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- ews from Ohio, Maine, Ver- mont and Missouri. A ' —e. The Crantites Calm,. Confi- dent and Active, f Garlous Paradox in Mainc—A Probable Lib- eral Governor, but Tem Thonsand Majority for Grant, oe Sider as @ Decisive Issue in the Contest, ‘Vermont and Ohio Certain for the Admin- istration, but by Reduced Majorities. ‘Mie Struggle Everywhere Rising in Interest Day by Day. General Popularity of “the Fence” Among Professional Politicians, Careful Analysis of the Coming Triangolar Fight in the Pine Tree State, GREELEY STOCK SCARCELY UP TO PAR. Missouri Still Steady for Gratz and the Sage. What Do the Liberals Amount To Numerically ? THE BUCKEYE STATE. fhe Republican Organization still Compact and Unbroken—No Enthusiasm for Either Grant er Greeley—Liberals Concede the State to the Hero of Appomattox—A Few Inter- esting Facts About Old Jesse Grant —Cincinnati Seething with. Discontent at the Ad- ministration, bat the Rest of the State Loyal to Grant. : CINCINNATI, August 6, 1872. ‘This te @ very funny city in matters political seems to be turned wrong end up, and ‘the discontent which pervades all parties is some- ‘thing fearful to contemplate. It 1s not easy to de- ‘ermine how anybody is going to vote, for nobody seems positively certain of it himself. The only thing which I can assert is that the republican party fs intact in organization, but weak in the devotion Of the rank and file. Nota single leader of promi- mence has broken away since the nomination of Greeley, and a number of the most active spirits in Promoting the Liberal Convention have come back toGrant. Some are for neither Grant nor Greeley. Even the democrats, that 1s the democratic leaders, do not heartily endorse Greeley. Mr. Groesbeck’s Jetter, in which he practically accepted Mr. Gree- Jey, because there was nobody else to accept, ex- presses the feeling which pervades the democracy ofthis county. There is no enthusiasm on either side, and nearly every man you meet, no matter how active he may have been up to the time of Greeley’s nomination, informs you in the curtest language he can command that he knows nothing about the political situa- tion, because, to tell the truth, he is “OUT OF POLITICS.” ‘The phrase is an unmeaning one at the best, and here itis only the expression of the general dis- gust and discontent. Of all the “out of politics” Politicians in this city I cannot recall a finer ex- ample than Judge Hoadley. Hoadley is a com- paratively young lawyer, of good abilities and with @very fine practice. He was always a republican, ‘but a republican of the Western free-trade school, not easily induced to accept any of the theories of the protectionists, Thus loosened in his attach- ments to his party by its tendencies toward pro- ‘tection as a principle, and disgusted with the stu- Pidity.and imbecility of the administration, he was Feady to join with General Cox, Judge Stallo, Stanley Mathews and the other original liberal republi- cans of this section in promoting the liberal repub- Mcan movement. The result of the Convention was @ thing from which he turned away in even pro- founder disgust than he felt toward the adminis- tration of General Grant. The nomina- ‘téon was one which he had not contemplated as possible, and in the nominee he saw a man ‘who had advocated every political principle which he opposed and had opposed every political idea ‘which he advocated. As republicans Greeley and Hoadley were wider apart than they possibly could Rave been as democrats, and yet he found that it ‘was more as a democrat than as a republican that dhe was required to support the candidate whom he had assisted in nominating. It wasa bitter pill, @nd he had either to swallow it or go out of politics, #0 out of politics he went. He is not for Greeley, g@nd his neighbors are not sure. 1 do not think he knows himself whether he is for Grant. One thing 4s certain, and that is, that he thinks the liberal-re- pubdlican-revenue-reform movement which he aud ‘Wells and Grosvenor and others had nursed fnto life turned out to be beneficial only to the democratfé party and the chief of the protectionis' and that consequently there is no important political principle Anvolved in the Presidential canvass. I have given ‘hls little sketch of Hoadley, because he is one of the ablest, as well as one of the fairest, of the “out of Politics” politicians of this city. If I were going to Bazarda n opinion as to his future action it would be that he will vote for Grant, but, unlike Stanley ‘Mathews and one or two others, he will not prove Rimself the advocate of both sides in a single can- vass, A QUESR FISH IN PoLITIcs, Judge Mathews—I do not know whether he ever wasa jurist, but, at any rate, everybody is a “Judge” in Cincinnati—is a very remarkable speci- men of the political acrobat. What disgusted him ‘with the administration I have not been able ex- actly to discover—Grant'’s “nepotism” most Ukely—but his grandiloquent speech as temporary chairman ofthe Cincinnati Convention, in which he claimed to be one of the large and influential body of the American people who had determined mot to wear the collar of arty any longer, and his Sopplag over to Grant immediately afterward, have made a) man, even ina city full of great men. He organized the Conven- tion which nominated Greeley and Brown, and then repudiated its nominees, characterizing the Feault a8. “bargain” and the means used in reach- ing it a8 an “intrigue.” In his speech to the Con- vention he declared that in every be gt of ee fey ernment ae oe apd C coaen " 3 ave pervaded the whole civil ant oliti- cal administration, and in a speech after the Con. vention he said he thought General Grant ‘person- ally pure” in bie administration, and that it was characterized by a regard for the constitution and the law. A man who could take such exactly op- posite views of the same question, from equally clear eoavictions of duty, I thought must be a very remark- men indeed, ener cr aery, called on him, ‘was my @mazement to find that he was not @anly ous of politics,” but entirely out of the way of NEW YURK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1872--TRIPLE SHEET, _ ~ ‘acquiring Nitical hatever. I | ma; a | seqatring any po oat isformhG@dn’ wiaterés.- i y think they have other fish to fry. The Greeley discovered in looking over a spect defence of Grant which ne had just made here that = eceumuanes relaese the manowanee of wareported rviews with newspaper people himself, ar! which T cheerfully concede to him in, my. case a8 my powers of imagination are not sutlicient to ict by on two 6 ig an clement of at weakness in the ola ateentn district. The district was remodelled Jast winter by Dr. Updegrat, who was a member of the Legislature, for nimself; but he failed in getting the nomination and only succeeded in defeating Bingham, Captain Daniord, the successful aspirant is @ young man, unknown out of his district, a1 Will Bot strengthen a national ticket which is sadiy in necd of friends, What will be the Judge Winans’ nomination by the liberals and democrats in the Dayton district cannet be foretold till after the republicans have shown their hand, but it 1s likely he will draw some votes from the Grant party which would otherwise have gone for it. The greatest interest, so far as the Congress nominations are concerned, 1s felt in the two districts of this county. ‘The republicans made their nominations to-day, selecting Ben Eggleston in the First: and General Hayes in the Geoana district, Hayes is confessedly a strong can- didate, but Eggleston will find arrayed against him all the hatred which is felt toward Grant it the republicans ot his district. The former will take Job Stevenson’s place under very peculiar ¢ireumstances. Stevenson passed the summer at Berkeley Springs drinking the waters and saying he did not seek @ renomination. This was made an excuse for dropping him, while the fact that Gover- nor Hayes constantly asserted that he did not want the nomination was made an excuse for making him @ candidate. So far as the result. can be fore- seen both of these gentlemen will be elected, in Spite of the discontent with Grant, the liberal re- pupicees. and democrats in these districts not ing able to agree upon fusion candidates, In a w days both parties will have their candidates in the fleld all over the State, and then the work of the canvass will begin in earnest; but up to the wesent thne the apathy is as thick as @ London fog. re ns as nearly as ican see it, is the situation THE PINE TREE STATE. Claims and Counter-Claims—The ‘Cider Clause” Causing Considerable Commotion—Kimball More Popular Than Greeley—The Great Grant Glorification in Bangor—Ther- mometer 100 in the Shade—Bout- well on His Old Hobby. BANGor, August 10, 1872, The republican rally in this city yesterday is pro- nounced A FIZZLE by the Greeley people and A GRAND SUCCESS by the republicans. To a disinterested spectator it was both. It was @ fizzle so far as the midday procession was concerned, but when one considers that the sun was pouring down its unobstructed rays with the thermometer at a round hundred in the shade, it is not at alla matter of surprise that there were so few in line, but that there were so many. It was a success when it is to be noted that from FOUR TO FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE, many of themaged and infirm, stood facing the Scorching sun listening to a two hours’ speech from Governor Boutwell on some of the dryest themes that ever entered a political canvass. But al- though dry the speaker imparted a charming sim- Plicity to his subjects that both interested and amused his auditory. He defended the financial as well as the foreign policy of the government, making the sturdy farmers and lumbermen feel on the matter of taxation something like the eels when they were skinned—they “rather liked it when they got used to it,” Senator Hannibal Hamlin smiled bemgnly when the ex-Governor descanted upon. the energy of the administration in demanding the surrender of Dr. Houard from the Spaniards, and John A. Bingham chuckled in- ‘wardly when the Fishy policy of the govepnment in regard to the Alabama claims was defended and lauded, BULLY FOR GRANT. The amiable Governor Perham could not resist the temptation to give one of his peculiar broad smiles when his brother from Massachusetts remarked that a hundred years hence no name in American history would be so honored and venerated as that of General Grant, General John L. Swift, of Boston (via New York), who was seated on the platform, sandwiched between Senator Hamlin and Judge Bingham, seemed disposed to tell one of his funny stories when the Secretary of the Treasury pictured the horrible atrocities of the Ku Kluxes, at which point Hannibal Hamlin rose from his seat and ejaculated:—“ Yes, and not one of the rascais was ever punished by the State authorities,” a remark that was endorsed by John A. Peters, the president, brieny as fol- lows:—“That's so.” Deacon Lynde, editor of the Bangor Whig and Courier, allowed a little wrinkle to cross his usually placid brow when Governor Boutwell, referring to Greeley, remarked that “the editors of the country were not always right”—a Piece of information that seemed to astound many Of the listeners, A SUGGESTION. Cannot a law be passed in political caucuses pro- viding for the lapsus lingua@ of inchoate (far from any reference to the sublime orator of Massachu- setts, the late Rufus Choate) harangues whose litical judgment rather befits them ior the ma- al exercises of the nursery, singing the lullaby of “Rock the Cradle, Lucy,” than to the perilous bar of the political forum ? ‘THE TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION in the evening would have been a very respectable demonstration in some New York ward, diversified by the gentle exercise of throwing about a hundred oung Varlets, Who preceded the procession sing- ing Greeley hymns, into the Penobscot River. ‘fhe display of torches was good, the cavalcade fair and the speaking, especially when Judge Bingham ap- plied the birch to certain Greeley orators who have receded him in the campaign, was quite enliven- ing. Taking it all in all, the repubiican rally in Bangor on the 9th of August, 1872, was a creditable affair. Can the Greeley men outdo it? CONFUSION CONFOUNDED. In all the experience of political campaigning which your correspondent has enjoyed the present canvass in this State can take precedence for the obscurity in which its final result is involved. Talk to one man—an old republican—and he will take his oath (or make a bet) that the Grant party will carry the State in September and Grant him- self in November, They even set the latter’s ma- jority at from TEN TO FIFTEEN THOUSAND. Then, again, talk to a Greeley man ard you will be told positively that the State is sure for Kimball— the celebrated “cider clanse” having a damaging effect on Perham—in September, and Greeley in No- vember. As for Congressmen, the Grant men de- clare that BLAINE WILL BE RE-ELECTED by a larger majority than ever before, while PIKE, who has switched off from the old to the liberal re- ublican side, will be defeated, many democrats re- ‘ing to go for their old foe. Young CLIFFORD, son of Judge Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, the democratic and liberal candidate in the First district, it is expected, will be elected, which will be one anti-administration gain. In other dis- tricts nominations are still to be made, especially in the Augusta district, on the 16th August, on Which occasion it is expected that “Massa Greeley Will come to town.’? BRLFAST. Senator Doolittle and Major Haggerty addressed @ Very good Greeley meeting at Bellust last night. The Congressional Districts—How Deo They Stand!—The Triangular Fight— Congressmen and Pre: dential cs—Things Somewhat Mixed—Progress of the Campaign. MEGUNTICOOK MOUNTAIN, Knox County, Maine, August 12, 1872, From this splendid outlook your correspondent will take the liberty of making the following REVIEW OF THE CONGRESSIONAL CANVASS IN MAINE. The annexed isa list of the five Congressional districts in Maine, classified by counties, accom- panied by such remarks as occasion may seem to require :— CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS, First—Cumberland and York counties, now rep- resentea by John Lynch, republican. In 1870 the vote for Lynch was 12,571; for Haynes (democrat), 11,075. The candidates this year are John H. Bur- leigh, republican; William H. Clifford, democrat. Clifford is a promising sop of Judge Clifford, and very popular in the district; so was Haynes, who is the agent of the largest cotton factories in the Biddeford and Saco district, and who gracefully retires in favor of the young Clifford. A good Many people in this part of the State are adapting Julia’s ejaculation to Clifford, in a crisis in the play of the “Hunchback :" Clifford, why don’t you Come, Clifford, come to Second—Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford and Sagadahock. In 1870 the vote stood for William P. Frye (republican), 10,245; A. Black (democrat), 7,028, Candidates this year, William P. Frye, re- publican. Democrats not yet nominated. It may seem strange for the democrats to nominate a black for Congress, and it may not be impossible that some of the former constituents of Mr, Fryg yenk to me t jeganticook | men are attempting to get up steam, but there isa strong sentiment in favor of General Grant underlying all the political movements in this Con- Bressional district, Lincoin, Somerset, ha'f of Third—Kennebec, Knox. Vote in 1870, James G. Blaine (republican), (democrat), 9,270, Blaine has 790; E. W. Farle) enominated by the republicans. The demo- yet nominated, but it is generally 8 5. Lang, seceding republican, d by - Blaine will receive considerable opposition m district on ac- count of his alleged antagoi enes ‘to the “shipbuilding interests constituents, This objection is combatted x his friends, who assert that, as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, he did not have the chance on the floor of the House to publicly explain his views cule, ed by some of colleagues. Nevertheless, it i asserted that no Representative of the State of Maine exerted a more powerful in- fluence in the Committee of Ways and Means, eapecially in regard to the point of exempting ship- building’ mater! (those entering into the con- sumption of American built vessels) than the pres- ent Kepresentative from the Third district. Hence this opposition, it is expected, will fall to the ground when fully ventilated before Mr. Blaine’s constituents, From all appearances, it is safe, in the judgment of your correspondent, to predict the re-election of Mr, Blame by an increased majority (2,320) over that by which he was elected in 1870. th—Aroostook, Penobscot and Piscataquis, Im 1870 the vote waa for John A. Peters, republican, 9,962, against 7,322 for Marcellus Emery. In the present canvass the fight will probably be between General 8, F. Hersey, republican, Mr, Peters witil- drawing, having alveady served three terms in the House. He is supposed to be in training for the United States Senate wien Senator Hailin’s term expires (in 1875.) Mr, Emery is again the demo- cratic candidate, as well as that of the Mberal re- pubiicans, He incurred the hostility of the Union men during the war for some outspoken words, and had hits press demolished in consequence, There is considerable feeling in the istrict, and’ the demo- crats and liberals are hopeful of overcoming the 2,640 majority for Mr. Peters In 1870; but the regu- lar republicans assert that instead of the majority being reduced It will be largely increased, #iyth—Hancock, Waldo and Washington counties, and Appleton, Camden, Hope, Rockland, South Thomaston, Vinalhaven and North Haven, in Knox county. In 1870 the vote stood—for Eugene Hale, republican, 10,086, against 8,876 for P. J. Caricton,, democrat, ‘This yeur Mr. Hale is renominated by the republicans and Theodore A. Pike by the demo- crats and liberal republicans, Mr. Pike wus for- merly one of the stitfest and bitterest abolition re- Publicans in the State. He was in Congress eight years and was Chairman of the Committee on Naval | Affairs in the last Congress. ‘There is probably more excitement in this Congressional district than in any other in the State, the political lines being oe drawn. A number of democrats, not hay- ing either a Presidential or a Congressional candl- date in the field, are very lukewarm; many declare they will not vote at all, or will go for Hale in Se, tember and Grant in November. For instance, is said that 150 democrats in Belfast will cut Pike and there is talk of calling an_in- dependent convention, with General F. 8. Nick- erson as thelr candidate, The Knox county towns in this district the democrats will give Mr. Hale a large vote, openly avowing that they will Not support Mr. Pike, “Greeley and Pike,” “Pike and Greeley,” are too much ofa dose for the old democracy of the extreme Kastern Congressional | district in the State to swallow. Pike is said to be & good fellow; but, like Peters (republican), in the Fourth district, iy looking after Hamlin’s old Se atorial shoes under a new political deal, T. R. Si- monton, Deputy Collector of Customs at Camden, Was a strong candidate for the republican nomina- tion from this district, in lieu of Mr, Hate four years ago, and by Ms graceful support of the present nomineee—although Mr. Hale is nominated for a third term—he carries with him a strong influence among the old republicans in favor of the re-elec- tion of Mr. Hale. Alter Mr. Hale's next term ex: pires—if he should be re-elected—Mr, Simonton will be the man for the republicans on the west side of the Penobscot River. PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN—OUTLOOK. Political classes are just beginning to chrystallize Trorace Greciey, prides himself on his constitutional hatred of “rita” and. tobueco, Mr, Bingham 18 & | lawyer and resides at Stowe, Henry Chase, of - | den, ig tue liberal candidate for asurer. The) Uberal electors are eveuly divided, one half bein; republicans and the other democrats, Not @ litt! chagrin is felt, by the regulars on aceount of the dey sertion from them of Judge Evarts, who was nomi~ nated by them for State Senator, but ‘dopped,’? and is pow out for Greeley and Brown, “DEMOCRATS FOR GRANT.” aia Reauerten Gener ta ones is county vol ut that on account of tl e8 Ks this cam ui q ics, a specimen of those who refuse to wear the ary, collar, which is very rare indeed, Still fathews is not an unusual political anima! for this latitude. His neighbor, Judge -Stallo, is very like him and is going to make a speech at St. Louis.in “reply to Sciura, though he does not promise to sup- port Grant, Then, ain, General Cox, is not altogether unlike him, for he is also against Gree- ley even if he is not for Grant. The same thing may be said of Hassunrac and the rest, The attitude of all these men is a wey fanny oue and when one sees them he cannot help feeling that they have built a house for somebody else to live in, for nearly ali of them, though they are hostile to Gree- election seems certain. 4 WHERE THR EARNEST COMES IN. Where there is so much fun there can scarcely fail to be some earnestness after all. Besides, the unantinity with which the liberal leade: OX, against Greeley indicates.some cause for an action’ 80 siugular, What is the reason’ Ihave asked she question of a number of persons and have generally! been told that they dislike the tari plankin the Grecley platform—that they think it pro- motes Sisal by combination, one special interest combining with a hundred others to “protect” all at the expense of the people. ‘The reason isa forci- ble and logical one, especially to free traders, but herexbouts, for it is, sald these men not only accepted but prepared the .plauk . them- selves, The tary certainly, had @ great’ deal to do with tleir © defection, — but hostility. The moneyed men of Cincinnati fear that resumption is uot such @ simple matter as to resolve resume. Cox, Mathews & Co. bow to the moneyed men and share thelr fears, biunt ain, they have not got over their old hatred of the democracy, and ure afraid that their cherished notions of civ! service reform will result only,in Svingariees to the democrats. The more they saw of their work the more they were dissatisfied with it, and finally atl of them tured round and admitted that if they hate Grant their hatred of Greeley is even more in- tense. So now tney hang on the skirts of the republican party, and find some good even in an administvation Which was all bad before the Cin- elnnati Convertion, POLITIUAL PROSPECTS IN THR STATR. Nobody claims tnat there is any serious defection in the republican party of Ohio. Even Mr. Greeley's: liberal sonaee. artisans do not expedt to cari the State for him, Unlike Pennsylvania, New Yor! and Michigan, there are no great feuds here to di- vide the party, for no two or three leaders are great enough to have much of a personal following or a werfui faction to back them, Sherman, though he has been in the Senate a long time, merely man- aged to slip along. Bingham was allowed to grow old in the House, and has just been slaughtered in his own district by the aspiring youngsters who wanted to take his place, Garfield has not as yet become a very great man outside of his district, and Shellabarger never sought to build up a faction on his own behalf Sam Cary tried it in @ way when he got up the labor issue and’ defvated Deacon Sinith for Con- gress, but Sam's popularity waned like the twilight in the tropics. Columbus Delano, before he be- came & Cabinet oficer—indeed, beforé he was any- body in particular—wanted to make an issue with ‘fruits, except in his getting the place on Grant's, onicial “stau,’? which was Dennison’s by rij These failures to build up parties inside of the) ruling party leave the Stat ‘ee from every kind of factious distraction, and whatever dissensions) exist are purely !ocal and will not weuken the elec- tion for State oiticers in October. Indeed, it 1s) themselves in this State, and it may require some "days before any one can tell what sort of shape they may finally assume. But from this splendid Jookout on Megunticock Mountain your correspond- ent ae eel justified in predicting three 1, ‘That Kimball, the democratic and liberal can- didate for Governor, will be elccted, if he can manage to use that side show {gr “cider clauge”’) in the Maine Prohibitory law to his advantage. 2. That the democrats will gain at icast one mem- ber of Conereaey probably in the first district. jority in November. 877 ‘Ne State bY 10,000 ma- THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE. The Coming Election in the Green Mountain State—A Fierce Struggle Expected—Relative A Good Story for Know Nothings— Banks and Sumner to Go on the Stump This Week—A Bright Prospect for the Regular Republicans, BURLINGTON, Vt., August 12, 1872, Not for many years has there been so much ex- citement during @ political canvass in Vermont as prevails now in every nook and corner of the State, The break in the old party lines, leaving the old- time leaders with disorganized and mutinous fol- lowers to flounder about blindly in the smoke of the battle for supremacy, is the main cause of the ex- citement; but there is something more. For a long time past the regular republicans have enjoyed a monopoly of all the federal, State and local offices to the exclusion of the democrats, and now that there is just a chance that they may be despoiled of their fat pickings they are working might and main to keep what they have. The Union party of liberals and democrats, seeing a fair opportunity to take some of the prizes, are consequently pushing their cause and the cause of the Sage with all their ability. The latter party acknowledge that they have but a poor prospect of carrying the State; but they argue that if they succeed in reducing the regular republican majority it will be a signal tri- umph for their cause, and have a powerful effect on the Maine election, which is to follow. Both parties have, therefore, abundant reasons for putting forth their entire strength, and no doubt A FULL VOTE WILL BE POLLED, Meetings are held almost nightly, and addressed by the heavy mea of both parties; and, as I said, the feeling is intense. Here inthis city I heard even little boys in the streets discuss the relative merits of the Presidential tickets. Nothing is talked of in the hotels, Darrooms, public offices and places of resort other than the approaching elec- tion. Very few hold the opinion that by any possi- bility the liberal and democratic State ticket can be elected; but, om the other hand, the liberal leaders (and many of them are experienced politicians) claim that they will reduce the majority of the reg- ulars by from five to seven thousand, while some influential men on the Grant side concede that THE MAJORITY FOR THE REGULARS will be three to four thousand less than usual. 1 think myself, from what I have heard since I came | into the State, three days ago, that there willbe about five thousand liberal republican votes. Sup-_ pose, for the moment, that my estimate is correct, and we will be able to get at the probable result. In the last State election, in 1870, the republican. Governor was elected by the following decisive vote :— Republican. Democratic Republican majority........... Taking, then, 6,000 as the number of the cit | republicans in the State who will vote, and satisfied as I am that the democrats will vote the liberal ticket solidly, the result must be about 16,000 ma- jority for the regulars, What may happen in November at THE PRESIDENTIAT, ELECTION is quite another matter and cannot be anticipated with any degree of correctness, The State elec- tion takes place on the 3d of September, so that there will be ample tite for another [ Mga tidal wave of opinion to reinforce the last. It must be understood, too, that a number of persons wiil vote at the polls in September who will not consider that they are voting Grant and Wilson or Greeley and Brown, but for the local ticket and State oilicers. THE NOMINATIONS made by both parties seem to be ered unusually good. Julius heads the regular ticket as candid ig an eminent lawyer and resides at Woodstock. He has not, however, held any high official position | in the State heretofore. Russell 8. Tatt, the candi- date for the Lieutenant Governorship, 18 the pres- ent Register of Chittenden county; has been State Senator and Representative in the State House of Representatives. John A. Page, of Montpelier, is the candidate tor Treasurer—a renomination, This gentleman believes, with the faith of a fanatic, that “ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER”? ‘The jiberals in their Convention put up Abraham B. Gardner for Governor, and the democrats were satisfied ; for a democrat, W. H. H. Bingham got the second place, Mr. Gardner is a lawyer of Centre Village, Bennington, and is eminent at the Ver- mont bar. He has been representative and Speaker of the House, Senator and Lieutenant Governor, i Iiggs fink Winans, generally admitted that the State ticket will get) Many votes which Grant cannot expect. The dis- satisfaction with the administration has become what might be called the individualization of oppo- sition, Outside the leading cities—Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo and Dayton—it is claimed there are, Brpctlcally, no liberal republicans, and that where they exist they are rather enti-Grant men than strenuous supporters of the Greeley coalition. Except in. Shellabarger’s~ , @ liberal republican, who was gress before, has been nominated by the spate ae been no affiliation, and in’ no trict Sam Cary getting the nomination, but two or three German lemocrats want it, and Sam will likely be com; yelled to, wait for better times. The local contests eing very much as of old, and the party lines drawn as of old, it follows that the republican trength in October will not be a fair test of Grant’s trength, though the probabilities are, asI have said before, that he will carry the State by are- in ‘democrats, Strength of the Grantitesand Greeleyites— —_|/ duced majority on the October vote. GRANT'S UNPOPULARITY IN CINCINNATI. It is impossible for Grant's best friends to con- ceal, much less to deny, that he is exceedingly un- pular in this city, and it is equally impossible to ear o sincere aud earnest republican led away, rom the party of his heart—overybody in Cincin-\| in atl ts great on matters pertaining to the heart— relate the story of his political wrongs at the hands f the President without laughing. It is a sure cure for home sickness and will overcome Eastern dis- tat Western manners. I never was particu. ly increduious, but, while I could believe in Sin- bad the Sailor, and the Old Man of the Sea, and Blue Beard, and Jack the Giant Killer and the old \ scoundrel with the Seven League Boots, it is im- possible that I should put any credence in old Jesse Grant as the Cincinnatians paint him. Ac- cording to their account he is the fun- niest old “yon Dumpty off the stage. story used to be told in Pennsylvania that when the news reached the Ritner household that plain,| blunt Joe Ritner had been elected Governor of the State one of his daughters asked her mother, “Mam, are we all Governors now?” and that the old lady responded, “No. What are you talking: ople insist that not only are Ulysses and “Dad” Presidents, but the whole Grant family. Poor aring Sumner detine Se rr by the aid of hundred dictionaries, but Cincinnati's definition of Grant's nepotism has the effect, often heard of but never seen elsewhere, of making @ horse laugh. In these stories are to be found THE SOURCES OF THE PRESIDENT’S UNPOPULARITY, and people here never seem to tire of talking about his appointments of his relations and personal friends to office. They always begin by saying, “You know Andy Johnson appointed Grant's father, old Jesse Grant, Postmaster at Covington over the river, and Grant, of course, retained him.’ “Oh, = iknow that,’ you answer, but before you have ime to utter it the addenda follows:—And old Jesse Grant appointed pretty much Ce co else hereabouts.” The tonein which ali this is said, and the evident ogee? sine is felt for the President's venerable parent, rectly irresistible. Then come the exceptions, that is the whom old Jesse did not have The first on this list is Tom Foals, the Post- master of this city, Nobody pretends that he ig not @ good Postmaster; but what people to is that when the persons pointed. sent a committee to Wasi rd President should reply, “That pee Ihave ‘omised to my sister Virginia for her friend. gnd only because Jennie Grant, now Mrs. Corbyn, Was able to conirol a few important political ap- intments in and around Cincimmatt, they sneer at her with the rem “Old Corbyn, who married her with the intention of getting up a Black Friday speculation, never saw her till the inauguratio1 and she came home with a ring on her finger.” I 18 one of the reasons seriously gi wey against Grant’s election quite as much because of the engagement ring as the family political ring. But [ think the funniest story these Cincinnati people tell is that about the intment of Winans as Postmas- ter at New) When the announcement was Place for the man, but could not find him, and fin- ally sent @ message to dh asking if the) telegraph had not made a mistake. The answer came back that it was all right, and so the search went on tilia young, fellow crept out of a boardin, house in a back street, saying, “I guess it is all right, My name is Winans, and I know the Presi- dent.” He was from Clermont county, Ohio, Grant's birthplace, and a favorite with the Grant family. It is unnecessary to go further into this ridiculous system of retailing offices; but these funny storics, of which I have heard a carpetbag full, are the sum and substance of Cincinnati's dis- content with the administration. EXTENT OF THE DEFECTION. The enthusiasts among the liberal republicans claim a lurge percentage of the party as ready to act with them. Some of them even claim the State for Greeley in November. The extent of the defec- tion will not, however, reach to the depth of the discontent with Grant, Everybody is dissatisfied and discontented, but the appointments of the Grant family have in the main turned out 80 well that many persons will smother their wrath and stick to the party. Still there is a break™in the republican party, and I think ig cig Ag bret Leading radicals admit that the liberals im ti county will number a thousand old time supporters counsel, {it is impossible to measure the full strength of the opposition or to calculate pon its effect on the day of the election. With the ces of Grant’s success still in his favor, this leaves the probiem of his ability to carry the State an open uestion. The republicans are apathetic, and the recley current runs with teady strength. What the changes may be between this and the election it is not possible to predict, but if local dissensions are at all felt in national politics the effect cannot fall to be disastrous to Grant, In this aspect of the case THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS become @ matter of the pes gravest importance to the President and the par y- So far they have been both good and bad. Carfield’s nomination will add strength to the national ticket, for he is one of those republicans whom a@ little coaxing would have taken the way which General Banks and some other leading radicals in the House are He has always beeu a stagch republican, aud likg pursuipg. Naturally friendly to Greeley and natu- ley, adinit that the tide us im his favor and that his |; Kittredge, Hoadley, Mathews and Stallo—turned /| when it is urged it provokes a very broad smile / I think a twofold distrust of Gregley. decided. thefr ) fiuto the axiom that to resume is to! Governor Dennison, but it never bore any practical /| about? Nobody but dad and me.” These Cincinnati} — living in Washington could be refreshed) e' b pect | ton to express their desires in the matter, the; foals.’ People here are a little captious, T think 34] made the Newport republicans looked all over the | rally unfriendly to Grant, he onty hesitated for the sake of a of which Grant is the accidental chieftain. He is new bound to Grant's wappers and can do much in his strong republican district towards the success of the Philadelpma n 8. But had he been defeated aa Bn im was by a young and unknown aspirant for the honors he had won so long I fear he would not have shown Bingham’s magnanimity and railed so readily and 80 gueny for the admin- istration. Diam all odds the ablest man in the State. He stands far above Sherman, and in every respect he leads his delega- tion in Co! 88. That he is not to go back in for general regret, and, in spite of his enerosity in Accept defeat, his failure to re- not more “one™or~two-wil ‘course this time. Then, on the other hand, the reg- julars claim that the Irish and French, of the latter of whom there are a few hundreds here, will go for Grant and Wilson. I think that is a great mistake. There is @ strong prejudice in the minds of TAE IRISH BORN CITIZENS ainst Mr. Wilson in consequence of his Know othing record, and as, of course, there is pesiing concerning their creed or their country either sai jor done that they do not learn through their na- tional and religious newspapers here as Well as in a York or Boston, Wilson will be remembered to isadvantage. An amusing incident occurred here lately, which lustrated one point in the Know Nothing folly most admirably, Captain John Lonergan, a genial, whole-souled Irishman, encountered in devate an frascible gentleman, of Burlington, who recalls with regret the good days when KNOW NOTHINGISM was in the ascendant. This gentleman said that he thought no Irishman ought to be entrusted with the franchise until he became educated—say after twenty years’ residence in the country. “Well. now,” put in Captain Lonergan hurriedly, “T anran Irishman and you are a native; I'll be you drinks for the crowd that you can’t repeat the threo first lines of the Declaration of Independ- ence. “Done!” “When in the course of human events’? — “Go on, go on!” said the Captain, “Well, can you do it ” demanded the native in great bewilderment. This was more than the Captain bargained for, but he was equal to the occasion, “why, man, of course I can,” he replied confi- dently. “Now listen.” “When in the Corti mele eed ihe tate necessary for one people to trample upon the rights } of another then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.” AED “Well, well; you are right!” exclaimed the na- tive, never dreaming that the Captain had dove- tailed a part of Robert Emmett’s speech into the first words of the Declaration. . THE FEELING AGAINST WILSON. The ba! Fano traders here as elsewhere deny that Henry Wilson was ever a Know Nothing, but his own letter of dental does not state specifically that he never belonged to the order, and. the Irish are Well aware of it, Efforts are being made to win over the French of Burtington to the regular side, with what success remains to be seen, It is possi- ble they will succeed, for owing to tie large patron- age in the hands of the administration men and the abundance of money at wncir disposal, they can bring a heavy pressure to bear. This is the Grant banner county (Chittenden), while the chief strength of tie liberal republicans is in Franklin and Rutiand counties. The Grant party have ANOTHER ADVANTAGE OVER THE GRERLEYITES in Burlington—they have a daily paper to advocate their cause, the Free Press and Times, while their opponents have only a weekly shect, the Democrat. ) It cannot de otherwise than advantageous to be able to speak six times to hist adversaries’ once, especially in defamatory debate. Thus is, however, to be remedied. ‘there are live liberals here who cannot afford to permit such an advantage to re- main with the Grant men. Of these liberals the most conspicuous are Jndge Judson C. Noyes, of the City Court; Daniel Roberts, lawyer, and C. rd, treasurer of the Burlington Savings Bank. BANKS 70 STIDE THE ATATE. General Banks is booked to stump the State this week for Greeley and Brown, and it is said that Sumner will follow. Colonel Veazey, Senators Morrill and Edmunds, Governor Stewart, Colonel Joyce and others of less note will do the spouting for the administration. Senator Edmunds and Governor Stewart are here now. ‘The latter will be cenaned and welcomed home by his friends to- night MISSOURI. The Feeling in'St. Louis, at Jefferson City in the Interior—An Oli Ex-Slave Stumping on the Levee—The’ Negroes in Town and Country—The General Result Prophesied as Good for Greeley. in isa cause Sr. Louis, August 12, 1872, Missouri was famous during the war for the in- decision of its people upon all national questions, They did not possess, in the minds of the residents of States further South, the dignity of being “Secesh,” while the Kansas free State folks called them “Butternuts,” as‘ much in token of their supposed Southern proclivities as derision of their bark stained home- spun. The battle of Lexington was fought ‘and won here by Mulligan, while the Kansas Sixth constituted a provost guard to prevent rebellious risings in the city from which I write. The popu- lation is no more homogeneous in politics than in nationality or birth. The State was, however, strongly democratic in undertow, and the senti- ment thus generated perhaps conduced as much as any other cause to the formation of the present liberal republican move- ment, which was born here. I have conversed with people of every shade of politics and all social conditions here, and find that the Mberal movement still exerts a strong influence upon their course of action. The colored vote, too, is not here so solid for Grant, thus seeming to par- take of the almost universal disintegration ue timent, Bs ow ser ete THE COLORED FOLKS ON THE LEVEE. Allalong the levee the colored men, who are carriers, stevedores and loafers, congregate in || front of the German and Irish beer saloons, and oc- casionally talk politics. Passing along towards the Vandailia ferry boat a few days since I observed a colored man of perhaps sixty-five years of age ad- dressing a motley group of freedmen who had come up from “down the river” on one of the freighting steamboats. «Now, lookee hea, nigger,” said he to one who was not altogether of African descent, but who had an athletic form and @ cunning leer upon a by no means pretty face, “you tink you’s gwine to make a heap by lungein’ round for de President, don’t ye? 'Spose you tink you's GWINE TO GRAB A GUBERMENT OFFICE? Now, ole man Greeley what's runnin’ for de President, I knew of dat ole man fore you was bawn. Iwas arunaway nigger once, I was, sure, and dat ole man lives up norf in what dey call New | York, and de way he used to shovel out de clo’s and de fodder and de whole han’s full ob ‘bits’ it would just make you turn clean white nigger—it just would, Now dis Gen’al Grant what your haludin too so frekently was no whar dat time. I reckon he wasn’t jest porned yit. I’se an old man, nigger. I was a slave when your fader was a chile; reckon and I know what's what. I’se gwine to guy my ticket tode man what counts de Greeley votes, 1s.” The old man cast a scornful glance at the otaers and walked down the levee with a hob- co gait, and glancing from side to side as he went. He was evidently a “ibe! republican.”’ AT THE HOTELS IN ST. LOUIS. At the Southern and the Planters’ House it would be fair to expect tl the at shi of the guests were advocates of Greeley’s election, and, notwith- standing that the former to the breeze @ banner bearing the inscription, “Grant and Wil- son headquarters,” I found them so. In the parlors, reading and writing rooms and in the corridor 4a silent census gathered facts sho that about eighty per cent would vote for their old abolitionist enemy. A promiscuous canvass about town gave \| 88 @ result about seventy per cent in favor of Mr, Greeley, IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS itis claimed that the popular vote will be about the same, but this is doubtful. It is universally ad- mitted that in the country the negroes are antago- nistic to those in the cities, through petty jealousics and feuds, to such an extent that this cause alone will make them vote the gree, ticket with a una- nimity in exact proportion to that with which the “town colored men vote for Grant. It is likely that @ traditional feeling of submissive respect for former masters also obtains Widely here, though it is ttle commented upon. JEFFERSON CITY THE CAPITAL. A straggling town, high up ona binm, at the bee of whch the mudd: Mise ouri bends about, of the party, and I think this estimate far | is Jefferson City. Tie Capitol stands out against below the actua! defection.. Owing to the facts, | the sky, with its pillars and dome of dirty lime- however, that the movement lacks zation | stone, and below it, also on a blu, but with an in. and that many liberals are keeping thelr own | tervening rayine, stands the ‘“Bxecutive Man- sion,” built of brick, with white stone facings and bases and marble ste) It was built during the present Gubernatorial term and {s occupied by Governor B. Gratz Brown. The town ts scattere over precipitous hills and down in stony gullies, and fs an: ing but an interesting or busy place, ‘The negroes have flocked here from the country and about eighty-five per cent of them will vote for Grant, though the county will go democratic, There is but one paper here—the People’s Tribune— which isa Greeley and Brown organ. It bitterly opposed the latter named gentleman in his contest THE POLITICAL HEADQUARTERS Meeting of the Republican Nati Executive Committee, General Sheridan at the Grant Committee ‘The Republican Split in Arkansas—The beck Trouble in Louisiana—The Maine Election and the Struggle in Vermont. _—— The Grant Headquarters. A large number of influential visitors at: at the Grant headquarters, owing to » meeting the National Executive Committee, whtok called for twelve o'clock. “The {oj of the committee were présent:—Hon, E, D, | gan, New York; Hon. Marshall Jewell, cut; Hon, A. G, Cattell, New Jersey; Hon, W. | Kemble, Pennsylvania; Hon. H. D, Cooke, Was ington; Hon. W. A. Howard, Michigan; qi Douglass, Washington; Hon. J. W. Foster, Ind | ana; William Brown, Kentucky, and Hon. Willa, Clafiin, Massachusetts. ~ ie ‘The proceedings were held with closed doors, 1 ||| Porters being rigidly excluded. As Chairman the National Committee Governor Morgan the chair, and Mr, W. E. Chandler acted as tary. The session was a very protract one, mencing at twelve o’clock and cont g until fir in the afternoon. Very littie information be procured as to what transpired, ent were fully convinced that Grant would jug eounisy, in Tosenines, and that judging from present appearances, were a encouragit A number of of de! and questions (of finance were into, after which the meeting adjourned. come Riou a all the Me ‘ho called at poms yester seems very confident the idea that. Greeley will any a cous scouted as an utter impossibility. All we States are considered safe for they expect to carr: majorities, They al carry a fair of the Southern States, including North and Sout itccehe aa tac veh cae el wi ‘Stamph for Grant, 3 Tn the ee General Sheridan called at Veteran headquarters and was wai He looks exceedingly well after his i ‘Thousand Islands und has got stoutel reddie) in pppoarannes In conversation with Colonel Dud) ley he expressed entire Very with the work o the committee and stated that if possible he woult attend the reunion at Pittsburg on the 19th, bu Was not sure of being present, owing to the caret of nis command aud previous arrangements he ha 1] | made, i ‘The following letter was received from Governoi |) Geary, of Penusylvania :— | Colonel L. E. Dupuy, Secretary Veterans’ Nationa Deansieeco wing ti beence from h EAN SIRO wing to my absence jome your of tne dth wiiimo was 1aid wage unt now. Tt will Me great pleasure to meet arid participate with my com: | | rades of the late war in Convention at Pittsburg on the | Ath of September next, and to Join with those who de- fended the on On, land in the expression of such opinions, and tn the execution of such measures ag | may seem most conducive to the general weltare, and | particularly fats Ferelogtion of our late heraie, boms | s,U- 8. Grant, to the Presidency of the j States 'Very respectiully, SOHN W.CEARY. | Liberal Headquarters. Matters looked rather dull at the liberal head! quarters yesterday, the heat seeming to have got the better of the politicians who usually crowd the rooms. John P, Finch, of Indianapolis, chairman of the | State Liberal Committee” of Indiana, gave some} || particulars of the progress,of the campaign tm his) State. He says that owing to Senator Hendricks? War record and what he did that time, or, rather, what he did not do, some of the liberal republicans’ ‘Fegard him with @ certain amount of distrust, ( which may probably have the effect of them from the polls in October. Only @ very Portion of the party, however, seem 80 dite posed, and they may reconsider their deters) mination bescre the election day comes jy on. In the southern partof the State there isa | ¥ ht disaffection among ,the democrats, an im |) dividual of some local prominence, Jason B. Brown, | Jason of the Golden Fleece, having taken the stump for Grant, a course to which, it was sald, he ‘was strongly urged by an inducement held outte him in the shape of $10,000, which was furnished by the Grant party. His following, however, is not large, and has diminished in numbers since he first § commenced to speak. Senator Morton is indefati- | gable in his endeavors to retain the hold of the Fadicals upon Indiana, and is freely using the im- mense resources which are at his disposal for that ( urpose. He has been constantly speaking since fie commencement of the canvass, and his © || petbtesee with his own party is said to be very con+ | lerable, Mi Letters received from the Southern States assert #4 that it is absolutely easential to the welfare of the [] country that the colored vote should be split; and @! the National Committee are strongly urged to sen speakers to South Carolipa, ee and bama to effect that purpose. Even ‘ three electoral States could not be secured, the moral effect of dividing the vote would be incalcu- lable. The letters seem to take it for granted that Greeley will carry the country, and think the main efforts of the liberals in the Southern States should be directed to secure, if possible, a ma jority of Congressmen. The following is an extract from a letter received Ae 4 i by eV entieman, dated Helena, Ar Ange TS ay sg Yn polities things up considerably. The | radicals held a County ation at Bushvilic on , Ist inst. They could not agree, and the machine explodi into two factions, one led by White, the other by Roving both of who are colored. There is no sham about is" fime; in fact, an irrepressible gulf now lied between them, Hennett, Clayton, Stephenson and otters t tl ool les Wi nso! now ©! Causes This embiticcs White all the more, nod stirs i ontofresh exertion, |g “Sq ot atest ge Messrs. Clopton‘and Rightor, two prominent tlemen from Arkansas, who called at the com rooms yesterday, fully corroborate the above, farnisn further particulars about the split. > the leader of the colored Greeley party isa Baptist minister and has immense influencewith his own. in Helena. Mr. Rightor is of opimon that the State will give Greeley 20,000 majority in November, the Gappeulertty of the republican leaders ha’ greatly weakened the party. The split whieh Helena was entirely between me! e Grant pert , and it cannot fail to be of immense service to the Greeley cause. It is expected that the meeting to be held at Aw. gusta, Me., to-day will be @ great success, Mr, Greeley will be on the ground, and his presence is expected to inspi thering, nator Trumbull are expected to be make speeches. The Congressional seat is being hotly contested, and if the advices can be | relied upon Speaker Blaine will be ousted. In Vere | sPoNE Bao gales an efforts being made, but very little hope is entertained of carr; the State, the republican majority is so lal } ist of the visitoi Hiram P.. | Ibert A. Renner, Arkansas; ‘ork; P. Banks, Massachusetts; James R. Doo little, Wisconsii jaxwell, ie Charles L, Lamberton, Pennsylvania; E. D. A) it, New eee Horace Cropen, New Jérsey, and Messrs, Clop J and Rightor, Arkansas, ‘The Bemocratic Headquarters, Among the prominent visitors at the democrati¢- headquarters yesterday were Senator Doolittle, Wisconsin; General N.-P. Banks, Massachusetts} Hiram Crozier, Maine, and Colonel Hatch, New Orleans. ‘ Colonel Hatch expressed great regret at the fail« ure of the Pinchback party to fuse with the liberal. }, republicans, and thinks that the action of the ford mer. means the solidification of the negro. vote. Great expectations were entertained that a harmoe” nious fusion would have been effected, but the negro elemeft in the Convention was too strong on the side of Grant. Colonel Hatch still enter’ tains hopes that ifa coalition of all the factions op- " Posed to Pinchback can be formed, Louisiana will ) still be safe for Greeley, If this ts not done, how- ff) ever, the chances are bad, and the State will un- doubted o for Grant. A strong effort is to be to bring about a combination, and now that. made Pinchback has shown his hand, it is expected to be successful. Advices from Maine continue to be favorab! Messrs. Doolittle and Crozier report great enthi asm for the liberal State ticket, and estimate the falling off at the election, from the regular rep’ can vote to Greeley, will not be less than thirty pet cent. | Mr, Crozier relates that at a meeting in ‘ land, held the other night, or Brown, an ex4 tremely wealthy citizen, who presided, in the | course of an address stated that the goods and mo- ney he possessed represented three score years and ten hard labor, but it was now no uncommon tl tosee @ member of Congress commence his poor and at the end of his six years’ service have accumulated as much money as he (the Mayor) had been able to scrape Logether in the course of a i t 4 for the vernorslitp but, strange to say, with all the faults it then found with the can date, the charge of drunkenness now 80 frecly asserted b; the republican press was not one of them. In fac! the editor claims a thorough acquaintance with the Governor's habits, and that in all his intercourse with him he never knew him to imbibe anything ardent. Ofcourse the democrats here promise an immense majority for their coalition candidate. fe. This hit was sappoeed to be ingended foe Speaker Blaine, who reputed to be wortl two or three millions of dollars, which have Deen accumulated since he entered The campaign in Indiana is being prosecu' letter from the chairman of the Democratic E: tive Committee stating that in all parte of the @minent sveakers are engaged in stumping