The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1872, Page 3

CINCINNATI. The Inpour of the Liberal | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. rious ition to put his grotesque Rena at the top of a muscular, nervous movement ke the present. Perhaps the arrival of the New Yore ‘and Brooklyn delegations has done as much a8 anything to give the power Of numbers, earnest- ness and a cosmopolitan tone to this gatherlag. Several of Grant’s Office holders are here, among others Dorsheimer, late District Attorney of Buffalo, ‘One of the remarkable traits of the Convention is | the chair, while the other reporters, to the number of one hundred, will sit below the convex frout stage, at pine tables, each of which will accommodate six. | The rey ers for the painoe and rural papers will | probabl t places on the wings of the platform or | dn the ries overlooking it. PICKEY FENCE ARRANGEMENT FOR LADIES AND CHIL- DREN. The galleries have been divided by an adjust- memring. Their friends are really liberal republi- cans who have grown up with this movement. The democratic Congressmen made a strange mistake when they expended their powder upon Davis, who is an old whig, with manufacturing connections in Pennsylvania. This is a republican convention any- how. We have no certain knowledge that Davis is in mppethy with any of its purposes, In my belief Judge Trumbull and Gratz Brown have more respect LOUISIANA. | Kaleidoscople Changes Among the Politicians— Warmoth Holds the Key of the Situation— Cincinnati the Solution of the Muddle— they tt; but 1 means more—prospecti . man Pee Th iain dieoornment of tee cae one if a this coalition is perfected—and though through toil, trouble and bloody sweat it will Ipovinaniy brought about—Loulsiana will record her vote against General Grant and be lost to the radical party. Grant can work no traverse, either through the operation of the Enforcement act or with his United States Marshals, that can save it if Governor Warmoth so decides and acts, And in case the x i disposition to say anything against Grant. | ible picket fence which will separate ladies and | and following in the democratic party than Mr, | J Republicans. ge aa 'tne most active men heres such as Brinker. | families from the men, ‘aud. more. than | Davis. His Prominence looks like a bargain any- Will Warmoth and the Democrats latter is elected and sent to the United States hoff, Cox and others speak of Grant | one half of the whole gallery in that | way. Gratz Brown has done more for the pacifica- Coal Men, Not Princip! Senate in place of Kellogg, ear jf A ie nd to hold responsible Morton, Cs 1 | The stage and place resei¥ed for delggatcs as teen | on the border, “Mr. Trumbull Inuit that the Com, sa | slemed to perpetuate radical. power—the mont int respou: e CE e st an ace r rv et Uy nm mm the . Ir. a ie con. rea Srnaing and the peo} Control him, rucher | set aside for females. The roof of the concern Is | ¥ and his sor in the Ascendant. quitous law that ever disgraced the statnte books oi Leaders and Chieftains Coming to the Front. ee PORKOPOLIS ALL AGOG The Canvass for Sentiment on Candidates. Adams and Brown Leading. JUDGE DAVIS BEING SNOFFED OUT. foal The Trumbull and Palmer Battle Parties. NEW YORK FOR HORACE GREELEY Bringing Order Out of Chaos---Prepara- tions for the Convention. Murat Halstead with and Colonel Gresvenor, Interviews Peneie Se URES SUMNER'S STAND ON CIVIL RIGHTS. ae Schurz, Fenton, Trumbull, Tipton, Brown and Grecley on Their Way. i Cincrxnati, April 28, 1872. At last there is a Convention in Cincinnatl Up to to-day there has been a motley crowd of indl- viduals and individualism, each man obstinately adhering to his own ideas and selection of candidate and refusing to aMilate with his neighbor. Yesterday some of the brightest men in the movement assembled together and deduced erder out of this chaos of intellect and prejudice. Bam Bowles, David A. Wells and the New England- ers got to town about the same time with Horace White and Gratz Brown's friends, A MEETING WAS HELD IN THE FORENOON at Grosvenor’s rooms in St. James Hotel; after- Wards at General Cox’s office, and a third caucus met at the Commercial rooms. Bowles 1s looked Upon as a newspaper representative of the New England men of all shades, who are opposed to Grant, and as he was an old employer of White's and is a guest at Halstead’s house, and as Gros- venor, White and Wells generally act together and Understand each other, it was s00n apparent that in certain contingencies the old coalition would VOTE FOR ADAMS WITH BROWN Appointed as Vice President. This morning the Commercial newspaper bristles with eulogies of Adams and Brown, and has a life of the latter, covering two columns, to famillarize the general | mind with his character and services. The same coalition captured the Warmoth delegation, which arrived last night, and the journals to-day announce that every man of the 105 is for Adams. War- moth has no ohter ambition, as it seems, than to be presiding oMcer of the Convention; but there Is little probability that the more decent men here will gratify him on this head, It is indignantly remdrked on all sides that to put a Reform Con- vention under the auspices of an audacious carpet- | bagger would make a hue and cry over the land | and help Grant. This morning Cassius M. writes from Kentucky :— Adams and Brown are good. are good, Wells and Bowles report that all New England is tarnest for Adams, and that he OAN CARRY FOUR STATES fm that quarter. Judge Sloanaker, of Lou- Isiana, who seems to be the talking man of the Warmoth delegation, is an ex-Philadel- phia politician, with enormonsly fat legs and back, He was for a time Andrew Johnson's revenue officer in an important district of Texas, He is the man who got up the celebrated ‘wax-flower testimonial to Johnson to be presented by the school children of Philadelphia. In the Louisiana delegation there are twenty-five negroes, Gfty Germans and sixty creoles. In the dele- Clay Brown and Greeley gation are all the delegates to the Chicago Conven- | tion of 1868. To count up Adams’ positive strength, he will have New England, Ohio, some votes from Michigan and all the votes of Loulsiana if Brown will consent to unite with Adams, Adams wiil also get the whole vote of Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, part of lowa, Nebraska and California. As Lyman Trumbull has put in the hands of one of his friends a letter saying that he will not stand as a candidate, unless the feeling is decisively in his | and republican—was for Trumbutl, and that Me | alarge and re: Conkling and the people who control him, rather Thave heard a dozen men active in that if David Davis be nomi- for Grant in preference. On than himself. this movement sa} pated they will vo! the other hand, THR GRANT MEN IN THIS CITY mingle freely and fraternize with the liberal repub- licans, and, as I telegraphed to you yesterday, about half the money contributed to pay the ex- penses of the ail was given by sup- rters of General Grant, and a num- er of names on the Cincinnati reception committee are well known Grant men. Horace White said yesterday that the whole bulk of the republl- can party was looking expectantiy towards Cin- clnnati and Philadelphia with about equal interest, and that if the Convention here appears to be a big success the whole column would fall towards It. News pours in from all quarters that whatever Blaine may say, he is making a bold and adrott effort to carry the Philadelphia Convention, and ts supported by a large fraction of the oftice-holding strength, The theory of hie friends is that if the Clncinnatl movement gets headway it will result a substantial VICTORY TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, for no President nominated at Cincinnatl can carry on the administration where three-quarters of the votes come from the democracy, without recogniz- Ing the democratic clement as a portion of the gov- ernment for four years. Jim Wilson, who 1s soticit- ing the second place in the ticket with Blaine, of Philadelphia, is generally denounced on ali sides asa jobber, who will be sold out if Blaine should approximate success in his movement. I met Alexander Long yesterday on Fourth street. He had his pocket full of platforms, letters and other things from 8, P, Chase, and said in a beaming way tiat MM. CHASE'S HEALTH WAS PERFECTLY RECOVERED, that he was good Sr twenty-five years and more for the pubhte service, and that he would show more strength than anybody suspected when in the Convention got golng. It has been mooted that the New York Tribune's infu- ence might sustain the Chase movement. The editor of the Tribune, who Is here, has hee fayniliar and confident with Chase for ten or fift fully, although there ts so few of them that one cannot be met more than twice In a day. W. Edwards of Carlinsvilie, Mlinols, at ler- nand would lead a small delegation of democrats diere earnest for his nomination, The opinions of the democratic party sppeat NOT TO HAVE A PARTICLE OF WEIGHT with the delegates assembling here. The money to rin this campaign will come from New York city, and Belmont, General Van Buren (Hotfinan’s secre- tary), Horatio Seymour, Willlam Cassidy and other New Yorkers have written letters, whick were shewn all over the street, saying in effect:— “Let the republicans proceed as they have begun: make the best candidate they can agree upon, and rely upon no movement fn this city developing to anhoy them, The whole trouble the demo- cratic ranks is that a few impatient and med- dlesome Congressmen at Washlugton city have made bargains with Davis’ friends, and are now threatening the Convention In case it shall not see Davis’ claims. After the Convention is over, how- ever, and the the child born, these same men will resume their bargain with the candidate here. A morning that everybody at Springfleld—denoe A CANDIDATE OF THEIR OWN ANYWAY} but there are old hunkers like George Pugh, who have passed out of political iife, and caunot’ rally the democratic vote of the ward they live in, If trouble begins in the Convention it wil] proba- biy come from Davis’ friends, who are here in large numbers, Leonard Swett and John Defrees have distributed free tickets all the way from New Albany to St. Paul, aud when Davis’ name is first mentioned there will be half an hour's yell of applause, After that the cheers were faintar and the ballots thinner, ‘To-day (Sun- day) the alr is exquisite and the temperature cooler, Some of the delegates of note, like Schurz, and White and others occupy villas outside of the town, where they are called upon by their friends. Secretary Cox, althouvh a devout man generally speaking, was at the Burnet this morning, exchang- ing information with the new arrivals, and he told me that everythin looked bright and that a better fecling prevails. Very many eccen- tric individuals are around here, as Reavis, the capital mover, a red-headed man with no knee cap, limping round the hall of the Burnet House. here, 18 Anna Dickinson, putting in her oar; here is George Francis Train, who has filled all the drug store windows WITH REAMS OF PORTRAITS OF HIMSELF and extracts from his speeches and ballads, Here is old Judge Spaulding, of Cleveland, who led the reform movement last year, and interviewed bim- self out of the republican party. Here is J. K. Moorhead, of Pittsburg, who used to be the Iife of the protectionists and a& most reguiar man of the republican school, Here are scores of editors of all persua- suasions, and correspondents without number. Old men of Cincinnati look askant at the gathering and say, wagering thelr heads, “There ts too march Intel- leot into It,” ‘The excentric and independesys char: acter of the gathering is well insta: among the Germans as anywhere else very many Germans have not only followed Schurz into the iiberal movement, but they have gone beyond him and passed into the demoeratic party. The Reunton aud Reform Con tion, which isto meet at Mozart Hail stmultane- with the organization of the Liberal Repub- Convention at Exposition Hall, will pectadle affair. ‘This Convention is rly equally composed of republicans and demo- s, with a very large Dp age of the best Ger- mans, French, Scandinavians and other foretyners of the Northwest in it. THE THEORY OF THE CONVENTION is that both the democratic and_ republican parties are decrepid, useless and superfuous, and that this is the day to organize a charitable compromise party for amnesty, the non interference theory of government opposition to sumptuary laws, ‘&c. The newspapers of to-day show that in Chicago, St. Louts and other parts of the West thi advanced sentiment has taken a deep hold. See- retary Cox, Stanley Matthews and other prominent republicans still hold their connection with the re- union and reform party, although they will be present at Exposition Hall. few days ago at the office of Secretary Cox, where Indge Stalle expressed himself earnestly in favor of a perfect fasion with the advanced démocrats of the Seymour school. The Judge alleged that two- thirds of the republicans assembling here were favor, and as his choice among other candidates | Nes between Adams and Cox, it 1s also probable that Adams will GET THE TRUMBULL VorR on the second ballot. This comprises nearly half Of Illinois, some votes in Indiana and possibly the strength of New York State, which Fenton origi- nally promised to Trumbull. A movement as for- Midable as this would undoubtedly nominate Adams within an hour after the balloting began. Grats Brown, however, has not arrived here, and his imperious will and active temperament may scatter this coalition when he arrives on Monday morning. | The Missouri men and the Trumball men ha’ shown a cordial, genial spirit since they arrived. In | the same ma | Tho | continues, fact the Convention men are beaming this morning | and on all sides, There has been A COALITION MADE AGAINST DAVIS, who will come here with considerable strength at the outstart, but no hope of gaining additional | yoies, The telegraphic despatches which haye wen sent to the New YoRK HERALD and other pa- pers have frightened the Fenton men, and propably put a stop to the bargaining and selling which Fen- ton had hoped to do. quiet and biue this morning, and are not talking to anybody much about Davis, who is considered dead here. A large number of them are 4n the city, such as Frank Blair and others, and also considerable number of United States Treasury and Custom House employés. Frank Blair is understood to have come for the purpose of keep- ing the democrats quiet on Davis, It is no secret that both the Blairs have been earnest for Gratz Brown from the beginning. Hyde, the editor of the Missouri Republican, Is also. present at the Burnet House. A few of these Missouri men look disparagingly upou the transfer of Brown to the second place on the ticket, for Brown's election to the Presidency ‘would have been equivalent to an equal division of the patronage of the government between repabil- cans and democrats, whereas, with Adams, who is OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND Noy-commiraL, It ts doubtful if any of the patronage-seekers will realize their large expectations. A very farge aele- gation from New York State came in last night and this morning, with a penchant for Horace Greeley, but they are good-humoredly disposed to go fn to win. Theodore Tilton, W, Reid and others are also Serr in @ feeble way on Greeley’s merits, There is a kindly, laughable sort of feeling concern: img Greeley on all sides. Nobody says anything against him—democrats, Davia men or Krown men— bus the ruling minds of this Convention enter- John A. Palmer's frieuds are | | here TIRED OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY and only stayed in it to keep the democratic party from getting complete ascendancy, and that the safety of the country was in a new coalilion which would swamp both the other organizations, In conversation with many republicans here they admit that the inevitable result of the Cin- cinnati Convention is the recovery of a certain amount of Bowen b the democratic party to carry on the Senate, and the operations of the government will require a certain fraction of democratic sup- port, which in turn will demand representation In he Cabinet. Mr. Belmont and others talked over itter ere. In fact, the only jealousy of any kind tn the democratic party, with this move- ment comes from the half dozen contracting Con- gressmen of Washington city, and two or three editors, whose profession it 1s hot to keep tranquil, Chicago —- Times, for instance, which was one of the first and most earnest papers to support the Cincinnatt movement as diminished tn its advocacy of Davis simply by jeal- ousy of its rival newspaper, the Tribune, which had truly been for its candidate. If anotner man be taken—say Adams or Brown or Palmer, a NEWSPAPER PRESS PROFESSION AND 1 The Chicago Times will prob Matterson, the leading editorial ANING. nly fall into line. writer of the conrier-Journal, a Louisville, thinks that his paper | wonld support any candidate put up here provided the editorial strength of the present coalition He sald last night at dinner that the whole power of this Convention had hitherto lain in the editorial quadrilateral of Halsted, White, Greeley and Bowles, and that tf any one of those would drop away the Convention would be done for, TERRITORIAL, DIFFERENCES OF BEARING. The observer can see striking differences between the delegatic of the different States, Missourt | perhane chowg on the gronnd the best poll- tical “Auifity, “and fis’ Tefegations Ave fone | josed of & fine mixture of Northern and Southern members with good cool Judgments in the situation. The Mlinolans are more selfish, pushing and horse-Ike, and the whole force of that State Is expended in a tri- partite contest between the friends of Palmer, he avis and Trumbull. There really ts no good ground for qnarreliing between er and Tritmbull, and Trambull’s friends to-day scem inclined to fall into the Adams movement. The Ohio politiclans are original, often idiosyncratic; men who are moving upon the sentiment, and not for any special interest of their own. Perhaps not a dozen of them have thought that living right among them is a man whom the politicians of other States have discussed as an pvailable candidate, Nearly all that lias been sald in favor of Governor Cox has been said by people of other States, The Adams fever has oxtended all over this State, and on the frst ballot no other candidate appears to have any chance, Ohio has not a disposable yete, Nobody in the State can wicld it. Each delegate will be what he please, and they seem to have no cholee at all if | Adams should be beaten, The New York men are philosophers, and want such a candidate first of all. The majority of the New Englanders have fallen into the Adanis movement, aud are very glad of au opportunity to see somebody made President who has been oice or twice in hi the Atlunt PROSPECTIVE INFER! \ On the whole the Convention ia now a computa ble body, and the foremost men in it are coming forward, and probably will lead it, just as ind other regular assemblage of political delegate: People who expect to intrude themselves and get five minutes of the country’s attention will probably be crowed down{when they step over the line, The attendance will undoubtedly be enormous, PRESS ACCOMMODATION. The Associated Press and the rival telewraphic as- kocimtions haye been giyon aca directly en years, and the Chase men look wise and talk hope- | a} townsman and connexion of Palmer told me this | few men in the democratic party are bound to have | A meeting was held a | ds and clear, | said to leak, and if it should rain the men will be left to tight it out alone, LOOKING TO GOVERNMENT. Abont one third of the floor space will be re- juired for the delegations, Nobody knows low to ecide controversies in case of a quarrel as to the legitimate delegation of any one State. The proposition that has been made to make the executive committees of Missouri and Ohio ar- biters meets with favor from everybody except those delegates themselves, who object to taking the responsibility, It is impossible to understand how a ‘contest, like that in Illinois, for example, is to be adjusted, unless some- body take this responsibility, avis’ friends have undoubtedly spent money to get a large following ei and they will not see him beaten without an outery. ADAMS’ PROSPEOTS, There is a great moral force in favor of Adams, from the fact that five-sevenths of the newspaper press published on the spot are singing his pwans evi norning and afternoon, ‘the following conversation occurred between the HrRaLp Correspondent and MURAT HALSTEAD, editor of the Cincinnatl Commercial, controls absolutely one of the half dozen news- papers which have skirmished with the republican party ever since its formation, He belongs to the ‘kehool of Sam Bowles, Wm. ©. Bryant and Torace White, and {8 an athietie, large man about forty-two yearsof age. Mr. Halstead is of French Hnguonot extraction, and his father, who is a native of North Carolina, and is a fine-looking old-fashioned man, wearing his white hatr in a queue, was resting himself beside the fighting The following questions and answers were put promptly, and elicited ar isive replies. “Mr, Halstead, do you 1 ve devout ccppars to the nonilnees of the Liberal Conven- tion 7 ‘hot depends upon cireumstances, If the demo- | crats uominate I shall support the strongest repub- | Mean candidate, There are some men named as the possible nominees of thie Convention whom I will not support. I will not support Justice Davis. He disgusted me when he took the labor reform nomination at the hands of a set of fellows who had their raliroad fares any hotel bills paid to +4 to Coiumbus, don't know whether he = paid them or not; but as he was most interested in their meeting he is as re- sponsible as anybody else, T sympathize with the original purposes of the liberal movement as de- | Med by the Missourians, But if the democrats nominate a separate candidate and he bids fair to get the support of the whole democratic constitu- eney Fight be compelled to support Grant, which 1 do not want to do,” hat are your objections to President Grant f” “Grant has particularly incensed the people of this locality, and he has no considerable support here, Weare overrun with his kin, The Post- master of Covington, across the river, is his father— arich okt curmudgeon anda nuisance. The as- sessor over there got his office atthe intercession of Mrs, Corbin, Grant's sister, All the people wanted Rankin, a man of character, to have this place, but whon they presented their petition Grant replied, ‘I promised it to my sister.’ He seemed to have no notion that this was an indignant answer. The man who got the oilice had been in th habit of lending his buggy to the Grants. The C lector of Revenue there is also a family appoint- ment. The Postmaster of Newport is not known to the most obacure or oldest citizen, and he was a cousin, Foulds, the Postmaster here—a very good officer—is another relative. In fact, we are ove run with kin. Some people gay this Is a little mat- ter, but I think it shows that General Grant has no conception of his office or the seruples of his coun- trymen. It will be very hard work for me to sup- port him.? “Is there nothing, on the other hand, to be said for the ident 9? “Yes, There ls nothing sensational nor experi- mental about him, and If he should sit in that omece four years more the country would probably go on without disturbance and the average prosperity. think that Greeley, Gratz Brown, Trumbull, and even John M. Palmer are experimentalist, ‘As to Davis, we take no stock inhim hereabouts, Justice | ought to be blind, and not hop down from the Sua- preme Bench to the cockpit. The best candidate to put up is Charles Francis Adams. That ia the universal sentiment of Ohio. It is the opin- fon of the best people in Indiana. It is the voice of New England. He 1s the first public man of the country. Before the war came on he delivered the most comprehensive and perceptive speech which was made, During the war he b haved with a coolness and silence of the beat Eur pean statesman at his post. The English found a man among them as cold and controlling as them- selves, He is a faithful American, and we can send him out of Hamilton county with 9,000 majority. 1 do not know one point which the Grant men can make against Adams, nor the democrats either.” “You forget the Fenian vote, Mr. Halstead 1" “J do not Know that it was Mr. Adams’ business, as American Minister to England, to encourage in- cendiarism, Perhaps the worst present we could make Mr, Grant would be the Fentan vote.” ‘ “lave you heard that George Pugh says he will stump Ohio for Grant rather than see the democrats support Adams?" Ni nd it would be of no account if he did. orge K. Pugh belongs to a past age. The demo- cratic party has shown considerable sense of late, and I don’t think that the old politicians can lead them around as much as formerly, Ohio democrats of atl degrees look with sy mpathy on the nomina- tion to be made here.”” “Mr, Halstead,.do you know anything about the | Indiana campaign next fall ¢? je indications are that it will be one of the Most terrific contests ever Known, Morton has to make his dght for re-election to the Senate. He 1s the only man who could ever organize a successful campaign against the democrats in that State. They have to send for him every time they want a | republican victory. He can work eighteen hours a day and take hfs refreshments meantime. Talk | about your war Governors, such as Brough, Yates, Blair and Curtin! Morton has more power in a State | campalgn than anybody since cecrey Clinton; but this year he will have a hard fight. He will demand the whole federal strength to be thrown into this State, and will make Grant feel that Indiana is the céntre of the position, Defection to Grant means a ction to Morton. The most significant thing which has yet happened is the desertion of Julian, Julian was once the candidate for Vice President. He is the old war horse of the hereditary freesoll district—the Richmond district. Julian’ and his friends will come to the Cincinnati Convention. ‘The democrats of Indiana, to beat Morton, will sup- port anybody put up here. Dick Bright, of Indian- apolis, Jesse Bright's nephew, told me to-day that | the democracy were redhot for Cincinnati. INTERVIRW WITH COLONEL W. M. GROSVENOR, At the St. James Hotel the HERALD representa- tive found the chairman of the great Liberal State Committees of Missouri, which was the enterin; | wedge that split the republican party, and delighted | the democrats with the fusion plan by electing | almost simultaneously Gratz Brown Governor, and | Frank Blair Senator, Colonel Grosvenor ts @ | native of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and was for long time a citizen of Milinois, He is at resent Corresponding Secretary of the ‘Taxpayers’ ‘nion, and will probably call the Liberal Conven- tion to order next Wednesday, at the hour of noon, He js a round-limbed, rather ore careless sort of m With the look of an artist; long, black hair, olive skin, and dark hazel Hebrate eyes. He was very communicative and courteous, and answered without hesitation, “Mr. Grosvenor, who will preside over the Liberal Convention?” “That is not fixed. As the Convention meets in Ohio perhaps an Ohio man would be best. Jacob D. Cox or Judge Brinkerhof would be my choic Judge Brinkerhoi will be Chairman of the Ohio rep- resentation, Mr, Cox has fine endowments for a presiding oficer.’? “Have you any particwar choice for President to | be put in nomination!" “None that I care to express. the best seutiment that seems to prevail when the Talstead | editor as the Henatp Representative entered. | | Tshall agree with | influential men in the movement arrive and talk it | over, T prefer a man of Jedersonian principles to a federalist, and want a man anyway who 1s unmis- takably sound on the reyenue reform." “Then 1 take it xy aré not Very invor tl or Mr, Adams or Mr. Greeley? “No, We have never been able to get an expres- ston of opinion from Mr, Adams on revenue reform, Tt Is not certain that he is opposed to us, but he is cautious, and will not give us the benefit of his | name. Who ts hot for us is against us. 1 think Mr, Adams’ letter, received to-day, can do him no good with the promoters of this convention. There 1 a curt of the Up about It. We have no business to leap into the dark unter the hallucination of any man's name, however respectable. [am not one of those who think this whole campaign ia to beat Grant. We dignify him too much with that assump- tion, Looking at the matter politteally, and in the light of success, we ought to nominate a man from | the pri ofthe country where we have the most need of votes. e want to carry the | Minois and Oto, As they will | West."” hen [ suppo: bull, Palmer or O “Either would make a good President and a good candidate. Governor Brown would do as well as | either, Hach of these is a thinking man ofa liberal mig to Jus- your predilections are for Trum- nature and an unblemished personal record, Cox ig a modest man, but well educated and accom: plished, and ¢ Trumbull aly growing stature, and Palmer are of democratic stock, and either would make an excellent President, Governor Brown's qualifications are extraordinary, and he will make @ political campaign more illustrious than Van Buren’ “Mr, Grosvenor, who will come with most strength at the outstart “think Trnmbull will have the most votes, | Many of the leading Germans prefer him. Governor | Palmer will probably show his chief strength on the second ballot. [think Brown will get the majority of votes in the Mississippi valley, south of lowa, T do not see where Mr. Adams is ‘to find support in the Convention except from New England, Ohio and some support from Micmgan., Trumbull and Beewa hays the most me to Cincinnati States of | gO 80 Will go the | | Aud Iegistmate | Ms, Adams, | Greeley's coming 1s in the hands of his friends, vention means; his life and his services have been consistent and illustrious, Democratic Congress- men will find that their constituents have not been blind to the pacific and kindly ofiices of this man. Lyman Trumbull will give us the days of James Madison again. With David Davis we will have an administration as little democratic as Millard Fill- more’s. However, | shall be glad to abide the choice made here." “Have you read in the papers to-day the rumor of | a coalition between Greviey, Fenton and McClure to put up Palmer?” “Yes; [heard something of it before I saw the newspapers. If Mr. Fenton's word is to be trusted his influence with New York will be given to Mr. ‘Trumbull, I have understood that some of Mr. Palmer's friends have been operating in the East. Fenton is what ten call astute, That combination may win, but I hard) gin’ with protectionists.”’ “Then I understand you, Mr. Grosvenor, to be un- der the bellef that ‘Trumbull, Palmer and Brown will have the most showing next Wednesday *”* “Yes. Ithink Mr, Adams will get New England and Ohio; Mr. Trambuii yvaska, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, some Southern votes, parts of Michigan, Towa, INinols, and, if Fenton be honest, the whole of New York, It might be in the power of Governor yown, by a timely magnanimity, to nominate ‘Trumbull on the first or second ballot.” “Mr. Grosvenor, have you heard that the first delegation of 170 Missourians who came in on Friday are for Trumbull?” “Yes, that isso, Governor Brown himself ts for Trumbull, itis in the power of Ohio to insure his nomination without doubt, if it gives up its freak for Adams, Mf Trumbull shouid be nominated I think Fig would find in a@ reasonably short time that the atmosphere would be pure best democrats in the country would expres their satisfaction, and this Convention would have been a success.” ‘a aties you look upon Davis as out of the ques- jon “Yes. He would get on the first ballot, I pre- sume, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Penney! vania, perhaps Indiana and some votes from Tlinois and Michigan, He will never get more votes than those, except some scattering Southern votes, Pennsyivania will drop away after a time, and | think the Davis movement will be at an end, SUMNER’S POSITION. aa WASHINGTON, April 28, 187: Senator Sumner, during a conversation with a friend to-day, explained that he could not, under any circumstances, take a prominent part in any new political movement of whatever character. “My convictions,” he said, “are well known, and Tecanhot, in view of my reputation and those con- victions, assume to be a leader of any party which does not come up to the requirements of those con- victions, I look upon the Cincinnati move- Ment with great interest, as an endeavor to purity the republican party, but I cannot Say one word or do anact to influence it, for the evident reason that my motives might be miscon- strued. I hope, however, that they will ha the good sense to incorporate in their platform a plank endorsing the principles of civil rights for all.” “And if they do not 1” said the friend. | “Ob, I cannot go where my principles are not acknowledged; and if they do not adopt a civil rights piank I certainly cannot support them." THE MICHIGAN LIDERALS. pitino ee The Delegates to Fix Their Plan of Action at Cin- cinnati—Attitude of the Local Press— One Hypndred and Fifty Delegates Promised. Derroit, Mich., April 28, 1872, The liberal republican movement has not de- veloped much strength In Michigan, nor has there been any enthusiasm shown in its support. No general State convention has been held, but a con- ference of a few in favor of the movement was got together two weeks ago, resulting in an address to their friends throughout the State, requesting meetings to Repos delegates to Cincinnati, The Central Committee has received information that ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND WILL GO. Detroit will send quite a number of men of in- fuence, but not strong in politics, Hillsdale county will send a delegatéon fof thirty. Battle Creek sends a list of 500 persons in favor of the move- ment, and it will be ably represented at Cincinnati. Among the prominent oficials are Secretary of State Stryker and a State Senator and Representa- tive from Washtenan apes By The delegates will organize and attempt to settle upon some definite lan of operations on Tuesday evening at ‘incinnati, The friends of the movement claim, if Peay so candidates are nominated, that they can take the strength of republican party with them, The movement does not find much sympathy in the press of the State, Of republican dailies in Detroit the Post is administration, Tribune Mberal. The Free Press, democratic, utterly repudiates the 1dea of the democratic party aMiliating with republicans or endorsing the Cincinnati i atete and candi- dates, but In this particular itis in opposition with the majority of its party. THE LIBERAL LEADERS STARTING. WASHINGTON, april 28, 1872, Thus far 108 tickets have been sold to passengers for Cincinnati. Senator Schurz left for that city yesterday, and Senators Fenton, Trumbull and ‘ipton will follow to-morrow. SOUTH CAROLINA'S LIBERALS, CHARLESTON, 8. C., April 23, 1872. The liberal republicans of Columbia held a mect- ing yesterday and elected the following delegates to Cincinnati:—W, K. Greenfield, £. W. Wheeler, Sam- uel A. Pearce, Jr. and Nicholas Shelton, NOTES ABOUT THE CONVENTION. The Detroit Post (administration) Adams declines, laws defend him ! The Detroit Post grows humorous when it im- agines, in connection with the address of the Lrish American Central League in favor of Horace Greeley, as the Fenian candidate for the Presideney, the warlike Horace, with “spectacles turned menac- ingly toward Canada, a green sash about his ample waist, the sun-burst in his left hand, and his right wildly waving a fourfoot sabre, ferociously leading a charge upon the Queen's Own! Whoop! hooroo! Greeley go bragh! Death to the Saxon!" The Lewisburg (Pa.) Chronicle (administration) declares that the Cincinnati powwow is only got- FIFTY DELEGATES: says C.F, Spirits of the alien and sedition ten up to divide the republican party, defeat Grant | and elect a democrat. Those republicans who at- tend the Convention are piscatorially termed “gudgeons.” The Elkton (Md.) Democrat (ultra democrat) saya | the Cincinnati movement has thrown “dismay into | the radical ranks; that it is no longer pooh-poohed, nor {s It# annihilation left toa sneer.” The Mary- land democrats will go tor the Cincinnati nominee, if he be @ white mai.” * The Cincinnati Gazette (administration) states thata list of the perfected attributes of Charléd | Francis Adams is presented by a contemporary, by which it appears that he has all the political and moralwirtues, But a wise man remarked, “Fine words butter no parsnips."’ Pork and parsnips are considered a favorite dish by epicures, Why not have them served up in Porkopolia? The Cincinnati Commervial (antt-administration) estimates the majority for Charles Francis Adams, if nominated by the liberals, to be ten thousand in Hamilton county alone. “©omings and Goings" are thus briefly chron- leled in the Cincinnati Times of the 25th: “Gratz Brown is coming to-morrow, “David Davis is not 80 much the coming man #s he was." Trumbull is not coming to Cincinnatl, “Horace “Charles Franeis Adams has gone to Gene The Springfield (Mass) Republican (anti-Grant) “If anything were needed to prove that 8 Francis Adams is the man, above all others, for the Cincinnati Convention to unite on, it would be the efforts of the Grant organa to keep him out of sight or toinvent reasons why the liberal re- publicans should not nominate him, Some of them say the democrats will not support him, and quote Fernando Wood. Others cry ont the democrats will support him, and quote Aagust Belmont. Their solicitude that the Cincinnatt Convention shall make a better, or at eats another, Homination than ly think General Palmer will be- | some of the | “Lyman | New ORLEANS, April 24, 1872. As foreshadowed tn the HERALD, the Democratic State Convention, recently assembled in this city, | postponed nominations and adjourned over until | June 3—the day preceding that fixed for the assem- | bling of the Reform Convention. This, in their | opinion, affords time to test the success of the Cin- | elnnati movement, and will also furnish an oppor- | tunity for reconsolidating the party by a coalition | | with the reformers, AS might be supposed, this | | action was not accomplished without a struggle be- tween the wise old heads who advocated delay and | the topatient young element which hungered for | the fleshpots. In noise the latter had deetdedly the advantage; but when it came to a vote they | anned ent’? so meagrely that recantation has | Since been the order of the day. Politically speak- ing the | CONVENTION WAS A FAILURE and dealt in nothing but blank cartridge denuncia- | tion, It denounced Warmoth, Grant, the Custom | House clique and, worse than all, one another, Down in this ardent climate denunciation is the | Staple commodity with aH political gatherings, A convention without a wealth of it would be like a | | barber shop without soap. Everything we do must | be done at high pressure, and explosions are conse- quently frequent, though seldom very The witches’ caldron in “Macbeth did not con- | tain a more HETEROGENEOUS STEW | than does the political pot in Louisiana, evidently going through the labors incident toa | new political birth; all old party lines have either | been trampled in the dust or have become so hopelessy entangled that neither reason nor har- mony cin be found anywhere, The dissensions ex- isting in the radical ranks have already been a topic | | of national discussion and need no further com- ment; those of the democratic party have grown out | of them, and have been nurtured by voracity for | omMee, Six years’ deprivation of oMeial position and emoluments has made the DEMOCRACY RABIDLY TUNGRY, | and they are ready to make any individual sacri- | fice or coalition that will place the golden grapes within reach, The old organization is still clung to as @ power of some moment, but all admit that without outside help it can accomplish nothing. and in casting about for a new departuro every | llttle apple tries to kecp Itself floating on top, With the exception of a small but respectable mi- nority, who cherish vain hopes that General Grant, could be induced to surrender the State govern- ment in compensation for its electoral vote, all look to the Cincinnati Convention and the action of the national democracy in regard to it as decisive of the fate of the party in this State. They do not do this in any cheerful frame of mind, and are evi- dently very loth to quit the oid hulk, battered and tempest-tossed though it be. WARwoTH. Perhaps they would be more reconciled to their manifest destiny if Warmoth was out of the way, but one of those curious complications, 60 often occurring in politics, has placed this pet abomina- tion of the democrats in the saddle, At the head of their forces Warmoth it was who made the breach In the enemy's citadel, and Warmoth it is | who, in spite of them, leads the way through Cin- | cimati, the only acknowledged road to victory. The pill 1s @ bitter one $o swallow, and no wonder they not only make wry faces, but actually rebel at get- ting outaide of it, and withreason, This young man; Warmoth, who plays the game of politica as coolly and much in the same style as a veteran gambler handles the “pasteboards,” is probably the most astute politician living in the South to-day. He is bold, determined, far-seeing and politically unseru- pulous, He 1s, without doubt, responsible for much of the misgovernment of the abuses which have been so heartlessly im- posed upon the people of Louisiana, who have been utmost antipathy. On thd other hand he Is soelally | white | friend i We are | W | seathed by and a majority | accustomed to regard him for years past with the | aw free people—will be turned into an avenger of its own wroug and etivctually prevent the radicals from Teclein ne sais State under any circumstances for a decade at least. Viewed politic: this may be regarded by some in the light of @ misfortune, bui, viewed from an honest standpoint, it will prove a righteous retribution, one well deserved, and one which carries with it a lesson all parties would do well to ponder and prodt by. The fruit of misgoverument, though sometimes ripe and dazzling to the look, 1s always found to be ashes at the core, and the pany cultivating it In all other laces besides Loulsiana will be apt to starve upon ts Product, as the radicals are about to do here. IN THE RADICAL CAMP they are resting on their arms. The negroes, satiate fled with their late demonstration at the National Colored Convention, are awaiting the progress of events without excitement or disturbing effort. They exbibit a quiet faith that would be almost sublime, if they were only a litile more sensibie, in the power of General Grant and the prestige of the great radical party.’ Having so often triumphed through these aids they view alk the wire-pniling of the democracy and the machinatious of Warmoth with supreme | inditterence, tistied that at the next election are striving for. Their they are e to win allt list of aspirations are a very short but very compre- sive one—social equality and a majority of the t oilees, In the litter case emolument has @ cided call over honor; they are willing that @ ernor shail hoad the ticket, The aspirants for this nomination are of course as plentiful as blackber indune, but the two most in favor to-day ave C, Billings, a handsome, shrewd and accomplished lawyer, and our. ond Senutor Kellogy, who has been notified by chiefs that his time is up in the Kellogg will probably recelye the nomina- friends at court, and the party in ngely subservient to the voice of fhgton, One word from the White House, and that Kellogg can readily evoke, will prove suviiciently potent to direct the action of the nominuting eou- vention. we 2 ate. tion, since he hi Louisiana Is str: THE OUTLOOK. The contest at the fall election promises to be & better one, and the political sky never looked more threatening. The people, are Wrought up almost to madness by oppressive laws and heavy taxation, will bear themselves as only they can bear them” selves who tight for redemption, Many and bitter will be the feuds of the canvass, desperate will be tle struggle, and if uisiana passes through it un- the operations of the Enforcement act we Will be as lucky as the niggers were in achieving freedom, Loutsiana’s Delegates to the Rival Con- ventions, WASHINGTON, April 28, 1872. Aprivate telegram from New Orleans, received to-day, says that Governor Warmoth and about sixty-five of his partisans, white and colored, left last night for Cincinnati. ‘All the parishes of Louisiana will be represented in the Republican State Convention, to be held on | Tuesday oxe of electing delegates to | the Philad ention, It is further stated that the col 8, With the exception of a few holding ofiic Warinoth, are enthusiastic for Grant. DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST. The Nomination of Adams—What a Democratic Paper Thinks of the Cine cinnati CanditatesThe Lead of the West. Aunany, April 25, 1872, The Argus of Monday will contain an article upon the subject of the Cincinnatl Convention, which distinctly repudiates, in the name of the party, the recent assumptions of the New York democratic organs. It says that it is hes been silent in regard to the Cincinnath nomination becanse it felt that the strength of the movement lies in its spontaneity and freedom, It feels it to be its duty, however, to remove the false impression produced by that organ’s article. After quoting the democratic organ’s article of Friday in relation to Charles Francis Adais, tt says :— We do not know where it has found the evidences of te preference for Mr. Adains to the. exclusion of er distinguished men named as the possible choice nvention. We do not find aznong the Senators or men or leading ofictals at Albany any democrat having such exclusive preferences—not one. The sane remark istrne of the members of the Democratic State | Central Committee, as tur ay we Our informa- tion from Washington is | from this 8 | | th t most inilnes papers in the | tts asstunptions with indignation. That pape some extraordinary thing», out never anything so unwar- ranted dy this. the best of fellows, makes friends of all, enemies in- cluded, who come in contact with him, and, to, do him justice, he has for some time back earnestly labored to lighten the burdens upon the people, the original imposition of which he excuses on the ground of party exigency. NORTHERNERS AT THE SOUTH. The truth ts that no white man, politician or | otherwise, can live four or tive years at the South | without becoming Southern in sentiment, As soon as he comes to perfectly comprehend, through business and social relations, the standpotnt froin | which the Southern people are forced to regard olitical events, he loses his faith in the theories born of colder climates, and gradually falls from that grace instilled by New England primers. This is the result in almost every | nstance, and Warmoth’s present atiitude would seem to indicate him no ception to the ruk Long ago he probably reali: the fact that his tr ordinate political ambition could not pe gratified without conclilating the older and wiser people, who were destined sooner or later to come into possession of their own State, and he set himself | about the task 80 cee, and so shrewdly that be- fore he was off with the old love he was far on with the new. It was the first realization of this fact in | the Democratic State Convention, where he actualiy | had a strong body of ponpeere rs and the discovery | that a large majority of his later appointments | through the country are “died in the wool’ demo- crate, Inspired the tirade of denunciation poured | out upon his head by the disappointed, WARMOTH AND THE DEMOCRACY. That Warmoth has already entered into negoti tions with the leaders of the democracy for a coali- tion is not only well known, but was admitted on | the floor of the Convention. ‘To this wedding th latter brings the entire white vote of the Stat democrats and reformers, while he furnishes only a handful of personal friends and the State patroi age, armed, however, with an Election law of e¢. traordinary powers, designed originally to perpe: uate radical rule in this State to a remote posterit, but now to be effectualiy invoked for its redemption. The curse that comes home to roost in this in- | stance is, however, Pa ere and eoaipen: sated by Warmotts alleged demand for the gubcr- | natorlal nomination as a prime condition of the | coalition, This startles the old war horses from | their propriety. It brings “Good devil” and ‘Good Lord” so close together as to leave ho escape be- | tween them. Inseparable from the ratification of | this coalition is thus presented for discussion the heartiest kind of a meal of humble ple, and this | your true Southerner would almost rather dio than | partake of, From these facts your readers may Judge of the turmoil with which the political pot now boils, and how nothing can be extracted from itin the baby of certainty, except burned fingers, | Perhaps Its surface bubbles a iittle slower and | easier at present, in view of the near approach of the Ides of May, when Warmoth 1s to flesh his matden sword in behalf of a new faith, His pre- | Vi to be on hand are all completed, fe has | rummed up and recruited quite @ respectable | | delegation, both as to numbers and character, and | leaves on Saturday evening next for the front hmid | a blaze of glory, largely self-inspired, and a storm of indignation from the deserted party, which is | now closing up ranks both on white and black | wings in solid column for General Grant, | | THE PROGRAMME, | only whispered, but faheelde) obvious for all that, is, that when the Democratic Convention reas- 23 on June 3 it will merely appoint a com- of consultation to meet @ siintlar one ap- | p by the Reform Convention which meets the jollowing day, This programine will be certainly | carried out to effecting a coalition, ag many of the | country delegates will come accredited to both con- | ventions, Then, however, the most serious obstac: to its practical rfection arises. The Uberal | | republicans, which of course means Warmoth's crowd, ask fora general nominating convention of | delegates to be sent by all voters opposed to Grant | and in harmony with the Cincinnati_movement. | This the aspiring young democratic office-seckers, | the would-be Governors, &c-, object to, and beyon: | this ailiga muddle. Of course fe win be arranged somehow, since success depends upon it. It is not unlikely that Warmoth will carry his point and run | for Governor on the democratic tleket. Ifhe does 80 never be astonished at anything. Put more faith in princes than in politicians, and hold Amertcan | ae seutiment as Cheaply as Coriolanus did that of Rome. OFFICES AND OFFICE-SEEKERS. | , Fortunately, perhaps, for the success of the coal: tion scheme, the list of offices to be filled at the fall | election is a very full one, and tn portioning out the | [nd the game of give and take can be played very | liberally. Our democratic fellow citizens, even | “the oldest and best,” are by no means averse to the droppings. They will take precious good care | that nothing lies around loose or gets overlooked. and it is a noticeable fact that many who were among the loudest and stanchest for Colonel Cee | ter in his gallant but unsuccessful contest w: Warmoth a few weeks ago are now not only car neat but enthusiastic wrt tor of their then foe. | They would nominate him for re-election in ca pu, “Any tains iy ave Wie Hemi” Md bas Way | j are ard T. | steamer Canandaigua, ( | commanding; | Commander John Lee | William P. McCann commanding, left Ke: | when the latter drew fe After acknowledging the high personal and pub- | Me character of Mr. Adams, which even his un- | gracious letter cannot | our own part we fee tic pace in the sentiment that the true relations of t ith the | gre pit a ne ot the MissiseIppl, shared Hand anticipated tts destiny, ucation. If the democratic party olution it mast ally Itself are ni , i a liew ‘the fu- ure of the republic, ai ith sections that have lost the ir energy and enthasiasm and dwell only In the dead it to have lived in the its crowth and deve NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The following vessels of the North American Squadron were at Key West on the 2tst inst, :— United States steamer Worcester, Captain Rich- Renshaw commanding; United States in Egbert Thompson Uniled States steamer Wyoming, Davis commanding, and United States monitor Terror, Captain 8. P, Quack- enbush commanding, The United States steamer Nipsic, Commander West on mana Bay, to relieve the United mtasket, Which was ordered to the 19th inst. for States steamer N Key West. A dispute arose yesterday between Constable Ridgway and one Charles Ran, near the Elysian Fields, which came nigh ending in homicide. Ridg- Way attempted to remove Ran from the grounds, rth a dueling pistol and shot the constable through the head. The ball assed upward through the back of Ridgway’s skull, nut fortunately did not produce a fatal wound. The would-be assassin was sec veyed to the Hoboken police station, wh he ia held for examl- pation, Ridgway was removed to his home, where his wounds were dressed. The prisoner had two loaded pistols in his po: sion, EPISCOPAL CONSECRATION. A New Roman Catholic Diocese Createdes The Bishop of Providence Anointed, PROVIDENCE, R. L, April 28, 1872. The Rey, Dr. T. T. Hendricken, late of Waterbury, Conn., was to-day consecrated Bishop of the new Roman Catholic diocese of Providence, formed by a partition of the diocese of Hartford, Arch- Bishop McCloskey oficiated as consecrating bishop, and nine bishops and from seventy to eighty wore participated in the exercises, which were held in the Gathedral of Saints Peter and Paul of this ct A sermon was preached by the Very Rey. ‘Thomas Burke of this vity. DEALINGS IN DIAMONDS. East Side Thieves and Receivers tn Cus tody. Anna Beyer, of 22 Bayard street, was robbed, on the 26th of March last, of $345 worth of jJeweiry and $100 in bila. She put the case in the bands of De- tective King, of the Nineteenth inet, and he discovere: that part of the prop- erty, o& diamond pin. and earring, worth $475, had been | saber at Simpson's, in Chatham street, and alterwards take jut by Mary Elkins, well known tn the police recor: jae a picKpocket and shoplifter for the last twenty-five years. The properly was then sold to Manassa L. Goldman for §15l and the pro eeds afterwards di- vided between herself, her husbaad and her E : Esaig. Mra. Elkins stated that hee ought te theket from a man named George Pell Batt hain street concert saloon keeper, Fell was prrested with the others, and was held by Justice Scott at the Essex Market Police Court yesterday on a charge of larceny. | Mrs. Elkins was eld on a charge of siving stolen goods, and wien removed tothe cells filled the gourt room with her screama aud protestations of innocence, The others wore discharged, a4 there Was no evi- dence to linplicate then. BURGLARY IN NINTH AVENUE. James Elmore, Joun Eimore and Michael Petit were arrested yosterduy morning by Detective Noble, of the Sixteenth preciuct, upon complaint 3 of William Carmichael, of No. 7 Ninth avenue, who ctiarge? on Friday after- noon last, While temporarily absent — from | his house they foreed opeu the front door and stole agold watch anda quantity of clothing valued at $10, John Kimore, one of the prisoners, upon being arraigned before Justice Cox, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, admitted the charge, the others denying all knowledge of it, They were held 50 MANGA OL Was Culacaial Semmlomm