Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-04

was crowded to overlooking to hear Geo. w. Cur
tbs and Thomas Van Buren,. From 5000 to 5000
persons were present The Fremont men of
Hartford are confident Of success, both in State
and nation.
In Grundy county, Illinois, banner was of
fered to the township furnishing the largest pro.
portionate attendance at Republican mass meet.
ing of Fremonters from its whole number of vo-
tiers. Three townships claimed the prize. The
first furnished LAG out of l47 voters and said the
other detainedby sickness The second had
155, and all came. The third had 166, all of whom
were present, and claimed the banner, because
they came the greatest distance The claims were
adjusted by giving flag to each.
The Washington Org91a, the leading Fillmore
paper at the seat of government particularly ad-
nits that Fillmore kept in the field for the ben.
eft of Buchanan. 1t says:
"Were the conservative national American
party to withdraw from the contest, school
boy, who has learned addition and subtrac-
ton, could in moment deduct l20 from 296
and show Fremonts vote to be l76, and his
majority over Buchanan to be iftv-six votes"
The same paper further remarks that were it
now seriously proposedby the American party to
withdraw Mr.. Fillmore, this sham Democracy
would go down upon their knees and beg him,
aye, beseech him to remain in the fieid'
Mr.. Fillmore's silly assertion that the South
would not aquiesce in the election of Col. Ere.
mont to the Presidency, finds no countenance
among high-minded Southerners. Senator Hous-
ton in recent speech in the Senate, thus spoke
his sentiments on the subject:
They tell me if Fremont is elected, forty
thousand bayonets will bristle about the cap
itol-that the South, iii fact, will secede. Nj.
President, l scorn the suggestion There
will be neither bristling bayonets nor seces.
sion. If Col. Fremont shall be elected by a
majority of the people, though l am not his
supporter, shall respect the majesty of the
people; and to Colonel Fremont. as the Chief
Magistrate of their choice, l shall pay my
respectful homage"
Here the old hero, putting one hand on his
breast, made one of his most elaborate bows,
Brown UNIvERsITY.-The commencement
exercises of this Furnishing institution took place
yesterday. The Massachusetts boys stand we'll
there. Out of seventeen orations, eight were
by pupils from this State. The Salutatory was by
D. Stedmau Of Southbridge, and the valedictory
by Charles B. Golf of Fall River. The Philoso.
phcal grafton was by Richard Olny of Oxford -
Two Others were by Ezra H. Haywood of Hub
bariston and Francis W White of Winchendon.
TAe Triennial Catalogue of the College has
just been published In relation to it, the Proy.
dence Journal says
"The whole number Of those enrolled upon
the lists of the University is 1924, of whom
l, j09 are regular graduates, and AS are med
zeal and honorary. ri this number 99l have
stars affixed to their names, to inaicate that
tLey are no longer among the living. The
members of the first eleven classes have all
disappeared, and we meet no name on the
list without star till we reach the class of
1886, where that of Edmund Freeman stands
alone; and from 1886 to 1890, the solitary
name of Eli King stands unstsrred among the
successive classes. In looking over the cata-
logue one can but remark the irregular man.
ner in which the starry indicie OF death are
distributed, even among classes that were near
ly contemporary. The class of 1921, for ex-
ample, has lost nenrly half its members while
that of 1922 presents but five stars among its
thirty names. he classes of 1886 and 1888
have lost but a single member each, while the
classes of 1887 and 1889 have together lost
twelve.