New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-03
Congress has contrived TO do great deai OF
mischief, both by wanton expenditures ana Dy
depicting revenues.
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"fres,r but by reference to the invitation
issued 4 few weeks ago by Grand Sachem
! Augustus Schel and the various Wiskinskles
and Sagamorcs who consort with him III FOur-
teenth-st. we observe that they are gong
| to have them tomorrow III Iammany
Hall 1t would seem hardly necessary,
unless there should be very sudden
and radical change in the weather, to klndle
! council fires in the hall to keep warm by put
10 may be that the " friends Of freedom VINO
expect on this occasion to have what MI.
Schell eloquently calls a " sleepess WglI,
are proposing to roast something or nave
barbecue or something Of that sort IN COM
memoration of the day. This Is the
occasion, it will be remembered. when,
as Mr.. Schell has remarked, Tammany will
"dedicate herself anew We hardly need
say that while she is defeating herself anew,
and for several bours after the close OF the
ceremony, quiet people will do well to avoid
the neighborhoOd When Tammany dedlcatos
herself anew, it is a good time to stay IN
doors till she gets well over it, But speaking
of council fires it is at the close OF the CIR
cular of invitation, to which The TRIBUNE
has heretofore briefly referred, that Mr. Schell
beautifully says: We hope to see you
cat the council fires next month ut
"was issued in juno, when we will, from
"tbe spirits of the great departed, invoke
"bIessings upon our beloved land" In the
limits of an invitation circular he could not
of course give anything like list of the
names of the great departed, from whose
shirts they are going to invoke blessings
unon orr beloved land. And it was hardly
necessary TO be more explicit as to where the
great departed had gone to- Even with
the addition of council fires to the present
weather il is quite likely that the spirits OF
the Tammany departed viii have to come up
i'm ovcrcoats to guard against taking cold from
the change TO 50 much lower temperature.
It will be a very pretty spectacle when Mr.
Schell and the Wlslinskics and SagamOres get
fairly settled down to the work OF invoking
blessings upon our beloved land from the spirits
/ of the great departed.
II ias been announced that shortly after
this celebration Mr.. Schell, unaccompanied
50 far M we can learn, by Niskin,kle OF
even Il Sycamore, will start for Europe. His
business is not stated, but he starts OFF so sud
denly upon the heels of the Fourth OF July
that we presume he goes abroad TO keep up
the invocation and wrestc with such OF the
spirit, Of the departed rs are now lowering
around foreign courts, where eXtradiJi0n tIca-
ties do not reach, for additional blessings
upon our beloved land. 1t may be he
viii touch the Happy Isle, and see the
great Achilles Sweony, whom he knew. Atany
rate we think il quite plain that lac goes abroad
to keen up the celebration, add get as near
rs possible to The spirits of the great departed
d.. ill ,.s. tlt. K1.ltr
Passengers bv The same steamer Will observe
at all hours oil the day and night his manly
form bending over the pinnacle with steady gaze,
and upon inquiry viii learn that he and
Thomas Jefferson and William VI. Tweed and
Alderman Purroy founded "a society, whose main
object il is TO watch the compass, lest the
3" needle sway from the Pole STAR And there
will be great times in Europe when he falls
in with the spirits of the great departed who
are waiting over there for it to blow over, and
fall. on their uccks and begins in his earnest
and enthusiastic way to invoke from them
blessings upon our beloved land.
From this delightful picture we tum with
a feeling Of sadness and pain, to the resolu-
tious passed by the "Ncw-Iork Democratic
Association at a large meeting IN Irving
Hall, on Monday evening. Neatly, if not
quite, all the noble spirits vino took part in
the meeting, and voted for the resolutions,
have been. az some time, members of the In
dian organization Of which MI. Schell is the
Grand Sachcm. They know or ought 70
know, something about the Wiskinskc
and Sycamore business. Notwithstanding
which, they solcmnly resolved, and had
the resolutions printed, that tine Guy of
"Nrw-York has for years borne the burden Of
"Tammmv msgoycrnmcu with its system of
"prclcndcd primaries and dishonest enroll
"mcnis." and that lit IS the duty of the
Citizens Of Ncw-Yorl, to organize for the
purpose Of resisting the further eucroach-
"mcuts of Tammany Hall And one OF the
speakers said the Iammany Society was a
despotism - and tyranny and various
things of that sort indicating that in his opn-
ion the Wskinskies and SagamOres and things
were not friends of Freedom and that they
did not watch the compass rs they ought. This
is shocking in the extreme. For all these
people are members OF the same party, and
all urge that no other party Is competent to
administer the Government wisely aud honestly.
And vet at the very moment when Mr. Schell
is getting together the spirits of the departed to
invoke blessings from them upon our be-
loved land, and is announcing that Tammany
is about to dedicate herself anew, these
ether Democrats in Irving Hall get together
and say It's all fudge, and that good old Mr..
Schell is u despot What is the honest cit-
zen going to do in such circumstances We
see nothing except TO believe what each says
about the other and let the celebration go on.
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UYOMING.
The massacre at Wyoming is one of the best
known incidents of the Revolution, and its centcn-
NAL commemoration which begins to-day, will