New-York tribune., 1877-05-31
Getu-alork Daily Gribn1le,
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
THURSDAY, MAY 81, 1877.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRF1GN.-Nulhtar Pasha still has headquarters
in the Soehanlu Mountains. = Gen. Grant re-
ceived hearty greeting at Manchester =-- Silyio
won the Derby, Glen Arthur being second, and Rob
Roy third. - John LOthrop Motley, tie bis
torian, died in England -= Tie French Repub-
hcans accept VI. Thiers a. their leader.
DOMESTIC Memorial Day was observed moro gen
orally than ever before; in Chattanooga So LOUIS
and come other places ex-COufedcrateS and eXUmon
soldiers united == Particulars Of tho wreck Of
the Pachr Mail steamship City of san Francisco are
received -== frr at Montreal destroyed prop
erty to the value Of 100000 -= Minis and other
buildings were burned at Osccda Mica; loss
100000
CITY AND SlBuRBAN.-Deco'a alton Day was Oh
served in tins city and its vicinity with unusual
earnestness ==- The publisher and booksellers
held q meeting in memory of Fletcher Harper.
60 The trial Of the Rev. Mr. Mccarthy was ended
and decision was reserved. -= The largest dis
tillory in Br',llyn has been seized -z- MTs. John
BoIeuger and her young daughter Were brutaily as-
saulted near Newark by seven men. -- Tho
Columbia College crew wen the iCur-oarej race al
Rutherford Park
TIE EWEATmER-TR1BUNE local observations iDdi-
cate increased warmth aud intervals OF partial
cloudiuess. Thermometer yesterday, 60, So. G0''
Persons tearing town for the season. Gnd SaG'-
per trGreisS can hare THE BAIlA IuHUhE
mailed 10 them, postDGM tor pi pr monte, tie
address being cidaged as Q}tea as dcStfcd.
Gov. Cullom's veto of the Illinois Silver bill
contains good deal of sound finance and
sound state snanship. Gov. Cull0m can 20 up
head.
The opposition to Fred Douglass has died
m ignomnious death, as it deserved. We
feel, however, authorized TO announce that the
lecture on Washington has been delivered for
the last time.
This year the Derby lost none of its accus-
toned attractions. Seventeen horses cOntcndcd
for the prize. which fell to Siyio--a colt that
none OF the prophets had deemed worth naming
as a probable winner. The result shows
strikingly the little progress made in deter
mining the relative feetness Of race-hOrses.
From the tone of comment at the conven-
ton of superintcndents Of insane asyums, 1t
might be inferred that our State was fairly
providing for its unatics. But when the
question is brought to the test of figures, it
appears that of 1000 insane persons only
$500 can be- accommodated IN our asylums at
the utmost As it stands 1t is not Il matter
for congratulation.
Perhaps the most noticeable feature Of the
exercises Of Decoration Day was tbc union IN
several cities O.. Confederate and Onion soldiers
in decorating Union and Confederate graves.
In St. Louis aud Chattanooga the duties of the
day were equally divided between replc-oHta-
tives of the two armies, and al the dead were
included in the beautiful ceremony which has
given the day is name. At Richmond, Union
soldiers laid wlcatns on the Confederate mon
uments A few years more and ,his touchugiy
fraternal ceremony will have wider range.
If the dispatches describing the wreck OF
the Pacific Mail steamer San Francisco cor
Tectly state the facts, no blame can attach to
the officers of the vessel tor such strange
misfortune. The management by winch thc
passengers and crew were al rescued j cer-
tainly deserving Of praise. Tie affidavit made
at Acapulco, concerning some bH,Wlod-e on
the part of people there as TO the existence OF
the rock on which the vessel struck VIII stand
III the way of promptly accepting the theory
that the sea-,ottom Las been recently changed
by an earthquake Otherwise that theory
seems not improbable.
A South Carolina letter on another page
gives an account Of the workings of the H.,np-
ton Government and the dco0fmn Of the
Hampton Ie.islqture 1t is also OF interest as
showing the status of the repudr,tiOn coutro-
yersy at the time the letter was written and
when the Bourbon repudators were supposed
70 have been beaten Dispatches state That the
uOuse may refuse to concur with the Senate