II S tijs Vittitingt 1111 PIIIILDNED DAILY. :1 pramus, REED & CO., • pakrirmeac. JC)SIA T;IP. HOUSTON. N. P. Hinters and Prophet° . OPPIOP.: . BEB xl 8 1 I OFFICIAL PAP— 'ittaburgh; Allegheny Whiney County. Janet -Weekly. I one year.e7.o 8 / ' - 7 Itx mos.. 1.50 sco tee mos 75 10 and .1 x'31,1_17 OFFICLWIs PAPE Plttebuigh; Allegheny shiny County. _ !_ 1 Liewit- Weekly. I OieTriaz - 7:_ ! ABM; (Ine year.l.so' SI wwl! , AIM= 75' 81z mos.. 1.50 sco % the week. 15; Three mos 75 10 entlied'A ' and MONDAV; MAY 31, 1 lar . REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The Republican voters of Alljgberry coon= ty are requested to meet at the usual places for hllldingeiectioris in the several wards, boroughs and townships, on • • SATURDAY. MAY 29th, 7889. And elect delegates from each election district to each of the three following Conventions, viz: Two delegates from each to the Co-UNTYQON VENTION, for the purpose of nominating canal-, dates for Sheriff, Recorder, liegistei. Treasurer; Clerk of the Court of Quarter ben isns, Clerk of the Orphans' Court and Comniissioner. Two other delegates from each to the. LEGIS LATIVE CO.NVEN'II'iN, for the purpose of nominating one candidate for State Senator, for one year, to 1111 the unexpired term of Russell Errett, resigned, and six candidates for Assem bly. And - Two other delegates from each to the JUDI . CIAL CONVENTION, to nominate one canal . ate for Judge of the District Court and one ean didatefor Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and elect eight delegates to represent the county In the Republican State Convention These Conventions will severally . city of Pittsburgh, on TUESDAY. JUNE 1,18 At 11l o'clock A. x., at the following . The COUNTY CONVENTION will COURT HOUSE. The LEGISLATIVE CONVENTIO ' at CITY HALL, on Market street. The JUDICIAL CONVENTION In MASONIC HALL, on Fifth liven Wood and Smithfield street's. The election of delegates will be h the hours of 4 and 7 o'clock P. R., held, as far as practicable, by the members of the election boards in dlstrictst and in those distriets where Roan election officers are a minority . lei election boards, the said nicer' a l teed to appoint enough additional MSc' Vete the board.. The vpting in the cities and boron gl all a ,be by ballot, and in the toy Marking. ' The President of each Convention will appoint a Committee of three, the three Committees thus appointed to meet together, as soon as practica ble alter the adjournment of the Conventions, and appoints County CoMmittee for the ensuing year. By order of County Committee. RUSSELL ERRETT, Chairman JOHN H. STEW/ANT, Secretary. Plum on the inside pages of this morning's GezErnt.---Second page : Original Poetry, Ephemeris, Miscellane ous, Washington Topics. Seventh •page: Presbyterian Unity, 'Report of the Con ference Committee.- Third and Bizthpages: Commercial, Pfnancia/, Mercantile, River : Yews, Markets, and Imports. 11. S. BONDS at Frankfort, 86@86 l'Emonatrat at Antwerp, 471 f. GOLD closed In New York yesterday a 139 a. THE Republicans of Maine hold their State Convention June 24th, to nominate a candidate for Governor. • Tan public waits, with some impa tience, for the Cam - mereial to specify the ring-politicians whom it has been vaguely denouncing of late. Names, neighbor, nameii Omo has reduced the total of her funded debt, within twenty years, from some $23,000,000 to $10,000,000. Twenty five years ago, her boiids were sold at less than fifty per cent; to-day, these se milks deservedly reach at the top of the market. The work of liquidation has been - undertaken, and so far carried tri umphantly. through, under Whig and Re publican auspices. • • Fos. an alleged libellous publication, copied, from a disreputable print in the interior of the State, by the Pittsburgh Commereiql, and reflecting upon Hon. - RUSSELL Ewan% that gentleman has in stitute d proceedings, both civil and cram_ inal, against the Commercial. If all re ports be true, our neighbor is about to have still other invitations,' to =a careful study of the laws of this Commonwealth for the protection Of individual reputations from indiscriminate assaults. Mn ROBERT Mcßaum, an extensive manufacturer from Scothuad, is about to leads large colony of his countrymen to Kansas, on the lino of the Kansas Paci fic Railway. He is now in that State ' looking out for a location and negotia. ting for land. Several other large coif), vies have lately gone, or are on the way, to the same destination—one composed of Swedes, the number of whom is said Jo be between thirty-and forty thousand. Another large colony, gathered in Cleve land and the neighborhood, went to ICan sas this spring. Probably no State ever , filled up so rapidly. T'actille Railway business looks better, under the recent examination by a Government Commission. The defects - in its construction are faithfully pointed -ant, and the jut expectations of the • country, which has afforded the means for the consummation of thid great Na tional work, have b een t a k en as the standard by which the work has been ex amined in the most criticalidetail. The Commissioners report, in substance, that • while a large expenditure would have made a bfitter road, yet that, as built on the present /Ines, and after being coin . plated accardiag, to' the nkuitements of ;be law , #4o.4o4lsiilbaincb astba Gov . - emment and people may accept as it first class railway. The ;two Companies are prompt to satisfik the wishes of tb.UAd ministration, depositing the security of their first mortgage bonds for their faith ful execution of all the legal conditions. These bonds, it may be remembered, constitute the first lien upon the roads. aitttt. !oprietors, I KING, WEED, THE LATE DR, JAMES Rum', of Phil adelpilia, of a family distinguished in the revolutionary, diploniatic and scientific annals of this country, was himself a physician and authoi,of the highest repu tation. His work on the "Human Voice", is accepted, by the profession universally; as, upon that function being the most com plete authority extant. Dying last week_ at the advanced age of eighty-four years, he left an immense estate, the bulk of which, comprising an entire block of ground on Broad and Christian streets, withmearly a million of dollars in other - property, he has bequeathed to the Phila delphia Library Company. A magnificent strucThis to be erected there, for the dilfusio of popular knowledge, his will specifyi .g many details for the building . itself. I his princely gift constitutes, next to that I f his townsman GIRARD, the noblest • ndowment ever conferred upon any insti ration devoted to scientific and popular nstruction in America. MlGig@ @ME Iles Wkly. 111 ei l 5 1.16 wne to Agent. OUNTYI Tn Afernoriam proceedings of Sat. urday w• re creditable to the patriotism of our peop e, and gave a marked proof of their gra eful sense of the services of the dead braver-who, dying, saved their coun try's •liberties, and vindicated the GOD given rights of humanity. - Our extended report, this morning, will afford to rea der.; generally a very just idea of the enthusiastic accord with which all classes and ages united, to render the tribute of a loving memory to them who gave themselves a blood-offering for the redemption of the Republic. Withal, the impressibn generally obtains that the e4:.,an nually curring occasion should not be obsery with ceremonial demonstrations in any w y kindred to thobe with which the coup ty welcomes its national holy day, the ourth of July. Somewhat less ti Ln of pomp d circumstance, of gay music and of m re formalities, might safely be held nei er to obscure the main idea, nor to dimini the touching warmth of the popular sentiment. . - eet, In the EMI will melt • d will meet l e, between d between .d will be 1: publican he %event heßepub- I' the regu. e autbor re to com- shall, In ships by Er.szwusuE, we announce, so far as received, the result of the Republican primary Meetings held on Saturday af ternoon throughout the county. The elections appear to have been conducted everywhere in an orderly manner,.and there was a very full vote polled. We do not know all the gentlemen whose riames appear as delegates to the several conventions, but have personal acquain tance with and knowledge of the great majority of them, in whose wisdom, jus tice and strict integrity we fed assured the entire people can safely repose the largest confidence. From all Indications the Convections will fully and faithfully represent the Republican feeling of the county. We are hopeful that the pro ceedings will be harmonious, orderly and dis=4S and that the important trust con fided titthe six hundred and forty-two delegates sent fresh from the .peoftle:_to represent them in these political, councils, may be so carefully guarded as to pre cludi the faintest snspidon of a desire to pat forward any ticket that will not merit theungualifled endorsement of every good citizen in the county. Buy TwaLyn States have ceitifted_to the State Department their ratification of the %Wit Article. Rhode Island disap points the just expectations of patriotism and an enlightened knowledge, by post poning the question to January next. The Senate gave a large malority for ratification, but the Asseinbly seems to have listened rather to the suggestions of a peculiar State policy, 'than to the con clusive arguments of a broader states. manship in support of antniversal Lib erty. We have.heretofore spoken of the purely local objections which the Article has encountered in that State, butj in common with the closest ,ebservers else where, we have not suffered ourselves to entertain any serious doubts as tail favor able Issue to the discussions among her people. Her present action will awaken 'the most profound regrets among the sup porters of American Republicanism everywhere. We have no reproaches for our Rhode Island friends, who have Come to their own decision entirely within the constitutional privileges' of their State. Rather, we would remit the adjourned question to their own thoughtful delibera tions, feeling an unabated confidence in the patriotic wisdom of their ultimate de cision upon its National merits. An outrageous swindle on the newspa per proprietqrs of the country has just developed itself in an association formed to control the manufacture of straw print ing paper. Finding the press of the country asleep to their interests, a clique of shrewd speculators purchased all the patents held in the couhtry'kised on the adaptition of straw in the numufacture of paper, and, through bilge representations, imposed on Congress and had the prin. cipal'patent prtended seven years. They now propose reaping the advantage of the monopoly, and have notified paper deal ers that they must pay a stipulated royal, ty to them on every ream of paper made in which straw enters, as a component. This mnst . neceisarily either decreasp , the limited profits - `4slfilidsi 0;441 making or ittrOtel,t Izt c e. ,(o,poiiettera the coat of paper. The paper ;wed by the EVi TSBIMGE P.A.7I.EftE \ press generAly contains fully fifty per cent. straw, if not much more, and if this grand monopoly - be not set aside and rendered powerless to exact a fraudulent tribute; expenses for material would be largely increased, and to no other purpose than to enrich the designing monopolists. Oue of two things must be done by. Congress in the premises—either repeal the duty on foreign paper or the rescind the patent extension which was obtained in a dishonest - manner. The press of the en tire country should take immediate steps to baffle :the schemes of the dishonest clique that have entered into combination against their interests. DEATH OF WM. BARKER, ESQ. - 4k To-day we announce the death of a friend, who for fully half a century h.,s been a subscriber and reader ot the• GA ZETTE, and who, during the same long Period, has held high place amongst our Most esteemed merchants; meriting the Cbnfidence, good will and respect of all i with whom he came in contact, whether .1 in soeiaLor business life. We refer to iir. Wrid.rAm BAIILCER, who suddenly. thong not anexpectedly, passed faun' elarthlto eternity yesterday moining, at hive 'deuce on Smith fi eld street. The deceased bad attained the ripe old age of 1 1 seventy-four years. He came to this city fr'opiKngland iri 1818, and engaged ex tepsively in wool dealing, a trade with which his name is intimately - associated t4oughout the entire country. He re= tired from business in 1863, after amass ing a comfortable fortune, and was suc ceeded by his nephew at the old stand. Kind hearted, good and charitable, an honest man in all his dealings, a consis tent and zealous Christian, he carried with him to the grave a long life record pure and unsullied, and such as assures the hopelhat - he closed his eyes iii death to open them anew in an eternity of hap piness. 33 THE GREAT TRITIH“RAILWAY. We print elsewhere such particulars, of the lease of the Fort Wayne line to the Pennsylvania Railroad, as have yet reached us. It is somewhat remarkable that the press of this city should have been entirely precluded from any reliable information, as to the progress and final consummation of , a transaction in which our local interests are so deeply concerned. Although one of the corpo rations has maintained its principal office in this city, our journals have invariably first learned of any important developL ments in its current policy, through the press of New York and Philadelphia. We do not complain of this, but suggest it as explanatory of the occasional misap prehension into which our newspapers have been led. Perhaps, after July, we` shall have less need for seeking home news in the New York journals. This lease is very justly regarded as taking the Fort Wayne property entirely out Of the speculative stock•markets, re . tiring It as a solid and permanent iuvest meat, of the most desirable character, for one or more generations to come. The active accounts of the Company. are about to close, upon a basis which pre sents the brightest vindication of the en ergy and wisdom devoted to its manage ment through all difficulties and perils. We doubt if a more distinguished exam ple of administrative skill and of financial success can be found In the entire railway field of this country, than is afforded in the history of the Fort Wayne Railroad, from the days of its early and almost hopeless struggles, against an unfavorable tide of circumstances, up to this hour, when the record is erowried by an abso lute and irreversible success. • The Pennsylvania Railroad thus non-* netts its Philadelphia terminus, at the seaboard, with another at Chicago, and still another at Cincinnati, each a direct line of eight hundred miles, and the first complete consolidated railway from the Atlantic coast to those great internal en trepots of the tragic of the Continent. The lines from Omaha will pour the bu siness of the Pacific , coast Into her Chi cago depots, and all the States of the Snuthwest will offer their tributary trade at Cincinnati: The policy which has Cal ried our great Pennsylvania enterprise 'to thOse far western points, is not likely • to halt there. We may safely anticipate for it a continued progreis, and Emcees see reaching still farther. ' We may look upon our own city as thus becoming the gateway for the most conaiderable'rallway traffic of the Amer ican continent, and the benefits to ensile thereby, directly and indirectly, to our material intetests, are simply above the reach of any present comptration. A CARD. EDITORS GAZETTE : The Commerciat having failed to refute any of the denials set forth In my card , ,of the 27th Mama, must stand before the public a confessed libeler. _ The wishy-washy- article of the 28th inst. will attract the attention of its read . ars only as a dodge and an effort to be relieved from the difficulty into which it bad been placed by its slanderous cal umnies. The public, however, will hold that paper responsible for the charges it ' has made, and no amount of sophistry on the part of its editor will be able to divert' their attention imm its false and impu dent assertions. ' I now dismiss the Commercial as an- Woithy of farther notice, editeA_braft Adventurer amongst us, who assumes to control the affairs of the.counky ing In this, attempts to black& the faiie 4 of all those who 'mar orlifferldtb. Mil in - his peculiar views'of legislation: Gao. Wrrsow. ~,51) - 4•4'-.`,Lii , .,,* ' 0 ': ; ; I,' ;"kr Z ;. 4'' '' ''' ''; '?' V''' ' ' ' ' ' '''?: 17*). ••••f.' ..:,:•,-,•,' '- , :'-.,-..pf ‘44v.40- IioNDAI - mAV . k 1869 • NEWS BY .cAsify. (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.] FRANCE. PARIS, May V.—Ministers Burlingame and Washburne gave a 'farewell banquet to General MR at the Grand Hotel to-day. Two hundred and Arty guests were pres ent. General Dix dines with the Em peror on Tuesday next. • , Jules Faire has been declared not elected, but will contest the election of his I pponent. e official journal denies that there Is ny foundation for the rumors that the Fr nch troops are to evacuate Rome. ( SPAIN. Ii ttADRID, May 29.—The appointment of Gneral Caballero de Rode as Captain G neral of Cuba is gazetted to day. A. new Provisional Ministry will be formed, to remain in office until next October, when a plebiscitum is to be ta ken to decide the question Of sovereignty. Several officers of the army have been arrested at Tortosa, , charged with hay-, ing been engaged in a conspiracy for, the restoration of Queen Isabella. GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON, May 29.—The abolition of the patent laws was discussed in the House of Commons last night. The Timm edi torially supports the measure. LIVERPooL, May 30.—Mr. Motley, Min later of the United States, arrived ere to.day and was received by the Mayor of the city. and the American Consul at the port. The Liverpool Chamber of Com merce will present an address to the new Minister to-morrow. PARAGUAY. Lisuox, May - 29.—The reports of the war in Paraguay are conflicting, though it was represented In Rio Janiero that the allied forces were, about to make an immediate attack. It is said on the other hand, the allies have no, reliable,,infor,, !nation as to the whereabouts of Lopti It is also sta ,ed nothing has been hear of Gen. McMahon, American Minister. , i., —....--- • MARINE NEWS. MADRID. May 29.—The 'United Stat steamer Ke osha has arrived at BarceL lona. gunErtyro •s, May 29.—The steame\ 1 Kangaroo, f m New York, has arrivecU d 31 j sa • V i tsa FINANC t I L AND COMMERCIAL. Lowpox, 1 ay 29—Evening.—Consolt, 93%. Fire- wenty bonds 79X, and quiet at Frankfort at 86. Erie 18%. Illinois 85X. Stock quiet. LIVERPOOL, May 27.—Cotton quiet; middling uplands lix; Orleans 144; sales of 10,000 bales. California white whQat 9s. Bd.• ' red western Bs. 9d. West ern Flour 22..5. 6d. Oats 3s. 4d. Barley si. Peas 38.1. 6d. Pork 100 s: Beef 90s. Lard 69a. 6d. Cheese 82s. IBaeon 595. 6d. Produce unchanged. • . ' LotcDON, May 29.—Tallow 425. 9d. Sperm Oil 9d. Paws, May Z.—Bourse' dully • Rentes 71f. 5.5 e. - ••-`1 ANTWERP, Mai 22.—Petroleum closed easier at 4710. HAVRE, May 29.---Cotton nominal and unchanged. FRI.NRFORT, May 29.--Five.twentlr Marlitour, May 30.—United States bonds firm; Five Twenties 86®86y8. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. —The St. Louis type foundry.w. : damaged by fire and water on Saturday to the extent of from 140,000 to 00,000; insured for 155,000. —Major Gen. Emory has declined th appointment of Governor of the Soldiers Home near Washington. Gen. Carrol will probably be appointed to the posi tion. —Thomas Bondonian, aged seventy years, one of the men in the garison of Fort McHenry when bombarded by the British in 1814, died on Saturday at Baitithore. —Mr. Southwick, of Chicago, corn mitted suicide by hanging himself in the stable at the residence of his brother.la law, in Memphis Saturday evening. No cause Is known. —Albert H. Boyd, conductor on the Northern Central Railroad, was instant' • killed on Friday of last week, will'. standing on the top of a car, his hea striking a bridge. '—A burglar was shot on. Friday night last, by Judd Haight, near Cincinnati, while attempting to enter his house. There were four burglars, and three of them carried Their wounded companion away. --The boiler of the paper mill of W. B. Miller & Sons, at Mount Holly Springs, Pa., burid on .Friday night of last week, probably fatally injuring two men and damaging the mill to the extent of about gs,cao. —Police Superintendent Kennedy, of New York city, narrowly escaped death at the hands of a man who had solicited a private interview. A blow aimed for his head fortunately struck his shoulder. The assailant was arrested. . =The Harvard Boat Club have re oeived a challenge from 'the Londo'n Rowing Club for a match during their visit to England; offered honorary mem bershlp in their club- and free use Of their boathouse and club room. —Albert Tyler, colored, was execute at Richmond, Va., on Saturday, 29th, for the murder, by poison, of P. Hubbard, also colored, whose child he attempted to outrage. Tyler confessed his orlme or. the scaffold, in the presence of a larg `crowd. —A. H. Clapp, Government Printer, personally denies the truth of the report published in the Sunday papers that he h*d an altereation with Congressman nett at Buffalo, and desires in justice to himself that all papers which printed the dispatch will publish the contradlo. -Some politlcsit excitement was are ti aced in Buffalo o Saturday over a report i of a renoonter on t e previous evening be tween A. K. Clap , Congressional print er and Hon. D.A. Bennett, member of Coingress of the . dlstrict. It seems that a • dispute resulted in the knocking down of Bennett. 1 . ,r+ Lancaster County Politics, Opettal Dispatch tot e tsburgh Gazette.] LANCAEI ED, May 80th, 1869. The Geary delegates were badly beaten in,Lancaster county on Saturday. Much spirit was manifested, but the choice was pretty much all one way. • News from Cuba. C By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Casette.] MA,V,triA, May 30.—The Spanish schoon errelaice arrived to•day _N from envitas. 'She, briegs no reliable - news. The re ports as to the movements of tillibusters _are conflicting and worthless, consisting 'of 'extreme 'tidelands Wade , bybob Ins Pebilob - brings a number' 'of ~qwuis4o endloldieneasiincin baptured &kin tUlibuiterS in the Bay of Nips.' THE PRESBYTERIANS. The Alld bchool General Assembly (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Eiszt tt NEw rfonn, May 29.—1 n the Old School Assembly a Comtnittee was appointed to assist, at the decoration of soldiers' graves in Brooklyn on Monday. The report of the Board of Domestic Miasiona was presented and showed a balancC-in the treasury, above all Indebt edness, Of $48,348. The whole number.of missionaries last year was 546. Resoltions were offered by Dr. Tay lor, of Georgetown, conveying . Christian salutatiOns to the Presbyterian churches of the . Southern States, and expresstng a desire that the day may not be distant when We may again •be united into a. great Organization that shall . cover our whole land. Whereupon Dr. Taylor made remarks_ strongly favoring 'Union with the South ern Church. Delegates from the Presbyterian Church. of Bohemia were received and delivered, addresses, to which the Mdd erator replied. - • Christian salvations were directed tole telegraphed to the Synod of Ca!vented(' Methodists, in session at Newark, Ohio, in resporise 'to a dispatch received from that body. The reports of the Committee on Union with tbe•Church South, and on nomina tion of Trustees for the Theological Sem inaries were adopted as orders for Mon -day. 1111:21 The New Scheel General Assembly. In the New School Assembly, Rev. Dr: Adams, from Joint Comtnittee on Union with United Presbyterians and others, reported-their meeting in Philadelphia last January, and asked that the Com mittee betcontinued. Agreed to. The Committee appointed to co-oper ate with similar Committees from other bodies in securing such action as Con gress may deem best in regard to chap laincies id the army and navy, reported. The Bohemian Church delegation were received and delivered addresses, to which the Moderator replied. They ask some 12,400 to complete a normal school. The subject was referred to a special committee. The Committee on Mileage reported a balance 0f.52,087 on hand, which was ap propriated toward the expenses of dele gates to the session in Pittsburgh next Novembei, and an assessment of four cents peri' member was made for the same purpose. . The claims and objects of the Christian t Union Society were ex plained by Rev. Dr. Fisher, as was the history ofi Evangelical alliance by Rev. Dr. Primer. • Congratulations were sent to the Sy nod of the Welsh Methodist Church, Ne-- - wark, 0., in return for their greetings. Rev. Dr.lCuyler, Chairman of Execu tive Comniittee of National Temperince Society, made an appeal for assistance of Churohes in securing a permanent pub lication fund. Judge St}cong offered a resolution'svm pathizing With the Conference of Evan trelical Christians of the United States to meet in Naw York the ensuing autumn, and with that of all the world, to assem ble in the same place in 1870. '• A communication was received from The other Assenably, that they had con curred in the joint resolution concerning a pastoral totter. The-Committee on reported the. - other body i rl for the mainf Bills and Overtures adopted by the day nf prayer Icefal relations special order with England, for Monday. THE CAPITAL tnv Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.l WASHINGTON, May 30.—During Sun day the graves of - ,Znion dead at the cemetery near Soldiers' Home, at Glen- Wood and o'ther localitlei in the neigh horhoOd of Washington city were decor ated) with flowers. Several sermons were preached in churches appropriate to the O'occasion. A large number of the persons at cemeteries were this afternoon scat tered by r a rain and bail storm which; thotigh of not more than halt an hour's duration, did considerable dam age. In the northernsuburbs the wind blew over several buggies,, slightly in juring the Occupants. One or two houses were unroofed. A small frame tenement. In which four -men - had taken refuge, parted at the top and fell to the ground. One of the parties was badly injured. --Bpetbeb by General Butler. Gen. B. E. Butler, in concluding his address on 'Saturday, on the occasion of decorating soldiers' graves at Gloucester, Mass., said: "While "5;3 mourn the departed with . softened grief, because of the great work they haie wrought, we may not forget the wrongs Which filled so many of these graves, which have become the very al tars of liberty. While we • swear our children upon them to eternal fealty to free institutions, equal rights, and equal powers of ;all men, we may not, as did the Carthegenian, swear eternalla tred to Baize. •Yet' we do remember that government whose ready aid, and perfidious aid, to. rebellion in behalf of slavery, coif so much and so many who lie 'buried 'Otero. We will teach our children here, by these. green mounds which cover their fathers' ashes, to en force the lesson in the story of the ha tred of the monarchy of republican insti tutions,whieh sought to strangle this free government, at its birth, hiring Hes elan and savage warriors to fight the battiest against our fathers in the war for independence. That govern ment, which , then failed to make slavery the rule on land, even against 'an infant republic, yet vaunting herself mistress of the sea, and through search in after years, tried but failed.to make the ocean and those who go down to, the seas her subjects. Let us tell our children, and call the spirits, of the . gallant dead , who. hover around us to bear us witness and impress the lesson , . how, when slavery, her legacy to us as a nation,, had caused treason and rebellion to raise their par. ricidal bandit against the nation's life, and by its' fiendish spirit to arm brother against brother England, jealous of bur, prosperity, in rivalry of her commercial greatness,. and in hatred of our freedom, when she could do so with safety to her,' self, when she hoped We were in a death, grapple with each. other, let loose her steamers to destroy our ships, as she had sent barbarMiS Indians to burn the dwellings of our mothers and scalp them and their little ones. Hereafter, when the Gloucester boy shall say to his father, 'Where are the fishing vessels that you once had as the dependence` or your old age,' the man shall answer; yon remember the smOke you saw from thTeastern point when a child? That was your father's vessel, hurried by pirates sent• out from .firitish ,porta by British builders, who were oheeretl. for so doing ' , by a ;British Perlburieut.! The boy *ill t' , a' shall:be tie=' mended for so 'sire ,a' wiongr d: an the' old man sh w ill - Ito the _.l ford • 'Reparitioti;~ :And' to .shall the re*eni= bratkoanf thti iikeived - to 'kept alive in 'the hearts of the people." 5