Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-12-30
TELEGRAMS. Ac.

uli returns OF the election In Anne Aruu-
Gel county, Md, on Thursday, for State Sena-
tor. show that the Hon. George Wells, the can
didste OF the Union party, ia elec,ed This is
quite gain for the UnIonists of that county,
as II gives the Union party one more vote than
they have ever had In the Senate under the
new Constitution. Wells has for many years
been identified with the interest OF the State,
and has taken particular pride in the advance.
ment OF her works OF public Improvement He
served for several years in the State Senate
and was At one time President of that body
In the case of the pirate Georgia, demanded
by the United States Government, and heard
before the Toronto Assizes, Mr.. Mcdonald, the
sfganfederate agent, nakes-an affidavit that the
vessel was the property of the rebel govern
ment, and was designed for the raid on John
sons Island, and that the sale to Denison, the
present possessor, was mere blind Consul
Thornton hopes to recover her for the United
States Government Denison, who figures
prominently, in these transactions, is a major
in the Canadian service.
A serious riot took place in Springfield, III
on Christmas. About forty or fifty soldiers Of
the Sd Veteran Volunteers, Hancock's corps,
came up from Camp Butler to Springfield, and
after indulging In much bad whiskey, not
liking Ine place, proceeded to clean IL out A
bloody fight ensued between the soldiers, citi-
Zens, and police, which resulted in the killing
of one soldier and seriously wounding several
citizens and two policemen. The riot was
finally suppressed by the joint efforts of the
mp. The soldier killed was the ringleader of
the mob.
The Maryland State Colored convention met
in Baltimore yesterday, and passed resolutions
TO solicit aid to rebuild the seven coIored
churches burned in that State by rebels and
malicious persons. Resolutions were also
adopted advising the negroes to become
Vrtuous, industrious, and 10 educate their
children.
The Barings have taken two millions of the
five per cent. gold-b bearing bonds of Massa-
chusetts, at about ninety seven per cent. This
sum, ii is believed, will be sufficient to meet
the present Indebtedness of the State, and thus
do away with the necessity of issuing the re-
manning million and a half authorized by the
Legislature.
The reports from the South continue to show
that general good order prevailed, and that the
apprehensions of negro Instructions &C.
were mere pretences. At ClarksviIle, Tennes-
see, riot occurred, caused by a notorious
rebel guerrilla firing into crowd of negro
soldiers.
There is great ice flood in the west branch
of the Susquehanna, causing great damage 1t
is estimated that from sixty to seventy million
feet of saw logs valued at Sl0t0, CO., passed Will
sport during the last twenty -four hours
1t is the heaviest loss ever sustained by the
lumbermen in that section.
A letter from Gauaaloupe, dated November
25, states that the cholera has broken out there,
and is committing great ravages. At Bosse
Terrica, "a town of 5000 inhabitants, one hun
dred and seven deaths occurred on the 22d
Intelligence has been received from More
head City of the loss of the steamer Constitu-
ton, from Savannah to New York, with fiftv-
four souls on board. Ali were lost but fourteen
of the crew.
The Alooyey and Yellow river bridges on
the Georgia railroad, and the Chattahoochie
bridge on the same road, has been washed
away by heavy rains.
The Cincinnati Presbytery has dismissed in
disgrace the Rev. DIR. L. N. p. Thompson, of
the Second Presbyterian Church in that city,
for lieentious conduct
Geney9l ID. IL. HhI, late Of the Rebel army, is
adeiegdte to the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly,, now sitting at Macon, Georgia.
Mr.. Rowland has been appointed to MI Hon
George Browns place as President of the
Couneifi in the Canadian Government
Secretary Seward has received from Cover
nor Worth, of North Carolina, a dispatch an
nouncing that he has entered upon his duties.
The negroes in North Carolina are preparing
for grand celebration on the first of January,