MARYLAND. 



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chies. Ho was profoundly impressed with the 

 importance of a combined movement, and 

 deemed it essential to remove the national dis- 

 likes which ages of ignorance and misrule had 

 implanted in European peoples. Accordingly, 

 he founded a secret association, and enlisted 

 the most resolute and earnest of his associates 

 in his counsel. Deeming that his best recruit- 

 ing-ground would be among the discontented 

 working-men of Europe, he organized a band of 

 emissaries, who, spreading themselves through 

 Europe, found active supporters in the large 

 cities, principally in France, Belgium, and 

 Spain. Thus arose the International Associa- 

 tion. It was governed by Dr. Marx and a 

 council, in which all nationalities were rep- 

 resented. Its plan of action was to combine 

 workmen of all countries in a common league, 

 who, when the opportune moment arrived, 

 were to help each other in overturning the im- 

 perial or monarchical governments, and estab- 

 lishing republics in their place. Victor Hugo's 

 proposed United States of Europe even found 

 favor among the more radical members of the 

 Society. (See INTERNATIONALE.) Dr. Marx 

 was a rather stout and handsome man, with 

 an ample gray beard and long gray hair. In 

 stature he was of a medium height. He was 

 married to a lady who shared all the dangers 

 of his political career. Dr. Marx's works were 

 " Der Achtzehnte Brumaire von Louis Bona- 

 parte" ("The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis 

 Bonaparte," alluding to the coup d'etat of De- 

 cember, 1851, published first in 1852 in Great 

 Britain, and reprinted in 1870 in Germany; 

 11 Misere de la Philosophic" a reply to M. 

 Proudhon's economical work; and '''Das Capi- 

 tal" the first and only volume of which was 

 published in 1864. 



MARYLAND. The financial condition of 

 the State of Maryland is sound. The aggre- 

 gate debts, for which interest has to be pro- 

 vided, amounted, on the 30th of September, the 

 close of the last fiscal year, to $12,436,718.68 ; 

 against this amount the State holds as an off- 

 set assets, which are considered productive, 

 amounting to $7,718,425.94; and temporarily 

 unproductive assets amounting to $20,577,- 

 169.56. Of the latter, $19,330,959.73 are in 

 the bonds, stock, and interest of the Chesapeake 

 & Ohio Canal, which within the last two 

 years has shown comparatively large returns, 

 though for nearly a quarter of a century pre- 

 vious it has been regarded as almost worth- 

 less; and $1,012,274.40 are invested in the 

 Annapolis & Elkridge, and the different East- 

 ern Shore railroads, which latter are now all 

 completed, and will soon make returns. The 

 debt was actually reduced during the last 

 fiscal year $1,050,073.24, by the exchange of 

 $437,206.37 of preferred stock of the Balti- 

 more & Ohio Railroad Company for an equal 

 amount of State stock, and by the sale of 

 $500,000 of the common stock of the same com- 

 pany, on which a profit of $177,601 was real- 

 ized above its par value. These sales and 



transfers aggregate $1,114,807.33, and the dif- 

 ference between this amount and the $1,050,- 

 037.24 of reduction of debt, amounting to over 

 $60,000, is in the hands of the State agent, 

 applicable to a further reduction of the debt. 

 The receipts into the Treasury during the fiscal 

 year were $2,672,998,78; and this sum, added 

 to $492,750.17, the balance in the Treasury at 

 the beginning of the year, October 1, 1870, 

 made the total direct assets $3,165,748.95. 

 The disbursements during the same period 

 amounted to $2,713,50.205 leaving in the 

 Treasury, September 30, $452,246.90. The re- 

 ceipts were $290,799.13 less than those of the 

 preceding fiscal year, on account of the smaller 

 amount of loan, known as the defence loan, 

 issued ; and the disbursements were $290,799.- 

 13 less, on account of the smaller amount of 

 bounties paid. Of the disbursements of the 

 last fiscal year, $186,210 were investments in 

 the Eastern Shore railroads, and $87,500 in 

 the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad. 



The Democratic State Convention for the 

 nomination of candidates for Governor, Attor- 

 ney-General, and State Comptroller, was held 

 on July 19th, and the Republican on Septem- 

 ber 12th. At the former, Hon. Pinkney Whyte, 

 of Baltimore, was nominated for Governor ; 

 A. K. Syester, of Washington County, Attor- 

 ney-General; and Levin Woolford, of Somer- 

 set, Comptroller. No platform was adopted. 

 The Republicans nominated for Governor, Ja- 

 cob Tome, of Cecil County ; Attorney-General, 

 Alexander Randall, of Anne Arundel ; and 

 Comptroller, Lawrence J. Brenglc, of Freder- 

 ick. Resolutions were adopted, the most im- 

 portant of which are as follows : 



Resolved, That, looking back on the course f Presi- 

 dent Grant's Administration, we recall with gratifi- 

 cation the fact that the State Convention of Maryland 

 was the first Kepublican State Convention which 

 proposed General Grant as a candidate for the presi- 

 dency ; and that we now declare it is the unanimous 

 opinion of the Republicans of Maryland that he 

 should "be renominated by the next National Con- 

 vention. 



Resolved, That the national Administration and 

 the national Congress have earned the gratitude of 

 the American people ; that the acts of legislation en- 

 forcing the amendments to the Constitution have 

 been lawful exercise of power, and have in most in- 

 stances earned the highest merit which laws can 

 liave the merit of executing themselves and enfor- 

 cing obedience to their every enactment. 



Resolved, That, by the faithful execution of the 

 laws, by the general honesty and efficiency of the 

 public services, by the rapid decrease of the puWic 

 debt, coupled with a large reduction of the public 

 taxes, and by the success of its foreign policy, the 

 national Administration has proved itself one of the 

 most beneficent and successful since the foundation 

 of the Government, and it deserves the support of 

 the vast majority of the American people. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party at present is 

 without any definite views on the national situation. 

 That the larger portion of it sullenly rejects the re- 

 sults of the war, and cherishes the hope of one day 

 overturning all the good that has been done, while 

 the smaller part gives a late but unwilling and un- 

 trustworthy adhesion to what it is forced to con- 

 clude it cannot help. Its leading papers are in 

 violent debate as to the most vital principles, and 



