Rochester, Monroe, NY
Daily Democrat
May 9, 1860
DIED
CAMPBELL - In this city, on the 7th inst. Henry CAMPBELL, in the 28th year of his age.
-Friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral at his late residence, No. 1 Andrews street, at 2 ˝
o'clock this (Wednesday) afternoon.
SMITH - On the 8th inst., after a long and painful illness, James Robert SMITH, aged 72 years.
-Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, No. 31 Prospect
street, to-morrow, at 10 o'clock A. M.
Toronto papers please copy.
McLEAN - In Caledonia, on the 3d inst. Mr. John McLEAN, aged 65 years.
-The deceased was among the highly respected citizens of his town, and leaves many friends who sincerely mourn
his loss. He was the uncle of Col. A. H. McLEAN, of the same town.
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SERIOUS ACCIDENT NEAR LYONS
We are indebted to Miss KEITH, the young lady in charge of the telegraph at Lyons, for the particulars of a serious
accident which took place yesterday.
The State Engineer, Mr. RICHMOND and the resident Engineer, Mr. BENNETT, were returning from the Montezuma marshes
to Lyons, yesterday afternoon, traveling on the tow-path in a buggy, when the horse became frightened, and plunged
down the bank into the canal, upsetting the buggy.-
Mr. BENNETT came very near drowning, and is badly hurt. His knee was cut and one arm badly sprained. He was for
some time delirious. Mr. RICHMOND escaped by jumping from the bank. -
The horse was drowned.
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GIRL MISSING
Word was left at the Police office, Monday night, that a girl named Sarah DOYLE employed in the family of J. D.
HUSBANDS, Esq., No. 27 North Fitzhugh street, left that gentleman's residence Sunday evening to attend church,
but did not return; and the circumstances are such to excite apprehension that she has met with foul play.
The girl is eighteen or nineteen years of age, full faced, with rosy cheeks and glossy black curls.
LATER - We have certain intelligence that the girl was seen in State street, yesterday morning, so that if she
has been coaxed away for a bad purpose she stays away of her own accord.
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BODY FOUND
The corpse of Mr. FERGUSON'S little boy, Edgar, who was drowned in the upper race on the 20th of April, was found
yesterday morning at the end of the tail race in rear of the saw mill, on Aqueduct street. It was considerably
decomposed, and presented a sickening spectacle. Since the little fellow was missed, the race has been drawn off
three times and careful search made for him.
Coroner BROWN held an inquest and a verdict of accidental drowning was found.
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HIS NAME - The Buffalo Courier says that the name of the brakeman who was crushed between two freight cars at Wayland
Saturday night, was William SCHORFELT(?). He was alive Sunday noon, but it was considered scarcely possible that
he could live long.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union Advertiser
May 18, 1860
SURROGATE'S COURT - Present, A. G. H?DGE, Surrogate - May 18th - David BAKER, late of Penfield, deceased - will
proved and admitted to record and letters testamentary issued to Louis K. FOX of Penfield.
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THAT MAN IN THE COW TRAP - It has been ascertained that there was a man on the track of the railroad at Albion,
on Wednesday night who came near being run over by the locomotive under circumstances very peculiar, as we stated
yesterday. He fell or threw himself into a cow trap just in time to save his life, and as soon as the train had
passed he crawled out of the pit and went to the station at Albion all right. It would be very unsafe for him or
any other man to repeat such an exploit.
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S. Marvin HUGHES, late of Pittsford, deceased - application of administrators for leave to sell real estate. Ordered
that police be given of the appointment of special guardian for infants on the 26th instant.
LINCOLN'S NOMINATION When the intelligence said yesterday that Abe. LINCOLN of Illinois, had been nominated at Chicago for the Presidency, it fell like a wet blanket upon the host here who worship at the shrine of SEWARD. The active Republicans of the city — the masses of the party are SEWARD men and they were all sadly disappointed and it was impossible for them to conceal their disappointment. The Silver Gray, American, Henry CLAY and anti-Weed men chuckled with delight and the broader their faces became the more the SEWARD men opened their vials of wrath and indignation. While some raved, man were sullen, silent and downcast.
It was understood yesterday morning that SEWARD was sure to be nominated. A collection had been taken up for powder to celebrate, and the Grays were engaged to fire a salute. When the news came a question arose what should be done with the powder. The two guns were mounted, horses harnessed and driven to the front of the Court House about four o'clock to await orders. Nobody for a time was disposed to give orders. Some of the SEWARD men who had subscribed for the salute swore they would go before the grand jury and get an indictment for swindling against any man who presumed to burn that powder for Abe LINCOLN. At length PERKIN'S Bank came to the Court House and played, but it was no use; a crowd could not be gathered. After an hour's delay Bill GROOT and John VAN VOORHIES assumed the responsibility, and started with the band and the cannon up Buffalo and Main streets to get up a procession to go to Court Street Bridge and fire the salute. And such a procession ! Beside the band and the detachment of military to man the guns, there were not more than six or eight men and perhaps twenty or thirty small boys, who did not know any better than to run after a funeral.
The salute was fired, and the Band went back to the Court House where they played all the evening. A few persons gathered out of curiosity, but it was neither a large meeting nor an enthusiastic one. The speakers were John C. NASH and H. B. ADAMS, Esqrs. They made "a few brief remark" and stopped when the pond was out, and it was empty very soon after the gate was hoisted.
The only incident of the meeting worthy of notice was that GROOT, who helped run the thing, narrowly escaped arrest by a policeman. He took off his hat and cheered Hod ADAMS, whereupon the Policeman told him to dry up — that he was disturbing the meeting. The Policemen thought the gathering had something to do with the Presbyterian Assembly.
Mr. CARR brought out his large telescope in front of the Court House, while the meeting was being held, and gave the clergymen and others an opportunity to look at the stars. One wag asked Mr. CARR if he could see the Star of Illinois through that jube? The reply was that they could see Saturn and many lesser stars.
The boys had a bonfire in Buffalo street, but it went out early, and by nine o'clock there were few Republicans to be seen in the streets.
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UNION AND ADVERTISERLINCOLN is a candidate not to be despised.---
He is a man of fair talents, a self-made man, a tall swarthy, rather cadaverous looking Kentuckian, a good stump talker, and possesses the qualities which make men popular with "the boys"
He has been in the Illinois Legislature several times; and he represented the Springfield district in Congress from 1847 to 1849. But there are ten thousand men in the United States who are as well qualified by experience in public affairs to fill the Executive Chair as Mr. LINCOLN and in respect to talents and other bases of Presidential claims, he is perhaps one of a million. Yet on the third ballot, in a body of men possessing great intelligence, and comprising some of the best political talent of the country, William H. SEWARD, the "embodiment" of the Republican creed and party, who has been schooled to Statesmanship for thirty years, who is confessedly one of the leading minds of the country, who has laboriously earned the position he holds among the men of the time, who, in short, (bating objections on the score of political policy) is fit to be President; on the third ballot such a man was set aside by such a body of men, and Mr. LINCOLN was nominated in his stead, not because any one delegate believes he is a fitter man for President; than Mr. SEWARD, but because it is supposed he has fewer enemies.
Of course it does not become us to mourn over the defeat and in some sense the party degradation, of Mr. SEWARD. He was and is the ablest and the strongest of our political antagonists; and in a party view, we regard his defeat as a gain. But in behalf of Intellect, of long and arduous public service, of all the great qualities and qualifications which constitute Statesman and fit a man for the Executive of an extensive and powerful Empire, we cannot but protest against a policy which assigns to Mediocrity and to Negative character, the prizes which should be awarded only to Positive Merit. That policy proved fatal to the Presidential pretension of CALHOUN, WRIGHT, NARCY, and other first class Democratic Statesmen; and to CLAY, WEBSTER, CRITTENDEN, and a host of other Statesmen of the same rank on the other side. It has also given Presidential honors or nominations to HARRISON, TAYLOR, POLK, SCOTT, PIERCE, FREMONT and LINCOLN. It destroys every stimulant to laudable ambition; and holds out to ??trigue and low party "tactics" the greatest possible encouragement - But we will not enlarge on the pernicious and demoralizing consequences which must inevitably flow from this ruthless ??roscription of the only class of Statesman who are really fit for the presidency. They must be sufficiently obvious to any reflecting mind.
-This defeat must fall with crushing weight upon the "SEWARD Regency" of this State, The Evening Journal and the great mind which has inspired and controlled it throughout that long period, have labored for more than a quarter of a century to make William H. SEWARD President of the United States. For the same space of time that gentleman has toiled asst- - ously and inde-digable to prepare himself to exercise the functions of that office with honor to himself and to his country - never permitting himself to doubt that when his party should have attained the requisite degree of strength, it would select him as the best-exponent of its principles and the ripest and ablest Statesman in its ranks to fill the Presidential Chair. It has now reached that point of party growth, but instead of the Statesman indicated, no less clearly by his political foes than by his lifelong friends, as the man entitled to this distinction, that party facilely sets him aside and gives the nomination to an upstart. It is thus that the politics and the politicians of the country are degraded, debauched, demoralized, it is thus that a private station has become the post on honor.
-There are some notable facts connected with this overthrow- facts which possess a significance rendering them worthy of remark. The New York Tribune and the Albany Journal have long been at issue in respect to the Republican nomination. In this State the Journal influence has always preponderated, and still preponderates. But on the broad theatre embraced by the Republican organization, the Tribune exerts the most power. It has insidiously poisoned the mind of distant Republicans against the Auburn Sage; and induced the belief that he is obnoxious to too many peculiar interests, whose consolidation is indispensable to success, to render his nomination judicious. That poison has done its perfect work; the great State of New York standing firm and united in behalf of her favorite son, could make no impression upon the anti-SEWARD ( - - -) which her SEWARD "braves" were compelled to meet in an "enemy's country." That ph- - inx was seriously divided in its preferences, -at in its antipa--ies it was , "one and indivisible." Were there - - tendency to waver, the - - - - enthusiasm in behalf of LINCOLN and necessarily adverse to SEWARD, sufficed to reassure the - - - and to em--lden the bold and aggressive. Indeed, there can be no doubt that with a C- - -edtion so evenly divided for and against SEWARD, a strong local feeling, one way or the other, was sufficient to control the result. Had the same body met in this State, SEWARD would unquestionably have been its choice. But having met in the "enemy's country" he was doomed to defeat.
‘Again, the enemies of SEWARD made use of the flagrant conduct of our present Legislature --insisting that in case of his election, Mr. WEED as his representative would trans— the same scandal to Washington and affix an in??lible stigma upon the whole party. This argument, we hear, was strongly pressed by men no?? ???? too pure to embark in any kind of public (????) Provided it should inure to their own (????)
Again; the Sewardites ma??/ ??? mistake in "taking in" hostile organizations having no just pretension to a representation on the Convention, but whose votes in that body were certain to be ?ast against the candidate of the party leaders to whose courtesy or generosity, they owed their admission. Their true policy was to hold a Convention of Republican States, (???/??? a portion of the States); and that Convention having nominated SEWARD as a matter of (????) would have forced a division in the popular vote for and against their candidate, and made him the recognized standard bearer of the opposition generally.
Again; SEWARD had to bear all the odium of an imputed intrigue having (?????) The defeat of LINCOLN and the reelection of DOUGLAS to the U. S. Senate in the fall of 1858. (????) not true, the Illinoisans believed the enemy; and now they had such an opportunity to take revenge as rarely falls to the lot of mortals. They have sated their appetites to the full; the man who in their opinion slaughtered their favorite candidate for U. S. Senator in order to pave his own way to the Presidency, they have now (???) and they have transferred to their lately prescribed favorite the very honors, to secure which is SEWARD they suppose was the object of that gentleman and his friends in favoring DOUGLAS - - -cyion. Is it strange that Chicago was ab- - with enthusiasm over such a triumph?
-As to LINCOLN's position, we suppose he is decidedly more abolitionish than Mr. SEWARD. His published speeches and letters prove this; but we cannot refer to them to-day.
SEWARD HAS "NO HEART FOR COMMENT"
Gov. SEWARD is at his home in Auburn, where he arrived on Saturday last with a view of remaining until after the Chicago nomination on which he had the fullest hopes would be tendered to himself. His personal organ, the Auburn Advertiser, of last evening, thus makes the announcement which involves his humiliating defeat and the triumph of Abe LINCOLN. It is significant;
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
By reference to our telegraph dispatch it will be seen that Abraham LINCOLN, of Illinois, was, on the third ballot, nominated for President.
Our report closes amid great excitement and previous to the Convention proceeding to ballot for Vice President. We have no time nor heart for comment.
It will be seen by reference to a Washington dispatch elsewhere, that Mr. SEWARD intends to resign his seat in the Senate and bring his public life to an abrupt close.
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The Palmyra Courier says John PIPER was drowned in Mud Creek while fishing on Monday last. Also, that on the same day, Bridget CHANLY, of that village, took a quantity of aqua-ammonia and nitrate of silver, prepared as a hair dye, mistaking it for cream of tarter in solution, which she was taking as a medicine. Medical assistance was promptly rendered, and the lady, although suffering severely, is in a fair way to recover.
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