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New-York tribune., 1879-11-15
er nnin bnt tbe court hold ,his to be sufacient

money nain Int the Court held this to be sufficient
TO pass the property for the purposes contepa'e"'
What course the corporation Will now 'aAe
we can only conjecture; IL Is possible that
an appeal may be taken; 1t Is cer'a'"
that in granting and selling lots In the fnture' hn
instrument may bc easily drafted which VIII se''ie
all future difficulties of the kind. IL there hah Deeh
a regular deed to Mr. Coppcrs as there should nave
been. passing a title with such limitations as the
nan!ors now insist upon formally sci iorth' tneie
would have been no question whatever for the
courts. IL wond have been az easy to Keep MI
Copperss mains out of the cemetery as to prevent
him from erecting u dwelnc-houso Oh his lot.
The galows holds its own in public opinion. and
stii claims its own Judicial avenger. lesteruaS
Two men we've hanged AT Lebanon, Penn. and an
other ut Cooptrstovn, n Y. I'm all three cases
there WAS no doubt OF the quilt Of the condemned,
ana there Is certain satisfaction III
knowing the fact. Nothing could be more
cruel than the crimes which were thus cN-
plated In Pennsylvania poor old man
WAS induced to insur, bis life. and was then
drowned. by Drrws and Steichier, the convcts VINO
yesterday suffered and who were to receive iioin
other criminals $500 for doing The deed. N. A.
Buell.. who was hanged At Coopersto"n' outraged q
r.rl OF fourteen. and then killed her. 1t was
one or luO,c ifilolS NliiNh '"'"''" '
believers in The total dcprayity Of human
nature with striking argument. and winch
N kc oven the spccu.atively benevolent DOUBT
whether their perpetrators are lit to live longer III
IS remarkable tact, 10 which such case calls at
taution that however strong may be the currart oi
public cpiuion against cap tal punishment, there are
sonnet ines crimes comnli ted whichseem toputanend
20 controversy, and winch really do 50 for the time.
There - y grim general acquescence IN the justice
of the fate of some murderers. Nobody entrcats the
Executive 10 paidom them, except those having a
personal inter-, 81 IN their preservation. j: is also
curious and important fact. that while
considerable numbcT-not so large, however,
rs t once was--s anxious Tor the
abolition OF the death penalty, all save an III
considerable few now assent to The opinion that
while the law remains nothing should be allowed to
Interfere with its stern and unilinching ex-
ccution. Considering that petitions for ITS
repeal are now comparatively rare, and
that there seems to be hardly any concerted
fort to change the law, 1t is safe TO assume that
society is not yet ready for great an alteration Oh
the criminal code, aud that capital punshments
may be quite consistent with a somewhat higher
humanity than has been sometimes supposed.
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New-York tribune., 1879-11-15

II is announced from st. Louis that the
legal controversy begun there respecting the
inviolabilty of kilograms is about to be re-
opened Two of the courts have already de-
cided against the asserted right of the tcle-
graph company to withhold dispatches even
when theirproducton is demanded by the courts.
Bat a new demand has been made upon the COM
pany. which is to be resisted; the case will go TO
the State Supreme Court at once. and viii
probably lie appealed to the United States
Supreme Court. This will be an advantageous
course Cor all concerned 1t is time that the
law upon this subject was definitely ascer-
tanned and announced.
New-York tribune., 1879-11-15

The printed record in Mr.. Tiiden's income
tax suit fills 372 pages. The Literary Bureau
might issue il as a serial.
New-York tribune., 1879-11-15

The President evidently proposes to put the
responsibility of all political and commercial
disturbance, if there is any. upon Congress.
1t Is announced that his message will be
brief, and will purpOSely avoid harassing
questions. The Democracy should he graie-
full. for this ought to Ike it easy for them
to keep their promise, and behave themselves.
New-York tribune., 1879-11-15

Every new instalment of evidence i'll the
inquCs; over the murdered farmer of Passaic
make, it seem more remarkable that his life
should not have been saved by the inter-
ference of neighbOTS and friends. The son
seems to have fairly published his murderous
intentions toward his father, and openly
threatened him on several occasions with the
axe with which there is every reason TO believe
he was killed. A number of persons, including
the pastor of the church, have now testi-
fed that the father cOniide0 to them
the threats made against his life and
his fears of being poisoned. Indeed
these threats were so boldly and recklessly
made, that they suggest the possibility that
the supposed murderer is insane, though for
q wonder he will not plead insanity as a de-
fence Ii he Is a sane man, then this KOmah
Nyman-whO was quite as ready to
butcher his fathers aged mother a. he WAS 10
Kill bis father, and who could not even be
bri5cd 10 speak to his mother upon her death
beds one Of the most extraordinary bTutes
the human race has produced
New-York tribune., 1879-11-15
Nelu,ll Duiiu Griblule,
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY
TIE NEUS ms MORNIAG.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1879.
New-York tribune., 1879-11-15

Foolish wills are proyerbial; ; wise wills are
rare, and deserve notice. The testament of
one of our adopted German citizens, which
was lately flied IN Brooklyn, is peculiar for
its practical and sensible tone which at the
same time shows deep affection for those who
survived him. The testatOr was not content
with directing the distribution OF his prop
erty, but left careful suggestions as to the
education of his children. He desired that
they should be instructed in all necessary
branches of leaning, and also IN the use of
"at least one musical instrument" un-
less there should be a positive lack
of talent for 1t. He wishes the at
tention of his sons TO be TUNED early 10
some practical occupation" snch as "civil
" and mining engineering, architecture, chem
"istry, or something similar" He does not
favor business cat eers for them. but Is
anxious that they should acquire clear hand
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
Protection of the Harbor.

Even if the bill for the protection of New
York Harbor gets through Congress-and we
suppose there will be powerful lobby
against it, as there was against similar
bill at Albany-it will not 40 to take 1t for
granted that the law will protect us from
the danger it is aimed at So many enemies
are leagued against the welfare of the
city on this point that it is scarcely
to be hoped that we can get rid
of them all by SO simple a measure
rs this bill. Every captain Of steamer,
great or small, every dredger of slips,
official or private, and every dump contrac-
tor seems concerned in the common en-
deavor to fill up the harbor. Some of them
proceed in open defiance Of the law, but
hundreds Of them continue the furtive dis
charge of ashes night after night the year
around. The ashes and cinders from nine
tenths of the coal burned by steamers
in the harbor goes regularly overheard. It
is evident that it will need an efficient
machinery for the discovery of the offenders
and severe application of penalties to
insure respect for the law. State and city
authorities have, however, absolutely failed,
and our only hope is in the bill which
gives the general government full power.
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
Romance or Australian Exploration

Romance or Australian Exploration.
The thirst for adventure in modern times
has solved. or is rapidly solving. the chief
problems of geography. Every year wit
nssses the return Of travellers who have
filled up thousands of square miles in the
regions marked "unexplored" on the maps,
and soon there will be few great geographi.
cal prizes left to be gained in Africa, Asia,
South America or the Arctic Circle. The
best remaining field now is in. Australia,
that great island which is justly entitled
to rank as continent being still unknown
to geographers in its greater part. The
journeys of Burke and Wills, of Sturt,
Stuart, Hamilton Hume, Cadell, War
burton, Leichardt and their compan-
or three routes across the continent, and
the recent enterprise oftelegraph companies
has established small colonies of workmen
along two great lines from Adelaide west
ward and northward. But the great region
to the northwest remained virtually un-
known, except for few miles along the
coast, where the visit of the Beagle
forty-ive years ago has left its impress
upon the map of Australia in the names of
Beagle Bay, Fitzroy River and Port
Darwin. 1t is from the latter point on the
coast of the Northern Territory that our
correspondent sends us the romantic de-
tails Of another great geographical con-
quest. The expedition, consisting of only
eight men, which. under the auspices Of
the West Australian government, Mr..
Alexander Forrest has conducted for above
two thousand miles, from Perth to Port
Darwin, constitutes IN epoch in Australian
history and enrolls another name in the list
of geographical heroes.
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
A National Prison.

The suggestion that the nation shall erect
prison building and look after the pris-
oners and convicts who by the present
system are lodged in State and local
prisons is a good one. Counterfeiters,
smugglers and other offenders against the
country at large are greatly superior to the
ordinary run of evil doors; SO, whether
restraint or reformation is necessary, better
men should be in charge than the State
system of managing prisons through pol
iticians and contractors can supply 1t is
possible, too. that the hideous farce of
reformation, as played in most State
prisons, might be shamed out of existence
by the intelligent efforts Of honest man
ayers in an institution as prominent as one
belonging to the nation would necessarily
be.
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
The Czsr,s Mistake.

Monarchy would be more successful in
the world if mon archs understood the i'm
portance of concealing if they cannot pre-
vent the operation of personal impulses and
passions in public concerns. In comment
ing the other day upon the attempt to as
sassinate the Emperor of Russia we ex-
pressed an opinion Of the imbecility of
such q crime If intended to force
political changes, basing our opin-
ion upon the assumption that the
sense of his personal peril could not extort
from the Gear his assent to any policy not
deemed wise in itself and determined upon
apart from all such strictly personal con-
siderations. It seemed impossible that the
political destinies of that immense Empire
by any reference to the insane fury of q
few banded rufians bent on murder.
And as we did not believe that
advances toward more liberal ideas in gov
ernment could be extorted by these threats
and dangers to the Emperor. SO we did not
suppose that changes already determined
in principle would be abandoned on ac-
count Of them. But that opinion was er-
roneous if the latest news is true, which
represents that the whole scheme for the
organization of national partly elective
chamber of delegates has been abandoned
because of the attempt made OF Moscow.
Such change in policy exhibits the i'm
perial government as amenable to in
fuences to which it should be superior. It
is an unmistakable sign of weakness. It
gives to the enemy On Importance that will
entitle him to respect before the people.
It should be taken for granted That the
would-be assassins are only q knot Of in
considerable persons with savage discon-
tents, and concessions pledged to the ma
tion should not be withheld because of the
existence of such fellows But the govern
ment's attitude holds the people RESPONSE
BILE for the rogues, and they certainly cannot
prevent their activity if the police cannot;
or it deals with them as if they were the
people, which is the greatest possible mis-
take.
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
The Weather in Europe.

All over Europe there is now extremely
severe winter weather. There is heavy
snow in Italy, intense cold at Vienna, and
the news from Paris is that the River Seine
is completely frozen over. For the Seine
to be frozen over does not imply such cold
as we have in those years when the masses
of floating ice fn the East or North River
get frozen together and form bridge
from side to side, for the Seine is fresh
at Paris, and is not SO large river as thes
Connecticut at Hartford yet this degree of
cold is very unusual for that country, us is,
indeed, indicated by the statement that the
river has not been frozen over before this
for eighteen years. This exceptionally Sc
we're weather in Europe, taken with the
comparative failure of winter weather in
this country, gives additional evidence of
the profound disturbance Of the ordinary
equilibrium of atmospheric phenomena.
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
Friday Luck.

A passage from Virgirs 'Georgics' is
quoted by a correspondent as sustaining
the superstition of the i'll luck of Friday
by its association with a multitude of dis
orderly NEUROLOGICAL personages. But it is
the fifth day of the. moon, not of the week,
which the Roman poet means II our
correspondent had extended his reference
SO as to include q few more verses, to which
he incidentally alludes without quoting
them, touching the seventeenth and ninth
days of the moon, he would have made his
error still more patent on the face of his
quotation. He does not touch the issue
nor refute Robert Southey's opinion that
the Friday superstition is entirely Chris
tian and has arisen since the Christian
cru. He merely proves that Virgil DIS
agreed with Rory O'Mores maxim that there
is luck in odd numbers Such disagree
ments are not uncommon. In Karstens
Niebuhrs record of travels in Arabia
ho mentions that the Mohammedans
believe that the lucky days of
the week Tor beginning journeys are
the second. fourth and sixth. The point at
which we have specially directed inquiry
still remains obscure. Even suppose that
Southey's opinion concerning the origin Of
the superstition can be refuted and 1t can
be dated back of the Christian era. No
matter what is its origin, when did it irst
become dominant over the minds of men
of the first order of intellect and achieve
ment like Byron and Bismarck Can any
instance be cited of an eminent man whose
life was controlled by it prior to the six
teenth century, And II our suspicion is
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
Pacific Weather Charts.

The new series of meteorological charts of
the North Pacific now issuing from the Hy-
geographic Office have recently been elabo-
rately explained by Lieutenant Lyons in his
contribution to the Popular Science Monthly.
No work which that Office has ever undertaken
can be of more value to the nautical world
than the discussion Of the daily observa-
tions at sea of the whole navy and the def
milton of the results on every oceanic square
of five degrees The object of these charts
is to exhibit the experience of the past re-
duced to probabilities for the future" in
every part of the ocean along which lay the
frequented maritime routes. BY collating
the data of naval logbooks and charting the
mean values of each element under observa-
tion the marine novice or the merchant in
the counting room can see what has passed
over the waste of waters during the last
hundred years, and be more accurately in
formed Of the weather his ship will proba-
bly, encounter in an ocean voyage than the
most weather-beaten tar that ploughs the
main.
This method of studying ocean meteor
on which it proceeds, however numerous,
afford the seaman no insight into the laws
which govern the aerial phenomena with
which he has to do. But when sailing on
long courses its results enable him to as
certain in each month the general weather
changes due to the region he is traversng,
or at least the wind zones most propitious
for his voyage. The total number Of obser-
vations of each atmospheric element re-
corded in the data for his Pacific charts,
Lieutenant Lyons states, is over hundred
thousand, which have been skiliully and
carefully compared by this able meteor
ologist and photographer. 1t is, of course.
impossible from such data to predict the
weather which on any given day will pre-
vail on any specified tract of ocean. "The
most that can be done in this way" he
frankly tells us, 'is to warn European
countries by telegraph Of the approach of
The New York herald., 1879-12-12

representation in the Convention as great a
mockery as their right of suffrage is said to
be at home? If republicans shall think
their National Convention ought not to be
controlled by mass of ignorant negroes
they will have taken long step toward
justifying the political action of the South
ern whites. But if they give the negroes
the same fair play which they demand tor
them in the elections they may find them
very troublesome element in the National
Convention.
This is pretty much all there is that is
practical in the Grant movement in the
South. 1t has developed the fact that if
the negroes are truly represented General
Grant will have the one hundred and
thirty-eight Southern delegates unless he
peremptorily refuses to allow his name to
be used in the Convention.
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY DECEMBER T. ls9-TRPLE

true that this superstition is more active in
its influence upon human conduct in the
present enlightened century than it was in
the dark medieval times, what is the ex-
PLANTATION? A superstition which has grown
to dominate the whole maritime world and
regulate the business of every shipowner
in New York. Liverpool, Hamburg, Mar
seiiles, Genoa, Trieste and Rio Janeiro,
which hampers public convenience in the
movement of passengers and freight, and
which endangers the safety of navigation, is
a very serious and important matter for
public debate.
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
War in Abyssinia.

Egypt, it is reported, is to 60 into the war
with her equatorial neighbor with fifty-four
thousand troops in the field, in three armies.
At this rate few more fnanciers from the
different States of Europe will be necessary
next year to help untangle the more and
more.dificult snarl of her debts. Fifty-four
thousand soldiers cannot be kept on foot
without very liberal expenditure, and
with State whose credit is such that she
has to pay money lenders ratess and whose
va1uables are covered with mortgages deeper
than Troy was covered with rubbish, such
expenditure seems almost like wilful
plunge into complete ruin.
The New York herald., 1879-12-12
Gary. Hampton. Tild~n, schsll and
Cooper.

Cooper.
1t is remarkable story which General
Gary tells one of our Southern correspond
ents how Senator Hampton proposed to
''sell out" Mr. Tilden's electoral ticket in
South Carolina in 1876. The Generals con-
clusion is still more remarkable-that the
national democratic party must renominate
Mr.. Tilden for President in atonement for
Senator Hampton's behavior. BY contrast
with this, some prominent democratic poll
tcians in New York, with freedom of
speech quite equal to General Gary's. insist
that Mr.. Tilden not only proposed but did
actually ''sell out" the democratic munich
pal ticket here in 1873, and therefore in
atonement for such behavior he must not
be renominated. Now, South Carolina is a
big State and New York is big city, but
neither of them probably is big enough to
make the policy of the national democratic
party hinge upon superannuated griev-
ances in local politics. If it means to win
the next Presidential election its nomina-
tions must be controlled by some higher
consideration than the circumstance that
Senator Hampton was willing to put Mr..
Tilden's nose out of joint to elect himself
Governor Of South Carolina three years ago.
or that Mr.. Tilden did actually dislocate
the nose of Mr. Augustus Schell in electing
Mr.. Edward Cooper Mayor of New York two
years afterward.
Since, however, the rumors about Senator
Hampton's infidelity to the democratic
electoral ticket in 1876. which have been
floating in the air ever since, have found q
respectable sponsor at last, there is no OBJ
lection to investigating them leisurely rs q
historical curiosity. and the country will
take the same kind of interest in hearing
what the Senator may have to reply to
General Gary that it does in other recondite
matters of antiquarian research. such as the
identity Of the executioner Of Charles !. or
Of the author of 'Junius." 1t will not
escape notice, in estimating the heinous-
ness of Senator Hampton's political con-
duct, supposing oil that General Gary says
is strictly accurate, that the General him.
self assured Senator Ham pton that sif he
and the rest were resolved" to withdraw the
Tilden electoral ticket in order to save their
State ticket and redeem South Carolina
from the carpet-baggers, ''he General
Gary) would not make war upon the con-
clusion."
The New York herald., 1879-12-12

THE WEATHER-The storm centre Is now
moving into the ocean off the Nova Scotia
coast. While it was passing over the lower
lakes and the st. Lawrence Valley it was at
tended by heavy rains and brisk winds The
barometer rose rapidly throughout the North
west and West and the gradients for northerly
winds were very steep over the upper lakes.
The pressure continues relatively low over the
Gulf coasts Rain fell in the Middle Atlantic,
New England and South Atlantic States
and OH the Gulf coasts, and snow in
the upper lake regions. The weather
was clear in the Northwest and West.
The temperature remained nearly stationary in
the Middle Atlantic and New England States
and fell decidedly in the lake regions, central
valley districts and the Northwest 1t is now
below in all the territory west of the
Mississippi River and north of Kansas. The
winds have been from brisk to high in the lower
lake regions, the New England States and the
Northwest, brisk in the central valleys and the
Southwest and fresh elsewhere. The weather
in New York and its vicinity to-day will be very
cold and fair, preceded by light rains in the
morning. Tomorrow also will be cold and fair.