The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1864, Page 4

The Great Meeting at Union Square on Saturday—The Nation’s Gratitude te Grant. Since even the radical Tribune has been forced to relinquish its recent attacks upon Grant, and to join in the call for the meeting in his honer om Saturday next, we have every Treason to suppose that this great gathering will include men of all parties and factions. General Grant is = man of the people. He ETS A Pa YORK HERALD. | Sree cee ste tomy rene them since tbewr orresise*"be, aiid that twenty thousand @OKDON BENNETTS SPITOR ANY PROPRIETOR tt aes ° OFFICER MH W, CORNER OF FULTOW AND mastad FS, bave retetved the county bewaty ef three hun- Is dollar, They alse reported thet at preseaton ly Adout twenty qen por dey are enlisting In the city; that ‘the liducsazeats re not aufoient to duce men to enlist in any considerable number, and, in short, thay they do not consider they would be able to raise the quota under the coming call In less than a year by volwateering. Twenty thousand tons of Berantoa coal wers sold at auction yesterday by Mr, Simeon Draper, by order of the oe eatern Cor t New York, Wean ig pramughy ace ke ng luo has labored so gloriously and triamphantly for —— F showed an advance of fifty ceats on the ten since the last | the sake of the whole country, not to advance the private interests of any particular political clique. Talk to him of politics, and he is deaf, oranxiously endeavors to turn the conversa- ion upon tanning. Aak bim what office be de- sires, and he replies that be wants to be Mayor of Galena, in order to repair the wooden side- walks of that little Western city. This is the man around whom the masses may rally, dis- regarding party politics as patrioticatly as he does. This is the man of whom it may be truly eaid that the Presidency secks him, instead of his seeking the Presfency. To listen to the ravings of the adherents of certain Presidential candidates one would eup- pose that the coming election is to be a mere ordinary, old fashioned, routine affair. The gab- | ble about parties, apd “personal claims,” and ‘‘the interests” of this candidate and that can- didate is incessant. We can almost imagine ourselves back to those good old times when the Presidential elections were the quadren- nial excitements, and nothing ever happened to break the peaceful monotony of the loag intervals between them. ‘Those were the times when personal claims wore considered, and when personal interests were weighed against party interests. Those were the times when the machines ran smoothly and ground out officeholders regularly. Those were the times when people busied themselyes about party politics because there was nothing else to occupy the attention and exercise the brain. But now we are a centung ahead of that period. Events crowd upon us more rapidly than we can comprehend and record them. Each day has its tremendous excitement. Party politics have been swallowed up in the vast problems we are now solving, and which are to determine the politics of the world. We live in gigantic, titanic times, and must drop all these playthings of the past and rise to the dig- nity of Our situation. The current balderdash about the “claims” and “interests” of particular candidates falls as absurdly upon the ears of the true, intelli- gent, patriotic men of this generation as the silly language that mothers talk to babes, Claims? No man has any claims upor the country unless he has served her best. Per- sonal interests? He must be bold who con- siders them for a moment in comparison with the interests of the nation. The conventions of 1852, 1856 and 18602 They are forgotten. Peo- ple do not remember them. They are ghostly. An oblivion called war has swept them away. Their issues and the questions decided in them are almost as completely lost as the memories of the motives and causes of childish quarrels. We bave grown of age suddenly, and have other things to,think aboat. Perhaps history could tell us all about past politics; but we have no leisure to read his- tory now. We are terribly busy making history. When politicians at Cleveland, or Bal- timore, or Chicago advocate the claims of this or that candidate on the ground of past political defeats, or of past services to party, they seem to utter stale nonsense. The man who has gained us the most victories in the fleld—the man who bas done the nation the greatest ser- vices—the man who will best guard and direct the interests of the country—is the popular candidate for the Presidency. Without adoubt this man is Lieutenant General Grant, and therefore we wish to see him nominated by the unanimous voice of the people at Union square next Saturday. There has been, in certain quarters, a great deal of nice speculation as to whether or not General Grant wil! run against Lincoln. Of what the politicians say in regard to this we do net believe one single word. Those who de- clare that they woud go for Grant if he would only ron, but that, unfortunately, he has signed some pledge or has promised so-and-¢o to some- body, are all Lincoln men at heart. Their wish is father to the thought of the pledge or the promise. They will be only too happy if their mysterious innuendoes shall prevent Grant’s nomination. They know very well that General Grant will never press himself, nor allow his friends te press him, as a Prest- dential candidate upea any political conven- tion. But if the people want to know whetber or not Grant will ran against Lincoln, let them nominate him and see the result. Ne sensible person can expect him either to decline or accept until he has been asked. A modest man is like @ coy maiden in this respect; but most politicians are like old maids, and take advantage of the fact that the Presidential canvass always comes in heap year to rush about and propose themselves to everybody. General Grant's rule of life is to do his duty; and we believe that it is his duty to accept the next Presidency, if i. be offered him, regardless of all his personal wishes and prejudices, because the nation needs him in her highest office. Ley the Union square meeting nominate him, and we shall soon see the result. sale. ‘The first meeting of the Twentieth Ward Citizens’ Asso- chation was held last evening in the large bal! corner of Thirty-fourth street and Eighth avenue. About twenty- five members were present, among whom were Judge Edmonds, James V. Roosevelt and several other prominent Citizens of the ward, who took strong ground against the manner in which our municipal afairs are conducted, Judge Edmonds was the principal speaker. Firty years ago, he said, the taxes of the city only cost cach individual Ofty cents per annum; but by the corrup- tion of oity officials every man, woman and child in the metropolis was compelled to pay at the rate cf between $15 and $16a head. The method proposed by the speaker for accomplishing the desired reform was not through Albany legislation, but by selecting honest men to fill the various offices. This could ouly be sccom- Wished through the agency of tho ballot bex, and to of- fect that object the association was formed. The speaker Taviewed the past history of the city, and urged upon ‘the audience’the necessity of @ thorough reform. Dr, Roosevelt aéd Others addressed the meeting ia the same train, and all seemed to agree on the male question, and urged upon the mombers of the association the groat ne- cessity of placing henest and competent mea in the im. portant offices of the eity government, Judge Barnard yoaterday dissolved the injunction re- straining the Mariposa Mining Company from issuing two million dollars worth of bonds. This is the second injunction of the kind that has been dissolved within tae past three weeks, The counsel, in moving for the dissolution of the injunction, admitted that the affairs of the company were somewhat under a cloud, and that unless the bonds were issued before the Ist of July mining operations would haye to cease, and the comcern would be damaged to the amount of three hun- dred thousand dollars, ‘The testimony in the case of Edward Hunter, now being tried in the General Sessions for the alleged murder of his wife, was closed yesterday, This mornisg the sum- ming up will take place. The cury yesterday rose up to elght-nine degrees de, aud the weather was uncomfortably hot to Persons obliged to exercise in the open air. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 448 doaths in the city during the week ending May 30— an increase of thirty-one as cempared with the mortal- ity of the woek previous, and two less than occurred during the correaponding weok last year. ‘The stock market continued dull yesterday, and prices egain fell of. Gold was quiet, at @ decline from the high quotations of the previous day, the premium standing at about 189. Government eecurities were quiet and s fraction down, The money market stiffened up a little, aud the rate of interes: was fully six per cent. The fall sm gold depressed the markets for most kinds of merchandise yesterday, and there was only a small busimess done in imported goods and but a moderate business in domestic goods, The markets were irregular and prices were mostly nominal. Petroleum ‘was in fair demand and firmor in face of the fall in gold. Cotton was in good request at full prices On ’Change the flour market was Sc. a 100. better. Wheat was lc. a 20 better, mostly for export, Corn’was scarce and firmer. Oats were quiet. Pork was firmer and more active. Beef ‘was firmer aud more active, and lard was highor. ‘The market for beef cattle was rampant this woek, Owing to limited receipts, and prices wero lc. a lage. per Pound higher, ranging from 1dc. to 19c. 8 200. The stock ‘Was mostly im the bands of the speculators, and was of ooly a fair average quality. Milch cows were unchanged. Veals were active &t from 7c. to 10c.a 1lc., as to qua- ity. Sheep aod lambs were more plenty and lower, ranging fram $4 25 to $6 a $7 for lambs, and $6 60 to $04 $10 for sheep. Hogs ware higher; sales at 8Xc.a 9%c. ‘The total receipts werv 6,287 beeves, 216 cows, 1,301 ‘voals, 8,723 sheep and lambs and 10,614 hogs. : ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. - Advertiagmonts for the Weneny Hxnsip must be band. ‘ed before tan'o’ciock every Wednestay evening Ite etrowtatIon among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is ivcreasing very rapidly. Advertisements ia serted in the Wamxix Heaaip will thus besoen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United tale THE SITUATION. The offlein! dos;aiehes from General Grant recelved at the Wer Udive yesterday evening were dated as late as six Poo yesterday morning, at Hawes’ shop. Genera Grant says thet the enemy came over 62 oer les om Monday evening and attacked. They wero easily repulsed, and with very considerable slaughter. To relive Genera Warren, who was on the le't, speedily, General Meade ordered an attack by the balance of our lines, General Hancock was the only one who received the order in time to make the attack before dark. He drove the enemy from his intrenched skirmish line, acd still olds it. It was thought that General Lee would make « stand nosth of the Chickahominy. [His forces were on the Mechanicsville road, south of the Tolopato. moy creck, avd between thet stream and Hawes’ shop, tts right resting on Shady Grove. Later dates, however, jutimate that he bas fallen back south of the Chickabominy, ‘Wakon’s cavalry bad been ordered tofdestroy the rail- roadsbridges over the Little river and South Anna, and ‘ered up both roads from those rivers to two miles southwest of Hawes’ shop, where the hea‘quarters of our army were established. Other reports, not official, say that @ Monday evening Genera! Warren pushed down on our left untit bis flank diwieton, under Grawford, reached @ point abreast of Bhady Grove chureh; that General Crawford, having got detached from the rest of his corps, wos attacked and crowtied back a little, The encmy then threw a force, probably that of Ewell’s corps, upon Warren's beGs, attempting to turo it, but was repuleed, Warren holdtog his ground at a distance of seven miles from Richmovd, He reports that he bas taken a considerable ‘umber of prisoners, and that there are many rebel dead on the field. Burnalde’s whole corps crdssed the Tolopatomoy creek on the 29th, and joined Warren’s corps. We give a five map on another page of the whole new fietd of operations, whioh is yet to prove the great battle field of the rebellion. Our pews from Coneral Batler’s department reports that Beauregard is withdrawing 8 portion of bis forces from the front, and that one whole divi:ion bas been sent 40 General Jobnsten to be!p out his G-orgian campaign, ‘The division of General Breckinridge is reported to have ‘arrived at Richmond. General GAllmore is now in command of the defences on James river. General Butler telegraphs that heavy fring was goingon in the direction of Mechanicsville. ‘He further states that refucees report that Gen. Grant ‘was witein fourtesa miles of Richmond, on the Mechanics- ville tarnpike A meeting is reported to have been held in Richmond on Monday to decide whether the city should ‘ve surrendered or burned, and the Mayor is said to bave favored Che surrender and was immediately put into Castie Thunder. This news comes fr om a feinale refugee. ‘The accuracy of it may be Judged accordingiy. General Butler sage that the enemy attacked his lines on Spring BiM and wore repulsed. ‘The Chattanooga papers of Sunday say that Genera Sherman bas established bis beadquarters at Dailas, Georgia, “Un te Richmond”—Another Battle and Another Vietory. We have the gratifying intelligenee from General Grant this morning that on Monday evening last the rebeis made a sudden dash upon Warren's corps, but that they suffered a bloody repulse, which resulted in advancing Warren to the position which the enemy had occupied, and within seven miles of Richmond. General Grant says the enemy were “easily repulsed;” from which it is evident that the prestige and the strength of Lee and his ermy are broken, and thet our gallant eld Army of the Potomac, for all its tolls and labors and sufferings, is about to be rewarded with the crowning achievement of the war—the capture ef the rebel capital. General Lee, in this attack of Monday even- ing, caw that, though a desperate experiment, the opportunity of doubling up and pushing baek our advancing columns was the best that he could hope for, K& shows, too, that be has no faith in those three tiers of fortifications ia which Richmoad is enclosed, but that he sus- pects those werks, should he retreat behind them, will only prove a snare to bis army and preelpitate the destruction of the city. Honce Lee has undertaken his old game of beating back his adversary, if possible, before he shall have advanced his guns within shelling distance of the ‘‘ Executive Mansion” of Jeff. Davis. But how feeble is this surpsise attempted by Ewell compared with the crush- ing escent of Stonewall Jackson, with his solid celumn of forty thousand men, upon the extreme right of our army in 1862. Evweli, it would appear, is now the main reliance of Lee; but from the Rapidan to Richmond he has met with nothing but disappointments and defeats, and Lee has not been able to turn the tide at any point in bis favor. We may expect now that, with the junction of Baldy Smith’s aolumn with General Grant, the advance upon Richmond wid be pushed forward at the point of the bayonet until the rebels are brought to bay within their fortifics- tions, or are driven to the complete abandon- ment of the city. General Grant has completely turned the tables upon the enemy in this cam- paign. In 1861, 1862 and 1863 the fatal policy of our military operations in Vir- ginia, under the guidance of the Washington Directory, was te scatter our armies about as much as possible; but now, uader the opposite system of eoncentratien, we see that General Grant can walk boldly into the ambush of the enemy, attack him CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the credentials of Mr. Baxter, as Senator from the Stase of Arkansas, were presented, read and laid en the tsbie, Mr, Davis, of Kentucky, sud- mitted a preamble and resolujion eharging against Gen. Butior complicity with the rebellion in its incipient stages, and calling for & committe te investigate the charges. The Internal Revence bill was thea takea up, anda num. ber of amendments and provisions were acted upon. Mr, Shermen’s amendment relative to a taxon the circula- ton of the State banks was rejected by twenty-five to eleven. An amendment was ado,ted providing that on all epirits that may be in the possession of the distillers on the first days of June, October and January, manufac- tured, but mot removed, aud on which mo tax bas been paid, the tax in the bili shall be paid. A pro. amendment of Mr. Powell, in effect abolish ing the bountses paid by the government to the astern ‘Qsbermen, caused s long and very animated discussion, 4m which the character and virtucs of New England, her people and institutions, were assatied by Messrs. Powell aod Davis, and defended by Messrs. Morrill, Fessenden, Howe, McDouga4 and Wilkinson. A vote was fivally taken on Mr, Powell's amendment, aud 1s was defeated, by twenty-four against eleven in favor of it, when the Benste adjourned. In the House of Representatives a bill to carry into effect consular comventious with Fraace, Englaod and Other natious was passed. It provides thas consul gen- @-is, consuls and commercial agents shall bave furiedtc- tion over the officers and crews of the vessels of their Teapective countries jh fereign waters, in cases of contro- vorey respecti.g wages and other subjects. The bill sa- (horizing the President to construct a military rallroad from the Obio Valley to Kast Tennessee was pasved, after 8 brie’ discussion, by @ vote of sixty-four against fifty. Bix. The bill incorporating the People’s Pacific Ratiroaa aud Telegraph Coumpany, and giving alternate sections of nnd towards the covstraction of the line, which is to ex- tend trom Lake Superior te Puget's Sound, was also passed by & vote of seventy-four against Mty. The propos tion to amend the Constitution wo as to forever prohibit slavery througheat the laed was then taken up. A motion to reject the propositi @ was disagreed te by twenty-one majority—s vote which shows that there is no chance of (te suceces. durieg the present session at least, The sub. ject wae discussed to ot evening seasion, but to empty beuches, as Only avOBL & dozen were present. MISCELLANEOUS WEWS. ‘The Presidential Convention met at Cleveland, Obio, yesie 4:y, avd nominated Gen. John Charles Fremont for Presideot, aud Gen. Joon Cochrane, of New York, fer Vice President. A platform was adopted, aed all the ma. chinery for the campa'ge put in active operation. The eteamabip Teutonia, from Southampton oa the 18th of Mav, reached this port yesterday evening. Her news bas boon anticipated by the report of the City of Balit more The Leinster, Ireiand, Repren, of May 18, speaking of the emigration movement to America, says there ie not the least doubt thas the emigration panic is spread ting through all parts of the country. From the district of that journal ‘the Might"! seems increasing. Two thou- sand eight hundred aad eighty-four persons jet the wall port of Biigo in five weeks fer the United states. Our correspondent 10 British Honduras, dating at Bolize on the Oth er May, mays that trade was very du | Die in ound him, fn the colony. Over three hundred toos of been exported te Ragland ane the United States, A con. t hip time, with the perfect, assur- Piderable quantity of land hed booe | swith comoa, | 8208 of success, He bas an army whioh be on aaie tan sy else danse aha knows ts equal to the work beforo it, and the Seats guna oa taneataies bins reo army Iteelf, under his direction, bas not the remotest idea that all the powers or devices of would ta the nd the colonists for the lomses whigh they bave sustained by ihe gradual falling @M Of | so” Davis can keep General Grant out of Richmond till the Fourth of July. ’ ‘ Tas Conpirion oF tHe Sovrners SProPLE.— The Richmond Examiner ot May 26 tells us of the miseries of the people in the rebel capital, and a correspondent of the sa:ne paper, writing from Atlanta, tells the same story for the peeple at the other extremity of the Confede- tacy. These descriptions of tbe condition of the people at those two important points are cer- tainly reli They are not the descriptions of intel ‘ > trabands, of refugees or de serters; but they ure the calm utterances of & journe! that bas done {ts utmost to bolster up the rebellion; that bas lied for the Southern cause with the utmost impudence from the commencement, but that cannot pretend to conceal from its readers the things of daily observation. Richmond at the present time it compares to the worst tat the Southern people bave seen of a beleaguered city. “Vicksburg,” sags the Eaaminer, “bombarded in front and rear, cat off from all the world, satis ee under r severest trinis. press ny repul- Picture ne Blobmond does to-da yr gnd fois is the condition ef Richmond when 146, aocording to the same paper, has been gaining & glorious victory ever Grant ever day for twenty days, It ie thus that the rebel capital rejoices over the triumphs of & Southern hero, “The families of militie- men mingle anathemes and tears with their bor- towed crusts.” aud the whole people, stekened the commerce te mabagany avd jog wood ‘The Mnard of Supervisors met yesterday. The Volun- with the acts of the rebel authorities, are bit- terly disposed to keep them in remembrance, or “treasure them up.” Atlanta is crowded with the people gf Northern Georgia, in the utmost distress; and the other parts of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are called upon to contribute “bacon, salt meats, fish, meal and corn”—all the arti- cles that the Southerm poor eat—and the press is appealed to to spread the intelligence of Marytand ‘Missour!, and ~& mofion (0 appoint e committee on credentials oticited some Sabato, Several delegates opposed the motion, on the ground that there were many citizens present who represent ewes ae ned in the several States, and yet have furnished with no credentials, ‘The motion*was withdrawa. i Mr. Guineas, of Missouri, bere rose and renewed the motion. He thought the time would c*me when every member of this Convention would be proud of bie'coa, Meeting of the Cleveland Mass » Convention. » Frement and Cochrane Candidates this distress, that information may be obtained | for President and Vice President. | nection witht, and he desired iat record should be “aa to where any number of destitate females that we are bere for a great and good purpose, in spite of Lancols and the 3 It was finally resolved to enrel tne names of all pres- # ent, and the only oredentials required shall be a deciars- ica that the delegate bas come here in response to the calls for he Cleveland Convention. The New York, Albany and West@rn oalis were then read, and, on motion, luid om the table, The following committes was popainted. to enrol the names of the delegates:—Messrs. John A. Millard, Joba Outheusen, N. P. Sawyer, M. Rodman and Jones Aldea. ‘THR OFFICERS OF THR CONVENTION, The Committee on Permanent Organization then re Peuiet the fallawing Dames for permanent oiflcers of the ven tion :-— ‘For Frerideat—Gonersl Jobe Cochrane, of New York, .) Vice Prendents—sames ii, of Maine; Parker Pile’ bury, of New Humyshire; . Casey, of Vermont; hé maad Tuttle. of Connect can find shelter and food.” Where shall they go, these wretched victims of war? Johnston's army “will follow him anywhere;” but what 1s to become of these horribly hungry end naked wives, mothers and daughters of the men whom the Southern leaders have ferced into that army? And this is the condition of the people at the two great salient points of the confederacy in the first month of the campaign. But Grant and Sherman propose te prosecute the war THE PLATFORM OF THE NEW PARTY, Key om ake Our Cleveland Despatches, Cuavatanp, Obio, May 81, 1864. ‘The Joint cauous of the different factions held iast evening Called to agree upon a candidate. In fact, their consultation was principally in regard te the organization Of perty, They decided to nominate ticket and take the preliminary steps for the formation of a party. The only thing done in regard to a candidate was Geoperately at these two points, assured that | the speakers urging the nomination of one on the . Of New Ww. complete success at ether wii put dowa the | point of availability, his was not fully satisfactory to a oper rebellion; and if the people are thus miserable | te war democracy, and yhey held a caucus this morning now, what will be thelr condition a month te decide whether they would participate in the Conven- latent mie Fitts oF D9t, \Thoy deolded to take part im its proceed. | ( Fo0te. of Michidan; Isane Newstadt, of Wiseousta, amd oe “9 5 RONG oy, uae 2 Te possibie, epee te fae of General Searetarvs_Leonurd Vandercar, of New York: 8. W 4 Grant for President, and_ }» (0 niet again District of Columbia; James D, Owens, of . fsiipe to tha ‘ trad Senn Tuma 1o Lonpon.—Mr. Memminger, the | .a4 decide ‘pon thelr future course. vegies oe Bigs ‘arian k, Moss of Missouri. Seoretary of the Jeff. Davis Treasury, was to have sold at public auctton on May 12 some very desirable property—bonds of the rebel goverambat, These bonds were part of a five bundred million loan; but the rebel govern- ment didn’t want to dispose of the whole loan at once, and #0 only offered for sale a mere bagatelle of five millions. These bonds offered great advantages for the investment of money. They had “thirty years to run;” they were se- cured by pledges of import and export duties; both principal and interest were free from tax- ation; they bore six per cent interest, payable half yearly, and the coupons were equal to coin “by law.” On the day on which these bonds were to have been sold Memminger’s star was, very clearly in the ascendant; for just before it, in time for the news to reach Richmond on that day, the rebel armies had gained great victories. Johnston had pounded Sherman terribly, and then, “by a ruse,” gotten him into Ressacca—and left him there. Lee had just driven Grant from the Wildernesé to Spotisylvania Court House. ‘he Convéhtion assembled at eleven A.M. No person ‘wea admitted except those vouched for. This was a ‘Daeler to any disturbance of the proceedings by those Feported hore for that pu: About three hundred and fity delegates participated im the proceedings. The Chair then appointea Parker Pilsbury, of New Hampshire, and Colonel Moss, of Missouri, to notify Generai Cochrave of hig election as President of the Cos- veotion, and es-rt bim to the chair, SPEECH OF GENERAL JOHN COCHRANE, General Coonan, on returoing his thanks to the Coa- vention, said:— Gentiemnn—The duty of this Convention will be well performed in accordance with the views and wishes af the people whom it represents, and in performing this duty it will advance to @ position that must eomm.nd universal applause. Weare here cecupyiny a comman ground, tbat of the broadest and most catholic principtes of democracy. Weare here, not for party, but for our country. Three years ago, when the very lite of the na tion was threatened, all patriots dropped party and rab lied to the support of the country; but the hour is com ing, indeed it bas already arrived, when the rebellion will bave he yieentey ver; and then it is that a free people should teview the part apd erect the necessary safeguards against the vicissiiudes and dangers of the future. It is at such a period you have assembled, «md while sustaining with ‘ul the vigor and strength of a gread people, actuated solely by love of coui our armies in the field, you are about orgawize a great civil party at home to proclaim and maintain, at all bazards, the great and memorable Anciples for which our soldiers are so valivntly fighting ft the feld. Tbus, and thus only, can the people of the land enjoy the legitimate fruits of sacrifices they have mide Phe robeilon must be effectually and forever sup») pressed, ‘She Union panet be preserved. We have not met here with a view to indulge in any criticisms with a view ‘ weaken the government, and we are not here to throw apy impediments ih the way of the march of our gierious armies. God forbid. No delegate is here to oocupy any position uoworthy of the broadest patriotism, tnd the breast of a of the latter was an el and happy affair. it was enthusiastically rece! A dclogste feom lows offered a resolution pledging the clectere of this party not to accept any office or take apy contacts fer the next four years, except in the commis- sari and as combataugs in the army aad mavy. This is certainly @ good joke, and was received with great la 5 i manner af private despatches have been received from Washington this morning in regard to@he nature of ‘he agreement between Grant and the Blairs in regard to accepting the nomination if tendered to him, The word: ing of these despatches bears evidence of guess work rather than positive knowledge. The Convention is made up of the most singular and queer elements ever got together. If any man guides it {ovo s harmonious channel he will be fortunate indeed, juent, spirited, able sived So) &ewae CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 81, 1864. The Committee on Reastutions pad quite a struggle over the resolutions presented to thélit. They found ita bard task to agree with the German members of the committee, The latter class were extreme in their views and desired to inert the doctrine of negro equality, ne exemptions or substitutes, and half # dozen other extreme radical ideas. The conservative portion of the committee Sually true American citizen, tri the ; but ; by, maintained Some—five or six—of the victories that Lee Sai a the chee fest ges ee poi Ay eames Phy a oa oF plavcry: bus discoursed of in bis general order of the 14th events have so shaped themselves with regar: 49 that ists, under the lead of Mr. Goodell, of New York, anda regular pow-wow teok place. It was amusing to witness the contest between these old Msbioned abolitionists and those who were endeavoring to rum this Convention with the ides of bidding for the vete of the democracy. The resolutions recommended by the committee were adopted The Grant men, seeing that they were over- powered by numbers in the Convention, secured theCom- mittee on Rules, and reported in favor of taking the vote aod other great Soe nya withie the past few years +* all can pow stand up n common ground in regard toi, The effect of the rebellion has been to destroy slavery, and the last vestige of it must be wiped away. He a Iuded to the meeting of the War Democratic State (om mittee at Syracuse—charactertzed is as an idle farce, Committ ce without a constitueacy, and assured the com- | vention that the war democracy of New York are of ster- / Bor stuff than to be swayed or affected -by a few peddling | HiMcians. While we proclaim all men on this continess * und equal, it is our duty to gee that such an assertion, is literally true | We must were won on that very 12th day of May. Rich- mond was, of course, jubilant on that day, and the people wanted the new bonds awfully, and yet Momminger has since announced to the rebel Congress that “military necessities prevented the sale.” Alas for Memminger! This means that nobody would buy the bonds. Perhaps on candidates for President by States, each State to be 4 for the civil rb ; the people in Richmond didn’t believe in the | siriiea to the ‘entathibh te ha vo Adhere Pyne gt a* aeote of a py victories. Stupid people! But if Memminger . This the Western radicals and Germans, who{| 1ts basis is private and Individual freedom. Its is through such rights; and we therefore declare our- tibipel ‘and. puolle liberty. “Nevers Upon, Roy” pia a ry pal iberty, Never, upon ap o ocoaston, cxn'the righta of the eltizen ‘be. suffered to be 5 unwarrantably wvaded, and without due process of law. Individual rixhts are moaified by law. If circumstances: Congress. fad a large Fe cre whilst New York and Peonsyiva-| nis wore but elimiy represented, were to, and were in tavor of each will send his bonds to. London they will buy them there. . and Fremont men, and the first point om which the line wae drawn. A spioy discussion foliowed, a vote was reached, and the Fremoot men earried the point by ® vote of at least three to one, The platiorm and rules, after three or four hours’ con- troveray, were dispesed of, when another storm came over the Convention on the resolution gectecnion tion of candidates to seme future day. This question was/| ‘the Convestion could get a vote, there mine votes for it. Tas Crrizens’ Assoctation.—A secret com- mittee of the Citizens’ Association, it is re ported, has proceeded to Albany for the pur- pose of arguing before Gevernor Seymour the ' necessity of removing City Inspector Boole from office. Wonder if they will be as suc- cessful as they were in their efforts before the Legislature to secure a reduction of the city tax levy, but which ended in the taxes being inoreased a million or so? If this Citizens’ Association would devote their attention to the matter of impressing upon the Board of Health the necessity of removing those foul and pestiferous, death imparting nuisances, the bone and fat boiling concerns in Thirty- should require the enforcement of martial law, considerations must succumb to the necessity; thea they sbould not be—they must not be—infringed upom, however specious the plea, Jaw is the refexef » order. Order is of God, and its sanctity must be keos — inviolate. When that is stricken down, then go wit »% ft our institutions, Intimately connected with these | rights is the ‘freedom of the press,” and the admivistra- tion or the man who would aim a bdiow at it is guilty ~ Of @ crime but little less then he who ia a traiter | to cause of his country. General e then alluded to the “right of asylum,” and declared it te * bea prineiple ‘of which every true American citizen oug®t to be proud. The refugee from the despotism of the uid World is welcome to our shores, and is presumed to be inpocent of crime until he is proved guilty uader the Jaws of the tree country in which he seeks an asylum acclamation, long continued ap- Plnuse, the Convention rising to their feet, and continutng their choers and tigers for fifteen minutes. As s00n as this exuberant feeling died out a regular furor was raised over the candidate for Vice-President, which resulted in the noménation of General Jono of the procecdings is beyond description. Like a Sweoptag over a forest, the men swayed to and fro, and howled and screamed. The platform agreed upon, the ticket nominated, all that remains to be done committees te rum the ninth street and other localities, they would be | A committes appointed to search Webster's | ™7! ign Powers. fica doing afar better service to the community | egoney re same amocrnay declare the delivery. of bis opesoh, and revuaned Nis sont amie than in wasting their time and spending the aa the ee. 7 that there bas been ou the part of co may nnd Solspussch cen ten tere cease submit to trick nor ae. e, S> we go. People will be dissatisiiod maga mee Seg he getty ng bes ve the control of this Convention, ard events bat a that they coulddo with it as they pleased. The Detzcare ‘rom Iowa offered a resolution that each elexate pledge himself not to accept any office, : of honest but i; it . money nest ignorant people in work. honor or profit trom the administration io ing for the removal of « public officer whose chief fault is his determination to do his duty and to see that other officials‘attend to theirs. Caucus of the Germans, Radicais and More Wonders. War Democrats, THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS ABOUT TO BE BOLIPSED— A COUPLE OF LADIB® TAKE THE FIELD, Brc. BL may down jom that gone. Obie; Dennis Guiner, New Jersey; nora no Sigler: soda! gates, the radios! men and war democrats at Cosmopoli- By gyn Ay tong oR ansylvaning rally more attractive than men. We find thie true of pam 1 = " ms “> ‘he belles as compared with beaux, of actresses as compared Hall to-night. Colonel Moss was chairman, snd man, Wiscouvia; P. Pilsbury, iawp Caspar Buts, of Chicago, secretary. General Cocunaws, en invitation, addressed the as. sembiage bricly. le sald that, terrific as is the contest that is being wayed for the overthrow of the rebellion, mot less serious ts the question that mast be decided whea tho dearest rights of the citi- on are imperilied. White the saldior hes been engaged against the common fve, repeated blows have been aimed at the rights and franchises, the liberties and institutions of the people; and because of these dangerous encroachments tlis meeting bas assembied. The constt- tutional period has arrived when the people must speak upon she eurject of the rights of man. If hese encroachments continue there is danger of the partial destruetion of the liberties Of the people. If submitted to amd permitted they must Fesult in such a desolation of the rights aod liberties of man as will pall the hearts and blanch thecheeks of the bravest. He sald the war must be continned until the rebellion is completely subdued; but it should be re- membered that thore never has been, and never can be, a ‘war the main qaestion of which does not become one of finance and the toleration of the army of skodayites who have beea sucking the life blood of the nation through the Treasary—they who have been poudest in Protestations of patriotism and loyalty. On the ques- tion of slavery, he sald that one effect of the war was to render the bleek man free, and, being free, Temoved from ail cosstitutional record of slavery. He spoke of the right of asylum aa one of the blessings offered by this country to the downtrodden of the Old World, and arraigned the administration on Pont, Indiana: 8. Wolf, Cotumt Racoss til baie past Wares P.M 25 AFTERNOON SESSION. ‘The Convention was called to order at four e’elock. ‘The Committee on Credentials reported that they fous@ the following States represented:—Ohto, Diineis, Mase chusetts, New York, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Peaney’- vapis, Marylend, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Maine, Indiana, New Hampsbire, New Jersey and District of Columbia, ‘The Committee on Resolutions mot being prepared te report, Mr. Proms, of New York, addressed the assemblage support of extreme radical views. He was followed by Colonel Moss, of Missouri, whe easured his audience that the work of this Convention will be such as will make those who have ridiculed ft asd who bave abused the confidence of the poople see and Delieve that it represents a power that makes success eure. Mr. Johw A, Mrutanp, from the Committee on Resote tions, reported sundry resolutions for the ment of the Convention, recommending the rules of the House ef Representatives, and to take votes for candidates by ‘States, according to their representation tn Mr. Casran Busz, of Illinois, opposed voting by States accord! ‘Con, sonal representation, and favored the proposition to allow each delegation presevt. Colone! favored voting as @ great national mass convention, each individual delegate to have am equal voice with bis associates. After a debate, Mr Gruvanr moved to strike out the ob Jectionable clause. Carried. ‘THE PLALFORE. Mr. Cannott, Chairman of the Committee on Resote Mons, Mae ty the following resolutions: — First—That the federal Union shall be preserved. ‘Second-—That the constitution and laws of the United States ‘must de observed and » Third—That the rebellion ead ‘be suppressed by foresee =) ‘with actors, and of Cora Hatch as compared with Andrew Jackson Davia, Consequently we are justified im predict- og that the two young iadies who undertake to produce certaia wonderful and mysterious phenomena at the Cooper Institute to-night will throw the Davenport Bro- thers into the shade, so far as popularity is concerned. One of these ladies is Mrs. Colie, a sister of the Daven- ports. The other isa Mrs. Lamb, They are slight, deli- ente, intelligent and amiable persons, and are technically described as highly developed mediums. Such trifles as causing themselves to be tied and untied; making phos. phorescent guitars float twanging about the room; ring- ing bells and flogering banjos and drumming tamborines and blowing trumocets; evoking voices from the vasty deep of the unknown and the indefinable; producing epi- rit bands that shampoo skeptical heads and convince heretics by apostolic knocks—these are easy labors for these ladies, and have been repeatedly performed at pri- vate seances, ‘The public exhibitions are expected to be even more startfing. The tying and untying, the invisible musicians, the spirit hands and other such phenomena will be the ordinary Dill of fare; but we are promised spirit bodies, perhaps, and the great feat of taking up a lady and placing her upon a table, to say nothing of an authentic exposition and explicit explanation of the whole science by aphantom lecturer imported expressly from the Land of Shades. A cabjoct, like that used by the Davenports, wif be placed upon the stage, and the indies seated and bound therein. Mr. G. 8. Lacey, the favorite agent of the Davenports, will superintend the arrangements. The first performance will take piace at the Cooper Institute this evening. sede | pincreiinied, «aaa Or imnoce ho had sought shelt shores, | arma, apg i , Goeraves Geany’s Coxcents.—Mr. Geary, assisted by Ucousspastadieanine yy % Fuistae That whe sat of free speech, pag ht 4 bls daughter Mine and Messrs, J. R. Thomas, Senia, | would wait iy until November for the people's aul adinGapaet. oS ane Gould and Diddle, will give « baliad concert this evening pected pt aquiess tae libertine ot te anon, nafietat the rebellion has slavery, and the in Astoria, and another, by spec: vest, in Morrisanta said that even a censorship over the press was ag. Soistlubment and to aseure We all mon aooiee equally 4 on Friday evening. The programme is highly attractive, | outrage without jastifeation, To conclusion, he said that J before demanded at al presi smesrsenndlr te wore then t0 establish principles upon ' wh Steth— aD ig ny Bag Sale of Coal. © Oy Fae, Seaeere wag net pee wh Umne of war the want ot them le orice eee * Bimeon Draper wold yesterday, for the Delaware and | thet, baving Belooged to many politica! partte subject tain tea retenited pncbi of auperican berg Laskawanna Coal Company fos theif roome in Wall street, speaking trom exper thus gained, he bad eome to ‘any violation of it cannot be overieoked and must net. thousand tone, of « noire conclusion that men of the most radiosl notions are | ge cnrebaked. “ ’ twenty tons 0a), as follows always nearest right, and he was satisfied that only the th—That the national knows a6 the “Monroe ‘wu, Price yer Tom. Frice at Lan Sole, | moat radical measures oat save the Union, estrian bes poutenee lattices eterebels en ats vee Fremont. 2.9m we dn Soo wo. | Uenaral Maimeray ford. & eesti, deca {nent by soy opr ag A \ “ the ad Pestore prostrated rights erauitnde and support of the nation are ; renenip, m of the prose and apeecd,; declaring gia to ae sithtat ere gee eS arnget leaders of te arbitrary arreats and estrares of property; in favor.of the | olen armd.s"acloney of aurinperiiog see ane Monroe tight of + and fratoraity to | eathiess val per un ; struggitg.republica of the Okt World and New. Fenthe-That the ome term policy for the Presidcaey, ) Mr, York, aleo offered a platform, adopted by the people. ie wirengihened by tbe foren ong : which was retersed, rt “ing and should be maintained by constitut é 3 = a conv ION. penth--That the constitution should be #0 Cag ge Vico hall be elected ae fod Vice President ahall be 10 THE EDITOR OF THE RERALD. re ~ #3; 1900, | rebate " aioe CravaLaxp, Ohio, Please correct the statement in relation to the late fre | 4. Coavestion dtoday with eume nundred comrativen a Cony at ot im Dizigion street, which states that Ht was the foreman | 4 arty to four hundred dologates in attendance. and their dlatzibation sameug Shdfctual' aad Rembors of Hook and Ladder Company No. 11 that | "1 was called to order at eleven o'clock A, M. by Mr. S measure of Justien rescued the inmates of the iilding, lostead of the fore aomination ex-Governor man wd members of Engine Company No. $1. To be | UAE? of Now York, on whose Jovnewe, of Pennsylvania, was chosom temporary # ter of expediency Ws erse tenes advisable not to recom, it facta are fe scigrens oom ote peewee 4 % end tt eh ao ot! es es te the fire in question fully ton minates before the alarm | “56 yansom, on taking the chair, briefly aed eloquently | ot him te report yetarned thanks for the henor conferred upon bm, He that the proceedings of this Conventyja would be tos Cen nk ss ah members of fester sy ia fhe trout of too nore, eendected 90 a8 te strike With a foree an ‘power pee aod hy ay tag haan Te Frsenae Lictrath nnd Thomas Tyler, all ef | of the great oljeote and prinetptea we keve in view. Ratens, Curios edopted On momen, Me. BH. Brooks, of California, and Mr, ees a ee cea score. aries. ‘ 4 On siotigy,, rhe following were appointed ® Committes om Porgy’ .nent eee “9 sPeeeepur, crest