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NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 25. ‘That is all that is notable. Mr. Brown is Samael jami and was named for his ste ™E CINCINNATI CONVENTION. tee me ata He : coming to the rg is The Clans Marshalling for the Affray. ‘AUGUST BELGST AT PORE City, | eaaaeemameets: Tt aaa garter His Alleged Business with Groesbeck, Pendicton and Hendricks. WHAT ABOUT CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS? Montgomery Blair Reviews the Field of National Politics. CINCINNATI GRATZ BROWN’S OPPORTUNITY | The Missouri Governor’s Char- acter and Geneology. DAVIS THE TEETOTAL CANDIDATE, The Man of Legal Talons and Dis- cipline Extraordinary. CINCINNATI, April 23, 1872. One by one the folks who will either fly like the moth round the flame of the liberal republican | movement or, like the lon, rush in and seatter the brands of it or perish, appear at Cincinnati, The Weather is good here and the hotels expectant. August Belmont, the phiegmatic but cautious manager of the ‘liberal democratic” fortunes, was 1n Cincinnati on Monday, en route, as he sald, to the | little, old town of Vincennes to shoot snipe, and proceed thence to Louisville to secure some running horses, of which he had the refusal. Others say that he had private errands with Groesbeck, Pendle- ton and Hendricks, and that Charles W. Woolley, late of the Whiskey Ring, will keep him advised of political movements here, s0 that he may be within striking distance. Belmont stopped at the St. Nicholas Restaurant, the Delmonico’s of the Pork City, and certainly had a gan, a shooting dog and a sporting kit with him. ‘Times have changed since Bill Tweed had nearly ran Belmont off the National Democratic Executive Committee, and Belmont is again a shrewd, cau- | tious, respectable power in politics. He hasa bet ‘of $4,000 against $10,000 with a distinguished editor of New York that Grant will be beaten next, fall. BELMONT’S OPINIONS. Belmont was interviewed here in the interest of @Oharies Francis Adams, and cautiously replied to the questions put to him thus:—Mr. Adams was a statesman of whom any country might be proud; ‘that he had a fine and inquisitive family of sons, and ought to have the credit of keeping up the Pride of his ancestry, &c. Nevertheless, it is the general belief that Davis is Mr. Belmont’s first ehoice and Trumbull the second choice. He spoke ‘with good sense to the following effoct :—That he was in favor of the Cincinnati Convention being what it had started out to be—a liberal republican move- ment, simply and wholly, and unaffected and unin- Auenced by democratic opinion; that he hoped the Convention would organize with skilfulness, so that ft would avoid the appearance of amass movement, and be apt for business and rapid, clean action; that he had no sympathy with democrats pressing the olaums of their favorites upon the Convention, ‘Dut thought they ought to take a back seat until after the nomination. Finally, that he favored the Gemocrats doing precisely what they had dono in Missouri—casting their vote for the Cincinnati nominee, all other things being equal and con- sistent—and thus breaking the republican back- bone. election, can runa popular government without relying in great part upon the element which gave him his strength. The Missouri and Virginia move- ments are the acts of statesmanship thai stand out most conspicuously in the last eight years of the @emoocratic party.” | MONTGOMERY BLAIR ON THE SITUATION. | Hon. Montgomery Blair, Postmaster Gencral for | three years and half under Abraham Lincoln, and | brother of the foster son of the Missouri movement, Senator Frank Blair, arrived in Cincinnati late | Monday evening en route to St. Louis, where he | said he had ‘some law and property cases.’ Not- withstanding the facts that Mr. Blair had been kept on the road five hours too long and had seen two | trains wrecked and three men killed by the explo- sion of alocomotive near Parkersburg, he hopped ‘Up stairs at the Burnett Houso with all the vigor of sweet sixteen, and next morning at breakfast had | the appetite of a bride on the wedding trip. “gausage,” said Mr. Blair at breakfast. “I always | eat sausage at Cincinnati. You can rely on it here, It’s cheaper to kill pig than dog in this city.” MR. BLAIR FOR PASSIVISM. | “Mr, Blair,” said the HERALD’s representative, | “ao you favor the endorsement of the liberal repub- | “No candidate,” said Mr. Belmont, “after | | more enterprising folks. Convention, and you will see his shock of red hair conspicuous there.” MR. BLATR ON DAVIS, “It is said at Washi) mm, Mr. Blair, that Carl Schurz is coming to Convention pledged to Trombull,”’ “T don't believe that anybody knows enough to assert that. Schurz has been careful about com- mjtting himself.” ‘Do you think that Davis will sweep the Conven- tio’ a the democratic members of Congréss pilege 2 seer wee ee SNe Shoe eget ng organiza: Mr. Davis will make’ no géat nerfected there wing. Mere out- sidgopinion is of AO great weight in senta- “tivetbody. "ihiS mppart whlels therubesh ron support which the liberal republi- can movement ts ge! ng from the democracy is in spite of the leaders: it comes from the voting democratic masses, The leaders in Congress have detected the Pperhig. and Want to make their bar- gains in advance, ey have rallied on Mr. Davis, and have used the party organ, so called, at Washing- ton to defeat their choloe in advance by foreing him upon another party, This was a great mistake in point of management and tt did no help to Davis. apprehend that the Cincinnati Convention will ad- mit none as voting delegates who have not been and are not now rypyblicans.”? “Do you think Mr. Davis @ man of force?” “Yes. He is not a talking man, although he can talk when he wants to; but he keeps up @ heap of thinking, and is cautious, and looks at you. He has a strong country gentleman's will And good nature. I like his decisions. They read well and show him to have a love of justice and to be a fine equity lawyer. He is not as learned as some mem- bers of the bench, but is surpassed by none for good masculine sense and safety.” BLAIR ON ADAMS. “What do you think of the nomination of Adams and Groesbeck by the papers of this city ?”? “Oh, that 18 a local freak—a desire fora ticket of their own. Mr. Groesbeck has considerable support around the city of Cincinnati, and they have tacked Mr. Adams on to give him a local habitation, I ad- mire both these men for their good qualities, but hardly think there fs anything probable in the suc- cess of the combination.” BLAIR ON TRUMBULL, “How do you like Trumbull ?”? “He has done good, bold work of late, but has been overcautious in the Bomuiilng. I don’t know what his chances may be—fair, I should think.’’ CHASE IN 1864, “Mr. Chase is probably not up this time 7” “Not unwilling, but too late, Did you know that Chase had a convention of his own all cut and dried in 1864? It was to have met at Cincinnati, and he prepared the framework of it in the New England States, Mr. Lincoln was apprehensive about it, and ntapbed it by offering the Chief Justiceship to Chase, GRANT NOT A FAILURE, BUT A PERIL. “Do you think Grant a failure, Mr. Blair 1” “Notas aman. He is as an administration, I think him a very dangerous personality, and not to be Ughtly estimated in an encounter. He has the making of an absolute ruler in him, He will try to fight his way out of this dilemma, You sce if he docs not follow up Spain and Cuba hard this sum- mer and fall. He got his all by war, and war is his best hold. If this canvass goes against him there will be movements from Washington to distract the public purpose. be J can re-elect him, how- ever, but the stupidity of democratic leaders.” Here Mr. Blair finished his sausage, measured your correspondent in his steel-blue eye, demanded the highest-priced toothpick in the Burnett House, and darted toward the omnibus to take the St. Louis train. Five minutes afterwards the hotel was filled with Cincinnati reporters looking en- viously at the HeKALD representative, and they would not be comforted because Mr. Blair was not, ILLINOIS OPINION ON DAVID DAVIS. The HskALD’s representative had meantime “bounced” a lawyer practising before the Supreme Court of the United States, residing at Quincy, Ill., but until of la! resident of Bloomington, the Illi- nois home of David Davis. This lawyer was R. K. ey and he had also just returned from Wash- ngton. Eat. Turner,” said the HERALD representative, gliding to business like iil diver to the bottom, “what is the sentiment of your State among repub- licans on the nomination at Cincinnati?” “I am for Grant, sir. There is some insurrection, Rewsres In our town the most conspicuous citizen 3 EX-8ECRETARY BROWNING, formerly at the head of the Interior Department. He Is now about seventy years old, and is the best head, perhaps, in our district for law and affairs. He is dead set against Grant, and, I think, sympa- thizes with the Cincinnati movement.” “Would the Illinois people like to see David Davis President ?" “1 would, for one reason; I have some cases in | the Supreme Court which he decided against me below, and I might be willing to give him the Pres- idency to get him out of the way, up above. Davis is a popular man, in @ certain sense, in our State. He has many warm friends and no bitter enemies. DAVIS’ QUEERNESS. The people ike him culiar, fast in his friendships, and never much in- clined to press judgment against debtors. Nobody wants to pay, and he continues cases over from term to term, so that we lawyers have to advise our clients to strengthen the securities of their debtors and wait. The lawyers are all starving to death in Davis’ district. He is @ wonderfully queer man. He often attends to his yo aliairs, cor- respondence, and so forth, until after the hour for Court to begin, when he strides up there ina hurry and finds the lawyers all waiting. The course of justice proceeds without much system or order, until Davis suddenly recollects some en- gagement or other, when he says, without pausing a@ iminute:—‘Adjourn court!’ He is worth from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, He never sells anything and lets his property improve by contact with that of He owns 1,000 acres of fine land just out of the flourishing city of Bloom- ington, His property is largely in wild lands in Iowa and toward the Missouri River, His Chicago property he did not want, but took it for a debt of $5,000, and now it is worth $300,000. Mr. Lincoln used to say with a mixture of admiration and humor :—‘ Here’s Davis has made more in land than all of us together inlaw.’ Yet Lincoln said, with evident belief, that if his administration had done no other act than to put David Davison the Su- preme Bench, it would have been a success for that.?? DAVIS AND LINCOLN. “What was the bond between them—Lincoin and Davis? Were they in anything alike?” “Davis is not a hard man, but he is more selfish and cautious than Lincoln, The latter cared nothing for money, although perfectly frugal and thrifty. Ie gave haif the first $5,000 he ever earned to ‘Billy’ Herndon, his partner, against the protests of his friends and without any contract to do 80, out of sympathy and exuberance of feeling. He jut the other $2,500, in imitation of Davis, in wild land; kept it there two or three years, got ten per cent for it, and then withdrew it. Lincoln was a man who had a desire, overruling all things, to find out the truth of even matters at law. Davis has a like will and resolve to do justice, but he is more worldly and prudent and nothing of the poet that Lincoln was. He would make a safe and de- Mean nominee by the democratic party 1” “assuredly! Assuredly! What else, sir? Aman's | vote isn’t a thing to throw away; he won't have It | for four years—perhaps never if General | Grant adapts himself to that seat four years more.” “Have you any preference as to the candidate to De nominated here at Cincinnati next week?” | “I don’t speak to anybody on that question, sir. would not be sa ph Se for me to do 80, No- | has heard me Interfere with this Convention | am any manuner. I declared myself in harmon; gain with the democratic party in my Rockville een and in published letters five years ago, and Convention is to be a republican Convention. ‘That is what it is called tobe. ‘That is what it ought tobe. It is meddling for democrats to be | ‘ing their views upon it. I agree with Trum- | Schurz and the rest that the vitality and in- | fluence of the movement will lie in its being repub- | Mcan—that and nothing else,” i MR. BLAIR ON GRATZ BROWN. | | “Your preference has been charged to be with Gratz Brown, of Missouri. He is arelative of yours, I believe 1” “Yes, sir. He is a double cousin. On his father’s | side he is my father’s cousin; on his mother’s side | my first cousin; but that has nothing to do with | my choice. Governor Brown would resent a politi- | suggestion from me at this period as quickly as from any democrat."’ “Do you object to stating your estimate, on gen- | eral principles, of Mr. Brown’s public capacity ¢” | ss wy sir, every observer of public affairs knows | that Gratz Brown ts a man of long and large pub- | Hic service—a representative in the State Legisla- | ture, a United States Senator. of modest, but effective remembrance, an able leader of masses and worker out of political ac- complishments. As Governor of Missouri he has redeemed the pledge he made when he said, ‘Before | God! we will have a new era of prosperity and re- pore In this State.’ He is one of the few men in | ‘whom eloquence and executive ability meet, He is both rich and eminent, snegertive and successful.’ “Then I infer he ts your choice for Cincinnati.” “have nothing to do with Cincinnati, sir. I | feel a conviction that, for the good of the States | and the people, I ought to vote for whoever is noml- | nated by the liberals. All that I have seen of pro- | gress in public life has been achieved by makin, use Of Such opportunities as this. Iwas brough up Benton man, to admire and follow that old | igsourian, and I lived to see the republican party, in its purer day, spring from his loins. i} was a Van Buren man When Van | Buren was overthrown { saw the demo- | cratic party continue its sway by converting Mr. fer. I saw Abraham Lincoln veto the Recon- ton bills of Henry Winter Davis and so modify | his party-—by my advice, by the way—that a little of | State and inunicipal government is left from the rapacity of federalism; fae dg of local and by tl Dertonul rights worked aut | al rights worked out | i@ present movement, tow: Sy miyself persistently passive” ore Whleh I keep | BLAIR “ON MY DATA! 1 “7 should be pleased Mr. finite to know some- thing of the family histoty of Governor Brown.” lh, he is, by both his father and mother, de- scended fiom grandfather United States Senators. on the one side Senator Brown, on the other Sena- for Bledsoe. He has the old Mason blood of New York State Jn him as well. He was educated at Yale College ; has ripe accomplishments in books and in emis, book of tie busy Western world; he is mar- ried and has a fine family, and he derives his name of B. Graty Brown from one of that distinguished family of Philaclelphia Gratzes, who were or winally from Germany, Mr, Brown’p aunt myrrigd w Mr. | the sake of | man concluded to move to Springfield without liberate President, rujing by equity, but he would never be out in the advance of the age or the party, He is a per- fect conservative, and “was many months making up his mind to vote for Mr. Lincoln. Every- thing in Davis goes through a process of considera- | tion, except his legal decisions, which are made | froma sort of horse intuition. You may cry in vain, ‘This is the. law;’ but the old ut down his hand and say, ‘This is the right.’ robably no judge exists who {s 80 decisive, fear- less and direct in his office, and yet on wordly and personal matters so slow and hesitating. He has got rich by hesitating and eminent by his decision. DAVIS AS A CHARACTER. “There is a lawyer named Holmes out in our parts who cannot be scared off inis line of argument by the Judge. Some time ago Holmes was proceeding with a speech--Davis on the bench—when Davis sald, in his emphatic voice, which gets squeaky and suppressed when he is in earnest, as if afraid of its own volume :— “Mr, Holmes, that ts not the law, sir!’ “Holmes went on and Davis got uneasy. “or, Holmes, lsay that is not the law that you are stating.’ “Holmes persisted, and finally Davis, very uneasy— for he has a quaint kind of imperial will—broke out, | ‘Mr, Holmes, Isay that ts not the law; but if you think it is I'd like to bet you ! “Judge Davis is also strange in his friendships and in his absent-mindedness. He takes a fancy to young men sometimes and proposes to direct their fortunes, but they must do precisely as he tells them or it is all off. lawyer in one of our good. ‘T want you to take youn into your firm.’ ‘We can’t; we are full. There ts no room!’ iow, I'm doing this,’ said Davis, ‘You take him; you must; I told him you would, I'll find the business to make it pay.’ “so the young man went into the firm, and Davis turned over Es. of additional business to it for is protégé. After a while the young towns and said, Davis’ consent. The Judge dropped him from that minute.” “In brief,” concluded Mr. Turner, “Davis has plenty of quaintness, and is ae much of a character of another sort as Lincoln was. the names on the Tlinots call for the Cincinnati Convention I should say the majority of them were Davis men.”” “What do you think,” asked the HenaLp corre- spondent, ‘of Governor Palmer's new position ?” “Palmer is a very able man, and one of the beat stump speakers in the State, He has a way of making everything appear candid and honest, which takes the people off their feet; but he is always a little late in everything he does, and isa transparently terribly ambitious man, 80 that he keeps himself timid and makes himself and friends unhappy. He is too late this time again. I think ‘Trumbull holds a higher reputation for consistency and stubborn principle than Palmer, The most men can say against Tr 4s that he is cold,” b PREPARING FOR THE POLITICIANS. Great Efforts Being Made to Accommo- date the Masses—General Gossip—Lively Times Expected in Cincinnati—Likes and Dislikes, Praises and Denouncings, CINOINNATI, April 24, 1872. Matters at the Exposition Hall, where the Con. venWon is (9 be held, are being pushed for- because he is easy-going, pe- | fellow’ will | Some time ago he went to a | Zi From what I see of | 1872.—TRIPLE ward with energy. Committee meetings are held daily, and the alterations to the building will be completed by Saturday evening. The stage will have seating capacity for one thousand. The building will be handsomely decorated, after designs suggested by Murat Halstead, at an expense of $5,000.. Fred. Douglass, and four- teen colored men from Louisiana will attend the Convention. Susan B. Anthdriy and Anna E, Dick- ingon will also be here. George Francis ste las tures on issues of the day, pressing his claims ag 2 candidate for President at Greenvygoa Hall Tuesday night next. Two hundred delegates from Kansas and thirty from California will arrive to-morrow. ‘The hotels are all engaged and can accommodate 6,000 persons. Steamboats now laid up will be brought to the levee and used as hotels to accom- modate the masses expected. The Missouri dele- gation have secured rooms for 1,000; Philadelphia for 100, Governor H. ©. Warmoth, General Herron and sixteen others from Louisiana will be quartered at the Gibson House, LIVELY TIMES EXPECTED IN INDIANA. Dick Bright, editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and nephew of Jesse D. Bright, in an interview to-day, stated that the coming fall campaign in In- diana would be of intense interest and excitement, owing to the probability of Hendricks running against Morton. The latter will return with im- paired health, yet he will make a desperate struggle to maintain his hold, IfGrant is defeated Morton will be sacrifleed, The democracy of Indiana and Kentucky, Bright says, will support any liberal can- didate. The defection of George W. Julian, the representative war horse of the Free Soil district in Indiana, is looked on as eyldence of the intensity of the fall campaign in that State. MR. BELMONT AND MURAT HALSTEAD. August Belmont on Monday called on Murat Halstead and complimented him for putting up Charles Francis Adams at the head of the ticket in the Cincinnati Commercial, and said that Adams’ nomination would suit the democracy better than OF that could be made. eneral Lew Campbell endorses the retention of the liberals, and says it is his opinion that the reason Nie Van Trump is so much against the Cincinnati Convention is mainly because he is exer- cised over Belmont’s neglect to invite him to a caucus recently held at Walker's. GERMAN-AMERICAN DELEGATES, Fred, Hassaurk names among the German Ameri. cans to be present Dr. Freedeman, of Philadelphia; Sigismund Kaufmann, of New York; Fred, Hecker and Gustave Koerner, of Ilinois; Fred. Munch, of ERA, and Judge Stalle and Charles Reemelin, of Ohio. If the Convention is a success Lieutenant Gov- ernor Muller, of Ohio, it is understood, will retire his name from the Grant Electoral ticket, George FR. Pugh, ex-Senator, is understood to say if Adams be nominated he will make A FUNERAL OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVE! his objections being on the score of some utterances of Adams’ father, Governor Cox says the New York republicans and Fenton men, who at first were inclined towards Davis, have changed their minds, The Lnquirer of this clty to-day, how- ever, finally abandoned Davis, as not possessing strength enough to affect the grand vote, and it came out for Adams. Feeling here is entirely for Adams among both parties, but his fricnds rely upon sentiment merely, and have accomplished no organization. If Davis is nominated there will be a general bolt among the Ohio republicans, and Grant will carry this State. He appears to have no personal enemies here, but no admirers since his acceptance of the labor platform. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. His Letter to David A. Wells—Does Not | Want the Cincinnati Nomination—The Conditions Under Whic! Alone He — Could be Induced to Sacrifice His Inde- pendence. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., April 24, 1872, The Republican of to-morrow morning will con- tain the following in relation to Charles Francis Adams and the Cincinnati Convention :— As arranged many weeks ago, Mr. Adams sailed on his return to Europe yesterday with his wife, in order to be ready for the meeting of the Geneva Arbitration. Before he lefta gentleman interested in the Cincinnati Convention and desiring that he should become its candidate wrote him inquiring as to his views of the movement which it represented, and suggesting that there should be some one in attendance who could speak for him, to which there came the following reply, with no restrictions as to its publicity :— MR. ADAMS’ REPLY. Boston, April 18, 1872. My Dean Mr. Wetts—I have received your letter, and will answer it frankly. Ido not want the n ay and could only be induced to consider it by the circum? stances under which it might possibly be ‘made. It the | call upon me were an unequivocal one, based upon con- | fidence in my character earned in public Iite, and a belict that I would carry out In practice the principles which rofessed, then indoed would come atest of ny courage nan cmergency ; but if 1am to be negotiated for, have assurances given that Lam ho: i kind ag to draw me out of that ci and est, ¥ou be x0 a. With regard t With a single exeep- i ig which any honest repub- liean or democrat would not accept. Indeed, T should wonder at any one who denied them. The dimeulty is not in the professions. It ies every ner in whieh they ure ¢ succeeded in making myse ceive that I speak for me in Delief that, when it came t Isolated as’ am from all po any kind | be made asa candidat public office; but so unlucky as. to value that independence more highly Ui i which is brought by a sacrifice of it. This is notil sistent with the sen: i flattering estimates 1 high quarters; but I ca! for power, Ifthe good p really believa that they n | Tam, which T do not, they ss it | to convince me of it, orall their labor will be thrown away. Tam, with great respect, you AK PRANCIS ADAMS. Davi A. Weis, Esq., Norwich, Coun. tion of ambiguity, | se » entirely texpr Charles Francis Adams Not the Choice of the Democrats=They Will Have a Sep- | arate Convention and Nominate a Sep- arate Ticket. WASHINGTON, April 24, 1872, There is a good deal of feeling among democratic | Congressmen against the declared preference of | Mr. Belmont for the nomination of Charles Francis Adams for President at Cincinnati. Nobody on the democratic side in Congress favors Adams’ nomina- tion, and a rumor was started to-day that the ef- forts which are being made in his behalf are in- tended to be in the interest of Grant. There is no | significance in this story further than in the hostil- | ity Adams’ nomination would meet with among the | democrats. Referring to the despatch in the newspapers that August Belinont was at Cincinnati urging the nomi- nation of Charles Francis Adams as candidate for President before the Convention to assemble there next week, giving assurances that Mr. Adams | would receive the democratic support, Hon. Fer- | nando Wood, Chairman of the int Canens of Democratic Senators aud Representatives, is au- thority for saying that there are no democrats iu Congress In favor of Mr. Adams, and that, in his opinion, it is quite certain that the Democratic Na- tional Convention will nominate another ticket if Mr. Adams shall be chosen at Cincinnath. Although the time and place for holding the Democratic National Convention ave not formally M. Allyn, Mark Howard, David Clark, Hugh Harbin- son, Of Hartford; David Gallup, of Plainfield; Thomas M, Clark, of Winsted; A, E. Rice, of Water- bury; C. 8, Fessenden, of Stamford; David A. Wells, of Norwich, and others. A considerable delegation will go to Cincinnati from this State. THE GERMAN LIBERALS. A Mass Meeting of Deutschers—Resola- tions Endorsing the Cincinnati Move- ment if it Guarantees Good Government. aS ceva Ohio, April 24, 1972, A very large meetin, of German uberal repnbli- cans was held here this evening. Resolutions were adopted, in substance, as follows:—We are deter- mined to support the Cincinnati Convention -f its platform and candidates guarantee a good administration. Any endeavor compelling the party to vote for Grant must be emphatically resisted, and the right of opinion must be main- tained. Parties are not the end, but the means of advancing to something better, and if they make the public welfare subservient to personal interest, then they must be opposed, The friends of General Grant ridicule the desire of the people for reform, but in vain, Reform has become the watchword of the day, and in course of time will overcome every opposition, and will carry out every necessar; measure, and especially the ineligibility of the President to a second term, as this Is considered the main source of corruption. In order that capacity, honesty and moral dignity may be- come the pillars of the republic, the strength of this liberal movement is based on the fact that It de- sires to achieve moral ends, and is aspiring to realize wholesome principles. Its justification is shown by history, and particularly by the action and attitude of the leaders and organs of the Grant party. i A inrge number of apeeches were made, all enthu- siastic for the liberal movement. Twenty delegates wer appointed to the Cincinnati Convention, em- bracing in the list the leading Germans of the city. MARYLAND REPUBLICANS. The State Republican Convention—A General Row Over the Attempt to Nominate Wilson Instead of Colfax for the Vice Presidency—The Delegation to Philadelphia. Bautimore, April 24, 1872, The regular Republican State Committee met here to-day at twelve o'clock for the purpose of choosing delegates to the Philadelphia National Convention. There were full delegations present from all the counties, as well as from Baltimore city, among whom were several colored, and a most exciting time was had during the whole of the progress of the Convention. Some time since a movement was started by the City Postmaster, General Dennison and several other prominent oftice holders here, to fix the delegation going to the Philadelphia Convention for Senator Wilson as Vice President, instead of Colfax, but the wire pullers of the non-oficcholder’s faction, who were iu favor of Colfax, outwitted the Post Ofice faction, al- though Creswell threw his intluence in their favor to beat Colfax, and excluded from the tickets at the nary meetings all the office holders. This morning, when the Convention was called, a pro- test was presented by them, asking that all the city delegation be refused a seat in the Convention, they declaring fraud and corruption. ‘This was referred to the Committee on Credentials, when an adjournment of the Convention to two o'clock was had, At the reassembling of the Convention the com- mittee reported against the “ officeholders’ ring,” when a general fight ensued between the outsiders of the two factions, which forced another adjourn- ment until tive o'clock. rhe Convention reassembled at five, and, with the aid of the police, succeeded in ‘transacting their business, Messrs. Josepl Tome, Thomas A, Spence, Daniel Weisel and C, C. Fulton were elected as delegates at large, with a full delegatior each of the districts, all of whom were inst to vote in the Philadelphia Convention fo and Colfax, Grant THE LATE POLITICAL AFFRAY. St IR Arraignment of Owney Geoghegan and “Clipper” Hennessy at Excox Market Court Yesterday—They are Held Under $5,000 Bail. As choice a crowd of roughs as ever graced a police court or disgraced a great city came throng- ing into Essex Market Court about ten o'clock yes- terday morning. Some of them had red shirts and some of them little of any kind of a shirt, but all of them had hard, battered looking countenances and yillanous looking eyes. The occasion of this select gathering was the arraignment of the notorious Owney Geoghegan and William (alias ‘“Clipper’’) Hennessy, for feloniously assaulting Michael J. McNally, one of the Banas of inspectors of primaries in the Figh- teenth ward, ‘The cause and description of the affray was fully recounted in yesterday's issue, McNally, Who was supposed to be fatally injured, was able to appear and make his formal complaint before Judge Scott. SHEET. THE STATE CAPITAL Startling Rumors and Insinuations of Bribery and Corruption. THE ACCUSED JUDGES AND THEIR FRIENDS. Lively and Interesting Tilt Be- tween Two Senators. HAWKINS’ THREATENED REVELATIONS, The Court of Oyer and Termi- ner Bill Passed. SUSPICIOUS EFFORT TO DEFEAT IT. The Bill to Redistriet the State Reported in the Assembly. The Canal Bonds—The Crosstown Railroad Fran- chise—Election of a Regent—The Statue Bill Passed—Hopes and Fears Concerning the Charter. ALBANY, April 24, 1872. Colonel Rush ©, Hawkins, who yesterday re- signed his seat as a Representative of the Eleventh district of New York in the Assembly, packed up his traps, shook the dust of this wicked capital from his feet and took his departure for New York this morning. Before he left efforts were made to induce him to withdraw his resignation, but without effect, A petition is being circulated in the Assembly, for the signature of members, re- questing him to return and resume his seat, but it is scarcely possible that he could entertain the idea of coming back as a member of a body which he holds in such contempt. Up to the moment of his departure he continued to denounce this 80-CALLED REFORM LEGISLATURE as the most corrupt that has ever betrayed the rights and interests of the people and tarnished the honor of the State. He said to-day that ifall the honest members would follow his example and re- sign they would, in his opinion, number only about. thirty, The revelations that Hawkins is expected to make about the doings of this Legis ture are looked forward to with interest. His emphatic declaration that tho Legislature of 1872 is more corrupt than any of its predecessors has startled many people. There are some of the timid ones who fear that he may have facts and figures to substantiate his statement; while others, more stouted hearted, seem to think that this little breeze will soon blow over, and that Hawkins’ in- fluence outside will be about as little as it was in- side the Assembly Chamber. however, that his resignation will be looked uponas A SEVERE REBUKE to this boasted assembly of reformers, It will be a feather in his cap that he can say to his constituents 80 corrupt and so utterly regardless of the public interests that he could no longer sit in the same Assembly with them; hence no one imagines for a moment that Hawkins will come back. The fate of the charter will be known this week. To-morrow the Governor is to give a hearing In the veto it. THE GOVERNOR AND THE CHARTER. Mr. Wheeler, Seventy here, had another interview with obtain any positive intel | upon the veto question. The Governor was none: mittal. The general impression is that he w! it incumbent upon him to send. it back He ts asiight built but very wiry looking man, about twenty-six years of age, and has good, regu- y intelliront He was well dressed and quite composed in manner. The top of his head and forehead were cove 1 with band- ages, and in his overcoat, frockcoat, vest and shirt were the marks of the bullet fired from the pistol of Joun O'Connell, alias “Coach.” The course of the deadly missile was directly over his heart, and was only arrested by the amotint of cloth and’ padding t had to pass through. As it was, it just grazed th n. While McNally was making his complaint Hen- nessy and Geoghegan were joking and langhing, | and had to be reminded two or three times to be- have themselves. They were perfectly tsouciant | as to the result, knowing fall well, perhaps, that help was near at hand. The Judge placed Hennessy under $3,000 bail and Jeorhegan under $2,000, ‘This bail S$ almost im- mediately furnished by Mr. Michael Moore, of 226 ‘wenty-first street. When Mr. Geoghegan was placing his name on the bond, in dulcet tones, half smothered with bad whiskey, he informed the clerk, Mr, Steers, “What! me touch that young feller! Why, he ts a consump- live; V'd rather save him from a lickin’ than touch him. Peter Woods and John Woods bonght him a big hhvy revolver the other day and they're sendin’ him aroun’ raisin’ rows; he'll git killed before he’s much older.” Aft ¢ himself of this speech the bold | 1 out of the court room scenting the place as he went. During the rest of the morn- ipg several friends called to see him, and among the nuinber were Cooley Keyes and Lou Baker, who y much iiterested in Owney’s fate. John O’Connell has not yet been Arrested; but | officers of the Eighteenth expect to have him be- fore to-morrow CANADA. | — My. Langevin's Important Resolutions on the Pro- posed Canal to Admit of Vessels Passing from the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence to the Bay of Fundy. i | | | Orrawa, Canada, April 24, 1872. | fixed, it is understood that the 4th of July will be | the time and St. Louis the place. MARYLAND LIBERAL REPUBLICANS, | Appointment of Delegates to Cincins | nati-A Small Gathering and Litile | Enthusiasm. Barrimore, April 24, 1872. The liberal republican movement in this State sumed shape to-day for the first time in a little | gathering at Barnum’s Hotel, which named dele- | gates to the Cincinnati Convention. The meeting | was called to order about twelve o'clock, and ex-Gov- ernor Bradford was chosen Chairman and General | | John A, Steiner, of Frederick, Secretary, Gentlemen | ofsome prominence from most of the counties were | present, but the meeting was not large enough to | get up much entinist and the proceedings were rather dull. Go nor Bradford, on taking the Chair, made a speech full oi glittering | generalities in which le deprecated the general | demoralization in the administration of the govern- | ment under General Grant, and said that, while the meeting Was not large, if all the signs of the times | were not utterly fallacious, it was the nucleus of a new party whose influence would be felt in the | | coming caimpaign, No resolutions were passed or instructions to | delegates given; but there is no room for doubt | that the tee of the State will be thrown for Judge Davis. Lx-Governor Bradford, H. W. Hoffman, ex-Col- lector of the Port of Baltimore; J. A. Cunningham, | H.C. Hicks, brother of Governor Hicks and ex- | Appraiser of the Port; 8. 1. Gouverneur, Milton | Whitney, Dr. Charles R. Daron, Joseph J. Stewart, ex-Internal Revenue Assessor and ex-Miuister to Turkey; Charles Findley, Lewis Henninghausen, M. T. Gosnell, Thomas ireland, Export Master: Edward Ley, Dr. J. R. Ward and Coionel W. H. Welgel were named as delegates, CONNECTIOUT’S REPLY. The Liberal Repubifcans Lukewarm and Apparently not Interested. Harrrorp, Conn., April 24, 1872, ‘The Kvening Post of this city publishes this after- noon tie Connecticut response to the Cincinnati call, Ithas not been circulated generally in phe State, and no special efort has been made to pro- cure signers. It contains forty-eight names, among | which are several who were prominent tn the forma- | tion of the republican party and a number of Ger- mans. Among the signers ave ex-Mayor Timothy | given noti | Last eession, Ton, Mr. La evin, Minister of Public Wot has hat on Friday next he will moye the following resolutions :— First—That in the resolution adopted by the Eighth Pro: | vincial Parliament of Canada, on which was founded the address to Her Majesty praying for a union of the British North American Provinces, it was aMirmed that the im: provements required entot the trade of | the great West with th dl were of the portance, and it was dec! at they should be prose- | cuted at the earliest possible period that the state of finances would permit. | ‘Second—That the time has now arrived when the finan. | cial and material condition ot the Dominion require and | warrant a thorougi and comprehensive improvement of | the canal system of Canada, suificient to accommodate the growing trade and commerce of the country, and to ities ror the through wafle and éarrying inion. House is of opi ment of Canada should at once pr ment and enlargement of the Do’ mensions and capacity reconm Canal Commissioners, laid be that the. govern- cod with the impro inion canals to the di- jet in the Report of the | the House during the | value and | Vourth—That, taking into consideration the vi ritime pro- ‘oiume of trade between the iniand and_m vinces of the Dominion, this Hou ‘of opinion that the going vee, | sels tn) n to the Bay of on t breaking bulk or making « long and often | yage around the coast of Nova Scotia ts of proceeded with with- Fundy w dangerous national importance, and should out delay. Sir George E. Cartier moved that on Friday next | the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole | to consider certain resolutions respecting the Cana- dian Pacifle Railway. Mr. Bowérassa said he should move on Thursday next an address for copies of all correspondence ince the Ist of July, 1869, between the imperial government, the Cabinet of Washington and the | | government of Canada in reference to a new treaty ov renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States, and of all negotiations Laghins | in conse- quence of the abrogation of this treaty, together with copies of all correspondence on the subject be- | tween the Canadian government and the Boards | of Trade of the United States and those of the Dominion, SALE OF SORANTON COAL, One hundred and thirty thousand tons of Scranton | coal was sold at auction yesterday, at prices aver- aging far below the prices of last month. The fol- lowing shows the comparative rates at the last and present salesi— Tons, Lump,... «6,000 Steambout ...... 123000 Grate 22,000 Egg. 20,000 Stove... 0,000 Chest 20,000 | of men to attempt to | the sooner the reform cry is hushed the better. Legislature with his objections, Mr. Wheeler, ho ever, is quite hopeful that the Governor will allow it to become alawas it stands at present. All is speculation just now, however; but we will know what the Governor's decision will be this week. Both houses went through the formalities essen- tial to the ELECTION OF A REGENT of the University in place of the late Erastus Corning. The joint caucus of the republicans last nigit had Hxed upon the nume of Henry R. Piers who resides in Albany and represents the Cent Railroad interest. In the Senate to-day the formal ballot resulted in twenty-two votes, all republic: for Pierson, and five, all democrats, for Bishop Wil: votes as follows :—Horace 9; Erastus Brooks, Bishop Doane, 3, and 1 each for William H. Bogart, James W. Gerard, Samuel J. Tilden and Coionel Hawkins, Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Moseley, with other democrats, who at first preferred Brooks or Doane, changed their votes in favor of Horace Greeley. Subsequentiy both houses met in joint session in the Assembly Chamber; the separate choice of each was announced, and Mr. Pierson was duly declared elected Regent of the University. The question as to what is to be done with THE NEW YORK JUDGES In this connection it may be said there are some very strange rumors just now concerning the pulling and hauling that is going on between the friends and opponents of the impeachment idea. Most extraordinary charges of corrupt influen being used by the latter are made by the former; but, on the’ other hand, it is asserted in the lobby that the very men who are clamoring most against the use of money to defeat the impea ment project are making free use of the same magi- cal influence to accomplish the object they have so much at heart. Indeed the Legislature has already earned such an unenviable fame for itseli, as a pur- chasable article, that the fate of the Judges, be it good or bad, may probably be decided tn thé long run by the side which has the heaviest purse. It is bad enough, certainly, a certain notorious class ng the Legislature to terms rmers use the same weapon, with bribes, but, if refe ‘The bill providing f¢ nary repairs upon the and ap: propriating about a million and a half dollars fo that purpose was called up in the Assembly by Mr, Fort. A motion of Mr. Smyth to insert the sum of $50,000 for the erection of bridges and other cross- ings on the extension of the Chenango Canal was adopted, and the bill as amended was read a third time and passed by a vote of 72 to 25. The previous question Was ordered in the Assembly upon the bill providing for the holding of A CHARTER ELECTION in the city of New York in May, as stipulated in the new charter, and the bill was read a third time and passed. reet Cross Town Raflroad bill, giving the to et A. Yeomans upon payment of $150,000, came up in the Assembly as returned from the Governor and amended by the Senate. A motion to recommitt it to the Com- mittee on Railroads was lost, and the bill was passed. It would seem that the bill which provides for the payment in coin of the interest on certain canal bonds will continue to be a stumbling block in the Senate to the last day of the session. It has already been discussed and progressed several times, and yet it is no nearer a final quietus than it was when first introduced. out. This afternoon tt again came up, and Mr, Lewis did his best fo push it’ through, but the effort wasa vain one. During the discus- sion Mr. Lord taunted Mr. D, inconsistency, in insisting upon striking out the word, and, at the same time, not interfering with the salt companies in Syracuse in charging more for salt sold to one section of the country than to another, Mr. Wood seemed to be rather SORE ON THE SALT POINT; for, be it known, he is one of the salt ring of Onondaga county, which is made up of almost every well known politician of both parties in the county. He declared Mr, Lord's Oy when the Senate adjourned went for Mr. Lord with big words and threatened to do all sorts of things if the latter ever again dared to mention the salt subject in debate. claimed, as he brandished his fist in the air and look- ed unspeakable things at Mr. Lord, “I will tell whe the coin went to if you bring up that subject agaln Mr. Lord got red ‘in the jace, and, gesticulating violently, demanded to know what he (Mr. Woo.) meant. But Mr. Wood sippy coptented himself by saying, “I think Ted do If, And ifyourepeat your personalities I will do it. During this pret scene all the other Senators gathered about the disputants, everybody expecting to hear of @ # on the spot for pistols and coffee for two. The expectation, however, was not realized, and the dispute wound up by ‘the trate legislators leaving the Senate Chamber abruptly, and growling at each other in a way that meant everything in general and nothing in particular, Now, there is no doubt | but that the dispute could be repeated and extended The bone of contention tn the bill is the word | “coin,” which some of the Senators want to strike | ree na what I will do,” he ex- | The fact remains, | | that bis associates at the capital were collectively | Executive Chamber to parties who desire to present | their reasons why, in thelr opinion, he should not | who represents the Committee of the Governor to-day, but it was impossible for him to ence from His Excellency | and rigging are of oid. | ing through a silvery Ham Doane. In the Asseinbly 115 were cast, of which Mr. Pierson received ninety-six, the remainder being distributed | ™ is to be decided before the adjournment next week. | ing, but, nevertheless, re | 1 the interest of the people, for they certainty know what they are disputing about. Let Mr. Lord telf he knows about Mr. Wood and the salt works, i let Mr. Wood give us a@ peep into where the “coin” went, and no doubt the people will be edifled. Will they do it? The Senate this evening finally disposed of the Statue bili by ordering tt to a third reading after Providing: that the commissioners mentioned in the ill should contract for a statue of Governor Clin- ton. What other eminent man is to be honored in marble likewise was, by an amendment to the bill, left for the next Legislature to determine. In the Aasembly this Grey: Mr. Griffin moved to reconsider the yote on the bill which was passed last évenlng providing that hereafter Courts of Pair and Terminer in this State shall be held by idges clected ju some district other than Shag to. which they are assigned. The motion to reconsider, however, Was lost, and there are some ugly rumors: afloat with reference to money having been offered for votes to reconsider and kil the bill, Mr. Husrep, from the Committee on Apportion- ment, submitted a report on a bill entitled “An act dividing the State Into Congressional districts,”? which provides for dividing the State into thirty two districts, as follow®:— First district, Suffolk, Queens and Richmond counties; Second district, the Hirst, Second, Fiftir Sixth, Kighth, Tenth, Twelfth and Twenty-second* wards of Brooklyn; Third district, Third, Fourth Seventh, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Nineteenth and ‘Twentieth wards of Brooklyn, and the ‘Twenty-first, ward of said city, a8 bounded by section 2, chapter 8i4, of the Laws of 1868; Fourth district, Ninth ward of — Brooklyn, as boundes by section 1, chapter 814, of the Law of 1868, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth Seventeen and Fightoeuth wards of said city, and the towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Lots, and New Utrecht, Kings county; Vifth district, First, Second, ‘Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Kighth, and Fourteeith wards of New York and Governor's Island; Sixth district, Eleventh an@ Thirteeth wards of the city of New York, and that portion of the Kighteenth ‘and Twenth-first_ wards of said city, lying east of 5 district, ‘Tenth “and Seventeenth of New York, and that portion of the Fitecnth war of said city lying east of Third avenues Fighth district, the Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenti wards of the city of New York, and that portion o} the Twenty-first. ward of said city lying West o' Third avenue; Ninti district, the Twentteth aud Twenty-second wards of the city of New Yorks Tenth district, the Twelfthand Nineteenth wards of the city of New York, and Blackwell's, Ward’s ang Randall's — Istana: Eleventh — district, thet counties of Westchester, Rockland and Patnain 3 Twelfth, Orange and Sullivan; Thirteenth, Duteh+ ess and Columbia; Fourteenth, Ulster, ' Greene and Schoharie; fifteenth, All y; Sixteenth, Rensselaer and Washington; Sev th, Warren, Essex and Clinton; Fig! . Lawrence and Franklin; — Nineteen ton, Hamil. ton, Saratoga and Schenectady; Twentieth,’ Delaware, Otsego and enango; Twenty-first, Jetferson, Lewis and Herkimer; Twenty-second, eida;’ Twenty-third, Madison and —Oswego$ nty-fourth, Onondaga and Cortland; Cayuga, ne and Sen ingeston and seventh, Tioga, Tompkins, Broome enty-eighth, Chemung, Steuben and 4 twenty-ninth, Monroe and Orleans; enesee, Niagara and Wyoming; Thirty-(rst, hirty-sccond, Chautanque and Cattarausas, Mr. Husted desired that his dissout from the re- port be entered upon the journal, Mr, Foley made a similar request, THE BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB. —+— fifth, sixth, Ontario, Li Annual Meeting Last Eventng—Preosentas tion of a Handsome Testimonial to Come modore Voorhis. The Brooklyn Yacht Club held their regular ane nual meeting last evening at the rooms of the club, No. 26 Court street, Brooklyn. Vice Commodore John 8. Dickerson presided, calling the meeting ta order at half-past cight o'clock. There were about, seventy-five members present. After the usual preliminary business had been transacted the Treasurer, Mr, Chauncy M. Felt, made his re- port, which showed the financial condition of the club to be in a favorable condition. The Club Measurer, Mr. Join M. Sawyer, reported forty-five yachts in the organization—a gain of twelve since Aprillast. The Committee on Time Allowance re- ported in favor of adopting for schooners and first class sloops the same method of allowan by the New York Yacht Club. This, th ommittes stated, would allow the Alice (the smallest schooner) twenty minutes in a race of five hours with the Sappho, the largest schooner, For other than schooners and first class sloops the cominittee fa- vored the giving of length only, and the time allow- ance the same as during 1571. ) ‘The report was adopted without any discussion whatever. ‘The election of oiticers was next proceded with and resulted Voorhis, Jr.; Vi | son; Rear Comm Robert Dillon; President, |p, W. Ostrander etary, William T. Lee} | Treasurer, Chauncy M. Felt; Assistant Secreta GC. Woot, and Measurer, John M. The following genticmen were € | the Board of Trustees:—Willlam H, Langly, Willlam | H. Pegg, William MM. Brasher, D. ines, Samuel Samuels, George W. Kidd and John 7. Barnard. Chauncy M. 4 Cc. Wood and J, . Braham were elected a Committee on Membership, To compose the Regatta Committee the folowing | gentlemen w Wiliam I. Pegg, He Ac Mott, G. L yyer, Benjamin 5. Male Key, Dr. . H. Hail and B ted'to compose ne war business having been disposed of Mr. rtook the floor, and in a neat speech of a few minutes’ duration présented Commodore Voor- his, on behalf of the club, a remarkably handsome testimonial, in the form of a silver yacit, an exact model of the Madeleine, This beautifal men of handiwork is twenty inches in length, the hall and masts, spars need as sail- Lona pedl- et, bearing the fol- sails being of pure silver, while th is repr nent covered witht lowing inscription :— Qrecvcccnccecersesesser neeeece seccsecccrcecsceseee PRESENTED TO COMMODORE JACOB VOORHTS, JR., by the members of the Brookiyn Yacit Club, 48 a testimonial of appreciation and him as their faithful chief ofii % esteem in which they hold him a g GALLANT YACHTSMAN, < BROOKLYN, April 24, 1872. POLL LELLELEOLOLELEDOFEDE TELPLELPIPESIPLESEDEDEDDIOOED The Commodore was surprised at the sudden and to him unexpected turn in the affairs of the meet- cived the testimonial opriute remarks, which were warmly regard for and the with ay applauded. THE REAL ESTATE MARKET, Transactions at the Exchange Yester- day—Sate of Union Square Property on Fourteenth Sircet and Fourth Avenue. The k jesrooms were crowded yesterday with a very substantial class of investors attracted by the sale of a valuable piece of Union Square property, Which was sold under the order of the executrix of the estate of Samuel T. Tisdale, It extended fiom the rear of Wallack's Thea. tre, and has a frontage of twenty-five feet on’ Union square, which before many | years will be the great financial and com- | af | av., to M. . P. Wood about his | rot aigloining, east, ¢ | | mercial centre of New York. It was put up at $100,000, and np to $130,000 the bids came in rapid succession, but after that figure was attained, a really high ono, the auctioneer moved more de- liberat It was finally knocked down to Mr. F, F. Thompson, a Wall street broker, who has long had an eye on the premises, which are eligibly sita- ated for any public building, such as a bank or insurance company. The following are the particu- lars of the day's transactions :— BY M. A. J. LYNCH, Premises on the s. w. co rot ith st. and 4 av., extending from the rear of Wallack’s Thea he stables adjoining the Maison Doree, frontii square, 99 ft. on 4th av, and 28 ft. on 1i . Thonipson, Bunker, Wall st. Sstory lrick building s. w. Broadway and Sth st., lot 30x14, prese: t $12,500, to James L. Brown......... ‘ 19,000 NNELLY. No, 1,008 24 av., er of B30 st., 25.5x00, five story and celliir, brick tenement house, lot 25.9%01.5 to W. H. Gildersieeve... $4,200 RY JOSPPHL Supreme Court Sale elo .e. corner 7th ott an sth sf to Ws HL Htagnor. ss. wy 305 Ine lot in rear, 25x99.11, fronting on th st., to Hi. Ri oe 8,300 siween Tih and 8th aes. | oy, a of Ath As st., between 2dand Sd avs., 35x60, Sot 25x101.11, 10 JOA. Marshall ‘$12,000 BY ¥, K. STRVENWON, BON AND C One 25x100, lot on n. of lW6th we, 225 ft. e. of Oth! Pangborn aye . 38 I ink I fo MM, Pangborn \ 83400 ot a ining, east, . Pangborn. . . Loton ss. oflith st, 225 M2 of 10th av., to M. pee Pangborn. . r ‘ : 295 Two lots adjoining, east, to F, Kibel, each........... 3 THE OHIEF OF THE POTTAWOTOMIES DEAD,’ CHIcaco, IIL, April 24, 1872, Alexander Robinson, Chief of the Pottawotomies, sertions as false, and | whose name is intimately associated with the tory of Chicago, died yesterday, at the Indian Mererve in this county, aged 100 years, He was & steadfast friend of the whites, and paddled the Kinzee family (Chicago's oldest pioneers) across the lake from Michigan in 1818. He has lived on the Reserve for forty years. He leaves a son and two ) daughters. |¥, THE VALLEY RAILROAD. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 24, 1872, Afull meeting of stockholders of the Valley Rail. road Company was held to-day, and organized by the election of the following Board of Directors :~ James Farmer, N. P. Payne, A. B. Stone, Cleveland; A. Saxton, gorge Cooke, Canton; D, L. King, J. feiberiing, Akron. ‘The Board wiil elect executive officers on April 20, ‘This is the first meeting of the Valley Railroad Com in the Senate by the two gentiemen, and greatly to | pany.