The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-06
SIAsSACHUsETTs.

BOSTON, Oct. 5.
a Portland paper says that the Sc
cretary of the Treasury has already
suspended the operation OF the new
custom house regulations, in eompli
ance with the request forwarded by
telegraph.
The Ancient and Honorable artilley
LEFT this city this morning for Spring.
held, to have their annual field day
parade. They will return to.morroW
afternoon.
Addie and Mime Brown, aged 9 and
years, were burned to death in
Charleston, Mass, on Saturday night,
They were. studying lesson when a
young brother ran against them, upset
ting a fluid lamp.
SALEAt, MASS, Oct. 8
The Anti-Butler Republican Mass
Convention, to-day, nominated Rich
ard ii. Dana. Jr.. for Congress, by ac-
clamation.s Mr.. Dana has accepted the
nomination. A series of resolutions
were adopted offering adhesion to the
Chicago PLATFORM; Indignantly reject
ing Buffers financial policy that by
the letter and spirit, and by the justice
OF the contract, the 8 20 bonds of the
United States are payable in paper
promises; declaring that the Republic.
cans OF this district ought not to send
CSh5ACoo q VINO lB
disqualified by bitter personal enmi-
ty towards Gen. Grant, from being q
party supporter of his administration,
ana declaring that Butler is not true
representative of the principles of the
Republican party. The resolves close
by endorsing Mr.. Dana.
The Anti-Butler Convention was we'll
attended and enthusiastic. A. A. Alb
bott, of Peabody, was chosen President,
and in his opening speech paid his re,
spects TO Gen. Butler as follows:
When candidate for public Office so
forge:s the decencies as life as to call
honest men traitors, 1t was time that
they come to plain words, and that the
truth is told. The opposition to Con.
Butler is not based entirely on his per-
ntctous political opinions, but upon the
read: Because he is self-willed, arro-
CANT, headstrong, domineerinR, of vio-
lent temper, and bitter hatred, intract-
able, tmplacable, inconciliatory. His
great governing passion seems to be
either to rule or ruin; a friend if you
submit, an enemy IL you resist, he is
persisling, unyielding and bold, bent
upon his own way at all hazards; art
ful and adrOit in private life, not with
out generous qualities, but in public
life knowing no scruples, OF great abiI-
ties, not troubled with modesIy, devoid
OF moral sensibilities, of keen wit, but
abusive and violent in speech and die
tion, with his faculties all sharpened
and acute. Such, he said, was the man
in whom the Republican leaders all
over the country do not confide; such
was the man In whom they as indie
pendent electors OF the fifth district
would not and could not confide.
Mr.. Abbots' remarks were received
with applause.
Mr.. Dana in accepting the nomina-
ton for Congress spoke at considerable
length, reviewing the position assumed
by Gen. Butler on the financial ques-
tion and sugmatiziDg him as the ish-
mael OF the Republican party. It is
claimed by Butler that he is the regular
and therefore should be cleo
ted, the speaker thought this did not
follow the great contest ofliberty which
had been fought, not by the regulars
but by the volunteers and the militia
aud with them in those contests, he
[Dana) cast his lot. [Great applause
He continued with some criticism upon
the caucus management which he de-
clRred the weakest point in our politi-
cal system and said that this in con-
nection with the rigid party dis
cipline OF the Democratic party, which
Gen. Butler now proposes to engraft
upon the Republican organization, was
the reason Of that degradation of the
Democratic party which Gen. Butler SO
much deplores.