Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-18

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Tnereupon we were informed that they in
dicated the spot where the dead body of q
person was found that had been killed by
Indians, and in some parts of the Territory
every Mexican who passes the spot is said
to throw an additional stone on the pile,
this being considered an act of Christian
devotion and sympathy for the soul of the
deceased. Your readers must not forget
that the Mexicans are fully as much, If
not more, under the rule of the Catholic
clergy, than the Inhabitants of the most
bigoted country on the face of the earth.
During our stay in Fort Seldom we were
deprived of much of what is considered
the necessities of life. Meat is plentiful in
that vicinity, for the neighboring
State of Texas furnishes large and cheap
supply of cattle, but vegetables of any kind
had to be carried long distances, generally
from twelve to twenty miles, and were con-
sequentiy not always fresh and tolerably
expensive. The natives are too poor and
perhaps not enterprising enough to pro-
cure mules and wagons, but have to carry
everything themselves in baskets, and con-
sequently have to charge higher price
than would be the case If regular system
of marketing was carried on by them.--
Eggs are likewise scarce article, and even
fruit does not grow on account of the soil
being too sandy and arid. From twenty
to eighty miles south of Fort Selden, the
celebrated Ell Paso wine is cultivated, and
1 am satisfied that almost all along the Rio
Grande valley wine growing could be turn
ed into profitable business, and probably
will after civilization has made more pro-
gress than at the present time. saj iil'H
IFrom the New York Sun, Independent, with Radi-
cal proclivities.] j so.
Political Prospects i'm New York.
The difference of opinion respecting the
probable result OF the election in this State
is remarkable. The Democrats are conf
dent of carrying it by at least sixty thou
sand majority. According to the Herald,
on the other hand, the Republicans will
give Grant and Griswold a majority of
twenty thousand. What, then, is the truth,
and which of these partisan estimates comes
nearer to it? I,9-f.I.,, ~ ~. r,-9 ,3f. 49,
New York is fuctuating State. In 1860
it gave Mr.. Lincoln $4,000 majority, and two
years later the Democrats carried it by H.
600. In 1866 the Republicans bad a majori-
ty of 1900, and in 1867 the Democrats one
of $4,000. So that the figures of one year
afford no sure Indication of what will hap
pen the next. Is there then any cause which
is likely now to produce arevulsion, and to
reverse the Democratic majority of $4,000
of 1867? , d 1snf1Vel1 sf79t Z 80
In 1854 the Republicans east in all the
State $4,000 votes, and the Democrats 1862, :
600 In 1866, 1866, 900 Republicans came to
the polls, and $4,000 Democrats. In 1867
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the Republican total dwindled to 25,000
the Democrats gaining 81 900 over the pre-
vious year, and the Republicans losing
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Every politician knows that the great
Democratic stronghold is composed of the
eight counties of New York, Kings, Queens,
Suffolk, Richmond, Westchester, Rockland,
and Putnam, all lyirg compactly together
at this end of the State. In 1867 these eight
counties gave to- the Democratic candidates
an aggregate majority of S2700. This was
25,700 more than they. had given to the
same ticket in 1854, and 22.260 more than
they had given it in 1866. In order to ar
rive at a reasonable calculation of the pres
ent probabilities, the first element is the
condition of public feeling in these eight
counties. Is there any reason to expect a
change in them? Has the tendency in ia
vor of the Democracy been in any manner
checked there, or does it still continue?
Some light is thrown on this question by
the Mayoralty election in this city in De-
cember, 1867. In November, the Demo-
cratic majority in New York city was SO,
666. In December, the two Democratic
candidates for Mayor had together 67, ,425
votes more than their Republican compet-
itor. 1t is true that many Republicans did
not vote at all, and that many voted for
one OF the other of the Democratic candi-
dates; but the fact nevertheless proves a
steadily diminishing vitality in the Repub-
lican party in the city. Another fact of
some significance also remains unchanged.
We refer to the broken and factious state
of city Republicanism. There are two
General Committees, in which nobody has
much confidence; and if the purpose were
to diminish instead of increase the number
of Republican voters in the city, these war;
ring factions and their management might
be congratulated as perfectly successful
On this head, then, the Democrats need
not tremble for their great preponderance.
But the chief cause of the vast Democratic
gains in New York and Kings is the excise
laws, and the denial of that noble liquid,
lager bier, to our Teutonic fellow citizens
on Sunday. This legislation has certainly
cost the Republican party sixty thousand
votes in the State, of which at least forty
thousand are in the eight counties we have
named. Ten years ago the German voters
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naturally as the Irish to the Democratic
Now that is all changed. Liberty and
lager are in the camp of the Democracy
alOne, and thither the Germans go to enjoy
them. What is especially interesting about
it is, that the Republicans have made Moth
ing by the transaction, except it be the
cheering consciousness of having done their
have hoped to gain something among the
Irish by thus turning against the Germans,
but they are wofully disappointed. There
are in this town twenty-five thousand Irish
voters who belong to the Father Mathew
Temperance Societies, but though they
don't love liquor, they don't love Republic
cans either, and every mothers son of them
continues to vote the Democratic ticket
as steadily as ever.
Under these circumstances, the cause of
the Republicans in this State seems to-day
simply hopeless. They may accomplish
something by better organization, and by
skiiful electioneering, They are also sure
to gain votes even in this city by the great
prestige of the names upon their ticket, and
by some of the points in their PLATFORM
But on the other hand, they will find that
Liberty and Lager are hard powers to fight
against, and that with Horatio Seymour for
President and John T. Hoffman for Cover
nor, the Democracy will have in 1868, as
they had in 1867, more than $4,000 majori-
ty in these eight counties alone. These are
hard figures to beat; and though we are
rejoiced TO see that the Republicans are go
ing to put in their best etforts-for it would
be disgusting to have such an election go
by in this State without a struggle, and
without interest-yet our conclusion, look
ing calmly and impartially at the whole
question, is that the Democracy must car
ry New York in spite of everything.
On last Monday evening, a girl about II
years of age, daughter OF a Mr.. Bolin, who
resides about half mile from Warnock's
Station, Belmont county, while returning
home from the latter place, was met by an