The Indianapolis daily herald. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1865-1868, 1865-11-30

Sold closed in New York yesterday a
Ifsy. -iE
-Juarez intends 70 establish HI. Government
~ Chihuahua.
Il sale q iron-clad gunboats took place Al
Ms'md City yesterday.
-Eaele Rock won the sweepstakes on Union
tourse, l. J., yesterday.
-Fx-Governor Aiken has been elected to
Congress from Charleston.
Libby Prison and Castle Thunder are 10 b
Transformed into storehouses.
The Tennessee legislature will adjourn
from December 10 70 Januarys.
There are only eleven pcrs0ns confined in
the Old Capital Prison at the present time
The question q an increase of the regular
army win bc prominent one before the next
Congress.
1t j. supposed that Governor Marvin will
- elected 20 the United states senate from
Florida.
The report that Governor Morton j.
charged with confidential mission 10 Europe
i denied.
"A battalion of regular troops arrived At
Richmond on Monday and viii be assigned 10
duty there.
1t i reported that Humphrey Marshall l.
negotiating for.the purchase of the National
IHfeIffgencer.
BY the sinking Of the Niagara. near IIeIe-
ma. 80 negro soldiers and deck hands and
lrcmen were drowned.
The report Is revived that the President
viii a Few days issue proclamation restor-
ing The writ ofhabeds corpus.
Secretary MeCulloch indorses the recon-
mendation Of the Comptroller 20 ,emove the
Currency Bureau 20 New York.
The Mississippi Legislature adopted slll
permitting negro testimony In all eases except
where whites only are interested.
General Mcjia has ordered the Matamoras
Raachero 70 stop publishing articles Insulting
% citizens :. the United states.
Governor Wclls' messagc was delivered To
the Louisiana Legislature, synopsis q which
viii b. found among our dispatches.
The Impressive rite Of confirmation was
yesterday conferred upon 100 persons In the
church oi -. Mary'-, New York by Archbishop
McClosky.
terrific explosion II gunpowder oc-
curred In gun store In Philadelphia ye-ter-
day, shattering the building and severely In.
juring two men.
by an arrival from Havana We learn that
considerable di.afIsction i manifested In Cuba
n the appointment Of General Lur.andl a.
Captain General.
OF ten thousand negroes brought down
Cepe Fear river in March last, two thousand
died Ia les than three months for want of med
ical Attendance.
-GOYernor Brownlow has excluded all UNI
registered votes in the Tennessee election.
which will give the radicals all the members
Of Congress from that State but one.
An entire family. consisting Of MIR. Daniel
Walrath, his wife, and daughter twelve
years Of age, were murdered i'm IIerkimer
county, New York, ON Monday night. Mr..
W. was shot through the head. Mrs w.'shead
mashed in, and the child- throat was
cut
The entire number Of Indians inhabiting
all parts Of our country amounts To about 49,
600. The estimated number in the uuexplored
Territories l. 5000; I'm Texas, 2l.iOO; Of the
tribes living in New Mexico, 9s.i30. in Cali
fornia, 5s,2Sl; in Oregon. 22,733. and in Utah
1880.
Considerable excitement was created in
Charleston when General Sicklcs assumed COM
mand Of the Department Of South Carolina. as
successor TO General Gilmore. the people there
thinking that il indicated the displcasure Of
the President nj their shortcomings In the way
of reconstruction.
"A fire In Mobile. on the 18th inst. de
stroyed eight house. aud stables. Loss $4,000 !
"A special dispatch states that Hon. Her
schel Y. Johnson adds the weight Of his opin-
ion 10 the belief that no Southern member will
be admitted TO Congress.
"A battle took place on the 18th inst, in
the Northern part Of Nevada, between Lieut.
Conner, with sixty California Volunteers and
ahowitzer. aad large band Of Indians who |
had fortified themselves IN Black Mountain. I
During the engagement one Of the volunteers
was killed and two wounded. while l20 of the I
Indians were killed. but few escaping. All |
their horses. arms and ammunition were cap
turcd.