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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-31
THE rJGByIy BUDSON COUNTY.

The official term of Sheriff Patrick Laverty, of Hud-
son County N. j. IS drawing TO a close, and nasm1ch
rs Mr.. Laverty, who is habtua office-holder, Is
constitutionally declared from succeeding himself
as Sheriff. he has naturally been making elaborate
arrangements to succeed some other man in some
other official capacity. Now there is nothing in any
written Constitution to prevent the Hon. a. A. Har-
denbergh from being his successor as member of
Congress from the jersey City District, and there
would be little else to prevent him II Mr..
Patrick Laverty's constitutional hunger could be
satiated with any other office. But Mr.
Laverty's heart is fixed; and so for that
matter is Mr.. HardenbeTgh's, and the struggle
between the two has begun in mortal earnest. Ill
would it fare with Mr. Hardenbergh before Dem
ocratic Convention if this contest could be
altogether disentaugled from outside COM
pications. It is true that Mr. Hardenbergh,
in spite of a distressing tendency to overflow in a
barbaric exuberance of language, has made dill
gent and faithful representative. HIS steadiast
conduct in the midst of a perverse and bmetallic
Committee on Banking aud Currency, has been es-
pecaly gratifying to his constituents, and he would
undoubtedly be tho unanimous selection of the
reputable fraction Of bis party. But MIR.
Laverty has the cOngenital advantage OF
belonging 10 the ruling race in Hudson
County, besides possessing much natural talent and
acquired skill az Subsoler. Tie has already set up
the committees, and a finished operator OF
the machine he can scott at the bungliDg
iourneyyyork of Mr.. Hardenbergh and his kind.
And vet although Mr.. Layerty may desplse the
enemy in his front he cannot afford to ignore the
danger on his flank. For there stands Blr. John
Mullins chairman Of the Board of Finance,
who also belongs to the ruling race; who has
some money too and has the heart to spend IL, and
who Is inclined to make a sheriff of himself.
which il not mean ambition after all,
since the office is one Of the most pro
ductive IN the State. Mr. Mullinsjs sagaciOus
man, and IL may occur TO him that Mullins and
Lavery for the two leading Offices Of the district
would be q combination too purely Grecian
Tor assured success. And if Mr.. Mullins
should conclude that it would be for
the best interests Of the ruling race that Of
these Offices should DO surrendered TO native
citizen, Mr. Mullins would be liable to
encourage Mr. Hardenbcrgh 40 as TO afford
Mr. Laverty an opportunity Of yielding 60 circum-
stances beyond his control. Altogether IL is dl.i.-
cult 10 make out exactly what is going to
happen but it il comforting 20 remember
that but short time ago a good Repub-
lcan did go to Congress from Hudson County
after a shrcwd Democrat had nominated himself by
fhe same methods which Mr. Layerty is using to-
day.
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PERSONAL.

President Hayes finds that it will be impos-
sibe for HIM to visit Boston this Summer
Mr.. Gladstone has been compelled to forbid
the visits OF large parties to Hawarden Park and Castle
after to-day.
Lord Beaconsfeld is said to be n convert to
tbo doctrines Of Hanucmann, and employs homnopath
list as his private physician
To the commemorative services at Notre
Dame Cathedral ON anniversary OF Thiers's DEATH
1000 invitations will be issuei
The late Charles Mathewss personal estate
"a valued at less tnan 100000 All his property is left
20 his widow who Is also the sole executrx.
Prince LOUIS Napoleon has succeeded in his
action brought against the Paris Steele for defamation
Of nj. father The newspaper was fined S400.
The portrait of the late Vice-President Will
son recently presented to the city OF Boston has been
hung m Faneuil Hail at tho left of the platform.
Thomas Carlyle has not been bewildered,
evidently by tho Beaconsfeld whir)wnd, for in speak
inc of the Premier lately he said Either he has be-
wcned the queen, the Queen has bewitehed him. or
they have bewtched each Other."
A COPY of the memoir of the late General
William H. Bartlett sent by his father TO Garbald
who makes this acknowledgment: " Thanks for your
esteemed favor Of the 30tn of April and for the volume
I'm memory OF your son, the glorious General Bartlett
To your hOnOred family send n ahecllOnaie feheui
br,nce and 10 you kiss. Yours for lfe q. GARIBALDL
The Pope, says a correspondent at Rome
"llke Martha is troubled about many things. AS he
aays OF himself clerk works harder than he does
He IA at his writing by O'Clock, and remains there
sometimes six hours All the reports from the State OF
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ment of the question would presently spare them
the necessity of having any definite opinions or
conscientious convictions about it. In this
spirit many platforms have been framed. In
this spirit very many who call themselves
statesmen have acted. They have tolerated
the most mischievous heresies and stopped to
wheedle the most knavish regulators, hoping
that resumption would enable them 10
call their souls their own, and regain their
self-respect. That they are to be pltlabiy us
| appointed, the recent manifestations Oh the
| Greenback- Labor party prove. We are not 10
have an end of this vexatious question untll
public opinion has been educated by thorough
discussion. In the progress OF that great de-
bate, the trimmers will be forced to take
sides, and great many of them VIII take the
wrong side for temporary success, and VIII
presently leave public life for the public good.
1t is well for the Republican party OF Maine
that it has determined to make manly ana
aggressive fight on this question. There can
he no better time to meet it. As long as gold
commanded q considerable premium the nom
est and the dishonest opponents of resumption
insisted that it was not possible, and that the
attempt TO lift the purchasing power of green
backs TO that of gold would surely cause I'M
measurable distress and general bankruptcy
On this plea they gained the support OF
great many timid men, who favored resump-
ton as a matter of honesty and OF permanent
policy, but who were afraid to face the conse-
quences if it should be attempted soon. Wlthln
the last year we have. seen gold sink practl-
cally to par. The dreaded gulf has been
brldged, and the predicted disasters have not
come. But now it appears that the opponents
of resumption are even more hOstlle'
since it is plain that resumption is
possible and easy than they were when
they pretended that resumption would be inn
possible, and the attempt terribly costly. Now
the true character OF the opposition Is shown
The fears of the tmd are allayed The naked
question, "Shall the country have sound
"and honest currency2" can be discussed
without any alarm as to the disastrous conse-
quences of resumption.
"Dirigon is the motto of Maine. and that
State ought to direct in this particular the
Republican canvass in all the States. 1t has be-
gun well, as the proceedings of yesterdays
Convention at Portland show The platform
and the speeches of Senator Blaine and Mr.
Woodford are a ringing declaration OF
war against the IepudiatoTs. Now let the
example of Maine be followed. a manly,
Outspoken and uncompromisng warfare against
the grcenback heresy in every form ought to
be opened wherever the Republican party
seeks 10 establish ITS power. There is no other
way. Until the people are taught that "more
"money" cannot cause more prosperity or
lessen the toll of the toiler, or narrow the
separating gulf between rich and poor, there
will always be a vast army OF honest bur
mistaken men to reinforce the knaves and re-
pudiators. Honesty will win in this country
when the question is thoroughly understood,
but until that time there can be no decisive
Nriptorv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-31
ELYTNG WITNESSES.

A New-Orleans correspondent of TIE CiHcin-
matt Gazette wrote of the Potter Sub-Commlt-
tee that the Democrats were using money
"openly" to corrupt the witnesses There
"is no possibility of denying the charge" he
added; ait has been sworn to by two or
"three of the witnesses with directness that
"admits of no denial. One of the witnesses
"but yesterday, IN my hearing, being re-
"proached because of his perjury, gave the
"whole of the situation in very few words :;
''What would you do said he, 'if a man
"'came at YOU with knife in one hand and
"'a roll of greenbacks in the other one p"
Many details are given One colored man men
toned the precise sum he had received. Another
described the process OF coaching him.
We do not understand that the charge Of
bribery is laid against any of the members of
the committee. Whatever work was done in
preparing witnesses was probably not done
by them nor with their knowledge; although
if they are politicians of ordinary acuteness
and powers of observation they can hardly
have been without their suspicious. Men who
have sworn on one side of a case do not after
ward volunteer 10 come forward and swear on
the other without a consideration. What could
the consideration have been in this instance 2
We surely are not asked TO believe that
there has been sudden quickenng
of consciences all through the Feliciana
parishes, and that cOlored people in that re-
gion are so tormented by the memory of lie
that they cannot help making public confess
sion of it, for the good of their souls. The
moment this squadron of dOuble-enders be-
gan to demOlish their own testimony 1t was
perfectly plain to all reasonable and unprcju-
diced people that systematic manipulation
of witnesses was going on at New-Oreans,
and our chief curiosity at the North was ito
see how much of it the subcommittee could
stand
We have not discovered any limit to their
power of endurance. They have taken in the
most egregious falsehOods as if they meant
to make believe believe them, and they
have sat unconcerned in the midst of evident
corruption, as if they meant to make belieye
not see it. We certainly cannot say that we
are exactly surprised, and perhaps upon the
whole there is no reason why we should be
exactly sorry. If the investigation is not
bringing to view any important facts about
the subject it pretends to investigate, it is
doing a service by disclosing the temper and
purposes of the Democratic party, and any
light it can throw upon Democratic practices,
too, ought to be welcomed.
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lars reach MS, that some of the observers not yet
heard from may also have seen the strange visitor.
but the absence of cOnfrmatory evidence need not
necessarily throw doubt upon the discovery. Pro-
lessor Watson ia an accurate observer, and has
specially distinguished himself by the finding OF
new asteroids. His trained eye would, there
fore. give him special advantages in detecting
faint bodies Besides the wide field surrounding the
sun was doubtless mapped out into small portions
and allotted to the various gentlemen looking out
for these planets, and thus an object seen IN one
part would not be likely to be noticed by other
searchers The discovery of intra-mercurial
planet may probably, therefore, be accepted as an
astronomical fact.
The chrOmosphere, or envelope directly surround
ing the suns visible disk does not seem to have Deeh
a marked feature Of the eclipse. and the red flames
or protuberances rising from 1t were also almost en-
tirey absent. Mr.. Lockyer evidently thinks that
the appearance of these phenomena is closely con-
nected with sun spots-that the period of maximum
solar activity and sun spots is accompanied by an
enlarged chTOmOsphere and numerous prOtuOer-
ances while IN the minimum sun spot period through
which we are still passing the red flames are rev In
number and of small dimensions.
Fuller details may perhaps modify some OF these
deductions but our summary of the results thus far
indicated would seem to show that while the eclipse
has added little that is really new to our knowledge
of solar physics it has cleared up several disputed
points and established actual facts some things
which were formerly mere matters of speculation.
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dcc and other congregations pass under bis review he
signs paper without rst understanding all lts
meaning. This close Application Ia telling on his health
He has grown tin weak cannot se,p nor eat AT last
he has been prevailed upon 10 drive daily
nagc To- take airing In the fno, spacious Vatican
gardens"
Rosa Bonheur, while gong the round Of the
Paris Exhibition. noticed fine specimen OF the shaggy
and picturesque Highland breed Of cattle and inquired
If IL was FOR sale she received that the animal
was TO be sold account On obtaining the address
Of the owner she teegaphe 10 L0Bdon % ask could
be hired for certain PERIOD that she might have
opportunity OF painting it The Immediately re-
piled, and gave instructions that Rosa BOnheur
hayethc animal for that purpose free Of all charge IL
~ nc present 20 Fontaneheau twenty mtes fr0m Paris,
the studio and residence ot the famous painter.
OF General Lafayettes personal appearance
an old newspaper gives this description; General
Lafayette OF the finest locking men IN
the army, notwithstanding his deep red hair. which
then, now, rather in disrepnte. His fore,
head fine, though reeedingi his eye clear and
hazel his mouth aud chin delcatey formed and exhb-
ting beautv rather than strength His mien was noble
bis manners frank and amiable, and his movements
light ana graceful lie wore his hair plain, and never
complied so far with the fashion OF his times az tO
der"
QUEBEC, July 30.-Governor- General Duff
FERN has lett for New-York private business
LONDON, July 30.-The Duke Of Cumber-
land OF the late ex-Ring George OF Hanover, has
been gazetted IA a Knight OF the Garter
VIENNA, July 30.-The FremdeabIaH an
the approaching betrothal Of Count Andrassys
only daughter With Prince Alfred OF MOntenuOYa dis
tant cousin Of the Emperor OF Austria.
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Jnoex 10 AopernsemeuIs.

ANIrsEN RSTs-3d Pdge-6th column.
BANKRUPT NoTICES-Gh Pd0e-4th column
BOARD AND ROOMs-}d PaGe-5th column.
BUSINESS CHASCEs3a Pdge-4th column.
BUSINESS NOTICEs-ipt PGge-lst column.
CORPORATION NOuCES-6M Pd0e-4th column
DIvfDFND NOTICEs-7M PO0e-6th column.
ExCrRsIONs-3d PGge-6th column.
EUROPEAN AOvEBTISEMENTs-3d Pdge-2d column.
FINANCIAL-7h Pd0c-5th ana 6th columns.
Lee CREAM-3d PdGe-2d column.
1NsTRUCTON-6m PGce-1st, "a and 30 columns
LAW. scUOOIs-6h PQGo-3d column
LECTURES AND klEETINGS-3d PdQe-6th Column
INGAI NOTICEs-Sd Pd0e-6tn column.
IOsy AND FoUND-3d PACED column.
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-5th PaGe-6th column.
MIsCLILANYOUs- Sh Page-6th cOlnmn.
MUSICAL INsIRUMENTS-3d PG0e-6th column.
NEw PUBICATIoNs--6h Pd0e-1st column.
PRoPOsALs-3G P00e--4tb column.
real ESTATE FOR SAIR-fITY-3d PdGe-1st column
: COIETRY-3d P0ge-1st column AUCTION sALEs-3d
Pa0e-lst column TO EXCHANGING PGge-lst
column.
SALES ny AUCTIoE--3d PdGe-2d column
SAVINGS BANKs-7h PGQe-6th column.
SPECIAL NOTICHs-5A Pd0e--Oth column.
SITUATIONS WANTED-MALEs-6h Pd0e-3d column :
sTEAMBo4Ts AND KAILRoADs-3d Paae-2d and Sd
columns.
STEAMERS. OCEAN-6h Pa0e-4th column.
SUMNER BOARD-3d Pd0e-4th and 9th columns
1EACHERs-6M Pd0e-3d column.
THE TURF-3d Page 9th column.
To LET-COUNTRY PROPEBTY-3d PdQe-lst cOiuinh'
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this element General Palmer belongs, and his
leadership cannot fail to result III good to his
party and State.
The judgments of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer in the cases of the two convicted
insurance presidents have been affirmed by the
General Term. The opinion of Judge ingalls,
upon the appeal of Mr.. Case ought to dispose,
finally, of the plea by which, in court and out,
delinquent officials seek to justify criminal
negligence by showing that they relied upon
the statements of subOrdinates. Judge Ingalls,
rules, as Judge Davis did on the first trial.
that when the afiiant should have personally
known the facts, it is no defence to plead
that the affidavit was made on belief. Ii such
defence was admitted to be sound, officers
of such companies might be able to eYade the
statute, as the Judge suggests, by manlpu-
lating the books and basing statements upon
the falsfed figures. In the case OF DR.. Lam
bert the question presented was not one OF
negligence, but of actual guilt, and the find
ings of the Court below are fully confirmed.
The hanging affair in Louisiana proves, II
any proof was needed, how little lynch law
deserves the name of law at all. Fiendlsh
crimes are now and then punished WIN
a swift justice which will not wait for the
slow processes of the courts. There Is, ana
can be no excuse for such violations
of law, but it is easy to see that sometimes
the nature of the crime renders those
who have suffered by it incapable OF reason
or moderation. Also, when justice is cheated
in a primitive community, 1t is not difficult
to understand how rough men are led
to take the law into their own hands.
But these four victims of louisiana
lawlessness had not cheated justice. All OF
them were in the hands of the law One had
been sentenced to imprisonment for life, one
to Imprisonment in the penitentiary, and
two, after one trial, were awaiting an
other; and these men were dragged out OF jail
in the dead of the night and hanged. The
victims were black, the lynchers were evil
IDENTIFY white, and in Louisiana, that seems to
tell the whole story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-31
rHE -CURRENCY QUESTION IN POLITIC

THE CURRENCY QUESTION IN POLITICS.
The letter of THE TRBUNE's correspond
ent about Maine politics, printed yester-
day, calls attention to a fact OF the
first Importance, which we have repeatedly
stated, but which is overlooked or ignored by
nearly all advocates of sound financial doc
trines. 1t is this, that the currency question
in this country cannot be settled either by the
sure approach of resumption or by actual re-
sumption itself. For it is the old contest be-
tween ignorance and knowledge between hon
esty and dishonesty, between shlftlesshess and
thrift.
As long as there are persons who spend all
for present enjoyment, and save nothing,
there will be some who want to rob those
who have saved property and enjoy It's fruits.
AS long as there are persons who want to es-
cape the payment of debts, or to live with
out earning a living, there will be some who
favor dishonest schemes of finance. AS long
as there is such ignorance in the land
that many persons believe life can be made
easier and toll can be lightened by the use of
more paper money, so long there will be hon
est and sincerely benevolent, though utterly
mistaken, advocates of sort of currency
which resumption cannot give, and which can
neither be got into circulation nor kept IN
circulation if resumption is TO be maintained.
For as long as a paper currency is redeemed
in coin on demand, its volume will be regu-
lated by laws more potent than any Congress
can enact; whenever its amount exceeds the
real needs of the country, part will be pre-
sented for redemption, and gold will be drawn
out for it. There is no escape from this law.
Redemption means strict limitation of notes
to actual needs. But the people who believe
that prosperity can be created, toll lightened,
and life made easy, by forcing more paper
into circulation, are hostile to that limitation,
and will continue as hostile after resumption
as they are before.
Trimmers of both parties have INDUCED the
notion that time and the progress of events
would soon rid them of this ugly question
that resumption would come in due time, and
"then it would be out of the way :" that they
could escape present unpopularity by temporiz-
ing and dodglng with certainty that settle
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRRIGN.-Mr. Gladstone took part in the debate
on Lord Hartington's resolution. - The Aus
TRANS met with nominal resistance in Bos-
MA 80 The Russians are not seeking new loan.
- The Bank of France will change its notes.
- Lord Lorne's appointment is well received in
Canada. - Nubar Pasha has accepted the post OF
Minister, without portfolio, in Egypt.
DoMEsTIC.-Sittint Bull has made application to
be allowed to come back; the Government
refuses. go The Maine Republicans have re-
nominated Governor Conner on Temperance, hard
money, ant-war claim, national sovereignty plat
form several prominent men made speeches at the
convention. - The latest dispatches about the
eclipse show that the Western the Cuban and Cana
dian observers had good luck. = Heavy rains are
reported IN New-England and the West; the wheat
of the West is somewhat damaged by the storm.
g. The Treasury calls for 50, OOO, 900 more 5-2Os.
CITY AND sUBURBAN.-A possible clue to the
cause of the fatal Barclay-st. explosion was
discovered yesterday. - The appeals Of
Case and Lambert, the convicted insurance
officers, for new trials. were denied. -
The German-American Teachers Association lis
tened to several addresses. - Further details
of the Matchmaking operations of George c. Ran
doph were given. - The payment of a dividend
of so per cent by the SixpenBy Savings Bank was
begun. 60 hearing had Of the
charges against Justices Flanagan and Pinck-
new. - Isaac p. Cooper testified in the Cooper
Marshall contest -= Gold, 100lc, 1902 100l2.
Gold value of the logatender dollar at the close,
99e1o cents Stocks active and lower, closing fe-
yerish at partial and irregular recovery.
TIE WEATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate cloudy weather. with chances Of frequent
showers, followed by clearing weather. lhennOm-
-eter yesterday, go. 71o, 67o
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any circumstances If Levissee was legally chosen
it would be fraud to vote against the party that
elected him, and it he was not legally chosen 1t
would he a fraud to vote at all. This dilemma does
not to have occurred to the various Democratic
statesmen who were negotiating about that time for
the purchase of Republican elector. II LeYissees
man had applied at headquarters he would probably
have been told, in the words of famous dispatch
" If you make obligation contingent on result 1t
can be done, and ucremable slightly il necessary"
They were ready enough to trade at that shop but
they did not trust.
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Senator Blaine's closing sentence yesterday,
in his speech to the Maine Convention. might
well serve as. watchwOrd for the honest
money party all over the Union" The green
IS back agitatOr invites us to violate a solemn
pledge of Nation to the world. We will
never do it--neveT-never!"
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Sitting Bull, like some more distinguished
exiles. is willing to return to the country he
has injured on condition that he Is allowed
10 keep all that he took away with him.
He wants complete immunity-and all his
ponies In other words, he wants his record
cleared and achance given him to make another
of the same sort. 1t Is very much as if Mr..
"Tom Fields should announce himself from
Belgium as a candidate for the New-York
Senate.
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