The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-24

Arrival of Alexis and Rise in the
Rent of Broadway Windows-Another
ILLUSTRATED Papsr-A Blonde Skldons.
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, November 10.
The altered relations of the Democratic
party towards the forthcoming Presidential
election are beginning to provoke inter-
change of thought among the leading news
paper representatives of the Northern and
Western Democracy. The views expressed
by the st. Louis Republican. the or
gan of the Missouri Democrats in favor
of a passive policy. has called forth both warm
| commendatiOn and indignant rebuke from its
contemporaries, but the drift of opinion
seems to be in favor ofa middle course, some
thing between the nomination Of pro-
nounced.I old-line Democrat and no Lomna-
| ton at all, as the Missouri paper advocates.
In other words the majority are for holding a
national convention, and taking up the man
viously put in the field The World yesterday
published long double-leaded leader on the
| situation, which was evidently thrown out as
| q feeler. It hinted that the Germans hold the
balance of power, and that If they are will
| ling to join the Democracy against Grant,
their wishes about the Presidential candidate
should belconsulted OF cOurse this means
Senator Schurz's friend. Governor Brown.
Senator Schurz is in the city stopping at the
| Fifth Avenue Hotel. He lectures in Brooklyn
Tuesday night on Civil Service Reform. He
is known to be in conference with leading
Democrats and anti-Grant Republicans, and
it is believed that the Worlds article was
called forth by this circumstance. SchurZ's
position as the Warwick of this crisis is point
edly conceded therein. The platform of the
proposed combination against Grant Is made
up of revenue reform, civil service reform,
general amnesty for the South, and the resto-
ration of the civil authority in all the States.
Dead issues are simply ignored. Broad as
the platform is. however. 1t Is not large
enough to hold all the factions opposedto
Grant. Mr.. Greeley, for instance, is in q
painfully perplexing predicament He de-
tests Grant, but he cannot join the Reformers
on account of his protectiOnist hobby, which
is explicitly condemned by them.
The Customhouse Republicans carry them
selves with so much arrogance that Mr Cree
ley and his friends are driven to the verge of
evaporation. / know it to be a fact, that
persons representing Mr.. Greeley have, with
in couple of days, been sounding leading
Democrats ofthis city with the view of max
ing coalition to control the next Legisture.
Mr.. Greeley claims to have q majority Of the
Republican senators and nearly half of the
Republican assemblymen. The proposition
is for the Democrats and Greeley Republicans
to unite. divide the offices in the Legislature
pro rata and carry through the legislation of
the session. thus thwarting the plans of the
CustOmhouSe gang, and defeating the re-elec-
tion Of Roscoe Conkling as senator.
The Tribune takes time by the forelock
and the wind out of the Democratic sails by
proposing Oswald Ottendorfer as the Reform
candidate for mayor to succeed Oakley Hall,
when the latter is legislated out of office.
Mr.. Ottendorffer is the acknowledged leader
of the German Democrats of New York. He
is editor and proprietor of the Stats Zeitung,
the leading German Democratic newspaper
of America, and has probably more influence
with his people than any other public man
except Carl SchurZ. What tremendous strides
towards the front the Germans have been
making within the, mast St two 20 years Inc a
tions on the Eastern continen and in Ameri-
ca. The German element has become so
powerful that it dictates who shall be mayors
of cities. governors Of States and President of
the United States.
The arrival of the Grand Duke was what Is
technically called beat for the Herald.
That paper alone of all the dalles this morning
announced The happy Intelligence. The others
were In blissful ignorance. The HeSald de.
pended on It's own enterprise as q news-gath-
erer, and the others on the agent OF the New
York Associated Press. When the news
reached the city, the committee OF frst-class
citizens was in ferment, and everybody else
was talking about the coming reception. If
the day is fine. at least halt a million people
will crowd Broadway and the streets through
which the procession will move. Windows on
the route were selling yesterday at ridiculous
prices. As high as twenty-five dollars were
paid. One hotel proprietor has cleared five
hundred dollars by letting all his front win
dows but three, which he has reserved tor the
use OF his fifty or more guess.
Among the many journalistic projects on
foot is an illustrated Democratic weekly. 1t
Is an unquestioned fact that Nast's carica.
lures in Harper's Weekly did more effective
service in breaking down the Tammany Ring
than all the editorials in the daily papers,
and even the Times5 terrible array of figures
Nast's pencil Is also hired in behalf of Rad.
cali.m, and will be used in the coming Presi-
dental campaign in the intere-t Of Grant.
Harpers paper, from the general excellence
and variety of its pictorial emb-lli .hment',
has very large circulation and goes into
ten>ely partisan sheet, and Is edited by
George William Curtis, one of the most viru
lent and bigoted Radicals in the land. the
poison /, spread everywhere. Democratic
leaders begin to see what tremendous en-.
gine for good or evil popular illustrated pa
per may be, and are awake to the necessity of
putting something in 70 the field to counteract
The trouble with the projectors will be to hnd
an artist with the cleverness and power of
Mast. His equal certainly has not yet been
developed in America. There is no reason
why a caricaturist should not be imported
from abroad as Mast was. There are at least
two in England and one in Germany who
could turn the laugh on the Republicans,
after little posting on American p 'litics. BY
the way. speaking of Illustrated papers, re-
minds me that the ambitious experiment Of
the leading Bost tn publishing house, called
Every Saturday, an ounces it's own coming
demise 1t has tried to establish itself, and
after sinking q great deal OF Messrs Osgnod
& Fields money, has failed. The prnprie-
tors made mistake in attempting to initiate
ti,c London Graphic. They bought the plates
from the Graphic, but somehow were never
able to reproduce as good pictures. There
are great many of The English journals
taken in this country, and anybody )mparing
the two could not fail to see how Inferior the
B. stoa imitation was.
A new d amatic prodigy is about to burst
upon New York audiences. II is an old
favorite in a new dress-Miss Pauline Mark
ham, the eminent British blonde. Whilom,
the iival of the golden-haired thompson at
Niblo's has been buried in the deepest seclll-
sion for several months. Her stately, though
scantily covered form. has been missed and
mou ned among Broadway audiences 1t ap-
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