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The Republican State Convention met at Selma, May 20th. George Turner, ex-United States Marshal, was appointed President. A large majority of the delegates appointed to the Chicago Convention favored General Grant. A stormy debate on the report of the committee on credentials disturbed the meeting.

The State election took place on the first Monday in August, 1880. Governor Cobb was elected by a majority of 92,545 over Mr. Pickens, the Greenback candidate. All the candidates on the State ticket received about the same vote. At the election the Democrats had no regular Republican ticket to oppose. The Executive Committee of that party advised the support of the Greenback ticket, but in several counties, where there were many negroes, not a Greenback State ticket was seen. A Democratic ticket alone was voted. The only real contest made for the Greenback ticket was in the counties of the First District, where about one third of the vote for Mr. Pickens was cast. Even there the Democrats had a handsome majority. At this election the Democratic vote was the largest ever cast, which was attributed to the intense interest attaching to contests for local offices, as many as ten Democrats in some counties running for the same office. Each of these men was supporting the Democratic State ticket, and the colored voters obtained by them voted, in nine out of ten cases, the whole ticket from Governor down. This accounted largely for the increased vote for the Democratic State ticket over previous elections; and even should the vote of those counties where it is urged that fraud was perpetrated be thrown out, there would still be a majority for the Democratic State ticket of over 60,000. Hancock electors received more than 80,000 majority over the Republican candidate for Governor.

The vacancy in the Supreme Court, caused by the death of Judge Manning, was supplied by the appointment of Henderson Michael Somerville-a selection highly approved by the State at large.

At the session of the Legislature which commenced in November, James L. Pugh was elected to the United States Senate during the unexpired term of the late Senator Houston. Mr. Pugh was born in Georgia, on December 12, 1819. He was a candidate for Presidential Elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket in 1848, and on the Buchanan ticket in 1856, and was chosen. In 1859 he was a member of Congress. During the war he was in the Confederate army and Congress.

No acts of general importance were passed by the State Legislature previous to its recess in December.

The returns of the census show the population of the State to be 1,253,069, with four

counties incomplete, and estimated on the basis of 1870, with the percentage of gain in the district added. The population in 1870 was 984,

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AMERICA. A new difficulty between the United States and British Governments respecting the interpretation of the fishery clauses of the Washington Treaty arose from an act of violence committed by some Newfoundland fishermen upon a party of Americans who were seining for herring in Fortune Bay in January, 1878. A demand for indemnification of the American fishermen for the loss sustained was presented to the late British Government, but was curtly dismissed by Lord Salisbury. Measures were initiated in Congress with reference to the possible failure to come to a common understanding of the meaning of the treaty, and a strong disposition was manifested in Congress and among the public to renounce altogether the privileges and obligations flowing from the treaty with respect to the fisheries, on account of the frequently recurring misunderstandings and disputes regarding the fishery rights. The dilatory answer of the British Foreign Office protracted the controversy until it devolved upon the present British Government. Mr. Evarts repeated his demands and the reasons on which they are based to the new Government, and found Lord Granville disposed to view the question as a debatable issue, admitting of discussion and perhaps of arbitration. (See CANADA and UNITED STATES.)

In the Canadian Dominion the construction of the Pacific Railroad has for a second time been intrusted to the hands of a syndicate. A contract has been concluded, on the basis of extensive land grants and money subsidies, which is strenuously opposed by the party out of power. The question of the ratification of the bargain is the first business to be considered by the Dominion Parliament in its winter session of 1880-'81. The contract is of a similar nature to those under which the United States transcontinental roads were built.

The quadrennial election in the United States, resulting in the election of James A. Garfield for President over Major-General Winfield S. Hancock, was characterized by an unusual degree of partisan fervor; yet so vigorous has been the commercial revival, so strong the consumptive demand and the productive impulse, that the usual disturbance and interruption of mercantile affairs attending a Presidential contest were scarcely felt in any part of the Union.

The harassing, irregular wars which have been carried on against the United States Government by Sitting Bull and his Sioux, and Victoria with his murderous band of Apaches, have ceased; and no organized force of turbulent Indians now menaces the settlements of the far West.

The interoceanic canal at Panama has not yet been begun, but the capital has all been

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