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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-15

.r;crinp. managing, and often dishonest ana
.,rrupt politicians. II il practically the ma
oh;,a by which half dozen men man
aoa a. many thousand. Here is no
,,o,ular choice. IL is the merest CANNON
=. sav there it, The people are not
,,i,bin gunshot OF it. The question really Is
,vbe,ber an intriguing ring of one party or
,ha other, archaeological and irresponsible,
hall select our judges, or an Executive elected
hv the people shall appoint them, subject 10
40 anproval of an elected Senate. That Is
The fairest statement of the question. In the
a-osont state of our politics no other presenta-
ton of 1t Is fair
This cobweb of the right of the people 10
elect their own officers having been brushed
away, it is simply question between Caucus
and Governor. One is as near the people as
the other. Which is most competent to select
the judicial officers of the Statef Through
which Of these delegated authorities shall APP
pointments comet That is the plain simple
question: IL ought not to be difficult to an
swer. Tor we arc entirely safe in saying that
while New-York has never had Gov
ernor who had so little self-respect
and sense of responsibility as to appoint o
VIGOROUSLY incompetent or corrupt or other
wise unfit man to the bench. we have had
and are continually having in both parties
political leaders controlling caucuses and die
tating nominations, with whom political
services were always the first and fitness the
very last consideration. One has but to run
back over the record of our Governors on the
one hand, and take note of our ward politicians
on the other TO discern the difference between
the two methods and decide which is prefer
able.
Apropos of the discussion OF an elective
judiciary, attention may properly be called to
the negotiations now going on between two
factions of the Democratic party of this city,
Tan,many and Apollo Hall, for division of
the official spoils, including the Judges to be
elected. Apollo Hall, by its Committee, tells
Tammany how many Judges of the Supreme,
Superior, and Marine Courts it wants" and
Tammany answers, saying how many it will
"give.n 1t is pure matter of bargain
ing between the managers of these two fac
tons. The people have no voice in the
matter No consideration of fitness enters
into it; it is simply division of judicial
Offices Is it necessary in addition to this to
describe the men who "run" these political
machines and their fitness to select judges for
the peoplef How much of wrong would it
be to free government and popular institu-
tons to take the selection of our highest
judicial officers from these governing classes
and mt it in the hands of q responsible
Executive, subject to approval by an elect
ed Senate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-15
THE DEBT OF LOUISI4NA.

Mr.. Kellogg of Louisiana has published in
The Financ,er, as information useful to In
"yestors,n an official statement of the debt Of
that State, and accompanies it with the asser-
ton that it is in every way complete. The
table, which does not differ materially from
other official exhibits that have been from
time to time promulgated, shows that the
State has now out bonds amounting to S22,-
302. 800. Injunctions against S5,594OOO OF this
have been issued by the courts of the State !;
on the remainder the interest has been paid
up to Sept. l.
Tbe value of this Louisiana debt statement
would be greatly increased If it told the whole
truth about the finances of the State. One
form of State indebtedness, and by no means
the least, either in importance or amount Is
entirely omitted. 1t has been the custom both
of the present Administration in Louisiana
and of its predecessor to settle claims against
its Treasury by issuing warrants which, as
the Auditor and Treasurer are generally I'M
able to pay them, and refuse to redeem them
when they can, constitute a kind of paper
money for favored officials to speculate in.
The amount of these outstanding warrants
has never been made known to the public, but
is variously estimated at from five to twenty
million dollars. Whenever the Kellogg Gov
ernmept get together little more money than
ia required to pay the current interest, they
sell il at auction and take pay in warrants
issued during the present year. One of those
sales was advertised yesterday. Northern in
vestors are not very likely, in the light of past
experience, to put much money into the bonds
of Southern States which are still under
Garnet Bag rule, and nobody will be deceived
NV any of the partial exhibits put forth by
the desperate Adventures who have ruined
co,tbern credit.
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THE Aston LIBRARY.

The Christian Union, last week, contained a
Grave and well-consdered article, which we
are sincerely glad to echo, in rebuke Of the
persistent attempts of portion of the press
to cast discredit upon some of the literary
trusts of this community. Chief among the
targets at which these wanton missiles are
directed is the Aston Library, as to which we
desire to say few earnest words. 1t is very
easv-nothing easier-to find fault, and having
an accidental grievance, or having none, to
complain of the shortcomings OF those who
administer such trust. 1t costs nothing to
carp at the inadequacy of the dead Mr.. Astor's
original endowment. or the living Mr.. Astor's
contributions TO its support. The critic as
sumes that he knows the exact amount ut the
disposal of the dead and the living, and.
ignoring tho thousands OF unknown claims on
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THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

II is the regular report of the "of year" in
politics-general apathy. In the States from
which we have any returns the vote is much
smaller than last year, and so little interest is
manifested in the result that but little pains
seem to have been taken to collect and for
ward the returns.
Oregon, which held special Congressional
election on Monday to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death OF Representative Joseph
G. Wilson, Republican, has chosen the Hon.
James W. Nesmith, Democrat, who was Senator
from that State from 1861 to 1857 War Dem
ocrat of great personal popularity. His ma
jority is about 1000.
Returns from Pennsylvania indicate the cleo
ton of the Administration ticket by large
majority though reduced vote. James r.
Ludlow, the Democratic candidate for Judge
of the Supreme Court, runs ahead of his ticket
in most of the counties, in consequence of the
dissatisfaction with Judge Gordon, the Repub-
iican nominee; but the latter is undoubt-
eddy elected by decided majority. The
circumstances of the refusal to allow an ex-
animation of the Treasurer's accounts, which
in almost any other State would have proved
fatal to the prospects of the candidate, do
not seem to have disturbed Treasurer Mackey
at all. He is reelected by large majority.
receiving in Philadelphia over $4,000 majority,
while the candidate for Supreme Judge on the
same ticket had but 10,697. The Republican
candidate for City Treasurer has 1S,762 major
ity over the Democratic and Reform candi-
dates. AS predicted in The TRIBUNE yester-
day, the Reform movement made very little
show, and proved itself an insignificant
element in the election. The people of
Philadelphia and of the State seem to be fond
of Ring rule. and, like the eels in tho fable,
quite enjoy being skinned. Tastes differ.
The first returns from Ohio show consid-
cradle Democratic gains, and the Democrats
had hopes, if the same ratio of gam is held
throughout the State as in the counties heard
from, of the election of Allen for Governor,
though the vote for Noyes, Republican, in
Hamilton County. shows Republican gain
over the last election, when the county was
carried by the Democrats. The latest returns
received at the hour of going to press give
the Legislature to the Democrats and make
the election, of Allen probable. The carrying of
the Legislature by the Democrats giyes them
the United States Senator, to succeed Thur
man.
The returns from Iowa alone show heavy
vote, which is Occasioned by the coalition of
Democrats, Liberals, and Farmers upon one
ticket against the regular Administration can
didates. The Administration ticket is believed
to be elected, however, though the returns
are incomplete.
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THE ECHOES or THE ALLIAHCE.

The great Congress of the orthodoxy OF
Professionalism has held it's ten days session.
and has adjourned The delegates have gone
TO fill the brief interval between their COM
pleted labors and their return to their homes,
by visits to the Capital and to some OF our
nripcipal cities. Before the vibration OF their
prayers and hymns has died away, before the
parlands which welcomed them in Association
building have withered, the City OF New 1orK
extends its tolerant hospitality to their re-
ligious antipodes, and the weary reporters
who last week recorded the utterances Oh
bishops, deans, and doctors of the stralghtest
sects are now sharpening their pencils LOT the
meetings of the most radical and earnest
enemies of. doctrinal theology. In the con-
ference of the Free ReligiOnists' this week,
in Cooper Institute, the boldest and clearest
forms of denial will probably alternate with
the vaguest utterances of mystical speculation
There will be something, perhaps, to shock
and much to bewilder those minds which have
been accustomed to a straighter tradition. But
while it is scarcely possible that such import
ant practical results can follow this Conven-
ton as those which may reasonably be sup
Dosed to flow from the Evangelical Alliance,
it will hardly be denied that the same desire
for truth and for the welfare of the race ami
mates the few dozen acute scholars and
preachers in the Cooper Institute, which gave
such enormous vigOr and vitality to the en-
thusiastic thousands which filled last week all
our public halls to OVERLOOKING
1t would seem that in this contrast of num-
bers lies the most evident lesson of the hour.
The minds that feel no absolute need of a
personal religion are few and in many ways
exceptional. The mass of mankind, whatever
may be their intellectual characteristics find
it hard to live without some immediate and
sensible dependence upon higher power.
Heinrich Heine expressed the cry of human
nature when he said he must have "a God to
"whom he could talk in the sleeplessness of
midnight" Yet it is in vain to expect una
nimity upon this all-impOrtant question. There
always have been men who naturally turn to
authority, and others who az naturally refuse
and deny it. The one camp will strive to
exalt the Importance and worth. of individual
Judgment, and the other, through whatever
changing phases of protest revolt or develop
ment, will inevitably tend to come together, in
the unity of religious brotherhood, of which
the highest and most benefcent form which
the world has as yet been vOuchsafed is his
tOrcal Christianity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-15
WALL STRHEI.

Yesterday seemed the worst day since the
crash came. In the Vanderbilt stocks alone
the fall indicated q shrinkage in values, in
five hours, of ten million dollars. In the
same stocks the shrinkage since the outbreak
of the panic amounts in all to about fifty
millions-say eighteen millions each ON Central
and Lake Shore, and fourteen on Western
Union. lasu .t.' .-r .H. ..
We deplore the wild panic which thus sac
ri6ces stocks at less than their clear, bedrock
value. But we have no soothing sirups to
Offer The imitation in these and nearly all
the other securities commonly dealt In in
Wall Street has been unreasonable. The enor-
nous prestige of Mr.. Vanderbilt has carried
everything he touched to prices which those
ON the inside knew to be utterly without JUS
ti6caton. The reaction was inevitable, aad it
goes as far to the othor extreme. For the
wild panic that has accompanied the fall and
for the needless and wicked sacrifices that are
entailed, we have mainly to thank the
obstinate old nan who refused to save the
Union Trust Comoany. By paying
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-15

FILLACIES OF An ELECTIVE JUDICIARY
No doubt the specious arguments of the
managing politicians in favor of an elective
judiciary will have some weight with people
who are really DESTROYS of having honest ad-
ministration and pure and upright bench.
The clap trap-for it is hardly anything else
about trusting the people to choose all the
officers of government judicial as well as
legislative and executive, has taking sound,
and good many people are deceived by it.
There is, of course the plain answer
and denial of common sense and ex-
perience, but most people prefer listen
ing to demagogues logic to taking the
better counsel of their own observation and
common sense. So when the demagogues,
the trading politicians who hold judgeships
like all other offices as part of their stock in
trade, for barter or sale, lift up their hands
in horror at the thought of taking away the
right of the people to choose their own
officers. the average voter takes the shock
and repeats that it will not do, that it shows
distrust of the people and lack of faith In
popular government, and all that sort of thing.
and refuses to take the appointment of judges
out of the caucus to put it into the Executive
Chamber.
1t is beautiful theory that free people
can well be trusted to select their judicial
officers. IL is simple and pretty, and aignifes
politics. while it ennooles human nature. Had
we never tried any experiments in that line,
or had any experience with caucuses and
political machinery, it would be hard to answer
it consistently with belief in the capacity
of man for self-government. Z But facts
outweigh theories. This matter of choosing
judges is a question between two. 1t is
either Caucus or Executive. Not by any
means as the politicians put it, a question of
taking away the rights of the people. The
People do not act any more directly in the
one case than in the other. An elective judi
ciary is no more Immediately chosen by the
people than one appointed by the Er-
ecptiye. In both cases-and we. beg the
voter to consider the statement care
fully--the selection is one remove from
the people. Your caucus is not the People
very far from 1t. The caucus or primary
meeting, or whatever you may please to call
it, is very small fraction of one party-a
still smaller one of the people 1t has q sort
of power delegated, or assumed to be dele
gated, to it by the party, aud is itself man
aged and directed always-and we mean
aisav when we say it-by very tow In
. 4 ~ l.
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Netu+a(ork Daily gribm,1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
-
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER is, 1873.
II RIPL f S I'll r E II.

A misunderstanding has arisen between Austria and
Turkey regard the course OF the former toward
Servis aud Bosnia. NJ. Theirs will give dinner TO
ms political friends in the French Assembly. - The
insurgent Cartagena went out to attack the
Government feet but finding 1t prepared they retired
Coutterss is accused OF cowardice BY the Insurgents
- In the BaEane trial intercepted dispatch.
stating that the Prussans would not march TO Paris
was road 81 There was destructive hurricane In
the sosthern part Of Hayti. 49,
TIC election returns from Ohio and Pennsylvania,
which came very slowly, indicated Democratic gains
aud Republican victories by reduced Eajorites, al
Enough in Ohio Democratic victory Is considered pos
sible The Republican msjOrites In Philadelphia on
different officers ranged from 10000 to $4,000 Nesmth
tDem ia probably elected to gress from Oregon.
The foreign delegates TO the Evangelical Alliance visited
washington and we're welcomed by Dr. Sunderland, Dr.
Tnaay Gov Shepherd, and President Grant - The
IreAsdent has appointed Nov. 90 Thanksgiving Day.
= Tho Boston Merchants Grange refuses 70 be dis
banded and intends 20 organize additional oranges
- carhouse at Boston, with I've passenger cars,
aod stable at Gofstown. N. H., with IL blood horses
we're destroyed by nre. 80 Forty ak additional vel
Low fever deaths are reported atlaemphis. pps~S
There was heavy decline In stocks, six firms sos-
pesded aud hnanciers apprehended another panic The
Vanderbilt stocks declined with the whole list The
President wrote letter to banker repeating views
previously expressed by hjm.-=The Free Religious
Association was addressed by the Rev. o. b. Froth-
ingham. and others 60 The American Woman
suffrage Association met In Brooklyn. go
Tho Long Island Savings Bank Of Brooklyn
VISA robbed OF securities valued at $4,000.
s-zs railway collision occurred on the New.
Jcrsey Central Railroad Bergen Point, BY which
tbroe persons were injured So At a meeting
Of the Bar Association, William NJ. Eyarts
offered resolutions fsyoring the appointment Of
Judsos ---z The TSmmsny Judiciary Committee
,p.ds Nominations The attempted coalition between
y.mmany and Apollo Hall has tailed. So Thermome-
Ger. ulo. COZ, sap go Gold, 1pSa 1854 los.. ..
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his debt. The sum he declined to
pay-though on that cventful night
his friends and followers labored with him till
midnight to persuade him to do this simple
iustice-was q million and three-quarters.
Those who know what share he holds of the
stocks that 90 by his name estimate his own
losses, by reason of that nights willfui refusai,
at nearly or quite twenty Millions lie has Iao
his reward.
II cannot be possible that the present stare
of affairs in the Street can continue. The pro
posa to permit on the Exchange Stoch
transactions "for account with clearancos
twice month, will, if adopted, afford marhea
relief for the present, whatever may DO tnouenS
Of its ultimate effect. The brokers themsei'os
cannot long continue the panic-strichcu 'J",
FALLING Western Union at AZ, or Delaware, haon
.wonna and Western at SO. Small capi'an''
are likely to improve the opportunity ioi ~,
Their purchases, and those VINO 10 no' VIZ
oixtv DAVIS hence, be bewildered at tneii V"
toIIv in failing to see the chance I'LL 10 ''""
passed. -. ans, r,oors a
snesdv resumption of ballooning. IL wni pc
or ought to be-many year before the aver
aoe stooks touch the prices OF month
aoo. We have widespread distress, enor-
nous depreciation of values, general hnan-
cial disturbance, and Government pitt
ably helpless. We forbear criticism on Presi-
dent Grants letter and other outgivings. But
we invite all financial men who know the diff
ference between printed paper and money TO
take note of the talk about further watering
of our currency az remedy for the present
evils and to consider the common enect Oh
water when thrown into Cauldrons of boiling
oil
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their generosity. has not the least dlinculty Ia
deciding how much the one ought 20 nave
given and the other ought to give. Ina.
which people of this sort never seem 10 thihh
of. is how much, in the way OF voluntary
benefaction. has been done, and what DEBT
of gratitude il due. Fancy what New-fork
would he without the Aston Library just as it
is, The great metropolis of this Union, at a
period not more remote than nineteen years,
had no students library. There were circu-
lating Libraries, but not one of the only kind
that careful, patient study needs. Every other
city was ahead of us. The Franklin Library
Of Philadelphia however, students
but circulating library-was the growth OF
more than a century. The Boston Libraries
grew up under the protection of her Univer-
sity. Then was it that NewYOrk merchant
created great institution for us, and not
only has it gone on, growing, slowly perhaps.
though surely, but its example has stimulated
another Newly Yorker to emulate and it may
be excel it, and in less than two years we
can boast of what no community in the world
can, two great Libraries founded exclusively
by individual munifcence--the Astor and the
Lenox.
1t is of the actual rather than of the pros
pectiye institution that we care now to speak.
Its distinctive feature, it seems to us, Is the
strict fidelity with which the trust that Mr.
Astor created has been administered. With
nothing but conjecture and ascertaiDed results
to guide U.s. we are led to the conclusion that,
to this very hour, there has been no departure
from the line of duty which the benefactor
prescribed. And who shall complain of this !
In this our sorrowful day of trusts betrayed
and confidence misplaced, is it opportune to
ask these Trustees to depart from line OF
conduct which is so clearly markedf To ask
them to buy more books than they can afford
to pay fOr-to open the Library at night when
its resources are only sufficient to keep 1t open
eight hours of daylight-and. finally, to scold
Mr.. Aston because, in the exercise OF sound
Judgment, he chooses to take his own time and
to select the object of his benefactionsf
All we know and feel is that VIC have in
New York an institution where in less than
twenty years half million of students have
found home, where most OF the standard
works of our own and other languages are ac-
cessible, where there is a scholarly atmosphere,
and refined and gentle association, and where
every want is met by intelligent courtesy.
This is quite enough for US, and we are in
perfect accord with The Christian Union in Its
high and discriminating praise when 1t says:
during it's brief existence hundreds OF thou
"sands of scholars now scattered In all parts
"of the world, have been aided and enriched
"by its treasures; and in ways innumerable,
"and with ever increasing efficiency, is society
benefited by the existence of this silent,
modest, but most bountful institution"