The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Fine veins Of marble have been discoy-
cred in Pittsylvana county.
BY private advices we learn that the
work for Grant and Wilson goes bravely
on in Floyd county.
&c. B. Homson. recently appointed
sheriff of Clarke county, has resigned, and
the county is again without sheriff,
which is nuts for some people.
The indictments against eight mem
bers of the General Assembly for holding
Office in violation of the fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States, were dismissed by Judge Riyes at
Lynchburg on Tuesday, under the Presi-
dents amnesty proclamation.
Colonel John A. Hartman, of Stanton,
publishes the following card in the Tirgin-
ian Of Thursday A mean and contempti-
BILE lie appears in the Spectator of the 18th
inst. Aye, more than one In the first
place he says that there was not one-half a
dozen white Republicans at the Grant and
Wilson pole-rasing on Saturday last. |
assert upon my own responsibility that
there was more than twenty-five white Re-
publicans present on that occasion. Now
as to myself, personally, he says that | am
an applicant for the post-office of this city.
was an applicant, but the editor of the
Spectator lied and he knew it when he PEN
ned the article proclaiming me an applicant
for the Office. He did it knowing it to have
been wilful and malicious lie and forparty
purposes"
The editor of the Tidewater Inder has
perpetrated another little bit of frigidity.
He says if we will induce our Northern
friends to come to Virginia to utilize her
water power, to develope her mineral
wealth, to cultivate her lands, or to engage
in any enterprise intended to promote the
material prosperity of the State, he will
tolerate them but if they come here for
the purpose of teaching, whether in our
public schools or through the medium of
the press, on subjects pertaining to educa-
ton, morals OF politics, he has no use for
them. We are now certain that our friend
is preiudiced against not only the Yankee,
but the Northern people. We would
inform him that it is our purpose to use all
honorable means to induce good people to
come to Virginia from all quarters of the
Union and the world, and that they are as
free as he is to choose their field of labor.
We discountenance all attempts to make
section, politics, or religion tests for any
station in new Virginia.
Major Cecil's independent candidacy
for Congress in the Ninth Congressional
District has created grave apprehensions in
the minds Of the Greeleyites as to the cleo
ton of their regular nominee, Gen. Bowen.
And now ex-Gov. Fayctte McMullen, who
was an aspirant for the nomination, but
who is said to have pledged his support tc
Gen. Bowen, in case the latter should be
nominated, chafes at the restraint thus i'm
posed, and longs to enter the arena foI
Congress in opposition to both Cecil and
Bowen, and will probably do so. AS may
well be imagined, such an evcntin prospect
has greatly frightened the Greeleycats
They fear defeat in the contest with Col.
r. W. Hughes, the able and popular Re.
publican nominee, under the most favor
able and harmonious circumstances but
with two independent candidates or ever
one in the field, they know that defeat is
inevitable. If Major Cecil and ex-Gov.
| McMullen persist in asserting their just
| claims in the district, of course the Greeley
cats will soon find out what terribly bae
men they are and always have been.
They had corporation election ii
Berryville, Clarke county, on the 18th inst
| A correspondent informs US that the gross.
est violations of law were resorted to by
the Conservatives in order to carry tho
election, which they did by only thirty
votes for mayor, and the councilmen from
three to ten votes. The registering Officer
sat but one day to register. According t.
law he should have kept his books open OF
the day before the election in order that
persons who failed to register on the regll
lar day might do SO. This the officer, MIR
Lupton, refused to do, upon the plea tina
the recorder, A. W. Mcdonald, had order
ed him to register no more. On the ola,
preceding the election, twenty-elght citi
zens presented themselves to be registered
They were all Republicans. They wer
told the books would not be open to them
Later in the day. ]. 0. Crown, a Marylan'
carpet-bagger, and so-called Conservative
presented himself, and was immediatel.
registered and voted the next day. +. I
Marshall. another Conservative, did no
register on the regular day, but after tn
books were closed, his name was added t
| tho lict and that too uith0llt his renleSt