New-York tribune., 1872-07-17

evidently engaged in a conspiracy TO take the
life of one of the Khedives officers VINO was
wounded in tho late aaray with Buffers party
Our estimable representative at the Egyptian
Court has left suddenly; perhaps he is coming
home TO assist in the promised reformation Oh
the Civil Service.
Humane people will be glad to learn that
tbe Cuban Government have given the Chinese
peons on the island permission to return to
their native land. Satisfaction, however, will
he qualified by the additional statement that
these miserables must comply with "certain
" prescribed conditions" before they will be
allowed to depart The Chinese have been
kent in Cuba, as the Israelites were held IN
Egypt, on one pretext and another, until the
civilized world regards them as the slaves OIL
wealthy planters.
A dispatch from the South Sea Islands re-
ports that Commander Meade of the U. o.
man-of- war Narragansett, in behalf Oh niS
Government, has taken possession OF Iutuila'
one of the Samoan group or Navlgators
Islands. There has been an American colony
on these islands for some time, ana urgent
applications have been made to our Govern
ment for protection and mali facilities Inc
coIonists grow cotton, sugar, coffee, and otner
snh-tronical products, and claim that their
exports should be exempt from duty at Amer
lean ports.
With Summer travel come the inevitable
Summer letters. To-day we print some OF
these tantalizing screeds which bring faint
echoes of seaside and mountain to the weary,
housekeeping citizen. The range Is wlde
enoueh; one correspondent writes from the
salt margin of the south shore OF Massachu-
setts, and another from the Blue Ridge Oh
Virginia. We shall have more of such as the
Summer wears apace but these pleasant bits
of hohday-makng are commended to the III
curing reader who contemplates going some
"Where to rest"
A change of Ministry in the British Colony
of Victoria, Australasia, has suddenly upset
the promising scheme to connect Victoria
with the American mail service. The out
going Premier, Mr.. Duffy, had concluded
negotiations with Mr.. w. II. Webb, who con-
trolls the line of steamers plying between San
Francisco and Australian ports, but his sue
cessor puts an end to the business and pro-
poses a mail service with England by the way
of the Cape of Good Hope. This action seems
most suicidal to the growing interests of the
colony; it sets mail and fast freight carriage
back to the old slow days.
Some of the Grant newspapers in San Fran
cisco, shifting defeat in the air, have already
begun to cast about them for scapegoat.
These timOrOus journals, according to dis
patch, recommend that Mr.. Geo. c. Gorham,
who is a member of the Grant National Com
mittee as well as Secretary of the U. 5. Sen
ate. be kept out of the California canvass, or
the State will be lost. OF course, there is
trace of local quarrel in this; but as Mr.. Cor
ham, if he has a spark Of spirit, will not be
thus scared out of the field, it will be left for
these far-seeing protestants to say, when Cali
fornia goes for Greeley and Brown, There
"now, we told you so"
The Liberals have begun their campaign in
North Carolina with vigor and enthusiasm.
They have not it is true, the United States
Treasury to draw from; as have their Oppo-
nents, but they have all the logic and justice
of the case on their side. In the speech of
ex-senator Doolittle, delivered at Raleigh, the
North Carolina people found the keynote of
the Campaign-Decentraliza and Equal
Rights The people Of the South have long
enough been cursed by centralized despotism
to appreciate the benefits of a liberal govern
ment; and the arguments and Illustrations of
Mr.. Doolittle will be influential in showing
them the way to secure these blessings.
1t was repeatedly urgeddu the last session
of Congress, that the delay in the revision of
the Tariff was much more disastrous to many
industrial interests of the country than prompt
and Intentionally hostile action could be. The
facts gathered by Virginia correspondent
among the tobacco-growers, and herewith pub
Ished, show how true this was of one branch
of industry. The great tobacco manufactur-
ing towns of Virginia are just recovering from
the depression which Congress caused, and If
they encounter no more such absurd and
senseless decisions as the last dctum of the
Internal Revenue Bureau on bonded ware
houses, the growers and manufacturers antici-
pate prosperous year.
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