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DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
At an adjourned meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee, held on the 21st day of July, A.D. 1864
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the Democratic State Convention heretofore called for August 16th, 1864, for tho purpose of nominating an electoral ticket, be and the same iB hereby
postponed until WEDNESDAY, the SEVENTH day of SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1864, to meet at San Francisco.
Ou motion, It was ordered that R. R. Provines, the Cor'
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Resolved, That it is hereby recommended that the delegates to said State Convention -be by their respective
counties authorized to meet in separate District Conventions, and nominate candidates for Congress for their respective districts at the same time and place.
i Resolved, That the qualification of participants iu the
selection of delegates to said Convention shall be: That
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National Democratic Convention, to he held at Chicago,
on the 29th of August.
Resolved, That the apportionment of delegates to said
State Convention shall be as follows:
BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
Cinmties. Vote. No.Del.
Alameda  804 6
Alpine      3
Amador 2064 11
Butte 1490 8
Calaveras. 2029 11
Colusa 664 4
Coso   3
ContraCosta  684 4
DelNorte  162 2
El Dorado .^- 2139 12
Fresno....".  378 3
Humboldt  196 2
SKlamath  199 2
Lake     267 2
Lassen   3
Los Angeles  982 6
Marin  489 3
Mariposa  921 6
Mendocino  671 4
Merced  329 3
Mono   695 4
Monterey  507 4
Napa  660 4
Nevada 1766 10
Placer 1620 9
Plumas  766 6
Sacramento 1944 11
San Bernardino  376 3
SanDiego  132 2
SanFrancisco  5452 28
San Joaquin 1473 8
San Luis Obispo   219 2
San Mateo  S140 3
SantaBarbara  143 2
Santa Clara 1626 9
TRUE FREEDOII-HOW TO WIN IT.
SantaCruz  403 3
Shasta  617 8
Sierra 1308 8
Siskiyou  999 6
Solano 1124 7
Sonoma .....1712 10
Stanislaus     399 3
Sutter  679 4
Tehama  463 3
Trinity  604 4
Tuolumne 1923 11
Tulare  715 6
Yolo  768 6
Yuba 1393 8
CHARLES L. WELLER, Chairman.
W. D. Sawyer, Secretary.
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dec9 J. WHITNEY, Jr., President.
We want no flag, no fUunting rag,
For liberty to fight,
We want no blaze of murderous guns,
To struggle for tbe rigbt,
Onr spears aud swords are printed words,
The mind our battle plain;
We 've won such victories before,
And hope we Bhall again.
We love no triumphs sprung of force,
They stain ber brightest cause;
Tis not in blood tbat liberty
Inscribes ber oivil laws.
She writes them on the people's hearts.
In language clear and plain,
True hearts that moved the world before,
And so tbey sball again.
We yield to none in earnest lova
Of Freedom's cause sublime;
Wejoin the cry "Fraternity 1"
We keep the maroh of time,
And yet we grasp no spike or spear,
Our victories to obtain ;
We've won without their aid before,
And so we shall again.
We want no aid of barricade,
To show a front to wrong;
We want a citadel in truth;
More durable and strong.
Culm words, great thoughts, unflinching faith,
They've won our battles many a time,
And so they shall again.
Peace, progress, knowledge, brotherhood—]
Tbe ignorant may sneer,
Tbe bad deny; but we rely
To see their triumph near.
No widow's groans shall load onr cause.
No blood of brethren slain ,
We've won without such aid before,
And so we shall again.
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Social Life In the South.
The London Times publishes the following extract of a letter from the wife of a rebel General to
a friend in Europe :
"Tbere are many little things in whioh onr
daily life is changed—many luxuries cut off from
the table wbich we have forgotten to miss. Our
mode of procuring necessaries is very different
aod far more complicated. The condition of onr
currency has brought about many curious results ;
for Instance, I have just procured leather for our
negro shoes by exchanging tallow for it, of wbich
we had a quantity from some fine beeves fattened
and killed upon the place. I am now bargaining
with a factory np the country to exchange pork
and lard with them for blocks of yarn to weave
negro clothes ; and not only negro clothing I bave
woven, I am now dyeing thread to weave homespun for myself and daughters. I am ravelling up
or having ravelled all tbe old scraps of fine worsteds and dark silks to spin thread ior gloves for
the General and self, which gloves I am to knit
These home-knit gloves and these homespun dress
es will look much neater aud nicer than you would
suppose. My daughters and I, being in want of
undergarments, I sent a quantity of tlard to the
Macon faotory, and reoeived in return fine unbleached calico—a ponnd of lard paying for a yard
of oloth. They will not sell their cloth for money.
Tbis unbleached calico my daughters and self are
now making up for ourselves. You see some
foresight is necessary to provide for the necessaries of life. If I were to describe all the cutting
and altering of old things to make them new
whioh now perpetually goes on, I should outstep
the limits of a letter—perhaps I have done so already—but 1 have thought this sketoh would
amuse you and give you some idea of our Confederate ways and means of living and doing. A'
ChriBtimas I sent presents to my relatives in Sav«
anah,and instead of the elegant trifles I used to
give at that season, I bestowed as follows ; severa'
bushels of meal, peas, bacon, butter, lards, eggl
sausages, soap, (home made,) rope, string, and a
coarse blanket I^all wbich articles, I am assured,
were most warmly welcomed, and more acceptable than jewels and silk would have been. To all
this we are bo familiarized that we laugh at these
changes in our ways of life, and keep our regrets
for graver things. The photograph of your children I was bappy to see. You would have emiled
to bave heard my daughter divining the present
fashion from the style of dress in the likeness.
You must know that, amid all the woes of the
Southern Confederacy, her women still feel their
utter ignorance of the fashions whenever they
have a new dress to make up or an old one to renovate. I imagine that when our intercourse with
the rest of mankind Is revived, we shall present
a singular aspeot; but what we shall have lost in
external appearance I trust we 6hall have gained
in snblimer virtues and more important qualities."
Physical_Culture.
THE NORMAL INSTITUTE POR PHYSICAL
EDUCATION,
INCORPORATED In 1860, and under the management of
Dr. DIO LEWIS, opened its Seventh Session on the Fifth
of July, 1864. ...
The demand for Teachers of the New Gymnastics Has
become snch, that the last two classes of Graduates, consisting of about ninety ladles and gentlemen, were at
once engaged, and hundreds more might find profitable
employment. ; ,
Well-known medical men assist In preparing the pupils
to act as guides in Physical Culture.
In the department of Gymnastics. Dr. Lewis personally
trains every candidate for the New Profession.
If any reader would know more of this pioneer institution In a new and noble profession, let him or her send
for a full oiroular to Dr. Dio Lewis, Boston.
"To Dr Dio Lewis, more than to any other man, is the
country indebted towtho present deep, praOiatl interest
in physical culture.   He has done a noble work—Mass.
^Welook upon Dr. Lewis as one of the benefactors of
his race."—Grace Greenwood. ,.„„.„ ,„„«
"Sucoessto Dr. Lewis's Gymnasium. No better institution exists. "—KnidcerboCker.
"Dr Lewis'book is the most practical, sensible work
on this subject  extant in any language.' —Continental
"Dr Lewis has given us far the best and most practical
of all publications on tbe subject of Physical Culture."—
N. T. Independent.
The Explosion at City Point.
Washington, August 11th.—A letter from City
Point the 10th, gives an account of the explosion
of a boat loaded with ammunition. Buildings were
demolished, tents scattered and horses killed in
every direction. The new depot building is a mas s
of ruins. A number of persons were killed and
wonnded. The boat was being unloaded by nc-
groes, numbering nearly one hundred, and It is su p-
posed a ahell must have dropped, which communicated fire to the whole lot. Luckily, moat of the
shells, etc, struck the steep bank of the landing,
or the loss of life would have been very large. The
Post Office and Adams' Express office were nearly
thrown down, bnt the large number of persons occupying them miraculously escapejl vrtth slight
bruises. A boat loaded with stores, lying alongside another, was torn to peices, a large portion
raised completely out of water and thrown through
a storehouse on the dook. Captains Benedict and
Ames, of the Commissary Department, buried In
the ruins, were subsequently extricated, neither
being fatally injured. The casualties are believed
to be at leaBt fifty killed and one hundred wounded. A number of colored persons have been found.
Five shells passed through the Sanitary Commission boat, but no one was injured. It is believed
tbat many bodies were thrown into the river which
will never be reoovered. Our loss ia estimated at
about thirty killed and from seventy to eighty
wounded. Nothing has been ascertained as to the
oause of the calamity. In the Commissary Department some two hundred and fifty were wonnded.
The Iobs of property is unknown, bnt it will prove
large. The boat Louis caught fire, but the wrecking tng subdued the flames, earing a large amount
of ammunition.
m
Greenbacks and Loyalty.
The loyal Call, commenting upon ths decision
of the Supreme Court, sustaining the Constitutionality of the specific Contract Aot says :
"The decisions of the Supreme Coort, as published in another column of tbis paper, Inform all citizens of California that if tbey agree to pay any
named sum in United States gold coin, tbey will
be held to the contract under the special law of
the State ; but, also, that if no such stipulation
has been made by tbe contracting parties, Treasury
notes are legal tender. No honest man, nevertheless tbis State, will attempt to pay a debt with
greenbacks dollar for dollar, when the debt ia due
in gold coin."
This decision of the Supreme Court, by all fair
legal construction, nullifies tbe act of Congress
whioh deolarea "greenbacks" a legal tender for all
debts, dues and demands but those specially excepted. If the aot of congress is Constitutional, It
is ''the supreme law of tbe land," and no State
legislation or decision of a State Court can affect
its provisions. The right of tbe Legislature to
limit or place conditions upon the exercise ofthe
Congressional aot, Is based solely upon the ground
tbat the act is unconstitutional and not "the supreme law of the land," henoe the notes are not
legal tender in any case, and tbe Supreme Court
ought to have the honesty so to declare instead of
leaving it in that uncertain state in which the
sbrewed business man is assured of his rights by
written contract and the poor laboring man is left
in ignorance of his remedy upon a dishonest creditor.
"No honest man," says the Call, "will attempt
to pay the debt in greenbacks, dollar for dallar,
when tbe debt Is due in gold coin." The corollary of this is, lhat no honest man will 'frame a law
which is intended to compel the creditor to submit to the rascality of a dishonest debtor. If the
act of Congress is not a dishonest devioe to aid
fraudulent creditors, then it is not dishonest to
act under its provisions ; If it is dishonest, tben
Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition majority in
Congress wbo made tbo act are responsible for its
dishonesty, and tbe Call is disloyal in admitting
the fact.—Press.	
"The War a Crimes"—On the Sunday before the
day the extra session ol Congress of 1861 adjourned, President Linooln said to Mr. Mallory, as repn •
sentative of Kentucky, in the presence of Senator
Critenden and others:
Mr. Mallory, thia war, so far as I have anything
to do with it, is carried on on tbe idea that there
is a Union sentiment in these States, whioh set
free from the control now held over it by the presence ol the Confederate or rebel power, will be
sufficient to place those States in tbe Union. If
I am mistaken in this, if tbere is no such sentiment tbere. If tbe people of those States are determined with unanimity, or with a feeling approaching unanimity, tbat tbeir States shall not
be members of this Confederacy, it is beyond thu
power of tbe people of tbe other States to force
them to remain in tbe Union ; and said be, In that
contingency—in tbe contingecy that there is oot
the sentiment there—this war is not only an error,
but it is a crime.
President Lincoln in the Costton Ttade.—The
following bit of gossip is from a St. Louis dis-
pa'ch to the Chicago Times :
Tbere is a story afloat here among steamboat
men, underwriters and army officers, the gist* of
whioh Is, that President-Linooln has turned cotton
speculator. It is as follows: The steamboat Progress Borne time ago was chartered in the interest of W. Butler & Co.. to go after ootton up Red
river. She had on board an agent named Tunstall
wbo carried a permit from tbe President, whicb
permit waa indorsed by General Banks and Admiral Porter, direoting the army and navy to give
all necessary assistance.
On reaching the mouth of the Ouachita river a
rebel officer and guard came on board and guarded the boat up the stream to a place where 1,389
bales of ootton were taken. The rebel officer received pay for the cotton in sterling exohange,
guarded the boat back to Red river, and then leit
it. Tbe boat was afterwards burned and tbe cotton lost at Dead Man's Bend, 20 miles from Natchez. The President and his partners, who are
thought to be Lamb and Butler, of Springfield,
and Albert Pearce and Mr. Meake, of St. Louis,
would bave made at le»6t a million dollars, had
the cotton reached port; but the supposition is
that it was not insured, and they have lost money.
Gov. Low la Placerville.
The Placerville Democrat ot August 13th, gives
the following acoouot of a visit wbich Governor
Low recently made to Placerville:
Our intensely loyal and superlatively able aDd
dignified Governor, F. F. Low, arrived in our city
on Thursday evning from Lake Bigler, where ha
had been vegetating for several days, drinking in,
as be forcibly expressed It, our pure mountain air,
and catching aod devouring our "splendid fish."
His arrival soon got noised about, and the faithful
eager to exhibit their loyalty and obsequiousness,
procured tbe band and serenaded him. The music attracted a considerable crowd of boys,
bummers, loafers, officeholders and place-hunters,
who patiently waited to "see the show" and bear
tbe loyal oracle. Tbey had not long to wait. At
a given signal ex Senator Henry, deeply impressed with the magnitude of his position, stepped to
tbe door of tbe Cary House, and in a voice tremulous with excitement and pride, introduced Hia
Excellency to the "boys." A few faint cheers followed the introduction, which seemed to have a
chilling effect on the Governor. He took a good
look at tbe crowd and "then opened his moutb and
spake." His remarks were brief, loyal and o^
course trifling.    He said :
"Fellow citizens, this is my first visit to yonr
county. I have traveled through it from one end
to—to its Boew-capped peaks. (Sensation.) I
have admired your vine-clad hills, your beautiful
villages, your pure mountain air, you eold water
and beautiful scenery. I have enjoyed myself. I
bave fished in yonr beautiful lake and eaten your
splendid fisb. You bave a loyal Sheriff, loyal deputies and other loyal officers, wbo are clearing
your oounty of tbe hounds who Infest It. I would
like to linger longer with you, but while General
Grant is thudering at the gates of Petersburg I
must hasten to Sacramento to guard against tho
secessionists of California. Fellow citizens, I
must now bid you good nigh!."
A dead silence followed. It was a puerile speech,
delivered by a man out of his element, who bad
nnexpectedly and in a moment of political frenzy
attained a position for whioh he is totally unfitted
and which be is qualified to lower. His party
friends were amusingly perplexed ; tbey had too
much respet for the speaker to groan; too keen a
sense of the ridiculous to oheer; aod to remain ei«
lent would offend his Highness. A bright Idea
struck a shrewd old leader and he called for mnslo.
Music was given and the loyalisss dispersed, perfectly satisfied as to the Governor's loyalty, but
mortified at his undignified remarks. The men
whom he falsely and maliciously stigmatized as
"secessionists" are his superiors in every quality
that goes to make up the good citizen and adorns
tbe gootleman. They belong to a party whioh is
distinguished in history for its magnanimity, intelligence and patriotism—a party noted for its
devotion to civil liberty—a purty which every
blackguard deema it a duty to slander, and which
smiles io scorn at the malevolence of its calumniators, oo matter what his position. That party
bas survived the attacks of great men; it bas
nothing to fear from the abuse of small ones; and
this Gov. Low will experience to bis sorrow,
Released from Bastile.—Col. Charles L. Weller was released yesterday from his prison on Alcatraz. On making a motion for the convening
ofa Grand Jury to look into the charges preferred
against Col. Weller, Mr. Gregory Yale was informed tbat if Col. Weller would take the oath of allegiance and give bonds to keep tbe peace he would
be released. A" the easiest way was the speediest,
and as Col. Weller had never uttered a sentiment
tbat was not fealty to tbe Constitution, he oould
with good heart take the oath of allegiance to bis
native land. He then gave bonds in the sum of
$25,000, with Dr. Toland, Dr. Hitohoock and Coi.
Lander as securities, and was releaeed much to tha
chragin of the ghouls who continually howl tor
Democratic sacrifices. —Press.
At Lincoln's Home.—Tbe Republican German
paper of Springfield, Illinois, the home of Abraham Lincoln, bas hoisted tbe names of Fremont
and Coohrane. and remarks in so doing :
Reviewing thus the history of the paat year.
nothing is left us but to cut loose decidedly and
for ever from Lincoln and bis policy, and to protest
against his reelection under all circumstances and
at any price. No reason lor expediency can-influence ua to ever accept Linooln as onr President
Bgain. If a portion of the so-called Republican
party is nevertheless blind enough to cling to Lincoln, we shall not be Indnoed to do so by tbeir ery
that we break up the party. On tbe contrary tbey
will bave broken it up. They must bear the re-
sponsability, if a Democratic candidate is elected.
A friend wbo bas conversed with two gentlemen
jnst arrived In California, who were at Petersburg
recently, says tbey describe tbe slaughter of the
Union troops at that place as terrible.
The Confederates in their recent raid into Maryland took from Gen. Cadwalader's place, near Baltimore, three hundred head of horses.
Talk as you will ofthe "sovereignty of the
white raoe," there are no sovereigns like the yellow ones.	
An apple in the garden of Dr. Kingman, \a
North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, has lately produced a beautiful white rose, perfect In development and fragrance, but on tbe stem the leave* appear to be a union oi the qualities ol the rose and
apple leat TbUt eurious phenomenon appeared
about halfway between the time of apple and rose
blossoms.     	
A lady onoe asked a gentleman wbat wit was
like—to whicb he replied : "Like your ladyship's
bottle of sal volatile—poignant at the first opening
but ou being too mnob handed about, looses all its
flavor, and becomes iueipid."
Tbe Cosmopolitan Hotel, recently eotopleated
on the site of the old Rassette House, San Francisco, will soon be thrown open for the reception
of guests. Tbe building is lS7i feet square, and
five stories bigh. It is finished in the most elegant
manner, and will be carried on by tbe Adelphi
Hotel Company, composed of Simon H. Seymour,
Jobn H. Hennlng and Chris. Rels. Tbe whole establishment has cost $500,000, of wbich over
$130,000 bas been expended in furnishing alone,
It is ezpected the house will be opened on the first
of September.
Lieutenant Colonel E. B. Babbitt has been reinstated a Chief Quarter master of tiie Department
ofthe Pacific with the former rank of Colonel.—
Major KIrkham resumes his old position as Assistant Quartermaster.
Tbe horrible slaughter of men in the vain attempt to take Richmond begins to shock even tha
blunted and brutalized sensibilities of the republicans themselves. They begin to ask each
otber Wbat are the advantagss of our having
Riobmond, after all? They seem, all at onoe, to
have been impressed with the wisdom of the old
man who doubted the use of spending time and
money iu trying to catch a crow. A young mau
had spent the whole eprlng in the unsuccessful
attempt to trap an old orow, aud was finally induced to abandon further operations in conse-
quedce of the following remark of an old man,
who donbted the economy of orow catching under
any circumstances: "An old orow iB a werry shy
animal—werry hard to catoh—and when yon get
him, what is he good for?" Lincoln has insanely
sacrificed not less than half a million of men and
spent over a thousand millions of treasure In his
fruitless attempt to get possession of Riobmond.
After all this horrible sacrifice, he is no nearer
tbe accomplishment of bis purpose than when ba
began, and./were he to snoceed, the victory would
be a barren one, bo far as its effect upou the existence ot the confederacy is concerned. As a
strategio point, it is of little value to the north.
—Day Book.
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\ Beoause there is a man in it.
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