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New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
WHISKY CASE.

We publish this morning a story OF certain
whisky transactions at Cincinnati, Mobile, ana
Washington, concerning which it would be
well for Mr.. DelanO to say few words the
next time he makes stump speech. 1t seems
that certain persons in Cincinnati, the chief of
whom were David Gibson and Peter Schwab,
made in 1868 pretended shipment OF 1865
barrels of whisky and 998 packages of tobacco
in bond from Mobile to Tampico. The
whisky was withdrawn from bonded ware
houses in Cincinnati, ostensibly for export,
but none of it reached Mobile except one
hundred barrels expended in bribery. The
rost WAS Turned over somewhere on the route
to the owners, without payment of tax, and
the fraud was privately arranged with the
revenue officers who should have prevented
IT, The tobacco was manipulated III the same
way.
When Mr.. Delano came into office as Com
missioner of Internal Revenue this case, re-
ported to the Department in July, 1868, had
been already investigated, but no steps had
been taken TO bring the guilty parties to JUS
tice. Mr. Delano was urged by the infOrmer,
one Hammond, an ex-Inspector of Customs at
Mobile, to press the case, and he promised to
controlled the vote of an entire county in
Ohio, and a year passed without action. AT
last Gibson was arrested on criminal charge,
but at once released on bail. Cowie, a
Mobile Revenue Inspector, was arrested and
accepted as witness for the Government.
Elmore, the Collector of Mobile, was clearly
implicated, but Mr.. DelanO would not consent
to his arrest unless Hammond would make it
at his own expense. There the matter stopped.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue de-
clined to take any further steps, and Gibson
was left at liberty to settle the matter as COM
fortably as possible About the end of 1869
this gentleman managed to get things all
straight. He paid Hammond $4,000 to leave
the country, and he promised to pay 100000
to the Government to discontinue proceedings
the sum out of which he had defrauded the
Government being about S187,00O. ThereupOn
the suits were abandoned, and the 100000 has
neUer been paid.
A plain statement of this case is all that we
shall give. Mr.. DelanO is invited to supply the
commentary.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
THE BURDEN or THE SOUTH.

Gov b. Graz Brown began the eloquent
and powerful speech which he made yester-
day at Logansport, Indiana, and which we
publish in full to-day, with this thesis, when
il as true in fact as it is noble in thought:
"The Administration of the President and his
"party represents almost exclusively the idea
"of force, finding warrant for its exercise IN
the sentiment of hate; and as force Is with
"out law, so hate is without morality"
Throughout the whole of this mastery dis
course this is the informing and pervading
idea. The speech will form one of the per-
manently valuable contributions TO the litera-
ture of politics. Its logic is without flaw, and
its facts are chosen with equal skill and con-
scientiousness. 1t is the clearest and briefeSt
statement yet made of the deplorable series
of mistakes and crimes by which the rehablli-
tation of the South has been 80 long delayed.
1t also points out, with an earnestneSs beyond
the custom of political orators, the inevitable
results which will flow from the continuance
of this unwholesome and abnormal state of
things.
Gov Brown gives in this speech, in rapid
but careful narrative, the entire history of the
rise and progress of the hostility and distrust
now unhappily existing between the white and
black races in the South. He shows how this
was sedulOusly cultivated and aggravated by
the dishonest adventurers who Oyerspread the
South after the close of the war, and who
found in this hellish expedient the simplest
means of gaining influence and profit among
the ignorant freedmen. From this arose the
Ku-Klux organization with its accompanying
outrages and crimes. The two wrongs re-
acting upon each other continually heightened
the evils under which the South suffered.
The worst result of all was the complete
surrender OF the negroes into the hands of
the scoundrels, who traded upon their ignor-
ance and their trust, and, assisted by the aid
and countenance of the Federal Government,
soon gained absolute control of the Legis-
latures and the resources of most OF the
Southern States. The miserable story OF the
plunder of Georgia, of South Carolina, and
Florida is told by Gov. Brown in the manner
rather of the historian than of the partisan,
and is full of instruction and of warning.
In the close of this admirable speech, in
which there is not a superfluous word or
phrase. Mr.. Brown reminds the people of the
North of something they are too apt to for
get This plunder and corruption of the South
ern States, this infusion of the poison of hatred
and suspicion among their inhabitants, this
degradation of the political sentiment among
the people, will not harm them alone. The
nation at large every State and oyery com
munity, will suffer from this deadly contagion
of anarchy and fraud. 1t is the North as much
as the South which is to be benefited by the
vote which is this Autumn to end forever, we
hope, the era of sectional hate and unpunished
corruption.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

America and the delicate duty resulting from
It, 1t has swindled the Japanese by sending
improper persons to do for them work that
required the highest ability and the best char.
acter. 1t has swihdled them by fraudulent
claims. It has disgusted and angered them by
protecting shye-trader who has fallen into
their hands, and cOnniving at the kidnapping
of Japanese themselves. Cannot this dull,
supine, selfish Administration be aroused 10
its duty before the reputation Of the country
is entirely destroyed and onr opportunity in
the East lost forever 7
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
Good ADVICE.

In speaking of Mr.. Nasts caricatures, The
Christian AdVOcah gives that artist of tho
cutters a hint which he will do well not to
disregard. "On the one hand" says The Ad-
vocate, "caricatures may be used effectively
"for valuable purposes though, like satire In
"moral teachings, they are to be used spar
"ingly; but, on the other, they are especially
"capable Of abuse. Affirming only by indi-
"rectiOn, they may rdicule or malign with
" impumty, and indnuatiDg what they
"do not openly declare, they fix their ideas
more securely in the mind than any
"merely verbal statement can do" Thero
could MT be better description of Mr.. Nasts
recent work than this. The draughtsman who
puts the hatreds of Others, and not his own.
into his compositions, and who Is mere tool
to prosecute the reyengeful purposes of his
masters, is, of course, restrained by no con-
siderations either of truth or courtesy. Ho
does what he is told to do, and so does tho
hired bravo who sells his dagger for a price,
The best caricaturist is never ill-natured, and
savage and earnest malignity is quite incon-
sistent with humor, genial quality which
real artist like Leach never misses, but which
seems to have been entirely left out of Mr..
Il. Ms constitution.
The Aduocate having given this good advice
as to illustrations, in another column speaks
of newspapers, and aludes unmistakably 70
two Grant organs in this city, although it
does not think it necessary to mention either
by name. "TO expect anything" says Inc
AdUocate, deserving the title of amenities in a
political canvass, would, perhaps, at this
time appear preposterOus but certainly
they who assume to imgart information tQ
the people, and to lead the public mind.
SHOULD so far respect the public morality.
taste, and sense of propriety, as to refrain
from thrusting upon them the manners of
L" the bar-roOm and the dialect of Billings
"gate." We trust that rebulse will be received
by the journals alluded to in Christian
spirit, and that we shall be happy enough to
observe an immediate and marked change in
their management.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
EPIsToLR OBSCURoRUM VIRORUM.

EPIOJOLH ODOC UhOhOm 'ihOhCm'
The world has already heard, without any
commissions except those of laughter. OF the
Conference lately held at the AstOr House IN
this city, "Of Democrats from different parts
"of the Country and State who decline to
"recognze Horace Greeley as the Democratic
"Leader and Champion" We are assured, in
friendly report of this portentous gathering,
that "there was very fair attendance OF
representative mem" we are also told
that enthusiasm and unanimity character
"ized the entire proceedings" Con-
sidering tho two or three " who
were gathered together" we may admit
the "unanimity," but the "entusmusy" (as
John Braham used to call it is a little more
doubtful. However, the select handful went
through all the motions of a National Con-
vention of the first magnitude; appointed a
National Committee which comes nigh to be-
ing a Committee of the Whole; a State Com
mittee, a little smaller but still impressive; /;
and Joint Executive Campaign Committee
consisting of eight men from New-York, one
man from Michigan, one from Florida, one
from Rhode Island, and one from Pennsyl-
vania Having thus gone into business
upon the largest and most liberal scale,
the Convention solemnly resolved to
support the Grant nominees, and then lis
tened to the reading of a bag full of letters,
of which we shall presently speak. Then this
minor mass meeting disintegrated itself if we
were speaking of anything less mastodonian,
We should say that it adjourned. No doubt it
was found easier to do this than to keep tho
company together.
But it is of the contents of the letterbag
that we feel specially moved to write. Almost
everybody invited to this party seems TO have
sent his regrets nor do we think from the
names signed to most of the letters, that the
presence of the absentees would have
seriously elevated the pOnderous roof of the
Astor House. Here is the illustrious Judge
Cooke of Monticello, in Florida. This galli-
naceous magistrate cannot sufficiently express
his contempt for Mr.. Greeley and crows at
that gentleman in vicious and defiant way.
The tail feathers of the brave bird, however,
rather droop towards tho close Of his big
billet-dOux al would be pleased to give
" some advice says Cooke, " if indeed knew
"what was best tor the true, entire party.n
But he does not know he therefore merely
says, "Vote en- maSse for Grant!n The idea
of the Astor House squad voting en- masse
for anybody il exceedingly droll. We cannot
but feel that in this epistle of VIM
Archer Cooke, the archer failed to hit the
mark, and the cock crowed in vain
Now follow Mr.. More of Cazcnovia, who
says, "The situation is PECULIAR Gen. Me-
Almont of Pennsylvania, who tenderly asks
"Why should we hate Grantfp and kindly
reminds US that Grant once yoCed for Bu-
",chanan," aa ac. Of grace suf1cient 10 cover
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
TRIPLE E S I'll E E T.

There have been heavy gales the British coast 60
Lord John Russell preparing review of the proceed
lngs of the Geneva AIbitTators. 60 NJ. GamDetta has
been enthusiastically received at Grenoble. - The
budget Of the Spanish Government has been presented
10 the Cortes. == More depredations have been made
by the Mexicans on the Texas border.
Horace Greeley made several speeches on the way
from Sunbury TO Allentown. == Gen. VIM Harrow, a
Liberal Republican speaker, killed by railway ac-
Cident IN Indiana.
Efforts were made TO remove the OF the Ring
spratOrS TO the Court of oyer and Termner and day
was appointed for argument. =- A passenger
eight agent, and shpbuider gave testimony at the
Bienville investigation. =- Gold, ia, ll3i, nSs'
Thermometer, $50. 100. 659.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM

When it was charged just before the North
Carolina election, that large sums of money
had been sent to North Carolina ostensibly to
defray the expenses of the United States
Courts, but really for political purposes, tho
defenders of the Administration vowed by all
that was sacred that not penny had been
spent beyond the absolute necessities of JUS
tice, and that the expenditure was little If
anything in excess of the average for previous
years. Now the truth is beginning TO come
out. A letter from Washington gives some
curious facts, the Interpretation of which seems
obvious enough. Until recently the appropria-
ton for United States Courts has been about
5000 year. For the year ending June 30
1872, however. President Grant asked and OBJ
tanned an appropriation Of no less than two
millions, and by deficiency bill in May last
he got an allowance of an additional million.
With an appropriation SIX times rs large ~
the ordinary expenditure he ought to have
been able to prosecute the ku-Klux cases.
enforce the bayonet law, and have consider
able surplus; but now the acting First Con
troler of the Treasury gives notice to court
officers that the money is all gone, and their
unsettled accounts cannot be paid.
Where it has gone we can easily guess
Marshal CaTow took S25O,OOO to North caro-
lima, instead of the $4,000 which has usually
sufliced for that State and with that sum no
kept in pay during the canvass perfect army
of deputy marshals and deputy commissioners,
who had nothing whatever To do except To
make Grant voters. Moreover the acting
Controller says that the sums drawn by sew
"eral of the marShalS have proved to be in
excess of the amounts needed by them"
How this could occur, when their requiSitions
had TO be audited and approved in the Office
of the Attorney General before cent could
be paid on them, the Administration will per-
haps be able to explain. What use has been
made of this money! What pretext was given
for drawing it out Of the Treasury Why is
not returned at oncef In States where ku- hiux
violence and illicit distilling have prevailed IN
past years, deputy marshals with surplus funds
in hand are almost irresistible rs electoneer-
ing agents, and we shall be greatly surprised
if nae he not found for that money before tho
5th of November.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

The pardon of Yerkes and his release from
the Penitentary is the latest sensation from
the maelstrOm of Pennsylvania politics. If we
read Alright the brief Associated Press dispatch
announcing it, the first result has been an
affidavit from Yerkes cOntradicting Hartranft's
latest excuses for his own misconduct in the
matters which sent his associate to the Peni-
tertiary.
The special dispatches seem to show in
stead that Yerkes has been pardoned, to
unswear his former affidavit, and help his
partner That cannot win. 1t WILL instead.
be the final ruin of the candidate whose last
desperate chance is the purchase of affidavits
to better his character by the release of a con-
vict from the penitentiary.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

The Liberal Republicans and Democrats
have named the next Congressman from the
Onondaga District. His name is Frank HiscOck,
and his election can hardly be thrown away.
He has been District-AttOrney and member of
the Constitutional Convention he is one of
the leading members Of the bar of the State,
and he will make a good Congressman.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

In to-day's TRIBUNE we present the closing
speeches made by Mr.. Greeley during his late
tour To these a few briefer utterances may
be hereafter added but they substantially
conclude one of the most notable series of
speeches of which we have any account. Mr..
Greeley has discussed Amnesty, Southern Mis-
rule, Civil Service Reform, Finance, Agricul-
ture, and a great variety of topics now
before the people. He has done it
well; and his wise words, irrespective
of any mere political considerations, will
largely tend to elevate the public sentiment
they will long remain as seed-thoughts in the
minds of those who have listened to him.
More than this these kindly Off-hand, familiar
talks with the people have, we believe, in
spired them with more generous ideas; and
this portion of the canvass undoubtedly closes
more agreeably and pleasantly because of his
single hearted kindness of speech.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

The Hon. A. p. Edgarton was lately nomi-
mated as the Straight-out candidate for Gov
ernor in Indiana against Mr. Hendricks. He
was thereupOn pronounced by the Grant or
gans and particularly by the most reckless
and consequential of them in this city, man
of high character and great ability. Mr.. Ed
gerton has now peremptOrily declined to run,
and announces that he will support Hendricks.
What does Grants Own think of him now 2
Won't it take occasion to renew its confidence
In his high character and great ability2
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

Northern Alabama is alive with a glowing
Liberal sentiment and, according to the re-
port of a TRIBUNE correspondent printed on
our fourth page, needs only organization.
Senator Spencer agreed some time ago, it will
be recollected, to devote himself to carrying
the State for Grant, in consideration of GER
tain official favors. With Spencer and such as
he the Liberals must contend; but the senti-
ment of the people is OverpOwering even the
Spencerian works of darkness, and the good
cause seems prosperous
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

Some few years ago. when the name OF kemWe'
was only illustrious from its connection with the
dramatic art, it suddenly gained new distinction.
Ths accredited representative Of one s those great
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

Accounts from the long troubled Republic Of
Mexico are, on the whole, more favorable than
they have been for some time. A corre-
spondent of The TRIBUNE, whose letter ap-
pears on the third page of this ISSUE recapitu-
Iates the most striking events of the month
of August and, without venturing personal
opinions, leaves the impression that the cOun-
try is tranquillizing under the firm and kindly
rule of the acting President.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

The last campaign document of the Office
holders is the hardest to answer. 1t is the
Presidents Newark speech.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

Our special correspondent in North Carolina
shows this morning how Ku-Klux outrages are
manufactured for political effect. murder
was committed at Greenvile. The culprit
was promptly lodged in jail. There is no rea-
son why he should not have fair trial by
the civil courts. There has been no at
tempt by anybody to resist the process of the
courts. Yet Immediately the Administration
newspapers are frantic over "new Ku-Klux
Outrage" and the rumor goes forth that
troops are to be sent into the county to pre-
serve order Possibly the Presidents advisers
may hesitate to take so serious a step with
so little provocatiOn but they are desperate
enough for almost anything, and they know
that North Carolina is going against them.
The State was not converted by the Secretary
of the Treasury, and we do not believe it will
be converted by the Secretary of War.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

We hear a sour word from some of the
"unco guid' in the Grant party about the
proprietes of personal canvass. Even the
independent journals of Pennsylvania, how
ever do not see any "proprieties" in Hart
ranft's course in Pittsburgh, where he has
been electioneering He seemed to think it
statesmanike to solicit votes in bar-rooms
and to "drink with the boys" Ordinarily,
Gen. Hartranft would not do this; but his
case is desperate now, and his course is
shaped in desperation.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

Friends in Pennsylvania! as your canvass
stands to-day, nothing but gigantic fraud can
defeat you. You have the honest votes to
elect Buckalew by twenty-five thousand ma
iority. They may cheat you five thousand i'll
Philadelphia they count on more than twice
as much, and were yesterday raising special
corruption fund in this city to buy up your
Inspectors. Last night they boasted that they
had succeeded. Show them that that work
will be useless! Be warned in time, too, of the
danger all along your Maryland line. For ten
days colonization of negroes from the District
of Columbia has been going on, under the
supervision of the immediate and trusted
friends Of the President. They count on q
gain here almost as great as from the con-
templated Philadelphia fraud. Men of Penn
sylvania! We do not believe that either the
colonists from the District, or the OBren
repeaters from New-YOrk and your native
ballot-bOx suffers combined, can give the
Governorship of your great State to the part
ner of the broker-cOnvict now in your Penn
tentiary. Give us one weeks faithful work
spot the repeaters, watch your Inspectors,
keep hourly record of the proclamation of the
vote, and see that no votes are counted with
out being cast and under the inspiring lead
ership of Curtin and Buckalew, your victory
is "A certain as the coming of election day.
But do not, we pray you, mistake enthusiasm
for organization. or reckon the votes for a
victory worth anything till they are cast and
counted
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

The Custom-house slanderers have a sudden
sensation. Since the boomerang of their old
FentOn calumnies has come crashing back, they
think it very wrong to make this campaign
of personalities.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
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New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

Cable dispatches show that there is still a
wide difference of opinion among Englishmen
as to the justice of the Geneva award. Lord
John Russell is reported as big with a
scathing pamphlet ON the subject, In which
the Arbitrators are TO be handled without
gloves Per contra, the Right Hon. VIM. Z.
Forster Of the Gladstone Cabinet makes a
glowing speech to his constituents, in which
he cOngratulates his audience on the blessed
and peaceful results of the Conference at
Geneva. Mr.. Forster probably represents
the majority of EnRiishmen: Russell, bitter
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

Nobody ever claimed that Senator Schurz Gear
"ried the German vote in his pocket though
the malignant Administrationists were swift
TO deny that he could perform that feat. But
10y this time it is pretty evident that the Ger
mans carry the Senator in their goodwill.
The First German Greeley Club of Phila-
delphia is among the German organizations
which have hOnored themselves by welcoming
Mr. SchuTz to Pennsylvania; and the speeches
of our patriotic adopted fellow citizens show
that they are with the Liberal cause as well
as with their distinguished ellow-cOuntryman.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER %. 1872.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28

We know whereof we speak when we say
that William NJ. Tweed, as once before, is
prepared for fight from this country to escape
trial and probable conviction for his many
crimes and immense embezzlements There
fore we say for the information of all good
citizens who have the punishment as well as
the arraignment of this rogue at heart, that
notice of trial having been sent him, any at
tempt on his part to fly is legally considered
forfeiture of bail and any person seeing him
in flight is authorized to turn him over to the
nearest policeman and lodge him in Jail. 1t
is not enough that this great rogue should be
indicted; public sentiment, public security, our
municipal credit and national honor demand
also his punishment.