The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1872, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD What Will Be Done at Cieciunati¢—Where is the Anti-Grant Candidate, und What is To Bo the Platform? What do our “reformed republican” friends propose to do when they reach Cincinnati? If it is the lasting duty of every patriot to defeat General Grant, who is to be the champion of the movement, and upon what principles is the canvass to be made? We are now on the BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herap. verge of spring. The State conventions of Letters and packages should be properly the republican party are electing dele- sealed. gates. The malcontents are in negotiation with the railway companies for free passes, and there will be a liberal gathering of needy adventurers. The democrats are holding themselves in reserve, although the demo- cratic organ acquaints us with the fact that while they are dormant they are certainly not dead, The republicans are compact and dis- ciplined, and their machinery is in motion. The opposition {s disorganized, impatient, weary, and we may all ask what will be done at Cincinnati? A great party has every season or two a sloughing off. When the democrats were in power every Presidential canvass developed a fraction of disappointed patriots, who organ- ized themselves into an independent move- ment. Calhoun abandoned Jackson and sup- purated into nullification. Van Buren carried away his disappointed fragment and became afreesoiler. The Wilmot Proviso democrats seceded from Polk ultimately to become repub- licans, The anti-Nebraska democrats rejected Pierce and joined the anti-slavery party. The anti-Lecompton democrats repudiated Bu- chanan and gave the organization of the House to the republicans. While the whigs were in power there were ‘‘Silver Gray,” and ‘‘Native American” and ‘‘Kuow Nothing” factions, composed of disappointed leaders anxious to make a grievance a prin- ciple and attain power by intrigue and mutiny. When the republican party became dominant it underwent the .same process. Lincoln’s first term generated the Cleveland comedy. When Johnson came into power he carried with bim men like Blair and Seward, Randall and McCulloch, Welles, Dixon and Doolittle. That was a secession, backed by all the power of the administration, What came of it? The party dressed ranks, closed up the gap and marched in solid and triumphant column behind the Hero of Appo- mattox, leaving the eminent deserters to starve and mourn on the line of march. Now z ———= = = — Grant has his rebellion. Trumbull, Sumner, CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Schurz, Greeley, Wilkes and their followers Paar. ~ we have gone into mutiny, and earnestly contend J Advertisementa, that the country will follow them as the leaders 2—Advertisemenis. 3—Wasnington : The New York Chamber of Com. | Of 4 great and necessary reform movement. preter tieg 7 Parke Deneck ot: [ey Now, we by no means despise this mutiny, enn. abd SUP) ies; The Woot Manufacturing nor do we underrate the genius and power of Order Husiness; The Japanese Embassy —The the men who head it. But let us always Branch ot tie ‘Temuien on tee Of pe egy remember that the phenomenon we see now is Pa ya To Be ‘Abated; Excitement | only, as we have shown, what every successful 4—the Swamp Untiaws: Scutfietown, the Mulatt | Patty has seen, and that these “prodigious ae of Hore Carolina; Origin of the Free | intellects’—if we may believe their support- s jemernt; First Appearance ol the pd eet date (and feeling | in ing newspapers—have no more genius than Karnes Proceedings; Organization of tue | the men who preceded them as seceders. We Forel capete can Stolen Vouchers—That | are told to look at Trumbull, Greeley, Sum- SeInteresting ‘Proceedings in the New York ana | ner, Schurz and Wilkes to admit that ‘‘the Harbor investigauon—is it Her Chuu?—the | intellect of the party,” tts courage and its Suils ana Bears—The Newark Highwaymen— | moral sense, are in revolt against Grant. But Saved from the Gallows: second Trial of John A Purcell—Police Matters—Fatal Ol Lamp Ex- | we do not think so. Seward and Chase, eee ee adic What Witt pe | Doolittle and Cowan, the Blairs and Andrew Done at Cincinnati? Where is the Anti-Grant | Johnson were as able and illustrious as the Candidate, and What 1s to be the Piatforin ?’— * Amusement Announcements. leaders of this new conspiracy ; but the party pga ee le a cia eye eS ee tf threw them out, and who cares for them now? Great Fire in Philadel Miscelianeous | This alliance is really weak. Mr. Sumner is a scholar and a rhetorician, but he never had a party in his life larger than would fill an omnibus, and he has no party now. Mr. Trumbull was never heard of, except as an exacting party follower—much given to scolding and fll temper, a kind of an old maid politician—until he was beguiled with dreams of the Presidency. His pub- lished virtues are, by his own confession, about three years old. Mr. Greeley has never had any allegiance to a party leader since Henry Clay, and it is quite probable if Clay had been elected he would have discovered that he was Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ant lath strest, — Tus VEeTsuan. GARDEN, Broadway, det Ate Seite BAvAee. eee at NIBLO' Houston BOWERY THEATRE, Bub MINE. ry—BurraLo BILt—Tow ST. JAMES’ THEATRE, Twanty-etghi ol JAMES! TH ‘wonty-oighth street and Broad- FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fi ra ‘ue Naw DRaMa or Divonce. Sls OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue BALLET PAN- TOMIME OF HUMPTY Dumery. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., cornar Sixth av. — JULIUa CmsaR, WOOD'S MUSKUM, Broadway. corner 30th st, —Perform- ancesafternoon and evening.—LUN a. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Maup's Pra. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway,—Couro Vooat- 18K8, NEGRO ACTS, £0.—1XI0N, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth at. and Broad- way.—NEQRO AOTS—BURLESQUE, BALLET, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. — NeGRO ECOENTRICITING, BURLESQUES, £0. Matinee. BRYANT’S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 334 at, bi and 7ihava—BRYanr's Mixerneve, 1’ between 6th THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third ave- oue—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, Matanee at 2. 8AN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Bro — Tuk SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, i Eveanny sR war HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granpd Con- NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteentn atrast,—SOBNES m us Ring, AOROBATS, £0. Matinee at 234. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCLBNOB AND ART. SOreNOE AND ART. DR, KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — ch 5, 1872. Telegrams— Amusements ather Keport— The Virginia Financial Muddie—Business Notices, S—Kurope: What is Thought In Roussta of the Anglo-American DiMiculty; Rouher on Napo- leonism; France Still True at Heart to the imperial Kuie; Gladstone and Disraelt’s Tilt; Particulars ot the Murder in Loudon by an Atnerican Doctor—Municipal Affairs: Proceed- ings of the Boards of Aldermen and Super- visors—The Hawkins’ Mite—Tammany So- ciety—Murder im Hunter’s Pomt—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Financial and Commercial: A Grand Bull Cam- paign iu the Stock Market; The General List Strong; Southern Securities Dulli—Brookiyn’s Burdens—Seeking for Gold— Advertisements. 3@—New Hampshire: Progress of the Political Campaign in the Granite State—Meeting of the Church Conference—The Methodist Preachers—New Jersey Methodist Conter- ence —The Jersey City Frauds—The College of —The National Centennial—New i Dens TNS oe accltents During ine | given to liquor and cards and dicing. As for Storm—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- | Mr. Schurz, he is simply a shrewd German 41—Alvertisements, adventurer who has been laden with office 19—Advertizem ever since he began to study English, who has been signally honored by the republican Raraer ResiGN THAN ProsecuTe.—The party, and, haying failed in every position, United States District Attorney of Georgia . is office b h id means to succeed as @ malcontent. It is the has resigned his o' a ice ecause e cou! ae vanity of Mr. Schurz that he has a engage in what a Georgia paper styles ‘‘the lien upon the German vote. Liens like vile persecution and disgraceful work of the this are very uncertain, and the Ger- Ku Klox business.” How long will the office shane will require from Mr. Schurz go begging om some better reason for following him than President Grant’s refusal to receive his card when he came from the West. As for Wilkes, he has capacity and force, is an audacious leader, and if the anti-Grant men were in ear- nest they would nominate him on their ticket. What do these men propose to do in Cincin- nati? They must find a man and a platform. Will they give us any of their coalition ? Internal jealousies will prevent that, as each Sroxes Recetves Justioge at Last—Not the New York Stokes, but ex-Congressman Stokes, of Tennessee, who has been fined about fifteen bundred dollars for improper and dishonest practices in prosecuting claims against the government while a member of Congress. Cheap enough, ty Kansas,—Ex-Senator Anrt-Grantism Ross, Marcus Parrott, and other prominent | member expects to be a candidate, not leading Kansas citizens, have held a public | excepting Mr. Schurz, who sees no meeting and proclaimed war against General difficulty in amending the constitution Grant. Now we suppose we shall hear more of “bleeding Kansas” in order that the politi- cal shriekers can carry on the campaign effect- to make him eligible. Can we have Judge Davis? All we know of Judge Davis is that sanctified by this Cincinnati coalition? As an independent journal, caring nothing for any party, we support Grant for these reasons. He has kept the peace; he has given protec- tion to men of all colors in the South ; he has solved the painful and shameful Indian ques- tion; he has given us an economical ad- ministration, and bas been implacable with rogues in office; he made a treaty with England and means to hold England to it; he has strengthened the na- tional credit and has contributed in every way to the prosperity of the country. He has borne himself with simplicity, dignity and honor in his station—a quiet, unpretending gentleman, as every President should be. Behind this he bas made a name in our history second only to Washington as a soldier—a name known to all the world. We say to the coalition, What better can you give us? Have you any name? Is there any- living American name more illustrious than that of Grant. What are your principles? You cannot give us free trade, for Mr. Greeley must be secured; nor protection, or you will offend Mr. Trumbull. What can you give us as a platform? That Grant has received presents, that he has appointed relatives to office, that he smokes cigars and is fond of The Plots of the Erie Ring at Albany— Ie the Republican Legisintare a Den of Thieves The latest rumors from Albany strengthen the suspicion that the lobby agents of the Erie Railroad have succeeded in buying up & majority of the republican reform Legislature this session, as they bought up the republican State Legislature of 1869, and that the attempt to destroy the twin Ring of Tammany will fail unless the bribers and the bribed can be made to realize the fact that no pains will be spared to arraign them for their acts at the bar of a criminal court, The course to be pursued by the friends of Gould and his associates is not an open opposition to the reform measures now before the Legislatuge, but the mutilation of the bills and their passage in such a shape as will defeat their real object and leave the men who are plundering the stockholders and confiscating the property of the road in full possession of its -management and funds. The bill recently introduced by Assemblyman Husted, of Westchester, notwithstanding his professions of hostility to the Classification act, was precisely what was needed by the lobby to enable them to carry out this conspiracy in the service of the Ring. It is to be reported to the Assembly in lieu of the O’Brien bill, horses. This is really the whole anti- | with a proviso that the. repeal shail not be Grant platform, excepting Mr. Greeley’s | operative until confirmed by a vote of the theory that there should be one | stockholders, and a provision for the reduc- term for the Presidency—a _ theory | tion of the stock of the company by, we be- he has been advocating for forty years. Why | lieve, forty million dollars. The vote on the does not Mr. Greeley bring up his old asso- clation theories which he advocated thirty yeara ago and upon which we could have an original and intelligible canvass? We say, in reply to the one-term principle, that it has no place in this campaign; that it is advanced simply as an intrigue, and that many who would be apt to support it upon a fair dis- question of repeal or no repeal is to be taken on the reduced amount of stock, and if the result be affirmative, then new directors are to be elected. There are to be provisions in the bill in case of repeal for a fair election, for a proper control of the transfer books by the stock- holders and for an honest canvass of the votes, cussion say they cannot agree that | all sounding well enough to the ear; but, as Grant should be treated differently | the preliminary vote as to repeal is to be from six Presidents of the United | decided under the management of Gould and States when he has done as well as any of them. To advance the one term principle now as an argument against Grant is to aid in destroying it, Asto the other ‘‘principles,” they are little more than corner grocery scandals, Grant received presents as a general,‘ as McClellan received them, as his fellows, these provisions are mere frauds. The reduction of the stock will, of course, occasion a rise in Erie, and the bribery of the legislators is to be covered up by pretended operations on the market. This is the pro- gramme as it reaches us from reliable authority, and there is littie doubt that, if not Wellington and Marlborough did in| correct in all its particulars, some very the height of their glory. Has _ he | similar plot is in progress at the State capital. received a present in the White The people of the State of New York are House, and has it not cost him his | not to be deceived by any such flimsy frauds. salary to live? If he has appointed relatives to office we may criticise his taste in doing so ; but have his opponents never had relatives in office ? And, in making this charge, do they not remember the admonition of Christ as to who should cast the first stone? As to his fondness for horses, no one ever made that a crime in Washington or Jackson, and there are few manlier tastes among gentlemen in Eng- land or America. They have given to the republican party a three-fourths majority ia both branches of the Legislature, and have sent them to Albany commissioned to complete the destruction of the New York Tammany Ring and to destroy its counterpart and associate in rascality, the Erie Ring. They know that the latter work can only be accomplished in one way—by wresting the transfer books of the com- pany from the unscrupulous hands of the As we touch this coalition and the fabric of | Ring, causing an honest election to an anti-Grant party which it has reared it | be held by the Jona fide stockholders crumbles. We see nothing sound in it. Itis | and turning out the men who have a party without a leader ora principle. We | lawlessly seized and lawlessly hold see vanity, ambition, spite, disappointment, | possession of the road. No honest office hunger, jealousy, impatienae—the grosser dregs of partisansb’p, with three or four names hanging outside, which we are called upon to worship because they are names. Let us be excused from that idolatry. We mean to be fair and just. to these coalition republicans, to show them all respect and kindness, but we must see before we believe. Give us a living rea- son for opposing Grant and we shall consider it. As it now is, provided he does not make some fatal blunder, we see no better way of serving the country than to aid in his election ; and so, asa candidate, we continue to take him against the field. Senator or Assemblyman will vote for any less reform than this, with the few exceptions of those who may be elected as known friends of the present Erie directors, and are prepared to vote boldly against any bill adverse to their interests, Whenyour genuine Artful Dodgers prepare their bogus reform measures which, while professing to legislate: against the Erie Ring, in reality leave them in full possession of the revenues and management of the road, the people know that they have been bought, body and soul, by the Erie lobby, just as well as though they saw them receiving their money in a room at Stanwix Hall or counting it over in the secrecy of their own apartments. Let the Senators and Assemblymen who are now preparing to sell themselves to the men who have debauched former Legislatures be warned in time. The people are in earnest on the subject of reform, and they will no longer have thieves for their rulers and bribe- takers for their lawmakers, The conspirators who are now hiding from justice in foreign lands, or awaiting trial as felons believed a few months ago that they had successfully covered up their tracks and were secure from the grasp of justice. Senator James Wood, who is now at the head of the Judiciary Com- mittee of the State Senate, did not dream last winter that the failure of a Savings Bank would have brought to light the fact that he had “borrowed” large sums of money of Gould and Tweed, two of the Erie Ring directors, while a member of the Senate and voting for their bills. Yet there is now more danger of Congress Yesterday—A Day of Nothing- . ness. In neither the Senate nor the House yester- day were the proceedings possessed of a par- ticle of public interest. They were to the last degree dull and commonplace. The House got in its usual Monday medley of bills for reference, and then spent a couple of hours over the Deficiency bill. The Senate passed several bills of merely local interest, and then went into executive session. The resolution for the appointment of the French Arms Com- mittee was not taken from the table, but still lies there awaiting action; and, meantime, the House Committee on the Expenditures in the War Department, which has already had Secretary Belknap before it, holds its second session to-morrow, and seems determined to go ahead with the investigation, regardless of the Senate and its committee. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. the English. With money and skilled fabor the British in the Cachar-Looshai land may become gradually independent of the commer- cial caprices of the Chinese, and indifferent to any unfriendly treaty negotiations which may be concluded against their trading Inter- ests in Pekin. France and Germany—Count i Recalled to Berlin. Among our cable despatches this morning there is one of more than ordinary significance. The Count Von Arnim—according to this de- spatch, which is credited to the London Times—has been recalled from Versailles to Berlin to give to the German government hia opinion of the stability of the present govern- ment of France. It is not generally the habit of governments to make known to the outside world their reasons for recalling or summon- ing home ambassadors. It is not unnatural, therefore, that some should doubt whether the declared purpose of the return to Berlin of the German Ambassador is not a mere rumor, founded on nothing better than suspicion, At the same time it is well to bear in mind that newspaper correspondents have in these times easy access to Cabinet and diplomatic se- crets, On the face of this report there is the semblance of truth, and, considering the source whence it comes, we see no reason why we should hesitate to accept:it as substantially a true statement of the case. It is, of all things, the most natural that the German government should be anxious to know what is the actual state of things at Ver- sailles and generally throughout France ; what is the strength of the present government and what are the prospects of the various political parties who are now notoriously contending for the mastery in the State. Who more likely to be well informed on these points than the man who has watched the interests of Germany and been a studious observer of all that has taken place in Versailles since the close of the war? It is only a few days since we were made aware that the Germans were apprehensive of trouble in’ France, and that in view of possible complications they were actually making arrangements so as to be in readiness to march their troops across the frontier to protect their interests. Later we have had more encouraging news. France has offered—and the offer has been accepted— to pay in advance another instalment of the war indemnity; and as if to convince the world that there could be no likelihood of France refusing to pay the last farthing due to Germany on account of the war, the ladies of France have been denuding themselves of their ornaments and sending in to the Treasury their rich caskets of jewels and gold, thus reviving the patriotism of Rome in Rome's purest days, and revealing a love of country which, if it has been equalled, -has never been surpassed, In spite of all this Germany is watchful and slightly distrustful. When it is borne in mind that a change of govern - ment in France might upset the best arrange- ments, and that a change of government is, as many think, imihinent, it is not much to be wondered at that Germany should preserve her watchful and determined attitude. It will be well if the Count Von Arnim shall be able to satisfy his government that there is no danger of revolution in France—at least of such revolution as shall imperil the interests of Fatherland, In such a case there will be no reoccupation of the evacuated provinces, and France will be permitted to work out her own destiny without let or hindrance. It is not to be denied thnt the French people have done well under the Presidency of M. Thiers, The great misfortune is that uncertainty still hangs over the government and cramps the energies ofthe nation. If only they could settle down into a solid republic all would be well. But no one can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth, This is the present curse of France. Von Arnim The Democratic Issne Distinctly Made Up im Alabama—No Coalition. The Montgomery Advertiser declares that the resolution of the democratic and conserva- tive party in Alabama is distinctly made up on certain important points, ‘We are all,” it continues, “resolved to stand on an unbroken line and in face of anticipated triumph against the radicul enemy, of all stripes and shades.” The Advertiser proceeds to designate a por- tion of the papers in the State which advocate the same doctrine. Among them we may mention the Mobile Register, Tuscaloosa Times, Jacksonville Republican, Birmingham Sun, Eutaw Whig and Observer, Wilcox Vindicator, Huntsville Democrat, Huntsville ciple of protection. call for vast sums of money from the Treasury to be paid as a bonus or gratuity to those whe dients merely, and wrong in principle. way to increase our tonnage, as the Board of Trade says, is to let Americans buy ships a national character. not pass before the Stars and Stripes would cover every ocean and sea again, and the United States become onee more the maritime rival of Great Britain. Shipping Question. The Council of the National Board of Trade, which is now in Washington endeavoring to press its views on Congress, has made ex- cellent recommendations on the shipping ques- tion, Some of its other views are not as sen- sible or practical, but we cordially endorse what is urged for the revival of American shipping and commerce. Indeed, we have all along argued that the only way to restore our tonnage and the shipping interests is to permit ships purchased abroad by our citizens to be registered under the American flag. The judgment of the Board is that every barrier to the increase of American shipping sould be removed, and a memorial bas been presented to Congress asking that American shipowners may register under the country’s flag, for pur- poses of foreign trade, steamers and sailing vessels wherever built, including also the ton- nage transferred to foreigners during the war. There are many schemes before Congress pro- fessedly for the restoration or revival of American shipping, ‘but most of them are for the benefit of a few and based upon the prin- Some of them, in fact, undertake to build ships. They are:all expe- The where they can get them best and cheapest, and, wherever built, and to give such vessels Then many years'would The North OCcrolina Outlaws. In to-day’s Heratp we present another chapter of the extraordinary story of the law- less Lowerys, of Scuffletown, Robeson county, North Carolina. There will be derived from its perusal a tolerably clear idea of what sort in the war and how has remained ever since. settlement of Scnffletown appears to have only been*protected in its freedom by the low swampiness of the place and other topographic influences, which envied by of Scotch descent all round. But on reading this story, fit for a locality in the Schwarzwald and a date of five hundred years back, it will be remarked how circumstances control the destinies natures, outlaws of Carolina have some root of of demoralization was possible South before and during the hopeless the condition The free mulatto little to be whites caused it the grasping, jealous even of the most pronounced and that the blood-stained provocation in their course, The shooting of old Allen Lowery and one of his sons by the flicker of the torches, with the negro-hating devil in God’s uniform chanting a prayer by his side, with his aged wife fainting at the sickening sight, is a shocking mind picture the falt measure of whose moral gloom we but feebly realize as the hoarse whisper of the boy, Henry Berry Lowery, concealed in the undergrowth, reaches our ears, calling down the Mosaic Nemesis of blood.” has kept that terrible vow. We commend this story to students of the state of the South. “blood for The list of the slain testifies how he Tux Jersey City Granp:- Jury presented to Judge Bedle yesterday a batch of fifty-one indictments, and sixty-one indictments thus far. man informed the Court that the end is not yet. The members of the Board. of Public Works are accordingly greatly troubled, as it is expected that some of them will be arrested to-day, even if Sheriff Reinhardt has to follow them to the lobby at Trenton. is not always swift, but in this case it will be very sure. making a total of one hundred The fore- Jersey justice Personal Intelligence. Senator T, T. Fenton is at the Fifth Avenue Hotei. Congressman W, Tl. Clarke, of Texas, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Wendell Phillips yesterday arrived. at the St. Denis Hotel. Judge T. T. Burtis, of Chicago, 1s sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. t Homer A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, ex-Secretary of State, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge F, W. Bartley, of Washington, 1s staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General E. W. Rice, of Iowa, is among the recent arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel. Francis B, Hayes, of Boston, President of the Atlantic and Pacific Ratiroad, is again at the Bre- voort House, General Porter was examined for over five hours yesterday before the Senate committee on the corruptions of the New York Custom House. Bap Taste.—Referring to the remark made by Senator Sumner about the ‘“‘relic of injuries which he sustained sixteen years ago still clinging to him,” the Richmond Enquirer, usually so courteous, has the bad taste to say :—‘Thus is Brooks, of South Carolina, felt and remembered long after his death. His small cane erected him a monument more Wonder if Brooks, were exposure and punishment than there was a year ago, for keen and determined men are on the track of the bribe-panders of the State Capitol and are resolved to hunt them down. Nor can any legislator hope to escape by voting for mutilated bills known to be in the interest of the notorious Erie Ring. present directors are to be brought to a reckon- If the ing at all there can be no pretence of a neces- sity for half measures, and the members of the Legislature who vote for such bills will be known to have been bought just as much as though they had voted directly to retain the ively. How tne Repusiuicans Can Carry New Hampsnire.—Let the labor reformers under- stand that the democrats do not intend to take them into consideration at all when the Demo. cratic National Convention is held. The labor reformers carried New Hampshire for the democrats last year ; they can put the saddle on the other horse this year, if they so deter- mine. Dronxenyess IN Franoz.—Drunkenness has increased to such an extent throughout he made the political bargains for Lincoln at the Chicago Convention which secured the nomination, and that in return for this he was made a Supreme Judge. Afterward he be- came the executor of Mr. Lincoln’s will. Judge Davis represents nothing. His name is associated with no thought or achievement in our history. Judges of the Supreme Court are not the liveliest candidates, They become mouldy and stiff, and have an old-cheese flavor, and do excellently well to preside over young men’s Christian asso- ciations and moral clam-bakes. But the idea of seriously uprooting one of these heavy, France of late that the government has found it necessary to give it attention. The Na- tional Assembly has taken the matter in hand, and there is little doubt that active measures will be resorted to with a view of suppressing the vice. A proposition has been introduced into the House which, if adopted, will entail @ punishment on lovers of the ardent who in- dulge in this muchb-deplored failing. Accord ing to the proposed law a first offence will be punished lightly, a secoud by imprisonment and fine, and a subsequent offence will entail the forfeiture of electoral rights, The idea of , depriving a man of the franchise because of indulgence in the ‘flowing bowl” is rather a comfortable, inert, respectable gentlemen from his moss-clad seat on the bench is cruel, and we would as soon expect our sporting people to bring old Hambletonian fromi his pasturage and match him against Goldsmith Maid. Judge Davis would have to be carried through a canvass. He would carry nothing, and in the event of bis the coalition nomination against Grant, as many democrats would support the silent Ulysses as there would be dissatisfied repub- licans to follow the new departure, The democrats do not want a republican, however liberal he may be. If they take one it will be asa warming-pan, The administration would receiving Ring in power. The republican leaders should understand the destruction the de- bauchery of the Legislature must bring upon their party, and should exercise their influ- ence and authority to avert the calamity while there is yet time. durable than brass.” he to rise from his grave, would declare that he felt complimented at finding that his memory was so deeply cherished for an act remorse for which carried him to an untimely tomb. Passtvism Not DisorGANizaTion.—The Bt, Louis Republican—rampant organ of passiv- ism—mentions as something calculated to allay the fears of those who suppose that what is called ‘‘ passivism” means the disorganization of the democracy, that the democratic town meetings held in Missouri on the 22d ultimo, for the purpose of choosing members of the new County Central Committees, were at- tended by unusual numbers, and marked by remarkable interest and spirit. ‘‘The demo- cracy of Missouri,” adds the Iepublican, ‘tare this day more efficiently organized and more powerful than they ever were before.” But what has all this to do with ‘‘passivism?” It Savors a little more of * possumism,” British Conquest in India—The Looshal War and its Commercial Economies. The English war against the Looshais in India has been brought toa close. Queen Victoria’s troops, commanded by Generals ' Bouschier and Brownlow, and supplied with all the requirements and appliances of modern warfare, from a mountain howitzer to boats of the very lightest water draught and miles and miles of electric telegraph wire, were too powerful for the hardy bill men in their native bravery. Science enabled the conqueror to scale the loftiest mountain peaks of a territory almost unknown hitherto to Euro- peans, This national British persistence has been rewarded by the opening up of a line of country the soil of which will send forth the most valuable products when civilization LiperaL REPUBLICANS IN TRNNESSEE.—A number of leading liberal republicans in Ten- Commander A. F. Crossman, of the United States. Florence Journal, Stevenson New Piaciedtoall i Navy, has quariers at the Astor House. Bra, Scottsboro Herald, Ces cheat General J. Dodge, of Poughkeepsie, ts temporartiy Marengo Journal, Opelika Locomotive, | aomicited at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Greenville Advocate, Independent Free} General George W. Cook, of Santa Fe. fs Mex- ti g ico, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. all id hg Pook euce Dr. N. F. Magruder, of the United States Navy, ronnie ogee? Kons ivingston | |, taken quarters at the New York Hotel, Journal, Troy Messenger, Ozark Star, | “jyage a. M. Osborne, of Catskill, and A. E. Suf- South Alabamian, Henry County Register, Tuscumbia Times, Lauderdale Times, Union Springs Herald, Greensboro Beacon, Eufaula News, Bluff City Times, Talladega News, Mont- gomery Advance, and many other respectable journals, So far as Alabama is concerned, therefore, the wind blows decidedly in favor of a straight- out democratic ticket being nominated at the Democratic National Convention, Indeed, as for that matter the compass points in the same direction outside the latitude of Ala- bama. This will be interesting news to the Labor Reformers who are at present taking an active part in behalf of the democrats jin New Hampshire. fern, of Haverstraw, are among the temporary rest~ dents of the St. Nicholas Hotel. Henry Waterson, of the Louisville (Ky.) Courter- Journal, 1s stopping at the Brevoort House. Assembiymen W. W. Niles, L. Bradford Prince, R, H. Strahan and W, W. Enos are at the Fith Av- enue Hotel. Judge J. M. Tibbitts, of Washington, and General G. H. Giddings, of Texas, are sojourning at we Metropolitan Hotel. Ex.Congressman Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr, Pruyn was formerly Minister to Japan, and in 1866 was the democratic didate for Lieutenant Governor. Soe Brown-Sequard, M. D., of Paris, yesteraay arrived at the St. James Hotel, Ex-Governor R. J. Oglesby, of Iilimois, is at the Firth Avenue Hotel. The Governor served tn the army mntil ne was called to the Executive Chair and reached the rank of major general, Judge McCunn nas been confined to his ded for tne past week with a severe attack of pneumonia, which fora time threatened a serious result. Hiq mends will be glad to learn that his condittoy Tax ANri-Graxr Movement.—The St. Louis Republican avers -that the movement Messrs. Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Greeley and Company are leading, if allowed an unob- structed field, will not leave anything undone that a patriotic democrat would have accom- plished. ‘No democrat,” continues the Republican, “would mark out better course for it than these distinguished republican in- surgents are directing it into, and no demo- crat could ask for it a more avenging process than it is making.” But suppose the Demo- cratic National Convention concludes that the democracy shall fight under its own once comes to direct the hands which cultivate it, and when the necessities of a careful commerce will compel the residents to look after the crops. Tea is produced plentifully in some nessee have issued an address urging the selec- tion of a purely republican delegation from Tennessee to the Cincinnati Liberal Republi+ can National Convention, The proposition is be as democratic as it could possibly be under Seymour and Blair. Then what are the principles that are to be novel way of punishing citizens who will have their beer, If they must have it, however, they ‘paust take the couseauenoes with it, advocated by the Nashville Republican Banner and other republican papers, and will prob- ably be approvingly responded to, districts of the country. In this fact we find an explanation to a great extent of the exciting cause which induced the war on the part of starry, but for the last eleven years ill starred, banner to attain the same object—to wit, the defeat of General Grant—will these “distinguished republican insurgents” fall in the rear, and thus push along the column, or will they Insist upon leading the democratic host? What thea? yesterday was greatly Improved. THE HERALD AND DR. LIVINGSTONE. {From the Camden (Ark.) Journal, Feb, 22.) ‘The New YORK HERALD, 80 noted forthe grand ness of its conceptions and enterprises, has fitted out a private expedition to explore the wilds of Airica for authentic tidings of Dr. Livingstone, the great African explorer, The world 18 anxiousit awaiting the solution of the mystery enveloping the renowned and intrepid gentleman, whose ethane logigal, zoological and geographical Tesegrciies ha’ contributed so richly to the annals of science, Th English government has undertaken such an exp dition; but the HERALD undertakes a similar one, | @ privace enterprise, without ouside aid of @& character; and, should it prove successtal, tt 4 add @ bright laurel toa newspaper name and fa unrivalled im the world’s history. The Amer people with one votce Will Wish the HRRALD'S p' Spirited and benevolent cuterorae & most be | God svecd