Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-09-11

SOUTHERN CLAINs.-Attorney General Ash
ton sent ia an opinion ID the = 'cretary OF War,
on "Wednesday, in re.erence TO the Southern
clalrs for cOmper ..tion for .eiZure and Use OF
premises during the war. He tax : the ground
ina under eNIStlng laws the q QUarteTmc ster
General has no authority 10 allow any de-
mandS OF this cha~Pcter. The case. whIah was
made = test, was that of one Elliot. OF Tenn
whose premis"S We're converted into a hospital
during the rebellion. Claims of this nature. to
the amount of sGO.C 0O.O00, are pending before
the Depa. sn1ent. They will all, of CORE. b.
dIsallowea under this construction OF the IL "
PoLITICAL.-Mr. w. b. Clafiu, the RepubIi-
can candidate Tor Governor OF MIssIchu .--,
5 pTor ibitiou'st.
Nj. PencIeton has rGconsidercd hIs det,s~-
m nation MOI 10 81 * in Illinois during he
p. -eLt month, and VIII make addT Sc a.
Cen~ralIa ON the 18th aud al Springfield on the
I1rh.
For some time there has been an apparent
" 1T OncilabIe ~qUabhie bptw III the tWo
ESpUhlICan OF gaT5Y tlOns commit of
New FORK cItV but the C,mmerrtrF 4drsrfts
say that the differences have been rccouc led
and the parry thoroughly united.
- Hon. Thomae Ewing, ST, h. come out
for Seymour and Biair.
- The Cbar.,sta Hsfcagy sp"2ks of an IN
pUrrant movement for a more thorough or"an-
izasioH OI 'he Democracy OF = .ch : ,ta anu of
M CnIt : 'te- by n ins Of towI, d'striI c,
fE7t this OrgauIzL Iuu should extend through
out The m? OF the Democracy Norm and
South They are 70 lie social and poli-IeaI
clubs, who VIII sd the local commit OF The
DemJcratic patty duIiug the ensuing CTm-
p .'gr. II VIII br a rsgulsr Sys am of club,
50 Tx d t2ge'oer p TO act il unity o: pU-po ..
j VIII lux t'- Democ acy Ter. No
and SCut1, IN solid phal"nXs VIII a o.nrnI
interest ana a common purpO q. and CONF
mon understanding. Ii is proj'ct IA he
hands of The leading men in BmeTICl, Id one
in the sGccrss of which the South is pc. l1-
nently concerned. Mr.. DE on the "ycat ~
the p3rty for the per. ctlng OF THIS schem"
throughout rhe Southern States. 1t Is a great
work 'augnt W iIh gr- u r"sult:.'
-Sera'9r u. q Van Wi"kln, of w tNt'-
ei"ia, r l.'y !tres the Glapt Club N
P''h burg. he ui>cI 1T 1 any N .nuon .
sc' unle 5 requ 20 . do. He had en-,
be a ert a, SUI pris~d at the prevalence OF a
rurOr that h. b. lelt his parry, which would
b ct De answer d by his app p-,ran g on tha: oc-
casion es a speaker before Il Il Iant club Pis
remarks Wee devo d 10 The questions OF re-
cOnstruCt. on sud fnsn
- TIE Philadelphia Dqily Ne,cs, a Democratic
paper in that city, and hitherto strongly yainst
Grant, comes out in an elaborate article q
nouncing the Democratic leaders in the strong
est tarms, and VII ,ually pr, dieting the defe It
of Seymour.
Two or three wrecks ago the New York
H,rdH pom ID 10 the result in Kentucky 'he
beginning of the great revolution that was 20
sw poyer the country, carr ying Seymour aud
Blair OF the Top wave. The I" 1ult i'll Ver-
mont, New Mexico, and dorado has chang
the views of hat piper. The Herald of v ter
day says:-.'There are no indie -tions anywhere
Of any losses on the side OF Grant OF the sup
por' ,rs of 'ncoln; there are many indie itions
that there is an end OF the OBJECTIONS in the Re-
publican cImp from which they suffered their
sugg"- tive def lfs of u"
The election retuTns from Colorado show
Republican gains. A. Bradford, Repu blIean,
was elected 10 COngr
The I'll in Nayry
Fe dispatch, T suited in Republican victory.
The L. sislature will be two-thrds Republi-
can.
Hon. John Sherman, Of Ohio. and Hon
Jas. A. Briggs, OF New York, addr~@sed a large
Republican meeting In Philadelphia last night
The Democrats OF the Fourth district of
Massachusetts have nominated Peter Harvey
tor Congress. This is the District represented
by Hon. Samuel Hooper, who served in the
;}eth aud 3"th Congress and was reelected TO
the iOth Congr by 1872 votes against 3,Is3 fer
Wightman, Democrat.
Major David X. Brown has pren announced
Independent "1nGidata for Conoress in
he Third Distric- OF Maryland, and William
l.. McC.uley, TOR the District, Is au-
nouncd j as the candidate OF the work gTnen
OF labor reform Z. y. Governor Swami is he
Suiar Democratic nomin , II that District.
The Democrats have nominated Thomas
G. Lawson tor Congres in the Fourth Distric t
o. e. Jrgia.
The Republican Convention in Angus a,
Ga, " sterday nOnlinatnd &. Ii. Price tor re-
el ction rom the 9TH District OF that Safe.
The Democratic COnven ION of the Fourth
COngres -ional District of Maryland re5umCd
Its labors AT Hagerstov vest ,rday, but finding
II impos sible 20 asrs upon candidate, ad-
lorrned 10 m - at Frederick city on the 22d IN
slant A bitter Tte of feeling exists betwG en-
the friends of the different candidates.
Gen. j Johu ii. Ketcham was unanimously
renominated for Congress IN the Twelfth dis
trict OF New York by the Republican Conyen.
tion. Gen h. was member OF the 9th Con-
gre s. ard was re-elNct 10 the &Uth Congress
by i2.j35 votes against lO,eiO for Collier, DEM
ocrat.
- The Democrats OF the Second District of
Minnesota have nominated Capt. Eugene Will
son, of MiPn"apol's, for Congress. This IS
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly's district. who repre-
COngrassc@, and wa rc-elactNd 10 the rortjeth
Congress by I2,J22 votes against 7,7ji for Col
Vile, Democrat.
The Democratic Convention at Clyde,
OHIO, nominated T.. h. Dickinson, of Fremont,
a. candidate for Congress from the Sixth Dis
trIet, which Is al present represented by Hon.
Reader ". Clarke, who served III the Thirty
ninth Congress. and was reelected To the For
ue'h Congress by i3, $40 votes against l2.267 for
Howard, Democrat.
The Democrats of the Second District of
Missouri have nominated James J Lindley for
Congress. The district rs at present repre-
leo by Hon. q. A Newcomb. Republican,
who was elected to the Fortieth Congress by
candidate.
INTERNAL REyENUR.-The receipts from this
source to-day were S2SS, ,S4Q,jl