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New-York tribune., 1872-06-18


sincerely devoted to Reform, even II 1t did not
include one single personal friend or acqualnt-
ance of Mr.. Greeley, must inevitably arrive at
this conclusion Enough States have already
spoken to decide the result at Baltimore. Al
most every one of the men who went to en-
cinnati has accepted in good faith the verdict
of the overwhelming majority which nomina-
ted Mr.. Greeley and Gov. Brown To suppose
that all these State Conventions, and the Cln-
cinnati Convention as WELL can now be forced
to retreat by half dozen gentlemen who can
not even agree among themselves, is to think
too little of the millions and too much OF the
half dozen.
We do not forget that there Will be at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel a few gentlemen whose
motto is Anybody to beat Greeley" We do
not expect the reasonable Reformers to accom-
plish anything with such as these. The most
prominent in this category are the venerable
editor of The Erening Post, of whom we can
not speak but in terms of profound respect,
and the infant Secretary Of the Free Trade
League, of whom we cannot speak at ALL
They must go their own way in peace. Fifty
wears ago one of them would have been re-
doubtable Fifty years hence, the other may
be, though we doubt it. Cd
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
THE FIFTH AVESUE CONFERENCE.


The few good-natured words which we printed
about the Fifth Avenue Conference to be held
next Thursday have greatly distressed two sem
sitive and sweet tempered papers of this city
The Times, which boldly wears the livery Of
the President, and The Post, which modestly
covers its Grant buttons with a Free Trade
surtout They both seem to suffer from an
equal sense of outrage because THE TRIBUNE
spoke with civilty of this conference, and
saw nothing whatever Objectionable in it.
The Times of course had no especial reason
for its trouble. 1t lives by foul language, and
has no more sense of meaning in its abuse
than an idiot chattering blasphemies at poor
house door. But The Post seemed to be thrown
into genuine panic by the intimation that
we saw no danger in a meeting Of gentlemen
called to unite the opposition to Gen. Grants
election. We will say one word more about
this conference which may make our meaning
somewhat clearer, though it may not tend to
reassure The Post.
1t comes together in obedience to the call
of a circular, to every word of which we can
heartily subscribe. 1t has been sent, as we
are informed, to some two hundred prominent
gentlemen who favored the Cincinnati mOve-
ment. so far as we know, none of the more
pronounced friends of Mr.. Greeley have been
invited to this meeting, while there are sew
eral names mentioned as active in it who are
bitterly hostile to him, and others who have
declared their intention to support Gen. Grant.
1t may seem strange, therefore, that THE
TRIBUNE, which gives to the Cincinnati candi-
dates cordial though independent support,
should regard this meeting without distrust
and even consider it as likely to give good
results.
The reason for our confidence is simply this.
We believe it impossible TO find in the United
States two hundred men of any prominence
whatever, who have been at any time con-
nected with the Reform movement, without at
the same time finding majority Of them who
recognize the facts that the election of Gen.
Grant would be national disaster, and that
the only possible way of preventing that dis
aster 40 through tue election OF hr. Greeley.
Any sssspbly Of two hundred Intelligent pep.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
frskf .@,1s4 SA1-s ~ "a
STARVATTON WAGES.

A young man, employed, we believe, as
bookkeeper in large dry goods house in
Philadelphia, was arrested last Friday on a
charge of robbing his employer. He had been
in the habit of carrying off silks, ETC., and
pawning them, until the amount reached was
so considerable as to be detected. The young
man confessed his guilt, and, as his family
were respectable, compromise was effected,
the stolen goods returned, and the prisoner
allowed to escape without other punishment
than the disgrace of having been convicted
of felony. This is commonplace matter
enough; the gist of it lies in the fact that,
although the salesman held a most responsible
situation and was not only by birth
and habit a gentleman, but had proven
himself an efficient business man, he received
q salary Of only three dollars a week. In order
to live, he stated frankly he was driven to
steal. Nor is this pittance of wages an ex-
ceptional case, either in this city or in Phila-
delphia. The streets are crowded with lads of
from fifteen to twenty years of age utterly with
out means, cursed with too genteel birth and
breeding to earn their living as mechanics
eager to get into the grooves of business life,
and frequently with capacity to succeed if once
placed in them. They are taken into business
establishm ents as under-clerks, and usually
worked hard and paid pitiable salaries.
OF course, the obvious remedy is for these
lads to avoid the cities. There is no need for
them all to become farmers, though that is our
usual prescription for this evil. But all West
ern towns and many of the inland Eastern vii
lagos offer higher indu cements and more GER
tain success. The employers very likely
wash their hands in innocency in this matter
with the inevitable casuistry about the law of
supply and demand. One of the largest
merchants in Philadelphia, a man eminent in
all benevolent enterprises and Young Mems
Christian Associations, refuses to pay more
than three dollars per week to his assistant
bookkeepers, asserting that he turns away ap-
plieants daily who would be glad to take that
price, and that any boy who for the sake of
gentility prefers to starve keeping books when
he could earn five times the amount as jour
neyman mechanic, is fool. All which is true
enough. But ON the other hand the man,
philanthropist or otherwise, who gets full
and hard weeks work out of his drudge and
pays him pttance which he knows will not
feed, much less clothe him, simply puts a
premium on theft and if it is his cash-box
that suffers we are neither surprised, nor is 1t
to him our sympathy is given.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18

can be found to assert that st. Lawrence and
Alleeany will give Grant their usual kepuDn-
can maiorities next November, what can you
expect them to stick att ,r4.-t.g...
Nearly all these reporters concur IN tne
assurance that, If Greeley is indorsed at Balu-
more, Grant will receive more Democratic than
Greeley will Republican votes. Suppose there
be on the face of all this earth one Grant
man fool enough to believe this, he must see
that he stands alone; else, why did the Grant
fugemen make SO much of Voorhees, demon
stration against Greeley7 Why was he allowed
TO make his speech out of orderf Who
paid for and circulated some thousands OF
copies of itf Grant surely does not expect to
run alone, and, if Greeley be his weakest an
taeonist why have the Federal ofice-holders
palpably done their worst to get Bourbon
ticket nominated at Baltimoref Do they want
the candidate hardest or easiest to beat nomi-
mated there Do use your common sense,
You who have any. .an
Let us add few prominent facts: -
The Grant Electoral Ticket in this State
four years ago was headed by Marshall y.
Roberts and Henry r. Selden as Senatorial
Electors. They are both now for Greeley and
Brown. OF the twenty-odd surviving of the
thirty.one Representative or District Elect
ors, we know the present leaning OF
but twelve or fifteen. OF these, we hear
that Edwin A. Steadwell, Moses II. Grinnell,
Elisha P. Wheeler Horace Bemus, Edwin X.
Reynolds, Z. B. Judson, Stoughton Pettibone,
and Norman M. Allen, are now supporting
G Greeley and Brown. We believe majority
of the entire Grant Electoral Ticket OF 1863
that is, of those still living-will vote the Gin
cinnai ticket next November What folly, in
view of such facts, to pretend that the Repub-
lican party is not diyided-that its solid vote
is secure for Grant, Would it not be less
palpaIly absurd to insist that half the DEM
ocrats prefer Grant to Greeley, and will vote
accordingly
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
As TO The STATE or NEW-YoRK.

Il
There are people who love to be deceived,
and there are journals adapted to their needs.
One of these has sent out a circular to Federal
|, ,ofiice-holders and other jealous Two-Term
partisans in the several counties of our State,
and obtained replies which were designed to
set forth that few or no Republicans support
Greeley and Brown. Some of the responses
are more truthful than suited the purpose of
the inquiry: the returns from Cattarau-
gus Cortland, SteubeD, Yates, and Tompkins
being among those least accor9apt with the
programme. In Allegany, for example, it is
thought that 200 Republicans favor the Gin
cinnati ticket-5O of them living at Wellsville,
where The Genesee VaIley Free PresS-an old
Abolition and since Republican journal-car-
ries Greeley and Brown at its head. From
Cattaraugus, it is reported that The Randolph
Register has come out for Greeley since Grant
was nominated at Philadelphia. SO has The Chau-
tauqua Democrat (Jamestown). At least six Re-
publican journals in our State, led by The ST.
racuse Standard, have declared for Greeley and
Brown since the Grant Convention met. In
Yates, we are told that Greeley "will get
about 200 old bolterS.n If he does. he must
have more than 1000 majority in that county,
for the Grant factien in Yates County is mainly
made I'D of men who bolted the regular and
only Republican candidate for Senator last
Fall and elected his Democratic opponent
The regular Republicans, with their Journal
The Yates County Chronicle, are out
spoken for Greeley and Brown. From
Tompkins, it is reported that "there is quite
"a Greeley element in Ithaca, due mainly to
:" the influence and leadership of Geo. W.
Schuyler" Qate State Treasurer.) ain New
field, Caroline and Dryden, there is also
"quite a Greeley element Monroe is re-
ported as strongly for Grant, though the
present State Treasurer, Mr.. Raines, elected
on the Republican ticket last Fall,) the Hon.
Henry r. Selden, and D. d. S. Brown, part
owner Of The Democrat Grant organ), support
the Cincinnati ticket. So in jefferson County,
where Mr.. Beman Brockway, who owns one
third of The Reformer, actively supports Greeley
and Brown, but is overruled by his part
ners IN the conduct of the paper, we are told
that there are not more than forty Greeley
Republicans in the County, and SO on, and 50
on. From steuben, Chautauqua, Orange,
Westchester, no reports have been received
at least none are printed. But we are told
instead that in the Tioga district "a
81 good many Republicans are inclined
"to follow the lead of Milo Good
rich, NJ. c., trhose course as yet seems TO be IN
" decidedr 1t will not seem so long. SO in
Cattaraugus we are told that State Senator
an. M. Allen had not defined his position at
" tne last advices" We fancy those must
have been stale adyices, But when writer's
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
Nem.lork Qailp Gribma1e.
TUESDAY, JUNE 1S. 1872.

sThe Hassler expedition has secured more valuable
scientific specimens. The 26th anniversary Of the
Pope's accession was celebrated yesterday. == The
Geneva Tribunal made progress yesterday. -
The new GOyernor-General has sailed for Canada
Fatal railroad accidents have occurred in Illinois and
Indiana. == Strikes OF workmen are in progress in
Albany and Washington. z-- The Texas Democratic
Convention yesterday Overwhelmingly in favor Of
the Cincinnati movement = The Boston Jubilee
began yesterday with great ecat. 80 The marine
corps OF the navy is TO be increased. ..
The eoaehmakers' strike has ended in failure. The
sugar refners on strike" were driven away from Du
rants refinery in Twenty-hfth-st by the police. =
Judge ngraham has set down the Stokes trial peremp
torly for tomorrow. The owner OF the Nassau tes
fed in the Tden- Butler suit - Mayer Hall testified
before the Contract Commissioners that clause
added to resolution after he had signed II, thereby
rauduently authorizing the laying Of the Stow fOunda
ton pavement in a number Of streets. - The winners
In the Jersey City Yacht Club Regatta were the
Undine. knight Templar, Sophia, and Commodore.
== The Sheriff seized Engine No. and other city
property on an execution. Aldermen Conover
ar Van Schaiek had dispute Commodore Wander
bits power TO control Aldermanic Committees. s==
Gold, ilSI ia. Thermometer, 72o, $50, 100. f-
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
THE OPENING JUBILEE.

Boston is bubbling with a strange, feryld
aesthetic enthusiasm, whereof some FAINT waves
reach us in our special reports from the Great
International Jubilee. The hubbnb has hnaily
begun and the twenty thousand (or, TO be ex-
act. seventeen thousand) voices have sent up
their tremendous chorus Of sound. Yesterday,
the forests of yiolins, fountains of brazen IN
struments, and mountainous masses Oh
singers were all in place; and, at
the magic wave of the master hand, emitted
their gigantic and unparalleled coneoru Vi
sound But before the music, there was tno
usual Boston eloquence by Jubilee seiectlohs
from Boston's One Hundred Orators. we
must admire the patriotism OF the Honoraeie
Ebenezer Watson, who treated the britlsi
Grenadlers TO those Revolutionary remlhls-
eences which were naturally the theme OF the Day
Nor can we withhold a word Of commendation
of the gorgeous rhetoric which flowed IN the
sonorous periods of Gen. N. =! Banks, who
found in the War of the Revolution triumph
for both England and America. Nobody but
.JubiIee orator, inspired by the premonitory
fiddling of the gigantic orchestra and the
presence of real British uniforms, could nave
flown so high or have swept together so many
chromatic tints.
But the orations, magnificent as they were,
were only mild preluding to what was to
come. The musical performances 1t appears
were highly successful, both from the practI-
cad and the artistic points of view. The noises
were tremendous, and the music was very
pood-two results which are not always
achieved together The audience was
not large nor the enthusiasm so highly
pitched as on previous occasion when ex-
cited Bostonians opened and closed their
umbrellas as the only available means of CIV
ing vent to their feelings. But the nobility
and gentry have not yet arrived. That pof-
ton which loiters at Long Branch has some
odd jobs OF political work on hand. by
and by, when the President, the Greeks
bearing gifts, the stray Members of
Congress, and the blended uniforms OF the
Kaiser's Band and the French Republicans
shall add their splendors to the show, the
| thrifty New Highlander who has saved his
money for the best, will be there to see the
brave disTriisy; listen to the Lydian measures
of the great orchestra, and sun himself in the
reflected glory of greatness.
So far, then, let us congratulate Boston on
having successfully shown that the biggest
thing in music in 1869 could be eclipsed by
Boston in 1872. The former musical combina-
ton has borne good fruit. 1t has produced a
! greater than itself it has brought into being
numberless adjuncts to this auspicious occa-
sion, and, finally, it has bossomed into the
! greatest artistic festival of all creation.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
THE CONVENTION OF THE Y. NJ C. a.

THE CONTENTION OF THE Y. NJ c. a. a.,
The Young Mems Christian Association, in
the Convention now being held, at Lowell,
must have treble share Of the crusading
spirit They proposed, on Saturday last to
make a simultaneous attack on Alcohol, To-
bacco, and the Pope; the assaults to be
made, too, with oil the yehemence and con-
tempt of prudence or expediency character
istic of youthful soldiers in religious battles
elseYhsTs Total asbsytipasnnse was to be made
q test Tor membership; tobacco to be prohib-
tied as inconsistent with the highest type of
Christianity !" the Bible was to be forced into
the public schools, and a copy of it placed
Immediately in every Catholic family. Now,
our young friends are undoubtedly actuated
by the purest motives, and are sincere in their
zeal but their sudden loud alarum reminds us
of the sacred drums which the Popes in old
times used to have beaten at the appearance
Of comet In order TO scare away the comet,
"ths Turk end the devl" all at once, 1t 10 as
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
Crop prospects are just beginning to come

Crop prospects are just beginning to come
in f; that of the cotton yield is published by
the Bureau of Agriculture, to-day. The gen.
eral summary is good, the average being a
full one The increase in acreage is largest
in the South Western States where immigra-
ton has developed the resources of the coun-
try and extended the area of cultivation.
Texas has most largely shared in the benefits
of the increased producing element, and Ie-
ports good condition of the yield. The
whole cotton producing region, however, is
represented as in frst-rate condition.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18

The great free State of Texas has Demo
cratic party of liberal and progressive ideas.
Although the carpet-bag politicians have done
less mischief there than in other of the lately
rebelIiOus States, the Republican party has
been demoralized by maladministration in
Washington, and has been saddled with ineom-
petent men. Hence Flanagan. The indorse-
ment Of the Cincinnati platform and nominees
by the Democratic State Cs1vcnhOn was, aii
things cOpSdeged Inevitable Formal action
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
HARvar
No. ; Nassau-s,., EeE.York

No Nassau-si, HeE-York.
tn, Crx,,rKsKr ASH OHro RAukoAS extending from the che
ke B., 10 The Ohio River connecting a eastern terminus "a
yucsn .na eossvse lines aud st the western erm0
With p oOe miles Of inland river wen as the whole I'O"0
system the West Northwest South Wet 30 900 miles eren
ps.rl, finished present year VIII be pePas fi
extensive bress in tie transportation Of products between the pm
, cities At The West and The Atlantic coast cities ToR WHICH IT'S
sgosr LrsED Low GRDE PECULIARLY FAvoRABtE
II also ,sor. new for large and SUPERIOR agricultural Territory
and open. to market The richest cs and deposits on this Continent
beside. verspg besuhh picturesque country abOuDdns in
medicinal springs and Summer resorts N (
We have Tor sale on Company end recommend as sub
,,,r,sl aud secure investment the remainder Ofher
SIX PER GEST 6oID BoSDs
secured by mortgage on whole railroad n equipment franchises
t Principal redeemnbe coin 1889 interest payable also ia g0d
Ma, and SOyeber dnOinson $1,000 $500 and slOo coupon or
registered Fdes "a an accrued interest FuH information furnished
..p....u t' - FIsK HArcH.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18

To the list of casualties reported yesterday
must now be added three more by rail. Seven
men were killed and several wounded, yester-
day morning, by a railway collision in Illinois,
Another collision in Indiana killed one passen-
ger and wounded Others later in the day. And
about the same time, freight train ran off the
track near Buffalo and a carload of live ami
mails perished in the flames of burning OIL
car. Some Of these days such accidents :"
win be impossible. Why not nowf
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18
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An attractive little pamphlet Of Ga pages has just
been issued called (" The Sans Greeley Campaign
Songster.' edited by Mr.. Amos j. Cummings. 10
opens with stirring campaign song by Geo. Alfred
Townsend and ia filed with all manner of political
rhymes, wise and otherwise, many of them being ac-
eompanied by the music " which they are adapted.
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18

The Liberal Republicans of Paterson, N. j.,
have elected L. IL. Borden. Adrian Van Houten, John
Rylo J. r. Huntoon, Davis Borden Fred. Gilmore. L. X
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New Jersey Liberal Republican Convection at Newark
on June AZ
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18

At last accounts the Hassler expedition had
reached Valparaiso, and had begun to explore
the waters of the Peaceful Sea. A letter from
the TRIBUNE correspondent with the expedition
gives an interesting account of visit OF the
party to the island of Juan Fernandez, now
inhabited by only twelve persons. Prof. Agassiz
and his assistants have secured many new
scientific treasures; and his visit TO the we'll
worn, familiar coast of Peru has already gwen
il q new and strange interest.
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save themselves the journey downtown by leaving their
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of the Convention has not yet been hadj
but the sentiment of the delegates is over
whelmingly for Greeley aud Brown. Texas is
sure to be with the party of reform and pro-
gress. u L ..f.8..f
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18

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New-York tribune., 1872-06-18

Indiana is undoubtedly to be one of the few
fields on which the Presidential contest Is to
be largely anticipated. Our special CORE
spondent, whose letter is published to-day, has
been making some close observations In the
Hoosier State, and it will be seen that bis
conclusions are quite satisfactory to the adj
vocates of liberal policy. Party lines are
broken; heretofore adverse elements are COM
mingling, and it is evident that the civil war
cannot be made to last forever even to oblige
Mr.. Morton and his friends
New-York tribune., 1872-06-18

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No solution of the problem of the labor
"strikes" has yet appeared, and some of the men
engaged in these demonstrations have grown
turbulent and noisy. Some violent menaces
were made yesterday by different branches of
the trades, and the police were called in to
disperse disorderly and threatening gatherings.
The better class of workingmen do not APP
prove of these threats of force, and the bulk
of the strikers" certainly understand that
they will lose everything if they do not go
about their business peaceably and calmly.