New-York tribune., 1879-12-12

the most astonishing manner. He dehouncc"
Superintendent Clark for persistently detying
the opinions of the Attorney General. ana
declared that this was only TO be expected
of man affiliated with Governor Robinson,
"who had vetoed every bill passed by the
Legislature possessing any salutary virtue
and "signed every bill detrimental to the IN
"terests of the people" This is, probably
Mr. Dorshemer's official vledctory. ahd
makes more interesting reading than tue
average of such speeches.
The appellants from the decision OF the
Brooklyn Presbytery in Mr. Talmages case
have replied to the charges contained IN MS
sermon of last Sunday with an emphatic card
They declare that his statement is " tissue
of falschoods." and that his specific charges
are. each and all of them, in letter and III
Z" spirit utterly mfounded and untrue" They
assert Tint the assessments which the Taber-
nacle has been asked to pay reach back three
years, are not the assessments Tor the ex-
pcnses OF Mr.. TalmaGe's trial, which VIII not
he due until next year. and do not, therefore
deserve the characterization Mr. Ta'mage gave
them as a demand to pay for the stilettoes
"wth which they have been stabbing MS.
Mr. Tamage's remark. attributing moral
"rottcnness- to some of his accusers Is IN
dignantly resented and denounced as q" n
sander of the most gnOble kind" The
card is signed by twenty two clergymen and
elders, members Of the Brooklyn Presbytery.
Mr. Cornell recently resigned his position
on the National Republican Committee, on
the ground that on account OF his new
duties as Governor, he would lind II
impossible TO be present at the meet
iugs Of the Committee, and give proper
attention TO its business. A vacancy in the
Committee from any State is to be filled on
the appointment of its State Committee. The
New York Committee has accordingly desig-
mated the Chairman of its Executive Commit
tee. the Hon. Thomas c. Platt, TO fill Mr..
Comells place. The National Committee
meets in few days, and may perhaps then
decide when aud where the National Convcn-
ton is to be held. There is little doubt
that Mr. Patt will urge the wish OF
| New-York that 1t should be held at
Saratoga, where the crowds that attend Ma
tional Convention could undoubtedly find bet
ter hotel accommodations than at any other
place likely TO be named. Cincinnati and
Chicago will also he pushod-wih the probable
prepondcrance of strength on the part OF
Cincinnati.
II ought not to help man on trial Tor
capital crime that he was born anywhere in
particular, but II is difficult to believe that the
Italian who was convicted yesterday of muir
der in the first degree might not have Jared
better if he had belonged to a stronger nation
alty and one more influential in the eyes of
Our iuries. Convictions of murder in the first
degree are not frequent in this city, because
both of the law and the practice. As rule,
the dehberateness necessary to render MUIR
der one of the first degree, under our law and
with our iuries. can only be secured by max
ing busness-like preparations for the deed,
mentioning the purpose to a score of con-
fidential friends, and sending card to the
newspapers. But Balbo-who no doubt richly
deserves all the law will give him-killed his
wife in the heat of passion, and the testimony
even raised question whether the act was not
begun at least in self-defence. Now if his
name had been Scannell, for example. perhaps
he might have killed her at his leisure, and
| might stI have been vindicated as an emo
tional maniac-for that, occasion only.
1t is evidently the benevolent purpose OF
our present Aldermen to give away most OF
the streets of this city TO hOrse-car companies
before the Board ceases to exist They have
already bestowed the sole right 10 Chambers
ST. and parts of other important streets con-
nected with it upon an unknown company
with invisible incOrporators, and their gener-
oslty is growing Our local columns show that
it is about to assume gigantic proportions.
The Broadway Railroad job has been revived
| l., ,ts In dram
of. Another unknown company is to be given
the right to build a road on Broadway from
Wbitehall-st. to Seventeenth-st., with branches
on Chambers, Fulton, Cortland and Wall-sts..
and 10 all the ferries. 1t might be supposed
that this was about as much as even the pro-
moters of the Broadway Railroad job would ven
ture TO ask. but il seems not. The company will
have the night to admit many of the horse
car companies of the city tn connections with
it. and one of the promoters OF the scheme
draws n cheering picture of Broadway rs a
great horse-car canal through which most OF
the cars in the city may move i'll stately pro-
ceSSOn. Meanwhile, carriages and trucks are
to travel where they can-perhaps on the ele
waited railroads. In all the talk of the schem
ers nothing is said, be it observed, about any
COMPENSATION for the franchise. Ii looks very
much as if the persons interested had overdone
their Job. Such a proposition for Wholesale
larceny of our streets may buy its way through
the Board of Aldermen but it can never be
squeezed through the doors of the Mayors
Office Meanwhile, ought not the citizens of
New York to be considering the necessity of
putting closer watch and. if possible, some
check, upon this piratical Board.
HONEST MONEY.
Hope is INDUCED by Mr.. Chittenden and