New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

ples; Grant Republicans groan with agony,
and entreat all they can influence 10 aVOid
doing anything of the sort.
Sunday and Monday have given token of
return of the fierce heats which afflicted the
city in July. So far, however, the mercury
has not reached the maximum hight of those
terrible days, having marked 81 on Sunday
and 99o yesterday. This is oppressive enough,
and the nine sunstrokes which were reported
show how insupportable was the temperature.
The cooling showers of this morning promise
TO make the day more endurable.
How easy was the preparation of the gross
election frauds in North Carolina is clearly
set forth by a TRIBUNE correspondent whose
letter from Halifax County we print to-day.
Where indefinite numbers of :" jim Johnsons
are allowed to vote, and unconted Johh
"Fenners" claim that privilege without erect
ual objection. it needs must be that an
honest poll is impossible. The explanation Oh
frauds already committed will serve to stiinu-
late to renewed precautions against their repe-
titiOn.
Another outrage is reported from the Mexl-
can border Making due allowance for the
excited state of public feeling in Texas, ana
the natural inclination of the people to charge
every act of violence to the account of the
Mexicans. it is evident that the gangs of Cor
tina's men which infest the region are now
os,,t I 20 INN
Congress shall take some action in these exas-
perating cases when the report OF It's commit
tee shall be made at the next session.
That the notable letters of Senator Sumner
and Gen. Banks should cause cOmmotion III
the old Bay State, we must expect But these
letters reflect, in some particulars, the lncreas-
ing Liberal sentiment of Massachusetts people.
There is a growing strength Of Liberalism in
Buffers district, as well as new force and lie
in the ranks of the party generally and through
out the State. TRIBUNE correspondence from
Boston, herewith printed, sums up the whole
situation, and gives a cheerful view OF the
campaign for Reform.
There are dissensions among the Grant
Republicans of Iowa, and new enthusiasms IN
the Liberal camp. TRIBUNE correspondent,
who has carefully gone over the field, sends
us a letter, which is published to-day, IN
which he faithfully sketches the character
| istics of the opposing parties and the impedl-
ments to reform. The defeat of Senator
Harlan was q substantial blow against the
| Office Holders Party at the outset; from this
they have not yet recovered; and the hand
| full of Liberals who began the campaign have
become a formidable host The prospects for
Liberal victory are frst-rate In Iowa.
The International Statistical Congress is
about to convene at St. Petersburg, and it is
not agreeable TO realize that the Administra-
ton could not find citizens of the United
| States sufficiently enlightened to serve as del
| egates, but must confer the compliment on a
foreigner, who is smart enough to hold Office
and manage year after year to support his
family at the public crib, although he secured
| the exemption of his son from military service
during the late Rebellion, by making oath that
| he was a foreigner Mr.. Edward Young of the
| Statistical Office, Treasury Department, is our
delegate, and is now in Europe, with such
members of his family as are not in public
employ. We do not know whether Mr.. Samuel
b. Ruggles would have found it possible this
year to make the trip, but he certainly would
| have proved a more creditable representative
of the United States than Mr.. Edward Young
Judge Henry r. Selden united with Horace
| Greeley in heading the call of New York
Liberal Republicans for delegation to Gin
cinnati. But he did not seek the nomination
of Mr.. Greeley, and thereupOn the organs OF
the Office Holders party have been busy
boasting that he would not support the ticket
he helped to make. The Judge is not
man to indulge in bOisterous protesta-
tiOns, but, at the proper time and in
! the proper way, he has stamped out
the foolish story by heading a call of bis
| fellow-Liberals of Rochester, more imposing
| in numbers and character than any yet pub
| lished in the interior of New-YOrk, for O
| Greeley and Brown ratification meeting. The
| Office Holders have lately been saying many
| handsome and true things of Judge Selden's
stainless character, unselish aims, and COM
manding influence Now watch how they
will drop him as if he burnt their fingers!
The hand is the hand of BlantOn Duncan, but
the voice is that of the Administration so
much one may truly say of the side show of the
Bourbon Democracy. The whole logic of the
case has been from the outset conclusive as to
the completely of the Grant Republicans in