New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-15

be liable to occasional attacks of it at q time
when he take no exercise. While there
have been comparatively few tnrns of it, one of
them came yesterday, preventing him from re-
tanning his food successfully as on the day
before. To these causes the attending physi-
clans attribute the fact that the fever remained
as aigh as ON the day before.
A singular case of the laws injustice is re-
ported from Ohio. A burglar who was SELL
fenced in 1861 to twenty years. imprisonment
became insane in 1877 and has since
been inmate of lunatic asylum
Now, however, he is restored to sanity.
and it is decided that unless pardoned
he must go back to the Penitentiary and
serve the four years which he has already
served, in another way, in the insane asylum
III he had remained sane, he would have been
a free man now but for the crime of allow
ing his mind to give way he must suffer four
years additional imprisonment. This is ter
ribe warning to prisoners to keep their wits
Probably Governor Foster will see the propri-
ETY. Of interpOsing pardon.
A correspondent makes a brief and discrim-
mating review of the work accomplished by
the Bankers Convention at Niagara Falls. The
public will be little surprised, perhaps, to be
told that the bankers, who are usually men of
quick decision and few words, have been boring
one another somewhat with the length of
their papers, and thereby curtailng the dis
cussions which the great element of
value in such gatherings. Several things
OF importance, however, were accomplished.
Action was taken toward keeping all banks
throughout the country promptly informed of
frauds by confidence men or others, and a
suggestion was made of action by which the
Secretary of the Treasury can spare New
York bankers the daily labor OF shipping gold
and bankers throughout the country the ex-
pense and Inconvenience of transporting it.
There is a direct issue between the State of
New York, represented by the Commissioners
of Emigration, and the steamship lines
bringing Storage passengers to this port. The
Legislature passed an act requiring the COM
panies to pay one dollar for each immigrant
landed here, the money to go for the support
of Castle Garden and the emigrant hospital.
The companies refused to obey the law, as
sorting that it was unconstitutional There
upon the Commissioners offered to take fifty
cents head for the immigrants landed, leay-
ing the question of the validity of the statute
70 be determined in course of time by the
courts. This proposition was refused by the
steamship men for the reason, and sound
one it is too, that the Commissioners have no
right to compromise on half the tax specified
by the law. suit will now be brought by
the Commissioners to compel the payment of
the entire tax due, amounting to over $75, 600
The writer of the letter we print elsewhere
upon the moral peculiarities of the people of
Mexico has at any rate succeeded in drawing
an amusing picture. 1t would be pity to be
obliged to believe that anybody was so wicked
and INSCRIPTIONS as this writer SAYS all
the pure Mexicans are, and we can only
hope that he has reasons of his own for wish
ing to embron two friendly nationsi In war. and