New-York tribune., 1872-07-18


writing editorials for feeble Grant papers.
which are not sufficiently cared for by their
editorial postmasters and assessors. This is
civil land politicaD service, and shows that
the President is bent ON putting down this
rebellion against his personal desire, if it takes
the whole Government to do it.
The Liberal Republican campaign In this
State opens to-day with speeches at Albany
by Senator FentOn and Chauncoy NJ. Depew,
and at Oswego by ex-Speaker De Witt L.
LittlejOhn. 1t will then be in order again Tor
the Presidents organs to prove that there arc
no Liberal Republicans in NewYOrk.
Some pleasant and interesting pictures OF
Pacific vOyaging are given by correspond
ent of THE TRIBUNE with the Hassler Expe-
dition, whose letter is printed on another
page. Readers will find the glimpses OF Peru,
the Galapagos Islands, and the coast OF South
America toward Panama instructive and
agreeable.
The Mcneil Times Qowa), which had been
Grant Journal recently declared for Greeley
and Brown, and its editor, Mr. John L. Long,
gave his reasons therefor in an able ana
pungent leader. Thereup0n part OF his ad-
vertisers withdrew their cards, and a watch
was set at his door to turn away those who
were inclined to take his paper; but he still
lives, and hopes to live long enough to see
Grant defeated. Liberals of Iowa. send for
The NeoeH Times
The Bingkamt0n Republican has for some
weeks endeavored to obtain notice from this
journal by series of fabricatiOns which have
not even the small merit of plausbility. 1t
has from day to day pretended that it would
support its charges by letters which it has re-
peatedly threatened to produce but still with
holds. In vain has its ally, The EUen'n9 PoSt'
urged it to produce its evidence or confess
itself mistaken. Print your letters, or ac-
knowledge your ISLANDERS!
The Switzerland of America" as Colorado
Territory has been aptly named. is one of
those vast picturesque regions which the Ameri-
can tourist should see before visiting Europe.
The wonderful country is annually drawing to
itself great immigration and full volume
of pleasure travel. One of our correspondents,
whose letter is printed herewith, furnishes
much information relating to the cost of the
tip and other matters about which every
traveller wants to know.
Ex-GOv. Blair of Michigan is doing good
service in his intelligent and unanswerable
exposures of the pretenses and shams of the
Administration. His speech at Marshall,
Mich last Saturday, was devoted chiefly to
an able refutation of the oft-tOld tale that
Grants has been an economical and judi
ciously-managed financial Administration. We
commend his facts and figures, elsewhere
printed, to those who still believe that car
pet-bag and military government Is not
costly and demOralizing.
The Government, we believe, has edited the
Michigan Republican press for some time
past but, notwithstanding the fact that all
of the Offices have been thus judiciOusly
distributed, there is healthy Lib
cral sentiment in the State. This is
shown by the action of such men
as ex-Gov. Blair, and the adhesion of such
an influential journal as The Free Press of
Detroit to the Liberal cause. We may not be
able to control the postmasters and assessors
of Michigan, but our correspondence shows
that the cause fOurishes without them.
The Presidents wise and benefcent In
dian policy, of which the friends of the Adj
ministration are so prOfusely complimentary,
is not approved by Gen. Sheridan. His own
views are, it is true rather more warlike than
those of q majority of our thinking people,
but the fact on which he bases his criticism
the recent outbreak of the KiOwas-is suf
ficiently startling. We may well ask what
sort of a policy is this which gives us con-
tinual war on the frontier. Major SchOfeld,
who acknowledges that the Kiowas and Co
manches are uncomfortable, is not al
lowed to finish publicly his report
on this branch of the subject; his
words are suppressed in tnat portion given to
the press. And further, to illustrate the folly
of the weak and changeful method which has
been adopted in the treatment of the Indians,
we have news of horrible massacre near
Fort Griffin, Texas. This locality is embraced
in the command of Gen. Augur, whose opinions
sOnearly coincide with Gen. Sheridan. The de-
tails of the murders are most revolving, and
the dreadful affair will strengthen the opinion
that something decisive must be done at once
to reform our Indian mismanagement.
Secretary BOutwell's speech at Greensboro,
North Carolina, yesterday, is a striking ex-
ample of the difficulty with which a man
speaks when ne attempts to convince an audi
ence of that which he cannot himself believe.
His own financial policy and his views
on the management of his own De-
partment are part OF himself
but when he approaches general political