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NASBY. The Cincinnati Convention Mr. Nasbj's Experience as a Delegate. From the Toledo Blade. Ciscinmati, (wich is in the State ut Ohio,) Slay 7, U72. I wuz not originally a delegate to the Cincinnati Convenshun, wich is to say I wuz not appointed ez a delegate. We hed a meetin at Bascom's uv me and Deekin Pogram, Kernel McPelter, Issaker Gavitt, and one or two other Libral Republikins, hut it wuz dcsided not to send a delegate. I hed, tho, some hopes uv the conven shun. Ef Adam3, Davis or Brown cood be nominated it wood be a good thing for us. Adams is ruther too spectable a man for a first-class Democrat, but he is still a Democrat, and the Democratic convenshun wood hev accepted him. Davis and Trumbull ain't Dimocrats eggsackly, but all the roads out uv the Republikin camp lead to ours, and ez they hev taken that pertikelerly flatrin one, ambishun, we cood trust either uv them. I wuz anxious to see one uv these three nominated, and wood hev counted it a big thing for Democracy cood it hev been done. I wuz surprised at the feelin niani fested. There wuz a denunsiashun uv the tyrant Grant, more deep and fervid than I had heard since the fall uv Vicksburg. There wuz a torrent uv aboose heaped upon offi? seekers, offis holders, corrupshen in the civil servis, appintment uv relatives to offis, and sich, wich pleased me. I jined in it heartily, and wuz immejitly asked by a delegate whose nose recommended him to me to-wunst, wat State I wuz a delegate from. I anserd that I wuz a citizen uv Kentucky, but no delegate that we sent no delegates. " " That don't matter," sed he, his nose gloin with zeal ; " we wuzu't any uv us sent we come. Yoo shel be a dele gate." And afore I cood decline the honor he hed an lllinoy delegate's tickit in my hand, and when I sed I wuz for J udge Davis, inflexibly, he asked me to take suthin. Now, ef ther is anything I'm pertiklerly distinguished for, its acceptr in invitashens to take suthin, and that deligate's alacrity in askin, cood only hev bin ekalled by my alacrity in accep tin. He wuz a Davis man, too, and I promptly borrered twenty dollars uv him. Ez whisky wuz free, that wuz enuff to take me home, and suthin to pay Bascom on acount. The mornin uv the first day the del egashen from the deestrik 1 helpt to represent met. There wuz twenty del egates present, and a more earnest set uv men I never mingled with. Five uv em wuz Ex-Postmasters who hed bin appointed by the sainted Johnson, and most outrageously dismisst by the des pot who is now President : two uv em were Ex-Collectors, three, Ex-Assessors, and the ten remainin wuz a bilin with indignashen becoz the offices, in their respectiv towns wuz filled, they swore, with the most unfit men in that seck- shen. " Rather than have the country and the servis rooined," said one, " I wood hev accepted the Post Offis myself. I wuz solissited by my fellow-citizens to serve em in that capassity, but no. A military friend uv Grant's, who hed served under him, wuz apninted. Wat kin be expected uv sich an Administra tion ! Faugh!-' The other ten, I assertained, hed bin applicants for posishens, but somehow didn't git em. They were very certain that unless there wuz an immejit change there wuz nothin ahed but room. There cum in afterward an ex-member uv Congress, who hed been defeetid for I re-nominashen two years ago, and his denunsiashen ov offis-holdin wuz affect in in the extreme. We finally got to biznis. One delegate moved that ex-Collector Jawkins act ez chairman. This prodoost a fearful up roar. Imejitly six or eight others wuz nominated. " Don't vote for Jawkins," whisper ed one Reformer, " he wants promin ence that he may control the appint ments in the deestrik, and he's broth ers and brothers-in-law all over it." " Don't vote for that d dSmithers," whispered another, "he wants to be as sessor." To my utter and entire astonishment, I diskivered the alarmin fact that evry Reformer in the delegashun hed suthin in his eye. The caucus wuz finally or ganized by a compromise, and a man wuz elected chairman who coodn't pos sibly want nothin, ez he hedn't the finanshel standin in his respective com munity to give bonds for anything. He hed come to Cincinnati on a free pass fnrnished by a committee, and his ex penses paid, wich, ez he remarkt, ez he hedn't anything to do at home, wuz cheaper than staying there. He re markt to me that he thought he shood go into the Reform Delegate biznis ex clusivly. The preliminary biznis uv the Con venshun wuzn't eny easier sailin than the caucusses. There wuz a fearful di versity uv opinion ez to wat wuz first to be done. Hed it been left with Brown and Schurz and a few others, ez we do in reglar Democratic Convenshuns, it wood hev bin easy enuff, but there wuz a dozen or more lunatics who supposed that the movement wuz in dead earnest, and who hed ideas to promulgate. They made trouble, but we soon cot rid uv em. To give the Convenshun character we compelled Senator Fen ton to leave for his home, in Noo York, and to hev it managed properly Frank Blair wuz teiegrapnea tor. men the biznis wuz actooally commenced, and I wuz in high feather. It seemed a moral certainty that either Adams or Davis wood be nominated, and wat a glorious prospect opened. The Democracy wood adopt em, the Reformers wood all vote for em, and well, I woedent hev give a Con- fredrit ten cent scrip to hev bin ashoor ed of my Post Offis in March next. j. ue piatiorm wuzn't ez much uv a stumblin block ez I supposed it wood be. The protectionists, for the sake uv harmony, gave up their proteckshun ideas, the free-traders their free-trade, the paper money men were perfectly wilhn to adopt the hard money theory the hard money advocates declared iucuiooiioo oauouBu wnn a paper iuuucjr iuo anti-bank men consented to bauks, and the bank men were perfectly willin to have em abolished. The amnesty men neo no ODjection to permanent aisrrancnisement, ana tne disfranchisers wuz entirely willin to go the entire swine on amnesty. Wat they all want ed wuz reform and purity in the Civil Service. They all wanted to e'eanse Augean stablee to hev a change to restore the Government to its ancient purity. On this pint Frank Blair and Tweed wuz especially pertinashus, and on the necessity of change in the offices of the country there wuz a unanimity wich I never saw ekalled. But at this pint the unanimity ended. In the caucus every delegate wanted to be Chairman, and in the Convenshun every leadin Reformer wanted to be the candidate for the Presidency. Every man uv em hed gone at relorm by get ting up a fackshun for hisself, and I diskivered that they cood no more mix than oil and water. Reformer Davis hated Reformer Trumbull with a fer- vencf that wuz only ekalled by the hatred Re'ormer Adams bore to Refor mer Brown. There wuz six parties uv em, Adams, Davis, lrumbuii, Jirown, i Curtin and Greeley. The canvass'n wuz furious, and my kittle uv fish wuz kickt over in less than a minit. Trum bull's supporters swore that they'd never consent to hev the appintments in the hands uv ez corrupt a man ez Da vis. Davis' friends swore vehemently that they'd sooner hev Grant than to hev such a demagogue ez Trumbuil con trol the patronage, Uurtin wuz de nounced ez an ambishus skemer, Adams wuz damned ez a cold-blooded aristocrat, Brown wuz stigmatized ez the most shameless demagogue on earth, and so on, while Greeley wuz lookt upon ea a beamin old lunatic, with nothin espeshally dangerous in his lunacy cept to himself. Attempts wuz then made to trade, but they all failed. The delegates knotvd ther men thoroughly, and they wuz afraid to trust each other, and for two long days ther wuz the hottest fight I ever saw. The trouble wuzn't so much in makin charges agin each other it wuz in the fact that each man hed proof in his pos session that his charges agin the others wuz true. It wuz very plain on Friday mornin that neither Brown, Curtin, Adams, Davis or Trumbull cood be nominated, and the convenshun wuz likely to break up in a row. But Frank Blair wuz ekal to the emergency. The moment he saw how things wuz, he ordered Brown to bargin with the delegates to give Horace the first place on the ticket and he take the second. It wuz the same tactics which had succeeded so well in our Illinois caucus. Greeley wuzn t uv enuH account to be m any body's way, and on that account he wuz the most available man ; the stockhold ers ot the Irtboon wantid him nominatid that he might be compelled to sell out his stock and leave the concern ; Blair wantid him nominatid becoz if he should happen to be elected he cood control the patronage thro his cousin, Gratz Brown, and ef the Dimocrisy should not accept him he would probably draw off enutl Republikin votes to elect oar nominee, and the other lelegates wantid him nominated that they might hev a decent excuse to git out uv the whole thing. They saw ir the laff it wuz certain to raise, a cover under wich they cood git back to their old quarters, The reform candidates so hated each other that each voted for Greeley to spite the other, and the thing was did Horns Greeley is the nominee uv the Reformers for the offis uv President uv the Yoonited States. lhere wuz various opmyuns exprest uv the results. One delegate remarked that he wuz in the fix that the man wuz who wuz bit by a rattlesnake, and who swallowed a gallon uv corn whiskey to cure it. He got well uv the bite, but he died uv the whiekey. He wuz bitten by corrupshen and took a convenehen to cure it. He mite get wall uv the cor rupshen, but he shood certainly die uv the convenshen. But some good will come uv it. ureeiey nez oeen ayin ior sicn a nomi nation all his lite aiid he 11 stick to it with the tenacity uv a Democratic post master, lie will uv course git some votes enough possibly to defeat Grant and give us a Democratic President. Thank Heaven a lite beams onto us 1 The Democracy will march to victory in eny event. I am full uv hope. A shel go home immejitly and there await events. Petroleum V. Nasby, (Wich wuz Postmaster.) Mr. Nasby at Home Tho Corners Finally Brought to the .Support of Air. Greeley. From the Toledo Blade. Cosfkdrit X Roads, ") (vioh is in the State uv Kentucky), V May8.1872. J I hed a severe time uv it at the Cor ners, gittm our people to consent to takin the great and good Horris Greeley to ther buzzums, and embracin uv him the same Jez tho he hed bin Breckin ridge, Hoffman, or some sich man, wich tney ned Din more lamilyer with. It took four days uv persistent swearin afore I cood convince em that I hed any idee uv supportin a man wich they hed heerd me denounce ez the vilest Ab lishen despot on' earth, a thousand times. Alas 1 thev don't know the full elastissity uv the Democratic mind. 1 called a meetin, and give em an ac count uv my stewardship at Cincinnati. I commenst my remarks by sayin that I went to Cincinnati with a view uv nominatin that sterlln patriot, Judge Davis, who, tho in offis ez a Republikin, hezn't enuff Republikinism about bim to hurt him, or that other sterlin patriot, Chas. Francis Adams, the son of John Quincy Adams, but wxh hezn't any thing uv the Adam about him but the name. It wuz a gatherin uv the peo ple, not an offis-holders convenshen; and that wuz what wuz the matter with us. Not one uv the delegates held a Government posishen, and not one uv us hed any chance uv gitten one under Grant " Grant be d d," wuz the cry in chorus. " Give us anybody else." I confess, tho, I wuz somewhat dis appointed. The Convenshen hed throwd off on Ad jus and Davis and nominated Greeley. , " Hang him 1" shouted the people. " I kin lick any man in a minute who asks me to vote for him J" shouted Kernel McPelter. I paid no attention to these compli ments. I hed no idee uv even supportin mm, and wuz glad of his nominashen only ez I beleeved he wood draw off enuff Republikin votes to enable us to elect a "sound Constitooshnel Demo crat" " That's wat we want a sound Consti tooshnel Democrat!" yelled Kernel Mc Pelter, late uv the Confedrit servis. " But I hev notist that the great ma jority uv the Demokratic papers (I kin read, my brethren, and hev that ad vantage over yoo) insist on adoptin him at our Convenshen, and ef so, he is our candidate." " We'll see him " " Hold I" sed 1 quickly ; " no good Demokrat kin bolt a regler nominashen, and after all Horris is not the wust one we kin hev. Our motto wuz " Princi ciples, not men." We adopted prin ciples ; and ez for men, we come ez near nothin ez possible, under the circum stances. Troo, he is a high protective tariff man, wich don't soot Elder Penni backer, but the Elder must remember that the versateel Horris is willin, ef we will support him, to treat that ishoo ez one to be settled by the people else where. He wuz an oppressor uv the South, Kernel McPelter wood say. Troo he wuz at times, and then agin at times ne wusnt. 1 hev vracht the great and good Greeley very closely lor many years. There ain't no question that I now remember uv (except slavery and the price uv the New York Weekly Tri boon) that he ain't bin on both sides uv a dozen times. Like the intoxicated in divijuel who coodent git into bed coz the room wuz whirlin round, and who determined, finally, to lay still and wait till the bed come round to him, all mat any question nez get to do is to stay stid and Horris is certin to come round to it. He beleeved slavery wuz unconstitooshnel and yet wuz for payin me nigger owners lor tne nigger, He defended John Brown's raid and op posed secession. Then immejitly there after he favored secession, then insisted on war again us for secedin, then urged tne .redrai Hireling on to Richmond; then tried to patch up a peace with us. lie nez bin a Radical and a Conserva tive: a Fourierite and a believer in bran 1 J IT ,m. . Dreaa. lie opposed lay lor and sup ported him ; he supported Linkin and opposed him; in short, he hez bin on all sides uv all questions one side to-day, and tother to-morrow, and very fre kently both at the Same time. In short, I don't know uv nothin that he hezn't bin, and can't imagine nothin that he ain't extremely likely to be. I read his record yesterday, and wuz wuss tore up in iuy micu man ez mo i ned Din on a drunk for a week. I never knowd more confusin or intoxicatin readin." " My aged friend," I replied blandly, " wood yoo like to receeve from me the trifiin sum uv one hundred and eighty dollars, wich I owe yoo ? Wood Bas com? Wood " From every indivijuel in that awjence there ome up like the roar uv a tor rent: "Yes!" un tne question ov my payin my debts the Corners is singlerly yoonani. mo as. "juy oretnren, the way to my liquidatin is Postorifis, and Postorifis only. Ef I wuz in my old place, now okkepied by that disgustin nigger, Lub- bock, yoo wood hev at least a chance for your money. Ef the great and good Greeley is elected, that nigger goes out AND I GO IN. Follock goes out uv the Collector's offis, and in goes Issaker tjavitt or Kernel Mcl'elter. Watkins, the nigger Assessor, woodent be allowed to hold his place a minit, and that saint Deekin I'ogram, or that other saint. Elder Pennebacker, would be immejitly installed, and " ("Hear! hear!" from Issaker Gavitt, Elder Pennibacker, McPelter and Po gram Kernel McPelterearnestly lickin a man wno indulged in lafter. ) " In short, my brethern, we want the offisis. We hev been eatin grass, like Nebuchadnezzar, sence 1860 (with the exception of Johnson's blessed yeers), and Pharoah's lean kind aint nothin to us. V e hunger and thirst for em. TJv course I'd ruther git my place back agin thro Breckenridge, but ruther than not hev it I'd take it'from Wendell Phillips i. ip ni i . r. nisseii. ureeiey is necessary to git- tin them I go Greeley. He may shift ez last ez ne pleases, 1 kin follow him Put that Postorfis in front uv me, and ef he kin shift faster than I kin, I hev overestimated my powers in that line. And we shel git the effisis under him. He will insist upon qualificashens strenu ously, but he hez his own standard. He beleeves that them who admire Horris Greeley are, ex-offisho, fit for any place under any goverment, and them who don t aint wuth a d n for anything, I am talented at admirin sich men I am." Pogram, Pennibacker, McPelter, and Issaker Gavitt wuz entirely convinced, but there wuz still murmurin among the others. "You idiots," sed I sternly, " is Grant a itepubiikin i" "He is! he is !" "Hev yoo, ez Democrats, anything to expect irom mm 7 " VVeheven't!" they replied. " Do you know the pekoolyarities uv the great and good Horris? We know wat he is to-day ; we know wat he wuz yesterday, and sich uv yoo ez kin read plain print and write without runnin yoor tongues out kin assertane wat he wuz belore that. Wat he has been yoo know, but wat he will be only the Almity, who knows all things, kin tell, and no one but hisself supposes he is uv suffishnt account to be made the subject of prophecy. We are verv cer tain uv a Republikin ef Grant is elected we may nev a Republikin or a Dem okrat if Greeley succeeds. Its an even chance where he lites, with the per cent, in our favor, for uv course the Republikins . will make fun uv him, wich is the only thing he never forgives. Ez an uncertainty is better for us than a certainty, 'rah lor Greeley !" They wuz convinst, and immejitly a urreeiey uud wuz organized. In Cin cinnati I hed embarkt in a spekulashun. 1. hed twenty, dollars left from the money I hed borrowed uv Judge Davis's committee, and I invested 'em in fifty wnue nats ot an ancient pattern, ex- pectin to sell 'em to the Greelev Club. wich I intended to organize, at say $1.50 eacn. Alter the club wuz organized I stated to 'em that the yooniform must tne style uv dress uv our beloved chief: a whit hat and the left panta loons leg on the top uv the boot leg, and that I had sekoored enuff white hats to supply the club. Here a diffi culty okkurred. In the entire party there wuzn't a pair uv pantaloons wich wezn't worn off at least three inches above where a boot-top wood be, and it bein warm weather, the aujence wuz all barefooted. However, they took the hats readily, and I stashened myself at a table to receive the cash for 'em. A profit uv fifty dollars wuzn't so bad. Alas ! how human hopes are blighted ! Bascom sed he'd take them hat3, col lect the money for 'em, and credit me on account! And he did it ! I didn't get a dollar uv it I I swallowed it as best I could, for it ain't no good to make it row about it. No one in the Corners cun oppose Bas com, for he has all the likker there iz. But we hed a jolificashen over the or ganizashen. It wuz a cheering site to see fifty men all in Greeley white hats drinkin the health uv the great Horris in Bascom's new whiskey ! It wuz a cheerin site to see the zeal wich the ad mirers of the white-coated philan thropist, all in white hats, went for sich niggers ez they found in the streets mat nuei i uon't despair uv Eeem niggers flogged under them white hats. Petroleum V. Nasby, (Wich wuz Postmaster.) Republican state Conventions. SEW YORK. i Elmira, N. Y., May 15. The New York Republican State Convention was called to order to-day by A. B. Cornell. Henry E. Piereon was chosen perma nent President by acclamation, and made a speech returning thanks ior the honor conferred, and rehearsing the history of the Republican party. When the name ot U. S. Grant was reached, the cheering by the convention was continuous for several minutes. Judge Pierrepont, from the Committee on Resolutions, reported a series of resolu tions embodying the following princi ples : 1. Protection to American citi zens without regard to race or color. 1, The constitutional amendments to re main inviolate. 3. The public debt to be paid in coin. 4. No oppressive tax ation to pay the public debt. 5. A re forming oi the civil service and repeal ing of the income tax, franking privi lege, and all revenue taxes except on tobacco and liquors, o. A revenue tar iff. 7. A restoration of h.irniony in the reconstructed States. 8. A preservation of peace with honor to the United States with foreign nations. 9. That respect for the soldiers and sailors of the late war requires that the princi ples of the Republican party be main tained. 10. That the surrender of the Republican party at this time will be a surrender of principles which saved the nation from destruction. 11. That the cry of universal amnesty is a deception; that no one is disfranchised from voting or holding property. 12. That politi cians ot seceded States have not changed their principles, but only their policy. 13. That all who have become alienated from the Republican party are invited to reunite with it. The 14th recites the benefits arising from Presi dent Grant's administration. 15. That it would be exceedingly unwise to change our able, tried and safe Chief Magistrate ior one untried and uncer- tain, and we unitedly advise the renom- ination of General Grant for the next President of the United States. General Martindale addressed the convention in support of the resolu tions, reciting the late history of the country, and particularly ot the pres ent Administration, and the actions of those seeking to break up the Republi can party. 1 he resolutions were then adopted unanimously. The convention, on motion of Judge Pierrepont, ad journed sine die amid enthusiastic cheers. TENNESSEE. Nashville, May 15. The Republi can State Convention assembled to-day. Hon. J. u. irierson was cnosen perma nent President. There were about 300 delegates present. The convention was harmonious and enthusiastic, showing that the Republicans of Tennessee are united and unanimous for Grant. Del- I egates to the Philadelphia Convention were appointed, and a lull electoral ticket. No candidate for Governor was nominated, it being deemed the best policy to make no contest. Hon. Hor ace Maynard was present, and made an able speech sustaining the present Ad ministration. Senator Barlow was too ill to attend. He sent a letter strongly indorsing Grant, which was read and cheered. The resolutions are in favor of the Union, civil rights and political privi leges lor all, bounties and pensions for all who suffered by the war, mainte nance of the public credit, and economy of administration. The fifth, sixth, and seventh resolutions are as follows : " The rigid accountability of all offi cials, punishing swiftly and sternly the dishonest, removing tne incompetent, and making efficiency Jand fidelity tests of fitness in preference to political opin ions, partisan service, race, color, or nationality. " lhe national honor inviolate, either by unwarranted demands upon other powers, or by unworthy concessions to them, by menaces to the weak or by discourtesy from the proud. lhe interests ot labor by free schools, free homes, and industrial pol icy which has doubled the rate of wage3 and increased the country lourlold." The resolutions recognize President Grant as the best living representative of these principles, which his Adminis tration has reduced from theory to practice, and is entitled to their confi dence, respect, and continued support. Their delegates to the convention in Philadelphia on the dd ot June next are instructed to urge and vote for his nomination as a candidate for re-elec tion to the same office. MICHIGAN. Jackson, May 16. The Republican State Convention met here to-day. The lollowing resolutions were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the unexampled pros perity of the country ; the universal leeling ot etabilitv which encourages enterprise of all kinds; the steady diminution ofthe national debt; the large reduction ot taxation; the en hancement of the public credit ; the rapid extension of every right to every ciiizen, and tne visible dissolution ot the Democratic party, so lone hostile to justice and equa. rights, are the satis- if. jiory proois ot national confidence in tie Republican administration of the government. .Kesolvtd, lhat in our mdement Gee- em Grant has been as faithful and patriotic in the cabinet as he was in the field ; and that, relying upon his hon est heart and firm purpose, his renom ination to the Presidency is earnestly desired by the great mass of the Repub lican party. Entire unanimity characterized the proceedings throughout. NEBRASKA. Omaha, Neb., May 16. The State Re publican Convention met at Lincoln, Nebraska, yesterday at 3 p. m. Reso lutiocs passed indorsing the Administra tion; favoring an amendment to the constitution providing for the election of Senators, Postmasters and other Fed eral appointees directly by the people ; favoring the dedication of public lands to homesteads and pre-emption pur poses. The delegates to the Philadel phia Convention were instructed to vote for Grant and Colfax. Political Xotes. An interview with Judge Jerry Black upon the political situation was publish ed last Sunday morning. He said ths.t had the Cincinnati Convention raked this world and the two adjacent it could not have found a fitter man to be a can didate, or a more unfit one to be Presi dent, than Mr. Greeley. j 1115 .ueiaware itepuDUcans nave in structed their delegates to Philadelphia to vote for the renomination of Gen. Gran:. The New York Jndevendenl shares in the almost universal distrust of Mr. Greeley's administrative qualifications. Itsays : As a leader, a standard-bearer, wise and sagacious counselor, the record of his life supplies abundant rea sons for believing that he would be a signal failure. He has already commit ted so many blunders that even his warmest admirers trust his judgment with caution." " Greeley butter" is offered to the public by a Kansas City grocer, who takes that delicate way of intimating that it is not very strong. The Cincinnati nominations Dut nn the price of gold 2 per cent., and Secre tary jjoutweil took advantare of the rise to sell treasury gold. So that the country will make some profit out of the Ureeley and Gratz farce after all. The New York Nation savs that all those who called the Cincinnati Con vention "acknowledged privately that it was a failure ; some of them admit it openly. Those who are supporting Mr. Greeley are doing so simpJy by way of making the best of a bad job. Not one of them considers him a desirable can didate, or looks forward to his election without grave apprehensions." A. H. Stephens "goes for" Greeley in a way not acceptable to the sage's friend. He says " it is true that Mr. Greeley did a most magnanimous act in standing bail for Mr. Davis ; but in this' 1 a 1 ' ne acted a part no more magnanimous than Gen. Grant did, when he notified to Mr. Stanton that he would resign his commission in the army if Gen. Lee shou-ld be arrested in violation of the parole given him on the memorable surrender at Appomatox Court House." ' In its rage at the obstinacy of Voor- hees and other recalcitrant Democratic Congressmen, the St. Louis spitefully blurts out a chunk or two of truth tbat could hardly have been ex pected Irom that quarter. " It will be reneshing," it says of these mulish Bourbons, " to discover that they have a iy well-defined ideas as to their duty in this crisis. The country has looked to them m vain, so far, for some slight eviueuces oi aomty in the way of lead- ensnip." lhe Republican is entirely right. Since the death of Douglas, the party has not been able to discover in its ranks a single individual possessing the essentials ior a great leader. The most prominent Democratic sun- porters ol Orreeley in New York are John Morrissey, sambler. and JuriT Ledwith, who sold himself to Tammany iur a price, xammany iaued to deliver. ihr.y are a pretty pair to support th6 "honest" philosopher, and verv cood bpe.imens oi tne class who will darken the VV hite House doors afterward if " their man goes in." Such men know wny tney support candidates. Ferry has been re-elected to the Uni ted States Senate from Connecticut by a coalition oi tne democrats and Ureelev- ites. The Chicago Tribune thinks that " the significance of this event is over estimated. It secures Connecticut to Greeley and Brown beyond a preadven- ture." Ano now comes the news that Ferry, being duly interviewed, declares that he will never never vote for Greeley will see him anathematized first. So the traitors who voted for him will not even get their price ! Hard Treatment. After bemg in prison for 15 months awaiting trial upon the charge of plac ing oDstrucuons on tne JNaugatuck rail- roaa. rrans .Deane, a lad ot 16 vears. was acquitted on Thursday by the Su perior oourt at liarttord, Conn. It turned out that he really removed the obstructions and saved a passenger-train irom a serious accident. A stupid and blundering Justice bound the boy over ior iriai wnen ne snouid nave been dis charged and handsomely rewarded Moneyed damages will be no adequate compensation for the terrible blight upon tnat young nero's lite. Putting1 an End to Himself. mi i t-v . - xne eccentric ur. uyies nad at one time a remarkably stupid Irish girl as a domestic. With a look and voice of terror he said to her in haste : " Go and tell your mistress Dr. Byles has put an end to himself." The girl flew up stairs, and with a face of horror ex claimed at the top of her voice : "Dr. Byles has put an end to himself!" The astonished wife and daughters rushed into the parlor, and there was the doc tor calmly walking about, with a part of a cow's tail that he had picked up in the street tied to his coat or cassock be hind. ' ; Tight Lacing. There is a female patient in the Stock ton (Cal.) asylum, whose insanity was caused by tight lacing. A brute of an editor in giving this says : " All women whoJace tightly are insane the only difference is that this one was found out. The others will be, in good time, Fashion Gossip. Oct door jackets are made of cash mere with a great deal of trimming. The latest novelty in evening dresses are Dolly Varden tarlatans. Plain white tulle veils are to be worn with straw bonnets next season. A new style of card receiver has a vase attached to one side for holding flowers. Point lace parasols have become quite a common sight on the promenade this season. Fashionable ladies nowadays keep a maid to take exclusive care of their lap-dogs. Green of all shades is very much worn, this season in costumes, bonnets and gloves. . Two or three black silk costumes are considered as an indispensable part of a bride's trousseau. Jet fringe and flowers is the fashion able style of trimming for bonnets and round hats this season. Sunday evening is the fashionable re ception evening in Baltimore and Wednesday in Philadelphia ' and Boston. House weddings are all the style this season, with no wine and no music, and the presents not displayed till next uay. The new style of lace veil is hoatriW embroidered around the etl 17ft with flrkaa and beads. The most beautiful Dollv of the French pattern, which come in pale grounds, with garlands of delicately Blue sunshades lined with white ar reputed genteel. Wh ite Swiss muslin will be verv mnoh worn this summer. t Young ladies have their coral-handled parasols fastened to their wrists by neat gold chains. Three new hotels have been erected at Narrangansett, which now looms up most formidably as Newport's rivaL A revival of the ancient Spanish cos tume in Spain, including lares enmha and short dresses, is noted. Colored silk hose and hiph-liAPler? kid of silk slippers to match the dress the lashionable "foot toilette" fm- home wear. Sleeveless jackets of muslin and lace are very lashionable this season, and very stylish tor full dress of white lace. The jolly local of a paper in Boone county says: "Come where my love lies dreaming and see how she looks without any paint on her face." French milliners call Dollv Va 1 Watteau" oostumes after French painter of the time of Louis XIV., who represented in his pic tures ladies' skirts drawn up as in the modern fashion. Street costumes recently sent nvr from Paris are made short enough in clear the ground. Ladies iu3t return from abroad are surprised to find Amer ican laaies dragging handsome silk drerses over the dirty sidewalks of New xorK. The little knick-knacks of the are crepe de chine accessories for bows in the hair and tor collars. It is no lr.ninr admissible to wear the old formal bows. They are trimmed with Valenciennes and fringed the most delicate shades being preferred. The comfortable linen blouse with long skirt looped at the fastened at the waist with a Wt.h and fancy buckle. To this belt is at tached a useful little contrivance for carrying scissors, thimble, etc. No dres3 for the promenade could ha prettier than the plain silk of two shades. AmoDg these the cameo tints are still popular. Black silks always have been, and probably always will be, considered both rich and lav-l'i ' therefore, they are made up in suits as much as ever. The most curious colors imaginable are now worn for ladies' hH.0o blues that look green, and greens that iouh. ume, orowns mat look forty other colors by gaslight, and flowers that look as if they had been ruthleesly dragged into public life from the honorable retirement of the ash-barrel. The " Parepa " bonnet is mar? nf -. rich silk, the crown is large and a lappet of the silk falJs over at the backf A large, heavy puffing is used about' the crown, from which depends a branch of cut roses, the larire center mi;- very low upon the chignon. This bon net may be worn with lace lappet, or simply an elastic at the back. Fob street costumes the American llks are becoming quite popular ; they are found m solid colors, brown, gray and the olive tints, as well as in bllck, which was the only color in which they were manufactured at first. Th h been a great improvement in the manu facture oi these silks during the past two years, and they now add real beauty to the durability which they have al ways possessed. A New York bachelor recently gave a very gorgeous banquet to seventy-five ladies and gentlemen in Delmonico's big oval room. The immense table was tinned over, filled up with moss, and stuck full of the richest flowers. Scal lops in the flower-bed admitted the necessary plates, and in front of each plate was a little silvered column trim med with flewers, and a festoon of the same reaching to the next pillar. The decorations furnished by the florist alone cost $2,000. A new style of overdress for full toi lette w made of the gayly brocaded foulard, having a deep skirt, and being cut low in the neck and with short sleeves. The skirt is trimmed with deep black lace, and the low corsace has a puffing and fall of lace. A scarf a crepe de chine, of any bright color, as blue, pink or yellow, may be worn with this polonaise, being fastened upon the right shoulder and crossing to the left side. The garment is very dressy, made of the pretty figured grenadines and trimmed in the same manner, or of organdie and , finished with ruffles of the same.