New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-29

Judge Humphreys. We suppose Mr.. Harring-
ton must be waiting for next Thursday Win
good deal of eagerness.
Bisbop Potter of the Protestant Episcopal
Church puts his foot down firmly upon the
proposition for a Church Congress preliminary
TO the session of the General Convention In
this city next October. The Congress In ques-
ton is supposed by some to be designed W
organize the anti-rituaistic element In the
Convention, but Bishop Potter objects to 1t on
| broader grounds. His opinion Will have weight
with many persons, but the movement Tor a
| Congress has gone so far, and received the
sanction of so many influential ministers. that
il will undoubtedly DO held according to ap-
pointment.
Acknowledgement Williams is alarmed be-
cause of the outrages in the South and pro-
poses to 60 to Long Branch and tell the
President about them. With this news we
hear that Mr.. Frederick Douglass demands an
extra session of Congress. 1t is right for the
Attorney General to consult with the Presi-
dent about the matter, if the President can
spare moment for its consideration; but MIR.
Douglass's zeal misleads his judgment. A call
for an extra session of Congress might help
the Republican party materially by exaggera-
ton of the local disturbances in the South,
but an editor or politician not half so well in
formed as Mr.. Douglass ought to know that
nothing has occurred of which Congress could
properly take cognizance by new legislation.
| Existing laws cover every case, and what is
needed is that they shall be enforced.
| Another chapter of experiences in Iceland.
published this morning, carries on the story
of Bayard Taylor's brief sojOurn on that TO-
mantle island. Hekla, in its mantle of snow,
has been silent for many years, and the
geysers great and little did not display their
| spouting capacity during the brief stay OF the
party, though one of the vents was artificially
irritated so as to produce violent explosion.
| Unusually fine weather made the volcanic
scenery more than ordinarily attractive, and
the excursion of the tourists as whole ap-
pears to have been very successful. Our cor
respondence furnishes additional pictures OF
the curiously simple life of the lcelanders,
who brought their sick to the travellers for
medical advice, exhibited considerable liter
airy knowledge, and, even to the moment OF
departure, justified their national reputation
for honesty and plain dealing.
The latest addition to the literature of the
Great Scandal is letter from the Rev. DR..
Patton. We turn it over and find underneath
Mr.. +. B. Carpenter. Of course. The Great
American Gossip appears to have been exceed
ingly busy in spreading reports derogatory to
| Mr. Beecher's character, and devising ways of
making everything right. How to turn Mr..
Beecher out of the pulpit, in perfectly
friendly way and let him down without
hurting him much, was the problem. The
solution came to Mr.. Carpenter like a
revelation: "Start newspaper" Mr..
Beecher, as licentious, hypocritical, and dis
graced clergyman, would be just the person,
so Mr.. Carpenter thought, to edit new Re-
publican daily journal, and Titon the
Avenger was to find wages, and satisfaction,
on the same establishment. The Committee
lost great deal in not getting Mr.. Carpen-
ters testimony.
| The official count of the vote cast at the re-
| cent election in Ohio shows the rejection of
the new Constitution by majority of 1924.
To people outside of Ohio, tho most
interesting feature of the election was the
vote on the proposed Constitutional clause
giving the Legislature the power to license
the sale of liquor. The Temperance men gen.
orally being opposed to the license system,
because they believe 1t to be "legalizing tho
"trafic,n voted against this clause, and with
them voted small number Of persons who
think that the law ought to let the whole
subject alone. On the other side of the ques-
ton were the liquor manufacturers and
dealers, and all who favor license system,
as opposed to prohibition. The result was the
triumph of the Temperance or Anti-License
party by majority of 1926 on pretty full
vote This will be followed by an attempt to
engraft Prohibition or Local Option plank
| upon the Republican platform, the Temper
ance men expecting no aid in this direction
| from the Democrats.