New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-22

Tennessee. An extensive cracker bakery has been
burned in Baltimore - James L. HASTE was exam
iued before the Customhouse Investigating Committee
on Saturday. 60 Iowa has abolished capital punish
ment.
The Court o; Appeals has rendered an important de-
cision in the Broadway widening matter. g. Father
McNierney was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop OF
Albany - The jury disagreed in the Fanny Hyue
murder case. The butchers held meeting TO de-
for exposing the sale of foul meats
60 Gold lili. 1lli Thermometer, 660' 6O'' So.
The Liberal Republican Convention meets
at Cincinnati on Wednesday, May 1st-nOt
Monday, May 9th, as has somewhere been
stated.
The memorial of the Central Underground
Railroad Company herewith published, chal-
lenges the attention of the Legislature and
the People. Let all parties be heard, and let
all have fair play.
The Terwilliger and Cushman scandals have
resulted in a report from the Senate Select
Committee which recommends the total abOli-
ton of the present custom of buying stamps
in gross without any check on anybody This
can hardly be called system, and the least
the Senate can do is to erect some barrier
between needy or greedy clerks and an I'M
limited supply of postage stamps.
Appearances to-day do not indicate any anne
Iteration of the variances which the unfortu-
nate Tariff bill of the Ways and Means Com
mttee stirred up in the House. Each side,
and there are more than two, is preparing for
vigorous contest. The result threatens to be
that great deal of precious time will be
wasted, great many new asperites aroused,
and little beneficial change in existing laws
secured
Iowa, always one of the most progressive
States of the Republic, has substantially abol
ished the death penalty. A bill to this effect was
passed by the Assembly some weeks since,
and now the Senate, by vote of twenty nine
to fourteen, has cOncurred therein. There re-
main some minor points of difference-as we
understand it-between the two Houses; but
it seems unlikely that these can prevent an
agreement which will destroy the gallowo for
ever in Iowa.
Without caring to entertain much sympathy
with that class of politicians with whom Mr..
Decoy Bliss, jr., and his confreres affiliate, it
must be acknowledged that that ingenious
gentleman has accomplished but little by
parading his Convention rOughs in the Custom
house Committee. On Saturday, James l..
Hastie testified before that Committee and
showed the evidence of Peterkin, Mr.. Bliss
pet witness, to be wild romance. As Peter
kin claimed to be a deserter, his testimony
should not have been so much trusted by the |
Custom-hOuse men.
Brazil does not appear to have acted en- |
tirely in good faith with her late ally in |
settling the Paraguayan difficulty. The |
Argentine Republic and thetEmpire of Brazil /
were firm allies in the campaign against I'M
fortunate Paraguay, and the Brazilian Gov
ornment Constant iterated that its only
desire was to crush Lopez. The war is over,
and, according to TRIBUNE correspondent at
Rio de JaneirO, Brazil has concluded separate
treaty with her late foe, leaving her ally to
shift for herself. This piece of sharp dplo-
macy naturally is making new trouble.
One of the Administration journals appears
10 have entered upon the arduOus work of
demolishing the personal character of leading
Liberal Republicans, attacking each seriatim.
Yesterday, it reached Mr.. John d. Defrees of
Indiana, and Col. Fred Hecker of Illinois. Mr..
the organ finishes him as a perfect. Iincnbus
con the Republican party and chronic Office
"seeker.n And Col Hecker, the German patriot,
is turned off as "a garrulous old man, fond
Of notoriety.p This style of tactics may
help reGlect President Grant; it certainly
will not damage the cause of Liberal Re- !
publicans. -GIy. ttf,i |
A final decision in the matter of tue Broad
way Widening dispute has been reached. The
Court of Appeals has affirmed the decision OF
the Special Term in setting aside the con-
frmation of the report of the Commissioners
of Estimate and Assessment. No point is
made in '.he decision as to the sufliciency OF
The grounds on which the Court set aside the
confirmation, nor as to the power Of the Legs
lature to pass an act for the purpose OF va