The Placer herald., 1872-08-10
POLITICAL NOTES.

From all parts OF Michigan come tdinGe
of the accession of leading Republicans to
the Liberal cause.
Ex-Lieutenant-G Governor Gardner, Of Ver-
mont, is said to be in sympathy with the
Liberal movement, and is talked Of as can
didate for Governor on that ticket.
Ex-Congressman Sedgwick of Syracuse,
one of the ablest lawyers of central New
York, and a fe-long Republican, is making
Greeley and Brown speeches in Onondaga,
Cortland and Madison counties.
The Battle Creek (Mich.j Tribune hoists
the names of Greeley and Brown. The
editor, w. w. Woolnough, was formerly a
Grant Republican. The Bay City Pioneer,
new independent German paper, has also
come ont for Greeley.
The Hon. ii. J. Swift of Cuba, N. Y,
prominent lawyer, and Chairman of the
Grant Republican County Committee, and
Charles Guford, Republican Supervisor Of
the same town, have declared for Greeley
and Brown, and are organizing club.
Samuel F. Middleton, p. p. Judson,
John Asper, J. NJ. White, d. J. Barton,
Miles Carnett, John S. King, p. f. Judson
and j. w. Mckay, lifelong Republicans Of
Waterford, Erie county, Pennsylvan a, have
declared for Greeley and Brown.
A Maine correspondent says "The Grant
lines are badly broken in the Penobscot
Valley ,as the tremendous outdoor meetings
recently demonstrate. The Republicans are
coming out for Greeley by scores all up and
down the valley. The revolution of 1860
was nothing like it.
OF the 200 Republicans of Warren, Wor
cester county, Mass, so have declared for
the Liberal ticket, and it is thought that
from 80 to 40 per cent. of the Republican
vote will be cast for Greeley and Brown
The Democrats are unanimous in their sup
port of the Baltimore Convention. A Gree
ley and Brown club was formed in the town
last Saturday.
The friends of the cavalry general, w. w.
| Averell, authorize a contradiction of the
statement going the rounds of the press that
he will support Grant in the present canvass.
He has been warm advocate of the election
of Horace Greeley since his nomination,
believing that his success will bring union
and peace and an end of the war. General
Averell is one of the prime movers in the
social and patriotic reunion Of the officers and
soldiers of the Federal and Confederate
armies now progressing so satisfactorily.
Jacob M. Grover, prominent Republican,
and the present Collector of Newton, New
Jersey, has declared for Horace.
Ex-senator Warner and S. f. Rice, late
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of ALL
bama, have declared for Greeley ard Brown.
O. G. l.. Hughes, one of the most infu-
ential and intelligent colorcd citizens of St.
Louis and the editor an publisher of a
newspaper has taken the stump for Greeley
and Brown.
The Grand Haven (Mich.) Union, Re-
publican paper these ten years, has sub
stuted the Greeley for the Grant ticket, and
urges the people of Michigan to give Greeley
their electoral ticket.
Among the recent recruits to the Liberal
ranks in Kansas, are the Hon. George n.
Crawford and Marcus j. Parrot, first Free
State delegates to Congress under the Ter
ritoral Government.
Fifty-one Republicans of Girard, Pennsyl-
vania, have signed call for a meeting to
organize Greeley and Brown club. Among
them are Henry Teller, ex-Assemblyman;
Il. G. Wheeler, ex-Assistant U. S. Assessor;
Jacob Bender, editor of the Cosmopolite and
l.. S. Jones, leading merchant and brother
of the United States Minister to Belgium.
Col. McClare of Pennsylvania, says Grant
Republicans freely admit that Senator Buck
alew will be elected Governor, owing to
diversions in the Radical State ticket.
Among the prominent Republicans of Ne
braska who support Greeley and Brown are
Senator Tipton, Chief Justice O. p. Mason,
General Robert II. Livingstone, Hon. Mr..
Ambros, ftrmerly Chairman of the Repub-
can State Central Committee, and Hon. DR..
Renner.
The Greeley epidemic is spreading in New
jersey, and important accessions to the ranks
of the Liberals from the Grant Republican
lines are daily reported. The first Greeley
and Brown banner displayed in Railway
was raised in that city on Saturday last.
There is dreadful rumor abroad in
Washington that a large part of the money
contributed to help on The "loyal" cause in
North Carolina has been pocketed by in
dividual loyalists for their own private uses.
A Greeley and Brown club has been Or
ganized in Canandaigua, with Ex-Governor
Myron Ii. Clark as President. He was the
last Wing Governor of New York, and has
since been an active Republican.
An immense ratification meeting was held
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the night OF
July 18th. The principal address was by
Ex-Governor Austin Blair. At the close OF
the meeting one hundred and twenty promi-
nent citizens of Grand Rapids, who had
heretofore acted with the Republicans, an
nounced their adhension to Greeley and
Brown; among others, Jacob Ferris, a noted
campaign speaker in this State, who spoke
for Grant four years ago, pronounced for
Greeley.
Private advices received in New York