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Show ALEX. M'CLURE SCORES W,fAy; H. was frraoaally Coa.alted f. tst la lUKart t dobo.aa's Kaatt 1 , Fiiii.AHKi.rHiA, July 0. Trj yj this morning publisher an i kl from Colonel McClurfl, ia whitj ling to John C. Nicolay'a t'oj H tho widow of Vie rresideuf Sb yesterday. MeChiro aaya: 4 A $ "Tiie ignorance exhibited by4 ,y is eiiiallod only by his arrogaisf . iu-Kimuiig iu-Kimuiig to apeak lor AirahamJ oVu in iiiaticrs about which he v t tiWer consulted, and of which he badA tnfii'e kuowledne than any other rouifw. t-Jrk about tho White House." . - '" 1 (.'olouel McClure j'oes on to sr 4rth tho fact tha. it was with him tl. ident Lincoln conferred rogaritufd- he advitability oi nominating JoliOsolii4 as a southern man, and aftortbo .ij eon-f. eon-f. renco be (McGlure) returne k.-rq tee Haliimoro couveution to work ;iM V'e lorJohnaon, all'mugh agaioaiiil; ((f'l perMinal .predilection iu tiioj ' Keverliiii.' to Nicolay, r' CI lire says: "i lit was a good tu'r.T) routine clerk, ho was utterly iiij J' as a aoLroiary of the I'resioenif nioval was earnestly pressed ii i la l-eoln l-eoln ou more tha i ouooccusion iiJtB e of his utter want of tact ami bifsijur his trust, i.ud only the proverbial ktttii-lies ktttii-lies of I.iucolu aavud him. IVNeitfay saw and kni.'vf i'rosidect Lipc'Jt-tiia man Abrahum Lincolu ha uvfj)jv and nev er kuow. f iMci'luro. nfier citing certain ctiJn of N'ieolay at iJaltiui ire, to t-low that he was Ignorant of Liuooln'l Vfishe.. calls aut'Otioii to thu statesror.fe, of Charles A. Dana in another 0(4iiiDu, who logically lt.li of Johuaon'si dic-tion dic-tion by Lincoln. "With Dana's itrt corroiioi atioii of my ftatemer.t j'a.ys McClutv. "added to" the corrtti$fiUv facia. I may -afely dismiss Nicolajai:d the dispute lus ignorance aud IfKig-aoc IfKig-aoc has thrust upon mo." '4 ; .'iui a ; , July !b Uurton C.jRook of Chicago, who wa chairman t tiia lllinoi delegation in the republican convention ol Ihti'J and who nomiuated Lincoln iu tiiat convention for ra-elcc-linn, declared in an interview la-t night that tha .statement that Lincoln favored llanuibal Hamlin's re-nomination- was correct. Although L;neoln didn't tell him so directly, lie bad given Cook so to tiu lMsiaud. Cook attribu'-e the selection of Andrew Johnson (o the eloquence of Horace Maynardi ; who pathetically described the sutlerloof the people of the south, and bril'i'ant'ly advocated the expediency of thoosing Johnson. 4 . |