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? zy' mt VCLUME IX.-NUMBER 1967 CHARLESTON WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1872. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR. GLANCES OVER THE FIELD. A CALM AND THOUGHTFUL EXPOSI? TION OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION. The Bolt irom ?he Bolt-An Ex-Bourbon Interviewed-What the Iionlirllle Convention will Bring- Forth-How ' the Radicals Expect to Elect Grant The Liberal Republican and Demo oralle Views ortho Situation. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPUttORNT.] NEW YORE, August 13. Walking down Beekman street the other day, I encountered an acquaintance who has been prominent in the Louisville Convention Democratic bolting movement. He was one ' of those who went to Baltimore last month and participated in the gathering at the Mary? land Institute, and since then I have heard of him as talking very confidently of the success which woBld attend the nomination of a straight ticket. He bad even said that his friend Van Allen, the secretary of the so-called national cinmlttee, was In the receipt of hundreds of letters from all parts of the Union promising aid to the bolt, and that Duncan and Van Allen estimated that their straight ticket would get five hundred thousand D?mo? crate votes. I hailed this Bourbon, as I say, on Beek? man street, and securing him by the button hole, asked him to tall me all about the pro - gressofthe "great movement." "I think lt has about gone up," he answer ed sententiously - " Wb y, what is the matter; don't the Democ? racy respond with the requisite enthusiasm ?" "Hav'nt yon noticed that the Day Book bas gone for Greeley?" be asked. "You se?," continued he,"the straight/movement was got up In the Day Book oitice. The people on that paper and some of their;outside friends wrote the call, hired the Maryland Institute and ran the convention; and I hear, toe, tu ey have hal to pay all the expenses, for most of the ^dele? gates'were a shabby lot, and would not, and probably could not, contribute a cent. Well, In spite of the loud boasts made by Blanton Duncan, the thing has lallen still-born. They j have not been able to get a single Democrat | of any prominence to join them. I know that they wrote to John Quincy Adam*, Dan Voor hees and some others who were supposed to be dead against Greeley, but they have not j even received answers to their letters from these gentlemen." "The defection of the Day Book must have' been a serlo us blow, then ?" "It was like taking; me linchpin ont; the wheels came off, and we are all tumbled to the ground. The Day Book could not stand the pressure irom the Sooth, where, you know, lt has a large circulation. It was overwhelmed with letters from Ita subscribers imploring lt to help save them from four years more of | Grantlsm." "Do you think the bolt will fizzle out, noy-?" ..Substantially lt ls a failure. Because the. Day Book, Judge Flanders and Chauncey Burr, two of Ita chief promoters, have aban? doned it, and there ls nobody else of conse? quence around here that sticks. Van Allen is a good-natured fellow, but he Is as visionary aa Daniel Pratt. He deselved me about the strength of the movement. He let his hopes ron away with his tongue. I believe, though, the Louisville Convention will be held." "Who do yon suppose will be there ?" '.Blanton Duncan, of course. He ls making J a little notoriety out of the affair, and I have no donbt he has got or can get what money < he requires from the Grant managers to pay the expenses of the convention. The Grant j papers and the Grant committee at Washing? tonare giving him all the help they can. J. M. Edmunds, the Republican postmaster of] Washington, and secretary of the Grant con? gressional campaign committee, is sending' out printed copies of the call for the LouU vlUe Convention. He sends them to postmas? ters with the request to have them distributed | among Democrats lo their neighborhoods. Besides Duncan, 1 suspect there will be pres? ent at the convention Sam Bayard, of Dela? ware; Corry, the editor of the Cincinnati Com? moner; Congressman Davis, of West Virginia, and perhaps some Georgians-nobody else ol' note. The bolt seems to have had more in? fluence in Georgia than anywhere else, but I dojft think lt amounts to much even there." u Who do you think they will nominate ?" "They can't get a decent man to stand, I tell you. Suppose they should take Governor Wise. He ls utterly without strength. They | might just aa well nominate Mosby. I have heard it suggested th it the better plan would be to nominate John Quincy Adams and Han? cock, and mn them whether they accepted or not, so that it could be said that there was a 'real Democratic ticket' in the field. The bolters do not expect to elect their ticket. They want to defeat Greeley. I think lt pro? bable that when election day comes they will not fool with any straight ticket, but vote di? rect for Grant." "Thank you, my friend, for all this Informa-1 tion ; now tell me how you are going to vote | yourself." "Hum. (Scratching his no3e.) Well, this ls a choice of evils yon see. I don't like Greeley and I hate Grant. But if Greeley goes j Into office he will be surrounded by my politi? cal friends, and if Grant goes in he will be j surrounded by my political foes. I suppose I will have to swallow Greeley. But the situa? tion Is torced upon me. I did not make it, and I wash my hands of the consequences if | anything goes wrong." Since I interviewed this Bourbon (who has learned something) I have been taken lalo the confidence of a strong Radical politician, who, for some unaccountable rea? son, supposes I am lukewarm for the wood; Chopper. I asked him on what he based bis belief that Grant will be re-elected. "I have four good reasons for believing it," j he replied, confidentially. "First, there are j two hundred thousand office-holders in the Union, who are an active, organized body, spreading into every town and village in the country, and who are fighting lor their places. This organization alone ls worth a hundred of ] your national committees tor real, telling work. Second, we expect a great deal to come out of the Louisville Convention. There is a great, quiet undercurrent ot Democratic disgust with Greeley, and a straight nomina? tion will glye lt shape and development. Third, in October we shall have some astound? ing revelations to make about Greeley, which we are getting out of the rebel archives. We expect they will produce a reaction among the Republicans. Fourth: Look here ! You might as well know it ! Do you think Tammany has learned us how to count, and we will not take advantage of the lesson ? We shall count just wherever it ls necessary, and just as much as necessary. My boy, If you have any money to bet, don't bet lt on Horace." So mnch for the Badical view of the situa tjOD. Lot me add the result of my inquiries [Tor opinons at the Democratic and Liberal ' Republican headquarters. At the latter they show stacks of letters from every Northern State, any one letter of wblcb when opened reveals the names of Republicans by tens, scores and hundreds, who have abandoned Grant for Greeley. Tae defection In the Re? publican ranks bas gone so far that the Libe? ral committee actually entertain hopes of car? rying Vermont and Iowa-heretofore the two strongest Radical States (excepting South Carolina) In the Union. A Tribune estimate gives Iowa to Greeley by seven thousand ma? jority. This 1B charged to the German detec? tion. The Germans hold the balance of power In Iowa, and have gone over en masse to Greeley. In Vermont the Liberal movement ls spreading like prairie fire. In some towns there is hardly a Grant man left besides the postmaster. If such things be in Iowa and Vermont, what may we not expect of less Radicalized States ? A Democratic committeeman put the situa? tion in figures thus and briefly: "We want 184 electoral votes to win. The following, any candid opponent will admit, are sure Democratic States: _ Electoral Vote3. Alabama.10 Arkansas. 6 Delaware. 3 Georgia.ll Kentucky.12 Maryland. 8 Miss-Juri. 15 New Jersey. 9 Tennessee. 12 Texas. 8 Virginia.ll West Virginia. 6 Total of certain Dem. States.. .110 Add New York.. 35 Pennsylvania. 29 Indiana. 16 Total for Greeley.189 "The three last States we shall carry with? out a doubt New York ls Democratic any? how. The Liberal Republican movement j helpa lt to be more so. The Hartranit nomi? nation and Forney's defection secures us Pennsylvania. We need but a change of four thousand five hundred votes at the most in Indiana, and George W. Julian is worth twice that." By this showing, Greeley can be elected without the aid of Illinois, New Hampshire, Connecticut, California, Louisiana and other States, wbere the Liberal Republican move? ment is strong, and where Greeley Blands, at | least, equal chances with Grant NTI?. _ RIOTS IN IRELAND. Catholic Protections Attacked bjr the Mob. LONDON-, August 16. The passage of the repeal of the party proc?s- ] sion act was generally celebrated throughout | Ireland yesterday by the Roman Catholics, and In some places there was disorder. At Bel? fast while the procession was passlog through the streets, it was stoned by a large crowd of persons. The procession returned the attack, and a scene of terrible excitement ensued. The rioters were finally dispersed by the police; not, however, until one man bad been shot Sllgnt disturbances occurred In Dublin, and several persons were wounded. There was no disorder In Londonderry. RADICAL O AO-LA ?'.. Mixed Meeting Reface* to Hear a Colored Supporter of Greclry. NEW TORE, August 16. The debate between Saunders and Garnett, both colored, advocating respectively Greeley and Grant, look place at the Cooper Institute, last night There was a large mixed audience, and much contusion and Ill-feeling were mani? fested towards the champion of Greeley. The meeting broke up almost In a row. THE BOOT ON THE OTHER LEO. John Ball Presents HJs Little Bill. NEW YORE, August 16. A Washington dispatch stales that claims aggregating one hundred and seventeen mil? lion five hundred thousand dollars have been filed before the mixed American and Eogllsh commission, from British sources, for dam? ages sustained by the seizure and confiscation of blockade runners and their cargoes during the rebellion by the American Government A HAMPA GBO VS BHINOCEBOS. Caicioo, August 16. A rhinoceros belonging to a circus escaped at Monroe, III., killing two men and knocking down the tent polls and seats, and causing several dislocations ol tbe arms ot spectators. The cages of the other animals were capsized, and the rhinoceros was finally captured after doing three thousand dollars' worth ot damage. THE GENEVA TRIBUNAL. GENEVA, August 16. The arbitration board has adjourned till Monday. Stoempfl, the Swiss arbitrator, to? day said he hoped that all the 'cork of the board would be finished In three weeks. A dispatch Bays the American representa? tives before the board of arbitration antici? pate the recovery of damages to a large amount from England. Many consider the presence of Mr. Cohen In Geneva as favorable to such a result of the arbitration. It Is also stated tbat the Americans have decided to require the nomination of a board of assessors should a gross sum not be awarded by the tri? bunal. SPARKS FROX THE WIRES. -Secretary Fish is said to be too ill to re? turn to Washington at present -All the yellow fever patients on the frigate Numancla, save two, are convalescent. -The brig Ssa Bird has arrived at New York trom Maracaibo with yellow fever. -Joe Jefferson is in Ballimore. His sight ls entirely restored. -The President went to Long Branch last night. He is not expected to go to Chatta? nooga. -The commencement ol the race season at Saratoga ia postponed to-day on account of the rain yesterday. -It ls denied that the civil and criminal suits again st "Boss" Tweed and Sweeney have been abandoned. -It rained heavily in Washington yester? day, and severe storms are reported in the North. PALMETTO POLITICS. -The choice of the Radicals In Camdnn eeems to lie between Judge Melton and Speak? er Moses for Governor. -The Republicans of Chester have elected T. J. Mackey, B. G. Yocum and John Lilly delegates to the Stale convention. -The city election In Greenville for mayor and aldermen takes place on the 9th ol Sep? tember. Three hundred and thirty-eight white and two hundred and thirty-six colored voters have registered. -Tho Republican county convention of Kershaw County met In the courthouse last Saturday evening, and elected Allison Hough, Reuben Gaither and Frank Carter, delegates to the State and Congressional conventions. -A Greeley campaign club was formed In Waxhaw settlement Lancaster County, com? posed of eighteen intelligent colored men. These men signed a written pledge that they never would vote for a Radical Republican again. -The Republican county convention of York County was held In Yorkvllie last Mon day evening, and nominated Hannibal White, colored, tor State senator; B. F. Briggs and Nelson Davies, colored, for representatives; B. L. Cook for sheriff; J. F. Wallace for clerk ol court, and S. Hall for probate judge. CONSCIENTIOUS CARDOZO. HIS LAST DYING SPEECH AND CON? FESSION. ...Yon Lie, Villain, you Lie"-A. New Fraud Unearthed-Tbe Sealing Busi? ness-Governor Scott's Heart's Blood A Poetical Peroration. STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE, COLOMBIA, S. C., Aug. 14.1872. To his Excellency R. K. Scott, Governor of South Carolina, and Hon. Niles G. Par? ker, State Treasurer. SIRS-I have carefully read your replies to my letter to my attorneys, whlcb appeared In the Phoenix, of Friday, the 9th inst., and will now answer them. I will first notice what you are pleased to term "the evil spirit which prompted the publication" ot my letter. I deemed it a public duty, though exceedingly painful and unpleasant, to give my attorneys and the public all the information lu my possession, to prevent, if possible, the fur? ther Issue ot bonds, and thereby Increase the debt of the Slate. My only regret Is that I was not In a position to matte these facts pub? lic two years earlier. I have no doubt what? ever that it Is quite Impossible for either cf you to understand how any person can be influenced by a sense of public duty. That the public may more dearly understand our re? spective duties in regard to the honda, I will state that, by the laws of this Slate, three officers are required to prepare bonds. The Governor slgus, the treasurer countersign* and the secretary of State seals. This duty ls purely ministerial. After they are thus pre Sared, the financial board (composed of the overnor, tho treasurer and the attorney general) take possession of the bonds and sell or hypothecate them, and order the disburse? ment of the moneys arising fro ja such sales or hypothecations. It will he ut once observed tbat my duty, as secretary ot State, la simply ministerial. I am concerned In the prepara? tion ot bonds only, and have nothing wnatever to do with the sales or moneys resulting from sales. The Governor and treasurer have studiously, meanly and with a malicious cowardice, char? acteristic of them, endeavored to implicate me \a the responsibility which attach?e to them as individuals and members of the finan? cial board exclusively, for the Issue and sale of bonds. This ls evident from the whole tenor ot both of their letters. A more detailed account of the manner aud the circumstances under which tbe "sterling loan bonds" were sealed will fully Illustrate and explain this. The Governor, the treasurer and myself had resolved to prepare the ^sterling loan bonds." Tbe treasurer Inlormed me that his Excellen? cy had authorized his name to be printed on the bonds in New York, and tbat be himself (the treasurer) required lo go to New York, and would be abseut all summer. (The reason of his absence can be seen by reference to pages 614 and 515 of the -'Repot U and Resolu? tions." 1871-72, where lt will be noticed that $201,816 61 bad been loaned to the Blue Ridge Railroad,and $203,000 used to redeem old bonds not only without authority of law, but In posi? tive violation thereof, Inasmuch as this money had been appropriated for the Lunatic Asy? lum, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, th schools,, the penitentiary, and the salaries ul officers, and he dared not remain and witt and the indignant remonstrances of those men whose rightful moneys had been thus diverted-to use his Excellency's mild term? No wonder, then, that lt became' necessary to levy two taxes for one fiscal year-see Stat., vol. 14, p. 706, and 15, p. 293-the one to meet the regu? lar appropriations, the other to oover up their irregular and uuwarranted expenditures I ) But to return IQ the subject. I myself was absent from Columbia that summer, having taken up my residence on Sullivan's Island, for the benefit of my lamlly. I told the treas- I urer, however, that ? would authorize my : clerk to seal the bonds before I left, and that his cleric could deliver them to mioA. < when they came. They were so delivered, i generally In the afternoon, alter the arrival of the Northern train. They were sealed by my ' clerk at his house, lt being after office hours, : and because (hey were required to be re- ? turned immediately to the treasurer's clerk, that they might be sent back to New York by < the next mail. If there ls anything Burreptl- i tious In that, lt ls the first time that I have i heard so ridiculous and nonsensical a charge. What were the reasons that Induced his bx- i ce ll en cy to send the comptroller-general io New York lo obtain possession of these bonds, ls certainly more ihan I know. He, doubtless, possessed some of that peculiar Information, referred to In my last letter, as the absolute and exclusive prerogative of the Financial Board. Nor can I see what relevancy that statement has tome and my action. I fear that his Excellency slyly took advantage of that chance of attempting to elevate, himself In tbo eyes ol the public, by parading hlq usual Pickwickian policy ot letter-writing, ostrich? like, burying his head In Ibe sand, unmindful of his protruding body-a policy .which de? ceives nobody who knows him, especially the bunters on his trail. I will now notice what you say about ray taklnz the seal to New York. Io May, 1871, Immediately after the adjournment of the Taxpayers' Convention, the financial agent requested me, In the presence of the attorney general and several others, lo seal the sterl? ing loan bonds In New York, as your Excel lencv's name was to be printed on them lhere by your special order, and Mr. Parker, for the reasons before slated, was to sign them lhere. The proposition seemed to me exceed? ing Inappropriate, and I promptly declined to do so, but not before asklug the attorney general If such a thing were legal, to which ne replied that there was nothing Illegal in lt, and tne propriety of lt must be judged by the circumstances. I thought and still think that his Excellency was present. He says he was not. We will concede this point to him, es? pecially as lt does pot make a particle of dif? ference, as will be Been hereafter. I Insisted that the sterling loan bonds should be Bent lo me here, and they were sent and sealed here. In October, five months alter, when the treasurer entreated me to seal a small amount of bouda, in order to save a very large amount that would otherwise be sacrificed, I yielded conditionally, viz: that I would see and judge for myself of the emergency. I therefore took the seal wiih me to New York, having, as I said before, the verbal opinion ot ibe attor? ney-general tbat it was not illegal, and whom I did not have time lo obtain a written opin? ion from, and leeling lt entirely unnecessary io do so, lor In all my official and personal communications with the attorney-general I have always found him a gentleman o? the strictest veracity. When I went to New York I stopped at the same hotel with his Excellency, in order to better observe the situation, and govern my? self accordingly. Gu this occaslou I had de? termined not to seal beiore his Excellency had agreed to sign, though neither law nor custom required me to do. so; lt was simoly a matter of convenience, notwithstanding his Excellency's studied attempt to make lt ap? pear otherwise. I do not desire to enter into a detailed ac? count of what I saw in New York, and I hope it will not be necessary. Suffice lt to say, that after refusing for more than a week lo eL'u the bondi required, and swearing, by all that was supernal and Infernal, thai if lie sign? ed them he would do it.only wiih his heart's b'ood, his Excellency sat down one morning, after a protracted interview with the financial agent, and elgned them in good black ink. After his Excellency had Bigoed them, I look up the bottle of lok and asked him if that was bis "heart's blood." He Bald, with a smile "that was childlike and bland," that he had further "Hunt" on the subject. No doubt ! Alter his" Excellency hud agreed to sign, I resolved to sea}. I then told his Excellency that I had the seal with me and had resolved to seal. He said that he was surprised; ir he were, it certainly was not visible. He also says tbat be severely reprimanded me for bringing the Beal to New York. Thia ls false. Con? scious, from experience, that his Excellency bas one ol' those peculiarly forgetful memo? ries, that are very convenient to their posses? sors when they desire to extricate themselves from a difficult position, I did not content myself with bis verbal assurances, as lu the case of the attorney-general, but required him to write a letter authorizing me to produce the seal before I would use it, and he wrote the letter which he acknowledges. Whatever responsibility attaches to taking my seal to New York, I am ready to bear, leeling justified by the circumstances as repre? sented. But his Excellency must manfully bear his also, and not try to shirk it; for I . placed lt in his power to pr? vent It, if he would not first give me the required letter referred to. The fact of the matter ls Ma Excellency shows both the weakness o? his defence and the narrowness of his own mind by trying to evade the real point at Issue, me question ls not who prepared the bonds, whether he signed before I seated, or viceversa, but what was done with them after they were thus pre? pared? If his Excellency condescends to "rise to explain" to the public, 1 apprehend they would be much more satisfied with a minute and detailed account of the manner In which the bonds were disposed of and the various uses to which the moneys have been applied. Such painfully Interesting Items, for instance, as these: By what authority of law could he, as chairman of the financial board and Mr. Parker, as a member and treasurer,' take the taxes or the proceeds ot the sales of bonds and lend them to the Blue Ridge Ball road Company, redeem old bonds, as above re? ferred to, and accommodate their friends, and charge lt to "Imaginary funds?" His Excellency states thattherels$500,000 ol bonda In the hands of the American Bank Note Company, which were returned to them last November to be cancelled, and that they have been sealed. It may be so, but I don't believe it. But If sealed, they were sealed be? fore that lime; but I will give my reasons for doubting the statement. They can't be "star? ing loan bonds," for they were cancelled. They can't be "conversion bonds," for ii they were be would have much rather had them brought back here than take me Into court. They can't be any other kind of bonds, for they have all been sold or forfeited long Blnce, the treasurer tells nae. I remember distinctly that there were $2, 000,000 ol' bonds for the iundlag of the interest sealed; $1,000,000 were flrstftealed, and then they were declared to be af- mia-prlni ; and a second million prepared to-substitute them and sent forward, but only a half million was returned, and the other half million was de? clared to be hypothecated and unobtainable, and I suppose they have been Bold long ago. Then was the construction invented that these laws did not mean that a certain amount of bonds should be issued, but that a certain amount o( mousy should be raised on an In d?duite amount of bonds. This construction may be correct according to tue letter, but certainly not according to their spirit and the trueintent ot the framers. The reference, in ;rIC ?ase paragraph ot his Excellency's letter, to those who are now endeavoring lo reiorm and purity the party, asserting that they are themselves venal and responsible tor tho diversion ot money, carries its. own refutad <n with lbj so tar os the state? ment applies to me; for,' if there were anv such facts, his Excellency would certainly produce them. We could'trust to his mali? cious Ingenuity and anxiety to involve every? body else iq his own just retribution, to pro? duce any facts from the treasurer's books to prove bis assertions. With regard to Mr. Parker's letter, I have but one word to Bay. IIB reasoning is too ridiculous to require serious consid?ration, and its assertions are palpable falsehoods. Where be questions my veracity, I leave it simply to the people of South Carolina to judge between us. . u I would say, as an act of simple justice to the Governor, that he has rc slated the signing of bonds-all he was able, perhaps. (?) I haye seen bim rave, swear and threaten to shoot somebody, and then cry, and then sign. In conclusion, I would Bay to both ot these gentlemen, In the language or the poet: "Plot on thy little hoar and skein On skein wave the vain meshes Upon which tny subtle souls Brood an their venom; Lo I before, behind, around thee, Like an armament of cloud, The blact rate labora onward." I have the honor to be, very respectfully, ic, F. L. CARDO zo, Secretary ol S',ate S. C. POLITICAL NOTES, -The Chicago Tribune expresses Ihe opinion that luliy four-fifths of the German vote of Illinois will be cast tor Greeley and Koerner. -Judge Hancock, chairman of the Grant committee ?t MMBtptilBA-T-ennesMM?, has- re? signed and will support Greeley. -At the Conservative Convention of the Richmond District, on Wednesday, Mr. Geo. D. Wise, at present commonwealth attorney, from the city, was nominated for Congress. -Secretary Bout wei I will deliver several campaign speeches In Pennsylvania next month. He might as well save himself the trouble. -Colonel W. R. Myers, of Charlotte. North Carolina, who entertained Secretary Both? well when In that plaoe on his recent slump? ing lour, has now repudiated Grant and de? clared his Intention to vote for Greeley -The Atlanta correspondent ot the Savan? nah Republican writes that Messrs. Toomba and Stephens will take no part in thu dis? organizing movement of the "straight-outers," but preserve "a'masterly Inactivity" In re? lation to tho Democratic nominees, whom they preter not to support, and have decided no longer to oppose. -The secretary of the Liberal Republican State committee ol Ohio writes from Colum? bus as follows: "Our people think we shall wrry the State. A letter from a well inform? ed German In Cleveland says seventy-five per cent, ot the German Republican element is, with ns. and that there are three thousand Liberal Republicans la Cuyahoga County. -The German Democratic Union general committee held a special meeiing lu New York on Tuesday evening, t.o form a commit? tee of arrangements for ? demonstration to ruiify tho nomination of Greeley and Brown jointly with the Tammany general oommittee. A communication of the Tammany general committee on the subject was read and a res? olution passed to form a committee of one from each ward delegation. The committee was appointed. -Mr. Goodloe, of North Carolina, a mem? ber of the Liberal national committee, says that the^e is no doubt but that the North Carolina Legislature will award the guber? natorial chair to Mr. Merri mon, at ita meeting on the third Monday in November, as evi? dence of fraud and Illegal voling sufficient has been collected to destroy Caldwell's alleged majority. He states that numbers ot colored men from other states were registered and voted like cattle, and ibat they came in the State via the Diemal Swamp canal. -Ex-Governor John C. Edwards, of Mis? souri, now nearly eighty years or age, and an ultra Democrat, has written a letter to Colonel Peter Saxe, ol California, which gives a most sensible view of the situation. He says: "I am against ali banka, all monopolies, all sub? sidies, any and all tariffs, high salaries and heavy fee bills, and in favor of direct taxa? tion. With all this. 1 have no trouble In sup? porting Greeley. In a desperate fight, we should pick up the best club to beat our ene? mies over the head." -A special dispatch irom Washington to the Traveller says that Mr. Greeley has written the following to one oi his political friends in that oltj: BRADFORD, N. H., August 13. Bear Judge-Yonra of the 3d rinds me here. The news ii om North Carolina did not justify the first reports, bul if we work hard I am sure we will carry lt In November. We Rhall carry New Hampshire, Oonneo'.lcur.,New York and Mow Jersey. This ls the extent ci our work In the East. The rest will have to be done lu the South and West. Yours very truly, HORACE GREELET. ME. GREELEY'S PROGRESS. AUGUSTA, MAINE, August 16. Mr. Greeley U ut Portsmouth, and leaves this afternoon for Rye Beach. TJIE COMING WAR WITH BRAZIL LISBON, August 1G. The mail steamer from Rio de Janerio with advices to the 24th ult. arrived here to-day. When the steamer left, Geueral Mllre, the special envoy from the Argentine Confedera? tion to Brazil and the Emperor Don Pedro, were still enuaned in negotiations lor the set? tlement of the differences between the two nations, but without any apparent result, lu the meanwhile, there ls fresh activity in the military and naval arsenals of both powers, as war ls looked upon ascertain should General Mitre's mission prove unsuccessful. WENDELL PHILLIPS COMES OUT FOR GRANT. BOSTON, AugnBt 16. In reply to a note from a number of colored citizens to Wendell Phillips, inviting him to addre.-s them on the political Issues of the day, Phillips declines to speak, but gives his views In a long letter, In which he favors Grant for President In preference to Greeley, alt hough be agrees with Sumner in regard to the San Domingo affair. THE K?-KL?X CRUSADE. A SAMPLE OF THE WAR UPON THE UP-COUNTRY. Deputy Hubbard and a Troop of Caval? ry Raiding upon Women and Chil? dren In Cheater. Deputy TJulled States Marshal John Hub? bard has been raiding through Chester Coun? ty In eearen o? imaginary Ku-Klux and sub? stantial fees and mileage, and distinguishing himself by insulting women and abusing lit? tle children, whom he dragged from their cradles aud trundle beds on pretence of look? lng lor Eu-Eluz. At the house of a Mrs. Fer? ris, near Turkey Creek, the door was violently burst open and the lock broken, while the lady herself was offering him the key and begging him not to break In the door. Another place visited was the plantation of William Carter, which is rented by two young men, Calvin Chalk and George Carter. Both of these men were absent irom home on the night o? the raid. Their house waa broken Into and searched; and when they returned home in the morning they found that seven quilt*, lour counterpanes, three pairs of pantaloons and three vests had been stolen aod carried off. As a supporting force to the expedition, Hubbard had along Columbus Craolord, Giles Good and Bili Palmer, three of the most no? toriously Infamoua and lawless negroes in the country. Altey they were relieved from duty on Wednesday morning, and while they were returning home, they took occasion to call at the house of Mrs. Press Estes, whom they In? sulted aod threatened with their loaded goos. From here they passed to the residence of Mr. E. B. B?hlas, and, that gentleman beirg away from home, they attempted to go into his yard. When ordered by his daughter not to do so, they insulted her and levelled t&etr guns at her. A detachment Of cavalry, under command Of Lieutenant E. S. Godfrey, was assisting the doughty marshal on this raid, and the Caester Reporter, which publishes toe above details, adds: ' Ia justice to Lieutenant E. S. God trey, who was In command ot the cavalry, and whom we know and respect as a gentle? man, we are assured by our Informants that the soldiers had nothing to do with the break? ing open of doors, throwing sick children about, ?c. Lieutenant Godlrey, we are sure, would neither do anything of this kind him? self nor would he suffer it to be done by any ono under his command. Hubbard was in command of this expedition-the cavalry were only along so as to give the civil authorities assistance in oase any should be needed-and upon Hubbard rests the whole responsibility tor everything." AFFAIRS IN COLUMBIA. A Row In the Radical County Conven? tion-The [Legislative Nominees a "Scrubby" Set-Delaying tne Hang? ing of Two Murderer!-Bleeping an Bye on the Ring Thieves-Patterson Stock Rising -The Caterpillar In Richland County. [arECiir. TSI.KQBAM TO THE NEWS. ! COLUMBIA, S. C., August 16. The Radicals held their county nominating convention here to-day. It was a big row all' day long. W. D. Frazee (son of the sheriff) and the negro sergeant-at-arms had a regular set-to, knock-down, nose-spllttiDg, drag-out affair. The Reformers were rampant at first,; and seemed to carry everthlcg before them, but some of the old hacks managed to get In, when the genuine work of nominating commenced. Frazee was de? feated, his antagonist (Dent) carrying the convention unanimously. Dent ls a much better man, and this ls the only good change made. The nominees for the Legislature are S. B. Thompson, (one of the present mem? bers,) A. W. Curtis, Charles MInort (member of the Legislature of 1868) and J. L. Gilmore. The last named ls from the country and may be an improvement; the rest are all scrubs. There was immenee dissatisfaction amongst the disappointed candidates and their adher? ents. They Bwear the "voice of the people" has not been heard. Another ticket will, doubtless, be put ld the field. Governor Scott did suspend the sentences of the negroes Lucas and Harris condemned to be hung ro-day. It was Fra zee's doings who wish? ed to avoid the odium of the tl.lng (hanging) on the day the nominating convention would meer. 1 here was not a particle of excu. in the case of Lucas except Frazee'a wishes. The hanging is put off lill the 30th instant. What a commentary on a Governor ! The prosecution fund is still climbing here ; nearly six hundred dollars bas been subscribed. General Chesnut ls selecting his ground care? fully and collating the evidence. He will not move until alter consultation with Judge Al? drich, who did not oome as was expeoted to? day. Patterson stock In the Gubernatorial nomi? nation ls rising. He has the money and will use lt lavishly. Orr's name ls assuming some prominence among the Reform Republicans. The caterpillars have appeared In force on the Trennolm plantation, five miles below here. Qui VIVE. HERE WE REST. The Radical Nominations-A Coalition of the Liberals and Democrats Agreed Upon. MONTGOMERY, ALA., August 16. The indications reported yesterday are veri? fied by the results in Radical Republican Con? vention. C. C. Sheet, consul to Elsinore, and Alex. White, member of Congress twenty years ago, are nominated for Congressmen at large. Lewis E. Parsons, W. J. Gilmore, J. L. Bennington and L. C. Cori leon for electors. The platform consists o? four resolut'ons: First, endorsing the Philadelphia platform and nominations; second, favoring Internal improvements on as liberal a ?cale as ts con? sistent with prudence and economy; third, the duty of Congress to enforce the rights o? the citizen under the iourteenth and fifteenth amendments by permanent legislation; tourth, relies ou the education of the rising genera? tion as a means by which liberty aud free government are to be preserved, and oppose all disfranchisement except for crime undtr due conviction. The Liberal and Democratic State executive committee, after lull and free conference, at Talladega, coalesced and nominated the lol? io wing mixed ilcket : For electors at large, C. C. Langdon, ot Mobile; R. 0. Pickett, ot Lau derdale,Democrats;and W. B. FigureB.uf Madl sou; W. L. Hatcbett, of Montgomery, Liberals. For ali ernutes J. F. Fadden, of Russel,.und N. A. Ayer, of Monroe, Democrats; ?nd A. C. Beard, or Marshall; W. S. Meed, ot Jefferson, Liberals. The session was harmonious and steps were taken lor a vigorous campaign. There are no Liberals on the State Heuet be? cause lt was nominated before the Baltimore convention, but support of the party 1B pledg? ed lo the ticket notwithstanding. THE WEATHER THIS DAY. WASHINGTON. August 16. 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