Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-09-07

hama via Hong Kong, announcing that
the steamer from Saa Francisco Of Aug l
had arrived at Yokohama Aug. 24th:
The same night she was burned to the wa.
ter's edge: The passengers and crew wero
saved. Hong Kong treasure amounting
to four hundred thousand dollars is still
ON board Of the vessel. She was the new.
est of the company's steamships, built in
1869, and valued at 100000. The
company are their own underwriters.
A Stouuingtou dispatch says Fifteen
were saved from the wreck Of the M4is,.
rs are known to be dead and % missing.
New YORK, August 3l.-Among the
saved by the cutter MNcasin from the
wreck Of the Metis are G.. s. Harris, COM
mauder Of the Ohio; H. Brannen, of Con;
necticut; and I. II. Forney, of the Coast
Survey. The total number of lives lost
will probably not exceed forty. Among
the missing are two sons of w. BuhEcr:
Of this city, and the wife Of Sheridan, the
actor, who was himself saved. One ac-'
count states that the Metis had a Target
number of passengers than usual Of, nc.'
count Of passengers returning on extut.:
sion tickets, which expired in few days
aud who had all the freight she could
safely carry. The incidents related are
narrowing 10 the extreme. Six bodies
have been identified and eleven not i.
!" BosToN, Sept "a passenger BY tho
steamer Ne,o England, who recently
worked passage from St Johns to this
port states chat she went ashore while she
was steamins at full speed in dense fog.
The passengers, after being landed ut East.
port, were forwarded to the railway Station
and left to shift for themselves, thou, b.
their passages were paid through. After
the crew devoted all their energies to .av.
lug the cargo, and no attention was pal to
the valuable baggage Of the passengers.
The Blatant Duncan Flxzlc,
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 1.-The large Access
sions to delegations looks rs If the Con.
vcntion would be composed of four or five
hundred delegates. They are generally
not we'll known as politicians.
Senator Bayard, Of Delaware, Judge
Woodward, Of Pennsylvania, J. Proctor
Knott, Of Kentucky, Chauncey Burr, of
New Jersey, and Hon. VIM. Cary, Of
Ohio, are, perhaps, best known. All the
States will b, represented. There is an
absence from Southern delegations Of men
Of prominence. A good deal Of excite
ment was created this evening among tho
friends Of the Convention, and through
judicious application Of force created such
confusion as to prevent the nomination OF
OConnor. A large number Of Greeley
Liberals are in the city. As far as Louis.
vil!eans are concerned, but little sympathy
is shown for the straight out movement.
New York, September 2-Charles
OConnor, while endorsing the project Of
nominating regular straight out Demo-
cratic ticket for President and Vice. Presi.
dent, declines to be the nominee, and has
already written letter to that effect to the
leaders Of the Louisville Convention.
LOUISVILLE, September 2-This even.
ing, in tho grounds Of the Cult II ou.e,
Colonel Blanton Duncan casually inter-
'ruptcd o conversation between General &.
a. Custer (who is here to attend the open.
ing Of the Industrial Exposi,ion) and DR..
John Kelly, one Of the prominent physi.
tons Of this city. 4 sharp conversation
ensucd, in the course Of which Duncan
declared that he had been offered million
dollars by the Greeley party to break up
the Straighi.out Democratic Convention.
General Custer responded that the other
party must have offered more, US he could
prove that the whole thing was o bargain,
and said If he was to be sold he would scN
to the party who paid the highest price.
Duncan responded that Clusters iuformunt
was liar. DR.. Keller said, " nun respon-
sible for the statement" and demanded re-
traction. Duncan refused whereupon
Keller struck him 10 the face. Duncan
rallied aud attempted to strike Keller.
Seneral blows passed, when parties sep.
arated them.
Sept. 3.-The National Democratic Con.
vention mot to-day in the Common Pleas
Courtroom and was called to order at one
O'Clock p. NJ. by Blanton Duncan.
LOUISVILLE, Sept 4.-Chas. O'Conner
positively declines the nomination. The
Convention did not re.assemble until 4 r.
NJ. The Chairman announced that be-
had just received dispatch from Charles
O'Connor, saying that he would not accept
The announcement created profound SEN
sation in the Convention, and groat sp.
plause by those outside. The Chairman
read as follows:
New York, Sept. 4.
To the President Of the Louisville Con-
veutiou: 1t is impossible for me to accept.
] am willing to aid you in everything but
that CHAs. O'CONNOR.
The question arose as to the genuine,
ness Of the dispatch, and doubts were
freely expressed. Finally, the President
said no had every reason to believe that it
was. genuine, but if it was forgery the
telegraph Office ought to be abolished or
torn down. He urged upon the ConveD.'
ton tho necessity Of staying till the work
was done. Mr.. Lun ly Of New Y. TX made
q speech, insisting that no declinatiou was
nossihle md TINT thu mammalian rnn.f run