New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-29
WA1rIYG FOR THE LARKS TO FALL.


There is a proverb that "when the sky falls
I'VE shall catch larks" From the anxiety of
the Democratic politicians to have quarrel
between Gen. Grant and the Republican party,
we should imagine them to be hopefully
waiting upon the skies The clouds of evil
rumors that darken the Washington universe,
only presage the Democratic storm. Gen.
Grant does not trust the Republicans! He will
not talk to their statesmen He spends his
time in debating conversations" to cores
pondents of The World assailiDg the leading
members of the Republican party, and eulogiz-
ing Mcclellan He floats over Congress as q
ghostly Nemesis, and like that tabled daughter
| of Night, his mission is to see that the Repub-
lican party is not too happy in its triumphs
! The General has actually dined with Mr.. Seward,
and finds it impossible TO escape from the fas-
cinations of Mr.. Evarts ETgO-Mr. Seward
will be the new Premier, and Mr.. Eyarts will
| teach the General law as glibly as he teaches
| it now to Mr.. johnson! Gen. Butler means mis-
chief-else why his motion to repeal the Civil
Tenure-of- Office BillY That World CORES
A." pondent" has found reason. Butler means
to impeach Grant He can trust the Senate,
and he hopes to see the General flop over, and
that the new President may more ehectually
"fop" Butler will remove all obstacles from his
path Then Stanton hates the General If that is
doubted, here are certain orders devilishly
cOntrived by Stanton to destroy Grant when
he was ON the eve of capturing Vicksburg. To
be sure, Stanton never gave any such Or
ders That makes no difference. Grant means
to have revenge! The sky is really falling and
the Democrats will rejoice in a multitude of
larks! a a
If Democracy wants anything now it is a
good supply of larlls. Read the sOrrowful an
nouncement that comes from Albany: "Gov
Hoffman has 80 many applications for the
coffee of notary public that he cannot even
answer their letters. He cannot appoint one
" in thirty" Over in jersey one poor Senator
has been found. This is really all! To expect
the mighty Democracy to be content with at
testing bills of sale and carrying around pro-
tested notes is cruel. Yet there seems to be
nothing more left All the tuneful larks ale
flying ioyously to the Republican meadows.
Mr. Exeiseman Smythe looks wistfully for the
lark that "tirra-lirra chants but gives no note
of Russia, while the naval Office that seemed
to come to Mr.. Deem "more tuneabe than
lark to shepherds ear has scared into the
misty skies. We read of "merry larks" being
"plOwmens clocks" but no sound comes to
Mr.. Perry Fuller, or the new minister to
COnstantinople.n We fear it is their lark
"who sings so out of tune, straning harsh
"discOrds and unpleasing sharps." And when
we contemplate the horrible decision of the
Senate to confirm no more of Mr.. Johnson's
nominations, we have no doubt the expectant
lid hat IorI cd
"tOad change eyes," and that even as it grows
"more light and light to the party of Free
dom. their woes become "more dark and dark"
These larks have not only poetry but substan-
tial prose. Their absence takes from Democracy
many dainty dish. The renowned Charles
Elm6 Francatelli, who did the cookery for the
Queen, discloses to us many toothsome properties
in larks. There is the lark d Ia minute, which
with mushrooms and lemon-juice is delicious.
Then we have the lark la chip0lOta, not to
speak of the lark with fine herbs, and the lark
with truffies, after the manner of the Italians.
So when these Republican skies fall there will
be prodigious singing and eating.
But WiH the skies fall This is now the
narrowing question. Every Democrat but Mr.
Stockton of -Jersey--and the small tribe of
UOIdIlcb b6UG ny NIL w pdJVCl
along Wall-st. after anxious debtors-every
lark loving Democrat in the land asks this
question. If Mr.. Seymour had been elected,
and the larks had been as plenty as crows or
musketos, there still would have been famine,
for Democratic necessities are great. Seymour
was not elected, and now if the skies will only
came down. There must be some way
OF convincing Grant that his interests lie with
the Democracy. To be sure. he was drunkard
and liar and traitor and q butcher, and a
frightfully incompetent nobody whose intellect
never scared above the stable, but that was
when Mr. Seymour seemed about to be Jupi-
ter, King Of the Heavens. Grant must feel
that the only men he can trust are the
men who endeavored to make him in
famous. He will soon be called upon to
appoint General" of the Army. Could
he find more proper commander than tho dis
tinguished officer who wrote so many letters
to The World to show that he was mere
military butcherf He is expected to select
Cabinet. Could he do better than name the
whole Blair family, probably the most lark
adoring family in these broad United States
or Mr.. Reverdy Johnson, who has had 80 many
opportunities Of learning how Mr.. Francatelli