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uR. PARNELL AND HIS EKRAND.

With the arrival of Mr.. ParDell begins the
anticipated systematic effort to raise money
for Ireland. Indeed, the effort began some
days ago, as the Reception Committee OBJ
tanned subscriptions to pay all the ex-
penses of the formal welcome, in order
" that the total receipts Of Sunday evenings
meeting might be given to relieving the
" distresses in Ireland" The TRIBUNE has
no wish to chill the ardor of the welcome
given to Mr. Parnell. Every man is entitled
to n fair bearing and TINS modern agltator
appears TO be a man of exceptional ability and
tact, and plays the role of defender OF class
who, undoubtedly. have suffered much from
oppression in the past and from neglect in the
present. His personal motives for adopting
this role are matters with which we are not
concerned. Whether he is pure patriot or q
demagogue is a fact of real Importance only
to Mr.. Parnel apd his Irish constituency. The
substantial aid for which he asks is, however,
our concern.
His objects in coming here are authorita-
lively stated to be three in number First, to
enlghten the American public as to the pr1n-
eiples OF the Home Rule party which is an
act of superfuous benevolence on his part, as
all intelligent Americans who are likely to take
any interest in the matter have long ago had
every opportunity of informing themselves
Of Mr.. Parnell's side of the question from his
own published speeches. We can hardly con-
ceive it possible that the leader of political
party should desert his post to make converts
at three thousand miles distance If he wanted
nothing from them but sympathy. Secondly,
Mr.. PaInell comes, we are old, to raise
money for the starving poor of Ireland.
BY all accounts, there will be distress in Ire
land this Winter; but there are as yet no
authentic reports of immediate want. No
movement for relict has taken place in Eng
land. or even in Ireland itself. The Roman
Catholic clergy of this city. who are quite as
likely to know and sympathize with the physical
wants of the Irish peasantry rs this purely
political leader, declined last week to collect
money for the purpose. as " such a movement
"was premature" Nor, If the help was
needed. was 1t necessary for Mr.. Parnell to
quit his post to come and ask for it. lie knows,
and all the world knows, that statement of
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TILE BOSTON MATRICLDE.

The CITY of Boston certainly has its share OF
mysterious hOmcides, of which the latest occurring
there is of o really extraordinary character. we
refer to the shooting of Mrs. Helen 5. Ward by her
daughter woman of seventeen living alone with
her mother devotedly attached to her, with no
cause of quarrel known between the two. The
daughters story is strange one. She says that
both were III mortal fear of burglars that the
gentleman to whom she was afhaDced furnished
them with revolver that they slept together and
that the weapon was kept in the bedroom; that
after restless night she thought that she heard
a man in the room. and somehow, she cannot tell
how, she used the pistol, firing the shot which
killed her mother. She herself went for physician
before it light Briefly she claims that she did
the deed in an unconscious or seni-conscious cond-
ton. She has been committed to prison, and APP
pears to be in the greatest distress at the con-
sequences OF her act involuntary she claims il to
have been.
There is nothing prima fdcie improbable in the
story told by this unfortunate girl. Entirely iDno-
cent persons, IN o condition of nervous apprehen-
sion have done terrible deeds uncOnsciously and
with no malice prepense 1t is perfectly possible
that Miss Ward shot her mother Internationally,
and that she deserves deep pity rather than punish
ment. 1t is admitted that she was of peculiarly
nervous aud excitable temperament Of course,
small matters are now remembered, and an undue
importance may be attached to circumstances
which the tragedy alone has rendered note wOrthy.
There are witnesses who now remember that there
were occasionally alterations between the mother
and daughter. There are hints OF jealousy between
them. There are people who profess to know great
deal who perhaps know very little. 1t is possible
iudcially speaking. that Miss Ward may be guilty
of murder in the frst degree, the second or the
third. Who knows The law is incredulOus of the
unusual its ministers are not easily convinced !;
and this is as it should be. Mothers have been ma
liciously killed by their daughters and daughters
have been maliciously killed by their mothers
I'm the opinion OF the hard-headed though not
necessarily hard-hearted detective, nothing is i'm
possible because it is strange and dreadful This is
an incomprehensible world and men and women of
excellent reputation are sometimes desperately
wicked. Who can tell what was going on in that
house in Hamilton-place in Boston Who can be
sure that mother and daughter loved each other as
they appeared to do We do rot ask these Ques-
ions-they are put by the ministers OF the law. by
the police and by the coroner Every unofficial!
instinct is in favor of this girl orphaned by
her own hand and cut of. long she may live,
from all unaloyed happiness ia the future. When
n great crime is committed. the sagacious public
usually determines the guilt or innocence of the
prisoner at once. Ii might less often err in its
Judgment If it were in smaller hurry TO make up
its mind.
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NO. COWARD AFTER All.

Slowly but surely Mr.. Tilden rolls off his load
of caumny and unfolds his virtues to the pub
lie gaze. He now comes to the front IA d man
of physical courage, who was ready in 1876
TO take the Office of President by force if his
hands had not been tied by the action of his
friends This has the force Of revelation
For though Mr.. Tilden's enemies North and
South have freely charged for almost three
years that he failed his party through coward
ice and lost the Presidency because he had
not the courage to seize it, we have never seen
it denied until within the past week The pres
ent denial, however is official and authoritative,
for it comes from the old gentleman himself !;
and it certainly is not made under any hasty
impulse, since he has had nearly three years
in which to consider it. 1t was made to Gen
eral Stecdman, Of Ohio, who took it in at
Gramercy Park in the last week of Deem
Der, and fastened home to print it in his
paper, The Toledo Democrat Mr.. Tilden
seems to have entirely unbosomed himself on
the subject to SteedmaD. He says he was not
consulted in regard to the Electoral bill,
and knew nothing about it's preparation
or intended adoption until Mr.. Hewitt
called and informed him that it had
been agreed upon; that when he
said to Mr. Hewitt that he (Tilden)
had not been consulted about it, he was
answered that Senators Thurman and Bayard
were acting in their public capacity as Sena-
tors and would not consult any one outside
their sphere, and that he then declined to adj
WIG Mr. Hewitt saving that If Senators Thur
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the Democratic managers be changed. They have
decided to snatch Senator Kellog@s seat and they
will not be turned from theirpurpose by evidence
of any kind.
Pillsbury, the Mephistopheies of the Maine con-
spracy, remarks that the Democrats have posses-
sion of the State Government and both branches of
the Legislature for the first time in twenty-fou
years." He might have added with entire safety
" and for the last time in twenty-four more"
1t behooves the President to fill those vacant
foreign missions possible. Gsrceion will
be out of job presently and II they are lying
around loose he will steal them.
That canvass of Republican sentiment in Indiana.
which The indianapolis Journal is making is becom-
ing very interesting At the close of the fourth
days work. Blaine draws ahead with $40 votes
Sherman follows close after with 340 Grant comes
third with $780, and 139 are scattering, the total
being 1151. The most significant feature of the
canvass is the distribution of strength among
the three candidates, Blaine Sherman and Grant
No one of these gets far away from the Others and
none of those below come anywhere near them.
This is especially significant, because it has been
claimed that Indiana Republicans were for Grant
by large majority, and the friends of Blaine and
Sherman have not been inclined TO dispute il, be-
eying that neither OF the latter candidates was
popular there in other parts of the West. IL
Blaine and Sherman can hold their own. therefore,
with Grant in Indiana it is clear that their strength
In other portions OF the country is much greater
than has been generally supposed
Why is it that there is SO little talk among Demo-
Gratis about their candidate for Presdentf Dnrng
the past few weeks the discussion of the subject has
been steadily dying out, and at present scarcely
anything is SAID about it, Is the party bending its
energies so entirely 10 the concOctIon OF plan for
stealing the Presidency that ii has no time to spare
IN thinking about candidate to put in the stolen
seat3
The home organ Of the Hon. A. II. Stephens sings
swcety and seductiyely to General Grant-a fact
which tends to corrOborate the rumOr that the
Georgian statesman is convinced that Grant and
Stephens would make prosperous ticket.
GaFcelon calmly assures a Maine reporter that he
doesn't know the politics of five members of tho
Legislature - The Governor and the reporter
both survived.
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Neru'alork Daily Gribgsae.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1880.
THE NEWS THIS BOOMING.

FoREIGN-General Roberts reports all quiet at
cabnl. - The London Irish relief fund amounts
10 SIS 900; 81 800 has been subscribed to q Dub
lin relief fund. 49, Senor Mar scal has been APP
pointed Minister of Justice in Mexico. 60 NJ. de
Freycine has received iaendly assurances from the
German Ambassador and the Papal Nuncio.
DoMEsrIC.-'yhe House Committee on Commerce
are at work on an Interstate Commerce bill 60
The acting chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee reports that good progress has been
made. - A few men counted in by the Governor
and Council of Maine have resigned local offices !;
The Governors questions were considered by the
Court yesterday. - The prico of bar iron has
been advanced TO GIG cents per pound. - The
contest for the Speakership at Albany has become
more active - Stevens testified for the State at
The Hayden trial In New-Haven.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-FOrgeries to a large
amount have been discovered i'm tho securities held
By the GIocers Bank; S. V. White was appointed
receiver Yesterday. - The Rev. DR.. Van Dyke
charged the Rev. DR.. Spear with Misrepresentation
e. The Irish agitators. Parnell and Dillon, ar
rived. - Three policemen were charged with
clubbing - Fifth-ave. clearinghouse was
robbed - Judge ChOate made important
decision in a guardianship suit. - Columbia
College athletic games were held. - Gold value
Of the legal-tendcr silver dollar N12l2 grainsl.
$3.50 cents. Stocks active and higher, closing
steady.
TlIT WFATBER.-TEIBUNE local observations indi-
cate clear or partly cloudy weather. with slight
changes in temperature. Thermometer yesterday
Highest. 45o lowest. 80; average. 40llo.
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In n recent French work entitled Coullsses de
Ia d. plomatie," side of Bsmarck's character is
portrayed which the many paucgyrists of
the great Chancellor have always RETAINED
from describing 1t is said that he never
forges or forgives an injury, and pursues his enc
mics with extraordinary tenacitY even when they
stand on the lowest rounds of the social ladder.
Even seamstresses and organ-grinders have been
prosecuted for offences against HIM. More than
3 600 Journalists have been punished at bis in
stance and he takes care to have them treated cX-
actly like common criminals They are not allowed
To see their friends except in the presence OF prison
officials, and are put 10 work at making paper
bags and similar occupations. The prison keepers
dare not show thom the least Kindness for fear of
mourning the cnmity OF the Chancellor The book
relates instances of great hashncss toward men of
high social position and intellectual eminence, who
have been imprisoned for offences against the rigor-
ous press laws Ii must. of course be borne in
mind that the author is Frenchman. who would
be likely to put Bsmarck's faults in a strong light,
bnt every one who is at all informed to the treat
ment of independent German journalists since the
new Empire was established knows that It has been
arbitrary and unjust and more becoming an Oriental
despotism than an enlightened Christian nation.
professing to stand at the head of modern ciyilza-
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Tilden calls attention to the fact that 1880 finds
him nnf only alive bnt robust.

Tidcn calls attention to the fact that 1880 finds
him not only alive but robust.
IL is an appropriate time TO reflect pDon the char
aeter of the Democratic party it stands revealed
by the theft of Maine. While il is fact that many
of the Democratic journals have protested against
the crime, il Is also fact that equal number of
Democratic journals have defended 1t. Further
more. not an eminent man in the party has ex-
pressed any dissent, and the rank and file of che
party are equally silent. The general sentiment
of the party may be said therefore, to be in favor
of condOning the crime Suppose now that this
party gains control Of the Government Mt this years
election aud the South comes forward with grand
scheme 10 empty tho Treasury. does anybody sup
pose that a party which stands in silence and al
lows some of its own members TO steal State will
interfere when others Of its members seek to rob
the Treasury
Garcelon won't lecture when he retires from Of
fec He is afraid the fervor of the populace would
express itself through the agency of oyerrpe eggs.
The principal boom now. observable is made by
deserters from tho Democratic party.
The holidays being over, that everlasting Louisi-
ana living tournament is likely to break out again
Mt any moment. Senator Kellogg has the next In
Mugs aud has permission to bring forward choice
collection of experts who Will swear that al they
anybody else may have previously sworn to was
undluted falsehood. Neither side will be helped
OF hurt By It, neither will tho ultimate purpose vt
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All the distinguished foreigners who visit
this country, from Dean Stanley to Herr Won
BOdenstedt, seem to have entered into a con-
spiracy to turn the head of the American pub
lie, and destroy with the generosity of their
compliments that innocent modesty and gentle
among American characteristics. The latter
traveller even goes so far as to declare, in the
very interesting talk with him which is re-
ported on another page, that while he does not
find in this country the formalities of European
politeness. he does find more genuine courtesy
and kindness of feeling here than there"
This would be sufficient alone to OBJ
literate the memory of the American
"Notes," if they had not been forgotten long
ago. The American is so accustomed to
seeing himself berated in print because
some travelling lecturer has detected six
people simultaneously eating with their
knives. or a Congressman has been caught
with his foot on his desk. that he fails
sometimes in his humilIty-and in ali serious
ness. there is a streak of humility in the
American-to recognize the many evidences
about hlm of Che highest form of good man.
ners. which is good will. Herr Won BodeD-
stedt recognizes in his remarks truths Which
II is the accepted cant of certain class OF
our own people to sncer at or deny, and his
willingness 10 see good in strangers will
perhaps teach some of these critics the yIr-
tue of seeing what is good in their own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

Shortly after Congress Teassemo les the new rules
adopted by Speaker Randals Committee will be
presented for the action of the House. One of the
lessons the Democrats have learned from the Fall
elections is that it is not wise to persist in their plan
for deriving the minority Of their time-honored
privilege of securing hearing by delaying action
upon measures which the majority desire to crowd
through. The new rules proposed last Summer for
this purpose have been abandoned, and
tho report Of the Committee has been
so purified Of craftsmanship that it has
received the signatures of all the members No
doubt the advice of Mr.. Alexander Ii. Stephens had
great influence in persuading his acknowledgements
to give up their original scheme. That long-headed
statesman foresees that the time will soon come
when the South will be in permanent minority in
Congress, and will need all the power which the
parliamentary traditions concede to mInorities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

of this kind to appreeite the practcai
bearing of political acts and movements have
been seen before, and have done much to oe-
prive clergymen, in particular, OF political III
fiuence by destroying the general respect LOT
their Judgment. But the strangest feature OF
this instance is that the deed committed IN
Maine towers up beyond all questions OF con-
temporary politics. and is, in PLAIN English,
crime-which a clergyman. of all men, should
be the first to perceive, to resent, and to de-
nounce.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

1t may yet be that three righteous men will
be found in Sodom. One FusoDist member
elect in Maine has already announced that he
will not vote to consummate the fraud which
Garcelon has cOntrivcd and now one of the
Fusionists who was counted i'll declines to ac-
cept his certificate of election.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

The unfortunate differences in the Brooklyn
Prcsbytery show no sign of coming to an
end. The Rev. Dr.. Van Dyke answers charge
OF Misrepresentation of testimony made against
him by the Rev. DR.. Spear by declaring, in an
open letter, that Dr. Spear himself committed
this very offence in bringing the charge. The
letter is printed elsewhere. d.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

The principal boom now observable is made by
deserters from tho Democratic party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

Gareolon won't lecture when he retires from OF
fee. He is afraid the fervor of the populace woul
express itself through the agency of oyerrpe eggs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

The home organ Of the Hon. A. II. Stephens sings
swcetly and seductiyely to General Grant-a fact
which tends to corrOborate the rumOr that the
Georgian statesman is convinced that Grant and
Stephens would make prosperous ticket.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

We publish on another page a translation
of an article on American politics from the
most considerable journal published in the
German language in Europe, the Vienna Neue
Freie Prose- This article shows how clearly
fhe intelligent classes abroad understand that
the success of the Republican party is essen
tial 10 the maintenance of our public credit
and to the prosperity of the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

the Democratic managers be changed. They have
decided to snatch Senator Kelogg's seat. and they
will not be turned from their purpose by evidence
of any kind
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Doth survived,

Gafcelon calmly assures a Maine reporter that he
doesn't know the politics of five members of tho
Legislature The Governor and the reporter
hoth suFvived
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

1t behooves the President to fill those vacant
foreign missions as soon as possible. Garceion will
be out of job presently, and If they are Lying
around loose y he will steal them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

The Socialists have been holding Con-
gress" at Pittsburg. What it was all about
few of us know, and still fewer care. But 1t
was " stormy" of course. 1t is a curious fact
that the more unpportant meeting or an
association is, the more likely it is that there
will be excitement and wraDgliDg. charges and
counter charges. The Socialists illustrated the
emptiness and triviaity of their gathering, not
only by quarrellng, but by going through a
solemn process of selecting a candidate for the
Presidency of the United States, in accordance
with the strange notion, so widely prevalent,
that the only proper and established method
of publishing an opinion is to illuminate 1t III
q platform and nominate Presidential ticket
pledged to its support. When this ceremony
is conducted by about seventeen citizens, call
ing themselves Congress" whom nobody
knows or would care to know, it becomes lit
tie ridiculous. We grieve to observe that the
Congress broke up in the midst OF much
hurting of accusations about /" selling out"
and that not one of the members had the good
sense to reflect that nobody could possibly want
to buy.