Territorial Delegates in the Convention, May 15, 1860

Editors Press & Tribune:

A portion of the Nebraska delegation to the Chicago Convention arrived here this evening. They were much surprised to be informed by persons at the Tremont House that the Kansas Delegation would be admitted to the Convention with the privilege of voting, but that the Nebraska delegation would be invited to the seats in the pit, without any voice in determining nominations or platform. By what showing of logic, I ask, is it proposed to admit the one and exclude the other? If I am correctly informed there is no possible chance for the admission of Kansas into the Union before the November election. The Senate is understood to be directly hostile to it. If then, it is proposed to admit one Territory which cannot possibly give an electoral vote to any candidate, why exclude another? It is argued that the Convention of 1856 established a precedent in favor of Kansas by admitting her to the National Republican Convention. But does not this precedent apply equally to Nebraska. Was Kansas then admitted because she was supposed to be soon to come into the Union? Not at all. She was admitted because she had sent delegates! We feel that we have done a glorious work in Nebraska during the past three years. We have wrested the territory from the Sham Democracy fairly and squarely. We appeal to the Convention to accord us our rights in the premises. We are fairly entitled, under the call, to seats in the convention as Kansas. The call of the committee constitutes the “ruling powers” of the Convention, and if there is to be any deviation from that instrument we demand that we be awarded the same privileges which are extended to others in like circumstances.

NEBRASKA.

CHICAGO, May 15, 1860.

SOURCE: “Territorial Delegates in the Convention,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 4, col. 2

Citizens of Wisconsin Escort.

The citizens of Wisconsin will meet at the head-quarters of the Wisconsin delegates, in Rice’s block, opposite the Post Office, at 11 o’clock this forenoon, to escort the delegates to the wigwam. A full attendance is requested.

SOURCE: “Citizens of Wisconsin Escort,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 4, col. 2

Meeting of Vermonters.

At a meeting of the Vermont delegation, held at their head-quarters, No. 2 Lind’s block, on Monday afternoon, May 14th, 1860, the following resolution was, on motion of the Hon. E. N. Briggs, unanimously adopted and ordered to be printed in the Republican papers of this city:

Resolved, by the delegation from Vermont to the National Convention, That the Republican sons of Vermont resident in Chicago, and other native or resident Vermonters, are cordially invited to visit the head-quarters of the delegation at No. 2 Lind’s Black, at such times before and during the session of the National Convention, as my be convenient and agreeable to them.

P. T. WASHBURNE, Chairman.

E. B SAWYER, Secretary.

SOURCE: “Citizens of Wisconsin Escort,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 4, col. 5

The Six States.

He would be offering a premium to political minorities who should say that the six doubtful States, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois—had the right to designate the candidate of the Chicago Convention; but he who presumes to set up his opinions of the probable action of those States, in opposition to the positive knowledge of the capable and intelligent delegates whom they have sent here, would be rushing blindly and insanely to destruction. The Republicans of these States know what battle they have to fight and the difficulties which stand in the way of success. They are anxious for a victory over the Sham Democracy as the members of the party elsewhere; and the supposition that they have not representatives here who have not the sense to see and the honesty to declare the true condition of political affairs in their respective localities, is an insult which ought not to be meekly borne. We will not condescend to argue that Illinois and Indiana as well as New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, and Connecticut know their own wants; nor to demonstrate that their views, so long as they do not extend beyond and outside of the Republican party and the Republican platform, cannot be safely disregarded. Both propositions are self evident. If the Convention will not listen to entreaties and remonstrances against the pursuit of a line of policy which those states declare to be fatal, the consequences of the infatuation will be felt when the day for retrieving errors and blunders has gone by.

We have yet to learn that the States that we have named will presume to say who among the many acceptable candidates before the convention should receive the high honor it will bestow. No man claims for them that [prerogative]. But it is not too much to say that, when they unanimously declare that under the lead of any candidate whom they may point out, defeat is certain, he is [presumptuous] and unsafe who would assume to challenge the honesty or correctness of their decision.

For the small blowers and strikers whom incessant drunken babble in bar-rooms and on street corners impugns the deliberate judgment of six Republican State Conventions regularly called and acting under a sense of the infinite responsibilities of their position, there can be only the contempt which is bestowed upon ignorance and impudence. For the proper reproof of a couple of newspapers in Chicago, of limited circulation and less influence—both of which act upon the hypothesis that the late Republican convention in this State was an assemblage of knaves and fools who said one thing and meant another,—for these, the punishment visited upon them by their few hundred readers will be sufficient.

SOURCE: “The Six States,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 1

The Yankee Delegates at Charleston.

Col. Forney is particularly down on the New England delegations at Charleston. The following is from his “Occasional” correspondence:

“Of all the delegates to the Charleston Convention, those who may be said to have covered themselves with, especial infamy are the parasites who represented some of the New England States, and particularly those who spoke for the Administration from Massachusetts. I am not one who distrusts the New England character, but it is a fact which candor compels me to state, that, with but few exceptions, the Yankee politicians are the most untrustworthy and dishonest. There are few Franklin Pierces in New England, and the course of the New Hampshire delegation at Charleston is probably the surest index of his own feelings in the great contest now going on. Though General Pierce is by no means the personal friend of Judge Douglas, I had the pleasure of hearing him declare, more than a year ago, that it was in vain to deny that the Democratic party of New England preferred the “Little Giant” to all other men for the Presidency.

What is to be the course of Whitney, Swift, Wright, Cushing, Butler, an others, from Massachusetts, who assisted the fire-eaters of the South in their war upon Douglas, notwithstanding that most of them had, before their departure for Charleston, took occasion to express the kindest feelings for Douglas—Mr. Whitney himself assuring the gallant Senator from Illinois that he would be found battling bravely for him to the bitter end, although he held an official position? A few weeks will answer the question. I forbear any allusion to the recreant delegates from Connecticut, being content to leave them to their constituents. The Southern people cannot have been blind to all these facts. They must have seen that if Judge Douglas is defeated at Baltimore on the 18th of June, it will be by the most open bribery and the most unblushing treachery. They must admit that if the North had been fairly represented, all the efforts of the Secessionists, would have been in vain, and at this time the whole Democratic party would have been rallied in solid column under his victorious banner.

SOURCE: “The Yankee Delegates at Charleston,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 6

Head Quarters of Delegations.

AT THE TREMONT HOUSE.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.	Parlor No.	34
OHIO.	”	47
MASSACHUSETTS.	”	3
ILLINOIS.	”	74
MISSOURI.	”	1
IOWA.	”	166
BRIGGS HOUSE.
MAINE.	Room Nos.	24 and 5.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.	”	31 and 32.
PENNSYLVANIA.		Gent’s Parlor.
RICHMOND HOUSE.
NEW YORK.		Ladies Parlor.
NEW JERSEY.	Parlors Nos.	166 and 167.
KENTUCKY.	Parlor No.	38.
MINNESOTA.	Parlor	G.
RHODE ISLAND.	Parlor	A.

The headquarters of the Vermont Delegation to the National Convention is in Room no. 5 Lind Block, where they will be glad to see their friends at all hours.

A book lies upon the table, in which native Vermonters are requested to register their names.

Delegates and others from Connecticut are requested to register their names at the office of L. D. Olmstead & Co., corner of Lake and LaSalle streets, where files of Connecticut papers may be found.

SOURCE: “Head Quarters of Delegations,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 1, col. 1

The War of the Outsiders.

The National Republican Convention meets at noon to-day. The busybody’s occupation is about gone. The task of casting the votes and giving the opinions of the various States is resigned to the delegations respectively. This will be a harrowing circumstance to a large number of well meaning people. A Considerable squad of outsiders from New York were here yesterday alleging that Mr. Seward could not carry that State in November; another volunteer delegation were urging that Mr. Seward could carry both Pennsylvania and Illinois. On both sides these persons were much more vociferous than the delegates themselves, and committed themselves to positions pro and con with a violence which the delegates would never assume. Nearly all the bitterness of the hotel controversy during the past two or three days has been evolved by these self-constituted representatives of the people.—The delegations, so far as we have had opportunity to observe have been discreet and judicious, refraining from objurgation, and forming their opinions by consultation with each other, rather than with the blowers and strikers of this or that candidate, whom half fare tickets have provided with the means of displaying their loquacity before an unusual audience. On Monday night, the delegates having mostly retired, these guardians of the people’s rights fell to beating on the nomination of their favorites, and staked large amounts of imaginary bank credit, ideal dry goods and improbable farms on the result. Thus far no perceptible effect of their impertinences has been noticed.

SOURCE: “The War of the Outsiders,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 1, col. 1

An Ill Bird.

While our citizens have been exerting themselves to make the delegates to the National Republican Convention satisfied with their visit to Chicago—flattering themselves that they were being tolerably successful—the Chicago Times has undertaken the immeasurably nauseous take of charging upon certain of them a disgusting crime, utterly false and unfounded. This effort to mar the occasion of so much hospitality and pleasure will be remembered by the people of Chicago to the lasting damage of its originators!

SOURCE: “An Ill Bird,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 1, col. 1

The List.

We re-publish in a supplement to-day, the list of delegates to the National Republican convention, with corrections to date. Several changes will be noticed in the Kentucky names.

SOURCE: “The List,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 1, col. 1

A Correction.

The able speech of Mr. Coffey of Pa., on Monday evening was delivered by Mr. George A., instead of Thomas J., Coffey, of that State, as amended in the caption of our report. Mr. George A. Coffey represents the Second District of Pa., and Mr. Titian J. Coffey is a delegate at large.

SOURCE: “A Correction,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 1, col. 1

Wigwam.

Cooley, Frank & Co. tell us that notwithstanding the large drafts made on their fancy dry goods to decorate the Wigwam, they have a few left for the ladies’ use; and also the substantials, in abundance, cheaper than the cheapest. Cash and prompt time buyers will find in their magnificent apartment all the inducements that can be held out to any purchaser to make their acquaintance.

SOURCE: “The Wigwam,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 1, col. 1

Telegraphic.

REPORTED FOR THE DAILY GAZETTE.

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BY WISCONSIN STATE TELEGRAPH LINE,

Office in Union Passenger Depot.

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CHICAGO, May 16.

At 12’o’cock the convention was called to order by Gov. Morgan, and after reading the call for the convention, Hon. David Wilmot of Pa., was nominated as temporary chairman.

Mr. Wilmot made an able and eloquent speech.

Prayer was made by the Rev. Mr. Humphrey.

A committee of one was appointed from each state and territory to report permanent officers.

Desultory motions and speeches were made, among which was a motion to accept an invitation of the Board of Trade to a pleasure excursion this afternoon on Lake Michigan, which was agreed to, and afterwards reconsidered and deferred, many delegates representing the paramount necessity of proceeding to business.

The Convention took a recess from 2 to 5 o’clock.

The Wigwam is crowded, and great enthusiasm prevails. The feeling is strongly for Seward.

NEW YORK, May 16.

The excitement about the New York postoffice defalcation continues unabated.—An investigation is getting on, which promises to develop additional frauds and implicate several employees of the department. A deficiency has been discovered in the accounts of the stamp clerk, amounting to $2,000. Mr. Fowler has not yet been arrested, and his whereabouts is not known.

NEW YORK, May 16.

Marshal Rynders, in company with his deputy, paid a visit to Wall street yesterday for the purpose of arresting a brace of operators who where charge with forging names on the pension office with intent to defraud the U. S. The parties implicated are S. Brainard, a broker in Wall street, and Joseph Lawrence, an attorney and notary public. It is supposed that their operations in the way of forged land warrants for soldiers, and sailors bounties and pension claims will reach $500,000. Commissioner Belts ordered them to be held to bail in the sum of $5,000 each.

WASHINGTON, May. 16.

On motion of Mr. Morris, of Ill., a resolution was adopted calling on the P. M. General to communicate to the house as soon as possible all the facts and circumstances relative to the defalcation of Mr. Fowler, post master at New York.

The Japanese paid a visit to the state department to-day. The house committee have waited on the embassy, extending to them invitations to visit the Capitol, but they declined at present, fixing no time for that purpose, nor will they reply to municipal invitations from New York and elsewhere before being visited by the President. They are particularly observant of etiquette.

LOUISVILLE, KY., May 16.

Display at Picket warehouse of two hundred and forty hhds. Of premium tobacco, averaging twelve hundred weight, under patronage of the Kentucky State Agricultural Society, said to be the largest display of fine tobacco ever witnessed in the world. Tobacco dealers are present from every section of the Union. Premiums well be awarded this afternoon.

HALIFAX, May 16.

The royal mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leth, from Liverpool on the 5th, via. Queenstown, 6th inst., arrived at this port at 11 o’clock last night and sailed early this morning for Boston at which port she will be du by Thursday noon.

The royal mail steamship Persia from New York, April 25th, arrived at Queenstown of Friday, 4th inst. The general news unimportant. Rumors were prevalent of renewed troubles in Sicily. Spain grants a general amnesty. Liverpool breadstuffs declined. Provision market generally dull.

The Market.

NEW YORK, May 16.

Flour market without striking change sales 16,000 bbls-5,20 super state; 5,2625,35; extra state; 5,20 super western; 5,25a5,60 common to medium extra western. Wheat without striking changes, sales 26,000 bush. 1,27a1,28 Milwaukee club 1,45 winter and red western; 1,55 choice white Michigan, Rye steady. Barley quiet and steady.

SOURCE: “Telegraphic,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 5.

Editorial Correspondence of the Gazette.

CHICAGO, May 15, 1860.

Since my letter of yesterday, thousands of republicans have arrived in the city. The railroad arrivals from every direction come with lengthened trains and burthened with their human freight. All night, or until two o’clock this morning, the streets were made vocal with bands of music accompanying the different delegations which were frequently arriving. It was a grand rallying of freemen from every hill and valley of the north and south.

Last night there was speaking in the great wigwam. It was nearly full and would have been quite so, if thousand had not been watching and preparing for the grand reception of the New England delegation which arrived at 9.45 P.M. All the streets in the neighborhood of the depot were crowded. Michigan avenue was illuminated. The arrival of the train was announced by rockets, the booming of cannon, and the loud hurrahs of the people. The Wide Awakes were out and formed a brilliant torch light procession, accompanying the delegates to their quarters.

There were about three hundred of the Wide Awakes—each man carried a torch held aloft by a staff, and wore upon his head a cap, and over his shoulders hung a black oil silk mantle to prevent the oil from the torches from soiling his clothes. They made an animated appearance, and are an institution to be widely disseminated during this campaign. They are a military company and a fire company, combined with political zeal; a compound sufficiently exciting to draw numerous votaries, and will give much zest to the approaching political contest.

The speakers at the Wigwam were Hon. Caleb B. Smith of Indiana, Hon. Thomas B. Van Buren of New York. They were all good speeches, were plentifully imbued with the “irrepressible conflict” doctrine. Mr. Coffey was especially zealous, and declared that the republicans could carry Pennsylvania with any candidate fairly representing their principles.

This was the first time he have attended a public meeting in the Wigwam. Its capacity is equal to the accommodation of ten thousand people, although its extension would not indicate it. The platform is large enough to contain the members of the national convention. There are roomy galleries, while under them, and in their front many thousand people can stand. The whole is built in the form of an ampitheatre, sustained by tall columns which reach to the roof which are festooned with evergreens. Around in front of the galleries are painted coats of arms of several states. The whole interior is elegantly decorated, and when lighted with gas and filled by an enthusiastic audience presents a fine appearance. The people of Chicago deserve and receive great credit for their liberality and taste in getting up with the Wigwam.

To-day has been spent by the thousands who throng the streets and the hotels, in discussing the nomination. It is carried on with zeal, but with perfect good feeling. The friends of Seward are by far the most numerous, and act fully in concert. They are in earnest for his nomination, believing that now is the time to nominate and elect him. Such is the judgment of his most cool and calculating friends. They are therefore working for him with a will.—They think they can count upon more than one-third of the vote upon the first ballot. It is believed that neither Bates nor McLean will have much of a show in the convention. Lincoln, Chase, Wade and Cameron are most mentioned next to Seward. The nomination will be one of these four with the chance much in favor of Seward.

The enthusiasm of the people along the various lines of railroad, especially in Michigan and Northern Indiana, is represented by the delegates to be great; while here it is up to fever heat, and will soon spread over the whole country.

There are whole sets of delegates from Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. The majority of the delegates from the two former states are for Seward, and propose to fight the battle upon principle, rather than expediency.

The Missourians have brought with them a Bowie knife as a present to Hon. John F. Potter, which is of rather formidable dimensions. Including the handle, it is seven feet long; the blade is three feet and six inches in length, and three inches in width. On one side of the blade is inscribed “presented to John F. Potter of Wisconsin, by the republicans of Missouri—1860.” On the reverse—“Will always meet a ‘Pryor’ engagement.” This present attracts great attention and excites much mirth at Pryor’s expense. It is rather a significant instrument, and means a good deal more than it says.

A meeting of the Wisconsin delegates which was attended by quite a number of the citizens of the state not delegates, was held at their head quarters, opposite the post office, this afternoon. Mr. Schurz was selected as chairman of the delegation to give the vote of the state, and was instructed for Mr. Seward, as long as he shall be a candidate before the convention. Mr. Crocker was recommended as one of the presidents, Mr. Frisbie as one of the secretaries, Mr. Schurz as one of the committee on resolutions, Mr. Rann as one of the committee on credentials, and Mr. McGregor as one of the committee on permanent organization.

A resolution was adopted that the citizens of Wisconsin meet at 11 o’clock to-morrow forenoon at the head-quarters of the delegation, and escort the delegation to the convention.

The editorial fraternity is largely represented. The Journal of this afternoon reports 121 as already registered at that office, and this number does not include several registered since.

A long letter might easily be written noticing minor incidents connected with this convention, but the difficulty of discriminating, and deciding what shall be omitted,  comprises a task we can easiest avoid by declining to notice any.

The convention meets as 12 o’clock to-morrow. The canvass, as we have already stated, for President is a very animated one. Many of the ablest and best known republicans in the Union are present as outsiders, and if the convention fails to make a good nomination, the failure cannot be attributed to a lack of advice or want of positive opinion as to a proper person.

A day or two will determine the question of nomination, and until then we will waive all opinion on the matter.

SOURCE: “Editorial Correspondence of the Gazette,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 2-3.

The passage of the tariff bill . . .

. . . though the House by republicans, is hailed with great enthusiasm in the iron districts of Pennsylvania. Meetings were held and salutes fired in various places on Saturday evening on the receipt of the news.

This may be regarded as a sure omen of the glorious triumph which awaits the republican banner in the Keystone state.

SOURCE: “The passage of the tariff bill,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 3.

Short Of Money.

The New York Herald wickedly insinuates that the reason why the Charleston convention adjourned so soon was because the delegates had not money enough to pay their board any longer; so that they had no alternative except to leave or run the risk of being sent to jail for debt—the laws on this subject being very strict at Charleston.

SOURCE: “Short Of Money,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 2-3.

All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

The Jackson (Ill.) Journal says the severe frost of Thursday night has destroyed the prospect of the fruit in the vicinity. The farmers say that nearly all their apples, peaches and cherries are destroyed. This destruction of the fruit together with the entire loss of the fruit crop will be a serious calamity to Morgan county.

The Charleston correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says that during the excitement occasioned by the withdrawal of the cotton states from the democratic convention, Senator Bigler visited the Kentucky delegation and urged them to withdraw also promising that if they would do so a portion of the Pennsylvania delegation would do the same.

A destructive fire occurred at Nebraska city, N. T., last Saturday afternoon, consuming nearly all the business portion of the town, consisting of forty-two prominent houses, including the post office, with considerable mail matter, and the government land office, with nearly all its papers; also the Nickals House. Loss estimated at $150,000; insurance $75,000, mostly in Hartford and St. Louis companies.

A man named Rorke murdered his wife in the town of Norway, Racine county, Wisconsin, last week. He beat her to death while excited with liquor. He has not been arrested.

The Pennsylvania railroad company have lighted one of their cars with gas, and are preparing to introduce it generally.

A correspondent of the New York Herald writing concerning the expected execution of Rev. Mr. Harden, says he will probably make a confession implicating others.

The Massachusetts commissioners now believe that unless some spread of the cattle contagion unknown to them has occurred, they have got the disease at North Brookfield and vicinity entirely under control.

The keeper of a drinking saloon in Keokuk, Iowa, last week, pushed the wife of one of his customers (who had come to take her husband away) out of doors, throwing her down six or eight steps, tearing the skin and flesh from her forehead till it hung over her eyes and injuring her terribly.

COMING TO AMERICA.—Master Albert Edward, a promising young man of eighteen years, and heir to the English throne, is intending to visit America the present season. We hope Americans will be Americans; treat the young man with cordial hospitality, but not enter upon any obsequious ovations to him, as if he were a divinity.

In North Carolina the contest for governor is turning strangely upon the negro, who is the political pivot there as well as at the north. The question is whether he shall be taxed upon his value as property, or as a personal poll. The democrats are in favor of the latter proposition.

The bill for organizing new territories, reported in the House of Representatives by Mr. Grow, provides that, whereas slavery has no legal existence in the said territories, “nothing herein contained shall be so construed to authorize or permit its existence therein.”

Two professional well-diggers, while digging a well near Dayton, Ohio, last week were buried by the caving in of the sides at the depth of sixty-four feet, and could not be extricated. They leave wives and three children respectively.

SOURCE: “All Sorts Of Paragraphs,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 4.

An old friend in our sanctum yesterday . . .

. . . one of our most staunch and reliable republicans, speaking of the tenacity with which a portion of the northern democracy adheres to Stephen A. Douglas, said it was a most striking reminder of the poor fox in the fable, who, after having nearly the last drop of his life’s blood sucked from him by a hungry swarm of flies, implored a friendly swallow that proposed to chase them away, not to do any such thing; for, reasoned the forlorn, but still cunning Reynard, this swarm, now partially satiated, may be succeeded by one still more voracious, by which I may be entirely devoured. Buchanan and his hungry swarm of office-holders have depleted the treasury, very nearly or quite to absolute exhaustion; Douglas would finish up the business of the body politic with his more numerous and more craving swarm. What the country needs and desires now, is an entirely different breed of insects, one whose natural and leading instincts are not for blood and spoils.

SOURCE: “An old friend in our sanctum,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 1.

The nomination and election of a republican president . . .

 . . . will do more for the restoration of confidence in a financial point of view and revival of business and trade than any thing else can do. When the rulers of the nation lose their integrity; when they descend to low party intrigue; when a corrupt administration makes use of the public funds to procure the enactment of measures repugnant to the wishes of the people, then it is that business confidence sympathies with that in the government, and distrust and stagnation take the place of hopeful enterprise. Under such circumstances, almost any undertaking is hazardous, property becomes unsafe, its value is fluctuating and unreliable, and the baleful influences of the government are felt in every department of individual economy. Change the government, let only its legitimate functions be performed and confidence is at once restored and business undergoes an instant revival. What business man, tradesman, farmer or mechanic does not desire a radical change in the administration of the general government.

SOURCE: “The nomination and election of a republican president,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 1.

Half-Fare to Chicago.

EDITORS GAZETTE:—The Chicago & North Western railway will sell tickets to Chicago during the republican convention at half-fare—commencing May 14th, good until Saturday evening train from Chicago, May 19th.

Yours, &c.

H. E. PATTISON.

SOURCE: “Half-Fare to Chicago,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 3, col. 1.

The Douglas meeting . . .

. . . held at New Orleans last week, to endorse the action of those who stayed in the Douglasite convention, and denounce the seceders, is described by the Delta as a fizzle. It says there were hardly enough people present to organize a territory under Douglas’ doctrine of squatter sovereignty, which we believe is about one hundred and fifty. It was a “muss meeting” in the open air. Speeches were made by Messrs. Morse, Heisland, Hahn, and Clack.

Hon. Mr. Morse said that if Stephen A. Douglas was not elected the next president, William H. Seward would be—a sentiment which may be safely commended to the consideration of the weak-kneed republicans.

SOURCE: “The Douglas meeting,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 6.