New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-24

making the dividing line pass, as we have
always claimed, through tho Canal dc haro'"
Public opinion in France is represented as
clamorous in favor of the adoption OF the pro-
posed Postal Reform between the United
States and that country. 1t is certainly time.
Our communications with France have been
for years and still are subject to intolerablo
inconvenience and expense.
Gov. Hoffman's appointment Of Commits
sion to investigate the charges against
the Bloomingdale Asylum will COM
mand general approval. None will
rejoice more than THE TRIBUNE if the result
of this Commission shall be 10 prove that the
afHdavits made in the case have been without
sufficient warrant
Some Of the platonic Grant papers say that
they sustain him not because they like him,
but because if Mr.. Greeley is elected he Will
bring chaos into politics. IL this is true, 1t
behOOves us all to learn what political chaos
is. The question is satisfactorily answered IN
our letter from West Virginia this morning,
which gives a careful analysis of the extraor-
binary confusion of parties which has taken
place IN that State. The most remarkable
thing about the hurly -burly is that there is no
Grant party in the fight. There must be Post
masters, but as yet they give no sign.
The serious work of the campaign ia open
ing with great energy in wEngland The
result of Mr.. Greeley's visit, and his few short
but admirable speeches, has been most advan-
| 10 fho
Considerable inroads are making upon
the Grant majority in Massachusetts,, and In
Maine some of the most distinguished and
eloquent men in the country have thrown
themselves with vigor into the fight. There
are good reports also from Connecticut, Rhode
Island, and Vermont; and in general the whole
East is rosy with promise OF sunrise.
1t may be a beneficial task but it certainly
is not pleasant one to watch the proceed
| ings Of the South Carolina Grant Convention.
| The scramble for place, and the money which
| is supposed to accrue from Office, has become
so desperate that the few decent people are de-
sorting the concern and leaving the chief rascals
! in an odorous solitude of their own creating.
On Thursday Gov Orr left the Convention
in disgust. Yesterday the example was nu-
merously followed. 1t looks as if the expert
ment of universal suffrage, which has suffered
its severest trial in that State, were now
about to justify itself through the patience
and integrity of the better kind of people.
Our special correspondent in North Carolina
assures US that the apprehensiOns entertained
and expressed in these columns before the
| election of gross frauds and intimidation
on the part of Government officers
were fully borne out by ascertained
facts. In the With and With Dis
tricts the frauds were especially evident, and
the efforts at corruption of voters were open
and universal. There will be a rigid investi-
CATION of all these proceedings, and it is to be
hoped that all transgressors, no matter to
what party they belong may be brought to
Justice. Otherwise the ballOt-bOx would soon
become ridiculous in the hands of such men.
No man believes that Mr.. Greeley is in
favor of paying pensions to Rebel soldiers,
though men who have professed great friend
ship for him are so lost to self-respect as to
repeat this dishonored invention of the country
Editor who has long since retracted it. But
| we would counsel Mr.. Frederick Douglass and
MI, Matthew Carpenter 10 CEASE ptuullHB IudJ
wretched falsehoOd, and turn their atten-
ton to Mr. Blanton Duncan's claim now
before the Treasury and War Departments.
If they think the public funds ought not to be
spent for the support of Rebels, (and if they
do not think so they are nice pair of hum
bugs,) they had better use their powerful in
fluence at Washington to prevent the Govern
ment from attempting to give $4,000 or 80 to
BlantOn Duncan for property of the said
Duncan used by our troops during the war
while Blanton aforesaid was serving, well
or i'll, with the Confederate Army. If
such a claim passes it will open the
door to the sQuandering Of millions
in the same easy way. There is no earthly
reason for paying BlantOn Duncan this large
sum, except that he is engaged in getting up
diversion in favor of Grant. TO assist him
ia this the Government officers have called up
an old claim of his, and propose to pay the full
amount. Now, there can be no especial objec-
ton, if Col. Duncan wishes to make living in
such a way, to his receiving aims from the
Grant postmasters and ofice-seekers in con-
sideratiOn of his services in behalf of their
ticket But those who neither approve of
Gen. Grant, of Blatant Duncan, nor of whole
sale robbery, will naturally take exceptions to
this method Of pensioning Rebel soldier.
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