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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16
rIE PlpTY nTTSLDE

If Congress does not get sick TO death of the
whole noisome race of lobby-members and ex-
terminate it, or if the race aforesaid does not
get sick of Congress, we shall soon begin TO
despair of the Republic Take the case Of
Stanbcrry, for instance. This is the ingenious
Outside Party who swindled two anxious
parents out of $4,000 81 600 for each parent
and then did willfully, malciously, and of
malice aforethOught inveigle the excellent
Mr. Brooks into nominating the child of said
parents for q cadetshp! 1t is now Indignantly
denied that our friend Brooks took any OF the
money, and we can readily believe the denial.
Such sharp fellows as Stanberry would cheat
the devil, and much more such an excellent
and innocent man as we know Mr. Brooks to be.
If we were in Congress, we should instantly
bring in n bill for the suppression OF The
Party Outside. He is a greedy, INSCRIPTIONS,
graspng, and button hOling monster with
whom honest men will associate at the peril
of purse and of reputation. Members OF Con-
gress ought TO be sharper than to allow The
Party Outside to reduce them to the roast
rabbit condition of BROWNIES. Members OF
Congress should be gentlemen. and not keep
company with The Party Outside They should
refuse to go to his dinners, or drink his wine,
or smoke his cigars. They should decline to
know him in the street or the lobby. We
tell Honorable Members honestly that if they
do not suppress The Party Outside, he will be
very likely to depress them in the estimation
of all respectable men. He has finger in
every pie, and he carries off most of the plums.
Imagine IRoman Party Outside approaching
the great Cato! And shall high and mighty
American Representative be less virtuous than
Cato? Dear, virtuous, inliexibly pure Mem
bers why do you not make for" The Party
Ont side
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

1t has been stated, doubtless with view to
create doubt as to the finality of the Supreme
Court Legal Tender decision, that the opinion
in question was "concurred in by only three
Judges out of five, in Court composed of
seven Judges" Mr.. j. w. Wallace, the Off
cial reporter of the Supreme Court in letter
published in our money article Second page,
cOrrects this error by showing that five out of
eight Judges united in the opinion. He further
shows that the decision "applies to interest ac-
"crued since the passage of the Legal Tender
"acts on obligations given before Them" and
leaves very little doubt on unpreudiced minds
that the decsion-no matter how the two new
Judges may feels certain long to remain the
law OF the land.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

In charging Grand Jury in Albany County.
Wyoming Territory, the said jury being COM
posed in part of women, the Judge said:
Il would be the most shameful scandal that IN our
temples Of Justice and in our courts OF law anything
should be permitted which the most sensitive lady might
not hear with propriety and witness"
Now, in the hearing of some causes which
have come under our own Observation-libcls
for divorce, which were sustained by deposit
tons and were not for the jury-we nave
known Judge to stop the reading, ana TO say
that he would privately look over the papers
But in many States other than the one IN WHEN
this occurred. these would have been causes lot
the jury, and the dispositions must necessarily
have been read to the panel. 1t Is certain
that there are many things of when
modest women have not heretofore been
in the habit OF talking, even among
themselves. Yet the world is the world; It's
business must go on and courts must inquire
into some crimes both shameful and disgust
ing. If, therefore, women are to take part
in judicial proceedings of this character, tho
question arises whether what we have been
accustomed to speak of as womanly modesty
must not be discarded. Mind, we do not say
that this is n good thing or a bad thing-we
merely say that it must be surrendered. IL
the world is willing to give 10 up, well AMI
good, or i'll and bad, we do not say which.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16
SAN DOMINGO.

Two-thirds of the Senate being necessary to
a ratification. the fate of the treaty for annex
ing San Domingo may now be considered quite
doubtful. majority of the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations has concluded to disap-
prove the treaty, and. though such men as
Messrs. Morton. Schurz, and Harlan are re-
ported in its favor, experienced legislators like
Messrs Sumner and Cameron are against 1t.
Nevertheless an earnest and able effort will be
made to urge and argue the treaty through to
ratification.
We presume that the objections to the meas
ure arc those which we have faithfully and
impartaly pointed out from time to time
First, there is the complaint that the vote for
annexation is unfair; second that party of
revolutiOnists opposed to Mr. Baez are rallying
with tho cry against annexation; third, that
the acquisition of San Domingo makes neces-
sary that of Hayti, whose ruling anarchists are,
along with their Dominican ally Cabral, our enc
mics fourth, that the debt of San Domingo Is
nearer ten millions than two millions, as
stated fifth, that forbearance Is a neces-
sary element in our calculations Win re-
gard to q people too inslIlar not to be sensi-
tive to the idea of suddenly making them-
selves over to foreigner. Tho memory oi
SPANS calamitOus attempt at annexatioh'
brought about in part by the same Mr. baez
who now offers us the vote of San Domingo
gives tone and adds a point to these opJec-
tions Our news columns to-day recall the
fatal election which aroused Cabral Plmentel'
and Luperon ten years ago. and carried with
it such deadly disgust and dishonor to tho
pride Of Spain. The circumstances then were
not vastly different from those at present.
On the other hand, it is earnestly stated that
all worth having or hearing IN San Domingo
arrays itself upon the side of order and of Baez.
The election which offers us San Domingo Is as
fair and Free according to this belief, as any
which can be held in that chroncally doubtful
republic Our chances are rs good now, and as
honest, reason the friends of annex
alton. as they will ever be, and
Hayti will trouble us perhaps as little
at this time as ten years hence. OF all eXper-
iments in the tropics the Dominican one COM
mends itself to its friends as mourning least
risk, and as offering us the key of all that
rich quarter of the world. The Senate will
try the case at issue, we doubt not, carefully
1t involves not so much a matter of desirable
ity "a of time and manner, and 1t will be
decided from no partisan point of view.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

We recall to the attention of the Democratic
and other ant-Protective Representatives in
Congress the recommendation of The Erening
Post that they should submit Commissioner
Weiss draft of Tariff bill Cor any other
that may please them better as substitute
for Gen. Schenck's. take the sense of
the House thereon, and. if defeated, appeal
to the country for judgment on
the merits of the rival measures. The Post Is
the oldest and most courageous exponent and
champion of their doctrine, and is not given
to Kane-letter lodges, but to frank, manly
warfare. VIII the Frce-Traders emulate its
courage and present their bill! This bush
fighting with windy resolves, Ia National or
State nominating Conventions, is not square
work. Are they afraid of a face-toface en-
counter?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16
TIMELY CAUTION.

The Canadian politicians and property owners
who have in hand the job Of effecting re-
newal of the Reciprocity Treaty, having failed
| to persuade our Government to enter again
| into such jug-handled arrangement, are medl-
tating force to compel us into compliance
with their wishes. They threaten IN their
Parliament and in their newspapers, to drive
our fishermen from thel tide-waters bounding
the New Dominion to frame a retaliatOry and
hostile tariff against us; and to impose dis
eliminating duties on American vessels passing
| through their canals.
Our advice to the gentlemen of the New Do
minion is to make haste slowly in this direction.
The general sense of this country is, that the
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty, which was nego-
tated on our side by an Administration repre-
scnting the policy of the Slave Power, to re-
strict the expansion of the Republic northward,
and to discourage tho industry of the Free
States. was an altogether onc-sided and unfair
arrangement-that the benefits of it almost
wholly enured to Canada-and that its recipro-
cal character was as much of a sham as would
be reciprocal treaty for the interchange of
Goals between Newcastle and Paris. Certainly,
the treaty gave Canada the freedom Of our mar
kets, and with it exemption from the political
burdens which rested upon Americans. 1t
placed Canadian farmers, miners, lumbermen,
and millers, at an advantage on our own SOIL
over our own people Will the gentlemen OF
the New Dominion put the screws" to us to
restore that arrangement If they contemplate
doing so, let them in time take from us the
warning that that is game two can play at.
For example: There is section of our Ware
house Regulations under our Revenue laws, en-
titled "Of transportation and expectation to
" the Dominion Of Canada" Under it, the
goods bought in Europe by Quebec, Montreal,
Toronto, London, and st. Catharine's mer-
chants, and which are landed at Port
land, Boston, or New-YOrk, are speeded
at those ports on their way through our
territory to their destinations in the foreign
country which is showing its teeth to u.s.
Likewise the railway trains running into the
New Dominion from Maine, Vermont, New
York, and Michigan, cross our boundary with
out stOppage, and give the Canadians ingress
and cgress into and out of our markets, with
out Custom-I House delays or veXations. This
generous comfy can be put an end to by
very short joint resolution of the two Houses
of Congress. If the merchants of the New
Dominion want every one OF their freight
trains stopped at the bridges and ferries over
the Detroit Niagara, and St. Lawrence rivers,
and their boxes, barrels. and bales opened,
inspected. and appraised, they can be gratifed.
And if the New Dominion wants to lose the
benefit of importing her European purchases
and exporting her domestic products through
our territory, and desires to be reverted TO her
ancient channel of the st. Lawrence, she can
be gratiied in that. She has only to initiate
hostile legislation against our fishermen to get
all she wants of this sort of Reciprocity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16
Aem'alork Daily Gribnl1e,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1G, 1870.

The proposed treaty Cor the annexation OF San Domingo
has been dsapproved by the Senate Committee The Com
uittee Of the House on Foreign Affairs are reported in
favor OF admitting Cuban ligerency. - The French
troops Will not be withdrawn from Rome, and
the quarrel between NM. Daru and Olivier is
contradicted. == Forty members of the Roman
Council have moved for the discussion OF Infabiity
== Lopez has fed into the province Of Matte Crosse
s= The British Parliament has resumed the debate on
the Education BILL and has entertained a motion for
Coonia ,clfg0verumeut. = The party Of the Loft in
the Corps Legsatf have decided demand the control
OF u Cnrdec and to oppose the granting of money
max ittwar without Legislative permission.
il .,,seuate yesterday. the House bin appropriatus
alC salary Of Justice Of the L. S Supreme Court to
Mis NJ. Stanton was passed; the bills for the appoint
mCHt Of Joint Committee Indian Affairs, and for the
admission Of Georgia, debated. without result.
In the House. the Funding bill referred to the
Committee Ways and Means; the bill for the adms-
Of Texas passed. the Deficiency bill passed
through Committee, and reported to the House, but
vote reached.
Secretary Fish announces that 80 States have ratified
the XVIII Amendment. == The Memphis Board Of Ed
has prohibited all religious exercises in the public
schools 1t is reported that the Chinese have been
driven from the new mines near San DIEGO, Cal, and
number Of them killed. = Thirty.seven distilleres
have been seized IN Texas within the last 90 days. =
severe storm RACED IN the Northwestern States on
Monday aud yesterday. aud last evening 1t still
showing; the snow is four feet deep in Minnesota.
The Erie suit against Commodore Vanderbilt TO
H.500OOO has been revived. == Passenger agents
moving for the reconstruction Of the Emigration Com
mission. = Evidence for the Government has closed
IL the Fullerton trial and counsel for the defense has
moved for a dismissal Of the chargee s= Michael Hol
ohan who attempted to kill hsfather has been sentenced
10 State Prison for u years. George Wilkes has
been severely punished by Major Leland. Gold III,
III 1924. ilE Thermometer. 30 40, sc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

1t was seriously proposed in the Senate yes
terday, by Mr. Drake of Missouri, to attach to
the Georgia bill provision directing the Pres
ident to furnish on the demand of the Lcgls-
lature or Governor of any of the late Rebel
States, United States troops to subiugate law
less organization, and authorizing him to de-
clare martial law in the disturbed States and
make leves and subsist the troops on the in
habitants. The President has all the power
necessary or proper; the enforcement of the
Civil Rights bill is already amply provided for;
and Mr.. brakes amendment is useless as a
grant of power and offensive in its suggestion
of the manner of enforcing the laws.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

If Gov. Alcorn of Mississippi will do all tho
fine things which he promises in his Inaugural
Address, we may pardon his little flourish
about being "a true Son of the South In ap-
pointing officers. he coyenanted to have regard
to "the competency, honesty. and soOnety d"
the appointed; and he could MT have better
rule. He engaged for the enforcement OF tne
claws for the protection of all classes, without
"the aid of the military If possible, and WIN
at if necessary" He said that Judges Shouia
"be men of standing which society couiu
"not ignore; men of courage and OF con,
"science, willing TO cooperate in the WORK Oh
reconstruction These are excellent prom
ises and sentiments, and, provided the GoVe'-
nor be true to them, it does mt matter whether
he is a Son of the South the Southwest "a
the North East.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

We are threatened with other City Charters,
each warranted entirely new. The Democracy
at Albany are more caprcious than milliners,
and it is less difficult to comprehend the new
est style in bonnets than to keep correctly in
formed as to the latest thing in charters.
First we had the Sweeny scheme, next the
Anti Ring device. and now an avalanche Of
bills reaching independently, but rapaciously.
after those spoils which seem to be the chief
Democratic anxiety. notwithstanding all the
asseverations about reform. But no matter
which style prevails, it appears that the City
must wear and pay idearly for the new cap.
whether it fits or not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

The threat to seize the surplus fund of the
Savings Banks is not the only. State swinde in
the contemplation of which the Legislative
"Ringr INDUCES itself. An old plan of cam
paign against the owners of city property has
been revived, and is TO be prosecuted with
vigor. A bill has been introduced in the
Assembly authorizing the laying of a double
track street railroad through Broadway from
South Ferry to Twenty thrd-st, and thence
through the entire length of Fifth-aye Lest
this threat might not eXtOrt enough to
satisfy all parties, it was followed by
another to gridirOn LeXingtOn-ave. 1t is
provided in these bills that the fran
chses for the roads are to be sold at public
auction, but it is expected that the property
owners will expend more to keep the rails out
of these streets than anybody will pay for the
privilege of putting them in. There is no
word which more truthfully describes the
character of such operations than the some
what vulgar one of matchmaking" But to
the success of all such schemes both knave
and a fool are necessary; and the latter we
trust the present spoilers will not find. This
particular cry of wolf has been heard too often.
The Banks may not satisfy" and property
holders may not "buy up the charters and
legislators at once yet there will be no surplus
funds seized, no railroads built Rapacious as
these wolves are they will not come this time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

schools, colleges and universities, railroads,
canals, and telegraphs-with all the elements
of a rapid and healthy growth in material
wealth and Christian civilization.
And yet, this more than royal bounty Of the
Government has not destroyed the public
domain thus given; but, like the spared books
of the Sybil, the remaining public domain, by
this liberal policy of giving away, has be-
come moro valuable than the whole was be-
fore. 1t has been q donation that has en-
riched the donor; and, more than anything
beside, in connection with our free govern
ment, has made us rich, pOpulous, and
prosperous nation
As before shown, we had, on the 3Oth June
1863, about 1,40O0OO,000 acres unsold. How
insignificant in view of this imperial domain are
100 OO0, 900 acres granted in aid Of other great
lines of railways and canals needed for the
full development of our immense natural re-
sources, and for the establishment of lines OF
iron steamships that shall make our commerce
whten every sea, and the power and enterprise
of the United States be acknowledged in every
part of the word-not for conquest and OPP
preston, but for enlightenment, for liberty,
and Christian civilization.
Guard these grand donations to the people,
for great enterprises, for Railways, Canals,
Steamship lines, and Telegraphs, with every
precaution to secure their use for the public
good, and the truth of the old proverb will be
vindicated-" There is that scattereth, and yet
"maketh rich there is that withholdeth, and
" yet tendeth to poverty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16
smusem,nts, g,,turts, ,tt., Ghis Gbcniuq.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-English Opera, "The Mar
rsge Of Hrsro" Psrcpa Ross
BOoru's TuTArER. Twenty .third-st. and SiXth-ave'
Hamlet" Booth
FnrH-AvE TuFATFR.-At and s: "Frou-frou''
GRAND OPERA UoUsr, Twcnty-thUd-St ana
shth-sve- Twelve Temptations"
NIR1o'S GAEpEN.-"Thc Emerald Ring" Mr.. and
Ms Barney Williams
OLYMPIC TuEATER.-At . and S; Hamlet" G, l.
Fox
WNIACK'S TUrATFE, Broadway and Thirteenth
1T" Lost at Sea" }. W. Wolack
WOODS MusrUM.-N2 .: William Tell AT s.:
youdes. 10 "Prgmaiou'
CLINTON HAIL ART GALLERIES, AStor-place.-lree
Exhibition Of Paintings
KELLY & Icons MTNSTREIS No. go Broadway
d" lie petit Faust
NEWBORN Circus, Fourtccnth-St.- Grand Pro
gramme. AZ q and s. EGuestriauisH. BodOuu Arabs
SAN FRANCISCo Observation-Disclosures per
iormsuees
REV. S. L. STrvENs-EaSten Branch Y. NJ. c. A.,
No. 90 Guudst-"What Can ! dor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

The full history Of the Cardiff giant has boe,
revealed at last, by Mr.. II. B.. Mortin OF Mar.
slaltown, in the State Of Iowa. Tbis cstima.
bic and ingenious gentleman, believing bim.eJi
wrOnsed by the partners in whom he trusted
! has made clean breast Of it, ACCORDING %
his confession, he "got up that giant,r and in
partnership with one George Hull, bought
quarry Of gypsum in Iowa, from which the
material Of the statue was obtained. With
much difficulty the stone was conveyed 10 Chi.
cagO and there chiseled into shape By sculp.
tor named Saey. Then it was sent to Cardiff
in that famous iron bound box, and buried on
Newelrs farm,-Broome County being. as Hui
remarked, "a great place for relies Newell
had a one-fourth interest in it, and various
other persons were admitted to partnersbs1 in tho
enterprise, though it does not appear tYat any.
body but Newell and Hull got much except pro.
tested notes. Mr.. Mortin's statement is tolerably
circumstantial and coherent. and seems to be
accel ted by those who have heard it although
such is the depravity of human nature that we
dare say great many people will hesitate t.
take his word as evidence. We ourselves arr
rather more interested in Mr. Mortin's story Of
what he purposed doing than what he actually
did Recognizing the fondness of the public
for being humbugged, he felt that his stone
petrifaction, properly managed, was equivalent
to a fortune and eff Hull had MT made 2
odd fool of himself" he remarked, 81 should
have had the mother of the Giant dug up
"near the same spot This pleasing old lady
was to have been represented in the deadly
embraces of huge serpent. She was to have
been built of iron, bone, and plaster Of Paris
and we have no doubt that her ccle.
brated son would have been q very in5g.
nifcant giant indeed by the side of her, The
behavior of the miserable Hull, in making
ID fool of himself, is therefore to be deeply
regretted; but we may console ourselves with
Mr. MOrtn's prediction that in less than two
years he will humbug the American people
with some colossal fraud in comparison with
which the Cardiff giant will be nothing but
wooden nutmegs. We shall await the next
two years with pleasing anticipations
This confession of the gentleman who "got
cup the Giant will perhaps draw forth few
from the gentlemen who gave it
various scientific recommendations. We Of
course understand that the eminent professors,
geOlogists antiquaries, and authorities on art
and anatomy who vouched for the authenti-
city of the statue, are "not up to small deceit
" or any sinful gamcs;' but we should like to
hear from the intelligent savants who declared.
some that it was a real petrifaction, some that
it had evidently been in the earth at least POO
years, some that it was stamped with the
"marls of ages one that "only the ancient
" Greek school of art was capable of such a
" perfect reproduction of the human FORM
and one that Italy possessed nothing which
embodied so perfectly "the intellectual and
" physical power Of rock-hurling Tltan'~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

The Scnate's Funding bill was yesterday re-
ferrcd by the House to its Committee OF ways
and Means, after refusal. by 70 to 50, to send
il to the Banking Committee 1t is understood
that Mr.. Boutwell, preferred the reference that
was given. We trust the bill will soon be re-
ported with few amendments, and then
promptly put upon its passage. 1t is a meas
IRE calculated to strengthen the National Credit
and render our Currency more stable; and ii
cannot be passed too soon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

Somebody writes to The Chicago Tribune from
Nicksburg, Miss, that when he arrived III NV
State he was positively assured py "'','
every (white) body that "the niger Wouiu,
work Proceeding to the vertcatlon Oh u''
assertion by personal observation, be was SONIC
what surprised to discover that "tne me- n'sS 81,
was the only person who did work I ,is,,os"
the stories about his Incidence ana s'''i'"'
ness mnst be taken with several pounds d
., moSS nus, he is advancing under diicO'
ti"s which woud totally discourage sre",
many whites, such as the rem, , r', nv;th sho
SIS per acre for his land ana 'lln'' Wv"
half the fair play which Is uSu''''
necessary. he is laying mp money
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-16

to be done by. 1t is right that American ships
shall be built in American waters, under the
direction Of the living Successors of Echford
and of Steers But it is right, on the same prn-
ciple and for the same reasons that American
Iron, American Anchors. American Cordage,
&C., &c. shall be used i'll the construction and
fitting out of those American vessels; and we
are in favor of this also. If the Ship-buders
are not, we cannot feel the same interest in their
appeal to Congress for Protection that we
should if they were as ready to concedo rs to
claim If