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Show A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT of the New York Tim who ha3 been carefully care-fully investigating the condition of current political aflairs in the south, expresses the opinion that Grant cannot can-not transfer the influence which he is able to exert in the southern states to any of the candidates who are reported report-ed as being his favorites. Still among all southern republicans there is a dcep-Bcated conviction that Grant could be easily re-elected for a third term. The negroes are especially desirous de-sirous to perpetuate- his rule, and were he to express a desiro iu that direction there is no question that the delegates from every southern state would veto for his rcnomination, but just here his strength ends; he cannot transfer it to another candidate, at least not to those who have been mentioned aa bis favorite. It is also said that the president pres-ident has not given any indication of his preference (or a prcai Jential candidate, can-didate, or if he has done go, his wishes are not to be rf-g-irdid in the south. All of tho icpiiblican candidates ex-cv;-t Bristow, and Wheeler, of New York, have agents in tho south, ' sent out lo influence public sentiment in their lavnr, and Morton, It' inr, Bi Is. tnw and Hayes all have their support-crs support-crs in various states. The correspon-Nlfnt correspon-Nlfnt expresses the general republican 'pinion that "if tiie democrats aro Bum nful, the republican party of the coLI-di f-tatcs must dio out forever, for by ono means or another the nrgro vr,t would be prevented from cxt-ci-iug the riyiitt of cili,..'nihip which were aured to thorn by the rrsultsof the war, and thfir wuite 1-iade rH would be obliged to leivo the country and eek bonus elsewhere." J |