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New-York tribune., 1878-05-02

1t goes without saying that the usefulness
of the investigation of the railroads. which the
merchants of this city have asked, and which
the Legislature will grant, if yesterdays vote
in the Assembly is repeated in the Senate
will depend, mainly, upon the character OF the
men appointed to the commission. Inc
resolution under which it will act is so
broad that the whole railroad problem can
be studied, and, with proper appointments
much valuable information can be acquired
which may or may not result in immediate
action. If the railroads cannot he coerced'
perhaps the business men of this city can be
aroused to q livelier sense of their situation
and that will be result enough. Lieutenant
Governor Dorsheimer and Speaker Hustled
should pick ont the best men they can find
for this work, without regard to political OF
personal considerations.
New-York tribune., 1878-05-02

Tho marvellous perfection to which the science Of
fast printing has been reduced well illustrated
in Yesterdays issue Of The TRIBUNE. Everybody
knows that fine engrayings have heretofore bafied
the fast presses They could only be well printed
on the slow machinery used for the pictorial papers
or for book work. But the large cut of
Paris and the Exhibition, the most intricate and
delicate design that has ever been fur
nlshcd us by our engravers, was reproduced
with admirable distinctness-athough printed
and folded on the newest of presses at the rate
Of Is, 900 copies per hour We hazard little in say
ing that considering the difficulties, this Is the best
piece of fast newspaper printing yet done by any
machine invented in America or Europe.
New-York tribune., 1878-05-02

The world never tires of the hackneyed adage
about the ruling passion. These were Morrissey's
New-York tribune., 1878-05-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Eyarts have the profound sympathy
of the American people in the double aillie-
ton which has befallen them. Called away
from the remains of one son TO watch by the side OF
another who was thought to be lying at the point
of death, their cup of sorrow is filed indeed to
the brim. II they are happily spared the loss with
which they have last been threatened the whole
country will rejoice with then
New-York tribune., 1878-05-02

It's saunounced with an air of the most impressive
mystery that Glovers forthcoming report will make
such terrible disclosures that the Republicans will
at once abandon their hilarity and break out into
uproarious lamentation. Glover has been tremen-
dously sly, we are told and has kept all his great
"fnds" a secret, in order to bring them out with
better effect. This is the same old bulletin which
was nut out when Glover first started for the enemy.
He posted it again when he employed his experts,
and it is revamped for a final duty now. GlOvers
imagination is the only dangerous thing about him
which Republicans have to fear. As for the Demo
Gratis they know by experience what deadly hook
lac throws.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22
PERSONAL.

Senator Thurman will wave his bandanna
and drink sulphur water for time at Rchield Springs
Secretary Eyarts's official duties will compel
him to leave hs cool Vermont retreat for tho lord heat
OF Washington this week
The late George NJ. Tibbits, of Troy, is said
10 have boon instrumental in Luildng houses and
planting more trees than any other In the coun-
Try
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson the actor, is Ia Colo
RADIO In company with Mr. bradford, the New Bedford
artist no viii make sketching OF six weeks IN The
Yosemite Valley Of California.
The Rev. William A. Bartlett, of Indianap-
oils. says that he has boen approached Informally on
the subject OF becoming president OF Hamilton College,
but that lac could DO Induced 10 accept the position
Ii is now generally believed In Paris that
the medals Of for painting at the Exhibition Will
be divided foll0ws Three 10 France. two to England
and Que to Spain. BalauIn, Italy and Russia respect
yely tho French reOipleuts being Molssoner, GeT0ma
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22
SrRncK KLrH COMMON SENSE.

The pertinacIty and plain speech Of Secre-
tary Sherman have bad an effect at last, aud
the subcommittee at New-0rleans has con-
sented to summon the Witnesses whom the
Secretary designates, and to hear evidence on
the subject of intimidation in the Feliciana
parishes. It is true that one does not see how
the Democratic members of the committee
could persist any longer in refusing to hear
both Sides after the free course which they
have allowed the witnesses for the prOsecu-
ton, and the indignant protest of the public
against the outrageous unfairneSs OF declining
to listen to the defence. But we have no desire
to cavi at the tardiness of this concession TO
common sense and justice, or TO suspect
the motives that may have prompted it. We
accent the declaration of Mr. Stengcf that it
is the purpose Of the subcommittee to afford
IS the fullest opportunity for the taking of any
Testimony upon this subject that may be had,
"upon the one side or the other" and we
shall presume that the subcommittee mean
what they say, until they give us reason to
think otherwise. In the inquiry, therefore,
whether Mr.. Sherman was party to a con-
spiracy fol- suppressing the true vote Of thess
parishes, we shall have the advantage. whfsh
the committee has hitherto seemed disposed
to deny us, of first aseertaining whether there
was any conspiracy.
If the truth were told, we have little doubt
that this coming down TO decent and busI-
ness-like methods must be a great relief to
the Democrats themselves. Their investga-
tions at New Orleans have taken them lately
into dreadful holes and corners, out of which
they must emerge with a general sense of dis
gust and a longing for soap and water and
fumigation. Por weeks they have been test
ing the capacity of Louisiana politicians and
afidayit-makers to lie. On Saturday they
questioned number of persons who
had been examined before another COM
mittee IN relation to the same ques-
tions of fact, and as the telegraphic report
tersely remarks, "Al recanted their previous
affidavits and testimony as given before the
Howe Senate Committee, saying the state
"ments made were not true, and they were
"made at the instance of Others for political
purpOses.n One or two gentlemen well
known in Louisiana politics have given direct
and unimpeached testimony to show that there
could have been no such plot as the Potter
resolution assumed bat the other persons who
have appeared before the committee, the rogues
with quickened eOnscienees eager to confess
their sins, the pOll-clerks who see a chance to
make four or Ave hundred dollars by acknowl-
edging that they are internal rascals, the female
adventures trying to make profit out of real
or pretended documents" have done moth
ing but impeach one another when they have
not been busy impeaching themselves. Not a
point has been elected from Anderson, Web
Der, OF the other alleged "accomplices from
whom so much xas expected, except the fact,
patent now 10 all the world, that nothing these
worthless say can be accepted, and that there
is never any reason to think that they swear
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22
NEw-YoRK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, JULY Q, 1873

beauty of the star-lit night, the ceaseless actiy-
ity in the boundless waters the fascinating
approach to the green English shores. A lit
tie book might be written about this unevent-
full Journey of ten days, book full OF cheer
fulness and vivacity, calling up hundred dear
"reminiscences and reviving hundred neetlng
delights. With many of us the best OF gong
to Europe is the getting there. There Is nOth-
ing in the splendOrs of dancing Paris, or the
majesty of Alpine mountains, that fingers so
fondly in the memory as the sunny days ana
calm nights on the Ocean-days that are never
sultry and nights that are never chill, when even
the busy mind is forced to rcpOse, and the
anxious man of business, for once beyond the
reach of telegrams and newspapers, forgets his
worries and cOmposes himself to healing resC
There is an influence in the overpowerng sea
which makes even the brIskest OF Americans
take kindly to Idleness.
We certainly are not among the discontented
critics who complain of the folly and extrava-
gance of their countTymen in rushing every
Summer across the ocean and spending among
the English lakes and the Scottish Highlands
the time and money which might be lald out
in forming a better acquaintance with the
American continent. On the contrary, we De-
lieve that the whole nation is the better Tor
this habit, which has taken so strong hoid
upon all who can command few weeks hoh-
day and a modest purse. Most of us bring
back some knowledge that is worth having; +;
one picks up little geography ana
history; another enlarges his comprehen-
sion of philosophy a third only learns
how to mix salad. But the aggre-
gate of information imported by the returning
voyagers and discharged upon the community
is something enormous; and all American
society feels the benefit of it. The average
of general intelligence and culture Is senslbly
increased. And who shall say that the aver
age of American longevity is not also affected by
these annual thousands of voyages which make
such a blessed break into the racket ana
hurry of our daily lives
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

to the truth except when they make affidavit
that they are not too scrupulous to commit
perjury for fair consideration; that Is the
one point upon which their statement carries
conviction.
Last week the subcommittee got into
dirtier water than any it had troubled before !;
for it sat in solemn state to hear at second
hand the private opinion of Mrs. WeDber
about Mrs. jerks, to the effect that TINS
famous lady was fraud" an "impostor,"
woman" and probably thing" " crea-
ture," "perfidiOus wretch" and " mink :;
and various other feminine terms were en-
ployed, of which the parallels are only to be
found in the celebrated quarrel between Miss
Matilda Price and Miss Fanny Squeers. After
few days of this sort of thing it will be a
relief to get at some real witnesses.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22
ArSE1-

II is in these burning days Of July that our
minds turn with the most affectiOnate and
enyious interest to the absent friends who are
speeding gayly over the cool and placid sea,
and breathing in health and refreshment with
the pure salt air. -Four hundred and fifty first
cabin passengers sailed on Saturday. The time
for the annual exodus 10 reach its height has
passed, but still the tide flows outward, and
every desirable steamer is full. Thousands
stand longing and regretful at the pier-heads,
and watch the fast vanishing faces, as with
flags flying and handkerchieis waving the
great ships push out into the stream and
hurry down the bay. A sudden quiet ON
board succeeds the hustle of parting. The
passengers gather at the bulwarks, and
look out upon the wharVes and spires, and try
to identify familiar objects which in some way
seem strangely altered. The islands and forts
glide past. The cool breeze rises. Sandy
Hook is reached all too soon; little boat
puts off from trim schooner, whose clean
sails are tapping just beyond the bar; the
pilot goes over the side and is cheered as he
takes his leave; we feel the ocean swell al
last the engines settle to that steady beat
which they are to keep up day and night for
5000 miles and we are ut sea.
A pen which the readers of THE TRIBUNE
have long known touches gracefully upon the
delights of Summer Atlantic vOyage--the
idle and delicious days on deck, the mystic
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22
Innrr 10 AnrernsemenIs.


Auusfair vTs-3d Page-3th column as, ,
BANKTNG 3OUsEs AND BAEKEEs--7h Poge-Oth CO'uuln'
EANKRUPT NOTICEs-3d PG0c-3d column
HOARD AxD ROOMs-3d fa0e-6th column
HUsrSRss NOIICEs-iih Paq6-lst column.
CONFORMATION NOuCRS-6Lt PaQe-4th column.
DfvIpggn NOgfCEs-7M P0ge-6th column.
l,xcI RsIoNs-3d Pnge-0tb column
lugANCIAI-7ah P06e-5ta an0 Oth Columns.
FuRSIrURE-6h Page-3d column.
HOfELs-3d PGce-6tn column 49,,
HOUSES AND FARMS WANTED IN FdJt- -oth coluihh
ICE CREAN--6M Fdgo-Gth column.
INgTEUCTfOS-6th PGQe-lsi. 2c ana 30 oOinihhS
LAW ECHOOIs-6h PGge-3d column,
MARBLE AND SLATE MhNTELS--6th PGge-So cOihhh
MARRIAGES AND DEATIi5-5Ls Paee-6tn column
MlscFILANEOUs- PR0s-5th ana On coiumh5'
NUsiCAr INsTRUMENTs-3d PGgt-6th column.
Nav PUnIICATIoNs-6M Pdge-lst column
lROiOstIs-6h Fd0c-4th column. "a.
RKky RsrATH FOR SAI6-BBOOKLlN--OW fuoe-TO T9
column; COUNTRY-6h Pd0e-6th column 10 Ia
CHANGE-- 6M Pdgc-0th column.
SAVINGS BANIls-7fh PaGc-Gtb column.
SPECIAL NOTiCEs-5ts P00c-6th column
sITiytrIoSs WANrED-MAtEs-3d PdCc-4th column
FEMALES 3d Uge-3 Sd and 4th 60 nmns' r.,,
STEAMBOATS, AND KAILROADs-bh FdGe-4th ana OVh
columns
STEAMERS OCRAS-6th Pa0e-36 column
SUMNER BOARD-3d PdOe-1th, 5tn and 9th Columns
TEACHERs-6A PG0e-3d column.
THE TURF-3d Page 9Th column.
TO LET-COUSTRY PRoPERTr-6h Fa9e-otn coIulln'
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

In our notice, week ago. of the good work done
by the New-York Infant Asylum, at Sxty-frst-st.
and Tcnth-aye., we did not intend to ignore the
usefulness of a similar charity-the Nursery and
Childs Hospital, at Fifty-frst-st. and Lexington
ave- THIS institution was established in 1854, for
the reception Of the children Of poor women chiefly
wet nurses. Afterward a separate building for the
shelter Of iegitinate children was erected and
still later, In 1865, Lying-n Hospital added. In
1870 n country branch house was opened, consist
ing of large building Staten Island and thirteen
cottages, TO which. and TO private families as
boarlers, the children are sent during tho Summer
months To be admitted 10 this hospital, children
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22
THE FIN1NCIAL SITUATIOM

The bank statement of Saturday deserves
more than usual attention. For the first time
this year. the banks report a larger legal
tender reserve than they held at corresponding
dates last year or in 1876. On the 9th OF
April it will be remembered, the greenback re-
serve had fallen to $26, 1857, 900, against $42,-
257,2U0 at the same date last year, and $685.
700, 400 in 1876. So great difference was by
some attributed to the contraction OF the legal
tender circulation under the act OF 1879.
But from April to July 20, the banks have
gained nearly $31 900, 900 in legal-tenders,
whereas they gained during the same time IN
1877 only $15, 600, ,0O0 and in $40 only $1S,-
100000. Moreover this gain has been made
without any considerable reduction in loans.
These facts clearly do not indicate that the
banks are at all embarrassed by the retire
ment of legal tenders, and they hold more
specie, also, by $7OOO,OOO, than they held
at this time last year, their specie
reserve beng, moreover, far more available
in case of any emergency. 1t is an interest
ing fact, too, that the amount of deposits is
almost rs large as it was at this time last year
or in 1876, although there has been within
one year or two a material reduction in the
amount of loans. Tho comparison of cOndi-
ton about July 20 for three years, is as fol-
Lows.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

FoREIGN.-Mr. Gladstone and Mr.. Forster have
made speeches against the English Governments
policy. =- Tho Austrians viii enter Bosnia
on .Jnlv 2s: trouble is threatened. -= The labor
troubles in France continue -- The weather in
England and on the Continent Is very warm.
DoMEsTIc.-Governor Hampton, of South Caro-
lima has asked for the pardon Of fifteen illicit dis
tilers. .== 1t is stated that S113 100000 OF the
per cents have been sold within five months. ==
Mr. Alexander IS at work in Eppa Hunton's district
in Virginia, to defeat his denomination to
Congress. - Judge Shepley is dead. james
Gordon Bennett now proposes that his yacht Daunt-
less be fitted M for second polar expedition. -=
The President was at Columbus. Ohio. yesterday,
and be viii be at the veterans gathering at Newark,
Ohio, to-day. == There were several thousand
visitors 20 the encampmsnt at Gettysburg,
on Saturday. == Secretary Sherman will be a.
lowed to prove intimidation before the Potter Sui"
Committee. - A card is printed to-day in re-
gard to the rumored Federal changes in this Slate
signed by John c. Robinson and others.
Cry AND SUBURBAN.-The weather was mnch
cooler in the city yesterday; during the heated
term 139 cases Of sunstroke were reported. twenty
nine of them having been fatal = General Mer-
nit. on Saturday assumed charge of the COllcc-
tors q Office General c. X. Graham was
appointed Surveyor. II refner expressed
his views on the oil monopoly. - Booth
g. Edgar effected a settlement with their
creditors. 80 Emma Collins did not ap-
pear to urge her charges against Nicho-
las Cassina. - Gold, IOO6s 1OOl2, 10Ol9.
Gold value of the legal-tender dollar at the
close. 99G1o cents -= Stocks generally dull but
irregular, and closing weak.
THE WEATHER-TRIBUNE local observations indi-
cate clear or partly cloudy weather. Thermometer
yesterday. 74o, 76o, 100.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

The English Liberals seem to have sue
ceeded in pulling themselves together SO lar
as to challenge the Government to debate
on the Asiatic Protectorate. Lord Harrington
has given notice of q comprehensive resolution
in the House of Commons, and Mr.. Gladstone
has made furious attack upon the Govern
ment, denOuncing its secret treaty with Iur-
kew as an insane covenant. The strongest point
of the resolution, as well as of the speech,
is one on which we laid special stress
when the terms of that treaty were
first announced. 1t is this: MOmentOus re-
sponsibilities have been incurred without the
knowledge or the consent of Parliament and
the country. Mr.. Gladstone goes so far as to
say that no despOic government IN Europe
would have dared to do what Lord BeacOns-
fields Cabinet hes done. His speech may be
digbty in other respects-indeed, from the alb
stract of it now before us We judge that tits so
but in laying bare the dangerous tendencies of
an administration that is practically autocratic,
be is rlght-absOlutely and unequivOcaly right.
Lord BeacOns6cld has restored the supremacy
of England in European councils, and that is
a great gain to the world. He has made Eng
land responsible. in the sight of Europe,
for the regeneration OF the UNANIMOUSLY
governed country which has been placed
under the protection of the Crown, and
that is also a great gain to the world. But be
has taken it upon himself to decide off-hand
more momentous questions than were ever
discussed in Parliament lie has dragged the
country into a position from which it cannot
honorably withdraw; he has committed Eng
land to a most complex and Onerous
policy in the East and he has done
this himself, without allowing anybody out
side his Cabinet to know what he was about.
Parliament has been dumb and the nation
powerless to make known its wishes while the
destiny Of the Empire was being shaped by a
single hand and that has not been gain to
tine world
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22
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New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

How general must have been the prostration and
debility caused by the heat may be judged from the
terrible effect Of the weather upon tho newspapers,
which are commonly the last to succumb. The Their
mometer had been barely three days at $50 when
the sea-serpent suddenly reappeared in half the
journals of the United States and at 99o the ex-
hausted subedtors began to put in anecdotes about
John Randolph of Roanoke. Fortunately the mer-
cury did not 90 any higher.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

insisted that he was IN search of the Erie
Canal in the hope Of being allowed to super
intend some Of the mules that are found In
a wild state along that peaceful stream. 1t
must have been the ARRIVAL of this boy that
suddenly cooled the thermometer.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

In explaining the principles of the new party to a
reporter, the other day, General Butler is repre-
sented to have laid it down one of the fundamen-
tai doctrines of the National creed that every one
has a right to his own" But this is to be taken
with many qualifications. People who have any
thing have not a right to their own but everybody
who has not anything has right to all that he has
bimself and to all that his neghbOr has too. That
is the Butler platform.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22


With a comfortable change in the tempera-
ture the heated term came to an end,
even more quickly than 1t began, and far
more quietly, for the approach of the
hot-air wave was heTalded with all the
pomp which telegraphic prOclamatiOns could
give. There has been fall of twelve
degrees in two days, and if this tor
rid spell of weather ever had backbone,
it is most effectunly broken. This sudden
change was attended with considerable atmos-
pheric commOtiOn, heavy rainstOrms occurring
in the Middle and Eastern States, which had
at several points almost the violence of huT1-
canes. Now that this solar panic is over, ii
is easy to see that the attack was by
no means as severe as the dismal dispatches
from the West may have led our people to
expect, and that while the heat seemed to be
of d peculiarly exhausting quality, it did not,
in its visible results, equal former oppressive
seasons which came unannOunced ana were
taken almost as u matter of course. In the
three cities of New-YOrk, Brooklyn and Jer-
sey City, the whole number of sun
trokes, as shown by table given on
another page, was but 139, and of
these but 20 were fatal. There have
been Summers when The statistics of exhaus-
ton and death were on a considerable larger
scale, and yet did not produce the alarm
that was felt here last week. The warn
ings that were received of the progress OF the
area of heat served a most excellent purpose
in insuring precautions that have no doubt
saved many lives But it is a question, on the
other hand, whether New-YOrk, in her sympa-
thy with st. Louis, didn't fancy that she was
hotter than she really was.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

Here is the Boy Of the Period in a new
phase-a boy shrewd enough to know how bad
no is and anxious to throw the discredit of
his premature viciOusness upon the most
cherished Institutions Of modern society. He
is eleven years of age, of eourse-the age at
which our Juvenile incendiaries and burglars
usually attain enough professional distinction
10 attract the attention Of the police. Full Of
lies and Wlckedness, this young man insists
that his mental diet has been restricted to
Sunday school books; be was lately peddling
ellromOs in an Ostentatious and fagrant manner,
evidently maliciousIy intended to bring high
art iuto general contempt; and when be was
brought TO a halt By the police In this city, he
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

Peysons tearing torn for The season. and Summer
frarellers, can hare The DAILY TRIBUNE mailed 10
them. postpaid. for 81 per month, tie address being
changed as often as desired.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-22

The action of the proprietor of the notorious
Buckingham Palace in getting out warrant for
the arrest of Mr. S. Conant Foster on charge of
false imprisonment is one of the most impudent
outrages ever perDetrated in city where Outrages
by the class to which this dance-house keeper be-
longs are, alas but too common. There is no doubt
at all about the character of the establishment,
and it was a disgrace to the administration of our
laws that the attempt to close it should have been
left to private citizen. II this citizen is to be
punished for his failure Mr. Foster is quite right in
believing that public opinion will make itself mani
fest in a manner the police will be likely to re-
member-and the proprietor of the buckingham
Palace too.