New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-11

found anon them.
The House has let slip another opportunity
to practice the promised economy. 1t slipped
very easily, tOo-the River and HarbOr bill
despite its bulk of So 100000. AS it came to
each Congressman he thought of how it would
benefit his district and, comparing notes with
his fellow Representative, generally concluded
to help in rolling the log through. AS an ex-
hibition of amiable and fraternal feeling IN
the House it is quite charming but rather ex-
penslve.
The bill to substitute silver for fractional
currency, rs passed by the Senate, Is freed
from all the Objectionable legal-tender features
which marred the House bill. The provision
by which the fractional currency redeemed Is
to be credited to the sinking fund may serve
some purpose in clarifying the promoters OF
the silver resumption scheme, since it Will
give it the appearance of helping to pay OIL
the National debt. The opponents OF the
measure will, however, say that the sinking
fund part of it amounts to no more than where
a man takes his money out of one OF his
pockets and puts it in the other.
The correspondence of the State Department
on the subject of the extraditiOn OF Winsl0w,
the Boston criminal, seems to be approaching
crisis. 1t was evidently ont of the question
for Mr.. Fish to yield to the demand for an
assurance from Congress that Wns!Ow would
only be tried for forgery. On the other
hand, neither Great Britain nor this cOun-
try can well afford to abrOgate the
extradition clausesof the Ashburton Treaty. If
Al, no feat
treaty as shall satisfy both powers, the future
advantages will compensate for the loss, even
though WlnslOw meanwhile may escape from
the hands of justice. A new arrangement, II
promptly made, might at least be in time to
secure the return of Gray, the Wall-st. fOrger.
Affairs are assuming a cOmical aspect in
Central America. Recently Guatemala and
Salvador decided to reGstablsh order i'll Hon
duras, and for that purpose each agreed to fur
nish / 200 men. Distrust, however, soon set
in between the allies, and Salvador invaded
Guatemala. The latter republic Immediately
prepared to resent this outrage, and at last
accounts the Guatemalan President was adj
vancing at the head of his army to meet the
enemy. Happily there is not likely to be great
carnage on either side. The entire army OF
Guatemala numbers only $4,000, while Saliva
dor can muster only half that number. Besides
her numerical superiority, Guatemala has like
wise in Gen. Uraga an experienced commander,
who held high rank under the Mexican Empire,
and is an authority upon the art of war.
The verdict found yesterday against Andreas
Fuchs will cause some surprise, being quite
contrary to the rule with this class of capital
trials. As general thing it is quite sufficient
to show that husbands jealousy has been in
tensely excited, and thercupon u jury is found
ready to accept from him even the tlimsy and
timeworn defense of insanity. Most of the
cases where a murderer has thus escaped pun
Ishment have not presented stronger testimony
as to cause for jealousy than Fuchs offered.
But the atiociOus butchery of Simmons's corpse
produce counteracting effect with the jury
in thi, cAse, and doubtless had much to do
with tbs verdict of murder in the first degree.
The subsequent treatment of the corpse should
of course have had no weight with the jury,
and they were so instructed but on the other
hand, neither should the mere proof of jealousy
be allowed to affect their judgment. While
there is probably no injustice in the verdict
against Fuchs it may furnish an instance to
prove that trial by jury where it turns on the
sympathies of jurymen does not necessarily
favor the prisoner.