New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-21

dressed hy Che Hon Francis Keenan, the Hon. ChauDeey
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Expect no more reports of defalCaGOns
during this campaign! This last one in New
York has startled the Grant men too alarm
ingly, and they are too much enraged ut The
blundcrers who, with all their lies, failed to
conceal it. Herceforth, expect better care Gn
conceaing things) till after the election.
Whatever may be said of the conflicting
testimony in the Metis collision case as to the
immediate cause of the disaster, the evidence,
as summed up in another column OF The
TRIBUNE, shows culpabe negligence some
where in the Metis. The vessel was poorly
equipped. badly arranged, and the manage
meDt on board was feeble and inefficient.
We print additional and copious extracts
from the notable speech of the Hon. Frederick
Hassaurek at Avondale. Ohio. These portions
of the speech, which will be found ON the
third page Of tO-day's TRIBUNE, will enable
the reader to form a more correct estimate of
this striking contribution to political literature
than has the meager abstract heretofore pub
lished.
Peru is one of the few Hispano- American
Republics which exhibit signs of making
much material advancement. Its railroad
building, mining, and improvements III agri-
culture are placing it in the front rank of
South American States; and the brief account
of some OF its later Developments of natural
resources, elsewhere printed, shows results
which will please every friend of progress In
the arts of peace.
Grant newspapers continue TO aIDGse them.
selves and their readers with ford pictures
of a South unanimously for the Renominated.
They even deny that Greeley can carry more
than four or five of the Southern States, as if
the mere assertion were sufficient TO carry con-
victiOn with it. Read the careful and temper
ate review of the situation in the South, pub
lished on the fifth page of The TRIBUNE, and
laugh at the windy boasts of the Administra-
tiOniSts.
Some absurd persons having tried to get up
a Democratic State ticket in Indiana against
Mr.. Hendricks, have placed the Hon. A. p
EdgertOn at the head of it. Thereupon we |
are not surprised to find The NeW- York Times
promptly declaring that Mr.. Edgerton is man |
of high character and great ability. That is |
true. Now watch and see how with equal |
promptness his character will get blacken- |
ing when he declines the nomination, and |
comes out for Hendricks.
A beginning has scarcely been made in the
official examination into the Treasury and its
branches, and yet the large Newly York de-
falcatiOn is the first compelled to the light.
This is what we hear from Washington,
where this last theft has been sedulously
bushed up for weeks past. And there are
people who innocently fancy that the Ad-
ministration courts investigation; but they are
few in number. How many defalcations are
successfully huddled ont Of sighti
James 0'Brien has now been cudgeled into
declaring, with great vehemence, that he is in
favor of Herman. Thank him for nothing.
Mr.. 0Brien is in favor of President Grant, and
in favor of anybody whose support will enable
him to help President Grant His fellow-thief,
Mr.. William NJ. Tweed, occupies the same
position. Whatever pretense they may make
of supporting Mr.. Herman is q mere blind to
Try and hold on TO some of their followers,
whom they hope TO deliver to Grant. Their
game won't win.
Alabama politicians disagree a. TO the result
of the coming contest in that State. We print
a letter. to-day, from TRIBUNE correspondent
at Montgomery, and the reports which he gives
show a wide variance even on the Grant side.
We present various views of the situation and
give the reader the choice between the Grant