New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-03


State Prison. -..
Tho LEGISLATURE of New-Hampshire meet
TODAY. The people failed to elect GoVerhor
last March, and the choice is thrown INTO
. the Legislature. As the Democrats nave
majority of fifteen on JOINT ballot the election
of their candidate Mr.. Weston. is considered
n foregope conclusion. This matter decided,
the Democrats have taken very much 10 heart
the division of the other spoils of place ana
power. We are told that the struggle over
several "nice places" is warm and animated,
and that the session promises to be stormy.
The New Hampshire Democrats have chance
70 begin a GOOD work in their party. Will
they take it'll
All old WORKERS will take delight in
treading with Mr.. Gerard, whose lecture be-
fore the Historical Society we report on our
second page, the quaint streets of Neuw Am
sterdam. A great deal of interesting informa-
tlop about the old city is here compressed
into very small space. The frequenters OF
the Stock Exchange may find some precedent
for watered stocks in the fact that Broad-st.
began existence as a ditch which drained an
adjoining meadow and merchants dissatisfied
with the state Of the currency may take con-
ISOLATION in learning that monetary disturbances
were not unknown in the days when wampum
was the circulating medium. Whether the in
habitants of the island were happier when the
upper part of it was Overrun with wolves
than they are now with bulls and bears in the
| lower part is question for debate.
| A somewhat novel appeal is made by the
| National Brewers Association in behalf OF anti
| temperance. Alarmed by tho agitation which
| the temperance crusaders and other refOrmers
have renewed, the Brewers propose TO meet
moral suasion with logic and to overthrow SEN
timent with figures. The gist of the whole sp-
peal is that the greater part of the natlonai
internal revenue is derived from the taxes on
stimulating beverages; to cut off these taxes
would be ruin. OF course, the obvious answer
! TO this is that we cannot afford any national
housekeeping that is sustained by nOtOn-
| ously demoralizing traffic. We publish, on our
seventh page, a fair abstract of the address.
with its original confusion in grammatical con-
struction. in order to give the other side"
clear idea of the method of the anti-temper-
ancesparty. One or two papers on the same
! page add to the interest Of the discussion OF
| Temperance topics.
| Some time ago THE TRIBUNE stated, on the
authority of officers Of the allied roads. that
ut the next election of the Erie Company
President Watson would find it necessary to
retire. The dominant interest in the road
being Just then engaged in vituperative
war with its late Auditor, thought it
necessary to make an angry denial
of this statement. Now. the same
men admit that they are negotiating with MIR.
Hugh j. Jewett and others. with a view of
| procuring a successor to Mr.. Watson at the next
election. President WatsOn's misfortunes in Erie
dated from his long stay in Europe. All admit
his ability and industry, and very few ques-
ton that he has done the best he could under
| the adverse circumstances. There is no longer
much doubt that he made grave mistake in
yielding to the pressure which demanded the
last dividend but he is not justly chargeable
with that dividend, or with the lease of the
Atlantic and Great Western.
Meager returns are received from the Ore
gon election, which was held on Monday.
There were four tickets in the field, of which
only two, the Republican and Independent,
| seem to have cut much of a figure. The Demo-
Gratis have Joined the Independents in squads,
| and the Temperance party. which appears to
possess considerable strength, has also been
| reinforced by them to some extent. The In
| dependent candidate for Governor, L. r.
| Campbell, has made good run, though the
returns do not justify any definite conclusion
in the premises. The Independents, it is said,
| are sanguine of carrying the State, and already
claim the Legislature. A Washington dispatch,
| however, says that it is claimed there that
Tolman, the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, and Williams, Congressman on the same
| ticket, are elected. Local issues enter so
| largely into the Legislative contest that the
result cannot be considered as proving any
| thing but growing popular distrust of par
ties and desire to throw off party allegiance.
Another of those periodical debates in the
Parliament of Great Britain, which the Treaty
of Washington appears unable to repress, came
| I'D Yesterday, on a motion which involved the
responsibility of the United States for the acts
of the rebels. The declaration made by the
Under Secretary for the Foreign Department,
that he would not enter into discussion of
the merits of the Treaty, could easily have
been anticipated. Whatever capital the Con-
| servatives may at one time have been disposed
to derive from the conclusion of the Treaty,
they certainly, at this late day, have no incli-
nation to reopen the discussion. A crumb of
comfort was given to the claimants by the
statement that commission had been agreed
upon for the examination of the claims of
British subjects for those losses, arising after
Gen. Lees surrender, which had been omitted
from the Treaty. In regard to this commits
sion it would be well if our Government were
to make some statement of the extent to which
| onr interests are likely To be affected by the