The New York herald., 1872-10-30
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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Senator Wilson s on Southern stamping tour.
General J. B. Stonehouse, OF Albany is at the
| Astor House.
Judge George Green. or Iowa. is sojournisx &C
| the Ast0r House.
General 8. q. Marvin OF Albany, is stopping q
the New York Hotel
Colonel TAFT, OF Montgomery. Ala, has arrived
at the Clarendon Hotel
Ex-Mayor William L. Scott OF Erie. is staying at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Bishop william W. Niles. OF New Hampshire. has
arrived at the Holman House.
DR.. r. Bradford, OF the United States Army ia in
quarters at the Hoffman House.
Captain James Kennedy, OF the steamer City Of
Brooklyn. is at the New York Hotel.
ExMayor A. H. Rice. OF Boston, is among the
late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Ex-Governor Isham G.. Harris sharply discusses
Andy Johnson IN letter TO the Memphis appeal
Miss Belle Fnayson lin two senses) is the en-
crossing clerk OF the Missouri House OF Reprcsen-
tatives
General Sherman, though confined to his house
by recent attack OF sickness, Il in an improving
condition.
The Boston Transcript says there were no car
rages In front OF the fashionable churches In that
city last Sunday.
Mode OF locomotion most used by up-towners-
Shanks' mare. It has been on trial several days
and found TO work admirably
United States senator Frederick A. Sawyer. Of
South Carolina, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel. The Senator's new form of adjuratioa
is "Ohl Moses"
The Chicago Tribune has dropped the folio and
comes out In the quarto form. 1t makes very
handsome typographical appearance and still
sticks to Greeley.
The New Haven Palladium (Grant) states that
Francis Gillette, the apostle Of temperance, VIII
vote for ueneral Grant, and hopes other prohibl-
tionists will do likewise.
The Louisville Courier Journal Greeley says tho
departure of Colonel Blanton Duncan for foreign
parts will leave the organization OF the Bourbon
democracy In the exclusive charge Of Hon. ]. s.
Golladay 1t Is very sad.
The washingto~ Patriot Greeley declares that
Hendricks, Of Indiana Gust elected democratic Gov
ernor OF that State), stands the acknowledged
leader Of that 'great liberal movement which must
soon shape the destinies of the Republic"
The Cincinnati Enquirer Greeley appeals to tho
liberals to ''review the situation" Commencing
at White River Junction. Immediately after the
September election In Vermont, one might, II
liberal asked that question, reply, "The jig u
up.n
Commodore Dexter II. Foett's Battery has sued
the executive committee for services rendered on
the Gilmore reace Jubilee in Boston. This Is re-
port from Boston paper. "a lull 6heet ana
flowing wind" is all that Commodore FoIlctt cx-
poets.
Minister Washburne arrived in washington yes.
terday morning. He called on President Grant and
converscd with him for about an hour. In the
evening the President entertained him at dinner.
at which Secretary and Mrs. Fish and Secretary
Belknap were present. After the dinner Mr.. Wash
burne started for Illinois.
'L Lomicllary Visits" is the theme for a patriotic
editorial In the Boston Post It says
When James Otis, with stongue Of Hame,ns
stood up In the crowd ut the old Town House Of
Boston to denounce the arbitrary Writs OF Assist
ance he uttered words that now, more than q CEN
tury after they were spoken, ind as apt an applica
tiOn as under the rule of George ILL., 'These writs"
said Otis, 'give even to the menial servants en-
plOyed In the customs on bare suspicion, without
oath, without inquiry, perhaps from malice or re-
venge, authority to violate the sanctity Of mans
own house, In which the laws should be as the inn
pregnable battements Of his CASTLE" Yet this
very outrage upon the rights OF the citizen, from
which sprang the revolutionary party In Massachu-
sctts is now perpetrated with impunity for diff
ferent but no less despotic purpose, and upon
people even better trained to the maintenance Of
their libertes by the s1menial servants" Of the
Grant administration. What was undertaken for
the enforcement Of customs regulations Ia tho
colonies Is done for the intimidation OF free electors
OF this Republic.
Mr.. Commissioner Davenport, of this city, is the
party referred to in this connection.