The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1872, Page 3

THE POLITICAL CANVASS, poi tas ae bi Movements of Philosopher Greeloy—Visitors at Headquartere—Joaquin Miller and Walt Whitman—A Poetical View of the Situation. Mr. Greeley returned from Chappaqna yesterday, but was so enamored of the reat he enjoyed that he betook himself at once to Brooklyn, where he remained at a friend’s all day. He will probably be at headquarters and the Lincoln Club to-day, VISITORS. The following 1s a list-of visitors at the Glenham Beadquarters yesterday:—E. M. Yerger, of Balti- more; A. ©, Gordon, of Alabama; 8. F. Cameron, ef Missouri; ex-Governor Ashley, of Ohio; Charles F. Allen, of New York; Henri L. Stuart, of New York; 8. 8. Cox, of New York; S. A. Pearce, of Seuth Carolina; Cincinnatus H. Miller, of California; Solone James Thomas, of Louisiana; F. J. Jackson, of Tarrytown, and Judge Wetherby, of Wisconsin, THE POET OF THE SIERRAS, @incinnatus H. Miller 1s a siender, freckled faced young man, say of thirty, with bushy whiskers and fong, curly light hair, falling in ringlets Gown below his shoulders, His hair alone designates him as @ poet. One would never suspect it from his face or any other part of his general appearanc: He was @reesed yesterday in white flannel and wore a4 broad brimmed straw hat. This was Joaquin Miller, the wild versifler of the Lianos, the ‘‘bar- baric yawper” of Southern California. Joaquin evidently felt that he was rather a big card for headquarters. His calm, blue eyes glimmered sweetly and patronizingly when he shook the Hrmatp by the hand and said, with ® sigh over the evil fortune of our sea- board cities, that he had never visited Washington, or Boston, or Philadelphia, no Eastern city, except New York. ‘Don’t even know my own pub Ushers,” Joaquin was in conversation with Pro- fessor Jackson, of Tarrytown, on the political ques- tion poetically considered, when a Fifth avenue Stage slowly and irregularly trundied by the headquarters, Sitting next to the driver on this vehicle was a shaggy looking old fellow, with the fair and beard of Rip Van Winklo, wearing a broad brimmed Greeley hat. Some one said :— “THERE GORS WALT WHITMAN !’? Joaquin shot ont of his seat, looked at the shaggy shape on the top of the stage and darted out of the foor, leaying over two chaivs in hia hurry, for- getting to excuse himself to the Professor, who had been listening attentively to one of the poetic rhapsodies of the prairie poet, whirled fis long lees down the front steps ef the Glenham, ;“ving the doctor who attends at the office the idea that a Grant spy had been dis- vovered in the committee room and was running for his life, yelled like Kit Carson on his last ride at the passing stage, and, overtaking it, rattled up the side in two steps, and was grasping Walt Whitman by the hand over the lap of the astounded driver, who qguletiy felt for his pistols in the belief that two madmen had waylaid him, and said:—“How are you ‘Walt Whitman?—I’m Joaquin Miller.” ‘The two dismounted at the firsteating house, and over asmall luncheon discussed poctry and litera- ture in just such a manner as the Great Poet of Dis- connected Sentences and the Great Poet of Prairie Life might be expected to do. THE POET’S VIEWS, Joaquin returned to Headquarters soon afterand ‘was introduced to the HERALD reporter. He smiled benignily through his poetic hair, and said the HERALD was & (ao paper. “‘How-stands California politically, Mr. Miller?” asked the HERALD reporter. “Weill, sir,’’ satd the poet, “Greeley will sweep “through the State like a whirlwind.’ “Do you propose taking an active part in the canvass f”” “No. I was a Greeley boy and have grown to be § Greeley man, and have only stopped here to see “Won't you write a campal m or two “No, no; I'm too tired. nap Doe “TI should think you might get. up & poem on some of the Western incidents of Mr. Greeley's fife—his ride over the mountains with Hank Monk, for instance.” “Well,” said the Poet of the Ranche, “Mr. Grecley is already so familiar to the world that the people half believe he is not so great as he really is. The world, in fact, believes thoroughly in the deeply mysterious. It wants a new god continually to bow down to—a bull calf made of brass—the world isa great jackass. Goodby.” And with that the » loug-legged Poet of the Sierras took the arm of Colonel Thomas and strolled out. GREELEYISM IN RAHWAY, Information was received at headquarters yester- that among the prominent republicans in Rahway, N. J., who voted for General Grant in 1868, and who have now declared for Greeley, are ex-Mayor John CO. Coddington, Street Commissioner derenh M. Potter, ex-City Clerk Howard R, Martin, ex-Street Commissioner Captain James A. Putnam, Judge De Graw, Joel Wilson, President of the Savings Institution; Willet Denike, Judge William ey, Gale, Ned Freeman and about a hundred others, In Jersey City, in the same boat, it is said, are Thomas Potter, President of the Board of Educa- ton; Professor Sanborn, Judge Quaif, late repub- Nican candidate for Mayor; Joseph R. Dear, and Captain A. S. Cooke. THE DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS, Mr. Schell has not yet succeeded in finding a building just suited to the use of the Democratic National Committee, but is in hopes of getting into working order in a day or two. THE GRANT HEADQUARTERS, Mr. William E. Chandler has opened the Republi- can National Committee headquarters at luis old rooms in the Fifth avenue. So far all is quict there, but there is evidence of thorough organization in every corner of the headquarters, GREELEYOTYPES AND GRANTOGRAPHS, Sn John A. Bingham has been making a strong Grant speech in Elysia, Ohio. He-lie-sia ought to be a good place for a Greeley demonstration. The Charleston Courter is particularly gratified with the welcome South Carolina received at Balti- more, indicating as it did “that the old battle cries are to be heard no more; that old feuds are to be forgotten; that the chasm, which has been kept open too long, between the North and the South is ‘to be closed forever, and that the citizens of every section of the country are to be united in the bonds of fraternal union.” The Cincinnat! Commercial thinks that Gratz Brown’s estimate of the majorities for Greeley and Brown in Iowa and Illinois is excessive, and adds:— “Possibly Grant will not carry more than three States, but we suspect he would carry at least six if Mr. Brown could be persuaded to become elo- quent in all parts of the country.” The Springfield ([il.) State Journal flies the Grant flag, gives a double-leaded leader in favor of the great Tanner, and publishes on {ts editorial page a Jong communication from a correspondent (one gf the partners in the Journal company), showing why Horace Greeley should be elected, ‘The La Crosse Daily Liberal Democrat is out for Greeley. It looks like an offshoot of Brick Pome- roy’s paper, if it be not the same old coon in a new guise. The Cincinnati Commoner goes for the Bourbon oolting anti-Greeley party, and endorses the Straight-Jacket Vonvention, to be held in Louis- ville in September. A Western Grant poet writes :— man with a white hat named Grectcy, nce said let the South go out freely ; Baid another, she shan't, And bis name It was Grant, And he'll be elected, not Greeley. The Baltimore American (Grant) says the “demo- €rate must sink both name and creed before they can hope for recruits from the colored voters of the South.” If the democratic party is “disbanded,” “bursted up,” “gone into bankruptcy,” a8 many republican papers aliege, what name or creed has it to sink? A democratic Straight-Jacket club in Hoboken Fesponds to the Bourbon call for the Louisville Con- vention, September 3, Accorrespondent writes us a communication in behalf of the democracy, and dates it at a “smail- pox” hospital. No doubt many democrats who op- Pose Greeley, but are obliged to swallow the dose, are to be pitted. = OONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION IN ILLINOIS, Sr. Lous, July 18, 1872, ‘The democrats of the Sixteenth district of Ilinols, Ym convention at Vandalia yesterday, nominated 8, L, Bryan for Congress, The Liberal Republican Con- ‘vention, at the same time and Place, ratified the @emocratic nomination and Pledged the liberal Sepublicans top hearty support of the tickets GRATZ BROWN.: HARLAN. The Administration of Grant} A Republican View of the and Its Delusions. The Vice Presidential Candidate Interviewed— How the Liberal Republicans Propose to Sweep the South—The Colored Vote for tho Abolitionist Greeley, CaNing at the residence of Dr. Theophilus Steele, No. 50 Great Jones street, last evening, the Doctor was ascertained to be absent, and the hoy in waiting at once showed the HERALD re- Porter to the parlor, in which Governor B. Gratz Brown was then sitting alone. It was an opportunity for an interview not to be allowed to escape, and the HsraLp reporter, with characteristic enterprise, availed himself of the opportunity. RePORTER—Well, Governor, I’m glad to see you 80 fully recovered from your late attack of sick- ness, Do you feel like going to work again ? Governor BkowN—Not quite yet. This has Atsar- Tanged very much my plans, and it will require a week or two to get back my full strength. In the presence of s0 many more able speakers I really do not seo any special reason for my taking the feild immediately, RErorTER—Have yon any objection to tell the HERALD frankly what you think of the chances of success ? Governor Brown—None in the world, although 60 astute a forecaster of public opinion as the HERALD ig well known to be should rather tell me. REPoRTER—NHow many States ao you think, Gov- ernor, you will carry? Governor BRowN—Frankly, I see no reason why General Grant should carry more then three States, if the canvass is managed with any skill and vigor. I said just what I thought at New Haven, as I always do in speaking. REPORTER—Then you must expect, Governor, to carry all the Southern States? Governor Bkown—Certalanly, all, unless South Car- olina be an exception. That could be carried with thirty Ways’ vigorous work hy twenty selected men, REPORTER—But, Governor, you forget that the administration claims that they will get a solid negro vote all through the Southern States; and, if that be so, you can hardly have the success you an- ticipate—as in Mississippi and Louisiana, for in- stance, Governor BRown—Yes, I know the administra- tion claims the colored men of the South as its slaves; but its calculations have no substantial basis, It was under one great delusion when it held in contempt the Oincinnat! movement and de- clared that no respectable body of prominent republi- cans could be assembled there. That delusion was swept away when it saw the most magnificent ar- ray of men of talent and ligh character and long republican service ever assembled in the nation meet to make nominations hosti'e to itself, It was UNDER ANOTHER GREAT DELUSION when it declared that no convention of the democ- Tacy of the nation could ever pe convened that would ratify the nomination of Greeley and Brown. That delusion it saw dissipated at Baltimore in one | of those grand patriotic decisions that come upon = ours politics. «= once «= in’ sa —scen- tury, and that resulted in a nomination of candidates from an opposite party with more of unanimity than had ever been given to successful aspirants from its own ranks. The admin- istration is destined to have another de- lusion obliterated and overthrown, in see- its belief that the colored vote will be given solid to General Grant scattered in the November blast. That vote will divide, General Grant may get a large share of it if the mrarapede does not become too general before the election; but he will never get enough to materially affect the election in the Southern States. REProRTER—Weill, Governor, I must say that you seem very sanguine; but can you give any reasons for the opinion you entertain? Governor BRowN—Of course; my opinion is founded on what seem to me good and suillcient reasons, and it would seem to me that they would suggest themselves to every one. In the first place, the carpet-baggers have squeezed the public treasury of the South ~dry and have nothing more to give, but they have made large promises, and there isa large number who have been hanging on thia promised bounty who can be no longer held with- out a settlement. They have been prom- ised offices, too, have not received them. They have been encouraged to hope for new leases of power and yet see themselves in tmminent dan- ger of being charged with the CRIMES OF THE CARPET-BAGGERS and brought to account. This 1s already B pcos os J disruption in their leagues and secret orders, You see new ones oy ing up in the various States, all with an ostensible unity, but a real dissgn that only needs opportunity to become opposition. This will tell heavily in the election, Again there is, ever and always, antagonism between the colored men living in the towns and those living in the country. The former combine and try to rule the latter. It succeeds for @ few years and then the combination breaks. ‘The breaking time has come, and you will find all over the South a8 much antipathy against the “town societies,” as they are called by the country blacks, as against court house rings in the Northern States, With the colored population of the interior, too, the landed or proprietor class has much influence, and in a@ question between supporting General Grant, who tried to make the war one SUSTAINING SLAVERY, who declared in Missouri that if the war meant abolition then he would strip off his epaulets, and Mr. Greeley, who has done more practical work to achieve emancipation than all the theoretical homanitarians in the country, the white planters will have little dificulty in showing the colored voters where their true interest lies. They can and they will influence fully one-third of the whole colored vote, so lar as legitimate argument and as- surance has any right to influence votes, RerorTten—Have you any knowledge that these various causes you enumerate are in operation now Governor Brown—Yes, certainly. In my own State they have been in operation for two years; in Arkansas they will give us more than haif the colored vote. In other States a very extensive correspondence assures me that the same bry | is taking place to a greater or iess ex- tent, and it must be so in the very nature of things. It is idle to suppose that a mere political breeze is going to overturn human nature and substantial interests, ReEProrreR—Well, Governor, what have you to say in regard to the more intelligent class and the multitudes who are led by them? Governor BRowN—First, that I do not believe that any multitude are thus led; secondly, that a few sharpers nay have a ring of followers, who may be Jed here and there, that will signify nothing in the aggregate, and, lastly, that the coiored people, like cvety other people on the face of the earth, are instinctively aware of that which promises an assured maintenance of thetr liber- ties, That is the one subject upon which you cannot fool a people, and it will not take them long to understand that, as their liberty can only be threatened by the wiltes, it is better to render it forever secure by making it the interest of all classes and parties to matntain it ona to array the white vote bitterly in autag- oniém. DEMOCRATIO REPUBLIOAN GENERAL cox. | MITTEE, The Democratic Republican General Committee met last evening at Tammany Hall, Jonn W. Chanler presiding. The Sub-Committee on Or- ganization presented a set of bylaws, After so amending one section that when vacancies occur in districts the delegations from said districts shall have power to select persons to fill them, the names of those selected, however, to be sub- mitted to the Sub-Committee on Organization, which is to accept the same, the bylaws were adopted. A resolution was adopted endorsing the nominations made at Baltimore ; also anotner calling for tho appointment of a committee of twenty-one, one from each Assembly district, to organize a ratification meeting to take in this city on a day to be = fixed upon. The Chairman was empowered to hame the committee, and, after some discussion, it Was agreed upon that the names when selected be announcea in the newspapers. The Committee then adjourned, A FEUD IN ILLOPOLIS. CHICAGO, IIL, July 18, 1872. In Mopolis, Ti1., a feud has existed for the past two weeks between one Dickerson and @ man named Canterell and their respective friends. On Saturday night last a pitched bat- tle took place in which Dickerson and his party were roughly — used, Mr. J. M. Burch dressed the wounds of the vanquished, and subsequently was assaulted therefor by Can- terell and his party. Later in the evening Burch went in company with @ posse to arrest his assail- ants, and a tight ensued, Leta | which Burch fired into the crowd, wounding one Kendall, an adherent of Canterell, so that he died yesterday, ‘rested and held to bail. Situation. Grant To Be Certainly Re-elected—Criticism of the Men and the Measures of the Oppcsition— ‘The Colored Vote Solid for the Old Party— A Coming Victory in North Carolina. Senator Barlan, who for the past few days has been stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, ie of course well known as a strong bellever in the ad- ministration and fully committed to the support of General Grant in the coming campaign; but his reputation as a thoughtful and experienced states- man, who held office in the Cabinet at a singularly disturbed and troublous political epoch, gives his views somewhat more importance and interest than is yielded to the mere partisan opinions of the ordinary rank-and-file republican, . Having called upon alm, the reporter of the HERALD at once asked, ‘What do you think of the situation, Senator?” Senator HARLAN—Well, when I arrived here, a few days ago, my first impression, formed from cagual conversation with gentlemen J met at the hotel, was that Greeley was showing very consid- able strength. But that tmpression has now given place to a conviction that that strength is very much more apparent than real. All the solid busi- ness men that I have seen are strongly in favor of General Grant, and seem determined to do their utmost to agoure his election, while the men who support Greeley are mostly.democrats or aspiring young politicians, who think they will find a better fleld for ambition in a new party. In Washington, of course, all republicans are very confident of the triumph of the Philadelphia nominee; indeed, they nave no doubt whatever of the result of the election. THE INLURNOR OF BALTIMORE, REPoRTER—What influence do you anticipate the action of the Baltimore Convention in accepting Mr. Greeley will have upon his prospects ? Senator HARLAN—Just now everything is too unsettled to form ‘any thing like a just opinion. But, from the present {ndications, there seems to me no doubt that the republicans who nominated Mr. Greeley at Cincinnati are beginning to think the situation rather serious, and many of them, or at any rate many of the votes they influence, will be driven back into the regular party by fears of democratic ascendancy. Thatis my opinion; but we must wait and see, REPORTER—What do you think of the liberal plat- form? but so many empty words. There are no distinct principles enunciated, if you take it to pieces, ex- cept such as all parties agree to, They might just as well have copied out THR CONSTITUTION and the Declaration of Independence, and, having adopted them in convention, announced them as the issues upon which the contest should be fought. The great cry made is the revival of local self-government, but when you talk the matter over, and confine the discussion to that one point, you won't find a Greeley man who can tell you exactly what changes could be made in the present state of affairs in that regard. GENERAL GRANT. AND THE HABRAS CORPUS, REPORTEK—NO more suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, perhaps? Senator HakLaN—It won't be snapended if Gen- eral Gr ant is re-elected, unless the pressing needs of the country should demand it. General Grant himself told me, during the latter part of the ses- sion, when it was being debated whether the sus- nsion of the Habeas Corpus act should be con- inued, that he did not see what good it would be tothe administration. In mn case the question is one which is surrounded with some uncertaint; Some statesmen think that the power to sus- nd the Habeas Corpus act is vested in doth the President and Congress, whenever either shall judge the occasion demands it, while others think ‘that such power is vested in Congress alone, Gen- eral Grant, however, has always preferred to be on the safe aide, and has suspended the Habeas Corpus act only when specially empowered by Congress to do s0. then he has restricted the suspension to as limited an area ae was pos- oe and only used it for the suppression of the uu Even ux. GREELEY’S BARGAIN WITH THE DEMOCRACY. REvorTER—If Mr. Greeley is elected don’t you think the democrats will practically control the ad- ministration ? Senator HARLAN—Mr. Greeley has simplified mat- ters very greatly by declaring that he will Become nize no party distinctions among hia supporters in the distribution of patronage in the event of his election, That means, of course, that offices will be given away in proportion to the support re- ceived in the campaign, and as the democrats will give nine votes out of every ten cast for him they will obtain the lion’s share. The administration would necessarily be democratic, and we should have to depend upon the Senate alone—which would remain, of course, republican—to act as a check to reactionary legislation and improper ap- pointments; and the Senate would probably stand firm, as it did in the time of Johnson. Very possibly we should have another four years of wrangling between the va- rious branches of the government, the same as was the case after the death of Mr. Lincoln. If Greeley is elected I think Seuthern democrats will claim & large share of offices both at home and abroad, and that might give rise to trouble. THE SOUTHERN PROPLE, REPORTER—Wiil the democrais in the South gen- erally vote for Greeley? Senator HakLan—There will be a good pany who will not, but the large majority will. roung sapicing politicians are active for him, but some of the older men, who. are cong by principle and | conviction and not by ambition, will abstain from voting altogether, feeling that they can't consci- entiously vote for either candidate. THE COLORED VOTE. a oy the colored yote—how about that? Senator HaARLAN—Overwhelmingly for Grant. I have talked with many colored men who have quite recentiy been through the South, and they all agree in reporting the colored people everywhere loyal to the party that freed them. I have bo doubt about it myself. RevonteR—And, coming back to the general rospects of the campaign, what do you think will e the result? RECORD OF THE ADMINISTRATION. All_ the business men of the country are satis- some fear of the results of Greeley's financial Fone ble perfectly satisfied theories, They are b allowing the excess of pecdailes to be gradually absorbed by the growing Pe gee jon and business of the country, and they feel, too, that that is the only safeymethod that can be followed. The country Grant, But what the result of Greeley’s policy would be ts, to say the least, doubtful. And then again there was scarcely ever an adminis- tration which gave rise to so few scandals, The ch res against General Grant are either unfounded or are without any serious importance. The President 1s required to make recommendations to Congress in regard to what legisiation the coun- try needs, and he has done so. His suggestions have generally been adopted, in part or as a whole, and where they have not been he has readily ylekled to the expressed will of the people. The overnment was never conducted witha greater legree of firmness and moderation. ; JUDGE DAVIS. RePorRTER—Do you think Greeley the strongest man that Cincinnati could have chosent Senator HaRLAN—Strongest! No; he ts uy much the weakest candidate they could have found. Judge Davis would have been greatly stronger. He is the superior of Greeley in every way— in brain power, in social position, in‘ cuiture, in firmness of purpose and foresight, and, in short, in ev hing that makes statesmanship, If te had been made standard bearer he would have drawn over @ much larger number of he Se But Greeley has never been a success at anything, GREELEY A FAILURE EVERY WAY, Rrrorter—Except as a journalist? Senator HARLAN—He wouldn't have been a suc- cess even as @ journalist if some one else hud not had the pecuniary management of his paper. at his record during the war. There was not 4 single polat which he pressed strongly, and to which he gave his earnest support, w hich did not allowed to peacefuily secede, idea was not adopted. ‘Then the “On to Richmond” cry was another enormous failure, And ie know how ingeniously Mr. Lincoln permitted h mature peace negotiations—another idea which he strongly advocated. But this is an old story; every 8, NORTH CAROLINA. Reronter—How about the North Carolina elec- tion, Senator ? Senator HARLAN—If it took place to-morrow we should certainly carry the State. ReroRTEL—But two weeks hence ? Senator HaRLAN—We shall, I think, carry it by a still larger majority. The opposition are sending down their best speakers to stump the State, but they will probably do more harm than good, All reports agree in giving us the victory, and unless some unforeseen circumstances should intervene the State will go republican, Senator HarLan—I see nothing whatever in it | Senator HaRLAN—I have the strongest and firm- | est faith myself that Grant is certain of re-election. | fied with the administration, and have a whole- | with the present pian of resuming specie payments | was never more prosperous than it has been under | Look | fail, He drst wanted the Southern States to be | and of course that | im to become couvinced of the fruitiessness of pre- | one in the country knows what Mr, Greeley’s record | CAMERON. ‘What He Knows About Colone! Forney, the Evans Fraud, “Addition, Division and Silence” and the State Election—His Opinion of Hartranft and of the “@reeley Grumblers.” HARRISBURG, Pa., July 16, 1872, “Run over to Front street, John, to Senator Cameron’s house and sce if the General is at home, and if he is, ask him if he could receive @ visit from me.” These were my Instructions to the juvenile Afri- can of American citizenship wno runs my errands from the hotel here. John complicd with my re- quest and returned with this answer:~ “Gin’ril Cam’ron said, as how he 1s jest from Washin’ton, and is berry tired this evenin’, but ho says won’t yer please call at mine o’clock to-mor- row mornin’ an’ he'll be glad to see yer.” John’s syntax may have been Greck or Sanscrit for all the absolute sense it conveyed, but I for- tunately managed to get the import of the message of the WINNEBAGO CHIEF, Briefly, Simon was weary from a trip to and from Washington, and he preferred that I should call in the fresh, bright morning. ‘The suggestion was not displeasing to me, and I slept. soundly in view of a | powwow with the Big Ingin of the Keystone Com- onwealth, . CAMERON CASTLE. Renator Cameron lives in an attractive spot. Hia | house is spacious and solid. It is built of gray stone, rough hewn and thrown together with a | view to Its Dolly Varden aspect. The situation is quiet, romantic, fascinating. The mansion site embowered in a forest of trees, shrubbery, cling- | 4g Vines and fragrant flowers. The outlook from the roomy portico is singularly lovely and pictur- esque, Across the way, the view unobstructed by | fenoe or other object, is a neat little park, fringing | the pretty banks of the Susquehanna. Then there 1s a mile of bewitching water—clear, limpid, tinged only with the emerald shadows from the countless mossy little islands pecping up everywhere from the mysterious liguid depths, Beyond the Susquehanna are hilis beauteous in farms, and the picture is enframed with high rugged rock- ribbed spurs of the Alleghany Mountains, which set against the azure sky and form a background of surpassing grandeur. Here, on a noiseless river bank roadway (it cannot be fitly termed a street), is the home of one of the famous men of our country and our time. I called promptly at nine A. M. In response to the ring of the door bell I was shown into a spacious library room. Simon Cameron sat in an easy chair receiving tonsorial treatment from his valet, and a secretary scribbled carelessly at a big table in the centre of the room. “Good morning” was the mutual salvtation, and then silence brooded till the shaving was con- cluded, In this interim my eyes unconsciously wandered about me. There was a boundless conti- guity of books tilling shelves clinging to the walls, and maps and manuscripts and public documents loaded down the tables and other furniture. A few articles of vertu graced the apartment, On the wall, above the mantelboard, hung a good portrait of the poet Burns. There were in sight, too, @ few statuettes, But it was not the home of art, a bazaar of westhetical taste, an olla vida of classical beauty, like the house of Charles Sumner in Wastington, It was the library and office apartment ofa man of affairs— ® man Of enterprises, a inan of practical industries and schemes, A PERSONAL PICTURE. Cameron is tall, awkward, neither gaunt nor fat, of wiry, gnarly texture and a well-knit frame, He isn’t angular, bony, cadaverous, like the late la- mented Lincoln. He isu’t prim and genteel, like Fernando Wood. He isn’t a herculean Apollo, ike Conkling; but he ts a substantial, unique, singular and practical physical ere RHENS with odd farce, a queer voice, little twinkling gra: eyes, & builet-shaped head and a suit of short, sti, silvery hair, He isn't handsome, nor is he repul- sively homely. He can be agreeable, and generally is. But to the talk 1 had with him. His shaving finished, he arose, approached your correspondent with ay extended hand and gave him informal wel- pages A long conversation ensued, substantially a8 follow THE Powwow. CAMERON—I was Very tired last evening. CoRRESPONDENT—You had just returned from Washington, I believe? CaMERON—Yes; and it’s a long, hot ride at this season. CORRESPONDENT—You will pardon my ignorance, General, and likewise my eagernes know, as to your domestic politics. Affairs in Penn: Sylvania look so confased to us outsiders that we don’t dare to form an gpinion. By your permission I have availed myself of your ponlesee wisdom, and you will excuse me for asking you how the situation in the Keystone State looks to you. CaMERON—Admirable, We shall carry our ticket, I feel confident, although not without hard work. CORRESPONDENT—Much 1s said in the press about ur [eign linge candidate, General Hartrantt. mehow I have heretofore been impressed with the notion that Hartranft was a popular man. CamMeRoN—General Hartranft is a very popular man. He got the nomination for Governor without personal solicitation. He came into the Convention with eighty votes out of a littie over one hundred. CORRESPON DE: Weil, I believe he has a fair reputation, hasn't he + . CaMERON—I shouid think he had! He has made a capital Anditor General of the State. He was an excellent soldier, too, General Grant told me the other day that he looked upon Hartranft as one of the very best soldiers he had in his command, and | that his admiration for him was so great that at the close of the war he offered him a colonelcy in the regular army. CORRESPONDENT—I have been unanle so far to comprehend the motive or extent of the opposition to Hartranft ? OaMERON—There isn't any general opposition, All of it is by Forney and his Presa, and that don’t amount to a puffof wind now, for people here see and understand the animus of it. CORRESPONDENT—Colonel Forney must have some strong reason far his unusual course in this State campaign. CaMERON—The matteris not a secret here. For- ney is self-reproachful, and therefore nurses a fan- cied bitterness towards everybody else, He feels spiteful towards Hartranft because of the unpleas- ant admission he was compelled to make in his tes- Umony before the legislative committee that inves- | tigated the famous George 0. Evans frauds on the | State treasury. You aré familiar with the Evans | | Job, are you not ¥ | _CORRESPONDENT—Only in a general way as I got it from the Dawapapere, CAMERON—Well, as it in some shape or other | gives color to every phase of our local politics this year, I will briely show you some of its effects, I suppose need not stop to give you my views of | the proceedings of the Forney ring, including lonel John W. Forney at Philadelphia, his cousin Corporal Forney at Washington, and Wien Forney here, You know something, 1 doubt not, of the way they had of conducting their Chronicle at Washington. You remember, I suppose, the $4,000 ee of Georgia Bullock job, and the Alaska job eae rene exes I remember hearing of them. CAMFRON—Well, sir, I only mention these things as an introduction to this Evans business. To un- lock the secret of our State political complications i ii cali your attention to enough of the testimony in the PVANS EMBEZZLEMENT CASE to explain the matter, CORRESPONDENT—WIIl it disclose a motive for Colonel Forney’s opposition to General Hartrantft? CAMERON—You Will see, Now, first, observe here | In the testimony, as given before the Legislative Committee, this by D. 0. FORNEY, cousin to Jolin W, Forney and publisher of the Sun- day Washington Chronicle. Q,, Bo you know anything about any arrangements with Mr. Evans in regard to the passage of the act of 1967 (by the Pennsylvania Legislature, authorizing the ap- golntment by the Governor of a ‘State Agent, &c.)? A. 8, sir. Q' Tellus what. A. T found here (in Washington), by | mere aceident, t there were some clatins due ‘the State | of Pennaylva: it was stated if Pennsylvania could have the same sort of agent (as Maine) appointed she | might reoover her claims; upon this suggestion I con. | mie, BF Brown, and we had a resolution | WN up and put In the bonds of Mr. George O. Evan What arrangement was made between you and who were tties to the division of the comms sions? A. Nobody but Mr. Evans, myself and my brother: T told Mr. Evang that this was a thing that would realize something, and, i uch as I would favor him in the | appointment as far as my influence went, I naturally felt | as thongh FT ought to share some of thé profits, and be agreed fo give me $10,000. @, Whom did you communicate with on the subject of making him agenty A. I had a talk with Colonel Forney. | Now, let us see what * 1 COLONEL J. W. FORNRY | says in his testimony on this point: | _Q. Had you ever any conversation with Mr. Evans | prior to the introduction of the resolution on that subject? A. None, sir; Twrote @ letter recommending him to the | Governor arterwards, Q. Was that atter or previous to his appointment? A. | Previous to his appointinent; on the same subject, that | of who “worked up” and consummated the appointment. GRORGE 0. BYANS himself testifies as follows :— Q Do you remember who recommended you to Cov: | grnor, Geary, oF through what means you becwine ap; | pointed Stale Agent? A. I think I aim indebted to Colone! ohn W. Foraey more than to any other man for the en dorsement to the Governur, and perhaps also to several ntlemen connected with the Teaista jure, with whom act Ragervonal a tance, hut who were perauaded, from the recomme: jon of Colonel Forney, that I was a proper person to be appointed Agent. CAMBRON—Dogsn’t this testimony make it clear | t your mind that the Fornéys | old saw of politics mal Pei NRE oc ws ers taonany ENT—It woul 00, 3 and. what dificulty arose that a quarrel should haye led te an open rupture of the ring and au ex- posure Cameron—Oh, they got into @ row over the division of the ‘swag.’ In the course of the evi- dence given by J. M. M'CLURE, late Assistant Attorney General of our State, this ovours :— Q. State what you know about this transaction and when you first diveovered anyihing about the Evans eim- bezelement? A. The first clew I obtaine embezzlement, or defaleation, or whatever call it, was by accident; *'* * I went Tibrary one day, about Apr 19, 1871, and think, “had a letrer in nd at ‘the ti certain about that, st learned In some way that * * atthe to the Evans you choose to anto the Stat Mr. Forney, me; Tam ‘iiot any rate he informed me he had me military claims had ame time Mr. Forney mout of some kind drawn up at the time this resolu was passed, and named certain sums which he had been informed Were set apart: one was $5,000 to the State Guard, another $1v,0 0 to the Philadelphia Pres, another $10,000 to the Washlnaton Chronicle, APDITION, DIVISION AND SILENCE. Carp Forney, of Washington, becoming very restive and suspicious of Evans, rushed over here to see Geary and induce him to compel Evans to disgorge. In the course of his testimony before the Comniittee the interview between the Forneys and the Governor is thus graphically pictured by GOVERNOR JON W. GEARY, Q; Detail the ctroumstances surrounding the visit of D. | ©. Forney to Uarrisburg about that time, A, The recol- | lection i have was that inmediately upon'my return from | New York and West Poluil observed D.C. Forney and Wien Forney sitting in the Executive Chamber. It so happened that I was very much engaged, and they Femained there for a considerable length of time. At length they came Into iy office and told me that Mr. Evans owed Mr. D. C. Pornoy $5,000, and wanted to know it T could nov exercise my iniuence wiih Mx. Evans to get him to pay the money; I told him no, very par- emptorily; that I had nothing nore to 4d with Mr. Evans’ debts than those of any other inan in the Com: monwealth; * * Iwas so sharp about it T feured at cho time Thad gived them both serious offence, D. ©. Forney, in his evidence, admits this inter. view with the Governor, and tells why he quarrelicd with Evans in this way :— Q. Pid you know what Mr. Evans did with the money? A. i have not the slightest idea, aaron he any contidential communications with you asto where he put itt A. No, sir; after he was made Agent he dropped 1.0 eltogethe § Xou iad accomplisigd bis prrpores? A. Yea, sry T hat aie helped to make tim Agent. je subject of the “divvy” itself Evans 0. Did you pay D, . Forney an; commissions 1 “A. T did pay to D. . For what was this money paid to Mr. Fornoy? A, It was paid on account ofa friendiy appreciation of his ser- vices. and on account of bis cireumstunces, Q. Was there no understanding between you and him, ex) ressed or implied, that this was for hieaid in having wed tate Ag nt tor Pennsylvania A. {think oN Q. Was there an understanding? A. “OUT, DAMNED SPOT,’ And now comes the admission which Colonel For- ney with many wry faces, reluctantiy made, under oath, before the committee :- Q._ Subsequent to the pawage of this resolution, and after the receipt of moneys by Mr, Evans from the United States government, do you know anything of any division of the commissions retained by Mr, “Evansy A. Nothing, except—(and I supposed that is the object of summoned here)—my cousin, D, his sub-agents, Q. Do you know of Mr. D, C. Forney having received any money! A. Yeu str, Frou whom? 4. I know that D. ©. Forney received from, 1 think, Mr. Evans, $2.00 o: which he handed e. Q. When was this $5,000 received by D, O. Forney? A. Some time last suuniner. 7? From whom? A. 1 think from Mr. Evans; I don’t now. 3 ‘Of that $5,000 he retained $3,000, and handed you $2,000) i ry A. Yer, sir, Q. Upon what account was it handed yout A, Well, sir, T suppose because of our relations, it was this exposition, which never would have transpired had not Hertranft and the others instt- (se the investigation, that has nettied Forney. 'wo thousand dollars is enough for a recommenda- tory letter perhaps, but too insignificant a job to have exposed. Conner ano mere Tt wasn’t avery big haul, sure enough. CAMERON—NO; but it isn’t supposed to cover all that was realized by them out of tt. CORRESPONDENT—Though Colonel Forney in his eee opposes Hartranfi, he supports Grant, I be- jeve? CaMERON—Yes, in a wishy-washy sort of way; but it is believed he will find some exouse for desertin, him, You will observe he is pitching into me and other gentlemen, charging us with manipulating rings here in the interest of Hartranft and for cor- Tupt purposes; and he thinks Grant may express sympathy with us in some way, when he will make that an excuse for turning against him. CORRESPONDENT—I see by this morning's pay thas General Morehead, of Pittsburg, has committed mself, CAMERON—In what way ? CORRESPONDENT—For Greeley. CAMERON—Just One more vote for old Horace! CorrEsPonpent—Why, I thought Morehead an influential man ? CAMERON—Not at gil, sir, He onco was; but since he left Congress a few years ago he haé been sour and grumbling. He wanted to be Governor. When he was defeated for that he could have been United States Senator in place of John Scott if he had not been mad at everybody. CORRESPONDENT—It 18 generally understood that Governor Curtin is coming home from Russia to nter the campaign for Greeley. Do ou know, nator, how true that is? Ifhe should, Would that augment the doubtfulness of the State? es CaAMERON—I really don’t know how Curtin stands. He has a great many friends throughout the State, and Is a@ pleasing, plausible speaker: but if he comes home and opposes Grant people will see he is a sore- head, and his influence will be gone, CoRRESPONDENT—At all events, Pennsylvania Redon JOO BRGY. Faoronenly, muddled to us at a istanes. ere is the bulk of the liberal repub- lean strength in the State ¥ CaMERON—There isn’t any worth talking about. Here in Dauphin county there are not over fifteen republicans who bolt Grant, while I know twice that many democrats who will vote for Grant in preference to os ConREsPONDENT—Bat the Greeley defection seems to be strong In Lancaster ? CAMERON—Yes, it has some strength over there. They bought the only daily there—the Hepress— and turned it from Grant to Greeley; but we will soon have a Grant dally started. I am told that not over five hundred republicans in that county will vote for ‘eg and we always had a bolt on our hands there, icClure will do something, but it won't count much. CORRESPONDENT—I_ am ignorant of Colonel McClure, Ihave been told that he has had some- thing to do with jobs before the Legislature. CamERON—Something! (and here both Cameron and his secretary smiled a smile that was childlike and bland.) Something! Why, my good sir, be was Governor Curtin’s confidential man for the nine years he was a State officer—three as Secretary of State and six us Governor—and McClure had a hand in about every job manipulated in the Com- monwealth. McClure amassed a large fortune, bought a splendid estate in the interior, and built on it a house that cost him $40,000, But he has such apenchant for gambling that I suppose oniy a small share of his fortune is left him. Oh, MeClure is ® man without influence sions te ublicans, He has by his perverse course aided in defeating three republicans for the Senate of late years; and last fali he got elected State Senator by deception and fraud, Stealing republican votes by professing to be a Grant man. CORRESPONDENT—And 80 you think, General, that the liberal republican strength In the ‘State amounts to nothing? OaMERON—Nothing of any consequence, united, and will elect Hartranft certainly, CORRESPONDENT—But wont the course of the Philadelphia Press aid Buckalew? Cameron—I think not. The people understand the Evans matter and Colonel Forney's connection with it; and then there’s the other secret of Colo- nel Forney's personal friendship for Buckalew. CORRESPONDENT—How is that? I have heard some intimations on that score, but nothing precise. | CamERON—You recollect the {investigation in Washington some years ago of the accounts of the | Secretary of the Senate, when it had leaked out | that there was a serious defalcation, and while Forney was Secretary? ConkesronpeNt—I remember there was such a charge and Sven arene CaMERON—Well, Mr. Buckalew was the Senator who ade the report of the committee on the mat- ver, and that report saved Colonel Forney's reputa- tion, which was in it Pag teed at the time. CORRESPONDENT—Was Mr. Kuckalew chairinan of € special committee of investigation? CamMEnon—lI think not, recollection is that he | was simply a member of the standing comimitteo (one of the Senate committees—that on Contingent moneys out of these Forney $6,000, ‘There was, ” y being ©, Forney, was one of We are | Expenses of the Senate, perhaps) which looked into the affair, CORRESPONDENT—And in that rej committee you think Buckalew ai vice? CAMERON--A very great one, He smoothed over the matter, I believe it 1s sometimes called white- washing, COKRESPONDENT—But I was slrard nodes the im- pression that Forne: ig bah and honorably paid up every dollar lost by the defalcation, impression erroneous? OamMERON—Yes; I belleve he did pay all that Sen- ator Buckalew reported asthe lose, That wasn't much. The Colonel was not even censured, The blame was directly and wholly charged on one of the Colonel's subordinates—a relative, of his, [ be- lieve—and the poor fellow died of a broken heart. VORRESPONDENT—Most certainly; that and the Fvans’ case, taken together, do explain some of the curious phenomena of the State campaign here, and particularly the attitude of Colonel Forney and the Press towards General Hartranft and Senator Buckalew, CaMBRON—All of these things are true, and I wish you would publish them in your correspondence, for the Whole country grate to know it. CORKESPONDENT—Taking things all around, the ing strange bedfellows ta supported by incontestable testimony this year. ‘This 18 @ queer political situation—this new depar- bo Rd the democracy and nomination of Horace | reeley. JAMBRON—It is certainly 8 modern wonder, and looks like they were in hee gs earnest and meant business, too. It is a kind of a farce, looking at it froin one standpoint, but it is fast losing its f reieal feature. I am told that at the Baltimore Conven- tion they actually hissed the name of every demo- crat that was nientioned in connection with the Presidential nomination, Were you there, and is rt from the Forney # ser- Was my of Indianapolis, a to the Baltimore Convention, seemed to me expressive of the situation. AMERON—I don’t remember what he said, CorngsronpeNr—He called it @ “great revolne; tion,” ‘Mr. Ray was @ stanch Henry Ulay till that party disbanded, Since he has acted wit! the democracy, aud is enthustastio In his support ° Greeley. CAMEROX—Well, we have to take things as come. Great changes are taking place. Mr, did not exaggera' of calling it a great revolutioy CORLESPONDENT—Apropos of these matters, have here, Senator, a lstter which the dead Ch ent L.. Vallandigham wrote me. As the “new Parture” was as much his offspaing as of any othe democratic leader of the republic, this letter hes pecullar interest just now. Here it is :— . DAYTON, Ohio, Oct, 1i, 1869—714 P.M ‘our poitle note of this evening J have T would with pivastire confer with yon briefy, ag you! Fequest, but for an imperative engaxerent wl {ch re quires ty immediate atiention aud during the residue od he evening, Besides, in trath, Lcould give you little sat Imjacrion ih reson to pofitteal aftiry in this state or ean Where at the present time, asf have conceracd myse! in ed My Dean Sin— this moment recs but tine teh preted ~ ar pare I t single acceptes sue ol lay will, at leartin its preges Sorta, goustitnto ner part of tie eulisets of iieearston ta 1872. it seems evident, too, that ‘the sition of publia nen and of leading newspapers will by that time be reatly chansed. OKs tothe Ohio election to-morrow, ofeat of the Sr cratic purty will nlgnity nothing, becagw for sovon year or longer it has been steadily beaten; bus its success wil be significant every way, and especially as indicating th future political, status of the Northwest. Xt nay noo mean that the “great American revolution of 1891°* shalb go backward; but {t will mean. that it has spent Ite fore! asa revolution, and, oxcept in ite more remote infu, ences, is DRS no longer forwat p vationa Very! nis hastily in reference to your truly, &e., r BL VALLANDIGHAM. ; Cammron—Yes, fn connection with the action Baltinore, that letter from ‘Val’ reads like a Prophecy. Ho was considerable of @ political philosopher aiter all, 4 CoRRESPONDENT—Had Vallandigham lived would have been foremost in the new departure, CaMEnon—Ho undoubtedly would, Expressing to General Cameron my thanks for they pleasure he had conferred on me by the frankne: and amlability of his Interview, [bade him “ morning” and withdrew. As I did so the chie! amiled pleasantly, and without aeing began examination of a manuscript paper laid before hiny by bis industrious clerk, Leisure don’t lurk where oh BAYS Wig-wag. PENNSYLVANIA. eae EE Internal Broils in the Repubs. lican Party. A Forney vs. Cameron—Forney vs. Hartranft—Form ney vs. Gr—(})—The Fall Elections— The Union League Resolutions. PHILADELPHIA, July 17, 1873 The internal fight among the republicans of this State promises fo be ag bitter and as long-con- tinued as it will be fatal tu the hopes of many office- holders within its boundaries and not a few hold- ing fat positions under the present national admin- istration. Some time ago I took occasion to say what f thoroughly believed to be true, that Forney, when too late to recede—about the time of the Reading Convention—had become sorry for his very warm endorsement of Grant, and would gladly back outif possible, While he still endorses the present administration in one column of his paper he “‘damns it with faint praise” in another, in that he attacks with the most bitter invective the wily Stnon Cameron, Grant’s principal henchman in this State, and proceeds in the next columa to tell whats he knows about Hartranft and that wing of the re- publican party, which, by the way, is not Forney's wing. One on looking from the top of Forney's columns downward and seeing in the onc devotion to Grant, in the next enmity to Cameron and nat- urally and hnmistakably to Grant, in the next dag- gers drawn against Hartranft, naturally concludes that Colonel Forney wavers. I fancy in looking down these columns he unconsciously exclaima— “HOW MAPPY COULD I BE WITH EITHER were tiother dear charmer away.” It may be said he is wedded to Greeley from pune, to Grant through interest. Here we have principle and interest which by November promises to re- solve itself into a problem in profit and loss. It ts @ matter of some surprise how Greeley has ad- vanced 80 zepialy tothe hearts of the people of Pennsylvania. At Reading they said, “We will never vote anything but a straight democratic ticket. We voted for Jackson.’ There were peo- ple there, I am sorry to say, uncharitable enough to remark that, appearances, the in- habitants of Lebanon Valley had never voted for any one else, It will be remembered, If wrote on that occasion, ‘Pennsylvanta will endorse Greeley, although the Cincinnati Oonven- tion will not be onicially endorsed by the demo- crats in convention at this place’ (Reading). This prophecy was scouted by the hard-shell democracy of Pennsylvania, but they died after all about aa easy as their brethren from other States, and to- day the liberals of Pennsylvania are betting on a majority of 60,000 for Greeley in the Keyetons State. What a revolution in Peper feeling ‘Dis isanage of liberal ideas. Politics will lead, and arts, Manufactures and the trades will surely foliow. Religion is so quietly but very effectivel Uberalizing its votaries that we fail to remark it but some great event in the religious world will awaken us to the truth and wo will say, “Who would believe it?’ Just such an event has occurred in the political world, and we tee 4 cease to wonder. Fox the past five years the feel- ing between McClure and Cameron has been a very bitter one, personally and politically, and, on the principle that “MISERY LOVES COMPANY,” Forney, McClure and the liberals have joined hands agalnst the common enemy, the oniy difference being that McCiure and the liberals are rains Grant and Cameron, while Forney is against Caine- ron and for Grant. The republican nominations for Governor and other State officers meet with Forney’s decided dislike; nor is this feeling toward Hartranft. likely to be changed by the sotfening induences of time. Forney continues to reiterate bis firm bellef that the nomination was an unwise one, because Hartranft was mixed up in the Evans frauds, and, recognizing the importance of harmony tu the ranks of the radicals, he frowns on everything that shadows the faintest sign of mutiny in the ranks of the failtniml. Tne present state of affairs presenta few evidences of mending, and the k vad bork fears are entertained of republican success In the October elections, “What do you think of Greeley?” ts the _ all-prevailing conundrum of ‘the day, and the same answer is invariably returned, , he'll rake Pennsylvania clean, Grant and Borle and tho social status crowd do not run lic mind ts completely revolutionived, at reeley fans to cool radical brows,” “Greeley hata,” “Gree- ley songs” and Greeley everything that one can imagine are the leading staples with the strect pediar and higher-toned proprietors of corner news- stands and variety booths. Having In mind the prophecy I made régarding the action of the Penn- sylvania democracy at Baltimore, I will assume the liverty of making another:—Whereas all the inlications point to a close contest in No- vember, believe, from my knowledge of Pennsylvania pollticians and Pennsylvanians generally, that they will be led more and more into giving their te to Greeley: first, because they already see he is likely to be on the winning side; second, because his whole record has been consistent on one question, protectlon—the Penn- sylvantans dearest hobby—and they belleve they may trust him always in this; third, because the anything-to-beat-Grant feeling, even Greeley, is boc Sse developed day by day, and all the democrats and @ majority of the disatfected repablt- cans will vote the Greeley ticket toa man. Now, Pennsylvania dies hard, but “as Pennsylvania goes #0 goes the Union; and bg Mg will go for Greeley if appearances are to trusted, I said to @ newspaper progrigtor the other day, “What do you propose to do’ I notice your en- anes of Grant bas been rather iukewarm of ate,’ ‘Oh, what do you think of the fature? Do you -believe Greeley has a chance? We would like to have an insight into the future. So far as the Slasher is Concerned it is merely a matter of expe- diency, a matter of business; and,” he connncely emphatically, “you know as Well as any one that i is a the same everywhere.” is patriotism played out? Is there noth. in, then, jn the editorial appeals that dally go out to the ople—nothing but the echoes of thoughtful minds that see in the elevation of one Ree @ unit of that power transferred to themselves, in the elevation of another party ruin? THE UNION LEAGUE of this city consists of 1,800 gentlemen. A few weeks ago about sixty of the straitlacea radicals of the organization got together and adopted a series of resolutions laudatory of Grant, and pub- lished them as the sentiments of the League. Imagine the indignant frowns with wnich these resolutions were received by the remaining 1,750 meinbers of the club! Steps were soon en to convince “outside barbarians’ that the senti- ments of the ciub on any political ques- tion are not — publisi was further given the publi to understand that “this Is not a political organization in a sense.” We have nothing but politics anda heat interspersed with occasional entrées of heat ani politics, The “Row Ring,” consisting of all the resent office-holders in State House row, are briskly at work doing everything in their Lehn to ingure the election of Hartrantt. Should ir ef forts be successful Grant's chances in Pennsylvania ‘will amount to nothing, and between the guns of the Hartranft party and those of the liberals the prea that absolutely true? OounsaronDaNT—I wes present in the Conven- ent administration {!s not likely to find many sup porters in Pennsylvania this fal,