Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The purser’s room of the steamer Saratoga, plying between Havana and New York, wan robbed of $23,600 in specie. Marie A’exandrovna, Empress of Russia, died at St. Petersburg on the 3d inst., after a long and painful illness. She was married to the Czar in 18-11, and was the mother of six children. A duel with swords was fought on Swiss territory, the other day, lietween Henri Rochefort and M. Koechlin. Rochefort was seriously wounded. On the same day a hostile meeting in Belgium between two Spanish noblemen had a more serious result, one of the. combatants having been slain. Tho Burials bill, which provides for the interment of the dead of Catholics and Dissenters in the public cemeteries of England, has passed the British Parliament. Bismarck is again threatening to resign if certain measures of his are not adopted. Turkey is about to issue a circular to the European powers promising to carry out the reforms demanded by tho terms of the Treaty of B< rlin.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. A prize-fight of sixty-two rounds, Masting an hour and a half, occurred near Mc’Keesport, Pa., the other day, between two roughs known as Jack Fleet and Morge Tutubull. The first named, who is 54 years of age, was defeated. Both men were severely punished'. Two old widow ladies named Chilsey and A vent, living together at Avon, Ct., were brutally murdered by some unknown person a few nights since. The motive for the terrible crime is a mystery. Goss and Ryan, two notorious bruisers, foiight at Colyer’s Station, W. Va., last week. Tho battle, which was a desperate one, lasted eighty-seven minutes, and resulted in the victory of tho Irishman. Both of the brutes were terribly punished. Herman Lissberger, of New York, a heavy importer of metals, has failed for $2,000,000 or $3,000,000. South.. Sherrard Clemens, for thirteen years n member of Congress from Virginia, has just died a pauper in St. Louis, Mo. Twenty-live lives were lost, 575,0(H) worth of property destroyed, and thousands of sheep drowned by the late flood at Brackett, Texas. Some negroes refused to pay for some liquor they had ordered and drank in a Baltimore beer saloon. The proprietor of the place made an effort to eject them, when they raided the house. The police interposed to prevent further disturbance, when they were assaulted with stones. They .drew their pistols and tired on the crowd, killing one man, and wounding several persons, among whom was a woman. This quelled the riot. A story of u thrilling tragedy comes by telgraph from Collin county, Tex. A farmer named Bradley left 4<200 received for cattle with his wife for safe-keeping. A stranger asking to stay for the night was given a pallet on the porch. At midnight he saw two men, supposed to belong to the family, enter. Hearing cries of murder, he looked through the blinds and saw a woman on tho lied with her throat cut. Snatching a six-shooter, the stranger sprung toward tho door and fired, killing both parties. Mounting his horse he rode to the nearest neighborhood, and, accompanied by a party of four, returned. .Mrs. Bradley and both the robbers were dead, one of whom was shot through the heart, the other through the head. Tho robbers proved to be Mrs. Pruett and daughter—the former (it) years old and owner of considerable property, with an independent inheritance of $17,000. The colored'seamen of a Norfolk (Va.) schooner mutinied, killed the Captain and cook, and seriously wounded the mate. They then headed the boat for the shore, and at last accounts were hiding in the Virginia swamps A North Carolina druggist’s clerk, whose private whiskj bottle had been dosed by his employer with croton oil, has sued tho latter for $20,000 damages.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Maine Greenback and Democratic State Conventions met at Bangor on (lie let inst. Both conventions nominated Gen. Garris M. Plaisted for Governor. Only the Democrats nominated Presidential electors. The Greenback delegates to the National Convention were instructed to support Solon Chase for President. The Democrats gave their delegates no instructions. The Democrats of Alabama have renominated ail of the present State officers. The Alabama Democrats met in State Convention on the 3d inst., and chose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. The preference is generally understood to be for Field, Thurman. Bayard and Hancock, though no instructions were given and no expressions required. It is understood none are for Tilden. Resolutions were adopted favoring the two-thirds rule.—The South Carolina Democratic Convention also met on the 3d, and chose a solid Bayard delegation to Cincinnati. The Arkansas Democrats, in a threedays’ convention, on the thirty-ninth ballot nominated Thomas J. Churchill for Governor. The remainder of the ticket is as follows: Jacob Frnlich for Secretary of State, William E. Woodruff, Jr., for Treasurer; Auditor, John Crawford ; Land Commissioner, D. W. Lear; Superintendent of Instruction, J. L. Denton ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, E. H. English ; Chancellor, S. W. Carroll; Chancery Clerk, J. W. Calloway. A terrible wind-storm visited St. Louis a few days ago, doing $250,000 worth of damage and causing the death of several persons. The big bridge was slightly damaged. A law suit, involving $30,000,000, is in progress in the Probate Court of San Francisco. Ex-Gov. John Wood, of Illinois, died at Quincy a few days ago, aged 82. The Colorado Democratic State Convention, in session at Denver last week, selected an uninstructed delegation to Cincinnati, the members of which are in favor of Judge Field for President. ■ The Alabama Democrats have put up the following State ticket at their late convention: R. W. Cobb for Governor, W. W. Screws for Secretary of State, H. C. Tompkins for Attorney General, and I. H. Vincent for State Treasurer. The convention renominated the present bench of Supreme Court Judges—Chief Justice Bryckell and Associate Justices Stone and Manning. In South Carolina, the State Democratic Convention nominated a State ticket as follows : For Governor, Johnson E. Hagood ; for Lieutenant Governor, J. D. Kennedy; for Secretary of State, B. M. Sims; for Treasurer, J. P.

THE Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME IV.

Richardson; for Comptroller General, J. C. Coit; for Attorney General, L. F. Youmans ; for Adjutant and Inspector General, R. Manigold ; for Superintendent of Education, H. 8. Thomson.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Following is the monthly public-debt statement issued on the Ist inst.: Six per cent bondss 242,001,900 Five per cents 488,848,700 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 739,4114,700 Refunding certificates 1,413,100 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,735,61*8,400 Matured debts 8,134,965 Legal tenders 346,742,046 Certificates of deposit... 12,815,000 Fractional currency 15,592,934 Gold and silver certificates 20,274,370 Total without interest. 305,424,350 Total interest 19,742,521 Total debt 52,139,257,715 Cash in treasury 206,613,516 Debt less cash in trea5ury51,952,386,719 Decrease during May 15,928,033 Decrease since Juno 30,1879 74,820,536 Current liabilities Interest due and unpaids 2,890,785 Debt on which interest has ceased 8,134,965 Interest thereon 830,55(1 Gold and silver certificates 20,274,370 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 12,815,000 Cush balance available, May 1, 1880 161,667,839 Totals 206,613,516 Available assets— Cash in treasurys 206,613,516 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,615,587 Interest paid by United States 45,651,155 Interest repaid by transportation of mails 13,084,815 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 31,911,111 A Washington court has given Mrs. Senator Christiane,y $l5O per month alimony and S3OO counsel fees.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Richard B. Connolly, notorious as Comptroller of New York in the days of the Tweed ring, and a fugitive from America since the exposure of that ring ten years ago, has just died at Marseilles, France. Ho was attended only by his son, Townsend Connolly, and tho latter’s wife, a native of Marseilles. Connolly’s stealings were estimated at from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. His exile became almost unendurable of late years, and he made several overtures for settlement, offering SIOO,OOO, and being willing to give $500,000, but $1,000,000 was demanded, and ho said that he could not raise that amount. Ho leaves three children. The National Woman Suffrage Convention, in session at Chicago last week, adopted a resolution declaring that they will not support any party which will not insert in its plate form a plank recognizing tho right of women to vote. The Brewers’National Convention met at Buffalo, N. Y., last week, about 400 delegates being in attendance. The reports show that the revenue collected from brewers and dealers in malt liquors for the last fiscal year amounts to $10,729,320, which is $792,268 more than received from the same source the year ((receding ; that the total income from the internal-revenue tax on malt liquors since the year 1863 amounts to $120,446,863 ; and that the brewing establishments of the country now number over 3,000, which annually consume 35,000,000 bushels of barley and 35,000,000 pounds of hops. The American rifle team has sailed from New York for Ireland. The next Brewers’ Congress will be held in Chicago on the second Wednesday in May. 1881. CoL Audenreid, of Gen. Sherman’s staff, is dead. A Cuban filibustering expedition, made up principally of Americans, is reported to have left Montreal. The Nicaraguan Congress has confirmed the concession recently made by the President of the republic to the American company for the construction of the intcroccanic ship canal across the isthmus. Prince Leopold and suite paid a visit to the Republican Convention at Chicago. A big lawsuit has been begun by the Pullman Palace Car Company against the Wagner Company, being laid at $1,009,000, for infringement/f patents by the latter corporation. It is alleged that the Wagner Company obtained •the use es certain patents on condit ion that cars so constructed should be run only on the New York Central railroad and its branches, and it is the violation of this agreement that has led to this heavy suit for damages.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Mr. Davis (W. Va.) stated to the Senate, on the morning of Monday, May 31, that the Appropriation Committee would not yet report back the House resolution providing for adjournment, bu? hoped it might be practicable for Congress to adjourn about the 10th or 15th of June. Mr. McMillan introduced a bill for the relief of certain settlers on swamp lands in Minnesota. Mr. Baldwin introduced a bill for the appraisement and sale of the Detroit arsenal building and grounds. The joint resolution passed authorizing the sale o the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway Company of a portion of the Fort Gratiot Military Reserve, and authorizing Port Huron to grant the right of way through Pine Grove Park. The House joint resolution requesting the President to open negotiations with France, Spain, Austria and Italy, with a view to removal of the restrictions upon the importation of tobacco in said countries was passed. The House bill passed providing times and places of holding Circuit Court of the United States in tiro District of lowa, and for other purposes. Mr. Williams made a speech in favor of pensioning the soldiers of the Mexican war. The Yorktown monument joint resolution passed. The resolution submitted recently by Mr. Pendleton requesting the President to inform the Senate whether any Census Supervisors appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate have been removed by him < r witn ms consent, was adopted. The report of the Committee of Conference on the Distri :t Appropriation bill was adopted. The bill to compromise the claim of the United States under the Lewis will case was passed, as was the bill to permit Elias C. Boudinot, of the Cherokee nation, to sue in the Court of Claims for damages by the seizure of his tobacco manufactory for the alleged violation of the Revenue 1aw5....1p the House, the Senate amendments to the House bill for the relief of certain homestead and pre-emption settlers in Kansas and Nebraska were concurred in. The joint resolution passed granting the use of artillery, etc., to the Soldiers’ Reunion in Northeast Missouri. The conference report on the District of Columbia Appropriation bill was agreed to. The conference report on the joint resolution for printing 300,000 copies of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture was agreed to. The General Deficiency Appropriation bill was referred to the committee of the whole. Consideration was resumed of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, and it was passed, 112 to 53. Amendments to the Executive bill were concurred in. The Senate amendments to the Agricultural Appropriation bill were non-concurred in. The House then went into committee of the whole on the General Deficiency bill. The first vote showed no quorum, and the House adjourned. On the meeting of the Senate on the morning of Tuesday, the Ist Inst.. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Exodus of Negroes from Southern to Northern States, submitted a report of the majority, and Mr. Windom announced that he would hereafter submit the views of the minority. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was received from the House and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The Senate insisted on its amendment to the Legislative, Executive, Judicial, and Agricultural Appropriation bills, and committees of conference with the House were appointed. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill ym considered all day, the House amendments being investigated. A number of changes were made. The President nominated Robert S. Gardner, of West Virginia, to be Indian Inspector, ...In the House, there were, at the out-

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1880.

set, two set speeches on the Inter-State Commerce bill, one by Reagan and one by Henderson, which came In under »the license given to the rule for general debate upon an appropriation bill The Deficiency bill was un in committee at the time. Mr. King introduced a resolution for the appointment of a committee to investigate the expenditure of appropriations on the Red and Wachita rivers for the last ten years. Also, authorizing the Secretary of War to enter into contracts for keeping open the mouth of the Red river. Mr. Pendleton presented, and the Senate adopted, on Wednesday, June 2, a resolution asking whether the sections of the Revised Statutes authorizing judicial powers by Consuls was in accordance with the constitution. The River and Harbor bill was completed and passed. A bill was reported favorably for the purchase of additional grounds and the erection of a public building at Detroit The House went into committee of the whole on the General Deficiency bill, and completed that measure. It was then reported to tho House and the main question was ordered upon it. The resolution heretofore introduced by Mr. Butler calling for copies of papers relative to the New York Central 5-per-cent. tax was adopted by the Senate, on the 3d inst. The bill appropriating $41,000 to erect a monument to Gen. Herkimer at the battle field of Oriskany, N. Y., waft passed. The House bill amending the transportation of dutiable goods was taken up. On motion of various Senators the following places were included in points of destination : Nashtille, Knoxville, Omaha, Grand Haven, Peoria, Quincy, La Crosse, Keokuk, Alton, Cairo, Kansas City, and St. Louis. The bill was then passed. The Tariff Commission bill was then taken up, and, after a long debate upon various amendments, the bill was passed. The President nominated Eugene Schuyler, now Consul General at Rome, Consul General and Diplomatic Agent of the United States at Bucharest, and William N. Penthye, now Vice Consul at Tientsin, Secretary of the Commission to China... .In the House, the joint resolution appropriating $30,000 for a monument to mark the birthplace of George Washington was agreed to unanimously. The Committee on Ways and Means reported a resolution for the final adjournment of Congress at noon on the 10th inst., which was agreed to without debate—v eas, 106; nays, 68. The General Deficiency bill was then taken up and passed. The House then eonsid-.. ered the Senate amendments to the Postoffice Appropriation bill, some being accepted and others rejected. After the introduction of a petition for the passage of a bill granting lands in severalty to the Indians, the House adjourned. The bill for the relief of settlers within the late Fort Kearney Military Reservation, Nebraska, was passed by the Senate on Friday, June 4. Mr. Voorhees sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read a resolution under which the Exodus Committee was appointed, and spoke at considerable length thereon. A general debate followed upon District of Columbia matters... .In the House, on motion of Mr. Cannon, a joint resolution was passed authorizing the delivery of arms, etc., to tho soldiers’ reunion at Decatur, 111. The Senate amendments to the House bill granting condemned cannon for the erection of a soldiers’ monument at Marietta, Ohio, were concurred in. The Semite bill passed for disposing of the Fort Harker Military Reservation. The Postoffice Appropriation bill, as amended by the Senate, was takeu up and the amendment in regard to the star routes non-concurred in. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Patents, reported adversely on a bill to repeal an act renewing the patent of Henry Voelter for the wood-pulp process. Laid on the table. Fernando Wood stated that he would not call up the Refunding bill this session, as the House has resolved to adjourn June 10, but gave notice he would bring it before the House the first Wednesday in December next The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the private calendar, but, after considering three pension bills, the House refused either to adjourn or to proceed to business, add it was only by the Speaker’s voting in the affirmative on a tie vote that the motion to adjourn was carried.

THE EXODUS INVESTIGATION.

Conclusions Kcackcd by ll»c Committee. Senator Vance, of the majority of the Exodus Committee, has submitted a majority report to the United States Senate stating that much of tho evidence given was of such a character as would not be received in a court of justice, but it was received with a view of ascertaining, if possible, tho true condition of the colored people. Tho report continues: “We think it clearly established from the testimony that the migration of colored people was undoubtedly induced in a great degree by Northern politicians, and by negro leaders in the employ of railroad lines.” The committee find that the negroes are not deprived of their political rights, and not excluded from juries; that the wages paid are fair, about equal to the pay in tho Northern States; and that the school privileges are shared equally by whites and blacks. Continuing, the report says: “With regard to tho political outrages which have formed the staple of complaint tor many years against the people of the South, your committee diligently inquired, and have to report that they found nothing, or almost nothing, new. Many old stories were revived or dwelt upon by zealous witnesses, but very few, indeed, ventured to say that any considerable violence or outrage had been exhibited toward the colored people of the South within the last, few years ; and still fewer of all those who testified' on this subject, and who were evidently anxious to make the most of it, testified to anything as within their own knowledge. It was all hearsay, and nothing but hearsay, with rare exceptions'. With regard to the alleged extortion by landlords and country merchants who furnished supplies to laborers and tenants, the committee admit that they found it to be frequently the case that bad and dishonest men would take advantage of the ignorance or necessity of negroes and obtain exorbitant prices, but in justice to the planters of the South they feci bound to assert, however, that this abuse is not at all general or frequent. That there is much in the condition of the negroes to be deplored in the South no one will deny; that that condition is gradually and steadily improving in every respect is really true. That there has been a clashing between the races socially and politically is not to be wondered at.” The report concludes as follows: “The sooner the colored people of the South are taught to know that their interests are promoted by cultivating the friendship of then- white neighbors, instead of their enmity, the sooner they will gain that friendship ; and, that friendship and harmony once fully attained, there is nothing to bar the way to their speedy civilization and advancement in wealth and prosperity except such as hinder all people in that great work.”

An Outrage on the Press.

The outrageous manner in which members of the press were treated by the managers of the Republican menagerie recently on exhibition at Chicago will cause many [of them to remember their visit to the Garden City on that occasion with anything but pleasurable emotion. Several hundred editors of weekly newspapers went there for the purpose of witnessing the sessions of the convention and writing up a report of its doings for their papers. Their indignation and disgust knew no bounds when they found the doors closed upon them. Some 700 tickets weie voted to the “ veterans, ” and any bummer, who saw fit to go and register himself as an ex-soldier, found no difficulty in getting into the convention. But the editors of the country press, to the number of 500 or 600, who were legitimately entitled to seats in the hall, and who had too much manhood to play the bummer, were unable to get inside the building. Tickets were being haw ked about the streets and sold at the very doors of the convention hall—sold openly and unblushingly, by negroes and unclean loafers. The members of the country press have rarely been subject to such an outrage, and they will be slow to forget it.

Cost of a Circus.

If you have any idea of going into the circus business, know ye that pn even $60,000 will buy 100 work and ring horses, twenty-nine ponies, five elephants, five royal Bengal tigers, eight hyenas, two lionesses and three cubs, one lion, one jaguar, five panthers, one eland, two peccaries, one hartebeest, two antelopes, one llama, one sacred cow', one elk, one zebra, one camel, one emu, together with sixteen cages for animals in which such animals are kept,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

three cages for birds and small animals, two tableau ears, two railroad cars, one band wagon, one small chariot, one dragon chariot, one ticket wagon, six truck wagons, eight circus wagons, nine circus tents, with seats, and clothing for live sleeping cars.

A FREE BALLOT.

Senator Voorhees on Federal Supervision of Elections. The bill to define the tenure of Chief Supervisors of Election being under consideration in the United States Senate, Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, spoke as follows: I do not believe in Supervisors or Chief Supervisors of Elections. With all the strength of my convictions, heart and mind, I am against them all; for when it comes to me, either as a revelation or an affirmation, that the American people cannot govern themselves, either in township or county or in State, I will feel from my education that this Government is lost as a republic. I see nothing but evil in this Federal machinery, so called, to supervise the ingoing and the outcomingof the American ballot. Whatever other Senators may think upon this subject, I have no disguises about my opinion. If Senators on that side of the Chamber when they talk of a “nation” mean that a nation has the power to subvert the fundamental principles of popular sovereignty, of self-control, I do not believe in that sort of a nation. I believe in no loose confederacy from which an erratic star may shoot at its own pleasure. I believe' in no power of a State to break this Union. I said so during the war in my place in the House, and I believe just as little in the power of the Federal Government to usurp and supplant the power of the State in local self-government and home rule. There has been enormous abuse on this question. No wonder that the Senator from New York rises in his place to defend it; no wonder ho attempts to defeat this bill. It supplants, and if it did not supplant, the Chief Supervisor in New York I should not be for it. Tho amendment offered by the Senator from Ohio gives vital power, force, efficiency, and acceptability to this bill, and that is that no man who has heretofore held the office of Chief Supervisor, and, holding it, illustrated his tyranny, usurpation, oppression, and power of outrage, shall ever hold it again. But for that I would not vote for it. I have no hesitation in saying that I will vote for no bill that gives to tho President of the United States the power to keep Johnny Davenport and assimilated hirelings in politics the right to stay in office. I have heard this afternoon" a constant complaint of the danger of illegal voting. I ask tlie Senate to allow me to read a statement made by a member from the State of New York in the other branch of Congress. Speaking of the scenes and the practices that occurred at New York elections, he says:

A neighbor of mine, who had resided in the same district for seventeen years and a soldier in the Union army at that, was arrested. I was asked to go to the Republican headquarters in an adjoining district, whither he had been taken. The street for an entire block was lined with , carriages, in which the unfortunate citizens who had fallen into the hands of the Philistines had been or were to be conveyed. When I entered the building I found tho front room decorated with all the paraphernalia of a political headquarters, and filled with Republican politicians. In the back room a United States Commissioner was holding court. The door was closed, watched by a Cerberus. No one was allowed inside but the pris oners and the Republican managers. After about half an hour’s waiting, I was informed by the doorkeeper that the man I was looking for was no longer there. I asked whither he had been taken. “ Suppose to Fort Davenport,” was the laconic reply. Is that agreeable to Senators ou that side of the Chamber ? Is it agreeable to read that a Chief Supervisor has some place designated by his own name as a place of imprisonment for American citizens. “‘Fort Davenport,’ was the laconic reply.” Let me read now what “ Fort Davenport ” looked like when this man reached there : Such a scene as the rooms of this Court presented on that election day has never before been witnessed in this city or in this country, and it is to be hoped never will again. From early morning until after the polls were closed these rooms were packed and jammed with a mass of prisoners and Marshals. Not only were they crowded beyond their capacity, but the halls and corridors were thronged with those who were unable to obtain admission, so that the counsel representing the prisoners and the bondsmen who were offered to secure their release had the greatest difficulty, and were frequently unsuccessful in obtaining entrance. In addition to all this was that delectable iron “pen” on the upper floor, in which men were crowded until it resembled the Black Hole of Calcutta, and where they were kept for hours hungry, thirsty, suffering in every way, until their cases could be reached.

What a choice morsel of American history is here for those who stand on this floor and cry out for a nation to put people in an iron pen and keep them there. With scarcely au exception these men had gone to the polls expecting to be absent but a short time. Many of them were thinly clad; numbers had sick wives or relatives; some were sick themselves. There were carmen who had left their horses standing in the public streets; men whose situations depended on their speedy return; men who wished to leave the city on certain trains. Every imaginable vexation, inconvenience, injury and wrong which the mind can conceive existed in their cases, so that it was painful for the counsel who were endeavoring to secure their release to approach sufficiently near the railing to hear their piteous appeals and witness the distress which they had no power to alleviate. And over all this pushing, struggling, complaining crowd Mr. Commissioner John I. Davenport sat supreme, with a sort of Oriental magnificence, calmly indifferent to everything but the single fact that no man who was arrested was allowed to vote. No Turk invested with a Caliph’s power in some province under the sway of the Sultan ever outraged individual security, personal decency, personal liberty beyond what is there described; and I say to the Senators on the other side, on this question, as on all others, we will meet you and continue to meet you, discuss it with you, and we will triumph, unless American liberty shall die. As long as liberty lives, as long as the inherent, everlasting, glorious rights for which our fathers counseled, led the" armies, and fell on the field, live, so long we will be right and you will be wrong, and nobody knows it better than the Senators on that side themselves. No one knows the inherent force and pow’er of this issue more than they do. They spring up here and make false issues upon us, or seek to do so, dreading and knowing perfectly well that upon the great question of the right and power of the people, unsupervised, uninspected, unspied, to cast their votes, this side of the Chamber is entirely right. Mr. President, the Senator from Colorado has assumed to say—and I speak to him and of him with entire personal kindness ; it is not in my heart to speak otherwise of men unless I am compelled to do so—that we are afraid to meet issues like this. I will tell you who is afraid. The Senators on that side of the Chamber are afraid to trust the people ; they are afraid to trust the sovereign capacity of the people ; they are afraid to trust the intelligence of the people ; they are afraid to trust the virtue of the people ; they dare not do it, because without hindrance, without control, the people will condemn those who desire to put spies upon them and enact in the laws of this country a system of espionage. The Senators on that side are those who are afraid, and they are much more afraid than it would be possible for this side of the Chamber to be of that side. They are afraid of that great, majestic power of public opinion ; they are afraid of the great, untrammeled power of the people, and they cant—cant is the word—upon the subject of a nation. What is the meamng of it ? What do you mean by it ? Do you mean that a nation sfiall come in with imperial power to strike down the unrestrained and untrammeled voting capacity of the people ? Do you mean by that that it is necessary for Supervisors and Chief Supervisors and Deputy Marshals, clothed with insolent power as they are with their locust clubs, to go into my State and up and down the regions there to master and overmaster the people’s judgment and their will ? Who is it that is afraid here ? I will tell you who is afraid. The Senator from Vermont is afraid to trust the people ; the Senator from Vermont is afraid to take away his overseers ; he is afraid to take away his spies ; he is afraid to take away this system of espionage; he is afraid to take away this system of brute force. He desires John I. Davenport and his iron pen. He is afraid to trust the doctrines of the Revolution, which said that this Government was founded upon the virtue and the intelligence of the people.

John and His Wonderful Ways.

The Chinese utilize almost everything that comes along. This was strikingly illustrated yesterday during the gale. While bowlders as big as pumpkins were flying through the ah- and waterpipes were being ripped out of the ground, an old Chinaman with spectacles on his nose was observed in the eastern part of town seated on a knoll calmly flying his kite—an iron shutter with a log-chain for a tail.—> Virginia (Wev.) Chronicle,

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The National Republican Convention met in the Exposition Building, at Chicago, on Wednesday, June 2, and was called to order by Don Cameron, Chairman of the National Committee, Upon whose motion George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts; was made Temporary Chairman. John H. Roberts, of Illinois, and C. L. Magee; of Pennsylvania, were appointed Temporary Secretaries, after which the Committees on Credentials, Resolutions, Permanent Organization, and Rules and Order of Business, consisting of one delegate from each State and Territory, were announced. The roll of the States and Territories was then called for the presentation of credentials and for notice of contest. Contests were announced in Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Utah. The convention then adjourned until Thursday morning, June 3. SECOND DAY H PROCEEDINGS. At 11:45 Chairman Hoar called the convention to order. The gavel which he used was made from -a piece of Lincoln's house at Springfield. The noise was increased ten-fold by the rush of the delegates and the audience to take their seats. The invocation was offered by Rev. F. A. Noble, D. D., who asked the divine blessing on the day’s work of the convention. The Chairman announced that he awaited the pleasure of the convention. Mr. Conkling, of New York, asked whether the Committee on Credentials was ready to report. The chair announced that be understood the committee was not likely to be ready to report for several hours, probably not before 4 o’clock. Mr. Conkling said it was essential that it should be known who were and who were not members before proceeding to business. He therefore moved that the convention adjourn until 6 o’clock this evening. After some time had been consumed in discussing the motion, it was put and lost. The convention then proceeded to the election of permanent officers, which resulted in the choice by acclamation of the temporary officers, including George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, for Chairman. A motion was then made and carried that the convention adjourn until 5 o'clock p. in. The convention reassembled at 5:25 o’clock. Gen. Henderson, of lowa, said that he understood that the Committee on Credentials was not ready to report, and, in order to expedite the business of the convention, he moved that the report of tho Committee on Rules be received at this time. Gen. Logan, of Illinois, said that he did not rise to make any captious objection to tho motion. But, in the name of justice he desired to enter a protes' against the adoption of the motion. The report of the Committee on Credentials should be made and passed upon before the Committee on Rules and Order of Business reported. There were some things in the report of the Committee on Credentials which he entered a solemn protest against. The report of the Committee on Credentials would hold that a State had no right to name its own delegates to.a National Convention. In the name of unity, and the success of the grand old Republican party, he demanded fair play. Fair play he was sure would be shown to the delegation from Illinois. Gen. Henderson said he was glad to hear the sentiments uttered by Logan. There was no gentleman in the country from whom he would more gladly hear the announcement of a desire for fair play. Mr, Boutwell proceeded to speak upon the rule limiting the speaking to five minutes. Hon. Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, said tliat he had listened to much acrimonious debate, caused by a report that the Committee on Rules intended to bring in a five-minute rule. He would say that, while he disagreed with the Senator from Illinois on some points made in his remarks, still ho was with him on tho question of this five-minute rule.

Gen. Sharp, of New York, moved, as a substitute to the motion of Gen. Henderson, that the Committee on Credentials be now directed to report. Gen. Garfield, of Ohio, said there was no foundation for any charge of bad faith against the Committee on Rules. The Committee on Rules agreed not to bring forward of its own motion its report until after the report of the Committee on Credentials. But it was understood that the convention could do so if it thought best. He thought it very proper for the convention to take up the report of the Committee on Rules first. Senator Conkling thought that upon an important subject like this every delegate should vote. He urged the importance of the convention discovering who composed it. He was in favor of the adoption of tne amendment offered by his colleague. After some further discussion a vote was taken on the substitute of Gen. Sharp that the Committee on Credentials be instructed to report. Intense interest was manifested in the vote, which resulted as follows: Ayes, 318: noes, 406. So the substitute was rejected. The result was received with loud applause. When the State of Kentucky was called the Chairman arose and said that/acting under instructions from the State Convention, he would cast twenty-four votes solid “aye.” Instantly four men were standing upon their chairs in the center of the delegation and shouting loudly to attract the attention of the chair. Finally, amid confusion, one of the delegates said that there were four stalwarts in Kentucky, and that every one of them desired to vote nay upon the question before the house. He said that no State Convention could muzzle his intelligence, or the intelligence of his colleagues. A motion to adjourn until Friday, June 4, at 10 o’clock, was then made and carried. fFliird Day. Ch lirman Hoar called the convention to order at precisely 10:48 a. m. After prayer by Rev. Dr. Little, Senator Conkling opened the ball by presenting a resoluiion reciting that no one should hold a seat in the convention unless he intended to support the nominee. A squeaky female voice back of the stage moved to amend by giving the ballot to women. Of course the interruption was unheeded. Eugene Hale, of Maine, jumped up and promised that his side would work night and day for the candidate. The resolution was adopted on a viva-voce vote, but to emphasize it a gentleman demanded a call of the States. The call proceeded uninterruptedly, all of the delegates voting aye, until West Virginia being reached, three votes were cast in the negative, amid a perfect storm of hisses, and when the vote was announced 716 for and 3 against the resolution, Conkling offered another, setting forth that the three who voted in the negative had forfeited their votes and their seats in the convention. This motion was cheered. The three delegates were S. P. McCormick, W. J. Burly, and A. W. Campbell, editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer. Campbell said he had voted the Republican ticket from his youth up, and when only thirty-nine votes were cast in his State for Abraham Lincoln. He carried his sovereignty under his hat, and would never bind himself not to exercise his right to think for himself. One of his colleagues, who voted in the affirmative, testified to the bravery with which Campbell had upheld the Republican standard. Brandagee, of Connecticut, spoke in favor of free speech. McCormick, one of the three, stated that he had not voted against the resolution because he did not intend to vote for the candidate, because he did intend to vote for him, but as a matter of principle, and then he went savagely for Conkling, saying that he had served two years in the war, and in 1876 had made over 100 speeches for the Presidential nominee, whereas the gentleman from New York had made only one, and it was notorious that-the gentleman from New York never gave a hearty support to the Republican party unless he wanted something from it for himself. Young, of Tennessee, a colored delegate, said something about the lack of grit in Southern delegates. Campbell remarked that he thought he had as much grit as any man who wore a conscience in his breast. Garfield got up, and, after the prolonged applause had ceased, he defended the right of the Virginians to vote no if they thought the motion inopportune. The gentlemen had stated that they intended to vote for the nominee, and that was all that should be asked of them. An allusion by the Ohio orator to the right of delegates to represent their constituents was cheered. He suggested that the gentleman from New York withdraw the resolution. Mr. Conkling did so amid cheers and hisses. The chair announced that he would clear the galleries from which hisses came. He was very properly indignant, and denounced the hissing as an outrage. The report of the Committee on Rules was read, also a minority report. The consideration of the report was postponed until after the Credentials Committee reported, which the chair announced would be in half an hour. At the expiration of the half-hour the chair called the convention to order, it being now 1 o’clock. He immediately introduced Hon. Omar D. Conger, Chairman of the Committee on Credentials, who on behalf of the committee

apologized for delay in deciding cases before them. He represented the difficulties under which they labored. They had been almost continuously and laboriously in session for over two days. The committee had considered all cases with candor and fairness, and without dispute, except on the merits of the various questions. The committee report a roll of members. In the Louisiana contest, they recommend the admission of the Warmoth delegation and the exclusion of the Beattie delegation. The report discusses the organization of the convention of the State of Louisiana; They find that the bolt was without cause; They recommend the admission of James T, Rapier in the Fourth Congressional district of Alabama. This case is also traversed. They also advise that Smith and Warner ; who were duly elected by the District Convention, should be admitted in place of Arthur Brigam and R. A. Mosely, of the Seventh Alabama. In the Illinois case the committee recommend the following changes : In nine Congressional districts the contestants are admitted in place of sitting members. The Second Congressional district (West Side, Chicago) remains unchanged. The districts in which changes are made in Illinois : First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, 'Thirteenth and Seventeenth. The committee report in favor of retaining the four delegates-at-large from Illinois. In Kansas four district delegates are reported in place of sitting members. In Pennsylvania Ninth and Nineteenth districts, sitting members are recommended as entitled to hold their seats.

In West Virginia the sitting members are entitled to their seats in contested cases. The committee rehearses the call of the National Committee as a basis for its action on all contested cases, and refers to previous calls to sustain their position and to show the justice of their decision. The calls of 1856, '6O, ’64 and all others down to the present date were the same in this ■ respect as the calls of this year, and all were adopted with a purpose to remove doubts and make district representation a principle that could not be controverted or disputed. The committee also say that the State conventions, too, have in almost every case decided that Congressional districts should have representation in the National Convention as they have elected them. The rights of representatives so elected have ever been regarded as sacred, and should not now be invaded for the first time in the history of the party by this convention. The committee declares the purpose of the convention is to select the candidate most Itkely to be elected, and the nearer we get to the true feeling of the people, the wiser and safer will be that selection. If State conventions may select delegates to a national convention who do not represent the feeling of the people, then those State conventions might as well select all the delegates from a single district in the State. This overriding of the will of the people cannot be too severely censured. In tho Utah case the committee favors retaining the sitting members as being in accord with these principles. Mr. Clayton, of Arkansas, presented a minority report, which was read by the Secretary. The minority report differed from the majority mainly on the part of district representation, setting forth that, if the committee should adopt that method of selecting delegates, it would violate one of the best-established customs of the Republican party. Mr. Conger moved that the report be so divided that each State shall be considered separately. Mr. Conger presented a corrected roll of the convention, according to the report, and moved to take up the Louisiana case first. Mr. Cessna, of Pennsylvania, submitted a proposition that all of the report upon which the committee had agreed be adopted, and then proceed to take up the four propositions upon which the committee had not agreed—those of West Virginia, Alabama, Illinois and Utah.

Gen. Logan arose and asked Mr. Conger if there was any contest over the four delegates-at-large from Illinois. Mr. Conger said there was not. Gen. Logan asked if there was any particular reason, then, why this conscientious majority of the Committee on Credentials had found it necessary to, consider the Illinois delegates-at-large at all He asked for fair play and decent treatment on the floor. “There is no contest in Illinois,” said Gen. Logan, “and no committee has any light to question my title to a seat in this convention.” Gen. Logan asserted that any pretense of a contest in Illinois was false, and altogether unwarranted. Mr. Sharpe, of New \ ork, moved to amend Mr. Cessna’s motion by striking out all reference to the four delegates-at-large from Illinois. Mr. Conger replied to Gen. Logan in a warm speech. He regretted that Gen. Logan or any one else should feel that the Committee on Credentials was disposed to do them an injustice. After a long and heated discussion, participated in principally by Conkling and Logan on the one side, and Haymond, of California, and Conger, of . Michigan, on the other, the motion of Gen. Sharpe was adopted, with only a few dissentient votes. That portion of the report of th<s Credentials Committee concerning which there was no disagreement was then adopted without opposition. That part of the report relating to the State of Alabama, was next taken up and discussed until 4:20 p. m., when, on motion of Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, the convention took a recess until 7 o'clock. The convention reassembled at 7:35 p. m. and t >ok up the Alabama case, and, on motion of Gen. Harrison, of Indiana, forty minutes’ times was allotted to the discussion of the case —twenty minutes to the friends of the majority and twenty .minutes to the advocates of the minority report. Mr. Turner, of Alabama, and Gen. B. F. Tracy, of New York, then proceeded to state the case of the minority of the committee, while Mr. Parsons, of Alabama, and Gen. Bateman, of Ohio, made a plea for the majority report. The motion to substitute the minority for the majority report was then put and lost by a vote of 306 yeas to 449 nays, The convention then proceeded to the consideration of the case of Illinois, and two hours’ time was allotted, by vote of the convention, to its discussion—one hour to each side. Mr. Conger, of Michigan, and Mr. Anthony (one of the contesting delegates), of Illinois, then proceeded to make the plea for the majority report, while Gen. Baum and Emory A. Storrs, of Illinois, presented the case of the minority.

At the close of the two hours Chairman Hoar shut off debate, and Mr. Cessna, of Pennsylvania, called for a division of the question—the first part, to embrace the First Congressional district of Illinois, the second division to embrace the other districts in dispute, reserving the right, if occasion should require, to make a further subdivision of the second division. Senator Clayton, of Arkansas, offered a substitute to the effect that the report of the minority of the, Committee on Credentials, so far as the same relates to the First district of Illinois, be substituted for that part of the report of the majority of said committee which relates to that district. The substitute was 105t—353 yeas to 387 nays. That portion of the majority report relating to the First District of Illinois was then adopted by 384 yeas to 356 nays. The remainder of the majority report relating to the State of Illinois was adopted by about the same vote, and the convention, at 2:20 a. in., adjourned until 11 o’clock a. m., Saturday, June 5. Fourth Day. President Hoar called the convention to order at 11:45 a.m., and the proceedings were opened with a prayer by Rev. J. R. Paxton, of Washington citv. Ex-Gov. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, offered the following resolution : That the National Executive Committee be, and it is hereby, instructed to present a method or methods for the election of delegates to the National Convention to be held in 1884, to announce the same to the country, and to issue the call for the convention in conformity therewith. Objection being made to the resolution, the chair ruled that the special order, namely, the consideration of the majority report on credentials, was the only thing before the convention. The chair having decided that the report of the Committee on Credentials was in order, the contest in the State of Kansas was first in order. Mr. Conger, Chairman of the committee, opened the debate on the question of admitting the contesting delegates from the Second ana Third districts of Kansas. The report favored their admission, and Mr. Conger explained the report. The convention, by 476 yeas to 184 nays, voted to admit the contesting delegates from the Second and Third districts. The next question was upon so much of the majority report as relates to West Virginia. Mr. Conger, on behalf of the Credentials Committee, reported that the contest there was in the Third district. The committee recommended that the sitting members be allowed to retain their seats. The claimants contested on the ground that they had been elected in a district convention, but the committee found that this was not proven. Some of the delegates met the even? mg after the State Convention, but the commit?

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tee were of the opinion that there was not a majority of tha district at such meeting. This was the’only point before the convention. A delegate from Arkansas moved that so much of the report of the minority as relates to the contest in West Virginia be substituted for the majority report. After considerable debate, the motion to adopt the minority report was adopted by a vote of 417 yeas to 330 nays. The case of Utah was next in order, and was settled by the adoption of the minority report seating the contestants by a vote of 426 yeas to 312 nays. The report of the Committee on Credentials, as amended,.was then adopted as a whole. The report of the Committee on Rules was then presented and adopted. Gen. Garfield then moved that the Committee on Resolutions be ordered to report.. The motion was carried unanimously, and Hon. Edwards Pierrpont, of New York, presented the report. The resolutions were as follows:

The Republican party, In National Convention assembled, at the end of twenty years since the Federal Government was first committed to its charge, submits to the people of the United States this brief report of its administration: It suppressed a rebellion which had armed narly 1,000,000 of men to subvert the national authority ; it reconstructed the Union of States with freedom instead of slavery as its corner-stone; it transformed 4,000,000 human beings from the likeness os things to the rank of citizens; it relieved Congress from the infamous work of hunting fugitive slaves, and charged it to see that slavery does not exist; it has raised the value of our paper currency from 38 per cent, to the par of gold ; it has restored, upon a solid basis, payment in coin of all national obligations, and has given us a currency absolutely good and equal in every part of our extended country ; it has lifted the credit of the nation from the point where 6-per-cent. bonds sold at 86, to that where 4-per-cent. bonds are eagerly sought at a premium. Ruder its administration railways have increased from 31,000 miles in 1860 to more than 82,000 miles in 1879. Our foreign trade increased from $700,000,000 to $1,150,000,000 in the same time, and our exports, which were $20,000,000 less than our imports in 1860, were $265,000,000 more than our imports in 1879. Without resorting to loans, it has, since the war closed, defrayed the ordinary expenses of Government, besides the accruing interest on the pub'ic debt, and has disbursed annually more than $30,000,000 for soldiers’ and sailors’ pensions. It has paid $880,000,000 of the public debt, and, by refunding the balance at lower rates, has reduced the annual interest charge from nearly $150,000,000 to less than $89,000,000. All the industries of the country have revived, labor is in demand, wages have increased, and throughout the entire country there is evidence of a coming prosperity greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upon this record the Republican party asks for the continued confidence and support of the people, and this Convention submits to their approval the following statement of tlm principles and purposes which will continue to guide and inspire its efforts : 1. We affirm that the work of the Republican party for the last twenty years has been such as to commend it to the favor of the nation; that the fruits of the costly victories which we have achieved through immense difficulties should be preserved; that the peace regained should be cherished; that the Union should be perpetuated, and that the liberty be transmitted undiminished to other generations; that the order established and the credit acquired should never be impaired; that the pensions promised should be paid; that the debt so much reduced should be extinguished by the full payment of every dollar thereof; that the reviving industries should be further promoted, and that the commerce, already increasing, should be steadily encouraged.

2. The constitution of the United States is a supreme law and not a mere contract. Out of confederated States it made a sovereign nation. Some powers are denied to the nation, while others are denied to the States, but the boundary between the powers delegated and those reserved is to be determined by the national and not ky the State tribunal. 3. The work of popular education is one left to the care of the several States, but it is the duty of the National Government to aid that work to the extent of its constitutional ability. The intelligence of the nation is but the aggregate of the intelligence in the several States, and that the destiny of the nation must be guided, not by the genius of any one State, but by the average genius of all. 4. The constitution wisely forbids Congress to make any law respecting the establishment of religion, but it is id e to hope that the nation can be protected against the influence of secret sectarianism, while each State is exposed to its domination. We, therefore, recommend that the constitution be so amended as to lay the same prohibition upon the Legislature of each State, and to forbid the appropriation of public funds to the support of sectarian schools. 5. We reaffirm the belief avowed in 1876 that the duties levied for the purpose of revenue should so discriminate as to favor American labor; that no further grants of the public domain should be made to any railway or other corporation; that, slavery having perished in the States, its twin barbarity, polygamy, must die in the Territories; that everywhere the protection accorded to a citizen of American birth must be secured to citizens by American adoption. That we deem it the duty of Congress to develop and improve our sea coast and harbors, but insist that further subsidies to private persons or corporations must cease; that the obligations of the republic to the men who preserved its integrity in the day of battle are undiminished by thff lapse of fifteen years since their final victory. To do them honor is and shall forever be the grateful privilege and sacred duty of the American people. 6. Since the authority to regulate immigration and intercourse between the United States and foreign nations rests with the Congress of the United States and the treaty-making power, the Republican party, regarding unrestricted immigration of Chinese as a matter of grave concernment, under the exercise of both these powers, would limit and restrict that immigration by the enactment of such just, humane and reasonable laws and treaties as will produce that result. 7. That the purity and patriotism which characterized the earlier oareer of Rutherford B. Hayes m peace and war, and which guided the thoughts of our immediate predecessors to him for a Presidential candidate, have continued to inspire him in his career as Chief Executive; and that history will accord to his administration the honors which are due to an efficient, just and courteous discharge of. the public business, and will honor his vetoes interposed between the people and attempted partisan laws.

8. We charge upon the Democratic party the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and justice to a supreme and insatiable lust for office and patronage; that, to obtain possession of the National Government and the control of place, they have obstructed all efforts to promote the purity and to conserve the freedom of the suffrage, and have devised fraudulent ballots, and invented fraudulent certification of returns; have labored to unseat lawfully-elected members of Congress to secure at all hazards the vote of a majority of States in the House of Representatives; have endeavored to occupy by force and fraud the places of trust given to others by the people of Maine, rescued by the courage and action of Maine’s patriotic sons; have, by methods vicious in principle and tyrannical in practice, attached partisan legislation to appropriation bills upon whose passage the very movement of the Government depended; have crushed the rights of the individual; have advocated the principles and sought the favor of the Rebellion against the nation, and have endeavored to obliterate the sacred memories and to overcome its inestimably valuable results of nationality, personal freedom, and individual equality. The equal, and steady, and complete enforcement of the laws, and the protection of all our citizens in the enjoyment of all privileges and immunity guaranteed by the constitution, are the first duties of the nation. The dangers of a “ solid South ” can only be averted by a faithful performance of every promise which the nation has made to the citizen. The execution of the laws, and the punishment of all those who violate them, are the only safe methods by which an enduring peace can be secured and genuine prosperity established throughout the South. Whatever promises the nation makes the nation must perform. A nation cannot with safety re'egate this duty to the States. The “ solid South ” must be divided by the peaceful agencies of the ballot, and all honest opinions must there find free expression. To this end the honest voter must be protected against terrorism, violence or fraud. And we affirm it to tie the duty and the purpose of the Republican party to use all legitimate means to restore all the States of this Union to the most perfect harmony which may be possible, and we submit to the practical, sensible people of these United States to say whether it would not be dangerous to the dearest interests of our country at this time to surrender the administration of the National Government to a party which seeks to overthrow the existing policy under which we are so prosperous, and thus bring distrust and confusion where there is now order, confidence and hope. Mr. Barker, of Massachusetts, offered the following amendment to the resolutions, which, after some discussion, was put to a vote and declared adopted: The Republican party, adhering to the principles affirmed by its last National Convention of respect for the constitutional rules governing appointments to office, adopts the declaration of President Hayes that the reform of the sivil cervice should Ik- thorough, radical and complete. To this end it demands the co-operation of the Legislative with the Executive departments of the Government, and that Congresi shall so legislate that fitness, ascertained by proper practical tests, shall admit to the public service. Mr. Hale, of Maine—l move that the roll of States be called, that the announcement maybe made of the members of the National Committee, as selected by the States and Territories and the District of Columbia. The motion was put and unanimously carried. The roll was called, with the following result : Alabama—Paul Strobach. Arkansas—S. W. Dorsey. California—Horace Davis. Colorado —John L. Routt. Connecticut—Marshall Jewell. Delaware—Chris Febiger. Florida—William W. Hicks. Georgia—James D. Deveaux. Illinois—John A. Logan. Indiana—John C. New. lowa—John S. Runnels. Kansas—John A. Martin. Kentucky—W. O. Bradley. Louisiana—Henry C. Warmoth. Maine—William P. Frye.

gemotraiq JOB PRINTINB OFFICE Em better tacflitiM than any office In Northwerter* Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB FBITJTING, PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prfce-Ust, or from a nmphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

Maryland—James A Gary. Massachusetts—John M. Forbes. Michigan—Junies H. Stone. Minnesota—E. M. Sabin. Mississippi—George C. McKee. Missouri—Chauncey I. Filley. Nebraska—James W. Dawes. Nevada—John W. Mackey. . New Hampshire—W. E. Chandler. ! New Jersey—George A. Halsey. New York—Thomae C. Platt North Carolina—W. P. Canady. Ohio—W. C. Cooper. Oregon—D. C. Ireland. Pennsylvania—J. Don Cameron. /, Rhode Island—William A. Pierco. South Carolina—Samuel Lee. / Tennessee—William Rule. Texas—■ -—— Vermont—George W. Hooker. Virginia—Samuel L. Jones. West Virginia—John W. Mason. Wisconsin—Elihu Enos. Arizona—R. C. McCormick. Dakota . District of Columbia . Idaho—George L. Shoup. Montana—Alex. H. Beattie. New Mexico—Stephen B. Elkin. Utah—C. W. Bennett Washington—Thomas T. Miner Wyoming—James L. Cary. Dakota being unable to agree upon a name, the National Committee was authorized by resolution to fill the vacancy. Texas and the District of Columbia were given further time to select members of the National Committee. The following resolution, offered by Mr. Drake, of Minnesota, was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That, in case of the death or resignation of any member of the National Central Committee, the vacancy may be fl'led by appointment made by the State Central Committee of the proper State, or Territory, or District. Mr. Hale, of Maine, next took the floor, and moved that the roll of States be called in alphabetical order, and that, whenever any State shall bo reached from which a nomination is to bo made for a candidate for President, the nomination be made under the rules adopted by this convention. The Chairman—The Clerk will read the rule on the subject of balloting for nominations for President. The Secretary read rule 9, as follows : No member shall speak more than once upon the same question, nor longer than five minutes, unless by leave of the convention, except that the delegate presenting the name of a candidate shall be allowed ten minutes in presenting the name of such candidate. The motion of Mr. Hale was adopted. Nominations for President being next in order, Mr. James F. Joy, of Michigan, when the name of that State was reached in the roll, arose and nominated James G. Blaine, of Maine. Messrs. Pixley, of California, and Frye, of Maine, seconded the nomination. Mr. Drake, of Minnesota, nominated William Windom, of Minnesota. Roscoe Conkling named Ulysses 8. Grant, the nomination being seconded by Mr. Bradley, of Kentucky. Gen. Garfield nominated John Sherman, of Ohio, seconded by F. C. Winckler, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Hill, of South Carolina. Fred. Billings, of Vermont, named George F. Edmunds, of Vermont; John E. Sanborn, of Massachusetts, seconding the nomination. J. B. Cassody, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Brandagee, of Connecticut, nominated E. B. Washburne, of Illinois. Without taking a ballot, the convention, at 11:45 p. m„ adjourned until 10 o’clock a. in. Monday, June 7.

INDIANA NEWS.

The tobacco crop of Pike county will be very short this year. Salem boasts of the fattest man in Indiana, Col. Horace Heffren, weighing 498 pounds. A case of elopement hi Fort Wayne was recently nipped in the bud by the watchful mother of the young lady. A bad wheel under a New York Central freight-car was the cause of ditching seven cars near Marion, the other day. There are 134 insurance companies doing business in Indiana. Of this number twenty-eight are life-insurance companies. The wife of Michael Sass and two children were drowned while attempting to ford Pigeon creek, near Millersville, Warrick county. During a heavy rain-storm several pike, some of them five inches long, and dozens of minnows were rained down four miles south of Kokomo. The Catholics of Sullivan have decided to use their present church building for school purposes, and erect a new edifice costing about $12,000. Mrs. David Gibson, of Marion township, Allen county, ate her supper, apparently in usual health, but in walking from the table she fell to the floor, ami expired almost instantly. Notre Dame College has filed an application with the Adjutant General of this State for 100 stands of arms for the military company which has been organized among the students. The collected reports concerning the wheat crop in Southern Indiana agree that the prospect is that the crop of 1880 will be.the heaviest, by 20 per cent., ever grown in the counties named. The decision of the Supreme Court whether the recent adoption of the constitutional amendments was in a manner itself constitutional will determine whether or not an election shall occur in October. The Supreme Court decides that the Governor must draw on the fund for building a new State -House in order to pay rent for offices temporarily occupied, there being no fund especially appropriated to the payment of rent. Jeremiah Lacey, one of the early settlers in Fort Wayne, 92 years of age, attempted suicide by throwing himself on the railroad track in front of an approaching train, and afterward by cutting a large gash in his throat with a butcher’s knife. Among a lot of chairs received at a furniture store in New Albany, was one with the following written underneath the bottom: “This chair was made by a Michigan City life convict. My God! this is the worst h—l that ever was or ever will be, I do believe. ” Mrs. Polly Bowman, an .old pioneer of Harrison county, died at the residence of her grandson, Jacob Bruce, four miles east of Corydon. She was in the 105th year of her age, and was the oldest inhabitant of the county, and probably of Southern Indiana. The deceased was a highly-respected old lady. The graves m the cemetery at Salem have of late been almost daily visited by vandals, who despoil them of the flowers and shrubbery that ornament them. Recently a man with his second wife dug up all the flowers and shrubbery over his first wife’s grave, and transferred them to his door-yard for the delight of the second partner of his bosom. In digging among the ruins of his house in Richmond, which was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Bennett Baumer discovered an earthen jar over the mouth of which was drawn a piece of parchment, and on removing this he found a roll of bank bills amounting to $l5O. The jar had evidently been hid in the cellar where the fire could not get at it, but how it came there or who it belonged to he has no idea. Mrs. Fannie Monroe, aged 88 years widow of the late Col. Henry Monroe, died at New Albany the other day, of measles. She was one of the pioneer women of Southern Indiana. She helped, in her girlhood days, to make clothing for the soldiers who fought with Gen. Harrison at Tippecanoe. Hei husband was a soldier in the war of 1812.