Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-08-03
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The Union Convention of 1864 reassem
bed in New Orleans ON Monday Previous
" procession of blacks was attacked by
the whites, and serious riot occurred.
The hall in which the members Of the Con-
Vention assembled was surrounded by the
mob. The police endeavored to protect
those inside but the crowd commenced an
indiscriminate firing. Two of the members
of the convention were badly wounded, and
for time it was feared that none would get
out of the building alive. Towards evening
the excitement subsided, and the Mayor is
sued proclamation calling upon citizens to
meet at the City Hall to be sworn in as extra
police Later the crowds on the streets
near the convention building were dispersed
at the point of the bayonet by the military,
and artillery was planted within sweeping
range All the lockups are filled with the
captured rioters, and the hospitals with the
dying and wounded. Gen. Baird issued a
proclamation on Tuesday evening, placing
the city under martial law Gen A. V.
Kautz was appointed Military Governor Of
the city.
The United States Consul at Antwerp re-
ports that the cholera is prevailing. at that
. place.
Queen Victoria has sent dispatch to the
President, congratulating him upon the lay
ing of the Atlantic cable. President John
son returned an appropriate reply. The
Mayor of New York sent a congratulatory
dispatch to the Mayor OF London.
The Empress of Mexico arrived at Havana
on the 18th ult, on the way to Europe.
Henry Ward Beecher has got new organ
in Plymouth Church. 1t was built in Bos-
ton, cost $e1, $50, and is the largest ever
made in this country There are four man
uals, of ifty-eight keys each, and they can
he eplayed either separately or together. The
compass is from c to A. In the pedal there
are thirty eight keys, from c to f. The
grand total of the pipes is I, ,442.
A South Carolina lady died lately, who,
for thirty-six days prior to her death, had
subssted solely on water. "a
The Atlantic cable has been opened for
public business and the tariff of charges is
published by General Lefferts, Consulting
Engineer at New York. From any tele.
graph station in America to any telegraph
station in Europe, for twenty words or less,
including address of sender and receiver,
G21 sterling in gold, and for every additional
word not exceeding five letters, 81 shillings
in gold per word.
Another revolutionary movement has taken
place in Hayli, at GOnaives and Aux Cages,
headed by General Sulnare, but it was ex.
pected that the government troops would
put it down.
A eolored woman, who weighed seven hun
dred and ninety eight pounds, was five feet
eight inches high, and five feet broad across
the chest, died in New York on Friday.
The Darlington Is. CO. iSoutherner says:
1.-TWO brothers from Darlington district,
married men, enlisted in the Rebel army
and were killed, Their two old bachelor
brothers then married the widows"
writer in the Rochester Express says
81 venture the prediction, based upon infor.
nation derived from farmers themselves, as
well as upon actual observation, that the
wheat crop now being harvested is ahead Of
anything Ontario county has produced in
that line for many years. and other grain is
doing nearly quite as we'll"
F. D. Pator, prominent wholesale grocer
Of Chicago, and well known as a highly re-
spectacle and wealthy citizen, has left his
home and city for parts unknown, on nc
count of domestic infelicities arising from
causeless jealousy on the part of his wife
which has rendered his home uncomfortable
for many years
There was a singular fact connected will
the decease of the editors of the Troy Time
last week Mr.. Fonda, expecting Mr.. Thorn!
death from consumption, had prepared
sketch OF his life for publication, whenever
it should occur; yet Mr.. Fonda's death pre-
ceded Mr.. Thorn's by two hours.
AT the Fourth of July dinner given or
board the steamer Scotia, the following toas
was offered: England and America-motll
er and child; both doing we'll"
Rear Admiral Charles Stewart on Satur
day completed the ssth year of his age HI
was born in Philadelphia, July 2s, l77s, til,
month after the evacuation of that city b,
the British army. 1t will crafty the man!
friends and admirers of this veteran patrio
and hero to know that he is still active an,
hearty.
sunstruck laborer in Hartford revived
just as his coffin was going into the. grave
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