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New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
TALK AND TEARS.

Floundering through q recent batch of the
Brooklyn business, and particularly perusing
the testimony of the young woman who spoke
to the household tantrums of the Refined, We
were struck in weak place by the artless
phrase of the witness-"And he talked, and
talked and talked, and talked, and talked"
Afterward she added: "He locked her up and
"scolded all night lOng-and she was crying
"and crying!p Finally, said the witness :
"When she was not crying she was praying"-
but this is point too tenderly delicate for us
to dwell upon.
There has been great deal too much YER
bosity in this case, but of all the interlocutors
the Refined has been the most persistently
yoluble. When he was not punching some
body's head or writing ream upon ream of
Statements" he was talking. He seems to
have been a perfect master of the art Of
"nagging." What would have struck other
men dumb only opened the flood gates of his
wild rhetoric. His household gods (such as
they were) fell shivered upon his hearthstone.
His wife, folding her hands in prayer, covered
under the tempest of his Gabbe. Strangers
Game to his house to behold the ruin, and he
took them all into his confidence; and as the
agony became greater, and the atmosphere
more and more fetid with scandal, he talked
and he talked and he talked-and she was
crying and crying
Many and various were his utterances-in-
fnitely dramatic his mOnOlOgue of the break
table, and of the dinner-table, and of the
per-table, and of the parl0r and the bed
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
PUBLIC OPINION.
-rant will he able TO obtain a nomination

That Grant will be able to obtain nomination
nv his party for third term, II he makes up his nno
t6ereto we have little doubt. In the first place pu9
sentiment in the Republican party Is NOT
on auy other candidate. Iu the second and altogete
more important place. he holds the lever VI
the Federal lpatroDage.-lSyracuse Courier tDeuhJ
Onr National politics never stood in such
peril of being captured in all quarters by eonps
ring of corrupuonists What the people heeu au his
have at Washington Is body OF STURDY, n t,n,h NJ,
honest members, with the courage 10 tei tne @ u' -,
matter who Is hurt by II, and Win tne s'i' 'cnSYpan
watch and outwit the Treasury theVes'-lN'"''""''
Commercial undD -, A.
The whole truth of the matter is, that tne
socaled Democratic party always was spit ron ,her
and NOT only on questions OF finance but on eNeS JIM
nolitical question that ever arose IL never Was
thing but organized contradiction iaoIns III men"
ON every question. and being all things 70 al ,ha
since the war; the Republican party has Deen ~ wv
same bad way.-lchicago Times QndD
Every day makes it more and more uncer- ns
tain what the real principles Of modern DemovaS and
They are one thing section Oh the eouu' ,,.,d
anoiher thing everywhere else. Against ,nis , ror
Democracy which Is bandying epitIets anu nniicd
each Others throat, the RepnDhsans ,Sem and good
front with sound principles 10 lnsplro ,pe", npo
candidates 10 lead them.-lUtica Her"ia '".p'
The mass of the colored people OF tue Soutn n
have learned through very oIt,ei - hev ara very nm
cannot safely appeal 10 vloienVo ,ha nnI,c will learn
likely 10 do IL and after while the puo' WI, sneh
IN, tere ia no great need for excitement oNet s
new, "a we have lately rom austin M anu go,ns
anJ bat The facts may be safely waited or oeosv
au "a 1o anw excess OF sympathetic passion
Commercial lkep) an
Cen. Grant may veto the Civil Rights Dlll,
and Inv the act make himself omnpotent Win ,,ota oo
an ~ nam of the country He may sign h precp'a..
yar ~ races AT south, produce tho Necessity
u "rtial " law aud force himself on the kaaies,s, "A
elmer event he will be IN the HELD TOT tni&, & q, war
,h,rd term is revolution. The civil Rshts p is -
NJ races Between the two the soutn-ue' p,na dsvi
republican government-woud take uIsn., h,rs sAble
with "advocating"s third terw-ILou's''is s'''''''
Journal (QeWl
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
MOSBY.

Really we must beg our Southern brethren
TO pause and consider We have every wish
to see the Union made whole again-with
difference. We are willing to take in again
and welcome even the old fire-eater who killed
his man before breakfast, quoted Tom Jeifer-
son as he pulled the trigger, and ate his not
corn pone and fried chicken afterward with
good appetite and serene spirit. lie was
genuine fellow in his way, and deserved place
in the republic as well as the Missouri Pike or
Denver Rough, whose ways were the same.
But there was a bad imitation OF the Old
man who, we hoped, had died out
during the war-the duelist-whose pis-
tolls never smeled OF fire. We all OF us
remember him-cOuld give him dozen names
if we chose-know how he used to faunt his
nonor through Congress, toTn and tattered Ill
the many assaults upon IT as a worn-ou1 army
flag; how some kindred Southern soul' ardeh'
with chivalry and brandy-slings, was GSrpe.u-
ally treading on it in debate in Washington
or at a ball in Baltimore or in the lobby oil
the SpottswoOd House in Richmond; how the
fiery challenge to mortal combat was flung down
and the gage taken up with fierce alacrlty;
how principals and seconds glared at each other
during a whole afternoon and night; how the
whole country, warned by hourly kilograms, held
its breath to see the fatal end; how recon-
cliation was declared impossible; how, defy
ing impossibility, the Convenient Friend inva-
riably stepped in at the eleventh hour be-
tween these deadly foes and proposed refer
ment of the whole matter to other honorable
and convenient friends. Then followed the
Correspondence, which the still breathless
public perused with terror and admiration;
wherein light was thrown on this dark and
bloody ground, ending finally by fervid dec
laratiOn from each mortal foe of his unswerv-
ing friendship for the other, and his deep re-
gret that misunderstanding should have
marred, ETC., etc.
Now this little farce, amusing enough at
first, was played on Southern boards so stead
lily that it became beyond measure stale and
wearisome. In the name of humanity, don't
let us have it to endure again. Col. MOsby
(of railroad train and stolen-j jewelry nOtorietO
has been essaying the miserable old joke
again, and the Washington police authorities
were gullible enough to help him out with it.
We have the ancient kilograms of An Affair
of Honor Anticipated and the inevitable Sc
quel of how the Affair was stopped. We
have had quite enough of this sort
of thing. There are certain number
of Colonels and Majors of the MOsby
pattern hanging about every Southern town
like green carrion flies about an animal trying
to work. You shall find them on the barrels
in front of the store eating sections of stale
pies, drinking tin nOgglns of strychnine
whisky, cursing by the honor of gentleman
and pulling out a revolver to emphasize each
oath. The next time pair of them run into
an affair of honor before the police authOri-
ties, let them be clapped into Jail right off
and dressed in striped uniform, and perhaps
that will extinguish the whole honorable
breed.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
POLITICAL NOTES.

Arizona does not elect a delegate to Con-
cress until November but already four indie
pendent candidates IN the field, and number OF others
are ready offer themselves should the season prove
favorable. A Democratic Convention recently recon-
mended one OF the candidates, John A. Rush. to the
party but Rush prefers to run independently Of all
parties.
For the purpose of securing low taxation and
an honest administration of public funds, he tax
payers South Carolina have been forming Tax Unions
throughout State Already nine county unions and
1 subordinate unions have been organized The state
Unon which will probably be called together about the
middle of September will be compoe ed OF delegates irom
the county unions.
Charles N. Davenport has declined to
accept the nomination OF the DemOc rats In the lld Con-
gressonal District Of Vermont, now represented by
Judge Poland. Mr. Davenport says 81 have no amoF
tons which prompt me to aspire to membership in Q
body which, whole. represents the monopoiss and
corruptionists of the country which. now constt
futed neither the ability the disposition to give
to plundered and taxburdened people an honest cur
rency, an honest revenue system ana above ALL An
honest civil service"
The Democratic Conservative Executive
Committee Of North Carolina has issued address to
the party IN that State In which the results OF tho
recent election thus stated: Notwithstanding the
overwhelming defeat you sustained IN the last fres
Dental election you carry the state electing mo
Superintendent of Public Instruction by nearly 2oo
majority, gain five Superior Court Judges eject "'no
solicitors have more than twothirds In the GenerA
Assembly and send to Congress Conservative mem.
her from each district except one, where we have
largely reduced the majority against US"
The Utica Observer deems it desirable in the
forthcoming campaign to concentrate all the forces
opposed to the Administrator. but those who are In
cned TO surrender to President Grant under any cir
cumstances it says not wanted in the Democratic
party and no BID however SMALL will be made for their
favor" but We want" 1t adds "honest men who
acted as Republicans until RepuOicanism became the
synonym Of robbery and jobbery to come In and ass
us in achieving victory which shall rebound TO TOO
credit of the State promote the welfare OF the peo
pie We have nothing to promise them In retarn 4 ot
their support except and more ecououllcaA a0
mlpisyratlOn Of the Government"
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
PERSONAL.

NJ. Gambetta's organ is edited by his nephew,
NJ Detroyat.
The Prince and Princess Imperial of Ger
many have returned to Berlin.
Gems. Heath and Major, formerly of tho
Confederate army. are IN Toronto. Ont
The health of the Hon. Alex. H. Stephens ls
said to have improved greatly during the last three
weeks.
Mr.. J. c.. Bancroft Davis, our Minister to
Germany, has had long interview with Prince Bis
marck
Senator Edmunds, who has been at the Adj
rondacks arrived has home in Burlington. w. yeser
day morning. .
"Wayne Hovey," the editor of Mr.. Bergh's
paper. purposes entering the field this season as
humorous lecturer.
Secretary Delano, Senator Hamlin, and Con-
gresham Eugene Hale, who arrived at Augusta Me-.
on Monday, are the guests OF Speaker Biaine.
Mr.. s. B. Mills, the pianist, met with Sc
rious runaway accident while out riding near Cafsn
Village Yesterday One Of his legs broken, and he
received other Injuries.
The famous brigand Deba Sandos, the Car
touche Of Hungary. very coolly attended a dramatic
performance at Gross warden iately, put wlthem as
the people became dissatisfied win hls presence
The Late Baron Anselm Rothschild has be-
queathed the butt Of his property to bis three sons Ma
thanel Ferdinand and Albert. His unmarried daueh'
ter the Alice receives only her personal i0r
tune, which amounts to about N,SOo,co
The condition of Frank IL. Walworth, 1t Is
said is not to inspire the highest hopes OF his
ultlmat recovery, and many Of the Insane Asylum OIL
cias express opinion that the best course would be
Io restore him 10 his friends He visited on Sunday
by his mother. three sisters, and exGov Ilonas Il.
Bramette Of Kentucky and wife,
James w. Marshall, who first discovered
gold in California on JAM 49, 1Ss having been charged
with being drunkard and gambler says he has never
gambed and that the stories about bis beinga drunk
ard do him the greatest injustice. He is now In receipts
of an allowance of 500 month from tue STATE, anu IN
stead Of squandering much OF the money IN AID
ing struggling persons in establishing themselves III
business.
EnOs 7. Throop, who was Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor OF New-York In and succeeded Martin Van
Buren, as Governor in 1929, is now residing with ms
nephew at Willow Brook, the banks OF Owasco Lake,
near Auburn On last Friday the Goth anniversary OF
his birthday he was visited by Messrs. Michael 8.
Myers Nelson Beardsey, C. II. Merriman. ana zen:
john H. Chedell and congratulated upon the long ana
prosperous had enjoyed. He still takes an inter-
public affairs and ~ said to be cheerful IN manner
and constantly In good spirits
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
away; Mary Jane still cooks at the old accustomed
range; and tho household is quiet once more.
MUSIC.
TIE ITALIAN OPERA SEASON.


Mr. Strakosch has published his full pros
pectus for the opera season. the principal points of
which we have already given. He refers with pardon
able complacency " his creditabe record Of last year.
and points to the promises fulfilled and exceeded
10 the f.ce Of general financial disaster earnest
OF what be will do Ia more promising times. Certainly
has shown abundant pluck aud "a rare fdelity his
ENGAGEMENTS, and these virtues which the
puoic always respects. There names to add 10
the list OF the company have already printed. nor
Goes the repcrtory promise any new or unfamiliar
works except "A.da," "LIhengrin." "The Flying
Dutchman" "Ruy Blas," "ROmeo and Juliet" and
Vcrdis Mass of which have already had somethins
TO say; there s prospect OF several interesting
revivals, among which may be mentioned Norma"
Otello," and "LEtolc du NOrd" 1t Will not escape
notice that all Mne Niss0Ds special parLs are To be
attempted by ono or another OF the new ar;iss-Aar-
gherifa ODheha. aud Mignon among the rest.
The season will begin the 2sth OF september ana
will last through 30 nights The price Of seats Is 70 oe
s. and a. and OF boxes s2 SO, aud So Tue box Office
will open the 7th OF September.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26

chamber. Now o bit of philosophy! Anon,
morsel of scriptural exegesis! Prose and
poetry jolted each other upon the stream Oh
his elocution! Cords upon cords OF adjectives
were heaped up like the dfbrs left by
freshet. And there was this little woman so
verbally set upon by this large and elegant
man that it is wonder that she did not go
mad. And still he talked and talked and
taked-and she was crying and crying.
The friends of his youth came to see him.
Some of them brought him advice, and some
of them money. The money he took, but the
advice, so far as it related to his holding his
tongue, he did not take. In lawyers offices,
in editorial rooms, in the street, on cars and
steamboats,, to people who were interested,
and to people who were bored, he retailed
and wIOesaled his troubles. The knocking
down he confined exclusively to the sacred
home circle, but the verbal statements he
generously bestowed upon all. 1t was an ever
lasting course of free lectures, through which
he partially freed his mind And so he talked
and talked and taked-and she was crying
and crying
There is just little chivalry left in this
world, and the ears of mankind, long as they
are, may sometimes be injuriously Overbur-
dened. We never understand what mon
strous, immense, terribly huge thing talk is,
until we come to see in print Still the tender
hearted reader will understand what must
have been the sutlerngs of woman con-
stantly lectured night and day, week after
week, aud month after month. The wonder
is that she did not long ago do what she did
at last Here was the farce of Caudle turned
into tragedy with the Refined in the role OF
the old lady. A pretty thing it was for him
to complain of his hair growing gray did he
suppose that nobody had head of hair ex-
cept himself to be bleached by his talk and
his talk and his talk-while she was crying
and CRYING
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26

A very vague person, /" a General Officer in the
late Confederate Army" rides furiously in Black
,rood over the Comte de Pariss recent book on our
civil war; His Royal Highness is informed that his
campaign was short" and that it was none Of his
business any way. 1t is curious example OF the
profound absurdiy of which the more serious Brit
ish magazines are sometimes guilty, that BldcS'cood
should permit this General Officer to talk of the
negro question as he does. Thus he speaks of John
Brown: His case stands as notorious
example of the perversiOn of the ideas
of common justice aud respect for the first
principles of civilized society" And then
he goes to say that not recorded instance OF the
spontaneous improvement Of negro society exists
and the notion that the race capable OF such eIe
walton has only obtained within late period, and
then has been almost invariably promulgated for
political and other purposes by those who know
lea. about the subject. II there can be anything
more delightful than the General Officers ideas it is
his STYLE As for negro learning, Tho Spectator men,
tons that this Southern writer has not seen the ma
tive books compositions in verse; and specimens of
wall decoration combining poetry and color, which
Gov. Pope Hennessy sent to the Vienna Exhibition
from Billet, an African district where no contact
with any kind of external civilization had ever
taken place.
Every little while some literary amateur spasmod-
icaly starts up aud inquiries "Who wrote Shake
spearep" The average reader takes about as much
interest in this question he does in the profound
query of his nursery days, "Who killed Cock
Robini" This thing grows tresome. The Shake
speare the world has idolized long is lofty mag
nificent figure it would do US no good to lose from
literature. Francis Bacon has already enough de-
served fame-wherefore try to fasten upon him an
authorship of plays which those who do that same
say he was ashamed to acknowledge None of them
get much further than the brilliant reasoning of
Lord Palmerston, who, when the positive testimony
of Ben Jonson in the verses prefxed to the edition
of 1923 was mentioned remarked Oh, those fellows
always stand up for one another; or he may have
been deceived like the rest"
A St. Louis family lately hired young man to
tend horses milk cows, &C., &c. His name 1t was
Harry. He had haxen hair blue eyes. red cheeks
and redder lips--he is generally described as "a
plump chunk Of boy" He gave great satisfaction.
He MIXED like an angel He became favorite OF
the household. aud especially of the cook, whose
heart melted like dripping under his influences But
one fatal day. cook made an awful row aud gave
warning. A Committee of Investigation. consisting
of the whole family, after due inquiry, found out
that Harry, who had stolen cooks heart. should
have been named Harriet. Hos young woman
said tho cook, sobbiag And " taoy sent larry
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26

We publish to-day letter by Mr.. Bayard
Taylor giving his experience shortly after his
arrival in Iceland. The letter will be read
with interest on account Of the information
which it gives of some noteworthy places and
the manners of the inhabitants.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26

The treachery of the Oconee chiefs may have
precipitated the beginning of a serious Indian
war than has before taken place since the
Modoc campaign. A dispatch published this
morning gives the details of an engagement
between the Indians and Gen. DavidsOn's
command on the banks of the Wichita River.
The U. S. troops were victorious
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
business HoIlres

GENERAL ACCIDENT Policies BY THE MONTH
or Y,AK-Ta,,ELEss LIZA AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE. Co.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
Amusements ano Hleetines.

Roorp.s TuE.rER-Ats: "Bee Lamar" John NC
Culiough and Miss X. Rogers Randolph.
DALY's FIFTH AVENUE THEArER.-"What snoaio one
Dot or Jealousy" -
Iycruu TuEarER-"La Tmbae D'Argent." Mile.
Marie Aimee.
NIn,o's THEATER AT s: "The Bride Of Abydos."
Irx,oS SQUARE THEATER-At 8: "Jane Eyre" Miss
Charlotte Thompson.
wALLAcx's THEArER.-At g: "Paul Pry." J. L. Toole.
CENTRAL PARK GARDES.-Theodore Thomas's summer
Nights Concerts
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26
vention assemblies, 1t has fair prospect OF q
long and useful career.

There is something impressive and at the
same time pitiful in the impassioned language
in which the white people of Louisiana set
forth their wrongs in tho platform OF the
State Conservative Convention. Careful ana
reasoning observers of political events
in tho South will agree to almost
every count in the indictment OF the
Kellogg administration; but the best
friends of the South will regret that the
Lousianians should have clutched at the
organization of white mans party as the
only means of obtaining redress and reform.
Surely theirs must be pitiful strait if all
other remedies have been tried and found un-
ayailing.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26

Although Wisconsin chooses neither Gov
ernor nor congressman next Fall, the election
IN that State is not devoid of interest, mas
much as that distinguished statesman Ma'tne"
H. Carpenter is a Candidate for Vindication'
and the trial of his case rests with the Legls-
lature then to be elected. Our special cor
respondent, whose letter is printed this morn
ing. gives an interesting review of the politi-
cal field in Mr.. Carpenters State. lie shows
that the Senator's record on several Important
questions is not such as to commend him to
the suffrages of either Democrats or Repub-
licans. 1t is barely possible that the fact that
he desires VindicatiOn, coupled with his
rather ostentatous espousal of the Farmers
side in the Railroad war, may secure his elec-
ton if the Republicans retain control OF the
Legislature but if the Democrats and Re-
formers carry tho day, as seems to be prob.
able, the Senate of tho United States will
have an opportunity of choosing more de-
sirable President pro tempore.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26

Gov. Leslie is evidently equal to the
demands of the crisis in Kentucky. He
judiciously averts threatened conflict be-
tween the State and Federal troops, dispatches
the militia to the scene of the riot with in
structions to quell it at all hazards, and sends
a judge right after the soldiers to bring the
rioters to trial and punishment without delay.
kentucky will find such a Governor more
valuable than a dozen judges of the Lynch
family.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26

The Bourbon Democrats of Illinois went
through the form of holding State Conven-
ton yesterday, but as only three persons took
part in the proceedings, its declarations and
nominations are not likely to have any start
ling effect upon the politics of their State. In
marked contrast with this lugubrious assem-
blaee is the Liberal Democratic Convention
which is to assemble in Springfield to-day,
and whose temper is shown in our dispatches
from that city. If the vigorous new party
represented by this body adopts for Its plat
form the principles promulgated by the State
Committee in the call under which tho Con.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-26

If the Pennsylvania Democratic Convention
goes to work in the spirit of the influential
delegates in Pittsburgh last night it will have
no cause to be ashamed of it's platform or its
nominees. There is ring of Old-fashiOned
honesty about the proposed resolutions de-
nouncing imitation and demanding speedy
return to specie payments and there is re-
freshing flavor of novelty in the statement of
our correspondent that even in the heat of
tae strife over nominations not one of the
five candidates for the Supreme Court Judge
ship is charged with lack of either integrity
or ability.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-11-12

OF all miserable ideas, that one is the
worst which bids us train up children to
fear the dark; to imagine demons of all
kinds lurk in hidden places, to pounce
out upon the unlucky youth whenever
the shades of evening fall We have
seen parents who take particular pains
to inform their children, when they be-
come a little troublesome, that, unless
they behave, "Old Sam" or Ned" OF
some other hideous genius, will catch
them directly, and, after frying or boil
ing them, will calmly pick their bones in
the shadow of tombstone in the church
yard. In fact, the parents are legion
who imagine it necessary to the moral
welfare of their children that they be
frightened into fits at least once week
the year round. There never was a
greater mistake. A child will not know
what superstitious fear is unless taught
it. Why place it on the rack for mo
ment's quiet? 1t does seem to us that
he or she who attempts to frighten a
child into good behavior, is the greater
child of the two, and the one who de
serves the severer punishment, by far
Columbus Gazette.