THE CINCINNATI NOMINEES. 
FOR PRESIDENT. 
HORACE GREELEY 
OF NEW YORK. 
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, 
B. GrRATZ BROWN’ 
OF MISSOURI. 
Such is the ticket presented by the Lib¬ 
eral Republicans, in National Convention 
assembled, (at Cincinnati,) and which is be¬ 
ing indorsed by many outside of that or¬ 
ganization. Asa matter of information and 
history, wo give herewith brief biographi¬ 
cal sketches of the nominees — together 
with a portrait of each, from recent photo¬ 
graphs— the same as we propose doing in 
regard to the candidates of the other par¬ 
ties, when presented for the suffrages of the 
people: 
HORACE GREELEY. 
Horace Greeley was born at Amherst, 
N. H., Feb. 8, 1811, and is, consequently, 
sixty - one years of age. His father, 
Zaccheus Greeley, was an honest farmer. 
Horace was a hopeful son, given greatly to 
a thirst for knowledge, and it is recorded 
of him that beforo he had attained the age 
of ten years ho had read every book that ho 
could borrow within a circuit of ton miles 
of his father's house, and this mostly at 
night by the light of pine knots, for there 
was no gas in those clays and grease was 
scarce. Horace early determined to be¬ 
come a printer, and at the ago of fifteen he 
entered the office of the Eastern Spectator, 
at Poultney, Vt., as an apprentice. Here 
he served for four years, becoming the best 
typo in the olBoe, and devoting bis spare 
time to giving assistance in editing the 
paper. His knowledge of political statistics, 
party leaders, movements, etc., was so ex¬ 
tensive that he was regarded an authority 
in such matters. Meantime his parents had 
removed to Erie, Pa., where Horace now 
visited them. He worked as a compositor 
in Erie, Jamestown audJjodi, until August, 
1831, when he went to New York with a 
scanty wardrobe and only ten dollars in his 
pocket, seeking employment. He found it, 
and for two years filled situations in various 
offices. 
Ou the 1st of July, 1833, he entered into 
partnership with Francis Story, and they 
commenced business as the printers of Dr. 
Shepard's •‘Morning Post,” the first penny 
paper ever published. Tho paper failed in 
3 weeks, and the firm of Greeley & Story 
was dissolved in six months by rhe death of 
the junior partner. Mr. Greeley- then took 
in as partners Jonas Winchester and E. 
Sibbett, under the firm of Greeley & Co. 
They started the “New Yorker,” of which 
Mr. Greeley' was editor, in 1834. It was a 
political, Literary and family newspaper, 
and lived seven years. Daring this period 
Mr. Greeley wrote for the “ Daily Whig,” 
and in 1838-5) he went to Albany and edited 
the “ Jeffersonian,'’ a Whig Yveekly, at the 
urgent solicitation of Seward and Weed, in 
whose interest it was published; but these 
ungrateful politicians gave him scarcely 
enough for his services to pay his board and 
washing, although the ability %vith which he 
conducted the paper Yvas a subject of gen¬ 
eral remark and surprise. In 1840 he edited 
the “ Log Cabin,” a Harrison and Tyler 
campaign paper, and on April 10th. 1841, he 
commenced the publication of “TheTrib¬ 
une,” tho history of which is tho history of 
Mr. Greeley for the past thirty years. He 
Yvas in Congress for a short time, in 1848-9, 
was candidate for Comptroller of tbisState, 
against .Tudgo Allen, three years ago, has 
written several practical and historical 
works, and often lectured on political, prac¬ 
tical, and social subjects; but it is as Editor 
of the New York Tribune that Horace 
Greeley* has achieved his fame, and ho is 
to-day regarded as the foremost of A morican 
Journalists. 
BENJAMIN GRATZ BROWN. 
B. Gratz Brown is a native of Kentucky, 
and 46 years of age. He graduated at Yale 
College, in the class of 1847, studied law, and 
settled in St. Louis, where he soon became 
prominent in politics. Like Mr. Greeley, 
he first attracted public attention and won 
fame as an Editor—as Editor of the St. 
Louis Democrat, from 1850 to 1857. He had 
supported Van Suren and Adayis, in 1848, 
and as an emancipationist in a slave State, 
gravitated toward the Republican organiza- 
HORAC'E GKR. E ELEY. 
tion, of which he was the original head and 
front in Missouri, supporting F re MONT in 
185G, Lincoln in 1860 and '14, and Grant 
in 1868. When the rebellion opened, ho was 
in at the beginning, participating in the cap¬ 
ture of Carop Jackson, and tho subsequent 
operations which held Missouri to the 
Union. In 1863heYvas chosen to tho L r . 8. 
Senat e, to fill the unexpired term of Waldo 
P. Johnson, seoessiouist, who was expelled 
for treason. 
lie was eleoted to the State Legislature In 
1852, and remained there for a number of 
years. Ho entered life as a Df-mociut, fol¬ 
lowing Benton. He became identified with 
the German population of St. Louis, and 
has nhvaya been supported by them, lie is 
said to have made the first speech in behalf 
of emancipation in a Southern Legislature. 
In 1866 ho declined a re-election to the U. S. 
Senate, and did not participate in politics 
until 1870. He opposed tho proscriptive 
Constitution of Missouri, and a large party 
of Liberals, led by Schfhz, made Mr. 
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A NEW ARROW FOR LOVE. 
BY C. CORONER. 
HF.eomoi with such a witching way 
Wlmt piui I say ? 
Ho plonSa a little, thou ho smiles, 
Which so beguiles! 
Sometimes a croat round tear he shows. 
Which lu* say* IU.yyn 
Because bis arrows And no mnrk 
Upon my heart! 
Then, chubby knees are bent in prayer— 
“ I want one there!” 
Then quivers dropped, and bows unstrung- 
“ He’S to be hung,’’ 
Unless an arrow he can And 
To change my tulnd. 
So, day by day, the question wears, 
With all its pruyers. 
A shining ling around my feet. 
Where bright eyes meet. 
As ever round and round It turns— 
And sometimes burns 
Me, for my waywardness and fun. 
Because not won. 
Well—I’ve made up ray mind for once, 
(Being no dunco,) 
That till tho arrow can be found, 
Above tho ground, 
Whose point shall bear a diamond light 
To give Love sight. 
I’ll keep on teasing with my fun 
Till It Is won. 
Brown their standard-bearer for Governor. 
Ho was elected by the unprecedented ma¬ 
jority of 42,000. His administration has 
been a success, and he is looked upon as a 
founder of the Liberal Party. In appear¬ 
ance, he is of average bight, light ooxn- 
plexioned, with reddish hair, and blue eyes. 
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JAPANESE PRINCESSES. 
The Japanese Princesses are five in num¬ 
ber, three in their teens and two st ill young¬ 
er, and they retain the native dress, which, 
to a Chicago reporter, seems to lack petti¬ 
coats. It is marked by a thick girdle, wide 
sleeves, and overskirts lashed to the sides. 
The hair is gathered into Beveral chips, se¬ 
cured by gay skewers, ribbons, etc. Their 
faces are broad and noses flat, but they have 
fine eyebrows and eyes, and “ after all they 
are pretty,” They are to be sent to different 
schools, to secure moro complete disuse of 
their native tongue, and enable them to 
learn English more rapidly. Ten of tho 
present party have been in America before. 
23 - GRATZ BROWN. 
IN THE TWILIGHT. 
A tael, blue-eyed girl, with loose, brown 
curls flowing from her face, like an aureole 
of amber brightness, and a slender throat, 
white and smooth as mother of pearl, that 
was Valentin Bruce, as she sat by the open 
French window, dreamily Yvatoliiug the sun¬ 
set flame melt into open billoYvs of light. 
And Colonel Mordautlt smoked his des¬ 
pairing cigar in the fragrant shadows of tho 
shrubbery, and wondered what fortunate 
mortal might be fated to buy Valentin's 
wedding ring, and pay her millinery bills, 
and to bo her humble slave and servitor 
through life. 
Colonel Mordaimt tossed his cigar among 
the rose acacias that skirted the lawn, and 
began to select a cluster of exquisite moss 
roses, heedless of tho thorns that, pierced 
his unaccustomed fingers. 
“She likes flowers,” he soliloquised, “and 
moss roses are certainly tho prettiest Aoyv- 
ers that grow. I will win a smile from those 
velvet lips of hers.” 
He twisted a blade of pliant grass around 
the mossy stems, in place of a ribbon, and 
sauntered carelessly up the gravel walk. 
All of a sudden he stopped. 
“Frank Aldrich’s voice,” ho exclaimed, 
biting his lips with vexation, as a merry 
peal of laughter floated through the pur¬ 
pling twilight from the open meadows be¬ 
yond. 
“ What brings the puppy here, now, of all 
times and seasons in the world.” 
“Hallo, Jack!” said Aldrich, “been sen¬ 
timentalizing out in the dew? The ladies 
were just fretting over the chance of your 
taking cold.” 
Mordaunt’s face brightened up—then Val¬ 
entin did think of him sometimes. 
“That is,” pursued the relentless Aldrich, 
“poor, thoughtful sister Katy said she was 
afraid you would have a cold, and Miss 
Bruce said nothing." 
Mordaunt'a countenance elongated again. 
But he stepped forward and laid the knot 
of moss roses ou the folds of Valentin’s 
white muslin dress, with a few murmured 
words that nobody could understand. 
“Flowers yet?” said Frank, supercilous- 
ly, ■* upon my word. Jack is gett ing prod¬ 
igal.” 
Valentin looked carelessly down at the 
cluster of pink buds, and then deliberately 
took them up and tossed them out, upon the 
lawn. 
“Explain, if you please," said Frank, 
composedly, while Mordaunt grew scarlet, 
and bit his lips until the blood started. 
“ There was a worm—a horrid green worm 
ou one of the buds,” haughtily said Valen¬ 
tin, shaking off one or two crimson petals 
that still adhered to her dross. “ I have a 
perfect horror of all such noxious insects." 
“ Do you hear that, Jack?” appealed Mr. 
Aldrich, lazily turning around in his chair. 
“ It is a pity you were so unfortunate in the 
selection of your floral offering.” 
But Mordaunt. had left the room. Kate 
followed him the next minute. 
“ Dearest Jack, are you vexed with Val¬ 
entin and Frank? They don’t mean to an- 
noy you, I’m sure- 
“Not vexed, dear,” said Mordaunt, speak¬ 
ing slowly and sadly—“ only grieved. I am 
sorry Miss Bruce finds me so disagreeable.” 
He went up stairs, while Kate hesitated a 
moment below. 
“ He is better by himself,” she said, men- 
