Daily national Republican., 1864-10-12
PoIITICAI ITEMS

| am really aRhAmcd Of heinE inso wrCtchCd
cause, which prevents my cxulting in the an.
nouneemcnt Of the victories of our gallant sol.
diCrs, and compCls nc 10 rejoice at every
repulso Of our troops, although my own brother
| may bU stretched on the battlefield.
| AFALuRE.- was nominated by the
Chicago Convention because he was failure.
| If he had succeeded as a soldier he would no
| more have been nominated, than Grant would
have been, or Sherman, or Sheridan. The
Convention did not want fighting man, II
wanted peace man.
.THE CorPERnEADs ArRAp or UNION NIcTo.
RIEs.-Dcmocratic papers arc cautioning their
readers against reports Of Union milit lry vic
tories during the next few days. Among these
papers We notice the New York Journal Of
| Commerce and Chicago Tunes Thus the cop
perhead organs admit that military successes
arc damaging to their cause! II their party
did not desire the success Of tho rebellion this
wond not bs so. Manirestly the Democratic
boat is not the craft for patriots to take passage
in. Just think OF II; party in the North
| afraid that Grant, or Sheridan, or Sherman viii
gain victory over the rebels
| DEMOCRACY DIsor1sED.-Thc Cincinnati In
quirer advises those who wish to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket, and arc ashamed of II, to cut
| the ticket out of It's columns and paste II over
i the Union ticket How has the mighty Demo-
cratic party fallen when II has to advise its
members TO vote under false colors If the
thing is such a cause for sneaking, why do II
| at all
| A HOME THRusT.-A letter from a thoroughly
Informed gentleman with Grants army, under
date of Saturday, says; Everything looks
| elegant. Do you want to bet that Jeil will not
be an exile three months from now, or that In
less time this army is not In Richmond ~
EDWARD EVERETT, having been invited by
Governor Apdrew and others TO make an ad
dress of a political nature has accepted, aud
will speak In Boston on the afternoon of the
| 10Th inst.
SERVED THEN RrGHT.-At the grand rally of
Little Macs friends in New Haven, the other
night, the Irish on Grand street refused TO let
the horse cars pass at O'Clock, aud the con-
ductors pat up for the night. The result was,
when the demonstration was over about five
| hundred Of them had the privilege Of walking
over 10 Fair Haven.
NUNS THE Wonn.-Mr. Pcndlcton was in
| Dayton Thursday evening, and was scrcuadud,
and made the following very cable aud clo
quenL" speech: Fellow citizens, did not come
| hero to make political speech. | am very
| thankful for the honor YOU have conferred upon
mU.' Mum is the word for PcndlUtOn until
| after the election.
| CHEBRISG.--AItCr three years Of war, aud
another campaign upon us OF unsurpassed and
amazing yigor, VIC find gold falling and Gov
erumOnt securities advancing. Could there he
better evidence Of the stability Of Uur Govern
| mcnt
The CTNOINNATI GdYNc says; Leslie
Combs snd Garrett Davis, at Chicago, promised
the electoral vote of kentucky to the peace
and submission candidates by nily thousand
majority. Our information induces the belief
that their trGachCry will not bJ as profitable
as they may have hoped. We believe that by
| energy and discipline and constant labor, Ken
| tusky will cast her vote for Lincoln and John
| son.
ARCnnIsuor PURCEIL.-SomC Of the Copper
head papers have been making the statement
that Archbishop Purcell, the eminCntly loyal
and anti slavery Catholic prelatc, of Cincinnati,
has declared himself favorable to the election
| of Gen. Mcclellan. Ills organ, the Cincinnati
Catholic Telegraph, authoritatlvcly contradlcts
the statement. 1t really needed no contradic-
| tiOn.
| STRoNU TEAM.-MCssrs. Lyman Trcmain
and Clark L. Cochrarc arc among the most
popular and effective speakers among the army
of eloquent defenders Of the faith now on the
stump. They arc doing the Union cause great
service In the Empire State.
DEMOCRATIC ESTHUsIAsM. 80 The Copper,
heads in o OgdGnsburg met the other day in grand
mass convention. Exact number present, by
actual count, 32l-includlng Curiosity hunting
Union men. At Potsdan, the procession mum
bered, by count, l0S!
VINO BEGUN THE WAR !-Lct Genera. .Sher.
man answer: repeat, then, that by the orig.
inal compact of government, the United States
had certain rights In Georgia which have never
been relenquished, aud never will be that n,
South begun the lcar by sczlng forts, arsenals
mints, custom. houses, etc, etc., long before
Mr.. Lincoln was Installed, and before he South
had one jot or tue Of prouOcation." Shcrmdn'
Letter TO The CHy Council Gr AHuaa."
DIsGRACEFUL.-At the Mcclellan meeting il
Philadelphia, Saturday night, one of the tran
sparcncies represented "the grave of thr
Union" The President aud Cabinet were rep
resented riding in hearse drawn by jackassei
with human faces, representing Gen. Grant
Gen. Sherman, and other Union commanders
Gen. Grant was represented as saying, " pul
for the side that pays best" Such is the homo
our heroes get from the Peace Democrats.
DoUDLE-VoICED.-Thc New York Daily New
; (Dcmocratic) says: "Let Gen. Nc Ci,lan aS'er
publicly whdt he does priydttlv that he wW faro
! an immediate cessation Of hodilitieS, and a Ion
vention of all the States, and the Dauy NCs
and VIC believe the entire peace party, will ad
init that lie stands upon the Chicago platform
$ and will give him their earnest support"