The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1872, Page 3

| TWE SEEAET OF FIVE WHIOKEY @L ASSES, SAM COX IN A PICKLE. Great Speech on the Saving Vir- | tues of Syracuse Salt. Horace Hurrahed For by His _ Fellow Farmers. A Broome County Darky Horo- seopes Grant. Lively Discussion Between a Celtic Fist and a Nigger’s Eye. Prognostications, Prophecies, Foreshadow- ings, Hints and Headshakes. SYRACUSE, Oct. 17, 1872. after scouring around the best ‘part of this mid- tand belt of counties, talking to all sorts of people, trom Governor Hoffman down to the vain Van Allen, 1 have reached two conclusions—first, that the liberal secession from the regular republican organization is a strong reality, and that the strength of the straight-out democratic movement is an addiing delusion. I have been hunting up straight-out democrats since I left New York, and } the sport has yielded only five head of game, mamed respectively J. J. Van Allen, Chas. P. Sykes, Milton “Kpickerbocker, Peter Davies and P. H. Bitley. There they are just as I wrote them down from thetr own immortal autographs on the register of the Globe Hotel, kindly furnished for the occa- sion by the obliging Colonel Stone. Here is how it Bappened that I came torun down this quarry all etonce. I was sitting in the Courier oMce talking to Mr. Russell, Gurney Lapham and Mr, Milton Northrap, when the door was thrown open and in walked a man in an overcoat large enough for the late lamented Cardiff giant. He was as happy as ff he had just buried his mother-in-law, and he evi- dently had something to communicate—something ‘on his mind that woula no more stay there than a tartar emetic on a sick man’s stomach. It was THE RENOWNED VAN ALLEN, who has taken all the Bourbons of this State under his capacions wing and Icft the rest to Blanton Duncan. He inquired for the agent of the Associa- ted Press, that he mignt Iet the whole country co. Northrup looked incredulous. He had neard of no mecting, nor had anybody else in the whole blessed town. mo other than Van Allen, he made a note of it, dis- held in the Globe Hotel. Repairing thither shortly after 1 found out that it was composed of the five aireadynamedand =, FIVE GLASSES OF WHISKEY. ‘The speakers took their views of the present political situation through these glasses, and when ‘they were empty they said the country was going to the devil and that the principles of the demo- eratic party were in danger, but they would never gay die and “iet us take another snort of Bourbon” ‘Was passed unanimously. Van Allen presided (at the bar). it was a straight, stand-up meeting for some time; but by bedtime it was fattened out around the hotel. In New York, no doubt, the proceedings of this great mecting gave heart to the straight-laced democracy. The only danger to the men who engineer such mectings is that the uid used to oil the machinery may cook each indi- vidual goose past recovery before the election is A FIBRCE AND SINGULAR BOURBON. 1 met one additional straight-out democrat at erkimer, named Doc. Williams. He was a tall, trapping man, and when he talked he gave his arms the same motion as the walking beam of an engine. There was no wistaking him for anything elec than a true blue Bourbon. He spoke with magnificent disregard of grammar and rhetorical refinement. His talk rolled down upon his hearers Jike an avalanche, overwhelming opposi- tion and bewildering the senses. His figures of @peech were brought in from all parts and ele- ments of the earth and skies, and mixed up with etrange oaths, tung out with a defiance of all con- wentional restraint and in utter contempt for any (ttle scrupulous delicacy on the part of his aud- tors. It would be vain to try to give an idea of ‘ow this amazing specimen of democracy spoke. Me would start off in a thundering tone and with the reckless rush of a runaway horse. ABUSE WITH A VENGEANCE. “Greeley 1@ @ cussed cvld fool. Darn his old abolition hide! he ought to be hitched on to the acre fleld.of pumpkins. I'd see him histed higher than chicken feathers in a hurricane before he'd get my vote. Dog gone him! I’m told the infernal sucker pretends to be so much of a temperance man ¢hat he won't allow a barber to put bay rum @n his face.” This may give a faint notion of the torrent @f this Bourbon’s invective. He was the most astounding swearer J ever neard, and rummaged throug the church litanies for the choicest pro- fanity. He was a trife lighter on Grant, but he ‘wanted “nothing to co with none o’ them.” He Deiteved Grant was “the greatest humbug that ever stuck a foot into shoe Jeather.” His audience might have been of hia way of thinking or the very reverse. There were no dissenters. He rode down and over them, borse, foot and dragoons, giving no quarter and silencing ail objections. HUNTING AN IGNIS FATUUS, Ontside of this mute circle Iwas prepared to across many like Williams, yet I met only few who openly and zealously advocated the ht-out policy. I was told that further West— im Medison, Onondaga, Wayne and Monroe wealthy mine of Bourbonism existed; #0 far I find the straight-out party is as crooked aceab tree and asbard to find as an honest im Brooklyn, the City of Churches. This in andout, holding a mecting in this ai@ that, and recording the minutes glasses of whiskey, disentities them to be whe straight democracy. To keep straight to keep out of gin mills, and when the Vay Alien ty have to interpret Jeflerson and the Resolu- of '96 over cold water there will be weeping walling and gnashing of teeth, THE LIBERAL PROSPECT, Now I come to consider the liberal repubiican of the situation. The #ix strong.liberal re- countios im the midiand belt are Tioga, know of the important meeting that had been held that evening—of the momen- | fous organization that had been effected, However, finding his informant was | covering that the mysterious mecting had been | tail of an omnibus nag and dragged across a fifty- | ‘the foremost men, like Jared 0, Wintams, “B. Sedgwick, formerly member of Gongrese ® leading lawyer in Syracuse. Thete is the famous Pat Cor- “the Irish Grator,® who throws sufticient bett, aks fire into his specohes te warm up a conventicle or Hiscock, brother of : shot by Cole, is the ite for Congress, and even if the heavens Wealthy citizen and a of Utica, is with the and District Attorney | and W. P. Goodale, litical love. County the best known.degerter is D. W. Cameron, ex-Distriet Attorney. Lam giving now the names of ently prominent men imtheir respective counties, ‘and it is but natural to suppose that each one has his influence with few or more of his acquaint- ances, SPEOULATION IN PIGURES. The best advices received by Mr. Smith, of the Journal, which is the republican organ, catimate a republican majority in Oswego county at from two thousand eight hundred to three thousand, and Cortland county at from one thousand five hundred to one thousand six hundred, In 1869 Oswego gave a republican majority of 2,004. In | 1870, on election for Governor, it went 2,051 and in 1871 2,200, In 1870 Cortland county gave a republi- can majority of 1,414. Here would be a gain of sev- eral hundred in Oswego and about a hundred and fifty in Cortland, but I am not quite satisfied yet with Mr. Smith’s speculation. The republican schismatics in Cortland county are led by Horatio Ballard, father-in-law of Senator Robertson, ex- Secretary of State. There is also Judge Shank- land, father-in-law of Judge Andrews, of the Court of Appeals, and Judge A. Smith, present County - Judge, last year Chairman of the Republican County Committee. In Madison county one of the wealthiest of its citizens has caught the Greeley heresy—Jamcs Stewart,ex-member of Assembly—and Green Smith, son of Gerrit Smith, who leads the embattled hosts for Grant. Tim Terwilliger, of stamp notoriety, sticks to his party as his party sticks to him, illns- trating @ mutual, beautiful adhesiveness, OTHERS OF THE SECEDERS. H. L. Dugend is the present Revenue Collector here. He holds on to his trust and emoluments in spite of the fact that he has taken sides against his “poss” in Washington. Ofcourse Tom Alvord has long since defined his position. He is running for member of Assembly in the First district against William H. H. Gere, and the Journal people say he will be defeated ; but Moses Summers, of the Stand- ard, thinks not. C. Tyler Longstreet, who was twice repnblican candidate for Mayor of Syracuse, and T. B. Fitch, @ delegate to the Baltimore Con- vention that nominated Hincoin, have transferrea their allegiance to the Greeley party. A HONEYCOMBED PARTY, ‘Thus you see in this, the banner county of this section of the State, whee the voice of Tom Al- vord rings out like the trumpet summons to a tournament, the republican party is rather seriously honeycombed with hetorodoxy. The Standard, formerly a republican paper, turned over, and thas left but one organ to. advocate the views of the regular party, while the liberals have two, They are three lively papers, the Couriex possessing the | largest circulation. | A LIVELY LOCA}. FIGHT. | There is a local fight going on which will have its | effect on the general tiekct in the county. It hes | | centred on the County Treaster, for which ofice | | George H. Wright is nominated on the liberal against Charles W. Ostrander on the republican side. The latter is seeking the soldier vote, but the other is cutting him out, and this makes the local struggle lively and interesting. Wright is sure to win, as his war record stands high, and his brother Charley, or, as they dub him, “ Captain | Jinks,” is the most popular boy in Syracuse, Os- trander was a Know Nothing, and bolted severa! | times because he failed to get a petty office. Sam | Cox spoke here the other night, but his audience was not a large one, The meeting was held in Shakspeare Hall, concerning which there is a tra_ dition that, after being built, it settled severa) inches, and is dangerous to life when occupie.] by a full audience. Therefore it was that the Syracus- ans withheld part of the light of their countenance from the witty and brilliant Sunset. Sam couid hardly have known anything about this, for he thundered away like a line-of-battle ship, and yet there was nobody hurt. I suspect Sam’s free-trade notions stand in his way in this region of once pro- tected salt. SAM COX AND HIS SALTY SPEECH. Salt is everything here and protection is pelieved in as religiously as the Ten Commandments. Cox uses a fearful quantity of salt on his sweet potatoes, and consequently he wants it cheap. He carries it round in his overcoat pocket and eats it by the hanifal. This is because he has a horror of corrup- tion; and unless he took his barrel of salt regularly every day the Lord only knows what would become of him. He was thinking of starting salt works of his own, as his appetite for saline diet is growing at a fearful rate, and, if it keeps on, the Atlantic Ocean will nave to be evaporated for him. He was made a present of several barrels by a few of his democratic admirers and his speech of thanksin return is said to have brought the briny tears to the eyes of his hearers. He said the people of Syracuse were the salt of the earth, and he was grateful for the three barrels, for he wanted all that salt, as he was the savor of tne democratic party and the foe of corruption. He loved salt. His earliest recollections were of taking a dose of salts and senna from the hands of his nurse, old Sal Volatile. If it were denied him to settle down im Syracuse he should stop im one other glorious spot, New Rochelle, where the salts, if not Of the same charac- | } ter as in Syracuse, were able, he was in a position to affirm, to purge the body politic. The only friends of his youth and companions of his bosom | | were old salts, and the love of his bright and early | existence was saltatory exercise. His manhood had been spent in assaulting the citadel of corrup- tion, and inany a howling radical he salted on the | floor of Congress. When they came to New York | he would give tiicm some Attic salt in return and | some pickled jokes and cabbage heads. Thanking them again, he withdrew with his barrels, TOW THEY 3UST LOVE Cox. The truth is the free-trate theories of my friend | Sunset have brought disaster on this community. The loss to this city by the action of Congress in removing the previously existing duty is very ex- tensive. The salt trade has been destroyed, and the half million dollars it put in circulation is no longer around, Men like Mr. Haskins and others lost heavily, and to all intents and purposes the salt business of this city is at an end. Considering that Samivel was a most active participator in the debate winch resulted in securing the passage of the act that aimed such a blow at the prosperity of Syracuse, he cannot expect to have the love of this people to any considerable extent. VOTE OF THE BANNER COUNTY—KERNAN’S CHANCES. The vote of Onondaga county for Secretary of State last year gave a majority of 2,234 for the re- publicans, In the previous year for Governor it gave 2,011, and in 69 2,313, Allowing that the re- publican defection is 1,500, the liberals have yet to overcome an average of 800, and this I don’t be- lieve they can do. Still, as the great oucstion is the election of Frank Kernan and Horace Greeley, and asevery little makes a mickle, Onondaga will contribute her share to a liberal triumph, if that be not impossible. Governor Hofman feels sure of Greeley’s and Kernan’s triumph, and Ker. nan, himself, ie as confident of coming to Albany as Governor a8 one of the early martyrs was of go- ing heavem Greeley hae a atreng puil bere, but | translated into English), “we ai Kernan’s religious belief is mot overlooked by prejudice. In my next I shall indicate pretty nearly from the changes taking place the connties that will lead off ag revolutionists. Broome County’s Political Pulse—A Black Tanner for the Galena Tanner—Un- earthing a Bourbon Fo1—A’rah for Greeley and A’rah for Grant. Brvenamron, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1872, Beyond all question this has been and is the most bitter and exasperating Presidential cam_ paign since the formation of our system of govern- ment. That fine old loco foco, the oldest inhabi- tant, cannot recall a contest tor the spoils of oMce in which the lie was so freely given and returned, and in which there was 80 much confusion, contra- diction, doubt, dismay and incredulity as to men and facts. The tine was pretty clearly drawn be- tween the opposing parties at Cincinnati, and made deeper and more distinct at Baltimore; but latterly the most experienced student of contemporary politics can hardly determine whois who or what is what. The political chart is worse than an Asian mystery, and to ordinary pcople its mean- ing is past finding out. Before fairly starting out on the mission confided to me by the HERALD I had, as a matter of duty, to consider the reason of this anomalous condition of affairs, and that having been ascertained, to govern myself accordingly. After much thought I arrived at the conclusion that the cause of all the swaying to and fro of hitherto respectable politicians, the judgments, convictions, the unseemly exultation the incomprehensible despondency, the wretched gloom on the mornings after hilarious nights, ex- hibited in partisan papers and on the political platform, was soiely due to Bourbon influence. Most of the prominent men on the side of Greeley acknowedge this, while bitterly lamenting it, and the followers of the President gloat over it. De- | nounced on one side and lauded on the other, Bourbonism has been a bugbear—a power to be placated, an infiuence to be feared. But from its peculiar nature it was hard to subdue, seeming to defy the political prohibitory law against it. It hid in low barrooms and out-of- the-way places after its tremendous spree at Louls- ville. Yet, because of the mystery connected with it, it was still a power. ‘The flight of its champion, Blanton Duncan, to Europe, and the strange disappearance of other spirited leaders, gave the impression that a dread- ful tare was meditated or that the Bourbon move- ment was entirely dead. It scemed to me, there- fore, a matter of the first consequence, before pro- ceeding to write up the present condition and pros- pects of the two great political parties in this State, to find out for your readers the present biding place of che Bourtons, This course I deemed necessary On Giscovering, in the several counties I have visited in the last few days, that the old ques- tion was being seriously discussed anew— ‘UIAVE WE A BOURBON AMONG US 7"? There is, L believe, a Bourbon in Binghamton, a gentioman wio talks Grant for $200 per week, ex- cept weeks when the spirit of Bourbonisin inter- fercs with his arrangements, But in all this wide stretch of countiy, from Kockland to Eroome, I have vot found another of the same political tipple. iam now prepared, however, to tell where the Bourbon party is and how it stands, or staggers, on this momentous question of Grant or Greeley. Mr. Tanner is a resident of Binghamton, His reputation is excellent, and he delights in the pos- session of an appalling cloud over his beautiful face. In ante-bcllum times he used to pick cetton and nourish tobacco plants in South Carolina for a fine Caucasian, who swore by the sternal, rectified his rebellious teeth witha Bowie knife and wal- loped his niggers and perbaps took further liber- ties whenever he saw fit. It happened on one eventful day this awinl Confederate took it into his head (a small one, but hairy and big enough for that idea) to kick the respected grandmother of the Tanner family about his extensive estate. There was a debate between the chivalreus South Carolinian and the nigger in consequence of this briliiant action, and the result was that TANNER, THE GR. 4 got off while his inaster was drunk and the blood- hounds were sleeping the peace of mnocence—got railroaded to the radical North, and was provided for in this flourishing city of Pinghamion, In time Tanner got a mule, then a horse and wagon, end now he runs an Adams express in miniatar To see Tan. giin when asked about his former iife is mu to hear the | sabie statesman speak en the political situation is rivetily overpower, ‘Vauper does nov like Greeley, and he doesn’t know e. tiy why; but he can’t understand why the Lrish should be tolerated in this State. Tanner, a few nights since, felt in- clined to howl jubilantiy about the Pennsyivania election, but, turning a sharp corner, happened to Tun against the heavy, indiserimimate tise of an Irishman who was meditatively casting the politi- cal horoscope jor the jun of ihe thing and the good of the cause. So Mr, Tanner carries on his face a rude tracing of the lovely hills and dales of the Emerald Isie, and this is why he is in accord with Henry Wilson, Although Mr. Tanner runs an express he is never very ready to deliver aa opinion, His thoughts are so far hidden down in the depths of profun- dity that it is considered a neat piece of engineer- ing to get them out. When, therefore, while rid- ing on Mr. Tanner's one-horse express, if was con- jided to me that he knew where the Bourbons were I felt at once that I was ON THE RIGHT TRACK, and was fuliy impressed that henceforth my way Was clear. Mr. Tanner, be it understood, is one of the chiefs in tie tribe of Africans in this section of the State, and while driving his steady one-horse express pores over the HeKa.p almanac for infor- mation. As he does not drink—the narrow divi- dends of the one-horse express company forbid ire- quent visits to the bar—he allows himself to get intoxicated with the too abundant figures, But, singular to say, Tanner is happy. He says he represents the loyal people of the southern tier of New York; that Grant and Wilson are “hunk,” and that anybody who dares to consider for a moment that Horace Greeley may possibly be less than a —— renee blank—ought to be branded all over with anks, It 18 always deligitful to meet a man of ideas and. able to express them, The statesman I have en- deavored to sketcii is one of these. When he vents a joke he shakes his express wagon; when sarcas- tic he wafts a brick, and when overcome with emo- tion, born of serions contemplation of the political situation, he ‘feels like’ burning down a town or two. He should have remained in South Carolina and ran for Congress. I tremblingly ventured to ask Mr. Tanner a few questions, on our way to my hote!, regarding the present aspect of the contest in Broome county. He seemed de- lighted at hearing an opportunity of unroofing his curly-cropped cranium and displaying all the rich treasures of his mind, The aspect of affairs seemed to him very bad for that awfui traitor and hard- ened secessionist, Horace Grecle “Now,” he said, in composite African (freel, going into this | business, all hands (Mr. Tanner’s hands are the size | oftwo hams.) ‘That man, Greeley, has no show. ‘The fact that three Banks here are for Greeley and two are for the savior of the nation; but that there js a Jittle trouble about Pennsylvania, Some | fellows say that the moral eifect of the election was | food; then other fellows say the immoral effect | aint sogood. [tis a question of morality and im- morality, and when these two get into a row it makes 4 darky’s hair straighten. MR, GREELEY'S SHOW. I don’t think Greeley has much of a show here. Hear the almanac:—Election for President in Broome county, 1868, republican majority, 1,770; election 1869, for Secretary of State, 1,231 republi- can majority; election for Governor, 1570, 1,206 re- publican majority; election for Secretary of State, 1871, 1,142 majority.’’ “But, Mr. Tanner,” I said, after we arrived at the hotel, “by your own almanac you show that since the election of 1868 the republican majority bas been diminisned by 628 votes.” “Well,” he answered, “1 don’t know how the almanacs will fix fig this time; but pears to ine they'll figure up tier than they have been doing. Politics consist in figuring, and a man wno don’t know ‘rithmitic hain’t got no show, no how. Tatn’t no use to buck ’gainst an almanac.” Mr. Tanner drove me up yesterday to where he said the Bourbons were. Jt seems that Bourbon- ism in this political contest not only disturbed his calculations, as it did the calculations of others, but actually made the almanacs seem ridiculous, I succeeded in meeting a number of the gentlemen in their elegant hotel overlooking the banks of the Susquehanna. I found them busily engaged mak- ing parlor ornaments and walking sticks and tryin; by practical test to discover what they knew abou farming. They acknowledge themselves utterly disgusted with the Bourbon ticket, and when they again appear in public will form A TEMPERANCE PARTY, For the present they will take no part in politics. They are somewhat ashamed of themselves, their , irreguiar movements for the last few months isgusted their friends and relatives and em ridiculous, The} Bourbonism at the early si of the contest, but they have had too much of It and feel sick, I could give the names of some of these gentlemen, but I am under bonds fn this respect. I can say, however, that most of the Bourbon gentlemen who have bolted their party ané have found an faylum hed members of it here, were distinguished 1: the Bar. is quite pleasant to talk with these gentlemen con- cerning the political situation, ey readily ac- kpowledge that ae far ae thiy State ip concerped pudlic sentiment is t them, and that. no Tontter wat ine isnee of eho x of the approaching election, future be directed against sidential contests, and that the spirit of the movement is already squeiched. It seemed to me that the Bourbon bolters were ex! to Rave it made to the r rs of the that al they want now is to be let alone; that they are desirous of wiping out the folly of the it and recoverin; their sanity. As to Grant’s chances for a secon term and Greeley’s for the White House chair, they are rent. me of them said me dori visit, of us will leave here after the election, but none that know of before that. We are not fools as we used to be. We are willing to let the regular pohticians fight the matter among themseives, and we arc done with Bourbonism. It is played out as far as we are concerned, There are eighty of us here, and I think we fairly represent the party. To be sure, as this is a free country, a man will break out now and again and raise particular Cain down town; buthe either gets laughed at or is arrested by a constable and sent back, and that is the end of it. Although we are in @ certain sense free, our party lines are tightly drawn. It must be A SOURCE OF GREAT COMFORT to you, sir, and to every man in the nation, tn fact, that the Bourbon party is here under sarveillance. Bourbonism has been the grand disturbing element since the opening of the coenaien not that we hurt anybody as much as we did ourselves, but we made such a fuss and kicked up such & row it seemed that we were a tremendous power. Our actions, from Phil Farley's Convention at Long Branch to that high old tare at Louisville, were, from the circumstances of the case, peculiar, to put it mildly. But we have bolted, and are ‘re- generated, redeemed and disenthralled.’ Some anxi say that Grant belonged to ws _ before we boited, and that Greeley is of our new-formed faith, It doesn’t matter @ bunch of radishes. We are very sick and we shan’t weep nor throw up our hats, no matter who ts elected. Bourbonism is dead, I hope, but Misa Columbia on the fifth of November can fix on her noble brow the time-honored announcement ‘we | still live!’ Say something good of the inetitution please. It hag saved us from destruction indivi- dually and collectively, and taken avery disturbing andjdangerous elcment out of this political canvass. MR. TANNER AND HIS ALMANACS. On my way back to my hotel Mr. Tanner posted me concerning politics in general, now and again stopping to consnit his infallible almanacs, The horse, was leased to observe, was in syzapecep wit! ‘Tanner, and when the latter discussed litical arithmetic with gusto he wagged his tail, made signs of satis- faction with his cars and browsed like a well-con- ducted and well-bred animal. Three better assorted animals could not be found from High Bridge to the Falls. “Chunks of wisdom” dropped from Tanner; knowledge floated into the ready ars of your correspondent, and the horse gloried in tuits of stray, wandering hay as he coursed the roadside, But, notwithstanding the almanac, it did not strike me that Mr. ‘Tanner’s arguments were all sufficient and conclusive. ‘The figures given in his beloved almanacs are rather against fe ae HY ty yes of ie Yet niigd of 8. Grant as fay ag thig county is concerned, aN dik HebmLiGan Sony of the past few years has dwindled down and is dwindhing. General Jones—all our generals are politicians and most of them are suilering the pangs of oftice—informs me that when he sounded the bugle of recall from the regular army of re- publican self-seckers after Cincinnati be was alone, but in a few days he was surrounded by one hundred stanch republicans bitterry opposed to Grant and his party. He claims that this number bas been largely increased of late, and if the democrats display their ay, energy and vim the Grant party will be routed in this county, as he thinks they will all over the State. Broome Wis ever a stronghold of radicalism, but since j 163 it seems to have fallen from grace, It is clearly evident to me that outside of certain in- terested cliques political opinion runs rather in favor of Horace Greeley the republican than U. 8, Grant the republican. There has been entirely TOO MUCH “GENKRALISM’? in this campaign. ‘The rank and file have had togo on duty or go to the guard house, while the well provided for shoulder-strapped official had nothing to do but fll his pockets and sneer at Greeley. This was all right for war times, but not now. Between the maimed soldier on the staf! drawing $5,000 a year for doing nothing but talking Grant, and the Soldier of the ranks half starving over the handle ofa hand organ, there is too wide a difference, too | great a distinction. Our citizen soidiery, who did actually “put down the rebellion,” are tired, I | think, of hurrahing for “General this, general that, | and general the other,” whole or wounded, who now base their fame on having sent to useless, un- | availing slaughter better men than themselves, | People are beginning to look at politics through civilian eyes. ‘There ave hundreds of people im this | section of the country who are sick of sighting their | political oppovents over a rife barrel, and are angry enough to fling the mouthing office-holders | down into the bicody chasm. FARMERS IN THE FIBLDS, as one passes from county to county, stop from their work, and, without the slightest idea of who you are or Wiat you are, challenge you with Avrah for Greeley! J have not heard an “A’rah for Grant!” from any one of these people yet, and this looks bad for the regular republicans in this Siate. ‘Those with whom | have talked have no fear of Mr. Greeley’s tinancial iheorics, and, on the other hand, have no special ill-ieeling for Grant; but they seem heartily enjoy a shout for Grecley, If the administration — can’t fing preenback incucement for these people sufficient to alter their opinion— a lawyer froin Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, informs me it did there, to the tune of $5 each tor 6¢O men—it will be a grand ‘rah for Greeley on the night of the hh of November. However it may be in other #ec- ions of the State, here in this region, among the Jarmers and business men, Greeley stock seems to | be in the ascendant. I am compeilea to acknowledge, though, that the State ticket headed by Kernan is imperiled on account of the latter's religion, or, atleast, the fiddle-de-dee arguments concern it. A howl is being got up against him in out-of-the-way places because he is a Catholic. DIX AND KERNAN, Dix, who is supposed to be, and I believe is, a Protesta will be supported by these people merely to annoy Kernan. Some few of them remember Dix having hung out or hauled down or bribed some fellow very many years ago for shooting or refraining from shoot- ing somebody or other about a flag or a fiag- staff; but they cannot see why he should be made Governor of the Empire State on that ac- count. But Dix isa Protestant and Kernan is a Catholic, and that is sufficient for this small and in- significant—except in a close political contest— bevy ofrural bigots, lt is to be hoped, however, that before the final arbitrament at the polis these People will be taught by the orators on both sides that Church and State in this country are not wedded together, and that religion and politics have no joint interest. STATE NOMINATIONS. As far as State nominations are concerned on both sides there is little to be said, No matter which party wins in the bec 4 fight the pecnis will, I think, be well represented, ie candidates for the State Legisiature—republican, liberal and democratic—in this county are exceptionably good men, and have not hitherto muddied their boots in the political pool. Altogether the outlook is satis- factory and encouraging to the friends of reform. There was an immense turnout of liberal repubii- cans and democrats here to-night, speeches, parades and torchlight procession and ali that, and much enthusiasm. The regular Grant republicans are to have a ge on Wednesday next, and threaten to ontshine this one completely, and I have no doubt they will. “Money makes the mare go.” Tam glad to see, though, a growing dispo- ition to frown down aji such nonsense, not only because of the expense but of the bitter feelings it engenders, PITTSBURG MERCHANTS WANT OURRENCY, PirrsBuRG, Pa., Oct. 20, 1872. A large number of the most influential business men of Pittsburg have united in a petition to Secre- tary Boutwell asking for the reissue of $44,000,000 of greenbacks retired by Secretery McCulloch, as @ measure of relief from the present monetary stringency, which the petitioners say is now em- barrassing the business interests of the country; the notes reissued to be exchanged for interest. bearing loan of the government. ‘The 2 sedi will be presented early in the week by a delegation of business men, who will be met at Washington by delegations ae @ large proportion of the z cities West of the Alleghany. SOUTH CAROLINA'S DEBT. Ratification of the Constitut: 1 Amendment Prohibiting Any Increase of Debt. CHARLESTON, 8. C., Oct. 20, 1872. Advices from all sections of the State show that the amendment to the State constitution prohibit- ing any increase of the State debt has been rati- fied by an overwhelming affirmative vote. Both parties very generally endorsed the measure. The amendment provides that the General Assembly is hereby forbidden to create any farther debt or obligation, either by the loan of the credit of the State, by guarantee, endorsement or otherwise, except for the ordinary and current business of the State, without first submitting the question as to the creation of any such new deb jarantee, endorsement or loan-of the credit ‘to ihe» ple of this State at @ general election; and unless two- thirds of the qualified voters of this State votin tuarantee, endorsement oF loa of this oredlt Dou or Shall be created oF mude, Sree wean [pees Death FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 20, 1872. A fire broke out this morning in R, J. Leaman’s stcam saw and planing mill, in Beach street, below Hanover, destroying that building and the stables of the Knickerboc ker Ice Vompany; also a consid- erabie amount of lumber on x ant’s wharf. John Taylor's Al te AT WPS Sega ont fe" ed i Li 908 $40,000; tu ea ene eee © i 3 to the » “On!” said aa ntieman, scratching his head for an idea “can you tell me where thd man Reiner lives?” ‘He lives on street.’” could you, where the gentle- oe cont “No said: the Alderman, Ver " man is now!” “No! The ameroni Brothe 3 nh to whet the knives on , - r-in-Law in now S machioe, “What kind of a house does he ” live in?” ‘Don’t khow.” “Could you give me tha a Bad “Fix. number? This was too much for the crowd present. One loud roar of laughter escaped every Peculiarities of Lancaster—The Alleged Fraudu- lent Naturalisation Papers—Frey Makes a Statement to a Herald Commissioner— The County Prothonotary “Roped In” to MoMollen’s Little Game—A Country Alderman Dressed in a Little Brief Authority. one at once, and the ious uirer’? took hig leave, So much for the redoubtable Amweg. ‘The cages of Dr. Muhlenberg and Mr. Sehaubel, charged with conspirin; uff t! and that of Messrs. charged with issuing fraudulent naturalization apers, will go to the Courts, and will probably be ard next month, ‘ THE REAL ESTATE MARKET, Lancasran, Pa., Oct. 20, 1872. | The Constant Appreciation of This is emphatically a Dutch town, save in its architecture, which ts patterned after the Quaker City. In all other respects there is nothing to dis- tinguish it from the abiding place of the active Hollander, ‘fhe Dutch have taken Holland,” is a favorite answer to the seeker after news. If we change it to “the Dutch have taken Lancaster” we shall come nearer the truth. I saw, as I seated my- self at supper Friday evening, that I had struck the headquarters for all the Mynheers in the town. The landlord of the “Blue Turkey-Cock”—that is just as good a name as any—is a fat and jolly speci- men of the native of North Germany transplanted to America. He is “hale-fellow, well met’ with all his guesta, new and old, and sets your mind at ease at once by leaning familiarly on your shoulder and asking, ‘‘Veel you hafa leetle of de fish, or vill you | prefers meat?” Then, remembering one of his | female servants has been derelict in the matter of | tomatoes, singe out, “Sallie, bring in de tummat- | tusses!”? I found out the old fellow knew some- thing of THE “POWER OF THE PRESS,"? | for he approached me late in the evening witha very patronising smile and remarked confidentially, “You’re a member von de bress, don’t you /’? How he had found me out so soon I could not ascertain, but I assented. ‘Vell, ven you goes away you | don’t pay no bill, eh!” IT was not long setting him \ straight on that score, } Although Lanéaster is a German town to all in- tents and purposes, the bucolic Dutchman, it seems, is not averre to turning an honest penny outside the legitimate line of his regular calling, In fine, he is fast learning all the tricks of polities and turning his Knowledge to pecuniary advantage. If it be true, as Dr. Muhlenberg told me a few days ago, that forty or fiity Ger. mans came to him and offered their votes at $1 each and upwards, the demoralization among our German Property Here. ——— ‘What Is Doing—The Boulevard the Ground of Speculation of the Period and in the Future— ‘West Side Growth and the Broadway Widening—Prices and Particulars— What the Writer Knows About the Present Condition of the Market—The Metropolis. The two most important points im regard to the real estate market of the present time are, as wag mentioned here in the early part of the season, rapid transit and the widening of Broadway. In re- gard to the first mentioned there is a satisfied feel- ing among real estate men that Mr. Vanderbilt will push forward this enterprise with that same energy | and persistence that has charac! erized him through- out life and advanced him to his present opulence. ‘The preliminary work of surveying the route has been already performed, and the great pecunfary resources which Mr. Vanderbilt can command, ag | well as the fact that the building of the road is cer- tainly to his interest, give additional assurance that no time will be lost in securing its completion. The opening up of this highway will bring at once into close communication with the centres of businesd the upper part of the island, so that 120th street may be as near to the City Hall, in point of time, as Twentieth street now is. In regard to the BROADWAY WIDENT there is a feeling among west-side property own- ers that there is a necessity to push it to its ac. | complishment. ‘They argue that this part of the city, | in the absence of such attractive avenues as Fifth, kourth, Third and Madison, onering convenient fellow-citizens is something frightful. But this | and pleasurable access, has been retarded in its Temark, I think, should be accepted with a few | gettiement, and hence the population has not grains of allowance. Dr. Muhlenberg, a German, is | gought a dwelling in that direction in the same accused of conspiring to stuff ballot boxes, and one | proportion that it has on the east side. ‘The Thaubel is now under bail on-the same charge. ‘The next sensation, the principal one at this time, — is the charge against Messrs. McMeilen and Witt- linger, who are openly charged with distributing — | an appeal from the FALSE NATURALIZATION PAPERS. | It may seem to the ambitious partizan that every- | thing is fair in love, war and politics. It sometinies | happens, however, that the ‘best laid plans of mice and men aft gang aglee.”” So it has been in this | instance. The aMidavits in both cases are so direct, | and the statements of their makers so clear and apparently straightforward, that it seems like folly to doubt that there “is something in it.” | Through the courtesy of Mayor Pyfer, I was | shown one of the naturalization papers, which it is claimed is fraudulent. The paper itself is correct in every particular, even to the signature of the County Clerk in Philadelphia, Thomas Ashton, ex- cept the seal, There seems to have been atraud practised in affixing the seal, if in fact a seal hag | been used at all, Ordinarily a Court seal will leave an impression into and through the wafer and the paper. In this instance, tie legend and letters are very indistinct, and it is almost positive the large | red wafer was impressed belore it was , aftiixed to the pape There is a way of getting an impression from a stamped paper | with sealing wax, and afterwards stamping an- | other wafer with the impression thus obtained. | During the excitement over alleyed fraudulent naturalization papers in Philadelphia some years since, Mr, O’Riera demonstrated how tlis could be done, ANOTHER EVIDENCE OF FRAU! is this: Both men swear positively ti went to Philadelphia after their papers, coutrary they received them at Lancaste It is | required by law that every man get his own | papers personally, Schmidi says he had never made application for his first papers. Woth of these men are ignorant of the Jaw in such cases | and were easily imposed upon. ‘to make their work more complete, it is alleged thai McMetl hey never ut on the le made a tool of the prothonotary of the county | without that gentleman's knowlédge. Frey made the fo} owing statement to me last evening :— Came to New York in 1865 from Europe; bas lived in | Pennsylvania four years and ix months; never voted before this last clection ; ot out my first papers in Har- September 23,1840; knew 4 had ben in the coun | rT; knew a wit- y second pa Lancaster who wold me that he | try lone enough to get ness (Mr. Myer) living would be obliged to get another witness, 1 said, thought f could get the witness in Philadelphia.” Myers said to me, “Have you got your first paps ” 1 taid | “Yes,” and showed them to him, After he looked at the papery he said, “Come out, want you meet a man ere.” It was MeMellen, ‘Ve asked me if ! wanted my T sald “Yes: and alvotold him that 1 would | He looked at my first paper itl your going to F elphia.” i said, eh of it; allright. It saves me a good deal of trouble.” He went away and I did not see him again. 1 went to Meyer's Just before election and said, “How is it about this paper?’ He said he would vo and see M returned he said,“ ts all right,” T thought nothing more of ‘it until election day, when I began to think I was CHEATED OUT OF MY RIGHTS, and I went down to Meyer's store and said, “This ts a regular humbug. Why have f been treated'in this way? fi had known this Twould have gone to Philadelphia and attended to the matter myscl!.”. Meyer's bookkeeper toid me MeMellan had been 1 the store and oid him the Papers were all right and that he wold be aronnd to sce me. I went to work, and about an hour and a bait the prothonotary of the county, Mr. Stauffer, and asked if Thad my pay and I told him’ 1 He said, “Well, I have th them, ahd he suid assed if the ive me the right to vote, and he replied,‘ a right.” After he told me all right felt satis: | fel. After dinner went to vote. MeMellan | met me atthe polls and asked if had aticket, I said, | not yet. He then hi 1 iuim it be got ihe papers in Phil could I get them without going vote. The question was asked where T answered | ft. Breneman, the — Ju Uleetion, raid, “Oh, yes; "I know that’s wll riht,? | and took my vote without any further que . | | MeMellun watehed me very closely to see how I voted. 1 | dia net use the tieket he gave me, and did not let him sec how J voted. WHY FREY BROUGHT THE SUIT. | Saturday succeeding the election Chief of Police R.A. | Smith entered my piace and joked me about not vetting his papers. I replied that he had got them, laughed, and I showed him the paper. He said, rend it ‘without my specs; won't you c office? When we got over there he sai leave it here until the Mayor comes in? Monday following the Mayor sent for quired to state the whole thing to hi me that the paper, war ‘randnlent. There nothing done that day. Tuesday evening I was sent ior again and asked if 1 wished to prosecute MeMellap, and I con- eluded to do it. } It will be seen from the above statement that i the county, believe the papers | a with a foresight that evinced a deal of shrewdness, prevailed upon Mr. Stuuf- | er to take the paper to y. This was intended | to give it a sort of oilicial endorsement. It is but fair to state in this connection that Mr. Stauffer has cleared himself o! any suspicion of connivance to help MeMelian’s scheme. ‘THE REPUFLICANS THREATEN to make some developments ere long that wiil | make it warm for their democratic me ors. They | claim to have some of the liberals in tighter situa- tions than they know of, and promise to spring the trap at an early day. If they are really possessed of information criminating the libera) mai ment this county they owe it to themselves a the community in which they live to divulge it at once. This is hardly a time for child’s play or idie threats, Talk is very cheap here just now, and its influence htens + Accusations sap- ted by affidavits or evidence are the only me- pone ol were all right, an iums calculated to create a sensation. It is said Dr. Muhlenberg, the republican Col- lector of Internal Revenue, has been approached several times of late with overtures looking to a “settlement.” Like the Mayor, who represents in his person the chief magistrate of the city and one of the principal t rosecutors of McMellan and Wittiin- ger, the r refuses to “settle.” This is a rumor I hear on the streets, and I have not been able to trace it to any reliable source. The Alder- mah—Athweg—before whom Dr. Muhlenberg ap- peared isa ofa MORE AMBITION THAN BRAINS. Dressed in @ little brief authority, he is given to age seems at times to have tten Ae had attained to the dignity. ot an Alderman ol le From ces 1 am aailesd to believe Mr. am ally beg his pardon, I mean Alderman ‘Amweg—ie a litte sick of hie part in the proseca- tion ol rf Muhlen! . A genticman called on hima Jast night for some information regarding ‘ somite teaty and dectined 3 ‘As ameans of “shaking” the | many of which offer attractive + Lasked hin where he got | | Boulevard joins Ninth avenu McMellan is alleged to have made Mr. Stauffer, the | $ | obstruction at the present time seems to be in the appeal of one Thompson, a property owner on the | line of the proposed improvement, who has mada upreme Court commissioner: here because of an insuficient award. ‘Vis appeal will come before the higher court in a short time, and whatever the result, either in sustaining or | reversing the judgment given below, will, in settling this anxious question, give @ great impetus to the movement in real estate. INVESTMENT IN WEST SIDE property is also delayed by the uncertainty which exists concerning Riverside Park, in consequence of an appeal made in objection to the appraise- ment, Notwithstanding this, however, it is in this | direction that we observe the greatest interest 1m reul estate, ‘The rapid prog ess Of work upon the Boulevard and the remarkable attractivenesd which the almost completed section shows indf- cates that property on this Hne or adjacent thereta will have for capttal & stroug inducement for ins vestment. ‘This has stimulated a desire to gee conirol of it among thoughtful operators, who, watehing the t ney of the city’s growth during the past few vears, perceive its future direction. Ww York, In spite of all rivairy and all efforts at iverting ¢ the social, political and FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF THE NATION. It is this latter advantage which gives it its pres- ent and insures it its future supremacy over all rivals. Boston, Piiadelplia, Baltimore and other chiles of th aboard may struggle as they will ta ; Obtain rail lt e through their streets, but While thes co Hed to draw their biils of ex- change on New York this city will maintain its higher position, It is not with any intent of re- ficcting upon our sister communities that we draw attention to the tact in this connection, whieh they must admit themselves, that social pre-eminence rests here. ‘This is the art centre of our Republic; and as London, Kerlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg can ve certificates of merit in the man of the respective countries they represent as capitals so can New York. esides that, there is an increasing ten- cy of wealthy Americaus who havea juive affluence in other parts of the Union ta ek here that higher culture and greater refines for its indulgence: rk, influenced by its cosmopolita: avford them. No city in the Uniot riety of amusement, whether 1G Ac se that character, offers the saine “I | be light and frivolous, artistic or deep thinking. For instance, we ha ment open ‘every n e twenty-two places of amuse- ight almost the entire year, rogrammes "that ‘ clude, in their turn, the best talent of the world. We have ony art galleries and many collections of | choice masterpieces which are open to the request | Ol any respectable applicant and the constant as- | semblage of distinguished visitors. These are | some of the causes which assure us of our cons tinued existence as the metropolis of the Magda | and which, in a silent way, induence capital im | this direction in real estate investments, FOREIGN CAPITAL has been particularly active recently in seeking ope | portunity of Investment of this kind. Among our | Isvaelitish and German fellow citizens there is a | particularly strong pt tu secure favorable | Opportunities of this kind, and, as the class wha | seck for them belong to the better order of their eople ard may be regarded as representatives of houses abroad, the inlerence is that there is an ine | flux Of foreign capital here which, if we do not guard ourselves carefully, may bee the entire island. During the excitement in Fifth avenue property two years ago, tn which prices ran up rapidly, this class were among the principal buyers, and among those of them of 4 lower social position their accumulated profits in corner groceries an@ other occupations of the same character are mostly invested in real estate, in these cast side prop- erty Ootained its activity last year, and as they buy to hold, and have occtipied almost the entire section not already purchased by Ring capitalista, we find littie activity there, THE MORAL OF THIS ig to be found in the steady appreciation of reat estate on this isiand. ‘This may be seen from the following estimate given by a capable expert of the prices at Which Boulevard property may be fairly set down :— From Fifty-ninth to Sixty-fifth street, where the lots are placed at from $80,000 to $40,000 each—recent sales establishe ing this quotation. Above Sixty-flith street to Seventy-second thera isa graduating price which places the maximuny | at about $30,000, and the minimum at $25,000, From Seventy-second street to Seventy-ninth street, stili on the Boulevards, the quotation is 125,000 to $20,000, ) From Seventy-ninth to Ninety-sixth street lots are variously estimated at from $20,000 to $15,000, From Ninety-sixth street to iloth street the estimate falls again in due proportion until it reaches $15,000 to $12,000, Pay 110th and above lots range from $12,000 to 1500, ON THE FAST SIDE | @ recent sale produced for seven lote ut the corner of Madison avenue and Fifty-fifth street $210,000, being an average of $40,000 per iot, itis also authoritati stated that $60, ‘was Tre- cently offered and refused for an inside lot on Fifth pike! between Fifty-ninth and Sixticth streets, here is NO PROPERTY OFFERING ofa first class character. The inquiry is greatet: under the peculiar conditions of a Presidential elec- tion and the recent joca! disturbance in our moneg market than has been exhibited for many previous riods of a like character. All property offered) low its former price commands a ready it. @nce, and the confidence of moneyed men in fature of this metropolis is exhibited in the con- stant watchfulness to pick bis at a bargain any par- ce) of New York real estate that may be offered ang way cheaply. A BEECHER T0 THE RESCUER, “ The Brother of the Pastor of Plymouth Charch on Frauds at Elections. Etatra, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1872. Mr. T. K. Beecher, @ reverend speaker, much ree spected and widely known as the brother and, as some say, the peer of Henry Ward Beecher, preached to-night at the Opera House toa large audience, composed of the best people of this sec- tion of the State, He denounced fraud at the bal box, corruption at the polls and undue infue ence in elections. His made a great sensation, and is con< sidered great blow at the administration im