

For these reasons and because we are satisfied in the Na- tion, North and South,decided by a great candidate deserving of its confidence, we present him as entitled to the suffrages of every patriotic citizen. We trust in him for his honesty and fidelity to duty, his serene judgment and solid intelligence, his varied experiences and for the uni- form success that has ever attended his efforts in securing the integrity, perpe- tuity, grandeur and prosperity of our eommon country. In the presence of these frauds and threatening danger, it is the duty of the Republican party to use its united strength to meet and prevent them and to this end, mindful of their great re- sponsibility in the coining Presidential contest and ot the fact that it must be I determined by the electoral vote of their State, hereby solemnly pledge to the Re- publicans of other States their ability to cast it for U.


Stoughton, who took the stage and read as follows : The Republicans of the State of New York assembled to appoint delegates to represent them in the National Conven- tion, reaffirm the principles and patriotic purposes of the Republican party hereto- fore declared and faithfully acted upon, and equally impressed with the responsi- bility now devolved upon them, declare the safety of the Nation is again imper- iled by the unlawed effor:s of the Demo- cratic party to overawe and subvert State government as represented by the conduct of its leaders in Maine and in several Southern States, thereby intending to se- cure control ot the General Government by deeds of violence and fraud, and in defiance of carefully constituted judicial authorities. Y., last week, the report of the committee on resolutions was called for and presented by E. After the preliminary business of the New York Republican convention, held at Utica, N. and the American Union Telegraph Co., having ten years to run, whereby all the telegraph work and bus- iness of that railroad shall be manacred in connection With the American Union Telegraph Co., instead of Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph com- panies. On Saturday last a contract was concluded between the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. in 18, under an arrangement which it is alleged provided that the railroad company, who were at that time afraid of a consolidation be- tween the Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific Companies, should at any time have the option of taking the lines at cost. After a notice had been served and the lines all taken by the rail- road company an injunction was served on President Garrett of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., at the Windsor hotel in this city, to restrain his company from taking possession of the lines which were put there by the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co. C., and Marietta and Cincinnati, Ohio, Washington, Pa., Co- lumbus, Ohio, Newark, Ohio, and Chica- go, Illinois, heretofore operated by the Atlantic and Pacific Co., under a tempo- rary license. served a no- tice of its intention to take control of and operate the telegraph lines of the Atlan- tic and Pacific Telegraph Co. How- ever, the telegraph war has assumed a still more complicated shape. The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co., which has had a working under- standibg and arrangement as to the rela- tive amount of dividends, with the Wes- tern Union Telegraph Co., had prior to sUch arrangement a compact enabling them (the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co.) to control the wire along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The correspondent thinks railroad devel- opment would be the principal feature of Blame's administration ifelected Pres- ident. has the statement el a gossiping correspon- dent in Washingtoe, upon which casts dis-redit editorially, that Jay Gould is Blaine's confidential adviser and is part- ly managing his presidential compaign. The debt statement shows the decrease of the public debt during February - to be $-'5.072,019 eas h in treastiry.$1. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Czar's accession to the throne was ob- served with autocratic pomp at St. the tamous female Ni- hilist, has been arre sted in St. 28.-David I the effect of morphine and other glum - THOS. THE MADISONIAN, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY.
