Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-26
CAIRO TIMES.
CAIRO, THURSDAY, OCT. 90, 1865
THE NEWS.


john Micthcll is shortly to be released 81
There are but ten dependent freedmen in
Galveston, Texas. --..T
The Republican State Convention of Colo.
RADIO has nominated Hon. VIM II. Gilpin 70,
Governor.
The Veteran Reserve Corps is to be mustered
out December lst -
The people of North Louisiana are fearing
negro Instruction
The Pope has pronounced an allocution
against the Free Masons, and ordered the secu
lar governments to suppress them
The report that DR.. Mudd was tortured with
the thumb screw, after his attempted escape
from the Dry Tortugas, is untrue.
Maj. Gen. L. Carr is at present on a visit to
Galesburg, preparatory to assuming command
of the District of Arkansas, to which he has
been assigned.
The steamer Sunset sunk recently near Au.
gusta, on the Missouri river. Both boat and
cargo were a total loss.
The steamer atlanta, which left New Or
leans on the 7th inst, for New York, went to
pieces in gale, two hundred miles south of
Sandy Hook.
The North Carolina Convention organized
with Edwin G. Reade, formerly member of
Congress, as President.
General Candy has seized several steamers
at New Orleans for not complying with trade
regulations. - go
The Alabama State election will take place
on November l.
Gov. Sharkey, of Mississippi. has decided
that upardoned rebels are not eligible to Office
in that State. -
The Usage Indians have coded 1000, 900
acres OF land in Kansas to the Government for
which it pays 100000. Two million acres
are also coded in trust for the Indians. ~
abating.
Duke Gwinn and Governor Clark, of
Missouri, have been arrested, and are at New
Orleans.
But eleven of the thirty-seven forts sur
sounding Washington now have their arma-
ments All but four are to be dismantled
Inc Government will soon sell the timber and
abattis of each at auction.
A large meeting was held on Monday night.
at Lexington, Kentucky, to thank the Presi.
dent for removing martial law from the State.
On Monday, Governor HUMPHREYS. of Mis-.
sisspp was inaugurated -
The Richmond city government will be re-
stored in a few days.
The Charleston papers are anxious for North
ern emigration to South Carolina.
An extra session of the Maryland Legislature
will soon be called
The Tennessee Legislature is discussing the
question OF admitting negro testimony to the
Courts. .---.
The Texas newspapers are opposed to neoro
suffrage.
The case of Rev. DR.. Huston, the rebel
preacner' VINO was sent to church at New !
port, KY, by the Methodist Conference of the I
State, is well known The Union members Of |
the church have withdrawn, and will now |
worship by themselves.
III AlchIgaI, the military authorities are pun
lshlng drafted men who ran AWAY
captain Beckwith, of Baltimore, has been
convicted OF forging soldiers discharge papers.
alo sentenced to be dismissed from the army.
ana confined two years in the Albany Peniten,
tiary.
The order mastering out one hundred unem.
ployed Generals will soon be issued.
The Quartermaster's Depa rtment at Nash
vile Is selling the Government property at
Nashville, and will soon close.
A monument, to cost $4,000, is to be erected
IN tennessee county, New York, in memory O
General Wadsworth. :
The wages have been reduced at the Wash
ngton Navy Yard. The employees have pro-
tested against it,
Alexander IT, Stephens has announced that
ne will support the Presidents policy to the,
ull extent Of his ability and influence.
1t is reported that John H. Reagan is in fa-
7or OF negro suffrage. 7
The property of the rebel General Corse has !
'een restored to him.
Ex-Gov Allen, of louisiana has applied
or pardon.
George W. Gayle, of Alabama, who, during n
ne war, offered reward of ST, 900, 900 for
he murder of President Lincoln, is to be tried
efore civil court in Alabama
Hon. Pliny D. Hardy, for many wears Sec
etary of the State Of Louisiana, died on Sen
ember 80.
The Philadelphia yacht Palmer has won the
acht race.
Wells Fargo Co., have contracted to carry
daily mail between California and Oregon for {
225, 600 per annum. !
There are 200 vessels and large number of
nall boats engaged in the herring fishery off :.
e coast OF Maine. $4,000 barrels have been Il
ken since the latter part of August.
Several brewers at Danville, Pa, have been s1
led for defrauding the revenue. ri
A Louisville exchange states that butter is W
ling tor seventy-tive cents pound in mar
IT, ana dealers threaten to advance the price
dollar. f'0N