New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-26

lpCtlIal narl-kaHl on tuelf Dplldll.
Without doubt. Jefferson Davis is the man
whom the Southern poet described as the football
of unmerciful Disaster. 1t is impossible for him to
wrap the drapery of his sorrows about him with any
show of dignity or even decOrum, and oddly
enough, il is always a woman who makes him
ridiculous. He might have been as heroic an object
in bis retreat from Richmond as any other de-
throned ruler if it had not been for that unfortu-
nate bonnet and cloak And now comes this I'M
lucky ENHANCEMENT with Mrs. Dorsey to make him
a butt OF rdcule for the whole country. We all
congratulated ourselves n week or two ago that
he was comfortably laid upon the shelf of the
ancestral manor OF BeauvOIr. willed TO him by
devoted disciple as the Southern papers put ii.
and that we were done with him. But now it
appears that the legitimate heirs of Mrs. Dorsey
the devoted disciple, strongly hint that their aunt,
instead of being the intellectual comrade as was
stated of Carlyle. Huxley and John Bright was a
weak old woman who brought the leader Of the
Lost Cause to her house, and that the aforesaid
leader shrewdly played upon her Stiffness and in
duced her TO disnheri her family IN his favor.
The whole story as now told looks badly for Mr..
Davis The heirs, however, and the Southern jour
mails are saugulne to the RESULT 1t only Is neces-
sary they suggest, to state the case fairly to him,
and he like high-tOned Southern gentleman, will
promptly come forward as Wade Hampton did in a
similar case, destroy the will, and resign every
dollar of the estate to the rightful owners. We
don't know whether Wade Hampton ever did this
or not; but we think he is just the sort Of man TO
do it. Jefferson Davis, however, is Of another
strain of blOod-we confess we are in suspense.
Now is Mr.. Davis's time to make le grand coup of
his life. Now we shall see how this mythical crea-
ture, the high-toncd Southern gentleman. really
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waits breathess-so do the heirs. Now is your OPP
portunity. To the front, Leader of the Lost Cause
Small politicians, who hope to make themselves
conspicuous BY Offering resolutions in State Con-
yentions in favor of some supposed candidate for
the Presidency, are not meeting with a notable
success The fate of the Pttsburg delegate TO the
PENNSYLVANIA Republican Convention, who got but
three votes for his motion in "A committee of fifty,
ought to deter Others from seeking fame by such an
unpromisng path. All sensible men know that
Presidential candidates are not made year IN
advance of the holding of National Conventions.
Twelve months bring many changes in politics.
Even if the issues are not modified it Is impossible
TO say who Will best personify Republican opinion
Il year hence. No one has mortgage on the Repub
lcan nomination. The field is open for the best
Judgment of the Republican party to select the can
didate who will be most acceptable and most avail
able and who will most thoroughly represent Re-
publican ideas. Ii viii continue to remain open
until the convention is held. Naturally, decided
preferences are felt and expressed already but there
arc few Republicans who will not be ready to re-
wise Their judgment. The party as a whole is not
worrying about the question IL Is confident
that when the time comes to make choice candi-
date will be nominated who will have all the quail
ties requisite to enable him to make successful
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elected.
People who do not read the shipping lists or have
occasion 10 cruise about the harbor may be sur
prised to learn that of foreign vessels arriving at
the Port of NewYork Norway has more than any
country save Great Britain, and Italy follows
closely after Norway. Seamanship is not matter
Of climate in Europe. The Genoese, the Neapol-
tan and the Sican take to the salt water rs readily
as the dwellers by the Norway fords. The favorite
Italian bnild for vessels is the stubby brig, but the
Norwcgians prefer the bark and usually model a
more graceful hull. Both nations sharp COM
petitors for the iobbing trade of navigation
Their vessels are small and are commanded by
shrewd, shifty captains who are quick to pick up a
cargo for any quarter of the world if trfng profit
can be earned. Tho cheap construction of these
craft and the low wages of the seamen enable them
to earn money for their owners at rates of freight
age that would be unprOitabe for our weIl-buit
and well-manned American ships. Many of them
founder at sea every year, owing to their flImsy
build, but there are plenty OF to take their
places.
The vegetarian movement. which had short run
In this country about twenty years ago, seems to
DO still alive in Germany. A convention of vege-
tarans was lately held at Eisenach, ut which
speeches were made not only against the eating of
flesh but against wearing clothing made of any
animal substance. The German vegetarians do not,
however, carry their dietary notions quite far as
did some of their American brethren. for we read