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New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
4 BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE.

To me EdttOr OF me Tri6HRc.
SIR THE TRIBUNE should aid The Times by
publishing the aggregate, il not the full details Of It's
revelations The readers want IT, Justice domands The
fact that It will aid me Times is not OF itself conclusive
argument but the public feel that It's champion shonid
be encouraged. II Isl decisive moment Act! Que oi
your volunteer guards and reporters IN me f' "eeA u"
1858. l. ID siEtsoN'
No. 16 lf,rrogst, Yer. York, July 30 1874.
ReplT.-Stetson, you are an ASS H. hs''au oi
wasting your time aud money III Whiting ano Posting
this silly letter, YOU had bought Tribune you
would have fonnd that we have published not only
the agaregate but the full details Of all the dis
closures made by The Tines. But like clcdnlcus
qobeaouche that yon are, you have swallowed the
bald falsehood with which The Times ttes every
morning 10 persuade the country that There are no
honest ioriu9l, m NcN-tosa outside - oN,t ot,c.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
LONDON GOSSIP.

FAILURES OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION.
THE DEFEAT OF THE ARMY BILL--PROSPtC3
OF THE BALLOT BILL-RECEPTIoN OF GEN.
SCHENCk.
FROM OUR owN CORRESPONDENCE
LONDON, July 20.-rhe political situation has
singular aspect 70 who has been two months away
and who looks over the hed search OF some real thing
dom during these two months. M doubt there has been
"A change. Two very important things have happened.
hut the change Is the direction OF progress, and
tha two landmarks indicate nothing but failure mean,
Of course the defeat OF the Army bill and the complete
down IN the legislative machinery Of tho House OF
Commons which threatens 20 end IN the loss OF the Ballot
bill aud close the with record OF barren
ness, When did a Ministry with majority o, 100 ever
do 80 ht,l.
MI Gadstoue's aim, utcs with the Army Bill 80 fur
ther back than this session They began when his MN
isry began rather when he was getting his Mni'ry
together Economist aud partisan Of peace as he Is F"
wa nevertheless OF rs drs ideas TO reform the army
D., aboshing the dual government OF the Horse Garus
and Zee W'r Odicr--1 government just like wh't wouh
,p.a. gp iu Ns'n.u-.!u Gen. sasgnaa were - 10
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
THE WEsTFIELD MASSACRE.

Yesterday the city was struck with horror
at one of those terrible calamities which from
time to time assail us, like reyolts of the ma
tcrial forces which we have made our slaves.
Forty-fve persons were killed and about
seventy wounded by the explosion of the
boilers of the Staten Island steamer Westfield.
Disasters like these wait upon state OF ad-
vanced civilization, the almost inevitable ac-
compartment of the luxury and the con-
venience which have come into the world
through the iustrumentality of steam.
Every possible means has been taken
to make them impossible. The in
genuity of mechanicans has been sup
plemented by the patient cndeayors of law
makers to cOntriye a system of checks and
safeguards which shall guarantee the safety
of all who travel by land or water. But, in
spite Of all this, we too frequently called
upon to chronicle catastrophes which throw the
whole community into CONSERVATION, and bring
lasting sorrow into hundreds of families. 1t
y
discouraging condition of our progress 1t
seems as fruitless to attempt to eradicate dan
ger from travelling as evil from the world.
There was nothing to give warning Of the
disaster of yesterday. The boat was good
and stanch one. The boilers, it is said, were
strong, and had passed their official inspection
4 f1vou nod
the decks, making them bright with their hol-
iday clothes and their cheerful faces. 1t is
only of late that our American population has
begun to follow the example of our German
citizens, in making of Sunday day
of quiet recreation-a day for a
ramble in the shady woods, or a sail on the
| breezy Bay. 1t is pathetic to think of death
| living in wait for these hard-worlSing people
on the spot where they were taking their rare
holiday. They trusted to the perfection of
the machinery, to the ingenuity of the law
givers. They felt as safe as in their own
houses. In one instant the deck sank from
un6sr them dull report filed the air, and
! the DOdJ ana tHe UulOIjUndlt plCdSult-StthclS
were one shattered and broken chaos together.
We refer our readers to the vivid account
of this appalling disaster which we publish
| to-day. Every one who reads it will draw the
appropriate lesson. At present, circumstances
seem to criminate the Engineer, who allowed
a slightly greater pressure of steam i'll bis
boilers than was authorized by the boats
certificate. But the matter is too grave to
Justify us in wroneing any one by a
| hasty assignment OF the terrible respOn-
sibility. For the present we limit our
! selves to demanding, in behalf of the
public safety what will of course not be with
| held fuA and searching investigation of the
/ causes of this horror If blame lights on any
one, let it be followed by speedy punishment /;
and at all events let a new and fresh inquest
| of experts be assigned the duty of de-
termining whether anything more can be done
to prevent this ever recurring slaughter of tie
! innOcents.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

The Richmond Hhg Conservative has discovered
that kind and cOnsiderate treatment of Blacks by
gentlemen will go far to win them" 1t will be a
great good,' adds The Uk0, to break up the solid
negro vote" Perhaps At any rate. we say, with
all possible candor, that the Conservatives may con-
serve anything they please except inhumanity and
blrbarism; and we say further that they quite
welcome to all the votes which they may win by
their kind and cOnsiderate treatment OF the freed
mon. We are not bit afraid Of their being too
kind" or too "consderate" OF Ofther spelling the
Blacks by undue indulgence. Old prejudices are
still too lively for that
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
REdDY TO BOLT.

Ii seems as if the hatred which Gen. Butler
bears to Massachusetts, cannot be satisfied with
inhicting less humiliation upon her than his
own election as Governor 1t was bad enough
to have him localized in the Lowell District,
but the ,Butleritis diffused over the whole
State would be the acutest of Affections.
There is, however, a most cheerful prospect
presented by the OratiOn-miscalled an inter
view-which the General delivered on Satur
day to an appreciative audience of one re-
pOrter-if, indeed, the reporter himself be not
a convenient fiction, the questions and answers
being evidently the work of the same adroit
and shifty intellect The only thing noticeable
about this last manifesto, and the thing which
is full of comfort and promise, is that the
General appears to be packing his luggage to
leave the Republican party, and we cheerfully
print his confession of unfaith as one of the
most hopeful signs of the times.
He begins with passage of historical rem
iniscence, of the kind which has become so
familiar since the death of T. Lincoln, wherein
the RecOlectOr goes down to Washington and
informs the President that he is all wrong,
and the meek Illinoisan assents, and asks what
he must do to be saved, and the Recollector
tells him, and all is well. We are not sure
that these "reminiscences are not among the
worst of the woes which the pistol of Booth
entailed upon us. But the General does not
linger long in the twilight of ancient history.
lie comes prancing down into the field Of to-
day and defines his position upon every point
whereby he imagines he may gain boiling
votes lie Is Communist, and peradven-
tuTe some Gallo professor of billiards will
be brought to east ballot for the man
who thought that pulling down monuments
was heroic and burning cOurt-houses was
poetically just. He says it is not fair
to call him a demagogue for fattering the
Labor party to-day, because twenty years ago
he used the same catch-w0rds to carry an
election. lie intends to get the votes Of the
FEMININE Suilragists, at all hazards, and ho
knows no bid eau be too coarse to accomplish
this. lie relates. With singular iunocenco. how
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

The Rev. Mr.. Duryea has said nothing particularly
new in his Wine Sermon, and especially in that
part Of it which sets up distinction between
Temperance" and Total Abstinence" From q
pathological point Of view, Temperance certainly
does imply use in greater OF less degree But, on
the other hand the word Temperance has acquired
fixed specific, and Independent meaning. And it
is understood by everybody that Temperance now
implies total disuse ID alcohol through whatever
medium Mr. Duryea must decide for himself
whether it is worth while to set mp his nice distnc
tlon and whether also men who use alcohol habit
ually can as things are claim to be Temperance
men.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

has large following who believe be hns bim.
self o paramount claim 70 that honor. Ana
the Prince dc Joinvile and Duke dc Aumaic
have co0perated with Faidherbc' Chanzy'
Theirs. and Gambetta in the production OF a
plan for the reorganization of the Freneh
army; whereat there il establishment Inc
views of me young heir of Louis Philippe on
tba ouestion of the future lnngship OF france
are not specially authoritative jast now, albeit
sufficiently striking and unexpected but 1t Ia
= GOOD sign that princes should join with Re-
,,IIicans in perfcoting measures for the good
oC France
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
"THE HEITHEY CHTYEE.p

II. Il. Ottman, Cottonwood Springs, Nobras
ka, asks us this question::
"Are you in favor Of Chinese immigration into the
Uaitod saesf and il So how do you think it will affect
the working class, e., the common laborers Of our
countryP
hns,cer by The Triburc.-Wc heartily ap-
prove of obeying the laws Of the land, whereof
our treaties with foreign powers are part.
The Burlingame treaty prescribes the treat
ment to be accorded to Chinese who come to
this country and our people who migrate to or
visit China. We insist on the faithful ObsGrv-
ance of chat treaty on all hands. If we shall
exclude and expel Chinese from this country,
how can we object to the exclusion and eX-
pulsiOn of our missionaries, traders, &c., from
China7 How justify our recent raid on the
Coreans? We believe in the Golden Rule.
We hope the effect of Chinese immigra-
ton on the common laborers of this country
Will be to render them more diligent, perse-
vering, temperate, and frugal than they now
are Many of them sadly need amendment
in these respects, and the average Chinaman
sets them an excellent example, which they
will do well to heed. He does MT waste his
time and means in suicidal strikes; he does MT
attempt to kill either the man who chooses not
to hire him at his own price or him who accepts
the work which "John sees fit TO decline.
On the whole, it seems to us that every class
of our people would be benefited by the pres
ence and example of john Chinaman on our
soil, and we propose that he shall come if he
chooses and stay in peace if he behaves him.
self That's all.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
FOREIGN NEWS.
FRANCE


RESULT or rHE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN pARI,
--i"oPo'ED KAoBGAETZATIOS or THE ARuY
AND THE CIVIL sERyICF-THR QUESTION OF
EXTENDING n. TfnERss TERM or oFpICD
SHORTLY 10 BE DECIDED.
PAPis July 3d. fs7i
The elections 70 fiil vacancies in the muni-
cpa! government nor Gfed In The last elections were
held tOdlY. Twenty c1niiate, ~ the Parislan Press
Union and % who were on o Trbigo list we're elected
GaD,bctt has i0id before President Theirs s propo.
ton rho reorganization Of to army and the oyi sor
vice. The amy pans lre supposed % from Com.
F1idherbe and Chanzy IN conjunction with the Dus
D'Aurnaie and n.e Prince De JOnve Pc dent Thier,
and Mar-hnl McMahon approve Of the plans admitted
Some surprise = eSprrsscd at the cooperation Of the
royal Prince with Ganbetla snd lhi,rs
It t. cxpecico that t'e prJon yltIon ~ NJ THERE'S
power a5 Ct'af Of Che Executive Will be voted by the
Assembly next week. 4 majority " the Committee n
Tho hsa'mly reported 10 be- in favor " tbe mposi
tio1 OF q tax On incomes.
The ODciGi Jou,.a says on interyIeg h8. been ar
ranged, TO take place IN scpembcrAt Versailles Lowees
Lord Gfanyiic, Baron Eeu,i and PTea.dent T5ers
when tho E1scrn question in a ~ bearing, will be
considered.
The Minister Oi War has asked thc Assembly Commit
tee on tho Budget Tor supplementary credit OF 2ie
Ol0,COD francs. AJIsLais Baline AMI Canrobcrt and
Cen. WimpNn have been summoned % testify before
the Committee appointed by the Assembly 20 investigate
the conduct OF the late The courtsmarIal for the
,Iil of the Communists are cOByOsed for Thursday.
Aug g. The restoration OF she forllacettons Of Paris
going rapid rate.
Americans visiting Europe must bring passports,
eciay naturalized citizens the latter cannot get
them herr without showing Tho proper p1pers
ROYAL HONOR5 10 AN ORLEANS PRINCE.
IoSDoN. SATURDAY, July %, 1871
The French Embassador the Duke do Brog-
,. ,ycs dinner this evening to the Count de Paris.
ROYAL honor, will DO done the Prince the OCCASION,
apparently by order.
letter is published from the CouYt Re Paris IN which
he eyprr4ss- the belief that thesouut 10 CRambord vii
be the future King Of Franco.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
&elp'l}prk Daily GrihmoIe.
MONDAY. JULY 81. 1871.

A London telegram announces the death Of John S-
dcn. Gambetta has laid before President Thiers a
plan the reorganization OF the army and the civil SER
The Assembly viii shortly decide the question OF NJ
Theirs continuance in Office Conference on the East
ern Question viii be held in Paris in September. s==
Minister Schenck aud Mr. Gladstone spoke vt the Lord
Mayors banquet in London ON Saturday. =- The new
Spanish Ministry have adopted Marshal serranos colo
NAL policy. == The Spaniards have made some I'M
portant captures in Cuba s== DR.. Won DoingoT mas
been elected Rector OF the University OF Munich.
The Union Pacific Railroad has been seriously damaged
BY rain storm. The Assistant Treasurer will pur-
chase 100000 Of bonds and sell S0OOO0 OF gold during
the month OF August = serious negro riot has oc-
CURED in CodsborOugh n. c., one man being killed and
several wounded. Two men have been carried over
Niagara Falls. === Two were drowned near Irovi-
dcnce by tho capsiziug OF their boat.
The Staten Island ferry-b Westdeld exploded her
boiler in Whehaslp, killing 45 and woundng 20 pas
sougers. ==- Gold, 49, 1l2i 1928. Thcrmome;cr-Sdt
urday. CO., 10, CO.; Sunday. 7O', 79'. &C..
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
THO SETTLEMENTS.

1t is roundly asserted by the enemies of Pro-
lection that we are producing no moro Cotton
Fabrics in this country than we did ten years
ago.
They also as rOundly assert that the Cotton
Manufacturers are obtaining higher prices and
making larger profits because of the Protection
afforded them by the present Tariff
Suppose this latter assertion were true, is it
not certain that more and more capital and
labor would be employed in this manufac-
turef Suppose there were profit Of one cent
per yard on the manufacture of Sheetings Qor
instance), would not that profit induce more
and moro people to make Sheetingsl Or has
a new law been set in operation which pre-
vents water running down hilli
Is it not clear that they err either in saying
that Protection increases the price of Cotton
Fabrics and the profit of making them, or in
saying that this manufacture is stationary if
not declining2
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

The statement that the change in the Span
ish Cabinet will not affect the administration
of Cuban affairs is rather dscOuraging, though
meant to be reassuring. The revolution in
Cuba began in the Fall of 1868; there is no
better prospect of its end now than there has
been at any time since it began. We have
had numbeTless announcements of new and
more drastic policy in the conduct of Spain
toward the rebels; and not few pompous
proclamations of the end of the insurrection.
If this latest report is true, there is an end of
Spanish hopes for an armed peace in Cuba.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

"Burleigh" writes from this city to The Boston
Journal that Presbyterian Church in san Fran
cisco has committee here looking about the minis
ter-narket in search of "a genuine sensation man."
If they can find one of the right sort, warranted to
fill the pews and keep them filed, they are ready to
pay $4,000 year, in gold we suppose, for the first
class shepherd. Summer is good time for the in
quiry for the shepherds be privately attacked in
their rural or seaside retreats away from the inu
ence of their congregations. 1t is said, however,
that cergymen who go from here to the golden re-
gions grow hOmesck. and hunger to cone back
again.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

which surrounds him with Odalisques,
slaves, and perfumes wiz furnish hi, sub
jects with food. When the advancing plague
extends to the capital and mcnaces the palace.
the rulers newly reused energies prove of lit
tie avail.
II is possible that this famine may yet en-
danger the Persian throne. Twice has Russia
crossed swords with the succes5ors of Nadir
Shah, and always wors.od them. Now only
PROSTATE people can oppose the soaihward
march of her troops, who must long TO see
the Persian Gulf as much a5 the Germans
soldiers did the broad Atlantic from the piers
of Dicppc.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

The announcement III the Official Jouvnol Of
Paris shat conference between Lord Gran
vile, Baron Won Beust, and President Thiers
has been arranged for September next at Yer
slilles, will cause some surprise. The London
Conference did not touch the question of the
future status of the Danubian provinces, which
IS likely to come up at the Versailles inter-
view. Russia has no part in the coming con-
fereuce and it may be surmised that the
activity and warlike attitude of the extreme
National party in that country, quickenipg
the apprehensiOns of Won Beust, may have
something to do with this new council.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

London dispatches announce the resignation
of the British ambassador to China, Sir Ruth
erfOrd AlcOck, who has held diplomatic posi-
ton in that country and Japan ever since 1874.
Mr. Alcock has been an advocate of the eco
Operative policy" in treating with China, in
opposition to that school of diplomats and
pubiicists who have favored the "gunboat
"policy.' He has not, however, been so un-
selfish and broad in his views as was the late
Sir Frederick Bruce, whose diplomatic labors
when associated with the lamented Bmlnganc
will always be gratefully remembered by
Americans in China. His successor Mr. Wade,
is an experienced Orientalist, but without
special weight of character.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

II is 50 easy to fan revolution in Mexico
that every friend of the much-woried Re-
public will be sorry to learn there is prOba-
bility of disturbance when Congress meets.
II is now reported that that body may declare
for Diaz, though we have all along been told
that Juarez is certainly elected. Furthermore,
Juarez. it is said, will not oppose Diaz by
force, but will oppose LerdO, in case the last
named candidate is declared elected. But
Juarez may not be able to control his parti-
sans; and the chances are that our neighbOrs
will have another civil war OH their hands
forthwith
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

A Boston correspondent gives us inmate
and careful survey of the political field in
Massachusetts,. 1t will ne seen that the Labor
Reformers are making considerable showing,
and that various other unessential isms are
getting upon their legs for the political race.
Looking over the list of semi political Organi-
cations in Massachusetts,, the very number and
variety of them is enough to warn the major
ity to prudence and vigilance in the coming
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

In The summing mp of the Subcommittee
on Ku-Klux and the digest of The facts estab-
lishcd by the whole investigation, made up by
the Washington resident Republican Executive
Committee, we have a very fair statement Of
tho condition of things in the South. The
Subcommittee spent four weeks in the coun-
try, taking testimony and seeing and hearing
for themselves. Their report, as summarized,
is before the country; and the facts therein
detailed together with the results of previous
Investigations, justify the conclusions arrived
Of by the Washington Committee. That the
irrcconclables of the South see mo hope for
them but through the success of the Demo-
cratic party is admitted; that these Outrages
are perpetrated in the interest of the Democ-
racy is too evident to admit OF a cayil; and
that Ku-Klux organization, working to
prevent the spread of Republicanism and
promote the interest Of the Democracy, does
exist in the South is a conclusion to which all
candid examination leads.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
The Springfield RCpub'ican s dispcascd with
the finding of jury, and thus demonstrates:

TIE Springfield Rcpub'ican * displca5od with
the finding Of a jury, and thus demonstrates:
"In the sentence imposed at Chicago yesterday uF0n
Alfred zclrenmcycr the Gumbclou murderer, Is afforded
fresh aud signal illustration Of the injurious operation
Of that Illinois statute which permits Juries n capital
cases. il they bring In verdict OF guilty to TX tho
penalty at hanging or imprisonment for lfo. Here was
"a man VINO had committed most cold-Doodcd murder
PERFORATED under circumstances Of remarkable traeh
cry aud cruelty his Identification and the proofs OF
his guilt were absolutely complete; and the jury
which brought in its verdict, fortnight ago,
could not by any possibility escape finding him guilty OF
murder in the frat degree. Aud yet the sentence which
for q new tflal hiNing in the time. been denied
was formally pronounced upon him yesterday. sihat
he shall be imprisoned in the pencntiary for the term
OF his natural life, with couple Of days solitary
nncmcnt every year. greater travesty OF justice
could hardly be imagined get It IL only what ia possible
rot TO say probable, I'm every murder case. The evil
effects Of this law already becoming apparent, and
tis most offensive illustration Of its evil possibilities
will not be likely to stop their growth"
Comments by The Tribune.-Since the rcspon-
sibity of adiudging the punishment belijtns
criminal must at any rate deyOlye on some
body, is it not probable that the jury who
heard the testimony, looking the culprt IN the
face for days, are better qualified to decide IN
the premises than an editor thousand miles
away, who has moi even read 1.-THE of what
the Jury heard sworn tOg Or might We better
dispense with law, courts, and juries, and AJAX
The RepuJHcnp TO award to every man his
righteous dUCf
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

Some passing notes on English politics, with
more detailed reference to the expected de-
feat Of the Army bill will be found in a
letter from our London correspondent. pub
hshcd to-day. 1t will be observed that he
refers to the probability that Purchase wOuld
be abolished by royal warrant, if Mr. Lowe;
instead of Mr.. Cardwell, were in the Wan
Office. Fortunately for Great Britain, we be-
Heve, what was possible with Lowe has been
done with Cardwell.
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

They do tell tough stories ont in Nebraska. Not
long since we had from there report of a tornado
which blew freight train thirty feet from the rail-
road track. And now wo arc told to believe that in
a severe storm west of Omaha the other day. quar-
ter of mile of track carried bodily orer teace
four feet high, landing distance in the prairie
Perhaps this is all right, but il must have been an
uncommOny strong fence
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31

Cable dispatches bring all the Orleans prince,
10 the front at once. The Count de Paris has
dined with royal honors" with the Duke de
Broglie, French ambassador at London. He
bss also written n letter in which he has cX-
pressed thc opinion that Count de ChamJOrd
(,therwise Henri W is the future King Of
Franc. whioh IS certainly kind of Paris. as I'e
New-York tribune., 1871-07-31
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