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THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1872.
TU?) Oeueva Board waa in session yesterday. ? ?- The
condition o? Helfast 1? worse titan ever; threat? of a
viKilancc committee have been made. _=?_? The Em
I?erors of Oarmany and Austria are to meet at Ischl on
Auk- 'ah. bbs-si The luvestucat-on at Alexandria In the
case of ('.?iisui Oei.tral Uu tier ha? been concluded. ??.
A proclamation attainst onii.tmenU for the Cuban arm/
bas Bai n issued lu Canada.
Tbe ora-it Htate Convention at T'tlea nominated Oen.
DU for Oovernor. .-. = Orant Convention, were held
In Iowa, c<,???ctk*ut, :m?l other States. =__ The win?
ner, at S-tato-a were Blind Tom, Harry liassett, and
Ortotou.
The A|xilln Mali Detnocratlt Exeentive Committee will
meet tht? we< k, and an attempt will be made to aseare
the appointment of del?ifat?m to tht L.?uisv;ll? ?
Won. . Tlie r?p.,rt ?f tht Kivcnid? l'srk Commis.
sinner, will be carried, on appeal, toa higher court for
raviaioa. -_??? Oold, liti, 1131, m. Tbermometer, VP,
tM?, 7eT?. ____-___,_
Oar Oeneva letter gives an ah?tract of the
American Argument before tho Geneva Tri?
bunal, ami indicate? that the judgment of the
Court BUI lx- to condemn the ALiltuma, tire
Florida, ami the Shenandoab, and no others
of the Rebel-English iuvy.
At tlie Dem-ocratic Convention in Nashville,
jreaterday, Gen. JB. F. Cbeatham was nomi
nated f?r Gongn?aniaii at Large by an almo.t
aruuiimou? vote. The delikates who favored
ex-^rtwident Johnson witlidrtw, and it is re?
ported that he will run as an inflepend? ut
candidate. _
The policy of the O'Brien wing of the Apollo
Hall party ha* been reformed. They have din
coveted that it will not do to go for Grant
direct, ?nd so they go for Grant now vn
Louisville. It does not appear, however, that
they are to have easy work getting started
from Apollo Hall.
The Office-Holders' Organs have about aban?
doned the story that there are no Liltcral Re?
publicans exiepting soreheads. If they need
more fact? thau Thr Tribune's late review of
the Illinois campaign with reference to the
Rochester meeting, suppose they study the ac?
count of the Reform movement in Iowa,
printed on the second page of to-day's
Tribunk. _
While Mr. Frank W. Bird, one of the Rad?
ical Republican Old Guard of Massachusetla,
is disposing of Senator Wilson as a Know
Nothing and Mr. Garrison as a Disuniouist, one
of the oldest and most sincerely respected
velerans of tho Abolition phalanx also speaks
in the article printed on tho third pago of
this morning's Tribunk.
The news from Raleigh and from Washing?
ton indicates that the Administrai ion proposes
to punish the North Carolinians for their
Btruggl? in August, and make sure of their
votes in November, by postponing tho Ku
Kliix trials and keeping the accused in sus
pciise, and by making elaborate preparations
to apply tho Enforcement act to every election
district in the State.
Our dispatehes this morning represent the
condition of Belfast as worse than ever. They
continu the opinion we expressed several days
ago, that the authorities were Iiablo to the
chargenf gross mismanagement in their attempts
to suppress the riots. If anything were needed
to substantiate this charge it is sufficient to
know that, on the seventh day, the rioters
were destroying school-houses and threatening
churches. The statement that a body of live
ihouisand troops is incapable of maintaining
order in a city not much larger than Newark,
can only lie characterized as an absurdity.
Advices now come from Raleigh that at this
day there are only twenty-live counties in tlie
State from which official returns of the late
election have been received. Tables printed
iu the Grant organs prove grossly incorrect in
these cases, but complete official returns are
not expected until the Legislature meets in
November. What possible object can be ac?
complished by this delay save to delude, the
people in the idea that the majority for Presi?
dent Grant's ??itHitatn is larger than these
returns will show it, and to keep off as long
M possible the ceitainty of Merriuion's contest
aud proof of election.
There was a quiet (?rant Convention in
Iowa yesterday. They nominated a State
ticket of tlie usual kiml, made few ipeedUB,
and did not a fleet to be enthusiastic. It is a
proof of the ingratitude of Republics that the
ticket nominated was the anti-Harlan, while
that patriot and statesman is perspiring in his
newspajK^r office at Washington, periling his
soul's salvation by daily fibs about Mr. Gree
ley. The Grant State Convention met, yester?
day, in Atlanta. Judge Dawson A. Walker
was nominated for (?overnor. A disorderly
and venal Convention mot iu Columbia to
nominate Stato officers for South Carolina.
The preliminary buying and selling was not
completed yesterday.
Possibly one of the grounds for the threat?
ened impeachment of Gov. Davis of Texas
may be found in his alleged action in pro?
ceeding to issue two millions of bonds to
meet State appropriations, after having testi
I lied in the Honey trial that he did not intend
j to issue them, lite Austin Statesman, Iloutton
Age, and other Texas papers, declare that Um
bill authorizing this issue was passed by
fraudulent means, not reaching a iinal vote
until some tune after the hour for ad?
journment nine die had come; that the clock of
the House was twice turned back to give
time for passing it, and that it was not en?
rolled and signed until alter the Legislature
had ceased to exi^t. They insist that " the
" bonds so issued are a cheat, a fraud, and a
"swindle"; declare that the people ot Texas
will acknowledge no obligation to pay them,
and call upon the Eastern press to give warn?
ing to that effect. In view of the late experi
? ehce in Georgia, it is probably a very good
thing for Eastern capitalists to notice.
Postmaster Edmunds found the contract of
getting up the Blanton Duncan Convention too
serious an undertaking, and so has called in
the force of clerks on the Administration
Committee, and tho twenty-five thousand post?
masters, Internal Revenue officers, and mar?
shals. That, at least, we take to be the mean?
ing of the action of the Administration Com?
mittee in sending out under the forged franks
of sundry Congressmen twenty-tive thousand
copies of Blanton Duncan's circular. How
many Democrats do they suppose can thus l?c
caught with a snare which is set in the eyes of
all men? And how much longer will Mr.
George William Curtis continue in daintily
rounded phrases to praise the earnest sincerity
of this Administration in its struggles for
Civil Service Reform t And, finally, does it
not seem to the Postmaster-General a good
time for emphasizing that beautiful plank in
the Philadelphia platform about the franking
privilege, and making the action of his Post?
master here, in stopping Congressman Roose?
velt's documents, correspond a little with the
action of his Postmaster in Washington in
sending out Blanton Duncan's document-T
THE CUSTOM-HOUSE *VO_*/*VJT_.
When we announced, yesterday, that Gen.
Dix had declined a nomination for an office,
we thought there was something of prodigy
in the event. He evidently thought so too,
and changed hit mind. He is too old a gen?
tleman to learn new trickB, and declining a
chance at an office would be a startling novelty
for him. He hag been hanging on
the verge of parties all _,j9 ]jf<,.
never heartily attached to any, but
coming out and defining his postttOB in tjIr,oa
of change, so as to get that share of the trufa
of victory which is usually given to the new
itciuit. But his habits have outlived the sa?
gacity which once made them profitable. Ho
imagined in 18*36 that the Republican party
was in its last days and could give him no
more offices. He therefore followed the ban?
ner Which Andrew Johuaou's adherent.
Ml up in Philadelphia. He presided at
th.tt famous Convention, and shared in the
Homeric ridicule which attended its utter col?
lapse. But that time he was not without an
anchor to windward. There were so few fig?
ure-head? at the disposition of the President
that those fea* liTed in clover. Gen. Dix, being
(he oldest, got the elder brother's aliare. Ho
Kot a place iu the Custom-house, the mission
to the Hague, und l!ie mission to France.
He could not decline any of tlnin,
and so had a positive indigestion of
i ?
effloo?. When be went to Franco be wae BOT?
ao laraeHtably uodor the inflaenoe of what
Ryron ralla the "good old gentlemanly vico
"of avarice," that he oould not beitr to looa??
his hold upon tho CiiBtom-houso pay-roll, and
ramo near being rejected by thi? Senate for this
Honii.l impropriety.
Ho remained two yoais in Fiane-?, when? ho
distinguished himself by brinir, th.? moHt de?
voted adherent of tho Emperor nnd the Em?
pire that had ever been known in the diplo
matic Ixxly in Paris. It was the cause of Ml h
amiiHement to cynical monarchist? and ol bbbj
annoyance to sincere liU?r?iih1i??atiH. Hut this
did not make him unmindful of the claims of
those in authority at home, for when (!en.
Grant was elected Gen. Dix wrote him a
beautiful letter of congratulation, and said he
did not care, about staying in Purist B_ia*B the
President wished him to. The President
wanted the place for Mr. W'aslibiiriie, and so
tho General came home and han been foi'ling
unkiudly towards the President ever since.
Hut there is no nonsense about mich
a prudent and thrifty old gentleman,
no when he found that he wa? not
t,o gain anything by tho Liberal move?
ment he, withdrew from it and made his pene??,
with the White House by writing a venomous
letter about the Cincinnati candidates. This
gave bim a full ?uembertdiip in the Grant
party, and Mr. Thurlow Weed saw his oppor?
tunity. Ho went to Utica and effected the
nomination of Ul old enemy. It was a sin?
gular spectacle. It would be hard to iinnirino
what motives, growing out of the intrixuos
and ?struggle?! of a time when few of the
voids of to-day were living, uctu.ited those
two aged and shadowy politicians in making
aad accepting this shadow of a nomination.
j^The Convention could hardly have made a
better choice. The pioiiB Fiji?, in heavy
weather, are in the habit of sacrificing the
oldest man of their trrfio to the Pail Luck.
Perhaps somo such idea influenced the dele?
gates at Utica. They are to be beaten, and it
was natural that they Bhould not wish to
blight the future of their younger and more
sanguine champions by dooming them to the
beating. Gen. Dix will get. as many
votes as any one whom they could have
nominated. People have, "rotten used
to his holding office, anil after he
g?;ts in he is not heard of until he ?rots ouU
This makes business men like Mr. Clews, for
instance, who does business in Georgia loans,
regard him as "a very safe man." He is .1
ireiitleman and a ?scholar; makes a good
speech and reads his Horace daily. When de?
feated, he will bear it like a philosopher, and,
after a decent period of mourning, will join
the winning side. In the impossible event of
his being elected, he would walk circum?
spectly in tlie path marked out by Weed and
Murphy, and would never give them reason
to reglet their work unless he could make
something by it.
BFoi the purposes of (Jen. Orant and the
Custom-house, Ocn. John A. Dir?: is as good a
candidate as they could have chosen. To de?
feat him, wo must nominate a man of more
encTK'y, more ability, and more principle, for
while tin ir purpose is nothing but success,
ours is reform ami good govern incut. \1
THE RESTORATION OF LAW ASD ORDER
in the socrii.
A carel ul letter from North Carolina which we
print on our second page, gives an account of
the rise, the history, and the disappt aianec of
the Ku-Klux in that State. It will repay read?
ing as it shows th.. view entertained by the
Conservatives of tho South in regard to the
provocations and peculiar circumstance? which
called that orgs-.ni7.ation into existence, and ex?
plained, while they could not justify, many of
their acts. We have spoken with some defi?
nid ness and energy in regard to the outrages
bf which a few scattered ruffians made the
name of Ku-Klux a word of horror and infa?
my throughout the South. We have nothing
to rafead of all we have said in regard to this
subject. Put as earnestly as we contai mned
the order and all its works while it was in
operation, so earnestly do we rejoice
at it? disappearance and hail its disintegration
M the best proof of the peaceable and orderly
intentions of the people of the Smith. The
ruffianism which for a little while survived
the Hebellion is now at an end. The hatred
of nue, the violation of private property, tin*,
organized tyranny of numbers, are not entirely
frone, but their manifestation?- arc seen rather
in the action of the carpet-bag administra?
tion?, and their parasites than 111 the lawless
outbreaks of the white natives of the soil. At
I his hour, and for mon? than 11 year past, the
white people of the Southern States ami the
more intelligent among the blacks are moru
faithfully devoted to a restoration of peace,
law, and honest legislation than are their
governments or their Congressmen, who rely
upon bribery and the bayonet to sustain and
strengthen them in power.
It is deeply to be regretted that the vio?
lence of party spirit at this moment should
prevent any one from doing justice to the
dignified and law-abiding attitude of the bettet
portion of the Southern people. Kver since
the beginning of a movement which held out
to them the hope of u restoration of friendly
relations between them and the people of thr
North, they have given to us and the world
the example of an admirable dignity and
patience under well-nigh intolerable outrage.
We have published a few of the countless
incidents of petty tynmny and spoliation which
they have sutiered in silence in the hop.? of
better things. They have endured Casey in
New-Orleans, and Claytou and Hadley in
Arkansas, and the oairhr.? of the cajyyt
bag from Mississippi to North Carolina,
seeing them override law, steal, and per?
jure themselves, violate the Treasury and
the ballot-box, set free tho guilty and lock up
the innocent, as if this were the thirteenth
century, and they were the chiefs of savage
trilxis whose w'U was law. Yet in spite of
theee Infamous provocations, lawlessness and
Ku-Kluxism havo been steadily dying away.
Tho Southern people seemed determined to allow
then plunder? rs a monopoly" of wrong-doing.
The horrible outrage in Arkansas, where ,1
conspira? y of Grant officers murdered two
qui. . in/ens on the highway for the pur'voso
of provoking an outbreak, resulted only in an
orderly public meeting, in which the people of
th<- couuty (?v-itifiod their devotion to the law,
and protested against the military oc?
cupation of their homes. Such mode?
ration, such wise reserve uuder such
grievous wrong would be seiueelr possible,
were it not that th? people of the South
begin to recognize that for them nlso a new
era is dawning. The twelve years' war is to
end The fruiu of tho war are all safely gar?
nered, an, aecured by? irrev?r,,ble a.n.nd
mei.bi ti.tho Constitution. They have com.?
frankly forward ?,?1 accepted ,|,oae. and de?
clared that they Jutd uo Uiuoght or desiro ?if
reTeoiug thou*. They have joined w*U. a
,.*.??* ?a
great niaJeired party of the North, embracing
the beat ami most enlightened leaders of tho
political organization which earried on the war,
savod the Union, and destroyed Slavery, and
now feel that for the first time in a donen
years they occupy a loyal and national posi?
tion, and take a legitimate part in the po?
litical life of the country. With the elec?
tion of a President pledged immovably to
equal rights and the reunion of the
States, the war will end, and cud
finally. The robbers who have flourished in
these days of military rule will l>e driven away
by the same effort, and the government of the
Status will fall into the hands of men who
M some sense of responsibility. We can NI
no prospect of continued war if Crecley ami
Brown are elected, We can Ml M hope of
pennuiicnt peace if the mess-room government
is to be perpetuated at Washington, and the
carpet-bag conspiracies to be justified in tlu.
States. _______________________
IURD ON WILSON--WILSON ON JEFF. DA Vis.
Elsewhere wo present a letter from Mr.
Frank W. Bird, whom all Massachusetts poli?
ticians know as in early times Henry Wil?
son's guide, philosopher, and friend. Mr. Bird
makes short work of Senator Wilson's recent
pretended denial of his connection with the
Know-Nothing party; and we commend his
letter to all who consider that question of im?
portance, as a contribution to political history,
which makes an end of it.
Meantime, let us give another point, of Mr.
Wilson's record, which we commend to the
especial attention of those Olliee-Holdcrs'
organs which ?ire most indignant at Mr. Gree
ley's action in signing the bail bond of Jeffer?
son Davis. On the _M of March, 1807, Henry
Wilson introduced in the Senate the following
joint resolution. It was referred to the
Judiciary Committee, and appears to have
been there smothered :
" Whereas, Jeflrrsoti Davis, s citizen of the State of
Mississippi, w as i apturod by a military force iu the
MB11??' <>f tin- United Slate? on tlic lit- of May. 1866, and
hit? since been held In close confinement a.? a prisoner of
war, and a? ?t prisoner sf .Stale in Fortress Monroe-,
Virginia; and
" Whereas, The ?aid Jefferson lluvia ?tamis charged on
the highest BUthority with ths heinous ? rune of oouspir
in?r t.i murder llic lato I'nsiilriil ni tlin United ?State.,
Abiah?in Lincoln, and 1? also indicted for treason ' and
" irrVrea*, Tin, ?aid JifTir.on Davis lia.? persist?lUj
I declared hi. Innocence of the offense? charged against
lu in. ami, tbrou.li his legal advt.s wo, by all tiiean. known
to the law has ?ought and demanded a public ?pc.dy
tii.il by due proccsH of law before a, civil tribuuul of
loinpctcnt liulsdlrtloii; therefoto,
" Retolred, bv tin: Ornate, the amJamhtA _?pre?.? titAtlv'?
concurring. That the longer confinement of the ?aid
.lettiTHon Davis without a trial, or the assiguimnt at a
specific tuno for a trial, i? not in accordance with the de?
mand? of justice, the spirit of the laws, and the require?
ment* of tho Constitution ; and that t omuion justice,
sound policy anil the national honor unite in recom?
mending that the ?aid Jefferson Davis be brought to a
i?pec<l>- trial, or that ho be released from contin?ment on
bail or on hi? own recognizances."
?Now let us hear lroni the OlTicc-Holders1 or?
gans another chorus of denunciation mraimt Mr.
(incley for his shameless and treasonable course
iu signing the bail bond of the arch traitor.
-?a ? . -a- ??.?_?
THF. LI II ER AL PL ATI-OI! M ASD MR
LINCOLN.
The Cincinnati riatforin, rcadopted at Bal?
timore, gave otlcn.se to MMBB inconsiderate or
ill-informed Republicans, because one of its
clauses referred the question of tariff legisla?
tion to the people in the Congress District?.
A great outcry was made about this, and con?
tinues to be made, by people who imagine
that nothing of this kind was c\er beton
done, and who denounce such reference to the
people of questions of practical legislation
as a "fraud," a "cheat," a "swindle,"
ice. Most of these ?versons would admit
that Abraham Lincoln, though he might
be mistaken in his views, was not capable of
cheating or deluding the people. He wj, |
skillful political manager, as we all know;
but he was not a trickster, and he never sacri?
ficed piinciples or attempted to cheat the p?o
ple. Well, Mr. Lincoln, though by no means
the author or originator of this idea that to
the itcoplc in Congress Districts should be re
lei red such ipiestions of practical legislation,
whs one of its most elal>oiate defenders.
In the Summer of 1848 the nomination of
Gen. Taylor for the Presidency was attacked
on the very same grounds on which Mr. Crce
ley's nomination and the Liberal Platform BIB
now attacked?namely, that Taylor and his
Platform leferred certain ipiestions of practi?
cal legislation? among them llie tarill, curiously
enough?to the people, Gcii. Taylor proposing,
as Mr, iireeley dois now, not to iniertere
to prevent the adoption of such laws on these
mat lei s as Congress, licit from the people,
should pass. Gen. Taylor had written :
"Tho power given by til?- vet.) B B bUli i .insert-alive
power, but, In iny opinion, ??hould n> ver be exercised cx
i, pi in caw? of clear violation of the Constitution, ,,r
liiitnlfe.t haste or wiitit of consideration by Congre??."*!
This was in the so-called "Alison letter."
In the same letter Taylor wrote:
" I'pon the subject of tho tariff, the currency, flio im?
provement? of our great highway?, river?, lake?, and
harbor?, tho will of the people, as expressed through
thi'ir licprosi'iitativ,-, inCiu^r?'??, l?light to lx> respected
ami earneii out by the Rh?n ulive."
On this he and his supporters were attaekcil.
It was charged that no one know what Taylor
would do ?I elected ; that lie had concealed Q_
\iolated Ml principles; that the couutry was
"left in darkiiesH," and so on ; the same kind
of opposition which is now made in some places
to the Liberal Platform and candidate. Mr.
Lincoln, probably seeing that well-meaning
but ill-informed men were likely to be deceived
and misled by this plea, chose to expose its
fallacy in a speech in Congress, delivcrod July
27, 1848, and here is what he said :
" Now, this 1? tho whole matter. In substance it is this :
The people .ay to Oen. .Taylor. ? If you are elected, ?hall
we have u National liankl' Liu answers, ' Your will,
gentlomen, not mine.' ' What about tbJT ,_r_f?' "auy
yourselves.' 'BBall our river, and hsrtxrr bo Im?
proved V ' Just m* you please.' ' If you desiro a bank,
an alteration of the tariff, internal Improvement?, atiy or
ail, I will >iot hiu'leryou; If vou do uot desire theiu I
will nut -.lenipt to force them on you. Bend tip your
Members of Congres, from tho various district?, with
opinion? according to your own, and if they arc for
the?? measures, or any of them, I shall have notl,
oppose. If they are not for them I ?hall not. by
any appltauce. whatever, attempt to dragoon
them Into their adopUou.' Now, can there
lie any difficulty iu understanding this I To you.
Democrat?, it may not seem like principie ; but ?utvly
you cantiot fall to perceive the position plain enough.
Tlie distinction between it and the position of your eau
d,date Is broad and obvious, ami I sdiutt you have a
clear right to show It is wrong,, if you can ; but yo*
lia, e in? fi-iit to pr, tend you cannot soo it at all. We
?ee iCati'l to u. it appears Ilk? principio, and the liest
.ort of principle at that?the principle of allowing the
people to do it? they please with their own business. My
fn>ml from Indiana (Mr. C. B. Smith) has aptly asked,
' Are jou willing to trust the people I,' Sonic of you
answered substantially, ' We St?) willing] to trust
the people ; but the President Is as much the
representative of the people a? (Congress.' i _
a certain ?en?e, snd to a certain extant, h? i? the
reprosentatlve of the people. Ho i? elected by them a?
well a. longress it. But can be, la the nature of thing?,
know the wants of the people as well a? three hundred
other men coming from all tho various localitie. of the
nation I If so, where i? the propriety of having a Con?
gre??! Thal tue Constitution give? the President a neg?
ante on logUlaliou, all know; but that this negstu?,
should ho an ooiahiaud wttU yisifoiuu ?au'l vtu<K s_?up?
an'"'-? as to enable him, and. In furl, almost oompel him,
to Uks tho whole of leirisUUon into his own batiils. ts
what wo objort to, ts what Oen. Taylor ohim-i?
to, aad la what constitutes tho broad dlsttnt
tiun between you and us. Ta this transfor
legislation Is < lourly to take it from those who under?
stand with minuteness tbe Interests of tbe people, and
give It to one who does uot and cannot so well under?
stand It. I understand your idea.?Dial If a Presidential
e.uiilliliitn avow hi? r>|tiiit,>ii upon a ?riven question, or
rather upon aU <|uesttou?, aud tho people, with full
knowledge of this, ?Me.t bun, they thereby distinctly
approve ?H those opinions. This, though plausible, Is a
most pernicious deception. By means of It, measures
arc adopted or rejo? t?'?l coutrury to the wishes of the
whole of one party, ami often nearly half of th? other.
Tho process Is this : Three, four, or half a doaen ques?
tions are prominent at a ?riven Unie; the purty select*
Its candidate, und ho takes bis position on eaeh
of those questions. On all but one his positions hiive
?Iready BBBB Indor??'?! at former elections, and his party
fully committed to Mum; but that one la now, and a
barre portion of them are against it. Hut what are they
todo! Th,? whole an?, ?trun*? tof?otber, and they must
tako all or reject all. Tl.ey cannot take what they like
and leave the rest. What they uro already committed
t.. being th.- majority, they ?hut their eye? and gulp tbo
whole. Next election ?Mil another is Introduced In the
?aine way. If we run our eyes along the Une of tbo
past we shall see that almost If not quit? all the articles
of tho present Democratic creed have l>eoa at first
forced upon the party In this very way.
And Just now, and Just so, opposition to
luU-rnal improvement* bl to be established if (Jon. Cans
shall be elected. Almost half tbo Democrat* bore are
for ?nprovements but they will vote for Cas* ; and, If he
?m e,. ,1?, their rotes will have .tided In closing tho doors
against Improvements. Now thl? i? a proco?? which we
think 1? wrong. Wc prefer a candidate who, llko Oen.
Taylor, will allow the people to have their own way re
gurdlo-is of his privat? opinion ; and I should think tho
lut eraal-improvement Democrat?, at least, ought to pre?
fer such a candidate. 11?) would force nothing on them,
which tliey BBBl want ; and be would allow them to have
Improvements winch their own candidat?-, if elected,
will not."
It is not noceexary ?to add to Mr. Lincoln's
worth. _____________
A CANDIDATE TO BE SUSPECTED.
Mr. Lyman Tremaui hau been nominated
for Congressman at Large on the Grant ticket.
It is intore+tting to know what he thinks of
lien, (?rant and of Mr. Murphy, who manages
the (?rant party in this Stute. It was only
last April that he said: /
" I frankly confess Uiat the present Adnnni?tration
I, n limn- some tiniii'? which have uot met my approval,
aud wlnrh havo weakened it m the mj\ ? or' tins Hepuhli
I m party? For Instance, I think that (I,?m. Grant should
not have ma?le a distinction M BCBWBBB two witig-t of tbe
parly in the distribution of patronage. He waenluctod !,y
fie whole pary, and it was bad policy to make morn of
on.? win* than of the other. Tnen, again, I do uot think
tint lie hat don,- all In- in!','lit have done in endeavoring
IB harmonize conflicting interest*. He should not, in
my opinion, have made war with one to gratify the
et*_BT, and thus make .1 BrBBBI that nuiiiit BBBBM
dangerous. 1 do not think that hi? appointment of such
a man n I'mn Murphy to tho Colloctorship of
New-York wa? B very nice exhibition of states?
manship ; but after ha was appointed, and the
investigation relativ??1to the Custom-house revealed tho
rottonness existing in tliormauagemeiit of Its affair?, ho
certaiuly ought to have removed him at once, and tb.it
without giving him such a uubllo Indorsement as ho did
altor In? was tlnaUv removed. Had |*a siiui'ly remove!
hini at oneo the people would have taken it for granted
thai tin? President vat anxious to hoed the popular will,
which was that th? f'ustoin-lmuso should Bt rplaaad la
in-w hands aad uuder botter OBBttttL But you bo?: what
aMMtt In tho people's ti.fnds tli? President got by re?
moving Murpby-be lost by the letter of Indorsement he
gave Mutpby afterward."
These are judicious ami truthful view?, and
show that the Convention had a lucid interval
when it nominated Mr. Tremain. Hut what
will Mr. Murphy and Mr. I.rant say to them ?
And what will that remarkable Mr. Carpenter
say 1 Is not Mr. Tremain almos! its bad m the
Seciissionist advocate, areh-fomctitor of discord,
and white feather hero of Niagara I
LAW VS. MANSERS.
An important victory has been gaiued during
the present month for the women desirous of
becoming doctors in the decision of Lord Gif?
ted? Judge of the Court of Sessious, with
regard to Miss ?lex Blake's demand for admis?
sion to the Edinburgh University. This very
energetic young lady has kept not only Edin?
burgh bit Scotland in a fermentation for one
or two years, with her vigorous efforts to es?
tablish the rights of six young lady students
to graduation. The decision of his Lordship
is thai ?my student entitled to the benefit of
the curriculum is thereby entitled to a diploma
and all the pertaining rights, and that the
charter of the Scotch University, like thoso of
Italy, does not exclude womou. Now this, on
the faco of it, looks conclusive enough, and
is legally so; but just here the effect of man?
ners comes in. Miss Jex's behavior in court
and out oi' it has unfortunately not been of
the kind that well-bred people prefer in their
physicians, male, or female. Sho has been
rude, obstreperous, and virulent to such a de?
gree as to make personal euemies of the
Eilinburgh professors. "When, therefore, the
derision was given, she demanded that Lonl
Giffonl should order certain of them to admit
th.? six women to their classes ; which he very
properly adjudged to lie outside of his pre?
rogative, adding that "the principle he had
" laid down must be received with the dis
" tinct reservation that there must be sepa
" rate classes for the lady students." Miis
Jet, therefore, with the law and moral right
completely on her si?le, is completely clu:?k
niat?'il tor the present.
Tlie same insuperable difficulty was thrown
in the way of tho women students in Phila?
delphia, in both Allopathic and Homeopathic
colleges. The course of study was opened to
them bf tin' trusties, but the BBBjJBJtotaB_?fad
that separate ?lasses were necessary from rea?
sons of ?leivnoy, and then objected to having
a gtetier number of classes forced on them
than their time or salary would warrant them
in teaching. Such excuses, however puerile,
ran lie easily discovered and made final where
there is the will to look for them, and Miss
Hlake may thank lier own truculence and ill
bi ceding tor the will in this case,
and for her defeat. It is a whole?
some lesson to our .own cjhjh^J women,
whose ?tlorts liavo been so far moro
successful than hers iu opening the way to a
liM'dical career ftn their sex in this country.
The experience of every man is that, in pri?
vate or public life, his BOOM** with his fellow
men hau been owing less to his legal right than
to his own just aud courteous conduct, and if
women, in stepping up to the platforms no long
occupied by the stronger sex, prefer to throw
aside the peculiar gentleness ami courtesy in
which has lain so long their secret of power,
they must at least adopt instead BO_ civiliiy
aud courtesy as Ik long to well-bred meu, or,
as in this case, assure tluur own defeat.
Yesterday we ?ayo some samples of llio anti-die.?
lay bo. I'orhapei it is worth while to explain to-itay
tho process of its manufacture.
On Monday one of tha most reckless and worthless
of the thick and ttnn (?rant urgaus. The Daily Sam
togxan, published a ?toiy alunit Mr. A. T. Stewart's
having declared that Mr. Clreclov's election would
bo a national calamity. Mr. Stewart it unco ?out
his local attorney, Judge Lester (hiuisolt a prouuunnt
(Jrant man?, to ask that the lal.ri, atioti l.,i BOOtl?
dii t.?l. But tho editor refused, saying it was a good
ol?vcti.)uoohu?{ story, und wns uot lib,?lou?! Mi
Hlowitit thou caus.vd a uit>s,si?aj" coiiocUug u to Im
t?jiijiU*i)kyij.i>s;iuo wl tlii? ?Now-?orli pairare lUo
(tutor of Thf Snralogian, being also the agent of tha
Associated Press, rt;fii?*?d a correction through thai
medium. Yesterday he went a step further, and, la
defiance of Mr. ?Stewart'*, direet tvintradistioo, reiter?
ate? the story, saying now that Mr. Htowart as??4
the language la conversation with a certain peraon
whom it names. This person is a gontlemaa. and is,
therefore, not given to repeating or inventing privatn
conversations, so that it is morally impossible that
ho could have been authority for the story. Yet,
what difference doe? it make T " The story is not
libclous;" so he cau't be made to pay for it; and
"it's a good campaign story!" It never seem, to
enter tho head of this worthy that perhaps his le-id?
em have some rights in the premises.
It is curious to notico the regular plan pursued \jf
the Ni-po-Kepnblican new?pap?T? in manufacturing
their articles. Here is one in a boston print, win? h
is a good spcciiuc.il. It is headed "The Uufitnoss of
Horace Oreeley," which, as it is a taking of every?
thing for granted, is an easy way to begin. Then
wo are BBBBBBl that only "a few" Republicans sup?
port Mr. Greeiey, meaning only a few who bava
acted with what was once the Republican party.
Of conn*? no figure, aro given ; it is enough to say
contemptuously "a few." Then, the D?mocratie?
party have " 'Ants! the late Kditor of Tub Tkih'ink
before the country as a not unwilling candidate.'
Mark the shrewdness of this ! Observe the ing?nions
MB of tho word "thrust." Of course, when the ?Hi
ors of the Government nominated (I. 8. Grant, t hat
was n't " thrusting," nor anything like it. Of cour???,
when His Excellency puts himself forward, that
_ n't thrusting himself before the country. O no!
that is all right and regular. It is only Liberal Rv
publicans who are impudent enough to thrust ; init
then we are inclined to think that they will thrust
to some purpose, and make a big hole rtornewhere.
Sonntiiiies we are told that the union of all the anti
Orant men is n't of the minutest consequence ; than
we aro iufonned that " it has become so much a mal
ter of agitation as to demand exposure." Not that?
t lure's any danger in it, for, of course, there isn't
any; but atdl,j^pught_to_ __ oxpogjd, WJL^yw-,
Now, the frightful things which we are toldinust
inevitably follow Mr. Greeley's election, and which
aro generally licscrilied as " a general disturbance.''
need give the most timid no alarm ; for hero is the
same Hoston newspaper which is good enough to ad?
mit that " tho country might not absolutely go to
the dogs were Mr. Greelcy elected." Well, we are
grateful for oven this guarded admission. We have
been often assured to tho contrary, and some of
Grant's newspapers are confident that he alone can
ctii'iitively stand between M and famine, aar. |>??ti
lenco, and insolvency. Tho Hoston prophet BBB-BM
Um ?,p,s;?et. a littlo moro luminous. Wo shall not
go absolutely to the dog?.
To see just how much a small office m?? d.-grada
a man, consider the cas?, of Mr. Oli.-irlem W. Sat ' >f
Hoston. When Frank W. Bird, Go J, Steam?, Win
M.i'lailin, and Henry L. Pierce, Senator .Stunner's
intimate friends and supporter?, who had found?*! a
newspaper in Boston in his iiiter?'st, and sustained it
for some yeans out of their own private funds, were in
nceil of an editor to succeed F. B. Sanbom, they
took up Mr. Slack, as the most devoted ami enthu?
siastic fri-nd of Mr. Sunnier they could lind. They
gave a better salary than he could elsewhere com
maud, until .lie pajer BBflM to pay its way ; tlu-u
they mado him a gift of the paper out
ii_ht, uovor _ d'.?ubt!u_ that jl _tlicre_ win
one man in Massachusetts- whm? for thf) place
whom they could trust impli? itly, as a friend of
Charlen Summ r. Mr. Mack was the man. Hut Presi?
dent Grant gave Mr. BfaM k a small office? made him
Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third Dis?
trict of Mas-c In:.?, tts. Tin.? man now use? Hie
pnper, given him wf MrV. S?iiiuier'i friends, to vilify
Mr. Stunner in th-i inti rest of Pr?:.s;<lcnt Grant. Ho
may thus retain his position as Collector of Iuunuai
K? v.'iiiie, but I?t infeit.s re? ?ignition as an houent
min. nor can he by any possibility regain it, with?
out paying for the piper ho thus abuse*, or giviug it
baa_ to tie- j?v?>]?lo who presented it to him, and
who??' trust h<) has betrayed.
If the end of all things might reasonably beei
pected any whore, it would be in Paris ; and we are
not surprised, therefore, to learn that on the day
upon which Pl.intaniou:r'si ?met should have kuocked
this terrestrial ball into a cocked-hat. there was
some excitement upon the subject in the once gay
capita-. As luck would have it, at 2 o'clock on the
morning of that day so big with fate, a brilliant
meteor made its appearance. Crowd? collected in
the streets to gaze upon it, and to speculate upon its
iuteutions, no that policemen were require?! i?> dis?
perse the groups with the cry of " Move on ! " When
we think of what might have been, the command
mtJhwt t.? be rather funny. Think if at the moment
Platitamoiir's pet had struck us! the heaven-,
brazenly glowing, the atmosphere too po-tooously
thick for human lungs, the ?ail h baking and era? k
ing, the herhiigo withering, women screaming, all
manner of animals howling or ??hrickiug, the lake*?
and rivers boiling, while dying policemen cry t?>
dying crowds "Move on!" Wo are satisfied that
this view must have occurred to some Frenchman
upon that anxious morning ; and a collection of all
the good things said by Parisians almut the Comet
and the Last Day, if it could only bo made, would
be extremely amusing.
How Mr. BoBBM Conkling must have enjoyed
that charming demolition of Mr. Greeiey by Mr
Carpenter, on taking the chair at the I'tie? Con?
vention! At the last Convention tor the nomina
HOB of B Republican candidate for Governor, Mr.
Roscoe Conkling itisi?te<l that Mr. Greeiey should
lie the man, and has since taken great credit to
himself therefor. Now Mr. Carpenter tells him that
the candidate for whom he voted, and whom ho
knew as well then as he knows him now, had been
A Petulant Advocate, of Secession.
A Promoter of ffonHItlaa ta Patea,
An Advocate of Surrender iu War,
An Arch Fomente ht Discord,
The White-feathered Hero of Ni.ig.ira,
-he-ules a great variety of other disagrecihl.i
things. How Mr. Roscoe Conkling must have rel?
ished this picture of w nt ho hid knowingly com?
mitted himself to the .apport of ! How those rep?
resentatives of the Offi-e-Holders' party must h.tvn
gloated over this demonstration of the . liant, ter of
the man whom, while knowing every fact in 1rs
carivcr as well then as they do now, they so often
nouiiuated!
Mr. Sayles J. Howen of Washington informs us
that some friend? of Ins have miei red, tmmmt tfie ap?
pearance in Tub Tkihunk of an extract from
another paper criticising his conduct; m Jki sala
of his houso to PresidentVirant, that Tiik Trtim'Nr
indorses that criticism. Few uf our readers can In?
ignorant of the fact that the editorial opinions of
Thk IlmOBI arc to be found in its editorial col?
umns, and that w? print hundred? of extracts from
other papers as a part of the new. of the day, or aa
illustrating the drift <>f political discussion, which
w? never dream of indorsing. Certainly all onr in?
formation goes to .bow that, m the case of this trans?
action, Mr. Rowen's conduct was entirely cunv? t,
though Htugtil.irlv generous ami forbearing toward
the President, and that the President's conduct wae
conspicuously unfortunate aud uiorceuary, a not
worse.
This is the way Mr. Wheeler, Permanent Chair?
man of tho Grant Convention, yesterday. inaotted
the common sense of his bearers, lie sud: "Agstn
tlie cloud of treason and ?lisuuion overspread? tlsi
national sky as a pall. The thunder-storm of l??utt.?
is m our ears, and vast armies engage iu deadly on
ill? t, iii?on the '.ssiio of vthi.-h hangs our national
evistence." A man that ha? not sufficient MM ef
the ridiculous to keep hiui intu? blathering iu thi*
fashion in the preis?<n?e?>f t enttttiny should be detained
at lioiii) by his frieuds.
Office-holders' tiotinnattons tor Uie Governorship
of New-York are at a ?listmint. The last nominee
?utVcii'd m popular judtfiueut from not having
arrived at years of dusnetwa t- tbe pnmeai?a?? tot
having passed ttuun.