The New York herald., 1873-10-03

indications, the election, on a short vote, Will
go by default from the unity and confidence
which prevail on the one side and the divi-
sions and doubts which dishearten the other.
That wing of our city democracy which
being excluded from the late Utica Conven-
ton, as not regularly entitled to admission, is
evidently in the mood for another trial OF
strength against Tammany, not only on the
important city officers executive and judicial,
to be chosen, but on the Senate and the AS
sembly. Last year the democratic vote, or
the united vote of Tammany and Apollo Hall,
for Mayor, was 81,347, against 53,O31 for
Havemeyer, Independent and republican. But
with the division of the democratic vote,
33,714 for o Brien, the Apollo candidate, and
AZ, 1873 for Lawrence, the Tammany candidate,
Havemeyer, with his So, 900 votes was hand
somely elected. A similar contest between
Tammany and Apollo Hall this year will pro-
duce the same results to greater or less ex-
tent, as the contest of last year. The retire
ment in evident wrath of the Apollo delega-
ton from Utica is generally accepted as q
democratic detection which insures the State
to the republicans. Unquestionably, if the
democrats would overcome the fifty thousand
majority by which the republicans, upon a
full popular vote, carried the State last fall
the democratic factions and cliques must
abandon their family jars and postpone their
local quarrels to a more convenient season.
But if they are incapable of profitable instruc-
ton from the results of their divisions of last
year they will probably have enough of the
fruits of such folly in our coming November
their new departure on their old warpath.
The Last Days OF the Modoc Murdercrs.
Before this paper is in the hands of our
readers the dread sentence of the law will, doubt
less, have been carried out on Captain Jack and
his five fellow murderers. The Indians of the
neighboring tribes will have had an oppor-
tunity to gain what lesson the gallows can
give by Witnessing the execution. 1t is now
many months since the crimes for which the
Modocs lose their lives were committed. On
the Indians whom the punishment of Jack
and his comrades is expected to intimidate the
best part of the lesson is lost by the delay.
The greater part Of the time since their cap
ture has been passed in the forms of military
trial. whose details neither the captives nor
the other Indians understand or respect. The
swift action proposed by General Jefferson c.
Davis, Immediately after the capture of Captain
Jack, would have had far better effect. He
1,o-- thn Iy,1y utr
suffer to-day in week after their capture, and
Modocs, Klamaths and all would have felt the
lesson in all its severity. AS it is, we hope
that the effect will not be completely thrown
away.
In another portion Of the HERALD we pub
ish the result Of q series of interviews with
the condemned Modocs, in which the savage
actors in the massacre of General Candy and
Peace Commissioner Thomas, and the at
tempted murder of Messrs Meacham and
Dyar, defend themselves after their own
fashion. 1t will be seen that their statements
do not accord with the direct evidence of the
fact, and the insistence with which Captain
Jack urges the puerility Of his not actually
firing on General Candy, while admitting that
he snapped his pistol at him in the first in
stance, shows how faint his ideas are of the
value Of testimony in criminal case In the
significant statement regarding the furnishing
of powder and bad advice by the Klamaths
there is something worthy of the consideration
Of the advocates Of the peace policy. As this
style Of offence is regarded there is apparently
no means Of Furnishing it, and the wretched
beings, by their escape from punishment, are
encouraged in playing the same part over
again, with the connivance, in effect, of those
who call themselves the friends of the Indian.
Beset with difficulty as the successful treat
ment of the Indian question may be- it is GER
tain that the benevolence is mistaken which
arms the Indian, loads his musket leeds him
on beef rations, and, while allowing him to be
cheated right and left by Indian agents, ex-
poets that he will not shoot.