New-York tribune., 1872-03-13

the infamous scheme of the so-called Southern
Improvement Company 10 throttle the petro-
Ieum industry of Pennsylvania. The monopo-
lists. who thought they had control of every
Ialroad outlet of the oil regions, are prac-
ticaly put into chancery, and are not likely to
bc taken out very soon. This time popular
judienaiiOn has been too much for monopoly
William Foster, sentenced to be hanged for
The murder of Avery ID. Putnam, is to have
new trial, Judge Barrett having granted stay
of proceedings on the ground that the nature
Of his otfense was not duly considered when
the penalty was fixed. This is another fact in
favor of the proposition that murdererS are
now more likely TO escape all punishment OF
thcir crimes than if there were no death pen
atty on the statute book.
The Washington gOssips are full OF stories
about the pay Col. FOrney is to receive for his
latest political demonstrations. We prefer, for
the present, to doubt that he has already
been rewarded with a written promise of the
Postmaster Generalship, and wish that his
uolitiral course sprang so clearly from dlsln-
trrcstcd aud patriotic motives, growing out OF
his own recent declarations OF political belief,
that credencc would be impossible.
The announcement that the President has
declared his intention 10 force his nomination
nj Philadelphia, whether there shall then ap-
pear q reasonable prospect OF his election or
not, is made in our Washington dispatches on
the authority of leading Congressman and
warm supporter of the President. We should
like, in spite of this warrant to doubt it;
since it is a saddcning thing TO find man
ready to rend the Republican party in pieces
not for any question of party principle OF
reform in party practice, but to secure addi-
tional reward TO himself.
A little incident in the House of Represent
otiycs. Yesterday, illustrated the absurdity OF
trhing with Amnesty, as Congress is now doing.
IL has been agreed that the members shall
,,ass ND to the Clerks desk the names of
rebels whom they wish restored TO the rights
of citizenship, TO be passed upon without the
lists being read But this was with the I'M
Outstanding that none of the class specially
excepted by Act of Congress should be so
favored by any member. In the last list OF
candidates, the name of eX-GOv. Vance OF
North Carolina was discovered, ,tand, as he Is
one of the "proscribed" rebels, hubbub was
created There is something pitiful in the
fact that this sharp cutting Of corners and
.odgng about is necessary in order rightly to
divide the nicely shaded classes of rebels. All
tl,is would be avoided by single statesman
ike act-Uniyersal Amnesty.
We praised Gen. Grant cordially for his ap-
pojntmcnt of Gen. Longstreet to the surveyor
rLip Of the Port Of New-Orleans. We wlsb IL
were equally just and fit to praise the snc-
cessor Gen. Grant has just appointed but
,bat unlike the late incumbent ne should DC
Il newcomer, that he should he member OF
the Casey Ring which has 80 a's-
,ractod Louisiana and disgraced lhe Az
,ninistraiion, brOther-in-law OF Gen.
Butler, for whose adhesion 10 the
faith it seems worth while to take HeSn
Ioud, and an owner OF tho only tnich-"nu-
thin Administration journal in Ne"-OHcan$