Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-23
NEW YOR TX.

NEW YORK.
Promotion of an Ohio Colenel-New Or
der of Gen. Grant-A Good Order to
the @. M. partment-Mintster to
Mexico-Health of JEFF. Davis-Clem-
ent C.. C1ay-Arrest of a Revenue In
spector and Guilty BrOther-Depar-
ture of Gen. Grant for Washington
New York City Nominations -Fernan-
do Wood Declines the Proffered Honor
-Proposil1 ion to Organize National
Cotton Growing gAssociation-fsen. Lee
to Write History.
New YoRk, Nov. 22.-The Times special
says Col, Ward, late Colonel of the l7lh OHIO,
has been brevetted Brigadier General for mer-
itorious and gallant conduct at Chickamauga.
Gen. Grant has ordered that the transporta-
ton of posts garrisoned by one company be re-
duced to one four mule wagon
Officers of the Quartermaster's Department
have been ordered to make a special report OF
all the military cemeteries known to them, and
means recommended to preserve nterments
! from being desecrated.
The Tribunes special says: A letter from
an Alabama Postmaster says that Union men
are rigidly excluded from the reconstruction OF
commercial and official positions.
The Worlds special says that Gen. Logan
will decline the mission to Mexico. Tt is be-
lieved that new appointment will be made
before the meeting of Congress.
Dr. Crasaw from Fortress Monroe, arrived
this morning. He reports JEFF. Davis in feeble
health and serene mind. Nothing is known at
Fortress Monroe regarding his trial.
Chief Justice Chase's interview with the
President yesterday, related almost wholly to it.
The supposed object of the concentration OF
the military force in the vicinity Of San Antonio.
Texas, is for the purpose of looking after the
French troops.
Efforts to secure the parole of Clement c.
| CLAW are unsuccessful. Several personal ap-
| peals have been made for him by Mrs. Clay.
Great stress is laid upon the fact that Clay vol
UNFAIRLY surrendered himself on hearing he was
charged with completely in the assassination OF
the President.
The Herald's dispatch says Revenue In
spector of Philadelphia and his brother, an as
sistant assessor of the same city, are charged
with fraud in not having returned more than
! one hundredth part of the tobacco manufac-
| tured by themselves.
Gen. Grant and party left for Washington on
the seven o'clock train last evening, in the ele-
CANT car President Lincoln last rode in at No
Iart Hall -,
Last night Fernando Wood was nominated
for Mayor, but declined. Mr.. John Hecker
was then nominated, and Richard O'Gorman
candidate for Corporation Counsel.
The lastfyEs ehQiss ior Mayor
\ is JohnxT.s Hoffman,
! The meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music last night in aid of the Southern people,
was well attended, Notwithstanding the lnclem-
ent weather. Addresses and appeals were
made by Gen. Fisk, Henry Ward Beecher, Dr.
| Bellows and others, and a letter Of sympathy
was read from Chief Justice Chase.
The New York Historical Society held its
| sixty-tirst anniversary in this city last night.
The Times special says: The Treasurer of
the United States, Gen. f. e. Spinner, las is
| sued supplement to the regulations Of the
semi annual returns and payment Of duties,
by the national banking associations He says
| the numerous errors made by recently organ
| lied banks in estimating the semi.anuual duty,
causes the supposition that the regulations re-
! spectng the statements forwarded by the
Treasurer are not read or understood by the
officers making the estimates. The method Of
making the statements contained IN the regula
| tions is legally correct and the books in the
Treasurer's office are so made as to admit of
their record by no other method. There must,
therefore, be no alterations of the printed por.
ton of the form by interlning, erasure or
| otherwise, or the statements will be returned
| to the banks for correction, until they are
I made to conform to the method contained in the
regulation of form.
The Herald Washington dispatch says it is
understood that Gen. Howard will demonstrate
in his report on the Freedmen's Bureau the
advisabilty of continuing its existence until
provisions are no longer needed by whites or
blacks.
Tho American and English capitalists talk OF
organizing national cotton growing company
in tie South. The English attempt to produce
cotton i'll India proves discouraging
To Semove apprehensions Of securing the
labor of freedmen, Mr.. Conway late of the
Freedmen's Bureau Of Louisiana, will visit
Liverpool shortly.
There is no doubt but that Il bill will pass
Congress providing that the heirs Of soldiers,
who died in rebel prisons, be privileged to col
lect commutaton of the government rations for
the time the deceased were prisoners of war.
New YORK, Nov. 22.-The Richmond Wing
states that Gen. Lee has intimated that he will
write history CT the campaigns Of Virginia.
There not dozen ladies in Richmond who
will refuse to sign petition for the release of
jeff. Davis.
Gen. G. Sanchez Ashoa who recently ar
rived in this city from Mexico with an especial
Government, left for Washington last night in