The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1872, Page 5

MICHIGAN. co Liberal-Democratic Convention at Grand Rapids. Interviews with Governor Blair, John L. Harmon and Others. GREELEY STOCK RISING. Negroes and Indians Represented Among the Unterrified. PROSPECTS OF A LIBERAL TRIUMPH, GRAND Rapips, Mich., August 21, 1872. The political campaign in this lumber State pos- ‘pesses peculiar interest from the defection of Governor Austin Blair, the celebrated war Governor ef the State and subsequently representative in @ongress from the Jackson district, where he has above 4,000 regular majority, as well as from the ‘spontaneous moral, social and political coalition against Senator Zachariah Chandler, who is to Michigan State what Cameron is to Pennsylvania and Mr. Tweed formerly presumed to be to the State of New York. THE ANTI-CHANDLER WAR. Although Mr. Blair had served Michigan as the war Governor and commander-in-chief between 1861 and 1865, for the paltry sum of $1,000 a year allotted by the constitution, which put him in debt and compelled him to sell his farm, he was still unable, with all the weight of his personal and moral character and services, to stand up against Chandierism. Mr. Chandler doomed him to be obliterated, as he refused to coalesce with the pre- vailing “ring,” and, as is generally presumed, he had too much stature and parts to please Mr. Ohandler's uncasy vanity as a fellow-Senator. Blair was beaten for the United States Senator- ship in common with William A. Howard, one of Chandler’s associates and other able men; and young Ferry, of Grand Haven, an amiable young man of some means, but no ability, was given the Beat by Chandler’s will and instrumentalities. This incited nearly the whole of the intellectual maa- hood of the State to rise and declare war against Chandlerism in Michigan. For some time William A. Howard wavered, but in the end all the liberal republicans were whipped back into the party, ex- cept Austin Blair, who had too much pride of charac- ter and past public station tosubmit. After conferr- ing with Charles Sumner, Mr. Banks, Mr. Trumbull, Mr.Farnesworth and others, Mr.Blair threw in his lot with Horace Greeley and raised the banner of open revolt, This pleased Mr. Chandler, Mr. Eben Ward, the great capitalist and merchant of Michigan, and others, and they prepared the machinery to CRUSH BLAIR OUT in the Jackson district. Mr. Chandler’s constituent, Postmaster Edmunds, of Washington, began to frank documents against Blair by the tens of thousands. Postmaster General Creswell was brought to Michigan to lead the assault, but the democratic party magnanimously closed around Blair, and he delivered the most telling speech upon a specific issue yet made in the West, namely, a fearful arraignment of Creswell’s culpa- bility in the auditing of the Ohorpenning claim. To this speech Creswell’s defencé at Lansing was a very weak matter, and the Postmaster General left Michigan with no laurels and his visit rather deprecated by the regular republicans. The next movement of Chandler was to ESTABLISH THE BLANTON DUNCAN PARTY im Michigan; but the instrumentalities were too Plain, and the plot failed. Old Edmunds, pos:- master aforesaid, franked the invitations and Sena- tor.Ferry’s brother—a lightweight and the impecu- nious spendthrift of the family—headed the job in the western part of the State, while around De- troit, the contract to Bourbonize the Democracy was let out toan ex-Mayor, whose official charac- ter stank by reason of his traditional association with paving rings, the Forest Fires Relief Fund, and the auctioneering of city patronage while Mayor. In spite, therefore, of all this intriguing against Blair, both the ilberal and democratic parties ral- Med proudly around him. He had served out a sin- gaularly efficient term as war Governor, without vio- tating the common law or private rights in any in stance, although right opposite Detroit the Canada shore had been full of State outlaws, lake pirates and raiders. He was temperate, straightforward, truthful, able andbrave. Nothing could be brought against him except the small charge that some soldiers and officers of Michigan had given his wife a pair of carriage horses, a look. ing glass and a finger ring while he was getting $1,000 a year for rallying all the troops and forces of Michigan. The Chandler party hoped that BLAIR’S POVERTY would dissuade him from running for Governor again, and that he would appeal to his neighbors and constituency to go to Congress, in which event they expected to crush him out by concentrating their forces upon his district and utterly wiping him out of political life. Here again Blair showed his coolness and adroitness by leaving the district to take care of itself and consenting to run for Governor of the State. THE CONVENTION MET at Grand Rapids, the second town in the State of importance and activity. It has about twenty thousand inhabitants and stands on the western side of the State at the falls of Grand River. It is very well built, supplied with railroads nothward, eastward and southward, and it is the home of Wil- liam A. Howard. Howard, it wiil be remembered, declined Chandler’s disposition to get him out of the way by the offer of an Asiatic mission, and re- moved to Grand Rapids to become less obnoxious, focally, to Chandler; nevertheless, that inexorable captain closed the snuffers upon him and left him tohhis own private resources solely to make the society of Grand Rapids agreeable. The four names most quoted for Governor were those of Judge Sutherland, Judge Cooley, Duncan Stewart and a Mr. Robinson, of the southern tier of counties, all republicans until of late, Mr. Biair’s nomination was assured if he would only consent to accept, and when he arrived at Sweet's Hotel, the evening before the Convention met, it was finally deciared that ne had given up his pri- vate inclinations and further canvassing was un- necessary. The attendance was large, stanch and respecta- ble from both parties. ‘eof the Eastern States are not used to seeing such a solid, abstinent and religious class of democrats in attendance upon conventions. A long exile from office of eighteen years has weeded out from their ranks most of the ambitious place-seekers of the State and reduced the party to a ge of patience, tolerance and citizen virtue which the more prosperous party cannot of late years claim. Severai of the ablest NEGROES OF THE STATE z attended the Greeley Convention from Ypsilanti, Detroit, Jackson, Lansing and other places, and made ardent speeches for Horace Greeley. A few voting Indians were also in attendance. The ne- Broes of Michigan bear no great gratitude to the white republicans there, since by the decisive Lg 4 tive of 30,000 votes the latter refused to strike the word “white” from the State constitution at the close of the war. Persons were also present repre- sentative of the POWERFUL STATE UNIVERSITY at Ann Arbor, which institution—the most, popu- jJous and flourishing in the West—was an efficient instrumentality of the republican party throughout war, but has lately shown signs of oscillating a po a Ein ie te Bae theory of jepatient extreme practices of federa centralidaion. Like wise the press “REVEREND” CROPPED OUT frequently amongst the delegates and attendants, showing that the sei diffused belief in Mr. @handler's social frivolities is bearing fruit. The Methodist vote of Michigan left the democratic rty only in 1855, and the clei are not con- mted with @ well attested testimony that Mr. Chandler persecuted one of their cloth from that Presbyterian church he patronized for refusing to take repeated hints to preach political sermons. The abused brother not only goes about telling of his Mal but also tells naughty things of the religious lite of his late parishioner and semi-com- municant, On the whole, a sturdy, grave and able body of men attended both Conventions, and among the democrats an encouraging infusion of young men was noticed. The brass band of Kalamazoo pkey in the main street, advertising a Greeley and Brown | of Michij mass meeting inthe evenmg; and, aiter speech- a conference in iwo proximate public LIBERALS WALKED OVER TO THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP at four o'clock, and a full state democratic ticket was made up With hearty cheers aud great coD- , ee ne eMtaa e e ee Governor awit about Thousand. inI870. 1t is said on every side that Greeley will icad the whole ticket and also Ce ie ional district ticket in Michigan, and his is will make a vig- orous come e. It is with the greatest difficulty that the demo- crats can get their best men to run for office in the ‘Western States, as their hopeless minority here has Jed the best of them off to the pursuit of mercantile wealth, which successful prosecution they will not abandon for State offices compensated at the nig- gardly figures of $1,000 and $800, At the head of the Democratic Convention sat Mr. Bancroft, of Port Huron, who is a man of that class, assiduous, successful and enlightened, who claims that in two years. = Spent A carey of Sichigass will be the rogressive party of the country, and the regular Fe ublicans will be the Bourbons. had two short INTERVIEWS WITH GOVERNOR BLAIR at Sweet’s Hotel, and his conversation, taken in conjunction with that of Mr. Harmon, of Detroit, the democratic organizer, will nearly exhaust the views of the situation as the coalition statesmen observe them, Ex-Governor Anstin Blair is a middle-aged man, of iron-gray hair and beard, @ Scottish type of face, a frame and attire becoming a gentleman of admin- istrative and civil authority, and, with some of the nervousness of & positive nature, he has the voice, the eye and the manner of command. He is some- thing of @ clergyman in the impression he makes, His talk is prompt and sincere, incisive, and with the twinkle of a ready appreciation of humor. As a candidate for Governor on the stump he has in no whit let down the bearing and rank of his former official self. WHAT BLAIR THINKS OF LOUISVILLE. “Governor Blair,” said the HERALD correspond- ent, “ Dr. , of Kalamazoo, thinks the Bour- bon vote will not be above 400, or haif that of Breckenridge in 1860. Do you think his estimate correct Y? “It is too low; a generous estimate would be one per cent of the whole democratic vote, which is no more the annual defection, even when any straight- out democrat is nonunated. The Bourbon, or Lou- isville vote will probably come in the main from those retired counties where the mails penctrate Dut once a week, and papers like Pomeroy’s Demo- erat and the New York Day Book circulate.” “Do you apprehend that Louisville will do any harm to youin the Michigan campaign ¥” “None, Louisville isa benefit, aud will be the com- mon Gaming ground of obsolete and foolish men like Wise and Toombs. The democrats of this State have behaved with signal decisiop and patriotism, We Greeley republicans have no complaint what- ever to make of them—on the contrary, all praise. Our eifort is for republican votes, The democrats clearly see that Chandler, Terry, Edmunds and some purchasable or indifferent material are mak- ing all this foolishness, which will cost more then it willamount to. The republicans, who are still undecided between Greeley and Grant, note also that nobody is saving the democratic party but Grant’s counsellors. They are fighting the war over again, and it is necessary for their purposes that there should be an irreconcilable democracy still extant.’ “CAN YOU CARRY THE STATE, GOVERNOR BLAIR ?”? “We may. Ido not wish to be too sanguine, We shall state our case to the people with confidence, and trust to that large silent vote which in the times of Harrison declared itself at the polls, and not until the ballots told the story. An uneasy feeling pervades moral and observing people every- where. ‘The party has lost its heroic motive and is perfectly materialized. Its fears are aduressed by the administration, and no high or new incentives are set before it. It still preserves, however, the machinery, and coerces hundreds of conscientious but ambitious citizens of the middle class through the completeness of its discipline.”” “Is the organization OF SENATOR CHANDLER very complete ?”” “Perfectly so, From the county mmittees up to the highest federal offices it exists with a mi- nuteness and system not known elsewhere in the country. ‘to bea Justice of the Peace or Supervi- sor one must be submissive to it or be crushed out. For eighteen years the republican party has been dominant here, and all the avenues to considera- tion leaa through it. We have sought to pierce this machinery at every point; but it yields only to money, and that we do not possess.’’ “With this condition of things, Governor, do you not sometimes feel that the centralizing spirit of the times has also absorbed party organization ?”’ “Entirely so. The true theory of republican goy- ernment is the neighborhood theory. Centraliza- tion must relax its grasp, or as communities we shall insensibly lose all local control of ourselves, Washington puts the bitin the mouth of Michigan, A change of sentiment no longer insures a change of administration.” “What is the general character of the federal office-holders here #”” “People without scruples, loyal to the man who RE ides over the system in the State, and who liv@&gby the avocation of office. He, in turn, is given absolutely the custody of all the patronage from Washington, and his wishes are implicitly car. Tied out there.’” “Do you meet with much abuse from your old party associates ?” , deal, and it often comes from men who have no ili feelings forme except that in seeking bre their line and imperil their present chances for preferment.”” “Is the office of Governor here a desirable one ?”? “Over a State like Michigan it is an honor; asa source of livelinood it is the LEAs!’ REMUNERATIVE OFFICE IN THE UNITED STATES. For four years, with gold sometimes at 180 pre- muum, I received $1,000 currency per annum.”” “Do you find the argument of a prosperous coun- try at the present time very forcibie here on behalf of the administration ?”’ “It is probably their most plausible argument; but our country, in all the energies of newness and youth, progresses in spite of such an administra- tion, and to claim its progress {s an assumption as preposterous in any one man as to arrogate that the rain and the dew are the gifts of an udminis- tration, Itis AN UNEASY PROSPERITY in Michigan; strikes are prevalent among the work- ing classes on all sides, and the condition of the Southern half of the country is shocking. If the North fails to listen to this cry for relief from the States where the carpet-bagger 1s absolute, it cannot tail to suffer in turn from the perpetuation of such a system, Our Northern prosperity advances on parallel lines with anarchy and robbery at the South, Four years hence how can we straghten out those States or stem the tide of corruption there, or arouse the stagnation of the white popu- lation, sunken into apathy and despair? This boast of prosperity in the sight of such a state of things is Risein point of interest and demoralizing in point of Christian sympathy and common patriot- ism. Mr. Grant's friends point only to the prosperity of a part of the country; in tie Soutn disorder moves toward barbarism, and rapacity toward re- pudiation, It may be the object of our masters to fh boc every security jn the country except the federal bonds; if s0, that species of prosperity is swift to destruction.” “Do you think Mr. Greeley wili do anything, if elected, to affect THE SECURITIES OF THE COUNTRY?” “Nothing. He is the last man in America to assume the respofisibility for a fiuancial panic. The | only point they make upon him is that he compre- hends something of finance, and Grant nothing. If ignorance is the mother of saicty we have got 1t.”” “ Nevertheless, Governor Blair, are not the bust- ness classes in some consternation over Greeley’s business prospects?” ‘ ‘That is a political and campaign assump- tion. People whose private prosperity is not com- patible with public reform—if you can conceive such—wince about any changes. But I have no idea that our Western people are so sunken in pelf and lost to love of country that they can stop their ears to words of warning at the insensate cry of ‘We are doing well!’ No man can do well where the pubiic example is bad and getting worse all the time,” “Governor, your old associates on the side of protection against Grant's party did not take the bold step, a8 you have done?” “Alas, no! There are plenty of them whose spirits were Willing, but the flesh was weak. Had they ail stepped out we should have required very little campaigning; and, as it stands to-day, there are several who would SECRETLY REJOICE AT GREBLEY'S ELECTION, if their own return to Congress was ensured.” “What is the extent of defection to Grant in Michigan among the republicans?’ “It varies, It runs from five per cent to twenty per cent In towns and counties. We have above | seven thousand republican liberals enroiled, and | the work of enrollment has just begun. On the | whole, I feel encouraged with each new day’s reve- lations. Mr. Greeley’s trip in the East strengthened us all over the country. His equable spirits, neighborly address, perfect responsibility as a temperate man of tong erlence among Presidential candidates, and therefore quaint adroitness and good management, would «lo us good in Michigan. We have a young and ardent class of democrats co-operating with here on | whom we can rely, and if General Grant carries the State he will do well.” Here General Blair was called aside to be ap- prised of his nomination, and the HERALD repre: ; sentative was introduced to MR. JOHN H. HARMON, of Detroit, the organizer of the democratic party n around Horace Greeley. Mr. Harmon used to be cailed by the name of | “the Michigan Indian” when he figured in Wash- | ington as the friend of W. L. Marcy and Lewis Cass. He is a tall, sallow, black-haired man, with long, straight hair, combed behind his ears, and high cheek bones. He has an affable, conctiliating ad- dress and @ wonderful fund of political informa- tion. “Mr. Harmon,” sald the HeRaLp representative, “you were well acquainted with LEWIS CASS for many years *"? “Yes, id edited the Free Press during his rime, and sold it out to William H, Storey, now of the Chicago Times, in 1352, to take the position of Collector of the Port of Detroit.” ‘Has General Cass’ character made much im- pression upon the public life of cpap wy “I think not, When we consider his great length ofdays and public station. He gave State prominence vefore the country by being a candi- date for the Presidency when we had but about three hundred thousand people ; but be was penurl- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDA bes 7 ¢ « ‘ Y, AUGUST 27, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. democratic war 7”? “Not much. He had claimed his seat and are- election to the Senate after being defeated for the pe tecren and this disgusted many of our ablest young leaders, who saw NO HOPE OF PROMOTION in the party while Cass lived, so that many of them Joined the republican party at a very early day. I was instrumental in getting Cass out of Buchanan's Cabinet in time to save his fame. Neither he nor Buchanan seemed to be aware that active treason Was at work in the Cabinet. We kept the demo- cratic party of Michigap from Rng ie copper- head shoot, and gave onr pyar to Douglas. Tleft Michigan some time ago, and when I returned tie party organization had well nigh perished. We drew together again in Detroit about two years ago, and I made up my wind that our way to day- light was with the liberal republicans if they could accomplish anything at Cincinnatl. This was not only a conviction of political expediency with me, but a desire, bred of affection, to see the de- mMocracy Saale the progressive body of the country, governin; m the people towards the government, and not from the government towards the people, I called our committee together in Detroit and offered to resign; they, on the contrary, seconded me, and I made the tour of the State in the coali- tion interest.” “Was ita diMcult matter, Mr. Harmon, to make eon straight-out democrats declare for Gree- ley “No. We had the Free Press—our State organ— on one side and the Chicago Times, on the other, doing all the harm they could, The Free Press de- nounced me as @ Greeley agent. ‘The people through the State knew me, and in almost every town they said, ‘Well, John, if you can go Greeley, I'm sure [can, We got a little daily paper called the Detroit News to come out for Greeley with the workingmen, and I wrote the first leader declaring the way, After the Baltimore Conven- tion, we got ready to buy out the Trivene or start @ new paper, but the chief Bourbon on the Free Press came down and sold out to Mr. Boyington and others. We CARRIED THE STATE CONVENTION FOR GRERLEY three to one, put W. A. Moore on the National Com- mittee in place of Wheeton, ex-Mayor and Kour- bon, and the State is in line, solid and ardent for Chappaqua!” “Do you not feel somewhat awkward in your new company “No. Perfect liberality and good nature prevail between us and the republicans. We admire Aus- tin Blair for his honesty and independence, He is the only republican now Governor in America who CAME OUT OF OFFICE POOR, and he administered that office during the war so equitably in giving commissions to officers that he took the best of our young democrats over to bis party. Both wings of the coalition are advancing by converging paths to the same point, to bring the democracy up to the results of the age, and the liberals seck to stop the aggressions of ted- eral and corporate monopoly over local independ- ence. The objective point of both is Chandlerism, which is party despotism to a degree never achieved nor attempted by the democrac ‘was a reliable democratic State. Cay you beat Chandler next time for the Senate “Yes. If that were the sole issne in this electiou He is driving the ambitious when Michigan we would do it now. young republicans away as Cass used to drive off democrats, by the permanence of his supremacy, We expected at one time to take off W, A. Howard as well as Blair, Strickland, 4c.” “What are the character and number Louisville Convention squad in Michigan?’ “The whole thing is A CHANDLER DIVERSION, led by dead-beats and hoping to entrap a few honest old people by the aid of documents (dispensed by Chandler and his Postmaster at Washington city, Edmunds, It is a sort of jail delivery with a few of the feeble-minded caught up by the way. There is no resistance to the coulition except in some strong democratic counties, a disinclination to put repub- ae on the local tickets; this will yield every- where. of the “48 GREELEY POP with the coalition as the candidate :” ie oe He will lead every name on the State “Is whe, gaining anything as the campaign pro- eS R e gre: “Yes, He can be trusted to go into any State and make his own campaign. I have been to every Democratic Convention since 1870, and he ts the | most adroit and skilful Presidential campaigner | have ever yet sech. His New England tour was a triumph. 1 was at Chappaqua when he entertained | the Joint Committee, aud his management there | was that of a coun—a regular old fox.” “How does THE FOREIGN VOTE stand with you?” “Greeley carries the frish all over the West. The German Lutherans and Catholics have always been democrats with us, and the 48 men are for Greeley seventy-five per cent. “Duncan Stewart has great influence with the old country’ people. Our trou- ble is to get out for candidates the best men we have. They are disinclined to politics; will give us Money and encouragement, but will not stand for | office.” “Is Grant strong in Michigan?” “No. He lived several years in Detroit as a licu- tenant in the army, and made a bad reputation for dissoluteness and buinming, which he did not re- trieve in 1866 by coming here in advance of Andrew Johnson no soberer than he left us nearly twenty years betore.”’ “Then you think you will carry Michigan?” “1 have very strong hopes. We shall certainly reclothe and reorganize the democracy and make @ party up with the age, reinforced by young men and receiving the ey mrestiey of the moral and educated classes for the purity of its principles and the example it can make of leaders who do not take precedence by watching the county commit- tees and playing poker with their parasites.” FINIS, The candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Blanch- ard, is a business ian of the town of lonia, on the line of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway. The rest of the ticket is made up of good and responsi- ble people, and all are united for a vigorous prose- cution of the campaign. The more moderate libe- Tals, like Governor Baldwin, compute that Grant will’ carry the State by 12,000 to 15,000; the demo- crats say that he will do well to curry 1t by 5,000, THE LABOR REFORMERS. An Old Reformer Attacks the Recent Philadelphia Convention—The MenWho Did Not Endorse the Lou fille Move and They Who Did Endorse the Phila- delphia Convention. To THE Epitor or THE HERALD :— Allow me through your columns to state some factsin relation to the labor reform party of the United States, its conventions and its present status, After years of patient labor and agitation through- | j out the country, it was thought best to enter the national arena of politics for the purpose of bring- ing more forcibly before the public our distinctive principles and to create a political party to pave the way for incorporating them inte the economy of the government. We assembled accordingly in National Convention at Columbus, Onto, on February 22, for the purpose of placing a Presidential ticket in the field, the States were represented by able and earnest men, and the Columbus platform, with David Davis and Joel Parker were given to the country. The committee appointed by the Convention to inform these gentlemen of their nomination, and ask their acceptance of the same delayed their action till after the Cincinnati Convention, hoping our ticket might be adopted by that body. Labor reformers generaily hoped for this result, but were disap- pointed like the committee. After Cincinnati the committee, from over zeal for the Cincinnati nom- inees, or from some most chimerical idea of policy, failed to carry out the instructions of the Convention. Murmurs of discontent began to arise, which at last became so general that FE. M. Chamberiain assumed the responsibility of acting for the committee. Both Davis and Parker declined, and substantially declared for Greeley and Brown at the same time. In view of this, and the fact thatthe chairman of the National Com mittee and of the committee to inform the candi- dates of their nomination had so long neglected his duty, and also the latgness of the canva Mr. Chamberlain took the responsibility of calling a conference of labor reformers in New York on July 30. This conference, composed mainly of dele- gates to Columb decided to call a National Con- vention at this city on August 22 for the purpose of placing national ticket In the field, The Convention assembled in this city and de- cided not to enter the Presidential fight, but agreed that if the Louisville Convention adopted our Columbus platform, or an embodiment of its prin- ciples, and nominated Charles O'Conor for Presi- dent, that labor reformers would support their ticket, It willbe seen from this action that the Jabor reform party takes no stock in the Louisville move until after its action is known, and not then unless it piants itself squarely on our principles, a thing I by no manner of ineans expect. Labor reformers look upon this Louisville move a8 one in the interest of Grant and Wilson, and will continue todo so unless it puts forth a labor reform platform in strict keeping with that of the Columbus Convention, The men of Columbus—the true men of our party—are not going to be used by oliticians to elect either Grant or Greeley. Hav- ng no candidates of our own we shall vote as we see fit, and shall not be “roped” into any alliances. Lwish to saya word in relation to @ so-called National Labor Reform Convention held in this city on the 22d, which declared for O'Conor and Sauls- bury for President and Viee President, and pro- posed to act with the Louisville Convention. Iam credibly informed that this Convention was com- posed of about adozen men, and that it held its session in a parlor of the Washington House, and yet they clained 158 delegates and had the means to Ligh shes a @ long despatch of buncombe proceed- ings allover the country. This bogus Convention ‘was gotten up in the interest of the Louisville move ous, lacking in political boldness, and in much the growth of circumstances. He had become very old and somewhat garrulous before he died, He was, however, the chet public man of Michigan and the West—unless we except Thomas Benton—for a third of a century.” “Did General Cage have much influence upon the | to put wind in its sails. It did not put forth a single labor reform resolution, nor in any way recognize the Columbus platform—the creed of the party. Not a man ip it, or @ name put forth by it, was ever known to jabor reformers. It was @ political fraud, Ke 2 in keeping with one field in New York, whic brought We seek | party of Michigan at the eve of the | out Henry TO) Wilson’s name for Viee President, and to do for Louisville what the latter did for Phitadciphia. This nondescript Convention, which had neither character nor constituency, may glory in being @ tooi in the hands of Blanton Dun- can or Renry Wilson, but the labor reform party, which It tried to represent, will eat no such dirt, nor stoop to such rascally folly and such politica what honor it can get out of misrepresentation and jugglery and the wholesome condemnation of honest men. T hope and believe that the members of our party, if there is no candidate in the field repre- senting their Drinesp les, willtlay aside their preju- dices and vote for that man for President who will insure us the greatest nationality, economy, hon- esty, and prosperity. F.N. BURDICK, Secretary Philadetphia Convention. PHILADELYULA, August 26, 1872, Acker Denounces the Recent Meeting in Philadelphi. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 26, 1872, Henry L. Acker, chairman of the Labor Reform State Central Committee, denounces as an un- founded canard the report of a State convention of the labor reform party, said to have been held in this city on the 23d instant. He declares that no such convention was held; that the reported pro- ceedings thereat are a fraud, and that the parties whose names appear in the reports are unknown in connection with the labor reform party of Venn- sylvania. NON-INTERCOURSE. , The Wonderful Liberality of the Liberal Repubiicanr—The Tammany Greeley Brown Ratification Mecting=The New Millionnaire Sachems Groaning over Prospective Expenses=The Greeley Re- publicans Refu to Assist or Associate with Tammany Democrats, A little war cloud, considerably man’s hand, has just hovered over the contiguous camps of the liveral republican and democratic cohorts in this city. The approaching Greeley and Brown ratifeation meeting at Union square, on the 12th of September, is the little pud- dle whence arose the MIASMATIC VAPORS that now form this threatening war cloud, many is not “as it used to wer and the absurd mutter of expenses excites the apprehensions ana agitates the check books of the magnates, who can no longer draw on the public treasury instead of their private resources. ‘The cost of the proposed | ratification meeting may involve any sum trom five thousand dollars to ten times that amount, and the Saciems feel uneasy at the prospect of being “let in’? for all the damages. They have, there- fore began to remind each other that the liberal republicans, who are at least as much interested as they in the success of the Greeley-Brown ticket, should come down with a fair contribution towards ‘THE WORK EXHIBITION, however, fail to see any fireworks in The liberal: that light, and ha that much evidence to show hereafter that they ever acknowledged democratic afMiliations in any way. It would be an awkward thing, when old Horace gets into the White House, and when, as many suspicious Tammanyites already allege, he and his liberal republican pets will commence to repudiate the claims and ignore the services of his present democratic supporters—it would be an awkward thing then for some Tammany sachem to The majority of | be able to prove that the liberal republicans had at | one time so far acknowledged a regular copartner- | ship as to have mingled their pur as well as | their voices with those of the deme ts in susti ing the Cincinnati nominations, ‘The liberals have, therefore, assum jon of STRICT 4 BRCOU, with the and have decided to Jet the old Wigwatn pay the expenses and assume all other respousibililies arising from their great ratification ineeting, Alter listening to some growling over this | matter from several Tammany men, a HERALD rep- resentative dropped into the State Lib Repub- can Headquarters at te Astor House yesterday | afternoon, where he met the chairman of the State Committee, Gen John Cochrane, | “You are aw General,” said the reporter, “that a great Greeley-Brown ratification meeting comes off at Union Square a few weeks from now. Have your committee, or any other committee of liberal republicans anything to do with it ?”” “No,” said Genera! Cochrane; “it 18 a democratic ratification solely, and the democrats have all to do with it; except, ofcourse, that we nican to co- operate.”? REPORTER—ToO what extent—merely to swell the | crowd? | General Cocarane—Just 80; that is all. REPORTER—WIil you furnish any of the speakers ? General CocHRANE—No. RerorTER—Nor anything else ? General CocHRaNE—Nothing. RerortTER—Perfect non-intercourse, eh ? ‘The General commenced to read an old letter. TAMMANY GENERAL COMMITTEE. woe Arranging for the Primaries—Changes in the Delegation. The Tammany Hall Genera! Committee met last evening in the Wigwam, Fourteenth street, John W. Chanler presiding. Outside the baliding, before the committee was called to order, there were crowds enough to remind one of the olden time when the benevolent Tweed’s face siruck terror into every opponent and there was no use of amending anything except for fun. Last evening there was a tolerably full attendance of delegates, among them being many of the leaders of Tam- many Reformed, The first and the only business of importance resolutions, which on motion of John Kelly, seconded by William Walsh, were adopted :— Resolved, That we recommend to the several Asse district committees to meet in their several clectic tricts mm each of the Assembly Augus! m half-past seven to ten o'clock P. M., to appoint three inspectors of election, who shall hold an election for one delegate in each of the election, districts, to meet in Assembly Convention on Friday, the 20th i at eight o'clock P. said ¢ \t one delegate a ernate to re} | at the State Co on, to meet at | PB ject on verntio yracuse on the 4th OX. Resolved, That when the delegates are chosen we re commend the Assembly Convention by which they were i tex a certificate signed by the ‘ies, together with the certi. in each of the election dis- nM presenting the district in the ssemibly Convention was only authorized to sit in said Assembly Convention for said election district. The committee then took a recess for half an hour in order to give the sub-committee on organization | tame to make some changes in the representation from some of the districts. of the sub-committee announced the acceptance of W. D. Loman in place of L. R. G. Kammerer, re- signed, and Henry O’Berle in place of Louis O'Berle, resigned, from the Fifth dis- and Andrew Holly to fil the va- caused by the death of James O'Neill. (From the Fifth district also, a complaint ft K rton in place of W. ©, Ben- and after some discussion Bennett's place was declared vacant. The recom: mendation of the delegation from the Fifth district in favor of Norton was then referred to the Sub- Committee on Organization and the committee ad- Journed. POLITICAL CAMPAIGN NOTES. Of the eleven German newspapers in Pennsyi- vania ouly three are for Greeley, Ben Butler, white, and Fred Douglass, colored, will make speeches in Skowhegan, Maine, on ‘Thursday nignt. The Cleveland Leader calls the Lincoln Club of this city “a band of bummers” because they sup- port Mr. Greeley. a call for a meeting to select Louisville democratic sideshow, A negro named Sam Lowery (no relation to the North Carolina Swamp Augels) is about to start a paper io Nashville, Tenn., which will advocate the cause of the colored population. A South Carolina Grant orator recently spoke of Carl Schurz as ‘‘a red whiskered Dutch puppy ap- pealing to his Dutch pimps." The Southern chiv- alry must be getting demoralized, It has been published that in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, there is but one biican that will vote for Grant, and that son county, Minnesota, there is but one republican that will vote for Greeley. The Georgia straight-out Democratic State Con- vention, which was held in Atlanta on the 20th delegates for the inst., was composed of fifty-seven delegates from twenty-three counties. Oni ndred and three of the counties of the State were not represented. Davidson Bradfate Penn, the liberal republican bet for Governor of Louisiana, was @ major ih the rebel army, and having been taken prisoner spent a portion of the time of the war on Johngon’s Island, in Lake Erie. John 8S. Young, who {s @ candidate on the same ticket for Lieuten- ant Governor, was aiso in the rebel service and fought all through the war. The Albany Bveni Journal says:—"TIt should not be forgotten that, by chapter 712, United States Laws of 1871, the Congressional ballot is distinct from all others. As the old rule was to place the name of the candidate for Congress on the State ticket, care should be taken that this is not done onal ballot must meanness. This myth of trickery is welcome to | larger than a | Tammany | vam. | § oncluded not to furnish even | transacted was the consideration of the following | districts. on Wednesday, | On the reassembling of the committee the report | calling for the | In Rochester, Minn., 139 straight-onts have signed | THE CAMPAIGN IN THE CITY. | The Liberal Headquarters. Judge Johnson was in charge of the Liberal Headquarters, where everything was unusually | quiet. There were a number of visitors during the | day, but none of any note, ‘The following letter from Boston may be of interest. After announcing that the Grant men claim ai! the moneyed corpora- tions of the country as their own, the writer says:— I therefore enciose $1 as the contribution of one of the people to the people’s fund for conducting the people’s canvass, We have determined to give yon our votes and we shail give you pecuniary aid that it is popular im all its features, and that we are quite able to comt Uberties, I think we should make the com | to this popular fund of matter a principle. Kvery supporter of the beral movement should be in- vited to contribute his portion, much or little, Let Grantism, with its money power,do its best, the silent Votes of the people and this humble contribution will prove that poiitical power, even when backed by money and patronage, cannot perpetuate itself | in a free country, and that the wi'l of the people is yet supreme, A. C, VALIER, The Democratic Headquarters, Major Banks has gone to Mississipp) for a short vacation, and Mr, A. I’. Gallagher presides, always under the supervision of the great sachem, Augus- tus Schell. Mr, E, 0. Perrine has been sent to | Maine, where pure democratic orators are much needed, Among the visitors were the followin; —Judge Henry Hammond, or Ohio; Ed- of Mobile, Ala.; Judge Willard Martin, Clymer, of Pennsyl- ‘olonek Wil- , of Louisiana; ral KE. A. O'Neil muel H. Moore, of Alabama, D | of Wasbingior vania: lam M. Lev and Judge | The Regular Republican Headquarters. Among the distinguished visitors at the Grant Headquarters yesterday were ex-Attorney General James S, Speed, of Louisville, Ky.; Rev. John D. rwell, of Plainfield, N. J.; Hon, Thomas Settle, prth Carolina; Governor J. W, Geary, of Penn- Inia, and Hon. Henry ©, Dibblee, of Louisiana, | Witham &, Chandler was present conducting j allairs with his accustomed tact, MR. GREELEY'S MOVEMENTS, ‘The Phitosopher kept himself in close seclusion at | the residence of Dr. Bayard, on Fortieth street, yes- | terday, writing letters in answer to his numerous correspondents, | INSPECTORS OF ELECTION, | Important Action of the Reform Associa- tion. The Executive Committee of the Reform Associa- tion held a meeting at 2 Astor House, at three | o'clock yesterday afternoon, at which they directed the Chairman to sign and forward forthwith the following letter :— 1 ReYORM Assoctation, Exkcuri 7) Nuw’ York, August 26, 1872, "4 Henny Swirn, Esq., President of the Board of Police Com- he new Election law the appointment of and & pon clerks of election for each of in this city is given to your Board. ion it is absolutel, and honorable cil four insp the 518 el To secu ayy that none ‘an honest and_ just, elec at faithful if | | | appointed all the number of whom we plders, who, candidates without fierwurd that they had to «© years: | o1 the i | | o es i the ballots, obey orders, It was weil understood at that time, among many can- didates for election, that wiles their friends were ap inted aS canvassers votes for them would not J, and they declined to go into the canvass at all, oubl better known to you than they 10 us. This Association and the German Reform Association have chrolled upward of 55,000 voters, pledged to vote for honest, capable men for city officers, regardless of na- ul and State issues. We protest ayainst your Board ting as inspectors of election any man holding olfice under the cily, State or national government, We propose to submit the names of two good citizens, | one a republican and one a democrat—1,036 names in all— that is two for each election district, and we re pur Board to appoint them. We shall select 4 of the Mercan ibrary Association, and sor other good citizens (not office-holders), all 1 shall also be approved ot by the Committee of After those two are appointed for each election strict, you will have still four more to appoint for each | election district, We request your Board to signify to us throngh our | Chairman whew we furnish you the names of two t, one from cach polit- ‘Will appoint them, Ottendorfer, John ek Stern, F. Have: quest eCool, William M. Bundy, H. Henry JOHN POLE! tive Committce, No. 2 Astor House. qe 2 NEW YORK CITY. | LORIE HEN | A fire broke out yesterday morning at 757 Broad- way, occupied by Daniell & Co, asa silk and fancy store, that caused a damage of $1,000, The place was fully insured, Louis Begal, a barber doing business at 317 Tenth avenue, was severely burned about the head | and arms, in his shop last night, while endeavor- ‘THE SAVAGES OF HAYTI —— How American Citizens are Treated by the Black Barbarians, ——_+—__——_ An American Consul Cast Into a Hay- tien Dungeon, Though Innocent. also, My humble subscription looks like a smail Les Peery Sons, fag Mt the as spread, and you will hos nd that «the = smail contribution “of — the | ; people will supply all your needs, Let it be OUR COLORED MINISTER, BASSETT. the pride and the boast of the liberal movement He Does Not Protect American Citizens Because “H Would Furnish the Greeley Men with ' a Sensational Campaign Speech.” HIS VIEWS ON THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION Port AU PRINCE, August 9, 1872. A few weeks ago an American captain of a Bos ton schooner, while on his way from his con- signee’s house after a heavy rain and thunder storm—such as is only known tn the tropics—to his vessel, met by an armed guard, who attacked him in the most brutal manner, dragged him through mud guiters, and when about a mile from the public wharf released him to hunt his way to his ship. In this imstance, it is said, a week suiticed for a diplomatic exeuse, A few days ago an ex- press brought the news from MiragoAdne that our Consul at that port was attacked in his store by a band of armed ruffians upon the shallow pretext of searching for counterfeit money. This, your correspondent is assured, wad done WITHOUT A SHADOW OF PROOF or authority, Packages, desks, safes and the very flooring of the store were burst open and a party of the men carried off a large quantity of the pauper money. The Consul was dragged from his store, in spite of his protests and te supplications of an in- teresting family, only lately arrived in the country, and finally hurried away amid the yells and jee! of his triumphant captors to a prison in the interior, twenty-five miles distant from Miragoain of exchange th act value xX cents; but it hes ta , not a long time ago, $5,000 to buy a silver dollar. ‘A sam- ple of the wre prove to the r political and ing medium would RALD What a state of and degradation this people have arrived at when the government is compelled to resort to such a money issue for its preservation ané safety. Upon a charge of coun- citing this ridiculous currency an American citi- ze. and representative is now lingering in A HATEFUL HAYTIEN DUNGEON. I met our Minister yesterday and inquired of him what he intended to do in this new imbrogiio. He replied, “What I have already done, sir—inaintain our Consul’s integrity and insist upon his release, if I have to send to Samana for a man of war.” “Indeed,” replied I, “unless our govern- ment decided upon bringing a show of force to bear upon this benighted people, as the British, French and Germans have done, our citizens and consuls had better quit the country.” “In that case there would not be much use of a Minister.” The Excitement About the Arrest of the American Consul=Respect for the Brit= ish, French and Germans, but Contempt for American Citizenship. Port aU Prince, Hayti, August 13, 1872. The excitement and concern which the arrest and imprisonment of Mr, Charles F, Teel, the Con- sul of the United States at Miragofne by the Haitien authorities at that place, together with the strong indignation expressed by our citizens at our want of protection, led your correspondent to call at the United States Legation and learn from our Aabile and courteous Minister the facts of the case. I found Mr. Bassett very busy in the midst of a noisy crowd of sailors trying to appease them. On recognizing me he approached, and after saluting me in his usual off-hand manner invited me to enter his sanctum sanctorum, After a tew compliment- ary remarks I informed him that I had called to hear what was being done in the Teel case, asa great many unfriendly criticisms were passed by foreigners generally upon what they termed his inaction in the matter. For conciseness I give the interview as it occurre MINISTER—Since IT met you the other day! re ceived areply from the Foreign Secretary to my @emand for Mr. Teel’s release, but his reasons for efusing to accede to it were so trivial that I re- peated the demand in more peremptory terms. To this despatch I have also a refusal, and I have, therefore, referred the matter with my views to Washington. CoRRESPONDENT—Onr citizens complain, Mr, Mine ister, that when a British, French or German sub- ject Is illegally imprisoned by the Haytien authori- ties he is not only immediately released upon tne eulat e HE | ing to extinguish a kerosene lamp which had ex- ploded in his place, Last night Henry W. Knowles, conductor of car | No, 87 of the Second avenue line, residing at No. | 1,066 Third avenue, was taken with a fit on his car, at the corner of Pell street and the Bowery. Be- fore medical aid arrived he died. The Coroner has been notified and will hold an inquest to-day. a German laborer, thirty-two years of age, on the 15th inst. fell from a pie of Jumber, foot of Delancey street, East River, causing a compound fracture of one of his legs. Brous | taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he died on Sa | day, Coroner Herrman has the case in charge, August Brous, The City Chamberlain's exhibit of the condition of the city finances for the week ending August 24 | shows the following figures :— | Total balances, August 17. | | | { $5,200,233 50 3 pts dur he week. ayments during the week Total balances, August 24. + 5,996,831 79 At an early hour yesterday morning a fire broke } out in the store under the four story tenement | house econd avenue, which was occupied by | Herman Kann asa paint shop. The damage done is estimated at $300, but t place was insured for 400. Kalin was arrested by the police of the wenty-tirst precinct on suspicion of having set the | place on fire. An investigation will be heid to-day, | as SUN STROKES, ‘The following persons were found suffering from | the heat yesterday in the streets by the police :— Charles Perrus, of Hoboken, N. J., was found in | Nassau street and sent to the Park Hospital. Mrs. Carby, of 63 Mulberry street, was found on | the corner of Baxter and Bayard streets and sent | to the Park Hospital. | Withiam Wilson, of 217 Third avenue, was found in Broadway and sent home, | NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The United States steamer Mayflower arrived at | Portsmouth, N. H., trom Washington on Sunday, to | | take the place of the Speedwell, which is being repaired, The Yantic dropped down to the naval anchorage at Norfolk on the 24th, preparatory to going to sea, The Resaca arrived at Paputi, Tahiti, June 2, thirty days from Callao, after a pleasant passage, | Lieutenant Commander N, Green reports that the | Consul at Paputi informed him that the whaling | bark William Gifford arrived at that port a short time previous in charge of the crew, the crew having mutinied and dethroned the captain for ill treatment and for prostituting his cruise, and that | he (the Consul) had placed the vessel in charge of | another person, and that she had sailed for San lg on the morning after the arrival of the Resaca. The French corvette Vandrine was in port. The Resaca would give liberty to the crew and sali on the 10th inst. for the Navigators’ Islands. The officers and crew, without exception, were in good health, The St. Mary's was at Honolulu, July 27. ‘The officers and crew were well. The Canandaigua arrived at Pensacola, August 4, from a cruise on the Campeachy and Mexican coasts, having visited Sisal, Campeche, Porto Real, Frontera, Coatzacoalco, Vera Cruz and Tampico. ‘oll Naval Order. Commander T. H. Eastman, now on duty at the Washington Navy Yard, has been ordered to the Portsmouth Navy Yard, ORUSHED TO DEATH BY A OAR, James McCann, & lad seven years of age, died in the Ninety-ninth Street Reception Hospital from the effects of injuries received on the 23d inst. by having been run over, foot of Forty-second street, North River, by car 41, of the Belt Line. One of the | th first application of his nation’s representative, but he is generally indemnified for any loss or injury which he may have sustained; but. WHEN AN AMERICAN CITIZEN IS TLI-TREATED and imprisoned, albeif-under the silliest pretext, he remains unnoticed until he is discharged by @ mer- cenary Judge, MINisteR—There muy be some truth in this feel- ing, but you see the English, French and Germans have each in their turn punished the temerity of this people. For my part I should be sorry, a8 a colored man, to be tl instrument to bring violence to bear upon this already unhappy country; but many of our citizens, perhaps not altogether with- out reason, m to fear that until we have given Hayti a signal lesgon it will not realize the great- ness of our country nor consent to grant us our full measure of respect. CoRRESPONDENT—But instead of leaving our Con- sul at Miragofne to rot ina filthy prison until vou hear from Washington, why do you not call to your aid the “moral support of a man-of-war ?” MinisTeR—Because I scarcely think such & course would be either judicious or be rendered necessary, as I feel confident Mr. Tee! will be shortly released. Besides 1 do not desire to FURNISH THE GREBLEY MEN with a sensational campaign speech. is CORRESPONDENT—Mr. ‘Teel is, 1 believe, under & criminal charge. Is there any reasonable ground for his detention ? Muxisrer—None whatever, Mr. Teel, like all mer- chants in Hayti, sells largely for the wretched paper money in circulation, aud like every other merchant is jiable to receive some false money among @ large amount of payments. I really cannot myself distinguish the false trom the good money, and [ am assured by respectable merchants that very often the government experts are themselves de- ceived. Ina suin of a half million of dollars which Mr. Feel had in bin possession only three or four | thousand have been deciared false, and the author- ities themselves adntit now that this is a small percentage in so large a sum. Lam determined to reject any verdict which the courts may render against Mr, Teel for the purpose of covering or | evading this government's responsibility for the loss and injury which Mr. Teel may have sustained, for Tam convinced cf this gentleman's integrity. CORRESPONDED ‘ou referred just now, Mr. Minister, to the Greeley en. Have you any objec- to give me your views upon the approaching Presidential election ? MINISTER—Well, sir, 1 AM FOR GRANT, because he fought and gained the battles which gave freedom to three millions of my race; be- cause he represents the party that sent him to accomplish this great and noble work, and because he may be called the foster parent of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, But these are not my only reasons for being in favor of his re-election. I consider General Grant’s continua- tion in office for another term as virtually neces- sary and important to the black man in the South and the only safeguard for the amendments to the constitution, CORRESPONDENT—But Mr. Greeley has been @ life-long republican, a much older abolitionist than Grant, and a man of great ability. MINISTER—I have a high respect for Mr, Greeley’s republican and abolitionist principles, as also for his ability; but I cannot separate him from his present supporters, who have always been the enemies of my race. I feel certain Grant will polk ninety per cent of the 900,000 co1ored votes next November. S CorRESPONDENT—Will you go home to take part in the campaign ‘ Mineral ‘shall not; for the cry would be raised that my voice is only an additional shriek of the inevitable oMce-holder, But I shall urge my friend# to support the ticket which clothed them with manhood, GREAT DEPALCATIONS are reported to have occurred in the Currency’ Substitution Commissioners’ office, It is stati that over $100,000,000 (HERALD reader, this is only Haytien money) have been stolen, and the parties are now in prison awaiting their trial. A law has recently passed the Corps Légisiatif to retire the present circulating mediam by pl specie in circulation, Where the specie is to come from is the a aie of ® moment, seeing that the las offer of a loan by some French bankers was considered #0 unfavorable and humiliating that it was rejected by the government, and there is not @ Haytien or forel; merchant established in the country who would lend this dishonest administration a hundred dollars, boy's legs was badly crushed, Coroner Herrman was notified to hold ap inquest, Thermometer at 98 degrees in the shade. Speci¢ (also in the suade) 275, |