The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-18

are likely to follow soon. The Louisville
d Nashville domination is at an end.
Henceforth the Cincinnati Southern will
ask 40 favors and give none. The New
comb combination has acted selfshly and
treacherously. 1t may be able to stand a
protracted fight, and it may not Cincin-
natl certainly can.-The credit OF Cincin-
natl must be good when its per cent
bonds sell for nearly per cent premium
While we pay this great honor to the
great performance of the music of high
foreign art, let us not despse the native
and National music. For this music of
| negro minstrelsy is our National music
1t is native to the soil and it is
the popular music. If all those who
have keener enjoyment of the music of
negro minstrelsy than of the pieces of the
great masters, even though performed by
so great an organization, were to drop out
of the audience, it is likely that tine pres
ent certainty of paying expenses would be
sadly changed. Let us not contemn this,
but bless the fortunate circumstances
which not only give us high musical cul-
ture, but permit us intervals of respite
from its high straining to enjoy the strains
of our National music.-Our Minister Resi-
dent in Colombia has returned, and has
given an account of his luck in very queer
mission to the President of the State Of Co.
lombia. He went to warn him of the dam
ger of the Lesseps canal scheme, and to tell
him it would fetch in hordes of French and
English, who would subvert the ins,itu-
tions, sovereignty, and language of the
country. But this did not scare President
Damaso Cervera, nor satisfy him as to our
trespass on his country. He declined to
Il L.
ton to look at the remote and chimerical.
So our Simple Simon of a Minister came
away with large flea in his ear. How our
Government is going to explain to the Gov
ernment of Colombia this invasion of its
jurisdiction has not yet been explained to
the American public Perhaps Secretary
Evarts has some very long sentencesin his
magazine, which would puzzle Surth
American diplomatic, but these could hard.
ly obscure the plain fact that we have in
vaded Colombia, and that we have no rea.
son for it save the chimera of Lesseps' canal
scheme.
The Commercial says of the statement
renewed lately in he San Francisco Bull
letin that the Cincinnati Commercial, Chi
cago Tribune, Springfield Republican and
Louisville Courier-Journal selected Horace
Greeley, of the New York Tribune, as their
candidate for the Presidency in 1872 and
forced bis nomination upon the Cincinnati
Conventions: This faction turns up in
some form several times a year. There
never was anything in common between
the four papers mentioned. beyond the
personal friendliness of the edtors-White,
Bowles Watterson and Halstead-and not
one of the four favored the nomination of
"a far fl,n
Watterson was then, as now, Demo-
party lines strictly about himself, but re-
mained within them. Mr.. Whites candi-
date for the Presidency was Senator Trum-
bull, but he preferred Adams to Greeley.
Bowles and Halstead were for Charles Fran
on comfortably. Within few days he has
least five strong men of the Democratic
that Tilden will not be candidate. and
that his strength is to be given
10 his particular friend, and each
of the five thinks himself
the happy man. There is something solemn
in this slyness 1t is Mr.. VIM. H. English,
the shrewd Democratic politician, of In
diana, who says, IF Grant is nominated,
there seems to be fair show OF carrying
Ohio against him." But nobody has been
heard to remark that if John Sherman,
Washburne or any one of half dozen
other statesmen who have been named in
connection with the Presidency, was NOM
mated, there would "be fair show of car
rying Ohio against him."
The German Papers.
The Volksfreund says; Judge Field has
also got boom now for tue Presidential
candidacy on the Democratic side.-
That thurman is one of our ablest men who
has never been in the Senate, is admitted
by many Republicans.
The Volksblatt says: 1t is not yet certain
that Congress will adjourn on the 3lst OF
May.-We do not need the canal in the CEN
ter of the city. 1t breeds but fever and
other sickness.-Only sixteen days until
the Republican National Convention; and
still the result of the same is shrouded in
mantle of uncertainty.
The Freie Presse says: Sherman wants
the nomination for President OR nothing
at all Every combination that brings his
name in connection with the Vice Presi.
dency is without his sanction.-The Grant
people still act after the maxim: "Claim
every thing, and claim it boldly" They
still assert that Grant will be nominated
at Chicago.