New-York tribune., 1877-09-01

health of Prof. w. B. Rogers is very much to
be regretted, and the want of his address as
retiring President of the Association VIII De
sorely felt. There are few men engaged Ill
scientific pursuits in this country capable Oh
making so strong an address as Proi hogers,
or delivering it with such eloquence; Dut Oh
| late years he has been obliged to husband MS
strength for the lighter efforts which are per-
mtted after long period of forced inacnoh'
Tho oxceIlont discipline of the French Re-
publicans accounts largely for their brilliant
prospects. They have made already nomina-
nons in 493 districts leaving only forty to be
proyided with candidates. In accordance
with the party programme they have re-
| nominated all of the 1868 who censured
the Administration, and have resolved to
contest vigorously 166 districts which have
been represented by anti-Republicans. While
the Republicans are thus acting in harmony,
the Administration party is in disorder the
official candidate being opposed by rival OF
the same type in eighty districts, while in
thirty departments the official list is still in
complete. The Administration has evidently
gained nothing by its shuffling policy.
Inc letter OF acceptance Ol Ool' iiOlhu"J'
the Democratic candidate for Governor OF Vlr-
glnia, will disappoint those who hailed his
nomination as a reverse for the advocates OF
reputation. Like many other people who
have had letters of acceptance to wlite, COL
Holiday has had to compromise with the plat-
form on which he was nominated, and the re-
suit is a letter which borrows its fine phrases
about the faith and credit, the dignity and
honor of the Commonwealth, but which carefully
refrains from saying how the faith and credit,
dignity and honor are to be preserved. Per
hans it is to his credit that Col. Holiday is
as careful to refrain from arguing for that
adjustment" of the State debt which the
platform demands, and which simply means
that the people of Virginia are not willing to
stand UP like men and be taxed to pay their
debts. The Mother of Presidents has good
reason to be ashamed Of some of her later
childFen.
! Nowhere have tie strikers been visited with
such Exemplary punishment as to reassure the
ordeSly and overawe the disorderly classes OF
society State authorities, courts and compa-
nies seem to have been alike in their lnet-
fcie1cy and in their neglect of this grave
| public duty. Such sentences as those OF the
three strikers yesterday in Pittsburg are the
only reminders we have, in any action OF the
courts or officials, that there was great
| strike, and that many crimes were then com
mitted which will go unpunshed forever. And
such sentences as have been announced are
| so few in number that they cOuld
be counted on ones fingers and so short IN
duration that they @erve no practical purpose
except to give ,rl e. "a a brief season OF RESI-
| in which to pito.ia for the arduOus duties OF
journalism. Ii IS graz lying, however, to no.
tice that while % stiihcr's contempt OF court
in New-York was tl21ehl sufficiently pun
! isbed with thirty day in Tisonment, like
contempt of court in Pennsylvania is consid-
cred worth n term three times as long.
Gen. Ghourkos raid across the Balkans was
brilliant episode. Europe was aStonlshed at
! the weakness of the barrier which military
| critics supposed would have been as stOutly
| defended by the Ottoman forces as If 1t were
| an OUTPOST of the capital The Christians were
as amazed as the Turks at the Russian sue
cess, and rejoiced at the advent of freedom.
! Acting in concert with the Bulgarian Legion,
they organized provisional governments, and
proceeded unwsely, to redress old wrongs by
hanging and shooting Turks, after trials
which we're mere fOrmalitles The hour
of reprisal came, however, when Suleiman
! Pasha, fresh from the work of slaughter i'll
Montenegro, outnumbered Gen. Ghourkos
forces, and forced them, after desperate fight
| ing, to retire 10 the Balkans This disastrous
retreat placed the Christians at the mercy OF
the Turks. AS Will be seen by the letter oi
our correspondent on another page, the blow
fell heaviest on EslI Zaghra, Turkish brutality
being displayed there IN its worst forms. Hap
pilv. the American missionaries were respected
amid the general carnage, and were able
throughout to mitigate the suffering on either