Georgia Historic Newspapers

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WEDNESDAY JULY SL
National Democratic Nominees.
FOR PRESIDENT,
H orace ,G reeley,
Op New Yoke.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
B. Gratz Brown,
Os Missocbi.
State Democratic Ticket.
FOB GOVEBNOB,
.IAMKH M. SMITH,
Or MnsoooE*-
PREHIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
For the State at Labor.
WASHINGTON I’OE OF 8188.
W T WOFFORD OF BARTOW
JULIAN HABTBUKIE OF CHATHAM.,
U. L. BENNINO.. OF MUSCOGEE.
Altkbkateh.
GEORGE l). BICE OF HALL.
A H. COLQUITT OF DkKALB.
A. H. HANHELL OF THOMAS.
ELI WARREN OF HOUSTON.
Dihtbict Elbctobs.
Firat District—H. G. Tußxn, of lirookn.
Secoud Di»trict B. N. Ei.y. of Dougherty.
Third Dintrict — W. J. llcixvjh. of H»rrin
Fourth Duttrict J. M. Back, of Nowtuu.
Fifth District I)r. H. B. Carry, of Columbia.
Sixth District--Jahpkk N. Dokrry, of Hall.
Seventh District E. D. Guahah, of Da<lc.
Ai.tkrnatrm.
First Dint net J. KrvEitH, of Laurens.
Second District -A. 1,. lUwwi. of Baker.
'i'hird District--T F. Smith, of Coweta.
Fourth District T. F. Newell, of Baldwin.
Fifth District A. M. Roikikiis, of Burko.
Sixth Dietrich- L. J. Ai.lhel, of I'lckcne.
Seventh District H. A. Alhton, of DeKalb._
CAN ORA NT HE ELECTED?
The Philadelphia Age Hays the more
thought bestowed upon the matter, the
more closely the political present and fu
ture of parties are socurod, tho more
difficult it becomes to pnt <leneral Grant
in the position of a man who can l>e re
elected. As evidence of this fact, wo
give below the calculation of a thought
ful, observant politician, who has recent
ly had abnndant opportunities of feeling
the public pulse upon this Presidential
matter in various {States of tho Union.
He thus sums up tho contest:
Grant.
Towa 15
Kansas 5
Massachusetts . 13
Michigan 11
Minnesota 6
Mississippi .... H
Nebraska 3
Rhode Island. . 4
South Carolina. 7
Vermont 5
Wisconsin 10
Louisiana 8
Total 90
GItKKLEY.
Alabama 10
Arkansas 0
California 0
New llaiin»shire 5
New York 35
North Carolina. 10
Oregon 3
Pennsylvania . 2!)
Delaware 3
Georgia 11
Maryland 8
Kentucky 12
Tennessee 12
Texas 8
Virginia 11
West Virginia.. 5
Connecticut ... 6
Indiana 15
Missouri 15
New Jersey 9
,T ’jtal 219
DOUBTFUL.
Illinois 21
Maine 7
Nevada 3
Ohio 22
Florida 4
Total 57
No calculation worthy of attention has
yet been made to elect Grant.
SPEECH OF EX-HENATOK HEN
DRICKH.
The following report of a speech de
livered by Hon. Thus. A. Hendricks, at
Hpenoer, Indiana, on the 18th, breathes
a spirit of patriotism which cannot fail
to impress the Democracy and patriotic
masses of the whole country. Ho said
in substance :
There wus much of encouragement in
the present aspect of affairs. Tho cloud
which hud so long lowered upon the
political affairs of the country and
threatened its liberties was boiug dis
sipated. Men heretofore opposed to us
in politics had met in Convention at
Cincinnati, and expressed a desire and a
determination to unite with uiou of all
other parties in an effort to restoro
purity and honesty in the administra
tion of the Government. At Baltimore
we, tho Democratic party, accepted the
overtures of these men, and to-day we
stand side by side with them in the ef
fort to put down corruption, extrava
gance aiul tyranny.
Ho briefly sketched tho history of
Horace Greeley, showing how from pov
erty and obscurity lie bad risen by force
of “bis talent, industry and obscurity
and integrity, to bo theleaderof his pro
fession. If elected President, lie would
not be the President of a party.
He knew Gratz Brown well —had served
with him in the Senate. He knew him
to be talented, earnest aiul honest, in
support of his convictions of right. He
showed how Gratz Brown and Carl
Schurz, alarmed at tho stato of affairs
which had been wrought out by the Radi
cal Republican party in Missouri, and
shocked at the injustice which there
prevailed in the exclusion from the bene
tits of the elective frunebise of a very
large proportion of the best men in the
State, bad gone forth anil said to the
Democracy of the Stab', come and help
us undo this work and restore liberty to
the Stab 1 . The coalition was formed :
Gratz Brown was elected Governor of
Missouri, tho Radical government of
that State was overthrown, and from that
day every man in Missouri bocame free.
Tho white mail in Missouri was now as
free and secure iu his person and prop
erty as his brother in Owen county, In
diana. And when he is olected Vice-
President, tho same glorious result will
lie attained in every State in the Union.
Ordinarily, he had not much faith iu or
considerations for platforms. But now
the ease was different. We stand upon
the platform enunciated by the Cincin
nati Convention. The question now
presented is, cau we accept this platform
and these leaders without humiliation ?
Mr. Hendricks then entered into a criti
cal analysis of the platform, and showed
how every expression of it concerning
tlio living issues of tho day tallied with
the life-long sentiments of the Doeio
eratie party. What Democrat, lie asked,
can Ih> ashamed of sueli a platform, or
will refuse to march under a banner upon
which snob sentiments are inscribed ?
He demonstrated tlie soundness of its
utterance regarding the bvriff. The Con
stitution expressly provides that all
measi.’res relating to the raising of reve
nue must originate iu the House of Rep
reaeutatived. What proposition more
just, then, than that the question of the
tariff should be remitted directly b» the
people in the ehoiee of their members of
Congress.
He referred at some length to the land
auostion. Following the declaration of
ic Cincinnati Convention in opposition
to tho squandering of the public domain,
the Philadelphia Convention had re
solved that they were opposed to further
grants of land b> railroad corporations.
This, however, was after a Republican
Congress had given away to railroads an
area of the public domain equal to five
{States os large as the {State of Indiana—
and that of the very besk The very last
Congress hail voted away 37,(MX),000 of
acres to the Northern Pacific Railroad,
and President Grant had signed that
bill, tin the same day that lie signed
that bill giving away this more than
princely domain, he had illustrated his
love for economy by vetoing another bill
which contained* a grant. It was. a bill
introduced bv Mr. Holman, and had
passed both Houses without great oppiv
sition. This bill, which President Grant
vetoed in a spasm of economy, was for
the relief of a privab) soldier. It appro
priated a sum of money to pay a mem
ber of the Third Indiana Cavalry for
two horses killed iu the service of the
United Stab's.
He spoke in strong terms of a Presi
dent using the power of his office to
promote his re-election. Greeley sbunls
pledge,! to accept the office for one b'mi
only. This would have great influence
in siiapiug the course of his Administra
tion, inasmuch as he must go upon tho
pagf of history according to the record
he shall make in those four years.
It was well known to his hearers that
he hail not been among the first to ac
cept the Greeley ticket; but he had fully
considered the matter, and he hall
thought it wise, expedient and patriotic
to support this ticket. [ Applause. ] He
would make the contost in this State
under that banner. It was a contest for
liberty. Talk of liberty in Indiana when
yhe President can send his soldiers into
th e State and arrest men without writ
and without process! If there is not
liberty in every Stato there is liberty in
B °Hb' asked his hearers if they thought
Grant should elected. H he was to
be elected in his ow 7» interest or that of his
family he declined to discuss the matter.
That would be sinking P nr politics too
low. The question is, is it for the in
terest of the people that Grant should be
elected ?
He fairly stated the Railical claim
that, with largely reduced taxation.
Grant was paying off the national debt
at the rate of $100,000,000 per annum.
He denied that the taxes were reduced.
The mode of levying and collecting them
has lieen changed ; but the statistics of
the Treasury show that during the
last year of Johnson’sadniinistration the
revenues collected were §7,000,(100 less
than during the last year under Graut ;
nnd during tins last two years of each
the difference in the amount of taxcn
collected was less than one. million of
dollars. True, a large number of arti
cles had been stricken from the tax list,
but the figures show that, notwithstand
ing a change in the mode of levying the
taxes, the laboring man and consumers,
from whom, in the end, it all comes,
were still paying into the Treasury the
same amount as usual.
As to the payment of the debt, he
thought that with the amount of taxes
collected a vastly larger share of the
debt should have been paid.
He then gave, a scathing review of the
personalism and nojiotiKYn which has
charaetorized tho Administration of
Grant, and illustratod tho effects of his
gift- taking Before he was made rich by
presents, General Grant had been a per
son wlio sympathized with the common
people. Indeed, it might lie complained
that his sympathies wi re too common.
But where arc his sympathies now ?
Morton had said the men who gave
Grant, two weeks before lie had l»oeu
sworn into office, $105,000, were well
able to do so and never feel its loss.
That was just the trouble. When they
thus secured his sympathies and got bis
influence in the passage of the law for
the payment of all bonds in gold, they
were well repaid for all they had in
vested. Previously it hail been con
ceded, even by Morton, that those bonds
were payable in greenbacks.
There* waa sympathy with Grant on
account of his military record. No one
objected to that. His military record hud
been acknowledged by Congress in cre
ating him General, with a salary of
$17,000 per annum, anil no one objected.
But, as President, he must be judged
by liisreeord as a civil officer.
Mr. Hendricks alluded to his visit to
the Rust, and said lie hail lioon aston
ished at the discovery of the strength
of Greeley among the Republicans of
New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
anil Pennsylvania. As to their joining
the Democratic party ho said ho didn’t
care who they joined. They como to ns,
we go to them —wo meet half way and
clasp hands for.tho restoration of the
era of fraternity in nil quarters of the
land, and together we will strugglo to
drive out corruption from tho Govern
ment. Upon our banner shall be in
scribed, “ The States shall be protected
in the exercise of local self-government.
That comprises it all."
Every department of the Government
is corrupt, and nearly every department
of it was on trial last Winter by Con
gress, and if the committees had not
been pucked for acquittal, lie believed
they would all have been found guilty.
In conclusion, Mr. Ilendricks made a
forcible appeal to his old Democratic
friends to present a united front at the
November election. Ho had in past
years leaned upon them, and they had
trusted him, and ho now trusted they
would not be found wanting. One
Democratic vote not polled in Novem
ber would be half a vote for Grant, and
ho didn’t think there were any half
voters in tho Sixth District. When
the glorious era of good feeling, fra
ternity, and prosperity was ushered iu
with the inauguration of Greeley, it
would lie a bitter thought to any Demo
crat that he hail not aided in bringing it
almut.
SENATOR THURMAN ON GHEE
LEY’S PHOSPECTS.
Hon. A. G. Thurman, of Ohio, was
interviewed last Friday, by a New York
World reporter. After announcing liis
settled purpose to do all that ho could
to insure tho election of Mr. Greeley,
Senator Thurman, iu response to in
terrogatories of tho reporter, presented
the following encouraging showing :
Reporter—Will the mass of old-time
Democrats who opposed the nomination
of ]\lr. Greeley by the Baltimore Con
vention do likewise?
Senator Thurman—No doubt of it.
My information -an extensive one
shows that they are everywhere wheel
ing into line. This, I personally know
to bo the case in my own State. Before
July 9th Ohio contained many anti-
Greeley Democrats, but now there arc
none at least not among my acquaint
ances ; even Judge Van Trump, one of
Ohio’s Democratic Congressmen, who
wrote so bitterly against the Cincinnati
movement and its nominees some time
ago, now acquiesces iu the decision ren
dered at Baltimore, and is ready to take
off his coat nnd work—and, I tell you,
lie is indeed an effective workman in a
canvass—for Greeley and Brown until
election day.
R.— Will any Democrat vote for Gen.
Grant ?
Senator T. Not one ; that is not one
who cau consistently and properly claim
to be a Democrat. Republican papers
have named a few Democrats as sup
porters of Gen. Grant; but some of
these men 1 consider no longer Demo
crats, slid others 1 think are misrepre
sented by the papers in question, it is
remark a I ile that not a single Democratic
journal displays the least inclination to
support. Gen. Grant., while hundreds of
Republican journals go in heartily for
Mr. Greeley. This I take as one of many
existing good signs of tho latter’s elec
tion next November.
R. Then, Senator, you think Mr.
Greeley will be elected ?
Senator T. Most assuredly Ido. I
think Greeley and Brown will have 21X)
electoral votes at least —much more than
sufficient to elect them. My State, Ohio,
is a doubtful one, with the chances on
our side, I firmly believe. But let the
Stato go as she may Greeley will never
theless be elected. I give him 200 elec
toral votes without Ohio.
R.- What of the straight-out Demo
cratic movement or bolt?
Senator T.—Why, it will not amount
to anything. A few gentlemen—good
Democrats, no doubt—met in Baltimore
and called a straight-out Democratic
Convention to meet in Louisville, on
September 3d, but the Democratic mas
ses have everywhere disapproved of the
call, so that 1 very much question wheth
er the Convention will ever beheld. If
held it will be a small, nuimportaut affair,
not likely to exert any influence of conse
quence upon the action of the Democ
racy. Tho wave in favor of Greeley is
too large and strong to be in any way
affected by a convention of the kind. 1
repeat it., sir, the. whole movement, will
not amount to anything, and is not
worth talking about.
A COLORED MAN ONI THE SITUA
TION.
A well-known colored lawyer, Robert
Morris, of Boston, in an interview held
a few days ago with a representative of
the Boston Rost, hold tlio following
language :
I made up my mind long since that
Horace Grcclcv was tho man of all
others who would look out for tho Imat
interests of tlie colored people, and am
firmly impressed with that idea. 1 have
concluded to east mv vote for him in
November. I regard it as the best
nomination that could have been made.
Air. Greeley has shown by liis whole
life that he is a capable, upright, and
honest man. and that’s the kind of a
man we need at the head of the Govorn
rnen. lie has always stood by the black
man, and when 1 think how lie has
arisen from the humble condition of his
boyhood to his present proud jHisition
by liis own exertions, I cannot believe
he is going to be swayed from tlie past,
which a conscientious regard for the in
terest of the black mail points out.
As regards tho sentiments of the col
ored peoplo in general, he further said :
Tho colored people everywhere arc
anxiously waiting for Senator Sumner to
speak out, and then we shall know how
they will stand in the coining contest. I
may say that my action will lie in
fluenced by whatever Mr. Sumner says
also. 1 consider the treatment which
Mr. Sumner lias received at tho hands of
the Republicans a direct insult to the
colored men, whom he has always de
fended. I hold that party responsible
for the defeat of all the measures which
have las'ii brought forward for the
amelioration of the condition of the
colored men, and I hope they will soon
learn a lesson showing them the folly of
such proceedings. We all look upon
him as onr tried and trusted leader. He
has unflinchingly stood up for us all
through onr struggles for onr rights, and
we feel confident that he will eoutiune to
defend our cause and tell ns who are onr
friends and who our enemies.
The following expresses liis opinion of
carpet-baggers and tlie origin of Ku-
Klnx:
The Republican party has spent all its
time and energy in taking meosnro for
what they call the protection of the
black men in the South. But what has
it all amounted to? The only result of their
labors has been a lot of carpet-baggers,
who have gone far to destroy every
vestige of good government in the South".
If they had just let tho negroes alone
and let them have the right to protect
themselves, there would never have been
such an organization as the Ku-Klux
heard of,
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
The Liberal Republicans of the Second
Ohio District are talking of running Mu
rat Halstead for Congress.
The oldest Republican jnrist iu Wis
consin, Judge George W. Cate, lias an
nounced liis preference for Greeley.
Ex-Congressman Burt Van Horn, of
GemieSßee county, New York, repudiates
Grant and warmly espouses Greeley.
The leading Republican paper of
Southern Kansas, the Fort Scott Moni
tor, has pronounced for Greeley and
Brown.
Ex-Congressman Charles Hnghes, of
Sandy Hill, New York, has written a let
ter declaring his intention to abandon
Grantism and to support the Reform
ticket.
Represen tati vo Waddell, of North
Carolina, writes that lie is sure of his
re-election and tho election of the Con
servative Stato ticket by several thou
sand majority.
In a recent letter to Air. D. P. Wor
cester, of Rochester, Chief Justice Chase
says : “If I live and am able to go to
Cincinnati in November, I shall vote for
Horace Greeley.”
Wallace Tappan, a memlier of tho New
York Grant State Committee, disgusted
with the interference of tho Administra
tion iu State politics, has resigned liis
position, aiul comes out strongly for
Greeley and Brown.
In Washington, Pa., tliero is a stam
pedo among prominent Grant Republi
cans to the Greeley ranks. Among
them may lie mentioned the following :
l)r. P. J. Lainoyne, a leading abolition
ist and candidate for Vice-President
with Gerritt Smith some years ago;
Boyd Ornmring, late distriei attorney.
The Republicans of Plymouth, Mass.,
are about organizing a Greeley Club,
and it is thought safe to count upon
Senator Sumner’s District for tho Liber
al ticket. Tho Hon. Charles G. Davis,
a member of tlio Lilwral Republican
National Comm ittoo, will soon issno a
Greeley and Brown paper, to bo called
The J’lyvwulh Rock Free Press.
The Greeley anil Brown Club, of Key
West, Flor ida, reports the voters of that
(Monroe? county to bo politically divided
as follows : For Greeley and Brown—
Democrats, (100; Liberal Republicans,
450 ; total, 1,000. For Grant, 150. The
county has at Hint 7,000 inhabitants, hav
ing recently b id a large accession of pa
triot Cubans, who are all Liberal Re
publicans.
A correspondent of the Washington
Rut riot writes from Saline, Midi., as
follows, under date of July 17, 1872 :
* * * “Thorn is an excellent field
for labor, ‘the harvest is bountiful.’—
The idea of carrying this Stato for Gree
ley may seem impossible, but wo pro
pose to do it; and, further, that ‘Zack
Chandler’ is now holding his last term
as Senator from this State.”
The AslitabuYa (Ohio) Sentinel has
furled the Grant flag and boldly flaunts
tlio Greeley banner. Tho senior editor
of that journal, Wm. U. Howells, is a
veteran editor and politician of forty
years’ service, lately a member of tlie
Ohio State Senate, and for years Chair
man of tho Republican County Commit
tee. The junior editor, liis son, J. A.
Howells, is postmaster at Jefferson.
A letter from Philadelphia states that
while nearly all tlie prominent Radical
leaders and orators have left Pennsylva
nia—some to go to Europe and others
bound for other places—Governor Cur
tin, Galusha A. Grow, and other influen
tial men who are away, aro coming home
Jo take part in the Liberal movement in
favor of Mr. Greeley. The result of this
exodus of Radical speakers—among
whom may bo mentioned Morton Mc-
Micliacl, General Charles 11. T. Collins,
Attorney General Brewster, and Con
gressman Kelley—is that the party of
Grant, Cameron, and Hartranft will be
left almost destitute off speakers so far
as Pennsylvania is concerned.
Tiib Rapacity of Offioe-Seekers. —
Offieo-Hoekera have become so rapacious
that they scarcely wait for a dead office
holder to bo put under the ground be
fore they aro making efforts to got into
the place made vacant by his death.
Apropos of this, a good anecdote is told
of Mayor Hall, by a New York paper.
Eager candidates v r oro putting forward
their claims for the position made va
cant by the death of Judge McOiinn, be
fore ho was laid in his grave. This re
minds tho paper alluded to of a well
known politician who, anxious to suc
ceed to the seat of Alderman Hartt, who
bad just died, approached Mayor Hall
on the subject, during tlio funeral of the
dead alderman. Tlio Mayor at lirst de
clined to talk to the importune gentle
man, but was finally induced to give
him “only a word.” “ Mr. Mayor,” lie
gun the politician, “ to be plain with
you, I would like to take Ilartt’s place.”
“I am willing,” said the Mayor; “just
apply to the undertaker.”
Negro Equality in Washington City.
—The law of the District Legislature
relative to civil rights in barber-shops,
hotels, eating-houses, confectioneries,
Src., went into effect last Saturday. It
imposes penalties and forfeiture of li
cense for making any distinction in
serving public guests on account of
color, and requires the conspicuous dis
play of lists of prices. Some of tlio res
taurant keepers, in order to avoid sell
ing drinks to colored men, post thoir
prices at vory high figures, some of them
rating whisky at $2 a drink, brandy and
mixed drinks $5, bam and eggs $3, and
other supplies accordingly—“a liberal
reduction made to regular customers,”
meaning white men.
Senator Wilson in North Carolina.
-—A special dispatch to the Washington
Star states that Senator Wilson, ex-Gov-
Harrimon, of New Ilamshire, and a Mr.
Warwick, of Now York, addressed s
very slim crowd at Goldsboro on Mon
day, numbering not moro than one hun
dred blacks and thirty or forty inquisi
tive whites. There was no enthusiasm
with the exception of an occasional
“ dat’s bo” from an impulsive son of
Africa. Wilson refused to divide time
with Judge Fowle. After a shake-hand
all around with Wilsoli, Curtis Brogden
and their colored auditors, they ad
journed to meet at Raleigh.
A Conservative Victory in North
Carolina. —Tho Greeley and Brown
headquarters in Washington have ad
vices from North Carolina which scorn
to assure a Conservative victory on Au
gust 1. These reports state that for the
first time in twelve years the entire
white vote will be polled and will be
quite seventh-eighths for the Democratic
candidates. Avery considerable inroad
has been made also iu the colored vote,
which fact has caused groat demoraliza
tion in the opposion tiranks.
Forney on Gueklf.y. —A well known
railroad man told a newspaper corres
pondent that Forney had nsed the fol
lowing language:
Greeley will make a good and efficient
President. He is an able, honest man.
In faet, I regard him as by all means the
ablest editorof America—wise, sagacious
and large-hearted.
Before closing tho conversation Col.
Forney said:
I shan't make any speeches for Grant.
I will vote for him, but that’s aIL
Washington Monument Struck by
Lightning. —During tho heavy storm
of Thursday night the Washington
Monument was struck by lightning,
chipping several scales of marble from
the left shonlder of tlie statne of Gen
eral Washington. The accident, how
ever, has not disfigured the statue to
any great exteht, but at the same time
has left an ngly gouge in the shoulder,
but not sufficiently large to lie noticed
from tho sidewalk below. The monu
ment is furnished with a lightning-roil,
but it does not seem to have been a suffi
cient protection in this case.— Baltimore
Sun,
WILHON DISGUSTED WITH NORTH
CAROLINA.
A New York World special, from Ral
eigh, under (late of tho ‘2'2d, says : “Wil
son made his last speech at Goldsboro
to-day, and immediately left for homo.
The mooting was hold ill the Court
House, and was composed of abont 150
negroes and a dozen white men. AY il
son returns the most disgusted man that
can be imagined. He lias utterly failed
to arouse any enthusiasm, and, with the
exception of a meeting at Newborn, on
Saturday last, nono of liis meetings have
been at all respectable in {mint of num
bers, averaging only from 50 to 150 peo
ple, and all negroes at that. Fancy the
Senator's feelings at having to address
such audiences. Truly, the Radical way
to the Vice-Presidency is a hard one.
“The prosp< ets of tho Democrats bright
en daily, and it is now eertain that they
will have a majority of tho Legislature on
joint ballet, and at least six out of the
eight members of tho House of Repre
sentatives. The vote for Governor will
be close, but Merrimon will win.
“Delano will arrive hero to-morrow,and
there is a rumor that Robeson will suc
ceed him. Aloney is pouring into this
State like water, and I hoard to-day of
$5,000 received from Now York. Iu
some of tho districts men havo boon paid
to run as independent candidates for tho
purpose of dividing tlio Democratic vote.
In counties where tho voto was closo,
negroes havo boon imported from other
places, where they could bo spared,
and in fact no art is loft unused by tho
ruling party to maintain its supremacy.
Truly, if the Democrats succeed in car
rying this State it will be a victory
worth talking abont and achieved in
spite of tremendous odds.”
GOODS IN BOND TllE GOLD PRE
MIUM.
Tho money article of the Now York
Herald, of Tuesday, accounts for the
steadiness and firmness of gold with tho
revelation that tho bonded warehouses
aro bursting with goods waiting tho Ist
of August to bo taken out under tlie ten
per cent, tariff reduction. Tho figures
for July arc not yet ready, but from
those of Juno wo find tho following ex
hibit :
FOBEIOS IMrOItTS AT NEW YOltK FOIt Till, MONTH
OF JUNE.
1870. 1871. 1872.
F.nt. for oonanmp.. .$12,-J0T,273 $14,778,135 $9,7G9,4t«
lint, lor wal-tiliouso. 10,484,645 13,389,176 17,913,638
Free Hoods 1,475,036 3,0(10,100 3,926,874
Simula and bullion.. 188,150 1,352,006 43,734
Total Mlt. at port. ..*34,415,094 $31,598,417 $30,653,553
Withdrawn from
YfcrolimiKO 8,354,527 8,711,237 7,584,971
It will bo scon that tho stock in bond
increased over ton millions in Juno,
making moro than forty-two millions in
crease since tho beginning of tho yoar.
Tlio total imports at Now York since
January 1 aro $232,780,036. Tho total
for tho corresponding six months of last
year was $201,83-1,024, then by far tho
largest figures for the first six months
over written in tho history of the trade.
Tlio last six months now exceed that ro
turn by upwards of thirty millions.
This large increase has mostly gone into
bond, where it is waiting the period of
tho reduced tariff, ami accounts for tho
dullness and steady condition of tho
gold market during tho past sow weeks.
Tho importers aro waiting for tho first of
tho month to take .advantage of tlio ten
per cent, abatement, while holders of
gold, in anticipation of a sudden de
mand a sow weeks hence, aro indisposed
to hoII. Hence tho firm condition of the
gold market now.
COUNTING NOSES IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
A Large Non-Voting Population—Pros
pects for the State and National
Tickets.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune, writing from Greensboro, N.
(!., under date of the IStli, thus presents
the situation in tlie Ohl North State, for
the control of which Grant and his sym
pathizers are playing such a dosporate
and corrupting role, in tho backing of
thoir infamous purposes by all tho re
sources of an unscrupulous Administra
tion :
The voto of this district and of tho
Stato will fall considerably below what
the census of 1870 shows to be tho voting
population. Last year the total vote
east was larger than it was in 1870, and
yet in' less than 38,000 men who wore
above the ago of 21 years remained away
from tho polls. A great portion of this
non-votingpopulation will not l ie aroused
this year, although Judge Merrimon,
the Conservative candidate for Die Gov
ernorship, is a resident of the western
part of the State, whero the most of
t hese indifferent people arc to bo found,
and is making a most effective canvass
there. If one in live of these men could
be brought to the polls tlie success of
the Conservative ticket, by at least ten
thousand majority, would l>c assured.
Nobody who has visited tho mountain
regions of North Carolina can, I am
assured, understand tlio peculiar stato
of things that exists there. Tho pooplo
inhabit, I am told, one of tho finest
grazing countries on the continent—live
ou comparatively small farms, raise
enough corn, beef and mutton to Sup
port them, and being far removed from
railroads and telegraphs, with communi
cation with tho outer world by means of
a weekly or semi-weekly horseback mail,
know little that is transpiring. At the
breaking out of the war they were peace
men, and became so disgusted with
politics when the Stato was carried into
secession that they liavo never voted
since. If they voted at all they would
vote tlio Conservi-te ticket ; but thore is
littlo hope of reaching them in this
canvass. Tlio last time any considerable
number of them voted, it was for Vance
to be Governor in 1864.
prospects for the state and national
tickets.
I find it to bo the universal opinion
among Conservatives that Mr. Greeley’s
majority in this State will be at least
10,000 greater than that of Judge Mar
rimon, if the hitter is elected. In all
parts of tlie Stato and especially around
Greensboro are many Republicans to bo
found, who make no secret of their in
tention to vote for Greeley nnd Brown,
although they will support Caldwell in
the August election. Many of these
men admit that it would be for thoir
interest to havo Merrimon elected, but
say that they committed themselves to
the support of Caldwell before tho
Cincinnati movement was developed,
and that it would not bo honorable for
them to broak thoir promises now.—
Giving each of these facts its duo
weight, I am of the opinion that tho
Conservatives will carry North Carolina
bv a majority of from 2,000 to 5,000 on
the Ist of August. Many prominent
Conservatives and Liberal Republicans
are counting on a majority much larger
than this, placing it as high as 10,000,
but in making my estimate I have not
counted any of tho indifferent ones
whom Merrimon may get out in
the mountain sections nor tho votes
of Liberal Republicans. Tho voto on
the Constitutional Convention question,
last year, cannot be taken as a test of
tlio relative strength of the parties in
this State, and still it gavo to the Con
servatives the assurance that their vote
is not falling off from year to year. In
a great number of counties the Conserv
atives elected their county officers by !
greater majorities than in 1870, when
they carried the State by more than 4,000
majority, and yet the Convention was an
unpopular and the people were so much
afraid that if it was carried the State
would be remanded to military rule, as
Attorney General Akerman hinted in his
Weldon speech, that it was defeated by
almut 9,000 votes. Not a single Repub
lican anywhere in the Stato is known to
have voted for the Convention, while the
facts stated above show that thousands
of Conservatives voted against it; and yet
tho total vote for the Convention fell less
than 3,000 short of the Conservative vote
in the State iu 1870, when the Democrats
carried three-fourths of tho counties.
The Grant Republicans predict the sne
eess of their State ticket by about 6,000
majority,a tie in the State Senate, and a
majority of almut 12 in the Lower
House. I think, however, that they
reason from false premises. Their basis
of calculation, as I was told to-day by
United States District Judge Dick, who
entertained Secretary Boutwell during
his stay hero, is tho Convention vote of
last year. The fact referred to abovo,
that in many of the connties which gave
majorities against the Convention Con
servative county officers were chosen
proves that they will bo disappointed.
They deny that the vote of 1870 was a
good test, because they say tho Repub
lican vote was cut down by the influence
of the Ku-Klnx. There is no doubt that
there was terrorism in a few counties
and that a few negroes were kept away
from the pools by it, but the Conserva
tives exhibit figures to prove that this
fact in no way accounted for the Demo
cratic majority of that year.
Meeting in Burke County.
A large number of the citizens of
Burke county, who are embraced within
the territory sought to be added to Jef
ferson county, met at New Pros]>cct
Church, July 25th, 1872.
The mooting being called to older, on
motion of Dr. L. D. Julius.in. Colonel H.
D. Greenwood was called to tlie Chair,
and B. F. Brown, Esq., requested to act
as Secretary.
By request of the Chairman, l)r. L.
D. Johnson, in a few earnest anil appro
priate remarks, explained tlio object of
tlie meeting to be to take some action in
reference to the resolutions adopted at
the mooting held in Waynesboro, July
9th. He read the resolutions of that
meeting, which lie held was unjust, and
did not express tho feelings of those
who wore embraced within tho line, or
of the citizens of the county generally.
On motion of Capt. Artemas Archer,
tlie Chairman appointed a committee of
five, viz ; Capt. Archer, A. H. Sconyers,
Esq., Dr. L. D. Johnson, Capt. W. N.
W. Hutchens and Henry Dawson, Esq.,
to draft resolutions expressing tho views
of tlio meeting.
On motion, the Secretary was added
to tho committee.
Tho committee, after conferring to
gether, through thoir Chairman, Captain
Archer, reported the following resolu
tions, which, on motion, wore unani
mously adopted :
Whereas, We havo learned that at a
mooting of a sow of tho citizens of
Burko, held at YV T ayuosboro, July 9th,
1872, certain resolutions were adopted,
purporting to represent tho feelings of
tho citizens in relation to tho proposed
change iu tlio lino botwoon Burko and
Jefferson counties; and, whereas, said
resolutions aro calculated to wrongly
impress tho public in regard to the posi
tion of the citizens within the proposed
lino ; wo, a large portion of tho citizens
embraced within said lino, doom it ne
cessary to take some action in order to
place onrselvos properly before tho citi
zens of the remaining portion of tlio
county and tlio public generally ; thoro
foro, be it
Resolved, Ist, That in socking tlio
change in tho county lino, wo doom it
just, and that it would redound to tlio
good of tlioso embraced within the pro
posed change, without injury to tho citi
zens of tho remaining portion of the
county.
Resolved, 2d, That it is our opinion,
based upon facts, that a largo majority
of tho citizens living in tho territory
sought to bo cut off aro willing and in
favor of tlio movement.
Resolved, 3 d, That, as tlio average
distance to Waynesboro is about eighteen
and to Louisville ten miles (which is a
matter of much importance to us in at
tending courts and other public duties),
and inasmuch as wo propose to assume
our part or pro rata, share of tlio public
debt of tho county already incurred, we
boliovo that a largo majority of tho citi
zens of tho county would bo willing to
tho propose change.
Resolved, 4 th, That in our petitions
to the Logilaturo wo havo only sought
those whoso interests aro identified, and
who aro permanently located within the
prescribed lines ; while wo are informed
that petitions opposing havo very few of
that class attached.
And be, it further resolved, That we
hereby respect fully request tho Legisla
ture (now in session) to pass the bill now
pending before them, making the pro
posed change in tilt) lino between Burke
and Jefferson counties.
On motion of A. 11. Sconyers, Esq.,
tho Secretary was instructed to furnish
a copy of those proceedings to tho Ex
positor, at Wayuesboro, Augusta papers,
and the Atlanta Constitution, for publi
cation.
Ou motion, tlio meetiug adjourned.
H. D. Greenwood, Chairman.
B. F. Brown, Secretary.
THE BYRONS.
A nothoT Scandal in the Poet's Family
His Grandson Advertises ills Wife.
Tlio following appears in an advertise
ment in tho Raily News :
“ Lady Wentworth, my wife, having
ceased to reside under my root, and
living separate and apart from me, I
lioroby give notice that she lias no au
thority to incur debts or obtain goods on
my account, or so as to chargo mo or
any authority whatever to pledge my
credit. And I will not bo answorablo or
accountable fur any debts or liabilities
which she may incur.
“Dated this 25th day of Juno, 1872.
“ Wentworth.
“Witness : Wm. lly. Cooper, 8 Lin
coln’s Inn Fields.”
Tho above nobleman, Lord Went
worth, is tlio oldest surviving son of the
Earl of Lovelace, and might, 'did bo so
choose, assume tlio courtesy title of
Viscount of Ockham. But inasmuch as
through liis mother—Ada, the daughter
of Lord Byron—he inhorits tho Barony
of Wontworth, ho olocts to bo known
by that dignity. Lady Wontworth, a
lady possessing oxcooding beauty, is tho
daughter of the Rev. George Iloriot,
and sister to Mr. Iloriot, who lately
married Millie. Muslims, daughter of
the Turkish Embassador. Tlio an
nouncement in question lias, to say tho
least of it, taken society by surprise.
It lias also occasioned very consider
able regret, tlio moro so because its
appearance is believed to be not only un
necessary, but most unquestionably
premature. In tho present instance I
hear it assorted that tlio unhappy es
trangement alluded to is one which
both can, and very likely will, easily
yield to tho judicious mediation of
frionds. Indeed, it is said that littlo,
save this very announcement, now
stands in tho way of a reconciliation.
The Prospects in North Carolina.—
Wo would as soon tell an untruth in court
as in a newspaper. Tho immorality is
tho same. YVo trust we would not toll
an untruth in either place. Last year,
as many gentlemen in Oxford will tes
tify, tho writer gavo up tho election
weeks before it came off. There is a
prominent Radical in Oxford who knows
tho faet. Tho signs were against us alto
gether then, as they are now favorable
to us, and wo are moro confident of vic
tory now than wo wore of defeat then.
The tidings from almost every section—
from Currituck to Cliorokee—from Gran
ville to New Hanover—aro very encour
aging; such as to excite the most confi
dent hope of a triumph, at onco signal
aud overwhelming. Wo sincerely be
lievo we shall carry tho Stato by at least
8,00(1 majority, aud if the voto should bo
full, by a much larger one, say from
12,000 to 20,000. YVo happen to know
that Judge Merrimon expects the major
ity will lie very large, probably attaining
to the last named figures. Then let our
people liavo a good heart. Let every
man resolve to do liis duty. Lot all re
member that each man has influence,
and that ho cau do something for liis
State if ho so elect, if he will put forth
his utmost energy. Resolve to win one
voto for Merrimon and Reform, aud vic
tory is ours. —Raleigh Sentinel.
A Southern Salutatory. —A now
weekly paper has been started in Bath
county, Kentucky. Tho editor says by
way of salutatory : Wo would as soon
expect to win a fortune by betting against
a pat hand as to suppose that wo shall
pleaso everybody. No doubt, in the
course of human events, wo shall realize
those pleasant littlo editorial episodes
which indignant mailers find no other
soothing syrup for their wounded feel
ings than by attempting to “put a head
ou the editor,” paint a mournful expres
sion over his eye, or, without consulting
him as to whether lie wants to bo an
angel and with the angels stand, endeav
or to send him to that bonrno(on a dead
head ticket) from whence no editor re
turns. Wo stand six font in our stock
ings in tlie Wintertime —five feet eleven
inches and a half, without socks, in tlie
Summer season. Our principal amuse
ment, when a boy, was to throw one hun
dred pound anvils over our head, hold a
barrel of flour at arm’s length, and prac
tice other muscular developments. Aid
ed by our early education in the manly
art, wo shall endeivor to hoe our own
row, paddle onr own canoe, anil hold a
full hand in the edilorial game of “bluff.”
—New York Express.
The 801 l Worm in Uchee Bottoms.
Specimens of cottoa bolls punctured by
worms were exhibited on the streets yes
terday. They have been found in
almndanco in Russell county, Alabama,
on the plantations between the Big and
Littlo lichee crooks. The specimens we
were shown were from tlio Phillips’
place, whore one thousand acres are
planted in cotton. Considerable nnra
liers have already been found and they
aro fast spreading over tho country.
YYet weather is having the effect of pro
ducing them, and increasing their rav
ages. Mr. Frank Redd tells us they are
booming quite frequent on his and
other farms in the neighborhood. On
Friday the heaviest rains of the season
fell in the Uchee bottoms. Dry weather
is now earnestlv hoped for. It is ex
pected it will have the effect of stopping
the ravages of these destructives. Crop
estimates will have to be changed ma
terially unless there is very soon a de
cidedly different condition of atmos
phere.—Columbus Sun.
The Sandersville Georgian says that
the corps of engineers under the charge
of Mr. Yirgil Powers commenced the
permanent location of the Sandersville
and Tennille Road on Friday last.
Letter from Hon. Philip Clayton. I
Atlanta, Oa., July 22, 1572.
Editors Chronicle <t Sentinel:
In your issim of the I9tu July I find
au article attempting to account, for my
preferring to vote for t ton. Grant rather
than Mr. Greeley. The charge made
hy yon is in these words : “As an ex
planation of the recent letter of the Hon.
Philip Glaytou, of Georgia, advooJlipg
the re-election of Grant to the Presiden
cy, ws have the statement that he is in
Washington, prosecuting a large claim
against the Government, and doubtless
hopes to succeed better as the avowed
friend of the Administration than n3 an
indifferent spectator.” That such a par
agraph should appear in your paper
is surprising, especially in remembrance
of tho fact 11 Lat in conversation with
General Wright, at tho Kimball House,
in this city, prior to the mooting of the
Baltimore Convention, I distinctly told
him if tho Democratic party nominated
Greeley, I should vote for Gen. Grant—
showing my determination was made
sometime since, if tho contingency hap
pened which lias taken place. I was not
in Washington at the time you state. I
had no claim bofore auy Department in
which I had a personal interest, either
in tho claim itself or by attorney. Tho
Wostorn and Atlantic Railroad had a
claim against tho Post Office Department
for $!9,500 for carrying the mail prior to
the war. As book-keeper to the Investi
gating Committee I visited Washington
relative to said claim. I had no more
interest in it than you have. I had the
satisfaction of having tho amount recog
nized by tho Department, which will he
a clear saving to tho State of jJff.fiOO, and
the personal benefit to mo is not one cent.
You and your informer must seek some
other facts to oxplaiu my recent letter.
If you desire to know my reason, in very
few words, in preferring Gonornl Grant
to Mr. Greeley, it is that 1 can vote for
one without, as I eoueoivo, tarnishing
tho honor of my State. I cannot voto
for tho other without soiling her oscutch
ooii. Others may think differently. They
have tho same right to their opinions,
and to control tlioir actions accordingly,
Unit I have to mine. I shall not sock to
accord to thorn improper motives in tho
exorcise of tlioir right. It is for you to
say whether you will bo governed by a
different rule.
Very respectfully,
Your ob’t sorv’t,
P. Clayton.
In conformity with a purpose to do
full j uwtico in all such matters, we print
the foregoing letter of Mr. Clayton.
Tho paragraph purporting to explain
his declared adhesion to Grant, and at
which ho affects such groat surprise in
observing its publication in tho Chroni
cle and Sentinel, had its origin with
tho Now York Tribune. It was not
doomed essential to give tho credit at
the timo of tho publication, inasmuch as
it involved no now discovery of tho
character of tho motives usually prompt
ing Southorn mon in a’lligniug them
selves in support of Grant and his
plundering, oppressive warfare upon
tho South, and we had no knowledge
that Mr. Clayton was of sterner stuff
than other rosp'octablo gentlemen who
liavo bowed the knee to Baal and en
tered into tho joy of their lord and
master.
So far as his doolaration of intention
to Gen. Wright is concerned, it is proper
to say that Gen. Wright had nothing to do
with the paragraph in question; neither
does he appear to liavo regarded it ne
cessary, for tho guidance of subordinate
writora connected with theCnnoNioLE and
Sentinel, that the private iloolarations
of Mr. Clayton should bo chalked on our
editorial blackboard. Had Mr. Clayton
confined his declaration of intention to
support Grant to tho ears of his Goorgia
friends, there would doubtless have boon
no occasion for tho paragraph of which
lie complains. But lie was ambitious of
a larger audionee, in asserting his loyal
ty to the Administration in power, and
sought that distinction through the
columns of a journal blackened by bit
ter parlizan opposition and hate to tho
South and its people. Naturally enough
his letter oommondod itself as a cam
paign document for the uso of tho Radi
cal party, and lie now enjoys tho distinc
tion, if such eminence can bo enjoyed,
of furnishing ammunition to the enemy
to bombard his friends in Georgia. Wo
are, however, by no means apprehensive
of much damage from such light mis
siles.
As to tho claim of tho Wostorn and
Atlantic Railroad, worked through the
Tost Office Department by Mr. Clayton,
wo have no knowledge of any suspicion
that lie derived the least advantage from
it beyond his salary as book-keeper of
the Investigating Committee.
Greeley on Civil Service Reform.
St. Loins, July 22. — Tlio following
correspondence was read by Senator
Seliurz in liis speech to-night :
St. Loijis, /line 20, 1872.
Deae Hie —Your letter of acceptance
and your promise of thorough reform in
tho civil service, in general terms, brings
tho question of how tho problem of civil
service reform presents itself to your
mind, and is one of great interest. I
would suggest, if it be consistent with
your views of propriety, that you give
wo such explanations as will put your
intentions in this respect in a clear light.
Yours truly, C. Sohurz.
Tho following is Mr. Grooloy’s reply :
New York, July 5, 1872.
My Dear Sir —Yours of tho 20th nit.
only roaclioil mo tliroo days ago. I re
spond as promptly as I may. Tho
problem of civil service Reform is ron
derod difficult by an alliance between
tho executive and legislative branches
of our Federal Franchise, Government.
Those members of Congress who favor
tho Administration habitually claim and
are accorded a virtual monopoly of tho
Federal offices in their respective States
or districts, dictating appointments and
removals as interest or caprice may sug
gest. Tho President appoints at their
bidding. They legislate in subservience
to his will, often in opposition to their
own convictions. Unless all history is
unmeaning, this confusion of executive
and legislative responsibilities and
functions could not fail to distemper
and corrupt tho body politic.
I hold tho eligibility of our President
to re-election tho main source of this
corruption. The President should be
above the hope of future favor, or the
fear of alienating powerful and ambi
tious partizons. He should bo the of
ficial chief, not of a party, but of tho
republic. Ha should dread nothing
but the accusing voice of history and
tho inexorable judgment of good. He
should fully realize, and never forgot
that Congress in its own sphere is
paramount, and nowise amenable to
his supervision, and that tho heartiest
good will to his administration is
perfectly compatible with tho most
pointed dissent from his inculcations
on tho very gravest questions in financo
or political oconomy. It is the first
step that costs. Let it ho settled that
a President is not to he re-elootod while
in office aud civil servee reform is no
longer difficult. Ho will need no organs
whatever—no subsidized defenders. —
He will naturally select his chief coun
sellors from among the ablest and
wisest of his eminent fellow-citizens,
regardless alike of the shrieks of locali
ty and the suggestions of a selfish
policy. He will have no interest to
conciliate —no chief of a powerful clan
to attach to his personal fortune. He
w ill lie impelled to appoint at will—
none deny that, Ho should appoint
men of ripe experience in business and
eminent mercantile capacity to collect,
keep and disburse the revenuo, instead
of dexterous manipulators of primary
meetings and skillful traffieers in dele
gates to nominating conventions.
He will thus transform tho civil ser
vice of tho country from a party ma
chine into a business establishment. No
longer an aspirant to place, the Presi
dent will naturally aim to meet and
serve the approbation of the entire peo
ple, but especially of the eminently wise
and good.
As to the machinery of boards of ex
aminers, etc., wheroby tho details of
oivil service reform are to be perpetuated
and perfected, I defer to the judgment
of a Congress unporverted by the adul
terous commerco in legislation, and ap
pointments which I have already express
ed and reprehondod. Up to this time mj
experience of tho doings of boards in this
direction havo not been encouraging,
and this I am confident is not tho faidt
of the gentlemon who have tried to serve
the public os commissioners, in s® far as
they may, who have failed. The cansos
of their ill success must be extensive.
Had they been accorded a fair field I am
sure they would have wrought to better
purpose. A thinker has observed that
the spirit in which we work is tlio chief
matter, and wo can novor achieve civil
service reform until the interests which
demand it shall be more potent in our
public counsels than those which resist,
even while seeming to favor it. That
this consummation is not distant. I fer
vently trust. Meantime, thanking you
for your earnest and effective labors to
this end, I remain, yours,
Horace Greeley.
SI’RFCII OF CARL SCHURZ AT ST.
LOUIS.
At the Liberal Republican meeting in
St. Louis, on Monday night last, called
for the purpose of electing a Comity Ex
ecutive Committee, Senator Schurz de
livered a very lengthy and elaborate ad
dress, of which the following is a mere
outline. The Senator started out by
saying:
“Standing before my constituents, I
deem it my duty to give an account of
MY PUBLIC CONDUCT,
The motives which have governed it, and
tho ends it is intended to subserve. I
can do this in no better way than by ex
pressing my views on the events which
have produced the present ext raordinary
situation of our public national affairs—
events in which 1 took a small part; and
also to state what I consider it my duty,
as a patriotic citizen, to do in order to
protect the best interests of the. Repub
lic. It lias been my misfortune to dis
please many with whom I co-operated
on the political field for many years, and
from whom 1 now, with great regret,find
myself sopaiated. To the attacks with
which some of them endeavor to over
whelm mo, I have bill, one answer.”
Ho then reiterated what lie had pre
viously said about never considering his
party tho supremo arbiter of liis sense of
duty. Ho then said :
“When T was honored with a seat, in
the Senate of tho United States, I ex
pected to support the Administration
which thou eamo into power. The tasks
it was called to perform were of unusual
importance. Tho civil war over.
Its logical results, the abolition of slave
ry and tho organization of free labor and
society in the South, was just, being re
duced to a political form and imbedded
in the Constitution of the Republic.
Tho first great object of our policy
should liavo boon to
renationalize the south,
To revive among tho Southern people
feelings calculated to attach tlioir hearts
again to the fortunes of this Union. For
let us not indulge in tho delusion that
the holding together by force of its oom
i ponont parts is a basis upon which a
Republic' can safely rest or long ouduro.
It requires that bond which binds to
gether the hearts of tho people, and not
their bodies only, and to create that
bond was for us the highest object of
statesmanship.”
He then refers in dotail to tho differ
ent acts of the Administration party,
going over the ground traversed by him
self and others in tlioSonato. In regard
to tho Bail Domingo matter ho made the
following statement :
“ When the San Domingo scheme was
pending two gentlemen, in intimate ro
tations with the White House, eamo to
mo, each one separately, soliciting my
support of tho project. They assured
mo if I would give that support, or ab
stain from opposition,
ALL THE PATRONAGE I DESIRED
Would bo at my disposal, making me, in
that respect, one of the most inilnentinl
men in the land. One of those gentle
men subsequently admitted to mo in
writing that the offer was made with the
consent of the President, himself.”
Ho said that ho had withheld this
sttatemont a long timo, in spite of many
provocations, and made it now only be
cause, as the papers have recently stated,
the President himself put forth tho as
sertion in a published interview that lie
(Sclmrz) lias opposed him because he
had not received as much patronage as ho
wanted. Ho then dwelt, upon tlie abiiHo
of patronage, and tho evils of tho civil
service, stating that there never was a
timo when the latter was more like a dis
ciplined organization of political agents,
or wlion tho public interest was more
shamelessly overruled by political exi
gency. Referring to
GENERAL GRANT,
He said :
“ I should prefer not to speak of him,
did he not stand tho embodiment and
personification of tlio pernicious system
which derives from liis individuality its
peculiar character. Gratitude for liis
military sorvicos and respect for his
office have long restrained many from
expressing their real opinions concern
ing him. I shall bo the last man to for
get or to carp at the great service he lias
rendered in tho field of war. Tho lien
ors ho has won, the laurels lie lias gath
ered, shall not bn touched. But now ho
is a civil officer, and ho asks us to con
tinue him at tho head of tho civil gov
ernment of this Ilopnblio. With this
question his laurels have nothing to do.
When he ascended tho Presidential
chair, it maybe said tho whole people
surrounded him with a cordial offer of
their confidence, and willing to aid in
all that ho might do to give tlio country
good government. There was not a
statesman in] tho Republio who would
not liavo boon roady, nay, proud, to
servo him at liis call, lie might even
liavo reinforced liis supporters from the
ranks of the opposition. Accidental
mistakes would have been forgiven. Tho
evidenco of pure motives and honest
efforts would have easily silenced fac
tious clamors. But liis career us Presi
dent warrants the conclusion that lie
had never been able fully to appreciate
the difference between a military com
mand and the complex duties and re
sponsibilities of aciiil administration.
l doubt whether it lias over bocomo
quite clear to his mind what tho Presi
dency means in our system of Govern
ment. When that high office was pre
sented to him lie. took it as a sort of na
tional reward, an accommodation, a
place in which, after his military exploits,
ho might
MAKE HTMSELP OOMFORTABLE.
His mind seems to have been but little
disturbed by the great duties and per
plexing problems he was to take in hand.
It was soon discovered that for his future
success he noeded an organized partisan
support. It was easily had. Tlio re
quired alliances formed themselves by
natural gravitation. Soon we find him
surrounded by political managers—tho
Camerons, tho Chandlers, the Mortons,
tho Conklings, tho Butlers, etc.—ready
to do his work if ho would do tlioirs.
It Avas
A MATTER OP CONGENIALITY.
Tlio interests of tho President and of
such political chieftains identified them
selves without difficulty, ho aiding them
with the oxooutivo influence in oontrol
ing their States for themselves, and they
giving their aid in controling the party
for him. One hand washed the other.
This was gradually developed into a sys
tem, all co-operation being welcome,
even such as that of Gov. Clayton in
Arkansas. Then that peculiar party
despotism grew up which ostracised
everybody who refused to obey its com
mands. ft gave birth to anew sort of
party orthodoxy, whoso first tenet it was
that’President Grant must lie re-elected.
Opposition to Grant constituted high
treason against the party, for which
there was no quarter.”
Tlio Senator dwelt on this theme at
groat length, using the strongest and
soverost language that has been aimed
at tlio President and his supporters.
However, after referring to tho Prosi
dent’s nepotism, his appointment of
Murphy, hia fondness forporsonal pleas
ure, such as that “wo hear from time
to time that the Administration is out of
town,” and “I have actually seen for
eign ministers in tho capital of tlio na
tion
LOOKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT
Os the United States as for a lost child
or a liorso strayed or stolen,” tho Sena
tor adds:
“I will not wrong President Grant.
He is by no means a monster of ini
quity. He is simply a man who makes
use of his official position to suit his
own convenience, regardless of other in
terests. lie does not sit in his closet a
designing usurper, gloomily pondering
how he may subvert the free institutions
of tho Republic; neither does lie ponder
how lie may preserve them. He does
not ponder at all. He simply wants to
carry a point and when, as in the Han
Domingo case, tfioConstitution happens
to stand in his way, he
JUST WALKS OVER IT.
He does not mean to break down the au
thority of tho laws. He simply wants
them not to hamper him in his designs.
Ho does not mean systematically to out
rage the pnblio sense of decency by
nepotism and low associations; to cor
rupt the service and to degrade our
political life. Jlc only wants to rnako
his relatives and favorites comfortable,
to associate with men who are congenial
to him, and to take tho best care of his
interests he can. He is not incapable
of occasionally doing a good thing. He
prefers a good appointment to a bad one,
other things being equal. Ho un
doubtedly desires that affairs should go
woll, his own welfare included. Such is
the character of his personal govern
ment. Wo should he doing it too much
honor by oalling it Csesarim. It is not
inspired by any grand, lofty and long
lieadod ambition. It is
absolutely barren op ideas
And originality, bare of striking achieve
ments, void of noblo sentiments and
inspiring example. It is simply dull
aud heavy, stupid and stubborn in its
selfishness.”
After pursning this subject still fur
ther, anil with some bitterness, the Sena
tor spoke of tho apathy which naturally
follows a period of great excitement,
and declared that the Cincinnati Con
vention was tho result of
A POPULAR UPRISING
From such apathy ; that it assumed ili*
monsions far beyond the expectations of
its originators, and embraced multitudes
who were united by one impulse to unite
the whole American people in the bonds
of reconciliation aiul fraternal feeling,
ami to shake off personal government
and party despotism. Acknowledging
that its action hml caused disappoint
ment to himself and to others, who wished
its declaration of policy as well as its
candidates to be such that the victory
of the movement would furnish an iid
uiinistratiou approaching tho idea of
good government as near as human wis
dom, integrity and earnest efforts can
carry it, he declared ho had come delibe
rately to the conclusion that
no possibility existed
To unite more fully all the forces which
the movement should have gathered un
der its banners, and argued that the
overthrow of party despotism is tho first
thing needful to any reform ; that Mr.
Greeley would have at liis back no regu
lar organization, and can win the sup
port, and favor of tlm people only by
deserving it. The tariff reformers
should learn from the enemies of that
cause, who instinctively find their.surest,
and most natural bulwark in a party
which is controlled by organized selfish
ness. Regarding
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
The Senator presented tho letter of
Horace Greeley (already published in
the Chronicle and Sentinel), which lie
accepted as a practical civil service re
form. Taking position
SIDE 11Y SIDE WITH HORACE GREELEY,
Ho said :
“ But the man who knows that lie was
not my favorite choice as a candidate
and that nothing attaches me to his for
tunes but. my belief in bis honest desire
and his great ability and opportunities
to do good, maybe assured that in every
effort to carry out tho programme here
laid down 1, as well as the many abler
men who think as l do, will stand faith
fully and resolutely by bis side with
active co-operation.”
After speaking of tlio need of embrac
ing every opportunity to take any prac
tical atop in the direction of reform, the
Senator then discusses at length the
noed of reconciliation between tho
North and South, the restoration of
local self-government at the South, and
the development of tho highest and
noblest aspirations among the Southern
people. Regarding
PARTY RELATIONS,
Ho said :
“Republicans ask me, shall we not be
swallowed up by the old Democratic
party? So you recognise the old Demo
cratic party. I suspect it does not recog
nize itself. Do you fear to bo swallowed
up by that old Democratic party? Why,
the Democratic party has been swallowed
up itself by tho new era. No body
need fear that I would load him from the
Republican into the Democratic camp,
for I do not intend to go there myself;
and unless I greatly mistake the ten
dency of tho time, the day is not very
far distant when there will be but little
of an old Republican camp to go from,
and but littlo of an old Democratic
camp to go to. This period is pregnant
with anew formation, which needs but
tho electric spark of opportunity t.o
spring into shape. This is the time for
independent action, and those who think
as l do will not, after having shaken off
the shackles of one old party, take upon
their limbs tlio shackles of another. No
party can do wluit the Democratic parly
lias done without dropping its historical
identity. I honor the patriotic spirit of
tho men who achieved so tremendous a
revolution, and in the groat work before
us l hail with joy and cordiality their
alliance. Tho party that has done this
cannot return to its old grooves, it is
impossible. The first attempt would
shiver it into atoms.”
The meeting was very largely attend
ed, the Temple being crammed full, and
hundreds went away unable to get in.
Mr. Selnirz’s speech elicited frequent
applause, and the audionee was very en
thusiastic.
LBTTFR FROM lIOItAOK GIIIOULKY.
Ilis Formal Acceptance of the Demo
cratic Nomination.
OFFICIAL.
New York, July 2!!.— Official notifica
tion of Greeley’s nomination at Balti
more;
Baltimore', July 10, 1872.
To Hon. Horace Greeley.
Dear Sir —Tt is our pleasure, in
ompliancoo with the instructions of
tho Democratic National Convention
assembled in this city, to inform
you that you have boon unani
mously nominated its candidate for
President of t.lio United States. Tho
Convention, consisting of 7112 delegates,
representing every State and Territory
in the Union, adopted without amend
ments the declaration of principles af
firmed by tlio Convention of Liberal
Republicans at. Cincinnati and strength
ened by tho endorsement contained in
your letter of acceptance. The action
of this groat body of delegates proves
that they are, with singular unanimity,
determined to enter, under your leader
ship, upon the patriotic duty of restor
ing to the administration of the Govern
ment, purity and integrity, and that, in
dependence to its departments which
regards Ihe Constitution as alike the
source and the limit of Federal power.
Laying aside the differences of the pasty
abandoning all purpose of mere partisan
advantage, asking for no pledge other
than that of fidelity to the principles to
which they liavo given their deliberate
and rcsoluto adherence, and which they
believe will command tho approval of a
largo majority of the American people,
they tender you their nomination, con
fident that peace and good government
will be inaugurated and maintained
under your administration.
Respectfully yours, obediently.
Signed by .1. 11. Doolittle, Chairman
of tho Convention at Baltimore, July
10, 1872, and members of the Oominit
too on Notification.
mr. greelev’s reply.
New York, July 18, 1872.
Gentlemen Upon mature deliberation
it seems (it that I should give to your
letter of the 10th instant some further
and fuller response than the hasty, un
premeditated words in which 1 acknowl
edged aud aeceptod your nomination at
your meeting on the 12th. That your
convention saw fit to accord its highest
honor to one who hud been prominently,
pointedly, opposed to your party in the
earnest and angry controversies of tlio
last forty years, and essentially note
worthy that many of you preferred that,
tho Liberal Republicans should present
another candidate for President, aud
would more readily havo united witli us
in the support of Adams or Trumbull,
Davis or Brown; it is well lAiown that I
owo my adoption at Baltimore wholly to
the fact that I had already boon nomina
ted at Cincinnati, and that a concentra
tion of forces upon any new ticket had
been proved impracticable. Gratified
aw I am at your concurrence in the Cin
cinnati nominations ; certain as I am
that you would not havo thus concurred,
had you not doomed mo upright and ca
llable, T find nothing in the circumstan
ces calculated to inflame vanity or nour
ish Holf-eoneoit. Hut that your conven
tion saw lit in adopting the Cincinnati
ticket, to re-affirm the Cincinnati plat
form, is to me a source of tho profound
oat satisfaction. That body was con
strained to take this important step by
no party necessity, real or supposed, ft
might have accepted tho candidates of
tho Liberal Republicans upon grounds
entirely its own, or it might have pre
sented them as the first Whig Conven-
tion did Harrison and Tyler, without
adopting any platform whatever. That
it chose to plant itself deliberately, by a
vote nearly unanimous, upon the fullest
and clearest enunciation of the principles
which are at once incontestably Republi
can and emphatically Democratic, gives
trustworthy assurance that anew aud
more auspicious ora is dawning up, in our
long distracted country. Home of tile lies t
years and best efforts of my life were
devoted to a struggle against chattel
slavery—a struggle none the less earnest
or arduous because respect for constitu
tional obligations constrained me to act
for tho most part on the defensive and
at a distance. Throughout, most of
those years my vision was cheered, my
exertions were rarely animated by even
so much as a hope that 1 should live to
soo my country peopled by freemen
alone. The affirmance by your conven
tion of the Cincinnati platform is a most
conclusive proof that not merely is slave
ry abolished, but that its spirit is ex
tinct; that despite tlio protests of a re-
spectable but isolated few, there remains
among us no party and no formidable
interest which regrets tho overthrow or
desires tho establishment of human
bondage, whether in letter or in spirit. I
am, therefore, justified in my hope anil
trust that tlio first century of American
independence will not close before the
grand elemental truth on which its right
fulness was based by Jefferson aud tho
Continental Congress of ’7O will no
longer ho regarded as glittering general
ities, but will have become the univer
sally aceeptod and honored foundation
of our political fabric. I demand tho
prompt application of those principles
to our existing condition. Having dune
what I could for tlio complete emanci
pation of tho blacks, l W>w insist ou tho
full enfranchisement of all my white
countrymen. Let no one say the bar
has just been removed from all but a
few hundred elderly gentlemen, to whom
eligibility to office can he of little conse
quence. My view contemplates not
the hundred proscribed, but the mil
lions who arc denied the right to bo |
ruled and represented by monos their
unfettered choice. Proscription were
absurd if these did not wish to elect
tlio very men whom they are forbidden
to choose. I have a profound regard
for the people of that New F.nglaiul
wherein I was born; in whoso com mon
schools l was taught. I milk no other
people abovo them in intelligence, ca
pacity and moral worth. But while
i they do many things well, and some ad
mirably, there is one thing which I inn
sure they can’t wisely or safely; and that
is the Relection for States remote from
anil unlike their own of the persons by
whom those States shall be represented
in Congress. If they could do this to
good purpose, then republican institu
tions were unfit and aristocracy the only
true political system. Yet what have
wo recently witnessed ? Zebu lon B.
Vance, tlio unquestioned choice of a
large majority of the present Legisla
ture of North Carolina -a majority back
ed by a majority of the people who
voted at his election- -refused the neat in
the Federal Senate to which he was fair
ly chosen, and the Legislature thus con
strained to choose another in his stead
er leave the State unrepresented for
'years. The votes of New F,lighted thus
deprived North Carolina of (lie Senator
of her choice, and compelled her to
send another in his stead- another who,
in our lute contest, was, like Vance, a
rebel and a fighting rebel, but who had
not served in Congress before the war
as Vance had, though the latter remain
ed faithful to the Union till after tho
close of liis term. I protest against
tho disfranchisement, of a Htato, pre
sumptively of a number of Btat.es, on
grounds narrow and technical us
this. Tho fact that, the same Sen
ate which refused Vance his seat
proceeded to remove the disabilities
after that, seat had been filled by
another, only serves to place in the
strongest light the indignity t« North
Carolina, and the arbitrary, capricious
tyranny which dictated it. I thank yoii,
gentlemen, that, my name is to bo e.oij
spieuously associated with yours in It
determined effort to render aninostt
complete and universal in spirit as well
as in letter. A defeat in such a cause
would leave no sting, while triumph
would rank it with those victories which
no Mood reddens, and which evoke no
tears hut those of gratitude and joy.
Gentlemen, your platform, which is also
mine, assures me that Democracy iH not
henceforth to stand for one thing and
Republicanism for another, but those
terms are to mean in politics as they
liavo always meant in the dictionary,
substantially one and tho same thing—
namely, equal rights, regardless of creed
or clime or color. 1 hail this as a genu
ine new departure from outworn feuds
and meaningless contentions in the direc
tion of progress and reform. Whether l
shall be found worthy to hear the stan
dard of tho great Liberal movement
which the American people liavo in
augnrated is to be determined not by
words but, by deeds. With me, if I
steadily advance over me, if I falter
this grand army moves to achieve for
our country her glorious, beneficent des
tiny. 1 remain, gentlemen, yours,
IIonACE Greeley.
Grant’s ()uakicu Policy a Failure.—
General Sheridan, in a communication to
the War Department, sayH : We can
never stop wild Indians from murdering
and stealing until we punish them. If a
white man in this conn try commits mur
der we hang him ; if he steals we put
him in the penitentiary. If an Indian
commits those crimes we give him better
fare and more blankets. I think I may
with reason say that, under this policy
the civilization of the wild rial man will
progress slowly.
A Frightened Young Man. A young
man from the country, about eighteen
years of age, recently made his first
visit to Nashville, anil registered at the
Maxwell House. At a late hour he re
tired, the servant conducting him to one
of Otis Brother’s elevators, and, tolling
him to “roll in,” wont to call the con
ductor, who was in the parlor with a
friend. When ho came back lie found
tho verdant youth half undressed, and
before the conductor had time to Hay
anything, the young man begun talking
about, the little room and the funny bed.
About this tilin' the elevator had started,
and just as it, reached tho floor above,
the half naked youth gave a terrible
scream, shouting, “ Karthqiiuko I Lord,
have mercy upon mo!” at the top of his
voice. The operation of, the elevator
was, after much difficulty, explained to
the frightened hoy, and a bottle of
“ apple-jack ” restored him to liis nor
mal condition.
Massacre of a Texan Family Two
Young Ladies Made Cacti ve nv In
dians. — Waxhinyton, duty 17. The War
Department has details of the massacre
of tho Leo family on Clear Fork, sixteen
miles hehnv Fort, Griffin, Texas. The
father, mother and little girl eight years
of age were killed byarrows, then scalped,
and the bodies left with the arrows
sticking in them. Mrs. Lee’s cars were
cut off. Cordelia, aged 15, Bnsanua,
aged 17, and John Loo, aged (1, were
taken prisoners. The commander of tho
post at Fort Griffin sent scouting parties
after tho Indians, but there was gront
delay in starting owing to a flood in the
river, and there are but, small hopes of
overtaking tho murderers. Gen. Augor
fears that more extensive operations will
have to be taken against these Indians
before they will remain peaceable. With
Mexico on the one side and the reserva
tions on the other an places of refuge
and security lor themselves and their
plunder, the present defensive system
will not effect much.
Convention op the Stockholders op
the Atlanta and West Point Rail
road.—The Convention met in the City
Hall yesterday, at 12 o'clock, President
John I’. King in the Chair.
A. sufficient amount of stock being rep
resented, a quorum was declared pres
ent and tlio Convention proceeded to
business.
Tho report of the Superintendent was
then read and ndoptcil. From it wo
learn that the gross rovonuo for the year
ending Juno 30th, 1872, was #113,107 85.
Ordinary expenses, $274,231! Off Net
over ordinary expenses, #138,871 70.
Extraordinary expenses, #58,128 80. Net.
over all expenses, #7o,7ki 08. The ratio
of ordinary expenses to gross receipts is
nearly sixty-four per cent., being aljout
live per cent, increase over the previous
year. Net decrease of receipts for the
fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1872, is
#10,007 54. Tons of freight transporta
tion, 103,100. Bales of cotton trans
ported, 30,103.
Heme few remarks were made by Pres
ident King, regretting tli.i non-payment
of a dividend, explaining why it was not
done, and stating hew an arrangement
had been made which would relieve the
stock holders on account of its non-pay
ment.
Tho report was then received and
adopted.
There being no further business be
fore the Convention, an election for
Directors was then entered into, which
resulted in the election of John P. King,
Richard Peters, William B. Berry, Fer
dinand Bhinizy, John I'!. Robinson,
John F. Moreland and L. 15. Lovelace.
There being no further business, the
Convention adjourned nine. dir.
At a subsequent meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Atlanta and West
Point Railroad Company, John I*. King
was elected President ; W. P. Orme,
Hocrctary and Treasurer, and L. P.
Grant rooommouded for .Superintendent.
| AUunhi OouHtitutUm , 20 /h.
Raised Arkansas H<uup. Just now
there is a good deal of excitement and
indignation in Arkansas over adoop-hiid
plot to rob the State, by means of raised
scrip. It is stated that the swindle will
reach SIOO,OOO, if it does not even run
to a higher figure. Suspicious were
aroused bv a man named Johansen, who
was looked upon as a vagrant, offering
for sale a pi«wn of scrip at forty-five
cents on the dollar. Curiosity was ex
cited to know how ln> got hold of so
much money. The scrip was taken to
the Treasurer, who pronounced it, spu
rious. everything about it was all right
except the amount and numlmr,
which had been erased by acids or some
other chemical process.
This made a stir among the officials,
and it was soon asccnainod that a man
named Krnll had sold a piece of tho de
nomination of #3,000 forsl,(KM). Johan
sen and Krnll were arrested, and they
said they g«t the scrip from a man named
Murphy. Ho was arrested. He got it
from Timmons, and Timmons referred
to somebody else, and at last accounts
the authorities were still following back
the line of the implicated with but little
hope of ever reaching the right man or
men. The oii'oinnstance is somewhat
marvelloua,andshowsa deep-laid scheme
to rob. The examination is being con
ducted witli closed doors,and no newspa
per men boingadmitted excites still more
apprehension in the public mind. It is
suggested by tho newspapers that many
persons of prominence are in the con
spiracy, and that ou this account tho
matter will be hushed up or smoothed
over. No prominent man lias as yet
been named in this connection, and it is
hoped that duringtheoxamination sumo
of tho subordinates will tell who their
masters aro. Krull was held for liis ap
pearanoo boforo tho grand jury ou #lO,-
000 bond. It is strongly hinted that u
Government ring is at the bottom of
tho whole affair, and will encircle it witli
protection. The Attorney General, how
ever, insists upon pushing tho prosecu
tion. There is still some hope that jns
tico will be done, and that tlio real forg
ers and robbers will l>e brought to light
and receive due punishment,— St. fjouis
Republican,