New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-29


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There must be something in the air OF upper
Broadway which peculiarly qualities residents
there for Jury duty. OF the twelve clt'zens
chosen to sit in the Seawanhaka inquest SIX
live at these numbers respectively l,l2o'
1927. LA. 1,159. LIP and 1,175 Broad
vav. This method of Iakng cOroners Jurles
| topetber may account for the habitual stupid
ity of their verdicts. 1t is notorious that this
investigation need have no personal side. The
officers and men of the Seawanhaka, from
Cantan Smith down, behaved nobly. But as
| the cause OF the fire is involved In some
! doubt it might have been of service to have
q few persons of technical steamboat knowi-
edge upon the Jury. 1t was easier, however
to scratch up jury in few Broadway
stores.
There is some amusement In washington
at the discovery that the papers OF claim
| ant before the Southern Claims COMMISSION
whom Senator Ben Hill had vouched Tor as
| having been loyal to the Union during the
war; accidentally showed that Senator Hill had
| also vonched for him to the Confederacy as
! having been loyal to the other SIDE NO one
| need be surprised at this. 1hls Is
the same Ben Hill who has lately
attempted to make himself out an original
| Union man, beside whom Abraham Lincoln
| and Salmon p. Chase were a little lukewarm,
and who introduced into the Confederate Sen
ale a resolution providing that " every person
| " pretending to be a soldier or an Oilcer OF
Z" the United States who shall be captured on
the soil of the Confederate States after
:" the 1st day of January. 1868, shall be
presumed to have entered the territory OF
the Confederate States with intent to incite
"insurrcction and to abet murder; and unless
satisfactory proof be adduced to the contrary
"before the military court before which the
| trial shall be had. shall suffer death"
| Every white officer in command OF Northern
colored troops was, if captured, to sui
| fer death. So also every officer
who should "incite slaves to rebellion
q" or pretend to give them freedom" This was
| Senator Ben Hills piratical reprsal for the
! first Emancipation proclamation A graceiu'
| Inconsistency like that mentioned in Our
Washington dispatches is the least OF Mr..
Ben HIPS sins.
| The old-time spirit seems to have gone out
of the Democracy of New-YOrk City. or 1t
lives only in Tammany Hall. which did
not participate in last nights ratification
meeting Of the several halls which were IN
use. only ono, the Academy of Music was
filed. The street demonstration seems really
TO have failed. The hall which was set
apart for the meeting of Germans was almost
empry. showing a marked and depressing
lack of German enthusiasm. The speak
ers at the principal meeting did IN
clude so able Democrat as Speaker
Randall, but otherwise the selections were not
happy. 1t will not help the Democratic ticket
III this CITY, where the commercial interests OIL
a continent are centred, to see General Thomas
! Ewing. the leader of the Ohio ntationlsts
nut forward as one of the chief spokesmen
for Hancock and English. Mr.. j. Ran
d0lph Tucker was the only other speaker
of much renown, and Mr.. Tucker is @
| blatant State Rights advocate. Nor could the
appearance of Mr.. 1ilden. reluctantly dragged
from needed repose to preside. have had q
cheering effect upon the audience. Lame and
hating demonstrations like these will not sci
the State on fire for Hancock. When Tam
MANY Hall summons its hosts, no doubt
we shall see a greater company and greater
| enthusiasm But Tammany Hall is not be-
loved by the Democracy of the interior, and
the impression is gaming ground that II zen
eral Hancock should be elected it would be
the making of John Kelly, whom so many
Democrats want to see unmade