New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-02
creased IL this additional convenience OF ac-
ces, should be given.

The annual dinner of st. Andrews, last
night. was in one way curious Illus
tration OF the better times. 1t was
the largest assemblasc of Scotchmen
and their descendants the Society has
been able TO call together SINCE the panic. aud
the cheeriest. The specch-making, urder tho
guidance OF President Kennedy. was unlsri-
ally bright The noted Scotch New
York ciergymen, DIR. Taylor and Dr.
Omission, were at their best, DIR. McCosh
was enthusiastic and hearty as ever, and
Chauncey NJ. Dcpew once more vindi-
Gated the eulogium Secretaries Evarts
and Sherman have pronounced upon him
as "the best after-dinner speaker in New
york"
Republican victory in 1880 is probable
"only not sure" This, in one of its own
sentences, is the motto of Mr.. William T..
Chambers letter, which we print ON another
page. Mr.. Chandler urges this fact upon the
consideration OF class of Republicans VINO
seem unwilling to yield to the vast majority
Of the party that honorable acqulescehce
which they would surely expect were they III
the majority. As this letter shows, the ne
publicans have not won the contest OF next
year vet. The Democratic party has long
start of 1873 electoral votes which are almost
ironclad. and while all the signs CT the politi-
cal heavens are with the Republican party,
the contest must I've fierce and the margin Oh
victory narrow. If the ex-Confederates should
he beaten in their attempt TO capture the
Government next year it may be that the war
issue will be disposed of forever. and that new
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III the South. But this result can only be at
tanned by thorough union in the Republican
party, and failure to reach IL may mean Con-
fcderate ascendancy, with the perpetuation OF
wiz passions and hatreds which would newt
ably follow.
That numerous class of young Americans
who regard il as the great object of life to
evade jury duty, and viii suppress their citi-
zenship to do it, viii find strong argument
for cehbaey in yesterdays proceedings of a
Brooklyn court. The trial is for assault
with intent to kill, and involves the
whole question of marital relations, jeal-
ousy, and the rest OF it. The defence, with
an ingenuity which may be wisdom or may
not, have insisted upon q jury OF experts,
and the twelve good men and true who SIT IN
the box are al married. A jury OF bachelors
would have been more impartial, and would
not have suffered from the disadvantage OF
knowing too much about the subject. which
is always disadvantage in a jury. But
now that the expert principle has been
established the only consistent course on
the appeal of this case will be TO
change the venue by mutual consent TO Salt
Lake City, where jury can be secured of
which each individual member will be equal
III the plenltude of his marriage experience to
a dozen or fifteen Brooklyn JuIymen rolled
into one. This will he indeed the multiple
cation of cOuusellors, in which there is
known to be wisdom. And the youthful jury
dodger. seeing the prevalence of marital dis
putes in the courts. will be more than ever
certain that "a young man married is man
that's marred"