RTJBIDniM. 



the first Wednesday of April. The Republics* 

 Convention nominated for governor James T. 

 Smith, and the Democratic and Union Conven- 

 tion nominated Wm. W. Hoppin, who declined. 

 "Wm. E. Cozzens was subsequently nominated. 

 The votes were given as follows: Smith, 

 10,828 ; Cozzens, 7,537 ; scattering 302. 

 The Legislature elect was divided as follows : 



Senate. House. 



Republicans 22 54 



Democrats 12 18 



The votes for members of Congress were as 

 follows : 



Eepub. Dem. 



1st Dist. Jenckes 6,532 Bradley 4,616 



2nd Dist. Dixon 4,202 Brown 3,180 



The balance in the State Treasury on May 

 1st, 1863, was $57,384. The receipts during 

 the fiscal year had been $334,115. A new val- 

 uation of property was made throughout the 

 State, by which the amount of taxable property 

 was increased twenty-seven millions. 



RUBIDIUM. By igniting in a suitable ap- 

 paratus the carbonized bitartrate of its oxide, 

 Bunsen has obtained metallic rubidium. From 

 75 grammes of the salt, he secured 5 grammes 

 of the metal (about 3 dwts. Troy) in a single 

 mass. The metal rubidmm is very brilliant, 

 like silver, and is white with a scarcely per- 

 ceptible tinge of yellow. In air it oxidizes in- 

 stantly to bluish-gray sub-oxide, and takes fire 

 (after a few minutes) much more easily than 

 potassium. At 10 C., it has about the hard- 

 ness of iron ; it melts at 58 5'0., and below a 

 red heat is converted into a vapor which is of 

 a blue color with a shade of green. Its density 

 is about 1.52. It is much more electro-positive 

 than potassium, and upon water takes fire with 

 a flame not distinguishable by the eye from 

 that of the latter element. It burns with 

 brilliancy in chlorine, and in the vapors of bro- 

 mine, iodine, sulphur, and arsenic. (Ann. der 

 Chem. und Pharm., CXXV. 367.) 



In the mother-liquors from which salt has 

 been extracted, at the Nauheim Salt Works, 

 Bottger finds the chlorides not only of magne- 

 sium, potassium, and sodium, but also, in com- 

 paratively large quantities, of caesium and ru- 

 bidium, and a trace moreover of that of thal- 

 lium. He considers this mother-liquor the 

 readiest now known source of caesium and 

 rubidium. 



RIOTS IN NEW YORK, BOSTON, AND 

 ELSEWHERE. After several postponements 

 Col. Nugent, the provost-marshal of New York 

 city, was directed to prepare the central office 

 of the acting assistant provost-marshal-general, 

 for the immediate execution of the provisions 

 of the act for enrolling and calling out the na- 

 tional forces. The several deputies received 

 official requisitions direct from the President, 

 calling for specified numbers of men, and were 

 instructed to commence operations on the llth 

 of July. In compliance with this order Pro- 

 vost-Marshal Jenkins, of the ninth congressional 

 district in New York, publicly announced 



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through the press, that on Saturday, the llth, 

 the ballots would be publicly counted at the 

 corner of Forty-sixth street and Third avenue, 

 and that immediately thereafter the "wheel 

 would be turned and the draft begin. Ru- 

 mors of popular dissatisfaction were heard on 

 every side, trouble was apprehended, and the 

 police were notified to hold themselves in 

 readiness for any emergency. On Saturday 

 morning a large crowd assembled at the ap- 

 pointed place, but as everything was conduct- 

 ed quietly, systematically, and fairly, no op- 

 portunity for disturbance occurred. The day 

 passed pleasantly, the crowd were in good 

 humor, well known names were saluted with 

 cheers, and at night as the superintendent of 

 the police passed out from the office, he re- 

 marked that there was no danger to be appre- 

 hended ; the Rubicon was passed, and all would 

 go well. The names of the conscripts were 

 published by the press of Sunday morning, 

 with incidents, jocular and otherwise, connected 

 with the proceedings. In the neighborhood 

 in which the initial working of the law was at- 

 tempted, an excitable element of the city's 

 population resided. Very many poor men 

 were, by the turn of the wheel, forced instant- 

 ly as it were from home and comfort, wrested 

 from the support of a needy family, to be sent 

 they knew not whither, unless to the battle 

 field, or, perhaps, to the grave. Such were the 

 apprehensions of many imprudent persons, who 

 were liable to the draft, and such, their anxie- 

 ties for the fate of their wives and children, 

 that associations were formed to resist it, at 

 the last alternative, with bloodshed. Some of 

 the inhabitants of the 9th district met in secret 

 places on Sunday, and resolved to resist the 

 further drafting by force, and, if necessary, to 

 proceed to extremity. On the following morn- 

 ing, Monday the 13th, organized parties of men 

 went from yard to yard, from shop to shop, to 

 compel the workmen to leave their labor and 

 join the several processions which were wend- 

 ing their way toward the corner of Third ave- 

 nue and Forty-sixth street. Unconscious of 

 impending danger, Captain Jenkins, with his 

 assistants, prepared for the morning's work, 

 and in the presence of a great multitude, many 

 of whom had crowded into the little room, the 

 draft recommenced, a few names were called 

 and registered, when a huge paving stone came 

 crash through the window, and shivered into 

 a thousand pieces the glass, knocked over two 

 or three quiet observers, upset the inkstand on 

 the reporters' table, and astonished somewhat 

 the officials. Hardly had their surprise found 

 expression in words before a second and a third 

 stone was sent straight from the crowd among 

 the officials and reporters behind the railing. 

 As if emboldened by these acts, the crowd de- 

 veloped instantly into a mob, and with frantic 

 yells passionately rushed upon the place, break- 

 ing down the doors, throwing helter-skelter 

 the furniture, smashing into fragments the 

 tables and desks, and venting their fury 



