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4 : NEW YORK NERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. eta et SLY eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ,. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Hera. Volume XXXVII.. No. 125 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, 8ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.—MacEvoy'’s New Hipeunicon. BOWERY THEATRE, BOWERY. —Raarickrr or Paru— Tooptes—Tae CuarcoaL Burner. Matinee at2 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tre Batter Pan rowmme or Humpry Duwrry. Matinee at 2. BOOTH'S THENTRE, twen av.—Rienarp Ill. Matine nird street, corner Sixth \j—Laby or Lyoxs. Broadway and 13th street.— eat Lbs. WALLACK'S THEATH Lonpox Assunanex, Matin THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway'—Come Vocat asus, NecRo Acts, Ac. inee at 23. UNION SQUARE TH way.—Tnx Voxxs Famity. R urteenth st. and Broad- Matinee at 245. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Tae Power or Love. Matinee at 2. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. and 23d st.— Laura Rooxa. 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The fact that a body of men, com- ing from every section of the country and | animated by purposes so unique and contra- dictory, should resolve to enter upon a can- vass for the Presidency, with Horace Greeley | as the candidate, is the most striking event, in some respects, ever known in our political his- tory. It shows pre-eminently the effect of per- sonal character and devotion to duty upon the general mind of the country ;_ for whatever criti- cisms may be made upon the public career of Greeley, no one denies his honesty of pur- pose, his zeal in the public service, his devo- tion to the people's welfare, his almost senti- mental devotion to every scheme that promised well to mankind. Greeley’s enemies have regarded him as a fanatic and a dreamer. His friends have worshipped him with a devo- tion almost Oriental as an apostle of progress and humanity. In the calm scrutiny of a poli- tical campaign we cannot permit ourselves to indulge in this extravagance of rhetoric. Now that Horace Greeley assumes a position which makes his elevation to the Presidency a possible if not a probable event, lot us see what manner | of man he is and how far his administration of the Presidency would affect the country! The first consideration that comes to us is the fact that Horace Greeley enters into this canvass as a representative of journalism. | PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway Concert, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, May 4, 1872, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. lee SO PAGE. I—Advertisemen Rem Advertisements. BeCincinnati: Close of th Convention ¥ paqua N Ballot; ¥ Mutnal De Close Rac able rouble Already tly Rejects the ree Tfaders Furious; A Plat- form of Compromise with a Preamble of Catchpenn oupiae Brown in asm Among tie with Dr. Gre and Ree in Wail rant's Until within a few years he has been to a critical mind more of a politician than a jour- nalist; bnt even in the harshest phases of his partisanship we have never failed to sce and | recognize the journalistic sense whith made him a generous opponent and an independent ally. Those of our calling who have been | mpatient because the newspaper has not been more generously recogni in the persons of and control it will find tion of the Cincin- For more than thitty years the men who make cause for comfort in the a: nati Convention. has edited the most distine- Horace Gre tively political the United States, league, had a career as marked, if not as and partisan journal in Mr. Gratz Brown, his col- | We see in | in the press of the West. this a tentlency on the part of the people to Ww Street—Our Heroic Dead—Libbie G ‘Trial. S—The New Charter: Provisions of the Proposed | Municipal The Election for Mayor and t Friday in | | “a ry { of Livin: G—Editorials Article, “The Cinciunati Convention and the lination of Horace | sreele Mnsement Announcements, T—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page’ from Mi Sngland, e, Gers | many, g ortant from Washingtor —Mystic | @ in California— al | et rotthy: —Methodist volored Conti —Shooting Att Horse York City N der In Delanc Commission— caning arke n Alleged Pistol sements, the State Capital—The Chi asi Swamp Angels—Amu om Utah—fhe Weather The month of May is essentially a month of religious con- ventions. During the past week we have had two in session in this city and in Brooklyn, The General Conference of the Methodists is now at work in Brooklyn, and the colored | people have also had their religious annual in this city. In these times of political commo- tion, when party spirit runs high and ambi- tion, strife and the desire for personal ad- vancement outweigh almost all other con- siderations, these annual gatherings of church- men show that in the whirl of excitement reli- gion is not lost sight of. The conventions have so far been well attended, and the good work they are intended to push forward goes ou with increasing vigor. Tur AssasstyaTion or Caprarn Wisxart by the Swamp Angels in the vicinity of their sironghold, the swamps of Robeson county, North Carolina, on Thursday, shows that the same spirit of lawlessness and revenge which has hitherto animated these ruffians is still re- tainedin their midst. According to the spe- cial despatch we publish to-day Captain | | sion which once was despised now wins respect , | ‘he thorny and perplexing path by which | regard the journalist asa master. The profes- from our people, has open to it the highest prizes of citizenship. We see due honor and propriety in this, but at the same time we must dissuade all journalists from treading Horace Greeley has reached a nomination for | the Presidency. The time will come, and we | think swiftly, when an editor will see no ambition higher than the fulfilment of his duty ag a journalist. The class to which Horace Greeley belongs, of which he has been the most conspicuous and illustrious representa- tive, belong to another generation—a past sub- tho carlier | generation, when to newspapers In days gifted men found the press the path are servient. politicians, to office and power. We saw men like Leggatt, Niles, Prentice, Seaton, Weed, Raymond and | Greeley possessed with the journalistic in- stinct, and capable of usefulness and distine- teachers and regarding the press as a means for their advancement or tion, who might have been leaders in their generation, for the advancement of statesmen to whose fortunes they devoted their lives. Horace Greeley has told us many times of the affection and zeal with which he followed Henry Clay, and yet asa citizen doing his work in his best | way for his fellow men. Horace Greeley’s career far surpasses the most attractive esti- | mate of Clay aud his career. We see a reaction ent which has taken | vice and made him a | leader. We sce it even more truly in the sen- | timent whicl animates modern journalists that | nothing is more attractive or useful to the editor than his calling. spectacle of : a father and son holding the Presidency, a grandson within a hair of the nomination, and a great interesting | grandson candidate for Governor of the State and a prospective candidate for nomination to the Presidency ' also. But Charles Francis Adams is a cold man, and comes from a race who have never been popular. There was never was followed or regarded as a political leader. The people in voting for Adams would have voted fora name and no more; for with all | the services of Mr. Adams he is little more than a@ name to us. The suggestion of Judge Davis was a scandal. A reform convention taking a candidate for the Presidency from the empyrean heights of the Supreme Bench and drabbling his ermine in the dirty waters of our politics would have been an offence so grave that the people would have risen in mutiny. The same may be said of Judge Chase, and the lesson this Convention should teach to these learned and eminent men is that when a statesman becomes a lawgiver he must cease to be a politician, We impose upon these gentlemen a political celi- vigid as the celibacy scribed to the priest by the Church of Rome. Lyman Trumbull would not have been A timid man, all his life a politician and for many years narrow and bacy as pre- a strong candidate, implacable, his appearance as a reformer and the champion of self-denial and political lib- erality was too grotesque to be accepted sin- cerely, and he would have been a wearisome and dull candidate, the citadel of whose record would have been battered down in thirty ambitious Blair family, while Mr. Curtin wasan ordinary Penn- days. Gratz Brown was an experiment, and a member of the sylvanie politician and adventurer, who would not have carried a single State in the Union. So that, in looking over the field, the judgment of the Hrnaup pointed to Horace Greeley as the natural candidate of the liberal republi- can movement. After Charles Sumner the honors belonged to him,and upon him they have been well bestowed. What will be the effect of these honors? Has this Convention really nominated the Will the enthusiasm which arose yesterday upon the banks of the Ohio next President ? die away in a summer shower, or sweep the Is this a remon- Will the strangely which gathered at Cincinnati really form a winning country like a tornado? strance or a revolution? incongruous and hostile elements party? Will the free traders who absorbed the | intellect and driving power of the Convention calmly submit to the nomination of the apostle | of protection? Will the Southern men forget, | in the fact that Horace Greeley bailed Jeffer- | of Can the democratic son Davis, his life war upon them and their institutions? party be induced to support the hero of forty Will the Germans vote for a man who sees intem- campaigns against democracy? perance a crime? All of these are grave and unavoidable questions. Strong as Horace Greeley is, and impetuous and command- ing as we have found the Convention to be, his friends are met at the outset by many per- plexing problems. Then Horace Greeley him- self is a dangerous candidate. he is never ‘‘in the hands of his friends.”’ A resolute man, He threw away the Senatorship in a letter which did him honor, but was a political mistake. A literary man, skilled with the pen, and open to literary temptations, he is apt at any to into the canvass which will explode himself and his party. Against him will be nominated a man of rare fame and extraordinary services, a Chief Magistrate whose administration, with all its faults, has won the nation’s confidence. time introduce a petard And behind Grant there is an influence of con- Greeley | means enthusiasm. Grant means strength. | And with Grant is that great army whose soldiers followed him to victory, require strong temptations to incline them to servatism which pleas 3 the people, and who will desert his banners now. No man is as well known in the country as | jeneral Horace Greeley, unless, perhaps, it is Another thought comes to us with this event : at nomi- | which is esp icant. The Wishart was accosted on the cars at | Shoe Heel and a conference sought with him by Stephen Lowery drew Strong, who pretended they wished to surrender ther ‘sto the authorities, and Degved thathe would mect them by special | appointment, and, after having placed them under arrest, inter emor in their behelf to obtain a pardon for | them, as they desired to leave the country. | Wishart received a note from the desperudoes, and, probably believing the or were sincere in what they 1, subsequently met them according to his promi He did not return alive to tell the story of this meeting, but tho discovery of his body riddled with buckshot proves the victim was treachcrously decoyed to the spot and assassinated by pre- concerted plans, to satisfy a grudge against him for attempting their capture last year. Tur Canapians AND THE Wasnixaton Treaty.—The Canadians continne to growl because of the Washington Treaty, end not | without good reason. The colonial govern- ment tells the people plainly that the treaty | must be accepted as it stands, The guarantee of a large sum of money to enable them to construct a great Pacific Railroad does not recoucile the Dominionists to what they con- sider the bartering away of their rights. The London Times, in an editorial yesterday, cen- sures the home government, and “hints that it might be beneficial to the world if England were to absolve Canada from her allegiance to the mother country.’ This is a broad hint to the Canadians to solicit their independence. refused, nation of Gre ly due to the | | was given to him by the independent press, | lly by the Hexanp. Although by | and esp no means friendly to the Cincinnati moye- | and insincerity which deprived it of much of | its power, we felt that, as an independent jour- | nalist, our duty was to advise the leade: to what course. Looking over th and ighing the candidates carelally in the balances of reason, we saw in Hiorace Grecley the natural and necessary can- | | did. of the libe | Charles Sumner had debarred himself from po- republican movement. | iltical consideration by making conditions pre- cedent which were impossible. The cold and loft ity and lation of his position, which gave splendor in our politics, and maie him stand aloof cold, resplenc like the | palaces on the frozen rivers of Northern Russia, Charles Adams is a noble character, emi- nt and | dazzling, ice statues in the winter | made his nomination impossible. Francis nent, honorable and worthy. He comes from a line It | is any blue blood in our modern Americ of illustrious ancestors, veins it runs in those of Charles Fr Adams. | A republican country without aris- ancestry, we have had the unusual and | must be decided by himself. there | Grant. It will therefore not be a canvass of false pretences. It will be a personal canvass, and An- | generons and discriminating support which | a question of mere men; for beyond the name of Horace Greeley, what principle do we see in this platform? The name of Horace Greeley and the restlessness of the country for change which belongs to our easy tem- pered people, and nothing more! There are conditions of the public temper when considerations superficial and evanes- cent as these will control a can- vass and name a President. This we saw when Harrison and Pierce were elected. Are we to have these conditions now and with similar results? Are our people tired of Grant? Does the absence of any special enthusiasm for Grant at this time show that our people are weary? These are questions that the canvass will develop. In the mean- time we welcome Horace Greeley inio the whom the poople respect Whether we shall support or oppose him He has received campaign as & men American will always and honor. this nomination, and if he avoids certain fal- lacies that have embarrassed the usefulness of shall support him. Bat in this developments of the canvass ond the attitude in which the nomi- 14 | his career wi we shall await the | the people, an Adams who was not respected, nor one who | himself with the Gov- | ment, and secing in it elements of chicanery |-under our foreign policy, and the desire | i} | | | If the request is proposed it will not be | tecracy, primogeniture or the traditions of | noes of all the conventions will stand before | has any idea of carrying the candidates through The Ltberai Repubiican Convention— its Candidates and Piatform — Will They be Endorsed by the Democracy? The Liberal Republican Convention at Cin- cinnati has completed its work and placed its platform and candidates before the people. Horace Greeley, of New York, has received its nomination for the Presidency of the United States and B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, for the Vice Presidency. The liberal republican movement has been a singular one, and the suceess of the candidates it has put into the field would be one of the most remarkable events in the history of politics, It originated with the soreheads of the regular republican party—with the men who desired to hold or control offices under the federal governmént, which were denied them by the administra- tion, There was nothing patriotic or praiseworthy in this political rebellion. It was incited by personal malice alone, and not by any consideration for the public good. The disappointed office-seekers, led in this State by Governor Fenton, and in other States by politicians of a similar calibre, turned against President Grant simply because he refused to place the federal patronage in their hands. They had no higher motive for their defection than this. If at any moment the President would have reversed his action and placed at their disposal the custom houses, post offices and internal revenue appointments, they would have been as fervent in their praise as they are now loud in denuncia- tion of his administration. As it was, they entered upon a bitter, but narrow-minded, crusade against him, and initiated such ill- advised attacks as the Custom House inves- tigation in this city and the French arms inquiry at Washington. If the opposition to Grant had been confined to these selfish political hacks it would have been too insig- nificant to require any notice or to excite any alarm; but, unfortunately, there were other and graver causes of complaint against the administration than arose from the man- ner in which the federal patronage was distributed. The office-hoiders, by their inconsiderate and arbitrary conduct, began to disgust persons who did not seek or desire any share in the spoils, and the President, in his ignorance of politics and simple honesty of purpose, was induced to approve their acts, and thus to make their faults his own. The administration party in Congress tampered with the question of ‘complete, universal amnesty, and offended and discouraged the South. Superserviceable knaves obtained power in the Southern States, through the influence of the President, and abused it for their own interests. The Cabinet blundered in its financial policy, and in its foreign policy it disappointed the wishes of the people in re- gard to Cuba and Mexico, It frittered away its strength on the St. Domingo scheme, played fast and loose with Spain, and finally involved itself in a humiliating complication with England, from which it now seeks to escape by a sacrifice of the national honor. Thousands of responsible and respectable citizens, who deplored the errors of the ad- ministration, while still honoring and trusting General Grant, joined the movement that had been inaugurated by the sore-headed office- seekers and gave it a more serious and alarm- ing character. What had been at first a mere rebellion of a handful of dissatisfied adventurers grew to the dimensions of a great political revolution, and the result has been the powerful gathering at Cincinnati, the adoption of a popular platform and the nomi- nation of astrong independent ticket for the campaign. The liberal republicans have acted with wisdom and prudence, and have done the best they could to promote the success of their ticket. If they should persist in going with it to the polls their plat- form is concise and popular. There is in it, of course, the usual amount of rhetoric ; but it declares for the complete and absolute blot- ting out of all the memories of the rebellion by the removal of all disabilities and the declara- tion of universal amnesty. It upholds self- government for the States and constitutional limitations of power for the nation. It advo- cates real civil serviec reform and a speedy re- turn to specie payments. It opposes all land grants, demands a change in our foreign policy and pays the stereotyped com- pliment to the patriotism and sacrifices of our soldiers and sailors. Upon the vexed question of the tariff the platform is as non- committal as usual, but the significant vote of the Convention on Thursday evening showed that the sense of two-thirds of the Convention favored the reference of that question to the Congressional districts, to which it properly belongs. It may be questioned whether a resolution that declares in favor of appoint- ing only honest and capable men to office, without regard to political considerations, means much in the mouths of disappointed oilice-seekers ; but it would certainly mean no more if emanating from a convention of office-holders. So the platform, on the whole, may be regarded as a good enough declaration of principles for the pur- poses of the campaign, and the candidates are the best that could have been selected by such a body. Horace Greeley is a plain, honest man, who will be likely to excite some enthusiasm in the country, and will be sure to run well among the farmers and the colored population. The Trish are friendly to him on account of his Slievegammon record ; the Southern chivalry and the Northern copperheads can scarcely object to the bondsman of Jeff Davis; the negroes and free-soilers remember him as the founder of the republican party and the president of the old underground railroad for fugitive slaves, and the people at large are disposed to laugh at his eccentricities, and to vote for him at the polls in the expecta- tion that he would prove a simple-minded, honest-meaning Chief Executive. Of course there will be an attempt to caricature him and to laugh at his candidacy, but it will be re- membered that Honest Old Abe was depicted as an ape during the campaigns of 1860 and 1864 without detriment to his chances of suc- cess. The lampooners may place Uncle Horace on the back of a pig. That would be very likely to travel fast enough to carry him to the White House. 'The work of the election has, however, only been commenced at Cincinnati, so far as the Greeley ticket is concerned. No person who attended the Liberai Republican Convention x can themselves furnish. embraced in the bolting movernent—the one seeking to obtain for the nominees the endorse- ment of the democracy, and thus to lay the foundation of a new national party on the ruins of the republican and democratic organi- zations; the other hoping to alarm the repub- lican party by the importance and strength of the Cincinnati demonstration, and thus to secure either the retirement of General Grant at Philadelphia or the thorough remodelling of his administration, At present it is very doubtful what course the democracy may pur- sue. The leaders have been profuse in their promises to the bolters to endorse their nominees and carry them through ; but it is well known that the leaders do not always represent and cannot always control their followers. There is no reason why the democracy should not support Greeley, who is not 4 politician and wonld be honest enough to distribute the offices fairly among those who elected him; but nothing has been done at Cincinnati to invite or court democratic sup- port. The opposition to Judge Davis was mainly based upon the plea that he was sur- rounded and pressed by democratic in- fluences. The organization of a new liberal republican party was undertaken by the selection of a central committee and the authorization of the formation of State and district committees, all of which must clash hereafter with the already organized democracy. The ticket was made complete by the nomination of a republican for Vice Presi- dent, thus shutting the door in the face of a union on candidates. The democrats are simply requested to endorse two republicans and to append themselves to the tail end of a faction of the party they have been fighting for the last twelve years. One of the leading candidates before the Convention declared that the democratic party had fallen to pieces by the weight of its own corruption, and could not help joining the liberal party and aban- doning its own name and organization, It is possible that when the democrats come together in convention they may object to being thus handed over to the liberal republi- cans, and may insist upon retaining the hame they have borne so long, and in placing a ticket of their own in the field. Indeed, it has been hinted that some of the democratic politicians at Washington have helped on the present movement in the hope of splitting, the repnblican party in two, as the demo- cratic party was split between Cass and Van Buren, and of carrying off the prize themselves. But this, if contemplated at all, isa hopeless scheme, for in such an event nine-tenths of the liberal re- publicans would return to the support of Grant, who would either be re-elected by the people, or by Congress. The probability, therefore, favors the endorsement of Greeley and Brown by the Democratic Nptional Convention, al- though not without difficulty, anda fair con- test between two tickets, the one headed by Soldier Grant and the other by Farmer Greeley. Now we warn the administration that this Cincinnati movement is not to be despised. General Grant is personally strong with the people. They have not yet forgotten Vicks- burg and Appomattox. They have not lost their love and honor for the man who carried the Union flag to victory and saved the republic. Since he has been serving his coun- try in a civil capacity they have learned to respect his integrity and to applaud his single-hearted desire to administer the goy- ernment in the interest of the people. He has made mistakes mainly through his ignorance of political intrigue, which has enabled designing politicians to upon him, but the people know his intentions to be good, and are not disposed to hold him responsible for every offence that may be com- mitted in any department of the public service. At the same time, it is necessary that General Grant should do something at the present moment to satisfy the popular sentiment, which demands a remodelling of his administration. Secretary Fish has brought us into a humili- ating position in our relations with England, and his general foreign policy has been offen- sive to our people. President Grant should request the resignation of Mr. Fish, and call into his Cabinet ao true American, like Mr. Washburne. The military gentlemen who have done duty as secretaries and in other positions around the White House should retire and give place to civilians. If the President will make these and probably some other changes in his surroundings, he will restore public confidence in his adminis- tration. He is now independent of party ties, and can consult his own wishes and judgment in such matters. If he refuses or hesitates to comply with the wishes of the people, the country is very likely to rise with something impose the well known old white hat of the farmer philosopher may prove as effective a rallying point in the hour of battle as did, tn days of old, the famous white plume of Henry of Navarre. Gratz has got another reference—Greeley. The Spanish Insurrection—Conflicting Reports from the Scene of the Car- list Movement Against Amadeus. The latest telegrams from Spain bring very opposite and conflicting accounts of the ex- isting condition of affairs on the soil of the Peninsula, We are assured at one moment that the Carlist rebellion has been ex- tinguished, that the defeated insurgents are retreating in numbers towards the French territory, and that the authorities of the republic are exceedingly cautious in afford- ing them an exile shelter under the democratic government. Then, again, French accounts from Spain represent that Don Carlos and Don Alphonso are both on the soil of the kingdom and at the head of a respectable force. Don Carlos’ proclamation was, it is said, genuine. Madrid is exceedingly uneasy, and the fidelity of the troops serving in the capital to the royalist cause is doubted. It is alleged, indeed, that a regiment or two had gone over to the stand- ard of the revolution. The government forces have been checkmated in the field at certain points, railways have been interrupted, bridges have been burned, mountain passes are being fortified _ for rebel- lious defence, and an Andalusian Such is the municipality is in conspiracy. substance of our Spanish intelligence from French sources. It may be highly colored for cause, but of this we know not, Marshal Serrano is at the head of his army in the the canvass without other aid than they northern district of Navarre. Obtelar threat- ens to secede from the Parliament, and it may oe > Two elementa were | be that the legislative defection of the states- man-poet will. more than counterbalance the forced action of the aged soldier. No matter what the intent or whence t} ine spiration of the French news statements 'from Spain, it is quite evident that the kingdom is still deeply troubled. We are left to infer that this state of affairs has been produced by the clergy, by Carlist agitation, by foreign in- trigue, and by political and personal ambition at home. We know, however, as a fact that a most renowned Spanish soldier is in arms at the head of soldiers of the line for the purpose of operating against a section of the people, his country- men; and it is equally certain, from all the ex- periences of history, that when an army acts against its citizen brethren there are likely to be some memories of bitter grief behind and the anticipation of national troubles to come. A warrior race of such character as the Span- .iards expires only when convulsed to a degree which is alarming as well as dangerous to those who are near to the scene of its final like enthusiasm in support of Greeley, and | agony. The Tide of Public Sentiment and the Success of the Herald Livingstone Expedition, The confirmation of the welcome news wo published on Thursday of the safety of Dr, Livingstone and his rescue by the commander of the Hrraup expedition has drawn forth a number of manly and cowardly recognitions— recognitions anyhow—of Heranp enterprise. We have said that our chief glory in this would be the good achieved to civilization, and, as a guarantee of this good, we welcome the flattering encomiums upon an unparalleled journalistic feat which come to us from sources interested as we are in the spread of progress everywhere. As a triumph which will redound to the cternal credit of American dash and sacrifice in the broad cause of humanity we are especially proud to present it to the nation. Let it be placed among the peaceful glories of the great re- public, and for our share we demand only the legitimate credit which it will bring to the Hzraup as the representative journal of America. To the applause of the scientific world, which will be the first to utilize the fruits of the distinguished traveller's toil, we give a leading place. That the first expression of scientific esteem of our enterprise comes to us from an American society, without the pre- fix of “‘royal,’’ is indeed gratifying, and we accordingly record the subjoined letter with every feeling of pleasure : — AMERICAN GE ICAL SOCIETY, Coorer Insritutz, NEw Yor«k, May 2, 1872. To THE EpiTor OF HERALD: — Dear Sin—I have read in this morning’s HERALD the gratifying intelligence that Mr. Stanley, the chief of the HeraLp Expedition, has succeeded in finding Dr. Livingstone, and that the distinguished traveller is now with Mr, Stanley at Zanzibar. I beg leave individually to congratulate you upon the success of your expedition, and to say, as Presi- dent of the American Geographical eoipeat f that an early occasion will be taken to express by resolu- tion the Society’s appreciation of an effort so hon- Orabis to you and so creditable to our common country, lam, dear sir, very truly yours, CHARLES P. DALY. The day in which the above lines greet the eyes of the millions who will read them is one to be remembered, as showing that the cosmo- politan character of true civilization has be- come an accomplished fact. That the leading journals of the metropolis of America endorse fully and frankly the measure of our effort will be seen on reference to another part of the Heratp. The article which appeared in the Trilune of yesterday is highly creditable to its journalistic taste and appreciation of what constitutes the field of progressive journalism. When it stated that “the press of America and Europe will offer its cordial congratulations to the New Yorx Heratp upon this most bril- liant achicvement—the merited reward of its energy and enterprise,’ it was fully aware that to be candid in recognition of the triumph of a literary fellow laborer would not detract one iota from its own merit in the eyes of the reading public. On the contrary, an un- chained people, untrammelled by Old World prejudice, and admiring only that which is just and manly, will think all the better of it. For a timely instance of the truth of our opinion we refer to an article in the Mvening Express of yesterday. which, while marking its sense of recognition of what the Heratp has done for mankind in this particular, says that the compliments of the Tribune on our work were handsome and just. With this triplet of evaluable encomiums in view we can afford to turn with complacent contempt to the meanness with which the English Cheap Jack journal published in New York deals with the question, On the very day that we published our special despatch from London announcing the safety of Livingstone this Cheap Jack treated its few readers to an editorial diatribe against the Hxnanp and its enterprise, ridi- euling vulgarly the idea that the Heratp had any expedition in Africa at all. Never was Falstaffian mendacity more directly ‘‘set down” with “a simple tale.” The issue of the following day, however, showed that it had not mended its manners, but was resolved to brazen out its miserable subter- fuge. In its news columns the telegram was published confirmatory of our first de- spatch from Bombay mentioning the fact that “Livingstone was safe with the American, Stan- ley;’’ but in the course of a long editorial upon the telegram the Cockney editor dishonestly ignored altogether that its intelligence was de- rived from the enterprise of the Henaup. This surprises us but little. ‘The etiquette of White- chapel does not teach much of the criminality of theft, although its foul vocabulary deals plentifully in such gutter epithet as thief, scoundrel and liar, Had the graduates of Billingsgate English who edit the Cheap Jack paper we refer to known anything of con- ducting a first class journal this petty playing of the réle of Thersites would be left among the purliens of Cockneydom. Among other comments upon the success of the Heratp search we have to notice one in the World of yesterday, which, with some good humor and a feeble attempt at being sarcastic, ‘wonders in a weak way what will constitute the field of journalism in tho future. Good lack! gentlemen, instead of scraping your brains for commonplaces and falling to marvel over our extensions of this journalistic field, until it has embraced the en- tire world and the fulness thereof, you had better be up and. doing, for the public wants news. How the spirit of Sivan, the sleeper, Rip Van Winkle and dry-rotting Bourbon: “nm must pervade the brains of a journal aspiring to a foremost place nowa@ays, when it at- tempts to keep out the tide with its quill, as follows: ‘‘ Butin beha#f of humbler journals, which cannot ‘live (he page,’ we gently but firm-