New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-26

interest rs q matter Of national importance.
Our Washington correspondence spreads before
the public General Walkers plans for obtaining
a phenomenally full and accurate account, IN
conjunction with the other work OF the census
of the whole mining industry of the country.
This is intended to be made the most thorough
sand comprehensive inquiry in regard 10 MN
@ing that has ever been made In any country"
No one who knows General Walkers methods
of work will doubt the complete success OF this
important undertaking. 1t is intended to pro-
duce something more than mere book OF REFER
epce for the statistician it Is to be an encyco-
nadia for the mining stakeholder, the mine
owner and the mine hunter as well. Inc owl
sion of the precious metals will be in charge or
Mr.. Clarence King whose name Is Ill lSen
abundant guarantee.
In making an appeal yesterday for the Ameri-
can Missionary Association, Mr.. Beecher al
luded to a striking fact in the history OF tne
race upon which the writer's have dwelt little II
at all. This was the fidelity Of the Southern
negroes to their masters families during the
war. when instruction would have been so
easy. To quote Mr.. Beecher Through four
Il years. while all able-bodied white men were IN
| the Southern armies, 100000 slaves re-
| NAMED in uuietness cultivating their masters
| farms, many of them within sound OF the
| cannon which heralded their emancipation.
@There never was an example OF such patience
| and fidelity" No doubt the historian will be
compelled to admit that something OF this In
action was due to the ignorance and helpless
ness of the negroes, their inability to organize
ETC., but the essential fact Of the affectonate
fidelity of the race will remain unchallenged'
| The Third Term managers made bad blunder
when thew stoOped to q vulgar dicker with the
Readiusters in Virginia. 1t was unnecessary
zeal. inasmuch as they were reasonably sure of
getting the twenty delegates from that State,
and. moreover, General Malone had already
pledged himself to support Hancock. The idea
was to convey the impression that General
Grant could carry the State by banding TO-
| eether Republicans and Readjusters IN a solld
| Third Term phalanx. The votes of the delega-
ton have been secured, but at high cost. Inc
coalition is repudiated, and all honest RepuD-
licans have learned with regret and shame that
| any of their leaders-and especially the repre-
| sentatives of the ex-President who vetoed the
Imitation bill-should have so far forgotten the
| traditions and fixed policy of their party as to
| form an alliance with o repudiating faction
| The party that has restored to the country an
honest currency and is paying off the public
obligations dollar for dollar should hold itself
aloof from dishonest politicians who are seek
| ing to scale down Southern bonds.
The first emotion of some of the Aldermen on
hearing the Tammany rumor that $6O,OOO has
been raised to buy the combinations of certain
appointees will be one of intense cOmplacency.
Ten thousand dollars an alderman is high
market rate, and indicates that the period OF
depression in the price of votes has passed away
under the benign influence of resumption. Inc
first emotion of some others will be that OF
intense expectancy--a deep-seated anxiety TO
know when the bribing Is to begin, and fear
that by some malign chance they may not get
any bids. 1t is touching tribute to the purity
of our local legislature that nobody willsee any
thing improbable in this story and whatever
those Of the honorable members upon whom
suspicion is likely to be turned may say, the re-
port will surely be received in that body with
less iucredulity than in any other quarter. 1t
will be interesting to observe whether the
names the Tammany leaders use now in connec-
ton with the story appear prominently again
when action is taken upon these cases. Still II
Is a Tammany rumor, and Tammany IS vitality
interested in defeating confirmation by any
means In Its power.