The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1874, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MIE SYRACUSE CONVENTION, The Tammany Delegates Moving to the Field of Action. A UNIT FOR SAMUEL J. TILDEN. Communication from Clarkson N. Potter on | the Duties of the Democracy, TAMMANY'S DELEGATION. ‘The preparations for departure of delegates toan important State Convention such as to-morrow’s Syracuse demonstration promises to be proved an | event of considerable excitement to our pulitical friends of Tammany Hall yesterday. Each dele- gate acted and felt as if the weight of empire was | on his individual shoulders, Grant’s third term, the financial muddle, whether Shaxespeare or Bacon can claim to be the great immortalized in Mteravure—ai) those Issues of the hour faded into | insignificance in comparison with the one promi- nent idea of the Tammany delegate—his departure Jor Syracuse to-day. All the political headquarters were crowded. In every ward where there are no club rooms a certain hotel or house ®f public entertainment is selected as the head- guarters Of each political chieftain, who happens to attain that nigh pinnacle of his fame—“neading the Committee,” which means in every-day | Phraseology, naming his own particular friends a8 members of the Assembly district organization. The Committee on Organization of Tammany Hall—the real live, working, controlling power of that body—is composed of one member from each | of these committees, and, of course, this member tg the one who heads his district. Three delegates have been selected from each Assembly district in the city to proceed to Syra- euse tls morning. There are twenty-two Assem- | bly districts, and this places the entire nunber of | the delegation at sixty-six. Mr. Jonn Kelly has been chosen Chairman, and Mr. John A. Foley, Becretary. Of course this 1s but a small es- timate of the nuamber. Nearly the whole Tammany Hail General Committee (which amounts to about 600 members) and their friends WL likely accompany the delegation. In the days of the Tweed dynasty the “boys” always had a Stand time on the occasion of aconvention, They | received tree passes without number, were pro- | vided with reiresuments oi the best description | | Bnd sent flying out of the depot amid the adrairing eae of thousands. Lerge numbers focéed to wel THE CHORUS OF DEMOCRATIC THUNDER, flags fluttered and drums beat, while tue State of | Kentucky was particutarly immortalized by the | huge quantity of “Bourbon” which found its way down the throats of the unterrified. Orders came from the sanctum of the ring to swell the attend- ance at the Convention, to drown with acciama- ton, and more energetic efforts it necessary, tue objections of the wavering aud doubtful. As if by magic the dictum flew iroia ward to ward and the trains were packed. “Ah! this was in the good old times,” remarked a threadbare-looking indi- vidual, with a rubicund nose, whom our repre- pentative met last evening in search of iniorma- tion; “when ‘the Boss’ was in everybody’s mouth and his picture on every transpartney.” But the | days of political excitement and noisy prepara- aon are by no means departed, as was tully ex. hibited Jast evening. Neither was the State of Kentucky, with its luscious nectar, 1orgotten by our thirsty politicians. They met and talked on street corners, canvassed the situation clamor- ously and made bets ireely. THE DELEGATION WILL START atten o'clock this morning, precisely, from the @epot at Forty-second street. Palace cars have been engaged jor their accommodation, and every | attention is to be paid to them on their journey. | Some few will leave by the eight o'clock train, but the main body will take their departure at tne later nour. At_a meeting held a tew evenings since Messrs. William ff. Wickham, James Hayes | and Timothy J. Campbell were appointed a com- | mittee to make suitable arrangements for the transfer of the delegates to their destination. | Everything was completed yesterday, and now | GQosbing remains but to give the word “Gol” G THE DELEGATION A UNIT ON TILDEN. | As far as could be ascertained the delegation ; Yrom tals city, so far, are a unit in favor of the | nomination of Mr. Tilden. It was stated to our | | represeniative that, on Saturday last, they held a meeting in Tammany Hall. A vote was put as to their choice for the nomination, when a unanimous “aye” was given to Mr. Tilden. One week ago, how- ever, several members of the delegation were notso | well agreed in their choice. Our representative | talked with some of them—leaders in their dl: tricts, Tilden was not the man ior the occasion, | they said. lf he received the nomination there | vould be no possible chance of carrying the State. | But yesterday this tune was changed. Tilden was looked upon and talked of as the great political | Napolecn who should snatch the laurel wreath of | victory from the hands of the republican party, | and point the way to a democratic Austerlitz in the Presidential ejection of 1876, But how this remarkable change? It is sudden and iooks miraculous. Have the mterests of party rooted out all personal or caprtious objection? | Outsiders—those who have been leit shivering In the cold at the doorsteps of Tammany Hali—assert } that taese gentlemen have been whipped Into the , traces. The voice of command has gone lorta from the stentorian lungs of Joon Kelly, and they must | bow in submission to the mandate. He is the iron commander who has announced that Samuel J. Tiden must be the nominee of the Syracuse Con- | vention, and his flat in this city has gone forth into the political whirlpool without fear of contra- | diction. Thus the gentlemen who shouted last ‘week against the nomination of Mr. Tiiden Jet out | their thunder yesterday in just the opposite direc- tion, Sq tends the dictum of political leadersnip. KELLY AND TILDEN left for the seat of war yesterday afternoon Senator Fox, Sheriff Conner, William H. Wicknam and other prominent democrats lollow this morn- ing. Part of the Kings county delegation are announced to travel with their Tammany brethren to-day, although the main body left last evening. ‘The choice,of this body is said to be non-committal. They are not exactly opposed to ‘Tilden, but will ve jurther developments bercre declaring them. selves, ‘CLARKSON N. POTTER ON 1HE| ‘SITUATION. Letter to Samuel J. Tilden, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee. Hon. Save. J, TILDEN, Chairman: Sim—You are the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, You are a tried and taitnful | democrat of long and distinguighed standing. A , democrat upon principle and conviction, trained 4m the schvol of Jackson and Wright, It is becom. | ing, therefore, thot this Open letter intenaed tor | all demé-Fats should in form be addressed to you. TD: republican party was formed to prevent tne | Becsien of slavery. ‘ In the course of itz ‘aamin- setration of public affairs 9 gre vane and Up, which involvéd the dulan “tha “Chtirery of these States. That war resulted not only tn preventing such further extension, bat also im the com- | Plete abolition of slavery itself, and has been followed by such changes in the fundamental law | as to render slavery impossible and to forbid ali political distinctions by reason of race or color, and to make the union and entirety of these Staves as indissoluble as it can be made by human action, | The mission of the republican party is theretore absolutely ended, Beyond this its defective administration. tts Maintenance of an irredeemable currency and of a system of bounties, subsidies aud protection, with the consequent extravagance, injustice and cor- ruption which have resulted, united to the rea tion incident toa period of general business dis trnst and depression, have convinced a large body | Of voters heretofore in sympathy with the party | that the days of tg asefuiness are over. | They are now, therefore, inquiring where ‘they shall go. These inquirers embrace pot only | men who sympathized, more or less, with the old federaiists, but also men who were originally democrats, but who were mduced by their oppo- sition to slavery, or by their idea of tue measures necessary to maintain the Union to unite with the republican party, but who, now that those exigencics have passed, are, in their desire to preserve limited government, and in their appr henston of centralization and arbitrary gov ment, at heart democrats, according to the true meaning of that term in our politics, In the great slavery contest the democrats were constrained by the compromises of the constitution to side upon some issaes with the Sout, | however, becanse they were for slavery, but | because Uiey were for the Constitution, None tne | Jess, thts Grew ILO Co-operation With the demo- evelic parly some Whose dowocracy conssted only Not, | vard,” the franchis | men to office, | by general aud public Jaws. | the others may, and thus is without greater in- | cure true reiorm, | sent it a8 One plank Of its platform for the commg | cause dealing mainly with genera: and public and | ‘it | Indeed, lor claims against the government | Influence tor evil. | adoption they took part im those eight amend- | lule appointment of upwards of 80,000 oficehold- | | 1s a power pertectly constitutional. | and by making the local omc ) perty white tuey 1 but wisely refused them the right to perpe e such accumulation atter their deatl, an ariictai privileged class more danger- ous iny natural persons has been ey, lowed (o grow up and to consolidate itself | nnnl now th in the fact that it did side with the South. Bo, later, | in their desire to protect indivigual rights and | Hberty, the democratic party found itsell arrayed against the suspension of the haveas corpus and | military arresta in the loyal States, against the issue of legal tender notes aud a system of internal | revenue dependent upon spies and informers. And this not because it Was in favor of secession, | but because it was in favor of the rights of per- sons: not because it Was not m earnest to pre- | serve the integrity of the whole country, but be- cause it sought to preserve tp under a limited and loculized and liberal instead of under a centratized and despotic government, Nevertheless, many good men then became misied as to the purpose of | the democratic party, and have come to look upon | lt 38 &@ mere party of reaction; to regad it ag governed by hostility to the negro, not a@ desire for Jocal government; as | ready to ‘destroy the Wnion instead of seeking through the rights of States to preserve those limitations of government essential to per- sonal liberty, stistrue the demoracy have for- | mally declared they have no such purpose, They | have cyen supported a litelong opponent to estab- | lisb the sincerity of that declaration. Nevertne- Jess men still asx “What, then, is your purpose?’? Should democrats not, therefore, now put iorward | such practical, definite and precise issues as to | remove all color for these misjudgmenta? It is very easy jor a political convention of either party to resolve mm javor of economy, retrencb- Ment and rejorm, purification, pacification or the like. ‘These are results we all agree in wishing. | But by what measures are they to be etfected? surely no} by tue perpetuation of the rule of the RepabuoGn Barey bad the continuance of central- ization and extravagance, But neither, on the other hand, by reaction, py the revival of issues in respect to slavery, sufrage, or those powers of the general government which have been dnally de- cided, Nor yet aggin by any mere general decla- ration, true enough, but wanting that precision and spclics ce requisite to sutisfy the ciass I | speak of, The late Democrattc Convention in Hiinots de- clared tor “rigid restriction of the governments, both State and nauonal, to the legitimate domain of political ere by excluding tuerefrom ali ex- ecutive and legisiative Incermeddling with the affuirs of society, Whereby monupuilies are fostered, privileged classes aggrandized and individual free- dom unnecessarily and oppressively restrained.” ‘rhis declaration expresses, [ am sure, the views of a large majority of the people. But yet the ques- tion recurs how aod by what measures these guv- ernments are to be thus restricted The great, the especial evil of the time is cor- ruption tn legislation. 118 preposterous to call a republican government @ good government when its legislation 1s lor sale; and yet it has been noto- rious, not in South Carolina alone, but in New York and Pennsyivania, that laws were for sale; that private measures could only be passed by pri- vate payment and that almost any pri- vate bill could be passed upon sufMicient payment. Year by year the statute book swells with private and locat laws, with laws granting one set oi men privileges, immunities or mononpoiies at the expense of the whole, whether it be by the opening ota street, the construction of a “bouic- of a Street railway, authority to take usury or other monopoly, until the lobby has become as notorious as itis powertul, aud men seek placesin the Legislature for plunder, not for public good, Corruption in legislation, like corruption at the fountain head, will be iollowed by corruption in the executive departments, nay, eVen sometimes by corruption in the judiciary it. self, until in the Whole bouy politic tue rights of men, instead of being inviolate, become for sale, which [ take to be a condition of goverament— whatever the form of the government—nearly-te worst possible. | Moved by such evils, men cry out tor reform. And they propose to effect it by electing only goua But such reiorws have always proved, and 80 long as the inducements for cor- ruption are so great a3 now must always prove, partial and insuflcient. The true remedy for this evil 18 to remove the cause of i'—to deprive the Legisiatare of the power to plunder by so almendiug the constitution that the Legislature | can pass no private or local bill, but can work only Limitations on the power of the Legislature exist in the constitution of our State, and, indeed, of every State. These Mimitations were sufficient to preserve the rights of citizens when those constitutions were made. The opportunities for pinnder through private legislation were tormeriy smail; but with the growth of population and wealth those opportunities have increa: until State after State has been iorced so to revise | | | | | | | ifs constitution as to put an end enurely to pri- | | vate wud local legislation, Peunsyivanta has, by | | its hew consutation, just done this. Taat consti- tution has forever abolished the possibilty of leg- islative corruption by abvokshing the possioility of private legisiation. What the Legislature does or | grants it must then do or grant only by general law, equally open for and applicable to ail citizens, so that each citizen Suall gain uo more by to than | lucement for its passage, ‘The two great political parties are now disput- ing in Pennsylvauia ser che vredit of this resorm, und yet, by whomsoever effected, it was a reform in strict pursuance of democratic principles. Con- stitutional government—that is, government ac- cording to @ jundamental law by which the discretion of the Legislature shalt be so limited as to preserve inviolate certain personal rights—was always the purest demo- | cratic doctrine. We need only to apply that principle to the existing condition Of apairs to se- How greatiy such reiorm 1s needed in this State ali know. Would it nor, therefore, be tunely and wise for the democratic party to take delinite ground for it now, and pre election? But what is needed for the State ts needed for the Iederal government as weli. Congress has been less corrupt than the State Legislatures, be- jess With local and private legislation, But year | by year the range of its legislation increases. It is beginning vo charter corporations, to grant monopolies, to bestow special privileges. Having taken conirol of all the money and punkinrg insti- | tutions oi the country it 18 now urged to take | charge ot all its other business, To continue this | course without restriction is to 1ollow a road leud- | ing to corruption and destruction, since 1f pursued must in the end unite upon Congress | all the demoralizing and corrupting in. | fiuences of the country, Already nearly | one-third of tho time of Congress is spent | upon priv bills, Many of them are, | itself; but in’ almost any other great goverument any person hayiag @ ciatm against 1f can prosecute | nis government and recover Of tt in open court, | according to the justice,of bis case. Yet, in the Unitea States payment or claims (with lew ex. | ceptions) is wholly dependent upon the will of | the Legisiature. And yet Congress must neces- | sartly be the worst possible tribunal to determive such matters, and so long as no other 1s provided | At Cannot but result, as now, that just claims wilt ) go 10r yeacs or forever without payment, and | that others, excessive in amount or witu- out any merit Whatever, Will be allowed, while the | pressure for the allowance of claims is a constant | Surely: some constitutional | provision which shall make the obligation of cou. | trac inviolable by Congress, authorize public ; ourts to determine all claims against the govern- meant, forbid all gratuities and subsidies whatever, prevent the granting by Congress of monopolies and jorbid its chartering of corporations to carry on business within the States has come to be needed, And since there be honest men who fear a reopening of the issues of tie pust, tan effort be made to prevent these evils by strict constraction of the jederal constitution, and since the strictest | Construction of that constitution would not cer- | tainly and wholly preyent them, let us mect their | apprehension by seeking such changes in the con- | stition itself, either by revision Or amendment of | that instrument as shall certainly secure the coun | try aguinst these increasing dangers, “Tone * Undoubtedly the constitution is tS be main- tained. | It 1s a high, go 4 soTinn compact, above all | to be held inviaish, Gut when the country itself L ; Rag hecom* ‘so changed in its condiuon that the Tagnts Which the constitution was iatended to s¢e-. | sure can no longer be secured by it, those who ; have most faithiully supported the existing con- | stitution are those who are best entitled to adyo- | cite its revision, The framers provided for its amendment. They , foresaw that in the changing circumstances of so | vast @ couotry new constitutional provisions would be needed. ‘In the very first year of its | ments which Were added to make certain the ree surictlons upon the power of Congress, fad the | evils which now threaten us existed or been fore- | seen to their time they would have themselves | added to the constitution those further restric: | tions by which only tuese evils cau now be pre- | vented. i put besides this evil there has gradually grown up with the growth of the country a Presidential | putronage never toreseen When the constitution | was joined. ‘he President to-day has the abso- | ers; an atmy almost suficient ot themsecives to control Nominations and elections, And yet this | It is one which would never have been permitted had its magnitude been forgseen, But, nevertheless, it now exists and is colistituttonal. Some have pro- | posed to reform this evil by regulation and exami- navion, Bur such reguiauons and exammations have proved thus far an utter and absolute failure. | Oan, indeca, tis growing evi ever be resormed except by making the tenure Of subordinate omi- cials (ik@ Gepartiment clerks) dependent, for a hited time at least, only upon good benavior, such a8 post. master, taxigatherers and the like, elective? And {sit nut word the while of the democratic party to take ground lor some reform in that direction which would, indeed, prove‘a real Civil service re- jora ? in a country which forbade orders of nobility, privileged Classes, pritaogenttare and entaried esta i leit men free to accumulate pro- corporations hold estates vaster (lan aby hobillty and possess great lines | strerching over thousands of miles ot territory, by thew power, thelr influence or their | Iny own, | delegates tuliy it not be mane a part ofthe fnndamental law ot the whoie jand, a provision in the federai consti- tution, that neither Congress nor any State shoud have power to grant monopolies beyond the power of the peopic to repeal, and that all companies hereaiter engaging in inter-State wes jc should be subject to just Congressional con- trol? ‘The measures here suggested would be measures | | of yeal reform. ‘hey would, indeed, invite and involve discusston. But they Would stand discus sion, and wiat the people Want ts measures of principle to discuss. They would, too, be measures of democratic reiorm. Would it nor, then, be wise to embody them, or something lke them, in the resolutions of the coming Conventton and declare that the party, 1 ace tung the tnevitapie results of the war, seeks thus to carry out and secure, un- der the changed cirenmsfances that have resulted, that lim and localizea government without which there can be no personal ireedoim ? ‘These are not, indeed, the only questions of the time, The necessity of an honest and stable cur- rene, Yelict from a taruff so tramed as to conier dounties on the few at the expense of the many; of reform in arevenue system alike onerous and corrupting; of substituting economy and re- trenchment for extravagance and abuses in the administration of public affairs; of | casting the miluence of the administration against Instead of for the plunderers of the South; of put- ting a stop fo the admission of rotten borough States and other questions, will still remain. But | the fundamental question upoo which these other | issues depend, and upon Which parties must tn the jong ruv in a country uke this divide, is whether the government (State and federal) sali be lim- ited or paternal, centralized or jocalized, And to maintain the fundamental principle of limited and localized government by measures adapted to the changing condition of the country is the first duty of the democratic party. This is no common election, It is not going to bea choice to be determined by the respectability of the candidates, for both wili be higuly respect- able. Old aMnations will Keep men tn line in the aosence of new issues, and no general declamation | nor mere cry for retorm will of itself drive them into new relations. And yet tne people as a whole do believe in true democratic principles—in iluited rather than in paternal, in localized rather than centralized government—and should be found upon any new measures that may be proposed ready to take their stand when they can best carry their princi- pies Into effect. Let the wise men of the party soon to convene in this State at your call see to it tiat they sub- Mit to the peop'e such applications of these princi. | ples to the existing condition 01 things as will se- cure real reform, and ali will be weil. With high respect, your obedient servant, CLARKSON N. POTTER. New ROCHELLE, Sept, 14, 1874, NEW JERSEY DEMOCRACY. The Night Before the Nomination—Withdrawal of Mayor Perry, ot Newark—Judge Bedle’s Nom- ination Considered Assured. TRENTON, Sept. 14, 1874, For a party which seemed to be so utterly wiped out last November, when Grant swept the State by 15,000 majority, which has so often been shrived, | | and Spring Canyon. Fort Buis is built on a plateau | It is not known | cofned and committed to the grave by the victo- rious enemy chanting the “De Profundis,” the democratic party of New Jersey is just now begin- ning to prove itself a corpse of the liveliest possible character. In spite of all the shriving and coffin, ing and funeral holding of the republicans tt won’t | be still; it will insist upon popping up like tne | whiske, gan’s Wake.” tie way in Especially is this evident from which the elements of aiternoon and evening. There will be an assem- blage the largest ever witnessed tn Trenton on any previous similar occasion, @ most uncorpse-like sprightliness observable | among the delegates and others of the democracy who have come to luok on, but there seems to be pervading the chie’s and clansmen a spirit of en- | thusiasm and contidence such as is only eit by partisans assured of success. THE CONVENTION meets at noon to-morrow in Taylor Hall, the only political pow-wowing place in this antique town, ‘rhere seems to be but one opinion among repre- sentative democrats from all parts of the State upon the Gubernatortal nomination, That opinion | unanimously accords with the prediction uttered | some time ago in the HERALD and repeated in this moraning’s issue, viz., that THE NAME OF JUDGE BEDLE, of Hudson, will carry the Convention as by a tidal wave the moment tie call ior nominations is made. It has already been set forth in the Heratn that Mr. Audrew A, Smalley, of Essex, and Mr. J. | Daggett Hunt, of Union county, had severally with. urawn their names and thrown their weight for Judge Bedle, Whose high-toned letter has taken the politicians by their ears and the people by tueir hearts, MAJOR PERRY WITHDRAWS. The following letter irom Major Perry speaks for itseli:— To Tur Desocracy or New Jansey:— Having 1 ends the flattering as- surance that it would be advantageous to the democratic party for me to be a candidate for the Governorship ot this State, Lhave up to the present time consented to the use of my name in that connection. fam now con- vinced that my continued candidacy will tend to pro- duce dissension and discontent in the party ats time when harinony is essential to success. ‘The course pursued by me as Mayor of the city of New- ark in eniorcing the Sunday ordinances has éxcited a personal hostility and offended many who are intuen- Ual at the primary meetings. Such a sentiment of zeal on one side and hosuiity on the other has been created that 1 believe’ my — withdrawal from the canvass will tend to harmonize the party aud enabie it to carry on the tall cam- paign tree trom animosities and embarrassing issues. Thad rather do my duty in the posiuon I now hold and tace the opposition my course may excite than to seek the higher position of Governor either at the ex- pense of pledges ni fed or by seeking favor with ov- ponents offended at my performance ot duty, Tconsider the unity of the party paramount to the mere personal grautication of a nomination, and with many thanks to the kind friends who have complimented me by their support I hereby decline being anv longer a candidate. N, PLRAY, Ske, 14, 1974. This leaves Judge Bedie entirely possessed of the field and assures lis nomination by acclamation. JUDGE BEDLE'S LETTER, yereferred (0, ail wiich este the canvass. done, but for the negative action ofthe demo- cratic masses. In it the Judge distinctly stated that ne Was not a candidate, and that the only condition upon which he could consent to change | his present office for the Executive was “that 1t should be the result of tne action of tae people at the ballot box, without the slightest effort on my part, and for me in the meantime fo continue to perlorm my present duties as ustai, day after day, keeping most scrupuleusly oto! the canvass, and leaving the people, unsolicited by any elfory of mine whether I suould serve them in a ditfereat sphere.” Thus making the oitice seck the man, if it will, and not the man tie ofice, seems to have taken firm hold of Jersey democratic heart and of hearts hitherto stvong as regards anything bear ing the neime of democracy. It 1s a going back to the practices of ‘the earlier and better times” of the Republic so much longed for nowadays doctrine often preached but rarely practiced. Hence its popularity with the masses, YHE GATHERING OF THE CLA «The hotels here are packed with delegates and othe rQu, all sections of the State, desipouy of SUAS In the Democratic COMPING. oA. | observer and participant in eduve: ys bare fof the lass seve oy yours Says be wVer saw such a eet gat Me \ue wi~ul Leflore & convention, nigng * . @ THE LEADING PARTY MEN here are United States scuator Join P, Stockton, ex-Governor Randoiph, J. Vagyett Hunt, Attorney jeneral Gilch aCOD VAniatta, eX-Conpgress- man Cleveland, and @ host State Senators, Assewblymen and iesser part A tour of tie botels and a com ling with the outicms the statement that the sentiinent is all runuing toward Bedie. There t | strong desire among a large number to five | General Haight, 61 Monmouth, a complimentray Hunterdon in talk about doing e bin the Goi vention it ts not remotely will be used outside of J THE STAT are now pusy arrangin ganization of the Convention. ge Benjamin t Carter, of Gloucester, Wii probably be temporary chairman. The disposition now is to make Mayor Perry permanent ¢ . A delegate trom ‘tts own ward, in Newark, is ready to make way for iin, He has replied favorably to a despatch stat: ing that be will arrive im Trontou tomorrow morning, Ag Tegarda nearly everybody who fancies lie can handle a pen and Use language Something akin to English, bas prepared one Oc more, so tat whe Commitver will bave an embarrassment of ricves in the resolution ne. 7 it is generally agrecd that the Civil Rights bill. the so-called yag law, the monstrous imisgovern- ment of the South; and the alarming tendency 10 one-man power as embodied in the scheme wi be rigorously denounced. | gOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN CONVEN. TION, Synopsis of the Platform Adopted. COLUMBIA, Sept. 14, 1874, Tue“platiorm of the Republican Nominating Convention, afver declaring te adhesion of its members to tho principies of the party, maintains | the wnthority or the general goverament to Inter. fere for the preservation of domestic tranquillity in the States, promises financial reform aud a modiication ©: and urges the passajse of the Civil Rights vill as wealta to control legislation. And yet these cor- Dorptiongs ex9s% ORY by permission af jaw, Shonld aosolutely essential to enlorce the constitutional guarantee of eyual rights, Gubernatorial | -loving and jovial corpse in ‘Tim Finne- | | the | “dead party” have been gathering here all the | Not onty is there | has had a curious | When it was first published a good many | prominent men thought it ruled the Judge out of | Aud so, doubtiess, would it have | third term | the present system of taxation | SEPTEMBER 15, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE REPUBLICAN OFNTRAL OOMMITTER. The Republican Central Committee met (ast evening at the Bleecker Buildings, corner of Bleecker and Morton streets, and there was @ | large and {ull attendance of delegates. ugh Gardner presided, A commauication was received from Heury Theobald, of the Sixth district, ten- dering bis resignation as a member of the commit. tee, which, Ob motion, was accepted. A report | was received from the Executive Committee ' recommending thas primary elections be held in oil the Assembly districts on briday evening next, the 18th inst, to elvct delegates and alternates to the State Convention, meeting at Utica on tie z3dinst. The report was, on motion, received and | the recommendation adopted. Join H, Waite, of | the Eleventh district, stated that it would be desirable vo Nave the ‘sense of the committee on the nomination tor Governor of the State. He | wished to say thatit was bis idea, as weil as that ot a number of members present, that Governor Dix should be re-vlected to the office he now held, He offered & resolution declaring that unis com mittee was in favor of Governor Dix, with the recommendation thar its delegates cast their votes for him, Co.onel Char: ‘Spencer, of the Thir teenth district, sapported this member's views, and, On being put to a vote, the motion was carri A resolution was also offered by another member declaring i lavoro! the nom- ination of Lieutenant Governor Robinson, bub | alter sume discussiou in which It was said rather sarcastically by a delegate tuat they should putin nomination the whole Nepubiican ticket, the mo- | tion was by @ Unanimous yore lad upon | table, It was then nioved that the previous motion | with regard to recommending the renomination of | Governor Dix be reconsidered, Lhe roi veg called i was found that there were seventy-six yeas to thirty-five naes, Mr, White then, by ad- v.ce, withdrew his motion and the cominittee ad- journed. INDIAN RAID. Roving Parties of Sioux Operating U der the Guns of Fort Ellis--Over 100 Horses Stolen and the Owners Ruined—A Herder Found Murdered. Oman, Neb., Sept, 9, 1874. Detatled intelligence has veen received here of depredations by Indiaus in Montana, Recently they made a dash into the Gallatin Vulley ana run off stock almost under the guns of Fort Ellis. This is the boldest raid ever made in the Territory, and lam sorry to say the Indians escaped with their plunder. The raiders have been in the habit of coming into the Gallatin through Flathead Pass, a natural roadway through the mountains to the | Yellowstone, The pass is about eighteen miles northwest of Bozman and has heretofore been are only three ways: of getting into or | of the Gallatin; by Flathead Pass, Boazman Canyon and commands all the eutrances, | which way the Indians came to, as they were not discovered until well tn the valicy. All the passes have wagon roads rupning through them, and these roads are travelled daily, It isa miracle how the Indians got in without betng seen, but | they did it, and passed ciose by the stockade of Port Ella, {tis only toree miles from Ellis to Boz- man, and yet the Indians operated between the two places, They struck the herd grazing about two miles from the Jort and ran it off at two o'clock in the morning. Some citizens discovered | them in the act of DRIVING AWAY THE STOCK and fired on them. ‘The fire was promptly re- | turned, and with effect, one white man | brought to the ground with a vall through ms | shoulders, As soon as General Sweitzer, cor manding dered out bis cavairy and gave pursuit, Filteen | citizens also started out, and the Indians were given a lively chuse; but they succeeded tn reach- Ing the pass and getting through with the stock. As soon as they reacned the Yeilowstone Valley all directions, each oue tuking a smail portion of the stock. ‘ihe cavalry became coniused by the | number of trails, and alter ioliowing several came ; back without recovering any, The party of citi- | zens had better luck and succeeded in getting back | 81x head of horses. ‘fhe whole number of horses run off was some- thing over 100 head, and most of them belonged to One man lost all he had and is lett | poor larmers, | penniless with a large family dependent upon him | jor support, Thisisa sad blow to the settlers, many of whom were pioneers and cannot go on farming next spring Without stock, and yet have no money to buy aby. Another report says W. H. O’Dare, a herder from Iiltnots, was found ip the Yellowstone Valley, fifty miles irom Bozman, bis body shot full of arrows and his scalp taseu. ‘The skull was crushed with stones or # vind, Three raucnmen were chased in by Indiatiss very centre | farmer living in | oF the settiel shot at dive sin broad daylight. outa tobefan ©! skuiking Indians, and grea} @asines' it by the people living in the Gatlatin. ‘The: @ loud cai! lor more cavalry to protect the Montana settlements; but it 1s believed the four compagies now nt Kilis will be suflicient to drive out all tne bostile In- diaus and give security to life and property all along Gallatin Vailey. ‘Tne reports (elexraphed North that the Sioux are preparing to attack tae Montana border are not credited here. | tile Indians are undoubtediy Sioux, but they are sides stealing stock and killing an occasional straggier, The settlements are safe enough, and there ts no organized movement of Indians upon the Montana border. PRAYING FOR RAIN. BE ea Disastrous Effécts of the Drought in Philadeiphia—Water a Precious Com- modity—Prayers Offered in «all the Churches—Condition of the Country. PUILADELPUIA, Sept. 14, 1874. Since August 9 no rain has failen bere and the and its environments cannot be overestimated. « | The people, as one week after another has formed their loug season of dry weather, have become auxiety is painfu! to witness, Every precaution + has been used by the authorities to prevent auy but the most necessary drain upon the Schayikill River, which is said to contain less water now than at any time within the knowledge of the oldest tn- hatitant, miuth gs they are absolutely required to, while they are urged upon to discourage all WASTE OF THE FLUID that may come undgr their personal observation. The aucnorites have orddéved tie iminediate ar- resiof all parties caugut using the water in un- necessary quantities, and the street sprinklers last saturday Were ordered irom all the thoroughiares, ‘ne simple statement of these facts alone shows, | without any additional comment, the alarm of the citvenus, (or he 18 now revarded as committing a criminal act who sacrifices a bucket of water nedilessiy, 2 | On Setirday the heavens were dark and em the | guarded by a@ detachment of the Second United States cavalry during the raiding | seasons in the spring and summer, There out | being | at Fort Ellis, heard of the affair, he or- | they broke up into small parties and scattered In | The hos- | swall raiding parties, and can do little warm be- | 3 | PEACE AND REGOMVIRUCTION, ———-+—___ Semi-Official Declaration from | the President. | What an Administration | Organ Thinks. oh ea | Let Us Have a Convention to Save | the Republican Party. {From the Nattonal Republican, Sept. 12.) THE CONDITION OF THE SOUPH—THE NEW YORE | | HERALD'S IDEA, | The New York HERALD has recently printed a | series of remarkable articies upon the condition | of the South, in which the ground is taken that | the present disturbed and lawless state of society | | | in that section is the result of the reconstruction | policy, (tis argued that we have not dealt fairly and nenestly by the Southern people; thatin the | emancipation of the slaves, a8 a war measure, We have imposed upon them a heavier fine than Ger, | many imposed upon France; that now statesman- ship and sound policy, @ wise regard for the’| future, to say nothing about motives | of justice and humanity, command that | t we should call a national convention | | Of peace and reconstruction to consider the causes and results of the war and ascertain how best we | can adjust ourselves to the altered condition of | | atairsin tne Union, In reply to an article upon | | the subdject in these columns, the HERALD of | | Wednesday last says:—"The National Republican | ) diseusses the argument in favor of @ national con- | | vention of peace and reconstruction upon the \ theory that the Southern men should tee! gratefal } that they have not been hanged, and that because | there have been no imprisonments, no executions, | no trials for treason, no ransoms exacted, no sureties demanded for the future and no confisca- | | Hon, it is an error to compare the southern | States with Poland and Alsace and West. | | meath, It is dificult to impress an idea | upon the mind of @ journal which really believes: | | that the Southern people should tee) that recon- | struction was completed when they were not | Danged, and which does not remember that Mr. | Lincoln proclatmed emancipation, not as a meas- ure of humanity, but as an act of war; that he de- clared that he deemed the maintenance of the | Union to be paramount to emanctpation—a jour- | | nal that feeis tnat because of Libby and Anderson- | Ville the Southern States should be allowed to | | drift into anarchy, a war of race with race, and | legislation that means repudiation.” The HERALD misrepresents or misunderstands our position. The arguments in the above extract were presented a8 the proof, not that we had re- | | constructed the South, but that the North— | | the repablican party—had not treated the | South alter the war closed as Russia, | Austria and Prussia had treated Poland; as Ger- | many had treated France, or as England had }| treated Irelanc atthe end of every fruitiess re- bellion since the conquest of the Second Henry. | Again, the HERawo 1s so unfair as to suppress an ) argument Which it doea not attempt to answer, that the South ts responsible for the iis under which she is suffering, not because we of the North | | had made the nustake Ol treating “slavery asa | erime instead of an institution,” but because the | Southera statesmen, the leaders of her opinion, her journalists and her politicians, have been and | are to-day making the inistake of treating ‘free- | | dom asa crime instead of an institution.” The | | HERALDS position on the Whoie question Is 50 roug—although we believe our own to be | stronger—that tt ought to be honest and fair enough to give our position correctly or not give | iat all. | | ARE THE HERALD ARTICLES AN ATTACK ON THB | | REPUBLICAN PARTY ? \ {The articles of the HLRALD are an attack on the republican party. We are not authorized to speak in any way for that party; bat as a Inember | OLit, belleving in its policy and giving adherence | to its platiorms, we propose to speak in our own if notin its defence. Our contemporary asserts, “we have treated the South, not with wisdom and | ‘ foresight, but as Attila aud Genghis Khan were | i Wont 10 deal with their conquered foemen.” Tis | | is a mere rhetorical figure, and that is al. Every | | schoolboy is familar with the boast of the bar- darian Hun, that gras never grew where the | | hoofs of bis horses had lett their 1votmarks; every | student knows what bloody sceues were ‘enacted when the ‘“seven-hilled city saw | the derce barbarian ride up the steep where the { car climbed the capital.”” Was Grant the Attila of | the North, was Sherinan, was Sheridan? When | ‘he last intrenchinent before Richmond was | carried and the armies of the Union entered the | capital of the Coniederacy, who acted like Genghis | Khan, the conguerors or the conquered foemen who had given her churches and factories, her marts and theatres, her puolic places and com- | merce to the fumes; or the war worn Northera | | soldiers, who had sutfered so long and so much in | the Petersburg trencies, and wito then were called | | upon tosave the people of the Southern capital | | from the crime, the jolly and the madness of their | | Slavery, | destroyed as a | meeting the peace money vaiue for its slaves, or werner {6 shovld come ag tt did, @ measure {or the preserva. tion of the Union, From the very foundation of the governmentit had been a source of trouble and annovance, tts followers threatening, bully- Ing, demanding tresh concessions, growing stronger year by year, until at last tt thoughe it~ sel! powertu: enough to overthrow the Union, ana made the attempt. When the war closed, the party that in the fleld had beaten slavery had no alternative out to make that victory secure tn legis- lution, Hence the constitutional amendments and the reconstruction ineasures and the enforcement | acts, with all their good and evil, their satisiactory and unsatisfactory consequences The HERALD sees in them only the spirit of Genghis Kha | “Never was people treated so cruelly and so harshly,” it tells us, Tbe condition of the South | to-day is not what we could wish it to be; the vol- ume of the statutes of reconstruction 18 not as sweet and pleasant a volume as could be desired; but it ts what itis because of the South, Had the Attiia spirit prevailed tn the North, as some- times it appeared it would prevail, as It again and Agalu found expression on the lips of men like Mr. Stevens, of Peunsyivania, that volume would | HG ea acnapter confiscating the estates | ery Southern ieader and giv! land and a tauie to every negro. Erie anbie sd WHAT TOE ELS WOULD DO WITH RECONSTRUC+ TION. We do not think the South onght to be bt and contented and feet reconstructed because the grim ideas of the great commoner, wha was the Benreenen of yee hee“ and bitterness of the me, Who was to radicalism what Tor was to the Inquisition, what Cr. Jmiwell was to pie Puritan party, were not embodied in legisiatiog. That they were not only shows that a really mod- erate policy prevailed ; that the Northern legislators deavored to be AS )UST ANd generous in peace as they were in war. The htstory of the reconstruc- tion of every Southern State shows that this idea was uppermost in the minds of the leaders in Congress. ‘Take the case of Georgia. What was the first act of her first reconstructed legisiature? To expel every man of color who held a seat in it. What could be done with sucn a people * Somewhere in the Northern skies the Georgian statesmen and policians saw | the faint ligt which to them presaged the seturn of the democratic party to power, and the Orst exercise of thelr authority Was to trample apon the political rights of the people upoa whose human rights they had trampled tor so many gen- erations, Is itto be,wondered at thai the party which had sent Sherman marching through Georgia from Atianta to the sea, whose battalions flashed freedom irom their bayonet points, should have resented the outrage and sent back to the Empire State of the South the Senators and Rep- resentatives shrongh Whom she knocked for ad- nussion to the Union? And ina greater or less degree woat is true of Georgia ts also true of the Carolinas and Mississippi, of Tennessee and Texas and all the Southiand, THR CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH COMPARED WITH THE CONQUEST OF FRANCE. ‘The HERALD points to Germany and France, an@ tells us we imposed a heavier tribute upon the South than Bismarck and King Wiliam exacted irom that ruined and prostrate Republic. There is no paralie) between the two cases. First of ail, the North and the South were not two countries and two peoples, but one country and one people. One was war, the other was rebeilton, , Napoleon made war upon Prussia; boasted that in ten days he would dictate peace trom the German capital, It was a war Ol aggression, of conquest. ‘The struggie between the Nortn aud the douth Was an insurrection, @ confict be- tween two civilizations, On the oue hand there was New Engtand, with her warm, in- tense faita in democracy; her unrelenting hatred of slavery, her broad philanthropy, her Impatient desire to reiorm and regenerate the world, and especially the South. On the other there was the South resenting ber interferenc: resisting her teacuings, believing in slavery, be- cause slavery Was of divine right and guaranteed by the Constitution. The one came irom the Purl- tan fathers. ‘the other boasted ot the best bicod Of the cavaliers. They were gentlemen with broad desmense and crests and coats of arms, and aa ancestry going back to the Conquest of Cressy and Agincourt. In the North the struggle was (or we maintenance of the Union; in the South tt was for What they callea Ireedom, Which was in reallly oniy another name for the preservation of In maintaining the Union slavery was. War measure, In Frauce the war of conquest; il a’russia, least, it was a W: jor sell war was nominally a at | preservation, to prevent the dismeniwerment of | her territory Ww vassal of Napoleon. ve her trom becoming wWe he German battalions con. quered and made France pay the expense of war, The North conquered the South aud stavery Was lost; but, unlike Germany, who carted off to the Prussian mints (he millards of francs she had exacted as a ransony leaving only sorrow gud dis- tress and suffering bebind, to the ruined peopie the task of repuilaing what had been destroyed, the North offered the South ber geulus, her indus- try, her capital, her marvelious eaterpri She would Uli the soutnern lands; make « Lowell and a Lynn of every Southern city and hamlet. And the Yankee schoolmisiress and mechanic and merchant went down; an army = of industry legtons returning to Wasnington h peace oiferiugs and love vert the fortresses into fac- tories and the intrencliments into marts of trade and industry, They went, not as conquerors, but as brothers, to buy and seli and trade and teach; to rebuild what Sheridag and sherman, what anny and Ewell and fampton and fill had shat- tered and destroyed, How unlike tre conquering to that last review and iriendship to co | German returning from France with his Wagons of Napoleons to be coined into Prussian eagles. But how were they met? The merenant was asked as one Of the coliditions of trade what ticket he voted, and if he answered that he had voted Sor Lincoln and against McClellan lis wares re- mained unpurchased; the mechanic sturved unless he denounced the cause in which he had fougot, aud the schoolmistress was warned Uiat she should not teach the former slave, and shot to death if she persisted, LET US HAVE A CONVENTION, The HERALD may call all this only the revival of the anger and passions of the war; but it is the truth, and uo other trait could spring Irom such seed except What we see in the South to-day. We sad effect of this continued drought upon this city | more and more alarmed, until, at length, their | The citizens are prayed by those who | manage the water department to use only ag | own leaderst conquered the south, but we did pot convince her | WAS GRANT AN ATIILA? that we were right and she was wrong. Ira Was Grantan Atila when, on the morning of | national convention of peace and reconstruction final victory at appomattox, his gallant troops | will beip her to lear the tesson, by ail means let it | divided their rations with ve famisned veterans | be held; it will do no harm and may do good. But of General Lee? Was he an Atitla wien he gave | let ug not go into it with the idea that the South back to the bero of the repeliion the sword he had | has been treated as the Huns treated ancient drawn against his country irom mistaken ideas of | Rome, as the Cwsars their defeated foemen, for | patriotisia, and told the conquered soldiers of the | that would be a falsification of history aud tu the South to take with them, to do the spring plough- | end only add to tho heartburning and the striie | Ing, the horses they had ridden through loyal | and animosity of the time. Let us enter into blood to the end of the Long Bridge and | ft with tie understanding that perhaps neither ‘almost to tne gates of the national capi- | side is wholly right or wholly wrong; that there tal, which had carried them to Chambersburg | are duties to be performed by the one party and | and been watered in the Susquenanna, within | the other, to the ead that peace may prevall and | four and twenty hours’ marca of Philadeipiia? | the Union be made secure torever, | Was Suerman the Avtila of the North when he | signed a capitulation with Johnston which ieft it ii douvt whether Johnston bad surrendered to PRESS OPINIONS. him or he to Johnston? These were the closing eal tn } acts of the blooay drama, when the conquered | | were at the mercy Of she conquerors. The history | of all the ages does noe aren ene ipa Gane On mapnanimity, generosity an¢ rotherly love. ig ‘ at as yee The victors Minply asked the gallant commanders | Tbe HERALD's cry of pax potior dello, though and armies who haa fought against them to be- | late, 4s pleasant to our ears if not to those of its come again their vrothers; to respect and honor | Northern readers, many of whom are now in the old fiug that was theemblem of their common | favor of simple and candid deaing with the South. | nationality; to come back to the Union they had | ern question. iought to break; to rebimd the tes they had | ~ — | endeavored to sunder, aud rebuild the edifice they | A Vast Question. | had sought to deform and tear down, The military ey Chaptersof the reveliion close’ Witnout, on the | (From the Richmond Whig.) part of whe North, the occurrence of a single act | We do not understand on what basis the HERALD cuCnieod toa mene vireer te the peeare ! proposes to organize its national convention or pat the North has treated the South as the rude | conquerors of Rome treated the foemen they Ixid wich what authority 16 is to be invested. Te" it vo vanquished, The soldier of to-day, beaten and | be @ constitutional convention, empowered to baffied, was asked to’become @ citizen to-morrow— | alter and amend the constitution of the United Re eee a trees Of asatrapy, bUC | States by delegates formally elected by the peo- ‘ple? Or i9 it to be a mere assemblage of indi+ he Citizen of a great batton—reinvested with all | viduals from different States oi the Union, Late but Pleasant. lvom the Wilmington Star.] e rights and privileges he had cast from him— | with clouds, and every one rejoiced in What prom: eg, 18 pefialties, no exiles—an equal sharer | neOG ‘i ‘seu an immediate shower; but the F ie woe, | RPGR or dhe conquerors had fougut to maintain | Picked UN by chines ot sec ne tet Ohare and $9 on Synday they to tuelt erent {| and presery | acter might be potent lor good or evil; of * thitches—-ai the dutereat Bkomaations, Catho- ‘WAS EMANCIPATION A MILITARY FINE ? the last kind, the results would propably not be of lic, Wptscopal, Lutheran, Presb, tartan, Metiodist— | But it 1s in what may be called the legisianve } much consequeuce any way. The vast questions eee ‘¥ | pget eee eee LAY of SicatHiny TERA ‘ats | suggested by the HrkaLo for consideration and i EA oataar thle 1 Vee imposed SmAngpaton as A Ane wpon the | SUMNOn Would seem to taaply the Reckeaay of @ | and together thit the‘cioucs might open and the wat come down, On Sunday also the atmos | phert was heavy, but again the rain fatied to fail, ‘To-dty arrived, wad this morning there was hope | stil hat tue prayers would be answered, Tie clouds Were very dark aud it seemed as if the rain woull re ul |My Moment. «Bat at about noon the donds began to be lighter, and here I am writ- ‘ing ithe genial sunshine of the afternoon, ‘The & fekle, however, and all are hopeiul and ex pectimt yet that rain may drench tue thirsting earthtbetore midnight, \ YUK EFFECT UPON THE CITY cane be described. The dust hes m the streets apparintly a foor deep, and each rast of wind c: Ties 1i\p 14 hurls in open windows and doors unt carpets and furniture are covered with it, | This ispspectally noticeabie in U thece are many entrances, ng must be kept open. n the country r by state that the ground & so dry that it has split oper’in places in fissures, while the soil seems as hard and unyield- ing as fiat, Vogetation 1s burned and the leaves of large drooping and dying. The drought 1 of couwe the sole topic of cohversation, and a | more sotious theme under the circumstances | could notwell engage the atiention. | dealt eoeated ANNIVSRSARY OF THE LIBERAL OLUB. ‘The Nev York Liberal Club celebrated its filth anniversiry and the LoSth birthday of the great scientist, Alexander von Humboldt, at the Hotet | Montco, Rast Seventeenth street, last night, Tne rooms were crowded by a most intelligent com- pany. Tie following were the officers present, namely:~Messrs. James Parton, President; C. D. | Bragdon and W. LL, Ormsby, Jr, Vice 8; Profesor P. H. Vanderweyde, Cortland, Palmer, Treasarer; bs e leading hotel and where a Dy W. Hoeter, M. D., Corresponding Secretary; Garaner, Secretary; Henry vans, Librarian. | commitee of arrangements included Dr, B. W | Hoever, R. J. Dugdaly, J, K. H. Wilcox, D. T. Gard- | ner andl. B. Wakemin, spe | ary and comls were mad tm. Ormsby, by ! Hoever, Wakeman, Vanderwerde, Wilcox and by two tadies—Mrs. Doughty and Mra. Croly. ‘the dis- courses of ail Were tended to show the rapid advance of Vberaltsmi seience, politics and reli- gion and In some case, bordered | inddel, Interaatonale and | theories. on the sceptcal, even communrstic conve n AL desc ,iaiy e # | ponteoe ine. thas tay be Tudely estimated in} Sonrenwcnc: 0s She Sea iuhly empow Boule value at from two to four thousand imiliions | eked1a da waatever Muay be Caer od RPE Ne 7 naa _ | vane e great interests “yr Or dollars, or irom tivo to four times as much as | Vance all the great interests of the country and | that imposed upon France by Germany.” adding | consolidate the 1oundatons of a free Republic. | thata people were never punished as severely as | a Alert Sentinel.” In that act of emancipation the Southern people The Beraid a were punlened. | The einancipation of four int {From the Noriolk Landmark.) ons of peaple bore heavily upon abovtt | ane yew s i 4 ree minded thousnnd gentlemen, the The New YoRK H&eRaLp, which is as famous for (number of slave owners in the South. It its sagacity im reading in the “shadow” the “come was hard upon tueir return from the maretes, the | sieges, the pattles aud the bitter suifering and | ing event’ as it is for its ene aud enterprise in the coliection of uews, has shown itsel! an alert | harashtp of four years of , to find their former | | thattels clothed With the same political rigiits and | sentinel and has raised tts voice to alarm | Privileges as they wel tobe made to feel that | the camp. Its tones ring with @ sharp they had no longer the right to treat them as se emphasis which must comand pubic atten« | and not as human beings. ‘The old slave quarters | qon, and its remedy for the dangers which he helds were untilad; Cuitee | yy points ont the genius of our instit | were ail deserte: 1s one essentially in harmony with | in the cabin by the roadside talking about wages utions, [i calls for @ con- | and representation tn the town councils | yention of the people wo adjust our public acts aking for schopis and churches, and news | que policy to the necessities af oar Condiuon, and papers and dooks; dreaming even then of seats | we supmit to H cellency Generai Kemper, in the State Legislatures and Congress. It was a a wise pian for him to convene | thi t would be tore aud bitter morning when the sotdier-pianter | {he fending mon of the Sou in Richmond, vefore caine back to his old home, desoiated perhaps by | tue meeting of Congress, to respond to this sug- the march and the battle, and heard the whole | gestion, He could in our capital the rep- story—how the old servant, when the Yankee flag | Tusentative men of our section, the ex-soldiers came down with Sherman's surging battalions, | ang ex-statesmen who are excluded from public took leave of his mistress and the young master | qiairs by we URWise policy of the radical party; with tears perhaps, because there were good kind | and they would speak to the whole country with & masters in the South, and “Cufee’ was not UD- | sover eiogue: and # manly candor before which grateful, and told them, though they were deat | tye yoice of varpethagdom would be silenced in its fo him. freedom was still dearer than all. and in | wieked. apyeais to the passions and prejudices of the tuture he would be iree. It was a severe and | the North. bitter moment and we entirely agree with our | contemporary that in one Way or another tis act | of emancipation ts at the root of all the trouble | and heart-burning in the South to-day. | THE WAR A WAR FOR SLAVERY. But 200,000 slavehuiders made war for slavers—~ 300,000 men. the genius, the valor, the intelligence of the South if you will; imteiligent and giited and valiant because slavery had given the opportu- | | \ THE TOMBS SUICIDE. Yesterday morning Mr, Joun J. Pincus, assoe | ciate counsel for the man recently convicted under the name of Julius Mendelssohn, and who afterwards committed sutetde in the Tombs, ap- peared before Mr, Jotin T, Toal, Secretary to the Board of Coroners, and made aMidavit that he was personally acquainted witt the so-called Mendels- sohn and bis tamiiy in Berlin, Germany, and. that bis real name was Julius Lesser, that he was Medical student, and married an actress agains’ nity—made war apon the Coton co maintain their { as vndand They formed a movernment with | slavery as its corner stone, and men like Mr. { Yoombs vaunted they Would call the roll of their | staves at tue oot of Bunker Hill, We have no de- sire to open up the old question, with all its p: | sion and prejudice and anger and animosity, Un- | the Wishes of his father, Deceased came (0 ee Gonbtedly it Was a War meastre; but We Was | country about six years ago aud, applied to a measa viac Was inevitable from the | witness ios PAgEnIaN aid. After Losger ve e. morning the flag was fired upon at Sumter, | dicted, and whe in court, he iniurmes 4 | From that date it was only question of | Pineus that ms parents were dead and wand how tb should be done-—whether the Soath should Issue \ was son of the eminent composer New | lay down its arms and accept as a condition of | which Mr, Pincus denied 10 Bis lace.