Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-09-12

The Virginia Democrats, Or Conservatives,
who commenced session of their Convention
at Richmond yesterday, met with serious DIFF
fculty at the beginning. Some Of the party,
belonging to the Old Silurlan period of politics,
were specially anxious to be formed into pha-
lanx of white men to oppose all hereses in COL
Or. But to their utter establishment, the Con-
vention actually admitted several black dele
gates to seats That this should be done In a
Democratic Convention is marvellous, but that
it should happen Ia Old Virginia is thing IN
credible. Now, then. what becomes of all the
fuespun Conservative theories about the
idlotic crookedness Of the African s tibia the
ignobieness OF his Uranium, aud other damning
evidences Of his social and political debase-
ment 2-N T. Tribune
The Richmond Dispatch says that this is
the grin Of Satan at the trouble he brings upon
mankind If Mr.. Greeley were to say that
the state of society out Of which this remark
acle event has grown would be the BEST We
should think his owe frank verbiage of lie''
would be the best comment. If he we're to say
he would prefer to live in the community where
this was noticeable occurrence the same CON-
ment would be appropriate.
Mr.. Greeley was born au honest man. La
his early editorial career he was iofrmly hon
est as the world goes. But in his ambition to
be at the head of great paper, he leagued
himself with Mephistopheles, aud is now only
a poor Faust, full of remorse aad trouble
The Tribune gives him infaite annoyance, and
he sees near at hand the foTeclosing of the
mortgage upon life which his enterprise led
him to sign.
Whatever may be the facts about the negro S
tibia, we can say that the Tribuae's fb- ula can
not be denied. We know no paper more cul-
pable in that worst form of prevarication, the
suppression of truth, than the Tribune"
CHEs. & ONO RAILRoAD.-We copy the
following very cheering statement in regard to
this important road from the New York Com
mercial Advertiser. The Commercial says:
Mr.. Huntington, vice president of the Cen
trail Pacific railroad, and president of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio railroad, has returned from a
tour OF inspection over the Chesap eake and
Ohio line, after an absence of two months and
half He will shortly place before the dl-
rectors OF the line applications from capitalists
10 Great Britain, who have purchased tracts of
coal and iron lands on the line of the road,
ing over a million of dollars in iron manufac-
ture They are desilous at the same time to
bave the freights fixed for term of years with
a view to permanent operations. There is lit.
tie doubt that the company will meet these
Overtures half way, 1t Is their interest to en-
courage settlers near the line of the road An
other proposition has been received from a
leading manufacturer of iron 10 Pennsylvania,
to erect iron works and furnaces at the town of
Huntington. Mr.. Huntington reports great
progress made along The line, and especially at
the new town of Huntington, the western ter
minus on the Ohio river Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, as we'll as Others
A RELIGIOUS PAPER PRESIDENT The
freeman S Journal-Cathoc gives ut,erance
to rather novel idea in regard to the Demo
cratic nomination for the Presidency in 1872.
After declaring that the new departure was
INTENDED not to heal breaches, but TO reopen
them" and after overthrowiog and refuting
the claims of Chief Justice Chase for the NOM
ination, the Journal says
1.-THE wise course for the Democratic party
in 1872 will be to drop every man involved In
political life, and to find-where the higher or
der OF executive ability in our day and country
is to be found-in some of the vast works of
civil industry some man who, during the try
ing crises, such as that of 1857, and again du-
ring the civil war, has known how 10 held, and
govern and attach to him tens of thousands OF
men. and to manage economically many mill
lions of capital entrusted to his care. We
think there must be some such man. He will
be the most likely to restore order to cur pros
fra tnd industrinc ~