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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04
QUALIFICATIONS FOR JURORS.

The bill carried through the House last week
by the Hon. Clarkson N. Potter. enacting that
no person shall serve as a5juror in any court
of tbe limited States who cannet read and
write in the English language. is a very proper
accompaniment to the iegislatloh which pro-
vides free education for all. Ii education is
of Importance enough to the State to be
specially provided for by law-tho Government
so far recognizing the necessity for it as to
assume the responsibility and the support OF
schools--it should go still further and estab-
lisb the fact by law that some degree of learn
ing ia absolutely essential to the exercise of
the higher functions of citizenship. 1t hardly
needs argument to show that ability to read
and write should be an essential qualification
for the duty of juror. 1t is position which
may in some cases. but very rarely, be filled
by an ignorant and illiterate person without
serious mischief: but it must be confessed
that state Of society in which such persons
may be habitually called upon to discharge
the oftentimes difficult and delicate functions
of a juror is not desirable to live in.
The only possible objection that we conceive
as being made to the bill is that it will dis
qualify large numbers of ignorant colored
States. The number is probably smaller than
is generally supposed and it wOuld be partly
balanced by similar exclusion of "poOr
"white trash" At any rate, there is reason
to believe that such disqualification would be
the best thing that could happen, both to
the negroes and the white citizens. il
the former have . desire to act as jurors,
and 1t is said that this is one of the directions
which their simple ambition takes. it is better
that they should understand that this con-
dition, which may prove an Indictment to
their desire to learn, is required OF them.
Let them understand that the Government has
established schools for them and freely extends
them facilities for qualifying themselves under
the law to be jurors, and that unless they
avail themselves of the privilege they will be
debarred from the exercise of that function of
citizenship. Such a law cannot possibly work
harm or injustice to any one. 1t runs on all
tours with the education laws, offers in GER
tain sense a bounty to the learner, and in
barring out the densest ignorance and illiteracy
| from the jury-bOx, affords safeguard and
security to suitOrs which they would not other
wise have.
| To assume the responsibility and expense Of
| educating the people, and on the heels OF 1t
to say that education is of so little consequence
that anybody may sit as juror and assist in
the decision of cases without so much as
knowing how to read the statutes that apply
to them is very absurd and contradictory
state of things. Mr. POtter's bill properly
supplements previous legislation, and we hope
it may be carried through the Senate as
| promptly as it has been through the House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04
Nelo:rork Daily Griba,1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1874.

The debate the Electoral bill was continued in the
French Assembly. NJ. Ledru- Rollin, in his speech
against the bill, demanded the dissolution Of the
Assembly. ~. Reinforcement OF 5000 Re-
publicans has reached San Sebastian In Spain. bat
tie is imminent at Estella. g. The report that
the HoheDzollern candidature has been revived
is semi-officialy denied at Berlin - mutiny oc-
Cured the ship Neptune at Liverpool. - The
Pope deprecstes any demonstration Of sympathy with
the pilgrims from America by the American and En
gsh Catholics at Rome.
In the Senate yesterday bill IN regard to savings
banks was passed; the Consular and Diplomatic ApprO
priatoD bill was amended and passed; the Pension APP
preparation bill was also passed; Mr.. Window then
called up his resolution iUstructng the Appropriations
Committee TO report amendments TO the River and
Harbor Appropriation bill to complete surveys
mended by the Transportation Committee long de-
bate ensued. continuing to the time OF adjournment
In the House, joint resolution adopted providing
the termination Of the treaty Of 1858 between the
United States and Belgium; the Senate amendments to
inc Army Appropriation bill were considered and the
bill VISA sent TO conference committee the conference
report lis Navy Appropriation bill was agreed to
the for the improvement OF the mouth Of the Msss
sippi was discussed; evening session held, for
debate onl5.
The Now Hampslsre Legislature met yesterday and
e,ecSvI. James A. Weston. Governor. Col Thomas
A. Scott was elected President Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. 60. The annual session Of the National
Brewers Congress began atIBoston. 80 1t is prob
able that the prosecution OF ex-senator Pomeroy for
bribery will be abandoned. - The Presbyterian
General Assembly adjourned yesterday.
Tho Western Union Telegraph Company declared a
dividend Of per cent. The strike Of the brick
lag and laborers proved failure. The trial of
tho Brooklyn Commissioners OF Charities begun
10 the Special Term Of the Oyer and Terminer. -
Mr.. Toe Brooklyn jeweler, identified NewYork 20.
uceman who robbed his store OF 1900 worth OF
diamonds nine years ago *. The Grand Lodge Of
Masons continued its annual meeting 6 Mrs. Dwyer,
the Brooklyn murderess, was pronounced insane. 60.
Gold. Il2 III 1924. Thermometer $40, 90, So.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04
MORE RECONSIDERATION

The debate and the vote on the Utah bill
carry US back to the year of Lees surrender,
when Congress undertook to stamp out the
embers of the Rebellion and make treason
odious by a system of heroic legislation whose
mischievOus consequences the whole country
is now lamenting. Most of our law makers in
those days of exultant patriotism were Doubt
less sincere believers in the necessity of dis
reimbursement. They remembered with ex-
cusable bitterness the sufferings of the past
four years. They thoroughly distrusted the
repentance of the conquered South. They
fancied that they could build the social and
political edfce all over again, and raise up
prosperOus States on no other foundation than
the loyalty of ignorant negroes, whom an Act
of Congress had taken out of the cotton fields
and made voters before they knew what the
inscriptions on their ballots signifed Every
thing was Immediately turned upside down.
The whites, who had all the education and all
the capacity for public affairs were excluded
from public appointment and driven from the
polls, while grinning SambO and Uncle Pete
were snatched up bodily and seated in the
Legislature with suddenness that made their
heads swim. We need not enlarge upon the
result of this prepOsterOus plan of reconstruc-
ton. Theft, rapine, and bribery ran riot in
the Southern capitals; plantations fell to
waste; cities tumbled into decay; government
became a burlesque; and some of the fairest
regions of the cotton country were plunged
into q ruin which now seems irretrieyable.
the franchise away from the intelligent South
ern people and set loyal but rascally adyen.
turers to rule over them.
Are we to repeat this process in Utah :
Polygamy no doubt is great crime, lust a
treason is; but let us stop and consider
whether we can best combat it By the method
the House of Representatives proposes. The
bill which passed on Tuesday excludes Nor
mons from the jury-bOx and turns every
Mormon sheriff out of Office. 1t depriyes the
whole community of Latter Day Saints of ono
of the most valuable privileges Of etizenship.
and puts them at the mercy of hostile and
angry minority. To understand what the ef
feet of this will be, we must consider tho
character of the population in Utah. The
MOrmons as q class are thrifty and indus-
trious, and whatever the Territory possesses
of physical beauty and agricultural wealth
they have created. The Gentles are few in
numbers, and among them are naturally 10
DO found large proportion of unscrupulous
adventurers. The Anti-Polygamy law will
enable these men to ruin any Mormon unon
whose fertile fields or comfortable house thew
have cast covetous eye. Does it need a
prophet to foretell what will happeni Can
there be any doubt that in three or four wears
the real settlers of the Territory will be
crushed or driven out, and carpet -bapeers
reveling in the plumber of their property
The true remedy for tho curse of Mormon
society 10 tho dissemination Of Intelligence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04
PERSONAL.

Henri Rochefort has been invited by the ca
madam Institute to lectuIs at Montreal
Archbishop Purcell Of CINCINNATI will perform
the ceremony 1t the marriage Of Mss Lizzie sherman'
eldest daughter OF Gen. W. T. Sherman, which VIII tss
place In Washington in october next
UMr. Abraham Payne of Providence. one Oh
the sbest lawyers Rhode Island has been selected "
the Bar Association OF his city for the office OF Che
Justice Of the State Supreme Court IN place OF Juas'
Brayton. rcsigned
President Gilman of California Universiv
presided recently ct the first annual dinner OF cuo
Harvard graduates which has been formed In San ffsS
cisco. Among the members of the club stephen Ne
Phillips of Salem, formerly Attorney General oil
chusetts Gen. John W. Ames, of Seth Ames VI -
Massachusetts, supreme Bench. and Horace Davs u"
merly OF Worcester.
Edwin Booth responded as follows to o re-
quest from the Baltimore theater managers TO act w
the benent Of the sufferers from the foods In tho Soo
West: "I Am very sorry that can DO nothing 20,
good cause. am. rs you must be aware, pahAIup
Every moment OF my time and dollar OF my Co "a
!nys are now OF Vital Importance to me- Tor nav
The Rev. Dr. Bellows of All Souls Chnren
on the last OF the present month will Join b" 'of'"s'
with tho daughter OF tho Rev. DIR. Peabody. sinsu
about the latter event told IL sai
tho bride WAS born about the time that her iss'S
preached the ordination seTWon Ql she oridest~"'
je&r9 A8et
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and the gradual settlement Of the Western
plains by means of railway development
The opening of the iron bighroad across inc
continent sounded the doom OF that supersti-
ton upon which Brigham Young built his
power. Let it alone, and it will fall by It's
own rottenness: but give us no more OF the
experiment which brought such disaster upon
South Carolina and Louisiana.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04
Bnslness Nofiles.

WHETHER YOU TRAVEL. OR STAY Ar HOME,
have Genera Accident Policy in the rRAysLERs Of Hartford
FOR THE CoUNTRY-Ladies, Misses, Gents
and Bows BooTs SHOES INDIA RUBBER
MILLER Co.'S Union squire
MONEY LOANED on Diamonds, Watches,
Jewery, and Silverware aud tie same bought ~,
GKo c. ALLEN. Jeweler ll9O Broad~sy. near 29thst
Under the Housed
GET THE GENUINE ARTICLE.-The great
popularity o. WuBoRs COMPOUND Con LIVER OIL LlsE
hiss insuoed unpDcpled TO palm on simple nuee
manufacture hut who suffering from
Coughs Gods should be careful where purchase
requires pung the results following its are It's
proprietor has ample evidence on he OF
pulmonary complaints The phosphate Of
POSSESSES beading combined with The
pure OIL Dr. WlDor Tbs med inc is regularly pre-
scrbed by the medical faculty Sold BY b. WHboH Chemist
BOston
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

sorve The peace is SO coarse that 1t is to be
boncd that the Police Board may DO spared
this humiliation. and that the brooklyn Jew
eler NAV prove wrong in his guess.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

The Spritualists of New-Jersey have been holding
their yearly Convention in Newark. and we are
pleased to find them giving their minds to such
material matters az the Indian Question, and the
policy of admitting the Child of the Forest to the
privileges of citizenship and the raptures Of the
ballot-box. Perhaps communications were received
from Powbatan Pocahontas, King Philip, Black
Hawk, or from some of the lately departed Modocs,
but nothing il said about them in the report. The
Convention also decided that tight lacing prevents
women from "acting their part in the redemption
of humanity After this Mr.. Playboot announced
"a deep-laid plot 10 elect Gen. Grant for third
term )" but a gentleman bearing the military name
of Spear thought that misfOrtunes might hap
pen to the country. Then and there gentleman,
singularly enough named Richardson, announced
the happy thought that nothing is needed to make
government "a grand success" except Honesty.
Having this he didn't think it mattered straw by
whom the Government might be administered
Brains of course are Of no account, and political
experience lof no consequence The tradition of
the world is rather than else in favor Of this
honesty but still it isn't virtue to be recklessy
INDUCED in, or to be taken straight"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

,rba exnerience OF the world ia that tho
most radical of innovators generally become
conservative when charged with the RESPONSE
bilities of high executive station. Col.
Thomas A. Scott has long been rec
ognized as tho brilliant and audacious
originator of the Pennsylvania Central Kali
roads colossal scheme of extensions Now that
he succeeds to the place of his more steady
going chief, it is not unlikely that we may sec
the old experience repeated.
Cheap transportation engaged the attention
of the Senate yesterday, but to very little
purpose. The consideration Of Mr.. WINDOWS
resolution favOring four important schemes OF
governmental work created much discussion
but nothing indicating the temper of tho Sen
ate was brought to the surface. Senator Win
DOM of course, does not expect to accomplish
anything at this session of Congress. An OK
preston of opinion is all he asks now. Sen
ator Cameron probably expresses the average
sentiment Of the Statesman of the Period
when he says that he will vote for nothing
unless Pennsylvania is recognized"
Exercising the sacred right of petition.
number of California workingmon have asked
several little things of Congress. Senator
Hager presented the memorial Of these citi-
zens yesterday. They ask for moro eight-hOur
law; condemn Government officials who DO
not like it; demand tax on U. s. bonds, and
the removal of Mr.. Mullett; oppose the I'M
portation OF Chinese and land grants to rail-
roads, and require the abolition OF the system
of prosecuting public works by contract. ms
somewhat exacting series of acquisitions does
not require elaborate treatment, but IT Is
| specimen case.
Senator Edmunds will have an opportunity
to exhibit his consistency In the matter Oh
making special allowances to revenue oihcers
He opposed the other day proposition to
give the Secretary OF the Treasury power 10
regulate the compensation OF sundry customs
| collectors When the Senate gets at the
House Revenue bill it will be expected or
Mr.. Edmunds that he will see that measures
are taken to remove from the Secretary the
power to increase the salaries of Internal
Revenue Collectors, reopening their accounts
at discretion, as Mr.. Richardson has always
done.
The bricklayers and laborers who have
clamOred for more wages have no better luck
than the coopers and stage drivers. They
could not have chosen a more unfortunate
moment for their experiment. The building
trade has not been so dull in many years,
thousands of competitors stand ready
to seize trowel and nod ct a
moments notice, there is gfut of
cheap labor, inasmuch as the half-starved
Italians are willing to work for dollar less
day, and the employers for once are the
masters of the trades-uniOns. A strike under
such circumstances was so stupid blunder
that the workingmen themselves took no heart
in it, although they yielded to Society dis
cipline.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

The New Hampshire Legislature have organ
lied by the election of Democratic officers in
each branch. The Democratic preponderance
in Joint Convention is very large, Mr.. Weston
being elected Governor by a majority of
thirty -one. The dominant party is evidently
prepared to take possession of all the offices
within reach of the Legislature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

They tried pump case in Burlington County, N.
j.. the other day. A sued for pump placed in BIS
well. pleaded that as the pump would not pump
1t was no pump at all. The jury. highly intelligent
no doubt. after being out good many hours found
the extraordinary special verdict that the plain.
tiff take out the pump and box the scupper holes
further up Whether this may be considered YER.
dict for tho plaintiff or defendant We arc not Coke
upon Lyttleton enough " determine.
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amrsements ano Aleeiin9s.

s,RruM's ROMAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ~ Z'''""N
alta .|ftA ...It. ,r-s.v
r,aoseEuM-Day and evening: London py NiS"''
NlBIo's TurArrR. R." The Lady OF the Lake, c,.r.
% con.ny rur,rxR-. Camille" Miss clara
Morris. r..,orco
w.IY,cx.s rux,rrR Fate" Miss Carotta bee'ereq'
ACADEMY OF DEsIGS-Annual Exhio'eo"' s.,or
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.-Theodore in'nS'
Night Concerts. t
Nrw-yoRK ORPHAN AsYluN.-Anniversary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

The reception to Mr.. John Jay at the Union
League Club last night suggests some curious COM
plications. Mr.. Jay and Gen. Van Buren, are fellow
members Of this Club, and have been rival oandi-
dates for its honors Gen. Van Buren, was peremp-
torily and publicly removed by telegraph from his
position in Vienna on the authority of Mr.. jays
representations. He has since submitted to the
State Department and the Senate long letter,
indicating himself and vehemently arraigning Mr..
Jay. With this before them, the President has
nominated, and the Senate has confirmed Con.
Van Buren, to another important foreign appoint
ment; and there are current reports that Mr. jays
resignation to be, or has been, requested II is at
this stage in the strange affair that the Union
League Club, in which Gen. Van Buren, has been
permitted to come and 60 unnoticed for months,
extends reception to Mr.. Jay. Curious Spectators
are looking beyond merely personal motives for an
explanation Of this apparently pronounced antag-
onism of the Union League Club to the attitude of
the Observation-Disclosures tho rest, Mr.. Jay, like
Gen. Van Buren,, has plenty of warm personal
friends in the Club, who are heartily glad to see him
homo again, and took pleasure last night in telling
him 10. .l.r'..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

The onslaught by Charles W. Greene, an
Ax-member of the Grange. upon the character
and aims of that farmers institution, is at least
very interesting reading. Mr.. Greene de-
feats his purpose sometimes by the heat
and incompetence of his language; but he.
nevertheless, presents many points, which to
tho readers of THE TRIBUNE, who have had
40 fully the Changers own side OF the case,
will seem of notable significance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

Lightning rods just now are a current topic. both
on account Of the thunderous Summer at hand and
of the seasonable hveliuess Of the perambulatory
rod-venders. Rods whichinvite the levin and as
sist it to ceave things generally after its arrival
are unquestionably OF discouraginR sort. Ger
man physicist proposes to utilize poplars by insert
ing tho lower part Of the tree metallic rod con-
nected with the earth by chain. that the electsc
fluid cannot leave the tree to dart at any object
placed within short distance. The poplar tree is
not handy sort Of thing for an agent to carry
about with him; but in some way he will manage to
do il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04

The extraordinary Identification of an Off
Ger Of the Eighth Precinct as the thief who
robbed Brooklyn jeweler of tray Of dia-
monds in 1855 supplements, with startling
lorce, previous instances of the decentralization
Ct the local police force. 1t was bad
enough to have detective 30 clumsy
In handling pistol as to shoot
down an inoffensive laborer. and another Off
Ger 30 proficient in the use of firearms as to
murder his sweetheart. But the irony Of hir-
ing diamond thief to catch thieves, and of
dsDendipg upon . desperate outlaw " pre-
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tails.
perhaps allowed to suppose that the marvellous show
was in his honor He monopolized 1t, at any rate
since the general public, who were to have seen it
for sixpence, could not get near. Before he came
carriages began to set down . number c. great
people-Prince Teck the Duke and Duchess of
Westminster, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland
Lady Spencer, now one Of the bellies Of the court.
and fsrty or fifty others. They had been asked by
tho Prince Of Wales. 1t is the custom on these occa
sons that the Directors invite the Prince to dine
and for obvious reasons, to ask his own company
the Directors themselves dining apart with their
guests. As to this arrangement il it shock repub-
leans it is enough to say that fetes of the present
kind are money making matter to tho Crystal Pal
ace Company, which stands In much need of making
money! that the Prince takes q good -natured inter.
est in their affairs and secures for them the royal
stranger who is to attract tho paying crowd. The
loast-and the mOst-the Directors can do by way of
acknowledgment is to give the Prince and his own
party dinner. The larger his company the more at.
tractive the procession at the show generally. and
the whole transaction is one with which all the
parties to il seem entirely satstied-the public in
cluded.
At five minutes past 0. the Car and his party
drove into the incOsure and up to the entrance of
the tent Outriders in scarlet and gold salloped
before on gray horses. The imperial carriage was
drawn by grays with Positions On the back seat sat
middle aged gentleman under tall black hat pro-
teoted from the northeast wind by black overcoat
With black hair moro or less grzzlod. aud long black