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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-17
SOETHERN BATHON.

Nothing more significant of the rnles which
govern society in the South could be devised by
the most pitles, caricaurist than the scene which
occurred IN a Richmond courtroom the other day
when young PoindeXter sentenced for the
killing of Curtis. "A scene which is now being pub
hshed over the South with enthusiasm as
dramatic" ana pathetic" Manly bOsoms from
Virginia to Louisiana, no doubt, swell with SYM
pathy for the young hero, and fair women envy
the lady whose honor SO galantly defended.
The actual facts, as readers will remember, are
that young woman complained to her lover that a
clerk in a shoe store had three times insulted her,
by cOmplmenting her the size of her foot and by
squeezing her hand. The clerk was a respectable.
estimable young fellow, the support of an orphaned
sister, the other witnesses denied that any such
unwelcome attentions were offered. According to
the young ady's own statement. she returned three
times TO the shop and sought ont the offensive
clerk to deal with. Then she complained to her
lover. who attacked Curtis while unarned and
horsewhipped him. When Curtis came to
give hun the thrashing which be richly deserved,
Pondexter drew his pistol and shot him dead For
this the young was given two years in the
state Prison but before sentence he makes the
tragic appeal to the Judge, bewails the "revolI-
ton of sentiment in his State" which now forbids
him TO shoot down an uuarmod man at the com
plant of a gddy girl; assures the world that he
has 10 sense whatever of guilt or disgrace In the
murder but will be utterly crushed" if he enters
a prison, 50 refined Is his nature and is most en-
phatic in urging that his regret at taking Curtis's
life is quite enough punishment for him without
going to JAIL or any such vulgar retribution. SO
pathetic was this plea felt TO be, told by the
Richmond papers. that the audience wept in sym
pathy, and the Judge could not control his emo
ton, but pronounced the dread sentence in husky
tonesD This emotion and sympathy were not for
the dead lad his sister left friendless by his
grave, but for the hurt feelings OF the murderer,
who was Obliged to spend two years in prison.
Could anything more expressive of the old South
ern brutality and sentimental bosh be found than
this youth, posing for sympathy over the dead body
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-17
CHURCH SOnARRLES.

The approach of warm weather, oddly enough
seems to have ldndled the bellgerent Dropensitios
of our clerical brethren Of all sects. Scarcely have
the Presbyters in Brooklyn made drawn battle Of
it with the Rev. Tamage than the Episcopalian
clergy in Philadelphia break out in war, which
bids fair to be as long .winded as the Punic with a
Ritualist church named St. Clements The bones
of contention are the old ones, which have been
fought inch by inch in England and here
gilded vestments, alteration of the elements
confession, prayers to the saints, etc, etc
The Evangelist Brethren who but lately
gained fOOthOd in Boston and i'll this city, have
recently arrived in the Quaker City, and have
reused all this cOmmOtiOn. Our Episcopal friends,
we are sorry to say, were not a whit more logical
more dignifed, Or to use plain Saxon more Chris
tan in conducting the fight than were the Tamage
court In fact, about the most irreligious thing we
know is a gi0us squabble in any denomination;
and if the advice of an outsider could be heard in
the din of pious rage THE TGIBUNE's would be
that if such fighting, like praying were done in
the closet with the door shut, the result would be
very sudden purifying of the worlds moral
atmosphere.
The battle in Philadelphia resulted, as usual IN
such affairs in 10 victory to either side The
Rituaist Brethren still go with shaver heads and
much begilded robes; the Catholics do not receive
them and the Epscopalians cast them out. They
are precisely In the condition of the jackdaw
who borrowed the peacocks feathers and was
driven out by both old friends and new. 1t is
an Portable POSITION yet their judges should
remember that man may have high motive even
in shaving his head, and wear an embroidered alb
for conscience sake 1t was the lltigious ST. Paul
who said Of each man, "TO his own Master he
standeth or falleth."
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the ordinary constitutional means,-whcn ne
tells us all this. the sOber-minded and busi-
ness-ike people of NewYork only shrug
their shoulders and turn upon their heel.
They know that there is not a word OF truth
in Mr.. Carlisle's speech, and they find it hard
to realize that he does not know it too.
By what irony of fate was it that John j.
Hoffman was dragged out of the audience to
make a speech at the close of this Kentucky
oration7 While Mr.. Carlisle was mlsrepre-
senting the purpose and effect of the election
laws, Mr.. Hoffman exhibited himself upon the
platform, living contradiction of all the
speakers words. Nobody can have looked AT
the man whom Tweed made Governor in 1868
without wondering that he could listen III
cOmposure to an arraignment OF the Federal
election laws. In him we saw the embodl-
ment of that system of wholesale fraud which
made the intervention of Congress necessary
to protect the purity of the ballot No one
thing did so much to rouse the people ana
the National Legislature to sense OF the
urgency of some radical reform as the no.
torious crimes by which Tweed and his con-
federates robbed the State of NewYork of
its free choice in that year, and placed
John T. Hoffman in high Office 10
which he was never elected. What Mr.
Hoffman said when he was urged to the
front of the stage on Thursday evening it is not
worth while to remember. His mere presence
was reminder more eloquent than any speech
could have been We do not think the dra-
matte effect of his appearance could have been
heightened unless there had been exhibited ut
the same time, in large letters, a copy OF the
circular signed Samuel j. Tilden, In which
Boss Tweed instructed his agents in the rural
districts to make haste in teegraphing the
returns of that noted election of 1865 to Tam
many Hall, so that the guardians of free
ballot might raise the city majorities to
the necessary figures.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-17
TIE TAMMANY MEETING.

The organization which represents the Dem
ocratic party in the principal city OF the Ma
ton, and which is likely to be The most i'm
pOrtant agency, if not in the settlement of
the next contest for the Presidency, at least
in determining the choice Of the next Demo-
cratic candidate, invited mankind to assemble
at Tammany Hall on Thursday night and
listen to an official statement of the views of
the party. Whether the meeting turned out
70 be a great or small one; whether the
populace thrODged FOurteenth-st. and shouted
till they were hoarse, or treated the demon
stFatIon with polite indifference, and went on
with the transaction of more practical bust
ness, it was surely to be expected that the
Democratic press would make the most of
the affair." and, if it did nothing else, would
be at the pains to tell us what the orators
on such mOmentous occasion had to say.
What, then, must have been the surprise of
the hundreds of Democrats who take the
chief newspaper organ of their party when
they turned to that Journal yesterday and
found in it only brief and cOntemptuOus
mention of the meeting, along with report
of a "a sharp glove fight" and other metro
politan amusements not even an intelligent
reference to it in the editorial columns,
unless we are to interpret the advice at
the head of the leading article, "to
"leave the popular discussion over the
Army bill to ferment and work itself clear"
as a covert condemnation of the whole affair.
Yet it is not surprising that Democratic
newspaper, suppOsng it to be edited with
brains, should regard the humbug which Mr.
Carlisle spread before his hearers with pro-
found disgust. Some latitude is commonly
allowed to speeches delivered in Tammany
Hall, before an audience of sachems and their
attendant braves, but ii is safest TO assume
that even 1ammanY multitude knows some
thing and will not be pleased with speaker
who talks to them as if they were either rogues
or idiots. We do not in the least question
the sincerity of Nr. Carlisle. Like Mr.. Ker-
nan. and some other good men, he has
been driven half out of his wits
by the flaming partisanship of the times,
and in the heat of passion he does not know
the truth from lie. Most of the propositions
which he amplifed in his long address were
plump falsehoOds, and the others were arrant
nonsense. When Kentucklan comes here to
tell us that we are grOaning under a military
despOtsm, that We iare not vote for fear of
bayOnets, that Federal marshals have been
appointed to drag Democrats away from the
polls and that Federal soldiers stand ready
to help i'll the wicked work-when he tells us
that in the days of the Revolution the Brit
4" ish citizen had more freedom on election
"day than we have, or than it is
"intended we shall have" that the DEM
ocratic party is striving to annul the election
laws because tyrannical President rules us
under a reign of terror, and that it is an
Overthrowing of the Constitution to allow the
United States to enforce its own statutes by
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man, they are the most appropriate speakers Mr.
Kelly can fud ''
Or course the Democrats arc hard up and ought
to be allowed to crowd the truth t.l, in ord r 10
make out case bat they show symp' ms Of aims
ing all efforts 10 give them any leevav. Al a.litm
IN Raleigh, who saws directly what all ais b-ctlren
are saving indirectly, seems 70 bo going too far
when ne declares in his paper TIE Nccs. Tat tbo
President says in his last veto that Tho pres nee
of the armed soldier at The polls isesscnia TO free
elections in this country" What che President did
say was that "any military Interference whatever
at the polls is contrary TO the spirit Of our nstitu
tons and would tend to destroy the freedom ~
elections" And again: No soldiers, either of the
Union OF the State militia should be present ~
the polls 10 take the place to perform the duties
Of the ordinary civil police" Perhaps il Tho
feroclous editor had read tho message befor. la
wrote he would have saved himself the responsi-
bility of such a clumsy whOpper. Still he might
not have been able to deprive himself of fine
pleasure Of shouting from the summit of his mis-
statement: +" The issue is made-bayOnets or M
bayonets at the polls ~ The only defect in that
issue is that both parties are on tho same side Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-17
GENERAL NOTES.

The Yale Faculty has issued ukaSe con-
demning to immediate trial before military tribunal
within twenty-tour hours all students who shall De
caught IN the act OF singing society songs Oh tho
College campus.
The american Ship, published every Saturday
at No. Park place, treats Of marine construction ana
navigation in all its branches commercial and naval.
II also publishes items and discussions Of interest m r
alton TO the merchant and revenue marine. and nayS
orders and movements. The ship is the uncomprom
,ng foe OF free trade in ships and s opposition &c,
rlvCs special weight from the scientific and pracueA
experience Of J. W. Griffith, It's editor
4 wealthy old gentleman living in Berlin
fell in love WITH the young daughter OF poor WIDOW
lie wooed and won the girl and before the weddngday
arrived he made will leaving her oil bis property
amounting to several hundred thousand marks The
marriage was celebrated IN brilliant style, and the
welded pair with their guests sat down 90 breaAits
Scarcely had the teastmg begun when the yeneIspp,s
bridegroom dropped ms knife and SANK 0aeA IL Do
chair dead from heart disease.
A now way TO collect old pew rents has
been devised Baltimore Several members OF 'Ao
congregation being remss In their settlements tH0
pastor ordered their pews to be boarded up numo'i
OF pews we're thus secured ana the pastor announcer
that he had adopted ibis to secure the promV
payment of the money due hn. without which ho eou
not conduct the affairs Of The church sasfaetoy n
called attention 70 the TACT that the dellnquehts w.
nearly all, IL not ALL able TO pay. TIER wives ald
daughters bristed with silks aud sstns LOUNGES aN
furOelOws, and the pew rent remained uhpslu'
\ remarkable case of lynching occurred az
Cheyenne, Wyoming. ON the 18th inst. man namea
Dug Reed obnoxious particularly tho citizens was
taken out OF jail Then. with unusual courtesy tno
ynchers allowed Reed TO select the method OF uca'
most agreeab to him and when he stated that no
would prefer be hanged. they went stil furhei s
allowed him TO be his own executioner lie tooA 'Ae
rope in hand, climbed telegraph poie iasneu 'A
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NEW WORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, SUPPLEMENT-

of his victim while judge, jury and audience weep
around7 II is a significant fact, however. that the
Judge amid his tears. did give him two years Ii ~
to call attention to this fact that we mention the
matter at all. Before the sucn an exploit womb
have made "A hero of the young bully elevated MIN
at once to the companlonship of the wei-born' I'M
educated. drunken yonng bloods who staggered
about the SpottswoOd House. swearing by the God
of Virginia" Poverty brings common sense to even
such acommnnity as that which made Of these men
social leaders, and in Richmond now. we are led to
hope dying in your boots is no longer considered
comfortable or croditabe mode of exit.
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SATURDAY, MAY II, 1879.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
THE NEWS THIS MOANING.

FOREIGN.-Tidmgs to September % have been re-
ceived from the Nordenskjold expedition; all are
well. - Part Of Lublin, in Russian Poland, has
been destroyed by fire. - The Beers have petit
toned England to grant them freedom. - Two
trading companies III Rotterdam have failed ==
The O'Gorman Mahon has been elected member OF
Parliament for Clare, Ireland.
DoNEsrIc.-Ihe Presbyterian General Assembly
at Saratoga appointed its Standing Committee yes
terday. =- Three burglars were han g6d IN North
Carolina in the presence of 10 900 people yesterday,
and two muIdGers were executed in the West,
one by shooting. - The Harvard races take
place to-day. - Argument by Henry J. Scud-
der ard others took place in Pouehkeepsie
Yesterday about Rapid Transit in Brooklyn. -=
licenses have been granted at Long Branch. -
Thr State Assembly yesterday passed the bill re-
dueing the legal rate of interest to per cent? the
Street Protection bill has been amended in the in-
tertst Of the elevated railroads.
CONGRESs.-In the Senate yesterday, Mr.. Eaton
made a long speech on the Legislative bill Mr..
COnking replied, and there was a lively debate
between the Senator and Mr. Voorhees, ;
Mr. Blaine stated that he would reply
TO some remarks of Mr.. Eaton at an early day.
-lu the House. Mr. Frye called for the appoint
ment of committee the alcoholic
liquor traffic; the Democrats generally OPP
but the resolution of Mr. Frye was adopted ;
next Tuesday was set apart for the bin on con-
tagiOus diseases among cattle considerable discus
sion took place the Warner Silver bill; the Mills
amendment was defeated, but nothing further was
accomplished.
CITY AND SCBCRBAS.-The Police Board retired
Captain Gunner, made changes in street-cleaning,
and fined Captain Williams Yesterday. 60 The
defence in the Smith murder trial was begun. =-
Fights among the striking 'longshoremen were
frequent, and there are some fears of a rot. ==
Commissioner Of City Works Fiaherty and Bennett
were convicted OF malfcasance in Brooklyn, and
Mr.. Alne was acquitted. -=-= The advantages of
the Prospect Park site for the Worlds Fair were
presented to a committee. = Mrs. Schaeifer,
wife of the West Side piano manufacturer com
United suicide. =-= Gold value of the egal-tender
silver dollar OPP grains, $40 cents. Stocks
feveTsh irregular and huctuating, closing generally
weak.
THR Manufacturers local observations in
dicatc clear or partly cloudy and cooler weather.
Thermometer yesterday Highest, So; lowest.
CO average, 69241.
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kind pracrsod upon helpless race, and the
man who protested against the barbarity OF
il mobbed and driven ont. And he might
have seen the Democratic party upholdlng
the system that tolerated these crueitles, ana
threatening disunion and destruction OF the
Government if it was interfercd with. fer-
haps he did see il oil. But there was never
word out of him in all that time to show
that his feelings were any inconvenience
to him, or to indicate that his blood was III
any danger of boiling. Indeed, he need not
90 back to the ante belium period for harrow
ing pictures that are not mere fancy sketches.
WHY, this man whose feelings are such an
inconvenience when he imagines John l.
Davenport arresting Democratic repeaterS
and rogues, has heard, without sign OF emo
ton, of such occurrences as the ChlSOlm
massacre; the brutal murder OF men ana
women for opinions sake; the merclless
shooting down of negroes and burning oil
their homes and all the numberless outfages
that have driven these poor creatures by nun
dreds to take refuge in flight from the land
of the solid Democracy. All these things he
can see and his blood never warns so as to
put him to inconvenience or hinder MN from
speaking dryly" But sweltering Demo
cratic repeater deprived of tho opportunity TO
cheat in an election-that is the spectacle
that arouses his Indignation. The cold climate
of Newly York in November sets his blood Doll
ing. Nothing warns it in Louisiana or MISsis-
sippi. There it is as cool and sluggish as a
lizards. 1t is very queer about blood.
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PRACTICAL TENEMENT-HOUSE RKFOR

PRACTICAL TENENENT-HOUSK REFORB.
The Committee appointed at the Cooper Union
meeting on Tenement-hOuse Reform last February
have succeeded in raising the first moiety of the
half million OF dollars with which they propose to
begin the construction of improved tene-
ment-houses. The success of their enter
prise will now depend upon the amount
of support given TO it by the public. The sum
seems but small in view of the magnitude OF the
evil, but we cannot believe that the public, now
that they know the work to be earnestly under
taken, will withhold their active support.
BY association, the benefits of improved tene-
ment-houses can best be preserved to future genera
tions. As an investment, tenemcnt-house property
has always been attractive to a certain class Of
spectators. 1t now remains 10 be seen whether 1t
cannot be made sufficiently remuneratiye to induce
personssa.shcd with fixed and moderate rate Of IN
tcrest TO invest their spare Capaland a7ngsin this
form Of real estate. The Names of Samuel D. Bah
cock. W. Bayard Cutting, James W. Pinchot and
their associates will command the entire confidence
of their fell0wcitzens in the wisdom well as the
disintcrestedness of their proceedings.
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amussmsnis auo meeunss 90 Might.

BROADWAY THEkTRK-2 rnd 8: "H. NJ. s. Pinsiore"
nfTH AVENUE rHBATRE-2 and 8: "Fatinitza , .
LYCFuN nBEATRE-l1 A. NJ; Chldrens Plnaiore f; :
and 8 " II. NJ. = Pinafore."
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE" Won at Last
bLYMPIC THEArRE-2 and s The ASsonlmolr.
PARI THSArRI,-2 and z; :" NINE, f6Vart' =
bAN fRkNCIsCO MINsTRELS' OrERA HOUSE, anu . :
- Salsbury'S Troubadours" - - ~. -, ,
sTANuARD THEATRE-1:3o and :"H, ". = Plnaiore'
uN1eN SorARE TuEATRg--l;30 and 9; 1.-The Lost
Children" - ~. .,
ATI1CN's THFATRs-11 A. NJ: Chidrens "Pinafore."
. and : p. NJ; The SNOWFALL"
COOPER INSTITUTES pm: Laughing Gas Exhoition
KOSTER & BIAI'S-COnccrt
KURTZ's GALLERY-PictuTes
MN N,Ek AouARIUH-Day and Evening
Union LEAGUE rHE AIRE-Musical Buflesque
tsUNarE'~ GARnEN-Athletic Games.
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The zeal of the Senator from the Chautau-
qua District in behalf of the Battery Park,
at the lower end of New-YOrk City, and IN
opposition to the bill to protect Nassau-st.
and Broadway against an elevated railroad
is one of the most interesting, if not one OF
the most edifying, features in the situation
at Albany. Mr.. Sessions lives a long way
from the elevated railroad-some 400 miles
or so-and he might, without great in
CONSISTENCY, allow the business men of
this city to say what should be done
in matter of such purely local concern. 1t
may be, however, that it was not Mr. Ses-
sions'5 chief object in coming to Albany to
accumulate reputation We respectfully suc-
yest to him, and 20 Senators Jacobs and Pierce,
the BROOKLYN members who are also so anxious
respecting the safety of the Battery Park, and
TO Senators Hogan and Ecclesne, the adyiSa-
bility Of not getting in the way OF public
opinion upon this measure. Senator Hogan
and Senator Ecclesinc being NewGOrk repre-
sentatives, know what that public opinion IS,
and ought to respect it. But the vote OF
yesterday, by which the bill was recOmmitted,
was evidently hostile vote, and it must be
either that the elevated roads are using
strong influences to defeat the passage of the
bill, or that there are some men III the Senate
who think they can turn delay to their own
profit in some way. No doubt some Of these
men are honest in their course whether there
are some who are not we leave it to any in
telligent reader of yesterdays proceedings to
decide. Meanwhile property-owners on Mas
sau-st. may as well be told that a small
paper generally supposed to be the organ Of
Mr.. Field, has said, rather contemptuously,
that it sees no objection to an elevated rad
on Nasslu-st.
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other page, discoses to the outside world the
existence of German colonies in the interior
of that vast State whore German thrift has
created wealthy and prosperous communities
and German love of art has softened even the
rough edges of pioneer life. The contrast be-
tween these villages and the squalid homes OF
some of the Southern poor whites has Its OBJ
yi0us moral.