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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-14

FURNISH GOOD READING.-One of
the pleasantest and noblest duties of the
head of the family is to furnish its mem
bers with good reading. In times which
are past it was considered enough to
clothe, feed and shelter family. This
was the sum of parental duty. But lately
it has been discovered that wives and chill
dren have minds, that it becomes necessary
to educate the children and furnish reading
for the whole household. 1t has been
found out that the mind wants
food as we'll as the body, and that
it wants to be sheltered from
the pitiless storms of error and vice by
the guarding and friendly roof of intelli-
gence and virtue. An ignorant family in
our day is an antiquated institution. 1t
smells of the musty past. 1t is dark spot
which the light of the modern sun of in-
telligence has not reached. Let good read-
ing go into home, and the atmosphere
of that home gradually but surely changes.
The boys begin to grow ambitious, to
talk about men, books, the past
and the future. The girls begin to feel a
new life opening before them acknowledge,
duty and love. They see new fields of USE
changes, and out from its number will grow
intelligent men and women, to fill honora-
BILE places, and be useful members of So
cety. Let the torch of intelligence be lit
in every household. Let the old and the
young vie with each other in introducing
new and useful topics of investigation, and
in cherishing love of reading, study and
Improvement.
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Grenina State 9ollrnaL
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Miss Jeanie Patterson will give a
reading in Fredericksburg on Thursday
evening of this week.
The local editor of the Norfolk Day
Book has maDtle-plece, and bouquet on
it, and seems to be as happy as big sun
flower.
The seventy-seventh annual council
of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Vir-
ginia will assemble at Christ church, in
Norfolk, on tomorrow morning at 0
o'clock, s..,
The Fredericksburg Ledger says: "On
Wednesday night last, some vile miscreant
fatally poisoned calf, and with knife
badly cut two cows, the property of our
worthy mayor, DR.. l.. B. Rose, who at the
time was on visit to Washington city.
Absolute devilishness could alone have
prompted the commission of such deed, (,
and we hope that the wretch who COM
mitted it may be detected and brought to
Justice"
The Republicans of Dinwiddie held q
meeting at the courthouse on Saturday,
for the purpose of recognizing the county
committee and selecting delegates to the
Burkeyille Congressional Convention. The
Executive Committee was thus reorgan-
lied: James Cox, chairman A. 7. Powell,
secretary; j. G. Mccall, Thomas II.
Boisseau, Jack Coleman, Collatnus Ma
son. On motion, j. G. Mccall and James
Cox were elected delegates to the Burk-
vile Convention, and Warren Brown and
Allison Hewitt alternates. The meeting
was then addressed by Hon. James II.
Platt, John v. Givens, Lewis Lindsey,
Captain Graham, W. N. Stevens, Col. Jen-
kins, MIR. James, and others. The meet
ing heartily ndorsed Gen. Grants adminis-
tration.
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A HORSE CAR,--We.are sorry to con-
clude that the present management of the
city railway has run stark mad on the sub
ject of experiments. The one-horse farce
is sufficiently fantastic to make the poor
overloaded horse laugh, if it had the ply
sical power left to do so; but the idea
which is given out that the horses them
selves are to be furnished with car in
which to ride down the hills, after they
have drawn the loaded cars up the hills,
is ludicrous enough to produce general
uproar among the quadrupeds as well as
bipeds of the city. In the name of the
people of Richmond, we ask, when will all
this drollery cease, and serious attention be-
given to the requirements of the public?
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LOCAL MATTERS.

THE DAILY STATE JoURNAL.--Per-
sons desiring copies of the DAILY STATE
JOURNAL, after our Office closes for the
evening, can be supplied by calling at the
news depot of G. f. Johnston, 9lS Main
street, three doors below our Office.
Those wishing to have the paper left at
their place of business or residence regu-
larly, each evening, can leave their ad-
dress at the same place.
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Washington, May 14.--SENATE - A
fierce trio war, involving the civil rights,
supplemental enforcement, and the amnesty
bill, which were attached as amendments
to an unimportant bill, is progressing. The
partisans of these measures block business
in the Senate. -
HoUsE-The tariff bill is up. No action
has yet been had on Morrll's amend
ment. nH.aI
The Consequential Damage Guestion-A Com
promise Probable.
Washington, May 14.-The President
yesterday transmitted to the Senate the
correspondence between the United States
and Great Britain relative to the Treaty
of Washington, accompanied with
brief message. The envelope bore the
word confidential" A short time af-
ter the reception OF the documents the
Senate went into Executive session.
when they were read. 1t appears the
design Of the President was to ascer-
tain the view of the Senate as to new ar
ticie to the treaty, Withdrawing the claims
for consequential damages from the Amer
lean statement of the case, with proviso
in substance that whenever England or the
United States shall be at war, and the other
neutral, no complaint shall be made for
any indirect, remote or consequential iniu-
ries or losses resulting from failure to OBJ
serve neutral duties. As it is known
that Great Britain will agree to the proposed
new article, and that both governments are
anxious to save the treaty by this means,
it was thought proper to place the Senate
in possession of all the facts in the case, in
order that the Executive, acting upon their
advice, might pursue the negotiation so as
to secure the consummation of the treaty
in manner satisfactory to the two govern
ments. There was blef debate after the
reading of the documents, involving the
merits of the question. ....
A motion was made to remove the in
junction of secrecy, but this failed, and
the message and documents were ordered
to be printed in confidence and referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
There is scarcely question that the
Senate will advise the acceptance of the
additional article to the treaty.
The Case of DIR. Houard.
Washington, May 14.-Hon. Leonard
Meyers, of Pennsylvania, member of the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
visited the State Department on Saturday
and had an interview with Secretary Fish
relative to the case of DR.. Houard. The
Secretary informed him that SO far the
papers in DR.. Houard's case had not been
received by the Spanish Minister, but he
had assurance that i'll any event DR.. Houard
would be released. If the testimony in
the case should sustain the charges against
sHouard he will be pardoned by the Spanish
government. If on the other hand it
should be shown that he was innocent he
will be Immediately released. The Span
ish Minister here has complained to the
home government of the delay on the part
of the Cuban authorities in forwarding the
papers.
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INDICTMENTS BY THE GRAND JURY
OF THE HUsTINGs CoURT.-The grand
jury of the Hastings court met yesterday
and found indictments for felony against
the following persons: John Camp, Wm
Langford, VIM. Martin, L. G. Kidder, q
cases), and Benjamin Lee. The following
were indicted jointly for felony: VIM. Mar
tin, w. 6. Austin, w. II. Benson and
Charles E. Warren. The jury then ad-
journed till next term Of the court.
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OFFICIAL.
A n ORDINANCE TO ANESD AN aRU,-
IN NANCE CONCERNING THE NUMBER
ING OF ENITEEN3.
Passed April 10th, 1871


Passed April 10th, 1871
Be- It ortGined, That the ordinance concerning
the numbering o! houses be amended and re.
ordained 10 read rs follows:
All houses within the limits OF the city nov
unnumbered, shall have their proper numbers
fixed upon their fronts; and it shall be the duty
OF the contractor, appointed by the COMMITTEES
on Streets 10 furnish the required numbers
painted upon tn and secure the same to tho un-
numbered houses throughout the city; the size
and character of numbers, and quality of tin
and painting, to be determined by said Commit
tee. The contractor shall be paid by the owner
or owners of every house numbered, or their
agents, twenty-five cents, and the bill therefor
having been presented by The contractor, and
such owner OF agent refusing to pay the same,
the engineer of the city being satisfied thereof,
shall report the fact TO the city assessor, whose
duty it shall be TO add the amount, with twenty
five per cent. thereon, to the next tax levy of the
property i'll question, and thereupon the con.
tractor shall be paid the said amount of twenty.
five cents from the city treasury. And if any
occupant, owner or agent, shall remove from
any house the number placed thereon, he
shall be subject to fine of fifty cents for each
day, after ten days notice, during which the
house shall remain unnumberett.
Published by authority:
Z. G. HOWARD, a
my 7-5t city CLERK.
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cern frauds were called on for report, but
were not ready.

cern frauds were called on for report, but
were not ready.
Destructive Fire in Brooklyn-One Hundred
Families Homeless.
Ner York, May 14.-A fire broke out
yesterday evening at No. 90 Throop ave-
nue., Brooklyn, and extended along the sv-
enue to No. loo, and also burned four
houses on Bartlett street, adjoining. The
first floors of the houses were occupied as
stores, and the upper parts as tenement
houses. One hundred families were rem
dcred homeless and lost most of their
household property. Five smallpox pa
tients were in one of the houses, and these
the officers of the health department at
tempted to secure. They all effected their
escape, however, after long and close
chase through waste lots in the neighbor-
hood. The total loss is estimated at $780,
600 partly insured.
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DELEGATES AppoISrED.-The Re

DELEGATES APPoINTED.-The Re-
publican State Executive Committee have
appointed Hon. c. Y. Thomas, of Henry
county, delegate to the National Conyen.
ton at Philadelphia, rice Hon. Lewis
Mckenzie, who declines to serve, and Hon.
P. G. Thomas, of Portsmouth, rice Hon.
L. Ii. Chandler, who has been called to
Texas on important and urgent busi-
ness, and will he detained until after the
meeting Of the Convention.
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MILITARY EyCURsIoN.-The AtLucks
Guard will have an excursion to West
Point on Monday, the goth instant. The
train bearing the Company and friends will
leave the York River depot at 8 o'clock A..
M. Captain Weaver's full brass band has
been engaged for the occasion. AT the
Point the Company will engage in a target
practice and other amusements. A good
time may be anticipated by all who
attend.
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The RIGHTS OF VOTERS Exc
cutiye Committee of the Republican party
of Virginia are printing for general and
gratuitous circulation the registration law
of the State and the laws of Congress con-
cerning the rights of voters. These docu-
ments will be ready tomorrow and will be
supplied to all who call upon the secretary
at his office in the castom-house.
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Removal of Disabilities.

Washington, May 13.-Mr. Butler, of
Massachusetts,, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported bill removing political
disabilities from all persons who aided the
late rebellion, except Senator'S and Repre-
sentatives in the seth and 9th Congress,
officers IN the judicial, military and naval
service of the United States, and heads of
departments and foreign ministers of the
United States. Passed. s....
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For Greeley and brown.

Mobile, May l4.-The Mobile Daily 7ri-
bune hoists the names of Greeley and
Brown at its masthead this morning, sub
ject to the action of the people through
their representative convention, which
meets at Montgomery on the 10Th Of June.
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JACKSON WARD.-The Republicans of
jackson ward are requested to meet at the
Old African church this (fuesday) evening
at z! o'clock. 1t is important that every
voter in the ward should be present.
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AN APPEAL.-The county of Albe-
marie has taken an appeal from the de-
cision of Judge Wexford, of our Circuit
court, in the noted Miller will case, and
has employed Judge Robertson as associate
counsel with Judge Meredith.
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"A party in Pontiac, Mich, out rowing
on Sunday, was too large for the boat, and
one oil the number was drowned. A local
paper thereupon remarks, Remember the
Sabbath and keep it holy and don't over
load your boat"
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DIED.

To-day, at IL O'Clock A. NJ, Mrs. JANE
MASON, the wife of Mr.. Stephen Mason, after
a short illness. -.
The relatives and friends of the family are re.
Spectfully requested to attend her funeral from
ST. Peters cathedral TOMORROW (Wedneg-
day.) at p NJ.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
FOR GREELEY AND BROWN
SPORTS of the TURF
NATIONAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION
Removal Of Disabilities
THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON
INDIRECT CLAIMS WITHDRAWN
SPANISH TREATMENT Of DR., H0UARD
TEIE WAR I'm SPAIN
pJtnrnnIi,, prc, ~f Con ry,n-Ss
INDIRECT CLAIMS WITHDRAWN
SPANISH TREATMENT Of Dr.. H0UARD
TEEE WAR I'm SPAIN
Proceedings of Congress
FROM WASHINGTON.


Washington, May 13.--The Court of
Claims has adjourned to November. All
important cases have been adjudicated.-
Several cases 60 over at the option of the
claimant, because the proof was incom-
plete. .r..
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vyNAKEN UP Friday, ON MY PRE-Fss.ry
l. MISSES, one BRINDLE cow, with 49,
horns. The owner will come forward. prove
property, pay charges, and take her away.
I. A. SCHULTZ,
my ll-3tz near Haryie
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CHARLOTTE BRoNTE.-A shrinking,
retired, near-sighted woman waits and
waits among the Yorkshire hills, wistfully
saying to herself, "What shall do?" 1t
has been a long, sore trial to watch and
wait as she has done. In her lifetime she
has known not few of her own age who
have long since solved that problem some
are welded and happy in their homes; 9TH
ers have found their true place as teachers,
writers or artists, and are crowned with
honor. This woman has great sorrows and
sore losses, and her day is wearying on to
the afternoon still she has heard no voice
bidding her go work in the vineyard.
There is letter written to Wordsworth,
while she stands there in the market place
waiting for the Master, that is, in my opin-
ion, the most pathetic cry ever herad in
our lifetime. "Sir," she says, 81 earnest
ly entreat you to read and judge what
have sent you. From the day OF my
birth to this day, I have lived
in seclusion here among the hills, where
| could neither know what was
nor what | could do. / have read for
the reason that have eaten bread, because
it was real craving nature, and have
written on the same principle. But now /
have arrived at an age when must do
something. The powers / possess must
be used to certain end; and as / do
not know them myself | must ask others
what they are worth; there is no one
here to tell me if they are worthy; and
if they are worthless, there is no one
to tell me that. beseech you to help
me-" What she sends to Wordsworth
then is poor; she has written many vol
umes all poor, has waited in the market
place and done no work (; but at last the
Master, walking there, sees her wistful
face turned toward him, and says, "Go in
to my vineyard" Then she bends over
some small folded sheets of coarse paper,
until her face almost touches them, and in
one book she storms the heart of England
and America, and in the one hour that was
left her she won her penny.-Robe,t
IOlllyer
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POLICE CoURT.-Seyen or eight cases
We're investigated this morning, the whole
"pawning out' just 50 in the way of fines.
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PERsoNAL.-Hon. w. II. II. Stowell
was in the city to-day. He left this after
noon.
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Racing.

Lerington, KY, May 14.--The first race
yesterday was won by "Hollywood'
time, 3:4l2, 1891. Second race--won by
"Plantarium"; time, 2:44.
NashriHe, Tenn, May l3.-"Double
Out" won the first race to-day; time, 1:50,
l:47!. The second was won by "Eland";
time, l:474, 1:46a.
Nep York, May 14.--There were five
trots at Fleetwood Park yesterday. The
first was won by Frank" in three heats
best time 3:06. The second was won by
"Belle Jones" in five heats-best time
2:54!. Third trot-won by "George NJ.
Patchen" in four heats--best time 2:5S.
Fourth-won by starlight" in four heats
best Inc 2:434. Fifth-won by David"
in two heats-best time 2:55.
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FROM ABROAD.
ENGLAND.

ENGLAND.
MIR. Glsdstoue's Statement Regarding the fu-
direct Claims Controvers;.
London, May 13.-In the House of Com
mons this evening, Mr.. Gladstone made his
promised explanation of the negotiations
regarding the indirect claims and the posi-
ton taken by the government. The House
was full and the galleries were crowded.
Mr.. Gladstone on rising was greeted
with cheers. He said in order to allsw an
opportunity for discussion on the state
ment he was about to make. he would
bring formal motion for the adjournment
of the House.
After alluding in terms of praise to the
forbearance shown by Parliament during
the controversy, he proceeded to make his
statement. lie gave full history of pro-
gress of the controversy from its begin
ning-the 18th of January--the correspon-
dence between the two governments being
carried on altogether by telegraph. "On
Friday last" said Mr.. Gladstone, "a
draft covering the letter of our views was
forwarded to Minister Schenck ,and although
lengthy, it was Immediately telegraphed
by him to Washington. On Saturday Mr..
Schenck informed Lord Granville that the
President had accepted and the Senate sus-
tanned that draft"
Mr.. Gladstone thought this fact was al
most equivalent to ratification, and he
begged the further forbearance of the House
now that the question was approaching a
satisfactory issue, honorable alike to both
nations. In conclusion he said he thought
he was not too sanguine in predicting that
the negotiations would result in settle
ment which would rebound to the credit of
both parties.
AS Mr.. Gladstone took his seat there
was loud and repeated cheering from all
parts of the house.
Mr.. Disraeli followed with thanks to the
Premier for his statement, and said that he
should not seek to embarrass the govern
ment. Whatever differences existed Oh
other subjects, all parties were united in
the desire for peaceful and honorable set
tlement.
In the House of Lords Earl Granville
made statement similar to Mr.. Glad
stones.
London, May 14.-The London journals
this morning devote much space in their
editorial columns to the remarks upon the
explanations made by Mr.. Gladstone and
Earl Granville in both houses of paria-
ment last night, regarding the indirect
claims and the position Of the English gov
ernment. The journals approve the nego-
tiations now proceeding, but doubt the
concurrence in them by tic United States
Senate.
FRANCE
The Carlist Wnr..Insurgsni Accounts Of the
Situation.
Paris, May l4.-Reports from Cariist
sources state that the insurgents have occu-
pied Bilboa. Don Carlos has entered Bis
cay and the Carlists are masters of three
provinces. An important engagement is
expected in Biscay. ..-
-.
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RANGE OF THERMOMETER to-day at
G. f. Johnston's Music and News Depot,
No. 9lS Main street:
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Six Dollars Per Year.
Three Cents Per Copy.

forestall the action of the Convention, or
show disposition to dictate that action.
The Northern Democracy, upon whom
alone the result of the election depends,
must be conciliated, and it should be the
part of Virginia and the South to win them
over. They now hold the balance Of power.
They can afford defeat. So can we-but
not SO well. l.-Enq,arer.
The editor of the Ne,rs solcmnly ad-
vises the Democrats of Wisconsin not to
''gush." s'Don't Gush ~ is the heading
of his article. He says
"Two months hence it may appear very
ridiculous for any Democrat to speak
favorably of supporting Greeley for the
Presidency, and two months hence it may
appear very ridiculous for any Democrat to
talk of opposing Greeley for President
Alas and has it come to this ? The
poor Democracy, in the hour of its agony,
in a,ticulo morris, is to be persuaded to
support Horace Greeley, or not to support
him, for the Presidency of the United
States, with politically repressive appeal
"Don't Gush !''-MilWaukee Sentinel.
PREJUDGED BY THE PEoPLE.-The
Chicago Tribune says that the success of
upon any action that may be taken by the
Convention. 1t thinks the masses of the
people have determined for themselves that
they will support that ticket irrespective OF
any action of conventions. tsays: AS
was the case in 1928, when the people took
the election of President out of the hands
of the nominating bodies, and elected Cen
eral jackson, so the people of 1872 pro-
pose to treat the action of all partisan con-
ventions with indifference" and elect the
Greeley-Brown ticket.
We'll, we take up our dictionary. We
look OF this word office. What does it
mean? Where did it come from? Office,
Latin obici,tna, or opttfci,tn,; opus, work,
and focio, to do. Office then means SER
vice. There is not in or about the word
any thing that means reward.
Not until the nation comes into the mean
ing and into the practice Of this word Office
can we ever hope for true civil SERVICE
Then we shall put a man into the Presi-
dency or into the postoffice not because he
deserves it or needs it, but because the ma
the nations work. Wmchman.
The New York Herald hits the nail
square on the head when it says : ''This
is, of course, the paramount object of the
copperheads, to take their revenge upon
the general who subdued the rebellion and
forced Lee and his Democratic army to sur
render to the Union forces. They would
vote for Greeley or the Devil to compass
their revenge or satiate their deathless
hate.
The Dispatch very sensible says ''that
a triumph of that the Democratic) party,
if at all possible, would probably only be
the signal for more bitter sectional war
than we ever had in the political arena
and we would have prolonged strife, with
at best alternating results, full of the pas
sions that would destroy the peace and
contentment of the nation"
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New York Markets.

EeW York, May l4.--Cottor quiet: Uplands
23,S Orleans PAN !; sales $40 bales. Flour dull
and unchanged. Wheat quiet and hedvy. Corn
dull and declining. Pork steady-mess SIS 5000
Vii. Lard auet--steam 92S@p9H. Turpentine
at 56656h. Rosn quiet and firm at s5 20 for
strained
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DUY YOUR WATER COOLERS
- at w. J ANDERSON'S, ~
e25 Main and 200 Broad street.