The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1873, Page 5

ee ee ee POLITICAL PRYINGS Voices from Pennsylvania's Caucus Headquarters. SENATOR SIMON CAMERON, The Veteran Politician on the Third Term and Grant. VALUE OF THE HERALD'S ARTICLES, A Sweeping View of the Po- litical Field. THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP Conkling Held for Higher Honors, Ed- munds Disqualified and Howe a Good Man. BEN BUTLER EULOGIZED. Cameron’s Tribute of Love and Admiration for the Hero of Baltimore. THE SALARY GRAB DEFENDED. ' Oomments on the Farmers’ Movement, and a Rose-Qolored View of the Future. BEDFORD SPRINGS, Pa., August 15, 1873. During Mr. Buchanan’s time of the Presidency ‘this place had a national reputation, and especially Was it the resort of the aristocracy of the South, who found among the leading men of the then intensely democratic State of Ponusylyania g strong sympathetic accord with their »peculiar, and fas- Mdious notions of society. It. was then to the gation, in A POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW, ‘what Long Branch is now. I should judge that the Bame class Of politicians and adventurers followed Buchanan to Bedford that now surround Grant at Long Branch. Instead of Murphy and Childs, and Hoey and Sharpe, and Clews, Buchanan had Gus. Schell and Sickies, and poor Postmaster Fow- ler and Forney, and Riggs and Corcoran, and such favorite Senators as Slidell and Bigler and Toombs— instead of Robeson and Belknap there were Floyd and Jake Thompson, and I have no doubt had there deen a Chief Justice to select at that time that Jeremiah S. Black would have been the man, for they tell me here that Black and Buchanan were wseparable. They say that if THE OLD BACHELOR PRESIDENT ‘was very distant and reserved; that ‘he would walk to the spring regularly and drink the water ‘ike others, but he would not greet his fellow ereatures like others did. He would return a nod or a word with simply a nod, speaking only to those whom he knew well or looked on as friends. He had no sympathy with Cameron’s democracy, while the wit and satire of Thaddeus Stevens annoyed him as much as did his profanity and card Playing shock him. He was always gallant and affable to the ladies, and thought his own niece, Harriet Lane, the model for the rest of her sex. Be was an admirabie narrator of a story at the dinner table, but would tolerate no familiarity, especially trom a political opponent, One time the guests of the hotel gave bim a banquet, at which the address of welcome was entrusted toa prom- tment whig politician from Pittsburg, who in his speech ventured a littl playfulness on Buchanan’s bachelorhood by alluding to the ‘people gathered ‘at the tables as his children. This greatly incensed the old man, and came near mairing the pleasure @f the occasion. He read constantiy, and seemed to be fond of solitude, oftentimes driving out witn Bo one but his coachman as acompanion, While ‘at Bedford, totally difercnt from Buchanan, was THADDEUS STEVENS, He, too, was a constant reader, but he was always Qpproachabig, and nothing gave him more pleasure than to break the monotony of his study with a game of cuchre, witha party of jolly fellows. He ‘would go over to Crockford and playreuchre for a whole day, stopping on'y to eat bis meals. Then he would read for a whole day, &ud in the evening hunt up Justice Grier, who waa a petulant old fel- low, advance some theory which he knew Gricr didn’t hke, and thus draw him into a controversy. Just before dinner Grier was always supposed to be in a bad humor. Stevens took advantage of this, and, as Grier had to pass Stevens’ room. in going to the dining hall, Stevens would wait for and join him, and oftentimes would they enter the dining room gesticulating and arguing at the top of their voices. Grier would sit down at the table looking sulky and angry, while Stevens would sit emilingly relating to those at the table the worrl- Ment of the old Judge. Next here, I think, A REMINISCENCE of Thaddeus Stevens’ connection with the late war, which has never beem made public, wiil be inter- eating t6 the readers of the HeRaLp. It was re- fated by a prominent public man of Lancaster county, who was an intimate friend of Stevens and who has been here several wecks, It was told to combat the statement by Charlies Francis Adams, #m his eulogy on the late Secretary Seward, that Beward was never overruled tn counselling the President. It seems that when the rebels were besieging Fort Sumter and the whole nation was tmpatient that the administration should do some- thing in the way of relief and thus accept war asa fixed fact, Stevens and Ben Wade visited President Lincoln for the purpose of urging him to immediately declare the South in rebellion and send troops into Charleston harbor, Mr. Lincoin feplied that he and his Cabinet were still of the Opinion that conciliation would be the better Policy. Stevens and Wade then sought Secretaries Cameron and Montgomery Blair, wiom they under- ‘Stood to be in favor of an immediate war policy. @einforced by these two they retucned to the Prest- dent and began anew their appeal for an aggres- sive policy. The result was that Linvoin agreed thathe would immediately abandon his conctlia- ‘ory plans and order a ship to the rolief of Sumter. Bo Stevens went his way rojoicing. The same aight, however, Moutgomory Blair camo to his house and told him that there had been a meeting of the Cabinet aud that the Prefident had tola the members thereof what he had promised Stevens; that Seward had made a most Aetermined opposition or had threatened to resign ainiess bis ideas of conciliation were carried out, and the result was that Lincoin had yielded to Seward’s threats. This news fell like a thunder- bojt on Stevens, and he itamediately sent for Wade. Althougli it was late at night, thoy resolved to Visit $he President at once and demand an expla. mation, They soon reached the White House and were at once admitted to the presence of Mr. Lin- coin, Then Stevens told him what Blair had said and asked him if tt was trae. Mr. Lincoln replied | that it was, “Then, sir,” said Mr. Stevens, “you are not the man I took you to be, You have vio- Jated your word. You show a lack of courage and ® want of patriotism which at the present time the American people will not tolerate in thelr Chiot Magistrate; apd I shall go into NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1873.—TRIPLE SHERT. { Congress to-morrow and proclaim the same from my seat, and shall call upon that body, as the im- Mediate and responsible representatives of the people, to take matters into their own hands, in order that the country may be saved.” As be wae saying this he rose from his seat and was on bis way to the door. Lincoln rose, ang, foliowing him, put his hand on his shoulder and asked him to re- turn, Stevens did return, and the result was that Lincoln yielded, and pefore Stevens retired the order for the fitting out of “The Siar of the West’? was flashed across the wires to New York. Bediord Springs has always been. A PAVORITE RESORT OF THE LEADING POLITICIANS of Penusyivania, They have been gathering here in midsummer during the last forty years, and, while they would drink the waters to work om the effects of the dissipation of the past year and prepare thelr systems for the dissipation of the year to come, they would scheme and pian and concoct and pull wires and arrange their political slates. In that time Penosylvania has not had a Governor nor a Senator nor @ public officer of any importance whose name was not first canvassed at the political gatherings at Bedford Springs. It was here that General Cameron laid the plans which snatched the United States Senator- ship from Colonel Forney in 1856, when the Legis- lature was democratic and Forney bad the caucus nomination of his party, It was here that Curtin, surrounded by @ number of admirers, was putin training for the Secretaryship of State and then for Governor. It was here that Wiluam A, Wal- lace’s coffee-colored fraudulent naturalization papers were invented in 1855. It was here that Curtin, Forney and McOlure made their ailance and declared war against Gencral Cameron, the Chieitain of Lochiel; and it was here, right where Tam sitting on the lawn in front of Crockford’s, that about R THIS TIME A YEAR AGO Don Cameron, surrounded by Congressman Dickey, Naval Officer Hustand and General Reynolds, of Lancaster; State Treasurer Mackey and Russell Errett, of Allegheny; Sheriff Leeds, Postmaster Bingham, Appraiser Goodrich and Speaker of the Assembly Bill Elliott, of Philadelphia; Congress- man Packer, of Northumberland, and Cessna, of Bedford; Sum Barr, of Harrisburg, and Wayne MacVeigh, of Chester, resolved that Hartranft should be elected Governor; that General Cameron should be returned to the Senate, and that Penn- sylvania should cast her electoral vote for U.S. Grant. And it was here, surrounded by the men whose names I have: mentioned, that the Republi- can State Central Committee resolved to reject with scorn and contempt the proposition that William E. Chandler, as Secretary of the National Repub- lican Executive Committee bad made ‘hat, for the sake of harmony and to insure the’ success of Grant, General Hartranft be withdrawn as the Gubernatorial candidate, and that Senator Cam- eron should announce that he would not be a can- didate tor re-clection. This fact about Chandler has never been made public, Mr. Dickey tells me that itis true, and that Chandler went so far as to threaten the with- drawal of all pecuniary aid from the National Com- mittce unless the demand was complied with, The answer of the State Commit- tee ‘was that “the National Committee could go to hell with ite pecuniary aid; that the republican party of Pennsylvania proposed to run their own campaign independently of all outside influences; that they had all the money they wanted and lots to spare; and Mr. Dickey says that they not only carried their State without out- side aid, but actually sent money to their friends in other and more doubtiul States. Chandler's de- mand was supposed to be. made to couciliate Colo- nel Forney and stop his opposition; and, as it was claimed that it had’ President Grant’s sanction, a big. row was threatened. But Grant, when in- formed of the matter, utterly repudiated it and de- clared bimself.as unequivocally for Cameron and Hartrantt, SENATOR CAMERON, who was here for five weeks with his family, left several days ago. Although in hie’ seventy-fifth year he looka hale and hearty, and walked one mile every morning before breakfast. Finding him alone one mcrning, I thought I would join bim and have @ little interview. I found him Pleasant and kind and willing to talk. Afterafew commonplace remarks I asked him what he thought of the third-term agitation. He replied:— “Thad NEVER THOUGHT A THIRD TERM POSSIBLB until I read tnose articles in the HERALD on Cxsar- ism. They were so ably written, so strong in their facts and convincing in their logic that tiey started me to thinking. And yet while a third term is Possible I cannot think it probable. I agree with the Heraup in the principie it makes, that no matter how good and patriotic a President may be the constitntion should not be so framed as to make the peopic depend on the magnanimity or patriotism of any one min to secure to them their rights and liberties. I know President Grant thoroughly, and a truer patriot or a more con- aclentious and honest man does not live. I woud trust him to any extreme; but, then, as the HERALD Says, WC may not always have a Grant in the ciiair, and it is AGAINST THE PRINCIPLES OF TRUE LIBERTY to depend for our rights on the magnanimity of one man, But 1 cannot think it possible that Grant wants another term, He has often expressed to Me a wish to get back to his tarm—away from the cares of office, where he might enjoy peace and quietness forthe remainder of his life. His am- bition has been satisfied. He has been the commander of the largest armies the world ever saw, and stands with Wash- ington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln in securing the suffrages of the people. Then, he has been prudent in his investments, which will give him an ample competence to live on. No, I cannot believe that he will be a candidate for a third term; and as for the office-holders around him forcing and flattering him into running again, I don’t fear, as he is not the man to be moved by either force or flattery; and yet we cannot tell what may happen. LINCOLN’S DESIRE. Lincomm was Grant’s counterpart in patriotism and honesty, and yet I know that it was his desire that he should have @ third term, Seward and Stanton were forathird term, and the policy of the adniinistration was to have been shaped to that end. CoRRESPONDENT—Why, thig is not generaliy known, is it? Senator CAMBRON—I don’t know how well known it is, but I do know that it is true. I had Lincoln's confidence, and Stanton was made my successor in the War Department at my request; therefore it is natural to suppose that I had his, CORRESPONDENT—Were you favorable to Lincoln for 4 THIRD TERM? Senator CAMZRON—Before I was asked for an opinion Mr. Lincoln was killed, CoBRESPONDENT—Well, may I ask, Senator, if you favor Grant for a third term? Senator CaMERON—I will answer that by saying that untill read the articles on Cwsariam in the HERatp the idea never occurred to me seriously, and I don’t think it possible or even probable that Grant will ran a third time CouRESPONDENT—Bat suppose, Senator, three years hence finds Grant's friends putting him for- ward for a third term, will they have your support? Senator CaMERON-—Ah, that is looking too fur ahead, Only God knows what three years will bring forth, Besides, lam nota believer in men ag infallible leaders, 1am always governed by what I believe is the feeling of my countrymen, 1 attribute my long auccess in pubic lifé to my implicit faith in the people I represent— in sinking every ambition to their welfare, And, believing in and knowing General Grant as I do, I cannot think anything but the most extraordinary circumstances would induce him to run for a third term. ; CoRKESPONDENT—What do you think of BLAINE’S PROSPECTS ? Senator CamszoN—Dlaine is an able man and a great politician, We like him here in Pennsylvania because this is his birthplace; butI suppose you know we in this State believe in a protective tarig, and Blaine has weakened himself with us by making New Engiand’s interests paramount in the selection of his commnttecs. * Conrrsronp#yt—Don't you think Blaine will Aave heavy load to garry if he continues Dawes and Garfield at the head of the Ways and Means and Appropriations—the two great and important committees of Congress ? ‘Senator CaMERON—The great mistake in that Crédit Mobilier business was the systematic lying done by some of those involved. Now the ques tion.is, Did Dawes and Garfeld lie about their snare in the business? If the country thinks they did, and in the face of this Blaine continues them in their important chairmanships, why, it is my Opinion that he will be sacrificing prospects which look very encouraging at the present time. CORRESPONDENT—Ie Morton a candidate? Senator CaMERON—I don’t know, He is one of the great men in our party, and tt is but natural that he should aspire to a place whicn both friends and foes know he could fill. OCoRRESPONDENT—What about the Chief Justice- ship? ig Senator CaAMERON—I don’t know. In my optnion, 0f all the names mentioned for the place that of Conkling strikes me as the best. 1 100k upon Conk- ling as the head and front of the able men who lead the republican party. His management of the administration side of the debate with Schurz and Trumbull in the session of 1871_and_1872 stamped him in my mind as the foremost man in our party. Then, his management of the campaign in his State last Fall was the finest plece of political generalship in the annale of politics, This, of course, has nothing to do with the qualifications nesessary or Chief Justice; but CONKLING is eminently a fair and honest man, and every one knows he is a great lawyer. But 1 cannot believe that Conkling will take the position if offered. He is too young @ statesman to hurry himself on the bench, I think there are higher honors in store for him, EDMUNDS ig alllaw, but I believe the constitution disquali- fies him, HOWE isa good man, Ihave served with him for years, -and always found him & man of the strictest integ- rity. Idon’t know about his qualifications as lawyer. You know I am no lawyer, although Pre dent Lincoln offered me the Attorney Generalship before he made me Secretary of War. I remember, when I declined the offer, LINCOLN GOT OFF ONE OF HIS JOKES by saying that he was sure I was a lawyer, because all great men were lawyers, CoRRESPONDENT—Has the President said any- thing to you about tne Chief Justiceship? Senator CAMERON—Not @ word. Some one told me that he had seen Naval Officer Laflin in New York, and that Laflin had told him that he and Tom Murphy had tried to pump Conkling on the subject, but that Conkling rebuked them by refus- ing to recognize their queries, and turned the con- versation to other subjects, Laflin and Murpby went to Conkling to urge him not to take it, as they think the next Presidency is within his grasp. Iknow that Justice Miller and Attorney General Willams stand high in the President’s esteem, and Tlearn that the friends of Mr. Evarts and Edwards Pierrepont are working quietly and judiciously in their behalf, CORRESPONDENT—Do you know anything of Gen- eral Butler’s chances in Massachusetts ? Senator CAMERON—NO; but I do wish in my heart that he may be successful. I have A PROFOUND LOVE AND ADMIRATION FOR BUTLER, He is 0 very able, and he has all that indomitable courage and practical training which I so greatly admire and which so many of our public men lack, The great curse of our party is the timid, vacillating, Meek and demagogical fellows who force themselves to the front and try to lead us, Your Forneys and your Curtins and your Colfaxes, “your Garflelds and Daweses and Wilsons and Hoars. I venture to say that all these WEAK-KNEED SISTERS are opposed to Butler, and yet he towers above them in ability, honesty and everything else t hat 1s noble and good. I can never iorget. BUTLER’S SPLENDID CONDUCT AT BALTIMORE, when, with his brigade of Massachusets soldiers, he clutched that city from the very grasp of the rebels and opened up communication between Washington and the North. This he'did, too, in direct opposition to the orders of General Scott. Butler was at the Relay House, and Baltimore was in the hands of the mob. Our communication with ‘the North was cut offexcept by way of Annapolis, which was next to nothing. Butler begged Scott to allow him to enter Baltimore, but Scott refused. He thought it unsafe until we were reinforced by way of Annapolis. At last Butler appealed to me andI told him to go ahead, and he did go and accomplished one of the most important acts of the war—for events proved that had we de- layed securing Baltimore much longer Washington would have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and the Susquehanna, instead of the Potomac, would have been the picket line. When General Scovt had learned what Butler had done he re- lieved him of his command and ordered him to his home, I refused my sanction to the order, and imracdiately commissioned Butler a major general of volunteers. His was the first commission issued to a general officer in the war. Those of Dix, Banks and Fremont soon followed, Lincoln and Stanton thought highly of Butler, and I wili now tell you of another fact that is not generally known, and which will show you HOW NEAR BUTLER CAME TO BEING PRESIDENT instead of Johnson. In the Spring of 1864, when it was determined to run Mr, Lincoln for a second term, jt was the desire of Lincoln, and also that of Stanton and myself, that Butier should run on the ticket with him as Vice President. Accordingly, Lincoln sent me on @ mission to Fortress Monroe to see General Butler and to say to him that it was his (Lincoln’s) request that he (General But- ler) should allow himself to be run aa second on the ticket. I, accompanied by William H. Arm- strong, afterward member of Congress from the Williamsport district in this State, did visit Gen- eral Buticr and made the tender, but he refused to accept the position, He said there was nothing in the Vice Presidency and he preferred remaining in command of his army, where he thought he was of more service to his country. I hope Butler will be elected Governor because he wants to be, though I would rather have him remain in the House or come to the Semate. THB BACK PAY, CoRRESPONDENT—Have you taken your back pay, Senator ? Senator CaMERON—Why, certainly I have, It belongs to me as much as any dollar | ever earned in my life. And do you suppose that I would act the demagogue, as some of these poor devils are doing, in returning it? Iam @ man of large wealth, and didn’t really need the increase; but, while Iwas thus situated, two-thirds of my col- leagues were just the opposite. I tell you that the miserable pittances that we are paying our public ofticers is tending to the absorption of these omces | by the rich only. Soon the poor man will have no show at ail, unless he takes an office in order to | steal. I think there is a chance for the HERALD to do a good work in securing better wages to the Public servants. CORRESPONDENT—What do you think of THE FARMERS’ MOVEMENT against the railroad monopolies in the West? Senator CaMERON—I think it is a movement which will secure the attention of’ both or all parties. Idon’t think it will injure the republican party, for the reagon that the republican party is the party of the people and the party of progress, and you will find thatif the claims of these farmers or grangers are meritorious the republican party will be with them, Therefore 1 don’t look upon the movement as important in the way of changing materially the present condition of political partics. CorresPoNDENT—What do you think of THE SPLIT BETWEEN THE LIBERALS AND THE DE MOORACY OF OHIO? Senator CaMERoN—Dont say “liberals.” Apply- ing such @ word to such @ set of nondescripts an- noys me. The idea of giving such a respectable name as liberal to such old political hacks as Mc- Clure and Curtin, in this State; to Schurz and Tipton, Doolittle and Fenton, to Joha Cochrane, dim Scovel and Major Haggerty, it makes me mad. But lam not astonished that the democracy have nominated @ straight ticket in Ohio, Their only hope as a party is to s‘ick together under the old name and wait until they can join issue with the republitean party on some great issue where they can have the people with them, Groesbeck’s ideas are allgpod enough. but ag jong as the country i 8 prosperous as it is now the people don’t care @ picayune what the demo:ratic party accepts or rejects. The mere idea of their acceptance of ac- knewledged facts ts no inducement for the people to rush them into power; they have got to do some noble act or to propose some great idea for the benefit of the country before the people will blot out their infamous past anu give them another trial. And I don’t think the republican party 18 going to allow the democratic party to get ahead of it on anything that is popular, progressive or for the good of the people. Thus ended my talk with the senior Senator from Pennsylvania, who first saw light in the last century; who has been active in politics since the time when John Quincy Adams was our Chief Magistrate; who has been Senator for nearly a score of years; has becn Minister abroad, Cabinet Minister, and is now the head of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate. His has been an active life indeed, but his Scotch-Irish ances- tors have given him a constitution which promises to carry him through at least another decade. He telis me that although he has been a politician ali his life there are four things he cannot do, namely— play cards, drink whiskey, use topacco and swear, DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS, been a great many Pennsylvania politicians here during the Summer. Congressman Sam Randall, the chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, came up about ten days ago for the purpose of having a conference of the leaders of the democracy, It was not a success, however, as only Congressman Milton Speer, ex- Congressmen McClelland and Meyers, Sam Rey- “nolds and a few lesser lights put in an appearance. Buckalew, Barr, Cass, Packer and Waliace jailed to come to time, The demooratic party in the State scems to be all broken to pieces. Randall has issued a cail for a State Convention, to meet the latter part of this month at Williamsport, to put in nomination candidates for Judge af the Su- preme Court and State Treasury. But the party, from present appearances, will enter the campaign dispirited and without vim in the last campaign. Carrying the Greeley liberals almost ruined them, and in Philadelphia many of their leaders are hand and glove with the republican ring politicians who control that city. At Williamsport there will be a big fignt made against Randall and the Philadel- Phia gang. Randall will be deposed from the chair- manahip of the State Central Committee and Me- Clelland or some one from the interior put in his stead. THE LIBERALS SEEM TO HAVE DISBANDED their organization. McClure is busy with the law and Curtin issummering at his home in Centre county. The Repubiican State Convention meets in Harrisburg this week. Either Paxson, of Phila- delphia, or Butler, of Chester, will be placed in nomination for Judge. Mackey, tho present in- cumbent, will be nominated for State Treasurer. One-third of the State Senate is to be elected this Fall, and as they hold over until the election of the next United States Senator, some avtention will be given them. From what I can gather THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS are dissatisfied with Senator Scott and propose that he shall not succecd himself, Itis sald the Cameron men and the Pennsylvania Central have State Treasurer Mackey in training for Scott's , Shoes. Others say the place has been promised Rus- sell Errett. Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, has been here for some days. So has A. R. Shep- herd and George S. Gideon, of the Washington Board of Public Works. Shepherd says his libel suit against Dana has not ended yet. All he asks is that Dana be brought into Court and be made to prove his charges, and if he cannot that he be compelled to retract. He says he has read the ar- ticles on Cwsariam in the HERALD, and notwith- standing their forcible arguments he is in favor of urant for a third term. He also favors the govern- ment of the District of Columbia by a commission appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, and as soon as the present improvements are completed he wants to leave public office for- ever and ever. The weather is getting very cool and the people are beginning to thin out. In three weeks’ time Teuppose the place will be descrted for another year. POLITICAL NOTES. The Louisville Journal says it does not question the statement of the Albany Journal, that if Sena- tor Conkling were Chief Justice he would have the pride and the ambition to rank himseif with Jay and Marshall, but the deuce of it is he would not have the brains. Tne Cincinnati Gazette says the approaching campaign in Ohio will be the first straight fight the democrats have had since the Vallandigham cam- paign. 1f it should prove as disastrous to democ- | racy as that election the party had better be dead than alive. Vallandigham was defeated by Jolin Brough by over one hundred thousand votes, Hon. Van Rensselacr Richmond authorizes the Lyons (N, ¥.) Press to say that he will not accept a nomination on the State ticket, Hon. William W. Wright declines to be a candl- date for Canal Commissioner of this State. Willis B, Machen, who was in the United States Senate, closing up the term of Hon. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, from December 2, 1872, to. the 3d of March, 1873—just three months—took the whole of the back salary, and then tried to justify the steal in a five column letter. Tue Albany Evening Journal, the leader of the radical party in the State of New York, speaking of a third Presidential term, says:—‘-If General Grant should indicate any such purpose—if he should indicate in the remotest way his intention to force himself upon the people, as Tyler, Fill- more and Johnson attempted to do, he would fall as they fell, and become, as they have, # mouu- ment of the weakness and folly of an unregulated anibition.’” The Austin State Gazette says there is a strong reaction among the colored voters of Texas in favor of democracy. The same story has been often told in other States, but when the elections come around the negroes, like sheep, follow the bellwether. The Virginia democratic papers are full of hope in regard to the approaching State election, which takes place on Thursday, the 23d of October. They say the feeling in the party is buoyant and the leaders are full-of confidence. Mr, Wiliam Allen, the democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, who, the republican papers say, is too old for the office, is ten years younger than Governor Dix, Some of the Indiana democrats, including Gov- ernor Hendricks, are no‘ satisfied with the course of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and propose to start a new daily democratic paper. Mr. Joseph Titcomb, who has been nominated by the democrats of Maine as their candidate for Gov- ernor, 18 prominent shipbuilder of Kennebunk, and equally well known as Treasurer of Bowdoin College, of which he is @ graduate. He has figured quite conspicuously in the politics of his State, having been a Representative in the Legislature, a State Senator and a member of the Executive Council, He bas closely identified himself with the busines# interests of Kennebunk, and is President of the Ocean Bank at that place. itis wrong to place the names of Hon. Alexan- der Ramsey and William Windom, the two United States Senators from Minnesots, among those who grabbed and retained the back/éalary. Ramsey never touched his, and Windom returned his to the Treasury. ‘The Louisville Journal, in summing up the result of the Kentucky election, saya:— The next Senate will be composed of thirty-two democrats and six republicans. Of t nix eqs. lative districts not yet heard it is probable that three will return the democratic and three blican candidates. Upon this assumption next House will be composed of eighty demo- crats and Dib ep republicans. The last Senate was composed of thirty-four democrats and foyr republicans, the House of eighty-one democra’ and nineteen repubitcans. ‘ig gives, a8 far as heard from, @ republican gain of two in the Sonate and @ democratic gain of one in thé House, Tt is now well understood that ex-President Andrew Johnson 1s to be a candidate for Governor of Tennessee, and that he intends to stump the State in his own behalf, The Memphis Appeal says that his omly aim is to secure a seat in the Senate of the United States in order that he may reinvest “my policy” with historical charms. It is counter to the mature of Andy to remain quiet [FRENCH SUMMER RESORTS. A Series of Norman Watering Piace Letters by E. C. Grenville Mur- ray ---No. 4, FECAMP A RELIGIOUS BATHING PLACE. Brisk Business Competition in the Miracu- lous Water from Saored Springs, SIMPLICITY OF THE DEVOTEES. Pretty Maids Who Waltz in White Muslin and Swains Who Marry without Fears of Bankruptcy. Fecamp, July 18, 1873, TO PECAMP VIA ROUEN. I date this from Fécamp, which is @ religious wa- tering place, much frequented by Roman Catholic families, owing to its relic of the “Precious Blood of Our Saviour.” The journey from Dieppe used to be an agreeable one, for a diligence took you along the coast road and kept you in sight of the sea mest of the way; but this conveyance, not pay- ing, has been suppressed, and your route now lies circuitously through Rouen, where @ two hours’ stoppage allows you to visit the very remarkable museum of antiquities, near the Joan of Arc tower, close to the station. Starting from Dieppe at cight you reach Rouen at ten, and, if you are in a great hurry, can set off for Fécamp at twelve and arrive there at three, the distance being such as an American train would clear in an hour; but then, the French are a cautious people, not to be trundied along at too great a pace (save in politics) for fear of breakages. Ifyouare notin a great hurry you could do as well to devote six houre to Rouen in- stead of two, for thero is plenty to see in the old Norman capital, and you may admire one of the finest courts of justice (the old Parliament House) in Europe. Only, if stirred by the sight of Joan of Arc’s statue to ban the En- glish who set fire to that heroine, please remember that historical accuracy is a great point in this age of imagination, and that the People who condemned Miss Joan te the stake were Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, ana ilty-three Frenchmen, his abettors. They acted at the instigation of the Dake of Bedford no doubt, which proves once again that the French have al- ways loved discipline; but there the fact stands that Joan perished because filty-four of her coun- trymen were earnestly convinced that she was in Icague with the devil, whilst they, being righteous folk, of eminent respectability, prototypes in every sense of the sleek, modern Vourgeois, Were unques- tionably justified by Heaven. ‘The peasant women in this part of the country still threaten their re- fractory offspring with “Shusby,” which is Nor- man for “bogey,” but took its rise in the unpleas- ant sentiments which the great Lar) of Shrews- bury disseminated through all the provinces under English rule. He was @ ferocious personage in the flesh, but scems to have become a downright nuls- ance in the spirit, for blighted crops, smoking chimneys, mad dogs and measly pigs are all booked to his account; and, seeing that pigs would certainly not become measly nor dogs mad of their own free will, one is bound to fear that ‘“‘Shasby,” or Shrewsbury, is every whit as black as he is painted. Another fact to be noticed is that the Normans are renowned for their love of lawsuits, the high caps of their peasant wemen and their cider. Tne high caps were formerly worn every day: they bave now become Sunday attire and fit close to the head, 80 as to conceal absence of hair, the which, as I explained the other day, being a marketable commodity, finds its way to Paria or to Havre via New York or London. Lawsuits are still in loving repute, especially amoung brothers, who generally contrive to start a case out of their father’s will, and are none the worse friends a/ter they have de- voured two-thirds of their inheritance tn costs. Solicitors and barristers find it a pleasant country; 80 do bailiffs (,uissiers), who are perpetually on the trudge to levy executions and drink much ciderin the course of their diverting avocations, The cider 1s gooa for those who like to feel their potations grip them firmly by the tongue, the palate and the windpipe, and is served gratis in all the inns instead of water, though sundry tourists aileged they would rather pay than drink it; but this is a question of taste. Never forget in visiting Rouen that free trade is not in good odor there, mor tne drains either; buat whilst inveighing against free trade you must praise the drains, for their odor is a sensitive point with tho Rouenese, ‘as it used to be with the people of Cologne, and futrusions on that subject would not be thankiull: received. Monseigneur de Bennechose, the Cardi- nal Archbishop of the diocese, 18 a great man, who makes Lo concessions as to butter snd meat during fast days, and he rules Rouen pretty much as he pleases in duuivirate with M. Pouyer-Querticr, the ex-Finance Minister, who plics the best kaife and fork in France, and astonished even Prince Bis- marck at that game. For the present Rouen Is less concerned about the quotations of shuirtings or the impending withdrawal of che duty on raw material than about a trial ior infanticide, which is to take lace soon, A Woman came to stay a night at the jotel d’Angieterre and leit her child, three years oid, in @ Cupboard as a souvenir of her visit. She was captured in England, and the Rouenese, betug anxious to hear what she bas to say for herself, have already concocted live or six versions of her story, one of which asserts thar her trade is to travel about and deposit superfluous babies in hotel cupboards and that she receives o commission of 80 mucha head for the business, The French have & great liking for this sort of Jegendry, and most oi them are persuaded that the mighty brotherhood of Thugs, which distinguished itself in Hindostan till mterfered with by Lord William Bentinck, has still some ramifications in France, and that 2 man can get a murder executed for him with neatness and despatch if he only knows where to apply. Balzac’s fesh-creeping tale of “‘L’ Association des Treize” and Paul Févai’s “Brande des Habits Noirs’ were written to en- courage this reassuring idea; and the recent trial ofa few young heroes whe had coalesced for flich- ing purposes, under the style of Bande des Cas- de Velours, has suggested that you can Vd & man’s watch taken, if you prefer tivat to his life— an additional proof of the never-tiring march of progress. But to return to our RELIGIOUS WATERING PLACE. The best hotels at Fécamp are at some distance from the shore and the Casino, but omnibuses are scudding to and iro all day to spare you s descent down the steep street: cannot recommend any hotel in particular, for, saouga I am roosting at the Chariot d'Or, they ‘say the Grand Cerf is as and one should never draw invidious com- parisons. Fécamp ought to be Visited by all who care to see French bishops taking their holida, in black instead of violet cassocks, and respectable families enjoying themselves with such restrictions as are imposed by the canon law and ritual obser- vance. The demi-monde is almost entirely wanting, and the visitors are chiefly counts, marquises, dukes and clergymen. If here and there a modern ungster appears With 8] new clothes, hair- on jewelry rel no Pas wo name itis a Rouen cotton spinner’s heir, who is waiting the hand of a Rateraa eacutcheon wants re- arrister, who, {from con- persona: ae bas clerico-logitt- party, lot with the i bea desire to Hes one botanize, worship an¢ enerally seen eir company. For simuar reasons one or two ex-dermt-moniaines be descried lives full of my, occasiot ening edification in sober garments. They ha rich and old; they aspire to turn over become new leaf and gat back into decent ociety, 40 they lavish @ good deal om paupers, attend matins and vespers, “ pores Regen Palme clergy, and after rolo ure aging pa fence are adinitved on puiferance Arst to clota- , in golor like nexus 1s served iukewarin a served lukewai Soe. hh rite themselves down as widows ey Wi book: in the hotel 8, and often powder their hair slight! ly to impart to their countenances the vener- le aspect Ww ‘ich oe forgot to put there, and, meet mit ty oh more than to ew them in previous % er the prs igen of ankind and took arouches over ui the odds on Ghantily favo te te ch Spinone even of the best sort, have, it may rved, something rather freezing in their manner until you get to know them well; bee] once they are convinced that you inten sneering heither at themselves nor at the Pope, | thaw down rapidly and are the most com- pantonable as well as the best bred among Freach- Tuen. It 1 the humorous Ming of the Voitaireans that has lent to Catholics (heir father defiant tone and that very stron propensity to assert their creed, as |, they ausgegted every oe of a.purpose bo attack jt ae 5 To-day at dinner some joker circulated t! that the editor of the ladder Silécle haa py fut ood midst and was filling himsei{ with Burgundy at the lower end of the table. My neighbor, who wag lormerly acaptain in the Pontifical Zouaves and who ig the truest and Kindest soldier alive, though, I much fear me, he dreams nightly about barat ‘neighbor dropped bis fork as it aa Garibaidi—my had lost all appetite for his duckling, and a: gloomily, it was astonishing that these peopiq could not leave us ope Norman seaport to ours gelves. The infidel meanwhile continued to ih his unhaliowed gizzard and presently ask whether it was true that there were 25,000 pilgri at the Precious Blood Source of #écamp | Trinity Tuesday, A significant ‘Yes’ wi the answer and then @ silence ensued, eacl diner wondering to what accu: plece o| blasphemy this reprobate would commit. himsel now. But he poured himself out a fresh LY Nuts with the keenest relish and cried:—"Pieas@, Heaven there will not be a single free thinker im the land this day ten years!” turned out afters, Wards that this supposed editor of the Sigcle was Bourbonist, with aname as long as a plece ol garden hose and clerical convictions exough regenerate half Islam. There is always somethii curious about these cases of mistaken identity, and l remember a very funny climax that occurr to one of them at a large hotel in Brighton som two years ago. A gentieman who resided in ng hotel was in the abit of always bre: 3 thi dining at the same tabie, This table ty Dark of i belief in things visible, and naturally it was a anu, table near the window; so one day coming in e lunch, he was not @ little disgusted at finding 11 occupied by astranger., It happened that he hi brought with him two fresh Aequaintances, cap! talists whom he hoped to persuade to start jr stock company with him, and hb ad counted somewhat On the cheerful situation of his table gotegs In conjunction with good wine, to make ne ee Meet his views, ‘Tre ‘waiter apologized, and trusted the tabe would be disen- ‘aged ina moment. But the stranger called for ew meats and the paper, as if he had come w an- chor forever—allof which exasperated the joint- stock gentieman, who, being ® wag at hears, thought he would pay out the intruder and amuse himeelf into the bargain. He drew the waiter asid and whispered, “1 am surprised you should samid such a man as that into the hotel; don’t you kno who it is? ‘No, sir.) “Wh: it’s Caicratt, th hangman.’ The waiter gave horrified ¢tar: bolted out, and in another moment returned wi the manager. likewise scared as by cholera, an with all his hair on end. Calcraft was cnough - ur' carry tho whole hotel into the tev before the year was Out; so the m er, without any vain ating about the bush, begged th stranger to decamp straight of, and not trouble himself about paying for what he had eaten, saying that nobody wanted money or would touch ie _stranger, in considerable surprise, asked for an expianationg which boing curtiy vouchsafed, ke rose and said:— “80 you have learned that I am the hangman, hav you? Who was your informant?” “It waa that gentleman, Pah Mey the excited manager. “Ah, indeet |,” Teyotned the stranger, pitching his voice so that every one could hear him. “if thag gentleman sayslam the man he ought cers ~ tainly to know, for I flogged him at Newgate fom garroting only three years since.’? BUSINESS COMPETITION IN MIRACLES. Fécamp {s an antique town of 16,000 inhabitanta where once existed @ powerful abbey, now des Molished, excepting & portion of its church. I went out after dinner to the Rue de l’Aumone to see tha Source or rather tne Sources—for there are t) to which pilgrims resort every year in June, and B heard the legend of the miracle very stirringly related for ten pence. It seems that Joseph 0! Arimathea having collected some of the coagula! blood of our Lord in & v asap kept it all lus life, but on his deathbed confided it to i nephew Isaao, and Isaac, fearing for his life ami the persecutions to which Caristians were then e. pesca, concealed the relic in a leaden box and th ox inside a fig tree. He then hewed down the fi tree and cast its trunk into the sea. After floati about the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biaca: the trunk drifted into the British Channel, an some thme in the tenth century ran ashore af Fécamp, where {t was found by the children of on@ Bozo, a herdsman, This Bozo, desiring to use t! trunk for firewood, set it on @ cart, but the cai broke down after it had gone half a mile, and pilgrim appeared, who said, “This wood containg he precious blood of our Saviour,” aiter which he assumed an angel's form and Vanished. The Duke ot Normandy ordered an abbey to be builtat th spot where the cart had brokeh down, and th angel twice reappeared—the first time when th foundation stone of the abbey was latd, the secon when the abbey church was inaugurated, two ceny turies later—and on both occasions he confirined thi authenticity of the precious blood and promise that it should work miracles. The blood and the, glove exist to this day, and are engurined in @ splendid marble tabernacle of the Trinity church, which is enormous in size and is one of the finest monuments of the early pointed style still extan ‘The source of the precious blood is said to have sprung on the exact spot in the field where the fig trunk Was first found; but there isa contradiction avout this exact spot, for a: rival proprietors claim the nonor of possessing the authentic fields and advertise their respective holy water springs on the most spproned method of spirited business competition. @ first source is at No. 10 Kue d@ VAumone, and over the door you read this:— OCONEE ODIO DEDEDE NE DODPIENE PEOPLE LOPE Source and Spring of the veritable Precious Blood of our Saviour Jesns Christ. HOT BATHS. veer renege rasaronnneneynnateners secre nara ‘ou pass & doorway and a chapel to the left unde! the arch and so into @ yard where the source flowa ina thin stream under a shrine protected by & wooden railing. You go down three steps to reach the stream, and may fill a bottle with the water for two penpa (four cents), On the pilgrimage day,’ which is always Trinity ‘Inesday, the pilgrim: after performing their orisons and viewing tn relic at the Trinity church, go to the source, and 20,000 quarts of its water are sold in that sinyig day. 1t was, no doubt, these handsome prolita which enlightened a rival further down the stree! to the circumstance that it was on bis land an not on that of No. 10, that the fig-trunk was reall; washed; 80 now Wo have two sources, uu the pilgrims, being in doubt, always buy. bottles at both places, The two sourcea have 4 reputation curing diseases, and even as I stood watching the second stream, which is recommended on a board as have ing “No connection with other establishments of the same name,” a sickly child on crutches came and took off her little worn shoes, then hobb! down and Ore her feet into the water. She h: been doing the same thing at No. 10, and, for the credit of human nature, let me add that no pay-, ment was exacted of her. The night was faliing as I walked away from tha, stream that hed no connection with the other, and: wended my Nike toward the Casino. The old Roman houses in the small streets looked grave and venerable in the twilight. Women were seated at their doors knitting strong blue stock- ings for their fishermen husbands; French children with their queerly faces end round cro crowing in the gutters, and there seemea much prospenity and quiet contentment about. French life ig av its best in country towns. The large cities are rackety, the villages squalid, but in small towns you get # combination of frugtey cheer- fulness and gencral welfare which not often seen in other lands, A sudden tarn brought me im sight of the new part of the town and the tall, irail houses, With their fretted balconies and clean leaden’ roofs, and below me the smart casino, which was gayly lighted and was spreading the echoes of waltz music over tue stient beach. It is a@ pretty casino, with tasteful garden and hand- some concert room, and you arz no sooner inside than yon fecl zou are among worthy peopic— neither fast nof flashy, yet none the less mirthfut for being good Obristians. I fell in with several acquaintances and spent an evening in liste: to predictions of Henry V. restoration and = miring a few young ladies in white muslin waliging over the polished oak floor with young gentiencs, most of whom had served in Charette’s Catholic corps during the war. How rare has white muslim become on virgin shoulders, and what a scarce thing it is to Gnd a young lady whois content to move without clouds of silks and false hair and chains of heavy idwork! spect the clergy have something to do with the regulation of dress here, and matdens are taught to believe that modesty and simplicity have still a charm which so-called fashion cannot eclipse. Certainly & Young. man of moderate means can see his be- rothed waltz in whito muslin without wondert what mar: will cost him, and J have not hea matrimony described here as either ap ex- pensive thing or hazardous. On the contrary, soahs ple plight their troths without much esitation on either side, dnd Fécamp passes jor being the sea retreat of lawful lovers as well a8 the airing spot of the faithiul, It is like a vestige of old France where chivalry and religion, honor and pure affection are not quoted for their worldly value or amiled at as exploded fetiches, EB. 0, GRENVILLE MURRAY, WATERING PLACE NOTES. nnn Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, with one of her daughters, is at Westport Harbor, Mass. 8. B. Conover, the new United States Senator, from Florida, and wife, are at Cape May. Professor De Cordova, of this city, has apart. ments at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. And now we receive intelligence that Scnator Fenton is in the Adirondacks, catehing trout. Colonel Frank E. Howe, special agent of the ‘Treasury Department at Washington, is at Long Branch. Hon. Sanford B. Church, Justice of the Suprem@ Court of this State, 1s registered at the West ug ong Branch, Teareewee Ezekiel A. Straw, of New Hampshire, Invited General Grant to accompany him on visit to the Isle of Shoals, which tho President de+ clined. ‘The Long Branch News says the extensive sales of real estate on Saturday are indications of a future for Long Branch anparalleled in the history of watering places. Watch Hill is quite popular as @ Summer resort, but the wreck of the ill-fated steamer Metis and the suffering and loss of life attendant thereon, cause anything but pleasing reflections. Judge Andrews, of the Court of Appeals; ex-Collector Smythe, of this city. and Mayor Glibert, of Troy, are there,