The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1872, Page 8

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GeeAfter the Convention: Ohio “Soreheads” Dis- cussing the Situation; Organization of the National Executive Livingstone’s | Safety: British Agency and Consulate at Zan- zibar Concerning Livingstone and Stan- ley ; Important Letters to the Royal Geographi- ee fe ety of England—News from the State ‘apital. @—canidate Greeley: The Worrled Philosopher Seeks Repose at bg el The Gossip in the City—Louisiana State Fair—Horse Notes— Aquatics—Boating in Virginia—The National Game—Young Wing’s Grand Coup: The First Son of the Celestial Empire Educated in the United States. ‘J—<Religious Intelligence: Fifth Sunday After Eas- ter; Beginning of the May Anniversaries; The Religious Programme for To-Day—The Methodist General Conference—The Van Saun iy—Paris Fashions—The Fishery Ques- tion on the Delaware River—A New Vocal Society—Mysterious Disappearance of a Brooklyn Lady—The Strike of the Pipemen. torials: Leading Article, “The Party in the Field—The Ad tration and Democratic Partics—Questisns at Issue and the Pros- ct”"—Amusement Announcements. Editorial: (Continued from eighth page)—Cable Telegrams from oe France, England, Den- mark, Holland, The West Indias, and Central and South America—News from Washington— Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business Notices. 20—Financial and Commercial: Gold 113%; Stock Market Dull; Money Easy; City Bank Aver- ages; Shipments of Specie—Reul Estate Mat- ters—The New Cotton Exchange—The Treaty in Canada: Opening the Fisheries to Amer- icans—New York City News—Obituary—A Bold Robber—Probable Murder in the Bowery—The Wooster Street Fire—Conflagra- ton in Jersey—Firemen Injured—Suicide in Ninety-sixth” Street—Attempted Snicide— More ‘Trouble in the Caisson—Accident to Mrs. General Barnum—Mar: ‘sand Deaths. 1l—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Board of Audit—Charged with Alter- ing Checks—Advertisements. 12—The Trial of Libbie Garrabrant: Convicted of Murder in the First Degree—Shipping Intelli- nee-—Advertixements, 13—Advertisements, 14—Aavertisements. 15—Advertisements. vertisements. Pants Fasnioxs’ Lerren,—The letter of our Paris fashion writer wo publish in another pert of this morning's issue, and the lady readers of the Hznaxp will no doubt be grati- fled accordingly. Paris, capital of a republic as it is, still holds the position which for long years it occupied as the leader of the world of fashion. The obandonment of imperialism had a serious effect foratime, but then the Parisians were not going to abandon the idol they had so long worshipped because of a change in the form of government, and grad- ually fashion resumed its old sway. By our correspondent’s letter we may lowrn what they wear in the French capital and how they wear it, Tue Frencn Assemnty is likely to take up the subject of the conduct of contracts for army supplies, and with it the question of the morale and mode of commercial operation of the contractors. A member of the legislative body is of opinion that it will be useful to the worldly future of the young men of the nation to behold the “fearful example” of how it ‘works.’ Perhaps it may be. The great Bonaparte gave way to contractors as an abso- Inte necessity consequent on his system of war, but for that reason only. In imposing the national taxes under the Code he always wrote Opposite the names of men of the calling, “let him disgorge freely to the State.” OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Committee—Dr. News from the 16 istration and Democratic Partice— Questions at Issuc and the Pros peet. The first great and decided movement in the Presidential campaign has been made. The action of the Cincinnati Convention has sud- denly aroused the public mind and has pro- duced something like an electrical effect. Few had anticipated such a result, The gathering of a sort of mass meeting of disaffected re- publicans and republican reformers from all parts of the country was watched with more curiosity than serious thought. There was hardly more than a general impression that the improvised Cincinnati assemblage might make a considerable diversion in the republi- can party, and that ifa union could be formed with the still powerful democratic party there would be a chance of defeating General Grant. This was about all that was expected. This was the hope of nearly all opposed to the administration and the re-election of the President. Though the democrats took no part directly in the Cincinnati Convention, they stood looking and waiting anxiously for a result they could endorse and with which they could co-operate. But this mass meeting assumed the proportions of an important and independent convention. It was conducted admirably and with great ability. Every hour after the delegates arrived and the proceedings commenced it showed more and more strength of character and purpose, Rarely has any national political convention cxhibited as much ability and harmony or ever finished its work with more promptness, spirit and unanimity. In the principles and objects proclaimed, in the judicious choice of candidates for Presi- dent and Vice President, and from the manner in which these have beemaccepted by the pub- lic, this Cincinnati gathering appears to have given birth all at once to a new and formidable party. This party has the advantage, too, of being first in the field. This movement places both the administra- tion and democratic parties in a quandary. We see that in the tone of the press and ex- pressions of partisan politicians. The Grant people, or those who pretend to be the friends of the President, the office-holders, the admin- istration Congressmen and the administration newspapers, affect to laugh at the nomination of Horace Greeley, though any shrewd ob- server can see that it is a torced and melan- choly laugh. The weak administration organ in this city, particularly, is very uncasy, while pretending to be perfectly composed and satis- fied. As the old saying goes, none are so blind as those who will not see. A political revolu- tion has just been inaugurated, and these ram- pant partisans are either too dull to perceive it or wilfully shut their eyes. With the demo- crats it is different. They have sagacity enough to comprehend the importance of the movement and the nomination of Greeley and Brown. But they are embarrassed. Willing to go far and make some sacrifices to defeat General Grant and to change the personnel and policy of the government, they find it hard to accept Horace Greeley, who has been through life their bitter opponent, and whose views on EW YORK HERALD |" Pes ‘ss ristom enter i Sif beet ey and old Ireland, and are enthusiastic over his nomination. A large portion of the Germans, under the influence af Carl Schurz and other leaders, would, , vote for the Cin- ciunati nominees, This is plainly indicated already by the German press. The working- men are proud of Greeley as one of their own class and aa their friend, and the men of the press, @ large and very influential body of citizens, are, irrespective of party, desirous of elevating him to the Presidency. The manu- facturers see in him a warm and constant advocate of their interests. He has been the friond of the Cubans and every other people struggling for liberty. He is loved for his generous and kind nature, Even his vanity, quaintness, peculiarities, isms, dogmatism and other defects are only smiled at kindly because of his good qualities. He is so much aman of the people and so well known that to caricature him only makes him more popular. It may be said, perhaps, that this is rather an oxtravagant eulogy of Mr. Greeley; but that is not intended. We aro simply speak- ing of the candidate for the Presidency and of facts which bear upon the great public questions at issue. But with all these elements of popularity and ad- vantages with which Mr. Greeley enters upon the campaign, he can hardly expect to be eleoted without the democratic vote or endorse- ment of the democratic party. To obtain this he must purge his extreme protectionist theo- ries, and consent, in the language of the Cin- cinnati platform, to be governed by the will of the people. On this he must be very out- spoken, for it is the greatest obstacle to demo- cratic support. Revenue and tariff reform, as far as the exigencies of the government for income will admit, are imperatively demanded by a great majority of the people. This con- ceded, we do not see what issues there are upon which he, the liberal republicans and the democrats cannot unite and act together. Except a more decided expression in favor of free trade than there is in the Cincinnati plat- form, and that is scarcely a practical question now, we do not know upon what better plat- form or issues the democrats could go before the people with a candidate of their own. Should the democrats enter upon the Presiden- tial campaign with independent candidates for the sake of maintaining their organization they may defeat Mr. Grecley, and cause General Grant to be re-elected either by popular vote or by carrying tke election to the House of Representatives. There is a bare possibility, and hardly that, of the democrats getting a majority of the electoral votes with three tickets in the field. The question is, then, will they support the Cincinnati nomi- nees with a good prospect of defeating General Grant, or will thay, for the sake of keeping up a distinct organization when there are no issues to base it upon, give the present admin- istration another four years’ lease of power? Can General Grant see the importance of the Cincinnati movement? He ought to learn from that how much his popularity has been and is waning. He, undoubtedly, is honest and means to do the best for the country; but the economical questions of the tariff, free trade and protection are opposed to theirs. Though the Cincinnati platform has been made as non-committal and as ac- commodating as possible on these questions, leaving them, in fact, to the decision of the people and their representatives in Congress, and though the question of protection is not likely to come up in any decided practical shape while the necessity for raising a large revenue exists, the democrats do not like to putin jeopardy the old free trade dogma of their organization. In short, though Horace Greeley is a popular and an available candi- date to run against General Grant, the demo- crats are disappointed. They wanted the Cin- cinnati Convention to nominate a man whose views are more in accord with their own. Nor do many of the old leaders like to abandon virtually their organization by going with this new party of liberal republicans. As a consequence some of the democratic pa- pers and leaders have opened their batteries against the nomination of Mr. Greeley. Others, less rigid, are on the fence. Both of these classes of democrats are from the North. The Southern democrats generally, as we un- derstand at present, are in favor of Greeley, He has been the earnest advocate of universal amnesty, of raising the South from her depressed condition, of pro- moting emigration to that section, of blotting out the sad memories of our civil war, of pro- moting kindly feeling and harmony between the two sections, and had the magnanimity to be bail for Jeff Davis. The Southerners, con- sequently, are willing to forget his anti-slavery hostility before the war, recognize him now as one of the best friends of the South, and would gladly give him their votes with the hope of defeating General Grant and the party which has kept them crushed to the earth. Such, then, is the position of tho different parties with regard to the Cincinnati movement and the nominee. There is, however, inde- pendent of these parties, the great Ameriean public to be considered. While we are aware that the influence of party organization is great, there is a large class of independent voters who act upon their own preferences or judgment. The mass of the people, too, are apt on extraordinary occasions to ignore party ties and to follow their impulses or patriotic sentiments. There are, undoubtedly, many and great elements of popularity in Mr. Greeley. His supporters understand that, and it would not be wise for his opponents to lose sight of it. We have given reasons why the Southern white people, and even the old States rights democrats among them, would gladly vote for him. And who can doubt the favorable sentiment of the negroes? Horace Greeley has been the life-long friend of the blacks. Ignorant as they may be, they know that no man has done more, if as much, as he has for their emancipation and welfare. He has been more their Moses than Abraham Lincoln was. We think that if the choice for President should be only between General Grant and Horace Greeley a large majority of the negroes would vote for Greeley, as well as a majority of the whites in the South, and that he would carry all the Southern States. In the North he would be largely supported by the farmers, and this class of citizens in the State of New York—particularly in the western where he is popular—together with the ge vote he would get in this city, would probably give him the electoral vote ot the Empire State, The Irish he has trusted to others who have misled him and brought his administration into public disfavor. The people are weary and disgusted with the Washington Treaty muddle and the want of national dignity and statesmanship exhibited over the Alabama claims difficulty. They feel the country is being humiliated, and that England has managed to get the advan- tage of us in the whole of that business. The disgraceful and painful condition of affairs in the Southern States, the tendency of the gov- ernment to military or arbitrary assumption of power, and other evils which have been forcibly exposed at Cincinnati, have made the adminis- tration unpopular. Outside of the office-hold- ers there is no enthusiasm or affection for it. For General Grant personally the people still have much respect, but little or none for his administration. Unless he changes his course and the Cabinet he will run a great risk of be- ing defeated next November. Unless he re- moves Mr. Fish, and, by the appointment of Mr. Washburne or some such able man to the State Department, so as to give a high American tone to all our transac- tions with foreign nations, and particu- larly in the management of our delicate relations with Great Britain, he will lose more and more public confidence. Finding his popularity declining, the Philadelphia Convention even might consider the propriety of setting him aside, and either accept the Cincinnati nominees or enter into an agree- ment with them to take up new men accept- able to all republicans. Politicians do not stick long to a sinking cause. Now is the time or never for General Grant to boldly take the responsibility of changing the course of his administration. The tide of a political revolu- tion has set in against him, and his own hand alone can stop its progress. The Royal Geographical Society of Engiand and the Herald Expedition im Search of Dr. Livingstone. The latest European mails brought here by the steamship Rhein, which arrived at this port yeatgday, brings us additional intelli- gence regarding Dr. Livingstone and the Henatp search expedition led by the American Stanley. At a meeting of the Royal Geo- graphical Society, held in London on the 22d ult., the President, Sir Henry Rawlinson, an- nounced that he had received two letters from Dr. Kirk, from Zanzibar. The meeting of the society was largely attended by men whose names are well known in the scientific world, and the announcement of two communications from the English Consul at Zanzibar must have created no small degree of anxiety among the royal geographers to ascertain their con- tents. Dr. Kirk, as is already known by the readers of the Heratp, has ever manifested the liveliest interest in regard to Dr. Livingstone, and his energy, ability and assistance have previously been acknowledged in connection with the attempts heretofore made to aid the great traveller, whose daring and desire to benefit humanity and solve the intricate prob- lems of African exploration led him into the wilds and wastes of the Continent of Africa. Dr. Kirk's letters relate solely to the prospects of the discovery of Dr. Livingstone, and in this regard he is compelled, of necessity, to give due credit to the enterprise of the Nuw York Henarp and the bold daring of its cor- respondent, Mr. Stanley. “My whole reli- ance ;"’ says Dr. Kirk in his letter dated Zanzi- bar, January 15 of the present year, “is in Mr, Stanley;” and that he has thorough faith in| the success of the Hxnaw’s explorer is vouched for by the acknowledgment which. follows in another portion of the same commu- nication. “You wish me to say confiden- tially,” he says in reply to Sir Henry Rawlin- son’s inquiries, ‘‘what I think of Dr. Living- stone’s position, and I see that you are not averse to taking any measures into con- sidemtion that might lead to bis being communicated with if only a fair prospect of success offered. This, I think, Mr. Stanley will accomplish." Had information been communicated at an earlier period the Royal Geographical Society might have been spared the trouble and expense of fitting out an expedition to go in quest of Liv- ingstone, as it would have satisfied them that what was possible of-accomplishment would be attained by the Heraup's expedition, which had nearly completed its mission, so far as the finding of Livingstone was concerned, before the royal geographers’ expedition had sailed from the shores of England. It was impossible, of course, to foresee the events which the news of the last few deys announce. Stanley has succeeded in finding Livingstone, and the Henatp’s expedition has accomplished the mission it undertook to make successful. Both at home and abroad the vastness of the enter- prise is acknowledged, and the congratulations on its success speak volumes of the anxiety with which it was regarded in every quarter of the civilized globe. General Conference Superintendents. Rarely has the episcopate of any church been decimated so suddenly by death, superin- duced by overwork, as has been that of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States during the past four years. Indeed, half of the effective bishops who presided at the General Conference four years ago have gone to their blissful reward. There are five out of nine remaining, four of whom only are effective, and they are nearing the allotted time of man’s probation on the earth. Bishop Thomas Morris, the senior Bishop of the Meth- odist Church, has been superannuated these many years, but by husbanding 4 once strong and vigorous constitution he is able to travel from his Ohio home to the East and be pres- ent at the General Conference now in session in Brooklyn. He is in the seventy-eighth year of his life, the fifty-sixth of his ministry and the thirty-sixth of his episcopate. He entered the Ohio Conference in 1816, when that State was the ‘Great West’’ and nearly all beyond was unknown territory. He per- formed yeoman’s service for the Church in that region when such men of indomitable courage and perseverance and fine physical con- stitution were needed to plant Methodism in the New World. Last Sunday, April 28, he com- pleted his seventy-eighth year, and as he looks back over the progress which his Church and his country have made during his conscious lifetime his heart naturally swells with satis- faction and gratitude to God, who has spared him so long. Though advanced in years the Bishop is by no means an ‘“‘old fogy.” He has kept pace with the march of human prog- ress, and no man to-day rejoices more than he in the developments of the last few years. Bishep Morris was in his time a fiuent preacher, a ready writer and a laborious pastor. His crown is awaiting him over the river. Bishop E. 8. Janes, though not the oldest in years, is now the senior effective Superin- tendent of the Church. He has just passed the sixty-fifth year of his age, the forty-second of his ministry and the twenty-eighth of his bishopric. He joined the Philadelphia Con- ference in 1830, and was chosen to the epis- copal office by the Geneval Conference which met in this city in 1844—the year in which the Methodist Church divided on the slavery ques- tion. He has lived to see that bone of conten- tion ground to powder and made an agent to overthrow the fabric which itself raised. He has been in labors abundant ever since, and last year he travelled over twenty-five thou- sand miles to meet Annual Conferences. When itis remembered that there are seventy-two conferences in the United States and but four bishops to meet them it will be seen that their yoke is not easy nor their burden a light one. Asa preacher Bishop Janes ranks high. On subjects vital to Methodism, such as missions, church extension and itineracy, in which he is deeply interested, he becomes eloquent, and his musical voice when warmed up gives him a power over an audience which comparatively few ministers possess. He is an admirable executive ofticer and is greatly beloved by his ministerial brethren. His home is in this city. Bishop Levi Scott is in the seventieth year of his age, the forty-sixth of his ministry and twentieth of his episcopate. During those twenty years he has failed to meet but three of the conferences assigned to him, and those failures were caused by sickness last year. He entered the Philadelphia Conference in 1826. His home is in Delaware, where his presence in the community is felt as the genial sun- shine after a shower on the new-mown grass, Bishop Scott was elected to this office at a time when he was Book Agent in the Methodist publishing house in this city and the present agent, Dr. Carlton, was elected to that position the same year, and has remained in it ever since, The gentleness and geniality of Bishop Scott’s nature are very manifest in all his sermons and utterances. His chief desire is to spend and be spent in the service of Christ and of the Church of his choice. Hs is in rather feeble health at present. + Bishop E. R. Ames is now a little over sixty- six years of age, having been born March 30, 1806. He entered the Illinois Conference in 1830, and was elected to the episcopal office in 1852 by the General Conference, which met in Boston. He has o fine physical frame and looks young and active enough for work for many years yet in his Master's cause. The Bishop has in him the elements of success in almost any line of business he might pursue. A vein of quict humor underlies his mental constitution, and he uses a little of it once and again to relieve the tedium of debate among his brethren. He is, however, by some con- sidered to be a little too imperious at times in ruling upon important matters which havo agitated the Church. But no one has doubted that he has acted most conscientiously. He is avery pleasing, though not a very brilliant preacher, but isa good executive officer and laborious worker in the Church. Bishop Matthew Simpson lacks about a month of being sixty-one years of age. He was born June 10, 1811, and is the ‘Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. His eloquence is of that kind which draws the community and enchains them, and it is easier for the Bishop to keep together and entertain and instruct @ congre- gation of five thousand persons for two hours than it would be for our average min- isters to keep and entertain five hundred for twenty minutes, His place of residence is Philadetphia. All of these fathers in the Church are now with the Conference. It will be seen that the great States lying beyond the Alleghanies have no resident bishops. Butas the present General Confer- ence will elect probably not less than eight more Bishops, the Western and Southern Con- ferences may demand a fair representation, not only in the election but in the residences of the elect. A proposition has been discussed in the Church papers to divide the country into ecclesiastical provinces or episcopal dis- tricts, and to require the permanent residence of a bishop in each. This may be found practicable at the present time, but it would not have been so a few years ago. The Com- mittee on Episcopacy, which was appointed a couple of days ago, will probably make suita- ble suggestions on this head before many days, Oddities and Peculiarities of Presi- dential Candidates and Their Effects Upon the Popular Masses. Since the early days of the republic, say from the times of the elder Adams down to the present period, the eccentricities and personal peculiarities of candidates have borne an im- portant part in every Presidential contest. Ludicrous as some of them were, they have been moulded to suit the popular mind, and, by adapting them to familiar cries and phrases, have been the means of leading candi- dates in otherwise desperate contests , from defeat to victory. But this popular adaptation of the oddities of Presidential aspirants is not always the result of political manoeuvring or adroitness, but springs spontaneously from our republican masses, and by them is made to take no humble part in every political gathering or party demonstration, as well as being made the refrain of street songs and the moving spirit of jollifications at country hustings. Let us make a few illustrations. In the heated contest between Jackson and Adams, in 1828, there are many who will remember with what alacrity the people seized upon the term ‘Old Hickory,'’ when applied to Jackson, and made it the burden of party cries everywhere. References to the hanging of the three militiamen in Florida, the celebrated coffin handbill agitation and the many other efforts of the Adams party to bring odium upon the “‘hero of New Orleans’’ failed to answer the purpose. In reply to every charge made against him the populace would make the welkin ring with cries like these: —‘‘We know it. Hurrah for Old Hick- ory!’’ And when installed in the Presiden- tial office his rough firmness and iron will, and his bold affirmation, “By the Eternal,” and his hard swearing generally, only endeared him to the popular heart and attested the propriety of his familiar sobriquet, ‘Old Hickory.” Following Jackson came Martin Van Buren, with his title of ‘Little Magician;"’ but, fail- ing toarouse popular sympathy, the ‘Tippe- canoe and Tyler too’’ campaign, with its popular songs, log cabins, hard cider and other appliances, swept the ‘‘ Little Magician”’ by the board and paved the way for the great campaign between Polk and Clay, four years later, and which resulted in the defeat of ‘gal- lant Harry of the West,” the ‘Mill Boy of the Slashes,” because there was a little diffi- culty somewhere about ‘Cayuga Bridge’ on election day. In the succeeding contest, “Old Zach” Toylor’s ‘‘Roughand Ready” cognomen and bluff manners, with the free use of ‘‘A little more grape, Captain Bragg,’’ and other familiar war expressions, did almost as much toward the election of “Old Zach” over Cass as the defection of Martin Van Buren. In Lincoln’s campaigns who called him anything but ‘Old Abe,”’ or the “Rail Splitter,” or the “Flat Boatman of the Ohio,” and who repeated his quaint stories or cheered his homely presence with a livelier zest than the popular masses? And on his journey to Washington to be inaugurated every one remembers how famous became Old Abe’s ‘‘Scotch cap and military clonk.’’ As plain “Mr, Lincoln’ or ‘President Lincoln” one would scarcely recognize the man whose familiar titles had beer upon every tongue in the land and whose personal history had been the theme of many a household anecdote. Even General Grant, with all his fresh popu- larity, had to submit to being styled the “‘Hero of the Apple Tree of the Appomattox” when that occasion was only the crowning event of his marvellous military career. This happy knack of twisting a sobriquet into @ campaign cry—a small eccentricity into a great popular figure—is not altogether peculiar to America ; but, then, they have no elections across the Atlantic to compare with those here in the matter of popular effervescence and continuous excitement. Still a happy nick- name defiantly paraded has carried many a ‘contest in gray old Europe. Dear to the heart of every ‘son of the sod’’ is the recollection of “Dan, the Liberator.’ His ‘‘repale cap,’ with its garland of shamrocks, was the in- spiration of many a rousing hurroo from Tara Hill to the Kingdom of Kerry. Here is some- thing for the sons of the Emerald Isle to twine with their fondness for the sage of Chappaqua when they fall into ecstasies over his old hat. From the great Bonaparte all gallomaniacs, who hope to hang by the tails of power, can weave the souvenir of the famous little man’s ‘gray coat” with the ample white coat of the general of the Liberals to-day. The pear-headed Louis Philippe, too, France's citizen king, with his bonhommie and his umbrella, will afford a lively historic parallel to those who wish to keep their pow- der dry under the big parapluie of the modern philosopher. Englishmen will couple ‘Farmer George” with Farmer Horace, but in doing so they will admit that, while the one was a fool, our farmer has a level head. In Persia, centuries ago, & blacksmith's leather apron was their victory flag, as in 1868 the admirers of General Grant sported leather aprons in their campaign “tanneries.” All Germany in the late war went into a national chorus over unser Fritz, and why not over Horace now? It was said of Napoleon ; be inherited nothing from bis uncle Conference of 1852, Asa preacher it. is dowbtful whether he has any superior in the | ih This rage for popularizing great men by affectionate dimin- utives finds no better illustration than the dwarfing of the great historic Emperor Frede- rick Barbarossa into ‘“Red-bearded Fritz’* among the affectionate sons of Vaterland. Lord Palmerston was cheered for all over England os “Old Pam," and “Dizay’ tickles the tongue of a British Tory when he talks of the brilliant bat slippery Benjamin Disraeli. What was a more effective weapon in a phrase than Beran- ger's bon roi d’ Yvetot, and what can suggest ® more happy theme to canonize the groat journalist-former’s predilections for Arcadian simplicity than its repetition to-day? Thus, through a happy chain of coincidences, we come down to a later day—to a later hour— ay, even to the ‘Later Franklin.” Who knows but that that famous old white coat, (as renowned as the ‘Old Whitey” war horse of “Old Zach,”) that shocking bad hat, those boots with the pants stuck into the northwest corner of one and in the southeast corner of the other, that necktie which looks as if it had gone through a ‘‘stub-and-twist’’ opera- tion—who knows but that these may be so illustrated and manipulated as to take hold of the popular mind and form the groundwork for a towering political structure? Beside these there are many other characteristics about Mr. Greeley which will make him popular in the canvass, if properly used. But that old white coat is pre-eminently the banner, which, if raised aloft, will lead the liberal republican hosts to victory, with the ‘Sage of Chappaqua’’ in the van. Now is the time to.” ~ begin to work up.popular enthusiasm. Let the liberals get up their ‘‘olé white coat clubs,’” their “shocking bad Zat clubs,” their ‘old boots clubs,”” and honest old Horace will emerge from his white coat to go into the White House, just as General Harrison emerged from his log cabin to go into the same much coveted place, but, we trust witha longer lease than that vouchsafed the “Hero of Tippecanoe.” Don Carlos’ Presence in Spain Am- nounced Officially in Madrid—Recep- tion of the Insurgent Leader in Na- varre=The Contending Forces in Ac= tual Conflict. The Madrid Gazette informed the Spaniards officially yesterday of the presence of Don Carlos on Spanish soil in arms against the Crown, and also of his having been joined by Sefior Rada, his chief lieutenant, who, accord- ing to a prior report, had just been pursued to the border by the King’s troops under Gen- eral Rivera and compelled to seek exile shelter in-France. The very latest news from Madrid, dated last night, assures us that hos- tilities have actually commenced in the field between Don Carlos, in command of the in- surgents, and Marshal Serrano and General Rivera, at the head of divisions of the King’s troops. Rivera has, it is said, surrounded the Carlists. The indications are that the Crown commanders are operating to effect, or com- pel, a surrender on the part of the revo- lutionists. This very serious statement, which reached us from Madrid in the shape and words in which it appears in the Heratp, is sufficiently positive in its asser- tion, and should it be confirmed completely by our telegrams to-day or to-morrow the inauguration of a revolution against Amadeus’ throne must be accepted as a fact accomplished, despite any feeling which may be entertained on the subject of the pra- dence, the exciting causes or the influencea which may appear to control the movement. That it may be confirmed appears probable, The concurrent news reports which we publish are almost confirmatory of the first despatches. They allege that Don Carlos entered Vera, a town in Navarre, during the day last Friday, and that he was greeted in his advance by the ringing of the church bells and cheering om the part of the citizens. Here we are told of Rada again in a repetition of the statement that he was with his leader. The Carlista in Madrid openly asserted that the Prince Don did not quit the soil of Spain at any time from the moment of his first appearance, but re- mained and still is at a headquarter point somewhere in Navarre. This may be taken as & non-committal corroboration of the Cabinet proclamation in the Gazette. The Carliste in Catalonia expected to ‘rise’ in arms in large force. The Spanish nation remains excited. The King’s government is vigilant and active. Troops have been distributed through the ter- ritory of Catalonia, with orders to suppress any attempt at rebellion or revolutionist de- monstration. A detachment of the royal army has been in contact with the insurgents in Tarragona. It repulsed the malcontents after a short conflict—a feat of easy accom- plishment, no doubt, to soldiers who are as well drilled and in as high a state of efficiency just now as are any of the men serving in the ranks of the monarchist armies in Europe. Government officers hope to capture Carlos personally. Marshal Serrano had come up with the principal Corlist band in Navarre, and the opposing forces confronted each other yesterday. Serrano is evidently cautious, He will certainly execute his duty efficiently. This resolution renders him careful as to his means and preparation; but when Serrano comes to hurl his power in triumph on the Coarlistsa—as it is most likely he will—we shall hear again the sad news of the hands of Spaniards being made red with the blood of “loving brothers,’’ and that the “smoking roof tree testifies he has done his errand well.’ Madrid is again in communication with Bilboa, the . railroad bridges which were burned by the Carlists in the province of Biscay having been - restored. Reading the contents of our news telegrams from Madrid calmly and dispassionately must lead to the conclusion that the situation in Spain has become very critical in relation to the matter of the governmental future of that country, and that an experiment of an exoeed- ingly delicate nature and hazardous charactes, ‘Rolitionl and Aruastio. is being evolved towards