The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-01
Grand Railroad Jubilee An Boston

Grand Railroad Jubilee in Boston.
The Committee of Arrangements Of the city
government Of Boston, we learn, are busily
engaged in completing the details of the fes-
tivties for the seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth days of the present month, in cele-
bratlon of the completion of the various lines
of railways which connect the Canadas and the
Great West with the tide-waters at Boston,
and the establishment of American lines of
steamers between that city and Liverpool.
The Legislature of MASSACHUSETTS, at its
late session, appointed large committee from
both branches to receive the PRESIDENT of the
United States should he accept the invitation
to be present on the interesting occasion.
A committee of the City Councils of Boston,
consisting of Messrs. f BRINLEY, III. M. HoL-
BROOK, EZRA LINCOLN, n. A. THOMPSON,
II. j. GARDNER, OTIs KRiBALL, and A. T.
MINoT, arrived in this city on Saturday for the
express purpose of inviting the PRESIDENT to
visit Boston. They waited on the PRESIDENT
the same evening and communicated the object
of their mission. The PRESIDENT replied that
it would give him the greatest pleasure to be
present in Boston on this interesting occasion,
but that he must defer an answer until he
should have an opportunity of examining the
state of the public business, and ascertaining if
1T would admit Of his absence from the seat of
Government at the time of the proposed cele-
bration. He deferred definite reply TO the
committee till this afternoon, expressing his
| acknowledgements for the honor which had been
conferred upon him by the citizens of Boston
for their kind invitation, and the earnest and
courteous manner in which it had been COM
municated to him.
Invitations, we understand, have been sent
to the several Heads Of Departments, and to
other gentlemen.
We learn from member of the committee
that, among those who have formally accepted
the invitation extended, are the GOVERNOR
GENERAL of Canada, the Parliament of that
Province, and the Municipal Authorities re-
spectlvely of Quebec and Toronto.
The arrangements will be on the most ex-
tensive scale. 1t is contemplated that the first
day shall be devoted to receptions; the second,
to excursions in several splendid steam vessels,
third, to grand procession of all the trades.
First Congressional District of Maryland.
1t will be recollected that delegates from the
several counties composing the first Congress
sional district assembled in Bladensburg on the
sixteenth of August for. the purpose of nomi-
mating candidate for Congress, and that after
thirty successive ballotings, the convention,
being unable to make selection from among the
urday last, with view that, in the meantime,
they might further consult with their respect
| i've constituencies.
| Accordingly, on the thirtieth ultimo, the
convention reassembled, JAMES r. HoPEwELL
in the chair, and B. T. b. WoRTHINeToN act
ing as secretary.
The following named delegates were pres
ent, namely:
Calvert COlnty--Messrs. Henry Chew and r. X.
| Roberts. Absent, Robert Bowie, of Walter.
| Montgomery County-Mcssrs. Edward Dawes,
Samuel T. Stonsstreet, and Washington Waters
Prince Georges County-Messrs. Samuel H.
Berry, Frank II. Wootten. and t. b. Estep. Alb
| sent, John NJ S. Maccubbin.
Charles County.-Messrs. George Kent, Edward
| d. Boone, and George Brent.
81 Mary's County-Messrs. James r. Hopewell
and w j. Edelin,. Absent James Warren.
-Anne arundel County-Messrs. Henry F. Turton
| and B. t. b. Wortbngton. Absent, James Kent
and Joseph H Nicholson.
The several delegations were permitted, by
a former resolution, either to fill vacancies
where they existed, or to cast the entire mum
Der Of votes to which such delegations were en-
titled.
The following named gentlemen were here
tofore nominated:
General THOMAS F. BOWIE, of Prince
Georges county; Hon, RICHARD |. Bowie, o
Montgomery county, and GEORGE WELLS
esq, of Anne Arundel.
And the convention had passed the following
resolution, namely:
Resolved That this convention will not entertain
the nomination Of any gentleman before them as
candidate for Congress whose friends do not pledg
for him that he will abide by the choice Of this
yention.
Before resuming the ballot, Mr.. FRANK III
WooTTEN briefly addressed the convention
thinking it not out Of place to call the attention
of the delegates to the claims of Prince Georges