The New York herald., 1872-07-24

authorities in the good work they have begun,
but to urge them constantly to unremitting
vigilance both at Quarantine and in the city,
and to impress upon the minds of the people
of this city the necessity Of aiding the authori-
ties by keeping their houses and persons in
order, and avoiding everything that may tend
towards inviting an epidemic.
The Kaleidoscope OF Popular Views
The Press the Political situa-
tiOn.
The press is not only the barometer Of pub
lie opinion in this country, but at the same
time the kaleidoscope that reflects the chang
ing views of popular sentiment as political
campaign like the present progresses from day
to day. We proceed to give the impressions
of some of our contemporaries on both sides of
the Presidential question:
The Philadelphia Age (old-fashioned demo-
crat, now all Greeley is of opinion that every
assault yet made by the administration
organs on Horace Greeley has helped him
with the people, That is fact, and the
Age might have added that every caricature
of him published in weekly or semi-occasional
publications, with the intention of bringing
him into ridicule, are only just 80 many adver-
tisements in his favor. As has been before
remarked, when General Harrison was nomi-
mated for the Presidency he was called the
'Old Granny of the West" and the cry was
kept up until he was finally sold grannied''
into the White House.
The Chicago Times (anti- Greeley democrat)
publishes an account Of grand republican
demonstration in that city under the allitera-
tive heading OF Regular Republicans Rally
Responsibility" 'Obese Oglesby's Oracular
Grafton" &c. AS the Times is about the only
old-fashioned democratic paper in the country
that eschews the Observation-Disclosures nomi-
nations, it is little significant to see it
making fun Of regular republican meetings
by showing them up as objects for merriment
and ridicule In answer to q correspondent
who inquiries whether Horace Greeley is now
or has been at any time since his connection
with the New York Tribune an advocate of free
love, the Chicago Times AYERS that it cannot
be said that MIR. Greeley has ever positively
advocated the free love business publicly but
if 'a man is known by the company he
keeps Mr.. Greeley may be justly suspected
of sympathy with the free love abomination.
And, adds the Times, in a spirit which would
seem to be actuated by the reflection that it had
thrown itself outside the lines of democratic
party usage, ''when we seriously consider these
and other equally extraordinary facts in Mr..
Greeley's public life his nomination as the
49, kIo
United States seems more and more amazing"
The Sag Harbor IL. I.) C6,rector itself out
and-out Greeley-sums up the spirit of the
press of Long Island (omitting the Brooklyn
city press) briefly as follows: -''The Advance
says it won't do to laugh at Mr. Greeley any
longer. He has been laughed at all his life,
and now it looks to us as if il was his turn to
laugh The Glen Cove Gazette thinks there
is nothing extraordinary about Greeley's nomi-
nation. The Suffolk Times says the straight
outs at Baltimore ''were few but resolute. -
Resolute in making a magnificent ''izzle. The
Independent Press thinks the democracy were
shamefully sold out at Baltimore but the Cor
rector says it cannot question the sincerity and
patriotic impulse Of the movement The Long
Islander rails at Sumner for railing at Grant,
and it would seem that if the original rail-
splitter were alive things would be different.
The Standard believes that whatever the old
men may do, the younger and more progress
sive portion Of the democratic party will for
get old scores and look only to the present and
future welfare of the whole nation. The
Watchmdn pronounces the result at Baltimore
''an unqualified surrender" and proclaims
itself, so far as the Presidential question is
concerned, as ''out Of politics. The Long
Island City Star remarks that 'the victo-
ries Of Greeley have been those of peace,
and his services have been acknowl-
edged by those who now denounce him
The Long Island City Press goes for
Greeley, saying 1.-The deluge has come, but the
democratic party is in the ark. The Long
Island Democrat firmly believes the Baltimore
Convention accomplished what was best-the
union Of all the patriotic and intelligent ele-
ments of the country '.for the promotion of
union, liberty and fraternal feeling The
Hampstead Inquirer pronounces the pres
ent to be ''the most astonishing political revo-
luton that has ever occurred in the United
States The Express declares that political
associates who were once supposed to be ire
concilable opponents are ''clasping hands, -
but admits nothing about ''bloody chasm." 3"
The Bulletin says the Southern people,
bruised punished. plundered, ruined in their
material interests by the present administra-
ton, have asked rs one man for the Baltimore
nominations" The Corrector adds that it is
out Of Difference to the suffering South that
the Baltimore nominations are so generally
and cordially accepted; and it is more than
half right. To recapitulate, we feel that we
may be justified in pronouncing the rural
press of Long Island (Kings, Queens and Suf-