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everything must be avoided tho,
SOW distrust; everything must bs Aug AZ"
to establish mutual trust to rendar aOne
hucal cooperation possible. MI Pn
Of the Republic Of ls4s OUGHT - ,lo lau
sufficiently impressive lesson ~ "
silly frar of the red spectre driva IN n
republican shopkeepers u mass,o. .ue
second time the republican worL;a
men and their brothers, to massey
second time the Republic, their com O.e
mother? Let them look the snac .auiOn
the face, and they will find on, ~ u
It Is but the baselesS fabric NJ r.! "
agination and they will further II,
out that the social question II ! WI, I.u
reality, the grand problem ofour sol
70 be solved peaceably, if the midJi.
classes, or at least the democratic n
Jority Of the middIe-class-the nv"
keepers-assist the working classes
be solved with slaughter and terr;b ~
revolutionary earthquake, II thew N
pose them. IT
On the other hand let the soci,r..
distinguish sharply between the 6nsI
aim and that which can ~ rralizaJ !.
the moment AT the Basic Gomez
the representatives Of the Frsnol
worklnomen have most of them show
their practical sense, by voting ag.in.,
a resolution which they thought micb,
produce bad impression on the F,o1oS
peasants. | am confident thew Win
show the same practical sense ror
when an lnOpportune word, 4 ba.,v
action would have infinitely more d;s
astrous consequences, than could bo
apPrehended eighteen months ago
Perhaps some French socialist read,
this-he may be assured it is fri..1
that wrote it.
"(Zrll Parliament ia Germany This Assem-
blv had 70 deliberate on The customs and dutis,
Of the Z1llere'p, ard consisted of the Rs;ch
stag for North Germany, aud Of Deputas4 eIert
ed expressly in the South Western GvvrnaDv
States r. the war of 1870 had not suryt |,
away, It would have died Of ridcule and suDu
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A Successful Strike.

During the past week the miners of
the Belleville district, (Ill) have been
on strike against reduction Of from
four to three cents Two mines on the
Belleville track accepted the terms, but
after the effect Of such action had been
presented, their workmen made COM
mon cause with the fellows, the results
Of which were-after a cessation of
work for forty eight hours-lhe AMIGA
bic settlement of the difficulty, the old
rate Of wages being retained. This is
just as it should be, and shows what
determination and unity of action can
accomplish.
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LABOR ITEMS.

THE New York Workingmen's
Union has appointed committee, con-
sisting of Messrs. Browning, Ennis,
Connolly and Griffin, TO secure the bet
ter enforcement of the Eight Hour
law upon the State and corporation
works.
The Journeymen Bakers of Boston,
Mass, have recently taken steps to Sc
cure an increase of wages from S14 to
SIS per week. The average number OF
working hours is eighty per week
On the morning Of April 4th, fifty
Crispins of Torontoy Canada, headed
by the band of the 10th Royals
marched to the Ct. Western Depot,
where they took the train for Chicago,
and other western points. At the rail
way station, speeches were made BY Mr..
Reebe, President of Crispin Lodge BIS,
and others, who stated, amid loud ap-
plause, that the demonstration "was
looked upon with favor by every me-
chanic and working man in the city
for it was against the unjust oppression
OF employers that the shoemaker pro.
tested the employees in all the large
boot and shoe establishments had met
to escort their locked out fellow. Girls
pins to the States, and bid them fare
well in the hope that they would succeed
better in the country to which they
we going than here, where their
treatment had been very unfair" Be
sides the fifty men or more who left at
noon Yesterday, others will follow in a
day or two Toronto Leader, April4.
A STRIKE has occurred in the LOcheil
Iron Works, at Harrisburg. "A man
was discharged for what the subordi-
nate lodge of the National Labor Union,
located there decided to be insufficient
cause, 50 they concluded not To work
unless the man is reinstalled. All the
papers are bowling against them and
accusing them of interference with
their employers business la Miners
Union.
DURING the past week two thousand
shoemakers have struck work in Bait
more. The cause was, the ATTEMPT Of
the employers to break down the union
of the women employed In that bus-
n, S to do this they simultaneously
discharged such women az belonged 10
the order of "The daughters Of St.
Crispen." Or course the Knights took
up the gauntlet and discharged them
selves. This is as it ought TO be; the
Knights are wise men they fought a
similar battle in Utica, N. Y, and came
off conquerors. There is no shorter
way for workingmen to obtain their
own rights than by doing manful battle
for the rights of their oppressed sisters.
1t is the weak point i'll the enemy's
line. Forward, Knights Of St. CIispin
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We might run without end through

| We might run without end through
scale of comparative physical misery
and enjoyment, and corresponding NOR
al dignity or degradation, and never
attain principle of justice, to recon.
Gle ourselves to wrong and oppressive
system from such examples.
The question is not, what people en-
dure the least misery but which enjoy
the most happiness and real comfort,
and having found that point, we are
irresIstibly forced to another, based up
on the susceptibility Of the social com
pact to yield the full amount Of hsppi-
ness to the mass of the people, and to
enquire into the reason, why this OBJ
ject is not accomplished by our institu-
tons, when it has been so beautifully
provided for by paternal Providence.
The slightest observation will satisfy
the most obstinate mind, that nature
has abundantly supplied the industry of
man with the means Of universal com
fort. We behold it in every form of
luxury-every object of magnifcence
every refinement Of pleasure-every
waste of riot and sensuality-every
monument of pride-every display of
vanity-every gorgeous decoration Of
wealth, power and ambition. We be-
hold the proof in the lordly millionaire,
tortured on his sick couch by agonies of
repletion, while the laborer furnishes at
his door We behold it in the luxurious
capitalist, swelling with the pride of
pampered Opulence, while the hearts Of
those who Labored to produce bis wealth,
shlver and faint with misery and want,
or drag out protracted life Of endless
toll. What God has spread before us
as the reward and property of him
whose labor shall bring It into use,
government, unjust, despotic, proud, all
grasping government has ordained
shall belong to those who never labor.
and for whose exclusive benefit the la
borer shall toll forever. Thus do hu-
man Institutions, founded on tyranny,
or turned from their original principle
of justice, destroy he beni6cence of
heaven, robbing the poor and giving to
the rich.
Thus do we find our boosted institu-
tons of equal rights to be the merest
skeleton Of liberty, which by tueir let
ter declare that equal rights and privil-
ages shall be guaranteed to all, but BY
their operation create aristocracv, spec
ial privileges, extortion, monopoly and
robbery.
Such are the defects of organic law,
practical government, and property,
which are thrown as obstacles in the
path of the workingman.
The great mistake made by the
founders of our government, was in re-
tanning the kings money-in migrating
into our Republican institutions mon
archical and aristocratic ideas of cur
rency aud fnances-in setting up, in
our temple Of liberty, the golden calf.
But the time has come when this idol
shall be removed.
Fellow workingmen prepare for he
fight. The worlds greatest revolution
is now at hand.
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GEO.P. ROwELL AGO,
~ Park Row. New York,
o. NJ PETITE NGILL co.
Chance for Agents.

To any party sending us a club of so yearls
subscribers, at club rates, we will forward al
Edwin Rollo watch, in sterling silver case.
full plate, lever movement, exposed pallet jewell,
costing FORTY DOLLARS. This is an offer sedo b
made, and may be relied on as genuine.
FoR CLUB OF TEN yearly subscribers, We
will send to any address, charges paid, a re-
volying pistol, manufactured by the American
Arms Company, OF Boston, worth 5000.
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MIR. Trevellick's Labors.

During the past week Mr.. Treveflick
addressed the miners of Illinois at
Caseyville, Belleville, French Village.
Murphysboro and Braidwood. The
following are his appointments for
the next two weeks: Wilmington, N.
O., May LIST and I'd; Richmond, Va.
May 4th; Harrisburg, Pa, May 9th ;
Wellsville, Ohio, May 9th; Erie, Pa,
May 10th; and youngstown, Ohio,
May 18th.
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build up" which we emphatically deny.
And we have insisted, and still main
tain, that until broader, more catho-
lie and elevated spirit controls the &C
tons of number Of our labor sssocia-
tons, the labor movement can not and
will not prove q success.
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The International

A letter recently received from friend
Serge, Of Hoboken, N. J. says:
The Leipzig" correspondence are
very well received here. A central
committee of the International Work
ingmen's Association, for this country,
has been formed here and representing
already nine Coz sections, with fair
prospect Of increase. The undersigned
being the corresponding secretary will
shortly address communication on The
subject to you for the WORKNGMAN's
ADVOCATE.
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WE trust our Wisconsin readers will
note the call for a State Labor Conven-
ton published in present issue.
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Mr.. Billings ssys-Every body IL in
the habit Of Dragging Of Job, and Job did
have considerable Pashunce but did be
ever keep a district skule for 8 dollars a
n onth and board around, or run kuntree
newspaper
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FROM CONNECTICUT.
BRIDGEPORT, April 20. 1871

DhID'EfohI, Aprll ~, 1871.
To the Editor Of the woEKrSsMANs ADvoo.rr
The following is list of the officers
Of the National Labor Union for The
State Of Connecticut:
President - James Grogan, New
Haven.
Vce President-Thos. ri. Laramee
Bridgeport.
Recording Secretary W. X. Good
nough, Hartford.
Treasurer. b. Bliven, Windam.
The following are the officers Of the
Bridgeport Labor Union
PresideRt-Thos. Laramee.
Iice PreadeNt-Abraham Milerton
Recording Secrstdry-Otis Porter.
Iredsurer-Chas Retts
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CoRREsPONDENCE.
FROE LEIPZIG.

I'VE do not hold ourselves responsible for any opn
on expressed BY our Correspondents.
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Thanks.
A late number Of the Bridgeport (Ct.)
Standard, contains the following kindly
notice of the ADVOCATE

We have received aud are happy to place up.
on our exchange list the WoRKiNGxAN's ADvo-
CATE, journal published in Chicago, By A. C.
Cameron, in the interests of labor 1t is good
looking paper, filed with well chosen interest
ing miscelan eOus matter, aud ably conducted
iE its editorial department 1t seems worthy
the liberal support of those whose interest it
advocates, and must prove a welcome weekly
visitor at the fresides Of its many subscribers.
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THE CIGAR MAKERS.

R- Will unions d. siriug chEngesin ~ address
eorrespon ns taTie Please state tie nanr ofths
former secretary.
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CHICAGO APRIL %, 1871.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-26
NeGuIUork Daily Gribmatk,
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1871.
TRIPLE HE E T.

Pari. paper publishes some important revelations
concerning Engands diplomacy during the schleswig
Uolstein troubles. The railway employees at Co
logne, Germany, are a strike. 60 The story Of q
Regency in consequence Of Queen VctOrias illness
officially denied Prince Napoleon has made Vlo-
lent political speech in Corsica. large fire has
occurred in Valparaiso
terrible riot has occurred in Los Angeles, Cal, 1o
Cinnamon having been hanged by mob. g. Five
men have been lost Lake Michigan by the sinking OF
a schooner - -Four Cadets have been dismissed from
West Point for "hazing" 60 November % has been
designated as Thanksgiving Day by Gov Hoffman. -
The threaten 10 burn Salt Lake City and leave
Utah IL the prosecutions are continued.
Disclosures are made proving that VIM NJ. Tweed re-
ceived over 100000 Of the stolen public funds. 80
Horace Greeley, Edwards PierrepOnt VIM NJ. Evarts
and George H. Sharpe addressed Republican ratifcs
ton meeting at Cooper Institute. 60 jury was i'm
paneled for the ROsenzweig trial - The German Re-
publican organizations will hold mass meeting to-
inorrow night. 60 Patrick Kelly, oounterfeiter,
:.ttempted suicide in LudOw-st. Jail. - Arthur K
reed the forger, committed for trial. - The
,ice between the Lvona and Dauness was postponed.
Gold lllI, l1ll, 1llI Thermometer, go, $50, $50.
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amussments, stt., ahis Gpsn,na.

ACADEMY or Music, BrOoklyn.-Italian Opera
La PAvoritA" Mile Christi Nilsson.
BooTH'S THEATER.-"Meg Merriles" Miss Cush-
FIFrH AVENUE THEATER.-"D Divorce"
GLOBR THEATKR-BurlesQue and PantOmime Com.
ptny.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE," Eileen Oge." The
PloreDeeA
LIMA EpwN's THEATER.-Opera BOuffe: "Fleur.
teThs" Mile. Aimee.
NIBLO's GARDEN" Our American Cousin" Soth
FRA,
OLYMPIC THRATER-" Humpty Dumpty." Fox.
STEINwAY HAII~-Lecture Miss Anna Dickinson
ST. JAMES THEATER.-Operetta Troupe.
WALIACK's THEATER.-"A ggravatlng Sam" and
TIE Nervous Man" Charles MsthewG
AMERICAN INSTITUTE ExHBITION, Third-ave. and
Sixty-sbsrd-st-Open day and night
DAN RICE's CIRCUS, FOurteenth-st., between
eecOna and TIL rd-aveS
SAN Francisco MINsTRELs-Brch, Wambold, ETC.
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The Republican rally at Cooper Institute
last night, was animated by the spirit which
ought to carry the friends of reform through
the campaign in the City, County, and State.
There was manifested but one desire-to band
together every intelligent friend of honest and
capable administration of public affairs. The
salient features of the northumberland of
Tammany were only so far touched as to recall
the general character of its damning record to
the attention of voters. The sense of the
meeting was expressed in the declaration that
the perpetuity of our form of government rests
upon the purity of the elective franchise
Neither of the New York Senators appeared.
Gov. Fenton, as is well-known, is unable to
make himself heard by large audience, and
has consequently confined himself for many
years to single speech in each campaign.
He made only one when he was himself the
candidate for Governor; and it was doubtless
lucky for him that some of our new-hedged
politicians had not then reached the years of
utterance, or they would surely have accused
him of wanting to break down the party by
his "sulky apathy" and screamed till they
grew red in the face, "Why does MT Mr. Fen
{" ton come to the 'front.'"
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MR.. TWEED TO BE ARRESTED TODAY
Mr.. William NJ. Tweed, Chief Sachem of
Tammany and the leader of the Democratic
Legislature of this State, will be arrested to-
day on civil and criminal suits begun by Mr..
Charles 0'COnor in his capacity as Acting At
torney-General, on the affidavit and evidence
of Samuel J. Tilden, Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee. The charge
is theft, and the proofs, of which we publish
the major part this morning, seem complete
and overwhelming.
This important evidence completes the his
tory of gigantic conspiracy to defraud the
City and County of many millions of dollars.
We have had from time to time many frag-
mentary and unsatisfactory chapters of this
terrible yet fascinating story of crime. But
never until now has the narrative been COM
plete and connected, or told with such con-
yincing array of facts and incidents as in the
brief affidavit and full yet clear tabular state
ments of Mr.. Tilden, on which the suits are to
to be instituted. The conspiracy began in 1870,
when Mr.. Tweed, on April 90, forced the
County Tax Levy through the Legislature, and
legalized what is now Familiarity known
as the ad interim Board of Audit. That law
authorized Mayor Hall, Mr.. Tweed and Con-
troller Connolly to audit all existing claims
against the City. At the only session of that
Board ever held, and which lasted only fifteen
minutes, Mayor Hall submitted in his own
handwriting resolution delegating this power
to James Watson, then County Auditor. and
making the claims audited by him payable on
the sole approval of William NJ. Tweed. The
rogues went Immediately to work. Claims
were adjusted and warrants issued at once,
and it is shown that many of thu
latter were forged by Ebert A. Wood
ward, who, on the sudden death of Watson,
became the agent Of Mr.. Tweed and bis
accessory in crime. Over $8,S0Oo00 Of war
rants were made out, and passed into the
hands of four men, as thus far shown. Each
warrant has been traced from tho rControlier's
Office to the final division Of its proceeds among
these four rogues. Mr.. Tildenp tGble, shows
this process Of division in arrays Of hgdres
whose truth no one will SGSpcct-that Mr.
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If one would "sup full of horrors" the de-
tailed accounts of the burning of Peshtego,
Wisconsin, and of the other forest fires in that
State and Michigan, furnish ample material.
Our own correspondence. published on the
fifth page, gives graphic picture of the dread
calamity. The heavens on fire, the earth
smoking with its holocaust, and the rocks
calcning in the horrible heat-these are some
of the features of the terrible picture. Sue
ceeding these, too, comes the desOlate poverty
which calls now so loudly for aid-aid which
cannot move too swiftly to save life.
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Tweed will not attempt to deny. Never yet
were moro skiIlful rogues more cleveriy
tracked. and never before were crimes
made more clearly manifest. The figures
presented by Mr. Tilden, accompanied by the
evidence Of the deposit checks, seem simply
unanswerable. 1.-THE thieves themselves Will
venture no defense other than force, no ex-
PLANTATION other than defiance. And bold and
impudent as Mr.. Tweed has been in the past,
he will understand, after examining the evil
dence presented to-day, that the time Tor
bravado hos passed forever with him.
There seems enough in these tables to convict
these men beyond doubt if they can DO
found. Two of them, Garvey and Woodward
have already fed. We have shown how the
former fraudulently transferred his property
to Others, and in another column we reveal
how Woodward has practiced the same shall
low trick and placed his real estate in the
name of his partner, J. P. Beatty, only that
he might instantly transfer it again to
Woodwards wife. Garvey and Woodward
must be tracked down and brought back
to be punished, and made to dis
gorge. In the mean time the other two,
Tweed and Ingersoll, must not be permitted
by the officers of justice to escape. Mr.. Tweed
will doubtless remain, confident that his
nolitical influence and power will save him
in this emergency as in the past but If the
most devoted of his political adherents do
not, under this startling revelation, turn
against him, human nature will reveal new
and striking traits.
There is one serious omission in this array
of figures which all will remark. More than
g., 1855 in checks of Garvey, lngersoll, and
Woodward were paid to persons not named LII
the affidavits-to "parties not traced" as the
statements read. Why not tracedf Is it be-
cause the evidence was lacking, or because 1t
is necessary for the moment to protect the
incriminated official OF officials Mayor Hall
drew up the resolution in the ad interim Board
of Audit, which was the second step In the
scheme of fraud The statement leaves him
under grave suspicious of having done this as
an accessory, without, however citing anything
more definite against him. People will be ask
ing, on reading this evidence, if the Mayor was
one of the "parties not traced" Controller
Connolly was member of the Board which vio-
lated its plain duty in delegating it's authority
to Watson and Tweed. He has grown to be
very wealthy in an incredibly short period of
time, as we showed yesterday. Is he wholly
guiltlessi Are none of the fraudulent war
rants traceable to himi This is no time for
expediency's sake to protect any one of these
men. If Mayor Hall or Controller Connolly
shared in the spoils of this ferocious raid on
the Treasury, they should not be permitted
for one moment to escape the consequences.
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Gen. Butler has a fine eye for dramatic
effect. At a Boston lecture, last night he
discarded the usual platform statuary," and
surrounded himself with the heroic captain
and crew of the E. A. Horton. The rough
fishermen formed the bouquet of which he
was the perfect flower From such pictur-
esque surroundings as these the orator
went over all his old griefs, to which he
added some new ones which he has found in
the criticisms of THE TRIBUNE. In his reply,
the General was less abusive than usual, only
charging the venial sin of ignorance upon his
critics. But the ancient Butlerian flavor
would come out, and THE TRIBUNE had ideas
charged upon it by the ingenious gentleman
which were novel in these columns, certainly;
but then, nothing that Butler does or says sur
Drises ANYBODY.
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tsrsst that rests law. To-day the whole Radical press
etoiees that there win be Law In tho Southern
states except martial law, which the will OF military
oeers whose chief 10 candidate for reelection 70 tno
Presidency. Such Is tho condition 10 which Radiessm
has brought us. Where lies the remedyi It lies In
resurrection Of tho Constitution the revival Of the laws
return TO that respect for them which was once tne
treat characteristic Of the American people, every
,uau Who by his VOTE his influence, or his personal ao
ton promotes this does service to his country and 70
the cause Of liberty throughout the world"
1t Is utterly false that "there will soon be
ono law in the Southern States but martial
"lay.r or that "the whole Radical press re-
"ioices therein" There has been no procla-
nation of martial law in the South, and is not
likely to be any. Enforcing the Ku-Klux act
il a very different thing from proclaiming
martial law, which is the supremacy of the
will of the military commander to all civil
law. The Ku-Klux act simply provides for
the arrest, legal trial and punishment of the
masuuerading villains who prowl over the
country at midnight, dragging peaceful citi-
zens (mainly Colored) from their beds, and
whipping, beating and manning them until
they will take an oath never again to vote the
Radical ticket, or killing them in case OF
obstinate refusal. For these villains, Ihe
Argus has no word of rebuke; it is only dis
tressed because the strong arm of the Govern
ment is stretched out for the defense of their
victims. We trust that its cause for lamenta-
ton is by no means exhausted.
These Ku-Klux ruflians and their champions
have a marvellous reverence for the Con-
stitution and respect for the laws 1t is their
devotion to L" the cause of Liberty throughout
"the world" that impels them to whip and
main their humble neighbors who have the
impudence to vote the Republican ticket in
defiance of these providers known wishes.
When they shall have learned to respect the
constitutional and legal guarantees of those
neighbors' dearest rights, including the right
to live. the Ku-Klux law and it, enforcement
will give them no sort of trouble.