New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-25

Phillips. But there will be universal acquies-
cence in his brilliant Remuneration OF the South-
ern barbarism which, at one and the same
time, renders the negro's home intoieraoie U"
him and denies him the privilege OF leaving
it. The North has been asking itself already
Mr.. Philips's questionable Lee really Drive
Grant out of Virginia, and was IT Jefferson
Davis who pardoned Abraham Lincoln -
and the answer is coming.
It is truly edifyng to find General . +.
Cary, of Ohio, acting as the chief sponsor vi
n political platform which explicitly deinahuS
that Government bonds shall be pald III ao-
cordance with the law under which they were
issued. This is what the whrligig oil Onio
politics has brought us to. But IT seems 'ha'
while General Cary is quite capable of con-
yerting himself on short notice to one honest
doctrine in finance, he can't convert d" ~, =,
followers. His carefully prearraneeu po''
from the Columbus National nominations came
off at Toledo yesterday; there was a dehianu
made for unlimited silver, TO draw as many
National votes as possible, and the nominal
tion of Ewing was duly indorsed; but con-
trary TO the general expectation, there was
bolt from the bolt, and a convention OF sNtS
of the delegates resolved to adhere TO the
original Cary doctrines, and to the ucke'
which represents them There Will DE more
respect felt, IN this affair. for the men VINO
stand by their honest opinions, however 1oOi-
ish and mischievous they may be- than for the
men who would commit any apostacy Tor a
political consideration.
Mr.. Thurman, the prolific. has presented the
Democratic majority with still another policy
This may be styled a combination OF the
"back-down and /" Dever-say- de" polcies'
and may enable the desperate Democracy to
escape from their dilemma by a surrender, and
at the same time to declare that they took their
stand in the last ditch and stayed there. The
plan is 10 divide the Judicial bill into two
parts The first to contain all the necessary
appropriations for the courts, except for the
fees of the marshals, also the repeal OF the
test oath for jurors, and the proposed change
in the method of drawing jurles; the second
TO appropriate the necessary funds to pay the
marsbals. but at the same time STIMULATING that
none of it shall be paid to marshals appointed
under the Election laws, and prohibiting the
President from mourning any liability I'D
advance 1t is expected by Republicans as
well ms Democrats that the President Will sign
the first bill, and it is beyond question, OF
course. that he will veto the second. Con
gress can then adjourn with the proud salts
faction that il has defied one veto at least
But TO do this, it must brave the resentment
Of citizens of both parties who will be sub
iected to inconvenience by the partial Grip
ping of the courts.
The Hull murder once threatened to be-
come lastiDgly famous as ga mysterious case IL;
now it seems likely To take ITS place among
the curiosities of crlme for other reasons.
The story of the murderer, as given III HE
TRIBUNE's special dispatches from Boston, may
well be called by that much-abused teIm-a
ARCHAEOLOGICAL study. He can hardly be said
IN confess. for the word is associated in some
degree with repentance ard remOrse. But
this polite mulatto tells the story frankly and
coonv. not jauntily either, but apparently
with something like indifference. The de-
sign of burglary only entered his mind
as sudden impulse, and he Is at
loss to know now why he acted
upon it; the murder was unintentional, and
he describe it. in all its details, with the
most revolving calmness. This strange cal
lousness shows itself Ill all his actions. lie
did not leave the city until twenty-four hours
after the murder had been discovered, and
then apparently regarding Boston as a foreign
port, he went about that city boldly wearing
some Of the dead woman's jewels and pawn
ing others. Before his capture he had even made
visit of several days to this city, and had
then returned TO Boston and when he was
captured he was listening quietly, and with
every appearance of editicatlOn, TO a sermon
upon the "Torments of the Damned" 1t
cannot be any lack of intellect that is the
cause of this almost inexplicable demeanor,
for it seems to be generally conceded that Cox
is an exceptionally intelligent negro. Probably
IT results from sheer inability to appreciate his
situation. 1t can hardly be that he rests any
hope upon the old theory that changing is
"played out" If any man in this region can
be considered as predestined to the gallows,
that man is the murderer of Mrs. Hull.