Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 April 1872 — Page 1

IOWA instructs for GRAFT and WILSON.

OHIO instructs for GBAMT and DEHNISON.

"REAL ESTATE business, at Indianapolis, shows unprecedented activity.

THE "Journal" still exalts its horn against DAVID of the horny hand.

AN incompetent and unpopular Professor iB to be eliminated from the State University Faculty.

THE front name of an Evansville lawyer ia ZEPHANEAH MOSES POCAHONTAS. This man's parents did sin.

THE most graceful 'possumization on record has been effected by General KISE of the Vincennei "Sun."

A VAST NUMBER of unemployed clerks are suffering the pangs of poverty and want in New York City.

A STUDENT of Wabash College, named DABRAH, died at his room, in the dormitory, last Saturday, of spotted fever.

A MAGNIFICENT* NEWSPAPER is the St. Louis "Democrat." It ought to have a good many readers in Terre Haute.

THE New York "Tribune's" Connecticut correspondence predicts a Republican victory in that State next Mon* day.

THE 28th day 01 May is the time and Lafayette the place agreed upon for nominartiDg the Republican successor of Congressman MANSON.

AN Evansville millionaire has been engaged for two years in erecting a building, and hasn't yet decided whether it will be a seminary or a saw-mill.

THE managers of Lafayette's proposed coal road are negotiating with the L.N. & C. R. R- Company for the right of way over their road to Taylor Station.

LEADING New Yoik papers sensibly urge the repeal of laws limiting legal rates of interest. There is no good reason why money should not sell for what it will bring in market.

THE sound Republican who edits the "Hoosier State" ought not to poke fun at tho administration by printing that horrible caricature of President GRANT, which heads his columns.

IT WOULD be as well for "the rising generation" if the old fogies who have been detached from the army and quartered on colleges, as "military professors," were attached tomanageries and circuses

A TRUTHFUL, writer remarks that, in his declining years, Mr. GREELEY appears to think he has "squelched" an adversary when he has given him a nickname, more or less childish and absurd.

THE "Journal" is progressing, and will soon be ready to support a black man for office. It has already advanced in the matter of color so far as to advocate the nomination of BROWNING, of Brown county.

THE first mortgage bondholders of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad are making an effort to have the receivership dissolved and the road placed in the hands of GEORGE E. BILLS, of New York.

PROFESSOR J. L. GAY, of the Stale University, has resigned, the resignation to take effect in August. The Board of Trustees had a meeting on Thursday Tlie Professor will still have "The Great Fires" to fall back on.

FROM the Indianapolis "Commercial' WC learn that Mr. W. B. VICKERS succeeds Mr. IIALFORD on the "Morning Journal," of that city. Mr. BEN. D. MOUSE, poet and author, succeeds Mr1 VICKERS in the city department.

REV. SAMUEL J. YUNDT, son of .)oKENI YUNDT, Sr., of Evansville, has accepted a call to the pastorate of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Plymouth, Indiana For the past year he has been assistant, rector in Christ's Church, Indianapolis.

"GRANT'S officeholders" do not appear to have had any undue influence in the State Conventions of Ohio and Iowa. The inference, then, is that their great unanimity in instructing their delegates to the Philadelphia Convention to vote for "the present incumbent," was mainly due to "GRANT'S unpopularity."

HORACE GREELEY writes to Senator elect, TOM Frrcn, of Utah, that he does not see how the Territory can come in as a State, in the face and eyes of a recent iict requiring a population which she lacks, but that he does hope we shall pay more attention to our own morals, and less to other folks' than MCKEAN'S ruling indicates. From this, we infer that

HORACE IS going to quit swearing.

PERSONS who waste bucketsful of ink and sweat in writing on both sides of the paper, that which they desire to have published in the ExrRESS, may feel better to be reminded, for the thousandth time, that their communications are never read, the presumption being that one who has not learned better than to prepare such "double-barrelled" manuscript, can't write anything worth reading.

VINCENNES has been nearly two hundred years in attaining its present size at the same rate of increase, how mapy years will be required to enable the city aforesaid, to attain a population of 20,» 000?—Vinccnnes Gazelle. "We'd be glad to tell you, GRIF. but our paper isu't big enough to contain the figures in one issue, and they wouldn't he interesting its a Berial.

THE St. Louis Democrat complains that BEN. BUTLER takes altogether too lively an interest in BRICK POMEROY 8 domestic arrangements. BEN. volunteered, a couple of years ago, to prosecute BRICK for a divorce from his first wife, and now he comes forward as counsel for a member of the ancient and honorable order of spinsterhood, who sues that individual for breach of promise. It is fair to presume that BEN. will make it an interesting trial.

THE Worcester "Spy" takes exception to the general estimate of the ability of Senator TRUMBULL, and says, substantially, that he is not and never can be made a great man. "He is," it remarks, "a man of respectable ability and a good lawyer but he is narrow and selfishHis mind is not comprehensive. He is not profoundly versed in political economy, international law, nor in any other study necessary to accomplished states1 manship.'' We should like to hear somebody else back up this opinion, before accepting it as the correct one.

THE Boston "Times" protests against the sending of BRIOHAM YOUNG to Camp Douglass by the U.S. authorities, as an unheard of outrage. Mr. YOUNG is a man of family, and his in^trceration turns upon the cold mercies of the world no less than twenty wives and fifty children, more or less. It would have been indeed unjust to have deprived one wife and child of the protection of a husband and father, under like circumstances. What are we to say then of an act which increases that injustice twenty—nay, fifty old?

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The Difference.

One of our exchanges notices an organic difference between the United States of America and the (so-called) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which waa made perceptible last Monday evening, when Mr. LOWE, Finance Minister under Mr. GLADSTONE, opened the budget," in the House of Commons— which is a conventional phrase, indicating that he made his financial statement for 1872-73. The difference in question is simply this: The United States, having a large national debt, is paying it off with unabated celerity, month after month, whereas the English debt, which ia much larger, remains at a hopeless standstill nor is there the slightest prospect of having this British debt, hanging like a millstone around the neck of the nation, ever paid off. On the contrary, it is found burdensome enough to pay the interest. The budget opened by Mr. LOWE is more satisfactory than it has been of late years. The expenditures for the year 1871-/2 amounted to $353,600,000, being $10,000,000 less than in the preceding year. The revenue had been $372,675,000, showing an excess of expenditure over income to the amount of nearly $19,315,000 for the financial year which will close on the last day of the present month: The national debt, which amounted to $4,325,000,000 in 1815, at the close of the war with France, is now $3,963,700,000, which shows that in fifty-seven years only a very small amount of the debt has been reduced—not as much, in fact, as has been paid off from our debt during President GRANT'S occupancy of office. The contrast is creditable to the financial condition and increasing means of the United States, as well as to its fiscal administration. That our national debt will be wholly extinguished, after a not very long period, appears to be a contingency as certain as that England can never hope to close the account of her indebtedness with a "received in full" written at the foot of her schedule of liabilities.

HON. THOMAS R. COBB, of Vincennes, —no relation to the great SYLVANUS,— wants the inhabitants of this terrestial sphere to know that COBB is not a candidate for the noble office now so ably filled by our own peerless BAYLESS. While a single scratch of Time's pencil is left on the tablet of COBB'S grateful memory, COBB will never, for a moment, forget the generous kindness of the many friends whose souls have been racked with pangs of anxiety to have COBB nominated for Attorney General. But COBB mitigates the disappointment of COBB'S friends at COBB'S withdrawal by an intimation that "circumstances may arise" under which COBB will feel it to be COBB'S duty to permit the friends of COBB to present COMB'S name as a candite for Congressman at Large. COBB, however, is graciously pleased to announce that, should our dear, delightful DANIEL want the position towards which COBB'S aspirations point, the name of COBB shall never vibrate upon the tpmpanums of delegates in Democratic State Convention assembled.

MAINE has always been foremost in the temperance cause. She has abolished from her borders all spirits and wines, and malt liquors, retaining only that article which is known not to intoxicate—cider. But a late paper in that State says that, owing to the prevalence of cider drinking, the average of red faces in the rural districts has increased so rapidly that it may be doubted if, in ten years more, tho State would be peopled with a race with complexions not unlike those of the aboriginal inhabitants, There is no doubt the time has arrived for a new movement in the temperance cause, and that it will soon be voted a disgrace to eat apples, and even applie pies, in Maine, for apples are at the foundation of this evil. Then let the apple trees be abolished, root and branch, only enough being left in each town for suicidal purposes.

THE New York "Times" tells how Mr. Justice KEOGH, an Irish Judge, remarkable for his wit and decision, rather neatly disposed of an Enniskillen editor the other day. An application being made against this gentleman for publishing an offensive commentary on the conduct of the Crown in a certain case, the Judge said that he didn't believe any of the jurors would be eo absurd as to be influenced by anything which appeared in the "Impartial Reporter," and he should be doing great injustice to the good name of the town if he were to impose any penalty. "The greatest punishment he could inflict on Dr. TRIMBLE would be to let him continue to write in the columns of his own journal." A severer penalty could scarcely be dealt out to Dr. GREELEY himself.

THE loyal flag—the red flannel.—Journal. Anybody who will take the trouble to think what the "Journal" means by that, will find in it a contemptible fling at the Republican party, because, under a "loyal," or Republican Board of Health, it has been found necessary to use "the red flannel" as a signal of danger from small pox. And this reminds us that it was a good Democrat, one Dr. BLACKBURN, who gathered rags infected with this terrible pestilence, and shipped them to the Northern cities during the late difficulty between the United States and a portion of the Democratic paty. The contrast between the lines of conduct pursued by our Republican Board and that Democratic M. D. is suggestive.

ARTICLES of consolidation of the Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago Railroad Company, of the State of Indiana, and the Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago Railroad Company, of the State of Illinois, have been filed with the Secretary of State, said consolidated corporation to be known as the Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago Railroad Company. Capital stock, $900,000. Article third provides that the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Directors, and all other officers of the Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad Company, of Indiana, shall be the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Directors of the consolidated company, and 6hall continue as such until the expiration of the terms for which they wer elected.

Col. HOLLOWAY had to badger Attor ney General HANNA for many weeks before the Attorney General could be induced to bring the suit which he has at last brought. HOLLOWAY will show his" entire innocence of every charge made against him. Doubtless there are Republican rascals at Indi£bapolis, but BILL HOLLOWAY'S name is not on the list.

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The Famine in Persia.

The latest mail advices from Asia show the famine in Persia to be as terrible as ever. Men and women are said to be dying in the streets of the cities, while the roadsides are strewn with the corpses of children. The bodies of the unburied dead have poisoned the air and pestilence aids hunger in the work of death. If assistance is not promptly forwarded to the most afflicted districts, it is feared that they will be entirely depopulated. For disease and lack of food, sparing neither old nor young, bid fair to exterminate the inhabitants of the unfortunate provinces where they have obtained so strong a foothold. If at all possible, generous. help should be given the sorely afflicted Persians. They are very far from us, it is true, but any movement for their relief by Europeans or Asiatics in communication with the stricken country would receive the hearty co-operation of Americans.

THE English press continues "to manifest considerable surprise that neither the Marquis of LORNE, nor his wife, the Princess LOUISE, sister of the Prince of Wales, was present at the thanksgiving ceremonies. Is is generally known that ALBERT EDWARD treated his Scoth broth-ther-in-law with marked discourtesy previous to his illness. While the heir apparent's life was in danger, LORNE and his wife were in attendance at Sandringham, When the royal patient was out of danger, the marquis and his princess vanished from the purlieus of the rural palace, and since then their faces have not been seen at the joyous reunions of the GUELPHS.

FROM a Fort Branch correspondent of the Evansville "Journal" we learn that a horrible accident occurred near Posey•ille, Wednesday evening. Mrs. MARY CARROLL, of Washington, Indiana, was visiting a friend in the vicinity of Poseyville. It seems that she was in the house alone, when'her clothes ignited at the fire place. There was no one near to render her any assistance, and in her frenzy she ran and jumped into the well, which was about twelve feet deep, and had but little water in it. Here she was afterwards found in a dying condition,, and her clothes completely burned off. She had been married but a short time.

THE Richmond "Whig" is in a hopeful mood. It asserts that Gen. GRANT may possibly be sustained for re-eleetion by the Democrats. "It is not so certain," it says, "that he cares about the nomination at Philadelphia, and that he will not throw himself into the arms of the 'great liquor-loving and free-and-easy Democratic party.' As a choice between two evils, it declares its preference for GRANT over SUMNER, because the latter waa the principal agent in the outrages upon the Constitution—said outrages being the Fifteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and the Civil Rights bills.

THE New York Times learns, by late mails, that sham diamonds have been sent out to South Africa. These pretended gems come from Birmingham, and are so cleverly made that it takes a practical expert to tell the false stones from the true.. The sham brilliants are no such poJT'fcrfiff as the paste," which needy countesses used to substitute for their pawned jewels, or the queens of the stage employ for their coronets, but imitations of wonderful lustre and water) that flash the prismatic tints, and mock, with nice exactness, the depth and purity characteristic of the valuable stones.

THE two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great is to be celebrated at St. Petersburg on the 11th of June. It will comprise, among other ceremonies, some proceedings of a prominently educational character. Among them are the foundation of two six-class elementary schools being contemplated, for the building of which Government has set apart a sum of 2,000 roubles, and for the maintenance of which an endowment of 7,000 roubles a year is appropriated. A statistical, topographical, and historical account of the city of St. Petersburg is likewise to be published, in honor of the day. Czar Peter's maritime merits, too, are not forgotten. An. imposing stone monumennt, to be erected at Lachten, is to commemorate his gallant saving of shipwrecked mariners at that place, and collections will be set on foot for the enlargement of the mercantile fleet in the Baltic. A full-length portrait, to be painted by one of the first artists of Eussia, and a solemn procession with it through the streets of St. Petersburg, will conclude the programme of festivities. The equestrian statue of Peter at St. Petesburg is one of the curiosties of that capital, as well as one of the most remarkable art productions of modern times.

Pen Pictures of the Sea.

Sometimes the ship's prow scatters spots of snow upon the sea with an unvarying richness of contrasted tints, but with irregular taste and uneqal effect. Often it embroiders the blue waves with sinuous, shining bands of silver in noble and striking designs. These need only to be pruned of exuberance and corrected in irregularity, and the rare and complete pattern will charm the fastidious eye of fashion, and add a grace to the white shoulders of beauty. Now and then a crater, boiling with emerald lava, will, in disappearing, form a very perfect watery wheel, with lengthening spokes and thinning tire. The foam, thrown up in masses and then widening into tracts,seems loath to lose its unity of place and composition. When broken by the force of the waves, the parts diverge with difficulty, and keep up their union by long, tenacious, but attenuating opalescent lines. So do the wearers of royal vestments stretch out their frail white arms and link their hands, gleaming with gems, to hide or suppress the heaving popular heart and mighty will beneath them destined to be tossed a«ide by the spray, or to subside into the form aad color of the common element from which they sprang.-

The painter has still another effect to produce,if he picture the sea at night. One evening, moonless and so cloudy that distance could not be judged by the eye, I was leaning over the stern of the ship. The sea looked black and infinitely remote, like the inverted vault of heaveu. Round, phosphoric lights, various in size and intensitv, were the exact counterparts of stars while the white, winding, irregular track of the rudder seemed the central path of the Milky Way. The only incongruous element of the scene was the rushing motion of the whole, which presently merged its diversity in added sublimity as if, the perceptions of sight and feeling being immeasurably quickened and widened, we were suddenly to be come palpably conscious of the rushing earth under our feet, and could note, in its full rapidity, the dizzy flight of the stars. It was a grand spectacle, but too solemn and, after gazing on it a moment or two, I turned away. Later in the sight, the light that was lacking in the heavens sprang out of the sea. All around over the ocean, each white wave-pennon bore the blaxonry of phosphorescence, while the horizon was one ringed rampart of liquid flame.—From "Sea-Studies,"

OVERLAND MONTHLY for April.

THE worst rum-hole in this city is directly under an old toper's nose.—Golden •Age*

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Letter From Bloomington

To the Editor of the Terre Haute Exprem: Endeavoring to avoid intruding on your columns to such an extent as to exclude a great deal of more interesting matter, I write you this brief letter, embodying a mere mention of some of the most important affairs now connected with the State University, which, perhaps, may be read with some interest by a few citizens of Terre Haute, if not by the public in general. As the present term closes on Friday of this week, we are now in the midst of examinations, and both students and Faculty are making the usual preparations for enjoying the spring vacation, which will continue till April 8th. This vacation, rather than any other, is always looked forward to with peculiar anxiety, as the work of the winter term is most burdensome, and the last term is by far the most pleasant of the year. The present term is also always one of extraordinary interest, as all classes are larger than at any other time, and the aggregate number of students is considerably augmented by the addition of the law classes. The law term, however, commences October 1st, and closes March 27th. Today is Commencement day of the law department. The graduating exercises will take place to-night, when diplomas will be awarded to the senior class, twenty-sev-en in number. The junior law class contains not more than twenty members. This department of the University is rapidly increasing in importance, and an effort is now being made to secure an appropriation sufficient to sustain it for a term of nine months in the year. This will bring the law and literary commencements at the same time,about July 1st. The whole number of students now in College is about three hundred, including between forty and fifty ladies from various parts of the State. Ladies were admitted" four years ago,and thus far have clearly demonstrated their ability to cope with young men in the same course of instruction and in many cases they have shown off their jealous and most ambitious brothers to a very poor advantage. Their literary society, called the Hesperian, to which most of the ladies belong, is condnted in a most admirable and profitable manner. Up to this time, eight ladies have graduated, most of whom stood among the first in their respective classes. In the present Senior Class, their is but one lady, Miss Minnie Hunnaman, daughter of the President of the Board of Trustees, of Indianapolis. The class contains twentysix gentlemen.

The operations of the military department were suspended the first of the present term on account of cold weather. The "troops" repaired to winter quarters, where most of them desire to remain throughout the summer. But the military Professor will revive "the arts of war" next term with a zeal worthy a more im« portant science. The fact about the military department is, that it is justly unpopular. A few students are willing to contract irregular habits and neglect important duties in order to learn a few worthless military terms and assist a military man to keep up appearances, but the majorty of them desire to devote their time to something profitable.

A single death has occurred among the students during the past term. Anton Boison, a brother of one of the Professors,and late of Germany, is the deceased. He was a member of the Junior Class, and died of consumption. One of the tutors, Prof. P. H. Mallow, in also now lying at the point of death with the same disease, at his home, in Franklin, Indiana.

It would be strange indeed.( objections could be urged against a single member of a faculty of thirteen professors, although, as a faculty, unsurpassed by any other in the State, a^" can truly be said of ours and it would be very uncharitable and unjust to make every objection publicly known. But objections sometimes become positively painful and of the utmost importance to all interested. And without further preface, allow me to record, in honor of one hundred Btudents, that a petition has just been sent by them to the Board of Trustees, requesting the removal of a recently installed professor, on account of "incompetency to discharge the duties of his de partment with either satisfaction or profit to the students," in consequence of which "he has neither the respect nor confidence of the students."

Rather more than the usual number of college tricks have been perpetrated this term. It is supposed that there area few professional tricksters who make mischief a successful study but so far it has been impossible to trap them or even to determine who they are. In addition to some dozen burlesque programmes, several removals of the clapper from the college bell, a nocturnal raid on the armory, the carrying off of two or three hundred gates by night, and other such innocent amusements, large and ludicrous posters have been extensively introduced by the jokers this term. The following, doubtless originating in the mind of some one who has not the kindest fellow-feeling for the professor named, is a mild sample, a large number of which were posted about various parts of the town and college, a week or two ago, merely because the faculty were making, day after day, the most vigorous and commendable efforts to detect the authors of various misdemean-

TO STUDENTS!

On account of the most HENIOUS CRIMES that have been committed by CRUEL STUDENTS, it becomcs necessary for the faculty to hold TWELVE HOUR sessions every day consequently there will be no more recitations this term. Students are at liberty to return to their pas. By order of Thorn pson, ruler of the faculty and DICTATOR of the UNIVERSE.

It is hardly necessary to remark that the students failed to obey the order. Col. R. W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, has been elected to deliver the annual address before the literary societies during Commencement week. A genuine literary treat is anticipated by all. As too much of your space has already been taken up by my uninteresting remarks, I close. C.

BLOOMINGTON, March 27.

THE following testimony to the honesty of the present Administration, and the thrift of the country under its rule, is borne by the Chicago "Times" of Wednesday morning.

An official statement shows an increase in the revenue on spirits, tobacco, fermented liquors, banks and bankers, income, eas, and stamps, between September 1st 1871, and January 1st 1872 compared with the same period the previous year, of $4,6S7,S92 against a decerease from exempt articles and occupations, of $6,730,617.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 3. 1872.

UIDEB THE PIJTE-TBEE.

BT LCCT LAEOOH

Under the pine-tree, Eleanor. We stood when the snow w»s deep We heard not a breeze in the bleak wood stir.

And the wild-flowen lay asleep: All under the fleece of the sheltering snow. They slept in their chilly bed: Bat I saw your cheek like a wild-rose flow.

And a breese-like word yen said.

I siched not for rammer, Eleanor, With your warm, warm breath so near. When the gentle promise I listened for,

Ton whispered into my ear. I have loved the pine-trees and the snow. And the rote of the wintry lea. Ever since that white day long ago.

When your heart's flower opened for me.

We sat w^en the May-buds eame. The bluebirds over us caroling were, And with dawn the sea was aflame. I wove of the red-berried evergreen

For your beautiful head a crown And my whole soul bowed unto you, my queen.

As before you I knelt down. Oh! sweet

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the bluebirds, Eleanor

In the heart of the murmuring pine. And the sea's low melody thrilled the shore. And the long day seemed divine For mvheart was rich, and my soul was glad.

And my life was abloom with spring. Alas, for the sweetness that earth once had. For the joys that have taken wing. Under the pine-tree, Eleanor,

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I am lingering now alone The beauty of summer is gone from her, And the song of the sea is a moan. The wealth of the woodland is fluttering down,

And the winds in the dark pine ravo And I weave ot the withered leaves a crown To lay on my darling's grave.

But you are not buried here, Eleanor The Light that was in your eye. And the soul in your voice that I listened fori

I know they can never die. They gladen the shores of the heavenly sea: And there hastens a day divine. When your heart will blosiom anew for me.

As it blossomed under the pine.

Drinking-water a Proliflc Sourcc of Epidemics. We called attention, in a recent number, to the agency of drinking-water in disseminating the seeds of cholera and other epidemics. Professor Chandler, in a lecture delivered before the American Institute in January, has brought forward an array of facts, proving the deleterous character of impure drinkingwater, that are irrefutable. At a convent in Munich, 31 out of 121 inmutes were attacked with typhoid fever the well was found to be polluted with sewage, and being cleaned, the disease disappeared. At Edgewater, S. I., in 1866, the inmates of a small block of houses were attacked, and it was found that a drain had been closed, and the water had backed into the well. Some ten or a dozen years since a row of brick houses was erected on made ground, over a former pond, in our own city. The inmates of all but one were simultaneously attacked with the fever the house exempted was just beyond the filled-in portion, and there is little doubt that impure water operating underneath the new ground of the others created the disorder. Dr. Stephen Smith, one of the Health Commissioners of this city, while on a visit in the country, discovered that five members of a family had died, while another was sick of the fever. An invesgatition disclosed the fact, that, the pump having been out of order, water had been obtained for two or three weeks from a brook that ran through several farm-yards.

It is well known that the wells in many parts of England are regarded as almost unfit for drinking purposes. The village of Charmouth, in England, was supplied from surface-wells sunk in the gravel and marl. Typhoid fever broke out those who used the village wells were attacked, while those who obtained their water from a spring above the village were exempted.

Before the Croton water was introduced into New York, the city was ravaged every few years by deadly epidemies, now believed to be due to the water none have prevailed since its introduction.

At Exeter, England, in 1832, 1,000 deaths occurred from cholera a purer supplv of water was then obtained from another locality, and when the disease returned in 1849, only 44 cases occurred.

In London, in 1854, two companies supplied the city with water. One of these, the Southwark company, had sewage in their water that of the other, the Lambeth, was pure. The deaths among those using the former amounted to 130 in 10,000, 2,500 falling victims in a single season while in the case of the other, only 37 deaths in 10,000 occurred. At the previous cholera visitation, in 1848-9, the reverse was the case, the Lambeth drawing their water then from' a point nearer the city.

Another very striking instance occurred in London. The famous Broad street pump supplied water in one of the most fashionable localities of the West End. During the visitation of 1848 9 this pump killed 500 persons in a single week, by disseminating cholera. The wealthy people of the West End went to Brompton, a fashionable summer resort about five miles up the Thames, and soon the cholera broke out among them there. The health officers soon discoyered, on investigation, that these people had been in the habit of sending to the Broad street pump for tea-water, and had brought the cholera with it. A curious case was that of an old spinster, who had moved to Hampstead, three miles from the pump, but who sent her maid daily tor a kettle of the highly-prized tea-water. She and her maid were the only persons who suffered from cholera at Hampstead.

A similar story might be told of an outbreak of cholera in a shanty village west of Central Park, and another in a shanty village oh the heights across the river. In both cases it waa clearly shown that the cholera germs were distributed among the unfortunate squatters by the waters of the single well in each village. There is a famous pump in the Twelfth Ward of Brooklyn, at the corner of Van Brunt street, from which over fifty families obtained their water supply. In 1866 cholera broke out in five or six of these families but the spread of the disease was prevented by the prompt action of the health officer, who removed the pump-handle.

Not only these two, but other diseases, hare been traced with almost equal certainty to this cause. The parasitic worms that effect a lodgment in the different organs of the body are thus introduced, and in Ireland it is stated that one-sixth of the deaths are caused by worms in the liver.

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These facts show how important is a knowledge of the water-supply in determining the health of the various towns and cities. Too much attention cannot be given to this subject by the health boards, who assume to guard the sanitary interests of our cities. Doubtless, many a local epidemic, which has proved a mystery to the physicians, would be fanned, on a fuller investigation, to owe its origin to bad drinking-water.—Insurance 3/«tenger.

IF college students will persist in behaving either like full-grown blackguards or badly precocious boys, they must take the consequences. A few days ago, two members of the Sophomore class of Harvard College insulted two reputable women in the street, one the wife and the other the daughter of a respectable citizen. Subsequently they were identified by the ladies, and the affair coming to the knowledge of the College authorities, both these foolish young men were, after a proper investigation, expelled. Both lads may now laugh at this, but if they havo any manly elements of character^the time will stirely come when upon the lowest grounds of prudence, if upon no other, thev will bitterly repent this silly indiscretion. We can tell them that they have thrown away chances which may never return, and opportunities of study and of useful acquisition which busy men advanced in life and harrassed by daily cares hunger for in vain. They have wantonly cast behind them leisure, seclusion, the assistance of accomplished and willing instructors, and the indispensable aid of well furnished libraries and museums. IF they have not made a fatal mistake, they have at least run the risk of it.—N. Tribune.

ARISTOTLE informs us that there is a foolish corner even in the brain of the „, Js, .4 *4^

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A GIRL OF THE PERIOD.

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From Op LouUvUle Commercial, 24tA.l In one of the interior counties of the State, far removed from the crush and tear of the great world of business and fashion, there resides one of the most bewitching of Kentucky's daughters. Beantiful among the beautiful, where beauty is the rule, as it is at old Aries, the French city of fair women, she became the bright and reigning star of a gentleman's high hopes, who a few years since met her at a watering place. Admiration quickly deepened into love—ardent, glowing, conquering, uncompromising. He lived in a neighboring State was well-to-do in the world, and paid frequent and delightful visits to the lady. By and by came the royal conquest of love, and the fair one gave her consent to a union "till death do us part." Proud of the treasure he had acquired, he made sumptuous and lavish preparations for the event, which was to make him king of a realm of love and beauty which few men are so fortunate to obtain. The day of all days was fixed for some time in the latter part of February, and in due time, joyous and exultant, the happy man appeared in Louisville, and arranged with a wellknown clergyman to gently tie the knot, which easily made, is the hardest (except in Chicago or Indianapolis) in the world to undo. Loving epistles had flown like fleecy carrier doves between the two, whose gentle words had made the day, the hour, and the moment assure as mortal arrangements can be made, where the random shafts of Death are falling here and there continually. The expectant bridegroom accompanied by his clerical aid was bore rapidly to their destination. The few hours which intervened seemed like ages to him, but the thought that the old song, "Somewhere she waiteth thee," was now ohanged to a certainty, and that he could almost see the fair form awaiting him in her fluttering bridal robes beneath which a little heart was throbbing sweet symphonies of love—ail this gave him pleasing relief, and in due time they arrived at the gentleman's house, had made their preparations, and were soon at the door where the ceremony was to be performed.

The house, however, wor*»no signs of rejoicing the door was not flung wide open, as became the occasion the window shutters were not even open a stillness brooded over the place which was inexplicable.

The joyous entree of the groom was changed to the frigid civilities of a ceremonious call. Cards were sent up to the lady.

There must be some mistake. She must have misunderstood the day. Thoughts like these flashed through the groom's mind yet as he placed his finger in his inner coat pocket he felt the letter, which seemed, a few short days before, to have come leaping from her heart, and which gave evidence that the time was literally understood. The servant returned with a message: 'Miss ia engaged, and cannot see any visitors." "But she does not understand," murmured her fiance.

It was no use. They had to retire. The next morning a second attempt was made, but with no greater success. The clergyman could not wait his duties required his attendance at home. Almost distracted, the gentleman besought him that, if he must go, he would keep himself in readiness to come at a moment's warning, as he would, he was sure, secure a proper explanation and a speedy consummation of his hopes. The clergyman returned to Louisville.

The day after, as the disconsolate lover was retiring from the house aftef another attempt to gain access, a carriage drove up the broad gravelly walk, and passed within a few feet feet of him. Within it sat a young gentleman, handsome, richly dressed, smiling, and confident. He leaped from the carriage and ran nimbly up the steps of the door.

Dumbly standing there the would-be husband beheld the front door open suddenly and a form he knew, beautiful with youth and grace ran to meet the stranger. They both disappeared, and the door shut the sudden and appalling vision from his ken. Wronged, insulted, grieved and vengeful, he left no step untrodden by which he could solve his difficulty. We briefly sketch the sequel. A few days passed and it was known that the old lover of Miss had arrived in the neighborhood. He belonged to a phase of her life antedating the suit of our hero, but he had ever possesed the golden key which was master of her heart. Absence had not altogether effaced his memory, and letters received just previous to the appointed wedding day, filled with gentle reproaches, had quite revived the festal fire and she was even willing to verify the old couplet: "Woman's faith and woman's trust

Write their characters in dust." It is needless to say that the two men met each other accidentally about a week after the gushing welcome to number two. What transpired is not, of course, known. It is very well ascertained, however, that, in the former part of this month, they both suddenly disappeared from the lady's neighborhood. Whether the first actor upon the scene was eternally dismissed whether the second, since the day she "Belted him with her white embrace," received sweet assurance of fidelity, and was spurred to a deed of violence to create a tabula rasa for his own hymeneal purpose, is as yet unknown. 'J he ardor of both, however, justifies the terrible suspicion of a duel. With names thus vailed from public scrutiny, we intrude upon no sacred privacy of human hopes, aspirations or purposes.

QUEEN VICTORIA is, personally, perhaps, one of the best and most amiable sovereigns that ever occupied a throne yet she has been made the victim of no less than five assaults upon her person. In 1840, a pot-boy named Oxford shot at her in the same spot on which Arthur O'Connor made the last attempt. Prince Albert was in the carriage with her. The Queen rose, but the Prince seized her dress and pulled her down upon the seat of the carriage, which was a low one. Oxford's second shot was aimed too high, and thus the Queen's life was saved. Two years afterward one John Francis shot at her on Constitution Hill. The Queen, on this occasion, showed great coolness, and ordered the coachman to drive on. Francis was transported for life, although sentenced to death originally. Six weeks afterward a boy named Bean pointed a pistol at her, which missed fire. He was transported. The next attack (in 1850) was made by an officer of the army named Pate, who struck the Queen in the face and on the head with a heavy cane. The Queen, on this occasion, was also very cool, calming the fears of her children, who were with her and thought her very badly injured. On one occasion also a young man secreted himself in the Queen's apartments in St. James' Palace, but did not succeed in his attempt at assassination with a pistol. He was found to be insane. So many attempts upon the life of an unoffending monarch, and that monarch a woman, form a curious episode in the history of the crowned beads of the world. Here we have the most popular of ihem all exposed to '.he pistol of the assassin a greater number of instances, by far, than the most despised and hated.

ACCORDING to a Berlin newspaper, two unfaithful builders—a mason ana a carpenter—have come to legal grief in that city. They undertook to construct a house, and they did it after so negligent a fashion that the said house speedily tumbled down. Wherefore the ma«on and carpenter have been sent to jail for eighteen months. It would be too much for us to expect alike dispensation of justice in such cases in this country but could not we have a sort of partial provision for punishing at least the builders of untrustworthy meeting-houses?—A". Y. Tribune.

Six of the foreign diplomats at Washington are married to American wives.

Important Researches at Troy,

From the Cincinnati Qaxette. I The German theory that Homer was a myth, and that the siege of Troy had very slender foundations in fact, if not entirely a baseless fabric of fiction, is likely to be shaken by the explorations of Dr. Heinrich Schliemann, an enthusiastic German linguist and archaeologist. An ardent stuaetit of Homer, he did not like Wolfs denial of his personal existence, and so went to the spot where Troy is said to have Btood to test his opinions by actual reserch.

While the ancients generally thought that the new Troy of B. C. 300 stood on the site of the original Ilium, Strabo placed it two miles further from the shore, while in the last century Chevalier, a French scholar, gave specious reasons for a site seven miles distant. Schliemann had little confidence in these disagreements with prevailing tradition, but ha resolved to give them the benefit of a trial. Accordingly he had diggings made in points designated by Strabo and the Frenchman, but no rums were discovered. He then went back to Troy, and began excavations on a large scale. His labors have been abundantly rewarded, as we learn from extracts from his letters published in the New York "Post." He has found various weapons and utensils, ornaments, and two inscriptions in Phoenician letters. At the greatest depth attained, be found walls built of immense stones, while the latter structures built upon them were of a much more fragile character. His six-ty-five laborers were unable to move these stones, and his researches were interrupted by the approach of cold weather, and he has been obliged to postpone a thorough examination of the great stones until April. His investigations have developed, however, important facts in regard to some of the assumptions of modern scientists. It is a favorite theory with them, as our readers know, that man, instead of degenerating, has been improving constantly. At first he was a wild savage, ignorant of the use of metals. He consequently had knives and weapons of flint. This was the stone age. When he had ascended somewhat into the scale of intelligence, he learned the value of iron this was the iron age. To this succeeded the age of bronze, etc. Schliemann appears to have given some credence to these hy potheses. Having arrived at a certain depth, he discovered a largenumberof implements of stone, and at once concluded that he had reached the stone age. As he confesses, he had judged too quickly, for after digging deeper he found metal ornaments and utensils, and the inscriptions above mentioned. One of inscriptions was made on lead, which controverts the belief that xhe Phoenicians were only acquainted with copper. As the different strata turned up with their dwellings of varied character and their implements of very diverse materals and elaboration, are records of successive eras, it is very significant that the oldest inhabitants ehould be the roost advanced in intelligence and refinement.This result is contrary to the doctrines of Sir John Lubbock and men of his school, but in accordance with all human tradition. The ancients might have been ignorant of many things which we know, but the finest ruins in Arabia, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia as at Troy, are the oldest, and the story of a magnificent paBt, of a golden age, forms a prominent part of every system of mythology. Herr Schliemann does not claim that he has yet found certain proof that the ruins he has disinterred are those of Homer's Troy, yet he has made some advances toward proving the existence of the city of Priam. Every one will wish him success in his future investigations.

The (ilyptothek, Munich. The delight of visiting the Glyptothek unalloyed. Standing, indeed, in the great square in front of it, one can only dream that he has slipped out of an illusive. nineteenth century, and awakened amidst the splendors of ancient Greece. A vast square, treeless, but with clean sward, down which runs a wide avenue ending at the Propylaen, a superb^ Doric arch. This arch was raised by Klenze, and completed ten years ago, in celebration of the Bavarian dynasty in Greece. Its beautiful sculptures in relief are by Schwanthaler, and represent the battle for the delivery of Greece, victories of Greeks over Turks, allegorical figures of the gods and goddesses of Hellas in friendly association with the genii of order, civilization, and culture surrounding Otto on his throne. Ten intervening years of misrule and brigandage in Greece must, indeed, be forgotten if one would enjoy the full beauty of the Propylaen but that is easy under the enchanting influences of this spot. On the left behold the Kunstatisstellungs-Gebaude, a superb building by Ziebland, opened in 1845 for modern works of art, which one cannot look at without being reminded of the fish-tail*appended to the mermaid. The building is Corinthian, and over its facade are fifteen marble groups by Schwanthaler, representing various allegories of art, among others Bavaria distributing flowers to artists. Then one turns to the right, and lo! its lustrous white pillars gleaming in the sun, the Glyptothek stands. Is it a dream? Is it some fairy frost palace which will presently disappear? Pure and still it stands no noise or rumble from the city invades the atmosphere of repose and light softly infolding it. From their niches upon it Vulcan, Prometheus, Da?dalus, Phidias, Pericles, Hadrian, and their later brothers, Canova, Thorwaldsen, Ranch, Tenerari, look down upon us, while from the gable above the marble columns the mother of them all, Pallas, surrounded by typical artists and artificers, beams her welcome. We enter almost expecting to surprise the sages and poets and artists of Greece in their council we find them, indeed, but transfigured by the art they adored, raised to be galaxies of earth responsive to contstellations in the heavens they worshiped. To have filled this beautiful building with these matchless sculptures is the brightest page in the life of the late king. It is, indeed, a memorial of what weakness and what character may grow together in one breast that the king who has left this monument of his better nature should have laid his crown -at the feet of Lola Montez. But this Glyptothek ia his real mouument. Tliey. have raised an equestrian statue to him in Munich, which represents him invested with the conventional decorations of a king but if any statue were built and none was needed —it should have represented him in his real and best light a man in common dress, living almost meanly that he might spend the more to leave Munich a completer palace for the beautiful arts.— From "The City of the Little Monk," by M. D. CONWAY, in Harper's Maqazine for April.

THE Mellier patent on a process for making while pajer from straw expired three or four years ago. An attempt to renew it by fiat of the Superintendent of Patents miscarried so Congress is importuned to renew it for seven years, so as to enable the rich company that owns it to collect a royalty from all who have used the invention while it was public property! We trust Congress will refuse to renew it at all. It will increase the cost of paper in defiance of justice and reason.—N. Y. Tribune.

VICE-PRESIDENT COLFAX was fiftv-six years old last Saturday. lie looks ten years younger than that, and if he will drop segars, keep out of bad company, and quit politics, he may live to celebrate his centennial. We fear that the fascinations of an inveterate smoker are proving too mnch for hia constitution. If there is anything human nature cannot endure, it is incessant puffing.—Golden Age.

PAT ROONEY having committed an assault, an editor, who is evidently in want of a straight jacket, asks if this is the Rooney-crime mentioned by Poe in bis poem of the Bells.

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SIRRUNDELL PALMER'S fee for prepar ing the brief for the Geneva arbitration was $30,000 and for preparing the English rase 2.000 guineas more. ,,

Darid ileal, the Artist

This American is certainly not surpassed in power as a coloristby any young artist ia Munich. He is a patient, careful worker, sparing no pains to give bis designs the completest finish, and in his choice of subjects showing —what is rare —originality without two much ambition. A picture he was just finishing of an an' cient Roman evinced that intence per ception of the physiognomical expression of character which is a trait of the Piloty school, and reminded me of one of the heads of Rembrandt. Two other pictures of Neal's seemed to me quite fascinating, and would, no doubt, be vferv popular if engraved, although the eflects of light and color in them are even more remarkable than the drawing. They are hunting pieces, representing, in one case the aristocratic huntsman feasting in hia forest chateau, with a pretty Fraulein pouring out his wine in unconsciousness of the admiring glances bestowed upon her in the other, a scene within and one without the Jagd-schloes—several sportsmen in a bright interior at their evening banquet, while outside of the door a servant huntsman^ encircled with a large hoop, upon which falcons are sitting, and deprived by his duties of the use of his hands', is receiving his potations, cbildfashion, at the hands of a servant maid, in whose lovely face kindliness and drollery are effectively blended. The paintings of animah—hounds, hawks, game— in these pictures are exceedingly fine. Xhe still-life touches in the paraphernalia of the hunt are most elaborte and brilliant and the candle-light effects— especially the light on the maid's face from the candle she holds (in the Einkehr, as Mr. Neal calls this picture)— show a very careful study of the characteristics of the Dusseldorf art. Another forcible picture, upon which this artist was engaged when I saw him, represents Watt as a boy, seated in t^e chimneycorner in the kitehen, studying the phenomena of the teakettle* His mother opens the door to call him to the evening meal, from which he has been missed. Through the door she opens the rest of the family are seen seated around the table. The mother's handsome face wears a halfpuzzled, half-impatient expression. The boy has not yet become conscious of her presence. The face of the latter was enough to convince me that there was no degree of success in the rendering of facial expression which Mr. Neal may not attain. There is an utter absence of affectation in this work, and an ability to oatch and hold tha 1 indefinable glamour of a living face which is the soul of beauty. Though I have said that David Neal is a young man, one may easily know that such qualities aa I have attributed to his work are not to be attained by genius alone, nor by having good instruction a foreground of experience is necessary for an artist in any direction to master the secrets of his work. Mr. Neal started out from New England—his native State is Massachusetts, if 1 remember rightly—as a poor boy, and made his living by engraving for the press, an art which he had taught himself. He had found his way through many difficulties to California, where the extraordinary fineness of his work induced a fellow-workman to say to him that with such ability he ought not to be contented with the kind of work he was on. But the youth had anticipated the advice, and was already engaged, in the quiet of his own room, on work which represented his deeper aspiration. The city of art had power to lure him across seas and continents so soon as he had earned the means to come. Here he was fortunate enough to have an eye glance over his shoulder on some work he was engaged on, which was as quick to appreciate artistic power as any in Munich. This was the late Mr. Ainmuller, an ar-

tist of fine powers, especially in the painting of architectural interiors, but better known to the world as the artist who presided until his death over the Glasmalerei, where nearly all of the modern stained glass is made. Mr. Ainmuller, at once recognizing the genius of the American, secured him the atelier and official position in the artistic section of the Glasmalerei which he now occupies. The friendship of the old artist was followed by a closer tie, Mr. Neal having married Ainmuller's daughter. Piloty also recognized the ability of Neal, and has given him instruction more as a younger brother than a pupil. From such antecedents, and under such auspices, David Neal continues to work his way steadfastly, and has alreadv gained an esteem among the best artists of Munich which must in the end bo reflected in the admiration of his own country.— From "The City of the Little Monk," by M. I). CONWAY, IN Harper's Maqazine for April.

TogET a rhyme in English for the word "month," was quite a matter of interest with curious people a dozen years ago, and we remember that somebody made it out, or forced it by making a quatrain, in which a lisping little girl is described as saving, as we remember it: 1 can get a rhyme for i*onth.

I can thay it now, I thed itwunthl But this is hardly fair. The rhyme is good, but the English is bad. Christina Rossetti has done better in the admirable book of nursery rhymes which she has published under the title of Sing-Song.— "How many weeks in a month?

Four, as the swift moon runn'th—"

which we think fairly solves the problem —Health and Home.

THE Louisville "Courier Journal says that Conley and Shannahan, impecunious and sanguinary Kentuckians, are to be hanged as a matter ot economy.

A FLOURISHING female horse thief i^ one of the institutions of Glenwood, Missouri.

THE Omaha Spiritualists hav.e decreed the destruction of the world on the 31st.

Ki.VSA* CITY.

INSANE KRKAK.

KANSAS CITY, March 29.- AN Irish woman, name unknown, from Utica, N. Y., on the Hannibal & St. Joe train, when near Turner Station, jumped from the train when running at the rate of twenty miles per hour, and escaped with a alight cut in the head. Cause said lo be insanity. She was left at Lathrop in charge of a physician, who pronounces her injuries slight.

DETROIT.

T1IK LEGISLATURE.

DETROIT, March 29.—The Legislature adjourned to-day. The Senate will meet again as a Court of Impeachment, April 11th to try Commissioner Edmunds of the Land OS ce.

The House Investigation Committee fully exonerated Representative Hill,who was charged with taking a bribe.

NASHVILLE.

VALUABLE PRESENT.

NASHVILLE, March 29.—Mrs. Catron, to-day presented the portrait of Andrew Jackson to the Legislature, in pursuance of the will of the late Judge Catron.

MEXICO.

THE REVOLUTION.

MATAMORAS, March 29 —A Courier extraordinary from Camargo with dates to the 27th, affirms tha reoceupation of Zacateca* by the revolutionists and probable capture of General Rocha,whose army had been dispersed by General Guerra. General Cortina is cut oflf from his bate at Reyco«a, and hemmed in near Banquera in the State of Nueva Leon, uf:er the loss of the greater part of his f«rre* 800 infantry, with two piece* of artillery left Encarnacion for Linares, to meet there 300 troops, and 2 pieces of artillery from Montery, and join (Jen. On-irogas' force* to advance on Mvamora*

Juan Muenoz, with about 2(XI .Juart-r. partisans, crowed from Texas and attacked Nuevo Lareilx, Mexico, on the 24th and were defeated, aud retired, leaving their killed)and wounded in the hands of the Revolntionite. f*.

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REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. COLUMBUS, O., March 27.—The Repubican State Convention assembled in the Opera House this morning, a very large number of delegates being in attendance, in addition to a largenumberof spectators.

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The Convention was called to order by General James C. Robinson, Chairman of the State Central Committee, who introduced Hon. Alphonso Hart as temporary chairman. Hart made a brief speech, in which he claimed that the Republican party stood on a better footing to-day than ever before, and having been tried in peace and in war, were ready to again proceed to victory. In bis opinion, by proper work, Ohio could be carried by the Republicans this fall by,oixty thou^ sand. Four years ago the Republican party had promised to do certain things, and in no case had they fallen short of aught they had promised, and neither would they this time.

Hon. S. N. Titus was chosen temporary secretary. After selecting committees, the Convention took a recess until 2 p. m.

The State Republican Convention reassembled at two o'clock. The Committee on Permanent Organization reported for permanent president, General John C. Lee, of Lucas, and vice ^residents from each district Isaac

Buckingham, of Cuyahoga, for secretary. General Lee, on taking the chair, made a strong speech in favor of Grant's administration, and was warmly ap plauded.

Capt. A. T. Wykoflf was nominated for Secretary of State on the first ballot. After "the nomination otf Wykoff as Secretary of State had been made unanimous, John Welsh, of Athens, was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court, and R.

Porter for member of the Board of Public Works. A motion was made to nominate a candidate for Congressman-at-Large, but was strongly objected to on the ground that if is nomination was made, it would have strong tendency to defeat any plan for redistricling the State into Congressional districts. This motion was laid on the table by a heavy vote.

Lieutenant Governor Mueller, of Cuyahoga, Samuel Craighead, of Montgomery. Henry Kessler, of Hamilton, and J. Madison Bell, (colored) of Lucas, were chosen delegates-at-large from Ohio to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia and \y. A. Walden, of Jefferson, Joseph BrufF, of Mahoning, S. N. Titus, of Meigs, and Daniel Swigart, of Crawford, were chosen es delegates to the Philadelphia Convention.

Hon. John Lee, of Lucas, and Hon. Alpbonso Hart, of Portage, were chosen as Senatorial delegates for President and Vice President, by acclamation.

The Committee on Resolutions reported the following platform, which was adopted, with cheers:

The Republicans of Ohio, in State Convention assembled, make the following declarations: 1st. The Republican party of the Uni« ted States had its origin in the necessities of the nation, Bnd since it came into power has decreed and executed measures by which liberty has been preserved, and the Union saved from dismembermeut and overthrow, and in remedying the disorganization and confusion existing at the cloce of the rebellion, the Republican party exercised its organizing and reconstrr.ctfng power, and has succeeded in the difficult task of complete reconstruction, and has established freedom and equal rights for all people by irrevocable guarantee. In this work. Ihe Republican party has shown its wisdom and patriotism,"and by its unswerving good faith to ward national creditors it has vindicated national integrity and honor. No other party known to history has so grand a record, and no other party in the United States can so proudly challenge the continued confidence of the people and we declare that the good of the country demands that the Republican party should continue to administer the government. 2d. We renew our expressions of confidence in the present administration ot the general government. Since it came into power taxes upon the people have been reduced, and public revenues have been carefully collected and honestly applied, so that, while the burden of taxation has beeri lightened, the public debt has been diminished both in the amount of principal and the rate of interest. The Administration deserves also the earnest approval of every friend of justice, law and order, for (he prompt and efficient manner in which it suppressed the KtiKlux disorders and persecutions of legal citizens in the South, and extended the protection of Government to its people and we refer with great satisfaction and pride to the system of pensions and bounties provided for our brave soldiers and sailors, and homes founded and maintained for such as were disabled in the service of their country- These manifestations of public gratitude and justice must command the approval of every patriot and we commend the policy of fairness and kindness toward the Indian tribes, as showing the wisdom and humanity of the President, and in his eflorts to reform civil service wc recognize a laudable desire to promote its efficiency and purity and in the management of our foreign relations, including the important question of International law involved in the Treaty of Washington, the Administration has shown care, wisdom, courage and dignity, and maintained the honor of the nations untarnished. |Sd. A large portion of the revenue necessary to defray the current expenses of the government, and to pay its liabilities, must be derived from duties on imports. These duties should be levied with a view to equalize their burdens and benefits among the people, so as to promote, as far as possible, the interests of every section and branch of industry, and so that labor of every kind may have a just reward. 4th. We are opposed to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies, and demand that the domain be set apart for bomes for the people, and for purposes of education. oth. As there can be no productive in dustry without a union of capital and la* bor, therefore we are in favor of such legislation as will give all proper guarantees for the safety and prosperity of the one, and the remunerative investment of {he other.

Gth. We have unbroken confidence in the integrity, prudence and patriotism of President Grant, and are in favor of his lenomination for a second term and we present to the Republican party, for nomination for Vice President of the United States, the name of Ohio's first war Governor, Hon. Wm. Dennison, a man eminently worthy of that high office.

The t'onvention then adjourned. i\ APPROPRIATE ENDING. Tbi evening, a large crowd assembf in the Opera House to listen to a speech from Mtn, John A- Bingham,