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LOW A. TheCampaign West of the Mississippi. A Huge Task -Beforo the Liberals-- What Two: Years. May Do. Review of Iowa’s Nino Con- gressional Districts. THE KASSON-PALMER FIGHT. Possibilities for“Grecley in tho Northwest. Des Mores, Iowa, Sept, 14, 1872, ‘The political contest in the State of Iowa ts in no whit less flerce and fervid because the State 18 reasonably sure to go. for Grant. In Minnesota, where Greeley’s: prospects are brighter, Ignatius Donnolly, Bx-Senator Wilkinson and others show no more tenacity than Grinnell, Warren, Stone and the.Greeleyites of Iowa, which State is known by the name'of the Vermont of the West, the agricul- tural whig stronghold. The contest m Iowa is mainly to break the back of the regular party, pre- pare the way for the great party predicted for 1674 and pick up a.portion of the Congressmen, WHA? 18'TO BE OVERCOME, In Iowa General Grant in 1863 had 46,000 ma- Jority. At the last State election Carpenter, re- publican, carried: it .by 41,000. This Mr. Grinnell, ex-Congreasman, aflirms can be reduced one-half thie year, and three-fifths if Pennsylvania and Indl- me “go right.” There are still between ten and twenty per cent of undecided votes, showing that the campaign has taken a shallow hold upon the sympathies of the bulk of the people, Grant being no favorite and Greeley not the first choice of Grant's antagonists, ‘The republican party in Iowa has had for fifteen yeare great and uniform success in its State admin- istrations and unusual unity and good fellowship in its leaders. Itis made up of the best elements of Ohio, New York and New England. The Ger- mans had about prepared to leave it before Greeley ‘was nominated. That nomination delayed their departure, but they are still slowly drifting away, and the majority are already over on the Greeley side. In every township also there are republican bolters, and good and sturdy fireside thinkers, who have lost interest in the republican party. There is a general reaction, ill-concealed even among the republicans who will support Grant, against the megroes, particularly of the slave States, and ap- prehensions of evil to arise in States like South Carolina and Mississippi from the solid and aggres- sive position of the black voters, In Minnesota, and the same is true of the Northwest generally, the Greeley liberals are strongest in the large towns, like St. Paul, Minneapolis, Mankato and Hastings. Grant's majority in this State was less than 9,000, 4 REVIEW OF THE FIELD IN I0WA. ‘The whole interest of lowa has of late been con- centrated upon the central or Des Moines district, where ‘two very able and very much embittered fellow townsmen, Kasson and Palmer, made a struggle for the republican nomination, and the sitting member, Palmer, was utterly routed by a Personal revolution as singular as it was unex- pected, Of this I shall speak further along when I Teach the district in its order, THE PREVIOUS DEFEAT OF JAMES HARLAN for the United States Senate threw out of the active Grant ranks the most assiduous and subtle organ, izer, and replaced him with Wm. B, Allison, of Dubuque, who cares little or nothing for Grant, and having bis comfortable years before him, is indis- posed to throw himeelf outside of any new party that may arise. The other Senator, Wright, 1s an inferior man of whom little is heard and that little generally in the style of weak superserviceableness, Jas. .F Wilson, formerly chairman of the Judiciary Committee ot the House of Representatives, who has been of late conspicuous for the number of Cabinent positions which he says he declined and the number of nominations for which he was sug- Bested, but did not get, is out of the way at present, geting as government director of the Union Pacific Raflroad. His closest friends have taken the Gree- Jey shoot. Thus the men of the most noted posi- tion in the republican party are neutralized in Iowa in this campaign. “Allison,” said one of nis towns- men to-day, “don’t know whether to turn his face towards Mecca or Jerusalem; heis very tender on Grant and very gentle on Greeley and wants all the 2 ipa get whichever be elected. Jim ‘tlson ts off on the rampage and Harlan is editing ® newspaper in Washington and hoping to go into the Cabinet in Belknap’s place if Grant makes a second term. THE DEMOCRATS OP TIS STATE ‘re practically united and are all working good humorediy for Greeley, led by ex- United States Senator Dodge, ex-United States Senator Jones, late of Fort Lafayette, Judge Mason, Judge Knapp, &c, The liberals, men like Grinnell, Vela, Butler, Warren and Stone (the lat- ter four years war Governor), claim that there isa deféction in their favor of from five per cent to forty per cent, and that a change of seventeen per cent will give them the State. Nearly the whole of the old anti-slavery party set of agitators are with them, standing by Greeley as the exponent of that achool. It ig remarkable how many of the war Governors Bre out for Greeley, Stone, referred to above, was six years judge, four years Governer, and was ‘wounded at Vicksburg. He is perhaps the most appoettre stump speaker in the State, will ea tour for Greeley in Indiana and Pennsyl- im; m vanla, THE FIRST IOWA DISTRICT. “Iowa has heretofore had six members of Con- | he and for the future will have nine. Four of ie present Congressmen have been renominated— Me Cotton, Donnan and Orr. ; The t district, the gouthwestern corner of Yhe State, of which the chief city is Keokuk, is now represented by George W. McCrary, who will stand with the tradition of 2,000 majority behind His ppponent will be an eminent resident of eokuk, Mr. Shelley, one of the numerous original Bnti-siavery men Of this part of the State, who as we am ¢ his sup ‘ters are Generals Weaver, War- Tren fleld, the latter of Washington county ; Drs, Walker and Velie, the dent of the vention of lowa, and ex- ae The newspa) Shelley’s behalf are the of Keokuk, and the Gazette, of Burl ; for McCrary, the eye and the Gate City, latter partly owned by Howell, ex-United States Senator to fill out Grimes’ aa who is now a Presidential: Meng ‘in Wash: tion. In t Okt General Belknap, Secre of War. He Eibdiisctante a1 well Gener of, but he was never sidered & publican, is of little influence in the State, and robably doomed to retirement if his chief be Pe-dlected. He is admitted to be honest, impartial ‘and no conspirator, and in this contest he is act- and as a bureau officer should. Keo- kok has 1 eople, Burlington fer was Grimes! home, net M0 The lat THE SBOOND 10WA DIsTRICT. Clinton, on the Mississippi River, due west, is the chief place in the Second district. Cotton, the resent member and candidate for re-election, has roo majority. He is @mediocre man, whom the als aver that they can beat. Probably their candidave will be Lem: ell, & lawyer, of Lyons, and a soldier and good talking orator, ‘Prominent Uberals here are Jacob Butler, ex- er; e@x- Attorney General Cloud, ex-Mayors Bilis’ and French, Judge Hubbell and the State legislators, Clauson and Rolfe. Nearly the entire German vote Of the district, whigh is very strong, will be cast for Greeley and the fiberal ticket, The Grant news- pa are the Davenport Gazette, Clinton po a Journal; the liberal pane po Democrat, Pemokrat (German) Rae The fight is flerce aud ‘unscrupu- THE THIRD IOWA DISTRICT, ‘The Dubuque district is the home of United States Benator-elect, Allison, who is a rous man, worth about one hundred and fifty thousand dol- Jars. Donnan, the republican candidate, had 8,000 jority two years ago; he 1s an ordinary lawyer, the gbances are against hig retusp, The Wb- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, eral candidate, it 1s though! will be & P. A pacer oo an eminen' sbontonit kad good y lor of the Ger- tePaappttee EP ome a adr ft Cr mans, and the wi r and ihe Tolarep by Sea, Cro of agian uy: THE FOURTH 1OWA DISTRICT. Waterloo is one of the most important towns in this northern central district, where the regulars formerly had 7,000 eory.. Pratt, o lawyer, of fa aptg ets ims, the opposition bellg 2 without hope iFthis rural hg THE FIFTH 10WA DISTRICT. This is the eastern central district, with Iowa City for its shire town. The controlling influence OS etna jucers, who combine assWol 0 to relieve the farming Classes from the’ exaction’ ed "The Granger,” and “by its ine fluencd a farmer, named Jaines Wilson, has been set up for Co! on the Grant rep side, Wilgon was tai ‘er of tho House of Repre- maore wast ¥ here tine yt t cast ie ni down, Sat witgun John r mocratic nal Committee, editor of the at Iowa City and 4 brilliant man of versatile Ottamwa, on the Des Moines river, néxt up stream diatrict, 1a the thie! from the Keokak f town in the Sixth or Southern Contre Co! nal district, ‘Where an old hack in politics, Judge Longbridge, 18 the Grant can He is a He and was her r the nomination wore Partly upon presumption that he ‘Of the Oscelooga post office tor the sum of $1,000 to the beg of a paper there called the Herald, githough jhe a! has 4,000 republican majority, Longbridge will probably be beaten by Judge Trim- ble, of Bloomfield, @ fearless soldier, of whom it ts said that while. let passed through his face at Pea ae and knocked out his teeth, Jud; i. by as out his own false teeth the draft. Such are the campaign excursions and diversions of our Western society. Longbridge be apposed, zealously by ex-Governor Stone, Judge Winslow, Senator Dixon and many others. He is a cunning, unde: und worker, and the news| re of district are. mainly edited by federal officeholders. In the Ottumwa Courter alone there are three postmasters and two revenue officers, The Ottumwa Democrat is the Greeley paper. ’ THE SEVENTH IOWA DISTRICT, ‘This is the famous Des Moines district, where, a8 Ihave said Cay ming Palmer was annihilated this year by oun asson, the old member who had held the district for many years, This was a very exciting contest, and Palmer lost it through tne unscrupulous bitterness and unmanly persecution which he allowed to be visited upon Kasson by his editor, one Clarkson, of the Des Moines " ‘This man Clarkson succeeded Palmer himself as the editor and as dispenser of the federal caine in the district, and his paper was probably the State organ of the party, He isa ee of the brutal sort of who too often in the Western country pales control of a merely partisan journal, and with a retaining fee in one hand uses the other to ran- sack the privacy of domestic life for mere political advantage. This time he overdid the business, and his brutality toward Kasson redounded upon the head of his master, Congressman Palmer, The fol- lowing are the particulars :— Kasson isa lawyer of Des Moines, and a man of fine talent, appearance and spirit, with a good brown complexion and beard and natural power among men. He was married to a fine wife, and had the respect and admiration of the State; but in an evil hour, in Washington city, he was in- veigied into an intrigue with a loose female, who was struck with his fine looks, and the proo{s of his adultery were brought home to his family in a way which admitted of no apology nor denial, His wife immediately prosecuted him for a divorce and ob- tained it, and the evidence of his peccadillo was spread over the State to his instant political ruin, While Kasson deserved-his fate he bore up with all the manliness and contrition of a bowed spirit under it, divided his property voluntarily with his divorced wife, and, escorting her to the railway station as she left Ves Moines never to return—for she speedily married again in St, e Te- turned back into the city a crushed and: lonely. man. Determined to fight it out there and recover character among the community knew oe he gained anew the confidence of men of “wisest censure” and pity and consideration again at- tended him, but every time that his name was broached for public station the story of his weak- ness was paraded by the unscrupulous enemies in his own party, and spite and jealousy dragged his empty hearthstone mto the light of day to show the stains nearly faded there. Few people believi siat Palmer & Co. were any better; only not found ou' Kasson steadily rose and grew to be a new. \y with a new reputation among his neighbors. re ‘was absolutely nothing to be said ham but this old offence, and tne people knew all about it and began to dislike the traders in the scandal Worse than the actor of it. Finally, as this Con- esional canvass began and Kasson came forward ask the party's support and the nomination, the inexorable Sullivan Clarkson opened again the cloisters of the past and outraged human nature with his nasty depictions of Kasson’s misery. There was no chord of the man’s nature he did not hack, no sense of sorrow that he did not arouse. The people of the Des Moines district were out- by at this cowardice and took Kasson’s sin upon their shoulders and resolved once and for all to re- buke these ghouls of the political press, It came out that Clarkson, while resident in Des Moines, was drawing & salary of & yeat at Wai mn city, Where he never dida stroke of work. id of civil service reform did Palmer no Moreover, Clarkson, Palmer & Co. were guilty of a modified form of housebreaking in their anxiety to defeat Kasson. They ascertained that one Long, of teis region, had written to Horace 0 procure support for ‘a Greeley news- aper, and that Greeley had -replied to Long, re- erring him to Grinnell, Kasson and others as ‘‘his friends” in lowa. To get this letter and convict Kasson of being Greeley’s friend, and so beat him in the Convention, the Palmerites broke open Long's desk, stole the letter and left $400, elther to express triumph or compound with the Peniten- tiary—the highest price ever paid for a living man’s Commnenele® autograph, The robbery did not avail. The Greeleyites still in the party were rather moliified toward Kasson. Everybody was disgusted with Palmer and his dog, Clarkson, It was declared that General Dodge, of Council Bluffs, who supported Palmer, was ay @ flour contractor with the Indians, growing ricl only half legitimately, and sustained by Palmer and Harlan. Dodge, therefore, though the lowa man on the Republican National Committee, and thick with James F. Wilson, did Palmer no good, although he “bied,”’ as usgal for his friend. Grant favored Palmer also; but Kasson wiped him out by one of the most decisive votes known in convention, and Mr. Palmer has Mr, Clarkson to thank forit. The Palmerites now threaten to vote for the Greeley candidate, who will probably be 0. L. Palmer=a rural merchant of Sheridan, in Lucas county. There are only 2,000 votes to be changed to beat Kasson ; but he is said to be next to a liberal already, and to have no great affection for Grant. EIGHTH DISTRICT OF IOWA, This 1s Dodge’s district and the chief town in Council Bluffs. Judge McGill, formerly a $1,200 clerk at Washington elty, ts the Grant candidate for Congress. He would have 4,000 majority but for the general change of party sentiment, and the betting is even that he will be defeated by Mer- ritt, brother of Mr. Fenton’s General Merritt, of New York; or Hepner & lawyer, or Montgomery, editor at Council Bluffs, The Greeley men have made large accessions in the Eighth district, NINTH DISTRICT OF IOWA. This is the extreme northwestern district of Towa, and Boonsborough is the chief town. Orr, 01 Boone county, the present member, stands in. He is a country merchant of little “heft” and has 8,000 majority. Duncombe, a lawyer, of Fort Dodge, and the ablest democrat in the State, will run inst him; he is a railroad holder as well; rich, bold, dashing and enthusiastic, and one ‘of the’ most powerful oung men inthe West. Duncombe was a flerce reeley delegate to the Baltimore Convention. He ‘will not run as a liberal or democrat, but as an in- dependent candidate, refusing any nomination, juch is a calm review of the situation in Iowa. The liberals will not be able to carry the State, but they have made it perfectly feasible to do it in four years more, and perhaps in two years, JAMES W. GRIMES, one of the celebrated seven recalcitrant Senators who would not vote for Johnson's conviction at the impeachment trial, has left a marked but not articularly affectionate impression upon this State. je was the ablest Governor, thinker and financier roduced im it, and was the political godfather of lames Wilson, Allison and others. Grimes was a classmate at Dartmouth College of John Wentworth ; and James T. Joy, afte is the railroad king, who was then tutor there, who said that they were the “hardest students” he had, smoking all night and doing little else by aay nevertheless, both became rich, energetic and influential, and Grimes showed unusual judgment in affairs of State and commerce. He left $1,200,000 and only one adopted child and his widow, the latter now residuary legatee, with $500,000 in hand. Grimes yielded too much to the disposition of parsimony, and as said tome “he hada dry fune- ral.’ He hated Grant; said in the last hours of his life that Grant’s administration abroad was a burlesque on diplomacy, and all his relatives are ier Greeleyites now, although Grimes was a free trader, A CAR CONDUCTOR ARRESTED, He is Charged with Being in Collusion with Pickpockets, Aaron Wolburgh, of 499 Canal street, got on o Grand street car on Saturday afternoon, imtending to go to the Desbrosses street ferry. When pasa- ing into the car he noticed four suspicious looking men standing on the rear platform, but patd little or no heed to them at the time. When the car reached the corner of Hudson and Vestry streets Wolbur, juested the conductor, Charles Ryder, ‘to pull thi Dy 08 he wished to get out. The conductor did as requested, and, while attempting to it, Wo was py, four men he had no! entering and robbed of $250, and the thieves at once jumped off the car and ran. Mr. Wolburgh instantly caused the conductor's ar- rest, claiming that he was in collusion with the pickpockets. Yesterday as he was ar- raigned before Judge Dowling at the Tombs Police Coust and held to ball jg the gum oF $1,000, ILLINOIS. THE CAMPAIGN IN THE SUCKER STATE Sketches of the Leading Politicians. Trumbull, Logan, Farnsworth, Oglesby and Palmer. The Contestants for the Senatorship. _—— A CLOSH FIGHT ALL ROUND. Car0AGo, Sept. 17, 1872, To an observer fresh from the East, who has traversed the Northwestern States bound solely to know what the probabilities may be in the Presi- dential campaign, the situation here is somewhat @ dilemma, and more a novelty, Itis certain that the Greeleyites are making a better organization and a bolder fight in the Northwest than in the Middle States. Nothing in political history 1s cleverer, clearer and stronger than their ONSET IN ILLINOIS against the administration, In some respects IIli- nois is the most advanced State in the Republic, It hasan exceedingly homogeneous people. What used to be called “Egypt” has become assimilated in tone and civilization with the Northern two- thirds of the Commonwealth. The city of Chicago exercises an entirely independent induence over the entire State, and the New York journals are taken here less thanin any other great railroad centre. A NEW STATE CONSTITUTION is about to go into operation in Illinois, which will, for the first time in the history of the country, give minority representation, By the same constitu" tion which decrees minority representation the State of Illinois is divided into districts upon an equitable plan, which to a large extent destroys the republican preponderance, and puts it in the power of the democrats and Germans collectively to make a majority of both bodies of the State Legislature and elect a United States Senator. At the present outlook, therefore, it would appear nearly certain that Lyman Trumbull 1s to have six years further of service in the federal Senate, THE SENATORSHIP IS THE PRIZE of contention throughout the State. Grant and Greeley are relatively of little account here. Hlinois 1s a free-trade State, and the bulk of the Greeley- ites have no patience in their candidate's expres- sions on the subject of the tarlif. General Grant, although nominally a citizen of Illinois, is, if possi- ble, more unpopular here than in the District of Columbia, where he resides, Among the soldiery of Illinois he has few colleagues, compatriots-and supporters, and the civil community has not viewed with any great satisfaction his Presidency. This may account for his sustained absence in the East every Summer, instead of coming to his own, where his own may not be forward to receive him. In the State of Hlnois, therefore, the Presidential issue is @ nominal issue altogether, Greeley ought hereafter to have the highest considera- tion for the free traders, in that they are giving him that wholesome and magnanimous support which he never accorded to their propositions in Political economy when it was no penalty for him todoso. The free traders are piling coals of fire upon his head, they are reaping all the glory of this campaign on Greeley’s aide and organizing a new party of the Northwest, which they feel confl- dent is to sweep ‘the ‘country four years hence, whether it docs so at present or not. To an Eastern observer the position of things in this great and fertile State, tne third in the Union in population and the in public force, clearly reveals a completerevolution in political thought and public .motive,® Tn@Yarge cities of Illinois, which were formerly the bulwarks of the republican Party, aro ENTIRELY REVOLUTIONIZED, and are ready to give majorities against it. The strong probability is that Chicago, which has now three Congressmen, will elect all three against the administration. Springfield, the State capital, which is the recipient not: only of the monument of Lin" coin, but of a noble state edifice which will last 200 years, is dead set against the President elected from within the borders of Illinois, ‘he city of Quincy is staunchly democratic, and the demo” cratic party of Illinois, without prevarication of any sort, has adopted Greeley as its candidate, and pushes on to be the progressive party of the coun- try. Two years from this time, as all the posrépili- ties stand, the democratic party of the West will have eaten up its record, and be prepared to take the lead in public questions, It has become within two years, a reading party rather than a voting party, and gives support to the news- papers with as much reliable certainty as even the republican party. Hence, those journals in Illinois who have abandoned General Grant, show better Jedgers and day books than the old-time papers which expected to get their support solely from their loyalty. THE PUBLIC LEADERS CONTRASTED, In common with the rest of the country, Illinois is destitute of extraordinarily great men, but it takes rank with New York and Massachusetts in the independence of its leaders; and of these, in general consideration, Richard Oglesby and John A. Logan lead the Grant party, and Lyman Trum- buil and John M. Palmer lead the republican oppo- sition. A study of these‘four men, to be entirely just and thoughtiul, should not be hasty. It is tolerably clear that the best public man ever produced in Illinois is Trumbull, He has some weak elements, amo ng which are a lack of enthusiasm and of ap- parent sympathy. But asa politician he is bolu and sanguine, and believes that work inthe end will beat faith, He has accomplished more in the West than Thomas H, Benton or Stephen A. Douglas. Had it been possible for popular elections to dis- criminate between men of force and men of inspi- ration, Abraham Lincoln would have stayed at home and Lyman Trumbull have ascended to the Presidency. But Lincoln was one of the miraculous accidents of political conventions, and Trumbull was overcast by the power of his own public services. Trumbull to-day stands higher in the West intellectually than ever before, andeven if he be beaten for the Senate, he will still be the supreme commander of the camp of observation in the supreme State of the West. He is the author of the liberal party as it stands, He also was the author of the anti-Nebraska demo- cratic party which preceded Abraham Lincoin. The Cincinnati Convention was the last-begotten emanation of the Springfield anti-Nebraska Con- venuion which sprung the name of Trumbuil upon the State Legislature fifteen years before. Mr. Trumbull is not only hopeful but confident tuat Grantism will be wiped out of the State and KOERNER BE ELECTED GOVERNOR. This candidate on the part of the democrats and liberals isa mild, docile and intelligent German, who came to America before many of the readers of the NEw YORK HERALD were born. He was not of the crop of revolutionists of 1848, but preceded them by about fifteen years, and settled in the town of Bellville, where Trumbull was then also a resident. Koerner was brought to the surface sev- eral years ago and made Lieutenant Governor of the State, and he showed that sense of fine fidelity and native conscientiousness which made him a tower of strength among the moral German classes. At first he was not delighted with the nomination of Greeley at Cincinnati, but having been longer in the country than most of the Germans he comprehended the processes of politi- cal conventions, r: hand and gave In his adhesion among the earliest. He is an jtemious, modest man, and the campaign that he has made through the cities and towns of Illinois might well shame our American stump speakers by the soft- ness of his impeachment of others and the fine and leasant breadth of charity he exhibits, The merican People owe to Koerner the highest of revived and moderate examples set to them in litical cam} 8, While the State of Illinois is he most agitated and earnest State in the present cam yet of consequence in it has used yes thes, an Koerner was tho first to strike ie keynote in this Cte. MR. RICHARD OGLRSBY, the candidate inst Koerner, has great power in vituperation, although he is at the same time a cordial and familiar person, with a flow of spirits. Early in life he is said to have had a liquor bar, n OF something Of the sort, in the town of Terre Hate, Ind, This source may accouyt for his ye. cate! to the liquor interest, and he expected to have an course to the Goy- e ‘and thence to tho United States Senate by the half-avowed ad of @ free Sunday and free beer, until the liveraia took the wind out of galls og gr een! & German who knew litt about r and more about Sunday. Deprived of his opportunity on these points and only mildly vituperative now, Oglesby also a secondary per- son in the present confict, and John A. 0, Ying Biptes Senator, leads the fight on the LOGAN BRAZENS IT. Logan is the least consistent, the most defying and probably the least disinterested personal leader im the Northwest. Nature designed him apparently for an Indian, but he is in re of wild pro- slavery Irish descent, He can yell or humor as ho ig ordéred, and it has taken b 9 & considerable por- tion of his public career for the last ten or twelve rears to stump for the republican part in doubtful tates, at a good hi; ire paid for services, Just before the war he was a rampant rebel, and even threatened, and, it is said, undertook to raiso a reg ent Cs Sroopa in Southern ate for bong , to capture and Indianapo! The firet sboret orders established in the Northwest claim to have acknow! ledged an as their chay had quarrelled with Douglas on reckini and de’ a ic that the North be Southernized in order ie make his majorities fined out: thoro leveloped and Illinois ae mn State, Logan took the best cpportanity jumble into line, and being @ good deal like Grant in conviviality, poker l- ing, ‘&o., he fell under the ‘of that obtuse captain and came ont of the ‘ampalgn nearly eminent. He ‘was elected to the United ites Senate in part by the advocacy of his able wife, who enjoys the best consideration in tne Northwest, and talked in his interest among the Springfield people. Logan was wey ferocior ust Grant until nearly at the period of the itimore Convention, when he got mn of all the ‘Possesalo1 atronage of lilinols and then shrank back to the bull and Were on good terms formore than.a year, but Trumbull is naturally an inde- pendent man and suspected Logan several months before his last defection. Trumbull used to say that Logan was “a dog.” Logan retorted by the mye expression that Trumbull “only had to put his feet into a bucket of water to freeze it.” Logan's £8 Sate against Trumbull is purely cag cal and is his only fight in that direction. gan has-been laboring for many years to get some possessions, and has got them at last in Chicago real estate, while Trumbull, who has few wants and is, therefore, independent, has property worth not above $100,000, ‘The pores of Logan on the stump ts in his com- pass of voice, hitting off commonplace apprehen- sions with a raging plausibility of statement and addressing that bird which unconsciously presides over our destinies, the carved and Ltd eagle. Logan’s humor is broad story telling; his invective is wild, like @ canal boatman’s apostrophe to the jandscape when the mules go slow. He is no sinis- ter being, and is often quite hearty and interesting in converse, but he never falls upon a large idea either by accident or search, alms to be elected and not to elevate, and lives in the boisterous assion of public employment. Such men only reak up parties from strong resentment, and join them when powerful without any lingering affec- tions of consistency. As a public man Logan ia most eminent when bold, unifinching, magisterial things need to be done, such as the expulsion of the cadet sellers from Congress. He is making a good fight for Grant's re-election, and his men ill e) ths places not occupied by the President’s jen JOHN A, PALMER, the present Governor of the State, is the only re- publican at the head of a republican Commonwealth who has Grecleyized. He is a persuasive, solld- looking, farmer-like lawyer, With personal valor, as shown in pao soldiery, and with democratic ten- dencies. He belongs tothe leaders of the second column of the men of resistance, and his judgment is not uniformly good as to the time for movement, But he is in every respect honorable and high of ort and it is amusing, even in this age, to see the foolistiness of partisan noise and prophecy over such @ man, who is aways bound to have the re- gpece of his neighbors and to obtain high fame in the history of his: In the civil history of Mi- nois President Granty although a citizen of it, will not take rank with half a dozen of its Governors, who have modelled it, «improved it and given it a Commonwealth pit worthy of its soil. The present President of the United States is the only one either elected or nominated for the office who has not a history of public services as the citizen of some one Commonwealth. He has federalized, because he had no State to claim citi- zenship in. McClellan had been a civil engineer in important State enterprises, and Harrison, Taylor Cass were developers of the Territories and States whence they were nominated. Jolin A. Palmer was the idol afew years ago ofthe same narrow party spirit, which sought with his name to drag Trumbull out of the Senate. There was not a mean word said against Trumbull at the time by his traducers which did not humiliate them; and now he has drawn his whilom rival, Palmer, into accord with him, as he will compel the ultimate verdict of Mlinois to admit that he has been the chief plography of the State, Mr, Lincoln in the game line of life would have been relatively weak, as Trumbull, in Lincoln's elevation, would have Jacked light and shade of character. But Trumbull ‘was the everlasting worrier and breaker of Douglas at home and ho has been a creative politician, pro- posing things as well as mere} gel 4 them, and yet has kept his democratic convic! with the Renacity, of that Puritan Presbyterianism he confesses. Ilinotsis still a democratic State, as it always was before the war, and when Bourbonism shall expire in the democratic party, so that it will be respectable to bé @ democrat, Illinois will in- evitably be anti-whig again. The surest way to a Jeffersonian principles in America is play Louisville with them, As John Adams came at last to dic in political accord with Jefferson, and both agreed that Ham- iiton was the champion of a pernicious phos chivalry, it would be no derogation in jorace Greeley to sce that his lustiest backers now are people who do not beiieve that the federal authority should never leave off where Jetlerson began—viz., peeping into the peasants’ ped to see what they had fordinner. Whether ureeley be elected or defeated he will probably never grind again in the milis of the pig-tron men or be assiduous to have Washington city the eye- hole and “‘little bell” of the whole country. He has already said that, if elected, he would have no Washington newspaper organ, and has manifested considerable illogical disike even of Washington asaspot. But it may have cost the non-interier- ence party four years’ defeat to make a convert of Horace Greeley. ‘The hardest pull they have to make is to prove to anybody that he belongs in the shafts of the Cincinnati platform, and not at the tail of it, pulling contrary wise. Greeley is to go to the West after the Maine elec- tion, and he will probably exchange some beams from his philosophic countenance for some practi- cal anenie economy among the people who reap the benefits of high tariffs in their fencing, salt and railways, who enclose their flelds with high- Fie lumber to the devastation of American forests, cure their meat by protected salt, and buy tariff tron at $80 profit a ton to, take their wheat to market, MAYOR MEDILL A FEDERALIST, The Mayor of Chicago, Joseph Medill, is one of the most interesting public characters of the State. He was born in Maine, and his birthplace was ex- patriated when they ran the Ashburton line. He moved to Ohio when a child, worked at printing, and finally began @ newspaper called the Forest City at Cleveland, in 1852, Itis rather memorable that Horace Greeley was instrumental in sending Medill to Chicago. The latter applied to him for advice as a junior to a world-renowned Senior, and Greeley said, “Go West. Chicago is your point. Get a newspaper there.” I have this from Mr, Medill’s own lips. Greeley also advised Horace White, now editor of the Chicago Tribune, not to take a desk in the New York 7rivune office. Said Greeley :-— “T can give you a situation here, but you want a better opportunity to develop. Hang on at Chi- be that’s the place!’ ere, certainly, are two successful examples of the soundness of Mr. Greetey's policy! Mr. Medill is one of the most suggestive men in the country and an excellent and honest Mayor. He was instrumental in making the new State con- stitution, and is one of Matt. Carpenter's half a dozen “‘schoolmasters” who were to fix up @ civil service reform which should conduce to morals, provided it did not disturb the patty. Mr. Medili’s position appears to be that anything which dis- turbed the party also disturbs morals, for he is for General Grant's election at the present writing, says that the State will give him 25,000 majority, and thinks that Greeley flickers about in the bogs of political understanding. Mayur Medill was for- merly a Strenuous protectionist, but gave in hj ultimate judgment iar a to that principle about two yeats ago. He is tdkiiig no part in the campaign, and seems to entertain no apprehensions of anything serious if Greeley should be elected, HOW THE BETTING SPANDS, The betting at Chicago stands thus:—Five to four the next Legislature of Illinois will be democratic- liberal, and the same odds that Lyman Trumbull will be returned to the Senate, Even that Koerner willbe the next Governor of the State. Five to four that Grant will carry the State by 15,000 ma- jority, One hundred to seventy tiat he will carry it by 7,000, FARNSWORTH. John F. Farnsworth has made the best Greeley speech in the State; but it was weakened by his previously taking his chance to be nominated for Congress before the regular convention. He is the ablest of the present Congressmen from Illinois, Skilful as a tactician, effective as a debater, and bold in action. Butler, of Massachusetts, and others have worked to undermine him in his dis- trict, and the result is no compliment to the dis- trict. In publiclife Farnsworth has never been sus- ee of dishonesty and he will be @ formidable man In the future coalition party of INinois, whether Greeley be defeated or elected. An effort is being made to defeat Huriburd, the Grant candidate, on moral grounds. and strong bp eres to support ee If this district is really fastidious, it will ro e THE GERMAN VOTE in Illinois would be @ unit for Greeley but for the Stadt Zeitung newspaper, which is owned by Mr. Hesing, an active man, and edited by Raster, late oMfice holder under the administration. This paper May detract five or ten per cent from the Greeley Voie Chicago 0 Dion is the G Greel i@ German Greeley r, edited by General Lieb. es The feeling in the State is mild. Both contestants are game. [fIndiana goes for Greeley, lliinois will very probably follow suit. If both nnsylvania pb eee go bag! sie the liberal ee note arty will reform for future purposes nation: Victory in 1870, Jefergon’s centennial FORRESTER. es The Answer of the Celebrated Criminal to the Alleged. Imaginary Crimes He is Said to Have Committed, FORRESTER A SCOTCHMAN. Where and When He Was Born—Incidents of His Early Life—What He Has Been as Boy and Man—His Baptismal Name. THE ESCAPES FROM PRISONS AND CARS. Denial of Any Participation in the Nathan Murder. Public interest in the celebrated criminal now locked up at Police Headquarters, instead of de- creasing, continues unabated. Crowds of people call at the detective office every day and see him, but friends only are admitted to his cell, The evl- dence in the hands of the police and what the au- thorities can prove against Forrester are tho prin- cipal points of discussion. Recently, when he was taken into Court on the order issued by Judge Leonard to his counsellor, Mr. William F. Howe, a representative of the HERALD sat beside him dur- ing the proceedings in the Court and the following conversation occurred :— “The people manifest a great desiro to look at you,’ said the reporter, “Yes,” answered Forrester, “and it {a not a pleas- ant kind of curiosity either, but I have to thank the newspapers for that,” “Yes, I suppose 0.” “If that was all they did I wouldn’t so much mind, but they lied about me most outrageously.” “I saw the other day a statement to tho effect that you were born in the parish of Lafourche, La., on the 16th of August, 1838,”” “That was not the truth. I was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 31st of December, New Year's Eve, in 1888, and brought up ata place called Dumbar- ton, about fifteen miles below Glasgow, on the Clyde.” “Then you did not begin life as a newsboy on a Mississippi steamer?’ “No, I don’t think I could.” “Did you ever steal from a passenger's valise on board the steamer Pride of the West on a trip be- tween New Orleans and Natchez, as you are charged?” “No, sir: Iwas never arrested in the South for any crime committed in that country, The charge {8 a false and malicious one.” “Your name, I suppose, is not Forrester ?” “No, My real name is Alexander McClymont.”” “There is a story about your being arrested eigh- teen times in three years on charges of petty theft. Have you heard of that f"” “T have, and I can prove it is not the trath, They say I robbed a drunken man of $1,200 and was sent to the Penitentiary at Baton Rouge for it. I never was in the Penitentiary at Baton Rouge. Then there’s another story about the Penitentiary in Jackson, Miss, They say Iwas sent there in 1853 for robbing a member of the Legislature. Now, to show you how far they are from facts, Iwas in Nagasaki or Hong Kong—I forget which—in 1853. The records in Washington will show I was on the United States steam frigate Susquehanna as mes- senger boy at that time. Commander Buchanan, who had vei of the Merrimac during the late war, was with us, and Commodore Perry, now dead, had charge. "His son was socretary to Com- mander Hunter, whom I believe to be in Washing- ton atthe present time. In 1854 our vessel—the Susquehanna—got to Beniciafrom San Francisco to coal, and J left her there,” “They say that from 1854 to 1858 you wero loung- ing about Natchez, and were the associate of thieves, murderers, burglars and bad characters generally.” “Yea, and that the principal haunt of the gang was a place known as ne Reynolds’, who was driven out of town and her house torn down. I have seen that, They say likewise that when that woman's house was pulled down six skeletons were found, one of which was recognized aa. that of @ prominent State omictal of Mississipp! who had been missing about three months. 1 would like to have seen that fellow recognizing the skeleton. In fact, I would like to know him as a man of penetration, ‘I should say he had no equalin the country. In 1856 | was in Bordeaux, France; from there I went to New Orleans, and then sailed back home to Scotland, I started from Greenock, Scotiand, for New Orleans on the 3d of April, 1860, some days before the Hee- nan and Sayers fight.” “Were you ever in the House of Refuge in Call- fornia?’ “No; I never was arrested in California in my life, nor put Into the House of Refuge, and conse- ucntly could not scale the walls and come on to New York on one of the steamers of the Pacific Mail Company. Inever was on one of those vessels, and can prove that emphatically.” “I saw a statement accusing you of committing a murder in Michigan?” “Yes; it said thatI went out West from New York, and on the train to Windsor, OC. W., fell in with a drover named Neely, and beat him out of $3,500 at cards and then Killed him. I was arrested, the story goes on to say, and acquitted on the round of self-defence. nev@® was arrested in ichigan; never travelled under the name of Mat- thew Brown and never knew a man called Neely. If that story was true there would be no difficulty in getting the-facts from there.” “Did you ever keep @ faro bank in Chicago with a man called Carr?’ ‘4 never had anything to do with a faro bank in Chicago in my life. There’s where the police an- sauetstee, know me well, and that can be casily proved. “You were keeping a saloon in Peoria, were you not, at the time of the robbery of the Merchants’ Union Express Company?’ “No, I was not. I have been in Peoria, but I never se there more than two hours. I sim- py assed through it on the train, Inever went yy the name of Frank Livingstone, and conse. quently could not have kept a house for bad charac- ters under that name." “You married the daughter of @ man called ‘Old Bill Thomas,’ didn’t you?” “No, sir. I know bothing of Old Bill Thomas ex- cept by hearsay. I never saw his daughter.” “You were arrested in Springfield, LiL, with a man named Dunn, for burglary?’ “I was never arrested in Springfleld—hold on, yes I was. I was taken there one night and sent on to Decatur with a party named Jol Wiliams, I got four years at Decatur.” “They say that, on the 1st of April, 1969, Dunn and I attacked a yard witha stone while we were going to work; the blow knocked him senseless, and we escaped by scaling the walls. Now,I was grreated 2 1863 and came out of the Joliet Prison the 17th of April, 1867, as old Simons, the detective, in Chicago, knows. He was Head Warden at the time I came out. I never knew & man named Dunn, and, in making my escape, } Hy t no one; the authorities there know that an: prove it. They say that in the Fall of 1! I made thé acquaintance of George Ellis, Jame’ Elliott and Tom Riley, and the peed nertars of the gang were at No. 638 West Twenty-ninth street. I was in Bal timore in 1869, and was never in the house No. 533 West Twenty-nioth street,” “What about the robbery of Migel’s store, in East Filteenth street? They say you were con- nected with tnat,’” “I was in Philadelphia when I heard that job was tried to be done. Now they say 1 was arrested in Pittsburg, by Chief Hague, for a burglary done there; but that is like all the rest I have told you of, alie. I never was arrested by Chief Hague ; but 1 was arrested in that town by one of Pinkerton’s men, hamed Stockley, on the Wilkesbarre charge. I was taken at ten o'clock in the morning, on my way to the Post Ofice. I left that very night for Wilkesbarre, but the train not connect- ing, was taken to Philadeipnia, I got away from the police in Philadelphia on Mon- day morning, at four o'clock precisely, without a atitch of clothes on me, and the story that I asked the oMicers to let me Be into the saloon during the journey to Philadetphia, and then jumped of the train, is false. They the train was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour when ie d off, that is not so; I did not jump off and did not escape un- tUl | got to Philadelphia, I did not run across the fields and get @ country blacksmith to take of the handcu on earth should I do that? When I escaped I went from Philadelphia to Baltimore. From there I went to Key West, on the steamship Cuba, myselfand wife Talat br he apy fers plan ot wal lor the steam: r ie; went with him to ilavana and from there. (New Orleans in the same vessel. 1 travelled all along that line as ‘Frank Marshall.’ books of the steamship company will show the time of my arrival in New “rleans. I remained there about two months, and during that time the Nathan mur- der was committed.” “Then you did not come back to New York for some time after 7” “No, 1 was not back here in New York for nearly six months after,”? 5 Ho inppose you have given your history to re “Well, naturally I gaye him everything that is mogoouce to nas ng a tat e “Ho seems thoroughly confident o! able get you ont of this thitig hdd te “ese “Well, I think he is, Mr. Howe is a remarkable MtRome of the payers are’ aumoyed because apers are anno; are too well treated. “ io “T see that; but they forget a man. is. innocent until he ts proved to be galt » Iam treated just like other prisoners; no diderent. My m are brought from the same place as those sent to the other prisoners and the fare I get is exactly the same. Since I have been here ie police we been very kind to me as gentlemen, but as detectived they act Just in the same Way as the police anywhere ise. The papers needn't be jealous because have a few friends who bring me little thin: they fancy might make me comfortable. - tion {8 not a pleasant one, considered from poise of view, and what ts done for me by friends 0 make it less terrible than it 1s should not cause’ the papers to be so very {ll-humored,” “You don’t know What kind of evidence the police have against you in this case, do you /” , “Well, you understand, 1 don’t want to say any- thing about this cage just now. Mr. Howe has can- aan me nares sats but I a quite sure the ice here would not do an. against we was not strictly just.’’ sid . “I would like to ask you something about this man Bills, 80 much is said about,’? “Well, you see, that would be toucl this caso! and I am cautioned against talking about it.’”” “You seem 60) tt, however, hig ony on do you any a “If you remember, you when wero’ coming from Washin; T was not Atrala 0 of any- thing in connection with this affair. I can bring plenty of testimony to show I had nothing todo with it, and if you will just think over what I have said to you now you will see 1 was not anywhere near New York at tho time of the Nathan murder.” “fF remember very well you stated that to me.” “I suppose you are interviewi! me now, but I don’t care if you do publish what Ihave sald. meant to nail those lies that have been circulated about me, andI think I have done it effectually now. What good can tt possibly do a mi ir to publish such inventions. They must sure! hey are doing a great injury to the man they make such frightful charges against. . You deceived me too, hought when I saw Bee in Washington! you were a detective, and I talked freely with you! on that account, but what you wrote waa all ey and I am not afraid of it.” “You never used your right name in this cour try, did you?” “No, I never did that I remember.’ At this Point Mr. Howe approaclied the prisoner’ to inform him that the case would be brought W) again on Wednesday next. Captain Irvi an Detective Farley then took him back..to Pohea Headquarters, THE CAMPAIGN IN NEW JERSEY. ——__--+-—__+— A Lively Time in Prospect in Hudsow County—The Struggle for the Congres< sional Nomination and the Shricvalty. This week will be a busy one with the candidates for Congressional, Assembly and county nomin- ations in Jersey City, Hoboken and the townshipa throughout Hudson county, The Democratic Con- gressional Convention will be held in St. John’s Hall, Jersey City, at noon on Wednesday, and the County Convention will be held on the same day and at the same hour. This arrangement is certain to lead to confusion, and there are loud complaints against the Executive Committee who perpetrated this smart trick. The places of meet- ing are so far asunder that it will be simply impos- sible for any man to guard the interests of his friends in both places. The Chairman of the Ex- ecutive Committee, whose name ts appended to the call, is William B, Rankin, who is making energetic’ eiforts to obtuin the Congressional nomination. His opponents charge that the call is a ruse to out- flank them, and there is no doubt whatever that it causes them some uneasiness, In political matters Rankin ts a shrewd tactician, but it would be pre- mature just now to state that he will develop much strength in the Convention. Leon Abbett is also in the field, He attained hia’ acme of popularity when, at a mass meeting of the taxpayers, he arraigned in burning eloquence ‘the Ring which was plundering the city. But when a few months afterwards he tindertook the defence of the members of this same Ring there were sach manifestations of disappointment and disgust tm open Court that he retired at once from the case,) not, however, till he delivered a pay ti shot at the’ eat Journal across the river which was h his clients. From that day, Abbett's cts have been on the wane, meral Gilchrist will be brought y his iriends in the Convention. He obtained the nomination in 1866, but was defeated by George A. foe chiefly! through the dissatisfaction of the frie of the late General Wright. Mr. Glichrist has a ‘ claim on the people of hist City for his A services in the dethronement of the Ring. John McWhorter, of Hoboken, expects to receive the unanimous support of his fellow townsmen, but in this he may find himself mistaken, as James: M. Brann intends to divide the honors. with Brann will recelve the vote of East Newark or rison, besidesscattering votes in the cities, ily as a tribute of respect for his services to the fo ers on the famousGrandJury. The friends of Mayor O'Neil intend to put that gentleman forward and he will no doubt receive a liberal support. Lastly comes Noah D, Taylor, ex-State Senator, who has passed from one political position to another withe out ever being defeated. He 1s, beyond all ques- tion, the most popular man with both political par- ties in Hudson county. His personal friends are numbered by thousands, He combines the liberal republican and democratic parties more success- fully than any of his competitors, and his nomina- tion may be regarded as certain. Inthe County Convention there will be a lively race for the Sheriffalty. The members of the Rin; who were indicted are determined to be reven on Sheriff Reinhardt. He must be defeated if they can accomplish it. A time-honored, usage down dear Mr. in both parties allows the Sheriff three successive nominations, and Reinhardt has only served one year. Mike fatnan and John Allen covet the prine, but they are very likely to be disappointed. In proportion as the Ring and its tools couspire to de- feat Reinhardt so much the more powerlul will the Pout uprising be in his favor. Jersey City owes him a debt which cannot be overpaid, as the first, Sheriff that empanelied an incorruptible grand reed for many years, But for Reinhardt there would ave been no indictment of the municipal thieves, The Democratic and Liberal Convene tions in Essex County, At Library Hall, in Newark, on Saturday after. noon, the Essex county democrats and liberals held their respective conventions—the former in the main hall and the latter in the upper one. There was a large attendance at both conventions, The organizations were:—John G. Trusdell, Chaire man, and B. J. Ford and Colonel! Price, Secretaries, Democratic Convention; IL. H, Geddy, Chairman, John Schnellbacher, Secretary, Liberal ¢onvention: There was a soca deal of discord and wrangling in the democratic gathering. Committees were ap- pointed by each convention to confer on nomina- tions, It was agreed that the liberals should ask gnly one Coroner, and concede the others and the Sheriff and County Clerk to the democrats, The only naine mentioned for State Senator was that of Mr. David Anderson, and him the liberals would not agree to touch under any circumstances. Being unable to agree op this point the com- mittee resolved to lay the nomination over for @ future ~ The followi yao were ratified by both conventions:. democrat, Sheriff; Albert C, Westervelt, County Clerk; John 8. Bali, democrat, ner} Dr, David 8, Smith, democrat, Coroner; Martin Belr, liberal, Coroner. The vote for Clerk stood in the Democratic Convention—Westervel! 69; Fitz erald, 67—as8 close shaving as le, Mr, ‘estervelt has for seven years been an Alderman. ‘He was for a short time President of the Common Council. Colonel Peckwell is the present Sheriff. He was renominated by acclamation. The liberals entered and ratified the nomination. Another pay ‘tiog will be called to choose @ candidate for ate A MURDEROUS ASSAULT, On Saturday evening Patrick Lydon, of 302 Fast Forty-stxth street, quarrelied with his wife. Un- able to remain at home she went to spend the night with a friend residing the neighborhood. About three o'clock A. M. two or three of her friends went to Lydon’s, as he claims, to beat him, but ope! to advise and remonstrate with him relative to his iil treatment of his wife. Words ran high and the party finally came to blows. Lydon in some manner possessed himself of a large, heavy hammer, with which he struck one of the three men, James Levison, on the back of the head, as he was abont decending the stairs, to the bottom of which he fell senseless, He was taken up still ‘unconsious and sent home, but was robpeaseney taken to Bellevue Hospital. It 1s supposed skull is fractured. Lydon was arrest by_ tho Ninteenth ward police, and was committed to await the result of his victim's injuries at the Yorkville Police Court yesterday. THE INEBRIATE ASYLUM. New York, Sept. 22, 1872, To THe Eprror or THE HeRatp:— The communication in yesterday's HERALD re. flecting upon the management of the Inebriate Asylum on Randall's Isiand docs injustice to its matron, & who, during the three of her connection with that Institatipn, | he dis. ql her dimcult duties in @ alike satia to the Commissioners and table to herself, has been telll- gence, tience and fidelity. are alleged between the of the asylum have Og! . an lady of education pen circumstances over which she had no control con- she retains the babits, tastes and manne! strained her to secon the position she rad rs brigiter days We.