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NT is preparing .for vigorous ion of the GBEELEY campaign

WS'THE GHKELEYITES haven't forged a LETTERGRAM SUMNER since last Saturday.

CONSUL BUTLER is to be removed. His talents seem better adapted to keno than the consular service.

THE culinary artist of the Cincinnati Gazette thinks the GBEELEY pot boiled over and is putting out the fire.

IT IS proposed to consolidate the Si. Lou in & Southeastern with the Evansville, Henderson & Nashville Railroad

TifK Cincinnati Commercial, from the top of the fence, casts a green eye at the Dayton Journal's government-advertising.

HON. AARON F. PERRY, Congressman from the First district of Ohio, has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives. V-!#5.-.

IN Mr. VOOBHEES'present attiAide of political self-degradation, his own words, reproduced in this issue, are the severest weapons that can be used against'him. ,,

THE arithmetician of the St. Lonis Democrat, goes into an elaborate calculation which, shows that GBAST'S majority in Missouri next November will be 13,883.

THE Cincinnati ..Commercial reminds three millions of Democratic voters that •'they have come over to GREELEY'S aide, adopted his platform, and enlisted under his banner." —... .. -i

TJTE Democracy ol Evansville are prepiring a corvine banquet for SCHUBZ. The destrt will consist of BROWN'S favorite, stewed cherries, buttered watermelon and soft shell crabs. *f"t

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THE cable bringH accounts of a dastardly attempt to kill King AMADEUS and his Queen in the streets of Madrid, Kings and queens are the most useless of all creatures, but assassination isn't the way •, to get rid of them.

jMANY mortifications and sorehumiliations have lately fallen to the lot of CHARLES SUMNER and his proud spirit should have been spared the stinging in- .. ^dignity of a eulogy from BAYLESS W. *IIANNA.

THE editor of the St. Louis Democrat ha? an eye single to the highest office within the gift of the government, which is the superintendency of the weather signal 'Station at Pike's Peak, fourteen thousand

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SINCE a caudal appendage is not a vital organ, and can be sacrificed, by skillful ."'surgery, without serious risk of life, the

Cincinnati Commercial deems it permissible to bless the head and damn the tail ol the Cincinnati-Baltimore ticket.

THR-F-RF' THE Cincinnati Gazette learns that the gambler MORRIBSEY, who lost $25,000 on Bassett at Long Branch, lost another ^25,000 in trying to make things even by jSr^belting on Longfellow at Saratoga. MOR-

RISSEY also bets on HORACE GREELEY.

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I MARAUDING SWINE possess the streets of Evansville, and do their best toward -furnishing local items for the papers of that city. While the Cincinnati journals have but one Fat Contributor, those of Evansville have hundreds of fat contribulors.

AFTER encouraging the Journal, by every means in his power to commence and prosecute the anti-GBEELEY fight, Mr. VOORHEES coolly backs away from his faithful friend and ardent advocate, •leaving that tr»o Bourbon organ to "light the good fight and koep the faith alono.'

AN Evansville paper has a hornuie story of a man who died in that city, re-

cently, just after confessing that he smoth't^'ered his wife to death a year ago. As an ^Vindication of advancing civilization in -the "Pocket," it is worthy of notice that wife-smothering is regarded, down there, jw a moral obliquity.

THE Cincinnati Commercial gives this -treason for its favorite political position "It is our impression that a position on •v A ^j13 fence

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*nity. From this it would seem that "dignity" jg the most important element of "indenju"* pendent journalism."

I EVERYBODY but BAYLESS W. IIANNA knows that the story of a cottage at Long Branch being presented to Presiden

GRANT is a lie. People who read, instead of devoting their time to silly bloviation, pompous parade and empty show, have read convincing proof that GRANT bought the cottage, and paid a good round price for it. p'•

ONE of the Western delegates to' the *a^, .Baltimore Convention being asked if his '*r J3 party could not find a Democrat suitable 11, for the Presidential nomination, replied that they had plenty of good candidates but, said he: "You see the Democratic '^machine is stuck in the mud, and we want to move it. To do that we are not particular about the team we hitch on, whether it is a draft-horse or a jackass.

What we want isjto move the machine."

THE St. Louis Democrat conGrms previous reports that in Illinois some of the I be*t men who aided and encouraged the V* «A Liberal movement a short time since, have become disgusted with KOKRNF.R'S impudent candidacy, and have openly rejoined the ranks of honest Kepublicani«m. About half the members of the

Liberal Stato Central Committee have resigned, and the other half are sick of their contract.

NEW YORK dispatchcs represent that sporting men suflered largely on the defeat ol Longfellow at Saratoga. Many who lost on Bafsett at Long Branch tried to get even by betting this time on Longfellow, and some of them made heavy bets at the rate of ten to four. The amount changing hands in New York City is very great, and dispatches from Saratoga say that there was very heavy betting there among all classes ol visitors

CATACAZY'S puerile pamphlet has made Secretary FISH mad aS a wet hen. The -venerable Premier should not allow himself to get excited during the hot weather. A public functionary of his lofty standing, flying into a passion over this silly effusion of the pusillanimous CATACAZY, •"resembles ocean into tempest tossed to waft a feather or to drown a fly." Keep cool, Mr. Secretary 1 Preserve the integrity of your immaculate nether linen. Glide serenely, Oh, piscatorial Premier, into deep water, where the claws of your feline enemy shall not molest nor make you afraid.

IN BAYLESS W. HANNA'S Lawrenceburg speech, printed in yesterday's Cincinnati Commercial, there is a batch of stale falsehoods about President GRANT. Many of his positive assertions were long-ago proven to be lies—simply lies and nothing more. Charity requires the supposition that Mr. HANNA believes them still. But all the reading and thinking men, women and children in America know them to be base slanders. Mr. HANNA should read and think more, xr talk less. Such a course would save iiis friends a deal of mortification.

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From The Daily tacirtm, July '9.] HOW HE "KEPT THE FAITH." Mr. VOORHEES has made his speech at Spencer and accepted the nomination for Congress, with the understanding that he will support HORACE GREELEY for the Presidency. The dish of "crow" was very nauseating, but it was swallowed as a choice of all the dishes offered.

Something more than two months ago Mr. VOORHEES found himself thrust suddenly into leadership. The Democratic iparty,. which had been courageously battling for positive principles for fifty years, was threatened with disintegration through treason of its prominent members. A full surrender, involving acceptance of all the most obnoxious principles of its enemy, was imminent. The surrender was urged, not because the enemy's principles were right, but because this course was supposed to be politic, and likely to gain offices for Democrats. Mr. VOORHEES denounced this movement bravely and courageously. The criticism of the honest men of the country upon him was: "Here is a man. He dares risk something for a principle. He does not ask, Am I supported by majorities? but, Am I right?" Democrats who were without aspiration for office,said: "Here is our leader. Here is a man who is not ashamed of his life record, or of the principles of our party. Here is a man who does not estimate the gran work of a party to be a struggle for office."

Mr. VOORHEES' position was a proud one. He was abused and slandered by the cowards who were laboring to kill his party, but what man has ever done a morally brave thing without meeting calumny? He had become a leader of men, the representative of an idea. Men who wished him well, the best friends he ever had, said he would continue brave and true. His enemies said: "VOORHEES will back down. He has no elements of leadership he lacks moral couragc there is in him no drop of martyr's blood he will do in the end what policy dictates." And now the latter prophets gloat over the Spencer speech of yesterday and say they were right.

A large portion of that speech was devoted to Revere and stereotyped abuse of the administration for its policy in reference to the South. The Express quotes below a few extracts from the speech of Mr. VooiiHEES in this city on the 2othof May, in which he attempted to prove that Mr. GREELEY was responsible, more than GRANT even, for the condition of affairs in the South:

We have now a law of Congress providing that the local elections of all the States, in precincts numbering a population of 20,000 and over shall pe subject to the control and inspection of United States officers, and when these officials deem it necessary, subject also to the control of United States troops. No worse law than this ever menaced the liberties of the people. It is the direct ofispring of the lawless and unholy spirit of despotism. It is the boldest step ever yet taken in the destruction of local self-gov-ernment. It was ostensibly aimed at the people and the States of the South, but it assails the very foundation of American liberty in every section. I regarded its enactment with horror and dread. So the entire Democratic party and press of the country. What more sinister legislation ever disgraced the worst days of

is now authorized by law and Mr. Gree lev was one of its loudest and sternest advocates. He urged its enactment upon Congrpss with all the power of his influential journal. Has he recanted has he dsked for its repeal? Nothing of the kind. *, "j*

South Carolina is to-day bankrupted by her negro legislators, assissted by still worse white men. Her insane asylum even cannot be supported and helpless maniacs are wandering in her woods and along her highways. The responsibility and intelligence of South Carolina had to surrender the State to such a control as that before this new candidate for the Presidency, would advocate their_ own right to vote and hold office. This is, indeed, a small margin on which to claim the support of the Southern people in behalf of the man, who, more than all others in the history of the government, brought calamity, ruin, woe, and death upon them before, and during, and since the war. It was wisely said on a memorable occasion, in regard to spurious preten-iers: "Ye shall know them by their fruits." Judged by this rule I see nothing in the public life and conduct of Mr. Greeley to win the favor of any class ol the American people, except the manufacturers, bondholders and monopolists of the East.

But it is said that Mr. Greeley's election will bring relief to the South. Op what is this conclusion based? Has it any rational foundation? Can good come out of evil? Can a wise and beneficial Administration spring from dangerous and unconstitutional principle honestly entertained? If so, why should a man ever be chosen to office with reference to his principles? Can the South trust a man who preached the right of secession and then desired the slaughter of those wliom he had helped to mislead into its practice? Aside from the question of integrity, is the judgment of such a man safe? What guarantee has the South or any other portion of the country against similar capricious freaks hereafter?

But how does he stand on the issues that vitally ad'ect the South at this time He urged the enactment of the Ku Klux law by which habeas corpus has been suspended and the people of the South on any negro's word laid in prisons or driven into exile. He has just written a letter of acceptance, in which lie takes pains to define his position. Does he say that this horrible law ought to be repealed? Does he say he will oppose such legislation in the Inture? Nothing of this is found in his letter. If the South to-day is oppressed and cursed in all her interests who is more responsible for it than Mr. Greeley? He advocated all the worst phases of military reconstruction and when Andrew Johnson attempted to shield the people of the South from further disaster, Mr. Greelev demanded his impeachment with a ferocity disgraceful to human nature. And when Mr. Johnson was acquitted he charged every one of the Republican Senators who voted for acquittal, with corrupt and dishonest motives, and some of them with having received bribes in money. Can the South trust such a nature as this? Can the American people be induced to make such a man President? Can the Democratic party nominate and vote for him and still command the respect of the world?

Can the nominee of the Spencer convention make speeches over this district denouncing the policy of the government toward the South, while the Presidential candidate whom he snpports is the advo cstte, and was to a great extent, the originator, of that policy?

MR. YOORHKES is severe .upon all the acts of the administration. In his speech on the 25th of Mav he said:.

On what point of public policy Is "there anv issue between Grant and Greeley? Will some one point it out? On the contrary, on all questions of national im port Mr. Greeley has warmly indorsed the present administration and has never revoked that indorsement. The antagonism of Mr. Greeley to Grantfs adminis tration is purely personal as far as the

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as far as I can discern. I leave those who are inclined to indorse Mr. Greeley, to consider whether they are not also indorsing the administration of Grant in all its acts and principles of the slightest degree of national consequence.

MB. VOORHEES has done that which his worst enemies hoped he would do. He has given up earnest convictions for policy's sake. True, he professes to hold to all his old belief, but he knows that be cannot do this honestly and support the principles adopted at Baltimore. A severe judgment will grow out of this false step of his. When the war was over, men wondered that the Democratic party could continue to live after so much dishonor. Now it is plain that that party has lived in order that its end may be more humiliating than ordinary death, that it may die under the leadership of the opponent which it has most despised, and in the vain attempt to steal the principles of its ancient enemy. Mr. VOORHEES, like his party, has had a bad record. If his hopes had borne fruit, the rebellion would have been a success. Now his hour of mortification has come. He is doomed to march up and down this district stultifying himself upon every stump where he has advocated-Democrat-ic infamy in past years. He will stand under a censorship which will close his mouth in reference to the blacks, abuse of whom has been a large part of his stock in trade formerly. He cannot denounce the acts of the Republican party, if his speech of the 25th of May is to be believed, without abusing HORACE GREELEY* Above all, the deepest cup of humiliation to him will be the fact that the tried and true Bourbons, men who would have died for him if the need had been in the past, will, from this hour, look upon him with distrust. "\r *4

He has not "fought the good fight he has not "kept the faith."

A REBEL HOWL.

The Vincennes Sun, one of the most ardent'possum organs in the country, copies an article from The Express in relation to the shaby treatment of General SHERMAN by the military chiefs at Berlin, and comments thereon as follows: "We expect Bismarck and King William have heard of the outrages and atrocities committed by this great military star, on his march to the sea, through Geergia and the Carolinas. They do not believe in savage warfare, and have little respect for men who engage in it."

Although the Sun has "turned its back upon the past," la HENDRICKS, and has been an industrious hand-shaker "over the bloody chasm," it sometimes forgets its new, unnatural and distasteful role and lets its old, honest, rebel spirit burst out ,in such utterances as the above. It is not the purpose of this mention to defend General SHERMAN'S course commander on the march through Georgia and the Carolinas. It needs no defence. He was more humane than almost any other General would have been under like circumstances and no well informed writer would seriously think of asserting that he displayed less humanity and magnanimity than were shown by the Prussian commanders in their victorious march through France. Had the victors in cur late struggle adopted the

many pursued and is pursuing toward France—the justice of which not here questioned—the South would have beep compelled to pay all the expenses of our war and a very large amount additional.

In conclusion, it may not be impertinent to remind the Sun that what it calls SHERMAN'S "savage warfare" was heartily approved by Mr. GREELEY and further, that Mr. GREELEY has never given any evidence of change in his views on that subject. Besides, according to Mr. VOORHEES, Mr. GREELEY is the'real author of the Ku Klux law and other legislation regarding the Southern people, that has been most bitterly denounced by the Sun.

"No honest and intelligent Democrat can support either GRANT or GREELEY without first abandoning his principles. Fire and water can mingle more easily and consistently than I could become an adherent of either of them. I shall stind by my life-long principles. Ifl did otherwise, I should be a dishonest man, unworthorty of my own respect or the respect of anybody the."—Daniel TP. Voorhees, May 17, 1872. .44^"

IF MR. GREELEY'S famishing hunger and raging thirst for office have not smothered parental affection, he will feel insulted at having the name ef his daughter thrust to the fore in this canvass. It is announced that a number of young men in the southern border States who have served in Gen. L*E'S army, propose to form a GREELEY club, to be uniformed in gray, and to travel through the Northern States for campaign purposes. They intend to name themseives the "IDA GREELEY Grays," THEODORE TILTON thinks the project is a good one.

THE slave trade is by no means dead It appears from the last official return of the British Parliament that from July 1st, 1809 to January 1st, 1772, the English squadron off the east coast of Africa had captured twenty-four vessels for being engaged in and equipped for this infernel business. There were 722 slaves captured, but six of the vessels and 2S3 of the slaves were restored, in consequence of treaty obligations with Zanzibar. There were 377 slaves emancipated, and 62 had died between the capture and condemation of the vessels. The bounties in one case amounted to $4,040 for the capture of two slaves, and in another case to $3,565 for the capture of fifteen slaves These discrepancies arise from the fact that in such cases the captors exercise their right of claiming a bounty of $20 a ton ®n the vessel in preference to $25 per head on the slaves. '.

THE New York Journal of Commerce gives some good advice to railroad officials, which is briefly summed up as follows: Railroad men at the stations and on the trains must not regard a, question as an impertinence. They must not look with contempt or indifference open those who are not familiar with all the details of travel. They must invite and en courage public patronage by a sacrifice of their own ease and dignity to promote the comfort of passengers. They moat lay themselves out to magnify their office duly, in kindly ministrations and thoughtful attentions not required *in their official instructions, or specially named in the grant of franchise or arti* cles of association. There are many railroad officials on the various lines of travel who do not need this advice, and there are some who do..

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THE DOMESTIC TELEGRAPH. Not many evening! ago, an intelligent, gentlemanly looking individual presented himself at onr door and asked "if we didn't want the district telegraph put into oar house." At the same time he handed over for our examination a very pretty little instrument, composed of cog wheels and somewhat resembling a clock. "We attach the instrument to the wall," he said, "in some convenient position in yonr house, and to it we connect a wire leading to your roof, where it unites with" another wire that extends to one of oar district offices on Broadway." Pointing to a small knob, he continued: "If a fire breaks out in your house, you just push that lever, and in three minutes the firemen will be here. If thieves break in, you move that other lever, and in three minutes the policeman will make his appearance. If you want a special messenger to go upon any sort of business, night or day, you just turn this little button, and.in three minutes the man will be at your door ready for service. The signals you thus make are all received and recorded at our Broadway office, where we keep a force of attendants, in readiness at all hours, to execute the requirements of our customers. Your wife or any other intelligent person can make the signals. We make no charge for putting the instrument into your house or for keeping it in order but yon pay us $2.50 per month for its use and fifteen cents an hour for the time occupied by our messenger in doing your business. When you go away to the country in summer, you can have an attachment put on, so fixed that, if burglars attempt to break in an alarm will be sounded at our office, when our policemen will quickly surround the honse, and catch the thief in the act."

W7e rather liked the idea of having such a telegraph in the honse, gave the order, and it was promptly put in.

In the course of a week or so afterwards, thinks we to ourselves, that is our wire and we, "Jet's try our telegraph just for fun, and see whether' the telegraph folks are as wide awake as they pretend, or whether they are napping." This was earley in the morning, just between getting up time and breakfast—before business begins— the hour when night hands go home and day hands have not yet come—the time when the manager is probably not on hand. Now let's see what this new-fangled telegraph is good for. So we pressed the knob, and there followed a click and a buzz. We looked at our watch, went down stairs, took seats at the breakfast table, when we were startled by a ring at the door bell. "Messenger from the District Telegraph Office. Got your signal. Wants to know what is wanted," was the report that came to us. Looking at the watch we found that just two and a half minutes had elapsed since we gave the signal. We felt a little bit sheepish in being obliged to tell the messenger that we had sent for him "just for fun, to see if he was really awake," etc., and as we were entirely satisfied on that point, he retired, sorry that we had no real business for him to do.

After breakfast, we went to the company's office, where we found a Morse paper recording apparatus, with which the various dwelling houses in the district are connected. Whenever a signal is given from any of the hou«es in the circuit, a gong Bounds in the office, which notifies the attendant, and at the same time the telegraph clock work is set in motion the paper moves, and upon it a signal is stamped and restamped or repeated. Each house instrument gives a different signal, and the various signals, with the names of the occupants and numbers of the respective dwelling houses, are registered or tabulated on the wall, like a hotel indicator. By glancing at the register, the attendant sees at once from what hoiise the signal has come, also its nature, whether a fire has occurred, a robbery go-

ing on,or a messenger needed. The office is in connection_with the city fire telegraph sent thither'if required.

Taken altogether, this district or domestic telegraph is a most useful and valuable institution, promotive of comfort, convenience, and safety of families. That it will soon come into general use, connot be doubted. The wires are so arranged that in case they (are severed, either by design or accident, an alarm is instantly sounded at the district office and the repairs are quickly effected.—-Scientific American. ERAS CORRSPONDING WITH 1872.

The year 1872 constitutes the'96th year of the Independence of the Uqited States. 1876th of the birth of Christ, our present era having begun four years after his birth. 1241st of the Persian Era, which began June 19, 632 A. D. 1289th of the Hegira, or Mohammedan Era. 1320th of the Armenian Ecclesiastical Year. 15S8th of the Era of Diocletian, or Era of the Martyrs. 1901th of the Spanish Era, or Era of the Ea:sars. 1917th of the Julian, or since the reformation of the Calendar of Numa Pompilius. 2184th of the Grecian Era of Seleucides. 2619th of the Babylonian Era of Nabonasser, which begins February 26, 3,967 J. P. 2625th of the old Roman Era, A. U. C., according to Varro. 2648th of the Olympiads of Greece, or the second year of the 662d Olympiad, beginning in July. 3987th of the year of Abraham, used by Eusebius. 4220th of the Deluge, according to Usher and the English Bible. 4974th of the Call Yuga, or Hindoo and Indian Era. 4509th of the Chinese Calender and the 7th in a cycle of sixty years. 5632d of the creation, according to the Minor Era of the Jews. [6231st of the Greater Rabbinical Era of the Jews. 6100th of the world, according to EusebiuF. 5816th of the world, according to Scaliger. 5876th of the world, according to Usher and the English Bible. 7S64th of the world, according to the Antiocian and Abyssinian Eras. 7370th of the world, according to the

Alexandrian Eras. 73S0tli-Slst of the year of Constantinople, used by the Byzantinic historians.

This last is the same as in the Septcagint version of the Bible. It dateB the Creation on the first of the Jewish month Tisri, 5508 B. C., or 7380 years ago.

THE ENGAGEMENTS OF THE SEVENTH. From Eli Perkitu' Letter.]

An innocent young lady asked me today if the Seventh Regiment fellows had seen service—been in many engagements.

I told her they had—that almost every man had been in at least a dozen engagements, and many of them were probably engaged to several young ladies that very moment. "To Beveral? Now!" she exclaimed, opening her big brown eyes. "Well," said I, "yon know New York is a large city." "Yes." "Now some of these nice looking fellows are engaged to young ladies below Fourteenth street—to girls that they never take up town—girls that they- take to 'Hnmpty Dumpty,'. Niblo's and Wallaces!" "Yes." "Then some of them are sweet on the girls on Twenty-third street, sweet on sentimental girls, who dote on the Fifth Avenue Theater, the Academy of Music and Pike's Opera House?" "Yes." "And some of them have girls 'on the string* away up by the park—girls who delight in Thomas Garden concerts and rides in the park. These Eleventh street. Twenty-third street and Central Park girls never see each other, and so they are all right. They ain't like Cincinnati or Boston girls, who know eveiy other girl in town, and who trip a fellow np if he looks at anybody else." •"Alas?" said my young lady friend with a sigh, "the dear innocent girls in New York ought to know this—it ought to be published—it—"

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Time changes us not for the best. Though grief sometimes defeats his art. And keeps a little patch spring green In the white winter of the heart. And mine, though eolder grown with years. Feels that it is not frosen quite. As memoir goes wandering back

To that Jane night.

And sometimes on the summer eves, Within my chamber all alone, I watch the moon rise o'er the roofs And think I hear the ocean tone And through the smoke of my cigar See loves and joys I have not met. That, as they vanish in the haze,

Leave my cheeks wet. Life's a sad puztle, and oftr hearts a in in a in or She went before at twenty-five, And I live on at fifty-two— And wait the end: for well I know That I shall meet her without fail, On some spring morning—and till then

I keep the veil. THE OLD WHITE HAT. BT BOB CRXNIXGS. When this Old Hat was new, my boys.

The Democrats swore freely. And day and night, with great delight. They damned old Horace Qreeley. But now-a change has o'er them comc.

The like I never saw, They now are wearing Greeley hats, And shouting Chappaqua. Charles Sumner's nw a patriot,

A "statesman tried and.true," But Bully Brooks broke Sumnet's head. When this Old Hat was new. The Democrats all cried well done,

And said he'd got his due. And swore they'd hang old Greeley next. When his Old Hat was new.

When this Old Hat was new, my boys. Dan oorhees was the man, Whose tall, iroud form to victory led

The Democratic clan. Bat now they have ruled Daniel out. They say he will not do, Because he stands right where he stood

When this Old Hat was new. But Daniel will not stand the storm He soen will come tn "taw," He yet will sing in sweetest strains,

The song of Chappaqua. When this Old Hat was new, my boys, The very air was rent— With shouts from Democratic throats, &v

For a "white man's guv-er-ment. But aow they are for equal rights.To every race and hue, Then turned their backs on all they said,

When this Old Hat was new. But still it does seem strange to me, 'Tis hard to think se really, That Hendricks should be shoved aside.

For nigger-loving Greeley. For Hendricks was a

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To his party always true, And Greeley was its direst foe, When this Old Hat was new.

But let us take onr dish of dirt, And try and put it through, And turn our backs upon the' past.

When this Old Hat was new. WeTlsena nim To inHttmvifc,- j: -i_„.. Where Harrison, Tayfor and Lincoln eono

And then with Gratz and Cousin Frank. And all of the Blair crew. We'll soon restore the days of yore. When this Old Hat was new,

i, THE DOOR BETWEEN.

BY HOWARD GlYSDON.

I know that it was mine own hand that shut it And looked it—but I threw away tho key, Aud so the door can never more bo opened

That stands so grimly betwixt you and me. Though sometimes I bave fancied that I heard

Pleading nnd knocking on the other side, I would not answer,"for my heartwas sullen. And made so cruel by inv wounded pride. And there are hours when I have knelt beside it,

Anigh to death for just one word from you: And you, in turn, were proud and would not answer

For any thing that I could say or do. And sometimes when I lie 'twixt sleep and waking, I think the door swings back to let you in But when I spring to give you eager welcome,

I only meet the ghost of what has been.

And often in my sleep my hrart. is nsking, Vhere is the keyr Alas! Where is the key?" And then I rise and vainly try to open

Tho closed door that is 'twixt you and me I

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11R. YOOHEES EATS IT.

JUDGE SCOTT GULPS IT DOWN.

AND ALL THE DELEGATES SWEAR IT IS GOOD EATING.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 24, 1872. (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

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It was fall many a season sinee, When I was summering at Cape May: Ther had a foolish fashion then— Mayhap they have the same to-day— That every lady in the dance. If pleaded with any shonld net fail ,' Unto the partner she preferred.

To five her veil. And there was one I mind me of, Whose name—well, never mind her name: Helen or Alice. Blanche or Maud, To yon who read will be the same. Bat that old old fashion of the veils. Haply recalls the past, and stirs 4^ Memories that clnstei round the nieht,

She gave me hers. She flashed, poor ehild, in giving it. And I. too, felt my brow trow warm, As laathinaly. with lingers deft. She knotted it aboat my arm: And though the eolor on her cheek Was like the lightin morning skies, I thought I saw a holier dawn

Within her eyes. The dance was over, and we strolled Out trom the ball room's glittering press. To meet the.bjtffese that many armed Clasped each ene in cool caress:. And sauntering on we reached the sea— The far waits mnsie's eadence sweet. Mixed with the soand ol waves that died

Aboat onr feet. We talked of what Itiow forget/ Bat carelessly, or seeming so Next day I was to leave, bnt then In town we'd meet again you know. Ah, well-a-day 1 the gods dispose. And rained hopes are worse than vain. She laughed good-by—I never saw

Her face again.

Judge Franklin, of Owen county, then took the stand and said that, in view of the fact that the State and national conventions have met, nominated their tickets, drafted platforms, and that, as there is no opposition to them in the Democratic party, this convention had deemed it unnecessary to draft any platform, and he would therefore offer the following:

Resolved, That, with unabated copfi dence in the ability, the integrity, the statesmanship and patriotism of Hon. D. W. Voorhees, our distinguished Representative in Congress, we hereby unanimously nominate him to that high pos'tion, and hereby pledge him our undivided support.

It was unanimously adopted, and amidst cries of "Voorhees 1" Judge John T. Scott, of Vigo county, presented the following, wich was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That we hereby ratify and in dorse the nominees of the Democratic State ticket, and pledge the same our cheerful and earnest support.

And in view of the imperative necessity of a change in the administration ol our national governmentfrom its present corrupt and tyrannical policy to a peaceable, faithful, honest, economical, and im* partial administration of our public affairs—we hereby pledge our undivided support to the Baltimore nominees for President and Vice President.

And that William E. McLean, of Vigo county, be selected as elector, and George A. Knight, of Clay county, be selected for contingent elector for the Sixth Congressional District of Indiana.

After the adoption of this resolution, Mr, Voorhees took the stand and read his speech, lasting an hour.

MR. VOORHEES' SPEECH.

GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION— You have done me a great- honor to-day, greatest I have ever received, and

the greater, I think, when all. the circumstances are considered, than usually fall to the lot of public men in this country. You have one and all refused to listen to what has been said to my disadvantage, and you have demanded that I should remain in your service. Ypn

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Special Correspondence Terre Ilaute Axprcts. SPENCER, July 18, J8/2. This has been a gala day for this place: in fact it is said to be about the grandest time it has ever witnessed, or ever will again, if one might judge from the amount of abuse heaped upon the place from every quarter, and the threats of political demolition made against those who were instrumental in having the convention called here. It is a place of about one thousand inhabitants is situated in the eastern part of Owen county, and is about as far out of the war for the district convention as one could will imagine: tbe time consumed in reaching it from Terre Haute, being about ten houre sometimes much more, while the distance across the country is only about forty miles. Then the great majority of the delegates are from the northern counties which ought to give them some claims in this matter. It iB true, the people have done all in their power to make things agreeable, but with only two very small hotels, their powers as replenishen of the inner man were soon exhausted, tho* compelling many to go without, or "eat what they could find at tbe baker's.'7

GREELEY 8 EN TIM EST.

The Democratic party was well repre sented from every part of the State, all being very desirous of seeing how "our Daniel" would take his Greeley dwe, and they did not go away disappointed as he did it very gracefully.

The Democrats in this section have generally become reconciled to their fate, and have accepted Greeley, not from principle, but with the battle cry of, "anything to beat Grant."

Long before the assembling of the convention it was a very evident fact that in the distribution of offices none bnt Greeleyites need apply. Even Andy Humphreys was there, advocating Greeley: claims, and as usual, demonstrated that he could talk more and say less than any man present, and that too in a very short space of time.

THE KIQUTEENTH JDDICIAL CTBCTRIT Convention met in the morning. Cham

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ben Y. Patterson was nominated for jndge, without opposition, and John Briggs was nominated for prosecuting attorney.

THETEHTQ JUDICIAL DISTRICT Convention was organized by the selec tion of H. K. Wilson, of Sullivan county, for chairman, and Murray Briggs, of Sul livan, county, for Secretary. John Scott was nominated for judge by accla mation, and George W. Collings, of Parke, was nominated fer prosecuting attorney

But the grand event of the day was the meeting of the

SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CONVEN TION, Which w&4 called to order at noon in the court house yard by Joseph Lyons, chair man of the executive committee.

S. W. Short, of Lawrence county, was elected permanent chairman, without opposition, and upon taking the Chair, made the few remarks which are customary upon such occasions.

Murray Briggs, of Sullivan county was chosen Secretary of the Convention and Chas. H. Knight, of Clay eounty, was selected to act in the capacity of assistant secretary.

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degree worthy of such confidence as you have here maifested, I may indeed feel that I have not lived altogether in vaiu.

I call you to witnes-R, also, that I have not sought thin nomination, but urged that it might be given to some one else. It i8 a prize, it is true, coming from the source it does, which is equal to the highest ambition, but circumstances of a purely personal and domestic nature led me to declare two years ago, publicly, in every part of the district, that I was then making my las "race for Congress. Again, one year ago, I repealed my wish to quit public life and bestow what ability and energy I po-wess to private interests. It can r.ot, therefore, he said that all the reluctance which I have manifested in regard to the present contest, is of recent date. I am not here, however, to shun the events of the last two months, or the new and peculiar responsibilities which they impose. This is an occasion for perfect frankness between you and me. will talk to you, therefore, as if I was seated at your hearthstones, and if the outside world is listening, I trust it will hear nothing of which we will hereafter be ashamed.

A close observation of the lawless and outrageous conduct of the present administration, and the great and increasing disgust in the public mind, long age convinced me that an easy opportunity would be presented this year for the Democratic party, by presenting one of its ablest and purest men for the Presidency, to regain the.control of the government and reestablish civil liberty and equality in the burdens as well as the blessings of the Republic. I gave honest Republicans the same credit which they now give UB, in believing that they would sufficiently rise above party to vote against a corrupt administration without regard to the company in which they performed so noble an net. I still believe they would have done so, and that any one of four or five Democratic statesmen who might be named, eminent for ability and purity of character, could have been electtd to the Presidency over the present very unpopular incumbent. Eniertaining this opinion with the force of an absolute conviction, I made an earnest effort to have it prevail in the minds of others. In view of an approaching National Democratic Convention, I exerciped my right a* a member of the Democratic party in pointing out what I thought its action ought to be. This is a right for which I am beholden to no one. I have no apologies to make for having exercised it as I did. I would do so again under similar circumstances. I do not claim to be a shrewd and managing politician, if shrewdness and management consists in suppressing my honest opinions on public questions, and waiting until 1 find whether they are popular or not. I hold that all men have a duty to perform in assisting to create a correct public opinion by expressing their own on all proper occasions. In opposing tbe nomination of Mr. Greeley I acted on this principle, and no one will expect me now or hereafter to retract a word I havespoken or written on that subject. The influence of my words, if they had any, was directed to the Baltimore Convention and not beyond the action of that body. They must stand as my sincere utterances in behalf of an object over which that body had legitimate authority and ultimate control.

But I will doubtless be reminded that my views were not adopted at Baltimore, and that my opinions were disregarded. All this is true and I do not pretend to disguise my deep regret I would gladly have had it otherwise, and I have given the subject as careful and as conscientious an examination, in order to ascertain the true path of duty, as it has been in my power to make. If I could at this point abandon public station consistently with my obligations to my party, my friends, and the duties I owe as a citizen to my country, the path before me would be easy and smooth. Your action alone, however, here, to-day, under all the cir cuinstances of the past and present, impels me to accept your nomination, and make one more campaign with you and for that purpose we must look the present and the tntnre coolly and resolutely in the iace in the light of tbe recent resnlt at

Baltimore. Whenever and wherever in all the ages and nations of the world men have associated themselves' together for common objects, whether in aflaira of church

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or State, the power of a final decision over matters in controversy amongst themselves has been specifically lodged some where. Without this authority no bond would be strong enough to produce a onited action in behalf of any purpose however great and beneficent, so widely do men honestly differ in regard to the means and the details by which the most desirable ends are to be attained. Of course no sect or party, religious or political, has the right or the power to crush out the independent convictions of its members, and it is not only the privilege but the duty of the members of any organization to abandon it whenever they perceive that they can more surely secure the great objects they have in view by doing so. Great and binding, therefore, aa all Democrats concede the authority of a more than two-thirds majority of a National Democratic Convention to be, yet if you were fully persuaded that you could better serve your country, and more certainly rescue her from the shame and disgrace into which she has been plunged, by leaving your old organization and seeking new party relations, ysu would be justified in such a course. But let me sav to the -Democratic masses in this district and throughout the State, that I see no such course open to any friend of bis country. To those who have so warmly coincided in opinion with me on tbe propriety of Mr. Greeley's nomination, and their name is legion, let me say that the Democratic party is infinitely preferable, in ray judgment, even with Horace Greeley as its candidate, to that portion of the Republican party w|pich acknowledges the leadership of Grant and profligate managers, by which he is lend on to his own and his country's ruin. No thought of recreancy or infi delity to the Democratic party ever entered my mind. As I can not control its councils, I shall submit to them, hoping that time may show its ways to be wiser and moie eneficial to the country than I predicted. He who can not have his own way in this world, is not, therefore, in my opinion, justified in doing nothing. He can without inconsistency concede that others may be more enlightened than himself on the points at issue, and give their plans a fair trial.

Here the speaker complimented the Democratic State ticket and urged Demcrals to give earnest support to their county tickets, after which he said:

If we turn, however, lor a orief survey of the broad field of national politics, many strange and significant aspects are presented to our view. We constantly hear of the unwonted position of the Democratic party. Its action and its attitude we admit to be unusual, but I think if we examine we will find other occurences in the political world quite as novel and striking as anything in the conduct of the Democracy. Is the condition of the Republican organization so natural and healthy that it can afford to sneer at the supposed sickness and death of its powerful neighbor? At the close of the war it succeeded to illimitable power and possessions. Its means by which to seduce the venal, overawe the timid, and coerce all others into its support were absolutely boundless in eleven St a'es, and nearly so everywhere else. If this powerful party had been pure and unselfish in its devotion to the welfare of the country if it had been managed with an eye single to the prosperity of the laboring people if it had fostered tbe industrial classes instead of the monopolies if it had conciliated the conqured instead of bruising them every day afresh with additional stripes if it had sought to invigorate and enrich an impoviahed section of the greatest natural wealth, instead of scourging it into still more horrible barrenness and misery if hud lived on love_ and_ patrioy'8tga^had "before it a longer lease of power at ^«ver granted to a pol\TiW^'^ ^ban the history of the world. But bloated with much power and countless wealth, its career has been full of wickedness, gradually but surely forfeiting the confidence of the people and driving the best elements out of its organization. This fact is strikingly illustrated by the history of political contests in Indiana. In 1864, when the waves of Radical misrule reached their highest point in this Stale a majority of twenty-one thousand was recorded against the Democratic party. Two years later, in 1866, we again met the same enemy, and reduced his majority to fourteen thousand. In 1868 we fought again under the same colors and wiped out the entire majority against us, the Radicals only saving the State officers by fraudulent returns of a few hundred majority. Thus stood the contest in Indiana when the Fifteenth amendment, never legally ratified, a fraud, in my individual judgment, on the American people, gave an increase of ten thousand negro voters to the Radicals. Yet in 1870'we defeated this coalition of blacks and whites and placed about three thousand of a majority on the side of the gallant and unfaltering Dem ocracy of the State. Certainly this is not a record to beget discouragement. It shows a steady decay of the Republican party in Indiana. It shows a loss on its part in eight years of at least thirty-four thousand votes. It shows, further, that if the Democracy does as well as usual on its own account this year, we will carry the State by fifteen thousand majority and if the Liberal Republican party can even moderately well fulfill its expecta tions, tbe vote of the State will be cswt against the Administration party both in

October and November, by larger majorities than have ever heretofore been known in her history.

Following this, Mr. Voorhees undertook to prove the demoralization of the Republican party because of the loss of leaders like Sumner, Trumbull and Schurz.

Then he ran gibly over the charges against Grant personally—N. Y., Custom Hons% nepotism, staying at Long Branch high taxation, etc., etc. To come back to the text of his speech:

There is another branch, however, of tbe domestic policy of the present admin istralion which has, perhaps, more strong ly induced the present political move ment against it than any other, for it comprises within itself the wrongs and villainies of all others. Thecondition of the South has at last aroiiBed universal attention and almost universal indignation. That unhappy section is at last recognized as a portion of our common country and as such entitled to an equality before the law with all other sections General Grant was elected to the Presi dency exclaiming, "Let us have peace But the cry has been a cheat and a delusion. There has been no peace for the helpless people of theSouth. They have longed for it and prayed for it, but it has not come. A worse form of war than marching columns has preyed upon them It has been a war of robbers, spies,_ and jailors. I say without fear of intelligent contradiction, that in all that goes to destroy the prosperity of a country and crash the welfare of its people, the ministration of public affairs in the South for the last three years has been the worst, the moat truly infernal, ever known in the history of a civilized people. It is a subject upon which I have bestowed an earnest attention and with which I have made myself familiar. During the last session of Congress I demonstated, from official proofs, that a system of plunder had been pursued under the protection and approval of the present Administration by which the entire eleven reconstructed

States of the Sooth had been impoverished and a majority of them made bankrupt. Debts and outstanding obligations amounting in the aggregate to at least five hundred millions of dollars have been fastened by official thieves on the taxpayers of that blighted region. For the pnrpoee of aiding in this wholesale robbery, by reducing, the Southern people to and submission while it was going on, it has been falsely assumed that they were in a lawless frame of mind and must be placed under laws as despotic and infamous as an Austrian edict against Hungary in lS49, or a British act of Parliament against' Ireland in tbe last century.

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lowers has been felt. It has been the money of the people or their lives and liberties and in a majority of the Slates, both. They have not only had their substance eaten out by adventurous scoundrels, but they have been deprived in their own persons of every American right. Their property is not only at tbe mercy of mercenary vagabonds, but, under the legislation of the past few years, any husband or father, wife or mother, son or daughter, in the entire South could be consigned indefinitely to prison on the mere suspicion of any brutal and depraved spy, whether white or black, there to lay without hope of speedy trial or release on bail until those who had deprived them of the benefits of the writ of habeas corpun

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turned them out or packed a jury for their conviction. While I recall and dwell upon these appalling crimes against liberty, and sgainst the common rights of humapity, I cannot wonder at the strong and bitter cry which comes up from the South for anybody to defeat there-election of the man who has inspired them, regarded them with grim and heartless satisfaction, and in many instances commit ted them himself. The man who i? drowning, or who sees his wife and child ren perishing in the flames must not be censured for adopting any method not criminal in itself, by which to save himself, or all that is dear to him, I have, therefore, listened with perfect patience to the voice of the South in this crisis, knowing as I do, her extreme and immediate necessities. Her urgent appeal for the nomination of Mr. Greeley has been regarded by her friends in the North almost as the last despairing cry of a brave and noble people reduced to & hopeless extremity, beholding as they think one more chance to save themseives from a

kind, and fraternal policy of government. If he did not do so after the confidence reposed in him by that section, he would be accursed amongst men. Let ns hope, however, with our Brethren in the South that the experiment may be a complete success that his election may banish misrule and plunder from their midst, restore peace in reality as well as in name, bring back a cheerful and contented devotion te the laws of the country, and a pride in the flag which affords an equal protection to all citizens. Let us hope that the deadly paralysis so long afflicting the South and destroying her vast productive energies may speedily be succeeded by perfect health and vigor. If our government is to be restored to its natural proportions and strength our States must be ns free in one section as in others. We must have no lines where freedom is halted by the bayonet on American soil. And when all are treated alike by the government they will all bear to it the same alligence whatever may have been the bloody struggles of the past. When this kind of a union of hearts in support of the government shall take place, having for its basis the principles of justice, liberty and equality, then will this nation rise like a strong man after sleep and go forth to new glories renewing the purity of its youth in conneri!"-

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Here the speaker attacked the foreign policy of the administration, after which uwke as follows: tion stained b? pr-uwrainst an administra* many of like criminality these and of the United States are now mustering under various organizations for «. Mnited assault. It does not follow that those \*v, think alike in regard to the necessity of its overthrow should think alike in regard te everything else. It is conceded jy men of various opinions to be a common obstacle to the general wel are and a a common reproach to the good name of the country. If a common nuisance was erected in a city, the residents would not stop to inquire into each other's views on all other questions before they would agree to unite for its abatement. They would leave them for subsequent discussion and settlement and prooced at once to destroy the cause of a general discomfort and sickness. So now we find men who are in favor of a high protective tariff and those who are against it as I am men who are for negro suffrage and those who are against it as I am men who are for immediate return to specie payment and those who are against it as I am men who believe in paying the bonds of the government in gold and those who believe in paying them according to the law of the contract, ai decided by the

Supreme Court of the United States, as I do: men who are in favor of exempting them from taxation, and those who ar opposed to such exemption, as I am men who believe that seventeen hundred national banks are necessary to furnish the feople a circulating medium of three hundred and fifty millions, at a cost of thirty per cent, to the tax-payers, and those who believe, as I do, that a currency can be furnished to the people without this enormous per cent. men who, in fact, differ widely upon nearly every political issue, earnestly agreeing that the first step towards good government and a general reform is to drive from power the present Administration and its corrupt surroundings. All Democrats join in such a work in strict consistency with the principles of their whole lives, and will welcome an alliance with all honorable men who espouse the same cause. In advocating this cause I shall abandon no principles on which I have heretofore obtained your support. Governor Morton has much to say about the alleged inconsistency of the Democratic party, and comments upon the expression that we have turned our backs upon the past.

In one sense, every man turns his back upon the past with the dawn of every new day and the incoming of its new duties and responsibilities. He who lives to accomplish the true work of life lives in the present and with his face to the future. However well bis work of yesterday is done, he cannot waste the remainder of his days in its contemplation, he mnst listen to the voices that bid him on, and obev tbe hands that beckon him forward. The Democracy, therefore, does not turn its back upon the past in repudiation of its record. It simply faces the future, and enters upon the new fields of action which have opened. If, bowever.it had turned its back upon the past, in the degrading sense ascribed to it by Governor Morton, it would not lay in his mouth tp uUer the reproach. I cannot recall a single polit ical isaue in the last eighteen yenrs, commencing with the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, in 1854, on which be has not occupied both sides with equal zeal with equal ability, and with equal abuse of his adversaries for the lime being. Since the war he has announced that a

State which tolerated negro suffrage and negro officials, would be an unfit place of residence for white people and would repel white immigration from its borders. He directly turned his back on that position and furiously assailed those who did not do the same. He espoused the payment of the bonds in greenbacks, to the extent that Morrill, of Vermont, told him in the Senate that he went- farther even than Pendleton on that subject. He very soon turned his back on that doctrine, and bowed lower at the golden shrine of Grant's administration than any one elee in all the land. He eulogized the treaty with England by which indirect damages were to be ebtained in the Alabama claims. He turned bis back on that, and was the leader of the Senatorial party which changed the treaty to suit

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offices in this State under his control ef the Federal patronage? Not soldiers or if here and there one has received an appointment, as in the case of Genera! Gresham, he has most likely not been, recommended by Morton. When I intro* duced a bill in Congress by which every crippled soldier as well as the widows and orphans of those who were killed in the service, should have one hundred and sixty acres of land without being reqnired to settle on and improve it, did Gov. ernor Morton lend the measure a he! ing hand? Able bodied American cit zens are entitled to so much land because they can work upon it. The worst sufferers by the war, the wounded soldier element in our midst, and those made widows and orphans, are deprived of this benefit on account of those very wounds and losses which have disabled them from farming, and have made their wants and their claims all the greater. Does not a

vently pray God their hopes may be realized and many a Northern man will suspend his differences with Mr. Greeley on account of the people of the South, who would not do so on his own. They believe the election of Mr. Greeley will afford them relief, and in that belief they demanded his nomination. It has been accorded more in deference to their condition and their wishes than to any other one cause. If Mr. Greelev under these circumstances, should be elected, he will stand pledged by the strongest obligations that ever. rested upon an honorable man to bestow publicjnan^turn ^his back upon the aolupon the South the blessings of a just,

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dier when he refuses to him in his crippled condition the same aid which i4 given by the government to the stalwart and robust men of the country who were not in the war at all. Again—has Gov* ernor Morton not turned his back, upon the soldier in refusing to assist in equalizing the bounties of tho early veterans with the amount received by those who served later in the war? It is a shameful fact that |he soldiers who served nearly three years of the war have received but three hundred dollars bounty, while those who served but little more than one year near its close have received a bounty of four hundred dollars for their services. Various efforts hsv& been made in Congress to place them all on an equality by paying the additional one hundred dollars to the veterans who are entitled, to it. A bill for this purpose has passed the House I believe three times, but has always been defeated in the Senate. Hen* ry Wilson, now candidate for Vice Presi«r dent, has all the time been Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs' and could have secured its passage. So could Morton if he had not turned his back upon the soldier and his face toward other subjects more plehsingand profitable to his ambition. I submit, therefore,that he is not the proper person to arraign me or any one else for turning away from the past. Tf gm ri-ftlentcd to Congress I shall pursue the same course nave heretofore, -1 only promising you greater industry in your service. In my attention to the wants of my constituents I know no party. If a Republican applies to me for assistance in his business lie will receive it sa readily as a Democrnt, without the slight-

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Mr. Voorhees was followed in the! afternoon by Hon. T. A. Hendricks, whose speech did not differ materially from that of his predecessor ho confined him-j self to giving reasons why the Demooracy should cordially support Mr. Gre«ley,j and also why they should vote for T. A.| Hendricks.

Col. Wm. E. McLean followed in hia| usual strain, declaring himself to be I "Liberal" Republican, &c., aftfr whiohj the meeting dispersed.

It is said by persons present \vho ar« posted in such matters, that this was byl far the best and most interesting Congressional convention ever held by the Democrats in this State. Leading m« of the party from all parts of the State were in attendance, and worked as'though deeply interested in the result

While the masses of the Democrat in this section are in favor of Greeley, a| against Grant, there area great many who declare that they will support him undel no consideration whatever. The attendance was about a thousand, and was very enl thuaiastic over tbe nomination of Voorl hees but was sparing of its cheers for till Presidential ticket. D.

MATERIAL PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. From Lippineott't Mnpatine.l

We are fond of laughing at the antil quarinn notions and slow progrtKft of "tti| Old Country," but somehow in these I ter days she seems to go pretty ahead, and as one of our eminent coun trymen observed, London has during th past half century gone on increasing witl the rspidity of a Western townahijf Whilst we talk about "rapid transit," tl old metropolis of England has railway running over and under her every^ dire tion, and there is no large city in world where ingress and egrese are easy. Then the postal arrangements almost perfect. Before we get the gred convenience, post-cards, they will be qnij an old institution in London, which tr ter only a few months followed the lei of Vienna, the original patentee in t|. national convenience. The rapid deli] ery of letters is greatly accelerated

London by the fact that nearly house in all tne respectable througout the town is suppled with a 1 into which the postman drops the lcfj and forthwith hurries on. Thisplfota very slightly adoped here, economy of time, men, and rob at if department. Almost every eayabiliauthorities of the poetoffice aiA/^™-* devise some new plan for poblitforf*. ence. A recent innovation is an a. It

graphic dispatch, about whose Uaiw». sion there is ho violent hurry, can put requisite stamps upon it ana drop it the nearest postoffice box, when it will] transmitted so soon as the box is openf a proceeding which takes place everv hour.

The last novel improvement of kind, reported, is a plan to ef ply fresh salt water to the metropolisfrj Brighton, a distance of 50 miles, so tia when in the heart of London, yotj jump out of bed into one of the ws which was a few days before rolling from America.' The water is to he« veyed by a serie-i of lifts to the Southdown Hill", whence It will through enamelled pipes to End of London, The supply, is ted at a million of gallons per