The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1873, Page 3

vagal = ‘i NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET.. THE ALLIANCE, The Papacy and Protestantism Discussed by Preachers and Professors. Vesterday’s Sessions of the General Conference of the Evangelical Churches. Los AES Addresses by Germans and Americans on Catholicism. feed THE PILGRIMAGES OF FRANCE. The Dogma of Infallibility Considered. Rome’s Appeal to Educated Protestants. Brooklyn’s Entertainment of the Delegates. Public Meeting Last Night in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. THE PROGRAMME FOR ‘TO-DAY. The delegates of the Evangelical Alliance Con- ference, and toa large extent the auditory, also had a half holiday yesterday. The sessions of the Conference closed at the respective places of meeting at one o’clock. The papers and addresses read and discussed dealt with what the Conference alleged were the errors of Romanism; but the assault was over at midday, to enable the Confer- ence to enter ypon the more genial and profitable pursuit of concentrating their attention upon the natural and social attractions of the “City of Churches” and its suburbs, where they were taken in carriages, and also to enjoy a good dinner aiter- wards at the Academy of Music, in Brooklyn. The Conference’ wisely supposed that all those who made up the vast audience in New York, ‘would not desire to go to Brooklyn, and therefore t provided spiritual refreshment in Dr. Crosby’s ehurch, and in St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church, in Fourth avenue, wicre Mr. Shesshadri, the Bombay convert, preached in the latter, and Dr. Arnolt in the former. In the evening Dr. Parker preached at the Church of the Disciples to a large audience. To-lay the Conference returns to the considera- tion of the questions that pertain to the practical side of Christianity, the programme of which is given in another column. At Association Hali. At the commencement of the proceedings of this section of the Conference, held at the above hall yesterday, there was a crowd that filled every available space, and a large number of those una- ble to obtain admission left for the other sections, only to meet with the same result. After the announcement of several notices by Dr. Prime and the election of an additional num- ber of vice presidents, the business of the Confer- ence commenced. ADDRESS BY DR. DURNER. Dr. Dorner, oi the University oi Berlin, thenread @ paper on “The Dogma of Infallibility as Promul- gated by the Vatican Council—Nominal Proves- The Doctor commenced his paper by describing the attitude of the bishops vad councils in accepting the dogma ot intallibility. The bishops would not have so easily assented to this do,ma, except it was that they believed in the preservation he unity of the Church \d of Christians, and also de-ired to secure the sense of acertain respect for the truth in Christianity, the lat- ter the former. After te Retormation the entire, Modern political life called our the mental activities of the citizens, and Romanism saw that the tine had come either to go down to ruin or to stop the new civilization, ‘which it opposed to its very soul, (Cheers.) Thus by the consent of the Church itwas sought to place the entire organization of the Church, indiwidual!y and collectively, in the hands of one Reet: Since then the entire epis- copal power has submitted itself to the authority of the In @ recent document the Pope has set forth that the Church inust be dependent upon him tor wisdom. Thus the entire Catholic Church is his body. Thus has been unity secured for ever, The summit has been reached; but what effect will it have on the future? Papal infailibility does not insure the unity of the Once it was not necessary to belleve this in- for salvation. ‘To pelieve it now is a piety. To deny it is con- sidered a damnable sin, _ He who believes what be certainly orthodox. Intai- reasonable Catholic religion + constituted tradition has been established instead of historical tradition; the iniallible Pope is granted the right of issuing new dogmas at lus Pleasure. Cheers.) The harmony of the modern Chureh with Romanism hasnot been accomplished, The whole Romish Church has subjectively been given over ta a gingle man. Unity of the Churc taunot, ficlally by man jit is absolutely created by God and by the communication of the Holy Spirit. The intallibility of @ Pope destroys the equality of Christats Defore God and elevates one sinful man as the means of ion to the Lord. It destroys the intimate jon of each individual person with God. new dogma will no longer hold that the be made arti. pneers.) the oly spirit dwelis in the heart of each believer, which ought to flow as freely as the Tiber m Rome, Moral rev- robates ‘have may disgrace the Papal throne. In- fallibility of the Pope!” This is a dogma that kas not cer- tainly yet been intallibly indicated what is meant. Each doctrine the believer can only accept as long as tile Vope mits its truth. The Pope's intallibility is a kind of ‘Cwsarism without the wisdom of Cwsar. Such a dogma into collision with the self-search- the sincere see! iD our time there is a widespread nominal —subjectivism that is ruinous in its character. It is found in our Protestant Evangelical Christianity, and is a destruction Qf many of the principles of the Ketormation. Cheers.) This nominal Protestanusm manitests great variety, a reat difference, too, with the substance of the truth. freating religion intellectually, it separates lite and light. Historical myestigation and criticism are certainly an: thorized ; in this the Reformation began. Never iti Ger- t be allowed to be taken away. smimon fault about nominal 0 sin. is—that they do not understand what religion is, It is the act of man receiving and that of God giving. ‘The first knowledge is that we ure si nerg laden with guilt. That is the true beginning Christian unions; that we need one Redeemer. ‘The si ner longing for redemption has a burning glass within himself, s0 that such a sinner, looking to Christ, obtains Hight ahd ite. Again, in close connection is ihe true principle of love with inity. it becomes us to cultivate Gnity more than It has ever been done for th Past, 80 a8 to propare us for the great struggle that is 10 come. As evangelical Christians we have misunder- Stood one another. tis right that we should now assure ourselves that we are the sons o1 Pentecost, which ut li nations and men of all colors and ot all tribes. ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR HITCHCOCK. Dr. HitcHoock delivered an address on the s; ° ame subject, and inquired why, on a Protestant plat- form, tnere was so much of the programme given to | Romav Catholicism? Why, because our evan. | Justification. * ical Protestantism 18 evangelical Protestants Bhouider to stioulder, Not only is Protest- tism menaced, but Christianity itself is menaced, We assert the unity of Protestantism, despite its various divisions, Of the thirteen or fourteen hundred millions ol men some three hun- dred millions call themselves Christians, but can Bcarcely be persuaded to call each other Christi We need, all of us, a larger and wider char When we look into our own hearts the real won ts that there should be any Christians at all. Gepravity of the human heart is somewhat ter’ bie. As Wwe are not ashamed of our Bible, neither are we ashamed of our Christian history. Hitchcock then described the history of the Cha and said that only in Northern Europe and Ame ica _was there any nineteenth cuntury, We thank God to-day fore Pope Pius the Ninth ‘and his doubly are not menaced. | standing new dogma, The massive block has been pn EY all we see its destruction ? | horn of its material power, Romanisim may increase its spiritual power, have perished longago had there been any sen- tence of death Init. His ancient peopie, scaitered throughout the world, are still a umit, and are as many as in the days of David and Isaiah. The Church of Rome has tailed to deny her Lord, not so much for want of courage as for want of wisdom. ‘Three thousand years are not a long time, and we are wiser than We were. Now, what shail we do? Why, just keep on Laelia 9 We have, in my judg- Ment, no ecumenical creed ; not even the Aposties creed is that, foreach one puts his own thought into it. From the rising of the sun to the setting thereof there is not a Christian child, a man or a roman, whose eyes Would not moisten when sing- Christianity would My God, my faith looks up to Thee. At the conclusion of this address the hymn com- Meneing with the above line was sung. ‘The Rev. George Fischy Dp. of Paris Bpok re Ors . D., of poke on tne subject of “Revival ‘of Pope { stimages,” & if Popery in France, Pil Cc. le; it was the Ayl- ut a ‘hroughout ihe world it had wn. Popery had not had so force nF én et joa a per. release conselence, no move- the recent oer | estant evangellz be | and brougot forth fruit. in this work? Oh! my friends, if we could serve the Master as they serve Him, who, they think, ls the incarna: tion of our Master. Frace is iow like a charger, with @ Dractised jockey on his back; the c! ir and does not wish 10° go back, but jockey uses the spur to drag the charger back to the middle century, believe that by a tremendous struggle the charger will ran to the citadel of liberty. (Oheers.) The Jesults found a principal ally in the middle classes, who had been affrighted by the Commune, and they were ffiad to enfold themselves in the protection of the priests, hey have, too, a most powerful ally in the female popu- lation. The sister becomes a Romanist, for she 18 edu- cated inthe convent. The brother becomes an infidel, but in order not to displeaye his father he professes allegi- ance to the Church, |The 50,000 priests of l’aris received orders to fire the femaic heart of France; and fernales, under this influence, use weapons t to be resisted. These are ‘tears, smiles, entreatics, and even nervous fits. (Laughter and cheers.) Think what these priests are! Why some time ago there were in Paris 600 cab drivers who had been priests. Now think what that was. A man who had b mediator between. @ human soul and Jesus Christ, a These pilgrimages had succeeded wondertu are in a country that js full ot magnificent sceny the pilgrims think it a very good thing to xo nothing and earn an eternal reward. ‘Then ther miracles wrought, and the propheey is {u/filied of Paul, that Satan shall be strengthened by the, manifestation of lying wonders. ‘The Jesuits are mistaken in their zeal for the Chureh. Look at the Mexican war, The = = 3. Jesuits only succeeded in yrgphring. the’ way tor the introduction jof the Bible. They | dragged France into that war. The Jesuits were enurely misled when they opposed the aspirations of our countrymen, After our disastrous war the country desired to instruct our people, but ts Opposed compulsory educa- tion, and got petitions signed In tavor at holy igno- Trance,” As to the pilgrimages, the people don't know that the lady who represents the Virgin at the end of their pilgrimage is @ well-known old maid who had con- fessed herself to the priest as the Virgin. Well, they did not know that this was the Virgin who cursed ‘the pota- toes, and the potatoes did not fail. Weave done more than these pilgrimages; we have ciredlated more than 4,000,000 Bibles, Religious Miberty ts inevitably and ulti- ‘That liberty isinsured by the charac- lo-Saxon race, a race that Knows no ob- stacles and will not be speedily overcome. ADDRESS BY REY. LEOPOLD WITTE. The Rev, Leoroup Wirre read an address on “The German Empire and Modern Ulwamon- tanism.” ‘The Conterence adjourned at one o’clock until this morning at (en o'clock, P The Meeting in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Academy of Music was crowded immediately on the opening of the doors, and at half-past seven o’clock the proceedings were com- menced by the invoking of the Divine blessing by the Dean of Canterbury. The Rey. Dr. STORRS presided, and in a short and singularly appropriate speech introduced the various speakers, ADDRESS OF THE REY. MR, PROCHET. The Rev, Matteo Prochet, of Genoa, Italy, was the first speaker, and in reference to the conaition of Italy, said that God deals with nations, not men, and that to be-successful in promoting the pro- gress of true Christianity there, the means of in- struction must begin with the people, God is ready and is waiting for us, and he closed by urg- ing the audience to remember even fox a few mo- ments the present condition of Italy. (Cheers.) Lord Alfred Churchill, as the representative af the British Alliance, made a short speech defining the principles of the Alliance, ADDRESS OF HENRY WARD BEECHER. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was called upon to Speak and to introduce Dr. Stoughton, of London, England. In the course of his address he said:— Itis well that the Christian Alliance has union and seeks it. This belongs to us: our earliest feelings were tor religious liberty, and we could not have that liberty with, out toleration." The unities of men are in their identities. ‘The true unity brings outa love of freedom in mankind. In America we come to treedom in civil and in religious affairs. Has there been a Christianity that has been moro vital than in New England! Where are there more sects? Do you know what makes sects? It is the retusal of lib- erty. Itis saying to men, “Go out if you don’t think as we do.” It is the absence of a loving’ spirit that would keep the man in. The essential spirit of religion has that might and that power that lives forever. The questions that are coming upon us are not the old questions of sectarianism; but the questions that go back, even the 1 of the inspiration of Scriptures. The questions ‘Is there a personal God?’ “Is there a system other than Pantheism ?” Questions these are that aflect the soul itself, and are beyond the Church. In the solution of these Chirstians must go shoulder to shoulder in the conflict, Mr. BEECHER then sketched eloquenity and forci- bly the characteristics of American social life and liberty. He concluded by introducing the Rev. John Stoughton, ADDRESS OF DR. STOUGHTON, OF LONDON, ENGLAND. Dr. STOUGHTON, aiter referring to what nad struck him in America, and alter particularizing it, said that When he saw an American it jeemed to him that he was looking upon @ man who to him @ condensation of the characteristics of the world, He had been told since he came here by a gentleman that he regarded an Englishman as an undeveloped Yankee. (Cheers and laughter.) Upon this he thought that an American must be a fully developed Englishman. (Laughter.) Mr. Stoughton then described what he thought was the characteristic of American humor. He dwelt at length upon the remarkably successful character of the New York Conference, upon the kindness and wondrous hospitality of the New York people, and concluded by an earnest, touching, and prac- tical appeal to those im that vast audience who had not yet given their hearts to God to do so at once. ADDRESS OF DR. HALL, Dr. JoHN HALL, in the course of his speech, said that he desired to correct the notion that the Alliance had been brought to existence for the sup- pression of Romanism. Never was 4 greater mis- take. Why, it has happened more than once in the history of this Alliance that when Romanists have been persecuted for conscience sake the Alliance has struggled in their behalf. He con- cluded by strongly urging that when this ‘love feast,” of the Alliance was over, we should love and act out this spirit of brotherly affection towards those who have conscientious convictions as to their faith (cheers), and then in- troduced the Rey. N. Sheshadri, irom Bombay, who afterwards addressed the audience in 4 very Panels | Speech, in which be expressed a hope that Bombay would entertain, some day speedily, the General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance, and if they did, they would do it as well even as New York. Addresses were afterwards delivered by Pastor Fische, of Paris, and the Rev. Mr. Grant, 0: Canada, alter which the benediction was pronounced and the vast audience separated. At the Fourth Avenue Presbytcrian Charch. At the above church yesterday the session was well attended, The first speaker was the Kev. G. | D. Cummins, of Kentucky, who delivered a dis- course on ‘‘The Roman and Reformed Doctrine of His address was most elaborately historical, drawing numerous incidents from the days of Christ to the present time, He dwelt par- tucularly on the Reformation, which he justified by showing the extraordinary coincidences iu the cur- | rent of events of that period, which went to show the truth of the new doctrine, From all parts of the world, at that time, came objections to the | Roman Catholic Church as it then existed, and | those who disagreed with the Middle Age doctrine sprang into a new form of association. It was strange to an extraordinary degree that the re- | forming spirit should arise in so many nations at | the same time. It was not alone in the land where Luther’s voice immediately reached the ears of his countrymen that his views began to hold sway, but also in countries where the prime movers in the reformation were not tobe seen. It seemed providential that all the countries should at one time hail with delight and accept in its totality the old and primitive doctrine that justification comes by firm faith and beiief in Christ and His tea ‘Tue next speaker was the Rev. Provessor D. Fisher, D. D.. of Yale College, Connectucut, whose subject was ’ “PROTESTANTISM AND ROMANISM compared in their relation to modern civilization.”? ‘The 1aea deveioyed by this speaker was that Prot- estantism was exalting and Catholicism depress- ing. Protestantism was liberty; Catholicism was despotism. In his elaboration’ of this idea the | speaker showed thorougiiy and in detail his reasons for entertaining such a view, travelling over the | history o: the Catholic Church to show that it was | nothing but boudage to adere to the absolute « tation of that denomination, Whereas in the re- | jormed religion, wich discarded the petuness connected with ‘the old jaith, the Christian man ained true liberty. The next speaker was the Rev. T. Lorriaux, of Paris, who chose jor his theme the Evange. tion of Roman Catholics i Fra ‘ihe Prot. tion had succeeded admirably— | uty places iotholds | obtained where t had been no topes s. In some ol the very parts of France | Where it was jeasi expected the seed was sown | ‘The reverend geatieman | gave many incidents in support gi the truth of | his assertion, and wound up by expressang the hope that with the spirit which antmated tie Evangelical Alliance, and which was now Jelt iu many parts of France, that country would be re- ed and reinvigorated as she Was in the days of reformation, x THE TRAINING OF MINISTERS, The Rev. Frank Coulin, D. D., of Geneva, res a most elaborate paper on “The aining Required to Enable Protesiant Ministers Effectually to Meet “the Intellectual Demands of the Age.’ After tis the Rev, President Alvah Hovey, D. D., of Newton | Theological Institution, Massachusetts, spoke on | “Religious Liberty.’ The remarks made by this gentieman were very elfective, though uttered without any ostentation. He suggested that the subject be considered under tWo hypotheses, One ‘Was this, that the State take care of secular mat- ters; the other, that religious people should be allowed to take care of religion—in other words, that religion should be unencumbered by tve dtate. He could find nothing in the “Book to show that God required the State to interfere with religion. But he did find in the Book, as we all could find therein, that the Aposties ‘were never instructed to ask ald from the State, and that’in many instances their preach- ing and teaching were in opposition to the State, ing for eareytte eer the programme, elkewhere, car: oat ere, cut short his disk My 8 his ‘discourse, in order, as he said, to an opportunity of xpectation, = In give aS Sr een eae x uniting: chanting the sacred song, after which the assembly { departed for other churches where the services of tite were in progress, Methodist Episcopal 4 Church, _— The Second Section of the Alliance met yester- aay in St. Paul’s Methodist church, on Fourth ave- nue and Twenty-second street. The church was crowded to its utmost capacity. Lord Alfred Churchill, of England, was chosen chairman for the day. The exercises were opened with prayer by the Rey. W. Fremantle, D. D., of London. The general topic assigned ior discussion by this sec- tion was “The Old Catholics in Conflict with Ro- manism,” » LECTURE BY PROFESSOR KRAFT. The first paper was read by Professor W. KRAFt, D. D., of the University of Bonn, Prussia, on tne subject, “The Vatican Council and Old Catho- heism,”’ He stated the true dogmas of the Catholic Church to be the universal jurisdiction and the absofute infallibility of the Pope. This idea had been carried to such lengths that the oMcial press of Rome had pub- lished the announcement that when the Pope con- ceived an idea it was Christ thinking in him, Furthermore, it was asserted that Christ was visi- ble in the Pope, Romish anti-Christianity was never 80, strong as it is atthe present moment, In all the decrees of the Pope there 18 not to be found any reference to Peter's successor, but to Peter himself. The first Pope was the chosen from among the disciples, and was Le who denicd his Lord and Master thrice, 1HE POPE I3 THE TEACHER and the shepherd of the entire Church, By day and by night he carries with him the power of deciding all disputes involving the At St. Paul’s most sacred ties of fiesh and blood. Dr, Krait went or to point out at much length what he termed the inconsistencies of the doctrine of Papai ear wae He charged it with being in utter disregard of law, right or de- cency, and stamped as ol the very shallowest na- ture the Papal government of the Catholic Church. Projessor Kraft was loudly applauded when he nad flushed the reading of his paper. THS OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH. The second paper was Pear jor the Old Catho- lic Congress recently held at Constance, and was forwarded to the Evangelical Alliance, with the signatures of Bishop Reinkens, Dr, Von Schult and several others, It was somewhat voluminous, and was read by Dr. Schatl. The paper was prepared in response to an invitation irom the last session of the Alliance for a representativé from the Old Catholic Congress. The paper grate- fully acknowledged the receipt of the in- vitation, and stated that was the desire of the organization whici its signers repre- sented to get into a more intimate intercourse with the Christians oi the entire world, As a few of the features of the address there may be mentioned the action of the Congress in the establishment of evangelical preaching in the Catholic Church, the abolishment of the confessional, the allowing of priests to marry and the extension to females of a voice in the Management of the Church, Dr. Schaff said, after tie had finished the reading of the pores that the Old Catholic Church now numbered fty-nine congregations, 5,000 members and forty priests, and further stated that next winter six students of that 1aith would be admitted into the University of Bonn, Prassia. LECTURE BY PROFESSOR PRONTER. The next paper, entitled :—‘Catholicism in Switzerlana since the last Council,”’ was read by Professor C, Pronier, D. D., of the Theological Seminary of the Free Church, located at Geneva, Switzerland. After eyes running sketch o! the pre ‘ess of the Roman Catholic religion in Switzer- and during the last decade, the speaker prophesied that the Church of Switzerland, Catholic, but not Roman, would soon rise out of the confusion which was attendant upon its departure from a fixed and long established faith. The good work of Father Hyacinthe in Switzerland was greatly com- mended. The speaker dwelt at some length upon the prospects of the new taith, ° LECTURB BY DR. STORRS, The Rev. Dr. kK. 8, Storrs, of Brooklyn, read she next paper, entitled, “Rome’s Appeal to Educated Protestants.” Alter sketching out the entire code of laws, rule of faith and doctrines of the Romish religion, the speaker said that to bim, as a Protes- tant, all these teachings seemed opposed to the spirit of the Sermon on, the Mount and the jetters of Paul, On the other hand. f6 the Roman Catho- lic, the Protestant interpretations of the religious tenets laid down by the prophets and Christ wseemed equally cloudy and incomplete. The Ro- man doctrine presents to its tollowers what ap- pears to be a sure and a certain means of salva- lion. To some Romanism seems to promise and secure a far greater degree of sanctity in this lite; whie Protestantism, on the contrary, ap- pears far too secular and worldly. The ostentatious and gorgeous modes of Roman Catho- lic worship were then contrasted with the simple and plain devotional services of Protestantism. To its adherents the Roman Catholic faith.promises to be the great church or the future; and in order to meet these doctrines, which are widespread, the Protestant church must bave a better understand- ing of the seductive and attractive influences of its mysterious ceremonies. The Roman Church must bé seen on its dark side to be understood. ‘The exercises closed with a benediction by the Rey. Dr. Buddington, of Brooklyn, Programme for To-Day. Devotional! service in the Madison square church, Madison avenue, corner of Twenty-fourth street, at nine o’clock A. M., to continue for three quar- tersof an hour, There will be three sections for this day. The first section will meet in Association Hall, at ten o'clock A. M., and, df the discussion be not con- cluded, at two o’clock P, M. General Topic—"Christianity and Civil Goyernment. ’ 1, “The Church and the Nation.” Rev. W. H. Fre 1 tle, M. A., London, 2 "Constitution and Government i= 6 United States as related to Religion.” Ex-President Theodore D. Woolsey, D. D., LL. D., New Haven, Conn, 8. “Legislation upon’ Moral Questions.” James Girdle: stone, iseq., London. 4. “The ‘Sabbath made for man— His Consequent right to Legisiation for Securing its } Ends.” Ex-President Mark Hopkins, D. D., LL, D., Wil- liamstown, Mass. The second section will meet in St. odist Episcopal Church, at 10 o’ciock A, General Topi ristianity and Liberty.” 1. ‘The Influence of Christianity on Civiland Religious Liberty.” President W. H. Campbell, D. D., New Brunswick, N. « Hon, J. L. Corry, LU.D., Richmond, Va. 2 “Ihe Effects of Civil and Religious Liberty upon Christianity.” Pro: fessor Daniel R, Goodwin, D. D., Divinity School. Phila- | delphia, Pa. | The tturd section will meet in the Church of the | Disciples, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-fitta street, at half-past seven o'clock P. M. General Topic— "Ministerial Support.” 1. Paul's Meth- “The Free | G, Courtney, Senator Thomas Creamer and Charles | adopted asking that all candidates who might be | gres: Churches on, the Continent of Europe.’ Rev. Professor J. F, Astie, Theological Seminary of the Free Church, Lausanne, ‘Switzerland. 2, “support of, the C! Ministry.’ Rev. Johu Hall, D.., New York; Rev Killen, Belfast, ‘Ireland: Rey. L! E. Berkley, Lorgan, | Ireland; Rev. Professor M. W. Jacobus, D. D.. Allegha’ | ny. Pa, | Proiessor Theo. Christlieb, D. D., Univerity of | Bonn, Prussia, will. by request, repeat his paper | on “fhe Best Methods of Counteracting Modern | Infidelity,” in the Madison Square charch, at hall- past seven o'clock P. M. wats | BROOKLYN POLITIC | Republican City Com | | 1 | tion for Mayor. Thu first nominations of the political campaigh in Kings county were made last evening, the re- publicans taking the lead and placing the names of their two best men in the field. The Convention | was held in Commonwealth Hall, on Washington | street. Mr. Benjamin F. Tracy, ex-United States District Attorney, was called to the chair. The names of Dwight Johnson, Samuel ©, Beicher, A. J. Perry and Charles F, Fellows were presented as can- didates for Mayor, Severai ballots were taken, Mr. Fellows having received one more vote than the majority of the whole number cast, was | declared the nominee of the Convention. Mr. Fellows is President of the Manufacturers’ National Bank of Wiilamsburg and has never beiore taken an active part in politics. REGISTRATION IN BROOKLYN, ‘The following table shows the total number oi citizens who reyistered in Brooklyn during the two days set apart jor registration, September 30 and October 7:— First Second rire Wards. day. day. Wards, doy Leese MW. 5 A ts Bae 6. 7 8. 9 49) 0. ui 12, 1B. Totais...10)., 172. on o,l8i® | September Mo... 14744 September 99, 11,877 EU GAITT October 7... 14,088 621 Total soe 086,085 | 3,460 registered voters is shown, There are two days more remaining for the un- | registered to avail themselves of the Registry | Fano ‘Fhe total vote of Kings county last year was | 10,000. PROBABLE HOMICIDE IN BROOKLYN, The Brooklyn Coroner was notified last evening to take the ante-mortem statement of a colored ‘woman named Matilda Jackson, residing at No. 16 Flint street, who is lying at the point of death from the effect of a fearful beating and kicking to which she was subjected on M last by Andrew a her husband, Andrew nas absconded, but the police of the Second precinct are in search of him and are of the that they have rented We Tigh Walle «+ ° | rigan, Lawrence Hin, | will THE COLORED REPUBLICANS. Meeting at Republican Headquarters Yesterday—They Want To Have @ Share in the Spoils of Office. The Convention of colored men, who met at Saratoga last August, held an adjourned meeting yesterday atthe Republican Headquarters, corner Twenty-third street and Broadway. Two sessions were held, one in the afternoon and another tn the evening. There were thirty-five delegates present, 0. ©, Gilbert, of Saratoga, presided. After the ap- pointment of the various committees William 3, Baltimore, of Troy, was electea First Vice Presi- dent, Washington Parker Second Vice President and John J. Freeman Secretary. ‘Wi..iaM F, BuTLer and G. W. MEYERS advocated, in set speeches, the continuance of separate dol- ored organizations, : Aresolution to this effect, introduced by Mr. MEYERS, Was finally adopted. Another resolution was then adopted, aathor- izing the formation of a State Central Committee, to be composed of one delegate from each Sena- torial district. The Pennsylvania call for the nolding of a * NATIONAL CONVENTION, on the 12th December, at Washington city, was next endorsed, and a motion was made and carried that twenty delegates from this State be sent to the Convention, A committee of five, consisting of John J. Free- man, William S. Baltimore, George W. Meyers, W. T. Wiageon and Lewis Williams, was then ap- pointed on resolutions, whereupon the Convention adjourned to eight o'clock, At the evening session Mr, Freeman, on behalf of the Committee on Resolutions, reported the iol- lowing :— “WE, THE COLORED PEQPLE, ETC.’? >» We, the colored: people ot the state or New York, in convention asseinbled, do declare that trom an indefinite period we have been and st.ll are politically isolated and jenied the recognition that our numerical strength as voters and our financial strength as citizens entitle us in the State and nation; and whereas we have been and i are in 4 great measure denied employment in skilled and unskilled labor, and opportunities for maie and female youth to acquire mechanteal skill and knowledge 0 in anduatrial pursuits are denied, and those of us w! are qualified to fll positions of responsibility, profit ard trust in the civil and military rervice of the State and nation, and as the political partes and particularly the republican party, with which we have heen and still are identified, aud which has herevotore re- ceived our unqualided support, have not tully recggnized the claims of the colored republicans in the dfstricts, counties, State and national organizations; and whereas, in our judgment, this isthe result of lethargy on our part, and asin unity there is strength, and the strength is the one thing necessary to our advancement; therefore, Resolved, That, in the judginent of this Convention, It | 4s for the best interests of the colored voters of the state to perpetuate their separate political’ district and State organizations. * esolved, That we feel agerteved at the apparent ne- glect of the republican party in their failure to comply | in full with the principles laid down in the national plat- by recognizing the Just claims of colored repu' licaus: and that, while we are sull republicans in prin- ciple, We declaré our allegiance to the party of whatever name that perpetuates the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence, and maintains equal and olitical civil rights to all; ahd whereas heretofore we ave sacrificed our own sense of right to the wishes and interest of the republican party, and were instrumental | in electing the republican candidates on the reform ticket, only to receive injustice at their hands in recurn. Resolved, That hereafter that motives higher than the | of a Assembling of the Cincinnati De- “4 fenders at Elmira, General Cochrane Calls the Con- vention to Order. REPUBLICAN HISTORY. The Celebrated Platform of '72 Re- peated—with Additions. A Talf-and-Half Ticket Nominated for the November Contest. Exar, N, Y., Oct. 8, 1873. There were 134 delegates present this morning at the opening of the State Liberal Convention. At twelve o’clock General John Cochrane, Cnair- man of the State Committee, called the Convention to order and delivered the following address :— GENERAL COCHRANWS ADDRESS. GENTLEMER—Allow me to introduce, with « few words, my oficial duty of calling the Convention to order. You ave axsembied ata critical time in the history of the country. Violation of the national eonstituiion and its sateguards; independent the remission of @ reconstructed and State to a condition little short military Vassagze monopoly, the _crea- ture of spécial legisiation; strangling compeul- tion, and laying unequal ‘burdens on different Clastes of citizens, and a government that belong to the people at the disposal of tederal office holders, “though just themes of public complaint, are not the tuil burden of public misiortune. We are fallen on evil days. Pecu- lation, exceptional in the past, is (he rule of the present. Not alone the Executive of the laws is chargeable with their breach; the reproach reaches his humblest sul dinate. The public service, through all Its grades, fected with the lust of plunder. Eyen our law-wake: have been seized with it; and the last sanctuary of public faith was recklessly invaded when Congress, with their President accomplice, clutched from the national Treasury over @ million of unearned salarie Public virtue is stricken at ita source. A lamentable license impresses aud distorts ll classes alike, and | the whole body politic is shrivelling in the contagion. Where shall the remedy be found? Surely not with either of the two great parties of the day. ‘the one—the republican—is guided by the hands most entangied with muletuctions; and the other—the democratic—is be- lieved to be ihadequate to the task, The remedy obvi- ously is with the honest men in both parties—méen who | know that public issues no longer divide them, may be | disposed to subordinate the prejudices of faction to the general weifure. To them we appeal. We urge them by the condition of the country, and by their sense ot public virtue. Shey should not suffer mere questions of sonal merit and demerit to exhaust their action within party lines, THE BANE OF PARTIES. They need not be told that parties have often proved the public bane. Their dissensions are hastening into oblivion every sentiment of patriotism, With no distin- guishable difference of principle, the7 are even now I = mere success of the republican ticket will be required to induce the voters of this State to #werve from iheir con- Victions of right. And whereas the Civil Rights bill of | this State is inadequate in every particular, and hag proven rather a burden than a blessing to tle colored citizens; therefore, : Resolved, That, we, the colored citizens of the State, respectiully petition the next Congress to pass & proper and efficient law, that will protect ali the citizens of the United States in their rights. « within ‘the same bound. Their sustaining prin- solved, That we endorse the call of the Pennsylvania | ciple withdrawn there will be hope tor their | Civil Rights League for a national convention, 10 meet | more frequent change in the future. At the December 12, 1873. i resent, their inadequacy to pressing exigencies, and The resojutions eiicited somewhat of a debate, but were finally adopted. The members of the State Central Committee were then announced, aiter which the Convention adjourned, APOLLO HALL GENERAL COMMITTEE. Important Meeting Last Evening—Comp- to Confer with Tammany. | Last evening the General Committee of Apollo | Hall met in the large ballroom of Irving Hall, and | every seat was filled by the delegates, standing | Toom only being available. It was by far the most enthusiastic general committee meeting of any political organization ever held in opposition to | ‘Tammany Hall in the city of New York, and in no single instance was there noticeable any absence ofthe attive members or leaders of the party which follows the sun god as a patron. Among those present were Senator Creamer, Alexander Frear, Samuel G. Courtney, Colonel M. C, Murphy, W. C. Barrett, James O’Brien, Robert C. Nooney, | Roswell D, Hatch, Charles W. Brooke, Frank M. Bixby, George H. Purser, Judge Spaulding, Benja- | min Wood, Henry Murray, Thomas Coman, Bryan | Reilly, Joseph Lamb and Archibald Phillips. The report of the delegates of Apollo Hall who sought admission at Utica was read by Mr. Samuel G. | Courtuey, and was very strong ip tts language as denunciatory of Tammany Hall for its usurpation and dictation, yet it was equally forcible tn its deter- | mination to support the democratic ticket through thick and thin, .Addresses were made by Samuel W. Brooke, denouncing ‘Tammany Hall and its dic- tator and his friend, Compovrolier Green, and the hail resounded with applause. Resolutions were | nominated by Apollo Hall either .or Senatorial or | Assembly candidatures should be pledged to vote | for the passage of a law to restore the privilege of | election of Comptroller and Corporation Counsel to the people, to whom it formerly belonged. This resolution, offered by Mr. Brooke, and the report of the committee, was unanimously adopted, Reso- lutions were offered by Robert B. Nooney ordering the Apollo Hall primaries to be held on Satarday | evening, October 11, between the hours of seven | and nine o'clock, to elect delegates to the following conventions, to be held as follows :—Senatorial | Convention, Wednesday, October 15; Assembly | pba ive October 18; Sixth Con- | | vnal District Convention, Thursday, October 14; County Convention, Snursday, October 16, On motion of F, M, Bixby it was resolved that a com- | mittee, composed of one delegate from each As- | sembly district, be appomted to corffer with other local organizations, and after a recess the names of the followmg persons were handed in:—At large, Benjamin Wood, John Moore, George H. Wilson, | William H. Rooney, tates Reilly, William H, Ber- | eorge H. Purser, Janes G. | Brinkman, Cnaries W. Brooke, William P, Mitchell, | Alexander Frear, Peter Bowe, Michael Gallagher, Thomas J. Creamer, 8. G. Courtney, Robert B. | Nooney, nry Murray, James, Judge A. 3. Spaulding, F. M. Bixby and Archibald Phillips. A list of inspectors and ijocations of polling places | having been handed in to the Secretary, the meet | ing adjourned. | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, A Statement by the Senate Committec— — Suggestions To Be Submitted to the Senate. | ‘The Senate Committee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday authorized the following statement of | their deliberations in regard to a better method of electing the President, ‘The substance of their deliberations thus far may | be briefly stated as involving the following propo- | sitions :— | 1, To abolish the electoral college. 2. That the President and Vice President shall be elected by the people voting directly for the candidate. | that each State shail -be divided into as many dis tr Sthe State is entitled to representasives in Con- gress, to be composed of contiguous sections, compact in formand @s nearly equal in form as may’ be, and the | aving the “highest number of votes for President | ncach district shail receive the vote of that dis rroident whieh shali count one Presidential vor ch Stale shall be entitled t sat which shall be counted for the person having the | Timber of votes in the whole State. he person having the highest number of such Presi- al votes in the United States shall be President. | i provisions are to be applicable to the electidn | ss shall have power to provide tor holding ‘ng the election for President and Vice Presi nals for the decision of con. | votes in any district or State and make | ulations e@verning the proceedings of these tribunals. by the ae of the district system of voting by the people directly tor candidates, with two Presidential votes in the State at large and the plurality raie for determining the result, the elec- tions brought as neariy home to the people astit | can be, not to muke it an election by the nation as oue community. It still recognizes the State as such, While it enables the people of each district in state to express their will, 80 that hereaiter a State need not cast a solid vote, as under the pres- ent system, It tends to dispense with the Con- vention. Which is now necessary in order to form an electoral ticket for each State, and it enlarges the liberty of the individual voter, who can vote for any citizen he may select for Presitent or Vice Presi¢ent, By the plurality system the election always be final, and there can be no necessity tor an election by the House of Repre- sentatives, which 18 so much objected to. The plu- rality rule has been adopted successfully in all the States in the Union except four, in the election of State officers, and it generally prevails in the elec- tion of members of Congress. In none of the States where it has been tried is there any thought of abandoning it. Other questions were considered in connection with the vote in States and districts, and providing for the exigency of the death or resignation of the tae alter the election or before the inaugu- These are suggestions which have been consid- ba but of course no conclusions could be arrived ‘The committee will meet again in Washington tor | that | t prepare tocis formal ler Green Denounced—A Committee | Dever engaged the attention of (a summoning their retainers to a Strife for nothing but | personal agyrandizement, to result In nothing but public disorder, “From the servants they aspire to be the masters of the people. Their aspirations are born and ted of federal patronage. The danger to public liberty trom tis source, will, it isto be feared, disappear only to a single term will have reduced party patronage heir inlsenievous agency are equally contessed. Even the venality of their decay is not more ealamitous than | the success with which they are exhausting the energ' | of the country. Corporations in the interest of central wed capital have been enabied by party legislation to | seize and mercilessly hold the hanas ot labor in the gripe Of Vast monopolies. Competition, which intuses the life and adjusts the equipolse of the ehtire structure of trade, has been very nearly paralyzed, and the industries which create fiational Wealth are gradually sinking in , | subjection to corporate bodies clothed by” unjust laws, | with the exclusive power ot distributing the national | | products. A question of more formidable proportions | people, — Every | value, whether the produce of ‘the field, the forest, or fhe shop, being largely composed ot | he labor of frahsportation, it behooves that no monopoly favoring law sball empower the carrier to deprive the | producer, whether farmer or mechanic, of the fair re- turn for his labor, by extorting from him, for treighting | his commodities ‘to market, a sum eaual to the total | Which the consumer can pay. The laws of trade, when discharged of monoply. wall provide that the price to ihe cousumer shall be governed by the combined values of the labor of the producer and carrier, in obedience | w their sespective inierests. But while populations | Midely separated are moving against local abuses, the farmer, the craitsman and the tradesman, pursuing each | his pechliar redress their distinctive complaints p.ainiy | proéeed iroth the violation of the tundamental princl- | ple that all business depends upon the unrestrained tree dom of competition. To preserve this freedom clearly | S$ one of the first duties of government, | CHEAP PREIGHTS. Of cognate interest is the attainment of a line of in- | terior commercial transportation at once the cheapest and most expeditious. The rival torces of State and Canadian competition, unrestrained by the fetters of | monopoly, are bidding sharply for the carrying trade of he unequalled geographical advantages ot New York long secured to her the supremacy. But the Rarrow-minded practitioners of “sordid arty, polities closed the gate opened wide by the genius of De Witt Clinton for the passage of Western produce to the sea, | and the canals of New York, once the gorged reservoirs ot State rosperity and wealth, are occupied now b elings, with their dirty scramble for the plun- it ‘not irrepressivie indignation, at least ordinary prudence, dictates that these channels should at once be cleansed of their official tiltn, and be prepared, | either they or others, of dimensions ample, for the largest | freight and convenient for its cheapest and most expe- ditious transit, | THE MONETARY CRISIS, | It is impossible, gentlemen, to regard without concern the monetary condition of ‘the country. ‘The disorders of the curreiicy—currency but 1 ring values—are inferable from the precipitation o: financial disaster at period when every material value Was prosperousiy sustained. The failure of the banks as fiscal agents to discharge their full obligations to the public was the natural sequence. It is unquestionably true that the financial convulsion is traceable to the multifarious railroad projects by which the currency suppiy Was i1- Properly absorbed. The refusal of the administration to gratify the railroad sueculators with tresh issues of legal tenier notes, though in the strict line of its duty, does not mitigate its error in having previously inflated the currency with an issue of six millions indirectly their reliet. This was the opening act in their career of financial profligacy, since culminated in their ruin. For overnment thus to interfere, at the clamor of the spi lator and the borrower, ably to vouchsafe succor to the debtor against the interests of the creditor by dis- turbing the equities of every existing contract and de- | ranging every existing value in the country. Until the question of currency shall be directed by the same laws which govern questions relating to all other com- modities, corrupt speculators will continue periodically | their ratds upon a defenceless and panic-stricken market. THE DRIGHT OF RICURS. The supreme regard in which riches are held fur- nishes a timely theme of animadver.ion. through twenty-five centuries Piato bears to us this testimony of the older republics :— “As riches and rich men are honorea and cultivated, | virtue and the virtuous are dishonored and negiected, so that at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money, and they hondr and reverence the rich man and make ‘him ruler, and dis- honor the poor man, Where the property of the pilot is the sole passport to the helm, and the poor man, thouca the better pilot, is excluded, shipwreck is inevitable. And this, which is true of the government of any thing, is still stronger of a State, in proportion as its government | i¢ greater and more dificult.” Successive generations have descended with fatai step | this way of national decline to the men of our tune, and | these have passed even the limits of Grecian corruyticn. ‘The intrusion of money among the admitted ageucies ot | ublic honors challenges our wonder, Fools and the lind discern in the potitical edifice’ nothing of the temple but its gold. Not only is y felt at the | springs of iegislation, it contum: ballot, and, | from the town constable to the r, pollutes every elective dignity in the land. It is totoresee | that the prodigacy whieh offers the bribe will not be re- strained from the’ lcense of plunder; and so it happens | that the purchaser of place plies’his official opportuuity, first to reimburse his iniamous outlay, and then to hoard discreditavle wealth, Thus modern legistation has be- | come the mere otficry of the public vendue and the modern legislator a cut-purse of the empire and the ru Ifese themes have heretofore provoked an unequa ‘though not a useless contest. They naturally subjected ‘arious public men to vigorous and severe scrutiny. ‘Though the charges were serious, and claine ous their denial, the charges have been proved and ¢ clamor is husiied. -Affecting as were the vicissitudes | of the leader in that contest, time has neverthele justified Wis denunciation of’ official infidelitics and | Verified his allegations of secret and widespread corrup- tion, A people whose rulers riot unrebuked in the aftiu. | ence of piauder are notoriously unworthy of beneficent | government, Let us then make record here of our abhor- | rence of all the tribe of Credit Mobiliers, increased sala- ries and back pay grabs, and denounce them to present | execration and their impenitent perpetrators to the avonging fmure. Kelying on the intelligence and virtue | 6! the people and on a Providence that shapes their at- | fairs to the standard of imperishable truth, we may ex- pect that a constant purpose and unremitting effort will hitimately attain to the discomnfiture of their enemies and the establishment of their true representatives in the public rule, Then, pledxing our exertions to this end, let us invite our fellow citizens to union and co-operation, 4 on the platiorm of just and impartial laws, of pure and econowlical governinent administered by capable, faith- tul and true mei F. A. CONKLING ELECTED CHAIRMAN, After General Cochrane had concluded bis ad- dress Mr. Charles Hughes, of Washington, nomi- | nated Colonel F, A. Conkling, of New York, for Chairman of the Convention, Mr. Conkling was warmly received and made a lengthy speecti to the Convention. He said:— Representing as you do the original republican party and participating as you did in its early struggles, when such men as Horace Ureeley, James s. Wadswortl# John A. King, Henry R. Selden, Robert Campbell and William Cartis Noyes were ite stundgrd bearers, I esteem it no compiiment to be cRosen to preside over your ‘itions. ‘Ihe republican party came not into ex- istence at the beck or caprice of any set of men. It was inspired by a great vital principle, The convi been burned deep into the minds and thoughttul men all over the tree States that the country, tbongh spanning 40 degrees of latitude and 100 degress of longtitude, Was not large enough for treedom slavery to coexist within its borders, These men gathered in their churches and public halls, in the groves ‘and on the broad prairies, declaring their independence of old party associations, that they all, whigs and demo- crata alike, might co-operate In resisting the aggressions of the slave porer. “They who think alike should act together,” proclaimed the Republican State Convention of New York In 1s The men who adopted Sewurd's gos- }, in 1848, of a higher law and they who hi Baffalo. Prundered: forth the ‘Teciaration that ne ress can no more make @ siave than make a kin) Political organization, made e Jeffersonian reso) art ot their phat. one man to re: deem 7a the country ray: Sieh tod tidings Ran a of the barty. baste | Stewart, C with their deteat—an’ event attended ‘with litte diff. | RU cuity whenever the Mmitation to the President's office | | vacancies, | candidates for the State ticket was lost. | year ago, which embod: | and the m office-holders of the Grant party were not with ‘we were right, and we found inch Toby Tn 1B we took” them ut placed our candidate in the President State atter State wheeled into our ranks; Senator Senator was dismissed from his seat in Washington ive place to men of the party. ennington’ were Speakers of the of Representatives to attest the republican au Kansus was delivered from the rule and contamination of slavery. Finally, in 18, Abraham Lincoin was President. Then came the stri existence. With Seward Chase and Stanton in Cabinet, with Samner and Trumbull in the Senate, ion brave soldiers in the field, the integrity ‘of Republic was maintained. Such was the glorious which our people and our party had made. The wi of Abraham Lincoln were made good; and the verdict was rendered by arms, as well as by ballots, “that gov ernment of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish nom the earth.” tipon the shoad: Mr. Conkling next dL contract Scandals and Ene sudden inflation of the Rhody. aristoc- racy until innumerable railroad and bank princes took possession of the chief interests of the country. The uying of Legislature, Credit Mobilier schemes, salary grabbing and centralization were denounced in un- measured terms; General Grant being in nowise com- Plumented beyond the rest, He concluded by saying :— ‘he necessity as well as the obligation 1s laid upon us to Separate froin our former political associations, as was Gone at Cincinnath It is our duty, as well as our to traternize, as we agreed to do when we formed the republican party, with those who have heretofore acted JH diverse political orgamzationa. We should as pa forget prejadice and animosity and form a union hearts and a onion of hands in the service of our common country. The old parties seem reluctant to aiford us the opportumty. | “New wine must be put into new bottles.” T doubt not that all of us will re per- ceive the wisdom of the words of an eminent demoeratio citizen of Ohio—"It will be wise to enter into a new or- anization. There should be no exclustveness about it; it should be maggup ot present democrats, former demo: crats and of i republicans who are offended by the policy and tendencies of tie present isiration, I should be the joint work of bovh, and neither should enter itas the guest of the other. The new organization should oppose all forms of monopoly, Tt should oppose” centralization and advocate home government in all local affairs and to as great an extent as practicable, It should support equal rights, a strict construction of the constitution and ‘iberal but not abundant legislation.” At the conclusion of Mr. Couk!ing’s address Gen- eral JonRS moved the appointment of the folowing named as Vice Presidents of the Convention :— Theodore G. Glaubensklee, of New York; 4. M. Bliss, of Kings: R. M. Hasbrouck, of Rensselaer; John C. McVear, of St. Lawrence; R. N. Sherman, of Oneida; Greig W. Schyier, of Tompkins; M. C: Cloud, of Ontario, and E. J. Reynolds, of Orleans. On motion of Mr. Crank BELL the following named were appointed Secretaries :— S. C. Tabor, of Chemung; E. B, Lanning, of Kings; E.G. Fowler, of Orange; John T. McDon- ough, of Chatanqua; David Rogers, of Queens; A. H. Childs, of Seneca; Weeks W. Culver, of New York, and T, B. Smith, of Broome, Mr. CLARK BELL moved that all resolutions in 4 r-] | reference to transactions of the Convention be re- | ferred to the Committee on Resolutions, Mr. WOLFE, of New York, said he wanted a com- mittee on credentials, but Mr. Hughes, of Wash- ington, stated.that the delegates had reported to the secretaries, and the resolution was laid on the tabje. tate committee, numbering the same as the Congressional districts, was provided for, After the appointment of the following named Committee on Resolutions the Convention took a Tecess to three o'clock :— Porter Sheldon, Chairman; J. G. Fitehian, 8. J. Glassey, J. B, Williams, E. L. Sanderson, Thomas D. Croitress, D. C. McMulfan, Charles Hughes, Gdward . J. Rowley, W. 'W. Dewey, Le L. undy, dwell, S.'C. Uieveland, James Lyon aud The Convention was called to order at three | o'clock P.M. by the Chairman, The State Com- mittee was announced by the several delegationa from the Congressional districts as follows:— Gilbert C, Dean, John W. Coe, Charles W, Goddard, Jotun Cochrane, F. A, Conkling, B. A. Willis, T. Ae rk Bell, Francis Lariing, Charles St. John, Jr., Grinnell Burt, ©. H.S. Willlams, Morgan L. Filkin, James M. Gibson, W. W. Rockwell, W. H. Daniels, W. W. French, L, L. Bundy, J. ©, Collins, J, Sherman, D. ©, Littlejohn, Alired Wilkinson, A. L, Cnilds, M. F, Sheppard, Edward J. Jones, | Samuel C, Faber, E. R. Reynolds, A, F. Allen, On motion the committee was authorized to fill to appoint a committee to nominate A motion to proceed to llominate candidates {or the State A motion | ticket in the Convention was debated at some | length by Messrs. Rowley, of Oneida; 1owuley, of New York; Gregg, of Chemung, and Cochrane, of New York, those opposing the motion arguing | that it is better to await the report of the Com- mittee on Resolutions, Co onel LANSING, of Kings, offered a resolution, as a substitute, that the ticket be “made up of selections frou the candidates already in tue tieid, provided we can find honest men among them. A lively debate followed on this substitute, which took up¢le time of the Convention until tae Com- mittee on-Resolutions made their appearance. 1t | Was thea temporarily withdrawn. THE PLATFORM. Mr. SHELDON, from the Committee on Reso lution, reported the following :— Resolved, That this Convention of delegates from the people of New Yors congratulate the patrioite citizens of all the States upon the indications Now apparent ot a growing disposivion to oppose auy perversion ot civil Authority, and to demand {1 all our public ways a re- turn to official honesty, economy and iilelvy to the pub lic interes's, Resolved, That this gratitying tendency of public sen- timent justifies and encourages us to reaffirin the plat- form of principles set forth at Cineinnati more than @ in clear and forcile terns Y such atlirmance to indieate the need of the hour, a: | the s y of otlr continued efforts aud aspirations ior purity of gevernment and resorm. Resolved, That public approbation helongs to Sen- who in the last Cony aid ators and Representatives not favor the salary increase aud back pay ull, pecially to such as have voiui‘arly ani y sure of public sentiment returned to the Trea ury the so- called pay; and we denounce every . e Representative who voted tor or approved uf and any party who invoxes Oongressiout! action to shield a guilty conscience in doing what should be done and what some have doue without legislation: aud tur- er, we fee! the most sincere regret thut the Fresident of the United States shoud so mistuke the morality of the American character and disregard the honor of the American name as to give his oficial sanction to a bill which, a: faras relates .o nunsely ana the members of each brane b ot Vongress, Was Whorly un- called for, tinprecedented, aemoralizinz aud wicked, and we charge the republican party with the wrong of ‘orig- inating and passing this bill, and we denounce, in the most unqualified manuer, this measure wnt all its sup. porters, and Resolved, muportance to the people in all parts of our State and couniry what ihe lines of transportation between the Bast atid West be improved so as to furnish better and cheaper transit to the end that no route shall make an inordinate charge upon produce, manutactures or merchandise, and that No ititerest, whether of produce, corporauion or caplital- ist, can justly complain o! the facilities aiforded. importance of the regular. cheap, and interchan the, produce of the ehandise ot the Kast, both for internal con- not be overesti- nd especially ot our ter channel, tregat cheap and expeditious passage alike tor g and inbound trade, are imperatively demanded. and the attainment thereot cannot with jusuce and satety be delayed, and we deplore the corrupting. in fluence of our great corporations over legislative action, whereby our agricultural interests are crippled and the development or the resources of the country retarded. hha* the internal policy of States and muni. t constitutionally be interfered witn by J authority, but that éach must be left free in. reise of the’supreme right of local selt-govern- ment, which has been, we are grieved to say, of late frequently and openly violated. ) Kesolved, that the course of the uational administra- tion in patronizing irresponsible and visionary, fisc agents in fostering primitive and unwholesome business schemes, anu in ity steaithy interference and iavoritisin, the abandonment by its members of their posts of duty jor long periods ot tue, and the gross neglect of the public business trom the President down, Das brought the couutry at last to financial discredit’ and distress; aud it is, theretore, justly held responsible betore the tribune of public opiton lor the recent disordered con- dition of t he unstability in the exchange of trade, in the work of production and investment and the devressivn of business, the sufferings of laborers aud the ruin of individ ais, Resolved, tim view of the present disaster, the re~ sult of weak and pernicious administration, the wide~ spread corruption of the public service, the defatcations of officials, the peculations condoned, the robberies tor- tordons upon merchants and importers. oval of the federal authority, the personal. f Executive and, as a consequence, the rd of political morality, itis a mater of at Unreasoning party zeal should outuve ance, and hits pgstpone the return to jonest government; bub still we have undl- niinished ja:th in tue Integrity and manhood of the peo- pie and their ultimate purjove and ability to correct: d restore every right. Resolved, That we invite @ candid judgment of our aimy and ‘the ‘support by ait patriotic cltizens of the candidates nominated by this Convention without regard revious afliliatio svlved, That the return of the country to a specie san object of paramount imporance; that as the great purpose of mon apart fi bar standard of value, is to serve as the medium of exchange and the instrument with which transters are made and indebted~ ness discharged, business integrity and even-handed prosperity unité in demanding a return to the Common standard of the world, and that banking privi- leges should be extendet to all who can give perfect se- curity for (he prompt redemption ot the circulation they Utter inas good money as the government makes the lawtul money of the country. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to firmly resist the ability of the State government by special legisla« being ma pliant instrument of unworthy pri- vate schemes, and we demand in every departmene ot public expeaditure rigid economy and good taith, and the thoroush investigation and puiiisinent of all omeigl musconauct. The resolutions were unanimously adopted, THE TICKET. The Convention then proceeded to nominate a ticket in its order, Mr, LANIGAN, of New York, named Diedrich Wil. lers for Secretary of Sta AN, CoLe, oi Allegany, named Francia § Thayer, L. L. BuNpY, of Otsego, named Freemun J. Fithian, who declined, , On a vote Willers stood 98, Thayer 17. The nomi~ nation was made unanimous. Colonel WiLLERS namea Nelson K, Hopkips fis Comptroller. Asher P. Nicholls was also named, The vote stood—tiopkins, 100; Nicholls, 12, nomination was made unanimous The nominations of Dantel Pratt for Attorner General, Thomas H. nes tor urer, Juiee Jackson for Canal Commissioner, Sylvanus | . Sweet for Engiueer and M. K. Platt for State ?riscie luspector iollowed raptdly and unanimously. The oficers of the Convention were made a com- mittee to inform the nominees of tie action 0 th» Convention, and with the asual resglutions thas, body adjourned, Pa THE NA’ AL GAM. The game on the Union Grounds yesterd. C's Pvp ( RA hg Lhe tee Wosnioaten Oink . iT, aud regal nf tu Yorkers by the {olowing score: Me Ne Mt, 2a, Sd. Mth, tH, GA. TUN, Bh, 900. { ie) ot it 2; Mutual. 1. " Gaue—1 hour and @ winutes 8 ion and general commerce, eople of our State, ity. Enlarged he