The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-08
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line INTEREST ueT6 OVcf Iuo IceulI III NOIL
Carolina has been almost unprecedented
Much of the excitement was due to the belle
that the contest in that State virtually decided
the Presidential question as far as Grant il
concerned, and much to the air of uncertain
ty which the Times has managed to throw
over the returns for the past few days. The
public have been In state OF animated
Suspense; both sides hoping and fearing, bu
the Liberals being the most confident. The
course of the press Of the city heightened the
anxiety. On the morning after the election
the Times claimed North Carolina for the Radi
calls by ten thousand to twenty thousand ma
jority. The World insisted that 1t had gone
Democratic by five thousand to ten thousand.
The Tribune and Herald, more cautious, con-
fessed that 1t was in doubt. On the next day,
the Tribune joined the World. and published
but s,Ill Dragged, and the Herald continued Oh
the fence. The situation Is unaltered this
morning, the Times still holding out, though
admitting that its party may have been beaten
by the most shameless frauds, bribery and IN
timidalion of negro voters. The Times leader
yesterday was curiosity. The editor wanted
to back down from the North Carolina claim,
but to do 1t so as not to completely demoralize
his Radical readers. So he broke forth into
the high tragedy vein, swore that, II No-lh
Carolina had gone Democratic, the Crisis TO
the country was of the most alarming charac-
ter; that 1t threatened the overthrow of the
government by the rebels, and that the ''loyal
North" must rise again as one man to prevent
the horrible consummation. The conceit OF q
new Confederate outbreak headed BY Sumner,
Banks, Trumbu, Greeley, Schurz, Fitzpatrick
and their like Is thought to be amusing. or
course the editorial was laughed at.
People crowded the newspaper offices on
m nfrv oy,d har q nr0W0a
at the Liberal aud Democratic headquarters
clamorous for advlces from Raleigh. Probably
there was more money bet on North CAROLINA,
In this city, than has been rlsked on any elec-
tlon since 1868. The Radicals were so SAN
guine that some we're even willing to give
odds. Tom Murphy, it was reported, had ten
thousand dollars up, part of which, In spite
of Grants ostentatious denial, Is believed 10
be Grants. Such bets as dinners, champagne,
hats, &C., were innumerable. The multitude,
therefore, had pecuniary interest In the re-
suit. Saratoga and Long Branch, where the
politicians are mostly congregated, were even
more excited, and telegrams OF Inquiry came
pouring In to this city Friday and Saturday.
Practical politicians consider the events OF
the past week as conclusive evidence that
Greeley and Brown will be elected. The fail
ure of the administration to carry North Car
olina after the extraordinary appliances IL
employed, uncovers Its weakness In the coun-
try, and the detection of 80 prominent poll
tican as General Banks, following close on the
Sumner letter, shows that tremendous
break is imminent in the Republican ranks.
The air is filed with wild rumors of other I'M
portant defections. To-day hear that Sena-
tor Anthony, Of Rhode. Island, has come over,
and that his paper. the Providence Journal,
will shortly announce the fact. The other
Is already for Greeley, and is to entertain him
at a clam bake on the Narragansett this
week.
The facts in the Murphy -O'Brien conspiracy
to carry this city for Grant are beginning 10
leak oat. The plot has had deeper ramlnca-
tlons than outsiders were aware OF. The con-
tracing parties were Tom Murphy on the one
side, and Jimmy O'Brien, Judge McCunn,
Tweed and Connolly on the other, and the ne
gotiations have been going on for nearly TWO
months. The arrangement was lor O'Brlen,
who Is the most popular Irish poli!iclan 10
New York, 70 come out with declaration
that, as q consistent Democrat, 1t would be
impossible for him to support Greeley and
Brown, and that he would await the action OF
the Louisville boiling convention. Hts pslp-
Cpal henchmen were then to take aldes Win
him In noisy manner. Tweed and Connolly,
on account of their bad characters, were 10
keep In the back ground, but to use their In
fluence, which ls still considerable IN tne low
or slums. Of course the Louisville nomlna-
tion would prove unsatisfactory, and then
Jimmy and his crowd would have an excuse
TO pronounce for Grant, as "a choice OF evils" !"
The C'Brien-Tweed combination claim to
control fifty thousand votes In the city. Ii
they could deliver this to Grant, tne calcnia-
tlon was that the vote In November would
stand about elghty-fve thousand for Grant to
sixty-elght thousand for Greeley In the city,
which would be allowing small Republican
percentage to Greeley. This would. Is was
thought, save the State to Grant. The con-
slderation to be paid by the Grant managers
for this treachery was the control OF tne Fede-
raj patronage of this port by the O'Brien-
Tweed ring under Grants second term.
have heard the particulars of meeting at
Murphy's Long Branch house, where the ar
raugemeats were made, and the spolls regu-
larly apportiOned between OBrlen, Judge Nc
Gum, Judge Barrett, TIVE. ! and Connolly,
the two last being represen Led at the confer
ence by proxy. When Judge McCunn's sud-
den death took place about two weeks ago, it
is known that O'Brien hastened to Murphy's
office and claimed that McCunn's share OF the
prospective plunder should be made over to
him.
This conspiracy, II it had the strength Its
orieInators claimed for 1t, would seriously me-
mace Mr.. Greeley's election; Tor 1t would lose
him this State Fortunately, though, Jimmy
O'Brien has DO such power as he imagines. Ii
he stuck to the Democracy he might still be
leader. but he cannot carry five thousand
Irish votes over to Grant His most danger
ous rival among the Irish is Sheriff Matt Bren-
nan. who is true to the flag" and would
SCOOP up nearly all the Irish support II
OBrien went over to the enemy. Just in the
nick of time comes the North Carolina tri-
umph to dishearten the Grant managers and
appai the conspirators. O'Brien has probably
gone too far to retreat, and will be the Grant
nominee for Mayor, backed by Tweed and
Tom Murphy's stolen money. The Democrats
and Liberal Republicans will unite on some
first-class respectable citizen like Colonel Steb-
bins. and the old struggle between rascality
and honesty will be resumed. Jim O'Brien Is
noEorionsly the most expert manipulation iin
ballot-boX stufing and fraudulent returns the
city has ever had. This was his department
under the old Tammany regime. It gives him
a certain advantage In the race, sustained as
he will be on election day by Grants bayo-
nets and gunboats, application for which,
nnder the election low passed by Congress,
has already been made.
The reconstructed Lydia Thompson troupe
are meeting with great success at Wallacks
Theatre. The houses are overfowing IN spite
of the weather. There are some HeW faces
picked up In London during Mrs. Henderson's
recent visit and the voices are good. But IN
personal beauty the troupe will not compare
with that originally brought over oy Ars:
Henderson, in which Pauline Markham and
some others, whose names l forget, figured.
Mrs. Henderson herself ls the only really
handsome woman of the lot, the others lack
ing in some essentials to completeness; q
pretty face. for instance, being accompanied