New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-19

Summer Hotels are freqHsnttY des'1aatsf oy
he Government as regular Post Offices. Before
for,carding their orders for TIE TRIBUNE
rsn1ers at summer resorts ril do web to oscsr-
koin the eruct qicial title of the Post ONCE nj
.pbich then erpect to receive their mail. Delay
and oorrsspondence ,ciU be drOided by so doing.
The committee of the State Senate appointed
IN investigate the various departments OF the
city government has shown no great energy Id
beginning work but it is not certain that any
thing has been lost by its inactivity. The COM
mittee is now about to determine whether OF
not II will proceed with its work. 1t is appar-
ent that there is no great public Ceslre TOT an
affirmative decision.
Reports from the campaign IN virginia are
encouray cling. The Wise ticket seems to be
more popular than was the Cameron ticket
which was successful in 1881. The new cleo
ton law, which places all the election ma
chinery in the hands of the BOurbons, is nightly
regarded as Offering the only obstacle to the
success Of the ntiBOurbOns. The act OF tho
President in pardoning lieutenant OF police In
Cincinnati who confessed to having committed
a gross outrage on cOlored voters Ia inter-
preted as Offering encouragement to the plans
of the Virginia Bourbons. 1t certainly was
not an act calculated to discourage Democratic
election Outrages.
The discovery last year that the granting OF
permits to obstruct the public streets was
source of private revenue for some OF the AL
dermen and their friends led to a needed
change in the method of granting such privi-
lepes. But the Aldermen have resumed busi-
ness in the old way, and 1t wOuld be interest
ing to know if they have resumed also the work
of illegally exacting money. The pertiDacity
which they exhibit In overriding the Mayors
vetoes on such matters would seem to indicate
that something is wrong In extra printing
alone this causes the city an outlay of nearly
$4,000 a year. 1t would be hard also to
explain on any legitimate basis why they persist
IN granting permits to obstruct the narrow
walks leading to the Brooklyn Bridge.
The date fixed for the Democratic State Con-
/yention, September "a, allows time for the Ad-
ministration to complete it's plans to capture a
majority of the delegates An earlier date would
doubtless have been more favorable to Gov
ernor Hills prospects. But Boss Thompson
wants candidate who, if elected, will be more
subservient to his particular schemes; hence,
he has apparently determined to override
Democratic precedents and set aside the Gov
crnor's claims on his party for denomination.
His success or failure is not matter of much
concern, as between Hill and any candidate
Thompson may favor there is not likely to be
much room for choice. BY the cleo. ion of Mr..
OBrien, his associate in the aqueduct contracts,
for chairman of the committee, Thompson will
lose nothing in the way of organizing the con-
vention.
The West is just now ahead of the East in
thoroughbred racing as well as in baseball.
Freeland, champion of the West defeated the
once invincible Miss Woodford in the great
race at Monmouth Park yesterday. 1t was an
extremely close contest, and it filed the air
with Western hats anu handberchiefs and
Western cheers. Eastern turfmen, as they saw
their brethren from the other side of the Ale
ghanies walk off with bullying pockets. looked
with melancholy interest upon their once
prosperous purses, now left vacant for
all the winds OF heaven to whistle through.
Freeland is q horse of wonderful speed but his
foundations are not firm. He is in danger of
breaking down at any time. When be rctires the
turf will lose great racer. 1t is true his career
has been marked by some amazing failures but
his owner was not born % recently as to be ig-
norsnt of tho opportunities given
for the rapid acquisition OF