The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1876, Page 6

EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yore Le d kages should b 1 tters and packages show @ properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. sia : LONDON OFFICE OF_T! NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 F STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVEN DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUM ——— AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE. WARIETY, at SP. M. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. WEEREOL, at SP. M. ©. RK. Thorne, Jr. EAGLE THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. | PARK THEATRE, BRASS, at8 P.M. George Fawcett Rowe. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES. FARIETY, at 8 P.M. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. ‘VARIETY, at 8 P.M, ie TH FIFTH A’ EATRE, PIQUE, at 8 P.M. Fan 4 NEW YOKK HERALD, MO | Senator Bayard as the Democratic | Candidate. Having done a good stroke of work in put- ting Senator Conkling ahead of his rivals for | | the republican nomination, we now turn to | the democratic side in the hope of rendering it a similar service, We began the Conkling campaign under less encouraging circum- stances. Ten weeks ago the public seemed in doubt whether it should regard the Henaxv’s attitude toward Mr. Conkling as. joke or a fantasy, but the general impression 4 at present is that we knew pretty well what we were about. Ithasat least proved no joke to Mr. Conkling’s principal rivals, and Messrs. Morton and Blaine have reason enough to say, like the frogs in the fable, “This may be sport to you, but itis death to us.” After more than two months of per- sistent effort we have the satisfaction of find- ing our views adopted, and Senator Conk- ling conceded to be altogether the strongest of the republican candidates. It has hap- pened to us as to the good pastor in the “Deserted gVillage,” who changed the first impression® of his hearers, “‘and they who came to scoff remained to pray.” But, as we have said, we do not enter upon our kind offices in behalf of the democratic party against such a stream of opposing prepos- sessions. However sanguine may be Governor Til- den’s estimate of his chances, it is an esti- mate not shared by the democratic party at large. He will sooner or later have to aban- don his pretensions, and it rests in his choice whether he will make an early and voluntary ACADEMY OF MUSIC. a CONCERT. Miles. 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Or He Excut Execrioxs ror Dzrvries to the French Assembly yet unverified three will be declared void by the Left ; among the number that of M. Rouher, the Bonapartist leader, from Ajaccio. It is evident that the republican majority in the Assembly will crush imperialism wherever and whenever it raises its head. Tue Amentcan Antists 1n Lonpon have labored well to advance the credit of Ameri- | can art at the Philadelphia Exhibition. Al- though few in number they deserve at the hands of the Fine Art Committee all the Assistance and encouragement that can be extended to them, becanse they represent by their works a feature of our progress in which we desire to excel. The efforts of the British government to advance the interests vf English artists are very creditable, and we hope our government will not be backward in affording every possible facility for secur- ing the fullest representation from the studios of American artists abroad. Tne Escapx or Bancock from the toils of the whiskey fraud investigators was sur- rounded with so much mystery that the country has refused to accept his acquittal as an evidence of his innocence. We are bow learning how it was accomplished, and | the story printed in to-day’s Henaup reveals the details of a widespread official conspir- | acy to defeat justice. The worst feature of | the whole affair is that the President was | evidently aware of the facts bearing on the case against his secretary and tacitly con- sented to the efforts of Babcock’s friends to suppress them. above suspicion where should Casar himself stand? Tne Execrion in Paris yesterday, to fill the vacancy in the representation of the Thirteenth arrondissement caused by Louis Blanc’s selection of the Fifth as his constit- uency, resulted in no choice. The ballot- ing, however, demonstrated the overwhelm- Sng majority of radical republican voters in the district. Seven thousand and sixty. eight republican votes were cast against only nine hundred and ninety-five for the Bona- partist candidate. The want of unanimity among the republicans defeated their ticket gnd necessitates another ballot. There is ‘no chance for the representation of the ar- yondissement by an advocate of the Third Empire. ' ing up the Presidential prize he will give up ' all his political consequence. We tender him | personal, every motive of public spirit should If Cwsar's wife should be | surrender in e@bange for real power or will | Dlindly cling to’them until they shall have dwindled to such insignificance that in giv- the same advice now which we gave to Presi- dent Grant two months ago. Governor Til- den has, as yet, power enough to determine who shall be the democratic candidate in case of his withdrawal, and, assuming that his canvass has not been entirely selfish and impel him to exert his influence for the best advantage of his party and the country. To-day he is, strong enough to dictate the nomination, ‘although he cannot be nomi- nated himself; and in this respect, if in no other, he occupies a position similar to that held by President Grant when the third term tide had turned and Mr. Blaine seemed the coming man, as Judge Davis does now in the democratic party. As Blaine’s canvass was ap attempt to rise on the ruins of Grant, so the canvass of Judge Davis is the symptom of a democratic revolt against the pretensions of Governor Tilden. Davis is making headway, as Blaine seemed at one time to be making headway; and he will gain until Governor Tilden changes his attitude in the canvass, as Blaine continued to make | gains until the change of attitude on the part of President Grant. Assoon as the President abandoned all hope for himself and indi- cated his preference, Mr. Blaine’s growing chances collapsed, as those of Judge Davis will if Governor Tilden follows our advice in the selection of a candidate. The Davis canvass is a mere form of opposition to Tilden, and the Governor.has no time to lose if he is unwilling that the main strug- gle at St. Louis shall be between Davis and Hendricks. He can kill them off as effectually as the President has slain Morton and Blaine by giving his sup- port to Conkling. But if Governor Tilden fights the battle for himself he will fare no better than President Grant would have done had he continued in the field on his own account, There can be no doubt on whom Governor Tilden’s choice ought to fall, if he aims to control the St. Louis Convention. The ele- ments of the new combination are similar to | those which make Conkling so strong a com- petitor for the republican nomination at Cincinnati—namely, the State of New York acting in concert with all the Southern States. If Governor Tilden will give his in- fluence to Senator Bayard this combination becomes not only possible but an assured fact. It is precisely this combination which renders Senator Conkling so strong a can- didate, the support of Pennsylvania being the | consequence of Senator Cameron's shrewd | perception that the Southern delegates would act with those of New York. There | is, however, this difference, that on the republican side the personal | strength of the candidate is in New York and his borrowed strength in the South, whereas in Mr. Bayard’s case his personal support would come from the South and the borrow- ed support from New York. But, however derived, the result would be the same— namely, the whole South and the largest State | of the North united on one candidate. This | powerful nucleus would attract other support, for it holds true in politics, as in a better | domain, that ‘‘to him that hath shall be given | and he shall have more abundantly, and from him that hath not shall be taken away even | what he hath.” ‘This is what happened to Blaine in Pennsylvania as soon as it was seen that Conkling would have the solid | support of New York and the Southern | States, and it will equally happen to Bayard | as soon as the same powerful combination | | shall have been perfected in his favor. } far as not to interefere with his uncon- keep his head level on that critical oc- casio® but he has been equally firm, self-poised and clearsighted on every occasion, Senator Bayard has’ never made a political mistake or miscalculation in relation to any important subject. On the currency question he stands almost alone in never having exhibited the slightest symp- tom of weakness or vacillation either in the Senate or on the stump. He did not wait to consult with friends before deciding whether he would receive the back pay, but spurned and refused it at once. He is a gentleman of such high honor and robust integrity that he is quite incapable of hesitation in any point of conduct which has a moral side, A man whose whole nature thus recoils from trimming expediencies commands the respect of his political adversaries. His character is a shield which blunts the weapons of par- tisan attack, and his chances of election would be decidedly better than those of any other democratic candidate. There is no other way in which Governor Tilden can so strongly intrench himself in public confidence, or so fully estab- lish his political influence, ag by withdrawing his claims in favor of Senator Bayard. He will thereby clear himself of the suspicions and asper- sions which have been cast on his motives. It will then be apparent that he has not wooed Reform for her dower. It will then be acknowledged that he values honest gov- ernment above his political advancement. Besides acquiring an enviable reputation for disinterestedness and public spirit he will be regarded as a power behind the Presi- dency greater than the Presidency itself: Even without the hint recently given him by Governor Seymour, that the highest polit- ical influence may be exerted by a citizen in ® private station, Mr. Tilden should know from his own personal experience and polit- ical observation that this opinion of Gover- nor Seymour is well founded. The exam- ples of Dean Richmond, Thurlow Weed, Francis P. Blair, and that of Mr. Tilden himself are cases in point. He exerted as much real power when he was the mere adviser of the democratic party in this State as he does as Governor; and at that time he escaped the irksome labors of official detuil and had the credit of acting from unselfish motives. In taking the Governorship he madea sorry ex- change, and he will find his pursuit of the | Presidency like the apples of Sodom—fair | to the sight but turning to ashes in his | mouth, We advise him to consult his tran- quillity and give up a vain chase. If Mr. Bayard should be elected President he would, of course, offer Governor Tilden his choice of .places in the Cabinet, and, like Mr. Seward, the Governor would acquire more credit as Secretary of State than he could gain as President. Besides, his repu- tation as a long-headed statesman would cause the most far-reaching measures of the administration to be ascribed to him, so that he would acquire much honor with little anxiety and toil. With Senator Bayard as the democratic candidate the chances would be very good for the success of the party. New York will bethe main battle ground of the Presiden- | tial campaign, and Mr. Bayard would be more likely tocarry this State than Gov- ernor Tilden. He has not a personal enemy inthe whole State, which is a great deal more than can be said of the Governor. Moreover, he would have the full advantage of Governor Tilden’s popularity in addition to his own, inasmuch as high official promo- tion for the Governor would follow the suc- cess of the canvass. If Governor Tilden will but have the magnanimity and sagacity to support Mr. Bayard every rival can be put out of the field before the Convention meets at St. Louis and the candidate be nominated by acclamation. Dom Pedro’s Reception. The prominent and venerable citizens of New York who have consented to act as a committee to make arrangements for the civic reception of the Emperor of Brazil have contented themselves with a very limited programme, so far as its initiatory portion is concerned. Wo do not doubt tbe ability of these gentlemen to carry out satisfactorily the quiet but impor- tant divisions of their task, which will make them the guides of the Emperor over our public schools, libraries, and charitable |‘ reformatory or penal insti- tutions; but surely there is something left undone when their programme will not include a formal and public reception. We notice that the municipal authorities of Baltimore have decided to provide a fitting reception for the ruler of a country which is connected by the strong bonds of trade with the Monumental | City. The Brazilian Minister has taken oc- | easion to state with emphasis that his sovereign in coming to the United States de- sires to be treated as a private citizen ; to be let come and go as such. This is, of course, the Minister's duty and according to his instructions ; but while the wishes of our imperial visitor should be respected so strained movements when he is once among us, the great American country he represents should be fittingly honored in his reception. We must dwell a moment longer on the case with which this combination will be effected | when Governor Tilden assents to it. If it | Wearr or Ir.—President Grant at last seems to have the iron of his disgraced ad- ministration enter his soul, for, betrayed by the sycophants whose adulations he rewarded | would get tho vote of a single delegate from | 4 welcome to him, and our city authorities 3t the public expense, by the bosom friends | any Southern State. This isso obvious to | should provide a guard of honor to escort whom he fattened in the Treasury, by | every person at all acquainted with the | the Emperor and Empress to their hotel. he relatives whom he dumped as fast | political situation that it is needless to | phero, in deference to the Emperor's wish, public crib, he | argue it. But if Governor Tilden remains | public demonstrations might end ; and the | longs for the 4th of March, 1877, when his | in the field the Southern delegates will be | committee, headed by the veteran poet and | Presidency and his pain may expire to- | divided between Davis and Hendricks, both | journalist, William Cullen Bryant, could as found into the gether. He has seen the sycophants proved plunderers, the bosom friends proved traitors | to the little honesty expected of them, and he has: seen the relatives come go" out of the public crib to batten with insatiate maw upon poor soldiers and Indians, upon anything within reach. It will tend to redeem the | President in the eyes of posterity if this re- morseful and disgusted mood lasts, but it must ever be regarded as a proof of the denseness of his insensibility that he was | the last honest man in the United States to wish an administration that resulted in such spficial putridity ot on end. were once understood in the South that | Bayard is the candidate of New York neither | nor Hendricks, nor Thurman | | Davis, | of whom will in that case receive also a con- | siderable support from the Northwest. Hen- | dricks is a contemptible trimmer and Davis | is not a democrat. Governor Tilden, asa | democrat anda man of steady principles,’ should prefer Bayard to either of them. Mr. | Bayard is a consistent democrat who has | never flinched nor wavered. He alone, of | all the able men of his party, had the polit- | ical courage and manly sincerity to stand } up in the Baltimore Convention in 1872 | against the disastrous blunder of tying the | democratic party as a tail to the Greeley kite. | | The result of the election vindicated h | forecast ond wisdom. Not only did he | To this end we have suggested that the President or a high Cabinet official—and who more appropriate than our dignified Secretary of State?—should welcome Dom Pedro to our shores. A detach- | ment of the fleet should thunder out take up and delicately perform their task of showing His Majesty what he desires to see in New York. EnGuisn Literature has received many important additions recently. Our review of the principal works furnishes material for an interesting article published elsewhere. Mr. Gladstone, having been elected to the | aged the investigation. chair of ancient history in the Royal Acad- emy, becomes by right of his position a high authority on art. This will doubtless prove a pleasurable relaxation from the turmoils of artistic tastes of the eminent ex-Premier. The Story of the “Safe Burglary.” When a committee of Congress began, some years ago, to investigate the frauds and thefts of the Washington Improvement Ring, the influential persons concerned, whom a discovery would have ruined, stopped at nothing to prevent it. The committee had, fortunately, help from some of the honest and substantial citizens of Washington, chief among whom was Mr. Columbus Alex- ander, a gentleman who has shown remark- able pertinacity and ability in his long pur- suit of the Ring. It was, we believe, at Mr. Alexander's suggestion that the committee required the leading men of the Ring to pro- duce the books in which the course and cost of the city improvements were set down, and who pointed out, when a set of books were produced, that these were false and that the genuine books were still concealed. Thereupon it occurred to some of the Ring to endeavor to get rid of Mr. Alexander, by implicating him in what would have the appearance of a criminal act. A spy was sent to Mr. Alexander, who told him that the real books were in a safe in the office of the District Attorney, and that if he would pay a certain sum of money the office could be entered, the safe broken open and the books handed overtohim. Mr. Alexander replied that he would have nothing to do with such a trans- action, and this little plot failed. The plan of entrapping him, however, had been formed, and was not so easily abandoned. Two burglars had been hired, and other preparations made, and so the spy was again sent to Mr. Alexander with a simpler propo- sition--that on a certain night the books would be brought to him; and it was deter- mined by the conspirators to post well instructed policemen in such a way as to seize Mr. Alexander while he was in the act of accepting the books. ; All the arrangements were, therefore, made for a given night. The police who usually guarded the District Attorney's office were dismissed or sent to a distance ; two professional burglars, hired for the pur- pose by agents of the Ring and brought down from New York, were introduced into the building, and policemen in the confi- dence of the Ring were stationed outside, for the double purpose of preventing inter- ruption and of following the burglars to Mr. Alexander's house when they should have obtained the books. The safe was blown open, a sham set of books taken out, and with these the burglars proceeded tow- ard Mr. Alexander's house, followed at a short distance by the policemen, ready to pounce upon Alexander at the critical mo- ment and to conveniently suffer the burglars to escape after having identified them. A droll incident happened on the way. The time was one o'clock at night. Tho burglars, carrying the sham books, had for- gotten the number of Mr. Alexander's house; and after wandering past it, and when about to ring the bell of the wrong house, the po- lice, supposed to be in vigorous pursuit of them, had actually to call to them and direct them to the right house! Arrived there they rang the bell, butin vain. Mr. Alexander, thinking little or nothing of the proposed | delivery of the books, and at any rate deter- mined to take no notice of irregular proceed- ings with which he would have nothing to do, had gone to bed at his usual hour. The bell wakened no one in the house. The burglars and the sham police were both perplexed; the area bell was rung with no better suc- cess; and, finally, after consultation between the burglars and the police, the whole, party decamped. The next day Washington was excited by the report that a most daring burglary had been committed and the safe blown up in District Attorney Harrington’s office, and all means were used to show that the persecu- tors of the Ring had been guilty of this crime. But after a while the true story leaked out and several of the actors in it were prosecuted ; but always unsuccessfully. And no wonder, for the chiefs in this con- spiracy had very powerful friends, and moreover the conspiracy had been very shrewdly managed so as toconceal the chiefs from the knowledge of the subordinates in such a way that but two confidential agents knew who were the real authors of the plot. At last, however, by the persistent efforts of Mr. Alexander and others, Harrington, the District Attorney, a particular friend of Shepherd and Babcock and an in- timate at the White House, was in- dicted and brought to trial. The case against him had been confided to Mr. A. G. Riddle as Assistant Attorney General; and Mr. Riddle, who had received his ap- pointment because he was known to be the personal friend of some of the Ring, but who happened to be an honest and incorruptible lawyer, was about to convict Harrington, when the public was astounded first to see Harrington, then under trial for a felony and a prisoner on bail, conspicuously in- vited to the White House, where he appeared as a welcome and favored guest, and second, Mr. Riddle suddenly and for no reason re- moved from his post of prosecuting attor- ney. Thereupon the trial brokedown. But the general conviction of Harrington's guilt was so strong that the Ring, who had used this weak young man, now found it neces- sary to drop him, and he drifted back to his home in Delaware and into obscurity. The prosecution, long bafiled, was not dropped; but convenient prosecuting at- torneys doctored grand jvries, and during last summer o sham and falsely personated bail-giver delayed and frustrated the differ- ent attempts to bring this scandalous crime to light. At last, it seems, an investigating committee of the present House has got at the key to the mystery, and it is to be hoped that the patient efforts of Mr. Proctor Knott and his fellow committcemen will succeed in dragging the authors to the light and to punishment. Mr. Knott deserves great credit for the manner in which he has man- He was, we remem- ber, on the District of Columbia Committee during the Congress before the last, and | there did much to prevent and to expose wrongdoing ; and it must bea gratification to him that row, after a considerable in- terval, he has an opportunity to complete the work which he then began. Tar Maoyiricent Weraturr of yesterday don the garments of spring, The Quintuple Herald Advertisements. Occasionally we meet with a man who is so comfortably off in the world and so happy in his self-conceit that he will loll back in his easy chair and say, ‘Newspapers? Yes, I read them for news, and news only— events, sir, events. Advertisements may suit people that have wants. I have none.” Our friend thinks he does not want anything; but, sad to say, no sooner is your back turned than he may be detected running his eye down the Henrarp amusement advertisements and up those of the fine arts. A tooth pains him; and though he inherited a fortune and a law- yer he was not bequeathed a dentist, and so with comic contortions he hunts the pages till he finds one who draws teeth or stops them “with all the modern improvements.” In fact, our friend, without knowing it, is a self-deluding humbug. Of course, like everybody else, he reads the advertisements. He is one in a thousand, he thinks, but in reality he is only one among the million of readers of the Hzraup who want all the news, all the editorial and all the advertisements that can be crammed into every issue: Bless him, he rend the Heraxp of yesterday through and wondered at its one hundred and twenty columns of clean cut type, although he did not count them. He said, ‘‘What acres of advertise- ments!” though he did not convince himself “that there were seyenty-one stout columns of them. He said, “What crowds of people talk to each other over these acres of adver- ‘tisements !” though he did not know that these people were divided into seventy-four battalions, each saying to the other, ‘I have what you want,” or ‘I want what you have.” A very different person is ‘‘Real Estate Agent”—practical, mathematical man—who sends us a computation, which we print elsewhere, regarding the advertisements of the Herap and other city papers of yester- day. Three thousand three hundred and seventy-five advertisements in one issue, teeming besides with live news of every kind, and lively or grave comments, as the news was gay or otherwise, until the whole filled a quintuple edition of twenty pages, or one hundred and twenty columns! We see that the Times, News, Sun, World and Dispatch of yesterday combined to furnish 1,373 advertisements, a showing creditable enough when we consider the circumstances, but which still leaves the Hzraxp 2,002 adver- tisements to spare, although our contempo- raries with a wanton waste of space spread their 1,373 advertisemcnts over seventy-one columns, or as many as were in the Hegaup. Then, the light brigade of the Sunday Mercury, Telegram, Star, Courier and Era come in with thirty-seven columns of advertise- ments, in which, however, only 634 adver- tisers address each other, still leaving the Henaxp 1,368 advertisements more than con- tained in all the ten papers we have enu- merated put together. ‘Real Estate Agent” omitted one fact, which we recall to him— namely, that these 3,375 advertisements, equal to anything the London Times has ex- hibited in one day, were fresh advertise- ments and the collection of a single day. None of them were held over to fill an extra paper, as is the case in the London Times. We treat our advertisers’ wishes as our own. What they desire to print on a certain day we print for them. It requires a constant and strong effort, in keeping faith thus with our advertisers, to manage our business so that, no matter what the pressure of advertising, we retain space sufficient for’ the news, and all the news. The business principle of the Hzraxp is and has been to get the news at any cost, to print it as soon as the perfection of machinery can send it broadcast from the thundering presses and to treat the favors of the advertising public in the same prompt way. And it has pros- pered. The 3,375 advertisers of yesterday's Herat, its circulation of 130,000 quintuple copies, its million of readers, all testify to the general approbation of the strict busi- ness principle in newspapers; and that this prosperity has grown steadily from year to year during forty-one years is the best proof that the Henratp will continue to grow in size, in intrinsic value as well as in general estimation. The Cheap Cab Question. The necessity for a system of cheap cabs in this city is admitt2d. That much at least has been gained by #16 agitation of the ques- tion in the columns of the Heraup. The public isin favor of the proposed reform, and the subject has received an amouit of consideration which proves it to be of para- mount importance to the community. So much having thus been gained, a decided step is taken toward the end in view. It was thus that the question of rapid transit was begun and carried on, until the crying want attracted the attention of inventors and | capitalists, who will in time give us the means to move rapidly and cheaply from one end of the island to the other. Agitation of the cab question having fairly commenced, it will not be long before a solution of the problem will be afforded, and the present absurd system be entirely reformed and im- proved. It has been stated by cab owners that it is unfair to make a comparison between Lon- don and New York, because in the former city such vehicles do not cost so much to | build; that London cabs aro not fitted up as | handsomely or expensively as in New York. This is bad reasoning, besides being untrue, for it is evident that the public does not re- quire cabs lined with satin, or lace, or silk. Nor is it necessary that silver mountings or gaudy trappings should be found on a street cab, What is wanted is a light vehicle, suit- able for one horse, a neat body, comfortably arranged seats, plain glass windows, strong wheels and an unpretending exterior, “In- stead of satin or silk cushions leather could be used, and the other materials need not cost more here than in London. But the fact is that cabs in London are really hand- somely made, Velvet cushions and stamped i leather hangings are to be found as fre- quently there as in Now York, and the char- acter of the vehicles is such as to show the | importance of the traffic and its profits. That cabs can be run profitably at lower rates than those now obtained is proved by the fact that the omnibus lines make money | on ten cent fares. They seldom get more | politics, and congenial to the literary and | tempted many of our fashionable devotees to | one dollar and twenty cents, yet as each than a full load on each half trip, or about | vehicle is able to gq up and ‘down town Fo ee etn Senn SE GR ee ae Sn Sn nee RET ee ee eee meee ee NDAY, APRIL 10, 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. twelve or fourteen times the daily earnings of omnibuses average from fourteen dollars and forty cents to.sixteen dollars and eighty cents, The companies confess to a profit of six dollars per day, though six horses to each omnibus have to be maintained, while cheap cabs need only one or at the most two animals. With these figures at hand it is easy to seo that cabs can be made both profite able as well as cheap. y A fair field and active competition, under a thorough system of inspection and surveil lance, is what is needed. When the travel- ling public understand that cabs can be pro- cured at reasonable rates and that the au- thorities intend to enforce the tariff of prices the business of cab driving will suddenly im crease and be even more profitable thap ever. Senator Conkling in the South, Our esteemed republican neighbor, the Times, seems a good deal disconcerted and chagrined in view of the formidable and ex: panding dimensions of Senator Conkling at a Presidential candidate. Our respectable contemporary took too narrow a view of the situation when it decided to abet Mr. Curtia in his attempt to injure Senator Conkling in his own State. It was expected that a dem- onstration against Mr. Conkling at Syracuse showing that the republicans of New York are not unanimous in his qupport would make it impossible for him to get any dele- gates from other States; but Mr. Curtis’ dem- onstration was a blunderbuss which did more execution at the breech than at thé muzzle, It provoked President Grant to hasten his decision to put his influence on the side of Conkling. This was a necessary result of the open affront offered to the Presie dent in opposing Senator Conkling on the ground of his steady support of the adminis- tration. As Mr..Blaine was at the bottom of the movement and used Mr. Curtis as a po- litical catspaw the President knew exactly where he could lay on the chastising rod with most effect, and he has given Blaine good reason to repent of his intermeddling. He has executed a flank movement on the Maine candidate which deprives him of sup- port in the South and takes away from him his native State of Pennsylvania. ‘We need not go beyond the columns of the Times itself to find evidence that the admin- istration is vigorously aiding Mr. Conkling in the Southern States. When the Washing- ton despatches of the Heraup had furnished proof of this fact the Times attempted a contradiction, but it happened, oddly enough, that on the same page, and imme- diately following its Washington despatch denying the Haralson interview, the Times printed a long letter from Richmond, furs nishing more significant evidence of Presi- dent Grant's active support of Conkling than anything contained in the statements of Mr. Haralson. The intelligent Richmond correspondent of the Times stated that Mr. Blaine had made pretty sure of the Virginia delegates, when it was sud- denly discovered that the President in- tends to support Senator .Conkling, and there was an immediate stampede from the ex-Speaker. On the Gth of April the general impression throughout the State was that Blaine would undoubtedly have the Virginia delegation. ‘On that day, however,” says the correspondent, ‘Judge Morton, the Chairman of the Republican State Execu- tive Committee, returned to Richmond from Washington, where he had been for several days, and immediately the ‘whole prospect of the campaign was changed. Judge Morton, upon his arrival, at once put him- self in communication with several prominent republicans, and by some mysterious process—I can use no other expression—convinced them that the strong- est candidate for them to nominate was Senator Conkling, of New York. It is stated upon good authority that he said he was em- powered to announce that the Senator was the first choice of General Grant, and that the administration expected all those em- ployed by it to support him in the Lynch- burg Convention. Judge Morton has just been appointed a special agent of the Post Office in this State. He is thought to be high in the confidence and esteem of those who have most power in Washington, and, as politicians go, he is a very respectable man and has no small share of influence, In consequence his statements were poten: tial with many office-holders and others, and i he has succeeded in commencing a very strong movement in favor.of the Senator from New York.” We give this paragraph as a specimen of the contents of the letter, which abounds with detailed confirmatory evidence. A Defence of “Old Probabilities,” ‘We notice that anumber of journals, East- ern, Western and Southern, unite in a de- mand for an investigation of General Myer and the Weather Bureau. They complain— and not without justice—that it is intolera- ble to maintain at the public expense a bu- reau to regulate the weather, and then to suffer from all sorts of atmospheric vagaries, as almost the whole country has done during the last month. It is not only torrents of untimely rain we complain of, they say, but equinoctial tornadoes, snow storms, which seem to have been delayed and gathered up during the whole winter to burst upon us just when the peachbuds are swelling; thunder gusts in March, which were not due until August, ae? north wind, like that which j Chilling and killing Annabel Lec, and which would have given her a quinsy or diphtheria, if either of those diseases had . been fashionable at the time when the poet Poe recorded her sufferings. We are not going to say that there is in these complaints, much less to plead that ‘Old Probabilities” may not rightly be held responsible for the vileness of the weather. There are people, no doubt, who will be as much puzzled to understand why Geferal Myer should be held responsi- ble for the weather as Attorney General Pierrepont was to tell why General Babcock made public his letter to district attorneys; but we are not of such. If we keep a weather prophet shall we not require him to regulate the weather? “It don't pay to keep a dog and bark yourself,” said a Yankee philosopher; and in the present case we must not forget the example of the people of ‘Western Florida, who, finding the establish- ment of a weather station among tham oaine