The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ———<——— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_>+—_—. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, YS MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— eo LEE Max. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bleecker sts—A Lire’s Dre. y, between Houston and c. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth strect.—BLUE Braxo. PS THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Ermorian Ec- cenrricitixs, Burcesgue, Drama, &¢, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street. corner Sixth avenue,—T'mr Bens; on, Tux Powis Jew. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Two Sronts—Tux Pouisn Jew—My Fxitow Oven PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Dixrz, Our Cotornp Buotuer. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 585 Broadway.—Nearo Mrn- sTRELBY, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Tux Pouce Sry. CENTRAL PARK GARD Concent. NEW YORK MUSEU. Scrence axp Ant. GRAND INSTRUMENTAL y ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. PAGR. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Saratoga: Second Day of the August Meeting; Three Very ine Ruces—The Duke of Saxe: Arrival of His Highness in New York; The Duke and His Family Ties; Sketch of His Career and Services in Brazil—The African Slave Trade:-America Moving to Its Sup- pression—Love Between Bars—The Fever Ships —Stabbing Afrays—The Mississippi Massacre. 4—New York: A HERALD Correspondent’s Tour inthe Interior of the State; What the Con- een Say; The Signs and Signals in the ky and*What They Portend; The Chances of Grant and Greeley from Different Stand- ints; The Split i the Republican Party in he State; Conkling vs. Fenton; Sharp Critt- tism of Conkling’s Rule or Ruin Policy py a Grant Congressman; The Outlook in the Congressional Districts; The Congressmen Who. Speak Their Minds and Those Who Don’t; The Farmers Strong for Grant; Gen- eral View of the State Situation and the Way the Countrymen Will Vote; What May Be Expected in November and How the Tables Can Be Turned by Either Party. S—New York (Continued from Fourth Page)— West Virginia: Thursday's Election a Very Doubtful Conflict; Hon. John J. Davis Upon the Situation—The Political Rendezvouses— Mr. Greeley’s Movements—Tammany Hall Committee—Greeley and Brown anner Raising—Political Campaign Notes—A Novel Arrest—Another Railroad Accident—Colored Methodist Camp Mecting Near Newark. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Bourbon Diversion tn Favor of the Republicans—Will the Nomination of Charles O’Conor Effect Its Object ¥’—Amusement Announcements, %—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Riots in Belfast—The Alabama Claims—News from Spain—Yachting at Newport—News from Washington—Baltimore Bank Robbery— amusements—Capture of Stolen Goods—Per- sonal Intelligence—The Weather—Miss Liv- ingstone’s Letter of Thanks to Mr. Stanley— Business Notices. S=-Livingstone and Stanley: Continued Comments of the English and Scotch Press; The Con- tinental Newspapers on the HERALD African Expedition—Livingstone to His Brother: A Letter from Ujiji to Canada—Brazil: Im- b sctrerl Relations Toward the Argentine onfederation—Long Branch: Personal Notes About the President; What He Says About His Re-Election—The Heat Yesterday—Land Slide in Jersey City—English Cricketers in Canada—Jefferson Market Police Court. @ Financial and Commercial: The Gold Pool Come to Grief; Gold “Of” to 11444; A Resume of the History of the Pool; Advance in Stocks; Pacific Mail Up Nearly Two Per Cent—Domes- tic and European Markets—The Recent Storm: Great Damage Along the Hudson; A Mile of Country Devastated—A Case of Alleged Pot- rps to a Daughter—Newark's In- dustrial Exhibition—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements. 40—Barnard Declared Guilty: Decision of the Court of Impeachment at Saratoga—The District's Tarniest—A Wealthy Lady Missing—Peru’s Modern Pizarro:- Keport of the United States Naval Commander; A Four Days’ Revolution; Restoration of Order—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements. 41—The Turf in Engiand: Dispersion of the Middle Park Stud—Music and the Drama—Suicide by Poison—The Courts: Alleged Fraud on the Revenue; The Dock Commissioners and the NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Bourbon Diversion in Favor of the Republicans—Will the Nomina. tion of Charles O’Conor Effect Its Object The next movement of interest on the politi- cal chessboard is to be the meoting of the Bourbon democracy at Louisville, and the nomination by that body of a Presiden- tial ticket headed by Mr. Charles O’Conor, the well known lawyer of this city. The in- tended action of thé straight-out Convention, as it is called, is so well known in advance that it is not necessary to wait for its consum- mation before discussing its object and effect. First, as to its object. Every man of common intelligence knows that the ‘straight-out’’ movement is designed to draw off from the Baltimore and Cincinnati nominees a sufficient number of democratic votes to defeat the elec- tion of Horace Greeley and to insure the success of President Grant. Its projectors and managers ara the old confirmed copperheads, who will not under any circumstances cast a vote for Gree- ley and who are anxiousto do all in thoir power to defeat him. They went to Baltimore determined to make a division in the Demo- cratic National Convention, but were prevented from carrying out their original intention by the want of any decent show of character or strength. Since then they have been rein- forced by outside help, and now they are about to reassemble and go through the farce of nominating Presidential candidates on a democratic platform. They will have in at- tendance at Louisville a sprinkling of demo- crats more or less known to the people; a few familiar names from the Southern States— men who are either wholly unreconstructed and willing to pursue any course for mischief, or who have cast their lot at home with the existing Southern administrations; a few familiar names from the North, such as Flanders, McMaster and Chauncey’ Burr, of this State, and others of a similar standing. They will have an apparently re- spectable number of rank and file, supplied promiscuously by those who believe it wise to invest in the movement as a political specula- tion. They will nominate Charles O’Conor for, President, a Southern democrat for Vice President, and will adopt a platform declaring against both the real candidates, endorsing free trade principles, approving white rule at the South and holding out all manner of friendly professions toward adopted citizens, But there will not be a solitary individual in- side or outside of their Convention, favorable or unfavorable to their policy, who will be- lieve that their ticket is put into the field with | any idea of success or with any other object than to draw democratic votes from the liberal candidates for the advantage of the republicans. The interesting question now is, will this strategic movement be successful, and will Mr. O’Conor be able to secure enough demo- cratic votes to seriously impair the democratic strength of the Baltimore nominees? Not- withstanding Horace Greeley’s past contempt for the intelligence of the old democracy, or Gerrit Smith’s recent declaration that modern democracy is “hell-born’ and sunk in igno- rance and depravity, we will accord to a ma- jority of that party the possession of ordinary sense and shrewdness. It is argued that the effect of the nomination of Charles O’Conor by the Louisville Convention will be to induce ® great number of democrats who would other- vote, and its effect has been shown in the check received by the administration in North Carolina. Had the republicans adhered to President Grant’s generous treatment of the Southern whites, ang pursued the policy of peace and reconciliation advocated by the Union General from the moment of the cessa- tion of the rebellion, they would have secured for their candidate a liberal support among the white citizens of the Southern States, and would have still retained the negro vote. The personal and malignant abuse that has been showered upon the liberal nominees and all who support them was conceived in a narrow- minded policy, and throwing away seventy- five thousand dollars of the public mo- ney upon ‘a trunk full of musty, stupid electioneering documents, in the hope of damaging Greeley, was the work of ward politicians. The republicans’ chances would have been better to-day had they saved their investment, treated their opponents with the respect due to genius and personal integ- rity, and trusted for their own success to the sound judgment and conservative character of the business men of the country, who might have been contented to stand by an adminis- tration that had given thom four years of peace and prosperity. The efforts in this city to make bargains with the oki Tammany leaders, and to trade and dicker with this politician and that organization will ‘probably prove less profitable in the end than a straightforward policy and the nomination of candidates whose names would command public confidence. This Bourbon diversion is of a similar charac- ter. Unaided by the republicans, the move- ment would have died out and made no sign. Built up by them to be a plague to the liberal candidates, it is very likely to recoil upon their own nominees. Better that the democrats should have been left to take position between the two live candidates, in accordance with their .convictions and inclinations. In that event, President Grant would no doubt have received a good share of democratic votes from those thinking men of the party who would be likely to hesitate before making a radical change in the policy of the government while the nation is prosperous and at peace. Besides, the people are weary of these constant tricks, tradings and bargains between political leaders in which the honest voters of the country-are treated as so many goods and chattels, ‘to be handed over to this or that side as the political huxters may deter- and inhuman means by which Spanish pirates wrested their golden sceptre from the credu- lous Incas left savage and remorseless seed, which centuries of civilization and religion have failed to eradicate. God grant that this crowning horror may mark the conclusion of the series of violent revolutions which have afflicted our sister Republic, and that hereafter the people may rule themselves by constitu- tional and legal methods, and the occupation of military adventurors cease ! America’s Share in the Suppression of the East African Slave Trade. The measures about to be taken to insure the suppression of the slave trade on the east coast of Africa are encouraging, in view of the unanimity displayed by the Powers re- quested to join Great Britain in. her effort in that direction. As the fact of bringing the horrors of that traffic in the'interior of Africa under the eyes of the British government was due to American en- terprise, it is satisfactory to learn that the American government will, in all proba- bility, be the first to request the Imaum of Muscat to consent to an abrogation of that part of the treaty with England which allowed him to import slaves" from Africa for domestic purposes. The United States steamer Yantic, Commander Wilson, will sail from Norfolk in a few days for Mus- cat, via Suez Canal, on her way to join the East India Squadron. On her arrival at Muscat Commander Wilson will call personally upon the Imaum and intimate to him the desire of our government that he should abrogate the obnoxious portion of the treaty. Should, however, Great Britain decide on being herself the first to convey her wishes on the matter to the Imaum, the graceful part of congratulating that potentate upon the abatement of a wrong to humanity will still devolve upon the commander of the Yantic. In whatever form the desired result is brought about the promptness of the action to achieve it is especially gratifying. England, in her Eastern policy, has for some time acted on the prudent, if not always commendable, policy of letting well enough alone. With the task of managing her huge but immensely prof- itable East Indian possessions in hand, she has not troubled herself much about the morals of her neighbors. Under the treaty made with the late Imaum of Muscat, who lorded it also over Zanzibar, a provision allowing the im- mine. Honest dealing and open policy on the part of those who undertake to lay down plat- forms and nominate candidates must be here- after the price of popular support, and when the people are once satisfied thata political party is pursuing a tortuous course and making unclean bargains they will rise in their might, as they did last November, and sweep it out of existence. A Savage South American Revolu- tion—The Horrible Events in Pera. In to-day’s Henatp will be found the official report of the officer commanding the United States naval forces off Callao, Peru, detailing the lamentable occurrences at Lima, o full account of which was published in our issue of yesterday. Humanity revolts at the contemplation of such sad scenes as are presented in the recent occurrences at Lima and Callao. Rarely have wise have voted in harmony with the policy of their National Convention to adhere to their old principles and associations and to eschew all compromise with outside candidates. It is especially hoped that Mr. O’Conor, being of Irish descent, will make an in- road into the liberal candidates’ strength among the Irish-American voters in this city. While we do not attempt to fathom the myste- Oyster Ler ayer aoe Matters—Brooklyn Affuirs—A Fatal Draught—Advertisements. ‘W—Advertisements. Toe Avasama Crams Ansrrration Court ‘was in session in Geneva yesterday. The tribunal code of secrecy is being relaxed, 4it is said, slightly in favor of the public. Gotp Down.—There was a lively tamble in gold yesterday, consequent upon tho breaking up of the pool which had been working so hard all Summer to get up o speculation in the gold market. The price fell to 114}, which is one and a half per cent lower than the price a week ago Monday. Gymnastic Grnmans.—The annual display of the New York Turner organizations, which ‘was inaugurated on Sunday, was brought to a successful close last evening in Jones’ Wood. For weeks the Turners have been preparing for this annual event in their different gymnasiums, and the success attending this year’s festival is uttributable to the increasing interest in tho manly and healthful exercise which the gym- nasium develops. In Germany also this month there has been a grand gathering of amateur gymnasts in Bonn from most of the prominent German towns. German Austria, St. Peters- burg, London and New York were represented at the fétes. Even Metz and Strasbourg aspi- rants put in an appearance among the athletes. "These exhibitions are worthy of encourage- ‘ment for the health they promote and the activity they encourage, and if many of our young men who lounge about our favorite promenades and public resoz# devoted more time to healthful ont-door exercises they would experience mentally as well as physically ad- vantages they cannot now appreciate, Revouvtionsry Ovrcrorrisas m Porre- GaL.—The capital of the Portuguese nation re- cently was near being subjected to a political convulsion. Rumors of revolution, according to our mail advices, were afloat, and the govern- ment was aware of their existence. The con- spirators, it seems, were officers af the lowest grades of the Portuguese army. No mention Gs made of any prominent officer or conspicu- ous person in the capital being implicated in the matter. Notwithstanding, officers of the class engaged in the rebellious scheme are very dangerous instruments because of their oquaintance and constant intercourse with ‘the men. ‘The idea these fellows had in view ‘was to attack the arsenals and, with the soldiers and the reckless spirits among the populace won over to their cause; to seize the arms and Mproclaim a provisional government and con- voke a constituent Cortes.’’ The whole under- ing ended in a ‘fizzle,’ and the ambitious little officers who contemplated running the government to suit themselves will pay dearly for their presumption. Possibly the victims may have only been the tools of more design- ing and more exalted conspirators in a neigh- poring country. ries of political management, we must be allowed to offer the prediction that these ex- pectations will not be fulfilled. Looking at the matter from a common sense point of view, we do not believe that democrats of ordinary intelligence will be weaned froma policy which they have deliberately deter- mined to pursue, simply because an unauthor- ized gathering calling itself a Convention chooses to go through the farce of nominating a “straight’’ democratic ticket. There are, no doubt, democrats here and there who will refuse on.principle to vote for a candidate out- side their strict party ranks; but such men would be just as likely to go to the polls and vote fora ticket of their own making as for the nominees of the Louisville Convention, and their vote would be just as effective one way as the other. Hence we doubt the wis- dom of the republican policy of helping on with material aid and flattering notice this eleventh-hour Bourbon movement, and on this ground:—That while we do not believe it will take from the liberal candidates any noteworthy number of demo- cratic votes, we regard it as very likely to re- ceive the support of anti-Greeley democrats who, if left to choose between Greeley and Grant, would unquestionably select the latter. Aguin, all the efforts that could be made to persuade the Irish voters of New York that any candidate but Grant or Greeley stands a chance of success would be wasted. The Irish are naturally shrewd, sharp politicians, and they understand the issues and the prospects of the campaign as well as those who under- take to lead them. They are never willing to throw away their votes, and they will readily see that every ballot cast for Mr. O'Conor would be cast indirectly for the republican party, whose unflattering caricatures of their nationality are constantly before their eyes. If they determine as a body to be satisfied with Greeley and Slieve- gammon they will defy all tho gam- mon of the Bourbon-republican alliance. Atthe same time there may be a ntinber of quiet, undemonstrative voters in New York, unable to accept Greeley and reluctant to sup- port Grant, who will see a pleasing way out of thoir difficulty when they have the privilege ot voting for Mr. O’Conor, notwithstanding the fact that their ballot will be thrown away. The fault of the republican management in this campaign has been the absence of breadth of view and comprehensive policy. Time, labor and money have been frittered away upon small, immaterial objects and in efforts to secure insignificant advantages that are certain to be profitless in the end or that are likely to prove as injurious in one direction as they are beneficial in another. The chief blunder of the republicans has been in the policy pur- sued by them towards the South. The attempt to concentrate the negro vote on the republi- can candidates has been successful, it is true, | of events of equal ferocity .disgraced savage life as those witnessed in the streets of the capital city of the Peruvian Republic in the fourth week of last July. Lima, the seat of: the highest Spanish civilization on this Conti- nent, in the midst of its usual quiet, which was only slightly enlivened by the session of the National Congress and the preparation for the near marriage of President Balta’s daugh- ter, was suddenly thrown into consternation by a military revolt. Startling as the outburst of an Andean volcano was this coup of the War Minister, Gutierrez. A favorite, owing his exalted station to the partiality of Sefior Balta, he in a moment fills the plaza before the Executive Mansion with troops, plants artillery to command its doors, and, throwing the President into prison, procures himself to be proclaimed Dictator. This occurred on tho 22d. Gutierrez, replacing loyal officers by his brothers and others whose fidelity he could trust, held the army. The navy, officered by some of the foremost men of the Republic, re- fused to obey his orders and retired to the mouth of the harbor of Callao. Gutierrez, find- ing the public treasury weak, resorted to the usual arbitrary methods to secure tunds for carrying on his government. Foreign bankers placed themselves under the flags of their lega- tions, and the diplomatic corps refused to acknowledge the new administration without consulting their several governments. While matters were thus unsettled, on the 26th some divisions of the army mutinied, leaving their commanders powerless. A brother of the usurper, threatening an assemblage of citizens, was shot. To avenge his death another brother sought the imprisoned President, shot him re- peatedly as he stood unarmed and powerless to rosist, and then mercilessly butchered him with sword thrusts. This monstrous act of mali- cious ferocity caused the entire population of the capital to rise against the Dictator and his family. Putting himself at the head of a battalion he took refuge in a neigh- boring fort, while the citizens organized under the Vice President, Zevallos. The coward Gutierrez, who had raised this storm of civil war, while attempting to flee in the disguise of a peasant on the 27th, was discovered, rid- dled with bullets, pierced with swords and hacked with knives by the maddened mob. . His lifeless body, dragged through the streets by a cord tied to the feet, was hung ona lamp- post in the plaza. Soon the body of his brother was suspended near. Subsequently both were hoisted in the presence of ten thou- sand people to the top of the cathedral tower, and dropped one hundred feet to the ground. After this they were covered with petroleum and burned to ashes in the principal square of the city. Two other brothers of the usurper were slain, as were several hundreds of others, in the conflicts, which terminated in the com- plete victory of the people over this attempt of a military dictator to scize and hold the reins of government in defiance of the popular wish recently expressed -by the ballot box in the election of Sefior Prado for President. This has been ao signal triumph the people and of ‘law, but the sanguinary measures by which it was effected have placed an ineffaccable stain on the history of republican Peru and a disgrace but it has resulted in the loss of the white upon our age. They tell us that the bloody portation of domestic slaves left the door open for a complete revival of the odious trade. This may have grown up by degrees; but the graphic story of Doctor Livingstone to the Hzratp and his despatches to the English Foreign Office exhibit its extent and surroundings to-day. Tho greed of the Arabs, who carry on the trade, combined with the avarice of the Customs authorities at Bagomoyo, will, we fear, require considerable attention of a strongly-marked kind before they can be turned into less lucrative channels, and the smallest loophole left open to these wily tricksters and masters of chicane will lead back by slow but sure steps to a revival of the profitable slave business. Every device which fallen humanity can frame will doubtless be tried to wriggle out of the necessity of ceasing to barter in human flesh and blood, and it will, therefore, probably require a good deal more than the consent of the Imaum to the treaty’s abrogation being worth anything. He may graciously accord the request of the united Powers; but, as force ora dis- play of force will be necessary to actually end the slave business, he may not see his way to incurring the expense. This part of the trans- action would not cost much, as it would only be necessary to guard ont or two portions of the coast where the caravan routes meet the sea. These could be well covered by a British cruiser, similar to those stationed on the 4 western coast of Africa, off Guinea. For the part America takes init we may be extremely grateful to Providence. There will be a good lesson for history in the mind which takes in the scene as the Yantic steams up the Muscat. It is but ten years since the government of the land which commissions her was bleeding from every vein because of her sins against God and man in regard to the slave. Now, however, with her conscience cleansed of the crime through seas of blood, she stretches out her mighty arm to prevent the further en- ¢lavement of man by man. The Fever Ships. No new arrivals of infected vessels have occurred since Saturday, no new cases are reported and several convalescents on the Numancia have recovered. This will be wel- come news to our citizens. Were the case different, were there accessions to the fever fleet anchored in the outer harbor, there would be no occasion for anxiety. The merchant ships which bear the infection lie seventeen miles distant from the nearest portion of our city, and the Spanish steamer is not within twenty miles. Philadelphia papers kindly say that four vessels with yellow fever have lately entered our bay. This is manifestly pub- lished to scare business men from visiting the metropolis. Intelligent people should know that so far as there is danger of contagion from these ships it threatens the Quaker City about as much as New York. Our bay is wider than the Delaware River, and, though there are fever ships within its humane shelter, they are far enough away and securely enough guarded to fully protect the health of our city. It is true that an: over prudent pilot brought the Spanish war steamer through the Narrows, but she was ever a wide stretch away from either shore and her sanitary precautions were most efficient. Still, “‘to make assurance floubly sure,’ she was remanded to the Lower Bay, most properly, and now it is the most unlikely thing in the world that our city should be subjected to the fever scourge. Hs Imprrtan Hranness roe Duke or Saxe in New Yors.—His Highness the Duke of Saxe arrived at this port in the steam- ship North American, from St. Thomas, yesterday. His visit will be an agreeable one, made pleasant to him by the greet- ings of a friendly people, who estimate the excellence of his personal character and fine social qualities while they respect ‘his elevated rank and noble lineage. The Prince is allied by blood to many royal houses, but this does not serve to bar his anxiety to learn a good cies. Having enjoyed himself tor some time on the soil of the American re- public, the Duke of Saxe will set out on an extended tour in the Old World, from which we hope he will return in good health and very happy and very wise, to his home and people in Brazil. The Empire State and the Presi- dency—A Herald Commissioner Among Her Republican Congressmen His Report of Their Opinions. We devote a considerable portion of our news columns this morning to the interesting report of a Hznatp commissioner, recently charged with the special duty of a reconnois- sance of the several Congressional districts of this State represented by republicans, with the view of ascertaining, as far as practicable, the political condition of things in each of said districts, and particularly the views of their Congressmen respectively as to the chances in said districts of Grant and Greeley in our fast approaching national November election. Upon the views of the members thus collected we propose herein a few passing observitions, taking the distinguished “gentlemen from New York” in the order in which they are pre- sented. Beginning with the Thirty-first district (ac- cording to the Scriptural rule that the last shall be first), our commissioner failed to come in contact with its Congressman, Mr. Sessions, but bya personal friend of the member was assured that Mr. Sessions, strong for Grant, will be re-elected, though he will have a hard tug in the centre of Fenton's stronghold; that the Grecley republicans can’t pull him down; and, more- over, says our commissioner, ‘‘I found that Mr. Sessions had a good many strong adher- ents among the democrats, and if they should go for him against whoever may be put up by the liberals, the issue may be quite different from that which the Greeley men s0 confi- dently expect.’’ Next we have the opinions of Freeman Clarke, of the Twenty-cighth district, and they are very important to all concerned. Mr. Clarke thinks that Senator Conkling might have harmonized the Fenton men last fall had he been so inclined, and that a conciliatory re- publican State ticket will be nocessary this fall to secure the State to Grant, and that, finally, ‘judging from the present outlook, if General Grant does not carry New York he will have a tight pull of it.’’ In tho next place, Seth Wakeman, of the Thirtieth district, thinks that the liberals therein have not the slightest chance, and that it will go the regular republi- can ticket by a majority equal to that of 1868. Next comes William H. Lamport, ot the Twen- ty-sixth district, who thinks that while the farmers like Greeley they do not like his com- pany, and believe that in voting for him they will be voting the democratic party into power; that it is not possible that this district can go for Greeley; that he will get many republi- can votes in it, but that the democrats are not united by any means, and that Grant’s majority will be a large one. And so says Mr. John E. Seeley in regard to his district, the Twenty- fifth, and so, too, says Mr. Horace B. Smith, of and for the Twenty-eighth district. Milo Goodrich, of the Twenty-seventh dis- trict, is ‘in favor of Greeley’s election most decidedly.’’ He thinks that the fear of putting the democratic party into power again is the great scarecrow with many; but that by the day of the election this scarecrow will not amount to much, and he has every reason to believe, he says, that the liberals will carry his district by a handsome majority. Mr. Duell, of the Twenty-cighth district, is sure that Grant will carry it bya large majority; and Mr. Prindle, of the Twenticth, says that the Grant men are ‘certain to hold it, and that the Greeley men are not half so boastful now as they were at'the start, when Greeley’s nomina- tion was'a fresh piece of news and gossip. Mr. Lansing, of the Twenty-third district, is satis- fied that Grant will carry it against Greeley and Littlejohn, ‘‘and even against the devil;"’ and Mr. Roberts, of Senator Conkling’s old district, has no doubt of an administration triumph in that quarter. Mr. Wheeler, of the Eighteenth, is enthusiastic and confident in the cause of Grant ; but Mr. Ketcham, of the Thirteenth, while s Grant man, has friends on both sides, you know, and doesn’t want to be quoted as saying anything. Mum’s the word with him, and he may be right, but we sus- pect that he will find, before the battle is over. that mum is not the word for the voters of his district. Such are the opinions of our republican Congressmen, it will be observed, and they must be taken with the usual allowances for strong partisan views of the situation. The prevailing idea among those representatives of the districts concerned seems to be that the anti-Greeley democrats therein will more than balance the anti-Grant republicans on the day of the election; but in this happy conceit the republicans who stick to General Grant as the man for tho crisis may be widely mistaken. Nevertheless our commissioner's report of these republican views and estimates will be interesting to the political reader, as fairly representing the general sentiment of the ad- ministration party throughout the rural dis- tricts of the Empire State. In point of fact, as parties are now divided on the Presidential issue, the State, wo suspect, is sure for Greeley, provided, always, that the complications of our city politics and city factions do not result in & powerful diversion in this quarter in favor of Grant. In short, the democrats and liberal republicans must get the city “right side up”’ before they can count upon an easy victory in the State. South Carolina Finances and Carpet- bag Rule. Of all the revolutions, political, social and financial, in this country and in the several States since the war commenced, that in the condition and finances of South Carolina is the most astonishing and deplorable. Whatever were the faults of that State anterior to the war, and however much her secession proclivi- ties and conduct may be condemned, she was undoubtedly as honorable in her financial character and reputation as any country in the world. Her credit always stood high, and she was more freo from extravagance and corrup- tion than almost any State in the Union. But look at South Carolina now, under carpet-bag and negro rule. The wretches who have con- trol of the government and finances have plun- dored the people in the most frightful manner and have ruined the credit of the State. The letter of our correspondent at Columbia, pub- and deal of the world as it presents just now in its | lished yesterday, shows o state of things almost progress towards the triumph of the democra- | incredible and that has no parallel in infamy 1, I im the history of this country. And this {s the. fruit of the radicalism of the republican party and republican administration. With all its seven millions of dollars in bonds. Under the pretence of converting the bonded debt of the State, through an act passed for that purpose, seven million two hundred thousand conyer- sion bonds were issued and then these bonds were hypothecated at a ruinous interest to raise money for other purposes—to meet, in fact, the extravagance and avaricious greed of car- pet-bag officials. By this fraudulent use of the conversion bonds and the ruinous interest paid for the money borrowed on them the debt of the State, which Governor Scott said was nine millions, was run up to nearly sixteen millions. Such unparalleled rascality could not be endured in any of the Northern States and is only possible in South Carolina through the support given to carpet-bag radicalism there by the republican party and government at Washington. The News from Brazil. A Henaxp special letter from Rio Janeiro, under date of July 25, which appears in our columns to-day, supplies further details con- cerning the condition of the government&l relations which exist between the Empire of Brazil, the Argentine Confederation, and Uru- guay towards the government of Paraguay, and also of the causes which have been lately exciting to a disruption of the treaty arrange- ments between the three Powers first named. The war cloud was breaking away, but it is quite apparent that the condition of public affairs in the great South American territory remains exceedingly delicate and still re- quires very careful treatment at the hands of the peace party. A band of engineers, splendidlP equipped, had left Rio for the Parana River. Thoy will halt at Paranagua Bay, and, from that point, commence to survey across the southern section of Brazil, up the northern line to Paraguay on the Bo- livian frontier, and perhaps on to the Pacific. Tt is intended to mark out the course of a Brazilian railroad to the Pacific—a mighty work, but much needed. The latest move- ments of the vessels of the United States South Atlantic Squadron are reported to the readers of the Heraxp in this very interesting commu- nication. The Religious Skull-Cutting in Bele fast—A Deplorable State of Christian Civilization. The cable still brings us details of rioting in Belfast, which gives one a very gloomy idea of the state of civilization in that thrifty Irish city of fine linen. Catholic stones Protestant, and Protestant drubs Catholic with the sprig of shillelah ; a police barrack is wrecked by way of entr’acte, and then the curtain goes up to find Protestant stoning Catholic and Catho- lic drubbing Protestant with the sprig of shil- lelah. Next come polico and then dragoons, who keep the rioters apart. After a space the dragoons are supported by the Mayor, who reads the Riot Act and threatens the rioters if they do not disperse. They accordingly dis- porse—for a fresh supply of stones and sprigs of shillelah, and then go at it again, dragoons and police to the contrary notwithstanding. To seck for the true cause by which this ston- ing and drubbing can be logically brought down from the Ten Commandments or tho Thirty-nine Articles to three or four hundred eut skulls would be a hopeless task, and we donot propose to undertake it. All we can bo certain of is that certain number of ‘‘shoeless andshirtless’’ Protestants, and asimilar number of “shirtless and shoeless’’ Catholics in the North of Ireland stone each other, and drub each other with sprigs of shillelsh at certain intervals through the year. Intelligent Irish- men of both faiths apologize for the matter by dwelling on the fact of the combatants being the ‘‘drogs of society;'’ but they do this with a complacency equal to the Frenchman whose companions were devoured by cannibals, and who generously excused the savages, on the ground that chaque pays a ses usages. Tra- dition insists that cutting skulls is one of ‘the customs of the country’’ in Ireland, and where the skulls are thick and sticking plaster plenti- ful it may possibly rank as an amusement. The English government, it is conceded, does not know how to govern Ireland. Hang- ing and robbing were tried, without effect, at the beginning of this century, as stabbing and confiscating had been for several centuries be- fore. Then the English took sides with the Irish Protestants; but found their allies to be overbearing and insolent in their loyalty, although they cut the skulls of tho Catholics with cheerful vigor and vim. The Catholics, however, oddly enough, did not appreciate this, and took to shooting their enemies with a quiet persistence. The gov- ernment next began to look with kindly eyes upon the Catholics, and several penal laws were repealed which interfered with them. The Protestants began to sulk at this, Tho government proceeded with its task of Catholic conciliation, but the Protestants con- tinued cutting Catholic skulls. while the chil- dren of the an fold returned the compli- ment. The government was bothered, and accordingly passed a law against party pro- cessions, which it believed was at the root of the skull-cutting. This pleased nobody. Tho Protestants began to talk disloyalty and the Catholics never protended to anything else. Signs of late have not been wanting to show that the English government is making an- other shift, and that the Protestants are to meet with old favor at their hands. The Pro- cessions act was allowed to fall through, and as # first result we have the stoning and drubbing of the past and present week. ‘ Now, why cannot this disgraceful murder and maiming “for the love of God’’ be either quelled, as it could be, with grape and canister impartially distributed between Sandy Row .and The Pound, or by the cheaper process of allowing the champions of the faiths to have it cleverly out for goodand all. The combatants on both sides are deprecated by their respecta- ble coreligionists. They make their country’s name a byword and reproach all over the world, and the insensate seed of passion which they sow in bloody furrows seems to grow in spite of all the liberalizing spirit of tho age. It is tho same dark upas tree planted there ' whose shoots, transplanted here, brought riot to our free shores and caused tho shedding of much innocent blood in our streets a year ago.