The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1872, Page 4

: : 4 SOUTH CAROLINA. The Presidential Campaign in the Palmetto State. AFRICAN REPUBLICANS. Sambo Solid for Grant and Carpet-Bagism. . A COLORED GENERAL'S “'PINIONS.” Sah a AES Grecley a Democrat and Sumner Ditto. -———— BERY SORRY FOR MASSA SUMNER, BERY Cotvanta, S. C., August 27, 1872, Presitentially and nationally speaking, the visitor to this former hotbed of secession—now the na- tional hotbed of Africanism—has no diMeulty in ascertaining the political situation; but State poli- tics are in a gloriously confused and uncertain muddle, In tne first case there is little probability of there being any contest in November, but in the latter the prospects are bright for a lively fight be- tween the ring thieves and radical politicians and the reformers and honest republicans in October, During the past three or four days, as the readers of the HERALD are already aware, this city has Veen thronged with the most precious specimens Of politicians of the republican party from every section of the State. Of these there are several classes—none of them, however, possessed of much greater political virtne than the other—though there were a few among them who had claims to honesty, integrity and respectability. There. were the sharp, shrewd white carpet-baggers from Yankeedom—types of whom were Whittemore, of cadetship notoriety, and Bowen, famous as the bigamist; then there were the negro carpet-baggers, scarcely a whit less cun- ning than their white confederates and equully as corrupt; then the native white ‘‘scalawags;” and lastly, the pure corn-fleld negro politicians, who comprise the rank and file of every republican ‘Legislative Assembly held in this State. The lat- ter are, however, more representative than any other class, but during the past week they were so preoccupied by local and State politics, candidates and wire-puilers, and the PRICES TO BE PAID FOR VOTES, that it was almost an impossibility to get a word with one of them on any other but these subjects. While in the rotunda of the State House, on Thurs- ay last, Iaccosted a huge, tall black African, ar- rayed in a white linen duster, black pants and Diack slouch hat, He was rapidly advancing towards the door of the Senate chamber, when I cried out:— “Are you a delegate to the Convention?’ “Yes, Lis,” said he, turning balf sound and view- dng me. “Is yout”? “No,” I answered; “but I would like to have a little private talk with you.’ “All right den, so you hurry, Is you for Moses or Chamberlayne? Mow much is you paying?” “I am not for either, and I have nothing to offer.” “Den who in de h—l is you for? I’se in a hurry.” “1m for nobody. I just wanted to have a talk With you for a few moments,” “Den why de debil don’t you talk? I’se in a debil- ish hurry.” “Well,” said I, “are you a Grant ora Greeley man?” “If dat’s all you want, D—N GRANT AND GREELEY TOO.” And, highly indignant that I should have occupied his precious time without offering him a pecuniary consideration, this specimen politician dashed away and vanished in the door of the senate Cham- ber. I tried to interview several others with about the same success, and, finding it impossible to on- tain anything definite in relation to the Presiden- tial contest from this class of sovereigns, I resolved to try one of their leaders, and the very man pre- ented himself to my mind's eye in the person of GENERAL W. J. WHIPPER. Whipper is a native of Pennsylvania, where he was also educated. He graduated creditab'y in that State,» and, removing to Michigan before the war, he commenced to practise law. When the war broke out he joined the army, and by his tact, gallantry aud bravery rose rapidly to dis- tinction. At the close of the war he made Beaufort, one of the iargest negro counties in the State, his adopted home. He was elected to the convention which framed the present State constitution, and has ever since as a Senator occupied a prominent position in the affairs of the State, and is now regarded as one of the few uncon- taminated public men in South Carolina, which has ined Mm the respect, contidence and esteem of th races, To his credit be it said, too, Whipper had the mantiness ane pluck to boit the convention when Franklin J. Moses, with his corsupi record, was nominated for the Governorship of the state and it was his leadership and example that carricd such a large number of colored delegates with hia. He is jet black, tall, well built, and perhaps phys- feully one of the finest specimens of his race to be seen, while intellectually he is vastly the superior of the most. intelligent of them, So en- grossed were they all with the events of last week between the regular Convention and the Bolters’ Convention that it was some time before I could get Whipper’s attention for a iew minutes, and then I had to interview him as we rode in his buggy from the State House to the Court House, the latter being the place where the bolters were in session. “General, do you think there will be any con- siderable number of coiored mien who will vote for Greeley for President uex. Suvember ”" General Wutrrgk-—No; I «to not think there will. There will be sone, to be re, but [think scarcely a corporai’s guard in the state.” “You regard it, then, beyond the power of any human ageacy which might be inyoked to carry the State for “ley #7 General WiipPER—I do. The colored vote of the State is us certain to be cast for Grant as that the Majority of the votes of the Convention were cast for Moses, “be you not think it strange that the colored | ee gad should refuse to vote tor Mr. Grecley, the est part of whose life has been devoted to secur- ing their liberation trom slavery, and subse- uently their enfranchisement as citizens of the nited States?’ General Wutrrern—Yes, 1t does seem rather Strange, but there are verious and very cogent Teasons why it should be so. The colored people are deplorably ignorant, ip the first place. They were , baptized and whatever little political education they have was obtained in the republi- can party, of which General Grant is the recognized leader and national standard bearer. Sad expe- rience ot the hands of the witte people has taught them to regard with SUSPI the candidates, et N_AND DISTRUST State or national, supported by the white ‘peopie. ‘The very support of Mr, Greeley by the whites leads the colored people, in their ignorance, to regard Lim as a democrat, a secessionist and, worse still, perhaps, a Ku Klux, id hence they could not be induced to vote for im uuder any circumstances whate “Which of the Presidential candidates ao you in- Gividnatiy prefer?” Goneral WHirreR—Personally ani, perhaps, po- tically, I prefer Greeiey, but policy, my own in- terests and, at presvnt, the interests of my race in ‘this State ' DEMAND THAT I SHOULD SUPPORT GRANT, ich I intend to do ip the campatgn with all my wer aud ability wherever I find tt needed. ft frie be madness in me or any otter colored or hite public man in this State to array himself on he side of Greeley. It would be but a brief prel- ude to bis political death and burial without the Blightest hope of resurrection by either pul Do the colored peopl: know or appreciate the eat debt of gratitude they owe to Mr. Greeley?” (. General Wuipper—T! 1d educated among the:n do; the are ignorant @o nut; and while a gi many of the former will support him and vote for him, a greet many others of them bitterly condemn bi ard it, im going ov o the democrats. If people South were not so enthusiastic ad ce st in the support of My. Greeley, It would iM eeurencg (2, She colored peoyle that Wares publiedtfsm was as stacch and true ad éver; but gs it is, they think | im as good a democrat as Frauk Blair. “You do not donbt the genuinencss of Mr. Urce- fey's republicanism ?”' General Warrrex—Oh, no; and but for pruden- tial and the very soundest reasons J would vote for aad support him, as I sald before. © “Ig it not your opinion that the rights and privi- Yeges of the colored man would be as secure under Greeley for v next four years as they would be der Grant PR Gousral WauleeRe Tos, 1 tbjak they would, for his apostacy, as | eee From my knowledge of Mr, Greeley I don’t think he will ever GO BACK ON THE NEGRO. I like hia letters of acceptance; they are able pa- =. andi do not think there is anpening: ohioe, fonable in the Cincinnati platform, and if he re- mained spverned by these and not by the demo- crats, who would swarm around him, the next four years under his administration might bo a8 peaceful, happy and prosperous, and, peibaps, 4 more so than any We ever enjoys od. “1 soe tt mentioned in the newspapers that there is a probability of Mr. Sumner coming down here to canvass the State for Greeiey, Do you think he would exercise any decided infinence among the colored people in tavor of Mr, Greeley?” General Wiirrer—! hardly think he would. “The man that has done so much for them!" General Woirrer—Yes; in th present condition of affairs it would be useless and actually ridiculous for any one to appeal to the colored people here to vote for Mr. Greeley, and J should be SORRY, FOR MK, SUMNER’S SAKE, if he did come here with that purpose, 1 have the highest regard for Mr. ‘-urnner, and fully appreciate how deeply indebted my race are tohim. If he came hore he would only be mortified and perhaps disgusted, and I hope he will have better sense than to risk eitier indignities or insults being offered him, for possibly both might occur. “Does it pot seem as if the colored race were unfit to exercise the right of suffrage independently when they nnanimously retuse to vote for Greoiey or to follow the advice of such a man as Sumner ?? Gencral WHtrPEs—No, it does not. On the con- trary, it shows that they do exercise a considerable degree of aereanoare when they solidiy oppose the two men whom they know to be tier greatest benefactors. Every allowance must be made jor their ignorance and lack of experience, and also on account of their peculiar relations to the white veople here. They feel grateful to both Mr. Greeley and Mr, Sumner, but they deem it their duty as re- publicans to support the Philadelphia nominees in the coming campaign, + “Would it not be better for your race to divide their votes between the two great political parties of the country, and thus make each as much inter- ested as the other in the maintenance and protec- tion of their rights and privileges ?”” General Wulrrer—Yes, | think it‘would; but it will be years yet before such a great change as that can take place, on account of the existing preju- dices of both races in the South, which time only will ultimately obliterate, “Are the white people in this State generally dis- posed to accord the negroes their full rights and privileges as guaranteed by law ?”’ General Wuirrer—Well, I can’t say they are, They have not arrived at that stage of republican progress yet. Ostensibly they would now, but in various Ways, partivularly in the courts, coiored men “ WOULD NOT HAVE JUSTICE DONE THEM, and hence they would be deprived of their most vital right. It is rare that you can punish a white mun lor an offence against a negro; but let a negro come belore @ white jury in the State Courts charged with a@crime or misdemeanor against a white man, he is sure to be punished according to the fullest extent specified by law. “Do the negro juries not retaliate in kind when a white man fs on trial before them, no matter what the charges may be +”? General WairrER—No, they do not. Their sus- ceptibilities are more easily influenced, their sym- pathies ure stronzer and their passions more easily sited. Hence they can be prevailed upon by expert counsel very often in cases where they should not, Ido not know of a single case where @ colored jury rendered a partial ver count of either t on ac- POLITICS OR COLOR. The mass of them are honestly disposed to do right if they only knew how, and whenever perfect confidence exists between them and the white people they will be found to be as good citizens us he Republic hoasts of, “What do you suppose there is in General Graut’s: record that communds such intense admiration, such implicit devotion, on the part of the ne- goes ?”” General Worprer—There is nothing in General Grant's record politically to command their. frlend- ship. There is where the great mistake is made when making comparisons between Grant and Giselon in connection with the negro vote, It ts no! GRANT AS A MAN OR POLITICIAN they are so devoted to, but it is Grant as the snp- pressor of the Ku Klux and the nominee of the par- ty to which they are indebted for their treedom, en- franchisement anid all other political rights and privileges. “What do you think will result from the bolt just made from the republican convention?" General Wairrer—Well, it is impossible to say. They have everything on thetr side, no load of FRAUD AND CORRUPTION to carry, and I think if they nominate a good, straightforward republican ticket they can carry the State handsomely in (cto! The people are clamorous for reform, and they will be cager to vote for any other regublican ticket: than the one with Franklin J. Moses, the corruptionist, at its head, “Will the bolt have any effect in favor of the Grecley movement ?” General WuTprpER—Not the slightest whatever, The last reply of General Whipper was pronounced with such marked and decidgd emphasis that, find- ing there was no chance of gainmg any expression from him in tavor of the sage of Chappaqua, I wished him good morning as he entered the doors of the Bolters’ Convention. This evening I met General Pierce, of Providence, R. L, who is a partner in business here of Senator Sprague, and ulso chairmen of the Liberal Kepub- lican Committee of the State. He was reticent as to the programme he hud in view for the Presiden- tlal canvass, but was hopelul about carrying the State in November. He had appointed a committee to confer with the State Democratic Committee, and alter this takes place his plan of operations will be more clearly developed. POLITICAL CAMPAIGN NOTES. The Old White Hatis the name of a Greeley cam- paign paper just started at Port Huron, Mich, Senator Sumner's physician has decided that it would not be pradent for hii to take an active part in the political canvass at present. The Newark (N. J.) Journal has anthority for say- ing that United States Senator John P. Stockton does not favor the Duncan-Loulsville straight-out side show. Allthe republican papers aré working hard for the Louisville Democratic Straight-out Convention, They seem to take a very lively interest in the movement. | _ The Elmira Gazette cays of the two Grant Presi- Acatial electors ut large in this State that one was formerly a slave aud the other was formerly in the slave trade, When General John A. Dix ran for Governor of this State im 1848 tie vote stood as follows:— Hamilton Fish, 218,776; John A. Dx, 122, Reu- ben A. Walworth, 116,511, The Louisville Joyrnai says that Mrs. Lincoln and General Grant are Poth Spirituahs Mrs. Lincoln believes in the spirlt of Old Abe and General Grant believes in the spirit of old Bourbon, It is said that in Steuben, Alleghan; gus, Chautanqna, Livingston, Monroe, Wyoming counties of this State, Gree thirty per cent of the republican vote. The Toledo (Ohio) Blade, Grant republican, says that, with O'Conor in the fie'd, Greeley could not carry a single State. The Blade tas evidently taken @ view of the situation from the wrong standpoint, The Baltimore Sun says that if General Dix's or- der to “shoot down’ any man who attempted to haul down the American flag had been carried ont to all parts of th h the republican candidate for Governor in South Caroliua would not be run- ning to-day. Blanton Dan Straights,” is been satisfact the Know No ple then tot out democracy. Mr, E, J. Cook, a colored citizen of Beaufort county, South Carolina, announces himself, over his signature, as a stump candidate for the Legis- lature of that State as follows :— Notis to all Situson of Beaufor County South Carolina a Candidate for The house of Repurzentit horn and raze here in this countea blongins t Mr. Sarte in slavery time. —He will run in opposition to a carpet-bag repub- lies A canvasser for the “Life of Horace Greeley” im- portuned a St, Louis man to purchase acopy, which he declined to do, When the following dialogue en- Cattaran- jagara aud ley Will get the manager of the “Bourbon ning to grief very fast, It has was a leader of and did not scru- ‘Are you not a democrat ?”” Yea, Taim.? Vill you not vote for Greeley 1” 1 think Twill’? en why not buy this book 7" “Because if [ should read his life fam afraid 1 | would change my mind and refuse to vote for the old cuss,” We have just seen two letters from South Caro- lina. One says:—“The watling for South Carotina may be carried too far, ‘Phe State was never in a | more prosperous condition.” — The other letter | says:—“south Carolina 1s bankrupt; her schools, asylums and hospitels are closed for want of the | funds that been stolen from her treasury, and her whole political and soclal fabric is in a condi. tion of an Some of the statements in the letter last referred to are matters of recor, DEATH IN THE TOMBS. Michael Canavan, a man forty years of age, born in Tretand and a resident of 537 Greenwich street, was yesterday committed by Justice Cox on a charge of Insanity. At the time Canavan was com- | mitted to the Tombs, preparatory to being cared for Hy the Commissioners of Charities and Correc* tion, he must have been in a dying condition, as death ensued in Jess than two hours subse. quently. Would it not have been far bevter had doceased received prompt medical treatment in the Jefferson Market Prison, or cise sent direct to Hellevue Hospital in preferefice to forwarding him to a prison nearly two miles distant over a rough road, are questions which will naturally Suan t lor themselves to many readers of the Henao, onor Hermann will make an investigation of the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, -_ ai SW ae yt AUGUST 31, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, WISCONSIN. Strong Probabilities of Carrying the State for Greeley. ey Ae Ow Beene GENERAL GERMAN DEFECTION. THE SCANDINAVIANS ON THE FENCE. BOHEMIANS NON-COMMITTAL. Doolittle and His Suborned Slanderer. MILWauKer, August 25, 1872. This most perfectly German of all American cities, having nearly half as many Germans as Americans 1n it, and which 1s, also, by ¢oincidence, the city where such superb lager beer is brewed that they export it in casks to Europe, is one of the best points to derive some knowledge of the progress of THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IN THY STATE, There is a very serious defection of abolition re- publicans here and a genera) defection of the Ger- man voters. The local German vote has always been seventy-five per cent democratic,‘and hence the Sundays in Milwaukee ant through the State are glimpses of the German's paradise, The hand aw is paralyzed over these borders; strong lager flows; the breweries, standing in the midst of a flowery hop country, are | at work day and night boiling and mating, and none dare molest or make the votary of Gambrinus | afraid, Nine out of ten of these Germans who are not democrats are generally admitted to be for Gree- ley, and also the whole seventy-five per cent of German democrats. Greeley’s picture is in all the lager beer saloons, and he has two-thirds of the in- fuential circulation of the newspaper press, In 1868 the repubiican majority (Grant) in Wis- consin was about twenty-iour thousand; but in 1871, under the gradual -retrocession of the Ger- mans and the slow disintegration of the raling party, the majority for the republican Governor Was only about ten thousand, The natural re- publican majority, in staid and undivided times is about fifteen thousand, The liberals are confident of beating this, and claim that GREXLEY WILL HAVE TEN THOUSAND MAJORITY in the State. Not only is the German defection geucral, but there is a untyersa! defection of primary aboli- tlonisis, of whom Wyman Spooner, of Elkhorn, forty miles from Milwnukee, is an example, This old gentleman, aged about seventy, was for sixteen years Liettenant Governor, Circuit Judge, &c., and and pride of the freesoil and repub- lican parties. He voluntarily gave up office during the war and retired with the respect and admira- tion of every citizen, Being in poor health he spent last Winter at Carbondale, Ill, near Gov- ernor Pater, of that State, and-there he fell to comparing notes and watching the turn of events, Spooner was no sorchead, but he alleged that he had discovered in the progress of things A SINISTER DEVELOPMENT OF CORRUPTION and evilgovernment., He disseminated those con- Victions on his return, and is now wpon the Greeley electoral ticket. A defection from Grant of nearly equal consequence is that of O. M. Tyler, chairman for ten yeurs of the Republican State Committee, He is a banker—no sorehead in any sonse—and a man of large posses- sions and the fullest responsibility. Mr. Tyler says that without change of administration the pros- perity of the country will prove to be fictitious within two years, and the monopolists of the period will consume the substance of the people and assume the government by purchasing the domi- nant party. in Han jaw county, “BOWL KNIFE POTTER'S” OLD DISTRICT, which used to be good for 840 and 900 majorities in Lincoln's and Potter's time, the regular republican party is so neariy disbanded that betting of less than twelve hundred for.Greetey commands odds, This is the State where CARL SCHURZ. FIRST SETTLED in the West on his arrival in America, He is said to have had at the time avout $30,000, derived from his wife’s property in the North German city of Hamburg, which he invested unprofitably, and alter practising law a short time he removed to Detroit. He was naturalized in Jefferson county, midway between Milwaukee and Madison, the State capital, and in 1857 he ran for Lieutenant Governor on the republican ticket and was defeated by about two th nd votes by one Campbell, a person of no fee is lapse of time; t Schurz, and at the sare time Postmaster General, was elected Governgr by the republicans by 2,000 majority. The American ana German Greeley newspapers are not siow to revive this political reminiscence against Henry Wilson and the Know Nothing republicans of the carlier period of the party. Schurz, all this time in Wisconsin, was laying up those and copious stores of the Eng- lish language which he has since employed so admirably before the Senate. He was always a diligent student, laying up language upon language and science upon science, and after he removed to Detroit to edit the new daily Post there at & sul- ary of $5,000 2 year he was also a studious recluse, and appeared only three or four t chiefly at bar dinners, In both and Detroit, he has leit the purest ¢ leading Grant editor admitted to me that a lon examination had been made of Mts recor in both cities im order to furnish meat for Oliver P. Mort to at him in Congress; but neither tr , nor mony, nor perjury, furnished a single point to hang an insinua- tion upon, The Detroit Posi, while Schura edited it, is suid to have given him solicitude and distress because the capitalists and people who controlled it were constantly grinding axes and jobbing in public opiaton with it. “Schurz,” said Willlam A. Moore, of Detroit, “wrote a8 good articles in the Post as he ever did in his life, but he could not do Billinssgate and per- sonaily berate the editor over the way, ‘Therefore some people say he was a failure here, THE GERMAN VOTRE IN THIS STATE 18 NEARLY TOTALLY LOST TO THE ADMINISTRATION. ‘The few Germans who make any defence in the latter direction are under suspicion of being cor- rupted, and a sort of vigilance committee discipline is kept up over German editors and politicians by their countrymen, who suspect the administration and are willing to be ubiquitous. The irish vote is undivided here for Grecley. There are no negroes to speak of in the State, but there are TEN THOUSAND NORWEGIANS, as well a8 20,000 of the same race in Lowa and 20,000 in Minnesota. These people are oppased to changes, rather like a miiiciry ruier, like the son of Berna- dotte, and are yet upon ‘the fence, only half in earnest for General Grant. However, the richest Norwegian in Wisconsin, Mous. Anderson, a pros- Tous interior strader and merchant, 1s on the ireeley electoral ticket, elector at large, ‘The Milwaukee district will be represented in Congress next term, as now, by Alexander Mitchell the Wealthiest man in the State, and possessor o} about twelve militon doilars, who does not hold that Greeicy’s success Will depress values anywhere, but rather raise them and make, as he says, pros. perity lesa partiat and more ditusive, Mr. Mitchell is the President of the Milwaukee and St. Pant Railroad, and acted with the republican party up to Andrew Johnson's rebellion, when he grew dis- mated at the impeachment proceedings, &c.,.and he democracy gladiy avaiied themselves of his ser- vices. The democratic lit 8 say that they will t 7,000 majority for py in the Miwaukee dis- riet and over the wh State he will lead the ticket. The other strong democratic district, that of Charles A. Eldridge, present member of Congress, is f ilwaukee on the north, aad in- cludes Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, &c. Here there is astruggle going on over the seat of Mr. Eldiidge, who as been returned with regularity to Congress jor many years, but is now set upon by his own party on half a dozen distinct grodads, One fa that he has been identified with General Grant socially, convivially, &c.., more than sult¢a Western denecratic constituency’s notion of party loyalty, This charge Eldridge rebuty by making an carnest eampaign for Greeley on every occasion, Still, he ja peracented by a body styled the “Jackson Soctety or tne City of Washington, D.C.," which has tooded the State and adjoining parts with printed matter member of the charging Eldridge with being a “Washington City Ri * The same Jackson Club took a hand in beating United States Senator Pat. terson a few months ago in New Uarnpshtre, and their documents are wndoubtedly producing con- siderable effect in this iar estern region. Among other things charged, to the astonishment of these placid classes, is that the expenses of the Washington city government are greater than matter. Deceased has lefta family, ‘he body was seut to the Morgue. those of the great State of Wisconsin, and that Eldridge i@ @ member of the club con trolled by the so-called ring, possesses prop- erty and franchises of their juest, and otherwise has demeaned himself to the oppres- sion and injury of the good democratic classes of the a:oresaid city of Waasigions D.C, The Wash- ington Patriot newspaper is suspected to be the printing house of these incendiary missives, which seriously threaten to vote Mr. E. @ stay-at-home seat, fie isan affable, active man, of it education, and probably all these accusations are mere experiments to serve the more general desire of other politicians to get this baronial seat of Charies, These politicians are Satterly Clark, Gen- eral Edward 8, Bragg, of Fond Du Lac, and Joseph Vilas, of Mamtowoc, Besides, Robert V. Roosevelt, of New York, “though dead yet speaketh” in this interesting fight ig the expressage of thousands of his speeches on the Washington ring, which ring, itis alleged, is expending the federal Savarers money to re-elect Grant and perpetuate itse! Bix thousand is Mr, Eldridge’s usual majority. THE REP. BLICAN LEADER and foreman of the voting machine in this State 1s KE. W. Keyes, Postmaster at Madison, the State capt. tal, since 1861, He is baldish, with auburn hair of the tint called red, and hus black eyes, with which he chad an officeholder through and through, saying :— “You get $1,000a year in this office. We assess you $200," “I can’t pay tt, to save my neck,” says the poor devil. “{'m all covered with debts now and my family is down with the fever.” “Then, G—d d—— you, get off the ticket and we'll put @ man on who can pay it.’ ‘The money is then geverally raised by the victim by a new mortgage, or, perhaps, @ little enforced peculation, and the cause of prosperity and the war moves on, with Foreman Keyes at the head. Mr. Keyes, however, drives about as many ple away from the party as he attaches to it with such bard-wrung money. Other ringleaders of the regu- lar war forces in this State are Matt Carpenter, George B, Goodwin, Assessor of Internal Revenue, and James Coleman, Postmaster of Fond du Lac. The system 1s uniformly the same—claiming a large percentage of every salary for political pur- poses; and it is noticeable that the agents who enforce and handle the money prosper better than ordinary officcholders, If General Grant be beaten in this State it will mainly be because of the all- pervading rottenness of tie party morals, MATT CARPENTER occupies a very anomelous position in Wisconsin, He is looked upon as a brilliaut and unsteady legal Bohemian, who can do very well with a Court case | but is too irregular for oMice practice, and who rushed into temptation when he beat Cadwallader Wasiborn for the Senate, Carpenter was a poor boy, whom Governor Dillingham, of Vermont, edu- cated and endowed with the hand of his ge mad in marriage. Carpenter came out to Beloit, Wis., meantime, and leit there in a huff with the com- munity to go to Chicago, where he was unsuc- cvssful, Finally, at Milwaukee he started afresh and made his mark. He acted with the democratic party unti! within two years of the time that Senator Doolittle joined it, and was, probably, the latest convert in this country except John Cessna, of Ponnsylvania, Carpenter has @ brain naturally quick and superior, great assurance, ready and florid in speech, and no method and little sense of the fitness of things. He has become very gross and stout, and has lost his hold upon the state of Wisconsin, if, indeed, he ever had any hold to speak of, for | was told that, in Milwaukee, he did not possess a single intimate friend. Ephemeral in purpose, irreverent as to what he has accomplished, a playful life, a career led with- out design or consistency, Senator Carpenter will be a waste if he is not so already. Ate old responsibility of the State is United States SENATOR HOWE, of Green Bay, who was long a Circuit Judge, and esteemed to possess @ very pure character. He, however, is not above attack in this world which thinketh evil, and his opponents charge that, whereas he went to Washington worth less than $15,000, he now lends money out at interest, and that his son-in-law, who left Wisconsin to go to Wash- ington city poor and pincued, has become moder- ately rich as a claim agent, and that Howe is chair- man, Meantime, of the Committee of Claims in the Senate, More prudent aud less scandalous criti- cism upon Howe i Liat of the old anti-slavery men, who bitterly opbraid him with presiding over the Senate caucus which set Charles Sumner aside at the displeasure of Hamilton Fish. For this last charge Howe is on the delensive, and he bids well to ‘regret that he ever hastened to do so much discourtesy and deference for the show) prize of judicial eminence upon the Supreme Bench, Howe's election or deieat wili come off before the Legislature next to assem- and at the present showing tt looks enough like ut to seriously alarm him, Carpenter would never under any circumstances be re-elected to the ate, and he is familiarly called a “dead duck” in Milwaukee. He sits it out till 1875. THE SECTARIAN VOTE. Another universal defection to ‘General Grant is that of the Jews, or Israelites, They passed over the military order of General Grant four years ago dis- mussing them from the ariuy, but are intensely in- censed at a Ce of Henry Wilson made in the case of Judah P. Benjamin. What effect the nomt- nation of Charles 0'Conor may have in the West upon the Catholic Irish has been well discussed be- tween Washington McLean, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Noonan, of Milwaueee, both old democratic editors, “Greeley,” said Noonan, repeating this estimate esterday, “is ten times more strong with tne irish people than O'Conor. Excepting Douglas, he is the most popular man that ever ran in the West among the Irish people, and no Irishman ever throws away his vote!” 4 The following are some of the RELATIVE POLITICAL CIANGES in Wisconsin:—Madison, little change of republil- cans as yet. La Crosse district, very great change in Greeley's favor—cstimated at thirty per cent of tne republican vote; for here the Germans were all republicans, and at present all the three German newspapers are for Greeley, and the whole Teutonic vote is committed to Chappaqua, which 18 not com- plimentary to Brick Pomeroy in his own place of residence. People here call attention to the fact that neither James O’Brien nor Brick Pomeroy drink intoxicating liquors or lemonades. Like certain kinds of mollusks which possess but one sense, the Louisville Convention ossesses a single virtue, and yet it is called the jourbon Convention, The vote of Milwaukee is about tnirteen.thou- sand; the usual democratic majority there is 4,000, Bets are now made that Greeley will get 7,000 ma- Jority—taking twenty-five per cent of the native republicans and nearly the solid German vote. I expect to traverse the State next week and ascer- tain the situation in other portions. [ am certainly astonished at the progress of the Greeley move- mentin the States beyond the lakes. The Grant men in Iliinois refuse to bet ou more than 5,000 ma- jority Jor their candidate, and in Wisconsin the odds are against Grant, and the same change has taken place in Minnesota. There exists nothing what- ever of the timid apprehensions of Eastern people ubout Grecley’s perversity in the office, and the expressions 01 the manufacturing towns find no echo on these rich praries. Here the shouts of “Re- form!" and “A change!” are the loudest ofall. It will take a republican change, German republicans in- cluded, of tweive and a half to fifteen per cent to give Greeley Wisconsin. This, it 18 claimed, he has already, and votes to spare. Among the first questions I asked when E arrived here was whether SENATOR DOOLITTLE had not been greatly injured by the Conatty charges against him, Compiete and discouraging inditter- ence attended that issue among the respectable people of both classes, “poolittie,” said Mr, Calking, editor of the News at Milwaukee, and he was sustained by Mr. C: wallader, long attached to General Grant’s head. quarters, “is too poor, too pure and too weil known in this State to raise his voice about such distant and miserable slanders, The administra- tion appears to go tothe jails and penitentiaries for its charges against eminent men, Conatty is a miserable fellow who taught @ school at Kenosha, seduced one of his scholars, a young girl, and ran away to Racine, where he opened another scnool, but the story followed him and he left that place. Doolittle, knowing nothing of his story, assisted him to get acierkship, and the fellow reciprocates by an aMdavit whose truthfulness you can measure by its ingratitude. With abundant opportunities to be rich, Doolittle is the poorest public man in America of his abilities and long terms on the War and other committees. He is & Baptist, a cheerful, conscientious man, and has the respect of every- body in this State. Hoe may have made a fool of himself; he never was a villain.’” ROBBING THE EMIGRANTS, How a Baggage Master at'Castie Garden Gets His Good Clothing. James Decourcey, the baggage master at the branch depot of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company in Castle Garden, was arraigned before Judge Hogan at the Tombs Police Court yesterday afternoon, ciarged with having stolen a lot of clothing, belonging to emigrants, from the baggage room, It seems that during the forenoon Mr. Hiram R. Dixon, the agent of the Ratiroad Com- pany, noticed @ party carrying a iarge, well filled bag out of the Garden. He sroeee the individual and examined his toad, bat seeing it was checked, as is customary, allowed him to proceed, Think- ing, however, all was not right, he instructed one ofthe watchmen to foliow the man and see what disposition he made of the bag and its contents, ‘The watchman obeyed, and saw the party go direct to Decourcey’s bh ing the bell and mect De- courcey himself at the door, An officer was called, and both the carrier and the receiver of the bag were arrested and taken to Mr. Dixon's office, where Decourcey admitted having stolen the arti- cles, the estimated value of which is a littl: over a handred dollars. The who carried the bag was allowed to go, a4 he convinced Mr. Dixon that he was wholly ignorant of any intent on Decour- cey’s part to steal the property. judge Hogan held the prisoner in default of $2,000 bail. ANOTHER ROBBERY AT THE OUNABD DOOK, On Thursday night the bonded warehouse at the Cunard dock in Jersey City was entered by thieves who carried off two cases of silk, valued at $6,000, the property of A. T. Stewart & Co, They broke open & case of jaconct musiin, a case of linens, tha property of Cochrane & McLean, aud bored into % case of silk Velvet, but they did not take any‘of these jes. Entrance was emected through Yhe Barelantdenceuded oto we wareuowapc Gugee i nto the wi eo Yet BO brace of the thicves, VERMONT. Echoes from the Green Mountains. THE GREELEY LAND-SLIDE. Ten Thousand Loss to the Republicans. Incidents of the Campaign—Will the Liberals Adhere to the Stato Nominations Anti-Re- publican Gains in September—The State Sure for Grant bya Diminished Ma- jority—The Congressional Outlook. Buwwes or “rr ’ OF MANSFIELD MOUNTAIN, LAMOILLE County, Vt., Auzust 28, 1872, } From this commanding point in the range of the Greep Mountains your correspondent, after taking a@ little rest after a most fatiguing journey, will en- deavor to tell you what he knows about Vermont, its political situation and its general social and agricultural afiiliations. In the first place, as your readers may already know, Vermont is a narrow strip of territory, sandwiched between the States ofNew Hampsiire on the east and New York on the west, and mustard by Canada on the north and Massachusetts on the south, It has @ voting population of about fifty thou- sand. Its principal products are republicans, maple sugar, wool and Fenian raids, The crop Of the latter, however, seems to have suffered, like the potatoes in many parts of the State, from. rot, the prospect of having another Fenian raid being about as remote as the prospect of a good Potato yield. The atmosphere of the State is pure and bracing, and your correspondent wonders why the seekers after health and Summer recreation should persist in going to the White Mountains when there are so many natural beauties hidden, virgin-like, as it were, amid the picturesque hills and romantic vaileys of this beautiful Green Moun- tain State, So much for prelude. Now let us take A GLANCE AT THE POLITICAL SITUATION in the Stats. Inthe first place, as your readers are probably wellaware, the State is so irremediably re- publican that if a democrat should make a hurrah it would die without anecho. This at least has been the case ever since that sharp, pert and “sweet singer,” the gental John G. Saxe, forsook the Muses and submitted to abuses from political opponents by running as the democratic candidate for Gover- nor. This was the end of Saxe—politically, but not poetically, in the State, and so he “slung his wild horn around him,’ emigrated to Albany and became a contributor to Bonner’s Ledger, with the distinct understanding, however, that he should not be expected to exercise his poetical gifts by the announcement at the end of his efforts—“To be continued next week.” But, notwithstanding the HOPE LESSNESS OF THE DEMOCRA‘IC CAUSE, the present canvass is remarkable for one or two Teasons, to wit:—Firstly, the break in the republican ranks, by which it is estimated that at least five thousand recusant republicans will join hands with the democrats in the Presidentjal contest, making a relative loss of 10,000 republicans on Grant’s majority (over thirty- two thousand) in 1868. Secondly, because no ad- ministration at Washington ever before had the bestowal of so many fat offices under the existing internal revenue system. The latter has been the cause of no inconsiderable irritation among the non-successful rier ige for office, all of whom are, of course, republicans, every democrat being left out in his virtuous cold. But the GREAT POINT AND TUG OF WAR is this:—Of what avail is a reduction of Grant's majority ia November, when the Greeley operators want that capital for use in September and October in Maine, Pennsylvania, &c.? And it would not be surprising to find that some sort of bar- gain has been made to allow uneasy re- publicans ‘to bo!t the track in November, provided they come up squarely to the bull ring on the 2d of next month and vote the straight republican State ticket. Hence your correspondent is led to inter that there has been some VERY BAD MANAGEMENT on the Greeley side in this State, all of which, as he is informed, is traceable to the weakness and im- becility of the wirepullers at the Greeley head- quarters, the Glenham Hotel, in New York. This complaint was made at Augusta, Me., last week, where General Ranks was announced to speak at the grand Greeley gathering, whereas he told a friend that he had not even been invited to do so. THE BEST WAY, in the Up fg of your correspondent, to give the readers of the HERALD an idea of the way in which political things work in Vermont is to relate brieny and simply some incidents that have occurred since his arrival in the State and during his perambula- tions through a large portion of it. COMMENCING AT MONTPELIER, the capital and geographical centre of the State, your correspondent found a nice, gales, peaceable population, all bent upon the pursuit of their own vocations, without attending to those of their neighbors. This is a native virtue that is not al- ways recognizable, your correspondent is sorry to say, not only sadly deficient in other New England as weil as in other States of this blessed Union. The mR peopie of Vermont are not at all inquisitive. ‘hey do not pry Into your business as the good and bad people of Connecticut do. If you behave your- self, obey the prohibitive law, attend church on the Sabbath, select your own time for a chicken fry (a la Rhode Island clambake, only a little more to it), you may pass without your moral baggage being checked. So far as questionin; ‘was concerned, your correspondent received, in response to the “commonplace — inter- tory, “What's going on?—the agreeable in- formation that the democrats and liberal republi- cans were just holding the first Coalition County Convention ever held in the State. Without much dificulty your correspondent crossed a chasin of mud, and found the democrats in council in Vil- lage Hall—the centre of. many a patriotic effort when such men as the late Senators Upham and Phelps, Postmaster General Collamer, Governor Paine, and other noted and historical Vermont celebrities figured in the politicalarena, Taking an unoccupied seat, your correspondent was ac- costed by, @ sturdy, intelligent-iooking, honest- featured Vermonter, with— “Is your name Barkis?”” ‘No,” was the reply; “but, as Iam a stranger in this places so far as making your acquaintance is concerned, ‘Barkis is willin’.’’* Our friend seated himself on the bench beside me, and said :— “Well, now, seeing I was mistaken, what may your name bet!” He was enlightened on this point and the Bro. ceedings of the Convention went on. Our neighbor was communicative. ti What is that gentleman's name who is presid- ing?” “That's Dr. G. N. Brigham, @ iberal republican, Uving in Montpelier.” + “He seems to understand his business.” “He does. He 18 one of owr most popular and influential citizens.” By and by the joint committees reported the county nominations, our friend im the meantime giving your correspondent a large fund of local political information while he drew his knees up se as to give his arms a good oj portunity to surronnd them. The Committee on Senatorial Nominations announced ‘or Senators—Homer W. Heaton, democrat; C. W. H. Durnell, republican.” Your correspondent ventured to inquire of his communicative friend :— “Who ig this man Heaton I hear so much about 1” Heaton’? Ha, hat’? ‘Yes; 1 would like to know who he ts.”” “Ha, ha! That's me,’? “The devil!" “No; it's Heaton. Ifhe were the devil he might sometime or other pile the heat on so as to make it uncomfortable for some of you newspaper folk.’ After further inquiry your correspondent ascer- tained that the nominee for State Senator on the art of the democrats was formerly an old wig, bat had been @ long time a member of the demo- cratic party, and had been elected State Attorney and filled other State ofices in the face of twelve or fourteen hundred republican majority in Washing- ton county; and, tf the coalition docs not collapse, it is predicted that Mr, Heavon will be elceted, THE GOVERNORSHLP, The republicans have nominated Julins Converse, of Woodstock, for Governor, and for Licutenant Governor Russell 8, Taft, of Burlington, fhe dem- ocrats and liberals lave nominated for Governor A. B. Gardner, of Bennington Centre (formerly the republican Speaker of the House of Assembly), and for Lientenant Governor W. H, H. Bingham, of Stowe. The fusion State tickel, hke tit of the county ticket in Washington county (Montpelier), is conaldered a strong one; but, as before inti. mated, if that strength be not exhibited nexg week, goodby to all the influence Vermont vaill have in States where elections follow hers, THE UNITED STATES SENATORSIIT. ‘There is no question about the noxt Legisiature re-electing Justin 5. Morrill to the United, states Senate, ition he has licld since 1867, TAR CONGRESSIONAL, FIRLD, The election for members of Congress in this State does not take piece until Novemtwr. Mean- ‘while, the aspiranta for the republican, nomination are at work. There is considerable exoite- of the gountise af calcdoute Oraneer Windsor and Windham. ‘The Judge has been more th an usually aprons 08 0 of Vermont. Ee has ailed, Sie Sige seat ipreme Bench, was Unil Senator and has been a member of the lower the Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty- 8 ‘His personal character is irre- peoeonanies but there are some so unkind as te ae that, has ed the honors of the bee 80 qi should gracefully step aside and Toom for some other. His dita Stowe an alive Se att a . and ener; ic mi and if he does not steal a march upon ‘his opponent he will, no doubt, make 1) rosy in the “fair of ihings appear ‘Bot quite se Farmers are complaining of ning of the wei which prevents their harvesting their its Bye completely destroyed the potatoe crop in some ‘ts of the State, in some places the escublent rot- ‘ing in such masses as to create an unpleusans and unhealthy eMuvium for miles a: ound, THE GREELEY LAND-SLIDB, There is no mistake about it, The feeling in favor of Greeloy—who is regarded more of @ republican than Grant—is spreading extensively throughoug the State—but whéther there will be a stampede the other way before Novemb>r, depends altogether upon the manner in which the campaign ts man- aged by the Greeley manipulators in New York. LIBERAL REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES Bs ee Primary elections were held last evening in the various Assembly districts throughout the city for delegates to the Liberal Republ.can State Conven- tion, which meets at Syracuse on September 4 The utmost harmony prevailed at the several polling Places, and in no instance was there more than One ticket in the fleld. The following is the result of the election and a full list of the delegates :— Dist, Delegutes, Alternates, 1—General John A. Foster... Frederic ©. schonek. Whitelaw Red. Peter J. Stuyvesant, lovel F. 2—Emanuel M, Se Gen. Chas. inney. Gc anua ti. Ker. Jaines Searles, Elijah Kennedy. Alexonder Rohertsom, jo. John F. Bak Tsanc G, Hunt 6—General John Cochri Robert Onder n A, Sinalle: James H. Casey t Fithian, ie Willi: tt Ragase iam H. Raynor, John Duke... Comstock: Oharies A. Clarke, Dr. Hartwiz Gere! 14-Gen, Henry A, Burn Benjamin A. Gicquel Benjam itt. 15—Isaac J. Oliver. Orlando L. Stewart, Samuel Sinclair, Jr. 16—Wiltiam Atkinson. ‘Alexander Clinch Jobn Adams, 17—George P. Bradford Morrig Ellinger. Darragh. Van re hn M, Hogencam) hristopher Y. Tattmond. Patrick G. Casey. John J. Schleter J. Jotham Wil Henry M. Wil'lams. 20-—J, Nevin Hageman. Wendt. jmon Hazviton ‘imothy Hanley. 0, B, Van Brut George A. Lambivelt 21—Gen. George W. Pi Thaddeus Wakeman, The democratic primaries were held last nignt m) the several election districts for the election of one delegate and one alternate from each district to the State Convention in Syracuse. Everything passed off quietly. There was a strong rumor of opposition in the Fifteenth distr! but, if ever contempiated, it was withdrawn, antl at the close Messrs. Charlick and Keily were unanimously de- clared elected delegate and alternate. In response to cries of “Speech! speech!” Mr. Charlick declared his sentiments. He regarded’ the last so-called reform as a.disgraceful fraud on the city. (Applause.) In short, it was apure and unaduiterated sham. (Laughter and cheers.) He was a reformer and wanted the people to have something to say in the election this time. He wanted new men, and he would have nothing to do with the old political hacks and camp followera of either party. (Cheers.) Mr. Kelly also addressed the audience in a hu. morous speech, in which he referred to the style of “verdancy” said to have been introduced into the Comptroller's office, and said he for one could see nonetof it. (Laughter and applause.) Judge Ledwith was also called upon for a speech, and he cordially endorsed the sentimepts of Mr. Charlick. ROR EB MOVEMENTS OF M3. GREELEY. The Philosopher remained af: his friend's, im, Fortieth street, yesterday, very busily engaged on, various documents that require his attention, among them one ox two agricultnral addresses and some letterson important topics of the canvass,, written in answer to certain inquiries. He was visited during the day by & number Of Mississippt, Georgia and Alabama gentiemen, among thein General J. M. Withers, of Mobile. He went to bell hd on tne 4:25 train and will return tlus morning. THE POLITICAL HEADQUARTERS, There was very little news at any of the head. quarters, At the liberal camp J. Ross Emerson, ex-Senato? Rice, of Alabama: H. C. Hart, R. G. Ricken and some other Southern men called while at the democratic headquarters. Among the visitors were General Withers, Congressman Kerr, of Indiana; Governor Randolph, Generai Burnett and Geucral Slocum. BROOKLYN DEMOORATIO DELEGATES TO THE STATE CONVENTION. The Assembly district conventions of Kings county were held last evening for the purpose of electing delegates to the Democratic State Conven- tion, to be held at Syracuse Septemver 4, Sub- joined ia the result of the deliberations of the con- ventions held :— First Assembly District.—Robert A, Furey, Street Commissioner. Altevnate—Patrick J. Collins. Second Assembly District.—Wiliam A, Fowler, Commissioner Board of City works. Third Assembly District.—Adjourned until twelve M. on. Monday. Thomas Kinsella, Congressman, will be appointed. Fourth Assembly District.—William W. Morely, ex- Assemblyman. Alternute—James McCauiey, Deputy Street Commissioner. ‘ FUth Asscmoty District.—James. F.. Perce, ex- Senator, Alternate—Charles Wiley, Alderman Seventh ward.* Strth assembly District.—Zacharie Voorhios, Jus- tice of the Peace. Alternate—Anthony BW. Reese. Seventh A. istrict.—Stephen J. Cailahan, Clerk City Court, Kighth eg | District.—John. A. Connolly, Alte! = r Brennen. NE AsaeMnOly istrict. John. McGroarty, Alder- man Ninth ward, iss WHAT THE DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK SAY3 To THE Eprror oF THK HERALD:— In your fssne of this date is the following:— informed that the County Clerk iso! opinion that tled to draw upon the Finance Department for the entire sum appropriated for the annual expenses of his office whenever he bag nd provided that he makes. further claim upon the Comptroller when the whoie amount of that i sagt ion bas Le 3 the As it may create an erroncous impression on, the public, in the absence of Mr. Loew, I beg leave to state that the County Clerk is not of the opinion above stated. He certainly has the credit of being ® man of common sense, and could not suppose that he could draw “whenever he pieased” an amount appropriated for salaries for his @iMce for the year. He could only draw lus own salary ont of the appropriation, and this he has refused to receive, sbthe pro rata sum which the fol debe allows each clerk in his department might be larger. The salarics were in nearly every instwuce fixed by chapter 415 of the laws of 1887, and these employes elalm that they are entitled to those sala- ties so fixed by law, and not to the—or auy— amount Mr. Green may choose to give them, at the came time requiring them to siga the ordinary full fe for services before he will make any pay- isn In conclusion, I have been infermed that the ap- propriation ror the other departments willbe found Tisdinelens to pay the saliries, and the figures of the Finance Department - owt, And cover, the expenditures of the Coun'y Clerk's department are within a sum equal to two-Yhirds of the appropria- tion for the whole year, as tie figures in your paper will demonstrate on examination, instead of form. ing an exception, a8 ix therein stated. Very re- spectfully, yours, HENRY A. GUMBLETON, Deputy County Clerk. we OLERE's OPFOR, NEW Yor#, August 9.