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New-York tribune., 1874-06-17
OBITUARY NOTES.
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PERSONAL.

Gov. Kellogg of Louisiana has arrived in
Washington.
Gov. Taylor of Wisconsin has appointed
j. g. Ryan OF Milwaukee ChiefJustice Of the Supreme
Court, vice L. 8. Dixon. resigned.
Gen. j. d. Cox, President of the Toledo and
Wabash Railroad Company has received the honorary
degree Of LII D. from wittenberg College, ONO.
Mr.. William Herman, prominent lawyer of
Utica, urged by The Observer OF that city q desir
person succeed the late Judge Dootle the Su
preme bench.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher sends a
generous check TO Mr. Ernst Perabo Boston for the
Beethoven Fund.- accompanying 1t with this letter II
should send you all the pecunary value Of the JOY
that Beethoven has given It would take double
Of all am worth II send but mite 1t is be-
struggling to whom am indebted. After every living
thing dead that bears Beethovens blood Austria Will
then, probably, build monument to Beethoven"
Dr. j. Hammond Trumbull Of Hartford has
discovered what he says Is tract written by Roger
Williams and printed In London In 1852, and which was
unknown to all OF his biographers. II is small Quarto
Of 2s pages and has the following title: The Fourth
Paper, presented by Major Butler to the Hon
Durable Committee OF Parliament. for the Propagating
Goad to Major Butler OF the sa,d and
paper by way OF explanation upon the four proposals of
lssl?' W ' '' - ' '''''
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke gave the
ruthless desroyeys OF the venerable Paddock ems q
sharp rebuke In his at Boston Sunday last.
He said the pictures Of the Old South Church and OF
Boston Common In the school histories ana
Biographies had been advertisements OF the
city worth paying 100000 year for, but lost when
ever an old cut down or an historical building
DESTROYED. He continued: The vandalism which
sneers that sentiment will sooner or later take haii
on dollars OF annual income out Of the pockets OF
the busness of This CITY, and yet they call hat being
practical and enterprislng ! therefore consider that
any man who Il Ia Of the removing OF public
monument which the education OF the peo
pe of cutting of piece OF Boston Common, OF killing
her lrcSs vi luilng har public schools. c0Ralder lR
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A PRETTY EXHIBITION.

We have been warned great many times
this session that the gifted public men in the
United States Senate. tired of exposures and
disgrace, were going to shut the mouths of the
newspapers. This habit of talking right out
loud about the nations best and purest must
be stopped. The Republican party could not
bear it; and, what was more important, the
leading statesmen of the period could not bear
it. The newspapers had broken up the Credit
MObiler Ring, discredted the Back Paw
fnanciers, ruined rs pretty speculation as
ever was made in the District of Columbia,
and robbed a great many honorable gentle
men of the faintest hope of reelection. The
scheme upon which the Senate has spent its
ingenuity is at last brought forward by Messrs.
Carpenter and COnkling, and hurried through
with whip and gOad as near the close of the
session rs it seemed prudent to trust it.
Stripped Of legal phraseology the bill
amounts to this, that a suit for sander or
libel against q newspaper may be brought in
the United States Court in any place where
the newspaper has an agent or correspondent.
In point of fact, the principal newspapers
have correspondents everywhere, and it is
quite possible for NewYork publisher
under this bill, to be taken to California or
Texas to defend vexatious prosecution in
stituted by plaintiff who lives in the next
street The chief object of the bill however
is evidently to enable members of Congress to
sue all their critics in the Washington courts !;
and what chance the defendants would have
before Washington jury our readers can
easily imagine. II the law confined itself to
libel suits, respectable newspapers, although
they might condemn the principle upon which
it rested, would have no great reason to dread
its cops?QQences. But it affects tho mercantile
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10 be gn,ty OF worse crime than some Of those fer
which men are sent 10 the state Prison"

Mr.. Henry Watterson of Tho Louisville
Courier Journal Delivered address before the literary
societies OF Georgetown College few evenings ago.
which no called 4" an appeal from New Kentucky to
Old Kentucky, incluaA0s plea for Provincial.
ism" In concluding he said: Il see q mser-
able cosmopolitan friyOlity stealing over the
strong, simple ruralism Of the bygoae time. SEQ
native worth ignored and preteDse set up
just 1t is outside. smell the mold above the rose.
go TO sleep, and dream Of something e'se-i hehosd.
IN the gorgeous vision which comes TO me- In sleep.
Kentucky, realizing the ecstacy OF Boone, second
paradise "a Kentucky p0puous aud rch but still Ken
lucky; the old spirit unabated the old signals at tho
fore Kentucky fruitful and peaceful and provincial
as WarwIckshre which, though 10 has multiplied its In
habitants many times Shakespeare died. IL
to-day rural, picturesque, as antique. odd
and attractive IL when ne wandered
along the banks OF It's Avon TO see Queen Bess snd
take notes OF court life amid the spendors OF Ken
ilwOrth Castle; n Kentucky filed with genuine Ken.
tuey stock saIwart and courteous manhood. chasts
aud womaDly womanhoOd, bospitaDe. sincere and
brave. say dream OF this; but shouid Ana tnati
am believer III dreams
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community az much as it does the newspapers

community as much as it does the newspapers.
Every merchant who sells by drummers and
agencies is subjected to the same danger. He
can be sued 5000 miles away for an offense
committed without his knowledge by an agent
whom he has never seen.
We suppose there is little or no danger of
such mOnstrous perversiOn of justice and
burlesque upon law being cOncurred in by the
House. 1t is worth remark only as an exhibi-
ton of the meanness and folly of which the
Senate of the United States has become capa-
BILE, and of the outrages upon decency and de-
fance of public reprobation which fifty crown
the seasons work of the friends of Jayne and
the supporters Of the MOicty law
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POLITICAL NOTES.

There is o refreshing flavor of truth in this
burst OF honest Indignation from The Cleveland Herald
"And after last weeks performances III Congress
let g have no more Haunting lies I'm the party plat
the civil service. The votes of leading
members OF both parties in Congress showed con
honest and say we did nt mean It.
The Albany Erpress is becoming more and
more energetic lonely opposition to Gov Dxs re
nomination It denies the right OF Its cotenporares ~
call the General Republican. and says: He has
been upon all sides in politics, and, even during
his present administration, he has appointed
several Democrats to office Tue faet lha'
Republicans took him up ana elected him Governor
fact is tnst the Governor Just a, much OF D;pocr.t
he is Republican and he Is reeected aud .hlnsa
don't to suit him thereafter, our political friends ay
find out that fact to their sorro".'
The report that the Hon. G. F. HOar OF
Massachusetts does dcsIre reelection TO Congrcs
is confirmed by The Worcester SpI which has under
stood that his wish for two past In regard
to the nomination OF the Republican Convention for
Governor OF Massachusetts,, The Spy insinuates thil
Mr.. Hoar occupies the position OF the re-
nowned Barks. He will not seek tho bonof.
It says but he known have enthusiastic, al
most romantic affection for and pride In the Common
wealth." looking upon the Governorship as posiIaou
s1cgsd d BY any IN he ES aa the
possible good fortune II lie should De aue 10 auu even
Winch being interpreted that Mr Hoar s IN tIo
hands OF his friends.
The sympathies of every rght-hearted man
ought to flow toward the grinders OF the Washing
ton organs. They have had terribly trying time of
it for last few months. but they have been fully
equal to the OCCASION Through the Sanborn contract
and Custom-house seizure exposures they ground
steadily on, sounding forth the same told tune, IT'S
all lie Of the independent press" The com
plete overthrow OF the District band OK
plunderers has had more effect upon them
They still insist that the officials have been
"vndicated" and that the memoridiists are sot Uf
reckless bent raining the District out OF pufs
malice. Tnere doubt about it, requires the most
extraordinary f0rttude to enable grinder " SICK 10
his business amid such discOuragemens, ana ought
10 be generously rewarded. Possibly &c has been.
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in any matter connected with the married re-

Concerning Alderman MOrris's dog law. which
has made the small boy nervous with specu-
latOn and the small dog nervous with constant
peril, Recorder Hackett has manifestly a very
poor opinion. In his charge to the Grand
Jury yesterday, ho called attention to it as to
a matter affecting alike the intelligence of
"the age and the moral sense of the COM
"munity." He could find no authority in the
charter or the laws for this raid upon unmuz-
zled dogs, and was so disrespectful to the
Alderman who fathers the ordinance, the ven-
erable and highly respectable Mayor who
orders its execution, and the able and ingeni-
Gus gentlemen who superntcnd the asphyxia-
ton, as to say that the spirit in which they
have assumed the right and power to Kill
"large numbers of dogs by problematical aud
"precariOus suffocation' belongs rather Z" to an
cage when women were burned and drowned
"for witchcraft than to the present One''
However the hydrophobic Aldermen and the
speculative small boy may view it, the COM
muniry will certainly thank him for his defini-
ton of this business as "prOblematlcal and
"precarious suffocation," and his directing the
attention of the Grand Jury thereto.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17
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rRAYKIyG-NEWsPAPER POSTAGE

The Senate has unlimited control of the
business of making books at the Government
Printing Office. 1t makes them, stacks them
up in the vaults of the Capitol, and then
whines for a revival of the franking privilege,
on the pretext that constituents ask to have
the books sent out. The attitude of Senator'S
on this business is discreditable; and their
pitiful efforts to regain the COW
eted privilege for themselves, and at the
same time keep the Post-Oflice Department
from running behind by compelling the pre-
payment of very heavy postage on news
papers, will cost them in the end great deal
more than they can make out of it. We urge
the newspapers of the country to attempt no
lobbying in this matter Let the Senate do
what it chooses. but let them take pains That
the responsibility for whatever is done DC
clearly fixed
There were a number of men who Thought
the salary grab business would soon blow over.
We beg to assure Senators that the clam0r
about any revival of the franking privilege
will blow over just as soon, and no sooner.
Both political parties are committed 10
the repeal. The Administration party
made great capital on it in the last
Presidential election, and the men who
choose now to admit the hypocrisy OF all
their professions to the people, may be per-
fectly sure that a dozen Carpenters and Conk-
lings cannot carry through Congress enough
laws for the persecution OF the newspapers to
keep the press from advising the public fully
of their dishonest course.
The increase of newspaper postage to more
than double what the Postmaster General re-
qulres and the exaction that it be paid In
advance from the date of passage, instead OF
from the first of January next, are petty
pieces of spite work, quite characteristic of the
Senate but not, we had thought, so characteris-
tic of Senator Sherman. who introduced them.
Mr. Sherman knows great deal better-so
much better in fact, that, unlike some OF his
associates, he must know exactly how small
he looks in his present attitude.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17

tionably Objectionable. Shooting prisoners be-
fore trial and illegally, it must be admitted
is violently improper. Mr.. Grumblcs, who was
aimed at and missed, had right to complain
of such clumsy doings. But who knows, If he
had been regularly tried, that he would not
have been subjected to the greater ignomlny or
an acquittalq Perhaps it will tighten little
the darkness of our story to tell how one
Elder Hammond has been preaching down In
Galveston, harvesting 700 converts, while the
"work is still going on" especially in Smoky
Row-"the Five Points Of Galveston" POSI-
bly this number may include some members
of the new Legislature, though hardly any
members of the old one. If we hear OF a re-
vival of religion in Austin, we shall take
cOuragc.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17
GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS.

A CONFERENCE OF LIBERAL REPUBLICANS AT BuF-
FALO-OPISIoNs IN FAVOR OF AN INDEPENDENT
MovEMENT-A RESOLUTION ADOPTED URGING
STATE CONVENTION or LIBERALS.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l
BUFFALO. June 16-Quite a large number OF
leading Liberal Republicans assembled In conference
upon political affairs this afternoon, at o'clock, at the
Tiff House. The principal Western and Southern Tier
counties were fully represented The Hon. Burt Van
Horn OF Niagara County was called to the chair The
conference continued throe hours during which every
person present expressed his own ana the known
opinions of the people Of his section The unanimous
opinion OF all that the Liberal State Committee
should call delegated State Convention early. aud In
advance OF those OF the two political parties All
united in their testimony that the people the ccun.
ties which they represented decidedly In favor OF
an independent movement at the earliest practicabia
day The following resolution was then moved aud
unanimously adopted
Resolved That the sense OF this meeting Is that tho
State Committee should call delegated State COnvon-
ton, n advance Of those OF tue two political pares
The conference thereupOn closed. and the meeting
adjourned.
THE RHODE ISLAND sENATORsHIP-FOUR MORE BAL
LOTS TAKEN WITHOUT A CHOICE-BURNsIDES
FRIENDS observation-disclosures CHANCES SAID
TO BE GOOD-AN EFFORT MAKING TO INDUCE
GOV. HOWARD TO RECONSIDER HIS WITHDRAWAL
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.i
PROVIDENCE, June lO.-ln6 ulecJiHS OI tho
General Assembly 10 this city to-day renewed the con.
test for the U g. Sentorshp and the interest OF tho
public which had not been very manifest during tho
session at Newport The gathering of the Assembly In
this city brings the members contact with stronger
influence The work OF to-day without any choice.
causes dissatisfaction among the Burnside men. who
seemed TO the opinion that their candidate would
be elected without further trouble. The Dixon men are
very sanguine Of na success and tonight the chances
are more In favor Of Mr. Dixon than any OF tho
othera The Burnside force has probably
shown its full strength. The General eau
not command the Temperance vote aud Dixon oan have
votes OF that class II the contest becomes mar
rowed down 70 Burnside and Dixon 1t is certain thas
none of the other candidates be elected, unless
be the Hon. Th0s. A. Jenckes, as compromise can
ddate An effort to be made before tomorrow noon
to induce Gov Howard to reconsider his decnatoD bus
he can hardly take the field after his recent speech Too
name of the Hon. James Smith is mentioned aud also
that OF Charles Hart, prominent lawyer OF this city,
but no general opinion prevails that either OF them can
be elected One Of the most active lobbyists In favor "
Mr. Barstow says that Mr. Dixon will be elected II Gov
Howard 10 kept Of the field and the desire TO esc
him, despite his declinaton. be thwarted The fol-
Iow,o IA sha result of the four ballots taken today
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17

PREPARATIONS FOR THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN con-
vENTION-A STRONG EFFORT TO BE MADE TO
INTRODUCE AN NRLAIIoN PLANK IN TIE Plat
foRM-sENAToR LOGAN AND REPRESENTATIVE
FARwRLL USING THEIR INFLUENCE IN Thai
DIRECTION.
fBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE.
SpRINGFIELD ILL.,, June 16.-Every effort Will
he made by Senator Logan and his faction to wheel tho
Republican state Convention. which meets here to-mor'
row into the ranks OF tho inhationsts After the dis
hearteppg failure Of the Independent Convention OF last
week to treat the question Independently sny
propbecv as 10 tomorrows platform would be RASH I 10
al least certain that large proportion OF the delegates
who have already arrived. are either hard money
men or I'm favor Of letting the currency alone for the
nresent Their position Is that President Grant has
said imitation would be reputation OF the pledges OF the
Re Repubcan party well OF the obligations Of the
Government. Mr.. Jones Of 10 Davies County. who
leads that delegation, Is opposed to imitation Ihe
Oge County delegation wants the currency les
alone. Rock Island, Sangamon. st. CLAIR. Pope:
Adams, Patt, and Cass Counties. ara representeo
by delegations with strong antiinhationist eiements.
From present appearances, the hard money men nVl
that the Convention will repeat the Philadephis p
form Of 1872. and attempt no new departure; ous
and their agents are already on the ground nsru -
work. with all the power Of organisation ana patrons
behind them. 10 looks II tho odds were suonkv '~
favor OF our " blood sealed" Senators.
THE INDIANA REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
INDIANAPOLIS June 16-The Indiana hepuo'
lcan State Convention will meet tomorrow. Tho dS'
trict delegations held meetings tonight for the seeSo
OF committeeman and the arrangement of VA uuAno~
w cvge Re,Qge tte CVayengyva
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17
OBITUARY..
SIR CHARLES FOX.

A London telegram states that Sir Charles
Fox the celebrated civil engineer, is dead. He was
born In England in 1910, and relinquished the
was first employed by Capt Ericsson In constructing the
locomotive which that inventor submitted for COM
petition in England In 1922 Mr.. Fox afterward
continued at his profession without attaining marked
success, until he was appointed by Robert
stephenson Assistant Engineer the London and Biz
mingham Railway at the commencement OF tho con-
struction OF that line. He remained with the Com
pany five years, and then founded firm
for railroad building and other engineering
the building for the Great Exhibition in London IN lS5l
The drawings for this edifce occupied Mr.;
Fox Is hours day for seven weeks and
he received the honor OF knighthood In
recognition of his genius and skill. He constructed the
CRYSTAL Palace at Sydenham, executed many extensive
railway and other engineering works and, In partner
ship with his sons did large business civil engineer
AMI contractor
OBITUARY NOTES.
Col. James Lee, who died yesterday at the
age of 70, was one OF the old merchants Of NewYork
having been business here 40 years, engaged mainly
i'm the Scotch trade. He for long time connected
with the Society Library, and was Instrumental In
having the Washington Monument In Union square
erected
The Hon. r. w. Walker, who died in Hunts
yille Ala, on Monday. prominent in State pol
ics and Judge Of the Supreme Court Of Alabama He
was also member OF the Confederate Congress, and
nopular among his feow-ctizens. The Supreme Court
of Montgomery has adjourned out OF respect for BIZ
memory.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17
Dnelness AoIilfs.
WRITE TO THE TRAVELLERS INSURANCE Co.
nArllorl. Conn. tor Lfe OF General Accident Policy
STARS AND METEORs.

STARS AND METEORS.
At certain the ornament between the
earth and they quickly vanish while the fixed stars
remain gea vegetable pv'gorsn'
long been fred star Of M first
rnagn,ud shape Of limitations bearing various
Names gmeuT competition With it, ba they
soon disappear vsO leaving the glory Of the true rem
ely The namber Of these thewps that have come
20 g twenty years beyond computation and those
now in existence are in agonies Of eIngushmen The
snd. sersve that and prevents so many dis
tssng and dbad invalid took without re.
oevng wonderful accession Of strength aud vitality only derives IN
creased popularity attempts cbsrtans tbe failures
90 the Hos.etier
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17
lions in the short period Of his rule. is not
likely to lack supporters or the sinews Oh war

Tho strike of the brick masOns now seems
likely to end almost as abruptly as scVe'ai w.
those which have preceded it. There nave
been at least as many masons out OF worn DO
those who have decided to quit WORK. ohu.i
such circumstances an effort to torce an au-
vance of wages in times like these Is mad
ness; and its only result to the workingmen
is misery.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17
USIC.
THEODORE THOMAs's BENEFIT.

We have already announced that the annual
benefit of Mr.. Theodore Thomas will take place next
woek when several novelties will produced, nclud
ing s0r's Song Bell" This important work VIII
accompany a reading lin Engsh) OF Schler's poem,
which 1t is designed illustrate. On this occasion the
tables Will be removed from the body Of the hail. and
reserved seats will be sold.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17

TIE TRIBUNE Extra No. 90 containing the second
series of Metropolitan Sermons" is now ready IN
pamphlet uniform with No. II and other TRIBUNE
Extras. Among the preachers reported in Extra
No. 20 are several of the most eminent in their re-
spective denominations, not alone in this city and
vicinity, but throughout the entire country. Three
of the Rev. DIR. Cheever's series of discourses on
Darwinism and the Evolution Theory are also re-
ported substantially IN full in this Extra, which
will be mailed. postpaid. to any address in the
limited states for 20 cents in sheet form 10 cents
mel
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17

The House Indian Committee seems to have
come to the opinion that it has not time to
find out anything. The decision is poor enough,
but we cannot find it in Our heart to grumblc,
or even to wonder at it, 1t took the late In
dian Commission something like two years to
find out that it could not do anything. Now
the people who rendered it powerless propose
to reorganze it after their own fashion. What
a cheerful reorganization that must prove, to
be sure!
New-York tribune., 1874-06-17

! Mr.. McCrary makes the best response the
case admits of to the arTaignment of his bill
lately presented in THE TRIBUNE by Mr.
Chas. Francis Adams, jr. His reply, which takes
the form of letter to Mr.. Adams. is printed
on the second page of this mornings TRIBUNE
f. The unanimous report of the Committee OF
Investigation on the District of Columbia is
hailed in Washington as leaving the District
Ring as dead as the Tweed Ring. We hope
the anticipation may be realized. But ring
masters like Tweed die hard; and Mr.. Shep-
herd will doubtless play his desperate game to
The end. The man who succeeded in getting
this petty government IN debt twenty lOii-
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