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a] WASHINGTON. President Crant Searching THE EXECBTIVE EYE “WIDE Wolves in Sheepskins Forbidden the White House Fold. « “ eo REPUBLICAN LEADERS UNDFt” SUSPICION. Dawes and Ferr Wrangling Over tao Tariff Bill. [on ale a ARMS MUDDLE. THE Yatntor Stevenson’s Report Dissenting from * — the Views of Hamlin and Carpenter. WASHINGTON, May 11, 1872. The President Weeding Out His Friends from His Enemics—The Wolves in Sheep's Clothing. The defection of leading republicans in Congress from the proposed renomination of Grant is no longer a secret to the President and his personal adherents, The usual diMculty of bringing about concerted action’ when secret treachery is medi- tated has compelled the plotters to move cautiously and in quietude, and it is only under the implied pledge of confidence between friends that these would-be conspirators aliow their true sentiments with reference to the political situation to find utterance. What they dread above all things is a premature exposure of their designs, lest untimely discovery should work defeat and the coveted mine and spoils of the party patriot be lost-in the ignominy of the traitor. What they ‘hope for is that they may find safety in some apparently spontancous abandonment of Grant a8 the Philadel- phia candidate, or shelter under the bold utterances of some recognized giant of the party. The names of a few of them are known, and the in- formation that has come out is chiefly due to the measures being taken in time to cover and protect the many political interests depending upon the success or failure of Grant. In these preparations for safety the schemers have been compelled, in ® degree, to be honest, and all their caution has not sufficed to keep their secrets from the man they are plotting to defraud of the nomination. The argument they confidentially adduce in support of their unmis- takable, though disguised, treachery 1s that the party owes nothing to Grant but its salvation in 1868; that for such service as his name and famer then rendered he has been amply rewarded by four years of power, wliich he has used more as a personal emolument than for the good of the party, and that if—as now seems probable—he shall turn out to be a Jonah in the republican ship there are no considerations which can jvstly claim to restrain the crew from tossing him overboard to keep the vessel afloat. The unexpected turn that affairs have taken since the Cincinnati Convention and the time-serving policy of men on whom he has showered political favor have greatly affected the President, it is said, and inspired him with such unconcealed distrust of everybody that the friends who have clung:to him, by their own show- ing, through the coldness and neglect of the three years of his Presidency are justifying themselves in advance for theirown contemplated desertion to the camp of the flying politicians. Through the whole circle of politics there is a feeling of uncasi- ness and doubt, and the situation is becoming so Oppressive upon all that any chance for better or ‘worse will be a welcome relief to everybody. The Kansas Muddle To Be Cleared Up by the Senate. Very discreetly the managers of the dominant party in the Senate have decided not to make pub- lic the facts connected with the election of the Sen- ators from Kansas until the next session of Con- gress, The investigations regarding this matter commenced with the charges against Senator Cald- well, and were referred to Governor Morton’s Com- mittee on Privileges and Elections. Subsequently charges were preferred against Senator Pome- Toy, and to-day Mr. Morton asked that the committee be granted the necessary authority to sit during the recess, go and come when and where they please, send tor persons and papers, &c., at the expense of the government. He supplemented the request by a statement that the demand for this power was not intended to prejudice the reputa- tions of the two Senators, and the Senate, with eustomary complacency, granted it. The Enforcement Act. The debate in the Senate regarding the Supplemental Enforcement act was con- tinued to-day. The bill was amended at the instance of Senator Hamilton, of Maryland, and with the consent of its friends, so as to make it requisite that ten persons be required to request the appointment of election supervisors instead of two. The debate continued during the session without demonstrating any noteworthy political feature. The democrats, tully convinced Of its final passage, did everything in their power to modify its most obnoxious provisions. It is not improbable that the differences in opinion between the two houses regarding the bill will eventually result in its defeat. The Paying of Pensions to Widows After the Death of a Second Husband. Mr. Moore, of Illinois, succeeded in securing the morning hour to-day from the grasp of the Tariff bill to report from the Committee on Pensions, and the entire time was spent in considering a proviso offered by Mr. Roosevelt to the bill revising the Jaws in regard to invalid pensions, providing that a widow shall not forfeit her pension by reason of remarriage, Mr. Roosevelt sus- tained his amendment in a few pointed remarks upon the subject of widows in general. He believed it wrong to put hindrances in the way of widows marrying, but rather thought they should be encouraged to do so, He wondered when he Jooked around him that women could ever be in- duced to marry at all, and called upon members to sustain him in his motion. Mr. Roosevelt made a chivalrous effort to carry his point, but failed, An effort. was then made to revise the old law, provid- ing for the revival of a widow's pension, forfeited by reason of remarriage, on the death of her later husband and proof of her being in indigent circumstances, Mr. Speer, of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment to include cases of divorce, Mr. King, of Miasouri, excitedly objected, warning the House against the great dan- ger of encouraging divorces. Another Tug at the Tariff. Pending the discussion the morning hour expired, and the House went into Committee of the Whole on the Tarif bill, when things became very much muddled, Paragraphs were stricken out, innumer- able points of order raised, and no one seemed quite sure what was done or now it was done. The enemies of the measure desire to defeat it entirely, and the belief is steadily gaining ground that nothing will be done with the tariff this session. A Gladiatorial Combat by southerners. A rencontre occurred this evening in front of the Imperial Hotel between General A. ©. Jones, of West Virginia, and Colonel Calvin Sayre, of Ala- bama Jones, who was standing on a step, was at tacked by Bayre with @ heavy cane. Blows were exchanged and Jones had his ieft wrist broken. He wrested the cane from Sayre and swith = hiss right) = hand returned the blows. Colonel Jolnson, jate Marshal of South Carolina, and a friend of both, separated the parties for @ short time, but no one else assiat- ing him he was unable t0 keep them apart, and NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 12 1872—QU they renewed the contest with pocket knives, Jones receiving ® severe cut across the forehead and several on the face, and Sayre @ severe gash across the throat and stabs in the abdomen. During the fight they threw each other to the ground teeta gone they were Separatgd, both in ii ts pe Joneg oétiig too weak to reach his residelice @ a taken, to a chamber in the Imperial Hotel aud mys oy a ried to his home. yh bp i why! “ van ‘, aediately received sur- crt , “cis Understood the fight grew vatof un old grudge between the partics, Both have many friends in this community. , Better from Secretary Boutwell to Treas- urer Spinner. Treasurer Spinner has received the following letter from Secretary Boutwell:— Sm—When coupons detached from bonds that have been called in for redemption are presented for payment you wili pay such portion of the inter- est Specified in such coupons as had acerued at the day fixed in the call for the redemption of the bonds and no more, unless the party presenting them claims payment of their nominal value, in + which case you will retain the coupons until the bonds from which they were detached shall have been Bae and the conflicting claims adjusted, en & called bond is presented for redemption, from which a coupon maturing after the day fixed in the call for such redemption shall have been detatched, the nominal value of such conven Shall be deducted from the sum due upon the bond, unless the coupon shall have been paid as above; the sum thus deducted to be retained to await the presentation of the coupon and a settle- ment. Very reaperetalyy, GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, Secretary. The Treaty of Washington Not atan End. ‘The opinion is not entertained in official quarters here that the Treaty of Washington is at an end, for the reason given that correspondence on tne Subject with a view to accomodation is still pend- ing. The Treasury Balances. The balances in the Treasury at the close of busi- ness to-day were:—Currency, $13,002,100; coin, $103,518,656, including $25,425,300 in coin certifi- cates. The Scandinavian Bank of Chicago. The Comptrolier of the Currency to- authorized the Scandinavian National Bank of Chicago to com. mence business, The capital ts $250,000, Internal Revenue Receipts. Internal revenue receipts to-day, $407,700; re- ceipts for the month, $4,876,273; for the fiscal year to date, $111,428,114, Bills Signed by the President. The President to-day signed the act to develop the mining resources of the United States, and the act for the relief of the settlers on the Osage lands in Kansas. Movements of the President. The President was at the Capitol to-day, where he passed some time in consultation with various Senators, Nomination of a Medical Director. The President to-day sent to the Senate the nomination of Medical Director James C, Palmer to be Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Weekly Currency Statement. The United States Treasurer holds as se- curity of the cireulation of notes and for public deposits sees ees $392,815,900 The shipments for this week were, in notes... 1,053,500 And in fractional currency 641,600 Receipts of fractional currency <2 500/000 National bank circulation outstandin, at this date. ae Perea yes 824,000,303, National gold notes outstanding. 600," THE FRENCH ARMS FIZZLE. bid dir ted, Senator Stevenson’s Grounds of Diesent from the Report of the French Arms Muddle—The Sale of Arms Clearly a Violation of the Statutes. WAsHINGTON, May 11, 1872, Senator Stevenson has presented the grounds of his dissent from the report of the majority of the committee appointed to investigate the sale of arms and ordnance stores by the government dur- ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, &c. He says the testimony shows thatin the sale of arms and ordnance store, during that period the statute approved July 20, 1868, was clearly violated, nance stores and arms have been sold without hav- ing been offered at public sale on thirty daya’ notice. Ordnance stores were sold which were not of the passage of the act of 1868, as shown by the manufacture of a large quantity of cartridges sold with the breech-loading arms to Thomas Richard- son. Arms were sold which could not be considered damaged or otherwise unsuitable for the military service or the use of the militia. In support of this statement he especially REFERS TO THE EREECH-LOADING CARBINES and .muskets sold to Remington & Sons and to ‘Thomas Richardson. The carbines sold to Reming- ton & Sons were Remington's and Spencer's, such as are still in the hands of our troops in the fleld. The sale of the Springfleld breech-loaders to Thomas Richardson, as well as of the breech-load- ing arms not damaged, was wholly unwarranted by any construction that can fairly be put on the intent and object. It is proper to say the present Secretary of War accepted the construction of this statute as adopted by General Schotleld as the true one, without having placed any construction upon | it himself, It is also true that oiticers of high char- acter and experience testify that the mode pursued in the sale of these arms has been attended with good results, and LARGE PRICES HAVE BEEN OBTAT thereby. This may or may not be true; , iftrue, | it cannot justify a clear and palpabie infraction of | law. The minority report, in considering the ques- tion whether arms have been sold in such quanti- ties as to impair the defensive capacity of the coun- | war or a rebellion of considerable magnitude 1s | ey to occur. for t sumed that a government should always sum. ciently prepared for its defence in any event and under any emergency and that any unnecessary reduction of its means, in view of this end is unwise and impolitic, Prudence and wise policy alike dictate that the large supply of bres loaders deemed by General Dyer essentially necessary to be kept in our arsenals should not have been diminished, even though in an emergency muzzle- loaders and carbines pean supply their place, lest the defensive capacity of the country might be re- duced and the government forced, in case of sudden war or rebellion, to look to that extent to Joreign nrarkets, or private manufacturers of arms, to supply the deficiency. Mr. Stevenson next dis- cusses the question whether the ORDER GIVEN BY THE SECRETARY OF WAR to the Ordnance Bureau, that no arms or ordnance belligerent parties in the Franco-German war, had been violated. After reviewing the testimony at length he says:—The breach-loaders and ammu- nition purchased in the name of Richardson passed, as soon as delivered, into Remington’s hands and were shipped to France. The testimony bearing on | this transaction forces the conclusion that Richard- son's name was putin asa blind to avoid the ap- pearance of a direct sale from the Ordnance Burean to Remington. General Dyer could casily have as- certained the real destination of the arms, The cir- cumstances surroundin; THE EXCHANGE OF GATLING GUNS with General Franklin, the President of the Colt’s Arms Manufacturing Company, at Hartford, Conn., are equally singular. Mr. Stevenson, therefore, finds himself constrained to the conclusion that had there been no personal contract or understanding between mington and his agents and any of the officers of the Ord- nance Bureau the least degree of vigilance would have made the 1atter aware of the character of the proceedings which took ‘age? especially as it was @ matter of general notoriety that arms were bought and shipped in large. quantities for France, and as the least inquiry would have suMiced to satisfy the Ordnance OMtlee that the Remingtons, after haying been exciuded as the known agents of a belligerent party from govern- ment sales, would resort to the usual devices to de- feat the object of the order of the Secretary of War that no arms should be sold to them. Mr. Stevenson holds that the order of the Secre- tary of War erase sales to either belligerent virtually declared that the United States could not, 48 & neutral agent, sell arms to efther belligerent, and argues that the Secretary's views do not, there- fore, accord with those now insisted upon in the majority report. BY THIS Lice’ ly and well. But it THE SECRETARY OF WA says Mr. Stevenson, acted w! is mach to be ers that this order was not strictly obeyed. The omcers who, by negligence or disobedience, fatled in this particular deserve more than ordinary censure. Mr. Stevenson continues :— The testimony fails to disclose any corruption or improper conduct on the part of any officer or other employés of the government in the sale of arms and munitions of war. If errors were committed is ing to know that they were occasioned by no id or selfish purpose. Upon the question whether any Senator or other American citizen has been in communication for illicit purposes with the ernment or authorities of any foreign Power or its _— touching the subject matter of this in- vestigation, there is not the slightest testimony tending toimpugn or reflect in the least degree z= the honor or patriotism of any American citi- | Ord- | in the possession of the United States at the time | POLITICAL. THE ROCHESTER CONVENTION. ‘Lists of the Tammany and Democratic Reform Delegates. During the it Week conventions have been held in sbeaeyiral Aesembiy districts. ofthis city to elect delogates and aitéritates to the Rochoster Convention, Which is to meet on the 15th inst, to select delegates to the National Democratic Con- vention, which will meet in Baltimore on the 9th of next July to nominate candidates for President and_ Vice President of the United States, “ ‘This year, in conformity with a resolution passed by the Democratic State Convention, each Assem- bly dietrict in this city acted on its own Volition in electing delegates, no call being issued from any central authority in this county in relation thereto. Both the Tammany and the democratic refor branches of the party, in each Assembly district, called upon democratic voters of all shades of opin- jon to take part in the son y elections for dele- gates to the Assembly District Conventions, and each of those branches will claim before the Roches- ter Convention that the delegates and alternates elected under its auspices are true representatives of the whole democracy of this city. The following are tull and correct lists of both the Tammany and democratic reform delegates :— TAMMANY DELEGATES, Dist, Delegates. IJohn Fox... 3—James Taye: +-Patrick H 5—Nelson W, Youn) &-P. W. Rhodes. -y Woltna aniel Jar 14—J. Winthrop Chan 15—Oliver Charlick 16—Samuel J, Tilden... 13—Benjamin €, Thayer 20—John C. Bushnell 21—Election Mond Dist, Detegates. I—James Fitzgerald Soman, William 1. Rooney. George W. Allen, Arthur J, Delany. Otto H. Coon. aunt 17—Danie! i-Henry L, Clinton, der Spautdi itp F. Smith illiam MeNally, le earge W, Van 8 —Aibert A. Thompsor Mecting of the Tammany Deligautes: The Tammany delegates to the Rochester Conven, tion met last evening in Tammany Hall, for the purpose of consultation on a common course of action when claiming admission to the Convention on next Wednesday, Mr. Oliver Charlick was called to the Chair and Mr. John J. Dimond acted as Secretary. The roll of del- egates was called and it was found that there were contested delegations from the Third Assembly Dis- trict, James Hayes claiming to be elected delegate and Matthew Gillyan an alternate on one ticket and Ambrose O'Neil delegate and Owen Cavanagh alternate on the other, each ticket representing a rival association. Mr. WOLTMAN said that the delegates, as a body, had nothing to do with settling this matter, as the last Democratic State Convention had determined that each Assembly district delegation must be represented independently of any arrangement or control by any central body, and this action of that Convention was aimed particularly to prevent Tam- many Hall from interfering directly or indirectly with the delegations from the several Assembly districts, The claims of these rival delegations must be submitted by the delegates themselves claiming to represent the contested district to the Rochester Convention. Mr. JAMES Gippons, claiming to act on behalf of one of the organizations of the district, strongly advocated the claims of Mr. Ambrose O'Neill and his colleagu Mr. JouN W. CHANLER said that this was neither the time nor place to discuss this subject, as it was amatter not within the province of the «ction of the delegates as a body, but was one that should be left to the disposition of the Rochester Conven- jon, It was finally arranged to crop the matter reiat- ing to the contested delegations, leaving it to be settled cither between the contested delegates, the | associations they represented or to the Rochester Convention, The CHAIRMAN said that it was usnal in all large | counties for the body of delegates elected from the Several Assembly districts in the county to meet to- gether for conference, previous to presenting their statute of 1868, and in direct violation of its plain | | try, says it will not discuss the question whether a | That question was not submitted | ¢ inquiry of the committee; but it may be as- stores should be sold to any agent of any of the | claims to the Convention to which they were elected, to decide upon some common course of action, and this present mecting was perfectly | proper in so far as it contempiated merely such a ference and did not trench upon the rights or claims, or interfere in any manner therewith, of the delegates from the various Assembly districts in this county. Such was the course of action that he | presumed was intended to be carried out by the | meeting. This expression of opinion met with the unanf- mous approval of all the delegates present, Several of the delegates having taken exception | to any one present but the deiegates and alternates elect taking any part in the proceedings, it was re- solved to exclude from the room all who were not delegates, This, although not originally intended, was held to exclude reporters also, or at least: they | Ured from the room, graphed to Rochester and had secured a suit of | rooms at the Osborn House for the use of the dele- gates and their friends and all democrats from this city having business at the Convention who might choose to aval! themselves of the use of such rooms, A recess of ten minu was tuken to give the delegates time to consult with each other and with a large number Of their friends, who were waiting | outside, in reference to their course of action on | Prese nting their claims for admission to the Roches- ter Convention. It was universally agreed that the delegates fromeach Assembly district should act independently in ene their claims to the Convention; but they should act as simply rep- resenting democrats, and not as the representa- tives of any partisan organization known as such in this city. That they would not claim admission as representing Tammany Hall, or as acting together as@ body of delegates, but simply rep- resenting in the persons of the delegates and alter- nates from the separate Assembly districts the body of democratic voters in each of said districts. On reassembling these views were formally unani- mously adopted by the whole body of delegates, it bei tated by the chairman, Mr. Chanler, Alder- may Woltman, Coroner Young and gthers, that the purpose of the meeting Was simply for thé object of mutual consultation as among fellow democrats, ail believing that they represented the great body of the democracy of this city, and had but one aim in view, the successful issue of the efforts of the Demo- cratic National Convention, in doing what was best in the present exigency in advancing democratic principles. Some of the speakers said it might ne supposed, or an idea might get abroad that on account of this meeting, and it having taken place in Tammany Hall—that the object was, as had hitherto been the case, to present themselves to the Convention as a distinctive organization within the democratic party. This, however, was a wrong View, and in some respects it was, perhaps, to be regretted that they had met in Tammany Hall. They intended bw ge before the Convention simply as democrats, and not as Tammany Hall democrats. They were Tammany Hall democrats purely for local purposes, and not with a view of al control, as representatives of Tammany Hall, any State or National Convention. This position could not be too aroney, stated, and it was desirable that it should be distinctly understood by the de- legates in the Convention represen: other sec- tions of the State. They had come Ln er, a8 Was usual in all large counties comprising several Assembly districts, to talk over matters in advance and not ee ‘the purpose of taking concerted action a8 a un! A Committee of Arrangements, of which Mr. John W, Chanler is chairman, was appointed to look after the transportation of the delegates to and from Rochester and their accommodation while | there, it being also understood that Mr. Chanler would act in a quasi capacity as chairman of the | delegates in general, but not as representing them in that capacity before the Convention. The meeting then adjourned, with the under. standing that the delegates should mect at the fees House, in Rochester, on Wednesday morn- g. Delegates to the Democratic State Con- vention. SYRACUSE, May 11, 1872 The following delegates to the Democratic State Convention were elected to-day from Onondaga | county:—First district, William C, ir; Second istrict, Mathias Britton; Third ‘usteict, William . Beac Tra L. Little was elected as dele; to the Demo- cratic Convention from Cortiand a edhe py Hopson, N. Y., May 11, 18 The following delegate from Gotanabia Nanay was elected jay — Democratic, First district—Benjamin Ray. Wnts PLarns, N. Y., May 1: At the Second Assembly District Democratic Con- vention of Westchester county, held at White Plains to-day, Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, of New Rochelle, was selected by acclamation as delegate to the State Convention, and Robert 8. Hart ag alternate, NEWDURG, May 11, 1872. The democrats of the First Assembly district of Orange county have elected Charles F. Brown, of 1872, were so informed by the Chairman, and they, in | common with others who were not delegates, re- Mr. JonN W. CHANLER stated that he had tele- | Kempuing to influence or | ADRUPLE SHEET. Newburg, delegate to the State Convention ai Rochester. a . M The delegate to the De: 1s Louis Cuddeback. Delegates to the Republican State Con- vention, SYRACUSE, May 11, 1872. ‘The republican conventions dp Onondag county Were held this afternoon, and all the three Ag sembly districts send united Grant delegations to the Elmira Convention, . Exmira, N. Y., May 11, 1872. _The following are the deiegates from Chenango county:—Tracy Beadle, W. A, Armstrong and J. 8. Holbert. Povanrrerare, N. Y., May 11, 1872. The republicans of the Second district to-day elected Robert E. Folger and John P. Adriance as delegates to Elmira. Hupson, May 11, 1872, Second district, Moses Y. Tilden, republican; First district, Herman V. Esselstyn, Nelson P, Akin and John ©, Dubois; Second district, John Cadman, » Cyrus Groat and John E, Rowley. Owerco, May 11, 1872. The delegates from Tioza county are Captain B. B, Gere, of Owego; Jerome Thompson, of Candor; G. Allen, of Waverley, and Lucien Horton, of A, Berkshire, MONTICELLO, May 11, 1872. Dr. William L, Appley, John Walker, Jr.. and Stephen Caldwell, Jr., have been elected delegates to Eimira on the 15th inst. by the Republican County Convention, which adopted resolutions en- dorsing the administration of President Grant. MIDDLETOWN, May 11, 1872, ‘The following delegates to the Republican State Convention from the Second district of Orange county were elected to-day:—W. H. Houston, IL B. Young, C. J. Everett and Frank Marvin, ConoErs, May 11, 1872, Alfred Leroy, a Grant man, has been elected to represent the Fourth Assembly District, embracing the city of Cohoes, in the Republican State Conven- tion at Elmira. : Eighteenth Ward Reformers in Council— How th Work Progresses—What Is Most Needful to Attain the End in View. The Eighteenth Ward Council of Political Reform held its usual weekly meeting at Oriental Hall, on Eighteenth street, last evening. Mr. William H. Neilson presided, and, having called the meeting to order, Mr. John A, Foster, acting for the Secretary, 1 the minutes of the last previous meeting, and stated that ail the members whose names had been noted down at the last session had been duly elected, The representative of the Executive Com- mittee wished to cail attention to the fact that the residents in several blocks of the district asserted that they had not fully made up their minds as to which party they intended to ally themselves. The members of the council now amounted to 242, and it was probable that over one thousand more would enro}l their names during the ensuing week. Mr, PHILIP FRANKENHEIMER said that there were 2,600 Germans in the Eighteenth ward, out of which number 1,800 had been discovered to be reformers, The sons of “Vaterland’’ were universally in favor of the movement, but, like Micawber, they were waiting for “something to turn up.” When the time came for action they would be found at the polis. | Mr. Sreun ventured the assertion thatthe Ger- | mans in the Eighteenth ward found that the old | party politicians were working against them, and consequently they had organized another associa- tion and hoped for reform in the municipal govern- ment. ‘The PRESIDENT drew attention to the charter now before the Legislature, and reminded his hearers | | thatif the bill received the Governor's signature, | as in all probability it would, new elections would take place on the sist inst. He explained that the organization did not wish to recognize any particular party of Germans unless they were re- cognized by their consréres, Mr. FRANKENIEIMER asked whether there were not two German reform organizations in the city. The PRESIDENT thereupon explained that there had been a slight misunderstanding — with Ottendorfer’s. party, but it was to be hoped | that in future everything tending towards reform would be concatenated, work in unity, and eyey power brought into operation that might prove of value in the service of reform, Some names which had been inscribed on the list were those of men known to be in the interest of Tammany. 6 Mr. SAMUFL GLassey said the body was organized under the title “New York City Council of Political Reform,” and it was not afillated with any other association. He described its purpose at length, dl that several organizations had been started under the banner of reform whose object | was diametrically opposed to the opinions they | | professed. Good government for the locality and | | city was imperatively necessary. The purposes of the organization were honest, and if the members would only put their shoulders to the wheel it could not help proving a grand success, Mr. HALL said he had been conversing with a | member of the Committee of Seventy, who had said that the impression was that the organization was not getting along fast enough, and that that | Was the reason. Another one—the Apollo Hall af- fair—had been started. Other organizations were IDDLETOWN, May 11, 1872, mocratic State Convention _ “THE WOOBHULL'S” CONVENTION. The Long-Haired Brethren and the Short-Haired Sisters Agree for Two Whole Days. ~ MADDOX, OF MAINE, RAMPANT Victoria Opens a Free Love Credit Mobilier. Money Pouring Into the New Party’s Coffeérs. The Negro, the Heathen Chinee and the Free Lover To Lie Down Together, The party of “equal rights,” who have chosen Mrs, Victoria Woodiull as their standard bearers | met again yesterday morning at Apollo Hall, the Session of the Convention being continued over the secongl day for the purpose of allowing debate and discussion on various matters which were not clearly understood the day prévious, The Convention assembled at ten o'clock, anda great weight seemed to have been taken off the minds of the members, for the reason that they had aleader at last under whose banner they might fight with some prospect of success, The opening of the Convention was a strange thing. A young girl, with rather piquant features,’ a sailor's straw hat trimmed with cherry ribbon, a a red feather sticking out of it, and having a cnerry bow fastened at her throat, ascended the platform, with a huge Congregational hymn book in her hand, and after looking around at the wild men and women fronting her in the body of the hall for {® moment, in a furtive way, she opened her little mouth, showing thereby a set of pearly teeth, and sang a song or hymn called the Millennium, This song, as a matter of course, promises all sorts of bliss and beatifica- tion to the radical reformers of both sexes in this world and the world to come, Several females whose hair was cut very short, and who looked as ifthey did not comb the capillary covering more than once a week, then ascended the platform and ranged themselves as if they were about to be pho- tographed on the spot. Judge Carrer, of Ohio, then offered some resolu- tions, which were full of “homanity” and “equal rights,” “brotherly love,” “sisterly affection,” &c. These resolutions made the platform—a very vague and cloudy document by the way—a little more clear to the understanding of the members. Aman, with hideous long hair flowing over his shoulder—‘Wail, I don’t Know as how but we ought to look a little closer at that platform. TI think it needs a little patching. We rushed it through pretty quick, and [ object to the seventeenth sec- tion. I think it’s pretty pro-mis-kew-is, I do indeed,” Another man, with tossed hair—Spose we stick a little amendment into that ere platform ? CHAIRMAN—I am sorry to say that your amend- ment comes too late. The platform is not now open to amendment, Mrs. SPEAR (a lady with a blazing blue eye anda heavy waterfall)—I think we ought, to agree upon some ticket which we may thrust in the ballot box p-lection day. My idee of a ticket is suthing like See ema ate aa arcane The Woman's, Negro’s and Workingman's = Ticket—Victoria Woodhull, of New York, for 3President; Frederick Douglass, of District Columbia, for Vice President. PORE ELOLE DE IEES ILEOLOIOLETOLEIESEDEDEDOEOPE DEEL: we can vote on that easy on election day.” Here the old Cockney Indian, Father Peter, with white hair and shaky legs, arose and said:—“I ’opes in my Vart that you will hadd “and Indian's Ticket.” Tho.old man seemed almost frantic at the thought that the noble red Indjan might be left out of the platform A short, bandy-legged man, with spectacles-- “And T have another amendment to offer. Since you include the Indian, the Heathen Chinee and the negro, let us call it everybody's ticket; that will make it pleasant for everybody, and we can all vote upon it.’ After this there was an exciting and tumultous forming, and unless the one he addressed did not make more rapid progress it would be beaten out | of the fleld. Mr. MARBERRY thought the Committee were get- ting confused.and out of their depth while endeavor- | ing to fathom what other pegple were trying to do. | It was better to attend to home affairs than to go | seeking out the doings of associations in other | Wards, The PRESIDENT thought that when the siege was | raised and the hour of battle arrived it would be | time enough +40 ally the forces of reform, and he | urged upon his listeners the necessity of each | citizen in the ward who wished for purity in muni- | cipal government to endeavor to bring his neighbor into the right line of thoug: the freedom of re- form, It was of greaf practi importance that | ‘y one should go in “witha vim.’ The organi- | zation was composed of the best and most honorable | people in the ward. It was useless to waste words | In empty discussion, When the charter was signed | then the hour to act would have arrived; then | would be the time to rally around the banner of | | reform. | <A question regarding a reform association, of which General Dix is reputed to be president, was next raised, and a member ventured the assertion that the gallant oficer mentioned did not even | know that his name was linked with it. It was a one-horse, mushroom aifair, Mr. MARBERRY thought it would be better to con- fine the organization to home work. He knew nothing of the association alluded to by the previ- ous speaker, but he thought every member ought thoroughly to understand what was‘ necessary to further the cause for which the organization had been formed. A motion was then made to clect a committec to visit Councils of Reform in other wards and learn their views, with the idea of amalgamating in the future. Mesars. Neilson, Haight, Butler, Marberry, Frankenheimer and Glassey were nominated to form it, after which the meeting was adjourned, subject to the call of the President. rissey on Horace Greeley. The Tammany Committee of Thirteen on Organi- zation met last evening at Tammany Hall, Henry W. Genet in the chair, Among those present were Judge Shandley, Judge Ledwith, Judge Dodge and John Morrissey. Mr. Morrissey, in conversation with Judge Ledwith and others, said that Horace Greeley ought to receive the support of the democ- racy, and, in that event, he would not only be elected, but the democracy would be able to carry a majority of the Congressional districts of this State, and would probably secure a majority of the next House of Representatives. i A committee of five was mappintes to. make | arrangements for a public mecting to be held in purpose of obtaining an expression of views from | all persons interested in relation to such are- | organization of the democratic party in this city as will best tend to secure success in the pending elections. The mecting then adjourned. Kings County Democratic Committce. There was a well attended meeting of the Kings County Democratic General Reform Committee, heid | lastevening at the Capitol, Joralemon street, Brook- lyn. Michael Hannefy occupied the chair and Charles Kerrigan officiated as secretary. The fol- lowing . Assembly delegates to the Democratic State Convention at Rochester were confirme rict—John Devlin, Fifth ward; Thomas Gorrity, First ward. Second district—Willlam E. Recent ward, James Begicy. Third dis- trict—William J. Davis, T. P. O'Connell. Fourth district—John Fuery, Michael McCann. Fifth dis- trict—M. T. Heffernan, James Gallagher, Sixth dat a8 Sixteenth ward; Mike McDonald. Seventh district—Peter Lanagan, Eugene Doberty. Eighth district—General Thomas F. Bourke, Bartholomew Finnegan. Ninth dis- trict—Timothy O'Connor, Jeremiah O'Brien. Power was given the delegates to fill vacancies, and to confer with the Jeffersonian Committee with & view to co-operating with the latter organization in , Fereaentiee, the sentiment of the democracy of Brooklyn before the Rochester Convention, A series of resolutions ats endorsing Farmer Greeley for the Presidency was adopted by the Reform Committee, which adjourned with cheers for the white-coated philosopher. A MASONIC BANQUET, Lovisvitye, Ky., May 11, 1872. A banqnet was given last night to the Supreme Council of the Scottish rite of Masonry of the South- ern jurisdiction of the United States. It was a ‘and affair. Toasts and responses were made by vereign Grand Commander Albert Pike and Messrs. Carson, of Cincinnati, Ohio; W. E. Lefing- well, of Iowa; Ben Perley Boore, of Washington City, and Major E, Sherman, of Washington Terri- | Mrs. Bell A. Lockwood, of Washington, D. C. Tammany [all on next Tuesday evening, for the | i debate, every one pitching in at random. ‘The men with the long hair and the women with the short hair bobbed up and down in the Convention like discarded champagne corks in the surf at Long Branch on a summer's morning. Order was finally resolved ont of this chaos, and at the close of the hurly-burly a tall lady, dressed in a black empress cloth dress, surmounted by a pink scarf covered with white lace, and wearing her black hair in the style of 1830, having three bands ; on each side of her face puffed out, advanced to the rostrum, and was announced by the Mie as rs, Lockwood, on nearing the rostrum, slowly unfolded a huge roll of manuscript, and proceeded with de- liberation and emphasis to read her essay on the issues before tl nvention. She spoke at length on social topics; the sufferings of woman; the cruelty of mankind; read extracts from different laws which bear upon the subject of woman, and altogether the essay proved to be a very able one, containing varied and useful infor- mation, and everything went on smoothly until Mrs. Lockwood, on reaching a certain point in her essay, commenced to read, with better satisfaction to herself, long extracts from the Russian common | law, which, she averred, had been forwarded to | her by her dear friend, Mme. Surtcimskie, from St. Petersburg. At this juncture the audience turned pale, This dose of Russian common law was too much, and several of the male delegates, who had faced the reading of the platform and the interminable reso- lutions without blanching, seized their hats, grinned horribly and broke for the door in utter panic, Mrs. Lockwood sat down with a thunderous cheer ringing in her ears. “So glad.” A document was then read from a town with an unpronounceable name in Wisconsin, expressin, sympathy and condolence with the Convention and its objects, A white-headed old delegate, seventy years of | age, who has six wives in Utah, then got on his | legs and offered a resolution, that the party of | equal rights adopt as: their political banner the Goddess of Liberty, in pure white, with the words | Be Rights,” in large Roman capitals, under- neath. Another delegate, with a green cotton umbrella, said—‘I think that—that our ban-ner should be one with a dove, being a rep-ree-sentative of peace, with the three charming words in its bill, ‘Liberty, Justice and Fraternity.’ The following resolutions were reported by the Committee on Platform and Resolutions. It is un- derstood they were drawn up by the long-haired Pantarch Stephen Pearl Andrews, and are like most of his productions, full of sound and fury sig- nifying nothing :— Resolved, That the two fundamental principles of gov- ernment aid the life of mankind are order and freedom, which have always hitherto been in conflict, and fre: quently in fierce antagonism, but which are, neverthe- Jwea, dextined to be married and reconciled with each other. Re , That there is a crude, primitive and imper- fect kind 61 fre which consists of casting off the con- straint of conscience and legitinate discipline along with the unauthorized invasion of foreign authority, while true freedom contributes to order; and that there is also a false and oppressive kind of order, while the higher kind of order is evolved from the very bowels of freedom. solved, That the lordly arrogatice of man in deter mining the “sphere of woman” or of any one human be: in determining the sphere of any other human being, is becoming more and more adverse to the spirit of the age; that the question is not, fundamentally, of the right or wrong of any particular course of conduct, but it is one of jurisdiction, or of the deciding power over the very question whether the thing considered be right or wrong; and that the growing spirit of freedom in the world de: mands that this deciding power be lodged with the in- dividual Himself, or herself, whose conduct ia in ques- tion; that assumptions of the right and authority to interfere with and regulate the conduct of others ‘are becoming more distasteful to every well informed and Well regulated mind. Resolved, That tt is written in the destinies now ur- ently pressing for fulfilment that society shall pass ficou! the experience of the full participation ot woman in polttical affairs; that the fact will have to be accepted, whatever the previous prejudices, speculations and theo: ries on the subject may have been; and that the future form of society will, therefore, be veloped out of this ‘much as shall. be de- \therto untried condition of things; that the sooner, with the less amount of acrimony, at with the moro’ mutual confidence ang. helpfulnegs. ber tween the sexes, the transition is effecte Bete forall. Resolved, That not only the fourteenth. and Afteen amendments of the constitution of the United States, bat ; eclafation of American fade: the constitution iteelf, the De endence, written upon mind and cvolvi itself in this pei ae th ut ee hatuctlin ie Noe ‘0 part yn in the cho of the government which they are ealed upon to obey. At this juncture the inevitable Maddox, of Maine, got Reg the platform and commenced to saw the alr with his arms, and at the same time articulate sounds came from his mouth. Maddox, of Maine, talked Communism. Maddox, of Maine, talke hilanthrophy. Then he made another excursion in the air with his arms. Then he condescended to explain to his (ge bg ed oy proeate’ funder He. said {it was their to procure funds, interkion to issue certificates of indebtedness, to be signed by the chairman, secretary and treasurer of the Executive Committee of the hew party. This ‘was to be done in the style of the Fenian bonds. Maddox, of Maine, knew that millions of Aweri- j the government, cans were to buy the bonds, any amount of money conld be procured, and in the ecstacy of the sublime thought Maddox, of Maine, metaphorically embraced the whole world ip jils arms. Maddox sat down at last, his eyes rolling in pious delirium, Aged veteran named Spear—“We are going to e-lect our can-deedates, we are, and the good and the great people of the United-e-States will crowd round our victorious President, Vietoria C, Woou- hub, atid escort him to the White House, and oar national ex-executlyg committeg rally in upon them in perfec lowe: s."" Hore the aged veteran sat down, his neart beating like a trip hammer. ‘The names of the National Executive Committce of the new party were read as follows and ac- cepted by the Com Robinson, Massa- chusett: line H, Spear, Vice President, Californ Otis J. Porter, Connectiout; oan J. M. Carter, President, Ohio; Mra. Abbie -P, New Hampshire; Mes, Belva A, ekwood, Secre- tary, Washington; John EK. rwood, _Vir- ginia; Mrs. mond, [linois; Jennie C., Duan- dee, Maryland; ree D. Penn- sylvania; —— Mitchele, Maine; Elizabeth A, Mere- weather, Tennessee; Jolin M,. Spear, Utah; Mra. Esther Morris, Wyoming; John Helmsly, Idaho; E. C, Curtis, Nevada; Mrs. Olympic Higgins; Washington Territory; Robert Dale Owen, Indiana; Newman Weeks, Wisconsin; J. 8. Graham, New York; J. B. Taylor, Kansas; Anthony Higgins, New 3 Mrs. Lonkham, Khode Island; Moses Hull, Kentucky; A, W. St. Johns, Missouri; Lemuel Par- malee, Louisiana; Richard J, Treveliich, Michigan; Mary ‘i sey, Treasurer, A recess of an hour was taken to lunch, One old lady, from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, had brought uts with her, and It was a sight to see it on the stairs monching her lunch like a Another young and beautiful delegate from Ohio offered to share half of het cold chicken with the HERALD reporter, but It is needless to s say the offe ¥ declined, with thanks, Another intellectual looking female, who had evidently slept im her hatr, reclined on a lounge during the recess, devouring cgld fried oysters and pickles. After recess Judge €. of Ohio, a man with a bushy beard and @ good deal of cheek, who sat in the body of the hall, rose and commenced to read & writt olution rather indistinetly. A Vorck—Louder, louder, Oh, yet ! Judge CARTER continued to read in a low tone, when the same volee broke out again, ‘Louder louder, loude (Cheering and laughter.) Judge Canrer—You see, ladies and gentlemen, the diieulty is that [cannot read my own writing, like a good many other famous peopie. The resolution in substance empowered the jonal Executive Comimittee ofthe “Banal Rights: Party’? to issue certitic: of indebtedness, im order that the money could be raised for the ¢om- ing Woodhall and Douglass campaign, The resolu- tion was passed. A respectable-looking old gentleman with white hair and a black broadcloth, Who was announced as Seth W. Shaw, of Providence, R, L, ascended the platform, and said that he had been a master mechanic twenty , and that for twenty other years he had never earned more than % day; ‘put,’ said he, “1 wilt take $200 we of these bonds on the spot, and T can anav for $30,000 from my own State, Rhode Island.’ (Cheers,) Francis Lyons, of Tioga county, New York, who looked as if he had not the second shirt m the world—"I’m a poor man, but L reckon I can go $100 on them ‘ere bonds,’? (Cheers) Dr, EB. B. 20 Lexington avenue, who parts: his hair in t iddle and sat beside Miss Frank Crocket, the silver-haired blonde—*f have not got. all the money now, bet [ will tak 00 worth of bonds.” (Wild cheering and a bewiching smile at the Doctor from Miss Frankey Crocket, Judge Carter was sitting at the platform, and at this ins ce Of Dr. Foote’s liberality the Judge ap- piauded with both feet. Anthony Higgi f New Jersey, a flery little orator, With a routing voice like Mr, Kean Bu- shanan—“Lam a poor man; I will take $100 worth of these bonds— (cheers) —and I pledge the working- men of } Jersey for $4,000." (Frantic cheering). Here an admirer of Mrs, Anna N. Middlebroox, the temporary chairman, sent her a beautiful bouquet, which she smelled and smelled and then sat down, By this time Maddox, of Maine, had worked his person from the platform tothe back of the hall, and had worked his mind into a furious passion. In one of the back seats sat Mrs. Mary F. Davis, wife of the famous spiritualist, Andrew Jackson Davis. Mrs. Davis is a very quiet, sensible and discreet lit- tle woman, and is content to repose under the wgis of her husband’s fame. As she sat there she little knew the storm that was about to burst upon her, Maddox, of Maine, was impending, He approached her, rubbing his hands and his eyes | ring, with deference in his manner and a stealthy step. Fixing one eye on the devoted Mrs. Davis and the other on the unfortunate chair- man, he collected himself for an effort. With a Bonne and a yell he screamed out, at the top of his voice :— “Is there any one here dare deny it. that there is one woman fitted supremely for the office of treasurer of, this National, Executive Committee ? Aye, did any one say not Who answered me? Will any one deny that Mary F. Davis, of Orange, N. 4., is not the fittest but the best? [would like to know that person. I propose the name of Mary ¥.. Davis for treasurer, There is not another woman in the world like her. Who said no? Eh? Oh! - Ant” Here Maddox, of Maine, sat down, looking Ilke a dancing dervish, exhausted after his physical devo- tions. Mrs. Mary ©. Davis (quietly)—Tam sorry that IT am compelled to resign the office so kindly ten- dered me. Mappox, of Maine (in a tempestuous fary)—Eh ? what? Oh! oh! yes. Of course (with a wink at the chairman) ; oh, I guess we can lay that on the table, (Cheers tor Mrs. Davis.) Mrs. Davis—I regret that | have not the time or the means and my circumstances would not per- mit me to accept the kind testamonial of esteem offered by the Convention. (Here Mrs, Davis sat down exhausted and disgusted at being so much annoyed.) Maddox, of Maine, now began to be really uncon- scious of what he was doing, or pretended to be so. He ran and stamped and swore and frothed at the mouth, giving people an idea that he had been swallowing soap, and all this was because a quiet little woman did not chose to make herself responsible for his actions. But there is a method in his madness—this Maddox. In a few moments he came down the aisle, and several laties, who were afraid that he might bite them, saw him pass up to the reporters’ table, where he screamed out “Did any of you take my speech, d’ye hear!” HERALD RePoRTER—"1 took some of it, what it Zz By God! Pll not be cara- in this way any longer. I was caricatured Heraup this morning, and if you ( owling at the HERALD reporter) hell ‘This was queer language, to ve garbled it. in do it again Vil give you say the least of it, to be used by a pious radidal; but as Maddox, of Maine, does not weigh more than, ninety-three pounds fighting weight it is not neces- the sary to state that the HRaLp reporter still lives, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY (from the pluttorm)— Mrs. Harriet V. Burton takes $100 worth of bonds, CHAIRMAN—Very good. It’s rolling up. Sana L, SOMERBY (the clairvoyant)—I will take $100, (Cheers.) Mrs. E. C. Curtis (the Horace Grecley farmer of California, Who owns 13,000 acres of laud, 8,000 of which are wheat)—I will take $100 in bonds and hold them till ee Weodhull takes possession of (Cheers). Mrs. ANNA H. KIMBALL (a very pretty and grace- ful woman) —I will take $100, and I will give myselg to the cause. (Here the old Mormon on the stage smacked his lips and uttered a sigh.) Mrs Kimball afterwards took $900 worth of bonds, making $1,000 in all. _-Mra. P. M. Ketsey—I will do as well as the rest. Twill take $100 in bonds, and my residence is 319 West Twenty-sixth street, Mrs. FRANK CROCKER (the silver-gray bionde, with. spectacles) —I will take $200, and I wish I had $2,000 to give. (Stupendous cheering.) I ‘THEODORE BANKS (the Communist house painter) — am not rich and $50, $100 or $25 is something to ine, but I will take $100, | (Cheers.) Dr. STEPHEN Fosre, of Boston—I don’t belleve that these bonds will ever be redeemed, and I don’t believe in these words of the Scripture, or that they will ever come true about sharing one’s goods in common, but I will give $100, (Cheers.) After some further subscriptions had been re- ceived, and after a long and fruitless discussion, the Convention adjourned until 7:30 P. M. At the evening session speeches were made by Miss Jane Grima, Mr. Stillman, Mrs. Ruth Scott Briggs, Father Peter, the Cockney Indian, Anthony Higgins, Mri Sarah Somerby, a Boston working girl, Mrs. Mi dlebrook, and Judge Reymert, the chairman, A unanimous vote of thanks was passed to the latter gentlemen, after which the Convention—the first and only one that has ever nominated, im any country, a woman for sovereign or chief mi trate, with the exception of the Hungarian Diet, which elected Maria Theresa viva voce—ad- journed; and now the cam} has opened may the best man (or woman) w! QOURT MARTIAL Serious Charges Preferred Against a Captain of the Seventeenth Infantry— An Alleged Accomplice Jo Be Tried. Cnicaco, May 11, 1872. A general court martial, of which General D. D. Stanley is President, has been in session at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory, and adjourned yesterday to Asse! Rice on the 10th of June. The ont caso that Tenchied a trial was that of Captain L.(H. Sanger, of the Seventeenth infantry, who was tried for seduction and abortion, which resulted in the death of the victim, and for conspiracy against Captain Donovan, of the same regiment. Captain Donovan and one or two others were the only persons who knew of Sanger’s guilt. Sanger, {t was asserted, entered into a conspirac; with Surgeon Goddard, of the samo en! with the view of shutting Donovan up on a charge of insanity. Tle case came before Surgeon God who pronounced Donovan to be insane, and ho was at once ordered to be confined in the St. Elizabeth Hospital, near Washington, D.C. He was taken to Was! pgton in December last, but through the influence of friends he obtained @ rehearing of his case, and the surgeon there pronounced him perfectly sane. He was ordered back to his regi- ment and has now*been instrumental in bringing Sanger to trial. The findings of the court martial have not yet been made public, but it is not doubted that Sanger will be disgraced and suffer a long tmprisonmen It is understood that ween the Court reassembles Surgeon Goddard will be tried on charges of abor- tion and conspiracy in the game case,