Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 July 1872 — Page 6

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C. DOANI, NEWS SUMMARY. The EmU Three men were killed by a stroke of lihaning. near lloetou. July 5. Margaret Elliott murdered ber daughter Jane, aged 17, at New York, July 5. by strangling ber to death. Near I'tica. N. Y., July 6, a baru m which a party of railroad laborer had taken shelter was blown down, and two of the laborers killed and several seriously injured. The reported consolidation of the Erie and Central railroads, and the elevation of Commodore Yanderbilt to the bead of the new corporation, turns out to be without foundation. The deaths in Philadelphia for the week endiug July 6 numbered 764 an increase over the preceding week of 350. One-half wer children under one year. Judge John H. McCunn died in New York. July 6. from nervous prostration, the result of his mortification and grief at being removed from office by the State Senate on the ground of corruption and malfeasance. Judge McCunn left an estate valued at t3,OOO,000. Three boys were killed by an explosion of fireworks in South Boston. July 5. A policeman was beaten to death by a gang of rowdies in New York, on the night of July 7. In one day, last week, twenty-three boys were sentenced to the Penitentiary, in a New York city court. E. L. Sanderson, lawyer, sues the Dreokiyn Union for libel, claiming 50,000 damages. A man fell from the top of the Brooklyn tower of the East river bridge, a distance of 100 feet, the other day, and. strange to relate, was uninjured. A Cuban war vessel, heavily armed, was captured at Newport. R. L, July 9, by a United States revenue cutter, and taken into New York. W hat disposition the Government will make of her is not yet stated. The much mooted question of the Erie management has been nnaliy settled by the election of P. H. Watson, of Ohio. President, and Gen. Devin, of New York, Vice-President. They are in the interest of the English stockholders. An explosion in the iron works at Quakertown. Pa.. July 9, killed three persons and seriously injured several others. The daily New York Standard has suspended publication. This makes about 100 daily journals started and suspended in New York within quarter of a century, after a precarious existence. The capital sunk in them has not been less than 25.000,000. The great trot at Fleetwood Park, New York, on July 9. '.ween Goldsmith Maid. Lucy. Henry and American Girl was won by the Girl in three straight heats. Time 2:21. hVtjfi 2:24. After the second heat. Goldsmith Maid was allowed to withdraw, on the claim that she bad cut her quarter. Sporting men, however. generally contend that the Maid was beaten on her merits, the slight crack in her heel on which she was withdrawn being regarded as a mere subterfuge. The time made is the beet ever accomplished over the Fleetwood course, and good judges claim that, considering the track, it equals the best of Goldsmith Maid's performances. Tbe new directory of the Erie railroad are going to inaugurate some healthy reforms in the management of their road. Their first move will be to cut off the Fien and Gould side-shows, tbe oil companies, car-building companies, and other concerns that have been sucking Erie's life-blood. The opera-house and the Twenty-third street office arc to be sold, and the company will go back to its less pretentious office at th- foot of Duano street, where its real business has always been done. The large brewery nrms of Windenmayer A 8ons and Philip Brock, of Newark, N.J., are reported to have failed. The liabilities of the former are 150.000 : of the latter, 180,000. Patrick Morrissey has been convicted, at Buffalo, of murder in the first degree, for killing his mother. James Burns has been tried at New York on the charge of murder, for killing John Halloran, and acquitted on the ground of insanitv. The prisoner was immediately committed to a lunatic asylum. David Paul Brown, the eminent Philadelphia lawyer, is dead. An earthquake shock was Sensibly felt in various portions of Eastern New York on tbe 11th of July. The West. Two boys were drowned in Lading creek, Cincinnati, July 7. There is a general strike among the lumbermen of Saginaw (Mich.) valley, and the mills are silent. Employers and employes each declare their firm determination not to budge. The strikers are orderly and quiet. At Cincinnati, July 7. Rev. Samuel J. Browne, aged 86 years, shot and killed a boy of 12 years who bad entered his premises to recover a base-ball that had been thrown over the fence. There was much excitement in tbe immediate neighborhood, and a strong disposition manifested to lynch the aged murderer. Two men were drowned while battling, near Moline, III.. July 7. District Attorney Bates, of TJtab, has provided a Grand Jury with a view to present indictments against several prominent Mormons for violation of the anti-polygamy law of 1862. It is expected that these cases will be brought up for final decision in tbe Supreme Court of th United States within a year. It is reported that rich gold diggings have been discovered in Logan county, III. Mrs. Henrv Sombworth. of Cleveland, recentlv poisoned her three children, aged 9, 7 and 4 years, and then cut her own throat. She was insane. I San Francisco telegram states that the Apaches from tbe great reservation of Arizona, who m vie a treaty with Gen. Howard a month since, and been full fed. have left with

the avowed luteutton of going on the war path.

lrooiutarw purauuiK. Manv depredations are reported. A fearful tragedy n as enacted uear t'eliua. Mercer county, Ohio, on tbe 9th of July. Two im it, named Jacob Kimniel and Alexander McLeod. and a youth, brother of Kiuiniol, bad been guilty of violating and subsequently murdering a gu l of fourteen years of age, liv ing in OeUua. and were in jail awaiting trial. A mob of between two and three thousand people gathered at the jail, overpowered the Sheriff, forced the doors, took the three pris oners out of town and hauged two of them. but, through the interposition of the brotbet of the murdered girl, the youth's life was spared and he was returned to ptieon. When the two men were being bung, a farmer residing about two hundred yards from the scene committed suicide by cutting his throat with a butcher's knife. A fire at Indianapolis. July 9, destroyed Mossier Bros.' clothing bouse, involving aloes of 50,000. lx ander Mratton ana M. kennen were drowned at Lagro, Ind., the other day. while bathing in tbe canal. The number of deaths in Chicago for the week ending July 10 was 372 an increase of 104 over the week preceding ; 231 were chil dren under one year of age. Tbe stove manufacturers were in nationa session at Cincinnati last week. John S. Perry, of Albany, presided. The amount of capital invested in tbe manufacture of stoves in the United States was stated at 30,000,000, giving employment to 150,000 men. W. D. Richardson, of Springfield, has hired 250 of the Illinois Penitentiary convicts for five years, at 81) cents per day. Rev. Samuel J. Browne, who shot and killed the boy Schick, at Cincinnati, last week, has been bailed iu 50.000. Two ladies were drowned in Walnut creek, near Topeka, Kausas, July 10. while bathing. Two persons (colored) were killed at Madison, Ind., July 11, by a gas explosion. Oscar and Pliny Whitcomb, aged 16 and 18, were drowned while bathing, near Genes eo. DL. July 10. Two men were killed by lightning at Bellrlower Station. III., July 11. And still they come. John Summers, of Milwaukee, while bathing in the canal, July 11, sank to rise no more alive. A brother of the man Dorman, who committed suicide near where the Mercer county (Ohio) mob bung Ki nmell and McLeod, killed himself by cutting his throat with a razor, on the 11th in -t It is supposed that bothof them were in some way connected with the murder of Miss Secore. The excitement still continues high in that section. The South. Walter 6. Overton, long connected with the press of Louisville, and of late the Waehingington correspondent of the Courier-Journal, died in Louisville. Julv 9, of fistula. Thomas Smith, colored, will hang at Louisville. Sept. 13, for the murder of Mrs. Braden, in May. 1871 . Wm. Cain was crushed to death at Louisville, last week, by an iron mould weighing 4.000 pounds falling upon him while be was at the bottom of a pit twelve feet deep Wm. Hagmann suicided at St. Louis. Julv 9, by jumping into tbe nver from a ferryboat. .About tbe same hour. Mrs. Ellen Allen poisoned herself with Pane green. Cause, in both cases whisky. The caterpillar is playing havoc with the cotton fields in some portions of Alabama. John H. Lane, of Illinois, stopped at Litchfield, Ky., last week, wrote on a slip of paper. ' Old Death. I salute thee." took a dose of morphine, and shuffled off his mortal coil. Seven persons were killed outright, and several dangerously injured, by a bridge giving way beneath a railroad train, near White Sulphur Springs. W. Va.. on the 11th of July. The caterpillars, in unusually large numbers. have appeared all through the cotton belt of Alabama, three weeks earlier than ever before. The same report comes from South Carolina. There is much depression among tbe planters in consequence. Stilson Hutckins has sold his one-third interest in the St. Lords Time to Henrv Ewing for 50,000. Washington. Mrs. Drake Mills, the mother-in-law of Hon. Fernando Wood, fell out of the window of the Metropolitan Hotel, July 5, and was fatally injured. A Washington telegram of the 9th inet. says : Tbe sensations of the day have been the suicide of a War Department clerk, the literal carving up of one negro by another, and tbe falling of three derricks, each nearly one hundred feet in height, at the new State Department, among the laborers at work on the lower story. By this last accideut several were killed and many wounded. The District Court has awarded 230.000 prize money for the destruction of the rebel ram Albemarle. It is announced that the postal cards will not be ready for a mouth vet. Foreign. Gen. Ryan, with the Captain and 22 of the crew of the filibuster steamer Fannie, have arrived at Nassau, N. P. The General states that the vessel grounded on a reef, and, finding it impossible to get her off. they landed htr cargo, consisting of two cannon, several thousand stand of small arms, and a large quantity of ammunition, after which they sailed in the steamer's launch for the Bahamas, and arrived on one of those islands after a voyage of three days. From this island they were taken to Nassau in a schooner. Cuban advices announce that most of the ammunition had fallen into the hands of tbe Spanish authorities. Two more Communists were executed at Satoiy. France, July 5. The cable transmits from fxmdon the following doubtful story ' One Wideman, in a letter to the Echo, offers to sell a pamphlet written by Catacazy, late Russian Minister to the United States, containing ' terrible revelations' relative to the Administration of President Grant. Wideman acknowledges that Catacazy engaged him to sell tbe pamphlet in America, and that he had already treated with a New York paper for its publication "

The Emperor of Oermuiy has appoint od

three law officers of tho Clown to prepare a report ou the San Juan boiiudary dispute. Dr. Houard still languishes in his Madrid duugeou, with uo prospect of an early release. There is a serious bitch in the negotiations, tbe Spanish Government refusing to order his release until it has bee-n formally requested by the representative of the United States, and Minister Sickles refuses to make the request Mile. Nilssou's marriage will take place iu Loudon, instead of Paris, as heretofore an nounced. It is said that Victor Hugo has secured a commutation of the sentence of Henri Roche fort to simple banishment from Prance, in stead of transportation to New Caledonia. The last report concerning Dr. Houard is that his release has beon ordered by tbe Span isb Government. It is said tbe great Catholic powers of Europe have agreed to hold a conclave of Car dinals, iu order to have au understanding between the Cardinals and the Governments in tereeted in tbe Pope. Monterey is again in the hands of the Juarist troops, who telegraph forthwith that " the revolution is practically ended, the cliiefs only keeping their men together to secure terms of surrender from the Govern ment." The celebrated German author, Robert Prutz, is dead. The Berliu correspondent of the London Standard writes that tbo increasing tide of emigration from Germany to America causes considerable uneasiness to the Imperial Government. Measures for the repression of this exodus of the subjects of the Empire are seriously contemplated. A terrible explosion, supplemented by a conflagration, occurred in a flour mill at Glasgow, Scotland, July 9, by which eleven persons lost their lives, and many more were seriously injured. Advices fiom the City of Mexico to July furnish tbe following bulletin of uews i Assassination and kidnapping prevail everywhere. The Mexican journals are full of complaints against the usurpations of the Government. United States Minister Nelson was to sail for home ou the 15tb, and will not return. The execution of Yuclau, forrrerly a member of the press, in Cuba, by tbe Spanish authorities, created a great sensation in Mexico. Gen. Rosecrans has published a manifesto censuring the Mexican journals for having attacked his projected railroad enterprise, complaining that, in spite of his known predilection for Mexico and Mexicans, there is nobody to defend him. Ho calls on the patriotism, honor and generosity of the Mexicans to take the matter of tbe railroad again under consideration. The situation at Monterey is unchanged. A dispatch from Madrid says that Dr. Houard is free. An order from Madrid offered his release as an act of pardon, to which Houard demurred, as his acceptance of it might appear like an acknowledgment of guilt, and waive his right to compensation. He was then turned or foned out. The potters of Staffordshire, England, have pieseuted John Bright, as an appropriate acknowledgment of bis many services, with a magnificent testimonial cabinet. The official journal of Berlin, on July 11, promulgated the law for tbe banishment of the Jesuits from Germany. It requires that all establishments under their control must be broken up within six months. Gen. Sherman was in Pan- on the 11th of Julv. He visited tbe National Assembly, occupying a seat in President Thiers' box. A dispatch from Aden, an Arabian port, was received at London on the 11th of July, announcing the arrival there of Mr. Stanley, the New York Herald correspondent. He was to start that day for Lendon, in company with the n of Dr. Livingstone. Mr. Stanley says when he left tße interior of Africa, Dr. LivI mgstone was unwcdl, but he wan nevertheless determined to proceed with his explorations, I 1 1 A . ( ... . ano win not return Dome until lie nas com pleted the great work of ascertaining tbe source of the Nile. almaseda ha turned over the island of Cuba to Iiis successor and returned to Spain in deep disgust. War is threatened between Brazil and the Argentine Republic. A Saratoga Sensation An Afflicted Millionaire's Whim. Among the recent arrivals at Saratoga is a young gentleman of great fortune who is a regular summer visitor here, and who has invariably made a great display. This season he proposes to do the place on I quieter scale, on account of his mother's recent death. This is how he goes about it : He has a suite of rooms et the Con'rress, that under his supervision have been so arranged a to present a rather somber appearance, for out of respect to his mother's memory they have been put in mourning. A deep black border runs around the ceilings, Wim me wan paper is oi a very gloomy color; the furniture is from Egypt, and is exceedingly grotesque in appearance and mysterious in style: nothing like it has ever before appeared in Sanugn. The gentleman announces that he will not enter the ball-room this summer, but will entettain Iiis friends in his rooms in an elegant and costlymanner, of coure no levity. He is to drive a four-in -hand, his groom and coachman are to be attired in mourniiifr, and mourning lap robes, like funeral palls, are to be spread over the seats of his carriages, which will he painted in keeping with the habiliments of woe. For these emblems of sackcloth and ashes he pays $50O per week. Shoddy society calls this "filial devotion," and speaks of him as "such a good son, but o odd and eccentric;" while common sense people are unkind enough to call him a snob, and one of the most ovtre kind. tSaratoga Letter to the Albany Times. The astronomical profession does not appear to be a particularly desirable one at Madras. Pogson, aatronomer royal, is on trial for not preventingthe recent disastrous cyclone. i : I .i it . .

BALTIMORE.

eeting of the National Democratic Convention. Organization Ex-Senator Dooltttlr, of Wisconsin, Elected ( hair man. The Cincinnati Platform Adopted, and Greeley and Brown Nominated. lue National Convention of the Democracy assembled iu Ford's Opera-House, Baltimore, on Tuesday, July 9, at 11 a. m. The OporaHoiue was handsomely decorated with bau ners, on wtiieli were inscribed tbe coats of arms of the several States. The convention was called to order by An gust Belmont, of New York, Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, who, after a short address, nominated Thomas J. Randolph, of Virginia, for temporary Chairman, which was carried by acclamation. Rev. Henry Slicer, being presented, addressed the Throne of Grace. Frederick O. Prince, of Massachusetts, was chosen temporary Secretary. Mr. Lambcrton, of Pennsylvania, moved a resolution that each State be called in alphabetical order, that the Chairman may name their members of the several committees, and may also, iu case of con'"8ts, name the contestant. Considerable confusion occurred bore from a failure to announco distinctly what committees were to be appointed under this call. (luv. Hoffman, of New York, urged that tbe States be called for responses, to see who were present. Mr. Fenton, of Kansas, moved that ou the roll-call each State announce its Committee on Credentials and Organization. After considerable uninteresting discussion, the roll was called, but there was so much noise on the floor that it was difficult to hear tbe names as auin unced. The rules of the last Democratic National Convention were adopted for tbe government of the convention. At 4 o'clock p. m. the Committee ou Organization reported James B. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, for permanent President, with a list of Vice Presidents embracing one from each State. For Reading Secretaries, the committee named E. 0. Perrin. of New York. A. F. Whittlesey and Thos. H. Moore, of Missouri ; and for Recording Secretary, John C. Barr, of Pennsylvania On motion, the leport of the Committee on Permanent Organization was adopted, and the committee disc-barged. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, and Oov. Hoffman, of New York, were appointed by the Chairman. to escort the Permanent Presi dent to the chair. He addressed the conven tion in a half hour s speech, thanking tbem ior nie uonor conierreu upon mm. G. G. Perkins, of Kentucky, offered tbe fol lowing : Hftiilml.Thtt a Committer on Iteiolutl 011. com ix.netl of one delegate from each .State. I appoiuteil t Iii I'reiKleiit. upon tlio aincgeatiim ,,f n. i nairman 01 turn Bute delegation, upon a rail Uy The resolution was adopted. A proposition was submitted by a delegate that the District of Columbia and tbe Terri tories eacb be allowed a member 011 the Com mittee on Resolutions, but was promptly voted uown. lanous delegates sent to tbe Chair resolu tions, which, under the rule alreadv adouted. were referred to tbe Committee on Itesolutions without reading. The Committee on Credentials made their report, as follows : To the Iieinorratlc hatioiml Convention, at llaili more asiieiii tiled : Your .iiiiniittee on Credential" do reanertfiillv re port Hi t 00 uralt of State they all report their delegation in full, with Uo cniiteateil seata: that the numlxr of aeata in the convention 1 '.; that I ex is report ueiegMteH, and your Commuter recoui inen. I that the be allowed aeata 011 the floor hut only to caat Ihr rotlit votes to lilch he ia entitled. ur f i.iiiniitlre liirther reronimeud that ieluuii k present trom thr rveral Territorien he allowed neata upon me noor, without a vote. 1 in Coin milter, throat' their Secretary, herewith tratumit to the 1 oinroin.11 an accurate aim rr.nmrted hat of tlrle gain ironi tin- several .iaien 01 the I nion. I. S. DiCKM an, Chairman. The report was adopted. The convention then proceeded to call tho roll of States alphabetical! for the purpose of naming memoers 01 me .National Executive t onimtttee. Ibe following is a list of mem bers of the committee as thus announced : Aialiama, Thoa. A. Walker. Miaauu i. John (S Print Aramiaaa,!. K. Cockrell. Neliraakn. i L Miller t.'aliforiiia, V. M 'op,piii Nevada. Tima II. illiama t Connecticut, w .11 . Ilaruum Delaware. ( has. Ileaateu. Kiorida, t'haa. K lykr. Georgia. A. K. Wriuht. .. llatnp ,N V.It.EdKerly N. Jeraey.T.K. Randolph New Y ork. A.Srhell. -. I rolioa.. W.Raanom lllinon. ' . II. Mct'orndrk. Oliio.,1. .'ohiinorj 1 r ...1.1 Indiana. Thus Howling. Oregon R. awn, .n. nan. Kaii.au. I -HB' Katon Kentucky, II. D, Mclleury Louialaiia. II. I. Oaden. Mains, T. H. M. Swcit. Maryland. A. Leo Knott. Mnssai husetta.K.T.I'riner. Michigan, Wm. A. Moors. MiaiiMota. Wm. Lochrrn. MimiMK pppi.J. II. Sharp. ! Pennsylvania, Jas.P.llarr mode Inland, (i Itradloru t I'aroliua.TO.Simiiioiis I etiiiessee. Win. It. Hair Texas, K. 8. Sine dale. Vermont, II. II. Smith. Virxiuia, John (ioode. Wist Vit Ulla. J. It. Iloire Isen ,11. uro. II. l'aul Arter some unimportant proceedings the convention adjourned until Wednesday, at 10 o'clock a. m. second day's pbocekdinos. 1). 1 . ,. m , i.M.i taunt., rfiuy iu. me convention reassembled at 10:15 o'clock, and was called to oruer ny 1110 t 'liairman. Atter some businoss of an unimportant na ture, iiir. narr, or Connecticut, announced that the Committee on Itesolutions was ready to report, and came to the platform and requesteu mat tue resolutions Do read by Clerk Perrine. He explained that tbe resolutions were tbe Cincinnati platform exactly, with nothing added, nothing excluded He moved 1 ne adoption 01 1110 report and tue previous llSIIOII. Aftor some discussion, the motion to sus tain tbo previous OOMtkm was adonted. and can 01 mates oruoreu. winch resu tedveas uoo : navs, 1 10. riot . W T After considerable tiino snent in discussion the roll of States was callod 011 the main question the adoption of the platform-which resulted: Yeas, 062 ; navs. 70. At the close of thecall, when Delaware voted " No," there were loud bisses. Tbe Chair apnwaieti to tne convention to treat with respect tne vote of any and overy State. A delcgato sain me uistiiruanco waH in tho galleries. A motion naving been adopted U) go into tlio nomination of candidates for President and Vice Presideut. Mr. Snowhook, of Illinois, Presented the namo of Horace Orcelev as the lemocratio candidate for I'resident. The roll was called for the Presidential nomination. Each vote for Greeley was received with cheers. The ballot rosultod: (Ireolev, 6S ; James A. Hayard. If) J. S. lllaok, iii : (1 roes beck, Ü. Greeley's nomination was then made unanimous. Upon the announcement of tbe nomination the " Battle Cry of Freedom," by the band, was followed by " Hail to the Chief." When the music ceased a scene was lowered to the rear of the stage, presenting a view of the White House. The roll was called on nomin ation for Vice President, resulting as follows : B. Oratz Drown, 713; Stevenson, of Kentucky, 6; blank, It, On motion of Chalmers, of Mississippi, the nomination was made unanimous.

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It is to be stated that blank votes fr Vice l'rasideucy wer east by Florida n Jersey and Virginia. Delaware's JJ1 vm? I 1 . ill ... afl v. u,., lue convention adjourns eon (he. ""JU'irnej THE BOLTERS. ll.i tiuauw I.. I., n mi vuij v. i ne democrat c bolt ers. to tho M I..rr .v.. 100 ""V.noiti. ii.i-TTTrZiXr.. iUV "enibM , .. ""." ausutuie at noon, and we,. --"' ' " ' "'""er - - , wm. A.auucin. 1 ........,,.. - 1 . . , i.wuiiuniOT appoiniuu to prenaru , address to the oountry, consisting of TELZ Mot l i-l of Wmmä 1.1. J ou.l . .I ",B"r. ; --, j , luuiuiau naiuiie 1 llavard. of Nnw .tn. . M xt n. el J V r"." parser, 01 Viriin. Joseph J Davis, of West Virginia; LI Lodhe, of Illinois ; E. Kevser, of Texas 1 Mark M.(" Brick ') Pomeroy offered a rata, lutiou declaring that there was no intention t. IJloduce a ai-inum in tho I i.i... . Now YnrL . I. 1. t - ... ' Ul tion, or dictate a policy to the regular tri vention ; declaring that "we, ulWieraU iunoi iniiicipioB 10 mail, tue preservation fl.O I I'll- . a. . . ... ' Tt ' . .H ' J UULU H eiovatuin 10 powar ((lodging support to the nominations of th. legular Democratic Convention, provi,,ul! tliev are Tloriiooentu . lu. I.., :e .1.- 0 ' , .nu 0111, 11 me nerri' Cratlo oriranisuattnn ia HiK,,.l..l ., ... .. be given iu a future movement to reorgau. (V IU The resolutions were unanimously adopted Pomeroy then spoke, saying that he S believe iu the cry of choosing between two lie ho.., lean oviis. no um not want to nave the devil Greeley, whose lifo was tainted with iiuaouu. uietjiey never can De president " aajMMMi win not support bim. The paw auu novel ui ur.iiu are more potent than ihimij.p auu caouagus 01 tue tanner of iiiappaqua. i-uuiunutjo was appointed on nermaiien, orgauusatiou, after which tbe coti vention adjoin nun mini to-morrow at noon. SECOND DAY. Baltimore, July 10. -The auti-Orocler wmna convened at l o clock p. m. Sami J. Bayard, of New Jersey, was elected l're.i dent. He addressed the convention, saying they were there " to resist a foul conspiracy ui lim destruction 01 tne uemocratic part Those here present," said the speaker, "wii; continue 1 1 hold up the old nag, and if conspirators throw it down, we will take it up and bid defiance to the outrage sought to be per. petrated." The committee appointed to prepare an address reported. The address recites that tha action of the National Democratic Convention in adoptitiK the Cincinnati ticket, ia a "virtn.i dissolution of the Democratic organization and an unconditional abandonment of the nlesof tbe party;" that the convention ha been false to its obligation of dutv. to principle, to regard for consistency, and to even sentiment of political honor." The addre.'. concludes by recommending that a convention beheld at Louisville, Kv., on Saturday, the Id of September, 1872, to take such steps as mv be deemed prudent and essential. 1 lie address was adopted. Mr. Bitley offered a resolution that this con vention now proceed to the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President. Laid on the table. t T - 1 ... . inr. lachson, 01 .iiaBsaeinisens, onered 1 resolution recommending the following to the National Convention to be incorporated in the platform; namely: 1. An act of universal amnesty and restoration of political rights. 'i. Hepeal of all acts injuriously affecting; the Southern States. 3. Extension of the pension laws to soldier? of the South. 4. Payment for liberated slaves 'rom the National Treasury. 5 A change iu tbe national Hag to make .: acceptable to the neople of the country. Judge Flanders remarked that this was 1 mere preliminary cenvention, and therefore this was not tbe time and place to entertain propositions, and on bis motion the propositions were laid on tbe table. The convention then adjourned nine die. Foreign (i0$td. An Slh.OtlO statue of Victoria has been et up in India. When a prison in Switorlanii becomes vacant a white flag is hoisted over it. One person is born in London every five minutes, and another per.-on did every seven minutes. Fr met, dining the five centurie-s pre ceding the present thai is. from 1 iÜÖ to (900 -WM Mijpigod i:i S26 JTfWI i war, of wliich 80 years were spent in civil war, and 240 years in foreign w:ir. Daring that period 1st great battie rvere fought. Peri: has already twenty eight rail roads in operation or in process of con struction, with an aggregate length of 2.310 KnjMish miles. 'I he longest is from Areuuipa to Puno, 232 miles. The betrgars in Buenos Ayres ride on horseback, and when they do not wih food, as coolly ueg that you will, for the sake of the Virgin, bestow some money for them to buy cigars. Not a few neonle there are who fancy that Macreauy is dead. The death of the great actor was reported, nnd his obituary was written a few vcNtn .U'0: but, in fact, he still lives, ami is said H be hale and hearty. His ag is 7U, ;in-1 his residence Cheltenham, England. It is stated, in a letter from Prniruc, that the damage done by the flood in Bohemia is estimated at nearly Sn.'tKi.000 of Horins, one of the most fertile districts in the country having been m vntated. The water rose so rapi'ty that the people, most of whom were in their beds, had no time to escape, ami about 700 perished. Hundreds 0fnO1Mi too, were carried away, and railway bridges and embankments destroyed. We have not forfrotten the famoucase of Count Chorinski, son of thoOof' ernor of Vienna, and Julia ItofgBnfb who were condemned for h iving pw oncu the Uountes. at Munich. i"r Count died a few months ago in an in sane hospital, where lie had teen i prisoned. His accomplice has, in hr turn, just been conveyed t) a nvmhoue. .She had feiirned msnnPy t"r long time, but the newe of the death 01 the Count made her insanity real. Hon. James Brooks sav-, in his "Seven Months' Run," that the ran roads of Hindostan are the nwl potent missionaries ever sent tlier' The tives delight in traveling on them, arin hit loiced to take the common cao-. without thought of cate. Brahmin and pariah must ride together. This forced companionship hm done more to brwk down the barriers of prejudice than all the resident clergymen com

bined.