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New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

win probably run ahead Of the rest Of the ticket In The
western part Of the State owing to the bitter hostility
felt toward State Treasurer Maxwell by thousands Of
Democratic voters In that section Of the State Mr..
Sexton will of course also receive largo In the
counties surrounding his home In Central New-Yo
The Palmyra Journal FrOm all that we can learn
the chances that Plny T. Sexton will receive tho
largest vote ever given Republican In Wayne CounV
The best oft all Ia that he thoroughly deserves IT,"
Senator Bnncus, the Democrat who was acciA
dentay elected to represent the XyIIh District ID
1882 can neither be coaIed driven into accepting
denomination. Twice the Democratic Senatorial Conven-
ton has nominated him and twice he has decnedJ NOS
could an offer OF the Democratic State Committee to bear
MS campaign expenses tempt him. In letter tuss
printed rom him TO the Senatorial Convention he states
that Ill health and the condition Of his business make
Impossible Tor him to accept nomination. He did n0y
add another more fOrcibe reasOn that 10 Is plain that
no Democrat can defeat the popular Republican candt-
date, James Askel, OF CanajOharie.
The dissensOn among the Democrats OF
Buffalo and this city causes the Democracy of the inte
riOr poignant anguish. Yet the ant-machine Demo-
cratic newspapers are secretly delighted over the prospect
Of Republican victory This is plainly perceptible In
the following comment Of The Rochester Union and AGpe-
tize, on the Buffalo QUARREL "Our Buffalo Democratic
contemporary The Courier, IS equal to the situation
With calmness courage and Judicial pose ID thus cass-
cay renders the legend of the old lady whose
had tussle with the bear. and defines its position:
T,Os T1iusQae lihf nuk0 disfDne Ggeir That Is all
very WELL so far the Trojan and the Tyrian
legislative and Judicial tickets In this emulation OF the
KILKENNY p0fSlO
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

"SHUT UP,n AND h REPENTANT SINNEh'
We are pleased to see that The Herald has recoV-
cred its balance sufficiently to accept in proper
spirit our recent exhortation. Having provoked
challenge to compare gains in circulation, and be"
ing unable to show up" it has shut up" This
is sensible, and we extend our congratulations
The Sun improves the occasion to declare " bets
on circulation" every unnecessary and very
foolish" and also childish and unbecoming
metropolitan journals" We fully concur; and are
particularly glad to note this confession and re-
pentance of old and hardened sinner as Inc sum-
On August @, 1879, and for fortnight thereafter,
The Sun was engaged in offering, over and over
again. to bet a thousand dollars with The Herald Oh
comparative circulatiOn,-the bet to be decided oy
Erastus Brooks, George Jones and David NJ. Stone,
and the winner of the bet to pay the proceeds to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. So bent was our con-
temporary on this foolish" and "unbecOmlng"
and childish" business that it reprinted its Oiter
to make this bet with The Herald day after day, at
the head Of its editorial columns. 1t has taken five
years to bring The San to its present contrtte and
repentant state bat we still rejoice over its CONVEX
sion. While the lamp holds out, etc.
But the man who seeks forgiveness for the sin OF
betting, by professions of a change of heart,
must not Immediately proceed to bear false witness
against his neighbor the latter end of that man
may be worse than the first. The Sun says that The
TRIBUNE offers to make bet with The Herald
There is not word of truth in that. THE
TRIBUNE offered to unite with The Herald in the
selection of an impartial committee to ascertain and
report the exact facts only this and nothing
We await The Suns further confession and
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

ACivil Engineer to be good State Engineer
needs honesty, intelligence, ,carcfulncssandS skill
He has no particular Of aviyid imagination
1t is, indeed, often drawback rs the Albany
letter which we print this morning shows
if to be in the case of Mr.. Elnathan Sweet
the Democratic candidate for State Engineer
For instance, take the testimony which Mr. Sweet
gave in behalf of Dcnison Bcldcn and others
who sued the State to recover money for certain
work they claimed to have done on the
canals. This imaginative engineer admitted
under cross examination that the diagrams
which he had drawn were fancy sketches y :;
that he did not follow exact dimensions y; and
that he exaggerated facts Now a iaclIe
imagination. such as Mr.. Sweet apparently
possesses, is lovely thing in poet OF an
artist; but we think that practical citizens who
want hard facts, exact dimensions and trust
worthy diagrams where an expenditure OF
public money is concerned will conclude, after
reading the letter referred to, that Mr.. Sweet Is
not the man we want as State Engineer OF
Nayr- Norl,
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27
amnsemenis Co. Might.

AoApENY OF MUsIo-2-" La Sonnambula"
AMERICAN ISsTrTUTB-Exhibition. ,u.,
i3uIY BRCH's OPERA HOUsE-2 and S-Mnstreis
C.sNo--2 and g." The Princess OF IreDzonue. ,.No,
CosMopoIITAN THEATRR-230 and S-Pr0iessOr bartnol
omew's Educated Horses. ,,,.s o..oy
DALY's THEATRE-2 and Sl5-" dollars ana Sense'
WsnSsoS sonHRF THE ATRE-2 and s:30"The Rajah."
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, sn,,, aust
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-Art EXnlDluOn'.
NEW PARK THEATRE and S-Mnstrels
SnIo,s a IRDFN-2 and g." Excelsior" . . 49,
ETbSDsRD THEATRE-2-" Le Ceur ct La Main" :" g." Les
Cloches de COmeville" ,,,,,
srIR THEATRE-2 and g." Francesca da Rimni" , 9,
irHriTRE COMIQUE-S-"The Mulligan Guard Plchc'
THAIIA THEATRE and S-Gestinger. - -,
IJSION SQUARE THEATRE-2 and S-"The cricket Oh inc
Hearth" - ,
WAiIACK's THEATRE and.s-" Moths"
I'D AVENUE THEATRE-2 and S-"Se OF Ice $780,,
5TH AVENUE THEATRE and 8" The DUKES NloIIo'
l4TH STREET THEATRE and s." Fedora
23D STREET THEATRE and g." Rcheneu"
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27
POINTS FOR COrRT OF INQUIRY.

POINTS FOR 4 tOtEI OF INPtIhl'
An important witness before q court OF inquiry III
the case of Lieutenant Darlington, If one be organ
iled. will be Captain Pike. sailing onicor of the Pro-
tcus. The St. Johns Ercng Mercury in publishing
his diary of the voyage and the retreat makes very
important statement, apparently upon his author
ity. II holds Licutcnant Darlington entirely re-
sponsiblc for the wreck of the ProtcuS. 1t states
that when tho vessel reached Cape Sabine after
passing Littlcton Island. Captain Pike was anxious
to remain in harbor until the lee IN Smith Sound
should be broken up, but that Lieutenant Gar
linrton cSpicd lanes of clear water north ana m
sisted upon going ahead. The Protcus wa, pushed
into the ice in obedience TO Lieutenant Garlngtons
orders, and on the next day sent to the bottom
Twenty four hours after the wreck the caSaWays
had the modification of seeing clear track north
ward the lee having passed away, as Captain flke
had Anticipated This is the statement made by
The LreaRg Mercury and the conjecture is also haz-
ardcd that if the Proteus had remained in harhor
onc day longer and not been ordered by Lieutenant
Darlington to push ahead she would probably have
succeeded in penetrating Smith Sound and reaching
Lady Franklin Bay Allowance must be made for
local prejudice in Newfoundland, which would nat
urally be in Captain Pixies favor, but If these
charges have becn made upon his authority and are
warranted by the facts of the case Lieutenant Gar
lugon will have to be held responsible for tho loss
of the vessel as well as for the failure to open the
winter station.
1t is only fair to add that Captain Pike in his
diary referring to the events of the day in question,
does not state that he was ordered by Lieutenant
Darlington to push ahead against his own Judgment.
He merely refers TO the Lieutenant rs going on
shore at Cape Sabine aud reporting open water to
the northward upon his return. Two members of the
Protcus crew. however, in letter published in the
journal already mentioned make this important
statement: "Finding opening whatever, the
Captain came to anchor in Payer Harbor, with the
intention of remaining there for several days, or
until the ice should have passed out of the Sound
Returning from the cache ON Cape Sabine, where he
had been to examine the stores, and suppOsng that
he saw water sufficient for the ship to the north
the Lieutenant regardless of the advice and
remonstrance OF the Captain must leave the harbor
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

We had occasion yesterday to point ont that
if the tax-rate in Brooklyn is higher for the
" resent year than formerly, the fault Is not
Mayor Lows. An article printed on another
page of THE TRIBUNE this morning contains
statistics and facts which emphasize our asser-
ton. The increase is due entirely to causes
beyond Mr.. Lows control. The increase III the
State tax, for instance, adds ten cents to the
rate; besides this there are the increased
county taxes fixed by the Board OF county
Supervisors, and the interest on the Bridge
bonds, not heretofore put in the tax levy
These two items add ten cents more to the RATE
Deducting these twenty cents, the tax rate lor
this wear is 81 3S, which is the same as that oil
two years ago, and is the lowest in twenty years
except last year-the first year OF Mr.. Low 5
administration. We have said nothing about
the improved condition of Brooklyn, It's de-
creased debt and its better credit. Inc
statistics given above are sufficient. No lntelil-
gent resident of Brooklyn can read them and
then say honestly that Mr.. Lows record in re-
spcct to taxes is not absolutely unaSsalahle
Talkative Democrats must seek other argu-
mcntS against him.
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

parent. Moreover, teachers and pupils controi
few votes. What did it matter, therefore
whether or not they were properly treated IL
matters good deal, as every intelligent, think
ing citizen of New-YOrk realizes. The ochooi
Commissioners have asked next year 1or no
more than will be required. We need more
school-houses and many repairs in Old ones
And the teachers are not over-paid.
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

and put into the ce The Lieutenant stated that ne
saw water to the north and unless the Captain put
into IT he should not consider him as performing his
duty to the people at Lady Franklin Bay, OF the
United States Government" The facts OF the case
ought to be officially determined by competent tri'
huna1
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

The principal point in the address Of Lord
ColeIidgc to the Yale College students yesterday
was his reference to the study of the classics
He disclaimed any wish to criticisc anybody ;
but what he said was practically a direct reply
to the recent Grafton of Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams, jr. Lord COleridge said he owed what
ever of success in life he has attained to the
constant study of Latin and Greek. This is
personal testimony, of course, but coming from
such source it must be considered as strong
Moreover, the other arguments which Lord
COleridge advanced were fOrcible and well put
In this controversy at present the classics are
decidedly ahead.
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

The Democratic electors of the Ist District
will hardly be pleased with the kind of in
dorsement" which District Attorney Benjamin
w. Downing, their candidate for the State
Senate, has received from a Democratic Gov
ernor. MIR. Downing was removed from his
position yesterday for malfeasance in Office
His crime consisted in receiving two checks as
an inducement to prosecute prisoner for muir
der instead of manslaughter. 1t remains to be
seen whether the Democrats of Queens
County have sufficient self-respect to ask Mr.
Downing to withdraw from the canvass or so
little that they will try to elect him as evidence
that they approve bribery and corruption.
New-York tribune., 1883-10-27

1t is to be hoped that the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment will consider the estimates of
the Board of Education for next year in an
entirely bipartisan spirit. This has not always
been done within the last few years. TO make
show of saving in the city's expenses the
Democratic members of the Board have too
often tried to cut down the appropriation asked
for. Such reduction hurt no political pets
or projects. 1t only hurts the public school sys
tenn and the damage is not Immediately ap-
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-01-27
ras 1ABoRJye MANS SABBATH.

No more important bill has been intro
duced into the present session of the Legis-
lature than that in the House which proposes
TO secure the laboring men of Indiana from
the exactions of avaricious employers. 1t
simply proposes, by suitable penalties, to
require the man of wealth, or the corpora
tion whose managers can rest every day, to
allow the men who make their wealth to rest
one day in seven. 1t appeals to no religious
consideration, but is simply one of those
wholesome police arrangements which looks
only to the physical welfare of those who
need this protection. Times have changed.
Within the memory OF many every man was
his own master. and men could work or not
on any given day, but by the concentration of
wealth in the hands of the few, or OF corpora
tions, more than half of the men who work
now sustain to their work the relation of an
employe. 1t requires but little observation
to discover that the interest of these corpora
tions or men of wealth requires that their
fires never go out or their wheels never stop.
The result is that thousands upon thousands
of the laboring men of the country are
driven, at the top of their speed, three hun
dred and sixty-five days in the year, until,
overcome by incessant toll, they fall into
untimely graves or premature decrepitude,
But will it pass2 Probably not. 1t has
come to pass that little legislation is done
without the management of outside in1u-
ences, and the men for whose special bene-
fit this measure is proposed are on the roads
or in the shops, and cannot
employ lobbyists in their behalf,
while the representatives of the
monopolies are on hand in force. The meas
ure is in the hands of competent commit
tee, but it is not difficult to influence that
committee, and the report that they recon-
mend "that the bill do not pass is so easy
way to dispose of such measures that this re-
port may be expected at any time, and
another two years, and probably ten years,
must be devoted to endless toll We hope
there are men in the Legislature who will
watch this bill. and at least require those
who oppose it to tell why. If they secure its
passage they will deserve the thanks of that
army of laborers who know no Sabbath.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-01-27

it explained whether this is to include
the feminine wiles and the graces of toilet
practiced upon the unwary youth since the
days of Solomon. If So and the bill becomes
a law, the result will be social revolution,
the plaudits of enfranchised male Hoosiers,
In the meantime and in their remaining day
of grace, the designing women are free to
compel any person to marry without fear of
fine or imprisonment, and single men have
no recourse. The Anazonian legion should
make hay while the sun mines.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-01-27
BREAKFAST CHAT.

PRESIDENT PORTER, of Yale College, is seventy
three years old, and he has been in Office thir-
teen years. He says he renews his youth by as
socation with young minds.
Miss KATE FIELD, whose loss by the Co-opera-
tive Dress Association has been so heavy, will,
it is said, re-enter the lecture field in the spring.
She is deserving of sympathy aud encourage
ment
GEBHARDT Is furious because new scarf pin
has been named the "Fretdie" The design is a
little gold jaekass draw wing u cart, on which are
spelling aud copy books and choice assortment
of grammars.
MIR. GEORGE W. CHILDs's country residence at
Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia, is perfect
ample of Queen Anne villa. 1t is built of red
brick on a knoll in the midst OF far-reaohing,
rolling landscape, and furnished throughout in
the interests of truest comfort.
THE Cainese are greatly exercised over the
appearance of two comets last year. and dread
some terrible national calamity, such as pesti-
icnce, famine, war, etc. An imperial decree has
been issued advising the people and rulers so to
comport themselves as to avert the wrath of
heaven.
PROVIDENCE woman over sixty-nine years
of age always stands on the front platform of
the car with the driver. regardless of cold or
storm. talks horse like professional, and is
greatly offended Ii the driver stops the car to let
her off, preferruR to show her agility by hopping
off like sprightiy boy.
THE famous pianist, DIR. Hans Won Bulow, has
lately become inmate of an insane asylum.
Piano-forte playing, when carried to the extent
necessary to make the work of an artist perfect,
causes great nerve exhaustion, and a good
ply sical constitution ia what is absolutely re-
auired aud is what Won Bulow did not possess
Kate, the beloved wife of Professor vanHare,
formerly famous equestrienne, after long but
painful illness, took her last and final leap with
out fear or excitement, on the 21st ultimo we
hope to better world. where envy and ambition
are unknown. Inferred (27thl at the brompton
Cemetery"
THOSE who get their Impressions of Italian
opera from $40 seats can scarcely realize the
fact that the great Mimic Hauk spends her time
while travelling In y Pullman car washing her
stockings in the wash bowl aud drying them on
a nat rack When it was gently hunted to her
that her feet were hardly good other peo-
pies faces, she merriy replied, with disdan-
full shug of the shoulder, "Eendeed."
MR.. JAMES MURPHY, of Lowellville O., was
the youngest prisoner ever confined in Ander-
sonyille prison. He enlisted at the age of ten
years as q drummer boy in company f. Forty
eigth Pennsylvania volunteers, and was cap
tured at warrenton, Va, May 9, 1894 He was
prisoner for eleven months. during which time
he was the boy pet of his companions in dnrance
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-01-27

vile. He told thrilling tale OF the hardships &c
Andersonville at tho q. A. r. encampment ae
Youngstown, the other day, in which he said the
horrors Of that prison have never been half told.
GENERAL CHANzY's widow will, 1t Is an.
nonnced, receive In addition to a pension grand
bureau de tabac. This is by means
common method OF rewarding faithful public
servants and their widows and orphans in
France; for the sale of tobacco being under State
control, as We sits growth and manufacture.
only certain number of shops are allowed and
they must be far enough apart to make the pro-
prietorship of each substantially profitable.
ONE of the noblest workers of the age is Miss
Leigh, known as the "Englishwonians good
angel in Paris" In 1872 she established a homs
for young and unfriended women. Since then
the home has grown to include an orphanage. q
church and parsonage, mission hall, Young
Woman's Christian Association, a Young Mems
Institute, free registry, kindergarten and In
fant school, and o sanitarum In this great
work Miss Leigh and her lady associates act vol
unfairly.
THE state apartments at Hampton Court Pal
ace are again open to the general public, but q
nrst view of them after the fire revealed many
signs of the peril they had been in. The tapes
try was dried, though not rehuug and looked
none the worse for its saturation. In the closet
OF George III, the Kings closet, anC the private
chamber OF George II, the oak paneling had
been removed to let the walls dry. The painted
ceiling in the Queens bedroom, a fine work Of
art, was drying satisfactorily.
GUsTAvE DoRE was lover of music. His
voice was a rich baritone, and he played on the
piano, flute, guitar and violin, and had many
musical evenings in the Rue Dominique and the
Rue Bayard. He went to the theater often es-
pecially on first nights, and was regular at
tendant at the opera. He a brunette-dark-
eyed, daTk-haired. When jested upon his cei-
bacy he said, referring to his mother and his art
"What would you 'havsf 1 am already twice
married. Must man be a Turk to prove that
he Is Of domestic turnf"
THE London Athen8um. in reviewing "Dr.
GrimshRwes Secret" says: "Mr. Julian Haw-
thorne tells us In the preface that he considers
the story, as story, complete as it stands; IL
has beginning, al middle and an end; and he
thinks that, though the parts Overlap there is
real unity In the whole This Judgment, or
want of Judgment, is simply wonderful There
Is no cohesion whatever between the parts, and
the second part sometimes becomes absolutely
unmeaniEg. The first part is written In Haw-
thorne's most careful style, though even there
we lind much that needs correction and re-
vision. The second part Is full of inconsistent.
cies and extravaganees We fail to see the mid.
die OF the story, and there is no end at ALL"
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-01-27

drum corps to drive the people to frenzy,
nor a lot of eccentric female tambourinists
to incite ridicule. If, in these later davs of
advanced intelligence and of facilities for
disseminating Christian knowledge, few
crochety individuals insist on beating the
tomtom and sounding the hewgag in the
name of religion, they will probably be
tolerated, though causing much inconven-
fence and distress to less pious people and
shame to those who really revere religion.
But the concession should be mutual. If A
suffering public kindly permits what it can
but deem senseless accretion to practical
evangelization, the men and women who
perpetrate the barbarism should reciprocate
by charitably ignoring any little criticisms
that may be INDUCED in by a patient and
long-sufferng public that fails to appreciate
the benefits to be derived from this pam
demonium of uncanny and despair-inducing
sounds. Instead of appealing to the courts
of New Jersey, they would better at once
carry their case to the Great Judge whose de-
cisions are never reversed.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-01-27

1t says the liberal element now in the Dem
ocratie ranks is not disposed to leopard the
present commanding position OF the Demo
cratic party; but the party, by being too
ready to submit the amendments to either
general or special election, may ALLEVIATE
the liberal element The Telegraph wants
no submission of any kind 1t intimates
that any msmanagement of this matter by
the present Legislature may estrsnge the
liberal element from the party and leave it
the Republicans will rejoice in signal vic
tory
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-01-27
The Germans and the Amendments.

Under the caption Of "rhe Crisis" the German
Telegraph OF the Oath refers to the pending dis
cussiOn OF the constitutional amendments in
the Legislature. 1t warns the Democracy against
the lack of backbone in preventing submission
of any kind, as follows:
"Let none of the Democratic members of the
Legislature forget under whatever crcum-
stances, and under what promises his election
was obtained, that on his action the fate of the
Democratic party depends. He has either to
follow he 'muckers' or the liberal element. He
can do the Republicans no greater favor than
when he declares himself for submission. That
would be the sureSt way to estrange the liberal
element from the Democratic party. That party
may say TO itself that it don't care about the
vote of the Dutch, but it will do aJ the cost of
its neck. According to the Ohio experience
should the gentlemen shape themselves. II they
do not. then they will feel the consequences"