Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-22
Political Notes.

The iberas OF the 9TH Illinois district have
nominated y. f. Worthingtgn for Congress.
F. IL. Hurd is the democratic nominee for
Congress from the 9th Ohio district.
Ex-senator Fowler isaNberal republican can
dlGate or Presidential sleCt0r from Tennessee.
the Massachusetts state labor reform con-
vention met yesterday. L was s.imly attended
AMI lid TO business.
The Arkansas republican state convention
met - Little Rock yesterday. Jujge Baxter
vii lie the D0usuee Tor GOV CTuJr.
- lion. EoGerlck r. Butter was rc'omir7tet By
a a.. Yesterday Tor Congress in the first
L. Q. 4. Lamar who was a member 0; Con
greSS ia lcto, was uOmir 8teJ toT Congress hv the
conservatives Of tue lst Mississippi district ye-
t-Yiay.
: lie New Jersey ia ght-out lie mocrsts hold a
7.site convention in Trenton on Saturday. Tn
republican convention tor the Pa congressional
81 SIT meets III Burlington on THURSDAY next.
joe e Dawson \. Walker WIS nominated TOR
governor hy the Georgia republicans yesterday,
am resolutions were adopted endorsing Grant
and Wilson.
A. the labor reform Convention held in Co.
lUmbus, Ohio. yesterday, only eleven delegate
were present. Resolutions were adopted tIat II
was ineNpedenI to nominate candidates at this
late dGy.
Nashville yesterday. EN-pTesldent johnson
ref q to allow his name IL 20 beiOre the con
yentior. 1t : thought ne VIII run as an indie
pendent candidate.
The Greeley and Brown convention for the
Sixth Congressional district OF Maryland met
il Frederick = -SteIdty ana re-nOmin4ted il IN.
tBBEN hltNLles present TcpreSelTaEige N Con-
gTesS, by reclamation.
The Iowa republicans yesterday nominated
q. L. Young for secretary OF state; William
Christy, treasurer; John Russell auditor; Aaron
Brown, register OF the land lice, and ". Cuts
for attorney general.
The Richmond correspondent of the Peters
burg IndsE says that though General Henry A.
Wise viii not support Greeley and Brown. stIil
he Will DO nothing, either by voice, pen ac-
ton, in any way lending his influence to the
support of Grant.
The South Carolina republican state conven-
ton met at Columbia yesterday and committee
| on credentials was appointed. There are two
| parties IN the convention, one led by II. III.
chamberlain, state attorney general; the other
by Speaker +. y. Moses, a native CarOiHian.
The committees Of conference appointed by
| the various temperance organizations met At
Syracuse, y. Y, yesterday, and determined TO
! call union state temperance convention in
/ that city fox the 10Th OF September. The move
mcnt appears to be in the Interest OF indepen-
| dent nominations, and to foreshaiOw a fun
temperance ticket for state officers
Josie Mansfield writes to the New York Com
| nlerctd! DENYING The statement by New York
| paper that President Grant had been in her
| house with Fisk and others engaged in drinking
| and debauCheTy. She says -" While have no
| interest in defending President Grant, yet 1
feel that justice cOmpes me to deny such an liz
| famous falsehOOd. Gen. Grant was never in nv
| house III his lfe.n
The Missouri democratic convention met yes
| terdav; also the liberal republican convention.
| in which a committee of fifteen was appointed
| to confer with similar mittee OF the demo
| cratic convention, and committee Of three
| was appointed TO notify the convention Of the
| action taken. After bTief recess the commit
tee reported that they had been well received 10y
| the dc mocratc convention, and the conventions
| then adjourned until to-day.
This is the way Greeleyism is growing and
| swelling, and sweeping over the land:'
| In May" Hurrah for Old Horace AMI Re
| fOrm,''
| In June. Greeley has his faults, but We eau
| stand them
In July-"Anyway, Greeley is better than
| Grant"
In Augustine Greeley in mine, thank yoa"
| ". L. Commercial.
| gentleman of this CRY, who opposes Grant
| Whites from a Vermont town So While out ri
! ding yesterday saw an Old gray-headed man
| and a bUNOm damSel, whom took for his daugA-
| ter, raising a home made Grant and Wilson q az
over the street stringing il from the attic win
| low 81 one house to another. IL was being done
| 81 Qdietly and with such manifest devotion on
| the part Of the two individuals, who alone
| seemed TO have any concern in it, that little
| liked the cause in which il was being raised.
| took of my hat and gave il ana them three
| cheers and tiger."-BCS'oa Trdrsler.
| The New York republican state convention
| yesterday at Utica adopted resolutions cenouuc-
| lnE the democratic party and declaring its be-
| lei that its overthrow Is indispensable TO com
| pete national harmony: piedging the republic
! cans OF New York 10 reform and economy in the
| state government; endorsing the PhiIadel p'la
| nominees, &c. mODg the resolutions which
! specially called forth hearty applause was one
| welcoming honest democrats to the republican
| ranks. General John 4. DIX was nominate
| tor Governor by reclamation, and General
| John &. Robinson for Iieutenant-t Governor.
! Lyman Tremaue was nominated for Congress
! man az large; ReUben 81. Stroud for canal com
| missioner, and Ezra Graves FOR state prison in
| SuectOT. The following three presidential elcc-
| tors we're nominated for the state at large:
| Frederick Douglass, Emil Gauer, New YORK.
| and Stewart l.. WoodfOrd. full ticket OF
presidential electors by districts was appointed
| including George ". Curtis, =. =. Chittendsu.
| IL. y. ClaIin, WIN. +. Dodge, VIM. LaimoeT,
| and Andrew ID. White.