New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-13
teachers who would learn their characters ana
exert an individual influence over them.

exert an individual influence over them
The difficulties in the way of dealing with
polygamy by any methods possible to employ
under the present laws are pointed ont III
letter from Salt Lake City, which we
print on another page. Our correspondent
thinks the evil can only be eracicatcd
by law making the continuance OF
parties in polyeamous relations penal Of
fence. At present a man can only be
nunished where il can be shown that lie has
gone through the ceremony of marriage with
more than one wife. If the Mormons saw that
they were in the power of the Government
and liable to b. severely dealt with, it is be
lieved they would abandon their peculiar IN
stitu;ion aud consent TO some plan for caring
for the women and children who are the
victims of il.
The report that Colonel Thomas \. Scott
has made financial arrangements III Europe
which insure the completion of the Texas
and Pacific Railroad will be welcome news IN
Northern Texas. Whether Colonel Scott
intends to 60 beyond the Rio Grnnde Is not
stated, but he will have to do some pretty
rapid construction work If he reaches that
noint before the road which Mr.. Huntington
is rushing eastward across Arizona ana New
Mexico. Probably the junction OF the two
roads will be at the river. The Texas anu
Pacific has been fairly successful as local
road. and has settled large belt OF country
with a prosperous farming population. us
further progress westward will open new
regions to emigrants. well adapted for wheat
culture and stOck-raising.
General Butler has so many parties sup
porting him that it is not easy 10 Keep tue
run of them all. He expects four or fve
nominations this year, and Will no douOt get
all he wants. The first convention on his list
was that of the Greenback Labor party, winch
came off in Faneuil Hall yesterday. In spite
of the fact that Butler means to igGore the
money question and make his canvass on
State ISSUES, he WAS nominated tor Governor,
and Wendell Phillips was pat up for Lieuten-
ant Governor. Politics make strange bed
fellows. Years ago, during the anti-savery
agitation, when Mr.. Phillips was in his best
estate, his association with General Butler on
any sort of ticket would have seemed as i'm
probable as the mingling of oil and water.
When mans brains are infected with the
iiat-moncy fallacy, however, there is no telling
III WHAT company nc VIII NC IOuHu'
If there were any way OF getting at the
facts concerning the assassination OF Alex.
Brice. the Republican politician who was
killed by unknown men near Walhalla, South
Carolina, few days ago. it woulI probably
turn out to be a political murder of the
Yazoo variety Letters received in Washing
ton show that Drice had begun the work of
reorganizing the Republican party i'll his
county short time before his death. A cir
cumstance in Biice's career is worth recalling.
For Il time he was postmaster at Walhalla.
The Democrats trumDed up an accusation
against him, and in spite of the fact that the
offence charged could only be tried in a
United States Court, they brought him into a
State Court presided over by Judge Cook,
where he was convicted and sentenced to
five years In the Penitentiary. The Judge
saw the illegality of the performance, but 1t
was lust after the rife-club campaign, and he
did not dare oppose the popular demand for
Brice's conviction. The postmaster was actu-
ally placed in the Penitentiary. Governor
Hampton was asked by Judge Cook TO pardon
him, but declined because he had no power
to pardon man for crime against the
United States laws. Finally, the Judge issued
mandamus ordering Brice brought before
him in Chambers, and that was the last seen
of him at the Ponitentiary.