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THE WEEKLY POST. v.T. CJLNADaV, - - Ua&lncsa Manager V. O. MANN, - Managing Editor. J - Friday, September 20th, 1872. : REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. .. FOR TRZSIDZXT. flLYSSES S. GRANT Of Illinois. TOR VICE-PRESIDENT. HENRY WILSON, Of Massachusetts. ELECTORAL TICKET. POU THn STAT? AT LAKOK : MARCUS ERWIN, of Buncombe. SAMUEL P. PHILLIPS, of Wake. 1. Edward Ransou, or Tyreii. 3. IVlUiaxi F. Xxnin, of Lenolx, 3. 4. Thoraa M. Ar&o, of Orange. . Henry Walserv of Davidson. 6. William S. Bynum, of Lincoln. . 7. James C. IUmier, ol Rowan. 8. James II. Justice, ol llulhcriord. KEEP BEFORE THE PEOPLE! It is urged by the Democratic organs that the law is to be enf creed in State and municipal elections. This is docc to make it more obnoxious, it that be possible, to their party. But, unfortu nately, this is an err jr. The la;? applies only to Jre$il"mti d and Congrcstional elections, though vrs heartily wish it COCLD EE MADE TO APPLY TO ALL OTH- ers. If. T. Tribute. When the rcbci.ic-.j 7 c ".-- over whelmed in the icU, : r: itertd like lcavci bcfo:3 in a :tj wi:.d, it oust not be to icturu to leicoful and Coi.:c.cd Homes. Tkey must find Poverty at their Firesides, and see Privation is the ajsxious lyes or MorncR-' and TaK ..u.: c i' Ch.ldrln. Horace Greeley, Tribune, May lit, 1301. 'in i a i. L . Let 4 1 hoiu our Oovci. daty of protecting ozs fuod&incn. -. . . . laws lor .c . ku kiux ccubpiiic; i the power to do it, tii-j I . r.; Gov eminent is ao Govcr::w-:, but u I therefore c.i c:gj ::t:per v:cinin : Zc cited and '.ui:i,id toe .1: 'd. 1 hvl- it es2cdally desirable for the ; end if it does not prove strong ccujh io eject it purjioM, i Aj it kil h made stronger and stronger. ' "Work. An inlamou3 article, with the above title appeared in tks Raleigh Standard, in 1652, which was immediately repu diated by the proprietors ot the paper. and the writer discharges Although this was done immediately and the ar ticle denounced bj every Republican paper ia the State, several Democratic Diners keen extracts of this article itandine at the head of their editorial columns. Wc arc reliable informed that the writer cf this article is one ot the editors ot the New York Tribune, new the leading Greeley organ of the United States. " J hate lutcicd izith unmixed horror to tome rj ths tesii:.nor.y , which has been lr:t:M by-fora you. The cuirages proved are ihocxir.g a humanity ; they admit of neither excise cr justification : they tib ial every obligation xchieh Ins and na ture imposes upon men ; ihey shox that rudely and cruelly exposed to public gize by bis present allies! And now they are shouting for him ! 1 Of all the gyrations' aad tricks to obtaiu a little power and control a few offices, we ever saw, thi3 is certainly the most stupendous. Senator Wilson said that a " mean .Yankee was the meanest man on the face of the earth,'' and he might have added, that the meanest ot them acted with the Demo cratic.party. Hence they have always lauded the South and abused ou Northern c!dicrs during the late war. They are the class of men who, too cow ardly to come South and fight lor the cause they espoused, stayed at home to shoot braver men. in the back. Copperheads! They were and are the most dcspicablo race of men on the face of the earth, and now, in hopes of gain, they arc throwing up their hats for Mr. Sumner and advocating his election. Right here the question nat urally arises, who has chaaged f . Have these men all come up to the wonderlul platform Sumner has advocated for the past seven years, of utter hostility to the late rebels," the disfranchisement ol whitesaird the civil rights w of the blacks, or has he degenerated to the groveling level of his nevr constituents? Who can tell? What secret bargain has been made ? Always an extremist, we be lieve he has, liko others of that ilk, repudiated the record of a brilliant life, and is wilhctr to Lccome the leader cf the party which has alwajB distrusted aad maligned him. Mr. Sumner ha3 been honored and revered lor many years by the men he would now betray, but fortunately his constituents are too enlightened to be deceived by such false demonstration He will follow the fodtstcps of the im maculate Doolittle, and -be unhonored and unsung among the people who have given him the high positions he has oc cupied tcr a quarter of a century. Qonteatlnff the Eloction. Capt o. A. Ashe, member of the House cf Representatives, session 1S72- '72, from Hew Hanover county, who rc eited ana delivered a farewell address his vio-.o'.itucnle, which left an im- prcssiC.4 iu-s will uaruiy uc cuaecu iu his century, has written Judge Mem- men '. iciier, uauer usie ui iuu a..u i-rc, ?tL;r. , tiio Judge to "rise and ex plain." Wh:cu?on the Judge cjives Hsvie-u at hrgo: "He will contest." "H; vroat contest." "Thinks he may, We hive had very littlb to say on the subject of the late election, because wc are so used to hear the cry of "fraud," fraud," whenever the democracy are bcatco, that wc pay no attention to it in thesa dftjs. We believe : there were Iraudj upon the part of Democrats, that reduced Gov. Caldwell's insjorily from oG00 to 3,100, and we believe they can be prorcd. We do not object4to a fair investigation; we prefer it. It the Re- pub'ican prty does not como out of it with a luroly increased majority then .we shall be mistaken. The fact is, Judge Merrimon is in the way. lie is tne canaiuaie m 'a large number of members of tlo Dext Gen eral Assembly for United States Senator, while Gov. Vanco expects it and needs it. baiurt poiititians are seeKing ia The Nejr'Torlc27 actnafly inband an4,our currchcxisue crally gives a plain and ixi partial state- free from Iraud.'l 4il thi3 is possible, ment of the affairs of the ecuntrywitn- although at present judging i facts as out eupportin either , eddidate, gives they 'are,! that the 1 States wliich Toted us it Views onlthe Maine jelectjon in a for General Grant jn!i863 will sll or lengthy article which wljhye great nearly ail, vote fori him in ji 872' and weight. We-piint a few extracts.' The that there will be rib more change in JJtrald says: The rcsul of. the, Maine Indiana, - Pennsylvania, Ohio. &c, In tlection has verified : ourediction : of October than there has been in Vcr yesterday; 1 TrTe State hftl decfared'for mbnt and Maine m September." f T thq Republican candidates by obeTohfi; , " , , " ' ' x - J accustomed majorities, asd has-united - The enthusiasm for the sage.of Cliap- wi;h Vermont :in testifjtne - that; the paqua is oozing out so rapidly, we begin Liberal secession from th Republican to look for a reactloh and the overthrow ranks has not 'affected the istrcogtb'f ot the philosopher, f As the $tate elec- thc party in the New England States in tions progress, - and our Democratic any perceptible degree, 'in 1868, in the brethren sco there is no defection in our State election immedit tily. preceding ranks, their disguet jat the position they the Presidential votef RepUDhcan, have,; placed themselves in swallowing majority In Maine. was twenty thousand the ' Cincinnati nominee, will sicken four hundred, and uponTiis foundation ,tnem;o completely -that a spasmodic a majority ot twenty-eigbi thousand was throwing up, or a passive indifference built up for General Grdbt.1 This year ,to things bt this ilife, will permit the it is estimated that the laiority for the election to go by default in November- Republican QoTernoxi!J yesterday's rote We ratlieif expect the former will be the has reached about fiftei thotsandand result. As the defeat of Mr. Greeley this of course secures tti seven electoral seems to be a . foregone conclusion, we votes of the State again I cr the Republic are incUnedto btjieve, as this is a won- can President. 'The v "t i3 the more derfuV cr'ipB.ign,ithat the Democracy significant sfn5e "the X-oTwas, -argued with considerable force and carne'sfness by .the counserfor.thejosing id1, and lively hopes were excited of a : more favorable finding. will become tirect of their "leader and select. a nian more jn accordance with tbejwishcs of th'ejr? voting population, and form a party' with, come; show of principle besids thet A. T. D.'Qrant pol- that they will; The Plain Truth. . .' Tho New YorkrM its remark upon the Demo-Liberaj ponventions, held at Syracuse, has'stru?k the true reason "for the now perfectly apparent failure ot the liberoemenjfrphen it stated that the politicians and office seekers, after the Baltimore (nomination "regarding the prize as already within their grasp, they began to seek security forWir own share of the spoils." To havu maintained thu show of enihusi- which followed the democratic asm icy. we nope, uowiewr, The practical lesson of fue Maine elec- cling to the goodold Horace" to the lion is to teach tha opposition that their efforts to take any of these ptates from General Grant will be unsuccessful. It is now as certain as any future event can well be that Maine, New HiJups hi re, Ver mont, Massachusetts and Ehode Island will cist their electoral voltes for the Re publican candidate. In Massachusetts bitter end, and af teij their overwhelming defeat they will have to form a new party, with new aiins and a bran new platform. Of one tting our iopponents should be aware, especially in this State, and that K this rapidly changing front will not win the battle ; arid perhaps, on tho wholc.'they .Jhad better cling to there will no doubt be a material falling the white coated fcatce and shout for oflin the ReDublicafl strength, for Banks I him ! How thev din do it we do not - . i" and Sumner willxarry wit 1 them a large pretend to understand, nor do ve care : number of the Republicac3 ; but, unfor- we are confident ot- victory, no matter tunatcly, in that State tile majority to what new aspect bur opponents may bo ovcrccins reaches seventy seven thous- assume, and theiefpre look upon their and. However gallantly the Eeceders stratagems with inipiffcrence, The old may fiht, they can never hope to break and once famous Democratic parly is in down this enormous fignrtj and if Gen- the hands of politicians. If they con- nominatiori of the sage of phappaqua, it was necessary, not' only. to keep the movement thoroughly organized, but it seems to us that common; prudence would have at least suggested to the leaders to have farther j attempted to keep the people deceived jbyj holding in the many, hungry individuals who by their over anxiety to secure j their share of the spoils have shown the movement up in its true light, and this through their very greediness have happily diver ted what mu3t.have been a dire calamity to the whole country. It reminds us of the battle of Fisher Hill, where Early, during the forenoon carried all before him.! but by allowing his command to scatter for plunder, ot which Sheridan took advantage he was mdst thoroughly routed in the afternoon, f eral Grant receives the thirteen votes of the State it i immaterial whether he ccurcs them by one hundred majority or by one hundred thousand. Connec ticut alone remains as disputable ground tinue to say sho'ut fpr Greeley, the party will so Ehout ; but if, on the other hand, they should decide jto drop him, in one week every Democratic paper ia the country will haul up the name of the the jyarties er.gayed icere Irutes. intensive some way to get Merrimon out of Vances' to tht obligations cf humanity and reli gion. The day is ill come, ho icczer, if it Lis nut already arrived, tchen they xcill deeply liraent it. Even if justice &hall not overtake than, there is one tribunal from vhicb there is no hope. It is their cncTi judy ment that tribunal tchich sits in tha breast of cvcy living win that small, still voice that" thrills through the war. bo thev raise the cry, contest. Alter the General Assembly elects Vance, Co more will be heard about contesting. We regret to think that the Democracy will tntn drop the subject. and even thtro the chances appear to be new candidate, with a grand flourish of that the State will be lourd in Ifovem- trumpets. However, as the Republican ber in the same position ii occupied in party can beat any man they put -up,-we 1S68, when it declared 1 for Grant by have no anxiety about trieir doings, three thousand' majority. We have thus got sometliingitabiWc at last to ay hold ot in this singular Presidential scramble, for wo find that there is no defection in New England sufficient to wipe out the Republican majorities of 1SG3, and that all those electoral votes may be scored as toltrably certain for Grant. We have also seen enough to convince any reasonable mind that the negro vote will be cast solidly on the Republican side, and that Sambo North and Sambo South will adhere to the blue coat and brass buttons to which they religiously believe their race owes its freedom. From tlTis wo may fairly conclude that the administration will also secure the Southern States in which the colored voters predominate or form a largo percentage of the population, stidi as South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas', Florida, Georgia, Ala bama and Virginia, thus leaving the battle to be fonght rriainly in tha Mid die and Western States. . Democrats you were fairly beaten. Be men enough to acknowledge it and have a hard task before them ; for if we heart the soul of the mind, and as it not go rcucd whining about fraud. It are to concede that General Grant goes speaks, gi:es happiness er torture tne j3 like the devil rebuking sin. It won't jDt0 the race with thirty-two New Eng voice Of conscience, me rvtcc vj iiAt. it hi n.if rfcZvn tn t.hryn in tnns .,..., ..v .... .-.j, .-x . i- e r i tii i. I .. ... tchich haze startlal them to the enormity -" varouua iot um auu . iuuu mty-iour ooutnern yoies, not reckoning of tcir conduct, 1 trvt, in Lie mercy oj iu.uuu anu we nope ior majoniy Virginia, in nis lavor, we glye mm a Heaven, that imZ voice tciii tpcak before then von will cry "moie fraud" and t I 7 r I IT T a wry au caueu w ".H again will your voices be raised foreon. icill spe it to n.xke then penitent, and e Know Jou we apprcciaie that trusting in the dipen.itions of your tilents as contestant, but, unfer- Ueaven, xrhese justice i$ disien$ed xcith mercy, tchen they shall be brought before tc tzr cj tnc.r great tribunal, sj to apeak, that incommrehensiiKe tribunal, there i:ill jo'iu i n tne fad of their penitence, vr in their previous li:es, ome grounds vi-or, xchieh Gol may s iy PAllbuy." fth cf Hon. Iteceray Johnson, in Ku Klux triiU, LfecetJtber Izth. tunatcJy we are too many. Mr. Sumner lu a New Hole. Mr. Char'cs Sumner haviug become ill, has left America ! j: the congenial health giving c:ir.:ci acrc the Atlantic. When a shattered rnxu, ruined iu health, fought the medical science of France to relieve him from the iffcts f an at tack by a member cf the D-.mrcratic party, who would br.vo dreamed that he would ever be the nominee of that same party f Yet this ftranc position, is now bfforc The Dem.rratic pirty b:f nominated Charlci Sumner fcr Gov ernor f Msjachu?e:ts ! Sumner the abolitionist ; Sumner the lather cf the civil rsjhts bill ; Sumner the man who prevented Congress frrm passing a General Amnesty Act for over two fear?; Sumner the much abused, whose inner Jite ac-l mot sacred tics Lave been Gen. Banhs i3 happy. He has made a ppcech in the Massachusetts democrat ic convention, and says he is "glad and proud to again stand in a democratic convention," Years ago, before he showed his unfitness for a military life, he was our beau ideal of a man. Noble, fearlefs. and self made, his career was one of which any man might well be proud; but his sun has. graill y sot with his unsuccessful military achiev- mcnts. lie is nappy to be again witu the dtmccrats, and we are happy to have him there. His success, like his The New York! Times says of the Maine elections : "&nd now 'for Maine," shouted the Gredeyite organs after their faction had been beaten in North Carolina. Tuey hay..; now heard from Maine, and we h0pe they rlike it. In the districts where Greelievism: was said to be strongest, the Republican vote yesterday was' largest: Hale, tor instance, who was s.aid to bte quite cer tain to meet defeat,!- has beaten his an tagonist, Pike, by an overwhelming ma jority. Our majority in thejState is not less thon 16,000. p :! : . Not a Congressional district in the State gives less thfth 1,400 majority for the Republicans. Last year. Hale's ma jority in the Filth ivas only i,200. rThis year after a desperate .contest, made with the avowed intent of giving at leat bne example of "Liberal" eiroagf h, it is 2,500. Blaine's majority last yar was only 2 300. This jear it is 3,000. ' This shows that the Republican party is strongest on national iesutjs. It is di vided, if at ail, only on minor matters. This fact makes the defeat; of Greeley in Maine absolutely overwhelming. Three years ago wo had only 9,500 ma jonty. Two years 'Since we. went lower, and hael but 8,2S7. Last year we only got 10,707. Thisvy ear, ou the eve oi election, the Democratic candidate re ported to Augustus Schell that the Re publicans did not expect over from C.000 to 10,000, arid1 could notget that unless a good many ''Liberals" went back on tfeeir new'allics. A; great many, then, must have done so, for tne Repub lican majority is; at least klouble that without change, and the financial and looked for by Kimball. commercial interests of-the country ap- The victory on the vote; tor Governor parcntly shrink from the extreme exper- is more than equaled by the vote for the imcnt ot turning over the-administra- Legislature, which lis a sure test of the tion to Greeley, with a double headed real feeling of the people. Last year party at hi3 back, whose members the Democrats had three Senators cut of would, probaly, be dragging him in op- 31, and forty-two rrjembers of the Low- posite directions in the event of his er house out of onq hundred and fifty- Ws surrender much ot our editorial space to-day to the remarks of our great New York dailies, that our people may see bow the State elections; are consid ered among the leading politicians, and the prospects of our party. It is al most needless to say that: our uhauces for success are even better than they were in 1808 aud that the crow-eating performance of our democratic breth ren will avail them naught. 'Tis but a month ago, we heard leading demo cratic politicians claiming every New England State save Vermont for Greeley. And we evejn now learn that they ex pect to wipe out the big 16,000 majori ty in Maine within the tiCjxt two months! They wiii be compelled to rise very e-arly to accomplish it. We hope our readers will carefully note the remuiks taken from the Ikratd in this issue. They are indeed very significant. Tiie Philadelphia Press speaking of the Maine election says : " The triumph in Maine practically scttlfes the Presi dential question , and shoves that there has been no general defection from the Republican rack?. The; opposition based alp their hopes upon such a dej crease or me iwepuDiican ; majority or last year, or of four years ago, as would you in view any particular office?' ' " 'No,' said the Rev. Mr. Shcfl.',. com placently ; 'I would not kcQw whatW select. if you were to.. baud me.-a list to choose from.' . , 'Nor I what to give you ; but I will tell you who will help you out. You know Colonel Chootsper, of your-county.-He is now on duty iu the Treasury J)cl partment. Go and see him ; he is a man of resources, and wii! get you out of your difficulty. ,'Coruc b-ick to mor row and report.' 4 The next day, according to promise, Shofl-o 'put in an appearance,' and aaj(i that the Colonel had recomm udi.l him to apply for a certain position in the Revenue Department. j " Wnat is the salary f' sai.l I, wniler signing in a mechanical way a pito of commissions. ' " ' Two thousand dollars a year.' " Well, do you think that enough I I may be able to do better for you,'fpr I knew he was an honest man, and thought he might just as well as not get a place where he could earn. :m ire money. ' . , " Oh,t plenty Uncle Abe, for that is more than double the ainouut I've been earning tor years past.' ' Now I began to think," snid our martyr President, '; that I would have to force himinto a place payinga larger, salary, anti where the "Government. would have a corresponding return for his I valuable services, for L was more than ever if that were possible con vinced that he was an honest man ; Lut I finally-concluded to give him his own 1 way, and lie was appointed accordingly. Off he went i j ioirg, but I felt rather mean at m oiu-t-Mise gift. to my gco.t honest, reverend friend. " ' '.' Three years elapsed, aud the anxie ties attending the war had completely diiven from my mind, for the time being the incident just related, when mymes-1 sengcr brought me in a card, bearing -the i'ami!i:tr name, 'Rev. Adam Shell",' and immediately there flashed across my ' mind all the circumstances attending my appointing him to oflice. I dirtcttd him to be shown in. and in walked, with creaky boot?, one of the best and finest dressed men I-had seen in nYany a day. I recognized his countenance at a glance, but it was his marvelous clothes that troubled me. They sat easily enough upon his body, bui somehow or other they did not set so cu?y upon nry mind, but wherefore I could not for the life ol me tell, if I had tried,, which 1 didn't. " ' Good mor..iu: Mr. President'.' no longer Unc:e Abe-,' as before, saitl he,gin a sort of !jrandi! ntn.nt manner, ' I hope you :iv weil ;;ni getting on nicely.' ' . 1 I " 4 Oh, yes,' said I, ' we podr folks eke out a'iiving after a fashion ;' .intcud'irg to give him the bit in his mouth, for i knew, what an honest man he was and how much I couldn't, tell then exactly no a- much, for I had lost the run ot him we weie im'e&ed to him.' " Mr, President, I've come to' resign my office.' " Feeling somewhat as though I had -been struck by -lightning, I managed to exclaim, ' Indeed !' ' " ' Yes. I feel that there are many At all events, what is already known is sufficient to show that' the opposition start that carries him more than half way to the, winning post. ; Iu the meantime outside the politi cians, the people appear to be making up their minds to sufler cur national affairs to go on tho -next four years evidence that Grant's popularity had de clined, arid that the people were tired of others deserving of the place, and that rhP.Tidn of tliP r,rt? Knr-h r vintnrv lC 13 m5 "utJ U) make way for them.' I fc k h '. . ... . . . - 1 1 . ti iiiuiu t-vti sueu iu uonesi man as that?1 said I to. myself, chuckling over my own stupidity 0 the clothes surprise. ' But,' said I, aloud, I'm afraid you. are not considering yourself, friend Sholla, upd that when" you-go . back to preaching you will be as bard up as when you cm me here three years ago. , Hadn't you better hold on a little longer, gay a year more, and let us both go out ot office together V " ' No, thank you. I'm going to Eu rope during that time, but hope to see you here, as President, when 1 return,' and, after a tew more kind expressions, oft went the Rev. Shofls. ; ''About a month after, one of thciev ereud gentleman's neighbors paid me a visit, and among other things remarked casually that I had ' done a pretty good thing lor Shofle.' " ' Yes,' I replied, ' L gave him a $2,00,0 a year position for three years.' iiesicies the balance.!' added mv visitor. ' Why, if he is worth a cent, he is worth today $200,000, and' 1 can prove It if necessary.' " What could the idiot mean ! To sat isfy myself of the laltity of the charge. 1 sent detectives to where he lived, and they brought- back word that he had made his 6,000 salary in the aggregate- yield lulJy $200,000 but then 1 knew he was an honest man, and there must bo a mistake somewhere " "By the way," added Mr. 'Lincoln, wiiu one 01 ins Knowing winks, ."we the for us would have been a virtual defeat. The dispatches tell a different story. The Republican unity, organization and Enthusiasm that marked the splendid campaign ot Speaker Blaine has won the most hotly contested battle of the year, and the one whose result was the most eagerly awaited by the country.- A like firmness, courage and organiza tion will win everywhere.'? i A Story of Uncle; Abe. YYicn a morai, is torn in a iwe issue of the Jewish Messenger, of New York city, by its correspondent inlthis city. It .is told in connection with some re marks about the annoyances of the Presidential question. After con gratulating the Messenger upon the fact that it has kept aloof from heated po litical discussion, and rejoicing that the Jews appreciate the present efforts of the President to administer the Govern- i mcnt correctly, the writer remarks that it is impossible to preveh! deception being practiced sometimes in connection with appointments. He gofes on to say: All Presidents have been subjected to the same annoyance, more or less. Mr. Lincoln particularly so, as the following story, as told the writer bv our crood have plenty of ShouVs let, but the mis " Father Abraham" himself!; will illus- ou,r . J3 11 13 nar" nnaing tnem our, . . ' . ana tuey are not considerate enough to lIBLe t r'gn, as did our honest friend Shofle." "When I first entered upoh my duties So it is uuder every administration, as President," saidMr. Lintoln, grasp and it is the duty of all good citizens to ino- nnr nrm in his twnlir war with assl8t lue Government to ferret out the success, it is poasiDie tnat an tnis may yet change, for this is an extraordinary and wonderful campaign. It may , be that Pennsylvania and Indiana may yet Shacandoah and Red River campaigns lead in a mighty political Tevolu tion ; will be on the wrong tide. At a lctoo-.uiierai convention in Connecticut, Judge C. J. McCurdy, of the Supreme Court, was the permanent President. Bring out the Serdiners groans over the soiled ermine and a corrupt judiciary. Awful! awful! The Madison (GaJ Bulletin, which has had the name of Greeley and Brown at its head, hauls them down end puts up Charles O'Connor, that tuc Democratic, party may yet throw off its lethargy, and Venter vigor- pawav. ously upon the work of. the campaign; that a change may either come over the careful financial mind; that 'men may deem it prudent by a change of admin- one. This year not' a single. Democratic Senator is elected, and only twenty-five representatives a Iocs of twenty in all. These figures slow far better than words can do the true drift of public opinion. They cannot be evaded or expiaineel . Father Hy aciathey who was married a short time since, epoke in these beauti ful words about matnage: "I open hu manity's book, the iJiblt;; ft commences istraticn to secure a thorough overhaul ing of the important departments which with the history of the family from the cradles ot Udeo o the tents ot Abra- have remained forfonr years as close corpc rations, and nisy think it wise to fetuew officers to discover whether our gold balances are correct, our Isecuritiei ham, : Isaac, and Jacob, and of all the pages of human records this is without controversy the sweetest and moit sublime," one of his long, bony hands, while he ran his finger through 'and brushed back hi3 shaggy black hair;! "I fully made. up my mind, to appoint to office those only who I knew to be honest and who had suitable ability. Inj any event honesty should be the prerequisite, as the lack of a little ability might be eas ily made up by an honest nfan endeav oring to do his whole duty! conscienL tiously. While this resolve was frcsb upon me there came to visit !me a very old friend, a Baptist minister j who had trayeled so fast that he had not yet shaken the Illinois real estate off iiie capacious boots. " Why, what brings you here, Mr. Shofle ?' (which was not hii name, but it will do jtjst as well.) " Well," he replied I camel down here, firstly to see you and get an old fash .ioned ebake.of the band; and! secondly to say that the folks of my congrega tion are so poor that they can hardly afford me a decent living, and t thought may be you could give me some sort of an office that would pay me better. "Certainly, I answered, quickly, for I knew be was an honest man,; and I was looking for stock of that kind. 'Have plunderers. We are making fair pro gress in getting rid of these banditti, anei Degiu 10 luxuriate in a comparative ly pUre moral atmcsphere. Semi-Occasional. Washington, D. C Sept. 2, 1872. The Maine election, in its general and bpecific result?, proves that the Liberal Republicans, us reinfcicements to tjie Democratic party, are. an unknown quantity in Maine which signifies noth ing, and, coupled with the verdict ot Vermont, the judgment of Maine means that iu New England the lines of the Administratioaarty remains unbroken. In October, fromxPenusyl vania, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska Iowa, wc shall hear something' in theyay of election returns waich tikeu altogether, will pretty cleariy foreshadow the issue ot the great national fjdd day between Grant and Greeley, acel, from present in dications, October will maintain the po litical muic of September. Morale Political 'revolutions in this country cannot be manufactured to order,-2Y, 7. Herald, Y
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