The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Lcttcr from r,eterahnr.,g.
Correspondence OF The Richn,ead dispatch.

correspondence Oh the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PgTRRsBURG. July 10, 1872
The organization last night OF the Greeley
and Brown Central Club Of Petersburg was
the OCCASION of one OF the largest and most
enthusiastic political meetings eyer assembled
in the city. So numerous was the crowd
collected in response to the advertised call
that 1t was found necessary after the report
Of the committee was read and adopted to
adjourn from the spacious Council chamber,
in which it had first gathered, to the green
i'm front of the court-iiou>c. The Committee
on Organization and Permanent Officers,
through its chairman, Captain j. II. Chain
bcrlync. made 4 report embodying the plan
of formation and the following officers of the
Club:
For idcnt.-Charlcs +. Collier
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ward, II. b. Par
kcr; Second Ward, Colonel }. i. Mnetrcc
Third Ward. Colonel w. +. Cameron
Fourth Ward. rhomE,> Slanks Fifth Ward,
Il. II. Jones; Sixth Ward. Robert Martin.
Trcas,lrcr--J. \. Johnston.
Sccrctary.--K. i. Barham.
Erccufire ComnaiHcc.--First Ward J. =.
Rauston, James Il. Young. Second Ward :
James :. Gillian. Joseph II. Cooper. Third
Ward: i. $. Gregory, Il. l.. III. Young.
Fourth Ward: j. H. GhainbcrIaync, w. Il.
johnson. Fifth " ard: J. I. Ford, c. W.
Spicrr. Sixth Ward: +. Il. Balm, G.. V.
Scott.
The report was unanimously adopted, and
after stirring add by Hon. Charles +.
Collier, the chairman, Ex-Governor +. II.
Stocktllc of Texas, Major W. J.. G. Gregory,
Colonel Cameron, Captain Clmmbcrlaync,
and Colonel j. b. KawlSton 0ate OF the
United States arnly) the meeting adjourned
to meet OH next Thursday night. The occa-
sion WAS an entire success, and developed
the most earnest feeling among our people in
behalf of the nominees OF the Liberal Re-
publican and Democratic Conventions.
Colonel W. T.. Cameron has accepted an
invitation extended by. General ID. NJ. Bar
ringer, chairman OF the Dcmocratic-Con-
syryatiyc State Committee of North Carolina,
10 speak ut several points in the eastern sec
lion OF that State, and will depart on that
mission tomorrow night. Colonel Came
ron'> eloquent voice will he effectively heard
in that critical campaign from that day till
the issue is decided on the lSt Of August. |
learn ne will probably speak also during the
canvass at some points in Pennsylvania.
Tie following is Il statement Of the move
mcuts of cotton ut this port for the week
ending July 10Th, 1872: Rcccipts,G bales
same time last year, 80 bales; total since
Scptrlnbcr Isl. 1872, - .Gj3 bales; same time
last ycaT. 81 80 bales; exports, none; stock,
$50 bales. As the close of the cotton year
draws near, it is seen that the receipts will
fall some six or seven thousand bales below
the aggregate of the receipts for the pre-
votls year.
Yesterday evening about dark Jersey
wagon con taining Mr.. John Lyon. his wife
and three children. was whrlcd along Syca-
more street at mcak-ncck speed by run
away horse. and dl>lcd TO pieces by collision
with the lu up-poSt at the corner OF Syca-
more and Lombard streets. The escape OF
the occupants from death or mutilation was
almost Il mira rlc. Fortunately, tie injuries
incurred were, confined TO the abrasion of
Mrs. LYONS arm and the hrlliSing of aoMc
Of The rest of The party.
\ negro nancd Frank alias William
Spyurrr was detected this morning in IN at
tcm,t 10 steal the lead pipes out of the
d, .rrred I;ullingbrook Hotel, and being ar-
rested, was locked up in Jail. There were
arrompicrS. who have not Yet been arrested.
\ nero fellow with "Snakcs" on the
brain WAS arrested on The street to-day, flee
iuw his imaginary enemies, and locked up for
treatment.
Not quite 80 not to-day IL on yesterday,
when the mercury stood ut 81 degrees.
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