Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, - - " I’ubijshkh.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Swbeney, pitoher of tha Providence Base Ball Club, refused to obey orders on the field, abused the manager, and was expelled. The visit of a certain Union club magnate is alleged to have prompted Sweeney’s action.. . .Several large storehouses and factories were destroyed by fire at Gloucester, Mass. The loses are estimated at half a million dollars.... Jane Grey Swisshelm, the well-known abolitionist and advocate bf woman’s rights, died last week at her home in Sewickley, Pa., in her 69th year Grant <t Ward’s receiver has been empowered to sue all persons who borrowed money from the firm. Two PERSON’S died recently at Arietta, Hamilton County, N. Y.. find many other persons were taken sick, from eating ham obtained from a local butcher, who says it came from Thorn & Co., of Chicago. An analysis of the ham shows that it contained trichina?. It appeal’s that the persons who died used the meat in a partly cooked state. A workman at Gloucester. Mass:, discovered a spark in a bucktful of dynamite cart- ■ ridges'which he was carrying. Hurling the bucket- from-him; it struck a tree. and the explosion which followed shook houses for and-Ttemolrslied windows.: ,D. Root. Sons lt Co.. agricultural im-. plement manufacturers at Mount Joy, Pa., have failecLfor $46,000. Overholt & Co.’s distillery at Connellsville, Pa., has been destroyed by fire. The bonded warehouse attached, Containing 7,000 barrels of whisky,-was also burned. The less on the buildings was $115,060, and on thewliiskyssso,ooo.Both ths buildings and goods were fully insured. A number _of those, who collected during the tire drank of the whisky as it flowed from the warehouse, and got drunk... .An assignment has been made by Hand A Ellsworth, paper dealers in New York, whose liabilities are about $200,000. The Pennsylvania.. Railway Company purchased of land at Freedom, Pa., upon which they will erect shops and round-houses, and will hereafter make up 7 their east and west b'OWfisTfreight trains at tji°t point... .The New’ York Board of Apportionment has authorized—thajssue of 3 per cent, bonds to the amount of $1,000,060 for the purchase of school sit"s and the erection of buildings... .Near - Whitehaven, Pa., a locomotive on the . Le- ’ high Valley Road exploded, killing four men. A freight train then ran into the ■wreck, demolishing several cars. .. .Ex-Gov. Harriman of New Hampshire, died last week, aged 67. Eighteen members of the Salvation Army were arrested in Rochester for singing while parading the streets, and they spent a night in jail,-;. . Fire at Millerstown, Pa., destroyed the Schreiber House, Odd Fellows’ Hall, Herald office, and two stores, the loss reaching $30,0(0.

THE WEST.

I By the explosion of a steam thrashingmaehme near Litchfield, HL, two men were killed and six others were seriouslyscalded. '....A hail-storm three miles in width caused a damage of $50,000 to crops in the vicinity of Huron, Dak... .As a result of a blow in the breast from a ball, received some weeks ago,-John McDonough, catcher of the Fort Wayne ball club, died at Mt. -Clemens, Mich., of quick consumption.... Since Jan. 1 3,798,169 bushels of wheat were shipped from Milwaukee, against 952,787 for the corresponding period in 1883. There are only about 77,000 bushels at present in store. A gentleman from Philadelphia has shown the secret-service officers in Chicago a S2O Treasury note made wholly with a pen, its execution being so complete as to deceive a keen expert. ... .Wear, BoOgher & Co., dry goods, St. Louis, have made an assignment. The liabilities are $450,000, and the assets greatly in excess of that sum.... The cigar manufacturing firm of Louis Cohn & Co., of Chicago, has failed. The liabilities exceed $50,000. The value of the assets has not been determined... .The Mississippi River Logging Company, at a meeting at Clinton, lowa, resolved that it was the sense of the association that the mills close down Sept. 15, provided the Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and lowa mills suspend operations at the same time... . At Dayton, Ohio, Dodd’s hav-rake wprks, six frame dwellings, nqmlier of Rubles and sheds were destroyed by fire, causing a. loss of $75,000.... There are 28,900 names on the pay-rolls of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road.

During a thunderstorm at Des Moines, lowa, lightning fired four houses, which were entirely consumed, and a large dairy bam in the suburbs, causing a loss of $20,000. The storm was the heaviest known in the history of the city. ...The wholesale cigar house of Frederick Deutsch, in Chicago, has been closed by the Sheriff. His assets are estimated at $46,000, and he has been doing a business of $150,000 per annum.... Three men were killed on a&rm near Rushville, Ind., by the explosion of a steam thrasher, and five others received serious injuries. John M. Johnson, of Dakota, one of the Grand Army veterans, was accidentally injured while jumping off a street car at Minneapolis. Both legs had to be amputated. Corporal Tanner, of Brooklyn, after the election of the Grand Army officers, called the attention of the comrades to the matter. In a few minutes $3,000 was subscribed for him, the national organization giving SSOO, and the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois State organizations $250 each. Several individual subscriptions were handed in by the comrades.... H. H. Young, Statistical Agent of Minnesota, after deducting losses by recent storms, places the wheat yield of that Stat£ at fully 44,000,000 bushels... .C. A. Sylvester’s carriage and wagon works at Charles City, lowa, were burned, resulting in a loss of $48,000, with $25,000 insurance. Accobding to Mr. Baynes, statistical agent of Dakota, the spring- wheat crop of that Territory will yield 26,000,000 bushels. The grain is of good quality. The Minnesota crop is estimated at 44,000,000 bushels. The winter-wheat yield in Nebraska will be from thirty to forty bushels per acre, ’and the spring- wheat yield from twenty to twenty-five bushels. Bye, oats, corn, and barley promise wdl in Nebraska and Minnesota • Beports of the condition of the crops in lowa and Illinois continue favorable. This ia especially so as to com. Wheat will be

up to the hveradkL The smaller grains are fair to good. Tha. potato crop has suffered in some localities tin account of drouth, ... The Health Ctrtnmissioner at St. Louis officially notifies 'Surgeon Hamilton that in the suspected case on the steamer Annie P. Silver the child died of summer complaint, that the family have resided in Mexico for more than a year, and that they came to this country seven months ago. .. . Joan C. Bacha, a millionaire cattle-dealer of Las Vegas, was drugged in Cincinnati, and robbed of $13,000.

THE SOUTH.

Morris Oliver, one of Mahone’s Lieutenants at Warrenton,, Va., stole a box containing SII,OOO from the residence of Dr. C. P. Cooper and hid it in a hay-stack, where it was found the next day.... The Zell Guano Company’s Fertilizer Works, at Locust Point, ne-U’Baltimore, were entirely, destroyed by fire. Tlje insurance amounts to $85,000. Col. E. W. Cole, of Nashville, Tenn., has purchased the greater portion of Lookout Mountain, and intends to set engineers at work on a railway from Chattanooga to the summit, after the model of the Mount Washington Road. The Supreme Court of Virginik has decided tnat the act passed by the last Legislature of that State prohibiting the interference of School Superintendents in politics is-unconstitMiolial Charles F. Saver & Co.’s tannery at Louisville, Ky., was destroyed by fire. The I total loss is about $60,0(10, partially covered by insurance. A fireman felt* from tire burning building and was fatally in jured. . . Ken dri ck Holland and Victor”Eloi, w ife “murderers, were hanged by the Sheriff at New Orleans. —"—» (’apt. L. T. Davis, of Princess Anne, Md., was shot and instantly killed by I. J. Mills, who had made love to Davis’ daughter against the wishes of her father.

WASHINGTON.

President Arthur received a message from Queen Victoria. iu.which she congratulates the United States on the rescue of Lieut. Greely and his surviving companions. The President returned a suitable reply thanking the Queen, and again expressing appreciation of the timely gift of the Alert. He informed the Queen that the survivors are doing well. Returns from 159 letter-carrier postoffices for the quarter ending June 30. show a falling off in revenue as compared with the corresponding quarter of the previous year of $350,316. On this basis the receipts for the year will be $2,000,000 less than for the previous year. The diminu=tion is due so lbeY r e<luOtion of Tetter-pdst-age from 3 to 2 cents. The post-office authorities look upon the showing as satisfactory. President Arthur has left Washington for his summer vacation. Secretary Lincoln is the only member of the Cabinet who remains at the capital Lieut. Schwatka, of arctic fame, has, resigned his commission in the United States army. It is understood that he will accept a lucrative position under a foreign government.

POLITICAL.

Independent Republicans from several States gathered in New York on the 22d for a conference. George William Curtis called the meeting to order, and Charles R. Codman was chosen President. The latter called the nomination of Blaine an insult to American manhood. Thomas Bacon said the Independents had twice defeated the aspirations of Blaine within the party. A platform was adopted declaring that the abuses of the past cannot be corrected under the leadership of the Republican nominees, and it was unanimously decided to support Cleveland and Hendricks. In the Sixth lowa District Convention at Ottumwa the Democrats nominated Gen. Weaver for Congress. The Greenbackers’ convention, held at the same time, also nominated Weaver. Eugene Kelly, the New York banker, has been nominated by the New York Democratic Committee for Presidential elector-at-large, vice William Purcell, of Rochester, resigned. In the National Prohibition Convention at Pittsburgh, a Maryland delegate stated that the administration had sent the Commissioners of Pensions and Indian Affairs to advise the members against separate political action. R. 11. McDonald, of California; John P. St. John, of Kansas; and others were placed in nomination for President, but the overwhelming sentiment in favor of the latter caused him to be selected by acclamation as the candidate. William Daniel, of Maryland, was nominated for Vice President. The platform

favors the abolition of internal revenue taxes on liquors and tobacco, and declares that the ballot should bo placed in the hands of woman for her protection.'... Two Prohibition State Conventions were held in Indianapolis. One faction was opposed to the nomination of a State ticket, while the other placed R. S. Dwiggins in the field for Governor. TrT At the meeting of the new Democratic National Committee, at New York, the Hon. William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, was re-elected Chairman, and the Bon. F. O. Prince, of Massachusetts, Secretary. .. .The Democrats of West Virginia, in convention at Wheeling, nominated E. Willis Wilson fop (governor,, and indorsed the national ticket and platform. George O. Jones, Chairman of the Greenback Committee of New York State, has written to Charles Jenkins, a prominent Ohio Greenbacker, expressing dissatisfaction at the attitude of Gen. Butler. Mr. Jones says Butler must indicato his intentions very soon, as the true men of the Greenback party care nothing about outside combinations, and they are becoming impatient and discontented at the delay. If Butler does not run, Mr. Jones says, another candidate will be selected, and he suggests a conference of leading Greenbackers for that purpose the 9th of .September. John P. St. John has accepted the Prohibition nomination for the Presidency.: Many of his friends claim that they can carry Kansas and Maryland and throw the election into Congress .. .John E. Bryant has been appointed United States Marshal of Georgia, vice Gen. Longstreet, removed. Gen. Butler lost his hold on the Democracy of Massachusetts, by having Ips enemies organize the StateOentrai Committee. P. A. Collins was elected Chairman.

GENERAL.

A London dispatch says: “It is persistently asserted in Catholic Circles that there

. is a great likelihood of Mary Anderson joining the Clementine nuns.”... .The Irish rifle team won the Elcho shield at Wimbledon, England. Alexander Sullivan, President of the Irish National League, has called a convention at Boston for Aug. 13, on which occasion addresses will be delivered by Thomas Sexton and John E. Redmond. The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company has announced a reduction of rates to all important Southern and Western points. The tariff adopted is 25 cents for ten words b—abbut half the present Western Union charge.. . .John C. Eno, the wrecked New York banker, has rented a furnished house in Quebec, and has been joined by his wife and three daughters. ■ An organization under the name of the Miners’ Amalgamated Association is being perfected in the bituminous and anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, It is estimated that a membership of 100,000 has already been obtained. The organization will be extended to the West. The leaders claim it will be protective in character, and that strikes will be' discouraged as far as is consistent with-the interestsofthe members. Members of the Amalgamated Miners’ in Ohio and Pennsylvania are., forming a combination against the company store, better known, perhaps, as the truck system. , . The attendance at the Grand Army of the Republic encampment, at Minneapolis, was the largest in the history of the order,. . Gov. Hubbard welcomed the veterans to .the State, and Mayor Pillsbury, on behalf - of the city, exiemled a welcome. ” The second day of the encampment witnessed a grand parade, that was received with tremendous cheers by 60,000 people, who thronged every street on the line of march. The parade (passed * the City Hall, where children on a canopied platform were waving banners and singing an old war song, which the veterans took up, and' passed on with uncovered heads. The third day’s proceedings were somewhat tame, and were not so largely attended. A good many old soldier- had private reunions at the camp -and in the streets. There was als* a prizedrill, and in the evening a camp-fire, at which Gen. Sherman delivered a speech. The fourth and last day was devoted principally to the election of officers for the ensuing year. J.S.Koutz, of Ohio, who entered the Union army in 1861 as a drummer boy, being then but 15 years of age, was elected - Grand Commander; John P. Rea, of Minneapolis, Senior Vice Commander; and Ira B. Hicks, of New Haven, Conn., Junior Vice Commander. Portland, Me,, was selected as the place for the encampment next year. • ' , ' . ”” , , ■ ' Surgeon General Hamilton was notified that a child who recently arrived at New Orleans from Toulon died on the steamer Annie P. Silver, at Port Anderson, Miss., probably from cholera. A strict investigation was at pnee ordered by Dr. Hamilton. Ensign W. R. Chambers, of the steamship Loch Garry of the Greely relief expe- ' dition, furnishes some interesting details of the voyage from the log of his vessel, from which it appears that as they sailed from St, Johns, N. F., northward they were in constant peril. Hundreds of times during the expedition vessel and crew were threatened with destruction by icebergs and fogs.

FOREIGN.

The cholera epidemic at Toulon and Marseilles shows no indication of abating, says a cable dispatch. A panic was created at Toulon by the arrival of 100 coffins ordered from Marseilles. In order to allay the excitement it was found necessary to send the coffins back. The Russian Government has ordered strict guard at the frontier railway stations against the introduction of the disease, and the Spanish Government has established a strong sanitary cordon in the Pyrenees. Cases of cholera are reported to have occurred at Paris, Vienna, and Madrid. It is probable that the conference of the European powers on the Egyptian question will result in nothing. France refuses to— agree to England's financial proposals, It is not likely that the conference will meet again, although Lord Granville is empowered to call the members together at any time The steamers Gijon and Laxham collided off Corunna, Spain, and both sunk almost immediately. Fifty-six persons were landed, and it is believed that no lives were lost. ....King John of Abyssinia announces his purpose to abolish slavery and the slave trade in his dominions... .The cholera has appeared at Brignoles. and other points in the south of. France. The French Academy of Medicine pro-; poses an international congress to discuss the prevention and cure of cholera. Dr. Koch has asked that the congress meet in Berlin. A Marseilles dispatch says: “The aspect here is becoming somber. The steamer which arrives weekly from Algeria is suppressed. The line to Syria is stopped. The South American packets have ceased to call here. The customs offices and quays are deserted. There are many funerals during the night, the burials being performed by the aid x of lanterns. The Mayor has interdicted the annual fair, and forbids the processions of Aug. 15.’’ A fire at the Wapping docks, London,, swept away property valued at $2,500,000. About 1,000 tons of pepper, nearly one-third of the entire stock in London, was destroyed. Michael Davitt was presented with an address in Tralee, Ireland. In replying, he said it was the duty of every Irishman in Great Britain and Ireland to assist in the movement against the House of Lords. Referring to American politics, he said that Irish-Americans should vote as citizens of the Republic. To America they owed their first duty. He alluded in complimentary terms to Gen. Butler... .Mexico is offering in the London market, at 75 per cent., bonds to the amount of $30,000,000, bearing 7 per cent, interest. A special correspondent who has visited Marseilles cables that from what he has seen in that place “no intelligent. community of well-ordered lives and wellmanaged sewer-pipes need have any alarming fear” of the cholera. The epidemic, he says, prevails only in the poor quarters of the city, where there are no sewers, where fetid water is collected in pools, or flows along the streets, spreading its poisonous breath all round. There were thirty-six deaths from cholera at Marseilles, eleven at Toulon, and thirteen at Arles on the 27th of July. . . .The French Government will agree to some if England’s

flnancial proposals with regard to Egypt if the law of liquidation is modified and the proposals are limited to a term of two years.'... A statue to Robert Burns was unveiled in London by Lord Roseberry. It is Situated on the Thames embankment. .. .The long-looked-for Liberal demonstration at Manchester, England, was a great success, about 40,00.0 people being present. John Bright, the Radical, presided, and made a fiery speech. The counter Tory demonstration at Hyde Park was a failure... .China has agreed io pay France an indemnity of 20,000,000 francs for the Lang Son affair. : •• • • The Siberian plague Ims appeared in China.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Further details of-the collision of the -steamer Laxham with the Spanish ship Gijon show that 130 persons died. The Laxham was struck amidships, and went ■. down twenty minutes after. The pas-' sengu's and crew made their way tjie" b.-st they could to the Gijon. which began to. sink soon after. The ship’s boats were not able to hold one-half those on board, and those wild were fortunate enough to get in first fought off with knives those who afterward tried to get in. The scenes were sickening iu the extreme—.. ..The notorious Mrs,Weldon has been awarded $5,000 damages by a London jury against the physician ’ Scmpley, who recommended that she be confined in a lunatic asylum as a person of unsound mind. 1 .. . . Henry M. Stanley; the African explorer, has reached England. When he left the Congo country, he was suffering badlv from bronchitis,-but was much benefitml by the sea, voyage. A Topeka (Kan.) dispatch says: “N. A. Adam's, of Manhattan, purchased 200 head of .Colorado steers at Kansas City last week, and thirty head of them have died with Spanish and Texas fever. One car load was stoppecThere, and out of that six have; ,died; the—others were taken .to Manhattan “and ais< <piaranlihFl - ili 'sliipping pens there, Up to 3 o’clock this afternoon .twenty-five ■ had ■ died. People, and especially stockmen, are greatly excitcd. In answer to n telegram, Gov. Glick lias sent State Veterinary Surgeon Holcomb to investigate the trouble... ; Near Greeley, Col., John Shea,-a miner, cut the throat of his wife while she=layMeeping. then stubbed her seven times and himself eight times, and fell dead. ”Jealbiisy”’. . . Forty-one buildings, including banks, hotels, stores, saloons, and public offices, were destroyed at Devil’s Lake, Dak. The flames swept everything before them. Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company announces a reduction of 20 per. cent, in the wages of officers and men. Shiplev & Wells, iron founders and boiler makers .at Binghamton,N. Y., -will - reduce wages 10 per - cent. A Boston dispatch says that nearly all the New England cattoil goods manufacturers will shut down for seven or eight weeks. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Labor party in New York, it was resolved to postpone the proposed convention of the party at Chicago to Sept. 1. This action was taken, it was stated, became ihe left-is of accept ance of Gen. Butler and Gov. Cleveland have not yet appeared, and in their absence.it would be impossible to take intelligent action. A statement of the Treasurer of the United States shows that the net amount of gold now in the Treasury is about $119,000,000. This shows that there has been a falling off of about $15,000,000 since the Ist of the month, which is a rapid approach to the limit of $100,000,000, where the issue of gold certificates must cease, according to law... .The total cost of the Greely relief expedition approximates $700,000. The estimated cost was $500,000. The balance of trade against this country for the first twenty-nine weeks of 1881 amounts to $74,144.47 Reports from twenty-six of the leading clearing-houses of the United States, outside of New York, show that the aggregate of the clearances for last week was 11.4 per cent, less than the aggregate fur the uuifespuiidiifg Week of last year. The New York Clearing-House report shows a decrease of 21 per cent. The Rins of society are the chief barriers between it and a tharvelbus welfare. They compose the malarial wind that sweeps over the land day and night interfering with every office of body and soul. Apart from this there is nothing small in humanity, for men’ are all so interwoven together tliat the rich,are a part of the poor, genius a part of the common intellect, and fame a culm'nation of an age full of virtue. Swing. -

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THE INDEPENDENTS.

Proceedings of the Conference Held in York. [Associated Press Report] A meeting of Independents opposed to Blaine and Logan took place to-day (July 22) at the University Club Theater. For an hour before the time fixed there was an unusual stir In that generally quiet locality, and inside the corridors Of the little theater consultation of Independents was busby carried on.. Am<cg the more prominent faces noticeable were Goerge William Curtis and Carl Schutz. The latter was the center of an interested and animated group. Clarence Bowes, of the Independent, and other seceling members of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club were present. The Secretaries had made up lists of those who were to be present, which showed Massachusetts to be more numerously represented than any other State except New York. A lew from New Jersey and Connecticut and some from more distant States were on the roll. Among the Massachusetts delegates were the following: From Boston. George W. Hale, F. C. Lowell, and J. B. Gardner; Cambridge, Jabez Fox, G. W. Wright, F. B. V. Kern, Col. T. W. Higginson, A. M. Howe, and J. B. Thayer; Concord, Samuel Hoar, Arthur J. Fuller, and Messrs, Chapman and Hudson; Fail River, S. Borden; New Bedford, F. B. Summers and W. C. Lawson; Brookline, Theodore Lyman; Quincy, E. S. Huntington, Josiah Quincy, W. B. Rice, William Everett, and Hr. Slade; Woburn, W. V. Kelly; Newton, Col. A. A. Pope, J. R. Canter, J. F. Ober, F. F. Raymond, and J. S. Fallow; Chelsea, A. D. Bosson; Dedham, F. J. Stevenson; Lexington, Cornelius Wellington and C. S. Osgood. There were delegates present from New Haven, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. - The hall was well filled when the meeting was called to order. Among the prominent members of the Independent party present were Carl Schurz. Clarence W. Bowen, Benjamin H. Bristow, W. C. Beach, and Francis C. Barlow. The appearance of George William Curtis on the platform evoked cheers of applause. Mr. Curtis called the conference to order at near noon, and welcomed the delegates. He read the call tor the conference. Charles R. Codman was elected President. The list of Vice Presidents and the names of theEnr_rollment Committee were br6ad, iiichiding Carl Schurz, Gen. Barlow, and C. J. Bonaparte of Maryland. The nominees were all elected. Col. Codman made an address, in which he said: "You confer great honor on me in choosing me to preside over the deliberations of, not a body bf office-holders, but of citizens, whose only desire is for the good of the whole country. We have decided to cast aside party affiliations for the time being. The nomination of the Republican party for the Presidency is an insult to American manhood. Blaine has not cleared his record from the charges that he used his public office for private gain, and we fear that he will continue his usual methods; that he will prove no dead-head in any enterprise he may embark in. We make no charges against his private character, but Blaine is not tit to be President of the United States. There is no great issue clearly defined between the two parties, so that We have to confine ourselves to the question of the fitness of the candidates.’’ After Chairman Codmau had concluded his speech, the Hon. Carl Sehurz moved that a committee be appointed to act on resolutions and the address. _ Carried Horace E. Deming, of Brooklyn, said he believed this conference would leave behind it some work that would show it intended to do some fighting during the campaign. He moved that a committee be appointed to report on a plan of permanent organization. Carried, and a committee wifs appointed with Mr. Deming as Chairman. 'The committees retired for consultation, and CqLTheqdore Lyman,'of Brookline, Mass., made an address. He bad no objection to parties. It was a dangerous thing to be an "Independent" for several reasons. There was even the risk of being called a "crank.” < Thomas Bacon, of New Haven, said the Independent movement had grown to an enormous strength. Col. T. W. Higginson, of Massachusetts, said he never saw a more gratifying assemblage. It reminded him of the gatherings in the times of the anti-slavery a gitation. That movement was successful, and he believed this would be. ' As the Committee on Resolutions was not ready to report a recess for an hour was taken. When the conference reassembled, the Secretary made a statement in regard to letters received by the New York committee from citizens in various States from Maine to California. Mr. Quinby, of New Jersey, said that to save the Republican party Blaine must be beaten, and that for every Democrat in New Jersey that wanted to vote for Blaine there were five Republicans who would vote for Cleveland. F. Claflin,.of Illinois, said.th.ew wara: very-strong Cleveland element among the Republicans in the West; President Seelye, of Amherst, said he was not prepared to join the Democrats, but was in favor of having a separate candidate. He also made a plea for temperance principles. The Committee on Permanent Organization recommended that a National Committee should be appointed, and the Chair appointed the following: From New Y’ork—Carl Schurz, Theodore Bacon. John H. Cowing, Charles H. Miller, R. P. Bowker, George W. Folsom, Ethan Allen Doty, George Walton Greene, and Horace E. Deming. From Massachusetts—William H. Forbes, Joseph Tucker, Joseph H. Walter, Samuel Hoar, Phineus Pearse, George V. Leverett, and Winslow Warren. From Connecticut—S. El Baldwin, O. P. Armstrong, and H. W. Farnam. From New Jeisey—Daniel Drake Smith, Simeon Huntington, and W. GLJleckham. From Pennsylvania—F. B. Reeves, Stewart W’ood, and Joseph Parish. Chairman Codman and Mr. Claflin, of Illinois, were added to the committee. Carl Schurz, in behalf of the Committee on Resolutions, said there was no intention to make a platform for the new party, but only an appeal for government. George William Curtis read, the Address, which is as follows:

THE PLATFORM. The paramount issue of the Presidential election of this year is moral rather than political. It concerns the national honor and character, and the honesty of the administration, rather than the general policies of government, upon which the platforms of the two parties do not essentially differ. No position taken by one platform is seriously traversed by the other. Both evidently contemplate a general agreement of public opinion upon subjects which- have been long in controversy, and indicate an unwillingness to declare, upon other and cardinal questions, views which in the present condition of opinion might seriously disturb the parties within themselves. Parties, indeed, now cohere mainly by habit and tradition; aud since the great issues whicti have divided them have beeu largely settled, the most vital political activity has been the endeavor of good citizens in both parties to adjust them to living issues and to make them effective agencies of political progress and reform. The indispensable necessity of this course has long been apparent, for in a ’time of profound peace at home and abroad the most threatening national peril is Insidious political corruption, a mercenary and demoralizing spirit, and a tendency the result of what is well described by Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, as "The shameless doctrine that the true way by which power should be gained in the republic is to bribe the people with offices created for their service, and the true end for which it should be used when gained is the promotion of selfish ambition and the gratification of personal revenge.” But this doctrine, naturally, has produced results which are still more alarming. The corrupt spirit and tendency have so rapidly developed that the,seek political power not only to grati'.y ambitfOif and revenge but, to promote private gain. They decide appeals to the public conscience, defend the soiled reputations of public men by the bold asseition that all public men are equally guilty, declare that success in obtaining eminent position disposes of every imputation and suspicion Of wrongdoing, and despising all practical measures to reform the system of official patronage which fosters dishonest politics, makes a great party nominally responsible for prolonged and monstrous fraud, and proclaims that it is the duty of every citizen, who for great and beneficent ends has habitually supported ttje party, to. regard the success of the.rarty at an election Without regard to the character of those whom it selecis as its executive agents to be a supreme national necessitv. A tendency more fatal to the public'welfare cannot be conceived; and when by public Indifference or misunderstanding this < orrupt spirit is able'to demaud that the country shall ap> rove it by acce ding to it the highest honor in its gift, every pa riotlc citizen must perceive that no duty could be more pressing, vital and imperative than that of baffling and defeating the demand. If the Republican Convent:on had presented a candidate whose character and career were the pledge of resolute contest with the tendencies that we have described; if they had foretold a stem dealing with political corruption, and a rigorous TOrrection of the vast abuses which long and undisturbed tenure of power by any party is sure to breed; if the success of the candidate had promised inflexible honesty of administration, purifi-

cation of the Government, and the elevation ®f the party standard, every Republican voter would have gladly supported the nomination. But these are precisely the anticipations' which the nomination forbids. It offers a candidate who is an unfit leader, shown by his own words and his acknowledged acts, which are of official record, to be unworthy of respect and confidence: who has traded upon his official trust for his pecuniary gain; a representative of men, methods, and conduct which the public conscience condemns, and which illustrate the very evils which honest men would reform. Such a nomination does not promise in the Executive chair inflexible official Integrity, cool and wise judgment, a sole regard for the public welfare, and an unshrinking determination to promote reform in the civil service and ceaselessly pursue and punish public robbers of every kind and degree. The Independent voters have generally supported the Republican nominations as more surely promising reform than (those of the Democratic party. The Independents, however, cannot support a nomination which is the culmination of a tendency that they would correct. Republicans cannot hope that under such a leadership as we have mentioned the abases of the past can be corrected or the party reformed. We are very proud of the great record and services of the Republican party, but not with our consent or connivance shall the record be disgraced. Every party must be frequently renewed by the intelligent independence of its own members, or it will sink from an agency to recure good government into a remorseless despotism. The Republican party first sprang from moral sentiment. It was the party of political morality and of personal liberty. It appealed directly to the consqjence of the citizen. But like all parties it was a political agency, not to be worshiped but to be carefully held to the spirit and purposes on which and for which it was organized. “I do not know,” said Mr. Seward, thirty years ago, when heleft the Whig party to join the'Republican. “Ido not know that it will always or even long preserve its courage, its moderation, and its consistency. If it shall do so it will secure ami save the country. If it too shall become uniaithful, as all prec ding parties have done, it will, without sorrow or regret on my part, perish as they are perishing, and will give place to another and truer and better one.” This reasoning must not be forgotten. It is with a profound conviction of its wisdom that the Republicans, faithful to their party, but holding with the great Republican fathers that political morality and purity of administration are more precious than party, are now constrained to oppose the Republican Presidential nomination in the interest of what they believe to be pure Republicanism, of the public welfare, and of the honor, of the American name. The Republican nomination has for a time superseded all other issues by raising the question of official honesty. -- - THis question Cannot be avoided except upon the plea that the official character of the candidateneed not be considered? And that in order to secure a partv President the members of the party ought to vote for any candidate who has been regularly nominated. This is the plea beyond which —party madness cannot go. ’’Acquiescence in it would require the surrender of the self-respect of every voter. There can be no candidate so unfit that this plea would not demand his support, and Republican success justified fiy the argument which defies the public conscience would be the overthrow of the vital principles of the narty, and show that the spirit and character which created its great traditions are rapidly perishing. Upon the practical questions of the tariff and finance and other questions upon which both parties are divided within themselves we are also divided in.opinion. We shall vote, therefore, ip our choice of Representatives and other officers according to our individual opinions of their political views and their personal character. Divided on other questions, we are united in the conviction that the. foundation of office and honor should be pure, and that the highest office in the country should be filled by a man of absolutely undisputed integrity. As there is no distinctive issue upon public policy presented for the consideration of the country, the character of the candidate becomes of the highest importance to all citizens who do not hold that party victory should be secured at any cost.’ While the Republican nomination presents a party whom we cannot support, the Democratic narty presents one whose name is the synonym of political courage and honesty and administrative reform. He has discharged every official trust with sole regard to tfie public welfare and with just disregard at mere partisan or personal advantage, which, with the applause and confidence of both parties, have raised him from the chief executive administration of a great city to that of a great State. His unreserved, Intelligent, and sincere support of reform in the civil service has firmly established that reform in the State and cities of New York; and his personal convictions, proved by his official acts, more decisive than any possible platform declarations, are "a guarantee that in its spirit and in its letter the reform would be enforced in the National Administration. His high sense of duty, his absolute and unchallenged official integrity, his inflexible courage in resisting party pressure and publio outcry, his great experience in the details of administration, and his commanding executive ability and independence are precisely the qualities which the - political situation demands in the chief executive officer of the Government to resist corporate monopoly on one hand and demagogue Communism on the other, and at homo and abroad, without menace or fear, to protect eveiy right of American citizens, and to respect every right of friendly States by making political morality and private honesty the basis of constitutional administration. He is a Democrat who is happily free from all association with the fierce party differences of the slavery contest, and whose financial views are in harmony with those ot the best men in both parties, and coming into public prominence at a time when official purity, courage, and character are of chief importance, he presents the qualities and promise which independent voters desire, and which the great body of the Republicans, believing these qualities to be absolutely indispensable in the administration of the Government at this time, do not find in the candidate of their own party. Such independent voters do nut propose to ally themselves inextricably with any party. Such Republicans do not propose to abandon the Republican party nor to merge themselvi s in any other party; but they do propose to aid in defeating the Republican nomination, which, not for reasons of expediency only, but for high moral and patriotic considerations, with due regard for the Republican name and for the American character, was unfit to be made. They desire not to evade the proper responsiliillty of American citizens by declining to vote, and they desire also to make their votes as effect ve as possible for honest, and pure ,and w se administration. How.can such voters who, at tjds election, cannot conscientiously support the Republican candidate promote the objects which they desire tb accomplish more surely than by supporting a candidate who represents the qualities, sijirit, and purpose which they all agree in .believing to be of controlling importance in this election? No citizen can rightfully avoid the issue or refuse to cast his vote. The ballot is a trust. Every voter is a trustee for good government, bound to answer to his private conscience, for his public acts. This conference, therefore, assuming that the Republican and Independent voters who for any reason cannot sustain the Republican nomination desire to take the course which, under the necessary conditions and constitutional methods of the Presidential election, will most readily and surely secure ■ the result at which they aiim, respectfully recommend to all such citizens to support the electors who will vote for Grover Cleveland in order mqst effectually to enforce their conviction that nothing could more deeply stain the American name and prove more disastrous to the public welfare than the deliberate indifference of the people of the United States to the im reusing public corruption and to the want of official integrity in the highest trusts of Government. Mr. Curtis, during the reading, was frequently interrupted by applaus’% and when he had finished the resolutions wero adopted without a dissenting voice. Mr. William Everett, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution naming- Cleveland and Hendricks as the nominees of the conference. Laid on the table, and soon after the conference adjourned on motion of Mr. Lvman, o - . Massachusetts. After the adjournment the Conference National Committee went into session and discussed a plan tor pe manent organization, but no definite action was taken and the matter was referred to a sUu-< ommittee consisting of Mess.s. Deming and Miller, of New York, and Pearce, of Massa< husetts, to report plans. It was also decided to have an Executive Committee of ten, who shall have power to increase their number. The reports t>om general committees in the various 1 States were reserve !, and it , was thought that the most efficient work could be done in New York, New Jersey,’ Connecticut, and Massa•■•itnsetV*. and strong efforts will be made to carry those States where State Committees can be organized, as also in Pennsylvania. Toe sentiments expressed show that the majority of the members are in favor of conducting the campaign in an independent manner, with perhaps occasional conferences with the Democrats to avoid possible collision. A Parisian dame recently gave a ball to her female friends, and asked each to bring a living animal. All Except three brought their husbands. "Before thb. construction of modern machinery for pin-'makiiig-pins were soexpensivie 1 that “pin money” became a household word.