New-York tribune., 1885-07-17

with his thumb to his nose and his fingers wigglins
in the air at the Independents. Monfort Of Pough-
keepsie was also put into Office He was also unfit
for Governmental confidence But Monfort had no
backing and was obnoxious to the Dutchess County
machine. Both were bad appointments, but ono
was politically desirable while the other
political blunder. And, therefore, the one endures
while the other is pitched overheard. Let us fill
another beaEer to the advancing tide Of reform!
Some of our Brooklyn readers complain that we
have been treating Mayor Low with too great i'm
dnlgence. Well, il We had had the contract for
regulating his statesmanship last year. we wo1ld
baye succeeded better than he did himself. We
are very positive upon that point. But he has
made an excellent Mayor aud is a very sincere
man, Lot bygones be bygones, and let us all
recognize good motives when they exist. Our
critical Brooklyn friends ought to remember that
there Is too much work for Republicans to do this
to leave any one leisure for spite and resent
mcnt.
AS the trial OF Riei approaches many sensational
reports being spread about to the revelations
that will be made 1t is intimated that many white
men occupying responsible positions ere implicated
in the ate halfbreed rebellion, and that their CON-
plicity will be shown by the defence. This kind of
L
that Canadians OF the same strips the Americans
who fomcnt Indian wars for speculative purposes
may have given Riel some backing. just now tho
Dominion partisan organs are each trying to make
1t appear that the other side supplied Reps backers
but evidence Of the slightest value has hitherto
been produced. Ii is probable that the plea of in
| sanity will be urged Oh behalf OF the prisoner, and
| his diary, now being published in instalments by
Toronto paper, contains plenty Of matter well cal
| culated 10 strengthen the ploa 1t fortihes the
| theory that he is religious monomaniac, though
come uncharitablc people suggest that he prepared
| 10 carefully with special view TO the production
of that effect. If he did he is an uncommonly
| shrewd fellow.
One ought not to be critical when o London
journal dcyotes column on the Fourth OF July to
an historical survey of the United States But why
does SO well informed Journal as The Daily 1ete-
| qraph get its facts from an Atlas Of the World
| rather than from some standard work of American
| hstoryi little care would have prevented q
dozen or more lndcrous in the coarse of the
column, pleasant reading asst IS FOR American read
ers Aaron Burr was not Vice-Presldent in 1903,
| but George Clinton; nor was George Clinton wee
President in 1913. but Elbridge Gerry and after
his death John Gaillard. Marin Van Buren,. not
John &. Calhoun was Vice-Presiden in 1885. and
| began. These and other of date and fact
ought not to have found a place in so amiable aid
! Hattering review OF American progress.
| The defeat of the New-York League Club at the
| Polo Grounds yesterday an unpleasant surprise
for the friends of the home club The Boston victors
| had been buletIned everywhere a team OF
| crppIes and Is they had not up TO yesterday won
a single gamo from the local club. the friends OF the
latter thought that it would easily score q victory.
Baseball. however!s VIGOROUSLY uncertain, and the
Boston nine played in much better form than usual.
| The sentence Of Bernard Carney-ten years IN
State prlson-pronounced yesterday in the Courtof
General Sessions, is clearly inadequate, though un-
der the law the court could not infct heavier
penalty. This man murdered his brother brutally,
hut somehow escaped with Il light term OF imprison-
| ment On coming ont he tried TO butcher his wife,
stabbing her thirteen times. Ii is this crime for
| which he has Just been sentenced. He has openly
and IN the most determined way expressed his In
| lention Of consummating the murder OF his wife
when his term Is ont, and as he Is thorough rui-
| Gan. il is highly probable that he means what he
SAYS and that il his wife Is living when he Is dis
| charged and he can find her, he Will execute his
| threat Such a wretch ought 10 have been sen-
fenced TO life imprisonment though it would have
been still better could ne have been hanged for the
| murder Of his brother