, 1872-11-13


In Administration circles, at Washington, Sen.
ator Ferry, Of Connecticut; Alcorn, of a1iss;s-
sippi; Hamilton, Of Texas, aud Robertson, of
South Carolina, are classified with Sumner,
schurz, Fenton, Upton, and Sprague, in the
Opposition; aud by this calculation the Oppo-
aition vote in the Senate, after the 4th of March
is increased to 3o against a. sure to support an,
measure President Grant may demand, even Sar
Domingo.
The Tennessee Legislature consists Of 2:
Senators and IS Representatives and the Re-
publcans claim to have elected At, by aid of An
dy 3ohneon, and that the straight Johnson men,
bo1ding the balance Of power, will act with them.
The Legislature chooses q State Treasurer and
Comptroller, and will rediat1ict the State for
Congressman 4 Seuatorship (oice Brownlow)
ia not due until 1875.
The North Carolina Legislature convenee on
tho 18th. aud, unless formal notice is given
before that day Ca1dHell's election az Governor
will be uncontested. Il is said that Judge Mer-
1imon, deteAted fer Governor, aspires to the
Senate.
For Speaker of the next House OF Repre-
Rentatiyes OF Michigan, the names most men,
toned are those of Charles E. CresswelI, Of
Adrian; C. 3. Grant, Of Ann Arbor, and H. A.
Shaw, OF Eaton Rapids.
Southern feeling is very bitter against the
Northern Democrats. Tho Memphis Ledger
says:
This is the second time since the war that the
Northern Democrats have called upon the Southern
people to join them in national movement which
suited IN 1guominious failure. Greeleys defeat Ia
more decided than Seymours, end the Southern Dem
with d1sag ii disgust that their Northern breth-
rem, as usua scarcely carried alngle State Wa have
said within the last month that Northern Democrats
differed chedy from, Republicans in being out Of Office
acd hungering for the husks in the public crib wae
we Of the South expect nothing, and are supremely
fGrtunats in never being disappointed.
The great and good Pomeroy walks triumph-
ant now, in Kansas; but he is not likely to for.
get the time-pot many months ago-when the
region vas too hot for him, or the men-now
fawning sycoPhauts-who made it hot. One o1
the editors who denounced ss Old Beans in June.
Gays OF him in November:
Pomeroy's speeches during tho campaign haye dona
away with great deal Of tue ca1,aelesg autipatay
against him III certain localities, built up by jealous
politicians to snbsezye personal ends Wherever be
has spoken, it is admitted all hands that tha sena-
tor has made friends That his prospects for reelec
ton to the Senate settling down amoat to GER
That he is the most effective man Kansas can put in
the United States Senate, there are none to deny.
That he has done more for Kansas than any other pub
Lie man, dead or living there are hundreds to main
tain, and We are frank to say that among the
number.
-A1eck Stephens district, in Georgia, over
which the 0'Conor men made lou6est boasts,
gives Greeley majority Of 1900 over all, and
elects Liberal to Congress. General Du Bose,
the present Representative, got only soma 800
votes as the reward Of his personal canvass
against Greeley.
The telegraph has reported that, at q Grant
jollifcation meeting in Cairo, H., John f.
Obe11y, editor Of the Bulletin and Liberal Repre-
sentative elect to the Legislature, had Joined
the party Of the Administration. What Mr.
oberly then said, and what he proposes, is thus
stated in his own newspapers:
While the procession passing The Bunetis. oaceS
number Of the men in the line began to CITY for a.
speech from obery. The procession stopped and the
cry spread and became general Finally Nj. 0berly
responded and said that he recognized IN the result Of
the Lite elections the fact that the party with which be
had acted had been crushed by defeat; that be waa
therefore untrammeled by party considerations, and
Waa IN independent man; that, II Presidsnt Grant
would reform the Civil Service drive out dishonest
men iuaugnrate the policy Of publication, and be wtss
to the Republics good, the Bulletin would not refuse
to him its support hut that il reforms were not In
augurated and the present abuses continued II
the Administration should fall short Of 1s duty, the
Bulletin would bitterly oppose tho President and ha
party.