The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-25

ceptions with reviews, coations, and other
Inequalities of their respective cities.
General Grant not to Accompany the
| ( Stfli President. N{f f8 Il
General Grant has intimated that the
business of his Office, growing out of the re-
organization of the army, is so pressing at
present that he will be obliged to decline the
invitation to accompany the President on his
| Western tour. .5gr.s
From MexicO-Affairs at MataM0ras
New Orleans, August 23-Advices from
Brazos Santiago of the 18th, say that affairs
| in Matamoras are quiet. Szg.
| General Canales is in command there, and
| all officers, civil and military, yesterday gave
| in their adhesion to him. Caravajal remains
with his family at Brownsville
General Lew Wallace had obtained PEI
remptory order from Canaes for the delivery
of the arms and ammunition which have just
been safely stored on the American side.
jd Mexican Affairs.
Senior Romero received to-day official dis
patches from Major General Regules, COM
mandng the Central Military Division of the
Mexican Republic and Major General Alvar-
ez commanding the Military Division of the
South. Both Generals report engagements
with the Impesialists of secondary impor-
| lance, and agree in the opinion that before
the French leave Mexico should they really
do so,) The position of Maxmilian will be rem
dered untenable. i - .
Cholera Reports. 3ea
Philadelphia August 2s.-Eight new cases
of cholera, one fatal, have been reported to-
day; also, three deaths ameng the cases report
ed yesterday. a.4 l.ae
New York, August 23-Only five cases of
cholera have been reported to-day, none of
which were fatal Ten cases, three of them
fatal, were reported in Brooklyn
New Orleans, August 23-Twenty- seven
deaths from cholera were reported yesterday
in this city. fs<ssftt .g<ttt ~
st. Louis, August 23.-The cholera inter
ments at the six principal cemeteries of this
city on Monday and Tuesday amounted to
26O. There are about twenty-five cemeteries
in aud around this city. The Board of Health
have arranged to get prompt dailyreports
from all burying places hereafter. The wealth
er is very cold and damp. ena as
SECOND DISPATCH st. Louis, August 90.
Eight cemeteries report ll9 deaths from the
cholera in the twenty four hours ending at 10
lie schools of the city has been postponed I'M
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prevalence of the epidemic. s.. ,,.,.
Gen. Howard's Successor.
| A despatch was to-day sent to Gen. Till
son, Assistant Commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau for the State of Georgia, now
temporarily sojourning at Saco, Maine, in
structing him not to return South, az his SER
vices would soon be required to relieve Gen
| Howard as Chief Of the Bureau. 1t is pre-
| a1 hot no al ,,,;n l. Il
! the present month 45t,.s4.
Legislature Of South Carolina.
| Charleston, August 23- Governor Orr has
/ issued proclamation converting the Legisla-
| tu.e of the State on the 4th of September in
extra session, for the purpose OF adopting
State laws in reference to recent acts of Con-
gress, and for the relief of the financial en-
barrassments of the people of the State.
Ice in August.
Mount Washington, N. H., August % =
The thermometer this morning is down to 20
! degrees. The weather clear. One of ii 9
| telegraph wires has been broken down by the
ice which has formed on it, On both wires
the ice i. half an inch thick.
h-A West Virginia Politics.
Wheeling, Va, Aug 24.-The johnson
State Convention, held at Parkersburg yes
terday, nominated Colonel Smith for Gov
ernor, j. w. Kennedy for Secretary of State,
and Mr. Richardson for Attorney General
One hundred and sixty delegates were pre-
sent Al2 ~ $500
Resolutions were adopted indorsing the
late Philadelphia Convention, pledging tealty
| to West Virginia, and denouncng the Radi-
calls a. Y
Soldiers and Sailors.
At a meeting of soldiers and sailors Of this
| District, held at the City Hall this evening,
resolutions We're adopted endorsing the Ad-
ministration policy and the Philadelphia G n
vention. Over seventy soldiers signed the
endorsement. 4lss. ss. ,s,,ts
committee on permanent organization
was appointed, the object being to form an as
ISOLATION OF conservative soldiers in opposition
to the Union League of this city.
t. Affairs in New Orleans.
New Orleans, Aug. pa general order
has been ISSUED to-night by Gen. Sheridan,
revoking General Order, No. SO, issued by
General Baird, declaring martial law and APP
pointing Military Governor, but continues
in force General Sheridan's General Order,
No. is, declaring martial law to exist for the
protection of the public peace and the pre-
servatio of life and property, which WAS the
status existing before the riot. 3G gs
The Southern LOyaiists' Convention.
! Harrisburg, August 23.-Governor Curtin
has ssaed a circular of invitation to the Re-
representatives. in Congress from Pennsylvania,
invihng such oil them as can respond to the
call of the Southern loyalists for the Conven-
ton to be held in Philadelphia to be present
aud participate in the deliberations of these
patriots 1t Is his earnest desire to have
Pennsylvania represented in that body, and