The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-04
THE EVE OF THE BATTLE.
THE CANVASS CLOSRD-WHAT 70 Ex-
PECT ON TUESDAY NIGHT
The Returns from New York City to
Indicate the Result--state OF the Bet
ting-The Death Of mrs. GreeIey-Wo-
men Speakers for the Liberal CauEe
The Equine Affection.
ERoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE

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NEW YORK, October 81.
This week closes the active work of the
campaign, There are a few appointments for
speakers next Monday, but the attempt to in
fnence voters by stump oratory virtually
ceases on Saturday night. question If any
| one who intends to vote did not make up bis
mind how he would do 1t two weeks ago, aud,
therefore, We have had fortnight of SUPER
! f1uous talk. 1t ls now 30 near the day OF the
election that nothing esn be gained by con-
ceallDg The situation as 1t appears to candid
minds. think the general impression here is
that Grant will be reelected. Still 1t cannot
be said that his success ls dead GER
tainty. While the probabilities are against
Greeley, 1t is true that he can be elected
II the whole Democratic vote is brought out.
There Isl the rub. We shall not know until
after election how mary sulky Democrats
there are in the country. Thirty thousand
stayed at home In Pennsylvania, and twenty
thousand In Ohio the other day, and go helped
Grant to get ahead In the race. The result ls
going to be decided by the action OF two or
three States. You may watch next Tuesday
night for the indications from New York, New
Jersey and Indiana. Yon will frat hear from
New York City. If 1t gives no more than ten
thousand majority for Greeley, you may 60
home and 10 bed with the assurance that the
'jlg is up," and that Grant is to be your Pres
ldent for at least four years more. A majority
of thirty thousand for Greeley In this city will
indicate the probability that he has carried
the State, and that the result in the nation is
extremely doubtful. In chat case 1t may take
two or three days to decide the momentous
question. -
The betting fraternity, 1t may be remarked,
are against US. There IL q large pool-room
on Broadway, where pools are usually sold 10
the evening on horse races. At election time
the betting turns on candidates for office.
Last night the betting was very brisk. On
the State the figures were, Grant ninety, Gree
ley fifty. On the other hand the odds were In
favor ofKernan for Governor. On the mayor
atty contest o'Brlen and Hauemeyer ran neck
and neck, and Lawrence last. 1t was observ-
ed, though, that some Of The shrewdest bstters
were taking all the odds they could get on
Lawrence.
The estimates Of the professional politicians
on majoriLies In the State differ very widely.
For instance, the Herald reports that Tom
Murphy actually claims one hundred thousand
majority for Grant in the State. On tue other
side 8. 8. Cox says Greeley will have seventy
five thousand majority. There may be some
.buncombe In the claim of each Of these old
|'party managers, but 1t is not likely that they
would risk their regulations for shrewdneas
by such predictions unless they really believed
there was eome basis for them. Tho very
wilderness of their estimates shows how much
the result is involved In doubt. 1t is evident
that Mr.. Cox calculates upon full Democratic
vote and large Liberal Republican accesslons,
while Mr.. Murphy believes that large pro-
portion of the Democrats vii! not vote, and
that the Liberal Republican element is very
small,
The asperftes of the hour are softened In
the presence of the domestic afllctlon that
has fallen on Mr.. Greeley. Ever since his
wlfe's condition changed for the worst, he has
been by her bedside, where politics was
never permitted to intrude. Personally speak
ing, therefore, he has been out of the fight for
the past three weeks. Mrs. Greeley was a
woman OF strong intellectual power. Her
consumption of twenty years. standing pre-
vented her participation In the social and
political movements of the day. Otherwise,
she might have become almost as conspicuous
as her husband. 1t is not generally known
that she was an earnest believer In spiritual.
ism, and Imagined she was In direct and con.
stant communication with the spirit world.
She died very calmly and happily In that faith.
Mr.. Greeley, 1t Ia needless to say, is In re-
ligleus convictions Universalist, and a men,
ber OF Rev. DR.. Chapln's Church.
There are two women orators on the stump
for Greeley. believe all the rest of the
strong-minded, with the exception of old Mrs.
swlsshelm, are for the second term candl-
date. But tho cleverest and most successful
OF the CIcero's In pettlcoats, Miss Anna Dlckin-
SOD, ia doing service for the cause OF peace
and reconciliation. The other lady Greeleyite
Is Miss Minnie Swazle, who has already ap.
peared In this city and Brooklyn and several
New Jersey towns. She is good looking, and
has really made hit. It s amusing to OBJ
serve how the once idollzed "Quaker girl"
Miss Dickinson, is subjected to the seorn,
ridcule and angry abuse OF the ''loyal" press.
A Boston paper even calls her a "stupid lgno,
ramus.n suoh Is the penalty OF stepping out
of the party traces.
"Our dear friend, the horse" as one Of the
daily papers afeotionately terms him, is still
under the weather, The streets look very
oddly with 80 few vehicles and horse car only
now and then. On one of the lower streets
yesterday saw team of oxen Juggling az q
load of -four. The driver, q gentleman OF ru-
raj aspect, shouted the unfamiliar "gee" and
"hawn for the guidance of his beasts. Most
of the horses still In harness are sick. You
can see It In their dripping ncstrils, lack lustre
eyes, and dropping heads. They stagger along,
dragging car loads of great hulking men who
could, If they were not too lazy, carry the
I,ho. on their backs. Mr. Bergh stood on
FThil venue yesterday and stopped. all the
paealL lorses WhIah showed the symptoms
of the lease. BE made the drivers un-
couple a. take the animals home at once.
1t is the g, ,ral belief that the worst Is over.
So far the tbs have been few. have not
| been able to discover that the disease has got
r,rthor oonth VET than Baltimore. Perhans