The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD . BROADWAY AND ANN STRHET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Heratp. Rejected communications will uot be re. ” AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadwa: etreet—Ixron; on, Tine Man ar TH and Thirteenth URLs. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street, —Rivnr vied; om, Tae Vonsrinacy. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third at. and Kighth av.—Ror Canorix, BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty third street. corner Sixth avenue.—Tux Betis; on, Tue Porisn Jew ROWERY THEAIRE, Bowery.—Bxuiua, tux Seino Macnine Ginu—Tux Rovan Diamono. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bron: Cnow-Cnow. Afiernoon an ‘ornor Thirtieth st— ime. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between f{ouston and Bleecker ets.—Itey PockeTs0oK. THEATRE COMIQUE, 5I4 Broadway. -New York Ex Parssuan, to. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Mower Dear. WHITE'S ATHENAZUM, 585 Broadway.—Nxcro Mux. eTRELsr, 0. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Chav.—Neano Minstearsy, Eccentnroty, £c. ST. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 23th st. and Broad ‘way.—San Francisco MinstRRLs IN Fancr, &c. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1872—TRIPLE SH&Kr. The virent Liveral-Democraiic Meeting of Last Night—Oponing of the State Campaiga. With the glamour and glaro of torchlight, gaslight, fireworks and incandescent calcium, in the tones of a hundred orators aud the deep- mouthed thunder of the applauding masses, the liberal-democratic campaign in this city was put vigorously under way last night. That as a display to the oye it did not equal in bar- baric pigturesinonéas the democratic campaign openings of years gono by, when rich, spoil- fod Tammany was King, is true; but that it éxhibited @ pirength of respectability above ita predecessors, while” Squalling them in numbers, though » pot in boiste- rousness, is also truco, Tho coalition ehip was launched in flying colors, and ,:TOm- ises, so far as Now York city is concerned, to turn over to Horace Groeley all that democ- racy can in Novembor noxt. Nominally a coalition meeting, it was really a democratic demonstration. ‘The speoches all, to be sure, carofully avoided thet difficult thing in a party speech of giving offence to any party, being particularly punctilious in making it a question of opposition to the administration—to a per- sonality, in fact. This course, however, can- not disguise the fact that the tone of the lead- ing democrats who spoke was that of justifica- tion to their fellows of the course they had taken in accepting principles and candidates from an offshoot of their old-time political foe. Tho liberal republicans addressed, thomselves as to new allies. The speeches took an instinctive coloring from the audiences, yot, whatever might be observable on this score, it was evident that the masses had poured out re- solved to support the ticket, and democrat and 72 BROADWAY, EMERSON’S MINSTRELS.—Gaand E:1moriun Ecorntxroirtes. JAMES ROBINSON'S CHAMPION CIRCUS, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-fifth street. NEWARK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, Washington street, corner of Court, Newark, N. J. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 63d and (4th streets, s IRVING HALL, corner of Irving place and 15th st— Busiagp Contest. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Gaanv Instavwexrat Concert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bor AND ARr. SHE LE TRI New York, Friday, Sept. 13, 1872. Pack, Advertisements. 2—Advertisements, 3—Ratification: The Great National Alliance; Union Square Ablaze; Imposing Mass Meeting of Democrats and Liberals; Endorsement of the National and State Tickets; Greeley and Brown ; Stirring Addresses on the lasues of e paign; Kernan and Depew; Brilliant Pyrotechnic ‘Display; Banue! lusic, Oratory and Gunpowder as Aids to Political Warfare; Forty Thousand People Awake; Addresses by Francis Kernan, Chauncey M. ee Fernan- do Wood and Charles A. Dana, of New York; Banks, of Massachusetts; Walker and Hunter, of Virginia; Saunders, of Maryland, and Other Speakers; Grantism Fiercely Assailed; Scenes and Incidents of the Demonstration. 4—Ratification (Continued from Third Page)— Grant Rally in Newark Last Night—“When Doctors Disagree :"’ A Physician Attempts to Assassinate His Professional Brother With a Knife—The Metis Investigation. 5—'Gonor ‘Consents: And Doubts Ne’er Daunt ye Vuncanites; Jubilant Gratulation; The “Committee of Persuasion” to Their Pouting Candidate; The New “Tidal Wave; The Great Lawyer to Ride on the Crested binows, While Greeley and Grant Perish in the Bregk- ers; The tical Romance-Courtship of a Candidate; His Sacrifice Resolved On; Run Him They Will, Rain Him They May—The State Campaign—Obituary—A Flurry in port dey? reine tg = ae the arian of a Drainage Company jestroy Naviga- tion—Music and the Drama, 6—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘The Great Libe- ral-Democratic Meeting of Last Night—Open- ing of the State Campaign’—Amusement Announcements. J—The Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Rome, Africa, Navigator's Islands, Sandwich Islands, Australasia, Japan and China—News from Cuba, Chile and the West Indies—Yachting: Fine Race for the Newport Citizen’s Cup; The Palmer the Win- ner—Miscellaneous Tclegrams—Business No- ces. S—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Forrester—Jefferson Mar- ket Police Court—Terrible Tragedy in Fourth Avenue—Suicide of a Real Estate Broker— Horrible Death—Prospect Park Fair Grounds— The Autumn Trotting Meeting at Fleetwood Park—Horse | Notes—Municipal Affairs—The some of Mrs, Kendrick—Marriages and at ¥—Financial and Commercial: A Still Further Re- jaxation in the Money Market; The Rate on Call Loans Easy at Four Per Cent; No Ad- vance in the Bank of England Rake of Dis- ~ count; Gold Rises, but Relapses; ie Market uotable as Rather Firmer in Tone; The asury Sale of Gold; Government Bonds ‘rong and More Active; A Dull Day in Stocks; The Latest Estimates of the Cotton Orop of 1871-72—A Whole Block of Buildings Byrned in Newark—New York City Items— vértisements. 10—Greeley in Vermont: The at St. Johns- ry Fair; Twelve Thousand Persons Preeent ; Speech on Farming—News from Wash- ington — Baipptns Intelligence — Advertise- ment l1—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Present Garant, it appears, is well satis- fed with the results, as far as known, of the settlement agreed upon by the Geneva Tri- bunal of Arbitration. The complaints of the British press in the premises he thinks afford grounds for congratulation at our success, and there is sound 1 philosophy in phat t idea, Women’s Rioxts.—The late Liberal Repub- lican Convention in Massachusetts wound up ite proceedings by an explicit declaration in favor of women’s rights, such as the right to vote, the right to fight and other rights of that sort now denied them. Now, therefore, as the women’s rights women of Massachusetts have discovered that the representative of their cause is Mr. Sumner, they should not be backward in coming forward in his support. Tae Mreapo or Japan has returned, sud- denly and unexpectedly, to Yokohama from his tour in the southern districts of the Em- ppire. He made no delay, but took the train or Jeddo immediately. His Majesty may have received important despatches from Corea. Know Nornrorsm im Japan.—Simraz Sa- bvierz is the name of a Japanese Know Nothing who has just ventured to address the Mikadoin reclamation against the imperial policy for the effecting of a general national every day inter- communion with the outside Christian nations, particularly America. Simraz Sabierz says he can seo “plain as in a mirror that the im- perial dynastic line is in danger of falling into the vice called republicanism ; that the for- tanes of the country are daily declining, and that Japan will eventually become a depend- ency of the Western barbarians.’ Simraz Sa- bierz is an Asiatio political fossil of the very coarsestand most useless form of petrifaction. He camnot comprehend the current of events, and has, most probably, in his ignorance per- formed a political official hari-kari for himself. He says he can only sigh and weep. He will bave pleaty of leisure for the enioyment, liberal were hailed heartily alike. Of all the addresses made last evening nono perhaps will be scanned with the interest which Mr. Francis Kernan’s, the coalition candidate for Governor, will evoke. Not by any means labored, and entirely free from reference to himself personally, it was a declaration of union with the liberals on the great ground of reform befitting a man in his position. If wanting in anything it wasin that force of rhetoric which, to be deeply effective, must spring from the depths of the soul. In a word, it was weak in that for the basis of its attacks on the administration it relied on facts accepted at second hand. His allegations against the rule of the republican administration he relied on the voices of the liberal republicans to prove. What this wants in directness it gains, how- ever, in subtlety, for it is saying in a round- about way to the country, “Out of their own mouths they are condemned.” With this ex- ception all carping criticism to his re- marks must cease. Outside of the unre- dressed wrongs to the people, allowed to override public safety by the republicans, he addressed himself boldly to the watchword of reform. Here he was more effective. He was not very precise or particularizing in pointing out where the wrongs were to be redressed ; but his appeal for the permanency of a reform, federal, State and municipal, was hearty, well conceived and fully justified by his record. He would bury the past, and with his face to the present and the future join hands with all who pledged themselves to the reformation of political abuses. It is very evident from all this that Mr. Kernan’s idea of the campaign in this State is to iake it out of the war, the constitutional amendments, the old bittternesses and the new feuds, and make it an issue between the honest- intentioned of all parties and those who are dragged along at the heels of a corrupt administration. Whatever may have been the tenets of democracy in the past, he discards from it all that the sword of the nation has cut away, all the disjecta membra which the over- whelming majority of the people have declared to be buried. In contrast for a moment with Charles O’Conor, whom people are fond to say he resembles, he clings only to what is alive, and sees no credit in watering a plant with his tears whereof half the branches are rotten. There is a difference between principles pure and simple and the policies of circumstance, misnamed principles, which together go to make up party platforms. To the un- thinking partisan this distinction is not appreciable, and they are confounded into a blind, incurable idolatry. That men of mind and courage are to be found who, in a crisis like the present, can separate these dead poli- cies from the undying principles and agnin boldly accept the best policies of the hour is a matter of congratulation and hope. They leave the stain upon those who cling in pas- sion to the dead, dishonored past, which was deep on Lancelot: — His honor, rooted in dishonor, stood, And faith unfaithful made him falsely true. Viewed in this light Mr. Kernan’s utter- ance will place him in a satisfactory position befoyg the citizens of the State, and entitle him honestly to the support of all who are opposed to the policy ented nationally in the administration and locally by its sup- porters in the Empire State. We are not aware that General Banks threw any new light upon his position, which he has so fully defined on other occasions, yet his strictures on personal government lose none of the racy flavor so well suited to the stump. Leaving the colored convert orators and the Southern gentleman who told about the Ku Klux and military repression, we may come to the remarks of Chauncey M. Depew, the liberal candidate for Lieutenant Governor. We are sorry to say that this speech does not appear to have gone at any length into the treatment of local affairs. Personal praise of Mr. Kernan as an eminent jurist from his eloquent tongue was, of course, emi- nently in order, as the eulogy has the more | excuse coming from a whilom republican toa quondam democrat; but mere derision of General Dix and the “bloody chasm’’ busi- ness does not come up to the expectations from the candidate to so important an office as the Presidency of the higher branch of our State Legislature. This is the more regretable as Mr. Depew ought to be especially well-informed on the affairs of the State. Can it, then, be modesty alone which prevented him from touching upon the great business interests of and knavery were to be met and killed? As the vast concourse of citizens, who, in their tens of thousands listened to the greater or lesser lights around the stands in Union square or in Irving or Tammany Hall, dis- persed to their homes the conviction must have settled uvon thom that the issue for No- eC essstsisSstsi‘(‘(‘(;SCCC mmm vember lay between two partios and two only—| The Defects of Local Telegraphy in the party supporting General Grant and the party supporting ‘Horace Greeley. In face of the known onthusiesm of tho regular republi- cans, stimulated by recent party successes in other States, and the magnificent support tendered last night by the demoorats to the liberal candidates, all other party fragmonts must count as nothing in New York. It could sgarcely have been expected that every old hondoboll in the State would jump 60 far in’ advance of the shadow of the past as to take sides with ¢ithor of the two great divi- sions ; but tho attempt to dignify them into a separate organism will be just as hopeless. The band of patriots who assembled at Louisvillo have too suspicious a tinge of traitorism about their little movement to de- ceive many. It is professedly a ‘suicide pary;”” ot the best, and your old hayloft hard- shell would prefer staying at home to exhibit- ing his political har.kati to ect multitude, In voting for Grant or for Groewy” citizens will know approximately where they ptand; but in voting for O'Oonor they would arrive at utter stultification, and have performed as thankloss. a job as the citizens of old Rome had in voting for Ooriolanus, whose classio old brusquerie the straight-out candidate wishes to emulate. The fight, therefore, lies between Kernan and Dix, so far as New York is concerned. The blaze of a torchlight procession may not be a safo place to look for party princi- ple, but it gives a certain test of tho popular current. As we have said, the meet- ing of last night was democraticas to hearers, although mixed as to speakers. The impartial- ity with which all were listened to evinces a real change in the bearing of a mass of men who would a year ago have hooted half the orators off the stands. If not a gage of victory, it is the harbinger of a softening of political asperities of goodly promise in the future. The cause of Mr. Greeley, too, will, we have no doubt, be improved thereby throughont the State. The firm attitude of the New York democracy will give heart of grace to some republicans who, while disliking to follow their old party’s lead, have been timorous over a venture in which nothing was assured. To this extent it will work him good, and will also encourage the rural democrats to stand by the ticket. It will place Mr. Ker- nan’s name on the ticket with a firmer hand and in a better light, and give him rank asa man pledged to reform, and this means something more than usual when it is based on @ personally honest record. That it will win many votes from the republicans who have fallen into line under General Dix we do not bolieve. If it solidifies the opposition to General Grant, which Bourbonism and repub- lican victories have assailed, it will have done good work for the party; but that accom- plishing this means triumphs at the polls we do not foel inclined to predict. France—Tur Vick Presrentiar QuveEs- t10N.—One of our cable despatches informs us that on the occasion of the reopening of the sessions of the National Assembly President Thiers will propose the creation of the office of Vice President. We are glad to find that Presi- dent Thiers has so far made up his mind. On this particular point he has been somewhat slow to decide. Better late than never, Presi- dent Thiers has done yell, He has fairly earned the title of “Savior of his country.” In the great future, when nations and races and languages and religions no longer divide or disturb the human family, the name of Louis Adolphe Thiers will be remembered with that of George Washington and the pa- triotic names oe al the vane But the good work begun by Thiers is not yet finished. The new French Republic is not yet formed. It hangs too much on one man, and that man is President Thiers. The death of Thiers might make an end of the Republic. The Vice Presidency is necessary in France; for the man who now holds the reins of power in that country and makes the Republic possible is in his seventy-sixth yenr. Napoigon in Exrre—Tue Ex-Empernor anp Empnrss on Boanp an American Yacut.— Napoleon in exile will be a fruitful theme for some future historian. If there be no Bour- rienne or O'Meara there will surely be an Abbot to gather up the scraps and tell us all we ought to know. Of the period of the exile one of the many interesting episodes will be the trip around the Isle of Wight made by the Emperor and the Empress on board the American yacht Sappho. The entire affair redounds to the credit of Mr. Douglas, the owner of the yacht, and of the imperial couple. It is a nice little piece of courtesy all around. Well meant, well received, well accomplished—that is the story. Among the many things which this little offsir reveals it | the Empire State and saying where rapacity | reveals this, that the fallen Emperor and his amiable wife are as much to-day, in the hour of their misfortune, popular fayorites, jn the world-wide sense, as they were in the days of their pride and power. Who thinks of them unkindly ? - 1% Ta bel Tae Szoox Wut or Lana D. Fam.— Mrs. Fair having been convicted, upon her trial at San Francisco more than a year ago, of the November, 1870, her counsel carried the case before the Supreme Court for revision and upon atechnical point procured an order for a new trial. This commenced on Monday, and | during four days only three competent persons were found to sit on the jury, though about seven hundred talesmen had been examined. It is asserted that in this trial an entirely distinct line of defence will be adopted from that at- tempted before, and the champions of the prisoner are now confident that at the worst she will only be found guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree. Emotional insanity in her case was not so successful a plea as to warrant its repetition. At the rate of progross so for we may calculate on a jury being obtained by the end of the month, and a verdict may be safely expected before election ¢ Tue Baitisn War Surrs on duty off Navi- gator’s Island have captured several vessels and a number of mén engaged in kidnapping natives to be forwarded to Australasia, under the denomination of emigrant laborers. We have already shown that this traffic is really the slave trade under another name and covered by a new pretence, and we are glad that Her Majesty's government in London has arrived at the same opinion. Livingstone'’s corre- spondence to the Henatp is producing excel- lent frnit. murder of Mr. A. P. Crittenden on the 11th | New York—The Herald's Tolegraph Lines. Among the greatest necessities of advancing civilizatioa is tho rapid communication of ideas over greater or lesser distances, We need not consider tho time whon, if @ man wanted to tell his friends anything, he had to carry the news himself, or oven the stop for- ward wherein tho postboy’s mail bag was the best means at hand. We have now the olec- tric telegraph, and where instant transmission of intelligence is neoded everybody looks to the invention of Morse for its accom” plishment. The sweeping success of sub- marine cab bridging seas and oceans, is considered tho great step forward, ang #0 it undoubtedly is; but, as progres’ ¢an have no resting place, we find innumerable faults of dotail in tho management of the tele- graph hero, which hinders its widor applica- tion to overyday life, The offorts at presont being made to spread the utility of tho tele- graph are nearly all directed fo taking in dis- tani points all over the country, wich is very Inudable and reaps its own reward; but it straining after this, other great objects areoom- paratively neglected—namely, rapidity of transmission, punctuality of delivery and the development of local telegraph lines, We do not wish to blame unnecessarily the Western Union Telegraph Company; but, with all its enterprise in tying all quarters of tho Continent together, its local lines in New York are sadly neglected. If this corporation does not feel sufficient interest in attending to the business in this city it should not stand in the way of others by what is, in effect, a shallow pretence of furnishing telegraph lines between the various points of the city. That it is defective may easily be found by a sim- ple experiment, which is probably in the experience of every person in the city who has attempted to steal a march on time through the local telegraph. If a message be deposited at any of the downtown stations, say Wall street, for transmission up town, and a messen- ger started at the same time by the ordinary routes of street-car travel, with the same intelligence, the mossenger will infalli- bly arrive before the despatch. This is, unfortunately, not applicable only to districts set down as ‘‘out of the way,’’ but is equally true of any portion of the city. It is not for us to say whether the insufficiency lies in the number of wires, the inefficiency of the operators, the scarcity of messengers or a general want of organization; for when a per- son pays for a despatch at rates immensely in excess of postage, or what it would cost to send a private messenger, he will blame the telegraph company as a whole instead of in- quiring into the particulars of a delay often fatal to his interests, be they those of business, of the family or merely social. It is a question of importance to every branch of the community. Its relation to the press cannot better be indicated than by a reference to the case of the Hzraup. A news- paper in the actual sense of the term must, to win its way, never lose its character as a pioneer. To this end, one of its most vital objects of unceasing vigilance is the quickening of means of communication. What is sufficiently rapid for the aver- age citizen would be vastly too slow for the journal. Men read the papers for information otherwise out of their per- sonal reach, and expect that they should be always shead. The organization which insures the collection of news everywhere would be nine-tenths wasted effort if the facility for reaching the newspaper were inef- fooline e defay of half an houi’ at s cer: tain period of, the journalistic day would often leave all the foresight and cost of obtaining information valueless. This is known toevery editor of a daily paper in the world. Hence the Henaxp, in directions where the public channels of post and telegraph were chroni- cally inadequate to dothe Hzratn’s business in Henatp time, established post routes, steam- boat routes, messenger routes and telegraph lines of its own, and always found the venture satisfactory and _ profitable to its patrons and itself. Before the days of railroads and telegraphs it led the way along the highways by the Hzrarp’s express service. When the iron horse and Morse’s invention superseded these it adopted the improved means with a will. The growing commerce of New York needed an earlier notice of ships’ arrivals. Before the days of the Atlantic cable the European steamers brought the freshest European news, and with the view of securing this maritime infor- mation and looked-for news budget the Henarp set its fleet of steam yachts afloat. To further facilitate the transmission of late arrivals a telegraph line was laid between the Hunatp Ship News Office at pier 1 East River and the headquarters of the journal. The necessity for private telegraph com. munication gniy begati “There. To ac- gommodate ous uptown. advertisers it wos necessary a ee ae Ban Oitice at 4,263 Broadway. This answered very well for awhile; but just cause of complaint was made that the Branch Office closed its advertising list foy the day some minutes earlier than the down- town office. A special telegraph line was therefore laid, connecting the Branch Office with the Henatp Building, and advertisements can now be deposited np town up to the same moment as down town, the Henatp’s ope- rators despatching them as soon as received. Our latest contribution to this branch of com- munication is the construction of a Heratp telegraph line to Whitestone, Long Island. The prime necessity for this was the want of a ripid means of reporting the movements of vessels on the Sound going to and from New York. There was no telegraph line ex- isting, so we put one up at our own cost, and it is now opened. To meet the commercial want of communicating promptly with vessels passing up or down the Sound we have thrown this open to the public, and mes- sages of all kinds can be sent backwards or forwards by the Heratp Building, tho Branch Office, 1,265 Broadway, or the Ship News Office, pier No, 1 East River, with arrangements, where necessary, for delivering the messages aboard ship. Now the development of the telegraph, like every advance in civilization, is born of a par- ticular necessity. The man first to recognize a necessity of this kind will always have before him a rich harvest of honor and gain if he can only procure the thing needed to meet it. The example of London; the largest city in the world, when taken into account, will furnish, in respect to local telogravhv. the most reas- yy suring instance. The peculiar radiation of that city from its centre places it at a much Greater disadvantage than oblong Now York in regard to facilities of communication, yet its immense extent imperatively demanded that they should exist. Honoo it ia that the postal service was increased in effeotivences until it has become a matter of certainty that a letter posted at-noon in tho city proper will be deliv- ered in three hours at latest in the most remote portion of the five-mile radius comprising the postal district, Thore is nothing wonderful in it; it is simply an extension of an exact and practical organization. §o it is with the telegraph. Where the poatal service was 80 rapid, no one would think of using tho wiro if if took four, five or six hours (as in New York) to send a mossage. organiza- tion was, therefore, extended, the stations multiplied and means taken evon to the usé of mounted messengers in the moro scattered suburbs. A portly citizen of Orokaigne to-day may order his dinner through the tele- graph, before he takes his seat in the omnibus, with the certainty of finding it cooked for him on his arrival in his beloved dining room in the suburbs, provided the cook attends to the commn”ds of her master, Tho telegraph office may ws relied on to do its vicarious share of the work. The recent absorption of the telegraph companies by the Post Office there, too, has extended the facilitios while cheapening the rates. Tho moral of all this is that what was possible in London is equally so in New York, and the experience of the former city shows that it will pay, if only ap- plied practically and in earnest. Where so much can be doue by private enterprise, as the Hraup lines to-day demon- strate, we have surely a right to expect that the telegraph companies directly interested in the matter will make a prompt effort to do for the entire city what the Henaup has done in its particular directions. Mr. Orton, of the Western Union, should take this matter in hand and remedy the evil. While attending to the expansion of the system outward the cir- culation in the heart has been allowed to fall into a most sluggish condition. We must have a reform, and there is, we believe, enterprise enough in tho city to take this work out of the hands it isin and do it properly if the telegraph companies already existent do not turn over a new leaf. Mr. O’Coner and the = Straight-Out Democrats, We publish to-day in another part of the paper the appeal of the committee representing the straight-out democrats of the Louisville Convention to Mr. O’Conor to accept the nom- ination for the Presidency, the reply of that gentleman, and the final action of the com- mittee in making him a candidate, though he still persisted in formally refusing the nomi- nation of the Louisville Convention. The whole proceeding is very singular, and adds a curious chapter to the varied political history of the country, We will not say that Mr. O'Conor has been coquetting with the demo- erats who met at Louisville, though that might be inferred from the course he has taken all through the movement, and particularly from his last response to the committee. We take it for granted that he did not desire a nomination, and that his refusal to accept one, both at first and at last, was honestly given. But as he puts this in his last reply, which we publish to-day, on the ground of repugnance to politi- cal conventions, and as he declares in favor of the spontaneous potion of the people in choos- ing the it, it is to be infe that he yould not refuse to serve should he be elected to that high office, _ That evidently is the con- clusion the committee of the Louisville Con- vention came to when they declared that. he should be their candidate, in spite of his formal declination of that honor. We may consider Mr. O’Conor, therefore, to be fairly in the field as the candidate of the straight-out democrats and for all the fragmentary politi- cal elements opposed to Grant on one hand and to Greeley on the other. It is probable, too, that Mr. Adams may accept the second place on the ticket under this new phase of the political situation. Supposing, then, that O’Conor and Adams should thus enter upon or be forced into the race, what would be the probable result? No one could expect they would be elected, un- less, indeed, there should be a most ex- traordinary and unprecedented revolution within the next six weeks in the political affairs of the country. This movement might, however, take away a sufficient number of votes from the candidates of the Baltimore and Cincinnati Conventions to make the re- election of General Grant comparatively easy. It could make little impression upon the solid phalanxes of the regular republican organiza- tion. The Louisville Convention was, it is true, an aggregation of impracticable, visionary ond scheming politicians, for ; the most part, and had {ho appéarance | of peing a force; but the respectable | names of Sccoe and Adams may thought they wouid have. Many of our citizens might give them their support, too, from catching the idea which Mr. O'Conor has thrown out of hostility to the dictation of party conventions and the caucus nominations of corrupt and scheming politicians. If we may judge from the recent elections in the New England States Mr. Greeley cannot divide the republican party to any appreci- able extent, and can bring little accession of strength to the democratic party. According to present appearances the Baltimore Convention has been deceived, or deceived itself, and has sold out the democratic party for a mess of pottage. It is not unlikely that the mass of that party may see the matter in this light be- fore November, and may either become apa- thetic or vote for O'Conor and Adams. At all events it seems probable that General Grant will be re-elected if there be the three tickets named in the Presidential campaign. While we give Mr. O’Conor that credit for honesty and lofty principles which we can hardly accord to most of those who have pushed hiny forward as a Presidential candi- date, it does seem that both he and they have misapprehended the real issues before the country and the motives of the liberal repub- licans and democrats in their combined nomi- nations. It is all very well talking about time- honored principles, party consistency or party affiliations, but every student of history knows that parties and their policy must change or be modified with the changing circumstances and vroeress of the times, There is doarocly anything: loft of the old demooratio potitioal dogmas. The war and the amendments to the constitution, together with the actual exigencies of the government, have swept them away. The real issues upon which the liberal republicans are the restoration of the South, amnesty, harmony of the two sections of the country, relieving the Southern States from tho rule, of ignorant negroes and carpet-bag plunderors,’ economy in the government, civil’ service reform and other reforms which the regular republican administration party has refused. These were the and issues inaugurated by the coalition. They ought to meet with popular favor all qver the country. Yr The Massachusetts Democrats and Lit- crale—Cherles Sumner for Governor, The democrats and liberal republicans of Massachusetts “have joined hands over the bloody chasm,”’ under the banner of Charles Sumner for Governor. The announcement to those impracticable old-line democrats who still believe in the Dred Scott decision may exéite only profanity and contempt; but, nevertheless, if is true that Charles Sumner, the leader of the aboiition forlorn hope in the United States Senate against ‘“‘the barbarism¢ of slavery,’’ and, down to'the adjourninent of the late session of Congress, the champion for the enforcement of equal) rights to the black race in our public schools; hotels, theatres, steamboats and railway cars, and from the organization of the republican party its, Magnus Apollo in Massachusetts against the: pro-slavery democracy, is now the candidate of the Massachusetts democrats for Governor, and likewise of the anti-Grant republicans,. who have pinned their faith to the comfortable old white coat of Horace Greeley, the regular democratic candidate for the Presidency. Unquestionably this nomination of Mr. Sumner for Governor by the opposition coali- tion of Massachusetts is due to the greatness of his name and fame, and his long-established popularity as the powerful and fearless ex- pounder and defender of the prevailing pub- lic opinion of the Old Bay State, And yet we apprehend that not even the great name of Mr. Sumner will serve materially to strengthen the opposition cause in Massachusetts, Daniel Webster, in the meridian of his glory as the expounder of the constitution in behalf of liberty, was a far greater man in Massachu- setts than Mr. Sumner; but Webster, with that famous compromise speech of March 7, 1850, in the Senate, in behalf of Southern slavery, fell from grace in Massachusetts, and sickened from his fall, and died a disappointed man. Yet, again, the Adams family—that eminently distinguished family—which has twice been appropriately honored, in father and son, with the Presiden- tial office, is a family of which Messachu- setts has for a hundred years been particularly proud. But a grandson of President John Quincy Adams, and bearing his name, has been for years in succession the standing democratic candidate for Governor, only to be defeated by the usual republican majorities from first to last. We are sure that he cheer- fully resigns his chances in this capacity to Mr. Sumner, though we are not certain that Mr. Sumner (he having left some days since for Europe) knows anything of the honor con- ferred upon him. We presume, however, that from his intense and ineradicable hostility to General Grant he will consent to serve in the position assigned him as the opposition stand- ard-bearer in Massachusetts, fully satisfied that hig quarrel with General Grant, in being | oileated to 3 quarrel with ati ie is the practical ending of the political career of the great Senator. nc ee ed New York Trape wit Hononv.v.—The Hawaiian Minister of Finance has delivered an opinion on the subject of the importation of goods direct from New York overland to San Francisco, and thence to Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, and the assessment of duties thereon. The gentleman is very accurate and emphatic in his definition of the law, presenting his opinion in a manner which will render it very useful to the mercantile community. He appears, at the same time, to think that the matter was propounded to him for the purpose of drawing out an ex- pression in favor of some one line of trans- portation, on which point he is magnanimously neutral. Tamty-roun Japanese Sropents—a fresh batch—arrived at San Francisco by steam- ship yesterday. They are bound for Chicago. There they will have an oppor- tunity of learning of the terrible ravages of the fire king of the North, and of witnessing the power and force of American energy and enterprise when put forth even under the most suddenly disastrous circumstances—a new les- son, and useful, for the literati of the Far Baek ror, tans a age ee PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. i L. Givgon, of New Orleans, is quar- 1 Geiidral RL. ek i) ahaa ada 5 tered at the New York Hotel. Colonel Thomas Ochiltree, of Texas, J8 residing at the Everett House, : ’ Captain R. C. Halpin, of London, England, is so- journing at the Clarendon. Commander A. R. Yates, of the United States Navy, is stopping at the Grand Hotel. Governor R. F, Randolph, of New Jersey, arrived yesterday at the New York Hotel. Mr. Ernest Van Bruyssel, the Belgian Consul, ig registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel G. H, Allen, of Savannah, Ga., ts domi- ctied at the Grand Central Hotel. Senator Roscoe Conkling is among the late ar- rivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General A. Von Steirweter, of Cuba, will remain at the Metropolitan Hotel for a few days. Mile. Paresa Carrio, of Paris, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. General R. M.T. Hunter, of Virginia, has takem quarters at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Richmond, Va., is making & brief stay at the New York Hotel. Colonel W. H. Smyth, United States Army, is resting at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge E. H. Durell, of New Orleans, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor G. C, Walker, of Virginia, ts among the arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Jndge Ruggles, of Mississippl, is stopping at the St. Denis Hotel. Judge J. 8, Helfenstine, of Philadelphia, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. State Senavor W. H. Horrobin, of Vermont, ia among the guests at the Westminster Hotel, BAVAL INTBLLIGENOE. Fortress Monroe, Va., Sept. 12, 1872. The United States frigate Constellation, Captain Jeffries, having on board midshipmen from the Naval Academy, has arrived from Newport, and ia Guchored below the fort, All on board woll.