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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30
NOTIPTES pTBLTT.

We believe that, at least among business
men, there will be but one opinion respecting
the policy and prOpriety of Gov. R0binsOns
veto of the bill increasing the number OF no.
tares public TO 13,O32-One notary to 81
voters, and in great deal larger proportion
to the number of voters who will probably
have occasion to employ such an officer. The
Governor in his veto message urges that al
ready many persons receive appointment to
the Office who are ignorant of its duties. This
is undoubtedly true. The functions of Il notary
are peculiar, and require not only good sense
but Il fair knowledge of commercial law, with
honesty as a matter of course. Their authority
in commercial matters is recognized all over
the world, and their seals are respected as well
in foreign courts as in the courts of their country.
Their business is the attestatiOn OF documents
and the prOtcstatiOn of bills and notes. They are
empowered to administer OathS. They anthem
ticate sea-letters receive the protests of mas
tiers respecting lost vessels or damaged car
goes, and may generally spread upon the
records which it is their duty carefully to
make and preserve, any affidavit or deposition
in perpetual memory of the thing. Bat the
business of notary is mainly commercial, and
it is quite ont of the question that the State
of NcT-York should need thirteen thousand OF
them, or anything like so many.
The protest of foreign bill by notary is
an act requiring sometimes the best Judgment
and good knowledge of all the decisions OF
the courts relating to that process, whether the
protest be for nOn-acceptance or non-payment
IL he does his work. in clumsy or sloyenly
way he may occasion great loss and incon-
yenicnce to persons whose responsibilities
are created or revived simply by his blum
dcrs. Everything may depend upon his
prompt and legal notice to drawers or in
dorscrs. and upon his making demand
at the right time and place upon the right
person and with the right fOImalities. We
mention these necessary qualifications, bat
there are many others which we need not re-
cite Every person at all acquainted with the
subject knows that there cannot be 1902
men in the State of New York who are fit for
the Office of notary. We question whether
there are as many hundreds. Of all offices,
this is one which should not be bestowed
broadcast merely as personal or party com
pliment In itself it is one of the most ancient
and respectable known to the law. BY indef-
nitely increasing the number of its holders,
something must be taken from its dignity,
even if no worse result should follow.
The clerks of the Executive Department, so
Gov. Robinson tells us, can hardly prepare and
mail before the 30th of March, as required by
law the commissions of notaries already APP
pointed. The State being now supplied with
these officers to the number of 11,742, it
seems to be trihing and childish to go on in
croa sing the number, On the contrary, 1t
would be much better to diminish it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

The Senate Of New-Jcrsey meets again to-day IN
special session to assist Gov Bedle in completing the
list of Judges for the new city courts. Although
Gov Bedle was candidate for his high office while
Justice of the Supreme COt1t, and appointed his
own successor it has never been the practice In
New-JerSey to flavor the judiciary with politics
Some of the Democratic Judges now on the bench
were appointed by q Republican Governor and 1t
argued no extravagant liberality on Gov Bodies
part to name two Republicans out of ten for the new
iudgeships especially one of these two was yrtl-
ally rcappOintment and the bill which created the
new courts had been passed under the lead OF he
publican in the Senate and Republican III the
Honse But after ALL there was the suspicion of an
Ah-Sinful game which was to have been played last
Wednesday upon confdng Republican Senators.
The Gnbernatoral mind was long time persuading
itself that the bill ought to be signed and when it
finally collected itself the venerable fatheT-in-law Of
the Governor emerged into a prospective judgeship
The Senate confirmed Judge Hopper, Democrat, OF
Passaic and then the name OF the venerable father
in-law was presented for consideration, but action
was deferred under the rules, by objection. The
Democratic majority of the Senate expressed some
aversion to confirming the two Republicans, and
although the Governor appeared socitous in their
behalf it was found that if the venerable father-in-
law was once comfortably fixed in his seat the Gov
might lose his interest IN the nepuDllcans ana
be easily driven under appearance OF protest. to
send in the names of Democrats i'll their stead. The
Governors political methods are a tr1e tortuOus,
ana bargain of this sort would not be altogether
uncharacterstic. 1t would, in fact, be pleasant
thing TO have the venerable fathor.in-law and nine
other Democrats for Judges, provided the odium OF
such a partisan performance could be made to rest
solely upon the Senate. In this view of the the
adjournment was very wholesome measure, and
the deliberations at Trenton will be watched with
eo,nc inf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

REAL ESTATE md CHARTER REFORM.
Nobody who has had occasion of late to ex-
anime closely the condition and prospects of
the real estate market in this city can have
helped seeing that something besides business
depression is keeping prices down. There is
a widespread and growing feeling among those
even whose fortune has not been sensibly
affected by the financial crisis that it is not
prudent to own ones house in New-YOrk;
that renting, with all its possible inc0nvcD
iences is preferable, and that we have not yet
reached the lowest price for dwelling-hOuses
and sites of dwelling hOuses. This is not all
the result of the panic American hopeful
ness, especially about real estate, is too strong
to be very long or easily quelled by any
financial cOnvulsiOn. People are i'll one way
or another familiar with the nature and effects
of financial commissions They expect them to
pass off, and believe that the country will, in
spite of them, continue its growth in wealth and
population, and until within the last seven years
there was no spot of the country the growth
of which was more confidently believed in and
on which men were reader to stake money
than this city. But this sanguine view which
neither the panic of 1857 nor that of 1850
abated very long or very perceptibly, is not
now to be met with, and the reason is that for
the first time in its history the fact has been
brought home to the property owners of the
city that the city debt is an actual lien
on their houses and lands, of the same
kind and attended with the same consequences
as mortgage in the hands Of a private cred
ltor. and that the burden it imposes, already
large, is increasing rapidly year by year, and
that there exists at present no means OF ar
resting this increase. In other words, the real
estate of the city is every year being saddlcd
with fresh liabilities of a permanent character
which promise, before very long, unless some
great change is made in the government, to
lead to one of two results-the reputation by
the city of portion of its debt, or the pas
sage of IFS real estate into the hands OF new
men, at prices SO low as to enable them to
hear the burden of taxation without rails
ing rents above what the ordinary
rate of profit in business will bear. Which of
these results is the more likely we do not I'M
dertake to predict. We assert, however, that
one of them is certain, just as certain as that
man who is living on his principal, and
seeks no revenue from any other source, VIII
one day find himself penniless. The city Is
every year meeting portion OF It's expenses
with borrowed money, and the reason it Dor
rows money is that the taxes do not come up
to the outlay. This is the whole story, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

Mr.. c. p. Cranch gives, in an interesting
letter in another column, sketch of a preacher
Joseph Cook, who has been stirring the heart
of Boston during the past Winter This
speaker has evidently taken a hold on part
of the cultivated classes in that city, and
his peculiarities well deserve study.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

New-Jersey authorities have impaired an IN
usual hvclincss to life insurance Investigations
President Noyes has been sent to jail-not
constructively so, as hitherto while simply in
charge of an officer, but actually inside OF
prison bars. There is hope now of a more
rapid progress in negotiating with him for the
surrender OF the assets of the New-Jersey
Mutual Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

An Appendix of 16 pages, embOdying the teri
of the Electoral Commission bill and q con,pre-
the electoral count, is now ready accompanying
the fJth edition of THE TRIBUNE AIMASAC
Price Of the Almanac. 'ciM ApPcadir, twenty-five
cents per copy, postpaid. Fire copies for one
dollar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

The BOYS in Blue will do well to be careful about
following Mr. Drake Dc Rays lead. He seems
exceedingly anxious to manipulate the organization.
and wonderfully busy about it at an unusual season.
1t would be interesting to know what private ends
he is trying to further in the matter; and it would
be well for Gen. Grant, Gov. Dix, and Others with
whose names he makes Free to look into his per-
formances. The young man is not given to working
for nothiug-even for the Boys in Blue. There is
some cat under the meal-tub of this unreasonable
effort to work UP the organization; and Boys in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

Wade Hampton has consented to meet the
President on equal terms, and seems to be
less afraid than lie was that somebody may
do him q favor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

David NJ. Green OF Clayville, Oneida County, N.
Y. has been sentenced to one years imprisonment
for embezzling while postmaster. from registered
letter, 80, intrusted to him for transmission to
THE TRIBUNE in payment for subscriptions. The
oiIcnse was committed more than year ago. and
by means of forged receipts from The TRIBUNE
Office and the Newly orl PostOice concealed forsev-
eral months. The incident illustrates anew the
curty, amounting almost TO complete protection, of
remittances properly made through the mail by
money order or registered letter. Ex-Postmaster
Green would have successfully defed detection had
not the forged receipt for the registered letter fas-
tened the crime upon him and compelled confession.
And after all it seems high price to pay for ten
dollars.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

The present session of the Legislature has been
prolific in strange refOrmcrs. 1t was surprise enough
TO find Mr. Morrissey working his hardest in the i'll
terest of good government in NewYOrk City. with
ont having Mr. Alvord raise point of legislative
propriety which very few legislators even of this
reforming age will second. The Assembly some days
ago by n "logrong" combination, crammed the
Supply bill with appropriations for canal bridges
and a second attempt was made yesterday 10
strike them all from the bill Mr. Alyord asked
to be excused from voting the BILL Oh the ground
that he was ian interested party" bridge for Sy-
racuse being in question. The Assembly refused 10
excuse him. and we regret to say he kicked over his
new ;prnciple and voted for the bridges Syracuse
and all. Iii pity Mr. Alvord could not muster the
courage to vote against his constituents, but
he has certainly furnished the parliamentary
moralist of the future with valuable
suggestion. We have not yet reached point where
legislators hesitate TO vote openly to advance their
own interests 1t is the cOmmonest OF occur
rences in Congress to find members voting IN
behalf of their own corporations OF enter
prises and within a few years railroad
| president who was member of the House, has been
publicly called to order by another member for I'M
portuning votes the floor for his road. When
this sort of thing comes to an end If 1T ever does,
perhaps the question will arise which Mr.. Alyord
has cast before unapprecatve herd of legislators
Nav not the time come when it will be considered
the part of propriety for member not to vote money
into the pocket of his "deestrict" any more than
into his Ownl when the representative will con-
tent himself in stating his "dcestrict's" case, and
refrain from voting with the juryf Another cen
tury two may throw light on this point.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

The President does not seem ever to have
been noisy fighter and he is not likely to
change his style of warfare now. Instead OF
announcing in loud tone of voice that he is
going to begin, he begins and ends before the
other side know that he has moved at all. a
good instance of his quiet campaigning is to
be found in his appointment yesterday of three
Indian agents for Nebraska, none of whom
were residents of that State, although both
Senators, who pride themselves on holding the
appointments in that State in fee simple, had
declared that they would vote to confirm no
nominee who was not from Nebraska. Whether
OF not one of these Senators has had change
of heart as the Presidents remarks to a
Quaker delegation on Wednesday seem to in
dictate, his action is perhaps the most direct
Infringement that ha. yet been made upon the
Senatorial monopoly of Offices. Ii is also of
interest as indicating, inasmuch as two of the
three agents are Qudkcrs, that TIE Indian
policy of the last Administration will be con-
tinued, at least for some time to come. IN
deed, the Presidents little speech to the dele
cation seemed intended to express his satisfac-
ton with the present workings of the system.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

whole canal! Rochester didn't deserve TINS.
but some of the people in that neighborhood
did.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

A vigorous effort to control the price of coal
by "a combination and an agreement to shut
off the supply was got under way yesterday.
The meeting of the representatives of the coal
companies is described as harmonious. All
they want now is 80 cents ton more. The
people who have to buy coal cannot be ex-
pccted to sympathize with such anxiety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

There are six bills now pending at Albany
which affect the public schools of this city
The account given of them elsewhere seems to
show that the provisions of three of them, so
far as they relate to the schools, are clearly
deserving of defeat, while two of them
are as clearly deserving of acceptance.
These two have been framed with the APP
prevail of the Board of Education, and are de-
signed to vest in the board that control over
its funds which the best friends of education
in this city deem essential to the welfare OF
the schools. One of these bills has passed the
upper house unanimously, and is expected to
fare equally well in the lower. The other has
been approved by Vote of the Board of
Aldermen, which usually looks sharply after
the interests of politicians, and it ought not
to fail in the Legislature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

Now and then one man will give whole
CITY bad name. 1t viii take generation TO
Get Tweed's name disassOciated from that OF
New-York, and, to take a less important IN
stance. Rochester must wear long time the
livery of the Lords. In the Assembly yester-
day. in the battle of the bridges, member
from Rochester, blandly conscious that by the
benevolence of the Lord family his entire sec
ton of the country had been bridged within
an inch of its life at the expense of the State
exasperated the representatives of the less for
tunate sections of the State 10y urging them to
build their own bridges. ThereupOn one of
them retorted that Rochester, having got all
the bridges she wanted, had tried to steal the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

There is no reason to doubt that England
and Russia have agreed upon the terms OF the
protocol. Until, however, peace is concluded
between Turkey and Montenegro, there will
be some basis for the gloomy forebodings of
the London journal which said yesterday: at
ais really idle talk of inquiries, trials, amnes-
cites, constitutions, and other acts, thlmy
"dressed in phrases of legal significance. In
ga word, we have failed. We have had our
"turn, and it is over" While Montenegro
continues hostile, the Turks will not dlsarm'
Russia, in turn, will keep her troops on the
frontier 80 long as the Ottoman Empire bnstles
with baYOnets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

Another freight war has begun, to be con-
tinued no doubt with all the fierceness that
cbo,acterizes these contests, and to be followed
by truce in which the public will be sacil-
feed just as it has always been sacrificed be-
forexs 1t is to be hoped, however, that the IN
terests of the merchants of this city VIII not
be so lightly abandoned in the future as they
have been in the past.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

Misgvings are entertained in England ana
Germany that if Russia acquires possession OF
Turkey, she will largely divert the trade OF
that country. These apprehenslons are well
founded, inasmuch as Russia is mainly self
supporting nation, and makes each country
which she conquers conform to the industrial
system of the Empire The Government has
Just directed that all locomotives and rolling
stock shall henceforth be procured at home,
promising to admit the raw material duty free
and to grant both subsidies and premiums to
the manufacturers. The Golden Club WILL OF
course be Mortified at this arbitrary decree,
but the Russians are not likely to oppose
measures intended to hasten the industrial
development of their country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30
Business Monies.

VOGEL Bros, the only House that sells
FAsHIoNA CLOTHING actual low prices Broadway cor
Houston, and Eightb-ave. near 42d-st
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

What Wade Hampton and Wade Hamptons
friends are saying to the President in Wash
ington, a staff correspondent of THE TRIBUNE
at Wade Hamptons capital finds to be the
truth. Certainly this showing of facts leaves
no room for doubt as to whom the people OF
South Carolina recognize as their Governor.
Hampton collects taxes and administers the
government; Chamberlain holds the state
archives under the protection of troops VINO
find it such mOnotonous business to uphold
a government that has nothing to do, that they
play cards to while away the time. There can
be but one end to the controversy, and Presi-
dent Hayes may be trusted to find the wlseSt
way to reach it,
, 1877-12-30

Neie 1nrE 1Inles-
Emil Zak, representing himself as native of
Austerlitz, Austria, aud chemist educated ut
the Polytcchnic Institute in Switzerland, pre-
sented himself at the Castle Garden yesterday
morning in ragged and filthy condition. His
hair was hanging over his shoulders, and his
flesh was covered with thick coating Of dirt,
which gave him dark-brown appearance. lie
said that he landed in New Orleans in October,
1915, IN search OF employment. Failing to OBJ
tain it, he took the last S200 TINT remained to him
and proceeded 1o Brownwood, Tex, LAO miles
from Austin, and purchased u homestead. He
lived there until May last, when his means be-
came exhausted, and he started to walk to New
York, In the hope that the Commissioners OF
Emigration would furnish him Tree passage
home. He has been ever since accomplishing
the task He claims to have walked every step.
lie slept i'll the woods, III barns. in police sta
tions, or anywhere that came handiest- Some
times he cot work for q day or two, and ut
other times subsistcd Oh charity or tasted for
long intervals. IL had, as may be supposed,
pretty rough time throughout his Journey,
but met with no startling adventures. He found
50 forms awaiting his arrival in the hands OF
the Austrian Consul, which he used in purchas-
ing passage TO Hamburg on the Frisia, which
sails to-day. The Commissioners had him we'll
scrubbed, and furnished him with new suit OF
clothes. Thus rigged out, he did not appear
yn,tch hc .yorsc fnr his travels.
, 1877-12-30

STORAGE .
SAFE AND COMPLETE sTOEE-HoUsE Fol:
"A furniture all household OF other s0od9- 10 to16
Kaudo!ph-nt, Hale Builuiug- asorase aud aa' ances
Low rates.
facilities fer storage at farntsu nal gen
eEa merchandise At legal rates: vaults
TjREPEOOF WAREHOUSE. r6o WEST MONROE
For furniture, merchandise, carriages. ETC. Leans
10 any amount LEGAL interest. Cash tot stocks o1goo
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-20

The central location of the 'tAshland" makes II
yery. desirable place for strangers, being one
block from Madison Park, also Broadway. and ON!
a short distance from any of The principal places
Of amusement.
BY taking either ed St. cross town, or Fourth
Avenue street fars, access may be had direct from
the door, TO any part of the city.
Mr.. EDWARD A. JOHNSON,
Will be found in charge Of the Office where be has
presided for eight years, and will not fall TO give
satisfaction to guests.
Room AND BoARD-$2,00, s., so and So per Day
RooMs-$1 per. lay and Upwards.
AE@fsE = H.sH. BRoCKWAY, Proprietor
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-20
md riotOus prOceedibgs, and unlawful COM

and riotous proceedings, and unlawful COM
binations TO interfere with the rights of
possession and property. This is what the
law should and must do, and do it for all
10 equal degree, and without distinction Of
persons or corporations. 80
The disadvantages of labor in its autag-
Onism to capital, and the injustice which
capital often inficts upon labor, are evils
which the philanthropist and the political
economist connot lightly pass over; but at
the same time, in the purview of the law,
which is bound to afford protection against
lawlessness aud violence, and in the light
of all past experience as to the utter dis
eomfture and disastrous failures of combi-
nations to raise wages, or to control the
rate, it becomes apparent to thinking
and observing minds that all such combi-
nations are wholly impotent to afford any
remedy for the ills sought to be redressed.
The causes which produce the troubles
complained of lie deeper than the mere
surface, and the remedy is to be sought in
some other and more efficient proceedings
than simply getting up strike.
The limits of this article preclude any
discussion of the remedies which might
contribute to better state of affairs. II
is sufficient to say at this time that not
one but many causes contribute to produce
the evils complained of. The extravaganza
and unthriftiness of flush times, and the
necessity of retrenchment and reform il
private life, are as applicable to individuals
as to the government, and are as much o.
a necessity. While much of the financia
embarrassment of the times may be justly
charged to unwise legislation and malad
ministration. the unparalleled extrava
gance of all classes in private as well al
public affairs have contributed not a little
to what we are now compelled to undergo
As we said in the outset our feelings snC
sympathies have ever been on the side o.
labor in its struggles with the heartless
rapacity and graspiDg righteousness o.
incorporated capital; but we can never
sanction or approve of any combination
however necessitous the case, which at
tempts to right its wrong by violent
destructive, and unlawful means. A strike
is no proper remedy, and never results il
any good 70 the parties engaged in it
Look less to party fealty and more t
choosing honest and upright men to MAKE
the laws and to administer them when en-
acted, and in due course of time we nigh
find public policy developed which woul,
be more in the interest of the toiling mill
ions, aud less under the control of organ
lied capital.