Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-10
NEWSsOF THE, OAK
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7 The Ohio Democratic State Convention yes
terday nominated Pendleton for President OF
the u. S. He made speech In the midst OF
great enthusiasm. A resolution was adopted
condemning Congressional usurpation, oppos.
ing negro suffrage. declaring against any plan
ferextending the time forthe payment OF the
national debt, declaring that the five twent1es
should be paid IN the same money thai was re-
ceived for their issue; that the Government
bonds should be subject to taxation, and that
foreign-born citizens are entitled to prote ction
abroad. ~
/ The Committee appointed by the Georgia
Convention, now 10 session atAtlanta, to wait
on Gen. Meade, reported that the latter assur-
ed the Convention he would use all the power
conferred upon him by the Recons truction acts
for the speedy restoration OF Georgia to all her
rights in the Union Gen. Meade has also
expressed himself as clearly OF opinion that the
members ofthe Convention are entitled to draw
their pay from the State Treasurer, and prom
ised to exert himself to remove the obstacles
in the way. 81
a Radical meeting at Marshall, Texas, was
broken up on the 3lst by mob. Judge Cald-
well, the speaker, was fired at several times, and
was forced to seek refuge at post headquarters,
The rioters were arrested by the military, but
were subsequently turned over by order OF Ten;
Hancock to the civil authorities, who released
them on bail. q &C.,
IA We recently showed, says the New York
World, that there were not less than $4,000
persons now out Of employment in this city,
and it will be seen by areport which We print
elsewhere that at least 10, 900 men are ont OF
work, with no immediate prospect OF anything
DIDO, in Brooklyn.
/, M. G. Baldwin, an operator in the Western
Union Telegraph Co.'S Office was arrested in
Chicago, yesterday, charged with using the
wires of the company to transmit messages tor
Bennett, Peters & Co., wholesale liquor dealers
without the knowledge of the officers OF the
company. ts, tta.e .a 3f %att'
&. Albert G. Greene, of Providence, r. T., died
in Cleveland, Ohio, last week. Judge Greene
was man of high literary attachments, and an
author Of no mean reputation. He was the au:
thor the well-known stapzas beginning "Old
Grimesis dead, that good old man. > ~
- - The Senate Military Committee, yesterday,
adopted Senator Towards report, protesting
to excupste Secretary Stanton and refusing to
recognise his suspension from Office. The re-
port will probably not be acted upon until next
week.
The Democratic State Convention of West
Virginia, held at Wheeling adjourned yester-
day after the election ofdelegates to the Ma
tional Convention A decided majority OF del
egates are avowed Pendleton men.
Thomas Reilly, a New York aud Chicago
rough, who killed policeman in New York
two years ago, and for whom the authorities
have been looking for ever since, was ARE sted
inChicago yesterday.
A terrible ARRAY occurred at Dyersburg,
West Tennessee, on Tuesday last in which
three persons we're killed, and the Sheriff, who
was making an arrest, had his thumb shot off,
Bishop Hopkins, senior bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church Of the U. S., ex-
pired at the Episcopal residence, at Rock
Point, yesterday, aged rs years.
The dead lock in the Pennsylvania House OF
of Delegates continues. No election was made
yesterday, and the House adjourned over till
to day. al
Mr. Samuel Nicholson, inventor of the pave
ment bearing his name, died in Boston on the
9Th instant.