Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-09-01
Banquet In Honor of the President,
and Grant and Enrrugut.

DATES TO YESTERDAY.
Banquet In Honor of the President,
and Grant and Fnrragut.
NEW York, August 3o.-The banquet
at Delmonico's last night was a very
splendid affair. Mayor Hoffman presided.
Speeches were made by the President
and Seward.
Arrival Mt West Point.
WEST POINT. August 3o.-The Presi-
Dental party arrived at noon, were re-
ceived by the Commandant, and proceeded
North.
AZ Albany.
ALBANY, August 3o.-The President
arrived at seven o'clock, having had a
most enjoyable ride up the river, with sa-
lutes and cheers at all prominent places.
The Mayor of Albany went down on a
steamer to meet the party and officially
welcome them.
The Mayor Of Troy went down on an
other steamer to join the escort.
The President was escorted to the capt.
toll through illuminated streets, crowded
with people.
Welcome by Gov. Fenton. D.
Governor Fenton said:
Mr.. President: With high considera-
ton for the Chief Magistrate Of the Re-
public, I address you words Of welcome
in behalf of our citizens and the people OF
the State whose capital you visit. We
extend to you and to your suite hospitali-
ty and greeting and desire to give you
safe conduct as you 60 hence to pay honor
to the memory Of the lamented Douglas
and to the State also distinguished as, the
home and final resting place of the pa
triot and the martyr, Lincoln. l have no
power to give due expression to the feel
ings of this assemblage of citizens, nor to
express in fitting terms the magnanimity
of the whole people upon an occasion so
marked as the coming to our homes Of
the President Of the United States. l
give assurance to your Excellency Of their
patriotism and jealous interest in all that
relates to the government, progress and
freedom Of all the States. and their earn-
est hope that peace will soon open up to
the people of the whole land. .
The President made no lengthy reply;
but merely returned his thanks, and ac-
cepted, as Chief Magistrate Of the u
try, the Inequalities Of the State.
The procession was reformed and pro-
ceeded to the Delavan House, where a
dinner was given by the city.
r illinois Politics.
CHICAGO, August 30.-The Illinois
Democratic State Convention yesterday
adopted the Philadelphia declaration Of
principles, and nominated Colonel 7. L.
Dickey, of Ohawa, for Congress at large;
General Jesse Phillips for Treasurer, and
Colonel John NJ. Creed for Superintendent
Of Public Instruction.
Philadelphia Politics.
The Philadelphia Unionists have noml-
mated for Congress: ]. R. Lyndell, Chas.
O'Neill. L. Myers and VIM. D. Kelly.
The opponents of Kelley have nominated
Alfred Penny.
The Presidenrs philadelphia Re-
cepfion.
The Philadelphia North american, edit
ed by the Mayor, says of the informality
attending the Presidents visit: 1t is a no.
ticable fact that of for,y-six members Of
the Common Council and twenty-five
members Of the Select Council, less than
twenty are at present in the city; and Of
these a considerable number are Demo-
Gratis. The Mayor is taking the only rest
he can enjoy for q year to come, so that
the absence of any municipal participation
IN the ceremonies was unavoidable.
New Jersey Delegates.
Governor Ward, Of New Jersey, has
named ]. C. Teneyi,, Chas. S. Olden, F.
L. Frelinghuysen, r. F. Field, 1T. Mis-
con and w. A. Newell to attend the Phil
adelphia Convention and convey to its
members an expression of sympathy with
their suferings, confidence in their pa
triotism, and an assurance Of aid and sup
port in their loyal purpose Of securing
governments republican in form through
out the entire South.
Michigan Politics.
Ex-Gov. Austin Blair was yesterday
nominated for Congress in the Third Mich
igan District, vice Longyear.
The Fifth Michigan District has nomi-
mated Rowland Trowbridge.
Proposed North Carolina Constitu.
Full returns of the North Carolina cleo
ton, held Aug. Sd, show that the new
Constitution was rejected by 1893 votes.
Called Meeting of the National Com
miftec of '64.
CHICAGO, Aug. 3o.-J. J. Coombs. H.
w. Hoffman, ]. s. Lawler, J.. D. Defrees
and W. J. Canaan having called a meeting
at Philadelphia, September Sd, of the
National Committee appointed by the
Baltimore Convention of 1864. Henry ].
Raymond, Chairman of that Committee,
publishes a call that the Committee shall
meet at the Astor House, New York City,
on September Sd. Marcus Ward, of New
Jersey, a member Of the Committee, pub
lished a letter, re-publishing the Raymond
call, and saying to Raymond:
You have deemed it wise and proper to
abandon the great Union Republican party
OF the country, and to connect your name
and influence with a new organization,
designed to destroy the cause with which
I sympathize and Of which I am in some
small degree a representative. Your pub.
lie action has been such that I cannot
acknowledge your right to use the title
under which the meeting has been called.
The mature character Of the trusts con-
fded in you and me forbid that we should
use them except in accordance with the
spirit in which they were conferred. So
deep and wide is this feeling in the popu-
lar mind, that all who should respond to
your call would be regarded as betraying
the party they have ceased to represent.
Raymond replies:
It is a matter wholly within your W
discretion, whether you attend the meeting
of the National Executive Committee, call
ed in this city for September Sd but / am