Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-06-30

E3-The original secession ordinance of Vir-
glnia is now IN possession of Sergeant A. S.
Twitchell, 9TH Maine Battery, who bought it of
rebel officer with bread and butter. Henry
a. Wise and Jubal Early are among the forty.
three signers TO the document.
s@The preparations for the Waterloo Festi.
val in Holland are making great progress At
Leyden, where there is a hospital for military
lnvalids, upwards of twelve hundred veterans
are 10 be entertained at a grand collation.. at
which each is 10 be presented with Waterloo
medal
~The Virginia and Tennessee road will be
opened by the 18th Of July from Lynchburg to
Bristol
~ Rebel officer at St. Louis says that
Trusten Polk has gone to Cuba, that Waldo
r. Johnson and Thos. G.. Johnson, We're in
Virginia a short time ago, and that Monroe M
Parsons has gone 10 Brazil
~A Petersburg, Va, paper complains that
the Southern prisoners are treated better in
passing through the North than they are when
they come through the city around which some
% them fought for twelve long months.
@The Quebec correspondent of the Toronto
Globe writes that operations to erect fortifica-
tions at Quebec are TO be pushed forward At
Point Levi four FORTS each TO hold 5000 men,
and bitches several miles long, are to be made
~Last week, two carsoes of sugar were
handed al ST. Louis direct from Cuba. The
duty, fifty lone thousand dollars, was paid in
gold,
SThe Attorney General of Louisiana, on
behalf Of the State, has instituted suit against
=.
SO, and has sequestrated a large amount of cot.
ton belonging 10 the bank. &c secure the paw
plent Of the debt.
hIGenerai Mcclellan was at Milan at last
reports
sPThe Chicago fair people gave Mrs Gen.
eral Grant a beautiful $500 saddle cloth.
bsTIt is thought that 1,0OO bales viii cover
the amount of cotton in the Red river country.
R-The Russian army I'm Central Asia has
e1perien ced a severe defeat, involving q loss of
four thousand men.
HFThe Irish papers report there is no abate-
nlent In the exodus, and that Cork as crowded
with men, women and children, determined on
a voyage across the Atlantic
s%The Chicago Sanitary Fair has bagged
100000
H%A hundred and fifty thousand copies of a
French biography Of Mr.. Lincoln have been sold
in Paris.
~Over 10000 baskets of strawberries are
sent from New Jersey TO New York daily.
The Duke de Morny's picture sale brought
l,'OO,OCo francs in Paris.
The infant son Of the Prince of Wales is
20 ne cnrlstened Albert Christian Emmanuel
Christian. 0 Va Ilhce
...s,;. ans cotton and tobacco crops along the
nSi1;npp are reported 10 be in a promising
~The English cbanns, -
experiments with s>ference 10 ,b pisse Tying
Of fuel tue expenditure
grNorthern capitalis~
SpSff
eastern terminus of the York RsSoint, Va the
gritty thousand guns will be. ieaiiroad'
week from the Springfield arsenafpped next
lumbus (O.) arsenal for storage. the Co.
svNew York city is worth about 700 M.
of dollars. II would take the valne of four spns
cities 10 pay the expenses Of the war. FL
~At the last sale of army horses in New
York, animals which had cost the government
sl75 each went for S75 to $50.
~The Queen Of Madagascar has Decline
10 answer the despatch Of the French Govern
naent claiming compensation for the dissolu
ton Of the Madagascar Company.
~Henry X. hidden, an Englishman b,
birth and paroled rebel soldier, who has bee
working on farm, four miles west OF Decatur
Georgia, SIS hired hand for the past montt
has fallen heir to estates in Yorkshire Eng
land valued AZ $4,000.
~General Gilmore has recently secure
much Of the private and public correspondence
Of the rebel General Beauregard. 1t is omit
extensive, and the papers cover nearly the en-
cV epys.ieD OF ne REBELLION.