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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors. UK I) ART OWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, .JULY 13, 1876. VOL. HI. NO. 4. TIMELY TOUK'S. The Italiaina lirlng: up from the bottom of the Mediterranean yearly one hundred nnd fifty thousand pounds of coral worth $1,160,000. A SUBVENTION of $00,000 1ms l)CCn offered by the state *»f Mexico to any person who establishes a woolou factory in the state with n capital of one hun dred thousand dollars. A safety rail has been put down on the several trestlesnnd important bridges on the New York A Long Branch rail road. It consista of an additional rail on each side of and about four inches from the main track. A Mono the pottery exhibited in the Chinese department at riiiladclphiu isa shallow soup bowl made of bronze metal and enameled, which i* four thousand yean old. There me four hundred pieces of chinawaro dating back one thousand Kx-Mayou Kastman, of Poughkeep sie, has given five hundred of the street hoys of that city a straw hat, with this advice pasted in the crown: “ Don’t drink, don’t swear, don’t chew, don’t -moke. He industrious, work hard, study hard, play hard, and you will never lie halless.' With the best wishes for your future welfare.” The Economist states that from Janu ary t° May every English railway except two shows a deertflme In earnings as com pared with the corrc*|Hindi|ig period in 1876. ’l'lic net decrease of rccepts dur ing four months and throe weeks is about $726,000. All the ronds show some decrease, which during the last week, amounts to about $080,000. The latest American railroad returns are much more encouraging. Only nine out of ninetoe ids sho r dec his r Tim Si. Lois Cnith. TILDEN AND HENDRICKS. Dotailod Report of tho Na tional Democratic Convention. so, llishop Marvi emhlnge rising. made n prayer The convention assembled nl o’clock in the large and lieautiful hall of the .St. lamia chnmber of commerce, which was ilccorated with garlands of leaves, state ooats-of-nnns, flowers, Tho delegates were promptly in their places, but it was twenty minutes past, twelve lieforc the obn volition was calh to order bv lion. Augustus .Schell, chairman of the national democratic com mittee. Mr. .Schell, in calling order, said : Gl'.STLKMKN.—A*, elmirmnn of the nation al democratic convention, the duty Inw been assigiied to no* to call this conveuiion to or der. According to the usnges «.f the ilenio- ernlic party, tills large body of roprosenta- cliunge in (ke destroying it. will make n administration of the govern i- the corruption which is now [Applause.] The moment- it cannot ho overlooked, underestimated avoided. Administrative reform is demand ed bv the American people, of every cI;ihs, [applause] and of all parties. The corruj which i the government ring front it inimt he puriUcd and elevated, and the i|tte8tinn to whose hands shall he eommitted the duty of cleans ing and raising it; shall it he eoiuinitted to llmsc whose tineleaii hands have spoiled it? No; in thin hour, when the national honor, public virtue, and the moral sentiment of mankind demand reform, the duty must and shall he assigned to the democratic party. [Great applause.] The people will not sup- aide e of an individual who travcla in Central Africa, came to a country where the iron trade won in u flourishing condition, there being many lounderie«,nbout fifty feet long by thirty feet wide, where they frequently got one hundred and fifty to two bund rod pounds of metal in a single smelting. Here be saw pieces of iron worked simply by the hummer, nnd molded into various shapes, including the human form, ns completely finished as if manipulated by the most skilllul English artisan. The law is not always infallible. Charles ami Mary Fisher were sentenced to Sing Sing h»st Novomlier, the former for sewn and tho latter for four years, for an offense which the prosecution has now become satisfied they did not com mit. Tho opponents of circumstantial evidence, however, can expect no coin fort from the case for the defendants were convicted upon direct and positive j testimony. They have lieen pardoned by the governor; but there is no state- j men], anywhere that they will be com pensated by the groat stale of New York for the injury and injustice done them. A monos r the coiitriluitioiiH to the cen tennial is a |ieciiliarly shaped canoe, fashioned by tho Indians of Vancouver’s Island, oil the extreme northwestern coast. It was placed in tin God for Ids sins; hut what public o fit rial’s integrity if a<.siguri| the performance of public trust* shall abuse their power, violate their lions and their oaths? The people an ous ami confiding, and are honest. They may he slow, hut in the end they arc intellr gent and sagacious. The people wi II coin prohend their rights and their interests Tlielr right* have been fearfully violated, and their interests too shamefully neglected tc ever again trust the administration of their government to the republican party. [Great applause.] There is also another issue which commands the consideration of the country, mid that is the currency issue. Tho demo- party hits from it* origin, and through the t • of i nown as the hard money puily rv (applause], nnd the ruihilu the part of the republic charge ii] Hint | d adroit party to party the pre- authority, in which democrats have had the power and the control, is there written one word, one line, one law, which lias provided or caused the present condition of things All the acts nl this government recognise and the issue of paper money nuthorizitifif tlieir use as a legal-tender, and the action of the supreme court in declaring the law con stitutional under which then* acts were au thorized, were all done and performed dur-, ing the existence and power of the republi can party. NVhal has been the efleet of it? Commerce is paralyzed ; the manufacturing interest almost destroyed in the country; prosperity has disappeared, and want has taken its place. How is it to he remedied ? The democratic party with its interests will see that the remedy is applied of a frugal and economical government, and a diminution of taxation. It cannot he brought about by forced contraction. (Applause.] It should not he assisted by additional inflation, hut take the country as it stands, [applause] We are called upon to apply the remedy, nnd one remedy which eommciids itself to every honest man nnd to every reasonable demo crat in to demand the repeal of the resump- I lion act. [Applause]. I repent, that net I ! put flic government in the power of the deni- States government building. Although I orril, ' r party, and let them pursue the course ineiwurinj- .in, ft. I in lenj-tli. „ml dpi,l! > t in breadth -not a joint is discernible in < M,n ‘ you the time is not far distant when the entire boat. The government ofii- s,M ' , ' t i " TC n ® nt wi " h V ‘he . h | pc my of the country he restor rials promi-c that n rcinurkuhlcnpceinicn I whole American people he hupp of thin jiecilliar chi** will noon lie exhib- ! Gentlemen, the tide is auspicious and the l post from f'a]*c Flattery nm/’l It is to-measure forty-five feet in height ; nnd contain various forms, combining i frogs, beavers and bears, with human forms in such delightful postures, ns to ' rival the ugly totem post already set up j • a the south side of the government 1 building. i lie T« i I’liiladelphia, One hundred presentatives of the Spirits mid Toliaei It being generally understood that )p . . of the Atlantic shore of this try. [Applause]. They were under the guide of that sage, that patriot, that name ever to lie revered, Thomas Jeflerson [up- plaii.st-l, who laid the foundation of that civil and religious liberty which our fathers built, and which we now enjoy on this occasion. This centennial year the democratic party has assembled in convention once more to do that which our fathers did ; that is to say, to proclaim the course nnd to adopt the nouns which shall he K W», generally under.tood tha, I SKflyStt' I here mi l lie no taritl lull pawed at tine - |,a« been In the IikimIk of the .1, iy, during all that time prosperity has gov erned our country : but whenever that (lag has been dropped by the advances of repub lican power, sorrow and shame have been our condition. [Applause], May we not sixteen years of republic -s-ssion of congress, there is a goo.I deal of curiosity to know what will lx* done about internal revenue matters, c»pec- iallv with regard to tobacco. The sub committee of the committee of wavs .mil mean*, charged with considering the J power, that the democratic party'mny us- question of twbaceo Lax, has prepared a sumo it* rightful position before the country? favorable report. In that report they [Applause]. I shall not attempt to forecast take strong grounds in favor of reducing I *h« action of this convention in the perform- the tax from twentv-four to sixteen * ncc duties which it is called upon to cents, and just here is where the trouble ! h ! r _ 1 ", l , h !. no , m . i . na ‘l','".° r . a JP rCMi ' comes that causes all the commotion in the tobacco trade. It may be asserted I iiy which tiiis 'i as to insnrn the nomination of » least a most positively that even if the mittee of ways and means does indorse ! gem the re|H>rt of the sub-committee on this j question of tobacco tax, and the house. i !'H H should pass it, the treasury department) w ill exert its energies against it, and the . offic probabilities are that the senate will will act wisely defeat it by an overwhelming majority. J principle that tboi It may be certainly stated that by no |iossibility can there Ik* a change ol the tobacco tax at this r«*s*yon of congress. There will l»e something done with re- prd to details of the .-pirit and tobacco law---. It is likely that there will lie some change in the tax on whisky, be cause of the accumulating proofs" that the high tax is beyond the revenue point and has become a premium on fraud. The large number of distilleries seized each day and the suspicions held by the president of the United Stales the adoption of its platform. Tin- rule* ntion is governed are reasury department/* that the immense number of illicit distilleries pt-ration, favor a reduced tax on spirit#, Each indication the passage of an a Hderahle modification revenue laws. the- direction of aking con- hc internal diameter and position ns a I as an individual is riiie in tin- one nnd pure nnd stainless in in the other: who w ill see that nominated for either of those the platform, this convention 4 in accordance with the best governed who rned. [Applause], I doubt not that much will he left to the energy, the managemen t and t he economy of our people, , for the future , I have now the the name of the national eoinmit- to propose for your temporary chairman Watterson, of Kentucky. Mr. Henry [Cheers]. Mr. Watterson was unanimously elect ed temporary chairman, and Senator Bar- num, of Connecticut, and Senator Ban co m, of North Carolina, were appointed a committee to conduct him to tlie chair. Mr. Watterson assumed the chair and was received with cheers. Upon the subsidence of the applause, Mr. Watter son addressed the convention. At the conclusion of Mr. Watterson’* remarks, which were received with great At this point tho chair announced that delegates from the national man’s rights organization were present and desired to address the convention, No objection lteing made; Miss Co/./,ins then stepped forward and deliverd address. Accompanying this address was following plank for tho democratic, plat form, which was referred to the commit too on resolutions: WllKltKAK, The democratic parly was tin-t to abolish the property qualification extend the right of sutlragu to all white of the older states; and, WlIKUK,\s, It was a democratic legislature that extended the right of sulVrage to the men of Wyoming; therefore, Hfiolvf’t, That we pledge onisclvus tosce the right of suflrage to Hie women of United States on equal terms with men. APPOINTMENTS OF COMMITTEES. The seeretarv then proceeded with tho call of tho roll for tlie appointment of commit tees on credcntmlH and premauent organization. The secretary then called the roll for the appointment of a committee on lutions, with the following result : Alabama, Leroy I*. Walker; Arkansas L. V. Mangum; Cidiforida, .loloi N. Ilagar; Colorado, F. .I.JMnrshall; Conoeetleut, I!. D, lluldiard; Delaware, George Gray; Florida, .Inliii Weseott; Georgia, C. I*. I (dwell; llli nois, John A. M’Clernand ; l^idiimii, D. W Yoorliees; Iowa, II. II. Trimble; Kansas, Thus. L. Davis; Kentucky, Atviu Duvall; Louisiana, IL II. Mann; Maine, D. It. Hast ings; Maryland,George Frennor; Massachu setts, Edward Avery; Michigan, William L. Bancroft; Minnesota, Daniel Bucks; Misis- slppi, A. M.Clayton ; Missouri,<•. II. Harden; Nebraska, George L. Mellen ; Nevada, A. (’. Kill*; New Hampshire, K. ( . Braley; New Jersey, .lames W. Gates; New York, Wil liam Dorshimer; North Carolina, Thomas I.. Cleryman; Ohio, General Thomas Ewing; Oregon, M.V Brown; Pennsylvania, Male Hay; Rhode Island, William B. Beni); South Carolina, Samuel M'Gownn; Tennessee John C. Brown; Texas, Aslihel Smith; Ver moot, James II. WilllnuiH; Virginia, John A Meredith; West Virginia, John .1. Davis; Wisconsin, Alexander Mitchell. Resolutions were offered by 8. 8. Mayen, of 111., and Mr. Miller, of Nebraska, and referred to the committee. The secretary then, upon request, re- announced tlie times aim places of meet ing of tlie various committees, and the convention took a recoin* until five o’clock the evening. REAKflRMBLBl). The convention ream* in bled at twenty minutes past five o’clock. The first business before tho conven tion licing the report of the committee rodcntials, the secretary read as fol- [applause'], Hint the slates are fully rep- resented (renewed applause], and that the delegates reported hv the chairmen of there- dele 'uHoiin as delegates to the con vention arc entitled to seals in this enliven- delegates from their respective states. Respectfully submitted. Ilnuim, of Missouri, from the committee ou permanent orgaiiizalion, made the following report: *lu. Chairman III behalf of the commit- on permanent organization I have (he ler to submit the following report of ofii- i for this convention : permanent president, Gen. John A. claries The temporary secretaries, with Mr. Prince, of Boston, as ehief, were continued as the working secretaries, and sergeant-nl arms Able was also reappointed. M’Clernand wum then escorted to the platform amid loud upplatutc, and HjKiko as follows: Gentlemen ok the National Demo- i’Uatic Convention—I thank you for the listingiiished honor wliieh ypu hnvy iloue me in directing me to preside over your de liberations. Yon are the delfgnteH of the y of the w hole union of thirty-seven states, once unnaturally estranged, hut united in one indivisible repub lic, hretliri political family, with heritage of liberty, under equal I heirs of one destiny. Hindi we and transmit Hint great inlicritage? make Hint destiny Hu- most glo the history of free pcopli your deliberations, fellow-den -day, mnnding issue to which all others are* in ferior, all others trivial. Reform! reform! reform 1 If you shall recognize this im perious necessity; if you shall guarantee in your platform the successful achievement of Huh arduous work of national regeneration ; if you shall select standard bearers true to your own high purpose and faithful to your pledge, victory in the November, and’vic tory in the October contest is already yours. Incarnate the vital issue of reform iu (lie candidates and olntform, and the stales that have honored Douglass ami Lincoln, the states that to-day honor Hendricks and Thurman, Hancock and Darker, Bayard atpl Tildcn, these states, witli all their vast popu lations, will rise like tho woods mid 'die winds that followed the llccting Orpheus, and follow you to victory. August Holmont, of New York, then obtained the floor and addressed the con volition, finishing by nflering the fid lowing resolution, which was referred, Uffolml, That wo appeal to tho honor a manhood of the American people' to begin this second century of American union and ndcpcndetioo by trampling under foot and extinguishing forever tho smouldering ashes of distiust, rancor, and iinimoalty between the two great sections of our common eon try. We denounce with ImQflWtinn H calculated malignity with which the lcade of the republican party have 'labored keep alive through eleven years of peace the worst passions of civil war. The Mi avolian motto of tho repuldioan party been and is, divide the people and we shall rule them for tho democratic party. \V reply, unite the people and make them frei We denounce the republican party oil tlii great issue as a party of false pretenses. I is a false pretense to assume the elim-netc of a national party, mid at tho same time t exist only by seetlonnl divisions. It is false pretense to assume the name of a union party mid at tlie same time to he an obstacle to national unity. It is a false pretense to assume the name of liberal party, and at the same time to appeal to the religious projn of the people. It in it false pretense ' claim the title of a progressive parly mid (lie same lima to turn tho people hack from pence and tho future to war mid the past. On motion of Mr. WilliamH of Ind v tho convention then adjourned until 11 o'clock to morrow. The convention win* not called to dor until a little past 11 o'clock, the c<.... mittee on resolutions not' lining prepared rejMirl. Mr. Meredith, from the committee .... resolutions, stated that he waainstructed by the commit too to inform the eon- ntIon that they bad agreed upon a platform and resolutions, and had re ferred the resolutions to a committee for final revision. Mo asked leave of the convention for tho coinmitloo to H it longer for that pur|M)so. ()n motion ol Mr. Kornan, of No.. York, the convention took a recess until two o'clock. DURING THE lll-CI-m Tho viisl aiidiencp ronmiiipfl in the hall, and there were loud cries for Dryof Doolittle, Ewing and others. Meantime the. band played several ]K>nuler airs, “ Dixie,” ” Yankee Doodle,” etc., amid loud cheers, tho following gentlemen called upon, and addressed the audience briefly; James It. Doolittle, Mr. Hrcckenridgc, of Kentucky: drat/. Brown and Mr. Wallace, ol'l’a. RKAHHKM III,ED. Hist to mi Inferior rank niton tlm high sons; il cut (town the *»Iim of Amotionn iiiHiinfnrtiiro homo iiml uhronil, mill ih<|iloloil the mturili Ainorionii nurlciilturo; Il niMx tlm |tcople flvolli more Hum II pixNluces in Hut Ironsiiry.otwtriiotii pro- eo*son of ppsliirtloM, i-iul wnMon tho fruits of In* It promote* fount, foster* amuiqdliiu, eiirlrhe* Reform is ncoes ary m the scale ol xpeuse, federal, state and munieipid. Tho convention reassembled at a quar ter past two. c committee on resolutions having finally agreed ii|h;ii their rcno|t, ' Gov. Dorsheiiner, of Now York, pre- nted tho majority rcjsirt on platform, which was adopted after a somewhat vigorous discussion, den. Tom Ewing, ol Ohio, Ex-Gov. John (’. Brown, of Tennessee, and other members of tlie comirtittco projiosiiig a substitute for a portion of the resolution on finance, which, though demanding the rcjicul of the resumption act, they did not dee sufficiently explicit. i Juiuocrntlo party ol the ailed Minins, In mitlminl coiivonlloii iihhi-imIiIuiI.iIo ‘ “ i mhiiltilsIniHini of llin fudi-nil '• In iirsrnt uri-d ol lniimslfnio ^ i'liy j'ii|<iln upon Ihn nomli K'ivi riiiiD'iil form, u ii'I do In-roll)’ |tn|oln upon i clllirt sail co^)|H»rn iiml do Ih ii'Ii) nppoiil in our fallow-rlllzMisiif Cvury 'iriuiT p*»111 leu I (oniioctloii to amloi like with iih Ills lii-i nml iiio"I pri-io<liig private duly, t-or Hir di-iiUH THoy of llm whole roiinlry wo do ore i i-;i lln in our f- It It iu IhoiioriuntiMicooI Iho fi<|. ral Duhin ; ourdovollou lo Iho cmistltullun of Iho i’ll led n* ii final sotfii'iiii'iil of Iho coiil roronuosHuil iiKondor i-ivll wnr, and do hero record oumloadfant 'infldouco In Uni pr<M|sirltT of repiililfcan ki-ll-uov- In nlikofulo n<<|iifi'«nun «■ in tho w ilt of llio r military authority; in oIIkImiih froodsiu; iu the i of their o , heritage, better renown Hum the renown prized hv the Roman*—-the rtnulllor* imnr.r- . - ?d of tho union ontinent except that niliiiinistraUve ecu Iralisin which is congesting at Hie. capital of vital currents which ought to flow through ry part, giving life to the farthest ex tremities of the body politic and energy to " its members, exceot Hint corruption ch is the curflc that centralism has never ed in age or land to entail upon any eminent. Centralism has imposed upon states the rapacious tyrannies of carpet- rule, mid since war have added two hundred millions to their debts. They have infected the governments of our nortlie the republic; have de- : federal government itself, and rues of icores of its high officers nen our public scandal and our The record is horrible iu in- •utility, waste and fraud. The I party, which has been powerless head down and trample unde corruptionists, with stupendous effrontery pledges itself to a reform of which it has he me incapable. That party pledged itself restore specie payments, and every year takinc us further from specie payments. It pledged itself to civil service reform, and then dropped and mocked its reformers. Ho it pledged itself to protect American labor, and with its monstrous customhouse Uixn- 1 thousand articles it lias impoverished American labor. A few score monopolist*, a few thousand corruptionists, have been enriched, hut capital in Hie hands of those that earned it by industry and by frugality, is everywhere distrust ful and rust - unused, while honest labor goes amyit the streets begging bread. Is this the final outcome of a centenary of re publican self government? God forbid il! But we have wandered far from the right paths. We must return to the constitu tional principles the frugal expenditures and the administrative purity of the found- nation. This is the appeal we have to make * , “ n citizens of every former politi- ne supreme corn eal affiliation. This is the c nuijorllr, Hie vital iirimlnle of ri'inilillra uprciuni'y of tlm i-l»ll ov - -• Im lojal separation ol i qiislity nl nil rlllxcii* l>ef unctiiient; In llm lll«rl. unvexed hy siiinptiinry lnws; In llm fallliful•;< lion of tlm rising generation, Hint limy limy serve, enjoy nnd trainmil i lliesn lx-.vt condilloi liiiuinn luipi lues* niui Impc; iv<- Ixdiolil I Im iiouirs pDsluelsol a Ii ii ml rod years of cluingeful lilslory. " ‘ while upholding Hie ItOlitl of r I limy may pre- •ople I r l iglits, il ixihixivcs a rual vlgllaiue ■ nrlf-e of our IflMiily. Reform Is i , ifd and eslnhlish fu tho licarls o ole iM-opin (lie union, eleven years ago hs, oi.I fiorn Die danger of a corrupt eentrali I* Ii, after infill ting uih,ii ten stales tlm rnpaciiy sipH-liag tyrannies, has lioimy-couilxd loolliees Iho federal government Itself with incapacity, municipalities with i happily contagion of misrule, nnd locked fast llm | mlly of nn Industrious jx-ople In tlm paralysis of restore the puhlle credit and msinlnin the national honor. We denounce tlie failure for all these eleven years t/i make good Iho promise of llm legal lender notes, which aic changing standard of value In llm hands of the people, and the non imyiiient o which Is a ill-regard of Hie plighled la fill of the nation. We denounce the Improvidence which in eleven years of ix-ace has taken fronrthc |>eople, In federal taxes, thirteen limes the whole amount of llm legal lender notes, and squandered four Hums this sum in useless ex|x-n-c without nceuintilsllng any reserve for their redemption. W« denounce the financi.il IiiiIkw lllty and imumrallty of that- party, which during elovi n years < toward resiimptli o preparation for resiimp- sumptlon hy whiles nually professing to lu ll I nd rami- public . , , - Our. federal taxation has swollen from sixty mil lion dollars in gold in I860 to four hundred anti fifty million ilollara in currently in 1870. our aggregate taxation from one hundred ami fifty-four million tlol'tirs Li gold iu I860 to seven hundred ami thirty million dollars iu currency In 1870, or in line decade from less than five dollars per head to mere titan eighteen dollar* per head. Since the pence the people have paid their tax-gatherers more than thrice the stun of the national debt, and more than twice that sum for the federal government alone. Wo doinnmt a vigorous frugality iu every department and from every ollicor of the government. Reform is neeessarv to put ii stop to the profligate waste of public lands and their di versions from actual settlers hy the party in power, who have siiuanderetr two hundred million acres of land unnn railroad* alone, and out of more than thrloo that aggregate has disposed of less Hum a aixty directly to tillers of the *oil. Reform is necessary to e orroot the mills- si ms of a republican congress and errors of our treaties and of our dlidonmoy, which have Stripped our follow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred race, when reerosHing the Atlantic, of the shield of American eitizsn- sldp, and have exposed our lirothrun of tho and, iu find, now hy law denied citizenship through naturalization, because it is neither accustomed to tho traditions of a progressive civilization, nor exercised iu liberty under equal laws. We denounce the policy which thus discards the liberty-loving German, and tolerate* the renewal of the Coolie trade iu Mongolia women imported for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men, held to per form servile labor contract*. We, therefore, demand such modification* of the treaty of the Chinese empire, nnd Hitch legislation hy congress, within constitutional limitation as shall prevent the further importation or immigration of the Mongolian race. Reform is necessary, and can never he ef fected tint hy making it the controlling issue of llm olootioiiH and lifting R above the two false issues with which the office- holding class ami party iu power seek to smother it. These false issues with which they would enkindle sectarian strife in re spect to the public schools, ol wliieh the establishment end support belong exclusive ly to tho several stales, and which thu liariasM-d indiotri.»*t in motion the wheel*< f i, inannfiirttires anil llm i i labor, amt t H'hniiirnl t national boiik.-ls, the jirosjierity of the ifiloynn- :cssary In iho . a tho ond It . , distrust and latx.r lljditlv burdonwl. nnoarl) fnjiislir .rofensc. it yield* y.-arly rising In all It- thousand article*, ax a master] equality and /also j.rolonw. I yield* a dwindling. many Industrie* lo suladdlzu a jMjrts th.il miijlit |i ' —• •' ; It iiroldliilsim* nrt naso me |>r<«jiict* of American d«l Aiucrluni commerce from Hie ieinoorntie party has cherished from their foundation, ami is resolved loinniulaiu with out partiality or eroed, and without con tributing from tho treasury to any false issue hy which they seek to light anew tho dying ember* of sectional hate between kindred people mine unnaturally estranged Imt now reunited in one indivisible republic mid a common destiny. Reform is necessary in the civil service, and experience proves that an efficient ami economical conduct of the governmental husincHH In not possible If its civil service lie subject to change at every election ; if it Im a prize fought for at thu hallot-box, rr if it. he a reward of party instead of poNla of honor assigned for proved competency and held for fidelity ill the puhlle employ. That the dispensing of patronage should neither Im a lax upon the time of all our nubile nor tho instrument of their niuhltlon. again, professions falsified In tlm per formance attest that the party In -power can work out no practical or salutary reform, which Is noeessury even more In the higher grades of the puhlle service—president, Judges,senator*, representative* and cabinet iifllcor*. These and all others in authority ire Hie people’s servants. Their olllees are not nj private perquisite, they are a jiuhlic Irani. When the annals of the public, the lisgruce and censure of ii vice-president; a late speaker of the house of representatives marketing hi* rulings as a presiding officer; three senators prolfiting secretly hy their as law-makers; five chairmen of the ig committees of the late house of repre sentatives exposed ill robbery; a late seere tarv of the treasury forcing balance j u tho public accounts, a late attorney-general mis appropriating public funds; a secretary of tlie navy enriched or onriching friend* hy pcrccntagcs'levicd ofl'the profits of contract ors with his department; an embassador to England censured iu a dishonorable specu lation ; tlm president’s private secretary barely escaping conviction upon trial for guilty complicity iu frauds upon the rev enue; a secretary of war impeached for high crimes and confessed misdemeanor*. Tlm demonstration I* complain that tlm first step in reform must Im the people’s choice of honest men from another party, lest llm disease of one political orgaiiizalion infest the body politic, mid Icstjiy milking no •drniige of men or party wo can get’,no hange of measure*, ami no reform iu all hose abuses, wrongs mid crimes. Tlm products of sixteen years OHccndnnoy of tlm republican party create ii necessity form. Confessed by tlm republicans elves, hut their reformer* are noted down iu convention and displaced from the inbinot, nnd tlm party's mass of honest •oters is powerless to resist tlm eighty thou sand office-holders, its leaders and guides. Reform can onlv Im had by a peaceful civic revolution. We demand u enange of sys tem, a change of administration, a change of nurtics. that we may have a change of mem- On motion of Mr. M’lzonn [ Mil. j the convention .proceeded to nomiimtc can didates I or president and vice-president. Tho roll of the Plate* was culled lo prcficnt their nominee*. When Dela ware win* called, Mr. Whitley took the platform, and nominated Thomas Fran- ei* Bayard whom he eulogized in glowing term* a* a democratic statesman and gen tleman. [Applause.) Mr. Williams 11 ml. J presented the name of Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana. There was no (ire in his rear. With him they could carry Indiana by twenty thousand majority. Mr. Fuller [Ill. j seconded Hendricks’ nomination eloquently and forcibly. Mr. Campbell [Tenn. J, by instruction of its convention, also seconded Hen dricks, under whose lead Tennessee felt ore confident at success than under iy other. Air. Abbott, of New Jersey, presented Jos. Barker’s name in a ringing speech. When New York was called there was trcmcmdoUH outburst of cheers. Heiiator Kornan expressed bis sympa thy with all that had been said of gen tlemen already presented here, hut pro- reeded to urge the nomination of Mr. Widen as the surest guarantee of success the coming contest. Mr. Tilden's mewiM received with great cheers. Mr. Ewing [Ohio] presented the name of the former statesman Mr. Allen. Mr. CIymer [.Penn.] presented Gen. Winfield Hancock in glowing terms. The secretary then called the roll of the states for the first ballot, with the following result: FIRHT II ALLOT. Tilden, 117-j ; Hendricks, M0A ; Han cock,76; Bayard, Mi; Darker, J8 ; Broad- bead, 1!); Allen, 60. The first ballot was by states as fol lows: Alabama: Tildcn 13, Hendricks 6, Hancock 2. Arkansas: Tildcn 12. California: Tildcn 12. Colorado: Hen dricks 0. Connecticut: Tildcn 12. Dela ware: Bayard (l. Florida: Tildcn 8. Georgia: Tildcn 6, Bnvard 11, Hancock I. Illinois: Tildcn 1[), Hendricks 23. Indiana: Hendricks30. Iowa: Tildcn I I, Hendrick* (I, Hancock 2. Kansas; Hendricks 1. Kentucky: Tildcn 2-1. Louisiana: Tildcn II, Bayard 2. Han cock 6. Maine: 1-1. Maryland: Tildcn II, Hendricks 3, and Bavard 2. Massa chusetts : Tildcn 20. Michigan: 'Widen hi, Hendricks 8. Minnesota: Tildon 10. Mississippi: Tildcn 16. Missouri Tildcn 2, A lion 2, Hendrick* 17, l inn cock 10. Nobraslca: Tildcn viula: Tildon 3, Thurman 3. Now Hampshire: Tildon 10. Ntnv Jersey Darker 18. New York: Tildcn 70. North Carolina: Tildon 0, Hendricks •I, Bayard 2, Hancock 6. Ohio: Allen •II. Oregon: Tildcn0. l’oniMylvania; Hancock 68. Rhode Island : .|3'il(len^, Boutli Carolina: Tildcn 1-L TcnnerT sec: Hendricks 21. Texas: Tildfln 10], Hendricks 2], Bayard 1, Hancock 2. Vermont: Tildcn 10. Virginia Tildcn 17, Hendricks 1, Bayard I I Wisconsin: Tildcn HI, Hendricks I West Virginia: Allen 10. SECOND IIALLOT. Tho second ballot being taken, find before the result was announced Mis souri asked if it was in order for her to ihnngo her vole Wore the result announced. Tho chair ruled it was. Missouri asked live minutes for consul tatlon. Tho tally clerk* were fully ton minutes comparing their figures, mean time Missouri changed its vote to 16 lor Tildcn and M for Hendricks. 8ix of the New Jersey delegates claimed the right to east their individual voles for Tildon, urging that the resolution under which they act does not bind the yond a first vote. The New Jersov chairman contended ho alone had the right to announce tho vote. Another New Jersey delegate asked tho delega tion lqavo to retire, insisting on tho right of individual voting. Mr. Abbott, of Jersey, said ho hoped that the state would consider Gov. Parker’s abandonment as treachery. The elmlr ordered the vote announced 18 for Parker. Beforh tho vote was announced Iowa changed her vote lo 20 for Tilde., and 2 for Hancock. Illinois changed to 2*1 for Tildcn and 18 for Hendricks. A Virginia dolegato complained that he had been deprived of his right to his in dividual volo hy the announcement of the vote hy tho chairman of tho delega tion. Twenty delegates on the floor at once all striving to ho heard. North Carolina hanged to 10 for Tildcn and I for Han cock. Without waiting tho announce ment from tho elmlr, tho convention aroso and gave long tumultuous cheers. For 10 minutes [ho excitement mid noise almost drowned Iho music hy the hand. Various other slates announced changes, and great confusion, including Delaware, solid for Tildon. Pennsylvania inovetl to mnko it unanimous. Finally tho veto was announced ns follows: Tlie vote on llio second ballot was 738 ; necessary to a choice, 41)2j Tildon had 606, Hen dricks 00, A lion 64, Parker 18, Hancock 60. Bayard II, Thurman 2. Indiana seconded Pennsylvania’s mo tion to make the nomination unanimous, mid it was adopted, A motion to adjourn until 10 o’clock to-morrow was carried at 20 minutes past 8. The convention was called to order at 10:20 this morning. The interest is evi dently greatly abated and many delegates have loft for homo, leaving tlieir altern ates. The galleries contain but few spectators. Prayer was offered by Epis copal bishop Roliertson. Tho elmlr announced as husincs tho nomination of vice-president. When Indiana was called for its nomination the state was greeted with much enthusiasm. Indiana failing to present a candidate, some one in Ids seat in the Illinois dele gation nominated Hendricks, when Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, rose and said that the candidacy of Mr. Hendricks was ended yesterday. Indiana bowed to tho decision yesterday in favor of another nominee; hut they had no authority from Mr. Hendricks to accept the nomi nation for him to the vice-presidency. Indiana would do its duty, hut he im plied doubts of the result iu Indiana. The convention must lake the rcsiHmsi- liility. Mr. Hardin, of Missouri, offered a res olution that it is the duty of this con vention to select for vice-president one who is the peer of the presidential nomi nee, and believing Hendricks to he that man it is his duty to party and country to serve, and we hereby nominate him. Mr. Brown, of Tennessee,seconded Mr. would enable them to carry his state hy fifty thousand. The delegates insisted on finishing the roll-call, which proceeded amid confu- Total vote, 738; Hendricks, 730; blank, 8. Hendricks was declared the nominee. Tho chair said the next business was to call (lie roll of states for the national committee: Alabama. Walter L. Bragg; Arkansas, John J. Bump ter; California, Frank McC’oppin ; Colorado, Bela M. Hughes; Connctieut, Win. H. Baruuin; Dela ware, Robinson Hickman; Florida, Wilk Call; II inois, Win. J. Gougy ; Indiana, Thos. Tolin ; Iowa. II. II. Ham; Kansas, Isaac B. Ycatman; Kentucky, Henry 1). McHenry; Maine,Thos. Dowling; Alary- land, O. Coffee; Louisiana, B. F. Jonas; Missouri. JohnG. Priest; Massachusetts, F. O. Prince; Michigan, Edward Kanter; Minnesota, Wm. Izochran ; Oregon, John Wittakcr; Nevada, R. P. Keating ; Ne braska, John L. Miller; New York, Abram B. Hewitt; New Jersey, Miles Roj-h; New Hampshire, A. W. 8oliw»v; Rhode Island, Nicholas Van Blyck ; Ten nessee. William B. Bate; South Caro lina. James H. Ryan ; Mississippi, Elliott Baik*dale; Vermont, John Smalley; Ohio, John (I. Thompson; Pennsylvania, William L. Scott; Wisconsin, William F. Nilas; West Virginia, Alexander Campbell; Texas, F. B. Htockdalc. At 12:30, ou motion of Mr. Williams, of Indiana, the convention adjourned. FACTS A.W FANCIES. Apropos of undo affc nt llio centen nial : Boswell once asked 1 >r. Johnson if a certain classical picture was inde cent. ” No, sir.’’ replied the doctor, “ hut your question is.” Tins is a sample of the arlllimetical problems proposed at the Storey county (Nov.) Teachers’ Institute: “ A man puts down a certain sum of money on the corner of the ace, to take tho (ray, in a twenty-five dollar limit game. They both win through. At the end of the deal he finds he Iiiih $67. How much did he put down, and how much did he win ?” The petition offered up hy the boliover who abides in Christ, and has Christ's words abiding in him, will he in har mony with the will of God. “Tho spirit maketh intercession for the saints aucortling. to. the will of God.” The spirit-taught breathing of desire, there fore, on tho part of the bcliuvor are tho very breathings of God within him, nnd surely God on tho throne in heaven will not ho indifferent lo tho breathings of God in tho human heart. Bather those breathings are thoniHolves a fulfillment, of the promise, and a preliminary step on the part of God towards a richer, fuller, grander fulfillment of it. WAIT MV LITTLE ONE. Wait! my little one, wait! When you gut to the lieautiful laud ; Tarry a little, my darling, Ere you join tiro heavenly Imml. Stand dime to tho shining gates of pearl, Look out on the narrow way,' For I want the first glnneo of my heaven- home sight On my little hahu to stray. Wglt! my little one, wait I When you reach the courts above; Look down with the light of thy lieaulifu eye*, Oil those that you iihciI to love; Wldsper sweet dreams in our earthly ears, When wo lie down to sleep; Paint bright pictures before your eye*, When wo wake up to weep. Wait! my little one, wait! When you reach the celestial strand, For thy mother may ho tolling up To the heights of the hotter land. For the years that fall like molten lead, My little babe, o’or thee. Misplaced Fear.—Ail languages have a literature of terror about death. But living is far more terrible iu reality than dying. It is life that foments pride, that inflames vanity, that excites the passions, that feeds the appetites, that founds and build* luihits, that establishes character, and, binding up the separate straws ol'action into one sheaf, hands it into tho future, saying, “ As you reap, ulifit! if., u,\tir |H V.,1 11IV. a.il.l..!. 1.. j shall ye sow I” Vet life, which is the mischief maker, 1h not at all lenred. Death, that draw no harm, and is only tho re venter of life’s work, is feared. Peculiar Buminehh System.—A day or so ago the attorneys propped Daniel Drew up in bed, and put him through a course of interrogatories ami crnss-inlcrmgntoric* relative to his peti tion iu bankruptcy. His answers, faint, almost Inaudible, and given while great tears rolled down Ids cheeks, reveal the most singular business system, or lack of system, recorded ol any man who has dealt in in ill ions. In his transactions with his hrokors ho always trusted to their honesty, anduovor troubled himself to look over thoir statements of account. Hu left collaterals with the brokers, hut doesn’t know what became of them. A cheek-hook lie never had any use for. Book-keeper or elerk lie never employed, nor oven had an ofllco of his own. Of tho several mil lions he once had he never kept any account, but thinks lie could toll from memory where somo of it went; ho carried such trilling matters in his head. Mothers, lot every daughter that is borno to you ho given equal opportuni ties with your boys. Let her physical education ho attended to with the rest; let all her powers lie strengthened alike; let her Irani a trade, or study a profes sion to fit her for the battle of life ; and if marriage does not come to her, let her know and feel that sho is an independent woman, free to take her placo in the proud ranks of those who use hands and brain for sujmort. Bho will not spend licr davs in idleness, nor will her mind he filled with thoughts of dress, hut witli perfect health, which will ho hers, when she is taught ils supreme importance, and the means for ils preservation, anil with her time fully occupied, she will he strong and well balanced, and assuredly none the less lilted to ho a wife and tho Imppy mother of immortal souls. Then too, when our women are thus trained our papers will not hodisgraccd with such advertisement* as this: A lady of refinement and education desires the friendship of a gentleman of Hendrick*' nomination, wliieh, ho said, muinH * TURKISH ATROCITIES. ISHall* of OiitrHKfa CnmmlUril In lint. Kurin l»j Ihr Turkl»ti Troops. Tlie Ijondou Daily Nows publishes a letter from its Constantinople correspon dent, dated Juno 16th, giving thedetails of atrocities committed in Bulgaria hy tho Bashi Bazoaks, Turkish irregular troops. The writer says tiintull movable property has been plundered, houses, und villages burned, and old men, wo men ana children indiscriminately slaughtered. It is estimated tlrnt the province, which heretofore yielded to tho government an annual revenue of four million dollars, will not pay one- quarter that sum this year, nor lor years to come. The various estimates place the number of lives sacrificed at from eighteen to thirty thousand. The eor- rcHpondent names thirty-seven villages known to have been destroyed. Among the refugees, the number of whom is very small, there is not a girl over ten years of age. In the villngo of Berustit- za, district of Phillippopolis, fifteen hun dred persons are known to l ave been killer!. This village consisted of four huudred houses and was prosperous nnd peaceful. Every house has been lmrsed and nil the inhabitants killed cxeopt’a fow women and children who took refuge in Phillippopolis and somo women who were carried off by Bashi Bn/mik-. These cruelties have mado a great impression at Constantinople and tho English am bassador has intervened with the govern ment to put an end to them.