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Year: 1870

More Developments In the Building Murder.


The testimony Of the numerous experts
takea by the Coroner in the building murder
investigation on Tuesday, including architects,
masons, carpenters and mortar mixers, was
very conflicting In many points, and in its
general tenor evidently leaned towards an ex-
;culpation Of the parties who might be deemed
responsible. But with all the attempts to
prove that the building was well put up, that
the materials, including the mortar, were of
such excellent quality as to render the build
ing safe, there stand the ruins-the tomb Of
four fellow beings-to prove that it was not
safe; that 1t fell to pieces before the 6rst
heavy gust of wind that struck it.


q From the very contradictory Evidence, how
ever, we gather that the msin cause of the
disaster was the dangerous fapidity with which
the building was put W. The mason himself
was forced to admit that he thought the work
was being hurried on too quickly for the
immense height Of the building, and that the
walls were not thick enough to sustain
seven stories of comparatively narrow
structure. He suggested this to Mr..
Hale, che proprietor, who answered that
he was building the house ''according
to law, and was not going beyond the law in
what he was doing" If he is right then we
want a very much more stringent law with
regard to the erection of buildings, and we
hope that the Legislature will enact such a
one at its coming session.


Was it not the business of the Inspector of
Buildings to see that this house was being
erected in dangerously short space of time,
and to have arrested the progress of the work
Immediately? Two witnesses-men of expe-
rience in such matters-swore that a building
of this size and character could not be put up
with safety in less than from three to five
months whereas the building on Thirty fifth
street was put up, from foundation to roof, in
forty-five days. This is one Of the many evils
attending the go-ahead character OF our peo-
pie. We blow up steamboats,; we run trains
Into smash we rush things too quickly some
times, without any regard to consequences
rush them often, as in this case, to ruin and
death.
Year: 1870

The Republican State Convention meets at
Saratoga tomorrow to decide on the time and
place of holding our State Nominating Con-
vention, and, in issuing a call accordingly, to
sound the first trumpet-note for the struggle
before U.S. 1t is highly probable that other
Republicans will informally attend this gather
ing, TO mingle their counsels and their efforts
with those of tho State Committee.


We urge that the Convention be called for
the earliest practicable day-Dot later than the
first of September-and we wish it might be
earlier. Our District Conventions, to nOmi-
nate candidates for Congress, will not be held,
and will not generally be called, until after
the State nominations are made; and the can
vass cannot well be opened until after such
nominations. Hence, if the State Convention
should be held so late as even the 9th OF Sep
tember, we shall not have the canvass fully
opened before the first of October, and that
will be too late to insure q general attendance
at the polls.


We can never poll our full vote except at q
Presidential election, partly because some forty
to fifty Thousand voters, nearly all OF them
Republicans, viii be absent from their homes
on business on the day of election, unless
their feelings can be enlisted in the canvass
Let us open the campaign early in September
and many if not most Of these will so arrange
their business as to be at home for the cleo
ton: otherwise, they will be engrOssed in busi-
ness at Chicago, Omaha, Hew-Orleans, San
Francisco, or elsewhere, and, each fancying
that his vote can make no difference
their aggregate absence may lose us the State
Thus ii has been, may be again; and one
remedy therefor is an early State Convention.


We wish on Western friends would consent
to meet us in Convention this year at the
State HOUSE in Albany, where we would try to
show them that there are energy and life yet
left among the Republicans of the River
Counties. We disappointed our rural friends
last year by reducing the Democratic ma
iority in this City about 10000 votes; and we
will try to do better next time if they
viii give us all possible encouragement.
The State House was 80 befouled by the un-
clean birds who roasted there last Winter, that
a gathering of true men in State Convention
might help to renovate its atmosphere, and
Danish some of the unsavory odeGs that still
haunt its halls and corridors. Let us give an
excuse for throwing open its doors and win
dows, and letting it have somewhat of the
cheerful light and purifying air of Heaven.


The vote of our State at the several State
elections since the Republican party was formed,
has aggregated as follows:
Year: 1870




1t is a thousand pities that Jean Jacques
Rousseau is dead for here has been discovered
in Western Nevada a veritable Wild Man.
This denizen of the wilderness, who is de-
scribed, greatly to the credit Of the Caucasian
race" as undoubtedly white" came suddenly in
the broad moonlight upon a camp of travellers.
Like Esau of old, he was covered with coat
of fine, long hair. In one hand he carried a
club, and in the other a rabbit His scream
"was like the roar of the lion,n and, brandish-
ing his bludgeon, he dashed by the camp and
fell furiOusly upon the pcketed horses, the
frightened animals stampeding at once, with
the Wild Man after them like the wind down
" a mountain" The dogs wisely declined to
take the trail of the " infuriated demon"
When (according to the account be-
fore us) "the rosy sunlight cheered the land
escape" the travellers started in pursuit.
They found one of the fugitive steeds with
. large strips of skin torn off, and with his
"jaw broken" so that it .was necessary to
shoot him. The other horses were also found
with "their tails entirely stripped of hair"
Finally, the trail of the Wild Man was struck,
and from his footprints it was evident that he
was a human being, however much run TO
seed, and that he would wear "NO. 8 shoes,n
if he wore any shoes at all. All at
tempts to overtake this interesting creature
were made IN vain. His trail ended abruptly
at the entrance of q cave, in which was found
a set of soldiers buttons, and, what is more
remarkable, silver dime. From this it was
evident that the Wild Man had so far ad-
vanced in recivilization as to be ready, at least
to q limited extent for specie payments, should
they be demanded of him.


The conjecture is that this most delicate
monster is a soldier lost from FremOnts conf
mand in 1916. If so he has, for a quarter of a
century, been gradually slipping away from
all semblance of humanity, his body assuming
the covering of wild beasts, and his intellect
gradually sinking to the level of the lower in
stincts. We are fond Of dilating cOmplacently
over our power of progress, and of crying out
with Hamlet: "What piece of work is man
How noble i'll reason! how infinite in faculty
" in form, In moving, how express and ad-
"mirable in action, how like an angel! in ap-
prehensiOn, how like god! the beauty of
the world the paragon of animalsm Alas
we are forced, with all our pride, to admit
that The eremite of Nevada demonstrates,
with all our genius for soaring, that we have
| also q supplementary capacity for sinking.
Here is a man, who, perhaps not a very long
time ago, was the equal in rel.nement and in
telligence of his feilOws--one who loved,
. hoped. reasoned. and governed himself
Year: 1870

An Election takes place in North Carolina
tomorrow for an Attorney General, nine mem
bers of Congress (seven for the ALlld
Congress, and two to iii vacancies in the
XLIsO. and members of the Legislature.
While there is some doubt as to the result of
this election, as there is as to almost all such
contests, we incline 90 the opinion that 1t VIII
prove substantial Republican triumph.


North Carolina has been in an unfortunate
state of ferment and excitement for several
months past. Outrages OF the most shameIul
character, including scOurging and murder,
have been perpetrated upon peaceful citizens
by disguised midnight marauders, for no other
apparent cause than the fact OF difference OF
political opinions. These Outra9es were so
pcrsistently continued that the Governor found
IL necessary, after exhausting, as he alleges,
all possible civil means of bringing criminals
to justice, to declare certain portions of the
State under martial law, and to resort
to military force to suppress hWless-
ness and bring malefactOrs to justice
ThereupOn the Rebel press of the South and
their Democratic echoes in the North set up
the concerted cry that all these Outrages were
perpetrated by Yagabond negroes, and that the
calling out of the militia was merely pretext
to enable the Governor to Overawe the Demo-
cratic voters of the State, keep them from the
polls, and thus force Republican majority
This view of the situation was SO frequently
reDeated in editorials, in speeches, in telegraphic
dispatches, that many honest people came TO
believe it. In order to ascertain and place
before the readers of THE TRIBUNE the real
state of affairs in North Carolina, we dis
patched trustworthy correspondent to that
State whose first letter we publish elsewhere.
In view of the confessions of MIR. Boyd aud
other prominent and influential 3 citizens
formerly connected with the Ku-Klux, and
the statements of so candid and intelligent
gentleman as Chef-Justice Pearson, citizen
who is not a partisan, and who Is
so highly esteemed in his State that
he was elected to his exalted position
by the unanimous vote of the people,
it would seem that no candid mind can longer
doubt that there is q secret organization IN
North Carolina which must be held responsible
for these horrible Outrages that such organi-
zation is of political character, and that it is
directed and at least tacitly sustained by the
leading and influential Democrats of the
State. Desiring to obtain the politi-
cal control of the State, and failing
to get any considerable portion of the
cOlored vote, they resOrted to midnight
whippings and hangings as a means of intimi-
dating the newly -enfranchised citizens and
keeping them from tho polls. Gov. Holden
has taken measures which will effectually pre-
vent the success of the game. Hence the
wrath he has aroused, and the storm of SLAM
der wherewith he and all North Carolina Re-
publicans are assaled.
Year: 1870

The base and truculent letter addressed by the
Anti-Chinese Convention of San Francisco to
the Six Chinese Companies ought TO arouse the
indignation of the whole country. 1t is little
better than undisguised rufiianism, accOmpa


MED with peculiarly gross insults. The Con-
vention instructed its President and Secretary
to inform the Six Companies that it was
neither Just to our own people nor safe to the
Chinamenn that Chinese immigration should
continue The worthy delegates discharge this
commission by informing the Companies that
the Chinese are nuisances; that "their habits
81 and morals are contaninating our peoples"
that they are becoming every day more and
more repulsive to freemen; and finally that
the people do not mean to put up with them
any longer The people have right to do as
they please about everything, and the Anti
Chinese Convention was "the largest meeting
"of the people ever held in San Francisco


Hence the Six Companies, and through them
the ruling powers at Peking, are to take warn
ing that if any more Chinese persist In coming
to this country they must come at the peril OF
their lives. But, it will be objected, we have
a treaty with China. which guarantees to the
Year: 1870

to select a ticket calculated TO command con-
idcnce and inspire enthusiasm and this duty
cannot be too considerably nor too intelli-
gently performed. SO far as we are aware, no
ono fit for Governor is anxious to be nom
inated-possibly, because of the general appre-
hension that Hoffman will be counted in
any how, no matter what may be the state Of
the poll. This frees the Convention from the
embarrassment of deciding between rival
claims and pretensions Whoever can poll the
strongest vote must be nominated, and who
ever is nominated must run, whatever may be
his personal inclination. Should full ticket
be thus selected, with over-ruling resolution
to present the strongest candidate for each
place, the result will electrify our friends and
astound our adversaries throughout the length
and breadth of the Union.
Year: 1870

Seymour and Blair were running on platform
of open hostility 10 Negro Suffrage; Blair
having been nominated on the strength of a
public letter in which he advocated the over
turning by the bayonet Of the NEGRO gov
ernments" of the Southern States in case the
Democrats should triumph. In full view of
these facts, all the whisky and muslin
in Louisiana could not have obtained five
thousand COlored votes for Seymour in the
entire State, nor kept so many from voting for
Grant, if they had dared to vote as they
wished. And the entire registry of the State
stood: White, Al, ,l99; Colored, 8,43l COlored
majority, 3G,2S9, or nearly two to one.


Again we ask: Shall this country again
have eectionsi If the men who now run the
Democratic machine in this City are allowed to
have their own way, it never will. But they
must and will be overcome, even though they
should never be brought to justice for their
crimes already perpetrated.
Year: 1870

by the general laws of social economy
-one who wore clothes. slept In q
bed, washed his face of morning, con-
versed with his kind, made contracts and went
once a week to cburch--a man who could be
sued. taxed, and perhaps elected TO Congress
He may have been husband and father-hs
may even now be the grandfather of prom
ising and osy-cheeked children; nephews and
nieces may speak of him as dear Uncle -
who went away and was never heard from
again. Absolutely divested Of his humanity he
consorts with buffaloes, hides himself from
bears, fights battles with wolves, knocks over
rabbits for q living and falls upon horses al
tigers fall upon them in the jungles of India.
We may conjecture that his manhood is 50
thoroughly oblteratcd that if he were caught,
shaved put into a shirt and paper collar, pan
falcons and a handsome pair of No. boots, he
would still be totally unfit for the genteel so
ciety of Long Branch and Saratoga; while
perhaps even the toughest o. our New YORK
ruffans would decline 10 drink with him should
be wish TO invest his dime in beer.


The story, if true one, is enough to mako
us all wholesOmely humble. Ii shows us that,
after all, we hold our place, fixed as we deem
it, upon the nights of civilization, by rather
uncertain tenure. Every mornings report or
wrong and outrage reminds us that the bestial
instincts of man, though they may be re-
strained, can never be exterminated. Nobody
goes abroad naked, for that the police would
not permit no one, in our thoroughfares, fastens
his teeth in the fanks of horses for the lower
appetite runs in q different direction; but We
hang every year for murder from ten to twenty
1afrr Off
ignorant and unimpressible enough to drive
the most hopeful chaplain to despair. All
degradation is comparative but there is no
man who has not his share Of the general ap-
petites and passions, and no one who can be
morally certain that these may not, sooner or
later, make him subject to their savage mastery.
Year: 1870

Real is to be hung. The Governor refuses
TO respite or pardon him, and explains at
length his reasons for refusing the appeal
which has been made to spare the criminal.
of the Justice of Reals sentence few have any
doubt. The suggestion which has been made
to respite him was based on the expediency
of the act. There will come time, we trust,
when the law win recognize the utter useless
ness of the death penalty. We hoped Gov
Hoffman would have done so, not merely In
this but in other cases of the kind. WITH the
murderer we have little sympathy; with his
barbarous punishment much less.
Year: 1870

We publish in full on our sixth page this
morning the will of Charles Dickens. With al
the necessary legal verbiage, it is a most char
scteristic production, illustrated with touches
Of true tenderness, and betraying in unmis-
taxable language that hatred of shams which
was so marked in all bis writings. al emphat-
"ically direct that those who attend my funeral
wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat
Year: 1870

Congress left its appropriations in such
complicated condition that the grants for
various purposes cannot be legally drawn
from the Treasury. We hope an extra session
OF Congress will not be necessary to remedy
the errors OF the last one.
Year: 1870

From The Boston Aiveriser


Senator Fentons letter in regard TO the NewYork Col
lectorship Is exceedingly eredabe 20 his good
Since his cOea gues the Senate t despite As
gunents to confirm Mr.. Murphy Collector there was
no reason for continuing the quarrel But MIR. fcntoG
might have said much more, persistent and bitter
upon the Collector would seriously interfere with
the proper discharge OF his duties. An officer IN place
Of much Importance should havo the support of every
long he does his work honestly ana feiently.
For failure In this respect his removal should promptly
follow, and for other cause. Senator Fenton may
hesitate ut this conclusion but that he w day
the wisdom OF IL, We are well convinced.


The Troy 1haes


In another column will be found letter from senator
Fenton To the editor OF THE TRIBUNE. whcs we think.
will be read with great interest by AL the Republicans
OF this quarter. II Is fresh proof where mono
needed OF the sound and disnterestod quality Of the
authors Republicansm. Whoever may be disposed t0
foment division and organize faction in the party,
Reuben H. Fenton Is not A sense OF duty compelled
him TO frankly explain To the Senate his reasons for
thinking that the nomination OF Mr.. Tom Murphy Col
hector OF the Port OF NewYoEk should not he confirmed
The same sense of duty restyas him. ROW that the
hmation Is an accomplished fact. from making these
reasons pubic To the basty accusation THAI his action
III this affair has been selfish and facti0us this letter
complete answer. He has faithfully represented tho
sentiment OF the party IN this stae and he has bcer
overruied That is tho head and front OF his offending
Year: 1870

The most forcible exposure of the shameless
dishonesty and untrnth of the above statement
will be found in simple exhibit of the Vote
ITSELF as compared with the registered number
of White and Colored voters in several of the
most popuOus parshes-as follows:
Year: 1870

The American Cigar Machine Com
pany recently gave practical eXhibi-
stion of the machines patented by them
for the manufacture Of cigars. These
machines bid fair to work a revolution
in cigar making, not only because of
the reduced cost Of production. but
also on account of the fact that cigars
so made can be sold for ten dollars q
thousand less than cigars made by
hand. The company has thirty ma
chimes in operation, driven by small
caloric engine. The machines are
simple, and can be worked by chill
dren. The wrappers are first cut from
the pure leaf by machine. A hun
dred leaves are placed in a pile, held
i'm place by clamp, when four knives
in the shape of an OblOng square de-
scend and cut out the wrappers. The
cigar-making machines consist of re-
vOlving rollers, covered by a cap. The
"fillersn having been wrapped up in
the rough by hand, are placed within
the machine, and in few seconds the
cigar is sufficiently rolled and fash
ioned at one end to receive the wrap
per, which is fed into the machine,
the operator having previously gum
med the ends. The cigar is then
taken out, neatly and eXpeditiOusly
made. All that remains to be done is
to trim one end. A girl can produce
1000 cigars a day by these machines,
and can easily earn from ten to fifteen
dollars per week.
Year: 1870

Sunlight A Necessity.-Sun baths
cost nothing, and are the most re-


freshing life-giving baths that one
can take, whether sick or well.
Every hOusekeeper knows the neces-
sity OF giving her wOolens the benefit
Of the sun, from time to time, and
especially after long rainy season,
or long absence of the sun. Many


will think of the injury their clothes
are liable to, from dampness, who
will never reflect that an occasional
] exposure of their own bodies to the
sunlight is equally necessary to their
own health. The sun-baths cost
nothing, and that is a misfortune, for
people are still deluded with the idea
that those things only can be good or
useful which cost money. Let it not
4 be fergstten three of JiGd's most bene-
/ ficent gifts 20 man-three things the
most necessary to good health-sun-
light, fresh air and water, are free to
all; YOU can have them i'm abundance,


without money and without price, il
you wiI. If you would enjoy good
health, then see to it that you are sup


piled with pure air to breathe all the
! time that you bathe for al hour OI
so in the sunlight; and that yoG


quench your thirst with no other


fluid than water.-JOaTRGL Of Health
Year: 1870

In his lecture in New York on
'Hew to Escape HE'LL" Oliver Dyer
remarked that "a man goes to hell
simply because he belongs there. In
the eternal world they always have
the right man in the right place.
This business Of going to heaven or
hell is purely q philosophical matter,
and there are no rewards or penalties
in the case, but only logical Sc
nuences.u
Year: 1870

COVERING THE LUSGS.-One of the
most important things 10 be consider
ed in the dress is the careful covering
Of the chest and back. Exposing the
lungs by inadequate shielding Ofthese
portions of the body from the SVid is
too generally practiced, especially by
the ladies. To cover the chest is not
enough. There should be a thick COW
ering between the shoulders.
Year: 1870

and for the guarantee Of equal rights,
and the maintainanee of the peace
throughout the revolted States. Fol
one l propose not to yield until the
battle is fully fought and the victory
fully won. For one I propose to fight
it out on this line if it fakes us all
summer and all winter, and each sue
ceeding summer and winter till the
Union is fully triumphant, and the
rebellion completely conquered.


Mr.. THAYER here yielded to
a motion to adjourn