New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-21

Mr. Holman and the members OF MS select COM
mittoo Of the House OF Representatives. who are 10
| Investigate the Indian reservations this summer
apparently expect to have one of the plcasan,cst
| jnnketing excursions of the season. The women Of
the party comprising wives and daughters-will
| 90 no further than the Yellowstone National PARK
| They are 10 remain at the Park II Otol until Mr.
| Holman and the others return from Portland and
san Francisco by way of Salt Lake City, in all OF
which places the Indians will be thoroughly in
spcctcd. There is some talk Of visiting the san
Carlo, reservation but Mr. Holman is said to object
| TO any unnecessary exposure Of his fcllow-mem-
| hers As the Apaches no reSpecters of persons
that is a wise decision. Everybody will be glad to
learn that Mr.. Holman is to have such splendid
summer trip, even if il is NJ tho National expense
Two or three months on the plains hunting bisons
las,oing wild horses and shooting grizzlies and
antclopes will strengthen his lungs so that his OBJ
lectons to any increased appropriations for letter
carriers or other oycrpaid and overled public ser
wants can be heard better in the House.
The Mahd ha9 appeared under new aspect. He
decline. to liberate his European prisoners saying
that they have no desire 10 leave HIM. and in con.
frmation of this statement he forwards letter
bearing the alleged signatures of ninotysix of them.
including Lupton Bey. asserting that they have all
embraced tho faith of Islam and that they do not
reveals an imaginative gift the part OF the Mahdi
which sho VS. him to be decidedly progressive for an
Arab OF course there is not the least ground for
believing that the letter is anything else than an
imposition, and it IL rs certain rs anything can DO
that If tho prisoners really signed it they did so
under duress. The Oriental mind, however, some
times revels in transparent deceits Of this Kind ANA
il is not 10 be assumed that the Mahd really OK
poets to be beloved. lls wanted an excuse tor not
Welding tho prisOners-who may DO all dead, ths
letter to the contrary Notwithstanding ana 50 no
concocts tho curious document. what he chIohy
fails to apprchcnd is the Western feeling toward
Mahometanlsm. 10 HIM il is a perfectly natural
idea that any person should embrace what douotcss
he regards rs the one true faith
Tho President has made up his mind that there is
rotbno the matter with Hanna. except that he is
,rcat bip man " no might suffer seriously from
three hundred miles mountain Journey in box on
nolcs strung between two mules, tho method OF
travelling which would be necessary to reach
Teheran the capital of Persia The Hooscr story
TELLER has therefore been transferred to the Argcn-
time Republic. Anything that has u silver name
even is acceptable among Indiana Democratic
politcians and il is to be presumed that Hanna's
10Y at the change is great
Now we have more of the hospital business. APP
parently the public service is to be made IN asylum
for broken-down aud decaycd politicians. il was
in the very worst days of Pierce and Buchanan.
long before the reform Of the Civil Service was dis
cnssed. The appointment of Pierce NJ. B. Young, of
Georgia. as Consul General at ST. Petersburg be-
regarded 1t is true merely rs another reward Of
traitor Young was n cadet at West Point when
tho War of the Rebellion began, and in entering tho
rebel service violated his oath of fidelity 30 the
country from which he had sought an education.
but though his services to the Rebellion
what conspicuous, there Others not yet comfort
ably provided for who served as well and were
wounded as many times. and who broke obligations
% sacred. II ia rather as o decayed Democratic