The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1872, Page 4

ee 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —_—_+—__—_ All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must. be addressed New York Henarp. ; Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Us ita THE DAILY HERALD, pudtished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12, THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIVE CENTS per copy. Annual subscription price :— One Copy.. Three Copies. Five Copies... Ten Coptes.........+ Postage five cents per copy for three months, JOB PRINIING of every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volame XXXVII. ———— amen AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. UARE THEATRE, lith st. and Broadway.— CHESS, UNION 3 Taw Grand WALLACK'S THEATRE, street.—Tas Last TRumr adway and Thirteenth USE, No. 201 Bowory.— Ligutuovse. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Lona Staike—Tuk Fiexp or The White House=The Accepted and the Rejected Candidates for Its Occu- pation. The White House of which we are speaking is that white house at Washington officially styled the Executive Mansion. It is the house built and furnished by the people of the United States for their President, who holds it free of rent. It is constructed upon that good old standard of national dignity and republican simplicity which prevailed among this people down to the year 1800, and thence down, we may say, to the discovery of gold in Cali- fornia. It isa large, plain, substantial struc- ture of rough sandstone, coated with white lead, or, in the vernacular, whitewashed, and it gets a new whitewashing with every new President. It has one front door and several back doors, which indicate that while thero is only one way to get in there are several ways to get out. Tothe aspiring politician this is the house that Jack built, full of malt; the en- chanted castle, the loveliest of all the castles in Spain, the Alhambra, a fairy palace of per- petual delights; and yet its occupant suffers the tortures of Samson, who ‘did grind in the prison house."’ That excellent and accomplished woman, the wife of President John Adams, (the first occupant of this White House, A. D. 1800), in a gossipy letter about Washington when it was a straggling hamlet in a swamp, describes the new Executive Mansion substantially as an old barn—dismal, windy, damp and cold—and she humorously recounts her difficulties in getting wood sufficient to keep her apartments com- fortably warm. The hostile British in 1814, in their occupation of Washington, were so much displeased with this house that they set fire to BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Baiax Borowwe— Roauus oy New Yous. WoOoD's MUS Pour, Afternoo Broadway, coruer Thirtieth st— i Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Scnyipre: or, THE Otp House oy tux Ruine—Rir Van Wincce. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Tex Niants In 4 Barroo. AOADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Tus Strauss Concent, AMERICAN INSTITUTE HALL, Third av., between 63d ‘and 64th sts.—Gnranp Concert py Tux Frexcx Bann. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Ganbex Instaumentan Conoxrt. TERRACE GARDEN, S8th st.. between 3d and Lexing- ton ava. —Sumurn vexing CC RTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Scixnck ann Ant. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Ant ap ‘Somncr, New York, Friday, July 12, 1872, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pas. 1J—Advertisements, 2—Adertisements. 3—Proceedings in the New York Courts—The Gotham Homicide—Racing at Saratoga— Prospect Park Fair Grounds—Trotting Notes— Sale of Trotting Horses—Boating at Middle- town University—| plea ET the Awards Made by the Mayor—New York City News—The Procession Law—The Morrisania Malpractice Gase—Alleged Burglary—Mar- riages and Deaths, @—Eniitorials: Leading Article, “The White House—The Accepted and the Rejected Candidates for Its Occupation’’—Amusement Announcements, SeInteresting News from Dr. Livingstone—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Germany, Spain, Cuba, Hayti, 5t. Domingo, Vene- zuela’ and Brazii—the British Press on the Presidency—Sherman’s — Tour—Horri- dle Holocaust: A Railroad Train Pre- cipitated Into the Greenbrier River; Six Men Killed and the Surviving Corps of Laborers Fearfully Bruised and Mangled—Gratz Brown: overnor at the Shrine of His Alma ws from. Washington—Business Notices. it and burned it out; but, as the shell remained intact, it was soon reconstructed. After her return that universal favorite, ‘Dolly Madi- son,"’ the handsomest and dearest little Dolly Varden of them all, neyer wearied in telling-' the amusing adventures of her flight from the British over the river into the woods of Vir- ginia. And this reminds us'that Dickens, in his “‘American ' Notes,'’ describes the President's residence as having much the look of a Lon- don club house. ‘Poor Pierce’’ found that to the unacclimated New Englander it was a house of fever and ague; and poor “Old Buck,”’ towards the close of his melancholy servile occupation, pronounced it as but little better than a free hotel or almshouse for hungry office-beggars. And yet to our aspiring politicians, from the time of the elder Adams to this day, this White House has been a sort of earthly Parn- dise, cheaply reached at any cost. And to detail the schemes and schemers, the plots and counterplots and struggles of the various party leaders and parties for the possession of this White House since 1800, would be to write out the history of the United States for the last seventy-two years. The lucky occupants of this fairy castle, embalmed for posterity as Presidents of the United States, have been John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln and Johnson, and the present holder of the establishment is U. S. Grant. Van Buren was lucky in getting under the wing of “Old Hickory,’ who carried him in as the rightful heir to the White House; but in aiming to secure a second term as his next right in the order of succession Van Buren for twelve years kept himself and the democratic 6—A War Cloud: Hostélities Imminent Between Brazil and the Argentine Confederation— Alexis’ Farewell to Brazi—The Weather in —Our Colleges—The House of Re- aul—Judge Prindle’s Trial—“‘No kes: Shocks of Earthquake Felt on Long Island and in, Westchester Countres Music and the Drama—Army and Naval In- telligence—Suicide at Union Hill, N. J. T—Amusements. S—Stokes: Close of Testimony for the Prosecution and the Defence; Tne Doctors all Running a Muck; Counsel for the Defence Commences the Summing Up, but Does Not Conclude— Rural Jersey Robbers—Hung Himself on a Roof—The Orange Parade: No Row To-Day; The Absurdity of the Whole Affair, 9—The Orange Parade (Continued from Eighth Page)—Financial and Commercial: A Quiet Day All Around; Money ot at3a4PerCent; The Stock Market Dull, but Higher and aan A Fluctuation of Two’ Per Cent In Erle; Gold Governments a Shade Lower--The rolina Bonds—Municipal Amairs— Ailairs—Supposed Murder tn Brook- Storm in Trenton—A Morgue for Jer- lyn—T sey City, 10—Horace Greeley: The Farmer of Chappaqna Cultivating a Taste for Music; A Visit to His National Con teemen; Effect of Greeley on the Sick De' icy; The Serenade at t Lincoln Clu! Sonthside Railroad Di aster —Boat on the Hudson—PBoati ng ituary—Shipping Intelligence— ents, at Halifax— Advertise! Generat Suenman has been presented to the President ot the French republic and the French Ministers of War and for Foreign Affairs. The American commander was present at a sitting of the Parliament, having been complimented by M. Thiers with the use of his own special box in the National Assembly house. « Tae Proposep Vistr or THE Emprror or Austria To Bertin is the subject of consider- able gossip in the Austrian and German capi- tals. It is regarded as the natural consequence ofthe meeting at Ischel and Salzburg last year. Since 1866 there has been a coolness between the two Kaisers, which was in part cleared up by the meeting of 1871, The visit of Francis Joseph to Berlin this year will com- plete the work of reconciliation begun last fall. Toe Commenciat Portcy or Fraxce.—The French Parliament yesterday sustained M. ‘Thiers’ plan of commercial protection by a vote in which it discriminated against the immediate interests of the importers of articles for use in | manufacture and in favor of those of the traders by retail and the manufacturers as sellers of goods at home, The National Assembly re- jected a motion to impose a tax of one franc in | the thousand upon sales. The majority was | very decisive, and its record accopted as a legislative vindication of the industrial and tariff income views of the President. Tur Onance Panape To-Day.—In pursu- | ance of their announced intention the | Orangemen will parade through our city to- | day, clad in the regalia of their order. It is to be hoped that no act on the part of their opponents will give any tinge of im- portance to the demonstration, which last year was only saved from ridicule by the unwise action of some hot-headed Hi- bernians. The authorities have parations for the worst; but wo hope that nothing will occur which would com. pel them to interfere. So far there is of a peaceful twelfth, and we hope | good sense of the Irish population will prevent any attempt at disturbance being made pres | party in hot water, and then he had to give it up as a bad job. Poor old General Harrison in this White House was hounded to death within a month by hisyavenous office-seekers, and Tyler, thus becoming President, made himself conspicuous to no purpose as a candi- date for another term on his own account. Polk, taken up at a venture by the democrats, because he had not been fishing for the nomi- nation, turned out very well, only he, too, wanted another term. His party leaders, how- ever, wanted another chance each for them- selves, and so they ruled him out. Tay- lor, like Harrison, in this enchanted castle, after a short occupation, was worried to death by his hungry friends; and Fillmore succeeded him, 4 la Tyler, only to play the same profitless réle of scheming for another term and with substantially the same result. Pierce, getting in after the fashion of Polk from a surprise nomination, spoiled everything for himself and the democrats in his desperate pro-slavery game for another term. Buchanan, hedging, ditching, delving and scheming for thirty years to get into this White House, was glad, after a four years’ oc- eupation, to get out again. He, at least, in the hands of his Southern masters, had enough of it with one term, and frightened, bewil- dered and chapfallen, he retired to Wheatland, thankful for the good fortune accorded him of dying a natural death, Lincoln, having en- tered upon his second term, was murdered by a rebel assassin when the great martyr in the Union cause was just beginning to feel easy and confident from the subjugation of the re- bellion. Johnson, succeeding as President, repeated, but on a grander scale, the extrava- ganza of Tyler and Fillmore for another term. Grant, enthusiastically renominated for an- other trial, has a strong party at his back, but a hard fight before him. These are the lucky men, as our ambitious politicians consider them, who, since the stormy time of Jackson, have occupied the Presidency. How wise are they who are not troubled by schemes for or dreams of the White House! We sympathize with Mr. Gree- ley as a Presidential candidate; for, in any event, the hardest woodchoppiny, subsoiling, ditch digging, grubbing, or anything that he knows about farming, is mere child's play | compared with the rough, up-bill work now before him. But if his friends would have it | so, how could he deny them? Turning, how- ever, to the unlucky schemers and dreamers for the White House, who have ‘‘waited long and died without the sight,"’ what a catalogue we have, and what a world of mischief they have made among them from” time to time! In this long list there is Calhoun, to whose Presidential disappointments we may | trace the great conspiracy of the Southern Con- federacy ; there is Heury Clay, whose misfor- tunes as a Presidential candidate reduced to nothing in his eyes all his great achievements as a party leader; there is Webster, whose death was hastened and darkened by the shock of his terrible failure in his last effort to reach the White House; there is Doug- | las, who, from his terrible and disastrous | conflict with the Southern oligarchy for | the democratic nomination, went down pre- maturely to the gravo; there is Sew ard, one of the wisest men of the lotin dis- missing his disappointments like a philosopher and in enjoying his retirement like a Christian. And so we might go on"through a hundred names and more of the disappointed men who, in the pursuit of the. White House, have seen it fade before them and vanish like the lovely picture of a palace, with its groves and foun- tains, in the mirage of the desert, leaving nothing before them and around them but their exhausted fellow travellers and the burn- ing waste of sand. But we have given enough for the moral of our story. Happy are they who escape this contagion of the White House fever, and wise are they whose ambition for distinction and glory lies not in that direction. The unfortunate Buchanan was more than half right in his opinion that the occupant of the White House is but the chief servant in a free hotel, and that he is not the lucky man who is coming in, but he who is going out. Samming Up for the Defemce in the Stokes Trial, The summing up of Stokes’ counsel at the trial for the murder of Fisk yesterday was the great feature of the eighteenth day of the trial. Not without wrangling and unseemly scenes had the early part of the day passed. The doctors, with a keen edge of professional jealousy, had slashed at each other until they were reminded, in the language of yesterday's Heratp, that the medical profession or its members were not on trial, and that Stokes alone was. Dr. Shine testified to a conversa- tion with Dr. Tripler, in which tho latter, he said,-admitted giving one hundred and ten to mystic river of Africa, the Nile. There aro men on whom certain lights to guide their action have descended from heaven, and Livingstone, in his unfaltering desire to lay open the savage heart of a Continent to the penetration of civiliza- tion, is one of them Such men allow no drawback short of the fate of mortality to deter them, no matter what cynicism or frivolity may say of their motives. They build their trust for being rightly comprehended on the unerring judg- ment of time, interpreted by the best of the human kind, and console themselves in their time of present difficulty and trial that truth is mighty and must prevail. Strauss and the American Public. It appears from the letter which we publish below that the ill-judged disclaimer which was published over the signature of the eminent waltz composer, and which naturally gave considerable offence to the American public, was not authorized by Strauss. Our remarks on the communication were fully justified by its contents, but we now know that the blame rests rather with the business man- agers than with the artist. The explanation which Strauss offers in his letter to-day is satisfactory, and the American public will know that they have not bestowed a kind and flattering reception on a man of an in- sensible or ungrateful nature. Most of the difficulties of this nature which are con- stantly occurring are attributable to the med- dling of managers, who, asa ¢lass, are little re- markable for breadth of view or refinement of one hundred and twenty minims of Magen- die’s solution, or about four grains of mor- phine, to the wounded Fisk. Dr. Gordon Buck, in rebuttal, testified that there was evidence of narcotism, but that he did not deem it as affecting the general result of the injury. The indecent display of professional jealousy came next, when Dr. Sayre once more took the stand. He came to justify him- self, beeanso Dr. Carnochan had averred that he (Sayre) had stolen his (Carno- chan’s) cases. Beyond a general denial of the charge of case theft he was indignant and said something about “stealing dry goods from cases at Quarantine,” which, whatever its insinuated meaning, could scarcely have much bearing on the murder of Fisk. This personal doctor having been mitigated by extinction as a witness, Surgeon General Hammond took the stand and gave evidence to the effect that opium was acorrect medicament under the circumstances, but he thought that its administration in large doses might be fatal, according to the constitution of the patient. A course of barber evidence followed as to Stoke’ carrying a pistol. One barber said he carried it, and another, called by the prosecution, said he did not. Thus these shaving people's testimony is of very little account one way or the other. A man employed at the Grand Central Hotel averred that the hall boy Hart said the bullet found on the stairs did not fit into the pistol found, but did fit the other. After tes- timony about the breaking of the probe by “punching” or otherwise the long chain of evidence was announced as closed and the summing up began. Mr, Tremain asked that the jury be charged to find Stokes either guilty or not guilty of murder in the first degree. Their other alter- natives wete, he stated, guiity of manslaughter in the third or fourth degree. As he had merely made the preliminary steps in his argu- ment for the prisoner it would not be fair to speak of it as a whole. As for as he has gone, it points, as we premised, to laying the greatest stress on the unpremeditated or acci- dental nature of the meeting which led to the shooting, in opposition to the leading theory of the prosecution, that Stokes lay in wait for and pounced murderously on his victim. The question of how far the medical treatment influenced the death of Fisk will be brought forward em- phatically and the insanity plea will not be neglected. From the temper of the counsel's side allusion to the Erie and city ‘“rings’’ it may be presumed that these exploded and dangerous combinations, of which the deceased was one of the leading elements, will be used largely to show the formidable nature of the opposition to his client and the chance of peace of mind which a man stood who might stand in its way or in its power. Except as touching upon this insanity plea, all this, however, must be said to lie largely outside of the case. When the matter of Stokes’ life or death goes to the jury, as it must before the end of the week, one of the most exciting trials in the history of criminal jurisprudence will demand a verdict, and that it may bea just and fearless one is the hope of the commu- nity. Murder must be punished to preserve civilization; but, on the other hand, where a prisoner has any circumstances on his side lessening his guilt they should be given every consideration, for civilization punishes itself in giving either less or more of punishment to a criminal than his crime demands, The Herald Central Africa Explorer Nearing Home. By a cable despatch from Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, on the Arabian side, we learn that Mr. Stanley, commander of the Henarp Search Expedition into Cen- tral Africa, was there, and would start yesterday for London in company with the son of Dr. Livingstone, the great explorer. He bears letters from the long-lost Doctor to the English government and his family and friends. The Heraun correspondent will thus in a few days find himself close to the ground over which his despatches to this jour- nal travelled, on their way to enlighten the British government upon the end of the Abyssinian war in the capture of Magdala and the death of King Theodorus. A second time will he be, on the part of the New York Henaip, the bearer of highly important in- formation to that government. Thus the newspaper marches onward in its path of use- fulness, and finds, as it widens its operations, that the most powerful cabinets and thrones become indebted to it for vital knowledge of events, as they have for years learned to take their opinions on the feelings, tendencies and aspirations of the people. The despatch states that at the time of part- | ing with the Hraup correspondent Dr. Liv- | ingstone was not in good health, but that his its voice deeply into account when forming | feeling. These people make trouble by acting in the name of artists without authorization, asin the present instance, often injuring the foreign artist in the public estimation by ill- considered words, which the popular feeling resents. We are glad that Strauss has taken a straightforward way out of the false position in which he was placed by the unauthorized let- ter reflecting on the American people. In order to enable him to set himself right before the public, we publish his letter denying the authorship of the communication which drew forth our comments in a more conspicuous part of the paper than that in which the original letter appeared. This is what Strauss says: — JULY 41, 1872, To THe Error or THR Heraup:— Sim—In an editorial of this morning you stigma- tize my “rushing Into print” instead of leaving the pen to more judicious hands, To this I have only one word to answer. The letter which appeared in your impression of Tuesday was not written nor even communicated to or authorized by me, Be ie it appeared with my supposed signature; and tt is only because I do not wish to rush into print that I did not at once clear up the misunder- standing. Lonly expressed a wish to state that I had noth- lngiymerever to do with the “ball,” because some unknown party speculated in a rather unscrupu- fous manner with my name. As to all the rest of dhe remarks which the letter contains Ihave as little to do as yourself; and since I do not wish that the American public should think that I do not fully appreciate their extremely kind and amiable re- ception, I trust to your sense of justice that you will give this letter as prominent a place in your next issue as you did to the critique of the letter which I have not to answer for. Tam, sir, your obedient servant, JOHANN STRAUSS. This frank statement sets the matter at rest as faras Strauss is concerned; and we only wish it could have the effect of teaching the speculative class of managers, who are always endeavoring to use the press for their own selfish purposes, the limit of public patience and the necessity of avoiding impertinent re- flections on the people by whom they live. The reception slready accorded to the Aus- trian composer, even at this unfavorable period of the year, is the best proof of the readiness of our people to recognize and reward talent. It is with regret that we learn that it is the in- tention of Strauss to leave this country on the qnclusion of his present short engagement, We would counsel him, on the contrary, to remain and give concerts in the autumn; the pecuniary results will certainly be far beyond anything he can hope to obtain in Europe, and he will have the satisfaction of knowing that kee nas contrMuted something to the advance- ment of American art. There are plenty of enterprising managers who would be delighted to offer him large and generous conditions if he be unwilling to accept personal risk. In either case, should he make up his mind to remain, we can undertake to guarantee him a brilliant and flattering success. The time is rapidly coming when the verdict of the American public will be as neces- sary to great artists “as that of Paris or St. Petersburg at present, and though Strauss will in any case carry away our good opinion he must remember that hitherto in judging him we have been forced to make allowances for the circumstances in which he has been placed. There are thousands of our rich classes who have heard him at his best in Vienna; but the mass of the people must form their opinions of the artist by what they see of them on this Continent, and Strauss can hardly be content to depart until he has organized concerts worthy of him. No one expects that with a hastily collected orchestra he can produce the same results, or express the same nuances, as with his own so justly celebrated band. We therefore want him to settle down and prepare such an orchestra as will give him perfect satisfaction, in order to allow the public in the fall and winter seasons to appreciate him fully. There need be no fear for the financial results. The American people are ever ready to support undertakings in the interest of musical art which bear the stamp of merit, even when the cost is far above the quality of the entertainment. Troe Greevsrien River Disaster, a full account of which is given in our special despatch elsewhere, can only be regarded as an additional proof of the uncertainty of life on the rail, and also of the reckless and un- satisfactory manner in which railroad plans and constructions are examined and tested before entrusting human life on them. This bridge over the Greenbrier River had only been completed a few days and handed over by the contractors to the railroad company. It appears to have been a temporary trestle work construction on a foundation intended for a permanent roadway. But it would seem that a fair and practical test should have shown the weakness of the two spans which gave way, and hence avoided the loss of life and destruction of property. Not one of the fifteen employés on the train escaped. Six were instantly killed and the remaining nine were terribly mangled. A train with hun- | dreds of passengers would have shared the | same fate, The engine, cars and bridge are, | of course, a complete wreck. It now remains to be seen who will be held responsible for determination was to remain ymid tao heathen the accident, until he had ascertained the source of the | REW YORK fERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Groundswell After the Political Storm at Baltimore. The storm of excitement and enthusiasm that prevailed at Baltimore during the begin- ning of the present week his somewhat abated, although the mutter:ngs o! the receding thunder are still heard in the distant West. The sur- face of the political seas has become compara- tively smooth, and the groundswell is begin- ning to roll upon the beach of public opinion. The partisan press are the first to put in an ap- Pearance at this moment, although, of course, the more distant have not yet had time to reach us. But sufficient is known of the sentiments of those anti-administration papers not yet at hand to justify us in saying that, with but one or two exceptions, they all heartily endorse tbe action of the Democratic National Conven- tion at Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun (Southern independent) comes to the rescue of Mr. Grecley’s record, claiming for it the merit of ‘manliness and in- dependence.” This is praise extraordinary, coming from such a source, and it must be as welcome to the old Philosopher personally as it is gratifying to his friends. The Philadelphia Ledger (strictly non-partisan and independent), ina kindly article in regard to Mr. Greeley, says his ‘almost unanimous nomination by the democratic party, pro-eminent for its seventy years of devotion to cardinal principles, is a marvel in politics.’’ The Philadelphia Inquirer (administration) excuses the democrats for accepting a long-time oppo- nent for their standard bearer, because they have been so long out of power they were will- ing to accept any chance, no matter at what price, to get intoit again. ‘Besides,’ adds the Inquirer, with a great deal of truth, ‘the demo- cratic party has virtually had no existence since 1865. The rebellion swept it away, and the ground upon which it once stood was no longer tenable. At Baltimore, in nomi- nating Horace Greeley and in accepting his platform, it but ignored those issues which the war had already killed." The Philadelphia Age (old-line democrat) did not take kindly to the Greeley movement at first, but since tho nomination it has the candor to say that the present alliance between the honest and patriotic members of the republican party and the democracy is remarkable and singularly honorable to both parties, The Philadelphia Press (administration) avers that Greeley stands virtually upon the same platform as Grant—the question in the canvass being re- duced to one of men, not of principles. ‘We are for Grant,”’ proclaims the Press, ‘“‘and shall advocate his election with all the ability we possess ; and this while we shall be fair to Mr. Greeley. For him, as the independent editor, the educator of his countrymen and the pioneer in the cause of liberty, we have the highest admiration.” The Philadelphia Post (liberal republican) declares that this nomination ‘‘is a victory as great as Gettys- burg, even if Mr. Greeley should be defeated; but it will be a far greater victory when con- firmed by his election.” The Albany Argus (old-line democratic organ) glorifies the result of the deliberations of the Convention. It affirms that ‘‘the election of Greeley and Brown by the united vote of the democrats and lib- eral republicans is as certain as it is possible for any future political event to be."’ The Albany Journal (administration) is generally a very fair, as it always isan able and consis- tent, journal; but it seems to become troubled with the rabies whenever it has anything to write or to say about Horace Greeley and the Baltimore coalition. It is what may be called quite severe on Mr. Greeley when it terms him “the leader of the disloyal and the corrupt, representing the motley elements which have fought all that the nation has accomplished, and which would overthrow its achievements standing as a menace of disorder, lawlessness, business confusion and national turmoil, him- self the most capricious, vacillating, fickle and pliable of men, and surrounded by the worst cabals in the land.” That is a pretty long scold fora single breath. The Utica Herald (administration) declares that with the lines clearly drawn the result is simple and obvious. On the Greeley side the canvass will be a “guerilla fight, vexatious and annoying, with some local incendiarism, but without hope for national victory.” ‘In this State,’’ continues the Herald, ‘‘ Hoffman and Tweed traded the delegation to the liberals for the renomination of the former as Governor, and the restoration of the latter to political favor and the chances of speculation.” It very rarely happens that political coalitions or combinations are entered into without » motive. The Hartford Times (old-line democrat) asserts that ‘this remark- able result has been reached with a degree of unanimity not less remarkable. It is the true voice of the people. The Convention and the politicians only bow to the popular will.’’ “This Baltimore nomination,’ adds the Times, ‘‘means the restoration of constitu- tional government. The people mean it. All the accounts brought to Baltimore from all the States agree in establishing this conclusion— that this Cincinnati and Baltimore ticket will sweep the country.” The Springfield Republi- can (whilom the stanchest and most influen- tial republican paper in Western Massachu- setts) announces, with frankness and ap- parent satisfaction, that, ‘not only does it support Mr. Greeley without embarrassment, but it can urge his election with fervor and faith.” The Worcester Spy (ad- ministration) avows that ‘Greeley’s apostacy cannot be matched by anything like it in our political history." The Boston Post (demo- cratic—Greeley champion from the first) says that with “the nominations just made the South renews its faith and revives its hopes, and these are the sure pledges of a restored fraternity." What savory morsels of official pabulum aro at this moment in the mind’s eye of these patriotic democrats of New England! Their maxim is, ‘Though oft defeated, never dismayed.”” The Boston Advertiser (adminis- tration) calls Greeley the ‘New Prophet of the Democracy,” and says the ‘traditional and hereditary leaders of the democracy bowed to the storm which they could not control; and Mr. Grecley himself has doubtless found in the enthusiasm of the rabble some compensa- the Pilgrim climbing the Mountain of Purga- tory and never dreaming of the unpleasant country beyond, he may have found that, though tiresome enough at the beginning, ‘The more one climbs the less tt hurts.” inclined to be merry over the matter, although | it makes a rather grave illustration in the pre- \ mises. ‘Having cut off unpleasant debate,’ it | says, the “Cincinnati candidates were formally tion for the sacrifice required of him. Like | The Providence Journal (administration) is | entrasted with the democratic standard, while the delegates manifested that sense of relist so touchingly expressed by the bereaved husbond to the undertaker’s men who were filling up the grave of his departed wife, when he ra- marked, with his eye on his watch, ‘it waa | just thirteen minutes past two when we got her under,’ The Cincinnati Gazelle (administration) de- clares that, in addition to his (Greeley’s) “well-known propensity for political intrigue, there have not been wanting signs of his bar- gaining with the most notorious of the demo- cratic rings, and of his holding out induce- ments to any who gave signs of opposing him, by which he has mortgaged the patronago of the executive office, and has by his own act made the conditions of the most corrupt com- bination that ever dared to show its head in public affairs outside the Tammany Ring im the government of New York city.’’ But we have not space at present to recount further the surgings of the groundswell of the political storm at Baltimore. It is suffi- cient to.say that the democratic papers, from Maine to Georgia, endorse ’-the Baltimore ticket literally ‘“‘up’to the hub,’’ and that the recalcitrant democratic journals are ‘few and far between."’ A War Cloud in Brazil. Brazil and the Argentine Confederation are pouring out vials of wrath against ono an- other. The former allies and victors of poor, depopulated Paraguay have fallen out over the spoils of the war. The Minister of the Argen- tine Confederation, in a long note addressed to the Brazilian government, taunts the latter with angry reproaches of bad faith, cowardice, rapacity, downright dishonesty and downright lying. There is but the historical expression, “You lie, you villain, you lie!" wanting to complete the delightful frankness of the docu- ment. To this insolent note, says a cable despatch from Lisbon, Brazil has replied in terms still more defiant. Indeed, the excellent letter of our Rio Janeiro correspondent, which we publish elsewhere, foreshadows this answer of the Brazilian government. It describes the vast preparations for war, the relative strength of the two countries and the imminent danger of hostilities. It is, how- ever, to be hoped that the two Powers will pause, and try peaceful means of settlement before they reopen the bloody chasm which but lately closed after such térrible sacrifices of human life and the annihilation of a brave nation. Fearful State of Things in Mexico. Mexico, heretofore fearfully demoralized, is going from one bad state of things to a worss day by day. The despatch we published re- cently from the city of México, date July 1, shows that assassinations and kidnapping pre- - vail everywhere and that revolutionary move- ments are increasing. The Mexican journals are full of complaints against the usurpation of the government. The Postmaster General re- ports that during the last year there have been a hundred and twenty-eight public robberies of the mails. What other evidence is needed to show the powerlessness of the government, or rather the want of government, and utter de- moralization in that country? Woe are in- formed, too, that a wealthy proprietor, Miguel Uribe, was kidnapped near the capital, taken out of his carriage, in which he waa riding with his family, and carried off to the mountains. Juan Cervantes, another prominent citizen, was kidnapped in one of the principal streets of the capital while re- turning home from the theatre, anda ransom of six thousand dollars demanded of him. Mr. Bassoes, a Frenchman, was kidnapped also in the environs of the city. The estab- lishment of Arcisaga, in the town of Tecomo, was entered by a band of eighty men and robbed, and a son and brother-in-law of the proprietor were murdered. In all countries, and even in our own, there are violations of the law, such as robberies and murders ; but in Mexico they are not merely the crimes of single individuals or of a few individuals, but of organized and powerful bands. These bands defy the government and kidnap and rob people under its eyes. The government can- not even protect the mails. It has not power enough to protect the citizens in their homes at the capital. In fact, there is no government worthy of the name in Mexico. That country is a disgrace to the civilization of the age. It has no elements in itself of improvement, and must sink lower and lower in anarchy and degradation unless the United States assume a protectorate over it or take possession of the country. A Hint ror Greetey.—The nogroes of the South are supposed to be prepared to vote for “Massa Grant,” the man in the Union uniform who scattered the armies of the, Confederacy and gave freedom to their race, Greeley, as an old abolitionist, whose means and efforts have been freely given for the liberation of slaves from bondage, and who distinguished himself for years as the head of one of the great underground railroads of the aboli- tion societies, should not suffer the negro vote to be lost to him by default. He should travel from State to State of the South in his old white hat and long brown coat, and harangue the colored people on the issues of the campaign. A rear view of him in this costume bears a close resem- blance to a respectable plantation negro of Old Virginia, and we believe he would make a hit among the colored brethren. We offer the suggestion for the benefit of General Coch- rane, whose admirable tact and ability as a political manager will at once convinoo him of its value. Oxy Moruer Earru Hap a Surat Sage yesterday about the Soundward side of Long Island, and in Westchester county, along the Hudson. What put it into the ‘old beldame’s’” head to disturb the foundations of these solid portions of the earth’s crust we cannot say, but it was a trifling affair to people accustomed to reading of San Francisco's shakiags, South America’s convulsions, and the un- easiness of the workd’s surface which lays Antioch in, ruins every now and then and scatters dismay in the islands of tho Archi., pelago. Now York was only shaken by tao demonstrations to Horace Greeley, and 40 /far from reaching os far South as Wall street, where delicate shocks are rapidly discounted, it did not get much outside the linsits of the Lincoln Club. Even there it was more noisy than harmful. The country is safe yet. Tur Aupany Journan (Grant) calla the | Baltimore Conventign a “funeral.” Whose?