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8b 3Br|<nrg fHntate J. VAK SLTD, HOHXRBT, TT.T.TKTOI& CHE HEWS CONDENSED. THE BAST. MBS. 1"*" MCCARTY and. four children MRO badly burned by a kerosene-lamp explo­ sion at Ogdeneburg, N. J.. LA»t week. The mother AND one daughter hare died, and the other two children are In A precarious condition, R THE Beecher acandal is flikely to be'reopened. A commission has SJEEN agreed upon for proee- another investigation of the uiattMr, THE WW. Tax new directory of Chicago for 1876 shows • total of 159,389 names, an increase of 7,192 over 1875, and a gain in population of 25,172, according to the nsual rate of computation. This gives a population of 540.000, in round numbers William Aden, the brute who mur­ dered his wife, his step-daughter, and a Mrs. Benton, at Cleveland. Onio, was hung in that city last week.., .Sevew pri«oner» broke out of &h© penitentiary at Salt Lake, Utah, list week, after capturing the guard, securing all their guns, pistols, and ammunition, along with three homes, and escaped. Harrison Carter, acting as cook in the penitentiary, was fatally SHOT Disc®t?BAanre reports reach us regarding the ravages of the chinch bug and the Hessian fly in the wheat fields of Northwestern Illinois, Western Wisconsin, Northern Iowa and South­ ern Minnesota. THE distillers who had been oonvioted of and pleaded guilty to frauds against the Govern­ ment were sentenced at Chicago last week. A. C. Hesiug ieociveu two years in the county jail, and *5,000 fine; George T. Burroughs, . one Year and *8,000 ; O. B. Dickinson and Jon­ athan Abel, each three months in jail and $1,000 fine; Simon Powell, six months and $3,000; "Buffalo" Miller, the same; H. J. Pahlman, D. G. Bush, Philo P. Hutching and David Cochrane, each three months in jail and $1,000 fine; William Cooper, three months and $200--The 400th anniversary of the Battle of Morten, which gave to Switzerland her independence, was celebrated with enthusiasm by the Swiss and German population ^.Chicago, on Bunday last A WAGON-TBAIH from Gen. Crook's camp arrived at Fort Fettennan, last week bringing the wounded in the late engagement. They endured the trip well, and all are likely to re­ cover, Gen. Crook will make short excursions vnth the cavalry until the return of the train and infantry, when he will endeavor to strike the Sioux hard. ̂ THE SOUTH. EX-SECRETABT BBISTOW arrived at his home In Louisville one day last week, and in the evening an immense crowd of his friends and : neighbors called on him informally and gave him a hearty welcome to his old Kentucky home. The reception was participated in by men of all toartiea. " WASHINGTON. Air order kas been issued to the Secretary of War relieving Gen. Schofield from the oom- fwmrt of the Military Division of the Pacific. and, assigning him to the command of the West Point Military Academy, relieving Col. Eager. Gen. McDowell will take command of the Military Division of the Pacific. The Di- tlsion of the South will be discontinued. The Department, of the South will be under the command of Col. Roger. THE Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate has served some twenty-five snbpanas on persons in Washington to appear as witnesses for the defense of Gen. Belknap., Among the number are Mr. Biggs, the banker* several army offi­ cers, and a number of private citizens, who will be asked by Belknap's counsel to testify in his favor. The subpoenas for persons at a distance from Washington have not been served, and most of them probably will not be served until after the trial begins. THE President has nominated Henry P. McOcrmick United States District Attorney for the Wastern District of Pennsylvania, and C. Waters for United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. THK President issued the following procla­ mation'on the 26th alt.: The Centennial anniversary ct His day on which the people of the United States declared their right to a separate and equal station among the powers of the earth seems to demand an exceptional observa­ tion. The founders of the Government at its birth and in its feebleness invoked the blessings sad pro­ tection of a Divine^Provldsnce, and the thirteen colo­ nies and 3,000,000 oi people have expanded to a nation of strength and numbers commanding a position which then was asserted, and for which fervent prayers were then offered. It seems fitting that on the occurrence of the one-hundredth an­ niversary of our existence as a nation a grateful acknowledgment be made to Almighty Gcd for the protection and bounties which He has vouchsafed . t~s our beloved country. I therefore invite the good people of the United States on the approach­ ing 4th day of July, in addition to the usual ob­ servances with which they are aeeustumeu to greet the return of the day, further, in such manner and at such time as in their respective localities re­ ligious associations may find it most convenient, to mark its recurrence by some public religions and devout thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bless­ ings which have been bestowed upon iia as a nation during the centenary of oar existence, and humbly to invoke a continuance of His favor, and of His protection. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to I e af­ fixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 26th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1878, and of the in­ dependence of the United States of America the one hundredth. (Signed) U. S. GRANT. A WASHINGTON dispatch says: " When Earl Derby makes an explanation of the reasons why the British Government adhered to its de­ mand that the United States must guarantee tnat Winslow should only be tried for the offense on which his extradition wad baaed, it is said in diplomatic circles the main reason will be shown to be the desire to perpetuate peace and good will between Kngri&iirt il±i> United States." THE vacancy in the United States Treasurer- ship, caused by the resignation of Mr. New, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. A. N. Wyman, the present Assistant Treasurer. GENERAL. week, Dr. Durham presiding--Edward Prick- ett, the champion sculler of Australia, has de­ feated Joseph H. Sadler, the champion of Eng­ land, in a sculling race for the '•ha.T îr"jflhW •MS and of the Humwi i f1,000. ROUFIOAL TBHE Republicans of Maine, at the State Con­ vention last week, nominated Gov, Connor for re-election to the gubernatorial chair, and adopted a resolution strongly indorsing Sir. Blaine, and recommending him as the succes­ sor of Mr. Morrill in the United States Senate. The President has nominated William J. Hoppin, of New York, to be Secretary of Le- fation at London ; James lJav, of New Jersey, econd Secretary; George P. Fisher, United States Attorney for Delaware. THE Vermont Republicans have nominated Horaoe Fairbanks, the Maka man, lor Gov­ ernor. ' VOBHUH. Tint news from Turkey again causes fears that war will break out between Servia and Turkey. Southern Hungary is famishing sol­ diers for the Servian army....The English press RIH! Parliament are sorely worried about the .extradition treaty. SEVENTEEN persons were killed and thirty- seven injured by a railway accident between S&ragassa and Barcelona, Spain, a few days ago. THK news from Mexico indicates clearly the approaching defeat of the revolutionary ex­ periment of Gen. Porfino 'Diaz, and the tri­ umph of order and of President Lerdo de Tejada in the election which will be held on the 10th of July next A Berlin dispatch to the London Times says the St. Petersburg Gains, a Ministerial organ, threatens that Russia will set all Europe in a blaze to prevent the subjection of kindred tribes in the coming strife... .The Durham (England) colliers, by a vote of 20,000 to 16,000. have accepted an ar­ bitration in the question of wages.... Foreign advices report that the Powers are exerting some pressure to check the hostile movements of Servia.... London dispatches -assert the exist­ ence of a serious disagreement in the Cabinet on the Eastern question. Lord Derby is report­ ed to be dissatisfied with Disraeli's policy, and is supported by the Chanoeilor of the Exche­ quer. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. ffcTBOKOS-GEKXEAL Barnes has thoroughly examined Mr. Blaine's case, and finds him suf­ fering from extreme nervous exhaustion and from severe malarial poisoning. These fea­ tures of his ease axe complicated somewhat •with threatened organic troubles, and Gen. Barnes prescribes absolute rest for aeveial weeks as the indispensable condition of averting very serious consequences, and he orders that rest be taken in some invigorating air on the aea-shore or mountains Speaker Kerr has goto to the Rockbridge Alum Spr ings, Va. Ita mystery about the famous "Fawp" tele- grain to Caldwell, in London, dictating the Blaine exculpatory dispatch that was cabled to the Judiciary Committee, is at last partially cleared up. A young man named Ke<M, a former clerk of Caldwell, acknowledges the authorship. He does not know,, however, how Mr. Blaine learned that the Judiciary Commit­ tee-had received the dispatch. EDWARDS PIEBUEPON r, the new Minister to ttngUnd, sailed from New York for bis post last week. . . SEVEN members of the Indiana whisky ring have been pardoned out of the Penitentiary by the Preeident Bishop George D. Cum­ mins, of the Reformed Episcopal Church, died at his residence at Luthervilie, near Bal­ timore, last week. A WORLD'S convention of homeopathic phy­ sicians was in session at Philadelphia 1M* THURSDAY, June 22.--Senate.--The Naval Appropriation bill was passed. The increase made by the Senate over the House bill is $3,685,000, a de­ crease from the bill of last year of $896,000. An amendment was adopted intended to prohibit the employment of large forces of laborers in the navy- yards for political purposes, by forbidding any increase of the working force just before Presi­ dential or Congressional elections except when the Secretary shall publicly make certificate that the needs of the service demand such increase. House.--The House devoted the «ntire day, and a long night session, to the Sundry Civil Appropria­ tion bill. Aa amendment was adopted, repealing the law providing for the registration of voters in large cities in national elections. FRIDAY, June 23.--Senate.--'The Senate dis­ cussed throughout the day, and passed, the bill to amend the Enforcement act. The object of the present bill is to cure the defects in the original act pointed ont by the decisions of the United States Supreme Court la the Grant parish (La.) and Ken­ tucky cases. Rouse.--The House devoted the entire day, aa well as evening session, to the Sunday Civil Ap­ propriation bill. SATURDAY, June 2i--Senate.--Allison, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported with amendments the House bill making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year end­ ing June 30,1877. The bill, as reported, strikes out all the new legislation relating to salaries in­ corporated to the House bill, and. makes the ap­ propriation for the present force of the army, 25,000 men, instead of the reductions of the House bill.... After the transaction of some business of an unimportant nature, the Senate went into executive session, and soon after adjourned. House.--The House waa in session nearly the whole of Friday night, discussing the amendments to the Poatoffice Appropriation bill. The members assembled at noon to-day, and, in the absence of the Speaker pro "tern. (Cox), elected Sayler temporary Speaker, and immediately after adjourned. MONDAY, June 26.--Senate.--Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the House bill to equalize bounties of soldiers in the late war for the Union. The bill is amended by striking out from the list of beneficiaries all Bailors and marines, slaves and Indians, and also by omit­ ting the requirement that bounties received under a State law shall be deducted from the total of $8.72 for each month of service provided by the bill The Army Appropriation bill was passed, as amend­ ed by the Senate committee. It strikes out the first eight sections of the House bill, reducing and reorganizing the army, and most of the other amendments are supplementary to this. The bill increases the appropriation about $3,000,000 over the House bill, and follows quite closely the revised estimates of Secretary Taft. It is $1,000,000 leu than the bill of last year. Bouse.--The House passed the bill authorizing the construction of a pontoon-bridge across the Mississippi from LaOrosse to Houston county, Minn.... Easson introduced a joint resolution pro­ viding that, when the two Houses adjourn on Sat­ urday, the 1st of July, it shall be to meet on Tuesday, July 4, at Independence Hall, rhiiadejphia, there to consider a joint resolution commemorative of the Centennial anniversary of American independence Neal introduced a bill to repeal the Resumption act, and called for the previous question. The House refused to second the call by a vote of 77 to 100 An effort was made to pass the President's resolution continuing the current appropriations into the next fiscal year, and until the regular appropriation bills are passed, but the motion was defeated--55 to 112--The bill for the relief of Edward O'M. Condon was passed. TUESDAY, June 27.--Senate.--The Senate voted to insist upon its amendments to the Legisla­ tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and a new conference committee was appointed A long report from the Secretary of the Treasury showing the amount of balances due the Govern­ ment from public officers, since 1836, was laid on the table and a condensation ordered printed. .. Logan reported from the Committee on Military Affairs the House joint resolution to authorize the issue of arms, etc., with amendments which provide that the number of arms issued to any State mentioned shall not exceed 1,000, i.nd to any Territory the number shall not exceed 500. The resolution was passed. House.--The bill in regard to the sale of spiritu­ ous liquor in the Indian Territory waa passed; also the bill providing for the sale of the Cherokee strip of land in Kansas The committee appoint­ ed at the request of Mr. Adams, Clerk of the House, to investigate the published charge against him, unanimously reported that in no instance did he, directly or indirectly, receive pecuniary or other consideration for any appointment made by him. WEDNESDAY, Jane 28.--Senate.--After pass­ ing the House bill for the sale of the Kansas Indian lands, in Kansas, to actual settlers, the Senate re­ sumed the ccnsideration of the House bill for the issue of coin, and the substitute therefor proposed by the Senate Committee on Finance. House.--The Senate amendments to the Army Appropriation bill were non-concurred in. The Speaker appointed, as a committee of conference, Atkino, Randall and Hurlbut....Payne, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported tack the amendments to the Silver Coin bill, rec­ ommended a concurrence in them, and moved the previous question. The amendments were non- concurred in. Duelling In Germany. There ore two sorts of justice for duel­ ists in Germany, one for the military and one for civilians. Sometimes this dis­ tinction is made very conspicuous, as, for instance, in a Berlin newspaper the other day. Two paragraphs, one after the other, record respectively that a lieu­ tenant having recovered from the wound received in a duel from a comrade, has just. resumed duty, and that a certain civilian, Von Kiel, has been sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment for send­ ing a chalenge, which was not accepted. It will be remembered that the Emperor, by an order, expressly authorized duel­ ing for the officers of the army. THE Rev. Talmage has been going for summer watering places. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVEN­ TION. The Democratic National OonTention, for the nomination of candidate. for President and Vice President, assembled in Dm Chamber of Commerce, in the city of St, Louis, at noon on Tuesday, the 27 th of June. The convention was called to order by Augustus Bchell, of New York, upon whose motion Hemy Waiterson, editor of the Louinville Courier-Journal, waa made temporary Chairman by a unanimous vote. Mr. Watte rson delivered a brief address upon taking the chair, at the oonelusion of which Bishop Marvin invoked the Divine bless- ifhe Chair, after naming Frederick O, Prince, of Massachusetts, as temporary Secre­ tary, and T. O. Walker, of Iowa, and T. K. Doniphan, of Ohio, as Assistant Secretaries, tumuuiiceu ilie convention ready for business. Mr Abbott, of Massachusetts, offered a reso­ lution that the rules of the last National Dem­ ocratic Convention govern this body until otherwise ordered. After some discussion the resolution was adopted. Mir, Bmallev, of Vermont, offered a resolu­ tion for a call of the States for the announce­ ment of committees on permanent organiza­ tion and on credentials. Agreed to, and the call proceeded, with the following result: Alabama, LORR.Y P. WALKER 1 Aviaviaas, 'L. V. Man- gum; California, John 8. Hagor; Colorado, F. J. Marshall; Connecticut, R. D. Hubbard; Dela­ ware, George Gray; Florida, John Wcatcott; Geor- ?;ia, C. P. Howell; Illinois, John A. McOleinand; ndlana, D. W. Voorheee; Iowa, H. H. Trimble; Missouri, Thomas L. Davis; Kentucky, Alrin Duvs.LL; Louisiana, P. H. Mann; Maine, D. K. Hastings; Maryland, George Freaner; Massa­ chusetts, Edward Avery; Michigan, William L. Bancroft; Minnesota, Daniel Bucke ; Mississippi, A. M. Clayton; Missouri, C. H. Hardin; Nebraska, George L. Mellon; Nevada, A. C. Ellis; New Hampshire, E. C. Bailey; New Jersey, 3, W. Gates; New Tort, William Dorsheimer; North Carolina, Thomas L. Clingman; Ohio, Gen. Thomas Ewing; Oregon, M. V. Brown; Pennsylvania, Montcalm Hay: Rhode Island, William B. Bead; South Carolina, Samuel McGowan; Tennessee, John ft. Brown: Texas. Ashbel Smith; Vermont. JameR H. Williams; Virginia, John A. Meredith; West Virginia, John J. Davis; Wisconsin, Alexan­ der Mitchell. The Chair announced that delegates from the National Woman's Suffrage Association were present, asking for a hearing, *nd ap­ pointed a committee to esoort the ladieb to the platform. Miss Phoebe Couzine, on behalf of the dele­ gation, then addressed the convention with much self-possession, but her voice was too weak to be heard many feet distant. She re­ ferred to "this Centennial leap-year;" said it was in order not only for woman to make pro­ posals, but to have them accepted. If the Democratic party wanted to live long, she warned them to hear woman's prayer, to heed the voice of inspiration, which says, "It is not good for man to be alone," and take women into this political association as a matter of eternal justice and sound policy. She concluded by presenting resolutions of the Woman's-Suffrage Associa­ tion, which, on motion of Mr. McClernand, of Illinois, were referred to' the Committee on Resolutions for respectful consideration. Mr. Miller, of Nebraska, presented a petition from citizens of Omaha, asking that a plank be incorporated in the platform demanding the extension of the Presidential term to six years, and the restriction of the incumbent to one term. Beferred to the Committee on Resolu­ tions. Mr. Hayes, of Illinois, offered a serieB of resolutions declaring, among other things, op­ position to a further increase of the public debt and of demand notes of Ike Government, and demanding the repeal of the Resumption law of 1872. Referred to the Committee on Resolutions. The convention thereupon took a recess un- 5 o'elock. ^ Upon reassembling, the Committee on Cre­ dentials, through their Chairman, made the following report: Your Committee on Credentials would respect­ fully report that there are no contested seats, that the States are fully represented, and that the dele­ gates reported by the Chairmen of the respective delegations to this convention are entitled to setts from theii respective States. Bespectfnlta^qtaMk tad, 4 J AS. tnavrnet, Chairman of the Committee. Mr. Finch, of Iowa, offered a resolution to give the Territories representation In the con­ vention as States. A delegate from Maryland moved to amend the report so as to give the District of Colum­ bia representation In the convention, with the r i g h t t o v o t e . . . . This was mad© to Include the Territories, and the report was then adopted. Mr. Hanna, of Missouri, from the Committee on Permanent Organization, made the follow­ ing report s MB. CHAIRHAH : In behalf of the Committee on Permanent Organization, I have the honor to sub­ mit the following report of officers for this conven­ tion : For Permanent President, Mr. John A. Mc­ Clernand, of Illinois; for Vice Presidents and Secretaries, one from each State. The temporary Secretaries, with Mr. Prince, of Boston, as chief, were continued aa the working Secretaries, and Sergeant-at-Arms Able was also reappointed. D. W. Voorheee, of Indiana, Manton Marble, of New York, and Thomas 8. Bocock, of Vir­ ginia, having been designated by the Chair for that duty, escorted Gen. McClernand to the platform. After a brief address he assumed the chair as pensisaisnt Prssiussi of the "OB- vention. The Committee on Organization alsffrecom- mended that the rules and regulations of the National Democratic Convention of 1872 be adopted by this couvention for the government of the proceedings. This waa agreed to, and the report adopted. On motion of Mr. Williams, the convention adjourned until 11 o'clock Wednesday. SECOND DAY. President McClernand called the convention to order five minutes after 10 o'clock, introduc­ ing Father Brady, of St. Louis, who offered prayer. Mr. Young, of Geergia, offered a resolution that " the convention indorsee the reform in­ augurated by the House of Representatives in cutting down appropriations, approving their investigations of fraud, and congratulating the country on bringing public criminals to justice." , The Chair decided that the resolution must go to the Committee on the Platform. Mr. Cox, of New York, offered a resolution •w the will of the people for retrenchment, as expressed in the Appropriation. bills, i- and ought to be sustained. Referred to the Plat­ form Committee. Mr. Kelly, of New York, at the request of some New York delegates, presented a paper signed by many eminent gentlemen who are opposing the nomination of Gov. Tilden. [Ap­ plause and hisses.] Mr. Jacobs, of New York, made a point of order that this was ont of or­ der. Tne Chair so decided. Mr. McLane moved that the convention then proceed at once to ballot. Mr. Woodson, of Missouri, offered an amend­ ment, that the convention will not ballot until after action on the report of the Committee on Resolutions. Mr. Abbott, of Massachusetts, moved to amend the amendment by a substitute ordering the roll of States to be called for nominations, and then pruceed to ballot. Jfr. Wallace moved to lay the entire subject on the table. Mr. McLane accepted Mr. Abbott's amend­ ment, which was again read. Loud cries of "No" greeted its proposition that the declara­ tion of a State's vote by the Chairman of any delegation shall alone be accepted. Mr. Wallace asked what would be the condi­ tion if a motion to table failed. The Chair replied that the convention would then come to a vote on the amendments. The Chair here announced that the Commit­ tee on Resolutions was ready to report. The request for a call of the States waa with­ drawn without taking a vote. The Chair recognized Mr. Meredith, the Chairman of the Committee on Platform, who said they had agreed on the resolutions, but had referred them to a Committee on Revision, and are to meet again at 1 o'clock. Mr. Kernan moved a recess until 2 o'clock this afternoon. Carried. During the recess speeches were delivered by Roger A. Pryor, of New York; Mr. Breckin­ ridge, of Kentucky; ex-Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, and B. Gratis Brown, of Missouri. The convention was called to order at 2:15, 1 Judge Meredith, of Virginia, the Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, presented his report. He stated that a great many reso­ lutions were presented, all of which had been carefully examined and discussed before com­ ing to agreement. He then requested Mr. Dorsheimor. of New York, to read it to the convention It was WS follow*: We the delegates of the Democratic party of the United States, in N»tion»a Convention assembled, do hereby declare the administration of the Federal Government to be in an urgent need of immediate reform, aud we do hereby enjoin upon th» nomi­ nees of this convention, and of the Democratic party in each State, a zealous effort and co-opera­ tion to this end, and do hereby appeal to oui fel- low-citizens of every former political connection to undertake with us this first and most pressing pat­ riotic d*ty. . .. . , . . For the Democracy of the whole country, we do here* reaffirm our faith in the permanence of the Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitution of the United States, with its amendments, universally acoepted as a final settlement of the controversies that engendered civil war, and do here record our steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of republican self-Rovernment; in an absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority, the vital principle of the republic; in the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; in the total separation of church and state, for the sake alike of civil and religious freedom; in the equality of all citizens before the lust laws of their own enactment; in the liberty ©f individual conduct by sumptuary laws; in the faithful education of the ris­ ing generation, that they may preserve, enjoy and transmit these best conditions of human happiness and hope, we behold the noblest product of a hundred years of changeful history; but while upholding the bond of our Union and the great I'.harter of these our rights, it behooves a free people to practice, also, that eternal vigilance which is the ^^form^iR^necespai-y to rebuild and establish in the hearts of the whole people of the Union, eleven years ago happilv rescued from the danger of a se­ cession of States, but now to be saved from a cor­ rupt centralism, which, after inflicting upon ten States the rapacity of carpet-bag tyrannies, has hon­ ey-combed the offices of the Federal Government Itself with incapacity, waste and fraud, infected States and municipalities with the contagion of misrule, and Joeked fast the prosperity of an indus­ trious people in the paralysis of hard times. Reform is necessary to establish a sound currency, restore the public credit, and maintain the national honor. We denounce the failure for all these eleven years to make good the promise of the legal-tender notes, which are a changing standard of value in the handB of the people, and the non-payment of which is a disregard of the plighted faith of the nation. We denounce the improvidence which in eleven years of peace has taken from the people in Fed­ eral taxes thirteen times the whole amount of the legal-tender notes, and squandered four times this sum in useless expense, without accumulating any reserve for their redemption. We denounce the financial imbecility and immo­ rality of that party which during eleven years of peace has made no advance toward resumption, and no preparation for resumption, but, instead, has obstructed resumption by wasting our resources and exhausting all our surplus income, and, while annually professing to intend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hin­ drances thereto. As such a hindranoe we denounce the resumption clause of the act of 1875, and we here demand its repeal. We demand a judicious system of preparation by public economies, by official retrenchment, and by finance which shall enable the nation soon to assure the whole fworld of its perfect ability and its perfect readmess to meet any of its promises at the call of the creditor entitled to pay­ ment. We believe such a system, well-devised, and above all intrusted to competent hands for execu­ tion, creating at no time an artificial currency, and at no time alarming the public mind into a with­ drawal of that vaster machinery of credit by which 96 per cent, of all business transactions are per­ formed--a system open to the public, and inspir­ ing general confidence--would, from the day of its adoption, bring healing on Its wings to all our harassed industries, set in motion the wheels of commerce, manufactures and the mechanical arts, restore employment to labor, and renew in all its national, sources the prosperity of tne people. Reform is necessary in the sum and mode of Fed­ eral taxation, to the end that capital may be set free from distrust, and labor lightly burdened. We denounce the present tariff levies upon nearly 4,010 articles as a masterpiece of injustice, in­ equality and false practice. It yields a dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few. It prohibits imports that might purchase the products of Amer­ ican labor. It has degraded American commerce, from the first, to an inferior rank upon the high seas. It has cut down the sales of American manufactures at home and abroad, and depleted the returns of American agriculture, an industry followed by half our people. It costs the people five times more than it produces to the treasury, obstructs the process of production and wastes the fruits of labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest officials and bankrupts honest merchants. JVe demand Chat all Custom House taxation shall be only for revenue. Reform is necessary in the scale of public ex­ pense, Federal, State and municipal. Our Federal taxation has swollen from $60,800,000 in gold in 1880, to $450,000,000 in currency in 1870; our aggregate taxation from $154,000,000 in gold in 1880, to $730,- 000,000 in currency in 1870, or, in one decade, frog less than $5 per head to more than *18 per head. Since the peace, the people have paid to their tax- gatherers more than thrice the sum of the national debt, and more than twice that sum for the federal Government alone. We demand a rigorous fru­ gality in every department and from every officer of the Government. Reform is necessary to put a stop to the profligate waste of the public lands, and their diversion from actual settlers by the party in power, which has squandered • 200,000,000 of acres upon railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth directly to tillers of the soil. Reform is necessary to correct the omissions of a Republican Congress and the errors of our treaties and our diplomacy, which have stripped our fellow- citizens of foreign birth and kindred race, recross- ing the Atlantic, of the shield of American citizen­ ship, and have exposed our brethren of the Pacific coast to the incursions of a race not sprung from the same great parent stock, and, in fact, now lately denied citizenship through naturaliz­ ation as being neither accustomed to the traditions of a progressive civilization, nor exercised in liberty under equal laws. We denounce the policy which thui, discards the liberty-loving German and tole­ rates the revival of the coolie trade in Mongolian women, inported for immoral purposes, and Mongo­ lian men, held to perform servile labor-contracts,and demand such a modification of (he treaty with the Chinese Empire, or such legislation by Congress within constitutional limitation, aa shall prevent the farther importation or immigration or the Mon­ golian race. Reform is necessary, and can be effected only by making it the controlling issue of the elections ana lifting it above the two false issues with which the offliceholding class and the party in power seek to shackle it: the false issue with which they would enkindle sectarian strife in respect to the public schools of which the establishment and support be­ long exclusively to the several States, and which the Democratic party has cherished from its founda­ tion and is resolved to maintain without partiality or preference for any class, sect or ci;eed, and with­ out contributing from the treasury; the false issue by which they seek to light anew the dying embers of sectional hate between kindred peoples, once un- nKturallv estranged, but now reunited in one indi- JrfBible republic and a common destiny. Reform is necessary in the civil service. Expe­ rience proves that the efficient, economical conduct of the Governmental business is not possible if its civil service be subject to change at every election; if it be a price fought for at the ballot-box; if it be a brief reward of party zeal instead of a post of honor assigned for proved comDetency, and held for fidelity ln.tlie public em- nlov • that the dispensing of patronage should neither be a tax upon the time of all our public men nor the instrument of their ambition. Here, &Min professions falsified in the performance at­ test that the party in power can work out no prac­ tical or salutary reform. Reform is necessary even more in the higher mides of the public service. The President, Vice pwiairlpnt Judces, Senators, Representatives, Cabi- nS officers these and all othsrs in authority are the neoule's servants; their offices are not a private nernuiX; they are a public trust. When the £ntmlfi of this Republic Bhow the disgrace and cen- of a vice President, a late Speaker of the House of Remesentatives marketing his rulings as a pre- Bidine officer, three Senators profiting secretly by as lawmakers, five Chairmen of the leading committees o^ the late House of Ttenresentatives exposed in jobbery, a late Secretary the Treasury forcing balances in the public ac­ counts, a late Attorney GeneralI misappropriating the miblic funds, a Secretary of the Navy enriching Ss friends by percentages leviedI off the profitiiof tor>, with his department, an Ambassador tZ Fncland censured in a dishonorable speculation, tte /roBiS Secretary barely escaping _f „nnT1 his trial for guilty complicity mDf?auds upon the revenue, a Secretary of War 1 fnr Mull crimes and confessed mis- impeadMd demonstration is complete that lest the disease of one political organization infect ttie body Politic,"and lest, by making no changeof menor party, we can get no change of measures wd no reform. All these abuses wrongs and crime., t h e p r o d u c t o f 8 i x t e e n y e a r s ' < « t h e Republican party, create tho^ selves-C buiTtheir reformers are voted down in con- ventton. and displaced from the Cabinet; the party's mass of honest voters is powerless to resist the 80,- 000 officers it leaders and guides. Reform can only ^hld by a peaceful civic revolution. We demand achange of system, a change of administration, a ehange of parties, that we may have a change of measures and of men. _ . .. ,. . At the conclusion, Mr. Doraheimer said that the committee had adopted and indorsed, though not m * pert o f the platform, a resolu­ tion which he read, indorsing the action of the House of Representatives in cutting down ap­ propriation H and exhorting to firmness ; also a resolution aa to the just claims of the sol­ diers, sailors, widows and orphans. Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, took the platform. He said that at the request of several members of the committee he presented the minority re­ port, recommending striking out the *<?!!OTRING clause in the majority, to-wit; "As such a hin­ drance, wo denounce the resumption clause of the set of 1875, and WE DEMAND its re­ peal." He proposed to substitute therefor the following words: "The law for the resump­ tion of specie payment on the 1st of January, 1879, having been enacted by the Re­ publican party, without deliberation in Congress, and without discus • sion before the people, and being both ineffectual to secure its object, and highly inju­ rious to the business of the country, should be forthwith repealed." Mr. Ewing moved, and Mr. Eaton, of Kansas, seconded, THFTT the amendment thus suggested fee made. Mr. Ewing proceeded to state his objections to the clause proposed to be Btricken out. Mr Dorsheimer, of New York, spoke in favor of the majority report. Hesaid: " I propose here to make a straight iwiue between soft and hard money. By that we stand or we fall. If you want soft money give your votes to the resolution offered by the most distinguished advocate of soft money in the United States ; but if you want to leave to the hard-money men some chancc tc Cany &h@ir States, then stand by the report of the committee, which wae a compromise so great that a protest has been sent here signed by every one of the Eastern Democratic States, and to which I have put nay own sign&tme. This is a middle ground which does leave some hope ; hut if you decSar®, in the language of the gentleman from Ohio (Gen, Ewing), for a repeal forthwith, then abandon all hope. I make this issue fair. As 1 said, we will stand to that, and now, Mr. President, I demand a vote by the States." Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, supported the minority report. \44 My friends, said he, " Something was mid by the gentleman from New York about the effect on his State and other States. I stand here surrounded by ten States who have a right to be heard on this subject. West Virginia, Ohio, ray own gnllant Democratic State of Indiana; Missouri, on whose bosom we are holding the Convention; Tennessee, that contains the Hermitage and the ashes of Jackson and Polk; Iowa and Kansas ; are they not to be considered ? Do they amount to nothing ? I will say, with all respect to the gentleman from New York, who has just sat down, that we have followed the lead of New York for twelve long years, and each time to disaster, and I for one assert the West--the mighty West, with its teemin I popu­ lation--I assert the power of the Mississippi valley,* with its mighty interests and its great resources." Mr. Watterson, of Kentucky, made a concili­ atory speech, and succeeded, to some extent, in pouring oil upon the troubled waters. He closed by moving the previous question--the amendment of Mr. Ewing. Amid much excite­ ment and confusion the roll was called, and showed 219 yeas to 550 nays. The call of the roll was next proceeded with on the adoption of the platform. The an­ nouncement of the vote--yeas 651, nays 88-- was loudly applauded. / On motion of * Mr. McLean, of Maryland, the convention proceeded to nominate a can­ didate for President. Mr. Whitsiy presented the name of Thomas Francis Bayard, of Delaware. . James 11. Williams nominated Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana. Mr. Abbott nominated Joel Parker, of New Jersey. Senator Kernan nominated Samuel J. Tilden, of New York. Mr. Ewing nominated William Allen, of Ohio. Mr. Clymer nominated Winfleld S. Hancock, of Pennsylvania. The Secretary then called the roll of the States for the first ballot, with the following result: Alabama Arkansas........ California Colorado........ Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia.......... Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas. ........ Kentucky Louisiana. Maine Maryland Massachusetts,.. Michigan Minnesota....... Mississippi Missouri. Nebraska Nevada.... New Hampshire.. New Jersey New York....... North Carolina.. Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania.... Rhode Island.... Soutli Carolina . Tennessee Texas. Vermont......... Virginia West Virginia.... Wisconsin 8 14 ioji 10 17 "i»" 17 34 Vi "i" i" Totals 403)6 183# 3 98 88 56 18 19 £ 44 10 18 Before the announcement of the result of the ballot, Missouri changed her vote to 16 for Tilden and 14 fer Hendricks. The clerk thin announced the vote, as follows: Whole number of votes oast 788 Necessary to a choice 498 8. J. Tilden reoeived 417# Thomas J. Hendricks.... 140# Bayard 38 Allen Hancock J® Parker.... 18 A second ballot was proceeded with amid much excitement, with tne followin g result: Alabama ........ Arkansas........ California....... Colorado Connecticut Delaware...... Florida.. Georgia ...." Illinois. Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts... Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire. New Jersey New York North Carolina... Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania..'.. Rhode Island.... South Carolina.. Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia.... Wisconsin Several delegates-" I move to make the nomination unanimous. . Mr Wallace, of Pennsylvania--Pursuant to the orders of the Pennsylvania delegation I movo to T""k« the nomination of Mr. Tilden unanimous, and as the second State in the Union, although we should have preferred one born on our soil, * still she will not slack one nerve nor weaken one effort for the success of the of this Convention, and when the ides of November come we feel assured that victory will crown our banner# with suooess. Mr. Abbott, from New Jersey, desired that the nomination of Tildsn be made ' 8 And I will tell this Convention this: that as we have stood by Joel Parker be­ fore tide nomination was made, so with the same energy AM! the same fire WE will stand bv Samuel J. Tilden [krad cheers], and although New Jersey has had no voice in the nominee she will nave nino vutea in the Electoral CWL lege for Samuel J. Tilden." A delegate from Tennessee--"In behalf of the delegation from Tennessee--whose votes have been cast against the voioe of this Convention. V*IU give her electoral vote FAR Mr. TsMcn, • • A delegate from Virginia--" I am the man from Virginia who EAST the one vote against Tilden. I move to make the nomination unani- mous. I will take off my coat and work for him. [Ixrad cheers.] The question was pnt and Tilden declared tne unanimous choice of tho convention AA the Democratic party of the United States! The convention thereupon adjourned Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. THIRD DAY. The convention met at 10 o'clock,* and WAS called to order by the President. The first order of business being the nomi­ nation of a candidate for Vice President, an Illinois delegate proposed the name of Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana. No other proposed, the roll of States was proceeded with. Mr. Hendricks received 780 votes; blank, 8. On motion, &he nomination was declared unanimous. After the announcement of the N '̂TNAL Committee, the adoption of the "*"*1 RSGTOTO- tions of thanks, etc., the convention adjourned sine die. Presidential Votes. " v.'V. The following table shows the ROTE for the different candidates for President since the formation of the Government: Popular Electoral Year. Candidates. vote. vote. 1789--George Washington.. Unanimous 1796--JOHN ADAMS 71 THOMAS JEFFERSON.... QG - < 1800--THOMAS JEFFERSON. . . . 7# AARON BURR. . . . . . . . . . 78 JOIIN ADAMS IF 1804--THOMAS JEFFERSON. . . . 148 \I O. C. PLNCKNEY. 28 1808--JAMES MADISON. . . . . . M C. C. PINCKNEY 47 1813--JAMES MADISON 138 DE WITT CLINTON. . . . . . 89 1816--JAMES MONROE. . . . . . . IG) BufusKing 84 / 1890--James Monroe .But one electoral rate in opposition. 106,821 84 99. . 41 / 37 178 T il d en . H a 1 H an co ck .. . A ll en . 1 1 P ar ke r | | B 20 .... .... .... 12 • •••• • ••• .... .... 12 .... .... .... . . . . 12 > • • t .... .... .... 6 0 .... .... 8 .... 15 • ••• .... V .... 26 ie 30 .... • ••• 30 . MM .... *2 .... ' 2 8 ...» .... .... . . . . 24 16 .... .... 14 • ••• .... 14 9 • ••• .... 26 .... • ••• .... 19 *> .... 10 .... .... .... 16 « . . . • ••• .... • ••• .... 30 . . « « . . . .... 6 4 :::: . . . . "3 10 -- • • 18 .... 70 .... .... .... .... 20 • • • • • "u ...• .... 20 "u ... 58 .... .... .... 8 .... .... .... 14 "di" .... .... .... 16 ... 10 . •••• .... .... 17 1 4 17 10 19 19 . •< - ' • ••• •-- -- 508 76 60 54 11 18 2 1824--John Q. Adams...... Andrew Jackson...,. W. H. Crawford.^.... Henry Clay........... 1828--Andrew Jackson 155,872 44,282 46,687 647,281 509,097 687,602 530,189 John Q. Adams 1882--Andrew Jackson Henry Clay John Floyd Wm. Wirt 1836--Martin Van Buren... 761,549 Wm. H. Harrison.... 736,686 1840--Wm. H. Harrison.... 1,275,011 Martin Van Buren... 1,135,761 1844--James K. Polk..;.;.. 1,337,248 Henry Clay., 1,361,362 1848--Zacliary Taylor 1,360,099 Lewis Cass 1,220,544 Martin Van Buren... 291,268 1852--Franklin Pierce 1,601,474 Winfleld Scott.. 1,542,408 1856--James Buchanan.... 1,838,169 John C. Fremont.... 2,215,798 1860--Abraham Lincoln.... 1,866,852 All others 2,810,501 1864--Abraham Lincoln 2,216,067 Geo. B, McClellan.... 1,808,725 1868--Ulysses 8. Grant 8,015,071 Horatio Seymour..... 2,709,618 1872--Ulysses B. Grant 3,597,OTP suu Horace Greeley...... 2,834,079 66 The electoral votes to which each State is now entitled are tabled as below: 88 219 49 } 11 * ' 7 170 121 284 60 170 105 168 127 254 ! 42 174 122 180 128 318 I 31 314 88 .. » . . IS .. s .. • Delaware 3 New Jersey . . » Florida. 4 New York .. as 11 lUinois^%W'.. ...... 21 Ohio .. 33 Iowa... ...... 11 Pennsylvania .. 38 Kansas 5 Rhode Island .. 4 Kentucky 12 South Carolina .. T Louisiana 8 Tennessee .. 13 Maine 7 Texas .. S Maryland 8 Vermont., .. S Massachusetts.. 13 Virginia..... .. 11 Michigan 11 West Virginia .. 5 __ 10 Their Ages. The following are the ages of the prominent candidates at the Cincinnati Convention: James G. Blaine, born in Washington county. Pa., January 81,1830. Benjamin H. Bristow, born in Todd county, Ky., July 11, 1832. Eoscoe Conkling, born at Albany, N. Y., October 30, 1820. Oliver P. Morton, born in Wayne county, O., August 4, 1823. Rutherford B. Hayes, born at Dela­ ware, O., October 4, 1822. John F. Kraixaufi, born in Montgom­ ery oounty, Pa,, December 6, 1830. Marshall Jewell, bora at Winchester, N. H., October 20, 1826. WHEN the steamship Javad, which was wrecked near Jeddah, struck, the passengers, Mussulman pilgrims, several hundred in number, tied the Captain and officers to the masts, said their prayers and went down philosophically THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 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