Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-12

issue in his case on amnesty proclamation
relieving him from the pains and penalties
usually inflicted upon landsmen ''who go down
to the sea in great ships" Yours,
ALI. SORTS oF F1RAGRApHs.
Il recent proclamation by Maximilian virt,,-
ally establishes slavery in Mexico.
The military department of New Mexico has
been abolished.
Gen. Grant has returned to Washington.
The receipts of the Indiana State Fair are
nearly $l4, 600.
General Pope has decided to make Milwau-
kee MS home after he leaves the service.
The late rebel General Imboden is in Wash
lngton, wanting to be pardoned.
Ot Illinois troops there are in the service Is,
e4o infantry and 8, $40 cavalry.
The colored Odd Fellows held big cele.
bration In Baltimore last week.
1t is estimated that there were 80, 900 people
present at the Indiana State Fair
Three members of the Cabinet are absent
from Washington
The Mexican General Sillaga has badly de-
feated the French forces and captured the town
of Pavul.
The North Carolina Convention declared
= Ina' Ciie secession ordinance is and always has
| been null and void.
Ambassadors from Tunis are now in WASH
mgton. They will be the national guests.
The railroad stock excitement continues in
New ork. Cleveland and Pittsburg are the
strongest on the list.
The late rebel pape,s in Virginia are reoic-
ing ,ge, oyer the result e the late Connecticut
Col. Claner has been elected delegate to
Congress from New Mexico by l 800 majority.
steamer sailed from saa az; > and nd isco on the
30tn instant with Lip, Gaber ontreasurc for
| New York and $342, 900 for Enss;sai.ld.
The Kalamazoo horse fair las closed. The
great 81, 900 trot was won by Cooley, of Chi.
cago, in three straight heats.
Two large warehouses were recently burned
at Mobile, by which $500 bales of cotton
were destroyed.
A meeting Of 6,OOf freedmen was held at
Edgetield, Tennessee, on Thursday. Brgadier.
General Fisk made anfddress.
ernor OF Mississippi has been pardoned by
the President, rendering him eligible for his
Office.
Additional census returns received at
Springfield, fix the population of Henry county
at 24;S65; Peoria, 4l,979 Sangamon,
49, 975
Thirty-four counties of Illinois show a poD-
ulation of sol, 7S0, against 6lO, ,479 in 1860.
rShn
dali, which has just 385.
At the Indiana State Fair, Joseph McPher.
sou Of Chicago, made the best time with double
team-2:42; and with horse under saddle
2:42.
j The Chicago attorney Charles s. Cameron,
who was killed in an election fight (almost at
Memphis, month since, has presented his
credentials and qualified as member of the Ten
nessee Legislature. ~~r. .s-y....
The discharge of one of the steamboat burn
ers, now on trial at st. Louis on a writ of
ha6e0s corpus, was refused. 1t was also in
timated that martial law still existed in that
city.
General Pope has refused to recognize a
writ OF h06eds corpus issued in the case of a
man convicted by military commission at St.
Paul, and sentenced to be hung on the 10th
instant.
The conspirator, DR.. Mudd, recently made
an attempt TO escape from the Dry Tortugas, by
concealing himself in the coal bunkers of the
steamer 'Thos. Scott He was discovered,
however, and set at hard labor wheeling sand
The quartermaster of the boat has been ar
rested for aiding him to conceal himself
General Sherman is at Des Moines Iowa.
where he has two brothers
-Four men have have been arrested in Provi-
dence for passing counterfeit United States cur
rency.
The planters warehouse at Mobile was
burned last week, with 4, 900 bales of cotton.
Loss $500, 200.
The number of rations issued by the Gov
| ernment to refugees and freedmen in North
Carolina during the last month, was l4O 600.
Two physicians are on trial at Indianapolis
| one Tor committing an abortion and the other
! for violating little girl
Hon. ID. c. Smith, acting Governor of Idaho
| Territory, fell dead in the streets of Rocky Bal
a few days SINCE
=, Mr.. n z. Banks is proposed for Congress il
massachusetts, for the Lexington District va
cancy, and the Albany .Ioug7.0I mentions hi
name 1or the next speakership.
Carl Schurz is in ST. Louis 1t is reported
ne Is ABOUT to start an English radical paper il
that city, sufficient funds having been sub
scrlbed to make it financially secure.
We publish in to-day's TINES Il very interest
ing letter from. our valuable correspondent
EGYPTIAN !. also another chapter of Nose
Harrells Cairo as it Was
The Fenian Ball which came off Tuesda,
evening was great success. The Irish ladie
never do things by halves.
+, Our friend Hawes leaves for Chicago to-day
Goodbye, Johnny Schnol1er.
There was rather slim house at the Athe
neum on last night. Everybody is waiting t.
attend the Benefit of Miss Price this evening
The body of Ignaz Hacker, who was browne
Oft the wharf-boat, has been recovered
Our subscription list has nearly trebled sine
the commencement of the TINES as q mornin
paper, and is still increasing at the rate OF tft
to seventy-tve day.
| CAIRO MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Pursuant to a call the members of the Cair
Mercantile Library Association met at the
rooms last evening The President and Vic
President being absent DR.. Taggart was calle
to the Chair.
On motion of Mr.. Mum it was unan; ;mousl
resolved that the question of moving the room
of the Association be Neferrcd to the Board
Directors, and that q meeting of the Board fo
the consideration of the matter be called at q
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