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AG GERMAN PAPER ON KENTUCKY.

The Cincinnati FolksbIGh, German pare
of large circulation, thus comments upon the
result of the Kentucky elections:
sit does not after all seem as though Gree
lev would find such an enthusiastic support
in the South as it was at first supposed. W
will say nothing about North Carolina as yet
for there may have been some bargaining
there but the result in Kentucky on MOnday
was as serious as unexpected blow for tn
Greeleyites. 1t was another of those politi
cal surprises in which this year has prove
so rich. Kentucky up to this time has been
the impregnable bulwark of the Democratic
party. If there is a State in the Union il,
which the Republicans expected no gains,
that State was Kentucky. And yet the cleo
ton of Monday showed Republican gains IL
many parts of the State, and, to fill up the
measures of surprises, the Republicans have
even got the majority in the city of Louis
vile. In Fayette county, the residence o,
Representative Beck, a Republican sheriff
has been elected. The same miracle was
wrought in the arch-Democratic Lewis coun-
ty. In Covington, too, the Republicans
gained victory; in short, there have been
signs and wonders, for which nobody was
prepared, and which nobody had expected
in State like Kentucky"
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CORRECTION CONCERNING GRANT.
New York, Aug. !. 1872.

New YORK, Aug. !, 1872.
To the Editor Of the World:
SIR: | wish to expose political forgery
which, though it did not originate with your
paper, finds currency in your columns this
morning. You print the following:
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. II, 1869.
DEAR GENERAL: Your letter Of the 18th
inclosing me the handsome testimonial of the
citizens Of New York, with the names of all
the too generous contributors to it, is re-
ceived.
Through you 1 wish to thank the gentle
men whose names you have incloscd to me
individually and collectively. ! have the
honor to be your obedient servant,
U. S. GRANT.
The forgery is in the date. The letter wa.
written in 1866. And yet this identical forged
letter has formed the text of numerous stump
speeches and newspaper paragraphs during
the past three months.
While | am about it let me deal with an
other current misstatement:
For the purchase Of the Presidents cottage
at Long Branch, presented to him after he
became President, there were eight subscri-
bers. This is the direct personal statement
of Alexander T. Stewart, who said signiii-
cantly that "he knew of one gentleman who
was invited to become n subscriber to the
fund.-
Neither Mr.. Alexander T. Stewart nor any
other living man subscribed and paid any sum
of money whatever toward the Presidents
cottage at Long Branch. Mr.. Stewart never
stated that he had made such subscription
He said he knew of one gentleman who had
been invited to become subscriber to fund
for the purchase Of 4 cottage for the Presi-
dent, but he never did and never will say
(for Mr.. Stewart is truthful many that any
such fund was actually raised, or that the
President had any knowledge of, or completely
with, the intended donation.
The President will be cranky abused
until the Presidential election is over, unless
meantime he should die, and then the country
would be searched in vain for marble white
enough to commemorate his virtues. But hi.
friends claim the right, when forged letters
and erroneous personal statements are en-.
ployed against him, to expose the weapons
of attack so that the assalants of his charac
ter may not sin without knowledge.
A GRANT REPUBLICAN,.
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Grant-PieasOntOn-Schurz.
The Newark Adrcrtiser gives the followin!
description of little scene:

The Newark Adrcrtiser gives the following
description of little scene:
GRANT VERBALLY TO PLEAsoNroN-
What is the matter with Schurz? l am will
ling to treat him fairly and give him all the
consideration his Senatorship should COM
mand.
PLEAsONTON TO SCHURz-I have had an
interview with the President. If you will
support him in the San Domingo business
you can have the Missouri patronage and
pretty much all the foreign appointments.
BY LETTER-SCHURz TO PLEAsoNToN-
How did understand you? Now that you
have been kicked out Of office, what is your
recollection of the infamous bribe ?
PLEAsoNToN TO SCHURz-Not in the
habit of having any question raised about
my word. The President, when he asked
your support, must have meant to pay for it.
That is the rule among business mon. | I'M
derstood that you were to have full swing in
patronage.
SCHURz TO THE PEoPLE-You see
didn't do it. am spotless, all clad III white
array.
That is all we can gather ont Of the
correspondence between Pleasonton and
Schurz.
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Prof LangstOn on sumner and
Greeley.

We present elsewhere a report Of Prof.
LangstOn's address to the colOred Republi
cans of Saratoga last Saturday evening. Il
was q splendid and mastery speech, splendid
in style and diction, and mastery in its logic
and power. The present attitude of Greeley
and Sumner toward the colored people anu
the Republican party, and especially the
recent letter of Mr.. Sumner, were subjected
to scathing review. Their great recreancy
to principle and consistency, and their sur
render to the promptings of ambition and
selfishness was exhibited in a strong and
convincing manner. They were compared to
those other political wrecks, Salmon p. Chase
and Andrew johnson, and the most potent
reasons given why Republicans should not
follow them into the Democratic ranks. The
speech was in every respect telling one,
and many passages were surprisingly elo-
quent We wish that Prof. LangstOn might
be retained for the campaign in New York
State. Not only are his learning and his
oratory powerful auXiliaries, but he speaks
of the leaders in this political contest from
personal knowledge, and hence with more
than common earnestness and point. We
regard him one of the abest speakers on the
stump. Prof. LangstOn was educated a-
Oberlin, Ohio. in which institution he was for
some years teacher, subsequently studying
theology and law, and practicing the latter
profession for several years in Washington.
He is now Professor in the Law Department
of Howard University, Washington, and also
member of the Board of Health. He was
once, when a young man, denied admission u
the law school of Prof. Fowler, at Ballston, III
this county, unless he would consent to enter
as Spaniard or a Frenchman. This h.
refused to do and accordingly went to Ohio
to complete his professional studies. He Is
| finely cultured gentleman, and personal
| friend of President Grant, of whom he speak
in the most unstinted terms of praise. He
regards him as n superior man in natural ell
dowments to either Horace Greeley or Chas
Sumner -SGrGtOgidR,
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THE BLACK FRIDAY LIBEL.-The New
York Tribune has got so far back as the
"Black Friday in trying to revamp Satanic
ISLANDERS against General Grant. The New
York Times thus squelches it by reference
to the Tribune Of October Is, 1869:
"The insinuation that the President was
in collision with the gold gamblers never
had a fact to lift it above the level Of auda-
cious calumny, or motive save the coarsest
sensationalism or clumsy malignity. There
was a combination to put gold up. When il
assumed dangerous proportions Gen. Grant
interfered and crushed it. Thereupon he is
charged with having been a member of it
The country knows its President to be inca.
pable Of such conduct. If it did not, it would
still be able, in so plain case, to reason
that men are not secretly seeking that which
they openly, determinedly, and effectively
destroy. BY their fruits We shall know
them,n
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Greeley and Vanderbilt.
How Honest Horace Tried to Collect L''tie
Biu Against G. Vanderbilt, Sr'-A
New Way to Pay an Old Debt.

| Biii Against G. Wander biif, Jr.-A
New Way to Pay am Old Debt.
WASHINGTON, August 8.-Mr. Greeley
knows something about G. Vanderbilt, Jr.
He know once on time that said Wander
bilt owed him Sl5, 900, which Vanderbilt Sc
nior would not pay, and which it seemed pro-
bable Mr.. Greeley would have to loose unless
he could assist young Vanderbilt to get the
| money out of somebody else without return
ing any valuable consideration. The United
States Treasury seemed most open to attack,
and it was made in regular form and was lon.
continued In the first place Vanderbilt was
quartered on the defaulting Bailey, who put
him on the payroll of his Office and paid, so
he himself declared, $4,000 year to Mr..
Greeley. To get the $4,000 back in this
way would take longer than Jacob served for
Rachael, and more speedily to draw it from
the fountain of the Treasury, it was deter
mined that G.. Vanderbilt, Jr., should have a
better office. General Grant had been COM
planned of for not knowing all the old laws OF
tho United States when he nominated MIR. A.
T. Stewart for Secretary of the Treasury, but
Mr.. Greeley had not then become so wise,
nor was he Reformer. At any rate Mr..
Stewart was recognized as Secretary by an
inundation of letters to the Department ask
ing for offices, and signed by Mr.. Greeley.
v
one received. 1t was rs follows:
WASHINGTON, D. c., March S, 1869.
To Hon. 4. T. Stepart, Secretary Of the Treas
my, Warrington, ID. c.:
SIR: most respectfully make application
for the position of assessor of the Ninth Dis
trct, State eff New York. Having full conf
dance in my ability to discharge the duties
encumbent on the office not only with honor
and credit to myself but to my superiors.
am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, G. VANDERBILT, JR.,
No. 1913 Fifth avenue, New York.
Under the letter is the following indorse-
ment in the handwriting of Mr.. Greeley!
Endorse the foregoing application Of Mr..
c. Vanderbilt and respectfully solicit his APP
pointment.
HORACE GREELEY, New York.
Dir. Vanderbilt did not receive tho desired
appointment, and, SO far as known, he owes
Mr.. Greeley nearly the original amount
Any one can, therefore, guess what is likely
TO happen to Mr.. Vanderbilt and the United
States Treasury if Mr.. Greeley is elected
Neso York Times.
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THE following is one of the dispatches sent
from New York at the time the Greeley men
thought they had carried North Carolina,
telling how they jubilated over the returns
"NEw York, Aug. 2.-The first dispatch,
brought in by Augustus Schcll, was enough
to close the headquarters in iubilation.
Mosenthal sung a German song, while Ethan
Allen turned handsprinss all around the
ROOM"
AS Joe Gargery remarked, "Wot larks ~
Mr.. Allen has been painfully endeavoring,
since then, to turn Aip-fops backward, to get
back to his original position, and take those
Jubilee kinks out of his back.
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Henry Ward Beecher, in the Christian
Union" pertinently inquiries of Horace Gree
lev: IF, as Greeley declares, a desire for re-
election makes a Presidential candidate cor
rupt, what effect does a desire for a first
election have upon a candidate? If a desire
to be elected second time would induce a
Presidential candidate, in Grseley's opinion,
to make bargains with, and promises to, poll
ticians, does not desire to be elected the
first time have the same effect? In short,
he challenges Mr.. Greeley to relate what he
kno,cs from experience about the corrupting
effect of desire to be elected President for
the first time, or else quit insinuating what
he only guesses at about the effect Of desire
10 be elected q second time.
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Horace Greeley, in 1856, supported N.Y.
ron H. Clark for Governor of New York, on
a Know Nothing and Maine law ticket. In
1868, only four years ago, Horace Greeley
wrote and published in the New York Trii-
6une the following Know-Nothing abuse OF
foreign-born citizens:
"We do business in the midst of a city
governed by carpet-baggers only just over
from Cork and Limerick, and Sauer Krauten-
thai. The difference between our carpet
baggers from Europe and those with which
the rebellious Hamptons are afflicted is, that
ours are generally as deficient in mental and
moral cultivation as in property. We believe
most of the Southern carpet-baggers have OF
least made the acquaintance Of the school
MASTER"
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Hon. G.. w. Schofeld, in a recent speech
at Meadville, Pa, stated that in 1864 Horace
Greeley proposed to Mr.. Lincoln to form an
alliance with the French Emperor, in accord
ance with which Napoleon was to assume a
protectorate over this nation, in consideration
of his lending his aid to subdue the South.
Senator Wilson, who was chairman of the
Senate Military Committee at the time, is
said to have full knowls lge of this PROPOSE
ten of Mr.. Greeley, and it is not probable
that the statements Of Mr.. Schofisld will be
denied.
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Kentucky.
What u Greeley Organ Has to Say About IT, 9
Negro Vote.

Negro Vote.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. z, 1871.
The Republicans of Fayette county, Ken
lucky, elected their ticket at the election la,s
Monday, by 200 majority. The Lexington
Gazette" Greeley of to-day contains tn
following, which commend to the attention
of Mr.. Sumner. The Gazette" says:
''The election in this city on Monday de-
monstrates that the negroes are more numer-
GUS than the white voters, and that they have
arrayed themselves i'll n solid body against
their former masters and present employers.
This shows the necessity of securing some
other labor which will not array itself in hos
tility to the owners of the soil and tho pay
ers of taxes. Negroes will soon lose their
Importance, and with the outgoing of Grant
will outgo also the political consequence Of
Mr.. Niger. Except for the local incOnyC
nience, and this can be corrected in several
ways, we are glad that the darkies have pug
themselves in antagOnism to the Greeley
ticket, for it needed this ingratitude to cure
the old Abolitionist of his fanaticism. strip
him of this, and the way the negroes have
turned their backs on their first and tastesC
friend will do it if anything in the world car
tear the scales from his eyes, and we firmly
believe that he will make one of the best
Presidents that has ever occupied the place.
Except q very few from conviction and few
others that were bought, the whole black.
yellow, and tan race went solidly against
those who are supporting Greeley, and if this
does not teach the old philosopher that they
are capable of self-goyenment, then he has
not half the sense his friends gave him credit
for.
1.-The white people of this city and county
have wonderful fOrbearance. They have
nursed and are nursing race in their midst
that have said over and over again that it has'
no confidence in them, and will vote directly in
the teeth of what they are told are the wishes
and interests of those who feed, cloths, aud
employ thcm."
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A GrecIeylfe's Flag.

The weekly Caucasian, published at Lexin :
ton, Mo-, by Pat Donan, tho man to whom
Greeley first betrayed his intended treachery.
by advising him how to defeat the Re-,
publican party, flies the names Of Greeley and
Brown at its masthead, and hurls its shafts
at the Grant Administration with border-'
ruilian violence. Immediately over the namel
oil Its candidates it prints the creed it believes
IN, appropriately displayed in capitals and
fancy type. To what depth of degradation
has the name of Horace Greeley fallen when
we find ii coupled with such declarations ga
those:
STATE SOVEREIGNTY
WHITE SUPREMACY!
AND
REPUTATION!
THIS Is LIBERTY!
OUR MOTTO:
NEVER DESPAIR OF THE REPUBLIC
OUR PLATFORM:
THE CONSTITUTION OF 1860, AND
THE RIGHTS OF THE STATESi
OUR DOCTRINES:
THIS Is A WHITE MANS GovFRNMrSg
MADE BY WHITE MEN, FOR WHITE Me:
AND THEIR PosTERITY FOREVER!
DOWN WITH THE FIFTEENTH BE-
DAMNEDMENT!
TOTAL REPUTATION OF THE MONsTROI-5
YANKEE WAR DEBT!-That Accursct,
Unconstitutional Burden, accumulated Iy
an Unconstitutional Mob, styling itself Il
Congress, in the prosecution of an Uncor-
stitutiOnal Crusade, for the Accomplish
ment of an Unconstitutional and Horn
Purpose!
DOWN WITH BOND-HOLDERS AND
TAXATION!
Subordination of the Military to the Civ
Authorities
DOWN WITH THE SATRAPS!
Equal Taxation and the Rightful Represent
ton of all the States, or
ANOTHER REBELLION!
Revolution must be met by Counter Revolt
ton Force by Force Violence by Vic
lence And Usurpation should be Over
thrown, if needs be. by the Bayonet!
DOWN WITH TEST-OATHS AND REG
lSTRATIONS!
WYE LA REPUBLIQUE!
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An elegant crayon drawn by Miss Ada
Boseman, daughter of Benz. \. Boseman,
the well-known colored caterer, Is on exhi-
bition in Young & Blake,s window. Tbs
picture represents Ruth and Boaz. Miss
Bossman is a lady of rare artistic ability
Troy Daily Press. 80
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THE following dispatches from two Greeley
organs in New York, showing how the sx-
rebel element feels in North Carolina over the
Republican victory there. are peculiarly
significant:
Especial Dispatch to the New York Herald
"RALEIGH, n. c., August Z.
"a crushing defeat of Lees army at any
time during the war could scarcely have had
more woful effect than did this news of the
election Of Tod r. Caldwell as Governor OF
| the State"
Special Di patch to the New York Tribune
"RALEIGH, Aug. IA stranger arriving
tn Raleigh to-day would suppose that SONS
dreadful calamity had befallen the city. Thu
psopls have returned to their places with long
faces and sad hssrts."
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THE colored citizens OF Titusvllle, Penn
sylvania, held large meeting on the LIST Of
August, and passed the following resolu-
tons:
Re,olred, That we believe the hostility Of
Mr.. Sumner is the result Of his personal pre-
JUDGES against General Grant, and that it is
wiser and safer for us to act with the Repub-
lican party, and that Grant has been our
firm friend and defender during his admins
tration, which has been an era Of freedom
and elevation 10 our race such a. this world
has never seen before.
Resolved, That we approve the course and
follow the advice of our tlme-honored anti
slavery leaders, William Lloyd Garrison,
Frederick Douglass, and Gerrit Smith,
whose devotion to our rights cannot be
questioned.
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VIM. III. Gray.

We are pleased to lay before our readers
quito lengthy extract from letter written
by the gentleman whose name heads this ar
ticle. The letter was in a response to an in
vitaton to Gen. VIM. A. Colt and others, for
Mr.. Gray to visit Ell Dorado, July fourth, and
address the citizens of the county ON the
issues involved in the present canvass" We
regret that the letter was received too late
for publication entire. Mr.. Gray is one of
the leading colored men of the State, an eff
fectve writer, and an eloquent speaker. At
ter alluding to reasons why he could not be
present on the occasion referred to, he con-
tinues:
The Republican party in the Convention
held at Philadelphia on the 5th Of June en-
tered upon new career Of greatness. Turn
ing deaf ear to the clamor of politicians, it
obeycd the sovereign will Of the people and
renominated its honored leader and standard
bearer, U. S. Grant, for President, and that
true representative of the workinglnen Of the
nation, Henry Wilson, Of Massachusetts, for
Vice President.
Having had the honor to be present on
that memorable occasion, and being an eye
witness to the high consideration with which
colored delegates were treated, their formal
initiation and enthusiastic reception as part
of the great body polite, by the delegates OF
the Republican party.
Representing three millions and half OF
votes, this act above all others has bound u.
irrevocably to that party in the coming con-
test. Its proud record in our behalf from
slavery to freedom; from freedom to citizen
ship; and now she places in her platform and
writes upon her banners as she marches and
musters her forces for the conflict, Equal
political, civil, and public rights" to all, with.
out regard to color, creed, or previous condi
ton, thus giving us the full measure of on,
citizenship.
1 shall stand by the party that thus recog
nizes my rights, through every opposition
and warn my friends that Liberal Republic
canism is only Democracy in disguise, ant
that Joseph Brooks. as its candidate for Gov
ernor in Arkansas, is the connecting linl
between soreheaded, disappointed office
seekers and ousted oflice-holders on one side
and hungry Democratic demagogues on tn.
other, as Greeley unitcs the Tammany Dem
ocrats and Fenton sorehcads in New York
| Hoping and working for the harmony o
the masses of the party and for its success il
the impending contest.-Arkansas Journal.
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1T Is IDLE TO AFFIRM,
as some Democrats did in a resolution offered
by Mr.. Brooks, of New York, that "these
amendments arc valid parts of the Constitu-
ton" so long as the same men on the same
day vote that the provisions Of those amend
ments should not be enforced by Congress
sional legislation. The amendments are but
sounding brass and tinkling cymbals" to
the colored man until Congress makes them
effectual and practical. Nay more; if the
rights Of the colored man are to be left
to the legislation Of the Southern States
without Congressional intervention, he would
under a Democratic Administration be de-
prived Of the right of suffrage in less than
two years, and he would be very lucky if he
escaped some form of chattel slavery or peOn
age. And in proof Of this danger | might
quote volumes OF wisdom and warning from
the speeches of Charles Sumner.
When, therefore, you point out 10 tn. col
Ored men that their rights will be safe in thu
hands of the Democratic party you delude an(
mislead them-I do not say willfully, but non,
the less really. The small handful of Re
publicans compared with the whole mass y
who unite with yourself and Mr.. Greeley i,
going ovor to the Democratic party, canno
leaven that of political unsoundness even
you preserve your own original principles il
the contact.
THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF MR.. GREELEY,
therefore, should he be elected, would be II
the whole and in detail Democratic Admin
lstraton, and you would be compelled to g
with the current or repent and turn bac
when too late to amend the evil you ha
zone. Your argument that Hszass Creole