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THE CAMPAI Photographs of PublicOpinion by a a he Herald Commissioners, Gilmpses of the Struggle in New York, Maine, Kentucky and Tinois. THE GRANT COHORTS FIRM AND UNBROKEN Sorebead Democrats Slowly Crys- talizing Against Greeley. Doubt and Mystery Gathering Over the Future. €ffect of the First Cun in North Carolina. a Sela F abandoned the line (NEW! YORK HERALD; TUESDAY, AUGUST 13))1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. with idea of Iwas going, and 80 two visit, for an hour or 60 at a tame, the py and Westfield, and from West of the railroad altugether A WANDERING TOUR ON HORSEBACK on the roadways for several miles into the interior. Co ‘county I very casily dropped into adjoiming county, visiting on my lcottville, Ashford and several My next run was through Erie county, through Niagara, Orleans and Mon- Toe counties. In every place I found politics at a complete standstill. “Fire caldron that politicians talk so much about keeping at the boiling point wag Bot even heated, and in but few instances did I come across 4 single where even preparations were being made for the fire to get the caldron into the redhot condition deemed 80 indispensabie ina ped campaign. Indeed, 80 little excitement did I Mnd even in towns of SAF pretension that I ‘was very often on the point of asxing some en- Nghtened rural sovereign whom I met on the road- whether or not there was to be any election at all in his neighborhood, In all probability after the State pe conventions have spread their work out before the people THE USUAL HUBBUR will begin, and their spread-cagle orators will come out from their lairs and tear the air and the respective candidates’ characters to tatters in the usual styic. Ina few pices Ifound, it is true, a Grant and Wilson club or a Greeley and Brown club, but they were very undemonstrative, at least #0 far asi could ascertain from those who conde- ascended on wine an. What Ce me ne than else during my journeyings was the conduct of "he democrats Yr om 1 qhateed at the inns or depots to get into conversation with. No matter how smal! the place where I stopped I was sure tO come across afew democrats who cituer declared that they would not vote at all or that out of aheer spite they would VOTE FOR GRANT. i This I found to be the case among the old men es- cially, who, in all probability, had never in their ives voted anything but the straight democratic ticket, no matter how good or bad the nominations May have been. Some of them talked in a way about the nomination of Greeley at Baltimore that would, no doubt, if the good old man had only been regent have made each of his particular white hairs stand upon end in utter horror. Still there are both sides to every question. While I met and conversed with many democrats who were fierce in ‘WESTERN NEW YORK A CURIOUS PUZZLE Violent Fluctuations of Greeley Stock in Maine. The Combat Daily Growing Thicker and Fiercer. Dilinois for the Most Part on the Fence. HOW WILL THE GERMANS VOTE? Trimmers Everywhere in an Agony of Perplexity. The Prevailing Outside Sentiment, “May the Best Man Win.” WESTERN NEW YORK. Gresley Stock Rather Heavy in the West—The Sit- uation in Chautangua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Miagara, Monroe and Erie Counties—Dem- ocrats Disgusted with the Baltimore Ticket—What Fenton’s Infizence Amounts To—A Close and Doubt- fal Straggle in November. RivLey, Augast 5, 1872. 1 am sorely puzzled what to make ont of the countrymen away out here in the western portion of the State, for they do not seem to be as strong friends of the Greeley movement as I was led to ex- Pect and as nine-tenths of the people in New York ity believe they are. When I left New York some ago, with the view of travelling about in the rural districts to see what I could see and listen to ‘What I could bear of the hum and buzz of the politi- al wind amid the mountains, the valleys and the | Swamps, where the influences of Gotham ear-wig- | ging are scarcely known even by tradition, and to | notice and make due note of what particular direc- ‘tion the needle of the raral political compass as a general thing pointed to, the Greeley enthusiasm ‘was at its height in the metropolis. The Philoso- | pher had just been serenaded by the Lincoin Club, ana the “gratification” of the democracy at his nomination was being paraded in the Greeley papers asa thing that was coextensive only with Wncle Sam’s dominions. As for THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 3 was confidentially told by an old wirepuller, just as 1 had put foot in the cars, that “the thing” ‘was all one-sided in the country. “I’ve been up 4m the western portion of the State,” said he, with chuckle that was meant to be patriotic (that is, | if one can by any stretch of imagination torture a Politician’s chuckle into a demonstration of pa- friotism) ; ‘I’ve been in the western portion of the Btate andi found the Greeley enthusiasm like a prairie fire; itis sweeping all before it.” Under ‘ali these circumstances it must be confessed that I Started on my mission full crammed to the muzzle ‘with the idea that all I had to do at any village or Damlet I might stop at, to make a delightful sensa- tion among the inhabitants, was to cali for three | cheers for the Woodchopper of Chappaqua. Be- | sides, my personal political leaning is father Gree- | feyish in its tendencies, and my friend’s informa- Mion was, therefore, by no means ungratefully re- ceived. However, my mission being that of AN IMPARTIAL OBSERVER ora seeker after the unadulterated truth, whose duty it isto be neutral and look upon things just as he sees them and to call a spade a spade when | fhe comes across one in the field or on the road- | aide, I jogged along in the cars all oblivious of the outaide pressure of interested parties. It was my intention at first to reach the interior of the State by slow journeyings, stopping here and there in | this and that county after I had left New York to | the cast of me, but I deemed it best finally to cat foose entirely from those sections of the State | ‘Whose close proximity to the city I thought might | Prevent independent thought and thus give the | simple reflex of the city’s predilections, and not to stop until I had reached the extreme westerly portion of the State. This plan of operations I | | the followed, and my first stopping place was Brockton, about forty miles west of Dunkirk. I should | Hot forget to state, however, that in my.anxiety to | follow Mr. Greeley’s advice and “go West,” added the stupidity of @ conductor of the Lake Shore | foad, I succeeded ‘in reaching as far west as Eric, Pa., only a little matter of forty miles out of my q@ay. 1 very happily struck the Oorry Ratiroaa ehortly after the unpleasant predicament of being suddenly and unexpectedly dumped out of my own | | Counties in 1868 gave Grant 8,121 majority. their denunciation of Greeley, I also met very many who were strongly in favor of him, ‘THE IRiSHMEN numerous, though in the two rie 1 found to exceedingly demonstrative in his favor. 1 took it into my head one take @ wagon and along the Lake Shore west of Buitulo, about fifteen miles out, where a very large number of men are working, laying the bottom for an additional track. By far the larger portion of them declared themselves for Greeley, and very many of them told me that they had heretofore voted the republican ticket. In fact, although the strength of Mr. Greeley in Chau- tauqua was not by any means what I had an idea it wonld be, I think it is strong enough to make ‘thi look rather “shaky” for the Grantites, Fenton’s influence is plainly discernible in every lace where there ts the least defection. In Chau- Aqua county it is especially so, and, although there are many who will follow him in Cattaraugus county, yet I doubt very much if THE BREAK FROM THE REGULAR LINES will be of any greatextent. Grant in 1868 had a Majority of 4,046 in Chautauqua, and Cattaraugus gave him 2,285. If Greeley can carry these two counties in the face of this—alded by Fenton’s influence—which I found unquestionably very great in both counties, as I have said before, he will do more than I think is possible, judging from alll have been able to learn during my journeying through them. NOW AS TO ERIE COUNTY. In the country districts I must confess to a great surprise in finding the Greeleyites so very few and far between. In the city of Buffalo, however, I am inclined to believe that the majority of the German population, which is a very strong ele- ment—some 40,000 strong—will support him. If they do he will Seem sure to curry the county with arush, In Niagata county things are fear- fully mixed. Indeed, the republican defection is apparentiy very serious, and think that the county will be carried by the liberals without any trouble. Several old demo- crats at Lockport, however, told me that they would vote for Grant, and that they knew of several others in other places throughout the county who would also ‘go and do likewise.” The county is so close at the best that it is quite possible, notwith- stauding the liberal detection, if a large number of - the old line democrats should STAY AWAY FROM TNE POLLS altogether, or vote, as many say they will, for Grant, the republicans may be able inthe long run to overcome all the odds which now seem against them. I hardly know what to say about Orleans county. I know that it is claimed by some that the liberal republicans in the county are quite numer- ous; but if they are they keep very shady. Here and there f came across one or two, but, us a gene- ral thing. I found that from one end of the count: to the other, the republican rank and file are pat The friends of Kirk Hart, who are not s0 ve! counties west of for the administration. who was last year a member of the Legislatu and who has come out with agreat sound of rumpets for Greeley, contend that he and a few others will give the “regulars” a lively tussle of it In No- vember, Ifso, they must have much bettcr means of judging the situation in the county than I have had, and those means must be very far down under the general surface of thi “Tow many libcrais have you in the county ?”’ I asked of a Greeloyite I met in Albion, ‘Well, sir, there is Ben Field anud’——, and my friend began to call off the names Of several liberals, ’ COUNTING T. a ON HIS FINGERS, “Can you count them all on your fingers?’ I asked, interrupting him rather abruptly in the midst of his calculations, “Why, bless you, no,” was the reply. “There area great many {n the county, but you see they don’t all want to show up yet awhile.’ 1 was forcibly reminded, by this way of explaining the liberal numbers in the county, of ew Yorker when the Excise law was belng vigorously entorced on Sundays, who answered the auti-temperance plaints of friend by thus ungrammatically exclaiming, ‘Why, Bob, you don't know the ropes. I gets a drink whenever I wants to. There is a liquor place here in town that makes a pile of money on Sundays and nobody knows it but me!” MONROE COUNTY has atways been known as a rather uncertain one. It is true that in 1863 she gave Grant a majority of 1,663, but that was one of Ifer freaks, Very little would have wade her give as bigs majority just the other way. Still she can be set down as a re- Lomert county, even though last year, during the ‘ammany excitement, she could only serew her re- form courage up to an anti-democratic majority for | Seribner of 6v7. I did not think it absolutely neccs- sary to make @ very particular investigation into the conntry districts of the county, for after pass- | ing leisurely through some of the villages I became convinced that Greeley’s hold on the people was not.of the most reliable kind. 1 may be mistaken, but I doubt it very much, and I think the results o! the election will bear me out in the statement that, though the influence of Fenton, who has many strong adherents in the county, will make the tug | between the two parties a very bitter and a ver; hard one, the coun will give a good, | solid _malortt: for Grant. iy chief rea- son for statement is this—that I found the democrats very much divided among themselves, and while the republicans are energetic and ones od organized, the liberals, besides being very few in numbers, are to all a) pearances rather lukewarm in their efforts to help the Philosopher to victory. Probably the city of ester ailords the best iilustration of this fact. Iremained three days in the city and did all that lay in my power to find out everything that would give me a correct idea of THE SITUATION. I talked with democrats and republicans and lib- erals, and roamed from ward to ward to find out just how the tide was running, and I must confess that my confidence in the strength of the Greeiey party in’ the county became every, day beautifully less and stuall by degrees, To be dure three or four re- pebucene of prominence have cut aloof from the rant party—men like D. D. 8. Brown, Rains and Deming—but so far as my Observations went I could not find that their example had been followed by a number of republicans sufficient to cause conster- nation, or even a gentle scare, among the regulars. One of tae chief drawbacks to the liberals in the county I discovered was the determination of many old democrats not to support Greeley. Let me give you 4 striking example of this. In the Eighth ward of the city, which has always been democratic, 4 THOROUGH CANVASS has brought to light the astounding revelation that only Mfteen republicans will vote for Greeley, and that eighty democrats will vote for Graut! Take this vote and calculate tt by the rule of three, and where wili it leave the country? Indeed, the Grantites claim t in the two counties of Orleans and Monroe on election day not more than two hundred republican voters will vote for the Cincinnati and Baltimore nominees, The pe he democrats from bow till thé 6th of November keep demonstrating, after the fashion of those in the Eighth ward of Rochester, and that a strong demo- cratic one heretofore, what hopes have the liberals to carry them? I know that from time to time State into another, and arrived at Brockton late | lists, and long ones, have been published im the im the day, although I had started at half-past | seven in the morning with only thirty-eight miles to travel from Buffalo. From Brockton I took another railroad, and reached Mayville, on Chau- tauqua Lake, and thence REACHED PANAMA. This little place isin Chautauqua county--that es- ‘timable county which has produced a Winans and ‘@ Bemus and a few other great men of note, whose ective operations in political life have not as yet, but’ may soon, call public attention to thelr inesti- Mable virtues, thetr private worth and their disin- tercstednoss of motive ip everything that they un- Gertake for the public good. Panama 1 found was @ot as agreeable nor by long o¢ds as luxurious a place to stop any length of time in as New York, #0 I kept on the move all the time 1 was there, and thus was enabled to keep my biood in healthy cir- culation. From Panama I wandered to Clymer, Harmony, Mina, Sherman and several other ittle Places within the county limits. 1 shonid also state county newspapers of even who will vote the Greo- ley ticket; but I have already found go much de- ception and trickery about this list business that I put no faith in it Whatever, whether the showing | be for Grant or Greeley, I prefer to trust to my | OWn observations, made with the intent to show muatters just as they are, THE WAY THE SIX COUNTIES WILL VOTE. Ip conclusion I wiil say that it is possible that the Greeleyites Will carry Chautauqua aud Catterag, counties, but the thing ts only a possibility; that it is highly 8 epee they will carry Niagera sate a ores, ance that they may capture Erie, and & lead certaigty that they will be utterly dete io Orleans au Moarog ee THE NRGNORS, let me add as a sort of postcript, I found in these six counties solid for Grant. Indeed, although T took especial pains to find a Greeiey colored man during iny travels, I failed to come across a soli- tary one, In this connection I may mention that I met av ex-siave in Erie county, who ts a power among his brethren, who gave me a rather shai answer when I agked him how it was that the col- ored folks seemed to be so strongly against Gree- ley, who had done ao much for shor in the past, “Well, | tell you what it is, 7 gald he; “wo colored folks are very kful to Massa Greeley ‘or all that he’s gone and done for us in the past, that having once gone over the Lake Shore road 4 Eric, | caw to tye comcluaian juatl could dass i but by his gwine right over to the democrats as he's a id of pain unk AV Baap | isu't it rather distre: pall of milk and then kicks it over.” Just think of iearecley compared to & cow and a wicked ene at CENTRAL NEW YORK. How Things Look in Genosee, Wyoming, Onta- rio, Livingston and Yates Countics—A Search After Definite Information Under Diffieul- ties Among the Rustice—The Defections in the Republican Ranks—What the Farmers Say and Why the Democrata Are Not United— A German's Reason for Opposing Greeley. Penn Yan, N, Y., August 12, 1872, It ia an extremely dificult matter for a stranger to find out exactly what the political situation is in any county in the interior of the State through which he may have topass, Everything scems to bein @ muddle, and there is very little certainty about the chances of the two aspirants for the Pres- idency in any particular place, with one or two ex- ceptions, Of coure, this is to be expected at this early stage of the campaign, for the machinery of the two parties is as yet quite new, and it will take Probably 4 much longer time for the wheels to get into good working order. Indeed a. New Yorker, not used to the ways and means politicians in the rural districts have of working among their fellowe or followers, as the caso may be, would be at his wit's end in THE “CLOSE” COUNTIES to know just which side even seems to have the best of the fight. Go to a Grant republican and he will be able to show you by incontestible proofs and figures that, he will tell you, cannot lie, that Gen- eral Grant will make a clean sweep of his (the vot- er’s) county. The next moment you will stumbie across some Greeley republican, who is just as cer- tain that Greeley will win in the county ashe is of his own individual existence. He, too, will deal in figures, and if you should happen to give him a sly hint about what you have heard from the Grant man he will straightway deluge yon with such an ABUNDANCE OF COUNTER-PROOF that you will Ond yourself a great deal worse off than you were before you met either of them. “What,” he will say, if you give him to under- stand that you have been informed by the most re- liable authority in the place that Snifens and Jones. and Brown and five or six of the Smith family, all formerly ardent administration men, are determined not only to vote, but to work for Grecley—“‘what,” he will exclaim, ‘does that amount to, but a drop in the bucket?” And he will then await ‘a few remarks” from yourself. While you are endeavoring in your own mind to find out how it is that the Sniffens’ and the Jones’ and the other folks’ votes can COUNT FOR NOTING, he takes you to the corner of the village main street and points out to you seve‘al men who are riding or walking by. It may be, indeed, that he will introduce you to half a dozen of them and draw you gradually at the same time toward a house with the word “Bar” painted in dead black over the door. “You see those men,” he will then continue; ‘well, sir, they are all democrats, always have been demo- crats, and won't be anything else. ‘They’re goin’ to vote for Grant, more’n half of ‘em, and those who don’t vote for him won’t vote at all.’ This quite naturally knocks the under-pinning out of the accession to the Greeley ranks that you had previously set down as based on semi-official’ information, and Jeaving your Grant enthusiast to go and find the ‘Judge” or the “Squire,” whom he wants you to hear TALK HIS MIND about the democratic defection, you cast about elsewhere for something definite to make the figures on one side have a majority over the other. Of course if you take all for Gospel the Grant and the Greeley men tell you matters are, as a general thing, left about even, and, as a natural conse- quence, a8 an Irishman would have it, “Grant and GreeRy would both carry the county.” You finally go in search of a democrat, It is true the article Is scarce In some of the rural places you wander into, but if you go the right way about it you can casily fish one out who will tell_you candidly all he knows about “the way things are going.” The first one you come across may be aGreeley man, and then you get a rehash of the Grecley republican’s story, with, if possible, & little stronger coloring coupled with the most emphatic denials of the misrepresentations of the Grant man. By and by up comes another demo- cta t, who will tell you, may be, that he has ‘VOTED THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET “for forty years and more,” and he'll be, well, he will be —~ if he knows any good square up and down democrat in tho county who 18 going to vote for the present incumbent. This assertion proba- bly gets the two democrats into @ lofty constitu- tional argument, and, taking advintage of the fortuitous circumstance, you take your leave to roam about the village during the day, drop into the taverns and watch and listen for yourself until the train or the stage coach arrives only to deposit you in some place else, where your old diticulties are certain to be renewed, Now, under all these circumstances ne to try and be exact about the situation? 1 candidly believe that if “Old Probabilities” himself should come on from Wash- ington and go over the same ground that I have already gone over and then TRY TO FORECAST THINGS - in his usnal style, he'd miss his mark nine times out of ten, Still lam of the opinion after all that there is a chauce occasionally here and there to be reasonably certain about the lay of the land, and [ am presumptious enough to believe that my wander- ings up to to-day through the counties I shall have occasion to allude to have not been entirely lost in the realm of “indefinite information.” In tho first place Jet me call attention to one __ striki fact. In m last. letter, Lf written after i had visited the counties of Chatau- qua, Cattaraugus, Erie, Niagara, Orleans and Mon- roe, I spoke of the appareut dulness in political circics and the absence of anything like enthusiasm or activity on either side, The case has been quite different in the counties Ihave since visited. In fact, strange as it ham 4 seem, the further one goes to the eastward—that 1s, in a zigzag way from the lakes toward New York city—the more noticeable becomes THE BEAT OF THR CAMPAIGN, and—what may be more welcome news to some people—the stronger seems to be the Greeley ele- Ment. Isay “secms” advisedly, for it cannot be dented that up in Fenton's stronghold where | was the other day the friends of the Mee des are by no means few and far between, but they do not appear to make as much noise about themselves as further to the east. But to the results of my tramp through the additional counties, In Genesee county | found that several republl- caus bad declared for Greeley, but the.defections are more than made up by democrats whowill vote for Grant or not vote at all—-at least they say 60 now. What they will do when they are BROUGHT TO THR SCRATCH is quite another thing. Greeley has, at any rate, very little chance of carrying the county. The antl-Grecley motives of some of the war democrats in the county are not very creditable to thetr intel gence, but tie reason one of them gave ine whil was for going against the Philosopher only shows how even the weakest Inventions of the enemy will sometimes create damage in a political campaign, The man Irefer to is a German, who has a good deal of influence in the county. By the me might as well say just here that he told me he had never seen Greeley's picture until the other day a Greeley repninnioes ave him © good jook at one. Said he to me, as we sat sipping our lager to- gether :—“Judging from that picture he looks to be A NICE KIND OF A MAN, but I can’t vote for him. I've always been a demo- crat, but this time 1 go for Grant.” Lasked him the reason. “Woll," said he with a shrng of the shoulders, “the idea of Greeley's promising to do allhe could to pay the rebel soldier a pension! Now, I wouldn't care about giving one or two poor fellows a little something, but to give them all pen- sions, Why that would take miilions of dollars and we'd ail be taxed for it, wouldn't wey” and the Patriotic man looked at me jn a way that said as lain as words could say it, “You needn't answer, for you see Iam thoroughly posted.” WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS. In W; ing county the reputiican defection among tho republicans is email, It is not by any means ing. There, too, I found many demo- orats declared to me in the most positive man- ner that they would not vote for Greeley under any circumstances, There is a little local struggle in the county about the Congressional nomi- nee which may, according to the way it turns out, have a slight influence for Greeley. The present incumbent is Seth Wakeman, who wants to S back to Congress, and his would-ne competitor ts joskin, of Wyomin, ‘The latter is a Grant man ag well as Wakeman, but there are wheels within wheels in the two countics, the working of which forecasts a ruction if the right man is not nomi- nated, Of course who the right man ts the district knows best, WHAT THE PARMERS SAY, Ontario county will from all appearances give Grant a good majority. | | i ‘There are, it is true, a | made up tl uinkes pL repulcous Who Daye came ous for Greg: J Jens OLRALLY Jey, but they are it Is gene: believed, by the democrats who will vote tne ethos way. Canand tigua, for instance, Judge Stowell, Jong democrat of considerable minence, is tO stup the wane Grant. was very much surprised in travelling through this county to see the determination manifested the farmers to stick to the regniar ticket, even tl they have a reat king for Horace. ‘They will not be ied by the leaders who have gone over to the opposition cainp and none Ap the be- lief that Grant is the right man, one of them vo me:—“'l’ve takgn Mr. Greetey’s paper fer twen! years and I like it and Ilike Mr. Greeley too. ‘Would vote jor um also if | was only sure that in voting for him 1 was not voting to PUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY INTO POWER, You see by electing Lim we only elect onciman, as J look at the matter. If 1 couid be satisfied that by electing him we’d at the same time elect a purer aud better Fepublican party I would do ali Peoult toelect him.” In this connection! will give you ap instance of how a@ democrat has unwittingly aflorded the Grant politicians in the county a pow- erful argument to sustain the view takem by this old farmer. ‘The democrat 1 allude tos aneditor in Saratoga and @ relative of the democratic Judge Stowell, who has come out for Grant. ‘The Saratoga man, on hearing of his relative's defection; wrote him a \ong letter, arguing to show that itwas THE DUTY OP EVERY) DEMOCRAT to vote for Grecicy. ‘This letter has been published and 1s being freely circulated along the republi- cans, It is needicss to say that it doesn’t make Toany converts for Greeley, A rather striking illus- tration was given the other day at Brigtol of the way the gaps made in the regular republican ranks by the deserters are sometimes quickly filled = by democrats, A thorough canvass was made of the republicans who declare they will vote for enaaieg. ‘They numbered twenty-one, and the same canvass, by a strange coincidence, revealed the fact that twenty-one democrats Will vote for Grant. The question srvcng: the wags in Bristol new is, who will get ste best of it out of this tie vote—Grant or eley : Gre . AN UP-HILL JOB , In TAvingaton county the Greeley men make great boasts of what they will do, but from appear- ances I do not think they will make very great havoe with the regulars, who are as firm as a rock. Indeed J doubt very much if the day after elec- tion will show a decreased majority for General Grant. In 2868 the eh gave bim 1,358 and Subner jast year 3,392, There’s up-hill work cer- tainly there for the Philosopher's admirers, BETWEEN TWO STOOLS, ‘The Yates county situation is rather more prom- ising for Greeley, [ found, than in either of the two counties just mentioned. It may not be generally known that fora long time past there have been two republican factions in the county, each of which has been doing its utmost to cut its rival's throat, cost what it might to the party. Cleveland, who ran for State Senator last year and has to thank the republican faction he does not belong to for his de! and the election of Johnson, a demo- Crat, see! fo be the leading spirit of the Grecley- ites, and J am inclined to believe that he will have a following on election day much larger than now appears upon the surface. Still the Grant men claim that they will carry the county, They may, but 1 doubt it very much, as the kuowing oves have arranged matters so that the liberals and the dem- ocrats can unite upon Cleveland as the nominee for Congress. This may DRAW THE LINES TIGHTER on both sides, the factions Included. Yet again, the arrangement might arouse the republicans in tho two other counties of the district to a sense of their party duty, as the Grant men call it, and thus the very plan concocted for the per goe of laying the regulars out on the broad of their backs jyould prove disastrous only to the planners themse MAINE. Progress of the Fight—How the “Back Towns” Stand—Talks with the Natives—Sccession and Accession—Democratic and Republican Estimates of Gains and Losses— Hustling Around the Hustings. SACCARAPPA, Maine, August 8, 1872. Your correspondent dates this letter from this Point for several reasons. Among them he might mention that it is because it is one of the oldest settled and about as good a representative centre as you will find in Cumberland and York eounties, Another is, the natives here do not object to being interviewed by the right kind of people; ‘another is because the HERALD commissioner has been wel- comed like a prince by @ whole family of Kings; and still another is, that it is far enough from a big city like Portland to be rurally*virtuous and politically honest. TIE CROSS-ROADS GROCERIES, This region is somewhat noted for its cross-roads groceries, with this paradoxical difference—the aforesaid groceries are generally located where the roads do not cross. These places arg the*ren- dezvous of the village gossipers and local politicians, who discuss politics, religion and the Maine Liquor law with equal vehemence. Take ® prominent point, by way of illustration. HOW STANDS THE.GREBLEY AND GRANT STOCK ? An elderly gentleman, who selis groceries only for the accommodation of his neighbors and not for profit, seats himselfin front of his store door and hails the farmers as they come and go, He is re- garded as asort of political barometer, and when consulted reports after the manner of the indicator at the Gold Exchange in New York. VIEWS OF A DEERING COUNTRY MERCTIANT. “What's the news to-day 7” asks a neighbor, “Greeley stock at par.” Next day the same question. “Greeley stock at 150.” And the next, “Greeley stock at 180,” And the next, “Greeley stock going up to gold prices in war times—280.”” The news of the suceess of the republicans in North Carolina comes with the efect of the itelli- gence of a rebel victory upon the Stock Board, “How is Greeley stock to-day’? “Greeley stock Is down,” “How's Grant?” “Grant stock is up. They atn't done counting the nigger vote in North Curolina yet.” VIEWS OF A GORHAM DEMOCRAT, “How stands Greeley in your town?” “Too many republicans golng for him,’ “but don’t you want him elected 7"? “Well, y-a-d-8, I reckon I do.” “Well, then, do you object to republicans going for him?” “I don’t like their company. I’ve been a demo- crat all my life, and I don't want to be swamped by my old enemies.” is is the sentiment of @ good many democrats; but as @ general pune ie democrats hereabouts will go for Greeley without stopping to inquire wat company they are in, WHAT AN OLD GORTIAM REPUBLICAN SAYS. “T have always becn a republican; seut two boys to the war and lost one. I voted for Grant, but I can’t take him this time.’? “Why not 1)? “Because he Is ruled by cliques of office-holders, and has nothing in sympathy with the public.” ‘This sentiment was expressed with much earnest- ness by the old gentieman who uttered it, and made | @ decided impression upom those republicans who listened to it, SCARBOROUGH INFLEXIBLE, This isa stanch old democratic town, and has gone that way ever since the Scarborough “Bible"— the Portiand Argus—became an institution in this latitude, “Greeley for President, and the Maine mechanic, Charley Kimball, for Governor” is the war cry of the indomitabies of Scarborough. CORNISH, ‘This is a thriving town in York county. Among its principal residents, formerly republicans, who fo for the “Model Woodchopper’ may be men- joned Dr. Benji ‘Thompson ‘and William O'Brien, the latter doing the most extensive busi- ness in the place. THB GREELEY FRESHET IN TOWNS IN THE WESTERN PART OF MAINE. Besides the above-named towns and villages in the western part of Maine from which your corre- spondent has information may be mentioned Bidde- ford, Saco, Buckston, Standish, Baldwin, Liming- ton, Grey, Windbam, Falmouth, “Old Orchard” and Libby Beaches, where people largely congregate at this season of the year, all of which show @ remark+ able state of feeling in favor of Greeley, IN ORDINARY TIMES j the people who are now turning their faces Gree. leyward in this part of the State would have “ruled the roast’ in the republican ranks, Hence their #e- cession from the republican and their accéssion to | tad Ln spend party is the more marked ana striking. It is confidently predicted that CUMBERLAND COUNTY, which ineindes the city of Portiand, will go for Greeley and Kimball. If such should be the case, the State may as well e conceded to the co- alltion—for “as goes Cumberland racy te 8 the State.” At the same time it must itted that 1s being ind sec ines or or is tent 1b s being indulged in toa pretty large extent by both Te denies Opposition to Grant being the Most sanguine and outspoken, THE CAMPAIGN WAS PRECIPITATED upon the republicans by the democrats, who intro- duced Senator Doolittie, General Kilpatrick and Theodore Tilton into the State canvass before the republicans fairly had their eyes opened. But since then the republicans have “girded: up. their loins” and are going into the fight with their usual vigor, They are counting noses, bracing up the weak- kneed, intimidating the tunid, tickling the paims of the fence men, and showing ‘that they appreciate the princtple of They should taxe who have the And they should keep who cal THE SILENT VOTE, that is, the vote of thoac who Bay nothing, but heir minds to vote as they please, regard. ‘ilasioba, wll wadogbisdiy ey have @ life- | day for t ILLINOIS. Ty | ten'voresin enoh wuivn in the Buabe wl ehr7y the Opposition. The Campaigh in Prairie Land—A Neck-and- Nock Run Between Grant and Greeley—Both Parties Organized—The Recent Rallies— Oglesby, Trombull and Koerner—Parti- “san'Papers Reviewod—The Custom ‘Honse—What the Merchants ‘Think—The Germans—Possi- Die Stampede to Greeley. Cmr0aGo, August 4, 1872, While waiting for the smoke which overhangs the “bloody chas-eum” In North Carolina to clear away, a few disconnected notes on the situation in Illinois may not be uninteresting. History is his- tory, and this letter may, I hope, be acceptabic, even if it presents history in iteshirt-sleeves, and devoid of the toga and helmet. The general situation maybe described as un- changed. Both parties are now fairly at work, and OLUBS ARE TRUMPS in every ward and district, The liberals—you should nottce, by the way, that in Illinois the terms “democrat” and “republican” are dropped by the Greeleyites, and the party 38 called the liberal Party, pure and simple—got quite astart in this work, and had occupied no inconsiderable part. of the fleld ere the Grant men took tt into thetr heads that there was going to be any contest whatever. Each party haa held one mass meeting, and the papers of each party have lied a good deal about these meetings, There was no particular differ- ence between these meetings. At each there were Present about cight thousand people, fully a half of Whom were attracted by the music. The place where the rallies were held is well situated for drawing a crowd, and the people who attended them ciieered both sides impartially, DICK OGLESBY'S SPEECH seemed to me disfigured by its dwelling on the issnes of the war, and there was an over-earnest- hess in defence of the administration which de- feated itself. The friends of President Grant in tis neighborhood undertake to defend every act of every member of the Cabinet; to declare that there have been no blunders in diplo- macy, no defulcations by public officers, no carpet-bagging, no oppression of the South, Asa natural consequence the independent Voters, men whose minds are open to conviction, turn dissatisfied from a cause which thus imposes on the public good sense. Mr. Oglesby’s speech was marred in this defect, but there1s no denying that it was simple and earnest, and will be eifec- tive within the party. Governor Koerner’s and Mr. Trombull’s speeches were fully as able and quite as cloquent, but each had the defects of Mr, Ogles- by’s—party spirit in its extremest manifestutions, ATTITUDE OF THE PRESS. As the speakers of the two parties so are their organs. ‘The liberal cause is supported by the Zrib- une and News, the {nter-Orean, Journal and Post are regular republican, and the 7imes irreconcila- ble democrat, but expected to come over to Greeley at the last minute. The 7rivune, though it has heen read out of the party, has not suffered in influence or circulation. Queeriy enough, the editor who contributes the most largely to its columns and does the most effective service in defending the purity and integrity of republican principles, is a stanch democrat, and the gentleman on whose shoulders falls the real labor of conducting the paper is an- other, The blooming out of Governor aS as a working liberal has canaed some comment and some amusement. Mr, Bross was an original re- publican, and [have reason to know did not sym- pathize with the 7rivuae in its onslaughts on Presi- dent Grant, and to find Saul also among the prophets creates no little remark. The News is a democratic daily, started by the members of the party who could not stand the dictation of the imes, It, therefore, carries considerable influence, though it’cannot be’ ranked with the 7ribune and Times as & newspaper. The Mail aud Sun, two to run the work- cheap hg lgale | # papers, es, ingmen’s party, are for Greeley. The respoasi- ble people on the Times think that for the first time im their experience they have to do with a contest in which the result cannot be foretold, The paper holds its ow: starting of the News, and so long as it continues to furnish the news it does will maintain its circula- tion, Its influence has always been over-estimate:i, and Mr, Storey, vigorous writer and thinker that he is, has received a set back in the party, by his deposition from the National Committee, and the starting of the News, which cannot soon be recuv- ered from. The Journal, the oldest of the Chicago dailies, is not in any way brilliant, but has much strength with the stanch republicans fp the rural districts. It, however, runs its defence of the Philadelphia nominees {nto the ground, The Post has never taken much rank as B Ni Het paper, but of late has abandoned its purely literary - acter, and has adopted a political tone, THE MILE IN THE COCOANUT. ‘The fact that ite editor, Mr. Blakely, is the pen- sion agent here, is,1 think, @ point against the Fost doing anything for General Grant beyond strict party limits. ere are 80 many papers in the West edited by federal appointecs and the course of 60 many of them has been lavishly influenced by the appointments of their proprietors, that the term “brass collar” applied to a paper is accepted in no complimentary sense by the public. ‘The Jnter-Ocean is the real administration organ in the Northwest, and is linked closely to the Custom House party, Mr. Ham, the appraiser for thts port, being one of its leading writers. The proprictor, Mr. J. Y, Scammon, is @ wealthy banker, worth three or four millions. SCAMMON, He has recently assumed the leadership of the Fepalilicad) party, rau the State Convention and the delegation at nsylvania and engineered the ratiication’ mecting. It is understood that he ex- pects to be nominated to Congress, though other rumors, very widely circulated, state that should Mr. Grant be re-elected Mr. Scammon will be Secre- tary of the Treasury. Mr. Scammon’s record in min spite of the | | that are cherished by a ver‘ however, not the siigitest doubt that the probable detent of the ¢ republicans im North Carolina, If the bree gy by the oficial count, will exert a my uenee on ‘Generar Grant's prospects: ei Pie DESERTERS FROM GRANT. rognlur ty mabe: | pt gr se! ave no the al ehtest cooks large independent class whi a Se ose members Ktan | aloof and will not declure in practic decidea, “The eile eae to the Grant port take tt, is to be found in presenee init ofthis el Which the Lwinkling of an eye nay completely upset the whole situation, The liberals yand Rave to stick together; but if the deteat rth Carolina should be followed by further defeats in Indiana or Penn- the result would ‘be @ panto, and Grant would lose four out of these five by wien States by majorities as decisive as KENTUCKY. re he carried them in 1868. Colored Vote Steady and Unanimous for Grant, LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 7, 1872, A colored suffragist at Frankfort, in this State, Where a gentleman named Graham is a candidate for Marshal, was recently asked if he would vote for Greeley, The reply of the intelligent freeaman was a9 startling as it was speciic—“’Fore God, massa, couldn't vote for Mr. Greeley no how. 1 done gone promised to'vote for Mr. Graham.” All of h is good illustration of the attachment felt by the’ay- erage African for both his Moses and Salvator. AG Lexington, the other day, I interviewed a number; of'representative menof color, who were employed’ Professionally in the barber shop. of. the Phenix Motel, and who are as thoroughly, posted im the political bias of thelr people as perhaps any men in the Sta They one and all claimed 1,950 votes out of 2,000 cast by colored men in the town as certaii for. General Grant. A little later, asthe writer was; stunding on the veranda of the hotel, the oldest of these colored men accosted him, and, touching his hat, said:—‘‘Massa, thought I heerd yespeak bout ‘ection. We's good many on us gwine for ole Greeley, the bobolitionist. Don’t speak about it no- way, but it’s so. Dem gre Diggers in thar are’so- doggonned proud, bein’ dey was on’y fleld hands. | *fore ’mancipation set in, dey can’t vote for a com- monman, Dey want @ man what's President al- ready.” THE “BOURBON’’ CONVENTION.- The Convention called in this State by Blanton: Duncan will have but a single candidate in the field to whom it can proffer its feeble support -Golliday, who is ranning on the “Bourbon”. ticket, and who will draw the full republican vote. Golli- day will be remembered as the person who retired: from the House when charged with having received money for a cadetship, A committee of investiga- tion was appointed by the Kentucky Legislature to- examine into the matter, but Golliday refysed to be examined, stating that. Congress hud .>¢ cepted his resignation, and the State Loginla- ture had no jurisdiction or © authority to inquire into the matter. He afterward ran for Congress in the same district, but was defeated, and’ this is his first attempt since. With this single ex- ception of Golliday everv Congressional candidate: in the State is an out and out Greeley man. GENERAL GEOXGR B. HOD@E, OF NEWPORT, it 1s conceded on all hands wif be the next Gov- ernor of Kentucky, and from his past record, the- poancs he occupies and the platform upon which he stands, he becomes a very important figure in the national canvass. General Hodge was a field officer fn the Confederate army, as enthusiastic, brave and successful as any of his compeers. He is @ gentleman -in every fibre of his bei generous, plucky, and In a State like Kentucky he wields a powerful influ- ence. Now itso happens that General Hodge, the ex-Confederate, enteriains lad same views: ligent gentile the Lett mod hang oh ent gentlemen at North, and espe ew York city, He believes there is no reason of sectional pride why @ miserable petty {cell and sectional bitterness should longer disgrace tho American people or embarrass the land. ‘The war and intercourse with ¢le people of the North since the war have taught him a lesson which many others on both sides of that invisible wall of Mason and Dixon have learned at last—that there is- | the something in every State of our common country of which we may be Y gage that the republi- cans at the Nort! ure not all ped people with asingle iica, composed of gall an vinegar, nor mudsills with uo ideas at all; that the democracy of the North is not CM composed of wily politicl who, for the ins office, be- come vuigar self-appointed champions of the South or of the fuukics who, before the war, danced attendance upon every planter at a Northern watering place, ready to demean themselves in any ossible way to please mi-lord. But they have earned in the smoke and dust of battle that a brave foe ig a gen‘rous enemy, and a genucman can grow up amid the free schools and gigantic efi- terprises of the North. And the North. jas been: tunght, too, that the typical, Southerner is neither a on Tufilan, @ coarse braggart nor an inhumam monster, TAB PEOPLE, NOT PARTY. ( heirs is Keath Page <y which thelr eyes have bee! pened. ‘or twenty years St bitter draughts have been concocted by ne p politicians and poured down the people's throats to stir them to disorder aud enmity, that on the crest of se angry Wives demagogues might be carried to jo and power. Thé feeling of the men in tho ‘outh is: that: they have allowed their passions to be played upon too olien by these harpies, and in the reaction of sentiment which has taken place they threaten to sweep away all vestiges of present party organizations. It. is this that has prepared the way for the formation of A NEW NATIONAL PARTY and rendered possible the entiusiastic reception of Chicago has, however, given him an unpopular | reputation in some matters connected with schoo! tinds and manipulations of an insurance company’s assets, and his support of any cause will not lend it very much aid. The J/nter-Ocean has attained a very large circulation among the Grant republicans since the defection of the Tribune. Llowever, to sum up, the ten datlics of Chicago will not change 1,000 votes this election, and those will nearly all go with the Zrivune, because it is the most prominent paper. The lines are so sharply drawn and the dif crent organs take so decided a stand that it is im- possible vinced and inftienced by them. ‘These people, who have not yet made up their minds, will wait till the October elections show how the tide {s setting. CUSTOM HOUSE POLITICS. The appointment of Mr, N. B. Judd as successor to Coloue! McLean as Collector of Customs m: taken a9 AN assurance that the Custom House here will be run after the fashion of New York, Mr. Judd veing @ confirmed politician, The real manipu- lators of the Custom House ring are Congressman Farwell and Senator nm. Ihave seen neither of them, but their cliief satellites, Charley Ham, Tom Keefe, Jack Harrington and the others, are vate very frank about pote, conceding that the situation is very serious, but hoping that something will tarn up or that a turn in the tide will take = before November. ‘They still Mr. irecley will write some letter or make some 8] before the Summer is out which will ruin his chances. Bar this, the: actically acknow!l- o ie -chances to be: us good as of Mr. ran RURAL MERCHANTS we THE GREELEY MOVE- w ‘The mefchants and financial men I have been studying of late, and also looking up the country dealers. I find that merchants in the interior gener- ally believe that the election of Mr. Greeley would be followed by au advance in gold and a panic. In the city the opposite belief prevails, AP ag hold that the President has not the sligh' infu. ence to exert on the state of trade or the national finances. ‘The clamor raised about Mr. Grocley’s eccentricities and ultraism is not seriously regarded by them; as they assert that the placing of @ man of hig stamp in ofice has a tendency towards mak. ing him conservative, even as the elevation of a lawyer to the bench Requeary turns & passionate advocate into a dignified and equitable judge. I spent lunch time at Dewar's saloon on Saturday. The place 1s headquarters,for Board of Trade men, and especially for those engaged in the foreign trade, 80 that the optnions expressed are not likely to be si ted by political bias. Their voice was for Greeicy in strong majority, though they gener- ally preferred Grant as an individual, There was @ good deal of betting going on; but the defection of Sumner and Banks and the result of the North Carolina election had told on the Grant men, ana ry eee tt aren ‘on Greeley went begging. Het- Le on Illinois was even. fr. Sumuer's letter has not caused much com- ment here, He. was conceded to the liberals all along. The colored vote uj here Heb On Farge, mo it will go for Grant almost unan! iy. sides this, ithe ‘Weat the action of one man does not cause that effect which it does in the South or East, and in the Northwest especially there is a very number of voters who do their own thinking ant ‘The exception is \d follow no man's lead. ‘THE GERMAN VOTP, which, in great measure, is controlled by Mr. Schurz. He comes here on Saturday next to speak and the Jiberais antict very considerable resul te, not without justice, the canvass, The balance erin tate 1s held by the German ibiicans, and should Schurz lead them into \- Ho longer be & sujet for quest ton, way quite as worthy of Kom North, cuca | apices OF Soir more Rowery ‘Tha recapliag of the Dews a r the yet independent voters to be con- | | | conflict amd to socom such speeches as afford the following extracts. General Hodge, who is clector at large on the democratic and liberal tickets, sald in his late speech at Frankfort—the State capital—substan- tially as follows :. I accept, without any reservation and with all my heart, the Cincinnati platform. 1. is neither humiliating to the gencrous men Who oiler their strong. hands to the South In her weakness nor to us who accept the prof ot theirvenerous aid and sympathy. The men ha been earnest in their opposition to us, believing the selves in the rapes and we uli know how carnest were in our resistance. It is no contemptible act on thei part to reach across it bloody chasm o! the war a yon that platform offer us am ammesty which we hat ready yrauted them in our own hearts, In regard to Mr. Greeley he said :— Laccept the candidal Ny a8 1 do the platform, uieving ay pin the Decutlat cirbanstansed which ante round hit @ power to heal the of past tion of wie whole peo Xe of oar oun hat no otter nis can cites, wind T day gn js with no desire to underrate the good Inientions or ability ofany Generat Hodge said jurther—and was in this por- tion of his speech othe meet, futerrupted by cheera—that 10 man in the South, whatever might have been his opinions as to the ad of iree- ee the slaves by a sudden and e a- nD, if he had one of on um! , Cou! anity in his composition, consent to their re- "iaated sweetness a evil enslavement after they had of lperty. It was one thil the means of abolishing an to commit a crime against all for the soldiers whom the honored, bo Southern democrat who had striven for principle, no Southern soldier who had for what he believed to be mght would ever raise a rv to tarnish a leaf of the laurels which wreathed the brows of an a an man. MR. WATTERSO! THE SITUATION. Louisville Mr. Wattergon, in the Coprtemiournas, endorses the new party a| mntly, for, in an editorial headed “An Old: Fas ioned Pemit Talk,’? he calls for a new crop of Ciays and Crittendens, saying, “The people of Kentu Se RP under boi leadership. ey love game men. 'y are used ‘The article further states that Kentucky has been tin- orous and irresolute; that the ocratio party was reorganized on a more liberal basis in 66, but to brave counsels."’ for ten years’ leadershi; split, and yet during all this time every county in entucky have been carried op liberal is- sues, Tae editorial, of more than a column and @ half, concludes in & warm approval of the stand taken by General Hodge. AN INTERVISW WITH LESLIE COOMRS. At the barbecue near Lexington I met Leslie Coombs. It was the first politi ithering he had attended in ten years, and the ‘old, man, ale and hearty, attentively to General Hodge, Colonel Breckinridge and Congressman Beck, endorsing in his nervous, nt way the salient and radical points in ir speeches. In. subsequent interviewa residence in Lexington in the evening, and on his lawn at five o'clock im the morning, where at that hour, weather permicstn he 48 always to be found. He made some scatl criticisms of Gen- eral Grant's character and. career, and warinly acl- Yocated the formation-of the new national ‘gok G He, believes that there is a sort of special prov- idence in the harmonizing power of Greeley, and hopes great things from the coalition of al! parties and the amalgamation of so many earnest bat hitherto op; sing forces. It woul Fe impossibie to convey any idea of the Ingenuousness with which these people exhibit a Teal hearitelt delight over every word that comes from the North breathing of reconciliation and mpathy for their misfortunes, or to paint the en- thusasn with which they enter upon any work by which they think a closer union of feeling and pur- pose may be attained. This spirit is contagious = ‘has already affected the ponte bog of ucky, the iumblest and least educated men ex} it im an uncouth but pith; notion as

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