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REV PETER CARTWRIGIIT'
peosh of a Pioneer of Me'hodis'n.


CHICAGO, Sept. 26.aKev; t Peter Cart
wright, a pioneer Me'no"i'U pi0'0iiei Il
dead, aged 81 years oc Tbo ctoo,,,
loot Mems Convention organized Ma
tai Roard and adjourned to Philadel-
rbin the third Wednesday in September
loc%. CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 26.-The North.
orn Ohio Lunatic Asylum is burned. Tho
inmates are said to be saved. Three attend
ants were burned and it is feared that Others
are i'm the debris. The loss is three hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 26.-Greeley
ovations continue at every point. The fol-
lowing are extracts from his speeches:
"Had he been born a SOutherner dur
ing the war, educated as southerners
were, he might have acted as they did, but
a northerner, lie had been of the first to ad-
vocate peace when danger had passed away,
though not without securing the beneht
of the blacks, Il X There are white men
still disfranchaised, and for them he now
pleaded. \ We had been just and
generous to the blacks, and let us at least
be lust to the whites. Ii the people
only knew the whole truth about carpet
hag Governments, there would be no doubt
of the result of this canvass. The
South had greatly sinned, but had greatly
sufferercd and repented, and should be for
given. The rObbersof South Carolina would
he on dead race out of that State two
days after they heard q new government,
was elected out against them. When
he went bail for jeff Davis his action was
not for the man, it was an overture for
the whole Southern people; millions of
men felt that act of kindness to their Sec
ton; for their sake he deemed it wise to do
L rl,o1l hO6 n
feated, but cannot be defeated. L may
not succeed as a candidate, but the effort
am making to bring the people into more
trusting relations with each other cannot
fail. | must succeed"
SOUTH BEND, Sept. 26.-COlfaX intro
duced General Hawley at the Republican
meeting here. COlfaX used the occasion
to disavOW any connection with the credit
mObiliers He said he never had dollar
of stock in his life that he did not pay for.
ColfaX adds: II claim the right to pur-
chase stock in the credit mobilier or in the
credit immbobilier, if there is one, in the
Union Pacific, Central Pacific or Lake
Shore, South Bendan Plymoth railroads,
in oil wells or gold mines, promising an
immense dividend thatsome times fail"
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 226.-The State
Auditor Graham was re-committed, eight
district courts deciding the Governors
pardon unconstitutional. r l
New YORK, Sept. 26.-Forester with
draws his petition for a writ of habeas
corpus, and consents to go back TO the Hi
nois penitentiary. Faucher has been
qualified as Judge Barnard's successor.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-The following
are extracts from Greeley's speech:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN In travel
ing through Pennsylvania, Ohio and In
diana [ have been greatly surprised at the
enthusiasm, heartiness and resolution
which found in the people who m Imet at |
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and |
Cleveland. l have seen greater gather
ings than ever before OH any occasion like |
this, and not only in these cities, but in |
towns of thousand and five thousand in
habitants. / have been met by numerous !
gatherings of people, and everywhere |
heartines, everywhere zeal and everywhere |
the opposite of doubt and distrust. tell |
you, friends, the States of Ohio and In |
diana will have to be bought if they are
carried by the supporters of the President |
in the election at hand, and don't think |
either Ohio or Indiana can be bought. |
Applause. can not judge so well of |
the sentiment of Pennsylvania, but what / |
have seen of it surprises me with as
surances that the election of Mr.. Bucka- |
lew is a fixed fact .