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Show MRS. H. B. S. AGAINST GREELEY, "Palmetto Loaves" has put her foot in it now. and away goes the Louisville Louis-ville "Courier-Journal" after her with a sharpened stick and a red hot poker. Yc think we hear sinews snap. Listen Lis-ten : Mrs. Harriet Bccchcr Stowc, who I made a book a good many years ago called "Uncle Tom's Cahio," that created cre-ated some otir at the time, and who has endeavored to revive her literary lame in the ourrcnt htstrum by her scandalous "Defense of Lady Byron," so-cailed, takes an interest in the present pres-ent political contest. The report that , her very abnormal philanthropical , longing had found relief in domesiici-ty domesiici-ty and cares of a Florida poultry yard , turns out unfortunately to be ill-founded, ilor great soul is above conGniug itself to tho sewing of buttons on Prof. Stowe's shirt.-, and, though Bramah I'utra, Shanghai, and Dorking may havo occupied her attention for a brief interval, no chanticleer of them all can charm her car when the slogan of a presidential campaign is sounded. Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowc, like her politico-clerical brother, the famous fam-ous Henry Ward Bcecher, prefers '. Grant to Greeley, and has thrown the vast weight of her inOaence in the scale against the Chapariua farmer, in a convention at Saratoga the other day, so we Icarn from the admiring Boston "Post," sho cloqucutly re- J marked that he "had permitted his life-long enemies to swallow him, and blot out the work of a life time." now, 0) course, tQis is very .sad. It ib ; bad enough tb'at Mr?. Stowe should declare herself for Grant, but for her to proclaim, trumpct-tongucd, that Horace Greeley has not only suffered the work of a life-time to bo blotted out. but himself to be actually swallowed swal-lowed by his life-long enemies, is enough to cause tho goddess of liberty in Faneril hall to turn on its pedestal, 1 if not, indeed, to turn itself into a u Niobe of tears. Perhaps if sho had not been so much occupied with her recondite, f Byronio and similar studies, she would not not now conolude that Mr. Greeley e. had permitted tho work of a life-time to bo blotted out, or that he had convert- v ed himself into a Jonas and descended into the jaws of the Democratic wbale. The long and the short of it seems to I be that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1 having been waked up by some enchanter's en-chanter's wand from a sleep ol'a quarter quar-ter of a century a sleep in which she V had some ugly dreams tbat scandalized sa the world expects to measure men and things by the old standard, com- 1 pletely oblivious to all that occurred in tl tho interim. The Hon. Victoria 0. Woodhull, it would appear, has some cause of complaint com-plaint against Mrs. Stowe and a good many others of the strong-minded sisterhood. sis-terhood. Woodhull is a candidate for the Presidency as well as Grant. Why Harriet Beechcr lStowo, Col. Suian B. Anthony, Klizabcth Cady Damit Stanton, E;q., and Dr. Mary C. Walk ;r should prefer Grant to Woodhull is mo of those things whioh no fellow jan find out If the objeot be to support sup-port the avnilable candidate we think :hcrc is little doubt that tho honors will bo easy between Woodhull and jrant, as Greeley is sure to be the win-ling win-ling card. Mrs. Stowe might as well, hereforc, indulge herself by giving lcr valuable support to Mra. VVood- lull, who must surely be her first j. ihoice for tho Presidential office. H |