The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-02
IFroM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

[FIoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
New YORK, August %.
We have Just passed through one OF those
spells of depression which aeem TO attack all
political parties once or twice during a Pfesi-
dental campaign. After the ratification OF
| the Cincinnati nominations by the Baltimore
| Convention there was u season of great Ella
ton. 1t is not strange that there should be o
seeming reaction when The hard work of the
canvass has to be grappled. 1t has been
amusing to observe the sudden confidence
which has animated the supporters of Grant
hereabouts. Ion, It's going to be q walk.o7er
for Grant, 81 says one. "Greeley will not carry
| three States" says another. 'L!beral Repu0-
licanism is the biggest t1zzle OF the age, says d
third.
am sorry to notice that many of orr friends
| have been dlsInuyed at this buster. l caught
one whining yesterday; he Is always elther 10
was Boosting "rhis Is going to oe lS4o over
again, sir" but now he said with q sisn, III
beplns to look bus, doesn't III? TO me the
sItnaIion looks lust as it did six weeks ago. l
believe we are going 10 win, but We must
work tor it. I understand the labor Of organ
IL ,tlcp is going on vigorously al oyer tne
country. We have nothing to fear but The
enemy's money. He has 1t In abundance, and
will lavish It upon Pennsylvania. where the
decisive battle Of the campaign will be fought.
The panic which has prevailed here among
some oil Greeley's supporters for several Gays
has been unaccOuutab!e TO me. NolniDg mas
happened to change the aspect OF matters
unless The activity otthe Bourbons may De 30
classed. The Grant organs are makiHg O
great ado over the Louisville movement, and
and giving 1t a notoriety Its character does
NOT warrant. 1t is stated that the President
Whose political wisdom Is 30 consplcuors) has
great faith In B.anton Duncan's plot. He con-
ided to q reporter that he thought the Louis
Vile nomination would split The Democratic
party 10 two, and that Greeley would not
carry a single State. Perhaps some weak
knesd Greeley Democrats have shared the
Presidents Impressions, and tnus alarm aau
apprehension have got abroad.
i hnve reason 10 Know that the Democratic
leaders-the shire widest and best acquainted
with The actual political siLnaLion-regtrd lhe
3 Jurbop bolt with contempt. a crowd made
up of shysler politicians, (some Of them ID
the pay of the Grant managers and lppfacli-
cable old fellows from Lhe back country WILL
get together Of Louisville and nominate o
ticket, and The ufIalr will be greatly maguiaed
by the Radical newspapers, but In o month II
will have collapsed.
The interest la the Maine election Is steadily
on the increase. some OF the best OF The
New York Liberal Republican speakers have
gone East TO take part In the canvass. que Oh
the smartest '.arlllmeiic meu" In Tile country
IA Mr.. Greeley himself. I learned to-dny fr"m
n friend of his what hls estimate Of the result
In Maiue ls. Dir. Greeley figures The Radical
majority in the State, on the 9th OF September,
at eight thousand, which Will De o hadical
loss OF two thousand on last years majority
and twelve thousand on inc last Iun vote
polled In the State. This percentage OF loss
If distributed through the country Will elect
Mr., Greeley President by on overwhelming
majority In November. There are TIRES
doEptIul Congressional districts, and 1t Is
probable that we will carry OF least one OF
them-,he Portland district.
MIR. Greeley went over TO Bridgeport, Con
necLicuT, yesterday, on private business. II
happened that there was to be Greeley ana
Brown meeting there in the evening. and he
was Induced to stay over. BE did not attend
thn meeting, but after 1t wGs finished the m
mense crowd marched to the hotel TO see Hor-
ace, and he was asked 10 come out ana MAKE
a speech, which he did, and II was snort ana
sensible. The great gun at the meeting wa
Rarnum. the Snowman, who held forth lor an
hour In q humorous appeal for the Liberal can
didate. Whatever Barnum's standing may be
In the country OF large he Is certainly honoIed
in Bridgeport, which owes much OF It's pros
prrity 10 his exerllons. Bridgeport usually
gives a Democratic majority Of three hundred.
II Is estimated that tuere are q thousand Lib
eral Republicans In the town. Their vote
alone Is enough to wipe out tne late Radical
majority In Connecticut.
P~enusylvanians think q great deal hinges
on the course Ex-Governor Andy Curtin will
lake iu the canvass. The governor arrived
here from Europe on Saturday. He Is sojonrn-
Ing for q lew days In Brooklyn. and It Is given
out that he Is sick. Probably this Is o ruse to
keep away the oores. The administration has
ne.n after Curtin for several weeks. Three or
four of Its emlssaries, one OF them being
Borip, were sent abroad TO Intercept the gov
ernor and talk him into declaring for Graut.
He was followed all over England and even 10
Liverpool, BY the Syndicate" and 1t Is said
the most extraordinary offers Of wealth and
prefprment were held out 10 him. 1t was
even limited that he could be Grants success
sor in 1877. He made no promises, however,
and since his arrival has announced that he
will not express his views on the political
crisis until after he returns to bis home In
PENNSYLVANIA, which will be In about a week.
In the meantime he has been closeted With
bis bosom friend, Colonel Aleck Mcclure,
chairman of the Pennsylvania Liberal Repub.
lican State committee, who, doubtless, has
been giving him sound reasons why he should
support Greeley. I questioR If any public man
In our history was ever 30 situated before
both parties counting bis favor and ready to
agree 10 any terms he may dictate. suppose
This arises from the general acceptance oil the
formula, 'sAs Pennsylvania goes, 30 goes the
Union; and as Andy Curtin goes, so goas
Pennsylvania" which may or may not be
true.
Nasts last cartoon Ia Harper's Weekly will
hardly be relished by the World people. II
represents Marble, Inundated and broken
down, PLAYING second fiddle to The vigorous