The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-14

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The vote being doubted. 4 vns taksa 81 yess ana
nays. whea is motion was lost-lS % 81.
The COmmittee on Resoautions hA1inG roturned.
tho consideration Of The resolutions u kr. Howell
M Hrovn, from the oosunittse a u subisct.
stated that be had suocsedsd N capturing tie
Chairman Of tho Committee % Revolutions.
N. MusrsY. Of Kings, Chairman Of the commit
tee said that the committee wnse unannous In 70
porting the resolutions Already pubSlshed.1 The
resolution IN favor Of the Nehrasan bill was received
with Considerable enthusiasm.
After these resolutions were read, Mr.. 0nAlr, q
Tompkins attempted 70 read . resolution, but not
being able to muster voice enough, be retired In
great disorder. and said he would withdraw the no
solution.
The convention then proceeded to nominate
candidate for LieutenantGovernor. The candidates
were as follows:-E. Darwin Smith, Of Monroe;
Elijah Ford, Of Erie; Stephen B. Cushing, Of Temp
Howell, Of Ontario, and John willard, Of Saratoga.
On the first trial, II6 votes cast; Of these Mr.
Ford had IS, and Mr.. Smith, 20.
Mr.. Shows moved that Mr.. Ford be nominated
by reclamation. Objected to, and lost.
On the second ballot, Mr.. Ford received 81 votes,
and subsequently, his nomination was made unani
nous.
The convention then proceeded to vote for can.
Of Cbenango; jeremiah Cooper, Of Madison; Henry
J. Allen, OF New York; Alexander Ton Brock. az
Albany; r. c. Dininy, OF 6teuben; William Halsey,
Of Tompkins, and James e. Cooley. Of New York
On the first trial, Mr.. Burnham had AZ votes, Mr..
Allen, n, all others 36-l04 votes cast, and there
was no choice. An unsuccessful attempt was made
to dominate Mr.. Burnham by acclamation.
Mr.. CLANCY. Of New York, who had nominated
AR unit HE Mr. n5un and all
other candidates were Afterwards withdrawn. The
call of the Toll was then suspended, and Mr.. Burn
ham was unanimously nominated.
e vote
persons were announced as csndidates:-Henry
Storms, Of Westchester G. w. Pomeroy, OF Cayu
ga; Mr.. Gennett. Of Rensselaer,; Abraham varnum,
Of Livingston; w. A. Walsh, Of Duchess; John r.
Smith, Of Monroe, and Joshua p. Smith, Of Suffolk.
On the first trial, Mr.. varnum had 46; Mr.. Storms,
2s; Mr.. Pomeroy, "a Mr.. Gennett 7. and II scatter
ing-there was no choice. Joshua p. Smiths name
was Withdrawn, also that Of William A. Walsh. On
the second trial Mr.. Varnum had II votes, and his
nomination was made unanimous
The ticket was now complete, as follows:-
For Goyernor-Greene c. Bronson. of New York.
For Lieutenant Goyernor-Elijah Ford, of Erie
For Canal Commissioner-Clark Burnham, Of
ChenanRo.
For State Prison Experimentation vsrnum,
of Livingston.
The delegates from the several Judicial districts
now assembled to nominate the State Committee for
the ensuing year. The nominations were made
as follows
Districts.
lst--Augustus schell, Richard 7. Mulligan, James
s. Libby.
2d-Russell Smith, Samuel Fowler Grosvenor s.
Adams.
sd-John s. Nafew, Lyman Tremain, John s..
Fonda.
4th-Lorenzo D. Brook, Oliver Cook, Thomas B.
Mitchell.
5th-Benjamin Carver, G. 8. Andrews, Joseph M.
Lyon.
'eth-Burr B. Andrews, George Clark, William
Halsey.
7th-E Darwin Smith, r. G. Dining, M. s. Myers.
eth--Harmon S. Cutting, +. A. Lester, W. G.
A DELEGATE moved that the letter from Judge
Bronson be now read.
Mr.. HOWELL moved that the convention do now
adjourn sine die.
Mr.. CLANCY, Of New York, hoped that the last
motion would not prevail. If this letter was sup
pressed It would gain "a much notoriety the cele
bted scarlet letter which Gen. Pierce wrote to the
Clancy said that the people had right to know the
contents Of this letter, and il there was anything
wrong in it they also had right to hear it.
Mk STovzR was In favor OF reading the letter.
DELEGATE desired to know TO whom the letter
The CHAIR-To the President Of the Convention.
Mr.. HOWELL have desired that this letter
should not he read; but older and wiser people de-
fire II, withdraw the motion.
The question was then put on q motion to read
he letter, and 1t was carried-Mr Howell alone
voting in the negative.
Mr.: IRExAN read the letter, which was pub.
hshed IN Yesterdays HExAID:
Resolutions were adopted, thanking the pr0prie.
ors Of the hall for the use thereof-tendering the
acknowledgements Of the convention to the officers
for the fairness with which they had discharged their
duties-requesting Congress to make some appro.
priaton for the widows and orphans Of the officers
aud soldiers Of the war Of 1879, and for such sur
vivors as may stand in need Of provision--recom-
mending the ticket to the favor Of all democrats
throughout the State, and endorsing the Syracuse
central part Of the State.
Then, at 10 o'clock p. NJ the convention adjourned
without day, after giving three cheers for the noi
nations.
So ended the hard shell convention. Good feeling
and unanimity governed its action throughout, aud
New York, perhaps, never had more talented as
sembly Of prominent politicians.
Terrible Explosion and rortunas. Escspe.
A correspondent Of the Utica Herald, writing
from Waterville on the sth ins furnishes the par
ticulars Of an explosion of powder and fortunate
escape:-On the morning OF the 9th of July, as the
Waterville military company, with their hcldpece,
was returning from Hamilton, where they had been
to assist in the celebration and within about three
miles Of home, two Of their company, sitting upon
the magazine Of the gun, met with the most re-
markable adventure we ever witnessed The con-
veyance Of the company consisted Of four double
teams, two Of them on wagon and two on the
gun, and about fifteen rods in advance Of the other.
II appears that the gun caps, either through negli
gence or ignorance as to their nature, were left in
the magazine, containing six and half bags Of
powder, Of two pounds each. We suppose the mo-
tion Of the gun over the road ground the caps to-
gether, producing friction which fired them, thus
iqniting the powder and all blew up with terrible
explosion, easier to be imagined than described.
The air for several feet around presented one con-
fused mass of buffalo robes, cushions aAd fragments
from the inside Of the magazine. There was 80
much smoke it was impossible to see what became
Of the unlucky occupants OF the seat; but as it
cleared away we discovered one Of them getting up
from the ground, and the other half mile distant
astride Of the wheel horses, his clothes on fire
in several places, and exhibiting the tallest spec
men OF flying artillery we ever saw. 1t appeared
upon inquiry that the driver was blown mp the
length OF the rens, falling back on the pole to the
gun, and afterwards getting on one Of the horses
and succeeded in stopping them. Bnt the most re-