New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-17

made last September, and the concIliatory
manner in which Ghaz Mukhtar received
them, indicate that the agreement establishes
self government and religious equality. The
Cretans deserve the legislative freedom they
have thus acquired.
The Rrichstar having still further amended
the Socialist bill, and read it a second time,
tina, source of contention must shortly
disappear from German politics. Al
though tuo measure is harsh through
out ihe Liberals have gained sub
stantia victory in limiting It's operation to
tess than two and one-lutlf years. lis ell
cheney rau thus ho amply tested without en-
| croaching TO much on popular rights
The late lam, nteI llT. 1arbox Is IN curious
position. After going over to General Butler
| IN the Democratic Convention, and thus destroy
lug his standing, apparently, in the Democratic
party. re failed to get the Butler or Green
back nomination for Congress III Butler's
own district. Now, howcyc~, be has received
| the Democratic termination but we are in
c,ined to saS1,ct hit ne will find getting the
Democratic nomination to be one thing and
getting the Democratic woes another
The accuracy Of the chapter Of South Caro-
lima history. winch was presented IN yestor-
days TRIBUNE, is confirmed by two wit
ucss,s Of the events of that time. The Pres
ident pro tenn. of the South Carolina Sen
ate at that period states that the at
tempt to buy four state Senators was
| wei understood to be in progress and ex-
Governor Chamberlain declares that the
cipher DISPATCHES, rs translated, harmonic
with each other and with the events OF the
canvass. He cannot recall single event or
circumstance of the time Inconsistent with
them.
Mr.. Manton Marble seems to have made n
characteristic attempt to crafty his mahce
toward Mr.. Hewitt by dragging him into the
cipher mire. Mr.. Hewitt says elsewhere very
cmphaucally that he was not the proper
"ofiycr of the National Democratic Commit
tee whom Mr.. Marble "aIways Informed
"of the course of events" the course OF
events" according to Mr.. Marbles own i'm
Piled admission including the reception and
the transmission NOrthward of offers OF cor
rupt votes. This was II very mean perform
anCe, or, 10 describe 1t IN single word, 1t
was Characteristic of Mr.. Marble.
Superintendent Pil>burv has made Sing Sing
a paving prison in an almost Incredibly brief
period. The fiscal year OF the prisons
has closed. and while Auburn and Gin
ton still show small deficiencies, Sing
Sing, the largest of the three. gives an
actual profit for the year ending with Septcm-
Der 80, 1878, of $4,000 on an expenditure
of $4,000. at the end Of the previous
fiscal year, when Mr. Pilsbury had had charge
for only seven months, the deficit was
S317, 900; the year before that, when the
State Prison Inspectors had sole charge, the
deficit WAS SG05, 900. The reversal of this
balance sheet in less than two years IL an
achievement in real administrative reform
that, so far as We know. has not been
equalled anywhere in recent years.
The President has been speaking 10 the peO-
pie of the Shenandoah Valley in behalf Of
hard mOney-speaking with the words of Vir-
ginia's first generation OF great statesmen.
These utterances of Washington, Jefferson,
Madison and Marshall, the great Chlef-Jus-
tice, against emissions of Tat mOney-or as
George Mason put it, upon the old thread
/" bare security of Dledging sOlemnly the public
"credit "-are as pertinent today as they were
nearly a hundred yeaIs ago. There were those
then, Just as there are now, who had fallen
in love with paper, which Jefferson, in one of
these extracts aptly calls "tho ghost of
money, not money Itself " but the advocates
! of a common sense currency prevailed in that
day, and they will in this. Tie majority Of
| the people will not to use the Pr,sidcEts
words, try to he "wiser than the fathers,
wiser than the Constitution, wiser than
| human nature"
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