New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-11

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developed in the entire investigation is the
confession which Mr.. Oliver johnson testified
that Mr.. Tilton made to him concerning his
intimate relations with young lady in his
own house. This case certainly grows queerer
and Queerer every day.
Our Albany dispatches report the decision
of q subcommittee of the Canal Board IN
favor of liberal reduction in the tolls for
freight. The change in the rates Will, IL Is
estimated. cause o diminutiOn OF over Six
hundred thousand dollars in tho revenues OF
the canal; rctrenchmeut and close economy
are the means depended on to prevent de-
felt. II seems 20 be understood that the
policy proposed by the subcommittee VIII
receive the hearty approval OF the Board
Another step has been taken which marks
the decline in fire insurance rates. The BROOK
,vn BOARD of Fire Underwriters have adopted
n series of resolutions that indicate OF once
reduction of the price OF insurance, ana
| willingness in large class of cases to throw
the whole matter open to competition. 10
the public of Brooklyn this will DO good
| news, and to the companies the hope at ieasI
remains that lower rates will bring an increase
of business.
The latest returns from the New Hampshire
| election are much more favorable to the DEM
ocrats Int it seems still clear that the
Repnblicans have Jared better than they
did last year when they had Grant
To carry. 1t is now reported that the
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small plurality instead of majority vote.
that the Legislature is Republican, and that
the Democrats have elected two candidates
for Congress instead of one, as stated III
earlier dispatches.
When Sir Alexander COckburn was the
British arbitrator at Geneva he brought him.
self into discredit with most foreigners by his
want of judicial candOr. In his own country
there was O natural inclination to regard with
favor course Of conduct which was ap.
parently the result of strong national predilec-
tons. We learn from the London letter
given on our second page that the Lord
Chief Justice of England has permitted his
narrow preiudices to influence his proceedings
while on the bench in his own country. 1t Is
n source of satisfaction to know that he Is
now condemned by public opinion in England
as well as elsewhere.
The snow battles between the crOss-town
railroad companies on the one side and the
CITY officers and citizens on the other, ended
on Tuesday in temporary defeat for the rail-
road companies, some of them being COM
PEELED to withdraw their cars because of the
extent to which snow was thrown on the
tracks by employees of the STRENGTHENING
Department. The questions involved are TO
be reviewed by the courts again, Judge Law
renee having granted an order against the
CITY and the Police Commissioners requiring
them to show cause why they should not be
permanently enjoined from throwing snow on
the tracks of the Christopher and Tenth
Street Railroad Company, or otherwise OBJ
structing it.
There has not been such a lively demand
| for labor of late, and the rigorous Winter has
not borne so lightly on wOrkingmen that they
can afford to try to dictate imperious terms to
employers. Nor is it well for them to gather
in such excited meetings, as that at the Cooper
| Union last night, to hear only Ill advice from
injudicious speakers. The object OF the gather
lug was to protest against bill which, it is
feared, may prove fatal to Trades Unions.
Let the INSCRIPTIONS persons who in the
main control these Unions, and their blind
followers protest if they will-that is clearly
| their right,-but when any class of men allow
| a speaker to suggest that bullets must be used
if ballots fail, without rebukIng such speaker
| and closing his blatant mouth, they show a
spirit from which nothing but wretched mis-
chief can come.
| If every one could see the good work con-
| tinually carried on by the NewYork Ortho-
p@dic Dispensary in East Fifty ninth-st., there
would be no occasion for its Trustees to
appeal to the public for help. Five Hundred
patients are treated there for every form of
lameness and deformity with success and
| generous charity unusual in public institutions.
The treatment in private would be beyond the
reach of any but the rich. TO keep open this
admirable establishment requires some $4,000
year, sum surprisingly small when we con-
slider its extent and efficiency. 1t is of course
| highly desirable that those who wish well to
the institution should subscribe fixed sum
yearly but all subscriptions will Of course be
| gladly received Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt of No.
"a Maiden-lane is the Treasurer of the Dis
pensary, and will take charge of all cOntribu-
tons.
There is much disturbance in the minds of
many bank officers on account of recent
action of the Internal Revenue Department
in undertaking to investigate the payment of
unstamped checks by banking institutions.
1t is asserted that great many unstamped
checks have been paid since the time when
numerous provisions of the law requiring
stamps on many classes of documents were
ranooled and that the letter of the law has