New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-28

The ladies interested in the coming Loan Exhlbi-
ton of the Society of Decorative Art have been de-
voting to that enterprise all the iHii sagacity per-
ssteDce and adrOtness which distinguish their SEX
and great deal of the hard drudgng in
duStry which belongs more properly TO
man. Their zeal is likely to bear abundant
fruit. We hear that collectors freely bringing
forth their treasures-and what multitude of rich
and rare things there are slowed away in the
domestic interiors of Ncw-York it will probably
surprise us to discover when the exhibition
opens. The movement is an excellent ono
in its objects, and we are confident that it
will prove OF great practical value in its indirect in
Auence; while Of its attractiveness to the mere
lover Of amusement and hunter Of curosties, there
can be no question: Doubtless there still great
many owners OF valuable brc-a-brac Of pictures,
laces, pottery. artistic furniture, ETC., etc.
from whom tho committees have not yet exacted
contributions All these fortunate ones who are
willing to lend the society their encouragement
and at the same time to do a service to the public,
are invited TO communicate with tue proper COM
mttees
1t is proper to remember in connection with recent
events in the Senate that this Mr.. John j. Patter-
son whose treachery to his party is making 50 much
stir did not take his place in the Senate without
protest or opposition. The facts connected with his
purchase Of the seat were notorious at the time of
his election THE tribune repeatedly called the
attention Of the Senate to Them and protested.
as well out of re gard for the reputa-
ton of that body itself as from
sense of public decency, against his be-
ing admitted without an investigation. But
the Republican managers had then only denuncla-
tions Of newspaper Interference for suggestions of
that character and paid no heed to outside protests
They took him in, trusted him, defended him, gave
him good positions on committees aud treated him
like an honest man. though all the time they knew
he was not. Those We're the days in which they
sowcd the wind; the cropis coming in now.
The tangled shape into which Civil Service Reform
has worked itself is beautifully illustrated by the
fact that Senators who are known as the most
dexteTous managers of machine politics are
found opposing the confirmation Of Presi-
dent Hayes's appointments, the ground
that they contravene the rules" No doubt the
Administration desires reform, no doubt the poll
ticians are struggling to hold their grip on the
machine and the recognized hostility Of the Sena-
tors in question to any thorough reform, demon
stratcs thensnccrity of their methods. And yet tho
fact that the Administration, in spite Of its
good intentions, has never had an intelligent
and consistent scheme Of Reform, or at least the
fact that it has not resolutely pursued and is not
resolutely pursuing such scheme. has invited an
attack Of this sort and has allowed its enemies to
capture the outworks of It's position and turn its
own guns upon its very citadel.
Mosquitoes are rarely vOuchsafcd 10 dwellers in
those ATTITUDES as of tho mercies of Thanksgiy-
ing week bnt the slender pipe of this musical cucx
has again thawed opcn and his acute song is now
heard on the banks of the raging Hackensack. But
this is year OF climatic surprises and the mosquito
is not the only anachronsm Winteris due on Satur
day, By the Almanac, and yet dandelions shining
on a turf as soft and green as May ever shows and
even rosebGds Of tho harder monthly varieties. are
still opening in sunny exposures. The country
never before realized to what degree a special SEES
sion of Congress in the fall could warm things up.
Those Republicans who invariably went into hys
terics when they heard it suggested that all carpet
baggers wero not made up exclusively of sweetness
and light are now the first TO discover that these
statesmen are. and always have been, nothing but
wounds and bruises and putrcfying sores while |
those Democrats who are now hugsing these men |
most lovingly are the very ones who have hitherto
cursed them with the most noise and the least dis
crmination YOU'RE another and They all do it
seem to be the two great moral truths upon which is
bottomed the ethical system of the pure partisan.
A Washington dispatch says that the order of Sec
rotary McCrary directing that the names of battles
be omitted from future editions Of The Ary Register
has been misunderstood, and that the purpose of the
order is TO incorporate different plan Of state
meut of the engagements in The Register. The new
plan. we are further told, is now being prepared by
General Sherman. Ii the Secretary had explained
this at first he would have spared himself much IN
friendly criticism. Even there will, no Coubt,
be skeical persons who Will unkindly suggest that
his "new plan" i an afterthought
POLITICAL NOTES.
Judge Davs's third party is unanimous for the
g. Ill Of I la.