New-York tribune., 1879-08-30
Is full and complete vindication. Ihis is
fine way to make a formidable PRESIDENTIAL
candidate, Messrs. Democrats. Keep at It.

candidate, Messrs. Democrats. Keep at 1t.
A rrotesque story comes from Washington
that Mr.. Cyrus w. Field has charged Mr.
Tilden with crookedness in disposlng of his
elevated railroad stock simply that he may
crowd the latter off the track for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination and make room
for his brother, Mr.. Justice Field OF the Su-
preme Court Mr. Field is not so ignorant of
Democratic propensities as all that comes to.
The surest way 10 help Mr.. Tilden with his
party is to show, first, that he is uncounOniY
sly and, second, thai he has put clean mil
lion of fresh funds into that barrel Mr..
Field is as we'll aware Of this, probably, as
anybody else.
A few months ago The TRIBUNE published
an interesting letter from one of its Boston
correspondents giving an account OF some
novel views entertained l!y Professor Peirce,
of Harvard, on the distribution and functions
of meteors, of which many systems, travel
ling as rings round the sun, are known to
exist. Professor Peirce has still further elab-
grated his meteodc theories, and yesterday
he laid them moro formally before the
scientific world in remarkable paper
read at Saratoga, OF which we pint this morn
ing pretty full abstract. 1t is paper sure to
attract al .enton and provoke wide discussion,
and even the unscientihc reader will find in it
much o. interest and suggestiyenesss
The exhaustive address by Professor D. G..
Marsh on Palsontology, delivered on Thurs
day last at the meeting of the Association for
the Advancement of Science, at Saratoga
presents a complete epitome of the develop
ment of that branch of Geological Science.
Owing TO the crowd of other matter we were
only able yesterday to find room for about
one-half of it. We shall. however. reprint the
address in full on Tuesday next in TRIBUNE
EXTRA No. 80. This EXTRA will also contain
the monograph series Of illustrated articles on
the Silurian Deposits, by Mr.. s. w. Ford, an
accomplished observer, who has EN- oodied In
these papers the results Of many years. careful
study of the rocks of that primitive period
The EXTRA will thus be q valua le cOntribi-
ton to the current literature of the physical
sciences. 1t will be sent to any address, post
paid, for 10 cents, and all orders will be
promptly filled according to the date of their
receipt.
The interesting and valuable series of let
ters which we have been publishing on the
mining resources of the Black Hills is brought
to close this morning. In taking leave of
the field, our correspondent answers, in his
customary careful and thorough manner, sew
eral questions which a great many persons
have been eagerly asking. Summed mp in a
single sentence, he says there is ample room
for men of all professions and callings to live in
that new and fertile country, and live well. The
capitalist will find opportunity for investment
in safe and profitable mines; miners will have
no difficulty in finding employment, or in
securing unexplored fields in which to try
their luck; lawyers are prOspering, because
:" the man who discovers a mine discovers
"lawsuit" mechanics are in demand, because
building is constantly in progress; mercantile
business Is active and profitable, and there is
still room for competitions the country has
rich soil, which yields generous crops of wheat,
oats and potatoes and there is ready mar
ket close at hand; the climate Is too healthy
to be encouraging to physicians, and there is
a general public indifference to questions of
religion rather than demand for clergymen
and churches.
The assembled Greenbackers at Utica sue
ceeded yesterday, AFTER great deal OF noise,
in nominating State ticket. All the fusion
candidates, as we'll as Richard Schell, were
fairly hissed off the field, and a straightOut
Greenback ticket was nominated. The can
didate for Governor, Harris Lewis, is chiefly
important as the president of the Farmers
Alliance. He was Republican member of the
Legislature twenty years ago, but aside from
that service has no political record. He
was selected undoubtedly because of his
supposed strength with the farmers of the
State. The other nominees are even less
known to the public. The platform is
the usual Greenback declaration in favor
of nearly everything that is wild in finance
and reckless in politics. with a very small
sprinkling of sense, which seems to have got
in by accident. The best commentary upon
the Convention itself was the pathetic appeal
of the exhausted temporary chairman as he
retired from view; "Why, in the name of God
"can't you behave yourselvesW ~ While the
ticket nominated is probably the best the
party was capable of selecting, it is not one
which will give the Republicans any anxiety
Side-shows in politics are not popular this
year. AS for the Republican farmers, we have
not the slightest fear that they can be enticed
away from their own party in crisis like the
present by such clumsy decoy.
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