New-York tribune., 1874-08-13

lnenCe 10 some OF tne NOtcs hiSo Nih"i W
which he most Mortified the strict partisans.
1t begins to look as if the Democrats, after
carefully canvassing the field, have pretty
nearly made up their minds that it would do
no good to nominate anybody against him.
Things have come to a pretty bad pass In
the carpet-bag government of Louisiana, when
a State officer, actually in possession, insists
upon getting out because OF the dlsreputuble
character of another State officer who has
been renominated. Men who could serve
under Kellogg and get along thus far have
stOmachs that can stand a good deal. That
an official has been found so disreputable as
to make even their gorge rise, is take it all
in all, about the most astonishing thing we
have yet heard from or about the burlesque
of Republican government which has so long
held the boards at New-Orleans.
Gov. Dix has asked the gentlemen who lately
preferred charges against the Mayor If they
desire an investigation. They reply in the
negative, holding that the admissions OF the
Mayor that the charges are true make up the
case finally, and that it only remains for the
Governor to act upon the charges and answer.
1t is to be inferred from the query OF the
| Governor that he does not hold the same
opinion, else he would not inquire as to the
wishes of the accusers At the same time the
inquiry indicates that the Governor considers
the charges important but the proof incOm-
plete. An inquiry into the facts at this time
would be a tedious and we fear an ineffective
process.
Cool heads are the first thing needed in the
neighbOrhOOd of Austin, rather than the rifles
with fixed ammunition for which the whites
have telegraphed. After cool heads, what
they most need is a mutual spirit of justice.
The blacks have had great prOvOcatlOns and
the whites, as the superior race, need to
recognize the fact in all their dealings with
these impulsive grOwn-up children. The ap-
prehensons of anything like general negro
onslaught upon tho whites are absurd, and
we may be sure that what has actually
happened has lost nothing of its magnitude in
the wild country rumOrs from which the eX-
cited reports of heated Southern telegraphers
have been made up.-Since the foregoing
was written, later dispatch sngularly con-
firms this view 10y announcing that the trouble
is over and the troops are returning.
The call for a Liberal Republican State
| Convention, may be made either of much, or
of little worth, as force i'll the political
movements of the Fall. If the managers sup
pose this the time for launching out on an
| independent movement, with ticket of their
own, to the support of which they expect to
| attract large numbers from the other organ
izations, they mistake the signs of the times
Such an opportunity may yet come to them,
in the Third Term folly; but it has not come
now. If they suppose this the occasion and
the 9th of September the time for formally
making over their strength, either to the
Administration or the Democracy, they equally
mistake their own duty and the purposes
of the large body of thoughtful
voters, who are alike dscOntented with the
present tendencies of the Administration, and
unwilling to be swallowed up in the DemOc-
racy. These men care nothing about the
spoilS, and would look with scOrn upon any
thing resembling an effort to make their hon
est protest against misgOvcrnment serve as an
element in a trade for petty State office.
But they have eXerted most wholesome in
fuence already III our State politics by their
independent attitude, and their readiness to
support the best men, without reference to
party advantages. They may be able to do it
again.