New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-20
disaster, will not be considered as frst-rate
illustration of French seamanship.

Boston Republicans stand great deal of
Presidential snubbing, but some of them seem
to think they have had enough. The Commit
tee who went to Washington to demonstrate
against initiation won't back after as cavalier
treatment as that accorded to the anti-Sim-
mons men. They propose to organize against
financial dishonesty in high places, and the
programme which they announce is emnently
business like and thorough. They are going
into o new campaign with the intention OF
starting popular movement against imitation
and reputation.
Almost every new election to fill a vacancy
in the French Assembly conveys tangible
proof to the Monarchsts in that body, that,
if they wish to maintain their power, they
must restrict the right of suffrage among Their
constituents. The letter from Paris, which IS
published on our third page to-day, goes 10
show that the Duke de Broglie comprehends the
necessity of prompt measures in order to re-
tain the power which has been usurped. In
the mean time it seems that the inefhcient
| government which he is DESTROYS OF organ
ling, will have to bear the responsibility Tor
commercial embarrassments much greater than
ANYTHING seen in NJ. Thiers's term, even d.
rectly after the close of the war.
1t looks very much as il the Brooks faction
in Arkansas would come off victorious The
courts are so far with the head OF that party
| and, so far as popular sympathy is involved
it is with him. Bakers friends were once the
most powerful enemies Of Brooks they have
left their old love and now cling to the man
who has seized on the Gubernatorial office.
| This is rough sort of poetical JUS
tice, perhaps /; and we cannot yet say
how much real justice may be under
meath the sharp fnesse by which
Brooks gained his unsteady seat. 1t should
be borne in mind, however, that accounts di-
rectly from Little Rock by telegraph arc col
ored by the Baxter interest. Those by way
of Tennessee have so far been more on the
other side, but possibly not less PARTISAN The
National Government has kept its hands out
of this fracas with commendable GOODNESS.
A city pastorate of forty years duration, in
our changeful American life. is something re-
markable. That of the Rev. DR.. VIM. Adams
of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church,
which was formally closed yesterday, has ex-
tended over a period beginning with Novem-
Der, 1884. How much labor, self-denying he
roism and earnest Christian life have been
crowded into those years can never be told.
| A grateful and deeply touched congregation re-
ceiving his parting words, yesterday, attested the
hold which the retiring pastor has gained upon
his peOple; and his admirable sermon, which
we print elsewhere, shows what an eventful
chapter of history is that which is just closed
with this long pastorate. The growth of a
great city, the development of a nation, the
spread of a people, the vast increase of pow
erful denomination of Christians-are all COM
prised in the history of these forty years. 1t
is a pleasant reflection, however. that as this
eminent divine retires from the charge which
he has so nObly held. he goes, with his natural
powers undated, into another field of labor
where his intellectual culture, piety, and ex-
allied patriotism will find ample exercise after
| so many years of generous service.