The Indianapolis daily herald. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1865-1868, 1865-12-02
LATEST NEWS.


Gold closed in New YORK Yesterday stif7JZ.
The number of Indians In the United
states i estimated At So7.soo.
Judge scarIe. one of the oldest judges In
Ohio. died yesterday At zanessille.
Land has been purchased in Lexington,
Virginia, for home for General Ice.
~ reinforcement q = 30 for,ign troops
has arrived al Matamoras for General Meiia.
Up 70 lat night. about one hundred men,
beers II Congress had arrived AZ Washington.
The exemption bin has been passed by the
Mississippi legislature over the Governors
veto.
An effort will be made toplaoe Hon. Henry
,. Raymond in the Chainnan-hip of tic Way
and Means Committee.
The Washington Chronicle authoritative
" announces that General Grant will 60 no
further south than Charleston.
There = a report that Adjutant General
Thomas viii soon retire from the army, and
that General Townsend will-succeed him.
a portion of the Congress Brewery build
ing In Cincinnati fcll on Thursday night. Kill
ing Ulrick IIertkorn amp Max -ennaeSer.
Rio Janeiro adviecs claim that the recent
victories over the Passguayans were decisive
one-. and that the war : virtually over.
In the War and Navy Departments there
l. a reduction in expenditures for last month
a. compared with November, 1854, Of sil.-
OOo.Oa.
The report of the Comptroller Of the Cur
rcncy will be ready to-day. II presents strong
arguments in favor OF a contraction Of the cur
reney.
The consolidation II the Toledo. Peoria
and Warsaw Railway. and Mississippi and
Wabash, was eonsummated at Peoria ycster-
day.
-Four thousand bales Of Government cot
ton We're destroyed by fire at Columbus. Mis-
sis-ippi. on the 25th uit. Lo~- si.eoc.oeo. The
Ere was the work Of an incendiary.
-Nixon'- circus troupe, on board steamer
Catharine whitney, bound for Texas, during
a storm Al sea lost overheard all their trained
horses and large portion Of their tent equip
agc.
Hon. Charles Poston. who represented Ari-
zona In the last Congress, protests against the
admission Of Governor Goodwin as a Delegate,
lac having signed his own certificate Of eIec-
lion. etc.
\ terrible railroad accident occurred yes
tcrday morning ON the Western express train,
which len Harrisburg at l b NJ. II ran into a
coal train al Whitehousc. New Jersey. killing
seven Of the passengers and wounding ten or
twelve
Judge Yarmouth presents himself at
Washington a. delegate from Louisiana.
The Judge maintains the theory that by the
rebellion Louisiana relapsed into a territorial
condition.
A dispatch announces that Secretary McCul-
loch's report will be sent TO all Northern and
Western cities, to bc given out rs soon as the
reading of the Presidents message j. com
mcnced.
"A dispatch from Governor Holden 10 the
President. dated yesterday. announces that the
North Carolina Legislature has ratified. with
but six dissenting voices. the Congressional
amendment abolishing slavery.
The military authorities AT Mobile. who
refused 10 obey the writ Of haBeas corpus in
the case Of Dexter. charged with cotton frauds
against the Government. have bcen sustained
by the President.
An order was issued by the War Depart
ment, yesterday, disseminating the oId Capitol
Prison, and turning over the building 10 the
Quartermaster's Department The prisoners
coniined there viii he sent to Fort whippIe