Knoxville Weekly Chronicle

The New York Herald of the 17th, in speaking of the North Carolina election says:

The chances of the election, however, are all in favor of the success of the regular Republican ticket next month.

Colonel Forsyth, of the Mobile Register, takes his crow with a bad grace, but he does it, and after this fashion:

"In declaring for Greeley as against Grant, yesterday, we were moved solely by a sense of duty. In a forlorn case, to yield up all our cherished convictions of what should have been the course of duty and honor on the part of all true Democrats, and especially of all them who had lately been Confederates. It was an enormous sacrifice of feeling on our part, and we would to Heaven that conscience and a sense of the immediate welfare of our country had allowed us to stand on empyrean heights of pride and principle as those occupied by Toombs, of Georgia, and Wise, of Virginia."

The Linn (Mo.) Democrat refuses to be delivered to its life-long opponent. For itself it says: "Mr. August Belmont is reported to have said the Democracy must take Greeley or die. Then we propose to die a little, but it is but death anyhow."

The New York Times says: "General J. B. Steedman is out for Greeley. There are some people who are glad Mr. Steedman has been heard from—notably the accounting officers of the Treasury, on whose books he stands a defaulter to the amount of $212,336.93 in cash, besides some half a million dollars more in uncollected taxes, all achieved while collector of internal revenue at New Orleans, by the grace of Andrew Johnson. Of course, it is natural and proper he should be for Greeley."

The Savannah News, Atlanta Daily Sun and Columbus Sun are a few of the leading Democratic Georgia papers opposing Greeley and Brown. The Manchester, Ohio correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, on the 16th says:

The confusion in political matters still continues.

A prominent Democrat of Franklin Township, one of the strongest Democratic strongholds of the country, has offered five dollars a head for all Greeley Democrats that can be found in his township.

Another active and influential Democrat remarked in the hearing of your correspondent, that throughout the country there were four Democrats who would not vote for Greeley to where there was one Republican that would.

In Georgia they are bolting Greeley by counties, as see this from the Atlanta Sun of the 17th: "The Greene county Democracy met on Tuesday and elected delegates to the State Convention, with instructions to vote for the nomination of James M. Smith. They repudiated the platform and nominees of the Baltimore convention; but left Democrats to vote as they please."

The Atlanta Sun (Democrat) of the 17th says: The following is an extract from a private letter from a well known citizen of Georgia, written from Philadelphia on the 13th inst.: "The adoption of the Cincinnati platform is giving universal dissatisfaction up here."

The Washington Chronicle of the 17th says: "From old Berks county we have this cheering statement: 'I can hear of no Greeley Republicans in this part of our county. The Democrats will not poll their full vote for him. A well-informed Democrat told me to-day that two thousand Democrats in this county would stay away from the polls. He thought Grant would carry the county over Greeley.'"

"There are more than a hundred Democrats in this town," says the Ogdensburg (N. Y.) Journal, "who have never wavered in their devotion to their party, who openly denounce the Baltimore candidate, and declare they will never support him."

The Greenport Republican Watchman and the Port Jefferson Independent Press, the most influential of the four Democratic newspapers published in Suffolk county, New York, refuse to advocate the election of Greeley and Brown.

Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, of this State, is said to be for Grant.

Five hundred dollars is offered as a prize for the best campaign song, descriptive of the pill swallowed by Democrats at Baltimore on the 10th. The competitors are to send their productions to the New York Times.

The Detroit Free Press, the leading Democratic paper of Michigan, refuses to support Greeley, and says: "We do not propose to discuss or argue at any length the independent course the Free Press will take in this campaign. It is sufficient for our own guidance to know that it will be truly Democratic: that unprincipled men, individually or collectively, calling themselves a National Convention or anything else, can not sell or give the Democratic party over to Republicanism or to the advocacy of a Radical and a life-long enemy however politically obsequious in other matters may have been his action."

Judge David Davis has been interviewed. He regards the success of Greeley as a problem of doubtful solution. He relates a conversation had with an Indianian as indicating the state of feeling, even among Reformers, who are desirous for a change that shall give them control of affairs. Said the Indianian: "I don't like Greeley, Mr. Davis. I'm afraid he'll play the devil if he is elected. He can't control himself, and will be controlled by others."

The New York World meekly "bows to the decision of the National Convention," a proceeding rendered necessary by the fact that nobody would bow to the World's decision.

It is a fortunate thing for the country and Gratz Brown that the cherry season doesn't last long; but we dread the approach of watermelon harvest.—Cincinnati Commercial.

It is said that negotiations are in progress to settle the differences between Republicans in Pennsylvania.

General Joseph E. Johnston for Grant.

It transpired in the Virginia correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial that the distinguished Southerner whose name heads this article, is among those whom Blair tried to get to the Baltimore Convention, but who refused to train in that crowd. He has announced his purpose to vote for Grant as between the two G's. He promised Blair that if Greeley would agree to die within a month of his election, as Harrison did, he (Johnston) might consent to give him a lift, not otherwise.—Nashville Chronicle.