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Garfield's Informal Acceptance of the Nomination-His Scnse of the Responsibility.

Near midnight, in Chicago, June 9th, 1880, the Committee appointed by Senator Hoar to wait on Generals Garfield and Arthur and notify them of their nomination, found them in the club room of the Grand Pacific Hotel, and Senator Hoar, as Chairman, made an appropriate speech.

Gen. Garfield replied:

MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN: I assure you that the information you have officially given to me brings the sense of very grave responsibility, and especially so in view of the fact that I was a member of your body, a fact that could not have existed with propriety had I had the slightest expectation that my name would be connected with the nomination for the office. I have felt with you great solicitude concerning the situation of our party during the struggle; but, believing that you are correct in assuring me that substantial unity has been reached in the conclusion, it gives me a gratification far greater than any personal pleasure your announcement can bring.

I accept the trust committed to my hands. As to the work of our party, and as to the character of the campaign to be entered upon, I will take an early occasion to reply more fully than I can properly do to-night.

I thank you for the assurances of confidence and esteem you have presented to me, and hope we shall see our future as promising as are indications to-night.

Senator Hoar, in the same manner, presented the nomination to General Arthur, who accepted it in a brief and informal way.

How the News of Garfield's Nomination was Received at Hiram College -Ringing the Old Bell.

When the news was received at Hiram College, where Garfield had been a school boy, Professor and President, the College bell, which Garfield used to ring for his tuition, was wildly rung, and the people came running from every part of the little town built around the College Square, to gather under the old bell to clasp hands and shout their joy.

Everybody who went to school with Garfield; every pupil who remembers him as a rigid disciplinarian, but as the first and strongest on the ball ground, where he spent many hours with his scholars; every soldier who went to the war in the old Forty-Second, and all the people of this little town, who have lived here in the same houses thirty years, when as a youth he came among them, all and each loved Garfield; and as there were many representatives of each class, we can imagine the character of the occasion.

First Vote for Garfield in the Chicago Convention-The Man Who Gave it Voted for Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln Under Like Circumstances.

A prominent gentleman who, in speaking of the incidents of the Chicago Convention, which nominated Gen. Garfield, said that the Pennsylvanian who cast the first and only vote which Gen. Garfield received for several ballots was Caleb N. Taylor, a delegate from the Bucks District.

This gentleman says that while in Chicago he met Mr. Taylor, who was well known to him, he having been a Representative in Congress for several terms, and a person who, though a Quaker, always took a great interest in public affairs, but was exceedingly deaf.

Mr. Taylor accosted this gentleman in one of the corri

dors of the Palmer House and remarked that he expected to cast the first vote for the man who would be nominated, He declined to mention his name, but added that if he watched his vote he would discover who this gentleman

was.

Mr. Taylor then mentioned several instances in his experience. He stated that, in 1848, his constituents sent him to Harrisburg with instructions to vote as they had directed, but against this verdict he had cast his vote for Zachary Taylor, and for some time his was the only vote he received, and Taylor was subsequently nominated. In 1860 he was again sent to the National Convention at Chicago, with instructions how he should vote.

He again disregarded these instructions and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, who was nominated. Mr. Taylor, in the late Chicago Convention, as already stated, cast his first vote for Garfield, who was also nominated.

What Prominent Foreign-Born Citizens Say of the Convention-They Declare it Positively American.

The following opinions of intelligent foreign - born citizens, respecting the Republican Convention at Chicago, which nominated Gen. Garfield for President, are exceedingly interesting, and to the point:

OPINION OF EX-LIEUT.-GOV. MULLER.

Whoever has studied the history of the ancients, and by its aid and lights has formed an idea of the imposing magnificence of the peoples' mass-meetings as they were held in the classic times of Greece and the Roman Empire for the purpose of listening to lectures, political and other matter-of-State discussions, witnessing public plays or gladiatorial contests, can find in the picture developed be

fore my eyes in this Republican National Convention an approaching counterpart.

Ten thousand stalwart men filled the immense and splendidly-decorated hall; all seats, row upon rcw, and closely joined, were occupied, so that hardly a bullet could drop to the floor. All the different delegations from the thirty eight States, the eight Territories, and the District of Columbia, had their space and seats allotted to them, and the galleries were filled with the most prominent and talented men of the country.

The impression which this convention of sovereign citizens of a free land made upon the quiet observers was grand and imposing beyond all description. No showy and gold embroidered uniforms, no diamond-stars and decorations of any order, or other such like tinsel, as are graciously bestowed by monarchs and princes upon their devoted subjects, attracted my attention, but civic and democratic simplicity in the outward appearance of all those present greeted my eyes! Reserve, self-reliance, and intelligence were beaming on the faces of all who composed this vast assembly, and the thought that these men could ever give up all their country's traditions and its free institutions as not worthy of preservation, disappeared at once from my mind.

At all events, my observations during the session of this Convention so far have quieted all my apprehensions that among the people of this country sympathies for a so-called strong or monarchical government could ever take root.

I am convinced now that everything which has manifested itself in this direction so far emanates only from those classes of our population commouly designated as "Shoddyites," who are represented in real life by blase aristocratic swellheads.

OPINION OF HERMAN RASTER. A

The conduct of the delegates and spectators in the Convention was, in one word, American; with that everything is said. No personal altercations, no twitting, no insinuations; everywhere good cheer, pleasantness, and a disposition to oblige predominated. But then came the outbursts of real or artificial enthusiasm, poured forth with such tremendous elementary strength, that would place the demoniac yells of the Comanche Indians and the howlings of the Zulu-Caffirs by far in the shade! Whoever did not witness the proceedings of the Convention on the fourth day of its session cannot even have an approaching conception of the noise and wild enthusiasm which prevailed during that day from early morn until late at night.

A stranger, unaware of the proceedings in the hall, might have been induced to believe that pandemonium had broken loose, or that all the lunatic asylums in the country had emptied their contents into the Exposition Building.

Among the delegates, although determined in their opposition and in the promotion of their choice's interests, nothing but pleasantness and affability was perceptible. During the whole time of the six days' proceedings not a word was uttered which could be tortured into a direct insult, and not a single serious dispute took place among them as well as among all this vast concourse of excited and enthusiastic men. In this respect the conduct of the Americans in their mass-meetings and gatherings cannot be enough praised and extolled,—more particularly so when we consider the behavior of the French, the Germans, Italians, and Poles on similar occasions.

Any Convention of the importance and magnitude of that which has just adjourned in Chicago, held in France, would undoubtedly have caused hundreds of personal conflicts and duels. Such a sudden readiness and submissive