Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-17
Tel.rr.phie summary.

THE Democrats Of Maine assembled In con.
vention at Portland on Tuesday. Mr.. +.
Pillsbury, Of Farmingtcn, presided James
Howard, Of Portland, was unanimously re-
nominated for Governor. Bion Bradbury re-
porled the resolutions. Tho frst Expresses
profound gratitude 10 God that the war Is
over. The second resolves that we should
cherish the memory Of the fallen dead. The
third asserts that with the close u the war
its bloody and barbarous spirit should be
banished from our midst, and hatred and
vengeance should yield to Christian charity
Ind magnanimity. The fourth asserts that Il
is the duty of the Federal Government to
re establish at the earliest moment, and with
the least possible Interference, the true con.
stitutional relations between itself and the
late rovolted States.
The fifth resolution resolves that the Dem.
ocracy Of Maine reassort the fundamental
principles Of equal and exact justice to oil
men Of all nations and entangling alliances
with none. The sixth resolution resolves
that the ballot. box is the right OF every Amer
lean citizen, to be restricted only as the public
safety demands, and that each State pos
sesses the constitutonally- organized right Of
prescribing the qualifications Of electors.
The seventh demands equal taxation. The
eighth asserts that the sums advanced by
towns, cities, &C., are q legitimate charge
upon the Federal Government. The ninth
resolves that, banishing narrow considcra-
tions, we will cordially support Andrew John.
son in the policy he has taken toward placing
the rebel States in their proper situation and
harmonizing conflicting questions. The tenth
congratulatss the whole country that, among
the acts Of the President, we find him return.
ing to the first principles of our Government,
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resolves that the assassination Of President
Lincoln was an act Of barbarism.
| DELEGATES to the Union State Conven-
| tiOn from the remote northern and western
counties have already arrived at Harris
| burg, and the contest usual prior to the
meeting Of such political bodies has already
begun. 1t is confidently predicted that the
honors of the Union Convention will be dis
posed of by nominating two soldiers for Sur
veyor and Auditor General respectively.
THE West Chester county (Pa.) Union
Convention on Tuesday adopted resolutions
approving the course Of President johnson,
and declaring that tho results of the expert
ment prove that the people of the rebellous
States cannot safely be trusted with suffrage
until they accept the lessons Of the war by
incorporating them in the constitutions Of
their respective States.
lHE macnlne Fnop OF the Troy ana boston
Railroad Company, in the upper part of
Troy, was totally burned yesterday. The
loss is about $50, 900, fully insured.
AT Gallaher's Exchange, yesterday, New
York Central closed at 9Os; Erie, sol; Hud.
son, 1861; Reading, lO2 Michigan Central,
lO5; Michigan Southern, 6I'; Rock Island,
1915; Pittsburg, G6!; Fort Wayne, 9Il; Ohio
certificates, a. Quicksilver, 53l. Market
steady.
POLICEMAN Thomas Walker, of the twenty
ninth precinct, New York, was shot through
the head about O'Clock on Tuesday morn.
ing, in Seventeenth street, near Seventh ave.
nue., by young man he was trying to arrest.
He died in four hours.
JEREMIAH TOWNSEND, absconding teller Of
the Townsend Savings Bank Of New Haven,
has been arrested in Liverpool.