The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1872, Page 3

* To THE EpiTOR OF THE HERAL How Senator Simon Became Penn- sylvania’s Political Dictator. SWEET MORSELS FOR DEMOCRATS Charges En Gros of Corruption, Plunder and Debasement Against the Ex-Minister of War. FORNEY’S PERSONAL STATISTICS. “Why Do the Meathen Rage, and Cameron Tremble on the Verge of the Grave ?” rake rune PALACES ON THE SUSQUEHANNA. ae ea ad Proud Towers Raised Through Malfeasance to Frown Down Honesty and Truth. Honest Old Abe’s Letter Dismiss- ing His Seeretary of War. THE EVANS FRAUDS. AEE ee The Man Who Would ‘‘Knock Hell Into Both Grant and Curtin.” ‘Biographical Hodge-Podge for the Million, Orrice oF THE SUNDAY MORNING CHRONICLE, Wasurnerton, D. C., July 25, 1872, It is always profitable to record history, provided you do it bravely and truthfully, and as Simon Cameron, in his nervous anxiety to sereen himself from the penalties of a long career of political wrong, has sought to entangle me in the meshes of his falsehoods concerning the political situation in Pennsylvania, I propose to make a revelation con- cerning that gentleman which will convince you that he and the horde of hungry oMce-holders, fat mule-and-horse contractors, and State Treasury pimps surrounding him are the sole and only cause of the dissatissaction now threatening disaster to the republican party in Pennsylvania in October. CAMERON'S ANTECEDENTS. General Cameron is the original author of all the corruption, debasement, plunder and prostitution which have disgraced the elective franchise, the Jegistation and the management of the finances of Pennsylvania. Ineed not tell the readers of the Heraxp how this man started in public life as an Indian agent; how General Jackson spurned him; how he plundered the Indians, whom he was dele- gated to protect; how he polluted the Canal Board ,of Pennsylvania; how be won and abused the confidence of Governor George Wolf and Governor David R, Porter, both of whom abhorred him be- cause he cheated them, betraying the trust they reposed in him; how he managed to have his brother appointed superintendent of motive power on the railroads owned by Pennsylvania that he might secure contracts for supplies; how he en- gaged in contracts while he was President of the Lebanon Valley Railroad, until the stockholders rove him from the position; how, to this day, he 1s forced to disgorge to make up the losses of some Of the sub-contractors on that road for fear of ex- posure and criminal prosecution; how he and his family fattened on the Northern Central Railroad, and how his business and financial acts, in every transaction in which he has ever been engaged, are steeped in corruption, blackened with suspicion and deformed by shame. It is not necessary for me to revive any of the serious charges which are daily preferred against this miserable old man. ‘The country has heard them repeated so often, and the archives of both State and national govern- ments contain enough of his shame and rebuke to make his name execrable while there is a being to hear it in his native State. My purpose is simply to reply to General Came- ron, who has sought to make it appear that the political unrest in Pennsylvania and the certainty of defeat there-for the republican party in October are due to influences other than those arising from the dissatisfaction with his corruption. General Cameron’s flerce struggle is not to save the repub- lican party of Pennsylvania in October, or secure that State for Grant, but to save himself. He Js the pursued party in all the angry discussion in the Keystone State, and his the record of shame which bears my noble republican brethren in that Com- monwealth down into the dust. He fears a new rule in the Auditing and Treasury departments in that State, and, above all, he shrinks from a demo- cratic Governor of the Buckalew type, because he sees in that result the speedy realization of 4 doom which he is certain to meet sooner or later. WHY DOES GENERAL CAMERON THUS TREMBLE on the verge of the grave and shrink with horror from having his record laid bare? Let me tell you. “When he wasfirst elected United States Senator, in 1845, he purchased the votes which secured him success. It was the first time a Pennsylvania Leg- islature was debauched by the use of money, and | he is the first man who bought a seat in the United States Senate. In 1857 he repeated ene ‘aie game, and so intense was the indigfation felt all over Pennsylvania at this AcE that the Legislature then passed resolutions censuring the Senator elect and asking the United States Senate not to receive him. The second time Cameron was elected he purchased two democrats, and threatened to send the relative of a third to the peni- tentiary for robbing one of his banks if he refused to vote for him. His third attempt to get into the Senate failed, because the democracy, having a majority of one on joint ballot in the Legislature, went to Harrisburg in large crowds, a to snoot any democrat who voted for Cameron, the fect being well known at the time that there was a democrat in the Legislature who had a bribe from Cameron in his pocket, but who ‘was overawed from voting tor him by the revolvers of his indignant constituents pointed at his head ashe satin his seat. In 1867, when Cameron was elected the third time to the Senate—the term he is Row serving—it cost $50,000 to secure the result, and ‘that money was made by the State Treasury Ring on deposits of State money in Cameron’s own banks, ‘which was loaned at usurious rates of interest to all classes of desperate speculators. The venera- ble Thaddeus Stevens, J. K. Moorhead, W. B. Mann, A. G. Curtin and other distinguished Pennsyl- vanians went to Harrisburg in the winter of 1867 to implore the Legislature not to put the shame of Cameron's election on the State and repubiican party; but the eloquence of these veterans was of no avail in the glitter of Cameron's gold, who, with the contractors he had enriched while he was Sec- retary of War, kept an open hotel in Harrisburg, where votes were as publicly purchased for him as jones are played ata Baden-Baden‘ gambling Bal n. EVIDENCES OF REMUNERATIVE OFFICES. The resnit of such a public career has been to render General Cameron completely infamous— utterly odious in Penusylvania. He is regarded there as at the head of a ring as villanous as that of the Tammany m New York. While he was Secre- tary of War his satellites were enriched as if by magic, and any one familiar with the banks of the hann Susq River fronting Harrisburg has seen, in the palaces which rise in that neighborhood, the results of the Cameron ring plunder while the old chief was Secretary of War. He lives ina palace remodelled and refurnished, purchased by the horse and male contractors, and presented to him daring his time in the War Department, for $75,000. , His son occupies another mansion ouly a few ppnhe higher up the river, the cost of hose banqueting hall would pay for the best farm in Dauphin county, while its proud tower frowns With haugaty disdain on an untinished monament which the citizens Of Hartisbnre sre tag poor to 8 i aero tied heres Seen diy dis bccn aries i fl than the Camerons aaee —e in sp agae wiation of government pal a e Fontrol or fie ‘Treasury of ineyivania In 1800 Donald Cameron’s recorded real estate in county did not amount to $25, T have heard it asset in Harrisburg that he ts now the 0’ real te in that city and Dau- every acre of called Lochiel, was purchased from 1860 to 1867, and during the same time that family managed to get control of suflicient stock in the Northern Central Railroad to elect Donald Cameron ita president, so that that coucern is now run in their interests, WILY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 18 DEMORALIZED. Now put that and this together and will see at a glance why the republican party of Pennsylva- nia is demoralized. The Camerons are known to the people as having become rich out of their mal- feasance in office, coining gigantic fortunes while the nation poured out its richest blood, and gather- ing wealth in the enjoyment of contracts which were marked by frauds such as have sent the Tam- of New York into criminal exile. And anxious to secure Hartranft’s election? Why is he 80 solicitous to keep the Treasury of Pennsy!- vania in his pocket? Why was General Har- tranft’s term as Auditor General extended; Camerons so determined prevent light shining the vaults of Pennsyivania’s State ‘Treasury, or of bringing to the public view the archives of her Audit- partment T answer, because such inteill- gence, ike the inves tion into the affatrs of mmany, would result in prosecutions against the Cameron ring similar to those now pending against Tweed and his associate thieves. General Cameron, in connection with his ot mala, his brother William, and # few choice spirits of like qualities, now own or control some nine banks, every one of which is carried on by deposits from the State Treasurer. ‘The Cameron banks at Harris- burg and Middletown have the larger portion of these deposits, and by which the Camerons make enormous sums in shaving notes. In addition to this it is well known at Harrisburg that Mr. Mackay lost at least $100,000 by the failure of his broker in Philadelphia, Mr. Mackay is the State Treasurer, comparatively a poor man, and this loss can only be made up by the Camerons, who will never re- fund the money, but who ure now striving to elect an Auditor General to settle Mackay’s accounts, covering up this frightful loss and relieving the Camerons on his bond, Remember, Lam only giving you a hurried state- ment of facts, an analvsis of loca) political history, to prove to the country how mistaken General Cameron is in reference to the condition of Penn- sylvania politics. He says there is no trouble in that State. I answer that there is. The trouble being that he purcnased and packed the last Re- publican State Convention there, to make nomina- tions for officers whom he expects to use, when elected, to COVER UP HIS OWN HIGH CRIMES and misdemeanors, and save the desperate scoun- drels who compose the ring which he heads from the whip of justice. It is not alone the “ Forneys”’ who are dissatisfied with this personal rule, and these acts of plunder, but the better part of the republican party of Pennsylvania is moved to unrest, and the best men of the State are blush- ing with shame, humiliated to find that they have been so fearfully cheated, disgraced and mis- veprensa tau by this faction. Pennsylvania has felt this disgrace for eighteen years in the United States Senate, where she has had but half the voice which her sister States enjoy, while her Merediths, her Curtins, her Brewsters, her Franklins, her Moorheads, her Kelleys, her Pollocks, and other men of mighty intellect and grand attainments have been kept out of that body because they would not outbid simon Cameron for a seat there; because they would not do as he has done—barter in her honor and huckster in the virtues of her legis- lators that he might reach @ place to disgrace it by his inabilliy ont stain it with his foul acts. LINGOLN'S CABINET OFFICER. General Cameron onght to have been the last. to make a L Sepiteee attack a. another, or talk glibiy concerning any man’s public or private career. 7 have already said that he either bought or begged every position he has ever held. The country re- menibers the manner in which he managed to get into Mr. LincoIn’s Cabinet against the judgment and the wishes of the people of Pennsyivania. He was forced upon Old Abe, and to show how this was accomplished I quote from one of Mr. Lincoln's biographers :—“It required a hard struggle to over- come Mr. Lincoln's scrupies, and the whole force was necessarily mustered to accomplish it. ‘AN that I am in the world,’ said Mr. Lin- coin, ‘the Presidency and all else, I owe to that opinion of me which the people express when they cail me Honest Old Abe. Now what will they think of their Honest Abe when he appoints Simon Cameron to be his familiar aavisey ?’*’ Once in the Cabinet, General Cameron immediately surrounded himself with all the plunderers ready to gorge themselves at the public crib, making in less than ayear a millionnatre of his oldest son, who had a leading share in every coptract filled in Harris- burg, forcing another son into the regular arn as @ paymaster, and placing a broth- er-in-law in a similar position in| the same service. The manner in which the contract system of the War Department was managed aroused and alarmed the entire Norsh, the financiers of New York and Boston hurrying to Mr. Lincoin to de- clare that they would advance no money to the government whiie Cameron had contro! of its mili- tary supplies. Forced by popular indignation, and literally appalled by the irresistible facts of frauds presented to him, Mr. Lincoln removed Mr. Came- ron from the War Department in the following tart note, in which he breaks the blow by sending the deposed Secretary an exile amid the snows of Rus- siai— CAMERON'S LETTER OF DISMISSAL. Hon. S1m0N Camrnoy, Secretary ot War i— Dear Sin—I have this day nominated Ho Stanton to be Secretary of War, and you to be Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia. A. LINCOLN. But on the heels of this removal Congreas passed a resolution severely censuring Cameron; the first Cabinet oMcer since the organization of the gov- ernment down to the present time who has thus been rebuked. The history of this damning decree is now to be told. I copy it from the Journal of the House of Representatives, second session of the hirty-seventh Congress, On the 30th of April, 1862, the following resolution passed the House by @ vote of 79 yeas to 45 nays: Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War, by investing Alexander Cummings with control of large sims of the public money aud authority to. purchase military suppli ithout restriction, without requirin; from him any guarantee for the faithful performance o es, when the services of competent. public officers were available, and by Involving the government in a vast number of eontracts with persons not legitimate! engaged in the business pertaining to the subject matt of rach contracts especially in the purchase of arms for future delivery, Nas adopted a policy highiy thiutlous fo the public service and deserves the Censure of the House. mong the ayes are such names as George T. Cobb, of New Jersey; Erastus Corning, of New York; Henry L, Dawes, of Massachusetts; W. Mc- Kee Dunn, of Indiana; Daniel W. Gooch, of Massa- chusetts; Robert McKnight, of Pennsylvania; Justin 8. Morrill, of Vermont; John T. Nixon and J. L. N. Stratton, Bae Jersey; Fyncls jomas, of Mary- land; Charles _R. Traip, bi fassachusetts; John P. Verree, of Pénfitylvania, and James F. Wilson, of Pg Most of these were republicans, and nearly 1) are living to-day, not ope of them without feeling that: his vote for this resolution was just. I recall this dark chapter in Simgn Cameron's history, so fresh and well gate bered, in view of his subsequent apd Tecent efforts to disgrace and iebaye #6 republican arty of Pennsylvania. He w evan his career jn fraud still prosecntes it in tyranny. He has ever since been trying to efface this d the record, but in vain. He has threatened and importuned republican members to vote for its re- peal, but in vain. CAMERON'S LITERARY QUALIFICATIONS. Is it to be wondered at, In view of the facts I have given you, that the people of Pennsylvania are ‘dissatisfied with Cameron's personal rule ? Men are not blind, voters are no longer indifferent Edwin M. to the honor of the party they sapport or the leaders they follow. Ali who know Generali Cameron ,are aware of his de- ficiencies as a statesman, his lack of culture and his _ pover in knowledge. He has surrounded himself with a fine library, as the readers of the HERALD have been already toid, but it is well known that he has never read a volume of Macaulay’s England or of Bancroft’s United States; that he has no knowledge of the sciences; that he is more familiar with low political trickery than political economy; that he is no speaker, writer or thinker, except it is for low in- trigue, base slander, or vile persecution. And yet this is the man who occupies Charles Sumner's Pad who makes the room of the Committee on ‘oreign Relations, where, under the chairmanship of Sumner, the statesmen of the Oey, assein- bled for consultation, a resort for the pot- house politicians of the land, who pilot with him for plunder and are bribed to execute his plans for personal revenge on those wno have the manliness to resist his personal rule. 1 DID NOT SEEK THIS QUARREL with Genera! Cameron, but a# he went out of his way to attack me on matters connected with my le- Titimate business in aiding to collect the war claims in Pennsylvania, | want to let him know there is one Forney who does not fear him, who knows his defects and his crimes, and who, in self- defence, is always ready to strike back when struck, My relation to the Evans affair, or rather, the collection of the Pennsylvania war claim, was purely professional, and as legitimate as that of services rendered by any Labi or claim tin the country, Whatever criminality there is con- nected with the management of the collection of these claims is certainly no fault of mine, but rather the executive officers of Pennsylvania, who merely pretended to be aware that the amounts collected irom the general government had never been re- turned to the Treasury of the State until L had brought the matter to their attention, which was more than three years after the appointment of the agency. ! leave the inference to be drawn from seh neglect to the people, and whether they think that the presens candidate for Governor, Who Was then. os pow. the Auditor Geperal of credit than censure, but, as Gene- ron is endeavoring to make political capi- out of it for himself, 1 can well afford to give im the benefit of it, as all the use hecan make Out of it will never disturb my slumbers or in the minds of honorable men injure my reputation. ‘THE LAST INTERVIEW. When I was in Harrisburg, a few weeks , Gen- eral Cameron followed ‘prother, Wien Forucy, and myself to the allroad depot, while we were on our way to Lancaster cy. declaring that he wanted ing that we call upon him. and when we went we engaged in conclave with some of the lowest and worst political characters of Baars —of the old eeaen. school, Bill Sykeses igers—ins| of, as & statesman should have been en; , and particularly the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, with his books, with *Vattel’s Law of Nations. At this solicit meeting, on the part of General Cameron, he proposed to me to get Colonel Forney to change hia course of opposition; but I declined to interfere, reminding Cameron of how often I had joel for him in that quarter, and how repeatedly he had violated its honorable com- pacts, I called to his recollection his condnct at a rivate dinner ae by Colonel Forney, just before e Republican National Convention, at which he, Senators Chandler, Anthony, Speaker Biaine, Secre- tary Robeson and others were present, when he eae replied toa proposition to make Andrew . Curtin the candidate for Vice President, that “if that were done he would KNOCK HELL INTO BOTH GRANT AND CURTIN.” Lrepeated, in reply to Cameron’s urgent solici- tude, my unwillingness to interfere between him and Colone! Forney, while he confessed that the Press Was & upower te Pennsylvania: thet John W. Forney could have anything he desired if he only stopped fighting Hartranft; that they would take Allen off the tieket and allow Forney to name a successor, ‘Indeed,” said the wily old trickster, “we had almost frightened Allen into declining, but he has been stiffened by somebody, ana is now re- solved to stick on the ticket.” ‘fo all this I merely re- Plied that Colonel Forney knew his own business, and could conduct his own jghts; but that so far as was concerned I intended to stand by my own biood in all their honorable struggles tor right and justice, At this same dinner referred to his abuse of Curtin and every other independent man in she State was so insulting to the hospitality of Colonel Forney that even Cameron’s personal friends who were present protested and oxpronegd surprise at his arrogance and dictation. He even went 80 far as to state—backing it up with a strong adjective— that no man should be recognized politically in his State without his consent; that he had controlied itso far, and could, if he desired, transmit the same power to his posterity. REPUBLICAN DEFRAT CERTAIN IN PENNSYLVANIA. 1 bave made this communication already too long, but give me room for a few more words. The republican party is sure to be defeated in Penngyl- vania in October, and Simon Cameron's personal rule and political prostitutions are the causes which will produce the disaster. It is the only way for the people to get rid of him and break up the vile combmation which he calculates to fasten on the State after he descends to his grave. It is t oniy escape from his poliutions and the plunder- ings of those he has trained as his followers, It is the only way to hght up the dark places in the financial affairs of Pennsylva- mia; to cleanse its Auditing Office to fix | proper guards around its treasury and prevent its hief Magistrate from being made a vassal of the clan Cameron. A republican defeat at this time, I admit, is a fearful venture, but the tremendous in- fuences demanding it in Pennsylvania are like the knife of the surgeon which cuts deep Into a rotten to save an entire body from festering corrup- tion and death. I rejoice to feel, therefore, that the people of Pennsylvania are moved by such a spirit, and the people ‘of the whole country will be glad when this corrupt ring is sent to the grave of Tam- many. Yours, respecti D. GC. FORNEY. NORTH CAROLINA. ee The. Drift of Public Politi- cal Sentiment. APATHY OF THE GRANT REPUBLICANS, - The Conservative-Liberals Wide Awake and Enthusiastic. NEGRO PROSCRIPTION OF NEGROES. Raweien, N. C., July 26, 1872. If one were to form an opinion as to the result of the election Thursday next from the attendance at the meetings of both parties, and from the enthusi- asm manifested at them, it would unquestionably be in favor of the conservatives and liberal republi- cans. During a tour of ten days, in which I have visited every section of the State, and attended all the leading political meetings that have been held, 1 have had ample opportunity to witness every popular demonstration, to observe the drift of pub- lic sentiment, and to weigh the enthusiasm of the masses, With the exception of that held at Wil- mington, which was addressed by Senator Wilson, ALL THE REPUBLICAN MEETINGS WERE SLIM, their processions were farcical, their attempts at applause faint, and their demonstrations generally feeble and without spirit or vim. It is rare to see a crowd of even 300 negroes at any republican meeting, though orators of national fame, some of them Cabinet officers, were advertised to adaress them. Thisis rendered more striking and forcible by the contrast with the great republican mass meetings of 1968, when the blacks turned out in long lines of processions, assembled in meetings that were estimated by thousands, cheered lustily for Grant and Colfax, and indulged in the most ex- travagant outdoor demonstrations of loyalty and devotion to the national ticket presented for their suffrages. Now there is a total change, and it is almost impossible to account for this apparent APATHY ON THE PART OF THE NEGROES, for their league organizations remain intact, and their leaders are as full of energy and industry asever. Some there are who allege that this lag- gardness among the sable republicans is a part of the campaign programme, aud that itis done solely with a view to deceive their political opponents, and throw them off their guard. If this is the case, however, it is likely to prove a failure of a most complete nature, for. ‘TUR QQNSERVATIVE LIRRRALS ARE WIDE AWAKE on vividly alive to all the dodges and artifices own to political chicanery. Their meetings if possible exceed in numbers, enthusiasm and fre- quency the Seymour and Blair meetings of 1868, and if popular outpourings, grand displays, and imposing demonstrations are an indication of the result of the campaign the conservatives will un- doubtedly be successful. The manner, too, in which such republican speeches as those delivered by Senator Tipton, Colone) McClure and others were received by the conservatives by heartfelt, and often rapturous applause shows what an advanced | stage of freedom of political opinion at the South has reached. There is not @ possibility of a doubt that if the Sta®e and Presidential elections took place simultaneously the conservative-liberals would tri- umph by TWENTY THOUSAND MAJORITY, if not more. The nomination of Greeley and Brown by the Baltimore Convention has proved to be of the most incalculable benefit to the conserva- tives, while it has correspondingly weakened the republicans. large anti-war and anti-seces- sion element am the whites, for which this State haa been so noted, and which never‘could be induced to co-operate with the democratic party, was brought over to the liberal requblican ranks by the Baltimore nominations, and tifey do not now feel the slightest embarrassment in suppo the conservative State ticket. Everywhere throughout the State there will be a LARGELY INCREASED WHITE VOTE on the Ist of August, and it 1s the impression of the best political judges that this increase will go to swell the conservative vote. They anticipate their usual strong and fall vote in the eastern jon, an addition of several thousand baliots in the mid- die and a heavy increase in the western portion of the State. Upon the latter they chieny build their hopes of a victory, and in thai of the State their best orators are now speaking and their best energies are being put forth. Vance, Merriman, McClure, Cl an and Senator Tipton are scat tered over this entire Be | and are addressit mectings every day. Se Ty after speaking at several points in company with some of the others, strayed off on his own hook, and has not since m heard of. It is su that he en- joyed the cool, bracing air of the Bine Ridge and as Made an irregular political pilgrimage, speal ing at every cross-roads and country tavern where chance threw a meeting in his way. No doubt he will continue his tour across the mountains to the Tennessee and Virginia line at Bristol, where he will strike the railroad, and once more return to Vilization. In Stokes county Senator Tipton made veveral speechcs, and it ix said with great 3 effect. At Mount le few @ vast A yh ad CAVALCADE of mounted n Le. ring 300, What still oe Sons boca ‘was the fact that as they approac reel ie Raga ware, Giaplare: y the and they cheered wildly for honest lorace. The horses they rode were all excellent animals, and the appearance of the mounted visit- ore was ites | and quite respectable. They at once dismounted, picketed their horses and listened with great attention to the remarks of Senator ‘pton, giving him three hearty cheers at the con- clusion of his speech, This rej comes from a source said to be entitled to credit, and e tion of so strange an exhi- bition is that these , negroes’ compose a Greeley club in the counties of Stokes and Surry, and, desiring to attend Senator Tipton’s meeting, they had borrowed the horses from their white neighbors and employers, formed the caval- cade, and amazed the people of the county and the meeting in the manner stated. However true this may be it is well known that a Dumber of negroes have dared to break through the RIGID RULES OF THE LEAGUES, and for the first time to exercise thejr own opinion in the matter of casting their votes; but in the present condition of affairs it requires the greatest Moral courage on their part to carry out these intentions. No people were ever more pro- seriptive than are the negroes, and woe be to the apostate who “goes back” on his race. He is thenceforward a marked man among his sable brethren, an Jshmaclite, with every man’s hand against him, to be persecuted and ‘subjected to relentless insult and indignity, and perhaps to be beaten, robbed and banished from his home. Ihave it from several negroes with whom I conversed at High Point .the other day, where Colonel A. C. McClure addressed a large conservative meeting, that they dare not vote for Greeley and Brown, and that their OATHS REQUIRED they should vote for General Grant. «What oath do you mean ?” I asked. “De oath we took’n when we jined de League.” “Do you recoMect what that oath was” “Yes, sah. It was loyalty to de gov’ment; and den you knows Gineral Grant is de gov'ment. So we'’se boun’ to vote for Gineral Grant.” T endeavored in every possible manner to con- vince this negro, and a number of others who were with him, that the oath they had taken had no effect whatever as to their voter, that they had a right to vote as they pleased without regard to the oath; but I might as well have undertaken to con- vinee them they were white men and not negrova, It ig by such means as these the radical leaders manuge to keep the negro vote so solidly and com- pactly consolidated that it is apn impossibility al- most to change a single vote by moral suasion, threats, intimidation or by any other mode familiar to ward politicians, Another characteristic which has been educated into the negro is that it is a CRIME FO MISS VOTING at any election that may be held in the county or | township wherein he resides, They believe this as firmly as they believe that no other man but Grant shoula be President of the United State: and let them be ever so far from home they truds it on foot hundreds of miles sometimes to cast that vote. AS a proof of this no less than three hun- dred negroes, who have been working on the Lynchburg and Danville Railroad, in Virginia, have recently returned to Guilford county, in this State, where they were registered, purposely to vote at the election on Thursday next. Many of these deluded suffragans los nearly a whole month's wages sooner than | lose the privilege of voting, besides the travel of 200 miles going and returning to their work. I[t is known that large numbers of negroes have mi- grated South within the past two years, and a great iitny have died whose names are still on the regis- | tration books,. yet tt invariably happens that a negro votes for Cheri name on the books. To identify them Is out of the power of any man, and having no ancestral names of their own—some of them, too, having several names—baving no per- manent place of residence and paying no taxes, they cast not only their own vote at the proper voting PSS but they frequently cast the votes 0! . ABSEXTEES AND DEAD M and then go to other townships, where they ave also registered under other names, and vote again. ‘This latter dodge is more fruitful of ballots for the yepublicans than any other fraudulent system that may be resorted to,and thus it is the original negro registered vote never diminishes. With this multiplying of votes and with the large white vote that the republicans will debauch, purchase and in- timidate by means of the Ku Klux indictments, I think it nothing more than reasonable to #ssume that the republicans will ELECT THEIR STATE TICKET by @ small majority, though at the same time there are good chances of the conservatives doing the same thing by the honest and indomitable canvass they have made. A few days ago Governor Vance was asked by a friend what his actual opinion was as to the result, and he unhegitatingly replied that the conservatives would carry the State by 6,000 inajority. Now, Vance is a good judge, and ‘his opinion is worth something, and upon that alone a great many are willing to bet. Supervisor Perry, of the Internal Revenue, one of the adminis- tration managers, who’ has his deputy as- sessors temporarily appointed, at $5 per day, all over the State, says he will “put up” that the republicans will carry State by 16,000 majority; but that ts out of the question. Jf the republicans carry it all they are safe. The conservatives will elect a majority on joint ballot of the Legislature, perhaps six of the Congressmen, and they will run the State ticket very close. SETTLE SOLD. In the Fifth district Hon. Thomas Settle, the re- publican candidate for Congress, and who was chairman of the Philadelphia Convention, the other day, on the stump, indignantly denied the charge that money was being freely used by his ie An hour later he was tapped in a confidential man- ner on the shoulder by individual, who sald:—“Judge, 1 know about @ dozen voters near here who will for the other side, but they can be got.” “How can they be got?’ asked Set- tle. ‘Well, it will take money; you know the kind of people they are here.” “How much will it take?” said Settle. “1 don’t know, but not much.” was answer, “Here,” said Settie, taking a rol of greenbacks from his pocket, “here is sixty ds lars. Is that enough?” “Yea, that Yo ae you want more you can have it,” said Settle. “This will do, this will get them,” said the individual, and away he went. Not ten minutes aiterwards Settle saw this individual on the speaker’s stand displaying the greenbacks to the gaze of the crowd, and relating with no small degree of delight the circumstances under which he had obtained them, and adding, jocosely, that the Fepupcent were not using any money in the campaign, “‘oh, no!” He invited all his conservative friends to a groggery, where Judge Settie’s money was freely expended in whiskey for his opponents. \ The mass of documents which have been and are now being distributed throughout the State by the republicans is immense. There never was any ap- prehension of @ PERSONAL, DIFFICULTY between Judge Merriman and Senator Pool, as | stated by a correspondent of the New York Trimme. Pool franked campaign documents con- taining gross chatges, C ee ferriman, which the latter denied in @ published card, and stated he would enter suit against Pool as the publisher of the libels, A correspondence of an unimportant character ensued, in which there was nothing belligerent whatever, leaving the matter exactly where it stood with the publication of Metriman’s card, Neither of the gentlemen are fighting men, and both of them shook their heads decidedly nega- tively when asked if they apprehended any per- sonal dificuity from each other. NEW YORK CITY. “_ « Me ee j John Cronin, fourteen years of age, a boy on } board the ship Messenger, lying at pier 14 East River, fell from one of the yards yesterday and sus- tained severe injuries, James Moot, of No. 36 Oak street, was struck on the head with a bottle by Matthew Bumber during a drunken broil yesterday at No. 33 Hamilton street. Bumber was arrested by the police, Fdward Clark, of Twenty-third street and Sev- enth avenue, fem off the dock at the foot of Twenty- third street yesterday, and was drowned. The Cor- oner was notified. " Michael Hanlon, seventeen years of age, of 522 Fast Eleventh street, got into an. altercation with some parties on the corner of First avenue and Eleventh street, during which he was cut three times with a knife in the back. During a quarrel at 559 Greenwich street, last evening, between Michael Lunny, James Gracy and Peter McKenna, Gracy and McKenna were wounded, Lunny and Gracy were arrested by the police. The body of @ female child, apparently about nine months old, was found in the dock at Pier 1, North River, by OMcer Dougherty, of the First pre- cinct, and sent to the Morgue to await an investi- ation before Coroner Schirmer. Nothing could be Earned concerning the parentage of the infant, Afree entertainment will be given to five thou- sand children of the public schools of the Twelfth and Nineteenth wards, on Friday next, at Suizer’s Park, The benefit is designed to be a practical acknowledgment of the donations of flowers made by those children on Decoration The soldiers’ orphans of the Union Home and Bohool have also been invited, Yesterday morning the dead body of James Reilly was found in the yard of premises 146 Firat avenue, and sent to the Morgue the Seventeenth pre- cinct police. Deceased was forty-five years of Co and a native of Ireland. He was a man of ve je temperate habits, and doubtless aeath resulted from that cause, On Saturday night William J. Lawson, alias Timothy Dunn, a young man of nineteen years and born in this country, while under the influence ot lnuor fell from the roof of premises No. 18 Roose- velt street to the sidewalk, aud was almost in- As it is, the canvass is growing ver, warm, as ret atta "Se cans fsa 8 Soe | Sieh eta tad nese ref treet station, Dr, aD a ture of the sus) | faintest shade’ of suepicion that the Issue may go WEST VIRGINIA The Negro Voter and His Reticence. Black for Crant and White for Creeley. | CONFLICTS OF THE DEMOCRAC Governor Jacob and His Party. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. Its Disabling Features and Republican Opposition to It. JACOB’S PROBABLE STRENGTH. ——_+——— The Ex-Confederate Element in Politics. PHUR SPRINGS, » West VIRGINIA, July 27, 1872. Although there are not fewer than a thousand visitors here, searcely a man of political promi- Hence can be found among them. Such people as W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, and Major Van | Buren, of New York, hough eminently respectable in the social way, don’t connt in a pohtical sense, ‘The old-fashioned aristocracy of the South—the class who under the old order of things spent all the money, filled all the offices, and talked all the political claptrap while the niggers did all the work— has disappeared. Moncey is jess lavishly spent, and politics if discussed here at ail are talked over in an undertone, But the White Sulphur is em- phatically a Greeley colony. There is such asin- cere confidence, such a sublime faith in the cer- tainty of his election that I was considered a marvel of investigation because I found one man—a Virginia gentleman and a democrat— who thinks that after all Grant will be re-elected. A Grant man it is impossible to find among the guests, and it is equally hard to dis- cover a Greeley man among the negroes. Parties in the South have resolved themselves, to a very Jarge extent, into parties of race, the white men being nearly all demoorats and the negroes nearly all republicans. There is no help for this state of things, and the only wise thing which the Southern whites can do is to let the negro alone. So far as I have been able to observe THE COLORED VOTER he isa very docile and at the same time a very stubborn’ kind of animal, who cannot be bought, who is hard to lead and who won't be driven. On the question of the political integrity of the negro the testimony is universal—namely, that his vote is not in the market. But it is next to impossible to get a negro to say in so many words that he ts for Grant or against Greeley. When it is urged upon them that the Chappaqua philosopher was the original friend of the black man the gene- ral answer is “I don’t know, sah.” If you ask them if they have ever heard of Horace Greeley most of them will give you a plump “No,” and many pre- tend not to know anything even of President Grant. They will prevaricate for half an hour over their political creed and finally admit their republicanism only by that significant negro laugh which tells the whole story. The moral of this is simply eastrust of the political good will of the white man. In all things else they will confer with their former mas- ters and be guided by them, but almost without ex- ception they sbun the very mention of politics. A Georgia planter, now here, told me that out of his 1,800 slaves 1,500 are still en his planta- tion, but while they are constantly asking - his advice in all their little troubles, their reticence is so extreme on political topics that he has never spoken of politics to one of them since their en- franchisement. And yet he is one of the few planters who has made them comfortable in every respect, built them a church and school houses and provided them with teachers of Oberlin education, and been in all respects their generous and constd- erate patron. They are so jealous of their new- born rights that they are suspicious of everybody, and neither generosity or nobleness on the one hand, nor @ natural feeling of gratitude on the other, can make them trustfal. Their gratitude, even for their freedom, is given to none. I doubt whether Mr. Sumner would have much of a per- sonal or political following if he tried to exert in- fluence over them. One of them told me on the Jawn yesterday that it was not any one person who made the black man free, but the republican party, and he indicated his purpose to cling to the bridge which carried him over. GROUNDS FOR NEGRO SUSPICION. And it must be confessed that there are grounds for this extreme suspicion of the whites and this almost unnatural fear, Ku Klaxiam and other matters, of which the newspapers have been full, were in themselves suMcient to drive the negro back upon himself; but during my short stay here I have seen other cauves for it, which have not been #0 fully reported by the press. One of the most potent of these causes is to be found in the electioneering tactics of o!d party hacks, The waiter who stands behind me at dinner told me that all the servants in the hotel had been polled | for Greeley or Grant by the man who seats the ts. “Did he ask each waiter how he woud Vole I asked, ‘Yes, es )” “And what did he say #7 “Some ol them said they would vote for Greeley, I don’t know why, but they'll all vote for Grant.” “Why did he do this?’ 1 further inquired. “I don’t know, sah, He said he was ordered to find out, so that he could make @ list of the way everybody would vote.” And J gathered from my sable aftendant that every waiter in the house thought there was some sinister motive in this espionage into other men’s intentions. The effects of such @ policy throughout the South cannot fatlto be bad. In this Instance I cannot beleve the thing was done with the consent of Colonel Peyton, the manager of the White wulpeer, for he is too genial, generous and just to allow it if he understood its effect; but it ‘was done nevertheless, In West Virginia more than in any other Southern State, perhaps, has the negro reason to fear such action, for here more | than in apy other State are his rights as a freeman | Jeopardized, WEST VIRGINIA'S ASSAULT ON THE NEGROES. The Senate is ey in the ninth year of its exist- ence, and yet last winter it had @ convention to frame a new constitution. This body matured its work at Charleston in ba adopting @ copftitu- tion, which is to be submit! to the people at the approaching election. In itself this seems like a harmless document enough, and, in view of past legisiation of a disfranchising and disabling charac- ter, it is absolutely needed, Unfortunately, how- ever, it is accompanied by a schedule providing for the manner of its ratification, but containing also Se voted on separately, prevent- ing negroes py a Office in the State. Ths roposition wi suomitted in deference to the old rebel sentiment, of which a Inte reat He to know, for te wilt show whether 7 interestin or no’ thing reveal exasperated a republican sentiment immensely, and the echo of bitterness comes back from other States only to add to the flame. The whole constitution ts con- ntly Ung ye the whole stre: and seque: the is thrown into a ‘attem| feat'it. “Brery ‘omort will be fed to bring tater rr pe ay te el er oj pie ta! be of the oie lee hoy imed ap & vic Gran hopes, - er ce the State in Noventber i be built upon now, and the Presidential contest bison then be conducted with earnestness and ardor. THE POLITICAL BITUATION—-DEMOCRATIO FEARS. do not think this will be the result, State ticket is concerned, for republicans. have been singu- @, 80 far as appearances new constitution ; bat if the: friends of Governor Jaco! ocrats may be realized. one, resembling in its main aspects the at national contest for the Presidency, except that in this case the boot, is on the other leg, and the resemblance is constanuly used by Governor Jacob’s friends a4 an argument why democrats m: support @ democrat who did not, as well as a repub- lican who did receive a democratic nomination. It 1s not very good logic; but it is not logic, but votes, that they are after, The republicans e not made a State ticket, but have practical; adopted Jacob as their candidate for Governor, and wih vote for him. y would have nominated him outright, but it was thought wiser to let the whole thing ‘go and support him con amore, a8 it was believed by Senator Boreman and others that this course would strengthen him, and at the same time strengthen the opposition to the new consti- tution. Privately Governor Jacob 18 said to favor the constitution, without the restrictive m clause, of course, but publicly he makes no utter- ances on the subject. This rather anomalous cont dition of affairs grows out of the necessities of the republicans, a8 Well a8 Governor Jacob’s relations towards his own party, and is sufficient to make the friends of Mr. Camden, the democratic candi- date, uneasy, if it does not dishearten them. GOVEBNOR JACOB AND THE DEMOCRACY. The origin of the suarre! can only be found by looking back at the history of parties since the war. In the first years of peace the democracy seemed hopelessiy in the minority, but results have since shown that this is @democratic State, The repub- Nean triumphs were confessedly due in a great measure, in the later day of republican ascendancy, to the liberalism of Camden in supporting what is here known as the “Flick amendment,” and thereby driving straight-laced democratic voters from the democrati erg when he was a candidate for Governor in ; This amendment might be de- seribed in th est words as general amnesty an universal suffrage, though it was in reality intende for a very different purpose. The = re- publicans had passed many disabling acts, and had even incorporated into the constitution of the State a proposition excluding the pardoned rebels from any perictee ea in public affairs, at least so far as hokling office is concerned, It was to repeal this obnoxious provision that the Flick amendment was proposed; but.as it recognized the right of negroes to vote as wellas rebels it gave great offence to many persons who were not willing to do to the blacks as they wished the blacks. shoula do to them, The’ effect of Camden's sup- port of this measure was to make him so many ene- mies in his own party that in 1870 he declined to be a candidate for Governor and threw the whole weight of his influence in favor of Jacob. in 1872 it was expected by Camden's friends that Jacob would act in the same way toward him; but the latter, urged on by his friends saw his duty in a different light. On the plea that the Convention which nominated Camden was a packed convention Jacob came out as an inde- pendent candidate for re-election and he carries a part of his party with him. In the northern and northwestern part of the State there is a strong feeling that he’ was badly treated, while among Camden’s friends the feeling is equally strong that he has treated Camden badly, So they go into the canvass showing a good deal of bitterness, hut Camden’s friends claiming the State by 20,000 majority. AN ESTIMATE OF JACOB'S DEMOCRATIC STRENGTH. T have before me the figures of Jacob’s probable strength in his own party, the estimate being made by the leading democratic politician of the State. According to this estimate he will receive alto- gether only 3,700 democratic votes in the State. It must not be forgotten that these are democratic votes, and not majorities. This being understood, it is believed that Ohio county will give him 300, Kanawha 200, Hampshire and Hurnson 150 each and Hardy, Mineral, Taylor and Lewis 100 each. The Eastern Panhandle is put down at 500 and the Western Panhandle at 1,700. In the remaining forty counties he is allowed an average of 50, which would make only 2,000. It is in this way his democratic strength of 3,700 is arrived at. With a full republican vote this would overcome the democratic majority of two years ago, and leave him a margin which would make his calling and election sure, But this is not to be if the claim of the democracy is founded on fact. They say the vote which has just come out from under the four- teenth amendment, and which has never yet been cast in this State, will not be fewer than 25,000, It seems like a very large estimate, and possibly may be a mistake; but it is confidently counted on as the new and controlling influence in West Vir, politics, On what this estimate is based nobody seems to know; but it is on this ex-Confederate vote alone that the expected majority of 20,000 is based, It would be a singular spectacle—and it is one that may exhibited at the approaching election—to see these people coming back into the Union to throw around the negroes a disabling clause in the State constitution similar to the one affecting themselves which they are now trying ta wipe out. The whole fight is on the adoption of the constitution either with or with- out the clause which prevents negroes from hold- ing office. = IF THE CONSTITUTION FAILS it will be a democratic defeat, for the election ts held under it and will fail with it. Governor Jacob will then hold over and everything will remain as itis. ‘This is the principal reason why the repubii- cans appear listiess and inactive, exceptin their opposition to the new constitution, sides, & canvass in West Virginia is attended with ‘eat difficulty. There is not a cowmty in the State that is not mountainous, and some of them are all mountain. The roads are bad and the fare abominable. The motto of the nine-year-old “Montant semper lidert,” may trae h, but the mountaineers are not the most de- sirable freemen in the world to meet on the hustings or anywhere else. They expect rousing speeches and they take their democracy in strong doses. ‘Thus it becomes something more than a labor of love to serve them. Major Mathews, the candidate for Attorney General, w here recuperating for a few days, but he is now of again. campaigning among the mountains. Mr. Frank Hereford, the Congressman from this district, and a candidate for re-election, was 80 disgusted with the labors expected from him that. he actually went and got married, and ran away for diminished honeymoon. But he will be ain and at work before the canvass closes. The aged people at White Sulphur take little interest in the hard work of the campaign. We can only talk politics in a general way, and show our simple faith in Greeley’s election. Carl Schurz’ speech in the HERALD came as a great relief to us, and if Sumner would only write a iletter we should hay Py. We take no stock in the republic: on the utte: peace is consulted as it should be something new several days afver it occurred Ster week, for we can live a week on @ speech like that of Schurz. With such food in abundance we may even succeed in quieting the man who believes Grant has a chance in the fight. Heis not a very loud talker, to be sure; but we are anxious to con- vince him, not only that the White Sulphur may be unanimously for Greeley, but unanimous in its belief of his election. JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT, coe When Justice Koch took his seat upon tie magis- terial bench yesterday morning there was acom- motion in Court. The ‘drunks’ came up first with their usual comicalities. “Judge, asthore, won't ye let me go this one little time? ‘Tis the furst I was ever up before Yer Honor, an’ I won’t be never agin,’’ whined a small, slatternly woman, whose face resembled a keg of kerosene which had been brought into unpleasant proximity to a lucifer match. The speaker ob- tained free lodgings on the Island for the summer months. “4 was sitting on the sidewalk, Yer Honor, an’ this man he come along and he whacked me over the head wid a big shillaleh worser than Donny- brook. ‘Twas meesylf just lifted me and resented the insuit, and, bad cess to the poor bones of me, but this big fellow aidn't——” Judge (laconicaliy)—“Ten days,” and he was sent on his vacation for that period. A dark-haired, bright eyed beauty was the next person who appeared at the bar. Fair, but very frail, she presented one of those mournful spectactes which’ are invariably to be met with in large cities, She said nothing in answer to the Judge’s inter: tions. Poor creature, she was evidently not fledged in sin. From her large lustrous eyes Gripped tepid te which moistened Judge Koch’s heart, until, reiterating the words of our Saviour, he bade the prisoner “‘go, and sin no more.’’ wi at the bar; for he rec: uj Witness’ stand a lady whom he, ungallant fellow, had no wish to meet. th ¢ ‘16th of last April Abe managed to apy propriate a brooch belonging to poe, Rpts at Fae He got Oy ~ ers will Srrovided for him until he provides, it er anna degre the street, Yer Wurship,” said @ than who looked like a superannuated owl that Berea Sarcaa aa cae a that Bi ‘club ona; T only remonstrated wid that big cl ‘ fonor, an’ the furst thing I knew I was right into the uiter, an’ when I lifted myself I was torn a ~: Les e ten days to rate yourself.” im Well, I guess Iwas a little it; how much do ou want?” simpered a juvenile swell, who ve from @ crushed box. duced a ergo rol of bills; but billing and cong werpail in $400” was the Justice's at, and down went the unfortunate. EN nag be ind wealth of golden hair clas- pi A aroul her marble brow, next stood trembling at the rail. Poor child! she pean eas nudge, wan y features, ‘gave her her liberty and some good vice. Taken altogether, yesterday's schedule at Jeffer- son Market wae a ght one, aud fewer upfortunaves than naval found themaelves “held to auswen’?