The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1872, Page 5

———_ JOHN. A. DIX. ———— The ‘General’s Views of the . Past, Present and Future. THE CHANCES OF GRANT AND GREELEY. Opinions on the National and State Campaiga Issues. AN OLD-FASHIONED NEW HOUSE. “Hf Any One Attempts to Haul Down the Amer- jean Flag Shoot Him on the Spot!” HOW THE FAMOUS ORDER WAS WRITTEN The General’s Fireside Tales— Anecdotes of Great ‘Men, Living and Dead—About Game Shot “ou the Spot—The War of 1812. ‘Wrst amrrton, L. J., Oct. 23, 1872. ‘About seventy-six miles from New York, on the Long Island Ratlroad—the worst managed bit of veilway in the United States—stands a wooden station and a cottage, and these are marked down @p the mapa of the ling as «We m.”? The country roundabouts ® thriving agricultural re- gion, though rather \d uniiteresting. A nar- sow road that delves: tothe right into a Young forest. of grees @f,eiunted growth leads Shrough the dozep houses that form the village ef Westhampton, and at a distance of three miles, ifyou follow the track and happen to choose the right one of the half dozen forks in the road that bewilder the stranger on the way, you may drive off Long Beach into the Atlantic Ocean. About five or six hundred yards from the surf, on @ point of land, known as Ketchabonnock Neck, and formed by the waters of Great South Bay and Quan- ‘tuck Bay, stands a large and rather fandsome swooden house, one of the two or three rural or farm residences of General John A. Dix, the republt- can candidate for Governor and the man who, in ‘2861, thrilled the nation by his historic order—‘If any one attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot.”? The house is by a consider- able distance nearer the sea than any other doml- eile in the vicinity, and General Dix has very appro- priately named it “‘Seafield,” as it is situated on the nearest cultivated ground to the ocean. The scenery in the neighorhood is rather tame and fiat, excepting to the south and southwest. There the sand hummocks of Long Beach jut their irregular Outlines against the sky and form an ever-wasting ever-building rampart, against which Old Ocean’s Meecy plumed warriors charge, break and roar in a THE SUMMITS OF THESE DUNES ere fringed by a sparse growth of scagrass and the eccasional signal poles which tell the neighboring Aphermen when a shoal of their prey and profit makes its appearance on the coast. ‘ ‘Here and there, on the landward slope of the ridge, in the gaps worn by the rush of the sea, in tempest times, are located menhaden oll factories, where millions of fish annually have been con- gamed, but it is said the business is dying out be- fore the increasing yield of the petroleum regions. To the northeast and north lie the low salt ficlds whieh skirt Quantuck Bay, topped in the distance by the tall column which bears the Ponquogue Light, This Long Istand Pharos is said to be one of the loftiest lighthouse structures in the United Btates. It must have considerable altitude, for as 1 was driving along the village road, a few evenings since, the great glaring eye of the beacon seemed only 8 few fields distant, though actually ten miles away. All this Jow ground skirting the bay offers rare attrac- tions to the sportsman, for wild duck, snipe and other water fowl hide under every sedgy tuft that orders the bays and inlets along this coast. To the left of the bridge that spans the narrow chan- nel which divides the neck from the beach and con- nects Quantuck and Great South Bays isa small pond in the meadows, and here the General has shot hundreds of birds ‘on the spot’ and about it; for he is a great sportsman, and probably second to momanof his years as a marksman. Duck and suipe decoys loll on the surface of the pool, and at one endaclump of busheson the margin forms a place of concealment for THE VETERAN NIMROD. In this retreat it is no uncommon thing to find the rugged septuagenarian, encased in rubber clothing, crouching at dayoreak for his game, and ‘waiting for hours for its approach if necessary. Thisis his favorite shooting place; but he bom- bards water fow! all over the neighborhood, and founders in and out of holes, knee-deep in water, Im the indulgence of his great pastime. Indeed, it ‘was his taste for shooting that led to the establish. ment of Seafield, which he originally planned as a sort of shooting-box, and afterward improved and enlarged, so as to make it a Summer seat. The mansion is @ fine, square-looking structure of two stories in height, with high attic roof, a rear extension and a veranda—running along three sides. Gravelled carriageways lead up through a lawn, as yet incomplete, to a circle at the porch, nd giladiolas, verbenas and other choice flowers crown the summits of the flower beds oneither hand. A handsome barn and carriage house.and a water windmill stand in rear of the [bp the latter supplying a large tank with ater from a dry-pump well. But it is necessary to visit the interior of THE GENERAL'S HOME AT SEAFIELD to understand the peculiar taste which prompted bum in its construction, His city residence, only a few feet removed from Fifth avenue, is a fashton- able house of the conventional brownstone, filled swith rare and antique furniture and fittings and objects of art and vertu. Down here there is none of this. He has built here the oldest fashioned modern house I have ever seen, but everything in at is calculated for what farmers’ wives call ‘solid comfort.” The first impression onentering it ts akin to the popular idea of what the “oakroom” might be an autique British manor- house, Floors, wails = and ceiling are Made of ash, and though the general effect is, ina de sombre, there is a singular feeling of the @nug and cosey init. This is particularly felt on entering the pariors in evenings about this time of the year, when ruddy wood fires snap on the oid- style open hearthstone and glint the burnished brasswork of great andirons, such as were known Dest to our grandmothers, and are to most of us a tt of reminiscence by the old folks. ‘The neat planking of the floors is only am inch and a half in ‘width, and instead of being concealed by voluptu- ous carpets, after the style of our day, is covered here and there, in front of sofas, earths and rock- by rugs of divers patterns and sizes, ing chairs, ‘The fronts of the mantels around the fireplaces are | INLAID WITH DUTCH TILES, brought chiefly by the worthy hostess from the Hague and Delft. One of tnese tile plates, how- ever, Duilt by the General's father, and must certainly be about a hundred years old, The chimneys of that house were pulled down some few ycars ago, and this was the only tlle that came from the ruin intact. Some idea may be formed of the period when that house was built by the fact, stated to me by the General, that there were 50,000 bricks ia the chimney. They don’t put up smoke- stacks of that shape and size in these jimcrack days. A few plain pictures ornament the walls, @ome of them being the amateur work of mem- of the family. Very noticoable, however, unfinished marine view, of bol and execution, lated by son, a@ well known artist, whose studio in Rome is the resort of connoisseurs from the Old as asthe New World; aiso a chronograph of Paul Potter's Bull, the gem of the Hi Series. to rT & young married lady, together with tour iting grandchildren, of Whom Mra. Dix scems peculiarly fond, The General is here also, but as @ sort of bird Of passage, Spans down here about once a week, as he may be able to arrange in business intervals, 1 don't Class him as “steady company,” He is here to-day and away LA MOTTO’ Still, 1¢ is amid quiet domestic surroundings such glare and fashion, but smacking ore devas a Of true case an fe luxury of a home that is not half hote), that the General spe: asant hours of bis life. Itisindecd’ =) ‘"¢ Pleasantest A HAPPY PICTURE to see the General, surrounded by his family and ‘andehildren, grou in the ruddy light of Bearubdre, aud liovebiow vo nls rT st persogel ‘was originally set in the fireplace of a house | ' WW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. e tive turns upon x State. iext tells iow, fae roearniy from a health trip to the West thence to Washi: Indies, he landed at Mobile and travelled | mn on horseback—a distance of | 1,200 miles—stopping only two half days to get un- derciothing washed. That was before the railroad | e. And now he regales the circie with anecdotes credited unless It is sustained by positive proof. It Sens nee Nah ope Sata a ’ ho paper whic! ot prompts cor- rect @ misstateisent when cobvineed of its ror. THE PACTS IN Ragane, 70 BEALL were these. He was ar ‘within our lines as a Spy, disguised - ing @ com jon in Confederate service. He had a fair trial. his journal, which showed him to be a@ man of education, to the Conrt in order #nat he might have the benetit of ail that could be sqid in his defence. thad@ie er to direct his execution I Sent the record of the trial to Mr, Lincoln imorder that I might know his opinion in regard to the regularity of the proceedings and the justice of the Sentence. He returned it. without any intimation that he thought either wrong. Igranted Beall every indulgence, and one of hia last acts was to write me of many of our dead Presidents, of the Senate | ying when it numbered in its body the greatest minds that ever assembled in the Capitol, and of episodes of Court lifeand travel in the monarchies of the Old World. The other evening, while talking with the veteran soldier, diplomat and story-telier, I alluded to his “SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT"? order, as it is called, and <i him to narrate the circumstances under which it was issued, and he related somewhat as follows :— “Well,” he said, as he crossed bts legs and as- sumed an expression of pleased interest, ‘1 had been, of course, but a short time in charge of the Treasury Department, and we were afraid of } our revenue cutters in the chief Southern ports. had already sent Mr. Jones, who belonged to one of the bureaus of the department, down, with certain instructions to save them at all hazards, When he reached New Orleans he telegraphed me the condi- tion of affairs there and of the determination on the part of the Southerners there to hoist the Con- federate flag on the cutter Robert McClelland, sta- tioned there. He asked me for advice, and it was evening, perhaps seven o'clock, when I received his despatch. I was alone, in my office in tne Treasury, and I at once wrote the order of which you speak. It was done off- hand, and the most definite idea I had regarding it at the time was that I picked up a very bad pen to write it with, and that the pen gave me so much trouble that I misspelled the word “Treasury” and got two a’sin it. I then called in one bp Shehlactle and told him to make & copy of the despatch and forward it. He did so, and I put the original draft, asI did with all originals, in my drawer. Some time afterward, when I was | ing through m, papers, preparatory to leaving the department, Came across this drait, and 1 ronan’ that, as it now an eseion of my son, the rec! of Trinity church. ” “General,” I remarked, ‘the controversy in ref- erence to the authorship of that despatch must have amused you at times even, though it annoyed you at others.” “Well,”’ he replied, ‘I think I have been aston- ished more than I have been amused or annoyed bathe pertinacity with which the matter is handed about aiter the most conclusive proofs have been ht forward ng it.” Did you give the expression any consideration either at the time you wrote it or afterward, other than such as you ordinarily gave to such affalra t” AN ANEODOTE OF BUCHANAN. ¥Why, no,” answered the General, as he toyed with a pen on the table. ‘‘I did not think much about it—I thought 1was merely issuing an order Which it-was my duty to issue. 1 omitted to tell the President of it until two or three days after- wards, sithoug Iwas staying at the White House ; but [said to him at the next Cabinet meeting, ‘I am afraid, Mr, President, that we shall lose two or three revenue cutters.’ He said to me, ‘How is thaty’ I then told him what had occurred at New Orleans, and expressed my fears lest the cutters at New Orleans might be seized, as were those at Charleston, Savannah 2nd other ports. The Presi- dent then asked me, ‘What instructions did you send? and I repeated the wording of the despatch tohim., He appeared a little startled, and said quickly, ‘Did you write thatr’ I answered, ‘I tele- graphed it’, and there the conversation ended. He never spoke of it again.” “Was it not singular that he should evince such surprise, and yet refrain from further allusion to it?” Tasked. “Yes,” replied the General, Song eats, “and it was some time afterward that! made up my mind that his astonishment was owing to his desire that if civil war were to follow the North might not make the initial ressive movement. That was @ cherished resolve of his that if war must come the onus of inaugurating it should not rest upon the federal government, and perhaps it was well in the end that he go closely followed out that idea.”? THE GENERAL'S COMING FIGHT. 1 then turned the conversation to more recent events and the probabilities of the coming election, and asked — “What do you regard as the chief considerations by which voters should be governed in the Presi- dential election?” “That question,” sald the General, ‘can best be answered b; telling you in what I think the true character of the contest consists. I regard the views of the two candidates on the subject of tariit and taxation, direct, and indirect, as subordinate to @ much graver issue—and that is whether the Union is to be maintained with the amendments made to the constitution since the rebellion, and with a cheerful acquiescence in those amendments, There are political men of high standing who do not hesitate to say they are not valid, and while there is an external or verbal assent to them, there is a secret denial of their validity, which I fear is much more extensive in the South than ts generally supposed. 1 think the declarations of Mr. Greeley, especially in his Dayton speech, have developed a latent hone that these amendments may be got rid of, and that negro voting may be suppressed in the future. Mr. Greeley sald in substance that if the Southern people, after full discussion and without bloodshed, should decide by their votes whether they would stay with us or go away, he would respect their decision. THIS DECLARATION has been responded to in Georgia by one of the most overwhelming majorities ever given by any State in the Union. It confirms fully the tear I have expressed that there is an underlying element of disturbance at the South which needs only the encouragement of a friendly or feeble administra- tion to be warmed into life and activity, It is in this point of view that Iregard the re-election of General Grant of vital importance. He has been exceedingly liberal towards those whom he en- countered in the field, and is as strongly opposed as any man to a hostile or vindictive policy toward them. I have thus briefly explained what I regard as the ruling consideration in this contest, It is certainly so with myself. I have never expected that the least ill feeling at the South which grew out of the rebellion would subside entirely during tne life of the present generation—I mean during the lives of those who bore an active partinit. It will gradually abate and die out by means of closer commercial and social relations between the two sections of the country and by intermarriage with THE CARPET-BAGGERS, if people choose to call by that name the Northern men who are pouring into the South and aiuing by their capital and enterprise to advance its pros- tee Happily it was not @ religious quarrel, eligious estrangement is apt to live on tor cen- turies—if, indeed, it ever dies—political quarreis rarely beyond a few generations.”’ “What Is your estimate, Gencral, of Mr. Greeley asa man of abiiity ¢” “L always had a favorable opinion of his intellec- tual powers,’’ responded the General, “but they seein to me to belong to the department of genius, as the term is commonly accepted by us, rather than to that of talent. His mental machinery ap- pears tolack a regulating power to connect in- equalities of motion.” “What do you think of his farming ?’* I asked, “L know nothing about it. Ihave never read his | book. Ihave no doubt it contains some pleasant, possibly profitable, reading. OUR LONG ISLAND FARMERS, however, laugh a good deal about his wood-chop- ping. They say, if he knew anything about it, he would not be cutting down trees wien the sap is up, a3 he has been doiug, according to the newa- ever since he was nominated for the Presi- “Lsee, General, that you have some flelds about you, Do you cultivate them 7" “Yes; but my agriculture is on a very small scale. I raised some corn last year and wheat this year, and sold what I did not w: my own use. But if 1 should set up for a farmer I fear my neighbors would laugh in their sleeves.” “[ understand you shoot a good deal, and | read an account of some REMARKABLE OASE OF YOUR SHOOTING this last Summer. Have you any objecton to tell me how it was?” “Not the slightest. I hired aman to shoot with me for a few weeks in the height o/ the season. Our game consisted chiefly of what are known on Long Island as bay snipe—curiew, mariin, willet eliow legs, dowitchers, &c. Our decoys are placed in the water, and we shoot on the wing as tue birds come over them, On the occasion referred to thirteen willet birds, somewhat larger than wild pigeons, came up while my gunner and mysell were waiting. Weeach fired one barrel and six birds fell. He fired bis second barrel and Killed one; I fired my second barrel and killed two. ‘There were then nine down. 1 had a breech-loader and he a muzzie-ioader, I reloaded in about ten seconds and shot two of the remaining birds with one barrel and one with the other. There were twelve down. I reloaded again in about the same time and shot the thirteenth bird. 1 do not think the whole time was much more than a minute.” “Butl do not understand why, alter the first shot, the remaining birds did not fy off.” “The reason is this. We have a habit of imitating the notes of the birds, and thus of keeping them within gunshot. It is not‘ unusual to cal them back over the decoys,” “Was mot this very extraordinary shooting 1’ I inquired. “It was certainly very unusual. But there are fifty men on Long Island who, with the same chances, would do the same thing. I should not think of comparing mysell in this respect with the gunners who shoot for the market. 1 have been in the habit of shooting from my boyhood, but only in ar Summer vacations. 1 think it has been of great vantage to my health. It keeps me in the open pg requires at times a good deal of bodily ex- ercise. “General,” I interpolated, “I noticed an article ina wai paper, a few days SFO, charging you with executing John Y, Beall without just cause. Will you tell me how it was?” “Tt 18 one of the peculiarities of this canvass that when a calumny has been refuted it is reiterated without any regard to the retutation. Nothing is more injurious to eeeie journaiism, for public opinion, which is always honest, even when it is misied, will soon begin to doubt whether in the heat of party contspversy any statement is fo be a letter, now in my possession, thanking me for my ness to himn."* 2 id rr “What do you think of the probable result of the contest in the Union ? “Lhave not doubted for @ moment, since THE NOMINATION OF MR. GREELEY at Cincinnati, that General Grant would be re- elected, 1 have never been a political statistician, Inever made what ts called a canvass of a State or county in figures in my life. My opinions have always been founded upon general reasonings. My belief is now—as it has Cn i been—that, apart from the party strength which will be brought to the support of General Grant, he will have the votes of nine-tenths of those who bore arms during the rebellion—enough to turn the scale in his favor, I speak, of course, of Northern voters, who are not only a numerous, but justly an influential class, if T had had Spr coupe on before Mr. Greeley’s attack on the Soldiers’ Convention at Pittsburg I should have none now. Ona survey of the whole ground 1 shall be surprised if General Grant does not get the votes of all the Northern, Eastern and Western States, except possibly one or two, and his re-election, therefore, seems to me beyond a uestion.’? “And what of this State ?"? “I think the influence of the same general causes which controled the results of the State elections in Pennaylvania, Ohio and Indiana (for the latter is a substantial republican victory) will be mant- fested in equal strength here. New York is not one of the two States I have referred to which may possibly be caxried for Mr, Greeley.” RELIGION IN POLITICS, “What is r opinion, General, of the introduc- tion of religious questions into the State or any other canvass ¥?? “Nothing, in my judgment, would be more to be regretted than the introduction of the religious question into the canvass. Not long after the nomination of Mr. .Kernan, for whose talents and personal ee T have always had a sincere respect, I recei @ letter from ditor of a re- tl ligious Raper hav! @ large circulation in New ne jough published Tg° another State, ‘ginko posing to oppose him on the sroune: of his religions Opinions. I have not a copy of my answer here, but it was brief, and I think I can recollect it very nearly word for word, It was this:—I think:it very unwise to introduce the religious opinions of candidates for office into political contests. There 1s no doubt that voters will be influenced, in some i 8 by such considerations, But it is a matter which should be left to their own judg- ments and consciences, uninfluenced by the ex- citement and prejudices which are too apt to grow out of political controversies.’ I will only add that the constitution of the United States holds as @ fundamental principle absolute freedom of relig- ious opinion, To advocate or oppose tbe choice of candidates for ofiice on this ground is an unde- niable violation of its spirit. Besides, as men are constituted, such ber eak 4 on the one hand, or oprosition on the other, will inevitably provoke re- sistance, and thus drag the sacred cause of re- ligion into the be deprecated. Throughout the interview the General spoke with at deliberation and earnestness, and seemed quite sanguine in tone and expression con- cerning coming events. BROOKLYN POLI1ICS. The Registration in Brooklyn. ‘The registration in Brooklyn has been completed, and the result shows an increase of above ten thou- sand over tne vote of last Fall. Then the vote was 66,000, and the democratic majority in Kings political arcna—a result greatly to county was 8,000, There has been an increase in every republican ward in the city, the aggregate of which is about nine thousand, while in the improv- ing democratic wards there has only been an in- In four of the democratic wards 3,000, the result of the regis- crease of 3,000. there has been a decrease of The following table shows tration during the four day: “Wards. "| Sept.24.) 16,268! 7 The First Assembly District Nomina- | tions. BROOKLYN, To THE Eviror OF THE HERALD:— At a meeting of the Democratic Convention of the First Assembly district, Kings county, held on Fri- day evening last, the candidates before that body were sustained equally by the representatives from each ward, when, no choice being agreed upon, they adjourned until Tuesday evening, 29th inst. The parties now in power finding that the candi- date intending to be nominated was not prepared to appear before the sub-committee of the Demo- cratic General Committee appointed to harmonize the Assembly districts where nominations had not been made, endeavored to call the Convention to- gether on Saturday night, in face of the original adjournment; but tie First ward delegation, see- ing through the job and understanding its intent, did not meet with them, insisting on Patrick J. Collins bemg a candidate lor Assembly in that d trict. FAIR PLAY. PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION FRAUDS, Why the Republicans Could Not Carry Scranton by Corrupt Means. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26, 1 To THE Eprror oF THE HERAL! There are two statements in your usually fair- play paper which do great injustice to the republi- can party in Pennsylvania. Your correspondent does not seem to understand the Registry law of our State, which is very dierent from that of New York State. The first is the insinuation, which is sometimes stronger than a statement, of fraud in the registry of Philadelphia. Under our system, instead of the yoters making application to be registered, it is the duty of the assessor to return allmale taxables in his precinct, and in this way ladies are sometimes returned by their initials, and all minors and foreigners, irrespective of their voting capacity. ‘hen Philadelphia, as incorpo- rated, includes all that used to be of the county of Philadelphia, which explanation, I think, accounts for the vote being only—speaking from recoliec- tion—about 115,000, while the registry was over 160,000, Now, as to the Luzerne frauds, This same Regis- try law contains Senator Buckalew's favorite theory of minority representation, under which, in all election districts aa two inspectors of elec- tion, voters are only permitted to vote for one tn- ctor, So that a district has to have an over- nelining party to elect both inspectors, The dem- ocratic party has that majority in the notorious Twelfth ward of Scranton. To prevent srauds at such precinots this same salutary law provides that Ou the application under oath of the opposite party it shall be the duty of our courts to appoint super- visors Of the minority party to watch the judge and inspectors of election in such district and see that they conduct the election properly —/. ¢., according t In the Twelfth ward, as your correspond- , the inspectors, appealing toa higher law nator Buckalew's, kicked out th super- visors, and, from a district having only 400 regis- Oct. 27, 1872, tered voters, returned 1,200 democratic majority. How's that for innocence vs. “fraud and corrup- tion.” Then it seems to ine if Hoyt and Shoemaker are 80 Venalit would be singular that they should be the frat to appeal to the courts. Yours truly, A “SHOEMAKER” REPUBLICAN, A POLITICAL BULLET, Denis Delancy, one of the inspectors of Assembly district No, 18, was yesterday morning shot in the thigh by an unknown man in the lager beer saloon 241 East Twenty-eighth street. The suiferer refused to tell the police who was nis assailant, and Dr. Wettengell having dressed his wound, the matter was allowed to subside into oblivion. THE SCHOOLSHIP MEROURY. This vessel is expected to sail from New York in the middie of November, and wiil be away four or five months in the vicinity of the West Indies. Father Duranquet, who has charge of the Catholic boys thereon, is anxious to procure ks and reading matter for them. Any offering for this worthy object should be made as soon as possibile. Books, pamphlets or money will be thankfully ac- cepted at St. Francia Xavicy’s College and given to Father Durapauet, NEW JERSEY. Republicanism Forcing Its Way Into the Stronghold of Democracy. Secrmtary Robson on the Stump—Grantites Hopefal of Another Pennsylvania Coup—The Working Coalitionists—Greeley’s Majority Expected To Be Large—Facts and Figures from Hunterdon, Somerset, Warren and Sussex Counties. FLEMINGTON, N. J., Oct, 25, 1872, ‘The place from which 1 write is in the very heart of @ conservative district, which has for years never swerved from the time-honored principles of the democracy. During the civil war the rebel Proclivities of some of its inhabitants were so Strong that the federal authorities were forced to Suspend the writ of habeas corpus in certain parts of Hunterdon county, With all this it furnished a large quota of Union soldiers, who proved their loyalty and bravery on many @ bioody battle field. The impending Presidential election is the great theme of interest just now, and the enthusiasm that is being manifested in favor of Horace Greeley is something unprecedented in the an- nals of political fights. I have for the last three . weeks been making the tour of the four counties which comprise the Thira Congres- sional district—Hunterdon, Warren, Sussex and Somerset—and I venture to predict that all of them, with the exception, probably, of Somerset, will give a sweeping majority for the Sage of Chap- Ppaqua. At the last election for Congressman John 'T, Bird, the democratic nominee, received @ ma- jority of 1,631 in Hunterdon county, in Somerset 849 and in Warren 1,685; Sussex county gave a democratic majority of 342; the total vote polled by Bird being 18,007—a clear majority of nearly four thousand over his opponent, Robert Rusling, the republican candidate. In 1863 Ho- ratio Seymour had 2 in this county, and from prevent ap soaratices Greeley will poll a much larger vote in November next. The small band of republicans who hold all the federal offices are making desperate efforts to uphold the cause of their chief. Pamphicts have been distributed by the thousand. Meetings are being held nightly. Every exertion is put forth io DIVIDE 1HE DEMOCRATIC VOTE. Ox roasts at the expense of the radicals have been held in honor of O’Conor and Adams, but the democratic party has not been divided, and, with a few solitary and insignificant exceptions, will vote as a unit for the Baltimore nominees on the 5th of next month, The Hon. George M. Robeson, whose early boyhood was spent in Warren county, has been to Flemington and made a speech—a speech, according to impartial critics, eminently calculated to excite the worst passions and prejudices of human nature, and keep alive the wounds and heartburnings be- tween class and class that should long since have been healed, He protested, in the name of the republican party, against the closing up of the “bloody chasm,” and stated that so long as God ave him breath he should protest against amnest; eing extended to the 200 rebels of the South Whose names Beare upon the black list. He was listened to by about one hundred republicans and five hundred democrats, and while the respectable men of his own party deprecated his remarks a few straight-out democrats who vegetated in Fleming- ton appeared then and there to make up their minds to vote for Greeley. The case pee is being vigorously and amusingly ‘prosecuted on both sides, ‘The democrats hold a meeting every Thuraday night in the Court House, which is conducted much on the same principle ag & prayer meating. Seats are especially reserved for ladies, and t#e proceedings are opened with singing, an itinerant glee club composed of a wandering lawyer and his apprentice, the organist of the village church furnishing the music. The country people attend the political reunion in large numbers, and come into the village in ve- hicles which were old at the time of the Revolution. The whole business is conducted with the utmost solemnity, and a stranger entering the room would imagine that he had come upon a conventicle of Quakers or Covenanters, Strange to say, the democrats monopolize all the religion in the place, the men who are most active through the week in ABUSING GENERAL GRANT being the most sincere worshippers on Sunday. The democratic member of Congress is superin- tendent of a Sunday school, and the other demo- cratic lawyers are equally prominent walkers in the paths of righteousness. The republicans hold their weekly meeting in Masonic Hall, a buildin; which bears @ strong resemblance to a dilapidate cotton warehouse. The attendance is generally very small, and the enthusiasm displayed is com- Mensurate with the amount of apple-jack previ- ously consumed. It is rarely that religion and apple-jack can be found to blend so harmontous!y as they do in Flemington; it is wonderful how they “do, but they “do” all the time. A county meeting was held here the other day, and a procession, comprising the entire republican strength of the county, preceded it. A very brassy band discoursed excellent music—we are told brass bands always do—and an immense wagon, carrying FOURTEEN BOYS, FIFTEEN WOMEN AND SIX MEN, bore an inscription to the effect that one township in the county would give a majority of 150 votes for Grant. By actual count there were 127 in the procession—men, women and children. ‘This was the most imposing demonstration that has been held by the radicals hereabouts. THE HON, JOHN T. BIRD, | who has represented this district in Congress for the last four years, at the last caucus aeclined to again serve. Mr. Robert Hamilton, of Sussex county, was nominated in his stead. Mr, Hamilton is an ex-member of Assembly, and was at one time Speaker; he is a lawyer, with first class abilities and good reputation, and it is thought he will make a ay member of Congress. _ The republican can- didate is Mr. Frederick A. Potts, a leading coal dealer, but otherwise unknown to fame, Hamilton is tolerably sure of election, the only county in | which a close contest may be expected is Somer- set, and even that the liberal claim by 850 majority. The liberal republicans as the Grant republicans, and expect to good account of themselves at the election. Among them are Messrs. Alien, Bird and Kuhi, of Paten- burg riot notoriety, who are working like beavers tn the interests of Greeley. Ihave not met, since T have been here, more than six straigit-outs, and these were men of no position or influence. THE BOURBON ELEMENT is decidedly weak in this stronghold of the democ- racy, where it might reasonably be expected to flourish: and though many democrats swallow the Baltimore nominations unwillingly they do it on the gery of “anything to beat Grant.” An ox roast was held about ten miles from here a day or two ago in the interest of the Bourbons; but it proyed to be @ miserable fizzle, though au- nounced with a great flourish of trumpets. The tactics which were found to be so serviceable else- where are being adopted here, and large numbers of negroes have been brought to work upon al! the railroads adjoining the tng hg line with a view to secure their votes for General Grant. They are principally from Virginia, and white laborers find it dificult to secure employment since their arrival. Much bad feeling has been mani- fested in consequence, and the colored gentiemea deem it prudent to confine themselves to their own quarters, They will be strictly watched on election day, and will find themselves in the “wrong box” if any Illegal voting is attempted, During the past week I have conversed with promi- nent politicians of both parties from various sec- | Uons of the State, The democrats are confident of victory, and the republicans anticipate a close struggie, but they state that they have no fears of the fnai result. As New Jersey has never given a republican majority on @ Presidential election, thougn the State has frequently gone radi in fees fights, the prognostications seem a ttle foregone. The decisive victory achieved by Governor Parker at the last election has infused new life into the conservatives, and the large de- fection in the ranks of the republican party, com- puted to be more than six thousand votes, will, in all Peretti, give the State to Greeley by about three thousand to five thousand majority. On the other hand, the radicals claim, although the democratic nominees for Congress will be sup- ported by the entire strength of the democratic party, a large number of voters will remain neu- tral in the Presidential figut. This view of the matter is entirely scouted by the leaders of the party, who claim that a larger vote will be polled than ever has been at any previous contest. The CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS OF BOTH PARTIES are as follows:—First district—The republicans have nominated Jolin W. Hazelton, and the demo- crats the Rev. Oscar Clute, a Unitarian clergyman of Vinefand, In the Second district the republican candidate is Samuel H. Dobbins, who for many years has been in the State Legisiature. The democrats nave renominated Saimuel U. Forker, the present popular representative. in the Third Amos Clark, Jr., @ State Senator, will run on the republican ticket, and John H, Pat- terson, ex-Sheriff of Monmouth county, will sustain the standard of democracy, Candidates in the Fourth district—Messrs. Potts and Hamilton—I have already alluded to. In the Fifth district Mr. W. W. Phelps, a res dent of Bergen county and a son of Royal Phelps, or New York city, is the radical candidate, and Mr. A. B. Woodruff, a lawyer of Paterson, is the demo- cratic nominee, In the Sixth Marcus L. Ward, who was Governor of the State from 1866 to 1869, is on the republican ticket, and Mr. Randall, a merchaut of Newark, for the democrats, In the Seventh district Mr. Isaac W. Scudder, a Jersey City lawyer, lias been nominated by the re- publicans, and Mr. Noah D. Taylor, who has been it etre Seuator from Hudson county, by the demo- New Jersey, under the apportionment bill, secured two new Representa a Mves, Increasing (he Uist irom republicans | of Flemington are almost numerically as strong | ive a five to seven. The last Legislature real jonead the State so as to give the republicans four of the seven districts, with the fair of two oth- era, while the mocrats hope to two of the republican districts and retain ‘ant tanos which are generally comceden them. RRING UP THE LIBERALS. erse ate Committee. They say :— Saal ct " grand effort to redeem our country from the evil power of the unscrupulous renomination Ring, New Jerse ra noble part. She has proved her patriotiam and valor in detence of the nation er fortunes were nobly cast with the patriots in the | } Fevoluti struggle.“ She camo grandly to the rescue | in the late rebellion, Our country is again imperiled, | not by an organized army “eqmpped with the destructive enginery, but by a desperate band of aitice-holders whose safety depe nts upon alvextension of power. Liberal republicans of New Jersey! you, aloe and unaided, cannot prevent this; but you ean do your t.” After reterring to the recent contests, the address ¢ How does our cause stand today? We do not full and faty vote. Arrayed ers that @ lavish and muserup i Jous use of money, with official patronage, can wield. For our part, we have only an earnest conviction that our cause is just. If we win it must be by untlagging zeal and encrgetic action, If the liberal republicans and democrats do their duty, victory is certain. Liberal republicans of New Jersey, close up the ranks! Unite earnestly with the democrats, and adopt all honorable Means to bring out our {ull vote on the day ot election. Let us worthily perform our duty at this critical period of our nation’s history. This address has been extensively distributed throughout the State, and has produced an excel- lent eflect. Instead of being disheartened by the disasters in Pennsylvania and Ohio the liberals appear to have only been spurred on to fresh action, and are now closing up their ranks and making all be ye pre for a final struggle. Meet- ings will be beld daily in this.district, EMPIRE STATE POLITICS, ps cena ees Penn Yanites Discoursing on the Great Party Issues. saw ithe Yates County’s Twelve Hundred Majority for Grant—Chappaqua’s Philosopher Rejected by the “Mixed” Citizens—State Affairs at a Discount—The Presidential Question All Important and All Absorbing. PENN Yan, N, Y., Oct. 24, 1872. This beautiful little nest of houses between the hills is the principal town of Yates county, and has a history. Idon't think that that history has ever been written, If it has, my informant is a “liar and @ villain.” This is the simple and affecting story of the beginning of Penn Yan. No ancient manu- scripts, blurred with the marks of time and thumbed by strange, solitary haunters of libraries, Were shown me; but a Dutch Penn Yan man, fat and communicative, told me the yarn at one o'clock in the morning. She was a fine town, he said, and might swell herselfinto the proportions of a city without creating scandal, How “she” was baptized was explained in growls and grunts of the most potent and satisfactory nature. On one glorious Autumn morning, when the trees on the mountain's brow lifted their heads in deflance of coming winter and shook their glorious locks in the face of a threatening rising wind, two men met suddenly in a wild spot in the woods, now covered by the dining room of this hotel. This was some time before our earlier Franklin caught light- ning for a living and set type, The two men were peculiar in appearance and in disposition. One Was lean, tall and talkative, and, though he valued the rifle he carried, was quite ready to swap. He was from the colony of Connecticut, The other gentleman was fat, as broad in the beam as a Dutch brig aud senientious to a fault. He carried a rifle and a pipe and hailed from Pennsylvania. Both were “prospecting” and were desirous of settling in this region, It irritated the Yankee to meet the Pennsylvanian, and the Dutch- man mourned in the depths of nis soul that he was notalone. Each of the gentlemen flattered him- seit that, lke William Penn, he could notch his trees in peace; and, of course, each was bitterly disappointed. The Yankee, said “How,” in re- sponse to the Dutchman's grunt, and sat on a log. ‘Then there was a parley, and it was agreed that, as neither one nor the other was here first, they should divide the territory between themselves. That having been agreed upon, the question arose as to the name to be given to their property. The Dutch- man suggested New Rotterdam and the Yankee was eager to name it New Concord, and the debate continued for hours, Finally, the Yankee said that he would not be bigoted, and that he was ready to compromise. It was evident to him that it wouid be just as well to cut off a little of the name suggested, without disgracing the Yankeos or hurting Pennsylvania. “Penn!” granted the Pennsylvanian. “Yan!” yelled the Yankee. “Penn Yan! by gosh!’ exclaimed the honorable ee from Connecticut, as tears of joy tilled iis eyes, and he threw hiraself into the arms of the Dutch Heindiick of the day. And so Penn Yan got its name. PENN YAN AND THE PENN YANERS. My reason for giving a historical sketch of this place is that it is a proper preface to my letter, The uuity of interest so touchingly illustrated in the gentlemen who christened Penn Yan still character- izes the Yankees and Dutchmen of this region. Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers fraternixe in politics in this county of Yates, and, like the Siam- ese twins, the connecting link between them is very apparent. Indeed it is somewhat dificult to say where Pennsylvania ends and New York begins, State lines ignored, Yates county is nearer Peni bea than Steuben county below it. A thriil runs through Yates when Pennsylvania is agitated, and I verily believe that if Mr. Cameron’s State had voted for Buckalew Grant’s chances in this region would be slight in- deed. As matters stand now Greeley has not the “ghost of a show’ in Yates. In the years that have passed since the history of Yates and Penn Yan, its centre, began, the Dutchman has absorbed the Yankee, so that Holland is scarcely leavened by New York. THE STATE OF PARTIES, They connt on 1,200 majority for the republican ticket in Yates, and I would not be surprised if it were much more, There is the usual amount of speaking, blowing and firecracking here, but it is | perfectly useless. A Greeley man iu white might get up @ Chicago conflagration, and it would not ulter anybody's views on the Presidential question any more than @ pine torch; a Grant “boy in blue’ | might set fire toa fleet and he would not disturb the prejudices of a single voter. The matter is either so well understood, or people have become 30 deeply concerned—or thoroughly disgusted— during the Canvass, that nothing said or done on either side can have any effect, Yet, as I said in my letter of yesterday, the country is filled with orators. The gental James R. O’Beirne, for in- stance, @ furcible and effective speaker, is makiug himself hoaise about here advocating Grant and Wilson; Butler is spooney on Grant; Wilson is roaring for himselt; Sam Cox is spreading a broad grin over the face of the State, and innumerable | generals are bawling in every direction. ALI. OFFICERS AND NO SOLDIERS, I don’t recollect having remarked in previous letters the absence oi private soldiers as orators in this campaign. Itis very strange and, I think, shows @ want of tact on the part of Senator Harlan, or rather Cornell. There were several privates and corporals in the army of the Potomac. in my ramblings up and down, back and across, I have not found a Grant speaker of less rank than a colonel; indeed colonels are searce. I only met one, but he should have been a@ general. 1 never Saw a man display 80 much ferocity in debate as he did. In some places where Greeley men most do congregate, lam told, he rounds his periods with brickbats, provided by an intelligent contra- baud. Tohear him address his fellow citizens on the _ politica’ situation is to suffer some of the horrors of war. He inspires terror wherever he goes, and is most enthusiastic for Grant and Wilson. But with this brilliant excep- | tion I have not had the honor to hear @ colonel, and as I have said, no private soldiers. Now, 1 know, and I might respectfully call Mr. Cornell's attention to it, a large number of private soidiers who saw the bloody chasm and put their foot in it, who could, on the stump or platform, howl any ordinary general off histect. These privates would do it, too, for half the money paid the generals for their services. But it is late in the campaign, and I don’t expect to see the names o/ the distinguished orators, Privates Smith, Brown, Jones and Robin- gon, on any dead wall in the State. It is a pity, too, for the people would like to know what the private soldiers have to gay. 4 CURIOUS FEATURE in the fight in this county and in Steuben is that one rarely hears any talk about tie State ticket. Nobody seems to care about the home is- sue, while everybody is Kane excited concerning the issue of the Presidential contest. And what- ever the result, the victory will be tought out anu won for Grant or Greeley. I have tried to ascer. tain the prevailing opinion on the relative chances of Dix and Kernan, Dut for the reason stated I could not do 80, and so do not venture any specu lations myself, As far as this county 1s concerned, bog @ usual republican majority of 1,200 m: fo for as it wili undoubtedly go Grant. The iberal republican strength is not to be despised, but it is not enough affect the lar, to Grant majority. Ifit should so turn out that the reaction in favor of Greeley, that 1 have noticed elsewhere, broke the ranks of the regulars at the last moment, [have no doubt that Yates count, would be as easily fixed as Pennsylvania; and, therefore, I say, count Yates for Grant in November. Lhave not “interviewed” any of the public men | in the county, for the reason that they could not tell me anything more thanI knew myself. Your prominent politician, find, is generally an_ig- noramus in @ matter of this kind. He knows bow he feels himself, and talks suits his hopes. Of course, these men occupy # conspicuous ition, but that is all. In this campaign politicians are not worth much. The question of Grant or Greeley for the next four years will be settied by the People, and J prefer to consult them. 5 THE OLD NORTH STATE. The Tar Heels Quietly Submitting to the Administration. The Liberals Nowhere—The Bourbon Straights Condemning Greeley and Brown and Advo- cating O’Conor and Adams—Probable Majority for Grant Twenty Thousand— Vance and Merrimon Jeopardizing the United States Senator- thip—Barringer, a Re- publican, Seeking the Senatorial Honors. Raeicn, N.@, det. 23, 1872, The Presidential contest was, to all intents and purposes, fought out in this State last Summer, | and on that line the republicans are likely to carry the State by Grant’s majority of 1868, which was some twelve thousand and odd. After the vigor- ous fight made by Senators Schurz, Doolittle, Tip- ton and Ransom, and Governors Vance and Walker, ex-Senator Clinghman, Colonel A. C, McClure and a Whole host of local orators, and then to be de- feated, it is not probable that the apathetic tar- heels who were forced to the polls on the 1st of August will again march up for a second defeat on the 5th of November. Neither party is now moving with any enthusisam whatever in their ranks, but there is a solidity of organization and steadiastness of purpose among the republicans that are strongly prophetic of victory. They have, too, pretty well covered the State with appointments for local speakers, which, assisted by their electoral can- didates, are making a quiet and effective canvass of the State, It was by a quiet canvass that the republicans gained the victory in august, and this would perhaps have been more thorough and com- plete had it not been for the disastrous “bloody chasm” speech of Secretary Boutwell at Greens- boro. Up tothe time of the elections in Indiana, Uhio and Pennsylvania the liberal leaders had some hope of carrying the State; but the result in _ the latter State was so unexpected and porten- tous of victory in November for the administra- tion that all their subsequent effotts failed to’ arouse the slightest enthusiasm among the people, and their cheering anticipations of @ month ago are dwindled down to an almost hopeless despon- dency. Nevertheless, with a heroism worthy theis cause, they still continue to wage flerce WAR UPON THE ADMINISTRATION party through their organs, and while they are doing nothing outside their regular State electors in the canvass, their motto seems to be ‘Die in the Jast ditch.” If it was not for the peculiar charac- ter of the people here, there might stili be some hope for the liberals; but the more ignorant of them, and that class chiefly comprises the masses— the voters- ve an overpowering dread of the federal government. Threaten them with the ven- geance of the government, with its present pros- pects of success, and they “weaken” at once, They are more dispirited and timid by reason of thetr oppressive treatment since the close of the war than the people of any other State in the South. It was by threats of adminis- trative rigor, coming from the legal lips of Attorney General Akerman, at Weldon, in 1871, that the call for a convention to revise the State constitution was defeated, and it was by similar threats against the alleged Ku Klux dis- tricts and the filicit whiskey distillers in the West that the Governor’s election was carried on the 1st of August, of course with the assistance of fraudulent votes. Iam told the same sort of effec- tive canvass is now being vigorously pushed, through those quiet agents, the UNITED STATES DEPUTY MARSHALS and Internal Revenue Inspectors, whose numbers can never exactly be arrived at, as Sam Carron, the Marshal, himself once admitted during the State Congress. With such influences as tnese it is not to be wondered at that the State will go with the administration, and give it its ten electoral votes, which were otherwise counted upon for Greeley and Brown. Bat even these are not the only adverse influen with which the liberals have to contend. ‘The straight-out movement has recently assumed the most unexpected propor- tions in this State, and the democratic organs, see- ing the despondency and disaffection in its party on account of the October elections, make the liveliest appeals to the disadfected to cut of the names of Greeley and Brown and vote for the elec- toral ticket simply. An Q’Conor and Adains elec- toral sorehead ticket is said to be nearly tat teed and a number of leading sorehead-Bourbon demo- crats are reported to have annouaced their inten- tion to come into that miserable movement, there- by giving it volume and effect, though it lacks, ac- cording to most people, the essential common sense, patriotism and even principle. Two demo cratic papers in the State will be FLYING THE O'CONOR AND ADAMS FLAG ina few days, one of them under the management of a leading democratic gentieman, and one of the most popular rising youug men of the day in the old North State. This announcement is gravely made by the sorehead Bourbons, but it is easy to perceive that the two democratic organs and the Hsing, popular young gentleman can be subsi- dized by FEDERAL FUNDS, and after the election ali disappear as suddenly as they sprung into existence, The best information from all portions of the State assumes a majority for Grant of 10,000, and probably it will be nearer 20,000 than 10,000; but this will be wholly due to apathy and a pusillanimous fear of future vengeance on the part of the federal overnment. here are no more Grecley negroes ere ti there are in South Carolina. A New York politician and friena of Mr. Greeley, who has made an extensive tour of the State, says that Grecley negroes in North Carolina are a myth, that the darkies are all united on Grant. The organiza- tion of the republicans he pronvunces complete, while the liberals are disorganized and dispirited. He gives up the State by 20,000, and says Greeley’s vote will probably reacii 70,000, but not more. ‘The entire vote of the State for the Governorship was something in excess of two hundred thousands, probably the largest vote ever polled in the State, but owing to the apathy, timidity and dissatisfac- tion among the people, probably not more than one hundred and sixty thousand votes will be cast in the Presidential election, of which Grant will likely get 85,000 and Greeley probaniy 75,000, ‘The Legisiature meets on the 18th of November, and as there lias been no forma! notice of a contest ‘iven as to the Governorship, tt is presumed Judge lerrimon has abandoned that idea, and quietly submits to the tnevitabie. The democratic major- ity on joint ballot is twenty-four. From present indications there will be an exciting and interest- ing ontest over the United states Senatorship to succeed John Pool, The aspirants already in the field are ex-Governor Zebulon Vance, Judge A. 8. Merrimon, Generai ), M. Barringer, Chairman of the Democratic Exec Vommittee; ex-Senator Clingman and others. A reported combination between Senator Ransom and Governor Vance—one from the eastern and tne other from the western section of the State—whereby they expect to hold the Scuatorships indefinitely between the! it apparently gave Vance the inside tr. given mortal offence to the friends of Merrimon, who feel that justice and party usage entitie him to the place, he having made an able and efficient canvass for his party last Summer. Though de- feated himgelf, Merrimon secured the Legislature for the conservatives and as his friends, and now also it se for the benetit of Vance. It is proba- ble that the friends of Merrimon in the Le ure, with the partizans of the others in the field, may continue to prevent a caucus nomination, and thus weroy the whole matter before the Legislature, where THR FIGHT WOULD DBR LIVELY INDEED. Tn such an event the chances of either Vance or Merrimon would become slim, and Barringer stock would go up. D. M. Barringer is an ex- Member of Congress and ex-Minister Spain, under Fillmore and Pierce. He is less oiensive to the republicans than any democrat named for the Senatorship, and, in the event above alluded to, likely to receive the solid vote of that party in the Legislature, who are only twenty-four In the minority on joint ballot, with several inde- pendents counted as democrats, Tosum up, I believe it safe to predict the State for Grant by his majority of 1868, a respectable vote, un- der the circumstances, being cast for O’Conor and Adams, As tothe United States Senatorial mud- dle, on the assembling of the Legislature it it probable that peat | will be succeessful, with can aid of the republican strength in the Legisia- ure, to POUND DEAD. Officer Morgan, of the First precinct, while patrolling his beat yesterday morning, dis- covered a man lying upon the sidewalk in an apparently comatose condition. Closer inspec- tion showed that the unfortunate had drawn the Jast breath of life, and officer accordingly caused the dec be sent to the sed to Morgue. He was five feet six inches in height, wore @ dark blue coat, gray undershirt, white socks, one stipper and one boot; had brown hair and light mustacne, a tawny cap, and wore a strap around his body. ROBBERY IN HOBOKEN. Early yesterday morning thieves broke into the store of Mr. Sherman, in Washington street, aod abstracted about two hundred dollars worth ol hardware and other materials, The robbers em te by Li hf i the back door, whick wat inves "Taste ned. No arres ra have vat Deed