The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1872, Page 6

a 4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEEY. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Volume XXXVII. steseeeees NOs OD a USEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ani 13th street. — dur VETERAN. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway,—Lrtt8 Don GIOVANNI. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of ath ay. and 230 tha LALLA Kook. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston 6t.—POLL AND PARTNER Joz. — * ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteouth street—ITALIAN OpERA—KiGOLETTO, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 40th st. —Perform- ances alternoon and evening—HUNTED DOWN, FIFTH ARTICLE ST, JAM: way.—Tuk New NUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth » fwenty-cighth streot and Broad- ICON. street. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ANTONY AND CLEO- PATLA—SuOr BINDER OF LYNN. qhboapwar THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— OLD. } THEATRE, Broadway.—Tug BALLET PAN- oy HUMPry DUMPTY. 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New York, Monday, April 8, (872. i CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, 2—Auvertiseionts, 3—Europe: Manchester Free Tr: cline of American Commerce: not Wholly the Cause; Et jh opinions on the Collapse of the Erie Ring; ‘Ihe Tichborne Claimant's Appeal; President Thiers on the Present State of Atiairs in France—Tne Public Debt Reduction—Tie Bulls Proposed Mormon State: Brigham Young Throwing Dust’ Into Congressional Eyes— Cuba: Bloody Encounters Between Spianisn ‘Troops and Insutgents—New York City lterus— Life Insurance Companies’ Misfortunes. 4—Religious: Services and as at the Churches of the City and Sul Another Sunday Rain Storm; A Large At ance of Damp and Devoted Worshippers at Ali the Churches; Father Kearney on Faith; Heary Ward bi on Univ Restoration and the © Future; Kobert Collyer at the Brooki¥n e; y of Music; Mr. Frothingvam on the nd the Spirit; Mr. Taylor at we Broad- way Tabernacie, G—Relizious Intelligence (Continued from Fourth Page)—Mexico and Texas: Coudition of Af fairs op the Frontier: is Wants an American Protegtorate to be Established; The People Demaud Frontier Protectlon—The Lon- Gaon Stage—Musical Review—Music and we Drama—Split Among the Internationals— Singular Suicide 11 Newark, 6—Fditorials: Leading Article, “The Presidential Campaign—What the People ¥ ili Do for Grant and What Grant Can Do for the-People’— Amusement Announcements. VeEtioriats (Contmued from xXth Page)—The Chaos In Mexico: San Louis Potorl, Guanaj- nato, Zacaticas and Duarango Regained tor z; The Kelgn of Anarchy—Cabie Tele- gran irom Italy, Engiand, France and Snatu—Literature—Literary Chit-Chat—News from Washington—The Weather Keport— Miscellaneous ‘elegrapnic News—Business Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial: The Monetary Strin- wenev andl its Causes, Natural and artificial; A Wrangie Among the Cliques; The Bank Statement Now and a Year Ago; The Week's Ebb and Flow of Prices on the Stock Exchange, Gold and the Suspected Gold Citque National Finances for Three Years; “L The The ocking-Up” Conspiracy in the Courfs—In- ternational Penieatiary Congress: The Great Prison Conterence to be Held tn London in Juiy—Racing 1m England: Commencement of tne Flat Racing Season—Tvotting aad Raciwg im Calttornia—The Jersey Railroads. 9—Aquatics—Pigeon Shooting—smalipox Spread by Bank Bills— allroad Acciaent—Marriag es and Deaths—Aadvertisements, 10—Political Inteliigence—Our Water Supply— Foreign Miscellaneous tteais—Shipping lutel- ligence—Advertisements, 14—Advertisements. 42—Advertisements, A Srern Chase AND A Lona Cuase.— Salmon P. after the Presidency Tne Clerk oF THE WEATHER is more con- siderate than our street-cleaning contractors. Observing New Yorkers suffering from the dust whirlwind on Saturday, he sent us a plentifal rainfall all day yesterday. The mud visitation will now probably prevail until old Sol takes pity on us; then we may look out for the dust again. Since Brown is oat of the way we hope for a millenium, wherein brooms ‘nd watering carts shall be plentiful, and the alternate mud and dust horrors things of a fearsome past. Tue Punic Dest Repvction ror Tnrer Years.—The Secretary of the Treasury has caused the preparation of a comparison be- tween the public debt as it stands to-day and ‘as it was on the Istof March, 1869, which we publish elsewhere. Outside of its evident electioneering object—thouzh we do not see why General Grant should not bave every honorable advantage of his record in the White House, as he has had of his victories in the war—the comparison is interesting, as bringing into a bird's-eye view the chief fea- tures of the national finances. In the first place, the public debt has been reduced about $316,000,000 since General Grant's inaugura- ‘tion, and now stands at $2,175,000,000. The annnal interest charge has been reduced about $20,000,000, and is now less than $106,000,000. All of which is a fresh argu- ment ior a sweeping reduction of the taxes, —————q“ a Moryoxpom’s $2/ATE Constitution has arrived in Washington, Jt is wonderful how credulity blossoms in that patriarchal vale of Utah, This primitive innocence is particu- larly visible in the idea that any Congress would dare defy public opinion and decency by erecting « State government on the poly- gamic relis of barbarism, The constitution guarantees freedom of religion and provides against immorality, but what a Mormon’s ideas on these points may be we can hardly guess, since a crime against morality is at the base of their religion, Polygamy must first be uprooted, Brother Brigham, ‘The Presidential Campaign=What the People Wil Do for Grant and What Grant Can Do for the People. On a pleasant morning in the genial gonth of May, eight years ago, the sharp ratile of musketry, rolling up from the Orange Court House road to the summit of the hill near the old Wilderness tavern, brought intimation to Grant and his generals of the opening of the campsign whose result was to be the over- throw of the rebel army and the occupation of Richmond by our troops. From the moment of the favorable termination of the first engagement, notwithstanding the desperate resorts of the enemy, the end was never doubtful, and the commander of the Union Trumbull were foremost among those who pleaded with General Grant to lend the repub- lican party the great influence of his name in the contest. It is well. known how earnestly Grant resisted the appeal, and how ardently he desired ta remain in the position so con- genial to his tastes and so richly earned. His objections were overruled, and the people placed him at the head of the goverament he had saved in the field, When tho new Presi- dent took possession of the White House his natural independence and honesty led him to make choice himself, in some degree, of his appointees, and he especially insisted upon the right to select his Cabinet officers, whom he regarded as his staff. But he was entirely forces pressed steadily on to final victory. The present political campaign, in which the same leader is again in the field at the head of the same Union army, has been opened ina similar manner by successes in the first skir- mishes, and the sound of the volleys that recently scattered the old copperhead forces in New Hampshire and Connecticut have conveyed to Grant and his friends the gratify- ing assurance that he is already ‘‘out of the wilderness,” and that his final triumph is no longer doubtful. Bat a good general leaves nothing to chance. However satisfactory may have been the ter- mination of the day’s work, he does not retire to the rest needed before the renewal of the strife, until his pickets have been thrown out, his camp made safe from attack and his prepa- rations for the morrow perfected. He is aware that a bold and persistent enemy will take ad- vantage of every pause in hostilities to strengthen his position, and, if possible, to recover the ground he has lost, and that ceaseless vigilance alone can render the final victory secure, So experienced a commander as General Grant is not likely to neglect these precautionary measures, and hence we may safely anticipate that he will devote the time intervening between the opening engagements in the East and the decisive battle of Novem- ber next to strengthening his position, rein- forcing his army, and doing all that courage and fidelity can accomplish to insure succeas, The people of the United States have a character peculiar to themselves. A century ago, when they numbered three millions or so, they rose against attempted coercion and proved that they had a will of their own. England might have held the States for another half century or more as a,col- ony, as she has continued to hold Can- ade, if her statesmen had been wise enough to govern by conciliation and concession. They choso to attempt the en- forcement of unjust laws by arbitrary power, and the American republic sprang into ex- istence. To-day our forty million citizens are in truth the sovereign people. The press, powerful and: influential as it is, cannot ledd them unless it has the wisdom to float with the popular current; the politicians cannot do more than control a handful of selfish adher- ents bere and there, and are themselves fol- lowers of the people, instead of being followed by the people; the government of the hour, unless strong in the public confidence, can command nothing beyond the votes of a hand- ful of office-holders. Englishmen, Frenchmen and even Germans have the training of the midshipman apd the cadet, whose golden rule edience to the orders of superiors. The masses of the people of Europe follow their leaders as the s#ldiers of an army follow their commanders, and few of them have a will of their own. But Americans are their own masters, and are accustomed to judge and to act for themselves alone. They are, it is true, sometimes careless about the exercise of their power, and apt to neglect their politi- cal duties in the excitement of ordi- nary pursuits; but when aroused to action through the force of circumstances, and gen- erally in their quadrennial Presidential elec- tions, they use the ballot box effectively and independently, Recently the people have shown themselves to be in earnest in the purification of their local governments, and bave entirely swept aside the politicians who usually manage the affairs of the country in accordance with their own views and desires, They are in earnest also in regard to the ap- proaching Presidential election, and all the efforts of the partisan press and all the elo- quence and intrigues of political agitators will fail to turn them from their settled purpose to re-elect General Grant as their Chief Magis- trate for another term. The open defection of republicans only served to strengthen the administration vote in New Hampshire, and the lukewarmness of politicians and the re- bellious. hints of influential party journals only added to Governor Jewell’s chances of success in Connecticut. The Cincinnati bolt- ing Convention now promises to be worse than a failure so far as the interests of the sore- headed republicans are concerned ; for the in- dications are unmistakable that it will swell the popular current in favor of Grant and do much towards giving him the votes of all the States in the Union, from Maine to California. In fact, itis now clear that the American people are with Grant in the coming fight, and that they will stand by him, shoulder to shoulder, at the ballot box, as they stood by him, sboulder to shoulder, in many a well-fought fleld from the Mississippi to the Appomattox. Itis on the people, then, that Grant must now rely, and hot upon a party press or friendly politicians, The honest, straightforward, manly course that bas enlisted millions of the sterling men of the nation under his banner may not be ac- ceptable to “partisans, but must be adhered to faithfully in order to gecure, in November, in all the States of the Union, the splendid victories already heralded by the triumpbs in New Hampshire and Connecticut. Four years ago the case was different, tion; the effects of the war were still sensibly had distracted political parties, andthe result of the election seemed to many reflecting minds pncertain, at the best. It was believed that an appeal fo the nation’s gratitude, a con- cession to the hero worship engendered by the war, was needed in order to secure to the party that had saved the Unioté the freits of their victory over secession. The politicians would have gladly taken a partisan a theif candi- date had they dared to make the venture; but prudence restrained them from the risk. The Herasp had pointed out the leader who could alone command success, and they wisely fol- lowed the suggestion, Senators Sumner and Then the country was in an unsettled condi- | felt; the administration of Andrew Johnson | ignorant of political manceuvring, and the sharp, experidnced politicians who surrounded him exercised, of course, a great influence over his actioa unknown to himself. His new position was to him an experiment. He had declared bis con- viction before his nomination of his inability to grapple with the grave questions that were certain to arise in the settlement of the country after so long and so peculiar a strug- gle, and had expressed his belief that a states- man was more needed than a soldier at the head of the government at that time. But when elected to the Presidency he was firm in his resolve to administer the affairs of the nation with honesty and fidelity, and he trusted to his integrity of purpose to carry him safely through the trial. It was natural that he should make mistakes, and he did not escape them; but they were such as ho can in future rectify and avoid, and we are confident that the lessons of four years’ experience will not be lost upon him, There are but few men in his position who would have succeeded as well as he has succeeded in his first term of office, and the success of his administration is attri- butable to the earnest sincerity of bis patri- otism and to the singleness of his purpose to do his duty. He purified at once, ina great degree, the Internal Revenue Department, and if he was in some instances imposed upon, it must be remembered that he was then the President chosen by an exacting party; that he felt under political obligations to the men who beset and surrounded him at the national capital, and that the nice sense of honor taught him by his military education rendered the idea of ingratitude revolting to his mind. He had then no party of the people at his back. He is now the candidate of the people and not of a political organization, He could be nominated as well on the street cor- ners and the cross-roads as in the Philadelphia Convention, and would be as certainly elected. He will owe fealty in the future, not to the re- publican party, but to the people; for the lead- ing men of that party—the men who were the most importunate in pressing his acceptance of the Presidency four years ago—have turned upon him as an enemy, while the people have taken him in their arms and are ready to raise him again to power over the heads of all the politicians in the Union. The Heratp has supported and will con- tinue to support the administration of General Grant, but that administration must continue to deserve the favor of an independent press, We recognize in the President a pure, sincere American, jealous of the honor of his country and anxious to restore to the government something of the honesty and integrity of the early days of the republic. A similar faith on the part of the people has carried two States, and will, we believe, re-elect General Grant for another term by an almost unanimous vote in the Electoral College in spite of bolting conven- tions, sore-headed grumblers and passive pol- icy coalitions. While we regard the Custom House and French arms investigations as mere political intrigues, we believe that the Presi- dent will carry out faithfully the laws against public robbers, and will enforce honesty in every department of the government. Wo applaud him for the resolution displayed in his prosecution of the enormous revenue frauds, and we recognize in the muster of Sheridan’s troopers on the Rio Grande a wise determination on the part of the administration to follow the counsel of the Heratp in its Mexican policy. We believe the presence of Fighting Phil on the border will be as effective now as it was once before, when it induced the Emperor Napoleon to make short work of the withdrawal of his army from the ill-fated scene of Maximilian’s transitory glory and early death. We are confident that General Grant will pay prompt attention to the Indian Agency corruptions, and will apply of his own action a short and sharp remedy to that crying evil. But there will be a yet wider field of reform open to him after the fourth of next March. His entire independence of politicians and of party will enable him to sweep away every incompetent or suspected officer in the government service and to make his new selections without regard to political considerations. There is also one other new departure that the President may deem it proper to take at the commence- ment of his second term. No act of his life has been nobler or more self-denying than his resignation as General of the army upon his election to the Presidency of the United States. There was no real necessity for the sacrifice, and many of his friends urged him to retain the rank that gave him a lifo position congenial to his tastes, joined with a princely income. General Grant refused to establish a precedent that he believed might at some future day be dangerous to the liber- ties of the people and to the safety of the re- public, He resigned as the acting head of the army, and by that act proved the sincerity of his patriotism and the unselfishoess of his nature. He could not, however, be expected | to relinquish in a moment his military habite and associations, and it was natural that he should cal} about him the officers who had | stood by him io the field, The consequence | has been the predominance of military men at | the White House, Lincoln bad lived sur- | rounded by a military guard, but that was in | time of war. It was thought that Grant, in a ! time of peace, might have drawn civilians about hing. ‘The heartburnings and jealousies that have yitisen in Congress, and the scandals | that have.,Deen industriously spread abroad by the enemies o,” the administration in regard to the military ring at Washington are notorious. We believe them.’ be broad, unfounded slanders. We have eve."¥ Confidence in the honor and integrity of Gens,4ls Porter, Bab- cock, Dent, Comstock and othe."§ Who have surrounded their old commander (for the past four years, But John Hay and other pure and good men who surrounded Lincoln were assailed as are Grant’s White House generals, and found it prudent, for the sake of peace and harmony, to retire. It may there- fore be judicious for General Grant to signal- ize the commencement of bis new term of office by changing the personnel of his imme- diate surrounders at Washington. Such a policy will at least put a stop to one of the most persistently circulated slanders of his enemies, and we sball then see to what cal- umny they will next resort. We believe, too, that public sentiment would approve such action on the part of the President, The people desire peace, and would be glad to see the civil and military branches of the govern- ment kept apart as much as possible, The gallant officers now in positions at the White House will no doubt cheerfally tender their resignations and resume their more strictly military duties, It will be a concession sto the wishes of the people, who are now his party, if the President will make the change wo suggest, and we believe that the mere fact of ill reports having been spread abroad regarding his present attachés, however unjust they may be, will of itself be suffivient to induce him to make the sacrifice, Fine Spuo and Home Spun Theology. An eminent pastor of this city a few years ago, ina sermon defining the minister's mis- sion, made the very trite remark that it is not sound but truth that saves men. But there are too many preachers, we fear, who think differently, and the people love to have it so. Every Monday morning in the year the Heratp publishes Sabbath day sermons whose chief or only merit is that they con- tain fine phrases, beautifully rounded para- graphs and polished sentences, but they do net contain Gospel truth enough to save a soul, We print and publish some such to-day also. But as an offset to these literary essays we present our readers with pulpit discourses of another and widely different character, Not indeed that they are devoid of beauty of diction and grandeur of sentiment but that the simplicity of truth which is manifest in every line hides from the mental vison the flowery and “yiittering generalities” in which some sentences may be clothed. Such was the sermon of the Rev. W. M. Taylor, delivered in the Broadway Taber- nacle yesterday. Tbe responsibility of every soul to God for neglected opportunities to be saved was the subject treated, and the story of the virgins, half of whom were wise and half foolish, was made the basis of the discourse. In all outward things the virgins were alike, The difference between them was internal. The foolish virgins were hollow- hearted, while the wise were sincere; and yet there was genuineness about the former, for they, too, waited for the bridegroom, that they might do him honor, But their light flickered, they acted from impulse alone, and not from heartfelt conviction. Character is not transferable. It must be formed and manifested by each man for himself. The trath which Mr. Taylor sought to impress upon his audience by this narrative is that they should individually and at once begin to lay the foundation for the Saviour’s coming, for in such ag hour as men think not He will be here, Mr. Frothingham delivered one of his entic- ing lectures, beautiful in composition, brilliant in its gems and flowers, but, we are free to say, full of insidious infidelity. The difference between the letter and the spirit of the Gos- pel which he sought to detect and point out can be readily seen by reading his composition and contrasting it with the sermon just noticed, Moses was a dreamer compared with Darwin, Moses was legislating for a rude and vindictive people and, moreover, for a people who feared death and to whom death was the end—the last penalty. Our Jewish friends will hardly feel complimented by this description of their ancestors, and we are sure they, with us, read the Old Testament Scriptures differently. The European Sabbath, with its profanation and desecration, is the model that this min- ister would have us follow, and were the spirit of the Christian Sunday alive among us to-day we should open all public places for popular amusement, and do all that we could to lift the masses out of themselves. ‘Give them” (the masses), said Mr. Frothingham, ‘‘rest from this ever- lasting theological drumming, but build four times as many churches as there are, that all may attend; but,” he added to his fellow preachers, ‘make your sermons pleas- ing and instructive.” To the masses he declared Sunday is damnation. ‘“‘It should be made a day of recreation.” The Rev. H. D. Moore, of Cincinnati, occu- pied Dr. Richardeon’s pulpit yesterday, and paid an eloguogt tribute {o the character and life and great love of Christ—‘‘whose whole career is one grand battle for truth in be- half of His fellow-men. It is to the lowly Saviour that the poor cap look for sympathy and succor, and to Him the per- secuted can flee for help.” Then, speaking of dead Churches which everywhere abound, Mr. Moore said we want Christ in our Churches, He will give life and power. Orthodox theology was compared with liberal Christianity, in the Church of the Messiah, by Professor Young, of Cambridge, Mass. Christianity, he thinks, does not keep up with the day. While the world has moved on theology has stood still, This is shown in the undefined or ill-defined ideas concerning God which prevail. The Unitarian and the 'Trinita- rian ideas of God were ated, and the former was established by ridiculing the supposed absurdity of the latter. In St. Thomas’ church Mr. Hubbard preached a charity ser- mon and demonstrated the great need which exists in this city for large benefactions for the poor and fatherless and the unfortunate; and in the Church of the Disciples, in Mr, Hepworth’s absence, Mr. Murray, of Boston, preached a sermon on the justice and righteousness of God. The Catholic churches do not present any great variety of topics. Since the priests invariably take their texts from the gospel for the day the subject is generally the same in all, though the treatment of that subject by some clergymen may, and sometimes does, greatly differ, In St. Patrick's Cathedral Father Kearney talked about the unbelief of Thomas, who, he said, doubted not the resur- rection of Jesus, but that He had appeared in the very same body that had been crucified. ‘This was what the Apostle wanted to be con- vinced of, The reverend preacher thought that the cause of so many divisions existing In the Christian Church to-day is that, like Thomas, people will not believe what they are told, but will rather follow their own reason. The reverend father erred, we think, in saying that ‘‘a man who has not ob- tained a good education cannot form an opinion” on Christian truth and morals. We think otherwise. And any man who Is able to read the Hzraxv this morning may form just as good and as sound an opinion on these things as the most profound theologian in the land. ‘Truth is truth, whether we see it through the medium of common sense or through the telescope of college training, and if any man will do His will he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or not, Wather McCready preached * in St. Stephen’s, church on the proofs of Christ's divinity and Thomas’ relation to one proof thereof—the resurrec- tion. Though this Apostle afterward placed the most implicit faith and confidence in the Saviour, yet his brief scepticism deprived him of the most abundant blessing promised to the humble, unquestioning believer, namely—that of seeing by faith Him who is invisible, as Abraham and Moses and others saw God. In St. Peter's church Dr. Vaughan presented tho claims of the colored people of this land upon the religious sympathies and support of the Church, The Archbishop of this diocese yes- terday dedicated the new church of St. Alphonsus, in South Fifth avenue, in presence of a large gathering. Mr. Beecher must have surprised: the more orthodox of his congregation yesterday (if he has any such among his hearers) when he ut- tered his endorsement of a Universalist minis- ter from Kansas, But in doing this he did not as freely endorse Universalism, but, on the contrary, whilg contemplating the Church of the future, Tie declared that the doctrine of eternal punishment will be the doctrine of the Church of the future, and he showed that in the nature of things this doctrine must always be believed. Mr. Bentley told the Lee avenue Reformed Dutch people a few things about the pernicious effects of unbeliof, and Robert Collyer illustrated, to an audience of two thousand five hundred people, in the Academy of Music, how solitude conduced to temptation, but how a wholesome social life strengthened tke soul. These, with other discourses, we commend to the notice of our readers to-day. Tas Cation In Moxico. fa Affairs in Mexico have reached the climax of misery and confusion. We publish in another column a despatch from the capital of the chaotic country, showing a state of anarchy which cannot but basten the inevitable fate in store for Mexico, namely ,—extensiou of an American protectorate and finally annexa- tion of the whole country to the United States, The timely resolution of Mr. Brooks, in the House of Representatives, looking towards such a measure, has created considerable stir in Mexico. The Mexican journais, who have hitherto scouted the idea of an Amer- ican protectorate with scorn and indig- nation, begin to moderate their tone. Some of them now only mildly deprecate it; others publish the text of the resolution without comment, tacitly admitting the necessity of American intervention, though unwilling to openly acknowledge it; but the respectable portion of the Mexicans are loud and open in their desire for annexation. The collapse of the revolution is near at hand; but the suc- cesses of the Juarez government have not brought peace and order to Mexico. Anarchy, murder and pillage are more than ever deso- lating the beautiful but unfortunate country. Mexico cannot be governed by Mexicans, Their incapacity for self-government and failure to fulfil international obligations has not only been signally demonstrated, but is now acknowledged by themselves, Under these circumstances we need no longer indicate what is now the plain duty-of our government, England and the New Dominion—The New Government Policy. On Saturday last, at Hamilton, Ontario, the Hon. William McDouzall delivered a lecture on the relations now subsisting between Great Britain and the United States, The lecture, the outlines of which appeared in yesterday's HERALD, is entitled to consideration from the fact that it indicates the policy which ia the future the British government intends to pur- sue towards the New Dominion. Mr. Mc- Dougall spoke with authority. He had had conversations on the subject with Mr. Glad- stone and Lord Granville, with Mr. Adderley and others, and the opinions freely expressed by all were to the effect that the confederated States of British North America must at ao early day be prepared to take an independent position and maintain it by their own right hand. Mr. McDougall, speaking for himself, was of the opinion that ‘jhe union of these provinces was the prelimina?f step for the establishment of a system of government in British America which would enable them when the moment arrived—when necessity pressed upon them—to maintain a separate and independent existence among the nations of the earth.” It has long been apparent that such was the real object of the confederation—tho intention of the British government and of the colonial statesmen who were instrumental in bringing about the great political change. Mr. McDougall frankly avowed that ‘‘connec- tion with Canada was a source of embarrass- ment from which the mother country should be freed as soon as possible.” We can have no objection to the independence of Canada. For some time yet to come there will be room enough on the northern part of this Continent for both of us. It is our opinion that inde- pendence would tend mightily towards the development of the Canadas, The greater the prosperity of our neighbors the better for us, Let them set up an independent govern- ment, Let them go on prospering and to prosper. But let it not be imagined that any arrangement which Great Britain may make with the New Dominion or that any govern- ment which may be established by our neigh- bor across the border will prevent the final fulfilment of that manifest destiny which is to bring the entire Continent of North America, from the Guif to the Northern Sea and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, under the banner of the Stars and Stripes. It is written in the book of fate, and sooner or later it must come 10 paste : The Cincinuati Conventioun—Movemeuts ef the Anti-Grant Keformers—Mr. Greeley’s Chances. It is related of the facetious Abraham Line coln that when the news had come to Washington that General Sherman, covering with his army a swath’ sixty miles wide, bad struck out from the smoking ruins of Atlanta, on his famous “‘march to the sea,” the Presi- dent was asked by an inquisitive visitor at the White House, «with an eye on Wall street, “‘Whereabouls do you suppose, sir, the Gene- ral will strike the coast?” and that ‘Honest Old Abe” answered :—‘‘We can’t tell. We know where he went in; but we don’t know where he will come out.” And go it is with those liberal, reform, anti-Grant, free trade republi- cans who are bound for Cincinnati. We know how these miserabdles will go in; but we don’t know how they will come out. They will go in for a coalition with the democrats on a joint stock ticket aifd platform; but they may come out with a disagreement of the jury. ‘The enterprise is so hedged about with obstructions that it is not certain that this ‘Mass Convention” will be able to agree upon anything better than an adjournment to meet again at Philadelphia on the 5th of June, in order to assist the regular Republican Con- vention in its deliberations, This liberal anti-Grant republican party makes a great noise, but it is a small concern. As far as developed its strength is confined to disappointed office-seekers and intriguers for the White House who have become thor- oughly disgusted with the tedious processes and discotiraging obstacles of yoyr regular party conventions. Here, for instancé, 9 | Messrs. Chase, Davis, Trumbull, Logan, Greeley, Gratz Brown and others too num- erous to mention, each of whom has a hope of this Cincinnati nomination and of the support of Mr. Belmont and the democratio party. Judge Davis, already the candidate of the labor reformers, has evidently the inside track for Cincinnati, but his claims will be stoutly contested by Trumbull and Logan of Illinois, by the Greeley delegation from New York, and by Brown of Missouri, who is the chief cook in providing this festival, and by whom and for whom it was specially ordered. How, then, upon any one of thgse men can there be an_ agreement? It is Mr. Brown’s Convention, and it is not likely that he will be trifled with by the creature of which he is tho creator. Nor is it likely, after all the sacrifices made by Mr. Greeley for this concera, that he will consent to be humbugged, He must have the nomina-" tion or he will bolt for Pailadelphia or become acruel guerillero, Desperate cases require desperate remedies, and this will be his remedy for any treacherous juggling of him out of the Cincinnati nomination. Ii is in this alarming view of the subject that we have our fears of a collapse at Cin- ciunati. In the Missouri resolutions, upon which this Convention was called, it is de- clared that “‘noform of taxation is just or wiso which puts needless burdeas upon the people ;” that “we demand a genuine reform of the tariff, and that those duties shall be removed which, in addition to the revenue yielded to the Treasury, involve an increase in the price of domestic products and a consequent tax for the benefit of favored interests.” Now, as it is apparent that Mr. Greeley accepts this Mis- souri free trade doctrine, in view of the equiva- lent of the Cincinnati nomination, we fear thut, if not nominated, he will ‘‘smash the machine,” Nevertheless, we conjecture that Mr. Brown will disappoiut him, and that so this reform Convention will end in smoke. A little of his political history will serve to show that Mr. Greeley is not the man who forgets or forgives the neglect of his claims to promotion. Ii was on account of such neglect on the part of his colleagues in the firm of Seward, Weed and Greeley that he broke up this firm in 18%0, It was because his claims were neglected in the division of the Cabinet offices, foreign missions, and custom houses, by Lincoln, that Mr. Greeley opposed his renomination; and be- cause General Grant has been guilty of the same blunder, Mr, Greeley is going to head him off at Cincinnati, The man of Chappa- qua is in earnest as a Presidential candidate. Cincinnati is his last chance; to cover it he has sacrificed his fourth of a lifetime, and in such a case there must be no disappointment, Still, from the conflicting claims of Davis, Trumbull, Brown and the rest of them, we apprehend that Mr. Greeley will be putin a back seat, with Andy Johnson, and that then he will prove the Trojan Horse of the Conven- tion. In reference to Mr. Greeley, the St, Louis Republican (chief organ of this liberal move- ment) says:—‘‘The Convention cannot, in the nature of things, adopt a single resolution ag a definition of future policy that will be anti- democratic; but it may be asked to adopt resolutions that would be unsurmountably objectionable, to influential liberal repub- licans, like Mr. Greeley, who desire to aid the movement. It will not be well for it,’ perhaps, to attempt too much. The animating sentiment of the Convention will be opposition to the personal policy of favoritism and force that has marked General Grant’s administra- tion.” In other words, the animating spirit of this sorehead Convention will be a spirit of revenge against Grant in connection with his unsatiafactory division of the spoils; and upon this grotmd the wrongs of Mr. Greeley and the humiliations he has suffered from Grant, Conkling and Murphy ought to make our sorely persecuted philosopher the standard bearer of the bolters, Nor let it be supposed that double-dealing platitudes on the tariff will satisfy him, His ultimatum in this von- ture is the Cincinnati nomination, and Mr, Brown, with Mr. Belmont, in behalf of the democratic party, will act wisely in consider. ing and determining in advance of the Con- vention what is to be done with Mr. Grooley ; for his availability as a democrat is tho im- portant question for the Cincinnati reformers. The only course for the democracy in this Presidential campaign, with the slightest pros. pect of success, is the coalition proposed with the Cincinnati bolting republicans, An inde- pendent Cincinnati ticket, even if it should carry off the balance of power in the electora, vote of the Union, will avail fpot hing. The election will be thrown into the House of Representatives (the present House), and General Grant Is there too strong for any hostile coalition, But these anti-Grant repub- licans at Cincinnati, in order to secure this projected coalition, must nominate a tickek