The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-01

MERITED.-The New York World, to-day, in
leading article on "TRAIN, VALLANDIGHAM, and
the Philadelphia Convention" makes as good Il
TYPOGRAPHICAL blunder as we have ever seen in
newspaper. 1t says:-
''The other day. for example, Washington cor
respondents amused the public with pictures Of
a lively deOate at Wizards Hotel between two
equally prominent and equally eccentric per
sonages, each OF whom, 1t seems, loudly urged
it upon the other to stay away from Phila0e-
phia lest his presence there should defeat the
very hopes which each magnanlmously be-
lieved the other to cherish. One OF these dis
putants was the enterprisIng aud oratorica Mr.
NALLANDIGHAM, who has tor years devoted him
self to the propagation of the gospel OF
horse-railways, AMI who, in this phlanthropc
work, incurred such vile usage at the hands
of the mlnlOns of British power as naturally
leads him to look with especial favor upon the
Fenian cause and its tair promise oil vengeance:
the other was the retlcent and scholastic Mr..
GEORGE +. TRAIN, the story OF whose laWlesS
seizure by the brutal minIons OF the bralness
BURNSIDE, OF his subsequent suheT1ngs upon 'hog
and homiLy, in the company OF ex-senator FooTE
at Richmond, of his long exile in Canada, and OF
his triumphant return to Ohio in time to heap
Goals OF fire upon the head OF STANTON by secur-
ing the reelection of the late MIR. LINCOLN, is as
familiar 10 our readers as that OF the first martyr
OF Roratonga hlmself MI. TRAIN, 1t seems, has
conceived the idea that Mr. SEwAED IS now bent
on drawing closer the bonds OF our diplomatic
the Philadelphia Convention as destined 10 sue
ceed or fail by the favor OF MIR. SEWARD, he ear
nestly entreated Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM not to 'em-
barrass the Convent on by bringing into 1t the
burning memory Of his arrest by cOrOulent
BIiush constable, oil his seclusion in slX'penny
British sponging house, and OF the outrageous
interference which he has more recently met
with from the Hudsons Bay Company in his
laudable attempts to build cottonwood tram
way over the Rocky Mountains, from the sources
OF the Saskatchewan to the mouth ot the Blue
Dog river.
TO TINS Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM retorted by assuT-
ing Mr. TRAIN that III his opinion the couatry
had nothing so much at heart as TO cut Oft the
tail Of the British lion inch by inch, and that
the mere appearance in the Philadelphia Con-
vention OF victim like himself, VALLANDIGHAM,
sallow with the morbid influences OF halt-tnd-
halt upon liver accustomed to the livelier
beverages OF the Wet, and worn to skeleton
by protracted indigestion OF raw beefsteaks,
would give to that assemblage of the peoples
true representatives an impulse of whicn no
man could estimate the force or foretell the
consequences. On the other hand, he
urged, with somewhat incOnslderate earnest.
ness, that the publication OF the name
OF GEORGE F. TRAIN as delegate at Phila'
delphia would drive Rhode Island, winch
| has recently elected BURNSIDE to hll her guber
material chair, at once into the hercest anita
| gonism. While acquitting MIR. TRAIN Of any
| deliberate purpose OF beating the Democratic
party in 1864 and thus sdjournIng not only the
war, but the restoration OF peace after the war,
Mr.. VAALANDIGHAM also called Mr.. TR ANS
attentiO0 to the fact that he certainly had not