New-York tribune., 1878-10-24

1t is little curious that Mr.. Talmage, who
has lately been making a study OF the various
phases of crime and is preaching series OF
sermons with the professed design of arous-
ing the community against wickedDess IN
high places, should appear with com
plete and unquestiOnably sincere yindicatlon
of Mr.. Tilden in the matter of the cipher dis
patches. Mr.. Talmage insists that Mr.. 1lden
is not necessarily a bad man because his
nephew is. But that is not what THE IRiB-
UNE has tried to prove. Mr.. Talmage ought
to buy one of the "cipher" extras-price D
cents.
Our Washington dispatches record the growth
of movement in Louisiana embOdying the
old proscriptive idea which existed for few
brief years as the creed of the Know-Nothing
party. The people of Louisiana have some
excuse for a prejudice against foreigners, II
carpet-baggers come under that head;
and under that head, it seems, they
are to be placed. But it is poor policA
for the intelligent. ruling class in any South
ern State, when all are so much in need OF
immigration, to announce the determination
that none but natives of the State shall be
admitted to its offices of profit and honor.
British Journals which strengthened the
hands of the Administration by maintaining
that an Afghan Winter campaign was abso-
lutely necessary, are placed in ludicrous po-
sition by the announcement that the Indian
Government has decided not to chastise
the Ameer until next Spring when he
is to be crushed by an Irresistible
"force." If only a 1.-THE comes true OF
the loss in British prestige, increase in AT
CHAN insolence. and moral and material AID
from Russia, which these papers said would
result from delay, the AnglO-lndlan Govern
ments will have grave difficulties to encounter
before Shere Ali can he brought to terms.
Yesterdays storm dIG much damage, the ex-
tent of which cannot now he fully known, IN
asmuch as telegraph wires were Frustrated
south of Philadelphia during most of the day
and night, and full details cannot be had from
the region which the storm first trayeTsed It's
line of march has been steadily northeast
ward, It's arrival at Philadelphia being recorded
at half-past 2 yesterday morning. at Tren-
ton something more than two hours later and
at Albany about noon. Its first fury seems to
have been its greatest Philadelphia has
not suffered so greatly in many years from
disturbance of the elements. No less
than forty churches were badly injured
being unroofed or having their stoeples blown
down. the damage amounting in one instance
to S35, 900. The great depot of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad had its roof wrenched of by
the gale. and warehouses, scbOOl-houses, mar
lighthouses and depots were damaged In like
manner to a greater or less degree. No less than
fifty store houses were blown from their fasten-
ings and the swollen rivers floated away great
quantities of goods; the tide in the Delaware
was the highest in twenty-seven years. Fully
seventy-fve persons are believed to have been
injured, and several are known to have been
killed.-FOrtunately, this melancholy showing
is not repeated elsewhere The gale wTeaked
no such destruction in Trenton or Albany,
though in both cities there was much dam
age to property. score of buildings were
unrOofed in each place, but in neither, hap
PLY, were any lives lost nor were any persons
seriously injured. The storm continued its
march to the nOrtheastward, but late Bos-
ton dispatch announced that no disasters on
the coast had yet been reported.
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