The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-04
POLITICAL NoTEs-LoCL AND GENERAL.

on square political basis.
John O. Breckenridge declines to be q delegate to
the Democratic State Convention In Kentucky.
The Maryland Democratic Stale Convention Is 10
be held In Baltimore July 49, to nominate candidates
for Governor and other State officers.
The State Of Minnesota is to hold an election to-
day to determine whether she will repudate her
pecuniary obligations. The election grows out OF
what is known as the estate railroad bonds"
The name of General Buell. is mentioned Tor the
democratic nomination for Governor IN Kentucky.
The Terre Haute (Ind.l Gazette nominares Lyman
Trumbull as the republican candidate for President
In 1872.
Southern paper says there is vacancy In the
Custom House ut Savannah for some man and brother
Of the .trooly o" stripe who won't fall asleep and
drop into the river and drown. That fate befell
one Henry May few nights ago.
The Washington Patriot states that Edwin L. stan
ton son OF the late Secretary Of War, Is named for
appointment as Secretary of the Territory Of
Columbia In place Of Chapman. elected to Congress.
Frederick Douglass Is also candidate for the place.
Is not the Rochester Democrat republican orRan)
getting little wild when 1t says:-"Elsewhere Will
be found the address Of the republican members OF
the Legislature to the people OF the State No band
OF prongates and usurpers have before been so
forcibly arraigned." What have the good people OF
the State done that they should be stgmatized as "a
The Memphis tTenn.) Avalanche says the Mont
gomery (Ala.r Nat, has been splitting out dre"
against Southern democrats because they unite
with Northern democrats on combined national
ground Having eaten so much fire In former years
1t is no wonder that some OF our southern fre-eat
Ing contemporaries should want to spit little Of
1t out whenever they have an opportunity
In confederation Of General Sherman's Views In
regard to the Ku Klux outrages we have an account
OF the examination OF four gentlemen OF Macon
county at Montgomery, on the complaint Of negro
for 'Ku Kluxlngn him, which ended in proving
that the night in question the gentlemen, ell Of
whom he and his wife swore to having recognized,
were somewhere else, and that the negro IL noto.
rious hog thief and mschiefmaker.
general State Convention Is to be held In North
Carolina, the election Of delegates to take place on
the first Tuesday in August In regard to this Con.
vention the Raleigh Sentinel states that Judge Mer.
rimon has just returned from an extended trip
through his native West, in dne health and spirits
aud represents the country abaze on the conven-
ton question. The freemen OF the West desire
convention and they are determined to have it.
The Macon tGa.) Telegraph Is indignant at the &C
cusation Of Senator Morton that Southern demo-
Gratis are INDUCING IN a spirit Of dictaLon to the
Northern democrats, and AYERS that since Mortons
speeches have appeared IL has bat one suggestion
from leading democrats In that section OF Georgia,
and that Is that IL would be well to leave to the con-
scrvatives OF the North alone the whole duty of
making ticket ana platform This Is a little moro
than the Northern democrats or conservatives ask
for
1t appears that old Ben Wade is not yet out Of the
field for Governor Of Ohio; for the Baltimore Amert
can OF the LIST instant is gratfed to be able to
nounce to the republicans OF Ohio as well as to the
republicans OF all other States the pleasing inteli.
that the Rem opntu H. Wo1a booh oa,
far Induced to withdraw his declination to be can
didate for Governor OF shio as to consent that he
VIII not decline the nomination II rendered to him
with such cordially and unanimty as viii remove
all doubt from his mind as to the popular sentiment
The Cincinnati Gazette confirms the above. So we
are likely to have the venerable chief Of the st.
Domingo Commission on the track for Governor
after all.
The interior papers are conhplimentnR their rep.
resentatves In The last State Legislature. The Buffalo
commercial is particularly Mandatory OF Senator
Lewis, from that district and says 'as dcbater he
has ranked with the foremost OF his colleagues
and he unjust be cassed with the ablest and truest
Of our representative men, The St. Lawrence
Ptdfndeaier has glowing encomiums for the entire
delegation from that county, and especially In re-
gard to Senator Parker. How pleasant 1t Is to see
the servants OF the people returning to their homes
after season OF public duty and receiving these
words OF commentator from their constituents;
and how unpleasant 1t Is to see others returning
nome TO meet with only execration from their
former friends and supporters
The Richmond Enquirer Is alarmed lest the wo-
mems rights agitation should take the place OF abo.
liton, and says this sis the ISSUE whose rising
billow has twice touched and twice receded from
the sacred domain OF female purity in Virginia.
Twice." II continues, shave the scouts OF these
American Anazones de la Seine come to spy out our
land; and some few OF our ladies have
been led by curiosity to 60 aud hear
them. These OF course, we acqult OF all
knowledge OF the principles OF these people,
as OF all suspicion Of whittier these principles tend
But we ask their husbands. fathers, brothers. sons
o warn them on from such exhibitions" Female
curiosity. however, win probably have the same
effect In Virginia that 1t has Observation-Disclosures
desire to taste the forbidden fruit The womens
rights movement Is, no doubt, o toerably strong
one but upon the purc ana high minded American