Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-10-12
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 10, 1867.


EDITOR WoRLD; The Democracy did not
catch the Radical cock in Maine, but, as Capt.
Chadwick says, "they made him roost mighty
high They do better in California Be-
tween the two the Radical chiefs here are in
great sweat. Grant stock has been somewhat
down IN the political quotations of late, par
ticularly since Grant took up his quarters III
Johnson's Cabinet; but the result of the con-
test in the two extremes of the Union appears
to act medically upon the partizan constitti-
tions Of these Republicans. Some of them
think Grant a much better man than they did
two weeks ago. Wade, Colfax and Stanton
stock sink proportiOnately. They are repre-
sentatiyes Of the radical Radicals Fessenden,
Sherman and Trumbull are supposed to repre-
sent the conservative Radicals, IF any one can
tell what that means, afterreading the Recon
struction acts of the late Congress. The radi-
cal Radicals have had the inside track for the
Presidential nomination, until very recently.
THE LATE ELECTIONS. ef.s IS. 81.
have frightened them The skies are squally.
The little cloud, no larger than mans hand,
which appeared over Connecticut few months
ago. has grown until it has darkened every
State in which an election has been held this
Summer. Elections are pending In Pennsyl-
yania. New York, Ohio, Wisconsin and lndl-
ana. A change in political sentiment equal to
that of Maine will carry them all Democratic.
Perhaps before this appears to your readers
the result in some of these States will have
flashed over the wires to you, therefore / will
make but few predictions, but unless some very
important event transpifes ere the elections, l
think New York and Pennsylvania may be
counted among the Democratic States. IhaVe
seen many Ohioans of both parties who pre-
dict very close contest In that State. The
Democrats appear to be sanguine OF success,
but as the majority against them last year was
AZ, 900, it would appear to be arash hope. 1t
is too much to overcome at one election; but
the majority will undoubtedly be greatly re-
duced Indiana, too, is giving the Radicals no
little trouble, and in Wisconsin the German
element threatens to cut loose from the Puri-
tan legislators who have stopped their lager,
and legislated Christian Sunday into q He
brew Sabbath. The Republican party is fall
ing to pieces all over the country. the people
are beginning to count the cost of Radical rule.
The business men of the country are growing.
Notwithstanding the war is over, taxes are III
creasing, and still the revenue is diminishing.
Capital is going abroad. Nearly one-half OF
this eastern country has been turned over to
the negroes, and northern capitalists dare not
invest where their property is at any time
liable to be confscated, or taxed to death by
lawless, ignorant freedmen. As well expect a
man to prosper with half his limbs paralyzed.
THE PRICE OF GOLD
affords an indication of the feeling in financial
circles. Five months ago gold was selling in
New York at 1872; yesterday it was quoted at
146, This is no temporary rise. 1t has been
steadily going up for some months. Europe is
at peace; the crops throughout the Union have
been unusually good the Cabinet troubles at
Washington have blown over; and yet none OF
these things affect that constant upward ten
dency of the business barometer of the nation.
One great cause of this is, that the prospect OF
just and speedy reconstruction of the Union
is fading away The Congressional scheme is
failure. The rise in the market value of gold,
of course, carries with it consequent rise in
the prices of all commodities. The people feel
this and are beginning to calmly think about
it; hence you may look for diminishing Re
publican majorities in all the Northern States.
TIE SOUTHERN STATES
will go black in double sense, with perhaps
one or two exceptions Gentlemen from that
section report growing indisposition among
the negroes to be interfered with by the whites
--even by the mean white Radicals who have
been endeavoring to control their politics by
means of the Freedmen's Bureau, and the
Five Monarchs who lord it over the military
departments. The negroes say they intend to
hold the offices themselves, and no doubt many
of the Congressman and State officials to be
elected in November will be taken from this
class. Of all the curses which ever afflicted q
nation nothing could hayebeen devised equal to
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
It's workings require to be seen to be eompre.
hended. Wherever the blacks preponderatc
the whites will not register or, if they regis
ter they will not vote. At the Alexandra
election last Spring, and here in the District o.
Columbia in June, we had an opportunity tx
see and feel the workings of this law. Negroes
from Maryland and Virginia were. registered
! in Washington, not only once, but hundreds O
| them number of times, and voted all day
| from precinct to precinct. No one was at al
acquainted with Them they looked, as gans
of Chinamen, all alike Many had no distinc
tive NAME They were registered as "Tom.
Jim, Charlie" &C. They were importe{
here from all directions by the Loyal League
and though not one in hundred of them coul(
read his ticket they could all vote it. They
took possession OF the polls, in some precinct
before daylight, and three or four deep blocked
|up the pavement for long distances in blacl
and fragrant array, from the rising of the SUI
/ even to the going down of the same" In mann
of the precincts but few white men were ena
bled to get near the polls during the entire day
Il in none of them without standing for hours il