New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-04

a pair of runaway horses yesterday, who was
knocked down and run over, the wheels OF the
carriage passing over his head, ana who'
nevertheless bleeding and bruised rs he was
leaped upon his horse and pursued the flying
carriage, exhibited bravery which, under more
romantic circumstances, might have won HIM
medal. Taken altogether, it was an extra
ordinary runaway; and the policemans con-
duct was not the least remarkable part OF 1t.
The American imtatOrs Of the English gen.
try whom a great thinker of their own ma
ton scOrnfully designates as game-preserV-
GERS" find an unexpected obstacle in the path
of their pleasure. The Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals has been moved
by stories concerning brutal treatment of the
victim of the Staten Island fox hunt to inves-
tigate the matter, and the sportsman who
managed the hunt has been arrested and held
for trial. The charge is denied. and the fur
Their defence is set up-which is not good
either in morals or in law-that everything
that was done was by direction of the gentle
men composing the hunt.
The Hon. Joel Parker is shown elsewhere
to be once more palpitating with the ex-
pectation that his fellow-citizens will unani-
mously seize upon him and make him Presi-
dent by force. Every leap year this brief
period Of transport comes to him as regular as
the hay fever; and if his valuable life is
spared, be will be nominating himself for
President in the year 1900 as cheesully ms he
did in 1864. In Mir. Parker's estimation New
JERSEY is the jewelled pivot of the universe,
and New Jersey is solid for Parker, in spite of
some feeble opposition from Senator Randolph.
Governor Mcclellan, who reached down after
him with a well-intended effort TO lift him up
on the bench, Mr. Parker ungratefully refuses
to take into account as a possible disOrganizer
of his boom.
The Legislature should act promptly and in
a liberal spirit upon the recommendations OF
the State Engineer respecting the need of
dredging the canals. The late Democratic
Superintendent of Public Works evidently left
them, in spite of his extravaganza expendi-
ture, in a bad condition. Deposits upon the
bottom of the canal have increased, Until there
is danger that before the end of the approach
ing season navigation may actually be clogged.
Mr.. Seymour justly says that it would be
great calamity to the State and country if this
should happen at a time when the great move
ment of grain to the seaboard is taking place
and the boatmen are getting handsome reve-
nue.. The cost of removing some thousands
of cubic yards of mud must not be counted
in the face Of such a danger as this.
The good fortune as well as the perils
of the Car are shared by his double.
General Meiko1f has already served as a tar
get for the wretched craftsmanship of the
Nihllists, and has escaped unframed. although
the attack was made close at hand As his
assailant WAS immediately arrested by a Cos
sack in the street, the secret police and the
military headquarters will have no opportunity
of manifesting their wOnted limpness and in
efficiency. If the military dictator had been
shot down in the street like a dog, Todleben,
Gourko or SkobelefP would have been APP
pointed his successors and as MelikOf has been
the most popular and efficient of the military
governors invested with supreme power In the
centres of population now under martial law,
the revoutionists would, as usual, have &c
complished nothing whatever by assassination.
The Nihilists do not reason about what they
do. Their sole aim seems to be to create a
panic in the palace and in the streets, and
when mems hearts are failing them from
anxiety and terror, to give the signal for a
general uprising. In one of the latest mani
festoes issued by the revolutionary committee,
the Car was menaced with plot upon plot
until he should renounce his authority and
transfer it to an Assembly elected by universal
suffrage. The rejoinder which he made was
the order naming the head Of the Supreme
Executive Commission. The shots from the
assassin's revolver following quickly, indicate
that there is to be an implacable struggle
between the conspirators and the two Cars.