Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-13
POLITICAL NOles.

NhaEee, republican. has been reelected g. =
ese:e 70 Congress from Colorado by 80 ms
George l.. Becker has accepted the Greeley
hom'ns'lon for Congress in the third district Of
Col. !. n. Trsb1e. Of Livingston county. A.
nounces himself 4 candidate Tor Congress IN ~
.Tst district ~ kentusky.
Hon. Frank Morcy Las been nominated f,r
Congress by the repl5lIcans OF the n.ta distri. ,
oi Louisiana.
Representative Rainev. the colored ner,,,, p
OF Co2Cfess from The first South Car,lirla gi.-
trict, was renomiua-sd on Tues,!2v
Returns from al bat one county in West viz
GINS give Governor Jacob 81 majority. The
majority IN favor 90 tGe constitution = 20.
ger. p. II. b. Young has been renorn9ra.a q
fer Congress by the democrats OF the seventh
district ~ GCorEis.
Hon James Z. Freeman, OF Griffin. has been
unanimously nominated by the republicans To-
C9rEr,s from tie tit,h district Of Georgia
Ire PeNnSy lvania liberal state comm. zee has
nominated Ex-Governor Curtin a. delegate A.
iaIgr - r.e constitutional convention.
Horace BoaTGmEa Smith was ranonliua.e a .-,r
CcagrCsS yeSter lay by The republican c1uven-
,-eh a. iiorneilsy4He, y a, - represent the
Iath tElmlral dlStTlNt OF hat state
Al the Congressional convention of the g.t
Wisconsin district, The Hon. Phietus SAWYER
was renominated fer Congress, with only two
IL was Tumored IN Philadelphia Yesterday thai
the democrats intend 10 with iraw all their
candidates for city Offices except those nomi-
mated by the municipal reiOrmers.
4 he 9th New Jersey district republican Can
gresSlonal convention was held In Paterson
wednesday. William Walter Phelps, the BeT-
gen county millionaire, secured the nomination
after hard and lively fight.
General A Il. Wright, editor of the Augusta
CAroutcie dHd SsHtine. major general in the
Confederate service, has been nominated Tor
Congress by the democrats OF the sth Georgia
district.
Hon. William A. Richardson saws, in reply n
friends, that he will accept tue nomination for
Congress In the sth district OF Massachusetts n
IL comes to him by the free-will OF the republic
cans OF the district.
Most OF the Greeley journals have heard from
Maine, and express themselves .sentirsly satfs-
fed" Yankee Sullivan expressed the same seq
ument upon recovering hIs breath after the last
round IA his famous mill" with Tom liver
Mrs. Mary "A. Lyermore last evening al
dressed a mass meeting OF about 5000 people AZ
the ''wigwsm," Philadelphia, reviewing at
leietn, defending, ana greatly approving the
administration OF General Grant.
The New Orleans Republican explains its de-
fection from the liberal cause in Louisiana on
the ground that II has discovered that liberal
ISM, instead or meaning reform, only means
how 20 get into Office ourselves by puitiu, IT. =
other fellers OUT
The Chicago inns, the leading democratic
paper OF the west saws that "the returns from
y anne are quite sufficient to indicate the re-
suit, and the result is that the Greeley business
Is the most absurd and contemptibIe sasco in
the history Of American politics"
The republican congressional convention for
the 9th district of Maryland met at Frederick
yesterday, and nominated Lloyd Lowndes ir
Oh Cumberiand, as the republican candidate for
congress. Mr.. Lowndes Is a native OF West Nir-
ginia, but has been living in Cumberland for
some eight years.
Mr.. Benjamin Wood, OF New York, after read
ing me returns from Vermont, sat down and in
dited the following epistle:
NEw YORK, Sept lion. John Morrissey-
Sir; Please pay TO Joseph A. Monheimer the
one thousand dollar forfeit money now in your
hands, on the bet of 500 made by me thai
horace Greeley would be elected next PRIEST
dent, having forfeited the same.
Very respectfully, B. Woop
A ratification meeting OF liberals and demo-
Gratis was held in New York last night, az which
1t i estimated forty thousand people were pres
ent Charles A. Dana was chosen president
Resolutions were adopted endorsing Greeley and
Brown, Herman and Depew, and the Cincinnati
ana Baltimore platform, and addresses were de-
lvered b. Francis Herman, X. NJ. L. Hunter
zen. n. Z. Banks, VIM. L. Saunders, colored
Fernando Wood, Chauncey NJ. Depew. Gov
Walker, ). j. Tilden, 5. S. Cox, James Brooks,
and Col. Ethan Allen.