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New-York tribune., 1872-10-08
DISCOUN1LNG DEFEAT.

The stories of riot and intimidation in the
South, fraudulent naturalization in Pennsyl-
yania, and the importation into Indiana of
gangs of Democratic (D negroes, are the last
desperate devices by which John Thomas
seeks to break his impending fall. We showed
how the Radical inspectors of election at
tempted an outrage upon the suffrage by
registering thousands of illegal voters in
Philadelphia, and John Thomas Immediately
raised a cry of forged naturalization papers,
for which lie had no sort of warrant and
offered no sort of evidence. The Wholesale
importation of negroes into Indiana, under tho
management of Senator Morton, was dscov-
cred, and has already brought some Of the
guilty agents to jail; whereupon John
Thomas asks us to believe that these were
Greeley negroes and the whole business was
trick designed to injure the Radi-
cal party. Georgia has given major
ity against Grant exceeding the most
extravagant expectations; and that is met by
John Thomas with story that all over the
South the whites have entered into q con-
spiracy to drive the colored voters from the
polls, and shoot them on sight if they resist.
In Macon disturbance on election day, caused
by the negroes themselves in an attempt to do
the very thing which has falsely been charged
upon the whites, was reported by John Thomas
as bloody and premeditated riot and mas
sacre by the former slave-owners, and the
precursor of a system of violence whereby tho
real sentiments of the South were to be over
borne. Not satisfied with this, the same vera
cious chronicler announced a murderous
outrage and terrorism in Savannah, where
there had been no disturbance of any kind,
and filed hls columns for several days with
the bloody fictions of his mad Imagination.
Since it became evident that Alabama would
also give heavy majority against Grant, we
have had tales Of terror from that part Of tho
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08
rfcrORY ON THE SKIRMISH LINE


Wherever the people are allowed a fair vote
they speak with no uncertain voice. Georgia
voted in liberty and peace, and the result is
the imposing majority of $1,000 for the Lib
eral candi late. Whites and blacks divided
their votes as they should always do in u
wholesome political condition. and n majority
Of both races appear to have voted for
tho only party which can restore that
peae. and reunion which is so necessary for
both. Yesterday Connecticut held her town
meetings, and as these were not considered
worth buying or cOercing, there was fair
and spirited contest, resulting in spen-
did Liberal gains throughout the State.
We have gained over 200 in Meriden !;
nearly 500 in Danbury; we have
carried such Republican strongholds MS Nor
walk, Windsor, Andoyer, and New-Canaan.
All over the State our gains are distributed
with an evenness which shows. how wide and
how sweeping is the movement for Reunion
and Reform. 1t will carry everything before
it in November. Take Connecticut from the
list of doubtful States and add it to-day to
the Lberm column.
Thus one moro happy augury comes to
encourage those who to-day are to fight, in
the great central States, the fight for honesty
and independence against a gigantic system
of fraud, upheld and supported by the Presl-
dent in person. We have majOrities in each
of the three States. If the thievish hands OF
the Grant conspiratOrs can be kept away from
the ballot-boxes, we shall carry two of them as
easily as Georgia and Connecticut. But this is
the death struggle of corrupt system which
cannot survive a defeat to-day. Every means
which desperation and dishonesty can con-
trive will to-day be used to falsify the express
sion of the popular WILL The contest will be
severe, but the victory will be final If the
power of Cameron is broken to-day in Penn
sylvania, if Morton is to-day shaken from the
saddle in Indiana, we may hope for decently
honest elections for many years to come. The
conspiracies against the suffrage in both
States are vast and formidable. We do not
pretend to diminish their Importance
But they are not invincible. The
good cause received last week pow
erful Reinforcement in the magnificent
victory in Georgia, and to-day the independ-
ent voters of Connecticut send words OF high
and hearty cheer to their brethren in the hot
ter and wider field. The skies are bright with
promise Hate and plunder have had long
day. but the end is not far. The great work
may be finished before sunset 1t is worth
working for.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08
!Nem;2lotIs Daily GGribmtte, q
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1872.

The British has refused to register
Republican paper for transmission through the mails
- A Supreme Council OF War has been appointed in
France. The loss by the fire Of the Escdrial does
not exceed sl25,O00.
The excitement the October elections i intense
throughout the country. =- Hundreds OF New-York
repeaters have arrived 10 Philadelphia. [ Three men
we're killed by a locomotive explosion in Maryland. ==
Fifty citizens Of North Carolina were arrested and re-
leased by United states officials
The Tammaay and Liberal Republican County Con-
yentions appointed Conference Committees. 49, The
Ring suits we're called up In two courts and were de-
ferred after argument. == The Woman Suffrage party
iDdorsed Grant and Wilson at Cooper Institute. -
Large Liberal mass meetings were held in three Assem-
bly, districts Gold, 112 11Gs, 1925. Thermometer.
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New-York tribune., 1872-10-08
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BooTu's rHEATER.-" Arrah-na-Pogue." Mr. and
Mira Dioa Bonccsult
FurTu AVENUE TUEATER. -" " Diamonds Miss
Fanny Davenport ard ht.ss binds DiclL
GRAND OPERA HOUsF.-"Lc ROi CarOtte." Mrs
John woot Mss Rose Horsee, ana John BrouEham.
lNION SQUARE THEATER.-" Agnes Miss Agnes
hthe ara d. a. HsrknS
wu1AoKs TtgFArER.-"P PygmalOn and Galatec.'
aui Galatea.' Mis- Katharine Rogers
AcApr,W OF Music DrOollyn.-Concert. Anton
Ruhe1s'oin.
AMERICAN NsruUTE.-Forty first Annual EXhbi-
Day ans Eveang.
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CALIFORNIA MINISTRIES. at No. 40 Broadway.
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AMI gnoT Mario.
ST. JAMES THEATEB.-Sal Francisco Minstrei~
Tony PAsr0Bs OPERA HOUsE-"A a Dutcilnian iu
London
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08
TO-DAYS ELECTION.

The State election in Georgia last week
virtually settled the vote for President of all
the Southern States wherein clear majority
of the electors are whites. It's influence goes
even farther, since it shows that the negro
vote is very far from solid for Grant We
may now consider it certain that 20 States will
vote as follows:
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

AIDING .SPECUL1 TOR3.

Upon the eve Of the State elections in Penn
sylvania, Ohio, and Indiana the Government
comes in generously and grandly to relieve
the money market, making glad the heart OF the
Georgia Bond Man, and of the stock operators
sent as delegates to Washington to represent tho
sad effects of tight money on the Presi-
dental prospects. Thus, by the exer-
else of q discretionary power ronhded
to the Secretary of tho Treasury, Government
interfercs in stock speculation, gives its pet
bankers and brokers timely notice of its in
tentions, and thereby enables them to deplete
tho pockets of those who are not Treasury
favorites. We will not here raise the ques-
ton of the propriety or impropnety
of governmental interference with The
natural course of business, system which
finds strong opponents and determined advo-
Gates but we suggest that, since tue Govern
ment has assumed the Office OF regulating the
currency and gold markets. tho Secretary
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08
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New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Though very desirable, it is not necessary
that the advocates of Reconciliation and Re-
form should carry two of the great States
that vote to-day. Pennsylvania alone would
swell our electoral vote to 10e-a clear ma
jority. Irrespective of that State, which we
feel will not be doubtful after to-day's cleo
ion, the vote Of Ohio alone would raise our
electoral vote to 1856, and Indiana of herself
would increase our aggregate to 17S, SO that
Illinois alone of the other still doubtful States
would give ms the victory beyond all contn-
gency; or North Carolina and Mississippi to-
gether would help us out without Illinois.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

It is the wise observation - The Cincinnati Tines
that there was time when almost every Demo
cratic voter had the Democratic principles at hs
tongues end; but now no two Of them can agree as
to wha heir principles are" We believe the exact
opposite Of this absurd statement TO be true. Upon
almost all questions arising from the late war there
was always a great difference of opinion in the
Democratic party; but as to the true way in Which
we may get back to a restored Union there Is now
no difference worth naming. The Constitutional
Amendments in good faith accepted; there is no
longer any distinction between Hunker Democrats
and War Democrats; and, generally speaking, we
question whether the Democratic party has ever
been more thoroughly united than il is to-day. Ii
suits the purposes of the Presidents fugemen per-
sstently to msrepresent the present Democratic po-
stion Their sole is to declare that parties
are fixed. mmutable, and always what they have
been; though we can remember when this same Re-
publican party. before it became close corporation.
was glad to welcome all cOmeTs to its ranks, without
any questions asked. IL has grown suddenly eXclu-
sve and extraordinarily nice about its associates.
The time is at hand when it will not be so par
ticular.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

We hope for two of the three great States
that vote to-day, but if our friends carry
either one of them we shall have the better
chance Of success in November. The other
side must carry all three to-day to give them
the better prospect of reGlccting their Presi-
1anf
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Alas that we did not see this before the lull IN
sea-journeying The ocean nausea which Neptune
inicts upon those who invade his demeSnes has pro-
duced plenty of criptiOns-brandy and water, a
tight belt about the abdomen, dorsal recumbency,
Ell oL But now patient has hit upon most pleasant
preventive of which all who have been sea-sick
during the last Summer whereof the name is legion)
will be pleased to read A correspondent writes to
The Morning Post Nondon) that " though peculiarly
susceptble to the morbid influence Of tossing
boat" he avoids all trouble by curt'eying gently
SO as TO time his movements TO meet and oppose
the motion of the vessel" To do this il il simply
necessary we are told, to bend the knees but not
SO as to attract attention or make oneself con
spicuous" This may easily be done by one, but
imagine whole cabin full of passengers booing."
ducking, dippingl Could anything prevent the Old
sea-dogs, weather-pfoof and as well as ever. from
laughingf AS we understand it, the motions must
be kept up without cessation, or you are gone NO
sitting at table, no going to bed but an eternal ger
lexl1n. Neptune ought to be proptious 70 s1ch
humble and inconvenent reverence.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Read the notice elsewhere of the way money
used to ZEE raised at the New-YorlI POst-OHicc
for political purposes, and of the way it is
raised now, under the Civil Service Reform
Administration of President Grant The little
finger of the Grant Civil Service Reformers IS
regarded by the poor clerks as worse than tho
loins of tho old lot.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

The la At effort Of John Thomas in the resurrec'
ton way is collection of extracts from TnE RIB
uNs regarding abuses IN the Sherihs Office lt VIII
possibly delight the heart of John Thomas to learn
that Sheriff Brennan, Under Sheriff Stevens ana
Deputy Sheriff Jarvis have repeatedly thanked rs
for those articles aiding them TO correct abuses o
subordinates Of which they could become coghizan'
onl, through such means as THE TRIBUNE supp1er' -,
Il will possibly still further delight the sonl Oh l.
10 learn that the exposure of tho steerage business,
which ately ,arrowed hnp such painful feelings III
his ,art. has already induced marked improvement"
in tbe several lines as we arc assured by the agentS
Try again
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

In an English newspaper we observe nonce o'
what is called an extraordinary dea'h" MIS-
Haylnan, wife of an inn.keeper OF stapie.',, wa
opening hedge nuts. when fragment OF So ~ uo~
into her eye Inflammation set in. poullices Wc,o ,
applied. deliri,m ensued and then death' "s
should like TO know which killed berthe o' -
shell or tho poulticef
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

In Philadelphia the inspectors of election
should declare every hour how many votes
have been east. Let our friends see to
it that this precaution against ballot-box stuff
ing is not neglected. If the polls are properly
watched and this proclamation is duly made
i. i'll DC impossible t. S2Ice IA any consloer-
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Sufficient noto1iety has already been gwen
to the lobby operations of the old Union
Pacific Railroad, i. d., to lead MS to expect
such statement as its President, Mr. Perry
has just made public. In a letter written
after tho failure of the Company to get an
extension of their road through Ncw-Mexico,
he said that the bill might have been saved
if the managers had been willing TO buy votes
by States.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Let there be no holding back Of returns to-
night Inspectors must understand that their
proceedings this year will be watched with
much more than ordinary sharpness, and for
any misconduct fraud they viii be held 10
a severe accountability.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

and n failure as TO speakers. Many Of their
leaders disapproye and repudiatc the course
of Miss Anthony, who, having first supported
Geo Francis Train and next Victoria Wood
hull for the Presidency, is now at work with
equal zeal and better pay for Grant. One of
them,-with more famo and power than the
whole group last night gathered on the
Cooper Institute platform,-will next week,
from the same stand, detail, with the glowing
elOquenco which has made her name house
hold word throughout the continent, the rea-
soDs which lead her TO tho unsclfsh support
of Horace Greeley.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

If there is delay tonight in full returns
from Philadelphia, and from river counties in
Indiana, we shall know what it means Cam
eron and Morton will be waiting for returns
from the rest of their respective States, in
order TO have their strOngholds count up TO
the requisite figure.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

We print to-day the official returns of the
Wyoming election, showing the revolution in
that Territory which has resulted in the cleo
ton of a Liberal Delegate. The current of
Reform must have some vitality to overruu in
this way the tOpmost plateau of the continent.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Deeds done for temporary advantage often
return to do intriguing rOgues permanent dam
age. Mr.. Tweed is just now realizing this.
He got one Of his criminal cases transferred
from the General Sessions to the Oyer and
Termner, in the hope that Barnard or Cardozo
OF Ingraham, his old subservient tools, would
try it. But Barnard and .CardOzo are happily
out Of the way, and Ingraham's fears of a greater
power than Tweed's make him pOwerless to
serve his old master. And 80 it happens that
Tweed's trial on the forgery Indictment comes
up, on Monday next, before John r. Brady, the
last Judge in the State or the world the Boss
thief would have voluntarily chosen to preside
at his trial. We would rather have written
that the trial was to begin tomorrow instead
of on Monday, week hence. But even with
this delay conviction may be had before the
Presidential election; and in spite of Murphy's
bargains and The n. y. Timess suppression of
the news, Tweed may be breaking stone in
State Prison, instead of stufling ballot-bOxcs in
New-YOrk.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

II the Administration do not succeed in
cheating enough to-day ito carry Pennsylvania
there will be such running Of descrters from
the beaten TO the victorious army as no cam
paign ever witnessed before Perhaps even
Gen. Dix may discover that he cannot support
the two Secession candidates on the New-IOrk
Republican ticket,-the candidate for Congress
man at Large who, in 1861, gave notice that
the war to suppress the rebellion would be
waged " in spite of his opposition and against
CHS endeavors; = and the candidate for Gov
ernor who, about the time of the secession OF
South Carolina, pledged himself to resist
coercion, and advised that we should divide
what we possessed on the one hand and what
we owed on the other and part in peace"
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

The outcry made by the Grant organs about
Liberal "rcpeaters' and fraudulent naturali-
cation papers is designed to cover their own
operations in that line of business. Philadel-
phia is flooded with New-York ruffians, who
have gone over there with the purpose of out
voting the people of that city by means of
their abominable machinery. The notorious
"The" Allen, crony Of O'Brien and particular
friend of Mr.. Roscoe COnkling, is among the
leaders of these scamps; and "Whitey Bob"
Blacksmith Dan,n and other well-known
New-York bullies and election thieves are
hand-and- glove with Hartranfts Penitentiary
gang in Philadelphia. THIS scandalOus plot
against suffrage is conducted by Grant Off
cials who hope to distract attention from it
by reckless charges against the Liberals.
Even the POstmastcrs in the interior have
gone into the business, and the arrest of one
of them for issuing fo-ged naturalization pa
pers is reported. 1t is desperate contest,
this of fair and honest canyassing against
frauds the boldcst and crimes the most as
founding; bu. we have faith that the People
of Pennsylvania will triumph.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

We have INDUCED in no "last calls" on
voters to do tO-day's duty. We have labored
to present the principles involved in the cam
vass and to elucidate them by fair presen-
tation of all the facts. We have insisted from
the beginning that the popular uprising which
took form at Cincinnati meant, first, a genuine
reconciliation with our enemies in the war
seven years ended and second, re-
form in State and National Governments.
We have shown the need of both and have
urged candidates who ftly represent both.
The South will see in the election of Bucka-
lew and Hendricks a pledge of genuine good
will Pennsylvania thieves will see in the defeat
of Hartranft the end of the organized corruption
whereof Simon Cameron has so long been
the evil spirit, the end of speculations
with State money, of bribery by railroads that
do MT want to pay their taxes, of corruption
in military funds, corruption in tho courts,
corruption at the polls, fraud in the count
and conspiracy with convicts. Indiana ballot
box suffers, negro colonists, false counters,
will see in the defeat Of Morton the end of
an evil reign, and the return to pure State
administration. Both will make q desperate
fight. But with honest voting and honest
counting, we shall be able to announce to-
morrow the triumph of honest government
and upright candidates.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Voters in New-York and Brooklyn are re-
minded that they have to-day an opportunity
of registering. The list of places for registry
in this City is too long TO print in these col
umns, but it is officially advertised. The
Brooklyn registering Offices were published in
full on the fifth page of THE TRIBUNE of Mon
day. Every man entitled TO vote should see
to it at once that his name IS enrolled, and en-
rolled at once.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

at is to be hoped" says The Times, "that
"THE TRIBUNE will go on with it's extracts
"from the Erie books.n THE TRIBUNE most
certainly will. Just now the public is too
busy with the October elections and John
Thomas is too busy fabricating Southern riots
to bestOw upon the extracts which we mean
to produce the attention that they deserve; !;
but as soon as mems minds are ealmer The
Times and certain of its friends shall have all
they want of the Erie books-and little more.
Meantime, what about the demand by Gen.
Dix of pay from an impoverished corporation
for his services az hgure-head, at the rate of
Sixty Thousand Dollars per yearf
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

The meeting for tho Woman Sufiragists
favOring Grant. at the Cooper Institute, last
uIgnU was handsome SUCCESS az w numbers,
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

We have read, much to our satisfaction, PAM
phlet composed by Mrs. Anna b. Boone Of this city
(price 2j cents in which pamphlet DR.. Grant, as th,
victim of SANDER is likoncd TO the following great
characters;
Plato ColumbU9
Seneca, Xenophon,
Queen Caroline Dickens,
Lord Byron, Flora Hastings.
It pleases this enthusiastic admirer constantly 70
speak of the President as Grant the Great, such Is
her reverence for the hero. II is not astonishing
then that she denounces all who do not share in thas
reverence as Slanderers. Scamps. ScOundrels Syoo-
plants, Snakes, Sneaks, and SnObs. Likewise as
Scurrlous, Snarling Scrubby, Scurvy Scorpions, who
should suffer Scalding, Scalpng, Scourgng, Scrap
ing and Skinning. Bless us, to what fate have Wa
unwittingly exposed ourselves! To what fate even
more terrible might we have been exposed il tho
letter had not given oItl We will not, however
conceal the fact that this amiable lady her third
page calls all anti-Grant men Bped Addersl Thisis
q settler Dreadful indeed must be orr degradation
when an entirely new and before unheard-of reptile
must be created with which TO compare us. Call ms
anything but that good Mrs. Boone! Call us a
Megalosaurus, an Ichthyosaurus, Kraken, q Dragon
anything anything but Biped Adder.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Mr.. Greeley's speeches during his Western
trip are now ready, in a brOadside form
TRIBUNE half Sheet. Price cents per
COPY, 81 so per hundred, $14 per thousand.
If by mail, one copy, cents; 100 copies, So ;
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By moiI,.6 cents per copy; 18 sr 81. 1t is be-
Ieved that the universal circulation of these
speccAes will do much to enlighten voters on
the real issues of the canvass; and friends of
the Liberal candidates Sthould see that every
undecided voter is f8pplied with copy.
Terms, cash with order. Address THE TRIBUNE,
New-York.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

Probably the last important intelligence re-
spectng the Geneva Arbitration has been
given us by the publication of the document
containing the decisions of the Afbitrators.
From the summary, which we publish On
another page, it will be seen that the protest
of Sir Alexander CockburD bears slight re-
semblance 70 the tone of discussion in En-
gland on the question of indirect losses. We
have already been informed by telegraph that
the Chancellor of tho Exchequer has CEN
sured the Arbitrator for his remarks, which
we may regard as an admission that it was
thought our vanity needed to 'be placated,
and that Great Britain could afford 10 be
generous in this respect.
The meeting for tho Woman Suf1ragists
New-York tribune., 1872-10-08

In three Congress Districts of Massachusetts
the lid, IVth, and Vth-the Liberals have
strong hopes Of olecting their candidates. a
TRIBUNE correspondent, whose letter is printed
to-day, reviews the field, and sums up encour-
agingly for the Liberal cause. The guberna-
torial nomination is yet unsettled, and lively
interest is felt in its final disposition. We are
promised a healthy reduction of tho Grant
majority in tie Bay State.