Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-02-22
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Vienna Free Press thinks Euglant
fears defeat at Geneva.
A new Charter for New York City
introduced in the Assembly.
Earl Mayo, Governor General of India
has been assassinated by MohammedaI
convict.
The SOUTH Carolina Legislature censure
their Senators for voting against Civi
Rights and Amnesty.
There are indications of an earnest
movement in Indiana to nominate Mr.
Colfax for the Presidency.
Senator Wilson and Speaker Blaine are
spoken of in connection with the Vice
Presidency on the Grant ticket.
Seven jurors were impannelled in the
Stokes case to try the preliminary ques-
tion as to the legality of the Grand Jury
No filter Southern man has been named
for the Vice-Presidency than Hon. Horace
Maynard, of Tennessee. So says the
Cincinnati Chronicle.
Hon. James F. Wilson, discontented
Republican, of Iowa, is spoken of as a
candidate for the Vice-Presidency, on the
ticket of the bran-brained coalition that
holds Convention at Cincinnati, on the
18th of May
The Connecticut Democrats are tron-
bled about finding a man who will accept
the nomination for Governor All the
'.svailables'' have been urgently solicit
ed," but refuse the honor of being the
sacri6cial ram.
Senator Carl Schurz, 1S years ago,
some gossip tells, stood on the floor of the
Usited States Senate, herdly comprehend
ing the language spoken around him. he
wrote to his wife, .'Some day shall stand
heare and speak in English
The North Carolina Legislature, last
week, closed one of the most eventful ses-
sions in the history of the State. How
unlike our own, as regards the ''eventful," !"
unless gross ignorance, asinine stupidity
and consummate meanness come under
this head.
Missouri thinks we'll of her Governor
and his policy, aud has built him a resi-
dence, finished with magnificent elabora-
ton, ard adorned with all the modern
improvements. The man, thus provided
for. don't like Grant because he accepts
presents,
Gen. McClernand, of Illinois, has come
to the surface again, and of course is very
anxious to .'beat Grant, There are two
good reasons for this First, McClernand
is Democrat; and second, having proved
military failure. he was not favorite
with Gen. Grant.
Tbo No,v Hon,noL;ro o1oot;on 20 ba1d
March 18th. Besides the regular tickets,
the Prohibitionists and Labor Reformers
have candidates, 1t is believed that the
election will be finally decided by the Leg
islature, and each party is striving for
majority in that body.
Kentucky Republicans hold their State
Convention at Louisville, March 18th, to
appoint delegates to the Philadelphia
Convention. Their choice is Grant and
the brilliant, brave and dashing John NJ
Harlan who made such a splendid Guber-
material canvass for them last summer.
The political monographs of the Hon.
Aleck H. Stephens have now passed from
Medevalism, and the writer is now ca
reering through carly American history,
his latest effort being devoted to disser-
tation of the "Missouri Compromise to
the extent of something less than page
of his paper, the Atlanta Sun.
According to the showing of Governor
Scott, South Carolina is in a deplorable
condition, and rapidly gravitating to fnan-
cial ruin. In November, 1870, the State
debt was eight millions and precisely one
year later sixteen millions. The amount
of collected taxes unaccounted for it is
claimed is enough to defray the entsre ex-
penses of the State.
The ''Old Line Wings of Atlanta, Ga,
met recently in full assembly, to take
action for the appropriate recognition of
the 95th birthday of Henry Clay, the 9th
of April next. 1t was formally resolved
to celebrate the day with imposing cere-
monies. and to invite distinguished men
throughout the country to participate on
the occasion.
Grieved to the soul at the frightfuf
charge of being "Mollusk." a member oil
the Maine Legislature thus defined that
species, that he might not suffer under such
an imputation sit is,' said he, 90 a CO
lossal, soft. siabby, four beast, with
out backbone" and his fellow members
were satisfied that the indignant gentlemen
could not be mistaken for such a creature.
The Cincinnati Commercial publlshes s
a pretended interview with pretended
cousin of the President, who retails some
vile slanders about him. 1t turns out
that the whole story is false and made
out of whole cloth. Is it now about time
the Commercial ceased toplay the part of
the New York San? Halsted ought to
know that such journalism will kill even
the Commercial
Sanford Easton, appointed to perform
the services Of Post Master, at Covington,
KY, during the illness of Jesse r. Grant,
writes the Cincinnati Commercial that
he will receive no pay for the same, as he
already draws 81 900 as special agent of
the Treasury. What will the graceless
Democratic newspapers, that have charged
that Easton receives pay for his services
as post master pro tenn say to this?
The Western papers are eager to dis
cuss the new names mentioned for the
Presidency in opposition to Gen. Grant.
The latest combination, Hendricks and
Curtin. is regarded with much complacen-
CIV by the Indiana Democrats, but receives
much seorn from OHIO and Illinois, who
want more pronounced men'-"men
who will not split hairs" on the narrow
platform of Protection or Free Trade.
questions which for the next ten years will
regulate themselves.
The following exhortation of the Mis-
souri, Democrat to the Democracy
is matchless for good sense and sound ad-
vice: "Quit cropping in the catacombs of
dead theories and dead issues, and come