Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-06-21

SEight counties in Northern Georgia have
elected local officers. None but citizens who
have taken the oath were allowed to vote
The people are now anxious to know how
soon the newly elected officers will be com.
missioned to enter upon their duties.
H6Gladeteur, q French horse, mas won the
Derby. The windows OF me Jockey Club
rooms, on the BoulevArds, were illuminated,
the popular impression being that somehow
or other Gladiateur has run over "Monsieur
Wellington" and that the "Vaterloo" Is mora
than avenged.
IL The crops In Alabama, Mississippi and
Georgia are reported as immense, and harvest
ma. mas already begun in the latter State But
little cotton Is planted, the great object being
the production Of cereals.
SOne thousand rebel prisoners have BEEN
released from the forts near New York.
~There are one thousand two hundred and
ninety. six national banks in operation.
IL Gen. Wilson has set the negroes, who
follow ed him BY thousands, during his lata
raid, to repairing the railroads in Georgia.
SThe once beautiful city Of jackson, Miss =
Is now called "OhimHeyville," as expressive
IL The richest man in Albany is Erastus
Corning, whose income is 1886, 1880.
The Comptroller of New York has paid
$6O00,0G0 to families of soldiers in three years.
ID There are 5000 hogsheads Of tobacco at
Lynchburg, Va.
1The destitution in Southwestern Mis.
souri, is extreme, many Of the inhabitants ny.
ing upon green's, slippery -elm bark, and roots.
u General Noble and General M. Little
at Hilton Head. are both mentioned as proba-
Florida. - = -
nVOrders have been issued at New Orleans
permitting corn to be sold without interfer-
ence. 's..
MA fat baby. two years old, from Prince
George county, V Virginia, is on exhibition. It
weighs two hundred pounds.
IL The Lower Canada papers still CONF.
,l0fv, 0T ntt NAT 49,
place from that section OF the Province.
SA fund Of twenty thousand dollars has
been raised to establish an administration pa-
per in Memphis, Tenn. 1t is to be under the
management OF 2. b. Fouke, formerly of III.
nois.
III Should the statement be confirmed that
the explosion at Mobile was caused by Rebel
agents, then we would much rather trust our
liberties to negro suffrage than to the white
barbarians Of the South who have committed
atrocities never surpassed by Turk or Indian.-
caaolic Telegraph.
HThere are two hundred and eignty COZ
tages at Newport. Those not owned by tne oS~
cupants, rents from one to hve tnousapa ooI-
lars year. The handsomest one is re psoPs
erty of August Belmont the banker, ana coss :
,r-The Columbia Phoenix complains thac
So1th Carolina is ovsrrun with robbers and
horse ssisyes.Psopie sse Ppsopie Of their snbsissenoe
-Tvro Epglish newspapers are now pub.
,ished at Yokohama, in Japan-one the Daily
Tsnsn Herald the motto OF which Is "Onwards
o,sss onward;'' and the other is the Weekly
Japan Herald. The price to subscribers 70
the latter is f5 year, or nearly 2s. per copy.
n0It is generally believed at the Court OF
Vienna that the Emperor Maximilian wiz
shortly abdicate and return to Austria, and
that he WIN be restored by Frances Joseph to
the rights which he was obliged to renounca
on accepting the Mexican throne.
SSome of the suffers who followed tns ar.
my and rushed into Richmond with their
wares, in anticipation Of doing tremendous
business, on the supposition that the Goutheru
people had plenty OF good money, The Whie
says, are closing ont one by one, and rsturn-
ing to the North, wiser, IL not richer Men:.
U Prospecting for coal il sotns an win cod.
'ideEanie yisor in various parts Of Illinois,