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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



and accepted by the commissioners in August. 

 Work on the Sutro Tunnel still goes on with 

 considerable vigor, and it now penetrates the 

 mountains to a depth of about 2,000 feet. 



The following table gives the population of 

 the State, according to the census of 1870, 

 together with the assessed value of property, 

 taxation, etc. : 



CENSUS OF 1870. 



Included in the census are 23 Indians. The 

 tribal Indians are officially estimated at 16,220. 

 The true value of property was $31,134,012. 

 The public debt, county, city, town, etc., 

 amounted to $1,343,199. The aggregate value 

 of farm-products, including betterments and 

 additions to stock, was $1,659,713; 674 per- 

 sons, ten years old and over, cannot write, of 

 whom 517 are males, and 157 are females. Of 

 those twenty-one years old and over who can- 

 not write, 474 are white males. 



A general election took place on the 7th of 

 November. The Democratic candidate for Gov- 

 ernor was L. R. Bradley,. and the nominee of 

 the Republicans was F. A. Tritle. The total 

 vote cast was 13,347, of which Bradley received 

 7,200, and Tritle 6, 147; by which the former had 

 a majority of 1,053. 0. W. Kendall, of Ham- 

 ilton, a Democrat, was elected as member of 

 Congress by a majority of 660 over Thomas 

 Fitch, who was nominated for reelection by the 

 Republicans. The Legislature consists of 13 

 Republicans and 10 Democrats in the Senate, 

 and 23 Republicans and 23 Democrats in the 

 House. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. The political cam- 

 paign in New Hampshire begins early in the 

 year. The Republican Convention met at Con- 

 cord, on the 4th of January, and nominated 

 James Pike, of Newmarket, for Governor, and 

 D. W. Buckminster of Portsmouth, for Rail- 

 road Commissioner. The other State officers 

 are chosen by the Legislature. The platform 

 adopted by the convention contained, besides 

 the customary laudations of the party and its 

 representative men, the following declarations 

 of principles : 



Resolved, That all laws, imposing unnecessary or 

 unequal burdens, by taxation or otherwise, upon the 

 whole or any portion of the community, thereby di- 

 minishing or wholly depriving them of that corn- 



are unjust, oppressive, and should be immediately 

 repealed. 



Resolved, That all laws which favor capital at the 

 expense of labor, or offer a bounty to accumulated 

 wealth at the expense of productive industry, are in- 

 consistent with the principles of democratic repub- 

 licanisnij and we hereby repudiate and denounce 

 them as m direct conflict with the purposes and aims 

 of the Republican party. 



Resolved, That, as the success of any system of 

 government depends almost wholly upon the charac- 

 ter and ability of those who administer its affairs, it 

 is preeminently important, in a free republic, that 

 the selection of public officers should be determined 

 by merit and qualifications; we are therefore in 

 favor of rigidly applying the Jeffersonian test of hon- 

 esty and capacity to the choice and appointment of 

 all officers in the civil service. 



Resolved, That we protest against the so-called rev- 

 enue reform movement, now being inaugurated by 

 a few quasi Republicans, in concert with the great 

 body of Democrats, because, while we desire, in com- 

 mon with the great majority of the people, that all 

 taxation shall be reduced so far and so fast as are con- 

 sistent with the necessities of the Government, we 

 still believe that necessary taxes should be imposed 

 chiefly upon the rich rather than the poor, upon the 

 luxuries of life rather than its necessaries, and that 

 a duty upon such articles of foreign manufacture as 

 come in direct competition with the products of our 

 own industry is essential to the well-being and per- 

 manent prosperity of the nation. 



Resolved, That, while practising the most rigid econ- 

 omy consistent with the public interest, it is the 

 duty of our State government and its officers to do 

 all in their power to secure prompt and efficient 

 enforcement of those salutary laws designed to pro- 

 tect the poor, the improvident, and the helpless, 

 against fraud, avarice, and oppression, among the 

 most important of which are those against gambling, 

 licentiousness, and the sale of intoxicating liquors ; 

 the encouragement of honest industry, the preven- 

 tion of crime, pauperism, and misery, the education 

 of the young, and the maintenance of good morals, 

 being the highest duties of all legislators and other 

 public officers. 



Resolved, That the sympathies of the Republican 

 party have ever been, and still are, with and for the 

 laboring-men of this country; prompted by this 

 syr 

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homesteads for 

 always favored all legislation calculated to advance 



ubormg-men of this country; prompted by this 

 Empathy, we struck the fetters from the slave, and 

 irew open the public domain for the location of free 

 omesteads for the working-man thereon. We have 



