Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-09-08
The New OrIean. Massacre.


NEw ORLEANS, September 6.-The
military Commission organized to investi-
gate the circumstances connected with
the late massacre have completed their in
vestigations and handed in their report to
Gen. Sheridan, at noon to-day. The re-
port covers l,l00 pages closely written
manuscript, and proves ~conclusively that
the massacre was preconcerted and ar
ranged by Mayor Monroe and others.
The members of the Fire Department and
different sections Of the rebel military or
CARNATIONS which exist in this city ap-
peared on the ground at a given signal,
armed to the teeth and assisted in the po-
lice in their hellish task Of numbering in
nocent. defenseless Union men. Over
l60 trustworthy citizens have been ex-
amined and the evidence corroborativc OF
their statements is inco%ntrovertible.
Lnrge ConAagrntion.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., September 6.-The
Union Worssed Works, formerly known
as Schroder's Print works, in S%mithfeld,
five miles from this city, were totally de-
stroyed by fire this morning. They were
owned by VIM. F. s. F. e. Sayles. The
loss on tho building, stock and machinery
is $40. 00~0-insurance, $4,000. The fire
is understood to have been caused by the
ignition of naptha.
Southern Unionists' Convention.
PHILADELPHIA, September 6. - The
Southern Union Convention met at Ma
tional Hall at 10 A. N. Prayer was Of
fered by Rev. DR.. Bidell. A telegram
was received from the New York Union
State Convention, at Syracuse, congratu-
lating the Convention upon the favorable
auspices under which its sessions were
beng held. It was read amid great ap-
plause.
The Union League House caught FIRE
in the laundry about midnight. 1t will
be entirely destroyed.
PHILADELPHIA, September t. The
burning Of the Union League House is
supposed to have been the work of ar in
cendiary. The ~janitor has been arrested
The Presidential Trip.
CHICAGO, September T. President
johnson and suite left this forenoon 70,
St. Louis. They will be received al
Springfield this evening, and arrive at St.
Louis tomorrow.
The Journal says: II Johnson left Chi.
cago with the impression that he had
many admirers in the crowd yesterday, he
is the most self connected and self deceived
man in America. What the Presiden,
saw and heard here wal not flattering to
himself. The Western people never be-
fore had so intense dislike for q Presiden,
as they have for Observation-Disclosures no,
excepted.
ST.. LOUIS, September THE cemete-
ries report f~fty-nine burials Of cholera
cases yesterday.
Reception Of the President in st.
Louis.
The preparations for the reception Of the
President tomorrow are about completed.
Thirty-six steamers, representing the diff
ferent States in the Union, decorated with
flags, devices, etc., will leave for Alton at
s A. NJ. tomorrow. The Presidents
party will be assigned to the steamer
Andy Johnson, which will be dashed to
the steamer Ruth and Olive Branch for
the accommodation Of the various COM
mittees. General Hancock and staff will
60 to Alton.
Plot to Burn Buffalo.
BUFFALO, September THE Erpres,
publishes o letter taken from a Hamilton
Canada West) paper, which wal said to
have been picked up in the street, contain
ing an intimation Of a plot to burn Buff
falo. It was stated some time ago that
there was a plot to burn the towns along
the border, and the whole thing is thought
to be bosh.
The Convention, Again.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. THE Southern
Union Convention has nearly completed
its important business. The telegraph
furnishes a full report of the res
o~lutions and the address. The resolutions
offer the principles Of reconstrucnon
which have already received the cordial
approval of the Union party in the North.
The address embraces an appeal to the
loyalists of the North to aid their breth-
rem in tho South. A graphic statement
of the situation of the insurgent States,
and an indictment Of Andrew johnson
fearfully severe. The resolutions were
reported by Hamilton, Of Texas, and the
address was read by Senator Cresswell, Of
Maryland.
The negro suffrage question raised an
occasional breeze, owing to the opposition
Of numbers of delegates from the border
States. Cresswell and other strong sup
porters Of universal suffrage, however,
hail from the same States. The delegates
from the States not represented in Con-
gress propose to adopt an additional set
of resolutions and platform embracing the
suffrage question.
Gov. Brownlow found an opportunity
to make a brief but emphatic speech in
favor Of extending the franchise to negroes.
The members of the Convention have
adopted a programme for making a tour
of the North from New York to Chicago,
during the heat of the campaign.
California Telegrams