New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-01


vessel. She certainly will; for Boston is CIV
ing the most serious attention to the cheap
and convenient handling and transshipment
of freight which New-YOrk so obstinately
neglects. The enterprise and sagacity of the
old w-England seaport will tell In the long
run.
There is fear that the recent disturbance
in Louisiana did not end with the occurrences
reported in the dispatches published yesterday.
1t is stated that three, If not SIX,
of the colored prisoners never reached
the Jail to which they were being taken; In
fact that they were deprived of their guard
and lynched by some mysterious Texans who
took a good deal of interest in Louisiana
affairs.
Our Paris letter deals with various problems
arising out of the recent election in the de-
partment of Calvados. So far as the Republic
cans are concerned the indications of disaster
are no more threatening now than they were
several months ago. In regard to the royal
lists, however the case is very different. The
election returns show that while the Republi-
can vote is about the same as it was in 1872,
a very large portion of the royalsts have gone
over to the Bonapartists. These figures them
selves point to a moral which it Is easy enough
to deduce.
1t is q remarkable tribute to the character
of Mr.. Carl Schurz that so much of the inter-
est which is felt all over the country in the
New Party movement in Missouri resolves
itself into an anxiety about his reelection to
the Senate. But to Mr.. Schurz himself, and
to all sound political thinkers, the question is
not O personal one. The Peoples Reform
organization is a revolt against the tyranny of
Rings and Conventions, and whether it imme-
diately result in securing for Missouri again
the services of her distinguished Senator OF
not, it will equally command our sympathies.
Mr.. Schurz, in any event, will not long be
spared from public life; the time has too great
need of him.
Senator Spencer and Representative Hayes,
both of Alabama, are ready to sustain Sena-
tor Patterson's testimony as to the terrible
state of affairs in the South. If these stories
of outrages are true, it is really unfortunate
that the news should come North only through
such bitter paItisans, and it would add much
to the weight of their evidence if the dates
and scenes of the disturbances were given
more enthusiastically. Whether true or false,
we may expect charges of conspiracy and dis
order to come thicker and faster until every
State has held its Fall election. In the mean
time nothing can be lost by carefully weighing
every statement from the South via Wash
ington, and reserving judgment until its cred
Utility is established or Overthrown.
Mr.. William Hastings is q new church re-
former whose methods are enough to make Sa-
yonaroa, Luther, and Francis de Sales sit up
in their graves and rub their eyes. He has
begun crusade against clerical uDfaithfulness
by means of a suit in equity. The Old North
Church, he alleges, on Fulton, William, and
Ann-sts., has ceased to devote its revenues to
the purposes contemplated by its founders, and
has turned them over to the "profit of few
erich and pharisaical church hoodlums !"
while the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church
on Liberty-st. has done still worse, for it has
become an ungodly post-offce. Mr.. Hastings
prays the United States Circuit Court to set
all these things right, and in particular to pro-
vide that he may have the privilege of sitting
in pew No. &c, ground floor, of the Old North
Church. and hearing divine worship according
to the faith and form of the Church of the
Netherlands, conducted in the language of the
Neither Dutch. If his prayer should be
granted what a commotion there would be
among Church hoodlums."
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MIR McCULLOCH ON THE CURRENCY.