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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
SOUTHERN BITTERNESS.

A NeImOnter writes us as follows, giving
his proper name, which we withhold at his
request
Z" native OF this place; went to Salisbury " c.,
long before the war. and married there. In 1862
cOnscrpted into the Rebel army where served until the
Fall OF 1868 then taken prisoner and sent to john
sons Island whence was released by special order OF
President Lincoln in May 1864. My wife North the
same Autumn having to the blockade Last October
she returned 10 Salisbury visit and she writes me
that would be dangerous for To back either on
business visit there individuals there who
still call deserter from the Rebel army and who are
ready 10 spot me sight.
"Now have desire to put my life in ieopardy but IT
does 10 that citizen should feel secure in trav
cling anywhere in this broad country And while the
Committee OF Congress investigate kuhuN outrages, let
them inquire II there any KuKluN or other parties In
Salisbury " c. who would make it unsafe for Northern
men TO travel in that direction.
"My wife has been there since last October and can
make known who and what these parties are. She VIII
probablv renirp North this FAM h"
We do not doubt his statement, Yet we do
not see how "a citizen can be made 30 feel
:" secure in travelling anywhere IN this broad
country" when he dom feel So We cannot
say what Congress or the President could do
that has not already been done to a!lay his
apprchensiOns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

The principal points brought out in the West
field investigation, yesterday, were as follows /;
1. The alleged defect in the boiler was crack
on the inside of the shell, near the initial
point of the rupture, about fifteen inches long,
and not extending through the whole thick
ness of the IRON 2. 1t was possible for the steam
gauge to fail to indicate the real pressure
of steam in the boiler even when that pres
sure was far above the usual allowance 3. The
explosion occurred from an undue pressure Of
steam. And another point, brought out III the
examination of n. w. Williams Of Phila-
delphia Association of Engineers was
that unequal expansion, as has been
frequently suggested, was the real cause
of the explosion Mr. Wlliams's theory
is that the impurity Of the water in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

Convention called by a twO-thirds vote of the
Legislature. As the Conservatives had
only a majority in the Legislature, neither
of these courses was available, and
they desperately cut the knot by ordering a
Constitutional Convention by bare majority
vote. The Democratic palliaton for this plain
evasion of constitutional provision was that
the people were sovereign, and had right to
do what they pleased with their Constitution.
Well, the people have voted, and we have
tolerably good authority for saying that, con-
trary TO the indications yesterday morning, the
decision is adverse to the unconstitutional
thinkers of the Constitution by vote which
may reach to ten thousand majority, and cannot
be less than five thousand.
The appOrtiOnment of delegates TO the pro-
posed Convention was made by the Legislature,
and the opponents of the scheme of amend
mcnt had no other alternative than to go into
the election and choose their own delegates,
with the understanding that these would, if
elected, decide against taking any action and
would dissolve the Convention, sine die The
indications are that there will be no COnstitu-
tional Convention in North Carolina this year.
This result is a matter for cOngratulatiOn, not
only with the peaceable people of North Caro-
lima, but all who desire to see order and pros
pcrty established in that State. 1t would
have been impossible to remove the present
State officers by such grossly Illegal action as
that contemplated by the Conservatives with
out at once precpitating a conflict. Into this
dispute the United States Government would
have been drawn and we should have had all
the agOnies of reconstruction ever again.
Happily, the good sense Of the people, power
fully appealed to, has interviewed to prevent
such a disaster.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
CATCHING At STRA US.

We publish this morning an extraordinary
communication from Mayor Hall and Con-
] troller Connolly to the Hon. William E. Dodge,
! President of the Chamber of Commerce, in
viting that honorable body of merchants to
appoint Committee to come and examine
| their accounts. We print this letter as we
would print the appeal of any accused or con-
vcted person, as a matter of justice and a
matter of news.
We regard this communication and the
article in yesterdays World as most significant
symptoms of the concern inspired at the City
Hall by the recent manifestations of popular
indignation in the City and State. For the
first time in many years, there seems to be a
genuine prospect of bringing this oil
garchy to an account of its stewardship.
Instead of accepting the issue and meeting
it in the only proper and legal way,
the Mayor and Controller seek desperately to
avoid it by having recourse to an irregular
tribunal of their own choice. The success
with which the certificate of a similar COM
mittee was used to allay apprehensions last
Autumn, has doubtless encouraged Mr. Hall
to resort to the same expedient to-day. We
can assure the Mayor and the Controller that
their chronology is at fault.
We are not now in the condition in which we
were last year. At that time, the hasty word
of a few prominent citizens was allowed great
weight in the judgment then pronounced upon
the financial management of our municipal
affairs. But to-day after another year of au-
daciOus disregard of the law requiring stated
publication of the accounts, after fuller dis
cussiOn and disclosure of what palpably ap-
pear as enormous frauds, the public mind
would not be disposed to accept any decision
from any committee, however eminent ap-
pointed at the suggestion of the accused.
There is only one jury to whom this case
can now be submitted, and that is the whole
body of the legal voters of the City and the
State. The Mayor and the Controller have
but one thing to do to show their submission
to the Just authority of their constituents, and
that is to cease defying the laws, and to pub
lish at once the accounts which the
pubic demand and have a right to
see When that is done they will
be heard in their own defense. Until then,
every tempOrzing suggestion from them is an
insult to their longsuffering fellow-citizens
every expedent for delay is a tacit confession
of guilt. For weeks they have been promising
the full statement of the accounts. They give
10 good reason for breaking these daily prom
ises Either they know that the publication
viii destroy them, or they are trfling with
their own salvation in neglecting the only
thing which can save them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

A correspondent of THE TRIBUNE, writing
from Warm Springs, II. c., gives some account
of the apparent failure of the colony which
was established near that place about six
months ago. This seems to be not so much
the result of any inherent weakness in the
scheme as in the management. The colony
appears to have been burdened with debt and
with number Of drOnes, and its business
affairs appear to have been ill-cOnducted.
Colonists may as well remember that the bril-
liant successes won in Colorado and elsewhere
have been the results of the most sCrupulous
adherence TO economy, careful management,
and the judiciOus union of cooperation and
individual enterprise
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
THE CHINESE.

The San Francisco Chronicle with reference
to some remarks in this journal on the Chinese
question, says:
Right or tcrOng, polite impOlitic, the people OF
California and the Pacific coast, irrespective Of party
have determined to prevent Chinese immigration by
every legal means in their power"
The Chronicle is doubtless aware that such
prevention is illegal, because at war with a
treaty which is the supreme law of the land,
and which we have no right TO abrogate with
out the concurrence of China herself. Practi-
cally, robbing the Chinese of their property
and earnings, denying them redress III the
Courts, and stoning themsto death in the
streets, are the "means in their power"
whereby the California Know-Nothings OBJ
struCt Chinese immigration.
The Richmond Dispatch comments on the
above extract as follows:
"Itis easy enough for THE TRIBUNE to denounce the
Republicans Of California passing resolutions OppO-
sing the immigration of Chinese into this country be-
cause il not practical question in NewYOrk Penn
syvana. But If THE TRIBUNE were surrounded by the
circumstances which control the conduct OF the California
Republicans that paper too, would yield to the pressure
of Them and as Prof Fiske would say accommodate it
self to its environment The California people know the
evils that follow Chinese immigration. 1t is surely
crime in Caucasian 10 prefer his race to any other
The Chinese degrade The dgy oriabOr by making prices
so Tor that Whife cannot rOrk tOr them. Or if he
does he becomes wreched the most wreched of his
kind"
Such is the view of Virginia eXRebel,
who deemed the perpetuatiOn of Slavery a
good cause for destroying our Union. He
seems to us unequal in breadth of view to
the negro barber who, when some one under
took to frighten him with the bugabOO of
Chinese cheap labor, quietly replied: "Well if
"they will work so cheap as that, l think Ill
"hire one to do the bigger part of my work.
There are Members of Congress and Governors
whom that negro might teach.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

boiler occasiOncd higher temperature az tho
bottom of the boiler than at the top Inc
lower side is hotter than at the water line; thiS
inequality of temperature, as has frequently
been argued in TIE TRIBUNE, produces
a corresponding inequality of expansion
and this was sufficient to produce the
explosion, and that could have been caused
by pressure of only twenty seven pounds
which is, at least. what the Wcstiield carried.
As for the contradictory opinions of experts
relative to the maximum of steam which the
Westiield might have safely carried, we can
only say that either the theory of superhcated
steam or unequal expansion would dispense
with any consideration of this sort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

NORTH CAROLINA BOURBONS DEFEITED.
The people of North Carolina are probably
the most conservative i'll the Union. They
carry their grist to mill as their grandfathers
did before them they love the old-fashioned
ways of the old-fashioned North Carolinians,
and despise everything which has not upon it so
much of dust and mold as is possible in this
new Republic. All new-fangled notions, such
as cooking stoves, Paris fashions, and human
rights, are exceedingly unpopular in North
Carolina That which is old, with these
excellent people, has strong and attractive
recommendation to affection and esteem
Chiefly, they love the old order of things
when good wives rode to church on q pillon
behind the good man, when manslaughter and
larceny were punished by branding and the
pillory, and when gentlemen only administered
" the best government in the world" All
this was possible under the old Constitution of
the State; but since the Yankee Constitution,
as the Old Hunkers delight to call the instru-
.ment adopted in 1868, has come in, it is claimed
that even the chickens refuse to contribute
their quota to the products of the farm-yard,
and things generally go wrong. But the
main grievance of these pessimists is that
they do not hold the offices any more.
They have the balance of power in the Legis-
lature, but it inks them to see the Radicals
holding the Offices, especially those of the
judiciary, most of which are in the hands of
men who have two and six years yet to serve
1t is bad enough to have new Constitution
but worse TO have new men in Office
The Legs lature, at its last session. was
anxious to break up the Constitution of 1868
and return to the old order of things. But
the Constitution provides only two ways of
amending il first, by amendments ratified by n
two-thirds vOteof the Legislature, adopted by the
people in general election, and then readoptcd
BY subsequent Legislature second, by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

The picture of the Paris of to-day which is
drawn by our correspondent in the City OF
Luxury, is not pleasant one; nor will 1t come
up TO the beatifc visions of that great me-
tropOlis which Americans unfamiliar with the
war-devastated capital have INDUCED 1t Is
difficult to get about; the old facile styles of
conveyance are crippled; the popular places
of resort are closed, and the people are gen
orally cross, peevish, and "disgruntted." This
is new Paris. 1t will require many years to
give the Parisians sufficient healing for their
wounded amour prOpre, and many more to
restore to them the gay Paris which " good
"AmeTicansn used to know.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
TEXAS.
THE REPUBLICAN OUTLOOK.

From The .fHsftH Sdh 70 rN+' ID.
Fully $4,000 white votes were cast 10Y I've
publiclnsm two yprs ago, when everything IN le,I
was i'm a chaotic state, party split ANA N!.IVa u
sufficient number of leaders money or ON. -.
rouage 10 enable To organize our Ia
and pre,rnt "A solid, unbrOkcn mont 70 ~,
rusu,y with a growth or two years added To orr la!'
where hut seven weak, ,icky affairs In all eN,teu ~
fore. with leaders and organizers in every county N
the tre,ru bill ard the state police 10 enforce peaS
and prevent violence and intimidation at theOlS wy" ~
better abroad ami telegraph facilities than se hau ~.
fore: with general confidence In the stabiy VI ~
Gov,rmnent. and the lenlenoy and justice OF .ao
great Republican party; with an theSe ,"" ~.
n well as "A sad remembrance OF ue an
traciSm and trials have al passed thronEh nv :,
lurrd in the past II IL perfectly saie anu s'SU rty
estimate taat the white vote polled LOT oul 80
two wears ago, under such trying ana un lIh IN
HE circumstances will be- more than duup ~ ~
IN, canning elections while the black vote VIII 10.
Vi.e be greatly increased throughout the Nho,c al
I'm Bexar County the white Republican vote VII ~ in
short of 200 and In at least dozen Othtf ,irs
tLn west l. will run up To 400 600, While me SH.n
c,,,rtrv west OF the Colorado, the lNth ia
yro.s District will poll not less than l2cV 10 49,,
votes for the Republican ticket, both IN the ,V1fed
auJ IagI.lntiyr campaigns while 10 will bc auii,s
Tb,, I'm the other three Congress olS"' SSa
The Republican white vote Will aNelasV sh6w
vntas 70 the county. The registration OOoAs eH tha
mar there are over 50OO black voters pn,..hle
state alpgdy registered, and 1t Is altogether ,ly
ht the ne 1t re- gis ration viii run the nulu CEet
gO go nh of which Will be east FOR me hePup fsw
Aid Ia this 1900 whites. and MeAltan W. W.,
thousand and Democracy I'm Texas VIII DC put'e"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

The British Admiralty is having bad luck
with its iron-clads. First came the frightful
disaster Of the Captain. Not long since the
turret ship Ccrberus, on its way from England
to Australia, occupied five months, though
passing through the short cut Of the Sue2
Canal. The sea-gOing qualities of the ship
and the fearful heat which prevailed on board
were such that her officers declared her "a
floating hell" Next, the Agincourt another
iron-clad of 6,621 tuns went ashore near Glib
raltar III a smooth sea and broad day
light, and no sooner had the inquiries
of Parliament relating to the disaster been
answered than the famous armored ship
Warrior, the peerless craft of the British
Navy, went ashore near Leghorn and now
we learn that the iron ship Niagara has been
wrecked on the island of st. Paul, small
point of land in the south of the Indian
Ocean. The Niagara was an iron ship of 1895
tuns, screw propeller. The Agncourt disaster
made the English journals nearly wild; and
now that these others have so rapidly fol-
lowed, we may expect something like panic
in England, where the people have been loudly
(but with faint hearO pooh-pOohing the myth
zeal Battle of DOTking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

There is trouble among the women who work IN
the factories in Chemnitl, SaXony. The grounds OF
protest are worthy of serious consideration every
where. The women complain that the factory work
forces them away from their homes and from their
children and that both consequently neglected,
to the great misery of the latter Here mothers
not cultivated, and not many of them il must be
owned capable of making speeches, who seem to
remember what a good many of the same domestic
relation have in this country. forgotten-what is
the inst and The natural business Of the sex.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

the Western manufacturers of Wooden fabrics
held Fair at indianapolis last Summer. at
which not less than two hundred different
manufacturing houses were represented; and
they all, without murmur of dissent, united
in urging upon the country the maintenance
of a Protective Tariff, as essential to manu-
featuring stability and progress, and thus to
general prosperity. The West and the East
do not differ on this point, as the future will
shnv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
HOW 10 RTN AN ENGINE.

HOW 10 Run IN ENGINE.
The cause of the explosion on board the
Westfield may, perhaps, be shown TO be some
thing entirely uncOnnected with the careless
ness of the engineer, some defect In the
material of the boiler or radical fault Ill It's
construction but enough has already been
proved to convict the Company of reckless
ness and its most trusted emplOye of gross
ignorance. Robinson seems to have been a
smart, honest, and generally faithful fellow,
probably superior in many respects to Others
OF his class and favorite with his officers !;
but he was wholly meducatcd, and he had a
very slight conception of the responsibility
resting upon him, or of the character of that
tremendous force he was expected to control.
lie knew in general way that he was allowed
to carry % pounds of steam, because his
captain told him so but he thought there was
no harm in carrying little more, for the rule
appears to have been interpreted as a cOnsidera-
ton not of safety but expense. The safety valve
was loaded at 25 pounds, but 1t is doubtful
whether Robinson knew exactly what the i'm
portance of the safety valve was, and he GER
talnly did not understand the Importance of
Keeping 1t in order. To start and stop the
engine according to the pilots bell, to keep
the machinery oiled, and to see that the fires
were bright and the boiler well supplied with
water, was about all that he knew of his duty;
and all this he did so faithfully that his en-
ployers praised him az their best man, and
trusted him implicitly. But the one thing
which he did not understand, and which
nobody took the trouble to teach him, was the
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
POLITICAL.
NORTH CAROLMA.

'Oh'h NhiN'bfphs
THE CONVENTION DRPRATRDEDI3pArcu poo,.
SENATOR ABBOTT.
TO the EdftOr Of Ths Trtbun,
SIR: We have carried the State against III.
Convention by 1900 or 1900 majority
Wilmington ~ o., Aug. :, 1871 '"''r''
ELECTION RETURNS AT wAsmfNGToN rvx
THOUSAND MAJORITY CLAIMED Acary.,
THE CONVENTION.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THg TRlDNgl
WAsHIYGTOS, Aug. 1.-The returns from
North Carolina, received by the Executive Commrtte.
here, indicate the positive defeat OF the Constitutional
Convention party aud the triumph Of The Republican.
Wake County, in which Is tho city Of Ri'rgh gives.
Republican gain Of 300; Halifax County .gJ. Mscklen.
burg County, 275; New-Hanoycr. JlL
Dispatches also say that the Conyent.on..ts admi,
their defeat. ExGov. Holden who Is here has received
many kilograms and Gays be is confident that The Con-
vention is defeated by about 1000 majority.
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Up TOXIN ADVFRTJSENENTS.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05

All the way from Duluth we have a new
and highly ornate title for that original settle
ment Our readers may learn in our special
correspondence something of The Zenith City
"of the Unsalted Seas" otherwise Duluth; and
it is a real pleasure to follow so agreeable a
guide thither as Bayard Taylor whose letter
10 TIE TRIBUNE is printed in another
column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
SOTTH CAROLINA.
mn CIIARIFSr0N MI,NICIpAL EIrcTI0N-

TIE CHARLESTON MUNICIPAL ELECTION
CHARLESTON, Aug. 4.-The official count
shows that the municipal election on Wednesday resulted
in the choice of the citizens candidate Gen John
WAGNER by a majority Of TT votes Gilbert Pills
bury the present Republican Mayor The entire czens
ticket is elected by about the same majority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
fGESERAL PRESS DIgPATjHl

WASHINGTON, Aug. A prvite TELEGRAM re-
ceived here this afternoon dated Beidyc, " o. says
Majority for Convention in Rocking ham. - Demo
cratic majority last August, i51 Republican gain Of
3j5 in Rockingham COun ~"
In New-HanOver County tho Republicans gain several
hundred on the vote OF 1870. Arson County gives a
small Conservative gain Warren County gives 20j Con-
sentative gain Columbus County reported thu, tar Is
favorable TO the call Of the Convention by sull ma
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-05
The Erening Post, noticing the proposed es
Establishment of more Cotton factories in Ill

nOis, says:
If Cotton mills succeed in Georgia they may in Hi
Dos, for the advantage which Georgia has in proximity
20 the cOtonelds Is Offset by the advantage which lii
has in nearness 10 the consumer The Western
Manufacturers too protected by thousand miles OF
distance from the seacoast 1t is interesting 10 notice
that the mOnopolists fully understand this and know
ing that the Western States Will naturally oppose Pro-
tectiye tariff. they aborng 20 show that the railroad
freIghs eastward viii he reduced largely TO
destroy this advantage and that this viii make it
,ary for the Western manufacturers To ask protec-
lion But these manufacturers will probably be able TO
defy competition before any important change is made
in frcigLts." a
The Post, We presume, has forgotten that