The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-19
Political.

4 John c. Breckenridge has settled down at
Lexington, KY, TO practice law, and already
has some business.
General Atwood. it is supposed, will receive
tthe Republican nomination for Governor of Wis
consin.
Two Democratic papers in Indiana nomi-
Lhate Hon. Thomas i. Hendricks for the Presi-
Sdency in 1872.
-fhe Lower House of the Kentucky Legisla-
ture consists Of eghty-one Democrats and five
Republicans.
\ The Democrats of Kentucky will give the
negro all his civil rights if the fifteenth amend
ment is adopted, and will try to use that con-
cession to secure the favor of the freedmen.
In this State the colored men admitted to
amendment, it is said will be at least one
eightieth of the whole number of votes.
The Memphis newspapers differ on the in
4 depreciation of the Tennessee election. The
AUdldHChe declares the result victory for uni
versal suffrage; while the appeal and Ledger
claim that it means white mans government,
and general reformation.
The Democrats of California are making
use of what is said to be the general sentiment
j against granting suffrage to Cinnamon, to defeat
&the passage of the fifteenth amendment. The
/ Republican Convention resolved that it was OPP
posed to Chinese suffrage in any form.
The Augusta (Ga) COHStitatiOnaiiSt thinks
Z that if the Democratic party of the North twill
E only drive from its ranks those who are among
4 them but not of them-the Belmonts, the
i World, the Cdizen-we can then act with it to
Al some PURPOSE IulS puISallOn must DC made
, before success can crown any effort"
"A Wisconsin despatch says:-'If half the
+ reports are true, there is a lively row in the
camp OF the Democracy in New York State, in
yolying serious disagreements among the leaders
& jas to the course to be pursued, the place and
time to hold the State Convention, and other
matters"
The question of anneying Western Florida
to Alabama is to be voted upon by all the people
\ of Florida on the I'd of November according to
. the Governors proclamation. There are eight
counties in Western Florida, and they comprise
81 tAe best cotton and sugar lands i'm the State.
-Ihe Memphis Post says that Senters major
4 ity in Tennessee may rs well be 100, 900 as any
Hthlng else, '1Or there is no end to the frauds
perpetrated, and no definite figures can be placed
fon the result until the Democratic officers of
election have made their returns in black and
n white"
-GoyemOr Senter committed himself tho
roughly 10 the fifteenth amendment in the recent
canvass IN Tennessee. But we notice that the
vi democratic papers give it wide berth since the
STATE has gone their way. The Tennessee Re-
pubhcans who voted with these gentry on the
9lh are eating humble pie with poor relish.
-AAudlng 70 the recent South American earth
qu3hes' the Richmond Enquirer makes ltseli
unhappy as follows;--
ut seems to us it would be a happy thing if we
could nave periodical earthquake shocks IN wash
lnsIoI 10 remind the people there thaG they are
W nOItaii ana tnat FOR all these things Uney VIII D'
drought TO Judgment We wonder whether rau
Chls ever think that there is a God ana luturt
~ world where unjust stewards have to settle
Everything is going on prosperOusly I'm the unlJet
olalehi except that there is famine in the DOMAIN
Oi Cohsclence-or rather drought-no RAIN Mate
rally, We do well mentally we do Well but spritu
ally there Is leanness-an emaciatiOn-Whlch Il
lull OF menaclng symptoms