, 1876-06-16
LATE ST NEWS
BY TeIegrnph.

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Legal tenders in Portland-buy-
ing SO, selling 80.
We give below the latest news
from the Cincinnati Convention up
to the hour of going to press.
The Republican Convention at
Cincinnati assembled on Tuesday,
the 18th inst, and was the largest
and most excited crowd ever con
gregated there, everything at fever
heat; but little acrimony and gen
eral good feeling exhibited; after
careful revision of the ground all
were satisfied of Blaine's nomination.
The attacks on him, and his illness.
the result of mental strain under the
attacks, turned maty who were luke
warm into earnest supporters. Hayes
stands foremost for the nomination
of Vice President.
Objections having been made to
Morton as a candidate on account of
his health, he has received letter
from his physicians showing he has
steadily improved for two years past.
The Cincinnati Times of the 9th
says: Some of the Nevada dele
gates have arrived; but their leader
Jones has not yet appeared. When
he does, Nevada, which is now lying
around loose, will rendezvous at the
luxurious house he has engaged\oR
Vine streets Jones is for Conkling,
and the natural consequence is that
Nevada is for Conkling.
A special from Cincinnati saws:
The Conkling men are spending
much money, and will keep up the
scandals against Blaine to the last,
and hope to have the contest finally
narrowed down TO Conkling and
Morton. Morton men, though, are
less confident. The Cincinnati peo-
pie, oddly enough, are for Bristow,
not for Hayes. In half of the shop
windows Bristow's picture is dis
played.
The House Committee on Terrific
ries will report for passage a bill to
regulate elections in Territories. 1t
limits the elective franchise to male
citizens Of twenty-one years, or up,
wards, who are not .bigamists, or po-
lygamists.
A FIRE broke out in the Chinese
quarters. at San Francisco on the
10th inst. and during its progress a
Chinaman in the last stages of small
pox was hurriedly taken from the
burning building and deposited on
the sidewalk, where. he lay, the po-
hcemen declining to tooch him, and
was burned to death. After the fire
was ex,inguished, the bodies of two
other Cinnamon were found in the
store, who had been sleeping in the
rear of one of the stores. Parties
in the vicinity, both white and Chi
nese, report that number o,f cases
of small pox exist among the Chi
nese at the corner where the burned
buildings are located.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany have reduced the freight on
grain to $2.25 per ton. The yield
of grain will exceed that of any pre-
vious season in California. Harvest
ing will not begin until the latter
part of this month.
The Republicans of the Washing
ton, D. c. District, repudiating the
convention held in March last to
elect two delegates to the Cincin-
natl convention, met in Washing
ton on the 9th inst. and elected ex-
Gov. Sheppard and Fred Douglass,
with instructions to work for Conk-
ling.
The Senate committee on Terri
tories considered the bill to establish
a civil government for Alaska by
making it a county of Washington
Territory, The committee took no
action and indications are that the
proposition will be reported ad-