Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — Page 2

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nu w ahhotm. .~. A WArauroTOX telegram of the 24 th Mye PortmasteMten. Jewell had Invited the portmaster* of the larger cities to a conference in that eltv itis naw law redUAbur . admo. to a Washington’Associated Press dispatch of the Mth it was believed that Senator Morrill would not qualify a$ Secretary of the Treasury. Mb. Blainr left Washington for his Maine home on the afternoon of the 37th. His general health had not changed since his recent relapse, and his condition caused great anxiety on the part of his friends. . Tan President on the 98th sent to the Senate the nomination of Albert M. Wyman, formerly of Nebraska, to be United States Treasurer, vice John C. New, resigned. Mr. Wyman was Assistant Deputy of the Treasurer. THE BAST. Tub Maine Republican State Convention was hold at Bangor, on the 23d. Belden Connor, present Governor, was nominated for reelection, and Presidential Elcctors-at-Large were chosen. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the Cincinnati platform and candidate*; reaffirming adherence to prohlbitten, and recommending ex-Bpeaker Blaine for appointment to succeed Mr. Morrill In the United States Senate. Ix a trot againt time at on the 23d, Goldsmith Maid accomplished the first heat in 8:17K, the second in •:», and the third in 2:l7Jf.

Thb salary of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, as pastor of Plymouth Church, has been recently fixed at $20,000. A tblbgbam of the 2»d announce* the marliage, at Lake George, N. Y n of Robert Dale Owen to a daughter of the late Martin A. Kellogg. of Hartford, Conn. A Jambs C. Rbbp published a letter in New York on the 2Sd, announcing himself as the author of the famous “ Fave" dispatch to Josiah Caldwell, asking him to forward by cable a vindication of Mr. Blaine. Reed says he does not know how Blaine learned that, Caldwell had cabled the Judiciary Committee. He further states that three years ago he was Caldwell's confidential clerk, but today is simply his friend. Mbs. Larry McCarty and four children were badly burned by a kerosene lamp explosion at Ogdensburgh, N. J., on the evening of the 24th. The mother and one daughter died the next day. Thb Vermont State Republican Convention met at Montpelier on the 27 th, and nominated Hon. Horace Fairbanks, for Go vernor, Col. Redfield Proctor, for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, and John O. Page for State Treasurer. Presidential Electors-at-Large were also nominated. Resolutions were adopted, endorsingthe action of the Cincinnati Convention. Mbs. Wm. Hotlbhousb, of Springfield, Mass., was fatally burned on the 27th by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil with which she was kindling the kitchen fire. Thb decision given by Judge Dykman in the case of Moulton m. Beecher, argued at Poughkeepsie, has been reversed by the New York Supreme Court, thus giving Mr. Moulton the right to bring An appeal can be taken by Mr. Beecher to the Court of Appeals. A New York dispatch of the 27th says the Committee appointed by the late Advisory Council of Plymouth Church to select a commission for the Investigation of the charges or evidence in the case of Mr. Beecher, had Chosen as such commission, Judge Nathaniel Shipman, of Connecticut; Hon. Asahel Finch, of Wisconsin; Judge 8. B. Gooklns, of Indiana; Hon. Jonathan E. Sargent, of New Hampshire, and Judge Joseph C. Knapp, of lowa. At New York on the 28th Mr. Samuel Sloan was elected President at the Michigan Central Railroad Company. I Gold closed In New York, on the 28th, at 112. The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, 11.15 gl.18; Gate, Western 33@35c; Mixed, Corn, Western Mixed, 57@60c; Pork, Mess, 119.40;’ Lard, Flour, good io choice, [email protected]; White Wheat Extra, 25.5507-75. Cattie, B@U>Mc far good to extra. Sheep (shorn), 4J<@6X C - At East Liberty, Pk, on the 23th, cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; medium, 24-40 @4.90; common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, 36.00@6J»; Philadelphia*, $6.25@ 6.40. Sheep (shorn) brought $4.0005.00 according to quality.

WEST AND SOUTH. A band of masked men entered the jail at Burlington, Ry., on the morning of the 23d, and took therefrom Smith Williams, a colored man accused of murdering a white man last fall, and hung him to a tree by the roadside. A volley of bullets was then fired into the hanging body. A Chktkknk dispatch of the 23d states that news had been received there that Gen. Crook's military expedition had a four hours’ battle with the Sioux on the 17th. Gen. Crook’s loss was ten officers and men killed and several wounded, and there were a number of casualties among his Indian allies. The loss of the Sioux was thirteen killed and a number wounded. The todians fled. Gen. Crook’s horse was shot under him. Two spans of the railroad bridge acrots the' Missouri River at Kansas City were burned ob the 23d. It wotild probably take a couple of weeks to repair the damageJudge Blodgett, of the United States District. Court at Chicago, on the 34th, sentenced A. C. Hering, who had plead guilty to having been connected with the whisky ring, to pay a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for two years in the County Jail. W, B Miller, was sentenced to six months in jail and a fine of $3,000; George T. Burroughs to one year’s imprisonment and $3,000 fine. Sentences were pronounced against several other confessed and convicted members of the ring, the imprisonments ranging from one day to one year in jail, and the fines from s2ootos3 t oo& Rbedbss from various points in lowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, received on the 27th, show quite discouraging prospects in regard to the crops. Wheat and other graine were said to be greatly damaged by the frequent rains, and In some locaHties the Hossiau fly and chinch bug were Vigorously at work.

Church, died «t hte rssidsn-a, in Luthervllte, Md., on the 26th, of inflammation of the bowels. A ChbybxXb telegram of the 27th annonnccs’the arrival At Fortt Fettonan of a' wagon-tmfin from Croak'settap, bringIngihe ■uundef -ln the late cfifagenient. Th«y endured me trip well, ads all Were likely to redbver. -©apt. ' Hoflty, whose wound was in the face, would be able to leave for Fort Russell Ina few days. Gen. Crook, It is stated, wbhid make short excursions with the cavalry until the return of, the train and infantry, when he would endcavorto strike the Sioux hard. * Wu Prohibition Con: vtenUon met at* Lansing 6tt Mie <Bth and I laced the following ticket in nomination: ( overnW, Hob. Albert Williams; Lieilien«it Governor, Rev. E. Curtis; Secretary of £ late, Merritt Moore; State Treasurer, A. L. < hubb; Attorney Ganeral, D. P. Sagendorf; t uperintendent of Public Instritetlon, J. W. icKlver; Commissioner of Land Office, E. 1. Brewer; Auditor General, D. J, Smith; Member of State Board of Education, L. R. Hamon. The action of the Cleveland Natl «>•*! Convention was entjorevd. , Lout sb Hawthorns (Mr*. Morton, of New York), a well-known actress, accidentally feH out of a sixth-story window of the Tremont House, Chicago, early on the morning Of the 28th, striking on the stone pavement below. Her body was terribly mangled, and her death was instantaneous. No one saw her fall, and the cause of the accident iaun known.

1 Ix Chicago, on the 28th, aprtng wheat. No 2 closed at sl£[email protected]>{ cash. Cash eorn Closed at46Jscsor No. i Cash oats No. 2, sold at 3O@3OMc; Aughst options were sold at 29Xc. RyeNo.2,67X@sßc. Barley, No. 2, fcl@6lJ*(c. Cash mesa pork closed at $19.20 019.90. Lard, [email protected]. Good to Choice beeves brought 24.25@4.'96; medium grades, |[email protected]; butchers’ stock,' 23.00@ B.W; stat* cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] for good »p. choice. Sheep (shorn) sold at [email protected] for good' to choice. _ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Thb ton don Dotty Nem of the 23d publishes a letter from Constantinople, which gives shocking details of the pillage and putebery In Bulgaria by the’ Turkish troops. of men, women and children bad been massacred, and dozens of villages destroyed. A reign or terror prevailed In Constantlnople, ahd ’the new Government had allready become exceedingly unpopular. Ser*via was continuing its warlike preparations, and its army was in full force on the Turkish 'frontier. The Eastern question was again revived, and presented a more serious aspect Than ever. A London dispatch of the 24th announces the death of Matthew Noble, the well-known English sculptor. j The mad train On the Saragossa & BarceIlona Railway, In Spain, ran off the track on the 24th, between Taurega snd dervia. Seventeen persons were killed and thirty-seven injured.

I It was reported from London on the 24th that Charles Brent, the Louisville forger, had voluntarily signed a release of the money taken from him on his arrest, and that he would probably return to 1 America. An explosion In Birley pit, at Sheffield, England, on the 26th, killed *ix, men—all who were in the miue at the time of the ca- : tastrophe. A London telegram of the 26th says the British Cabinet was divided upon the Eastern question, and that serious Government al complications were likely to follow. According to Cettinje and Constantinople dispatches of the 27th, all Montenegrins between the ages of seventeen and sixty had been summoned to arms. The Porte had rejected the ultimatum of Servia, and the Turkish troops on the frontier and the Danubian flotilla had received order* to commence hostilities against Servia when the signal should be According to. dispatches of the 28th, the Servian volunteers to the number of 8,000 had already crossed the Turkish frontier and, were marching on Serpyevo. A regular wat patilc prevailed on the Paris Bourse, founded on the belief that It would be impossible tp confine the war between Turkey and Servih to the limits of the Ottoman Empfre, find that a collision between Russia and England would eventually result Mias Hxbrikt M i rtinrav, tjiefainous Eniish authoress, died at London on the night’ of the 27th; She was seventy-four years old. , ■

CONGRBSHIONAL. Several bills of minor importance were passed in the Senate, on the 22d. after which the Naval Appropriation bill was further considered, Mid amendments werp agreed to increasing some of the items as passed by the House, and the bill, as amended, was then passed... .The Consideration of tM Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was resumed in, the House, in Committee of the Whole, and abont half of the bill was disposed of. The Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were " non-con-curred in, and a Coherence Committee was appointed' _.

In the Senate, on the 23d, the bill reported from the Judiciary Committee to amend the second, fourth and fifth sections of the Enforcement act. to meet the ■ objections to the law expressed in the recent decisions of the Supreme Court, was taken up and, after considerable debate, was finally passed—2s to 13—Utter being amended in Cunimitteepf the Whole. The Senate amendments to the Naval and Indian Appropriation bills were insisted upon, and Committees of Conference were appointed... In the the House, reports were made from the Election Committee and adopted—in the Idaho contested election case, unseating T. W, Bennett, the sitting delegate, and declaring »nn- en-, titled to the seat; declaring J. H. Raluev, the sitting member, entitled To a seat from the Eirst District of South Carolina, and H. B. Strait, from the Second Minnesota District. The Senate amendments to the Navy Appropriation bill were non-concurred in and a Conference Committee was appointed. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was disposed of in Committee of the Whole, several amendments being adopted, anareported to the House, when all thewmendmente on which separate votes were net asked were agreed to in bulk; the amendment to strike out of the bill the clause repealing the 1 ayes In relation to the registration of voters, and the appointment of supervisors of election' as deputy: and special deputy marshals, was rejected: other amendments were being disposed of, the House being still in session up to a late hour. In the Senate, on the 24th, the House bill for the allowance of certain claims reported by the accounting officers of the Treasury was amended and passed...-. Before its adjournment on the night of l>e 23d. the House disposed of the proposed amendments to the Postoffice Appropriation bill, and it was then passed On the Mth, Mr. Say’er was elected temporary Speaker, in the absence of the Speaker pro tern. No further business was trans -acted. . I

The Army Appropriation bill was amended In the Senate, on the 26th, by increasing the amounts of several items in the bill as ,xissed by tte House, and the trill. as amended, was passed—2s to 12. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was referred to the Committee on Appropriations... Among the bills tetsbdnced in the House was one to further provide for the redemption of legal-tender notes. A bill was also introduced, and the previous question moved. PtoV Ing for the repeal of the Resumption act, but -■» previous question was not seconded- o WO. A motion to suspend the

rule. and poo the bill to contlnaa into the next year the appropriation* made for the current year waa rejected—to to 118. A new Conference Committee waa aiMMihited on the Legislative Appropriation bill. Bill. were peered -reviving the law for the payment for hor.ee and equipment* lost duriiMMlte war an* extending the time for tiling dflu* tta»efo< etc.; flor the issue of di.ureu GoWumtet irmt to Mater and Tvrrltorle* for ihetrprotSOllon againstbidieur. ' AitEFOKT'was made irf the Senate, on thl'*’B7th, ftotn the Secretirfy of the Treaanry. showing the amount of balance* due the Government from public officers, etc., since 1888. A new Conference Committee was granted and appointed on the Legislative. Judicial aud Executive Appropriation bill. The bill to regulate the anaesament and collection of taxer for the support of the government of the District of Columbia war aun uu'.d and parsed. The House Joint resolution toauthorirc the irstrttttf sttM, etc., to Mate* Sid Territories, for protection against the Inane. was amended and passed- -Bille were naered Jn the House—in regard to the yule of rnlritiion« llqnora In the Indian TWvitory: providing Ir the sale of a Cherokee strip of land in Kansas. ttnanlmons report war made tn the case sis Mr. dams. Cierk of the House, to the effect that in no Instance had he. directly or Indirectly, rec«iv< J pecuniary or other ooueideration for any appol •». ipent taade by him. ’ ‘ ■

Ik the Senate, on the 98th, the Fjouae bill for the sale of Cherokee land* in Ka' jobs warn passed. The amendment* to the Army -’appropriation bill were insisted npon and a Conference t oinu-ittee ordered. The Douse hill j or tke lame of coin, and the Senate bill reported * jy the Finance Coiumlttee a* a substitute /"WfivJuacnssed >rt length, and an amendment tOfnalgeWnverceiu a legal tender for any amount except for the pwvment of customs dues and interest on the public debt prevailed—lß to 14—when it was discovered that there was no quorum preaerff. ...in the House the Senate amendment* tv tb-e Army Appropriation bill were non-eoncurred ’.n and a Committee of Conference waa appointed. The Senate amendments to the Silver Coin bill were considered, and several were rejected. One authorising the purchase of sufficient silver to coin 220.800,OO), with an amendment authorizing the coinage of a standard silver dollar, and making it legal-tender in payment of all debts, public and private, was adopted—llo to 45, The Geneva Award bill waa coasMered.

National, Democratic Convention.

FIRST DAY. I The delegates to Use Democratic National assembled in the St. Loui* Chamber of Commerce, at noon on the 27th, and were called to order by Hou. Augustus Schell, of New York, Chairman ot the National Committee, who made a few remarks upon the purposes of the Convention. Henry Watterson, of Kentucky,wos chosen Temporary Chairman. His remarks on taking the chair were received with applatlie. Afterprayer by the Rev. Mr. Marvin, the Chair announced as Temporary Secretary Frederick O. Prince, of Massachusetts, with T. O. Walker, of lowa, and 8. K. Donovan, of Ohio, as Assistant Secretaries. Daniel Able, of Missouri, was appointed fiergeunt-at-Anns. The Committees on Credentials, Permanent Organization and Resolutions were apDelegates from the Woman’s National Suffrage Association being present and asking for a hearing, and no objection being made, Miss Pho?be W. Coznens, of St. Louis, took the platform and addressed the Convention in behalf of woman's suffrage, and concluded her remarks by presenting the resolutions of the National Association 1 Which she represented, -which resolution* were, on motion, referred, to the Committee on Resolutions for respectful consideration. Mr. 8. 8. Hayes, of Illinois, offered a series of resolutions on the currency question, which were referred to the Committee on — '

A recess was taken until five o’clock p. m. After reassembling at 5:20, the Committee on Credentials reported that there were no contested aeate, and that the States were fully represented. The report was amended so as to give the Territories and the District of Columbia representation in the Convention, witli the right to voto, and the report as amended, was adopted. The Committee on Permanent Organization made the following report, which was adopted: For Permanent President, John A. McOlernand, of Illinois; Vkc-Presidente and Secretaries, one from each State; continuing the Temporary Secretaries, with Mr, Prince, of Boston, as chief. Bergeant-at-Arms Able, was re-appointed.

Gen. McCleruund was then escorted to the chair, and returned thanks for the honor conferred upon him. The rules and regulations of the National Democratic Convention of 1872 were adopted for the government of the proceedings of this Convention. Mr. August Belmont, of New York, then addressed the Convention, and offered a series of resolutions, which, under the rules, were referred to the Committee on Resolutions. The Committee on Resolutions not being ready to report, a motion was made and carried to adjourn until eleven o’clock on the morning of the 28th. SECOND DAY. The Convention was opened with prayer on the morning of the 28th. Several resolutions were offered and referred to the Platform Committee, as was also the memorial of the Workingmen’s Central Union, expressing their views. Pending the consideration of a motion to proceed to ballot for candidates by calling the roll of States, announcement was made that the Committee on Resolutions were ready to report Mr. Meredith, Chairman of the Committee,, said they had agreed on the resolutions, but had referred them to a Committee of Revision. A recess was thqn taken until two o’clock p. m. During the recess speeches were made by Messrs. Doolittle, Breckenridge, Grate Brown and Wallace, of.Jfcnnsylvania. On reassembling the report of the Comtntttce on Resolutions Was read as follows: ' , 1. We. the delegates of the Democratic party of < the United States, in National Convention assetu-, bled, do hereby declare the Administration of the i Federal Government to be in urgent need of immediate reform, and we do hereby enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention and of the Democratic party in each State, a zealous effort and cooperation to this end, and do hereby appeal to oar fellow-citizens of every former political connection to undertake with us this first and most pressing patriotic duty.

x. For the Democracy of the whole country, we do here reaffirm our faith in the permanence of the Federal Union, our devotion to the .Constitution of the United States, with its amendments, universally accepted as a final settlement of the controversies that engendered civil war, and do here record our steadfast confidence In the perpetuity of republican self-government; in m abeo'ute acquiescence in the will of the majority, the vital principle of the Republic; ib the supremacy of the civil over the military authorities; the total separation of Church and State, for the sake alike of civil and religious freedom; in the equality of allcitirens before just laws of their own enactment; in the liberty of individual conduct nnvexed by sumptuary laws: in' the’ faithful education of the rising generation, that they may preserve, enjoy and transmit these best conditions of human happiness and hope—the noblest nn ducts of a hundred years of changeful history; but while upholding the bond of our Union and the great charter of' these our rights, it behooves a free people to practice, also, that eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty. 3. Refopn is necessary to rebuild and establish in the hearts of the whole people of the Union, eleven years ago happily rescued from the danger of a secession of States, but now to be saved from a corrupt centralism, which, after inflicting npon ten States the rapacity of carpet-bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the offices of the Federal Government itself with incapacity, waste and fiaud, infected States and municipalities with the Contagion of misrule, and locked fast the prosperity of an industrious people in the paralysis of hard times. 4. Reform is necessary to establish a sound currency. restore the public credit and maintain the National honor. We denounce the failure of the Republican party for all these eleven years to make good the promise of the legal-tender notes, which are a changing, standard of value in the hands of the people, and the non-payment of which is a disregard of the plighted faith of the Nation. 5. We denounce the improvidence which in eleven years of peace has taken from the people in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount of the legal-tender notes and squandered four times

thl. iuni ia uceteM expenrejxlt , aecumutaUng any reverve for their redemptic of pe.ee, b». uuule no ad ™ " * -<«sexhiStl.. nJ ...ihUr ? J .nn’ * Jvdlclous system of preparation k 5 a? «h? afee. by official retrenrbmeut. and tow Nation ?wu to world! of It* perfect ability and , f adtueSH to meet any of its prouiiser t the creditor eatitled to payment. Wo xbauystoni, woll-duvlsod. and above all , • ,o competent hands for execution, creatlinH.r ••titne atlilklal scarcity ef.cnrnmqr, .»• Uwe Manning the public mind Into a *! ( xawal of that vaster machinery of credit by ch ninety-five per cent, of all business transfl 1 ' AooS are performed--a system open jo the pnb--11 A n«d Inspiring general confidence-would, Owns the day ot its adoption, bring healing on Its wings to all our haras-ed industries, set in motion the wheels of commerce, tnauafactnrto, and the mechanic arts, restore employment to labor and renew In all Its natural sonroe* the prosperity of the (K-opJe.

8. Reform is necessary In Um sum and mode of Federal taxation, to (he end that capital may be set free from distrust and labor lightly burdened. We denounce the present tariff levies Upon nearly 4.(100 articles as a masterpiece of injustice, inequality and false practice. It yield, a not a m rising, revenue. It has Impoverished many ries (o subsidize a few. 'lt prohibits Imports that might purchase the products of American labor. It has degraded American commerce from ’the lint to an inferior rank u|s>u the high seas. It has cut down the sales of American manufacture, at home and abroad, and depleted the returns of American agriculture, au industry followed by half our people. It costa the people five times more than it produces to the Treasury, obstructs the process of production, and wastes the fruits of labor, it promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest officials and bankrupts honest merchants. We demand that all Cus-tom-House taxation shall be only for revenue. 9. Reform is necessary in the scale of public expense, Federal. State and municipal. Onr Federal taxation baa swollen from $60,000,000 in gold in 1860 to $450.0.10,000 in currency in 1870; our aggregate taxation from $154,000,000 in gold in 1860 to $730,000,000 In currency in 1870; or, in one decade from less than flve dollars per head to more than eighteen dollars per head. Since the peace, the people have paid to their tax-gatherers mote than thrice the sum of the National debt, and more than twice that sum for the Federal Government alone. We demand a rigorous frugality In every department and from every officer of the Government. 10. Reform Is necessary to put a stop to the profligate waste Of the public lands, and their diversion from actual settlers by the party in power, . which has squandered 200,000.009.0 f acres upon railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that aggregate has disposed of leas than a sixth directly to tillers of the soil. 11. Reform is necessary to correct the otnis- , sions of a Republican Congress and the errors of ohr treaties and our diplomacy, which have strip- ' ;>ed our fellow citizeus of foreign birth and kin<l red race, re-crossing the Atlantic, of the shield of American citizenship, and have exposed our brethren of the Pacific Coast to • the incursions of a race not sprung same great parent stnek. and, in faet. now lately denied citizenship through naturalization as being neither accustomed to the traditions of progressive civilization, nor exercised in liberty under equal laws. We denounce the policy w Meh thus discards the liberty-loving German, aud tolerates the revival of the Coolie trade in Mongolian women, imported for immoral purposes, aud Mongolian men, held to perform servile labor contracts, and demand such a modification of the treaty with the Chinese Empire, or such-legislation by Congress, within Constitutional limitations, as shall prevent the further importation or Immigration of the Mongolian face. 12. Reform is necessary, ;md can be effected only by making it the controlling issue of the elections, and lifting it above the two false iasuqg with which the office-holding class and the party in powyr seek to smother it; the false issues with which ' they would enkindle sectarian strife in respect to the public schools, of which the establishment and support belong exclusively to the several States, and which the Democratic party has cherished from their foundation, and is resolved to maintain without partiality or preference for any class, sect, or cfeed, and without contributions from the treasury to any; and the false issue-by which they seek to light anew the dying embers of sectional hate between kindred peoples, once unnaturally'estranged, but now reunited in one indivisible Republic and a common destiny. 13. Reform is necessary in the Civil Service. Experience proves that an efficient and economical conduct of the Governmental business is not possible If its Civil Service be subject to change at every election; it it be a prize fought for at the ballot-box; If it be a brief reward of party zeaL instead of a post of honor assigned for proved competency, and held for fidelity in the public employ: that the dispensing of patronage should neither be a tax upon the time of ail our public men nor the instrument of their ambition. Here, again, professions, falsified In the performance, attest that the party in power can work out no practical or salutary reform.

14. Reform is necessary even more in the higher grades of the public service. The President, Vice-President, Judges, Senators, Representatives and Cabinet officers—these and all others in authority are the people's servants; their offices are not a private perquisite; they are a public trust When the annals of this Republic show the disgrace and censure of a Vice-President, a late Speaker of the House of Representatives, marketIpghis rulings as a presiding officer; three Senators profiting secretly by their votes as law-niak-ers; five Chairmen of the leading committees of the late House of Representatives exposed in jobbery; a late Secretary of the Treasury forcing balances in the public accounts; alate AttorneyGeneral misappropriating the public fnnds; a Secretary of the Navy enriched or enriching his friends by percentages levied off the profits of contractors with his department; an Ambassador to England censured In a dishonorable speculation; the President’s Private Secretart' barely escaping conviction upon his trial for guilty complicity in frauds upon the revenue: a Secretary of War Impeached for high crimes and confessed misdemeanors; the demonstration is complete that the first step in reform must be the people's choice of honest men from another party, lest the disease of one political organization infect the body politic, and lest, by making no change of men or party, we can get no change of measures and no reform. All these abuses, wrongs. «nd crimes, the product of sixteen year*’ ascendency o f the Republican party, create a necessity fo p reform conlessed by the Republicans themselves: but their reformers are voted down in convention, and displaced from the Cabinet. The party's mass of honest voters is powerless to resist the 80,000 officers, its leaders and guides. Reform can only be had by a peaceful civic revolution. We demand a change of system, a change of administration, a change of parties, that we may have a change of measures and of men. A Your committee hUte also had referred to them and recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Retolvrd. That this Convention, representing the llemncmtic party of the United States do cordially indorse the action of the present House of Representatives in reducing and curtailing the expenses of the Federal Government in cutting down salaries and extravagant appropriations, ana tn abolishing useless offices and places not required by the public necessity, and we shall trust to the firmness of the Democratic members of the House that no Committee of Conference and no misinterpretation of rules will be allowed'to defeat these wholesome measures of economy demanded by the country. Ruolttii, That the soldiers and sailors of the republic, and the widows and orphans of those who have fallen in battle, have a jpst claim upon the protection and gratitude of their fellow-j citizens. >

Gen. Ewing, of Ohio, then made a minority; report, signed by himself, Voorhees, of In-i diana; Brown, of Tennessee; Hoy, of Pennsylvania; Trumble, of Iowa; Davis, of West Virginia; Davis, of Kansas, and Hardee, of Missouri, which report was as follows: j The undersigned members of the committee recommend that the following clause in the reso-, lotions reported bv the committee be stricken oat: ssucnhlndfancewe th-nottm-v the.MMmptiOß danse of the act of 18.5. and we here demand its repeal." And they recommend that there be substunted for that clause the following: “The law for the resumption of specie payments on the Ist of January, 1879, having been enacted by the Republican party without deliberation in Congress or discassion before the people, and being noth’ ineffectual to secure its object and highly Injurious to the business of the country, ought to bo forthwith repealed." A lengthy discussion ensued on this report, amid* much confusion, when a motion to strike out tfie clause in the report of the ‘committee reading: *’As sudh hindrance We denounce the Resumption clause of the act of 1375, and we here demand its repeal,” was put and lost—yeas, 219; nays, 550. The roll was then called otf the question of the adoption of the majority report of the Committee on Resolutions, and the reStilt was announced as follows: Yeas 651, nays 88, and the platform was declared adopted. Candidates for the nomination for the Presidency were then named in the following order: Mr. Whitely, of Delaware, nominated Senator Thomas F. Bayard. Mr. Williams, of Indiana, nominated Gov. Thomas A. Hendricks.

sfi. of Now Jersey, nominated I Joel Parker. Senator Kernan, of New York, nominated Gov. Samuel J. Tttden. Mr. Tilden’s nomination was seconded by Vilonia, Texas and WismMtein. A 1 '’ Getu Ewiftfi, of Ohio, nominated «x-Gov. WTWInAIiW. Mr.Pymcr. of Pennsylvania, nominated (Gen. Winfield 8. Hancock, and was followed by Gen. Brtoit,, of Louisiana, in the lame behalf. The vote of tire States was then called for the first ballot, which resulted as follows: Tilden—Alabama,>B; Arkansas, 12; California, 12; . Connecticut, 12; Florida, 8; Georgia, 5; Illinois, 19; lowa, 14; Kentucky, 24; Louisiana, 9; Maine, 14; Maryland, 4; Massachusetts, 26; Michigan, 14; Minnesota, 10‘ MlMittWiß; IRnsourf, 2; Nebraska, 6; Nevada, 3; New Hampshire, 10; New "York, 70; North ’Carolina, 9; Oregon, 6; Rhode Island, 8; South Carolina, 14; Texas, (10X; Vermont, 10; Virginia, 17; Wisconsin, 10; Total, 403 - Hendrick*—Alabama, 5; Colorado, 6; ‘lllinois, 28; Indiana, 80; lowa, 6; Kansas, 10; Maryland, 8; Michigan, 8; Missouri, t (North Carolina, 4; Tennessee, 24; Texas, |2X; Virginia, 1; Wifieoneln, 1. Total, 130 - ; . Thurman—Nevada, 3. Hancock— Alabama, 2; Georgia, 1; lowa, 2; Louisiana, 5; Missouri, 19; North Carolina, 5; Pennsylvania, 58; Texas, 2. Total, *M.

Bayard—Delaware, 6; Georgia, 16; Louisiana, 2; Maryland, 2; North Carolina, 2; [Texas, 1; Virginia, 4. Total, 88. —-—i Allen—Missouri, 2; 0hi0,44; West Virginia, 10. Total, 56. Parker—New Jersey, 18. Changes were then" made in some of the votes, and the vote was declared as follows: Whole number of votes cast 738 Necessary to a choice 492 8. J. Tilden received 417t4 Thoms* J. Hendricks 140J4 Bayard 88 Allen ; 56 Hancock 75 Parker 18 A second ballot was then had, and resulted as follow*: Tilden, 508; Hendricks, 75; Hancock, 60; Allen, 54; Bayard, 11; Parker, 18; Thurman, 2. Mr. Tilden was then, on motion, declared the unanimous choice of the Convention and of the- Democratic party as candidate i for President ovthe United States. The Convention then adjourned-until-ten o’clock on the morning of the 29th. On the third day, Gov. T. A. Hendricks, of Indiana, wits nominated by acclamation ' for Vice-Preajrient.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A case which should prove a warning I to mothers empfbyihg ’suspicious girls to take care of tlieir children has recently occurred in New York. A girl named Augusta Kasson, aged nineteen, having taken poison and believing herself to be dyings confessed to having poisoned with oxalic acid a little child of Mr. and Mrs. Heyne, of 39 Third ; avenue. The child had died apparently from natural causes and been buried. The motive was simply revenge for a threatened discharge from eiiiployment.

—Thos. Carrigan, one of the contractors on the Baltimore city water supply, met with a horrible death lately. He stepped in a bucket to descend a shaft in company with a workman.’ After being lowered a short distance the strands of the rope began untwisting, and the man began to haul him up. Just as he reached the surface the rope parted, and both men were hurled to the bottom of the shaft, 100 feet. Carrigan was instantly killed, and his companion seriously injured. —ln Springfield, Mass., a gloom hrs been cast over the entire community. A valuable and sagacious Newfoundland dog planted himself on the railroad to bark at the locomotive. His innocent vociferousness attracted tlie attention of a priceless white dog of the taurine variety, Who immediately bounced down upon the track for the purpose of frightening off the noble brute of Newfoundland. Just then the locomotive came along. Suffice it to say that two Springfield families w ere instantly desolated. There isn’t so much danger of hydrophobia as there was; but what are a few deaths in the domestic circle to the cruel fate of two such pleasant and useful beasts—indispensable guards; invaluable as a vent for human affection. —Louisville Courier Journal.

—A thrilling and fatal accident occurred on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, at Sulphur Spring station, a few miles from Baltimore, a few days ago Two children, George Stansbury and Albert Shencks, aged respectively eleven and' five yeays, the former a son of Mr. G. W.' Stansbury’, residing about twenty-five yards from the place where the accident occurred, had been playing on the track, and, after amusing themselves for some tinie, became tired, and, laying themselves down on the track between the sleepers, fellasleep. A short time after the children had fallen asleep, the express train was due at the station, and in a few minutes the thunder of its approach was heard. The children were quietly sleeping in each other’s ai ms, and their position was such that they were almost entirely, hidden from the engineer’s sight, and even if they had been in full view, it is doubtful if the train could have been stopped; in time to have saved them. In a few seconds after the rumble of the train was heard the locomotive was upon them, and they .were.hurled from the track by the pilot. The train was stopped, and the unfortunate children picked up, when it was found that the skull of young Stansbmy had been crushed, killing him almost instantly, wdilleTiis companion, beyond being stunned, was but slightly bruised, having miraculously escaped with hislife.

Must Pay His Taxes.

D. H. Mitchem., of Leavenworth, Kan., had $19,350 to his credit in a bank in that city on the 28th of February. On that day, to avoid paying tax on it, he drew the money in the shape of U. 8. legal-tender notes from the bank, on his check, placed the notes in an envelope, sealed it up, and , deposited it in the vault of the bank as a special deposit, for safe-keeping. Three days afterward he withdrew the package and redeposited the notes as an ordinary credit. The .... JJouaty., heard of the transaction, and added $9,000 to his assessment as a penalty, and he is taxed on the increased amount. He filed a bill in equity against the Commissioners to restrain the collection ,of the tax, alleging, that, as his bank balance had been converted into U. S. notes which are not taxable, and were held in that form on the day his property was to be listed, he could not be taxed on them. The Superior Court of Kansas. dismissed the bill, for the reason that a court of justice sitting as a court of equity will not lend its aid for the accomplishment of any such purpose as escaping taxatioh. The case went to the U. 8. Supreme Court, and that tribunal affirms the decision of the court below. It says: “United States notes are exempt from taxation by or under State or municipal authority, but a court of equity will not knowingly use its extraordinary powers to promote any such scheme as the plaintiff devised to escape his proportionate share of the burdens of taxation.”—St. Louie Republican.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Don't look too hard for something disagreeable. —The cate on the Isle of Man are of a. tpeciea entirely without tails. —Sheep are selling at from sixty toeighty cents a head in Fresno County,. —’file ]>epulation of all Germany is about the same as the population of this country. —A. prominent hotel on Broadway, New York, dries its washing on the roof inplain sight of the populace. —The New Yori* Graphic regards the revival of business as now fairly begun, and believes that the years of leanness are on tire wane. —lt is given on the authority of a £iew Orleans paper that there is in that city a hog with ins ears bo far back that he cannot Bear himself squeal. —“ Bit(en by an alleged mad dog,” is the mild way in which such an occurrence is put in Baltimore, to avoid .hurting the aog’s feelings should he be merely laboring under a temporary aberration. —Boston has won a game of base-ball, and the Transcript says: “ This is a very large country, and the wonder is that it harmonizes on the supposed needs of ite different sections BO well as it does.” —What is pleasanter these nice mornings than getting up and taking a sunrise walk of four or five miles before breakfast? Nothing, certainly, unless it Is lying in bed and thinking of it.— N. Y> Mail. —San Francisco has a matrimonial bureau, with separate departments for gentlemen and ladies. The photographs of lady clients are hung up in the gentlemen’s department, and vice versa. The fee for one month’s eft’ort on the part of the bureau is five dollars, and if the effort is unsuccessful the money is refunded. —" Only * lock of golden hair,’’ • The lover signed. “ Perchance to-night It fornieth on her pillow fair A halo brishL’’

“ Only a lock of golden hair,’’ The maiden, smiling. Bwe.etly, sajd, Aa she laid it Over the back of a chair And went to bed. —About two yetfrs ago Sheriff Bonnett pasted in his desk a magazine cut of the immortal Shakspeare, andoneof the Dep. uty-Slleriffs, supposing that it was the big fellow that a large reward was offered for, Las been silently comparing it with every strange faoe that has come into the office since that time, aud he hasn’t suspected anybody yet.— San Antonio (Tex.) Herald. —“ Women are going into the insurance business.” And when a comely woman eaters a man's office, hitches up her chair, places a fair hand on his arm, and begins to talk about policies, he feels as thougli his life ought to be insured pretty soon. And this feeling is greatly augmented should his wife (hop in unexpectedly during the interview.— Norristown Herald. —A Dutchman lately attended the law court in Boston to get excused from the jury box. “ I can’t understand goot Englese,” he said. •‘‘What did he say?” asked the Judge. “ I can’t understand goot Englese,” repeated the Dutchman. “ Take your scat,” cried the Judge; “ that’s no excuse; you need not be nlarmed, as you are not likely - to hear any.” ~N. K IFwW. —“ Woman,” said the fat man on the tracker-barrel, reflectively, “ woman is like a boil. When another man has her we laugh at him; when we have her ourself we cherish and protect her.” He seemed to be a man df pure and lofty sentiment, and when he said he guessed he’d go home and give his wife a chance to do the chores everybody respected him.— Norwich Bulletin. —One of our prominent business men asked an acquaintance from Atlanta whom he met the other day: “What are you doing now?” “ Oh, I’m trying to make an honest living.’*- “Well,” said the questioner “ you ought to succeed admirably.” “Why?” asked the other. “Why? why? Because, by thunder, you’ve got no competition. You are the first man I ever heard of in that business in Atlanta.” —Chattanooga Commercial.

—Last week a “ straw” fiend was going through a train on the Illinois Midland Railway, with a pencil and note book, taking the vote for President, when the car he was in jumped the track, and he was thrown into the wood-box, and an ax, five lamps and a stove banged in on top of him, and when they took him out there wasn’t a whole bone in his body, and he never will know how the vote on that train stood. Let not this terrible warning be thrown away.— Chicago Times. —The kicking propensities of the mule are certainly exaggerated. As we write, a farmer over by the tobacco barn is pulling one around to his place in front pf the wagon by the tail. What gentleness the faithful creature exhibits! How meekly he submits to the superior will of his master! How— ah, by the way, the man is evidently an accomplished acrobat—that double-somerset he threw over the wagon was very skillfully executed, indeed.— Franklin. (Ky.) Patriot. —Sadie R-, a little three-year-old child, was at church the first time about two months since on an Easter occasion in the Church of the Good Shepherd. She sat very still and saw the procession of children march into the ehureh with flowers in their hands,’and all singing: “Onward, Christian Soldier.” Yesterday this little miss made her second visit to church, and this time to the Presbyterian, where she entered at the head of the family and marched down the aisle, loudly singing, “Onward, Christian Soldier,” to the astonishment of the congregation and the utter demoralization of her parents. — Chicago Tribune.

—There is aJamily in this town with nine varieties or children. The husband and wife have each been married twice before, and had one child at each former marriage, which makes four children, each one having different parents. TheKmt wife’s former husbands had each married before, leaving a child by their former wives, which makes six children of different The present husband's two former wistes. btul .bMjn pre-. viously married, leaving each one child, making eight of different parents. The present husband and wife by this mar. riagq hayfi one child, making nine, all liv. ing. and no two having the same parents. —Loe AnfldM (Cal.} “Sassing” is a criminal offense in Rochester, New York. A few days ago a lad of some ten summers was brought before the Police Justice of that city by a solemn-faced policeman who charged him with “ sassing” a janitor. The court, being mercifully inclined, discharged the Infant; and, it is impossible, therefore, to say what punishment is provided by law for so terrible a misdeed. 1 . j Kohtt tombs of the Merovignian epoch have been opened in a field at Canlaincoutt, an® many articles of interest discovered. « * —No tidings from Stanley for a year.