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WSW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1872—-TRIPLE SHEMET, “THE BUCKEYE STATE. General Review of the Com- : ; ing Campaign. ‘Aecessions of Gemocratic Members _—” to Congress Expected. “PROSPERITY. GRANT.” ppv ene, feriail Tho Country Passing Under the Control of | Buhealthily Rich Men, BOSSIP AND ANECDOTE. OF THE CANVASS, CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 17, 1872, ‘The campaign in this State will formally open about ‘en days hence. Jnst now the warm weather and fhe watering places take the public mind off poll- ties, Ihave made a canvass of the northern part Ma the State, and report as follows :— THE NEWSPAPERS, There are, in English, only three democratic allies in Ohie: the Enquirer, at Cincinnati ; Plain- @ealer, at Toledo; and the Herald, a small paper at Dayton. The O/iio Statesman, the daily organ at the @tate capital, has perished from natural decay, ‘and its franchise in the telegraph news, the only thing about it worth possessing, has become the Reritage of the Postmaster’s paper there. The Cincinnati Commercial is the great popular supporter of Greeley, and it gives him that species of newsy, judicious support which is more available ‘that beration. Some queer things happen in the canvass. these are the defeat of W. W. Armstrong Congress by Rush Sloan, liberal, the former editor of the Cleveland Plaindealer. Sloane ts a Fallway president, and he gave a democratic dis- ‘trict the first taste of the disadvantages of fusion. In this State, generally, the liberals get the nomi- mations in republican districts, the democrats in Segular democratic districts. . THB STEUBENVILLE DISTRICT. John A. Bingham, weeping like King Lear, was ‘eaten for Congress in this district by a Captain Porreman, whom the liberals expect to demolish ‘with a Mr. Danford. Mr. Bingham expects a eitua- Mon if Grant be elected. TOLEDO DISTRICT, The democrats say that five districts are this year conceded to them in Ohio, and they have high hopes of carrying ten. At present they possess nly four Congressmen, namely:—Van Trump, Kin- pey, Campbell and Morgan. These districts have een gerrymandered to suit the republican (nterests; however, the democrats expect %o elect Frank Hurd in the Toledo dis- trict over General Sherwood, late Secre- Bary of State and one of the Ohioans ‘who assisted to beat Schuyler Colfax for the Vice Presidency at Philadelphia. Hurdis now City Soll- eitor of Toledo, and was once Attorney General of the State, His friends expect to elect him by reason ‘Bf the haughty scorn entertained by Toledo city for the districts, when a discourteous Legislature appended to that great and invincible town the Con- federate Corners proper of Nasby, who lives there. ®herwood lives outside of Toledo, and Toledo will Reve none of him. In the MARIETTA DISTRICT the democrats have put up Mr. Hudson to beat @olonel Moore. This, being a strong New England @istrict, has many old abolitionists in it who ad- mire Greeley, and the democrats hope and believe Shat they will somewhat distract things there. In THE DAYTON DISTRICT ‘Mr. Wynana, a strong free trade doctrinaire, will run against Gunkle, Superintendent of the celebrated Poldiers’ Home at Yayton, an institution which was ‘he theme of contention in Congress at one time as to whether its soldiery, assembled from many States should be allowed to outvote the legitimate meaident constituency. On this hung at one time ‘the instatement of Robert ©. Schenck, and he availed himself of the matter and took his seat. tow it seems that the Superintendent himself, ‘@imbing up on precedents, expects to go to the House of Representatives by the soldiers’ votes, ‘and, to add tothe extravagance of the thing, the Legislature have cut the Dayton district in half in order to heap up the majority against the liberals, Ia the t _ EEBBANON DISTRICT of Ohio, whence Tom Corwin came to the surface, #obn Sohn, a distiller, has been nominated by the Greeley republicans. He has 1,200 majority against iim, In the i CHILLICOTHE DISTRICT J. T. Neal, a democrat, has been nominated, and is fhought to be sure of his election, that district Deing democratic. THE ZANESVILLE DISTRICT {2 democratic by about two thousand eight hundred majority, and there the fusionists have nominated a Mr. Southard against Judge Marsh, THE YOUNGSTOWN DISTRICT %# preponderatingly republican, being full of mines and iron mills, but: even there the liberal repub- Means have nominated a Mr. Brown against L. D. ‘Woodworth. Mr. Brown has 1,500 working men, fand is the largest mill-owner in that district. His nomination shows that not all the mill-owners in the country are opposed to Mr. Greeley. Columbiana county, in this district, Is said to have more republican defections in it than any in ‘the State, partly because there is a large German population there and partly also because thero is fn old abolition population, and in the abolition ‘Gistricta West Greeley is uniformly strong. In the TWO CINCINNATI DISTRICTS, ‘where the Germans constitute a great element, Milton J. Laylor and General Banning have been put {n nomination, the latter a liberal republican, while for the short term Ozro J, Dodds has been nomi- in place of @ retiring member, Perry. Mr. jor is an amiable, agreeable lawyer, popular ig men throughout Cincinnati. General ing has been an official DA bonne and is a ope 3 the celebrated Don Piaat, the 1e COLUMBUS DISTRICT very strong nomination has been made by the H. J. Jewitt, Vice President of the Pan- die road, whose friends beat Van Trump in nominat convention. Although this district been fix: by the Legislature so as to return regular it is believed that Jewitt, who is one of be jest men in Ohio, has & good chance to runin. { W. Berry will stand in the ' MANSFIELD DISTRICT. He is a lawyer of Upper Sandusky. He will have to face the resident influence of John Sherman, who not only a Senator for six years but quite rich, by the way, is in considerable distress of on account of the propriety of his credentials @ six years’ place in the United States te. There stand affixed to the records of the te resolutions of protest against the legalit, herman’s election—the same Senate whic! d him under the orders of ita presiding oMcer Beceded from the act. It grieves Sherman's ce of wlaning fh; because the State: Senate. & cause the Stat nate as it now stands has become anti-Sherman owing to Greeley Tepeniloen; a fection, In the great LB DISTRICT, tong nted by the fiddler,’ Billy Mungen, navies Lamnison hae beew nominated, avd he will Baye what is called a “walk over.”” fie is the pres- ent democratic member. General Morgan is mak- ing a great fight to keep the Delano, or aang he 1s supported by hs former 3 rmer republ - pesitor, Mi Ras turned out for ‘Greciey. The domo: ‘of Unio say that they cannot afford to make long campaign and organize late because jave no funds to draw upon from the federal pet) or elsewhere, and therefore a good of what you will hear from Oho for a week or 2wo to comé, exaggerating republican p: cts, means that the democrats are not in the mean ge to open late, probably not before ber 1, y GRANT'S BOASTED GAIN. ‘In another part of tuis letter I have referred to defection ofa Cleveland democrat by the name of W. Carson, who some time ago declared that would ys ss Grant in preference to Greeley. At the time Oarson was announced to the country as “Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee,” whereas he was simply the Chairman x County Committee, an unim 5 or twenty-three the. “Theonsideraveness of the Taemo- The democrats of Cleveland ma, lem Q loud cpneng arene “Jimmy, pe sore Sia democrat for God's sake f Louisvine Conve; son!” Jimmy, seeing Jot was very Well int0 tm, retreated Into the cloth. | A Gonna Any 3 meant to “or ts it not some form evil bw vil grow! out of the lawa and Th condi: of the ? ie old Governor of the State, Tod, has a ing son here who is id to make aday, and a sewing machine man here has an income of $2,000 a day. An oll company he ¥ Ea refine rs relreed frains of gute worth 0, gross—the 6a: is eald, W attempted to.corner all the oil of the pe ae ne Dave fe mankind by collusion with rr, Tho od 20 su aes districts feel this proses hae pedple In the rhfal like th ¢ many- facturing cities 18 1; ff on Which the Bree - dential esi tost 1 question Te als? postions ‘ rates to go on | oJ os ing trade, and the paragraph conus ~ ewe United States aro relative! Tos. ite rounds that the ¢ of thé Dethadratic | Zaro ike tt ese manufacturing towns tl ere will State Central Commities has declared for Grant, ¢ no.change in party along as this lasts; 1f, on Apropos of tiie Paragraph above, 1 ialy Fay some | the other hand, high prices have brought distress 168g Congressional ica 1n Gaio are not above | and left their recipients no better off at the end of pafagement. One of tha ‘candidates en the | the year, a change will be voted. But such a state orthern line seems to have fn art of ADDRESSING SUNDAY SOHOOLS AND PRAYER MEET IN early in the evening, and then repairing to a num- ber of saloons to treat all round, under the intro- duction of ‘rhe People’s Candidate,’ and at the end of the treat he generally lays down a lar sum of money than the bill amounts to and insists that the liquor, by its superior quality, is entitled to the charge, ome Mine, Sie ho. ad.& Selene to dinner at an inn kept by a strong demo- crat, in the vicinity of Cleveland, and after ordering a lunch inquired about the amount of the bil. e bill being $5, he exclaimed, with ‘eat apparent wonder, ‘‘Five dollars for a meal like at! ‘hy you will starve to death if you charge such petty amounts.” And a $20 bill was thrown on the table and no change required. This-incident is now going the rounds, and put on transparencies for the cam} . On the whole, it may _be safely presumed that the Cleveland campaign will be very lively and entertain- ing for a Western Reserve county. With the John Sherman defection and with the prospects of Mr. H, B. Payne ot nominated, whether he will or not, by the Liberal and Democratic Convention, the elegant and popular republican of the regular party Will have a good race of it. Mr. Payne isa lirector in the Lake Shore Railroad, and once nearly beat Salmon P. Chase for Governor of the State. He led the demoeratic delegation to Baltl- more, and in the dtsposition now manifested by the Spekueacy will have to run even against his de- re, THE BOURBONS IN O1I0, In the foregoing letter I have given both sides, showing that the instinct of riches is to vote against Greeley, and yet that the instinct of cir- cumstances ts somewhat in his favor. I inquired to-day of Isaac B, Riley, & prominent citizen of Newark, Ohto, which is perhaps the most extreme Bourbon district of the State, how many men in that part would support the Louisville ticket against Greeley. Sald he:—“Im my towns tp: there are but two who say they will not vote for Greeley, and in the whole of Licking county there are but Sirs “This,” said Mr. Riley, “ia about the usual defection we ve in eve PB eames election. We expect to add 300 Iberal republicans to the usual demo- cratic majority, which is about thirteen hundred.’? In this county there is a school town cailed Gran- ville, settled up entirely y New Englanders and composed of three or four colleges. Here the Gree- ley split is more marked, perhaps, than elsewhere in the State, Only one man ofany note in Ohio has yet said anytoing about the Louisville Conventton, and he is an Auditor of Seneca county, and I have used every means but the telegraph wire to ascertain his name; nobody knows it. Another rash young man, called Ralph Leet, has said something about Louisville, but caused no alarm. PROTECTIONISTS’ INGRATITUDE. If Greeley’s old iron-mill friends, whom his paper has backed up for years, had any sense ot naey rocity, they could carry this State for him. But this if eg tobe a campaign where there is little: sense of benefits rendered, but @ lively appreciation of good things to come. CLEVELAND DISTRICT. At Cleveland, the chief city ofthe Western reserve and stronghold of regular republicanism, in New Englandish Ohio, I fellin at once with leaders of all wings, The German vote nearly solidly will be cast for Horace Grecley. To this all agreed, repub- licans as well as democrats, Mueller, the Lieuten- ant Governor of the State, who was a candidate to the Philadelphia Convention, had just made a studied speech in vindication of his differing from the bug: of his native pene yaad, but it seemed to have produced no other effect than to give him some additional respect and add to the regret of those Germans the necessity of losing him. Mueller iga stockholder in the Wacehter am Erie, of which his brother-in-law, Thieme, i# the editor. This is the leading German journal of Northern Ohio, but still it hangs out for Raunt sharply, and one of ite staff alleged to me nate A at it has increased its daily circulation from 800 to 1,800, chiefly added by the gencral German abandonment.of the two lesser papers—the Anzetger and Germania, These also at one time supported Greeley, presuming that the Waechter, from its business ant family relations with Mueller, would Sop, back to Grant and give them the monopoly of thé superior Greeley circu- lation. The We ter showing no such disposi- tion, the editor, Thieme, being a Greeley elec- tor, and the republicans growing frightened at the steady German defection, it seemed the necessity of the Hen. Richard C. Parsons, regular Grant candidate for Congress, to buy up the A Accordingly | any were placed in the hands of Mr. Parsons’ t hand man,” Jonn Huntingdon, and the Anzeiger was placed in charge of Dr, Meier, of Pittsburg, a capable German writer. At the same time the Germai which led a beg- garly existence, was silenced for the campaign with a handiul of five dollar bills. The only effect has been that the Waechler am Erie has picked up all the circulation and goes on for Greeley, supported by eight; per cent of the Teutonic column. Mr. Parsons will be beaten for Congress if Mr. H. B. Payne can be induced torun against him. Parsons is the Marshal of the Su-. preme Court at Washington city, a good-looking, courteous and well to do man, who has been de- feated for Congress as a standing candidate for the nomination during the past eight years, but who has been consoled with several minor places, and will perish in hope if set aside this time. THE OHIO DEMOCRATIO VOTE FOR GRANT. The overweening points of reliance of the Grant people is upon the theory that the country is pros- perous, and that the democratic party is more divided than the republican party. ik with Grant partisans everywhere, and these two points are the first to be made. They will begin by point- ing you out in almost every township or precinct this or that old democrat who says this year he shall not vote, and that he will not be sold ont by the politicians who consider him as “one of the cattle on a thousand hills,” Here, in Cleveland, for example, Tam told of a certain Trish laborer, who says, in a contemplative way, ‘that he is getting $9 a day for manual labor now, and that is good enough for him, and, as folks are saying that the election of Greeley might reduce the said $9, he thinks he won't vote.”’ Again, an Onio editor, from the town of Ashland, took some time yesterday to describe & certain successful sheep ralser, wool grower and drover, who talked as follows, according to my in- formant :— “Mr, ——, Ihave a reat mind to vote with you Grant men eR ot always voted the deimo- cratic ticket, not because I knew much about it or differed very much with you on general ques- tions, but my father was a democrat, and I gor in the habit of it. But this year ey have gone to Baltimore and nominated i Horaco Greeley, whom I was educated to lespise, and have sold me out like one of my sheep. Now, I don’t know what I should vote for Horace Greeley for. I am more Broseroas# somehow than ever in my life. My wool is bringin, me more ta? @ pound than ever before, and have sale for ail my cattle, while my land has gone up by the acre, and all my boys in @ similar way seem to be thriving. My taxes are, of course, pretty high, but Ihave so much more additional income to meet them that I'am better off than when they were low. On the whole, I think I will vote for pranty nd tel si.my boys that that is about the at thing to do.” Some of these stories are probably apochryphal, and it is noticeable during this campaign that you always hear of a huge number of anti-Grant repub- licans and anti-Greeley democrats at @ distant point, but when you get down to th ot both numbers diminish. I am free to say that during the entire summer I have met but three or four democrats who do not mean to vote for Greeley. One of these was a brewer at Lansingburg, New York, another was one of Judge Barnard’s counsel at Saratoga, and the third was a merchant of Cieve- land, who had been @ democrat, who was per- suaded by his father-in-law that business would drop unless he recanted, As to ‘THR LOUISVILLE CONVENTION seems to give no apprehension to srrnety but Grant republicans, and, although I have read in the newspapers that this or that town meant to send a delegation to Louisville, I have heard the general exclamation among democrets that they were glad this or that man meant to go there so as to get rid of him. For instance, a number of leading demo- crats assembled at Buffalo and exciatmed with unanimity that they would rojoice if Jimmy O’Brien would go off with his Apollo Hall crowd to the Loulaville gathering, where théy claimed he be- longed by prior labors in that cause during the New York riots, TUR ARGUMENT OF PROSPEROUS THRs, ‘The argument that Grant’s election means con- tinued prosperity 1#, on the whole, the best hold of the regulars, It is undoubted that the Forty is just now exaltedly active and yen A while few in the, North who are doing well care one fi whether the South docs anything or not, It is common to hear good Christian citizens in towns like Rochester, Buifalo, Erie and Cleveland say :— “Well, we suppose the South is doing badly and ranning down, but we can’t help it. Up here we don't feel it and we vote for what Interests us,’ A very apprehensive thinker might look with some doubt upon this cry of mere prosperity raised to rebut the cry of reform, and wonder if some of the strong partisans of Grant whom he meets do not vote for a condition of prosperity which cannot be Prolonged under honest government. At Cleye- land, for instance, pig iron costs but $28 @ ton’to Row and sells for $64 a ton, with not enough ron in the market to meet tho supply, Rails, $60 ohe year ago, are now worth from $90 to $96, Here is the CLEVELAND ROLLING MILT, which has under its control & vast bridge company at Chicago, four rolting, mills, one at Chicago, ono at Decatur, Ill.; one at Cleveland and one at New- burg; also one Bessemer steel manufactory at New- urg, near Cleveland; 90,000 acree of coal land in Iilinols, alarge wire mill and numerous furnaces, Such a corporation as this desires no i igh and can Jt be possible that such enormous wealth. made of prosperity ay I have described will resist ail shouts of reform, and nothing, perhaps, is more atdrtling to the travelling correspondent than to find the late rebellious section of our country shut off from Christian sympathy by the prosperous North, and the feeling of the rich classes among us given entirely, if to anybody, td the Soutiern Degroes, THE SOUTH TO BE ALI, NEGRO. 1am told by many Southern planters that after Grant's election there will be a general exodus from the South of all the whites who have means to get away, and that country will then rela} imto the hands of the poor white trash and the late slaves, excepting, of course, the northern parts of States like Geo: and Alabama and border South- ern States like Tennessee and’ Kentucky. “PROSPERITY GRANT.” It is seldom in any Presidential election that a ‘eat party pushea toward thePresidency with noth- ing whatever inscribed on its banners excepting the word “prosperity.” This 1s a great word, but it means only one of the ends of human government; at present it is linked with the apathy for reform of all sorts, and simply means that under President Grant we have grown rich, and want no more. It is impossible to get into any discussion with the Sapees of the President a3 to his fitness for the position. Ihave not met a single Grant editor in the United States, between Maine and Oluo, who cares to enter into the discussion of the Prealdent’s qualifications. The general remark is, “Grant's a prety safe man and we are doing well. The coun- ry i8 prosperous and we don't want any change under such a chief as old reformer Horace,” BCONOMY HAS NO FRIENDS. Sometinres the constituents of President Grant will enter into some ingenious elucidation of his reasons why Greeley’s election would ruin our prosperity. “In the fOrst bey ” such say, “he would sell all the gold out of the ‘treasury and then Wall street would pitch in and pick us to pieces in aweek. There is n0 guarantee that he will give away less of the public lands to railroads than anybody else. He favors more kinds of subsidies than Grant, and with all this is a8 mean as he ci be about paying salaries to clerks and about similar small questions, which, in our vast progress, are no longer of consequence “It would nowcon- sume,” say these people, “more mouey to have a debate about mileage than to give the additional mileage at once. And galaries ongkt to be in- creased allover the country and the people are ready to vote them, so that Mr. Greeley’s economy is not now in bis favor.” THE PROPLE HARDEN THFIR MPARTS. Thus the thing rtands in flourishing States like Ohio, There are possibilities in Greeley’s favor, and Grant has ail the hard nuts tocrack, To every- thing that can be said about the indeoerum of the government, its imbecility, nepotism, &c., the answer is, ‘Look at me, tam doing well, and so is everybody that I see.’’ Besides, in the general decay of the democratic party it has no leaders of its own worthy the name, and fs not suf ficiently in harmony with the liberal republi- can leaders to listen to them except in respectful silence and assent; for nobody can imagine an old democrat throwing up his hat to eulogies on free- dom or. ieetas vociferously the deeds of Stan- ton and the life of Lincoln. Here, then, we have a set of bold liberal orators addressing audiences about the memories of heroes who are not the heroes of aaid audiences, The odds in Vhio, as it would ae? here, seem to be gathering against Greeley. I may go farther West and find a ditfer- ence; but I have not yet come to the spot. THE STATE LEADERS OF O10, Vallandigham’s death is generally deplored here, for in this campaign a man of his boldness and gen- érous style of oratory could reconcile these demo- cratic audiences to the belief that they had acted out their part with dignity, and were consistent! doing it still under the cian zed conditions of patri- otism. Pendleton is off in Rurope, and if he were here might be cane harm; Thurman is taking no active part aso politician in the national debate; Rufus P, Ranney, a man of severe integrity and an able lawyer of Cleveland, is an invalid, broken down by hard work; the local race of liberal leaders, men like old Judge Spalding, who is generally saia to be “played out; Judge Sloan, Ashiey and the rest are not even equal to the democrats they have super- seded, The most generous and enthusiastic liberal leader in Ohio is General Brinkerhof, of Mansfield— @ young man say of forty-four oe of age, who is ardent and gallant as well as disinterested in this fight, and he occupies the entirely tenable position of an original democrat, who has not changed his cardinal notions, who snppertet the republican pas asa member of it throughout the war, and jas returned simply to his democratic faith, with the added traditions of the war, in which he wasno recreant. He has, however, no fortune; is a tigor- ous free trader, and is without that organizing, compounding pores which makes the great leader in modern politics. On the ether hand, the republican party has no force to wees of among its politicians. Garfield is perhaps the foremost in the State, but he has no bold- ness—lives the life of an over-fed school teacher, and lacks the grasp of character which made the old school of bold publicmen. Schenck is out of the country, but he had relapsed into a defender of special interests merely and a fine bluff gossip— @ sort of Reverdy Johnson of the North, with the form of energy without its fires. John Sherman be- longs essentially to a class of mercantile Senators who act per interests like the Statesman of the Manchester school in England; and Sherman, un- like the Manchester men, has never proposed an idea or been faithful to one. COMMERCE HAS GOT US. There is a general decadence in public life. The commercial men are on top. ron men have (oe the whole country down, and they hold it there in such a eperene way, feeding it so very well as they hold it down, that {t does not seem to want to get up. We have iron on the top, then railroads underneath, then the bankers for the third stratum; then the lawyers eating upwards and downwards; then the merchants and the farmers; and with all the pigiron piled on top of them there is a lazy, epicurean cry from every tier underneath of “we are ery prosperous and contented just as we are!” The indignations of the sag are lethargic; the country is in better accord with civilization than it was before slavery [a ag) but that great contest and the rise of property seem to have exhausted the impulses and deadened the political sensibilities of millions. CONNECTICUT REPUBLICAN CON- VENTION. Greeley Men Declaring for Grant—The Electoral Nominations. * Harrrorp, Conn., August 21, 1872, The Republican Convention for the nomination of the Presidential electors met in Allyn Hall to- day. John L. Houston, of Enfield, was temporary and George H. Hatrous, of New Haven, permanent chairman. The Convention had among its members very many of the representative republicans of the State. O. W. Stow and H, D. Smith, of Southington, prom. inent republicans, who had been announced as sup- porters of Greeley, declared themselves as unre- servedly for Grant. Mr. Stow said if the Grecley men were depending upon such capital they would be bankrupt. Mr. Smith is @ prominent temperance man and acted with that ere. last year, He said he should support Grant and Wilson most cordially, tt ie Convention passed the following resolu- jon :— Resolved, That we heartily eeprove, of and endorse the latform adopted by the Republican Convention at Phila- elphia and the nominations of General U. 8. Grant and Henry Wilson for President and Vice President, and cor- dially commend them to the people of this State as emi- nently worthy of thelr confidence and support, The electors nominated were :— At large—Henry P. Haven, of New London, and Henry Farnam, of New Haven, First district—Julius Converse, of Stafford. econd district—Charlos Benedigt, of Waterbury. hird district—Luclus Brigas, of Thompsan, Fourth diswict—Oliver Hoyt, of Stamford. The electors are ail well-known business men, After the nominations were made, General J. R. aeeue who returned from Europe on Monday, was called out and received with great applause and eheera, -He reviewed the situation, denouncing the con- test for Greeley as a scramble and a farce discredit- able to republican government, and claiming that whether the candidates or their followers are con- trasted the argument is overwhelming for Grant and Wilson. Three cheers for General Hawley were given at the close of his speech, and the General called for three cheers for Grant and Wilson, which were ‘ven ese enthusiasm, and the Convention ad- urned. After the adjournment Mr, G. W. Hewitt, a straight democrat, of Rocky Hill, was discovered in the hall, and called on for a’ speech. He pro- nounced the nomination of Greeley at Cincinnatl and Baltimore 6 farce, and no consistent democrat could support it. He preferred Grant to Groeiey, but should support the nominee of the Louisville Convention. MOVEMENTS OF MR, GREELEY. Mr. Greeley appeared at the Glenham Motel headquarters yesterday morning and took Junch with Ethan Allen in the restaurant. There were few or no visitors in the headquarters at the time. Afterwards Mr, Greeley took a Fifth avenue stage to the residence ofa friend in Fortieth street. Ho looks well after his trip, though the close alr and heat of the city evidently render him uncomfort- able after the bracing breeze of the mountains and the seashore, $0 MICHIGAN. oo Expressions of the Great Unpopu- larity of Senatar Chandlay, Awe ve Vanwwanenus THE CHANDLER-BLAIR JEALOUSIES, Cause of the Republican Feud and How It Has Been Prolonged. THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN ELEMENT. Duncan Stewart the Probable Liberal Republi- can and Democratic Candidate for Governor. BLAIR'S OHANOES OF RE-ELECTION. Derrort, August 15, 1872. After spending a fortnight in the vain hunt after political information in the States which, twenty years ago, were “out West,” I dropped doin here to inquire into the “situation.” I talked with re- publicans both regular and liberal, and with demo- crats both straight and crooked, but the result of al I heard from all sides has been to impress me more fully that the Western editor was very near the mark when he sald to the cockroach :— ‘They he on Greeley and le on Grata, They lie on President Grant Twork and work {n a search Vor truth, But, cockroach, its poweriul scant. The poet to whom the world is indebted for this powerful stanza is a philosopher as well as a genius, and I could not overlook the hint in the in- telligent insect's reply :— The cockroach spoke to the man of shears= “Great man of truth,” muttered he; he best that a mau placed like you can do, Is just to cut what you Acting on this advice, I give, as the first result of what I heard, the averment that the Greeley move- ment is stronger in Michigan than in any other State. Nobody expects to break down the im- Mense republican majority to an extent sufficient to give the electoral vote to the Chappaqua Philo- sopher; but the democrats and liberals doubt not that they will be able to reduce it very much. The disaffection toward the administration, or, more properly, THE DISSATISFACTION WITH SENATOR CHANDLER is so widespread and so earnest that many repub- licans are ready at the word to follow the lead of Governor BJair and the other leading liberals, The causes of this dissatisfaction are not so easily ar- rived at, because they spring from reasons 80 purely personal that it is diMcult at first to assoctate them with matters political. Chanaler has given no particular or specific offence. As a Senator ho 48 the same man now that he was when he was first elected. The Senatoriai position is one for which he may not be fitted, and yet he has been able to maintain himself in it by the ruaer talents which sometimes enable even Senators to make friends. Industry and enterprise are qualities which even the bitterest of his enemies allow him to possess, Twenty-five years ago he was a retailer of dry goods, without fortune and without friends. But business prospered with him to an extent that he not only made money, but o great deal of money. Nobody pretends to say that he ever made a dollar in politics, but the same qualities which made him succeed in business secured him success in politics. Without experience in public affairs, and unknown to the people of tne State except as seller of tape and ribbon and as a defeated candidate for Gover- nor at a time when nobody else sought the distinction of defeat, Mr. Chandler went to the Senate in 1857 as the successor of Lewis Cass. The contrast between two men could not have been greater. The one was a statesman, the other a shopkeeper. The one was an able law- yer, whose opinions were widely sought and libe- rally rewarded—a diplomat whose treaties are mon. uments to his memory, and a political economist of force and foresight; the other was with- out much education. Yet Chandler has already been in the Senate of the United States for a longer period than Cass held a seat in that body, and his term of service promises to be twice as long as that of the great statesman of Michigan. None but re- flecting people are likely to think of a comparison 80 disadvantageous to Mr. Chandler; but everybody can feel that Michigan is not honored in her present Senator. And MICHIGAN DOES NOT FEEL HONOR in her Senator. Mr. Chandler’s want of statesman- ship would in itself be suMctent to turn many per- sons from him. His signal want of good manners and habits have driven others away from him. His use of the federal patronage of the State, both when he gave and when he refused v0 give, raised him up enemies. The disappointed ambition of men like Governor Blair, who are ready to take Chandler's place, and who could fill it moro accept- ably to the whole country, provoked a very power- ful feud in the party and gave strength to the liberal movement in Michigan. Blair is the real head of whatever opposition there is to Chand- ler, but neither the Senator’s want of statesmanlike qualities nor the disappointments of others in the distribution of ofictal tavors could have raised up much ofa party against him if the whole country had not been saying, louder and louder, year after year, “This man is aboor.” I hesitate to write this of a Senator ofthe United States, for to say it seems unkind in itself; but I will not be accused of un- necessary harshness, for we have here the singular spectacle ofa powerful party torn by a great feud, simply because it is alleged this man is not a gen- tleman in speech an ehavior. The Senate, I know, is @ weak body, and it has among its mem- bers other rude, unmannerly and uncultivated people; but I doubt if any one of them is so emi- ent in this respect ag to divide the repub- lean Bf in own State and array a powerful faction against the administration. It will not do to say the division would have occurred at any rate, for in every State where there was not some political chieftain for the liberals to rally around, and some political chieftain for them to rally against, the movement has been one of isolated effort and sickly growth. In New York, en renee Conkling fight; in Pennsylvania, the old-time Cam- eron-Curtin contests, and in Indiana, the Morton- Julian bickerings were the faery | points of the disaffection. Michigan ‘owes her liberal republi- canism to THR CHANDLER-BLAIR JEALOUSIES. Governor Blair 1s one of the ablest as well as one of the best known men in the State. Asa “great war Governor’ he ranked with Morton, Andrew, Sprague, Curtin and the rest. Asa representative in Congress he soon attained and continues to hold a leading postiion. But like most members of the House he looked with longing eyes to the other end of the Capitol; but he looked in vain, owing to the presence of Chandier in that body and his in- fluence out of it, In 1869 Chandler was elected to the Senate for the third time and Blair's claims overlooked. Worse than tnis, when Howard's term expired, 1n 1871, Thomas WwW. Ferry was chosen to sneceed him, mainly through Chandler's influ- ence, and Blair again overlooked. Such treatment at such hands could not fail to be very unsatisfactory to the “great war Governor."’ Blalr’s course since has shown how unsatisfactory it waa, The two men, Lal ge pe by political jeajousies, learned to hate each other “cordially,” and this mutual dis- like often took form in words on both sides. But Chandler, pa | thoroughly obtained the con- fidence of the administration and secured the dis- tribution of the Federal patronage in Michigan, could afford to stand by his party and his “art is true to Poll.” With Blair the case was entirely different, No pains were taken by the race of small politiclans’at the White House either to conefliate him or to treat him with proper re- spect. In consequence the whisper went all over Washington during the Winter that Governor Biair was a “‘sorehead.”’ He eertainly was exceed- ing! hostile to the President, and gave expression to his opinion of “this corrupt administration” in no measured terms, even before he broke away republican to share the sa of Governor Blair's friends for fis re-election to Oot He some sonal following, but it in generally foun that's dene didate’s personal following does not count for much with a close contest. ils Te- election then nds entirely A amy the strength of pulican movement. Shouid it not be strong enough to effect a revolution of 1,500 ma- dority, requiring only. 70 yotos in # Congressional district Where @ iexuing spirit in we movedent an an old favorite in the republican party is a candt- date against an unknown man without experience— in fact, with nothing excepta regular nomination— we could have little faith in its success throngh- out the country, Greater strength is claimed for the movement in Michigan than in any other State, Greater strength is claimed for jt in Gov- ernor Blair’s district than in any other district in the State. He is tobe the accepted candidate of the democrats a8 well ag the liberals, If there is any- thing like the liberal strength in the State which he believes there is he will be elected. Just here ts where the doubt comes in, and it is a doubt which |, nobody can solve. Notwithstanding I have heard louder and more confident claims put forward in Michigan than elsewhere fh regard, b the strength of the liberal movement, I have found nobody even here to give me trustworthy facts and figures upon which a calculation could be based, We are left to grope in the dark, and accordingly I am inctined to regard Governor Blair's re-election to Congress a8 exceedingly doubtful. THE LIBERAL CANVASS FOR GOVRRNOR. ‘The democrata, I am told, will require no ri- fices from the liberals on the jo eda question, but will cordially support Whomever the liberals may name, Mr. Duncan, Stewart, a Scotchman of wealth and influence, a republican of many years’ standing and @ free trader into the bargain, will probably be the candidate. Stewart is no longer young, but he is more active than many younger men; and he is a man of intelligence, of ideas and of reas garrulity. Should he become a candidate for Governor in opposition to the republican caudi- date the “interviewers” will find him a fresh sub- ject, ready to prattle away by the hour. I saw his counterpart in a play somewhere—an old Scotch body who talked sense and nonsense till everybody else was tired, It was in the same play, I think, i which Harebell, the poet, writes verses and gets a monument; and I confess I was more interested in his conversation than I have been in any “long talk” in a long time. “Why is it, Mr, Stewart,’ I asked, “that the liber- als have such great strength in Michigan?"? “Well, we are very much dissatisfied with the administration.’ 7 “on what ground?” T asked. “Principally on account of republican misrule in the South, We do not like the way the carpet-bag- gers have robbed the Southern people, and we are determined to do all we can to get the thieves out of the way.’ T pursued the conversation with Mr. Stewart on this point, anxious to ascertain how his conversion Was brought about, A TUB WHICH STANDS ON ITS OWN BOTTOM. Twas not long in making the discovery, While making a trip to North Carolina he visited the black and tan Legislature at Raleigh, and saw a ‘The accom} bar beef ra a have intely from Doctor Livingstone interest many of your readers, even after the ample details from his omeial and other despatches which have been already published. There can be no doubt that Doctor Livingstone is right in attribut« ing the want of success in torwarding supplies, be- fore Mr. Stanley went up, to the machinations of those interested in the continuance of the slave trade, They did their best to thwart the efforts of the British Consul at Zanzibar to relieve the great traveller whose life has been devoted to the extinction of tho East African slavd trade; and, but for Mr. Stanley's energy, the slave~ traders would probably have succeeded in their! object. There can be equally little doubt, I thinks as to the soundness of Livingstone's advice rez garding the best steps to effect the objects to whicht his labors have been directed, Let a free African settlement be established under British protection at Mombas, or some other healthy, spot in the highland near the East Coast. It wilt not be necessary for this purpose to transfer such @ settlement from the Western Coast. Mombas still, I believe, belongs to the British; but, in any case, a suitable arrondissement, and whatever else may be needed for the settlement, may be readily ob- tained by friendly negotiations m the native headmen and from the Sultan of Zanzibar, who,, no doubt, may be brought to see, what the otentates of the West Coast have already ac- nowledgéd, that his true interests will in the long run be better served py employing his subjects in agriculture and legitimate commerce than by permitting the destruction of nine-tenths by murder and starvation in order that the remaining tenth may be sold into slavery. It may be worth while to consider whether the same end might not be pro- moted by appointing an assistant to Doctor Living- stone, who already holds a Consular commission from her Majesty's government. There would be no diMculty in selecting from among the many, scores of candidates who have volunteered to go to Livingstone’s ald some one who has experience on that coast, and, perhaps, some knowledge of the people and their language, He might be instructed to establish his headquar- ters in any healthy lo¢ality between the coast and Lake Tanganyika which he Sat te find best adapted as a half-way house between Zanzibar and the fleld of Central Alrican haderenie which Doctor Liv- ingstone shows us is also the latest fleld of the slave hunters, Hore supplies and instruments such as Livingstone requires might remain in safety tilt they could be forwarded with good prospects of reaching him, and the outpost would form a good memorable day's work accomplished by that memo- rable body, The Welden Railroad loan was voted without any provision betug made for the payment of the interest on the State debt, an act which made the bonds almost worthless in the market, and brought the State to the verge of bankruptcy. ‘This act disgusted him and turned him from the re- pubitcan party to any organization which promised relief from @ policy so suicidal. In the’ liberal movement only did he sce a hope for the necessary reforms, and he accordingly became an ardent liberal, He is the leading spirit in the movement in this city, and, after General Blair, the leading liberal republican in the State. And he Is Sor eeceuy a tub which stands on its own bottom. Though interested in the making and pareying of salt at Saginaw, he did more to demol- ish the influence of the salt’ monopoly in Congress than any man in the country. ‘To his pluck and enterprise are due the breaking down of the grand combination which controled all the salt works of the United States—Onondaga, Kanawha and Sigi- naw. I asked him why he worked so strenuously and magnantmously against his own interests ? “I was satistied with seventy-four per cent profit on the cost of production,” he said. “Everybody Knows that the other persons engaged in the salt business want ‘protection’ to a much larger per- centage even.” Duncan Stewart is a strong and determined as well as a chatty and a rick man, and if the heavy republican majority could be overcome he would make an excellent Governor. The Con- vention of the democrats and liberals mects on Thursday, and we shall then see if the predictions of the Detroit people, that he is to be the candidate, proves to be true, CONCLUSION. With Duncan Stewart as the candidate for Gov- ernor, the liberals, I am convinced, would show much strength. Blair is making a bold fight. John F. Driggs and Randolph Strickiand, two republican ex-Congressmen, are heiping him, In this city quiet business men, like Adam Elder, are striking telling blows after their long service in the repub- lican camp. When people estimate at all they estt- mate at very high figures, and I have heard twen- ty-seveneliberals to a township considered a fair average. This would revolutionize the State and ive it to Greeley, Nobody seems to expect this, jowever, but everybody seems confident that with a strong vote now they can keep Chandler out of the Senate in 1874, THE POLITICAL RENDEZVOUSES. The Liberal Headquarters. At the Liberal Headquarters yesterday there was an unusual bustle, the rooms being crowded, although there was no unusual business trans- acted, Among the visitors were seven colored men. One of them, Hatton, afterwards put in an appearance at the Grant Headquarters, Wil- Nam &£, Chandler being a personal friend of his. These colored men are all Greeley canvassers, but, as no work and no money has been found for them, just now they make the headquarters their home. Among the distinguished white visitors were Francis W. Bird, who is to be Governor of Massa- chusetts ere long; Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth, Mass.; Lyman Trumbull, Andrew Jackson an General J. J. Morrison. The Democratic Headquarters. A very distinguished list of visitors called at Democratic Headquarters in the Spingler House yesterday, & mumber of prominent liberal republi- cans being among the number:—The following 1s the visitors’ list. Senator Trumbull, ex-Governor Lubbock, of Texas; Ion. James Thayer, Hon. H. F. Clarke, Hon, Clarkson N. Potter, Judge Spencer, of this city; H. A. Calkins, Hon, Mr. Farnsworth, Hon. Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, and others, Senator Trumbull will leave to-night for Maine, A letter was received from Mr. Mahon, of Mem- phis, Tenn., reciting that the liberal movement wat NY gaining ground in Arkan¢as and Mis- sissippl, and tiat a number of men heretofore in fgvor of Grant are “coming out for Greeley and Town. The Republican Headquarters, * At the regular Republican Headquarters, at the the Fifth Avenue Hotel, there were no business of interest and no visitors of note. Mr. Chandler was absent in Philadelphia, and the headquarters quietly and respectably dozed under charge of a subordinate. pare? Ce ee THE COMING DEMONSTRATION, Brilliant List of Speakers at the Greeley and Brown Celebration Next Month— Preparations for the Entertainment and Instruction of 70,000 Listeners. The Executive Committee of the Liberal Repub- lican and Democratic National Committces met again in Tammany Hall yesterday, and pre- pared @ list of speakers to participate in the great Greeley demonstration on tie 12th proximo. The following are the names of the most distinguished on the list:—Senators Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts; Eugene Cas- serly, of California; Lyman Trumbuil, of Illinois; ‘Thurman, of Ohio, and Frank P. Blair, of Missouri; ex-Senator Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana; Governors Horatio Seymour, of New York; Theodore F, Randolph, of New Jersey; Governors Parker, of New Jersey; Gilbert ©, Walker, of Virginia, and English, of Connesticut; Colonel A. K. McClure, of Pennsylvania; George H. Pendieton, of Ohio; William 8, Groesb of Ohio; Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachuse RM. T. Ttunter, of Virginia ; Francis Kiernan, of New York; Michael ©. Kerr, of Indiana and Jonn &. Adams, of Massachusetts. This ts certainly a bril- liant orray of orators. It is possible some of them may decline on account of other- engagements, but it is more than probable that most of them will be resent, in any event there is a large list of other less noted speakers who will fil up any hiatus made by distinguished absentees, ‘The great outdoor meeting will be held in and around Union square, stands being erected inside the park at each corner and throughout the block on Fourteenth strect, between Third and Fourth avenues, while Irving Hall and the two large rooms base for fresh exploration of the vast and fertile re- ona the veil over which is now partially lifted, but the immense resources of while wiil not be made fully GaRArans until the slave trade is effec- tually checked. ‘The establishment of such an outpost would be Invaluable as an auxiliary to any measures which might be taken to stop the slave trade on the coast. Indeed, without some such outpost in the vicinity of the slave hunting grounds, tt is possible that the best considered measures on the coast may only cause a temporary diversion of the current of slave trade, without effectually stopping it at its sources, You have, already directed the attention of your readers to..the subject, and I earnestly trust you will not permit it to drop out of sight, for there can be no doubt it 1s of incalculable importance, not only to the general interests of humanity, but to civilization and commercce in Western Asia, as well as throughout the interior of Africa. H. B. BE. FRERE. Wkessi. Lopae, Wimbledon Common, August & Usts1, Dec, 20, 1871, My DEAR Sir BARTLE—Having now a safe oppor- tunity of sending to the coast, I throw aside a at long letter, written more than a ea, ago In fran. yema, to give you the latest intelligence. That is uot of a very satisfactory nature, for I have been the victim of misfortune in having my affairs handed over, witkout my will, to slaves and siave- dealers. ‘The loss of time and of money has been very serious, but I now see a way out of it all. I thought that all the world Knew that our ernment was pevegeney Opposed to its officers em- ploying,slave labor; bué when my friend Dr, Kirk, Acting Consul and Political Agent at Zanzibar, un- dertook to get supplies and men for me, he went to Ludha, a rich Bantan and concealed slave-trader, who entrusted the affair to slaves, and they, after squandering the stores for sixteen months, finished up by selling off the remainder for slaves and ivory. It is a sore story, and I feel unwilling to tell t! another lot of £500 worth was taken to Ludha again and entrusted to slaves again, who did the eae eae @ second time—all except the complete spoliation. They lay at Bagomoyo, on the mainland opposite Zanzibar, three and a half months, and no one looked near them. * * # But an American gentleman came here, sent by the son of the editor of the New YORK HERALD, at an expense of over £4,000, and he has done what hecan, * * * * and with the goods he offers, together with the drege left by the slaves, now a month east of this, Tnope to hire men and finish ne My work, This gentleman, Mr. Stanley, got a letter on the 18th current from the American Consul at Zanzibar, dated 11th June, and Aden telegrams of European news up to the 20th of April. My latest date is November, 1870, and it, wita the goods, has been more than a year on the way. In fact, it would not have been here for months to come had Mr. Stanley not accidentally seen it and selzed it forme. But enough of this doleful tale. Iam getting stron, again and propose to go back eastwards a full month, to where the slaves lle, and then go west and southwest to fintsh up the watershed. People have been speculating as to where I should come out instead of writing like Christians to cheer me when in. I suspect that presty ignorance of geography was at the bottom of it. It has been no bairns’ play, andi have losta year in Manyema, trying to follow the central line of drainage down and by being forced back by slaves when al- most in sight of the end towards which I strained. What makes much bape Ae the well known fact that all Banians and Arabs hate my being a witness to the slave trade. The Banian slaves all received the notion that they were not to foilow, but, in ac- cordance with some fabulous letter, force me back. This is like the low ea low Indians, who carry on the slave trade with their money and let the odium rest with the Arabs. Ihave now got into the graces of all the Arabs in the in- terior with whom Lhave to come into contact. But the Banians afi thelr slaves beat me with their lies. wish to mention the only remedy I can see for this East Coast slave trade, that if possible it may be ventilated. It is that one of the English settlements on the West Coast be transferred, by voluntary emigration of the natives, to Mombas, which is ours already, or some other heaithy point. Though I say English settlement, £ do not mean a settlement of Engiish people. * * 1 mean settlements of the West Coast, which have fulfilled the end for which they wera formed, In the able report of Colonel Ord, pre- sented to Parliament, it 1s stated that while the presence of the squadron has had some share in suppressing the slave trade, the result is maini: due to the existence of the settloments. This fs supported by the fact that in those least visited by men-of-war it has been as effectually suppressed ag in those which have been their constant resort. No additional expense would be incurred by the transference of the European oficials except that of thelr passage in men-of-war, and govern- ment encouragement to emigration of the native Christian population, tf fairly begun, would goon with little more than superintendence, The moval element they would introduce would be of incal- culable value. In West Africa the missionaries and others see the effects of missionary labor in the general honesty and uprightness of the colored population frowning down the meanness and duplicity so prevalent in all the Moslem race of Africa. This new Snitan was ail that could be de- sired before the death of his brother Snyed Majid opened his way to the Sultanat. Now, though turned around completely in favor of the slave trade, he js none the less thought of by his people. * * * But the introduction of the moral ele- ments In an tind settlement, though it may not improve the Mohammedans, will certainly have a beneficial effect on the Africans, They are ail favorably inclined to the English now, though beds know little clse about us except that we never slave, The Arabs have completely spofled all the tribes between this and the coast, aud they are busy at the same work in Manyema. They manage to dlf- fMse a universal hatred of themselves, and the natives plunder thely Arab teacners as shamclessly as they were at first plundered. To “houga,” origin- ally and at present, west of this, means “to make friendship; now it means “to fine or mulct,” aud from Mr, Stanley tribes near to this took three bales, some of calico, 1,200 yards, and returned nothing. One chief demanded eighty-five pieces, or 340 yards, and got it. The Arabs completely spoil the people wherever they go, and as for religion, they have never ‘been known to attempt to propagate it. The gospe: of the West Coast immoral traders * * * is sim- ply sneering at good men, whose lives are @ standing rebuke theirs. But let the effects of their labors be compared with the effects of Arab intercourse, and the most obtuse and bigoted would gov- of Tammany Hall will be devoted to the indoor exercises, OANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS IN INDIANA, ‘The nominations for Congress in Indiana have now been made in every district. The following are the candidates, the democrats and liberal re- publicans having acted in concert in every case :— from the republican . He was sufiicientl: hostite to Grant and to Chandler to have left he party long betore he made up his mind to i in: but he waited for an 1 ition to go before go- i He was one of the promoters of the Cincin- 1 movement from the beginning, though he cloaked his public opposition to the last re Jealousy of Ohandier has much to do with his pres- ent attitude, though he is certainly makin; lant fight, whic! hg ‘ond may result in the ator’s diacomfiture, yr the present Blair will be compelled to suffer the loge, unless he should suc- ceed in Padang tee oF @ district with a good re. publican majority to fight against. BLAIR’S CHMNORS OF RE-ELECTION, From what I have seen elsewhere of the liberal Republicans, Democrats, At Large—Godlove S, Orth......Michael C, Kerr.* William Williams*,..John 8, Williams, 1—William Heilman, +» William E, Niblack.* 2—Daniel W. Voyles. Simon K, Wolfe. a Herod David 8, Gooding. -Cyrus F, M. Nutt. -Dantel W. Voorhees. -M. D. Manson.* .T. C, Whiteside, J, Enos Nef. lor. . -E.V. oe. 1h—Jasper Packard*. John A. Headricks, * Members of the present Congress, atonce award the palm to the Christian missiou- aries, and they discourage openy., RGBTONE. UNYANYEMBE, March 13, 1872. Came here about two minutes south of Speke's Kazeh, on the 18m of February. Mr, Stanley goes off to-morrow home; and when he has sent fifty free men from the coast, I shall start for the an- cient fountains, I seize on goods remained after sixteen months’ piu rico AO doeetne! Mr. Stanley supplied mp with everythi needed, and iad may be gure f am extremely thankful to Mr. ennett for his generosity and to Mr. Stanley for his pluck. Thanks to Heaven, 1 am now strong and well, and eager to be off and finish the sources. * * DAVID LIVINGSTONE. dns Bisa At twelve o'clock yesterday the property known as the Stadt Theatre and Hartmann’s Hotel, situate in the Bowery, was offered at auction. The bidding opened at $110,000 and finally reached the sum of $122,000, fot whieh amount Mr, William A, Martin became the purchaser. The attendance was small and biddi dull, The theatre. it is under. atood, is Tobe dempollaheds