The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-04
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THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS !
SUNSTROKES IN NEW YORK!
ARREST OF ALLEGED KU-KLUE!
A HEAVY sWiNDLISG TRANSACTION
Senator Sherman and The Spirit Tax f!
General Amnesty in Spain!
9hiers' Term Of Office and Powers
THE ELECTIONS In CHARLESTON, s. c.!
General Amnesty in Spain!
Thlers' Term Of Office and Powers !
THE ELECTIONS In CHARLESTON, s. g. /!
Financial &c Commerciali

The North Carolina Constitutional Convention
| Election.
THE RESULT IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
FROM CONSERVATIVE AUTHORITIES
CONSERVATIVE GAINS CLAIMED.
Wiln,mgton, Aug. 3.-The election pass
ed off quietly. The Second ward of this
city gives Conservative gain of 75.
Daplin county gives Conservative gain
of17. go
The Fourth ward Of this city gives Con-
servatiys gain of IL.
Wilmington, Aug. 3-The whole vote of
this city is majority against the Conyen-
ton of 973, which is Conservative gain of
2l on the last election.
AT Raleigh the Conservative gain is over
300 votes on the last election. Up to this
hour the returns received are very indefi-
mite. The election returns received up to
IL O'Clock tonight indicate that the Conven-
ton is called by a small majority, but ii is
impossible to say how the State voted.
The Municipal Election in Charleston, S. c.
Charleston, S. c., August 4.--The off
cial count shows that the municipal election
Of Wednesday resulted in the choice of the
citizens candidate-Gen. John A. Wage
ner, for Mayor, by a majority of III votes
over Gilbert Pillsbury, the present Repub-
lican Mayor. The entire citizens ticket is
elected by about the same majority.
Arrest of Alleged Ku-Klux.
| Louisville, Ky., August 4.-Four alleged
Ku-Klux have been brought here from Es-
telle county, including Captain Bruce
Thomas, whom Payne, who recently
turned States evidence, named as "Cap-
tain.o Captain Thomas claims that Payne's
testimony was the result of conspiracy.
The other three are charged with whipping
white women in Powell county. The
United States commissioner examines them
to-day.
Sun-strokes in New York-Yacht Ashore, &c.
Neso York, August 4.-There were six
sun-strokes reported here yesterday.
The yacht Sappho is ashore at Hell Gate.
The steamer Providence ran into three
schooners within an hour during Wednes-
day nights fog.
Senator Sherman and the Spirit Tax. La.
! Cincinnati, August 4.-Senator Sherman,
in addressing the Exchange, intimated that
the coming session of Congress would sim
plify the spirit tax, making it but one tax.
Foreign News.
THEIRS TERM OF OFFICE AND POWERS.
| London, Aug. "a caucus of the Left
Centre has voted by 100 against to make
M. Theirs President for two years, and to
allow him to choose Vice-President and
President OF Counsels the ministry to be
responsible, but Theirs not. This PROPOSE
| ton will be submitted to the Assembly
next week.
Paris, August Negotiations are in
progress between the deputies of the left
centre and right of the Assembly, in refer
ence to the prolongation of powers of Nj.
| Theirs as chief executive. The Assembly
will be questioned to-day concerning the
alleged appointment of the Duke of Char
tres as an officer in the Algerian forces.
A HEAVY SwINDLING TRANsAC CTIoN.
london, August "A Holland firm has
sold in FIankfort-on-the-Main bonds of the
Rockford and st. Louis railroad to the value
of nine million dollars. The transaction is
a swindle, and an investigation is instigatcd.
GENERAL AMNESTY IN SPAIN.
Madrid, August 4.-The official journal
promulgates a law, recently passed in the
Cortes, authorizing the government to grant
general amnesty for political offences.
New York Markets.
Neio York, Aug. 4,--Flour dull and unchanged
Wheat quiet and heavy, Corn steady Pork is
weak7-mess $l3.62@Sl3s7 Lard quiet at 10 1s01
l0A Cotton quiet-tIplands, l9@lSA Orleans,
2lD2l is-saes of 500 bales, Turpentine firm al
53@54. Rosin quiet at 81. 80 for strained Freghts
steady. stUie sst A4
1nie tI3 Financial.
Ne,o Fork, Aug. 4.-Stocks pretty active and
prices firm. Gold steady atll2a. Governments
steady and dull. Money easy at per cent Ex-
change-long, 10 short, l016.