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McCULLOCH, JOHN" R. 



amounted to $486,943.26. The estimated pay- 

 ments for November and December, 1864, were 

 $50,000 per month, and for 1865 from $25,000 

 to $35,000 per month. The construction of the 

 road lying east of the mountain, and of which 

 the terminus is Greenfield, in Franklin County, 

 has not yet been resumed. 



In September the political canvass com- 

 menced with the meeting of the State Con- 

 ventions of the Republicans and Democrats, 

 and thenceforth was conducted with energy, 

 and generally in a conciliatory spirit. The 

 Eepublicans met at "Worcester on the 16th, and 

 unanimously nominated Gov. Andrew for re- 

 election. Their resolutions declared the duty 

 of maintaining the integrity of the Union ; of 

 exterminating slavery, and upholding the acts 

 and proclamations of the Government in that 

 behalf; of refusing to entertain any proposition 

 of compromise with rebels in arms, or which 

 should not be based on their unconditional 

 surrender to the National Government ; and of 

 sustaining the Baltimore platform and the 

 Baltimore nominations. The Democrats met 

 in the same place on Sept. 21st, and nominated 

 Henry W. Paine for Governor. Their resolu- 

 tions indorsed the nomination of Gen. McClellan, 

 and commended the action of the Chicago Con- 

 vention. The following embody their main 

 views : 



Resolved, That the patriotic principles declared by 

 the National Convention, as nobly and eloquently 

 expressed by its candidate for the Presidency in his 

 recent letter of acceptance, embody a line of public 

 policy upon which alone the American people can 

 restore the Union, reestablish Constitutional Liberty, 

 give security to Individual Eights, and secure the 

 return of permanent and honorable peace. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party of this State 

 is, as it always has been, unalterably opposed to the 

 rebellion, and that we recognize in the victories of 

 the national army and navy, and in the manifest 

 popular determination to change the present ad- 

 ministration, and return to the policy to which the 

 Executive, Congress, and the People were solemnly 

 pledged in the Crittenden resolution, cooperative 

 movements toward Peace and Union. 



Resolved, That the present deplorable civil war is 

 fatal to the Union and Constitution ; and, therefore, 

 it is the highest duty of the people to preserve their 

 Government and maintain its integrity in the present 

 contest, by all legal means in their power. 



The State and Presidential elections took 

 place on Nov. 1st, and resulted in favor of the 

 Eepublicans. The following is the vote for 

 Presidential electors: Republicans, 126,742; 

 Democrats, 48,745. Republican majority, 77,- 

 997. 



The electors cast the vote of the Common- 

 wealth for Abraham Lincoln for President, 

 and Andrew Johnson for Vice-President. 



The gubernatorial vote was : John A.Andrew, 

 Eepublican, 125,281 ; Henry W. Paine, Demo- 

 crat, 49,190. Majority for Andrew, 76,091. 



The Legislature elected at the same time 

 stood as follows: 



Senate. House. Joint Ballot 



Republicans 40 284 274 



Democrats 6 6 



Eepublican majority. 40 



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McCULLOCH, JOHST RAMSAY, a British 

 statistician and political economist, born at 

 Whithorn, in "Wigtonshire, March 1, 1789, died 

 in London, Nov. 11, 1864. He was descended 

 from a Scotish family of considerable note, and 

 his grandfather had commanded a revenue 

 cutter in. the royal navy. His early education 

 was acquired under the direction of some of his 

 maternal relatives, and he subsequently attend- 

 ed the public classes of the University of Edin- 

 burgh for two years, but did not graduate nor 

 study for any profession. After spending some 

 time in the office of a writer to the " Signet." he 

 entered upon his career as a journalist in 1817, 

 being editor of the "Scotsman" for two 

 years, and a contributor for a long period sub- 

 sequently. In 1818 he recommenced a series of 

 contributions to the Edinburgh " Review," by 

 an article on Ricardo's "Principles of Political 

 Economy," and soon after gave lectures on 

 that subject. In 1828 he was appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Political Economy in University Col- 

 lege, London, and removed to that city; but 

 the chair being unendowed, the number of 

 students attending his lectures was insufficient 

 for his remuneration, and he relinquished the 

 professorship. In 1838, the Whig Government 

 made him Comptroller of the London Stationery 

 Office, and he continued the head of that de- 

 partment until his death. Soon after under- 

 taking its administration he instituted reforms, 

 which resulted in a very large annual saving in 

 the department, which had been conducted 

 previously with great wastefulness, and hig 

 economy caused this saving to exceed greatly 

 the entire cost of management. As his duties 

 did not require his entire time, and he was of 

 the most industrious and methodical habits, he 

 began very soon to avail himself of the results 

 of his previous studies, in the preparation of 

 works on Political Economy and cognate topics. 

 In 1837, the first edition of his "Statistical 

 Account of the British Empire " was published, 

 in 2 vols., 8vo, and as numerous editions were 

 called for it was materially enlarged and im- 

 proved. In 1840 the first edition of his "Geo- 

 graphical Dictionary " appeared, and was soon 

 afterward reprinted in this country, and trans- 

 lated in several European countries. This was 

 followed by his " Dictionary of Commerce and 

 Commercial Navigation," which was also re- 

 printed and widely circulated abroad. He had 

 also previously edited with copious notes and 

 additional dissertations Smith's ""Wealth of 

 Nations," which reached a fifth edition in 

 1863. His other principal works were "Trea- 

 tises and Essays on Political Economy," 1853; 

 "Principles of Political Economy," 1853; 

 "Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation 

 and the Funding System," 1855 ; " Succession to 

 Property Vacant by Death ; including Inquiries 

 into the Influence of Primogeniture, Entails, 

 and Compulsory Partition, upon the Public In- 

 terests," 1858 ; " A Catalogue of Books, the 

 property of a Political Economist, with Critical 

 and Biographical Notices." 



