Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1879-12-04

"Grant and Stephens" is the ticket
which an enthusiastic North Carolina
man advocates in the New York Her.
aid.
Among the suggested candidates
for the craftsmanship of the republic
can national committee are Senator
Don Cameron and Ex-Governor Moves
of Ohio.
We are stalwarts, but this is our
stalwartism: II means magnanimity
with frmness, and generosity with
absolute justice. It means nationali-
ty, security and freedom.
How would Captain General Grant
soundP-New York Mail. In a lit
tie dependency like Cuba it would un-
doubtly sound well but the title is
not large enough in a great nation
like ours. President is better.
Mackey, Fair, and Flood, the three
bonanza operators of Nevada, are in
pursuit Of Mr.. Sharon's place in the
Senate. 1t is claimed that any one of
them Is richer than Sharon, and that
therefore, Of course, the latter has no
show.
The leading democrats in congress
are evidently sobered by the situation.
They want a short session and little
talk, but are afraid that the hot-heads
Of the party will refuse to be con-
trolled and will make more trouble for
the party.
You may tell the Courier Journal.
and through it the people of the
south, that in whatever. position |
may in future be placed, that while
always determined to support the
National Union, | am for those and
only those things which will allay all
bitterness Of the past tall sectional
animosities-an those which will
make US a united, great people. such
81 we are now really believed to be
by the great nations Of the world
U. S. Grant.
The Connecticut court has spent
seven weeks in trying Hayden for the
murder of Mary Standard. There
have been wonderful exhibitions Of
the power of the microscope and in
teresting chemical lectures, On the
whole the trial has been almost as
instructive and entertaining as q
course Of scientific lectures. But it
would be decidedly risky to live in a
region where a mans neck depended
upon microscopic dcvelopements
Common people would prefer visible
eyidence.-New York Express.
According to u Washington cor.
respondent Secretary Sherman is Sc.
riously considering the property Of
recommending to Congress the retire
ment OF the the greenbacks. It is
not a matter on which he should con-
slider at all. 1t is high time for him
to quit ~coquetting with the imitation.
list. If he means to be sound mon.
ey man he must 60 in for withdraw.
ing the greenbacks. and taking the
government out of the banking bust.
ness; and the quicker he begins the
better for him and for the country
Buffalo Express.
The southern independent Dem.
ocratic movement IN favor of Grant
Is a good thing; and we welcome il
heartily as an indication of return.
ing sense in the soutn. But il the
Confederate hope to capture Gen
Grant by this or any other political
movement, they:will be disappoin.
ted. Gen. Grant has not changed
and will not change. 1t is his habit tt
have the Confederates surrender un.
conditionally to him--he never sur.
renders to them. With this under
standing,..le the movement g. On.
1t is announced that Congressman
Emory Speer, Of the ninth9 Georges
district, is about to follow the exam
pie OF Congressman FELTON,, and com,
out ina letter openly abandoning
the Confederate Democratic party
Alexander H. Stephens, and Colone
Crawford.indorse the FELTON, letter
1t will require only q few more sue
changes to destroy the Confederat
Democratic supremacy ii the house
at least on questions when the major
ity Of the Greenbackers cannot b
depended upon to vote with the Con
federates.
One of the southern democrats VIII
favors the nomination of Gen. Gran
is Captain Burk of Atlanta, GA. !
letter from that city to the Ne,
York Herald Of a recent date says:
Captain Joseph F. Burke of th
Gate City Guard, who has Just re
turned from his trip through tn
north, says that If the politician
would just stand aside, the peopl
would come together in unity and al
lection, and that Grant would be elec
ted by a virtually unanimous vote G
the South. He says:-Our leader
have kept us for fourteen years Ii,
ing in the smoke Of a war that clio,
ed fourteen years ago and have no.