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IVEDXESDAT, JULY 7. I*l 9-
THE POWELL .EXPEDITION.
Though there can now l>e but little doubt
that the man Ilisdon, who has told the
story of the loss of the Powell expedition, is
an impostor, we regret to say that we have
not the same faith in the falsehood of the
main fact of the narrative—namely, that
the expedition is lost. Wo have the state
ment of the brothers of Major Powell that
there was no man of tho name of Ei&lon at-
Inched to the expedition; the dates of let
ters to Mrs. Powell, to tho Major's broth
ers, and to this paper, show it to be impos
sible that tho catastrophe related by Kis
don could have occurred at the
time at which ho puts it.
Bisdoa’s testimony, therefore, we may con
sider as disposed of; but we hove still, un
fortunately, the bloit itself to deal with
coming in a more authentic shape and with
a certain probability of truth. This will be
found in another column, in articles from
the Omaha JirpuLliom of tho lid and .Hd
inst. Our find impression was that «bin was
ouly Hisdon'a account, made by him under
another name, and the JtrpulUc.m of the
4 th, in commenting upon a despatch
from Detroit, giving tho substance of Mrs.
Powell u letter, seems to have considered
the two stories ns coming from tho same
source. His, however,it must have done has
tily,furMre. Powell referred only toEisdon’a
story, which the JlcputUc/in knew nothing
id*uut, while it bad published the very dif*
ferent and more probable narrative of John
Sumner, on tho authority of one xUlcy, who
had just arrived at Omaha from Green
River City. Now John Sumt*#* »«
Vu«wn iroutieraman, and, as bo
was with Major Powell lasi summer, it
it is quite probable that he was a member
of the present expedition. He is said to
have given the date of the catastrophe one
month later than that of Hindoo, and its
place ].»() miles farther north, and only
seventy-five miles from the point of em
barkation of tho expedition about tho Ist
of June. It is quite possible that Major
Powell and hia companions may have trav
trsed that distance of Keventy-tive miles
from the Ist lo tne 20th of June; quite
possible that they should have been
loKt at the rapids known to exist at
that point, and quite possible that John
Sumner, who wr.fi n companion of the Major
a year upu. should have been with him last >
mouth Mid have c-scHped when the rest were
lot, - !, Hindoo, if he did not invent the
whole story, probably got hold of it at
Green Eiver City, then repealed it in his
own clunifij and lying way, confusing both
dates and places, and bos travelled east- !
ward on the sympathy excited in Lis
jicrsonution of sole survivor. There
is, of course, still the ‘ hope left
that , the report which has reached
Omaha is Risdon's story merely set afloat
by him somewhere at the West, and that
Sumner's name is erroneously attached to
it. And this hope is a little strengthened
by the fact that the story, ns coming from
Sumner, reaches us from Omaha, and not
from Green Eiver City, whence, if it be true,
we ought to have had it by telegraph a fort
night ago. Then again, the Omaha Hr.
public a u't. narration is singularly bare of
incident, really stating nothing but that the
Expedition was lost in the rapids of Green
Eiver, late in June, at a place called “ Hell
Gate," not Laid down on any map. We
could well have spared a little of the
geographical knowledge of the
wilderness for a few of tho facta which its
informant must have been in possession of,
if he really had the story from John Sum
ner's lips. As the case now stands, how
ever, though there are real grounds to fear
lhai the expedition is lost, it is impossible
to form any positive opinion until wo are
in receipt of more definite information.
IRISH BEPDBLICAH CONVENTION.
The convention of Irish Repul»lic.ms
uLicb assembled in Chicago on the sth
r.r>A ca. r. . 4.i.iy, »cj'ica«iiUj me nuclcu.. of
a party which, by temperate counsels and
prudent, generous management, might
grow into a powerful organization, control
ling hundreds of tbonsuuds of Irish voters.
To this end ita-eelf-appointed leaders must
temper their missionary zeal by political
discretion, and aim not merely to make
Irish Republicans all that they would like
to have them, but to represent Irish Repntv
licans as they are. It is easy for represen
tative** who have no constituency, or the
me:e skeleton of one, to meet and
“ rt-fiulve” for the Irish Republicans of
America, ns the three tailoreof Took-y street,
“resolted,” in the name of “We, the
people of England.” Whatever their reso
lutions may declare, they are not likely to be
contradicted by their constituents. Those
who disagree with them will noh-nelico
them. Neither "policy nor our
tariff policy is likely to bo adjusted merely
with reference to the somewhat Irish doc
trine of antipathy to England. , .And we
fa»ey that, os the voting mass of the' Irish
Republican party grows from a shadow
into a substance,—from a mere
army on paper into an enlisted, drilled
and moving column, —the new leaders whom
it will elect will be less zealous in the decla
ration of policies which lend to alienate
considerable classes of voters. Every effort
to array the Irish voters of the country on
the side of freedom and free suffrage for a’l
men. free fiebbok and free Und, free speech,
n free press and a free church will receive
the cordial support of the entire Bepubli
can party, and the reinforce
ments that may result from
it will be welcome, albeit
tbev come into the field after the main con
flict is ended. We say to our Irish Repub
lican politicians, therefore, Go ahead, wo
wish } on perfect success; but we adjure you,
if you would cpcupe ignominious weakness
and defeat, to drop irrelevant issues, and
issues which tend to divide rather than to
unite, and allow the Iriidi Republican party
to grow a little larger and faster by being
less rigorous in the restrictions and loss
crotcLftty in the principles required as a
lest of LueitibcrhUp.
THE CASE 0E EETCHUM.
The crficof yjung Kctchum has jnsl boen
rcvivt-d tu K< w York by an application for
Lib discharge. His father, Morris B.
KtlcLuuj, i>; a bunker of high standing, and
v f.nh wvrral millions of dollars. Edward
it. Ketehnm was his father’s business part
jj<r, but. bv outside speculations, made
M-icral millions of dollars. He was not
content, l»i:t continued in speculation, and
f-r« ntnally became involved, and, in a vain
( nu< :iv<<p to extricate himself, committed
Le»\ v forgeries. Hie forgeries were so
badlr executed that, had tlu> paper been
offered by any one lc»s known, they would
Lave 1h» ij discovered immediately. "When
arrested he confessed everything ; but the
officers had difficulty in convicting him, be.
cause none of those wronged would testify
against him. The indictments were ol>-
tuinc-d on the statement of the District At
torney. Ketchnm pleaded guilty, and Judge
(now Governor) Hoffman sentenced him to
four tears and six months’imprisonment.
Great efforts were made to secure his par
don, but Governor Fenton refused to grant
it. In the meantime the father has been un
tiring in his efforts to get the son released,
and eventually was advised by Mr. Attorney
Bartlett that the conviction, or plea of
guilt v, wus for one offence, and the sentence
for another. The remit was an application
to Judge Barnard for a writ of
corpus, to investigate the affair. Upon the
hearing the Judge said he had investigated
the question and was clearly of the opinion
that the sentence was erroneous; he, thcre
_i_ f orCt declined hearing Bartlett, but asked
the District Attorney to proceed in his argu
ment against the application for dis
charge. The latter, somewhat nettled
by the course of the Judge, delivered
an argument couched in the strongest
* and most emphatic language, in which he
warned the Court against any attempt on
hia part to discharge a convict upon huhMt
corpus. Bartlett replied, and the Court re
served his dedaa on until Friday last.
When the Court met on Friday,the Judge
turciic d a large manuscript, which he com
menced to when •he waa interropteu
Ly Mr. Attorney piuJ™, who stated that he
represented tho prisoner forjnaßy; that tie
application was made without tho prisoner's
knowledge, and against his wishes
in the matter; that young Ketchum
persistently determined to terra out
his term, unless relieved by Exoc
utire clemency; and he, therefore,prayed
the Court to the application and
permit the yrisoner to hare his own way.
This announcement was a surprise to the
spectators ; but the reporta in the New York
papers Intimate, though they do not assert,
that there was a general understanding la
the matter. Judge Barnard did not road
bis opinion, which is generally understood
to hare been favorable to the prisoner ; but
it will probably be sent to the Governs
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a judicial indication dial tho sentence pro
nounced “by tie Governor when on the
bench was unjust, end ought not, therefore,
be allowed to aland any longer. The result
will probably bo the pardon of Ketch tun
bj-Gorernor Hoffman.
The strongest efforts have been made
heretofore for the pardon of this young
man. Chief Justice Chose, Horace Greeley,
and leading men in law, in Congress, in the
Church, and some of the leading merchants
of the country, have appealed in hia behalf.
If Governor Hoffman pardons Kctcbam ho
will be hble to show that tho official act was
directly solicited by Republican as well ds
Democratic public men, and that no party
capital can be made against him on account
thereof.
TEE BRITISH BREADSTUFF MARKET.
Great Britain has repealed the lost item
of tax on imported breadstaffs of every
kind, and they ore now to bo admitted free
of duty. It is to be regretted that under
our tariff we are not able to enjoy tho ben
efits of this action. The cost of production,
including the item of tranuportation, is so
great in the United States that American
breadstuff's are only purchased for British
consumption to supply whatever deficiency
there may be in the continental supply.
The high price of American breadstuffe bna
encouraged the production in Hungary and
other parts of Europe, and the margin to
be supplied from this country is gradually
growing less. We have taxed several in
dustries out of existence, and have framed
our tariff so that it may operate to tho in
jury of our agriculturists in two ways. It
reduces the amount of bread pnrehonod by
ns, and reduces the exchangeable value of
that bread. We have cut ourselves off from
the British market, except to supply such
comparatively small deficiency as may
exifit in tho surplus productions of
all other countries. We do not compete
with other countries ; we supply what i*
needed after they have boon exhausted of
their surplus. Not content with this injury,
the tariff divests the breadstuffs of a largo
portion of their exchangeable value. Grain
to the value of a million of dollars la gold
ut Liverpool ought to have the purchasing
power of a million of dollars in gold; but it
has nob Exchanged for other commodi
ties, it wiM only purchase and bring through
the American Onutom House goods to
the value of £ L'.i,t)oo, while the French
man, the Prussian and the Hungarian can
bike Lome with them dollar for dollar in ex
change for their wheat. This is tho opera
tion of the tariff on American agriculture.
It throws it out of competition, and taxes
its surplus products sixty per cent. The re
peal of those duties by Great Britain will
operate more to tho advantage of European
wheat-growers than to those of our country.
Wo tax our fanners lo such an extent that
the cost of production excludes them from
competing markets ; and when at last they
do sell, wc Lai them sixty per cent on the
proceeds of their soles. That is called
“ fostering home industry.”
THE CAKOK OF THE COLORADO.
Hie news, whether true or false, from
Major Powell and Lis party, who,
for more than two years, have been
engaged in preliminary arrangements
to explore the great canon of the
Colorado, ond who hoped daring the present
gammer to accomplish it, will add new in*
tercet to this important subject. Many
may suppose that the results to be obtained
will not warrant the labor and expense,
not to speak .of the dangers to
be incurred in exploring the hid
den mysteries of tlifa wonderful r»2nn.
But geographical problems d far less in
tercet and importance have cost the world
a for greater expenditure of effort to solve
them', and mankind will always both up*
plaud and reward those who increase the
sum of human knowledge. To add to that
knowledge is the controlling motive that
impelled Major Powell to risk everything
in order to unveil the mysteries that sur
round one of tbs great rivers of the conti
nent in its course to the sea. Even if
it has cost him his life, this wall
not deter other daring explorers
from solving the problem with which the
name of Powell is now most honorably and,
perhaps, sadly associated. The following
is the sum of about all we know of the
Colorado River and iU unexplored canon :
It gathers its waters on the western slope
of the Eocky Mountains, on the north, from
a point opposite the Yellowstone, down
through at least nine degrees of latitude to
a point opposite the head waters of the Bed
Hirer, and drains an equal space along the
eastern rim of the Great Salt Lake basin.
The mountains which surround j the vast
valley which it drains ore the Eoeky ou
the east, the VTind River on the north, end
tin Wasatch and Uintah on the west; and,
as they all rise far up into the regions of
perpetual snow, they furnish the water for
one of the largest rivers of the' continent.
Ail its principal tributaries, with the ex
ception of the Gila, the Lit
tle Colorado and the Ban Juan,
arc gathered into its terrible current before
it dashes into what the frontiersmen call
the Black Qanon of the Colorado. The
river has a tremendous fall to the Golf of
California. At Green River Station, where
(ho Union Pocifio Railway crosses the prin
cipal tributary of the Colorado, bearing at
least as much water as Rock River at Star
ling, the elevation above the ocean is
about C,OOO feel. In lho_ throe or four J
hundred miles between this place j
and the entrance of the i
canon the fall is probably not more than a I
thousand feet. The river runs with a steady j
current, and the only considerable fall wo 1
ever beard of is that in which Major Powell
and bis party may have lost their
lives. At the head •of the canon,
the river, according to all accounts,
rushes down an awful cataract, worse
than that below the bridge at Niaga
ra Falls, and through which" old trappers
who have been there roundly assert no
boat or vessel could pass without certain
destruction. From this point the
canon is variously estimated at
from three to five’ hundred mile*
long, and, if our estimate as to the descent
of the river between the crossing of the
railway and the head of the gorge bo cor
rect, it must full . some five thou
sand fed, or about a mile, in Its pana/igo
through the canon. Much of ' the way
through the canon it is known to run with
a very alnggiah current, and hence there
must bo many fearful falls before the river
reaches the foot of it near Callville.
From all the accounts of those who have
aeen the canon at various points, and from
the reports of the only two persons who, it
is now claimed, over went through it, it
teems to be a huge crock in the earth’s
crust, about a mile wide, with perpendicu
lar walls, from two to fire or six thousand
feet above the river, made by Home terrible
convulsion of nature. The whole country
along tho canon is volcanic and utterly des
titute of vegetation. Lateral canons.
branching out at right angles, and
requiring several days' journey to
go round them, render it impos
sible for parties to follow down the
banks of the river, could water b« obtained
from its terrible current, rushing between
its walls nearly a mile below the explorer,
lienee, the plan of Major Powell, as de
tailed to ns when here in May Last, was to
wait at the head of the canon till the spring
foods had passed down, when ho hoped to
find a narrow plateau along the margin of
the river from which the waters had re
ceded, and along which ho could let down
Lis boats over any rapids that might be
found in his way. That there are such
plateaus along the Colombia and other
rivers is well known; but the question of
whether they exist along the shore of the
riverin the canon of the Colorado is «tiff in
doubt.
Till recently it was supposed that only
ga?e Tnnn—a Mr- White, now living near
Callville, on the Lower Colorado—had ever
gone through this canon. His thrilling
nazmtiv* is well known. We find in tho
last number of tho Western Monthly what
ac-cms to be a well-authenticated account of
» lad of 15 yean of age, who went
down the ZZ2 Juan and thence down the
canon of the Colorado, by at times lash
ing himself to a raft. He represents the
sand bars at some of the places he was
ashore as largely composed of particles of
gold—a thing we can readily bcliore, for
gulch-mining is extensively and pieoeqq
fully carried on among the mountains at
the head waters of the Colorado.
Should the report of the loss of
Major Powell and his party provo
true, that should not stop all - ef
forts to explore the aanon of the
Colorado. It is a geographical problem of
the highest interest, which future explorers
will surely find the means to solve. It can
not be that a great nation will allow one of
its largest rivers to remain unexplored
through some four or five hundred miles of
the sublimest scenery to be- found any
where on the face of the earth. South
western Colorado, above 'the canon, tßsaid
to be oueof the finest pastoral regions upon
the continent, and, when once settled
Ly a hardy, enterprising people, as it will be
in a few years, they will be sure to find
some means to follow down their noble
river to the Gulf of California and unfold
the mysteries of its “Black Canon."
Tho Detroit Pott states that Lieutenant
A, E. Eaphall, of the United Stales Army,
has been ordered by the Adjutant General
to report to General Sickles, the recently
appointed Minister to Spain. General
Sickles is on officer of tho United States
Army, but the President has decided that,
being on the retired list, there is no legal
objection to his holding a civil office. Bat,
being a civil officer, wo do not understand
how he can have a military attendant. If
Lieutenant Eaphall is also on tho retired
li«t, by the same rule which admits Sickles’
appointment, he might have a civil officer
attached to the legation ; but wo do not
derstand such to bo the cose. Tho assign
ment of army officers to purely civil duties
is not precisely in accordance with tho
spirit of our laws ; yet, if Sickles bo legally
eligible, his appointment cannot bo objected
to on that ground. Sickles, however, is to
be a Minister and not a General at Madrid,
ond why be should have a military staff, at
the national expense, is not so dear. The
Detroit paper must be mistaken in the
matter.
There is a movement on foot to diride
the State of Mandachusetla, so as to securo
two new Senators from Western Massachu
setts, and prevent the ancient power of that
Commonwealth in tho Senate from w-mlug.
It is some time since Western Massachu
setts has had a Senator, owing to its dis
tance from the “Hub.” Perhaps it will bo
long before it will have any. But is
There not danger that, if wo make two
States of Massachusetts, little Ehody and ‘
even Delaware may apply for a division?
MiissachuficttH had better be content with
her present apportionment, lest the spirit of
consolidation may get into Congress, and
nil New England may bo hustled together
into one State, reducing her Senators from
twelve to two, and not a very unwieldy
Stale at that,
ItKterday a new religious sect, called tha
“Brethren of One Faith,” met in Chicago.
That will be a very appropriate name so
long os the Church Imu only one member.
THE SOUTHWEST.
U’m. fitandlford, or Saratoga, owns a cow which
cave birth to a calf, on Monday of last week, weigh
ing lib pound*.
John T. Alexander's 40.P00 acre farm In Doug
las, Champaign, and Ford Counties, includes 5,000
acre* Id corn, three feet high, and 3,000 acres la
wheal, harvesting twenty.five bushel* to the acre.
The Ldwardsrllle Intelligencer states that one
Thomas J. Uoxey, of silver Creek Precinct, was, on
Saturday, fined ond cost* by E. M. West, Jus
tice of the Peace, •* for attempting to Eteal a klas,
etc., from a Mr*. Slippery.”
At East Rockford, on Tuesday of last week,
Pliabe Stoorc, aged 13 years, attempted lo poison
Mrs. Samuel C. Fuller by putting arsenic in her
lea. She had been reprimanded for some misdeed,
and ronght revenge in this manner. She 1* now
UxjziL
At Dnnlellb, July 1, Mr*. John Roach presented
her husband with three children at one birth—two
girl* and a boy.
An examination for State teachers’ certificates
win be held at the State Normal University, on
Tuesday and Wednesday, the loth and mh of Au
gust next, provided not le** than ten applications
from teacher* desiring such examination, and en
gaging to be present, are received at that office by
the 2ulh 0/ July. The annual session of the HU
ool* Stale Teachers’ Institute will begin August 9,
aid continue two weeks.
The meeting of the boclety of School Principals
is atmOQucgp to he held at Aurora, 00 the cth, Tth
and btli oraily Inst.
A German named (Vlddeham committed suicide,
at Pekin, last week, by hanging. Poverty was the
cause of the deed.
tnwju
Tinjotiiy icyan, of Blockhowk County, went
suddenly insane a few days ago, and remained so
up io the time of bis death. The doctors attribute
his Insanity and death to the intemperate use of
loliacco, the man being an inveterate smoker.
By a landslide on the bluff at Davenport, 'on
Saturday, Thomas Kelly was killed and John
Kelly severely injured.
At Prairie City, on the 3d, some persona were
sung an old anvil, when It exploded, filing two
men and a boy. badly Injuring two other men, and
killing two horeea. *
An old negro, applying tor a coda, at Evans
ville, on WVdnerday, to bury his child, aged three
months, said that he wu one hundred and six
years old, and hla wife twenty, lie claimed to
have known nearly all the Revolutionary Generals,
and to have been at the battle of New (Means.
Mbs Dtckclhclmer, the lady who was supposed
to have been killed by Rctnster, the Covington
murderer, is atilt alive, and hopes are entertained
ol her recovery.
T. D. Germain has told out his interest in the
Milwaukee .Hentintl u> Horace BrigUtman. Mr. Q.
had l>een connected with the Sentinei for twelve
years.
The Brandon Timtt says It is estimated' that the
heavy storm of a week ago did tlitf,ouu damage la
that county.
a boat containing seven men, while coming over
the rapids Just above Taylor's Falls, last week, was
capsized, and three of the men were drowned.
incntaaK.
Daniel Upton, formerly a member of the Michi
gan Legislature, recently attempted to cross Black
Lake, which Is half a mile across, In a leaky boat,
when It went to pieces, leaving him and his
youngest son to get ashort the best way they
could. The latter succeeded, but his father, be.
coming exhausted, began to Bint, Eddie Upton,
bit. oldest son, saw all their movements from the
houota w hich is close to the ahore, and, running
dow n to the beoeb, shouted to his father to keep
up good coorage and be would save him. lie
quickly threw off his boots and outer clothing,
and, swimming out to where the old gentleman
was struggling in the water, caught him Just as
he was going down the third time. Clinging to
his father with an iron gnp, he turned upon Us
lack and swam in this manner to the shore, and,
upon reaching It, sank to the ground insensible
from exhaustion and excitement. Mr. Upton laid
to all appearance dead, and in this condition they
were found side by side, upon the arrival of neigh
bors whom the youngest buy bad called lo the
SJK)t.
At Minneapolis, last Thursday, two mue Chil
dren of Michael Murphy died from eating the
phosphorus off of watches; and another child, at
lost accounts, was dangerously ill.
Kkh'.xjLS.
The boiler of the sawmill of Ballets K Pries*
bach, In Biranger Township, Jefferson County, ex
ploded lost Wednesday, fatally wounding Michael
Bunin, an employe, and badly Injuring Walter
Bcoti, the engineer.
At BL Louis, last Friday, there was great
alarm over a rapid rise in the
river, and thote doing business on the lower bank
strained every nene to get their goods and mer
chandise out of danger. Teams and wagons were
In such request that they commanded fiofof tu«
day, and men Si per hour.
A negro woman living to Dog Prairie, BU Charles
County, recently gave birth io an Infant whmc
body was entirely black, with the exception of oue
leg, which Is perfectly write to the thigh.
Near Clarksville, on Saturday, Henry Carletoa,
aged 14. and Mart hall, his brother, aged T, were
drowned la Spring Creek.
A few nights ago the Inmates of the Jail at Jackson,
Cape Girardeau County—eleven in number—broke
out and made their escape. Borne of the desper
adoes removed the iron bare of the cell in which
the; acre confined, with a file, and, having chlo
roformed the Jailor, liberated the rest of their fel
low-prisoners. Two of the fugitives were In for
murder.
THE TEIUIITOBIKS.
The Cheyenne Uacer of the ltd says:
“>ouieC«ro tint*, • p*rty of turn *rrir«sj
Lcriv trtDjine»ecouuUtOr<U»ooTrri<--«if rich pt»»vf
itlapa, mneir nulr* from thJ* dry. They exhitih.-d
»j>ceio.«-n» hi pi *d. <>f fine xfproraore, which they L»J
om&ibni iroiu w r.'Ufli constructed from t w«*r, n
l«ox, The rx*ct cltfii* dl*c->vi-ry Qu Ix-ra krpt
• werrt uIUI nllfiln tfrw d»y»- A party. «ahr*Oßc
tb- un«.io»i di*r»rrr< r* and tncir fr.en.li froa; thia city,
Int tin* n,un.t]u lur th<* orwdirctss*. TficrfJ u fir
übbrnnxa Pt r&IL uid tr«m tbeacc in woo* and oa
bonrtock, Tl* suite* lie lo a •miUtwr-terir dlrret}.»o
fnuuShcnnan or Larmnue, betas ojinlly dtsUut from
aithcr T* let. and *rt tituftted oo tbe<-d*e <>l tbc b»»;n
ot North fork. *n4t* > y,i&d North fl&Ue Kjr—r. They
»rr. doubUit*. not fmr from the • L»»I i'h»nro’
alrtrtrt. O I the Medldne I low Wnnntiini, wa/l lie *oiae
forty »ouih of the Col ;r»do Uac."
PERSONAL.
The widow of General Worth died at 8a Angus
line, Fla., June £O,
Commodore VaodcrbQt has taken one entire
floor In the new hotel at Niagara, Canada, for his
family, during the summer..
General Green Clay Smith, late Governor cf
Montana Territory, intends to become a Baptist
preacher.
Bouurell forbade smoking lo the Treasury De
partment. Delano did It, and Botjtwell *• regu
lated him," but Delano still smotesaad faffs back
on Gant.
General McClellan intends to make a tour
through Canada and the Northwest during the
summer, and will not spend the season at Long
Branch, as has been reported.
U is reported that John Bus tell Young, former
ly of the New Turk Tribune, Is to editorially man
age Truin' Spin* a/ Oe Time* during the present
year, and that be next year proposes to start a
-paper of his own.
The NeW York WorllU authorized to state that
ex-Presldcnt Fillmore did not write, nor know of
tm it appeared, the late article, “Arc We to iiare
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY. JULY 7. 1869.
Empire?” written for the WaUn% Warid. it
was dated Buffalo and signed "iLF," -
' Stores emphatically disclaims the use of bed
grammar in h!s letter of acceptance, which, he
aaya, “ X tbiat was very well wrote."
An election takes place In North ramiim on the
first Tuesday In August next, to choose township
officers lo eighty counties of the state.
Upon lie recommendation of the conservative
Stale Commitce, Dr. T. J. Pretiow, for
Congre** at Urge la Virginia, has withdrawn.
A noted politician of Thirty yean ago. Duple
Peyton, toms up in Tennessee, u a candidate for
State Senator.
William Douglas Wallacb, formerly owner and
editor of the Washington star, has taxon the
stomp to Virginia for Walter. John W. Forney,
General Nyc and S. C. Carrington are stomping
lor Wells, '
in the Ketch urn ease, atXew Tort, on Wednes
dry, while one of the lawyers was addressing the
court, the father and son, moved by an irresistible
impulse of affection, leaned over and hissed each
other.
The official rote of the election held la the City
of Washington on the 7th uIL, li as follows:'
JitpuUiav*. Jf.d.
OmUmtar ButfWfU. 10,119 f<m i M tMI t rfa
Cook. J 0,170 RekJpff, Kfr® tMI
DoDmiUaXK Fararth, 5.477....4.T81
The Maccu Telegraphy * prominent Democratic
Jountl, urges that the Legislature of Georgia
should, under the recent decision of the Supreme
Coon of that Stale, restore the expelled negro
member* to their seats.
colonel Segar asserts positively that be bos cot
withdrawn ai a candidate for Congressman-at
large from Virginia, lie Is endorsed by 1L D.
Stuart and other prominent Virginians. Colonel
Begay asserts tliat Walker will be elected Governor
by 40,000 majority.
Tne perrons prominently mentioned la counec-
Uon with the Democratic nomination for Governor
of Ohio >re Judge Ranney, General A. S. Platt,
Chilton A. White, Milton Saylor, General Durbin
Ward, General Samuel Cary, and General W.
8. Rosecrao*.
Tae terms of Senators Tates, Crimea, Bom, Mo
Creeiy, Fessenden, Wilson, Norton, Thayer, Cnv
gin, Catlcll, Howard, Fowler, William* or Oregon,
and Anthony of Michigan, expire March 4,19 TL
and most of the elections for their successors will
take place next year.
Toe Uon. John Covode has been selected os
Chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican state
Central will devote the whole Ol
hi* time to tho dalles of tho position. The head
quarters ol the committee mil b© established m
Philadelphia.
R- M. X. Dontcr, Moore (of Rockbridge), Con
rad. Judge Daniel (of Lynchburg), the Goodes,
Judge Robertson (of Charlotte*rule), Governor
Smith, General Kemper, Judge Crump, Judge
Wilson, Walker R, Staples, McLaughlin (of Rock
bridge), Duke Johnson, and other prominent Vir
ginia Democrats, go for Walter.
Mrs. £. A. Pollard ha* returned to Washington
from Baltimore, having succeeded la oaring her
sentence commuted from Imprisonment to a tine
of *IOO. She asserts that her trial and persecution
were prompted by rebel* of Richmond and Balti
more, on acconnt of her Union acoumcnta daring
the war.
The Cincinnati Enquirer tajs that Cary In isas
mean* Pendleton la 1872; bat the Cleveland Plain
Dealer mj« that, if the nomination and election of
George IL Pendleton for President In 167 S depend
upon the nomination of Sam Cary as the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio to 1669, then'
the chance* for “ Young Greenback*” In 1679 are
»llm Indeed.
Mr. Gonadaj, Democratic member of Congress
from Kentucky, ha* coma out (according to a re
port in that excellent Democratic authority, the
Louisville Courier) •* squarely in favor of rrpudfa
*/<-«, without any circumlocution whatever. ” The
speech « hich he delivered in favor of it at Frank
lin was “ frequently greeted with rounds of ap
plaufic.”
The State Temperance Convention in Maine ap
pointed tho following delegates to the National
Temperance Convention, which meets la Chicago,
September i; Arthur Dee ring, of Richmond;
Joshua Nye, of Waterrille; 11. JL Morrill, of Gar
diner; L IV. Roberts, of Stockton; Dr. Morton, of
Eenncbunk; Johns. Kimball, ol Bangor; and j.
W. Monger, of Portland.
The Hon. Vi. n. Wadsworth, of Kentucky; Gov
ernor Morton, of Indiana; Judge Bingham, of
Ohio; and Colonel Rutnsey Wing,fine Republican
candidate tor Slate Treasurer, are lo speak in
various parts of Kentucky, at me Invitation of the
Republican state Central committee.
A Tennessee paper, with mired metaphor*
Worthy of Mullins, remark* about Parson Brown
low : ” The Senter party are welcome to the to wer
of strength which clusters orouod Ida name. Wo
don’t want any of It la our'n. We will never hitch
our fortune to hi* spiral wanderings In the great
ocean of politic* for the feather-weight of hi*
name."
In one of the Congressional District* of Alaba
ma all the Democrat* were Ineligible to Congress.
So they hunted no a Northerner who went there
in lSig>, and who happened to be u Democrat, and
put him in nomination, lie can take any oath
that i* required, and of coarse, being a Democrat,
la neither a ” mean Yank" nor a ** vile carpet-bag
ger.”
James Roche, a well-known Irish journalist,
died In Xew York on the 2d. About 1545. he was
connected with the Galway rmrtiralor ; In 1514.
with the Kilkenny Journal; and, in ISS3, with the
Waterford mmum. In ISM, he came to this
country, and established the Fhcsniz Association,
“ which afterward became what la now known as
the .Fenian organization." lie was an editor of
the Irith ynrt, under Thomas Francis Meagher.
In isci, Roche returned to Ireland, and started the
Galway Awm'con. He subsequently relumed to
America, and, fora time, acted as Secretary to
General Sweeney.
Advices from Hanover state that the King of
Prussia was received in that city with great cold
ness. All the high families bad left on the pre
ceding evening, and as the King passed the win
dows of the booses were closed. In many streets
the words “ King George forever !" were traced
in largo characters on the walla The troops
alone took pan In the reception of King William,
wno appeared to be entering a conquered city.
Count de Blsmork did not seem to be much sur
prised at the aspect of the population, and said to
the Burgomaster, SL Bosch, to whom the King
bad already addressed a lew words: “ We know
that we arc not lorcd here, but we care very Utt.'s
for that. We ore the stronger, and that Is enough
lorua.”
UJSCy.LLASXOVS.
A snow storm passed over the town of Lccco,
Italy, on the evening of June 10.
Toe latest fashion of London “ nobs" Is to carry
a poodle In their arms under Che flowers in their
respective button-holes.
A Mr. Miller, of Union square. New York, ft
should be universally known, advertises for the
owner of an umbrella which be has found.
Fashionable people In Pans, have tabooed rail
way traveling this season, and ore wandering
over Europe la their private carriages.
Cognac, the great brandy town of Prance, is
said to be one of the wealthiest places, in propor
tion to Its size, In the world.
A man in Georgia is so fond of riding horseback
that he shouldered a saddle and walked sixteen
miles after a horse for ihe pleasure of riding him
back.
A convention of American Philologists Is called
to meet at Poughkeepsie on the 27th of July, to
continue for’several days. A.national society
win then be organized.
Since the Viceroy of Egypt's arrival in Paris he
has received over COO letters a day from persona
requiring assistance. The total amount already
asked is over 1,000,000 f. Requests for employment
are more modest, amounting to only 900.
A San Francisco mao has sued another for
tM,o(x> damages for enticing away his wife, and
detaining her In opposition to his utmost peaceful
efforts, whereby ho has - been deprived of her so
detv and assistance.
a few days ajm, a white man, a fisherman, re-
Fi.iiDg on the Ogtccbee canal, some ten or twelve
miles Irotn Savannah, Georgia, boM bis wife to
at other fisherman (white) fur sixty bunches of
fish, valued nt fifty cents per bunch. The wife
was perfectly satisfied with the sale, and Is now
living with her purchaser.
“An English paper says it la not an uncommon
thing in that country lor Ladles travelling in first
class railwayconlaces to cut down and carry away
tnc silk curtains of the windows, for the purpose
of making aproua wlih them. Bo general did the
practice become on one line that all new curtains
were made of a material that was not worth
stealing.
At West Pilhoie, Pa., last Thursday, Mrs. F.
Bolin, and her child, aged 8 yean, wure burned to
death. The mother wm throwing crude oil on a
fire, when tne burning oil caught the clothing of
the child and enveloped it la flamca. The mother
attempted to save the child, when her own cloth
ing ignited. Doth died In a few hours.
The Richmond (Va) WAtyaaya:
tty theivcUtratl >u of IWT, the ttaekt appeared to
N* alJe tovlact s t»n]<>rlly of -(weaiycjr ucbilmt* <*f
(hr lluiite of Hfli's.iUi. Albemarle, with three deb'.
Birhmood and Henrico with • InhUand Norfolk,
wUhtwo.showedurcrouaiorUlc*. Dot we bare ai
rrady ii-bifruatiou that tbcac liave hen wrested from
ibrn.. Tbiru-cu Iroi'-ouealdraddM tu (IweUwr makes
« dlfliTecrc < f twenty.Ux. which firs* tie the Il<vi»r of
IVlrcalea by five. Weerpcct to have it by fifty, and
the .S.'ti»lr by a proportionate (najorlty."
The l.sro banks of the United States represent a
capital of little less than five hundred millions of
dollars—B4M,COO.(vO; while the railroads in opera,
tlon (*iua*) miles) repreaeut a capital of nearly
two thuacand million dollars— Tne
earnings of the bank* mar be estimated at from
f0e,000.000 to ico.coo.oyo annually; while the earn
tops of the railroad* or New York alone, la%t year,
were fdS.eci.Ooo, and ol the whole United Slates,
H«ViOo,o*o.
The iSvach Government requires that the fronts
of all dwellings shall l«e cleaned on and after tne
I*l of May or the present year and periodically af
terwarda. ‘A law to the same effect has been en
acted for some time, bat, not belru: well observed,
the order has been peremptorily renewed, and is
to be rigidly enforced. Ibe usual method adopted
rorench cleaning In Paris consists in the use of a
j»t of water forced out by steam pressure, and is
said to be very effective.
At Glenn'b Pall*. N. Y., between U and 19
o'clock on Tuesday night of last week, a gang of
boia went to "Old Gid Mead’s *’ house, demanded
an entrance, and swore they would break In the
door If U was not opened. They supposed that
some disreputable girls were stopping there, and
Wished to find them. Mrs. Mead told theln there
was no one in the house but herself and little
prana-daughter. The boys continued to throw
large stone* against the bouse and door until they
so frightened Sirs. Mead, a woman & yean old,
that she died between 2 and 3 o'clock m the mom
inn. A number of thcrowdyw were caught, and
have been held fur manslaughter in the fourth de>
jrce.
■ The gentlemen mentioned In connecuon with
the succession to Senator Grimes, ox low*, arc:
George O. Wrlchr, of Dcs Moines, now on the
bench of the Sopreme OcurtT William B. Alliaoa,
representing for the fourth time the Dubuque
District In Congress; James F. Wilson, of Palr-
Deid, late Chairman of the Jntffciarj Oootmiuee of
.the National Uouseof BepreseetaUvsa, and Sam
uel J. Kirkwood, of lowa City, four jean Gov
ernor, and Vmted States Senator lor a time, to fill
the unexptred second term of Harlan, appointed
Secretary of the Interior. The Fairfield Ledger
says that “800. James F. Wilson win cot enter
the lists in the Senatorial contest”
The Cincinnati IWnumtl says (bat “ Don Piatt
la op for a Fourth of JqJj o ration at Xenia. It la
an open question whether he will not attack the
Declaration of Independence. It was, we
believe, in his last Fourtn of July effort that be
pitched into George Washington.”
The Oquawka OIL) Si*etator says: u The wheat
sod oats covered by the recent freshet on llcoder
ton Creek ts decomposing with a horrible stench.
Buckwheat is tn demand notr-a-daya. The bottom
fanners, who have had their crop* of wheat aud
corn drowned oat, wtO try to make up loss tune by
putting in buckwheat.” . , ■ •
THE POWELL EXPEDITION.
Another and More Probable.
Story.
John Sumner, the Survivor.
John A* Higdon an Impostor.
From the Oov*A« frpubUean. Jvtg S.
Nothing that can be written is ao Interesting to
the casual or constant reader on historical sketch
es, laeldeotfl. actual realltiee and occurence* or
—» 111 m MMIIC iUXM U 1
the new ana undeveloped concur west ol a*.
In the Sierra Nevada, Rocky, and Siena Madre
Mountains, the Quaking a* p, Hear Hirer, Wasatch.
Humboldt, Promontory, Ulnt* hand ITinfl Biver
ranger, there are every day experiences of trap*
per*, hunters, tX: lorers, plfMart-teerers and
miner*. which. U written and published, would
astonish the world. The new discoveries hair,
breadth escapes, asr/vniahiivg revelation* ore often
of such a nature M to bo almost incredible and
beyond belief.
Beading the hundreds of accounts brought in
byibeodveniorerp. or put in print braome brave
wanderer, we get but a feint conception of the
great Weak We hare a simple idea of Its won
drear wealth, its peculiar geological formation, tie
gtegular species of animals unknown to history
Ua thousand dl defeat oarage and bat banc trlPea,
Us wealth of precious metals, and perhaps form
on impression of what most be gone through with
to order to know it for * certainty.
Failles are continually organizing to open op
the track ess wilds, explore the unknown rivers,
or canons, in search ol something new, that the
world may be enlightened and themselves bene
fitted.
The Powell outfit was of the latter h«m. we
say vc*. tot all are now beyond the present, all
having been lout, while Id tfielr perilous descent
of Green River, some two weeks ago.
We are enabled to lay the particulars of their
sad fate before our readers, this morning.
' Onr personal knowledge of the country where
the cotottropnc occurred, with that of Mr. Win.
Riley, a (tapper and Indian tighter, of several
tears experience, whom we met u»t foil while
homing on Creep Hirer alto enables os to give a
correct and anthem 1c description of the country
sad the route taken by the explorers. Mr. Riley
has been over the ground several times, and is
perhaps familiar with every foot of it.
He can just arrived from the mountains, where
he met Mr. John Sumner, the only survivor of the
party, and from him gleaned every known portico,
tar of the explorers and their loss In the whirling
rapids. Mr. Sumner was Cm met by Riley at Fort
Bridget; but in order to give the read era compre
hensive description of it it will be necessary to go
a Utile timber west. *
Fort Ktldger Is ten miles from Bycr's Ranch and
about thirty-five from Granger's. Quaking Asp
Mountain, the great rim of the Pacific basin, u
thirty-live miles nearly duo west, while tho Bear
River Mountains, Uinta and Wasatch range lay
more to the north and still further west
Just below Granger’s several small screams cen
tre and form a respectably sized creek known as
black's Fork. The Dig Muddy, Ham’s Fork. Little
Hear or Lage Creek, all empty Into Kiser's near
Biyan, From Bryan due north to Johnson's ferry
on Green River, Uls but seven miles. Doth the
latter stream and Slack’s Fork run parallel In a
southeasterly direction lor ninety miles by nrer
acd lorty by land from Bryan, and there join
forces.
Leaving Green Hirer City, we cross an alkaline
plateau of one mile In length to the point where
ibe brackish, saltr waters of Bitter Creek inter
sects. From inis point down the rtver for a dis
tance of nine miles, the river forma one of the
xlo»i beautiful landscape scenes in the world.
Below this point the scream enters a narrow
pass where the rocks lift their sombre heads hun
dreds of feet in the air. A few miles further ami
South Bitter CrecK trends its sluggish way from
Big Cedar Canon sod loins waters with tne Green.
Five miles of beautiful valley anu then mure of
those lowering rocks me passed. Tltls appears to
be Ipe nature of the country until we reach the
mouth of Black Fork, just seventy miles bv water,
below our starting point, but only twenty-five by
land. At Henry's Fork, twcutj.Qve miles further
on, the scenery Is wore rugged. Hmllh's Fork and
several other small tributaries empty at this point,
and a wagon road cut* across the country
to Fort imdger. Twenty miles farther
and we enter Brown’s Hole, a deep
ten mile valley of the Green River
and Turkey Creek. Here we And more of thsrock
Sided walla, their height often reaching an altitude
of WO feet, while the stream narrows down to a
hundred feet In width, and rushes through the
gap with terrible rapidity. The bed la died with
huge boulders, fallen from the tops which almost
meet at certain points, formed of a kind of sand*
stone, impregnated wtto alkali, and porous in lu
nature, in tec winter It freeze?, cracks open and
drops Into the water below. At it? mouth tne river
enter? Hell’s Gate. "Dcate’s Door ” would be
equally a? appropriate for this place, and on the
walls at the entrance should be cut In deep letter?,
“ He who enters here leaves hope behind.”
The noise caused by the rostnmr, seething
waters la almost deafening, am) the very sight
alone enough to shake the stoutest heart as it
cortcm( iatea a descent of the dangerous pass. A
foil? twelve feel la height Oral meets the eye and
send? an involuntary shudder through the irame.
No boot ever built could possibly pass over these
falls without being shattered to atoms. Willi the
bore po-bUillltt that an attempt would be suc*
cresiui. tom or Qvc mure falls would also bare to
be passed, while the channel between them is a
roaring, rock-sided ca'ldtotn of whirlpools and
rapids, with Immense stone?, rearing Ocrco-look
tng. sharp-pointed heads threateningly above the
foam at every lew feet. The water Is precipitated
down this gorge at a velocity of forty miles per
hour, hence not the shadow of a chance for escape
presents UacK.
This is the scene which one encounters for ten
miles. Only here and there dark, rocky canons
are abruptly broken in two by the stream.
-Below Hell’s Cate the river widens, but la BlUl
very rapid, with one, two, three and four feet falls
every few miles, until we reach tn* mouth of Bear
River, twenty miles below. For the twenty miles
following, the rapids are not bo bad, yet dangerous
enough.
The next fire mile?, however. Is quite as bad,
sod In some places worse than Brown's Hole.
Here we encounter Oiteeu miles of the towering
rocky rides again. These are known as “TDoDi- '
rides," and are covered with snow during nearly
the whole year. They are passable only In July
or August.
From this point It is about seventy-five miles to
Fort Brtdper, In a northwesterly direction, and
one hundred and fifty miles to the mouth of the <
Green River and bead of the Colorado— tire hun
dred miles southwest ot Denver, Colorado.
These ruptds are extensively kno*n throughout
(he Western country as the spot where several
different parties, who have attempted a descent
through tbe destructive chasm?, have peris oed in
the fuuinanly undertaking.
Owing to toe crowded state of oar columns we
are compelled to omit tbe conclusion of this Inter
esting acumot until tomorrow morning.
Prvm the Omaha July 3.
LOSS OP TBE THE J-OWEIX PARTY IN BELL’S OATH—
KIKE MSN DROWNED—LOSS OF OTHER EXPLORING
PARTIES.
The party was organized In June, 1509, under
the direction of Major J. W. Po*eU, of t&c Nor
mal University, of Normal, 111, It was designed
for scientific purpose?, and consisted of tweatr
five persons. The exploration was conducted un
der the auspices of the Normal and Wesleyan Uni
v.rsitlcsof Bloomington, 111., tec Illinois ludas.
trial College at Champaign, Id., and the Chicago
Academy of Sciences.
Tbe outfit was furnished by the last named In
stitution and tec Nature) HKtory Society—the
Unitrtf Eiate* Government furnishing rations,
railroad transportation, hunters, guides and an ad
equate military escort. Tbe party started
with every requisite necessary, among them
t«o life-boat* built In Chicago. The surrey
began at the source of tee Grand River, near
Grand City, Middle Park, Colorado, and was vig
orously prosecuted to Coalville. Tne original In
tention was to make a sixteen months mp, but
for some reason unknown to dr, a portion of thou
returned to the fall, having been highly successful
as far as tee explorations extended.
Borne of tee party wintered near Brown’s Hole,
while the balance, with Major PowclL struck
across the country for Fori Brldgcr, and irom
there relumed to tbe Staten.
* The Major bad built a couple of l*oats which he
particularly adapted to tee navigation of
the Green and Colorado mere.
Returning to Green River City, he sold all the
•addle and pack stock, got everything in read],
nca?, and started lo comiuay with nine picket! men
for Fort Urns.
The party was composed of the Major and hts
brother, woo joined them tn Mar; Mr. William
Rhodes: a boy 14 years of uge, known as
“Swanj;” John Snmner, of Denver, and four
others whose names Mr. bornner had forgotten.
They took with teem three light bests, 300
pounds of ammunition and reliuos to last six
months. Tbe whole party, cxccp'lagthe leader,
were volunteer?, receiving no salary, and getnog
only an Interest In any claim whlcu might be dis
covered and staked off.
This and afnturc prospect of being employed In
the Chinese exploring expedition, wutch will sum
next spring, wo* the only lucentm-* toorge them
on In tee perilous journey, wnicn they had estim
ated would occupy fourteen montus stopping
here and there along the route to examine the
concur.
The itart was made tee Ist of June, and pro
gressed without an Incident worthy of note until
about the tfite, when Hie Orrt great rapids at
Brown’s Hole were reached. Here one of toe boats
wu badly smashed up by au rnivoldable accident.
Once entered, tela pas* mu.?t be gone thr iugh.
There 1? no retracing Uic step* taken, and nothing
but tee coolest brain, tne bravest Dean, thestroug
cat muscle, tbe unseat t-nergv. tec most unctungo
able intention of purpose, with ch-se watchfulness,
would «rcr carry one to its mouth, where a bare
snow for life may be fonn'L
Other parties have attempted the exploration of
this stream, but none have ever dared venture the
passage ol Brown's Hole and Hell's Gate beyond.
A detour hat always been made until the light
rapids, *0 iblle* below, were gained, when water
was again taken to tbe IMvlata. Two different
parties hare tried tee descent of these continuous
islis, because ol the almost niter Impracticability
of a roundabout trail. I>eath met idem either
way, one tram the passage the other truth In
dian?, deep snow?, lack ot game, Ac
The Ross outfit left Lacicde In IM2, numbering
ST mco, well supplied with every required article
oftseor consumption. They started lu search
ol gold and only ventured into tbe Divides in
hope* to discover some wealthy spot or exposed
m>ue.
1 heir death was inevitable. Not one of them
but Jisd faced the gnat monster a hundred times,
and In places where quick-witted resources were
the oM/ eulvatiin. Six ol the number were Jell
behlud to take care of the stock. Those who on*
imd the homasuir found a gigantic sepulchre,
wlilch burled the bodies forever from human
SlpbL
The retraining six attempted a detoor, hut
heavy September sue *s l>ogail falling, the trail
mu i<»; Shelter and protection iur mun and
l*asi was sougut to a Quaking Asp grove. Star
vation stared them m the lace; part of the Slock
was killed for food, the balance died, and to 1-<>l
ski 11-UjDS of the brave fellows were discovered by
some hunter*, with a partial account of the tern*
bte disaster.
But one expedition has ever succeeded In mak-
Inp this route. In May, of last tear, Bill* Hous,
of Pittsburgh, Jesse Irwin, of old North Plane
Perry, and l otn and Jesse Be!L
Major Powell trubied too much to his long ex
puit'Cce and superior intelligence—the fact Is
patent to every person. SUll, as an explorer one
could never make bucccbs withont venture. Ilia
pluck was commendable, bat his Judgment m (his
instance very bad. Twas bis firet failure.
Warned tune and time again by those familiar
with the nature of hti route, be tamed a deaf ear
to mrr voice and pressed on. Por the Judgment
of hts follower# we can only say, they are deserv
ing a monument (or (heir fidelity and the itca.l
- manner in which they confided and clung to
him as if, indeed, he was the great oracle to guide
them on.
our account Is soon told. Ambition had a
strong hold open reason. Jnagaent was laid
aside, and the Napoleonic Major, with his
brave baud of faithful companions, saving
one who was ordered on snore to
report, in cape the failure none believed in did oc
cur; these high-minded men, bracing their cour
age well cm made every preparation, and then en
tered death’s portals—the awful, treacherous por
tals C.T lieu's Gale. We can only aay. they most
have died at they had Uvid—heroes ail; yielding
op thetr spirits with us same quiet indifference
and pure talth manifested during the horrible de
scent of the rapids in Brown'sllole.
tux rowKrx kxrxcmox—a canakh.
From Mr Omaha Hspui-hrcn, July A
The Detroit (Michigan) despatch, which will be
found elsewhere In our columns, makes state
ments which render it probable that the woo!e
story ol the Vjae of the Powell exploring espedt
tton is utterly false. We trust u may bo turn oat.
Frcru tl* Dttrcril Fhtt, July 4.
THE POWELL EXllOkikU PARTT—NOTE SHOW THE
UETKorr, Joly 3, iso.
As Use report* la circulation coDoenjlsg the di*.
oMertoihe M PowellExploring Expedition" are
calculated to give uneasiness to mao; Inends. I
mint u u well, perhaps, lor me to state that I loot
open I lie whole story u a fabrication. I hare ac
companied ny hatband. Professor J, W. well,
commander of tbe expedition, for tbe past two
jm% and bare bet recently left the party- No
peons bearing the name 01 Jobs A, Kudos has
ever been connected «jtb in The nines he giro*
of the members or the party are, wlthoataaiagle
exception, false.
Hi* statement that M Air tlie wbole party de
stroyed oa tbo Bth or Kay, ores* be ontroe, aa I
-fcavoi«ueatip(94b»BM-ttf 7Ba Cm*
cxco Taunts publishes a letter dated the uth of
May.
ftTooneatail acquainted with the plane, alma
and rolnutiseof the expedition, the whole tSDVJ la
glaringly false, and beinn entire Ignorance of
• tbs matter. It la not the Intention of the expedi
tion to reach the “Great Canon.".or to attempt
us exploration, until some time la September.
The months of June. July and -August
are to be a pent in doles preliminary
wart, in addition to the wort of mating
coiectlona m geology and natural history,
their object la to determine the latitude,
longitude and altitude of rations points of inter*
en un the route, and to mate observations on
Ihe climate. It la obrlona that to accomplish tbla
,wor», their progress most oc qmteslow. it will
be remembered that In a former communication
he (Mr- John A Risaoo,) made toe absurd state*
tsent that the wnoie party were lost when 800
miles from civilization. “it wai be readily seen
Lorn the few facts I have given, bow Utile reliance
can be placed on any statement be may mate.
1 may odd that the party were without horses or
ztulcv. The Idea of taking a pack train bad been
abandoned, and they were to rely solelv open the
bo&u. Mbs. J. W, Fowxu.
unoa nox muob rowzLL"a hboteib-di-liw
—TUB UtreoaißimißS AMD CWTBCTE3 OP 813-
Dos’d eroar.
Tii tA« Fdilor of The Chicago Tribunt:
Permit me, u a brother-in-law ol Major Powell,
and os one familiar with the plana, preparations
end movements, previous to leaving Green Elver
City, of “Powell'a Scientific Expedition, ”to pro
nounce the statements mode to jour correspond
ent at Springs eld bj one Rlsdon, concerning the
loss of the expedition, unqualified uea, for the
following reasons:
I. At the time ol the reported loss, May 8, the
expedition bad not left Green Elver Cltj, and did
not leave that place until May Sd. Major Powell
himself did not leave Ttiinat. until Hay 8,
%. The names given by Rlsdon as those of toe
men lost are net the name# of members of the
party, bnt in three or four Instances an the names
of persons sow living at Hennepin and vicinity,
who hare never been members of the party.
s. All the horses, moles, wagons, belong
ing to tho party were disposed of before the expe
dition embarked in boats; consequent!; this lying
John A. Rlsdon bad no teams to bring to unknown
“Le Roy," on apocryphal “Red Elver.”
4. No tree grows In that country with bark capa
ble of being made into a canoe, much leas one
with capacity of carrying “twenty-eight men,
surveying Instruments, etc.” Consequently they
had not “ left their boats " and taken to a ” bark
canoe.”
6. Major Towel never commanded Company B.
First Illinois Artillery. He did command Compa
ny K, Second Illinois Artillery, bat lam told to
night, by one who was a member of that company,
that no such man as John A- Rlsdon ever be
longed to it.
The whole tale Is false, and stamps John A. Rla
don as on arrant Usr or crazy person, who, if ever
connected with »he expedition, either deserted or
was kicked out, and tella this story to create sym
pathy and procure transportation: and if this John
A. Rlsdon ho/, or Has had any of Major Powell %
properly tn his possession he undoubtedly stole it.
Allow me to ask yon to publish this M contradic
tion,” and thus aid in allaying the anxiety caused
by Rirdon’s heartless Uea. EcspecUnUy,
LkCOK, July 8,1809. A- H. THOMPSON.
sramncKT or a brothbb or major powxll, it
r.iHiiiz—>o seen has at ataPON enowm ar la*
Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune.
LiSq.l,«, July A
Major Powell's brother states that he know* the
Major was safe as late as May <O, and was then
prepAflog his boats; that It was not the intention
of the Major to cross the Colorado. The
Major’s wife baa a letter dated May
‘-*2. He was too prudent to leave one
man with so much baggage. Some persons are
named as being with the expedition who did not
go. None of the parties named from La Salle were
With It. The boat was provided with alr-tlght
compartments, and each member of the party
wl’h life preserver?. Something besides the
satchel ought to bare been saved and the family
ought to hare seen that ere this. No such as
Bisdoo is known here.'
Crops.
A letter to Tins TitinCKE from Lisbon, Kendall
County, Ilk. July S, says: "The com In many
places in (his county is not half a stand; tn tact,
ail the low lands win not amount to anything. uu>
less it stops raining immediately. Small grata
looks well yet; but bon long U can thrive under
water I cannot toil. It hoe been very wet (or me
last tw o weeks, and this afternoon we had tne
heaviest mower of the season. Tne thunder was
the most terrific I ever beard, and the rain de
tanned in torrents. The water is as hlgu os I
’em saw ft, and It u tun raining."
A letter to TBS TniBDNE, from Sparta, Wls.,
toys: "The wheat, oats and rye will surely give a
heavy yield, better than It has been for several
years. Of corn lam not able to give so favorable
an account. HI? very small yet, and does Dot
seem to grow much. Tne weather is too cold,
and we have had too mocn rain for that crop. The
nights arc cold, and days not very warm, Wd
Lave had only a few worm days this summer. The
lumbermen cave done well this season, as the riv
ers are on and rafting good. ”
The Morrison (ill.) Journal of the tit aaya:
“ Wheat and oats In Whiteside County are looking
well—never better at (his season of the year. Th«i
prospect la favorable lor a very large yield. Corn,
in appearance, is fine on high lands—much better
than one would expect from the Incessant cold
and wet weather of the past month,”
The Peoria (Hi.) TVnrucn’pf of the 3d says; •* Ad
vices from two gentlemen from different portions
of Mason County contradict tne reported failure
of tee crops in that county. They say wheat ap
fi-ars to bo better filled oat than for many years,
arm era will commence harvesting nest week.
Com looks well, and the prospects are that there
will be goad average crops. At Maple Ridge, in
this county, the winter wheat also look* splendid
ly aud Is well filled. Mr. A. G. Maple expected to
commence cutting yesterday, and proiiably did so.
Corn on the hlgo ground ta not bad. With no
more rain, godd crops are expected la these locali
ties.”
The Camp Point (IIL) Enterprise, of the 3d, says:
” It has been so very wet that the com crop In
this vicinity can hardly be a third of a crop. Many
of the farmers are doing all In thelrpowcrtomake
all they can, but so far nave been unable to plow
It, or even to take any care of It As to wheat and
oat? there seems to be a good suppiv.and mostly
well filled,” - •
The Lyons (Iowa) Mirror, of the Sd, sav*:
‘‘W beat, a former who has travelled around the
county considerably this week informs us, never
promised better lo lowa. Tbe straw has a rank
gvosth, it 1? true, but r<-y little, comparatively
speaking, is down. Com, also, although kept bacc
a little by the cold reins of last month, is in fine
common.”
A letter from Kaskaskla, lIL, June so, savs:
“ The wheat crop of Randolph county for ISOS la
the heaviest crop ever produced, and win average,
the county over, not less than twenty bzabcls to
the rcre- (and this is a low estimate, which to tee
aggregate will foot up MO.OOO bushels. Randolph
alone win send into the market more than half a
million Du?heis of w heat this year, lifter retaining
her home supply for bread and seed. At this
writing near about two-thirds of the crop tn this
bottom U already barveftted, aud with ten days
more of the present favorable weather all will be
gaihi red tn tbe shock ready for stacking or tbe
thresher. In the pr.lrlcs, on tee high lands, har
vest hands have been hard to get at any price
farmers paying from HOO U)*2.W per day and U
feared much loss will be sustained In consequence.
The core crop up to (hb date, though mocb of it
wo? planted late, as well ai sustaining considera
ble damage by the worms, is In a highly prosper
ous condition, and. from what we can see before
u» cow, wilt be a full average turnout.”
The Keokuk (Iowa) GaU City of the 4th, SSTB:
" Reports from the Dea Moines Valley and the'ia
teriur of the State show teat the wheat ha* goffered
less from the ptotrected rains than anybody could
have anticipated. Very little has gone down, and
U rust appears it Is washed off by successive show
ere. Com can’t possibly yield more than a half
crop, however, at the tx-ste”
Tue Prairie da Chlcn («*!•.,) Union report* that
the corn crop has been greatly damaged by tbe
late severe rain*, and teat great fears are felt teat
wheat and oats will be so nmk that they will fall
down and be lost
The New Albany (Ind.) Ledytr learns from Mr.
H. P. Tnley, rente agent on the LoaWvlUo. New
Albany A Chicago Ratlwav, that tbe fanners
along the line of that read are actively engaged In
harvesting their wheat. The wheat fields are
looking very fine, and no complaint ts made of
rust or weevil along tee entire line of the road,
□e also report* the corn growing rapidly, and, If
no unfavorable wnatber prevails hereafter the
cron of corn will be very large.
Tne Detroit (Mich.) Pru /Vruof the4th says;
“ The continued wet weather has exerted a dam
aging effect upon the crop* of Michigan From
all parts oftbe State the reports of frequent and
severe rates come to na. Another week of this
weather win materially lessen the prospect of a
good wheat cron. ”
The Lawrence (Kan.) J<urnal of the Ist 9v«:
“ The eicevsire rain? of the last two weeks have
very sfrio-.slj Interfered with harvesting In Kan
sas, especially lu the southern portion ol the State.
Tbe fall wheal was ripe and ready lor harr&ung
just as tbe heavy rains came, and lo many places
U 1? impossible to get into the field with the rcojx
er. As a consequence, the old-fashioned and anti
quated way of gathering wheat with the cradle
ha? to tx> re-sorted to. It n ill simply be a j.hvstcal
impossibility to gather the wheat harvest without
(he me of the reaper, aud.'.lrom the present pros
pect?, before the ground will admit of the use of
machinery, many wheat fields will be totally
ruined.
a pnraiciettcr from Tern, 111. June 89, says:
“ The general impression among Uie farmer* u,
that there will not, at the best, be more than one
half of a corn crop; amt to Judge from my own
oUcn-aMoo. 1 phoaid think the reports nut at all
exaggerated. Yesterday there were several of
our citizens making an oilimate of the amount of
corn railed on the Illinois Hirer bottoms lan year,
from Utica to licnncpio, a distance of IwenlMwo
miles; the crop of which won estimated at t,wO,(KK>
bushels. This year, on these lands, not one
bushel wl'l be raised. Them on the other hand,
It 1* estimated 'that one-third of all the prairie
lands planted will be a total toss. How
ever, oh the high lands the crops look
well, and promise a rood fair yield. All toe farms
from Hern to opting Crwk, on the Princeton mad.
win not realize enough to par for the Urn break
ing *>l the ground, Putnam Coontr, you know, is
possessed of a more dry soli than cither Ilareau or
LaSalle; sun, the cry of bad crops is beard from
ihrrc. Lltlrgsion and Vermilion Countiesarere
pomd here as being almost an entire failure, es
pccially on low land. The impression among our
oldest and best farmers 1 1, that let the weather
become ever so favorable hereafter, the State
generally cannot possibly make more than
a two-thirds crop of corn; asd there are strong
lean that the wheat, oats, and barley win In many
ca.«cs cot be worth harvesting. Hut there Is one
verr important thing— u the condition of roads
has been such for the Uil six weeks *Mi it is Im
possible to market crops. The result Is short re
ceipts. Speculation runs high; and many are apt
to look only to the prospect of a future crop, and
cot take into cioilucrsUon the immense cnb« of
corn remaining In first hands all over the country.
My optmoD la that wo shall see more corn broegbt
to our market otter harvest, la six weeks’ time
(provided we have the roads), than we had m the
whole spring and summer last year."
A letter to Tub Chicago Tkiscxb, from Chal
mers. White county, Ind.. Jnly 3, aavs: ** In tills
locality wheat looks well, except the down, or
tangled portion, which is rotting considerably:
and, should the weather continue as it u, U will
I>e a matter of impossibility to save ft when It is
cut, which will mostly Dave to be done with the
►cube and cradle, as those who hare cried their
machines ou low or level lands are obliged to ex
change the new for the old way. Spring wheat
and oats look well. Corn cannot make more than
half or fire-eighths of a crop, let the weather be
ever so favorable, as there was doc more than
fccri-c-eigctha of the land plasted, and one-eighiu
of that Las most certainly been drowned out, and
the remainder is tembly foul, and It is too wet to
doasTthlcg w:th Ik with a good prospect, or,
rather, a bad prospect, for rain. If the weather
continues as it is, we are, as the saying U, gone op
for sea day*, more or less, as we raise the usual
kinds of gram in this cooerr, and hare not got the
amphibious kind they most hare out at Valparaiso,
as your correspondent there says (be turners hope
the ralsr season wiu conunoa, which wiu insure
them an excellent store of grain.”
The Danville 4tlL) Thaaof theSduya: “The
unprecedented tains of the past lew weeks are
telling upon the growing crops. There is ret a
pro* peel for a fair yield of winter and a large
yield of spring wheat; but any farther mas most
endanger both wheat and oats. There are a fear
fields of good com is the eouaty, hat the larger
part of me planting is hard to distinguish from
weeds. The earth in most places baa been so
exceedingly wet that com could not be com rated.
Id some localities, potato bugs are eating up the
Tines, and, mother places, the tubers hare been
warned to the surface by pelting rains. The
grass crop is remarkably heavy, and dow, all that
remains to secure the largest harvest ever gath
ered, U ialtable weather."
The Monmouth (.m.) Utlat of the w says: “We
hare made diligent tagutry about the crops, and
have concluded that we hare no cause for discour
agement yet. We bare had no rain since Sunday,
and wlih lair weather ahead the crops wtu yield a
roll average of other year*. There are always
acme failures, and wm be now. Webaseltsd
more coot, wet r either than canal, less grass
hopper*, besa-sruma. Sc. Wo bear of tome cost
In wheat, and betlere there- are some pleceaof
con choked with, weeds, hot bavnatm faith la
plenty this year."
ler, Thomas Canon, Daniel Quirt, P. IngHram,'
Frank ■Warren, Darnel Graham. Lawrence Dona-,
a of, Uoghßeed, John Cnrniej, George Bay, a. J-
Clementi wuiiam Nichols, John F. Flnncrty,
Joseph liens*. Nicholas conwar, Tim Conway, A-
H. Llenesi, Oven DoherW. William Font. B.
Phillips, Charter King, James Eodgeri, I.
Eichard Barns, J.. P. McGill,
John Carson JL 0.-Mackey, P. McKenna, John
Lynch, B. Tweelman, P. McCarthy A, P. Madden,
Jamea McGrath. B. Montague, P. Smith, J. H.
HcGlndler, Michael Plggot, P. W. Bonne. - -
love —Henry O’Connor, James O'Nefl, John
Lynch, J, Fmnertj, P. Brady, p, Flynn, Dr. Ca«
mil, J. J. McDonnell, F. Doran, E. Horn, John
Mealy.
OAu>—J. H. Kiraley, James Morgan, A. L. Her*
net,' Michael Porter, H. G. Armstrong, George
Sweeney, Thomas M. Proctor, J. W. Fitzgerald,
Thomas Shecdy,Jolm McShane, John J. Qeorgha.
gen,--James G. Eagan. P. o’Nell, John Gear;.
JVrtwf—F. J. JlolrihflL P. a Casey, M. walsh,
.... 3. Beady, John Hsmes, B. J. Sheridan.-T. McSen*
- I ley. Colonel J. W. Lawless. John Fox. John 8. Min'
J len. ...
SjTnpal&j- Eiprturd for the Downtrodden I *>*"“**
IRISH REPUBLICANISM.
National Convention, at Far*
well Hall, Chicago.
Mr. Fitzgerald, of Ohio, Chosen
Permanent President.
Adoption of a Platform of Prin
ciples.
of ill landi.
The Convention Adopts a Fe
male Suffrage Plank.
ProposedSemoval of “Five Points"
to the Far West
01a£&-6oTemment and Aristocracy De-
nounced.
A Free Trade Plank.
FIRST DAT,
Forenoon Hetainn.
At 10 o'clock on Monday morning the delegates
to the Irish National Republican Convention met
In Farwdi Hall, which had been specially prepared
for tbeir reception. Across the wall at the rear of
the platform was suspended a large American
dag, on wnich were the mottoes
: WELCOME EXrRISXKIXTiriS. i
NATIONAL UNION.
rxiyxEsiL errriuas.
Tho front of the platform was decorated with
small flags. On the platform were seated the
delegates from Illinois, while ihjso from the other
States and the Terri tones were placed on the
main floor, printed cards with the name of the
State, and the inscription ” Remember Jaly 4,
1776,” indicating the positions assigned them.
Flags were suspended frv m the gas brockets; and
larger ones were suspended at various points,
and were placed on the stage.
At half past H the convention was called to
order by
Dr. KELL, of the Irish Rrpu hIU newspaper, who
sold: It devolves upon me to perform the duty of
coiling this convention to order, and in doing so
it affords me much personal gratification to be
able to propose to yon as temporary Chairman or
this convention, the Hon. J. W. Fitzgerald, or Cin
cinnati. 1 need hardly say to the members or tho
convention that Mr. Fitzgerald la one of our aunt
devoted Irish Republicans, ami he has been one
for many years, and he was one when perhaps It
required more firmness and more boldness to pro
fess these principles than, happily, it does now. I
believe that we are tn consistence with oar noble
principles and that we arc doing honor to oar
•elves as well as to Mr. Fitzgerald by calling him
to occnpvthls office.
Mr. FITZGERALD was declared elected, and
spoke as follows: 1 am heartily obliged torn;
friend. Dr. Kell, for the oology that he has un
worthily soaght to pass upon roe fur my devotion
to Krpnblican principles. I consider it unneces
sary to have any such eulogy at all, because It is
the duty o( every man to consider wed the princi
ples that ought to guide him through life in his
action both as a dozen of the republic and a* a
private individual, and. knowing those principles,
It is Ms duty to follow them oat. Irrespective of
consequences, such has been my course. I con
gratulate the Irish people of America in the num
ber# and intelligence of those assembled on the
first Irish Republican organization of the Irish
race In America or elsewhere. And. Indeed, I
think it an honor to be elected the first President,
or temporary Chairman, of an associa
tion of dtlzens who were driven from
the land of tnelr birth, because of the
absence of that liberty that they enjoy here, and
coming here to enjoy that freedom, arc now in
convention assembled to give expression to theiz
admiration of republican institutions, and to the,
determination to support and maintain them
against traitors at home and enemies abroad. We
are not here, my friends, as Irishmen; we are not
here as a distinctive political organization, but we
are here as adopted citizens of this, the oalrfree
land on earth, to give expression, in port, to the
sentiments that predominate in the Irish heart;
to show lo the American people that the Irish race
in this land, appreciating that troedom which they
enjoy here, can and will maintain U in connection
with the Irish citizens of the country. We are not
here to give any distinctive views »g a distinctive
organization, but to express oar sympathy In com
zloq with the grand party of freedom in toU i-in.i
fApplauie.) Wc ore ncre to commingle our
feelings with them, and to assure them that the in
telligence and generosity of.thc Irish race are
with them In their future struggles to maintain
the Independence of this nation as they have done
with them on the bloody battle-fields of the re
public. [Applause.] We are here to say to our conn
nymen throughout the loud, that it is their duty
as citizens ot a nation dedicated to liberty; that
It Is their duty as men who have been ostracised,
In the land of their forefathers because of their
love or freedom; that it is their duty, coming to
this land, to unite ro masse with the only party
that gives equal tights to all men irrespective of
class, creed, nationality or color. [Cheers.] It IS
the broad platform upon which our true national
ity should stand, for he who seeks liberty tor him
self and denies it to others U indeed a poor rep
resentative of any principle, and particularly uf
that generous Irish heart, that has been struggling
lor centuries ‘ to throw off the yoke of
Oppression—l say that it must be Insanity on the
one hand, or a stupid ignorance of the generous
Impulses that guide the men of this republic, if
those who come to this land should act thus.
[Applause.] We are here, my friends, to give an
expression of our news to the American people,
and it will be proper to take such action here as
jour consciences dictate, with rclerence to the
living issues of the day, and to speak botdiy, but
vet respectfully, on them aIL Among these i wi‘*s
there is one that engrosses the attention of the
to-dnj probably in a greater degree than any oth
er, since it is of more vital interest than any other
issue that 1 know or which is now presented be
fore the American people, and that is.the Issue of
protection Jo American industry. [Applause.] I
would say that 1 trust there will be an unanimous
and emphatic expression going forth from
this convention on that ali-abeorblog topic
to the American people and to the Irish peopl*.
It is our doty, as citizens of this land, to declare
boldly and emphatically for protection lo Ameri
can industry; because in &o doing we protect oar
selves;-we protect the mechanic, ami the manu
facturer; we protect the workingmen through
out the land, and m to doing we Cast adnft, we
cut down, and take from the aristocrats of Europe
the untold millions ol wealth that go from this
country to aid the pampered tyrants of the old
land. Protection to American industry means
work and tabor, and new life for the American .
people. It means a casting off from this European
tyranny to which >c are now bound; It means on
escape from that practice that bos been so
ruinous to the American people of law
years, of importing many mlitlooa more tn m
we export, giving to the tyrants of Eu
rope an opportunity! to keep their va sals there
in subjection, and putting untold wealth In their
bands, instead of scattering U through the brood
domain of this land. Stop, If you will, home in
dustry, and encourage foreign industry. There is
nothing that 1 know of to recommend this lost
mentioned principle to the intelligence of the
American community. It la a mere desire on the
pan of the few to have the regulation of com
merce here, which, perchance, will be of a>ecial
benefit to them, * bile the many throughout the
land; while the .workingman, the mechanic and
the artisan m every branch of industry, and the
manufacturer, arc crippled day by day by import
ations that only tend to shut up borne interests
and to build np foreign interests.
There will be other matters coming be
fore yon: such as a broad sod distinctive
avowal or our declarations lo reference
to the neutrality lavs, which are simply laws to
protect the tyranny or Europe from the binds of
freedom on (bis side of the Atlantic. (Cheers.]
lu our days of weakness they might nave an
swered, as a matter ot policy, but this young
giant republic no longer is weighed down by the
miserable rule of policy. Principle henceforth u
to he Its guide, irrespective of all commences.
Policy has nearly been the ruin ol tfie latM, and
sullit threatens ruin. NS'e bare lougui the battle
of principle lor five years, and prin
ciple won, while that memorable laggard of
policy that characterized tu la the early data of
the republic, waned away and melted ilkesuuw
before the summer sou. Henceforth It win be
principle, and nothing else should guide, it is
aho our privilege, and 1 hope It will beuur duty to
sympathize with the oppressed nationalities of
all lands: to bid them God speed in their ef
forts tor freedom; and to lend them that
helping hand and that generous sympathy that be
taken men of liberal and llbcny-ioi log principles;
to lend tfictu that aid that «e Justly owe to all
people who are bound down by the band of tyran
ny. t Applause.] lwm not detain you any longer,
but 1 trust. In condo*ion, that oar action here will
be such as to commend it to the American people
lo general, and suca «• to particular!/ commend u
to the admiration of our own countrymen tn
America. We need to give them words ot cheer.
We nred to represent with truth, boldly and em
phatically, the grand principles for which we meet
here, and with which we are Identified. If we
dolt in a plain, candid, earnest manner it wm en
hance the great party ot freedom in (h)s load by
ihomauds of votes- The eyes of hundred# and
thousands of our own people are turned anxiously
upon us, seeing and awaiting the news that comes
from (hi# convention. 1 trust, when we adjourn,
U win be that we shall have done our wort welt,
and chat we shall give forth to our own people
those Instructive lessons that will be a benefit to
them and a decided benefit to the citizens at large.
1 thank you genUcmcu. (Applause.
The convention, upon the suggestion of the
Chair, then appointed temporary Secretaries as
follows: J. Pope Uoduett, Dakota; T. J. Kelly,
New York; J. IX O'Connor, Washington.
Mr. J. P. iiOH.NETT. 1 believe it would be In
order,to facilitate business, to sriwlnt * Committee
co Credentials. I propose as Chairman, captain
Grace, of New York.
TUB CHAIR. 1 think that would scarce!/be
in inter at this time. The chair should stale that
the Orel bm*me»s in order would be the appoint-'
teem of a CucitmUee on Credentials, to consist of
one from each State.
DKLEGATE trom Tennessee. I move that the
delegations from each State tend up the name of
cue delegate for a Committee on Credentials.
Adopted.
The Committee on Credentials was framed as
follows: Tennessee, John S, Slixleo; Kansas, P.
U. Cooney; Wisconsin, E. Sweeney, of Water
toss; lowa, John Haller, of Oaveoport; Michi
gan, Edward O'Connor; Louisiana, P. 1L Maro
hej;Chio,Thomas Shet-dy, of Cincinnati; Pena*
sUvanla, Martin Lavelie; Missouri, PeterP-Dal
lej; Dbtnct of Colombia, T. D. oVotmell: Dako
ta, J. PopcDodoelt; Illinois, Michael Plggutt;
Connecticut, Richard McCloud; Nebraska. John
tjulnn; North Carolina, J. K. Lee: Kentucky. M
Bo?and: New Jereey, David Bell; Minnesota, Pats
H’Zgi !*’<*; New York, Captain W. IL Once. I
The Committee on Permanent Organ oanon was
forfiH-d as follows: Wisconsin, Thomas Reynolds
of Madison; lows J. J- McDonald, of Lyons; Min
nesota, Paul FUttrald; Tennessee. JohaS. Mul
len : Michigan. John Clancv; Lom&iana, R. L. Shel
le»; otuo, p. O'Neil, of Cleveland; Missouri, M.
C. Eanght,M- IX; Dakota, J. Pope Uodaett; Hl>-
nob, C, Moore; Pesnsy inula, James A. Hogan;
Connecticut, Richard McCtood: Nebraska, John
Qmnn; District of Coinm. peurj; North
Cardins, F. P. Lee; Kentucky, m. Boland; New
Jerrcv, David Bell : New Tort John O'Brien,
It was ordered, dining the appointment of the
committee*, that where two delegation* claimed
admittance trom one State, neither should be rep
resented on the committees.
it was then moved ye«* the convention take a
recess for one boor.
Mr. MULLIN'S, of Tennessee, moved that the
recta be till 7 o'clock.
. Vk -a « V uuu.
The motion was cot agreed to.
A DELEGATE from North Carolina moved ta
an amendment that there be a recess till 3 o'clock.
The amendment was agreed to, and the motion,
aq amended, adopted.
Aft era woo f' f wloa
At 3 o'clock the convention reassembled, and
was called to order by the temporary President.
The CHAIRMAN. The first business In order Is
the report of the Committee on Ci dentlals. Is
the committee ready to report?
The convention, through the Chairman, reported
that the following persons were entitled to seats:
CViuMvrtcwf—R. McCloud, M. Moms, M. Mo
Quirk, WQUam surkey, Jn, Thomas Hamnion. A.
K I'can, Patrick ©Mahoney, Daniel Morphy,
James O’Shea, Patrick OPaoelL
Dahlia —John P. Uodaett.
District *f Coiavd.ia—3. D. Connell, Vlffti?!
Dnffey.
lUxaiU Juneii V. Mthoiwy, Henry KeDey, Ar
thur Dtxoo, iKQQIi O'Coannr, Theodore Swncr.
Kobert Seed, Tfcomti Holland, Ja&o P. finnliry
Jobb H. Comet, B. Quint,' & ll Morrison. Cfctnea
P, Vooie, P, Q. Pcenry, dimes Qaiat, PnsklftT-
M- O’Brien, JbBO Onlan,'Jno. K.
Sniuran, James Croaey, Wm. Heroey. Masrtce
Baiurin. • • _ • •
- .Vn# Jtrttv— D»Tld BelL
Jiortk Carolina. T. p. Leed, P. H. Larken, Jao.
Bleu/, Jaa. ToJcj, IL Pierson, T. P. Korpfcj,
P. S. Colttss, T. A* Byrnes.
Mici&Kin —Joba JicDemott, Junes McGonni
gi, J. u-Bowaa, Edward o'Connor, Coosumloe
oes, Edward Crowe, John Ciancttj, J. SL Glfc
vln.
- Jftsaot rri—f. P. Daily, H E. Enrigui, Daniel
O'Connor, JL H. Bans, Dennis O’Brien,
English.
Jknnstirania—Martin Laralle, June* H. Bogan,
John UIU, Patrick Shansgha.n,Jotm Arthen,Tt»otn-
Fltxgerald, James Walsh, C. L. Riley, B-McGla
nesa,WilUam Elder, J. J. Doyle, John m, Mortarty.
Kentucky —Michael Boland, Frank Oerraty,
Thomas McDermott, Dennis McCarthy, William
Mangau-
. Louisiana— Pamck H. Maroney,*P. E. Collins,
Blchafd Snetey, Edward flood, B. B. Edgeworth,
Wnght, Major Croule.
Miiuuaota —Paul Fitzgerald, B. A. Gastello, Pat*
net White, Patrick 2. Abel, £. Owen Began,
Dan Hulllvan, Patrick Corbett.
Mauathutetu— John A- Mchan, Michael Scan*
lan, D. J. McNamara, John Holland, John P. Sul*
Uran, O. F. DrlscolL
JTwcofuj.-t—Daniel Driscoll, Edmond Sweeney,
Thomas Reynolds. Tbomas Moore. J. W. Carney,
Jotm Gibbon, Hugh McDermott, W. J. Kershaw.
James Murphy, o. Fanner, David Mcdfiny, P. EL
MeCauley, Tbomas Penn, J. W. Ttcmcj.
EiiMß*_painck Paris?, r. H. Cooney, James
Frants.
Sett ForF—Thomas J. Kelley, W. H. Grace, John
Betiy, N. W. Kurus, W. S. OTmeo, Tim Hanley,
Maurice Fit* Harris, D. P. Cunningham, John
O'Brien. Mathew ilyrae, John P. Dee.
The committee has reported the names of all
delegates that bate been appointed by their local
organizations, and as such commissioned to at
tend the convention.
Captain GRACii of New York. I would stale
that ail the State delegations have been admitted
unanimously except two—those of Loutit&oa and
Kansas—* here there were contcstlna delegations
In these two cases, alter bo to rides had re*
cetved the necessary bearing, and the evi
dence was taken, the committee admitted both,
hading that the delegates represented different
constituencies. Bo now&U tne delegates to the
convention that have presented credentials be
fore the committee hare been admitted, as will
be sees by the written report.
Mr. MCLUNa, ot Tennessee. I move that the
report be accepted.
Mr. hanley, of New Tort. I hope that will
sot be done. There are many of the names In the
Uatthecearenox which are not here, wnilc others,
who could not as well afford it, bare come, fhey
were simply desirous oMu ring their names pub
lished. •
Mr. DUFFY, of District of Columbia. I trust
that the report win be adopted. 1 think that the
course of the committee to patting the names on
was correct. •
Mr. HANLEY. I adhere to my views, if men
do not choose to come they need not bo men
tioned. Let us go to work practically.
Captain GRACE, of New York. In reference to
the remarks of my colleague (Mr. Hanley) 1 would
say that they would be correct were Hus some
regular Dominating convention. Bat wo are met
together to organize, to make a platform, and
hence the committee thought It wise to send to
the convention all (he names which it had received.
This course was dictated by a due regard to • hot
we thougbttbe best interests of the convention.
Wo have cume here to rest this organization on
the rock of honesty sad truth; and in doing that,
.we must Ignore self entirely In (he matter.
Mr. LaVaL, of Pennsylvania. Every gentleman
here is present under many privations. He had as
many reasons lor staying away as those who have
not come. Will this convention, then, give them
a vote 7 We must build on a basis of truth. We
most not go so far as to publish the names of men
who will not attend. We should give them do
publicity whatever. 1 have come nearly ou
thousand miles to attend this convention. Why
could not the others from New York and Philadel
phia hare come 7 Where are the twenty who were
elected.
Captain GRACE. Several will be here to-night.
Mr. LAVAL. 1 now move the list twcalled over,
that each man answer bis name, and the names of
those not present be stricken off the rod.
Mr. UANL3Y. 1 second that
Mr. QUIRK, of North Carolina. I raovolhat the
Chairmen of delegation* be allowed to strike off
itee names of those not present.
Mr. REYNOLDS, i move the previous que*.
Hum
The motion was not seconded.
Mr. DELL, of New Jersey. Was there ever an
Instance where a person was recognized as dele
gate to a convention at which he was not present 7
1 have sot heard of anything ol the Kind. Now,
here are gentlemen who, after promising to come,
have not dune so. How can we recognize them
as delegate* 7 I suggest to the Chairman that be
rule out all except tboi>e present,
Mr. MORRISON, of Illinois. How do yon gel at
the credentials of the delegates cot present ?
Mr. COLLINS, of Louisiana. Let us simply
make a distinction on tne roll between delegates
present and delegates not present.
Mr. HANLEY. It was radically wrong to add
all these names from New York, when the whole
world knows that the persons are not present.
Captain GRACE. 1 think that, on account of
the arguments I have heretofore gives. It would oe
seifith and sordid to strike out the names. The
delegates will all be presect. 1 move the previous
question.
The previous question was ordered.
The motion ol Mr. Quirk, ol North Carolina,
that the chairman of each delegation be author
ized to omit the namn) of delegates not present,
was carried—aye-?, M; uves, not counted.
The report of the committee, as amended, waa
tbe-n adopted.
Mr. D. AL KENLEY, of Tennessee. I offer the
following:
ItetotteTL. Thst tbe ruW« <>f the Hanso of Bcprsvcota
me* t>( (be Cosmss the United Bush W. md they
tie hereby, adopted by this convention fur Sts
The resolution was referred to the Committee
on Rules and Permanent organization.
Mr. MULLINS, of Tennessee. I offer the fob
low leg:
Xe*Jr*i. Th«t all delegate* nuking motions udrulag
te »e«k thvll firvt aocoosee tbel» name* and tbe Stale
or Teintorr they represent.
Tbe resolution »ss referred to the Committee
on Rules and Permanent Organization.
A DELEGATE from Illinois. I move to toko a
recess of half an hour, in order to enable tee Com.
mutee on Permanent Orgaolzatiou to report.
Captain FEENEY, of Illinois. I move that the
convention adjourn nil ID o'clock to-morrow.
Mr. NOLAN, of Kentucky. I Dope that will not
be done. There are some of as who have come
quite a distance, and would like to attend tbe pru.
cecdlngs and teen get home as soon as pu*afolc.
Vie all hope teat the convention win not ad
journ.
Mr. McSQANB. of Ohio. 1 hope the motion will
DoLbe carried. Our delegation are anxious to go
on wlih the work.
Captam PIGOUTT, of Illinois. 1 more to lay tee
motion on tee table. -
The motion was not agreed tn.
Tbe Pirllua made by Captain Feeney to adjourn
tfli to in the morning w&s not agreed to.
The motion to take a recess a as agreed to.
At a o’clock tbe convention was colled to order.
The chair. 1 would suggest that some gentle
man be a committee of one to inform the Commit,
tee on Buies and Permanens Organization that we
are waiting oh them.
DELEGATE from Illinois. I move the appoint
ment ol Captain McKay.
The motion was agreed to.
Tbe committee teen appeared and reported,
through u« Chatman, u follows:
/'rrndent— J. W, Fitzgerald, of Ohio.
Vue J. Kershaw, ot WlscoosUu
James Msgonagal, of Michigan; P. W. Donne, of
Illinois; J. M. Worlarty, of Pennsylvania: R Mc-
U»S. ot Connecticut; M. Boland, of Kentucky;
M. Daily, of District of Columbia; J. T. McKin
ley, of Tennessee; D. BclL of New Jeney; Math
ew Byrne, of New York; R. L, Sheley, of LouUL
ana; Thomas savin, of Ohio; P. W. Coouey, of
Kansas; Ilenry-O'concar, of Iowa; Dcnul* O’Bri
en, of Missouri: George M. O’Brien, of Nebraska:
Paul Fitzgerald, of Mu.nc9ota; John Relley, ol
North Carolina; J. Pope Hodoett. of Dakota.
Stenlcriei —P, p. I)allv. of Missouri; J. D.
O'Connell, of District of Columbia: J. U Ronan,
o( Michigan; T. J. Eellv, of New York; P, 0. Col
lins, of Louisiana.
A>»Jv< That Id a question where a vole by ballot b
required- tee disfemn stale* refreaentod la thu eou-
TrDti>D be show rd the lime rote m Ibrir tHstu* and
Teriitwries «reeutitW lu m the Blot'-nil Oolir-ee.
Huvitrd, Tbit ill motions be t&sde In wtluuk mud
rv»d by the Bvcn-Urr.
tcwt. Th« no dtWsde tscak more tb*n twite on
any ore •object, med then ucq more thsa five iniautes
rmrb time upon soy question, ddUm by eennbct-a ol
Ulireavi-uuon.
The adoption of the resolutions submitted by
Messrs. MuUlas aud Quirk was also recommended.
That portion of the report relating to tee per
manent organization was adopted.
The remainder ot the report was taken up.
Mr. McKENLEY, of Tennessee. 1 more to
amend tee unit resolutions* follows:
■U.—V *MV iJIB. IC9VM4UI'? w juuuns;
” That ten Chairitoaß ol each xlrlcga U >n shall cast the
▼etc cl (he entire JclecaUwo. a* drtcrodaoa br teem re
•r-mlTflj,’’
Mr. A. L MORRISON, of liilaoU. 1 object to
the Urst resolution. Voting should be baaed on
tee cont-uioeucles we represent. Chicago should
no* b« so outraged toy New York, while she cuts
proportionately so many more voles. A few men
Tireaent here should &ot be allowed Vo throw the
mmenre vote ot New York.
Tb« Cm iceoloUoo v, os not adopted—aye*. -C:
noe*. M.
It was then moved that the vote be reconsid
ered, but the motion was not agreed to.
The question of the method cf representation
was ClKusied by everybody for nearly an hour.
The subject was. fur the present, laid on the
table.
The other reieiotlona were adopted.
It was ordered that a committee consisting of
one from each State and Territory be appointed to
prepare a series of resoluituns and a platform of
principles
Tbe committee is as follows: Louisiana. P. E.
CoUlua; Kansas, P. IL Cooney *. Pennsylvania,
John M. Moriarty; Kenrnckr, M. Roland: Wiscon
sin, Charles Armstrong; Michigan, JohnMcDon
nali; Ohio, J. J. Geagan; Tvnaeaace, T- McKea
ley; UiMotui. Daniel O’Connor; lowa, K. Duran;
NcwJemy, David Hell; North Care. Una, p. IL
Larkin: Dakota, J. Pope Hodnett; Mlunesota,
Pan! Fitzgerald: Connectlcnt, Richard McLeod;
District of Columbia, M. Duffy; New York. John
F. Dee; lilinoD, A. L. Morrtaua.
It was ordered that the committee be rwjuerted
to report at jo o’clock on the fuDowlng morning.
If practicable.
ob motton the convention adjourned to meet at
9 o'clock Ob Toeidaj tn>TUlng.
SEcoap dat7
Oloraiag He«*aoa.
The convention reassembled at a quarter after
10 o'clock yesterday Doming, and was called to
onlek by the President.
Tbe minutes or the preceding meeting were read
and-approTt(L
on motion, C. McDermott and Edward Nor
ton. delegates representing the Irish soldiers in
the Stale Asylum at Dayton, Ohio, were admitted
to seata.
J. Rvas was on motion admitted as a delegate
from the Sixth District of Illinois.
A letter ww read from the Rev. Gcorps W.
Pipper, of Wellington, Lorain Cocatv, Ohio. re.
pretting bis Inability to be present, ud stating hia
fjmpattij i> Ith the objects of the convention, and
'especially vnin any stand cade in favor ol equal
r.gbti.
oa motion, the name of the reverend gentleman
was added to the list of delegates from Ohio, and
the Utter was received and placed on tne minutes.
A letter from the Hon, Hear; S. Balrjl, of
Green Bay. Wisconsin. was then read, in wbicn be
stated his Inability to be present, and expressed
blmaetf enUrelj m sympathy with the objects of
the Convention.
This lewcrwas also placed on the minute*. and
the name of the wnter pm on the list of delegates.
ABTHCHEIXON, Of Illinois. It gives me pleas,
tire to announce to this convention that Channcey
T. Bowen has tendered a boat to Uu delegates to
this comenrioo for the purpose o' giving them
an excursion on the Jake. If the lelegasca wish
to accept this invitation, the boat will oe m readi
ness to-morrow morning.
The invitation was accepted, and a vote oI
thanks tendered hr. Bowen.
I)r. BELL, of New Jersey. . 1 bare the pleasure
to etiie that the Committee on Resolutions, alter
bedding two long se*aton*. were enabled at last to
ceme to a perfectly unanimous finding upon each
of the questions we are new about to report to
you, though whether we win be able to give satis
faction to you or noiremilna to be seen. Bat wo
here come out fnDy resolved and, believe,
pledged to stand by them aJL
The platform was then read as follows:
The frith EeraZSlmu of the United FUles cf Atseri
eaJn Ratlooal Convention, ■■gniMiil is the City cf Chi
caao, RUaola.osthe4th day of Jaty, ISO.have Bade the
fuliovlagdedantioeoi rmnduhw;
U A*2*d,Tbatitle the «ny «f the Irishpeople la
Ihl* mobile, and ait roes ore*, the world, to pre their
■op Don to these who oaprlodplaeontand far tbe right
of »U men to pwfaet liberty.
, X That loyalty to* the Amelias Eepdblfc—a
fixed aad unalterable detmateadoa to icud by the only
RUimawnßcn os earth; tad toprremoaodde.'
fend it Igtat the and maehlnatloM of afl bs
OBcaake—W the am political duty which the Irish eiU
wi • cf thla coco try ara called upon to diacharre.
That to ffread the principles of frwd«a
doty we owe to oarsdves and to lia oppressed oeoolo
of lie earth. and oce which by all weans eooslstant
with interaatiocsi obligations wt we bound to dis-
Thai we ask for the oppressed people of
OUT satlTt >«■*, for Cuba and the down-trodden of all
enslaved laud*. the sympathy and support of the poo
plo and Government of toe United Slated.
s. JiwetMd, That w» protest again*! 0» preeenceof
tbe umed despotism aTlirope oothia oocuaeut, and;
pit dee ocr hearty eo-opetaUon to any pLm adopted lor
to Senators Boamer.ofMaaaadiu»efta.
aadChanflJer.of Michigan, we tendcrosr thanks for
the noble Starts made by them to sector justice foe. the.
insults and injuries inflicted by KncDnd on this com*;
trr, and which are known-as the- •‘Alabama claim*,"
and that we declare oar readlneei li atand by the torero,
matted the republic to incasing npon an ample apology
for wnni committed and (oil for tbs
toea sustained.
T. gwolswk That'free trade—falsdy so-called—being
acunotcgud ■»<*»*» device of the (nalaven«ol man
kind, rape tbevery foundation of American prosperity
and todependeoce. and that we. In the Interests of the
entire Ameriesnpeepte. data fall asd'edeqaate legis
lative protection to Aiorriran fodiiatty: fee thoae oalr
who maintain the prtodpfeef protedkm, and who wDI
make booesi efforts to embody u in a prutocilre tariff,
should the veto* of Irish aw in America be riven.
Thst-tbs-tradeDW which lt>i<nrM eo
many to neglect tbe cultivation of tbe soli. andeuacre.
gstelnte great dtloi, . we record won evil, and oo«
which t» eeaaknlaatgaltltadea of thelrlah people of
<Wii to UfeJoag misery. We, therefore, declare
oordetmuoatJea to take zßcaaerca to afford fad title*
to cur to aettle down In the free and
fotfletodacf this great and riortau* country.
9. Assntssd, That w* rejoke In the triumphant »oc
eeaaof tbe BnnibUcaii eanaeat the late Presidential
election, and pfedye to President Great ear cordial and
earnest lappoit upitwxvinff and defending tbe gmi
principle* of human Uimy at home and abroad.
10. jgwDiwit, TbUtV« existing neutrality law* belflg
hutnnaeatal only inaidlna themoaazehleeol the earth
In sustaining their oppre>sive«r*tettis of government,
and baring on various occasions placed the American
Government In the anomalous position of using their
power lor the support ol said government, and receiving
only in return active and own bcstflUy from the British
Government, »e hereby pledge ourselves to labor for
their collie repeal.
Sir. HENRY O’CONNOR, of lowa. I would
suggest that some resolution be submitted ex
plicitly lilndisg os to the support ox universal
suffrage.
Dr. BELL, The first one does that.
Mr. O’CONNOR- Soli docs; bull would pre
fer that It ahoold be more flearly put In order to
meet any objections which may be made by our
opponents. There should be 00 doubt at all as id
oar position.
It was moved that the resolutions be taken up
•eriofim.
Tbe motion was not agreed to.
It was moved to reconsider this vote.
Captain LAVEL. To economize time X think wo
should adopt the report** a whole. If persona
dcstro to have amendments let them introduce
then.
Captain GRAHAM, of Illinois. If we adopt this
as a whole it will shut off from tbe few who may
not agree the privilege or debating points they do
not agree with. I hope tbe report will be taken
up section by section.
Mr. CLANCY, of Michigan. I too wish the res*
ointion* submitted separately, so that they may
be amended, if voted on as a whole, I most vote
against them all.
ARTHUR DIXON. I wish to take It op Item hy
Item, and if anything is wrong let us remedy it.
We have the hall for two days more, and I do not
see why we cannot take oar time.
Mr. QUIRE, of Illinois. I believe the report
will be substantially adopted; bat, still. If any per
son has the slightest objection to any part, he
should be allowed to argue 1L Each one should
go away satisfied. I think we had much better
discuss each resolution Separately.
The motion to reconsider was agreed to.
The motion to take up each flection separately
was carried.
The preamble was taken op.
It was moved to strike out fourth and insert
fifth.
It was moved as an amendment to the amend-
Dent that fourth, filth and alxih be inserted.
The amendment to the amendment wu lost.
The amendment was adopted.
* The first section was taken up.
Mr. DUNNE, of Illinois, morcd to amend by
adding “uracpecmeof race or color."
Mr. HOI/NSIT. 1 believe the resolution coin*
prbes thaL
DELEGATE from Wisconsin. We rant it stated
openly and fairly.
Mr. DALEY, of Missouri I desire to offer the
following as a substitute:
A«oJi*i.Jlh»t wtuli .Ki Irobmen by birth, we point to
thr n rores ul cor ool4e land, msd drnucd. la the astuo
<f bLB-anlty ird justice, the freedom of oar kindred,
wo*lll Cot dljyneeouracJre- by uphrldlofit*onpree*
lias or TMUtnlon of USJ rtii» of people is tfau our
adopted nontfr.
St o't-J. That Ireland's tafferluct bare tanyht u> that
B<> rl*M •.! wcu I* wire enough, or virtuonr enuDk'b t)
wield absolutepo*eeover any other dare; rat, tbne*
fore. Hirer foraettlnx the coned effects of aristocracy
aod d»w eoTrn>tnmt arrest the water, we will e»it
rote >ad labor la tble tend for equality of flats, civil
and political, tuall tars, without distinction «f race,
creed, or color.
I.ttoitud, That we Moke that the adoption *ft!>;
Fllrrnth CoCitltuUoaat Amendment will eooaeetaUish
lu.partial tottrarr. wPt* curt la thr tabor!ns class at the
Hontb that ill hi which traostdnr to the laboring daae
at the North—thr right «• aclf-protvctioa by a share to
tnc juTcramroc and will remove thenrtrro question fur
«r< r firm political strife by a flirt and htial eettlwncnt.
HENRY O’CONNOR. 1 should dMlke to tee
those resolutions adopted, not because I do not
agree to them, but because this Is a deliberative
bod>. Wbat we adopt should be explicit and pre
cise, tike a constitutional enactment. We are
here making history. We ought not to
be m too much of a hurry, and these
rciolntlors should be referred So the Committee
on Resolutions to give them Bpmc. The first res*
oiution or the committee coven she case, but at
the same One, for myself and others, I say we
want, specifically ana unequivocally,• declaration
of our faith m equal suffrage that every «p«*n shall
have a voice la the making of the laws. 1 snow
the gentlemen c n the committee sympathize with
me, and 1 want some such explicit declaration to
come from them. 11. anything in any party has
offended me, It la this shiffya-haJlytng
talk about suffrage. There la Lot
one kind or suffrage, and that la universal—that
every adult, without regard to creeA color or
race, shall vote. {Aprtanaa] I hope that at aome
time this sentiment will be embodied to the plat
form, and then -it will be perfect. I waoi the
world to understand that we are not following In
the footsteps of any party.
Captain LAVEL. ] agree with tho gentle man
from Dakota. The resolution of the committee
covers everything.' It embodies universal suffrage
as lunch a* civil rights. It is so condensed (hat all
can understand It, To add anything would be an
peranoua
Mr. DEE, of New York, When that section
came sp in the committee we hod the same dio
cu&eion. Stiu, though the clause la terse and clear.
I see no objection to adding the words, “ Irre
spective of race and color. "Tint I do object to the
amendment of tho gentleman from Missouri.
Mr, CONNOR of Missouri. I object to the
tautology which would follow the adoption of the
amendment. It would make the resolution Imper
fect
Mr. DAT. of North Carolina. lam in favor of
the amendment. Let na come ontepeniv, and de
clare what we mean In plain and unvarnished lan
guage. in my part ol the country we hope the
convention wih come oat plainly fsrtmlversal suf
frage. in my State the colored men are the
strength of the Republican party, ood they aid tho
Imh,
Mr. DUNNR of Illinois. Suppose we strike oat
ihe word “Djem”
Mr. KELLY, of Louisiana. I matt insist on the
amendment. We of tie South have received oar
oolj eccotuacement from the colored men, and
we want It plaint; elated that we are In favor of
equal richte for all. These words are In all oar
tec<
.. .'onetructed Stale Conventions. and, to os at sbe
South, they mean a great deal coming trom Lou
isiana, we demand an unequivocal declaration in
laror f't universal suffrage.
Ur. O’COJTOOR, of lowa. Will Übe in order U>
move 10 recommit tae platform and the resolution!
offered witb alrccduut to report It bacli Pd* after
noon • _ _
The'CHAIR. It wm
Hr. O’CONNOR. Then I make the motion. Oar
friend* from The Sooth should bare what they so
earnestly desire.
dir. DALEY, ol Mksouri. 1 «B 1 withdraw my
solamuie.
Hr. DOOLEY, ol Missouri lam opposed to any
recommittal. I thins the thing can be settled
here.
Dr. MCDERMOTT, of Ohio. I think the proper
place lor ail these explanatory resolutions would
t>e at the end ot the platform,
Mr. Mcshane, of Ohio. The committee said
they would stick by their resolutions, and If we
recommit, they will merely reaffirm their action.
H e should adopt them as they are.
The Dio'ion to recommit was not adopted.
Mr. DUNN, of Illinois. 1 now also more Dj
strike ont the word "man."
Mr. McKINLEY. of Tetaewee. 1 offer the fol
lowing as a substitute:
.A>*oT>nl. That m tcctnlxr* ef the great Republican
party of tbe avion. w* will nae mil ear F'lHitetice mad rote
only for those for offices of honor and profit under our
govmtrest who arc Iq faror of universvi«off rage, irre
•p«<tlae of •ez.rice.orrrovtouaooniUhia.
captain GRACH. Make tnak additional. Tbe
section reported l>y the. committee should go be*
fore tbe reentry Joat as It la I move that be.
adopted, and the amendment of tbe gentleman
from Tennessee he ju’. Mtne* here else tu tbe re
port.
Mr. WELSH, of I’et‘nsTlranla. lam opposed to
extending suffrage to the female portion of the
country. Wc have enough people voting now.
I Mr. JOHN SCANLAN. I am in favor of the
adoption of the substitute. It Oil* the bill Mirer
than the one offered by the committee. We want
to have something which is explicit. 1 bold that
we should embody female suffrage. Are not the
womenm much entitled to citizenship u vet
[Applause. I
WM. surra OURIEN, of New York. 1 coin
cide with tbe gentleman from Illinois. I ravln
tain we should take a decided stand, and take a
bread view «f matters.
Mr. MORLARTV, ot Pennsylvania- I think it Is
only a few old women and crazy men who are in
favor of woman suffrage. Ido not want.to make
aEorocls of this convention. [Latighter.] 1 do
net know one woman la Pennsylvania worthy of
suffrage.
Ur. BODNETT, of Dakota. lam la consonance
with tbe gentleman from Illinois, and clearly ac
quiesce with the genilcmrci from Tennessee. I
want to know If Anna Dickinson is not a good Re
publican. iLaoghter in the gallery.]
The CHAIRMAN. If the gentleman in the gal-
Irrr does not keep order he will have to go oat.
Mr. iiodnktt, Would you glie the suffrage to
Catherine Harts?
A Voice. Catherine Hajia is not In the United
Flat re. amt out r<-qarn'ly n out of our jurisdiction.
AKTUUR DIXON. Wc cannot amend tho pliu
form with this nonsense about woman's rights.
Tbe Committee on Resolutions Is composed of
able men, who knew what they were doing. If the
gentleman from Dakota would only pluck a few
feathers from tbo wings of his UuagtnoUon and
stick them in tire tail of his judgment.—(Laughter.!
Mr. UF.NKY O’cONNuif I cannot vote lor the
substitute la Its present shape, Ido not want to
hat • it said that we must not vote for this or that
nan. Ido not beliere in tjlngpeople's votes up.
1 expect u» vote with men who are not aa much
advanced aa I am. Modify that, and I pave no
objection to tbe subject I am surprised
that so fair looking a man aa mr friend
Dixon should speak of female 'suffrage
as nmsenee. I wi»o we could get rtd or this
American evil of compron Ise and apeak out.
What Is the objection to lemaie suffrage? It la
void U will hurt the Republican cause. If to do
juctlce la to hart the party, let it be hark [Are
rianse.] To whom do yon deny suffrage T
These are no» women’* nebta. They are the
equal rights of burnsaire. We are here to declare
what we believe to be ju-taad right. Wheretsthe
Irishman who wDI have the temerity to deny the
suffrage to w-cmen who everywhere have done ao
much lor the world. Including America and Ire
land? Who will deny suffrage to American wo
men wbo went to bma up the wounds. of the men
who felt to sustain the cog under which they en
joyed perfect freedom and liberty.
(The gentleman was here called to order, but
by the contest of the house was allowed to pro
ceed.]
He sold: You can find women in- Ireland and
England worthy of every privilege enjoyed by
nan. Which of yon. gentlemen, would deny the
suffrage to Mrs. (VDonoran (Kossa), tbe wife of
the martyr to libertv? Irishmen, however timid
others may be, mnstbe bold and come forward
and stand in tavor of the extension of suffrage to .
that eex to which their mothers sod sisters belong
at home. It lies at the fouodaUoo of justice and ,
reform. Moch a a I desire harmony in this con- ,
venfion, and to the Republican party, 1 would
rather fee item go to pieces and to rota-than to
sec them oyerseip restricting the suffrage In any
way.
Mr. FINNERTY, of Illinois. It seems to be a
question whether women are to remain women or
te turned into men. As a sex I-do not think
« omen have shown themselves entitled to these
political privileges. Many women have distin
guished themselves, tmt they were exceptions. It
u as dangerous for this convention to place itself
at the head as at the Caff end of this movement.
Tbe women of this country and IreiamTajk tor no
further rights ma a general thing. It ta'premature
to bring np this qpesaon at the present time, not
withstanding Mr. O’Connor's eloquence, it the
American people, who hare always been ahead of
os, are not ts ravor of lemaie emancipation, it
would barely be wise for oa to take a forward
stand. When women come forward mo* i-u.m
these things, this convention should take action,
and not till then.
Mr. McKENTLBT, of Tennessee. 1 will withdraw
my-old substitute and offer the following;
Kuoiitd, That. o Individ oil tu ember* of the meat
toUna. a pgduhf
ttouldbcait.ndfdtasllthedtlaeasoftSe xepuUic, lx-
T £ar?'.!Si o . , £teK i & ! d prove
the wisdom of tnetcsomtion of the committee- I
tblLk uis so worded as to Include women as well
iL.? en » kM* *>l accepting it. we will not be.
divided, and will sot directly endorse woman suf
frage. 1 think, alter v« take up these resolu
tions, Giber resofcttßmgnn bo oflered, and, per
haps. adopted. ,
. (Dr. Ben took the chair.]
* The* PRESIDENT. I ihmr this convention,
should speak out. without ambiguity, on Uua sub*
ofet. Leans, la the name or Ood and of Jusdooi
let us - pat every subject fan a direct
If toe, «ad .t» for or - against,
without fear and favor. I am in
rarer of the substitute, of the Fifteenth Amend-
Mil 9Q vUc& W« «l agree, XaQlafoTOtt
the resolution giving suffrage to all. Irrespective
of race, sex or color. [Applause.] Itlssald woa-n
do not want austags, bat the negro, it Is said, .by
not want his freedom, became be did not me
against his -o»}srestore. -Women do not demand
suffrage, bob .they,regard men as their liege lorls
and expect they..will do tbe work for
them -on q the platform, because a-i
of 4 them are not capable or inclined to adro:*;*
tbe cause, like tbe noble Anna Dickinson. -*
-CTfag- gennegiSn was called to order, having
spoken seven minutes.]
*r. KELLY, Ot Louisiana. 1 move the time be
extended.-
Colonel BARLEY*- of- New York—There are
often wbowaaC te speak as well u tbe Chairman,
for outers want to apeak on tbe question a* »eif
as tbe etoqpenr members.
It was'decided tba* Mr. Fitzgerald's time be er
tended.
-Tbe nwideut declined to speak farther,
on morion, tbe convention adjourned uii 2
o'clock. •
.The convention assemoied attp. m., and wot
sailed to order by the President;
Ur. DALY, of - Missouri. 1 move the previous
question.
Tbe CHAIRMAN. The gentleman Is oat or
order.
On motion, tbe names of Miles Scanlon and Jut.
Murphy were pot on the rolls os delegates from
Joliet ....
On motion, the names of John HOI and John
Arthur were pot on the rolls as delegates from
Pennsylvania.
Ur. CONtNGHAM, of New York. • I think wo
have got into 0 taogie, and 1 think we should noc
embody woman suffrage in our platform. It
come before tbe highest and ablest men of the
eonnay, and has been rejected by them, and it la
impolitic for ua to Introduce the subject and pre
sume to i*ad where so mao 3 have fsuetk There
may be some 40,000 persons m the country—l can
not call them ladles—who would vote; bat the
vast majority would decline to do so. I think, Mr.
rrhairrwn, we ought to lay this subject on tha
table.
Mr. SHELLY, of Louisiana. I think that Irish
men who have enjoyed the splendid hospitality of
this country ahoold not presume to deprive any
citizens of this country or the right 01 voting.
Women of America own hundreds of millions of
property. It has been said women cannot fight;
but they have nobly dose their duty In the camp
and the hospital We bad at one time
a war In country because
mere was taxation without representation, and
shall we endeavor to do tbe same again, and bare
facedly aesm that the women of America are in
capable of voting? It ts said women win bo con
laminated br going to the polls; but if women wish
to vote, thetr noabaoda, brothers, sons and lovers
will take good care that rowdies do not Impede
the way to the polls. I wish to place myself right
on the record as unqualified!? in favor of woman
suffrage.
i Mr. A. L. MORRISON, of Illinois. T am sur
prised to hear Mr. Conyogham's remarks that them
are many women In New York whom he would
not call ladle*. Are there ore not men there whom
hewonldnobcAllgeaUeineaT Are thegooa,true
women of America to be deprived of citizenship
ana bare it given to the scum of tbe world ? There
are thousands of men who vote who don't under
stand what they do; while the right t<r
denied to Intelligent women. Hem
Is a young man who desires to stand well
In the presence of ladies [Mr. mooert.v], and vet
be stands op with unblushing lace and says thas
women shall have no rights. 1 hope that when
the vote is taken he will support female suirranr,
or not vote at all. Never was there an Irtstt
woman falthlesato the cause of liberty, though
me men sometimes were. if tbe women bad the
power tha men have we need not
trouble ourselves about a British Government.
You are in favor of giving suffrage to the rebels,
and sosmltt they intend to be decent In the to
lure; bat we, at the same moment, deny the (ran
ehbe to the women who offered all in the altar of
tfio country; who sent their aoos to tbe war and
went themaelve* to the battle-field setting exam
ples of patriotism never to be forgotten. You give
the ballot to the negro and deny it to women.
Never let It be said that Irishmen with nliiru-ir
gallantry have decided that women shsdnot vote.
Mr. DEE, of New York.' Tha gentleman’*
rhet'nc does not harmonize with tact It Is uot
fair for him to impugn oar gallantry. As a cla-u
none respect women like Irishmen. Because we
do respect them we oppose this absurd doctrine.
I give way to no man la respect for woman, since
man first acknowledged the status of woman she
has exerted great social influence. She hat been
tbe ornament of society and the succor or the dis
tressed.. £he Is the poetry aod charm of our
existence.' and our only consoler.
Hence, I oppose this doctrine. Men aud
women have tie same rights in the abstract, tut
ikej hare separata functions. Each has a pecu
liar vphere. When thoae functions are disar
ranged you disorganize society. Man has more
physical power. U H his sphere to Qght, tu buikt.
to carry on commerce, it is for woman to adorn
the home, and bring op her children and in
struct them. That » lire Internal part of tnc
economy of the world. Take woman into
peUUca and you degrade hes—disrupt rui-te
ty and destroy the marriage relations.
In Syracuse, N. Y. f this qbestloo has been agitated,
and now the advocates of the movement have
dwindled donn to inwdtesami bad female charac
ter*. In New York and Boston, ladiea, pure aiui
true isdie*. hare opposed K and goxteo up pen
tti'hsagouut tbe agttaDoo. I oppose tbeaimU
tute.
The mata question was ordered and the ques
tion taken upon the substitute.
The sahattwte was declared tost alter » vote br
ayes and sues.
Mr. iIcK£NLEY s I want a call by scales. I
do not want to gu home and teN them that we
voted against impartial suffrage.
Mr. SHELLY. 01 Louisiana, Give os a vote by
Slates.
The CHAIR It la out of order. The question
la on Mr. Dnore* amendment to ante uut the
word ••men" and loam “ irrespective of race or
color."
Mr. XTODNXTT. I want the vote seated.
Mr. MULLINS, of Tennessee,
how It srood.
Let ns know just
The CHAIR. Another vote will be had.
Mr. McKENLEY.
I wants call ofSkhtea.
It Is too late.
The CHAIR
The substitute was declared lost—ayes, 36 • Does,
IP. ___ -
Mr. HODNETT. Would It be in order to call for
the yeas and oaysT
The CHAIR l( would Bot be. If you desire,
you can appeal.
The question was on Mr. Donne's amendment.
Mr. DUNNE, l ueve to amend that further by
adding ihe word "sex," and on that I call for
the vote by States.
Mr. HANLEY, i don’t think (hat would be la
order.
Mr. DALEY. Will the gentleman from Hliaota
put in the w ord “ creed J"
Mr. DUNNE. 1 accept lt_
A rote by States was ordered. ’
Mr. FINN’ERI’Y. That was voted down once.
Can it be la order now ?
The CHAIR I Us.
The question of the basis of representation was
again taken up, and was again discuswcd at length.
Mr. LEE; of North Carolina. I move to lay the
substitute oh the table.
IheCQAJU. That is out of order.
Mr. DUNN. I (uuve that only t&e Congressional
vote «{each Slate be given—um each Stale cut
obi; as mas; totes a* it bn districts.
A DELEGATE Irou Illinois. Dow are we to get
it the totel
It wai ordered that the vote be taken according
to the delegates present.
The SECRETARY proceeded to can the rolL
It was ordered that the vote be taken according
to the delegates present.
The SECRETARY proceeded to can the roll.
SltfM. £
kgu*cbPKt!l „ I ..
Ohio .... i S
Illlßit* .......... .. 17 t!
NVwYork .. _ 4 5
I. IlirbM.. • |
Tt-DUUMee .. 3 I
CuißKtiCUt |
District ot Columbia. _ 1 1
I’llrU...* 1 11. . _ J
W...-...; .. .. .. 3 |
I’cnmjlvaaij .... .. \ • *
Kroturkr ... . 1
Mtbult. . 1
WcwJ»T*ey * 1
Nirth Carolina. ’’ 1 j
MUhlno * 1
MUauurl... ........... "it
„ Total .. SI <7
Tbe question was raised whether the'alternate*
-from the Slate of Illinois were to be allowed to
vote.
It was decided that they were 1 at, and the rot*
wf one alternate was wittxlrawn.
Tbe re*alt was announced, and was received
ultb great cheers.
Mr. HANLEY, of New York, l kept a pretty ac
curate- tally and protest against the division. \
C against the motion, two changed, and tbe
oaya were 45, and the two rotes changed made
Mr. CLANCY, of Michigan. 1 more to adjourn
tii-f die.
A motion to adjourn ontll I p. m was Offered as
an umeDdaenc. Roth were lost.
Mr. IIANLEI (loudly) ruse to a question of priv
ilege. Ido not want to impugn any man’s mo
tives, aad I did "not menu that you rendered an la
accurate report.
1 he CU AIRMAN. Thank yon.
Thu question, as amended, was then carried.
The second resolution was adopted.
The third resolution was adopted.
Tbe fourth resolution was adopted.
Tbe flf:b resolution was adopted.
The tilth resolution was taken up.
Mr. CLANCY, of Michigan. I call for the yeas
and nays on that. lam opposed to IL
Tbe call for the yeas ana cart was not seconded.
The »uth resolution was adopted.
The seventh resolution was adopted.
Tbe eighth resolution was adopted.
Tbe ninth resolution was adopted.
The tenth resolution was adopted, with aa
t(DeodmeDt,aA(llßgtnewords: »♦ and other gov
ernment*.”
Mr. KERSHAW, of Wisconsin, I offer the fol
lowing:
That the Government of the United
Uouoof «nu>cmteJ powers. tarßlmtlooml Ooutitntioa
t-Hr* the Instrument wtiira. tpcctbe* them. ud la
which muiVrtiy it found for the eirrei*c of *ud> powers
•i will guarantee the perpetuity and i-ro?pcrltraf tha
gtuiun-cGt.
Thattbls omrcollfD rrepevfully*ik theta
vrci-ril law be passed bt Coagreae Jlurlns rer*->naof
lucciM Urlh to pcreaie ciilarns of the Untied btslee
irj-'in « rr»ldrt»ro of ooevear in tiua eounUr; »'*«>
• trlctluf Kteira Trow piscina any impedtiucui to the
ipcidi naturalization of aucu persona, with auch ■ l t«-
jupr«l* aa will pn teet the piintj of ths UUut-boV.
That HoMiil'lon 4 of the ei/hlh tretioo of
AiUcie 1 iJ the Conatitutlon of tbe United StaUw.
flttt reurral rowar to carry lnt« effoal the rwmett 000-
Uti.td Id the lorecuncvewiutloo. and where a (cnerat
mw i r l» c<efcircd. or duty enjoiand. particular power
peretcary for the rscrcUr of throne, or the Pctfunnaaee
or the o'tarr. u ala-> conferred, and that Cunxresa haa
the lower. ln oompUanc* therewith, to para all neew
nry and paiticuUr lawv on tbk tabled, that tt may
derm prt't*r.
Mr. F.'NNERTY. I move to lay them on the table
Mr. DUNNE. J move to adopt the report of th*
conn litre.
Mr. K LUSH AW. Nothing has been done to In
duce tbe cttizeca of other countries to come here.
Some (ocendu-ent most be made to the naturaliza
tion laws, which win centralize tbe po «cr in lha
Ctneral Government. The idea that the rrrnua-
Uon of suffrage lies In the Stateats a relic ol iho
feudal item. It should all be In tho hands of
the Geucrai Government.
A DELEGATE. Hot many more Democrat*
would icat fetch to this country ?
Mr. KIERSHA'v. it we pass this Kshovretho
world just the great principle on which we stand-
EreoihlDg dcmanla the passage of the resolu
tions. Lot tn do it for the sake of the Irish dead
who lie mouldering on Southern battle-fields.
These resolutions rest on a great conaUtuUonai
principle and the dictates of right. I ask It in the
name of the National Republican Convention.
Captain GRACE, of New York. TDU subject la
oteol great tot-onance, and Congress wui soon
act on it. but I think the time ot one year ts too
short, citizens should become Americanized be
fore they vote. SUll lam sattafiedthaiaaamend
ment to tbe constitution Utnltfng.the time to tarec
years w ill be brought op at the next session, *iyi
hence I move an amendment that “two ” be m
stried. instead of “ ore,”
Mr. Hudnett, ot Dakota. I think the question
has bern taken Into consideration by tae leading
Republicans of the Boose, Mr. logerroii, of Peo
ria, la prepsrias such a bill, and air. Yates has
offered one la the. Senate. How can Americans
ask ns to give our blood it we are to atop here (or
Die years enduring Taxation without representa
tion t The resolution* are In accordance wuit
Rght and justice.
Me. I WV, or Sorth Carolina, began to speak,
when
Mr. KERSHAW, of Wisconsin, offered to with
draw b*s resolutions.
HmuHENKY o*CONJ»OE, of lowa. I think It
aovis&ble to have theta withdrawn for the present.
Sir. i-vv- I thmk the resolutiona of vast Im
portance. and we should take decided action la
the matter; and as a e are going to give the wo
men and everybody » jote, for God*
sate, let ns give it to otxr own people,
[Lanabier.l | think one year long enough to un
it, rtumi me tpstiiptiops of the country, and the
MeDoWican party, wltu the power we win throw
mto their hands, will be anxious to end one the
resolution*. J hope they will be passed.
Mr. P. W. LUN'SH The only trouble Is, the res
olutions do not go far enough. 1 want to have %
xran who fbes ft om the tyranny ol Europe, toco
the moment he gets here. lefferthe knowing:
Srtaltd. A* the mom ol (hia coavastLn. that we are
is favor of such a chance la the neutrality tun as win
cccftr the right of riliteoablp upon all the p aepie flyia*
fntn the d n putie »y Mema of the Old Worth, u sqdo aa
they take the ohltaitlon of aCecUsce U> this coven,
srent, no matter ho wtbart may he tbmreridesca here;
■Ddthsteecan.es thU government tv protect the
rights c( Its native sad adopted ettlscu at h**"* and
ifiud • __ • - -
■ Mr.McSHEA, Of Ohio. I wish this convention,
before U adjourn* or doea anything emayto taks
steps to procure the release of those
■ eitfreM unmvred in Bztttab prisons. [Applause.]
■Mr. McOUUanEBB.-cr Pennsylvania. YdonX
thmk the resolutions go far enough. When Irish
men, or outer foreign era, set tnatr feet on them
iWTWi «&4 ati ttsm9huw«itt«m