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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02

FoRK1GN.-An Austrian army 10000 strong, is
prepared to march into Bosnia. - Mchemet Ali
complains in strong terms of the treatment Turkey
is receiving from the Congress. = The crews at
Henley drew for stations yesterday. = Hanlon
won the single-scull race at Rockville, Canada
yesterday. - The Congress has coded Bessarabla
10 Russia, and declared Roumania and Montenegro
free.
DoMEsr1c.-Nlrs. jerks has been discharged by
the Potter Committee. The failure OF the case
aGanst DIR. Sherman is virtually admitted
The Jenks-Anderson letters contain no new in
formation. Boulds Baker refused to testify.
80 General Ord has been instructed to
exercise great caution in pursuing Mexi-
ran thieves. 80 Justice Miller IS out OF dan
ger. - The Government of the District of
Columbia was organized - Speaker Randall
was given a reception at Philadelphia. - The
explorations in ancient soapstone quarries OF Viz
Einia viii be resumed soon.
Cry AND SUBURBAN.-ContrOllerK Kelly expressed
his views ON Bridge appropriations. - The tax
books were submitted to the Supervisors. -=
Mrs. Wertheimers body was discovered. Many
daring burglaries were broughttO light by the arrest
pfGcorge Lent. == William Kennedy was charged
with the murder of Dennis Mahoney, river thief
e. Michael Tobn was sentenced to death
e. The New-YOrk Democratic Association
defined its position. 80 The Rev. DR..
Augustus Blauvelt was asserted to be in
zane. new Coney Island Railway
md hotel were opened. - Gold 1O00s, 1904,
IOOss Gold value value of the lcgal-tender dollar
at the close 99llo cents. Stocks dull but higher,
closing irregular and ieveriSh.
THE WRATHER-TKIBUNE local observations in
dictate partly cloudy weather. followed probably by
rains Thermometer yesterday, 759. 93o, 76o.
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view. and that all the history and states
mauship with which il abounded was merely fringe
and edging for Watterson's opinion OF Hewitt ho
saws no one would suspect it; he means no one
who was not familiar with the methods IN vogue at
Gramercy Park.
And then. of course, Hewitt put up his hands
and wrote a letter. Watterson repheu anu
Hewitt rejoined and 80 it went on Tor seVerai
DAYS and the entire interior OF the Democrats
marty was stirred ND as with bilious collie. Ihere
were issues of veracity and hair-pulling and siam
whanging of the most lively and entertaining cnar
acter. Each said the other lied, and both appealed
TO Tilden and were willing to leave 1t to cOmmlT
tee IL has been an uncOmmonly dusty wrangIe
with a good deal Of sparring for wind and promls-
cuous "sloshin' round,7 and it is no easy
task to get at the ends and unraVel IL an
We have a vague sort OF impression tha'
WattersOn was the last man who said lOure an,
other" and that he then struck out for MS oiu
Kentucky Home" We may be wrong about ls, ana
he NAV be still lurking in the neigbbOrhOOd of the
Everett House for an opportunity to can hewi''
something as he is going by. But from the fact
that there has been a cessation OF noise lOr lew
days, and silence like poultice, has come TO heal
the blows of sound. we infer that Waiter
son has lifted up his wings and lit out" toward
Kentucky And we are half sorry he's gone. lie
doesn't promote harmony much, but then how very
lively he makes things, to be sure. His coming tins
last time was like nothing so much as the advent oil
one of those big horned June-bugs in lawn party.
He sailed around in the same half-careless, half
business way, and Hewitt said ShOOp and struck
at him with his hat very much as he
would at a June-bug, and then he kept buzzlDg
round and set everybody lodging, and came back
again whack against Hewitts nose, and got struck
at with an ice-cream spoon, and finally rose up and
flew toward Kentucky-ab. it was so much like
June.bug IN a lawn party-we really do hope he
will come back before the season is over.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02

Psrsops Iearipg to,rs for the season. and Summer
fyarellers. can hare The DAILY TRIBUNE mailed 10
fkem postpaid. for 81 per month, the address being
changed "a often as desired.
IL is time to post the books of the train
wreckers. One in Delaware, who caused the
loss Of four lives, on Saturday night, has con-
fessed his crime. Here IN New-YOTk the first
of the trials Of the four boys who were charged
with putting distractions on the Elevated
Railroad track has resulted in n verdict of
aequittal, the jury deliberating but ten min
utes Doubtless the other cases will fail like
wisr. but it is evident that all of these young
gentlemen have been most effectually scared.
At this rate we shall expect accounts Of
daring robberies of horse-cars about as often
as it used to be announced that another stage
coach had been stopped on the plains. Some
enterprising persons near Troy borrowed an
idea from New-York, garotted horse-ear
passenger, and earned of $4,000, with which
he was to pay the hands at the mill OF which
he is treasurer. Many such Outrages cannot
be endured without some effort on the part
OF horse-ear companies to protect their pas
sengers.
Elections in the French Academy have long
been like elections in less august assemblages.
Candidates are not always successful because
they deserve success and have many friends,
bat sometimes because their rivals deserve it
and have many enemies; the mediocre man
often falls upstairs, the able man is kicked
down. While the last election added two names
to the roll of membership which were in
every way worthy of the honor, there were
curious incidents and motives underlying tins
result, of which letter on another page
gives a very readable account.
Judge Barrett's side-lecture to the Aldermen
upon their duties, while he was quashing the
Indictment against them for violating those
duties, has had its effect. The Board yester-
day refused unanimously to permit the cree
ton Of stand IN Ast0r-plaee for the laudable
purpose of furnishing Temperance refresh
"ments." One Of the Board artlessly remarked
that the Mayor had vetoed something of that
kind, and the Aldermen scampered away from
another indictment pell-mell. 1t is to be hoped
that this vote will not embarrass any of these
distinguished gentlemen by seeming to array
them in opposition TO the great cause which
Temperance refreshments" may be supposed
TO represent.
The correspondence between Anderson and
Mrs. jerks, which that lady surrendered yes
terday, is not important in any sense. except
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as these letters serve TO draw the portraits OF
their respective writers. This they do so
thoroughly that there will be greater will
ingness than ever to see the Butler Commit
tee retire from business and withdraw this
humilating exhibition, that is called an in
vestigatiOn, from the public eye. Anderson's let
tiers are full of vulgarity and profanity Mrs.
Jenks's are full of hippaney and slang,
though she was even yesterday protesting
that she did not understand slang phrases.
They seem to be the product of two persons
of nearly equal moral sense, and the public
will not be apt to refuse credence to the as
surance of each that the other is not always
veracious. The letters have been produced at
last. We hope General Butler is edited.
IF there are certain stories of crime that are
demOralizing, there are others that are as good
as sermons. Certainly no one can dispute
the moral quality of the record, that is printed
on another page, of the criminal acts OF the
burglar known as George Lent. There Is
nothing in this enumeration to attract the
young toward life of lawlessness, nothing to
lead them to believe that the professional
criminal does not do much harder and meancr
work and get on the whole, much poorer pay
than the average of honest men. There was
no trace of the generosity of the highwaymen
of romance in this gang of burglars who robbed
the Door shOe-peddler on the road and beat
him almost to death, after each of them had
provided himself with pair of shoes. There
was no resemblance to the old successes of
the road, as described in fash literature, In
the murder By this gang of Jamaica farmer
for $50. A murder for $50! And the money
to be divided up at that. Which takes us
back to the main idea that every one OF these
wretches could have made fully as much, year
in and year out, in an honest business, as he
did in a dishonest one, and would have led
far easier life.
The work of the European Congress, yes
terday, was highly satisfactory, although most
of it had been predetermined at those infor-
NAL conferences which have done so much to
lessen the labOrs of the dipl0matists. The
ROumanian question having come up for
adjustment, the Congress coded Bessarabla
to Russia, giving ROumania in exchange
the Dobrudja, with an advanced frontier ex-
tending from the neighbOrhOOd OF Sllistrla to
Mangalia, on the Black Sea. This settlement
restores to Russia the territory OF which
she was despoiled in 1856, and gives
to Roumania foothold on both sides
of the Danube as well as convenient
ports or the Black Sea. The Congress
then declared ROumania and Montenegro free,
thus destroying at one stroke the vexatious
claim that these countries were vassals of the
Porte. The deliberations hencefOrth ought to
go smoothly. Russia and Austria have agreed
as 10 tha Monteneprin frontier, while the
Committee on Servia has decided to
acknowledge her freedom, and ratify her
claim to more territory. All this being at the
expense of Turkey, it is reasonable that
Mehemet Ali should look upon his colleagues
as a set of brigands, and feel disposed to leave
them in disgust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02

The Detroit embezzler, whose pilfering, ait or
wears of dishonesty was brought TO lig1t on Satur
day, adds one more to the surprisingly long list OF
deacons and Sunday-sehool superintendents
who, in these latter days, have turned
out to be thieves of one degree OF
another OF course it is not to be
assumed that genuine religiOn-religion founded
on the love and fear of GOd-has any tendency to
weaken the moral principle TO unfit its possessor
to Withstand temptation. Nor is it to be believed
that all these criminals have with deliberate hypoe-
rsy assumed the garb of religion in order to ward
off suspicion of their ImmOrahties. On the con-
trary, the eyil-doer may have been in many
cases more surprised than his neighbOrs wern when
suddenly brought to see how his crime lookedafter
it had been exposed And yet does rot the fire.
oueney with which men are falling who
have been conspicuous for devotion TO relg-
Ious exercises, prove that their kind OF
religion not only leaves them no better
equipped than so-called worldly men for the trials
and seductions to which human characterisexposed,
but that it actually undermines their moral yigor
aud makes them an easier prey to every lurking
temptation 1t seems to be time for preacher to
refrain for while from denunciations of the " mere
moralis" as if morality in itsefmi be something
hideous, and address themselves to discovering
what sort of fiction it is which IS being substi-
tinted for mere religion, and which is proving such
deIusive support to Its votarIes Perhaps there IS
more danger in mere sentimentalism, in emotional
feryors and transient ecstacies which discourage
the cultivation of what is substantial in praC tica
virtue or common morality, than there IS even in
"mere morality itself.
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TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

TUESDAY, JULY 2. 1878.
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Sunspots, Of course No other explanation can
account so satisfactorily for the sudden Outburst IF
heat which has fallen simultaneously on Europe
and America during the past few days. Hew-lork,
London and Paris have been broilng AMI persDirIng
together. Evidently the cause cannot have been
the shifting of the Gulf Stream, or any
other merely local agency. Besides, we like to go
a long way for our theories, and sunspots there
fore come in handy. IL is well known that
astronomers have been groaning over the unusually
protracted absence of sunspOts, ana wonder
ing when the quiet state Of Tho solar
surface would come to an end. They have
watched for weeks and months, bnt Lot q mote has
been visible in the sunbeam. In April, however,
solitary spot cheeTed them May a few more
straggers appeared And nsH the sunSpOt season
must have fairly set in with the tide of Sumner
travel We shall expect soon TO hear, therefore, OF
a regular eruption of spots-of chTomospheTic flames
and facule, and incandesceDt gases, and all
the other indications of intense solar activity.
Meantime there is comfort IN the rejection that we
happen to-day to be just far from the sun as we
can possibly get--some thee millions OF miles. IN
fact. farther off than we were at New Years Day.
But for that tritlrg dss there is no telling how
far above the nmeties the mercury might have
risen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02

The Board Of Visitors to West Point has under
consideration proposal to lengthen the course at
the Military Academy, and give the cadets two
years for the study OF political economy ard kin
dred branches. For heavens sake, no! CoGgress
would no doubt assume the right 70 determine
what sort Of political economy should be taught,
and 1t is not at all unlikely that eminent pro-
lessor like Mr. Bland would be assigned to instruct
our young soldiers that two and two make five. and
that the multiplication table is tyrannous device
of bondholders We do not yet produce so good an
article of Government political economy that se
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Aetu-3loxk puilu GribMar&.

FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
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Persons Tearing tOws for the season. and Summer
fyareIIers. can hare The DAILY TRIBUNE mailed 10
Them postpaid. for 81 per month, the address being
ckaH0ed as often as desired.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02

The Ereaiag Post is putting in practice exceed
ingly sensible charity, the general Princi-
pie of which we have for several success
sive years taken occasion to commend to
our readers. 1t is TO seek out the delicate and
invalid children of parents who are unable to take
them out of the city provide proper comforts for
them at home during the midsummer heats, to send
these children into the country for week or
fortnight, or longer whore there is need, to
live without charge in the families Of
farmers, rest, play and get well. BY a
judicious management, the cooperation Of worthy
farmers themselves has been enlisted, so that
the contributions to The Post fund are only
needed to pay the cost of collecting and
taking the children to the country. The
Poat already acknowledges contributions aggre-
eating $556, and the amount of good which even
this small sum can do in this practical and substan
tial way is vastly greater than that accomplished
by many thousands, spentin more snowy ehildrenS
excursions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02

The correspondents between Anderson and
Mrs. jerks, which that lady surrendered yes
terday, is not important in any sense. except
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02

They do say that the Hon. Joel Parker Of New
jersey could be persuaded to run for Congress this
Fall, and they do say that the Honorable Joel, who
never was afflicted with any morbid m0desty, enter
tains the gratifying opinion that at the recent
soemnities on the CORY field of Monmouth. the hon
ors were about equally divided between himself and
the Father of his Country. Somebody ought
to remind Mr.. Parker that il the Hon.
Miles Ross, of Middlesex. should be smitten with
desire to renomnate himself as the Democratic
candidate, he might interfere with some OF Mr..
Parkcr's arrangements. Dlr. Ross has not taken
such noisy interest in the Revolutionary War as
Mr. Parker has recently TAKEN owing TO the fact po r
haps, that he did not have so many ancestors
fighting on both sides in that memorable struggle
as Mr.. Parker had. But on the other hand,
Mr. Ross is eenly alive to the controlling issues Of
the present day. and he dextrOusy managed to Sc
cure a very juicy slice of the River and Harbor
divide for the lid Congressional District OF
New-Jersey. Mr.. Parker is altogether too "loqy
for such a nmbe competitor and unless he sub
serlbes more literally to the battle monument fund
and n great many other funds. Mr.. Ross may not
discover that any one has been running against
him.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-16

FIS BE RNIEN.
Bay.
>. Ar at Port MuIgrave, MS, 18th inst, sch II Rowe
TaVeneen, from North Bay for Boothbay.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-16
MARINE DISASTERS.

Further Wrecks by Saturdays Storm.
Boston, Oct 15.-Captain Newcomb of the
schooner Rough and Ready, who arrived at
Provincetowp, Mass, last night, from the Gulf
of st. Lawrence, reports that the gale wal the
heaviest he ever experienced At p. m. on
Sunday he sighted an ocean steamer bound in,
the sea breaking completely over her, and yes
terday forenoon, Is miles northeast from High
land Light, he fell in with piece of a vessels
house, galley painted lie ad color and an Or
auge box marked O. B. Campbell, Bath. Ne.
He Judged the vessel to have bsen large lum.
Der laden coaster, as pieces of lumber were al
so seen in the vicinity.
The schooner Dresden of Machias, Denne-
SOD, Rondout for Boston from Vineyard Haven
the 18th, was in collision with the schooner G.
B. Paine, Ballard, Windsor, Nova Scotia, for
Philadelphia, and unshipped bowsprit, broke
jibboom, carried away head-gear and head-rope,
lost anchor and one cat-head. The Paine
broke chain plates, started quarter rail and
parted the shrouds.
The remains of Capt. Hart of the schooner
Eta A. Stimson have been recovered and for
warded to his friends.
A schooner loaded with short piles, her name
washed off except the two last letters, which
were "yD,' masts broken short off aud decks
swept clean, full of water, has been picked up
and anchored on Handkerchief shoal by some
fishermen.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-16
WASHINGTON.
The Recognition of Roumapia.

The Recognition of Roumania.
WASHINGTON, O,t. 10 There has, been no
formal rtcoe uitlon of Roumania by our gov
eminent Timothy @. Smith, lately appointed
consul at Galatz, took with him the usual
diplomatic letter issued to all consuls, and it is
this letter referred to in the telegram from
Bucharest as letter from President Hayes
recognizing the Independence of Roumsnia.
The Cotton Crop,
October returns to the Department of Agri.
culture indicate an average condition of the
ootron crop of 80, the same as in September
Compared with October, 1877. the growing
crop shows an Improvement of IL per cent.
The October condition fu' ly equals that of the
splendid crop of 1870 and excels any interven-
ing year. With the increased acreage planted
the crop now promises an Out-turn of upwards
OF five million bales.
Cabinet Meeting.
The Cabinet session today was of short dura-
ton. All the members we're present except
Secretary Sherman and Postmaster General
Key. No other than routine business was
transacted
The President will BIO accompanied to the
Winchester state fair tomorrow by Mrs. Hayes
and perhaps by one or more members of the
Cabinet. The President will respond to the
address of welcome on the grounds. Owing to
che reception to be held at Winchester at night
the party will not return to Washington until
early Thursday morning.
The President Still Believes i'm His
Southern Policy.
The Star this afternoon SAYS: It can be
authoritatvely stated that there is no truth
whatever in the statements variously made that
the President has decided or is about to decide
to change what is known as his Southern
policy" The principal reason for the state.
ment is supposed to be the letter written by
Attorney General Devens to the district attor-
ness of Alabama, Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, directing them to enforce the United
States election laws. This letter was written
after such facts had been laid before the Presi-
dent as clearly proved that under existing cir
cumstances no fair election could be held in
these states.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-16
BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS,
Failures OF lSsS Compared with Those
Of 1S77-A Bright Prospect.

Failures OF lS7S Compared with Those
OF lS77-A Bright Prospect
NEW YORK, Oct 15.-The authentic fgur es
OF actual failures all over the United States
during the third quarter Of the year have been
awaited with more interest than usual, owing
to the large numbers who sought to avail them
selves of the national bankrupt law prior to its
expiration. September LIST. The statistics for
the quarter and for the first nine months are
now furnished by the mercantile agency of
Dunbarton & Co., and show as follows:
The number of failures for the third quarter
OF 1878 were 1858, as compared with 1876 for
the same quarter last year; liabilities for last
quarter are 66,000,000, as compared with $42,-
O0O,OO0 for the same period of 1877. For the
first nine months of 1878 the failures number
period last year, the liabilities for the first nine
months Of 1873 are $l97, 100000, against SAL
OOOOOO for the first nine months of 1877.
1t is admitted that the petitions in bank
rnptcy hled at the period named considerably
exceed the figures above, but it must be UNDER
stood large number of the applications for
relief were either those whose failures have
been previously reported, or those who had
gone out of business or were not engaged in
mercantile pursuits, and hence not included in
mercantile failures.
The above figures refer to failures only among
those who were in active business and suspend
ed payment during the period uuder review
The Agency considers that the number of
actual failures We're not as large as might have
been anticipated among the 100000 traders re-
ported in business, and in view of the tempta-
ton offered to obtain relief from the past mis-
fortunes or anticipated EN- Embarrassment. The
trade of the country is believed to have sur
vlved what Threatened to be a serious shock to
confidence and credit, growing out of the
circumstances of the repeal of the bankrupt
law, and excepting the unfortunate epidemic in
the South the general condition of trade is
more healthy than at any time since 1858.