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Wye THE CAMPAIGN. ews from Ohio, Maine, Ver- mont and Missouri. 8 GE ieas > The Crantites Calm, Confi- dent and Active. } Garlous Paradox in Mainc—A Probable Lib- eral Governor, but Ten Thousand Majority for Grant. oe Cider as @ Decisive Issue in the Contest, ‘Vermont and Ohio Cortain 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 Triangular Fight in the Pine Tree State, GREELEY STOCK SCARCELY UP TO PAR, Hissouri Still Steady for Gratz and the Sage. What Do the Liberals Amount To Numerically ? THE BUCKEYE STATE. The Republican Organizetion Still Compact and Unbroken—No Enthusiasm for Either Grant or 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, bnt the Rest of the State Loyal to Grant. CINCINNATI, August 6, 1872, ‘The Ye @ very funny city in matters political. Bverything 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 feems positively certain of it himself. The only thing which I can assert is that the republican party ts 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 to Grant. Some are for neither Grant nor Greeley. Even the democrats, that is the democratic leaders, do not heartily endorse Greeley. Mr. Groesbeck’s letter, 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 eurtest 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 tojoin with General Cox, Judge Stallo, Stanley Mathews and the other original liberal republi- cans of this section in promoting the liberal repub- Mean 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 have been as democrats, and yet he found that it ‘was more as a democrat than as a republican that ‘he was required to support the candidate whom he had assisted in nominating. It wasa bitter pill, and he had either to swallow it or go out of politics, 0 out of politics he went. He is not for Greeley, and 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- publican-revenue-reform movement which he and Wells and Grosvenor and others had nursed fnto life turned out to be beneficial only to the democratié party and the chief of the protectionists, and that consequently there is no important political principle involved in the Presidential canvass. I have given @his littie 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 Dazardan 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 Rimseif the advocate of both sides in a single can- vasa, A QUESR FISH IN PoLrTIcs, Judge Mathews—I do not know whether he ever was jurist, but, at any rate, everybody is a “Judge” in Cincinnati—ts 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 of the Cincinnati Convention, in which he claimed to be one of the large and influential body of the American people who had determined not to wear the collar of arty any longer, and his Sopping over to Grant immediately afterward, have made a marked man, even in a city fuil of great men. He organized the Conven- tion which nominated Greeley and Brown, and then repudiated its nominees, characterizing the result as “bargain” and the means used in reach- ing it as an “dntrigue.” In his speech to the Con- vention he declared that in every department of the government the slow poison of corruption ‘seetns to have pervaded the whole civil and politi- cal administration, and ina speech after the Con- vention he said he thought General Grant “‘person- pure” in hie administration, and that it was egard for the constitution and the law. Aman who could take such exactly op- posite views of the same question, from equally clear eonvictions of duty, I thought must be a very remark- mean ind EE re gd called on him, was my emazement to find that he was not @nly “out of politics,” but entirely out of the way of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1872--TRIPLE SHEET, _ — acquiring ay political information whatever. I afterwards discovered in looking over a specelyin defence of Grant which ne had just made here that he sometimes relates the substance of unreported interviews with newspaper people himself, a right which I cheerfully concede to himin my case as po geen of imagination are not suttictent to —" e by on ig an clement of at weakness in the district. The district was remodelled the Legisiauaye, for huge but he fled in gecting (or ; but he in ge the nomination ‘and only Succeeded in defeating Bingham. Captain Dantord, the successful aspiran’ is @ young man, unknown out of his district, a1 Will not strengthen a national ticket which is sadly in neéd of friends, What will be the effect of Judge Winans’ nomination by the liberals and democrats in the Dayton district cannet be torctold till after the republicans have shown their hand, but it is likely he will draw some votes from the Grant party which would otherwise have gone for it, The createst interest, so far ag the Congress nominations are concerned, is 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 Second district. Hayes is confessedly a strong can- didate, but Eggleston will find arrayed against him all the hatred which is felt toward Grant b; the republicans ot his district. The former will take Job Stevenson's place under very peculiar ¢ireamstances. Stevenson passed the summer at Berkeley Springs drinking the waters and saying he did not seck a 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 a 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- ublicans and democrats in these districts not ing able to e upon fusion candidates, In a few days both parties will have their candidates in the field all over the State, and then the work of the canvass will begin in earnest; but up to the present time the apathy ts as thick as @ London fog. ea this, as nearly as I can see it, is the situation THE PINE TREE STATE. Claims and Connter-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. Bancor, August 10, 1872, The republican rally in this city yesterday is pro- nounced A FIZZLE by the Grecley 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 ia 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 bemignly 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 government 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 rascals was ever punished by the State authorities,” a remark that was endorsed by John A. Peters, the president, briefy 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 lingue of inchoate (far from any reference to the sublime orator of Massachu- setts, the late Rufus Choate) harangues whose political judgment rather befits them lor the ma- ternal 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 republican 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- publican side, will be defeated, many democrats re- fusing 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 SS 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 15th 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 jast night. The Congressional Districts—How Do They Stand!—The Triangular Fight— The Governor, Congressmen and Presi- dential Issues=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 {sa list of the five Congressional districts in Maine, classified by counties, accom- panied by such remarks a8 occasion may seem to require :— CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. First—Cumberiand 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 @ 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 :— iford, why don’t you speak to me? } ‘lifford, comie to Meganticook ! 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 inypossible that some of the former constituents of Mr, Frye i may think they have other fish to fry. ‘The Greeley | men are attempting to get up steam, but there | 18 strong sentiment in favor of General Grant underlying all the political movements in this Con- Brevsional district, Thirc—Kennebec, Lincoln, Somerset, half of Knox. Vote in 1870, James G. Blaine (republican), 700; E. W. Farley (democrat), 9,270, Blaine has nominated by the Shera ‘the demo- yet nominated, but it is generaliy a8 8, lanes seceding republican, y r. Blaine will receive considerable opposition m district on ac- count of his alleged antagot ence to the shipbuilding interests ia constituents, This objection is combatted by 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 paoilaly explain his views enjoyed by some of colleagues, Nevertheless, it 1s asserted that no Representative of the State of Maine exerted a more powerful in- fluence in the Committee of Ways and Means, eepeciauy in regard to the point of exempting ship- building materi (those entering into the con- sumption of American built vessels) than the pres- ent Representative 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 agement of your correspondent, to predict the re-eleetion of Mr, Blame by an increased majority (2,320) over that by which he was elected in 1870. Fourth—Aroostdok, Penobscot and Piscataquis. In.1870 the vote was 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 already served three terms in the House. He is supposed to be in training for the United States Senate when Senator Haulin’s teria expires (in 1 Mr. Emery is again the demo- cratic candidate, as well as that of the liberal re- pubiicans, He incurred the hostility of the Union nen during the war for some outspoken words, and had his press demolished in consequence, ‘There is consiferable feeling in the district, 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. "yth—Hancock, Waldo and penta n counties, and Appleton, Camden, Hope, Rockland, South Thomaston, Vinalhaven and North Haven, in Knox county. In 1870 the vote stood—for Eugene Hale,| republican, 10,686, aguinst 8,876 for P, J. Carleton, democrat, ‘This your Mr. Hale is renominated by the republicans and Theodore A, Pike by the demo- crats and liberal republicans, Pike was 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 Aifairs in the last Congress. There is probably more excitement in this Congressional district than in any other in the State, the political lines being ly drawn. A number of democrats, not hav- ing either a Presidential or a Congressional cand date in the fleld, are very lukewarm; many declare they will not vote at all, or will go for Hale in Sep. tember and Grant in November. For instance, it is said that 150 democrats in Belfast will cut Pike and there is talk of calling an_in- dependent convention, with General F. S. Nic! erson as their 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 swallo Pike is said to be & good fellow; but, like Peters ( aa n), in the Fourth district, {¥ looking after Hamlin’s old 5 atorial shoes under a new political deal, 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 @ third term—he carries with him a strong influence among the old republicans in favor of the re-elec- tion of Mr. Hale. After Mr. Hale’s next term pires—if he should be re-elected—Mr. Simonton will be the man for the republicans on the westside of the Penobscot River, PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN—OUTLOOK. Torace Grecley, >rides himself on his constitutional hatred of “rum” and tobacco. Mr. Bingham ts a | lawyer and resides at Stowe. He hase, of Lyn- den, is tne liberal candidate for asurer, liberal electors are evenly divided, one half bein; Tepublicans and the other democrats, Not littl chagrin Is felt by the regulars on account of the dey sertion from them of Judge Evarts, who was noml- nated by them for State Senator, but ‘lopped,’? and is Dow out for Greeley and Brown, “DEMOCRATS FOR GRANT.” Pa i rag Scrat is county vo for yu that on account of tl ‘ean pe this qui ics, a specimen of those who refuse to wear the rty collar, which is very rare indeed, Still thews is not an unusual political animal for this latitude. His neighbor, Judge Stallo, is very like him and is going to make a speech at St. Louls.in “reply to Schurz, though loes not promise to sup- port Grant. Then, again, General Cox. is not altogether unlike him, for he is also against Gree- |, ley even if he s not for Grant, The same thing may be said of Hassunrac and the rest. The attitude of all these men is a vere 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- ley, adit that the tide us in his favor and that his | election seems certain, WHERE THY BARNEST COMES IN. Where there ig so much fun there can scarcely fail to be some earnestness after all. Besides, the unanimity with which the lMberal leaders—Cox, Kittredge, Hoadley, Mathews and Stallo—turned/ against Ureeley indicates.some cause for an action, so siugilar, What is the reason? I have asked thet question of a number of persons and have generally’ been told that they «slike the tariff plankin the Greeley platform—that they think it cercy ind pro- notes steaiing by combination, one special interest combining with a hundred others to “protect”? all at the expense of the people. ‘The reason is a forci- ble and logical one, especially to free traders, but when it is urged it. provokes a very broad smile / hereabouts, for it is, said these men not only’ ted but. repared the plank . them-. selves, The tariiY certainly, had @ great deal to do with tirir defection, — but I think a twofold distrast of Gregley. decided. their! hostility. The moneyed men of Cincinnati fear ) hat resumption is uot such @ simple matter as to | resolve itseif into the axiom that to resume is to resume. Cox, Mathews & Co. bow to the moneyed | men and share their fears. ineo, agen, they have not got over their old hatred of the democracy, and ure afraid that thelr cherished notions of civil | service reform will result Only,in eves to the democrats. The more they saw of their work the more they were dissatisfied with it, and finally ail of them turned round and admitted that if they hate Grant their hatred of Greeley is even more in- tense. So now they hang on the skirts of the Tepublican party, and find some dd even in an administration which was all bad before the Cin- cinnati Convention, POLITIVAL, PROSPECTS IN THR STATR. Nobody claims tnat there is any serious defection in the republican party of Ohio. Even Mr. Greeley’s: liberal republican partisans do not expect to car the State for him, Unlike Pennsylvania, New Yor! and Michigan, there are no great feuds here to dl- vide the purty, for no two or three leaders are great enough to have much of a personal rovowring en: a Rees 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. Garficld has not tld become a very great man outside of his district, and Shellubarger never sought to build up a faction on his own behalf, Sam Cary tried it @ way when he got up the labor issue and’ defvated Deacon Smith for Con- gress, but Sam's popaeny waned like the twit in the tropics, Columbus Delano, belore he - came & Cabinet oficer—indeed, before he was any- body in particular—wanted to make an issue with Governor Dennison, but it never bore any practical ‘fruits, except in his getting the place on Grant’s, onicial “stad,'’ which was Dennison’s by right. These failu to build up parties inside of the) ruling party leave the State free from every kind) of factious distraction, and whatever dissenstons) Political classes are just becinning to chrystallize 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 lookout on Megunticock Mountain your correspond. ent thinks himself justified in predicting three ‘things, to wit:— 1. ‘That Kimball, the democratic and liberal can- didate for Governor, will be elected, if he can Manage to use that side show or “cider clause’’) in the Maine Prohibitory law to his advantage. 2. That the democrats will gain at icast one mem- ber of Congream, probably in the first district. 3, That Grant will carry the State by 10,000 ma- Jority in November. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE. The Coming Election in the Green Mountain State—A Fierce Straggle Expected—Relative Strength of the Grantites and Greeleyites— A Good Story for Know Nothings— Banks and Sumner to Go on exist are purely local and will not weuken the elec-. tion for State oiicers in October. Indeed, it is) 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 there are, practically, no liberal republicans, and that where they exist. they are rather | antl-Grant men than strenuous supporters of the | ) Greeley coalition, Except in Shellabarge! trict, where Winans, a liberal republican, who was before, has been nominated by the ‘democruta, there. has been no affiliation, and in’ ‘this city e: ly tion tO affiliate. In the Second district Sam Caty has some chance of tting the nomination, but two or three German lemocrats want it, and Sam will likely be com- elled 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 itrength in October will not be a fair test of Grant’s arene though the probabilities are, asI have said before, that he i carry the State by a re- duced majority on the October vote. GRANTS UNPOPULARITY IN CINCINNATI. It is impossible for Grant's best friends to co) ceal, much less to deny, that he is exceedingly un- 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 amoke 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 matin 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 poss!- bility the liberal and democratic State ticket can be elected; but, on 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, I think myself, from what I have heard since I came | into the State, three days ago, that there will be 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 pepplas: in this city, aud it is equally impossible to ear a sincere aud earnest republican led away, from the party of his heart—everybody in Cincin- ‘nati is aut On matters pertaining to the heart. relate the story of his political wrongs at the han jot the President without laughing. It is a sure cu ‘|/for Hasan sickness and will overcome Eastern dis- at Western manners. I never was particu- fi incredulous, but, while I could believe in Sin- vad 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 1 should put any credence in old Jesse Grant as the Cincinnatians paint him. Ac- cording to their account he is the fun- niest old enay, Dumpty off the stage. A 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 talkin; about? Nobody but dad and me.” These Cincinnat! pee insist that not only are Ulysses and “Dad’’, residents, but the whole Grant family. Poor) ople hving in Washington could be refreshed! Resting Sumner define Wa er by the aid of hundred dictionaries, but Clncinnati’s definition o: 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, es, L know that,” you answer, but before you have , oe a utter be bed secon he ae ‘And old jesse Grant appointed pretty much everybody else hereabouts.” The tonein which al this ie said, and the evident = that is felt for the President's venerable parent, make it ed irresistible. Then come the exceptions, that is the persons whom old Jesse did not have pointed. ‘The first on this list Tom the Post- med of pe: i aay, peptenas (pet, he is not # good Postmaster; but what people object toisthae when they seat a committee’ to Washtae:{ ton to express their desires in the matter, the), President should reply, “That place I have omised to my sister Virginia for her friend, Fonts.” People here are a little captious, I think; and only because Jennie Grant, now Mra. Corbyn, || was able to conirol a few important political ap- | pointments in and around Cincimati, they sneer rally unfriendly to Grant, he onty hesitated for the sake of Seay of which Grant ts the accidental le is new bound to Grant's support, and can do much in his strong republican district towards the success of the Philade nominees, But had he been defeated as Bingham was bya young and unknown aspirant for the honors he had won so long I fear he would not have shown Bingham’s magnanimity and rallied so readily and 80 gentcenely for the admin- istration. Bingham is by all odds the ablest man in the State. fe stands far above Sherman, and in every respect he leads his delega- tion in Cor 88. That he is not to go back in tsa cause for general regret, and, in spite of his enerosity in. Accepting defeat, his failure to re- not more thah one™~or~twe- wil ‘course this time. Then, on the other hand, the reg- 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 1s @ strong prejudice in the minds of THE IRISH BORN CITIZENS against Mr. Wilson in consequence of his Know jothing record, and as, of course, there is notht concerning their creed or their country elther sai jor done that they do not learn through their na- ona) and relaions newspapers here as Well as in em coe or Boston, Wilson will be remembered to vantage, An amusing incident occurred here lately, which lilustrated one point in the Know Nothing folly most ‘admirably. Captain John Lonergan, a genial, whole-souled Irishman, encountered in devate an irascible 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 harriotn, *T anran Irishman and you are a native; I'll bet you drinks for the crowd that you can’t repeat the three first lines of the Declaration of Independ- ence, one !”? ‘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 wus More than the Captain bargained for, but he was equal to the occasion, “Why, man, of course I can,” he replied confl- nae ‘Now listen.” n in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to trample upon the rights of another then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.” “Well, well; you are hnt!’? 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 regular traders here as elsewhere deny that Henr; ilson was ever a Know Nothing, but his own letter of denial 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 the large patron- age in the hands of the administration men and the abundance of money at their disposal, they can bring a heavy pressure to bear. This is the Grant banner county (Chittenden), while the chief at her with the remark, ‘Old Corbyn, who married her with the intention of Set up @ Black Friday speculation, never saw her till the inauguratioi ‘and she came home with a ring on her Le I 1s one of the reasons bse nn against Grant's election quite as much because of the engagement ring as the family tical ring. But I think the funniest story these Cincinnati people tell is that about the appointment of Winans as Postma: ter at Newport, Ky. When the announcement was made the Newport republicans looked ali over the | place for the man, but could not find him, and fin- ally sent @ message to Washington asking if the telegraph had not made a mistake. The answer came back that it was all right, and so the search went on tili a young fellow crept out of a boardin; house ina back street, saying, “I guess it is a right, mm! name is Winans, and I know the Presi- dent.” le was from Clermont county, Ohio, Grant's birthplace, and a favorite with the Grant family. It is unnecessary to go further into this Democratic. Republican majority... Taking, then, 5,000 as the number of the liberal 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 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION is quite another matter and cannot be anticipated with any degree of correctness. The State elec- tion takes place on the dd of September, so that there will be ample tite for another grand 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 oflicers. THE NOMINATIONS made by both parties seem to be erally constd- ered unusually good. Jullu Converse, who heads the regular ticket as candidate for Governor, is an eminent lawyer and resides at Woodstock. in the State heretofore. Russell 8. Talt, the candi- date for the Lieutenant Governorship, 18 the pres- Senator and Representative in the State House of the candidate jor Treasurer--a renomination, This believes, with the faith of a fanatic, that f GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER,” satisiied ; for ademocrat, W. H. H, Bingham got the second place. Mr. dner is a lawyer of Village, Bennington, and is eminent at the Ver- mont bar. He has been representative and Speaker of the House, Senator and Lieutenant Governor, He has not, however, held any high o‘ticlal position | problem of his ability to c: ent Register of Chittenden county; has been State | What the changes maj Representatives. John A. Page, of Montpelier, ig | dissensions are at all felt in national politics the The liberals in their Convention put up Abraham | become B. Gardner for Governor, and the democrats were | to the President and the par He has always beeu a staych republican, and, likg | pursulpg. Naturally friendly to Greeley and natu- ridiculous system of retailing oftices; but these 21,209 | funny stories, 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. ae Contented among i nara Laat ceed claim a large percentage of the party as ready to act with them. Some of them even clatm the State for Greeley in November, The extent of the defec- tion will not, however, reach to the depth of the discontent with Grant. ‘ybody is dissatisfied and discontented, but the appointments of the Grant family have in the main turned out so well thac many persons will smother their ith and stick to the party. Still there is a break™in the republican party, and I think a pretty large break. Leading radicals admit the liberais im this county will number a thousand old time supporters of the party, and | think this estimate far below the actua! defection., Owing to the facts, however, that the movement lacks organization and that many liberals are keeping their own counsel, it is impossible to measure the full ngth of the opposition or to calculate upon its effect on the day of the election. With the chances of Grant's success still in his favor, this leaves the ry the State an open juestion, The republicans are apathetic, and the reeley current runs with @ steady strength, be between this and the election it is not possible to predict, but if local effect cannot fail to be disastrous to Graut. In this aspect of the case THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS matter of the bers gravest importance y. So far they have Garfield’ been both good and bad, nomination Jentre | will add strength to the national ticket, for he is one of those republicans whom @ little coaxing would have taken the way which General Banks and some other leading radicals in the House are strength of the liberal republicans is in Franklin and Rutiand counties. The Grant part ANOTHER ADVANTAGE OVER THE GRERLEYITES in Burlington—they have a datly paper to advocate their cause, the Free Press and Times, while their opponents have only a weekly shect, the Democrat. It cannot be otherwise than’ advantageous to be able to speak six times to your 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 Judge Judson C, Noyes, of the City Court; Daniel Roberts, lawyer, and C, F. Ward, treasurer of the Burlington Savings Bank. BANKS TO STUMP THE STATE. General Banks is booked to stump the State this Week for Grecley and Brown, and it is said that Sumner will follow. Colonel Veazey, ators: Morrill and Edmunds, Governor Stewart, Colonel Joye and others of less note will do the spouting for the administration. “Senator Edmunds and Governor Stewart are here now. The latter will be Lae and welcomed home by his friends to- MISSOURI. prrniaeen 5\r Stee The Feeling in'St. Louis, at Jefferson City act in the Interior—An Old Ex-Slave Stumping on the Levee—The! Negroes in Town and Country—The General Result Prophesied as Good for Greeley. 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 “sgecesh,” while the Kansas free State folks called them “Butternuts,” as) much in token of their supposed Southern proclivities as in 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 of sen- timent, ee ser ety “all 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, [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 vould. ‘Now dis Gen’al Grant what poi haludin too so frekently was no whar dat time Treckon he wasn’t jest porned yit. I’se an old man, nigger. 1 was a slive 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 Grecley votes, Iis.” The old man cast a scornful glance at the otaers and walked down the levee with a hob- bling gait, and glancing from side to side as he wou, He was evidently a “liberal republican.”’ AT THE HOTELS IN ST. LOUIS. At the Southern and the Planters’ House it would be fair to expect that the great share of the guests were advocates of Greeley’s election, and, notwith- standing that the former hotel swil to the breeze @ banner bearing the inscription, “Grant and Wil- son headquarters," I found them so, In the parlors, Teading and writing rooms andin the corridora silent census gathered facts showing that about eighty per cent would vote for their old abolitionist enemy. A promiscuous canvass about town gave as a result about seventy per cent in favor of Mr, Greeley, IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS it is claimed that the popular vote will be about the same, but this 1s doubtful. It is universally ad- mitted that in the country the negroes are antago- nistic to those in the cities, through petty jealousies and feuds, to such an extent that this cause alone will make them vote the Greeley ticket with a una- nimity in exact proportion to that with which the “town' colored men vote for Grant. It is likely that a traditional feeling of submissive respect for former masters also obtuins Widely here, thougl it is little commented upon. JEFPRRSON CITY THR CAPITAL. A lazy, sti hing, town, hig up on a bint, at the base of which the muddy Missouri bends about, is Jefferson City. The Capitol stands out against the with its pillars and dome of dirty lime- stone, and below it, also on a bluff, but with an in- tervening ravine, stands the “Executive Man- sion,’ bullt of brick, with white stone facings and baset a marble ste) It was built during the present Gubernatorial term and its occupied b; Governor B. Gratz Brown. The town ts scattere: over precipitous hills and down in stony gullies, and is anything 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 1ribune— which is @Greeiey and Brown organ. It bitterly opposed the latter named gentleman in his contest for the i cone but, ee to Bay, with all the faults it then found with the candidate, the charge of drunkenness now s0 freely asserted b the republican press was not one of them. In fact, 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. THE POLITICAL HEADQUARTERS Meeting of the Republican Nati Executive Committee, General Sheridan at the Grant Committee The Republican Split in Arkansas—The back Trouble in Louisians—The Maine Election and the Straggle in Vermont. The Grant Headquart A large number of infuential vidiicie. ati at the Grant headquarters, Owing to a meeting the National Executive Committee, whitch called for twelve o'clock. ‘The of the committee were présent:—Hon, £, D, gan, New York; Hon. Marshall Jewell, | cut; Hon, A. G. Cattell, New Jersey; Hon, W. | Kemble, Pennsylvania; Hon. H. D. Gooxe, Was, ington; Hon. W. A. Howard, Michigan; Louis Douglass,’ Washington; Hon. J. W. Foster, Ind ana; William Brown, Kentucky, Claflin, Massachusetts, ~ Te ‘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 pro one, mencing at twelve o'clock and cont g unt in the afternoon. Very littie information be procured as to what transpired, ent were fully convinced tl Grant the eountry in November, and that the pi Judging {rom present appearances, were and ei ing. A number of matt of detail and questions of finance wero into, after which the meeting adjourned. The tone of all the visitors who called at rooms yesterday seems to be very confident the idea that Greeley will carry the count Sconted as an utter im) lity, All the States are considéred safe for the rej they expect to carry some of them with ines majorities. They expect to carry a fair of the Southern States, including North and Sout Carol lal Louisiana Misaissi; It eagle Ale tae West Vi oe ppt be ph for Grant, Ps In the afternoon General Sheridan called at Veteran adquarters and was by ig d He looks exceedingly well after his trip to Thousand Islands and has got stouter an im appearance. In conversation with Colonel Dud) ley he expressed entire sympatl the committee and stated that if possible he wot attend the reunion at Pittsburg un the 19th, bu }| ‘Was not sure of being present, owing to the caret | of pis command aud previous arrangements he hay } made. | ‘The following letter was received from Governol Geary, of Penusylvania :— Colonel L. Dup.er, Secretary Veterans’ Nationa Committee :— Dean 8in—Owing to my absence from home your letter of tne 9th ultimo was laid je until now. Swill aniey Me great pleasure to meet and participate with my com Tades of the late war in Convention at Pittsburg om the | 7th of September next, and to Join with those who de- fended the nation on kea and land in the expression of ch opinlons, and th the execution of such incasures, a | ay seem tnost conducive to the general weltare, Fticularly to the reelection of our late heroic Com. mander, 8. Grant, to the Presidency of the Us States. Very respectiully, SOHN W. GEARY, | Liberal Headquarters. Matters looked rather dull at the lberal heads) 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 in his, State. He says that owing to Senator Hendricks? War record and what he did that time, or, rather, what he dia not do, some of the liberal republicans) ‘Fegard him with a ce: amount of distrust, which may probably have the effect of them from the polls in October. Only a very Portion of the party, however, seem 80 dif~ posed, and they may reconsider their deters) mination bescre the election day comes on, In the southern partof the State there isa | slight 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 out to 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. tm; ' mense resources which are at bis dispos: urpose. He has been constantly speaking since she commencement of the canvass, and his copier with his own party is said to be very con- erable, 1 Letters reccived from the Southern States assert that it is absolutely essential to the welfare of the country that the colored vote should be split; and the National Committee are stron, ed to speakers to th Caroll! and bama to effect that purpose. Even he vote , 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 ited 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. following is an extract from a letter received a Y entles dated Helena, iy Angst Oop % Yn polities things are radicals held « County {totaro fastlone: one: ied by’ White, the other by wo factior % HB both of whova are colored. ‘There le no it this’ time; in fact, an irrepressible guit now. lied pea et cause ‘the more, and stirs cause embittcrs ontofreshexertion, = y“Sys fede Messrs. Clopton and tor, two prominent tlemen from Arkansas, who called at the committee rooms yesterday, fully corroborate the ya and ja ing up considerably. f ven jot at bustle on ihg j ime ree, and the machine explod furnish further particulars about the split. the leader of the colored Greeley party, is a Baj munjster and has immense influencewith his own in Helena. Mr. Rightor is of opimion that the 8 will give Greeley 20,000 majority in November, the ‘unpo] eee of the republican leaders hat greatly weakened the party. The split whieh ace in Helena was entirely between me! he Grant part , and it cannot fail to be of immense service to the Greeley cause. It is expected that the meeting to be held at Au. gusta, Me., to-day will be a great success, Mr, Greeley will be on the ground, and his presence is expected to inspire great enthusiasm into thering. Senator Doolittle, Senator Schurz Senator ‘frumbull aro expected to be present to make speeches. The Congressional seat in A’ is being hotly contested, and if the advices can be relied upon Speaker Blaine will be ousted. In Ver- mont also quite an: effortis being made, but very | little hope is entertained of carrying the State, the republican majority is so irae list of the visitoi ‘he following Crozier, Maine W. Hatton, Wi ir Sorrell, Baltimore; John A. Finch, Indianapolis: Albert H. Renner, Arkansas; Charles Rebello, Net ork;:N,. P. Banks, Massac! tts; James R. Dood little, Wisconsin; D Maxwell, Brooklyn ; Charles L, Lamberton, Pennsylvania; E. D. nig it, New York; Horace Cropen, New Jérsey, and Messrs, Clopton — end Rightor, At! 4 kc ‘The Bemocratic Headquarters, Among the prominent visitors at the democratié headquarters yesterday Were Senator Doolittle, Wisconsin; General N.»P. Banks, Massachusetts } Hiram Crozier, Maine, and Colonel Hatch, New Orleans. J 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. votes Great expectations were entertained that a harmo« 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 4 tains hopes that if coalition of all the factions op. || posed to Pinchback can be formed, Louisiana will Still be safe for Greeley, If this ts not done, hows }| ever, the chances are bad, and the State will un- doubtedly go for Grant. A strong effort is to be made to bring about @ combination, and now that. Pinchback has shown his hand, it is expected to be successful, Advices from Maine continue to be favorable. Messrs. Doolittle and Crozier report great enthusl- asm for the liberal State ticket, and estimate the falling off at the election, from the regular repul can vote to Greeley, will not be less than thirty pew « cent. Mr. Crozier relates that at a meeting in Port, * land, held the other night, Mayor Brown, an ex¢ tremely wealthy citizen, who presided im the course of an address stated that the goods and mo- ney he possessed represented three score years and | ten hard labor, but tt was now no uncommon thit 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 together in the course of & life. hit was supposed to be intended Speaker Blaine, who reputed to be wortl two or three millions of dollars, which have Deen accumulated since he entered Co ‘The campaign in Indiana is being prosecu! letter from the chairman of the Democratic Ext tive Committee stating that in all parte of th eminent aveakers are engaged in stumping |