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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28
PUBLIC OPINION.

II may yet become necessary TO send the
army and navy up NewHampsirc We hope that this
nay he done The folks Ia New England ought TO know
how 1t is Themselves Cincinnati Enquirer DEM
It appears in a letter written by Montgomery
Blair that 1t had not been for Gen. shcrmans tim.
iity interference Frank Blair would have captures
joe Johnston and his whole army two OF three times
cincinnati Commercial.
1t can make little difference now whether tho
President speaks remains silent for Pennsylvania has
spOkcn and with such disnctness and emphasis as 10
carry assurance the tmd that any third term asp-
raions have been INDUCED their indulgence was van--
philadelphia Inquirer tRepD
Because Gen. Grant or any other public man
permits himself to be placed In position antigonlstic
10 tho counrys weibeng. 1t by no means followS thae
people must say nothing 1t Will be sad day FOR the
Republic when considerations OF personal dcllcacy to
ward any shall deter the country from the freess
discussion OF any question Of public policy Com
mercial (RepD
Slavery is dead, and if it is necessary to keep
alive the memory Of ts WRONGS let not the henedfs u
conferred be studousy ignored And IL the enfranchiso-
men Of q which does not AMI we fear never VIII.
show itself competent for selfgovernment produces
logical and inevitable results let the blame rest where u
belongs and does not belong TO tho Soutb-St Louis
Republican (Ind.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1875.
TIE NETS THIS MORNING.

FoKlIGN.-Tle Committee OF Thirty Of The French
Assembly organized by choosing NJ. de Lavergne
President. The Committee viii first consider the
bill concerning public powers. - Paul Boyton
started 10 swim from BolOgne 10 Cape GTisnez, and
proceeded as far as AndIe sselles.
DOMEsTIC.-Tho Greenbaok Convention called to
meet at Harrisburg, Penn, was failure, no dele
gates being present. - Sixty persons were
burned t. death in the French Catholic Cathedral at
Holyoke, Mass. ---- The Sioux delegates in Wash
iugton are dissatisfied with tho propositions made to
them by the Government.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.--In the suit against M.
Beecher Mr.. Evarts began his summing mp for the
defense. - Receiver Jewett explained his posi-
ton and plans concerning the Erie Railroad. -
The Board Of Aldermen resolved that the street
cleaning should be investigated. - The feast Of
Corpus Christi celebrated in Roman Catholic
churches. - Carrying pistols cansed two acct
dents in Brooklyn, one fatal - The annual exhi-
biti0n Of the AIT Department Of Cooper Union
was held. - Gold, 116, 116, 116. Gold value
Of the legaltendcr dollar at the Close sG2o cents
WEATHER. The Government report predicts
higher temperature and partly cloudy weather.
Thermometer in this city yesterday, 100, 73o, O30
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

Gov. Hendricks of Indiana is not exactly
carrulous on the quoso of Presidential candiates.
correspondent OF The RGlegh Sentinel made several
attempts TO draw him the subject the other day,
but tho discreet Governor rewarded him each time with
only tho blandest sort OF q SMILE
There is q disposition on all sides just now
10 treat the Independent Voter with the profound
rcspect The New-Hampshire disturbance has been =
great comfort the Republican press for they think 1t
has turned tho Independent Voter to their side. Thus
The Boston advertiser convinced that the Republican
party the rising and gives this reason for
Its boef 1t appears for the time being that
power In politics coming TO DO known the Indc
pendent voterwhich has shown Itself real power in
the country whether yOu like Il or nots strongly
inclined TO the Republican than TO the Democratic side,
and II certain be brought into close alliance wise
and conservative Vows prevail In the high councils VI
tho party"
Congressman Holman Of Indiana still believes
In soft money. When asked recently what he thought
should DO the Democratic party future policy nan
cal questions no replied IL think the Democracy
should not hesitate 10 improve tho earliest opportunity
To place itself fairly and squarcly against any further
reduction the CURRENCY Within the last year the vol
ume the National currency has been reduced fiom
1892 900 to about 100000, and this will prob
ably DO further reduced by tho time Congress meets to
1870 100000. As Congress assemblies the House
ought to send to the Senate bill to prevent the seere
tary of the Treasury making any further reduction
by funding the public DEBT in the new hye per cent
bonds" As for Presidential candidates, Mr.. Holman
would he "a biz surprised the contest narrowed
down 10 Gov. Hendricks one side and Minister Wash
burnc ON the other
"More money" is evidently going to be the
leading battlecry Of tho Ohu Democracy this FALL Tho
leading organ Of tho party In tno State, The Cincnnd
Enquirer. thus oxhOrts the faithful Let tho people
turn at tho primary meetings Let them nominate
no candidates for legislative Other officers who
for making money plentiful, and thereby reducing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

A correspondent fances that he has discovered an
anomaly in the postal regulations he has to
pay four cents postage when he sends triple sheet
of The TRIBUNE to his grandmother in Canada, ana
the old lady when she has road it post it to her
nephew in Vermont for penny. Canadian post
MASTER too after careful examination of the postal
regulations that fonrOunces OF transient
matter can be sent under one cent stamp to any
part of tho United States and senders of newspapers
from the United States to the Colonies can do the same
The officials in this city acknowledge that it is about
az far from Beersheba to Dan as from Dan to Beer
sheba, but they say there is difference. Postage
paid in Canada insnres delivery in the United
States at Canadian rates, but matter posted here
must he prepaid at United States rates-one cent
per ounce on transient newspapers. After all, when
the postage on copy of The TRIBUNE from New
York to England Japan, or Australia is one-half
what it IL from New-York to Brooklyn, Staten
Island or Hoboken it is idle to look for rhyme or
reason in the postal regulations. The one thing to
do is to subscribe regularly for tho paper and 80 get
il sont from the office postage paid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

not public money-but the cash Of his fellow
members, to tho amount Of 500. There was
row, of course, and Committee Of lnvestiga-
ton. The members whose money had beon
conveyed fcloniously into the pockets OF this
law-manufacturer made short work OF Abel.
BY Yea and Nay vote he was unanimously
kicked out.
Perhaps private plundorers would fare no
better nowadays. If the Hon. A. b. should
be caught stealing the currency OF the Hon. "
D.. we suppose that either branch OF Congress
would promptly and severely deal with A. b.
aforesaid. But when the cash is taken from
the Treasury and christened Back Pay" the
operatiOn seems cleaner and smells sweeter.
Poor Abel Spencer! Genius born too early!
We do not hear that he put out card or
that he wrote letter; or that he made
speech of the exculpatOry sort; or that no sued
the newspapers Of the period for libel; or
that he assaulted anybody; or that no
went to Canada to buy cattle; or that he did
anything except stink into ignOminOus Obliv-
ion. We feel an interest in his case, and
should really like to know what became OF
Abel. Was he indictedf Did he reside tor
q prescribed period in the common jaili Dld
his indignant constituents send him back 10
make laws againf And again, perhaps, to
break themY Did his party afterward hold
him up as a martyr, and give him an once,
and so soOthe his broken hearth Did ne hang
himself7 What became of the dishonored
Honorable Abels
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28
AREL IN 1907.

1t is said that many of us arc lucky in not
knowing who and what our great great grand
fathers were. The fact is, that in the good
old years they took things just as they take
things now. We are apt to suppose that legis-
lativc "conveyancing" is an art of modern
discovery; but in this centennial season
painful rs we'll as pleasant facts are
dsintened. Abel Spencer, attorney at law,
representative from Rutland, VT, in the
years 1sO2-36-7, and Speaker of the House
in 1902 and 1907, seems to have come
before his time. What did Abel do, In
spite of his innocent namei lie stole money
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

Britain. We need not stop to point them OUT
nor IN dwell ON other faults In tho British
svstem of ou,te a. much importance from
which happily tho United States arc free. we
have the example Of Great Britain to instruct
ia that great reforms arc possible, and we
have the history Of both countries to convince
Ms that the people, high and low, rich and poor,
arc equal TO the demands of any emergency.
When we consider what tho people OF En-
gland, within the last half century, have ex'
torted from the Tory party we shall have less
reason to wonder Mt The Standards hostility to
universal suffrage. What, indeed, but the
dread of revolution and disaster compelled
the thorough mongers" to consent to the
partial abolition of that stronghold of bribery
and corruption, tho rotten borough system
What but dread Of revolution and disaster at
the hands of a starving population compelled
the repeal of the corn laws I
But really, we have not for long while
secn more conclusive proof of the innate
blockishness of the "landed gentry" Of En-
gland than this very extract which comes to
us all the way from London under water.
The blood of Squire Western still courses as
thick as ever through the veins of many a
IOA-nlntlnS VI. IT, WHO VIII hcNci 'c"So ="
wonder at the IGNORANCE and personal worth
"lcssncss" Of American Congressman. How
old Thomas Carlyle would enjoy reading that
paragraph, should it chance to fall under his
eye. CObbctt's fIvOrte sarcasm on the En-
glish-tho "most thinking people in the world
which he extracted from Tory speech in
Parliament, il, we suppose. forgotten. IL what
we have given is specimen Of English
thought, Cobbett's phrase must he revived.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

use of discovering pigoon-holcs in Mr. Smiths
Office full Of smothered Indictments, and
criminals running ut large because they have
political friends, IL tho other side could rctort
with an exposure Of Democratic extravaganza
and fraudf It is the old argument Of "YOu're
"anothcr" Both resolutions were adopted.
Mr.. Campbell standing at tho head of one
Committee and Mr.. Booth of the other; and
it seems to he taken for granted by many OF
" compromise" on mutual agreement to let
each others friends alone and 50 nothing will
be done on either side.
But if wo rightly understand the character
Of Mr.. Campbell, this is a mistake. We are
willing to give that gentleman credit for higher
motives in his demonstration against the
abuses of justice than a vulgar desire to make
capital for his own party by exposing the
shortcomings Of the other. He knows, If some
of his colleagues do not, that the chief end OF
politics is good government, and that the
legislator who hesitatcs to urge one reform
lest he should be forced TO consent
likewise to another is false to his
trust and an accomplice in the wrongs
which he darcs not remove. We make no
doubt, therefore, that Mr.. Campbell will call
his committee together and go to work, and
we trust that Mr.. Booth will follow the example.
If there is anything in the City Departments
which ought to be brought To light, good men
of all parties will take satisfaction in the
inquiry, whoever is to be hurt by the dis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28
4 OTTER SOFT or COUPRONTSF.

When Mr.. Il. e. Campbell introduced his
resolution in the Assembly for committee to
investigate the courts and methods for prevent
ing and furnishing crime in NewYork City,
the Republican members Of tho Legislature
took alarm at a prospective Overhanling of the
District Attorneys Office, and seem to have
made up their minds that the good of the
party required the investigation TO he stopped.
The method which some Of them adopted to
effect this II suit WAS cuiously characteristic of
the average politician who is bred in the ward
meeting and the caucus. Mr.. Booth prepared
in the Senate similar committee TO in
vestigate the expenditures of the City De-
partlncnts which are under Democratic gov
eminent, and thus, as he fondly believed,
paralyzed Mr.. Campbell. What would be the
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Anus ements auo Htleriinas.

AcApEuY or MusIc.-Concert. Harrison
Eoerus THEAIgR-" Jane Shore"
nExRrs THiRrYroURTH STREET OPERA HousE'-Vane-
ties
DAYS FIFTH AVENUE THRATER.-" The Big bonnnsA
LYcRuM THKATER.-"G irofe-Girota-' Ge0uroy'
Oh vMrlc The ArRR-variety Entertainments
ROBINSON HALL" GrOnc Girofa" In English.
IAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs-Birch and Wanbod-
usios SQUARE TuEArER.-"T The Two Orphans"
wArIAcKs THEATER-"Iady of Lyons"
ACADEMY OF Decentralization OF Paintings
CENTRAL PARK GARDES.-Concert Thomas
CREEpMoOR.-Spring Rifle Meeting.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF Painting, st"tuary exc.
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Business Noiitcs.

Cash Assets, 50, 25o,O00.-Surplus 70 fohcy
uo,Sers over 81 900 oa6.-TAY TgtyEl,ss, Hartford.
SrrRIJNG SILVER Forks and SPOONS, hand
made engraved patterns. at manufacturers lowest llce~
7. FoBp. BAT broadway. between lSth aho lt'ts'>
KNAPP's EXTRACT OF ROOrs.-Now Is t, ne
system There nothing well adapted fer sast P ns
nrinr and SUMMER known Depot No So1 uuson
sf New. York. sold 10y most DruggietS ----
To THE CONSUMPTNE.-Let those WHO I'LL
sh nnde, Tho So verify Of climate through any pi
aonsry compliant, those who are in decided SUI
hand and easily Ied WLDoHs CoNiU Nd W No ~;
che mans Sunx aver ol
w. 6, used ell by the phosphate OF lime
With healing property whoh renders the on douDy ma
10 those VII" Dc sire 20 see them dby n b WILBoB Chem
Boston
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28
OBITUARY.
sIEPHEN 8. L,HOMMEDlLl

Stephen s. EIiOmmedieu, formerly a promi-
nont citizen Of Cincinnati, died at West Point \. " On
Tuesday night Mr.. L'Hommedieu WAS one OF the early
settlers In Cincinnati where. BY judcious Investments
he acquitted great wealth He took prominent part N
promoting public OF that CITY and Was fof
many years President OF the Cincinnati Hamilton ana
Dayton Railroad In early life he interested In jour
nasm. aud published the first newspaper established
west OF the Allegheny Mountains.
WASHINGTON, May N.-The Navy Depart
ment has received information OF the death OF Samuel
NJ Goldman. secretarv OF Admiral Leroy, commanding
the South Atlantic Station which ocourred ON ba ths
United states steamer Mon0DgahelA ~ ko do Jsnera
On the 2Sth Of April
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

After the labors of the Convention had ex-
bausted the Pennsylvania Republicans, 1t Is
not surprising that the ratification meeting
WAS q tame affair. There seems to have been
nothing but q strong sense of the prophecies
on such an occasion, to bring together rem
nant and 60 through the usual form of re-
jocing. But it does not by any means follow
that the canvass will be- wanting in interest
and spirit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

Now that his powerful supporter is dead,
Police Commissioner Disbeoker finds his berth
anything but bed of roses. The measures
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

Tho utter failure OF the attempt 10 gather
rag money convention at Philadelphia bears
its significance on its face. Between the time
Of the call and the assembling which did not
take place yesterday, the leaders OF tie move
ment have felt the pulse Of the public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

The interest in the Beecher trial seemed to
reach its climax in the COURTROOM. yesterday, in
the beginning of Mr.. Evarts's argument. The
public will doubtless follow the reports with
equal appreciation of its Importance. Wholly
aside from the merits of the case under dis
cussion Mr.. Evartss speech will provoke gen-
eral admiration. He never made weak ONE
or one that was not interesting. This promises
to display linn at his best 1t is sparkling
witty, satirical, severe, ingenious in its Use OF
evidence, and always as bright and clear as
sunlight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

taken BY the Board of Aldermen toward oo'
tanning his removal have few parallels oven
among the vigorous antagonisms which make
the chief records of Our municipal proceedings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

A sickening story of brutality to patent In
tho wards Island Asylum, was related yester-
dov hefore the Court of Oyer ard Terminer'
The Kcener of the Asylum is on trial for muir.
der: the evidence going TO snow tl'at III Nln :'u
lunatic In his charge, by heavy oiows WIN
a stick. IL this charge is not reiutea inc
Keeper deserves as little mercy as nc sho"eo
10 mis- unfortunate patient
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

Some disappointment will DO felt by citizens
who have hoped that piers of solid masonry
would some day take the place of our wooden
wharves. The original plan. devised by Gen.
Mcclellan, is 10 he abandoned, and a composite
work of wood and stone is to be substituted
by the Dock Commissioners. If il were very
clear that the new method is not at all the
present one under different name the project
of the Commissioners would deserve credit for
its proposed economy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

IN q more detailed account than has hitherto
been presented, our correspondent Mt Cleveland
shows the difficulties encountered in the effort
to unite the Northern and Southern Presby-
tcrian General Assemblies. 1t is evident, how
ever that the differences existing are not sufii-
cient to keep those bodies long apart. Indeed
we may hope that when The feeling which the
discussion itself created has passed away,
the misunderstanding which keep them apart
will also have vanished.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

From the lively letter OF correspondent
at the capital of that State, it is clearly evil
dent that South Carolina may be depended
upon to support Gen. Grant for a third term,
and that he has still popularity with the
negroes surpassed by no other candidate who
has yet been brought forward II there are
any mourners over the alleged moribund con-
ditiOn of the third-term movement, they may
take heart after reading this letter. Whatever
may be its torpidity in more northern cline,
the project has plenty of life under the shade
OF the palmetto.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

Unless the followers of the turf are much
mistaken, the coming season is 10 be dis
tinguished in racing annals. The interest of
the public in this sport Increases with every
year, and it is q noteworthy fact that the
throng of visitors at the race course, now more
than ever before, contains fair representation
of our better classes of society. This is partly
because the arran gCnlents for conducting these
gatherings continually improve; and this year
there will be tho additional attraction Of horses
of unusual speed and fame, which are very
fully described in our local columns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

While the general probabilities of the case
point to strcet-gas rs the cause OF the explo-
sion in Washington-st., Boston, it need not he
assumed that bright flash and subsequent
fire could not have been OccasiOned by the
bursting of the apparatus for manufacturing
soda-water 1t is true, indeed, that carbonic
acid gas under ordinary circumstances furnishes
no fuel to flame and tends to extinguish it.
But by suitable arrangements this gas can be
made to support tho combustion of some
metals, and 1t seems not impossible III the
present case that minute fragments of the
cylinder containing the gas might have been
nomcntarily ignited. In nearly all great ex-
plosions, however, even where 40 fire follows,
bright light is seen, and this has sometimes
been explained as proceeding from the dust
that exists in the purest atmosphere being in
famed by the heat developed by the impact
OF the exploding particles.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-22

with an alacrity upon which his life de-
pended, and put the jail-door between
himself and his feIlow-tOwnsmen. Off
Ger IIildreth stood on the doorstep with
4 revolver in his hand.
"Glve the MAJ Il chance he said,
land if he turns III to be the murderer
III he Il of you"
From the time that the key was turn
ed upon William Drew and an officer
placed with him, more 10 protect his
life than to prevent his escape, the lob
by has been guarded day and night by
Il yigiiant committee of citizens, less
noisy, but even more determined than
the mob of Tuesday.
Several other men have been arrested
on suspicion during the week. Most of
these were trampS, and all have been
able to prove their innocence to the sat
istaction of the magistrates. There is
no o clew 10 the murderer than up
on the morning after the crime. Neither
the piece of oak from which the club
was cut nor the knife with which the
mutilation of the body was effected has
yet been discovered.