New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-03

I men since attaining freedom WOuiu uo""si0'' ~
velop most valuable and instructive report caich-
lated to be of benefit to both blacks ana wni,es' anu
to all sections of the country. Doubtless the new
eensus reports will furnish valuable statistics
upon the subject of negro labor'and industry. ou.
these cannot be exhaustivesi since they cannot deti
the actual experiences tho projectors OF various
industrial schemes What is most important 10
know as of educational value, Is the truth apou'
the obstacles encountered the aid afforded the MS
takes which have been made, and the degree vi
success attained No report of the Industrial CON
dition of the Southern freedmen has been maze
since 1866. when Generals Fullerton and Steedhah
investigated the Freedmen's Bureau; and the ne"
conditions are evidently greatly changed from thoSe
of that day.
II matters little whether new administrations OF
assassinations occupy the mind OF the people INC
Indian question comes UP In season ana out VI
season. pretty much as the everlasting Niger ulu
before the war; an1 for the same reason. we nave
not done with it, and We never shall have done WIN
il until our relations with these people are a'JuSteo
on a lust rational basis. Secretary kirkWood re-
Gently suggested to TRIBUNE correspondent one OF
two methods of dealing with them, when nc l''i
proposed TO try if he remained long enough in Office
lie bases his treatment of hem on the theory tnat
the Indian is human. and amenable to precisely inc
and not an abnormal monster, to be approached
through pampering and cruelty if he were half
child and half beast. For example, the Secretary
suggests that reservation of some almost ciylized
tribe say the Omahas of Nebraska, should be
erected into county and made subject TO part OF
the laws governing white men, the Indian agent
being made county judge. The Secretary Just
Qrazes solution of the whole difficulty when he
SAYS that one of the drawbacks to Indian clylllza-
ton is the entire absence among them OF those
laws which in state of civilization protect the in
nocent, punish the guilty, and hold society to-
gether" II is not one but the principal drawback,
as The tribune has showed unnumbered times in
the last ten years. Legally, the Indian occupies
the same position in this country as horse or dog.
He has no more protection for hislfe property no
more incentive 10 lead an honest, reputable life.
We recognize the negro the ASIA lie, the foreign
convict as a man; when we place the Indian on the
same level we shall have taken the first step to-
ward a solution # all difficulties. Until that is
done all halfway, temporary expedients are as un-
meaning as kindly pat on the back TO slave
General Fremont came forward lately with plan
TO buy Southern California and ship all bad In
dians" there, with no purpose that we can see
beyond killing each other of like the Kilkenny cats.
But who viii guide the bad Indians thither
Fremont himself is hardly prepared to bell that cat
One of the relies if We may 50 call it, of the Re-
bellion is a Committee of COnfcdeTat- States Bond
holders. which meets in London and issues docu-
ments This Committee il authorized by the unfOr
tunate bondholders to receive payment in their
name and behalf. and generally to settle with those
states lately in rebellion. the only difficulty beng
that the States never had more than dubious ex-
stence and now have no existence of any kind
Whatever The Committee is clothed with fun
power to negotiate only there is nobody to nego-
tiate with. The holders may have faith and hope,
but the Confederate States are as mpersonai as
the one or the other Yet these creditors of a non
existent debtor asked by the Committee to pay
in a registration fee in hard cash. and to promise
percentage on the amount which they may recover
This last they may saciy do Ii is said that it
the announcement of the organization Of This Com
mttee which gave the bonds little lift the other
day in the London stock market. sensible man
holding these sham securities would put them in the
fire. and not care e. perpetuate such evidences of
his credulous folly. What is the use of keeping
Hope bouncing up and down in the human breast
when every bounce IS merely a mockeryi
From a Boston newspaper we learn that a clerk in
hardware shopin that city reports that within less
than two years he has sold pistols 10 six different
persons who bought them. as subsequently APP
pcared. for the purpose of self-destruction. To
thi, is appended a long story of an old gentleman
who blew his brains out with pistol bought under
the most auspicious and apparently trustworthy
circumstances. The natural consideration is that
pistols should be- sold as pOiSOns are sold-under
careful and discriminating regulations. 1t may
come to that in time. albeit it has not TO that
thus far. Anybody desiring 10 blow out his brains
can find a weapon duly chargeda at moderate price,
anywhere The whole business of selling pistols
requires a revision the precise particulars of which
il would require cevcrness to state accurately