The New York herald., 1872-07-05
Colonel Yerger, the Du-
ellist, Talks.
THE SMALLPOX IN BALTIMORE.
How Hot Weather May Hurry
The Delegates.
Interviews with SOmeb0dies and
NObOdies.

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| The Convention will meet ON Tuesday next and
ascertain the amount Of endurance possible within
the temperature of Fords theatre under July sky.
That day it win probably complete its organization,
receive speech or two, and adjourn to cool OF.
THE WEATHER FOR POLITICS.
If the thermometer keeps its present notch there
will be good deal of carriage riding that afternoon
to Druid Hill Park ana out to the breweries Of the
| Frederick road There are few places Of open air
alcove resort here and the Carroton lobbies and
parors are probably the coolest quarters in DOORS
Several Of the hotels have piazzas and balconies,
however, and where the lodging rooms are well up
toward the sky line . zephyr blows from the hills
to the harbor and back again, while, perhaps, on
the level and sowlyng streets, where the old hotels
and the business town persists in sticking the very
cigar smoke has no choice Of direction, and
scatters in the dead air. People In this latitude
prefer the heat Of the bottoms to climbing mode
rate hills where the smallpox and the dog days
cannot come. The Baltimoreans have several no.
BILE and imposing eminences in their city, but,
nevertheless, they have planted their superb City
Hall right under Charles street Cliff, whence good
view is Afforded Of Its extensive roofs, and they
have set the Carrollton Hotel on the slope Of an
alley, as II they meant to launch 1t or into the
harbor and had no intention Of living in it.
THE BIG HOTEL AND BALTIMORE.
asked q learned habttue Of the new CarrOllton
Hotel what the Baltimoreans meant by this extraor.
dinary conduct
"Wen,, said he, "there you have got me. 1t
shows, any way that God made the country and
man made the town. This is q queer place. Do
you know that they come before our door with car
pet-bags-these old Baltimore travellers-and look
up and reckon and gaze several ways and then
say, Yes, this must be the place. This is the old
Fountain Inn, where stopped fifty years ago.
WQ m N rd In tha mid Of
that displaced quadrangle, and the same cubby-
holes where they slept close as pack Of letters
in post office box. They are just beginning to
call this the Carrollton and often forget 1t and ask
absently for the Fountain Inn. The money to build
this costly pile was devoted to this spot, am told
because all the merchants said, If you abandon
the old site you viii lose it's custom; the spot in
Baltimore makes the patronage; our enterprising
customers are creatures Of habit and dlsdain any
comforts to which they are not accustomed by
George SIR" continued this metropolitan and philo
sophie gentleman, "they eat jowl and greens-the
best gentlemen in the city. They don't like jowl
and greens, but it's gentle subject Of State pride.
1t will take years to educate many OF them up to
net. Don't think exaggerate This is vast vii
lage, and every rich man in 1t is only sort of vii
lage to himself within the larger village"
NEW VIEWS OF BALTIMORE
There is plenty OF native intellect here" said
my informant, but 1t has fallen into forms, rules
Of precedent and opinion, and has to be startled to
awaken. Some of our clerks were good deal dis
tressed in patience at first by the way old gentle
mon and middle aged gentlemen and all leaned
forward on the counter and asked questions for the
sake Of confab, and forgot question as soon as
they asked It, and then grouped around, helpless
In resources, for new question when the previous
foolish one should be answered. They would yawn,
and get absent-minded. and look away into per-
spsctive, and finally run out by the drain on empti
ness. What Baltimore wants Ia something to be
suggested and presented to it. The city has been
run by lot Of old respectables who think aloud
trace every noteshavng act they do to high moral
principle and look around expecting the applause
OF the lesser fellow citizen when they sneeze.
They run their railroads for canny pelf
ana call 1t the comprehensive plan Of In
tcrnal development. With all that is said
about respect for descent and accomplish
ments here, incline to the belief that wealth is
worshipped In Baltimore city more than In the
North or the extreme South. Mercantile descent Is
more esteemed here than intellectual or moral
descent, as you can see by the fact that sons and
grandsons keep up the old signboards and 90 busl-
ness in the name Of the graveyard"
GREELEY AND THE MARYLAND MOKEs.
swhat has this got to do with nominating Horace
Greeley and Gratz Brown ?" asked your corre-
spondent.
"well think that the nomination will move
Maryland up twenty years and North Carolina nfty
years by giving the bulk Of people new subjects Of
consideration. They will be thrown out OF orbit 30
to speak. Then politicians will be compelled to
| look as achieved facts upon things and constftu-
| tiOnal amendments that In maudlin way, they
| have heretofore deemed not binding The entire
! South will suffer pretty much such q
change In mental and moral temperature ana
climate as would happen to the earth n
1t would move It's poles. Awakened by new acqui-
essences they will put forth on the scale of product
| iveness energies equal to those they expended in
destruction during the four years OF the war. con-
fess," continued my Informant, ''that almost tear
that Greeley will not be nominated here because
the moral results would be so stupend0us. 1t Is not
Greeley It Is the peepng over the rim to see what
is there from the people underneath that makes all
the revolution. But, after ALL the Southern people
themselves had the sagacity to do this thing To
the Blars, to the younger Confederate soldiers all
over the South, and particularly to the Southern
Journalists many Of whom were Confederate SOL
diers this thing isidue. Had the democratic patty
not acceded to this movement the bone and snew Of
the South would have joined the republican party
after Grants second election and rcvolutlonized 1t
from within. The regular party Ia doomed any way
now, probably; four years hence, certainly. This
country oscillatcs in government backward and
forward and between federalism ana anti-federal.
ISM Federalism has had Its period and local
rights are now In order to correct the insdtous CEN
| tralism of the war; ,.avrt
"They say Greeley is ccntralizatlonist Where,
then, do you get your victory for the localities w
20, Greeley Is journalist, and can bring, as
Journalist, plenty OF points TO support his monetary
newspaper positions, but there Is brondspread
feeling that also, as journalistic President he can
be perfectly vigilant to the new situation. a
newspaper record Is no record. The editor is but
the yulnea's stamp--the mans the COLO ior al
that The Southerners appreciate IN Greeley
the man who first perceived their wants and
burdens and made manly effort 70 give them
remembering the parts where the whole oppresses
| them. A perfect editor by his temperament shares
the feelings OF the PERIOD and IL the monitor Of the
hour: Greeley, a. the organ player OF Seward and