National Republican., 1875-11-19
EDITORIAL ArrERrHouaHr

EDITORIAL AFTERTH0UGHr.
1t is amusing to see the frantic back-hand-
spring and other grand and lofty tumbling ex-
ecuted by the World over the spasmodic futter
of Cuban excitement which has Just blown
over. It shook both fists at the American
eagle, and threatened to ring its neck if It did
not cease ruffiing its feathers.
Brick Pomeroy has failed. We are ever
ready to sympathize with the unfortunate,
still it might be remarked with proprlsty in
this case that a man who has spent most Of
his time in slandering the dead can not well
expect to succeed in life. Brick was bitter
foe to mouldering bones, which were of them
selves harmless as a mornings zephyr.
Alfonso demands complete submission of the
CarIists. Ha ha young Alfonso was little
too long-headed for you, Don Carlos. 1t was
a neat ruse of yours to have the young King
send his volunteers and regulars to Cuba,
while you defended the royal provinces at
home. How easily, how gracefully, how COM
pletely you proposed to establish yourself on
the throne
ssIn the sweet by and by we shall be in q diff
ferent climate, where there is no such wretched
weather as has afflicted us for three days.
Rochester Democrat.
1t never SHOWS, blows, sleets nor halls in
that climate. 1t is one of those balmy, beau
tiful atmospheres Which burn man to blister
in a second, that smart and boil and siss
through all eternity. If we are wrong we'll
rub 1t out.
The Graphic says that Joyce, who has eh-
tered on jovial live in the st. Louis peniten-
tiary, has live qualities. There are signs of
recuperation- In him. He hands out through
the CRATE defiance of the newspapers OF the
world, as follows "The ass will bray when
the lion is down, and worms can crawl over
wounded eladiators." Can sach an elastic
temperament be kept downa Neverl The
hands may be the hands of Esau, but the voice
is the voice of old Resurgam himself.
Many enthusiastic Americans yesterday
morning, moved by the wild rumors of Spanish
difficulties, imagined black and iron-ribbed
feet, with It's ominous portfolios and deep
mouthed cannon, and volumes of putting, rest
less smoke, and crowds of busy mariners and
streaming banners, striding with awful ma
jesty through the crests Of the deep salt sea,
bound for caribbean waters, bent On q mission
of war. To-day these wild and tickle phan-
tastes of an easily excited brain have passed
away, and they find our navy quietly anchored
within the limits of peaceful harbors, thinking
naught of war. You see it now, and now you
don't.
It is rumored that Whitelaw Reid will retire
from the editorial management of the New
York Tribuns about the first of the year.
When any young man discovers that he has
been accidentally thrust into position which
the penuriousness of nature will not allow him
to fill, 1t is an agreeable sign of existing COM
mon sense If he quietly withdraws and seeks
some occupation better adapted to his peculiar
attainments. That Mr.. Reid should retire from
the Tribune is not in the least startling or
Improbable, but that the Tribune should pride
itself ON being able to exist without the assist
ance Of Mr.. Reid is simply wonderful. When
failing nature Iuthlessly doused the glim in
the genial countenance of Horace Greeley, Mr..
Reid, by mysterious combination of eircum-
stances, was suddenly elevated to the vacant
chair, place which he fitted with about as
much grace as the helmet of Ajax would fit
one of the pigmied humanity of these de-
generate days. From the moment of the
ascension of this young man to the editoria
throne of Mr.. Greeley's great journal,
its social, political, moral and financial
cause has waned with that unmistakable
certainty which eyer marks the retrograding
steps of all failing enterprises. It launched
forth into the sea of independence with
streamers flying, upon which were written
Partially to none: justice to ALL" It was
to preach no partisan doctrines, and at the
same time it linked its fortunes to the Oppo-
sition and assailed the Republican party with
the yilest missiles of its wrath. No sooner
had 1t jumped the track of true and con-
sistent Republican course than It formed an un-
fortunate combination with a class of journals
universally known as the Detective Press, and
here in this den of ribaliry and all ancharita-
bleness the young editor inhaled the mephiti-
cal gases which from day to day are found
enanating from his misguided pen. Under his
guidance the Tribune has forsaken the very
principles which made it searching and
moving power in the land, and taking up the
mantle Of Administration opposition 1t soon
found itself drifting into the waters of the De-
mocracy, from whence it has been drawn into
the whirlpools of the treacherous and unsta-
BILE current, and now discovers itself, when It
is feared tits too late, threatened with positive
ruin unless there be some supernaturalinter-
position in its behalf. In the rumor we see .
faint glimmer of hope, and II It prove true
rvOr11d f-l.r e. L.
OF the Tribune to set aside one day, or week
for that matter, in which to rejoice and offer
thanksg iyingsl