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Litchfield enquirer., 1868-08-27
Base Ball.

E MIR. EDIToR:- Last Saturday the Dutton B. B. B. 0. of Litchfeld played their first match of the season with their old oppo- nents the Dexter B. B. c: of Winsted. The game was played upon the grounds of the latter club, on the Fair Ground in Winsted, which, owing to the recent rain, was in quite watery condition. Apropos to this we can state that small amount ofcare would vastly improve the ground of the Dexters, while an expenditure by no means consid- erable would make it one of the best grounds in the county.
 Play was called at about a quarter to three, the Duttons having the choice of in- nings and keeping the lead from beginning to end, although the game was quite we'll sustained throughout by both sides. At the end of the sixth inning the tally stood B to 6, when the Dexters made rally se- curing 5 tallies, and skunking their oppo- nents. The Duttons, however, succeeded in keeping the score of their adversaries down to cipher in the last two innings, adding but two to their own, and thus ended the game with totals of 34 to II. Excellent in- dividual plays were so numerous that 1t IS somewhat difficult to particularize, but, if we may be allowed to do so, we would especia. Fly commend the fielding of ,Bulkley in centre-feld, he making two excellent fly catobac notuithctap 1ipo 41,o ol,c4r,o+; in his field Wells also made two fly catch es one of which was beauty. Catlin and Baldwin played their respective bases per- fectly, the latter making three, the former two fly catches. The general game of the Duttons was as good as they have ever played, ,as may be in part inferred from the fact that they made no less than 19 fly catches and ln1ffed but one Their bat ting was quite heavy.
 The Dexters also played well showing, however, some want of practice. The catch ing of Perkins was very fine considering the state of the ground and Pinney on 2d base secured two fine flies. Bowers and Shepard each captured beautiful fly in their respective positions. Woodruff, by g fine ball to right field, obtained the only home-run of tho game. The umpirine was first-class, giving entire satisfaction to both clubs. After the game the Duttons
 were hospitably entertained at the Clarke
 House. The hospitality of the Dexters
 was only equalled by the courtesy witf
 which they treated the Duttons during al
 their stay. We append the score:
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Ba. If the Southern leaders had possessed ordi- nary sagacity, end spirit of conciliation and good feeling had prevailed Ill the Charleston Conven- ton, the Democratic candidate tor President would have received three fths of the vote of the Electoral College. Less than two-fifths of the popular vote were cast by the Republicans; and but for the supreme folly of violence every branch of the government would, d,have been.overwhelming ly Democratic. * * Lincoln had been cho- sen President He would have been as powerless as Andrew Johnson is at the present time, if the Southern politicians could have been persuaded to remain in the Union. But Republicanism prsHer ed in consequence of their egEegious an mtol and the country is now staggernS uhss a penalty erable burden of debt and tavaMlG' M wortL falkinet therefor. But all this is >1"t''S "0i'''
 Is the :supreme Jolly of violence" yet over at the sorsn? Are not the leaders of 1880. Wiso Tombs, Cobb, Hampton and Co ro..ay, under the leadership of Frank Bla:, to repeat their folly? They were f- .ally s'persuaded to remain in the Union;' and in due time, under the presidency oi Gen. Grant we have no doubt they will be be ''persuaded' to keep the peace.
 Does the Register at last confess that the "intolerable burden of debt and taxation 7 is ca penalty" for this Supreme folly oi violence" this s'egregrious blunder'' (no crime), of the Southern Democracy? Nov that these same men are planning another folly and another blunder we must take the liberty of talking about their former es capade, in order to avoid further debt an( ta aXation.
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sQUIBs.

Rond of New Haven is poTMertqn5 sPeahGp me e sRssse : !as !as the fact that
 tes1ifh 1nt of his speech heavy rain set Ill., aat the mlos. scouldnt stand it, you see' "ep' great Duche'1 1 I.,1eord E,euinq Post remarks that the
 The aar'toau fa % in strong for economy They the a5 P 5s7s h Ss6n sa7s ssa spent ecutlng tne onmntemnlating policeman with the piehpgekeIA An that is what are taxed for-us to'ii to keep this fellow in idleness., ,.aa
 delegate to recent Democratic Convention II Ohio, said he had voted the Democratlc 9 'cke' eVe
 The Utica Herald says. =" Since MT. seymou found himself caught up by the WhlTlW1nda,t a,S VI suppose he thinks he is sure of being translated We have no doubt that he is destined to go uP'
 Senator Bates is carrying his banner to Name where Democracy flags.
 New York has Brick Pomeroy, the cattle alsease and Joe Howard nuisance, epidemic ana oas0E"s'
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LITCHFIELD.

The Fair of last Wednesday proved 8 great success. S375 was the amount realiz- ed. We hear tue fancy work particularly praised; the fefreshment tent was excel lently provided and managed; ''Planchette found many enauirers and one believer; and the Gallery of Art was both profitable and amusing. We subjoin few selections from the printd catalogue of the latter, with explanations: 1. The Flower of the Family Miller Tin 9 ID. 2. The Light ofother Days-A. Dippe Tin an iron candlestick. |
 3. Spring-S. F h'dl. 5. Indian Sumner-D. 4. Ball. ['Lo the Poor
 3. Things to Adtre-A: Locke [knob, hinges &c]
 g. The Horse Far.-H 4. Noates Tin peck measure]
 A. View of theFalls.-s E. Ve,M [waterfalls] 15. The Isles of Greece-Baer[s grease] 23 The Trappis-Mouser
 28. The Last q the Mohicans- -Scl.oenoacher. No. III
 On Saturday last, at about II. P. M. Dr. J. G. Beckwith of this place met with serious accident As he was driving mp East Hill he meta runaway horse and turn ed out of the road, but the animal swerved from his course and struck the doctors buggy, knocking him out of it a distance of nearly 15 feet. His right arm was broken and he was badly bruis- ed on the breast; nevertheless, he sprung up, seized the horse with his left hand and held him till assistance came. The doctors buggy was pretty effectually smashed and it is wonder that he escap- ed with his life
 - Week before last, as Norman Mercy was driving down to this place from Co., shen, his wagon was driven into by MT. Ford of that place upset and badly broken. MT. Mercy was thrown out, breaking a rib besides being badly bruised about the head.
 - The readingby MT. Edward Gould, on Monday evening, was largely attended, and br0,sshtt typ yip sf6e fos thoe eMarennaant Ru again on Monday next Play, Much Ado about Nothing"
 The Dutton base ball club ot this place, played an informal game with the Etnas of Wolcottville, on Tuesday. The score was little jug-handular, standing, Dutton 53; Etna 8, making tally in three innings. only. ..
 - Mir. Goslee of whose injury we spoke in our last, died on the evening ot Wednes- day, the 18th inst.
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Miscellaneous Items.

Plenty of chestnuts and hickory nuts this fall
 Thadd:us Stevens never tasted wlnc or liquor.
 Mucilage put on Mosquito bite is said to relieve 1t lnstantaneously.
 A bronze statute of Beecher is to be made, prob ably to leave to posterity |,
 James Gordon Befnetr Jr., is 2aNP oy fihRo Sgss. lost $100, 900 in stock 9peculations.
 Louis Napoleon is paid for being emperor at the rate of $14 $40.
 Green and white are the fashionable colors for evening dresses at present. Five hundred young lawyers hung out their shingles in New York, last year. Five pail bearers at Mrs. Vanderbilts funeral represented $25O,000,00O. Salmon breeding has turned out successfully ill New Zealand. l A. T. Stewart has bought $200, ,000 ''cOttage at | Newport 1 The cattle plague has made it's appearance at Cincinnati. sarlines are so plenty in Spain, this year, that | they used as manure. Silver and gold anklets are already becoming | stylish, and will soon be de rigeur. | During the past four years the Western Union Telegraph company have built 9, GOO miles of ne'
 French papers promise a wine crop of 1,5si,- 0OO,OO0. ! How much |" cream of the joke does one get l from the pint of the same? 1 chemist even in the street, is known by his l lineaments.-Judy l A murderer can be hired at Portici, near Ma ples, for few cents.
 Negro footmen in purple stockings are the mode in Paris.
 A Cincinnati physician of 73 now dandles his
 twenty-frst baby.
 Four bodies were found in the Delaware river at , Philadelphia on Saturday, Something the usual
 average.
 There are 200 miles of logs in the Conecuh and
 Escambia riveas Florida, awaiting transportation to the saw mills. Cincinnati pays very nearly million dollars in , salaries to it's eleven hundred and seventy-hve pubic servants.
 An inconsiderate suicide, who threw hlmseH
 from the Milan cathedral, nearly killed Prusslah
 major on whom he fell. A drunken Chicagoan chastised his wife with an iron kettle He killed the former ahu sPole" the latter laroe number of Confederate generals have been assembled at the white Sulphur springs III Virginia Notwithstanding it's high price, steel proves to he the most economical material for railway ras' ! An Iron rail with a steel cap is used by some com
 panies and will be tried on the New York and New Haven road.
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Judge Shaffer, Dem., candidate for del egate from Idaho, has been elected by about 600 majority
 The only Democratic member of Con- eress from North Carolina has come out for Grant.
 Vallandigham has been nominated in the 3d Ohio Cons gressional Dist. His oppo- nent in the convention was 8 Union gen. eral.
 Brick Pomeroy's Neg York Dem0crm is tame in comparison with the La Crosse af- fair. It scarcely equals the |Vo'M in the blackguarding line.
 The Liverpool papers insult the wife of Jefferson Davis, by supposlng that she has s. a dash of mulatto blood in her veins. '' It don't prejudice her with them, but 1t does aggravate the martyr"
 Accounts from every part of the Unlon | are most cheering. Throughout the North' Republicans arc confident of an over whel1ning victory, while, all over the South, enthusiastic Republican meetings are be | ing held in nearly every reconstructed State.
 There have been portraits of Davis, Lee Hampton, and other rebel heroes borne ln democratic processions since the campaign onened. But no one has yet ventured up on picture of Booth. Why should the greatest democratic hero of the age be thus Sighted? Brick Pomeroy may answer thu question.
 In a private letter to the editor Of tn Tndianapolis Journal from 8 prominent re publican of Kentucky, the writer says "l Seymour is elected hundreds of Unlon mel viii have to leave Kentucky and find home elsewhere. I speak advisedly. For God. sake fight hard and win if you can. It our only salvation" Prominent. Conservatives and Democrat continue to declare for Grant and Coltax Ex-Senator Garlic of West Va., who ha uutil recently acted with the Democrats Judge Alexander Rives one of the mos l eminent lawyers of Virginia, and hlt9ert conservative; Mayor J. N. Gordon, of lndl anapolis; Hon. T. N Stillwell, late Demo cratic Congressmen from the llth Indian
 district: Maxwell P. Gaddis, a promlaen
 man in Southern Ohio; l.. J. Neall, zen gen
 Samuel Cary's principal supporter for V Con H'a gress last year, and Gen. Grose o1 lnalar@ I ani : have all come out in support of Grano 1''aa1 an1 : Colfax; while the Toman (Wls:J yy~t Wat;on ,1Ir' v heretofore neutral, has run up tne A'''''O : al Republican candidates
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NlS7OUR YoIrNc For.Ks for September con-

e Ds@OUR YoUNe FOLKS for September con. talns:-The Cruise of the Little Starlight; The Butterfy's Mishaps; Solomon John goes for Apples and Cider; Giant and Dwarf; The Two Winogenes; Our Five Lit. tie Kittens and their Relations; First Lee ture on Heat; The Story of the Amber Beads; Half-Hours with Father Bright nopes' TX; The Caterpillar; Goals of Fire; Cast away in the Cold, XIV; Little Brown Hands; The William Henry Letters, VIII The Baby House Famine; Round the Eve nlng Lamp; Our Letter Box.
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DIED.

In North East, Duchess Go. IN. T., Aug. 18tA, at the residence of his son, Mir. Ste phen Morse, aged 86.
 In Colebrook, Aug. IS, of consumption, Mrs. Matilda Webster, wife of Lorrin A. Cooke, aged % years.
 In Knox, N. r., Aug. IT, Fannie M. only daughter of John l.. and Kate 0. Welch, aged year, 8 months, and days.
 In South Canaan, Aug. 10th, Harriet, wife of John James aged 52 years.
 In this town, Aug. 18th, at the residence of Dr. INV. Buel, MT. Myron R. doslee, aged Al years. In Morris. Aug. 24th. Mrs. Phoebe Waugh, aged S6 years.
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WASHINGTON

The Washington Base Ball Club played a match with the Weantinaug's of New Milford last Friday on their grounds here and won the game by 36 to 34. A return match was played, Saturday, and our boys won by score of 39 to 10. The players were the I'd nine of the Weantinaug's. The first nine have challenged the victors to Z contest at their grounds, which will come oil some time this week. Below are the scores:
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CORNWALL.

A State teachers Institute will be held at West Cornwall, beginning at o'clock P. NJ. to day. Thursday, and closing Friday evenino under the supervision of the Sec retary of the Board of Education. Teach CTS and School Visitors will be entertained without charge. MT. Northrop will issue free retnrn tickets over the Housatonic railroad
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as1g~ Capt Francis Johns, captain of the blockade runner that took out Vallandig- ham in 1863, makes affidavit in London to facts that came to his knowledge in that trip. It appears that number of Confederate officers took passage with the martyr for Halifax, intending to act un- der his directions in starting Conservative mobs and insurrections in Boston and New York. Vallandigham had written instruc- tions from Mallory, Secretary of the Con federate Navy, and was extremely anxious to reach New York before July 4th, to make the expected diversion in favor of Lee, who was marching North. These facts were confded to Capt. Johns by Val landigham himself. s. s.f a--
 It has always been known that Lee s
 second invasion of Pennsylvania was un-
 dertaken from political, and not for military
 reasons; but that Vallandigham was the
 regularly commissioned leader of the co
 operating instruction, has never befor, been made public. It seems, therefore ; that MT. Seymour owes his nomination t, , one of his " friends" after all, and ths } treason is not the only capital offence ( which the Democratic nominee in the 8 : Ohio Congressional District has bee 7 guilty. asa
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ss% The New England Fair takes place at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on the 1st, I'd, Sd and 4th of September. Premium List s7,O0O. Two of the single premi- ums are S1, 900 each
 This arrangement affords an excellent opportunity for Connecticut, east of the river, to attend the best of our national Fairs.
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MORRIS.

Mrs. s. E. Burr, will lecture in the town hall of this place, on Sept. 9th, commence ing at II a. m. and 71a p. m Subject: spirituahsm. Those expecting to obtain seats will come early.
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REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.

THE Republican Electors of the Town of Go shen are requested to meet at the Town Room, o1 Saturday, August 29th, at one o'clock, P. M., tC appoint delegates to the State Convention, and dc any other proper business.
 By order of TowN COMMITTEE. Goshen, August 24th, 1868.
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TO BEAUTIFY AND DRESS THE hair. and restore it to it's natural color, and impart that beautiful gloss, odor, etc., use MRS. s. A. ALIENS IMPROVED (new styLe) HAIR REsToRER or DRESSING, (in one bottIe.) Every Druggist sells it. Price One Dol lar. 1o-4w
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REPUBLICAN CAUCUS,

THE Republican Electors of the Town of Corn. wall are requested to meet at the Town Hall or Saturday, August 29th, 1868, at o'clock, P. M tc appoint Delegates to the State Convention, to bt holden at New Haven, on the 10 September, 1868 and do any other proper business
 Per Order of TowN COMMITTEE. Cornwall, August A, 1868.
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Asa~lt is not little remarkable that while the Democracy are crying out against soldiers, and for statesmen, they christen all their clubs, jackson Associations. |" In short they have to go back forty years to find popular Democrat, and he soldier
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br Our Goshen correspondent con- plains as follows of typographical er- TOTS in setting up her last communication:
 ssIn speaking of MT. Albert Wadhams' purchase of 16 acres of land, l am made to say that he purchased it of Mir. Norton, and that the barn which was being taken down was purchased of Mrs. Norton when the communication read, purchased of Miss M Norton, and the barn was part of the same purchase. l am also made to locate the land near the house of Daniel Booth,' when no such person resides Tn town. I can't conceive how the word Booth could be made out of the word Bentley and If a person setting type could read part of communication, l think with care the whole might be read correctly. In the third paragraph am al-
 so made to say that Deacon Potter in- stead of Deacon Porter, has passed the crisis of his disease You will please give
 these E'rata place in your columns, as ]
 do not wish to take the credit of reporting
 items of news incorrectly"
 : While We admit that some of the forego. !. ing mistakes were the result of inexcusa - ble carelessness, We would urge upon ou1 correspondents the necessity of writing
 proper names very plainly. They are pe ,, culiarly liable to be misread, and errors O
 that kind cannot often be detected bv tht proof-reader
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The Illinois papers tell of man who lately s,o,o
 his fathers tombstone. Such conduct is moi baIy as unhal as that of the Democracy, who are roIl ciples. P'"'-
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REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.

THE Republican Electors of the town of Litch- field are requested to meet at the Town Room on Saturday, the 29th inst, at 3 o'clock in the after noon to select delegates to the State Convention at New Haven on Sept. 10 and to do any other bus mess proper to be done, at said meeting.
 Per order Committee. Litchfeld Aug. 18th 1868 -..
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POLITICAL.

Three companies of Boys in Blue" have been organized in Hartford
 Mr. Pendleton spoke at Portland, on Saturday, and at Hartford, on Tuesday last
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na On Saturday last, the town of Win. chester, by vote of 366 to 6e, voted to take $116,000 in the stock of the Connect, cut Western railroad.
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REPUBLICAN, STATE CONVENTION

A Ccnye ention will be held at MUSIC HALL, il 10 o'clock a. m. to nominate candidates for Presi dental Electors favorable to the election Of Gran and Colfax.
 Each town will send delegates equal to twice tn, number of their representatives. .s
 Meriden, Aug. 17th, 1868. Q. H. PLATT, Chairman, New Haven Go. EZRA HALL, Hartford Co., BARTLETT BENT Jr. Middlesex Go. JOSEPH 4: CALHOUN, Lltchfeld Go. VIM. A. CUMMINGS, ] VIM. E. SHELBY Fairfield O. JOHN TWEEDY ALFRED COIT ALLEN PENNY, New London Co. E. s. DAY,
 JEREMIAH OLNY, DAVID GREENSIIT { "Ahohan to. DWIGHT MARCY, rr,, MARCUS LILLE, 1oAand Co.
 Republican State Central Committee.
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The Clam Rake

Last week, the fat men of Fairfield County had a clam bake at Norwalk. They were visible to the naked eye from Long Island, where they were supposed to be convention of base-drummers. There was considerable variety of figure, howev- CT. Some were oblong, others fattened at the poles and largest at the equator. They were all great on the parallels of latitude. I notice that the Democratic papers claim the fat men for Sey- mour. They {" prefer the statesman to the sol dier" Of course they do. All the way down from old Jack Fallstaff, they have disliked war. Since the invention of artillery, they are sure to gel picked off at long range Gilmore's Swamp Ange would have pumped the Chairman of the clam bake, ever time, at four miles. The only way the, can save any of this kind of warriors nowadays. is run up yellow flags on them and pass them off fol field hospitals. Then they are generally respect cd by an enemy.
 Our town sent one delegate at large, not a tai man, but beautifully proportoned for the purpose He is by all odds the most prominent man in tht county. Nobody who has ever seen him with hi napkin on, walking in a Masonic procession doubts that
 Whether the price of clans or of freiehts vii come down again, this year, is doubtful It is the penalty We pay for fat mems clam bake.
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UmpTe, Dr. k. Bacon ofNew Milford
 Scorers, MeSSrS Howard and Mygatt.
 A bit of runaway enlivened the re- turn home from New Milford, on the part of the Washington party. A horse and carriage driven by Miss Mary Gum, as- sisted by Miss Kenyon and Miss Anna Brinsmade, got under so good headway when turning sharp bend in the road, a quarter of a mile west of Judd's Bridge. as to throw the ladies into promiscuous pile beside the fence. The horse then rushed on till he brought up near the Bridge, with wreck behind him. A good lady soon appeared to the Misses, bottle in hand, saying ''that cantire was first rate for young ladies' But no serious use was found for it, and they were taken up and kindly entertained by Capt. Judd until the appearance of the team carrying the Ball players Then they were all safely ta- ken home, and only D few lame joints re- sulting next morning. It is supposed the young ladies acted most heroically under the circumstances.
 F. B. Smith is in town taking photo graphs, to the satisfaction of all concerned.
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b@ Attention is called to the post ponment of our State Convention till Sept 10th.
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gg- It should be understood we are not on the defensive. We are the attacking party World.
 Just so! and it is the rule that the at tacking party loses the most. Jeff Davis and his piratical crew made an attack up on the good old ship Union. Will 1he World tell us how they won? Besides, the democratic papers tell us that in the Negro @ riots, they alacays make the attack and come out at the rate of forty killed to one white man shot. In the light of the above examples, will Tbe World figure out how long it will take the democracy to win a victory by attack?" w.
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Flys missed, Dutton 1; Dexter f. Umpire, Lincoln.
 Scorers, M. W. Robinson, L. W, Richardson. Time of game, two hours and five minutes.
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ne#The ATLANTIC for September con- tains: No News; Expectation; Siberian Ex- lies: St. Michael's Night, "; On the Mod ern Methods of Studying Poisons; In Va cation; Sidney and Raleigh; Bill and Joe; The Impossibility of Chance; T he Face in the Glass, I; The Island of Maddalena; The Man and Brother, I; American Diplo. macy; The Genius of Hawthorne; Reviews and Literary Notices.
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Rs- gentleman who returned last week from s three weeks pleasure trip to the West, Niagara neither at hotel on steamer, or in the cars, in single instance, did he hear any political conver
 sation introduced by friend of Grant, They were always on the defensive, and feeble at that. World
 Certainly. The egentleman is evidently con. nected with the " shoddy aristocracy,
 "the bloated bond-holders, /" who, the La Crosse Democrat tells us, own Seymour and the World. Had he gone among the plouyh-hosde,:s, he would have heard some
 thing from the friends of Grant, mot on the defensive, nor feeble, at thatP'