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The Political Sitsintion.
From the ff. Y. Ifatwn.
Both the great parties of the nation having
HOW formed their platforms and Booted their
candidates, the politicat campaign is formally
opened; and although the exirnme heat of the
Weather prevents au Rutive canvass at present,
there is no reason to doubt that it will soon
commence with j,reat vigor on both nide3, nor
is there any great diiliuulty in foretelling the
result. The malignant elements of the De
mocratic party have linen too strong for its
Shrewdest leaders, and have doomed it to an
other defeat. lUit the Eastern managers have
1-een too stirewd for the fanatics of the party,
and have driven the latter into a comer from
Which they could not eccape otherwise than
ly a surrender in the nom nations of all that
they had gained in the plattorm. On the
Other hand, the defeated faction manifested
nnubual wit and sagacity in adopting a way
of escape from their dilemma, whiuh gave
their favorite candidate all the honors of mag
nanimity now, and a claim of inestimable
ralue upon the party in the future.
orne of our readers know how this was
done, but many do not, and to them a brief
account of the inside working of the Conven
tion will be interesting. On the morning of
the aominatioH the New York delegation had
agreed to present the name of Chief Justice
Chafe as food, as the vote far Mr. Hendricks
Bhould fall off. But, contrary to their ex
pectation, the vote for Hendricks did not
decline, and he regained all that he had lost
the day before. This arose in part from the
Willingness of many delegates to vote for any
one rather than Chase. It soon became
evident that Hancock had no chauce, and a
bargain was struck between his friends and
those of Hendricks, to combine on the latter
for President and the former for Vice-President.
While arrangements were being made
to secure a two-thirds vote for this combina
tion, the Pendleton men hastily resolved to
do anything which would prevent its
Buccess, partly from indignation with the
betrayal of Pendleton by the friends of Hen
dricks, and partly to keep the fi-ild clear for
Pendleton in 1S72, by the nomination of au
Eastern man at this time. Obviously, there
was only one name with which this could be
successfully done; and although it was a bitter
Eill to nominate the oue man who
ad made Pendleton's nomination impos
sible, yet common sense pointed out
the necessity of such a course, aui
perhaps comforted the Ohio delegation with
the thought that the honor was after all, a
barren one. At any rate, the nomination was
resolved npon, and the fact was privately
' communicated to Governor Seymour by Val
landigham. Governor Seymour resisted to the
Utmost, but in vain. He was assured that his
remonstrances would be disregarded, as they
Were; and no one who witnessed the
tiproar of enthusiam with which the
Convention received the nomination, and
the terrific clamor with which it drowned the
candidate's objections, could wonder that he
lost courage to resiBt it. We have ourselves
no doubt of his sincerity in declining the nomi
nation. He is sagacious enough to kuow that
lie cannot be elected, and yet he will be tor
mented for months by a natural hope that
some lucky chance will give him success a
hope which his reason will always condemn,
liut cannot banish. The canvass will wear
Upon his mind, therefore, just as lnuuU aa if
lie were ultimately elected, yet will end in
disappointment and comparative obscurity.
It is no kindness to Horatio Seymour to make
him a Presidential candidate, and he knows
this as well as we do.
Mr. Seymour cannot he elected, for the sim
ple reason that he will get no votes worth
mentioning, except from the regular Demo
cratic party; and the next election is noto
riously to be decided by the rotes of luke
warm Republicans. But if other reasons were
necessary for his defeat, they may be found in
the fact (highly creditable to him) that he
cannot arouse the enthusiasm of the Western
Democracy, who are more interested in elTeot
Ing a covert repudiation of the national debt
than in any other issue of the day. He is the
chief of that wing of the party which has all
along opposed such schemes. He is well
known to be in favor of a return to specie
payments. He lives in the midst of a com
munity which would be" ruined by national
repudiation. The savings banks of this State
are alone a guarantee that Horatio Seymour
can never consent to a breach of the public
faith. His assent to the platform makes no
difference. Every repudiator instinctively
feels that he can receive no practical aid from
the favorite of New York bankers, the intimate
friend of Belmont, the relentless opponent of
Pendleton.
The nomination of Frank Blair for Vice
President is one of those singular freaks into
which the necessities of a party sometimes
lead it. A western FOldier was wanted tor tue
place; and almost every promiueut soldier at
the West is in favor of Grant. The ridiculous
names of McCleruand and Ewing, the only
ones mentioned besides that of Blair, show the
Btraits to which the party was reduced. Gen
eral Blair's military record is respectable, but
bis political vagaries have made him one of
the most uniniluential men in the couutry.
He brings no popular strength whatever to
the support of the ticket, and will repel many
Totes from it.
But although the Democratio ticket is not
one that can be elected without some extraor
dinary change in public sentiment, it does not
follow that the Convention has aoted very un
wisely in its choice, at least so far a3 the chief
nomination is concerned. It is very doubtful
whether any other nominee would have come
nearer to an election. The Western radical
Democrats were in earnest in their threats of
opposition to Judge Cliue, if nominated. Mr.
Pendleton would have loHt nearly everything
at the Eat. Mr. Hendricks would not have
aroused enthusiasm anywhere. Governor Sey
mour will have th unanimous and hearty
Bupport of his party in the East; he will almost
certainly carry New York, New Jersey, and
Connecticut; and it is not impossible that he
may curry Pennsylvania, though we think he
Will not. The party will come out of the o n
te3t unbroken and well organiz-d, with a fair
prosj;ect for Bubstantial triumphs in the
future.
The loss of New York is a serious affair to
the liepablican party. It is due entirely to a
BiDgle cause the rigid Excise Law of 18G(j, a
law Just and proper enough iu itself, but too
much in advance of the public couscieuje to bs
sustained iu the State. On the siugle issue of
reconstruction, the State could lie carried for
Grant as easily as Ohio. On the financial
issues it would deeide ovewhelmiugly for the
Chicago platform.
We wonder if there are any Republicans
Btill obtuse enough not to see that the failure
of iniDeachinent has been the salvation of the
party. With Mr. Wade dealing forth thunder
Jrom the White House, anticipating all Gene
ral Grant's appointments, and dragging down
the ticket by his candidacy for the second
office: witli General Butler as minister to
England, and other equally appropriate selec
tions for the leading oilloes; with the ardor of
th venal politicians dampened by their failure
to obtain all the places that they hoped for,
end that of honorable and unselfish men
rl.illed by the carnival of office-seeking in the
midst of a campaign he must be a sanguine
man who believes that the Republican party
would have done nearly so well in the election
as it will now.
The new constitution having been rejeoted
in Mississippi, and none having been yet
framed in Texas, those States cannot partioU
pate in the Presidential election. It is pro
bable, also, that Virginia will be exoluded, by
delay in ratifying the Constitutional amend
ment. This would reduce the number of
electoral votes to or, if Virginia is re
stored, 304. These will, in our judgment, be
divided as follows:
GB ANT.
AIrnTVa . . .
Klotlihi. . .
Illinois. . . .
Indiana . . .
Iowa . . t
Kttuni . . , .
Louisiana . .
Mtiin' . . . .
Micliicnn . .
Iilmriesota. . ,
Mifsourt . . .
I SEYMOUB.
8 1 Arkansas .... 6
3 California .... f
1G Connecticut ... C
13 Delaware .... 3
8 Kentucky .... 11
3 Marvbmd . . . 7
7 Ne Jersey ... 7
7 New York .... 33
12 Orction 3
(ieornin 9
4 Virginia (if restored) 10
Nebraska .... 3
Nevwln 3
New Hampshire , 5
North Cnrolina . , S)
Ohio 21
PriinjlvHiiia . . 2li
hln.'le I-b.tid . . 4
Houtb Carolina . . C
Tcui.Pfrsee .... 10
Vfiniont .... 5
Y hi Virginia . . 5
Wisconsin ... 8
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Arming the South.
From the TV. Y. Herald.
In the discussion in the House of Represen
tatives on Thursday last, on the (question of
bringing to an end this session of Congress,
Mr. Stokes (radical), of Tennessee, earnestly
pleaded against au adjournment until the new
authorities of the reconstructed States shall
have been provided each with a certaiu quota
of arms proposed for their defense against the
Ku-Klux-Klaus and the unreconstructed Kebnls
generally. Said Mr. Stokes: '"My people are
expecting every moment that Forrest (Forrest,
we believe, is at Long Branch) and his Ueb-il
Democratio crew will commence making war
upon them. This is a matter of life and death
to us. I am satisfied of tbe fact that we will
need these arms at the South at a very early
day. The war cry has gone forth; the rebels
tay they will rule the couutry or exterminate
the Union colored men, and, lor one, I am dis
posed to meet them." Mr. Washburue, of
Illinois, was afraid of this thing afraid that
the arms which might be sent down to the
toyal negroes would be seized by the rebels.
Mr. Boyden, of North Carolina (one of the
new members from the South), was alarmed
at this proposition to send arms to his people
to be used against each other. "Great Go 1 1"
he exclaimed, ''we cannot afford to fight each
other. Keep away your arms. Do nothing
to irritate our people, but everything to
assuage and heal the excitement. I warn the
House if arms are sent there we shall be
luined we cannot live there. If we need
anything in the shape of arms, in God's name
send us the army of the United States; but do
not arm neighbor against neighbor." This
has the ring of good sense and honest oonvic
tion. But another Republican member from
North Carolina, Mr. Deweese, was not
of this way of thinking. Said he:
"Some provision should b in ad a for tha gov
ernments of the new States and for the pro
tection of their loyal people, otherwise the.
Rebellion will be reestablished. If Congress
adjourn now, before the end of six monttis the
last traces of republican governments in the
South will have ceased to exist, and the Ku
Klux Klan, the Rebel, the slaveholding, Cop
perhead Democratic party will be ruling there
as they ruled in 1805." Further, as the skir
mishing debate went on, Mr. Deweese de
clared: "Under the rule of the Democratic
party from ltd to lSliS, every musket, shot
gun, and horse-pistol was taken out of the
hands of loyal men and put into the hands of
aoutheru sympathizers." But with his fear
less war cry of "Come on I come on 1" Mr.
Deweese, arms or no arms, signified that he
was ready for the fray.
From this debate it is evident that the Re
construction system ot Congress has not with
their restoration secured peace in the States
concerned, that they are in danger of a violent
clashing of the two races on the withdrawal of
the United States troops, and that the btata
authorities recognized by Congress iu those re
constructed States feel that there is no safety
for them if left to shift for themselves
Where lies the difficulty? It h to be found
in this Congressional experiment of South
ern universal negro suffrage and Rebel white
disfranchisement. And where lies the remedy?
It may be found in that new amendment
of the Constitution, known as article fourteen,
restoring to each of the States, South as well
as North, all .alike, the right to regulate
suffrage to suit themselves. Meantime the
duty of preserving peaoe in the States re
stored devolves, next to tue looal authorities,
upon the President and upon Congress. The
members of the two Houses want to get off
home, but they cannot trust the President
alter his late vetoes and proclamations, and
they have no time to impeach him, and they
are afraid to try this proposed experiment of
distributing arms to tbese State governments.
So the two houses have resolved upon a recess
till September, and then, if they can find
nothing better to do, we may xpeot to hear
something more on another impeachment of
Andrew Johusou. The Presidential campiign
is very stupid and Hat just now, bat we shall
doubtless have excitement enough before the
3d of November.
Tbe Fourteenth Aineiuliiieiit Validity of
its Ratification.
From the N. Y. Herutd.
The opponents of reconstruction are discuss
ing, with a good deal of evident anxiety, the
validity of the ratification of the Fourteenth
Amendment. Mr. Seward's official notice, con
ceived in terms suggestive of doubt, gives
color and cogency to a denial of the sufficiency
of the ratification. Its "ifs" made hypotheti
cal the promulgation of a fact with which the
State Department has no proper concern, aud
probably gave rise to the final and decisive
resolution of Congress.
The point most urgently pressed by the
Democratic journals relates to the actiou of
New Jersey and Ohio, whose present Legisla
tures revoked acts of ratification passed by
their predecessors. The Congressional reso
lution ciubi aces both in its enumeration of
the Slates composing "three-fourths aud more
of the several States of the Union." With
these iucluded, twenty-nine States are speci
fied in favor of the amendment being one
more than the number coustitutionally re
quired. The question debated is, thu, whether
New Jersey aud Ohio were entitled to cancel
the covenant into which they, with other
Slates, had previously eutered. Mr. Seward
puts it as a matter of doubt aud uncertainty
whether the resolutions of withdrawal "are
not irregular and invalid, aud therefore in
effectual for withdrawing the consent of the
said two States, or either of them, to the afore
Bald amendment." Congress has denied the
competency of the Legislatures to aunul the
ratification they bad respectively authorized.
aud so disposes of Mr. Seward's scepticism.
The Democrats, on tbe contrary, affirm the
right of a State to withdraw its consent at any
time prior to the corap etion of ratification by
the required three-fourths; aud on this
ground they insist that New Jersey and Ohio
are unlawfully included in the Congressional
count, lor this reason, they contend that the
amendment Btill lacks constitutional ratifica
tion. The elaborate statements of the World, and
the learned arguments ot other journals predi
cated on the opinions of Mr. Charles O'Conor
aud Mr. G. T. Curtis are wasted in the pre
sent Btate of the question. They are inge
nious, and not devoid of plausibility or force,
as against a conclusion based npon Mr.
Seward's enumeration of ratifying States. If
the fiDal adoption depended upon the count
ing of New Jersey and Ohio, there might be
some room for uncertainty in the event of au
appeal involving the constitutionality of the
actiou taken by Congress. Bat the case of
those who now as-ail Congress is defective in
an essential particular. It assumes that, with
New Jersey and Ohio omitted, the consent
ing States would be but tweiity-seven, or less
than three-fonrths of the State. To maki
the list correct, however, Georgia must be
included in the list; the ratification by that
State havii gbeen communicated to Congress by
Governor Bullock. Add Georgia, aud it will
be found that twenty-eight States have ratified
the amendment, exclusive of New Jersey and
Ohio.
Whatever be the merits of the controversy
in regard to the proceedings of these States, it
no longer possesses the slightest practical im
portance. The amendment has acquired
validity, with or without their help.
So far as the competency of the newly-organized
Governments is concerned, it is idle to
cherish the purposes aud expectations whioh
the terms of Mr. Johnson's successive procla
mations are calculated to enoourage. Nothing
can possibly be gained by eneers at the autho
rity of Governments which Congress has re
cognized, or by references to the Southern Le
gislatures as "the newly-constituted and
newly -established bodies, avowing themselves
to be, aud acting as, the Legislatures," and so
forth. They are Legislatures, and the Execu
tive has no excuse for doubts or slurs upon
the subject. Least of all, oau the World with
any propriety continue to speak of them as
"putative Governments," or a3 "bodies as
suming, under such illegal organizations, to
be Legislatures;" for that journal has again
aud again shown that their recognition by
Congress destroys the last hope of upsetting
them, save by revolution. Their ratification of
the amendment, therefore, is as valid as that
by New York.
1 he sensitiveness evinced by the Southern
malcontents, aud the Democracy generally,
in regard to the amendment, is scarcely sur
prising. Mere acts of Congress they might
hope to abrogate, but with the provisions of
the Fourteenth Amendment engrafted on the
Constitution, their game is to a large exteut
estopped. The Wade Hamptons of the South
are excluded from power, aud the plans of
those who project negro disfranchisement are
mw prostrated by the Constitution itself.
The amendment, however, touches Demo
cratic strongholds elsewhere, and furnishes
motives to the adoption of liberal views on
the suffrage question, which will ultimately
gain tbe mastery. This is true in no mere
partisan sense it applit-s to radical Tennessee
and Missouri equally with Democratio Mary
land aud Keutuoky; punishing by a reduction
of representative power the dwuial of BuQYage
as a consequence of color. The universal ap
plication of the amendment vindicates ita
justice; while its bearing upon the future of
Southern and Border Slate politics explains
the reluctance of the Democracy to acknow
ledge its constitutional efficacy. It is well
that on that point room no longer exists for
cavil or doubt.
Grant's Lust Campaign.
From the iV. Y. Tribune.
The Rebels and their Northern allies are so
fond of enlarging npon what they call Grant's
"butcheries" iu the final campaign of the war,
and so resolute in asserting that Lee was never
outgeneraled, but simply overborne by a tre
mendous preponderance of numbers, that we
have been at the pains of procuring from the
official returns ot both armies, now preserved
in the Archive Office at Washington, the exact
figures, which show the true state of the case,
and we beg for them the reader's careful at
tention. Lee's field return for April 20, 18G4,
shows a force present for duty of 53, 891, ex
clusive of Longstreet's corps, which joined him
a few days later; the field return of Longstreet
for March 31, 1864, shows 18,387 for duty;
making 72,278 present for duty. These are
the returns nearest to the date of the battle of
the Wilderness which are in the possession of
the Government. The total present, including
tick, in arres-t, aud extra duty men, amount
by the same papers to 80,742 in the field with
Lee when Grant crossed the Rapidan. The
original papers now iu the Archive Offioa, War
Depaitmcnt, are signed by both Lee and Long
street. Lee's return states that Hoke's Divi
sion was absent, not reported, at the same
date, and Hoke's return shows 56(54 eulisted
men present for duty, or 7000 officers and men,
total present. The Valley district i3 also re
turned as not reported.
The field return of the Army of the Poto
mac for the same date as Lee's, April 20,
lbG4, tbovs 72,117 present for duty equipped,
besides U747 cavalry, also present for duty,
equipped. Besides these, Bum-tide's corps
joined Grant before the Vudeiness. Ihis
corps was 19,250 strong, for duty; but from
these Ferrero's division, 3095, must be de
ducted, as it was at this time never allowed to
co into battle, being used as guards for the
trains. This leaves 10 155 as Burnside's real
BtreDuth for duty. Addintr this anil the cav
airy force to the strength of the Army of the
Potomac makes 1)8,011) as the ntmost limit of
Grant's ell'ective force at the Wilderness. It
bhould be remembered that Graut's move
ments were constantly ouensive, through a
dei sely wooded country, and that during
every battle of the Wilderness campaign.
except the first, Lee fought behind breast
works, an advautage which nearly or quite
doubh-s tLe strength of the defendants. One
other important consideration is that Grant
had a supply train sixty miles in length to
guard, in a hostile country, while Lee was
cnin-taully falling back nearer to his base, and
thiouh a retiou in which every white was
bis tiieiid.
Grant's losses up to the crossing of the
James, including th Wilderness, bpottsylva
ilia, North Anna, Cold Harbor, aud all the
smaller lights between the Rapidan aud the
Jiiines, as reported in the regimental returns
u file in the War Ollice, were uDbu killed,
2(1,047 wounded, aud CUlIC missing; total,
3'J,25tl. Of the wounded, very many were
only slightly hurt, aud not absent lrom duty
more than a day or two; aud at least 20,000
out of the 20,047 eventually returned to duty;
po that Grant's absolute loss, from the Rapi
dan to the James, was probably not greater
than 20,000, officers and men. The missing
were, undoubtedly, motit of them prisoners.
Grant took, during the same time, 10,402
prisoners at least 4000 more than Leo.
1 here are no other data on whiou to form
estimates of Lee's losses, except that iu the
iiderness he was as much exposed as Graut,
attaoking and being rep-lled; at Spottsylva-
nta, each attacked in tarn, aud each wa
repelled; at Cold Harbor, Grant attaoked, but
without BUooess. It is, therefore, fair to sup
pose that Lee's losses were equal to tho3e of
uram. a any rate, Lee sutlerei bo muoU
that he never again assaulted Grant iu force
during the nine months longer that the war
continued.
It has been repeatedly asserted that L'ie's
army was not recruited to any extent during
the last six months of the war, and that h
bad but a handful of men opposed to Grant in
the final campaign from Petersburg to the
Appomattox. But Lee's own field returns
show that on the 28th of February, 1805, he
bad 73,349 men present, 59,094 present for
duty. This was exclusive of the local militia
of Richmond, always put into the treuahes in
a fight, and several thousand strong, as well
as the gunboat crews in the James, who were
also put into land fights. Out of the3e, 27,41(5
were surrendered and paroled at Appomattox
Court House, and 19,079 captured iu battle,
besides about 3000 more in the assault ou Fort
Sedgwick. At least ID, 000 meu wore killed or
wounded, and 10,000 more deserted on tha
road from Richmond to Appomattox. These
tvo last numbers, however, cannot be verified,
as no report was ever made of the final move
ments by Lee.
Thus it will be Been that Grant began tha
campaign with 98,019 ell'ective men, aud Lee
with 72,278, and that consequently Le, hav
ing all the advantages of "position, breast
works, a friendly country, and a short and
constantly shortening line of supplies in hi3
favor, was virtually the stronger of the two.
The losses during the Wilderness campaigu
were about equal, not more than 20,000 on
each bide. And finally, when Lee reached
Petersburg, he had more men than were with
him at the beginning f the campaign, show
ing that he had bien heavily reinforced. It
seems to ua this settles the question of Grant's
generalship.
Was General Grant u Coltou Speculator I
From the N. Y. World.
We suppose it will not bs disputed that when
a man consents to be a candidate for the high
est office in the Government, he thereby chal
lenges a thorough scrutiny into his public and
private character. If he is fit tor that great
position, bis character will command more
esteem the better it becomes known; it will be
made to shine with new lustre by all the attri
tion to which it is subjected. But if there be
anything in his history which he has an in
terest in concealing he gives his countrymen a
right to kuow it in all its particulars wheu he
asks them to elevate him to the chief post of
honor in the Government.
We find in a Western paper what purports
to be a transcript from the records of tho Su
perior Court of Cincinnati. It bears such
strong internal marks of genuineness that we
cannot doubt that it is truly copied; and if so,
it deserves all the prominence which we pur
pose to give it. If the friends of General
Grant can prove it a forgery, we will give
equal prominence to the exposure; for, al
though we deprecate his election, we do not
wish to see him degraded. But this matter is
too serious to pass unnoticed, aud if his friends
shall Blur over or iguore it, we shall assume
that they have no defense to make, and that
the alleged facts are true.
In the winter of 18G2-3 General Grant was
commanding in the most productive cotton
region of the Southwest, and it appears from
the judicial record, which we will presently
insert, that his father, Jesse R. Graut, was at
that time a secret partner in a cotton specula
tion which was transacted within General
Grant's military lines. Without investing any
capital, this Jesse R. Grant, the father of the
General, formed a partnership with a busiuess
firm in Cincinnati for procuring cotton within
General Grant's military lines, and transport
ing it thence to the Northern market, and this
silent partner was to render services of some
kind which would entitle him to one-fourth
of the net profits of the adventure,
although he supplied no money, and
bore no part of the risk of what must have
been regarded as a hazardous undertaking.
It appears that the service which he stipulated
to perform was to procure at the headquarters
of General Grant, his son, a permit to buy
cotton, and facilities for its transportation.
The undertaking proved lucrative. So large
an amount of cotton was procured and brought
off that the net profits amounted to more than
$40,000, and the publio would probably have
never known anything of the Grant family's
complicity, if the firm which furnished the
capital had not refused to pay over the stipu
lated share of the profits. Jesse R. Graut
brought a suit in the Cincinnati courts to re
cover his Bhare, and by this means the facts
have come to light. We copy the reoord as
we find it:
SUPF.RIOR COUKT.
"General Term Jesse It. Grant vs. Alack
Brothers. Judge Ilondly delivered the opinion.
The case v. as leserved from special term ou
Umiurrer to the petition. The action was
liibiiiuud lor the BelUeiueut of a partnership
account.
The plaintiff avers that in December, 18(5.2,
he entered Into a ptirinersrilp with deteuduutg
fur the purchase of co lLn in the mliliei'v tie
partnunl ot U. H. Grant; the condition ot the
ngrtt menl tliul defendants were to tarnish the
ctolttl and the men to purchase aud ship tne
cotton, and tbe plaintiut to procure at rieud
nuerters ol Gem rut Uran'. a permit to purouaso
it, scctiie tiau.spurtailtiu, ami such other lacLU
ti k an nilfht be conMhUnt with tne UNues aud
luUresis ol the army. The plainllll whs to
leceive rne-fiiurth miure ol the net profits of
bHliK alter di dueling from gru.sa proceeds (he
ntti'PhHiy i xpbUHes. The petition lurtuer elates
that iliere wuH a realized profit in the defen
dant's luvor of not lo:-s thau $10,oot, uud tliut
lliey le'iise to render au account, or puy the
plainllll his proportion.
' The deftudunlM claim that the p'alutill con
tributed ty hl8 own uIiowiuk, n timer capital
nor lawful iHcrvlCd to Ihe uopai luerslllp, end
that their atueeineut to puy iilui u share of the
pioriu is, therefore, without sutlicieut couslde
ihtlcn.
"The Cou-t cannot presume that the plaintiff
in tended to allege l hut he uudoi took L hut which
una roblbiUii iiy law. Ills acta aud promises
may have he- n lliet;u), uud the partner Bhip one
for h loi hidden entei price, but Iu the ausenco of
ii u Hjbv. tr hOHVt-i i iiu , tne Court euuuoi nssume
it, uiilcth the averments ure incousibtent with
unj other theory.
"'J be puicluiKO of cotton In the military do
pamnet't coinmtti ded by General (Ji'itut was
Ulegiil unless earned ou by permission uf l'io
pjtluent, obtulued through the Treasury Do
purtimiil. "'lie pltttutiflr avers that he was to go to the
l.ewilqi.arteis ol Utneral tiraut uud procure a
pel nut to puicliusB colt on. Whether tuis was
t x i ( ltd to he obtained Iroui the Ucuetul hlui
i t il, iioiu some member ot ills etufl, or a UVea
mii.v iiyeni ut hcbdiiuirier, is not shued.
Wiie'llitr the philntifl was to procure it us u
peiM nnl lavor.or by lliouhe of person il Influ
ence, or lu the oidio .ry mo le ut business, is
i oi flu.wn. TbeCouri could not presume he
v H lo i t ris pciiuu Iroru an uinrer nut uuiho
n.t d i y law to Klve it, or that ho was to procure
U r.Hlhe it ward of erbounl, political, or other
illtgitliiinte inllueiicb. They ruu t rnthur lofi-r
tlu.i lie propoNcd to solicit and procure a ner.
inlt lu the ordinary and proper way, from a
Trt usury agent having Authority to luj It.
'Auitlu. Jl Is aveiied that plaiutlll wmto
umi Uiu fctcure transportation. This may have
iwtn done by proenrliiK tioin somo quurtcr
muKltr, or other oillcer controlling it, the liu
. roper uud illegal uncoI U ivernmeut hursts
hiul whyciiB, or Hteainbout; or. he may h-tvo
hlrt d licit en and wuous frnui the pc3ilo of the
country, uud becure.l sleamboit transportation
In l lie iibiiHl way. The moie fact Inal lie was to
Men re tiuuKportatlou ut the headquarters of
General brunt U not decisive.
213 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
OFFER TO THE TRADE, IN LOTS,
FIRE H YE AIU) BOURBOIK WHISKIES, I BOA)
Oi l&f5f 1HOO, UCJT, fintl lwtlS.
ITJ.E FIAE ME a) milWm UIIM2ES, 1
Of GREAT AGE, ranging from lfcs4 to lis.
Liberal contracts will be entered into for lots, in bond at Distillery, of thli your' m jnjoi-'.
"The other Item of Bervlco. the. 'procuring of
mcu ether lHcilltles as mlnht lie consistent
with the usnnes and interests of ttin army,' la
open to t lie KHine double reading. I'Ueso f tciii.
tie', whftever llif-y were, uihv have been pro
cure l tv b' nest or dishonest Influences.
"For these reasons, the deleuse tiursted
must be presented by answer. I he theory tuut
the employ uieut of the plulnitfT was to procure
the Illegal co-operation of tue military iu h prl
vato enterprise must be Hllrc'd by sworu an
swer. Jl true.it was equally disgraceful to the
delei dnnts and the plulnt ill', aud, If proveu,
would Insure ln dismissal of the petition with
reprobation to the two parti":, upon the prin
ciple, among others, in jxtri d' Hcto. prtior -cjr
cxindilo drcticloitis. Demurrer overruled aud
Iweve 10 Huswer.
"Judgo Hlnror agreed with the other mom
beis of the Court on t he qut-sllon of th" plead
ing, end fell constrained to say that tin whole
ot the trride. as disclosed iu this proceeding, was
not only disgraceful, but lends directly 1.0 dls
truce the country. It Is the pilce of blood."
It appears, from the opinion of Judge
Deadly, that the firm of Mack Brothers, the
defendants, ground their refusal to py Jesse I
H. Grant his one-fourth of the net profits, 1
according to their agreement, on the unlaw
fulness of the service rendered by their
Bilent partner. The whole Court were of the
opinion that such unlawfulness would he
a bar to his claim, but they said
that the defendants had not proved it by
sworn testimony, and gave theui au opportu
nity to adduce such pre of. This is the posi
tion in which the case stood at the date of
thepe proceedings.
Even if it should turn out that there wa9 a
Treasury permit to give a show of legality to
this cotton speculation, it must have been
procured by the influence or the connivance
of General Graut. There was no other man
in the army to whom Jesse Grant held such
relations as would have made his services
in such a transaction worth one-fourth
of the net profits. The defendants do not
allege that the stipulated service wa not
rendered, but that it wa3 not lawful. That
large quantities of cotton were procured is
admitted by Jesse Grant himself by the very
tact of his bringing this suit. Now what
basis had he for a snocesstul speculation
of this kind f What had he to put in as an
equivalent for capital f What was it in his
power to do to entitle him to one-fourth ot the
net profits without risking a dollar of his own
money, although the enterprise was full of
hazard ? There can be but one answer; the
fund on which he traded was his relationship
to General Grant. What the Cincinnati firm
agreed to pay him for, was his supposed in
fluence with his sou. Their expectations
were not disappointed; but failing in that
kind of honor which prevails among thieves,
they sneaked out of their engagement because
the stipulated service was illegal.
This transaction suggests some very painful
inquliies. Jesse Graut being self-con vioted of
trading on his eon's influence in one cotton
speculation, how can It be known that he has
not done the same thing, with equal claims to
profit, ii many others? As he had an equiva
lent for capital, he could as easily be a silent
partner in twenty such speculations as in one.
The extent of his partner's transactions must
have been limited by the amount of their capi
tal, or by the amount they were willing to
ribk. But Jesse Graut, who risked nothing,
was under no such limitation in working the
rich placer which he discovered within the mili
tary lines of his son. His other partners may
have kept the honor of thieves, so that as
little is known of their transactions as would
have been known of this one, if the firm ot
Mack Brothers had stood by their bargain.
Jesse Grant long ago gave up the tannery at
Galena, and changed his residence to CoviDg
ton, Kentucky, a' convenient point for specula
tions like the one which has been exposed.
It seems that he made no money by this oot
ton speculation; did he gain the means of re
tiring from the tanning business by others f
Even if Treasury permits were in some oases
procured, by whose inlluence, other than his
son's, could Jesse Grant have procured them ?
What, besides this relationship, could have
rendered his services so very valuable that
eharp business men deemed it for their inte
rest to pay for them at so high a rate ? We
look to the Republican press for answers.
CARRIAGES.
GARDNER & FLEMING
CAltlllAQK BUILDJSI18,
Ko. 2H SOUTH FIFTH STREET,
BELOW WALNUT.
An aiicrtment of PEW AND SECOND-HANI
C'AIIKIAGKS always on haud at It E At-ON A BLI
PlUUfciv 6 fiawttm
TRUSSES.
"St-ELI' V'S HAUD KUBBwR 'IliU&i
MSj--C- Kg. lai'l UiIIljvNUT eilreet. Tina i'ruo cor-r-'liy
Applied will cure and reuuti Willi eu.se Um iuo
C'lliculi rupture; Klwuys clean, ll;ht, euay, sale, auti
cnniioriabit. Ubi-d il baihluK, Uit.'J to lorui, never
r'nui, brtuikK, sol's, becouitc limner, or movt from
(luce. Ino tttrapi.hiK, Hard Kut'Ot-r Abduiulual Hup.
poru-r, by whicn the .Niolhero, Corpulent, aud Lttdier
.if,! ring win, Female w-ufcue, will ilnd relletaud
j eriect Huppun: very llgiii, neat, aud eilectuttl. Pile
ii.iriin.euia dhoulaer Urncm, K'&silc eitociclnn fci
r fcHk lln.t E.ispeutloiis, etc A.I30, largo stuck hti
I Hihei TruKHHJ, halt unual price. Lady in aitiwirt.
ice. IhiyJwOa
2UMTWJTTKINU (;03IlAM
OF fUKNVliVANU.
capital, - - - 8100,000
Ibis Company are now prepared to rum lab
Vli:44A&t'N PAT. AT 131 PttO VE1 WTF.AJt
UK&KUATOII,
O' any power required, npon two ww'ksnot'.oe. They
ru'.vt bt-cii liUri)Qiic(-d iu tela city, and thoroughly
IcDt'.'d .l'h ruoi t Biitlofaot'iry rebuild, and ure sold
I ClTAHANTitrl OV ABSOLUTE bAFETY
i'HU.M I) K '.'1 liUCTl V K KXI'LOSION. Thoy axe
'.;wj.er hi li.-fit coat, aud lu eipeim uf erection, mora
economical lo fuel, durable and convenient lu tut
li'ku fcny oiiier apparatus fur generating atenu.
OFFICE F COaPASti
(KOOM3 Nos. and 6),
No. C28 WALNUT BTUEKT
NKI.PON J. NIOKKllSON, President,
EDWARD Jl, UKAHAM,
Una fcccxetary and 1'rca uier
218 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
A
& CO
c
liAMPACNK.-AN INVOICE OF" "PLANT
Dure" ClinupHKii), I rn ,.orif 1 nr.il rorx iip
JAMJ.H CA imAIK.S, JR.,
128 A T.N U t .nl 21 i.U.i.q l . sirai-..
c
IlAMl'ACNK.-AN INVOICE OP "GOLD
JUtc" Cb imkiie, iinpori.r and tor Kftie hy
J A & 1 lUHT I I J K
13H WALt I'T mill '.:i i HA H Stril
c
HAMPAGNE. AN INVOICE OF "GLO.
rla" CiiHiiiputfne, hnportwl axil ft r m'a by
oil
JAfllKH C AIXTA 1 Um j u
12 WALNUT .ut; HK.UlKMr5L
c
AESTAILV, OLIVE Oil AN INVOlCl
ww wv'r I V till CBIU J J
, ... . . JV- I'X CA KSTAIRS. JR.. '
Jff Al, UT auC Vi (i KAWITK lrHt.
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.
AVLNCr rURCIIASED THE INTEREST
OF THOMAS WRIGGIXS, FAJ.
My late f artner in tbe Urm of WKIUOINS A WAK
1KN, I am dow prepared to oiler
A Ki.W AND VAAIUD STOCK OB"
WATCH 8 AND JEVVSLRY,
AT THE OLD STAND.
S.E.CORS1K FIFTH AMD f'MKWXUT NTS."
And rrapC"n11 rpqntvit a continuance of then,
tn none no lou and liberally btwtuwwl upon tbe lat
firm. Par'lci .i.r iiiliin given to the reoairius nl
WATCHIkJ AM) JBWKl'tY. "Pairing ot
A. II. WARDEN.
Philadelphia. March 10, 1S68. 6 x wfm2ai
JEWELRY! JEWELRY!
S. E. Corner Tenth ami Cliosnut.
NEW STORE. NEW GOODS.
WRICGIN3 & CO.,
(Formerly Wnpgli.s Warden. Fllih and Chesnntl
Inviie attention i their vew Jewelry btore. H. K. cor
n. r TJ NTH aii CHKSNUT Htree. "-cor-
We are now piei.r-d, wlih our Kxtenslve Stock, to
oiler URKAT I NbUC'KM KNT3 to buyers. '
ATCHKW ot mo most celebrated muKein. JEW
ELRY, ami hlLVKR WAKE, always the laleit da-
blDHaiKl tHBl IIJ Ull'.H.
Uoofd eipeciallv ('ehlfdied for BRIDAL PURSKVTS,
rartitulHr attention given to tbe Repairing ol
W ATCHJlS A D JE W JiXlt Y. 16 i m wf
WKIGGIN8 & OO..
S. E. Corner Tenth and Chcsnut Streets.
LADOMUS&Cq;
'DIAJI0I DEALERS & JEWELERS.!
ATI IHIS, JKWF.I.KV SILVER WAllk.
.WATCHES and JEWELRY EEPAIEED.
802 Chestnut St.. Phila-
Would Invite particular attention to thetr larse axl
e tgunt asHorlmeni ol
Lilllilsi AND aKNTS' WA TCflUS
or A mo lean ar.d Foreign Makers of thelfln' at quality.
In Hold mo fiver t num. "
timing " 7 01 lQdei,eu(1ont ' Second, for borsa
1 f?i'.aDd 0ents' CHAINS ol latest styles. In U
ftliu to Kt
BTTTON AND KVELET 8TCD9
I u great varlfty r.ewujt patterns.
SOLID SILVERWARE
tor BrlrlM preieni:-; Plated-ware. eta
l.ipnlrlrjj dene iu tbe best manner, and war
ranted. s
gPECIAL
NOTICE,
CXTIL SEFTEMBEIt 1, 18C8,
I WILL CLOSE DAILY AT 5 P. 31.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Importer and Dealer In French Clocks, Watohe
Flee Jewtlry, and Sliver Ware,
No. 22 Korlli SIXTH Street,
26 PHILADELPHIA.
Ye keep always on hand an assortment of
S-ADirS' ASO CENTS' 'FIKTB WATCE3S9
ir the best American aud .Foreign Malcen, tui war
mWd to ive ouiuplctasut.alctlou. and at
QRILATLY REDUCED FKICJEH.
FAKH A BKOTHEk,
mportersof Waicbes, Jewelry, Musical Boxua.aic,
il iiaiathirpj io, is cHia.NUX St., oelow Fonrth.
iOiperlal attention vru to repftlrlnj Watchci aa
Uaaloal juoxe uv i ilOii-ULAtiM workmen,
" LEGAL NOTICES.
TN THE InsTRICT COUKT OP TUB UNITED
J. MaII'.S ton 'Itlh. EitJIKHN Jl4TJUbT
OF PENNSYLVANIA fM.xni
IN DANKRUPTGY.
At Fhl'udelpLiK. Ju.y H, lttH.
'1 n uuderH'ti.1 d h.roby ulves notice of h!s appoint
ment I.H hi?iiee nl NICHOLAS B.ALLIKT. of
I'nlladi lplila, lii lliu cou.ity ol fh.laitelpjiia aui
-.aie of pt-unn.Ylvi.1 Ij. wl.lilu aalil Ulttrlct, win
Ii. heen ai jiulerl n i.,nkrnpt upoi tils own petition
by tLe DlMlrldtv in t oi Fnlil iu-.tr. ct.
bAlL'IiL U HUKY, AHHlgnee,
No. 2 H. TiIIRD Slreet.
To the Creditors of geld Hank mm. 71lw3l
I N TUB COUKT OF COMMON PLEAS F'OH
.L 11 1 L 1 1 1 Y A J ' CO I M Y O ! U 1 1. i D K L P H I ,
i u Ibe uialier ol llic Afsljiueil ie.lHOt HaRVICY
'Vl'rV'E' ., kf'AsilCS KELLY, trading ui
iOUr.I J. it 1 J-.l.i. .
'I lie Audi or etp"li.ied-by tbe Court to audit, settle,
und aojiihl tbe amount of nl NJ AM IN L. TKHPLN,
Amlunce ol mln to likLL it EKLLY. and lo
report distribution ol tio biilnnoo In Hie Iminls of
the iK'Ci.uuliiiii, will me.'t tb purlieu liiierentmi (or
l i.e uipoee ol lib, up;). Ininit'iii, ou Tllfc-DA Y. Ju'y
vh, A U. 1M', i,i u n'l'lork a. M.. nl hi- ollioe, No. 4)fl
WA I.N VI PU'eel, In tliecily ol HillHilellihU.
7J7linul WILLIAM D. ilAAb.H, Auditor.
PEN NSY LV A N I k il OSri T AL.
j'uu.AiiKi.i'HiA, January 28, 188.
Tlie atti!illiji Mint,tni an:
B. Mniria V.ale. N ia-oinh Delaware avonue.
AOoirb fc. Unne. Nn. 103 u. in eireeu
Aiti mm: i-iij bicUin-iir. J. M. La Costa, No, 1005
bprute btr. el.
AtieiHiinK -nrfc''oni)r. Adiiinell !! wwm, No. US
f-ouili l:iHt tiln Hi...-ii iir, jj, Jiayes AKUhW, N3. 1
Nurili r li v.'iil:' air.ei.
'1 hi HuhIi-W.i'h ui il Kiiruoon'i att.-ud a', tbe Hoipl
tnl every lny i -,fljM excepted), 10 rcvlve appil
C til'll tut i U I , t,
i eieons Bt rioiih! , ii;nie.1 iiy acnlnent are nlwnvs
e linllt-d 11 br.nil'i l.i tl.o Ilu piil toiuiedi.i.ely
tbhreutier. gtft
QEORCE PLOVrJAW.
; CAKlNTE'd AND BUILDIIi,
IlF.olOVED
To Ko. IS DOCK Street,
f Jbi ILACELPUIA.
FINE WATCHES.
i
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