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Year: 1870

DR.. Choate, Superintendent of the State
Lunatc Hospital at Taunton, Mass, in lis
report just made, gives some interesting facts
regarding the comparative insanity of the sexes.
He says that the excess of insane women over
insane men is becoming more and more marked
He does not attribute it to any greater liability
to the disease among women, but to the fact
that more lunatic men die. More women sink
into hopeless insanity. Men are made insane
by physical causes, while women succumb to
subtle moral influences, not easily reached by
hospital treatment not threatening to life, but
intractabe and not very well understood by
the profession.
Year: 1870

Secretary Boutwell, yesterday offered for
sale the first million dollars of the four millions
of gold which he has announced his purpose of
Offering this month. The market price was
above 120 at the time it was offered, and there
was no difficulty in obtaining bids that COW
cred that point Last week he refused
all bids under 100, and, at one of the sales, he
failed to obtain the price he desired for what
he offered But the sales for the current month,
fixed at four millions, will be much smaller
than they were for the closing months OF
last year; and it is probably in conse-
ouence of the limitation he has put on the
Treasury operations, that the market is now
stronger and steadier than it has been TOR
some time past. The outflow Of the January
interest, the excellent condition of the public
finances and the healthy state of trade and
exchange, are, however checks upon anything
like a bull movement for advancing the pre-
MUM.
Year: 1870

Our Chamber of Commerce was most admlra-
bly, employed at its meeting yesterday in lis
tenng to an address by Mr.. Chadwick on
the feasibility and prOprety of an extensive
production of Silk in this country, especially
in California. If our great merchants did but
realize the dependence of Commerce on Indus
try-how the naturalization of new product
is a positive and signal augmentation OF the
National weath-they would often listen to
such addresses, and be prompted thereby to
enterprises Of world wide and enduring bencfi-
Year: 1870

We feel quite incapable of believing all the
statements that are published about the par
ties engaged in the Winnipeg rumpus. When,
for example, VIC are told that the adherents of
Gov. McDougall are fends in human shape"
we must confess that the allegation is a trife
beyond our powers of credulity. When again
we are assured that General" Rel, the leader
of the macontents, is possessed of all the
refinement and polish brilliant intellect can
"acquire, and combines much of the determina-
ton of Napoleon with the tactics of Cesar"
we must say we find it quite impossible to re-
ceive the assertion with becoming gravity. 1t
is consoling however, to think that if Rel
really be such a tremendous person, it will
take great many fends in human shape to
overthrow him on the field of battle.
Year: 1870

1t appears by the Fire Marshal's report that
of the 1900 fires in this city and Brooklyn
last year, 129, or more than one-tenth of the
whole, were caused by kerosene All this
destruction of property, not to speak of the
loss of life, might have been prevented by an
enforcement of the law regulating the making
of kerosene. There was n long continued
quarrel, during the year, between the Fire
Commissioners and the Board of Health as to
which of them had the authority over this
matter; bat in the mean time there has been
no effective application of the law such as we
have seen in Philadelphia, Providence, and
many other cities We suppose, therefore, that
during the present year we shall have to con
tinue our chronicles of the ravages of ker-
osene.
Year: 1870

| The penalty of Mrs. Stoves literary sins has
overtaken her in the almost general consent
with which her argument has been misun-
derstood. Very few of the papers seem to
have comprehended the points upon which
she rested her accusation. These were that
Lady Byron distinctly made the charge on
the strength of her husbands confession that
she was incapable of maliciously inventing the
story; that she was of sound mind and there
fore could not have imagined it and that her
subsequent treatment of Mrs Leigh can be ex-
planned on the supposition that for some time
possibly some years-she believed that the sis
ter had not yielded to the brothers criminal
advances. This is good strong argument if
the premises can be proved We have already
said that in our judgment Mrs. Stowe has
nearly made out her case. Let us explain
wherein her reasoning is strong and wherein
it is weak.


She makes it clear that, if Lady Byron is
worthy of belief Lord Byron confessed the
crime of incest. She makes it clear that Lady
Byron was incapable of wckedly inventng the
story. She shows it to be next to impossible
that Byron should have invented it himself in
one of his mystifyiDg moods. We say next
"to impossible" because this theory is Just
barely tenable, though it is grossly improbable
Finally she shows how the one great objection
to the incest story, namely, the letters to Mrs.
Leigh, is removed by the supposition that Mrs
Leigh convinced Lady Byron for q time that
her husband was insane, and that he had only
attempted the crime, not committed it.


The weakness of her case lies first in the
answer to this objection of the letters. There
is no proof that Mrs. Leigh offered any such
explanation. Mrs. Stoves theory is mere con-
lecture. We may admit that this is the sort of
explanation guilty woman would be likely to
offer under the peculiar circumstances of the
case, and there is indirect evidence that Mrs.
Leigh did represent to Lady Byron that the
poet was insane. But further than this Mrs.
Stowe has nothing TO offer but intrinsic prOba-
bility; of which each reader can Judge for
himself.


If we reject this explanation there is nothing
left but the theory of hallucination, and here
we detect the second weak point in Mrs.
Stoves case. With a good show of reason,
she urges that tho opinion of Dr. Forbes
Winslow is conclusive against this theory Lot
us see. DR.. Forbes Winslow says: Z" L do not
believe that the mooted theory Of mental
alteration can in this case be for moment
entertained. 1t is quite inconsistent
with the theory of Lady Byrons insanity to
imagine that her delusion was restricted TO
the idea of his having committed incest &. q.
Her diseased brain, affecting the normal
action of thought. would In all probability
have manifested other symptoms beside those
Year: 1870

Some faint hint of the sort of holiday greet
ings with which people have been pelting us
may be gathered this morning from the first
and second columns on our second page. The
hint, however, is only faint one, and the storm
of assaults of this sort grows each day thicker.
Thriving, as THE TRIBUNE always has, on
attack, we are bearing the present onslaught
with what philosophy we may.
Year: 1870

The efforts at an organization of the Repub-
lican General Committee, last evening, were
simply disgraceful. When the men whom
Tammany owns have been peremptOrlly and
finally put out, we may hope for an end of
such shameless proceedings. Till then, we
commend to the study of our readers the report
in another column. 1t may serve to indicate
what manner of men are striving to control
the Republican party in this city.
Year: 1870

tender repentance Of this worthy yeoman will Gil
with remorse the unregenerate hearts not only O,
whisky distillers, but of those gentlemen whose
incomes shrink at the time of assessment and
swell Immediately after, TO the astonishmept Of
their neighbOrs. If "COnscience" should be-
come prevalent complaint, we should need a
special and distinct Conscience Commission in
the Department
Year: 1870

1t is evident that it is only the small sins
which excite tho pangs of agonized remorse
and lead to anonymous restitution. Thus a
nameless New-York farmer has Just sent 81 to
the conscience fund" of the Treasury Depart
ment-the amount of tax on several tubs of
battor" duo and unpaid. We trust that the
Year: 1870

The Legislature has adjourned for several
days. The Amercus Club had its ball last
night. The two circumstances are supposed to
have some occult significance. To us the most
noticeable feature in the transactions is that
the Legislature should have the grace to COM
prehend that dancing would be better than the
Wnrk IL Mns ahnnt
Year: 1870

message for such decided information as Will
make the action of the Government more
clear than it is now. Meantime, We need only
add that we have never known a case where
it would be more fitting to make haste with
extreme slOWness.
Year: 1870

TITO UVVFOItI FFJVI


eve prophesy that the Legislature OF 1870 will be no
more economical than any OF the Legislatures OF the
ro9t, aud not u WIT more honest"


deem this Legislature no whit better than its
predecessor; but if Mr. Hugh Hastings will
keep or can be kept away from Albany during
its session, we are confident that its dis
honesty will not be so evident and palpable.
Year: 1870

A Young gentleman from the west, stop
ping at Newport, observing lady driving
carriage through Thames street the other day,
with stylish dressed colored gentleman perch
ed on a seat behind and above her, with his
arms folded, as is the custom among "big
folks" remarked that I" it must cost that nig-
ger a good deal of money to hire that good
looking young lady to drive his carriage for
him."
Year: 1870

A CATASTROPHE. The editor of the Mon
tana Pick and Plow thus gives vent to his feel
ings over the loss of his cat:


Our favorite office cat, the most graceful
and intelligent of the feline race, has been sto-
len by one of the Crow loafers who are now
hanging around town. The Internal rascal
How we wish we could turn every hair on her
back into retributive claw and see them all
scratching him at celebrating him to death
by inches-then know that million infuriated
tom-cats would sing his funeral dirge. But we
will know him, should he be reckless enough to
again come in our way. His exterior proves
him to be red-sknned aristocrat. His nose
was painted blue; his chin green; his lips red;
charcoal marks befittingly decorated his scowl-
ing forehead and eye-lashes; ochre gave hue
of gold to his cheeks; his top-knot was glossy
with wagongrease; and the odor of polecat
sweetened his ragged breech-clout. Cuss him
Year: 1870

THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASSES AND TIE WAR.


The Spectator holds that the expressions OF the
opinion Of our working classes on the ought not
10 be contemptuously passed by as nugatory. We
may be sure that a change OF phase in the politics
OF the war which has already made the feelings OF
English working men yeer round so suddenly from
one attitude 10 another will hardly be without some
what similar ultimate results among the same class
in GsTnaDy itself.
Year: 1870

lhe courtroom OF Inc quarter ScSSIOUs new
ark crowded yesterday to witness the trial OF Joseph
Nesbt for an assault with intent to kill. At the COM
mencement of the trial. after it had been proved that
there had been little domestic inclicty, and that Mes
bt and his wife had separated, 1t shown that Mr..
Nesbtt became partially "insane" and endeayored TO
kin his wife and one Harlan, but although he made
several attempts did not succeed. discussion arose
during the trial the pertDency OF the defense and
the Court said that the evidence should be confined at all
times TO the subject matter In hand and mot as In
notorious case trial in New York be converted
into trial of all sorts OF people all sorts OF evidence


Mrs Nesbtt testified that, the 27th OF March, Mes
bt her at the door, and presenting pistol at her
face said IL she didn't give him the watch and chain he
her he would blow her brains out; he fired four five
times of the shots did not take effect he then
rushed inO he room, where he saw Ihos. Harlan ana,
presenting a pistol at him. said, You -, and then
Shot him he then shot Mrs Nesbt in the arm, and she
fe on the floor when he fired several times but none OF
the shots effect she separated from her nus
band at the time and lived in Warrenst the cause OF
innate with Thomas Harlan, who a customer at the
cigar kept by her the night before the assault WIZ
asked Harlan tn and help her 10 move as
she had no about the house; she had taken some
rooms expected to there; he was not with her
more Is minutes and assisted her To move the


Tchcnor testified to Mrs. Nesbtt's injuries from
wounds Mrs Nesbtts sister testified that she
was present at shooting and confirmed substantially
Mrs Nesitts story She said that they had not lived
together as man and wife for some time When Harlan
visited the house he stayed all night in separate apart
ment.
the case then went to the jury who under the nstrc
tons the Court found verdict OF guilty Sentence
deferred.
Year: 1870

On the 18th of March, Patrick Welsh and
Michael Martin, tenants at No. 623 SecOndave quarreed
and in the scue Martin stabbed Welsh in the abdomen
Welsh was taken to Bellevue Hospital and died there
yesterday. Martin, who incorporate, was In the
habit OF beating his wife in o brutal manner, and on
several she had taken refuge In the apartment
Welsh and wife, on the morning OF the ARRAY Martini
who was liquor had abused his wife, and she had
again fled to the of Welsh Later in the day. Welsh
on entering the house, met in the hallway by
Martin and stabbed, without any previous ntmation Of
the assault 1t not believed that the wound was dan


gerous until recently and the antemorem statement OF
Welsh was not TAKEN Coroner Flynn will hold inquest
on Tuesday Martin been in custody since the assault
Year: 1870

At II this morning, fire broke out in the
basement Of the Southern Hotel in Broadway, near
Arnity-st. Thirteen girls were asleep in the
immediate vicinity OF the fire. All got out In safety
The kitchen and laundry were badly damaged. Loss
about IS 900 The guests aroused from their slum
bers and many of them ran into the street In their
night clothing. The prompt response OF the
fremen to the alarm saved the building.
The lessces Of the building Messrs Keith Davis
They have been for several months past engaged in
fitting up the hotel at great expense. The building Is
owned by Francis c. Guerin.
Year: 1870

ernor waiting his signature is only designed to place
the foreign" companies the same footing
IA the companies chartered under laws Whereas at
the present time they have decided advantages by
ca legislation. The Governor seems disposed to favor
the foreign companies and delays to give his signature
this bill Ii s error stated IN your paper OF the
9Th inst that the local companies intend to form
bill To be submitted to the next gsature The present
bill which adopted by nearly unanimous vote by
both Houses this session, was carefully drawn by the
present Superintendent OF the Insurance Department
aud is regarded by nearly all OF the local companies
both OF this and other States, just and equitable law,
and should receive the immediate sanction OF the Execu
tive


Netc- York, May 6, 1870.
Year: 1870

The inquest in the case of Robert Hartman,
who was killed in fight with Dennis McGrotty, few
nights ago. front Of Keysers Hotel at Lafayette has
resulted I'm the following verdict ave find that the


to his death from fracture OF the skull,
caused by falling upon the pavement, and that he fell
from the effects OF a blow dealt by Dennis McGrotty
Year: 1870

[From the warwick Orange county, N. " Adver-


tser. March 3.


most horrible tragedy was enacted at the VII.
lage OF PhllipspOrt, Sullivan county. on saturday
last-a woman cut the throat OF her own cnild-an
interesting girl OF four years old. The woman was
the wife OF Q man named Daniel Tice, iab0rer on
the Midland Railroad. The husband was ut his
work at the time the tragedy was committed, and
the wife aud two cnidren were alone at the house.
The eldest-a boy about ten years Of age--was sent
out OF the house by his mother to do some chOres
Alter ne had left Mrs. lice took the LITTLE girl ana
ald her neck across open trunk and, holding her
IN that position, cut her throat from ear to ear.
almost severing the mead from the body. The boy
soon returned and found the mother lying on the
floor by the child He alarmed tho neghDors and
when they strived she was IN the same position.
She was placed upon bed, where she lay moaning
for long time An officer took ner N charge, and
she has been locked up at Monticello.
Year: 1870

The press of the country are very nearly
unanimous in favor Of letting the income
ta1 expire in accordance with the present
limitation Il Is, perhaps, the most odious
to the taxpayer, and the most inquisitorial
It Offers d premium to dishonesty and at
tempts to impose q penalty On success.
Much effort will be made to retain this tar
and all others, by the class OF economists
who are anxious to grind the people into
the dust to pay the principal Of the debt, as
q means of relieving them from the slight
Inconvenience Of paying the interest
The Committee Of Ways and Means
seem to hesitate between the
two demands and incline to continue
the tar at 2a per cent, en1arging the e1emp-
ton to $4,000. We do not believe any ex-
emption can be devised which will be just
or satisfactory The only gain from tho
exemption is to let out sufficient number
of voters to prevent the outc1y which would
abate the tar ns nuisance If it were made
applicable to the whole people. We hope
Congress. Will simply leave it to die Of itself
during the present. year according to the
terms Of the present act Let it entirely
nlone. -
Year: 1870

W. NJ. X. constantly in the New York and
Philadelphia markets, enables him to procure all
new and desirable goods al the lowest rates and
as he buys direct from the importer in large lots,
it is to his advantage to sell cheap that goods
may be turned out fast, thus keeping the stock
new and lively all the time.


All are invited to call, feeling assured that
they will not be disappointed either in assort
ment or prices
Year: 1870

THE COMING PASSAGE AT ARMs.--If the
war Of the sections is to be renewed Brooklyn
will be responsible for it. Her proposed
tournaments, which are to come Off soon in
Prospect Park, wherein gallant knights, under
various DISCUSSES Of name and costume, dash
about the amphitheatre and do dreadful havoc
in carrying off iron rings on the ends of their
lances and in breaking down horsefesh, will
be construed as Che direct cause of it. The
clash of arms has already been snuffed by the
chiyalry Of Virginia and Maryland, and
youths, who have won high honor in the lists
of the numerous Southern fields Of the cloth
of-say, sawdust, or of unreconstructed Ash
bys de la Zouche, some Of whom it is even
probable have won the honor of crowning the
Queen of Love and Beauty on these occasions,
arc already careering proudly northward to
take part in the contest. We advise our
Brooklyn youth to furbish up their horseman-
ship
Year: 1870

Two STRNas TO THEIR Bow have the
womens rights women. One is Henry Ward
Beecher, President Of the American Woman
Suffrage Association, and the other is Theo-
dOre Tilton, President OF the Union Woman
Suffrage Society. This is coming back to the
rule of the old Pennsylvania farmer ''Never
trust flock Of hens on the high road without
q rooster, for if you do they are sure to get
scattered and lost"
Year: 1870

A OURKR IDEA OF THE CABrNET.-We heard
a philosopher from ''the rural districts" re-
mark this morning that the only two men in
the Cabinet possessed of any progressive
ideas up to the spirit and modern improve
meuts of the age are Sherman and Porter.
Our honest yeoman was perhaps correct as
to the progressive ideas, though little off
the track as to the Cabinet. But in these dull
times at Washington one man Is as good as
another, in or out Of the Cabinet.
Year: 1870

TIE CABINET MEETING Indian ques-
ton was discussed in the Cabinet yesterday,
and it was decided to prevent the starting Of
che Big Horn expedition pending negotiations
with Red Cloud and other Sioux chiefs.
General Augur has consequently been given
orders to that effect,
Year: 1870

TAMMANY has completed her nominations
for the general Aldermanic ticket, and if our
readers wish to see who will compose the next
Board of Aldermen we refer them to the list
in another column.
Year: 1870

New YoRK JUsrIcE.-Some Of the country
newspapers are Mortified at New York justice
as illustrated in the Mcfarland case; but as
both parties directly interested seem to be
satisfied with the result what more could be
askeda AT all events, have we not had enough
Of this miserable business2 "Let us have
pescer
Year: 1870

The FRANKINa PRIVILEGE. House
bill abolishing the Congressional franking
privilege has evidently been given an over
dose of paregoric in the Senate, and will prob
ably ''sleep on" to the end Of the session. The
members concerned in this thing, however,
will probably hear something on the subject
when they return home, and in saving his
frank Tom, Dick or Harry may lose his place.
Year: 1870

Too MUoH-A subsidy from Congress Of
Eve hundred thousand dollars year, for any
number of years, for Pacific cable. It is too
much to ask and too much to attract any
favorable attention In Congress to the scheme
A grant Of the Aleutian islands, If asked,
would probably take, and those islands stretch
pretty well across the Northern Pacific.
Year: 1870

REGISTRY OF Our CoLORED FELLOW CrrI-
zENs OF AFRICAN DEsoENT.-The colored vote
will certainly be an item in the city elections
whenever the figures run pretty close. There
have been elections for Mayor when the vote
Of Sambo, as now registered, given solidIy for
one side or another would have changed the
result. The negro voters register over sixteen
hundred names, and doubtless with one
more day will exceed two thousand. OF the
number given the Eighth ward has over six
hundred, and the time may come when Laurens
and Thompson streets will call for special rep
resentation in the Common Council.
Year: 1870

GENERAL GRANTS FIRST PLEASURE TRIP
OF THE SPRING SEAsON.-The President,
some of the Cabinet and large number of
Congressman and private citizens, took q
pleasure trip by steamboat yesterday down
the broad Potomac, which may be considered
as the official announcement Of the opening Of
the spring season Of excursions and picnics
and Strawberries and cream in the latitude Of
Washington. Strawberries and cream are
good. A week or two later and we shall
begin to have them here at something less
than their weight even in nickel pennies.
Year: 1870

The MAMMOTH CAvE-The cave-in Of the
coalition of the odds and ends of the anti
Tammany democracy, who retired from the
The coalition, unlike Julius Caesar, 'came''
and ''saw," but they did not conquer" Per-
haps their failure to elect ticket may be a
great detriment to the city government, and
perhaps not. Anyhow, they have not come to
the scratch, and if the city should suffer may
we not hold the odds and ends in measure
responsible? They promised much and de-
clare now that they will not even attempt to
perform anything.