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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06
,panies. human credulity has some

coal companies, human credulity has some
limits.
AT the instieaton of English bondholders'
proceedings for foreclosure have been COM
mcnced. but in such fashion and so connected
with other proceedings that dispatches men
ton the suit as evidently an amicable one.
In other words. the bond and stockholders
appear to be trying to devise some effective
means for further pluDdering those credul0ns
creditors whom Mr.. Governs official state
ments have enabled the company to fleece 80
numerically. TO wipe out many mil
lions of indebtedness, without extinguishing
the interests Of the stockholders who
have for years sustained Mr.. Gowen in his
amazing career of Misrepresentation, would
be natural sequence; and a court winch,
after all that has been disclosed, still keeps
this same Gowen III office as receiver, and
tOlerates the receivers in still hiding facts
from plundered public, may possibly lean
toward his schemes in its action. But there
is likely to be some concert Of action also on
the part of the unsecured creditors, VINO
clamor loudly, but thus far vainly, Tor
some statement by the receivers as to
the amount of Indebtedness. Ii IS openly
suggested that any statement is refused noC
because it would do much harm to the Read
ing Company, but because it would disclose
the existence Of heavy debts by the Reading
to the Lackawanna or other coal companies
But if these creditors are not TO De pun.
dered to the utmost by foreclosure, they WIN
be obliged before long to set up their Claims
Meanwhile, 1t is painfully evident that the
one man of all others who ought not to be
trusted as a receiver of the Reading Is the
official with respect to whose past reports ana
management the gravest charges are made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

Cooper-Tilden wing of the party will come in for
yery small share But let them figure and plan
they will get as much out OF HancOckS defeat ~
any bOdy else in their party
IL Yazoo City and is Kemper County solid 10
Hancock If they are solid, the few Republican,
IN either who are still unshot in the back. should
lose no time in moving out before the campaign
gets warm
The Democratic journals are a little backward IN
printing the correspondence between General Han
cock and President Grant. which grew ont OF Jen
Black's famous order No. 40 As thus order IS about
all there is Of HancOcks civic record, II would seem
TO be good policy 10 make the most of n, II the
Democratic editors don't take up the cudges pretty
soon, the Republicans will ne Obliged to do the
work for them. IL - very meaty record, as WI"
appear before the campaign Is over
John Kelly looms as the Boss Of the reunited Ne"'
York Democracy. Tho higher he looms the I's"'e'
IIlden drives tue bung into the Darrei.
In spite of Hancock's war record, there Is no'
negro i'm the land who knowing MIN NJ a''' u"os
not look upon - the superb soldier as one VI '"e
worst enemies of his race.
Wallace has one advantage over Barhuih WIZ"
ought TO give him the chaiIIaan'bip OF TUG Dei""
cratic Committee. He can make voters, WIN"
Barnum can only buy them. In the coming cam
naion the Democrats are going to he sh0r6 OF iunds
Barnum is a useful man where money II p'entS "'''
no can buy mules" as the eXIgencies OF tLe cam
vass demand but where there Is no money no chI
he of hftle use. Wallace. on the other manu. WIN
a half-pound OF coffee and a sDlrit lamp can urn
ont boous naturalization papers az a tTeInendou.
Tate and at a mere trhing cost. lie is evidently
the man for the time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

The annual Fourth of July celebration at
Tammany Hall is a grOtesque and, In some
respects, an amusing performance. The sober
pretence of -partisanship with which the
exhibition begins is amuslngj the extreme
craftsmanship into which it promptly degener-
ates is grotesQue. To give an air of patriotic
impartiality to the proceedings, the Declare
ton of Independence is first read, after which
comes "long talk" beginning with the found
alton of the Government, but speedily running
into Democratic stump speech on the topics
of the day. Then follow short talks by Tam
many politicians, who endeavor, with mora or
less skill. to keep up the Fourth OF July
flavor in their Democratic harangues. Mr..
Jerome Buck yesterday directed attention 10
the remarkable fact that the first name signed
TO the Declaration of Independence is that OF
a Hancock, and that a Hancock has now been
nominated for the Presidency. The Timber
tonguod Grady parodied the Declaration III
denouncing the Republican party. These are
instances of the vulgar uses to which the
Fourth of July speech has come at last.
Perhaps q worse one was given when Mr..
Kelly referred to the organization OF the
Tammany Society in such terms as to convey
the impression that 1t had always been what
1t is now, instead of being, as 1t was
originally. charitable and nOn-poitical
society, whose founders would have bushed
if they could have foreseen what Mr.. Kelly
would call their lineal descendants" If the
Fourth Of July Grafton cannot rise at least
a little above the party plane, it might better
not be made at all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

A party of festive militiamen in California
propOsed q salute to the National holiday,
and one of the number tried to open %
Mound can of powder with Ratchet. Result,
Instant death of a comrade and perhaps fatal
injuries to himself. Moral, none Such hope
less folly as this is past all moralizing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

Professor L. f. Parker, of the Iowa State
University, writes out elsewhere curious and
hitherto nnwritten chapter of political history.
This explains how General Grants famous
common school speech at Des MONIES was
altered and practically falsified in the tele-
graphic reports, which were naturally ac-
Cepted as correct.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

Mr.. Henry WattersOn is the responsible Editor OF
The Louisville COarier-JOurnGl. and personally is a
genial and pleasant gentleman, who in private con-
versatiOn undoubtedly says what he means, and
tells the truth. We learn from recent interview
that he says " that he shall take the opportunity
offered by the first campaign speech which he makes
to put his foot down. far as be is concerned
upon the idea that General Garfield is not honest
man. He knows him well, and declares his belief
that he is not a corrupt man. The simple fact that
he is poor man, when he has had so many ODpor-
tunities to enrich himself through the improper
If his POSITION proof that certainly he Is honest"
We have no doubt he means to do it, but mean
while we clip the following scattered paragraphs
from his newspaper:
This gallant General" who had the crime Of brbe-
taking xed upOn HIM. The Commercial says, clearly
and unmistaKably." is supported with enthusiasm by
that paper as Republican candidate for tue Presl
Gency although the evidence against him just clear
and uumistakable 1t was in March 1878.
Mr. Garhed's experience in swearing to false state
ments eminently fitted him to act visiting states
man in louisiana 1t is well TO set thief to catch
thief but the danger Will expose the culprit
when caught.
1t seems that In minor matters this man Gar
field to DO trusted. He involves his friends
many contradictions that the public must shortly con-
clude they trustworthy as is he.
The paper evidently needs looking after.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

The Democrats declared i'm their National Con-
vention In 1864 that the war was failure ana
must be Immediately stopped, and that the Fed
eral Administration deserved to be everlastn0ly
execrated for subverting the civil by military
law in States not in Instruction" and subJectlng
citizens of Maryland, Kentucky ETC., to arbitrary
arrest This DONE they proceeded with charming
consistency to nominate General Mcclellan on
their ant-war platform. 1t is true that Mcclellan
had gone as "stopping tho war" as any
soldier could; but at the mention OF his name
MARYLAND delegate made pretty uproar by show
ing that Mcclellan mot under orders from Wash
inqton bnt in the exercise of his discretiOn
was the man who dispersed the Maryland Legis
lature at the point of the bayOnet, and arrested
the members "McClellan" continued this dele
gate is the assassin of State Rights, the usurper
of liberties, and if he is nominated he will he
beaten everywhere, as he at Antietam." We
are reminded of the extraordinary fduE pas OF the
Democracy at Chicago in. 1864 because the gentle
man who brought out General McClelan's
name on that occasion was the Hon.
John p. Stockton, of New-Jersey and Tie
same statesman has now been appointed chairman
of a committee to offer the Democratic nomination
to another military commander Once more the
men who opposed tho war while 1t was going on.
who:wantcd to stop it, who hampered the soldiers
in every way possible. who and always
have been haters of the army, are throwing up
their hats for Major-General, and pretending to
think that people believe in them. In a few
months Mr.. Stockton will realize that he has
made another mistake.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

A letter from our London correspondent, in
describing the triumphs of Mile. Bernhardt in
that city after the failure of NJ. Coguehn TO
keen his engagement had thrown the whole
burden of the season upon her, gives an ac-
count of a part in which the great actress has
IN past years achieved an extraordinary sue
cess, now achieved again, and which she might
be induced to repeat during her visit to this
country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

Except to those who were seeking pleasure
at the seaside resorts and those who had ex-
pended large sums in the purchase of fire
works, yesterday must have been satisfac-
tory holiday. Only about forty persons were
injured by fireworks and explosions iii this city
and vicinity, and their injuries were for the most
part slight. This is a smaller number than usual.
We hope we are not giving them too much
credit in saying that they were glad not to
have Jared any worse. Certainly those who
escaped altogether must have been thankful
for that The farmers of this sun-baked
region were grateful for the rain, if the
proprietOrs of the COney Island hotels
were not. The underwriters rejoiced in the
showers without regard to the sentiments of the
children. The number of fires was thus much
smaller than usual. The quaintest and most
touching incident Of the day was the annual
dinner of the Veterans of the War of 1912,
whose little band is now reduced to six in
number. Thurlow Weed made an interesting
speech there, in which he deplored what he
deems to be the growing popular indifference
to the Fourth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

SOUP" His letter should be like Jonn
Phenix's autograph, written by his best
friend
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

John Kelly looms as the Boss of the reunited he"'
York Democracy. The higher he looms the I's"'e'
TIden drives tue bung into the BARREL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06


Minister Andrew D. White has been writing
letter TO friends IN Syracuse, in which, after de-
cning to be candidate for Congress, he
strongly urges the Republicans of the District to
break down the precedent of rapid rotation by
electing Mr.. HscOck for the third time. The
advice is good and we hope to see
it followed. There are few greater evils in our
politics than the system, which so largely OBJ
tains IN this State. of retiring a Congressman to
private life rs soon as he has become thoroughly
useful, and filling his place by greenhOrn who
must go TO work to learn craftsmanship IN much
the same way that certain orator learned the
art of speaking-at the expense of his constituents
and the country. There is special reason In Mr.
HscoclIs case for breaking the precedent, because
he has distinguished himself as ono of the ablcst
and most useful Republicans in the House. He
achieved National reputation in a single term.
The Republican party has other duties In this can
vass besides that of electng President. and ono
of them is to that the party is adequately
represented in the lower House of Congress- There
FORE hope to see the limitations that Mr.
Hscock may not want to run again eiiectualy
contradicted by the action of bis constituents.
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The Southern buldozer is bringing about recon
citation with club, as usual.
Tildeu's party has condoned fraud, and John
Kelly has forgiven Tlden for having tried to be
Reformcr There ought to be nothing IN the way
of harmony in the party now.
If the Northern Democrats expect to convince
their section of the country that they in favor of
Hancock solely because of his loyal record. they
should lose time inducing the Southern
brethren to abato the zeal with which they have
entered upon the glorious work of "wipng out sec
tional issues" That peculiar kind of campaigning
which consists of "persuadng with a club" rather
than by argument Is not popular in this part of the
country.
How quiet Seymour is Can ii be that his
health il too feeble to permit him TO continue his
practice of giving his party advicef
The great Democratic c0nundrum at present
seems to be whether to the campaign by coffee
pot or mule power.
1t Is said OF the Democratic patriots who conrrc
gate about the City Hall that they are amusing
themselves by drawing up schedules of the way the
Custom House and other offices will be divided
among them after Hancock shall have been elected
This is waste of time, whether Hancock is elected
or not Ii he is elected, and Tammany "helps him
take his seat" no schedule which has not been an
proved by Tammany will be honored with alton.
ton. John Kelly and the South nominated Uan
cock, and they arc the powers who Will dictate the
division Of the spoils II there is o division, Tina
hungry Democrats who are hanging around tia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

In spite of Hancock's war record, there Is not
negro in the land who knowing him at ai'' uoe
not look upon the superb soldier as one oi u
worst enemies Of his race.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

PhRnix's autograph, written by his BEST
friend.
The National Association for the Protection
of the Insane, which WAS organized at 'ne
Charities Conference in Cleveland last week
has for its object the introduction OF
more humane and intelligent methods OF deal
ing with insanity. Great things in this direc-
ton have been done in the past generation
but much still remains to be done. Inc aims
of the new Association are stated In detal'
elsewhere. and especial care is taken to make
it understood that the movement does not
arise from hostility to any asylum or Oihclals.
The startling discovery that the averages OF
the boys who were examined for admission TO
the City College were much below those OF
the girls examined for the Normal College,
was received with dismay by the male portion
of the human race in this vicinity. Various
able explanations of This distressing state OF
things are given elsewhere. They go to show
that the examiners, knowing beforehand by IN
tuition the gigantic intellects of the boys, made
their questions very hard, and IN their ex-
cessive good opinion overdid it, while the
questions for the girls were made compare
lively easy. This vindicates-nOt to say
whitewashes-th boys. The male animal can
again hold his head erect with that modest
pride which is his noblest characteristic, ana
can congratulate himself that his status as
superior being remains absolutely unshaken.
The Powers having summoned the forCe To
Weld to Greece the territory granted her By
the recent Conference at Berlin, there VIII be,
of course, abundant rumOrs as to the course
the Sultan will take No one expects him to
submit promptly if he can find any pretext
for delay. But the unanimity of the Confer
ence, the eanestness of England, and his own
weakness must convince the Sultan that any
subterfuge on his part would be at
tended with peril. His Foreign Min
lister is charged with encouraging the Alba
Man revolt, but Mr.. Goschen's reported demand
for his dismissal may put an end to such in
trigues In this crisis the views expressed IN the
letter from an Ottoman statesman, on another
page, are invested with special interest. He
slows the source whence the Ottoman Power
derives its remarkable vitality, and the
blunder which European Nations have made
in dealing with it as a civil rather than as
religious organization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

The Greenback Convention in Connecticut
stiflly resents all idea of coalition with either
the Democratic or the Republican party. They
might have waited until the Republicans gave
INV sign of desiring such a coalition. but the
announcement respecting the Democrats is sig
nifcant Evidently the whole Greenback
party is animated with the idea that ITS wise
policy now is to maintain a separate eX-
istence. and hope that political complications
In the future may bring it some profit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

General Hancock should summon Judge
Black to return from Europe and write his
letter of acceptance for him; or perhaps 1t
would be just as well If the Judge would
send it by cable. Hancock should not be led
Inv admiration of his own epistolary powers
into writing the important document himself.
Military men are apt to make bad blunders
when they try to play the statesman with a
nen. He should remember that bis namesake
end prototype lost thousands of votes by
one unlucky phrase about "hasty plate OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

cooner.T den wing of the party will come in for
verv small share. But let them figure and plan
they will get as much ont of Hancock's defeat al
ANYBODY else in their party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-06

Figures given in our local columns show
Ahe extraordinary increase i'll the shipments
of grain by the canals over those of last year.
Tho number of bushels received at this port
during this year by all the routes, has in
creased by one-sxth over the number received
durinp the first six months of last year, but
the number received by canal has more than
doubled increasing from 100000 to 49,
OOO, 600 The number of tons cleared on all
the canals OF the State has almost doubled,
and the same thing is true of the receipts
from tolls.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-10
Future of the Republic.
London Telegraph


When, in 1776, the thirteen North American
colonies put forth that Declaration of Indepen-
dence whick preluded the birth of a nation,
the combined white population inhabiting
them did not exceed $500, 900 souls Yet they
had the courage to throw down the gage of bat
tie to Power with which," in Daniel Web
sters words, "for purposes of foreign conquest
and subiugation, Rome, in the height of her
glory, was not to be compared; Power which
has dotted over the surface of the whole globe
with her possessions and military posts, whose
morning drum-beat, following the sun and
keeping company with the hours, circles the
earth with one continuous and unbroken strain
of martial airs of England" Fourteen years
later came, in 1870, the first census of popula-
tion taken in the United States, and it was
found that within the borders of the young ma
ton there were not quite 100000 sonls. At
the expiration of ten years it appeared, upon
taking the second census, that the population
was little more than 5,250,O00, having in
creased between 1850 and 1900 at the rate of 35
per cent In short time the tenth census of
what has long been mighty people will be
taken, and we risk little in saying that, in Jo-
seph Hume's phrase, "the tottle of the whole
will show a population of at least 50,000,0 900,
especially if the immigrants who are now pour
ing into the United States in vast numbers are
included in the calculation. In other words,
the population OF the great republic in 1880
will be their population in 1776 multiplied by
twenty and were it likely that the same ratio
of increase could be maintained for another
century, the mind of man would sink before
the effort of imagining what it is possible for
the monster republic to be in 1880. However
boundless the resources of the North American
continent may be, it can hardly be expected
that the second centenary of the United States
will be celebrated by thousand million hu-
man beings, and yet such would be the result
of multiplying fifty millions by twenty. Any
how it is certain that century hence no such
and amenable to the same general traditions
of feeling, habit and education, will ever have
been gathered together upon earth as will then
probably occupy the great Western continent.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-10
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

fold saddling of clark horse" no trifling
with the fate of the party by hasty resentment,
no leap into the dark, no straining of the alle-
glance of intelligent Republicans by Jerking
it into the nomination of man unknown to
fame. 1t was the nomination of man of ma
tional repute and Republican whose abilities
have earned him the recognized place
of leader of the House of Represen-
tatives; of man than whom no
one could better harmonize all the contending
factions in the convention; a man who is the
peer OF any: who is himself part of all that is
good and glorious in the history of the Repub-
lican party; who deserves all the honor that
belongs to the patriotic and successful soldier;
who was a statesman thoroughly identified
with all civil institutions, therefore he left a
successful political career to serve his country
In war and IN peace; who has in his character
and public services as much of those qualities
which draw the intelligent enthusiasm of the
people for the man whom they have chosen for
leader as any man whom either of the several
parties in the convention could have named.
therefore do we hail the nomination as a great
deliyerance and as a regenerating triumph for
the Republican party.
Boston Advertiserl
The Republican party has a candidate for
President of whom it may be proud-a man of
ability, experience and conscience The nom-
ination of General Garfield cannot be too
heartily welcomed by all who have the
good of the party and country at heart not mere
ly as most satisfactory solution of situation
that was much to be regretted, bnt as one
thoroughly good in itself. The count ry has not
been in danger, and no mans name has been
necessary to save it. The Republican party
has been at discord with itself only in appear
ance, and we believe that with either of the
leading candidates who were defeated, with
some more than with others, it would have
been sufficiently united tn have won n decided
victory in November The nomination that
has been made gives no such triumph to either
of the supposed factions as will excuse the 9TH
er for manifesting the least hesitation in ac-
cepting the result General Garfield is not
man to excite antagonisms. He has not allied
himself with any factioDal cause in the party,
except as supporter of the distinguished gem
tleman who was presented by his State. His
name will be symbol of the union and har-
mony which his candidacy will secure.