New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-26

nv the Administration managers as OF no use
in Presidential campaign. The absence OF
on, och wholesome restraint as that proposed
onoblod the Custom house infOrmers to swoop
do,yn on the books of an importing house,
Yesterday; and it will be interesting to see
how the result of the case can be made TO
strengthen public opinion in favor OF abolish
ing this sort Of espionage.
The Pope has been talking very freely
about the action Of the German Government
in depriving the Jesuits of Germany Of the
rights of citizens. According to report, he
invited a delegation to unite in praying that
the storm may fall that shall overthrow
"this colossus" as he calls Bismarck. The
Pope also says that he has asked the German
Premier for an explanation of his conduct,
but has received no explanation. If the Holy
Father is always as free with his denuncla-
tons of Bismarck as on this occasion, 1t
would be surprising if he got any answer
TO his appeals.
"The sweet note of the pistol" has been
such familiar sound in California we should
not be surprised that the advanced woman
editor of the organ of the woman suffragists
in San Francisco, Mrs. Stevens, is reported
to have drawn pistol on the chairman OF an
anti-suffrage meeting when demonstrated with
on account of unruly conduct. The women
reformers will only lose friends by such ex-
hibitiOns of rOwdyism, but charitable people
will reflect that San Francisco men are some
what responsible for the lessons taught San
Francisco women.
In the trial of Judge McCunn, resumed at
! Albany, yesterday, evidence was introduced
for the purpose of showing that the accused
had been guilty of irregular and corrupt prac-
tees. The special case brought up was that
of Clark VS.. Bininger, in which 1t has been
charged that McCunn issued an order appoint
ing a receiver out of Court, and influencing
| the selection of counsel for his own purposes.
The evidence introduced was direct enough
as to the free-and-easy manner OF the Judges
proceedings; whether criminal intent and mo-
tive can be proved is, of course, quite another
ouestion. The Senate decided, as in the Prln-
die case that evidence relating TO an alleged
Offense committed by the accused before the
beginning of the present term of office was
admissible. This ruling is important as 1t
| affects other cases than that of Judge McCunn.
Illinois will have to-day, one of the great
est political demonstrations which the Prairie
State has known since the historic days of
Lincoln and Douglas. The Liberal Repub-
lican and Democratic Conventions which are
to assemble at Springfield will be the occasion
for such a manifestation of the dominant
Liberal sentiment of the State as is not often
witnessed anywhere. Illinois has always been
in the lead iii the cause Of progressive polit-
ical movements, and in the present campaign
seems sure to be among the foremost in en-
thusiasm and whOle-heartedness. The great
gatherings to-day will probably be a fair in
dication of the spirit which prevails in the
whole Northwest as well as in Illinois. 1t is
not often that such o great political crisis
calls men together; and it is not often that
such an array of names, brilliant in the his
tory of the country, are found in the group of
orators who are to grace the occasion and
speak to the people.
The long letter from Prof. Agassiz which we
publish to-day will add not less to his fame
as a conscientious scientific observer than to
| the glacial theory of which he is the chief
expounder 1t is not too much to say that
he has found the Alps of the New World for
in the close likeness between the mountain
scenery of Patagonia and that of Switzerland
which he so glOwingly depicts, he has recOg-
nized something more than a mere similarity of
appearances and shown that the same great
agency which gave peculiarities of shape and
characteristics of surface to the mountains of
the old world, has left equal imprints at the
extremity of our continent. 1t is in pleasant
contrast with the stormy days of geology when
the advocates of the Neptunian and Plutonian
theories waged bitter wOrdy warfare on each
other, to find Prof. Agassiz taking pains to de-
scribe his discovery of salt water inland
pool and its inhabitants, and stating frankly
that its existence offers strong proof in favor
of the coast elevation theory, which is the
rival of his own glacial hypothesis in explain
ing the phenomena of that distant region.