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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17
POLITICAL NOTES.

Even Spontaneous receptions" do not al
ways make great man President
The removed official is bOmbarding the pub
lie with long and suphurous letters against the Admin
stration but the public does not even wink IL merely
mods.
This chastity defamation OF the official force
I'm some more Custom Houses in order to cut them down
to business basis again moves the reflective citizen to
noure what sort of basis these institutions previously
reposed on
Mr.. Randall should send copies of his Gal
weston interview TO the Northern Democratic editors
They have able learn yet that he is In favor
of building up the places of tho South with sub
sides.
The Greenback movement does not receive
very cordial mt from the workinnen They
even sneak disrespectfuy OF the great paper money
aposc Gen Sam Cary, and imply, with more paiuness
than geneness that he is the sort Of they
wond pick out Tor leader. There is CLEAN of en-
coaragcment IN ms
The Wisconsin Democrats are in a mild sort
OF s1uabbe about OF their party The call for
State Convention speaks Of the organization az the
peoplcs Reform party, but the warhOrse resenis this
as q denqrtilre from traditional custom. compromise
should be made IA favor OF calling II the FRAUD party
That fits Ike g.ONt
The silver dollar advocates in Ohio are max
ing last attempt the rcycrcd relic u the Fathers
nom oblivion They declare that tho Republican
Convention did represent the peope in its declare
ton ON the subject Why didn't IL There were Office
holders there and the people had their way about It,
They seem TO be happy about the result, too.
The Texas and Pacific directors merely want
n modest subsidy OF S2,5OO.0OO year That Is a SUM-
cent basis for building M 10y the beautiful process OF
logrolliug mid the Treasury for several hundred
millions. once get the door open. and the number OF
iobs would sail in under OF the original request
would be as boundess as the Democratic appetite.
Gen. Beatty of Ohio should starte the world
with the names Of Of the gentlemen who are writ
lug him such encouraging letters about the sn-Republ
can movement Il might turn out that some OF them he
longed 20 Democrats. Gen. Beatty is not the first man
who has been mised by the idea that Is egsy TO pick
nm "A ready made party almost anywhere but he IA
almost alone thinking his party will poll 10000
votes at its first election.
Mr. Bishop rises to say he has been-not to
put TO fine point Titled about by his party friends.
He declares that tho subject Of money has not been
spoken OF between him and the Democratic Committee
and Insists that he nominated because he bust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

have proved futile; and this fact gives another
character to the libels which have been SO
reely promulgated against the Executive
They are no longer libels against hun alone (;
thew are imputalons upon the common sense
and common honesty OF the American people ;
and as such they are equally abominable ana
ludicrous. To call Il man dishonest when tlat
man is receiving marks of respect from large
majority of the voters, whether they be Repubh-
cans or Democrats. is to say that the American
people prefer dishonesty to integrity, ana iaise-
hood to truth or else that they have not SUM-
Gent sense TO discriminate between right ana
wrong. If the Presidents hand IL unclean'
then there were great many uncieah iianus
at Bennington yesterday.
The truth is, this wild and unscrupulous sly 10
of auimadversion has overshot the marx Ill
their eagerness to reach the President his de-
tractors have cast a gross indignity upon the
people. The wisest men in the Democratic par
ty saw the folly of this some time ago. shu
accordingly adopted an entirely different tohe'
They comprebended that it would hardly pay
70 tell even n great minority that it was utterly
and thoroughly disbOnest-not III the conven-
tional sense as the word is used in political
discussion, but completely and personally so.
But. alas there are so many Democrats VINO
don't know anything, and can't be taught.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

the standard which the present rate OF assess
ment fixes as fair. So good an authority as
Commissioner Andrews insists that the exist-
ing rate ON unmproyed lots is not unreason-
able. or. TO use his own words as reported
"not higher than the value OF the uptown
"lots" although he qualified this remark 10y
adding that at was difficult to learn what the
"value was of property which no one cared to
"buy.n
II il difficult to suggest remedy LOT t''ls
state of affairs. If the stagnation IN real es-
tate continues long, the embarrassment to those
owing mortgages with penalties in bonds at
tached will mquestonably be very great !;
while holders of mortgages, among whom are
our largest banks and insurance companies,
will be reluctantly compelled to become owners
of lots on which they have loaned lar more
than they can now realize by forced sales. AT
the same time, to make any very marked re-
duction in the rate of assessment or such
property will materially reduce the city ana
State revenue. How, then, the part OF the
community which has become involved by
investments at old prices, and later by
the purchase of property under foreclosure
sales. is to be temporarily relieved, is very
nice question for the private and puDllc imam
az
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17
REAL ESTATE IGNITION.

The reports of the recent meeting between
leading operators in real estate and the State
Assessors, together with the publication of the
testimony in the Universal Life Insurance
suit, direct our attention once again to the
question of unequal taxation Of city and country
property. year ago the Tax Commissioners
of New-York and Brooklyn made an effort to
equalize assessments, and after they had shown
that property in the two cities was much more
heavily assessed than hat of the rural districts,
some relief was granted by a reduction Of the
ratio The present agitation serves to point
out more particularly the inequality in assess
ments of property in different parts of the
city, and it is against the heavy taxation of
uptown and Westchester unimproved lots that
the protests are now loudest and deepest.
1t is not questioned that the assessments
of property above Central Park have been
onerous, and often ruinous. More than a
score of cases of the financial ruin of wealthy
men, such rs Thomas Murphy, Lewis j.
Phillips, and Senator Dreamer, by foreclosure
sales of property which did not bring half
the face of the mortgages, leaving the I'M
fortunate maker of the bond to pay the
deficit out of other property, might be cited
IN nlNStl0tiOn. L Dtlc are, Itolttc, lBpuSiH II
of less notorious cases, in which the buyers at
the flush prices of the Ring days have been
sold out of house and home under the hammer,
to pay deficiencies on unimproved property
which they held for speculation. But in all
these cases the victims we're themselves largely
to blame they had invested in the fever
of speculation which ragged when the
Ring was in power, and had invested
for speculation only. They themselves fixed
the valuation of the uptown lots at speculative
figures, and the rate OF assessment ran up-at
least until lS73-according to the value which
the spectators insisted on maintaining. and
not according to the real values. The rate OF
assessment was not increased after that year
and has been somewhat reduced since, but the
stagnation of the panic days continues, and
there is no telling when prices will again reach
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17
gnncr 10 Advertisements.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

FoRy1cv-The siege of Rustchuk is virtually
raised. -- Gen. GhouTko is reported to have gone
= ST. Petersburg to take command Of the Guards
going 10 the field -= A general call to arms has
heen made in Turkey. == Mexican troops are con-
oentratinc at Camargo, opposite the Rnggold Bar-
racks. = The British Rifle Team has sailed for
this port.
DoMrsTIC-Thc Centenary Of the battle OF Ben
nington was celebrated yesterday by q procession
four miles LONG, in which President Hayes appeared;
short speechcs were made by President Hayes, mem-
bers Of The Cabinet several Governors and others 4;
Prof Bartlett delivered an Grafton, and q poem by
BRYANT was read; President Hayes was received
with enthusiastic cheers everywhere -= Judge
West opercd the Republican campaign in Ohio last
night by speech at Bellefontaine. = 1t is possible
that legal proceedings may he begun against Nor
ton. Bliss & Co. by the National Banks over Syndi-
cate matter. - Spartan and Duke of Magenta
made dead heat Vera Cruz Madge and Reddlng
won the other races at Saratoga,
CITY. AN! SUBURBAN.-The committee of Della
ware and Hudson stockholders made very favor
able report. -- The Denmark was libelled -
nole proscqui was entered the fourteen indict-
ments against William +. King. -- F. W. Good
erson was arrested in Harlem for the tatal shooting
of Edward Brennan. == 4 new amateur rowing
association was formed. - The EngloWood our
glars were captured. - Gold,n05l4, 1853, 1858
Gold value Of the legaltender dollar at the close,
81 90 cents Stocks excited active and adyanc-
ing rapidly, closing firm
THE WEATHER TmBUNE local observations in
dicate fair and somewhat warmer weather. Their
Inometer yesterday, IA, 40, IL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17
THE PRESIDENTS WELCOME.

1t is unnecessary to say that the reception Of
the President at bennington has been of the
most enthusiastic kind. Full respect has been
paid 20 the man and to the Office the voice Of
party maignity uttered no syllable to mar the
harmony of the interesting occasion. Nor must
it be forgotten that this good feeling has
been exhibited at time when mems minds
were especially occupied by memories of the
public purity and patriotism of an earlier day,
and when. if there had been any personal stain
upon the character Of the President it must
certainly have modified the warmth Of his recep-
ton. There have been those who would have
had the President held personally responsible
for what they regard as a political wrong.
They have asked everybody to insult him.
They have been eager to have him rebuked
wherever he might go.
The deaf ear which the people have turned
TO such solicitations proves that whatever may
be the evaporation of faction, they at least
are satisfied. All effort to create a popular
feeling against the President because of the
proceedings OF the Electoral Commissioners,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

any bad failures are likely soon TO be recorded
among them. The smaller concerns Will, how
ever, need very prudent and sldlful manage
ment 10 keep them from running behindhand.
their main difficulty being that there are very
few safe investments for money that pay is
high a rate of interest as the banks themselves
endeavor to pay to their depositors and hence
there is the constant temptation to put their
funds in investments of inferior safety, that
pay higher rates.
Encouraging reports to the grain-growers OF
the West come from all quarters. The com
petition of wheat from the Black Sea Is like
ly to be lessened by the Eastern War, ana Is
iudged bv good observers to be declining as
fast as our facilities for shipment from the
West to Europe are increasing. The labor
troubles may, on the whole, be help to
farmers ON the other side Of the Mississippi by
sending them more labOrers; it is stated that
the westward immigration is already larger.
The crops are undoubtedly abundant, having
been spared alike by drought and grass
hopperS.
Judge Vests opening speech OF the campaign
in Ohio will be read with careful attention. On
the labor question he takes pains to express aD-
horrence of the strikers performances, ana
thinks the problem may be solved If capital
lists will give to labOrers percentage on their
net profits Well perhaps so. There is not an
alarming degree of practically about this sug-
gestion, but at least il shows that Judge west
has learned something within the past week or so.
Upon the currency question Judge West speaks
at great length. He expresses himself as OPP
posed both to initiation and contraction, and
seems to hope that specie payments may be
reached by the process known as "growing up
to the currency.
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ness man and not because Of his money Perhaps II 10
hs inability that he nominated for HIS money
which makes his party leaders UNHAPPY sbout him
The Cincinnati Enquirer, which published the original
charge copies the denial from The Ci'peiad Tender
with the nppant heading that" it is your Uncle Dick who
IA talnnQ0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

The Russian babes shouting On to the Bal
exam" One night about month ago dozen
children were missing in kischeneh. One father
after another sent word to the police that child
was lost. The streets, the back-yards and the
Hebrew quarter were ransacked, but the urchlns
could not be found; and when morning came their
mothers were convinced that they had either been
kidnapped By gypsy tribe or chopped into sausage
meat by Bash- BazOuks. Mounted patrols set out
in the direction Of the Pruth to the country,
and about ten miles from the city the youngsters
wore found The taller boys were armed with
secondhand muskets and pistols, and the smaller
urchins i'm the rear had sticks and wooden swords;
and all were marching on Constantinople! They
had pa ,sed the night III little wood by the road
side and after their bivouac had resumed their
march in excellent order. Their cOmmssariat had
been managed admirably for they had taken lunch
con with them from town, and had breakfastcd
heartily in camp. When the police asked them
where they were going, they replied briskly. ITO
"reipforce the army The advance Of the recruits
was checked aud retreat was ordered on kische-
nea Such spirited lads ought not to have been
whipped after they got home, but we dare say they
were The domestic proverb, which applies To the
Russians children as well as To his wife, runs,
Love them as your own soul, and beat them Ike
"your fur jacket"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

Yesterdays celebration at Bennington was.
from beginning to end, brilliant success. II
must have entailed much hard work on the
local managers, and that they did their work
well is eyinced by the absence of COM
plants. The thrOng was enormous, the pro-
oesson four miles long, and the enthusiasm
unbounded. The wholesome sentiment of ma
iionalty, which sets aside all sectional feeling,
has been characteristic of all our Centennial
celebrations, and in this one was particularly
marked.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

Persons at elevated positions such as the Tribune
and Eqnitable Buildings had yesterday the not very
common pleasure of seeing clearly defined the limits
of the storm which passed the city about o'clock
4 black cloud not unlike Manhattan Island in form,
and about rs wide, though not long, drifed slowly
M from the South, and while rain fell on the lower
part Of the Island the sun could be seen shining on
Brooklyn Heights the jersey Palisades and the
Staten Island Hills and gliding the spires in the
region of Harlem. The cloud was not over half an
hour in passing, and as it moved northward the sun
shine crept over the lower part of the city until the
streets were again full of light 1t is seldom that
the limits of rainfall are so distinctly shown to
persons within the area of the storm. Later in the
day a large cloud drifted over the island and ex-
tended westward to the Jersey shore, but Brooklyn
Heights confined to present gilded front.
The little poem by William Cnllen Bryant which
was read at Bennington il precisely in his early
manner-simple graceful and Informed by the most
accurate taste 1t will remind the reader of several
occasional pieces written by Mr.. Bryant several
years ago, which were full of ennobling sentiment
and patriotic feeling. No American writer has been
more fortunate in this class Of productions. nor do
We remember any Literary man who in old age has
more successfully kept the freshness OF youth Ii ia
thus that Nature rewards her votaiies, and moro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

II ia the history of all campaigns in which
volunteers and regular troops are both en-
ployed, that there is some ill-feeling or lack
of harmony sure to be developed in the JOINT
management Even our present Indian war
small as it is, has displayed already some fea-
lures of the kind. Fortunately the whole war
Is likely 10 end with the season, and the crit
cisms which the newspapers of the Far West
are INDUCING in will come to an end also.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

The Porte is displaying desperate earnest
ness in preparing for the closing scenes of this
wears campaign. Not only has it summoned
$4,000 men from Bagdad, but 1t has also or
dered general levy, to include those who
have hitherto escaped the draft" Should the
Ottoman Government be able TO raise funds
abroad to equip these troops, its power OF re-
g;stonce will be greatly augmented.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

The widespread influence of dull trade after
unhealthy speculation is traceabie in the full
urs of several Lyons silk houses, one with la
biIities amounting TO $1,000,OOO. The condi-
tion of the French manufacturers has been
rendered exceptionally precarious by the par
tial loss of the American market, and the pref
ereace which has been for some time accorded
to woolen fabrics. Perhaps in many instances
a heavy loss has resulted from having pur-
Chased large stocks last year when the specula-
tics in raw silk was at its height and the price
of sbat staple was doubled.
Bank Department reports from eight more
Swings banks are presented to-day. 1t is toll
er.bly evident that the climax OF troubles in
tb.se institutions is passed, and that few II
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

The fight between the Lipan and KickapoO
Indians imparts greater novelty to the disor-
DERBY scenes which are common on the Mexican
border. The concentration OF Mexican soldiers
at CamargO, opposite the RinggOld Barracks,
is. however, a matter of greater concern to
this country, since the demonstration may be
either in the interests of peace or way. Should
TIE troops be intended to prevent outrages like
that at Rio Grande City, the Mexican comman-
der ought to be commended for his energy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17

The committee of stockholders appointed to
Investigate the affairs of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal Company naturally enough see
everything in rosy light. They say that
they were afforded every facility, and found
tbsir task comparatively easy" They value
tie property at about an eighth more than the
Company has hitherto estimated it. and find
ln.le of fault with management or invest
,n.nts. When a man has horse for sale, he
usaally sees the good points Of the animal
with great vividness.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-26

We una new paper, ha'ling from
Wetzel county, upon our table. This
time it is 3 Democratic paper, as it
should have been sll along. The people
Of WetzeI are strongly Democratic, bu.
heretofore all of the local papers attempt
Cd to be printed in that region have been
Republican under a neutral cloak. Cap
tain ROBERT MCELDpwNEY and w. :.
WILEY are the editors of the new ven
tHe, and DANIEL Il NC, JR, publisher.
The Democrat promises to be good To-
ca. psper-sni therein will be ITS sue
CESS. We wish all connected with ii
success.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-26
TIE REsUmPTIoN REPEAL BILL.

FoRT's substitute tor the EWING bill
which has passed the House of Repre-
sentatives, repeals only that clause OF the
resumption act which provides tor the
redemption in gold of the outstanding
greenbacks on the first day of January,
1879. 1t substitutes nothing in place OF
the section repealed. The passage OF the
original act was bit of demsgoguery
and fraud, and it is a disgrace that /.
has been permitted to remain on the
statute books as a menace and threat to
business.
An analysis of the vote by which the
repeating bill was passed, shows that the
great body of the West and South voted
for it, while the Eastern States were
pretty nearly solid against it. Thirty
Republicans favored the bill and twenty
three Democrats opposed. Thirty-nine
members were absent, but as they were
all paired their presence would not have
changed the result. The States which
went solid for the bill we're Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas
Kentucky, Mississippi and West Vir-
ginis. Those solid against it were Cali
tornia. Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan
Minuesots, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Of the Maryland vote Mr.. Kimmell
alone opposed the bill, and Gov. Swami
was absent, making the vote of the State
stand four to one in favor of the passage.
Tho vote yuss a. follows.