New-York tribune., 1871-11-22
EN- TRAIN.

America is a great country and a vast, but
il it sufficiently great and vast to support the
rival Presidential claims of Mrs. Woodruff
and George Francis Traini The awful qucs-
ton is forced upon us by facts that have made
the eyes of Europe stare with unparalleled
amazemcnt We had INDUCED the fond de-
lusion that the dawn of Woodruff would be
tho setting of Train but alas for the vanity
of human wishes! Tho silence that we
imagined had ovrrtakcn this gentleman in
the middle Of his mad career is mythical.
When the eccentric orbit Of tho comet can be
calculated. how futile to have supposed that
George Francis had gone off OH q tangent
from which, like the bourne in Shakespeare,
no traveller returns No. While Mrs. Wood
hull, the future President of the United States.
convulscd one continent by holding high con-
verse with DcmOstbcnes, her rival was
cOnvulsing portion of another con-
tncnt by exhibiting the "noxt Presi-
dent of America ~ for with George
Francis it is all or nothing. The United States
are mere bagatelle. With one eye on Can
ada and another on Mexico and South Amer
ica, he will embrace whole hemisphere or he
will perish in the attempt. Therefore his
cards for European circulation bore the title
Of next President Of America" his kilograms
were equally explicit. and the photographs
which this great public functionary scattered
lavishly about steamboats, on Swiss lakes
did not fail to speak for themselves. Tho
Swiss. with simplicity that does more credit
to their hearts than heads, believed cards. tel
-grans. and photographs and George Francis
became representative American.
When, therefore, 1.-THE next President Of
"Amerca" gave lecture in Geneva for the
benefit of cxilcd Communists, the hall WAS
throngcd. Did our next President address hia
andrucr in Englishf BY no means. lie ap-
pearrd he gtsticiated. he WAS inspired and
when inspired does not the trance medium
speak unknown toughest Why then may not
George Francis That no did speak IN
unknown tongue, hundreds are ready to swear
upon oath; for it was not Parisan French,
nor the French of Louis XIV. nor such French
as is spoken by foreigners sufficiently abjcct
to acquire slight knowledge of irregular
verbs. But what Of that 1t produced tre-
mrndous sensation. French women with doll
cate ears declared that " the next President OF
America had made their heads ache, which
proves that he had appealed t" their intellect.
L" 10 slis tOmbS des nuagrs' U have fallen
from the clOuds), exclaimed another. quite be.
willered, while many men and women were
80 overcome as to be obliged to bury their
faces in their pocket In the !
unknown tongue. Beust became Bnst, Gull
laume became GHiyam, and no one WAS aware
that the next President Of America referred
to the Austrian Prime Minister and
tho Kaiser of Germany; but are not
people most impressed by what they
do not undcrstandi And when tho un.
known tongue failed. as Oft it would. tho great
man fell back upon English, which. c.cvrr
sratrgist that lr is. he held in reserve. We
are assured that although Bust and GiIum
were effective. the most thrilling moment WA,
attained when upon upsrttng u glass of water |,
OF course. unint"ntiOually-fhe direct de- |
scesdant of Elijah PoYrm struck an apprc. |
rri,te attitude. rvclaiming, "rhu. will over !
"turn the despots of Europe - comp ccssti. |
ca,ly appliudrd by the saMS cnlotts present |
Il is whispered that GlJyom and the Emperor !
of Russia have been trembling in their shoes
ever since. for it is the first time on rcc,nd |
that crowned heads have had cold water
thrown upon them in public.
Taking for granted tlult whatever conccrueI |