Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-10-11

The Wheeling Register says West Vir-
ginia will give ten thousand majority for |
the Greeley electoral ticket.
Tie Indiana Sentinel thinks the State
will give Greeley 10000 majority. In 1868
it gave Grant II, 500 majority.
No one who is posted estimates the Con-
sentative majority in Virginia at less than
10000. 1t is more likely to be over than
ulider that number.
Horace Greeley's term of President will
not be d.sgraced by Black Friday scan
dals, gift enterprises, sales of offices, or the
shame of nepOtism.
1t is estimated that fully $4,000 people
participated, as spectators and in the pro-
cession, in the Indianapolis ovation to
Greeley on Monday night.
The construction of railroads in Penn
svlvania is pushed with great vigor about
these times mostly by negro laborers,
too!
Connecticut will certainly go for Gree
ley, and probably by large majority. The
Liberals and Democrats are offering large
odds on the result but there are no takers.
Judge Requier struck the right chord
| when he declared s'that a man who sold
/ =
| than he who assailed his Government with
gun in his hand"
Since the publication of his letter accept
! ing Liberal nomination for delegat at large
! to the constitutional convention, the Grant
papers declare that Governor Curtin, of
Pennsylvania, has gone over to the re-
bells"
The Known othingism of Hon. Henry
~,oA
the power Of contradiction, the German
Republicans have taken the subject into
serious consideration. The effect will, no
doubt, be damaging
The Philadelphia Invncibles, a Grant
organization, accepted an invitation and
went to South Bethlehem to attend grand
Grant meeting on Saturday night, but
found the local managers had been unable
to get up the meeting.
The Republican National Committee
hasten to disown any agency in the Penn
Sylvania penitentiary job, and one Of them
was heard bitterly complaining that such
obloquy should be thrown upon the ma
tional cause by local proceeding Of such
doubtful expediency.
The Long Branch Administration has
gone into winter quarters at Washington.
The bull pups, horses, carriages, Horace
Porter, and all the rest of the President
train are announced as having been ex-
pressed from the seashore to the Capital.
Governor Blair, of Michigan, whose
f eighteen years residence in the Republican
party ought to make him good authority
on the subject, says that ''Grant's admins
tration is the most corcupt one this coun-
try has ever had"
Indiana friends assure us that negro
I colonization from Kentucky, and whit
colonization from illinois are going on rap
, idly. They do not believe, however, thai
even this can prevent them from carrying
= the State by handsome majority.-NcN
. York Tribune.
: The GRANTEES have been busy circulat
ing stories concerning the loss of subscrib
+ ers sustained by the New York JVeeki,
S Tribune since Mr.. Greeley's nomination
e for the Presidency. The Tribune answers
: these yarns by stating that since July it
: circulation has increased p, 500.
A letter received last week, from mem
o Der of the city government Of Annapolis
. says that negroes by hundreds are bein!
run into Pennsylvania by representative
=, of the Cameron Ring, to vote there on elec
9 ton day. The inducement held out t
o them is continual work on the railroads
q and fair pay.
: Each voter in Pennsylvania will be lie
e quired to handle and deposit, separately
: six tickets in the October election. Thi
: may bother the average homebred voter
II but the gentlemen who have gone from tn
b Potomac and beyond, to "wOrk on Simon
II Cameron's road" will be especially in
y structed.
o The colonization scheme reveals the fac
g that many smallpox patients have disap
, peared from Washington City. Possibl
f some of them have come to Harrisburg
~ The Board of Health should be on til
y alert and introduce such measures as wi
prevent the disease from spreading.--Hal
riSburg Patriot.
Governor John NJ. Palmer has taken tn
stump in Indiana, and his speech at Ind
OnapoliS shows how effectively. The stout
n hearted and loyal Republican Governor La
the highest right to speak authoritative
l. of the rights, privileges, and duties Of Re
e publicarism he is of the original STAMP
and rejOices to defend his position in na
% tional politics.
l. The belief, founded on good evidence
: is very general in Wall street that Pres
II dent Grant, his Secretary of TIE Treasury
and some other high officials were parte
IS to the Black Friday swindle of 1869, in it
1t inception, and until they became alaime
It by public clamor into demonstration
II against it.-Trtbune.
= Senator Trumbull had a very large all
intelligent audience at HillSboro', ILL.,, o.
T. Thursday. Delegations were present iron
" all the surrounding towns. The meetin
is at the fair grounds was preceded by re
1T ception at the chief hotel, where thousand
7, thronged to congratulate the Senator. Il
the evening large meeting was addresse
e by local speakers, and an imposing torch
If light procession closed the proceedings.
- The great moral of the Credit Mobile
10 and Cakes Ames' exposure is well state
. by George Alfred Townsend in his Chicag
Tribune correspondence " The givin
+. away of the public lands, and the subsid
l. izing Of roads and ships, will, in the end
: corrupt every Congressman of both parties
/ 1t is an easy road to livelihood, but it put
e distinguished character at the mercy O
merely mercenary litigants."
. The annual elections for town officer
:, takes place in Connecticut on next Mon
- day. The Democratic and Liberal Stat
Committees have publicly recommends
8 the friends Of reform to unite in chOosin
y these officers. A majority of the town
u last year were carried by the Radicals.
- The Philadelphia Press suggests that
-. better way for Hartranft to clear his skirt
J., than by the affidavit of a man releases
from the penitentia:y for the purpose
. would be by the production of Yerkes
% books, which are as closely guarded a
=, Yerkes himself was before his pardon b
E the Governor.
The largest political gathering in Ulste
n county, n. Y, was held on Saturda