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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03
VOTES FOR SALE.

The Democratic leaders are in an amusing
position as they stand waiting to sell out
their effects to the highest bidder; great
droves of voters, like the cattle in the stock
yards, wait to be transferred, and the auc-
tioneers are crying for bidders. The Gin
cinnati convention is looked to for large
offer. But the steadily diminishing capital
Of this nondescript concern gives small
hope of revival of the market, favorable
to the vote brokers. Does any sane man
suppose that union can be made between
men Numerically opposedin principles and
sympathy, merely to elect one Republi-
can over another. The masses Of the Dem.
ocrats have nothing against Grant on the
contrary, they see the daily evidences OF
his wise and safe administration. They
will not be transferred like chattel slaves
to leader not of their own choice, when
there is SO distant prospect Of gaining
even the cheap reward proposed. There
will be kicking and baking ''all along the
line," we predict, if an attempt is made to
drive the herd into the Cincinnati pen.
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Immisration and Emigration.

The Baltimore american notices the ten
dency Of its young men to leave and go
West, as follows. This tendency is inevi-
table, and can only be remedied, in Mary
land as in Virginia, by abandoning the an
tiquated and fossilzed institutions of the
past, and assuming the progressive march
that belongs to great and prosperous
states
"By a sort of infallible instinct these de-
parting agriculturists set their faces west
ward. The great State Of Virginia lies inn
mediately to the south of them all of
Maryland, except the narrow neck which
they claim as their native soil, lies to the
east of them, but. they resolutely turn to
the West.
"If these thrifty, skillful farmers could
be induced to locate on the Eastern Shore
and in lower Maryland, they would con-
tribute more to the prosperity of the State
than many ship-loads Of immigrants from
foreign countries. We have often declared,
and we repeat it again, that Maryland does
not want labor, but capital. We want
settlers to buy farms, not imported labor
ers to till farms. The large land owners
could hire as many laborers as they could
possibly find work for, if the productions
justified the payment of wages such as
are paid in Western Maryland or in Penn
sylvauia. We need hundred thousand
immigrants, each having sufficient capital
to buy piece of land and pay for it. They
would have no trouble in getting farm
hands to till every acre purchased. There
is no scarcity OF workingmen !; the only
trouble is that in the present Improbable
condition Of agriculture in many of the
counties they cannot be employed.
'slt is not only Western Maryland that is
sending away her young men. One East
ern Shore paper mentions the departure for
the Far West of nine respectable citizens
two of them having families) within the
last week, and the editor expresses much
regret that their native county should lose
their industry and energy. There was
nothing for them to do at home, or at least
there was nothing at which they could
make living wages, SO they were obliged to
seek livelihood elsewhere. ''At this rate
it will not take long to depopuate this sec
ton, and leave our houses and lands un-
tenanted," remarks the dispirited editor"
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= A Bachelor on Wives.

To the Editor Of the State Journal
A great deal has been said about the
duty of wives to their husbands, that it is of
vital necessity that she be always smiling,
willing and neat, and have his dinner ready
on the minute. All this is founded on the
presumption that man is selfish animal,
and needs as much coaxing and coddling as
q baby, to keep him steady. Now, | do
not see half so much about the necessity of
husbands treating their wives with gentle
ness and consideration. We are told that
the wife should use extra care on Mondays
to make the house pleasant and the meals
regular in spite of the washing, and not let
her fatigue prevent her giving her husband
a smiling welcome on his return from work.
Very good. Now, per contra, husbands
are not often reminded that they should not
regularly growl because. its wash-day !;
should not talk about 'smother's ways" on
that occasion, and should not be cross to a
tired and over-worlSed wife when night
comes. Ibelieve in fair play, and despise
selfshness. And so do all right-minded
men, and little reflection is all that is
needed. My friend, do you know your
wife does the harder work of the two?
You work hard and steadily, but you are
the overseer; you do your own work, and
see that your orders are obeyed.
Your wife has the house to Keep
in trim, the family to feed, the
clothes to mend and Keep in order, and
either to do the washing and kitchen work
herself or, nearly as bad, to direct it, She
has children with thousand wants, and
perhaps shelp" contrary enough to try
the patience of saint. And, my laird, in
stead of cheering and encouraging his sore.
ly tired help-meet, expects to be coddled
and smiled at And if disappointed, he
talks about his mother am of an OBJ.
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FROM WAsHINGTON.

Washiagon, April 2.--Earl Granville's
letter to Secretary Fish was read at the
cabinet meeting to-day. 1t is very long,
and consists of both manuscript and
printed matter. The letter is argumenta-
tive against the position of the United
States on the subject of the alabama
claims, but expresses the hope that the two
countries may eventually settle their differ
ences according to the spirit of the treaty
of Washington. The tone is firm but
friendly.
Some days will eIapsc before Secretary
Fish will reply to this more than usually
long diplomatic letter. Our government
adheres to its position to submit the entire
matter of claims direct and indirect to the
Geneva arbihators, willing to abide their
decision.
Two and three quarter millions of three
per cents, issued in August, 1868, have
been collected in. The interest ceases May
3lst. -ar4
Polo Barnabe, the new Spanish Minister,
is here. He will present his credentials on
Friday.
The Committee of Ways and Means
have decided to report in favor of a specific
instead Of an ad valorem tariff on books.
In the case of Delarge VS.. Bowen, the
South Carolina contestant, the Elections
Committee will hear motion to dismiss
Bowen having accepted place in the
Legislature since his alleged election to
Congress.
The Secretary of the Treasury decides
that income tax on the salaries Of the Pre-
sident and the Supreme Judges to be un-
constitutional. The amount paid will be
refunded. s.... .=....-
Generals Sheridan and Anger have been
directed to use extraordinary efforts to cap
ture and turn over to the civil authorities
all persons who raid from Mexico into
Texas.
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serving turn of mind, and I see things that
Tom, Dick, and Harry have no idea are so
plain. And | 'tknow how it is MYSELF in
regard to the vexations of housekeeping,
and / think if the unappreciated wife should
just go off for weeks visit when David
begins to grumble, it would just serve him
right. But she'll never do that. She'll
stick to her post and begin to "talk back"
until she has beat him with his own wea-
pons and become scolding wife. Now,
Tom, Dick or Harry, remember that Susan
is the very same girl you used to take to
singing school, only she is, or ought to be,
more precious than ever, being yours; and
above all, don't give crusty old bachelors
chance to say they expected 1T, that you
made mistake, or that you were not
worthy of so excellent wife.
BACHELOR
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The Bankrupt Law,

We copy the following from the Dis
patch of this morning, and add that the one
great desideratum is, to get our Home
stead Exemption extended so as to cover
the case of parties taking the benefit of the
Bankrupt Act:
"NoRFoLK, March 80, 1872.
"Editors Dispatch. We have had so
many and so varied opinions from as many
different lawyers as to what is now the law
in force on the subject of voluntary and in
voluntary bankruptcy, we would feel
obliged to you, as you are generally so well
posted on such matters, if you will give us
the law as it is on the subject of 'volunta-
ry bankruptcy it requires the
bankrupt to pay or have assets proportion
ate to any part of his indebtedness-inf fact,
all the law and factsyou may think bears
on the subject. 1t is a matter in which
many persons are deeply interested and
very few seem informed. r."
ANSWER I'VE give the law as it now
stands. The 33d section Of the bankrupt
law was amended, by an act approved July
81, 1868, so as to read as follows /:
SIN all proceedings in bankruptcy COM
menced after the lst day of January, 1869,
no discharge shall be granted to debtor
centum of the claims proved against his
estate upon which he shall be liable as the
principal debtor, unless the assent in writ
ing OF a majority in number and value OF
his creditors to whom he shall have be-
come liable as principal debtor, and who
shall have proved their claims, be filed in
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03

Il -Hg fUSo
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
J. TED STATES for the Eastern District OF
Virginia.
In the matter of N. B. Richardson, bankrupt
lin bankruptcy.
AT Richmond, on the 26th day of Sept, 1871.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Please to take notice hereby, that a petition
has been, to wit: on the ,26th day of September,
1871, filed in said District Court by N. b. Rich
nrdson, of Richmond city, in said District who
has been heretofore duly declared bankrupt under
the act of Congress entitled ''An act to establish
uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the
United States," approved March I'd. 1867, for
discharge and certificate thereof from all his
debts and other claims provable under said act,
and that the 18th day of April, 1872, at 10
O'Clock A. M, before w. w. Forbes, one of the
registers of said court in bankruptcy, at his
office in Richmond, in said district, is the time
and place assigned for the hearing of the same,
when and where you may attend and show
cause, If any you have, why the prayer Of the
said petitioner should not be granted
You are also hereby notified, that the second
and third meetings of the creditors of the said
bankrupt viii be held at the same time and place
w. w. FORBES,
Register in Bankruptcy for the
an 3--W2w 9d fiong'f Dist of Va
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NEWS FROM ABROAD.
England.

London, April 2.-Mr. Bradlaugh lee
tured in Glasgow last night, and in the
course of his remarks stated that he was
in favor of Republican form Of govern.
ment for Great Britain. Parliament, he
said, had bestowed the crown upon Will
liam and Mary, and what it had right to
give it certainly had right to withhold.
These utterances of Mr.. Bradlaugh gave
rise to considerable disorder, and an attack
was made on the house wherein the lecture
was being delivered. A number of win
dows and street lamps We're broken.--
Several policemen, who undertook to quell
the disturbance, were stoned by the rioters.
No one was seriously hurt.
While the races at Lungan, ireland.
were in progress, stand crowded with
spectators gave way, and about two llun-
dred persons were precipitated to the
ground, amid a confused mass of broken
timbers. Thirty We're injured, some Of
whom cannot recover.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03
BANKS.
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.
SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT AND BOXES


We have this day received and put in our
Bank Vault a large number of SAFETY De-
POSIT BOXES, made for this Bank, by special
order, at the celebrated Herring Safe HIanufac-
tory in New York. and are prepared to offer our
customers and the public the advantages of this
security for the safe-keepng of yaluables
Boxes various sizes, and ranging in price from
u to 10 per annum, can be had on application.
The vault Will be accessible daily from to 4
o'clock Applicants not personally known to
the officers of the bank or the directors, can be
introduced by any well-known citizen
The safety of their Bank Vault is as we'll se-
cured as heavy brick and granite masonry can
make it. Watchmen guard it nightly, and the
Whole interior Of the Office to the vault door can
be seen by the police on the streets during the
night. The boxes are made on the most ap-
proved pattern, and of the best metal Dupli-
cate keys and f1re-tumbler locks on each box A
table, &C., provided for arranging papers, cutting
off coupons, &c.
The pubic are invited to inspect the vault and
safes, and the officers of the bank will take plea
ture in explaining more fully the designs Of the
enterprise. THOS. BRANCH, President.
J. B. MORTON Cashier.
Interest allowed on daily balances
Collections made in Virginia without charge.
Investments in approved securities made for
correspondents, and early information given of
changes in the money and bond market.
NH 20--lw
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six Dollars Per Year. :
Three Cents Per Copy. J

the case at or before the time OF the hear
ing of the application for discharge"
In 1870 this amendment was modified
by act of Congress-as follows:
''The provisions [above quotedl shall
not apply to those debts from which the
bankrupt seeks discharge which were
contracted prior to the lst day of january,
1897
From all which is appears that bank
rupt who does not get the assent Of his
creditors must pay fifty per cent. of his
own [uot suretyl debts if these debts have
been contracted since January LIST, 1863,
but not if the debts were contracted before
that time.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03

A ARICHMoND COMMITTEE RECEIVED.
Messrs. Jones, Reed and Anderson, who
were delegated by the meeting of tobacco
employees, held at. Ebenezer church on the
14th of March, to proceed to Washington
and represent the condition Of affairs here,
were before the Congressional committee of
ways and means on the Goth ult. These
citizens were accompanied and intro
duced by the Hon. G. H. Porter, and were
cordially received by the committee. The
wishes oe the Richmond tobacco employees
were ably set forth by Messrs. Reed,
Jones and Anderson, who, we are inform
ed, made very favorable impression in
Washington.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03

The TAX BILL PASSED BY THE
House. House of Delegates passed
the tax bill to-day, and Immediately pro-
ceeded to the consideration Of the appropri-
alton bill. The tax bill as it came from the
House was taken up in the Senate, laid on
the table and ordered to be printed after
which the Senate adjourned until 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning, at which time the con-
sideration of the tax bill will be resumed.
The bill is to be considered seriatim, and
none but members of the Finance Commit
tee allowed to speak more than ten min
llteS ....t as
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03

VIRGINIA BIBLE SOCIETY. - The
fifty-ninth anniversary Of the Virginia
Bible Society was held at st. Paul's
church, in this city, last night. The vari-
Gus annual reports, addresses, &C., were
delivered. A summary of the Treasurer's
report shows the total receipts for the past
year from all sources to have amounted to
s4,742.91 total disbursements S3,S40.77,
showing a balance of s904.l4. The officers
of last year were all reelected for the ensu-
ing twelve months, when the meeting adj
journed.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03

FORTUNATE ESCAPE. after
noon Mr.. Julian Binford, of the firm of w.
D. Blair & Co., and young lady of this
city were thrown from buggy, at the corr
ner of Grace and Second streets, but were,
fortunately, wholly uninjured by the mis-
hap. Tie horse which Mr.. Binford was
driving, took a sudden fright at the point
named, and dashing into the curb-stone
gutter, upset the buggy, and the occupants
were gently deposited upon the pavement,
unhurt. A gentleman who happened to
be ON the sidewalk at the time, seized the
horse, and thus prevented him from doing
further mischief.
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LATEST NEWS.
ELECTION NEWS.


| Hartford, Conn, April 2.-Jewell's
majority will not exceed two hundred with
a possibility of failure of election by the
people.
Hartford, Conn, April 2.-The latest
iofiseu eaples at tne Co0luiu olllce, WIN
nnraltv of I oIo and ,noEa he ,n.;o,;tu
over ali 40 The Senate stands I2 Pc
nnblicans and Den,ocrats Uo,sn III
keDubllCarS and ITO Democrats. ReDuhli-
can majority ON JOINT ballot, 30. Last
year II was "a. The Republicans elect
sherlffs IN SIX counties, and the Democrats
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AUCTION SALES.

+. N. READ, assignee cf Read 4 White bank.
rupts, will sell on the 10th day of April, at
~ O'Clock NJ, valuable real and personal es-
state situated in the town of Farmville, Va
JACOB COHN, assignee of W!P r. Leigh, will
sell on the 18th of April, at II o'clock M, in
front of the United States eustom-house, in
this city, 645ai acres of Land lying i'll the
county of Gloucester.
J. ARI3LER SMITH, assignee, will sell on the
sd day of April next, at the courthouse of
ing ll6 acres.
E. r. TURNBULL, assignee, Will sell at Bruns-
wick courthouse, on the 18th day of April,
q tract of land containing 100 acres
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03

AitsisihtNc shhCtloh titt hciheuJ'
To the Editor Of the State Journal:
Well, the mountain, which has SO long
been in labor, has produced mouse. and
one too of the smallest dimensions. They
passed their bill of interpretations, fought
with death energy the dog law, exer-
cised their wisdom on artificial legs, con-
verted the Dollhouse into an arsenal, and
after all of these wonderful feats of legis-
lative wisdom, the whole pack are now in
full coy after some new subjects of taxa
ton to further inhict an already overbur-
dened people with still heavier burthens.
How long, how long, in the name of con-
servatism, shall we have to endure the
cursed grinding between the upper and
neither milestone!
The great mass of the farmers emerged
from the war clothed in rags, with empty
purses, without credit, and large per
cent. of their most valuable property lost
to them, and in this condition of.paupersm
we have looked and looked in vain to our
Conservative Legislature for relief, and yet
up to this present writing they cannot show
even a green spot in memory's waste, still
it's not too late, and let us grid on our ar
NOR and fight for relief. Wake up the peo-
pie by still further effort Organize per-
fectly, thoroughly. Ask Congress to estab-
lish free schools within the State, as we are
too poor to do So. Give us an amendment
of the bankrupt law, 50 as to exempt two
thousand dollars from the clutches of the
Shylocks, and the next Presidential cleo
tion will tell to the horse-leeches Of this
State startling truth, that old Virginia has
escaped the meshes of heartless spectators
and has wheeled in mighty column into the
Republican army
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-03
SUMMARY.

Two deaths have occurred in New
York from spotted fever.
The Democrats of St. Louis have
elected nine of the twelve aldermen.
The entire Republican municipal ticket
has been elected in St. Joseph, Mo.
A new York physician publishes
card expressing the belief that smallpox
is propogsted by national bank bills.
The Key West (FIa.) Dispatch, hereto
fore Democratic paper, has changed
hands, and hereafter will be Republican.
The Rev. l.. D. Huston, late pastor of
the Baltimore Trinity Methodist church
South, has sued the Baltimore Amafcan
for libel.
1t is stated that the Mexican General
Rocha, in his recent victory at Zacateeas,
celebrated the event by slaughtering several
hundred prisoners.
The Workingmen's Central Union
Labor Reform Committee Of New York,
on Monday night adopted resolution re-
pudiating the nomination of Judge Davis
for the Presidency. .s.
Joseph Whittle was badly torn by
lions in Philadelphia yesterday afternoon
while performing at 0'Brian's circus, cor
ner of Maine aud Oxford streets, Frank
ford, and is not expected to live.
in the Ohio charter elections Mon
day, of thirty-one larger towns, the Re-
publicans carried sixteen. The Democrat
ic success in Cincinnati is conceded to have
been not a strict party triumph. Cleveland
gave 1000 Republican majority.
Both houses of the Ohio Legislature
have passed bill to compel life insurance
companies i'll other states doing business in
Ohio to file with the state auditor waiver
Of the right to transfer any case from the
| State to United States courts.
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evening State 5u,.rnal.


The superb demagoguery of the free
traders is shown in the recent speeches
of several Democratic members of Con-
gress, who claim that the laboring classes
pay everything in the way Of protective
duties imposed, while the government gets
nothing. Now what is the principle of
protection? II is simply q bounty pa,d
by all the people TO enable its labor 10
secure the best market. When we levy
tax of five dollars upon ton Of imported
iron the man who buys the iron pays the
tax in part, and for purposes of illlustra-
ton, we may say he pays the whole.
Under Protection this ton Of iron has
been made in this country and con-
tains crystallizcd in its mass, ten dollars
worth of American labor for which this
tax has furnished profitable market, but
which would have been lost under Free
Trade. Thus every laboring man receives
in the extra price of labor sold more than
the equivalent for extra cost. Let us sup
pose that Rockingham county has made
crop of hay which is worth ten dollars per
ton to feed or ship away. Now let a
dozen furnaces and rolling mills grow up
in that vicinity, each surrounded by seve-
raj hundred families of workmen. The de-
mand at once arises for this hay, and it
sells readily at fifteen or twenty dollars
per ton.
What is the slightly increased cost of the
little iron needed by each farmer compared
with the substantial and permanent bene-
fit of this market for the products of his
land and his labor. The same principle
runs through all pursuits. Every producer
IS deeply interested IN selling his labor or
its products as high as possible. A home
market gives him the best net result al
ways, and all experience proves that pro-
lection enhances all labor values as well as
land.
Yet in the presence of these facts Of un-
speakable importance to Virginia, the Con-
servative party, through its members of
Congress, votes down the great Industries
of Coal and Iron 1t declares that Virgil
MIA farmers shall not have the benefit of
the home market, which those great inter-
ests would give if developed under the fos-
tering influence of efficient protecting du-
ties. Witness the votes of Democratic
members from Virginia on the tariff.
The Conservative party IN the Legisla-
tire refuses to entertain motion inst,qcting
our Representatives. to vote against reducing
the duties on IRON, coal and saH!!! We
denounce 1t, and its leaders, as the enemies
of the public prosperity, as the bigoted
and reckless foes Of Progress and Improve
ment, and we call on the people to rise in
their majesty and throw off the incubus of
a party which sacrifices Home Industry
and State interests, to foolish distractions
and national party traditions.