New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-28

slavery controversy and the Civil War. but
this was because the need no longer existed OF
90 much public action His intellectual
powers had shown no signs OF impairment,
and his sermons were still, as they always
were, satisfying IN substance as well az SIN
gularly fine in rhetoric Probably no one
ever heard him preach without carrying away
in his memory some beautiful thought in
golden setting of words. His death was GER
tainly not unexpected, though it comes upon
the public with some suddenness. The be-
reavement of his people will be shared by
many who did not know him so well, but
were still familiar with the history of his
busy, successful and unselfish life, and knew
him rs man of the kindliest nature as wcli
as richly stored mind.
Nelson j. Waterbury is not pleased with the
way the Democrats in the city have been be-
having, and he tells John McKeon so In
letter more than 1000 words in length. Mr..
Kely's course is especially distasteful to Mr..
Water bury, and the name of Maurice j. Power
does not leave a sweet SAVIOR in his mouth.
PEOPLE have suspected before that something
of this sort was working in Mr. Waterbury
tage in q few thousand less words. Some
of the least tedious parts of Mr.. Waterways
epstle are gwen elsewhere. His statements
about the Irving Hall assessments are really
entertaining. If they could be verified beyond
question, they might be considered even
little startling. But on the whole the letter
tends to confirm the impression that MI.
Waterbury's belief that wisdom will die
with him is confined to Mr.. Waterbury,
When Judge Lynch sets up his court on the
eastern borders of Pennsylvania 1t is time Tor
the decorous civilization of the Middle States
to open its eyes. If the scene which was
enacted near Bethlehem yesterday had come
TO us as a story of rude justice In the mining
regions of California or of Southern 1mpetu-
osity, the newspaper reader would have passed
it by in comfortable nOnchalance. But to learn
that in one of the most sedate OF the Eastern
commonwealth a mob dragged mufderer
from the very side of clergyman to whOm
he had lust confessed his crime, and from the
hands of the officers of the law, and hanged
him on a tree, is a sharp reminder that the
lawlessness of a swift anger is never quite
civilized out of men. The persons who joined
in this act of murder sinned not only against
knowledge, but in spite of opposition. The
law officers made desperate resistance. There
can be no extemuating circumstances III sucn
n crime as this AGAINST society, and IT Is 10 ne
regretted that the participants III 1t cannot be
punished as they deserve.
I,ottery-dealers have felt the mild terrors OF
the law in the United States Circuit Court
| clerks were convicted of sending lottery CIR
| culars through the mails, and Ill all but two
cases, in which appeals were taken. fines were
collected with costs. This is the severest pun
! ishmont. unfortunately, which the statute
| under which these prosecutions were brought
allows. Mr. Fiero's account of the slow pro-
| gress that has been made in bringing LOTTERIES
| within the pale Of the law is suggestive, IN a
| measure. of the influence welded by the friends
of certain Southern lotteries IN Southern
Congress 1t took a special effort to get the
word " illegal out of the statute, and SO with
draw the protection of the Government from
lotteries claiming to be legalized. 1t must now
take another effort 10 amend the law 50 that
thee shall be penalty of imprisonment as
well as a fine. Mr.. Fiero made the attempt
al the last session. but those redoubtaOle
warriors of ,he past and big lottery chiefs OF
the present, General Early aud General Beam
regard met him befora the Committeeman
the Committee took no action. But our home
prosecuting officers do not rest under this
embarrassment. Lottery dealings constitute
misfemeanor under the laws OF this State,
nunislablc with Imprisonment as well as fine.
An increase in the number OF sentences 10
the PcnitcntaIy would have wholesome
effect on the lottery trace.