JUNE 22 
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THE PHILADELPHIA NOMINEES. 
FOR PRESIDENT, 
ULYSSES S. UKANT, 
OF ILLINOIS. 
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, 
HENRY WILSON, 
OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
The National Convention, which met at 
Philadelphia on the 5th of June, nominated 
the above ticket for the suffrages of the reg¬ 
ular Republicans at the coming election. 
The names of t he gentlemen selected are 
not unfamiliar to the American people; 
nevertheless short biographical sketches of 
them at this time aro appropriate. Such 
sketches we give herewith; and also por¬ 
traits of the nominees, engraved from re¬ 
cent photographs. 
U. S. GRANT. 
The President of the United States, who 
has been nominated for re-election, is so 
well known to the whole people that the 
merest outline of his history will be suffi¬ 
cient. Ulysses S. Grant was born at Point 
Pleasant. Cleremont Co., Ohio, April 27, 
1822, and is the son of Jesse Tt. and Hannah 
Simpson Grant, formerly of Pennsylvania. 
Ilo graduated at West l’oiut in 1843, and 
joined Gen. Tavlor oh the ltio Grande, in 
181(5. Fighting through the Mexican War, 
Grant attained the rank of Captain. He 
was living in Galena, Ill., when the civil 
war began. He offered his services to the 
country, and as Colonel of the 21st Illinois 
Volunteers served in Missouri. Gen. 
Grant’s war record, from Fort Donclson to 
the surrender of Lee, is familiar to every¬ 
body. and needs no repetition here. He 
was made General-in-Chief of the Army 
March 17. 1804, and Geueral of the U. S. 
Army on the 25th of July. 1800. Ho was in¬ 
augurated President March 4, 1869. 
HENRY WILSON. 
The man who was nominated on the first, 
ballot for Vice-President of the United 
States at the Republican Convention, is a 
representative American. Henrv Wilson 
is 00 years of age, having been born in the 
year 1812, at Farmington, N. H. Ills youth 
was passed In extremest poverty, and when 
only ten years old ho was apprenticed to a 
farmer at whose house he stayed until he 
became of age. During all that time it is 
said that he received but twelve months 
schooling, as the term is usually applied. 
Yet Wilson schooled himself, by reading 
and thinking, so that he was by no moans 
under the average intelligence. When re¬ 
leased from his severe apprenticeship, he 
started off to seek his fortune, with his eu- 
tire property strapped upon his shoulders. 
Arriving at the town of Natick, he hired 
out to a shoemaker, to learn the trade, 
which he accomplished at the end of two 
years, besides saving up two hundred dol¬ 
lars. With this money he went to the acad¬ 
emy at Concord, with the firm purpose of 
acquiring a thorough education, but before 
he had been there three mouths the man to 
whom he had lent his money, failed, and 
young Wilson returned to his bench. About 
this time he began to obtain some local no¬ 
toriety for speaking at ward meetings in 
the interests of abolttiauism. In 1840 he was 
elected to the State Legislature, and was 
subsequently elected three times to the 
same position, and twice to the State Sen¬ 
ate. His two strong positions, which he 
took from the 6tart and has ever since main¬ 
tained, were the abolition of slavery, and 
the elevation of the working classes. Hav¬ 
ing been a working man himself, he has nev¬ 
er forgotten the hardships of his early days, 
and for his efforts in behalf of the laboring 
classes Wilson will always bo remembered. 
He was one of the organizers of the Free 
Soil Party, being in 1852 President of the 
Free Soil National Convention, and chair¬ 
man of the National Committee. In 1855 he 
was elected to the United States Senate, to 
succeed F.dward Everett, which position 
he has satisfactorily tilled ever since. 
Though Mr. W ilson has been in public life 
thirty years, it is said that he is yet as poor 
as when he was dependent on his wages as a 
shoemaker. No higher word of commenda¬ 
tion than this can be awarded him. 
♦ »■» 
Olive Logan lectured in Chattanooga re¬ 
cently. She was obliged to pay for deliver¬ 
ing her lecture a city tax, a county tax, and 
a State tax, and fee the Sheriff and Clerk. 
The whole amounted to $50. 
ULYSSES S. GKR.AJNrT„ 
BRIEF SERMONS. 
Differences of opinion give me but lit¬ 
tle concern; but it is a real pleasure to be 
brought into communication with any one 
who is in earnest, and who really looks to 
God’s will as his standard of right and 
wrong, and judges of actions according to 
their greater or less conformity.—Dr. 
Arnold. 
Despise not little temptations; rightly 
met, they have often nerved the character 
for some fiery trial. And despise not little 
crosses; for when taken up and lovingly 
accepted at the Lord’s hand, they have 
made men meet for a great crown, even the 
crown of righteousness and life, which the 
Lord hath promised to them that love him. 
— E. At. Gouldburn, AT. D. 
Beneficence is a duty. He who fre¬ 
quently practices it, and sees his benevo¬ 
lent intentions realized, at length comes 
really to love him to whom he has done 
good. When, therefore, it is said, Thou 
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, it is not 
meant, thou shalt love him first, and do 
good to him In consequence of that love, 
but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor, 
and thus thy boueliocnce will engender in 
thee that love to mankiud which is the full¬ 
ness and the consummation of the inclina¬ 
tion to do good.— Kant. 
The only way to meet affliction is to pass 
through it solemnly, slowly, with humility 
and faith, as the Israelites passed through 
the sea. Then its very waves of misery will 
divide, and become to us a wall on the right 
side and on the left, until the gulf narrows 
and narrows before our eyes, and wo land 
safe on the opposite shore.— Vf/ss Muloch. 
As nothing truly valuable can be attained 
without industry, so there can be no perse¬ 
vering industry without a deep sense of the 
value of time.— Sigourney. 
We should give as wo would receive— 
cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; 
for there is no grace In a benefit that sticks 
to the lingers.— Seneca. 
The word “impossible” is the mother- 
longue of little souls, said Lord Brougham. 
THE DINNER HORN. 
BY COUSIN CYNTHIA. 
O, the sailor loves the sounding sea. 
And the winds that wildly blow 
And the bird-songs in the greenwood tree. 
The poet loves. I know. 
For me, 1 love the song to hear 
Of the lark at early morn ; 
But the sweetest sound to the farmer’s ear 
Is the song of the Dinner Horn ! 
A battle march for the soldier free— 
Or the call ,>r the trumpet clear; 
And the rapid tramp of cavalry 
The soldier loves to hear. 
But sweet to the farmer, wearied soul! 
While he plows the rustling corn, 
Is the sound that comes in the noontldo lull— 
'Tie the song of the Dinner Horn ! 
O, the cavalier loves at twilight’s hour 
To hear his beloved sing; 
And the lady loves, as she sits In her bower, 
The sound of the sweet linrp's string. 
But, hark ! to those notes through the Helds and 
groves, 
And through the meadows home 
'Tis the song of all songs the farmer loves— 
’Tis the song of the Dinner Horn ! 
(0ur Storn- 
irt Y V/1LSOH. 
THE COURTNEYS; 
OK, AUNT LAlTJKA.’S GrlJETT. 
BY DE FORREST P. QUMMERSON. 
Chapter I. 
“Two j r ears more, with our usual good 
luck, and the farm will bo paid for,” said 
Laura Courtney to her husband, as ho 
came in one morning carrying in each hand 
a pail full of foaming milk, and wearing 
just the slightest, look of the blues in liis 
face. His wife was quick to notice this. 
Sears Courtney had fallen quite too 
much into this way of feeling of late. When 
he bought the farm he had planned to have 
it all clear at the end of the second year; 
but now, when two years had come and 
gone, he found that two more would have 
to pass ere he could call it free from debt, 
and his own. lie was naturally of a cheer¬ 
ful disposition, and something of a castle- 
lmikler; so that when lie made up his mind 
to purchase the Reynolds farm, ho did not 
look upon the shaded side of farm life; but 
saw only the bright pictures such as poets 
and dreamers delight to paint. Ho had 
never been used to farm work. Born in the 
city, and educated for a mercantile life, the 
idea of farming for a livelihood had uever 
once occurred to him. 
Had his health continued unimpaired, 
perhaps he would never have made the at¬ 
tempt.. But after his doctors had repeat¬ 
edly advised him to try this sort of life, and 
ho had lot this advice pass unheeded, the 
doctor grew more decided one day, and 
told him "that his life was not good for 
another year unless ho followed the advice 
he had given him.” 
Courtney was not long in coming to a 
decision after this verdict. How could he 
die and leave all that was dear to him—his 
wife and children—to the mercies of a cruel 
and ofttimes unjust world? Great as were 
the attractions of city life to him, he would 
rather live on some deserted island, if they 
could share with him its solitude, than to 
die ’mid all the city’s splendor, and they be 
left alone. So he entered into the business 
of purchasing a farm with a zeal that really 
surprised his wife, knowing how he had al¬ 
ways disliked the country. At last one was 
found that just met his idea of what a farm 
should be, and the owner gave such a glow¬ 
ing description of it in regard to what it 
could be made to yield, that he quickly de¬ 
cided to purchase. If he had consulted 
with some one whose experience had been 
greater than his, he would not have made 
the mistake of purchasing so poor a farm. 
Sears Courtney had known country 
people only through the columns of some 
paper, which told of the honest lives they 
led, of their pastoral simplicity, and true 
home stylo of living. He had yet to learn 
that there were exceptions to this rule, and 
that there could be found in the country 
men whose meanness, and sharp bargains, 
would put a city sharper to his wit's end to 
equal. 
First he hired a man to work for him by 
the day, and at the cud of a week found 
that he was paying him one dollar more 
than any one else in the place was paying, 
though the man, with an effrontery surpris¬ 
ing, had declared on his honor that all the 
hired men in the plaoe were receiving that 
atnouut its their wages. Of course when he 
found out the man had told him a lie he 
discharged him at once; but. so long a time 
elapsed ere he could procure another, that 
