New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-08

sO-called rush 10 Europe even IN u year "hSh
there are special attractions there. The same
rule holds good with respect to the tide OF travel
To Summer resorts on this side of the water. III
some statiStician could ascertain the number OF
people who leave the City of New York, Tor
example, during the hot months, he might be
astonished to find how small the proportion
is. and to see that places which the Summer
is vaguely supposed to depOpulate almost are
Just about as full ever. The favored few who
leave the town behind them are so few that
they are hardly missed.
How completely the mushroom growth OF
the National party has demOralized all or
binary calculations in politics may be seen by
the letter of well-infOrmed correspondent In
Ohio, which is printed on another page. AL
though the Republicans are well organized
and have no little advantage IN various de-
tails of strategy, the Toledo epidemic has
spread so rapidly over the State that no safe
predictions concerning the result of the cam
paign are possible. Our correspondent thinks
the National ticket may receive as many as
rs. 900 or 100000 votes in Ohio this
Fall. 1t is easy to infer that the Republicans
might be looking forward to the result with
tone of opposition to the new party. The IRIB-
UNE has already urged this view at great
length, and it is to be hoped that all future
conventions will see the wisdom of an open
declaration of war against an organization
which has already opened fire on the property
of the country.
The version of the Wormlcy's Hotel con-
ference given by Senator Stanley Matthews
in a talk with our correspondent at Cape May,
is rendered of interest by Major Burke's re-
cent testimony before the Potter Committee.
While this new statement adds little to the
popular stock of knowledge on the subject it
is worthy of remark that, according to the
Senator, when he met Major Burke TO discuss
the probable Louisiana policy of the probable
President, Major Burke had abandoned all
hope of Dir. Tilden's Inauguration. Those
who charge that there was bargain +"
ought t show what equivalent, under these
circumstances, the representatives of Lousi-
ana could have furnished. This whole con-
trOversy has grown so musiy, however, that
the public will be glad to see it dropped.
There is no use of quarrellng over ancient
history. The Louisiana settlement is surely
an accomplished fact and it is too late
to revise it, if it were desirable
to do so. There never was anything
in the stories of a "bargain," because
no bargain was necessary to induce Mr.. Hayes
TO do what he had already made up his mind
to do, and Mr.. Matthews's statements set that
fact in stronger light than before 1t is to be
hoped, therefore, that the Ohio Senator has
had the last word on this subject
The latest dispatches concerning the accl-
dent on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St.
Louis Railroad bring the figures of the dead
and wounded to shocking total. No less
than fifteen of the passengers were killed,
and fifty were wounded, many of the latter
being so seriously injured that they are
not expected to recover. After the manner of
such disasters, there is an abundance of care
for the victims, after the damage has been
done. very small part of this con-
sideration on the part of the company and its
employees a few hours earlier would have
sufiiced to prevent this accident. While
the dispatches give little clew as 10 where
the responsibility lies, it is evident
that it is the old story of carelessness
at some point, that, like the little leak
that wears away the dixie, is enough to
spread disaster everywhere. 1t is certainly
true that no two trains were ever known 10
pass each other on the same track. 1t is quite
as true that no possible condition OF
things can justify any repetition OF an
experiment that has always failed. The
passenger train was behind time, and there
was clearly fault there. The freight
train was on the same track and going
in the opposite direction, and there was
fault there which cost many human
lives. These are blunders which the
courts cannot perhaps treat as crimes, but
railroad companies can, if they choose, visit
such offences with severity which would
have q wholesome influence.