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HEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1876,
From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the weather to-day tciii be rearm,
cloudy and with, probably, rain.
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this office. Postage free.
Wall Street Yesterdat.?Stocks were
lower and tho market dull and drooping.
Gold opened and closed at 112 5-8, with
?ales meanwhile at 112 1-2. Government
and railwny bonds were steady. Money on
call wus supplied at 2 1-2 per cent.
The Programme of sports for to-day on
land and water wonld entice an anchorite
down the bay or a politician to Fordham.
The Canvass Takes a Singular Torn.?
The old maids are for Bristow, the barons
are for Conkling and tho boys are for Blaine.
Let us see which side will win.
Whiskey taken in certain doses will pro
duce intoxication as well as lager beer. This
is Mr. O'Gorman's philosophio contribution
to tho Sunday question, and perhaps a few
of his clients will snpport his view.
As a Secretary or the Treasury what has
Bristow done to show the possession of njiy
special ability ? How do his reports compare
with those of Hamilton, Gallatin and Chase,
or even with those of McCulloch? We can
not make a President out of the 'St. Louis
whiskey trials. Where is the record ?
The Politicians are not looking forward
to the 15th inst. with as much anxiety as
Winslow. the Boston forger, who, it is said,
will he discharged by the British authorities
on that day if the extradition qnestion is not
then adjusted. As matters look now the
chances are in favor of Winslow, English
advices reporting a deadlock in the matter
of the treaty.
Field Marshal Mr bat Halbtead, the
great editor of the West, and Bonanza Jones,
the richest man in the world, according to
the correspondents, and Boss Alexander B.
Shepherd, the bosom friend and plumber of
this affectionate administration, are all keep
ing open house at Cincinnati and spreading
tempting feasta botore the delegates. Hal
stoad is for Bristow, tho other two for Conk
ling. No one keeps open honse for Wash
bnrne. But was it not Cinderella who in the
end won the prince ?
England's Steam Kfserve.?Wo nre told
In a mournful despatch that owing to tho
falling off in emigration to this country a
great many fino British steamers, well known
in the Atlantic trade, are lying idle in the
Mersey and the Thames. Tho Admiralty,
doubtless, has its eye upon them, and in
ease of war they will find plenty to do in
carrying troops, war material and hospital
?applies.
What a CmrnROAT Game It Is.?When wo
Skim over these reports of the Conventions
end the editorial comments of the various
party newspapers wo are Rtrnck with the
faot that tho whole business of politics is
what might be called "a game of cutthroat."
How tho leaders denounce one another and
invent stories to each other's disparagement
and strive for the mastery! Where is the
eense of chivalry, of devotion to a party or a
principle, which animated the politicians in
the olden time ?
How Calm All Will Be in a Few Day*. ?In
? few days the whole business will be over
end we Bhall have a harmonious party,
every leader doing his level best for "the
eause" and the candidate. Then wo shall
know how much Conkling really thinks of
Blaine, the devotion Blaine feels for Conk
ling, the affection for Bristow that dwells in
all bosoms, the affeetionete appreciation of
Morton by his rivela, the long pent-up ad
miration for the courageous Waahburne, the
love which the whole party has ever felt for
the Groat Unknown. Just now all is olouded
by the smoke of the cannonading battalions.
When the smoke lifts we shall be surprised
to aee that thore ho* Wen no battle at all,
Ittly t tagt Sri end stage thunder.
' What tht Coaatrjr ExpecU from Cln
eln??tl.
I The Republican Convention will assemble
| to-morrow. The despatches we print this
. morning give a full and graphic picture of
| the scenes in Cincinnati preceding the meet
, ing. In tho political management of our
parties much more depends upon these pre
liminary consultations than upon the action
of the Convention. In every large body of
men in a Senate, a House, a Congress or a
convention there are a few who rule, who
have the experience necessary to wield au
thority. The will of these few will be im
posed upon the party, unless, as is sometimes
the case, the masses of the Convention'take
matters in their own hands and carry every
thing by an impulse of enthusiasm. This
was the way in the old French revolutionary
legislatures, and no good ever camo of it.
The sessions generally began by singing tho
"Marseillaise" and ended by carrying off
the head of the President on a pike. We
should havo little hope from tho Convention
which is to meet to-morrow or from the one
that is to meet in a couple of weeks at St.
Louis if their deliberations were to be gov
erned by "Johnny" Davenport'B bands of
music or Boss Kelly'B crowd of strikers and
heelers. There will of course be as much
music as is necessary, and the boys will have
rare sport in tramping around the streets and
shouting while tho lenders deliberate. But
it is to the leaders that wo look for a good
platform and a good ticket.
The Convention which meets to-morrow
can nominate a President of tho United
States. All the chances point toward the
choice of a republican administration. We
would prefer the contrary, believing that a
change is necessary for tho good of tho coun
try. But how can we expect a party which
throws over a statesman like Thurman
for a demagogue liko Allen to win the
confidence of the country ? The feeling in
the minds of tho people, that it is better to
bear the ills we have than fly to others we
know not of, especially when the others may
mean repudiation and revolution, will carry
a republican through if there is any wis
dom shown at Cincinnati. It is to the
interest of the country that there should
be a good mnn named at Cincinnati.
It will necessarily give us a good
man at St. Louis. For above any
political feeling, which is, after all, con
fin od to a few professional politicians, the
desire of the country is that both conven
tions shall give us their best men. There are
no burning questions to disturb the judg
ment of the leaders of the two parties. We
havo no propelling issue like tho war, which
has made any oalm, independent political
action impossible for fifteen years, which
threw Lincoln upon us as it threw Grant,
and which disturbed the whole fabric of our
government. We are not under the pressure
of events which govern politics, and which
have governed both parties since the death
of Lincoln especially. The questions aris
ing out of the war have been settled. The
other questions which interest thinking men
aro not ripo enough for political action.
There is a tacit assent on the part of both
parties to postpone free trade and other
problems for a canvass or two. All that is
left to us now is to keep the peace and pay
the debt. Tho canvass will, therefore, turn
more upon men and less upon principle than
it has for many years.
And yet (here are certain principles which
might with advantage be adopted by the
Convention to-morrow. This idea of free
trade is bo important to onr national well
being that it should be carefully considered.
It is time for parties to accept the beneficent
and wise doctrine that freedom of trade is
the best for all classes and especially for the
poor. Then the one term amendment for
the Presidency should be pressed upon the
Convention, and by the Convention sub
mitted to the people. There is no reason
why the republicans should not take high
ground upon this question. Cnosarism has
been a grievous burden to that party.
It robbed them of their majority in
the House. If General Grant had any
sensitiveness he can waive it now,
feeling as Jackson and other statesmen did
that the elective principle bodes no good
to the Republic. Then comes this question
of Chinese emigration. It is proper
for any convention to lay down, as a
principle governing emigration, that while
wo welcome all who come to our shores as
citizens meaning to cast their lot with us,
whether black, whito or yellow, wo do not
accept those who come without their wives
or families, who do not regard this country
as a home, but as a treasure land to be
ransacked and despoiled. The Chinaman
conies here very mnch as the freebooter went
to the islands of tho Spanish Main. His
only errand is booty, and we should treat
him as a booty-hunter. This is a point
which should not be overlooked by a repub
lican convention. It does not involve pro
scription or cruelty, but simply asks from
the emigrant acquiescence with our laws
and onr destiny. Upon finance we expect
the Convention to take strong ground.
There must be no paltering with repudia
tion in any form. And while on this point,
we demand also some expression as to the
manner in which the railway jobbers have
abused the confidcnce of the government
and plundered the Treasury.
As to the 8outh, we can dispense with
all rhetoric about the Duke of Alva and An
dcrsonville. When we have a sound plat
form we want a sound man. The republi
cans are not to have a walk over. They
are not to have a President shoved upon
them as Grant ha9 been for two terms.
Th?*ir leaders must not be swayed by
the enthusiasm of the Convention galleries
or the echoes of the lobbies of Congross.
The country will sit in pitiless scrutiny
for nearly six long months over the
name this Convention presents. The light
whirh falls upon a candidate for the Presi
dency is a terrible one. What man among
the leaders is the most worthy to stand this
te*t? Which man can go into the flnme and
come forth without the smell of fire on his
garments ? This is a serious question, and
it must be considered not aa Conkling nor
as Morton nor as Blaine partisans, but as
republicans who see the success of the
piirty above all personal ambition. Mr.
Blaine's candidaoy fail* on the first
trial. Mr. Blaine is a charming and ami
able character. He appeals to the yoona
men of the party by his courage and to
tho American sentiment in favor of
fair piny. He has been hardly used.
Upon him has fallen a sad misfortune.
Bnt Mr. Blaine hiw made himself an impos
sible candidate by admitting that at the
time when the railway rings were plunder
ing the government he shared in their spoil,
and ns Speaker did their bidding. As
Speaker he did M'hat as Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court would have cost him his
place. This is the underlying fact in the
whole discussion about the private letters.
Mr. Blaine as the candidate of the republi
can party would put that party upon the
defensive from the beginning ; would com
pel it to sustain or ignore that whole system
of railway jobbery ; would Bilcnce tho guns
that otherwise would be opened upon tho
democrats who were in tho same ring, and
would make the race a losing one from the
outset. This Cincinnati enthusiasm, this
Washington sympathy for an ailing
gentleman, this gushing rhetoric of cal
low Washington correspondents, who think
of Blaine's dinners while they writo their
despatches?all this will fade away, and then
will come the hard duty of carrying a man
who, but for the stupidity of the democratic
members of tho House, would now be beforo
the bar of tho House in danger of expulsion
for having tampered with a witness and sup- I
pressed evidence:
Of course, if tho republicans see in Mr.
Blaine their best candidate they hnvo a right
to show their faith in him. That is their
business. We simply speak of tho effect
upon tho country. If the Con vention^ wants
the man who best represents tho courage,
the discipline and the honor of th? party,
who will poll every vote, command the
respect of his opponents, and be a worthy j
President if elected, it will take Mr.
Conkling. If it is willing to change its
ground on the money question and throw
tho Southern States back into ftie hands of
adventurers and military governors, at tho
same time running tho risk of another Tyler
and another Johnson, it will take Mr. Mor
ton. If it desires to name the man against
whom nothing can be said as a republican or
a reformer, and who would bo true to the
principles of an honored and courageous
life, it will take Mr. Washburne. If it wishes
to please a few old maids, some Harvard
professors and a swarm of detectives by trying
as an experiment a man about whom it
knows nothing, it will tako Mr. Bristow, and
learn in four years whether or not he is a re
former. Every path has its difficulties.
We can understand how republicans who
think only of the party success should bo
puzzled. If none of these paths are inviting
there is always tho road toward the Great
Unknown. When the tired gambler wearies
of pursuing fortune he frequently throws his
stake upon a new card and daros fate to
its worst. This has time and again been the
resource of a desperate convention. Some
times the prize is a Polk or a Pierce, some
times it is a Lincoln. It may be that tho re
publican leaders, worn out by these burning
strifes, will tempt destiny by taking a Great
Unknown, feeling, perhaps, that as they
won a Lincoln once fortune may smile
upon them at Cincinnati as it smiled upon
them sixteen years ago in tho wigwam at
Chicago.
New York at Cincinnati.
The New York delegation held a consulta
tion yesterday for the purpose of deciding
on their course in the Convention. The
result showed a very near approach to unan
imity in their support of Mr. Conkling. Mr.
Curtis had an opportunity of proving that
he has as little influence with the delegates
as he had in the State Convention. He told
the Convention that if Mr. Conkling is
nominated New York, Ohio and Massachu
setts will be lost to the republican party.
But the other delegates are as competent to
judge of Mr. Conkling's chances fot carry
ing New York as Mr. Curtis, and there seems
some presumption in his setting up his in
dividual opinion against tbat-of the delega
tion and against the views and wishes of the
republican party of New York as declarod
by their State Convention. Mr. Curtis said
that a leading delegato from Massachusetts
had told him that Conkling could not carry
that State. That Massachusetts gentle
man, whoever he mny be, would be
able to assure his colleagues, in like
manner, that a leading delegate from
New York had assured him that Conk
ling oould not carry his own State ; but if
the Massachusetts man be such an odd
sheep in the flock as Mr. Curtis is in his
own delegation his single opinion mny not
be quite conclusive. If Mr. Curtis menns
that he will not vote for the nominee of the
Convention if it should be Conkling lie has
no right as a man of honor to enter the Con
vention at all. But if Mr. Curtis would vote
for Conkling in the event of his nomina
tion it is probable that all other republi
cans in Now York would do bo too, for there
is no other republican in the 8tatc who op
poses Mr. Conkling with so much bitterness.
It is hardly consistent with political good
faith to take part in a convention and then
refuse to bo bound by its action. There
would be no sense in holding political con
ventions if the decision of tho majority did
not bind the minority. This first principle
of party fealty seems to sit very loosely on
Mr. Curtis. He opposed yesterday a resolu
tion couched in the very words of the Syra
cuse Convention.
A Hint to tub Bots. ?The newspaper
boys are Work up Blaine in a style that
recalls the halcyon days of Schuyler Colfax.
When Schuyler was scheming for his ad
vancement he was wont to spend his time on
Newspaper Row, in Washington, telling the
correspondents how much he admired them
and how he wished he were President, if
only for a week, that he might give them all
first class missions. But when Schuyler be
came Vice President he never wont near the
boys, and when they camc near him he lec
tured them on tho dignity and independence
of the pre*s and how the gigantic minds of
the correspondents should bo above political
or official ambition. We are afraid that if
Blaine became President he might have high
ideas about the dignity of journalism. The
boys should not b? too precipitate and con
fiding in their affections. The only nso a
politician ever has for a journalist is to use
his.
Senator ConkliBg'i Rising ChWfH.
Tho reports from Cincinnati show that the
confidence of the Conkling men is steadily
increasing, and that there is a real
increase of strength as a basis for this
growing confidence. The votes of tho
South, the votes of the Pacific States and
Territories, together with those of New
York and Pennsylvania, would give Mr.
C'onkling very nearly a majority, and it is
next to certain that he will receive these and
largo additions from other States. The
Conkling canvass has been managed with
consummate skill. No effort has been
wasted in States not essential to success. In
politics as in war it is the perfection of
strategy to find tho key positions which
command all the others, and concentrate
upon these, for when they have been taken
the others will full of themselves. t The
delegates of New York, Pennsylvania, the
South and the Pacific coast are about all
that Mr. Conkling needs to insure his nomi
nation, and as soon as it is seen that he has
these delegates from other States will hasten
to support him, as wishing to be on the win
ning side and to stand well with the new ad
ministration.
The methods by which this result is to be
accomplished are already partially disclosed.
To Senator Jones has been assigned the task
of taking care of the delegates from tho Pa
cific coast and mining regions. He will not
attempt to draw them away from Blaine
or to proselytize them in any way.
He has taken one of the finest houses
in Cincinnati, which he will keep open till
tho adjournment of the Convention, dis
pensing a liberal and profuse hospitality and
bestowing marked social attentions on tho
P.icific coast delegates. His great wealth,
his high standing in that interesting section
of the country, his knowledgo of and devo
tion to its interests, will render his hospi
talities peculiarly pleasing to the Pacific
delegates. He will hardly talk politics to
them, or ccrtainly ijot at first; but his cham
pagne will flow like a river, and tho pleasant
joke, tho lively repartee, the arts by which
an accomplished host makes his guosts
feel pleased with themselves and with him,
will put that part Qf the delegates in such a
humor that they will be easily influenced
after Blaine is out of the contest.
Meanwhile, in pursuance of the Napoleonic
strategy of striking the enemy at some vital
point, the Blaino delegates from some im
portant State will be led to break and desert.
Probably Illinois, which is the largest of the
Blaine States, will be selected for this ex
periment, especially if, as our late de
spatches assure us, Logan should unite
forces with Conkling and accept the
Vice Presidency as the price of the alli
ance. No matter where the Illinois
delegates go, it is enough if they break
and scatter. The moment this is done it
will be seen that Blaine is out of the contest.
The time will then be ripe for bringing the
Pacifio delegates into the Conkling camp,
where they will naturally go as soon ab
Blaine is abandoned. The District of Co
lumbia delegates being zealous for Conkling
we will class them with those from the Terri
tories, and with the delegates from the Pacific
States the contingent commanded by Sen
ator Jones will present the following muster
roll:?
California 12 Idaho 2
Nevada. 6 Montana. 2
Oregon , 6 New Mexico 2
Colorado 3 t'tah 2
Dakota 2 Washington 2
District ot Colombia... 2 Wyoming 2
Total ., 43
We turn next to the South. Morton is the
favorite candidate of most of the Southern
delegates, bat if will Lecome apparent in
any early stage of the proceedings that
neither he nor Bristbw has any chance for
the nomination. The question will then be
to whom the Morton and Bristow delegates
shall be transferred. There can be no
doubt that they will go to Conkling. In the
first place the ablest, most widely known and
best esteemed of all the colored leaders in
the United States, Frederick Douglass, is a
strong Conkling man, and if he shonld ad
dress the Soathern delegates after Morton is
withdrawn his eloquence would make a
great impression. In the next place it is
well known that tho Southern repub
licans are devoted admirers of- Presi
dent Grant; that they would have pre
ferred him to any other candidate; that they
would be gnided by his wishes if he would
make his wishes known. When Morton is
withdrawn the Southern delegates will be
left In no doubt as to whom President Grant
favors, and his preference, supported by
Douglass' eloquence, will make them a unit
for Conkling. The Southern States will
give Conkling one hundred and eighty votes
in the later ballots. The Conkling strength,
when the voting becomes earnest and
"means business," may therefore be reck
oned as tollows:?
Pacific State* and Territories 43
Southern States 180
New York 70
Pennsylvania 5S
Making J 3ftl
As soon as it becomes evident that Mr.
Conkling has these States the votes of In
diana will be transferred to him, as the
friends of Morton can hardly support any
body else at that stage, and the votes of Ohio
will be added in consideration of the nom
ination of Governor Hayes for Vice Presi
dent. The Conkling strength will then
stand as follows:?
States in forefolng list 3M
Indiana 30
Ohio 44
Total 42i
This will mako forty-eight more than a
majority, and we have included in the calcu
lation only those States which Conkling's
friends have a reasonable hope of securing.
This estimate, which is founded on the ex
pectations of Mr. Conkling's friends, may
not bo fully verified in all its parts, but it
has foundation enough to justify the belief
that the nomination does not lie between
Conkling and any of his present competi
tors, but between him and the Great Un
known.
Who Pats thk Moxet for Bsistow's Ma
cmx*??For a reformer who does not seek
the Presidency, who thinks the man should
not seek the office, but the office the man,
who deplores corruption in politics and the
use of money, who would return the gov
ernment to the principles of the fathers, this
campaign of Bristow's costs some on* a deal
of mon?y. W? hear of Briftow banner*, Bria
tow transparencies, Bristow cravats, Bristol
delegations and Bristow clubs all over Cin
cinnati. This costs money, as Hon. Tom
Murphy or any experienced leader will tes
tify. The question is, Who pays the money?
for we disdain tho thought that all this is on
speculation. In a reform canvass the bills
should certainly bo paid. Who is paying
out the money for Bristow?
Mr. Blaine's Cnsr?Is It Herons Apo
plexy l
In tho absence of a history of the case medi
cally precise we have these main points
For many days the patient's brain has been
overworked in sheer intellectual labor, and
the emotional nature has been unduly ex
cited by chargos that threatened to defeat a
great ambition. In good health this is evi
dently a brain and a nervous system that
would endure unshaken great labor and
great excitement; but there are no brains
whose endurance is illimitable. There is a
degree of labor and of excitement that over
comes any degree of strength, but the point
at which the brain gives out under the in
fluence of labor and excitement was less re
mote with Mr. Blaine just now because of
rocent illness. His brain, therefore, pre
sented less capacity for labor tban usual,
and when suddenly called upon for greater
efforts than usual exhaustion was tho
necessary consequence. In regard to the
brain in cases like this the word exhaustion
means precisely what it does in other strictly
physical phenomena. The capacity of a Are
to supply heat is exhausted when all the
coal is burned out and there is no more coal
to put on. Tho paying capacity of a bank
is exhausted when the reserve is paid
out and the drafts are in excess of the
receipts. It is tho function of the
brain to think and to supply the force
that controls our voluntary movoments; but
if the brain is weakened by ill health,
and the demands upon it are excessive,
its reserve of force or capital must be great,
indeed, if it does not fail to respond sooner
or later, and its failure to respond induces
that sort of vital collapse which is seen when
a man falls speechless and unconscious ; for
not a step is taken, not a word is spoken,
not a familiar face is recognized, not a
familiar voico remembered without the active
participation of the brain.
Mr. Blaine's brain was, therefore, in this
condition on Sunday morning. He had not
slept the night before, nor lor many nights
previously, as he should have slept, and it
is in sleep, mostly, that the brain recuperates.
Then is repaid into this storehouse for in
tellectual capital the equivalent of what it
has paid out in thought and other forms of
activity in tho working hours ; but with the
bank already shaken the paying teller
extended his operations to twenty-three
hours and the receiving teller was restricted
to one hour of the twenty-four. Then, in the
news that Bookwood Hoar had withdrawn
from his support, oame a new chagrin, like
an enormous draft on the reduced capital.
Upon this toss followed another, for the pa
tient subjected his nervous system to the
enormous strain of a considerable walk in
the exoessive heat of a sunshiny day, and
this proved to be the ounce too much and
the brain failed. But what happened in the
patient's brain at that moment ? That is the
problem upon which turns not merely the
question of the man's life, not merely the
point whether he will die now or recover
now, but the more important ques
tion whether the event lias so dam
aged the brain that though he live now
he may die next year, or the equally impor
tant question whether this circumstance
indicates in this case, as it does in many
cases, a sort of habit of the brain to drop
exhausted in the highways of life under the
strain of enforced activity. Was the
cause of the failure of the faculties in the
nature of an epileptio seizure? Was it sun
stroke ? Was there rupture of a blood ves
sel ? Was there effusion through the walls
of the vessels of the watery parts of
the blood? Was it merely an extreme
case of vertigo; or, as Dr. Pope
puts it, "cerebral depression?" though
how cerebral depression is to drop a man on
the steps of a church, unless it produces
physical changes, it must be difficult for or
dinary mortals to tell. There was sudden
loss of the power of voluntary motion, fol
lowed mpidly by loss of consciousness.
Less marked in its onset, there was commo
tion, which continued for five hours, in
which thorc was stertorious and irregular
respiration, and from which the patient had
not entirely come out when thirty hours had
gone by. And all this was accompanied at
the moment of seizure by pain, apparently
very seyero and distinctly localized in
the occipital region?Pain which extorted
from a strong, proud, self-possessed man,
the cry, "O God! my head." When have
the Washington doctors known cerebral de
pression to produce pain like that? From
all the ficts of the case it seems clear that
the medulla oblongata or the cerebcllum
is in trouble; that there is a dangerous
congestion in that part of the brain, and,
perhaps, serous apoplexy, which is quito
consistent with consciousness and speech,
since that part of the brain may be over
whelmed without great derangement of the
cerebral hemispheres, as was shown in the
case of CarTuth, the Vinelund editor.
What Does Any On* Know about Bris
tol outside of the prosecution of the whis
key frauds in St. Louis, an achievement
the credit of which belongs to Grant as
much as to the Secretary of the Treasury,
and which, without the consent of Grant,
would never have taken place ? Let Bristow
run for the Presidency on his own record,
and not on a record that belongs to
Grant as the head of the administration, and
who is cntitlod to all tho credit, as he is to
all the blamo,
Another 8a vinos Ban*.?We hear that
another savings bank has fallen into tho
hands of the receiver. Can there not be
some punishment for these robbers of the
poor? We think that if Uncle Sammy Til
den were to take his mind from tho canvass
for the Presidency long enough to make an
example of some of these bank plqjiderers
it would be a benefit to his canvasa. The
time has come to punish some of these pre
cious scamps. The fact that they are mainly
men of wealth and position should only
nerva the Governor in tho performance of
his duty.
Don* Pedro it Cambridge.
It will be remembered that when the Em.
peror of Brazil was met by Secretariat! Fish
and Robeson in the Bay that His Majesty,
after slipping as promptly as possible ont of
the chains of diplomatic etiquette, asked
after two American citizens, not at all of the
stamp of the bluff Secretary of the Navy?
a real soldier and a real poet, General Sher
man and Mr. Longfellow. The author of
"Evangeline" was especially dear to the
Emperor, nnd he said gallantly, as Moham
med said, that if Longfellow would not come
to Dom Pedro, Dom Pedro wcnld go to Long*
fellow. And His Majesty has kept his word.
A short despatch informs us that the Emperoi
dined on Saturday at Cambridge with
Mr. Longfellow, who had invited Oliver
Wendell Holmes and Ralph Waldo Emerson
to meet the South American potentate.
Here, indeed, was a pretty party, worthy of
further celebration than a line or two buried
jtcnhi in the files of the newspapers. The
Emperor of Brazil, who has been travelling
over the land pursuing the utilitarian with
the eyes of Argus, sits him down peacefully
at last to enjoy "the feast of reason and the
flow of soul" amid the honored names oi
American literature. To Cabinet Secretaries
we have seen him briefly polite, and to such
important magnates as Mayors of Chicago,
Oil City, Cincinnati and so forth, he has
been politely brief; with factory owners and
all the representatives of our wealth and in
dustry he has confined himself to quostions
about spinning jennies, dye stuffs and
the like, but for a long talk over the sacred
tablecloth he sits him down with a poet, a
satirist and a philosopher. It is the highesjl
compliment His Majesty could pay to Ameri
can letters after having rendered the flowing
lines of Longfellow into Portuguese. It
there was no faithful Boswell at the board
to tuke down the good things that were said
in solid chunks, as the patient Scotchman
did who penned the sesquipedalian words
of Johnson, must the memory of that fam
ous dinner table on Saturday last be left to
a passing line ? Awn re of what is due to the
dignity of art, and knowing how times have
changed, can we not yet hope that between
the poet, the satirist and the philosophei
this truly royal banquet will- find an endur
ing plaoe in literature ? To Mr. Longfellow
tho subject might present itself in the guisi
of four hoary sages, well on in their battl*
with the world, meeting in calm con
verse amid the storm of life, and touched,
perchance, with tho sadness of his "morituri
to salutamus." The "Autocrat of the Break
fast Table" has the example of Horace to
guide him, when the latter told the story ol
the journey of Mrocenas, Virgil, Varius and
himself to Brundisium, over which old
Father Prout loved to linger, spelling out in
old English letter the comprehensive line
"I.usara It Mwceaas; dormltum ego Virgiltugque."
Dr. Holmes can lavish his terse wit and
sly humor upon the subject, while Mr. Em
erson can bathe the whole dinner in a sea ol
transcendental philosophy. Thus treated,
the visit of Dom Pedro to Cambridge would
be remembered as long as the Dialogues
of Plato, the songs of Horace or the epics of
Homer. Dr. Holmes can keep the subject
on the earth, Mr. Longfellow can take it to
the stars, and Mr. Emerson can project il
into the universal ether imagined to spread
endlessly beyond the deep chasmata of the
heavens. Such a dinner with such a guest
would be worthy of the immortality it would
receive.
The Knd of On* Reform Movement*
Peter Cooper described in his interview
yesterday in vivid terms the rise and fall ol
the Citizens' Association, of which he wai
president, and which was started i ?> break
down Tweed in the zenith of Tweed's power.
This Citizens' Association was composed of
the best names in New York. The practical
operation was left to one or two subordi
nates. The chief subordinate was Mr.
Sands, who was paid by the association ten
thousand dollars a year. But notwithstand
ing this munificent salary, which Sands cer
tainly earned by running down every editoi
in New York, Peter B. captured him and the
association. For a long time Sands was
serving Peter C. for ten thousand a year, and
Peter B. for a good deal more. As soon as
Peter C. found out that Sands had gone over
to Peter B. he hnstled him out. Bat the
usefulness of the Bcform Citizens' Associa
tion was at an end. By the way it would be
worth while inquiring how many deserving
citizcns gained power by moans of this re
form association. The difficnlty with reform
associations is that the honest citizens will
not attend to them any more than thoy do
to politics and elections. If honest men
were to give their time to their duties as citi
zens there would be no need of reform
associations.
Tnr. Wat It Is Done.?Here is a sample ol
tho manner in which public opinion is
manufactured. Wo quote from the gushing
despatch of one of the Blaine boys:?"The
Colorado delegation arrived in force " (there
are two delegates, wo believe). "This morn
ing Governor Bnutt, who acoompanies
them, said tho Territory is actually ablaze
for Blaine." "Among the republicans every
man, woman and child is for Blaine, besides
many of the democrats, and if he is nomi
nated bonfires will be kindled on every peak
of the Bocky Mountains, and the people
will actually go wild." Nothing is said as
to the feeling among the Utes and tba
antelopes, which are by far the most
numerous portion of the population of
Colorado. We like to see a correspondent
when he goes into the business of manu
facturing public opinion give his soul to it.
Millions or Doctments bft Not Oirj
Cent or Tribctk.?In the interesting inter*
view with Peter Cooper, which we printed
yesterday, our illustrious and venerabla
townsman informed our reporter that he
was in constant receipt of applications from
"newspapers in the West" asking for "help
in carrying on the groat principles of sotfc
money doctrines." Mr. Cooper assured our
correspondent that he did not intend to
send these people any money; but he added,
"I send all ol them my pamphlets and oui
documents for their comfort and instrno?
tion. This is wise on the part of out
townsman. If he were to send these editors
money they would only spend it and want
more. The documents and pamphlets they