Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-12-03

Hon. VIM. Walter Phelps, defeated by four
5th New Jersey district, has written Mr.. Cutler
\ letter congratulating him on his election.
MIR. Phelps will not contest the seat.
At the municipal elections in New Bedford
and Fitchburg, Mass, yesterday democratic
mayor was elected in the former and an inde-
pendent in the latter. W. B. T.. PiersOns (rep.)
was reelected mayor of Hoiyoke by 1SJ ma
jOIity, with republican council.
The New Hampshire prohibition state con-
yeEtiOn met at Concord yesterday. Resolutions
reattirDiDg their devotion to the c2use OF total
abs tnenCe and favOring speedy return 70
suecie payments were adopted. Nathaniel
White, of Concord, was nominated Tor governor,
a. David lie AID for railroad commissioners.
Congressional al nominations we're also made.
Hon. Alexander ii. Stephens has written a
letter 10 the Mobile Register defending bimSelf
fICm tie attacks of that Journal on acc1uu. of
bis uttrFanCe on the Louis ana question. Mr..
stephens holds that it was the Presidents duty
80 enforce Judge Drrels decree, but says tatr
the law under which DureH acted was, ia
respect to the legislature. Illegal. In respect -
the Arkansas question, Mr.. Stephens is decii-
edty OF opinion that Hon. NOlney N0ita3Te Smith
has 10 case whatever.
y meeting of the New Hampshire republican
state committee, held IN Concord TUESDAY eve
ming v as largely attended 10y leading repub'i-
cars iIOm all parts OF the state. II was dsCidEt
II fix the republican convention at a later date
than the democratic, thus reversing the order
of thiI gs. The state convention tor nominal az
governor ard railroad commissioner viii be
held in Concord on the 18th Of January. Re-
meEks were made by Senator Waileign aud
Cor gr6ssmen Small and Pike. Gen. HutcLius
spoke at sCme eDgth. He relieved the party
from all obligations 0. renominating him Zoe
governor, and recommended that the strongest
msn he nominated.
In reply 10 a request from prominent citizens
Senator Howe, of WscOusiH, has a written a
letter with respect to the approaching election
Of United States Senator from that state. he
assumes tn st the choice of the legislature will
fall VI n Carpenter or Wsshhurn, aud says both
are deservedly distinguished-the latter for the
Eolidity of bis coursels, aud the former for the
brilliahcy OF bis advocacy. He thinks no rlan
has done so much as Carpenter in the late can
VeSs 70 secure the party IN Wisconsin from the
defeat which surprised it year ago.
AT TBE CEIEF TRANSPORTATION COSvaE-
TIOE in Richmond, Va, yesterday. resolutions
were introduced: To recOmm,n Congress -
extend aid to the Texas Pacific railroad; to pro-
hibit combinations between competing lines of
transfer, from iBtiating their capital by ''Water-
ed stock" to create court of commercial jus
tice; u bN by law maximum rates for all rail-
road traffic crossing state lines: to ADOPT a na-
tOnal gauge of four feet eight and half inches,
and that II Cfier sufficient inducements for sll
trunk lines OF 200 mites and over - adopt this
railroad gsuge. At the night SESSION the COM
pittee Oh resolutions reported unfavOrablv on
nearly all the TeSOlutiOps which b al been clIn-
mitt6d 70 them. After some discussion their
report was recommitted. The convention d.
Cussed the four great water routes projected on
papeT-hetNeen the Nj. sssippi and the lakes.
the Ohio liver and the Chesapeake bay, the
Ter ne see and Georgia canal, and tue imLrOVe-
ment OF The MI slssippi-snd recommended
rhem ali 10 the attention Of Congress, with the
view Of obtaining appropriations for their con-
stTuctiOp. An effort is making 20 have the con-
ventiOn memOrIaliZe Congress 20 enact a na-
tonal railroad Iaw establishing maximum rates
Of fare and freight, and preventing monOp0iies.
STRIKE NOTES.-The STRIKE Of Iongshorsmen
has ter minated in Jersey City. The strikers
have accepted the offer Of the CUuard line to
pay three dollars per day and fOTty-fve cents
per hour for OveTWOrk, but tue men mus. enroll
themselves as EOn-sOCiety men.
The lOpgShoremen OF HObOken persist in their
strke. They hang around the steamer docks
and have assaulted and beaten several of the
lew men working there. Orders were issued -
the police 70 keep the streets clear, but the
strikers paid 10 attention 70 them. SO at ten
O'Clock last night 8 police force OF twenty-five
men went To the docks OF the Hamburg and
Bremen steamers and arrested sixteen strikers
who were locked up for the night.
] he Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad yesterday
paid The claims of the stIiking empiovas a.
Harrington, w. Va, and discha rZed them Irom
the coinpany's employ. Trains ore running g.
usual,