The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-04
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Charles w. Slack, Esq, who for many
years has been Treasurer of the Massachusetts
State Republican Committee, has resigned the
position.
Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, has APP
pointed Professor Silliman State Chemist
under an act passed at the last session of the
Legislature relating to taverns and spirituous
liquors.
Rev Abel Grosvenor Hopkins, of Cort-
landt. graduate of Hamilton College in the
class of 1866, has been elected Professor of
Latin in that institution, in place of Professor
William N. McHarg, resigned
Mr.. Charles o. Shepard left Buffalo re-
Gently for Japan, to assume the duties of
United States Consul at Yeddo. He will be,
it is said, the youngest Consul in the service
of our Government.
--Thenew buildings erected at Milwaukee,
Wis, for the disabled soldiers are to be dedi-
Gated on the 27th inst, at which time the
Board of Managers of National Military
Asylums will hold their animal meeting
there.
There were 473 more commitments for
drunkenness in Boston in July and August of
the present year than there were in the same
months last year. And still the city is agi-
tated by the question, us there an open bar
in Boston 2?
Senator Ross, of Kansas. has recon-
taken at the earliest practicable moment to
collect, and put into convenient and proper
shape for circulation abroad, full and COM
plete statistics Of the present crops Of that
State.
Mr.. Gregory, agent in Canada of the De-
partment of Marine and Fisheries has been
instructed to get the Government steamship
Napoleon III in readiness to convey his
Royal Highness Prince Arthur and suite from
pi,yin l,,I fn oh tl1a ,Nf
next month.
Certain old political leaders in Louisville,
including Ex-Governor Wicklitfe, Attorney
General Heron, and Senator Egan, it is said
have met together in New Orleans recently,
and selected a candidate for Governor, to be
voted for two years hence. They have GER
tainly commenced in season.
The Thornton property, one of the old
colonial estates Of Virginia, lying on the
Alexandria, Loudon, and Hampshire Railroad,
and containing 1900 acres, has been sold to a
Northern com pany for $15O,OOO. 1t is to be
divided up into small farms, and colonists
from the North are to settle upon it.
Letters from Cheyenne report that the
Democratic Convention for the nomination of
a delegate to Congress took twenty ballots
without effecting choice and then put the
names of the principal candidates in a hat,
shook them up, and declared the first one
drawn out to be the choice of the convention.
General Hancock had brilliant reception
on Friday night last in st. Paul, Minnesota,
to which bowling wilderness, according to the
Democratic papers, he was ''banished' by Pre-
sident Grant. 1t was given in his honor by
the Minnesota Club which is composed OF
many of the leading citizens, and was emf
nently successful.
Robert Hecker, the young man who re-
ported that he was drugged, robbed, and
thrown overheard from the steamer Old
Colony, has reached Boston, and his trust
worthiness is vouched for by gentleman of
that CITY, who says he served as Hospital
Steward with Professor Burt Green Wilder, of
Cornell University when the latter was Sur
geon of the both Regiment Massachusetts
Volunteers, and that it was to see him in re-
lation to claim for back pay that he made
the journey which came so near costing him
his life.
The Richmond DiSpatch of Tuesday con-
tains poem, deprecating the secession of the
South, sent to its editor by the late Mrs.
Sigourney in February, 1861. The fate of
the hour had been too well decided at that
time, the editor says, to render the publica-
ton of the poem advisable; and he adds:
Had the ten Governors been chained in
some dungeon for the detention of evil
spirits, as they ought to have been, for the
welfare of mankind, and had Virginia, Mr..
Lincoln, and Mr.. Crittenden been intrusted
with the settlement of the dispute, the Union
would never have been disrupted, and the
| ardent hopes of the lamented poetess would
have heen realized.
The Chicago Adgdnce has an elaborate
plan for the resumption of specie payments
two years and five months hence, prepared by
General Nettleton and indorsed by Jay
Cooke, which has been thus summarized
It proposes to withdraw $780, 900 of
greenbacks, and give the national banks of
the West, South, and Pacific coast authority
to issue that amount. There will then be
| $25G, 900, 600 greenbacks, and $4oO, 100000
national bank notes in circulation,
which are to be kept legal
tender, as now, but shall be redeemed
in gold when presented, the greenbacks
in New York and the bank notes each at It: its t
own bank. Meantime the Government IS to
hoard gold, issue compound interest notes,
and, if necessary, make a small gold loan in
Europe After resuming specie payments
to the extent indicated, the Government
bonds are to be exchanged for longer bonds
at lower rate of interest. A sliding scale