After Oct. 1, 1872, stamps of two cents on bank checks, (sight or demand,) drafts or orders, under Schedule B.

All stamps now taxable on proprietary medicines, &c., (Schedule C not having been interfered with,) four per cent.

These comparative Schedules were compiled with the assistance of the Commissioner's office. † All manufacturers of cigars must pay special tax of $10.

*All dealers in manufactured tobacco must pay special tax of $5. No tax of $2 per thousand on sales, as formerly.

† Any person who sells, or offers to sell and deliver manufactured tobacco, snuff, or cigars, traveling from place to place, in the town or through the country, is regarded as a peddler of tobacco. $20,000 is the maximum bond, but it is in the discretion of the Commissioner to increase it.

6. We are opposed to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies, and demand that the national domain be set apart for free homes for the people.

7. The annual revenue, after paying current expenditures, pensions, and the interest on the public debt, should furnish a moderate balance for the reduction of the principal, and that revenue, except so much as may be derived from a tax upon tobacco and liquors, should be raised by duties upon importations, the details of which should be so adjusted as to aid in securing remunerative wages to labor, and promote the industries, prosperity, and growth of the whole country.

of the time. It suppressed a gigantic rebellion, emancipated four millions of slaves, decreed the equal citizenship of all, and established universal suffrage. Exhibiting uuparalleled magnanimity, it criminally punished no man for political offenses, and warmly welcomed all who proved loyalty by obeying the laws and dealing justly with their neighbors. It has steadily decreased with firm hand the resultant disorders of a great war, aud initiated a wise and humane policy toward the Indians. The Pacific railroad and similar vast enterprises have been generously aided and successfully conducted, the public lands freely given to actual settlers, immigration protected and encouraged, and a full acknowl 8. We hold in undying honor the soldiers edgment of the naturalized citizen's rights and sailors whose valor saved the Union. secured from European Powers. A uniform Their pensions are a sacred debt of the nation, national currency has been provided, repudia- and the widows and orphans of those who died tion frowned down, the national credit sus- for their country are entitled to the care of a tained under the most extraordinary burdens, generous and grateful people. We favor such and new bonds negotiated at lower rates. The additional legislation as will extend the bounty revenues have been carefully collected and of the Government to all our soldiers and sailhonestly applied. Despite annual large reduc-ors who were honorably discharged, and who tions of the rates of taxation, the public debt in the line of duty became disabled, without has been reduced during General Grant's regard to the length of service or the cause of Presidency at the rate of a hundred millions such discharge. a year, great financial crises have been avoided, 9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other and peace and plenty prevail throughout the European Powers concerning allegiance land. Menacing foreign difficulties have been once a subject always a subject"-having at peacefully and honorably composed, and the honor and power of the nation kept in high respect throughout the world. This glorious record of the past is the party's best pledge for the future. We believe the people will not intrust the Government to any party or combination of men composed chiefly of those who have resisted every step of this beneficent progress.

last through the efforts of the Republican party been abandoned, and the American idea of the individual's right to transfer allegiance having been accepted by European nations, it is the duty of our Government to guard with jealous care the rights of adopted citizens against the assumption of unauthorized claims by their former Governments, and we urge continued careful encouragement and protection of voluntary immigration.

2. The recent amendments to the national Constitution should be cordially sus ained be- 10. The franking privilege ought to be abolcause they are right, not merely tolerated be-ished, and the way prepared for a speedy cause they are law, and should be carried out reduction in the rates of postage. according to their spirit by appropriate legislation, the enforcement of which can safely be intrusted only to the party that secured those amendments.

3. Complete liberty and exact equality in the enjoyment of all civil, political, and public rights should be established and effectually maintained throughout the Union by efficient and appropriate State and Federal legislation. Neither the law nor its administration should admit any discrimination in respect of citizens by reason of race, creed, color, or previous condition of servitude.

4. The national Government should seek to maintain honorable peace with all nations, protecting its citizens everywhere and sympathizing with all peoples who strive for greater liberty.

5. Any system of the civil service under which the subordinate positions of the Goverument are considered rewards for mere party zeal is fatally demoralizing, and we therefore favor a reform of the system by laws which shall abolish the evils of patronage and make honesty, efficiency, and fidelity the essential qualifications for public positions, without practically creating a life tenure of office.

11. Among the questions which press for attention is that which concerns the relations of capital and labor, and the Republican party recognizes the duty of so shaping legislation as to secure full protection and the amplest field for capital, and for labor, the creator of capital, the largest opportunities and a just share of the mutual profits of these two great servants of civilization.

12. We hold that Congress and the President have only fulfilled an imperative duty in their measures for the suppression of violent and treasonable organizations in certain lately rebellious regions, and for the protection of the ballot-box; and therefore they are entitled to the thanks of the nation.

13. We denounce repudiation of the public debt, in any form or disguise, as a national crime. We witness with pride the reduction of the principal of the debt, and of the rates of interest upon the balance, and confidently expect that our excellent national currency will be perfected by a speedy resumption of specie payment.

14. The Republican party is mindful of its obligations to the loyal women of America for their noble devotion to the cause of freedom.

Their admission to wider fields of usefulness country at peace within its own borders, at is viewed with satisfaction; and the honest peace with outside nations, with a credit at demand of any class of citizens for additional home and abroad, and without embarrassing rights should be treated with respectful con- questions to threaten its future prosperity. sideration.

15. We heartily approve the action of Congress in extending amnesty to those lately in rebellion, and rejoice in the growth of peace and fraternal feeling throughout the land.

16. The Republican party proposes to respect the rights reserved by the people to themselves as carefully as the powers delegated by them to the State and to the Federal Government. It disapproves of the resort to unconstitutional laws for the purpose of remov ing evils, by interference with rights not surrendered by the people to either the State or national Government.

17. It is the duty of the General Govern"ment to adopt such measures as may tend to encourage and restore American commerce and ship-building.

18. We believe that the modest patriotism, the earnest purpose, the sound judgment, the practical wisdom, the incorruptible integrity, and the illustrious services of Ulysses S. Grant have commended him to the heart of the American people, and with him at our head we start to day upon a new march to victory. 19. Henry Wilson, nominated for the Vice Presidency, known to the whole land from the early days of the great struggle for liberty as an indefatigable laborer in all campaigns, an incorruptible legislator and representative man of American institutions, is worthy to associate with our great leader and share the honors which we pledge our best efforts to bestow upon them.

President Grant's Acceptance.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 10, 1872. Hon. THOMAS SETTLE, President National Republican Convention; PAUL STROBACH, ELISHA BAXTER, C. A. SARGENT, and others, Vice Presidents:

GENTLEMEN: Your letter of this date, advising me of the action of the convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 5th and 6th of this month, and of my unanimous nomination for the Presidency by it, is received.

I accept the nomination, and through you return my heartfelt thanks to your constituents for this mark of their confidence and support.

If elected in November, and protected by a kind Providence in health and strength to perform the duties of the high trust conferred, I promise the same zeal and devotion to the good of the whole people for the future of my official life as shown in the past.

Past experience may guide me in avoiding mistakes inevitable with novices in all professions and in all occupations.

With the expression of a desire to see a speedy healing of all bitterness of feeling between sections, parties, or races of citizens, and the time when the title of citizen carries with it all the protection and privileges to the humblest that it does to the most exalted, I subscribe myself, very respectfully, your obe. dient servant, U. S. GRANT.

Senator Wilson's Acceptance.

WASHINGTON, June 14, 1872. Hon. THOMAS SETTLE and others, President and Vice Presidents of the National Republican Convention, held at Philadelphia on the 5th and 6th of the present month : GENTLEMEN: Your note of the 10th instant, conveying to me the action of the convention in placing my name in nomination for the office of Vice President of the United States, is before me. I need not give you the assurance of my grateful appreciation of the high honor conferred upon me by this action of the fifth national convention of the Republican party.

Sixteen years ago, in the same city, was held the first meeting of the men who, amid the darkness and doubts of that hour of slaveholding ascendency and aggression, had assembled in national convention to confer with each other upon the exigencies into which that fearful domination had brought their country. After full conference, the highest point of resolve they could reach, the most they dared to recommend, was the avowed purpose to prohibit the existence of slavery in the Territories. Last week the same party met by its representatives from thirty-seven States and ten Territories, at the same great center of wealth, intelligence, and power, to review the past, take note of the present, and indicate its line of action for the future.

As typical facts, headlands of the nation's recent history, there sat on its platform, taking prominent and honorable part in its proceedings, admitted on terms of perfect equality to the leading hotels of the city, not only the colored representatives of the race which were. ten years before, in abject slavery, but one of the oldest and most prominent of the ouce despised abolitionists, to whom was accorded, as to no other, the warmest demonstrations of popular regard and esteem-an ovation, not to him alone, but to the cause he had so ably and for so many years represented, and to the men and women, living and dead, who had toiled through long years of obloquy and selfsacrifice for the glorious fruitions of that hour. It hardly needed the brilliant summary of its platform to set forth its illustrious achievements. The very presence of those men was alone significant of the victories already achieved, the progress already made, and the great distance which the nation had traveled between the years 1856 and 1872.

When relieved from the responsibilities of my present trust by the election of a successor, whether it be at the end of this term or the But grand as has been its record, the Repubnext, I hope to leave to him, as Executive, alican party rests not on its past alone. It looks