Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Jskrap aiti Jfacts. Iup. iL? u?i_ . * - * -??A gentleman, walking with two ladies, stepped on a hogshead hoop that flew up and struck him in the faoe. "Good gracious I" said he, "whioh of yon dropped that?" In the palace of St. Clond is the wogdep benoh whioh Louis Napoleon made .with his own hands at Ham, and whioh was his favorite seat on the sammit of the ramparts. He keepe it as a sort of talisman to prevent fortune from turning his head. ??Glen. Hood was feted at Richmond, Texas. In a speech at that plaoe "he endorsed perfeot submission and a dignified endurance of all wrongs." He advised people tQ build sohool houses, churches and railroads. The following copy of a written notioe appeaxa in a Western paper: "Lost or strade from the subscriber, a sheep all over white, one leg was blaok and half his body. All persons shall reseve five dol's to bring him. He waa a she goat. lne negroes ot can r ranoisco nave been testing their right to sit among white folks at the theatre. The jadge held that a proprietor has a right to enforoe such reg nlatiana ma would be most oouduoive to the prosperity of bis bnsiness. Major-Geueial Miles, in command at Fortress Monroe, reports that there is no material obange in the health of Jeff Davis. He now has liberty to walk at will within the limits of the fort, bat exhibits less inclination to do so than wheu his liberty was more restricted. Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, who was in the eabinet of Harrison and Taylor, sent a letter to the Johnson Convention at Columbus, Tuesday, taking the gronnd that the courts will deolare the acts passed over President Johnson's veto to be nail and void, because of the exclusion of the Soothera members. It is reported on good authority that General Howard, Commissioner of Freed* men's Bureau, intends issning an order within a few days, suspending the distribution of Government rations to the destitute of the South, thus throwing the burden of supporting the indigent of both raoes on the looal authorities. w? Jenny Lind, who was formerly the idol of the public; Jenny Lind, who for years gathered flowers and bank notes on ber way, may be said to have assisted at her own owu funeral, as an artiste, in having unfortunately again oome before the pnblio long after ber voice was no more. She was hissed by a great part of the audience. So says a Paris letter. The Siamese Twins passed through Lynchburg the other day bouod northward; whereon newspaper men grow funny One says that being practical unionist it is sup posed they were making their way to the Philadelphia Convention. Another states they eame by the same train. And another, that they seemed as mnch attaobed to each other as ever. Messrs. Henry & Harris, of Canada, have manufactured a cheese at the Iugersoll Factory that weighs three and a half toos. It measures six feet and eight inches in breadth, and three feet in thickness. The milk used io the manufacture weighed 35 tons, and was furnished by 810 cows. This King of Cheeses will be plaoed on exhibition at the Provincial Fair to be held next month at Toronto. The tobaoco crop of Virginia and N. Carolina for the present year is estimated at 50,000 hogsheads, bat it will be no matter for surprise if it should largely overrun this estimate, and approximate more nearly to the ante-war crops of 80,000 hogsheads.? From every quarter of the tobaooo growing portions of the State, come the most flattering acoounts, both of the amount planted and the condition of the crop. A. H. Stuart wisely remarks, in his recent address before the University of Virginia : All this mnst now pass away.? Large estates mnst be enb-divided and sold. A hardy race of yeomanry will then tiil the soil with their own strong arms, and will supplant the large landed proprietors. Land will be improved in productiveness and value, and tbe wealth of the country will be augmented. Thrift and economy will be substituted for the lavish expenditure and wasteful profusion of tbe ancient proprie tors. In reply to numerous inquiries on the subjeot, the following important deosi-' ion relative to certain auotion sales was rendered recently by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue: "Prior to the date of the late act of July 13, 1866, it was held that sales made by auction for judioial or executive officers, or for exeoutors or administrators, were liable to tax in the same man-1 ner as sales made for other persons. The law has been amended, and it is now held that the sales of autioneers made for, or on account of persons or officers above specified, are not liable to tax since August 1, the time when the above act takes effect. Over the non de plume of "Debtor," we find tbe following in the Edgefield Advertiser : "Mr. Thomas Lewis, living on i Mountain Creek, in Edgefield District, held a note upon myself for eighteen hundred dollars. 1 went to bim and told bim that1 my property if it oould be sold for forme''! prices, would pay my eotire indebtedness; but if pressed into market now by the Sheriff, might not pay fifty cents in the dollar. Mr. Lewis took the note and endorsed upon it "the within note may be discharged by paying onerthird part of the principal and interest,?one-half of that to be paid ' next winter, the other half of that third 1 twelve months afterwards " ?? The Edgefield Advertiser of the 15th j instant says : Messrs. Smith & Clemens.! of Mt. Vintage, nine miles below tbiB place, i on Monday last sent a load of corn, of this ; year's growth, to this Village for sale, aod I readily obtained for the same 81 80 per bushel. It was of the Pennsylvania Gourd Seed variety, and dry and fine. This spe oies of o<>rn is certainly entitled to the con- i sideration of onr people, as it produces a fine yield, and matures before the drouth ' generally comes on. Another year we hope many of onr farmers will give it a thorough ! test. At the Royal Veterinary College in England a very interesting series of experi ments have for some time been in progress The meat of oattle who have died of rioder pest, it is well known, is poison to man, and dte veterinary surgeons have been trying its effects upon dogs. A number of these ani male have been for some time fed upon the most diseased portions of cattle who hive died from the rinderpest, the meat being given them both in the raw and in the oooked state. The result of the experiment if said to be that the dogs are fatter and apparently more healthy than ever. What if food for dogs iA poison for man The PetersburgExprmsays: "Sinee Tnursday last, about four hundred bodies ol Federal and Confederate dead have been removed from the immediate vicinity of the "Crater," and that still a large number remain. Tbese bodies are plaoed in strong boxes, and will be-reinterred in the Cemeteiy at Porlar Grove, where suoh Confederates u are taken up, are buried in a separate square. Id a few days digging operation! will be oommenoed in the cavity of the "Crater" itself, where some two hundred 01 more Federal soldiers were killed and oovered over. It is the iotention of the Govern mem to have the remains of ever soldier, Federal or Confederate, removed from the lines oi- this vicinity and interred in the Cemetery at Poplar Grove, where suoh oi them as are koown will be marked." Ike ffcrferiile VORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 88,1868. ottb tehm8?in advance. THREE DOLLARS AND PiFTY CENTS per year ; TWO DOLLARS for six months; ONE DOLLAR fot three months?payable In "greenbacks." When paymeni is made in specie, TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FTVE CENTS for six months: SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for three months. Single copies, TEN CENTS. ft?-Com, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Lard, Firewood, Ac., will be received for Subscription, Advertising or Job-work, at market prices. ft^.The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of the time for wnlcl. payment has been made. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapperor margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. ftp'Mr. JOHN R. ALLEN, Foat Master, at Chester C. H is our authorized agent for Chester District. ftpCoi. T. P. SLIDER, at the Mills House, is our sole agent in Charleston, for receiving advertisements and subscriptions for the EftQtmreit. ENQUIRER CLUB RATES. per year?in advance. IN SPECIE. IN "GREENBACKS." 9 copies,...t a 50 8 6 00 5 copies,... 8 75 19 50 10 copies,... 17 50 95 00 and an extra copy to the person making a club of ten. 19*Within one month from the date a club is returned and the money paid, the person making the club, may add any number of names at the same rate. X. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. CASH! We wish it distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job work are cash. EUROPEAN AFFAIflS. The latest telegrams from Europe indi oate that a peace basis bas been established on a sure foundation, and that the negotiations now maturing will result favorably, as the important points are already agreed upon. The demands of France, for the extension of her territory to the Rhine, have been withdrawn; Venetia has been added to Italy, and Prussia seoures her authority over the German States. Austria, under the crushing disaster to her arms at Sudo wa, yields her place as a first class power to her successful rival, Prussia. The war has been brief but terrific, and the results excel in magnitude, aoy war that has been fought in so brief a period. THE CHOLERA. This disease is spreading rapidly to the large cities of the United States. The number of deaths ocourriDg daily at some of these places is already frightful. At Cincinnati, on the 16th inst, sixty seven deaths occurred in one day; in New York ten, in New Orleans twenty seven, and in Memphis, six. It has made its mark to a fearful extent in nearly every densely popultated city in this country. Charleston has thus far escaped the contagion, but it will be almost a miracle if suffered to escape long. The people of these localities seem to manifest much fortitude, and few have run away from the soourge. SOLDIERS' CONVENTION. As a further effort to produoe that harmony between the two sections of the country, so necessary to the prosperity of each, the late Philadelphia Convention anaoged for a soldier's Convention, to assemble in Cincinnati, in September next. The conception is doubtless a happy one, coder tbe circumstances. The gallant men, who have fought each other face to faoe, upon cherished principles, all through a long struggle, will certainly prove the most earnest, liberal and effective peace makers. These men on either side have no further aims to gratify?no political or selfish pretensions to urge. The close of the war was the virtual close of the strife between them. > ^knowledgiog the decree*ofarms, to which they appealed, the selfish differences that now divide tbe country presents no obstaole to their unity. Tbe present troubles are entirely artific'al, and manufactured by politicians for party aggrandizement. So long as' tht fate of the couotry is left to such men, just so long is harmony deferred, and the prosperity of tho two sections retarded Obliterate such influences from the politics of tbe country, and the way of peaoe is made easy We reiterate the idea that we heard expressed, by many of the Federal prisoners that fell into our hands during the war: <?If your army and ours could meet and talk this matter over, they I would make peace in a day." So tbey will 1 do now we believe. Though one of these armies is shattered from the Potomao to the ) 9 i - 9 T j t # , Rio Grande, its gallant relics may yet ; prove more effective peace-makers than - those who meanly deserted the oanse in its 1 hoar of trial. i THE GENERAL AMNESTY. The State of Texas has at last been re| stored to her own form of government, her Legislature convened and her Governor i elect inaugurated and invested with the control of the State. She forms the last ' in the list of thnse composing the "so called" Confederate States, that has been admitted i ' , to these forms. i Secretary SiWARD, in his message to Gov. i Throckmorton?the new JExeoutive? renews the idea all along held oat of the forthcoming proclamation of general amnesty. It is also stated by the news-writers in i Washington, that the proclamation is written, and will very soon be issned. We can only hope that the promise is trne, and that the proclamation will set at rest the qae8tioA of-martial law, and the habeas corpus. The code of principles agreed apon by the National Convention at Philadelphia, has famished the ooantry with a policy oonformable to that of the President. Its views may be safely assumed to be those of the majority of the American people, and in oarrying them oat folly and fearless* i ly, President Johnson, may caloolate apon I the support of the sinew of the country.? , We have no donbt bat that the action of this Convention, has given more weight, ' and confidence, to the administration, than any thing that has occurred since the olose of the war. jBDITORTAL INKLINGS. We learn from the Colombia Phcc nix, that a negro was arrested in that city a few days since by the Chief of Police, having in his possession the watch taken from Mr. Alexander D. Walker, reoently murdered near Chester. It is rumored in this oommnnity that both of the negroes engaged in the murder of Mr. Walker have been arrested, identified, and are now oonfined in Chester jail. The Northern people have among them a genuine ebony specimen of royalty from the Sandwioh Islands, and as a matter 1 I of oourse, are in ecstasies. Qaeen Emma ? a misoegenated wenoh, from that truly , delightful community of cannibals, has visi , ted the United States, been toasted, feted and lionized by the New Yorkers?granted a special reoepiion by Seward, and made . the subject of daily articles in the Northern newspapers. All this is highly interesting; and rendered doubly so, no doubt, by the reflection that the particular regard her anhU highness manifests for eanh is moss. ared by their manifest appropriateness for furnishing a feast on some royal holiday occasion, in the domains of cannibalism. 1 A live specimen of royalty, is a great thing in America, especially if the representative^/ of it, be black, or browD, soeDted, or giv'en to Booh "peculiarities" of appetite as Queen : Emma and her subjects are said to be. "The Old Arm Chair" of the Custis family, stolen from the White House, during a Yankee raid in 1862, has recently been "presented" to Genaral R. E. Lee, by a Baltimore merchant; so says the Rioh mood Times We are at some loss to appreciate for Gen. Lee, the exact share of obligation be ought to feel for this dona tion. The article in question was original' ly stolen from his son we believe, Geo. W. H. F. Lee When the Baltimore merchant discovered that he was in possession of stolen property, it seems to us the more commendable course was for him to have privately returned it to the donor, instead of asking the newspapers to publish th? correspondence relating to this generous(?) deed MERE-MENTION. The Sumter Watchman says that recent i : u ...ii. ?i>? .L.. raiUB unvc gicaujr icvivcu uic uiupo \u tuoi flection, bat the prospect for bread is sad indeed. A Texap editor has been presented with an onion a foot and a half in oironmference. Over 1,500 buildings are in course of ereotion in Memphis. Thad. Stephens has been unanimously nominated for re-eieotion to Coo- { gresB by tbe Convention at Lancaster, Pa. , The La Grange (Ga.) New Era, , knows a freedman who will make three hundred bales of cotton this year. , There were forty-five Major-Generals in the Philadelphia Convention. A young widow of Memphis advertises for furnished moms for two small children and herself, in payment for whioh she is willing to board with the family. Horace Greeley, a Vermont paper says, while in the oars last Monday, said that "Linooln was always wrong, but you oould drive him right; Johnson is always wrong, and you can't drive him right." A charity soholar, under examination on the Psalms, being asked "What is pestilence that walketh in ( the darkness?" replied, "Please sir, bed bngs " It is said there is hardly a family in Co l lumbtis, Miss., bat has some member sick. Almost all the religious oonventiuus | held recently in the South have adopted ( measures for the education of the freedmen. Eighty years ago there were but 60,000 Catholics and twenty five priests in i the United States, while now there are 4,- 1 400,000 members of the Church and 2,500 i priests. During the month of July, i there were 104 fires in New York city. < The Atlanta Intelligencer says the negro i population of that city has, apparently, 1 doubled in the last four weeks, and asks if ' the agricultural districts have been deserted. ; A rumor is ourrent that General Howard, Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau, is to be shortly removed. -The Canadians report the prospeot of a splendid harvest, and the largest for 15 years.. C. J. Bolin, the agent of the S^ath Carolina Railroad, advertises that engagements oan be made to ship cotton from Columbia to Liverpool, at six dollars and fifty oents per bale.** A New York paper says the pay of a needle-woman in that city is eleven oents a day for making shirts.- Out of this she has herself, and probably her family, to feed, or rather?to famish.""" Col. Del. Kemper, of Alexandria, Va., formerly of the Confederate Army, has been appointed Professor of Mathematics at n*mru1m Si/tnav OaIUm Va Thft wnv^vy " ? eleotiooB in Kentucky and Arkansas have resulted in favor of the Conservative party. In the former 8tate, by 10,000 majority. An effort is being made at Washington to pot forward Qen. Sherman as the Democratic candidate for the next Presi denoy. His own consent has not, however, been obtained to this use of bis name. Cholera has broken ont among the negroes at Lawton'r-place, near Braddook'a Point, near Savannah, Ga The amount of ooin remaining in the vaults of the Treasury at Washington, after the close of business on Saturday, of last week, was as follows: Gold, 1348^59; Silver, 82,590; five oent ooin, 8700; three oentcoin, 81000; cents, 8488. Total, 8348,407 Vessels arriving at Charleston, from Savannah or New kork, are quarantined for fifteen days The Washington National Monn ment Association is making another effort to seoore contributions to finish the monument. It is estimated that it will take 82,000,000 to oomplete the work v..A hotel, for the espeoial accommodation of freedmen, is in operation, in Cherry street, Nashville. The Charleston and Savannah Railroad is to be sold at aaotion in November No more of the direct land tax is to be oolleoted in North Carolina for the present. A woman, whose husband is said to be a New York merchant worth a half a million dollars, bos been arrested three times in Poogbkeepsie for drunkenness. Samuel J. Lowrie, Esq., a wellknown lawyer, and prominent citizen of Charlotte, died near that place on the 14th instant. The flouring mills of Mr. .Tnmaa fWpii in (llAmUnil Cnnntv. N. (].. was destroyed by fire on Saturday night last. LOCAL MATTERS. NEW ADVBBTI8BMENTB. J. A. Brown, O. Y. D?Citation? D. J. Jackson, Applicant?David A. Adams, deceased. 1. A. Brown, O. Y. D.?Citation?I. D. Wltherspoon, Applicant?C. W. Hammarekold. deceased. C. S. Bowman, and W. B. Bvera. Adm'rs.?Notice to Debtors and Creditors of E. M. Byers deceased. Joseph Wylle, Assignee of D C. Roddy?Sale of Honse and Lot at Rock Hill. Carroll, Clark & Co.?Four hundred bushels White Com. " " " ?Fresh Lime on hand. G. R. Ratchford.?1500 pounds beat country Flour. " " ?Baltimore Flour, Extra Fine. " " ?100 sacks Liverpool Salt " " ?Coffee, Sugar, fcc. W. n. McCorkle?Auction cole of Furniture on first Monday in September. B. T. Wheeler?Notes and Account* in the bauds of W. B. Metts, Esq., for settlement 1. A. Brown, O. Y. D.?Citation?R. D. McKnight, Applicant?Ephralm Haftaer, deceased. Rains. Refreshing showers of rain have fallen upon portions of this District in the last few days. Tboogb too late to restore the withered orops, tbey have benefitted to some exteut the late corn and cotton. / Ordinary's Election. \ The following is the result of an Eleotion beld in this District, on Tuesday last, the 21st instant, for Ordinary: bj Ch I 1 t-3 P S > "w| | Precincts. ps'? S ? 1 2 s i 5 z 2 P | pa . p ^ : Yorkville, i'Tf ~97 109109| ~393 Allison's, I; 2| 00| 8 12j 22 Brattonsville,...! 7 6 9 5j 27 Boydton, ! 2! 12 1 2 17 Bethel, 16} 4 25 6 51 Clark's Store,...! 3: 7 5 12 19 Clay Hill, j 16 1 15 7 23 Coates' Tavern, 19| 11 1 2 33 !! ft! ?\ ft, II 9ft Vtutl V VUUX VlljtM V/ -Jk. w I ? WW Ebenezer, 26 3 15! 3 47 Feemster's, ! 5 7 17 j 4 33 Fort Mill, 51 10 7; 6 74 K. Mountain,... 2 7 00; 3 12 M'Connellsville. 19 2 9, 1 31 Moore's, 00 5 5! 4j 14 Rock Hill, 41 23 l2t 6| 82 Sharon, 3 23 2 00j 28 Shiloh, 8 20 4 2j 34 Turkey Creek,.. 7.12 2 00; 21 Wylie's, | 8 47 13| 6, 74 Total, j 320 301 267 j 191' 1079 A Murder?A soldier, by the name of Kellv. helon??inc to the earrisoo at this J i ?O P ? plaoe, was murdered on last Monday eight, about 0D6 mile from the town, and Dear the quarters of the garrison, and thrown into an old well on Mr. Daniel Brown's place. Immediate measures were taken to find out the murderer, aod it has been ascertain ed to the entire satisfaction of the civil authorities, that the horrid deed was perpetrated by the fellow soldiers of this unfortunate Kelly. Suspioioo rested at first upon a United States soldier by the name of Berry He was arrested, and although persistently denying the obarge, his knapsaok was searched, where was found the razor stained with blood, with which the throat of poor Kelly had been out from ear to ear. Besides the razor, many other traoes of guilt were discovered by the staio of blood upon bis clothing, and shoes of Berry. Cary aod Murphy, two other United States soldiers, have been arrested as accomplices in this bloody and horrible tragedy. It Is generally Delieved that Kelly was murdered by his fellow soldiers for the sake of Lis money.?Anderson Appeal. Foolscap Paper ?During the ieign of Charles I., all English paper bore in 'he water marks the royal arrne. Tho Parliament under Cromwell made a jest of this, and, among other indignities to the memory of the King, it was ordered that the royal j arms be removed from the paper, and the "fool's oap and bell" be substituted.? These in their turn were; of oqurse, removed at the Restoration; but paper of the die of the Parliament journal still bears the name of "foolscap." THE NATIONAfcONVENTION. The gathering at Philadelphia, of delegates from every State and Territory in the Union, was on Tuesday morning, the 14th instant, completed; and the spacious amphitheatre, styled the "wigwam," recently bnilt for this purpose, was by 12 M, crowded to its utmost capacity. It was evident from the moment that delegates began to arrive and interchange views, that entire harmony would prevail in the Convention. Men came there in behalf of their constituents, ready to make and accept concessions; and for once in the history of this country the sublime speotacle has been witnessed of ' a . 4 .1 ./ _ 1C iL _ a rraiernai garnering or an tne orates id ooe vast harmonious assemblage, where the rights and peculiar opinions of eaob spotion, were reoognized and respeoted. Well might this be the case in this instanoe, for the issues involved in the triumph or defeat of the prinoiples they came there to advocate, were of that alarming charaoter requiring the ezeroise of more than ordinary patriotism and wisdom. For onoe seotional animosity was buried, seotional pride forgotten ; and the word "party"?that baneful synonym of presaging anarchy?obliterated from the records of this grand assemblage of States. . The conservative North has met the sabmissive South on'middle ground, ana mutually forgetful 'and oonoeding, they have buried the past?accepted the present, and united haod in hand for the future. The Delegates having assembled, the Hon. Alexander W. Randall opened the Convention by saying: "Gentlemen, I have to announce that delegates from Soath Carolina and Massaobnsetts will now oome, arm and arm, into the Convention." This announcement was greeted with great applause, the entire audience rising At this moment Major General Couch, of Massachusetts, and Governor Orr, of South Carolina, at the head of the delegation, marched in, arm and arm, banners flying and music playing. Bhout after shout, spontaneous and general, rent the air. Tears filled the eyes of delegates and spectators. Gen John A. Diz was nominated tempo rary Chairman, aod in accepting said: "I regard this as a convention of no ordinary character, not only on account of the high sooial and political standing of the gentlemen who compose this convention, but because it is a convention of the people of all the States of tbe Union; (applause) and because, we cannot doubt, if the proceedings are conducted with harmony and judgment, that it will lead to most important results. It may be truly said, that do body of men have met on this oootinent under circumstances so momentous and so im portaot since tbe year 1787?(applause)? tbe year when oar ancestors assembled in this city to form a better government for the States which composed the old confederation?a government which has been confirmed and made more enduring, as we trust, by the fearful trials and perils which .it has encountered and overcome. (Applause.) Ten States have yet no representation in the legislature of this country, and it is this wrong we have come here to pro test against, and as muoh as in our power to redress. When the President of the United States declared that the war bad ceased, all the States had the right of representation. The exacting of Dew conditions is subversive of our national liberty and dangerous to tbe public peace. (Loud applause ) Is this tbe Government our fathers fought to establish, or which we have fought to maintain ? IIo trusted that in the deliber ations of this Convention the main idea would be to change the present complexion of Congress, to purify tbe republio and bring it baok to its original standard?one Conn try, one Flag, one Union of equal States 1" After the appointment of Committees on Credentials, Resolutions, and Organization, the Convention adjourned until Wednesday at noon. Senator Doolittle was nominated in Com mittee on Organization, as permanent Chairman. The Hon C. L. Valandigham, deledelegate from Ohio, and the Hon. Febnan do Wood, delegate from New York, were present in the city, bat learning that their presence in the Convention woald mar the lemony of its proceedings, declined to take their seats. These men have made their I names unpopular in the North by reason of i their strenous opposition to the war against the Southern States. Their personal sacrifices in voluntarily abstaining from the deliberations of this Convention, have done honor to themselves, and no doubt advanoed the cause they are' equally anxious with others to promote. George Francis Train, the erratio politician, adopted a similar course. We extract from the Richmond Times, a synopsis of the seoond day's proceedings: Philadelhia, Aug. 15.?The National Union Convection, re-assembled at noon today Long before the honr of assembling the Wigwam was orowded with delegates and spectators, including a large number of ladies, who wore entertained with national airs by the band of music. Major-Gencral Dix, tue temporary Presi dent oalled the Convention to order, and an impressive prayer was made by the Rev. Mr. Holsinger. After the prayer, General Dix announced that the first business before the Convention was the report of the committee appointed yesterday. Mr. Blair, of Maryland, then arose and said I am instructed by the committee on organization to report the following names as offioers of the Convention : For President?Hon. J. R Doolittle, of Wisconsin.% T.k, Vice Presidents.?The report embraces a prominent man from every State in the Union: The Hon. D. L. Wardlaw was the Vioe President from this State. At the oooolosion of the reading of the report, the Hon. J. R Doolittle assumed the Chair and addressed the Convention at some length. His eloquent and patriotic speech was louldly applauded. Gen. Steadman, the chairman of the committee on credentials, made a report, sta ting that there were no seats contested except from the States of Maine, Delaware and New York, and of those cases the .Committee had made the following dispositions : The delegates eleoted by a meeting held at Rowland, and headed by Governor Crosby, are entitled to admission as the delegates from Maine. The delegates eleoted at the meeting held at Dover, on the 26tb of July, are entitled to admission as delegates from Delaware, and the persons eleoted at Wilmington, on the 2d of August, are to be admitted to honorary seats in. the Convention. The gentlemen attending from the United Service Sooiety of Soldiers and Sailors of New York, and those elected by the New York delegation, represented by. Mr. Samuel J. Tilden as obairman, are to be admit3 . . _. i ? . tea 10 seats as nonorary memoers. Id consequenoe' of the time that would be occupied in reading of the list of delegates, its reading was dispensed with, and, under the operation of the previoas question, the report of the committee was agreed t0* Muoh merriment was oaused by the ohairman inadvertantly speaking of General Steadman as the "Senator from Ohio," and the qlip of the tongue was obaraoterixed by the same gentleman as prophetic. Mr. Groesbeok, of Otyo, as the organ of the united delegation from that State, pre sented a letter of withdrawal from Mr. Vallandigham, and asked that it might be read to the Convention. The ohairman intimated that it would require unanimous consent, and asked whether there was any objection. A delegate from New York rose and ob seoted. [Loud ones of "read it," "read it."] Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, moved that the rules be suspended, in order to allow the letter to be read. The rules were suspended, and the letter was read. After reciting the action of his co-members of the Ohio delegation, and the resolu tion sustaining his right to a seat, be says: "Yielding my own deliberate convictions of duty and right to the almost unanimous opinions and desires of friends whose wisdom and soundness of judgment and sincerity and purity of motives, I may not ques- ' tion, to the end that there shall be no pretext even, from any quarter for any oon- ; troverted questions or disturbing element , in the Convention to mar Its harmony, or j hinder in any way the result to the cause of ( the Constitution, the Union, the public lib erty wbioh shall follow from its delibera- | tions and its actions, I hereby withdraw ( from the Ohio Democratic delegation, and i deoline taking my seat in the Convention. I am profoundly conscious that the sanctity and magnitude of the interests involved in the present political canvass in the United Slates are too immense not to demand a saorifice of every personal consideration in a straggle upon the issue of which depends, as I solemnly believe, the present peace, , and ultimately the existence of free repub- , lican government on this continent. Trusting that your deliberations may be barinoDioas, yoar proceedings fall of the ( spirit and wisdom and patriotism, and . its , results crowned with a glorious and saving triumph in the end, to the great cause in which every sympathy or my hoart is en- ; listed, , I am, respeotfully, &c , . C. L. Vallandigham On motion of Senator Cowan, of Pennsyl- , vania, a committee of two from eacb State ( and the Territories, was appointed to pre | pare resolutions and am address. The ohairmau-then announced a tele | grapbio dispatch from President Johnson, : and direoted the Secretary to read it. The , announcement was the signal for the whole ; Convention and part of the spectators to , rise to their feet and cheer vehemently for , Andrew Johnson After the applause bad subsided the dispatch was read as follows : , Washington, August 14, 1866?To j the Hon. 0. H. Browning and Hon. A W. *j Randall, Convention at Philadelphia: I tbank you for your ohecring and enooura- , MIMM tka s\C prrtni/lonnA Va 1 glUg uiopatuu. xuu uugui ui x lufiuouuoio | unerring, and will guide yon safely tbroagh. j The people mast be trusted, aud tbe ooun- , try will-be restored. My faith is unshaken as to the ultimate success Andrew Johnson. Mr. Carroll, from New York, offerre^ the following resolution, which was referred, under the rules, to the Committee on Reno lotioos without debate: Resolved, That there is justly demanded a revision of our oational neutrality laws, as consistent with tbe spirit of the age, the interests of commerce and the position of the nation. And that it was the duty of Congress to oomply with the publio demand for such a revision. Mr. S. Hays, of Illinois, offered a resolution instructing tbe Committee on Resolutions to report in print and supply each member of the Convention with a copy of the resolutions reported at tbe time of their c presentation. He prooeeded to discuss tbe t resolution. o Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, l raised tbe point of order that under tbe rule g adopted, the resolution must be referred j without debate. t Tbe Chair sustained tbe point of or- > der, and declared tbe resolution was so g referred t Mr. Hogan,of Illinois, proposed a recess e of an hour or two, but tbe proposition met ?j with no favor and was not pressed. r Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, chairman of tbe committee on resolutions, informed tbe Convention that the oommittee 0 would uot be ready to report finally before c to morrow morning. v After several suggestions and propositions, it was decided that tbe session to-morrow commence at 10 A. M., in order to get through tbe business as soou as possible. li Mr. Babcock, of Conneotiout, presented c an address to the people of Ne# England, prepared by the members of the Xamisinnn, Mississippi and Missouri delegations who were born in New England, which was referred , unread, to the committee nn r?hi.. tions, and then. On motion of Mr. Ofr, of 8onfcif Oaro- j lina, at quarter past two o'clock, the ' Convention adjourned until to-moneer, I Thursday. ^ Philadelphia, August 16.?The see ond day of the Conventioo bag been even more glorioua than the first [ * , * the first remark that occurs to a looker-on is, that it is decidedly the greatest Convention in numbers, ability and weight - of oharaoter, ever assembled sinoe the days of the Revolution. One evidence of the unusual interest felt throughout the whole oojptry is the presence of over three hendred editors and correspondents of aMW* papers, from all the States from the St Lawrence to the Gulf of Meziso. Old habitues of National Conventions for t quarter of a oentory are astounded at thjs demonstration. * *? i* The speech of Senator DooiHtle ntade aprofound sensation. It was delivered li s very impressive manner- -'His sonorous voice filled well the vast boildiog, fan wklsb, if empty, he would hsrdly have been beards A HflAn Rilon/?A n?rviilAi1 th? imiantol ence, broken only by tha-ohaatr and *pphase, wbich frequently burst forth tpon- | taneously at the atterance of n pattiotio sentiment which touched the hcsrteof all present. * *. -i The pissentation of the letter ot Vallandigham produced a momentary, couupqtion. The objeotion to the reading, madeempbatically by Mr. .Gardner, of N. wasevidently done aoder the tmpceasioo. that it might contain inflammatory matter whieh wonld mar the beautiful ooaoord , that has thns far diBtingniabed the Convention, and promises to oharaoteriae its deliberations to the end. Its temperate tone was mew&etly a relief to maoy present. ' ; 1 ' A prominent feature of Jt^.;qiQetiiig today was the popular dewuWtiatiua of favor when Senator Cowan rose, fat the &ni time in the Convention. The applaoee given to him was an enthosiastie tribute to his worth and an nnoontroilable expression of fhb regard entertained for hint by the people he has so nobly striven to serve in his Seoato-- ' A rial oareer. 1 One fact has been abundantly doraomtrs- ] ted to-day: The Convention is qhfeQf the ' greatest snooeseae the ooeetryevev witaeved. The Radioals here are struok damb with the msgnifieent proportion* of nob a popular demonstration, when noteyen the exciting cause of a nomination exists to produce enthusiasm or oall cat numbers.? The proposition for a National Soldiers' Convention will undoubtedly.- beoosU.a Axed fact. There are present*," nun&bef, <# the offioere of both armies, who have won imperishable . reputations, .for gallantry, who unite id approving this movement. The enthusiasm begotten by tbe Convention in this Radical ridden oity baa extaod* ed beyond the wigwam.' Meeting* bnve been improvised in various parts of the aity, to avail themselves of the aid of the spankers in attendance upon the Convention.-? The qniet olty of Philadelphia is made * live with excitement An informal meeting was held last even- . ing, in whioh a proposition was made and \ received witn favor, to oall a Convention of the soldiers of the two armies, at same oentral point, within a few weeks, where men who fought bravely against each other may meet in a spirit of oonoiliation, end determine to stand together in .maintaining j the Union and Constitution. Gov. Orr spoke at the National Gdard j Hull Innf. nicrht. Ra nnid thfl ruvmU ?f th* South believed they bed ft right to eeeede: t the North did not agree, aod the qoeMfoa was submitted to the airbitratioa of unu. The Northern interpretation of the Coostitntion has been firmly end legally establish- ,' ed. That decision was prononnoed on the field of battle, and the decree is ineofetlo? vertibie. The Soatb bss surrendered her prinoi pies, and accepts the Northern interpretation We are willing to abide by it forever. By this war the people of the Bbath have, to a very great extant, bMn.ltflpptii of their property. Their banks are gone, and their oredit is gone; in many localities | the great stand point of oivil laws. The people of tbe Sooth bare tar more need of a stable government than yon have, and it is mad folly to oharge that they wit! opt fulfil their oaths to sapport the Government We claim this as oar Governmeot.il'well is yours, but that we may he equal mist hftVA rAnrMrintitinn in Cnnc?fe/w. It in Ant just to tax us aud exclode us from reprejentation. ^ Montgomery Blair and others spoke.,;r" THIRD DAYr *> Senator Cowan, from Committee on Reflations and address, presented the deelara;ion of prinoiples, wbieb was ufiSirinfcttf^ ind entbnsiastioaliy adopted. It states fBat ;be war jnst closed has maintained tBe <& hority of the Constitution, and baepredtfft- ' >d the Union with the equal rights,-dignify ind authority of all the States perfeolaod mimpaired; that representation in <5otl;resB and in the Electoral Colleges ie% ight abiding in, and a dety imposed upon , ivery State, and that neither Congress Wdr d ;he General Government bare any authori* ;y or power to deny the right to any SMe; bat Congress has no right ovef the elseive franchise, hot that right belongs et- ' siasivery to eaon otate; mat no state Ms be right to withdraw from the Union; that in all Constitutional amendments all States lave an equal right to vote; that slayery is ibolished, and forever prohibited; that the tational debt is saored and inviolable, and he Confederate debt invalid; recognises jayment for services of Federal soldiers md sailors, and the debt due by the nation o them and their widows and orphans, and indorses President Johnson for his steadfast levotion to the Constitution, laws and iotfi* ests of the country. The Address was prepared by Raymond, ?f New York, sod was read by that gectls an, and unanimously adopted by the Conention. The National Committees, Executive and a* " c . * " iQsnoial, were then announoed. few * is d The Convention having adopted the Decaration of principles and effected a permaient organization of officers and oommittees, . * -