New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-21

on any other weapon than pure reasoning
The weakness and absurdity of the appeal
rendered no other form of attack necessary.
A correspondent, whose letter is published
in another column, does a doubtful service to
the Republican cause in showing how the Pres
ident's order can be evaded by the Office
holders. 1t only remains to hold the conven-
ton in Connecticut and call it "clam-
"bake" and as many ollice-hOlders can come
as there are clans for. To be sure our cor
respondent does not specifically recommend
such an evasion of the order, and it is denied
that this clam-bake was convention at all,
but the time and the manner of holding 1t
were significant. However, when the Presi-
dent reflects that the supply OF such clans as
they have in Connecticut is limited, he VIII
breathe easier. The prospect of poor clans
would suffice to keep the Ofhce-holder out OF
politics.
After expending considerable wind and rain
upon the Gulf States, the cyclone has finally
subsidized. 1t was slow in its travels, and by
the time it reached Southern Georgia seems
to have been tired out Not even for the sake
of fulfilling Signal Service predictions, could
it be induced to move step further. Even
its outlying circle of rain did not reach this
city, though yesterday afternoon was cloudy
enough to be called threatening. But in the
evening, when we had been told to expect
some evidences of the approaching storm, all
the clouds cleared away, showing the moon
and Mars in bright conjunction, ana Saturn
forming with them neat equilateral triangle.
As phenomenon, this was not quite so striking
as a cyclone but it was great deal more
pleasant
In the telegraphic history of the Presidents
Journey, one little incident ought not to escape
notice. 1t is said that TIE reception of the
President at the house of one of the citizens
of Nashville had the effect of breaking down
the barriers that the war had built up in the
society of the city, and that the ladies who
had been sympathizers with the Confederate
cause seemed anxious 10 receive their North
orn visitors with a most assuring cordiality.
The incident is of 10 importance except
as showing the effect that the Pres
ident's visit may have already had in fusing
sections of the people which, till now, have
stood apart. The wish to bring about this
reconciliation Is the burden of all the Pres
dents speeches, and even slight progress to-
wards its fullilment would be enough to have
made his visit worth while.
As a leading candidate for the Presidency OF
the Mormon Church, John w. YOung's family
relations become public property. He seems
hardly sufficiently married for worthy sue
cesSOr to his father, though that defect, it is
rumored. he proposes to do something to re-
move. This brings to the relations
of the present First Counsellor and
the wife with whom he has been liv-
ing. which gossip says are unfrendly,
| but which Mrs. Young declares are uudistubed,
| even by the prospect of another Mrs. Young.
| The statement of a Utah letter. on another
page that Mrs Young slapped her husbands
face most vigorously, in public, on leaving
! Salt Lake City, may shed some light on this
important question, and yet may not. This
may be the wav in which, under Il polyga-
nous system, third wife usually takes leave
of her only husband. And she may not have
slapped it at ALL Perhaps, tOo it is a matter
with which the public has no concern. But it
is one of the penalties of greatness that YOU
cannot slap somebody's face in public, or take
a fourth wife, without attracting attention.
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