The Placer herald., 1872-08-31
POLITICAL NOTES.


friends that be should reelected that h
Grant accepted the office at all.---.lohm W
Forney.
"We demand that honesty and incorrup
tibilty shall be deemed qualifications for th,
public service as essential as competency ant
intelligence, ,"-Radical State Platform.
Apply these tests to Page.
1t is said that Hou. John A. Bingham
takes his defeat for denomination for Congress
in the Sixteenth district of Ohio very mucl
to heart. He has been fourteen years il
in the House OF Representatives, and i'm
agined he had life lease on the seat
George A. Pendletou will return home
from Germany in time to take part in the
Presidential canvass. He expresses himself
earnestly in favor of Greeley's election.
1t has already been discovered that in
about one-half the State of North Carolina
5,4OO more votes were polled than there
were males over twenty-one years old, ac-
cording to the census of 1870.
Ex-President johnson addressed con-
servative meeting at Knoxville on Saturday
night. He said lie accepted Greeley "on
the principle of universal pressure"
Hon. Galusha A. Grow, formerly Repub-
lican Congressman from this State, has writ
ten letter in favor of Greeley. 1t is dated
Houston, Texas, the 9th of August.
The St. Louis Republican suggest the
revival of the American party, and offers as
a ticket, "For President, Spotted Tail, of
the Rocky Mountains; for Vice President,
Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts.
The Grant National Committee is daily
receiving private appeals for money, the ap-
picants asserting that they must have it
Immediately or all will be lost.
The Administration papers state that tie
campaign in Iowa is growing warm. The
stampede of the Republicans to Greeley in
that State is 50 great that there is q posi-
biity of wipng out Grants majority Of 56,-
900 in 1868.
The following Generals in the Union army
during our late civil war support Greeley
am. Brown: Hooker, Hancock S,cClernand
Fitzpatrick, pleas..,,nton, F. P. Blair, Ward,
Wiley, Burns, Whitley, Duc.'!. Du,c'! Moore, Ha-
zen, Haskell, Banks, Slocum, Mason. Bur-
bridge, Schurz, Steadman, Morgan, Heath,
Mcclellan, Banning, Iuttle, Slack and Kirby
Smith.
The Wheeling Register announces that
Montgomery Blair and S. S. Cox will stump
West Virginia for Greeley and Brown.
Congressman Farms worth has already taken
the stump in Illinois for Greeley.
Six hundred Republicans of Steuben Co.,
N. Y. have signed call for Greeley and
Brown Convention for August 20.
The Western mails are loaded with cam
paign documents, franked by members Of
Congress. All the parties are in the bust
ness, and Uncle Sam foots the BILL
The Raleigh Sentinel says: "1'he major
ty of General Leach over Captain Settle is
262 Settle says he will contest the election.
Let him do it. Our word for it, Leach will
prove two frauds to Settles one
The statement that ex- Congressman Henry
A. Reeves will support Grant is denied by
authority.
According to the Grant press, A. S. Stew
art lies, Schurz lies, Sumner lies, Pleasantou
lies, Greeley lies, Banks lies, Dana lies,
Trumbull lies, Upton lies. Fenton lies Ev.
cry ybody lies but Grant, and he can't lie.
How is that for hatchets and cherry trees?
Why did Speaker Blaine struggle to re.
ply to Charles Sumner? lie is not colored
person.
Senator Carpenter, speaking in Wisconsin
before the election, said: eff we don't carry
North Carolina by ten thousand majority
things will look blue for General Grant.
Blue it is.
1t is now reported that six Republican
members of the New York State Senate
repudiate Grant and will soon declare for
Greeley.
Ben Butler says if Greeley is elected call
that was gained by the war will be lost. !"
Butler is evidently getting uneasy about his
spoons.
Fx-Congressman Sedgwick, of Syracuse,
one of the ablest lawyers of Central New
York, and lifelong Republican, is making
Greeley speeches in Onondaga, Courtland
and Madison counties.
The New York Herald, which still sup
ports Grant, says: 1--WE cannot refrain from
contrasting the rose colored anticipations of
three years ago with the reality. We can
not close our eyes to our humiliation at
Geneva, to the unpopularity of our Cuban
policy, to the miserable condition into which
the South has been plunged by the cruel in
trgues of political adventurers, to the gen
cral decentralization of the civil service. The
factHthat Gen. Grant has not successfully re
sised the bad counsels Of politicians of the
Radical school is undeniable.
Com DEPOSITED. Betting is running
high on the coming contest for heavy weight
championship Of Nevada $4,000 has been
deposited in the hands of Mr.. Banner, of the
firm of Banner Bros, by parties who have
made bets ON the fight, and the amount will
be increased to $40 900 before the day ar