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Horse Shoeing
MIR. Il. SULLIVAN,

the wellknown Horse Sheer, is established at NO
70 PEARL STREET, where he will be pleased to
shoe all horses properly Interfering overreac hing
and speeding cutting cured. jne13d1w
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Deputy Sheriff Bean who was so severely in
lured at Alfred last week is out of DANGER
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DEuOcR1rIC DISHONESTY.

II was once said of a political leader in Eng
land. "NO dishonest man can hope to rule an
"Anglo-Saxon people by its free choice" In
the Anglo-SaXOn character, without doubt,
there is a bedrock of integrity, of loyalty TO
facts and to plighted faith, which bars the
way of politicians who rest their hopes of ris-
ing upOn the belief that the people are knayes.
But if dishonest men have hard row to hoe
in dealing with Saxon blood and pGghted
faith, what shall be said of dishonest parties 7
II is the excuse of the Democratic party
that it is divided on questions of the
public faith. It's Eastern men, when held
TO account, say that the weakness is only at
the West, and that the party, as whole, is
rs true to public obligations as any other.
But the truth is that the Democratic party is
led aud controlled by the South it represents
Southern aims, echoes Southern demands, and
embodles Southern feelings and simple Saxon
faith has not yet found place in the deal
ing of Southern communities with their
creditors. If we want to know what the
Democratic party really is, what it means,
and what it Will do if 1t has the chance, we
must look to the South.
In this light the dealing of Southern States
and cities with their creditors is not merely
matter of local concern; 1t Is revelation OF
the character of those whose will and ann the
Democratic party Obeys and expresses. III
they have been wantOn or dishonest in their
treatment of creditors, we may be sure that
the Democratic party will treat the Nations
creditors not less wantonly or dishonesty If
It ever has the chance. If they have Tepu-
dated debts, or scaled or compromised them,
10
defeat just claims, we may be sure that con-
duct not more honest or wise would be that
of the great party which the South holds to-
gether and controls, if ever it should have
entire power.
Men think of these things when they see
what has been done in Louisiana, or Tennessee,
OF South Carolina. The spirit Of the South is
unrestraiued there. Its best and its worst are
without disguise. Men see that Louisiana
is trying TO repudiate contracts made IN
most solemn form between the people
of the State and their creditors, by
adoption of irrepealable constitutional proyIs-
ions. Governor Kellogg publicly said, when
that State was trying to get the consent of pub
lie creditors TO the old contract, Ii this is not
"binding it will not he possible for the State of
{" Louisiana ever to make "A valid bOndp; and he
was right. The business men and planters of
the State, Democratic and Republican,
white and black, then applauded him to
the echo, because they were anxious
to get released from some part Of
their just debt. Yet that very State is now
demanding, with threats and after the man
Der of the highwayman, surrender of more
than half the claims which creditors were
then induced to accept as a fnality. Tennes-
see Is in no better case. The whole State is
ahame with the repudating spirit. The best
that good men have to offer to the public
creditors there is the assurance that if they
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THE CAN'T TO THE PACIFIC.

New light Is thrown on the proceedings OF
the recent Congress on the Interoceanic Canal
by the reports of Admiral Ammen and Mr..
MenOcal to Secretary Evarts, to which HE
TRIBUNE last week first called attention. 1t
appears that the Congress was indebted to the
American engineers present for q large part OF
the only accurate information 1t received III
regard to the rival routes across the lsthmus.
NJ. de Lesseps, anxious for the shortest cut to
the Pacific, favored the idea of going across
ot Panama. The crossing could be made there
bv q shin in one or two days perhaps, when
Inv tbe Nicaragua route it would take a week.
This seems TO have been the uppermOst
idea of De Lcsscps. The practicabillty OF
the route was assumed. But when Mr.. Men
ocal told of the tremendous torrent the
canal would receive from the cataract created
by going under the River Chagres, the Con-
gress experienced a painful surprise The
reports 10 Mr. Eyarts show that "plan
was nevertheless Matched up and adopted by
that body but Admiral Ammen, who is con-
versant with the country to be crossed by the
future canal, says that the question OF route
was not decided by the Congress, and that II
is still open. He proposes that there be a
new Congress, to be held in this country.
In the light OF these official reports by
American engineers, it would seem as if the
promoters of an interoceanic canal, as at
present projected, are going ahead too fast.
They have called for subscriptions 20 build
this great engineering work, the greatest in
the history Of the world so far before they
even fully know the extraordinary character
of the country which they will have to cross.
No harm can be done by a delay long enough
TO have all the facts brought out by disinter-
ested engineers. The building Of the canal
may be fastened by such delay. The San
Bias route, the Nicaragua, the Atrato-NapIpi,
OF even some other route might be found
after all to be better, cheaper and safer than
that by way of Panama, and that discovery
would be of infinite value to the world as
well as to the stockholders in the enterprise.
1t has not yet been fully determined that
an intcroceanic canal will be of any great
benefit to the United States, balancing one
thing against another. Nevertheless, the
public sentiment of this country is favorable to
this magnificent undertaking. 1t is in no spirit
of opposition TO the enterprise, therefore, that
American engineers declare that the Panama
route has fatal defects, and that more time
should be taken for examination OF plans.
They speak because they happen to know and
because they wish to prevent the commission
of a colossal bunder.
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TIE KLDNApPLNG C1SE.


A correspondent, who Is apparently I'M
familiar with the "ways that are dark of
the modern Democratic Reformer, inquired
the other day, III some bewlderment why
Mr.. Tilden should not have been arrested or
kidnapped" IN case he had attempted an
instruction against the Government in 1877.
The zeal with which the Democratic press
had circulated the large imaginngs of the
yeracious Mines, aud the indignation with
which they commented upon the plot re-
vealed by him, as a projected outrage upon
free institutions, of the largest proportions
and most dangerous tendency, led this cor
respondent to think that possibly it might all
be true and that it really would not be proper
to take an old gentleman into custody for merely
INDUCING the delusion that he was President
of the United States, and in that belief taking
an oath TO support the Constitution. The
readiness with which the Republican press
took up and circulated General WoOdfOrds
superfluOus denial of the story no doubt con-
tlibuted further to confuse and mislead our
friend, as it seemed to imply an admission
that it would have been wrong to nab the old
gentleman for his great swearing act, and to
put in a plea of not guilty. And so our cor
RESPONDENT, who seems to have an idea that it
would be entirely proper and lawful to arrest a
person undertaking in formal way to set up
an irregular and illegal government in OPP
position to the recognized and rightful one,
inouires in a wondering mood what all the
mother is about why it is that the Demo-
cratic party is making so much ado over
statement that the Republicans did intend to
enforce the authority of the Government
against any projected instruction or usurpa-
ton. and why the Republicans should hasten
to deny that they entertained any such dread
iul purpose.
Well, in that view of 1t, it does look
n little queer. But We suspect that
our friend miscOnceives the attitude of
the Republicans on this subject. 1t Is
very far from admitting that there
would have been any wrong in arresting
MIR. Tiden in case that grim warrior had I'M
deertakn to set up an opposition Government,
or had taken the first step toward 1t. On the
contrary, there is probably but one opinion in
the party on that question, and that is that it
would have been stupidity and wickedly wrong
not to have laid the old gentleman by the
heels and secured him in some safe place
where he could do himself no harm, ut
the first act done by him IN execution
of purpose to start an opposition Govern
ment. And there is reason TO believe
that the Democratic leaders, more des-
peratc than Mr.. Tilden himsclf-such men,
for instance, as the bloody minded Watterson.
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world will not bring it back TO her arms
again. Two or three dollars the price
which other women spend for ribbon,
for dainty dish for dinner The mother
who nurses her dying baby i'll the sitting air
of these tenement-houses knows all this. Is
it any wonder that she looks at these women
who have 40 much and she so little, wonder
ing if they know that God made them both
The woman whom God has so blessed as to
give a baby to her arms, is made by that gift
a mother to all other children. 1t is her bust
ness to know, at least. that no little one dies
from neglect. From 81 to $3 will send
child to the country or sea-shore for a week.
Contributions may be forwarded to Mrs.
Fletcher Harper jr., Seaside Cottage, Long
Branch, n. j.; Mr.. Henry King, Seaside San
itarium 304 West Twenty eighth-st., New
York, or superintendent Sick Mission, Chill
dren's Aid Society," 10 East Fourth-st., New
York.
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do not give up half the principal, ana scale
the interest down to four per cent, they VIII
probably get nothing at all. Virtually, the
State is trying to force its creditors lil'o al
abandonment of nearly three -tourths o. thTi
lust claims, by telling them that they VIII pc
robbed of the whole if they decline Anu
such is Southern honor, III other States 10
well.
These are not sporadic cases OF dishonesty
The thing is an epidemic IN that section.
Every Southern State has put the screw 10 It's
creditors. ot one time or another. Some nave
Numbered creditors much, and some NUE. OUT
there is not a Southern State which has not
resorted TO methods which, in Northern com
muuities. would be held hardly better IMAM
outright population. Cities by tne huioleu
have followed suit. 1t is hard to name
Southern city which has not robbed those
who trusted II. in some degree or form. ANA
these things are SO notorious that among SOL
vent men in any market of the world he Is
looked upon as a Spectator in wildcat
naper who has put his money into Southern
promises TO pay.
BY their fruits We shall know them, was the
rule long ago. The men who control the Demo
cratic party, and make it what 1T Is, nave been
showing how much of honor there Is In them
by their dealings in State and local affairs.
The party is like them, for they are the party.
Its leaning toward all sorts of dishonesty III
national finance is not an accident. III Is not
a curable disease What these men have done
at the South, the Democratic party would do
with the creditors and pensioners of the Nation,
if IT, ever should get power.
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FoRr1Gv.-Bend Or won the Richmond stakcsat
Goodwood; Mr.. Lorillarl's Pappoose was sixth.
= American capitalists have offered to
construct hayward at Sebastopol. ==
Thomas Bayley Potter, of Rochdale, Is about
to visit this country in the interest OF free
trade. - The steamer Alhamhra ran down the
schooner Hero IN Halifax Harbor. = In England
the Liberals are preparing actively for a general
election.
DOMrsrC.-There were eight new cases of yellow
fever at Memphis yesterday and five deaths there
was one death at st. Louis; it Is said that Mem
phians believe the fever may become epidemic
North. =- Secretary Eyarts announces Con-
sul-General Spencer. Augustus Morris and
Samuel c. Lord as the commission to the Australian
Exhibitions - Judge Ballard, Of the Kentucky
District, is dead. == The winners at Saratoga
Yesterday were Bramble Sensation, Checkmate
aud Una. 600 Secretary Sherman was de-
tanned by a fog off the coast of Maine
for twenty-four hours. = The Congressional
Investigation in Cincinnati is bringing out teSti-
lnony favorable 10 the Republicans. GO The
project of Admiral Ammen for a new Congress is
approved by many engineers
CITY AND SrBuRBAN.-Of Officers of New-York say"
Ings bank, say that Aciing-Superntendent Lambs
circular does not apply to them. == Hamilton
Mex. Twomby yesterday resigned the viee-pres-
dency of the Atlantic and Pacific Iele-
graph Company. 80 Mrs. Mary Olara's
viii was offered for probate in Brooklyn,
and objections were flied. 80 Another police
officer was held for trial for clubbing an
inollrusIve man. == Gold value of the legal-ten-
der silver dollar l412l2 grainsl. s6.4G cents. =-
Stocks active and generally strong,
he NEATHKR.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate clear and partly cloudy weather with slight
changes i'm temperature Thermometer yesterdays
Highest $50 lowest. 74o; average. S14o.
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speech, does not show IL. The Kentucky vernacu-
laTD was in full how and the Democratic cd or re-
marks with much warmth that the speech was a
terrible arrangement Of the Republican DartyD
More accurately. II simply fresh exhibition Of
lack burn's month
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The scandalous wrangles in the British Par
Lament which are described in our London
letter no doubt seem to those who look at
them close at hand as almost sufficient 10 dis
credit the Parliamentary system, and even to
endanger some of its features Those who are
removed from the scene Of the conflict will
feel that these brawls and contentious are
proofs rather of the weakness and comparative
littleness of the men who lead in Parliament
at the present day than of any dangerous de-
feet in the system. The altitude of the British
statesmen of to-day is, as q rule, far below
what it has been in some more favored
periods of English history. Indeed, they are
barren times when man Of the calibre OF
Sir Stafford Northcote, for instance, whether
ms an orator and legislative leader or an
executive statesman, is made the head Of the
dominant party in the House of Commons.
The Beaconsfed policy does not seem to in
clude the development of new statesmen and
although the Tories weathered the threatened
storm on the Army bill, the struggle with the
Irish members only proved again the incom-
petencc of some of the most prominent MEM
hers OF the party.
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Nrtu.2lo Quilu Gritmare,
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 80, 1879.
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Did Federal soldiers wear breastplatesG good
deal of ink has recently been shed IN this contro-
yersy, Confederate soldiers asserting. and Federal
soldiers denying it. Both seem to assume that 1t
would be a disgrace if it could be proved An in
ference Of cowardice seems rather large deduc-
ton from so slight premise. Breastplates, shields
and armor have generally been discarded because
they are heavy and obstruct an army, and for no
other reason. Romans and Spartans wore them J
Spaniards and French wore them; and it is no
more cowardly for a man to go to battle with ar
NOR on than for ship to be ironcad or a fort to
have a thick wall For generations it was consid-
cred sign of cOwardice and efemnacy for men to
carry umbrellas, and when Jonas Hanway sum
moned the moral courage thus to protect himself
from the rain he was Kissed and hoOted in London
streets 1t is doubtful If armOr will ever come into
general use again, but it's disuse results only from
the fact that its protection does not protect.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-30

A writer who has made the experiment of
n cheap vacation tells, in letter printed on
another page, how Others may repeat it with
equally good results No doubt there is a
large class of lovers of Nature to whom the
prices of the most modest of the ordinary
Summer boardiDg-houses are unattainable,
and these may learn how it is possible to get
a change of scene at a very small expense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-30

The staff correspondent whose letters from
the Colorado silver region have been received
by TRIBUNE readers with so much interest Is
about to describe for US the gold mines OF the
Black Hills, and his first letter, embodying
some of the results of his observations on the
trip to Deadwood, is printed on another page.
These first notes do not deal with mines OF
mining, but with the great harvest In the
great Western States, which is gold itself ana
better than gold. The prospect Of an immense
Weld of grain and corn is very close to GER
taintv, and there are many illustrations given
of the wonderful development of the agrlcul-
tural resources of those States. And as poll
tics is often next to farming, our correspon-
dent records a suggestion that the country Is
not prepared, with all that has been said of the
changes to be shown by the next census, for
the increase in population and wealth to be
disclosed in the Mississippi Valley, especially
in that part of it lying west of the River
such an increase that the Solid South, even
allied with Tammany, will be in decided
political minority.
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When the yellow fever first broke out In Memphis
this Summer The TRIBUNE said that the past his
tory of the disease in this country gave for
supposing that the places most severely scourged
last year would be visited this season by mider
type of the fever, which would be fatal in many
cases, but would not spread SO as to give general
alarm throughout the South. Thus far events have
justified this view. The fever seems already to be
abating in Memphis. Its appearance in New-Orleans
will probably be followed by more serious results
than in the former city. Little be said to be
scientifically known concerning the origin and
spread Of yellow fever, but experience seems
TO show that after n severe epidemic there
remain some germs of the disease persistent enough
to survive the following Winter, which are aroused
into activity by the heat of the ensuing Summer.
These germs fasten upon people whose systems are
in a dobilitated condition, but their vlrulence is
greatly diminished. they do not multiply rapidly.
and the fever does not spread much beyond the i'm
mediate locality where it is developed. In places
where yellow fever made havoc with human life
last Summer il Is probable that most of mala-
rial fever this season will take yellow type, but
the death-rate will not, may expect. be alarm
ing Nothing that has thus far occurred gives cause
tor apprehending that the South is to have repet-
ton Of tho terrible experiences of 1873.
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Probably no one will read the account,
given elsewhere, of the murder Of the Nor
mon Elder, Joseph Standing, in Georgia,
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Needy politicians will not be likely 10 bother the
President with applications for the vacant English
Mission. 1t is now generally understood that the
occupant of the place must spend about $4,000 a
year more than his salary, if he holds his own
socially with other diplomatic functionaries of bis
rank and escapes the dreadful mputaton of shabbi-
ness Ii is said that General Schenck c0ntrived TO
make both ends meet by going to the Continent once
a year for a long tour and cutting down his house
hold expenses during his absence. Whether this
be true or not It Is certain that most OF his prede-
cessors and successors came home much
poorer in money than when they went
to London, however much richer IN honor they may
have felt themselves to be. Wealth ought not to be
an indispensable requisite for Republican Minister
to England, but the fact is the $1,000 salary we
allow, although it looks like handsome figure, will
not hire a big house IN fashionable quarter, sup
port rctinue of servants, and pay for the keeping
of horses and carriages and for the expense OF din
ners and receptions. An American Minister must
either be able to supplement largely his salary out
of his private resources, he must live in style
humiliating to himself and disoreditable to the
country he represents.