New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-30

the frontier often ut the mercy OF des-
peradOes, when the mere knowledge that
the strong arm of the United States Govern
ment might be invoked would be sufficient
! to protect them. 1t is doubtful, however,
whether q Democratic House will care to
offend the mOonshiners" in order to do
justice to the pioneers.
| The recent attractive lectures Of General
Cesnola could only be partially reported in
| THE TRIBUNE, on account OF the great
pressure of current news, at the time OF
their delivery. Full reports of them, how
ever, have now been collected i'll TRIBUNE
EXTRA No. AZ, which Is issued this morning,
price 10 CENTS sent postpaid to any adj
dress; the usual discount to the trade.
| This Extra contains II pages, and Is
prOfusey illustrated from electrotypes, rep
| resenting all the more important OF
the ancient objects General Cesnola de-
| scrbed. The lectures cover different ground
from that of the Generals book,
or any of his previous publlca-
tons. They are essential to all who would
keep pace with the progress of Cypriote
discovery, and will prove of especial value
to those who may wish to understand the
tropoltan Museum, or bring them more prom
incntly to the knowledge of Others.
| Our staff correspondent in South Carolina
reviews the proceedings taken by the Demo-
| Gratis in half a dozen counties OF the State to
| save themselves from prosecution for election
! frauds. 1t is sufficient indication of the
nature Of this pOst-electiOn campaign to say
! that in one county troublesome Deputy
! United States Marshal has been arrested on a
| charge of larccny--the larceny consisting IN
| the seizure by him an officer, OF certain
| quantity of tobacco. which is now in the
! hands of the United States Government; and
| that i'm the now we'll known case of Sandy Kcitt,
! a Federal Supervisor, has been arrested and
! locked I'D for demanding what the law makes
| il CRIME to refuse to hlm-admisslOn 10 the
| polls to witness the counting of the votes. 1t
| is a sufficient indication, too, of the personal
! standing of thc Democrats engaged in the
| operations described by our correspondent, to
say that another member of Governor lamp
toms stan makes his appearance in one of
them. For a man who is lnheX5ly opposed to
all forms of fraud and intimidation, Wade
Hampton seems to have taken a singularly
large proportion of bulldOzcrs and scamps into
his official family.
Our Aldermen are happy in the possession
Of one of the cheapest of known methods OF
manufacturing popularity. They receive the
estimates for the support of the City
Government from the Board of Estimate
and Appointment and express their
opinions upon them in detail !; and to
these expressions of opinion the Board
of Estimate and AppOrtlOnment, having the
power of final decision, and having also
keen appreciation of the character and capa-
city of a majority of our Aldermen, do
not pay the slightest attention. This leaves
the City Father delightfully."- free. He can
vote whole barrels Of money away to his
friends, conscious that the taxpayers Will
never rouse themselves to complain of apprO-
DTqtiOns which have no real chance of exist
ence, and conscious, too, that he can show
his political dependents how he actually
voted them money which they were not al
lowed to receive. Yesterday was the Boards
annual day for this edifying performance.
They developed the most benevolent interest
in policemen, making two separate apprO-
priations for the emOlument of that class /;
they expressed the utmost fear that re-
ductlons in appropriations should press hard
upon laborers they gravely directed that
certain public works should at once begin.
BY the time they had finished they had spent
with royal hand three quarters of a million
dollars 1t did not cost them cent; and it
will not bring their dupes 50 much as one
cent.
When THE TRIBUNE began i'll earnest to ex-
pose the efforts of the Gramercy Park statesmen
to purchase an electoral vote in Florida or
South Carolina, Colonel William T. Pelton ran
away to Canada He has remained in seclu-
sion there ever since. Even in this safe
refuge in q foreign land, however, he
and his cOparceners have obviously made
the discovery which the small boy
| reached in the thunder storm: "Some-
thing has to be done" Mr.. Smith Weed
has been in frequent consultation with him in
| Montreal, and at o'clock on the afternoon
of Thanksgiving Day, Colonel PeIton plucked
up courage to start back for New-York. He
| arrived here at yesterday morning but
he can not be found at Gramercy Park, the
| answer there being that Colonel Pei
"ton no longer stops here" This is
a part of the game. We shall soon have
PetOn and Smith Weed swearing through
millstones in their efforts to prove, first, that
Mr.. TIlden had nothing to do with
the cipher dispatches and, second, that
there was no reason why he should
not have had, since they were perfectly
innocent. Go on. Messrs. COparcenerS
We wish you joy of the undertaking,
and shall try and help you through.
But you must break into the Ark
and drag Marble out. The public will
put up with no beggarly show. present.
ing only you two as the performers. The