The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-19


and His Political Caricatares-Gran nj
In His Royal Robes-The Controversy
Between Froude and Father Tom
Lord .Dundreary Back Again--Th'
Debut Of a London Celebrity.
fraoM QUE OWN CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK, November Is.
Adversity has Its uses. The late crushing
defeat of both factions OF the local Democracy
by minority party has taught them the fu
tility of attempting TO beat each other In the
face of the enemy. Now that the election Ii
over and the dlscomfted politicians see the
offices passing into possession of Republicans
more prudent reflections arise, and they begin
to Sigh for reunion of all the Democratic ele
ments preparatory for future warfare and the
recovery of the city patronage.
Tammany and Apollo Hall are about to come
together. The hatchet Is to be buried. The
obnoxious leaders on both sides are to 60 into
temporary retirement, new men are 10 come
to the front, the old banner is TO be untnrled,
and the Democracy are again to present a
solid front, with SO, 600 majority, to the enemy.
Mr.. Barrett, one OF the O'Oonor electors and
| a magnate of Apollo, and ex-Sherlf Kelly, en-
the part of Tammany, are arranging for the
reunion. l.. .a:
of the Antl-adminlstratio party fnds no echo
| In this section yet. It is impossible from pres
ent appearances to say what course our DEM
ooraoy would take If strong Liberal party
were started In the West. The World, which
eince Mr.. Marbles return to It's columns, has
resumed lts old position OF antagontsm 10 Mr..
Greeley and his protectionism hobby. argues
against any abandonment OF the Democratic
/ m nj GlpntnnQh
Commercial, speaking for the Western Lib.
eral Republicans, insists that the Democrats
shall merge themselves With the Liberals, un-
der a new name, or 'sthe match is off," Alter
| matters settle little The question Of the for
NAL dissolution OF the old Democratic party
will come up for discussion. One thing IL
certain, the lately ohrlstened Liberal party
was not killed By the result of the election.
There is an instance of It's vitality 10 Brook
| lyn. Last Tuesday night the Liberal Repub=
| licsn general committee Of the county met
and resolved to continue It's organization,
dropping the name Republican" from Its
! title, and arrangements were made ior tne
! the new party In Brooklyn by wards and dis
Mast retires from the campaign this week
with two scurrilous cartoons In Harper's
Weekly, one of which Ia In his oest style. he
represents Grant and Brother jonathan shak:
ing hands over the "hloodless sarcasm"
while In the gulf, over which the earth is clos.
ed. the Democratic and Liberal Republican
leaders In the late campaign are tumbled pro-
miscuously. Most of the characters are group.
ed around, as In Dore's Dante's "Infer1o." the
picture of abjsct despair and woe. Whltelaw
Reid, with his hand frantically clasping hls
forehead, leans against the Tribune hand
organ, which In turn is crushing the life out oil
poor Marble, Of the World. Carl schurz, with
t. a Iv.fo la hra nk.
cts, lies at full length, the embodiment OF
speechless misery. Andy johnson, with that
unmistakable nose, Is imploring The rocks to
fall on him. Everywhere around this awful
cavern you may recognize the hope.lorsaken
countenances Of the Greeley campaigners-
Seymour, Frank Blair, Fenton, Trumbul',
Belmont, KiIpatrIck,1 Oakley Hall, Sweeney,
Tweed, (who, on the contrary, worked for
Grant, Theodore Tllton, with the Lille OF
WoodhulI,) and the resi-. High over all,
caught 10 The closing chasm by the tall Of his
white overcoat, hangs Horace Greeley, head
downwards.
this country carried to such license. Mast, In
bis attacks upon the opponents OF Grant, was
vicious. The same may be said OF his splrltin
the uncalled for attacks upon the Roman Ca
tholIcs. His pictures were not calculated to
excite good humored mlrth, as carlcatures
should, but they reused anger and bad blood.
No man can look on with patience when his
religion is vlely lampooned, and the friends
of public personages feel The same indignation
when the faces and forms of the people they
reverence are twisted by the artist Into re-
semblanse of british animals. Throughout
the campaign Mast has made mf. Greeley look
like hog or baboon. This must have been
the result Of pure malice. Neither the artist
nor the Harper Brothers are 10 be thanked tor
- L. oto md. tnfo ann
tical contests. They Intensity tholr bitterness
and SOW the seed of bad passions, whose fruit
will be borne In The future.
Poor Matt Morgan was forced to follow In
the wake of Mast, and answer brutality with
brutality, but the comparison OF the work OF
the two men Ia 30 much to the disadvantage
of the former that doubt If Grants admirers
felt very bad y over the cartoons In Frank
Leslle's. The most effective caricaLurst on
the Liberal side was Bsew, who sketched for
the Fifth Avenue Journal. His very latest is
q colored print Of Grant as emperor. The
despot sits on throne, rlgged out like The
old English monarchs In the medi9val en-
blazonry. There ls crown on his head, the
royal robes sweep the floor below hls feet; In
he holds the round ball emblewatoal Of the
sovereignty of the world, and his nose ls
painted very, very red. There Is something
very ludlcrous In the combination. The
picture IL not as lll-natured as NasIs repre-
sentations of Greeley, and yet 1t steps q little
over the line Of proprlety.
Father Tom Burke is making quite respect
able headway against Mr.. Froude In his
lectures at the Academy of Music. He has
lai ge, and of course enthusiastic audiences
of bis countrymen. He replies to the English
champion lecture for lecture, the course being
FIVE, and uses the same titles as Mr.. Froude
to each. Last night the subject was "lre.
land Under the Tudors" Father Tom made
furious onslaught upon Mr.. Froude's hero,
Henry VII, and repeated all the old historic
charges against that lively monarch's charac.
ter, which the English historian supposed he
had effectually disposed of. IL is pleasant to
observe the courtesy with which the two dis
putants treat each other, particularly. as the
subject is one over which Anglo Saxon and
Irisn Celt are wont to get quite heated. In-
deed, some of the Irish weekly journals OF this
city are finding fault with Father Burke for
handling the controversy with gloves. But the
Dominican Is gentleman and ialr-mlnded
man.
Lord Dundreary has taken possession OF
Wallack's Theatre, and will remain for several
weeks. Mr.. Southern's engagement Is for the
season, believe, and he will appear In come
of his other characters Garrick, for
Instance. Tie dramatic sensation of next
week will be The debut of Miss Nelson, the
London actress, 10 America. She makes her
bow as Juliet, at Booths Theatre. Lilhographs
of beautiful young woman, with her name
appended, appear in the shop windows on
Broadway. She comes with reputation or
remarkable talent and personal charms.
Among the other dramatic events, Ia the open
inp of a new theatre away ND town on Fifty