The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-28
The Progress Of Seymour.

Southern masters. and Seymour, it is to he
hoped, will be the end Of the chapter
The Progress Of Seymour.
Seymour has gone ont West and Blair has
come to the Empire State--a very practical
change of places between the candidates.
This democratic maneuvre is the whole and
only result of the terrible resolution of the
Manhattan Club men that something must
be DONE" 1t seems to admit, it is true, that
the candidates were respectively in the wrong
places. People said that Blair was in Sey-
mours place and Seymour in Blair's. So the
managers of the contest have gone to work
boldly and literally and put Seymour where
Blair was and Blair where Seymour was.
This is as far as they have got in their efforts
to impress change on the character and
prospects of the campaign For our part we
should have thought things bad enough as
they were. The atmosphere of this city is not
good for Blair. II was here he wrote the
regard it as Of the first necessity to keep him
where the atmosphere is dry. 1t is possible,
we suppose, that there may be something
worse than the Brodhead letter. Ii 80 we
are in fair way to get it. As to Seymours
going to Indiana, if any man supposes that
our urbane Governor, who is 50 smooth that
he is nearly polished away, is the person to
stir up and invigorate those rough giants
the Western demOcrats--that man is wrong.
SeymOurs progress toward the West, there
fore, is toward the final setting Of the demo-
Judge Barnard and the Erie Railroad War.
Judge Barnard. of the Supreme Court, is
the democratic candidate for a reelection.
His late services in the work of naturalization
have raised a radical hornets nest about his
ears. They are resolved to defeat him if they
can at the polls, and failing in that they
threaten to impeach him. Among the charges
raised against him is that of certain alleged
corrupt and improper practices as Judge in
the late Erie Railroad war. As simple mat
ter of fair play in reference to this charge we
submit the following document to the public =
hereby certify that al meeting Of the directors
OF the Erie RAILWAY Company, held on the 10th day
OF July, 1865, the following action was taken:-
whereas certain action Is now pending i'm the
supreme Court Of the state OF New York in favor OF
the E1e Railway Company and James 81 whitney
against a George O. barnard and Others: and whereas
with corrnp: and improper action and conduct IN hts
otflcia, capacity as a Judge OF said Court;
after a most ample and complete investiga-
ton, that there s no foundation whatever for such
charges therefore
Resolved. That the said charges be and the same
are hereby Withdrawn rs wholly rroundless.
hesoHsd, INA. me slia action ~ against Tue SAID
pany y concerned ~ party plaintiff. and that our
attorneys he and they are hereby Instructed to dis
Attest HoRATi0 " OTIS, Secretary.
Here We have u settlement Of this matter,
and as for this threat Of impeachment in refer
ence to these naturalization proceedings, it
may be "a good enough Morgan till after the
election" and is only intended as an election
cerng Morgan. As one Of our most fearless.
independent and efficient dispensers Of Justice.
we dare say that Judge Barnard ia sufficiently
well known to run ahead of his party vote
The sale OF Cnbs I" the United stst~s.
In the thronging multitude Of questions re-
vived by the Spanish revolution the question
of the sale of Cuba to the United States
naturally arises. According to the latest iele-
graphic dispatches from Madrid some
HpanEtfuS VI tuNanceu uveTu IDEAS a0ytsc the
sale Of Cuba to the United States as the most
direct and speedy method OF solving the qucs-
ton Of the abolition of slavery.
Now. the number of ''SpanIsrds OF advanced
liberal ideas is still comparatively small not
wiilstanding the Increase of the leavening in
huenccs which few sympathizers with the
leaders of the democratic and republican move
ment in France and Italy have been able to in
troduce into the popular mind and heart in
Spain. But no longer ago than at the
date OF the mcmorably abortive confer
ence Of Messrs. Buchanan, Soule and
Mason. at Ostepd even Spanisrds Of the
most extreme liberal views were as
violently opposed to the sale of Cuba to the
United States as royalists Of every party.
Times, however. change, and men change with
them. II Il not impossible that the Spaniards
may eventually cease 90 regard the sale of
Cuba as equivalent TO the sale Of Spanish
honor. But Il Is hardly to be expected that
Mr.. Seward before retiring from Office, will
add the purchase Of Cuba to the other real
estate -peculations which have signalized his
administration.
THn TROUBLES IN LOUISIANA. Although IL
appears by our latest Geographic dispatches
from New Orleans that former reports Of the
troubles in Louisiana were somewhat exsgger-
ated II is nevertheless manifest that the condi-