The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-18

Institute, N. T., for next week, to outd
the spti-Grant meeting il possible, o
Friday night.
fITTsBUhG, April 11.--Thc Demo
: cratic convention to day elected delegate
to the state convention at Reading Dele
, gates Sere instructed for Geo. W. Cas-,
Tor governor. A resolution favoring T
a: Scott for president was tabled, 81 tc
, 81.
PHILADELPHIA, April 12-The Even
. ing Telegraph has Wes'chester special
. dispatch which says Hon John Hickman
announced his determination to take par
in the Liberal Republican movement a,
Cineinnati.
CARLINvILLE, Ills. April l2-Tbe
following will appear in the Carlinvie
democrat to morrow morning Gov
Palmer authorizes US to state that be is
no longer a candidate for the nomination
for governor before the Republican state
convention to be held on the 22l of Nav
next.
SPRlSGrIELD, Mo-, April 13.--Geo.
ID. Orner, collector Of revenue Of the
Fifth Missouri district, is accused of de-
ialcation, and a sui, has been commenced
against him and his securities in the
Eastern dis'ric, of Missouri for one hun
dred thousand dollars
CHICAGO, April l5-An immense Ger
me" LtperaI Republican mass meeting
was held tonight on the West Side al,
Turner hail, aud was addressed by Col
Frederick Hecker of ST, Clair county,
one of the ledlng German Republicans
of the state. Col. Hecker arraigned the
administration in the most telling terms
and made an eIoqueD, appeal in behalf
OF the movement against Grant Fully
two thousand Germans listened to his
speech.
SPRINGFIELD, His, April 10-A solid
we'll arranged movement is on foot here
looking to the early selection Of delegates
to the Cincinnati convention The rro
gramme agreed upon is excellent in all
its features, and though not fully ma.
tured, yet sufficient is Understood to war.
rant the statement that Illinois will be
we'll and ably represented a. Cincinnati.
The government agent sent to investi-
gate the charges Of mismauagement in
the st. Louis post Office has just com
pIeted thorough investigation, and re
ports not only that charges are sustained,
but that the Office is the most irregular
post office in the United States except
that at New Orleans He has suspended
the assistant and tie superintendent of
the paper department, and has returned
to Washington, it i. believed. intending
to recommend the removal of Postmaster
Smith on !he ground of incompetency
and neglect.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 13.-The
extraordinary mass meeting of Liberal
Rebubicans in New York last night has
been the subject of unusual comment
here to day. IL is conceded on all hands.
especially in administration quarters, to
have been a complete confirmation Of the
rapid growth which the Cincinnati con.
vention movement has made in the las,
two weeks.
Advices at hand of the inside work.
ings of the New York Liberals, show
that with two or three exceptions all OF
the prominent and wealthy Republicans
who contributed four years ago for the
election Of President Grant are now
opposed to him ard will work twice as
hard to prevent his denomination. A.
1. Stewart, II. b Clahin, Phelps, Dodge
Il Go, are anon: the Republicans Of
wealth and Influence who are named as
heading the Republican opposition to
Grant in that state. Senator Fsn,on
safely counts on three hundred of the
most prominent aud leading Republicans
throughout the state to support the New
York city demonstration.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills, April l5.-The
announcement that Governor Palmer is
no longer u candidate before tie Repub
lican State convention of May 22d, ere
ates great CONSERVATION amoug the fol
lowers Of General Grant 1t has also ,
transpired that Governor Palmer, on the
18th inst, wrote Senator Trumt ull that
he would support the nominee Of the
Cincinnati convention, if that BODY {
selects for their candidate a statesman I
whose political record and private life
has been such as can secure tine conf
lence of 'he country. Governor Palm
'r we'll earned military reputation, has q
adherence to the written constitution and {
avs. and his ability and standing
throughout the nation, especially in the :
'reat West, as a statesman and patriot.
lave created belief with very many I
'eople that he is person to nominate S
or the Liberal Republican candidate for $
he Presidency at Cincinnati.
The lndianoplis Sentinel says of Gov.
rnor Brown s speech at Topeka, that it
5 ian able, bold and manly effort" i