The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1872, Page 6

a NEW , YORK HERALD —_———-——— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, pinihaseattenet JAMES GORDON BENNETT, _. , BEQPRIBT OB: ~ seeseeeesM@e 235 Voelame XXXVII............. ‘ “AMUSENENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts.—A Live's 'Druaw, & OK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—Buux Brann. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Si avenue.—Tux Briis; on Tue Pouisn Jew, aa BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Two Sronts—Tux Pouan Juw-ME Paunow Cran WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw: ‘Trower or Leave Max. Aftern orner: sacue st — and Evenin; THEATRE COMIQUP, 514 Broadway. -Ermoriax Ec- cuwsaicrrize, Burieseue, Drama, kc. WHITE'S ATHENAUM, 58 Broadway.—Nearo Min- STRELSY, £0, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Tus Couteny Bawx—Swiss Swans. onngrEAL PARK GARDEN.—Granp Lvatrumentat NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scimnon anp Arr. CONTENTS OF T0-DAY'S HERALD. Paar. i—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, ‘atoga: Fourth Day of the Race Meeting— Hampden Park Races—West Virginia: The Election To-day; A Most Interesting and Im- rtant Contest; A General View of the Situa- jion—New York: Opening of the Utica Repub- lican Convention and Grand Flourish of Grant Trum The Platform—The Cubans in Cani fa—Murder and Lynching. bay Republican Convention (Continued from ). 5S—The Buckeye State: General Review of the Coming Campaign; Accessions of Democratic Members to tian ye] Expected; The Country Passing Under the Control of Unhealthily Rich Men; Gossip and Anecdote of the Can- vass—Connectieut Republican Convention— Michigan: Expressions of the Great onpop a: larity of Senator Chandler; The Liber: ublican Element; Blair's’ Chances of Re- lection—The Political Headquarters—The Coming Demonstration—Candidates for Con- ress in Indiana—Movements of Mr. Gree- ley—The Letter of Dr. Livingstone to Sir Bartle Frere. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Republican Convention and State Nomtnations—General John A. Dix for Governor’—Amusement An- nouncements, Y—Ireland: The Riotous Tumult in Belfast Main- tained During Tuesday Night and Yester- day—Cable ‘Telegrams from England and France—The Mace-O’Baldwin Prize Fight— Yacht Race at Newport for the Citizens’ Cup—The Louisville Convention: How the “st yht-Out”? Movement Has Been Engi- neered from Washington—State Political Conventions—Horace Greele; x Reformers and the at Fire Island— residency—Pere- rene of the Princes—Business Notices. ‘nristians in Soy Opening of the Fashion- able Camp Mee! at Jersey and Long d—The _ Broo! tt Grain _ Shovellers’ Strike—The Jersey Birmingham—The Regatta Week at Cowe: Notable arrest—The Iron- clad Fever Ship—The penis The HERALD S in Philadelphia—The Drowning of Frank A. opty of Staten Island—Fatal Rall Car ‘o=Pinanel and Commercial: A Good Demand for Money at Steadier Rates; Gold Weak, Closing at 114; A Further Decline Resiated by the Over-sold Condition of the Market; Decline ip eyeonne Handy; 3 ba /emgeae {n more of a Ten Million New Orleans; The 81 ok Me Market | rapes ‘and Dull; An Active MoveMent in Erie; A Rise of Three Por Oent in the Shares; The London Pool Reported to Have Begun a New Speculation— Domestic and Foreign Markets—Another Police Owtrage—Musicai and Dramatic Notes— 8 aan Deaths—Advertisements. 10—The Alal 8: The Geneva Arbitration Court Roussembled in Session; The American sneplaligence ay from Washington—Shipping ice—A dvertisements. in the New York and Brooklyn oe lunicipal Affairs—The Late Wife ee a@ Child with a Stone—The bnicide of Be Naa Adversiesmants, {2—advertisementa. Wesr Vmoraia Exzction.—The new consti- tation of West Virginia will be submitted to- flay to the people for adoption or rejection. It is considered a democratic moasure, and will be voted against by the republicans mainly on account of a clause whiqh it contains disquali- fying negroes from holding office. State offi- cersand members of Congress will also be elected, but the former will have to abide the fate of the new constitution. If the constitu- tion is rejected a new election will be held in October. The peculiar features of the election ere more fully. explained in another column, THe Decuxe mx Gorp.—The speculative mood of Wall street is proverbially fickle. The other day the operators in gold were preaching a rise this Autumn to 125. Now the whole crowd are on the other tack, and looking to see a decline to 110 or under, as a consequence of the re-election of General Grant, which event is now expected by the Wull street fraternity as confidently as was Mr. Greeley’s only a week ago. It's a curious canvass all around. — Horace Greziey ‘has stolen away from his | friends to snatch a little ease among the white- hatted breakers of Fire Island. The flight was managed with great secrecy, so far as New York is concerned; but the secret oozed out as the venerable Philosopher's face was recog- nized on the Long Island Southside Railroad, ond the Hzrarp caught a glimpse of him when he dismounted at Babylon. It will be hard, indeed, for the Sage to creep into the shadow for some time to come, owing to the fierce light that beats upon Presidential candidates nowa- days, Tse Bewrast Sev. Currine seems to have been brought near a close after a whole week devoted to that amusement. A policeman was shot dead yesterday. The editor of a Catholic newspaper was badly assaulted, and attempts were made to fire several churches, A school- house was wrecked by the mob and plunder carried on with unblushing effrontery. The authorities at length handed over the city to the military, who were at last accounts pa- trolling the riotous districts, The »casualties do not appear to have been very heavy, but the injury to the fair fame of a city whose au- thorities allow some few hundred vicious vaga- bonds to spread terror in it for seven days is considerable. Tar Frvan Downrann or THe Prize Rixo can have no better hastener than:the action of the doughty pugilists, Mace and O'Baldwin, who, after having pitched a “ring” in West Virginia yesterday atternoon, held ani exciting contest for over an hotr in gutter rhetoric over the question of a referee. This ended in ‘a draw,” to the disgust of the assembled thieves and blackguards, who hoped for a drawing of “olarot’” instead. Sour New ©, Cases c or Yeutow Fever have broken out upon the quarantined Spanish ram Numancia. She has been declared an «in. fected" ship by the Health Officer, and hence will not be allowed to leave the port until all the prosent cases are recovered and ten days Balch—Alleged Death from | ‘Trae Republican Convention and State NeneEyneline gneree @dohn A. Dix for Governor, ¥ The republicans met in State Convention at Utica yesterday, and completed their business, contrary to inasingle day, pominating thelr candidates for Eleotors and State ofiloors and adopting their platform with extraordinary unanimity. The ticket they have put into the | thrust field is as strong a one as they could well have selected, the nominations being General John A. Dix, of New York, for Governor; General John C. Robinson, of Westchester, for Lieu- tenant Governor; Reuben M. Stroud, of On- ondaga, for Canal Commissioner ; Ezra Graves, of Herkimer, for State Prison Inspector ; Lyman Tremain, of Albany, for Congressman at Large, and Frederick Douglass (colored), of Monroe; Emil Sauer, of New York, and Stewart L. Woodford, of Kings, for Electors at Large. The fault of the ticket, if it be a fault, is its ten- dency to this end of the State, all the prin- cipal candidates—the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Congressman at Large and two of the Electors at Large, being taken from Albany, Westchester, New York and Kings, while the Canal Commissioner is given to Onondaga, the State Prison Inspector to Herkimer and tho colored Elector to Monroe. Otherwise the selections have been made with political sagacity. Mr. George W. Clark, of New York, who proposed General Dix in the name of Thurlow Weed, absent through illness, stated that the General would draw to his support large numbers of the hon- est democrats of the State, and E. Delafield Smith expressed the same opinion, adding: — “We are about to meet a powerful coalition, and we must meet it with all our strength. Greeley will secure republican votes, and we must offset these with the votes of honest democrats."’ While strength is thus drawn from the democratic ranks, the nomination of Frederick Douglass at the head of the Electoral ticket will satisfy the colored voters and render certain their almost solid support of the republican Presidential candidates. Inde- pendent of the question of policy, héw- ever, the nomination of General Dix is a good one and will be acceptable to the people, asa sign of an improvement in the selection of candidates. The record of Gen- eral Dix is so familiar to all our citizens that it is unnecessary to repeat it here, It is suf- ficient to say that his public services and his private character alike commend him to the confidence and respect of the citizens, and that, should the republican ticket be success- ful in November, he will make an acceptable Governor. General Robinson, the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, did gallant service in the war, and lost a leg atthe battle of Spottsylvania, The nomination Was worthily bestowed. The platform adopted by the Convention is of the usual commonplace character, but as very little attention is now paid to the string of platitudes drawn out by all such bodies, it is probably all that is necessary. The first resolution starts with the postulate that the rightful purpose of government is the security of individual liberty and equality before the law, and then goes on to show, as the republi- cans have shown on every occasion sincé the party had an existence, and as the whigs were accustomed to show before them, that power in the hands of the democracy means the re- versal of these legitimate objects of govern- ment. The second resolution declares that the welfare of the State imporatively requires that the reform which broke the Tammany Ring last year and has purified the Bench shall be continued and extended to every branch of the government. This reso- lution may probably have lost some of its force from the fact that Senator Robertson was the strongest candidate for the nomination for Governor before the Convention, except Gen- eral Dix, and that Assemblyman Husted, of Westchester, was one of the most active mem- bers of the Convention. The third resolution, as in duty bound, offers a high tribute to the “modest patriotism, the earnest purpose, the sagacious judgment, the practical wisdom, the incorruptible integrity and the illustrious ser- vices of Ulysses 8. Grant,’’ and declares that with him as a leader the party cannot fail of success. The fourth resolution pays a compli- ment to Henry Wilson, the party candi- date for Vice President, and the next | ratifies formally the nominations of the Phila- | delphia Convention. Then comes the stereo- typed laudation of ‘‘our gallant soldiers and sailors,’’ with the pledges of extensions of | bounties, pensions and homestead grants ad libitum. This is followed by the usual aston- ishment and indignation at democratic extray- agance in the State, especially when compared with the wonderful honesty and economy of republican rule in the nation; by a declara- tion that reforms must come from the repub- lican party, no reforms prepared in any other shop being reliable or genuine ; bya resolution in favor of canal enlargement to steam capa- city; by a gratefal recognition of the services of the “able anq faithfy)’” republican Senators and Representatives at ‘Washington during the war and since its cessation, and last, though not least, by a cordial invitation into the re- publican ranks of “honest democrats who spurn the unprincipled coalition which seeks toally them with the discarded elements of the republican party.” This last resolution, we are told, elicited more applause than any of the rest, and, taken in connection with the ticket, it pre- sents another curious feature in this singular campaign. While the democrats are fighting under the Presidential banner of two original republicans, the republicans, who havea demo- crat at the head of their Presidential ticket, place an old democratic politician at the head | of their State ticket, for the avowed purpose | of gaining democratic votes, back him up | with Lyman Tremain and other former lights | of the democracy, and extend a warm wel- come to all democrats who will join the administration household. This action suggests the thought, what is the use of the Louisville Straight-Out Convention farce, and why should the republicans be helping on Colonel Blanton Duncan and his forlorn hope, when they can do s0 much better by taking them all into the republican party, and thus making their votes available, instead of throw- tng them away? An official copy of this friendly invitation of the Republican Conven- tion should be sent to Louisville forthwith, | and then we should probably be spared the trouble of further complications and profitless speculations in the present strangely mixed have claysed without any additional outbreak, campaign, 4 Tho absence of the liberal republican clo- ment from the Utica Convention was mado manifest by the peace and harmony that pre- vailed in the proceedings, and by the reap- Pearance as@ manager, in spirit if not in per- son, of the venerable Thurlow Weed, the ex- porianced maninnlator of the party conven- tions and in former years, whd is ee or ob past been de aside by by he active, working, restless spirits now aro! ley and Fenton in Bae - of the Opposition. The nomination of General Dix was made in the name of the well known Albany politician, who was represented by a substitute, and due honor was paid to the name of the old party chief when it was reached on the list of dele- gates. Tho only symptom of any disagreement in the Convention was shown when, on the Proposition of the name of Senator Robertson a8 @ candidate for Governor, General Van Wyck opposed the nomination, and read on article from a city paper denouncing such a selection. Auseeuthpriasl Husted stood up for his“ fellow legislator, and Mr. W. H. Anthon, of New York, declared that the re- sponsible editor of the paper in question, now absent, would support Senator Robertson; but the efforts were in vain. General Dix was im- mediately named for the position and his nomination was carried by acclamation, The speech of the President of the Conven- tion, Congressman William A. Wheeler, was in good taste and was received with much applause. It was in pleasing contrast to the coarse personality and indifferent wit indulged in by the temporary Chairman, Mr. B. Platt Carpenter, of Dutchess. In one direction we think the Convention made a political blunder. It had no word of condemnation for the corruption of the republican legislation of last Winter, or for the gross betrayal of the cause of reform by a Senate and Assembly with & majority powerful enough to sweep away all opposition. It should have disowned and de- nounced the men who disgraced the State Capitol last session, and should have called for the resignation, not of James Wood alone, but of every republican member around the cifcle of the Senate Chamber, the few good and the many bad alike, so that justice might be done to the people who were cheated out of the fruits of, the victory of last November. Their neglect of this plain duty leaves them with the responsi- bility for the acts of the Legislature upon the shoulders of their party in the present eontest. The Alabama Claims—Both Sides Hunt- ing Up Evidence at Havana. The Court of Arbitration for the settlement of the Alabama claims case between the people and government of the United States and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain reassem- bled in session in Geneva yesterday. The sit- ting was protracted, extending over several hours, but the rule of secrecy with respect to the proceedings was still maintained by the Tribunal. The argument of the American counsel has been communicated tothe public, and is published, in all its essential features and telling points, in the columns of the Henatp to-day. It isa brilliant legal effort, and its enunciation was maintained with much force of logic to the close. The American lawyers set out with the “belligerent rights’’ recognition of the Confederates when in re- bellion against the Union by the British Crown in its ministerial communication to Parliament, and also in the royal proclamation in which the cruisers of the Confederacy were treated as national vessels, and under which they were afterwards permitted to coal and re- fit in the colonial ports of the United King- dom. ‘This American argument will, no doubt, exercise a decided effect on the minds of the arbitrators, and, mayhap, prove also to England that it is with nations as with indi- viduals—he is “‘but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is cor- rupted.’’ The United States argument in the Alabama case supplies both the accusation and the facts of proof of its truth. Woe learn from Havana that the American Consul, Mr. Hull, and the English Consul, Mr. Dunlap, are actively engaged collecting testimony regarding the Alabama claims, for the purpose of forwarding it by telegraph to the Geneva Court of Arbitration. Next to Nassau, Havana, probably, can furnish more evidence than any other place, for it was in Cuba the rebel cruisers and blockade runners found shelter and aid and carried on a large amount of business, The Confederate agent at Havana was one of the most efficient of the rebel agents abroad, and if the archives of his office could be obtained they would, no doubt, throw a great deal of light on the sub- ject of the claims. The British Consul, Mr. Dunlap, probably is not only searching for evidence to rebut that produced in support of American claims against Great Britain, but also in favor of English claimants for seizures of cotton belonging to British subjects by our blockading vessels and cruisers, With these last mentioned claims, however, the Geneva arbitrators have nothing todo, They have to be decided by another board or commission provided for by the Washington Treaty. ‘he principal cases which are reported to be under investigation by the Consuls are those of the Stonewall Jack- son, the first onptures by the Sumter and the first blockade runners which made the ports of Cuba points of rendezvous, The Spaniards and Spanish authorities in the island showed, during the early part of the war, the utmost favor to the rebels, while our government has returned good for evil. It has aided Spain to keep up a most savage war against the patriot Cubans, and has done all it could indirectly to crush the Cubans in their struggle for inde- pendence. If the Spaniards and Spanish an- thorities in Cuba have any gratitude they will furnish Mr. Fish with all the information in their possession or that they can get ut bearing upon our claims against England, In view of the activity of these government agents in Havana and elsewhere to hunt up evidence, and the incessant labors of the Geneva arbitrators, a decision as ‘to the Ala- bama claims will be given, probably, at no distant day. Let us hope it will be one awarding a sum in gross, whatever that may be, for the depredations of rebel cruiser vine) from a “want of due dilf- ‘ont part of # mgland in violation of Seutzal co, We have no expectation of obtaining a large sum--a sum in any way commensurate with the injury sustained by this country—and it may be that the English claims will balairce or more than balance the account. The sooner, therefore, a decision can be made and the whole controversy closed the better. An award of a sum in gross would bo the hestandghortest way to a desirable ond. AUGUST 22, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. . Judge Barnard—The Faults of Our Judiciary System. The impeachment of a Judge of one of the highest Courts of the State on charges of offi- cial malfeasance and corruption so seriously aisotg the fnisresis of the community as to plage the proceedings outside the pale of party. politics, Whatever personal or political con- prope influenced Stat first tions brought against them were found to be sustained by evidence and of a character to demand official investigation the people of New York became the complainants ond were entitled to a full and ‘Impartial trial of the issue as provided by the con- stitution of the State. While the case of Judge Barnard was before the Court there were some indiscreet attempts on the part of a few journals to influence the verdict, and a general satisfaction would have been felt if the impeachment could have been tried before some other body than a Senate whose acts had shown especial favor to the Erie Ring, and among whose members James Wood did sit and Tweed might have sat had he been so dis- posed. - But the presence of the Judges of tho Court of Appeals gave character to the pro- ceedings and confidence to the community, and there is no doubt that Judge Barnard had a fair trial and that the judgment rendered against him, severe as it is, was warranted by the evidence and the facts. His warmest friends, while regretting his fate, and prob- ably claiming extenuating circumstances for his acts, will, we think, admit that he has been justly dealt with; for in the purity of the judi- ciary every citizen of the Republic is con- cerned, Judge Barnard himself, when the sting of the misfortune shall be less sharply felt, will probably be more disposed to regret the influences that brought the judgment upon him than to denounce those by whom it was rendered. He is yet in the prime of a vigorous life, gifted with talents beyond the ordinary share, energetic, persevering and full of ability. The bitter lesson he has learned will teach him circumspection and lead him, let us hope, toa higher level of morality, and before suchr a man, so schooled, there may yet be a bril- liant careers We do not envy the dispositions of those who would begrudge him such a future. The comments of the press on this momen- tous trial, while in some instances displaying personal feeling, show generally that party has been ignored in the consideration of the result, as it was in the prosecution and in the trial. Democrats and republicans, liberals and ad- ministrationists, called for the prosecution, sat as judges and approved the judgment. In this city the democratic organ, with which party Judge Barnard affiliated, says of his removal and disqualification, ‘The public judgment will ratify this righteous severity.’ The ad- ministration republican organ declares that «the Senators and the Justices of the Court of Appeals who have pronounced righteous judgment upon Barnard have earned no common claim upon the gratitude of all good citizens.”’ The organ of the liberal republicans says, ‘Our gratitude, therefore, to the members of the Bar Association, who have borne the heavy labor of this prosecution and faced the danger of a possible failure, the per- sonal consequences of which, to them, must have been disastrous, can hardly be over- stated.” Thus, papers of all parties unite in approving the justice of the sentence that has overtaken Judge Barnard, and differ only in the degree of severity with which they com- ment on the past career of the fallen man. Indeed, it could not well be otherwise. The high character of the Court of Appeals vindi- cates the conduct of the trial and the justness of the judgment, and the ill-repute of the Senate is overshadowed and lost sight of. On many of the articles of impeachment tho verdict of guilty was unanimous. It was found that the injunctions granted in the Erie Rail- way suits were in contempt of law and wilfully partial to the old Erie Ring. In the Union Pacific Railroad cases it was found that, except in one case charged, the action of the Judge had been intended to favor James Fisk, Jr., and to unjustly oppress the com- pany. Seven out of eleven articles charging unlawful and arbitrary action in the orders issued in the Albany and Susquehanna Rail- road suits were declared proven. The orders in the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's case were found to have been unlawfully and cor- ruptly issued, and in the case of Lane against the New York Pier and Warehousing Company Judge Barnard’s action was condemned by the vote of the Court. But the articles charging personal corruption in the acceptance of pres- ents from Fisk and Gould, and in the matter of the Olympic Theatre lease, and the article in reference to alleged unseemly conduct and indecent language on the bench, were declared not proven. The gravity of the offences in the articles proven is sufficient to justify thesevere penalty of disqualification, The scandal which has fallen upon the judi- ciary of the State of New York is a natural re- sult of that general looseness of morality among public officials which followed the wild license and reckless prodigality of the war of the rebel- lion. It is astonishing to look back upon the terrible mass of corruption which has loaded down every department of the public service since 1860, in the general government, in State governments, in municipalities, in counties and in towns, and to find that the nation has been able to stand up under the burden. Hun- dreds of millions have been taken from the pockets of the people since the commencement of the war by dishonest contractors, unjust claimants, bounty robbers, city plunderers and carpet-bag State governments, The infection of demoralization has sprest ia. every direc- tion; into quiet country towns as well as into large cities, ond men who before adishonest act have been drawn into and have eptered upon the business 0 ape ag if it wete a legitimate oce e Tammany robberies, although om cick ew the old rovéiue robberies and the present wholesale plunder of the carpet- bag governments in the South, could never have been undertaken before the public mind had been drilled into the contemplation of these grand rascalities. It would have been surprising if the Bench had retained its purity untarnished amid such universal license, The Legislature is the constitutional check held over the judiciary, and the Legislature of the State of New York has been so foul with gorruption os to become @ byword pod re- e YO official siding tp the war would have been startled at the idea of | Tho Impeachment and Sentence of proach among men all over the world. There is no doubt that a majority of our Albany leg- islators for the past ten years have rendered themselves liable by their official acts to occupy felons’ cells in a State Prison, The Judges can be removed or impeached only by the Legislature, and what Secon: Beve.teve hems: i. ibe sale! or aty ho whose more! was not faliciéuuy strong to above tempta- bara retribution at the hands of such us corruptionists? Who will deny that barcaod, Cardozo and McCunn would have been safe from punishment to-day if the Legislature of last Winter had not been com- pelled, in self. mt to Broseed inst them? In bie ip ung and successful raseality, gp AP yy the gud show of easily and rapidly eset wealth, accustomed to see fraud, swindling and rob- bery leading to power, and treated with con- sideration and ~yespect, Judges were just as liable to fall as revenue collectors or the heads of city departments. . But there is a deeper evil yet to which the degradation of the ermine may be traced. The election of Judges by the people, a concession to a democratic shibboleth, is the destruction of an independent and fearless judiciary. We might point to many elected Judges whose purity and firmness are beyond question ; nevertheless it is undeniable that a majority of our judicial officers, high and low, lend themselves to the objects of party leaders and prostitute the honor of the Bench to their own political interests. The politicians who con- trol caucus and convention are careful that the nominations for Judges shall be such as suit their own purposes; in other words, that no man shall be elevated to the Bench whose action they cannot control if neces- sary, This is the commencement of the eyil. The successful candidate, probably not at first knowing the service that is expected of him, is grateful for the nomina- tion, but when elected his gratitude is soon put to the test. In criminal cases and in civil suits it has now become a common practice for the parties interested to use the influence of their political friends with the Judge to secure a favorable verdict, and if any difficulty is experienced, more and moro pressure is brought to bear to effect the purpose. No man who has mingled in New York polities need be told of the numberless instances in which jus- tice has been controlled by political influence, or of the notorious efforts of Judges when near the close of their terms of office to make politi- cal capital out of their judicial action. The elective systemin this city, then, gives us im- proper men for candidates, men who are the choice of the political leaders, and are not nominated because of their qualifications, and when these men are elected it induces them to use the judicial office for the purpose of securing again the position to which they are not entitled, but which is the more valuable to them on-that account. As the thost unscrupulous men to be found in the city unfortunately control the party nomi- nations, it follows that the Bench becomes the ally of the worst class of politicians. The remedy lies in an appointed judiciary, to hold office during good behavior, *Pkife, or until retired by limitation of age. ie Judge would thus be independent of the votes of the people, and the value of his position would insure his honesty even if his character should not be naturally pure. A life Judge would not be likely to show leniency to political ruffians or to shape his orders or decisions in the interests of party leaders. A fearless, in- dependent and able judiciary would soon put official corruption to flight and do much to purify our social and political systems, The reform is in the hands of the people of the State of New York, and if they refuse to secure it the responsibility for future judicial corruption will rest at their own doors, The judiciary article adopted by the last Constitu- tional Convention provides for the submission to the electors of the State at the general elec- tion next year, in 1873, of the question whether the Judges shall in future be elected or ap- pointed by the Governor and Senate. Ifa majority of the electors should favor the ap- pointment of Judges for life we shall have no more impeachment trials, and, what is better, no more scandals on the Bench that lead to such trials, So far as the city of New York is concerned there can be no difference of opinion among honest, respectable citizens as to the desirableness of the reform. If it is not so importantin other parts of the State, the people outside the metropolis should consider the in- terest they all have in its welfare and vote accordingly. To them itcan make but little difference whether their Judges are appointed for life or elected, now that the election is for the long space of.fourteen years, and to us the elective system isa deplorable evil. It is to be hoped, therefore, that they will help us with their favorable votes, and that next year will see the last of a judiciary that depends for office upon the friendship of the mgn who control the primaries, conventions and nomi- nations of the political parties in this city. The Collapse of the Chicago Grain Corner. Few will regret.the financial ruin of the men who designed and for a month sustained | the ‘corner’ in wheat at Chicago. Their operations wickedly forced the price of the great bread staple of the country in that prominent grain market some twenty per cent higher than its natural value, and had their ability equalled their greed they would have doubled the cost of every loaf in the food of the people. bushel, cash. The next day it fell to a dollar and twenty-seven conts; and in the crash which resulted it is reported several of the heaviest operators, including the origi- nators of the ‘‘corner,’’ are irretrievably bank- rupted. Not tho slightest excuse cay be offered for this heartless conspiracy to rob all the of aie f the ¢ uutry, and no sympathy 6 accorded to the defe ated plotters, In the face of an abundant harvest Just coming mn the mest these men, by the aid of the icagé Warchousemen, undertook to limit the stream of grain passing towards the sea- | board, and thus produce a scarcity which their breadstuffs, and especially by the poor in with the articles necessary to support life can- not meet the approbation of the great masg of society, and is most properly hazardous to those who undertake it. New York years ago experienced a bread riot produced in a similar On Monday wheat sold in the | Exchange at Chicago for a dollar and a half a | would be most seriously felt by all who buy | the large cities, Such unprincipled tampering | of tho ‘‘comer” is one which ent everyday ‘Hodessaty 0 people public sentiment unanimonsly ry wan upon it, and all rejoice at the collapse of the artificial bubble which taxes the gent people with excegsive prices. The disaster at. tendant on such criminal speculation, how- ever, is not confined to the guilty partios, Fair dealers, forced to buy at exorbitant, rates, suffer in the inovitable decline, and thus the ruin becomes widespread, including the innocent with the culpable among its view tims. Itis to be hoped that the conclusion’ of this last Chicago ‘‘corner’’ will admonish the speculative operators in all ‘the great ota ples to caution. Colonel Blanton Duncan and the Bourbon Democratic Movement, The spicy and graphic report published im yesterday's Huratp, froma Louisville corre-’ spondent, of an interview with Colonel Blan-. ton Duncan, the chief engineer of the Bour-} bon democratic movement, has created quite s sensation among the Grant and Greeley poli ticians. The Grant men chuckle over the revelations of this report touching the numer. ous old-liners who are in favor of the seep out democratic ticket proposed in the call the Louisville Convention of the 3d of Sep~ tember, while the democrats, who have cor-’ dially joined hands under the banner of, Greeley with the liberal republicans, poohe pooh the enthusiasm of Duncan over his third party movement as the vainglorious boasting of a noisy politician, who is destined to oxq plode on or about the 3d of September like & gas bag. The Grant men profess to be satis~ fied from Duncan’s numerous sympethizing, democratic correspondents that Duncan has: sounded the knell of Greeley, while the Greeley: men are ag well convinced that Duncan's forthcoming convention is but a side show: contrived by the administration party man-) agers, and that, like the Woodhull and Claflin; Convention ond the Fifth Avenue Froe Traders’ Convention, this Louisville straight- out democratic affair will-hardly riso to the, dignity of a nine days’ wonder. Atall events our graphic Louisville roport~ er’s report of Colonel Duncan and of his ex- tensive correspondence in the matter of this, fortheoming Bourbon Democratic Conventiom brings out this bold and dashing Kentuckian: into bold relief as something more than a ning days’ wonder. And from our reporter's and ink portrait of the enthusiastic aa chivalry we judge that he is the very man ta conduct such a movement as this of the forlorn: hope of the straight-out democrats to the “last ditch,” sink or swim, survive or perish. Thug’ it appears that Colonel Blanton Duncan is a little over six feet high in his slippers, is so what swaggering in his gait and wears his. clothes loose and comfortable; that he is a: portly blonde, with a clever face, and is just turning his first half-century; that his fore- head is high and his face physiognomically fine; that he has rather large bluish-gray eyes, a well-set Roman nose that is neither large nor small, a well-cut mouth, a full beard; that his general appearance lacks @ little of being imposing, and his talk is free,, decided and self-confident; that in physical energy he has few superiors, and that onca interested in a cause, as he isin the Bourbo: movement, he is one of its most indefatigal workers. It is not, therefore, surprising to hear ‘<a Colonel Duncan has been and is working lika a beaver to make his Louisville Bourbon ‘oon! vention “a clap of thunder to the Greeley, coalition.’’ But still, as something more than sympathizing letters and protestations of ine’ dignant democrats is needed to organize a/ third Presidential party in the eleventh hour of the day, we adhere to our original impres~ sion that Colonel Duncan's Louisville moves ment will only be another flash in the pan, ox that his programme will be reversed by tha, sober second thought of the Convention in thé endorsement of the Cincinnati candidates by a division of the body into two parts—one, part for Grant and Wilson and the othor for Greeley and Brown, If a straight democratia, ticket is to be the fruit of this tree it will doubtless be the ticket of O’Conor and Duns can. In this évent what will they or what can they do with it? That is the question, ; The Labor “Refo rs’ Convention, /, The labor reformers are to meet im national convention at Philadelphia to-day. This is a political guerilla party which has been operating in New Hampshire, Masea- chusetts and Connecticut for several years past, but which has made no impression any- where asia balance of power except in the New Hampshire electio, ¥ 1871, when, as a, third cord ia FR 4 vided State as be- tween republicans and democrats, it a victory to the democrats. These r formers, however, for this Presidential con- test were the first in the field, with their Columbus (Ohio) National Convention of February, at which they nominated Judga Davis aud Governor Parker as their ticket ag a bid to the liberal republicans and demo- crats. But as the experiment proved a com-' plete failure at Cincinnati and at Baltimora’ these indignant labor reformers held another’ council in New York in July, in which, failing to agree upon anything else, they agreed ta hold another national convention, which ig this that meets this morning at Philadelphia. } From these failures of this ambitious party, to do anything sc so fur asa Presidential o zation it is fair io assume that they again, However, should he fail to do better this time, Mr. Horace H, Day, the cl Political manager of the ofganization in ques tion, may dénelnde to adjourn over-in,order tol join hands with Colonel Blanton Duncan and his straight-out democrats at Louisville the 3d of September, And while the doors! are open would it not be well for the outside free traders, and the temperanco party, and the women’s rights women, and all the other, little cliques and coteries of political roform-! ers who don’t like Grant or Grosley, to go to Louisville and see what they can do to save the country in conjunction with Colonel Dun- can and his democratic Bourbons? In behalf of the labor reformers what do you say, Mr. | manger, pnd at this day they would be bold | Day?