New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-18

TIE Manufacturers LEGAL observations lndl-
cate slightly warmer and fair weather, with few
clouds Thermometer yesterday, 72'. $50, 74'
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The country must have been misiniormed
about Ohio. 1t can hardly be that Private
Dalzell can have got an Office while there was
even one man in the State, outside OF the
lunatic asylums, without one
The Old Lire Wing has been found at last.
He was dug up in North Carolina, and, to make
sure that psople shall believe in his existence,
the Administration has put him on a c0nspic-
uous pedestal in the Treasury. But 1t takes
at least two to make party.
A London letter purpOrts to give Mr.. Pierre
pont's explanation of his omission, with that
of Gen. Grant, to attend Mr.. Motley funeral.
This seems TO be that he was waiting for
formal invitation and waited until it was too
late. Mr.. PierepOnt was never the wisest OF
men. but now and then he is intOlerably silly.
1t would. be difficult TO Overestimate the
qualification with which the announcement
will be heard that James Russell Lowell has
accented the Spanish Mission and Will shortly
sail for the scene of his new duties 1t Is
seldom that we send an Envoy abroad who
has not sought the place but has himself
been sought and only too seldom that
we send one who cOnfers some honor
upon the country in return for the
honor which the country cODfers upon
him. Prof Lowell will do this in an eminent
degree. His fame and his learning will do us
good service where too many of our represen-
tatlves have been possessed of neither, and
especially at a court where our Ministers have
not always been worthy to stand in Irving's
shoes. There is additional reason for con-
graduation in the thought that, as in this
happy instance, literature is likely to be a
gamer by this appointment.
The fast trains are to be withdrawn, and
one of the shortest railroad wars OH record is
over. One week more of fast trains rushing
across the country at reckless speed, wearing
ont cars, engines, and tracks III foolish rivalry
which brought no return to the companies,
and only made railroad travelling more dan
gerous for passengers, and the old timetables
will be resumed. With the old timetables
will be resumed the old rates OF fare. Verify
these great railroad wars sometimes resemble
the spats of schOOl-childrcn. Here within
few DAVIS the rates of several great roads have
been suddenly dropped and then as sud
denly raised again to their old level;
the time of trains between cardinal
points has been suddenly shortened and
then as suddenly restored to its old length.
1t is cheap wisdom to say that this caprice and
this uncertainty damage the railroads and de-
moralize the calculations of the business public.
No remedy has yet been found against the
recurrence Of these wasteful contests, OF when
this was one of the least excusable but happily
the least destructive. The day may come,
however, when railroad managers will not be
able to indulge in any such preposterous fool
ing at the cOmmunity's expense.
Mr.. John Kelly continues to make mysteri-
ous remarks about Acknowledgement Fairchild.
Tie declares that if Mr.. TOwnsend's fOrthcOm-
ing statement contains all the facts, there will
he "much surprise at Mr.. Fairchild's course
{" in this matter" And in his letter to one OF
the Auburn papers, with reference to Mr..
Woodin. whose case Mr. Kelly does not seem
10 consider closed, he says nothing to help the
Attorney-G General out These utterances to-
getLer with the recent attack OF Mr..