Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-08-27
TELEGR ANS. &c.

An immense mass meeting beIG
held a; Louisville, Ky, on Saturday nigh: 70
rauiy the proceedings Of the PhilaoelphIa
Convention. General Forrest addressed the
meeting, laying he wanted no more fighting,
and when he LAID down his arms he bore
mthce against northern men. He saw the
politicians cOuId not he trusted, and those who
wanted 10 stay ~ home were the ones TO send
TO The Legislature and Congress. He was will
ing 10 trust everything 20 those he had met
upon he field, hut those who shIrked their
dufy and were casematedIn Washington could
no more te trusted than those who did the
same thing in the South. Resolutions were
adopted accepting The address of the Pbila-
neipha Convention and endorsing the Presi-
Dem. The meeting was one of the largest and
most enthusiastic ever held there.
AT The session of the Pharmaceutical con-
venlIon on Friday, i'll Detroit, Michigan, sevs-
raj amendments te the constitution were
passed. committee was appointed on in
ternal revenue tax with instructions 10 con-
fer with the commissioner. The next ual
meeting will be held IN New YORK A COM
muBicarion from the Austrian College of Phar-
macy, asking for samples Of American fruits.
was referred 10 the New York College. A
motion was adopted providing for represent
ing this society AZ the International Pharma-
ceutcal convention At Paris next year A
large amount of important business was
transacted, and the convention adjourned sine
die. In the afternoon the member nlOyed an
excursion upon Lake Erie.
The prospects of the cotton crop IN all parts
of Georgia are gloomy, on account of The con-
tinupd drought In Southwestern Georgia
where the yield WAS formerly one bale 10 TWO
acres, not more than one bale TO ten acres will
be realized from the present crop. This -
equally true OF other sections. Accounts from
Florida represent the late drought as followed
by heavy rains, which seriously injured the
cotton. One half OF what Is known as the
| middle crop VIII be Iost. The cotton crop IN
Mississippi and Alabama ~ also rPpresen ted
as gloomy, on account OF drought and the boil
worm.
In Memphis, on Saturday, an attempt was
! made by O. NJ. Wood L. 5. tax collector, to
XIII Colonel NJ. &. Galloway, editor of the
Memphis .irGlGHrhe. Wood called him ONT of
his room and fired upon him. the ball passinr
through Galloway's hand. infiicting painful
wound. Wood attempted TO escape, bur was
pursued and captured. An excited crowd
gathered, and he would have been hung TO a
lamp post but for General Forrest, who
taking hold of him, told the crowd that Justice
should be meted out 10 him, but for the present
he would protect him. Wood il under arrest
bill of injunction has been filed in the Cir
emit Court of Charleston, s c., by certain
creditors of the bank of Chraleston against the
bank, It's president and directors, requiring
them 10 produce statement of the assessments
OF the institution at the November term of the
court, when Justice Wayne or Judge BRYAN
will preside The nominal value OF the notes
OF the bank at the present time is over 20 or %
cents on the dollar.
The Union convention of Rochester. n. Y,
convention, instructIng them 10 vote the Radl-
cal platform, endorsed FentOn, and appointed
Henry Churchill and Frederick Doug glas dele
gates to the loyal Southern Union Conyen-
VeEtIon.
The following gentlemen are appointed dele
gates from West Virginia TO the Philadelphia
Convention of Southern Unionists, on the Sd
OF september; Governor BOarman, Senators
Wiley and Van Wrinkle, Generals Kelley
Harris Duvall, ,Lightburn and Strothers, Porte
CrayOn.)
At the Republican Union 4th congressional
district convention, which met at Monmouth
Warren county, Illinois, on Friday, the Hon A .
Z. Harding was renOminated on the second
ballot.
senator Pomeroy and Representative Clark
have opened the campaign IN Kansas, speaking
every night.
Queen Emma and suite arrived At Niagara
Falls on Saturday, and stopped at the Cata-
Tact House
Judge Dewey. of the supreme Court of Mas
sachusatts. died on Wednesday at Northamn-
ton, aged - years.
Hon. David q. Burnett has been elected
L. =. Senator from Texas