Litchfield enquirer., 1876-11-09
q LYONS. Iowa. Oct. 8. 1876.

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 EDlron oF ENoU1RER:-Since my return from the East and the Centennial. have been too busy for letter writing as pas tinae-besides found great many more persons associating my name with the two first letters of the alphabet than I had. supposed, and it has made me more timid about writing. I supposed only a very few of my more intimate friends would recognize yourLsseIowa correspondent. !" and they of course would be able to make all due allowances, but found so many taking oceasion to remind me that they had found me out, that it has nearly frightened me ont of further attempts in this line. Hence I find it still more difi- cult to resume.
 Politics is the all absorbing theme, and bets are of daily occurrence-each party backing their assertions with money or substitutes The dividing line in Iowa is ou 40, 900 Republican; majority, with plen- ty of packers at that figure: When the returns began to roll in from the back woods of Indiana (where it is claim ed they keep up voting for several days, or till word is sent them to stop), Republi- cans were a good deal down-cAst; but since the smoke of battle has cleared away, and they find themselves over 3O,0cO votes ahead on the general result, and gain of abaker's dozen or so of con- gressmen-with@a margin of twelve or thirteen thousand greenbackers votes in Indiana to work on, mostly Republican they are rolling mp their sleeves and wad- ing in with fresh zeal and courage. Har- rison, the defeated candidate, says his state is sure for Hay es and Wheeler in November--that while "blue jeans" are popular in the backwoods country, the New Yorker is "horse of another color. Still we all feel that the great fight has been transferred to the state of New York; that while it is possible to carry the elec- tion for the Republicans without her, 1t is hardly probable. You of the East can prognosticate the chances better than we. There is very close and spirited contest going on here in our congressional dis tricts, which embraces the seven towns of Davenport, Muscatine, Clinton, Lyons and some smaller ones that are apt to go Democratic, especially if whisky is brought into the issue The Republican nominee is the strongest kind of an out-spoken temperance and Sunday man," which is being used against him ipdustriously with the Germans. He is man of great force and ability, and will do credit to our state If elected. His name is Price, of Daven- port, and he has been in Congress before. Murphy, of Muscatine. is the opposition candidate, of whom I know but itsle. Both have spoken in Lyons, but my taste does not run to political stump speakers, so did not hear them. I have heard Prices speech very much praised by per- sons who do not enthuse easily, and con- clude it was good one; while I suppose the opposition liked theirs equally we'll. There is such radical difference I can hardly account for mems tastes, so don't care to bedtayn into the malestrom.
 Moody in Chicago, as elsewhere, is the great sensation in the religious world, and it is no little credit to him that in the midst of this tremendous political excite ment he can draw such crowds, and move hearts to look away from these exciting scenes and contemplate the distant and future, which men are ordinarily so 10th to do. His success in Chicago seems as- sured, and he has a number of co-laborers -evangelists- to move upon the larger cities of the adjacent country. Already Whittle end Bliss are drawing large crowds in Michigan, and Warehouse in Wisconsin. Arrangements were nearly completed for building large tabernacle and holding union meetings of the three cities here, witlA Nlittle and Bliss to lead them, but calIe effom other places were so urgent that. before we could get it ready, they were obliged to go elsewhere. May success attend them all. 4. B.