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JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND GENERAL con
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TOM. II. PIERCE.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Atchson. Kansas. Specis
"A attention given TO business In Doniphsn County.
ssaug.3
New-York tribune., 1877-09-01
THE DECISITE FORCE.

What saved the Republican party from COM
plete destruction by defeat i'll the Ohio cam
paign of 1872 Wholesale dread of Demo-
cratic repudiators Neglected at first, but ef-
fectively aroused toward the end of that mem
orable struggle, that force brought victory
where defeat had been deemed almost certain.
Similarly in the national struggle of last year,
Mr.. Tilden was beaten by the attitude Of his
party on the financial question, and the indie
pendent reinforcement which came to Mr..
Hayes and saved for him the electoral votes of
several States, was moved more by trust in his
fidelity to the public credit and distrust Of
Democratic repudiators than by any other in
fluence. Other considerations, 1t Is true, sway
the large majority of voters; strong party at
tachment, memories of the war, or enlightened
desire for that steady progress toward genu-
Inc reform and purer and wiser government
which men do not expect from Democratic
rule But the decisive force in every impor-
tant contest of late years has been that of men
who work and vote to protect the public
honor.
II cannot be said that the Republican party
has failed to deserve this support. By its
fruits the tree is known gold falls below 1O4,
and four per cent bonds sell at par. Looking
back 30 the position of the Government after
the great civil war, remembering how its fl
nances were entangled and how Its credit had
sunk, and how few, even among the most
hopeful, deemed it possible within a genera
ton at least, to get rid of an inflated paper
currency, it must be admitted that the party
in power has invited confidence quite as much
as continued Democratic suggestions of repudi-
alton have repelled it. There has been hesi-
tation and needless delay but there has not
been a deliberate betrayal of definite pledge.
The progress toward specie resumption and
r storatl0n of the public credit has been too
GLOW, but at every critical moment Republican
leaders and Republican voters have interposed
to check repudiatiOn and prevent violation of
the public faith.
The danger which now threatens the Repub-
lean party is that it may, in a fit of sheer
cowardice. forfeit that support which has so
often saved it. The times are hard. Igno-
rance and knavery clamor for reputation of
the pledge of resumption as means of relief.
There is scant time to make men understand
that it does not pay to turn back when the
stream has been three -fonrths crossed. And
at this critical moment, with session Of Con-
gress approaching at which Democrats will
New-York tribune., 1877-09-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

Pattersons mistrust of the Southern pohey
seems to be justified.
The fraud" platform is shivered, and should
be sold at auction for kindng
The only refuge for the unindicted carpet
bagger seems to be salt Lake City. There IS vacancy
there, too
The "bread- winners would be more OF apower
IN the world II they would transfer the nuency of laer
tongues 20 their aud legs.
There is u report in Georgia that Dir. Charles
O'Conor has written a letter highly commencing tue ne"
Constitution Il is doubtful IL he has had chance 70
the document yet
Unless Mr.. Tilden hastens home, the present
state officers wibaTly succeed in their efforts 10 iI
themselves no another The entio party press oil
the state with three exceptions Is against their renom
nation The opposition bitter. and seemingly determ
ned but much wind In II nobody eau Tell 10"
earnest IL really Is
Congressman Joyce of Vermont says he has
talked with great many about the Presidents
Southern policy, and be Is yet TO find one who sole
10 tell him what other course could have been ioi.
lowed with any hope OF success That Is the precise
situation everywhere. Mr. Joyce Is not alarmed abons
the xclusiop of the oee-hoder from politics. since there
will always be leaders enough He THINKS the ffes.uens
IA acting In good faith and Is entirely right IN hs views
The Hon. Alexander II. Stephens giyes ms
approval Of the Georgia Constitution and expects "
New-York tribune., 1877-09-01

really improve the stage of their timef Colley
Cibber certainly does not give very aiiuring
description of the band of critics that used 10
stand guard in his day: "The yivacity OF our
"modern critics is of late grown 80 not
"ous that an unsuccessful author mas no
"more mercy shown him than noton-
"ous cheat in a pIllory every fool, the
"lowest member Of the mob, becomes VIII anu
"will have a fling at him. They come now 10
ga new play like hounds to carcass, ana are
call in a full cry, sometimes for an hour TO-
"gether, before the curtain rises, to throw IL
"amongst them" And he asks. "while the
theatre is 80 turbulent sea, ana so ln-
tested with pirates, what poetlcal meicnanc
"of any substance will venture to trade In ltf
What Sheridan made of " this selt-eiecteu
"troop of exercised and experienced 1oIk'
Mr. Boucicault does not need to DC renihueu'
The fact is, the newspaper press has given
great development to the art OF dramatic crlt-
icism, as it has to many other good Things, ana
the daily Journals of our own country abound
with examples of it that are admirable 1or
acuteness, honesty and literary polish.
There is still another plague OF the modern
stage. and that is the commercial manager,
of whose conduct Mr.. BOucicault, In the
article in The North american ReUie'o from
which we have already quoted so largely, gives
an awful specimen. One OF these persons re-
fused to pay author more than LOU 1or
an original play because he could steal
French one and have it translated for quar-
ter of the money What was the depiorapie
RESULT Why, MIR. Boucicault went into the pl-
racy business himself and accepted commis-
sion to translate three French plays at
ESQ apiece. Thus the commercial manager
not only checked the product of Mr. Bouclcauits
intellect, but corrupted Mr. Boucicaults literary
morals and left him the melancholy wreck OF
genius, who now presents himself IN torma
penitentis, and pleads that if he is so bad 1t Is
because the age and the newspapers have made
him so. Upon the whole, we hardly think the
apology sufficient.
New-York tribune., 1877-09-01
AMERICA As THE OLD WoRLD.

An inquisitive young man who went into the
business of interviewing some years before 1t
became n recognized institution OF society,
once tried his powers upon the elder Dumas
"Do understand that your father was mu-
"latto 2" asked the interviewer. fes.'
"Then your grandfather was negro"
"Yes.n "And your great-grandfather !" - My
great grandfather" replied the novelist, was
Gan ape, sir. My lineage commences where
"yours ends.n That closed the interview
Science puts to-day similar set of impertinent
questions TO mankind. Were the savages of
the Stone Age your ancestors7" Yes"
"Were those descended from lat-shnned can
"nibals who lived in caves" Yes" Who
"were their ancestors 2" Probably some
kind of apes in Africa, if you 90 back in
" time far enough" Just there, however, the
lineage of man in the Eastern Hemisphere
breaks off. The next question would be, what
preceded the apel There are i'll that hemi-
sphere plenty of monkeys but no ancestor for
them. Just here America steps in and offers
to supply not only missing links, but whole
chains Of ancestry running back TO the forma-
ton of animals possessing backbone. Here
in this country are the monkeys and the pre-
decessors OF the monkeys. Between the strata
of our Western rocks, that have shut them in
the leaves of a closed book since the days of
the earliest EOcene, we find these life histories
They stretch backward through the whole
range of quadrupeds, to animals of the marsu-
pial kind, that are accounted among the low
est of mammalian forms. America, then, let
it. be once for all understood, is the land of
antiquity, the birthplace of the aneients, the
old world.
This general fact has been more or less known
to students of fossils during the past ten years.
The details of it were separate and scattered
in technical publications. and have attracted
little popular attention, except when some Of
the more interesting features were brought
| forward for general reading in THE TRIBUNE,
and more recently in the lectures of Prof. Hux-
ley. But it was needed that the extent and
significance of the whole range of discovery in
American fossils should be displayed in COM
pact form; and this has been done at last by
one who has taken most prominent share in
the labors of procuring the fossils and 81 Idy-
ing their characters. In other columns we
present to-day some of the principal portions
of Prof. o. G.. Marshs address delivered before
the American Association for the Advance
Inent of Science, on Thursday last, giving o
New-York tribune., 1877-09-01

almost unitedly demand reputation of the
nations promise, VIC have Republicans waver-
ing and trembling, hunting for cover, craving
into holes, and receiving, with few spiendld
exceptions, the vigorous attack from repudla-
tors with bated breath and ohatteIing teeth.
Secretary Sherman stands firm thanks to him
for it. But what a contrast between him ana
many other Republican leaders!
The Republican party will stand or fall, ac-
cordng to its fidelity to the public faith. III
it hesitates and wavers, until unresisted preJu-
dice and growing clamOr sweep away the ne
sumption Act, it can never expect again 10
command that support which it has needed
and received so many times. Defeat oil thae
measure is defeat of the party, and not a
mere repulse III open field, but the capture OF a
Shpka Pass the concentration OF the 1oe' the
division and distrust of friends, and the over
throw of policy to which the Republican
marty owes no small share of its prestige and
noWar
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WITH SUPPLEMENT.
IHE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-Sorvia hesitates to join Russia -
The Russians are taking steps TO drive tie Turks
from Sukum Kaleh in Asia. -- VI. Gambetta has
answered in Court to the charge against him. -=
Mehemet Ali claims two victories over the Russian
Army of the Lom.
DoMEsTIC.-Gens. Sherman and GibbOn doubt
the report that Sitting Bull has crossed the border
into the United states. == The Iowa Prohb-
tionists have nominated Elias Jessup for Cover
nor == Col. Holiday has accepted the COnserva-
tive nomination for Governor of Virginia. --
monument to John Brown was dedicated at OSa-
watomie, Kan. - -Four additional indlct-
ments have been found against ex-oficials Of
South Carolina for forgery and fraud.
CITY AND SUBURBAN-AccusatiOns of systematic
silk smuggling were made against officers of the
steamship England =- More developments were
made in regard to artifcially cOlored sugars -=
The forgers Carrcre and Hustled were TemanGed.
Weston was discharged and rearrested III civil
suit. .- Lawyers stated that they were un-
prepared for the operation of the new
Code 5000 More Custom House removals were or
dered =- Gold 1O4, 104 10l. Gold value of the
lcgal-tender dollar at the close, 962lO. Stocks duh
and irregular, closing steady
THE WEATHER.-TRlBUNE local observations III
dictate cloudy and rainy weather, especially IN the
earlier half of the day. Thermometer yesterday
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An Ohio Republican makes. in another col
umn, doubtless the best defence that can be
made of the Silver resolution of the Ohio Con
vention He is clearly entitled 10 hearing,
and makes brilliant use of his opportunity.
1t will surprise nobody to learn that six OF
the Custom House inspectors have been caught
taking bribcs Corruption of that sort has be-
come proverbial in the neighborhOOd of GUS
tom houses, and its existence here is not
fact of any particular significance. But its
detection is such fact, and its public pun
ishment will be another.
Another chapter in the revelations OF silk
smuggling is opened to-day. 1t is evident that
the revenue officers are just beginning TO dis
cover the extent to which this unlawful traf-
fic has been carried on. The peculiar device
which the smugglers used this time recalls the
saying about 6" the cat in the meal" and shows
Just what kind of meal ought to have been
mentioned in the proverb.
Inasmuch as Judge Hilton insists that his
discrimination against Jews was simply bnsi-
ness experiment and not religious prOscrip-
ton, it is in order to show, as Saratoga letter
printed elsewhere, does, that this experiment
has been financially successful Judge Hilton
has made money by his order, and does not
blush to have it known that to make money is
his chief object in keeping hotel.
Mehemet Ali claims to have forced the Rus
sian Army of the LON from two important
positions. His object is to break the cOmmu-
nication between the Russian forces on the
LON and those holding TirnOva, who are in
turn supported by the main army encamped
near. Plevna. Mehemet's gains are 10y no
means such as may not be promptly counter
acted.
While the feeling of some of the lawyers
against the new code, which goes into ehect
to-day, seems still strong, it is apparent that,
much Of it is the same hostility which every
new code has encountered. The profession
should certainly be much better prepared TO
deal with the code after the three months
notice of its going into effect than when it
was hurled upon them last May by the Legis-
lature. AT all events there is no Legislature
now to postpone its operation again, and the
new Gods is and will remain law.
Although Nashville is rather too hot place
for holding crowded meeting at this season,
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science has gathered a large number of MEM
bers there, who at least are sure of warm
reception. The absence on account OF feeble
New-York tribune., 1877-09-01

which loses vessel often that IL Is regular cus
TONER AS TO tho European trade, we have only fonr
steamers engaged in 1.-THE exact number we had
four years ago. They belong to the American
"Line," sailing from Philadelphia. and are supple-
mented, in order to make weekly departures by two
Bntish-built ships. The transatlantic trade IA al
ready oyerdOne by the English French and Ger
man lines that there is not likely to be an opening
for more American ships for some time TO come but
there is prospect Of line from New-York to Bra
zl In that direction, if no other there appears to
be an opening for American enterprise
The War Department had great difficulty in gath
ering sufficient force in Idaho to pursue Chief
Joseph and his handful Of sayages. II was Obliged
TO strip the slender garrisons in Arizona and send
men nearly 5000 miles around by San Fran
cisco and Portland, and with all its efforts il
did not succeed in getting on the ground half the
troops needed to make speedy end TO the war
Now comes the news that Sitting Bull, with 1900
warrlors has left the shelter of British territory
and il moving down to join Joseph in Montana II
is fine commentary on the military system pro-
vided by Congress thata savage echef in blanket and
breech-clout can put more fighting men in the field
than the United States Government can bring against
him. The first work which Congressman should
address themselves to when they come together
army and TO lodge in the hands Of the President
discretionary power to increase temporarily its
effective strength when necessity requires.
nation Of forty millions Of people, whose authority
be defed by mobs Of rioters in the East and by
few hundred savages in the West is spectacle for
gods and men.
The President understands his critics good deal
better than they understand him. During his last
visit to this city, in speaking Of the Republicans who
disagree with him, he used these significant words:
These people don't comprehend that 4 mean just
what say. 1t is my business to take care Of the
" administration of the Government. The peo-
"ple will take care of the politics. II the
"civil service is thoroughly purified in New
York, there will be no trouble in the rest Of
" the country" These admirable observations
addressed to Democrat, and it Is not surprising
that he was converted into an enthusiasts Hayes
man the spot If the President carries them into
execution to the full extent Of their meaning, as
have every reason to believe he WILL in his
tme his converts will be confined to no party, but
will include all that is worth including Of the whole
people.
New-York tribune., 1877-09-01
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amussments anS iileeilnas eO- Night.

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Netu,llnrk Daily Grib4are,
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1877.
New-York tribune., 1877-09-01

An Ohio Republican makes. in another col
umn, doubtless the best defence that can be
made of the Silver resolution of the Ohio Con
vention. He is clearly entitled 10 hearing,
and makes brilliant use of his opportunity.
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 Will be
sorely felt. There are few men engaged Ill
scientific pursuits in this country capable oil
making SO strong an address as Prof. Rogers,
or delivering it with such eloquence: but OF
late wears he has been obliged to husband hls
strength for the lighter efforts which are per-
m1tted after long period of forced inaction'
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-17
san Francisco Custom House InVes-
tigaiiOn.

SAN FRANCISCO, September l6.-At
Yesterdays session of the Treasury Com
mIttee investigating the custom house
affairs, the testimony OF large number
OF prominent merchants was taken as TO
the general efficiency of the administra-
tion of the custom house. All concurred
in the approval with the exception OF a
general condemnation OF the bond sys-
tenn a. unnecessary and incOnvenient.
They were all examined also us TO the
effect OF the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty,
and the expression was general
that the treaty had proved ben
efcial, and had effected great
increase in our export trade to the
islands. VIM II. Troy, several years ago
employed in the custom service ss II
laoorer and night inspector, testified that
he had discovered u case CT opium
smuggling on one OF the Pacific Mail
steamers TO the amount of S6O,OOO, and
said that several employees OF the custom
mouse were connected with the smuggling
of the opium. 1t could not have been
slowed in the way II WAS without the
connivance of the officers of the ship.
Shortly after making the dicovery the
witness was removed ut the instance he
clsimed, of Oliver EIGridge. OF the
Pacific Mail Company. Some findings
OF court martial ana court OF record
were read To impeach the character
of the witness.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-17
yellow Fever.

FERNANDINA, FLA, September 10
There are thirty new cases OF yellow
fever reported this evening. Nearly
every one is sick, and in some cases
whole families are down. The train tc-
night WAS crowded with fugitivcs. The
atmosphere is humid and untavorabIe,
and the fever spreads rapidly, A gloomy
aspect has settled over the city. Two
physicians, druggist and eight nurses
have been sent for from Savannah; also
dislnfectants &c.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. September To-
There were three deaths At Fe:nanGina
since last night. The fever is spreading.
In town about mile distant there are
some cases among the Colored people.
Physicians and nurses arrived to-day
from Savannah, two OF them resident
physicians. A call for aid in money,
medicines and nOurishment has been
made: jacksonville is enforcing the
strictest quarantine against Fernandlna
city, and Is guafded by volunteers night
and day, to prevent refugees from enter
ing the city by land or water. This city
is unusually healthy.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-17
Lexington Races.

LEXINGTON, September l5.-The iali
meeting OF the Kentucky Association be
gins on Monday under the most latter
ing auspices and every prospect 10" II
brilliant meeting. The number OF horses
present to take part in the contest is
greater than ever before. A race is pro
posed in which Ten Brock and Nc
Whorter, the champion OF the turf, will
meet. The three events on the first day
will be the Phoenix hotel stake, with
five starters, the Tile stake, eighteen
starters, and the purse race with ten
starters. In the mile heat race there are
five starters, Enighten, Eudower,
Yppoon, Early Light and New Whorter'
New horter sells in the pools tonight
two to one against the field. In the mile
dash Brent and Hertog lead in The pools
against the field. This meeting, if all
the promises are fulfilled, will eclipse
that OF last spring.