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

Persons tearing torn for the season. and Summer
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them. postpaid, for 81 per month, The address being
changed as often as desired
The Bankers Association can claim to have
done its share in the work which TIE TRIB-
UxE has so often urged upon the advocates of
honest money and specie payments-that of
distributing documents embOdy1ng sound
financial doctrines. The report made yester-
day to the Association at its first days meet
ing, shows that nearly half a million letters
and papers, designed TO hasten the progress
of resumption, have been issued during the
past year.
Cardinal Mertel, to whom the Pope has Of
fered the post of Secretary of State, which
Cardinal de Luca declined, has attained the age
OF seventy-twO, and has been twenty years a
member of the Sacred College. He is an Italian,
and was president of the Council of State
during part Of the late pOntfcate. Pending
the negotiations with Germany and other
Powers, the next Secretary of State may have
as grave responsibilities as those which de-
volved on Cardinal AntOnelh when he held
the Office.
The Franco American Conference, for which
the public mind in both countries has been
prepared since NJ. Chotteau's mission, seems
likely to bring forward treaty which
will greatly facilitate any official ne
gOtations that may arise on that sub
iect. Our commerce with France being
now nearly 500, 900 annually, there is
abundant scope for investigation and further
development. The good will manifested on
both sides in the conference is a favorable
omen.
Another instance where the Erie Canal is
of service in resisting railroad combinations
is given by the new movement In the ship
ment of oil. The exactiOns OF the trunk lines
have stimulated the formation Of company,
whose first fleet of petroleum boats arrived
in this city yesterday by canal and
river from Buffalo. The number OF
boats is expected to increase to twenty,
making the trip in twenty days, and bringing to
this city daily average of 10000 gallons of
oil at half the cost of rail transportation.
When Winter comes, the representatives of
this interest propose, apparently, to attempt
to exercise the right of eminent domain which
the Legislature has conferred upon pipeline
companies.
Mr Washburne's diplomatic achievements
in Paris during the Franeo-German war long
ago became household story. He was the
patron saint of the enemies OF France whom
the outbreak Of the war caught within her
borders, and yet he succeeded in preserving
the friendliest relations with the people to
whom he was accredited. Some graphic de-
scriptions Of his labors and the risks he ran
dnring this trying time are given in our
Washington correspondence. They are taken
from the Minister'S own dispatches to the
State Department, but the mOdesty of the
narrative does not wholly conceal the writer.
The Minister describes bis labOrs in getting
10000 Germans out Of Paris, and his last
interview with the murdered Archbishop of
Paris.
AS is shown by tabular statement on
another page, the number Of voyagers to
Europe from this country during the present
season is the greatest ever known. Large as
the figure is-more than 20,000-it is yet
smali enough to prove how slight decrease