The New York herald., 1872-10-28
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Bishop Talbot, OF Indiana sojOurneth at the AL
bemarIe Hotel
Dumb-bens-The Southern newspapers upon
political chimes.
Baron and Baroness de Bussierrc, of Paris, are at
the Everett House.
Major G. A. Allen, OF Georgia, has quarters at the
Grand Central Hotel
Colonel II. w. Merritt, Of Des Moines is staying
at the Ast0r House.
Captain @. s. Holmes, of Cape Town, arrived at
the Grand Central Hotel.
Commodore Stembe of the United States Navy,
is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Leslie c. Hanks Consul General OF Guatemala is
stopping at the Gilsey House: -.....-- =
Vs. r. 3. yickev. OF thA HniiteS s,ates Army. YES.
terday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel.
The present Is a good season for the hoarse
pague-so far as public lecturers are concerned.
The Detroit Post Grant talks about "Greeley' IS
bloody trai.n Was not that ''bloody chasm''
enough
The Annas and ldas are at it. Anna Dickinson
gpouts for Greeley Ida Leggett puts her right foot
foremost for Grant.
Bucks 0unty, Pennsylvania, has three new dis
tillerles to work up the great apple crop. What a
fine season for hard cider campaignl
The Detroit Free Press Greelcy), in the absence
OF gratifying political intelligence, gives its readers
an account OF zone Night in a Ballroom
Abraham r. Lawrence, it is averred says he
<sdon't give up the ship" but will sail on under
Tammany colors until the end of the canvass.
Collector Gray, of the Twentieth Pennsylvania
district has rendered his resignation alleging that
ne has not time to attend to the business. rara
nvts
There are fourteen persons in the prison cells in
San Francisco awaiting trial for murder. New
York can see that number ana go san Francisco
seven better.
Professor Baird of the Smithsonian Institute, has
returned to washington and commenced his re-
port to Congress on the result OF his summer tour
0finspccton OF the food fisheries.
woman in the Pennsylvania Oil regions lately
sold her twoweeksold baby for $40, and soon after
wanted 1t back because another party had offered
her $25 ior the bantling There seems to be quite
Gemand for babies in the oeaginous regions.
The Cincinnati Commercial Greeley, after
cumming up the results Of the october elections,
announces that it 'has no doubt of the safety oI
she country under the Presidency OF either Grant
or Greeley" The country then, must be considered
safe.
The Transcript says:-The sessions Of the Ma
-ti0nal Unitarian Conference opened In Boston on
Tuesday evening. SO many newly-arrived dele.
gates attended with their baggage that the church
appeared to be taken possession of by carpet.
baggers.
Ben Lane Posey writes through the Mobile Tri-
hume an elaborate article, in which his are
given why he shall go for Greeley and Brown. 1t
has taken Posey some time to take that pose, and
now that he has, is it to be supposed that he will
pirouettef 2
, In recent letter Gerrit Smith excuses his going
ball for Jer Davis by saying:-'I have always held
that the South had become nation de fdcto and
should have been treated as such, and hence that
no man should have been tried for treason" This
is slightly different from the order Of General
Dix:--"whoever hauls down the American nag
shoot him on the spot"