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New-York tribune., 1875-05-13
TRIPLE SH E E Il
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRxIGN.-The bodies of the victims of the schil-
Ter disaster are to be embalmed- = BY conven-
ton between Russia and Japan the japanese part of
Saghalien is ceded to Russia. - German semi
official journals give very strong assurances OF the
pacific purposes of Germany.
The steamer Metropolis, from Bermuda to New
York, was towed into Dutch Island lIarbor, Nara
gansett Bay, her masts having been broken and her
engines disarranged in storm. - The Musical
Festival at Cincinnati continues with marked sue
cess - The General Rapid Transit
bill was reported in the Assembly
from the Railroad Committee, and was
passed as amended. - The concurrent resolu-
tion for reduction Of canal tolls was adopted by the
Senate. - The third General Council Of the Re-
fer el Episcopal Church met in Chicago. - A
convention of soldiers and sailors engaged in the
War of the Rebellion began i'll Chicago.
CTY.-In the suit against Mr. Becchcr the re-
buttal for the plaintiff was closed, Francis ID. Moul
ton testifyng, and the sur-rebuttal was begun -
Disquieting reports depressed certain railway stocks
- The annual Commencement of the Columbia
College Law School was held. - The Ameri-
can Tract Society celebrated its semi-centen-
NAL. - The Silk Association of America gave
it's third annual dinner. - The Society of the
Cincinnati had a meeting. - Lawrence, who is
accused of smuggling silks brought from Liv-
erpool under arrest. - Thermometer, 60, 100,
$50. - Gold, 1852 115l2, 115l2. Gold value
of the eea-tcnder dollar at the close, $3.50 cents
THE WEATuER.-The Government report predicts
clear, COOL followed by warmer weather.
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13
PUBLIC OPINION.

1t is gradually dawning upon the minds ot
the imitation philosophers OF this country that the Scnrr
our finances reach stage at which dollar III N"wrork
or Cleveland will be worth dollar In san Francisco Or
London the better II will be for all parties coneo nc-
cleveland Leader lRepD
This era of centennials on which we are JUST
entering s the opportunity of patriots aud statesmen IA
both sections: better could hardy BE- asktd. ip9
will be great fault aud grave responsibility SON, ,r
Is close does moi find the wounds OF the Republic thOr
oughly acknowledgements Republican 'ihu,
Gen. Bartlett is the exponent OF me thiiikihs
men az hs section who ardently desire rehe~t o ,o
Lindlv feeling and good will which ought to prey All S
tween the North and South. We OF tnc Sounn aro ' Z
to meet half way In such evidences Oh IL
nav he nermfsd we woull like Ia say lat ou, PI PInS
think that the North has not tbe same eIso w pc,vne
of bitterness that We have heIe.-lNe" "oi''"
(Dcm) . :1oo,Jone
We think that the effect OF indepcIhuTnss pINnss
Journalism has really been To render bas aonc
Ia be- but TO seenl-honest Auu tiat 70 o. @ ~ ,Scnun,
n has made a fashion of that when neNo. van
as a fashion and which, fashion, mus. ,n.r,,a.
fade and change. IL has Induced iosurs @ ~ th,ir
10 disguise themselves, aud 10 go hDunt 'a,"o -
superior rvirtues.--[Sacramento Union lhePI
The course of Vlre-President wilson nay
have been conciiatory toward the south yet ne ns -
done or promised half much as President Ln.oi 49,,
his first message and In his anteWsr wera
southern leaders In 1861 these kind PROFESSIONS VIC,
rejected with scorn, and eleven states peIoIieu ',
their acceptance In 1873 one OF the most NJ
the anti slavery Of Massachusetts Is o
honor In Kentucky and Tennessee invited 70
and Texas, aud none pay him nSnra S, Tnere mar be
sometbing OF selshness and policy IN THIS out Wien ~
deductions are made must be admitted that TAG .o IN
the Southern heart does not blaze ~ nerceiy ~ oacs
diu-lCinoipnau GaLotte lhepl
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13

present, where the danger arises not from
fraudulent intention, but fOolhardy careless
ness. We would suggest, too, that the Life
saving Stations need Overhauling. They are
not regularly manned during tho Spring and
Summer months, and the sole dependence for
their order or efficiency lies in the fishermen,
who are proverbially disorderly and unsys-
tematic There is no reason why a fog may
not drive vessel upon the Jersey or lower
coasts as well as at st. Mary's, and in too
many cases the powder would be found wet
Gas in the case of the GiovannI, and for that
one trivial neglect no effectual effort could be
made to give line to sinking ship, which
for lack of it must go to the bottom. Then
we will ask, Who is to blamei
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13

transit. The last chance is in the Conference
Committee on the bill passed by the Senate.
II Is charged that the city railroads have
been using money freely, and it is certain that
pretended friends of rapid transit in the Leg
islature have been playing Q double game.
II anything is to be done to redeem
the blunders and treachery of the past,
it must be done this week, and probably to-
day. We have not the highest hope of get
ting rapid transit under any bill this Legisla-
ture can pass. But the Legislature will not be
able to clear its own skirts without passing
some practicable bill, and then leaving the
responsibility for success or failure elsewhere.
Shall we have some honest measure, presented
by commi ttee which honestly supports it,
tO-dayf
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13
POLITICAL NOTES.

Secretary BristOw seems to have shot ahead
long way in the Presidential by his Whisky Ring
disclosures His competitors should look alive IL Is
exceedingly popular nowadays to be ring sinasher'
The Independent Voter seems to be causing
the partisans good deal OF anxiety. The Republican
party press decides with much eainesness that he must
inevitably vote the Republican ticket The Democratic
journals just confident lie cannot consistently vote
any other ticket than the Democratic Neither side
seems entirely satisfied with its reasoning, bccaus,
manifestly enough neither knows anything about what
the troublesome personaSe in question VIII 90 ana IA
that the Independent Voter himself Ignorant of
what he Will do as they are
Senator Sargents important announcements
away Off there in San Francisco that he knew the PSi-
dent did want third term because he had heard him
say he was tired has not been received with that degree
OF respect which ii deserved. The majority OF people
have gone talking about the third term just as If 1t
much unsettled question as ever This sort OK
thing has dsgusted The Baltimore american Mr. Sarg nt
has put the phantom clear out of sight. that Journal
thinks, and II hopes hear about it. Bat II has
views about what the party ought to do. In the ts
place the should be removed from the
tro of the party machinery Then let eveTyDody say
candidate The Baltmor paper has been disgustcdwth
the lack Of Independence shown by the press IN discuss
ing the third subject and it doesn't want 10 see any
brow ng by the once-hoding llnta Whlch mas
mary killed e Pa Rgns w6nS sm the Ma1a3d E
pubicans uncommOny well, and alter him tLey would
like Secretary Blistow.
MOueSty mas never DeeH Il ldiIHlS vi Iiic III
ation Democracy Of the West There has been no share
of the party that they have been at all backward
in claiming. They talk loudly OF having u man after
their own heart for Speaker OF the next House OF Repre-
sentaives and are very coudent that the parys cani
date for President will be a somoney man. on the soft
est kind OF q platform. The Cincinnati Commercial.
which seems end Of advice all sorts OF sub
ects Just now, thus reasons with the more money"
shouters: I've have admitted that the papc: money
Democrats West and South might be able to scalp
Gov Tden. We do not Think however they can tako
ession OF tine Democratic National Convention AMI
dictate platform and candidate As TO the platform they
may be prevent positive declaration of Oin-
beyond that they cannot They must ne con-
tent with evasion OF course they can comfort them
selves the vigorous Interpretation of an egyocai
phrase They will probably succeed in knocking DOWN
the NewYork candidate and then The eyes OF the conn
try will be upon little Delaware 10 Is SAID senator Bay
ard has hard money record Perhaps is not 50 had
that he could stand upon platform oi e'hsiohs iho
nlaonists are In error II they PR sumo th'EiS ives
competent to declare doctrine aud name candidates.
They should tho virtue Of modesy before 10
eyerastingy too late.'
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13
THE BAD GOVERNMENT OF CITIES


Happy indeed would be the people Of this
country if the evils of bad government were
the mere phantoms which many believe them
to be, and if tho consequences always fell on
somebody else as still more vainly imagine.
The truth is that diseases Of this kind are as
real as any of those treated of in the
works of physicians, while those who escape
unharmed are not more numerous than those
who live to the age of two hundred years.
Gov. Tilden with his usual clearncss has just
pointed out the more glaring faults of munic-
ipal government in this State, and invited
the Legislature to take suitable steps for
bringing the subject under review at an early
date. Bad government of cities has, since the
war, become an epidemic, spreading all over
the country and doing its deadly work as
thoroughly as ever did the plague. The facility
with which the National Government con-
tractcd its monster loans and the impunity
which seemed to attend the assumption of its
vast load of debt opened the eyes of the ambi
tious politicians of our cities, and there sprang
up race of "bosses." The tribe, though
dwndling, is not yet extinct, and their monu-
mcnts will long exist in the shape of the debts
which they have saddled on the communities
where they held sway.
Gov. Tilden shows that the twenty four
cities of this State have local debt of
$175,G57,267, besides their share of the State
and National debts. Of the twenty four, Lock
port is the only one free from debt, and in
only four cities is the debt less than fifty
dollars for each able-boded male adult inhab-
liant. In three-fourths of tho cities of the
State the aggregate of the yearly State, city,
and county taxes is over fifty dollars for
each voter or head of a family, and in
the four largest it will average more
than one hundred. The simple meaning
of this is high rents and narrow accOmmOda-
tions for the laboring population, and for bus
mess men, property owners, manufacturers and
the like, what they arc now experiencing. AS
we remarked at the outset, if the evils of viO-
lating all sound principles Of finance and gOy-
ernment were purely matters of fancy and not
of fact, then indeed would change in the
weather, a return of confidence, or cup of
coffee cure them. Unfortunately confidence,
though of great service in contracting debts,
is of very little in paying them. The bond
holders, office holders, and others who draw
their income from the taxes do not live on air,
and what they receive those who pay the taxes
must necessarily do without Most OF the
local taxes are paid in the cities by the owners
of land and buildings, who of course cannot
pay them unless they receive high rents. If
they arc unable to get high rents they stop
building houses, which helps to make business
dull and increases the stagnatiOn. But this is
an unpleasant subject, and without ceremony
we, for the present, take our leave of it,
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13
4 FEW MORE WORDS ABOUT TIE SCHILLER


A disaster like that of the Schiller becomes
private as well as public calamity. No man
can read of how the news came to many a
poor German mechanic and tradesman in this
CITY, who had worked hard for years to raise
money to send wife and children home to re-
visit the Fathcrland, without feeling that their
loss is in some sense his own; and no mother
perhaps, through all the land, read
of "the chids cry which was the
"last that was heard before the sudden,
lawful silence without straining her
own baby closer to her breast But what can
they or the outside public do in case like
this7 Neither their sympathy, nor even their
recognition of Power that orders all things,
will bring one whit of comfort or rccOmpense
to those whose best of life went down into
the greedy sea that day; "not all the preaching
"from Adam has made Death other than Death"
Nor is there any possible means of hindering
some of the causes of such casualty in the
future. Wind and tide and fog will wait for
no mans bidding; and even less can we hope
to control the mindless panic of any crowd of
helpless passengers walencd from sleep to
face death, or the seizure of boats by cow
ardly and brutal men who chance to be sea-
men. There are limitations beyond which Ma
ture and human nature refuse to be meddled
with.
But in every disaster at sea like the present
one. the actual cause has invariably been
proved to be a neglect of some simple precau-
tion-a neglect resulting from long familiarity
with danger. A drunken captain, an INSULT
cheney of boats, unseaworthy vessels; the
nd IN ha nf al mon
after the accident-which is no accidcnt-has
sent its booty of human souls to eternity. Be
cause nine hundred voyages have been
safely made in vessels unprOvided with
means of security in case OF leakage
or storms, the nine hundred and first goes out
uninspected and calm, and makes the end Of
the Schiller and we all hold up our hands in
wonder and talk of the visitatiOns OF God and
His inscrutable will 1t is too early to deter
mine as yet where the neglect in this instance
Law. 1t is hinted that Capt. Thomas had made
hut one voyage on the North Atlantic previous
to his appointment to the command of the
Schiller, and that he was therefore, nOtwith-
standing his bravery and GOODNESS, unacquainted
with the course and unfit for his position. The
jury declared that if telegraphc commune
cation had been established between Bishops
Lighthouse and the shore, no life need have
been lost.
Somewhere, we may be sure, the fatal neg
lcct lies, and, as usual, will be discovered toe
late to benefit the dead, and of little avail t.
benefit the living, unless some system Ol
stringent inspection be adopted, such al
was recommended in the English House o.
Parliament year or two ago. 1t was PROVED
then that between three and four hundred un
seaworthy vessels were annually wrecked pur
posely in order to defraud the underwriters
The same business, we have reason to believe
is carried on in this country to q sufli
cient extent to justify an authoritative
Board of Inspection, which would prove
equally effectuh in such cases as tn
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13

RAPID TRANSIT And TIE LEGISLATURE.
The present Legislature has not many titles
either to public or to partisan gratitude. The
Democratic majority in the House has been in
a perpetual wrangle over the Governors
action. The Republican majority in the
Senate has done little to avail itself of the
chances of the political situation. Both
might have found opportunities for brilliant
service in the cause of genuine reform, but
each has seemed jealous of the other while
both have been jealous of the Governor. On
the whole, neither House has been a success,
and the legislative session is only success
full in that it has been hndered by the
constitutional amendments by vetOes and by
the press, from doing much harm.
There is one opportunity yet for the Legis-
lature to redeem itself. There is q bare pos
sibility that it may succeed in giving US rapid
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13
SPENCER OF ALABAMA.

It's an uncomm0nly queer story that we
publish this morning, as brought out by the
report of an investigating committee of the
Alabama Legislature as to how MIR. George L.
Spencer happened to be Topping around in
the seat of a United States Senator for Ala
bama. There has been, first and last, as
was remarked a day or two since, a
good deal of curiosity in the minds of the peo-
pie at large. as to how he camo to be there
The Alabama Legislature being not remotely
interested in the solution of this mystery, lately
set on foot committee to hunt the matter
out. The Committee has been some time at
work, and has brought out some facts in con-
nectiOn with Mr.. Spencers election which are
in their way quite remarkable. The report,
sent by the Associated Press, of the testimony
taken, is as interesting as a romance. The
candOr and frankness with which the methods OF
electing United States Senator's and indeed of
conducting politics generally, are disclosed,
are almost brutal in their Openness. The man
ner in which Senators and Representatives were
"drugged" and bought and bribcd, and put
out of the way, and in which the army was
used to intimdate the opposition, and all the
methods usual and unusual were used to in
ate-the whole machinery, IN short, is so
uncovered that we hardly know whether to be
amused or indignant.
That Spencer is blessed boon to Alabama,
Of course no one has the temerity to deny.
He supports the Administration with great
zeal and earncstness, and prevents the re-
enslavcment of the blacks, the repudi-
alton of the National debt, the payment
of tho Confederate bonds, the establishment
Of the COnfederacy, and various other
things. And he keeps great many honest
and sincere persons in Office who love the
Union and get up nights to shoot bullet holes
through their hats in order to assure the
General Government of the necessity of keeping
a standing army in the State to prevent Outrages
and give tho cOlOred man Lis rights under
the Constitution. Spencer is really tho boon
of Providence to the human race and special
blessing to Alabama. His fame is eternity and
his residence-just now-Alabama. Far be it
from us to intimate that he is not proper
possibly the most proper-person to represent
Alabama in the United States Senate Perish
the thought, that even though he did
in fit of absence of mind, slink in among a
lot of legally elected Senators to be sworn in
in March, 1973-he is not leading statesman
of his party and his period. But in the face
of these singular developments concerning the
means by which he reached his pres
ent elevation, we may perhaps be per-
mittcd to say that George E. Spencer sitting
in the United States Senate as Senator from
Alabama embalms in himself and his history
political period for which no country can fur
nish parallel. We may also add that he has
done his country the greatest possible service.
Tweed brought the fostering sore of munich
pal corruption and robbery to head, and we
owe him thanks for it. George f. Spencer is
the emctic of carpet -bagsery, and we owe him
thanks as a wholesome medicine.
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13
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LADIES, Misses. Gents, and Boys Doors,
sHoYs GAIERs Patronlze MILLER Co, Union square
OLDEST, Largest, and Best Accident Insurance
Company in Amerca-The TgAvRLERs of Hartford.
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my. The reduction of tho appropriations Of
the bill Ence it passed tho lower House
amount to $439, 900. and If the Assembly con-
ours in the amendment striking out the tax
levy, the saving in the item Of extraordinary
repairs will amount to 81, 900, 900.
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13

Well, now, this is something like benevolcncc and
kindness and Christian charity, that great rarity
under the sun! There is to be Baby Exhibition in
Memphis, and prize of $50 is to be awarded. To
the Most Beautifuli BY no means! The premium
is to be bestowed upon the Ughest We do not know
exactly how the mother of the monster may relish
its success but it is understood that the premium
will not be awarded without the maternal approval
There is another infant excellence which, to our sur
prise. the promoters of these baby shows have not
hit upon What honors would be too great, what
prizes too costly, what triumph too tremendous for
the Baby who cries least silent as it is sweet and
IA quiet as it is beautiful OF course the competi
ton would be by affidavts signed and sworn to by
disinterested parties domiced with the entered
Infants and at the exhibition little experiments
might be made with an ood-sk moon arranged as
q tempatiOn.
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13

"Pop Corn is the name Of new town in Usage
County, Kansas. The tendency to vulgar and mean
ingess typographical designations would discourage
u.s. did we not know the ameiorating effect of time
upon these barbarisns. 1t is consoling to think
that "Pop Corn" will not be so forever. Within q
quarter of a century it will be Pope KOrn;" then
"Pokorn :" next Paukern y" POOrkan y" Parkan;"
"Parkon;" park and finally :" Park City," which
will be a very pretty name indeed. Wo admit, how
ever that there names in Kansas which by no In
genuity of the imagination can we transmogrifyinto
tho euphonous or pretty. The town Of "Verdigris"
we confess is hopeessly mal-nOmered. Solomon
City" is MT much better; and the inhabitants of the
town of Grasshoppcr" must have the patience of
Job if they are not quite ready to change their
corporate name to Fourth of July" Bottle of
Pop" or Gingerbread"
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13

BY q convention between Japan and Russia
+he latter has obtained possession of the Island
of Saghalien. Although pretty strong pres
sure has been eperted upon Japan in this mat
ter, it is presumable that the Government OF
that country has made the best of bad bar
gain. A vexatous question has been settled,
and that is o gain for other countries.
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13

putting her on tho witness stand. 1t seems
probable that We are rapidly approaching the
cloae of tho evidence-fOr which all thanks.
New-York tribune., 1875-05-13
Amnsements ano Aleetings.

BoorH's THEArxR.-At /: Beneht Performance At 8:
"Evadne."
DALYs FIFTH AVENUE THRArRR.-"The Big bonanza
LYCRUM THEAIKR-"IA Perichoe." Aimee
OLYnrIo TaRArRR.-variety Entertainment
eAN FRANCIsco MINsIRELs-Birch and WamDoio-
THsArER CoMIouE.-variety entertainments.
UNION SQUARE THEArER-"The Two Orphans
wALIACKs THEArER-" Road to Ruin"
AcADxNy OF DEsraN-Exhbition Of Paintings.
BrBIx HousR-At330: American Congregational Union
American Bible Society.
COOPER INsrIrUTE.-Lecturc. John B. Cough.
MErRoroLIrAN MUSEUM OF ART.-Panting Statuary, ETC.
ROBINSON HALI--Tableaux Viyants.
SoMERyIIIH ART GALLERY.--Art Sale.
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