Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 August 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL. ANI) POLITICAL. /On the 28th Oliver Ames applied to the United States Circuit Court at Philadelphia to be relieved of the receivership' ol the Credit Mobilier ot America, the reason for the action was that he could not attend tq that and his duties as Lieu-tenant-Governor of Massachusetts. Samuel R. Shipley, was appointed the successor of Ames. la the suit for exemplary damages by Mrs. Weldon against Mr. Semple, an English physician, who pronounced her as of unsound mind/ the jury decided in her favor, assessing £1,000 damages. She conducted her own case. Tnu committee formally .notified Governor Cleveland ot his nomination at Albany, B. Y., on the 29th. Hon. A. M, Dockery has been renominated by acclamation for Congress by the Democrats at Cameron, Mo. On the 29th an old-fashioued Democratic barbecue at Lexington, Ky., was attended by $10,000 people. It is announced that O. C. Baldwin, Jay Gould, Russell Sage, T. F. Ryan and John E. Green are to retire from the directory of Ihe Louisville & Nashville. — The Democratic Bational Committee has Tr^^^aJ^Ca^o^NewYork, committee. Secretary Folgbr has decided that carbolic acid is free from duty under the new tariff. Scoyillb, an employe of Ward & Day, prove* to have been instrumental in bringing about the failure of DeWolf & -* Swan at New York. .In the Filth North Carolina Congressional District the Democrats have nomi--tiatect James W. Reel. President Harrison of the Indianapolis Banking Company was arrested on the 29th, charged with embezzling $9j,00J, and he was held in the sum of $*U,00i> bond. General Gordon, according to latest intelligence still holds *ort at Khartoum, and will so continue . a util the rising of the Nile, when he will equip steamers and get out of his predicament. Comptroller Cannon has declared the second dividend of twenty per cent, in favor of the creditors of the Fir^t National Bank of Monmouth, 111. Ex-Governor Hendricks was formally notified on the oOth of his nomination as Vice-President.

Thb Mndir of Dongola says he has been advised of the recapture of Berber by Gordon. The report was discredited. Thb Democrats of the Third Virginia Congressional District have renominated Geo. D. Davis. The Fenian, Daly, ^-rested in England for having explosives in his possession, will conduct his own defense. Pace Stevens, Librarian of the House of Representatives under Lincoln and Grant, died at Camden, Mo., on the 30th. Joseph H. Orthwaitk, of Ohio; has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats to succeed Converse. On the evening of the 30th Dufur, of Massachusetts, seen the wrestling match with McLaughlin, of Michigan, which took place before a Boston audience. Minister Ferry on ihe Sfth refused the Chinese Minister an extension of time in which China shall reply to the demands of France. On the N. W. Culbertson, Representative from Kentucky, shot himself in the head «t his room at the Rational Hotel, Washington, D. C. The Republican State Convention at Parkersburg, W. Va., on the a)th nominated Edwin Maxwell for Governor. The State ticket is a Greenback-Republican combination. The Swedish Minister to America, Count Carl Lewenhaupt, will replace Baron Zibber as Minister at Fans. On the 31st Cleveland and Hendricks met for the first time and conferred at Albany, N. Y. The Republicans of the Second Congres} sioual District of West Virginia nominated F. M. Reynolds. The Rtpublicans of the Ninth District of Iudiana nominated Major J. C. DoXey for Congress. Rev. Mark Pattison, the famous Eng- -> I*sh teacher, essayist and cri|ic, died on the 31st, aged seventy-one. The Democrats of the Ninth Congres sional District of Virginia nominated Conelly F. Trigg. According to the London News it appears that Mr. Gye has declined to assume the direction of the Metropolitan Oporahonse in New Y ork the coming season. The German Ambassador to Russia, General Schweini:z, has left St. Petersburg for the purpose of conferring with Bismarck at VarXn in regard to the meeting between the Csar and the Emperor of Germany. F. G. Barky has been nominated by the Democrats of the Fourth Congressional -District of'Mississippi. On the 31st the Manhattan Club of New York gave a reception at the cluD rooms to members of the Democratic Notification Committee, on their ar-, rival from Saratoga. An elaborate collation was served at midnight. Many speeches were made and toasts drank. A Berlin dispatch says that Grand Duke Louis of Hesse will abdicate in favor of his son Ernst, under the advice of thfe Emperor of Germany. His morganatic marriage with Mme. Kolamine and subsequent divorce compromised his position. » Thb Fourth Mississippi District Domo'crata ha ve nominated Fred JB. Barrv for

Congress. Thk Democrats of the Thirteenth Missouri District have nominated A.'L. Thomas for Congress. Thomas D. Johnson has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Ninth North Carolina District. Minister Morton has subscribed 1,000 francs to the fund for a model of the Bartoldi statue to be presented to Paris by American artists. The German poet and litterateur Henrj Laube, died on the 1st, aged seventy-eight. The Dutch Parliament, on the 1st, by a -vote of sixty-seven to three, named Queen Emma Regent during the minority of Princess WUbelmiaa. On the 1st Egan and Daly, the dynamiters tried at Warwick, Eng., were een-, fenced to penal servitude, the latter for' life. Informer McDonald was released on his personal recognisance to appear when issued for the arof the Bank of France. Deputy Chamon account of the Bovary founded the bank. Moraccount of the frauds,

On the 28th the iron steamship Alvsfko ran down and sank the propeller J. M. Osborne on Lake .Superior. The mate and five deck-hands were drowned. Neai Lewistown, Montana, seven trees were decorated with the bodies of as many horse-thieves on the 29th, the operation being; superintended by Regulators. At Greenport, L L, while Robert; B. CoveyjSras working on the wreck of the ship Craio, on the 29;h, some dynamite which he was using exploded and drove a bolt, fourteen inches long and weighing two pounds, through his head, killing him instantly. . On the 20th Frank Bean, a bad colored man of Baltimore, Md., was fatally stabbed by a bad white man. W HU.K boating with a young Indy near Cooper stown, N. Y., on the 99th, Edward C. Steer accidentally shot himself. At Beatrice, Neb., op the SOth, during a thunderstorm, lightning struck Nathan Miller’s frame house, instantly killing his four daughters. Mrs. Apmbier, of Cincinnati, exploded a six-pound rocket on the 30 th by striking it with an axe, and she, her daughter, son and another little boy were dangerously injured. A party of masked men with revolvers on the 31st compelled Rhody Boyle, a farmer near Petrolia, Pa., to give up $13,000. They escaped. Tax suit for libel at Dublin of Bolton against O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintMajor North, of the men in Buffalo Bill’s show, was thrown u,_ nis j,or;se at Hartford, Conn., on the 31st, and sevo^iy injured. There was much excitement near Battle Creek, Miob., on the 31st, over the discovery of a cremated child. A young woman, mother but no wife, was suspected. A gang of burglars who worked the fashionable residence portion of Pittsburgh, Pa., were captured on the Sl3t with $10,000 worth of swag in the shape of jewelry, silverware, etc. A large quantity of drnamite was stolen from a colliery magazine near Airdrie, Scotland, on the 1st. The theft created a panic. At Boston, on the 1st, a genuine Italian murder occurred. J, Marcona was stabbed to death by his wife’s paramour, F. Delminno. 5 On the 1st a six-story tenement in Water street, New York, burned. One child was burned to death, and several adults severely burned. Near Breckenridge, Ky., on the 1st, in a family difficulty Elisha Alexander was killed, his brother John seriously wounded, and IJrs. Charlie Poole also wounded. At Key West, Fla., ontho 1st, the master and crew of the schooner Julia Baker were arrested. The vessel loft i ts course and it is understood the captain was murdered in a mutiny.

WSPUUNEOin. Among the cholera vie ims at Marseilles on the 21),h one was an American., On the 29th, in the French Chamber of Deputies, a deputation, under the leadership of M. M. Clemencean, 'appointed by the Extreme Deft to visit places affl cted with cholera, leported that the people of Arles were fleeing to farms in the vicinity, where they huddle together in hovels and sleep as best they can. The sick were entirely neglected. Cases of cholera were secreted from the authorities and sur-veillance-observed. The deputation inspected the mad-house at Marseilles and found numerous cases of cholera there. The lunatic asylum is a center of infection. In Marseilles the sale of melons is prohibited. The cholera is gaining in area though losing in intensity. • On the SOth Dempsey defeated Fulljames at New York in a twenty-two round battle. At Bradford, Pa., on the 30;h, striking glass-workers gouged the eyes out oit a non-union workman while he was at work. Affairs at Foo Chow, China, bear a strained aspect, and it looks like war, though one high in authority claims peace will be maintained. A double affliction rests upou Russia. A mild form of cholera has appeared at St. Petersburg and other places, and at Pieskoff the Siberian plague is spreading. ° The Surgeon-General has ordered that steps be taken at once to prevent the introduction of yellow fever to this country from Sonora, Mexico, where it is spreading. - Vj At London on the 39th, a meeting presided over by John Morley, characterized, in a resolution, the habitual disregard of the House of Lords to the will of the Nation as factious and unpatriotic. Twenty-four deaths from cholera occurred at Marseilles and eight at Airies daring the twenty-four hoars ended at 9 p. m. on the 30th. The record of cholera cases in the hospital at Toulon was: Admissions, seventy-four; discharged, eleven; deaths, four; under treatment.

137. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America wilt hold its fourteenth annual convention in Chicago August 65h and "th, and it promises'to be an important gathering. Over 200 delegates will be in attendance. The bricklayers* strike in New York has been practically successful, there being on the 3)th only 181 of the Union men ont. Tiro large Jobs have been taken from boss masons and placed in the hands of the general good committee for completion. On the 30th the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., notified two hundred and fifteen of their employes that their services would not be required longer than August 2d. The wholesale discharge is attributed to dullness of trade. In Chicago a campaign has been opened up against the “specialist” doctors, and thirteen have been indicted upon a char go of practicing medicine without license. On the 30th the Michigan Car Works, of Detroit, Mich., a very large concern, announced that they would shut down August 2d, bn account of slackness in orders. Tbey will start again whenever a business revival warrants. Two mills ef the Lewiston (Me.) corporation have shut down until!September L on account of over production., They employ 890 hands. An organized effort was made to take the murderer, Rollins from the Albemarle jail at Charleston, Va., hut the citusens > and military being warned, prevented the proposed lynching. A Qebman Socialists* secret conclave at Chemnits was broken up by the polios on the 81st. Liebknecht, who presided, got ordeTs to leave town immediately. It is estimated that the cholera has caused a decrease of eight per cent, in tourist traffic from England to She Continent. Scotland gets the tonristn now. It is said the Vatican will recall its delegate from Buenos Ayres if the Argentine Government dismisses Father Clara for bis letter against American schoolmistresses. Fob the fiscal year just closed the total val ue Of exports was TMO.&lS.rtOl, a falling off of $83,325,842 compared with the pre - vious year. The imports of merchandise were valued at ¥887,711,9831, a falling off of f&5,«S8>*H. At Marseilles a prejudice has arisen among the lower classes against the physicians, there being an opinion that the doctors help cholera to rid the town of surplus inhabitants,

The decrease of the public debt for July is estimated at about 15,000,003. Ok the 31st the Treasury Department purchased 220,000 ounces of stiver for delivery at the New Orleans and Philadelphia Mints. Ay Shanghai, on the 31st, it was reported that France and China had made a treaty of peace, China to pUy France an indemnity of 5,200,000 taels, about $7,280, 00). Advices from Mozambique state that the British bark Sarah Hobart was detained there and her cargo seised, on the pretense of violated customs regulations. The people were indignant at the arbitrary proceedings. A modest donor, who hides hts name, presented the English Wesleyan, Confer* ence with a theological library of 30,000 volumes. The membership of the Wesleyan body was increased during the past year by 8,000. It is reported that an American firm has purchased the China merchant fleet for about $7,300,000. On the 1st Jay-Eye-Bee beat his own record at Narrangansett Park track, making a mile in i:lH This beats Maud & by a quarter of a second. Ok the 1st a receiver was asked for the property of the St. Louis Ore and Steel Company, and the Grand Tower & Carbondale Railroad in the State of Pennsylvania On the 1st there were 317,692,110 silver dollars in the United {States Treasury vaults. It is officially announced that the Papal i Consistory will meet in September, when twelve Cardinals will probably be created, i A iust. i.iaK 0f army chaplains, Union and Confederate, began at Orange Grove, N. J., on the 1st. The gathering was aug. memted by a number of members of the

Sanitary and Christian Commissions. Tbs; International Electrical Exhibition will begin in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 7th. There were twenty-six deaths from cholera at M arseilles, eight at Arles, six at Aix and two at Toulon during the twenty-four hours ended at 9 p. m. on the 1st. Dumbo the seven days ended the 1st there were £41 failures in the United States as compared with 225 the preceding week, and with 155, 105 and 75 respectively in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1881. Canada had 26, an increase of 11. Alexander Jefferson, a double murderer, was hange^ at Brooklyn, M. Y.. on the 1st. He got his hands loose and tore the black cap from his face, exposing the contortions as he strangled to death. A similar thing occurred at the hanging of “Bug” Cephas at Cambridge, Md. It is reported that cholera has appeared in from ten to twelve Italian communities, but the epidemic is not spreading.' The Itiretto insists that the Government should publish trustworthy information to prevent unfounded alarm or exaggerated confidence. Os the 1st George Smith, Asberry Hughes and George White were hanged at Scottsboro, Ala., for arson. They were the first victims of the law making arson punishable by death. China has refused to pay the indemnity, and the prospects are that France will let slip the dogs of war. There is a panic at Foo Chow; ladies are leaving and foreigners are arming for defense. The monthly statement of the public debt issued on the 1st shows that the indebtedness of Pacific Railway companies to the Government now amounts to about $109,000,005. The available cash balance in the Treasury on the 1st was nearly *140,000,000. It is expected that another bond call will be issued in a few days. Instructions have been issued by the acting Secretary of the Treasury to customs officers to declare all rags coming from European ports suspected of infection, and prevent landing them unless clear proof is furbished they were free from disease and come from non-infected ports. During July the decrease in the public debt w as $3,993,289; cash in the Treasury, *405,910,004;.gold certificates, *118,017,320; silver certificates, *120,404,341; certificates of deposit, *13,230,000; refunding certificates, $274,350; legal tender, *346,681,016; fractional currency, *697,843. A vert important question under discussion relating to the last whisky trade, just now in the Interior Department, is the probable outcome of a test case in which Mr. Boyd, a leading whisky man, proposes to prove the unsoundness of Secretary Folgei-’s decision iu refusing warehouse privileges to reimported wh sky.

LATE SEWS ITEMS. Maud 8. has again beaten the record She trotted a mile at Cleveland, 0., on the 3d, in 2.-09Si, lowering her own record-a ball second imd beating that of Jar-Eye-See a quarter of a second. Tbs Siberian plague has appeared at Vjhorg, in Finland. The reports of the Chief Engineer of the army state that the Atlantic and lake coasts are utterly defenseless. Warner & Merritt, of Philadelphia, owners of the Laura Baker, detained at Key West, Fla., are convinced that the Captain was killed by mutineers. Tiie ports of Brasil have been closed to vessels from Marseilles. Lorj> Ran dolph Churchill is to lead the opposition in the British Parliament daring the absence of Sir Stafford Northcore. James Moore, a cripple, had to be carried into court to receive bis sentence for murder in the second degree at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 2d. The Egyptian conference has failed to arrive at a conclusion as regards the matters under discussion, and has adjourned sine die. A company has been formed at Denver, Col., to propagate the cremation theory, and work will be immediately commenced on the furnace. Drs. Bryce and Cassidy, of Montreal, Can., have been appointed delegates to the Sanitary Convention at Washington. Members of both the leading political parties are busily hunting campaign material at Washington. Thebe was an animated contest for the chieftaincy of the Osage Nation between Slack Dog and Straight Axe. The election took place on the 4tb. A hire at Driftwood, Pa., on tha evening of the 31, destroyed twenty-two buildings in the business portion of the town. Loss, about $139,100. The steamship Olenelga foundered in a dense fog a few days ago, off Vacant, on the coast of Brittany. The crew and passengers, seventy-six in number, were all saved. ' General Trevino has been appointed Mexican Secretary of War under President Dias. Ex-Governor St. John of Kansas addressed fully 8,000 people at the Silver Lake (N. T.) camp-meeting on tha 3d. German colonial societies are arranging to obtain the advice and views of Henry M. Stanley upon the subject of German emigration to the Congo country. During the twenty-four hours ended at 9 p. in. on the Sd there were fifteen deaths from cholera at Marseilles and none at Toulon. At the latter place thirty cases were taken to the hospital. The Irish constabulary bill passed tha British Commons, notwithstanding Parnell's opposition to certain sections.

OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED. The Democratic Committee Notifies Cover not'Clerelana of Hl» Nomination—The PmMdimi. Ai.uant, N. Y., July 80.—The ceremony Of fonnally notifying Governor Cleveland of his nomination for the Presidency took place in the large, handsome main parlor of the mansion. The only attempt at adornment was seen in large banks of Sowers which rested on the mantels of the parlor, and library Hie ceremony was lift? but exceedingly impressive, The arrival of the committees in a body Was the signal for a concentration in the main parlor. There the Conn mittee of notification took a position in the south end Of the room and the members of the National Committee in the north end; Spam Was reserved in the ceuter, and as sooh as the preparations were completed the Governor entered through the main hallway, standing with hijack to tin; flower banked mantel. The ladies of the party stood near the Governor at his left His appearance at the doorway was the signal for a hearty and spontaneous burst of hand clapping, which continued for several minutes. As soon as this had subsided Colonel W. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, Chairman of .the late Democratic National Convention, and of the notification committee, stepped slightly forward and a ddressed the Governor in a clear, resonant tone, and with marked enthusiasm, said: “Grover Cleveland, Governor of the State of New York: These gentlemen, my associates here present, whose voice I am honored with the authority to utter, are a committee appointed by the National Democratic Convention, which recently assembled at Chicago, abd charged with the grateful duty of acquainting you officially and in that solemn and ccremonioui manner which the dignity and importance of the communication demand, with the interesting result of the deliberations already known to yon through the ordinarychannels of news. Sir, that august body convened by direct delegation from the Democratic people of the several States and Territories of the ltepubiic, ami deliberating under the witness of the greatest assembly of freemen ever gathered to such a conference in the. forethought of the election which the constitution imposes upon them to make during the current year, have nominated yon to the people of these United States to be their President for the next ensuing term of that great office, and with grave consideration of its exalted ^responsibilities, have confidently invoked their suffrages to invest you withjits functions. Through this committee tfie convention’s highest requirement is delivered, that you accept that candklaey. The choice carries with it profound personal respect and admiration, but it is in no manner the fruit of these sentiments. The National Democracy seek a President not in compliment for the man

or reward for what he has done, but in a jwst expectation of what he will accomplish as the trne servant of a free people, fit for their lofty trust, always of momentous ^onsequence. They conceive the public exigency to be now of transcendent importance, that a laborious reform in administration as well as legislation is imperatively necessary to the prosperity and honor of the Republic, and a competent Chief Magistrate must be of unusual power, and they have observed with attention your execution of the public trusts you have held, especially of that with which you are now honorably invested. They place their reliance tor the usefulness of the services they expect to act for the benefit of the Nation upon the evidence derived, from the service yon have performed for the State of New York. They invite the electors to such proof of character and competence to justify their confidence that in the Nation as heretofore in the State the public business will be administered with commensurate intelligence and ability, with single-hearted honesty and fidelity, and with a resolute and daTing fearlessness which no faction, no combination, ho power of wealth, no mistaken clamor can dismay or qualify. In the spirit of the wisdom and invoking the benediction of the Divine Creator of men, we challenge from the sov-' eignty of this Nation Hi3 words in com»n,t ratification of onr choice, “Well done, thou good ana iam.<ui servant thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.’’ In further fulfillment of our duty, the Secretary will now present the written communication signed by the committee.” THE COMMITTEE’S ADDRESS. Nicholas M. Prince, of Missouri, Secretary of the Committee, read the following formal address, prepared by the committee: Nbw Tore Citt, July 38,1884. To the Hon. Grover Cleveland, of New York: SiR:~In accordance with a custom befitting the nature of the communication, the undersigned, representing the several States and Territories of the Un . uion, were appointed a committee by the National Democratic Convention, which assembled at Chicago on the 8th day off the current month, to perform the pleasant office which by this means we have the honor to execute, of informing you of your nomination as the candidate of the Demoelection for the cratic party in tho ensuing electir office or ’President of the United States. A declaration of principles upon which the Democracy *o before the people with a hope of establishing and maintaining them in the Government., was made by the convention and an engrossed copy thereof is submitted in commotion with this fbr your consideration. approval of your judgment will follow communication We trust the an examination of this expression of opinion and policy, and upon the political controversy now made up we Invite your acceptance of the exalted leadership to which you have been chosen. The election of a President is an event of the utmost importance to the peopte of America, Prosperity, growth, happiness, peace and liberty even may depend upon its wise ordering. Your unanimous nomination is the proof that the Democracy believe your election will most contribute to secure these great objects. We assure you that in the anxious responsibilities you must assume as a candidate !you will have the steadfast, cordial support of the friends of the cause you will represent, and in the execution of the duties of the high office which we confidently expect,from the wisdom of the Nation, to be coni erred upon you, you may securely rely for approving aid upon the patriotism, honor and intelligence of the people. We have the honor to be with great respect, W. F. Vilas, Wisconsin, Preside^. Nicholas M. Bell, Missouri, Secretary. The address was signed by the members

oi me comnuuee. uovemor uievciana replied as follows: “Mr. Chairman and genttemen of the committee: Your formal announcement docs not of course convey to me the first information of the result ot that convention lately held by the Democracy of the Nation, and yet when, as I listen to yonr message, I see about me representatives from all parts of the land of the great party which, claiming to be the party of the people, asks them to entrust to it the administration of their Government, and^when Teonsider,under the influence of the stem reality which the present surroundings create, that 1 have been chosen to represent the plans, the purposes and the polities of the Democratic party, 1 am profoundly impressed by the solemnity of the occasion and by the responsibility of my position. Though I greatly appreciate it, I do not at this moment congratulate myself upon the distinguished honor which has been conferred upon me because my mind is full of an anxious desire to perform well the part which has been assigned me. Nor do I at this moment forget that the rights and interests of more than 50,000,000 of my fellow citizens are involved in onr efforts to train Democratic supremacy. This reflection presents to my mind the consideration which more than ail others gives to the aetion of my party In convention assembled Us most sober and serious aspect The party and its representatives which asks to be intrusted at the hands of the people with the keeping of all that' concerns their welfare, and their safety should only ask it with the full appreciation of the sacredness of the trust, and with a firm resolve t) administer It faithfully and well. I am a Democrat because I believe that this trnth lien at the foundation of time Democracy. I have kept the faith bec ause I believe, if rightly and fairly administered and applied, Democratic doctrines and measures

win insure the happteesit, contentment mS prosperity of the people. If in the contest upon which we now enter we steadfastly hold to the underlying jHrtonplos of our party creed end at all times keep in view the people's good we _ shall be strong because we uci true to ourselVes, and because the plain and independent voters of the land will seek by their suffrage to compass their re* lease front party tyranny, where there should be submission to the popular Will and their protection frothy party corr uption, where -there should be devotion tg the people’s lit* teirests. These thoughts lend a consecration to our Cause and we gd forth not merely to gain a partisan advantage bnt pledged to give td those who trust ns the utmost benefits gild honest administration Of national affairs. No higher purpijse Of iriOtive can stimulate us to supreme, effort Of high its . to continuous and earnest, labor and effective party organization. .Let uS not fell in this and we may confidently hhpe to reap the full reward of patriotic serviced well performed. I have thus called to mind some simple truths, and trite though they are, it seems to me we do well to dwell upon them at this time. I shall soon, I hope, signify in the nsu.tl formal manner my acceptance of the nomination which has been tendered to me. In; the meantime, I gladly greet you all as co-workers in a noble cause.’’ • The Governor spoke extemporaneously, and not Without evidence of deep earnest* nessahd feeling. He seemed to realize the Weight Of responsibility which rested oil liis shoulders as the standard bearer of the party. The Congratulations that Were showered On him by the itiiany distinguished leaders of the party at the Close of the ceremonies were sincere and hearty, After some time spent .in social interchanges, the doors of the dining room were swVng open and refreshments partaken of. THE NATIONAL C OMMITTEE. The National Democratic Committecmet at the Delevan House, Tuesday. In the absence of Chairman Baronm, Hon. John S. Barbour, of Virginia, was chosen Chairman, pro tern. All the States were represented except Connecticut, Maryland, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Dakota, New. Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The. proceedings of the meeting of July 24 were approved. Mr. Dawson, of South Carolina, in behalf of the Committee'ott Organizat i on, made a report, whichjwas'adopted, but the committee decided not to publish it at; present, the matter being left in abeyance with the chairman and secretary, they to decide what por tions, if any, shall be given to the newspapers. Charles J. Canda, of New Torfe, was re-elected treasurer, and Edward B. Dickerson, of New York, reappointed stenographer. The‘following were announced as the Executive Committee: Wm. H Bamnm, of Connecticut, ex officio; A. P. German. Maryland; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina; B. F. Jones, Louisiana; Herbert O. Thompson, New York; William A. Wallace, Pennsylvania; Join; A. Barbour, Virginia; William F. Vilas, Wisconsin; Austin H, Brown, Indiana; M. M. Hamm, Iowa; H. D. McHenry, Kentucky; J. P. H. Kelly, Minnesota; Bradley B. Smalley, Vermont; J. A- W. Sullaway, New Hampshire; F. W. Dawson, South Carolina; W. W. Armstrong, Ohto: Miles Ross, New Jersey; H. Corning Judd, Illinois; J. B. Bamaby, Rhode Island; John G. Prather, Missouri. The committee adjourned to meet at the Delevan House at three o’clock, when they accompanied the notification committee to the executive chamber. During the meeting an effort was made to have the report of the Committee on Organization given to the newspapers, blit it was voted down. The Executive Committee will meet at New York Thursday.

GENERAL IOXUSTREET. How He has Been Left Out In the GoM After Sereins the Republican Party. Atlanta, 6a., July 29.—There is something pathetic about General Longstreet as he passes along the street, out of position, poor, thrown overboard by his part}- friends and avoided by those whojcannot help feeling a sympathy with the historic figure whose bulldog tenacity made him one of the most feared of Confederate Generals during the late war. As he ambled along the street yesterday in close conversation with vv Wlonmoy. a notorious local crank, it was impossible to resist nuu.„ comparisons of his actual companionship with what it might have been. Speaking of his6loss of the Macshalship, he said it was a surprise to him, as he never believed that Bryant conld.accomplish the end he sought. ‘T heard that this thing was about to occur, but I did nothing to prevent it,” he said. “I felt safe in the knowledge that I had done my duty.” ‘‘What about reported balances due yon by the Government?” “The Government is due this office $25,000 or $26,000 in fees of deputies held back to cover any disallowances that might arise. There is NO TROUBLE ABOUT MY SALARY. It is $6,000 a year and the office lias always earned it and received it. In the last fiscal year the appropriation ran short and I drew only $4,500, nht drawing any pay for the months of April, May and June just ended. That money is good. The Government owes me also $500 for the present month, so its total indebtedness to me is only $2,000. The other is owed to Deputies.” “Bryant is expected to arrive next week with his commission. When he arrives and demands the office what will you do?” “Turn it over to him, and then I will go to my home at Gainesville and remain there.” “Will you be out of politics for good?” ’“I do not know that 1 shall want any office, but if I do I am as likely as any one in Georgia to get employment under 3fr. Blaine. 1 should go to him-with as much confidence as I ever went to anylxfdy.” “You have quite an interesting political career,” remarked tbs reporter. “Tell me about it.” “I never applied for an office,” said the General. “When Grant was inaugurated, I started up to see Urn, thinking I would apply for an office. That was before he had appointed all of lis Cabinet. 1 met a mutual friend who asked, me where I was going, and I told hml was going to see the President. ‘It is useless,’ he said; ‘he has sent yonr name in for Surveyor of Customs at New Orleans.’ The nomination hung in the Senate. 1 wait to see Grant, and sug. gested that it might be troublesome to him to have

SENATORS FIGHTING MK. 1 suggested that I would rather he withdrew my nomination. Be said they all wanted offices and sr him, and he was not going to give any till nay appointment was confirmed. I was < ontirmed and held that position till 1 resigned in 1881. I was appointed Commissioner.of Engineers for the State of Louisiana, and served four years in the swamps, doit g the hardest work man ever did. Prof. Bi.yley, Governor Herbert and General Jeff Thompson, my comrades in the work, all died of it, and I was seriously injured. I same to Georgia, andgot my health back. The State of Louisiana repudiated my salrny, and refused to pay me for two years and four months’ work. Soon after my arrival here I was appointed Supervisor of Internal Revenue, and while in Florida I was appointed Postmaster at Gainesville. Before my time was out I was appointed Minister to Turkey, and before my time was out there I was appointed Marshal of Georgia. Before my time is out bpre John E. Bryant comes along and puts me out.” Bryant Is expected to arrive about Wednesday. In an electoral ticket put out for Blaine and Logar: yesterday by the Whig-Republican party, General Longstreet's name figures as one of the Electors at large. In the event of Blaine’s election, tills, it is supposed, will give him a Maim on the administration, when it may become Bryant’s tnm to go. Near Opdyke, 111., recently, a man stood on a hand-car to frighten a hog off the traek, when he lost his balance and felt nnI der the wheels, He was killed.

Cleveland sad Hendricks. The nomination of Governor Cleveland as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency was no* unexpected bv those who watclf the course of political events. It had been evident for a month that he was considered the most available man to lead the party in the present^ campaign, and that he would go into the convention with the best chances of coming out of it its nominee. The sentiment that set toward him was exceptionally strong. It was manifest that, with Tilden retired, Cleveland was regarded as the man for the times. It is scarcely necessary to say that the Courier-Journalt while recognizing the tvortb Snd strength of New York’s reform Governor, took a different view of the Situation. We thought the party should come West fof its Candidate, and thinking so, we urged the claims of one who to our mind combined that in his personality, his public record and his geographical location which made his leadership peculiarly desirable at this juncture of the nartv’s history.

Bat the tide to Cleveland was too strong. While we believe the party was willing to, and even desirous of, looking to the West, the influences which turned it again to New York were practically irresistible, and the Courier-Journal. recognizing this, will support the ticket Of Cleveland and.Hendricks as earnestly, as heartily, as hopO'ullv as it did that of Tdden and Hendricks eight years ago. Support less than this would be ottt of the question, even were the nominations less admirable than they are. The convention was of such an exceptionally representative character, its action was guided by such a temperate and deliberate spirit, and its conclusions were reaohed with such unanimity, confidence and enthusiasm, that not to accept these conclusions with equal confidence and enthusiasm would be next to impossible. But the ticket in itself is a strikingly strong one. It Is probably as near invincible and irresistible as could have been named. Grover Cleveland was unquestionably the most available man in the East whom the party could have nominated. In him is represented that spirit of administrative reform whi h drew the party to Tildcn in 1876, and which to-day the best elements of the American people, irrespective of party, seek to apply to the administration of the National Government. Governor Clev eland is a Democrat whose political career, while one of aggression and war oh the perverters of pure government, is of imposing simplicity and strength. He has avoided ostentation and demagogy. He has sought his duty and he has dared to do it at whatever cost'to himself. He is a man univerally acknowledged to be honest in his convictions and fearless in carrying them out. Elected, because of these characteristics, to reform the government of Buffalo, he proved himself so worthy of the trust that he was called by a spontaneous demand to perform the same work in the State Government, and so well and so courageously did he answer this demand that the Democracy of the Nation, with an -1 equal spontaneity, have chosen him to take np the work which Tilden was elected to do. He will do that work. His course has won him the confidence of the country. He will carry New York and the election. A representative of the progressive Young Democracy, he has equally the trust of the conservative classes, while the veterans of the party are among his warmest supportecs. Careful of the rights and solicitous for the welfare of the masses he has ever refused to prostitute his office to gain personal popularity among any class at the expense of conviction. The enemies he has made among professional nnliticians will but add to his strength among tne pc,,,... <*,- his official career upon which a a fight against him can be made. The character of the .opposition against him has been trivial and * ridiculous. That in the full blaze of inspection to which he has lately, been subjected nothing more serious could be found to urge against him, is a conclusive proof of nis splendid record. It is this which has made the Republicans dread him as they did no other Democrat. Comparatively a new man, he is not an unknown or an untried one. He in in thorough sympathy with the dominant

sentiment ot tne party on tne vital issues of administrative and tariff reform, and he will lift the campaign from tho degrading level of Bonrbonism and sectionalism and give it a resistless momentum before which the flimsy opposition which has been made to him will soon crumble away. If he lives, he will be inaugurated President next March. The nomination of Governor Hendricks for the Vice-Presidency was an inspiration. It will give a fervor. and an enthusiasm to the campaign which nothing else could. It will make Indiana certain. Around him will gather that wide and wonderful following which shook the country with the cry for the “ Old' Ticket.*’ In his person will center the demand and live the opportunity for righting the outrage of *76. In his re-election the party will take pride in expresskig its condemnation and defiance oi the conspirators who, in him, struck down popular sovereignty eight years ago. - With Cleveland insuring renovation, stability, integrity and safety in the National Government, and Hendricks, in addition to his own eminent character as a statesman, representing the resistless and righteons sentiment which he will, the Democracy is peculiarly fortunate in its chieftains as well as in its platform, and victory is doubly sure.—Louisville Courier-Journal. • • -- Cleveland an Acceptable Candidate. As the Constitution has steadily pre- > dieted since the positive withdrawal of Tildent Governor Cleveland, of New York, was on Friday overwhelmingly nominated as the Democratic leader in the coming campaign. We are firm in the opinion that we have put forward our strongest and most available candidate. Governor Cleveland is a man of the people. He has fonght his way from their ranks to his .present high position with a rapidity that is dazzling. From first to last he has been irresistible. Never beaten before the people, changing adverse majorities with the oase of a magician, he is vested with a certain prestige that hangs about him as an armor. The rapidity and certainty with which his victories have followed each other is attributed by some men to “luck”—by others to destiny. It is probable that they kra due to the fact that he combines more lnlty than any other man the elements of reform, and that the people feel they can safely look to him for the ability to plan reforms in public affairs and the courage to carry them out. The Democrats have offered to the country a dean and capable mail. He is the candidate preferred almost unanimously by those men who bolted the i nomination of Mr. Blain?, He aopepls

directly to the «nwtk,H sense of thu people, and his record Is assurance that he will give them if he is elected a safe and able ad min'st ration. It is oar hope, and belief that the people, appreciating these things, will elect him by a decisive and unmistakable majority. That he will lose something of the Tammany vote in Sew York is to be expected—but he has already pledged to his support a considerable’ element of Independent Repuhl can voters, vrfao, encouraged ana solidified by his Domination, willfully compensate for the lasses that may come from the' present anger of Tammany, or any subsequent dicker that may be made in New York City.— Atlanta Constitution. An Aggressive Foreign Pulley. . It has been put forward as an argument in favor of Blaine's election that if in power he would give us some new and startling revelations in the way of foreigD policy-. What lie would do, or what he could do, in this particular line we are not told, bnt the general impression is Conveyed that in some entirely original manner iie Wottid startle the world, shake the American banner, we suppose, over the effete monarchies of Europe and cause our bird of freedom | to scream defiance in tlie ears of onr enemies. AH of this kind of talk mav safely be classed with other campaign nonsense, bnt If it be really tendeiMo I influence votes, it indicates a curious ig- ! noranee of the spirit and ideas of the majority of our people. There always is and always will be, a certain restless ahd reckless element thirsty for excitement and commotion in foreign as in home affairs, bnt it has never come anywhere near controlling the country, aDd it will be a very bad day for its when it does, It coincides with the an

arcnic, communistic, element that even in a free, popular government finds some excuse for existence and that loves an explosion because it thrives best among rains. It is a new idea in politics if the wishes and views of this class are to be employed as an argument to influence an election, which is really what this talk about Blaine’s foreign policy means. But perhaps some of Blaine’s admirers may say that what- they are after is an original and aggressive foreign policy, and not empty indnlgence of National vanity. The* reply to this is, that neither origina'ity nor aggressiveness is needed in onr foreign policy at present. We are getting along very nicely by minding our own business, and any other course th n this would surely result in National injury. The idea that we need aggressiveness in this direction is a mistake. We are differently situated front any other, great Nation in the world. We hare no colonial possessions; we have ample space to expand m: we have no dreams of conquest, and our territory is compact and contiguous. Our foreign policy has been and should always be devoted to taking eare of our own Nation than in interfering with the business of other people, and we have qu’te enough to do in this direction without playing quixotic experiments for the gratification of National vanity. We are not quite a “Nation of shopkeepers,” but we have a great deal of stuff of one kind or another to sell, and our prosperity largely depends upon domestic tranquillity and commercial development and energy. As to the restoration of onr National prestige, if we have lost it, which is by no means quite certain, no aggressive ideas touching foreign policy on the part of our President can do us much good,. What we really have suffered from are evils resulting from the rule of the Republican party in the affairs of the country during a long period. A poor navy, consisting of a few wooden ships, is aa injury to onr National name. A less of commercial representatives on the high seas, with a proKeu —- injury, and so with other matters. No change in oar foreign policy in respect to England. Germany or other Nations can obliterate these National failures. What we want is a change—a sweeping change in thfj Government, and a transfer of power from unworthy and incompetent hands to hands that are ol"aa and vigorous in the discharge of duty. We are well aware that the elements of disorder, of wild schemes and venal methods in both parties are favorable to the election of Blaine. We are satisfied that it should be so. There is something in Mr. Blaine to attract these elements to his supQprt, and we are quite willing to go before the tribunal of the people with the issues made up in this, way. It can never be true that the thoughtful and industrious citizen of the United States will support a man for the Presidency because he is rash and dangerous in character, or that they will ever be willing to have our foreign policy dictated by any mother considerations save dignity and honor and a decent resp'ect tor the opinions of mankind.—SL Louis Republican* As t® “Accident.”

The Republican party has so woefully avoided nominating distinguished men, and been so painfully careful to select inexperienced and unrenowned members, that its outcry against Cleveland as an “accident” and'a “nonenity” is peculiarly absurd. To listen, to this outcry no one would imagine that, in 1856 it passed over such tyros and unknowns as John P. Hale, Gideon Welles, Chase, Giddings, Sumner, Seward, and nominated the experienced statesman, John C. Fremont, who had served three weeks in the Senate. **In I860 it again overlooked schoolboys like Chase, Seward, Collamer. Cameron, Wade, and nominated - the well-tried and celebrated Lincoln, who had served without distinction one term in the House of Representatives. In 1868 it failed to see such greenhorns and abecedarians as Wade. Sumner, Fessenden, Wilson, Colfax, Chandler, Cameron, Butler, but hominated Grant, who had when nominated lived in Washing ton as General of the Army about two years. In 1876 it was apparently unaware of the existence of such young pnpils as Blaine, Morton, Chandler, Boutwell, Morgan, and nominated the sage mud well-seasoned Hayes, who had won a world-wide fame as Governor of Ohio and member of the Congressional Library Committee. As a matter of fact, with the exception of the nomination of Lincoln and Grant, for » second term, and of Carfield and Blaine for a first one, the Republican party has always fished out some unknown or inexperienced man as its candidate for the Presidency. Two only out of the six who have been nominated have had any title to the nomination on the score of known and proved qualifications. The talk of the Biaine organs about Cleveland’s being a “nonenity” and an “accident” is wholly absurd and ridiculous. Had their party been influenced by suoh talk only one out of their five Presidents would ever have been elected to the Presidency.— Dtintii free Pta#*.

POLITICAL FOOTS. -Ben Butler is reported to b«i ••tired out.” Well, the country is a trifle fatigued, too. -•• Blaine is everything,” says thq Milwaukee Wisconsin, .“that Cleveland is not.” So glad. -Blaine and Login w ill both take the stump. They see the ne.easily of somebody supporting the ifekct--If ex-Sheriff Cleveland will give the Republican party plenty of rope it will hang itself. -An early spring pea has bee it named after Governor Cleveland. The pea is secure from a November frtsst, any way .—Rochester Herald. -The beauties of boiled crow as » steady bill of fare are now the subject of grave considerat'on by the Tammany leaders.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. -No, my desir madame, it is nob Mr. Cleveland of baking-powder fame.< However, he will cause the Democratic party to rise cp in its might next November.—Utica Observer. -The Democrats have been twiteb* ing pretty viciously at Jim Blaine’^ plumes lately, and the Plumed Knight Will look like a bird at tbe height of the moulting season before the campaign is over.—Chicago Times. -President Arthur speaks veiy disparagingly of Republican prospects. While on this subject we may say that Mr. Arthur is* likely to vote for Blaine and Logan, but it is no sure thing that he will.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

_ ire Mr. Blaine is not kicking f|^~ah aggressive campaign.! He prefers to dodge under the hedge,; but he will be obliged tu come out and face the music all the same. He will please accept this as a notification. -The repugnance some Republican editors display toward Grover Cleveland because he was once a Sheriff suggests that their acquaintance with Sheriffs has not always been of the hail-fel-low-well-met sort. — Cincinnati Enquirer. -Kelly can make his bargain with Blaine as soon as he pleases. He is* like the truant husband who, on being reproached by his wife for coming home so late at night, replied that ha had no other place to go.—Philadelphia Times. -We are told that Steve Elkins and Mahone had a conference yesterday: which “ closed With the assurance by Mahone that he would support the! Blaine and Lo»an ticket.” This being the case, the Democratic party will no doubt throw up its hands and quit right here.—Exchange. -The Democrats have offered to the country a clean and capable man. He is tbe candidate preferred almost unanimously by those who bolted the nomination of Mr. Blaine. He appeals directly to the common sense of the people, and his record is assurance that he will give them if he is elected a safe and able administration. It is our hope and belief that the people appreciating these things, will elect him by a decisive and unmistakable majority.—Atlanta Constitution. -Governor Hendricks’ response to Secretary Chandler’s sensitive ‘attempt to defend his administration ot the Naval Department is indeed a crasher; but he might have crushed the Secretary fatter still had he descended to tbe latter’s level. It would have been a perfectly fair retort to his twaddle about “any attempt to make political capital” to ask what he was doing in attempting to show that Democrats were responsible for his retention of incompetent men in the department.—Detroit Free) Press. -The Blaine organs in the same breath declare that Blaine is the hearty* enthusiastic choice of his party and! point, in proof of it, to his votes in the Chicago Convention. But Cleveland^ c®°tce °f his party. and sulky silence. On the JirsF tSallSi Blaine had 282 votes, and was nomi-t nated on the seventh by 522 votes.; Cleveland on the first ballot received 392 voces and was nominated on the second ballot by 683 votes. Which ono was the choice of his party?—Detroit Free Pess. Is He, er Is He Not t

Before the meeting of the National Convention of the Prohibitionists Hon. James G. Blaine ought to commune with himself in sober'' sadness, and trjj and find out whether he is going to be a prohibitionist this year as he has been heretofore. The defect ion of St, John, of Kansas, will not worry Mr. Blaine,; for St John wants the Prohibition nomination himself. But why should St.f John or any other prohibitionist than Mr. Blaine get that nomination? There can be no donbt that Mru Blaine is a sound prohibitionist, and if, as rumor says, it be true that during the visit of the German guests of the United States three years ago he partook bf the beer of the country, it was because diplomatic propriety forced him to sacritice, as it were, his own internal relations in the interest of foreign affairs.' He did not swallow principles with his beer. He still remained a prohibitionist, as every Maine Republican for the last generation has had to he a prohibitionist. If h|s editorial articles in the. Kennebec Journal were only signed with his name, it would no doubt be easy to bring forward such golden sentiments of nis in honor of the great Maine fetish as the Prohibitiqp Con1vention would be glad to make a platform of. Mr. Blaine needseno certificate from General Neal Dow, though that distinguished guardian .of tno morals of Maine has freely given one. The Prohibition Convention will make no lpistake if it confers its honors upon Mr. Blaine. He will take ’em, we suppose, for he will take anything. When he thinks of the grand vote which was cast for a prohibitory amendment to the Ohio Constitution last year; when he reflects that the States, such as Iowa and Kansas, which love him most, also mftst love prohibitory legislation, he cannot hesitate. He cannot but feel a strong impulse to declare himself a prohibitionist in all the United States, as well as in Maine. The prohibition element in the Republican party is very strong, and he can not afford to lose it. He can retain most of it without getting a separate Prohibitionist nomination; bnt can he get it if he tries to wabble and equivocate, and to be 4 friend at the same time to the temperance associations and the brewers’ associations? Nobody can bestride a fenoe with greater ease than he, Int the pickets on this particular fence are too sharp. Between the Prohibition vote and the German vote he would have to fall down to one side or the other. But what has Brother BlalM to do with the German vote? The Germans are not going to vove for a Prohibitionist. Mr. Blaine ought to have stayed in Pennsylvania. As he is now" from Maine, he had better stick to Maine principles.--N. Y, St*.