New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-23

The long-cxpectcd flop of The Herald came on
saturday. II was accompanied with a request for
peace and an adnoniton TO the Republicans &c
" stop Quauelling.' TINS is an impressive perform.
ance. After devo,ing several weeks TO throwing
mud, bricks aud ilth of all kinds The H0Gh sui.
d'uly finds tn" pIbli' going away from IL in boiy.
and wa. hing It's hands, sings ont: "Oh. see here
Stop this qnairrlliug! Let Ms have pcace~ Tie
punc ought Ia Ice used to this "whipy whop'
POPULARITY of or gifted contemporary BY TINS time,
bat II Is doubtful If COnkllng, Platt and GoTian
Vcrr prepared iur tins sud en tumble. Ii must look
Ike pcrdy To the PrInatc.
Will Mr. Conkling go to Albany and take his Pl II
with him' That il The question which agitatcs the
pua:c mind. II the pair are 10 parade the city
hant-n-hand tlhrr are thousands ol people vino
wlhh Ia behold the spectacle.
Po.tmas,cr-General James jingles away at that
bill and wakes up sleeper or two every day,
some of whom will not have chance to sleep again
tl.i they rcpoSe within the PcnItentiAry.
When General Grant reaches home and finds ont
the cie.t upon his reputation which his astonishing
letter h.s caused. he Is likely to make few feeling
Remarks To Jones.
The failure to return 50 important n man rs Mr.
Coukiiug 10 the Senate will break up the Republican
patty IA this STATE" was the solemn remark of
",talwart independent" at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
on saturday evening MY friend" mildly replied
an Administration Republican who was staining
by, " nave knOSn hotel clerk 10 die. and they
dldn even shut up the hotel III after the innefa
The Republican party is happy, and happiness
II Always a Sgn vi heath
General Brady announcrs to a friend that he has
been Specializing in stOks since he left the service
of thu Government, and has made S2Oo,0O llesays
he feels serene and even joyful lie should not stop II
goo. 900. hut 20 right on till h. makes million OF
two He NAV find il handy 81 have in his pocket
" hen hr wlsh., Ia paw back into the United states
Treasury tn sums which his negligence. or whatever
he - PLEASED 10 call IT, enabled the star Route
thieves to extract.
If there werr any n ason to suppose that ex-Sen.
aior Plat has read ycungs " Night Thoughts." that
wrrt,hrd man might be- imagined exclaming sadly
in his own ear ~ he reflects that Conkling has al
least had career while he has had nothing, " In
sailatc archer could not one suffice T.
General Grants astonishing letter will show the
public what an enormous task President Garfield is
engaged in. That letter, taken IN connection with
CoukinC- career in the Senate, shows that the Old
Grant crowd, the immortal 306, descended on Gar.
field ~ soon "a he was elected with the obvious
purpose of running" his administration. They
demanded rewards for their friends and made the
demands "a payment for service rendered in the
rampagn General Grant, in the closing paragraph
of his letter says unblushngy that he not only ex'
uected his personal friends o bc kept in office bat he
thought one Of them ought 10 be supported AT The
Government expens., until he could finish a life OF
General Grant upon which he was engaged! The
whole tone of the letter that General Grant and his
friends and supporters have mortgage on the Gov.
rnmrnt for support and comfort so long IA they
1--we. President Garfield diSsnnts from this view.
and i'm stan ling mp against the enormous pressure
with which that view has been urged, he has dis
PLAYED an amount of moral courage which viii wiz
The admiration Of the whole country.