Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-10-30
TELEGRANIS, &C.

Archbishop Lynch, OF Cnarl .ston, y. c., ar
rived at Fortress Monroe yesterday morning
from Baltimore, having attended the Catholic
PIensry Council lately IN session in that city.
chapel. delivering q sermon on "Chrisps Dis
ciplrs" He was the guest or General Burton,
commandant of the fortress, aud visited the
Davis taMly, having been acq ua.nted with
teruay afernoon, intending TO take the inland
II ute Tor Charleston.
The Mexican Consul at New Orleans on
Safnrcay inquired at the military headquarters
if 0rtega would be prevented rrom entering
Mexico The comman der was absent, but Ad.
ju'aIt General Crosby advised that Ortega
should not attempt To leave until the genera.
returned, on Sunday. Orteea has large fore.
ready on the Rio Grapde 10 cross with him
but the policy of the Government is clearly de
fined, and he will not be permitted TO enter
Mexico for the present.
In April, 1866, Philip Tomppert was elected
Mayor Of Louisville, Ny. and in Decembe
as deposed by the Board OF Aldermen Sub
sequeDty J. ). L4itngow was elected Mayor
by the people. Tomppert brought 4 suit for
the office and the emolnments OF the Mayoraty
before the Court of Common Pleas. Judge
Muir on Saturday decided in favor OF Lithgow,
holding that the court could not inquire into
the decision o the Board of Aldermen. Tomp-
pert carries the case TO the Oourt of Appeals.
The brig Urara, from Savannah to Cardenas
with lumber, was wrecked and abandoned
twenty five miles from Cape Canaravol light
on the 29th instant. VIM. &. Waters. first mate
aud one Colored seaman died, and the captain
and one man are missing. GustaNe Herber,
second mate, three colored seaman, a boy, and
one passenger escaped on a raft and arrived at
Jacksonville.
Fire yesterday evening broke out in large
warehouse, 2i6 Baltimore street, Baltimore,
occupied by Fairbanks scale warehouse and
Marston * Brothers china store. During the
progress OF the fire the cornice fell, badly in.
4, tbas
Two of them, il is thought, will die The loss
by the fire is quite heavy; amount not known
The srock ia Nessrs. Trumbnlfs carpet store,
adjoining was slightly damaged.
A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, says,
sAn ex Confederate Postmaster General pub.
hshes a long letter referring to a former one
He is very strongly in favor of granting ne
grees suffrage and all other rights, the same as
white men, and says any man nwilling to do
this is ademagogue."
Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi, in
view of the precarious condition OF JEFF DAVIS
b. altb, recommends that the Legislature ap-
point one or two commissioners 20 proceed to
Washington and confer with the President
with view TO the release OF Davis on parole
or bail.
Ortega, who is in New Orleans, states that
the military commanders order relative to
Mexico was not sanctioned by Washington au.
thority. Rumor is current in that city that the
commander OF the department was summoned
10 Washington.
Brownsville papers received at Galveston.
Texas, state that new revolution from Ortega
is anticipated. Cortinas has postponed his attack
on MatamoroS at the request OF Tapia Juarez
sent commissioners to Canales, who put them
in the calaboose.
Frank Henry, for many years q special cor
respondent mere, of the New York. Philadel-
phia, and Western press, died at Easton. Pa q,
yesterday morning, at the residence Of J. L.
Mingle, after an illness ofseveral weeks.
In the United States court of Louisville
KY, James Smock, of Mariop county, was
convicted of violation Of the revenue laws by
selling whskey bearing counterfeit Inspection
marks, and was fined Sll,6IS. ..
Accounts from the interior OF Georgia repre-
sent that the recent frosts have killed yegeta.
tiOn- and that there can be no more maturing
cotton bolls.
Lieutenant General ID. Joaq uin Del Manzano
sscceeds General Learsundi as Captain Gene
raj of Cuba.
Cotton is coming into Memphis freely. All
branches of business are dull