Year: 1874

some of its prominent members ha'o uia"h
on themselves through their adventurous char
acters


1t is very striking appeal which the Italian
laborers make, in letter elsewhere printed
this morning; and one to which New York
will not turn deaf ear. They number 2,7OO
artisans and laborers they are orderly and In
dustrous; out of the 1000 dodgers in the station
houses for the last three months only u were
Italians After such a record, Is it not pitiful
that they find in this free city real need to say
ave claim to be good and useful members of
"society, and all we ask is to be allowed to
"work in peace" Can NewYOrk afford to suf-
fer them to be hinderedf


The shocking murder of young girl in
Newark by her brother. because he did not
like her suitOr, is the latest addition to our
local criminal annals. Meantime Recorder
Hackett is to have the trial of the drunken
outlaw who murdered his companion
the other day for having better luck at dice
than himself, and for being unwilling to fight
him because he was small. The trial may
begin to-day. and an order-loving community
will rejoice that it is IN Recorder Hacketts
hands. He will do justice, and we trust that
he may do it promptly.


A Judgment of the probabilities respecting
the success Of Trinity College this year at the
Regatta, if predcated on last years failure,
would be wide of the mark. 1t is evident
from the letter we publish on our second
page that the crew now practicing are not at
all open to the adverse criticism which justly
applied to that at Springfield. They are better
men, both as regards muscular capacity and
in respect to discipline and hearty effort. OF
course they lack the benefit of experience, but
all that practice and main strength can now
confer may be theirs, and they will have
abundant sympathy and fair prospects.


Some of the resolutions of the Democratic
State Convention, in Maine, yesterday were
very sound Some of them, like that on Civil
Service Reform, were mere empty words;
and the one denouncing a protective tariff
as O means of raising revenue. and
declaring unequivocally for absolute free
trade, illustrates the length to which irrespon-
sible people are likely to go. If these Maine
Democrats had the least chance of doing what
they propose, they would as soon think of
thrusting their fingers into the fire as of i'm
posing direct taxes on the people for the pur-
pose of raising the revenue, which now comes
from the tariff they denounce.


If ever an appropriation from Government
funds for the relief of private sufferers is to
be vindicated at all, that of 100000 made
yesterday for the sufferers by the Southern
inundation will be received by the peO-
pie, whose money is used, with
nothing but satisfaction. The suffering
is great, and, largely owing doubtless to the
business depression, the response from the
North to the appeals for aid has been by no
means satisfactory. Among other appropria-
tions likewise acted on IN the last moments
it is noticeable that the New-YOrk Post Office
gets all it needs, and the Civil Service Com
mission gets nothing.


The euloges of each others Committees in
the House, yesterday. by the respective Chair
men of Ways and Means and Appropria-
tions, did smack little of mutual admiration !;
but nevertheless there was warrant for them.
Both Committees have been laboriOus and
Jealous, and-with plenty of faults in other
respects-both have undoubtedly done what
they could to reduce expenditures and enforce
economy. 1t was a session of great financial
opportunities. That these leading Committees
did not distinguish themselves is matter of
profound regret, not only to the members but
to the country. But for their good work, such
as it was, let us give them grateful thanks.
A Methodist clergyman was once very CRATE
full for getting his empty bat back again from
that congregation.


We are never to have done, it seems, with
the murderOus tendencies of our shOddy arch
itecture. One day it is the falling of walls
too fimsy to sustain their own weight. The
next, it is the burning of lumber yards on the
top of houses, miscalled Mansard roofs.
Yesterday, the form assumed was that
of the fall of floor in crowded church at
Syracuse, with two hundred people more or
less seriously injured, and the number of dead
only to be determined rs the remains
are slowly extrcated from the ruins. We
shall have plenty of cheap Indignation
now against the architect. But let us see.
What was it that happened to the man who
built the dam in the Mill River Valley7 And
how many of our readers, who are considering
the propriety of erecting new buildings, are
willing to let their architects put in material
enough to make them safe


1t would be a great mistake to underrate
the significance of the action of the earnest
temperance men, who in two Conventions
yesterday, in this State, made vehement
declarations of their political faith. The one
insists on State ticket of its own, and puts
it in nomination; the other contents itself with
still hoping to work for temperance inside