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THE LOUISIANA INDICTMENTS.

The Indictment of Messrs.. Wells and Ander-
son is likely to have results not anticipated
nor desired by those who have advised 1t.
The Bourb0ns, who would disregard honor and
public duty for the qualification of revenge,
will be brought into direct conflict with the
honorable and conservative adherents of the
Democratic Party.
Let it be understood at the outset that no
honorable "trade' could have been made and
we presume that no trade at all was made, in
the Louisiana business. 1t was proper for the
President to make known the convictions by
which he would be guided, and equally proper
for honorable Democrats to make known their
desire for a peaceful settlement which should
be undIsturbed by subsequent vindictive acts.
But neither the President nor any Democratic
leader had any right to make promises condi-
toned upon acts of the other. Public duties
cannot be bargained off by honorable men.
Taking it for granted that no bargain was
made, and that no bargain can be violated, we
propose to inquire what obligations rest upon
the parties concerned in the Louisiana adjust
ment.
The President caused to be known his cOnvic-
ton that the presence of troops could not be con-
stitutionally continued that the Federal Gov
eminent had no right to interfere in that manner
in the government of a State. He has acted
upon that conviction. There his part in the mat
ter ends. He could not honorablY have made his
performance of duty conditional upon acts or
promises of others, and therefore cannot insist
that ANYTHING should now be done or left un
done as part of a bargain. He can insist upon
justice. and due regard for the public welfare,
and nothing more.
1t is IA fact which no honorable man can dis
pute, that grave crimes against sef-government
were perpetrated to secure Democratic MAORI
ties at the last election in louisiana On the
other hand, it is declared by indictment, and
by many people believed that Democratic vO-
lence was defeated by Republican fraud that
returns were altered and papers forged in order
to prevent the success of the systematic
violence which had made the election
farce in some localities. If the Repub-
lcans had secured the State Government,
there would have been msparing prosecu
ton of Democrats who had been con-
cerned in assassinatiOns and whippings. If
the Democrats had obtained control, I'M
sparing prosecution of frauds committed
by Republican partisans was to be expected.
On either side, all the appliances of embttercd
and INSCRIPTIONS partisan vengeance were
likely to be employed prejudiced Judges,
packed Juries, and peTjured testimony. In
neither case would justice have been regarded.
Innocent men would have suffered with the
guilty In either case strife would have been
prolonged, more blood would have been shed,
the forms of law would have been prostituted
to the vengeance of party, and the country
would have been cursed for years with the
Louisiana question, while that unhappy State'
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needing more than all things else peaceful
settlement, would have been doomed for years
to a continuance of thinly disguised civil war.
To sensible and honor bic men it seemed best
to put an end TO this accursed strife. But
this could I've done only by stopping po-
htical prosecutions on either side. Undoubt-
edly there have been crimes committed by adj
herents of both parties. The persons publicly
accused on either side may be wholly innocent
or guilty, but somebody, in each party, had
been guilty, and the guilt of either party had
been to some extent prompted 10y the convlc-
ton that the other had used force or fraud.
Equal justice could not be done by the prose
cution and punishment of persons OF either
party exclusively. by that process peace could
never have been reached.
TO honorable and sensible men, the Louisiana
settlement meant peace-peace at the cost OF
the absolute abandonment, by each party OF
mast causes of ofiense against the other. In
this spirit the Legislature resolved that prose-
cutions of persons for past political acts should
not be tolerated, aud in this spirit the rigid
enforcement of United States laws against
Democratic offenders was not attempted by
decent men of both parties it was perceived
that there could be no peace, no good govern
ment for the state, no end of the Louisiana
struggle for the country, except by putting aside
the grounds of complaint which either party had
against adherents of the other. Ii was felt that
peace was more desirable than vengeance, and
infinitely more beneficial to the country than
the one-sided and par, ial punishment of wrong
doors which must inevitably follow If either
party should carry out its narrow notions OF
Justice In that spirit, the settlement was ac-
cepted in good faith, and will be sustained and
enforced by honorable men.
But the Bourbons did not want a settlement.
They wanted fight. Republican BOurbons
wanted to postpone the peace of the country
until they could hang a few hundred Demo
cratic bulldozers. Democratic BOurbons wanted
neither peace nor order until they had punished
all manner of Republican politicians for mis-
deeds, real or alleged. Hence these indictments,
instigated by the least patriotic Democrats, and
reoiced at by the class of Republicans who
have no political hope save i'll continued
strife. 1t is not unlikely that the result may be
a sharp division between honorable and patriotic
men and Democratic irreconcilables in Louisi-
ana. The Democratic party has rarely missed
an opportunity of cutting its own throat, by the
behavior of its least sensible members, and
this seems to be peculiarly good chance for 1t
to earn the public contempt once more.
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,JOHRN5LISu.

Prosecutions of Partisan journalists for inn
pertinence and other msdemeanors against the
President 90 on vigorously, as our readers
will have seen. The doughty little Marshal
grapples his foes half dozen at time with
the pluck of the Galway colonel perhaps an
ancestor of his own, who. after his trial, chal-
lenged judges, counsel, and jury. The editors
of Rome have established a Jury of Honor
among themselves to hold each other in
check, and curb the unlicensed freedom of
the press. Whereupon certain Americans, who
are not journalists, congratulate the public
Through the papers, that this class of writers
are in two countries at least, muzzled suifi-
ciently to be taught decent reserve, and
"wish heartily that some such restrictive
"power could be placed on our own news
"papers.r Then follow lamentations over the
degeneracy of the tone of the public prints,
their scurrility, personalities, etc, etc.
Now there are only two mistakes in these ac-
cusations, which by the bye very fairly repre-
sent grievance popular among the class
addicted to grumblng. In the first place the
tone of even second-class American journals is
higher now than was the best in those digni-
fled, decent, much deDored days of our fathers.
No political philippics nowadays even in the
climax of a campaign can surpass the rancor
the poisonous abuse of The aurora and its
compatriots The little yellow sheets printed
when the nation was in its earliest but by no
means innocent youth were rs full OF person
alties, of railing against authorities, and of
scandaous gossip rs any of the yirulent sheets
which live by their talents of abuse in this
city to-day. Secondly, it would be unfair to
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NEwYoRK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY. JULY -, 1877

thing "rumored" about him-that he ana
Packard and Kellogg were in the movement
against the Returning Board, with deep de-
sign of bringing to light their own rascaI-
ties for the purpose of showing that
Hayes was not legally elected. The next, he
has had it stated, with all the sanction and
soemnity of n personal interview, that there
was nothing in the story, but that he was sui
n supporter Of the Administration. And so on,
and so on. As though it was OF the slightest
consequence what he did or thought, or pro-
posed to do or think, about this or any other
matter. The simple truth about this exasper-
atingly frequent and monotOnously prevalent
person is that he consists principally OF froth
and wind, and is so pulled up with
himself, that he mistakes himself, perhaps
bonestlv, TO he somebody. He ought to be lea
away somewhere into secluded spot ana SET
down hard. And even then, very likely, he
would rise up shortly and bring himself INTO
notice by calling for "more troops" Most OF
the Louisiana gang have been brought INTO
prominence by the fact that they were charged
with beng great rascals. This special notonety
having passed, they propose to regain 1t by
owning up. The country is weary OF the whole
lot, especially Pitkin.
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PERSONAL.

Gen. Robinson is expected to visit Saratoga
week
Professor LOOMS, the Yale astronomer, is
compiling genealogy OF the Looms family
Chief Justice Waite was entertained in New
London Monday afternoon by LieutGov LOOMS Of Con
nectlcut
Gen. Comfy has been summoned home to
Ohio by the death of iufant daughter. His wife is
seriously i'll IN Washington.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon is spending the
summer in Northampton Mass. and finds all the local
church-s eager for discourse from him
jacques Callot, the painter and engraver of
the seventeenth century, has just had monument dedi
Gated to his memory his birthplace in Nancy, France
While Gen Tom Thumb has been tramping
about the country ramps have occupied his house
at Bridgeport Conn., robbed of nearly all the lead
pipe and fixtures.
Art il a loser 10y the recent death of the
sculptor Edoardo Fautacchott at Florence one OF his
hes, known works is the monument to Cherubin In the
church of Santa CrOce
A monument is to be erected in Edinburgh
TO tho memory OF Mr. Russell late editor OF The Scotsman
newspaper, and the sum Of al 900 has already been
promised toward the objec.
Professor Robertson Smith, the well-knOwn
Scotch hcrcc" Is thought will DO offered the chair OF
Mathematics IN the University OF st. Andrews. He is
the author of the article David" In the vol
ume OF the Encyclopedias Britannica.
The Confederate Generals Joseph L. john
ston NJ Cockrel aud Bradley johnson will represent
their side Of the ate unpeasanness at the fourth annual
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-The Russians admit that the siege OF
Kars has been raised and that the LETT wing has
been forced TO retreat. - The Turks have ahan-
doned the line of the Jantra in Bulgaria. =- The
International Cotton Convention was in session yes
terday. in Liverpool. -= In Montreal the Orange
procession has been relinquished.
DoMEsTIC-John McNulta of Illinois has been ap-
nointed 70 the Brazilian mission. = Secretary
Fyarts and Gen. Devens, among Others OF the CAB
met will make a visit to the PENNSYLVANIA mines
this month -T The Georgia Constitutional Con-
vention met at Atlanta. == Seven wOrkmen were
suffocated by coal gas from locomotive used in
coal mine at Brnokfield, Pa. 80 The Iowa Green
back Convention met at Des Mones, adopted plat
form. and nominated a State ticket.
CITY AND SUBURB N.-JOhn ii. keyser is bank
rnpt. with liabilities 5000, 900 and assets nothing
- Ex-Appraiser William Marsh, an lnformer
was arrested on his own affidavit. -- The
Corporation Counsel decided that the Dock
Department can allow rails to be laid on
the piers. - The Open Board of Stock
Brokers was dissolved - The Dock Department
orgaDizad with Mr. WesteTvet President and MIR.
Vanderpoel Secretary -= Trades Savings Bank
depositors sought for information about the bank,
bnt received little. == Gold, 1883 1858, 1888.
Gold value of the legal tender dollar at the close
9s,o cents. Stocks feverish and lower, clos
ing weak.
TIE WEATHER.-TRIBUNg local observations md
cate partly cloudy weather. Thermometer yester-
day. To-, S39, 74o.
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lr0er 10 Advertisements.

AMUsEMENTs-3d PaQc-6th column.
BOARD AND RooMs-7h PGQe-Gfh column.
BUSINESS CHANCEs-3d Pdge-Sd column.
CORPORATION NOTICES-6M iuQe-3d column.
DANCING ACADRMIEs-6h PGGc-2d column
DIVIDEND NOTICEs-7m Pdge-6th column
ENCUrsIONs-2d PdOc-6th column.
FINASCIAI-7M Pdqe-5ih and 9Th columns
HriP WANTED Sd PdOc-6th column.
HOUSES AND FARMS WANTED-Sd Pd1e-3t column.
HORSES CARRIAGES. &C.-3d PGge-3d column.
ICr CRFAN-3d FdOe-3d column.
INSTRUCTION-6h PdGc-1st and % columns.
Nj ACHISFRN-7h Pdqc-6th coltnn.
MARBLE AND SLATE MANTEIS-7h Pdqc-Glh column
MARRIAGES AND DFATHs-5m PG0e-6'h column
MiSCEIL ANEorS-SM Pd0e-6th column
MUSICAL INsTEUNENTS-6m Pdgc-3d colrmn.
NEW PUBIICAToNS-6th PGoe-lst column.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE-C1IY-3d PdOe-3d colnmh
BRooKLYN-3d PdGe-3d column COUNrRY-3d rage
81 columns AUCTION sAIES-3d Page-3d column
SAVINGS BANKs.-7h Paoe-6h column.
SPECIAL NOTICFs-5M PdGc-6th column.
SITUATIONS WANTED-MALES-3d Pdgc-5th column
FEMALEs-d Tdgc-5th ard 9Th columns 49,
STEAMBOATS, AND RAILROADS.&C. Pdqe-3d, attn ano
5th columns.
sTATIoNERY-7h Pd9e-6th column
STEAMERS, OCEAN PAGE 9Th Sd column.
SUMNER BoARD-6h Pdge-2d and Sd columns.
TEAcHERs-Gh Pd0c-2d and Sd columns
T1IE TURF-36 PdOe-6th column. -
To IFT-CITY PROTERTY-3d P0Ge-3d colnnln
RROOKLYN-3d Pdge-3d column Co NrEN-31 Fdge-
Sd column; APARTMENTS ANE UNFINISHED ROOMS
7h Pdge-6ih column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-12

There are twelve thousand houses to let in
Phlad, phia aud real estate dealer predicts that be-
fore cold weather in the number will be increased TO
thousand in consequence OF the doubling up OF
families.
The Pail Mall Gdsette predicts that the Next
can difficulty is not OF those that will ne treated by
the United States with stypc remedy than that
OF Diplomatic complaint" English critics always man
age to keep abreast with International questions
Buffalo does not know how to name what used
TO called the Court House Park The old court house
has been eyeed the ground and the halls Of justice
have been removed TO the new City Hall ON Franklin
square. Not long ago "Bork-sanare" was suggested.
the city has been tried ana
convicted for betraying public trust IL Is generally
conceded that Bork was anything but on the square.
There are twentysix Aldermen Ia the city, and they arc
All lend the city their names, but the effect
not euphonous. Pfeisquare shannon Circle, BenLnser
Place Danahay Terrace. and the remaining Adornans
deriyatons the sweetes, names for Buffalo cara
A passenger ON one of the Midland railroad
trains has given to TIE Atdd!ses. N. ~ Pres sesar
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charge the blame of this upon the dead Duane
or the living editor of-say The Nec- YORK
lSiasher. They, being business men simply,
have chosen to crafty one need OF the
public as other journalists have met
other and higher demands. There is
certain class in every community which
wants the news there is another that relishes
didactic lectures and must sit at the feet OF
one Gamaliel or another; and there Is thlrd
which is glad to believe the worst that can be
said of their felow-men in private or public,
and will pay the editor best who will satisfy
their appetite for this sort OF news. They
would rather hear the details of divorce
case than Of the last battle, and buy that
paper most eagerly in which no man IS set
down as honest and no woman virtuous. In
country town or village the weekly paper
must CRAFTY all these warning tastes; III the
city, the editor may choose his audience and
cater for it. One man may be peculiarly htted
by natural acerbty, low perceptions, or
thwarted ambition, to please such readers as
demand personal abuse. 1t is not the lace OF
editors nor even this man in especial who
should be blamed, but that public who will
have such wares and none others.
compare unfavorably with those of any other
country in dignity of character or manner
We rebuke our public men with an "imperti-
"nencen which President MacMahon would
not tolerate, simply as a matter Of right. The
American has made and can unmake his king,
and has always found it good policy to remind
him at every turn of that fact From our
English cousins we have unfortunately learned
the taste for personalities, though our efforts
in that line are feeble compared to their court
journals and fashionable intelligence. Grum-
blers must remember that the American public
is large and does not all belong to the caste
of Brahma, who can mediate on virtue all day
long. There are newspapers to suit each
grade, and it would be just as impossible for
American editors to unite to form jury OF
honor to hold each other in check as it would
for President Hayes to prosecute them for I'M
pertinence. Let the public correct its appetites
before it complains that its vands are rank.
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The spontaneous and non-partisan manner in
which the Louisiana witness under the special train
ing of Hon. d. ID. Field was accustomed TO shed his
testimony upon the just and the unjust, seems now
to be emulated by the web-footed experts of the
Northwest. Mr.. Growers witnesses have acquired
skill in centrifugal swearing which is quite unre-
strained and indiscriminate Mr. Morton's investi
gators had any reasonable ground to hope for and
with little care it can be made to substantiate
many and divergent minority and majority reports
as they may choose to deliver.
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encampmcnt Of the Soldiers National Reunion, which
meets at Marietta. Ohio. September4

meets at Marietta. Ohio. September a.
The Rev. Charles F. Deems, ID. d., pastor Of
the Church OF the Strangers in this city, received the do
gree OF d. from the University Of North Carolina
its recent commencement lie was formerly, when
paratyely young man, Professor in the University.
There is talk of erecting a monument to
Lord Byron the Venetian island OF the Armenans &
Lazaro II at an Armenian convent on the island
that Byron spent some time Mr.. George Eric Mackay
has printed at Venetian press in aid OF the project
pamphlet entitled Lord Byron In Venice" the profits Of
which are to be devoted " the monument.
A Frenchman who has perhaps Travelled in
America and viewed OF works Of art, comments
in this wise upon the statue OF Lord Byron, TO DO
erected In London: ave shall very Lord
Byron sitting little rock fonding with hand
big Newfoundland dog, while with the other he writes
piece OF paper resting upon his knee. Is this attudes
natural onei In any must be little uncOmfOrt-
able particularly by the seaside. The Ensemble ~ the
work Is ugly enough Viewed from a distance you SEQ
only the dog, which IA perhaps mistake in monument
meant 10 perpetuate the memory Of n great poet"
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July 11.-To-day resolu-
tions adopted in the United States Court in this
city, expressive Of appreciation OF the judicial service
performed by Judge David Davis particularly In Illinois,
and regrettng his retirement from the bench The res
OutiOns offered by the Hon John 4. Stuart laW
preceptOr OF Abraham Lincoln.
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Fortunately for the credit of two religions
and for the tranquility Of freshmen everywhere,
the Orangemen OF Montreal have practically de-
termined to foregO their privilege of paradlng at
the solicitation of all the principal benevolent
societies of the city. But the temper of the
populace is such that an outbreak is still feared,
many Orangemen being apparently as eager
for a fight ms their od-time enemies. The
precautions of the Government, with a view to
having a large military force at their disposal,
prove the existence of fears which may not, how
ever be justified by the event. 1t is to be hoped
that they may not be. Certainly if the Orange
men are now attacked without previous provo
cation, and after they have yielded their right
to parade, public sentiment will go very
strongly against their assailants. But until
the bad news comes, the good can be enjoyed.
The Orangemen have done a sensible thing.
There is no principle involved, and it is not
a valuable privilege to be allowed to wave a
red flag at a bull.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-12

Senator Ransom of North Carolina is energetic i'll
his protest against the enforcement of the law IN
his State so far as dstIlleTies concerned,
and there would seem to be some reason in leaving
his constituents their whisky, as Shey have besides
so few of what Tom COrwin would have called the
condiments of life" The mountaneers are poor, be-
yond the the ability of even a Northern tramp to
conceive and so far separated from civilized life,
that men of seventy are living i'll the recesses OF
Bnncombe and Haywood Counties. who never saw
covered wagon much less any more modern convey
ance. Twenty dollars a year would cover their
income in cash. II gems hard to ask them to live
up to Sarey Camps drink far" But the
truth is, that they qurally moral, kindly
folk and all the outragrs the western part of the
State have grown ont Of these same secret dlster-
les. In five yeas the only murders committed have
been those of revenue officers. Senator Ransom's
policy for his constituents is therefore shorsighted
enough. But if the Govern ~ would make as Wig
orous war on the Whisky IN tins State ana
Philadelphia the result woulG q. large addition to
the revenue and more speedy Improvement in pub
lie morals. The difference is between a few hundred
gallons of pure mountain dew and hundreds of thou
sands of strychnine poison. There is probably a.
much liquor illegally Struggled into the market III a
single ward in New York or Philadelphia as from all
the mountain region of North Carolina.
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good story makes all the difference between
complete satisfaction and entire failure in your Sum-
mer vacation now, fortunately, at hand. Therefore,
take AS precaution and diversion one or several OF
THE TRIBUNE novels, which cost little, take but
little room, and contain great deal OF value. Ihe
novels are for sale many trains and In most OF
the important hotels but some OF the thrifty news
dealers with that regard for sef-nterest ana gam
which characterlzes the class, prefer to sell the
hIgher-priced edition, on which, of course, their
profits are greater. request for THE TRIBUNE
novels will doubtless procure them by return OF
mail. or if that fails remittance to this Office will
produce the desired result. In another column will
be found full list of the novels to date, to which
additions will shortly be made.
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to the commerce which it has in charge. And
when we have rails on the piers, it may take
more than two Aldermen to prevent the use
of the rails leading to the piers.
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It will be safe to dIscredt all rumors that are
blown about to the effect that the Administration Is
chaffarng for the initiation vote, or the silver vote,
or the subsidy vote or any other vote that demands
acomplomise of principle desire to carry OHIO
or to carry Pennsylvania is not altogether unnat-
ura but Mr. Hayes and his advisers are doubtless
aware that they can try to carry atogethertoo much.
Mr. Hayes was elected to restore to the South the
reign of law to purify the Civil Service and to secure
for the country an honest currency and unlmpared
credit. He has accomplished the first, his word Is
pledged for the second, and in memorable
State contest he has already fought good fight for
the third of these cardinal principles. Very wisely
too, has Mr.. Hayes declared that she serves his
party best who serves the country best" and 1t Is
not 10 be believed that he will abandon his own
theories, repudate his pledges or falsfy his record
for any mere appearance of local and temporary
party success.