Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-10-03

strongly
advocates the election of X. H. Dana, Jr., to
Congress by the Republicans OF the 5th Dis
trict OF assachusetts, instead Of General But
Ter, and expresses the opinion that Mr.. Dana
Will be elected.
The grand parade o; the officers, soldiers
and sailors Of the army and navy, In honor of
the return OF Major General Geor &c Il. McClei-
Ian, took place in New York last evening.
One OF the largest political demonstrations
ever witnessed in Western New York took
place in Rochester on Thursday night. IL was
a torch.light procession In honor of Hon. John
A. Griswold and A. Il. Cornell, the Republics I
candidates tor Governor and Lieutenant Gov.
ernor.
A reunion Of the soldiers and sailors of the
Thirteenth district OF illinois took place in
CAIRO yesterday. General Logan, Go vernon
Oglesby and others made speeches.
-Senator Cragin and q en-. Van wyck ad-
dressed a large Republican mass meeting at
u Moscow, Penn, on Wednesday. The General
went by the afternoon tram to New York,
where he IL to meet the Congressional Com
mittee on Retrenchment, OF which he Is Chair
man.
-Jndge WeiseI, the Republican candidate
for Congress IN the Fourth District of Mary
land, VIII speak in Carroll county during the
coming week. After a thorough canvass Of
that county the Judge will proceed to ALLIE
gany. -.
"A mass meeting Of Maryland and Della
IA.
the State line, ON Thursday, the 18th Of Octo-
ber.
The Jonesville, Texas Seymour and Blair
Club has resolved TO employ, after Jan. 1, nc
person, white or black, who is known to be in
sympathy or who affiliates with the Republic
can party.
Senator Cragin and Fernando Wood came
together accidentally at Scranton, Pa, on
Wednesday night. Cragin was serenaded and
replied 20 previous speech of Wood, IN which
hQ zld ha al of
landing of the Pilgrims as the two greatest
curses that God had visited upon the earth.
Wood was afterwards serenaded and replied
10 Cragin.
On a railroad train in PENNSYLVANIA a
vote Of the passengers was taken. An old lady
stopped the canvassers and remarked: II can't
vote, gentlemen, but i am going 10 keep one
Seymour man AT home"
IS. Newton Pettis, Of Crawford county, has
been nominated for Congress by the Rspub-
licans Of the Twentieth District of Pennsyl-
yanla, TO fill the unexpired term Of ID. A. FIN
ney, deceased, in the FortIeth Congress, who
was elected as Republican in le66 by l7.1U7
votes against Is, ,eee2 for McCalmont, Democrat
There was a grand Republican rally at
Lafayette, Indiana, Thursday, Henry 5. Lane,
Horace Maynard, and Schuyler Colfax made
speeches. Speaker Colfax was received with
unpounded enthusiasm, and made highly i'm
stated that General Grant has declared that the
first duties OF an Executive was 70 afford pro-
tee ton 70 Union men In the South, as well as
in the North, against every outrage and wrong
He assured his audience that he regaged the
election OF the Republican ticket as certain as
II the votes mad already been counted. .,t
The Republican Central Committee, OF
Richmond, Va, have passed a resolution depre-
catory OF the course OF the Ney Nation, a Re-
publican Journal publlshed in that city by J.
W. Hunnicutt and reading that journal out Of
the party.
The fifth district Of New York proposes
to nominate George Francis Train tor Oon-
gress. b. efsesa ls 81
ISrIRNAL REvfEuH.-The receipts to- day
from this source were S6I4 so3 0s