The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1872, Page 4

4 “AME NOVEMBER CONTEST. SKETCHES OF ALCORN AND AMES + GREELEY'S CAUSE AT BALTIMORE. The Straight Democrats Fall- | ing Off. Feebly Props Grant. THE STUMP IN THE CAMPAIGN. | ons Confusion of the Cincinnati Se- lectm:n. | Forne WASHINGTON, May 29, 1872, To-day we had a heavy contest between the car- | pet-bagger pure and simple and the chivalrous | seallawag—between Ames and Alcorn—the former Ben Butler's son-in-law and a West Point Yankee, the latter au old Mississtppt planter of blue blood, who was clected by the same republican Legtsla- ture which made Ames Senato’ CHARACTER OF GENERAL AME: No men could be more like and unlike. Ames has | all the New England and military traditions; Alcorn all the Gulf State and democratic traditions, Ames is young, brave, cool, no very heavy weight in things intellectual, and purely an adventurer in 1c8. ® knows and resp ate of hi ippi, as evin ils willing vote to fede: e¢ the State, usurp its jurisprudence and reinstate yonet government, The potential hand law, reached out from Washington and opened the | books of the law to the mixed republican Legiga- | ture. Ames had vigor enough to pull the military strings, for he was a very good commander. He therefore came up to Washington directly through the regular army, to the Senate, the most explicit, undoubted and wonderful instance time of the Darwinian link between the brass regu- lation buttons and the conscript toga being dls: very little in the | | present era | | | | ali whom ho can | know which way to turn, * | out of se rin our | arrayed tor Greeley and Brown, and there is a howl | National Committee, covered. West Point tors the day Ames was elected. Amused with a rich and clegant wife, and know- | | camps ng littte of polltical government, young Ames has | have ine ace been merely @ youth sitting on the outer rim of | to burden him get and voting with his part ever, 18 the solid element of unfin courage, mental aud plysical, which wins respect nowhere so much as in the South—the courage which has given Warmoth and others success, Ames was 4 brave, roostery soldier, quitting West | Point for the battle fleld, like yosiing Urst taking | | | to the pond, making necessity a ght and an ac- complishment., In other re enator Ames is the most perfect realization of the admimstration’s Idea of party | civil law 1 say. | CHARACTER OF ALCORN Alcorn was a rich planter, full o ton bales, whom Jef Da aves and cot- Alcorn had raised for the Confederate army at his | own expense and labor, It isa good commentary on people who do nothing but ery “Sorehead!” that this soretiead Alcorn was led by his il treat- ment to look with the cold an made & school for Sena*"} Gon: | public It nilitary obedience, whatever the | oe is, in one of his uuac- | P countable distixes, disgraced soon after the rebel- | ifarris lion began, by taking away the command which | th of one jilted, | t) but not demoralized, upon the whole interior per- | sonnel aud motive of the Confederacy. He saw in (t now a ve pulled the st jugs and innocent peoy plundered. ‘The Confederacy lost its fne plumage | 9 to him, and with a genuine boldness which all | aig. | Cas must admire Alcorn, resolved to begin to suade the people from so much useless sacrifice. He began in Mississippi a systematic resistance to the war, imploring how cheap he esteemed the loss of slaves merely to the loss of estates, life and political riguts, he gave his large number of negroes freedom without a murmur and went into the reconstruction party. He Is one of the best exemplifications in the South of the class of men, native to the ‘eded States, which the republican party should have encouraged and fostere Instead of carpet-baggery and the | Ku Klux, those States in such hands would have | been ruled ere now by statesmen not unequal to | | and th those of the perished era. Alcorn is the only respected straight republican Senator from the South—Robertson, of South Caro- | but he has an invincible repugnance to the carpet- | bagger, and cannot understand how any self-re- specting man wili move into a new State and use | the crude elements and loose forces prevailing there to raise himself into the highest legislative oMce | in the land. The carpet-baggers perceive this, and, men like Spencer—once an army suttler from Ne- braska—complainingly say :— “Alcorn is an aristocrat. He advocates our meas- ares, but he hates us.” , “Despises’ would be a better word! And hence the debate of to-day, when Alcorn, unable longer to conceal his contempt, attacked the new Ku Klux legislation and Ames, The latter replied with some saucy vigor, putting a very sophomoric stress apon the fact that he had carved his way to the Senate with his sword—which was literally true; although, as Joshua Hillis said to have expressed | it, the self-eulogy would be more precise If it should say, “Boosted up into the Senate by the bayonets | of my command.” Ames and Alcorn are in years a generation apart. Alcorn is still a man of large means; his fine wife | wears the richest diamonds in Capitoline society, Ge is opposed by the relentless intolerance of many of the old rebels of Mississippi, and probably finds who look not at the alms in the hand that offers, but into the face of the giver, and reply, with my enemy, though I be a hu WILL WASHBURNE & Arumor prevails here that, discontented with what he hears and reads at a distance, and appre- hensive of calamity unless he returns, the resigna- ton of E. B. Washburne ag Minister to Paris has | been for some time in the hands of his friends, who | are deliberating whether the time has not come to give it to the President. THE FREE TRADERS’ FIZZLB. In 4 fortnight another candidate will have been | porn into the world to ran the campaign of 1872, | M and that candidate will probably be the last one in the field. A few of the more concelted free traders have been in Washington, seeking to make somo sort of fusion with any obstreperons Germans to run Charles Francis Adams, senior, or, {f possible, to have him named in Baltimore, but these get no support, and hardly like the probability of being made ridiculous. Iam told that a stout free trader warned Mr. D. A. Wells a few days ago that any in- terference on the part of the free traders with the Cincinnati candidacy woud make free trade con- temptible for years in this country, and no public man Would undertake to enter tuto a political con- vention with it again, ‘There is not one politician, one man, who under- stands the regimen and conduct of political cam- paigns, the motives of voters and sub-leaders, and the handling of great bodies of people to achteve political results, who entertains the remotest notion of 4 third candidate, Men ke Par win, Edward Atkinson, the Brinkerhoimt, & could be politicians, but are merely lyceum lee- turers and amateur composers, in only two ¢ ments are even men of this In Now England, where, under the similitude of disgusted fre traders, there are @ lot of boston folks in- lina, perhaps, excepted, who, like Alcorn, is to the manner born, Not that General Ames has forfelted personal respect, but the mode of his election and his half-legal surroundings, will never entitle him to that consideration which one receives who arises out of the soil, Whatever be the temporary ferment on the snrface. Alcorn accedes to negro suffrage, “Leat not | 'y human movement, where politicians | the rebel people to make terms and | save their children from beggary. And to show | doom | Julian, Ignatlus Donnelly—such are some 0! | liberal stumpers. ita hard task to seek to help an ungrateful people, | “is NEW YORK AERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1872—TRIPLE SHEE'. wardly outraged that so many years have elapsed since # candidate was taken up by — party that was raised at the Hub, The smothered provincial indignation of your modern Athenian lurks under many a face which proclaims that its only grievance is the free trade subject. THR OHIO GRUMBLERS. To this group belong the Atkinsona, Wells, the Godwins, &c., who keep up A spiutter about the merits of the Adams family. The other set of peo- ple who make some little noise live in Ohio, and are people of a lyceum education—sturdy free traders, and very much raised into importance in their own estination by the opportunities of display they hed in Cincinnatl, A number of these could not walt helfa day alter the Convention had nominated, so they ran oif and held a meeting to write themselves down ia Dogberry’s book, after which it was im- sible to make amendment. The temporary man of the Cincinnati Convention, who gets himsclf deeper in foolishness every time writes anew letter, is aman of very unequal capacity and unreliable energy. Sometimes, when carefully prepared, he enraptures lawyers and Juries, but, more frequently, appears dull, heavy and wearisome, THe belongs to a set of impractica- Dies, and it was well suid on the streets of Cincin- nati that he had never been known to be connected with any party or to begin any movement which turned out successfully. He declined to be chatr- man until within afew minutes of his appearance on the stage, and sent a telegraphic despatch to General Burnett the night before, refusing under veumstances to take that position, He now und everybody cheeriully agrees with him— , to use his own words, he is “not a success” ag a presi Heer or as A politician, Jud, rhoft, who has obtained a good deal of unnccessary sn in hes gg by fears? a8 an irrecon- cable, isa geay-haived, opinionated, sturdy old r whoin it is Impossible not to reapect, but utterly unprofitable to enter into an alliance with him, The day before the Convention met he ou ed himself to the following effect to several gonilomen:— “fhe original republicans of this State may be said to despise Genoral Grant’s administration, » appointments made by John Sherman among > a8 notable for the low personal grade of the people ected, and for their nepotism, as the President's own appointments.” 4 Mr. Greeley, even at that early day, Judge kerhott said:— ver, @ has come into this Convention at ali, he or his friends; for in the Western country the great passion which made us assemble here was | Tevenue reforin,”” Judge Brinkerhof has kept his consistency probably to the extent of having uo candidate at © for in this year of our Lord. 1B GREELEY PROSPECTS BRIGHTENING. Itis very certain that In the mutations of the in politics some people dy in epldation as to thelr future course will hi © go ‘boar Persons here report that Mr. Voorhies “lat the unanimity and vehomence of the yagainst him, and he has been told that he oko too promptly, aud lost his eifect by his precipit mn. Old Congressional stagers ave sitting wneasily on the fence, unadle to Newspapers slow to xpectation in supporting the republican veling the ult of their over-much de- on in the loss of subscriptions ead fierce s from old supporters, In Hlinols forty-five -flve democratic newspapers stand t pubiie split are libera protes thatif Wilbur F, Storey continues his opposition hat ticket he will be taken from his place on the One of the Iowa members of ays that in his State one-half of the re- ublicans and all the democrats are for Greeley. In jichigan General Grant. must not only enter the xn with his own record to defend, but also ulated enmities of Zach Chandler till more, ‘The protection interests a of that State are not afraid of Greeley, sad the war against Chandierism, — which has beea growing stronger from year to year, p him down at last. In this way gn will be made in three or four of the —in Ohio, against manism; in ha, against Mortonism; in Michigan, against one and in Pennsylvania against Camer- wisi. t t 1 1 ¢ 0 GRANT'S NEWSPAPERS. je will, probably, define the posi- This latter tion of Colonel Wspaper, the Press; for Ca om, With his hard North Irish nature, is now 8 0 diive Forney clear out of the republican P Forney had requested to be put at the head electoral ticket for Grant at the State Con- ‘ameron’s friends fought him to the » and when somebody said, “You had better balwer Forney; for he is not far inside the party Ines just now, and might bolt,” Cameron re- , “Let him go; we want him out of the party.’ that the two newspapers owned at <U Washington by other members of famiiy are in the same restless condl- hi he Sunday Chronicle—which is the only chronicie of any circulation, as the Daily Chronicle, one of snUs organs here, has been for sale for several months for the mere price of its type and x Says in one of these av published ‘sone men, in the tO agen ves and wield all power, forget that the: consulted, aud théy distribute patron- a nize movements Inside cliques, ex- pe iy else to fall into line. When'such Cunugs ave wadertaken without reference to the ind tur day are ie died or were | VWs of those who have hitherio given direction important niot to movements aad there is alw: guided a risk that these leaders will te and party divish » The true way to keep a great party Intact is to give every representative man a proper share of induence in this Internal management. The elevation of obscure men to positious which ought to be the rewards of statesmanship will de- sivoy any party that ever lived. The destiny or of the republican party depends upon the ption of the next few weeks. We have no pre- to candidates, and we think the preser- vation of the party more important to the country than the gratification of any man in it.” NEWSPAPERS IN THE CAMPAIGN. Among the powerful infuences in the pending political contest, the newspaper press is not to be forgotten, Philadelphia and Boston are the only first class cities in the country where the adminis- ration press is equal in influence and circulation to the Independent press. The defection of Por- ney’s journal in Philadelphia would probably be speedily followed by the desertion of the Jnquirer Evening Telegraph. The Leaver is not a political paper, and could not ec into the campaign. In that event Grant have no organs of any force in the eastern th {if State, and, except one venerable wud one unimportant ring journal, the Associated Press, the candi- date of the Philadelphia Convention would be aban- doned by his newspapers. The old bastion journals of republicanism at Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnatt and New York are all led by the new movement, and, in a campaign like this, the Independent press, to a considerable extent, dispenses with primary No other influences in our time could have given life and dimensions so suddenly toa new party, eXcept those journals which take example from the New YORK HkkaLp—although they were slow to learn it—and by the en- hanced cireniation and business of the war have superseded in income and power the journals of party. In portions of the country where ofice- holders run the journals—for example, at Colum- bus, Uhio—we are apprised of movements to organ- ize Newspapers more ly representing the wishes of the liberal constituency, THK PRESUDENT’S STUMP SPRAKERS, mine still further we shall find that, with of the republican newspapers against him, the President has also lost some of the very ablest popular orators who might have been reliéd upon | lo take the stump in his favor, and in the South, | particular as nobody of consequence, Ad- | vices rece i here indicate that such old stagers | as Dick 3 have gone by the board. Many of | these impetuous Ilberals have already taken the field, like Pixley in California and Fitch in Nevada, The adminis’ loyed Fitch last year in the New ions, and paid him the | largest sums recelved by anybody for stumping in the country. John A. Logan, who is powerful before tho people in the three great Western States, ex- hibits no enthusiasm in this contest. Senator Nye, of Nevada, who has been for many years influential before audiences, returned disgusted from Connec- ticut last week, where he hal been at work for Hawley—with what indifferent success we now know. Carl Schurz, Judson Kilpatrick, Geor, ev. 8 Not ouly Uae newspapers and stump orators ap- pear to be ont of the fght—and we must not forget Andy Curtin, the most popular ee speaker Penn- ‘yivania hus over had, who, it is belleved, will take the fleld against Grant if he returns in due season— but the exchequer which is required for a vast na- tlonal ca 1 is not very reliable this year for the Pr friends, GRANI'S CAMPAIGN EXCHEQUER, The Secretary of the Treasury is too fond of his purse strings to devise any methods of diverting this or Phat fund into the canvass, as has been done in peribds nearer to the irregular time of the war, ‘The manufacturing interest, which has heretofore subseribed liberally to carry out the oan se be is year sitting with supreme inditference between Grant and Greeley; for “how happy can they be with either!” The large banking interests, which have hitherto paid up liberally—as, for example, J Cooke gave $25,000 in 1868 to elect Grant—these gentlemen now find that money {s not so plentiful, that the government has it less tn its power than before to make private citizens and bankers rich, and some of the leading banking firms in the country want achange. Ap olicer of the House of Representatives (Clinton Lloyd) remarked the other day to a group of per- sons “Grant ought to be beaten. He has been humor- Ing these civil service fanatics to the extent of for- bidding assessments to be levied upon clerks and officials and now he desires to bo re-clected, after he has destroyed the revenue for his election in his rear.” Mr. Gorham, Secretary of the Senate, comment- ing on Hawley’s deafat Said, with much ‘sarcasm :— “Hawley didn’t belleve {n caucus government and thought clectlons ought to be made extremuly moral and no partiality exercised to accomplish political ends, I hope he is satisiied with the per- sonal application of these noble ideas to his Sena- torial opportunities.”’ Irit sould be deemed necessary to change the President's notions on the ciyil service “for this campaign only? and assess upon all political omcials to Keep up the a what will become of Mr. George William Curtls’ which is now, as we well know, based upon his be- lef in. the President’s high Teform intentions * How, then, will the Cincinnati stumpers and news- papers take up tho cry of a return to corruption @ud party terrorism? “More than this, how is it public | support, | possible for Governor Morton to to Indiana and accompiish anything there without funds, which he has always drawn heretofore from some part of the East? And itis charged that it took $209,000 from the Treasury to put him into the United States Senate. As far as can be seen, the fluancial resources of the administration are smaller than they have been since Mr, Lincoln's drst election, ‘The large corpo- rations fight shy. CONGRESS HAS NO CANDIDATS. Tho House oj Representatives, if polled to-day on the ground of predilection only, would show two- thiras majority against Grant, although a great many members give him ostensible support, fearful that any other movement would lose them thelr districts—such, for example, a8 Burchard, Garfield, Hay, and, perhaps, even Dawes himself, Among men holding executive positions there will be very little enthusiasm in this campaign, because of tho generally diffused bellef that there will be no great measure of rotation applied tu case of Mr. Greeley'’s election, the pate at Cincinnati committing the President to liberality, reform and magnaminity in respect to his political selections, If next fall's Congressional elections were done, the House of | Representatives would at this time be in declared opposition by a very large majority to President Grant's re-election. From distant parts of the country news comes every day of the defection of this or that leading man—here a State Governor, and there an ex-Senator—while scarecly one mail which has come since the Cincinnati Convention | brings the news of a new recruit to General Grant. HBADS AND ISSUES PEEING UP, Horatio Seymour has written here to 8, 5. Cox and others, saying that while he has not been on | intimate personal! ti 8 With Mr. Greeley for some time, yet he recognizes the coming of the revoln- tlon, and sees considerations and results contingent upon it which the democratic party should think calmly over before opposing. Governor Hoffman, of New York, who is generally believed to hold the jJeading influence in the State at present, having passed through the late defect and ordeal without stigma or ‘ach, was one of the most ardent spirits when the Clacinnati Convention was in ses- sion, and wrote to his republican friends there to go ahead and nominate alter thelr own judgment, and rely upon the democrats of New York being with them, was informed as late as yesterday that he had not changed this sentiment in any re- spect. The Pres.dent appenrs to hold as yet nearly solidly the negro vote. If he can retain this it renders Sout! Carolina sure for him. Buta vigor- ous and vehement canvass will be made all through the Sonth, particularly among the blacks, and these latter have shown within two years considerable | aptitude for compromise, as in the elty of Charles: , ton, for example, where the negroes of means have fairly divided with the late rebels, accepting part of the offices and constructing a municipal govern- ment which Is sald not to be excelled in the coun- ay for the honesty of its oflcials and the security which it atfords to life and property. The scelawag clement of the South, composed of native renegades to white prejudices, has been for two years cm- brotled with the carpet-bag element, the scalawars insisting that they should have all the patronage in States where they reside and claiming to bo on good terms with both rebels and negroes, and capable of (ee without resorting to military rule and with less scandal than the carpet-baggers have brought. In States where the democratic party polls a very great vote—New York excepted—there is considera- ble talk fora straight ticket at Baltimore, Delaware, for example, where the Saulsburys rule and ruin by @ non-republican State constitution, and Penn- sylvania, where the democratic politicians rejectea Hancock at the only time when they could’ have elected him, to divide Asa Packer's money—theso States want everything straight and nothing dis- turoed, But in Michigan, Ullnois and Iowa the democrats are tired of getting nothing at home or at Washington, and want Greeley. ABBE M’MASTERS RAMPANT. The Freeman’s Journal Declares War Against the “Champion Woodchopper” and Nails His Colors to the Mast. (From the New York Freeman's Journal (Catholic organ) for this week.] CAN THR DEMOCRATIC PARTY ENDORSH GREELEY AND GRATZ BROWN? No! anda thousand times no! The attempt of any corrupt or cowardly leaders to betray the demo- cratic purty thus would be onty the declaration that the democratic party was captured and had sur- rendered, bag and baggage, body and boots, to ita most implacable enemy. Private bargains may have been made, but democrats will never ratify them. If, to suppose the impossidle, the Democratic Con- vention at Baltimore, in next July, were to nomt- nate no ticket; and if no other rally of democrats to name a ticket were to be made, and we were to be left with the beggarly cholce between Grant and Grecley—between the “man on horse- back! and the willlng instrument of all | the free-lovers, “internationals,’? Communists and other foes of morality, society and rell- zion—the general verdict would be—“Grant rather than Greeley !"" We cannot imagine our commit- | ting ourself to the support of Grant, But wo say, distinctiy and deliberately, that a3 a man, a Chris- tian, as the head of a tamily, aud asa citizen hav- ing the duty of trying to guard our conntry from the moat siameful degradation, if we Were tied up | to the desperate choice, we must use all our influ. ence for continuing the rule of Grant, the stupid “man on horseback,” against Gre the man with- out diselpline, without dogtring, and akin to every abomination in America or in arORS that wowa dethrone God, revile the revi n of God's trath, and frate e with the Commune, the International and every other scheme of devil-worship. Our in- stincis teach us to oppose this lawless person, as tf he were the plenipotentiary of the Antichrist. The vulgar plundering fellow “on horseback" is merely human—and a very poor “human” at that. But, at least, he is not a Oa, bewitched tool of the devil, on plan made, by bad women and men, as Mr, Greeley is. If the fight for the next Presidency were to lio, as it will not, between Grant and Greeley, we here nall our colors to the wall. We do not think it possible that we could vote for Grant, or recom- mend any one to doit, But what we are sure we can do, and must do, supposing that this tool of the infamous classes of the Communists, Mr. Horace Greeley, continues in the fleld as a Presidential candidate—an event we do not anticipate—will be to show that no one, except an idiot, can so insult the God of Heaven as to vote for him, except such as hate God and human society. But, if we have any political forecaste, we pre- dict that Mr, Horace Greeley will not be a candidate in the fleld for President next November. In what we have said of Mr. Grecley we ignore ail about his private life. We take him as he has revealed him- self to the public in the 7ribune, of which he has been the creator and the autocrat. SENATOR S0HURZ ON HORACE GREELEY. An Easier Campaign Than He Wished to See=Greeley and the Germans, {Washington (May 11) correspondence of the Chi- cago Tribune.) Irode up to the Capitol to-day with Senator Schurz, He does not feel that anybody has be- trayed him, or that the Convention at Cincinnatt did not understand itself. “We have an easior campaign before us,” he said, “than I wished to see. With great obstacles, we should have made an intellectual campaign, and, by harder fighting, have come out no worse. Now, with a good, honored, popular ticket, the campaign will need no especial marshalship. I preferred Mr, Adams as a high exemplar of the reform spirit. I think that Governor Brown’s advocacy of Greeley helped Greeley to this extent; that it reinvig- orated Greeley’s friends, who had already come to | the conclusion that their favorite had no chance.” Senator Schurz said that the Germans and the German Journals were somewhat electrified, at first, at Greeley’s success, like a man proposing to take a tepid shower bath and by mistake letting on the cold stream ; but, he sald, the signs were of the sen- sation rowing more pieasant and being approved healthful. His own paper had first declared for Greeley, and now half a dozen leading German chapean blanc. The temperance question did not disturb the Germans, as Mr. Greeley had a perfect right to make a perate examiple of himself, and the Germans were a proyerbially tem- perate and frugal people, and had no issue to make of that kind not coercive upon their estab- lished menage and national method of recreation, The feeling among the Germans—if there existed any—Wwas rather as to general reform in its highest urpose, for which all German-Americans were ar- | dent, and this jing, perhaps, implied a doubt as to whether Mf. Greeley’s advisers in polities were imbued with the reforin spirit. The expression of Mr, Grecley's fullest assent in the reforms expressed in the Cincinnatl platform would have the best ef- fect upon the German people, who already knew Mr. Greeley to have had at one time power to give great encouragement tothe Know Nothing move- it, from reasons of principle and sympathy will all schools of foreigners. CONGRESSIONAL MOVEMENTS IN 10WA. The following are among the names already men- tioned in connection with the republicans for Congress from Iowa, and the opposition party to hear from + First district—McCrary, Weaver, Stone, Gear, Korkhill, Beardslee and Benn Second dlstrict— | Cotton, McKean, Rothrock, Wolf and Lane; Third | district—Donnan, Bulls, Larrabee, Hobson, Upde- wt and Henderson; Fourth distvict—Woodrul, ‘att, Card, Burke, nger, Leavitt, Ordway, Bagg, | Millet, Crittenden,’ Powers, Clark, ’Close, Gay and | Streeter; Fifth dis triet-—Wilson, Conklin, Thonipson, rost, Shane, Boel, Kirkwood, Clark, Woodbury and | Griswold; Seventh district—-Palmer, Kasson, Mer- rill, Maxwell, Murray and ; Eighth district— Sapp, Mebill and Anderson; Ninti’ distriet—Orr, | Ford, Eastman, Manning and Fitch, In all ghxty- one names, with ninety-nine counties in the State, It is understood that ex-Governor Merrill, of lowa whose residence is now in Des Moines, will ot Seeens be the er ine pe isd as a candidate for Jongress in case it {s deemed essential to harwon- Jae the Paliner-Kassou foud, fe journals had come out for the philosopher and the | ment, and that he had persistently refused to touch | MASSACHUSETTS. Proposed Labor Reform Mass Meet- ing in Favor of Grant. ————+- Wondell Phillips on Greeley—The Old Man and Jeff Davis Inseparable—If the Philosopher is Elected tho Rebel Chief Will Surely Have a High Position Near the President. Boston, May 22, 1872. A desperate and determined effort ts about being made in Massachusetts to commit the labor reform party of the State to the support of General Grant and in opposition to Mr. Greeley. Next week there is to be » grand mass meeting of those interested in the labor interest in the Tremont Temple, and it will probably be managed by Mr. Cummings and othera heretofore prominently identified with the labor reform party of the country. Wendell Phil- lips will also take an active part in it, and either the presence of General Butler and Senator Sumner or letters from them are expected—a fact which indicates that the distinguished Senator has not and is not likely to support the candidates and platform put forth by the recent Cincinnati Con- vention, WILSON OVERLOOKED. Invitations to both Sumner and Butler have been forwarded, but, singularly enough, none has yet been sent to Senator Wilson, inasmuch as the latter gentleman is an avowed supporter of Grant as well as a candidate for the Vice Presidency on the ticket with him, and @ man who sprung from the ranks of labor himself. There is something significant in the fact that he was not invitod with or instead of Senator Sumner, This and other important mat- ters will probably be developed at the proposed mass labor gathering here next week, and it is not unlikely that @ movement will be inaugurated nov only tocommit the labor reformers of Massachusetts but of the whole country to the support of General Grant. This is certainly in contemplation, but whether the movement will develop into a general one or not hae time will determine, Mr. Cum- mings, who is the recognized leader of the labor party In Massachusetts and the Bast, will run the convention in connection with Wendell Phillips, aud, perhaps, General Butler, WENDELL PHILLIPS SPEAKS. Mr, Cummings had an interview to-day with Mr. Phillips, in which the latter talked very plainly upon the pecan aspect of national politics, and committed himself to Grant in preference to Gree- ley, although it is more than likely that he will not vote for either candidate, “You know,” said Mr. Phillips, “that I am neither @ republican nor @ Grant man; who I shall vote for, or whether I will voto at all I do not know, but certainly, as against Greeley, I aim for Grant. We have had one Andy Johnson—I will not run the risk of getting another in, and Horace Greeley is such. IT want @ man with some decided principles, Greeley never had any. Besides, | consider Grecley a secession candidate. 1 belleve the plot to nominate him was hatched by Southern white rebels more than a year ago, and has been mainiy nursed by them. 1 advise any one who means to vote for him to find out first what agreements have been made by Mr. Greeloy's friends with Jett Davis and his statt as to oflice and patron- age. WHAT PART WILL JEFF DAVIS PLAY ? Iam perfectly certain that there is a distinct mutual understanding, if not a positive contract, between them. If Horace Greeley enters the White House, Jey Davis will be as truly part of the administration as Seward was in Lincoln's day. No uegro can vote for Greeley who values his life or property, or cares for his race. If by a frown of Providence he is elected, I shall advise every South- ern ioyalist to load the revolvers that Grant's ar- rest of North Carolina Ku Klux has allowed to be laid aside; if he is elected let the negroes live in squads of fifty, whom no coward will dare shoot down, and show no property after sunset. Lonely men Will be shot, and no black man will own a mule forty-eight hours if any rebel Knows the fact. ADAMS NO OBSTACLE, As for Adams, Ido not fear him. An aristocrat by birth and a democrat from perverseness, the love of money makes such a crisis possible. He is a demociat, but afraid to confess his creed or wear its uniform; if any party allows him to lead it he Will lead it to its grave, as all the Adams’ have always done, Old John Adams’ vanity, bigotry and hate of Hamilton put the federal party in its tomb, John Quincy Adams’ administration was the death blow of the whig party. ‘They were called repubit- cans. The light which gilds the dams’ is that of sunset; they insure defeat. Chatham said Sir Wil- liam Young’s voice was the de: knell of his country. ‘The breath of an Adams’ fame has tho OKILL OF THE CHARNEL HOUSE init. Let thei nurse their money bags like timld misers, and allow bolder and more unselfish men, whose foreheads are lit by the rising sun, to help the world, undisturbed by their greedy ambition or their garrulous crotchets, For a loyal administration to protect the negro, awe the rebel and give the workingmen a chance, Graut's little fluger is worth a baker's dozen of eleys. ARKANSAS GRANT REPUBLIOANS, Senator Rice Dividing the Ranks in Fae vor of Greeley and Brown=—Many of the Administration Delegates Disgusted and Gone Home, Litr.e Roox, May 22, 1872, Senator Rice's Convention met to-day, and, after effecting a temporary organization, adjourned until to-morrow at ten o'clock. Prior to the Senator's arrival the delegates were in favor of sending a delegation to the Philadelphia Convention; since his arrival things have changed, and at a caucus held last night a majority of the delegates favored an endorsement of ante? and Brown and the Cincinn th platform. This action of Senator Rice his disgusted many of the delegates, who have gone home, as well as many who are here, who say they will withdraw if Grant is not endorsed. The general impression is that a ticket will be putin the fleld on to-morrow, and that no delegates will be sent to Philadelphia. The democratic organ says they will not support the ticket unless Gi and Brown are exidorsed, ILLINOIS, The Gubernatorial Contest Commenced at Springfield. CurcaGo, May 22, 1872. The State Republican Convention, which meets at Springfleld to-day, will nominate Ex-Governor R. G. Oglesby for Governor probably by acclama- tion, ashe has no opposition, The main contest will be over the nomination of Lieutenant Gover- nor, as it is understood that Oglesby will be elected to the United States Senate by the next Legis- lature, when the Lieutenant Governor would suc- ceed him tn the Governorship. The present indica- tions are that C. B. Farwell, Congressmanfrom this district, will secure the nomination of Lieutenant Governor, MAINE REPUBLICANS. The Second District Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, LEWISTON, Me., May 22, 1872. The Second District Republican Convention to- day renominated William P. Frye for Congress by acclamation. F, E. Slaw, of the Oxford Democrat, and A. H. 8. Davis, of the Farmington Chronicle, were elected delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, John H. Kimball, of Bath, was nominated for elec. tor. Resolutions favoring Grant aud Celfax were unanimously adopted. DISCOVERY OF A MAGNIFICENT MARE’S N Administration Conspiracy to Defeat Greeley. (From the St. Louis Republican Gratz), May 20.] A BOLD ADMINISTRATION SCTEME, We have reliable advices from Washington con- cerning & bold scheme meditated by President Grant and his party to secure his re-election, This is to be accomplished through a democratic nomi+ nation of a third ticket at Baltimore, and to have this nomination made the admluistration is exert- ing itselfto the utmost. A number of influential Southern men have been invited to Washington, (Greeley and without betug informed what they were to come | for, and some of these gentlemen are now in that city. Their presence has led to inquiry, and it has leaked out that the administration party has made them this proposition: they will send delega- tions from the Southern States to Baltimore in- structed to demand a democratic nomination, or to bolt the Convention in case it refuses to take that step and make a nomination, the administration party will pass the bill to refund the cotton tax, gran Great Western Canal of Geor and grant aid and subsidies to other Southern enterprises and schemes now before Congress, This is an outiine of the ne- gotiation, and if the country will watch the pro- ceedings at Washington closely for the next few days it wil a bold development of it, It ts said that one or two of the Southern men interested in the enterprise referred to are disposed to Hsten to the administration’s proposition, but, asa general | thing, they resolutely reject it, and’ determine to take their chances under tho administration of Hiorace Greeley and a iriendly Congress, rather than fall into the trap, This is the first aduinistra- tion scheme to defeat Greeley; others will follow In due time, id to the Atlantic and | | sation with Mr. Vreeland, in Platt’s office; he said MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL NOTES. Fayette McMullen, of the Marion (Als.) Southern Patriot, supports the Cincinnati ticket, whether It 1s endorsed by the democrats or not. McMullen ts an old Southern democratic campaigner, and was once in Congress, General Boynton, Adjutant General of the State { of Maine, and @ democrat of the older school, 19 now singing campaign songs in favor of Greeley. Bion Bradbury Boynton, Babson, McFarland, Blod- gett, Mudgett, &c., propose to get up a grand jubuortum in Bangor before: election—say on or about the 18th of Jnne. The Boston Advertiser (administration) and the Boston Post (democratic) of yesterday both pub- lish Greeley's letter of acceptance, but have nothing to say editorially about it. The Boston Advertiser says Senator Hamlin, in offering his resolution to expel a reporter from the Senate, committed a hasty and foolish act. Docs Hamlin go for Greeley or Grant? ‘The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times quotes an arti- cle from the HeraLp and makes this pithy remark editorially :—“The speculations of the HERALD are entitled to much weight, for it is the shrewdest political prognosticator in the country, and very seldom gets on the wrong track.” Dan Voorhees don’t swallow Grant, Grecley or Gritz. He prefers to growl. The Detroit Free Press (democratic) gives the following impromptu advice to the Secretary of State:— The claims you made at Washington You humbly now withdraw. Pray drop the name of Hamilton, And take the name of Crave. Colonel James M. Cavanaugh (a hard shell demo- crat, and the best delegate in Congress Montana ever had) he, too, comes out for Greeley, He will be a candidate for Congress at the next election, running as a democrat with Greeley proclivities. Forney sticks to Grant and Colfax, and ex- claims :—“Just think for a moment of any democrat supporting Horace Greeley.” Be that as it may, it is pretty clear that a good many democrats aro that way of thinking about these days, John Greeley, uncle of Horace, died recently in Londonderry, N. H., at the ripo old age of eighty- elght. His last wards were that ‘Horace never would be President.” It is not stated whether tho old gentleman’s will is to be contested on the ground that he was not ofsound mind at the timo of his “taking o1f.’" The Providence Journal (administration) says:— “No one will question Mr. Greeley’s abilities as a Journalist and editor; but whenever he has ap- proached the confines of statesmanship he has per- petrated nothing but blunders, which, had they been carried into effect, would have brought ruin to the country.’” The Washington Patriot (democratic) says of the Cincinnati platform with the Rochester endorse- ment :— We can welcome to itany man, whatever his past opinions, who can stand upon it. However he may have differed with us about slavery or suffrage, orthe distribution of powers between the State and federal governments, ts no longer the question, if he will only now be with the democracy in se- curing these fundamental rights of the people, But we wait to hear from Messrs. Greeley and Brown to know how they propose to “represent these principles.” A Western paper (Greeley) says the first name of Dan Voohees is now spelled with an “m.’? Tho Utica Herald (republican) calls Greeley tho “democratic stool-pigeon.”” " Leslie Combs, of Kentucky, whom the Mobile Register says came over with Ponce de Leon, and is the only survivor of that noble band of adventurers who drank the waters of the true El Dorado, is out for Greeley. General Combs is one of the “old times Rocks” of the grand old Henry Clay times of Ken- tucky. ‘The Chicago Times (democratic) calls out to the democrats “Halt!” and not commit themselves too hastily for Greeley. The lame and the blind are already committed for Greeley, and now we see that the “halt” are going to fight it out on the same line. After reviewing the situation and making out a case extremely favorable to the “Sage of Chappa- qua,” the St. Louis Republican (Greeley and Gratz) exclaims :— With this overwhelming disposition among the democratic masses to support Greciey and Brown, and with no popular opposition to them anywhere discoverable In the democratic ranks, why should not the democracy, with one spontaneous voice, declare for that ticket at once, and thus, ina cer- tain sense, make it thelr own’ Now is the time for the “latest sage" to sing to his democratic friends the old song— Am I not fondly thine own? THE JERSEY CITY FRAUDS, Continuation of The Conspiracy Trial< Spicy Testimony of A Newark Man— How To Get Votes In The Board of Pablic Works—A “Rich-Poor Man”— The Plot Thickening. The trial of Messrs. Bumsted, Welsh and Vreeland for conspiracy to defraud the municipality of Jersey City was continued yesterday, before Judges Bedle and Newkirk. John H. Platt and Henry Arthur, the latter en- gaged at one time in Platt’s office, were exemined. Platt testifled that he was connected with Mr, Vree- Jand in the purchase of property for the new reser- voir, and received his share of the commissions in these transactions. Mr. Jacob Skinkle, of Newark, gave some very important testimony. Mr. Vreeland sought him out, and a meeting in reference to the sale of Skin- kle’s property was held between them at the ofice of the Board of Public Works in Jersey City. Mr. Vreeland told him he had been authorized by the Board to purchase property “in that neighbor- hood.” Skinkle offered to sell his property— about sixteen lots—for $20,000. He was in- troduced to Benjamin F. Welsh at that meeting by Mr. Vreeland. The witness then continued as follows:—Mr. Vreeland spoke avout commissioners being appointed; he said ay preferred to buy it without having any commissioners appointed; I told them (Vreeland and Welsh) that rather than have any commissioners appointed, and have any trouble with them, I would sell the property for $16,000; Welsh told Vreeland he did not think they wanted the whole property; ina subsequent con- versation with Vreeland he asked me how much any, I would want on the bh if he should buy it himself; he sald that the city pre- ferred to take the property from him ‘rather than from other parties; he said, in answer to my nestion that he was not permanently employed by the Board, but that he received cominissions from the Board on all the property he purchased; he said he should charge me two and a half per cent com- misston, and that other property owners had paid him commissions ; in another conversation he sald that he had great diMcnity In getting my matter throngh; that one of the members of the Board (Bray) objected to voting for the purchase of ny property until he “saw” him; he called on Bray and asked him why he objected to this when he had voted for the others, and he replied that the other parties had paid him a commission for voting to put theirs through; Vrecland further stated to me that he told Bray he would give him his (Vree- Jand’s) two and a half per cent and take chances ot getting something from me; I remarked that I felt surprised that @ man of Mr, Bray's position would. sell himself out for such a small amount; Vreeland replied that Bray was one of those rich-poor men—(laughter) ho always wanted money; I stated to him flnally that ff he did not get backewhat he paid to Mr. Bray he should have it from me, On_cross-examination by Mr. Winfleld witness sald :—Vreeland called on me for his com- mission; I told him | would pay the two and a half, but no more; he insisted that he had paid Mr. Bray and Mr. Platt; T said, “What has Platt todo with it?” Mr. Sandford, cashier of the First National Bank, testified to the handwriting of Mr. Vreeland in a i sent by the latter to Mr. Skinkle, The letter s read by the District Attorney and was as fol- lows = Duan Sin—I have secured three votes of the Public Works for the purchase of can make the commission flye per the fourth man, Se truly, This letter was dated August 8, 197). The next witness was Charies 0. Nicoll, who was deputed by Messrs. Gillett and Bray, of the Board of Public Works, to make an estimate of the vaule of the property required for the new reservoir. He testified that the Benedict property was not worth more than twenty-five thousand dollars (the Board of Public Works paid $53,000 for it) ; had a conver. the price I asked for my. property was too high; I remarked that he made a yeat deal of fuas about my property, wien in the other cases he pald the — prices asked; ho replied that he was situated differently then, that he was acting for the city, and had wn limited power; Ltold hun that he had made @ good | thing out of the city; that he ougit to be Indicted | by the Grand Jury, and that he had cheated the city Ont of several thotsand dollars; he replied that he Ald not care. about the Grand Jur [nen lapeke about the Benedict property he sald that that was business, to make mor wane Court adjourned till this morning, FLEETWOOD PARK. Second Day of the Spring Meeting. Fine Trotting, an Elegant Attend- ance and Delightful Weather. Grace Bertram the Winner of the 2:34 Purse and Judge Fullerton the 2:25 Contest. The grounds of Fleetwood were splendidly fllea yesterday afternoon by the lovers of turf spor and the club house and grand stand presented » magnificent appearance. Tho trotting consisted of two contests for the regular purses, tho 2:34 an@ 2:25 events, and the enthusiasm caused by old veterans was never excelled. The Trotting. The track was in capital condition, and the trot. ting, in polnt of speed, was very satisfactory. Two races came off, the first being for a purse of $1,200, for horses that had never beaten 2:34; $700 to the first, $300 to the second, and $200 to the third horse; mile heats, best three in five, in harness. For this event there were cight entries, six of which came to the post. These were the chestnut mare Grace Bertram, dun gelding G. L, Fox, black gelding Bight Bells, gray gelding Gray Eddie, black gelding Camors, and gray gelding St. Elmo. Grace Bertram was the favorite over the field. She won the race in three straight heatsin capital style. There was great complaint about the manner in which Camors was driven, and charges were made to the judges that the horse was not allowed to do his best. The judges, how- ever, dismissed the complaints, they being unable to detect anything wrong in the management of the horse, The second race was for horses that had never beaten 2:25, the purse being $2,500; $1,500 to go to the first horse, $600 to the second, $400'to the thirds taile heats, best three in five, in harness. There were five entries, and they all started. These were the chestnut gelding Judge Fullerton, bay stallion W. . Allen, ‘ay mare Sea Foam and sorrel stallion Byron, Judge Fuller- ton was the favorite over the fleld at two to one He won the first, third and fourth heats, the sec- ond being taken by W. H. Allen. Great fears were entertained by the owner of Judge Fullerton that the horse would have to beat 2:25 to win, but the other horses were not as good as was anticipated. W. H, Allen won the second heat by ascratch, Juc Fullerton broke up in the heat, and Mace did not force the horse until he came into the homestrete! when the distance was too short for the horse, an W. H. Allen won the heat by a half length. The following are the details of the sports of tne day:— THE FIRST TROT, First Heat.—Gray Eddie had the lead, Eight Bella second, St. Elmo third, Camors fourth, Grace Ber- tram fifth, G. L. Fox sixth. The horses went in this way around the turn, but when they reached the quarter pole, which was passed in thirty-seven and a quarter, Gray Eddie was still in front, Eight Bells second, Grace Bertram third, Camors fourth, St. Elmo fifth, G. L. Fox far behind. At the halt mile pole Grace Bertram was first, Camors second, St. Elmo third, Eight Bells fourth, Gray Eddie fifth, Fox as before. Time, 1:14. Going uj the backstretch Camors trotted very fast an showed his head in front at the three- quarter pole, Grace Bertram second, Gray Eddie third, Eight Bells fourth, St, Elmo fifth and G. L, Fox sixth. Camors fell off coming up the homestretch, and.Grace Bertram won the heat by @ length, Camors second, Kight Bells third, Gray E die fourth, St. Elmo fifth, @. L. Fox sixth, Time, 2 9 ‘Second Heat,—The horses were started on very even terms, and as they passed around the turn St. Elmo led, Grace Bertram second, G. L. Fox third, Gray Eddie fourth, Eight Bells fifth, Camors sixth. At the ;quarter pole G. L. Fox was in front, in thirty-seven and a nalf seconds; Grace ee secohd, St. Elmo third, Gray Eddie fou Elght Bells fifth, Camors vt behind. On the lower turn Grace Bertram went to the front, and led four lengths to the half-mile pole, in 1:15, St. Elmo second, G. L, Fox third, Gray Eddie fourth, Eight Bells fith, Camors sixth. Grace Ber- tram kept the gap open up the backstretch, and was five lengths ahead at the three-quarter pole, G, L. Fox second, St, Elmo third, Gray Eddie fourth, Light Bells fifth, with Camors at his wheel. Grace Bertram came finely up the homestretch and won the heat by eight lengths, G. L. Pox second, half a length ahead of . Elmo, who was halt a length in front of Gray Eddie, the latter being four lengths im advance of Eigit Bells, who was one length im front of Camors. Time, 2:39, i ht Bells had the best of the send o:f and led around the turn, St. Elmo second, @. Le third, Grace Bertram fourth, Gray Eddie fifth, sixth, At the quarter pole G. L, Fox wag first, St. Elmo second, Light Bells third, Grace Ber- tram fourth, Gray Eddie fifth, Camors sixth, The time was thirty-six seconds, At the half.mile pole G. L. Fox still led, St. Eimo second, Grace Bertram third, Blght Boulg fourth, Camors att Gray Badlg sixth, Tim . Golng ap the backstretch Gri Bertram went to the front, leading a couple of lengtlis at the three-quarter pole, and coming up the homestretch steadily won the heat by twa lengths, St. klmo second, Camors third, Gray Eddie fourth, G. L. Fox flith, Eight Belis sixth, Time, 2:30%. ‘The following 13 a a: SUMMARY, FLertwoop Park, May 22—Purse $1,200, for horses that have never beaten 2:34; $700 to the first, $300 to the second and $200 to the third horse; mile heats, best three in five, in harness, D. Pfifer entered ch. m. Grace Bertram. P. Mance entered g. g. J, J. Bow entered bik, g. Cam Colonel Dickey entered dun W. BE. Weeks entered bik. g. Kig George Ellis entered g. g. Gray Eddie. A. Patterson entered br. m. Brown Kitty... dr. J. Dugrey, Jr., entered br. m. Fanny Lambert dr. TIME. Hoy. Lilt Quarter, First heat Second he Third heat. 36 HE SECOND TROT, First Heat.—The horses iad a very good start, with the exception of Judge Fullerton, who was four or five lengths behind. W. H. Allen took the d at the turn, Byron second, Huntress third, Sea Foam fourth, Judge Fullerton fifth, At the quarter pole W. H. Allen had two lengths, Byron second, one length in front of Judgg Fullerton, Muntress fourth, Sea Foam fifth. Golng along the lower turn Judge Fullerton trotted to the front and led half a length at the half-mile pole, W. H. Allen sec- ond, Byron third, Huntress fourth, Sea Foam still in the rear, Going up the backstretch Judge Fal- lerton opened a gap of four lengths, but as proached the three-quarter pole he was taken in hand and came steadily and leisurely on from there to the stand, winning easily by a length; Huntress second, W. It. Allen third, Byron fourth, ’Sea Foam fifth. Time to the quarter-pole, thirty-six seconds; to the half-mile pole, 1:10%, and the heat In 2:2p%. Second Heat,—iluntres: the best of the start, Fullerton second, W. H. Allen third, Byron fourth, Sea Foam fifth; and they passed around the turn im this way. As they reached the quarter pole Hunt- ress led one beg W. H. Allen second, one length ahead of Byron, who was one length In ad- vance of Judge Fullerton, who had broken up om the way there, Sea Foain fifth, Time, thirty-six seconds, Going around the lower turn W. H. Al- | len continued ¢o lead, Huntress second, Fullerton third, Sea Foam fourth and Byron iitth. foes the halfinile pole in that order, In 1:1, = W. HH, Allen” kept the lead up the backstretch, the others following in the manner described above. As they entered the homestretch Judge Fullerton made an eifort to Win the heat, but was unsuccessful, as W. H. Allen beat him to the score by half a length, Huntress a9 good third, Sea Foam fourth, Byron fifth. Time, ‘They ie Third Heat.—W. H. Allen was first. awi Hun- tress second, Judge Fullerton third, Sea Foam fourth. Going along the turn to the quarter pole Judge Fullerton was in the pocket until W. 1. Allen broke up, when Fullerton took second place, Huntress running in front of him to the quarter pole, which wag passed in thirty-six seconds. Huantress broke up and ran in front of Judge Fullerton around the lower turn, and was a length in front of him at the half-mile pole, in 1:11. W. H. Allen and Sea Foam were far behind. Fullerton lay close up ta Huntress up the backstreteh, notwithstanding her running, and stald there until he got into the homestretch, when he passed her and won the heat by a length. ' The judges put Huntress fourth in the heat for running. This arrangement made Sea Foam second and W. H. Allen third. Time, 2:27, Fourth Heat.—The horses had a very even send- off, but as they passed around the turn Judge Ful- lerton trotted to the front, W. H, Allen second, Huntress third, Sea Foam fourth, When the horses reached the quarter pole, which was passed im thirty-six and a half seconds, Judge Fullerton led three lengths, W. H. Allen second, two lengths in front of I{nntress, thelatter being ten lengths in ad~ vance of Sea Foam, At the half-mile pole Fullertom was two lengths alead of W. Hf. Alien, in 1:1144, the others a Judge Fullerton came on stead- and won the race inan CF jog by a length, in . W. H. Allen was second, Huatress third and m fourth. The following ts a horses that had never beaten first, $600 to the second and $400 to the third horse milo heats, best three in five, In harness, D, Mace entered ch. g. Judge Fullerton, P. Manee entered b. 8. W. H. Allen. ... len Goldsmith entered J. J. Bowen entered gr. m. D. Pilfer entered 8. 8 Byro Foum. Hays. First heat. . va a 110% 2 pecan heat. 4 i He ‘Third heat. FE Wenrth heal 3054 lni~g = | | 1