Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-11-15
TFLEGRANS, &C,

Tie National Wool-Growers' Conventioa a
assembled at Cleveland, OhIo, yesterday. 1;
is largely attended from every considerable
wooi-gIC wing di> IT CT and nearly every wool
growing s ate in tbA North. The discus sion
was very spirited, and pointed unanimously
10 the nccessl'y of the Senate imme metilte ly
passing the tariff bill as It left the House las:
summer.
The steamship Pacific, from Liverpool,
brings to New Orleans the officers and nine OF
the crew of the ship Empire, OF @ lasgow. from
Dema1ara 10 London, fonnd IN lattHde 81 deg
ie II IN, longitude 50 deg IS min The Empire
was complete wreck Captain Primrose and
portion OF the crew are believed TO nave been
lost. ..t.. % ...r n
In the homicide case OF Maggie Bae-. who
was murdered In Philadelphia in 1864 in The
Continental Theatre, the jury yesterday re
tGrned verdict OF nansfau ghter IN the sc cond
degree. The prisoner throughout the trial
gave real or sim nlatad symptoms of insanity.
This verdict will give the court an opportunity
10 send him 20 an insane asylum
The steamer Zodiac, from Philadelphia, ran
into and sunk the fishing schooner Mary J.
Yates, of Boston, in Boston Haroor, Tuesday
The crew were taken off before she wen,
down, and were brought TO Boston on the
steamer.
The bark EveThard DeleDs, from Bremen
with 40 German immigrants, arrived in
grants intend settling in South Carolina. being
mostly connected with families already re-
siding in the State
The Colonization SocIety's ship Golconda
will sail from Charleston. 5. g.. for Liberia
next saturday. carrying about 600 freedmen
emigrants Nearly SOC, chiefly from Georgia
and South Carolina, have aierady tken pas
sage.
In the U. s. Court in Boston the suit of the
Union Paper Collar Company vs. Charles
Well Co, for infringement OF letters patent
by selling unlicensed paper collars. has been
decided-the defendants submitting to decree
for perpetual injunction.
Professor Harris, of the Bangor (Maine)
theological Seminary, was elected presideBi
OF the Bowdoin College, and General Cham
berlain has resigned the char of rhetoric and
oratory, in anticipation of his entering upon
his duties as Governor OF the State. * =
The superintendent of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company reports that the
ROBBERS who recently comwitted the depreda-
tons on that road have been captured by the
Franklin expedition.
The 6oat-race which was announced to
come of at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, yesterday,
between Gilbert Ward. of Cornwall, and Will
liam Stevens, of Poughkeepsie, has been post
poned until to-day.
The schooner Mary Jane, from Jackson willie,
FLORIDA, bound 10 New ork with lumber, ar
rived at Fortress Monroe Tuesday morning in
sinking condition, and was run ashore.
The steamer Henry Won Phil, from ST.
Lonls for New Orleans, with 800 bales of cot
ton has been burned above donaldson willie
Two live were lost by the accident.
Five women and children who were recently
taken prisoners by the Indians, have been
handed over to Colonel Larned, at Leaven.
worth
Over four hundred ernigrants, mostly OF the
poorer class, from North Carolina, bound to
the Western States, went North last night on
the Baltimore steamer from Fortress Monroe.
The trial of James Brown, coiored seaman,
for the murder of James Foster, on board the
bark Atlantic, in May last, resulted in Boston
Tuesday, in a verdict Of guilty.
The Society Of the Army of the Tennessee
met at Mozart Hall, Cincinnati, at II O'Clock
yesterday morning, and organized by electng
General Rawlings president.
The semi-annual meelng of the Illinois
Dental Society was IN session in Chicago,
Tuesday.
Governor Burnside, of Rhode Island, has
appointed Thursday, November 29, as thanks
giving day. -