The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

The negroes IN washington, elatea By the success
OF the republican ticket, became very riotous on
Tuesday night, and two white men, one Of them q
soldier of the Twelfth infantry, sssassnated,
the weapon used in both cases being rax0rs Two or
three other persons were attacked by negroes with
razors and severely injured. The National IstelH-
ligsncer ONCE was threatened by black mob but II
was saved by the strategy Of policeman. The
entire night was taken up by the negroes in riots
and pr0cessions. Colonel Forney, OF the Cnronsoe,
made an incendiary address to them 1t was the
impression that all Of them were armed with razors.
Two powder mills in the vicinity Of Newburg, on
the Hudson, exploded yesterday, with report that
was heard thirty miles away. One man, an employs
in the mills was torn to pieces and portions OF his
body were hurled In various directions through the
air. Both the mills were completely demolished.
Trees in the vicinity upr0oted or stripped Of
their branches, numerous young birds fell dead to
the earth, horses In Newburg were thrown from their
feet and window panes were shattered BY the force
Of the conclusion.
The case of JEFF Davis was called in the Circuit
Court at Richmond yesterday, Chief Justice Chase
presiding An agreement signed BY counsel on both
sides was read, postponing the trial until October,
and motion being made to that eject, the Chief
Justice granted it.
The twenty-nrst annual session of the American
Homeopathic Society met in st. Louis yesterday,
and elected oflcers for the ensuing year. Delegates
are present nom nearly every State in the Union.
The National Board Of Trade is IN session ut Phia-
dephia.
Seven persons-a man named Thomas Budget,
his wife and i've children, Of Observation-Disclosures
frozen to death near Green Bay recently while try
ing to reach that place in boat to procure proyi-
sions Of which they were destitute.
General Buchanan, commanding the Louisiana
an ri AM no
Of the recent election in that State. The officers elect
are to assume their 0ficial duties on November 2.
The Legislature will not assemble until Congress has
accepted the new constitution.
The General Synod Of the Reformed Church OF
America commenced its annual session at Hudson
yesterday.
The election in oregon on Monday resulted in
triumph for the democracy by two thousand ma
jory. The Legislature is largely conservative and
a democratic Congressman named Smith is elected
General J. P. G. Shanks was yesterday renomi-
mated for Congress in the Ninth Congressional dis
trict OF Indiana.
The Alabama and Maryland Democratic State Con-
ventions met yesterday.
The Texas Reconstruction Convention met at Aus
tin on the LIST inst.
Boston has sold the last OF her Liverpool steam
ships having come out of her venture in establishing
ocean line with loss Of about ST. OOO 900 within
year.
On the night Of May II very heavy shock OF
earthquake was felt Swan Island, in the Carib
bean Sea, continuing nearly one minute.
The Presidency-The Question Before the
Country.
Only one point in national politics is open |
for the decision of the people. They are to de- |
termine whether they will have the consttu- |
ton restored to full power and be ruled accord |
ing to its principles and provisions, or whether
they will see the whole fabric of our admirable
system swept away as the rubbish Of the war
and hold their property and their rights not
under the guarantee of a supreme, recognized
and known law, but by the sufferance and at
the will of knot of oligarchs- AFRO
giant, rapacious and Unsuitable There is no
other issue of principle. All the fourishes of |
platforms and all the noisy activity of partisans
are in vain to cover up the fact that this at last
is the real dispute. Nor can the cautiously |
written letter of Grant, with its smooth palaver
over the will of the people, and its studied reti-
cence as to the constitution, divert public |
attention and lead the popular mind away from
the supremacy of law which are at stake in
this Presidential contest He who ignores the
constitution in the letter i'm which he accepts |
the nomination of party for contest such as
the present, indicates what he understands the
principles of his party to be and declares his
readiness to support them, so that the party |
and its leader are agreed to have as little said
OF the constitution as possible, to get it out of
the way as quietly as possible and to cover their |
delinquency with bouquets of pretty phrases |
about 1.-The will of the people" All, therefore,
who vote for Grant and the radicals vote for
disorder, disorganization, anarchy-vOte for
the abolition of the institutions of government
by which the republic grew to its great
power--vote for carrying to ultimate results
the revolutionary propaganda of Butler, Ste
vens and Summers and they who vote against
this party do what men ought to arrest the de-
structive tendency and restore to full authority
the laws of the nation and to guarantee the
rights of the people under those laws.
This is the naked truth but faction does its
utmost to disguise il and to give the color of
right to its acts by claiming to do all from
patriotic motives, as even the wolf tried to
give the color of right to his devouring the
lamb by pretending it was done only in his
honest rage because the lamb muddied the
water. lt is the duty and within the power o.!
the democracy just now TO make this issue
clear before the people by the very name Of
the candidate whom they oppose to Grant.
And what name will do this? Not fendletcns.
not Seymours, not even McClellens, nor the
name of any man who is known TO the people
as associated with that offensive port OF
the history of the democracy in which. it
regarded acts necessary to save the country