New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-19
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and Indiana Railroad Company held its
annual meeting yesterday and elected thIr-
teen directors among them j. n, mcCul-
Tough and Thomas d. Messler, of Pittsburg,
and Manuel FalcOtt, of Chicago. hon.
William a. Howard, Of Grand Rapids, was
elected president.
The following board Of directors OF Ing
Michigan Southern and Lake shore 1'a "
road Company was elected yessefuay- ~
w. Cass, j. N. Mccullough, thomas u.
MessIer and William Shaw, o. PIttspurg;
Thomas A. Scott, of Philadelphia ,. J.
TiIden. Of New York; Joseph z. Fisk, Z.
Ferry and L. G.. Mason, of Michigan.
Thomas ID Messler was elected president;
Joseph +. Fisk, vice president; w. X. Shell
by, secretary and treasurer.
SAVANNAH, July 1.-THE Grand Lodge OF
the knights Of Pythias Of Georgia met here
to-day. ID. b. Woodruff, Of Macon, was
elected O. c.; K. A. Wallace, OF Savannah,
v. S. c.; G.. j. StrOberg, Of Macon, X. and
G.. s.; Henry Edmondson, Of Augusta, q. b.
SAN FRANCISCO, July l8.-The mayor OF
Yeddo, Japan, dined with the alumni OF the
State University this evening. he mace an
official visit to the mayor Of San Francisco
to-day
The mail stage between Dallas and Canon
CITY, Oregon, was stopped by higbwaymen
Yesterday. The robbers, three in number,
obtained about $4,000 from the mail bags.
The steamer San Francisco, for Panama,
carried $944000 in treasure, including
$75O.0O0 in coin, for Peru, and a cargo val
ned at $2IS,000, including $4,000 gallons Of
California wine and brandy and 24OO
centals Of wheat for England, shipped at
ga los per ton. This is the first shipment
Of the kind ever made by steamer.
The Tucson, Arizona, Citizen Of July u
says: Lieutenant Bender and command
returned Yesterday, after being reinforced
from Fort Bowie. The troops went into
the Dragon mountains after the Indians,
but retreated without giving battle.
CINCINNATI, July 18.-The Hon. William
Lawrence was to-day nominated for Con
gress by the Republicans Of the Eighth
Ohio district.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July l8-In accepting
the Democratic nomination for Congress at
the convention in Spencer to-day, the Hon u.
w Voorhees, made a long and deliberately
prepared speech. He said he gave honest
Republicans the same credit they now give
the Democrats; that they would sufficiently
rise above party to vote against corrupt
administration without regard to the com
pany in which they performed so noble an
act.
He thought any one Of four or five Demo
cratic statesmen who might be named could
have been elected President over Grant,
and believing this, he exercised his right as
q member of the Democratic party in point
ing out what he considered his proper
course. He had no apologies to make for
the past in opposing Greeley's nomination. |
What he had said was directed to the Balti- |
more convention, and not beyond the action |
Of that body.
Heregretted that his views were not adopt /
ed at Baltimore. and would abandon public 1
life. But he felt that his duties as a citizen
compelled him to accept the nomination
and make one more campaign. He thought /
the Democratic party infinitely preferable,
even with Greeley as its candidate, to the
Republican party with Grant, and his man |
ayers. No thought of recreancy or inf
deity to the Democratic party entered his
mind He wanted to submit to its counsels,
hoping time would show its ways to be
wiser and more beneficial to the country
Than he predicted.
Others might be more enlightened than
himself on the points at issue, and their
plans should have a fair trial. He then
'eviewed the national political field and
Iaid that the Republican party but for its
abuses of power, would have had before it /
onger life than was ever granted to a
political party in the history of the world
But its career had been full of wlckedness,
gradually but surely FORGETTING the conf
1ence Of the people and driving the best
elements ont Of its organization.
He illustrated this with the history of In
diana Democracy, which had reduced the |
majority of $1,000 in 1864 so
that the Republicans barely saved their |
State ticket in 1868, as he claimed, by
returns, by 500 majority. Then
came the fifteenth observation-disclosures
legally ratifed-a fraud, in his Judgment,
on the American people, which gave an in
crease Of 100000 votes to the Republicans
Yet the Democrats swept the State by 5000
majority.
He thought this showed decline of the
party, and if the Liberal Re
publicans could even moderately well full
Gil their expectations, the vote of this State
would beNcast against the administration
party in October and November by as large
as were ever known in her his
tory. Mr.. Voorhees, thought the admins
tration Of public affairs in the South for the
last three years had been the worst ever
known in the history of civilized people,
and he could not doubt the demand from
that section tor anybody to defeat the re-
election Of Grant.
They believe the election of Greeley will
afford them relief and therefore they de-
handed his nomination. 1t has boen ac-
corded more in Difference to their condition
and their wishes than to any other one
cause. If Greeley is elected, he will stand
pledged by the strongest obligations that
sver rested upon candidate to accord the /
South the blessings of just, kind and fra !
5eFnal policy Of government. Failing in
his he would be aoeursed among men.
Mr.. Voorhees, declared himself opposed to
tariff to negro suffrage, to the
resumption of specie payments, to redemp-
ion of bonds in gold and the exemption
rom taxation of national banks.
Weather Report.