Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — Page 2

The .Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, • - INDIANA.

General News Summary.

ntOM WASHINGTON. BscsrrxßT Bristow, on the 17th, tendered hie reklcnsUon to the President, to take effect on the 90th. The resignation we* accepted. Mr. Briatow had contemplated this more for some Ume, his private affairs being such as to require his personal attention. Tie Grand Jury of the District of Columbia have indicted Blchard Harrington and Arthur B. Williams for bribery—the former being charged with having, in 1873, while Assistant United States Attorney, received $15,000 to have his decision and action Inlluenoed in the matter of a motion for anew trial in a murder case, and the latter with giving the money to Harrington aa a bribe. Mr. Bui hr received a letter on the 10th from Joslah Caldwell, dated at London, June Bth, authenticating the cablegram received eeversl days ago by the House Judiciary Committee. Bluford Wilson, Sollcitorof the Treasury Department, tendered his resignation on the 19th, to take effect on the Ist of J uly. Treasurer Nrw sent his resignation to the President on the Slat. Senator Morrill, of Maine, was, on the 21st, nominated br the President for Secretary of the Treasury, and his nomination was at once confirmed by the Senate. THE KANT. The White Elephant depot, near Hudson, N. T., and 400 loaded cars, a propeller and two canal boats were burned on the night of the 18th. Loss about $1,000,000. A Philadelphia dispatch of the 19th says s very dangerous counterfeit had just made its appearance there, and was being freely circulated. It is a flve-dollar note, counterfeiting the issue of the First National Bank of Northampton, Mass., and is an excellent im£ tation. The New Hampshire Legislature, on the 20th, elected E. H. Rollins (Rep.) to succeed Mr. Cragin in the United States Senate. The vote stood: Senate—Rollins, 8; Sinclair, 3. House—Rollins,2oo; Sinclair, 170. An item having been published in an Eastern paper to the effect that the silver quarterdollars having M C. C." under the eagle are counterfeit, an exchange atatea that the statement is unfounded, those two letters being the mark of the Carson City mint. Another distinguishing feature is the difference in the size of the stars, those on the coinage of the Carson City mint being larger than those on the coinage of the Philadelphia mint Gold closed In New York, on the 21st at 112%- The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat [email protected])4; No. 2 Milwaukee, sl.lß ®L2O; Oats, Western 32®35c; Mixed, Cora, Western Mixed, 54®59)4c; Pork, Mem, $19.75; Lard, ll)£c; Flour, good to choice, 15.20A5.85; White Wheat Extra, $5.7007.75. Cattle, 9@10)4c for good to extra. Sheep (shorn), 4®6cAt East Liberty, Pa., on the 91st cattle brought: Best $5-25®5.35; medium, $4.50 ®&00; common, $4.00®4.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphias, $6.30® 6.45. Sheep (shorn) brought $4.00®5.00 according to quality. WEST AND SOUTH. Mbs. Abraham Lincoln, who last year was adjudged insane and sent to an asylum, has recovered, and has been restored to the possession of her estate by the same court which declared her demented. At the first annual session of the American Nurserymen’s Association, recently held in Chicago, a formal organisation was effected. E. Moody, of Lockport, N. Y., was chosen President for the ensuing year; several VicePresidents were also elected. The Secretary U Dl W. Scott Treasurer, A. R. Whitney, of Franklynton, Ill.; Executive Committee, T. S. Hubbard, L. K. Scofield and J. J. Harrison. The next annual meeting is to be held in Chicago. —— The Democrats of Arkansas have nominated a State ticket headed by R. W. Miller for Governor. Later returns from the Oregon election, received in Ban Francisco on the 15th, indicated that the Republicans and Independents would tie the Democrats in the Legislature, rendering the election for United States Senator doubtful. ( A report was received at Denver, on the 16th, that the Sioux Indians had attacked a cattle round-up at Fremont’s Orchard, about eighty miles down the Platte, killing fifteen men, and driving off all the stock. The set- . m sanaliAavawit r on namn mu w iwwwy wiwr xmicuqb kuu cuiu.cu* trating at theuearest settlements. The committee appointed by the Cincinnati Convention to notify Gov. Hayes of his nomination for the Presidency were received at the Executive Chamber in Columbus, on the evening of the 17th. Mr. McPherson, of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the committee, made formal verbal announcement to the Governor of the action of the Convention. Gov. Hayes briefly responded, accepting the nomination and saying that he should, at a future time, present his acceptance in writing with his views on the platform adopted by the Convention.

A Baton Rouge (La.) telegram of the 19th aaya a disturbance had occurred at Mt. Pleasant, near Port Gibson, on the 17th. “The negroes, following the example of the whites, organized a band of regulators and ordered a Democratic negro to leave the place. Refusing to leave, he was attached by the Agnlators and killed. The constable and his posse attempted to arrest the murderers, bnt were driven off. The Sheriff of Baton Rouge, with a posse, went to Mt Pleasant, on the 18th, and captured fourteen negroes, including the murderers. The Sheriff’s posse making the arrests* report being fired'upon by negroes. Two of them were wounded and taro horses killed. Th* steamer Nellie Peck reached Bronx City on the afternoon as the 90th, from Fort Benton, (wincing several miners from Deadwood. They came for supplies,, and brought •90,000 in gold dust with them. A Nsw Orleans dispatch of the 90th reports the hanging of 'five negroes at Mount Pleasant, by white Regulators. A Fort Fxttzbman dispatch of the 20th aaya reporta had ]uat been received there from Gen. Terry’s expedition. He was reported to be on the south side of the Fellowstone, endeavoring io effect a junction with Gibbons’ column, which was being held at bay by the Sioux. Gen. Tory was .also

greatly hasmsed by them. A battle waa momentarily expected. In Chicago, on the 21st, spring wheat. No 9 closed at $1.03® 1.03)4 cash. Cash corn rioted at4s%c for No. % Cash oats No. 2, sold at 99*@29Xc; July option, were sold at «#s4c. Rye No. 9,«@«®)4e. Barley, No. 2, 57%®58c. Cash mess pork closed at SIB.BO ® 18.82)4- Lard, [email protected]. Good to choice beeves brought $4.2fc®4.85; medium grades, $4.00®4.25; butchers’ stock, $3.00® 8.75; stock cattle, etc., $8.50®4.0Q. Hog» brought $5.85®6.15 for good to choice. Sheep (shorn) sold at $3.00®4.25 for good to choice. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The celebrated German Oriental scholar, Dr. Julius Heinrich Petermann, is dead. A Circassian named Haasan, forced his way Into the Grand Vizier’s residence, at Constantinople, on the 15th, and assassinated Hassicn Avnl Pasha, Turkish Minister of War, Rachid Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, a servant of Mldhat Pasha and a soldier. Kaiseril Pasha, Minister of Marine, and another soldier were wounded. Constantinople dispatches of the 16tb say the investiture of the Sultan had been postponed. The Servian army was on the frontier, and Russian men-of-war were assembling at Sevastopol. The extensive carpet works and woolen manufactory of James Templeton, at Ayr, Scotland, was burned on the 16th. The (Ire waa caused by the friction of the machinery. The operatives were at work at the time. The overseer and twenty-four women perished In the flames. The factory was totally destroyed. Loss, $200,000. A dispatch from Calcutta, India, received in London on the ISth, reports an alarming outbreak of cholera in Gulwoda, a village on the Bombay A Boroda Railway. Of 200 Inhabitants, 100 died in three days. It was reported on the 18th that the Turks in Bosnia had unfurled the green flag for a holy war against the Christians. St. Johns, Canada, was visited by a destructive fire on the 18th, by which a territory 600 feet wide and a mile in length, embracing the entire business portion of the town, was burned over. Seven hotels, nine churches, the Custom-House, Court-House, Postoffice and other public buildings, together with 250 stores and houses, were destroyed, involving a loss of about $2,000,000, and rendering about 200 families homeless. Four or five persons were seriously burned. Constantinople dispatches of the 17th say the Porte had decided to complain of Austria for continuing to allow the insurgent volunteers to cross into Turkey. Hassam, the assassin, was hanged on the morning of the 17th. He was known as a devoted follower of the late Sultan. It is said be intended to kill Avnl Pasha only. A Constantinople telegram of the 19th says the Ministers of the Bultan differed among themselves on the question of creating a National Assembly, and the promised Constitution would be indefinitely postponed. Brent, the Louisville (Ky.) forger, was discharged from custody, in London, on the 19th, by the Courtof Queen’s Bench. An explosion of coal gas occurred on board the ship Atlanta, at Cardiff, Wales, on the 19th k which caused the death of six men, and injured several others. A Constantinople dispatch to a Berlin paper, of the 20th, says the mother of the late Sultan Instigated Hassan to assassinate Avni Pasha, and furnished him with all the necessary Information of the Minister’s movements by means of spies whom she employed for that purpose. A Rag usa telegram of the 20th says information had been received from Sclavonic sources that the insurgents had destroyed toe town of Allapusa and killed 200 Turks. Jambs Baird, es Combusdoon, the millionaire Iron master who recently gave $2,500,000 to the Scotch Church, died on the 20th. A Louvain (Belgium) telegram of the 21st saya there was great excitement there in consequence of the hostile demonstrations against the Liberal students in the University. Bome of toe lectures had been suspended an&toe civic guards called out According to a London telegram of the 21st, the number of deaths from the plague in Bagdad during May was 1,122. CONGRESSIONAL. The Senate, on the 15th, insisted upon Its amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and a Conference Committee was appointed.... Bills were passed in the House—providing that imported block marble may be bonded in open yards, nnder the care of the officers of customs, at the expense of the owner or importer; authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge across the Wabash River. A Conference Committee was appointed ou the Senate amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. Consideration of the Belknap articles of Impeachment was resumed in the Senate, on the 16th. Hr. Black, of the'coansel for the acriiSOduECidl long iirdar JaAHnino C dlarJ. fnr m - WWW*- - ther, on the ground that the respondent had' already been substantially acquitted, as the order of the Senate asserting its jurisdiction was not passed by a two-thirds vote. Objection was made to the filing of the paper, and during the discussion which followed it was discovered that there was not a quorum present.... The House wentinto Committee of the Whole on the Army Appropriation bill, and several amendments were offered and rejected. *

In the Senate, sitting as a Court of Impeachment. on the 17th, Judge Black, of the counsel for ex-Secretary Belknap, moved that the trial be postponed until November, and expressed a hope that the Managers would consent to such postponement; leave was granted to the Managers to consult with the House on the subject. A message was received from the President calling attention to the approach of the new flacal year, and the failure of Congress, so far, to make provisions for the ordinarv expenses of the Government; also to the laws forbidding the expenditure of unexpended balances, and reenirine that they be covered into the Treasury at the end of the fiscal y«u: and farther stating that, if the Appropriate ills are not matured before the beginning of the new fiscal year, the Government will be greatly embarrassed for want or funds; he snbmUtad a joint resolution, which was ordered printed and to lie on the table, to extend the appropriations for the Consular, Diplomatic an d Postal services, the support of the army, navy, etc., for the present fiscal year to the next.... In the House, the President's message relative to the Appropriation bills was, after debate, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The question of tne postponement till November of the Impeachment trial was considered, but no decision whs reached. The bill to confirm to Chicago titles to certain public lands was passed. The Army Appropriation hill was considered and amended in Committee of the Whole.

The Senate, on the 19th, insisted upon ita amendments to the Poatofflee Appropriation hill, and a Conference Committee was appointed. Sitting as a Court of Impeachment, an order was •greed to that the paper presented by the defendant on the 16th be filed, and defendant having failed to answer to the merits within the ten dars allowed by the order of the Senate of the 6th, the trial will proceed on the 6th of July as upon a plea of not guilty; provided that impeachment can ocly proceed while Congress is in session. An order was also agreed to relative to witnesses for the defense, a committee being named to designate the witnesses to bo summoned at the Government expense, all others to be at the expense ofthe respondent... .In the House Mr. Cox was again appointed Speaker pro tem. in the absence of Mr. Kerr. The Army Appropriation bill was farther amended in Committee of the Whole,

reported to the Honse and pasted. A resolution offered on the 17th providing that CooKrce* should meet in November to proceed with the Impeachment trial was withdrawn. A Conference Committee wee appointed on the Poetofflce Appropriation bill. In the Senate, on the 20th, the House bill to repeal the bankrupt law waa reported and ordered poalponcd until the first day of the next aeeaion of Congress, A favorable report was made on the Honse’ Joint resolution, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to Issue SIU.UM),OUU in silver coin, in exchange for legal-tender notes. A message was received from the President relative to the Extradition treaty with Great Britain, and criticising the action of that Government in the Winslow nnd Brent cases, which action, if adhered to, the President says, cannot hot be regarded as the abrogation and annulment of such treaty, and he will in future neither make nor entertain requisitions for the surrender of criminals The IntUan Appropriation bill was further considered anaamended, one of the amendments agreed to to committee being to strike out the section propo-ing to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War Department; the bill as amended was reported from Committee of the Wh01e.... Bills were passed in the House—to prevent the sale and use of adulterated and explosive illuminating oils: providing that whenever a party is lawfully entitled to a patent, if he delay to take out such patent, it aball have the same power when granted aa though issued at the time the party Was first entitled to it; for the equalization of bountios, allowing to all enlisted men—soldiers, sailors and marines (including slaves and Indians)-eight and one-third dollars per month between the 12th of April, ISM, and the 9th of May, 180 S, deducting all bounties already paid under United States or State laws - yeas. Ul; nays, 46. A report was read from the Committee on the Freedman's Bank, in which it is alleged that fraudulent vouchers and other false evidence of payment had been Issued by ex-Commlseioner Howard and Disbursing Officer Ballock, by which they obtained, improperly, credits for moneys alleged to have been paid out by them to colored soldiers, sailors and marines; the committee reported a bill, as a remedy for this evil, providing for the settlement of the claims for pay, bounty and prize money, or other moneys, dne to snch colored soldiers, sailors and marines, when it is established, on proper investigation, that they have failed to receive snch payment or settlements heretofore made: the bill also directs proper legal proceedings to 'be instituted against all persons who shall be shown to be implicated Id the frauds connected with the Freeamen’s Bureau; the report and bill were ordered printed and recommitted. The President’s message in regard to the Winslow case was read and referred in the Senate, on the 21st. The Hooae joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue $10,000,0001n sliver coin, in exchange for legaltender notes, was passed- with .an amendment providing that the trade dollar be not hereafter a legal-tender, and authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to limit the coinage thereof to such an amount as he may deem sufficient to meet the export demand for the same. The Indian Appropriation bill was taken np, and the third section of the Honse bill, abolishing the Indian Bureau and transferring the government of the Indians to the War Department, was stricken ontr*4 to 22 and the bill was passed.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was taken np in the House, la Committee of the Whole, and several amendments were disposed of.

The President’s Message Relative to the Extradition Treaty.

Washington, June 20. The President to-day sent a message to the Senate and House of Representatives respecting the Extradition Treaty with Great Britain. After stating at length the provisions of the treaty, and criticising the action taken by the British Government in the Winslow and Brent cases, the President says: It Is with extreme regret that I am now called upon to announce to you that Her Majesty’s Government has finally released both of these fugitives, Winslow and Brent, and set them at liberty, thus omitting to comply with the provisions and requirements of the treaty under which extradition of fugitive criminals is made between the two Governments. The position thus taken by the British. Government, if adhered to, cannot but be regarded as the abrogation and annulment of the article of the treaty on extradition. Under these circumstances it Will not, in. my judgment, comport with the dignity or self-respect •f this Government to make demands upon that Government for the surrender of fugitive criminals, nor to entertain any requisition of that character from that Government under the treaty. It will be a cause of deep regret if a treaty which has been thus beneficial in its practical operations, which has worked so well and so efficiently, and which, notwithstanding the exciting and at the same time violent political disturbances of which both countries have been the scene during its existence, has given rise to no complaints on the part of either Government, against either its spirit or its provisions, should be abruptly terminated. It has tended to the protection of society, and to the general interests of both countries. Its violation or annulment would.be a retrograde step in international intercourse. I have been anxious, and have made efforts to enlarge its scope, and to make a new treaty which would be a still more efficient agent for the punishment and prevention of crime; at the same time I have felt it my duty to decline to entertain a proposition made by Great Britain, pending, its refusal to execute the existing treaty, to. amend it by practically conceding by treaty the identical conditions which that Government demands under its act of Parliament.

In addition to the impossibility of the United States entering upon negotiations under the menace of an intended violation of a refusal to execute the terms of an existing treaty, I deemed it inadvisable totreatof only the one amendment proposed by Great Britain, while the United States desires an enlargement of the list of crinSes for which extradition may be asked, and other improvements which experience has shown might be embodied in a new treaty. It is for the wisdom of Congress to determine whether the article of the treaty relating to extradition is to be any longer regarded as obligatory on the Government of the United States or as forming part of the supreme law of the land. Should the attitude of toe British Government remain unchanged, I shall not, without an expression of the wish of Congress that I should do so, take any action either in making or granting requisitions for the surrender of fugitive criminals under the treaty ot 1842. Respectfully submitted, U. S. Grant.

Co-operative Housekeeping in Loudon.

There has arisen close to the St. James Park station of the District Railway within the last year a fantastic building, in a Brobdingnagian style of architecture, a dozen stories high. Here Mr. A. H. Hankey has spent, or is spending, a quarter of a million of money to induce Englishmen to abandon the axiom that each man’s house is his castle, by showing how man had better abide in flats than in either, houses or castles; and in educating a select number of our upper classes in the theory and practice of a refined socialism. There are, or are to be, 350 sets of apartments, each set distinct, at an average rent of SSOO a year; but with a common kitchen, common coffee-room, saloon and reading-room, servants supplied by the management, and fixed charges for everything. The experiment is a very interesting one, and ought to succeed, tried on such a scale, amid a population which affords such an area tor experiment as that of the wealthier, unsettled classes of London. The main difficulty will, we imagine, arise’in the organization of service. The Briton may relinquish his regard for his house, but will hold longer to the wish to have his own household about him. —London Spectator. The Philadelphia pickpockets say that they never knew people to hold to their wallets the way they do this centennial year. “ -Gladstone recently cut down a beech tree thirteen feet in circumference in six hours. That’s the sort of feller he is.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —The Hessian fly has attacked wheat in MiMonri. —The bhycle furore is on the increase again in England. —Caught in the snare—a dram. But the drums that are base are never so caught. —Dallas, Tex., is so infested by gamblers that the respectable people begin to talk hemp. —Men will frequently givo assent to philanthropic vews, but not a cent to carry them out. —A parrot that hangs over a New York apple-stand has been taught to shriek “ Stuff yourself.” —The door between us and heaven cannot btf opened if that l*etween us and our fellow men is shut. Some people are too economical—especially in generosity, kindliness, charily, truth and such things. —Mustang horses are selling at from eighteen to twenty dollars each at auction in San Saba County, Tex. —A New York court, with rare judgment, decides that a man has no business to keep a dog that barks at night. —Why is the absence of the letter m like the presence of a hand-organ ? Because, of course, it makes u-sic of music! —McDevitt, County Treasurer of Edge, field County, 8. C., has tied the State, carrying off with him SIOO,OOO of the people’s money. —What is the difference between one who walks and one who looks up a flight of stairs 7 One steps up-stairs, and the other stares up step?. —One of the convicts of the Virginia Penitentiary is serving out a sentence of two years tor stealing an orange. The theft was his second offense. —“ My dear,” said John Henry to his scornful wife, 44 Providence has spared you the necessity of making any exertions of your own to turn up your nose?” —Philosophically observes the Detroit Free Press: 41 Seventeen hours per day of hard work, mingled with liquid courtesy and limpid gentility, are seldom welded together.’ ’ —Saith the muse of the New York Evening Mail: And waste its sweetness on the desert air, In thunder, lightning, or in rain; None hat the brave deserve the fair. —A Holland (Conn.) wotnaa accompanies her husband at his labors daily, and does the very same sort of work. She was seen the other day helping him run a cross-cut saw. She has nine children, too. — 44 Ain’t you ashamed of yourself, you naughty, selfish boy, to go and take the whooping-cough from your little sister?” 44 1 d-d-didn't take it; she g-gave it to me. She s-s said she liad rn-mora than alia wanted.” —There is little difference between the costumes of a penitentiary convict and an imitation swell of the period, for iheir plaids are of the same size and color, and they all walk with a shuttle, as if balls and chains were attached to their legs. —The war of the Buffalo elevator-own-ers continues. They have not only got down to elevating grain for nothing, but last week at George J. Whitney’s elevator they were paying $1 a thousand bushels for the privilege of elevating it.— N. T. Times. —ln England a railroad is not permitted to cross a thoroughfare on a level, except by a special permit by Parliament, and then a gate-keeper must al ways bo oh duty. Generally it is cheaper to build a bridge than to pay steady wages. —The new Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has established active branches in most of the large cities of the United States. In Oakland, Cal., a four-your-old child used in circus feats has been rescued, and another in Washington. —The Situation in Dallas, Tex., is thus summed up in the Commercial: 44 The fentle snap of the frolicsome revolver is ecoming quite promiscuous, and the gentle buzz of the bullet rivals the bee that bummeth and the mosquito that hummeth.” —The Boston Globe announces the rule that 44 a beautiful female foot should be one-seventh the wearer’s height.” If the "wearer” is five feet four inches high, then the foot should be nine inches high; and it should, of course, be three times as long as high, which would give it a length of twenty-seven inches. But this is in Boston—which makes all the difference.—N. T. Graphic. —A Brooklyn.girl having been visited for some months’ by an exceedingly bashful gentleman, brought on the wished-for climax by the following ruse. He made an afternoon call and after a few minutes waiting she rushed into the parlor equipped for the street, and said, hastily: 44 1 am iu a great hurry—have an engagement with a lady friend, and if you came for the purpose of proposing 'marriage you must be quick about it.”' Wedding early in the fall. —We heard ®f a little two-year-old boy that was being severely reprimanded by 4 his mother for not obeying her. 44 If you do not obey better, my son, I shall be obliged to get a whip and whip vou,” said the chiding parent. The little fellow was an attentive listener, and looking up artlessly and good-naturedly into his mother’s face, he replied with infinite indifference as to the whipping, “Yes, mamma, and when you are not using the whip, won’t you let me have it to play with.”— Wisconsin State Journal. —The Sioux Indians name their pappooses after events transpiring at the time of their birth. As illustrative of this peculiar trait, Red Cloud is known to have taxen that name from the fact that the W estern sky was overspread with red clouds at the moment of his birth, while the bringing of a captive horse with a spotted tail gave the now great chief the singular cognomen of Spotted Tail. Sitting Bull received this name because a buffalo bull was, by a lucky shot, thrown upon its haunches, in plain sight of his mother’s tepee at the lime of his birth, while the cavort in gs of a fractious pony furnished a name for the redoubtable Crazy Horse.

The National Republican Convention.

SECOND DAT. The Convention was called to order a little after eleven o’clock, and the proceedings were opened with prayer. The memorial of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association was presented and referred to the Committee on Resolutions, and Mrs. Sayler i. Spencer was, on motion, granted a brief hearing in behalf of the claims of women citizens to a practical recognition of their political rights. The Committee on Rules made their report One of the rules, providing that the nominations should not be made until after the

adoption of the platform, elicited some objection and debate, but was finally adopted together with the remainder of the report. By the rules, as adopted, it was provided that in making nom'natlous for President and VicePresident, In no case should the calling of the roll be dispensed with; and that when any Bt*te had announced its vote, It should so stand until the ballot was announced, unless In the case of a numerical error. ” The Committee on Credentials reported no contested delegations except from Alabama, Florida and the District of Columbia, in the Alabama case the committee recommended toe admission of the antl-Bpencer delegateo; in the Florida case they recommended to admit the Conover delegates; and they recommended the admission of Bowen and Green from the District of Columbia. A minority report was made in the Alabama case in favor of the Bpeucer delegation. The report of the committee on all points save the Alabama question was adopted. A lively discussion then ensued on the Alabama case, alter which the minority report was rejected—yeas, 854; nays, 375—and the report of the majority was adopted. The Committee on Resolutions then reported the following platform, which was subsequently adopted without amendment: When, in the economy of Providence, this land was to be purged ot human slavery, and when the strength of the Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, was to be demonstrated, the Republican party came Into power. Its deeds have passed into history, and we look back to them with pride. Incited oy their memories and high aims for the good of our coantry and mankind, and looking to the future with unfaltering courage, hope and purpose, we, the Representatives of the party in National Convention assembled, make the following declaration of principles: 1. The United States of America Is a Nation, not a leagne. By the combined workings of the Nation and Stale Governments nnder their respective Constitutions, the lights of every citizen are secured at home and protected abroad, and the common welfare promoted. * 2. The Republican party has preserved those Governments to the hundredth anniversary of the Nation's birth, and they are now embodiments of the great truths spoken at its cradle, that '* all men are created equal;” that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, for the attainment of these ends Governments have been instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Until these truths are cheerfully obeyed, or, if need be, vigorously enforced, the work of the Republican party is unfinished. 3. The permanent pacification of the Southern section of the Union, and the complete protection of its citizens in the free enjoyment of all their rights, are duties to which the Republican partv stands sacredly pledged. The power to provide for the enforcement of the principles embodied in the recent Constitutional amendments is vested by those amendments in the Congress of the United States; and we declare it to be the solemn obligation of the Legislative and Executive Departments of the Government to put into immediate and vigorous exercise ail their Constitutional powers for removing any just causes of discontent on the part of any clasß, and for securing to every American citizen complete liberty and exact equality in the exercise of all civil, political and public righta- To this end we imperatively demand a Congress and a Chief Executive whose courage and fidelity to these duties shall not falter until these results are placed beyond dispute or recall. 4. In the first act of Congress signed by President Grant the National Government assumed to remove any doubts of its duties to discharge all just obligations to public creditors, and solemnly pledged its faith to make provision at the earliest practical period for the redemption of United States notes in coin. Commercial prosperity, public morals and National credit demand that this promise be fulfilled by a continuouc and steady progress to specie payments. 5. Undei the Constitution the President and heads of departments are to make nominations for office, the Senate is to advise and to consent to appointments, and the House of Representatives is to accuse and prosecute faithless officers. The best interests of the public service demand that these distinctions be respected; that Senators and Representatives, who may be judges and accusers, should not dictate appointments to office. The invariable rule for appointments should have reference to the honesty, fidelity and capacity of the appointees, giving to the party in power those places where harmony and vigor of administration require its policy to be represented, but permitting al! others to bo filled by persons selected with sole reference to the efficiency of the pnblic service, and the right of all citizens to share in the honor of rendering faithful service to their country. 6. We rejoice in the quickened conscience of the people concerning political affairs, aud will hola ail public officers to a rigid responsibility, and engage that the prosecution and punishment of all who betray official trusts shall be speedy, thorough and unsparing. 7. The public-school system of the several States is the bulwark of the American Repnblic, and, with a view to its security and permanence, we recommend Jin amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbidding the application of any public funds or property for the benefit of any schools or institntioas nnder sectarian control.

8. The revenue necessary for current expenditures and the obligations of the pnblic debt mnst be largely derived from duties on importations, which, so far as possible, should be adjusted to promote the interest of American labor and advance the prosperity of the whole country. 9. We reaffirm our opposition to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies, and demand that the National domain be devoted to free homes for the people. 10. It is the imperative duty of the Government so to modify existing treaties with European Governments that the same protection shall be afforded to the adopted American citizen that is given to the native born, and that all necessary laws should be passed to protect immigrants in the absence of power in the States for that purpose. 11. It is the imperative duty of Congress to frilly Investigate the effect of the immigration and importation of Mongolians npon the moral and material interests ofthe country. 12. The Republican party recognizes with approval the substantial advance recently made toward the establishment of equal rights for women by the many important amendments effected by Republican Legislatures in the laws which concern the personal and property relations of wives, mothers and widows, and by the appointment and election of women to the superintendence of education, charities and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class of citizens for additional rights and privileges and Immunities should be treated with respectful consideration. ' r . . A 18. The Constitution confers npon Congress sovereign power Over the Territories of the United States ior their government, and in the exercise of this power it is the right and 'the duty of Congress to prohibit and extirpate in the Territories J that rqkc of .barbarism, polygamy. jmd we demand such Isolation as shall secure this end, and the supremacy of American institutions in all the Territories.

14. The pledges which the Nation has given to our soldiers and sailors mast be fnlfilled; the grateful people will always hold those who periled their lives for the country’s preservation in the kindest remembrance. 15. We sincerely deprecate all sectional feeling and tendencies; we therefore note with deep solicitude that the Democratic party counts aa Its chief hope of success upon the electoral vote of the nnited South, secured through the efforts of those who were recently arrayed against the Nation; and we invoke the earnest attention of the country to the grave truth that a success thns achieved wonld reopen sectional strife and imperil the National honor and human rights. 16. We charge the Democratic party as being the same in character and spirit as when it sympathized with treason; with making its control of the Honse of Representatives the triumph and the opportunity of the Nation's recent foes; with asserting and applauding In the National Capitol the sentiments of unrepentant rebellion: with sending Union soldiers to the rear, and promoting Confederate soldiers to the front; with deliberately proposing to repudiate the plighted faith ot the Government; with being equally false and imbecile; with overshadowing the ends of justice by Its partisan mismanagement and obstruction of investigation; with proving itself, throngh the period of its ascendency in the Lower House of Congress, utterly incompetent to administer the Government. We warn the country against trusting a party thus alike unworthy, recreant and incapable. 17. The National Administration merits commendation for its honorable work in the management of domestic and foreign affaire, and President Grant deserves the continued and hearty gratitude of the American people for his patriotism and his eminent services in war and in The Chair then announced that the next 7 business would be the nominations of candidates. A motion to adjourn was made and lost. Mr. Kellogg, of Connecticut, then presented the name of Marshall Jewell for President, and briefly stated his record. Mr. R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, nominated Oliver P. Morton, and was seconded by Mr. Pinchbeck, of Louisiana. Gen. Harlan, of Kentucky, nominated Benjamin H. Bristow, which nomination was seconded by Messrs. Poland, of Vermont; Curtis, of New York, and Dana, of Massachusetts.

Col.R. G. Ingersoll, of Illinois, then appeared upon the platform and offered the name of James G. Blaine, of Maine, as a candidate for the nomination for the Presidency. After the conclusion of Mr. Ingersoll’s remarks, Henry M. Vtktier (colored), of Georgia, and Wm. B. Fcye, of Maine, seconded the nomination of Mr. Blaine. Stewart Woodford, of New York, then offered the Convention the name-of Koscoe Conkling. E. W. Noyes, of Ohio, presented the name of Rutherford B. Hayes, which nomination was seconded by Meases. Wade, of Ohio; Arnea, of Missouri, and Davis, Of West Virginia. Linn Bartholomew, of Pennsylvania, named Gen. John f. Hartranft as a candidate for the nomination for the Presidency. The nominations being concluded, a motion was made and carried to adjourn until ten o’clock on the morning of tiffe 10th. THIRD DAT. The Convention re-assembled at 10:85 on the 16th, and was opened wifti prayer. Balloting for a candidate for President was then begun, the first roll call resulting as follows: For Blaine—Alabama, 10; California, 9; Colorado, 6; Delaware, 6; Florida, 1; Georgia, 5; Illinois, 88; lowa, 22; Kansas, 10; Louisiana, 2; Maine, 14; Maryland, 16; Massachusetts, 6; Michigan, 8; Minnesota, 10; Missouri, 14; Nebraska, 6; New Hampshire, 7; New Jersey, 13; North Carolina, 9; Oregon, 6; Rhode Island, 2; Tennessee, 4; Texas, 2; Virginia, 16; Vermont, 1; West Virginia, 8; Wisconsin, 20; Arizona, 2; Dakota, 2; Idaho, 2; Montana, 2; New Mexico, 2; Utah, 2; Washington Territory, 2. Total, 285. ■ • •_ Bristow—Alabama, 7; California, 2; Connecticut, 2; Georgia, 3; Illinois, 8; Kentucky, 24; Massachusetts. 17; Michigan, 9; Mississippi, 3; Missouri, 2; Nevada, 3; New Hampshire, 8; New York, 1; North Carolina, 1; Rhode Island, 6; South Carolina, l; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 6; Vermont, 8; Wyoming Territory, 2. Total, 113. Conkling California, 1; Florida, 3; Georgia, 8; Michigan, 1; Missouri, 1; Nevada, 2; New York, 69; North Carolina, 7; Texas, 3; Virginia, 3. Total, 98. Morton—Arkansas, 12; Florida, 4; Georgia, 6; Indiana, 30; Louisiana, 14; Mississippi, 12; Missouri, 12; North Carolina, 2; South Carolina, 13; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 5; Virginia, 3; District of Columbia, 2. Total, 125. Haves—Alabama, 2; Illinois, 1; Michigan, 4; Missouri, 1; Nevada, 1; New Jersey, 5; Ohio, 44; Vermont, 1; West Virginia, 2. Total, 61. Hartranft—Pennsylvania, 58. Jewell—Alabapaa, 1; Connecticut, 10? Total, 11. Wheeler—Massachusetts, 3. The second ballot resulted as follows: Blaine, 298; Bristow, 114; Conkling, 93; Morton, 120; Hayes, 64; Hartranft, 63; Wheeler, 3; Washburne, 1. Third Ballotr— Blaine, 293; Bristow, 121; Conkling, 90; Morton, 113; Hayes, 67; Hartranft, 68; Wheeler, 2; Washburne, 1. Fourth Ballotr-Blalne, 292; Bristow, 126; Conkling, 84; Morton, 108; Hayes, 68; Hartranft, 71; Washburne, 3; Wheeler, 2. Fifth Ballot—Blaine, 286; Bristow, 114; Conkling, 82; Hartranft,-69; Hayes, 104; Morton, 95; Washburne, 3; Wheeler, 2. Sixth Ballot—Blaine, 308; Bristow, 111; Conkling, 81; Hartranft, 50; Hays, 111, Morton, 85; Washburne, 4; Wheeler, 2. On the seventh ballot, when Indiana was called, Mr. Cumback ascended the platform and made a short speech, withdrawing the name of Mr. Morton and casting twenty-five votes of Indiana for Hayes and five for Bristow. He was followed by Gen. Harlan, of Kentucky, who withdrew the name of Mr. Bristow and- cast the entire vote of his State for Hayes. Great cheering followed this announcement. Mr. Cumback then cast the entire Indiana vote for Hayes. The following is the result of the seventh ballot: Blaine, Ssl; Bristow, 21; Hayes, 384. Necessary for a choice 379. Mr. Hayes was then declared the nominee of the Convention for President of the United States, and his nomination wiu made unanimous. Nominations for the Vice-Presidency were then made as follows: William A. Wheeler, of New York; Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut; Stewart L. Woodford, of New York; Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut; F. T. FrelinghUysen, of New Jersey. During the rollcall it became apparent that Mr. Wheeler would have a majority of the votes cast, when the call was suspended and he was unanimously nominated. The following was unanimously adopted as a portion of the platform:

Resolved , That we present as eur candidates or President and Vice-President of the United States two distinguished statesmen, of eminent ability and character, and conspicuously fitted for those two high offices, and we confidently appeal to the American people to intrust the administration of their public affairs to Kutherford B. Hayes and William A. 'Wheeler. The National Committee was announced aa follows: Jerry Herralson, Selma, Ala.; Powell Clayton, Arkansas; George G. Gorham, California; Marshall Jewell, Connecticut; Samuel M. Harrington, Delaware; William J. Purman, Florida; James G. Detol, Georgia; JamesP. Root, Illinois; Will Cumback, Indiana; John Y. Stone, Iowa; John H. Martin. Kansas; William C. Goodloe, Kentucky; P. B. S. Pinchback, Louisiana; William P. Frye, Maine; Charles C. Fulton, Maryand; George P. Hoar, Massachusetts; Zachariah Chandler, Michigan; John T. Averill, Minnesota.; G. M. Buchanan, Mississippi; Chauncey I. Filley, Missouri; L. W. Osborn, Nebraska; Joti E. Jones, Nevada; Geo. A. Halsey, New Jersey , A. B. Cornell, New York: Thomas B. Keogh, Noith Carolina; A. T. Wikoff, Ohio; H. W. Scott. Oregon; Nelson W. Aldridge, Pennsylvania; John J. Patterson, South Carolina; Wm. Rule, Tennessee; M. S. Colburn, Vermont; J. D, Bener,’Vhjrinia; John W. Mason West Virginia; Elihußnos, Wisconsin; Newton Edmunds, Dakota; Sales J. Bowen, District of Columbia; Thomas Donaldson, Idaho; A. H. Beattie, Montana; Stephen B. Elkins, New Mexico; John R. Mcßride, Utah; Orange Jacobs, Washington; Joseph, M. Cary, Wyoming; William E. Chandler, ’TOrfißipMlMp After the usual resolution of thanks, etc., the Convention adioii*tied a#**#'*,

This is the wav they cook shad in Philadelphia according to a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune: A plank, generally of cedar, two feet long, a foot wide, and two inches thick, is taken, and with it a shad. The fish—properly split through the back and dressed—is laid upon the plank, with the outside but, and secured m place by a lew nails. Then the whole arrangement is placed before the fire, and the shad is cooked by the heat. When he and you are reedy, he is brought to the table and placed before you. A little salt and less pepper, with collaterals ot stewed corn, green peas and tomatoes, bread, butter, and such odd trifles, and your planked shad has gqne where it will do the most good. —An extraordinary incident of a coaloil accident is reported at Newport, Ky. A young lady dropped a lamp, which exploded and burnt her badly. The account says: “After Miss Jones’ injuries had been dressed in oil and cotton, and most of the persons had left, Mr.. Ben Britton picked up what he supposed to be her gloves. As they were very stiff they were and found to be the skin of her hands and wrists, with the nails, whish she had rubbed off in her frantic attempts to quench the flames.” " —A little child residing on Eighth street at Washington was one night recently attacked by rata, which gnawed away the fleshy portion of its left hand, and inflicted many gashes about the neck and chest, severing an important artery. A sensitive girl named Francis Annie Jones hung herself the other day in Liverpool from a bedpost because her mother had reprimanded her for burning a tablecloth with a flat-iron.