The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-08-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
North Carolina casts ten votes II
the Electoral College.

egate to Congress was elected III
L tah on the 9th inst.
John. G. SAKE, the great american
poet, declares that he will take the
stump for Greeley aud Brown.
Forney says that Cameron has
helped to steal half II MILL on dollars
from Pennsylvania, and yet Cameron
is supported by Grant.
1t ia now supposed that Mr.. Robe
son, Grants Secretary of the Navy,
is the vertablc ".Jack R,,bcson." If
he is not, who the devil IS he?
Miss Nellie Grant rec emily bought
$40, 600 worth of silk Ia ce Mt one store
in paris. 1t is supposed she designs
going into the millinery business
when her father ceases To have offices
for sale.
1t is said that Notwithstanding
George II. Williams agreed with his
friends two years ago, TO keep out of
the ring rs II Senat ,rial candidate AT
the approaching ell ,cton, he is coming
back to enter the lists.
;. ). Tilton, lat 0 Chairman oc the
Republican State Central Committee
of California. ha been elected Char.
man of the libe raj Republican Com.
mittec and goes his bottom dollar on
Greeley and Brown.
The Liberals and Dem ocrats of Cal
itornia have nitcd their forces and
are moving in solid column upon the
cnemys wor Ks. The best informed
men of the State declare that the
State is GER ain for Greeley in Novem.
Der.
The omen of Utah generally
avallcd Il .emsclves Of the right ac-
corded lem in that Territory at the
election on the 9th inst, and cast
their votes for their respective choice
OF can lida;cs for Delegate TO Con
T gre ss.
The Long Island Republican Cen.
trsl Committee is III fix. They arc
divided rs follows: Three for Grant,
three for Greeley, aud The other has
nothing to say, but keeps ihinking.-
As all thinking mcn are sensible men,
he, also, will doubtless 90 Tor Gree.
ley.
W hen Grant was elected President
nearly every reconstructed State had
In Republican majority. With the
single exception of South Carolina,
Grant ias no hope Of carrying one OF
them 1T the approaching election
Still Gran: claims there has been 10
cnange in public sentiment.
/ The Germans are Indignant that
Grant should have left the COLISEUM
at the Jubilee in Boston, just rs the
National air of tic German Empire
was being played. They say that he
will hear from Die Watch All Rhcin'
on the Fourth OF November, when
the Germans will turn their backs on
him.
Last year the Republicans carried
North Carolina by 9,3I5. The Grant
organs of Oregon concedc Demo.
cratic majority Mt the late election,
+ held in that State on the Ist, anil say
that the result is ''most hopeful for
Grant and Wilson" From what bit.
ter flowers some insects can extract
honey.
Says Long John Wentworth: When
| see Gen. Grant getting into bed
with Longstreet, and | ace the grea,
gnerilla Mosby come ont and indorse
him, it is uselcs 10 talk to us Rcpub
licans about our associatng will
. Democrats. Laughter and applause.
| tell you if a man Is honest, he is
good enough to work for. General
Grant has said, LET us have peace
but the Apostle said, First pure
then peaceable."
Gen. Cassius VI. Clay puts the case
strongly and pungently when he says
in his letter to the people: To-day
we live under despotism impelled
r by the lowest instincts, tastes, and
self.indulgence, which, unlike Euro
pean aristocracies, shares nothing with
the people, but he absorbs all theil
substances for eamp-followers' who
are equally cOrrnpt and vicious y
Such is the deliberate opinion Of
t Grant domination held by fife long
Republican.
The wife of B. Gratz Brown is 4
r handsome and winning lady, mother
| of seven children, of whom six are
|, living, the oldest not over fourteen
years of age. OF these children five
, are girls. 1t is related of the Gov.
D ernor that he married for love, when
Mrs Brown was a country maiden
and that he first saw her swinging OF
a gate in front of country farm
: house, as be and two other member
J of the Missouri Legislature were
! strolling out of town after one of it.