Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-23
WASHINGTON.
A DeIphic Oracle on the Third
Term.
Grant Will Not Decline Before
1T is rendered.

WASHINGTON, Oct. Z2.-1ne N0ttOnW
Republican, which has been advocating
third term for President Grant, says, to-
day: The Presidency, during another
term, would have few attractions for him.
Il could confer upon him no further or
higher honor. There is no reason, there
fore. to suppose he desires it. On the con-
trarv. his natural tastes and inclinations
are known to be in the direction of doTnes-
tic quietude and privacy. These facts
would make him sppear ridiculous, should
he come out with a pronunciamento de-
clininu a denomination in advance of its
tender.
Mixed Juries and other Customs.
The jury in the safe burglary case was
completed TODAY and is composed of seven
white and five cOlOTed jurors.
Customs receipts for the week are IS fol-
lows:
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Mayor Geo. 3. Chamberlain, United
States Marshal al Atlanta, has accepted the
position of Chief Of the Southern branch OF
the Secret Service Department.
The Third IeEm lFeuDle8s
Special 70 the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Republican managers are so alarmed
at the idea of losing the next House OF
Representatives, that they are casting
about for new devices, in order to stemthe
popular current. The "outrage" howl hav-
ing failed, the next dodge is to get up the
Reputation howl; and Speaker Blaine Is to
toot away on his horn in New York and
Pennsylvania. But this device, being
somewhat stale, it is deemed absolute
ly essential. by many of the wire-pullers-
! for Grant at once to come out, over
his own signature, and say that he
won't be a candidate again. The pres
sure for this remuneration is already very
great. and it is believed that the President
| IS hurTying home expressly to determine
| this question. Whether Grant will yield
to the pressure cunningly worked up by the
rival aspirants, who insist thai the third
term discussion is running them all, and
| fling away ambition, or take the ground
| that a declaration from him would not af
! feet the elections one way or the other l:
regarded as extremely doubtful. The mos
significant straw in this business is Secre-
tary Belknsp's declaration the other day
! that his colleague, Mr.. Robson, had nc
| authority to commit the President on the
| subject. There is no question OF the fact
| that the movement by the President:
| friends to bring him forward has been 81
| far by his tacit if not direct consent.
Deputy President williams Troubled
Since the elections, Attorney Genera
Williams has hauled in his horns on th'
! outrage question. He declares that he i
| still getting a good many Southern letters
but they all tell the same story, and b
saw no necessity for the publication. Al
be is the political manager of the admins
tration, the change, Of course, is signih
cant.
The Attorney General is said to wea
the same anxious, troubled look that b
did when his nomination for Chief JuStic
was pending in the Senate. The Pu0lica
ton of the testimony taken last winter i
the investigation of his contingent eS
penses will probably be moved for early
December, and will not improve his beauty
The Nelc York Sun publishes a lette
from Philadelphia, making revelation
which show that r. ". Mackey, the gres
leader of the Pennsylvania Radical rim:
has been bribed tothe tune of ten thousan
dollars 20 make certain advances of publ
money to a Reading bank. The public'
tiOn is one thst will make a hutterln
among the Pennsylvania politicians.