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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-08
Aem'2lork Daily grib1aae.
FoUND BY RACE GREELEY
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1881.
The NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Jesse Ceilings NJ. p, has been COM
peled to resign the presidency of the Federation of
Liberal Associations because of his Irish SYM
patlles. - The Tunisian town of Sfax
has been bombarded by French war vessels. -
Prince Bismarck has written in friendly tone to
the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. - Mr.
Gladstone spoke the silver question Parliament
last evening.
DOMEsTIC-The Presidents condition yesterday
was such as further to encourage the hope that he
viii live. 80 Two ballots were taken in the Leg
islative Joint Convention at Albany yesterday
without any significant change of votes. - The
Republican conference last evening issued call for
q caucus to be held after the Joint Convent n
to-day. = The State Senate in Committee
of the Whole considered the Railroad Com
mission bill. a fire at Cincinnati caused
. loss of 100000. - At Rangely Me-,
accident at the raising of u building caused in
jury to number of workmen - The Rev. Dr.
G. w. Hosmer is dead. - Checkmate, Onondaga
Thora One Dime, Vampire, Sioux and Bertha won
the Long- Branch races Hindoo had walR-over
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Many meetings to express
sympathy with he President were held yesterday a
fund for the benefit of Mrs. Garfield is being raised
- District-Attomey WoodfOrd refused to issue
q warrant for Collector Merritts arrest &C.
delegation of laborers from the City Departments
called upon the Mayor to ask him to
use his influence to obtain higher wages for
them. - Professor Draper has made some very
successful observations of the comet. - Gold
value of the legatender silver dollar 412i2 grains
$3.50 cents. - Stocks opened higher but later
were dull and generally lower, closing irregular
THE WEATHER-IRIBUNE local observations in
dictate partly cloudy and cloudy weather, with
slight changes III temperature and occasional light
rain. Thermometer yesterday: Highest $50; low
est, CO. average, 1852.
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HINTS, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
COMETS TAILS.

To the EdttOr OF The Tribune.
SIR: In your editorial of to-day, under the
head Of " The New Comet" you say: No theory,
instance, has yet been offered which satisfactorily ex
plains the phenomena OF a comets tail"
theory which have had for some years 10 account
for the comets tail is this. that the nebnIons matter
which compOses comets being Transparent or sontrans
parent acts lens and throws collected light from the
out into space proof-the tail is swavs from +,a
sun II may he o.ooooO0 miles long
iour hours round the and change direction b
II the tail composed minute particles 81 matt
or gas, II woud be lost in by is rnotio
Inc latter the nchnous mater-fhe longer NJ
the ens-ihe longer the tail This theory may poi 40
when viewed through the astronomers glasses Yours
N"-N"'N' ''''' - ioo1.
Several obvious objections to the theory hero
propounded readily present themselves First light
shining into space in the way suggested would be-
invisible. There must he minute particles to reflect
II to the eye of the observer or it would be lost
Second taisof comets do not always point from the
sun. The comet, for instance, of 1928 had two
tails one pointing in the usual direction and the
other turned almost directly toward the sun Lat
eral tails have also occasionally been seen Thus
during the three first days of March the great
comet of e43 was observed at Chill To have a lat
eral tail issuing from the original one at distance
of 100 from the head. and extending 10 a much
greater length than the other. The lens theory. it
is clear fails 10 account for these irregular AMEND
ages.-Edl
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PERSONAL.

Madame Helena Modjeska is. it is reported about
to retire altogether from the stage.
Professor Virchofi7s sixfieth birthday and the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his appointment TO his
chair at Rerlin, are to be celebrated together,
October l3. by the Medical Society of Berlin.
Mr.. Charles Stewart Parnell has two brothers
one of whom is cotton-planter in Georgia and a
Land Lacquer. while the other who owns an estate
IN Kilkenny Ireland, is a strong Conservative.
The Crown Prince of Germany takes great interest
in DIR. Schliemann's archaeological treasures. and
has inst received the Doctor at Berlin with much
graclousncss.
Prince Bismarck has given saws The london Globe
reluctant assent to the marriage of his son Herbert
to the Princess Caroath. This lady is described as
very handsome, and gifted with ali the accomplish
ments OF her race, the Hatzfeldts.
That President Garfield is above personal bitter
ness is the statement of his friend and old class
mate. Marshal Knox. Mean and vindictive things
says Mr.. Knox, have been said against him i'm the
last few months: but in all the heat of the Star
Ronte frauds, before and when Conkline resigned
and later, during the wrangle at Albany, he never
said word To me-and was much in his company
That bore suspicion of personal iil-will. The
idea never seemed TO enter his head. 1t was prinoi
pie with HIM, not spite"
The last work upon which the late young sculptor
Edward X. Thaxter, was engaged is called Absent
mindedness." Ii is TO be copied in marble though
IN unfinished state, and the copy will BE- pre-
who has been a resident of Florence for the past
three years, was dangerously i'll last winter with
malarial fever and with the hope OF regaining health
through visit to America he recently embarked on
a Mediterranean steamer. He died during the v y
age Is asserted that before the boy sculptor coud
talk plainly he continually moulded designs in mud
and clay.
General Robert Toombs is quoted by The Maoon
Telegraph saying that he has not read jefferson
Davis'S book and does not intend 10 read il. Il
do not" says Mr. Toomhs recognize Mr. Davis's
history. II would have been great deal better for
him and the South If il had never been written.
Most of the people in this country regret that it
ever written The truth is the bulk of the people
of the south pity Davis rather than admire him.
The troable with Davis was and is. that he had an
exalted idea of ms own importance. He has some
abillty, hut no nerve, and has not the slightest
capacity for managing men. He and have never
had any quarrel. and i have not a thing against
him except his follies. lie wanted my Photograph
10 Put in his book. but declined TO give il. /
didn't want my picture 20 go down to posterity in
such COsn9aIy."
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G. JIIE1U and FYESCHT.

The Presidents assassin is utterly unlike the
rcgicldes, amateur and Professional of the
present generation. He is not u malignant
revOluti0nst like llOcdcl, the Saxon tinsmith
nor an educated Socialist like Nobiling; nor Il
half-witted creature like Passanante, the
pastry cook, or like MOncasi, the Tarragonian
cooper. lie is not IA crazy loon like two of
Queen Nictoria's assailants. lie is not born
conspirator like Orsini, nor is he an ingenious
mechani"ian and self-appointcd avcnger of the
misery of Il nation like Nihilist worker in
dynamite. As close u parallel rs can be drawn
associates his name with that of Louis
Philippe's assailant. Fieschi had more inyen-
tive skill, for he succeeded in making an effec-
tive mitrailleuse with twenty gun barrels, and
he was more theatrical and atrocious i'm his
methods, choosing for the time ana place of his
diabolcal plot u public holiday with its mill
tary parade and one of the broadcast boulcvar,ls
where the pavement would be Uttered with the
dead and woundcd yet in many phases of his
character and crime he bears striking resem-
blancc to Guiteau.
The most obvious line of corrccspondence
follows the course of life of each assassin prior
to his great crime. Ficschi, like Guteau, was a
low adventure who resored to shallow frauds
and despcable devices to eke ont dishonest
Il
der of fortune in the expedition of Murat in
Calabria for the recovery of n crown, and mar
rOwly escaping Il sentence of DEATH he returned
to France to lead u wretched life as a horse
thief, forgcr, embezzler and a swindler
until his career of rank dishonesty was tempo
rarily arrested by IL sentence of ten years i'm
prisonment. When he was released he knew of
only one way to make living and that was by
his wits as Il common cheat. Going to Paris
after the Revolution of 1880, he presented to
the authorities set of forged certificates. by
virtue OF which he received a pension and en-
ployment as victim of the Legitimst Restora-
ton but he had not been long in the service of
the Government as police spy before he was
convicted OF misappropriating public money.
There was not an honest instinct in his nature.
His whole manner of life was as thoroughly
dcspicablc as that Of this wrctched creature,
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COMMANDER MINUS AN M

SIR: Yesterday while examining the beauti-
ful monuments recently erected IN Madisonsquare in
memory Of the hero Faragut my admiration Of the de-
sign and its skifu execution not little dalnpened
by The discovery of most gorgeous error in spelling
and with faint hope that it may yet remedied adj
dress this note to you.
On the et wing OF the pedesi al where the virtues and
characteristics Of the hero inscribed through tho
Ignorance earcesness OF him who welded the chiscl
1t Is noted that he was a " sagacious commander"
The style OF letter U.s. believe. Old English but the
ohography so far researches extend belongs to
no age either ancient modern, but IL simply hundcr
and, II IL be remeiiable feel that am entitled 10 the
gratitude of the artist tor thus early calling lbs fepon
10 ii. T. n R.sTt1-rr
Sing Sing. ". L., June 25 1881.
BETTER go and look again.-Edl
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GENERAL NOTES.

AS the midday mail train on the Naugatuck
Railroad began the descent OF the long wocoty grade
on Tuesday last large red fox sprang between the rails
directly in front OF the locomotive darted down tao
track The pace tremendous, but seemed TO
enjoy it, turning his head occasionally see whether he
needed to put extra spnrt. After making brill
liant race he at length gracefully withdrew the bushes
at the side of the track With defiant dirt OF his caudal
appendage.
The committee which has in charge the ar
engagements for the National reunion Of soldiers and sail
ors TO be held In Cincinnati September Ii, Is 49,
announce that all indications point large and enhu-
siasc gathering. The hearts OF the all over
the country Will be stirred by sentence in the commit
tees circular which that OF the chief features
of tie reunion will be the parade of 100000 men,
marching with the old familiar swing st keeping step
TO the music of the Union" The number Is probably
somewhat ed, bur the sentiment good one
and no doubt the parade viii be imposing spectacle
Now that the success of the Cotton EXPOSE
ton. that is Of the display ITSELF is practically assured
the Encouragement is turning his attention TO the i'm
portant question of accommodation for throngs OF
visitors who expected 1t manifest that the pres
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proportion to its weight, can bear high freight
tariff. Even the main lines in the South have
only been put into good financial condition
during the past few years, and nearly all the
short lines are seriously embarrassed. 1t would
be unwse to expect a local road in Mexico to
develop as much traffic in proportion to the
population of the section it trayerses as a road
in our Southern States.
There is another question of equal moment
to Americans who have invested money in
Mexican railroad enterprises and interesting
besides to those who have not, because it
threatens at no distant day to produce serious
diplomatic complications. VIII the Mexican
Government pay the subsidies it has agreed to
pay? United States guarantee means just
what it says, but hitherto Mexican promises
have scarcely been worth the paper upon which
they were printed. The country is a delaultcr
to a very heavy amount. She has repudiated a
large share of her public debt, and pays interest
upon only Il small part of that which she recog-
nizes as valid. She has never paid principal
or interest of the money Juarez borrowed in
this country to liberatc her from the yoke of
the Austrian Prince Macmillan, forced upon
her by French bayoncts. Her obligations to the
railroad companies already exceed four mil
lions a year Int her entire revenue is only
dttut twenty nlnllOnS, anu HtT UoNelDincHu has
get to master the problem of living within its
resources. There have been regular deficits for
the past twenty years. 1t can hardly be
doubted, in view of the deplorable state of
Mexican finances, that there viii soon he de-
fault IN the payment OF the railroad subsidies.
Then we shall hear a clamor from the owners of
the stock and bonds OF the new roads for
measures on the part of our Government to get
fNpm their money Inv 1iplauo il ur.cc,,,o "A, h,,
menace of aggression, or by assuming their
claims and balancing them against a strip of
worthless desert territory along te Arizona
and New Mexican border, as wort as was
the Gadsden purchase, for which we paid
$1O,OO0,OOO and got nothing but $4,000
square miles of sand allali and sage brush.
Perhaps our predictions of trouble are too pes
simistic, but they will do no harm if they cause
the projectors of more Mexican railroads to
look the facts of the situation squarey in the
face.
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Guiteau. who has acquired i'm Boston, New
York, Chicago, Washington, and wherever he
has lived, the reputation of being low-lived
cheat and adventurer, sneaking from one
boardng-hOuse to another without ever paying
his debts, furnishing bogus bail sureties and
signing worthless checks, collecting bills for
clients and invariably keeping what was in
trusted to him, imposing upon the charitable
impulses of Christian associations and country
congregations, borrowing and swindling
wherever he was allowed standing room for
trading upon his assurance, and wantonly
dishonest that, when all other shallow schemes
for cheating his neighbors failed, he would
even steal pair of towels from his lodgings.
The two assassins have, moreover, many
minor characteristics in common. Each has n
morbid vanity-witness Fieschi's theatrical be-
haviOr when he was guiilotined and Guiteau's
childish pride in his photographs-and each has
savage vindictiveness in rcsenting what he
considers personal grievance. The French
mans evaporation at being dismissed from the
Government service impcls him to seek ven
gcance upon the King, precisely as the Ameri-
cans disappointment in his fantastic quest for
Office leaves him frcnzied and embittered, ready
to be swayed by political excitement and TO be-
come the self-appointcd exccutioner of the de-
testable spirit of faction. Fieschi was not
Legitimist, yet all the anteccdent facts point to
the conclusion that he expected to profit ulti-
mately by Kidding France of a Constitutional
hlng whom everybody respected. In like
manner Guiteau, in his folly and desperation,
avowed his belief that he would be taken care
OF by the leaders of faction. In each case
there is such an utter absence of motive that
there would be the strongest presumption of
insanity II there were not so much method in
the madness. That shallow plea will not hold,
and neither personal resentment nor passion for
not0rety is sufficient of itself to account for
either crime.
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4 PHANTOM OTE,ST

France is no longer taken at her word in
Europe. Her dpomatists have lost their repu-
tation for plain-spcakmg and honest dealing
since their duplcity was laid bare i'm the Tu-
nissan negotiations. Then it was the best
whereas now ii is the worst that is believed of
them. Although an official denial has been
given to the statement that 10000 troops
were to be modified Immediately for service
i'll Northern Africa, the contradiction ONLY ex-
cites increduity. Ii is assumed in the Cont
mental capitals that the Republic under a most
pacific ruler is entering upon a career of for
oign adventure, that the Kroumirs this time
are Turkish soldiers, and that Tripoli is to
share the fate of Tunis. The fact that the
French Foreign Office dsrlaims an aggressive
policy and is ostensibly restricting the military
operations TO the suppression of revolt at
Sfax only strengthens the impression that the
defensive force OF the country is to be ex-
pended abroad instead Of being stored at home
for use against Germany.
The temptations which an open frontier
offers are doubly allurng when experience has
shown how easy is the course of conquest. A
few weeks after the TuniSian frontier was
crossed Bisorta occupied on the coast, the
two main stroneholls of the interior were
captured, and the French troops were at the
gates of the Capital. Another campaign of as
many weeks might extend the base of The
army of conquest to the borders of Egypt.
The south coast of the Mediterranean from
Gibraltar 10 the mouths of the Nile, would be
brought directly under French influence.
There ia something in this conception which
may touch the imagination OF IL volatile
nation. 1t is much easier to shift
the eastern frontier in Africa than it is to re-
conquer Metz. Opportunities for action open
OF Themselves. The Trpoi Arab would have
made convenient Kroumir if the Sultan had
not dispatched Turkish troops to the frontier; and
the protection which NJ. RouSian stands pledged
to extend to every 1unisian trader on the coast
would he an excellent pretcxt for an advance
of the garrisons. Already il is reported that
the Sultan has heaped rcproachcs upon the
French Minister and that the insult has been
taken up with resentment and menace by the
Paris press. PreteXts will not be wanting if
the Government are bent upon following the
phantom Of Eastern conquest over the shifting
sands. The worst of it is that the quest will
not be accounted idle and mischievous by all
classes in France, where there are many signs
of the spread of chauyinism.
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SILVER COINAGE ABROAD.

The kilograms from Europe bring into clear
light the difficulties which attend the None
tary Conference. Some expressions by Minis
ter Lowell had been construed as sgnifyinc
the readiness of the United States to mite
with other nations in the coinage of silver at
the French ratio of 15l2 to /, provided n
measure OF aid were given by the Bank of
England and by Germany. From the dis
patches, we infer that it was understood that
the vital point-the acceptance of silver coin.
as legal tender INTERCHANGEABLE with gold at
a fixed ratiO-w not insisted upon as q con-
dition of unlimited coinage by the United
States. Application was made by the British
Treasury to the Bank of England, based upon
the supposed willingness of the United States
and France to open their minis to unlimited
silver coinage. The Bank was necessarily con-
suited, because its acceptance or rejection of n
particular kind of money would practically de-
termne the status of that kind of money in the
London market, and the London market pract-
cally controls the exchanges of the Western
World. We have parallel case in New-York.
Ii the associated banks of this city would under
take to receive silver coin at par in deposits, no
tradesman or wholesale dealer would hesitate
to accept any amount of such coin that would
probably be offered. The banks would then
take all the risk, and they could afford to do
so only in case similar arrangements should be
made in London and Paris or III case the Gov
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THE IRISH CLERGY.

I o he Edtfor or The Tribune.
SIR DO you think your remarks about the
priest who represented the Land League at Cork arc
quite fair Is it not true that the clergy Ireland arc
doing their utmost 90 prevent vioesoe bloodshed
and that they take part in the the League for
that prrposef IRIsuMAS
Aeic York, June 2s, 1881
This particular not raised in the article
in question. The influence of the clergy is un-
doubleday e1orted in the direction of and self
restraint in the exciting scenes enacted in their
parishes. Frequently they have succeeded In pre-
venting putting end to rioting by making
earnest appeals TO the tenants.-Ed.l
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in their blandest manner that polygamy is a
matter left entirely to the discretion of the
individual. Happily, the growing influence of
modern ideas in Utah is weakening the hold
of the poygamists, and this declaration of the
liberty of the convert, though doubtless as de-
void OF honesty as it was in the days of
Brigham Youngs sternest dcspotism, may
prove to have some unintentonal truth in it
after all