The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-23
CLEANlNCS.

line potatoe dlsease has appeared IN
England.
The steamer Queen, which Piled be-
tween Eastport and Calais was burned yes
terday. Loss, $4,000.
congressman 4. ID. Peck, of the
Toledo, (Ohio) district, declines a nomina-
ton for reelection.
Hon. A. II. Cotton has been nominated
for reelection to Congress by the Republic
cans of the I'd district of Iowa.
Senator Brownlow says: Select Greeley
and Brown, and we are placed back where
we were in 1861, when the traitors fired
upon Sumter"
Five thousand Swiss attended the festi.
val at jones' woods. There was music,
dancing, and dramatic performances. The
festival continues to-day.
Vance spoke at Newbern, N. g., re-
Gently. The same night the Colored Epis-
copal Church was fired and burned to the
ground, and With several tenement houses
occupied by colored people.
Carl Schurz delivered a very lengthy
address to the very liberal Democracy in
st. Louis last night. He repeated all the
stale and ott-refuted charges against Gen.
Grant and other members of the Admins
tration.
"A letter from the Eastern Shore Of
Virginia says: There are several promi-
nent influential! Democrats in this section
who will vote for General Grant. Greeley
will not get as many votes as a regular Dem
ocrat would.o
-Gratz Brown, Senator Carl Schurz and
Trumbull, an2 eX-Senators Hendricks and
| Rnpk nlnur 1ra nnnppt,aa1 fn c,a,ly - H.
Ohio A~malgamation Mass Convention at
Columbus, July 81. Republicans will
hope that Gratz Brown at least will be
there.
-Gratz Brown will keep away from the
seashore if he knows which side of his
watermelon is buttered. The soft-shell
crab is a mocker, and cherries are raging.
Ii Gratz wants to know what the wild
waves are saying he can read the papers,
Missouri Democrat.
Secretary Delano, Commissioner Ba-
ker, and General Abbott, of North CARROLL
ma, left Washington city last evening for
Raleigh, N. G., where a grand Grant and
Wilson mass meeting will be held to-mor-
row, at which all Of the above and numbers
of others will deliver addresses on the
political issues of the State.
The New York Tribune admits that
''there are two facts relating to the Gov
eminent finances which no sensible person
will attempt to deny: 1. The receipts
have exceeded the expenditures and q.
The taxes have been more productive since
1868 than they were previous to that year.
This condition of things is certainly very
gratifying"
Columbus, Ohio, is now with, u: a
Democratic paper, the Statesman having
been merged into the Daily Dispatch, and
viii be published under the latter name,
and will be independent in politics. There
Is not much use for u Democratic paper at
the capital Of the Buckeye State, vet there
is some talk Of supplying the place Of the
Statesman.
The Washington Chronicle of this
morning says: Supervisor Presbrey has
advices from southwest Virginia that the
prospects of the Republican party were
never brighter, and that many of the prom
inent Democratic Conservatives are out
spoken in their preference for General
Grant and repudiate the denominations of
Cincinnati and Baltimore"
Agent Adams, of the Los Pinos Indi-
an Agency in Colorado, reports under date
of July 2, that the rumors that the Ute
Indians are preparing for hostilities, are
without any foundation whatever. The
Utes are perfectly quiet, and the number
at the agency are steadily increasing at the
rate Of ten lodges per day. -
"A Kansas editor, when he heard of
Greeley's nomination, very sensibly gave
up his paper, got married, and went to
work in his father-in-law's saw mill. He
says he thinks he will have more to do next
winter, in writing up just how badly Gree
ley has been beaten, and then intends to re-
sumo the publication of the paper.