The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-05
NEWS ITEMS,

q little rising As 900 votes, and Georgia .
about the same number. a
Humphrey Marshall is in New Orleans b
where he intends to settle down to the 4
practice of law. E
Gov. Joseph f. Brown is proposed Tor :
reelection to the Office of governor OF ;
Georgia.
AppRcpalArE-Tfe Providence Bulle.
tin calls and exceedingly doubtful story a
Philadel phiad.
President job nson has appointed the
lst Thursday in December as a day OF
general Thanksgiving and prayer.
The quartermaster's department has
realized between Sc, 900, 600 and s,0Oo'o0o
from the sale of useless arms and appur'
tenarces.
Advices from Mexico are to the effec'
that Cortinas keeps Matamoras so CLOSELY |
besieged that no one dares to stir beyond
the Notifications.
Emerson Etheridge has been acquitted
of the charges preferred against him be
fore lhe military commission at Coium-
bus, KY.
Stand from under. Another SLEEVE
CANNON fund. The bonds of the Irish
Republic will be in the market in two
weeks They are to draw six per cent
interest, aud redeemable six months at
ter the recognition of the Republic.
A new carpet is being put down in the
representatives hall at the national cap
itol 1t.measurcs Is, 200 yards, and cost
So per yard 500. 1t has green ground
with orange colored figures.
The President has not yet acted in the
Wlrz matter, but his counsel think there
is no doubt but that he has been sen
fenced to be hung. Strong efforts are be
ing made to have his sentence commu-
ted 10 Imprisonment for life.
Gov. Pierpont publishes card in the
New York papers denying statement
that he had uttered disloyal sentiments
IN the Office of Freeman Clark, and was
ordered to leave therefor. He further
more says that Clarke knew the story t.
be false, and yet procured its publlca
ton.
The trot,ing match between stallion
Geo. Wilkes and Commodore Vanderbilt
for s. 900, mile heats best three in five
in harness, was won 10y the former, i
three straight heats. Time, 2:30l, 2:2t
2.273.
The steamer Harsa, from Bremen, re
ports that on Oct. l6, she fell in with tn
British ship Urgent, from Sunderland fc
Quebec, sinking, took off the crew an
brought them here.
The Cleveland Herald gives, as an ey
dence of the rapid growth of that cit.
that the total number of new churche
stores, dwellings and manufacturing e
tabishments erected since January
1865, including those commenced at tn
time and not completed, as taken by Il
letter carriers, is six hundred and thirt
six.
Dispatches from Washington indica
that vigorous effort will be made to
duce Congress to authorize an addition
issue of two hundred millions of Nation
Bank currency, and to defeat Sscreta
McCullocll's policy of contraction. Po
erful influences will be brought to be
in favor Of this scheme to promote
hation.
The Montgomery Mail publishes a C
from FIVE planters for convention
the planters of Alabama to be he'd,
the city of Montgomery, on the 25th {
of November next, to consider of q
devise measures promotive of the al
cultural interests of the State. The
says
All your great interests-selfsh
manitarian, and poli,ico economical
upon you to make one united effort
preserve and psrpetuate your agricultr
prosperity.
The Georgia State convention conve
on Wednesday. a message was recei
from Gov. johnson, in which he sta
that the debt of the State was S20,8
525, of which only S2,G6T,750 was
tracted before the war. He said
debt contracted before the war was
honorable one, but there was no l.
or moral Obligation to pay the OF
He recommended re-districting the S
for members of Congress, and a cha
in the mode of representation to
general assembly.
Mr.. Sam c. Reid, some years since
attache of the New York Herald,
with the New Orleans Picayune,
during the rebellion a correspondent
Mobile and Montgomery papers, il
route to resume his old position on
Picayune. AS correspondent, he "
under the nom de pllme of Ora" an'
casionally of 300" He was rece
united in marriage to Miss Josep
Roman, daughter of the late UT
States minister to Naples.