New-York tribune., 1880-01-13
Nem'1lork pailu Gribalole.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13. 1880.
TIE NhWS THIS MORNING.

FOrIGN.-In one Irish district 500 people are on
the bIiuk Of starvation. -- General Marinez-
Campos intends TO leave Spain. =- British man0-
facturers are hoping for reduction IN the United
States tariff on steel - The Berkshire Liberals
have practically rejected Mr.. Walter, NJ ?.
DoMIsrIc-The Republican members Of the
Maine LEGISLATURE met last evening and organized
both Honses: the question of the legality of lie
organization will be submitted to the Court
James u. Lamson, President of the Fusion
Senate was sworn III as Governor but VIII noi be
recognized by General Chamberlain. -=
Commissioner Hayt replies to-day to Cen
era Fis5. 60 Governor Foster. Of Ohio.
has entered on his official duties.
- sherman 3. Oyiait, of Monmouth, has been
elected Speaker Of the Ncw-Jcrsoy Assembly. -=
The Hepburn Railroad Committee has not accepted
Simon sternes bill regulating railroads = The
Postmaster General has just sent to Congress an
interesting report lotteries and the mails
CoxGREss.-Scnator Hamla asked for new legis-
1ation in regard to the Geneva Award. oil was
introduccd to increase pensions The Military Acad-
envy aud also several relief bills were passed by the
Senate --- great variety Of new bills was in
troduccd in the House. Investigations were ordered
of the Hong Kong Consulate and the Pension Ser
vice. A resolution providing for the importation ct
salt free of duty defeated.
lawyer Shot himself in the University Build
ing. - Evidence was given against the
three alleged forcers arrested Saturday.
- Benjamin C.. BOgcrt was buried. ==
The steamer Arragon arrived - A Sixtn-ave
drug clerk was shot. == Action III regard 10
Fulton Market was delayed. - The Brook
lyn Presbytery denied DR.. Van Dyke
tho investigation for which he asked.
-- Gold value of the legal-tender silver dollar
(4i21a grainsl S7G9 cents. Stocks active hut
irregular closing feversh and unsettled.
qIE WrArHER.-1KIBUNE local observations inGi-
cate rain or SNOW in the early part OF the day fol-
lowed later by cloudy clearing weather with
consider bly lower temperature. Thermometer ycs-
terday: Highest, j3o lowest, So; average, 4Jl-2.
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The favoIite New-Yogk diversion of jump
ing after ferryboat proved fatal, in one i'll
stance, yesterday.
new method of employing the arts for
swindling purposes has been discovered, and
Its practitioners captured The process was TO
sell bond, receive a check in payment, and
lthograph facsimile for larger amount.
The Freycinet Ministry, 1t appears from our
London dispatch, is regarded favoraby through
out Europe, and has already disappointed the
hopes OF the Monarchists who sought to cripple
it before it had a fair chance to develop Its
policy. In the present troubled state OF
Europe, it is no small gain for the French
Republic that 1t has thus once more tided
safely over a dangerous crisis.
Commissioner Hayt makes o comment upon
General Fisks charges, in communication
which we print elsewhere. The Commissioner
declares that he might have refused to submit
TO an investigation by the Board Of Indian
Commissioners, on the ground that they were
without jurisdiction, and complains that after
having waived this point, he is tried also in
the newspapers at the same time.
Congressman Weavers 60,000 soldiers who
complain that the bOndholders have been
better treated than they, include good many
men in buckram. A large proportion of the
signers of the petitions, as our Washington
dispatches show, are citizens who did not
serve in the war, aud the whole affair is not
n movement, but q scheme. Some of the vet
Grams have been led into it, but they are not
leading 1t.
1t is now apparent that the plan Of the
American free-traders, and the foreign in
,terests which hope to profit by their labOrs,
ia to select some special article on the tariff
list and break down the protection given to
American production in each particular case.
BY taking one article after another, they
hope. as our Washington dispatches state, to
"nibble away" what they cannot destroy as
q whole. American protectionists have good
reason to stand firm against all of these at
sacks on the tariff. Each one of them which
succeeds forms precedent for future attacks.
What the business Of this country now de-