Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-05-21

A Washington telegram to the Cleveland
Leader says: Some OF the leading New
York Democrats are here with what they
| are giving out as the Democratic platform, to
be presented to their National Convention.
According to their story, the planks arc
these: First, declaration against human
| slavery; second, a declaration that the Con-
federate debt is void; third, the National
| debt to be paid exactly as prescribed by law;
| fourth, qualified manhood suffrage to be
controlled by the States, for on this basis,
they say, they are sure great party can be
built up. They also say that they are look
ing for the most available candidate to run
on such platform.
Undoubtedly, Dan Rice is the best, if
not the only available candidate to use on
that platform. Let the ticket be Rice and
Sergeant Bates, by all means.
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Self opening umbrellas are a new inyen-
tion.
"A California paper wants Beecher for
President.
The newest figure in the German is call
ed the Engagement.
-"Whistling taught in six easy lessons"
is advertised in Connecticut
Idaho advices state that the grasshop-
pers threaten great havoc there. The min
ing reports are good, and labor is in demand.
"A landslide occurred on the Kennebec
and Portland Railroad at Portland. Maine,
destroying portion of the car shed and
platform.
"A trestle work, one hundred feet long,
on the Somerset and Kennebec Railroad,
Maine was washed away on Friday night.
The trains on the road were DELAYED, but
will be running all right to-day.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
has unanimously adopted the report of the
special committee of that body, in favor of
Government aid on the construction of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Daniel Drew has been elected President
of the corporatOrs of the Drew Theological
Seminary. THIS singular appointment
for man who controls broad guage road
which leads to destruction.
He does not k,aoW q hoDk from a
hondsaW. This old saw has puzzled many
who were not aware that handsaw is per-
version OF hernshaw, and that hernshaw, in
old English, meant young heron. To say
of any one that he could not distinguish the
daring falcon from its timid prey was live
ly way of characterizing stupidity, at time
when falconry was in fashion.
-lncy tcSt Ine StrenBtn OF bridges IN an
extraordinary way in Russia. One was re-
Gently erected overy the Moskowa River and
has just been officially examined. After
loading it with weights to the amount of
about one hundred tons, all the people who
were witnessing the trial were invited to
come and stand on the bridge. They did SO
and the bridge stood the test, but if it had
given way under the enormous pressure
the consequence would have been terrible.
The Freeman's Journal, in an elaborate
article in favor of Pendleton for the Presi-
dency, says: There are one hundred thou
sand voters, in the State of New York, that
will vote for Pendleton, some of them on
the sole issue of paying the "Five twenty"
bonds in greenbacks, who will not vote for
| any candidate of the bondholders, forced on
the convention, through fraud and corrup-
tions by the slaughter of Mr.. Pendleton. As
| to all the States of the Northwest, this side
of the Mississippi, not one Of them has a
hope of being carried if Pendleton, as the
representative of this equitable mode of pay
ing the bondholders, were to be cheated out
of his nomination.