New-York tribune., 1885-07-21

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Summer Hotels are frequently designated 6y
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forwarding their orders for The TRIBUNE
readers at SUMNER resorts WM do wcA to ascer-
tain the erIct official title OF the Post Office at
.,ckicA they expect to receius their mail. Delay
and correspondence mM be aroided by so doing.
One of the men who is believed to have tried
to burn this city during the Civil War, while
acting under the command Of Jacob Thompson,
has been sentenced to three years in State
Prison for forgery. We wonder if the Secre-
tary of the Interior will feel obliged to hang
out signals of distress ut his Department
Building in Washington, or whether he will
bestir himself to get pardon for this associate
of the late lamented Thompson.
Some Nation ought to teach the SantO
Domingo people not to shoot about so reck-
1essly The authorities Of the little Republic
went out cunning for an ex-President some
DAYS ago, and not finding him, shot and killed
instantly an American who innOcently opened
his door to see what was going on. He lived in
Yonkers and his name was Platt. The Govern
ment at Washington will doubtless investigate
this affair to the bottom; but in view OF the
condition of our Navy it is to be hoped that
they will not feel obliged to undertake to teach
the Santo Dominguans to be less reckless in
using firearms.
The demand of the settlers near Indian
Territory, that the Chcyennes shall be dis
armed, is already having its legitimate effect.
The Indians make all kinds of excuses to avoid
having a @pow WOW" with the United States
agents; and meanwhile the young men of the
tribe ride away with good weapons and return
with poor ones. Evidently when the demand is
made for their arms very poor lot Of rubbish
will be surrendered, and then il war afterward
breaks ont, it will be discovered that the In
dians are well armed with rifles of the latest
pattern.
Senator Call, of Florida, would really be wise
to let bad enough alone, and net 60 about
Washington remarking that The TRIBUNE pub
fishes untruths about him. Such conduct indi-
Gates desire to have the cold bare facts made
public, and our dispatches from the National
capital this mSrning will, therefore, prove in
teresting reading for Mr.. Call and his friends
They contain statements from official sources
about the Florida Senator's attempts to get the
better of a negro named Swain in regard to q
certain valuable land claim. Truth Is stranger
than fiction, and in this case it is much more
disagreeable than any stories we could make up
about Mr.. Call.
There is a glimmer of sense about the Post
Office Department, but it is so faint that we
cannot allow ourselves to be greatly encOur-
aged. 1t is in connection with the payment of
money appropriated by Congress to American
steamship lines carrying the United States
mails. Mr.. Villas, 1t is said, shows disposition
to reconsider his determination not to do as
Congress thought would be wise. Possibly he
perceives that it would not increase the affec-
tion of the American people for this Admins
trstion to have our merchants entirely depend
ent for communication abroad upon British
steamship. British postal routes. and British
subsidies. We hope that passing reference to
this glimmer will not extinguish it.
The Canadian citizen soldiers who are recciv-
ing 90 hearty welcome now on their return
from the Northwest Territories deserve all tho
applause they get. They have indeed had
rough campaign. Tho half breeds whom they
had to fight arc much worse foes than the In.
dians, for to the endurance of Ithe savage they
add superior intelligence and cunning which
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