New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-17

speak over policeman in Hartford Ivy the stale
trick Of the prize-box! Tie officer "saw" so
bill put into the box, and therefore he i" knew" that
it was there and accordingly he bought it for tho
sum Of So but when he looked for that x, behold
he didn't behold il IF all the rogues can humbug
him in that way, he must be a valuable member Of
the force.
Yale and Harvard have long stood alone among
American Colleges but under the rule of DR. Nc
Gosh, Princeton is making rapid strides towards
Them With Freshman class Of l25, higher
standard for admission, additions of million aud
quarter TO its endowment within seven years and .
fair prospect for half a million more, the Presby-
terrain institution in New-Jersey begins TO have
claim to be rated nearer its Congregational and Uni
tartan rivals.
II il great pity that Mr.. Charles OCOnor
could not be persuaded to accept the At
torney -Gcneralship to which it is under
stood that the Democratic managers were anxious
to invite him. 1t would have been better too for tho
Republicans, if they had been able to induce Mr.
William NJ Eyars, whom they have been persist
emily engaged in snubbng for years pat,
TO accept the nomination for Attor-
ney-General in doubtful canvass. which It
is said they eagerly offered. The situa-
ton of the Ring suits and of the Canal
reform makes the office Of Attorney General
to-day of the most important in the State
and it is specially unfortunate for the Republicans
that passing from Mr. Evarts they fell upon
Mr.. Danforth. Mr. Danforth is lawyer of high
standing; but it has been little than a month
since his local paper reported him thus:
Mr. Dantorth regarded Mr.. o'Conor's letter as In
worry bad taste and gross br' ach Of pr0priety.
The law of the land down by tho
Judgment nd he believed he eond say With ronGdencs
to the Judgment OF the members OF the Bar The Cont
never had a superior this. any other state. Ii
to be- trusted, honOred and sustained
1t is desirable now, while independent men
are yet uncommitted, aud are max
ing up their minds with whom tho
interests of the State would be safest this Fall.
hear from Mr. Danforth more fully on this subject
The speeches at the great memorial mass meeting
in San Francisco in honor of Raston. uncom-
monty lively reading. Mr. Ralston eulogzed
no citizen of California has been since Baker
canonized Broderick, and the public sentiment
seems to have gone ahead of the most fervid
uttcrances of the orators. Here is the way one "
them-the Hon. Thomas Ftch-poured out the Walls
of his wrath upon the newspapers which had pur-
sued Ralston living and DETAINED him dead:
Who shall make up the loss Of our bcneactor and
friends Who shall guarantee the generous aud tho
great hearted against the vigorous assaults oil an nfi-
nous newspaper Who can hope to ESCAPE after Rai
quenched by the tireess spatter OF the sluhs lap
plase The king of all the animals has been slain by tho
leper OF all the reptiles Applause II, narrow,
ing the horizon OF its opportunities down to spite and
hinderance ISLANDERS foul and stale and false and in
human the press becomes the punderer of the repua-
tons Of living and dead then. even as the naons
the earth combine for the determination Of the out
laws of the sea- ought communities to combine against
the demons of the press Great applause. lave We
not such pirates among us
The alleged grounds for these and a score Of moro
direct assaults upon The san Francisco Bulletin
and Cal, are that they falsely represented
Mr.. Raston as having committed sui
eide, falsely represented him being a
defaulter to the bank and falsely represented tho
bank as hopclessy insolvent. 1t must be confessed
that the first accounts received at the East all gave
the same stories, and that these stories seem never
to have had much currency in San Francisco.