The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-13

STRAwS IN NEW YORK.-The indications of
popular sentiment in the western part of the
State are too significant to be overlooked We
append some of the results of the voting to
| which we allude, which we find in the Syracase
| Journal of Wednesday
A canvass of the railroad shops in that city
shows the following division:
For Grant, Observation-Disclosures. .206
For Greeley. ............................ 20
The railroad shops have heretofore polled
large Democratic majorities.
A vote was taken on an excursion train on
the Southern Railroad, chartered by a volun-
teer company, the Sumner Corps, on Wednes-
day:
for greeley OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81
Declining to vote... ...................... 81
The employees in Senbert & Warmers cigar
factory gave the following:
For Grant,. ...........................H
fOr Greeley ....................
Uudeclded. ..........................
Mr.. G. N. Harris reports vote taken on the
special New York express Tuesday evening:
Fog Grant '....'.'............... .1S5
For Greeley. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IS
A Greeley man on an Erie Railroad train be-
tween Elmira aud Bnghamton, day before yes
terday, challenged a vote of the passengers on
their Presidential preferences, and offered $25
to $40 that Greeley had a majority. His wager
was quickly taken and canvass was made.
which resulted as follows:
For Grant ................,..,.63
EOr 6reeley
Neutra. ........... .......................W
On the train leaving Syracuse westward at
4.55 last Saturday evening. Messrs. Eli Tator,
of Peru, and Elisha Parry, of Van Buren,, took
vote, which stood:
for Grant .................... ....30
For Greeiey ................-.........1 10
These comprise but few of the manifesto
tons given by the working men of Syracuse.
rms class is almost unanimous in favor of
Grant, the country's deliverer and show that
the OBJECTIONS in that city, so widely bruted and
made the basis of such large expectations, real
ly amount to nothing
REVOLUTIONARY EXECUTION AND PREsIDEN-
TIAL MURDERS IN PERU.-News of very
startling character has reached us from Peru,
by way of Kingston, Jamaica. The advices
are dated on the 9th of July. They inform
us that revolution had been commenced I'M
der the lead of Senior Gutierrez, az ainst the
existing government; that it was successful and
that the insurgeut chief had proclaim cd him.
self Dictator, and, under the form of assumed
authority, assassinated President Balta A
counter revolution was inaugurated Immediate
ly in the face OF which Gutierrez attempted
to escape. He was captured by the people,
hanged to a lamppost and his dead body burn
ed. Many other persons were killed. The less
noted among the deceased were buried. Senior
Pardo, quiet sort of a parsonage, was pro-
claimed President. The change was complets
and the resurrection terminated. The affair
was of very brief duration. Its accomplish
ment was almost as instantaneous ass that of
the French coup Tctdt under President Bona
parte. ''''i-
The HUNTERS PARADISE, according to
Stanley, the finder of the Dr. Livingstone, i.
the African Continent. He says of this won
derfull' game: 1850 1lsfsE
"The glorious park land, spreading north and
south of the Southern Gombe, is a hunters
paradise 1t is full of game of all kinds" And he
goes on to tell of its herds of bufalos CRATES ze
bras, pallahs, water bucks, springb0ks, black
bucks and koodoos, and of it's several varieties
OF Glands (antelopes as big as a medium sized
horse) and hundreds of Smaller varieties, and
bears and wart hogs, etc., while the river
swarms with crocodiles and hippopotami On
grand scale the whole African Continent NAV
be called the hunters paradise; but if, from all
that we have read of the different African hunt
ing regions, as described by Gearard Cumming,
Du Challu, Bnker, Livingstone, Burton, Speke
Grant and the rest of them there is one district
which, in its natural beauties, fertility and
abundance and variety of wild animals, sur
passes all the others, it is that GLORIOUS park
land between Unyanyembe and Ujij.