Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-05
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WASHINGTON, January is. r. NAL
lory, late rebel Secretary of the Navy
writes a letter from Fort Lafayette to his
friends in Georgia, in which he says that
all who study the strides Of public senti-
ment on the subject Of slavery during the
last quarter of a century. cannot fail to
see that with or without the proposed
amendment to the Federal Constitution,
slavery can never be re-established in the
American Union.
James Eads, Of St. Louis, the well
known naval iron-clad contractor, is in
town, having just returned from Europe
where he wa instructed to make for the
Navy Department certain Investigations
into the quality of the English iron-clad
navy. The Secretary will send in the re-
suit of his investigations in the course OF
a few weeks, as a special report to Con.
gress. Mr.. Eads was treated with cour-
tcsy by the British naval authorities. and
il is understood he return with q convlc-
ton that while our monitors are Inc
oualed for harbor defense, the British IRON
clads would make very short work with
them in the open ocean for that service
the British have discarded the revolving
turets, or cupalos, as they call it, and adj
here to heavy b~roadsides from classmates
thoroughly protected. Eads regards u
Monadnock as the only vessel of the
monitor class able to be brought out
against the English iron-clads.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-rhe Kansas City Ad-
v~er,iSer says that Bob Bent, the Indian
half breed, and son of Col. Bent, did not
lead the massacre by the Cheyenne lndi-
ans, at Doran'S station, on the Buttertield
route. Young Bent was in Missouri at
the time Of the massacre with Col. Carson
and his father.
The loss by fire, on Christmas day, at
Shaffer, was 800, 900, with only $500 600
insurance. 4 large number of people got
drunk during the fire, and had a fight, in
which one man was killed.
A train ON the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road was attacked by bushwackcrs, at
Lees Summit. near Kansas City, Deem
Der 9th, because the train carried the
stars and stripes. They were beaten off.
The Captain and some Of the survivors
of the ll-fatcd steamer Constitution have
arrived in New York.
James Boyd. John Smith and Joseph
Dana have been arrested for robbing the
Bank OF Duquoin, Illinois. S~eventy.three
thousand dollars were found on these
men. Another is still at large with the
balance Of the money.
Great Fire in Philndelphin-I.cEislR-
ture of MRine--Stcnmer sunk--Dicd
From BrnziI--Ynnkee Doodle, md
whnt came OF it, deaths from Coal
Gns--New HRmpshire, etc.
The loss by the fire at Philadelphia,
mentioned yesterday, is a quarter of a mil
lion dollars.
The Maine Legislature met January I'd.
James NJ. Stone was chosen Speaker Of the
House. and Frank NJ. Drew Clerk.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-rhe steamer Mon
roe, owned by NJ. S. Meppall, Of St. Louis,
sunk at Cairo to-day by coming in con-
tact with u monitor. She went down al
most instantly. taking with her two negro
deck hands who were aboard. The
freight was all lost. The boat and cargo
are valued at $4,000.
New IoRK. Jan. 3.-rhomas b. Still
man, Superintendent of Repairs and Sup
plies of the United States Revenue Ma
rinc, died Mt PlainEcld, n. Y, yesterday.
He was one of the original proprietors Of
the Farmers Novelty Iron Works.
Advices from Brazil report that the Pa
raguayan army retreated from Corrientes
into the mountain Businesses in the inte-
rior, followed by the Allies.
Yankee Doodle was Kissed a few nights
since at a Mobile theatre, since which, the
military authorities ordered it played ev-
cry night.
1t is proved, beyond controversy, that
Rosa Galley and Frances Gahey, who
were found dead i'll their room at $50
Grand street, IN this city, were suffocated
by coal gas; and that Edward Hunter,
agent for the premises occupied by them,
had caused the aue Of the chimney con-
Meeting with their room, to be stopped, to
drive the deceased from the premises. He
has been arrested.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-During the past
year the Pension Bureau admitted 1883
invalid claimants, and rejected 1878.
The number of widows. mothers and or
phans admitted during the same year was
81. 922-rejected. 1900. Cases yet on the
docket, $4,000.
The Treasury officials have deducted
the Presidents salary for March from the
amount appropriated BY Congress to Mrs.
Lincoln.
CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-The Republican State
Convention of New Hampshire unani-
mously re.nominated F. Smyth for Gov
ernor. Resolutions were adopted, recog-
nizing in Andrew Johnson a just citizen,
a sincere patriot, and q distinguished
statesman, and declaring that the tone
and temper Of his recent annual message
meets with their warmest approval, and
argues we'll for the success OF his admin
istration. ~pledging him the hearty conf
dence and support in all his efforts to re-
store harmony and mutual trust between
the different sections Of the Union, upon
the principles Of universal liberty and
exact justice to all. Another resolution
declares that the scheme to plant, by for
eign ~bayonets, IN Austrian despotism in
Mexico had origin in u~ndisguised hostility
to the United States, and is n standing
insult to our power and a menace to Re-
publican institutions.
The Massachusetts, Legislature met yes.