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Wkdmq . 2s. 'ABLISHED AUGUST 24. 1852. WHEELING. WEST VA., THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 17.1880. VOLUME XXVIIL-NUMBER 252. gilt Jnifl%fucci: UWrrl >'-? '?? I'M'"'1"1'1"""1 The hotel price at Cincinnati during the convention I. to be $j per day per head. Tin war nl the rebellion cost first and ,ut according to a return ju.t made by jjfdetarv Sherman, $<1,71)0,"1)2,509. Aii.w.i the bills that fell through in Congress by reasonlot adjournment yester J,r was one lor an accurate geological jUIvev of several ol the stales, West Vir ginia amongthe number. If |.ewia Biker bad been in Congress he ,0?M have grabbed the whole ol the "Salary Urab" and pocketed the entire Credit Mobiiier himself. There would not b,ve been any of it left to.go round among other members. Tun prospect now ia that an unusually Urge vote will be polled at the Republican primaries on Saturday next The Demo crats made such a terrible mess out of their nominations that a much wider in terest than usual centers in the Repub ]ia?n nominations. Tiuiir. is trouble brewing in the Demo cratic camp in this community over the nominations of Monday. The more some of the bosses think about the ticket the madder they get. They have reached a point where they talk about a .Democratic djbs meeting to .nominate a legislative ticket. _ j lif G'nifiou (uuvrntlon. The usual round trip convention rates to the Republican State Convention at (irai'ton, on the Mth of June, have been arranged for. Delegates and all others wishing to attend will And tickets on sale at the principal stations. The arrange ment will of course apply to the delegates to the Congressional Convention called to meet at Grafton immediately after the ad journment of the State Convention. The round trip fare from Wheeling will be about ?4. '? It is not indiscreet,"says W. E. Chan dler in a letter to the New York Tribune, ?' now the danger has passed, to say that tirant would have been defeated at the poll*, and the Republican party, on a wrong issue, with a candidate most un wisely selected, would have gone down to detraction not soon to rise again." In other words, Chandler's idea of a political warning is to keep it bottled up till the danger is past aud the patient well or dead. On the whole, it is generally safer, discreet or not, to speak out and tell the truth in time to accomplish something. Dr. Tom 0. Howards, of this city, was in New York recently, in attendance on the session of the American Medical As sociation. While there he called in com pany with Prof. Dawson, of Cincinnati, on the i'age of Gramercy Park. Trof. Dawson is an old friend of Tilden's, and was admitted to his presence as soon as his card was sent in. Dr. Edward's says that the great Presidential aspirant pre sents a very decided case of hopeless inval idism. He is but little more than a wreck of a man, being partially paralyzed, and . otherwise quite feeble looking. The Dr. thinks that it would be Bimple lunacy on the part of the Democracy to nominate aach a man for the Presidency. The tirst regular session of the 46th Congress adjourned yesterday at noon.l after being in session since the 1st Mon day of December last. The actual work accomplished is very insignificant." The whole idea has been that of the "circum locution ollice," not to do anything. The follies of the extra session have been kept in mind, and from the outset, as some one said last winter, the Democracy determin ed to "sit on their mouths" and say as lit* tie as possible, (and do even less) that could furnish Republican capital in the Presidential campaign. * So, in reality, nothing has l>een done worthy of men tion, and the long session has resulted io scarcely a law of any special moment or l>enefit to the country. Till. AKWT OF THE POTOMAC. Elrunili Aiiminl Heeling or(be Society. Bi'kmsv'tos, Vt., June 10.? The eleveuih aumul meeting of the society of the Army o( the Potomac took place here to-dav. General Phil. Shoridan, Generals Nelson aud Miles and many other eminent soldiers arrived this morning. Tne veterans present number about 400, and in numbers, am in other things, the reunion was a complete success. The city was profusely decorated with flags aud buntm*. Special trains came from all directions bringing in boats of spectators, tie number being estimated at 15,000. Proceeding were opened this morning with a procession composed of the First Regiment Natioual Guards, Vermont Vet erans, with bind and drum corps, and marched through the principal stroets to the Howard Opera House,which was filled to its utmost capacity. An address was delivered bv Hon. Daniel Roberts, which IUdi-1 K Sickles, President of the Society, rupoiuled to. Next came a poem by Joaquin .Miller, brief and appropriate. The principal address was delivered by Hon. Luther R. .Marsh, of New York. At the business mating this afternoon we following otlicera we.*? elected: Presi ?M?t-Gen. Horatio G. vV'ight. Vice Presidents?First Corps, Gen. John 0. Second, Gen. James B. Coit; ?W,Col. W. A. Rafferty; Fifth, 4. J'*wart Tower; Sixth, Gen. James H. Warren; Ninth, Geo. McKeffen; Twelfth, ^n-Wm. Cogswell. Cavalry, Gen. \Vm. ?eil?. Treasurer?Gen. M.T. McMahon. {^cording Secretary?Col. Horatio C. Km,. i'rliur nuU Kouinnce. Litre Roc k, June 10.?Samuel Sullivan **? arrested several days ago to await a requisition from Indiana on a charge of ?orgery. Yesterday Ollicer Spurgeon, of Indians, arrived and received him from Jne 1***1 authorities. After this a marriage licence was procured and Sullivan was ttarrietl to Miss Jennie Jerome, who fol lowed him from Indiana, he left for the ^orth iu irous to-day. His bride remain! here. lluuUft I'tlrcilltMMl. Nv-W Yokk, June 10.?Proposals t< "*ll Iwnda to the government to-day, ag legated $8,012,500. of which the Secre tar.v ol the Treasury accepted $2,000,000 at 104 S?? to 104.H8 for sixes of 80, 100 8 lUittl for sixes of 60 and 103 18 to 103. ^0 for Uvea. No fours or four l*nd a hall accepted. NEWS AT THE CAPITAL. ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. GarfMd's Popularity with thi Democratic Members of Congress?Belling the "Register" Thomas Cat?The Haglra to Cln clooatl?Remi niscences of Geo. Daven port,Oeceased?Gen eral No'es and Gossip. CAPITAL ?'l'LLI.\US. tien, Gnrfleld nti<l the Democratic Mein bcru of t'onicrfM-Kcin in Keener* of n DfrcHird Wheeling Lnwyer-Ou to Cln? ciuuutl-foliticnl Xotef*. Washington, June 10. Special to the Intelligencer. OAKKIELD AND TUB DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS. One of the amusing features of the Garfield nomination, is the fact that most of the Democratic members of the House have at some time or other put themselves on record as giving the Republican nomi nee for the Presidency a hearty endorse ment. Ellis, who recently visited your city, and who is among the most active and influential of the Louisiana delega tion, remarked to me before the balloting was ended, that Garfield's record was bet ter than that of any candidate before the Convention, and that the charges against him have amounted to nothing. When 1 reminded hiQT of his remark after the Chicago opera was over, he laughed and turned the conversation upon the subject of the probable choice at Cincinnati. Dozens of others have precluded them selves similarly from any very damaging attacks, and so far as J have noticed, the [ Democratic members who know Garfield best, have no disposition to make them, if I the material for such attacks existed. | Most of them resent the exploded slanders, with which the Democratic newspapers | are filled. geo. daventort's death. A good deal of sincere regret w?is ex pressed here when the news of George I Davenport's death was noted in your col umns last week. There were few among I the West Virginians in Washington, who I did not know him, and his connection with the recent"Political Cases," so-called, I (including the Strauder case), which were | before the Supreme Court of the United States, gave him a reputation among the , lawyers of the country who have business [at the Capital. I once heard, a distin guished member of the bar say that he never knew a young man who A-as org | inally gifted with a better legal mind th. n Davenport's, and thoso who reinembtr him before his faculties were bluuted by , excess, will recognize the force of the re ! mark. Added to intellectual gifts and at ' tainments he had a natural kimlhcaried ness aud a freedom from milice and wick I edness singularly attractive to those who [knew him best, and the frankness of his manner generally won over everybody with whom he was thrown in contact. ? SOME KBM1NISCKNCK8. Nobody ever bad a keener dense >f the ludicrou9, and the manner as fell as tbe matter of his quaint comments >n occurrences that amused him linger in >ne'a memory. I remember seeing him ,hrow himself back in n harbor's chair at Charleston. after a hard (lay's llgh't over ;beretention of the word "white" in the West Virginia statute, and, aa the Afri 'aua gathered round to wait on him, he remarked in a resigned and uncomplain ing way, that was irreaiatably comical: ?Well, if von niggers knew how much I bave done for you to-day, you would wait ?ii me for nothing." His description of hi? Iirat visit to White Sulphur Hpring* was another piece of act ing and humorous exaggeration that used to amuse the writer, ft waa before the recent era of improvements thore, which bas transformed the o'd-fasbionod water ing place into a modem and well appoint Bii hostelry, when ho visited it, and his picture of Peyton's beat apartment, where the furniture only inventoried eighty cents, and the general effect suggested was that of the debtor's room in a second-class county jail, was aa paiufully accurate as a photograph. There are a good many other reminis cences. grave and gay, connected with George Davenport, which It might be of advantase to revive, but it is hardly fair to take advantage of his death to point any morals or adorn say narratives ot mine. Fortunatoly, in some cases at least, death obscures the memory of some faults with the recollection of many virtues. BELLI SO TIIK CAT. I notice that your talented and distin guished fellow citizens (as Ben Wjlpon would call them), Gen. Hearne and Ool. I Josef Gallaher, (concerning the stiffness of whose spinal columns i have had occasion i heretofore to remark) have succeeded In belling tho agile Thomas cat of the Renter. I have known of a good many attempts being made in tbe same direction hereto fore, but, like tbe attempts of the mice in the fable, they have generally failed through irresolution at the critical mo? ment, and the gentlemen who were acr customed to spit and snort and vapor as to what they proposed to do with the HegitUr, have generally skurried into tbelr holes at tho first exhibition of its claws, even when tbe real work of showing up the concern was U) be done by others. There waa a notable exhibition of this at. Parkersburg at the Congressional Conven tion four yean since, when President Bob Blair sat down on Sweeney's resolutions, (a great light seems to bave shone on Bob since then), and there was another in tbe Democratic caucus at the capital two years later, when the balance of the mice and men and long tailed rats all ran off, and left old man Hearne to tackle the estab lishment single handed. Now that the opposition have tccomplisbed their pur pose of making tbe facts appear, they are to be congratulated on doing it thoroughly, for the general impression here is that whatever proof waa lacking in the charges was furnished in the reply. OX TO CINCINNATI. Tbore is likely to be something of a con test for tbe fourth place as delegate at large from your -Elate to the Cincinnati Convention. Besides Gov, "jonce" Cam den, of Parkersburg; Senator R. F. Den nis, of Greenbrier, and Beale, of Mason, several others are candidates, ft is even hinted that Mr. Baker, of Ohio, bas put in *n application on the ground that be needs it as a vindication and panacea for injuries inflicted upon bis rear elevation at Clarksburg. Of those mentioned, how ever, it is believed Camden will secure the place, he t eing resonably sure of Mc* Kldowney's vote, and having tbe inside with Harlow and Davis notwithstanding the fact that the former is Dennis' towns man, and the further fact that Dennis voted for Davis as Senator mora times at the last Senatorial election than even Ben Butler voted for Jeff Davis as Presi dent. Nearly all tbe Democratic Con gressmen here expect to go. Wilson leavei on Friday, and will so by boat probabl) from Parkersburg. Martin and Kenm i go by ralljBtopplng oyer at their respectivi homes. The feeling here is strongly fo ?UJo"B.y.hrrM' With * "r0,1|! 'Ub rKIISONAL. A delegation of Arkansas editor*, head ed by Pat Don?n, wbilome editor ol the Caucatum, and a former White Snlphni Spring, celebrity, hive been here for ? day or two on an Edltoral Excursion. Uoaan ? put M tie ediU)r o( ^ *nd '? Prob Siisi'.sss1"* "? pS&ssssf been here since yesterday. ftnniSS&f ?ereford "bo has been in Staun ai ni i'l0" 5 comme??!tnent address th??% . j OU,n* Udies Seminaries ?"e.' returned tcwiay. He will probably Lent M?reH?m?d?'S?,ter llle a(li?urn' aUuo/ MrheMi MUS th? Jb?P'J,atr,[a Bovernment office are a good deal pat oat by the summary 10 r,e<!uce expenses. Bob Sll cation es|)Ccia")' d>sgi?ted with his va of Wh??n"?r Ge?rge T!,nmP'on> formerly yewertay ' amiuo'ro1 Chica8?. was here OE.VEBAL DISCATCHEN, kongm. A.ljonrn.-unit Cot. jjr"?-Tll? Work of I lie If?-\oltilU|c I Washington June 10,-The Senate con firmed Col. Drum as Adjutant General; OttoMears, of Colorado; John B. Bow man, Kentucky; Alfred B. Meacham, Washington, D. 0.; George W. Money, penny, Columbus, Ohio, and John J. Rus sell, Iowa, as commissioners to ratify the Hrifru-h"r 'w Ul? In<lian?>' Jacob W. ! 'h 1x1'""'aua, to be coiner of U. S. Mint at .New Orleans; Geo rue A. C. Wool Register oi land office at Springfield, Missouri; John H.Allen Re ceiver of Public Monevs at Fergus Falls I,ewlin Kemball, Jack Ind'liohTr 8,aaC M,Wisconsin, and Kobt. 0. Gardener, West Virginia as Indian Inspectors. Also the followi'ni; postmasters: Alfred O. Long, ,t AsiZd Oh ??' S' u1'/10,,^' Hanson, at London, di.n.'. i T'l8S"' at Greenfield, In diaua, Charles H. Davidson, at Austin Minnesota; Ldward W. Walsh, atCooks &?!^S.a',dJ,,iiu8ll lIa'?. APPROPRIATION HILL APPROVBD. The President approved the sundry civil appropriation bill, and under one of ita provisions nominated Col. Albert J Mav*? ADJ0l!R.\'KD AT LAST. Both Houses of Congress adjourned at noon, rine die. All the regular annual ap propriation bills were signed-by the Presi dent in time to announce their approval before the hoar of adjournment, and con sequently become laws. A number of ,a|led t0. receive action, and a )? lr'u"e ot 'be setsion, among them that of John i\ Hartranft as Col lector of Customs for Philadelphia'. CHOP KCTl'RXS. The returnsjo the Agricultural Depart ment indicate an increase in the area plant ed in cotton of 7 per cent. The reports were as follows. Forty counties in North Carolina report an average increase of 6 per cent. Nineteen counties in South Carolina an increase of 7 per cent. Seventy-five counties in Georgia, S per cent. Thirteen in Florida, 8 per cent. Thirty-two in Alabama, 8 per .cent. Thirty-nine in Mississippi, an average of 3 per cent. Eighteen in Louisiana, \ per cent. Seventy-three counties in Texas 1? por cent increase. Thirtv in Arkansas 7 percent, and twenty-fivein Tennessee, 15 per cent ncrease. The condition is re ported bettor than last year at the same time; W> against IW last year. Tho weather was favorable everywhere. Rather too much rain in Mississippi and Louisiana ,,e acreage of spring wheat shows a very slight increase over that sown last X??h. E le.ro is ? decline in the area sown In the States of Wisconsin and Iowa ol nearly 12 percent In Minnesota an in crease of 1 per cent. In Nebraska an in crease of D per cent, and in Californial 2. The condition of winter wheat is remark-, able and is W, which is 4 per cent above the average of last year. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,aU reportabove inn Kansas Is onlv 72. THE WOHK OK CONGRESS. During the session which terminated to day, 1,107 bills and joint resolutions were introduced in the Senate, and 4,288 bills and joint resolutions in the House of Rep resentatives. The members introduced during the first (or extra) session re spectively 773 and 2,520, making a grand total of 8,784 bills and joint resolutions in troduced thus far during the present Con gress. At thq Jjour of adjournment to day, besides a great number of measures not yet reported from the committees, there remained about 800 bills and joint resolutions onJ;he Senate calendar, and about 1,400 bills and joint resolutions on the House calendar, including some 000 pension and other private bills which have been reported with committee recom mendations for passage. Ncnntor llenry Still on Deck. Wasiiinoton, June 15.?Senatqr Pavis,! of West Virginia, made a long ipeech on the subject of his Treasury investigation, j Some two years have been spent upon this investigation, more than $20,030 expend-! od, and all that the committee has been able to report, in substance, is the fact that there are some apparent diacrepanpies as to the amount of.the funded debt, and that on some of the ledgers and other books ef the Government there are blots and scratches. Senator Davis declined, howpver, to express an opinion as to his belief that there had bpen any wrong do ing by any government official, and he did not even charge that a single dollar had been porruptiy appropriated or dis bursed. Senator Dawes, a member of the Corn* mittee, made a very vigorous and scathing reply to Davis, and showed bow unfair and partisan it was to throw out insiua* tions that there was maladministration in the Treasury, and yet to refuse to express an opinion aflirmatively to that effect. Mr. Dawt* showed very conclusively that the Democrats, alter two yenrs investiga tion, and an expenditure of?20,000, had been unable to 11 nd that a single dollar of the $^.000,000,000 passed over the Treas ury counters had been misappropriated or used by the Kepublic?n administration. HAftlS Mhh ?t?r?:KDAY. IT HOtTO*. fawlliw ? a J 4 5 I 7 S 9 Total. B<><U>n 0 '? 3 J 0 1 0 t-U ClnfiBJUU... 0 00000300?) at r*or. Ionian 1I45I7I# ToUl Cleveland 00200030-9 frojr........ i o o o i o i 2 o- s at raoviDBMca. loalon ~...l 9 Total Prtmdecw . 0 1 4 D 0 0 9 0 0- ? Baitto? o oMnMt-i at woaoKsrn. Inojn??.... I H M ? I II JOTota Wore?ur...Mw.M0 10 10 2 0 0 0 ?? 8 CkkajM? 0 14000010 1-7 THBEE OP THE THOUGHT OF For the Cincinnati Nomination, Potent Reauai Why Thurmtn's Bandana Will Not Wave In Triumph Over the Field-Seymour Thlnkt the Touch or Time Has Withered the Uie fuloeu or Himieir and Samuel J., while Til den Toots the Fraud Horn. THUBJIiVH mOIDlCT. One Chance In nThouinntl Ttam be Will be ibet'honen one at Cluclnunll. Columbus, 0., June 10.?There is one chance in one thousand that Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, will be nominated for President at Cincinnati next week. But not more. The one thousandth ticket may be the lucky one, but there is not much probability of it The nomination of Gen. Garfield put Senator Thurmau out of the question. Ilia chances would have been equal to those of any other can didate bad the Chicago nomination gone anywhere else than to Ohio. The forty-four Ohio delegates, with the exception of six, two from the First, two [rom the Second and two from the Twen tieth districts, are houestly for Thurman, and will vote for him in the outset, but at the same time without any hope or expec tation of nominating him. But if upon any ballot the thirty-eight unquestionable rotes for Thurman in the Ohio delegation will give the uomiuatiou to any candidate except Tilden, and possibly Bayard, they will be transferred without a moments de lay. Tl ere is a good deal of talk in this State about Jewett and Pavne, but it in only talk. The man that the Ohio delegation would like to see nominated is Justice Field, and they will break for him the moment they see that he has a chance for the nomination. They would do the same for Gen. Hancock second and Hendricks third. But Field is the man that they prefer above all others. His record is a judicial ono, and woutd be hard to assail, except on questions of judicial interpreta tion, and this would only go to prove him * thorough going Democrat. Hendricks would tind his soft money record agaiust him and Hancock would And the Mrs. Surratt affair a matter that would need ex planation during the whole campaign. The potent reason why Thurnian is not available is this: His nomination would make the resultof the Presidential election binge entirely upon the October election in Ohio, for it is a fact that even in 1870 the result of the October election in Ohio settled the result and made three or four states solidly Republican that were more ?r less doubtful. Thurman is as strong as tiis party in Ohio, and with almost any >tner nomination than Garfield from tmong the candidates at Chicago, would possibly have been stronger. But with Sarfield and Thurman as candidates, there would be nine chances for Gartield and one chance for Thurman to carry the October election. This is too great a risk for the Cincinnati Convention to take. To 3ght the Presidential battle in Ohio in Oc tober and lose, is what the Democrats do not want to do, and if they nominate an 3bio man they must light the battle here ind then, and, with the most liberal al lowance, only one chance to win in ten. Despite all that is said to Itoe contrary, the Ohio Democracy have a genuine affection for Thurman, but they will not let their iffection run away with their judgement. Like Flanivan, of Texas, they are looking for the oilicial woodphuck to .replenish heir store of meat. Presuming that Field or Hancock or lome other than an Ohio man is nominat id at Cincinnati, it is the Democratic pro gramme to concede Ohio to Garfield in tdvance. They will say1 that it is his >wn State, and a Republican State, and he frill lie entitled to carry it at the State elec ion, and that in fact the result in Ohio in Detober will have no more to do with the ['residential election, than will the result a Maine, or the result in Kentucky, or han would follow the result in Iowa if an Dctober ejection was held there. The inanimity with which Ohio will be con ceded to Gartield will surprise you. But if the Republicans put any faith in :hese concessions, they will be gudgeons ndeed. With all their professions and leclarations in advance that Garfield will insure a Republican triumph in Ohio at the October election, they will make the iiardest fight tn*t vyaa pvpr made in the Buckeye State for the mastery, and if the Republicans sleep on duty they will wake ap the morning after the October election to contemplate a slender and precarious majority, or find the largest figures on the wrong side. It will be a fight in which the Demo crats will make but little demonstration, ?ut the size and the vigor of the "still iiunt" will be something marvellous to contemplate when the oallots are being jountecf. An army of 5,000 workers will ^e enrolled and rpgu|arly pompeqsated jot to talk, but to keep their mouths shut in public, and work in private with every ioubtful vote in the most eflleacious man ner, ami see that every Democrat goes to the polls. While the Republicans are llring their heavy artillery at an enemy that claims he doesn't want to fight, his grand corps of scouts will b? everywhere laying torpedoes, breaking the triggers of the muskbts and blunting the bayonets, which do the re^l execution in the final iiand'to-hand charge on election day. Then, if the Kepublicans only carry Ohio by a scratch, or if the Democrats Bhould carry it, you will hear the Demo cratic bugles everywhere make proclama tion thai Ohio in October is the key note to tl)e Presidential battle in November, and cite as anevidenceof Garfield's weak ness his inability to carry Ohio by a big majority, when there was little or no op position to him, and when the State was freely and fully conceded to him in ad vance. It is the programme to concede Ohio to Qarfiold by twenty thousand majority, and at the Bamo time declare that the Democrats do not propose to dispute the State with him at that figure. If the Re publicans permit the majority in October to (all much below that figure, they will find that thoy havp furnished thpir oppo nents with a club, the sine and efficiency of which will depend upon the smallneas of the majority iu October. .THE HKW lOM Too ABdfnl fo be Available, no Nm)? Horatio, and llornilo Knows-Tildca'a lieinnodH uii Ihe nomocracy. Nkw Yobjc, June' 1,0.?A. Washington special saya: Tbe following is Got. Sev mour'a letter alluded to by him In an in terview puhliabed yesterday. Mr. Spriggs, to whom the letter was addressed, ia a delegate from tbe Oneida district to Cin cinnati: Utica, Jnne 15. lion. J. Thonuu Spriggi: Dkar 8ir?My name haabeenapoken of in connection with the nomination to be made in Cincinnati text week, and as you arp a delegate from tbe diatrict in which I lyo, I ask yon; In my behalf, to atate that 1 am not a candidate for any nomination to he made by that body, nor could I ac cept lucb a nomination if the Convention ' |WM ?? fl, U> S any question should come up aboul i my position or purposea. (8lgn?S),V y?UI8' H?ratio Sevmocu. A Syracuse special sayB Governor Soy mom passed through that city yesterday, on his way to Aurora, to deliver an_ad dress to the. young ladles of leae. He expressed the opinion that the National Oonven lion at Cincinnati would be unlet and harmonious, and would ar rive at ita conclusion without delay or bitter controversy. Tha GoverDOrlookrf the very picture of health. Dnited States Commissioner Maxou said he had not seen the old gentleman looking so vigor Z\*a strong in a thrice ol decade. Mr. Seymour remarked. I am too ola to run for President, even if I were willing m^ilutl" put in one ol the gentlemen nresent "you forget you look tea years ronngerthan Tllden, although you really are four vears oldor, and we don t hear Tilden will not run because of his age. It is a man's feelingthat makes his age and ""sejmour?"Well, Tilden is too old, too ?we are both too old. Some younger men "to,dhe7u"gg?Uon thatSeymour accept the nomination and decline the election, the Governor made no reply except a. '"commissioner Maxon?"Is itnot afact that an American cltiiena has the right_U> seek the nomination for President, but, having received it, no American citizen has the right to decline it i Mr. Seymour made no attempt to con tradict this broad statement, but simply nodded a half approval, leaving impre? aions not unfavorable in the eyes of thoBe designing hia nomination at Cincinnati. At no time during the interview did he express positively regarding the refusal to accept the nomination if tendered. Sey mour goes from Aurora lo Olean, a remote town in Cbatauqua county. He will re main in the latter place a week or more, probably being abnent from home at Deerlleld during the convention. Some people are inclined to believe there is some significance in thus absenting him Keif I New Yobk, June 16.?For about two weeks there ia said to have been numerous conferences between Tilden and a num ber of promiueut Democrats of this and other States, who have come to New York prior to going to Cincinnati. \ ari ous schemes were suggested and discussed for securing the Democratic nomination. It is Baid that on Monday last a telegram was sent Hon. Henry B. Payne, Cleve land, 0? asking if he would accept the second place on the ticket with liluen. The nature of hia reply has not been made public, but it is believed to have been satisfactory. At the same time a series of questions to Democratic delegates which bear, it is said, internal evidence of Tilden's authorship, were submitted for the approval of tho meeting, containing the strongest possible statements of Til den's c?e. The following is the docu lU"IDid the people elect Tilden President of the United States in 187Q? -AmIo "Is he not to-day the dejure President r ??Have not he and the people by whom he was elected been defrauded of rightful and constitutional possession of that onice by a conspiracy concocted and consi^m* mated under the forma of law constituting tbe so-called Electoral Commission c "Has not the House of Representatives denounced the fraud and put on record the fact that Tilden is constitutionally elected Chief Magistrate of the Republic? "If Tilden was elected by a majority of tbe popular vote in 1870, can the Demo cratic Convention consistently, fairly and justly give the nomination to any other candidate?" Altogether there were twelve questions. The Beven others embody tbe statements above given in different form, and suggest candidates lor nomination to unite in a note to the Convention withdrawing their names and presenting that of the man whom the people elected in 187(1. 1ILKW IIIN IIKAl.NS OUT. 'Til on t'omcicuco Jlnkefi lownrda of III All." Central Statiok, Jane 10,18S0. Bpwiil DUpaioli lathe Innlligenca. Since Sunday a young man named N'oah Towner has been miasiug, and hla friends feared that he bad killed himself, ind when they found him not at home to dinner yesterday, they instituted a search in the wootjs for him, as he left his borne taking his gun with him, saying he was going hunting. About dusk last night his brother found bim several miles in the woods, with his brains blown out. He was lying on his back with his foot on the trigger. lie left a note in his pocket to his friends, saying that be was tired of living, and that he bad done many wrongs, which tormented bim to such an e*teqt that it was more than he could enduro, and that he was go* log to that place whero the smoke of his everlasting torment would forever ascend. His friends and relatives live at Cam* bridge, Ohio. Millrni Award. Cincinnati, June 16.?The commission ers of the Internal Millers Exposition to day confirmed the award of the committee in the class of middling purifiers, which had been made to Geo f. Smith, purifier, Jackson. Mich. Also awards to Dufonr it Co., New York, for batting cloths; and Bernard Lees, on tbp receiving separator, wheat brush laacbine and smut machine. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. The Central Ohio Saengerbezirn, in ses sion at Akron yesterday, voted to hold the Saengerfest of 1882, at Dayton. A man named Johnston, residing near Aylemer, Quebec, killed his brother and then killed himself, yesterday. The Democrats of the Third Missis* ippi District, unanimously nominated Hon. H. 1). Money for re-election to Congress, yes terday. The Democrats, In the Third Congress ional District of Maryland, yesterday nom inated Felter S. Hoblitzell to succeed Run Kimmell. and in the Fourth District renominated Robert M. McLane. U. S. Treasurer, Gilfillan, yesterday in structed assistant treasurer of Now York, to invest to the best advantage on account in the sinking fund of the union and Pa cific railroad $127,830, and on Central Pacific 1212,070. Early yesterday tuorning, at Columbus, Ohio. F. Moyles, of Auguatln, W. Va., i brakeman on tbe Tan Handle Railroad was run over bv a locomotive and killed It is supposed Moyles wasintoxicated.anc laid down on the track to sleep some tim< during the night. Charles Degnillofeldt was arrested yes terday forenoon at Memphis, by specia officer Bauer, of the Treasury Department for counterfeiting trade dollars. A num ber of moulds antl oifcer implements wer found in the dwelling occupied by Deg nillefeldt, who is said to be an old o! fender. i "ALL READY, GENTLEMEN.' i . To-Day's Regatta on the Seekonk Short Sketchet of the "Knights of thi Spruces"?Some Good Work Expected ?The Enlrlei?Our Own Welsjer ber Said to Stand a Good Chinee of Crowing the Unt In the Front R?nki?The Conree. Providbncx, Jane 10.?The arrange menti (or the grand contest for the tingle scull championship of the United Slates ?amateur and professional?at this city to-uiorrow, are now about completed, and, though no confident prediction can be made as to the result of the rscee.it is safe to say from the number and character of the contestants that those who are present will witness one of the finest aquatic struggles that ever took place in America. TUI ENTBIXS. The entries closed on June 1st with the following names on the list: Professionals ? Edward Hantan, Tor onto, Canada; Robert Watson Boyd, Mid dlesboro, Eog;JobnA. Kennedy, Port land, Me; James H. Kiley, Baratogs Springs, N. Y; Wallace Ross, St John, N. B; George W. Welsgerber, Wheeling, W. Va; Kred A. Plalsted, Boston, Mass; Frenchy A Johnson, Boston, Mass; Geo. W.Lee, Newark, N.J, Horatio Delano, Chelsea, Mass; George U. Hosmer, Bos ton, Mass; Jas. H. Dempsey, Geneva, N. Y; James A. Ten Eyck, Peekskill, N. Y. Amateurs ?Frank 0. liolmes, Paw tucket, R. I j William Murray, Portsmouth, Va; Geo. Gaisel, New York; Jacob Gau dier, Toronto, Canada; Jos. Laing, Mon treal, Canada; G. Filxgerald, Philadelphia, Pa; R. Filxgerald, Philadelphia, Pa; John Bucklev, Portland; Edward Hayden, Bos ton; Timothy C. Murphy, Norwich, Ot; and James O'Brien, Boston, Mass. 11ASLAN tXD SOTO. Hanlan, of course, is the favorite for the professional race by long odds but there are some who think that the Eng ish sculler Boyd will improve on hit reputa tion and make a hard fight tor the cham pionship. Boyd does most of his practice work on the Ten-Mile river and has only appeared on the cours? a few timos. He is very careful not to show his strength and takes measures accordingly when watched. Tbe other day he put In an ap pearance on the course while the wind was blowing and the water rough, and started off at a lively rate. A number of persons on the sti'jre were on the lookout and took out their chronometers, but he disap pointed them by stopping several times on the course, and came back to tbe boat house with the appearance of being well satisfied with his experiment, whatever it was. He is already entirely acclimated and in the best condition. Boyd is a pow erfully built man, and though his rowing |s done in poor form, compared with thai of Han'an, yet he has great powers ot en durance and reserve force, and his move ments indicate the possession of an im mense >rauunt of the valuable quality of clear grit. HI LEV NOT IN GOOD CONDITION. Riley has the reputation of being plucky and anxious for the struggle, but there is no doubt that his last race with the cham pion was a disappointment to his friends, who calculated on % muoh more even struggle, though tbey had no hopes thai he would win. Since that race Riley has been somewhat troubled with ague, nod his condition is not very good in conse quence. "our own wiisoERnxa. Weisgerber has boen unfortunate in spoiling his boat, and Mayor Liddell's kind offer of Assistance has been in vain, for Messrs. Waters & Sons, of Troy, to whom he telegraphed for another, return ed the answer that it was impossible to send one on account of the number of or* flora ahead. The Wheeling man, however, keeps his courage up, and is practicing in i boat furnished by one of tho local clubs. He has sent orders to Iianlan's builder, in Canada, for a boat in which to enter the race, and it is probable that he can be ac commodated; but, if disappointed about this boat also, he will take bis peculiar "paddles" and row his practice boat rhese oars, which are made after bis own idea, are six inches shorter than the regu lar length, and have blades which are nine inches in breadth. They may be just the thing for a calm day, when the wator is Binootb, but it is probable that he will lind Bome trouble in ''recovering" if the wind is high. He has good nuarters. near Iian lan's, at the house of the Narragansett Olub, and is practicing very bard. The newspapers of this city give him credit for both wind and grit, and say that he has a very good chance for crossing the line in the front ranks. [WALLACE ROSS AND FRENCHY JOHNHON*. Wallace Kosa and Frenchy Johnson, whose last attempt at a race ended in a disgraceful fight, are both on band and will get an opportunity to find out who is the better man with the oars, under cir cumstances that will prevent the repetit ion of their last month's actions. ANOTHER CANADIAN. Gautier, the Canadian, is looked upon by many as the possible "dark horse," and though he has entered among the am ateurs, it is said he will row with the pro fessionals and will open the eyes of some of them. HOSMER AND DEMPSEY. ilosmer is $ young man who made rather a "phenomenal" start a year or two ago; but he has not since fulfilled the promises of his first season and had lately dropped out of sight. He is certainly ca pable of very <<ood work, but his chances are not considered verv good among the! stars of first magnitude with whom we will bavo to contend. Dempsev, of Geneva, New York, is re membered principally from his race with Courtney on Seneca Lake, in which Court* ney had the misfortune to overturn his boat by catching his oar on a wire which had been placed under the water, thqs al lowing Dempsey to croas the line first. TEN EYCK. James A. Ten Eyck is well remem bered by sporting men who used to pin their faith to Billy Scbarf. Scbarf was yonng and had a brilliant record until he met Ten Eyck at Peekskill, on the Hud son. He was on bis trip Eatt to meet Brown, and stopped long enough on the way to try a race with the Hudson oant* man, but his boat filled witl* water, and though he pluckily pulled on to tbe end, he lost the raoe, and witji it a lot of money which Pittsburgh sports bad wagere4 ou their fayorite. <(4*P OTHERS.1* Fred. A. Flaisted is well known here from his contest with Eph. Morris, but be I baa never been considered a sculler ol ' more than moderate ability. George V Lee, of Newark, New Jersey, was at on time a great favorite of Courtney's, bat h ? failed to meet bis patron's expectations a tbe great Watkins regatta of '78, and b has not done much to improve bis reputf 1 tion since that time. TUB AMATEUR OARSMEN. The amateur oarsmen are, of course, no so well known, and it is very difficult t calculate anything at all about thei strength. Laing, tbe champion of Canada attracts a great deal of attention, but hi has not yet given people an opportunity to see what be can do. He arrived las week and commenced practice immedi ately, but staved out only a short time thi first day. and has been very wary when observed ever since. It is thought that h< will make a lively struggle for the first {>lace. Most of the other men arrived be* ore Monday, but took their practice spine on the upper part of the river. Rhode Island will oe represented by Holmes, of Pawtucket, who is said to be in first-rate condition, and able to pull all his friends claim for him. He is a general favorite, and will go into the race backed strongly by the city of Providence. THE COURSE. Tbe banks of the Seekonk culminate in grassy bluffs and upon them, overlooking the river and the course on the west side | of the stream, have been* arected a num ber of grand stands capablo of accommo dating 19,00tf persons. On the other side of the river two grand stands have been erected, which, it is estimated, will have a seating capacity for 20,000 persona. Tbe police arrangements are as complete as possible and the river will be patrolled by boats which will keep intruders from the course. The distance for the professional race will be four miles instead of five, as originally intended, the alteration being due to tbe fact that the river at a point two miles and a half from the starting place is not sufficiently wide to admit of the stakes being turned without much danger of fouling. The Company offering the prises have agreed to the change of distance, and authorised the custodians thereof to pay the money to the winner of a four mile turning race. Tbe prize lor the amatuer race is au elegant cup valued at $1,000, weighs three hundred ounces, is of sterling silver, aud is described as the handsomest trophy ever offered for a boat race. GARFIELD'S RECEPTION * At the Capita! Lait Evening -The General's Remarks?Speeches by Other Dis tinguished Republicans. Washington, June 16.?This evening a serenade was tendered General James A. Garfield by the National Veteran As sociation. The portico of the Riggs House was tastefully decorated with flags and bunting, and the surrounding streets were brilliantly illuminated with calcium lights, while at intervals rockets and other fireworks, were Bet off from thfc steps of the Treasury Department. As tho procession filed past, cheers were given for GarQeld, and as that gentle man appeared on the platform with Attor ney-General Devens, there were renewed Gen. Devens in introducing Gen. Gar field referred to the great Republicans, Lincoln, Grant and Hayes, and each name waa greeted with loud cheers. "If," he concluded, "you sought to find an exam ple in ono person made, in which bv our free civilization hope is given to the hum blest as well as the highest born to aspire by lofty aim, by high ambition, by noble prophecies, to the greatest offices in.your gift, where would you seek it biit in James A. Garfield? [Prolonged applause.] 1 introduce to you, therefore, a scholar who has found the path of learning, no primrose path, but has won his way along by steady industry. A soldier whose shield ia unsullid, and whose sword is spotless; a statesman on whom rests no slain or dishonor; a christian gentle man respecting the rights of every man, because he himself is kind, consider ate and self respecting always. 1 intro duce Gen. James A. Garfield. [Loud (Jen. Garfield said: Fellow Citizens:?While I have looked, upon this great array, 1 believe I have gotten a new idea oi the majesty of the American people. When 1 reflect that whenever you tind sovereign power, every reverent heart on the earth bows before it, uud when 1 remember toat here for a hun dred years we have not denied the sover eignty of any man, and in place of it we have asserted the sovereignty of all in place of one. I sea before me so vast a concouse that it ia easy for me to imagine the rest of the American people are gathered here to-night, and if they were all here every man would stand uncovered and on unsandaled fcet'in the presence of the majesty of the only sovereign power in this Government un der the Almighty God, [cheers] and there fore to this gr<*at audience I pay respect ful homage, that iu part belonjrs to the sovereignty of people. I thanlc you fur this great aud glorious demonstration. I am not for one momeat misled into be lieving that it refers to so poor a thing as any one of our number, I know it means your reverence to your Government, your reverence for its laws, your reveren ce for its institutions and your compli ment to one who is placed for a momeut in relation to you of neculiar importance, foralltUese reasons! thank you. lean not at this time utter a word on the sub ject oi general politics. I would not mar the cordiality of this welcome to which, to some extent, all are gathered, by any ref erence except to the present moment and its significance; but I wish to say that a large porti n of this assemblage to-night were my comrades in the late war for the Union. For them I can speak with enure propriety, and can say that these very streets heard the measured tread of your disciplined feet years ago, when the imperilled republic needed your hands and your hearts to save it, and you came back with your numbers decimated, but those you left behind were immortal and glorined heroes forever, and those you brought back came carrying under Utter ed banners and in bronzed hands the ark of covenant of your republic in safety of the bloody baptism of war, (cheers), aud you brought it salely to be saved for ever by your yalor and the wisdom of your brethren who were at home, and by this you were again added to the great civil army of the republic. I greet you, comrades, and fellow soldiers, aud the great body of distinguished citi zens who are gathered here to-night, who aie the stroug stay andsupportof business, of ? prosperity; of peace, of civil or der and tbe glory of the republic AD,] 1 think you lor yout welcomt to-night. It wis esiil in a welcome to om who came to England to be a part of hei glory.and all the nation spoke when li vm uio, "Normans and tjaxons ant Panes are we, bm all ol us Dines in oui welcome to. thee i" and we say to-night, o all Ibo nation, of all the people, soldien aud civilians, If there's a name that weldi us all Into one it is the name of the Amer lean citiwn under the Union and uude the glory of tbe flag that led ns to victor) aud to peace. [Applause.] For this mug > niheent welcome 1 thank you for all ther [ U in my heart. BROUGHT BY THE CABLE. Honors to England's Royal Guest. DiuenilOM In Gladstone'! Cabinet?The Land Leaguers Dissatisfied with the Policy of the Irish Party?Serioue Trouble from Recent Eviction! in Ireland?A Stir in Egyp tiin Official Ctolcs? General Foreign Notea. ESfQLA.XDN KOYAL C.I KM\ London, June 10.?After the presenta tion of addresses at Guildhall to the King of Greece, the corporation entertained the distinguished guests at luncheon. The Lord Mayor proposed the health of the King, who responded, briefly referring to the progress Greece has made in recent years. lie said that as soon as the fron tier question was settled, he felt sure that the construction of a railroad and other internal improvements would begin. The Prince of Wales, responding to "The Health of the Royal Family," said he felt sure he expressed the sentiments of all Englishmen when he sincerely hoped his Majesty, the King of Greece, might shortly have'advantages, which un til now had been withheld.from him. Mr. Gladstone, in proposing the health of the Lord Mayor and the Corporation, said he trusted tnat the report of this cel ebration would go forth to the world as a demonstration to all whom it concerns, that the interest of Englishmen in the fortunes of Greece, is real and universal. The corporation, he said, have chosen a day for this ceremony with singular felicity. On this day the representatives of the great powers of Europe are met together in the Capital of the Great Ger man Empire for the purpose of consider ing in what way they may promptly give effect to the stipulations of the treaty of Berlin, and prove that the assembled wisdom and might of Europe speaks to the world in accents that denotejreality, and is destined to have practical effect. I entertain the fervent wish (united with. National confidence that it will bo ful filled,) that the representatives of the powers who are thus assembled may take in hand the important task committed to them in a spirit of equality and juatico without respect to persons and without lookiug to the right or left, that they will fix their mind aud attention on the object that is proposed to them of giving a fair and equitable interpretation to those im portant provisions of the treaty on which the future hopes of Greece in a small degree are suspended. May every pro vision be adopted that can lighten the burden of the arrangement and insure its happy effect ao that it may take its place among those monuments of diplomatic wisdom which will receive gratefal recognition not only of men and ttie.gen erationof to-day, but posterity through ages to come. IBKLAHD. Dubux, June lO.-The five families who were yesterday evicted with somediffl E&fflrWSVSr I?at ni?'" conducted Thi k! by " larEe c?*d. .?f, .< lroubles "re begiuing to as some a serious aspect. Land League meet lngai are growing in numbers, and scenes Th'? nfi"C?ar" ?' m.et* U*)' occurence. The non-payment of-rent programme is bearing 11a Inevitable fruit in the hun dreds of evictions.which uke place overy 7mn'? "c.cou,'"ull?1 by lawless threats* and in manv cases sanguinary outbreaks People assemble in thonsands tore sist the processes of eviction, hut the land lords with theassistance of the police are. iffiirste Henry B. Acheson, of the County Ro? common, attempted to fence a farm which belonged to him near Balleuamore in if'1."?' which a tenant had been ejected. The peasantry to the number of 1,500 swarmed to the spot from the snr nhrhft a"""7'. nn"t'cl with sliovels, mon ii 'lni1 """c'ed the working' men who were erecting the fence. The Acheson party, who wuro put to fli.-ht turned and tfred a revolver,' wording . p ""l"?;n'cd. J,leh,n. who died later in tho evening. Acheson, who escaped but wm ih?'nTea"y arrested, was protected by ih^> ??ted. , B 1"*eaulr>' wer? j TlIELAHOLEitiUbOX TABSIELL. IJuiiuk, June lu3?A split is threatened hotween the Land Leaguo and Hie Irish Parliamentary party. At a meeting to day Mr. Brennan said that the League is In receipt of a thousanil idlers a week from tenants who are asking for assistance to enable them to resist the ejectment and that it is strange that 110 steps are lak en to forward tile bill providing lor the suspension of evictions, pending the ??t! tleinent of the land qu'e-tionI*" 11?,aid that some resolution condemning the con duct of the Irish I'arllamenury tjartv should be passed by the League. 11 the party dul not hum ?l.<* i.;ii .1. * . . . 6 only a makeshift, and Z'S'party shoultl reject it. Oiher speakers n?e5 Mr'R|Vrn"|r|" VerM8'i I'?WM proposed that Dublin in 1? be directed io come to Uuolin to explain the conduct of the party. The whule debate was character ized by a ppirU of the greatest hostility men" ^preventatives in 1'nrlia^ The inefetin# concluded by calling upon ih? ?j?cun?it reject the 0 Connor power proposition. TKUUBLK is Tin: ui.4i>?ro.\K o?v. EK.Mi K.\r. Loudon, June 10 ?It is said that Pre mier Gladstono wrote Monday night last before leaving tho House of Common, long letter to Lord Lyons, British Minister to t rance, explaining the O'D.mnol' ind that If O'Uonnell falls to U" b? a'?. Hation awiuHt ChalN-rnell Ltcuur, Premier So!' * m0Ve a V0Ie of censure ou grav^wiK's h'llwcMnll 'I'll'lloa' 9 grievance being the failure ol theWeroi Governorship of'cTpu'o/ vZ'hopT hvirr. Caiho, June Id-There is much excite ment here because Chachin I'asl a for merly Minister of War and Marine ob^ talned natnraliution as an Italian snbi?<.f without permission from Government or Porte, thru placing under the protection of the Italian Government his Immense Property, which. u"i erally suppose^ rosily fielong. to the ?? Khedive. Ch.cl.in f'asl,, leuE?? ,^ terdav without bavins a naM .2?! V the Egyptian Government. TI.eKhed'lve f1," ' decree ordering bis deirrada. li illf i"* ? lrum '"s a|ip,jj,