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First Gun of the Campaign! r .riu‘ 1 Ltll I vollinjjr ! NOMINATIONS TAKF LIKE WILDFIRE! FULL REPORT OF THE SPEECHES. limit Ijilliiimumh for •* llomsl Old Abr!" •We Will Elect Him ! ” tiIVK 'JiIE DKMOOUVTS A “RULING!" .. t-'l«llMMt(IIIHIl“ Mill Uow tluill up Sail llivri ! Eloquent Speeches for Lincoln! In W'U‘r.l:i_v‘> paper wo briefly gave a sy nop>:-- ol ilio pro.codings >*t lii'* yioat Repub lican Mas> Meeting oil Wednesday evening, ihi lir*t mm of this memorable campaign. \\ t will now give a more o\ton<io<l roi»ort, as full as our reporter was able to jot ilown irotn tin- meagre facilities o tie red using hi> hat for a tahlo, ati'l writing hy tho dim light ol a dis tant oil lamp. Tho mooting was oallod to order hy H. 1* Fisk, M 5,,., who moved that the following olliorrs ho olootod : J’ivsidoiit —At i \. K vmsi'V. Vi.-o Presidents D. l\».>n:u, llknky \< k tu, .1. It. Samioun, l>r. Iv 11. Huai n, l>. \V. |so I i{<oi,i., Mr. lbn i 'i \s, and N. Mol. i. an. Si eretal ios .1. .1. Is S..S, S. I*. JeN.NISON, and il. Si mm; ut:u. • aiV. II AM sky's 111 MAKks. I n opening the meeting. Guv. Ramsey, tho t'h.tiiinan, thanked tin- audience for the honor oonlVrrod upon him hy tli'* solo*•lion ol tin* spciker to preside over this initial meeting of the campaign, which was lo eiosc next fall hy the election of the Chicago nominees, Adkam I.imoi.n for President, and llanniiiai. II \m i is, for Vice I'rosident. | Cheers. | AN EXCELLENT NOMINATION The enthusiastic manner you have com menced this meeting, and the cheers with which you greet the name of Lincoln, augurs well for our success. This most fitting and excellent nomination has everywhere, my friends, hocn received with just such hursts of j >y and enthusiasm as are here exhibited, showing that all little preferences and opin ions as to who was the most proper man to be our standard-bearer in this campaign were forgotten since the nomination, and “gallant Old A he” is every where hailed as our leader in this contest. [Applause.] When one mind and sentiment thus actuates us, and no rank lings or jealousies are left from our old preferences and ideas, it can leave no doubt ol our overwhelming success in next November. [Applause. ] The speaker continued: —The Convention which has just adjourned after making the excellent nominations we have met to ratify, was undoubtedly the most calm, earnest, and intelligent body of men ever gathered in our country for such a purpose. The number present was greater than ever before known on such an occasion, indicating the deep in terest pervading the people regarding the pro ceedings of that body, which was to herald to the country our principles on the vital issues of the day, and nominate a man for the high est civil station in the world, who should re present them. The “ platform” on which we stand has been adopted unanimously hy that large Im.dy of men representing many shades of opinions on the political asjiectsof the day, and our candidate for the Presidency, repre senting them, was nominated, too, with a unanimity wonderful when wc consider the short time occupied hy the Convention, and tli - previous honest and reasonable prefer c!is •:’the Delegations. [Applause.] Ol It CANDIDATES. The candidate for President is a western mao -t pioneer, one who helped to settle this eivat valley where soon will bo the majority ot the wealth and population of the confeder acy. < ’beers. | W ith his own toil he helped to sett!.- it—to redeem it from the wilderness u:<: -ontribute to its present greatness, i - in i- e position of a ragged and barefoot i .Taut boy. he has won his present proud t- uefore tbe people, lie is a man whom i i.iiri.i; will love because be has sprung I rum them, lie knows their hearts, their wants, their feelings, With your Homestead bills and Kiver and Harbor improvements ; cheers 1 and your internal growth, “ Honest Ol<l Abe” will ever be found to sympathize, and to assist. Not raised in life by adventitious aids or born in wealth and atllucnce surroun ded by friends, but one of nature’s noblemen, raising himself in life by native talent and energy, overcoming all obstacles, and winning success by deserving it. lie l uoirx tin rd is a II is/ / | Applause| and yet will la* true to all our Union. We have been termed a sectional party. Vet we arc the true Conservative I’arty of the I ’nion —loyal to the confederation whatever may be our wrongs and'grievances, while not a mem ber of our party is a Disunionist! [Ap plause. | Such is the MAN, and such the Party he represents. And Hannibal Hamlin, [cheers| our candidate for the second position, a son of old Maine, is one most lit lor that responsible situation. I.oiig connected with the Hovcrn ment, a northeastern man, a man of ability and integrity, Mr. Hamlin’s nomination is sure to be ratified by the electors of these Mates next November. [Applause.j SUCCESS SIRE. The speaker here gave the particulars of an interview with Mr. Lincoln at his home, when his nomination was announced to him, and said he was most favorably impressed with his personal bearing, his honest, open and frank demeanor, his noble sentiments and free utterance, and believed him a man most lit for the high position he was to receive. [Ap plause.] The enthusiasm the nomination of Abraham Lincoln excited in his own State was wonder ful. It reminded him of the campaign of IS 10, and will terminate as that did, by the election of the People’s Candidate to the Presidential Chair. That thejpeople will not endure another Ad ministration like the last and present was too evident. And the Governor closed by’ saying that victory was sure with such a platform and such a candidate, as is presented to the intel ligent voters of the nation. [Prolonged ap plause.] .Sl’El’CH or lloN. WM. Cl MItACK The Chairman then introduced the Hon. Wm. Ci - »imack of Indiana. After the ap plause had subsided, Mr. C. said : lie regretted his ill health would prevent a long speech, but he would say a few words in response to the nominations. lam a na tive, he said, of the “ Iloosicr State ” —have never lived anywhere else, and glory in my nativity. It is true she is under a sad cloud now—the cloud of Democracy—but next No vember the rays of Kcpublicauism would dis pel them. [ Applause. | Tin: NOMINATION’ RECF.IVKI) WKI.T. I would have been glad to have returned to my own State on the adjournment of the Con vention, to have witnessed the enthusiasm ex cited by the glorious nominations made at Chicago. Abram Lincoln was Indiana’s choice from the first—and now the very air of my State is vocal with his name. Ihit if your choice fora nominee had been suorcssful, she would still have been as ready to respond with enthusiasm as you are, to respond to that of Lincoln. [ Cheers. | OIK NOMINEE We are united in our choice and proud of our candidate—Honest Old Abe,” as he is termed, in grand contrast with the man whose Coat tail hangs too low, —for Old Abe stands six feet four inches, let me tell you, and is a man too, whose integrity has never been doubted. And our nominee for Vice Presi dent, also, is an honest man. I tell you it is time we had such in our administration, for tiie corruption and venality, and betrayal of our rights by the last and present administra- tion, has almost shaken the confidence of some ot the people in our form of government. | Cries of “ no,” “no,” “we’ll change that.'j Yis, wc will change that order of tilings. We will displace those who have betrayed us by' men pure and honest who niil carry out the will of the people, and administer our government righteously. We will stand shoulder to shoulder in our battle with cor ruption. | Applause. ] Ol U PUIXCII’LKs. We fling our Platform out for the contest. A Platform of pure principles, adopted by oar large Convention without a <!i.ssintiny v.'i't \\ hy, at Charleston it look them six or seven days to find out w hat their princi ples were [laughter] or to make some. MOUEIIN HUKVIiVi V T hese modern Democrats claim to still hold the principles of the old lathers and foun ders of the party. Ah no! They have sadly departed. It reminds me of a man in a town, down in Indiana (?) who was boasting of his “ revolutionary giui.” Some one examined it and found lock, stock and barrel made by a man up street. “ Well,” said he, “il it has’nt got a revolutionary barrel, or stock, or lock, it has a revolutionary lourh-hole !" explosion of laughter so with these old style Democrats. All they have of the original Democracy is the touch-hole 1 [Screams of laughter.] HAD TO LEAVE THEM. I was a Democrat once—for two years, six months and nine days. Then I left it (laughter.) .Vote, l believe in the principles of the Republican party, because they are pure and correct. 1 allow u > one, party or convention, to make my principles for me -- and no true citizen or any one lit to he a citi zen will do so, |“ that’s su”| and when 1 saw that the Democracy was kneeling lower and lower every year to the South, 1 left it. Once, all the States of the North had decided that I’on'Tess had power to intervene against t!le spread of slavery into free territory but the Democracy of the latter day bad abandoned that position, h aving hint still staiulfhg on it as formerly, and believing still as lie did then. Democracy lias changed, and is continually changing, while with every move many who will not follow it, leave the party in disgust at its truckling and shameful corruption. (Cries of, that’s true.” : UOW THEY ItEITtVV TIIK PEOPLE In 18-14, ’.VI fit or light was the cry. |\ii.k endorsed it, but after election abandon ed il though our right to the territory was dear and unquestionable, and went into the acquisition ol Southern T erritory because it could be got without much danger, and would become slave Territory. Still the party how ed to the lash of southern dictation and ac quiesced in it all. Then the compromise measure of Isso was adopted, as a finality, and a -cepted under the promise of no more “agitation.” The very next Congress tore up the time honor d Com promise of 33 years standing, and opened anew the “agitation.’ Who are the agitators. The record of that parly proves they are. | Applause.] Now they tell us—slop this agitation or Disunion will he the consequence! Ah—l understand it. It is not disunion the Democ racy fear, or they would cease agitation them selves. They have had two administrations now, each of which has been repudiated by them before they were through [laughter. It will he so again, and you had better turn in with us now, and repudiate it before it com mences. DEMOCItACY A DISINION PAIITY Thank God ! we have no secessionists in our party. We arc now and always have been, loyal to the Union of these States, no matter what may occur, and have never threat ened secession if defeated. Blit the so called Democracy are in favor of the Union on cei tain conditions only. [Laughter. [ Why, while stumping my district it was charged hy my opponent that the Republican party was a sectional, disunion party. I im mediately produced the resolution in the Phil adelphia platform, and asked liirn it that could have been passed at the Cincinnati, or any other Democratic convention, lie gave it up! j Applause. | A very national party the}’ ha\ e now. One piece at Baltimore, another at Washington—for all the world like two fune rals. Hut it’s none of ours. [Laughter, j It is not Disunion they arc afraid of. The hue and cry is for another object. They want to scare the people into renewing their hold for another four years on the Public Treasury. Oh, here is a solution to their alarm. It reminded him of the old lady whose place was overflowed hj’ the river. Some one asked her how she got along. She said she got along pretty well until the water got so deep that the calf had to stick his head under water to suck ! [Laughter.] That’s the way with the Democrats —they are afraid they will lose the teat! 1 tell you lit*- political wa ters are rising, and they will have to let go. Good Democrats are leaving that party every day, because t!ic-y see that wo are the conser vative, non agitating party of the country. | Applause. | \Ve make no war on any one, or on any section, and Lincoln’s administration will tie one of equal justice to all 'J here will lie no “ war on the South’’—these bugbears have lost their elfect. THE TERKITOItIKS 1 011 WHITE MEN They arc fond of calling us the “ Mack ” party. Hut wo arc the white man’s parly in truth. We say as did our fathers of tin-repub lic, Xo Slavery in the Terrilot u.s! They ardor white men, and for white, free labor. Why, who would go to the Territ >ries and he com pelled to labor along side of the negro slave, who gets nothing hm clothes and food ? Could you, northern mechanic, compete with such labor - ' No. It degrades and depresses free labor to put it into competition with that pro duced, forced by the lash. Once in Kentucky 1 asked a pompous look ing darkey who a certain abject looking white man was, who went by. “ Why—him—he’s only Jim Smith, the carpenter—has to be his own nigger!” was the contemptuous reply. Who would he a mechanic in a Slave State, and be thus looked down upon? It is degra dation too deep. No wonder slave labor States do not prosper. Hence, our motto is, —“The Territories for white men I’’ The Democratic motto is—“ The Territories for slave labor.” Slave labor, that blights enter prise, withers energy, letters progress, and demoralizes the white man. It is this system, so unjust to the white men, that we oppose. If that he “abolition ism,” Thomas JcHerson is its Father. He drew up the ordinance of 17 5 7, and drew a cordon of Liberty around the free territory. And when petitions to repeal that restriction were sent in, they were calmly denied. My own State, then a territory of Virginia, was part of that area sought to he thus thrown open to Slavery. What did Virginia do then? Seek to force human slavery on the Territory? No! Stic declared she would not allow that blighting curse to be fixed on her! [Applause. [ Indiana is now free. She is a great, wealthy and powerful State, made so by free labor ! [Applause.] llow different modern Democ racy, which, not content to leave the curse where it is, seeks to enforce Slavery on our free territory INDICATION'S or SUCCESS. The indications of success are bright and certain. The people are tired of Democratic rule. They “ have been fooled that way once or twice before,” and will not again believe the delusive promises of Democratic leaders. Our principles, too, are steadily gaining ground. People begin to see we do not, as the Democratic leaders do th. ii’s, profess them and not believe them, but mean them, live them in our acts. Hut with the Democracy of the present da}’, “principles” are but an empty sound. No one of them knows what will be proclaimed next—what new debase ment awaits them ! They are out at sea, with no chart to guide them. Douglas was the first to strike down the Missouri compromise, to lay his ruthless hand os that time honored instrument. He is prominently mentioned as a Democratic can didate for President. Our candidate, HON ES I’ AHE LINCOLN, is no such dema gogue—but is one who would never tear down the compromises, and open a danger ous agitation which Douglas is responsible for. We will elect Mr. Lincoln too! [Applause] The Democrats ridicule him because he used to split rails when a pioneer settler, hut I tell you he will ride them on a rail, and send them up salt river in one of his old Hat boats. | Laughter.] v ttui'iii .nEni'.vtivi: man Vlnaiu Lincoln is a true type of the Amer lean. Hv his own unaided clforis he has raised himself to his present proud position. The American heart points with pride to just such men as he, as an evidence of what true worth mav become, and accomplish, in our free land. lie is no pallor man hut knows the wants of the people, and belongs lo us. | Vociferous applause.] Why, our wants have never had attention from the t'resident or heads of the departments. Our want of more mail facilities, a Homestead law, Ac. have never tieeu understood. W hen gallant old Ahe gets in the Presidential chair, we wont have any weak and ridiculous “pro tests,” hut an"open, strail-fonvard and honest administration our want will he made know it and attended to. CANT SI'ITOKT THEMSELVES, The Northern Suites, meagerly as they are supplied with mail facilities, support the Post Otliee Dep: u inient of the United States There is little Florida, which contributes sit’d,(inti towards that department of the country, while she draws §-10,t[0U for her own routes. What would she do in case she seceded, as she [threatens ? W hat would Alabama, Virginia, and other States ol the South do, outside ot this l nion Ah they are ungratetul, to threaten to go out in the cold thus. It is as if my little boy said, “if von don’t do so and so, l will leave von and sec how you would get along then ! [ Laugh ter* J WHO AUK THE DISKUNIONISTS.’’ And what mean these tUrcatsJof secession? It means an endeavor to frighten you into surrendering yourself to the Slave Power ! No—there must lie no secession, whoever wins. In the race if you win, we will stay in the Union however great our wrongs, and il we win, we'll male you stay by the l nion ! [Applause.| Remember South Carolina and General Jackson! We will maiotoo the I (nion uf ihc-e States our party is pledged to it, and we have not a Disunionist among us. During the contest for the Speakership lasi winter, who relinked the lire caters who belched out threats o( secession ? Dem ocrats? Not one! It was |Truinhull, Fes senden, Harlan, Seward | vociferous applause] -and Douglas never uttered a word in re buke ! THE ritEKDOM OK SCKKCII Minnesota is now a Republican State, and the corrupt Democracy will never get a toot hold here again. [Applause | \ our plains and forests, hills and valleys and grand pru nes vv ere made for Freedom, Free Speech. Five Men! | Applause.j Here in this fertile and rich northwest should be freedom’s home. No party opposed to it should ever have a foothold here. Here we can speak and pub lish our sentiments, but it Slavery were es tablished here, that boast of freemen would cease. lion. A. 11. Stephens, of Georgia, once summed my district against me. 1 was elect ed though, and when in Congress thanked him. I said: When you get in the Union, I will return the compliment. What do you mean, lie asked ? You would not let me do it now, I retorted. No, said he, ‘ We’d hmg you tin high us Human /” A tree coun try ! Rut all honor to those few brave men who dare stand up in a Slave State and tell their fellow citizens the advantages of free la bor against all danger, threats, tear of exile, Ac.—Such as Cassius M. Clay. [Vociferous applause.] Slavery puts padlocks on the mouths of freemen and seals them. It drives men— sometimes whole communities, as at Herca, Kentucky—from their homes and exiles them —what for—merely because they hold obnox ious sentiments ! Is that the glorious princi ples of Non Intervention and Popular Sove reignty ? The rights of an American citizen under the Constitution guarantees Free Speech. 1 shall tell my friends when 1 go back that you know in whom you believe, and that your hearts are beating for freedom. \\*e will elect Lincoln and Hamlin —we owe it to the country —and you will do your own part towards it. We can’t stand another Democratic ad ministration ! Ruck has gone in his hole, and Covo<le is fishing for him, while up comes some grunts of protest! [Laughter| They repudiated Pierce—they “don’t belong to tins administration”—and believe me, they will repudiate Douglas too. Some of the Democracy sty they don’t care if the Southern States do secede. Where is your nationality then? You boast that Democracy knows no North—|a voice “ that’s so.”] Yes it is so—Democracy does not know there is a North. | Applause] Hut 1 must not trespass longeron your pa tience, and will now give way for the other speakers. [Loud and long applause.] IION. STEPHEN MII.I.EIt’s UKMAKKS Mr. Mii.i.eh then came forward, amid great applause. Ile said that if he should say some hard things, it was not personal, but intended for a corrupt party. Thu masses were gene rally honest, and when their judgments are convinced, usually do right, lie would speak of the corrupt leaders, however. They had come around, once in lour years, promising if elected, to save the country, but it was a costly saving. The people begin to think it can be saved cheaper. They never fuilil their promises made before election. It is like getting a dog to perform some trick by promise of a cracker held out, and then keep ing the cracker. [Laughter.] The fact is, they want to keep the key of the molasses barrel. [ Illustrated by an amusing anec dote.] Mr. Mii.i.kk then gave a short history of the Convention, .kc., and said that Mr. Lin coln was a Northwestern candidate, and the Democrats ought to support him, as they have been upholding Dug. on account of his being a Northwestern man. Anyhow num bers of them will come over, because there are always some who want to he on the win ning side, and they see ours is now the strong est party. They are like the philosopher who thought the world was going to split in two, and wanted to get on the biggest piece. Mr. M. said the success of Lincoln was be yond doubt, and no where would he he more warmly supported than in Minnesota, whose delegation, though at first for Seward, had changed to Lincoln, when it was evident the eeling of a majority was setting in for him. He also spoke of the fitness of the nomina tions, and the excellent administration we will have under Honest Old Abe, and closed by saying that we would surely elect the rail splitter of Illinois, j Applause.] Nothing but a verbatim report, anything like which is forbidden by our want of space— would do justice to Mr. Miller’s earnest and plain language, which is mixed with the most humorous anecdotes, lie is one of our most able and interesting campaign speakers. lION. J. W. NOKTII’s REMARKS. Mr. North, Chairman of the Minnesota Del egation then addressed the audience, giving an excellent account of the Convention, and the perfect satisfaction even among the Sew ard Delegates, at the nomination of Abram Lincoln, as the most fitting and strongest pos sible. Ihe Convention, he said was a remar kable one for the numbers in attendance, the enthusiasm and earnest feeling prevalent, and the intelligence and calm patriotism of the Delegates. The platform was a sound one, and as one remarked, has the Declaration of Independence in it. The nomination of Lincoln has been favor ably received by the Hermans, and one Her man Democratic paper had hoisted his name. Mr. North then went intoa scathing review of the contrast between our Convention and the Democratic Convention at Charleston, which elicited repeated applause. They were the agitators. It had not appeared in our Convention in any shape. And while Doug las could only get 111 votes from Slave States, Mr. Lincoln received 42 ! [Applause.] Mr. North said the campaign had opened well, with such an enthusiastic meeting as this, and there are indications too stroii" to he mistaken, of our success in November. Mr. North gave a very interesting account of the interview of the Chairmen of the vari ous delegations with Mr. Lincoln, saying lie was most favorably impressed with his bear ing, manner, and noble sentiments expressed in accepting the nomination. He was just the man for the Presidential Chair. MR. A. H. WAHXER, Then made a short and stirring address to the Herman Republicans present, which was received with applause. TUI. MI.KTINii Then adjourned with three rousing cheers for “Old .Vise,” and throe for the Platform. The Great Western Rand discoursed excellent nut .vie through mt the meeting, and added to the spirit of the occasion. The Hall was densely crowded, and was as full it has ever been, even during the cam paign last season. 1.1M01.X I>K.noXNTUATION IS CIIICAUO. T/n ./ttiiuiinrriiiMl of the JX'omtuolion to '• O/it .Ibr"— IJrftit Kulhuaioent—Hotc he Jtrrelieti the .Vofjr. Chicauo, May l'J.—Tho demonstration last night exceeded any thing of the kindsincc the cable celebration. From telegraphic de spatches from various portions of the Union, we learn that the nomination of Mr. Lincoln was generally received with satisfaction. In this city the excitement, which for the past few days has continued at the Wigwam, scattered throughout the city last night. The Wide Awakes marched in procession, num bering over two thousand, carrying torches, banners and transparencies, with mottoes ex pressive of their joy. The German Republicans were also out in large force. Ron tires blazed Jon the street corners, aiul meetings were held in various parts of the city. The principal one was at the Wigwam, which was addressed hy Josh ua R. Giddings, and other prominent men, delegates to the Convention. The announcement of his nomination was made to Mr. Lincoln at Springfield, at noon yesterday. In the evening a large and en thusiastic meeting assembled in the State House, and listened to addresses from prom inent gentlemen of that city. The meeting ad journed at nine o’clock, and was escorted by the Young America Rand to the residence of Mr. Lincoln, tli.-i appearance was the signal tor imnu n.su cheering. W hen it ended, Mr. Lincoln said that he did not suppose the honor of such a visit was intended particularly for himself, as a private citizen, Lul rather as the representative ot a great party. In reference to his position on the political questions of the day, he referred his numer ous and enthusiastic hearers to his previous public speeches and letters. Ilis speech, which was very brief, was loudly applauded. Uiiicauo, May 21.—The committee appoint ed hy the Convention, comprising President Ashman, and Chairman of the State delega tions, to otiicially announce to Mr. Lincoln Itis nomination, arrived at Springfield Saturday night, and immediately alter supper proceeded to Mr. Lincoln’s residence, where Mr. Ash man, in a brief speech, presented Mr. Lincoln with .i letter announcing his nomination. Mr. Lincoln replied: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Cotn mii tec, I tender to you, and through you, the Republican National Convention and all the people represented in it, my profoundest thanks for the high honor done me, which you formally announce. Deeply and even pain fully sensible that great responsibility is in separable from that honor, a responsibility which f could almost wish had fallon upon some one of the more eminent men and expe rienced statesmen, whose distinguished names were before the Convention. “ I shall, by j our leave, consider more fully the Resolutions of the Convention, denomi nated the Platform, and without unreasonable delay, respond to you. Mr. Chairman, not doubting that the Platform will be found sat isfactory and the nomination accepted, I will no longer defer the pleasure of taking you, and each of you, bj r the hand. (treat Kntliiisiatiin In Clileago. lYoiti the Chica'jo /Vg.vn’ awl Tribune Last night the Press and Tribune building was illuminated from “turret to foundation” hy the brilliant glare of a thousand lights which blazed from windows and doors with a most attractive and beautiful elfect. On cacti side of the counting room door stood a rail—out of the three thousand split by “hon est Old Abe ” thirty years ago on the San gamon river bottoms. On the inside were two more, brilliantly hung with tapers whoso numberless individual lights glistened like so many stars in contrast with the dark wal nut color of the wood. On the front of the oil ice and over the main door, between the second and third stories, was suspended an immense transparency with this inscription upon it: : HIK VRKvWI-.NT, ; : “ honest oij> aui;.’’ : K*»U VP'K im:k>ii>knt, : JIANXHUL HAMLIN. Inspired with that true enthusiasm thatevciy true Republican yesterday fell when ther banner was unfurled, they collected in crowds at the several hotels and shouldering rails marched in joyous triumph through our streets to the cheeting music of no less than a scox* of hands. At dark several of the triumphal procei sions united, paraded through Clark street, and stopping before our oflice, rent the ar with soul inspiring cheers and exclamations of victory, which awakened a loud response from the honest hearts of the one hundred employ eeos of this establishment. The Pennsylvanians in particular, knew no hounds for the expression of their feelings. They at once rallied, several hundred strorg, at their head quarters at the Briggs Home, where they were eloquently addressed l>y their standard bearer, Col. Curtin, theirenn didate for Hovernor. They all assert that Lincoln’s nomination will gain them the State by at least 25,000 majority, and their feelings, excited by the certainty of such a glorious victory, carried them almost beyond bounds in the expression of their wild anticipations. Indeed, the inspiration was universal, and congratulations weic upon the lips of every one who belonged to our ranks. Idle large warehouse of Huntington, Wads worth ,k Parks, on Lake street, also made a very effective show of variegated lights in ev ery window, while a banner was hung across the street, upon the ample folds of which was painted: FOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Many other buildings were also illuminated, and, as we said before, the enthusiasm was universal, demonstrated by music, cheering, speaking, parading, and „Uo by a liberal dis play of fence rails, and other characteristic emblems of the People’s choice. In fact, everybody was happy, every heart tilled with joy—except the Douglasites. They refused to be comforted. Tlic Nomination*. From th- Mihmuhe 1 The contrast between the proceedings of the dissevered and fractious Charleston Con vention, which after two weeks of quarrelling, failed to agree either upon a platform or can didate, ami terminated in a grand row ; and the harmonious action of the National Repub lican Convention at Chicago, which nominat ed a candidate for President on the third bal lot, ami Yiec President on the second ballot, is one that is calculated to impress the peo ple of this country with the realizing sense of the dilference between the great party of prin ciple and the party of spoils. The name of Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, has long been known and revered within the limits of the sovereignty which claims him as her citizen, and he has more recently won for himself a national reputation in the contest for the Illinois Senatorship, in which he wrapped his iron limbed syllogisms around the ingenious sophisms of the “ Little Giant,” until they dissolved beneath the embrace of his resistless logic. The purity of life, unblemished integrity, statesman like qualities, and vast personal popularity of “ Honest Old Abe,” designated him as emphatically the man to lead the Re publican hosts to victory, and he was, there fore, selected by the people in Convention as sembled, as their nominee lor the high odicc of Chief Magistrate of the United States. While the claims of “ the gifted son of New York” were fully admitted, yet the unwar ranted personal prejudice existing against him in the doubtful States—a prejudice tliat can and will he eradicated before four years ./A DEFECTIVE PAGE more have elapsed—rendered him ineligible at this particular time. But the nomination of '* Honest Old Abe” will sweep the vast prairies of Indiana and Illinois like a lesist less tornado, and carry him into power on the crest of the wave of popular indignation against the sham Democracy, and popular feeling in favor of the great party of freedom. Biographical sketch of' ll Honest Old Abe.” We do not think we can give our readers anything more interesting for their perusal, this morning, than the following biographical sketch of our standard-hearer — Auuaii.vx Lincoln. It is a copy from the Chicago Press and Tribune, of May 1U : “ IIONKST OLD AUK.” The People'* Candidate fur fre tide n t—H til it and Plat-boats —/.»<■ Cabin*i and Hard Cider Cotue .i grain. mOUUAI'UICAL SKETCH OF AIIKAIIAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln is a native of Hardin Co. Kentucky, lie was born on the 12th day of February, 1808. His parents were both from Virginia, and were certainly not of the lirst families. His paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Buckingham county, Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1781 or ’2, where, a year or two later he was killed by Indians, notin battle, hut by stealth, while he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were respectable members of the Society of Friends, went to Virginia, from Berks county, Pennsylvania. Descend ants of the same stock still reside in the east ern part of that State. Mr. Lincoln’s father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer coun ty, Indiana, in 18Hi. The family reached their new home about the time the State was admitted into the Union. The region in which they settled was rude and wild, and they endured, for some years the hard expe rience of a frontier life, in which the struggle with nature for existence and security is to he maintained only by constant vigilance. Bears, wolves, and other wild animals still infested the woods, and young Lincoln acquired more skill in the use of the rifle than knowledge of books. There were institutions known here and there by' the flattering denomination of “schools,” but no qualification was required beyond “ readin’, writin’, and cipherin’,” as the vernacular phrase ran, as far as the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to under stand Latin happened to sojourn in the neigh borhood, he was looked upon as a wizard, and regarded with an awe suited to so myste rious a character. Hard work and plenty of it was the order of the day, varied, indeed, by' an occasional hear hunt, a not unfrequent deer chaee, or oilier wild sport. Of course when young Lin coln came of age, he was not a scholar. He could read and write, and had some know ledge of arithmetic, hut that was about all; and as yet, he had but little ambition to know more of what was to be found in books. His attainments otherwise were not to be des pised. lie had grown to be six feet four inch es in stature, was active and athletic, could wield the axe, direct the plow, or use the rifle as well as the best of his compeers, and was fully' up to all the mysteries of prairie farm ing, and fully inured to hardship and foil. Since he arrived at age he has not been to school. Whatever his acquirements are, they have been picked up from time to time as op portunity occurred, or as the pressure of some exigency demanded. At twenty-one he removed to Illinois, and passed the lirst year in Macon county, in ac tive labor on a farm, where he and a fellow laborer, (named Hank,) SPLIT THItEK THOUSAND HAILS, in the year 1880. It will be interesting to the millions before whom he is now placed as a candidate for the highest office in the gift of a free people, to know that he once niana/jed a fiat bout on the Ohio ltiver. The anecdotes which he some times relates to his friends of the maritime experiences before the introduction of steam on the western rivers, are indescribably laughable. From Macon county he went to New Salem, in what is now Mcrnard county, where he remained about a year. Then came the Black Hawk war. A company' of volun teers was raised in New Salem and the sur rounding country, and young Lincoln was elected Captain; a success which, he has since said, gave him more pleasure than he has ever since enjoyed, lie served with credit during the campaign, and became popular. Return ing to Sangamon county', he learned the art of surveying, and prosecuted that profession until the financial crash of 1887 destroyed the value of real estate and ruined the busi ness—the result of which was that young Lincoln’s surveying apparatus was sold on execution by the Sheriff. Nothing daunted l>v this turn of ill luck, he directed his atten tion to the law, and borrowing a few books from a neighbor, which he took from the of fice in the evening and returned in the morn ing, he learned the rudiments of the profes sion in which he has since become so distin guished, by the lij/it of a fire-place! About this time the Whigs of this county conferred upon a nomination for the Lcgisla lure, lie was successful in this and tliicc succeeding elections, l»y triumphant majori ties. While a member of tin: Legislature be first gave indications of his superior powers as a debater, and be increased, by frequent practice, his natural faculty for public speak ing. He improved industriously the opportu nities that were here offered of self-cultivation. From the position of a subaltern in the ranks of the Whig party, a position that was appro priately assigned him by his unaffected mod esty ami humble pretensions, he soon became recognized and acknowledged as a champion and a leader, and his unvarying courtesy, good nature and genial manners, united with an utter disinterestedness and abnegation of self, made him a universal favorite. During his legislative period he continued his law studies, and removing to Springfield, he opened an office and engaged actively in practice. Business Uowed in upon him, and he rose rapidly to distinction in his profes sion. lie displayed remarkable ability as an advocate in jury trials, and many of his law arguments were master pieces of logical rea soning. There was no refined artificiality in his forensic efforts. They all bore the stamp of masculine common sense ; and he had a natural easy mode of illustration, that made the most abstruse subject appear plain. His success at the bar, however, did not withdraw his attention from polities. For many years he was the “ wheel horse ’’ of the Whig party of Illinois, and was on the electoral ticket in seven.) Presidential campaigns. At such times lie canvassed the State with his usual vigor and ability. He was an ardent friend of Henry Clay, and exerted himself powerful ly in his behalf in 1814, traversing the entire State of Illinois, and addressing public meet ings daily until near the close of the cam paign, when becoming convinced that his labors in that field would he unavailing, he crossed over into Indiana, and continued his efforts up to the day of election. The con test of that year in Illinois was mainly on the tariff question. Mr. Lincoln on the Whig side, and John Calhoun, on the Democratic side, were the heads of the opposing electoral tickets. Calhoun, late of Nebraska, now dead, was then in the full vigor ofhis jiowers, and was accounted the ablest debater of his party. They stumped the State together, or nearly so, making speeches usually on alter nate days at each place, and each addressing large audiences at great length, sometimes for hours together. Mr. Lincoln, in these elabor ate speeches, evinced a thorough mastery of the principles of political economy which un derlie the tariff question, and presented argu ments in favor of the protective policy with a power and conclusiveness rarely equalled and at the same time in a manner so lucid and fa miliar and so well with happy illustrations and apposite anecdotes, as to es tablish a reputation which he has never since failed to maintain, as the ablest leader in the Whig and Republican ranks in the great West. In 1840 he was elected to Congress, and served out his term, and would have been re elected had lie not declined to be a candidate. He steadily and earnestly opposed the an nexation of Texas, and labored with all his powers in behalf of the Wihnot Proviso. In the National Convention of 1848, of which he was a member, he advocated the nomination of General Zacharia Taylor, and sustained the nomination by’ an active canvass in Illinois and Indiana. From l.sl’J to l*>|, Mr. Lincoln was en gaged assiduou.-ly in the practice of his pro fession, and being deeply uiuersed in business was beginning to take little interest in puli lies, when the scheming and groveling selfish ness of an unscrupulous aspirant to the Presidency brought about the repeal of the Missouri U’omprumisc. That act of baseness and perfidy aroused the sleeping lion, and he prepared for new efforts. He threw bim-elf at (»nce into the contest which followed, and fought the battle of freedom on the ground of bis former conflicts in Illinois with more than his accustomed energy and zeal. Those who recollect the tremendous battle fought in Illi nois that year, will award to Abraham Lin coln fully three-fourths of the ability and un wearying labor which resulted in the mighty victory which gave Illinois her first Kcpubli can Legislature, and placed Lyman Trumbull in the Senate of the United States. The first and greatest debate of that year came off be tween Lincoln and Douglas at Springfield, during the progress of the State Fair, in Oc tober. We remember the event as vividly as if it had transpired yesterday. During this excit ing campaign Mr. Lincoln pressed the s avery issue upon the people of Central and Southern Illinois, who were largely made up of the em igration from Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina, with all the powers of his mind. He felt the force of the moral cau ses that must influence the question, and lie never failed to appeal to the moral sentiments of the people in aid of the argument drawn from political sources, and to illuminate his theme with the lofty' inspirations of an elo quence, pleading for the rights of humanity. A revolution swept the State. For the first time the majority of the Illinois Legislature was opjioscd to the Democratic administration of tiie Federal (Jovernment. A United States Senator was to lie elected in the place of lieu. Shields who had yielded to the influence of hi- less scrupulous col league, and against Ills own belter judgment, had voted for the Kansas Nebraska act. The election came on, and a number of ballots were taken, the almost united opposition vot ing steadily for Lincoln, but the anti-Nebras ka Democrats for Trumbull. Mr. Lincoln In cline apprehensive that those men who had been elected as Democrats, though opposed to Judge Douglas, would turn upon some third candidate, of less decided convictions than Judge Trumbull, and possibly elect a Senator who had little or nothing in common with the then inchoate Republican party. I’o prevent such a consummation, he went per sonally to his friends, and by strong persua sion, induced them to vote for Trumbull, lie thus secured, liy an act of generous self sac rifice, a triumph for the cause of right, and an advocate of it on the floor of the Senate, not inferior, in earnest zeal for the principles of Republicanism, to any member of that body. Some of his friends on the floor of the Legislature wept like children when con strained by Mr. Lincoln’s personal appeals to desert him and unite on Trumbull. It is proper to say in this connection, that be tween Trumbull and Lincoln the most cordial relations have always existed, and that the feeling of envy or rivalry is not to he found in the lucast of either. From his thorough conviction of tiie grow ing magnitude of the slave question and of the need of a strong effort to preserve the terri tories to freedom, Mr. Lincoln was among the first to join in the formation of the Re publican party, although the public opinion around him was strongly adverse to that movement. He exerted himself for the organization of the Republican forces in Illinois, and atten ded the first Republican Convention held in the State. This was in Bloomington in May, 185(1. His speech in that Convention was ot surprising power and eloquence, and produced great effect in the contest of that year, Mr. Lincoln was at the head of the Illinois elec toral ticket, and labored earnestly', though vainly, to wrest that State from the grasp of the pro-slavery' Democracy, with the “ walk ing magazine of mischief,” as Douglas has been appropriately called, at its bead. We need not refer to the great campaign of i 1858, so fresh in the recollection of all readers further than to subjoin the result of the vote on members of the Legislature, to wit: For ABRAH AM LINCOLN.. .125,275. For STLI'IIBN A. DOUGLAS 121,100. By reason however of the flgraut apportion ment of the State in Legislative districts, by which a majority of the members are always elected by a minority of the people, Mr. Doug las was, as is well known, returned to the Senate. In private life he is literally unimpeachable. Among all who knew him his most acceptable and at the same time appropriate soubri</Ht I, is that by' which he is most widely known : “HONEST OLD ABE.” How tiie Nomination is ICcccivcU Abroad. fVo/w S/wial Jh'sjMlii-hcs to the /*/•#.. fin>l Tril-11 1\>‘ AT BKLOIT, \\ IS. Bki.uit, May Is. —One hundred < |0(>) guns are being fired for Lincoln here tonight. Jxn. Banxestv, Mayor. | AT UA LENA. Galena, May is.—Nomination of Lincoln j received with great rejoicing cannon firing, \ music and processions tonight. 11. 11. 1 loiciiton. j THE HOME or 01.0 AIIE. Si’iuvr.iiKi.n, May IS.—There is a grand ! Lincoln demonstration in progress here to- ! night. Cannons are being fired, and a very ! large meeting is being held at flic City Hall. The greatest enthusiasm prevails. INDIANA I >OI.IS. Indian a rows, May 18.—A grand salute of I<H) guns were fired in honor of tiie nomina- j tion of Lincoln. Bon fires and speeches to- j night—great enthusiasm. A grand ratification ! meeting will take place to morrow night. DETROIT. Detroit, May 18.—A salute of one hun dred guns was fired this afternoon, on receipt ! of news of the nomination of Lincoln. There I are bonfires and illuminations this evening in different parts of the city', and much enthusi- 1 asm is manifested. AT riIII.ADEI.I’IUA. Private dispatches received last evening by j the Pennsylvania delegation, state that the nominations were received at Philadelphia with great rejoicing. Severn! thousand people had assembled in Independence Square, to await the news, and when it was announced ■ that Lincoln was nominated, the air was rent with shouts; processions were formed and marched through the principal streets, cheer ing and hurraing for honest old Abe. AT NEW YORK. On the receipt of the intelligence of Lincoln’s nomination at New A ork, one hundred guns were fired in the Park. DAYTON. Dayton, 0., May 18. — The nomination of Lincoln created the wildest enthusiasm among the Republicans of Dayton. Cannon were fired, and a large circular rail fence was erected at the junction of Main and Third streets, enclosing a huge bonfire. A large and enthusiastic ratification meeting was held at the Court House, and was addressed by | Hon. R. C. Schenck, Hon. M. B. Walker, and others. Old rails in demand. 11l >OIIESTEK. RoniESTF.il, May 18.—A salute of 200 guns was fired here this afternoon in honor of the nomination of Lincoln. AT BUFFALO. Buffalo, May 18. —Upon receipt of the news of the nomination of Lincoln and Hamlin at Chicago, salutes were fired at Buffalo, Ro chester and Albany. At the latter place the most extravagant demonstrations, the like of which has not been seen since the Atlantic cable affair. Burning tar barrels gave to State street the appearance of a sea of lire, the red glare of which illuminated the heavens. The demonstrations at this place were of a more sober, but probably none the less hearty haracter. ALBANY. Albany, May' 18.—One hundred guns are now being fired by the Republicans of this city in honor of tiie nomination of Abraham Lincoln for President. The greatest excite ment prevails, the streets are alive with poli ticians, and groups are gathered on State street and Broadway discussing the subject ofthc Domination. The win uncemcnl oftbe nomination of Mr. I.hicln . peeled by the Republican , of this . ,v. re confident Mr. Seward would i J,.-*n.ni, and when it was announced ihat Mr. ifi, was the nominee, a slight fe.-liug of oip<s,,.. ment was manifest. At hr. t. the intc’.lig. t»<-« was not credited, but lii doubts were of short duration. This feeling Mill exist some what, but tln-y say they abide by the dcr-i-i ,i of the Convention, and give a hearty' ami cordial support to Mr. Lincoln. W ASH I M.TON Wasiiivutov, May 18.— During the pro ceedings of Congress this afternoon, iiiiu-h ex citement prevailed, especially among the Re publican, in the House, concerning the events at < liioago. Every' fre.-ii lelcgtaph serve! to increase the commotion. The Presidential nomination occasioned much surprise, and was not at once credited. Ii is said the first intelligence on the subject was received in a dispatch from Haskin to Don da-. W a-iiisoton, Friday May I*. —Mr. Ham lin’* rooms are crowded to night with friends congratulating him on his nomination. He had no expectation of rccci\i:»g it, and was surprised when it was announced to him. I h* Republicans ol this cite, and the itenub lic.an Congressmen are iiili of enthusiasm over the ticket. Mr. Douglas has repeatedly’ said to-day that the nomination of Mr. Lincoln was the strongest the Republicans could have made. A Republican ratification meeting will beheld here next week. AT NEWARK. Newark, Friday May I*. A large, spon taneous and enthusiastic meeting of Republi cans was held here last evening, ratify ing and congratulating themselves mi the Chicago nominations Speeches were made by Me--r-. (’.Barker, Esq., |). ,\. Hoy.-s, Esq., J. 1 . 1 osier, Esq., and others. (ine hundred guns wen tired and bonfires lighted. A gnat good feeling was manifested, and mans' mu grat illations exchanged. AT RANCOR. Bancor, May In. One hundred guns were fired, and (In* Kepubhcans are jubilant for tiie Chicago nominations. AT MANCHESTER. M anchester, May I*. \ salute was lire.l for the Chicago nominees. Much excitemeii' prevails and the Republican.-, are appuivntlv perfectly satisfied. AT NEW HAVEN New Haven, .May Is.— The nominations of Lincoln and Hamlin are received with mover sal enthusiasm. \ National salute is now being tired upon the Given. AT BOSTON. Boston, May is. Mr. Lincoln's nomina tion for President caused some surprise, hut was well received generally l>v the Kcpuhii cans, wiio hailed the announcement with a salute of 100 guns. It is proposed to have a grand Ratification Meeting at Faucuil liali on .Monday night. AT CONCuRIi. Concord, N. 11., May is. The Kcpuhii cans of this city'received the news of Lin coln's nomination with great enthusiasm. A salute of lot) guns was fired, and bonfires lighted this evening. AT lIATII. Bath, Me., May 18.—A salute of lot) guns, fireworks, ringing of hells, and a street pro cession with music, inaugurates the Republi can campaign in this city. at Cortland. Portland, May Is.—The Chicago nomina tions were received with great enthusiasm. A salute of 100 guns, bonfires, Ac. Opinions «»C tltc l*rcs*. Every Republican exchange paper which has reached our ollice since the nominations, endorses the action of the Chicago Com en lion, and hails the ticket as a strong one. The Chicago Journal, whose first choice was Seward, says Lincoln was its second choice, “ but we are as ready, as heartily and sin cerely' ready', to give him our support as f he had been our first choice. We have sum mered and wintered with the gallant old k a der, and have long since learned to love him as a true and good man.” The Daily Wim’onxin, says:— “ While tiie first choice of this State was for Wm. 11. Seward, yet wc rejoice at this nomination as much as we would over that of any other man. lie is a Northwestern man, in every’ sense of the word, a man for the masses, who will endeavor to do all in his power to promote the interest of the Northwest, and thcrefoie we rejoice at his nomination.” The Milwaukee lit ii/nit I remarks :- - “The first choice of Wisconsin was Wm. 11. Sew win. However, llicre is a unanimous determination to support Mr. Lincoln. “ Ile is a self-made man, of -tamicli lo pub licanism ; based on all the principles which underlie the party; a man of spotless lepu tation. of great energy and decision of char after, and in every respect the man of the Northwest and of the Union.” —As a matter of course, the Chicago /V mu/ Tribune , is very jubilant over the nomi nation, as well it maybe. In concluding a long article on Mr. Lincoln, it says : “Men pcculiatly fitted fir great occasions arc sought for and called to their work by the spontaneous imbnught suffrage of th-- people, and never was the fact more signally illus trated than in the nomination of Ai!Kai!am Lincoln. And now licit he stands before the country as a candidate of the people's own choosing, it requires no g'tt ol prescience to for tell the result. As surely as the sun shall rise upon election day, just so surely will the people of this nation place trio man of the people at the head of the government." Tlic Charleston Convention anil joiiriiiiicnt to llnltiinoi'c. I V/'.Y- nl'/111- .V' V ' 11, Some of the ablest men of the Democratic ! party here, regard the adjournment of the | (’liavlcston Convention to ISullimorc, a> illegal ’ in a political sense, and hold that the t 'onveii- , tion transcended its powers—tliat it was rotn tnissioned i»y the people to <lo a speciiic act, at a specific time and place, and at no other time and place; and that, failing to do it, its functions necessarily ceased, and no legal Con vention exists, or can exist, till the people begin tie uoC> and elect new delegates. II that defunct Convention bad the power to ad journ to the lsth of June, it has the power 1 to adjourn to the very day before the election in November; and when it meets again in I June it may either do that, or adjourn ninr \ <lit: without making a nomination, thus del' at ing the wishes of the I lemocracy and depriv- 1 ing them of the opportunity of making any nomination in propel time. Foreign Deism n«i lor liresul>*Hill ». 'l’he X. V. Tribune, of Thursday, in its money article, has the following remarks as to the probability of a heavy foreign demand, this year, for American bread-stuffs :— u An important, feature in adding strength to the market today, especially in Western shares, is the impression which is g lining ground that there is to he a large export demand for c. to tals during the present year, which will gi\e the grain roads a largely increased traflie in freights, and collaterally in passengers. There is a great surplus of corn remaining of the lust crop in the West, which is available for ex port, and which must come forward to tide water. The accounts from England indicate the probability that all the cereals we can spare will be needed, and some of our most prominent grain operators predict a larger export in 1 *>»o than in any year since the famine year of Is 17. Should these anli' ipa tions he realized, the inliuenee upon the for tunes of the Western roads must be very marked, and bring them up nearly to the prosperity of their best years.” The New Orleans hJtu says the ad vance in tin: pi ices of property in that e.ty is the most gratifying evidence of its prosperity. i.orwi, m:\vs. Lm.ilij j;v Ld.iwnin... During the violent 'mm ••'hu b pa-.-.ed over mi-, city’ and vieini on W • e-day nigh:, a fatal occurrence t “‘ ,k I” a,c “ mall house on Exchange u ' ’’ 111 proximity to the Leman Cath edral, whereby a < •erman nam d Me- i ' was mstantly killed |. y light, Th(; p UIlj; ,. become alai med dm in j t’. : t ; ■ sant roai of the ei .. n . , '•'l got up from his L;! and dio-.-ed Lu. ; , .Scarcely was thi- done than tic- ho . -tin kby lightning, the .subtle flu:! etc. the chimney, and in its pa.s-Rge down to i: 1 floor, it must have pa-.v-d entirely tine a i Me.s-ug’s body, as he was standing at the time clone to the u.'.lh ile fell dead’without a sti:lc or a groan. His pants wei : ally torn to piece-, and one of his boot- wa-, • sit from his foot as if done with a knife, ’l l; • lightning iii it.- pa--age tur*>ug!j the hoii.-e nl - "me curi ms fri ak , splittii tl bread "f a gun which was liangi >g again t th wa ' into a tlwusand bits, and then, after t about various other aili -le-. Due • it- e\a through a pane of glass, -nit : round hole as nii !y a diamond. The di 1 and was an industrious • other pei.-i'U- were in lit ;! t U„ ii„„. bui beyond a slight -l- m-|,. jured. Terrii:m Storm. W ... i-l.ai, • brio - us accounts.,f . live .-torms dono it \' i ~ . not unscathed her. I • , u, i vi.-iimy was v i>itt*d by a l ; -De mv, b ('day morning, about on. . h. Vhc weather had been warm and threat, nin ■ aii evening, and -borily sifter mi might the storm bur-t upon u- from the ii":th.v- -i, in all its intensity. Ihe kvhtiiing bin/.' d inet- inti y ill blinding tin lie-, while the deep tliunu-V -ccnc-d to jar tie firm foundations of the cos th almost v. idiom inn nni--i. making theho.v.: cst buildings uvinble. h ;i! i awful ami ycl sublime di-play >1 nature’s elements at war, and hushed the trembling beholder inn speechless wonder. The rain fill in sle ets, and lie- ground v - soon covered, while til. gutters Were 10l a dine swollen with the l aming torieie-, places eh "king up, overflow t.g property an 1 doing mueh damage. i I ;, il Stones of largest >iz • fell lbr awhile, and impelled by tie w ind which blew a e fie almost, bfoKe iniitiiueiai;!* nan. ol g.a-s in hothouses, windows, ,\e. The rain was very destructive in the coun try. we It urn, washing out .-eel sonic, and do ing other damage. Several buildings in the city were strm k by lightning, .duckuhm - blu ivcc;vin.t two strokes. Altogether, this wa- the wor.-t storm evi r known m tin- city, and nimvdestructive ill its effects, both as regards life and proper!v. It only lasted about two hours, and then veered oil to the southeast. Freit Lkowinu in Min m: 'H a. (’an w. raise apples in Minnesota? is a fiv.pi.'iit!' asked question. We believe it will 1. ■ d m when tiie culture ol the tree is rightlv nod" r stood. 'I lie St. Anthony A. 's.-i- that U. K- S i.illi an old and experience 1 nur- rv - man, formerly of Rochester, New Y ik, has been in this vicinity for sever i! weeks past, devoting himself to a tk rough investigation of the practihility of fruit culture and of (be causes of failure in the past attempts, ln ior to this visit, tie ha l made the inctcorolocv of the Stale a -indy, through the reporks of ob servations made at Eort Snelling for :i long series ol years. The n suit lias be. uan no- Joublboj ••oio'h-Uou of tiie entire praeti.-ahih ty of raising successfully, apples and oth r hardy fruits, lie has personal!,' examined ail the growing and the blighted appl tr> vs to which lie had ae<rs-, and i- -atisli. <1 that in the vast majority of cases ol failure it was due to improp r treatment, such is would led to the same result in any otlr-r Sta*. . One most frequent cause bf the dealli of the tree will be found to aie ■ from the piw .•ileuec of sontli-west w inds. Mowing the stocks so as to lean lo the north-cast. Th” trunk is thus exposed to the direct rays M tin sun, and perishes from smihlight. Th. re-ull is ju-t ns sure in New York, a- any apple tree inclining to the North will perish, im!.-.--, .-haded by artificial m- ins. flii - . lim id s with the experience of Judge B s'w'ick asgiv en in a recent number of the .V, ,n ; and also enforces till* value of tiie r< medv Sllgyesti-.l in that connection. Mr. Smiih’s confidence in his judgment is positive and as an earn, -t of it, lie has guiie li no to settle his business, intending to return to Minnesota in the sum mer to establish an extensive nnr-erv in ’his vicinity. The following naim d gentlemen, citizens of .Minnesota, have he n elected Directors of the Minnesota and I’a.-ili ■ Rail R >ad t' supi’ for the ensuing year : Din '•tor*. —R. R. Nelson, Dwight Wo, .1 bury , Franklin Steele, Richard Chute, John S. I'rince, K. A.t'. Hatch, Benjamin Thonq. on, J. W. Taylor, J. C. Burbank, J. <’. Knm-ey, J. W. Lynde, J. L. Warren, Ed mund Rice. Odin is. Edmund Bice, President ; R. R. Nelson. \ i<’ lVesident; T. M. .Mel-ulf, S - erctary; E. Caldwell, Treasurer; Jim. B. Biisbiu, Att incy; Win. Crooks, ( gitieer. i t/tici CoiiiiniU.tr. -R. R. Nel 11 Wells, E. A. C. Hatch, B nj.unin J John. S. I’rince. Westward Ho ! The LaCross / iiniu says that “some fifteen or tw< v.« each drawn by nearly its many oxen, hlockid up the street on 1 1 •. waiting for the ferry boat, to ta Minnesota. What possesses th- t. . w know not, but il this state* of 'bin 1 any great length of time, Minn.'-oi.i »viii be filled up, and her population will outnumber that of many of the old States of the Last.” The Mansion (Wi-.j Star -ays— ‘ The 1 ( migration to tin W cst is larger tins -prin than it has been before in two y ears. Many t.-utns pass through this place, daily, bound for Minnesota. <>n Saturday last, eighty throe emigrant teams passed through this \ lage, some of them with very large droves of cattle.” Tlic Crops. j t'rops of all kinds in Minnesota are coming on finely. The fine warm showery weath.-r we have been having is pushing them ahead \ig n oils!v. W e are in advance of the Ivi-- tern ’States concerning rapid growth. W c givo two or three instances. 1. , M. M. Carson L-.p, a week ago u t | Tuesday planted a quantity ef hi- coin, :u 1 las! Tuesday it had grown to -u.-ii a size, as I to admit of being hoed, it being on an average three inches in height, and ol a i i \e Unit > 1- ! or. M e defy the world to beat this; corn is I not all that is growing, crops of all kinds are coming on equally ns fast. Minnesota r, we j think, destined to be first in the lor ' grain and stock raising.