The New York herald., 1872-08-20

in Brazil.
Tho Empire State and tho Presi-
dency-A Herald Commissioner Among
Hcr Republican Congressmen and
HIS Report OF Their Opinions.
We devote a considerable portion of our
news columns this morning to the interesting
report of HERALD commissioner recently
charged with the special duty of reconnois-
sance OF the several Congressional districts of
this State represented by republicans, with the
view OF ascertaining, as far as practicable, the
political condition of things in each of said
districts, and particularly the views of their
Congressman respectively as to the chances in
said districts of Grant and Greeley in our fast
approaching national November election
Upon the views of the members thus collected
we propose herein few passing observations,
taking the distinguished gentlemen from
New York" in the order in which they are pre-
sented
Beginning with the Thirty first district (ac-
cording to the Scriptural rule that the last
Shall be frst), our commissioner failed to come
in contact with its Congressman, Mr.. Sessions,
but by personal friend of the member was
assured that Mr. Sessions strong for Grant,
will be reelected, though he will have
hard tug in the centre of Fenton's
stronghold; that the Greeley republicans
can't pull him down; and more
over, says our commissioner, "I found that
Mr.. Sessions had good many strong adher-
ents among the democrats and if they should
| 60 for him against whoever may be put up by
the liberals the issue may be quite different
from that which the Greeley men so conf
IDENTIFY expect" Next we have the opinions of
Freeman Clarke of the Twenty-eighth district,
Mr.. Clarke thinks that Senator Conkling might
have harmonized the Fenton men last fall had
he been so inclined and that conciliatory re-
publican State ticket will be necessary this fall
to secure the State to Grant, and that, finally,
| '.judging from the present outlook. if General
Grant does not carry New York he will have
tight pull of it." In the next place, Seth
Wakeman, Of the Thirtieth district, thinks
that the liberals therein have not the slightest
chance, and that it will go the regular republi-
can ticket by majority equal to that of 1868.
Next comes William II. Lamport, Of the Twen-
ty-sixth district, who thinks that while the
farmers like Greeley they do not like his COM
pany, and believe that in voting for him they
will be voting the democratic party into power;
that it is not possible that this district can
60 for Greeley; that he will get many republi-
can votes in it, but that the democrats are not
united by any means, and that Grants majority
will be large one. And SO says Mr.. John E.
Seeley in regard to his district, the Twenty
fifth, and so, too, says Mr.. Horace B. Smith,
Of and for the Twenty-eighth district.
Milo Goodrich, of the Twenty-seventh dis
trict, is Sin favor of Greeley's election most
decidedly" He thinks that the fear of putting
the democratic party into power again is the
great scarecrow with many !; but that by the
day Of the election this scarecrow will not
amount to much and he has every reason to
believe, he says, that the liberals will carry his
district by handsome majority. Mr.. Duell,
of the Twenty-eighth district is sure that
Grant will carry it by large majority and
Mr.. Prindle, of the Twentieth, says that the
Grant men are certain to hold it, and that the
Greeley men are not half 80 boastful now as
they were at the start, when Greeley nomina-
ton was a fresh piece Of news and gossip. Mr.
lansing of the Twenty third district, is salts
fed that Grant will carry it against Greeley
and Littlejohn, 'sand even against the devil;"
and Mr.. Roberts, of Senator Conklings old
district has no doubt of an administration
triumph in that quarter. Mr.. Wheeler, of the
Eighteenth, is enthusiastic and confident in
the cause of Grant but Mr.. Ketcham, of the
| Thirteenth, while Grant man. has friends on
both sides, you know, and doesn't want to be
quoted as saying anything NUNS the word
with him, and he may be right, but we sus-
pect that he will find, before the battle is over.
that mum is not the word for the voters of his
district
Such are the opinions of our republican
Congressman, it will be observed, and they
must be taken with the usual allowances for
strong partisan views of the situation. The
prevailing idea among those representatives Of
the districts concerned seems to be that the
anti Greeley democrats therein will more than
balance the anti Grant republicans on the day
Of the election; but in this happy conceit the
republicans who stick to General Grant as the
man for the crisis may be widely mistaken
Nevertheless our commissioners report of
these republican views and estimates will be
interesting to the political reader, as fairly
representing the general sentiment of the ad-
ministration party throughout the rural dis
tricts of the Empire State. In point of fact
as parties are now divided on the Presidential
ISSUE the State, we suspect is sure for Greeley
provided, always, that the complications of our
city politics and city factions do not result in
powerful diversion in this quarter in favor of
Grant In short, the democrats and liberal