The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-03
Our Washington Correspondence,

Our Warrington Correspondence,
WASHINGTON, D. O.. Sept. %, 1872.
To TEE EDITOR OF THE PHOENIX: The
Liberal ticket has never been 30 strong
as to.day-so say scores of reliable cor-
respondents of the Democratic Congress
sional Committee here; and so it is con-
ceded by the Grant officials, in private
conversation, although their newspapers
and stump-speakers are still working
hard. but fruitlessly, to shear" Greeley
stock in the political market. Special
messengers from Cameron and Morton
arrived this morning OF the Office of Pro-
vost Marshall General Grant, with de-
spatches that have caused the most in
tense CONSERVATION among tho Admins
tration lackeys, whose bread and butter
depends upon the success of the nefari-
Gus schemes by which they had hoped
and expected to fatten upon Govern
ment pap during another Presidential
term. Cameron boasted, when he was
last here, that Democrats had never been
so cheap in Pennsylvania as during this
campaign, and that he would have no
difficulty in buying just as many ~ he
needed, at his own figures. Bat $
change has come DER the spirit of his
|
Grant Congressional Committee states
can be raised must be sent into Pennsyl-
vania Immediately. or the election of
Rnokalew is inevitable.
Cameron also complains bitterly OF the
carelesness of the Government clerks
here who were detailed to select and for
ward negro colonists to Pennsylvania
He Gays that large proportion of these
negroes had the smallpox, of which they
have died since their arrival in tho Key
stone State; that their funeral expenses
had to be paid out of the campaign
fund-a dead loss to the great moral re-
form party-and, worse than all, that the
dreadful disease which they imported
from the infected suburbs of Washing
ton is spreading rapidly round the neigh
bOrhoods of Pennsylvania to which
these colonists have been assigned, caus-
ing great alarm and indignation amoug
the permanent residents.
Morton's begging letter is even less
cheerful than that of Cameron. Morton
has given up nil hope of carrying Indi-
ana against Hendricks. He only pro-
misses that If sufficient funds are for
| warded to him, and ''some means can be
devised of making Greeley keep his
damned mouth shut" the majority OF
Hendricks will not be 30 largo but that
it may be overcome in November by
hard work and management" Similar
demands for men and money for Penn.
sylvania and Indiana have been made by
Cameron aud Morton on the Grant Ma
tional Committee in New York. But it
is too late.
The panic in the Grant ranks has also
extended to Ohio. A month ago few
persons thought that Greeley had any
chance of carrying that State; but the
late accession to the Liberal cause of
Hassaurek, editor of the Cincinnati
V0lksdlau, one Of the most accomplished
and influential journalists in the United
States, together with the wide distribu-
ton of the many brief, pointed and
comprehensive speeches of Mr.. Greeley
during his present tour, have had an al
most miraculous effect upon the voting
population Of the Buckeye State; more
especially, perhaps, upon those of the
Germans who have hitherto uniformly
voted straight Republican ticket, and
whose support, up to ten days ago. was
confidently relied upon by the Grant
party. But am not 80 aanguine on
Ohio as on Indiana aud Pei nsylvania.
L hardly think the Liberals will curry
the State on the 9th of October, as many
old and experienced members of the De-
! mooratie and Liberal Committees here
anticipate, and as Mr.. Greeley himself
thinks; but do think that the majority
of the party of hate and discord will be
so largely reduced in that State, next
week, as to give us reasonable assur-
ance that we shall carry Ohio for Gree
ley and Brown in November. All things
considered, however-all we have to con.
| tend ngainst-the vast sums Of Govern
ment money, the numerous army of Of
fice-holders, led by those pions old
frnuds, Wilson and Harlan, by all the
Credit Mobilier swindlers and other Ad-
| ministration "beats" "-we should be
thankful, think, for Indiana and Penn
sylvanin, in which States there can be
no reasonable doubt Of our success And
this will turn the scale so heavily in our
favor that Grant won't have the ghost of
show in November.
There is every prospect of gay win
ter in Washington. Already two theatres
are i'll full blast, and new opera house,
now in process of erection, will be
opened in December. Washington has
much improved in appearance during