The Southern herald. (Liberty, Miss.) 1866-current, 1866-06-16

( The population 81 Calcutta, Las, lnaiA'
according 10 the last census. is Oae million.
The iesi oath has been decided to be I'M
constitutional by one Of the courts in GeOrgia.
Mrs. JeH. Davis returned 10 Fortress
Monroe ia a hurry. hefng received intelll.
grnce that her husbands health was worse.
Gariu Smith Is out IN long letter OPP
posing any manner Of a civil trial of JEDI
Davis.
A convention Of Methodisis, both clerical
and lay. is to be held in Boston on the 18th.
and will continue in session three days.
A general cuurt-martial in Washington
was ordered on the 30ih for the trial Of the
Specializing Freedmens Bureau agents in
North Carolina.
Several thousand Norwegian emigrants are
expected to arrive in Chicago within few
days A large portion of them viii locate
permanently there.
The President has directed the removal
of the recently elected Mayor Of Portsmouth,
Virginia, who is an unpardOned rebel ex
Colonel.
Gen. Scott's coffin was made by Brown,
of Grace Church, New York. The required
length Of the coffin was six feet nine inches.
I"There were giants in those days"
The House committee is still examining
witnesses with a view to discover Mr. Davis
implication in the assassination of Mr..
Lincoln.
A man has been sentenced in Scotland to
ten days Imprisonment for trying TO gain adj
mittance to a Masonic lodge, not being q
member Of the order.
BY direction Of the President, the military
departments of Tennessee and Kentucky
have been discontinued, and those States
now constitute department under Gen.
Sherman, commanding.
The ladies of Spotsylvania have formed
an association for the purpose of reinterring
and preserving the graves of the Confeder-
ate soldiers who fell in battle in Spotsylvania
county.
1t is thought the invasion of Canada is
substantially at an end. President Roberts
and Col. Kerrigon, of the Fenian Congress,
have been arrested. A Fenian parade at
Norwalk, Conn. was broken up.
The striking scene of 1000 to 1900 men,
armed with implements of agriculture,
marching to Hollywood Cemetery for the
purpose of repairing the graves of Confed-
crate soldiers, was witnessed at Richmond
on the 2Sth ult.
Leading cotton manufacturers represent to
the Committee on Ways and Means that the
la aF l., a..
sumption, is so small that it is probable We
shall be obliged to resort to the Importation
of the article before September next.
w. 7. Whittemore, of FL Paso, ILL.,, has
received verdict of $3l25 against the
Illinois Central Railroad Company. The
plaintiff was put off the ears and kicked by
he conductor ON account Of some dispute
about lis ticket.
The sitting member from Banbury, in tho
present Parliament of Great Britain, is Bern
lard Samuelson, native of Virginia. lie is
he second American who has had a seat IN
.,li........-A-s!-- l'T'irrs Junu olngfrron
Jopley afterwards Lord Lyndhurst.
The Cleveland (O) Herald asserts that
he lake steamboats, now use fish for fuel
iuge sixty pound surgeons are flung head
OfmOst mo the furnace ne oil assists the
of the wood, twenty sturgeon
icing equal TO cord of wood, in the pro.
uction Of heat
The convention of the moderate Demo
rats of Kentucky met on the 3Oth ult at
.ouisville, and nominated r. r. Boiling for
'lerk of the Court Of Appeals Resolutions
'ere adopted indorsing President johnson.
ndng fault with the Freedmens Bureau,
nd deuouncing the rebel party in Kentucky.
Gen. Van Cleve has just returned to st
'aul, Mimi, from tour of inspection
trough the upper Minnesota Valley He
ports that the suferings of the Indians
uring the last winter from cold and hunger.
ave taught them the extent Of their depend
ace on the Government, aud will tend to
eep them on friendly terms with us.
An expedition is now forming at ST.
oseph, Mo-, to go to the gold mines Of
rizona and Sonora, and will start from that
ty about the Goth inst. The company will
under command OF Col. Kinney late of
e United States Army, and be under strict
scipline. Each one will be armed with
lencer's rife and Colts navies