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BALTIMORE. The Tramp of the Unterrified Resound- ing in My Maryland. Two-Thirds of the Delegates Arrived. Enthusiastic Calculations on the Chappaqua Chopper. — Six Hundred and Fifty-three Votes Claimed for. Greeley. THE DECORATIONS AND MOTTOES Opening of the Struggle for Conven- tion Chairmanships. Goolbangh or Greene for Permanent President--- , A Grandson of Jefferson for Tem- porary Chairman, Fire-Eaters and Hard-Shells Look- ing Backward. Joe Johnston Denouncing Jeff Davis. REMINISCENCES OF THE RIOTS —<——_ Strange Echoes from Baltimore’s Ante-Bellum Convention. A Chapter from ’68 on Compli- mentary Nominations. AE The Horace-at-Any-Price and No-Nomi- nation Parties. Bavrimors, July 7, 1872, bough it is Sunday the carpenters are busy at framing the portico in front of Ford’s Theatre, is to be covered with flowers, mottoes and ‘Tho seats for reporters are to be awarded . Ford, the manager, in person, who has ’ the assistance of Mr. Richardson, of the 2 Sun. There will be small quarters for ‘worse than have been provided at any ‘onal Conventions this year. The best -om will be supplied by music stands, ontracted, Liquor will be for sale ‘on both gallery floors. The ise as it was, and for the past veen showers of rain. es © OF THE DELEGATES y the Carrollton and Bar- exchanges. The New arly the whole of the ‘nd is luxariating to- 16en he North Carolina — squally good rooms, with a fine bal- which public speaking will probably be gi. fr, Hall, of the Cincinnati Gazette, reports ‘that he made a canvaseto-day and found BIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE DELEGATES IN FAVOR OF GREELEY. Pennsylvania is making its political mstory con- sistent by not knowing itsown mind. Its dele- gates seem bent upon construing their vast con- Stituency to be donkeys. Their argument te about as follows:—“We are all for Gree- ley, but we don't like, individually, to make his nomination our work, a8 we might be ‘attacked for it at home. We prefer to appear to be opposed to Greeley and let the Convention take the responsibility.” Among the persons that talk im this way are Barr, editor of the Pittsburg Post. ‘This timid and vaccillating course only renders the Pennsylvanians obnoxious here, and reflections gre passed upon them on all sides, whiie the Penn- fylvanians present not delegates say that this possum policy BRINGS CONTEMPT UPON THE STATE, and will redound to the disadvantage of every dele- gate playing it, especially at a time when twenty- five republican papers in the State are against Hartranft. The most extraordinary proposition, Considering its source, is that of the Missouri dele- gation, which is to endorse the Cincinnati platform an NOMINATE NOBODY. It is even sald that the Blairs and Gratz Brown have conceived this policy as on the whole less in- Jurious than to nominate. The Cincinnati Commer. | eial came here to-day with a double-leaded leader advising the Convention not to make a selection, The intrepid spirits who are in the majority discountenance this manwuvre, and say ‘that they do not eae to give any malcontents a chance to constitute themselves the democracy and nominate some bolter in the name of the party. If the Missouri men be struggled for A WARM DEBATE WILL ENSUE. It meets with favor only among the Louisianians, Missourians, the Pennsylvanians and some of the Alabamians, besides allowing Delaware to slip | out with more dignity than it deserves, The | Northwest, New ia ems and the South at large ‘want Greeley and Brown put right into the fieid and everybody swamped who endeavors to be | jueruious or fractious, Dr. Milier, who heads the | lebraska delegation, warmiy for Greeley, and | Bays that mincing matters will be | A DESCRIPTION OF SUICIDE. There are a few blatant mutineers here, none of whom are delegates, talking loudly about the black republican paity, and one of these stood at the | door of the Carrollton Hotel to-day trying to get fomebody to knock a chip off his shoulder, Nobody seemed io think he was worth that amount of atiention, and finally the police made a new departure with him, John Cochrane and numerous diberal republicans are here, watching things and | keeping quict. The contest for permanent Presi- | dent seems to lie BETWEEN M'CLERNAND, DOOLITTLE, COOLBAVOH, AND | GRE of Boston. — MvClernan the Inside track, | but the more disc and prudent n | want Coolbangh or Gri voth of whom are | wid and conservative democrats and men of the | wt respgnsibility and capital. Wash McLean, | nati, does Hot propose to come here, and George Pendicton has gone to kurope. Jo. Warren, of Buifalo, thinks that nobody can figure | up six States which Grant can carry, and is very — | CONFIDENT OF GREELEY'S ELEOTIO: ‘The Indianans are reported to-day to be making | an effort to name a permanent nirman from their own ranks, As it requires along verbal his- tory in each case of the man they prefer, and as | there are over seven hundred delegates to convene, | thls proposition does not meet with much accept | ance. | The New York World and the Chicago Times are not generally referred to in terms of anger, but of commuseration, Mr. Story, who 1s a member of the National Committee, ‘will probably not be present, as he broke his leg going to the Springfield Convention. Mr. James Warren says that there is truth in the statement generally afloat that he is to begin the publication of a Gemocratic dally jourual’ in New York, | Tie future of ‘the democratic party as a distinct | Gerdes isinvoived in great doubt. Some of | fe oldest democrats here favor the abandonment | 1 the name ultogethe: the word “liberal,” or “ir “eltizen,” oF “neighborhood,” or “freehok” party, something which will combine old whigs, democrats and lib: eral republicans UNDER ONE CANOPY. The National Liberal ixecutive Committee will id @ meeting at the Glenham House, New York, in the ith of | and the institution of uly, to take means to combine the wo elements which Will support Mr, Greeley and pecure good management, There is much auxicty manifested here to know | times is collected and distributed to | with the popular impulse toward Greeley in Vir- will hoe a Mr. lolph will ee per celany hono! no matter how was his ancestry. The Hard-Shells and Fire-Eaters in Sore Distress=The Candidates for Conven- tion Positions—The Northwest’ Demand- ing the Chairmanship—A Story of the Seymour-Blair Convention, BALTIMORE, July 6, 1872. I had @ conversation yesterday with John G, Thompson, of Columbus, Ohio, the executive head of the democratic party of that State, TALK WITH J. G. THOMPSON. “Is your delegation a unit for Greeley, Mr. Thomp- sont”? “Yes, air, The party sends men here entirely in accordance with the popular will, and that is ex- pressed throughout our State for Mr. Greeley.” “How can you account for this change of senti- ment?” “Well, a party long out of power gets into feuds of its own and charges its misfortunes, now here, now there, upon its own people. We have been about six years learning to look outside for a leader. Nearly all our able men were ready, four years ago, to adopt Mr. Chase as our candidate. I suppose that all over the country, and particularly in the South, whose misfortunes Imave been over- whelming, that a similar disposition is manifested.” “How does Judge Thurman stand on the Greeley question?” “T belleve he says he will support the candidate of the Convention, but he can take his choice, There willbe no charity jn this campaign for any man who hovers on the line.” ” *” lacs “Can you carry Ohio with Greeley ?” “Yes, wecan, We feel confident of giving Greeley At feast 15,000 majority. The split in the republican party is marked along the whole line of the State.” “Where is George Pendleton ?? “George has gone to Europe. He was mighty anxious to come here, and would have supported Greeley with warmth, but several of our old- fashioned leaders are very weary of conventions where they must spend a good deal of money in hos- pitality and lose their stomachs before the thing is done.” TALK WITH A MISSISSIPIAN. Thad an interview last evening with a very en- tertaining Southern editor, Colonel A. D. Banks, of Mississippi, who has traversed all sections of the South and was formerly editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, He said that there would not be one vote in the South, according to his belief, against Greeley, although there was one man by the name of Edwards mentioned in the Louisiana delegation that was anti-Greeley. Linton Stephens, of Geor- gia, brother of Alexander H. Stephens, made an etfort to get on the State Executive Committee, and there were nota half a dozen votes cast for him, Bob Toombs and Henry A. Wise are the only men in the South known to anybody who are making any noise, and both of them are doing It because they get a corresponding amount of notoricty in the Northern papers and have their fulminations copied to theirown great amusement. Both of these men e LIVE ON THE LINE OF LUNACY, Keep up their petty egotisms, and are infiictions upon their country and their neighbors. Mr. Banks had asked Toombs a short time ago what Jo Brown, of Georgia, was doing, and Toombs had replied that “Brown was making vigorous efforts to keep out of the chain gang.’ He also said, in a speech a short time ago, that “the treason of Judas Iscariot shed a mellow light upon the treason of the Southern Confederacy.” Toombs said that “isms” stuck to Greeley like burrs to a sheep. Toombs 1s worth half a million dollars to- day, having a large law practice, being a specula- tor and cotton planter, and withal very shrewd and thrifty. He would see the South a howling wilderness, however, provided he could do the howling and get any notice thereabout. Jo Brown is out for Greeley. WIGFALL, EX OF TEXAS, Louis Wigfall, a native of South Carolina and long a Senator from ‘Yexas, is practising law in this city. He is a man of great originality, aplomb), uaintness and force of talk. He is very earnestly jor Mr. Greeley, and it is thought may be sent to the South to stump such parts as have received the infliction of Toombs and Wise. It is very enter- taining to hear Wigfall discuss Southern’ things. The old man loves to revive the earlier scones of his life, when he lived in the Edgefield district of South Carolina and made his great contention with the porernt family of the Brookes. The Brookes family had great numbers of negroes and bro acres, and were a sort of hered- itary office-keepers in the Edgefield district. They despised Calhoun, not for his opinions, but because he could command the attention of the country without the aid of wealth such as theirs. Wigfali being the henchman of Calhoun in Edge- fleld, the elder Brookes sald some mean things about him, at which Wigfall sent him notice that he meant to post him at the Court House door, and would spend three hours in defending the posting, In the Southern style, therefore, IL de- nounced old Brookes asa lia &c., and waited, with @ small arsenal, for somebody to knock a chip of his shoulder, taking his Mquor in the meantime, as he has been doing for the greater pate of his days. In due time along came a couple of nephews of old Brookes to tear down the bill, when there was AN INSTANT EXPLOSION OF PERCUSSION CAPS, and one Brookes was killed and another badly wounded, This led to a challenge to Louis Wigfall from, Preston 8. Brookes (the future castigator of Charles Sumner), son of the old man, and they met, and at the first fire both were Slightly wounded and Be- at the second ire both dangerously wounded. i e acknowledged the in- fore Preston S. Brookes died justice of bis family towa Wigfall, and sent a nephew of the latter to the ‘al Academy. These old and ruined rebels are queer objects existing society, and their stories and legends are listened to as if Captain Kidd or Sixteen-String Jack were to come out of the grave. NEWSPAPER NOISE. There is a movement here to start a first class liberal democratic daily paper in New York city, abundantly stocked with money, to be put in charge of a Southern journalist who has been some time retired and who is anxious to take the field again. A similar operation is contemplated for the city of Chicago, The party is certainly “unterrified” and aggressive and out of patience with its domestic censors. THE NAME OF AUGUSTUS SCHELL is mentioned as the chairman of the new Demo- cratic National Committee. | asked a distinguished ieee last evening his reasons for naming Mr, ch “Well,” said he, “we usually concede a place ul pay the ¢ penses of the campaigns. Both political parties go to New York to get their money, and coll it either from the great ublic offices there by assessment upon oitic holders or upon those merchants who watch ge ernment as one of the features of their busin: Augustus Sclell is the Attorney of Commor Vanderbilt, and a director in the Hudson River, | Harlom, New York Central and Lake Shore rail- | roads, He is also President of the Manhattan Club, @ capitalist, i8 not the factor of anybody Europe, but is a square, aggressive He is worth = $5,000,000 by ~— gener’ t. Democrats have been attracted towards eliby the prompt attitude of his brother Rich- , Who, with Horace F, Clark, came forward at the first Greeley ieeting in New Yi before the democracy bad inoy «t gave their names as vice presidents to the support of our candidate, Dick Lis now the Chief Sachem of Tammany riticd and reorganized. Ldo not beiteve, ne ied my informant, “that anything can beat Mr. ; ee this position but his own indisposition to ake ite’? in re- ‘ON RANDOLPH. The tempo the ps tion will probs leston, V: superb | sovent, be Jefferson olph, of Char- ndson of Thomas Jefferson, and a linen of an old man, He is about years of age, six feet six inches high,and perfectly master of his faculties and inspiring to look upon, He hasan intimate remembrance of Mr. Jeterson, auc is one of the leading officers of the University of Virginia, He is fully in sympathy ginia, and the Weight or is name and years are de- mended by this Convention to give’ sanction to their new departur There is a good deal of discussion ‘as to who shall preside, ‘Those who Want a man of close business antecedents and that higher respectablity which wealth and prudence give, mention the name of W. F, Coolbaugh, of Chicago, who was for a short time United States Senator trom the State of lowa. The objections to Coolbaugh are that he is well known and that he said something against Mr. Greeley, for which he was called to task at Springteld, in the Illinois State Convention, Others say that Cool- baugh is @ high-minded man, represents the national banks and the interests of capital, and ought to be deferred to on account of his modesty and merits, as Well as lis accumulations, The mention of Coolvaugh’s name has also in- cited the friends of . 1, WOORMICK to seek the permanent Presidency for that great manufacturer of reapers and mowers and such in- struments of agriculture as Horace Grecley might gelgat in. Coolbaugh heads the Ilinois ticket, and eCormick Was strougly run for the same place, McCormick is a native of yirainte—e man of good religious antecedents, and he is one of the largest like this to the State or city of New York, where | there is a great deal of capital, which in political and is @ buoyant, cordial democrat, who, although | American. | 1, as | y chairman of the pending Conven- | trast ie Baltimore Convention of 1860. Near! he Southern men, whom I have seen Northern soldier to preside over the deliberations, and they anxiously pine of the Northern authors what is the current opinion of this or that man, None of these leading Confederates ever heard of Mr. Coolbaugh, but-when his name is mentioned they prick up their ears and ask all about him, Another name mentioned for the Presidency is that of JAMES SHIELDS, of Missouri, formerly United States Senator from Milinols, and an old military hero, of Irish blood, who. bears his body lead received on the Plains of Mexico and in the Valley of Virginia, Shicids has great popularity among the Irish, and has a very natfonal record besides, in things American, He is very warmly tor Mr. Greeley, and a few of his friends are working hard for him for the permanent Presidency. Another name urged is that of JAMES KR. DOOLITTLE, of Wisconsin. Doolittie’s large and solemn appear- ance, impressive face, fine intellect and conver- sance with parliamentary affairs are universally conceded, and if he should be set aside it would be because the democrats here wish to avold too much appearance of relying upon liberal republicans, and peer to have men in their leading positions who ave always been democrats, a8 Mr. Doolittle has not. The feeling being, as 1 have sald, to select the PERMANENT PRESIDENT FROM THE NORTHWEST, almost every name from that section has been watched and scanned by the delegations already on the ground. There is quite a movement, however, to go to New England for the Chairman, and both the names of Joseph G, Abbott and Charles G. Greene are used. It is said of Colonel Greene that he is a man of venerable appearance and the highest type of Northern democrat, and that he has been en- gaged in the business of journalism fully as many years as Horace Greeley. Colonel Greene is the editor and one of the owners of the Boston Post, pe a it prominent democratic journal in New ngland, 7 he above are the only names which have been brought forward, Tincline to the belief that Randolph will be tem- porary Chairman, and Coolbaugh or Greene the per- manent presiding oiicer, If Coolbaugh comes here in time he will grow upon the Convention, and there are really reputable dispositions manifeste: to secure the best men, and make the nomination in good character and saber. In conversation with J. B, MeCullogh yesterday I heard some queer points about the Democratic CONVENTION OF 1868 IN NEW YORK CITY, This gentleman told me that Mr. Vallandigham was at the head of the Chase men at that time, and had arranged with the Manbattan Club to “spring” Chase's name at the Convention and carry him througn with a roar under the cover of a compli- mentary nomination to Horatio Seymour, ‘ne undersianding was that Vailandigham should rise and propose Seymour’s name, coupied with such abjurations and compliments as would seem to make it impossible for him to resign. Mr. Seymour was as willing? as Barkis, and “Val? at the proper time got on his feet and made the speech to Seymour and the ac- companying nomination; but, carried away by his own love of display, he made such a superb speech and implored Seymour so earnestly to iulfil iis re- sponsibility that the Sage of Utica forgot all about his agreement and could not believe otherwise than that Val” was in ernest. ‘Val’ pulled the coat sleeve of my informant while he was wiping away the perspiraiion from his face, after his own mag- nificent effort, and said :— ‘Look! The damned fool is going to accept it!" Sure enough, Seymour rose up, all the house thundering—the house, as usual, being unaware of what the managers had devised, Seymour tumbled ne the arms of the nomination with the exclama- tion, “OH, TILDEN, THIS 18 TERRIBLE!”? My informant says that Allan Thurman is played outin Ohio among the democrats, and that Val- landigham, had he susvived, would be the foremost democrat lu the State at present, His opinion is that Thurman is a venerable fossil, with abilities, but just as selfish as Vailandigham, He also thinks that Ohio will go for Greeley by from 15,000 to 26,000 majority, Baltimore in °60 and ’72—The Adjourned Convention—The Riots—Odd Mutations of Men and PartiéseSome of the Mottoes for Tuesday. BALTIMORE, July 6, 1872. Looking over the files of the local journals yester- day I find some interesting parallels and contexts apropos of the present gathering. The Demo- cratic Convention in 1860 having adjourned at Charleston, early m May, met in the city of Baltimore about seven weeks later, and held out one week, dividing on the sixth or seventh day inte two bodies, the smaller body, from the North, supporting Douglas, and the greater body, carrying off Caleb Cushing, the Chair- man, putting in nomination a Southern man. Few persons can fairly read over that Convention record In the light of the past twelve years without a sense of surprise that but a short period ago such a polit- ical gathering was possible, and such sentiments as were there cheered could be the boast of any Chris- ttemn party. The little theatre where the Douglas men held out to the last and which the Breck- inridge men deserted, is Yow a variety show. The old Institute Hall, where the seceders accomplished their purposes and vaunted them- selves out of the Union, is stiil the same cold, spa- cious, hard rectangle as before, propped over a market house and removed apart from the current of promenade. THE RIOTS OF '61 AND BALTIMORE. The ways of man and progress are inscrutable. Eleven years ago, when the first blood was shed in the city of Baltimore, the calamities of Heaven were predicted on this town. On the contrary, the very war whose first outbreak happened here lifted Baltimore out of her village coudition and gave her wealth, immigration and stimulation. The city had before that time considerable business in export- ing tobacco, importing cotfee and displaying its gentus in the green-grocery line. Now it has some foreign steamshipping; the railroad, which was formerly an incubus upon it, pays ten per cent a year in steady dividends, and it has new railways reaching out in every direction. The oysters which rested so peacefully at the bottom of the Chesapeake have become a prime article of commerce, and an entire municipal navy is required to consume such taxes as might otherwise mis. takenly get into the State Treasury for their con- sumption. The chief institutions of the city, such as the Mount Hope Asylum, Bay View Asylum, Peabody | Institute, Masonic Hall, Druid Hill Park, the new | City Hall, the principal churches, the extension and | widening of leading streets, Harmonial Hall, and: | better than all, the Northern and Western tunnel- ing around the town, heve all been finished since those fatal riots which the poets believed were to | annihilate Baltimore altogether, HELPED BY THE SMITER'S HAND. Still, the city is comparatively poor, and less than Money commands high figures here, and it is rare that any one gets help to any great amount unless | he will submit to such ashave as Shylock might have got from the heart of Antonio. ‘The riot of Friday, Aprii 19, which preceded Mr. Lincoin’s assassination by just four years aud two days, happened SEVEN DAYS APTER THE PALL OF SUMTER, | expended itself by robbing some gunshops on the | following Saturday, and on Sunday about as fright ened and pallid a populati on as ever existed in this world were the Ba Itimoreans at large, anticipating that the North would swoop down upon them | For one month, according to pronuncia | mento, they hved under no government whatever, and flags of all countries were forbidden on the vis; the State arms became an | oyster, and the town, in its relations to the outer | world, closed its shell and slumbered distarbedly, Ben Butler, who had paraded out of the Douglas Convention about eleven montis before, occupied Federal Hill on the 18th of May, about three weeks after the riots. In less than four years after the Presidential election which sent Abraham Lincoln to Washington, a Maryland State Convention had abolished slavery, and two years after that time the republican party passed out of existence in this Commonwealth and is not likely under its regular organization to again carry the State in our day and generation, November 1, 1866, supplanted What was called the radical party with the conser- vative party, but none of the pledges made under | the party of the interregnum have ever been broken by the democrats. The black people vote tranquilly all over the State; the republican party publishes its organs and its speakers patrol the districts and are listened to with good humor, HOW REBEL OFFICERS LIVE IN BALTIMORE. Strolling along to find authorities upon political things, Ihave stumbled into a great many queer nooks. Yesterday Isaw the sign of Senator Wig fall, and found the old man wearing out the end of his days over jaw books who had once been the pro) ade apt on the north side of the Chicago river, Ig neither Coolbaugh nor McCormick 18 aggreeable braggart of the Senate, menacing the any of our towns affords opportunities for peopie | whose capital is not equal to their enterprise. | North with that war which has fully extingushed him. The flower of the South isin Baltimore, which is thus overcrowded with professional competitors, while many of these would have made popular citi" zens and successfal men transplanted to the further North, where life is too busy to indulge in recrimi- nations or ask of any man’s past @ defence unless it may have been dishonorable, The idols of these Deople are in great part broken and they know it, Henry A. Wise’s late screed upon the Presidency question has hardly stirred the surface of that ‘unanimous contempt feit for him these eight years past as the companion of Underwood, Porter, and whoever will stop to hear him and flatter him. All merely sectional thi have had their career here and finished. The distinctively South- ern Church got a bad blow in the Huston case, and the Bperibe sanctity of any geographical wing of sectal 8 is no longer claimed, while, on the con- trary, Dr. Lanahan, who is a member of the Balti- more Methodist Conference North, is about to be Welcomed hero with the plaudits of Baltimore asan incorruptible servant and fearless censor. The Southern officers here, particularly the Vir- ginians, are the sult of the town ina social point of view, and the superserviceable, anti-Yankee talk of the Baltimore ladies rather falls upon them. Yet a little social issue will turn this Increasing ad- miration to gall, as those rebel physicians found out who were bold to testifyin Mrs, Wharton's favor when the town wanted her hanged. These ladies find that the word “abolitionist” has no Jonger any meaning with the rebel oMcerhood, and ho encouragement by lisping satire at Mr, recley, whom the rank of the confederacy stand perfectly ready to accept. f POINTS OF INFORMATION, The famous Baltimore Fifth regiment leaves the elty on Fourth of July eve, to encamp four days at Hagerstown, and return the day befote the Con- vention. The Colonel was a federal officer, The smallpox does not abate, and there are re- pened about seventy fatal cases a week. A fleld ospital is: a trae for its victims, The byways and alleys are filled with sufferers. The Baltimoreans are excited guce the fact that @contract was made yesterday to build them an academy ef music—the stock for the same being in ot art Subecrybed which, Toy rank with the rooklyn and Boston academies size and ap- pointments, An attempt of the enemies of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway to stop the running of trains, on mean pretext that the ty sronace some country janes at the usnal grade, has been run out of Court here, [rode over this railway yesterday, It will be hereafter the great highway between Washington, the seaboard Atlantic of the South and the Northwest. Three millions — are said to have been expended in city tunnelling alone. The roadbed is smooth, the track of very heavy iron, the country wild and pic- turesgue in places, and the rolling stock the best that has been seen in this latitude. The line of entrance to Washington city is particu- larly beautiful, showing travellers the woody heights and forts of the Anacostia, the Congres- sional Cemetery and Navy Yard, and winding around three sides of the capital, 80 a8 almost to afford a complete circuit of it. Joe Johnston, rebel general, is inciined to dislike Greeley because he bailed Jeff Davis, whom Joe 1s sma!) enough to hate very extravagantly, Joc Jobnston spent a few days in Baitimore last week before proceeding to Wh Sulphur Springs, and during his stay spoke very freely upon. political Tuatters with his friends, and took especial occasion to give his mind upon Jefferson Davis. If Johnston does not look out he will taik Davis into fame and himself out of men’s patience. Generally regarded, after Lee aud Jackson, as the ablest of the Southern soldiers, he was the favorite of a section of the army, but was effective chiefly in making what are called admirable retreats. Some of his opinions are moonshine. JOR JONNSTON’S TONGUR WAGGETH. He said no people ever behaved better than the Southern people; they were anation of heroes. It was a great comfort, being convinced himself, to convince other people, that there was an anthor of their woes—one upon whom the responsibility of failure rested—and he did not hesitate to say that Jefferson Davis, who was called to be the savior, was really the author of allthe woes of the South, General Johnston ssid he had no doubt in his own mind that if any other person than Davis had been elected President of the Southern Confederacy the South would have easily won; avy other person would have known how to manage, and would have managed the government properly, Davis never learned what it was to be the head of a nation. He never comprehended that he was to perform only his executive duties. He was @ great deal busier during the whole time of the war in attending to matters which properly belonged to some subordl- nate clerk than he Was in performing the high civil duties which devolved upon him as the chiet of a people cngaged ina gigantic struggle for self- government, fact, he could not rise to the ele- vated position in which he found himself suddeniy placed any more than he could in Pierce's Cabinet rise to the position of Secretary of War. He added, “as John Randoiph said, the ‘embargo was the Iliad of ail our woes’ In the war of 1812, so was Jefferson Davis the author of all our woes in the late war between the States. Aman of great and often unjust prejudices, he allowed his personal likes and dislikes to influence him in selecting generais, even for places of vital Importance, or made him refuse promotion to deserving officers because they ape to be personally unpopular to him or to his better half.”’ “WHERE 18 A CASE IN POINT," he said: “Alexander H. Stephens was elected Vice President of the southern Confederacy.. He was a man distinguished as an orator and statesman, had been the leader of the House of Representatives, and assuch had attracted the attention of the oor, as much as Jefferson Davis, who had not been the leader of the Senate, though he aspired to be. But Mr. Stephens was vehemently opposed to secession. When the Montgomery government was organized it was found necessary to conciliate so formidable an adversary as Stephens, and ac- cordingly he was given the second place in the government. This’was a brilliant stroke of policy ; a bold and determined enemy was turned Into at least a quasi iricnd. But see the result,” he said, earnestly. ‘Mr. Stephens’ brother Linton, whom he loved better than any other being in the world, was colonei of the Virst Georgia regiment, and when the Georgia brigade was raised Colonel Stephens was an applicant for the position of brigadier. Governor brown and the whole Georgia delegation in Congress petitioned that he should be appointed. But, for some reason or other, Lin- ton Stephens had fallen unger the mighty dis- pleasure of President Davis, tid when the brigade Was formed come one else was made its brigadier. Colonel Stephens immediately resigned. Mr. Davis then tried to have him conscripted and put in the ranks. Governor Brown determined to protect him, and placed him on his own staf. He then raised the question whether such a position ex- empted him from conscription. Before the ques- tion was settled a vacancy occurred in the Georgia Legislature, to which Linton Stephens was elected, That certainly exempted him from the conscrip- tou. ‘This was the beginning of the opposition to Jett Davis on the part of Alexander Stephens and Joe Brown, which did s0 much to embarrass the Confederate government, aud which hastened, if it did not cause, its final overthro: Johnston spoke of several fnstances wherein | the personal quarrels of Mr, Davis embarrassed | the operations of the Confederate army, and | | cited them as instances of lis imbecility and unfit- hess for the position he held as the President of the confed y. He was very severe upon his | official course generally, which he reviewed at | great length. He spoke of the present political situation but little, but from his utterances and manners it was believed that he was opposed to Mr. Greeley for the Presidency. The animus of | General Johnston’s hatred for Mr. Davis may be | found In the fact that he was by no manner of means one of Mr. Davis’ favorite commanders, and sol- | would start democratic in the material a also pelloved. that ‘hefore the name of mat | close, fo henee, Mr. Greele ur . Gree was of him on the monument in | tion would be io all moral. respects In verne to his fathe?, old sunius Brutus ‘booth: | ya Buchanan, & goot-looking man, then funius Brutus t james a I Ly the might almost apply to this wild young poi i made 4 pleasant. argument for Mr, Gossage and ro P Of tragedy the matchless chief ! tacked ay Wilson. ) For when was there ever such a murder since Cw. vedieney trobe believed in the policy of ~ Considering the heat of the night the attendan Zhe site of the res coma pera on it wes front | Was and the hearers -humored. A great er cue fey wre ol more innocent people every year than were siain in that riot, . re The Sixth regiment, commanded by Colonel Ed. T. Jones, 700 strong, from Lowell, passed through New York April 18, three days after the President's call for troops, The next day at ten A.M. reached Baltimore. Had an engine been attached to the train at once and the cars drawn off not a drop of blood would have been shed; but it has suited these rival and parsimonious raiiways to spill blood rather than accommodate each other, and so they stand to-day, Maryland hospital- ity for several years has ‘consisted in making sick women recheck their baggage and break connections, to satiaty the pique of rival rail- way presidents, ‘Thank God, the reign of canny meanness is nearly done, broken by healthy and generous competition. Nine cars, pulled by horses, passed tho mob that | April day, and left two upon the track, containiug four companies. The mob obstructed the track, the troops got out and tried to march; the mob tore ope bridge and fired bricks and paving stones, vhe Mayor labored to keep the peace; the police worked hard to clear the ratiroad track, At last all ‘ot off. ‘Three soldiers were killed; the troops red and killed anybody but offenders; the North- ern people blamed eéverybody indiscriminately, although it is tolerably clear that the city anthori- ties did the best they could, but were overtaken by the advance “whirlwind of the mighty impending ‘he wounded,” telegraphed the Mayor to Gover- nor Andrew, “are tenderly cared for, Baltimore will claim it as her right to pay all expenses in- curred.” ‘To this Governor Andrew replied in re- ciprocal softness and with grateful thanks, but it suits the Samper of our day still to insist that the poliee and the city authdrities were traitors and murderers, although we are well aware that the later riots over the draft put the well-meaning authorities of New York at great disadvantage. Marshal Kane, as we stated in a previous letter, attributes the riot to the prevarication of the rail- way and government oficials, who told him lies about the time troops were expected, and thus lost the use of his orgatilzation. VIRGINIANS AT THE CONVENTION. ‘The following are items of news and opinion latest and prevalent:— “'The large steamboat, the Ironsides, will come up to Baltimore from Richmond, Va.,on Monday, bringing nine Greeley and Frown Clubs, with at least four hundred men uniformed in Grecley hats and coats, and two bands of music. On the 9th of July they will parade through the streets,’ THE NO NOMINATION POLICY, “Our reporter made a canvass among leading Maryland politicians yesterday to ask what was | thought of the policy just announced from Missouri, of making no nominations at ail in Baltimore, but mercly recommending Greeley and Brown, Mr, Swan, particularly, objected to any such negative course, and said that a recommendation might be | of service, but it would speak with less certain sonnd than a formal adoption. ‘It will be said,’ exclaimed Mr. Swann, ‘that, as we did not nominate directly, half a dozen insignificant people can make what they call a democratic nomination, insisting upon the right to put some form of demo- cratic ticket in the field. LH we do nominate, what is lost? Sanction of the party is given in the most authorized form to the status of ailuirs, as at pres- ent, and the country is assured that the democratic party has fully accomplished all new departures which have the sanction of the constitution and are required for the good of the country. Ido not understand what that meansin the telegraph de- spatch from Missouri, stating that it was the unani- mous expression of a number of the leading dele- gates to the Baltimore Convention that they should adhere to the no-nomination policy. What does the ‘unanimous expression’ of an uncertain number mean by telegraph? That. despatch looks to meas if the operator had more inverest. in it than the Missouri delegation. So far as we know hee, no democrat of approved standing and com- mon sense is afraid of Greeley and Brown, and the frankest way Is to say so, right out.’ "” THE BALTIMORE NO-PARTY PAPER ON THIN The Baltimore Sun, which has more influence in the State than the combined circulations of all the other papers, city and country, took up its whole leader space the other day with an article headed, “A Question Above Politics.” It first pays its re- | spects to the “little knot of exclusive free traders’ who say that (hey can, under no circumstances, vote for a candidate of protectionist proclivitics, and to those democrats who think they are par ex- celience such, and who want “thelr hands to wither and their tongues to cleave to the roof of their mouths” before, by vote or voice, they support the friend of Henry Clay and opponent of James Buchan- an, and to pdlitical sentimentalists, who believe in the possibility of no reform which is not under- taken under the auspices of Charles Francis Adams, “It is hard to say,” says the Sun, “which class of impracticables show the least comprehension of the realities of the political situation, the present needs of the country, or the plain duty of a citizen.” ‘The Sun alleges that the Southern people care little about the clrarge of political inconsistency when such results as are depicted in the article are At stake, “even if the war had not wrought a com- plete rupture of old political ties, and made ali olitical traditions and associations almost equally udifierent to them.” ‘The article then says that “most of the talk about the consistency of the deinocratic party in adopting Greeley and Brown has been coniined to repubil- can journals and speakers who support the present administration, and that these have betrayed de- cidedly more solicitude that tho integrity of the democratic party should be preserved and that it should maintain its fidelity to its ancient tradi- tions than has been manifested by any of the lead- | ing democratic journals in th PROGRESS OF DECORATIONS A’ country. THE INVENTION bap ing will be held here for the same purpose Fri, night. ie fattimore American distributes its news an editorials to-day between copying a large rt 0} What the Heratp's expiorer. ‘ound ont about, Livingstone, and expressing Its doubis, and, on the other hand discoverlug for itself that Ku Klux are Still In existence and cutting up horrible things. FOR ADDITIONAL POLITICAL IN- TELLIGENCE SEE SIXTH PAGE. THE HEATED TERM. | A Cooler Day—Shower of Rain in Brooke lyn—Cases of Sunstroke Yesterduy. The weather yestorday was not, during the early hours of the day, a3 warm as on Saturday, but in the afternoon the mercury took several higher points thanon Saturday. The heat was not so op- pressive, owing to the cooing blasts that were driven down upon the city by threatening clonds\ that ever and anon passed over the nctropolis and occasionally discharged a few drops of rain. Compared with the corresponding day last year yesterday was several degrees cooler, except at three o'clock P. M., when the thermometer marked 92 against 89 last year at the same hour, ‘The following is the state of the thermometer at, Hudnut’s, in the HERALD building:— AST: J tb, uly pH i tal WT 3A. . 18 5 6A. 1% 82 9A, 5 rr 1a 88 86 BP. ; 02 89 OP. ; 88 89 86 ‘The cases of sunstrokes reported yesterday are few, owing to the abatement of the heat as well as the fact that yesterday was a day of rest, when fewer are exposed and the toilers betake them- selves to the parks and other cool retreats, In the evening a drenching shower passed over a portion | of Brooklyn, but it was of brie! duration, SUNSTROKES, The following persons were found by the police in the streets yesterday suffering trom the effects of the heat:— Phillip Wendell, twenty-six years of age, of 146 Forsyth strect, was sent home by the police of the Tenth precinct. ) Henry Smith, twenty-one years of age, of 435 East Fighteenth street, was found in a fit; sent to Belle- vue Hospital. Louls Agietee, sixty-four ye was found on the corner of and sent to the Park Hospi Onicer Fox, of the Twenty-third precinct, found Frederick Lrehenteldt, of Houston street, in First avenue, near Elghty-ninth street, and sent him to Bellevue Hospital. Ann Meehan, sevent 8 of age, no nome, est and Albany streets years of age, no home, was found in the street ¢ sent to the Park Hospital by the police of the erent enth precinct, James Flatherty, aged nineteen years, brought in in an unconscious condition from the corner of ave- nue D and Tenth street to the Bellevue Hospital. An unknown man was brought to the Bellevue Hospital, sutering from sunstroke, from Forty- second street. ‘Aun Duncan, aged twenty, was taken to Bellevue in a very weak condition, She was discovered at the corner of Forty-fyst street aud Sixth avenue, She recovered and left the hospital. DEATHS FROM HEAT. Maria Johnson, an Irish woman, twenty-one years of age, who had been but one week in the country, died at No, 75 North Moore street from the effects of the extreme heat. Coroner Herrman was notified and held an Inquest over the remains. Arthur Meehan, a laborer, fifty-five years of age, and born In Ireland, was sunstruck corner of SIX! fourth street and Fifth avenue on Saturday after- noon, and subsequently died in St. Lu Hospital, whither he had been conveyed. Deceased lived at 104 West ‘Thirty-second street. Coroner Herrman was notified, NEW YORK CITY. ——+ Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, yesterday, coms mitted Martin Daly for stealing, as alleged, a silver watch from the pocket of Edward Ryan, of 78 South Filth avenue. At Jefferson market, yesterday, James Dobson was locked up to answer in default of $560, on complaint of Stephen D, Smith, of Manhattanville, who charged him with keeping a gambling house ab 697 Broadway. Smith lost a large sum of money in | the place on Saturday night. Henry J. Moyer, of 105 Varick street, on Saturday | night listened to the sol‘c'tations of Jane Decker and went with her to her room at 112 Greene street, where she robbed him of $34. Jane was arrested, and Justice Cox at Jefferson Market yesterday committed her to answer at the General Sessions. John Baker, sixty years of age and born in Ire- land, died yesterday in Centre Street Hospital. On Friday last deceased, in chasing some boys who had been annoying him in Frankfort street, fell into an excavation and fractured his skull, death being the result. Coroner Herrmann was notiied, Baker HAL At Ford's Theatre the work goes on, and among the latest improvements is the desig! mh of a triple arch or portico of evergreens over the pave ment entrance to the theatre, to bear a motto frome @ spee sh of John V. L. McMahon, as follows:— OLE LEIELEIOLE TELE TELE LE IELELORELE LDL OLELELE LODE “Every mountain has sent forth its riil, every valley its stream, every river its flood, and lo! the avalanche of the people is here!” OOLIIGE EELS LEOEEOIELO LE LESELELEDELE DE BELELESEDEEE EE The ends of the portico looking up and down the street will contain the words— AO IELE LOL ILELOLELE LE OETOLETOIOLEIOLEDE DEDETEOTE foal Democratic Convention, 1872.” POLO EO LOLELEAELELELEDESOLELELEIELOLOIETEDELOEDIODOHED The two main entrances of the theatre will con- tain, in bow shape, these legends from Jefferson and Jackson respectively :- OOP LOLOL OELOLELOALLLEE HEDELOUETTIGIELOLPEETEDED EOE “Phe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.” 3 AOLOLOLOOELETOLPEDIELOLELOLELUIOELLIDEDIELE TONED i at ee 8 “The constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our union, our defence in danger, te source of our prosperity in 3 peace.” Denar cere eee ae Rete LOGE POLEL PEELE RELEIEDELODETELEDE ID The second story of the theatre will contain, in pendant canvas, properly ornamented, quotations trom Washington's farewell address, ‘The florist who will ornament the interior of the theatre is the same who took charge of the theatre in Philadelphia where General Grant was renoni- nated. Portraits of W: son, Charles Carroll and Henry Clay (queer enough) ave to be distributed among the decorations. interior decorations of Ford’s Opera House wiil that Mr. Davis, upon more than one oc jon during the late war, gave sech evidences to the world of | his want of regard for General Johnston and his | ability as to wound the prive of this distinguished | Oficer, and lessen” his admiration — for | | his chief. It is a matter of history | | that little latitude was given General Johnston b Davis until late in the war, and th reluct- uy, and that upon two occasions Mr. Davis eprived him of command and endeavored to race him. Whatever is the cause of thia out- | break by General Johnston upon ils late superior | none, perhaps, but themselves can tell, but it is evident that General Johuston looks upon Mr. | Davis and his acts with great bitterness, and will portunity to denounce him among his Davis’ estimate of General J ually small, and the public would be | glad to ve it. Now that General Johnston has hegun the fight, some rich items in the rhal atiairs of the late conte | their way into print from tho: representatives of the departed con. NO STA ACCORD | _ History will have very little patience with the Stephens family, as they are going on. | read tie | | above conversation, which was transcribed by one who heard it at the club last night, and there re general exclamations of ridicule, | “Why, said one, “if Jett | fault than to think lightly of the Stephenses, he will pass. Aleck Stephens is one of those cxagge- rated dwarfs who is an obstructionist and a mar plot. His speech about ‘Slavery, the Corner Stone, jost us the alliance of Europ His boox about the causes of the war, written in dialogue, after the manner of Landor and Pato, is affectation without gravity. He was forever making peace during | the war, and now hie is making war against Gree- ley. We were @ sold-out people in statesmen and financiers, Outside of the fleld of battle we pro- duced not ove great man in the South during our struggle for independence—financicr, — diplo- matist, contriver ar civil governor. Joe John | ston ek about the South's succes much above the plane of Stephens. | Reetid immigration ‘into the North | supplied ail their losses and gave them a surplus. | They were good for five years more of war—yes, — ton nino the contest closed, It was our | | | had no greater politicians and blowhards who brought the matter | oa tight, called us, their duped constituents, out | to see it through, and bungled the management of the pry to early subjugation. Now chaps | | like crazy Old Wise, who was the John Brown of | | the South, are trying to get us into more of the | | same kind of trouble. ‘They won't get any soldier | laddies who wore the gray to follow their call. By the Lord Harry! we'll tnne our bugles to Tenny- | #on’s tune, ‘Blow, and set these infernally super. | annuated wild echoes fying!” | THE RIOTS OF APRIL, 1861, | In the period before the arrival of delegates 1 have been amusing myself by jooking at the first aud the Jast relies of the war which exist in this | 0d NOt cost above $2,500 or $4,000, Carpets aud some of the adornments of the theatre will be missing during the Convention. A MASS MEETING FOR GREBLRY. To-day's Baltimore papers—the Sun particularly — make mach of their own local news by copying the HERALD'S letter of last Monday, in wluch they found abundant information. coming up Baltimore street Tuesday evening I siew, abont twi Jumination and a great crowd of people sianding in the hot air, sweltering patientiy to listen to spoecies on the merits of Greeley and Brown as democratic candidates, A very neat ond handsome stand was erected, and in large gas brackets, arching whe structure, stood the names of Gre aeiey iad thrown” peresere® “Greeley and Brown” Hi DOOPPIE SLO ELELDLE RP PLEDLOLELELEDELEIELEDELELELELESELE boldly in the Baltimore atmosphe' equally couspicuous— Groves y and beneath, POO EROELEOLEL EE TELE EE IELEIPIEDELPLELE UDELL EO) e endorse the Cincinnati plasiorin.” QUOTA TP TELELL ED LLE TLD SEL NI TEDELETE IEEE D In front of a great row of Chinese lauterns w transparencies containing poutr ts of G % Brown, Governor Whyte anc Thomas Swann, Some of (he mscriptions were as follows:— | LOCO LOLELE OE OELE LTE LEIE A ITEEIELOIEOELELELELELOLED) | Barras presents for me,’ says Horace Greeley.” 4 | GOO tba HELE OEE L OEE LEE TELEEELT TELLIER pererercocecseccapcassere serene ® our next President.” 3 LUULTELOTEGOU ATLA LE DELELE ADEE TELE D, Qerrercereersre i OOOO LEE LELOLOLELTTELE LTTE RELERPLOLO LULL TELE DELLE } “Maryland pledged to Greeley and Brown,’ Dance nese cece tt TOUTE NELOPELE EEL: Qerceersrccececscensessecesseress rescence entertit rere “Maryland Grects Missouri.” QAP NEUE TOLTEELEDOLE VELL TOLELOOETEDOLE ELLE LT EELE LE QOELOLETT TOTO TELE LE ROLE LOLOUPLELELEEDEDETETE TOES “Graté Brown redeemed Missouri.” QUO TOCO OLE LETOLELELOUITEL PLATE MELE LOLOLODELE HED QOMOOLOLE LOCI EOLELETELELEDDLELELELEGELILELOUEE DHE “Democrats are always liberal.” Qeeneneee tele Oe Oe POet NE TORE TELENT TELE TEEE TELE LETELEED The oMicers of the meeting were about half and | half federals and Confederates. Mr, dames R. Brewer, who presided, expressed the opi that Grant mtended to make himself the promin man Of this nation, and not to surrender his power. Mr. Swann aid he looked to the national position which Maryland was destined to occupy hereafter in | the politics of the country, and the iniluence of her exalpie upon her sister States as the great motive for his conduct during this campaign. He pro- nounced himself, among other things, opposed to paying off the public debt in advance of its ma- tarity by a grinding policy of taxation, Although a whig, he wanted revenue reform and desired to our commerce revived, which had been siaughtered by the tari™ He said that he belie Mr, ¢ ley as an honest man, and that bis administration | was a pediler, and lived at 111 Clif street. | While a young girl named Mary Governor war | passing through West Forty-ninth street, at ten | o'clock on Saturday night, John McCabe, a notorious ghborhood, it is alleged, at- t assanit upon her, He was | les, of the Twenty: nd pre- |} einet, and committed for trial without bail by Ab. | derman Plunkitt, at the Yorkville Police Court, The | ‘oO or three rods distant, quite anil: | | his prmeipal and Gil Ward, provided Saturds | sure Mekeel would win at least « Oe: The man alleged to have been run over on the evening of the Fvurth, corner of Twenty-third street and Second avenue, by one of the Second avenue cars, has been identified as James Wallace, | late of 324 Kast Twenty-fiith street. He was em- | ployed in a livery stable in Great Jones street, and had been at work nearly allday. The railroad com- pany allege that deceased fell from the front plat~ form, but deny that he was run over. ‘The body of the lad found in the slip atthe | Staten Island ferry late on Saturday afternoon was | yesterday recognized at the Morgue as that of | William Desmond, eleven years of age, who lived at | ag2 Cherry street. On the 4th instant deceased | attempted to {s ) aboard the excursion boat leay- | ing the foot of Pike street, East River, and falling into the dock was drowned, The married sister o! | deceased, living in rthfield, Staten Island, teok charge of the remains for interment. | rish ewont impé . ed John hington, Jefferson, Jack- | An Irishman, of recent importation, named Joh | McGuire, was yesterday arraigned at the Yorkville Police Court on a charge of intoxication, While awaiting his time to be called from the oners’ box he attempted to bribe one of the Couré oflicers to let him “slip? ont of the Court unnoticed. A New york policeman’s character was far higher than that of the Irish constabulary, for his offer was re- ected, and Alderman Plunkitt, who was on the neh, having heard of the matter, committed Mr, ire to prison for being intoxicated, and alsa ebarge of attempted bribery. AQUATIO. ckeel Challenge. Newsuna, N. Y., duly 6, 1872, The challenge of the Ward brothers, Gil an& Ellis, to John Mekeel, published in the HeraLp on Vriday, i8 still the theme of much discussion in sporting cireles here. But it seems probable that no race will result from It. One side is afraid and the other dare not. The Ward backers insist on both races or none at ali. Mekeel’s backer, Tim Donoghue, offers to accept the challenge, as regards . July Tues’ on The Ward 13, Ig named for the race, mst of , the oth, as required by the challenge. But Tim will not be a party toa rac Ebis Ward and Mekeel unl t stakes for ¢ race are made about the seme that event he feels eof them. He is vot time to Mekeel on tie ‘That ovrsman is at work claims that, ther course by Tuesday next. somewhere in New Jersey, and the notice is abso- lutely too short. So t 1s a hitch, and from present appearances the challenge is likely to re- suit in nothing. INTERNATIONAL PIGEON SHOOTING. (From the Loudou Morning Post, June 24.) The gardens and shooting enclosure at Hurlinge ham were thronged last Saturday on occasion of the competition for the third days international shooting. The fleld was the largest of the season, there being no leas than seventy-seven shooters for the cup--an elegant silver gilt bowl of the year 1741, and of the value of 150 guineas, In addition to that prize the winner rectived £140, the second beat £60 and the third The competitors paid an en- trance fee of £3, and at the close of the last round eight tied by killing ail their birds, In shooting of Mr. T. G, Simpson was declared the winner Of the first prize, after killing eight rocks in suece sion, with one of Stephen Grant's muzzie-loade Lord Churston securing the second prize, with one Kill less, by one of Hoss’ central fires, and the inken by Mr. M. Graham, with @ ale Including the t 00 Hest r fown, and of these 472 Were ki