New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-10

LOYALTY of the inhabitants of the Canadian
Northwest, appears to have resulted in a sat
isfactory amount of decorations, "drawing-
room y ceremonies and artillery salutes. The
people received their Governor General with
courtesy, but we imagine that if the truth
were known the enthusiasm was mainly man
ufactured by the officials. The memory of
Rel's rebellion has not yet faded from the
minds of the old settlers of the Winnipeg
region, and the newcomers are too busy en-
gagged in the struggle for living to care
much for politics. All classes in Manitoba must
feel that their material interests are much
more closely associated with st. Paul. Chicago
and Milwaukee than with the far distant
cities of the Dominion. Their only railroad
communication is with Minnesota, and they
can have but little sympathy with the senti-
ment of colonial dependence ON England
which prevails in the older provinces of the
Dominion.
The Main Exhibition Building at Philadel-
phia, which cost $1,6O0,00O to erect was yes
terday sold at auction for $97 900. It's sale
calls to mind the long and disastrous effort to
maintain permanent exhibition within its
walls with some of the shells and vestiges of
the great Centennial Fair. The scheme was
doomed to failure from the beginning, but it
was heroically supported for four years by a
company of Philadelphia gentlemen who have
paid dearly for their enthusiasm. Nowhere has
a large permanent industrial and art exhibition
been successful save at Sydenham, near Lon
don, and that has in its favor the attractiveness
of the Crystal Palace and its Park as a point for
excursions, and the immense population of the
British metropolis close at hand. Philadelphia
is dull city, pot given to amusements and
visited by few pleasure seeking strangers. 1t
need not feel badly about the failure of the eX
hibitiOn scheme, for if the huge building saved
for its use had stood in Central Park, and had
contained twice as attractive a display, the
enterprise would have collapsed just the same.
To-day the Virginia Republican Conven-
ton meets at Lynchburg. A struggle between
the element in favor of uniting with the Anti
Bourbon Democrats and that which desires a
straight-out" ticket seems inevitable. The
coalition men will probably have majority in
the Convention, and they no doubt largely
predominant over the other faction in the
party throughout the State, but the con-
test has developed SO much feeling that
separate ticket is likely to be put up,
no matter how much the "straIght- outs +"
may find themselves outnumbered. a cor
respondent of Tie TRIBUNE, who has made
n careful study of the situation in Virginia,
thinks that the great bulk of the colored Repub-
licans favor the Endorsement of the Malone
ticket and that a majority of the white Repub-
licans agree with them. AS the negroes make
up nine-tenths of the party, the preponderance
of the fusion element is unqucstionably great.
1t would seem to be the plain duty of both fac
tons to abide by the action of the Convention if
its proceedings are conducted with fairness.
There is no other tribunal to settle their dispute
If the minority is going to bolt, in any case,
what is the use of holding Convention 2
Somebody has to be disappointed in every
gathering of the sort, in reference to policy as
well as to candidates. The straight-outs :"
have made their argument before the people
and done their best to elect delegates of their
way of thinking. If they fail to control the
Convention they should yield with good grace
to the wishes of the majority.