New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-26

emn, and the indiscreet member feels like the
forgetful boy who whistled at funeral Ana
yet they are not afraid. Oh, of course not
The Democrats IN the Senate went squarely
upon the record yesterday in favor OF remoV-
ing all restrictions against the appointment Oh
ex-rebols to positions in the United States
Army This is record they will hear more
OF before next November.
Count de Lesseps passed busy day sight
seeing yesterday. lie was shown the Elevated
railways, the Brooklyn Bridge, the ferries
and the grain elevators, and WAS gwen
an exhibition of the readiness OF New
York fremcn to turn out at the alarm
signal. His statement that the bridge towers
are within four feet as high as the deepest
cut on the Panama Canal will surprise people
whose knowledge of the Isthmus is chiefly de-
rived from the old schoOl-maps, which repre-
resented a mountain chain running all the
way down from Mexico to South America.
If John Randolph could have had something
like fair vision of the coming Importance OF
our woollen industry, it Is probable that such
" dip into the future might have so cooled
his unruly passion that 1t would not have
compelled him to 90 more than nay mile
ont of his way TO kick sheep" A well-ln-
formed correspondent presents, in letter
printed this morning, compact mass OF most
significant data concerning the increase OF our
golden-f footed flocl1s; the foreign apprecla-
rion, even so far away as Australia and
Japan, of American-bred animals; the seven
L. Of inv trans
forming home grown fleece into the finest
fabrics; and the benefit to farmers, mill
hands and consumers everywhere OF this re-
markabe developmcnt-all very largely que
as Mr. Geddes claims, to the fostering iniiu-
ence of protective tariff
The instructions of an Assistant DistTict-At-
torney to a Grand Jury that they could not
indict man for bigamy in this State because
he had married the second time i'll Canada
CATER abandoning the first wife in this country
and had their returned to reside here, are so
very extraordinary that it is satisfaction TO
believe that the next Grand Jury will be asked
to take up the case anew under instructions
from Il competent Court. Ii the law OF the
present adviser prevails, 1t Is clear that any
married man may abandon the wife OF his
youth wien lie tires of her, marry Il woman
i'll every foreign country in the world, bring
each and all of them to York, and live
with them wholly irrespective OF the laws OF
the country and amenable only to the laws OF
morality. The construction of the law Is so
absurd and the conclusion such a travesty
of Justice that it ought to be reviewed either
by q competent Court or an indignant Legs
lature with a remedial bill.
Frederick Hassaureb, whose position as Ed
itor OF one of the most influential German
newspapers in the West makes his views on
current politics interesting, says, III an III
tcrview printed on another page, that the
German Republicans are strongly against
Grant, and that if he should be nominated
Ohio would be Il doubtful State. This is in
the nature of cumulative testimony, the same
thing having been SAID before by Richard
Smith, Murat Ilalstead and other competent
observers of Ono politics but Mr.. Hassaurek
speaks of the Germans rs a German, and,
therefore, as one who knows their sentiments.
The hostility of our German citizens to the
third-term project seems to be almost unlver-
sal, and must be taken into account in all
estimates of the chances of the approaching
campaign. They are a peculiarly independent
class Of voters, upon whom the harness OF
party sits lightly. They hold the balance OF
mower in Ohio and Wisconsin. and possibly III
Grants nomination wond do well to seriously
consider the question whether he can be elected
without their votes.