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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-25
PETERSBURG NEWS.

COLI J. g. Lyle, tobacco inspector, has
resigned.
The young men connected with the
Methodist churches will hold meeting to-
night to organize Young Mems Christian
Association. ..
The Republican Committee met on
Monday night and agreed to call the Con-
vention to nominate candidates for all the
city offices on Tuesday night, the Sth of
May. The ward meetings to elect dele
gates will be held on the 7th of May.
Arrangements have been made with
the popular Petersburg newsdealer, b. S.
Burch, ESQ.,, to have the STATE JOURNAL
on sale in the streets and at his-store on
the evening of its publication. Petersburg
being the only Republican city in the State
should give the JOURNAL good support.
The registrars of the several wards of
the city publish notice in this mornings
papers, that they will open their books at
their usual precincts for registration on the
14th, 10th and 18th of May. As the
wards have been changed and large num-
Der will be required to get transferred, this
matter is one of great importance and
ought to be well understood by every Re-
publican.
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LOCAL NOTES.

Next Saturday is the second annver.
sary of the dreadful Capitol disaster.
There is an unmailablc letter in the
Lexington postoffice for Allen K johnson,
Of this city. h-s
Over fifty men, women and children
have been thus far converted by the revival
at Clay-Street Methodist church.
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terian church Of the United States will
meet in this city on the 10th of May.
James P. Cowardin, ESQ.,, of this city,
will jim,jam the people of Petersburg to-
morrow night. We hope the house will be
jammed. ...#..
The Religious Herald says that Rich
mond will contribute not less than 90 900
towards the building of a Baptist church
house in Rome.
"A company of young ladies residing
on Shockoe Hill, yesterday, gave ''lcap
year party' to their male acquantances at
the pump-house. -.sr .---. ~.
1t is announced that the Richmond
delegation to the Cincinnati Convention
will leave. here on Saturday morning. Let
us have the names of these delegates. 9
Mr.. Crockett Eddins, a..native of Rich
mond, and very we'll known here, died in
Austin, Texas, suddenly on Saturday last.
His remains will probably be brought to
this city for interment.
=. The Blues are making grand prepara-
tons for their anniversary celebration,
which occurs on the 10th Of May. They
will make public parade and have din
ner, and, perhaps, q target-shooting at the
city Pump-Ifouse. 80. ,-..-
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State ga,,titat.
Grf,liiig State SnnrnaI.
MINED SCHOOLS

The Dispatch of this morning bewails
the attempts Of the Republican Party to
make capital, by endeavoring to secure
social equality between white and black,
and especially by that odious measure Of
mixed schools. To all which, we answer,
that the Republican party, neither in this
State nor in the nation, is doing so.
Neither white nor colored Republicans,
in any number, desire mixed schools here.
If the attempt is made, we shall be found,
as true friend Of the colored race, not
less than the white, fighting to the last
against it as destructive to the best inter-
ests of both races. We knotc that to adopt
mixed schools would be to destroy our
school system altogether. We are in
favor of giving all the children of the State
thorough education, free to rich and poor
alike. We insist upon the right of every
child to be educated. and the duty of the
State to provide the means and to secure
the attendance Of the children at
the school by compulsory measures. But
De i'isist, also, that each race shall
be allo,ced It's oton schools. Healthful and
friendly competition will then stimulate
each to do its best, lest it fall behind in the
race for knowledge. We are confident that
our opinions are held by vast majority of
the Republicans of Virginia, and by none
more tenaciously than the colored people
themselves. We appeal to the candor and
self-respect of our opponents, to refrain
from raising anissue so clearly fictitious as
this in the approaching contest. No good
can possibly come Of it, and much bitter
ness Of feeling cannot fail to be excited by
the rehearsal of accusations, wholly un-
founded and unjust. ~ ~
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lately sent their agents into New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut and Name to look out
favorable locations for new woAlen, cotton
and iron mills, clothing and boot and shoe
factories, etc., and to confer with the local
authorities in regard to the measure of
their proposed cooperation"
Shall this city continue the do-nothing
policy, or take pattern after our Eastern
friends, and encourage new manufacturing
enterprises, started mainly with capital
and employees from abroad, by exemption
from municipal taxation and encourage
ment in other ways? This policy will
bring directly to the city treasury, proper
ty owners, and business men, ten dollars
where they lose one indirectly. Who is
the man in the city so blind as to say it is
better not to have cotton mill with $780,
600 capital, than to exempt it from city
taxation for term of years? Also a
wooden mill with $25O,0 capital, a tam
merry with 100000, shoe factory with
800 900, q locomotive works with $780,
600, print works with 100000, steel
works with $250,000? Few people in this
city, likely, know the fact that the best
iron ore for making Bessmer steel in
America, is found near by us in North
Carolina. AT no point can this ore and
the coal of the Kanawha be brought to-
gether as cheaply as in this city. Hard
ware and edge tool manufactures, and
many others that might be mentioned with
proper Endorsements, could be started
here. The city of Philadelphia has 5000
kinds of manufactures, producing nearly a
million of dollars day; they do not tar
capital a larger proportion of the me-
chanics in that city live, q family in a house,
than in any other in America all of the
benefit does not go to the capitalist.
If the exemptions are not made, and no
announcements held out and no new man.
ufactories are established, scho is the gamer? :?
Shall Richmond sleep on and on, only
waking when some somnambulic editor
writes of our unsurpassed natural advan-
tages, great water power and great people,
and all crawling out of the little end of the
horn?
I say, initiate Portland at once.
TAXPAYER.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Southern Patriot reports fair pros
poets for an average crop of standard fruits
in the southwest portion of the State. Z
Mrs. Robert Patterson, ,sJohn Montgon-
cry, and David Swisher, of Buffalo town
ship, Rockbridge county, died recently.
5 j. Scott More has purchased an interest
in the Rockbridge Citizen, and will hereaf-
ter be associated with James ID. Morrison
in its publication.
" A public school-house near Mt. Solon,
Augusta county, was burned last Friday
night, with about $40 worth of books.
The work of an incendiary.
I, The net proceeds of the fair held last
week by the ladies of the Episc opal con-
gregation of Staunton, for. the benefit of
Trinity church, amounted to the handsome
sum of l,o75.
lin the vicinity of Accotink, Fairfax
county, the peach and cherry trees are in
rich bloom, and promise fine crop, show
ing there was not as much damage by the
winter as was feared.
The Lynchburg Vugnian reports a
desperate affray at Green Hill between Col.
John Wimbish and his son John and man
named Booth, in which the latter suffered
serious injuries, his skull being fractured,
and it was believed he could not survive.
"A Paris (VaD correspondent fthe Al
exandria Gazette understands that Mr..
Henry Taylor, of Prince William county,
who was bitten by mad dog few days
ago, is now having the famous mad stone
applied to his wound. 1t is said that no
one who has had the stone applied to a
dog bite has ever had the hydrophobia.
The Lyehburg Fagia,an says: We
are glad to state that from our observation
along the lines of the Virginia and Tennes-
see and the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroads, we are prepared to give
a very favorable account of the growing
wheat crop. 1t looks green, fresh and lux
uriant ; and the quantity seems to be un.
usually large. Should nothing happen tc
cut it short Southwestern Virgins and
East Tennessee will produce very large
yields. "a e .5 81 y
Tho Charlottesville fntelligeaeer Of
Wednesday says: "Mr. Benjamin Wood
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DEATH AT THE FIRST POLICE STA
TIoN.-1esterday afternoon, about four
o'clock, Officer Allen discovered a colored
boy, about eighteen years of age, sitting
near Main and Twentieth streets. Upon
questioning the boy, it was found that he
was sick. The officer took him to the
First police-station, and finding that he
grew worse, called in Dir. jackson, but too
late to do any good. The boy died about
ten O'Clock p. M. He told the officer that
he resided near Hollywood, and had been
sick for some time. Coroner Trent was called
upon to viewthe body, but deemed an inquest
unnecessary, as it was evident the young
man died of consumption. This is the
fourth case this year in which unknown
bodies have been summarily buried for
want of city dead house where bodies
could lie until identified by friends, and
the city thus saved the expense of burying
them. For the sake of humanity, if for
no other consideration, we hope the council
will turn their attention to this matter, and
provide the facilities so much needed by
the coroner. .-
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FROM NEW YORK.

Ne,o York, April 25.-The Irish-Ameri-
can Central Reform League have issued an
address in favor Of Horace Greeley for
President.
The reported return of the Polar expe-
dition steamer :" Polaris" is confirmed.
She was in leaking condition from col
lision with an ice snag.
The Geneva Arbitration-Opin,on of III. Lon.
sps don Times"
Neac York, April 24.--The London Times
of the 18th instant, in its article relative to
the presentation, with the protest, of the
British counter case, said:
What nation would ever again permit
difficulty with another country to be refer
red to friendly Judgment, if it were once
allowed that the mere fact of arbitration
having been agreed upon gave the arbitra-
tors jurisdiction and authority to decide
upon everything which either litigant might
insist on bringing before them.
The counter case itself should not enter
into any argument as to the admissibility
of the consequential claims. It should
treat them as mere nullity, to be ex-
plunged or otherwise removed from the
case before the next stage is reached.
We shall thus have done all that can be re-
quired Of us, leaving to the other side the
responsibility of deciding whether the arbi-
tration is to proceed or to become abortiye.
1t is through the inclusion by their
| draughtsmen Of claims we never referred
to arbitration, that the difficulty has arisen,
and if tho difficulty is to be removed ii
must bc by retracting the false step which
has been provoked.
Obituary.
Neto York, April 25.- -Ex-Goy. Foot, oi
/ New JERSEY, is dead
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FREE DISCUSSION.



~ ms hS'ao'~ ae o'",e 'oar"~' -,
peg iease 10 call the attention OF the
people OF Rlchmona 70 what IS being done
10 the New England states to encourage
new inauulacturihg enterprises:
PORTLAND, ME-, MANUFACTURES.
"The city of Portland. Me-. exempts an
proved manufactures from municipal taxa
zion for ten years, For particulars. circu-
lars. &c. address w. w. Thomas. ,Jr.
Secretary Board Of Manufactures. Port,
land. Me.
nWiscassat Ne hos voted e. axor,n,
from atoyst;n,, far . ne,;od ~ tan waar,
manufs ctnr;nr and refin;ng and npr;sv;n1,
estahl;ahn,e ant. rhan t,a a,nonnt af oaI;,a17
ayosads 90 non ~ 8 - y
s y1,ooe.
"hAr BETHEL, BETHEL, MAINE, 10 DOING.
Bethel sets an example to our down
East friends, which we shall look to see
followed by those cities and towns whose
enterprising citizens are cogitating on the
question Of encouraging manufactures
Bethel is decidedly on the right track. AT
town meeting held in Bethel on Satur-
day, the. Both ult., the sum of twelve thou
sand dollars was raised to be expended in
erecting a building, 1bA feet long and 80
feet wide, and four stores high, to
be furnished with an engine and steam
heating apparatus. and the selectmen OF the
aown were authorized to lease the same to
any responsible party who would take the
same free OF rent and taxes for ten years
ana agree TO carry on the poot and shoe
business for that length OF time; and as
soon as any such party accepts the propo,-
slt,on made by the town as above, work
Will be commenced on the building, and If
commenced immediately, could be COM
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I RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.

Senator Johnston has introduced an
amendment 10 the River and Harbor bill,
appropriating $4,000 to improve Accotink
creek, in Fairfax county. The Accotink
opens into the Potomac just below the
White House point, and is the natural
outlet of an important trade. An enter
prising colony Of Northern farmers are
located there, and they would be greatly
benefited by this improvement.
He has also recommended $4,000 for
the improvement of Elizabeth river, and
100000 for the improvement of the ap-
proaches to Norfolk harbor.
These enterprises are all deserving the
favorable notice of Congress, and we hope
to see them literally provided for.
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WASHINGTON, April q, 1872.

WASHINGTON, April "a, 1872.
To The Editor Of the State Journal: y
With much satisfaction have Just read
in the WEEKLY STATE JOURNAL, your
resolutions offered and passed in the Vir-
ginia State Convention particularly the
following: ss5
"Resolped, That we are in favor Of an
amendment to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States providing for the election of
President, Vice-President, and Senator'S,
directly by the people, and, so far'as pos
sible, for such direct election of all other
public officers. p s
'Resolred, That the National domain is
the common heritage of all the people, and
should be sacredly guarded from specula-
ton and monopoly /; sold only for home
steads to actual settlers in small quantities,
and the proceeds applied to education.
"Resolved, That this Convention earn
estly recommends the establishment of q
free National University IN the city Of
Washington, to utilize the immense educa-
tional material now collected there ; such
University to be supported from the pro-
ceeds of sales of the public lands" IS,
Years ago l advocated in the newspapers
in western New Yorl, the plan of having
the national executive elected directly by
the people, without the intervention of
electors also, the disposal Of the public
lands to actual settlers only, and in limited
quantities, under free homestead laws, and
the entire discontinuance of the sale to
spectators. We already have the latter,
in part-that is, free lands as homesteads
to actual occupants. Now, let the good
work bo completed, by entirely ceasing to
grant lands to monopolies, and cease selling
to speculators, and great good will be se-
cured to all the people, and greater safety
secured TO Republican institutions and gov
ernment.
Let us have postmasters, revenue officers,
and all other local officers elected by the
people in the community where their duties
are to be performed, whereby the officials
will be accountable to their constituents,
which will ensure greater accommodation
and fidelity.
And let the people vote directly for Presi-
dent, &C., as they do for Congressmen and
Governors and we shall secure fairer
expression Of the peoples will, with a
choice Of the majority of the voters. BY
this mode, there will be no juggling the
voters out of their real choice by electoral
colleges, as has heretofore been the case,
more than once. Push these measures to
triumph. and you will be entitled to the
thanks and plaudits Of a free people ever
after its accomplishment. GENEsEE.
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MIR. THOMAS A. SCOTT, of the Penn
sylvania Road, who has agreed to take
charge of the Texas Pacific enterprise,
from Marshall, Texas, to San Diego, on
the California coast, has succeeded in pass
ing through the United States Senate an
amendment to the charter of the road to
facilitate the negotiation Of its mortgages.
If the bill should pass the House, tho
work, it is understood, will be Immediately
entered upon, as the great Pacific auxiliary
to the Southern connections of the Penn
sylvania interest. Its Southwestern rela-
tions will be with st. Louis and Iron
Mountain and Cairo and Fulton line, from
st. Louis to the Arkansas State boundary,
and with the Memphis and Little Rock and
Little Rock and Fort Smith roads.
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ouTLAWRY IN MISSOURI
MARYLAND REPUBLICANS ALL RIGHT
FROM WASHINGTON.


Charles Francis Adams Rcnudin,ed nv neus
cratic Congressmen.
Washington, April 24.-Referring to the
dispatch in the newspapers, that August
Belmont was at Cincinnati urging the nom
lnatlon oi Gharies franc!s Adams as can
u"ia.e Ior Ireslueht, oeiore tne convention
70 asselnoie there next week, ana giving
assurances that ne Mouio receive the DEM
ocra.c support, lion. fefnsIao Wooo,
Sanntna 1n VI ,iie JIM eauols VI Denucratic
.na.o:a e anu hHpiesenta.Ives, - autnority
lor saying tnat tnere are no democrats IN
= Go"sless ~ iafor VI Aoauis ana tnst ID
ms op,,lion II - quite certain the Demo-
a.I o.S ,.a:I a;,l. s Cohsensloii "Gulu Io'nate nat
"o.nci SILLY: ''oAe'n Aoa'iis ID oiioseh al Sih-
'Ni,a'i'
Inc nem0crane National Convention.
Washington, April 24.-Although the
time and place Tor holding the Democratic
National Convention are not formally
fixed, it is understood that the 4th of July
will be the time and st. Louis the place.
Refundins of Gotten Tax.
Washington, April 24.-Herschel V.
johnson and +. p. Stanton argued before
the subcommittee of Ways and Means to-
day, in favor of the bill referred to that
committee, refunding cotton tax. The.ar-
gument was upon the unconstitutionality of
the tax. The whole amount of tax col
lected is 75,0o0,0o0.
Congressional.
Vash;oo,op Anr;I "a SrS any 1rn-
~, tho sany;o,r ,of r., p..s... NJ. mn,
man eongratnlatad the Sonata that co. A.
f;rst fins .;nca 1851 -oyor,r sa,t 80 ell
49,. At ee"0 was h,ieo'
Mr S,,m,,er ] nrasa,tad aa na,te na.;t; W aa.e;
hv ~ 600 nersops aa.;ust t.eaJn tssGoJ !;
co1nst;tnt;op - '' '''' IVY ~ ''e
The Jsfic;o,ou b;ll ,,.. a
motion 10 table Hfr Morr;ll,s .,nsndno,t
limitinp the i in,;sd;ct;on % Of tha Cnnrt ~
CLAIMS ragard;ne cantnrad ,nd ohandasa
property. was lost by a vote Of p5 to a5W
when President Colfax voted nav
Mr.. Alcorn proposed an amendment to
Mr.. Morrill's amendment, making It some.
what more generous to the neoplc of tbe
South. which was discussed tn ad;onrn-
ment.
HousE.--The bill giving lease of Goat
Island to the Central Pacific railroad for a
terminal depot, upon such terms as a COM
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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. +. Johnston, 91S 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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an old and esteemed citizen of this county,
died very suddenly at his home, near Ivy
depot, last Monday morning. At an early
hour he went on his farm and gave direc-
tons for the days work, returning he sat
down at the breakfast table and was in the
act of receiving from his granddaughter a
cup of coffee when bis head sank upon his
breast, and the heart ceased its beating.
Mr.. Wood was quite aged, perhaps, beyond
seventy years. And strange, all his
brothers died very much in this way.'
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GLEANINGs.

James Cunningham has been sentenced
to be hang at Clinton, Hickmon county,
Ky, on the 7th of June, for the murder of
Joseph Pendegrass, of Alabama, in order
to rob the victim Of a sum Of money he
was known to have in bis possession.
MIR. Braxton, OF Virginia, offered
bill yesterday in the House to allow the
Orange and Alexandria railroad to con-
struct depot and make connection in
the District of Columbia, passing over the
Long bridge and through a tunnel under
Capitol Hill, and connect with the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad. Es
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How TO DIRECT MAIL MATTER.--
Owing to the rapid increase of mail matter
and the establishment of many pew post
offices throughout the country, Postmaster
General Creswell finds it necessary, in or
der to facilitate the distribution and to se-
cure speedy transmission of the heavy
mails now passing, particularly over the
trunk lines of railroads, to request of the
public that in all cases the name of the
county as well as the postoffice and state, be
superscribed upon letters, circulars, news
papers and other matter to be forwarded
by mail.
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AUCTION SALES.

OHNS & SANDS, commissioners, will sell on
Wednesday, May l5th in front of the United
States Courthouse, in the city of Richmond,
commencing at IL O'Clock M, a tract of land
lying in the county OF Caroline.
=. AMBLER SMITH, assignee, will sell on
Wednesday, sth of May, on the premises, at
3 o'clock p. M, a valuable brick residence
located on Clay street, between Second and
Third, in the city of Richmond, Va.
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Me- BY BENEDICT,

FACTOR AND MERoHAEpIsE BRoKgn .,.
The people came down in crowd, to the place,
Where the groceries were selling, by can and BY
case;
And the ru.h of the buyers, like waves OF the
Game up to the place where these groceries be.
We buy Teas, Cof'ees and Sugars from the
FIRGIaIA IRA AND CoFFaR COMPANY, corner Of
Eighth and Main streets, and save from 25 to 80
per cent
For the leaves of the tea shrub, both the black
and the green, r
The people with greenbacks In hand, crowded in !;
For the rich Java coffee, both fragrant and
brown,
The buyers came in from all parts of the town.
For strictly Pure Ground Spices, English Mus
tards and Pickles. and Vinegar go to the yIR-
GINA TEA AND COFFEE CoNpAsY's store
For the spirit of cash has his homo in that store
And the people will buy on 10 credit no more,
For they know very well that the best way to
buy .u. -. r.s.. .... ..-.# r.. psi
Is for cash, cash prices not near SO high
The world uses two hundred and fifty million
pounds OF Tea, and eight hundred million pounds
of Coffee yearly. China furnishes nearly all the
Tea, and Brazil two-thirds of the Coffee. Old
Virginia is bound to have her share, and the
VIRGINIA TEA AND CoPPEB CONTAIN, corner
Eighth and Main streets, will supply the de-
mand. 80
If You would be healthy, beware of the water,
Each person who drinks it is marked for the
slaughter; a
In milk, or in punches, some water is good,
(And it may be useful for cooking our food
But water at present, is sure to Ksrflummix,
All persons who take It inside of their stomaeIs.
All those who desire health without fail,
Should drink WIN. EUKKR's bottled PORTER AND
ALE, At 80 Main Street.
ag- fashions FOR THE NEW YEAR.
--latest styles of BuTrRRIcx's Patterns Just re-
oeived at the Office of the Howe Sewing Machine
s2s Main street. Also, Metropolitan for April
J. +. McKRTNpY, Agent
DE The Legislature has adjourned, but
w. A. Wyatt, who has been engaged in the
business OF HOUSE AND SIaS PAINTING for the
past twenty years, and has associated with him
Nh. A. G. EVANS, the late esAISRR rok TIE
TRADE are still at To4 GRACE SrRRpT, where they
will he pleased to receive orders for work in their
line, promising entire satisfaction in every re-
spoct. .s