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er ~ NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE. 13, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD Hasta ial tors 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. os. All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New York Hunaxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. ‘ | Rejected communications will not be re- burned. , PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLI — AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, BOOTH'S THEATRE. DFFENBACH AND AIMEE, at ® P.M. BOWERY THEATRE EIDNAPPED, 8PM. WOOD'S MUSEUM. ] JEAN VALJEAN, at SP. M. Matinee at 2P. M. RAGLE THEATRE. PARTED, at 8 P.M. Henrietts Oban(ran. WHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, USP. M, Matinee at 2 P. M. 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Money on call was supplied at 2 1-2 per cent. Tne Programme of sports for to-day on land and water would entice an anchorite down the bay or a politician to Fordham. Tue Canvass Taxes a Srxcuian Torn.— The old maids are for Bristow, the barons are for Conkling and the boys are for Blaine, Let us see which side will win. ‘Wuissery taken in certain doses will pro- duce intoxication as well as lager beer. This is Mr. O'Gorman’s philosophic contribution to the Sunday question, and perhaps a few of his clients will support his view. As a Secretary or Tur Treasury what has Bristow done to show the possession of apy special ability? How do his reports compare with those of Hamilton, Gallatin and Chase, or even with those of McCulloch? We can- not make a President out of the 'St. Louis whiskey trials. Where is the record? Tue Pourticians are not looking forward to the 15th inst. with as much anxiety as Winslow, the Boston forger, who, it is said, will be discharged by the British authorities on that day if the extradition question is not then adjusted. As matters look now the chances are in favor of Winslow, English advices reporting a deadlock in the matter of the treaty. Fietpy Mansa, Murat Hazsreap, the great editor of the West, and Bonanza Jones, the richest man in the world, according to the correspondents, and Boss Alexander R. Shepherd, the bosom friend and plumber of this affectionate administration, are all keep- ing open house at Cincinnati and spreading tempting feasts betore the delegates. Hal- stead is for Bristow, the other two for Conk- ling. Noone keeps open house for Wash- burne. But was it not Cinderella who in the end won the prince? Excuanp’s Steam Reserve.—Wo are told ina mournful despatch that owing to tho falling off in emigration to this country a great many fine British steamers, well known in the Atlantic trade, are lying idle in the Mersey and the Thames. The Admiralty, doubtless, has its eye upon them, and in ease of war they will find plenty to doin carrying troops, war material and hospital supplies. Wuat a Currnnoat Game It Is.—-When we skim over these reports of the Conventions ‘nd the editorial comments of the various party newspapers we are struck with the fact that the whole business .of politics is what might be called ‘‘a game of cutthroat.” How the leadors denounce one another and invent stories to each other's disparagement and strive for the mastery! Where is the sense of chivalry, of devotion to a party or a principle, which animated the politicians in the olden time? How Caum Aut Writ Bers a Few Dars.—In 8 few days the whole business will be over and we shall have a harmonious party, every leader doing his level best for ‘‘the cause” and the candidate. Then wo shall know how much Conkling really thinks of Blaine, the devotion Blaino feels for Conk- ling, the affection for Bristow that dwells in all bosoms, the affectionate appreciation of Morton by his rivals, the long pent-up ad- miration for the courageous Washburne, the love which the whole party has ever felt for the Great Unknown, Just now all is clouded by the smoke of the cannonading battalions. When the smoke lifts we shall be surprised to see that there has heen no battle at all, mly ttage Sr» and stage thunder, What the Country Expects from Cin- cinnati. The Republican Convention will assemble to-morrow. The despatches we print this morning give a full and graphic picture of | the scenes in Cincinnati preceding the meet- ing. In the political management of our parties much more depends upon these pre- liminary consultations than upon the action of the Convention. In every large body of men in a Senate, a House, a Congress or & convention there are a few who rule, who have the experience necessary to wield au- thority. The will of these few will be im- posed upon the party, unless, as is sometimes the case, the masses of the Convention’take matters in their own hands and carry every- thing by an impulse of enthusiasm. This was the way in the old French revolutionary legislatures, and no good ever came of it. The sessions generally began by singing the “Marseillaise” and ended by carrying off the head of the President on a pike. We should have little hope from the Convention which is to meet to-morrow or from the one that is to meet ina couple of weeks at St. Louis if their deliberations were to be gov- erned by ‘Johnny” Davenport's bands of music or Boss Kelly's crowd of strikers and heclers. There will of course be as much music as is necessary, and the boys will have rare sport in tramping around the streets and shouting while tho leaders deliberate. But it is to the leaders that we look for a good platform and a good ticket. The Convention which meets to-morrow can nominate a President of the United States. All the chances point toward the choice of a republican administration. We would prefer the contrary, believing that a change is necessary for the good of the coun- try. But how can we expect a party which throws over a statesman like Thurman for a demagogue like Allen to win the confidence of the country? The feeling in the minds of the people, that it is better to bear the ills we have than fly to others wo know not of, especially when the others may mean repudiation and revolution, will carry a republican through if there is any wis- dom shown at Cincinnati. It is to the interest of the country that there should be a good man named at Cincinnati. It will necessarily give us a good man at §8t. Louis. For above any political feeling, which is, after all, con- fined toa few professional politicians, the desire of the country is that both conven- tions shall give us their best men. There are no burning questions to disturb the judg- ment of the leaders of the two parties. We have no propelling issue like the war, which has made any calm, independent political action impossible for fifteen years, which threw Lincoln upon us as it threw Grant, and which disturbed the whole fabric of our government. We are not under the pressure of events which govern politics, and which have governed both parties since the death of Lincoln especially. The questions aris- ing out of the war have been settled. The other questions which interest thinking men are not ripe enough for political action. There is a tacit assent on the part of both parties to postpone free trade and other problems fora canvass or two. All that is left to us now is to keep the peace and pay the debt. The canvass will, therefore, turn more upon men and less upon principle than it has for many years. And yet there are certain principles which might with advantage be adopted by the Convention to-morrow. This idea of free trade is so important to our national well- being that it should be carefully considered. It is time for parties to-accept the beneficent and wise doctrine that freedom of trade is the best for all classes and especially for the poor. Then the one term amendment for the Presidency should be pressed upon the Convention, and by the Convention sub- mitted to the people. There is no reason why the republicans should not take high ground upon this question. Cmsarism has been a grievous burden to that party. It robbed them of their majority in the House. If General Grant had any sensitiveness he can waive it now, feeling as Jackson and other statesmen did that the elective principle bodes no good to the Republic. Then comes this question of Chinese emigration. It is proper for any convention to lny down, as a principle governing emigration, that while wo welcome all who come to our shores as citizens meaning to cast their lot with us, whether black, white or yellow, we do not accept those who come without their wives or families, who do not regard this country ass home, but as a treasure land to be ransacked and despoiled, The Chinaman comes here very much as the freebooter went to the islands of the Spanish Main. His only errand is booty, and we should treat him as a booty-hunter. This is a point which should not be overlooked by a repub- lican convention. It does not involve pro- scription or cruelty, but simply asks from the emigrant acquiescence with our laws and our destiny. Upon finance we expect the Convention to take strong ground. There must be no paltering with repudia- tion in any form. And while on this point, we demand also some expression as to the manner in which the railway jobbers havo abused the confidence of the government and plundered the Treasury. As to the South, we can dispense with all rhetoric about the Duke of Alva and An- dersonville. When we have a sound plat- form we wanta sound man. The republi- cans are not to have a walk over. They are not to have a President shoved upon them as Grant has been for two terms. Their leaders must not be swayed by the enthusiasm of the Convention galleries or the echoes of the lobbies of Congress. The country will sit in pitiless scrutiny for nearly six long months over the name this Convention presents. The light which falls upon a candidate for the Presi- dency is a terrible one, What man among the leaders is the most worthy to stand this test? Which man can go into the flame and come forth without the smell of fire on his garments ? This is a serious question, and it must be considered not as Conkling nor as Morton nor as Blaine partisans, but as republicans who see the success of the party above all personal ambition. Mr. Blaine’s candidacy fails on the first trial. Mr. Blaine is a charming and ami- able character, He appeals to the young men of the party by his courage and to the American sentiment in favor of fair play. He has been hardly used. Upon him has fallen a sad misfortuhe. But Mr. Blaine has made himself an impos- sible candidate by admitting that at the time when the railway rings were plunder- ing the government he shared in their spoil, and as Speaker did their bidding. As Speaker he did what as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would have cost him his place. This isthe underlying fact in the whole discussion about the private letters. Mr. Blaine as the candidate of the republi- can party would put that party upon the defensive from the beginning; would com- pel it to sustain or ignore that whole system of railway jobbery ; would silence the guns that otherwise would be opened upon the democrats who were in the same ring, and would make the race a losing one from the outset. This Cincinnati enthusiasm, this Washington sympathy for an_ ailing gentleman, this gushing rhetoric of cal- low Washington correspondents, who think of Blaine’s dinners while they write their despatches—all this will fade away, and then will come the hard duty of carrying a man who, but for the stupidity of the democratic members of the House, would now be before the bar of the House in danger of expulsion for having tampered with o witness and sup- pressed evidence: 5 Of course, if the republicans see in Mr. Blaine their best candidate they havo a right to show their faith in him. That is their business. We simply speak of the effect upon the country. If the Convention, wants the man who best represents the courage, the discipline and the honor of the party, who will poll every vote, command the respect of his opponents, and be a worthy President if elected, it will take Mr. Conkling. If it is willing to change its ground on the money question and throw the Southern States back into the hands of adventurers and military governors, at the same time running the risk of another Tyler and another Johnson, it will take Mr. Mor- ton. If it desires to name the man against whom nothing can be said as a republican or a reformer, and who would be true to the principles of an honored and .courageous life, it will take Mr. Washburne. If it wishes to please a few old maids, some Harvard professors and a swarm of detectives by trying as an experiment a man about whom it knows nothing, it will take Mr. Bristow, and learn in four years whether or not he is a re- former. Every path has its difficulties. We can understand how republicans who think only of the party success should be puzzled. If none of these paths are inviting there is always the road toward the Great Unknown. When the tired gambler wearies of pursuing fortune he frequently throws his stake upon a new card and dares fate to its worst. This has time and ngain been the resource of a desperate convention, Some- times the prize is a Polk or a Pierce, some- times itis Lincoln. It may be that the re- publican leaders, worn out by these burning strifes, will tempt destiny by taking a Great Unknown, feeling, perhaps, that as they won a Lincoln once fortune may smile upon them at Cincinnati as it smiled upon them sixteen years ago in the wigwam at Chicago. New York at Cincinnati. The New York delegation held a consulta- tion yesterday for the purpose of deciding on their course in the Convention. The result showed a very near approach to unan- imity in their supportof Mr. Conkling. Mr. Curtis had an opportunity of proving that he has as little influence with the delegates as he had in the State Convention. He told the Convention that if Mr. Conkling is nominated New York, Ohio and Massachu- setts will be lost to the republican party. But the other delegates are as competent to judge of Mr. Conkling’s chances for carry- ing New York as Mr. Curtis, and there seems some presumption in his setting up his in- dividual opinion against that.of the delega- tion and against the views and wishes of the republican party of New York os declared by their State Convention. Mr. Curtis said that a leading delegate from Massachusetts | had told him that Conkling could not carry that State. That man, whoever he may be, able to assure his colleagues, in like manner, that a leading delegate from New York had assured him that Conk- ling could not carry his own State ; but if the Massachusetts man be such an odd sheep in the flock as Mr. Cartis is in his own delegation his single opinion may not be quite conclusive. If Mr. Curtis means that he will not vote for the nominee of the Convention if it should be Conkling he has no right as 8 man of honor to enter the Con- vention at all. But if Mr. Curtis would vote for Conkling in the event of his nomina- tion it is probable that all other republi- cans in New York would do s0 too, for there is no other republican in the State who op- poses Mr. Conkling with so much bitterness. Itis hardly consistent with political good faith to take part in a convention and then refuse to be bound by its action. There would be no sense in holding political con- ventions if the decision of tho majority did not bind the minority. This first principle of party fealty seems to sit very loosely on Mr. Curtis. He opposed yesterday a resolu- tion couched in the very words of the Syra- cuse Convention. Massachusetts gentle- would be A Hist to tue Bors.—The newspaper boys are Work az up Blaine in a style that recalls the halcyon days of Schuyler Colfax. When Schuyler was scheming for his ad- vancement he was wont to spend histime on Newspaper Row, in Washington, telling the correspondents how much he admired them and how he wished he were President, if only for a week, that he might give them all first class missions. But when Schuyler be- came Vice President he never went near the boys, and when they came near him he lec- tured them on the dignity and independence of the press and how the gigantic minds of the correspondents should be above political or official ambition. We are afraid that if Blaine became President he might have high ideas about the dignity of journalism. The boys should not be too precipitate and con- fiding in their affections. The only uso a politician ever has for s journalist is to use bim, Senator Conkling’s Rising Chances. Tho reports from Cincinnati show that the confidence of the Conkling men is steadily increasing, and that there is a” real increase of etrength as a basis for this growing confidence. The votes of the South, the votes of the Pacific States and Territories, together with those of New York and Pennsylvania, would give Mr. Conkling very nearly a majority, and it is next to certain that he will receive these and large additions from other States. The Conkling canvass has been managed with consummate skill. No effort has been wasted in States not essential to success, In politics as in war it is the perfection of strategy to find the key positions which command all the others, and concentrate upon these, for when they have been taken the others will fall of themselves., The delegates of New York, Pennsylvania, the South and the Pacific const are about all that Mr. Conkling needs to insure his nomi- nation, and as soon as it is seen that he has these delegates from other States will hasten to support him, as wishing to be on the win- ning side and to stand well with the new ad- tninistration. The methods by which this result is to be accomplished are already partially disclosed. To Senator Jones has been assigned the task of taking care of the delegates from tho Pa- cific coast and mining regions. He will not attempt to draw them away from Blaine or to proselytize them in any way. He has taken one of the finest houses in Cincinnati, which he will keep open till tho adjournment of the Convention, dis- pensing a liberal and profuse hospitality and bestowing marked social attentions on the Paific coast delegates, His great wealth, his high standing in that interesting section of the country, his knowledge of and devo- tion to its interests, will render his hospi- talities peculiarly pleasing to the Pacific delegates. He will hardly talk politics to them, or certainly not at first; but his cham- pagne will flow like a river, and the pleasant joke, the lively repartee, the arts by which an accomplished host makes his guosts foel pleased with themselves and with him, will put that part of the delegates in such a humor that they will be easily influenced after Blaine is out of the contest. Meanwhile, in pursuance of the Napoleonic strategy of striking the enemy at some vital point, the Blaine delegates from some ini- portant State will be led to break and desert. Probably Hlinois, which is the largest of the Blaine States, will be selected for this ex- periment, especially if, as our late de- spatches assure us, Logan should unite forces with Conkling and accept the Vice Presidency as the price of the alli- ance. No matter where the Illinois delegates go, it is enough if they break and scatter. The moment this is done it will be seen that Blaine is out of the contest. The time will then be ripe for bringing the Pacific delegates into the Conkling camp, where they will naturally go as soon as Blaine is abandoned. The District of Co- lumbia delegates being zealous for Conkling we will class them with those from the Terri- tories, and with the delegates from the Pacific States the contingent commanded by Sen- ator Jones will present the following muster roll:— 2 oe 2 2 District of 2 TOtAL....eeseeereeeeecoegeserreeee seeeee cocesees 43 We turn next to the South. Morton is the favorite candidate of most of the Southern delegates, but if will Lecome apparent in any early stage of the proceedings that neither he nor Bristbw has any chance for the nomination. The question will then be to whom the Morton and Bristow delegates shall be transferred. There can be no doubt that they will go to Conkling. In the first place the ablest, most widely known and best esteemed of all the colored leaders in the United States, Frederick Douglass, is a strong Conkling man, and if he shonld ad- dress the Southern delegates after Morton is withdrawn his eloquence would make a great impression. In the next place it is well known that tho Southern repub- licans are devoted admirers of. Presi- dent Grant; that they would have pre- ferred him to any other candidate; that they would be guided by his wishes if he would make his wishes known. When Morton is withdrawn the Southern delegates will be left in no doubt as to whom President Grant favors, and his preference, supported by Douglass’ eloquence, will make them a unit for Conkling. The Southern States will give Conkling one hundred and eighty votes in the later ballots. The Conkling strength, when the voting becomes earnest and “means business,” may therefore be reck- oned as tollows:— Pacific States and Territories. Southern States. Now York.. Ponnsylvania. Making..... As soon as it becomes evident that Mr. Conkling has these States the votes of In- diana will be transferred to him, as the friends of Morton can hardly support any- body else at that stage, and the votes of Ohio will be added in consideration of the nom- ination of Governor Hayes for Vice Presi- dent. The Conkling strength will then stand as follows :— 351 This will make forty-cight more than a majority, and we have included in the caleu- lation only those States which Conkling’s friends have » reasonable hope of securing. This estimate, which is founded on the ex- pectations of Mr. Conkling’s friends, may not be fully verified in all its parts, but it has foundation enongh to justify the belief that the nomination does not lie between Conkling and any of his present competi- tors, but between him and the Great Un- known. Wao Pars tHe Moxerr ror Brrstow's Ma- cutsz?—For a reformer who does not seck the Presidency, who thinks the man should not seek the office, but the office the man, who deplores corruption in politics and the use of money, who would return the gov- ernment to the principles of tho fathers, this campaign of Bristow's costs some one a deal of money. We hear of Bristow banners, Bris- tow transparencies, Bristow cravats, Bristow delegations and Bristow clubs all over Cin- cinnati. This costs money, as Hon. Tom Murphy or any experienced leader will tes- tify. The question is, Who pays the money? for we disdain the thought that all this is on speculation. In a reform canvass the bills should certainly be paid. Who is paying out the money for Bristow? Mr. Blaine’s Cases it Serous Apo- plexy? In the absence ofa history of the case medi- cally precise we have these main points :— For many days the patient’s brain has been overworked in sheer intellectual labor, and the emotional nature has been unduly ex- cited by charges that threatened to defeat a great ambition. In good health this is evi- dently a brain and a nervous system that would endure unshaken great labor and great excitement; but there are no brains whose endurance is illimitable. There is a degree of labor and of excitement that over- comes any degree of strength, but the point at which the brain gives out under the in- fluence of labor and excitement was less re- mote with Mr. Blaine just now because of recent illness. His brain, therefore, pre- sented less capacity for labor than usual, and when suddenly called upon for greater efforts than usual exhaustion was the necessary consequence, In regard to the brain in cases like this the word exhaustion means precisely what it does in other strictly physical phenomena. The capacity of a fire to ‘supply heat is exhausted when all the coal is burned out and there is no more coal to put on. The paying capacity of a bank is exhausted when the reserve is paid out and the drafts are in excess of the receipts. It is the function of the brain to think and to supply the force that controls our voluntary movements; but if the brain is weakened by ill health, and the demands upon it are excessive, its reserve of force or capital must be great, indeed, if it does not fail to respond sooner or later, and its failure to respond induces that sort of vital collapse which is seen when a man falls speechless and unconscious ; for not a step is taken, not a word is spoken, not a familiar face is recognized, not a familiar voice remembered without the active participation of the brain. « Mr. Blaine’s brain was, therefore, in this condition on Sunday morning. He had not slept the night before, nor for many nights previously, as he should have slept, and it is in sleep, mostly, that the brain recuperates. Then is repaid into this storehouse for in- tellectual capital the equivalent of what it has paid ont in thought and other forms of activity in the working hours ; but with the bank already shaken the paying teller extended his operations to twenty-three hours and the receiving teller was restricted to one hour of the twenty-four. Then, in the news that Rockwood Hoar had withdrawn from his support, came a new chagrin, like an enormous draft on the reduced capital. Upon this toss followed another, for the pa- tient subjected his nervous system to the enormous strain of a considerable walk in the excessive heat of a sunshiny day, and this proved to be the ounce too much and the brain failed. But what happened in the patient’s brain at that moment? That is the problem upon which turns. not merely the question of the man’s life, not merely the point whether he will die now or recover now, but the more important ques- tion whether the event has so dam- aged the brain that though he live now he may die next year, or the equally impor- tant question whether this circumstance indicates in this case, as it does ‘in many cases, a sort of habit of the brain to drop exhausted in the highways of life under the strain of enforced activity. Was the cause of the failure of the faculties in the nature of an epileptic seizure? Was it sun- stroke? Was there rupture of a blood ves- sel? Was there effusion through the walls of the vessels of the watery parts of the blood? Was it merely an extreme ense of vertigo; or, as Dr. Pope puts it, ‘cerebral depression?” though how cerebral depression is to drop a man on the steps of a church, unless it produces physical changes, it must be difficult for or- dinary mortals to tell. There was sudden loss of the power of voluntary motion, fol- lowed rapidly by loss of consciousness. Less marked in its onset, there was commo- tion, which continued for five hours, in which there was stertorious and irregular respiration, and from which the patient had not entirely come out when thirty hours had gone by. And all this was accompanied at the moment of seizure by pain, apparently very severo and distinctly localized in the occipital region—Pain which extorted from a strong, proud, self-possessed man, the cry, ‘O God! my head.” When have the Washington doctors known cerebral de- pression to produce pain like that? From all the facts of the case it seems clear that the medulla oblongata or the cerebellum is in trouble; that there is a dangerous congestion in that part of the brain, and, perhaps, serous apoplexy, which is quite consistent with consciousness and speech, since that part of the brain may be over- whelmed without great derangement of the cerebral hemispheres, as was shown in the case of Carruth, the Vineland editor. Waar Dogs Axy One Kxow about Bris- tow outside of the prosecution of the whis- key frauds in St. Louis, an achievement the credit of which belongs to Grant as much as to the Secretary of the Treasury, and which, without the consent of Grant, would never have taken place? Let Bristow run for the Presidency on his own record, and not on a record that belongs to Grant as the head of the administration, and who is entitled to all the credit, as he is to all the blame. Axotnen Savincs Banxg.—Wo hear that another savings bank has fallen into the hands of the receiver. Can there not be some punishment for these robbers of the poor? Woe think that if Uncle Sammy Til- den were to take his mind from the canvass for the Presidency long enough to make an example of some of these bank plupderers- it would be a benefit to his canvass. The time has come to punish some of these pre- cious scamps. The factthat they are mainly men of wealth and position should only nerve the Governor in the performance of his duty. Dom Pedro at Cambridge. It will be remembered that when the Em. peror of Brazil was met by Secretaries Fish and Robeson in the Bay that His Majesty, after slipping as promptly as possible out ‘of the chains of diplomatic etiquette, asked after two American citizens, not at all of the stamp of the binff Secretary of the Navy— a real soldier and a real poet, General Sher- man and Mr. Longfellow. The author of “Evangeline” was especially dear to the Emperor, and he said gallantly, as Moham- . med said, that if Longfellow would not come to Dom Pedro, Dom Pedro would go to Long. fellow. And His Majesty has kept his word, A short despatch informs us that the Emperos dined on Saturday at Cambridge with Mr. Longfellow, who had invited Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ralph Waldo Emerson to meet the South American potentate, Here, indeed, was a pretty party, worthy of further celebration than a line or two buried perdu in the files of the newspapers. The Emperor of Brazil, who has been travelling over the land pursuing the utilitarian with the eyes of Argus, sits him down peacefully at last to enjoy ‘‘the feast of reason and the flow of soul” amid the honored names of American literature. To Cabinet Secretaries we have seen him briefly polite, and to such important magnates os Mayors of Chicago, Oil City, Cincinnati and so forth, he hag been politely brief; with factory owners and all the representatives of our wealth and in- dustry he has confined himself to questions about spinning jennies, dye stuffs and the like, but for a long talk over the sacred tablecloth he sits him down with a poet, a satirist and a philosopher. It is the highest compliment His Majesty could pay to Ameri- can letters after having rendered the flowing lines of Longfellow into Portuguese. It there was no faithful Boswell at the board to take down the good things that were said in solid chunks, as the patient Scotchman did who penned the sesquipedalian words of Johnson, must the memory of that fame ous dinner table on Saturday last be left to a passing line? Aware of what is due to the dignity of art, and knowing how times have changed, can we not yet hope that between the poet, the satirist and the philosopher this truly royal banquet will find an endur- ing place in literature? To Mr. Longfellow the subject might present itself in the guise of four hoary sages, well on in their battle with the world, meeting in calm cone verse amid the storm of life, and touched, perchance, with tho sadness of his ‘‘morituri te salutamus.” The ‘Autocrat of the Break- fast Table” has the example of Horace to guide him, when the latter told the story of the journey of Macenas, Virgil, Varius and himself to Brundisium, over which old Father Prout loved to linger, spelling out in old English letter the comprehensive line :— “Lusom it Mrecenas; dormitum ego Virgiliusque.”” Dr. Holmes can lavish his terse wit and sly humor upon the subject, while Mr. Em- erson can bathe the whole dinner in a sea of transcendental philosophy. Thus treated, the visit of Dom Pedro to Cambridge would be remembered as long as the Dialogues of Plato, the songs of Horace or the epics of Homer. Dr. Holmes can keep the subject on the earth, Mr. Longfellow can take it to the stars,and Mr. Emerson can project it into the universal ether imagined to spread endlessly beyond the deep chasmata of the heavens. Such a dinner with such a guest would be worthy of the immortality it would receive. The End of One Reform Movement. Peter Cooper described in his interview yesterday in vivid terms the rise and fall of the Citizens’ Association, of which he was president, and which was started » break: down Tweed in the zenith of Tweed's power. This Citizens’ Association was composed of the best names in New York. The practical operation was left to one or two subordi- nates. The chief subordinate was Mr. Sands, who was paid by the association ten thousand dollars a year. But notwithstand- ing this munificent salary, which Sands cere tainly earned by running down every editor in New York, Peter B. captured him and the association, For a long time Sands was serving Peter O. for ten thousand a year, and Peter B. for a good deal more. As soon as Peter C, found out that Sands had gone over to Peter B. he hustled him out. But the usefulness of the Reform Citizens’ Associa- tion was at an end. By the way it would be worth while inquiring how many deserving citizens gained power by means of this re- form association. The difficulty with reform associations is that the honest citizens will not attend to them any more than thoy do to politics and elections. If honest men were to give their time to their duties as citi- zens there would be no need of reform associations. Tur War Ir Is Doxe.—Here isa sample of the manner in which publié opinion is manufactured. We quote from the gushing despatch of one of the Blaine boys:—-‘‘The Colorado delegation arrived in force” (there are two delegates, we believe). ‘This morn- ing Governor Routt, who accompanies them, said the Territory is actually ablaze for Blaine.” ‘Among the republicans every man, woman and child is for Blaine, besides many of the democrats, and if he is nomi- nated bonfires will be kindled on every peak of the Rocky Mountains, and the people will actually go wild.” Nothing is said ag to the feeling among the Utes and the antelopes, which are by far the most numerous portion of the population of Colorado. We like to see a correspondent when he goes into the business of manu- facturing public opinion give his soul to it. Mizutoxs or Documexts sur Not Ow Cent or Tursvre.—In the interesting inter. view with Peter Cooper, which we printed yesterday, our illustrious and venerable townsman informed our reporter that he was in constant receipt of applications from “newspapers in the West” asking for “help in carrying on the great principles of soit money doctrines.” Mr. Cooper assured our correspondent that he did not intend to send these people any money; but he added, “I send all of them my pamphlets and ow documents for their comfort and instrne tion.” This is wise on the part of our townsman. If he were to send these editors money they would only spend it and want more, The documents and pamphlets they

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