New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-22

Yesterday: Highest, 81; lowest 90 average,
Ga. ---
Oar Paris correspondent gives picturesque
description If the return of the exlled Com
muuists To Paris, and of tie patient gray
haired mothers and wives who gathered to
receive them. The touching stories Of one or
two of these hard-handod and shabby hero
ines are told in their own words.
The Brooklyn section of the Socialistic Labor
marty is in the field with full assortment OF
nominations. and dazzling platform. Among
other things demanded IS the establishment
bv the city of an official bank and IN official
ua,vu-.nop. 1t is easy 10 guess which OF these
two institutions would be most generously
patronized by the Sociaisiic Labor party
Apparently the next political surprise in store
for Us Is a conclusive demonstration that Gov
error Robinson has always been Democrat.
lie sneaks, in his letter of acceptance, of the
cardinal doctrines of the Democratic party,
which he early learned and has always tried
.to follow But there are members OF the
Democratic party who remember the time
when Governor Robinson ran for Office as 4
Republican.
TKInrNE EXTRA No %, "Thc Black List"
Will he issued this morning. Ii embraces the
series of articles on Reputation in the South
ern States, which has recently appeared IN
these columns. The financial record of each Of
the States which took part in the Rebellion is
made up in accordance with the facts, and
the rank dishonesty and utter shamelessness
Of the Democratic party South are laid bare
Naught is set down ia malice, for the expo
g. ends Init Lao.
been undertaken by this journal as a public
duty. The only inference TO be- drawn from this
array OF damnng evidence is that the issue
ON which the Solid South is solidest Is Repu-
diation. There is 10 pretence that all re-
pudiation is confined to the South; only that
that is the only section where every State re-
pndiatcs. OF, as Mir. Greeley used to say. "
don't declare that all Democrats are rum
"scllcr,, but do know that every rumscllcr
els a Democratr This Extra is a most If
-fcciivc political document, and should be
placed in the hands of every doubtful voter
i, will be sold for Ave cents.
Killed by a wicked scandal would prob
ably be truthful epitaph upon the Rev. DR..
Thompson, whose death Is just announced.
The statements made by his brOther-In-law,
the NeN. VT. johnson, III our lOCdl CVIulnhr,
leave little dOubt thar the recent cruel slam
der. published IN some newspapers of the
lower class, gave great shock to mind
already impaired, and broke the slender
thread that bound II 10 a shattered and feeble
body. This was certainly one OF the most
inexcusable OF scandals, if scandals are ever
excusable. DIR. Thompson was an old man.
He had served a long pastorate IN this
city with much distinction, and not breath
OF suspicion had ever clouded his name He
was a scholar of exceptional attainments and
a most industrious and useful writer When
be retired from the pulpit lac mad occupied
for so many years, his people made careful
provision for his future support, and the last
years of his life were spent IN the best society
of q European capital. where he assumed
such prominence as "a representative Ameri-
can that it was suggested at time to
make him the American Minister. This was
q man, it would be supposed, whom calumny
might have spared No one can read the
account Mr.. johnson gives of DIR. Thompson's
mental sufferings and physical weakness dur