The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-06
General News.

GenefaA NeWa
The Indians in Idaho made a laid Oh
Boulder Creek and Ruby City on the first of
July, but were repulsed by United States
troops. Seven soldiers and thirty Indians
were killed. Capt. Jennings, with forty men,
was surrounded by 500 Indians, and fighting
Reinforcements were on their
way to his relief
There is great restitution 10 Portland. Ar
ticles of clothing for men, women and chill
dren, hats, caps, bonnets and bed clothing are
greatly needed. F4FF
The New York Union State Committee
have called convention to meet at Syracuse
next September, to nominate State officers for
the offices to be filed at the fall elections.
Three men were killed and nine wounded
in an ARRAY in Madisonville, Mo.
At Galves ton there have been ten new cases
Of cholera among the troops lately arrived
from Harris Island
Simon Cameron thinks his chances are more
favorable with the radicals in Pennsylvania
and hence abuses the President
t Charles OConor was in Washington from
visit to Mr.. Davis, his client. Mr.. Davis's
health has not improved. Attorney General
Stansbury is to give his attention 10 his case
very soon, and before the October term of the
United States District Court in Virginia, the
advisors of the Government will hold a con-
sultation.
There were six new cases of Cholera in Phil
adelphia: the disease at Tybee Island had
assumed n,ilder type--abating both in ma
lightly and number of its victims. In New
York it does not much diminish, end has in
creasrd during the past week In Brooklyn
fourteen cases were reported. At quarantine
the hospital Is empty, and there is no disease
of any kind in the hulks. as.e .e
With the saturated spirits Of camphor, DR..
Rubini treated in Naples 500 cases of Asiatic
cholera, without the loss of single patient.
The correspondent of the Baltimore Trans
cript, denies the report that the President
has been inpertuned to remove Secretary
McCulloch. He has seen the President, and
makes the denial upon his authority.
The swindler, who forged draft for $780,
600, represented himself as Paymastsr Allen.
Tno report OF his marriage to the daughter
of the head Of one of the Government De-
parrrnents is denied. He was to have been
married, but was not
General Steedmau has declined the posi-
ton of superintendent of the Public Print
ing.
The telegraph line from New York to
Aspy Bay is working we'll Regular dis
patches from London and Liverpool were
expected by the press but the operator ct
Port Hood, n. S., says the steamer Dauntless
will not arrive at Aspy Bay before daylight
On Saturday morning, and that tho lines have
been ordered to be opened at A. N. With
this information, the lines east of Calais, Me-,
have closed for the night. Eleven messages
for Europe, by the cable, were received, for
which $534.35 were paid in gold,
Captain L. G. Whytal, formerly connected
with the Freednen's Bureau, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Quarteruaster at Old Point
and has entered upon his duties.
A block of frame buildings in st. Louis
has been destroyed by fire, rendering thirty
families houseless, and destroying property
valued at $4,000, with littIs or no insur-
ance.
The City Brewery at Cairo has been de-
stroyed--loss $4,000
The correspondent Of the New York Her.
aid says: The person who succeeded in swind-
ling the government out of $4,000 recently
by means of forged acquisitions on the Navy
Department, and who wasaarrested in Phila-
delphia yesterday morning, is Acting Ensign
William Ringgeld Cooper, lately on duty in
the Office of Detail Bureau of Navigation.
He was married yesterday morning to q Miss
Julia Defrees, niece Of the public printer, an
heiress, and highly accomplished young
lady. All of the $4,000, with the exception
of about $4,000. was recovered when Cooper
was arrested.
Ii is whispered in Washington that the
President is about to publish to the world a
lot of letters written to him while he was
Governor of Tennessee. These letters will
"show up" in no enviable light a number of
distinguished men in the North whe are Just
now bitterly opposing the policy of Mr..
johnson, Mr.. Sumner has had long private
interview with the President for the purpose,
40 says rumor, Of dissuading him from making
public these letters, for it is said that this
Radical Senator is deeply interested in not
having them brought befors the eyes of the
public. The correspondent who gives the
above gossip thinks that something more def
mite viii come to light in the course OF week
or two.
General Santa Anna has been arrested in
New York and held to bail in the sum of
$4,000. He is charged by Mr.. Montgomery
with acting maIiciousy in having him arrest
ed and imprisoned, He lays damages at
$4,000.
Gen. Steadman was to be in Washington
Tonight, when final report will be made of
the examination into the conduct and affairs
of the freedmen's bureau in the Southern
States.
Virginia Intelligence.
Almost all the religious conventions re-