The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-22
RUNNING N0TES-POLITlCAL AND PERSONAL

The Xenia (Ohto) 7orchlf0ht states that some
twenty ladies attempted to vote at Yellow Springs
poll, but the judges OF election declined to receive
their ballots The judges to be prosecuted by the
ladies' who are represented belonging to the frst
circles.
A correspondents OF the Utica Herald compares a.
T. Stewart. Of this city, to Marcelus the famous
Roman general, who left BIZ his VIII all his riches to
the Roman people.
The Newark C0hio Register ucmocrap calls upon
President Grant to prove his title to be considered
statesman and patriot by vetoing the Ku Klux
bill. Too late.
A. II. Stephens approves OF the Mobile Registers
article refusing to accept the reconstruction acts
irreversible and dead issues. museum for fossils
Is proposed to be erected In Manhattan square.
The crop Of candidates for Governor OF Ohio con-
tlnues to flourish. George w. McCook, william 8.
Groesbeck ana Ben Wade are among the latess
named.
valandignam will be q candidate for the Ohis
Legislature next fall
The Xenia (Ohio) Gazette Is out for Grant for re-
election and Sam Shellabarger for Vice.
Major John Allison il advocated by the Greenville
Mercer county, Pa.,) Argus as q candidate for the
republi can nomination for Governor.
Andrew G. Curtin Minister to Russia, Is about 70
retire from diplomatic service and reenter the
political arena in Pennsylvania.
In the Texas Legislature Joint resolutions have
been introduced authorizing the purchase OF enc
acre OF land in Cooke county, wherein stands the
tree on which forty-two loyal men were hung In
1862 Better cut 1t down. 1t were better for the
whole country II the sad memories and mementes
OF our civil strife could be forever obliterated.
The Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser gives an I'M
proved version OF the speech recently delivered By
JEFF Davis In Selma, and remarKs:-
Mr. Davis did not make the remotest allusion to
parties What ne said was In the nature Is 1t were
or a phi osophlcal observation, uttered by q man
who no longer possessed the slightest egotstic or
personal sellinterest the subject about winch he
spoke.
The editor OF the Chicago Post has been appointed
Pension Agent at Chicago.
The Cincinnati Chronicle says:-"The democratic
congressman, who have been caucusslng on the
subject for a good while, have finally concluded to
say that they have desire to interfere with the
fourteenth ana fifteenth amendments, but will 40
cept them. with their results, In good faith They
adopt Mr.. Groesbeck's p-atform-They are made,
they will stand.'" But the democratic national ad-
dress falls to say anything Of the kind. How about
THAR
The Buffalo Express republican, proslalms 10
belief that the democrats "wi wipe out the four.
teentn and fifteenth amendments n they obtain
power" That seems to be the general impression,
especially since the late democratic national mani.
festo failed to refer 10 the subject OF their repeal
at all.
The Legislature OF Delaware has passed a law
providing for the protection Of properly OF mar.
ried women in case Of separation from their has-
bands.
John Saxton, Of Canton, Ohio, the veteran OF the
American press died on the 18th inst, aged eighty
one. He started the Stark County Ohio) repository
in 1874 and last the news coming OF the sur
render OF rsuoeon III. at sedan to tine Germans ne
copied from his ales OF fifty years preceding the
account OF the surrenosr. after Waterloo, OF Napo
lean l., nlty-nve years before, to the Germans and
British, and wrote a very touching article on the
uncertainty ana fhutabity Of human Affairs.
w. 8. Groesbeck OF Cincinnati, is ono OF the demo
cratic candidates for the Presidency. In recent
speech he SAID
war leaislates History Is full OF its enactments
n mas eGlslatcd here; Its work Is fixed. and let us
nopa ended. We shall not 60 backward.
The Fredericksburg (va.) Ledger says Justice
Davis OF the Supreme Court OF the United States 10
the latest talked OF as the democratic candidate
for the Presidency IN 1872. The Ledger adds he N
conservative and not an extreme democrat. He u
ON uncle OF the late Henry Winter Davis, OF i3altt
more. aud gentleman o. ape abilities