The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-18
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ssThe Tribune Is not and will never more be
q party organ" is the announcement which ap-
pears in to-day's Issue of Mr.. Greeley's paper,
in which also appears his card announcing his
formal withdrawal from the editorship This
definite change In the character of the Tribune
Is an event in American Journalism. For
thirty years this able paper has been the most
pronounced Of party organs, indeed 1t has
been the organ of the Republican party since
that was formed and until a late period. Quite
as much in the past, to the unswerVing sup
port of Republican readers as to It's excellence
as newspaper has Its great pecuniary success
been due. 1t has been evident that since lis
chief abandoned the regular Republican or
ganization the paper could no longer expect
maintenance on party grounds. Its declara-
ton of independence was Inevitable.
Though the New York Times has stepped
into the place so long occupied by the Trl-
| bune, 1t does not appear likely now that the
| latter will suffer from the change. 1t has m
established position among American Journals,
and the loss of partisan support cannot weaken
the reputation 1t has won Of being model
newsSaper. It's relation to the press ls now
analogous to that of the London Times or that
claimed by the New York Herald. 1t will be
more influential journal than the Herald,
for it has lifelong reputation for editorial
ability, which the Herald has not, and appeals
to an educated and substantial class, which
the Herald does not. The retirement of Mr.
Greeley from the editorial charge Is noticed
withkindly remarks by most of the contem-
poraneous local press, notably by the World,
which is the most pronounced in Its opposi.
lion to Mr.. ,Greeley's Presidential claims.
The Times INDUCES In bitter and most
unjust comments, evidences Of the strong
personal hatred of Mr.. Greeley which
rules the editorial breasts In the Times office.
II Is true, however, that, as long as Mr.. Gree
ley continues to live ln this city, many of his
opponents will insist upon attributlng tho Trl-
bune leaders to his inspiration, and hold him
responsible therefor, and he could best serve
the purpose he had in view in casting off the
harness by taking the advice of his amlable
personal friends and political opponents of the
World, and making visit to Europe or the
fur West during the Presidential campaign.
It Is not yet intimated by those who know his
mind best whether he will mount the stump
for Greeley and Brown this fall. He would un-
doubtedly prove o most effective champion
for that ticket If he should go before the peo-
ple, for he Is one of the most attractive speak
ers in America; but possibly he has some scru-
Piles about the proprlety of personally solicit
Ing their votes.
The ''odds and ends" party, bearing ban
ner with the strange device, "Woodhull and
Douglass" has got itself Into Visible shape by
hiring house uptown and opening "head-
quarters" Mesdames Woodruff and Claflin
have abandoned their brokers' office in Broad
street, and gone into the new business of
President making. The "NaLional Executive
Committee" have adopted the old Fenian plan
Of raising the wind for campaign purposes,
and have begun the issuing of bonds, of de-
nominations varying from ten to one hundred
dollars, payable when Woodruff gets to be
President. Any one would suppose that sub.
scribers would regard the purchase of these
bonds as q permanent investment and yet
there are luuatlcs outside the asyums who
really believe the Yankee Victoria will have
the opportunity to redeem them from the
steps OF the White House. It should be re.
membered that there are several millions of
splrltuallsts in the United States, and out of
that large number 1t Is possible that there may
be some far enough gone towards frenzy to
believe Mrs. Woodhull's claim that she Is run
by the spirit of Demosthenes, backed by all
the sages and statesmen OF the old Hellenic
republic. If it is true, how impotent will
Grant and Greeley be against the invisible
powers of the air, the witches, demons, COB.
Inns, ghosts, vampires and sorcerers who are
about to rally for Woodruff and the Black
Douglass.
An underground railway for New York now
appears to be fixed fact. The company char
tered by the Legislature five years ago. with
the right to bore the Island for railway,
never got to work because capitalists refused
to furnish the funds. The new project au-
thorized by the present Legislature will have
no such trouble, as the man with millions,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, is Its father. Already
the surveyors are busy, and In few weeks
not less than three thousand men will be en-
gagged In excavatlng along the line. Mr. Van
derbilt promises that trains will be running to
Forty-eIghth atteet Inside OF two years. The
downtown depot will be in the City Hall Park,
between the City Hall and the new postoffice,
and the route will be under the line of Centre
street and the Third avenue, with stations
every half mile. The Central Underground
Railroad Company contemplates resumption
of its efforts to raise money. 1t Is authorized
TO bore under Broadway and Eighth avenue,
10 the direction of Yonkers.
Printing House Square will be the heart Of
the city in few years. Surrounded on one
side by the great newspaper offices and banks,
on the other by the municipal buildings, the
postof1ice and the courthouses, on the east side
opening to the Brooklyn Bridge, and in the
centre to the Underground Railway depots, 1t
will be the point from which business OF all
kinds will radiate to every part OF the island
and surrounding country.
Niblo's is to be rebuilt, and still another
theatre, or rather an opera-house, Is pro.
jccLed uptown. The latter will probably be
erected on the lots ut the corner of Madison
Avanun md East TWentr-sIxth street onno