, 1871-12-11
Ohio Correspondence.
COLUMBUS. ONO. Nov. 9Th, 1877

Since my last letter very little worthy
of special note in the political world in
this quarter has occurred. My estimate
of the Republican Governors majority
fell little short of the mark, full official
returns since making it little rising
10000. The Republicans are very much
exercised over the Ito them) unfortu-
nate and unexpected tie in the Senate,
and the wiseacres of the party are puz-
zling their brains to concoct some
scheme to circumvent the stubborn and
troublesome fact. The Indications still
are that the Democrats (who cannot
elect man of their choice) will coalesce
with the conservative Republican MEM
bers to defeat John Sherman for the q.
S. Senate, and the result will probably
be the election of Ex-Secretary j. D.
Cox. Tomorrow election will take
place in a number of the States, and in
a few days We shall have some light
thrown on the next great struggle for the
Presidency. The Democratic press in
some parts Of the country is beginning
to discuss the Presidential nomination
for 1872. A Pennsylvania paper has
nominated Hon. Thomas A. Scott, Of
Pennsylvania, as the Democratic candi-
date, and day or two since the Cincin-
natl Enquirer declared for him. The
Ohio Statesman, of this city, and many
of the party organs throughout the
country ridicule the nomination of
Scott, and declare that no railroad king
or representative man of the immense
and grabbing monopolies should be
made the standard hearer of the Demo-
cracy.
tive, sinking at last into the Presiden-
Our present gift-blessed Chief Execu-
tial Chair after his wearying and silent
wanderings, is more cheerfully confident
still ESQ say the Court Journals) of an
other four years occupancy of the
White House. Yet, although success
seemingly beams from the North and
penetrates with golden rays the clouds
encircling the executive brow, Ulysses
does not puff his Havana in slothful
security-as witness the bayonet rule in
South Carolina; and now comes the
credible rumor that martial law at the
South is to be extended over much
larger area; also the war of the "Fed-
eral ring " is to be vigorously prosecuted
in Utah, to propitiate or curry favor with
the general sentiment against Mormon
ism. That the prosecutions against
leading Mormons (Which are now such
a sensation over the land, and which
are known to have been determined on
in administrative councils) are intended
for political effects urged, too, by a
"ring" covetous of the increasing
wealth of the Mormons-is pretty clear.
1t seems rather abrupt spasm of vir-
tue on the part of government that
has silently winked at Mormon practices
for more than twenty years, and which
in that period gave official position to
some of their strongest advocates.
Whoever has studied the operation of
those potent agencies, the railroad and
the telegraph, in Utah, aided by the
rapid influx of an anti-Mormon immi-
grafton, has marked the change they
have wrought among that peculiar peo-
pie, and how steadily they were under
mining and weakening the citadel of
justly abhorred polygamy. How far
persecution (by making new zealots and
martyrs) shall retard the consumation
of the work began and advanced by
those great reforming agencies, remains
for the future to develop. But Grant
must be elected, and the greedy Alexan-
drian money ring must have more worlds
to conquer.
In recent number of the most wide
ly circulated journal of this State I read
o column and a half letter written at
Olympia by correspondent from the
East who processes to give the many
readers of the journal in question "a
round, unvarnished tale" of the char
acter, climate and resources of your
Territory. In general, the views of the
writer are fair and pretty correct, but in
one or two respects he does the country
injustice. In treating of the agricul-
tural features of the Territory. he esti-
mates the arabic lands at one tenth of the
whole, characterizing the remainder as
utterly worthless for the uses of the
farmer; and in speaking of the N. P. R.
r. and the company's operations on that
end of the route, his evident intention
is to convey the impression at the East
that the Cos. land grant on that end of
the route is comparatively worthless,
and the progress they have and are
making with the road little worthy of
note. From the tenor of the article it
is evident that "F. R. P" visited only
the western portion of the Territory,
and wrote to suit the complexion of the
Journal written for (Cincinati CONNER
cial,) prejudices lie with the Southern
trans=eontinental route. / am more
convinced than ever since my return to