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New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

The Darien explorers have found their
present routes-those from Caledonia and Sa.
sardi bays-impracticable, owing to coast and
mountain obstacles not to be overcome. Should
no route whatever be discovered from their
present starting points, it is probable that they
will proceed to San Bias to continue this work.
These results cannot be accounted fortunate,
though not unanticipated, but we are willing to
accept Senior Quesada's consolation. According
to the view of the ColomENn Commissioner,
the expedition discovered IRON the sides of a
mountain range at the north of the River
Chucuti, an extensive valley running to the
southwest, in which, perhaps, the low level
may be discovered running toward the Pa
cifc which is required for the canaln The
failure for the time being of the efforts of
Capt. Selfridges explorers has given a bril-
liant opportunity to that racy and loquaciOus
gentleman, NJ. Lucien dc Puydt.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28
PROCLAInINO IRELAND.

Perhaps the worst we can say of the Cana
dian policy toward the Fenians is that it is
British, as the best we dare say of
British policy toward Ireland is that it
is Canadian. London has had seasons
of alarm which remind us of Ottawa,
and everybody knows that the Coercion bill
was the unhappy parent of its abject and fear
full likeness, the Suspension act of Canada.
We are sorry that at this late day Englishmen
are impelled to legislate in panic about Irish
affairs, whether they take shadowy or substantial
shapes Several districts of Ireland have Just been
proclaimed. For many purposes they are in
state of SIEGE Summary arrests, trials, pun
ishments, cOnfiscatiOns, are all provided for in
the bill to meet the operations of which these
districts are devoted. Mere suspicion will be
evidence to bad magistrates, and patriotic
Indignation treason. Unless the Government
of England can procure the fulfllment of its
behests through highly conscientious magis-
tracy, it risks the aggravation of the evil which
it endeavOrs to cure. We patiently await proof
that any more reason exists for proclaiming
Ireland than for suspending the Habeas Cor
pus in Canada. Fenian supplies are supposed
to have been found at Newcastle and Man
chester and the office of The Pal Mall Gazette
has had spell of Canadian fever But who
has yet seen sufficient proof that the Fenians
have so far disorganized and frightened Ire
land that more than the usual British appliances
for controlling her have become necessary
We doubt that the need exists for one-half
the panic legislation poured out upon her of
late; but for either bad legislation, or the
want of good legislation, England must as
suredly accept the blame and the responsibility
Great must be the condemnation of her ruli q
statesmen if their latest act only serves to in
crease the irritation and complicate the wrongs
and evils of Ireland. If the measure of Co
erciOn is needless, 1t is a great wrong; If Il
proves failure, it is equally wrong and
misfortune.
1t was to be hoped that England, in spite
of much national miseducation and prejudice,
in spite of that habit of legislative and Jour
nalistic snobbery which makes so much ofits
intellect vain, had begun to appreciate to
understand, to cherish her sister country. The
day and hour of reconciliation had certainly
arrived when men like Moore. O'Donoghte, and
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28
Aetu'Dork Daily griba,rs.
THURSDAY, APRIL 2s, 1870.

MN. Daru and Theirs have variously advised the
French people respecting the Plebiscitum, the latter
recommending them TO abstain from voting. - Sew
eral districts of Ireland have been proclaimed. -
The Turkish Government again protests against the Ep
tian losa Prince Frederick Of Prussia has become
the most prominent candidate for the Spanish
throne opposed by Napoleon Marshal seIIano Is
growing favorable TO a Republic. - Gen. Cabral has,
it is rumored bargained with France for prOteCOrate
over Hayti and San Domingo. -- The Spanjards IN
Cuba claim important victory over Gen. Diaz, and
report that Gen. Agramonte has resigned. - The
present routes taken by the Daren explorers are i'm
practicable.
In the Senate yesterday, bin was reported for the
removal OF certain from State Courts TO those Of
the United states Mr. Pratt advocated the claims Of
loyal SOutherners for stores furnished the army during
the Rebellion. In the House the removal Of disa-
btes discussed at length Tariff bill was de-
bated the duty on iron hoops being reduced.
floor in the Capitol, Richmond va gave way yester-
day, when densely crowded, killing and wounding a
large number Of persons =- The Democratic Conven-
ton at Rochester nominated for Supreme Court
Judges =- Two rowdies were killed by policeman
in Philadelphia. - The New-York Watch Factory in
Springfield Mass and the sheds of the Washington Ice
Company near Saratoga have been burned. g. The
law Office Of Hamilton Harris at Albany robbed Of
$4,000 last evening.
Testimony for the defense in the Mcfarland trial is
closed and Horace Greeley has been called Of the
witnesses for the rebuttal. === Cooney who admits
that he was fighting with David ODay when the latter
was stabbed surrendered last night. == Mayor Hall
has appointed Controller Connolly to be Controller for
I'VE years The Board OF Health has chosen Judge
Bosworth President and has made already number OF
removals. =-= Two men have been drowned in the
Hudson River while endeavorng to haul their soop,
which got aground, into deep water. = The monthly
auction sale of Scranton coal shows decline from the
March prices Gold, llaJ ia, 1l4i Thermometer,
~, 74o go.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

not or would not, make party issue against
PrOtectiOnf
The Free-Traders are to-day minority III
Congress- We are sure that they are more ae-
cidedly a minority among the People. bu'
they think that, outside of Pennsylvania they
can run the Democratic party; and they a,o
trying hard to bully the Republicans INTO s'D.
mission to their behests by threatening 10 oca'
them in the ensuing elections for Congress
"We can draw enough votes away ron 'ho
Republican candidates to elect their De,hc-
"cratic competitors next Fall" such Is thtil
nropramme, such their menace if they could
hold the Democratic masses by party machinery
and carry over to them the Republican Free
Traders they might achieve temporary ao-
vantage. .
Our trust is in the popular instinct, the pop
u,ar heart. Time is our potent ally. Give us
a fair chance to inform and arouse the Miilions'
and Protection will be as strong as 1t was LII
1s94-ss. If the Tariff can now be improved, so
he it! But the struggle at present going on al
Washington is merely a preliminary sklrmish-
at most, a reconnaissance in force-the battle
is to be fought before the People, and we have
no doubt as to its result.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

We would respectfully suggest to the Hon.
Mr.. Fowler, United States Senator for Tennes-
see, that while q criminal trial is pending in
this city it does not become him, and is not
precisely Senatorial in the said Mr.. Fowler, to
argue the case for the defense in his place in
the Senate. Mr.. Fowler does not need to be
told that the judicial and legislative functions
ale wisely separated by the Constitution; and
that, in the particular case to which he refers,
the body of which he is a member has no
jurisdiction whatever. We say this without
reference to Mr.. FOwler's exceedingly gros
perversion of the facts, or his various ISLANDERS
of the dead and living, which were, to use biz
own elegant quotation,
"Thick as Autumnal leaves that strew the brooks
In yallombrosa"
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

There is nothing, to our mind, nlolJ en-
couraging than a fair and squaTf - ssion
from man lately in rebellion, tn went
of the war settled decisively the gr' Of
Secession and the franker and fnller con-
fession, the higher respect have We d the
confessor's common sense. Wherefore W de-
sire to thank Mr.. Robert W. Hughes OF lir-
ginia, late Rebel and now good citizen, who
says that SLOWLY and reluctantly be has
made up his mind that the policy Of lie Re-
publican party is the only policy that can
" settle the controversies of the late war, and
"restore peace between sections and ra' es.'
How much better, how much manlitr, thi' Is
than furious gag and fiery CANNON ahons
"the last ditch!n If there were plenty n eI-
Rebels like Mr. Hughes at the South .oS
smoothly everything would 90.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28
4 LESSON At H1ND.


The Peoples Journal Hamilton, Canada,
gives a list of twenty WOolen and Linen fac
tories in the province of Ontario Upper Can
ada) which have either been closed or burnt
down and not rebuilt, because of the ruinOus
foreign competition to which they were sub
jected 1t adds:
"Many mills have at loss rather than shut up
and others have been shut occasionally and nothing
but the small protection Of Is per cent saved the entire
wooden and cotton mills OF the country from being wholly
shut up and forever may be said that at present the
mills getting little cost but this arises in part
from the OF stocks the country and the de-
crease OF imports Should imports increase again sim
lar crisis would until the surplus stocks were
duced once more A steady market only be main
tanned by having such tariff as will prevent the surplus
stocks other countries coming in to compete with
manufactures under the cost OF production prices The
more goods obbed in country the more disastrous must
it be country for although the farmer may buy
goods cheaper account Of the bankruptcy Of his
neighbor he will require TO pay it all back again by find
ing large portion OF the population have left the
country losing him market for Beef, Mutton, Wool,
Pork EGGS Poultry Oats Turnips, Fruit &c, and eav
ing him in this country only the United States his
market which, owing its prosperity TO its Protection
gives him better price than he would get there
manufactures in the States Moreover the taxes would
increase as population diminished"
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28
HOW SHAPE THE ISSUE OF PROTECTION
OR PREFERABLY

OR FREE-TRADEf
The first Congress ever assembled under
the Federal Constitution, in framing Tariff bill,
distinctly proclaimed "the Protection of Do
"mestic Manufactures" one of the objects of
that Tariff. No subsequent Congress has prac
tically ignored Protection in modifying the
schedule of duties. The tanner who now
asks that Hides be admitted free, while
Leather, with Boots and Shoes, remains sub
iect to duty, asks for Protection to his
business or calling. So do those manu-
facturers of WOolens who are camoring for
"Free Wool" The demand that Salt, Lum-
ber Coal, &c, be henceforth admitted free of
duty, is demand for Protection to certain
interests. Whoever proposes that one or more
articles shall be admitted free, or at lower du-
ties than other articles, asks for Protection.
We never had strictly Revenue Tariff unless
for a few months in 1S42, (when all duties
were reduced to twenty per cent? if we had
even then.
For the twenty years following the close of
our last War with Great Britain, the Tariff
question was always prominent, and often alb
sOrbing. Protection was distinctly provided
for in the Tariff Of 1916 (see its minimum
duty of six cents per square yard upon Cotton
fabrics, its SO per tun on Pig Iron, &c.) but
struggle was instantly begun for more
Protection. which, bafiled in 1890 and '22,
triumphed in 1924 The good effects Of this
were so marked that the Tariff of 1923 fol-
lowed, carrying Protection TO a higher point
than it had ever before attained
| Now, the Democratic party had just been
reconstructed by coalition Of the supporters
of jackson, Crawford and Calhoun in the pre-
ceding Presidential canvass; it had a majority
in both Houses of Congress- and might have
beaten the Tariff Of 1923 had it chosen and
dared. But it had taken for its leader Andrew
Jackson, who had demonstrated forcibly for
Protection in his letter to DR.. Coleman, and
had himself voted for the Tarii of 1924. It's
leaders in Congress-Van Buren, Eaton, X. NJ
Johnson, Silas Wright, Buchanan, &C., &C.
themselves voted for this Protective Tariff
There was no pretense of lack Of Revenue
no possible need Of this enhanced Tariff except
for Protection. No one even pretended that it
was required for any other purpose
Bear in mind that this was after twelve
years of popular agitation and controversy re-
gardng Protection. 1t was the elimination of
n long and arduOus struggle. All the weapons
and missiles now employed by Free Traders
were then at hand, and bright with recent
use. Why was it that the Democratic party
of that day, though its Cotton-growers and
Negro breeders were hot for Free Trade. dared
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

Many years ago DR.. Hope of Edinburgh
opened chemistry class for ladies. 1t was
thought to be shocking innovation, but it
prospered and when the good doctor died he
left all the money he had made by it to found
the Hope Scholarships in chemistry at the Ed
inburgh University. There are four of these
scholarships which by the rules must be given
to the four students who have received the
highest marks at the examinations. This year
the third in number of marks is woman,
Miss Edith Pechey. She is regularly matricu-
lated and registered, and there is no question
about her merit, neither do the statutes make
a particle of discrimination between the sexes /;
nevertheless the scholarship is withheld-be-
cause she is woman. Considering how the
scholarship was founded, there is an aggrava-
tion about this piece of injustice which will
probably drive Mrs. Henry B. Stanton into
Mysteries. The absurdity, however, is so palpa-
BILE that we dare say it viii only hasten the
removal of all restrictions upon female uni
versity education.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

It seems to us that before Woman sutrae
is legally established it would be well to find
out how many women really desire the pnvi.
lege; and in all discussions the extremely
important fact cannot be ignored that yeU
considerable body of women do not want th.
ballot, and especially do not want it forced
upon them against their will and in opposition
to their well-expressed opinions. Thus, there
is regular and respectable society of women
in Washington, organized expressly to Oppose
the so-called reform. Then we hear from
Peoria, H., that thirteen hundred and eighty
women of that city have signed protest
against being made voters against their
wishes. The best possible proof of unftnes'
for the franchise is a disinclination to accept
it, and We question the right Of any BODY
polite to force it upon reluctant members.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28
THE LEGACY OF THE NEW HEALTH BOARD

THE Legacy or THE NEW HEALTH BOARD.
No fact is more apparent than this, that the
present improved sanitary condition of the
City is the result of the vigorous and inteli-
gent measures of the Metropolitan Board of
Health so summarily suppressed by the Tweed
Charter. Great nuisances have been abated,
and many fever-nests demolished but our
chief thanks are due not so much for what the
Board has done, as for what it has prevented
the City from doing. In its special labOrs,
none was more useful, nor more firmly carried
out, than the enforcement of the Tenement
House law Throughout its existences the
Board battled with the deadly pest of half a
million of people crowded into about 10000
houses, in which families were herded
in dark apartments, in many cases entirely
isolated from the outer air. Having to deal
only with the sanitary aspect of the serious
social problem thus presented, the statute was
wisely framed to provide the greatest attain
able amount of pure air and light being rig
Orously enforced the beneficial result is seen
in the diminutiOn of the number of deaths
among the inmates of these hives. In 1869,
there were 1875 fewer deaths in tenement
houses than in 1868, although the total number
in the City was greater by 296 in 1869 than
in the previous year.
IL the Metropolitan Board of Health had
done nothing else than to secure this dimin-
ished deathrate under such unfavorable cir
cumstances, it should be held in grateful re-
membrance. But in other respects it accom-
plished wonders; and if it did not entirely
complete its mission and make NewYork the
mos. nealthful city in the world-as it should
bit was only because its life was too short
TO achieve all this. But the exigencies of Mr.
Tweed have compelled the Board to bequeath
an uncOmpleted task to its successor. Base
ments unfit to bo refugees for rats are yet
crowded with human beings tens of thousands
Of poor children are still subject to the hor-
rOrs and debasements of unreformed tene-
ments; many nuisances continue to breed dis
ease and death frauds in food supplies, which !
are so dangerous to the public health, have not
all been suppressed. The new Board of Health !
therefore, will have abundant opportunities to
prove itself competent to guard the sanitary |
interests of the metropolis upon which its |
is so largely dependent.
We hope it will not be UNEQUAL TO the task |
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28
amueements. fettures, etr., CHS epenins.


Boorus THEATER, Twenty-thiTd-st ana oN'n-
FIFTH AVENUE THEATER.-" Frou-frou"
FRruCu THEATER Lady of Lyons" fechter'
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-thlrd-st. ana
RShtb-ave Twelve Temptations
NmIo's G,RprN-"Pippin, the King of the Gold
Mines" etc LYDIA Thompson Troupe
OIYMPIc THEATER.-" Macbeth" &. l.. Fox.
WuyAcK's THEATER Broadway and 1hirteenth-st.
8 Tn. Bellies Stratagera." J. w Wslsek.
WooD's MUsEUM.-At 2: " Romeo Jaher JenK-
In" The Bohemian Girl Al l6'0'
ASSOCIATION HAIL nty-third-st. and FOURTH
.ve-Grand Concert-P Bergnor Anns Mehlg &C.
KELLY & Icons MINsTRELs, No. 40 Broadway
"Prow.Prow."
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Twenty-third-st.
AMI Fourth aye-Por.yf fnb Annual Exhibition
SAN FRANCIsCo Observation-Disclosures per-
fOrmAuoeA
SoMERvrIE ART GALLERY, No 81 Fifth-ave-
Avery's Paintings
THRTY-sRyFNTH REGIMENT ARNORY, Broadway
ana sIth Aye-GTand aid Of The Sheerhg Arms
DR. B. REYNOLDS: No. 90 Madison-ave'-"H Hy-
gene Of Children"
DE-. SAMUEL OsGooD No. 4s1 Hudson-st-"Women
In BuOpe" ,,
HORACE GREELEY: No sS5 Hudson-st'-"Abra-
Lincoln"
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

il has assumed. and assumed with such un-
limited confidence in itself that it's first ACT
has been to dismiss DR.. Harris from the post
of Sanitary Superintendent, where he has
been almost invaluable to the public. we DO
not suppose the new Board VIII DE
remiss in its duty in any great public emer-
gency, nor do we expect that it will be as stern
and impartial in the enforcement OF the law as
was its predecessor but we ask that 1t shall
at least save us from sanitary retrogression.
If we cannot make progress, as we undoubt-
edly should have done under the old Board, 1t
will he something to retain what we have.
Briefly, we insist that the political necessities
of Tammany shall not turn over the hundreds
of thousands of people herded in tenement
houses, because of Tammany's ruthless taxa
ton and corruption, to degradation and death.
Something has been done, despite the vehe-
ment opposition of the powerful owners OF
these dens. to save these people. We insist
that it shall not be undone in order that
votes may be coined out of human lives by
capital
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28
A dispatch from London states that, in con

A dispatch from London states that, in con-
sequence of the great Fenian fright there,
the police are recording the names of all
dodgers at hotels and boarding houses, as 0
measure Of safety" Thus it will be seen
that, under the influence of what we cannot
help regarding as a most unreasonable panic
the British Government has adopted one of the
worst features of continental surveillance.
Although We admit that espionage like this, II
conducted with reason and moderation, may
not be found intolerable by strangers, yet
such measures must inevitably stimulate an
oficious police to troublesome and unnece'-
sary activity, and to an annoying supervision
of harmless and peaceable travellers.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

Prince Frederick of Prussia is the latest
Spanish fashion in Crown candidates-in some
respects the best and the bravest. But the
Prussian chances are like all other chances for
that tantalizing Crown. A newspaper of
Madrid solemnly states that Prince Frederick
cannot become King of Spain because Napo-
leon expressly thinks that the choice OF
such ruler will lead to war be-
tween France and Prussia. 1t is a grave
pity that the Spaniards cannot find less
preposterous reason for not having King.
That they want ruler is as certain as that
their present rulers are anxious for definite
form of State. Marshal SerranO, through sheer
impatence, is said to be almost willing to ac-
cept the Republic, and if the Republicans are
as inpatient, they may in that case accept
SerranO.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

Mr.. C. s. FRANKLIN, Deputy Naval Officer ye'','
day rendered his resignation, to take elect upon 'u'
appointment of a successor. After long anu nono',
able career in the public service, covering spseo
nearly thirty years, he retires in consequence "
impaired vision and to seek repose from The car"
and burdens of official position. He was hfs' aV
pointed by Thos Lord, ESQ. as a clerk IN ocIooe',
1871, and by Philip Hone, esq, as Deputy N''~
Officer in iS49 He has served during the ineuin'
bency of twelve Naval Officers, three Of whoas
Philip Hone, Michael Hoffman and Moses =. ode'g
died in Office. Mr.. +. was also appointed NsTs
Officer od iateim after the death Of Mr. Hone, ana
was also Acting Naval Officer for period subsoquen'
TO the death of Mr. Odell Mr.. Franklin now leavs
the department with the good wishes Of the Ns's
Officer and of all those associated with him. Gen
Merritt will be fortunate il he secure the services
of as capable and faithful public servant to taks
his place.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-28

Certain provisions inserted into new Quar-
antne act during its passage through the Cal
ifornia Assembly were briefly noticed by tele-
prapb a week or more ago. Their scope and
bearing appear more fully upon examination !;
and they are entitled to consideration as the
most ingenious and the meanest devices Oh
legislation that have yet been suggested 10
annoy the Chinese in California, and to dis
courage emigration from China. One provl-
sion requires every Chinaman, before landing,
to be vaccinated by an officer, who Is TO DC
paid $40 therefor. If vaccination were re-
0uired, and California is so poor that the ex-
pense must be collected from the Immigrant
we have no doubt that competent gentlemen
conld be found who would gladly contract to
perform the operation at ten cents apiece for
each new conner. But the facts are that the
Chinese anticipated ChristendOm IN the prac-
tice of innOculation, and it is now so thor
Oughly enforced among them that the small
pox is much rarer with them than with us.
When it was epidemic in San Francisco, the
Chinese quarters of the town entirely escaped
its ravages.
The other provision is to prevent the re-
moval from the State of deceased Chinaman,
under penalty of $40 for each offense. Now,
as the Chinese base their hopes of happiness
in another world upon being buried in their
native land, this statute is expected to turn
their superstitions into yet crueler weapons
against them. And should these measures re-
ceive the sanction, or, as has, happened before,
the acquescence of Gov. Haight by lapse OF
time nobody will be deceived. Pandering to
party and to prejudice by oppressive and cruel
enactments will be recognized, no matter what
the pretext. Sanitary necessity will be but a
fmsy vail whether immigration is diminished
or the pockets of hungry politicians be filled
by Democratic anxiety to vaccnate the living
and grasp the dead Chinese at so apiece.