Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-23
ArrirnI OF CnIifornin stennacr.

ShANANNN |
Northern Light arrived at New York.
yesterday, from Aspinwall, with SS,ooo'-
900 in treasure.
The soldiers Convention.
The call for a Soldiers National Con-
yeption to indorse the Presidents policy,
names Cleveland instead of Chicago for
the place of meeting.
Federal Appointments.
The President is making a large num-
her Of appointments, and Washington
specials say the Philadelphia delegates are
generally going home satisfied.
Market.
Ngw YORK, August 22.-The Posts
money article says, gold is excited to-day
and the supply Of coin is held firmly.
The loan market is more active; the stock
market is quiet and irregular. Govern
ment Stocks are less inquired for among
investors: but all Government securities
offered are bought BY strong parties at full
rates. Cotton is dropping at S43@S5a.
Flour dull at O@l5c lower; trade brands
closing dull. Wheat, dull and dropping.
Wool quiet, without change; domestic
fleece, so; South American, 40; Cape,
2Si@26.
Cholera.
New YORK, August 22.-The Cholera
is rapidly disappearing here, and in the
Western Cities. Only seven deaths were
reported in this city to-day, and three in
Brooklyn.
Death Of General NeEley.
PorrsvILLE, Va, August 22.-General
James Negley, a hero Of the Mexican war,
and the late war. died this morning.
BALTIMORE, August 22.-The uncondi-
tional Union party radicals, holding a
Congressional Convention to-day, have
re. nominated John L. Thomas in the Sec
ond District, and Francis Thomas in the
Fourth. J. J. Stewart, o Assessor OF
Internal Revenue, was nominated in the
Third District.
Removals and Appointments.
WASHINGTON, August 22.-Applicants
to office, of those who support the Presi-
dents policy, are being daily made in
increasing numbers, chiefly under the in
ternal revenue bureau. John Swift, who
was a delegate to the Philadelphia Con-
v~en,ion, is appointed naval agent at Bos-
ton, vice Daniel Gooch, who resigned q
sea, in Congress to take that position last
year. 1t is also rumored that Geo. Hunt
will te appointed Post Master at Boston.
a shenandoah Draft.
The Treasury Department has received
draft on Barring Bros, England, for
ELISA, being the proceeds Of the sale OF
the Confederate privateer Shenandoah.
Pardon.
The President has directed q pardon to
be issued for Charles McConrad, Of Lou
isiana. late member of the rebel Congress.
JeG.'. Health.
The question of JEFF. Davis health is
again much agitated, and Mrs. Davis has
written to a friend in Georgia that he will
surely die in a few months. Assistant
Surgeon General Crane has been sent to
Fortress Monroe to make q full investiga-
ton, and has had a long interview with
the prisoner. but with what result will
no. be known until officially promul-
gated.
U. y. Policy Concerning Wars in
Neighboring Republics.
A letter from Mr.. Seward to Minister
Fitzpatrick at Chile is published, setting
forth the policy of the United States con-
corning wars in neighboring republics. He
says we maintain that the republican sys-
TEN which is accepted in any Of these
States shall not be wan,only assaulted; that
it shall moi, be subver,ed as an end Of law
full war by European powers. In wars
waged between nations in friendship with
ourselves, if they are not pushed, like the
French war in Mexico, to the point mem
toned, we do not intervene. Spain as
sured US she would not carry on her war
with Chile to that point. and we are ready
now and hencefor,h to hold Spain to the
agreement, if found necessary.
Seward, also, at some length, shows
that this policy Of strict neutrality and
friendship, and one which has governed
the United States from the time of Wash
ington.
The Guy Fawkes Plot.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-By the Persian's
mails it is ~ascertained the account Of the
Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the House
of Parliament, reported by cable, was
greatly exaggerated. Nine pounds Of
powder and a slow match were picked up
by a policeman on duty; the object not
apparent.
Great Patronage OF h Gable.
The London Netos that the
patronage of the Atlantic cable had be-
so great that the Directors had in
contemplation the establishment of a new
scale of prices for first, second and third
class messages, according to priority ; the
to be at the same terms as now
The Queens Speech.
The following are the principal passages
Of interest in the Queens speech in pro-
Parliament:
Her Majesty has great satisfaction IN
congratulating the country and the world
at large IN the successful accomplishment
the great design of connecting Europe
and America by means Of the electric tele-
graph. 1t is hardly possible to anticipate
the full extent Of the benefits which may
oe conferred on the human race by this
signal triumph Of scientific enterprise, and
hef Majesty has pleasure in expressing
hef deep sense of what is due to the pri-
seSe energy which, in spite Of repeated
failure n encouragement, has at length
tor the second time succeeded in esteh.
iishing direct communication between the
TWO continents, Her Majesty trusts that
no impediments may occur to Internal
the success Of this great undertaking. caI.
culated as it undoubtedly is TO Cement
much closer and stronger the friendly ties
which bind Her Msjesty's North Amer;-
ran CoInniae IN their mother coun,xu =.