New-York daily tribune., 1865-09-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.


we're blown down. persons were mortally wounded py
aing timbers trees and fences Frustrated and an in
nense amount of damage done.
The Adams Express office was on "Wednesday
afternoon robbed of 81 coo in bank bills Yesterday
the notorious Charles Jones. alias Chauncey Johnson
WAS arrested on suspicion of being the thief lie is
also charged with having stolen from the banking
house Of August Belmont, on Thursday, s2oooO IN
United States 500 bonds An examination VIII take
place this morning. ;.
Mavor Gunther has returned to the Board OF
Supervisors without approval, resolution auditing
bill of l2l, 70 of the City Inspector for recording
births in this city, The rate charged for recording
each birth-ten cents-the Mayor thinks is too high.
He SAWS IL should not exceed the amount allowed Tor
the recording Of marriages-two cents
The ClarkesrWe (Texas) Standard says the
frontier is in an unpleasant state There is trouble
with the bushwackers who lately banged Capt Hay
den of Montague and with the Indians who have
taken horses in and around Decatur and killed Others
and who lately killed white boy near Prairie Point.
The Paymaster-General has issued circular
,ouoninc paymasters to guard carefully against at
eempts now extensively prevalent to pass forged dis
charged papers and he has issued such orders as VIII
,ae the attempts at fraud both upon soldiers and the
Government.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph says that there
hardlv anv complaint against the proceedings of the
military officers in the State interference with or
,pposton TO the civil appointments of Gov Hamilton
shose administration of affairs is giving universal
satisfaction.
San Antonio advices say that Gen. Merritt Is
tyey engae, in sending large detachments of cava
" to hunt down the Indians and jayhawkers, and
otherwise protect the frontier Gen. Custer VIII soon
ne ordered to Austin 10 engage in operations in that
quarter.
A circular issued from the headquarters OF the
Bureau of Freedom in New.Oreans on Monday says
shat whenever Judicial officers who may have freedmen
an trial show disposition act justly no interference
sill be allowed with them by the Bureau
Gov. Hamilton of Texas recently delivered
An important address which is everywhere regarded
Sery concatory in Its character as it looks to tn
oeang of old political wounds while it is still uncon
II promisingly Union in its sentiments
y Sandwich Island dates of the ID inst are re
eeived at San Francisco. No later news from u
pirate Shenandoah had reached the islands. which wd
regarded as favorable to the safety of the 40 vessels
the 0chotsk Sea-
Gen. A. j. Smith, who has been spending
few days in ST. Louis is understood TO have just CON
oleted his report of the Red River Expedition. 1t
said to be very severe certain coton-speculatin,
officers.
The President yesterday appointed Georg'
w. Chamberlain to be United States DistretAttornel
FOR the District of Colorado and Alexander Magrudel
United States Marshal for the Northern District o
Florida
The English tourists, now at Meadyille, Pa,
were honored with illumination and display of fire
works on Thursday evening. grand ball, later OF
The same evening terminated their festivities and the
visit.
The State Department has received dispatche:
from the American consul at Constantinoplc which
show that the cholera decreasing in Turkey but thai
1t has broken out afresh in Italy ard Barcelona.
The census returns gives Edgar County, ILL.,,
population of 22Ol; value manufactured products
s2O77O5 value of live stock Sl,792,322 wool, pounds
lsJ 76T; increase in population 25 per cent.
The population of Macon County, ILL.,, is
81 699; value of manufactured products. SlO7325O
ofye stock sl.9l5 s45; WOOL pounds 53,52l increase
Of population. nearly 20 per cent.
Among the passengers from Halifax, per the
steamer Asia for Liverpool, Sir Richard Graves
MacDonnel. who has been appointed British Consul at
Hong Kong.
The Hon. Daniel G. Burnett has arrived in
Eew.0rlesns from Texas Oh his way to Washington,
with large petition praying for the pardon Of Jeer
son Davis.
The Wiz Commission adjourned yesterday
until to-day without the examination Of any witnesses
on account of the illness Of Gen. Bragg one of the
number.
Gov. Wells OF Louisiana has issued procla-
nation calling for the election of State officers and
Members Of Congress the first Monday in November
oext
Stephen I. Hayt Of Steuben was unani.
mously renominated yesterday Oy the Union Senatorial
Convention at Elmira for the XXvIIth District.
Gov. Andrew Of Massachusetts delivered an
address on Thursday before the Tompkns County Fair
at Ithaca, n. Y. A great crowd assisted"
Twenty-Five planters are said to be under ar
rest at vicksburg all charged with either maltreating
or killing their former slaves.
The Mobile Tribune reports frequent depreda.
tons by guerras on the Tombigbee River upon boats
toaded with cotton
The Indian Commissioners arrived at Men,
ehis Thursday from Little Rock Ark, route for
ST. Louis.
The delegates to the Louisiana Democratic
State Convention have been elected
The receipts from Internal Revenue yester-
day amounted to l.lG5 763 Co.
Gold was steady yesterday at l43a0li35, and
closed at lHi Government securities in good demand
and gold bearing abundant upon market State
stocks not active The miscellaneous shares lower
Railroad shares generally lower under continued
to realize profits At the SecondBoaId the steady
and dull but after the call prices improved and closed
Money to stock houses call al sac
Commercial paper more active, aud quoted 1d8 Tor best
aud 9al2 for fair names