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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15

traitors calling themselves a convention, but
not entitled to any political character what
ever, declared by count Of noses that tho
Union was dissolved, than Mr.. Hill gave all
his former professions to the wind md cast
his lot so promptly with the insurgents mat
they Immediately made him member OF Their
Government. In this new role the gentleman
introduced bill in the Confederate Senate to
declare that "every person pretending to he n
"sollier or an officer of the United States
who should be captured within the limits OF
the Confederacy should be presumed to have
entered that territory "with intent TO incite
"Insurrection and to abct MURDER" and
should be put to death on convlc-
ton by military court. Every white
person who should act as a commissioned or
non-cOmmssioned officer of negro troops en-
ployed against the COnfederacy, should suffer
death and death should also be the penalty
for "incting the slaves to rebellion" or
"'pretending to give them freedom " under
the terms of President Lincoln's proc
Iamation. We DO not believe any OF
the original secessiOnists went much
further than that. Mr.. Hill is not only
satisfied with his course before secession, but
he is supremacy proud of his behavior during
the existence of the Confederacy, so that we
presume lie is not at all ashamed OF these
resolutions. Whenever the opportunity arises
he will support the same policy again. In
deed, he is now maintaining the same prin-
ciple which he illustrated so forcibly in 1857,
- the principle that the United States may
not enforce its laws without the permission
of the State, and this is not a nation, but a
league in which each of the separate parts is
greater than the whole.
Mr.. Hill declared In his speech last Satur-
day: "In disunion by any means, in any
"form. for any cause, have never been able
ito see ANYTHING but blood and waste and
"ruin to all races and cOlOrs and conditions
"Of men. But in the preservation OF our
Union of States, this Confederate Nation,
"have never been able to see anything but
grandeur and q glory such as no people
"ever enjoyed. pray God that every arm
THAT shall be raised to destroy that Union
"may be withered before it can strike the
"blow.n In the light of Mr.. HIPS actions we
should be glad to know just how much these
professions signify7 What would become OF
them, for instance, if an assembly of planters,
politicians, and other persons, calling them
selves a convention of the State OF Georgia,
should meet this year, as in 1861, and resolve
by a majority vote that the Union ought
to be broken upf
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immediately member-Vhich wiz raise the r,D
OF the society TO sixty-ninc. Again, we are told
that great numbers OF members Of Colgrcss I'd %
the Assembly are eager to join the Union icing
naturally anxious for "the supreme y Of Demo-
cratic principles" Of course and FOR nothing else
under tho sun. Else why join society Which de-
clares that il viii have nothing to do % aonn
NATIONS for oihee"f This devotion 70 tho plro and
abstract truth IS refreshing. Tammany viii look
very small beside the Union " in everything ex
cept numbers and money, and the Offices which tho
Unionsts Including Mr.. Cox don't want
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PERSONAL.

Prince Frederick William, the eldest sen
and heir o. the Crown Prince Of Prussia, Is lot very
strong youth, having not yet overcome TIE ELECTS Of
paralysis IN his right arm.
With the late George Walker, it is said,
passes away photographic chess. Mr. Walker "'s '4e
first with his chess column i'm EslPS Lie, 20 cngialt
chess upon English periodical literature.
At the festivities of the recent Austrian
silver wedding Prince Potock. Of the Governor Of
Galica. appeared IN Magyar dress three OF his u'a
moud buttons being alone worth F2OO,Voo
The late Eliza Meteyard, the novelist, re-
ceiycd during her last years yearly pension OF 500
froin the British Government. She 2 gentlo au1
kindly ola lady. aud hearty lover OF old china
Miss Eva Mills the daughter of Mr.. Clark
MIs and the frat Josephine OF the STANDARD " Plna
fore Intends to become regular operate singer "na
has made an engagement In English opera Tor mex
season. ,
Mr.. Larllin G. Mead's bas-rcef OF TIE
Surrender Of Corvallis" for the Washington Nih''
mont has been ordered IN plaster for the Academies q
Design in Cincinnati and IN san Francisco Inc No1a
has been highly praised b. professors Oh tue AN"'''
Of Fine Arts at Florence.
William Lloyd Garrison lies critically Ill at
the house OF his son-in-aw M Willard, IN this city
Untn the present attack the health OF Mt Garrison ~
been fair though hardly robust lie IL Ike re'ro'
war-horse after victory, enjoying rest but az times
snufng the breath of battle he hears OF the HAM,
tons and Buffers OF the South setting their hees on ~
necks OF his old clients. 49,
Since he left his plantation on the MlsslS-
sippi River and went to his seaside residence Beau
yoir" on the Gultof Mexico, Mr. Jefferson DAVIS mean"
has improved lie takes ride daily on orseoaeA' az
IL a good pedestrian. When he was IN Congress he syn"
his Winters In Washington and his summers On Wv
Mississippi River lie thus reversed the true san'''
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WHAT Is IT WORTHg

Senator Hill is often referred to as q very
creditabe specimen of Southern UniOnist of
the period before the war; He was opposed
to secession. If he did not denounce the doc
tline that any State has the right to break
up the Union when it pleases, he did main
tain that there was no sufficient cause for re-
belllOn in 1861. The logical consequence of
that position was that the war was wicked.
We do not mean to allege that Mr.. Hill said
the war was wicked. We are well aware that
logic is not, and never was, the strong point
of Southern craftsmanship but we know that
he declared the rebellion mpOlitic and unne-
cessary, and from these premises the conclu-
sion that it was wicked follows irresistibly.
Mr.. Hill is understood now TO refer TO his
ancient Union sentiments with no little COM
placency. He cites them as proof that he
and his political associates are the safest per
sons to be trusted with the defence of the
Nation, and that it is base caumny to CUES
ton their loyalty.
1t is interesting to know just what sort of
thing Southern Unionism is and how fur we
can depend upon it. No sooner had a mob Of
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entered the Territory. - Judge Packer has hau
another relapse. ==A young woman at Peekskii
was taken with fit while holding a lamp
in her hand; her clothing took hre; she
recovered, ran to neighbors, and reached MS uoor
without veStige of clothing left upon ber; she
died IN fonr hours. 60 Last night the State As
sembv passed MIR. Galvin's BILL establishing hve-
cent fares all day on the elevated railroads. Only
two members opposed it. The bull now goes TO tie
Senate. -- Mr. Braman's Street Railroad bill was
referred to the Railroad Committee in the State
Assembly yesterday.
CovGrRss.-In the Senate yesterday few new
bills were introduced; the Legislative Dill was
discussed AZ length; Mr.. Herman made an extended
speech and Mr. Thurman secured the Aoorior to-day;
Mr.. Morrill, attempted TO have the bill amended so
as TO save the $10OOO,0O0 of reserve funds with
which it is proposed TO pay of pensions, and
Mr.. Pendleton. Mr.. Edmunds and Mr.. Voorhees,
had an animated political discussion. 60
In the House, the bill fer the removal OF
canses to United States Courts was de-
bated; Mr.. Fort and General Ewing spoke on the
Silver bill; Mr. Warner called for vote on the
bill, bnt the House adjourned without voting
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Dissatsfact among Re
pubhcans and Anti-Tammany Democrats over the
Mayors course is increasing daily. = The Co
lumbia College Law School graduated 169 students
yesterday == Judge Lawrence dismissed the
suit against the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital.
- Commissioner Campbell reported on the water
supply and the streets. 60 Mrs. Phillips. who
watched Mrs. Smith and Bennett in prison. testified
to the finding of one OF Benefits letters. GO
Work on the Brooklyn Elevated Road was again
prevented by the police. - Gold value OF the
legal tender silver dollar C412l2 grains S4.69 cents
Stocks excited and generally higher closing steady
to firm.
The WEATHRR.-TRIBUSE local observations in
dicate warmer and clear and partly cloudy weather.
with chances of light rain late in the day. Their
mometer yesterday Highest, SO; lowest. CO.; ;
average. G00so.
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TIE NEMS TITS MORNLNG.

FoREIGS.-The town Of Halas in Hungary has
been inundated. - There has been large fire
at Poonah, in the East Indies. - The new form
of government for Asace-LOrralne has been an
nOunced at Berlin. - Fifteen thousand
Boliyians are advancing TO attack the Chill
ians who occupy.tbe disputed territory. == Elab-
crate preparations are making in Japan to enter
tain General Grant.
DoMEsuC.-Tbe Bound Brook Road has been
leased to the Philadelphia and Reading Company
for 900 years. 80 One of the plans being dis
cussed by the Democrats at Washington is to pre-
sent an address from Congress 10 the President
60 The magnitude of the emigration to Indian
Territory is said not to be properly reported to the
Government about 5000 whites have already
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and the rival claims of Judge Sp0iford were
fully considered at the executive session or
the Senate in March 1877, and at the extra
session in November OF the same year, and on
December / he was admitted to the seat
which had remained vacant from March q to
that time Prior TO the vote which settled the
contest there was discussion lasting a week, in
which the whole tangled business OF the ryal
Legislatures and the conflicting State Govern
ments existing in Louisiana at the time liked
for the Senatorial election was thoroughly
canvassed No precedent can be found for
reopening the case of a Senator once seated
after contest involving. the validity OF his
election. 1t is worth remembering that the
day after Mr.. Kellogg was admitted, Mr.. NJ.
&. Butler of South Carolina, was seated by
Republican votes. The claim of his Republi-
can competitor Mr.. Corbin, was not as strong
in one or two legal points as that Of Mr. Kel-
logg, but had the spirit of partisanshiD which
now rules the Senate then prevailed, Mr.
Butler would have had no chance for admis-
sion: Cancellation was then the fashion,
and many Republicans seemed to be moved
by the fact that their party had secured one
of the two contested seats, to give the benefit
of all doubts to the Democratic claimant Tor
the other. The Democrats took the seat that
was thus generously awarded them as OF
questionable right, ard are now preparing
to seize by the brute force Of majority
the other seat, to which they have no claim
of precedent, law or justice. Their course Is
unfair, indecent, outrageous; but who can
. =, ct
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The determination of the Assembly to
cheaper fares on the elevated roads is I'M
abated. Mr.. Galvin's bill was passed yester-
day with but two dissenting votes, and with
out a word of opposition. The Assembly
even refused to allow the operation of the
law to be stayed for few months.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15

There was a characteristic cOlloquy in the
Senate at Washington yesterday. Senator
Herman was enumerating the Democratic
Governors of New-YOrk in his most inOiien-
sive manner, when Senator Morrill, ventured
to inquire whether the Tilden whom he men
toned was not the same Tilden who had
failed to pay his income tax. Mr.. Herman
damned Mr.. Tilden with the faint defence
that he chad heard that the Government had
failed to make out a case" when Mr. Eaton,
who never knows the proper time to be quiet,
demanded to be told whether this was not the
same Tildon WHO was elected to the Presi-
dency and was cheated out of it. WhereupOn
Mr.. Herman replied that he was the same
TIlden who the majority of the people "be-
"heved y was elected. Mr.. Herman is hardly
sufficiently red-hOt to be a useful adjunct to
the Democracy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15

The trial of Bennett and Mrs. Smith for
the murder of Officer Smith increased
in interest yesterday with the appear
ance of the prison spy, who, the prosecution
claims, secured important evidence of the
guilt of the two defendants after they had
been imprisoned. The correspondence which
she is said to have captured will probably be
produced in evidence to-day.
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sTTiNwAY HALI-2SO; Concert.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15

The admirers OF Ar. Thomas Paine propose TO erect
n colossal statue of that person in St. Louis. Time
has done wonders in casting halo about the MEM
DRY of that rather commonplace writer and thinker
He was far from being an original man, nor was he
IN the least "a learned one. His deistica writings
are suited to a certain class of minds, but fair and
honest seekers after truth need not 90 to them
for help. His political work timely. and
he was undeniably among the first 20 see that the
separation of the American Colonies from the
British Empire was inevitable. His Crisis
published AT intervals during our Revolutionary
war, did good service IN keeping up the hearts of
the people. He seems TO have left America without
much reluctance, TO be well conteuted in France
while he could stay there at all, and to have come
back to us only when he needed an asylum, after
absence of fifteen years. There is no law IN this
country AGAINST erecting the statue of any man !;
but the value of such an honor will depend on re-
serving 10 for those " no are worthy.
Si1ty-eig ht gentlemen of this city have formed
what is called A Democratic Union" their sole
object being " To establish the supremacy of Demo-
cratic principles" and Ito revive in the hearts of
the American people devoted love for the Union
and Constitution" The society has already been
choered and encouraged by the reception Of letter
from the Hon. 5. S. Cox. who Wishes to be made
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15

There were several votes of Importance in both
houses at Albany yesterday. In the Senate the
Constitutional amendment prescribing biennial
sessions of the Legislature, which has already
been approved by the Assembly, was ordered
to third reading, the Tenement House act
was passed by an almost unanimous vote, and
the bill authorizing savings banks to invest in
District of Columbia 3-65s was also passed.
In the Assembly the bill to establish State
Board of Health unhappily failed to receive a
sufficient number of votes, though OF the votes
cast a majority were affirmative. The most
important action of the day III the Assembly
was the justifiable homicide of Mr.. Bramans
so-caled General Street Railroad act The
members OF the Lower House seem to have
walked mp to the fact that general law should
be made in the interest of the people of Che
State, and that the Legislature should not
necessarily adopt general laws framed by cor
porations for their own purposes with their
private and particular jobs carefully inserted.
Mr.. BraRan's bill was, upon motion Of Speaker
Alv0rd recommitted to the Railroad Commit
tee, whose members will do the City of New
York a service if they firmly suppress it.
Every student of the history of the Civil
War will remember the speech with which
Alexander III. Stephens sought to persuade the
South that she cOnld make more, politically,
by staying in the Union than by leaving IT,
and which Congressman Shallenberger quotes
in letter printed on another page. Mr..
Shallenberger could not have reminded the
people of tho North of any utterance by
Southern leaders so completely disproving the
Rebel doctrine, actually enunciated in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15

The description Of the site selected at Port Nor
ris for the Worlds Fair of 1883, which is printed
on another page, proves that its advantages
have not been oyercstimated by the Committee
having the matter in charge. No site outside
Of the city seems to be better adapted for
easy access, both by exhibitors with their
goods and each days thousands of visitors !;
and any site within the city or in Central
Park is out of the question.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15

The fears that were entertained respecting
the disposition of the Senate Railroad Com
mittee toward the bill to prevent the cOnfS-
cation of Nassau-st by an elevated road do
not seem, fortunately, to have been well
founded. The failure of the Committee to act
seems 70 have been due chiefly to the alb
sence of the chairman, and not to any
unwillinGness to approve the measure.
Senator Wagner has telegraphed to the men,
bers of the Committee urging a meeting this
morning and an immediate favorable report
upon the bill, and it is understood that this
course will be followed. The bill can be
passed. if the Senate chooses to act promptly.
within a single day and it is to be hoped
that no time will be lost in putting beyond
risk of failure a measure which the business
community of New-YOrk are so DESTROYS of
seeing enacted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15
Aen.2lorjs Daily Gribn1te,
THURSDAY, MAY -, 1879.

FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-15

Skilled talent is plenty in the Democratic
party. One of the new Senate appointees
runs a bank in Missouri, also daily paper,
and a committee clerkship in Washington,
at one and the same time That is to say,
the committee runs itself, while the bank and
newspaper at home enjoy his personal super
vision. This appointment is Senator Cock
relrs handiwork, and is one of many instruct
i've instances Of a strong Democratic tendency
toward Civil Service Reform.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-08

Hall. Albany. NJ. Kelly viii be accompanied on his
Journey by Leusenanf-Governor Dorsheimer Congress-
man :. 8 Cox. ex-COngressmRn John II. Ha-kih ana
Orlando b. Potter president OF the society OF AunicT
pa Reform All these gentlemen viii deliver addresses
during the tour On Saturday October H. the party Of
speakers will address meeting IN Troy on Monday
October -. meeting IN Utica on Tuesday OCTOBER
II. in syracuse Wednesday, October ID In O'WeEo
on thursday October l6 In Rochester, On Friday De
tober l.. in Lockport on Saturday. October - IN
Buffalo on Monday. October 90 III Elmra- AT various
FONTS on the NeW-YorK Central Railroad some Of the
speakers Will divcrge from the main party and VIII go
10 address meetings at neighboring towns on the
same nights that meetings held IN the cities After
this Journey Nh Kelly also 10 POughkeepsie ana
Kingston and there deliver addresses ~,
Olnar speaker- 20 the number Of seven iy-hye VII
subsequently, Journey fhrOuCn the state IN the IN crest
az Mr.. Kelly Among these VII De Thomas i. GradI
General Frlncs i. spnoia and ex-senator Thomas >.
Cieamcr ". GRADY j. The interior ~ the State
addresslug Kelly meetings. on Monday night Ne Wa
present az large Kelly meeting IN Buffalo. Io-nlght
lie VIII address the Kelly Democrats 81 hnci anton.
II VIII subsequently JOIN Mr.. Keiy's campaign party
u journeys the state. General opino M
comm week. News received az the hfa "a ihrter'
OF the Kelly Committee. III the - Nicholas H. 90 YES
ferdav that three more JOnn ke ~ Clubs had cn or
gauized They established RGndOut. ~ l 'lca
and az Auburn. Tie committee has employed more
clerks circulate documents. and haa appointed J. A.
tady writes tn committee: Il wish 10 Niluim
You that OF five brothers wnO VIII oppose thc
reelection of Robinson. aud consider 10 great Measure
10 vote Tor honest JOhu Kelly instead"
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CU1fINGson Monday. October O. 1879. Laura n. wife Of
Rele- anf friends arr respectfully invited % attend The
funeral from Beer ifr N nee, N o. ~ last som
THURSDAY. October .. al IL NJ
fnIUrfu0ui 40 Nuot'awn
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ciiy. Frank ID Hayward IN the --tn wear ~ his age
reef nj fhe 1f Huse1 Kellogg alu mother NJ tle eF A.
n. Kellogg. formerly ri rlis r.t7.
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fle .tt- Benjamin Ferris. ...
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