New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-11

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However successful the authorities or the
Vienna Exhibition may have been IN bringing
tocetber n ,omorkable collection. displaying
+bo industrial nrogress of various nations OF
tba world some mistakes of administration
were committed The letter OF our vienna
CORRESPONDENT, published this morning on the
eighth mage. refers to these errors In connec-
finn with the work on our Centennial Exhl-
bi,i,p. The managers at Philadelphia would
do well to take his suggestions into serious
consideration.
AS if there was not already sufficient cOnfu
sion of opinions in official circles in regard to
the condition and destiny of back pay, the
First Controller of the Treasury now contrib
utes his share of contradiction, by stating that
the undrawn salary lying in the Treasury for
two years lapses back as an unexpended
balance, and cannot DO reclaimed by the
neglected. or tmid Congressman. This is
flying in the face of the resolution of the
Utica Convention, as well as of Con. Spinner
and will cause CONSERVATION in many Con-
gressiOnal homes where the head of the family
is waiting for the thing to blow over.
1t is reported from Washington that Senator
COnkling has chosen Senator Cameron as
medium through which to inform the world
that he would not accept the chair of Chief
Justice, if offered to him; that he has no
ambition except to finish his term in the
Senate and return to more congenial and
lucrative professional pursuits. If Mr.. Conk-
ling said this and meant it, and will say it
again to the President, then we have only to
express the hope that Gen. Grant will not be
led by his disappointment to give the place to
some other politician who has not our Senator's
reserve.
Mr.. r. VI. r. Hunter has lately made a
speech before a Virginia agricultural society,
in which he advanced some statements and
opinions which will attract considerable atten-
ton. Naturally, Mr.. Hunter drfted into
political consideration of the condition of the
South rather than any other. He dwelt some
what despOndingly on the financial ruin which
had been wrought, and seemed to llnger In
the hope that some compensation for the
total destruction of slave property by the war
might yet be made. 1t is superfuOus to add
that this proposition, in whatever shape it
| may come, would be considered monstrous by
n majority of the people of the United States.
The version which Mr. Hunter gives OF the
Hamilton Roads conference will hardly help
the case now. What Mr.. Lincoln might have
thought expedient during the war would wear
very different aspect in these later days.
The Executive Committee of the Democratic
party in this State have issued an address to
the people which we print in another column
1t is not of striBingly original character. 1t
enumerates a great many desirable things
which will follow the success of the Demo-
cratic ticket. If every one believed them, the
ticket would be sure of success 1t recOunts
the objections to voting the Administration
ticket, in such q manner that if this address
were evangelical in its sanctions, the incul-
pated candidates would not get vote But
these things have been often said without re-
suit. The most significant thing the address
contains occurs in its estimate of the proba-
bilities of victory. 1t says that forty thousand
Democrats declined to vote their own ticket
last year, and that they and the Liberals to-
gether can carry the present election. The
Committee omit to give us their reasons for
suppOsng that the situation is to-day moro
favorable to partisan cohesion than last year.
The general impression is that the managers
may as well cease to reckon these wandering
votes among their available assets.
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