TO participate in the ceremony of
naming this interesting creature, Mr.. Baker
has invited q cOncOurse of citizens from all
parts of the country, and a most gorgeous and
inspritng festival we doubt not he will make
of it. The occasion possesses especial interest
in our eyes from the fact that the proceedings
will be characterized by practical recognition
of the rights of woman, as well as those OF
"the sterner SEX" In fact, to quote the
language of the printed invitations,
cat this fraternO-sorOss five minutes
evil be allotted to each for oral
"extempOranies' We may question indeed
the Justice of regulation which limits
woman to five minutes for an oral extern
porany for no woman ever in the world got
through one of those things in that time; but
the principle of equality is nevertheless
respected, and the SisterhoOd we trust VIII
attend at the ceremonies in body. Happy
heifer. over whose cradle if we may be allowed
the expression, the conflict of sex Will DE
composed, and woman, bursting the bonds
which have held her in subsection for centuries
beyond the reckoning of history, will yindcate
her right to be heard in banquet halls as well
as at the forum, and to raise her voice III thOSe
feasts of eloquence Wilhelm point OF tact, 10
90 it on the oral extempOranies!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

Senator Ramsey has proposed another form
of the very Objectionable scheme for setting
mp the Government In the telegraph business.
His plan contemplates new company, which
is to lay another cable to Europe, and of which
postrnasters here and special assistants abroad
are to be the agents on commission. The alb
surdity of this and like propositions will. con-
firm the people in their opposition TO scheme
which has no apparent advantage and is open
IN numberless objections.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

The House insists On having hand in the
Immigrant jobs of every kind and character,
and on Saturday adopted bill forbidding the
conveyance of Indian reservations by treaty
to any other grantee than the United States.
The design is not only to restrict the Senate's
power to give, but that of railroad corpora
toDs 10 receive 1t provides simply that reser-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

In the next campaign the Democracy will
not fail to make effective use of the action of
Congress on the income tax and if they carry
districts which have hitherto been ours by
pledging themselves to repeal of this most
oppressive and hateful law, we trust certain
Republican Senators and Representatives are
prepared to face the responsibility.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-04

The election in Illinois on Saturday last re-
suited in the adoption of the new COnstitu-
tion. including the several amendments sub
mitted to separate vote, with the possible, but
not probable, exception of Minority Representa-
ton in the Legislature. A Chicago journal
estimates the pecuniary saving to the State by
this change in the fundamental law at some
thing over five millions of dollars per annum.
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amnsemrnts, f,;iurrs, rtr., CHS epcnins

BooTH's THEATER, Twenty -third-st. and Sixth
sve-At n snd8 The Huguenot"
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-thrd-st and
Eighth-ave.-At2 and g.: Twelve Temptations"
OLYMPIC THEATER.-MTs. James A. Oates's Bur-
eQue Compsny-A2 and 8. The Field Of the Cloth Of Gold"
WAIIACKs THEATER, Broadway and Ihirteenth-st.
-" Mnnie's Luck" John Brougham.
WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERrE.-At 2 and g.:
@JOciO" and Popsey Wopsey" Marinetd Troupe
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.-Theodore Thomass Pop
alar Concert
HooLEY's OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.-Lina Edwin
Star Combination.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Twenty-thrd-st
an, Fourth sye-Firsi sumner Exhibition Of Paintings