Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-15

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Grant I'm the City---What Jeff. Davis
Union Meeting.
NEW YORK, Nov. l4-No additional cases
of cholera on board the steamer Atlantic.
The passengers complain much Of their de.
tention. A strict quarantine is being enforced
by the Commander.
Gen. Grant, family and staff are at the
Metropolitan Hotel in this city.
The Herald's Fortress Monroe letter of the
llth. says The Merrimac has been visited
and portion Of her machinery already taker.
| out; her hull has been raised and cleared off.
and her bottom is now being suspended by
chains.
1t is reported that jeff. Davis recently said
that Fenianism was bubble And of Wirz,
the government need not have gone far to
hang worse men.
An enthusiastic meeting was held to-day at
the Cooper Institute under the auspices of tho
American Union Committee, to organize the
social restoration Of The Union upon the basis
of freedom, industry, education and christian
morals. Senator Morgan presided. Addresses
and Dr. Thompson, President eff the Com.
mission, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Mai
Gen. Meade and Gen. Fisk. Letters from Sec
retary Seward, Gen. Grant and others were
read, expressing their entire sympaty with the
object of the committee
The W orld's special says: Documents ac-
companying the report OF the Secretary of the
Navy, in point, contain a full history of the
naval operations along the Southern coast
with maps, charts sc. The document will be
one of unusual interest. The Secretary's re.
port will be about the same length as last
years.
Estimates for the fiscal year of this Depart
ment is twenty-three millions of dollars. The
appropriations Of last year, which were very
large, will be absorbed by the close of this
fiscal year.
The Heralds Washington special says it is
understood that Hon. Preston King had re.
signed the position of Collector of the port of
New York. Who is to take his place is not
known.
Detatchments of the Veteran Reserve Corps
stationed in the District Of Columbia, were
mustered out to-day.
Gen. Logan will not accept the Japan Mis-
w. j. Coffee, of Indiana formerly in charge |
of the south eastern Indian Agency. is in |
Washington settling his accounts with the In |
dian Bureau.
The World special says that dispatches re.
celved from Gov. Holden indicate him elected |
by small majority
Large numbers Of pardon seekers are wait
ing for an audience with the President not
they have been repeatedly told
he could not be seen for couple Of DAYS
The Herald s Washington special SAYS Col
Brady, Quarternaster of Transportation at City
Point during its occupancy by our troops, was [
yesterday appointed as captain in the regular
army.
Gen. Baker admits error in the published |
date OF Mrs. Wirzs attempt to poison her hus-
band but asserts that the circumstances trans
pred ostensibly as set forth. He also notified
Gen, Holt of the affair within an hour after
its occurrence, and had previously informed
Col. Chapman that in his opinion she would |
poison him If she was not very carefully
The Herald's special says that Gen. Steele
has just returned from his command on the
Bio Grande, and had loug interview yester-
,erday with the President and Secretary of
War. He states that the military operations
along that line remain unchanged, and that our
army is simply one of observation. Probably
hey will shortly be withdrawn from that To-
cality.
A gentleman who called upon Gen. Grant,
demonstrated with him on the re-
aiming of so many general officers unemployed
Gen. Grant replied that he had several weeks
ago made out q list of officers to be mustered
put, but that they were hanging-fire in the
War Department.
Secretary Seward yesterday completed an
6iSpatPh RI |
A large number of volunteer naval officers
ire being mustered out. Forty three Assis-
ent Engineers were mustered out during Oc-
ober
New York, Nov 1.-THE Post says that
he surgeons who visited Sandy Hook, have
eported to the Government that two hundred
md fifty acres If ground be usel for the hos
)ital 1t is understood however, that in case
If any opposition from the New Jersey author
ties no other than military hospital be es-
ablished at the mouth of this harbor; such a
must, however, be benefit to the
.ity, as it would necessarily detain all cholera
patients, to protect the health Of the troops in
he fortihcatlons.
The Worlds Columbia correspondence Of
no 7th states that resolutions have been re-
ported from the committee oE Federal E1ia-
ions to the Legislature, TO the effect that South
Carolina having luiiy computed WIN the re-
luirements of the Amnesty Proclamation of
President johnson, and having emancipa.ed
ler slaves, is eEtited to the benefits of said
and acknowledging their position as
conquered people, and the acceptance of the
erns offered them. They ask for the with
travail of military rule, to which they say the
aith Of the government stands pledged. The
,eport says they have, with honest purpose and
entire loyalty of heart, given solemn pied ges to
lenceiorth seek their welfare i'll the Union.
The resolutions were not acted on that day, in
Of the message from Governor
Perry relative TO the question Of adopting the
Constitutional amendment abolshipg slavary.
In the closing dispatches t. the Pr 3sident
and Secretary Seward, the substance OF which
las already been published, the resolutions
would probably be adopted
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