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mtVCLUME IX.-NUMBER 1967 CHARLESTON WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1872. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR.

GLANCES OVER THE FIELD.A CALM AND THOUGHTFUL EXPOSI¬TION OFTHEPOLITICALSITUATION.

The Bolt irom «he Bolt-An Ex-BourbonInterviewed-What the IionlirllleConvention 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 ConventionDemocratic bolting movement. He was one

' of those who went to Baltimore last monthand participated in the gathering at the Mary¬land Institute, and since then I have heard ofhim as talking very confidently of the success

which woBld attend the nomination of a

straight ticket. He bad even said that hisfriend Van Allen, the secretary of the so-callednational cinmlttee, was In the receipt ofhundreds ofletters from all parts of the Unionpromising aid to the bolt, and that Duncanand Van Allen estimated that their straightticket would get five hundred thousand Démo¬crate votes.

I hailed this Bourbon, as I say, on Beek¬man street, and securing him by the buttonhole, asked him to tall me all about the progressofthe "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 seé,"continued he,"the straight/movement was gotup In the Day Book oitice. The people on thatpaper and some of their;outside friends wrotethe call, hired the Maryland Institute and ran

the convention; and I hear, toe, tuey have halto pay all the expenses, for most of the ^dele¬

gates'were a shabby lot, and would not, andprobably could not, contribute a cent. Well,In spite of the loud boasts made by Blanton

Duncan, the thing has lallen still-born. They jhave not been able to get a single Democrat |ofany prominence to join them. I know that

they wrote to John Quincy Adam*, Dan Voor-hees and some others who were supposed tobe dead against Greeley, but they have noteven received answers to their letters fromthese 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 thepressure irom the Sooth, where, you know, lthas a large circulation. It was overwhelmedwith letters from Ita subscribers imploring ltto help save them from four years more ofGrantlsm.""Do you think the bolt will fizzle out,

noy-?"..Substantially lt ls a failure. Because the.

Day Book, Judge Flanders and ChaunceyBurr, two of Ita chief promoters, have aban¬doned it, and there ls nobody else of conse¬

quence around here that sticks. Van Allen isa good-natured fellow, but he Is as visionaryaa Daniel Pratt. He deselved me about the

strength of the movement. He let his hopesron 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

a little notoriety out of the affair, and I haveno donbt he has got or can get what money

< he requires from the Grant managers to paythe expenses of the convention. The Grant jpapers 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 Idojft think lt amounts to much even there."uWho do you think they will nominate ?"

"They can't get a decent man to stand, Itell you. Suppose they should take GovernorWise. He ls utterly without strength. Theymight just aa well nominate Mosby. I haveheard it suggested th it the better plan wouldbe 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. Thebolters do not expect to elect their ticket.They want to defeat Greeley. I think lt pro¬bable that when election day comes they willnot 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 goesInto office he will be surrounded by my politi¬cal friends, and if Grant goes in he will besurrounded by my political foes. I suppose Iwill 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 takenlalo the confidence of a strong Radicalpolitician, who, for some unaccountable rea¬

son, supposes I am lukewarm for the wood;Chopper. I asked him on what he based bisbelief that Grant will be re-elected."I have four good reasons for believing it,"

he replied, confidentially. "First, there are

two hundred thousand office-holders in theUnion, 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, tellingwork. Second, we expect a great deal to

come out of the Louisville Convention. Thereis a great, quiet undercurrent ot Democraticdisgust 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, whichwe are getting out of the rebel archives. We

expect they will produce a reaction among the

Republicans. Fourth: Look here ! You mightas well know it ! Do you think Tammany haslearned us how to count, and we will not take

advantage of the lesson ? We shall count justwherever it ls necessary, and just as much as

necessary. My boy, Ifyou 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 LiberalRepublican headquarters. At the latter theyshow stacks of letters from every NorthernState, any one letter of wblcb when openedreveals the names of Republicans by tens,scores and hundreds, who have abandonedGrant 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 powerIn Iowa, and have gone over en masse to

Greeley. In Vermont the Liberal movementls 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 want184 electoral votes to win. The following,any candid opponent will admit, are sure

Democratic States: _ Electoral Vote3.Alabama.10Arkansas. 6Delaware. 3Georgia.llKentucky.12Maryland. 8Miss-Juri. 15New Jersey. 9Tennessee. 12Texas. 8Virginia.llWest Virginia. 6

Total of certain Dem. States.. .110Add New York.. 35

Pennsylvania. 29Indiana. 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

helpa lt to be more so. The Hartranit nomi¬nation and Forney's defection secures us

Pennsylvania. We need but a change of fourthousand five hundred votes at the most in

Indiana, and George W. Julian is worth twicethat."By this showing, Greeley can be elected

without the aid of Illinois, New Hampshire,Connecticut, California, Louisiana and otherStates, wbere the Liberal Republican move¬

ment is strong, and where Greeley Blands, atleast, equal chances with Grant NTIÍ.

_RIOTS IN IRELAND.

Catholic Protections Attacked bjr theMob.

LONDON-, August 16.The passage of the repeal ofthe party procès-

sion act was generally celebrated throughoutIreland yesterday by the Roman Catholics,and In some places there was disorder. At Bel¬fast while the procession was passlog throughthe streets, it was stoned by a large crowd ofpersons. The procession returned the attack,and a scene of terrible excitement ensued.The rioters were finally dispersed by thepolice; not, however, until one man bad beenshot Sllgnt disturbances occurred In Dublin,and several persons were wounded. Therewas no disorder In Londonderry.

RADICAL OAO-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 Greeleyand 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. Themeeting 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 beenfiled before the mixed American and Eogllshcommission, from British sources, for dam¬ages sustained by the seizure and confiscationof blockade runners and their cargoes duringthe rebellion by the American Government

A HAMPAGBOVS BHINOCEBOS.

Caicioo, August 16.A rhinoceros belonging to a circus escaped

at Monroe, III., killing two men and knockingdown the tent polls and seats, and causingseveral dislocations ol tbe arms ot spectators.The cages of the other animals were capsized,and the rhinoceros was finally captured afterdoing three thousand dollars' worth otdamage.

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 theboard 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 largeamount from England. Many consider thepresence of Mr. Cohen In Geneva as favorableto such a result of the arbitration. It Is alsostated tbat the Americans have decided torequire the nomination of a board of assessorsshould 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 ofthe rain yesterday.-It ls denied that the civil and criminal

suits again st "Boss"Tweed and Sweeney havebeen abandoned.-It rained heavily in Washington yester¬

day, and severe storms are reported in theNorth.

PALMETTO POLITICS.

-The choice of the Radicals In Camdnneeems 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 Lillydelegates 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 whiteand two hundred and thirty-six colored votershave registered.-Tho Republican county convention of

Kershaw County met In the courthouse lastSaturday evening, and elected Allison Hough,Reuben Gaither and Frank Carter, delegatesto 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 theynever would vote for a Radical Republicanagain.-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 andNelson Davies, colored, for representatives; B.L. Cook for sheriff; J. F. Wallace for clerk olcourt, and S. Hall for probate judge.

CONSCIENTIOUS CARDOZO.HIS LAST DYING SPEECH AND CON¬

FESSION.

...Yon Lie, Villain, you Lie"-A. NewFraud 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 tomy letter to my attorneys, whlcb appeared Inthe Phoenix, of Friday, the 9th inst., and willnow answerthem. I will first notice what youare pleased to term "the evil spirit whichprompted the publication" ot my letter. Ideemed it a public duty, though exceedinglypainful and unpleasant, to give my attorneysand the public all the information lu mypossession, to prevent, if possible, the fur¬ther Issue ot bonds, and thereby Increase thedebt of the Slate. My only regret Is that Iwas 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 cfyou to understand how any person can beinfluenced by a sense of public duty. That thepublic may more dearly understand our re¬spective duties in regard to the honda, I willstate that, by the laws of this Slate, threeofficers are required to prepare bonds. TheGovernor slgus, the treasurer countersign*and the secretary of State seals. This duty lspurely ministerial. After they are thus pre-

Sared, the financial board (composed of theovernor, tho treasurer and the attorney-

general) take possession of the bonds and sellor hypothecate them, and order the disburse¬ment of the moneys arising fro ja such sales or

hypothecations. It will he ut once observedtbat my duty, as secretary ot State, la simplyministerial. I am concerned In the prepara¬tion ot bonds only, and have nothing wnateverto do with the sales or moneys resulting fromsales.The Governor and treasurer have studiously,

meanly and with a malicious cowardice, char¬acteristic of them, endeavored to implicateme \a the responsibility which attachée tothem as individuals and members of the finan¬cial board exclusively, for the Issue and saleof bonds. This ls evident from the wholetenor ot both of their letters. A more detailedaccount of the manner aud the circumstancesunder which tbe "sterling loan bonds" weresealed 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 onthe bonds in New York, and tbat be himself(the treasurer) required lo go to New York,and would be abseut all summer. (The reasonof his absence can be seen by reference topages 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 RidgeRailroad,and $203,000 used to redeem old bondsnot only without authority of law, but In posi¬tive violation thereof, Inasmuch as this moneyhad 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 theindignant remonstrances of those men whoserightful moneys had been thus diverted-touse his Excellency's mild term» No wonder,then, that lt became' necessary to levy twotaxes 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 theirirregular and uuwarranted expenditures I )But to return IQ the subject. I myself wasabsent from Columbia that summer, havingtaken up my residence on Sullivan's Island,for the benefit of my lamlly. I told the treas-urer, however, that Í would authorize myclerk to seal the bonds before I left, andthat his cleric could deliver them to mioA. <when they came. They were so delivered,generally In the afternoon, alter the arrival ofthe Northern train. They were sealed by myclerk 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 bythe next mail. If there ls anything Burreptl-tious In that, lt ls the first time that I haveheard so ridiculous and nonsensical a charge.What were the reasons that Induced his bx-

ce ll en cy to send the comptroller-general ioNew 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 absoluteand exclusive prerogative of the FinancialBoard. Nor can I see what relevancy thatstatement has tome and my action. I fearthat his Excellency slyly took advantage ofthat chance of attempting to elevate, himselfIn tbo eyes ol the public, by parading hlq usualPickwickian policy ot letter-writing, ostrich¬like, burying his head In Ibe sand, unmindfulof his protruding body-a policy .which de¬ceives nobody who knows him, especially thebunters on his trail.

I will now notice what you say about raytaklnz the seal to New York. Io May, 1871,Immediately after the adjournment of theTaxpayers' Convention, the financial agentrequested 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 lhereby your special order, and Mr. Parker, forthe reasons before slated, was to sign themlhere. The proposition seemed to me exceed¬ing Inappropriate, and I promptly declined todo so, but not before asklug the attorney-general If such a thing were legal, to whichne replied that there was nothing Illegal in lt,and tne propriety of lt must be judged by thecircumstances. I thought and still think thathis Excellency was present. He says he wasnot. 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 Insistedthat the sterling loan bonds should be Bent lome here, and they were sent and sealed here.In October, five months alter, when the

treasurer entreated me to seal a small amountof bouda, in order to save a very large amountthat would otherwise be sacrificed, I yieldedconditionally, viz: that I would see and judgefor myself of the emergency. I thereforetook the seal wiih me to New York, having, asI said before, the verbal opinion ot ibe attor¬ney-general tbat it was not illegal, and whomI did not have time lo obtain a written opin¬ion from, and leeling lt entirely unnecessaryio do so, lor In all my official and personalcommunications with the attorney-general Ihave always found him a gentleman oí thestrictest veracity.When I went to New York I stopped at the

same hotel with his Excellency, in order tobetter 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 norcustom required me to do. so; lt was simoly amatter of convenience, notwithstanding hisExcellency'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 hopeit will not be necessary. Suffice lt to say,that after refusing for more than a week loeL'u the bondi required, and swearing, by allthat was supernal and Infernal, thai if lie sign¬ed them he would do it.only wiih his heart'sb'ood, his Excellency sat down one morning,after a protracted interview with the financialagent, and elgned them in good black ink.After his Excellency had Bigoed them, I lookup the bottle of lok and asked him if that wasbis "heart's blood." He Bald, with a smile"that was childlike and bland," that he hadfurther "Hunt" on the subject. No doubt !Alter his" Excellency hud agreed to sign, I

resolved to sea}. I then told his Excellencythat I had the seal with me and had resolvedto seal. He said that he was surprised; ir hewere, it certainly was not visible. He also saystbat be severely reprimanded me for bringingthe Beal to New York. Thia ls false. Con¬scious, from experience, that his Excellencybas one ol' those peculiarly forgetful memo¬ries, that are very convenient to their posses¬sors when they desire to extricate themselvesfrom a difficult position, I did not contentmyself with bis verbal assurances, as lu thecase of the attorney-general, but required himto write a letter authorizing me to producethe seal before I would use it, and he wrotethe 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 manfullybear his also, and not try to shirk it; for Iplaced lt in his power to pré vent It, if he wouldnot first give me the required letter referred

to. The fact of the matter ls Ma Excellencyshows both the weakness oí his defence andthe narrowness of his own mind by trying toevade the real point at Issue, me question lsnot who prepared the bonds, whether hesigned before I seated, or viceversa, but whatwas done with them after they were thus pre¬pared? If his Excellency condescends to"rise to explain" to the public, 1 apprehendthey would be much more satisfied with aminute and detailed account of the manner Inwhich the bonds were disposed of and thevarious uses to which the moneys have beenapplied. Such painfully Interesting Items, forinstance, as these: By what authority of lawcould he, as chairman of the financial boardand Mr. Parker, as a member and treasurer,'take the taxes or the proceeds ot the sales ofbonds and lend them to the Blue Ridge Ball-road Company, redeem old bonds, as above re¬ferred to, and accommodate their friends, andcharge lt to "Imaginary funds?"

His Excellency states thattherels$500,000 olbonda In the hands of the American BankNote Company, which were returned to themlast November to be cancelled, and that theyhave been sealed. It may be so, but I don'tbelieve it. But If sealed, they were sealed be¬fore that lime; but I will give my reasons fordoubting the statement. They can't be "star¬ing loan bonds," for they were cancelled. Theycan't be "conversion bonds," for ii they werebe would have much rather had them broughtback here than take me Into court. Theycan't be any other kind of bonds, for they haveall been sold or forfeited long Blnce, thetreasurer tells nae.

I remember distinctly that there were $2,-000,000 ol' bonds for the iundlag of the interestsealed; $1,000,000 were flrstftealed, and thenthey were declared to be af- mia-prlni ; and asecond million prepared to-substitute themand sent forward, but only a half million wasreturned, 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 theselaws did not mean that a certain amountof bonds should be issued, but that a certainamount o( mousy should be raised on an In-déduite amount of bonds. This constructionmay be correct according to tue letter, butcertainly not according to their spirit and thetrueintent ot the framers.The reference, in ;rIC ¡ase paragraph ot his

Excellency's letter, to those who are nowendeavoring lo reiorm and purity the party,asserting that they are themselves venal andresponsible tor tho diversion ot money, carriesits. own refutad <n with lbj so tar os the state¬ment applies to me; for,' if there were anvsuch facts, his Excellency would certainlyproduce 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 toprove bis assertions.With regard to Mr. Parker's letter, I have

but one word to Bay. IIB reasoning is tooridiculous to require serious considération,and its assertions are palpable falsehoods.Where be questions my veracity, I leave itsimply to the people of South Carolina tojudge between us. u

I would say, as an act of simple justice tothe Governor, that he has rcslated the signingof bonds-all he was able, perhaps. (?) Ihaye seen bim rave, swear and threaten toshoot 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 skeinOn skein wave the vain meshesUpon which tny subtle soulsBrood 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 opinionthat luliy four-fifths of the German vote ofIllinois 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 will deliver several

campaign speeches In Pennsylvania nextmonth. He might as well save himself thetrouble.-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. Toombaand 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, whomthey preter not to support, and have decidedno longer to oppose.-The secretary of the Liberal Republican

State committee ol Ohio writes from Colum¬bus as follows: "Our people think we shallwrry the State. A letter from a well inform¬ed German In Cleveland says seventy-five percent, ot the German Republican element is,with ns. and that there are three thousandLiberal Republicans la Cuyahoga County.-The German Democratic Union general

committee held a special meeiing lu NewYork on Tuesday evening, t.o form a commit¬tee of arrangements for » demonstration toruiify tho nomination of Greeley and Brownjointly with the Tammany general oommittee.A communication of the Tammany generalcommittee on the subject was read and a res¬olution passed to form a committee of onefrom each ward delegation. The committeewas appointed.-Mr. Goodloe, of North Carolina, a mem¬

ber of the Liberal national committee, saysthat the^e is no doubt but that the NorthCarolina Legislature will award the guber¬natorial chair to Mr. Merri mon, at ita meetingon the third Monday in November, as evi¬dence of fraud and Illegal voling sufficient hasbeen collected to destroy Caldwell's allegedmajority. He states that numbers ot coloredmen from other states were registered andvoted like cattle, and ibat they came in theState via the Diemal Swamp canal.-Ex-Governor John C. Edwards, of Mis¬

souri, now nearly eighty years or age, and anultra Democrat, has written a letter to ColonelPeter Saxe, ol California, which gives a mostsensible view of the situation. He says: "Iam against ali banka, all monopolies, all sub¬sidies, any and all tariffs, high salaries andheavy fee bills, and in favor of direct taxa¬tion. With all this. 1 have no trouble In sup¬porting Greeley. In a desperate fight, weshould 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 writtenthe following to one oi his political friends inthat oltj:

BRADFORD, N. H., August 13.Bear Judge-Yonra of the 3d rinds me here.

The news ii om North Carolina did not justifythe first reports, bul if we work hard I amsure we will carry lt In November. We Rhallcarry New Hampshire, Oonneo'.lcur.,New Yorkand Mow Jersey. This ls the extent ci ourwork In the East. The rest will have to bedone lu the South and West. Yours verytruly, 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, thespecial 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 twonations, but without any apparent result, luthe meanwhile, there ls fresh activity in themilitary and naval arsenals of both powers, aswar ls looked upon ascertain should GeneralMitre's mission prove unsuccessful.

WENDELL PHILLIPS COMES OUT FORGRANT.

BOSTON, AugnBt 16.In reply to a note from a number of colored

citizens to Wendell Phillips, inviting him toaddre.-s them on the political Issues of the day,Phillips declines to speak, but gives his viewsIn a long letter, In which he favors Grant forPresident In preference to Greeley, alt houghbe agrees with Sumner in regard to the SanDomingo affair.

THE KÜ-KLÜX 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 oí imaginary Ku-Klux and sub¬stantial fees and mileage, and distinguishinghimself by insulting women and abusing lit¬tle children, whom he dragged from theircradles aud trundle beds on pretence of look»lng lor Eu-Eluz. At the house ofa Mrs. Fer¬ris, near Turkey Creek, the door was violentlyburst open and the lock broken, while thelady herself was offering him the keyand begging him not to break In the door.Another place visited was the plantation ofWilliam Carter, which is rented by two youngmen, Calvin Chalk and George Carter. Bothof these men were absent irom home on thenight oí the raid. Their house waa broken Intoand searched; and when they returned homein the morning they found that seven quilt*,lour counterpanes, three pairs of pantaloonsand three vests had been stolen aod carriedoff. As a supporting force to the expedition,Hubbard had along Columbus Craolord, GilesGood and Bili Palmer, three of the most no¬toriously Infamoua and lawless negroes in thecountry. Altey they were relieved from dutyon Wednesday morning, and while they werereturning home, they took occasion to call atthe 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. Böhlas, and, that gentleman beirg awayfrom 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 ather.A detachment Of cavalry, under command

Of Lieutenant E. S. Godfrey, was assisting thedoughty marshal on this raid, and the CaesterReporter, 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 thatthe soldiers had nothing to do with the break¬ing open of doors, throwing sick childrenabout, ¿c. Lieutenant Godlrey, we are sure,would neither do anything of this kind him¬self nor would he suffer it to be done by anyono under his command. Hubbard was incommand of this expedition-the cavalry wereonly along so as to give the civil authoritiesassistance in oase any should be needed-andupon Hubbard rests the whole responsibilitytor 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-PattersonStock Rising -The Caterpillar InRichland 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 regularset-to, knock-down, nose-spllttiDg, drag-outaffair. The Reformers were rampant at first,;and seemed to carry everthlcg before them,but some of the old hacks managedto get In, when the genuine work ofnominating commenced. Frazee was de¬feated, his antagonist (Dent) carrying theconvention unanimously. Dent ls a muchbetter man, and this ls the only good changemade. The nominees for the Legislature are

S. B. Thompson, (one of the present mem¬

bers,) A. W. Curtis, Charles MInort (memberof the Legislature of 1868) and J. L. Gilmore.The last named ls from the country and maybe an improvement; the rest are all scrubs.There was immenee dissatisfaction amongstthe 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 behung 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 wouldmeer. 1 here was not a particle of excu. inthe 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 notmove 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 willuse 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 belowhere. Qui VIVE.

HERE WE REST.

The Radical Nominations-A Coalitionof the Liberals and Democrats AgreedUpon.

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, andAlex. White, member of Congress twentyyears ago, are nominated for Congressmen atlarge. Lewis E. Parsons, W. J. Gilmore, J.L. Bennington and L. C. Cori leon for electors.The platform consists oí four resolut'ons:First, endorsing the Philadelphia platformand nominations; second, favoring Internalimprovements on as liberal a «cale as ts con¬sistent with prudence and economy; third,the duty of Congress to enforce the rights oíthe citizen under the iourteenth and fifteenthamendments by permanent legislation; tourth,relies ou the education of the rising genera¬tion as a means by which liberty aud freegovernment are to be preserved, and opposeall disfranchisement except for crime undtrdue conviction.The Liberal and Democratic State executive

committee, after lull and free conference, atTalladega, 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,.undN. A. Ayer, of Monroe, Democrats; »nd A. C.Beard, or Marshall; W. S. Meed, ot Jefferson,Liberals. The session was harmonious andsteps were taken lor a vigorous campaign.There are no Liberals on the State Heuet be¬cause lt was nominated before the Baltimoreconvention, but support of the party 1B pledg¬ed lo the ticket notwithstanding.

THE WEATHER THIS DAY.

WASHINGTON. August 16.Southerly to easterly winds and clear

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