New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-01

first bow to an English audience. The piece,
as described in our London letter, Is shown
not to be play at all, 10 any proper sense OF
the word, having no plot or action, but simply
a sort of stage framework which VIII enaDie
Mile Bernhardt to illustrate her great versa
tility by reciting in rapid succession number
of striking passages from the principal plays
| of Shakespeare The end of this remarkable
| dramatic season, therefore, will emphasize the
| tribute to Shakespeare with which 1t began
Should Congress adjourn to-day the RepuD-
| lean party has every reason to be content
| with the issue as it is made mp between
| the Executive and Congress. This was ac-
| complishcd, so far as the last dctah Is
| concerned, i'm an unexpected manner. lester-
| dav WAS the last day of the fiscal year
the last day, therefore, on which the appropria-
| tions already made for the fees OF Marshals
| continued TO be available. The President
properlv and naturally took occasion, when he
| had learned that Congress bad failed to pass
! the Marshals bin over his veto, to remind both
! houses that by to-day there would be no funds
with which to pay the Marshals, that the opera
tons of the courts would be embarrassed,
!
| dangercd. To his appeal for appropriations
| with which to carry on the courts with
| ont difficulty, both houses, by formal
votes, returned deliberate refusal
More could not have been done to declare
their real purposes, and the Democracy VIII
! find before Congress meets again that 1t was
more than enough.
The Kings County Elevated Road, which
encountered some time ago the substan-
! tial check of Mayor Howclrs veto, has
now succeeded in carrying the vetoed
report through the Brooklyn Board OF
| Aldermen. This report authorizes num-
Der of routes which may almost be san"
to gIidiron the city. in this city the New
| York Elevated Road furnishes some de-
tails of the various things winch are
| to be done at Chatham Square when
| the METROPOLITAN Road takes possession
/ of the present route to South Ferry. APP
! parcntiy there is 10 intention on the part OF
! the former road Of opening the Chatham Square
! Branch until il is forced to do so by the tact
| that the branch will then form the southern
! terminus OF its road. If there is any
! good reason why that portion OF the
| line should not be used nov, or why
! the branch running o the FOrty-second Street
! Depot should not be opened also, the public
! has not heard of it, But the company gets It's
ten cents from every passenger whether it
carries him to his destination or not and that
is the nam point after all.
The prediction made some time since in our
| Georgia correspondence that the chain-gang
system Of that State, which has been fully eX-
posed in The TRIBUNE, would grow in wick
cdness and cruelty under the new twenty
! years lease is already in process OF fulillment.
| A letter printed on another page mentions some
of the gross outrages and crimes which are
| perpetrated under that system. 1t Is simply
revival of slavery, and every form of OPP
/ preston and cruelty which existed III the
| DAVIS of slavery exists in the Georgia
chain-gang, while at the same time the
wretchod convict lacks the protection
which the slave had-the market value
of his HE. To show how fast the people of
! Georgia are tending toward deeper barbar-
ism, it is only necessary TO state that since the
adoption of the twenty years lease the practice
| has grownup of sentencing 10 one gears member
shipin the cbain-gang ignorant and irresponsible
negroes who leave their employers during the
cotton season. Having signed contract
which they cannot read, these men make
/ themselves liable to this severe penalty. Our
/ correspondent gives the names Of the men who
are making money by this system Of labOr-a
system which, in the shape it has taken III
that State q civilized people, it would be sup
posed, would not tolerate. Among them
are an Ex-Governor, a present United States
! Senator. and the Treasurer Of the State.
THE LAST VETO.