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CINCINNATI CONVENTION.

The following is the telegrapic sum-
mary Of the last days proceedings OF
the great Convention of the Liberal
Reformers at Convention, which has
nominated, we trust, the next President
and Vice-President Of the United States,
lin the persons of Horace Greeley and
,Gratz Brown:
CINcINSA, May 3.-Cassius NJ. Clay
and Judge Matthews addressed the Con-
vention last night. The proposition to
nominate caused confusion, several de-
string to speak. The Convention disre-
garded the gavel. The Convention was
divided-one party desiring the plat
form, the other the candidate, to have
the precedence. Parliamentary tactics
prevented business, and after vehe-
npent discussion, the Convention adj
journed to 10 O'Clock to-day. Greeley's
tariff platform-leaving the people to
carding the tariff-doninates.
The Union and Reform Convention
is fully organized. They want to secure
State rights. They want man for
President who can be soldier in war
and a citizen in peace. This movement
Is for Trumbull for President and q
Southern man for Vice President.
The Irish-American Reform League
Is in session here, sitting with closed
doors. 1t is said the league opposes
Adams and favors Greeley.
The Liberal Convention adjourned at
10 o'clock. A resolution that when the
Convention ballots, there shall be no
formal nominations, passed. The plat
form was unanimously adopted, amid
great cheering. The resolutions declare
the equality Of all men before the law
the Union o. the States; no re-opening
81 the Questions settled by the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments ;
the removal Of disabilities incurred in
the rebellion; general amnesty; local self
government; supremacy OF civil over
military authority; respect for habeds
corpus q return to methods of peace,
maintenance of constitutional limita-
ton Of power; civil service reform; a
single term for the Presidency; system
of Federal taxation which shall not un-
necessarily interfere with the industry
of the people; and, as there ore honest,
irreconcilable differences Of opinion as
to the merits, respectively, of the sys-
TENS of protection and free trade, that
that question be. remitted to the people
i'm the Congressional Districts. wild
cheering, and the decision of Congress
thereon left wholly free of executive
interference or dctation; the mainte-
nance of the public credit against repu.
diaton in every form; speedy return
to specie payments; recognition OF the
services and sacrifices Of soldiers and
sailors; against further grants of land
to railroads or other corporations; in
foreign friendship, demanding nothing
not right, submitting to nothing wrong:
"A yoice-"Three cheers for the second
declaration of Independence!s'l Amid
great cries of "Question," overwhelm-
ing few who tried to get the floor to
speak, the chair put the question; when
the report was adopted, with loud and
continued cheering. The chair announ-
ced the vote unanimous.
The next order of business was stated
. by the Chair to be the nomination OF a
candidate for the Presidency, without a
formal presentation of Candidates. The
roll of States was then called, with the
following result on the first ballot: d:
Adams, 2O3; Trumbull, 1903; Davis, 923;
Greeley, e147; Brown, SO; Curtin, 81;
Chase, %; Sumner, /. On the first
ballot, New York gave Greeley G6 and
Adams 9: Observation-Disclosures %,
Trumbull 4; Ohio-Adams Al; Illinois
Trumbull 81, Davis q. Before the vote
was announced, GratZ Brown, by unan
imous consent took the stand, and
thanked his friends fer their support of
him, but withdrew his name, and asked
his friends to support Horace Greeley.
(Great cheers, with persistent Kisses.
The Chair arose to anHounee the vote,
when q Missouri delegate arose to o
question of privilege, and asked to
change his vote. Considerable confusion
ensued, various delegations asking. to
change their votes, and contention
arising in some of them, notably Ken
lucky, as to what the changes among
themselves really we're. Cassius NJ. Clay
announced Kentucky's vote changed as
follows: Five from Brown to Greeley,
and one from Brown to Adams. New
Jersey changed some of her votes. The
Chair announced the result as follows
Adams, 2o3; Trumbull, ITO; Davis, 924;
Greeley, 147; Brown, 95; Curtin, 62
Chase, .2i. Whole number, GA; neces-
sary to choice, 3O7. No choice was
made.
Missouri asked leave to retire for con-
sultation. Yice-President Julian TOOK
the chair. Casey, from the District OF
Columbia, offered q resolution giving q
vote to the Territories, which was tabled:
Mcclure withdrew Curtin's name, and
asked leave for the Pennsylvania delega-
tiop to retire, which was granted = Pro-