Show TELEGRAPHIC POLiTICAL POINTS The Grant Boom in the South Horatio Seymour Albany 24 The greenback convention conven-tion tonight elected delegatej at large to the Chicago convention Resolutions were adopted similar to those approved by the Pennsylvania convention yesterday yester-day Washington 21A short time since Mr Goo 0 Gorham on the occasion of a visit to Richmond had an interview with General Mahonu Subsequently when General Mahone came to Washington Wash-ington in the quiet manner which has already been recalled Gorham was one of the prominent republicans with whom he had a conference The wellknown I and wellearned reputation of Gorham for political finesse and intrigue was the means Investing these interviews with much significance in the minds of the politicians cf both parties A leading democratic politician who arrived from Richmond today ays the belief in political circles there is quite general that the object of the interview was to secure the electoral vote of Virginia for Grant The readjustee have all announced an-nounced very plainly that they intend to run a separate electoral ticket in Vir fificia and if this is done the prospects for the election of the regular democratic electoral ticket would naturally be very slim Nothing is more appirnnt here than that tho Grant movement in Virginia Vir-ginia is a great luccess for included among those engaged in it are several citizens prominence and influence Gaiveston 24A News Austin special says Governor Davis called republican convention to order and Wm Chambers was chosen temporary chairman Resolutions Reso-lutions extending Grant a cordial and enthusiastic welcome to Texas called forth applause and were unanimously adopted Adjourned until tomorrow Among the manipulators at Austin is Tom OJUhiltree who brings a letter of instructions from Don Cameron OChil tree hid a midnight conference with Grant on Tuesday and declares that Texas will instruct for the general Cincinnati 2Tho board of aldermen alder-men in special session today adopted a resolution requesting the board of public works to grant permission to various telegraph companies to erect the necessary number of telegraph poles to give all lacilitics needed by the national convention The board of councilmen will concur in u few days and poles will undoubtedly be erected There is no question that with abundance of room convenient to the stage the telegraph tele-graph facilities will be fully qual to the demands of the convention Washington 25It is reported that the Grant and tiherumn interests are i about evenly baanced in South Carolina and elections to the state convention are sometimes for onr > sometimes for the other The Post products letters and dispatches dis-patches from Syracuse to bolster up its disputed interview with Seymour and again states the situation is as follows Governor Seymour present position on the president question may be stated in the brief terms with which we have been accustomed to refer to it He is not a candidate and does not want the democratic demo-cratic nomination but if the latter is given to him he will notrefuso it Nothing Noth-ing can be plainer than this and it is all that we have ever asserted in the premises pre-mises It being then u question of whether the democracy shall nominate as their candidate a man whose nomination nomi-nation means his election or some one else upon whom great hopes may be placed but about whose ultimate success there exists a very natural doubt we see no excuse for hesitating as to the course to be pursued Horatio Seymour is the one man to head the democratic ticket LouisvilleKy 25Republicans have held conventions in fiftyfive counties of this state of which thirty have instructed for Grant three for Sherman ard one for Elaine Where no instructions were given Grant delegates to the state convention con-vention have generally been appointed |