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New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

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the Hon. Elijah Pogram is preparing q speech
In opposition to the proposed treaty, showing
that all it's provisions are inimical to the
glorious institutions of this free and enlight-
ened country, and especially to the pecuniary
interests of the citizens OF Podunk-Four-
Corners; and prediction is volunteered by
the correspondent that when the British mem
bcrs of the Commission listen to the Hon.
Elijah Pogram's scathing Grafton they Will
retire bowling with rage and modification to
their transatlantic dens in the Tower OF Lon
Aon. To say the least, it is very suspicious.
We advise all sensible people to wait until
the points of the convention are dlvulged'
when they may be sure to find them In The
TRIBUNE. The Especial gives us nothing
now but his own foolish guesses, or the In
yentions suggested to him by interested poll
ticians for selfish ends. To speculate and de-
bate on these Is about the most Improbable
work that can be imagined.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05
An EARNEST APPEAL TO SOUTHERN
CONSERVATIVES

tUNOEA| ~ ~ Ec.
THE TRIBUNE, we are quite aware, is not a
Conservative journal, in the latest application
of the term. For the Conservatism of George
Washington and John Marshall it has a pro-
found admiration, but not for the kind in
vented and ticketed by Robert TOombs and
John Slidell. 1t would conserve Liberty rather
than Slavery, Justice and not Oppression. 1t
does not assume to speak to modern Conserv-
atives as q brother or close ally, but simply as
an outside counselor who, seeing mistakes
made whereby none are benefited but all are
injured, would gladly incite their correction.
Of course, its counsel will have only such
weight with Conservatives as its intrinsic
worth may fairly command by deserving.
The past is past. The dead are here no
more. Not even a lunatic now urges the res
tOration of Slavery. The notion that Four
Millions of Blacks may somehow be lured or
driven to abandon their native land for that
of their remote ancestors has no longer Sc
rious advocate The Blacks will not migrate
to the North, nor even to the Northwest. A
few may 90 to Africa another handful scat
ter in various directions but the great body
of them will remain in the land OF their birth,
tending rather from the James and the Roa-
noke to the further South and South West.
In short, they and their descendants will live
among you, and work for you and for Others
around you. And having acquired and exer-
cised the political rights of enfrancbised citi-
zenship, they are not likely to be divested
thereof. Any serious attempt to reduce them
to even political vassalage and impotence
must incite perilous and desolatiDg cOnvul-
siOns.
What are you doing TO quality these tetlOw-
citizens for the grave responsibilities thus i'm
posed on them
OF course, you are not responsible for their
enfranchisement. We all know that. Had
the decision rested with you, they would not
now be voters, nor would they be free. But
they are free, and they are voters; and your
welfare, as well as theirs, is to be powerfully
affected by their exercise of the functions for
which they are as yet SO imperfectly qualified
When the last great Extension Of the Elect
i've Franchise was achieved in Great Britain,
Robert Lowe, (now Chancellor of the Ex-
cheauer), who had resisted it step by step
with signal ability and stubborn determina-
ton, promptly declared, eve must educate
"our new masters" That was the simple
dictate of self-preservation. And not Lowe
alone, but the great majority OF British
Conservatives, have since supported grants OF
money for Popular Education which, but tor
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.
Nero:lDprk Daily Grhmate'
FRIDAY, MAY s, 1871.


The Versailles troops have stormed another insurgent
noson near the southern forts, capturing 10 cannon
and 800 prisoners. Several unimporant engagements
took nlaoe Yesterday Theirs refuses to enter INTO
conmercial treaty with many Theirs has expelled
the Orleans Princes from France The Agiers insurrec-
tion Is spreading. == The House Of Commons divided
ON the Budget the Government having majority OF 10.
The President has issued Proclamation for the
enforcement of the KuKlux law. - Eight lives have
beep lost by a disaster on Lake Eric. - Many build
ings have been destroyed and two colOred men killed by
A tornado at Baton Rouge, La. - The rainstorm has
caused suspension OF work the OK Bow break In the
Erie Canal The latest advices from the coal mines
are favorable 10 a speedy resumption. - A Pough-
keepsie physician has committed suicide.
Judge Cardozo overruled the special plea in the case
OF william Foster. and set down the trial for next
Thursday. - Jay Goud produced the books OF the
Erie Company before the Master in Equity. - The
Chamber Of Commerce held Its 1Oad annual meeting
The Fleetwood Park trotting entries are closed -
Gold lllt, Ill. l1lt. Thermometer 500, 520 4so.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

HavinG isolated Fort d'Issy, Marshal Mac
Mahon is attempting TO reduce it by regular
approaches, and its early fan seems probable.
In the mean time, operations on another part
Of the line of the Commune have been success
fully begun. An important outpost OF Fort
Ivry has been taken, and the siege of that
defense, the extreme left of the Commune line,
will speedily follow. The fall of either Fort
d'Issy or IvIy viii compel the withdrawal of
the main line of the Commune to the walls OF
Paris, but the other forts can be held for some
time by detachments. They offer, however,
only the slightest obstruction to an advance
of the Versailles army against the western
walls of the city.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

The sudden restoration of Mr.. Jay Gould's
memory as to the whereabouts of the Erie
records, and the recovery of his powers over
them, which were effected by Judge Blatch-
ford's attachment, are the lates. legal miracle
and mystery. The Erie President appeared
before the Master in Equity yesterday, ac-
companied by all the books and subordinates
required by the order, and the hitherto un-
willing tongues of the latter were loosened
and wagged freely enough to put the counsel
on the track of other important records.
Not the least singular effect of this conver-
sion is the expressed readiness of Mr. Gould
to end the suit as soon as possible-an
amiable weakness which would have been
more admirable if it had been evinced sooner,
but which will now be suspected, no matter how
bitter his repentance. He is held to bail to
answer the charge of contempt on Saturday
and meantime can reflect how vain thing is
litigation outside of his own cheaply purchased
State courts.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

If our dispatches from Versailles are to be
credited, Mr.. Theirs has thought it necessary
to give an effective denial to the stories of
Orleanist intrigues in the Government, by
ordering the princes of that family to leave
France. Suspicion is the invariable growth of
time of civil turmoil like that which now
convulses Paris, and the insane popular fear
of a restoration is now directed rather toward
the House of Orleans than toward the late
Empire. 1t is most natural that Mr.. Theirs
should find himself embarrassed by suspicion
of completely with schemes for the restoration
of those princes to whom he has been devoted
through life. Even his well-knOwn integrity
and probity have not been enough to defend
him from such aspersions. But the popular
apprehension descends into absurdity when
the handed rioter and conspirator Cluseret
is deposed and court-martialed by his associates
upon the same charge of plotting to reestablish
a demolished throne for the family of Louis
Philippe.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

Tie World remarks that "in view of the inn
"mense number of passengers carried by them,
"there is very little rowdyism on any of the
"lines of city railways. 1t is thoror ghly well
"knOwn that women can travel in the cars
"alone, and at any hour of the night, with
"perfect safety.n 1t seems to us that, in view
of the narratives of personal experience with
which the newspapers have teemed for the last
week, these are most extraordinary statements.
There is no reason why any rowdylsm at all
should be allowed on the street cars, and when
we say that on some lines there Is great
deal of it, we speak from our own observation,
and not from vague rumOr. To suppose "that
ga woman can travel in the cars alone, and
"at any hour of the night, with perfect
Safety" is mistake which nobody could
very well make who has INDUCED a great deal
in the luxury of horse-car travel. We don't
suppose an unprotected girl who ventures upon
a night ride, say on the Third-ave., or the
Broadway, OF the Belt line, is in much danger
of robbery or murder, but she is not safe from
insult.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05
BLUNDERS IN LIFE INSURANCE

Some suggestions were recently offered in
these columns respecting the lessons which the
general public might learn from the unfortu-
nate few who had suffered doleful experience
at the hands of a life insurance company. Va
rious exceptions were taken to the points
raised in that article by gentlemen engaged in
the business of insuring other peoples lives,
based chiefly on the ground that the proceed
ings of the agents in the case in question
were exceptional, and that body of honor
able men should not be held responsible for
the acts of few who were dishonorable; but
many expressions of approval and not one
line or word of objection came to ,s from the
public-the insured. At the second meeting of
the dissatisfied policy y-holders of the Knicker-
booker Life Insurance Company, as reported in
yesterdays TRIBUNE, little that was new in re-
spect to their grievances was developed and a
doubt was expressed whether the testimony
would he forthcoming which, their counsel says,
is requisite to give them good case against the
Company. On the other hand, much was there
alleged respecting the standing and condition
of the Company which is fatty cOntradicted
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

The Dock Commissioners are not to be out
done in loyalty to Tweed, Hall g. Co. by the
Health Board or any other department OF
Tam many's government. We have already
noted the humility with which the Health
Commissioners submitted to the decree OF
Mayor Hall, which continued the old org'lnl-
zation of the Board, one member saying tna'
they would certainly adjourn, (thereby apan-
doning their rights if the Mayor wisnou
Yesterday the Dock Commissioners rece,Vou
an order from Mr.. Tweed to place one Oh .nol
best docks under his control, and propos,'on
to demonstrate with him was met by tne STATE sln'e,
ment that "there was no use as MI iweed
showed plainly enough what he wanted by his
'letter. y They finally resolved to demonstrate
for forms sake; but, of course, Mr, tweed weed
will compel obedience and the Commissioners
will not make grave resistance.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

by the official report Of the State Superintend-
ent of Insurance published this morning.
But though the report of the Superintendent,
after q careful examination, only shows the
solvency of the Company, and there can be lit
tie doubt that legal redress for the hardships
of the dissatisfied policy holders will be diff
cult to obtain, there is yet q serious injury
inflicted upon this Company and upon the en-
tire business of life insurance that cannot be
lightly regarded. Its lesson is to the insurance
companies. Here is a concern doing an excel
lent business "There were but three cOmpa-
"nies,n says the Superintendent, "organized
"under the laws Of New-York which reported
"a larger amount Of business done or more
"assetsn 1t was not, then, the desperate
struggle Of young company striving to obtain
foothold, but the deliberate act of we'll
appointed old establishment, that led to the
employment of "agents," "brokers," or "can-
"yassers,r who obtained assurances by misrep-
resentations.
To lust what extent life insurance COM
panies issue policies upon applications
furnished by "agents" of whose character
there is but little known, it is not possible to
state with accuracy; but there are many
tDdU dllOBtiucT too huoh a"Ai'J AZ
this respect is common. In every annual
statement of insurance companies the large
amount of "assets in the hands of agents fol
collection is noticeable. If such were the
"agentsn that hold these assets" the fact
would not speak well for the management
But in reality large proportion OF these
figures represent policies that are applied for
but not paid for. TO get business, companies
are obliged to grant policies at the discretion
of the "agents"-in other words, to trust them
And since it now appears that company can
be made to suffer in reputation, which Is
equivalent to the loss of money, because OF
the Misrepresentation of such "agents, nc
matter how thoroughly it repudiates their acts
it becomes greatly the interest of these COM
panies to investigate thoroughly the character
and responsibility of those who represent them
The mere capacity to bring in applications FOL
insurance should not be considered as sufil-
cient recommendation. Thorough care IN tins
respect would benefit good agents, good com
panies and the public; and by purifying the
business from well-knOwn Objectionable tea-
tures assist in extending its benefits through
out the community.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

The Erening Post very elaborately argues
that q Free-Trader cannot cOnScientiOusly vote
for a Protectionist. OF course, this is point
which each must decide for itself. But the
averment suggests two questions which we I'll
thank The Post to answer-namely /. Should
the conscientious scruples of Free-Traders
against voting for Protectionists extend to
receiring the votes of Protectionists for them
selves and their crowd 2. Why did The Post,
in 1928 aud subsequently, zealously support,
for President, Jackson, who had written the
Coleman letter and voted for the Tariff of
1924, and Van Buren, who had just voted for
that "bill of denominations" the Black
Tariff of 1928 Remember that each of
these Tariffs was framed and passed purely
for Projections sake. and without shadow
of pretense that it was needed for revenue.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

A shallow plea set up by his counsel, yester-
day, betrays the weakness of the murderer
Fosters defense. II was apparently put for
ward only to gain time; but Judge Cardozo,
before whom it was made, promptly overruled
il, and set down the trial for next Thursday.
The summary proceedings in this case doubt
less possess a terror for the prisoner and are
calculated to produce a depressing effect on
others of the criminal class. They contain, also,
agreeable assurances for the general public,
which depends for protection on the laws, that
they are to be vigorously enforced for time
at least. 1t is by the strict enforcement OF
these that crime is prevented as well as
punished; and prevention is a chief purpose
for which government was organized and laws
were enacted, and is what the New-YOrk public
particularly needs at this particular time OF
crime run riot.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

The story of abduction which we print to-
day is in the highest degree improbable and
revolving. But we are assured of its entire
truth by persons of the best character and re-
spectability. Ii cannot be rejected except
by rejecting evidence which would be con-
elusive in any court of justice. 1t throws
lurid light upon phase of crime
TO which we have before referred with that
reserve which the horrible nature of the sub
ject requires. The gilded dens of infamy to
which this report refers do unquestiOnably
exist in some of our most fashionable thor
oughfares. Most of their operations are, it is
true, based upon the prospect Of succeeding in
the corruption of their victims through their
avarice and their vanity. But it is too well
established to be doubted that, these
means falling the vile hags who
pursue tins terrible trade do not scruple to
resort 10 bold and cruel violence. Some
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05


that Extension of Suffrage, they wonia hn'e
sternly resisted. suL.5 lll. c,,.,,or,
Now to verv saddest aspect OF Southern
g.. = ,ho Indifference eyiDced by nearly all.
a a. ,os;t;ve aversion exhibited by so many
"no W. the Education of the Masses, White as
VI yVa 80 !" Rlack. Right well do you know how
| unfit are your "poor White as wen as your
CoIored neigbbors for the grave public trust
they now discharge; yet you are evidently
doing little, and likely to do little, to enlarge
their qualifications. Most of you act as though
tbe cost of Popular Education was just so much
thrown away.
We know that you are generally poor. The
first settlers of New England were still poorer;
vet they built scboOl-houses and hired teachers
when they had barely roofs over their heads.
They did this even while they allowed no one
to vote but members in good standing Of the
recognized Church, so that loafers and vaga-
bonds were utterly powerless
Of course, you do not burn schoOl-h0uses
wherein Black children are taught, nor mob
their teachers; but both these wrongs are
perpetrated, and your voices are seldom heard
in earnest rebuke of such dastardly offenses.
And it is perfectly notorious that teachers of
Negro Schools-many of them noble, devoted
women who would grace any social circle
are, as a class, the most unpopular NOrtherners
now tolerated among you. And no other tax
not even that on Wbisky-is 30 odious in
your section as that levied for the support of
Common Schools.
That the ignorant poor, White OF Dlack,
should dislike to be taxed for schools, need
not excite surprise, were such the fact. But
that you, who know the worth of Educa-
ton, who deprecate the sway of ignorance,
who think it hard that your ex-slaves should
out-yote you, should evince q kindred spirit,
| is amazing.
| You seem to wonder that caTpct-baggers
| and scalawagsn should be trusted and fol-
| lowed by the Blacks in preference to their old
masters. Since the former evince zeal for
general education, while the latter do not,
| this choice is perfectly natural We doubt
| whether you can find q negro in thousand
who is so benighted or so degraded that he
does not wish his children taught at least to
read and write.
| Suppose you had all been early and Jealous
champions of Popular Educatlon-had started
| schools on your several plantations or at
| points where the children from two or more
plantations could most conveniently assemble
had welcomed and honOred teachers who
proved worthy of your kindness-had shown
an earnest desire to have every child gathered
into some school or other-wOuld not the
parents perfectly natural distrust of your in
tentions been gently, gradually dispelled1
Would not those parents be now seeking your
advice on other matters, and been guided, 10
a great extent by your cOunself
What has been, has been. The past is be-
yond recall. Opportunities rejected are but
slowly reclaimed And yet the advantages of
so doing are so decided and manifest that we
cannot relinquish the hope of seeing the
Southern Conservatives active and prominent
in the good work of securing and diifusng
Education for ALL
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

Another of the painful pictures of New-York
criminal life, which we have felt called upon
to present for the warning of the public and
the information of the police, will be found
ON our second page this morning. The dens
which are there described are of the most low
and Infamous character, and their occupants
well l-knovn criminals. The gambling dens and
panel-houses which we described, it will be
remembered, were located within few blocks
Of the headquarters of the police. The lodg-
ine-houscs of which we now give an account,
il will be observed, are in the shadow of the
principal City Court and Prison.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

Freed from the bad influence and di-
rection of their chief Trade Union, the
miners of Scranton have quickly come
70 the wise resolution of returning to
work and submitting their claims to ar
bitratiOn. If the strike results in establishing
This as rule in all the other coal counties,
and destroys completely the power of the
Union for creating dissensions. 1T will have
been blessed evil after all for operators,
miners, and coal consumers.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

The Presidents proclamation, which we pub
lish this morning, is at once an appeal and a
warning. The appeal is addressed to the peo-
pie of the South, and calls upon them to sup
press, through their own local laws and by
their own voluntary efforts, the organizations
which violate the rights of citizens and the
laws of the country. The warning is addressed
to the Ku-Klux, and intimates that, while re-
luctant to exercise the extraordinary powers
vested in him by the new law, the Executive
will not hesitate to do so when other means
fail. And it is plainly intimated that this
alternative will be promptly taken whenever
it is apparent that local laws and efforts are
inadequate to restore quiet and security. The
language of the proclamation is unusually
earnest and positive for documents of this
formal character; it ought to have an imme-
diate good effect in the South, and will, if
those engaged in the hazardous and criminal
enterprise of restoring the South to Democratic
rule by the murder and banishment of Repub-
licans are not absolutely mad.
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

Ereyy Saturday for this week con IA AZ
admirable sketch by Henessy-" Gathering spnhs i'o"
rs"-to which full Justice has been done oy '1' -.
grayer There are an impressive exp!oraNo" :. ",,.,
Mammoth Cave by Kcelcr and wand ana srr'SO
trations, by Mr. Sol Eyngc. OF Mr. nay p"l ,i,
inally published in THE Tn'BuNE "hiea aro ~" wo.tcru
and spiit So determined and comhatiSe WeS~,"
head AS that which the artist has given 10 jim
has rarely been committed to paper IL Is {"
typical face and figure of the Mississippi Naie!'
New-York tribune., 1871-05-05

We invite the attention of families in want of a
nurse-maid to a woman named Agnes Norman, who
seems to have had extensive but peculiar experience
in that capacity in various parts of London 1t ap-
peared recently at n cOroner's inquest that about
a wear ago the child of lady visiting in the house
where Agnes was employed was found dead in bed,
under mysterious circumstances. In her next place
Agnes one day brought child home insensible say
ing that il had fallen from her arms. The infant
recovered, and within three weeks she took it out
again and brought it back dead In her third situa-
tion, boy of seven awoke with a choking sensa-
tion and afterward told his father that Agnes had
placed her hand over his mouth and given him
money to say nothing about it. At another house
where she was employed child was found insen-
sbe in bed, and on recovering showed great terror
at the sight of the girl At another. she locked a
child mp in wardrobe, took it out and put it to bed
where it was found dead shortly afterward. Birds
aud domestic animals died as suddenly and strangely
as children in houses where she lived. Finally she
was employedby the family of Mr. Beer, who three
days afterward returning with his wife from din
ner party heard violent in the nursery, qnd
rushed up stairs to find one child lying on the
floor and another between the bed and the
wall dead. with two compressed marks on its
lips The verdict of the coroners jury was Death
from suiocatiOn, accidentally caused" with which,
as we read in the London papers, the father said
he was dissatisfied" The case is to be further i'll
vestigated. mania for murder is a recognized
though happily not a common form Of mental dis
ease. The case of female in Of the con-
tnental hospitals, who confessed that she had been
in the habit of killing her patients with other
motive than an insane eageness to see them die, is
fresh in our recollection We are not prepared to
say that women more frequently give way to such
horrible impulses than men; but we recall at this
moment several instances given by the books, in
each Of which it was woman who felt the insane
DESIRE and generally child that she wanted to kill