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Show GENERAL. Political. Springfield, 20. The Democratic convention resolved that the Cincinnati platform with Greeley's letter ail'ords a common ground on which liberal men of all parties can consistently unite, in opposition to personal government; and tho delegates to Baltimore wore instructed in-structed Lo act as a unit in the spirit of tho foregoing. In the Liberal convention Cassius M. Clay said tho South was fully prepared to j"in in an everlasting peace. The joint cemmitteo reported a tic!;2t as follows: For governor, Guslavus A. Koorner; lieutenant-governor, general Chas. Blady; secrtarv, Edward lium-niulln; lium-niulln; auditor, Daniel O'Hara; treasurer, treasur-er, Chas. B. Samphire; attorney gen-oral, gen-oral, Lawrence Woldon; three Liberals and three Democrats. Tho nominations were ratiticd, and a mixed electoral ticket will be put in tho Held. Cincinnati, 'Ai A contidential circular circu-lar was distributed here to-day among Democrats and Liberals, tho exact source of which is not known, asking tho recipients to secure tho attendance of nt least ten prominent Democrats from each district of his Stato, to oppose Grcoley at Baltimore. Trenton, 20. Tho New Jersey Democratic Demo-cratic convention pledged itselt to abido by and support the nominees of the Democratic national convention. Gov. Kandolpli said a more suitable nomination nomina-tion and a more acceptable candidate to Democratic voters than Grooloy could not havo beon found. lie had fully pronounced in favor of such old-fashioned Democratic principles as hostility to centralization, a full support to amnesty, am-nesty, civil service, etc., and tho Democracy Demo-cracy could accept his conversion. Atlanta, lit. Tho Georgia Democracy send a conservative delegation to Baltimore, Balti-more, untranimeled by instructions. The resolutions invite everybody to cooperate co-operate tor a change of the administration. administra-tion. Cleveland, 0. 20. The delegates to 1 tho Democratic convention held a largo meeting to-night in Weddell house, which was brilliantly illuminated. Speeches by prominent gentlemen favored fav-ored the ratification of the Cincinnati platform and nominees. Lawrence, Ks., 26. Tho Stale central committees of the Democratic and Liberal Lib-eral parties, in Kansas, met here in joint meeting, and called a convention to nominate congressmen and electors at Topeka on September 11th. bpriogheld, 26. Senator Trumbull addressed an immense meeting in the State house square this evening; ar raigned Grant for nepotism, gift-taking, unwarranted interference with the rights of the States, and a military spirit which impelled hiui to centralize power in hi own person; such tendencies Trumbull pronounced full of danger tc a free people, whoso rights and liberties, by being gradually abstracted, were in danger ol being lost entirely. Montpelier, 2i. The Iiepublican State convention to-day represented nearly every town in tho State. Julius Converse was nominated for governor, Hon. K. S. Taft, of Burlington, for lieutenant governor; Hon. Jno. A Pago, of Montpelier, for treasurer. Resolutions strongly endorsing the Philadelphia platform and the nominees passed. New York. lutelllgenee. New York, 26. A hundred and fifty employees of Baiter's furniture manufactory manu-factory have struck in consequence of the determination of the employers to return to 10 hours, aftor live weeks trial of tho 8 hour system. The marble polishers, pol-ishers, metal workers, iron moulders, .UU'l ?. Sowing iimoViino mon are still on the strike. " - The Brooklyn city K. B. has increased tho pay of all the employes twenty-five cents a day. At the locomotive shops, Paterson, N. J., 3,000 are idle. Baldwin, Kioo & Co., straw ponds, failed to-day. Their assets are small. Three thousand yards of luce, smuggled smug-gled in milk cans, per the Russia, were soized last night. The Big Jubilee Sinking 1. L, D'a. Boston, "26. Fifteen thousBnd attended the concert to-day. Leutnor, Strauss and the bands were encored. Leutnor sang "Home, sweet home." Strauss gave bis famous polka, and the bands played American airs. The performance closed with "Old Hundred." Harvard conferred the degree of L.L. D. on Grant, governor "Washburne and James Mar:in. Tho audience rose and oheered tho President. Miscellaneous. . The machine Bhops of the Now Albany, Al-bany, Indiana, railroad, at Lafayette, wore burued yesterday afternoon, with four locomotives. Loss $-30,000, jamos Burnett tried to kill his wife with a heavy rolling-pin, at tho Newbury New-bury house, Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, and made a corpse of himself with a butcher knifo. Cause, intemperance. Father Tom Burke, the famous Dominican Do-minican preacher, and Irishman, is at Memphis, Tennessee. Governor Hotl'mnn has called an extraordinary ex-traordinary session of tho New York supreme court, to meet at Albany, July 16th, to hear appeals in tho eases of Tweed and others. The bill proscribing the Jesuits in Prussia has become law. Fifty thousand young trout belonging to D. S. Hammond, Chicago, died during dur-ing a recent thunder storm, and it is believed be-lieved were killed by lightning. A party controlling sisty millions of stock in tho Erio B. R. havo arriyod from England in N iw York, and a new j board of directors is expected. |