The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD \proatWay AND ANN strber, : GORDON BENNETT; PROPRIETOR. % + Ali business or news letters and telegraphic espatches must be addressed New Yoir JAMES ‘ Rejected conimtnications will not be re- turned. Votame XXXVI... [AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Scancipux : on, Tae Uo Mouse ox THe Raine. t BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Seranats Maivten- ANOK—SWAMP ANGELS. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Crtcago Brrore fue Prax, During tue Fine ano Arren Tax Piae, BOOT! HEATRE, Twonty-third street, corner Sixth venue. OCH ARDEN. £ UNION SQUAR 4s Aiauwise Bac 'WALLACK’S THEATRE, jotreet.—On rox Jory. + WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwi Rup Mane LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Geonria (oo SAM SHARPLEY'S Bam Suageicy’s Minst TRE, lth st. and Broadway.— ima Donna ov a Nrgitr, roadway and Thirteenth , corner Thirtieth st.— TREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— ORNTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Ganpan Ixsravuuyrs. ORR. * TERRACE GARDEN, 8th s\ on avs.—Suuaen EviNixa Co: etweon 3d ang Lexing: 13. | NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. ad fermncx and Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. j__ New York, Friday, June 21, 1872. QONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Pagn. ae 1—Advertisements, : N—Addvertisements. 3—-The “Beat” Conferefice: Dark Lantern Me¢t- ing of the “Beat-Greeley-Beat-Grant” Part, Contents of Parlor No. 55; Schurz in Line Horace; The Free Trade Petard Hoists the Exge ‘Traders—Miscellancous Political Intelii- gonce. Amildeu's Suit Against General Butler: General Butler on the Stand; Wiegel Squelched; Sud- den Collapse of the Prosecution; General But- ler Vindicated—Stokes: Proceedings of t Trial Yester@ay—Bureau Of Street Cleaning— ‘The Alieged Poisoning at Newburg—Exhibition in Kotany—Sad Suicide of an Invalid—Gordon Gordon: Interesting Proceedings in the Su- | preme Court. : See(ordon Gordon (Continued from Fourth Page)— | Yachting: The Annual Regatta of the New 3; The Bay Covered with Steamers and Yachts; The fanite and Peerless Win the Schooner and the . Prize; ‘The lanthe a Dogs in Brooklyn— o 3: Mass Meeting of the Metal Police Worn Out—Keports from Workers; Other Citi G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Fifth Avenue | Hotel Confer: ~A Long Branch Democratic fe Issue and the Prospect”— NEW... YORK. HERALD, ERIDAY, Tho Pith Avenao Hotel Conforence— | by a union of the opposition clements upon A A Long Branch Democratic Confer-| common ticket, could have been overwhelm- ence—The Issue ana the Prospect. ingly dofeated. From the proceedings yesterday of the Fifth | But there is anothor thing which in this Avenue Hotel Conference, of which wo give a | canvass enforces the policy of union upon the very interesting report this morning, the intel- |‘various opposition camps. They must fight ligent reader will perceive that wo are in the | to elect their President by a majority of the midst of one of those extraordinary political up- | ¢lectoral vote; for they cannot otherwise heavals which mark, from time to time, a re- | elect him. They can have no hope construction of our political partles. This | from @ contest upon three or four can- conference originated with anti-Greeley leaders | didates, even though assured in advance of the Pree Trade League, and though the de- | that upon this plan of operations they can clared object of their call was the union ofall the | carry the election into the House of Repre- opposition elements against Genoral Grant in sentatives, because a large majority of the this Presidential contest, their real design, as | Houso (tho present House), State by State, is subsequently betrayed, was a diversion against | sure for General Grant. There is, also, the Cinginnati ticket of Greeley and Brown, and in view of the nomination of other candidates by the approaching Demo- cratic National Convention for the general suffiages of the anti-administration clements. The meeting was called through a confidential circular, and was doubtless, as an invitation, lima to a list of such prominent demo- cratx oud anti-Grant republicans through- ont the country as were supposed to be dissatisfied with Mr. Greeley’s nomina- tion, and particularly on the question of frae trae. Ta the next place, in tho organization of this nee as ® deliberative body, with General of Ohio, as President; General Dix and Mr. W. C. Bryant as Vice Prosidents, and for Secre- Henry D. Lloyd, one of the secretaries of Trado League, it will be remarked that the anti-Greeley free traders were given all they could ask in the control of the meet- ii And yet when the interchange of opin- among the one hundred members, more or less, of this conference began it was soon made manifest, from the earnest speeches in support of Greeley, and from the enthusiasm with which they were received, that even this assemblage of supposed anti-Greeley old-line whigs, old-line democrats and anti-Grant free- trade republicans was anything but a unit against the Cincinnati candidates. But as we write we hear from this conference that the discussion has become stormy and ex- citing; that a motion to adjourn has boen rejected by a decisive vote; that tho anti- Grecley men are disposed to no compromise upon Greeley; that the meeting may be prolonged till the morning, and that the result may be harmony or another holt. Meantime, we are informed that a mys- ton) 1s meeting of democrats in favor of a raight democratic ticket, or Charles Francis Adams as a substitute for Greeley, was held yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel, Long Branch, We presumo that this meeting was contrived for the pur- strengthening the anti-Greeley party in this Fifth Avenue Conference, and between the two there may be some mischief afoot in reference to the acceptance of Mr. Greeley by the Democratic National Conven- pose of ‘om Sixth Page)—The le Telegrams from a Englai f land; Fra ce, jermany and Swriteonand— | taneous uprisings of the democracy ‘The Mexican Troubles—Aviairs in Cuba and | ; be ‘, Jamaica—Indge McCunn’s Trlal—News arom | i2 his favor throughout the Union, Washington—Seduction and hooting. The |and from the decisive majority he ead from Gettysburg—Literary—Busine . . Notices. ese y “8 has secured of the Democratic Convention, S—Enrope: The Washington Treaty in the Eng- | ish House of Lords; Marshal Serran | aiment of the Carlists in the Basque Pro- | Poor Eugé he Mussuiman Fes | of Merlud in Constantinople—Our Col- | ss: The Annual Commenceinent of the rk University, Seton Hall College and ‘Rutgers Female Inst\tute—Trotting at Pros- pect. Park Fair Grounds—New York State Sunday School Convention—A Woman Exe- | Murder—the Big Dog Fight Indediuitely Post- poued, V—Financial and Commerc iH Dutne ‘ices Firm and tion and B i Salaries in City D: nonts—A Negro Jury in Kentucky—New York City News—At- rangulation of an Old Woman— | ri and Deatus. 20—The Peace Jubilee: Fourth Day's Entertain- ment at the Mammoth Panjandrum; The Garde RKepublicaine Band; Vive la Repub- lique !—‘Troiting at Mystic Park —Amu ment Shipping — Intelligeuce — Advertise- \t tion, We think, however, from the spon- that he will be adopted at Baltimore, and will, with a few exceptions, be supported by the democrats, old and young, North and South, and that, from the dissensions in the republi- can camp, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, he will be apt to give General Grant a very sharp and close contest. This will be one of the most remarkable | transitions and transformations in the history | of onr political parties, though we have had | many within the brief period of our history as au independent nation. The dissolution and dixppearance of the old federal party in 1820 was a remarkable event, in being followed reconstruction of parties, which brought peral Jackson into the foreground and made him one of our great political land- | marks as the founder and builder of the old ments. democratic party, and Henry Clay as the @1—The Lowden Abortion Case: Interesting | he Me 4 4 v . Charge of Judge eeege ‘he Jury Acguit | glorious embodiment aud champion of the Prisoner—The Green Shooting Uase—in- . thi " hearinds teresting Proceedings in the New York and | ‘ae old whig party. ‘The dissolution Brooklyn Courts—The Jumel Ejectment Suit— | and dispersion of the whig party in Joun Cochrane's Richmond Visit—Anticipat- | 1852 wns a remarkable event, from the ing the Twelfth of July—Advertisements, AQ—Advertisements. \ Tur Recarta or tux New Yore Yacar P.vs yesterday had not the very best of luck in their weather; for, although the sun hone with exulting brilliancy over wave fund woodland, the breeze which would have made the race exciting had barely breath enough to make it interesting, A momentous consequences which immediately | followed in the rapid rise, development, | decline and collapse ofthe mischievous Know | Nothing party, in the intolerable demands of | the Southern slaveholding obligarchy, and in | the rise and wonderful growth of the present | | republican party on the single point of hos- tility to any further extension of slavery. Huta more important event than the disso- ery light wind at the start, Ieading into cal- yin of the old whig party wos the disrupe calation-destroying calms, fretted away the tion of the democratic party in the Charleston heart of the day's sport This could not, Convention of 1860; for it was through the however, destroy either the manifold | qiyisions thus ereated in the democratic beanties of the secne or the enjoyment | ynks that the republican party came of the thousands who ventured trust- | into power. We need not here repeat the ingly in the vicinity of treacherous boik to follow the yachts in their dreamy race. aid the dreaminess of the day a mirage hung above the waters, but to lve all pleasu: of the imagination in this line would coi the scream of the tuneless tug whistles like an echo from the Boston Jubilee. The day, 50 far as reported, passed without acci. dent to life, and, if the yachismen did not enjoy themselves, they were the source of much amusement to others. This should con- ‘sole them. Tae Prussian Treaty wita tar Curese, or, speaking more correctly in the light of re cent events in Kurope, the treaty of the Ger- man empire with Chine, is to be revised at the close of the present year or (he beginning of next, and it is rumored that many concessions, startling to the minds of the British diplomat- ists in Pekin, will be demanded by the repre. sentative of Prince Bismarck. If they are con- ceded, as it is not at all unlikely they will, wwe shall have the initial for a new starting point in the history of the commerce and foreign populations of Asia. Tux Frexcn Repvpuc, Irs PeRMANENCY AXD InpustrtaL Rrsourcus,—President Thiers professes iutense fhith in the permanency of republican democracy in France, and this, too, at the very moment when the nation is | To | anipriecias «| ing ideas, takes its place. radical changes which this party, in the Southern _ pro-slavery pellion aud in the reconstruction of the re- bellious States, has made in the government. It is enough that within the last twelve years this powerful party has fully achieved its ap- pointed mission in one of the most stupendous | political revolutions in the history of any | people. The democratic party, or what re- mains of it from the Charleston Convention, secession, rebellion and Southern recon- struction, having at length accepted the issues settled by the war, as incorporated in the new amendments to the constitution, is precisely in the position required for an active coalition with the Cincinnati anti- Grant repablicans, and all the other anti- administration elements of the country. This coming democratic convention, there- fore, all things considered, we think will mark the most extraordinary party transformation in our political history. In fusing the demo- eratie with the Cincinnati party, the for. mer, as it was, disappears, and the latter, in its principles and liv- All the dead issues of this party of the past are done away with, | and upon Greeley and Brown the united oppo- sition elements will stand upon equal ground | | asa new organization upon the leading issues | of the day. The democratic masses have at | ypression of a taking the most solemn arrangements for the | length become wise from their numerous de- regular payment of three milliards of francs | feats on their dead issues, aud they are aban- | to the Germans from the present date to the | doned ; the other opposition organizations have | year 1874 ; and also when the French Treas- | also profited from the lesson of the past, such ury is negotiating for bills of exchange tothe | as that of the division of the opposition Smount of five hundred millions of francs. | foreés {a 1832 against Jackson, and that of | France is @ wonderfully productive nation, | 1836 against Van Buren, and that of the divided enjoys 4 most astonishing power of industrial opposition sirengih or 1354 against Buchanan, seouperation, and is, in every respect, worthy | when, in each of these cases, by a Cordial of the grand belief which the Chief of State | union upon the one idea of defeating the party has in the patient endurance and home ree | in power, an opposition coalition might have ures of her people, \cnartea the dav. Unauestionably Buchanan. in this general opposition ory of ‘‘Any- body to beat Grant,’’ more than at first appears in this apparently flippant expression of a ma- lignant hostility. It reminds us of that general opposition batile ery of 1840 against Von Buren—‘‘Anything for a change"’—though there aro as yet no visible signs of another such popular whirlwind in 1872. It ought to be sufficient for a fusion of all tho opposition parties, factions and cliques in this campaign that they know there is no hope for them without union; that they may combine upon Mr. Gree- ley, and that if the democratic party drop him and proclaim another man as their candi- date thoy will surely, and worse than ever be- fore, be defeated. And this other fact ought to be sufficient to determine the course of the Democratic Convention—to wit, that with an- other Presidential defeat, as the old demo- cratic party, in 1872, this party, like the old whig party in 1852, will be dissolved and dis- persed. The Goneva Arbitration Court and Consequences of Its Consultations. The work of the Geneva Arbitration Court in the Alabama claims case appears to have already, so far as it has been reported, produced a health- ful, pleasing effect in the British Parliament. Mr. Disraeli announced to the House of Com- mons last night that he had decided to post- pone his motion for inquiry as to the exact condition of the relations existing between Great Britain and the United States in con- sequence of the continuance of tho negotia- tions. ‘This fact is, in itself alone, a great gain to the Gladstono Cabinet, and should certainly tend to stir up the British Premier to the conclusion of the work of an amicable settlement of the case, From the scat of council in Geneva the news report gocs to show that the Italian, Brazilian and Swi arbitrators are slightly puzzled, if not con- fused, over the fact of the English motion for an eight months’ adjournment. President Sclopis and Secretary Favrot remain near to Geneva, so that the Court may be reassembled, if necessary, before the 26th instant. the day to which the session has been prorogued. Premier Gladstone states that the questions of the Canadian loan and the San Juan boun- dary line remain entirely unaffected by the arrangements in Switzerland, so that all we have to troublo about at present is the repair- ment of the doings of the Alabama and her consorts. Germany and Heyii. An official despatch from Port au Prince reports that on the 1ith inst. the German men-of-war Veneta and Gazelle took forcible possession of two Hnaytien corvettes and held them until the Haytiens paid the indemnity demanded by the German merchants. It was a bloodless struggle, the despatch takes care to inform us, but it was not the less on that account a significant and instructive event. We care nothing for the quarrel between the German merchants and the government of Hayti, but we cannot afford to be indifferent to the fact thata new Power has sprung into existence which, with watchful eyes, surveys the world and promptly insists on the rights of its people wherever and whenever it finds those rights invaded. Time was when of all the Western governments that of Great Britain alone commanded respect abroad. Later the vigorous policy of Louis Napoleon made the voice of France a terror. Trance has fallen, and it will not be possible for her for some time to come to terrify forcign nations with her threat; but the place vacated by France is well filled by Germany, and a new and pow- erful element has been added to the aggressive forces of modern civilization. It will not be ‘for many years to como that Germany will be a great navel Power; but a great naval Power Bismarck is determined to make her, and when this ambition of Germany is realizod England and the United States will find it necessary to look after their laurels, Official Corruption in Jersey City. The facts developed in the charge made against the Chief of Police of Jersey City re- veal a system of compromise with thieves | which is not creditable to the morality of our neighbors. When those who are the victims | of theft consent to condone the crime in order | to obtain a restoration of a part of their prop- | erty their action can only be defended on the ground of expediency and the notorious inef- ficiency of our police force to insure the pun- ishment of wrong-doing. more confidence in the energy and ability ;of the guardians of law and order | there would be less inclination to make terms with rogues than there is al present, But so little confidence exists in the ability or even desire of the police to recapture stolen property, unless it is made worth their while by a system of reward, that the public find it cheaper to compromise directly with the thieves than to have recourse to the police middleman, who, aga matter of course, looks for his share of the spoil. We are glad that the proceedings in Jersey City will in all probabil- ity show that the law does not look favorably on this system of compromise with dishonesty. In an age a little ruder than ours Jonathan Wyld was sent to the gallows for this kind of cloaked partnership with robbers. We ave not quite so bloodthirsty, but we do think that those whose business it is to catch thieves ought not mailing the public. Where the police have sufficient information to enable them to re- cover goods by means of compromise they ought to be able to arrest the robbers without making conditions with them, and it is clearly their duty to do so If the charge brought against the Jersey police official gan be proved we hope such steps will be taken as will seve aS & Warning to others in the samo position to have no doubtfal rem tiong with the criminal classes. If the public had | to be allowed to act as their agents in black- | JUNE w1, 1872. ury Department Circolar. The circular of the Treasury Department to the Collectors of Customs and others, with re- gard to carrying out the tenth section of the Tariff act of June 6, which we published yes- terday, will prove interesting to our shipping merchants and shipbuilders, ‘The act pro. vides that from and after its passage ‘‘all lumber, timber, homp, manila and iron and steel rods, bars, spiked, nails and bolts and copper and composition metal which may be necessary for the construction and equipment of vessels built in the United States for the purpose of being employed in the foreign trade, including the trade between ‘the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, and finished after the passage of this act, may be imported in bond, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and upon proof that such materials have been used for the purpose aforesaid no duties shall be paid thereon.’ The vessels so built, how- ever, will not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade more than two mouths in any one year, except upon the payment of tho duties on which a rebate had been allowed. The act exempts from duty all articles of foreign production needed for the repair of American vessels engaged exclusively in foreign trade. The circular of the Secretary of the ‘Troasury referred to prescribes the rules to be observed in carrying out the act, both to facili- tate shipbuilding and ship repairs and to pro- tect the revenue, This act of Congress is not very clear, and that is a fault in Congressional legislation we have roagon to complain of too often. The first impression on reading it is that all ship- building materials for the class of vessels named are exempt from duty; but on closer examination it seems doubtful if iron plates, which form the bulk of the material for mod- ern iron ships, are exempt. Were these inten- tionally excluded as a favor to the iron manu- facturers of Pennsylvania? If so, this pre- tended liberality to the shipping and ship- building interests of the country is very much narrowed down. Such stingy, partial and piecemeal legislation would not meet the wants of the country. It would look much like a po- litical sop on the eve of the elections, and in the end prove a delusion and a snare. Our mercantile marine could not be aided much by such legislation. We may be mistaken, and tho act may exempt from duty all mate- rials for vessels intended for the foreign trade, but it will hardly bear that interpreta- tion. What the country really wants to re- store our tonnage is, in addition to taking the duty off shipbuilding materials, a repeal or suspension of the Registry law, so as to enable our capitalists to build and buy ships abroad. The two measures together would soon restore American shipping and trade, and would at the same time gradually promote our ship- building interests. But the first and para- mount object should be to restore our ton- nage, particularly in that class of large iron ocean steamships which now do the bulk of the passenger and most valuable freight trade. We are losing hundreds of millions of dollars by the obstructive Registry law. We are sur- rendering our most valuable trade to foreign- ers. The loss in a year is, probably, greater than all our shipyards ave worth, We hope Congress will be more liberal and more broadly national in its views when it meets again than it has beon on this question. The College Commencements. Tho college commencements, like the May anniversaries, furnish a sort of annual enter- tainment to the American people. The May anniversaries are over, and now the com- mencements are at hand. These commence- ments are most interesting occasions to many thousands of our people. Professors and students alike, worn out by the arduous toil of many months, are impatient to be away from the scenes of toil and to enter on the full enjoyment of their summer holidays, This, however, is not all. Prizes are to be distributed, degrees are to be conferred, and to all, except the disappointed, such an occa- sion is one which gladdens the heart. Let us hope that the honors will be wisely distrib- uted; that no deserving student shall have the honorary titles of D. D. and LL. D. will be given only to such as have fairly made their mark in the ranks of science and litera- ture. D. D.’s and LL. D.’s are a little too common among us, and the titles have become altogether too cheap. At Brown University and at Williams College presidents are to be inaugurated. At some of the colleges there is to be some little excitement over the election of trustees. In some instances the the want of funds in carrying out their educa- | tional schemes, have gone a begging, and Old | Yale particularly is in quest of a Peabody who will put her in possession of five millions of dollars, come forward and do the kind thing. We know of no greater honor than to have one’s name handed down to history as the benefac- ambition Yale now offers an opportunity. The | opportunity ought not to be lost. Mexican Anarcuy, wira Continvep Ovt- raGes Acarsst Amentcans.—The condition of affairs in Mexico has become so sadly serious that it has ceased to be amusing. port of our news from Matamoros to-day were less melancholy the intelligence would be really laughable nevertheless. We are told how | abandit chief, Mr. Portugal by name—but | perhaps this is an alias—had appeared in tho neighborhood of the city with his outlaws and committed robberies and a murder in sight of | the inhabitants. Then we are assured that | | the guns of the fort were opened upon him | and that he retired, leisurely, under fire. As | the present time is accepted as a sort of patent | age of new inventions it may be that the | Mexican idea will be worked into profitable shape here, and that we shall soon have half a dozen batteries of light or flying artillery, at. tached to the Police Headquarters in Mulberry street, and that peaceable travellers who are forced to be out at night will, instead of ery- ing out ‘police’ when they are attacked, po- litely request the commander for ‘a little moro grape, if you please, captain.’ The neutrality of the Rio Grande is still violated de- fiantly against Americans. It is alleged that Trevifio and Quiroga are endeavoring to ar- range a peacd with Juarez on the basis of theiz sauge @ Pe own personal pardoi. Bui whe oam aay any- reason to consider himself slighted, and that | colleges, burdened with debt or cramped by | We call upon our millionnaires to | tor of a great national educational institution, | To all who are influenced by so laudable an | If the im- | TRIPLE SHEET, = — Sree -caiatona tint ea J Free Shipbutlding Matertals—The Treas- | thing certain of Moxico, its factions or tty [ ducted with but tiitls introduction of thaG Government policy, with the exception that they are all demoralized, and nearly as badly 40 a3 cam be? The Fun and Frolic of tho Campatgn— A Dash Through a Day’s Exchanges. So far as the present Presidential contest has progressed there has been exhibited so little bitterness of- feeling that we might almost imagine that another edition of the second Monroe campaign of 1820 was before the American people—a campaign when all was harmony and fraternal feeling. The Convention at Baltimore may throw in some disturbing elements, some firebrands to revive the almost extinguished embers of sectional prejudice; but the expectations are to the contrary. So far, we soy, everything augurs that the Presidential campaign of this year will be a Jolly one. {[t will, wo think, show to the governments of Europe that after getting through their local troubles the American people are prone to fun and frolic, with occasional interstices of seriousness, which no other peoples in the world can imitate. We will make a dash through our exchanges of to-day and reproduce in brief what the papers say, quoting ad lib. A Western paper (anti-Grant) declares that insects rob American farmers of three hundred millions a year, and is sure that by the election of Mr. Greeley, with his careful regard for American industry, the most stringent legisla- tion against all foreign bugs will be instituted. The Toledo Blade (Grant) declares that only in ‘little Delaware’ the democracy show any consistency. The eyos of the country “are therefore again cast upon little Delaware.” ‘The Blade proceeds in a more serious strain: — If Greeley shalt be elected there will be an end of the peace we have had under Grant. Democrats will demand and obtain the practical enforcement of their principles and all the offices. ‘All the offices’’ seem to be the animating 2 of all politicians, A Southern Greeley poet vouts himself in this wise: — ‘The state of Dade has abont played; We haven't any money, but pienty of peach and honey, AA drink very freely to the health of Horace reeley. Down with the Dents, for they are a very big ex- pense, And we can't afford to furnish them with board, Let every man in Dade sharpen up his blade, And go into the fight shouting for what “Shouting for what he has made’’ would have made a better rhyme for blade. A Western democratic paper, called the Norliasest, refers to Goneral Grant as the “filthy baboon’? and the ‘nation’s hog’’— terms that are regarded as ‘‘very elevated” by an opposition contemporary. The Conncil Grove (Kansas) Advocate notices asa significant fact that no President who re- ceived a nomination by acclamation was ever elected. And, inasmuch as Henry Clay and Van Buren were nominated unanimously and defeated, therefore Grant must be defeated, because he was unanimously nominated at Philadelphia. The Utica Herald (Grant) declares that ‘the antagonism of Mr. Greeley’s character creates enthusiasm against him, and produces disap- pointment and dismay on the part of his sup- porters;’’ therefore General Grant will ‘‘con- tinue fonr years longer the safe and judicious ruler of the republic.”” “Two dollars a day and roast beef’ was the old war cry of the democracy, and a Western democratic paper says they will not this year be contented with a democratic war cry of “Greeley mush and watermelon.’ A Western man declares that he is ‘for the man who whaled and not for the man who bailed Jeff Davis,’ and another prays in regard to Dan Voorhees: —“Oh! that some head red devil of the Plains might gobble and scalp the red-head devil of the Wabash.” The Richmond Enquirer (straight democrat) “honestly believes that the nomination of Mr. Greeley at Baltimore will secure the re-elec- tion of Grant.’ If it must be so the Znquirer cannot help it. In the words of the ancient Father Ritchie, who wielded the Enquirer's editorial sceptre with so much vigor in the days of Jackson, discoursing at the time upon the nomination of Martin Van Buren as “Old Hickory’s’’ successor—a nomination he did not at first relish—‘‘sink or swim, survive or perish, our fortunes and our influence are with Martin Van Buren,” Some anti-demo- cratic editors at the time compared this re- | mark to a man who had thrown a rope, with an anchor attached, around his neck, and cast himself into the sea. But old Father Ritchie lived to see Martin Van Buren President of the United States, What will the new En- quirer do? ‘Sink or swim, survive or perish?” The Indianapolis Senlinel (Greeley demo- erat), referring to the Heraxp reporter's inter- view with the President at Long Brauch, dur- | ing which General Grant said that Greeley would withdraw if he was not nominated at Baltimore, remarks that “Grant is building his hopes on a sandy foundation. Greeley | will be nominated at Baltimore, make the race and be elected by an overwhelming majority, There is a tide in the affairs of men, Taken at the dood, leads on to fortune, And Greeley is on the flood tide.”” That Mr, Greeley has been invited to visit the South here is versified verification from an anti-Grecley sheet: — Come, Mr. Greeley; come to the South, ‘The land you have lied and re-lied on; | You can lower your chin and open your mouth | When your neck strains the rope you are tied on, Mr. Greeley has been to thé South, and | did not observe any signs of that rope; but | perhaps this couplet is only intended as a dodge to “rope in’’ some unreconstructed | democrats. The Titusville (Pa.) Herald—Grant—mokes this revelation, accompanied with a modicum | of possible fact: — Greeley is pretty aure to be endorsed at Balti- | more, but the most that the democrats hope for is to carry New York by the union of the Fenton wing and the Tammany Ring, and by this lovely coalition | carry the ti aati and defeat the return of Conkling to the United States Senate, Here is an evidence of the manver in which | the campaign is conducted in Iowa:—Some rogue has imposed upon the innocent people of Davenport the ‘Rogues’ March’’ under the title of ‘Greeley and Brown's Polonaise.” The fellow should be drummed out of town to the tune of his own imposition. The Statesville (N. ©.) Intelligencer (demo- cratic) speaks of the Philadelphia nominations as the “Leather ticket—Grant the tanner, Wilson the cobbler—Grant the leather-head, Wilson leather to the last.’’ The, above are only a few among the racy extracts we glean from a dash among our ox- changes for one day. It will be seen that the spirit of fun prevails; that bitterness is almost universally discarded, and that the campaign | of 1872 96 far ag it has aque, lias boon con- acrimonious feeling which has charactorivod the columns of the partisan papérs in provioad Presidential conflicts, Boston’s ico Show—Shell Strauss Bo Introduced to the American Peo- ple? Thd prospects ina financial point of viow of the Boston experiment seems to be bright- ening. As the curiosity of the people ix aroused, those who are not over sensitive ia musical matters wish to satisfy their curiosity, even at the expense of their ears, An improvement is also noticeable in the way the vast army of singers work togethor aa they become more used to their novel position. In the important choruses the rendering is im- pressive, as it may well be with an army of singers ; there is more discipline and harmony than was generally expected; and when thie has been said we have exhausted noarly alt the panegyrio that the occasion war- rants. It is evident from the slim attond- ance that the mass of the citizens adopt our views as to the value of these musical shows where mountebankery is likely to carry off the laurels from modest worth. The whole interest of the Jubilee centres, therefore, on its sensational effects, discharges of cannon and chorus by twenty thousand voices, rather than upon any real artistic merit in the performances. All sense of delicacy of execution, of color and of sentiy mont is lost amid the strident twang of num- berless fiddle strings, the rat-tat of drums and the booming of guns. To people of a lymphatic nature who want to be stirred up by the war- ring of sounds the Coliseum of Boston is just now a delightful place of amusement; but to’ those of finer sensibilities that huge slaughter house of delicacy and refinemont of execution is a place of torture from which, after the first sensation of novelty has passed, they seek to escape. : The redeeming feature of the whole thing ix to be found in its unparalleled absurdity. It isa magnificent, monstrous joke, which we pardon easily because of its magnitude. Just now the public are in want of a sensation, and Gilmore’s enterprise looms up with ocor- tainly majestic proportions to meet the want. Looked at from this point of view the Jubilee mast be regarded as a most welcome event by that unfortunate class of people who are aflicted with a superabundance of leisure and cash, without much taste or any refinement of thought. This class of the community oughtto congratulate themselves on their good fortune in possessing such a wonderful caterer to their amusement as the enthusiastic Celt who imag- ined the big festival. The German composers who have been introduced into the concerts as “features’’ are also delighted at what they call Yankee enterprise ; but though they admit they are surprised to find musical knowledge so generally spread among our people, ‘whom they were accustomed to look at only as enter- prising choppers of logs and rather sharp mer- chants of notions, they are silent on the artistie value of the gathering. Boston, however, is delighted with ita Jubilee. Satisfaction beams on the face of all the inhabitants of the Hub, each one of whom seems to feel that some of the glory of the, enterprise is reflected on his or her own brow.’ It is even rumored that, asa proof of their gratitude, they will adopt Gilmore as their patron saint, and quarter a big drum on the city arms, Apart from the satisfaction which their self-esteem derives from the largeness of the Jubilee, they are flattered by the notoriety it gives their town, which, only for some sen- sation of the kind, would be seldom thought about. In addition to extensive advertisement the Bostonians hope for considerable pecuniary profit from the presence of visitors. In this last calculation they have not been altogether mistaken, and whatever may be the financial result to the projectors of the Jubilee, Boston will certainly derive considerable profit from thesensational exhibition of the big drum and other wonders of the occasion, With all its charlatanism there are scattered through the strange agglomeration of colebri- ties and nobodies material enough for many legitimate performances of a high, if not the highest order. We hope to see evolved from this Boston chaos something which will be‘a real treat to cultivated and esthetic minds when the noise and babble of tho ‘‘Peace’’ Jubilee have died away, and we are relieved from its deafening discord. In their selfish- ness and jealousy the Bostonians aré particu- larly anxious that the notable musicians who have come to attend their hubbub' should leave the country without appearing in ony other city, as a punishment on those who have too much taste to patronize their show. But we hope the distinguished visitors will care- fully avoid forming their notions of the Ameri- can people from the somewhat narrow: minded and eccentric Bostonians, among whom an unkind fate has cast them. We want some enterprising manager to make such arrangements with Strauss as will enable that distinguished musician to be introduced to the American people. The admiration that is everywhere felt for this inimitable writer of waltz music is sufficient guarantee for the sue. coss of any arrangements that may be made to procure his appearance. Money need be no consideration, as the American people have ere now proved that they can be relied upon to pay in the most generous manner for per- formances of exceptional merit. There is a rumor that the star performers at Boston are under engagement not to appear in any other city in America before their return to Europe. If such an illiberal and disgraceful condition has been imposed on them we hope they will refuse to be bound by it. They may count on the American people to indemnify them for any loss resulting from a breach of such a con- tract. There is a fortune to be won by the enterprising manager who succeeds in making arrangements with Strauss, whose works are familiar in every American household. In view of the admiration which our people have ex- pressed for Strauss and the desire they have to listen to him rendering his own works as no other musician can give them, he can scarcely refuse to accede to their wishes, even if he ba indifferent from a financial point of view to the success which is sure to attend him. If ho leave America now he must be ptepared to be misunderstood; for he has hitherto had no opportunity to appear at his best. This con- sideration, as an artist jealous of his roputas tion, ought to decide him to adopt our sug- Gestion, which will enable him to gather all the laurels which we know to be hisdue, The Boston Jubilee is alroady a faitura from tha