New-York tribune., 1883-12-20

| WlJH something ike contempt. lJS INNING
camps die out /; Leadville, for instance, is moi
what it was. Nevada came into the Union g
| silver State, and a man need not be very rich to
own the whole State to-day. Mines get exhaust
ed. The development which rests upon mines
| as basis is uncertain But Colorado can do
better; its agriculture will make the State rich
long after its mines have fallen to secondary
Importance. Yet at present Colorado thinks
| silver mining q matter Of life and death.
| The Democratic Senators had rather poor success
in their attempt to exhibit themselves as the only
genuine Civil Service Reformers. With vacancy to
fill and q competent official to restore to his place.
whom the Democrats had turned out the Republi-
cans certainly had good case, so far as Reform
principles are concerned respecting two Of the
moro important of the offices. And if the Democrats
in favor Of the introduction Of permanent tenure
In legislative ooes-a point which is open to some
questiOn-they should prove their sincerity In
actions not in words.
The State of New-York has an Indian problem on
its hands in the shape of the Onondaga tribe, once
the head of the proud IroquOis oOnfederacy. and
now peaceful dwellers in the neghborhOOd of Syra-
cuse. The last Legislature took steps to bring
about division Of the land constituting the ODon-
daga Reservation, and to the tribe, if pOssi-
BILE, from a condition which is alleged to be
strangely degraded, in spite of the cvlizng infu-
ences that surround them. 1t is stated that the
tribe are divided according to their manners and
morals regarding the proposed treaty, the Christian
element, which has bare majority, favOring
it, while the element which adheres to Indian tra-
dtions, and has acquired a worse than Indian inn
morality, objects to it. Care has been taken, ap-
noroutlt hot ba Tudiauc eIoII po4 ho ada ba
victims of spectators or sharpers, as 80 many
tribes have been who have been dealt with in the
manner by the General Government. A divi-
sion in seyeralty of the whole or part of the thou
sand acres composing the reservation is provided
for under such conditions that it shall be forcverin
alienable and unaxable The credit of the State Gov
crnmcnt is involved in this matter, it is declared
that the annuity to each man. woman and child has
placed premium upon immortality. Utah is civil
lied and yirtuOus community by comparison, if
what is said OF the Onondaga Indians be true, and
the State seems to have difficult task before it,
The weathcr-wise VennOr once again. He tells the
children Of men that the red skies which have
delighted them Of late are to be regarded as the
indices of warm weather for the next two months.
He may be right but he must admit that the walk
ing yesterday was not too suggestive of streets
that had become what you might call parched by
over-wam weather
Still the war of rumors IN Wall Street continues
The hostile parties lombard each other with yarns
the Bear party protesting certainty that all the
mills and mines and merchants are going to the
dogs and that all tho railroads going to commit
suicide for the sole benefit of speculators. while the
Bull party insists that everything and everybody
in the country is prosperous and that all apparent
quHrrols are going to DO settled this afternoon.
Touching the Western pool for instance, one party
says that the contest cannot be settled and that
the Burlington and the Northwestern roads are
going TO build lines tapping the Union and Kansas
Pacific in every direction from Ogden TO Omaha,
having already sent surveying parties out for
several new roads. This Is dreadful-if true. But
the other party whispers that those Western freight
agents even now secretly peTfecting the new
compact which will suddenly be made public and
adopted before any wretched bear has chance to
cover 1t is also stated apparently with some
authority, that the Wabash and Missouri Pacific
companies will join tho Union Pacific in the new
pool but this the Bear party pronounce rot" 1t
is also "authOritatively stated" that President
Dillon will resign ut Union Pacific meeting to-
day, and this interesting statement is fatty denied
at the Office of the company. "YOu pays your money
and you takes your choice" said the Snowman.
Democratic National Convention will not be held
until August. That will be pretty late Still there
will be time enough between August and Novem-
Der for the party to organize the defeat that |
awaits 1t.
If report from Philadelphia is correct, the East
ern trunk line pool has difficult matter to settle
The report is that General Freight Agent Wilson de-
clares that the Pennsylvania Railroad will take a |
firm stand against further concessions to rival |
lmes.' That means the West Shore, which has ap- |
piled for admission to the pool, and of course for
large slice of the traffic II any slice is to be given
somebody now in the pool must suffer. But if the |
will make no concessions, the Balti-
more and Ohio, being still further from the new
line and less affected by it, will doubtless take tho
same course Then the Erie will say not unnatur-
ally our Western business will not be affected by
the addition of new line close to the New-York
Central" But the latter road quite sure TO refuse
10 make all the sacrifices which must be made in
,rder to Introduce the West Shore road into the
happy family. 1t will reason that it is equally im-
)ortant to all the roads to avoid a general war Of
ates. Thus the differences do not seem altogether
If the Pennsylvania will make no
more concessions.
A dispatch from Bristol, Conn.,, ruthlessly gives
he name of n man who committed suicide Li He'd
wO of ms children and made two Others and a SER
,ant very sick by living in a house Of which tho
iuk-pipes cmpued into tightly covered cesspool.
f the physicians Of NewYork should begin to print
What they know Of deaths from similar causes,
here would be a wrctched time for great many
landlords and tenants.
BY way of continuingour citations of Democratic
regarding Democratic tendencies in the
SOUTH we give this card, which Judge r. F. NAYS
# Botetourt County, Virginia, says was recently
addressed to him:
Judge II. =. Mays This Il TO notice you that you must
cave this county IN ayc days. The Democratic party of
his county Is determined that Republican official shall
Old office In this county and no Radical shall live here
nd vote here You therefore ordered resign your
Nice and leave the county, suffer the penalty reg-
ltors shall nact. We In earnest so take warning
TEN