New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-25
MISCEILANEOUS.


Convention COmpleted-Pursuit of Cat
tic Understanding Worm DAM
aging Fruit Trees-A Bogus Firm At
Memphis Conspiracy Trials.
BALTIMORE, April 24.-Among the dele
gates elected to the Cincinnati convention
are Governor Bradford, Milton Whitney
and Colonel Weizel.
The regular Republican convention
effected temporary organization to-day.
CINCINNATI, April 24-The arrangements
for the Liberal Republican convention have
been completed.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, April 24.-Flfty
men, raised by the stock men, left here to-
day to follow cattle thieves, and will fol
them, if necessary, into Mexico.
BALTIMORE, April 24.-The Republican
State Convention instructed their delegates
to vote for Grant and Colfax at Phila-
delphia. =
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 24.-The Re
publican of tomorrow morning will contain
the following: Charles Francis Adams and
the Cincinnati convention"
As arranged many weeks ago, Mr.. Adams
sailed on his return to Europe yesterday,
with his wife, in order to be ready for the
meeting OF the Geneva arbitrator.
Before lie left, gentleman interested in.
the Cincinnati convention, and desiring
that he should become its candidate, wrote
him, requesting his views of the movement
which it represented, and suggested that
there be some one in attendance who could
speak for him, to which there was received
the following reply, with no restrictions as
to its publicity:
BosroS, April IS, 1872.
MY Dear MIR. Wells, Norwich, Connecticut:
have received your letter, and will an
swer it frankly. do not want the nomina-
ton, and could only be induced to consider
it by circumstances under which it light
possibly be made. If the call upon me
were an unequivOcal one, based upon con-
fidence in my character earned in public
practice, the principles which l professed,
then indeed would come the test Of my
courage in the emergency; but if am to be
negotiated for, and have assurances given
that am honest, you will be SO kind as to
draw out of that crowd With regard to
what understand to be the declaration of
principles which has been made, it would
be ridiculous In me to stand haggling over
them; with the single exception of am
biguity, see nothing which any honest Re-
publican or Democrat would not accept; in
deed, / should wonder at any one who
denied them.
The difficulty is not in the professions
1t lies everywhere, only in the manner in
which they are carried into practice. If
have succeeded in making myself under
stood YOU will perceive that l can give no
authority, to any one to act or speak for me
in the premises. l never had moments
belief that when it came to the point any one
so entirely isolated from any political asso-
Citations Of any kind could be made accept
able as a candidate for public Office, but l am
so unlucky as to value that independence
more highly than the elevation which is
bought by sacrifice Of it. This is not in
consistent with sense of grateful recogni..
ton Of the very fiattering estimates made of
my services in many and high quarters;
but can not consent to NEEDLE with them
for power. If the good people who meet at
Cincinnati really believe that they need
such an anomalous being as l am, which
do not, they must express it in manner to
convince me of it, or all their labor will be
thrown away.
am, with great respect, yours, ETC..
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
LOUISVILLE, April 24.-Seven prisoners
escaped from Frankfort Jail this evening.
Five were recaptnred. A man named Dip
pold, just out of the penitentiary, and q
negro are still at large.
HALDEN, Mo-, April pa mob stopped
the East bound train on the Missouri, Kan
eas and Texas railroad at Gum City, in
Cass county, this afternoon, and murdered
j. r. Cline, j. c. Stevenson and s. E. Dutro.
Stevenson was member of the county
court, and presiding judge when the recent
bond excitement was raised. Cline was an
attorney, who was implicated. Dutro was
killed simply because he was in company
with the others.
7 The mob threatened to kill any person
who hereafter identified either of them in
court or elsewhere, and said they had just
commenced their work of murder. Some
OF the mob were masked; all bad revolvers
or shotguns. They numbered about 70 or
100 men
=. MEMPHIS, April 24.-There was a slight
frost here this morning.
The army worms have appeared in the
surrounding country in immense numbers,
and are doing great damage to the fruit
trees.
A bogus concern, which was started here