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Chat about General Grant--The
October Elections "A Contemplated
Change in tho Dop artments.
! tCoRRESroNpENcE OF TIE NEWS AND lIERALD.]
WAsHINGToN, September 27.-If
some power would inform Chairman
Halo or Secretary Gorham, of the
Republican Congressional Commits
tee, what true Ropublicanism is,
there would boa great saving of
stationery and stamps at hoadquar-
tors in this city. I visited the
place to-day and won't through it's
four stories, from basement to roof.
The twenty rooms were all filled
with documents and clerks, and
each clerk was working as if the
salvation of tho country rested
upon him. Tho documents cover
all imaginable issues, and arc moro
diverse in this respect than before
the Maine election. The Committee
is shooting wild, in the hope of
bringing down game by chance.
This sending out Of documents,
whether by Democrats or Republi.
cans, sometimes produces the result
desired, but in nine cases out Of ten
the money is thrown away. Tho
time to influence nIen, except by
speaking, is gone by before the
documents arc sent out. Tie truo
way to reach voters is to extend tho
circulation of the papers thoy read
from day to day or from week to
week. BY and by the parties will
understand this better.
The absurdity of forsaking Grant
rs II candidate, by the Republicans,
simply because the party is shown
hy the late elections to be going to
pieces, will become plain yot to tho
dullest Radical. The difficulty in
his case, and it is the one Blaine, in
his advocacy Of Grant, is counting
on, is in securing the nomination.
The politicians make tho Rcpubli-
can nomination, and they fear the
effect Of IL third term nomination.
The truth is that Grant is stronger
than his party, and would receive
more votes, if nominated, than any
other Republican. He would not
be elected, of course, for, were he
ever so strong, tho iniquity of 1876
has made Republican success i'm
possible. But he would hold enough
of the party together to keep up an
organization, and give it success in
a few States, which now seems to be
moro than any othor candidate
could do.
Senator Kirkwood, of Iowa, is
credited with saying that the Re-
publlchns will lose four Districts
in that State, Vermont, Maino and
Iowa have been reliable Republic
can States, but the people are tirod
of the issues on which tho party was
based, and havo sought new ones.
The party has no life outside of
purely sectional questions, and
when these have lost their hold the
party dios. From the October
States, and especially from Ohio,
the news is extremely good, and
reports received at headquarters
from all SECTIONS are favorable.
One of the subjects which will
inevitably come Before the next
Congress, ifnot before the present
ono, is Il division of the interior De-
partment. 1t is now IN unwioldy
body composed of diverse materials.
BY it patents and pensions
are granted, tho public lands
managed and sold, the affairs
Of the government in this District
]oolod after, tho Indians mismun-
/ aged, and other dissimilar matters
attended to. The work is too much
for one man. He cannot in an or .
dinary term of office become familiar
with his duties. There are two
propositions for a change. One is
to transfer the Indian Bureau to tho
War Department, and tho other to
make the Patent Office al indopen-
dent body TO thoso may be added
the transfer of the Pension Bureau
to tho WAR and Navy Department..
All threo of these will be discussed
in the near future, and without
doubt ono OF moro of them will be
acted upon, AUSTIN.
AN UNDES1ABLE TRurll'-You de-.
serve to suffer andifyou leada mis-
erable unsatisfactory life in this beau
tiful world, it is entirely your own
fault, and there is only one excuse
for you, your unreasonable preiu-
dice and skepticism, which has kill
cd thousands. Personal knowledge
and common sense reasoning will