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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-02

The application of an@sthetics to per-
sons condemned to be executed in vindica-
ton of the laws has been warmly advocated
in many countries. The State of Tennessee
may claim the credit of leading the way in
practical adoption of this benevolent re-
form. A criminal under the gallows in
that State was recently subjected to ser.
mon of an hour in length before the sheriff
adjusted what the reporters call "the fatal
noose." He submitted himself to the
executioner's hands without a struggle,
and died, so far as could be perceived,
without pang. #HE ISAAC
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Wood. Coal Anth. Coal Bit.
cords. tons, 224ofbs tons, 22iOfts

The wood to be merchantable hard wood
The Anthracite Coal to be of the best White
Ash, and free from bone, dust and other impuri-
ties all to be inspected prior to reception by the
United States The Fuel, Forage and Straw are
to be delivered at the wharves of the following
named stations, at such times and in such guam.
titles, as the Acting Assistant Quartermasters
thereat may direct viz Fort Monroe, Va. Fort
Foote, Nd; Fort Washington, Md. and Fort
McHenry Md. AT Baltimore, Md, at such
times and places, and in such quantities, as the
Acting Assistant Quartermaster thcreat may
direct ~ d. ....
The Wood and Coal for the National Cemete-
ries to be delivered at such times, and in such
quantities, as the Superintendents at each of the
cemeteries may respectively desire. s.
Form of bid will be furnished on application
to this office, well as any additional informa-
ton required by those desiring to bid,
r HENRY q. HODGES,
- Major and Quar- ermaster, U. S. A.,
Chief Qrmr. Sd Dist. Dept. of the East
an oQ-6t
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ORDER FOR FRUIT TREES

upon the wel-knowH Vernondale Nurseries OF
Chalkley Dillingham;, who has splendid as
sortment of fruit trees, grape vines and shrub
berry, of all varieties especially adapted to Vir-
ginia. This order is worth FIFTY DOLLARS,
and will entitle the holder to that amount of
trees, at cash prices This prize we offer to the
second best list sent us before the 10th of March,
in time for spring planting.
The third prize is of the same kind as the se-
cond worth FORTY DOLLARS, and will be
given to the person sending the third best list.
As additional prizes, we offer q WEBSTERS
DICTIONARY unabridged, worth $l2; a two
horse, DIXIE Pillow set of best Agricultural
Works, worth $40; Fowler and Wells publiea-
tons New Music of Peters & Co., worth $40;
also, sets of valuable miscellaneous books, worth
$40 each also, orders for nursery STOCK worth
ten dollars each. One of the above prizes will
be awarded to each club of fifty, and prizes of
onehalf the yalue, In our discretion, to each club
OF thirty. Each competitor may indicate the
prize which he prefers, and it will BIO awarded
10 the first who has SO expressed preference.
Please state what prize You aim at This will
not prevent You taking any suiaer prize should
you fail to secure the higher
Every club of five will be entitled to an extra
copy of the WEEKLY. Canvnssefs along the lines
of the railroad will find it to their interest to in
clude also the DAILY, and sEMI-WggKLY, espe-
cially, in their list. Every subscriber for the
SEMIWEgKLV will count as two for the WEEKLY,
and for the DAILY in same proportion.
AT our club rates, two cents q week supplies
others will find it for their interest to keep our
paper, WEEKLY and SEMI WEEKLY for sale
They will be furnished at favorable rates
To aid parties ~aising clubs by enabling them
to offer some ind 4cements TO each subscriber, we
propose the following: Ed
To each club OF ten subscribers more we will
send sufficient number OF GRAPE CUTTINGS
of the new and best yarities to furnish each men,
Der TWO DOZEN VINES. With these cuttings
we win send directions for roofing.
To each club OF fifty or more we willsend TWO
ROOTED VINES each, and also CUTTINGS as
ABOVE These will be sent for distribution to the
club. These VINES and CUTTlNGSw will be from
our own grounds where we have over one hundred
varieties on trial, including all new and choice
kinds, which we will be glad to aid in distributing
over the State among our readers and others If
any prefer seions of choice apples, cherries pears
sc. We will substitute or add them 10 the
grapes, if informed in time. We believe that
next TO a good newspaper, a bountiful supply of
good fruit for old and young is the best gift Of
Providence.
Remittances should be made by money orders
or registered letters, and addressed to ss
r.~s.sHsa EDWARD DANIELS,
Editor and Manager state Journal. Richmond.
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THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION, now
in session, is the current topic in our news
paper Journalism. The Democrats regard
it as the only political Jordan for them to
cross in order to get back into power. The
Republicans, save Upton, of Nebraska,
Schurz, of Missouri, Trumbull, of Illonois,
and their personal hackers outside Of Con-
gress, play shy of it, regarding the move
ment as mere dodge for Democratic as
cendancy. Sumner has not gone to the
convention to preside over it, and the ablest
delegate from Virginia is, for some reason
or other, back at his post of duty here.
having called, as is supposed, ''halt' in
the movement to imperil the Republic by
breaking down the strength of the great
national party which is soon to assemble at
Philadelphia. 'rE%... aNsa'.
General Grants strength lies in the pop
ular confidence which is everywhere ex-
pressed in his personal integrity, and in the
ability with which the financial and general
affairs of the country have been admins
tered by him. This is everywhere mani
fest among those who read without preju-
dice, and who do not give judgment from
selfish or purely partisan motives. One of
the leading financiers of the country is said
to have remarked a few days ago 81 am
not particular friend of Grant, but his
defeat would shock our whole monetary
system, and perhaps precpitate a panic.
| am for him, to keep things as they are !;
and this cannot be if the disappointed poll
ticians and old Democrats get hold of the
administration" To use the words of
Horace Maynard, Of Tennessee, who rode
with me in the cars yesterday-one of the
purest of our public men: "What more
do we want? When before have our peo-
pie lived so well, dressed so well, fed so
we'll? Labor never got such wages as it
does now. The nation never developed
more rapidly and safely. Our financial
system is the best on earth our currency
is the only really good one we ever had.
Nobody is infallible. We all make mis-
takes, and Grant, like his predecessors, has
committed his share. But what more do
we want than he has given us? unless
we choose to get by the ears about the
offices; and you know how soon the people
see through such PATRIOTS"
We question whether the Cincinnati Con-
vention will accomplish any other result
than that of planting the Republican party
more firmly than ever on the fixed prin-
ciples and purposes for which it was origi-
nally organized. General Grant is incon-
testibly the choice of nine men in ten Of
the party, and the tenth man is not to be
diverted from his advocacy of principle
simply because his choice is not that of
the other nine men. lie will say, with
every other unprecedented Republican, 81
vote in no mans interest, but for the
principles espoused by the party in the
nomination of General Grant. He is the
choice of the party, and is my choice as
long as he represents the principles of
Republicanism, and does not swerve from
the purpose of making them the rule Of his
official action.o
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he was a pirate servant, in the other, heis
a public servant.
Some things must be taken as true, and
chiefest among these, in the present
attitude of our affairs, is the posi-
ton of the Republican party on
the question of the equality Of races in
rights and privileges. No well in
formed journalist in Richmond is ignorant
of our views on the question of whether
colored men are entitled to be put in places
of responsibility and trust. We are asked
by the Dispatch, in effect, what our views
are whether we are in favor Of putting
colored men on the police force, and reply,
unhesitatingly: We want well admins
tered city government, quiet and orderly
city, and the highest possible security in the
city for person and property and the only
pledge we would give on the subject of
police, is that those persons should be ap-
pointed as policemen who are best calcu-
lated to give us this required security and
peace, without any regard whatever to the
race or color of the applicant. a
If the Dispatch or any other of our con-
temporaries dare plant themselves on diff
ferent ground, we can only express the con-
fident opinion that they will be found
clearly and manifestly in the wrong. To
us it seems weak and puerile to discuss the
question whether mans color units him
for the duties of police officer. The
dullest head knows better. If discussion
were necessary or proper, we should point
with confidence to the colored police of
Petersburg and Portsmouth places so
near home as to be easily reached,
and the example they furnish carefully
studied. If contrast will not be thought
odious, we would ask comparison be-
tween the colored policemen Wilson who
was murdered in Portsmouth while doing
his duty, and the white policemen across
the river at Norfolk who melted the riot,
and were the chief rioters in the attempt
to assassinate Secretary Robson, Con-
gresham Platt and others, and actually
shot at them to accomplish the assassination,
in public meeting held there in $780,
We again assert that we would prefer to be,
and we believe that majority of the best
citizens of Richmond would feel greater
confidence and security, under the guar
dianship of respectable and honest col
ored police officer than that of ballot-box
breaker or abettor, whose influence and ex-
ample have fixed upon our fair city the
darkest stain known to its municipal his
| tory.
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No. 4O6 Walnut sire
oDAcK-LoG STUDIES. /"

In this unique series of papers, now appearing
in SCRlBNER'S MONTHLY, Mr.. Warner, au-
thor of my Summer in a Garden is doing his
best work. Here we haye--in q pleasant fiction
of talking group in front of an old-fashioned
country back-log-philosophi suggestion, sar-
casm that smiles, not sneers, bright bits of de-
scription, social out-iooks--and, enlvening all,
fresh, crisp, yet juicy and delicious hurnor.
BACKLOG STUDIES have been quickly APP
preciated by the press. The New York Times
says that these Sketches, "for light, airy, but
genuine delineations of character, have rarely
been surpassed by any writer of the present
day. The Boston Transcript says that "ior
delicacy of tonch, quaint sentiment, and quiet
humor, BACKLOG STUDIES are the best of
things in their way" The Nation thinks that
BACKLOG STUDIES No. Ill ''renews and
increases the evidence given in his previous pei
fornances that we have in him humorist of
real merit" Writing of one of these papers
the N. Y. Mail says it is the 'best thing he has
written, and the best thing in its way any
American or English magazine has had for many
a day" and the Boston Commercial B,lLetia
says: "BACK-LOG STUDIES constitute de-
cided hit in magazine literature" Another Of
these delightful papers will appear in the April
number of SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, which
will be for sale by all booksellers and newsdeal-
SCRIBNER & CO.,
NH 15-It 65I Broadway, New York
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We will try to accommodate the Dis
patch with "a little more Light to-mor-
row, on the subject Of Virgnia's :" need
for tariff, or tax, or a sample-mechanic
law, or supplementary law, to protect
her industry against competition from the
North )" and we will take good care that it
is not " blinded by word" unless it be
some sesquipedalian adjective of its own
compromising.
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nISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
u STATES for the Eastern District of Yir-

To all qohon ii may concern--G REETEG
Notice is hereby given, That on the 18th day of
April, 1872 127) one hundred and twenty
pounds of Tobacco, at Norfolk Va 600 six
Tobacco, at Alexandria Virginia; (239) two
hundred and thirty nine pounds of Smoking
Tobacco, at Richmond, Virginia. were seized
by the Marshal of the United States for said
District as forfeited to the of the United
states, and the same is libeled and prosecuted
in this Court in the name of the United States,
for condemnation for the causes in the said libel
set forth and that said cause will stand for trial
at the courtroom in the city of Richmond, on
the 9th day of June, 1872 when and where all
persons are warned to appear to show cause
why condemnation should not be deereed, and
to intervene for their interests. ..
Dated April II. 1872.
DAVID II. PARKER,
ap Pilot u, s. Marshal.
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THE Journal has thus made point
against itself. However, we do not wish
to do the Radicals injustice. IF their 8 in
dependent" candidates will pledge them
selves to allow no negro policemen here,
we shall lose much of our dread of their
success at the ballot-box. Dare the jour
nal to give such pledge ?-Dispatch.
The Dispatch asks close question, and
we will deal in no unnecessary latitude in
answering it. We do not assume to give
pledges of any sort for the Republican
party. We advocate principles, not men
except it be where men and principles are
so closely identified in political action that
falling to advocate the one is abandonment
of the other. But we will answer for our
selves, that the right to hold Office is not a
claim to be demanded by anybody-white
or eolored-under our free institutions.
Individual merit and requisite qualification
are the only standard, and these should be
recognized and judged of by the people
comforting the office, and not by the party
seeking it. A man who asks an office on
the score of anything but qualification is
not fit for it, and ought not, for that very
reason, to have it.
We might ask the Dispatch, with equal
pcrtinence and propriety, whether it would
reject qualification and merit both, simply
because the applicant happened to be col
ored ? Bear in mind that a policeman is
only "public servant" another form of
servant, it is true, from what the colored
man has heretofore been in this State--but
still a ss,vant. The only essential differ
ence, in principle, is, that in the one case
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Il "..s #. |fa0.
1t Is so much the fashion noyv-a-days to con-
vey information, and moral truths and senti-
ments, in the form of stories, that even some
popular lecturers have adopted this style of adj
dress. The mass of people, especially the yoHng,
demand stories to such degree, that papers
filled with sensational novels and exciting,
trashy stuff, have n wide circulation To fore
stall this taste, and supply something better TO
the masses, the publishers of HEARTH AND
HOME, in addition to the usual variety of that
paper, have engaged corps of first-class writers
among whom are jean Ineelow, Edward Egg
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ward Everett Hale, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
Harriet Prescott Spotford, Rose Terry Maria r.
Oakley, Lucia G.. Runkle and many others, who
furnish to this journal the best original stories
of the purest character and highest grade-thus
conveying much instruction in a pleasing form.
Besides these, the WEEKLY HEARTH AND
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reading, editorials, literature, ART, science,
amusement; instruction for the housekeeper
the gardener, the farmer; capital department
Tor children and youth; the news of the day;
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is such journal as may be safely and very pro-
htably taken into any family 1t is supplied at
the low rate of rs a year; four copies for sll;
and ten or more copies for $3.50 each.
ORANGE JUDD s. Co, Publishers.
APP 4-tf 245 Broadway, New York Civ
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BOARDING DEPARTMENT.

We are open at all hours OF the day and nigh;
for the reception of boarders and patients. Our
location is convenient of access FROM the railroad
depots and Steamboat landings, and to the bust
ness part of the city. Street cars pass near the
doors TO all parts of the city, making 1t a very
convenient stopping place for persons visiting the
city on business or pleasure. Our table is sup
piled with the best kinds of food, healthfully
prepared, and plenty of it. In these respects II
Is unequaled.
Come and see, and learn how 10 live health.
fully at home, Terms reasonable.
EfiA} WOOD 8 HoLBROOK.
Sc g--d6wts ProprietouI
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CHRONIC DISEASE.

especially of Rheumatism, Gout, Dyspepsia,
Lungs, aud Incipent Consumption, Paralysis,
Poor Circulation, General Debility. Curvature of
the Spine, Scrofula Diseases of the Skin, Ute
rne Weaknesses and DISBURSEMENTS, Sperma.
torrhea, etc. z-s----
Any one wishing further information should
should send for circular, con tanning further par
tieulars, terms etc., which will be sent free by
return mail. ~ ~
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CONSTANTLY IMPROVING

Any person who chooses, may COLLECTS a list of
subscribers, large or small, and receive the pre-
MUM. +
1t is only necessary to exhibit copies of the
paper, explain its value, and forward the names
and money. The money should always be sent
by DRAFT OR PosT-oFFcE ORDER but if that can
not be done, by REGISTERED LETTER, the money
to be placed in the envelope. which is to be sealed
In presence of the postmaster % EEETG i
The terms EQUAL TO ANY IN THE
WHOLE SOUTH upon which we offer the
JOURNAL, bring it within reach of the poorest
There are many young persons, engaged in teach
ing and other callings which give leisure, and
who would be quite certain to raise club for us
in q week if they really set themselves at it. We
now offer. our first prize, splendid z
MACHINE. WORTH $50.
This splendid machine will be awarded to the
person who sends us the largest number of sub
scribers before the first of June, 1872. Our Sc
cond prize is an .w.n.Hh .et.
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FEkIE NEW YORK BYGIENIC INSTITUTES;
Is AND Is LAIGHT ST., NEW YORK CITY.
A, l.. WOOD. M. d., pnYsIoIAx.

The objects of this Institution, which has been
in successful operation for more than twenty
years, are two-fold, viz: Es tslf
l. The Treatment and Cure of the Sick, with
out poisoning them, by Hygenic agencies alone.
e To furnish a pleasant, genial HOME to friends
of Hygiene throughout the world, whenever they
visit this city. .eL
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1929 $50, 1858 74s, 80 2lo. sa2

All grain to be of the best quality free from
dust, dirt and other impurities. Oats 50 pounds
to the bushel Corn GO pounds to the bushel.
Hay of the best quality Timothy. Straw to be
be sacked. The Hay and Straw TO be baled.
The price bid to include the cost of baling and
sacking. All to be inspected prior to reception
by the United States. Sealed proposals will also
be received at the same time and place for de-
livery at the places named below OF the follow
ing amounts of wood and COAL viz
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CURE DEPARTMENT.

Thousands of invalds have been successfully
treated at this institution during the past twenty
years, and its fame is known wherever the Eng
fish language is spoken. Its appliances for the
treatment OF disease without the use of poison
Gus drugs are the most extensive and complete of
any institute in America. They comprise the cell
ebrated -r a..rrr - Irttre sfHs
~ TURKISH BATHS, e
ELECTRIC BATHS,
VAPOR BATHS,
SWEDISH MOVEMENT CURE,
MACHINE VIBRATION,
the varied and extensive resources of the
WATER CURE,
LIFTING CURE,
MAGNETISM,
Healthfiil Food, u Pleasant Home, etc. Partigu
lar attention is given to the treatment of all forms
of
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LIST OF PREMIUMS.

We announce to-day A PREMIUM LIST FOR
1872, which offers to the friends of the STATE
JOURNAL an opportunity to serve themselves and
aid to extend the circulation of
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PLANTER AND FARMER
SUBSCRIPTION So PER ANNUM.
A FIRsT-RATE ADVERTISING MEDIUM


This old and well-established journal has re-
Gently changed hands, and will be conducted
with renewed vigor. 1t will number among its
contributors some of the ABLEST WRITER'S
in THE COUNTRY upon all subjects kindred
to agriculture. The different departments of the
Horticultural, Mechan-
cal, Household, &c.---will each be conducted with
a view to make it the most E. fstf
VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL
rI-. IN THIS COUNTRY.
Every farmer should take it, and no one who
who has recently moved into the State can afford
to be without it, as it contains the experience of
the most practical and successful farmers and
planters. #..H ...--E F.
As an advertising medium It has no superior in
the South, having large circulation amongst
the most substantial farmers and business men
Insurance companies, bankers, machinists, ferti-
hZing companies, nurserymen, seednen, COM
mission merchants, &C., who wish to reach the
best class of people in the country, will find it to
their interest to advertise in this journal.
1t will be mailed to subscribers on the first day
OF each month at 50 per annum in advance.
Specimen copies will be sent on application.
All business communications to be addressed
JOHN w. RISON,
L Editor and Proprietor
Office No. Columbian Block corner of Thir
teenth ana Cary streets. ---a- de eff
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FRIES

In addition to the inducements offered by the
above liberal Club rates, we will present TO the
person sending us THE LARGEST LIST OF
SUBSCRIBERS before the first of June, 1879,
A CELEBRATED WHEELER & WILSON
NEW IMPROVED
NOISELESS FAMILY SEWING-MACHINE
which can be seen ct the WHEELER & WILSON
AGENCY OF @. l.. RADwAY, No. 1901 MAIN STREET,
RICHMOND. .. lH r~ t
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THURSDAY EvEN'G, MAY 2, 1872.
CAMPAIGN JOURNAL.
THE VIRGINIA STATE JOURNAL

THE VIRGINIA STATE JuURNAL
Will be sent to CAMPAIGN SUB
sCRIBERs until the PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION, at the following greatly
reduced rates, upon receipt of the
price:
Daily Edition $500
Seni-Weekly -s rs
Weekly %
Address STATE JOURNAL,
Richmond, Va.
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PROPOSALS.

OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER,
Sd DIsrRIcT, ID. E., No. 1887 GIRARD ST.,
r...a...1sr- PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 26, 1872. }
SEALED PROPOSALS, in triplicate, with a
- copy of this advertisement attached, win be
received at this Office until ~ M. on TUESDAY,
May 2Sth, 1872. for delivery to the Quartermas-
ter's Department Of this Dirtriet at the places
named below, the following amounts of Forage
and Straw: - "
..H.. ... Corn. Oats. Hay. Straw
lbs. lbs lbs. ts
Fort Monroe, Va...l6,242 ll6,253 16S,520 S. 900
Fort Foote Md......... 4,040 10000 2o,160 ID SOP
Ft. Washington, Md. 10000 $4,000 $4,000 10000
Fort McIIenry, Md. 393,9l0 464,560 10s,S0O
Baltimore MIDI. 1880 81 100 1200O
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A FIRsT-CLAsS NEWSPAPER.

~ II.
The JOURNAL is now fayorably known all over
the State, and it will be much easier to raise
clubs for IL now, than heretofore.
AS A FAMILY b AGRICULTURAL PAPER
the WEEKLY STATE JouRyRL will be found espe-
cially valuable No pains will be spared 10 keep
reg CONST NIFTY IMPROVING -...