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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A GREENBAcK conference met on the 10Th
Arnold for Governor and a State ticket.
The feeling of the gathering was said to be
strong against General Butler.
THE following was announced on the
10th as the official vote for Congressman in
the Sixth Iowa District to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of NJ. E. Cults. Cook,
Fusionist, 14,s6S; Stiles, Republican, a.
634; Cooks majority, 234.
THE remains of a large number of Con-
federate soldiers were disinterred on the
10th at Arlington National Cemetery, near
Washington, and were escorted to Raleigh
by military companies of Virginia.
EDWARD HUNTER, a native of Pennsyl-
vania, who was head Bishop of the Nor
mon Church, died at Salt Lake a few even
ings ago, aged ninety years.
TALKING to a friend in Washington on
the 10Th about the recent decision of the SUI
preme Court in the Civil Rights cases, Fred
Douglass declared that the decision had set
the colored people back twenty years in
their struggle, and that it remanded them
substantially to the condition they were in
at the close of the war.
The Superior Court at Pittsfield, Mass,
decided recently that a common victualer
at Great Darlington, licensed to sell liquor,
was guilty of keeping q public bar. An
appeal was taken to the Supreme Court,
which on the 10th sustained the decision.
Under this decision it was said every hotel
bar in Massachusetts, could be closed.
The international Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers commenced it's TWEEN
tieth annual session at Buffalo, N. Y, on
the 18th.
THE sixteenth annual reunion of the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee COM
menced at Cleveland, o., on the 18th. Cen
eral Sherman and other distinguished per-
sons were in attendance.
The bill granting women the rights of
suffrage passed the House of the Washing
ton Territory Legislature on the 18th, by a
vote of IA to 70.
Mrs. BRIDGET FINEGAN died in New York
City on the 18th at the age of 107 years.
She was born in County Tyrone, Ireland,
and came to this country over thirty years
ago.
The eleventh annual Congress of the AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Women
began in Chicago on the 18th with an adj
dress by the President, Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe.
OFFICIAL returns of the 18th from the re-
cent Iowa election gave Sherman, Repub-
lican, a majority over Kline, Democrat,
for Governor, Of 25,127. The Legislature
was given as follows Senate, Republicans,
Al; Democrats, 8. House, Republicans, so;
Democrats, 80; Greenbackers, 6; Inde-
pendent, 1.
The Colored State Convention of Illi-
nois, in session at Springfield on the 18th,
adopted a memorial containing the senti-
ment that deeds to lands and commercial
paper must be the Civil Rights bills of the
future. The resolutions declared that the
Republican party welcomed the negro to
the ballot-box only.
THE First Baptist Church of Chicago eel
ebrated on the 18th it's fiftieth anniversary.
The African Methodist Episcopal
] Church, in session on the 18th at Denver,
COL, denounced in the strongest terms the
recent il-Rights decision of the Supreme
Court.
The Society of the Army of the Tennes-
see at the reunion in Cleveland on the 18th
elected General w. T. Sherman President,
General Grant orator, and selected Lake
Minnetonka, Mimi, as the place to hold the
next reunion.
WASHINGTON advices of the 18th say that
in several cities throughout the country
the colored citizens had called indigna-
ton meetings to denounce the Civil-Rights
decision.
The Garfield Association of Cleveland
invites the artists of all nations to furnish
designs for a granite monument in Lake
View Cemetery, to cost $150,00O.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and the member Of
the Cabinet received Lord Chief-Justice
Coleridge, of London, on the evening of
the 18th at the residence of Secretary
~Frelinghuysen, in Washington.
OFFICIAL returns reported on the 18th
from the recent Ohio election gave the to-
tai vote in the State at 700, 900, n made
Hoadly's plurality for Governor over For
aker 1857, a majority over all of about
1900. The Greenback vote was. $3.50. The
majority against the P%rohibitory Amend
ment was $4,000.
GENERAL j. B. STEEDMAN died of pneu-
monia at Toledo, O., on the 18th, aged sixty
six years. He was made a Major-Gen-
eral for bravery at ~Chickamauga. OF late
he had been Chief-of-Police at Toledo.
In the case of Loren B.. Sessions, at Al
bany, N. Y, charged with bribery in the
New York Senatorial contest in 1851, the
jury on the 18th, after but a short time de-
voted to elaboration, returned a verdict
acquitting him of the charge.
Mr.. AND MRS. WILLIAM H. STARR, of New
London, Conn, and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
H. Starr, of Groton, Conn.,, celebrated their
golden weddings on the 18th. Fifty years
ago William H. Starr and his betrothed at
tended the wedding Of Charles H. Starr,
but did not intend to be united on that &C.
casion. The fever proved contagious, and
the double wedding was the result.
:. M. LANGsToN (colored), Minister to
Hayti, in a lecture at Washington on the