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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-08
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-08
VHE NEW ARTICLE OF FOOD.

QUEENSTOWN Nov. THE lnman steamship City Of Bm.'e
New orr for Liverpool arrived here at o'clock this morning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-08

EpGEwATER.-William Carroll, a cOlored man,
was held to ball. yesterday, by Judge Garrett for bru
tai assault on woman,
QUARANTINE. Numbers OF target companies from
New-YOrk and Brooklyn, visiting here, cause much
trouble to saOOn-kcepers and Others destroying prop
ert and ordering Refreshments which they do not pay
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

ness; hs face was covered with q matted
growth of hair. He was pronounced hOpelessly
insane how did he become s0f 1t appears
that when only eight years old, in order 10
secure certain property, his brother shut hlm
ND in these coops and has kept him there for
twenty-five years, There is reason 30 believe
that during this time he has been most cruelty
beaten. There is no evidence, we THINK, thaJ
when shut uD he was imbeclle or insane; but
he was altogether in the power Of brother
twenty years older than himself. The poor
wretch has been conveyed TO the Alms-Hoise;
and the brother held to bail in $1,000 to answer
20 charges of creating a nuisance and Oh aggra-
waited assault.
If we were to meet with a story like this in
cheap novel we should declare 1t interest
ing. but at the same time highly ImpfODaDle'
That a wretch like this Joseph should be aDie
for twenty-five years TO Keep younger
brother in wicked duress, should be able
to beat him, staive him, leave him naked,
is really quite rs astonishing as anything
in "The Mysteries of Pa.is' Nor was the
crime committed in an isolated locality; 1T
was prolonged fOg all these years, IN
populous neighboThOod of q popaous city,
with plenty of judges, policemen, humane
societies, charitable societies. and Quaker
meetings. What is still more strange, the
neighbors are said to have known some
thing of the affair, without disclosing their
suspicious or making any appeal to the
authorities. What may be done by one man
NAV be done by many. 1t might not be
pleasant 70 inquire how many wicked people
in different parts of the country have set up
I;ttIo ,,r;,,ota mad houses of their own, and
from motives OF pecunary interest, are sub
iecting lunatics or m5ecile relatives to SIM
liar treatment. More than one instance OF tins
private sort of practice has come under our
eye during the last year, although nothing, we
are glad to say, approaching this Philadelphia
case in atrOCity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21
Nen,'Tork Daily Gribmare,
TUESDAY, JUNE 81, 1870.

The English steamer Dacia has arrived at Porto Rico,
with the new West India telegraph cable. An explosion
has occurred in Government pOwdermill at Waltham
Abbey near London several persons being Killed
NAPOLEON is still unwel but his condition is not consid
cred serious Several important political reforms
have been promulgated in Portugal and the death pen
atty has been abolished The steamer Geo. B. Upton
has landed the remainder of her cargo successfully in
Cuba.
In the Senate yesterday the PostOfce Appropriation
bill further considered, several amendments con
ernng tho Frankng Privilege being voted down. The
House bill reducing taxation reported with amend
ments. - In the House. the Ways and Means Com
mittee instructed to report bill reducing the duty
on potatoes and all kinds of fish per cent The FORTH
cation Appropriation bill and the Army Appropriation
bill were passed bill reported looking to the adj
mission of the Territory of NewMexico into the Union
ss a state under the name Of the State Of Lincoln.
There is great gathering of Sioux Indians at Fort
Laramie, anxious to hear from Red Cloud. 49, Three
fatal ARRAYS occurred in ST. Louis Saturday night and
another on Sunday. 80 severe hail-storm passed
over Central New York and the Eastern States yesterday
doing great damage to the fruit, &c. 80 Gov. Clafin
has vetoed the Hartford and Erie Railroad Aid bill
Secretary Fish is on a visit TO Fortress Monroe
The Erie Railroad Company has begun action
damages being laid at s3,OOO,OOO -= The Tritonen
SharpshOoters held their annual festival yesterday.-
The suit brought against the Guatemaen Consul at this
port has been settled in favor Of the United stares
Gold. 1924, ll2S 1l23. Thermometer, 76, SO, &c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21
4 NEW CASPdR HAUSEP.

Many of our readers will remember the case
of Caspar Hauser, the young German, who,
some forty years ago, was discovered, help
less imbecile, at the gate of German city.
Although considerably advanced in life, he
could not walk he could not talk and he
could comprehend hardly anything which was
said to him. Of course, this was a fine oppOr-
tunity for the philosophical German minds
Books were written about Caspar Hauser 1t
was evolved, both by induction and deduction,
that, all his life, Caspar had been kept in a
dark hole, in which he could hardly stand
erect; that he must have had wooden horses
to play with; and, also, that he must have
been the Legitimate son of some German
Duke-perhaps of His Serene Highness, the
Duke of Pumpernickel. This last happy con-
lecture was much strengthened by an attempt
which was made to assassinate poor Caspar
What became of him afterward we do not
know. For all that we do know he may have
become Professor of Hermeneutics in the
University of Gottingen.
There were not wanting the skeptica who
declared that it was impossible for the man to
have been secretly kept in this hole for all
these years. Yet now in Philadelphia, in the
Year of Grace 1870, we have a case in many
respects like that of Caspar. At No. 337 Lom-
bard-st. resided man named Gibson, whose
sleep was disturbed by extraordinary noises;
and he came to the conclusion that he was
lodged in the vicinity of lunatc. Instituting
inquiries, he learned enough to induce him to
call In the policemen, who, on visiting the
residence of Joseph Herriges, found that he
was keeping a Younger brother John aged 20
In custody the particulars of which are both
frightful and repulsive. This John was de-
tanned according to The PosD "in two coop
like back-rooms one above the other, about
eight feet by ten" In one of these rooms the
prisoner slept, and in the other he took his food.
There was no furniture. The flooring was of
rough boards in shocldngy filthy state. The
personal condition of John Herriges was wor-
thy OF his domicil His body was clothed only
IL coarse bag; he was yellow with unelean-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

If the United States Congress had insisted
in the memorable year of grace 1864, when
Johnny came marching homc," that the
three years. terms of enlistment OF the volun-
tecrs had not expired by limitation, even
though the war was not then ended, and had
legislated to keep them in the field, what
would have been the result I Justly indignant
soldiers might probably have dealt with Con-
gress much after the summary manner OF
Cromwell and his men with the provoking
Parliament of their day. Yet Congress now
trihes with these same soldiers by legislating
to continue upon them the imposition of an
odious tax which expires by limitation with the
present year. 1t is true these soldiers are now
citizens only, bearing ballots, not bayonets; but
Congress will be quick to discover, if it per-
sists in breaking faith with them, that theiI
rage is as dangerous now as then. The viola
ton of faith with the volunteers would not
have been more fragrant than this which is
now threatened with the taxpayers. And the
punishment of those who persist in the present
fraud will be as certain, if not as severe, as 1t
would have been in the impossible contingency
we have supposed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21
THE ADMINISTRATION a SUCCESS.

Gen. Grants career as President is vehement
| ly pronounced a failure by such representatives
of different opinions and constituencies as The
| World and The Sun. The one denounces him
because, whereas he once seemed to have few
affiliations with professional politicians, he is
now on the best of terms with them; because
he shows capacity to forget personal grudges
in desire to do his duty, and thus opens cor
dial relations with old antagonists like Gen.
Butler; because he is not, as it AYERS, a bril-
liant President Qike Pierce or Buchanan, we
supposed, is not ambitious to enforce
a policy of his own, but is most ready,
waving his own opinions, when neces-
sary, to accept and execute the will of
the people, as expressed through Congress.
The San is even more vehement, but less ex-
plicit. 1t denOunces him, (after claiming that,
but for its Editor he would never have been
COMMANDMENTS Chief, or President) because
he takes occasional seasons of relaxation
from the cares of Office; because he does
not always select noted politicians for the of
fees; because he does not adopt high tone
with effete and bankrupt Spain because he
has appointed to Office men once engaged in
rebellion; and in general, because, as it al
| reyes, lie Is Nay anu
With the personal matters which, in one of
these cases, that of Mr.. Dana, are openly dis
cussed in connection with this Judgment, we
| have nothing to do. With the judgment itself
we propose briefly to deal. We do not regard
| Gen. Grants administration as failure. We
| do regard it as a very safe and substantial
success, and we do not for one moment doubt
that, outside the narrow but noisy limits
of political disappointment and aspirations
the sober, well-cOnsidered Judgment of the
Country sincerely and heartily renders the
same verdict. We remember that there was
a time when Mr.. Lincoln was denounced in
terms almost identical with those now used in
denunciation of Gen. Grant He was accused
of lack of brilliancy. He was declared to be
no politician. He was said to cling to political
nObodies, like Bates and Usher and Welles;
to ignore the live, powerful men of the party,
like Chase and Cameron and Butler. He was
without pluck, allowing the Country to be bull
lied by Great Britain with her privateers, and by
France with her Mexican expedition. He sought
relaxation from the cares of office, and even
INDUCED in the enOrmity of telling stories,
while the Republic was in the throes of
struggle for its existence. Yet, in spite of en-
venomed assault ON these and many like
scores, he was renominated without count.
Then was seen how trivial and inconsequen-
tial was all this noisy surface opposi-
ton. 1t was found that, since Jackson,
no man had so reached the popular heart.
Assailed in COmmittee-rOoms, he was APP
plauded in tOwn-meetings. Distrusted in eau
cuses he was enthusiastically followed by the
plain ycomanry of the country. The men who
cast the votes believed in him " their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

Another State and another Territory are to be
constructed. New-Moxico believes she has at
tanned the age and dignity of State ana
asks admission as such. The House Territorial
Committee thinking her request reasonable re-
ports favorably upon it, and proposes to give
her the name of Lincoln. Thus far well ana
good. But the same Committee also wishes TO
form "A Territorial Government in the lndian
Territory. We understood that the CberokeeS
and Choctaws to whom this Territory belongs
and by whom it is occupied, do not want any
such Government being satisfied with those
they have. VIII Congress force new one on
them for the sole purpose, as it is minated
of calling the Territory Douglas, as com
"pment to the large number OF Douglas Dem,
"ocrats who joined the Republican party T.
THE Douglas Democrats, we hope, do Mt want
compliment at the expense or injustice OF
our semi-barbarian brethren in the Indian Ter
ritOTy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21
SPANISH EMANCIPATION.

The bill for the emancipation of slaves in
the Spanish colonies, now the subject of such
acrimonious debate in the COrtes, is not a
measure over which the friends of liberty can
enthusiastically rejoice, or at which the Con-
servatiyes need feel much alarm. Slavery all
over the world received its death-blOw when
Mr.. Lincoln declared it abolished in the United
States. Even the Spaniards and Brazilians
have long perceived that its end was near in
the West Indies and South America, and the
utmost efforts of its friends could only pro-
long Its existence q generation or so, OF OBJ
struct emancipation with conditions onerous TO
the freedman and profitable to the master.
The action of the insurgents in Cuba has
strengthened the hands of the liberty marty
so much that there is hardly question of de-
ferring the inevitable decree much longer ex-
cept by subterfuge; and the struggle between
the two parties in the Cortes now is not SO
much on the main question of abolition as ON
the conditions under which it shall be effected
The bill now under debate is in reality COM
promise through which the masters, while o.
tensibly giving up their property in human
flesh, hope to retain the actual OF virtual own
ership for two more generations.
The bill provides for the freedom of all per-
sons born after the Uromulgation Of the de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

The confidence of the United States Senate
in the patience of the American people is GER
tainly without parallel. That body has had be-
fore it during this session scores of bills framed
in private interests, and an industrious lobby has
secured the adoption of every one of them
which has come up for consideration. In the
direct interest of taxpayers there have been
two memorable bills presented-one putting an
end to the gross abuse of the Franking Privi-
lege, and the other reducing a tax which
ought to be permitted wholly to expire. Al
though thousands of citizens have appealed in
petitions for relief in these matters, the
Senate has utterly disregarded their demands
and rights. When the House, in response to
the great cry which has gone up, voted to
abolish the Franking Privilege, the Senate
persisted in overriding it with such idle and
prepOsterOus amendments as were calculated
to delay and ultimately defeat it. For several
days these amendments have been before that
body, and have been considered in debates
whose language and manner are studied
insults to the American people. Messrs. Sum-
ner, Nye, Stewart, Drake, Spencer and others
who indulge in these dilatory motions, will
yet discover that testing public patience is a
dangerous game, at which politicians ought
never to play.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

This amazing little invention of the English
press seems to have gone about far enough! Half
the papers in England have been publishing the
story that an American firm proposed to telegraph
the entire novel of Lothian" from London to New
York for the sake of getting ahead of rival firms. 1t
seems time to tell what the simple facts are out of
which this enormous story has grown. When it had
become known that Mr. DisraelPs novel was TO deal
largely in pungent personalities affecting some OF
the most prominent men in the Government and the
literature of the United Kingdom, and before
it was certain that advance sheets were
TO be sent for simultaneous publication
10 the United States, The TRIBUNE pro-
posed to telegraph from London three-column
review of the novel. The proposition was made to
the American representatives of the associated land
and ocean lines between London and New-York, and
the consultation which arose between them and the
English authorities led to discussion, in the course
of which the facts seem to have leaked out in dis
torted fashion in England. The intention of The
TRIBUNE to order this dispatch was the sole basis
for the preposer0us story which has since been cir
Culated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

A conspiracy to clean out the municipal
treasury, under pretense of removing the
fostering foulness which Brown has been
handsomely paid for removing, was partially
developed yesterday in the special session of
the Board of Health. 1t is proposed that the
Board shall contract to have the streets
cleaned in addition to the purifying Brown is
supposed to give them, five times per week in
the Sd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th, 18th, 18th, 14th and
parts of the 9Th, 18th and 18th Wards while
the other portions of these with the lst, 9TH,
9th, 18TH and parts of the Goth and 22d Wards,
are to be cleaned twice, and the other Wards
and parts of Wards once. Here is chance
for spending the public money undoubtedly
delightful to the STRENGTHENING Ring which is
TO receive it, but rather the reverse to the
people who are to pay it. The contract for
the additional work is to be made with Brown,
who has already done the Ring some
service, and the fact suggests prob
lem which we can state, but not
solve: If Brown has S498,50O for the habitual
violation of a contract requiring him to clean
the streets once in each week, how much will
he get for doing the same under contract
binding him to clean them twice, thrice, or six
times per weekf 1t is claimed by Tammany
that the authorities are not limited by the new
law as to the amount to be spent in street.
cleaning, and they are evidently acting on that
hypothesis. The 100000 which has been
supposed to be the utmost that could be stolen
by this device will not go far in the contem-
plated arrangement Ignorance may be bliss,
but we are curious to know just how much it
is intended to put away in private purses by
this bold confidence game.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

The reports of the action of the Senate FL
nance Committee on the Income Tax are some
what conflicting. One account states that the
Committee has adopted the provision of the
House retaining the tax at five per cent and
placing the exemption at $4,000; while another
asserts that it adheres to its original PROPOSE
ton TO reduce the tax to three per cent, leaving
the exemption at $1,000 as at present. Each
of these plans is Objectionable. Why not adopt
the three per cent rate of the one and the
$4,000 limitation of the other7 Or. better STILL
let the odiOus impOst be permitted quietly to
depart to that bourne where lobbyists cease
from troubling and Congressman are at rest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21
TIE TAX AND TARIFF Bill AGAIN.

TIE TAX AND TARIFF Bill AGAIN.
The Senate Finance Committee in reporting
the Tax and Tariff bill which lately passed
the House, very unnecessarily alters it in many
of it's details, reducing the tariff materially,
and, with that strange perverseness of humOr
which has been displayed during the whole
session, repeating those taxes which ought to
be enforced, and rcGnacting those which ought
to be repealed or be allowed to expire. The
special taxes on corporations and large bust
ness houses, on sales and dividends,
are repealed, except upon such as
sell or make liquors, wines, cigars, and like
Injuries. Even the special taxes on legacies
and SUGGESTIONS of new estates are repealed !;
but the Income Tax, which all salaried classes
pay and which rich property holders avoid, is
to be enforced. The collection districts are
consolidated and little money may be thereby
saved, but the tax clauses of the new bill arc
worse than those of the House.
The clauses altering the tariff are not more
cOmmendable. There is a general reduction of
the duty on sugars and a long free list added.
The molasses tea, coffee, iron, and Bessemer
steel provisions of the House bill, however, re-
main unaltered. The bill, "a a whole, still
further reduces the foreign duties and con-
tinues the home taxes, and for this reason
alone it ought not to prevail
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

Gov. Clahin's veto OF the bill to give further
aid to the Boston, Hartford aud Erie Railway
will doubtless put an end TO the corrupt cor
poration which has wasted that important en-
terprise and the money of the State in specu-
lations vs bold and inscriptions as those OF
our own Erie "riDg" The enterprise was
one into which the State was most cunningly
drawn by which it was deeply involved and
by which it must lose heavily. Gov. Clafiln
has no idea of involving the commonwealth
further, and the full exposition OF the fraud
ulent conduct of the managers OF the road
ought to convince the Legislature OF the folly
of attempting TO revive an enterprise under
such management and such association. The
message of the Governor recites that at the tllne
the State granted aid to the amount OF $5,OO0ocO
in 1858 the corporation had sufficient means TO
complete the road to the Hudson River, but
that the funds were wasted in "StOck specu-
latons, and for other purposes still worse"
What the latter were we are left TO imagine,
and are certainly at a loss to conjecture. But
by these means, whatever they were, their
own money and that of the State was
wasted and debt of SSO00,0Co was
created. Thereupon, with their offenses,
anu JIlclE ucDOS uuplONiuCh AOi, hhu 'iO
mortgages 70 the State unpaid, the cOrporatOrs
with an effrontery worthy of those greatest
railway managers in the world" of other Erie
fame came forward and asked another loan,
and rendered another mortgage. And the
Legislature voted to grant further aid. 1t is
this aid bill which Gov. Clafiiin very properly
vetOes. The State cannot, in ustice to her
creditors, continue its partnership with this
corporation, and the sooner it cuts loose from
such connection the better for its credit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

bid of yesterday for popular favor in asking a
reduction of duties on potatoes and hsh
Potatoes and fish! What tender recolections
it will arouse in the breast of his old con-
stituents! What one Of them is there SO
hardened in Tammany crimes as to remain
deaf to such an affecting appeal as "cheap
"codfsh and potatoesG" With this war-cry,
let the Young Democracy PIT on its war-palnt
afresh and reOrganze victory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-21

The steamer Geo. B. Upton has, on her
second trip, succeeded in safely landing her
supplies and men in Cuba. The Spanish re-
ports which admit this say nothing of the
capture of the munitions of war; hence we infer
that they have reached the patriot troops, who
sorely need them. The Upton, it will be seen,
has reached this port again in safety.