Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-23
OVERLAND DISPATCHES
Horace Greeley Nominated for tho Aus

trian Mission.
WASHINGTON, July 2l.-The President
has nominated Greeley to the Austrian
mission without consulting Mr.. Greeley.
Every member is said to have favored
the confirmation but one, Mr.. Upton of
Nebraska, who refused to take up the
matter because he signed the bail bond
ofJeffDavis and denounced Maximilian's
execution. All the colleagues Of Mr..
Upton, Republican and Democrats, en-
treated him to yield consent to consider
the nomination, but in vain. Grseley's
name, therefore, will have to be sent in
again next session.
The House Judiciary Committee held
a meeting and decided that as the i'm
parchment testimony was not presented
yesterday, it should not now be pub
lished, but remain under the seal OF
Congress.
Prizo Fights In Vow Jcrsoy.
New YORK, July 2l.-Two prize fights
took place in New Jersey on Saturday.
The first was between Bobby Wade and
Thomas Kavanaugh. Wade was the
winner. The other was between Laws,
% the infant" measuring six feet four
inches, and Johnny Hogan. The infant
knocked Hogan out Of time on the sew
euth round.
Specials TO tho New York Press.
New YORK, July 2l.-The Herdids
New Orleans special says General Sher-
idau has issued an order closing regis
tration on the 3lst of July.
General Braxtou Bragg, Superintend-
emit Of the Waterworks, charges Sher-
idan's appointees in the street commits
sion with waste of water in cleaning the
streets, and threatens prosecution. The
Commissioner replies that no more water
is used than is necessary, and reports
that prosecution may be followed by Il
substitute of officers for the Waterworks
Company.
The HsraldsFort Wallace special says
that Clusters command reached there on
the 18th and 18th of July. They found
the bodies of Lieutenant Kidder aud ten
men of the Second Cavalry, who had
been sent with dispatches from Sherman
10 Custer. The Indians overlook them
on Beaver Greek. General Custer then
left Fort Wallace for Fort Riley with 10
picked men, and reached there in fifty
Ave hours.
The Reralds New Orleans special says:
Late advices from Vera Cruz state that
the body of Macmillan will be delivered
to the Austrian legation. The remains
are now on the way to Vera Cruz.
There is no truth in the report that
foreign Consuls have been molested in
Mexico.
The Hsrald's Fort Phil. Kearuy special
says Judge Kinney, Special Indian Com
missioner, has just concluded a highly
satisfactory council with eighteen hun
dred Crow Indians at this place. They
are anxious to join m expedition against
the Sioux. While in council, the Chey-
euues ran off their horses. The Crows
secured them, killing three Indians.
The Hsrdld's Toronto correspondent
says the local government Of the Prov
ince Of Ontario, Dominion Of Canada,
was completed on Saturday evening by
the appointment of Cameron rs Secre-
,ary and E. B. Wood as Receiver. Cen
eral election preparations continued
with great vigor. The reformers were
greatly divided.
The Heralds Washington special
learns that it is the intention Of Secre-
tary Seward not to send n Minister to
Mexico, as a retsliatory Measure for the
rejection Of his message concerning the
life of Macmillan, and for the purpose
in the event Of a foreign wal against
Mexico, of showing the chiefs Of that
boastful republic the full extent of their
dependence on the United States.
Horrible Condition of Affairs In Texas.
GALVESTON, July Carbohydrates
are overwhelmed with reports Of out
RACES in the Red River country. The
colored people dare not accept appoint
ment as registers for fear of their lives.
Judge Latimer, a prominent Texan, has
resigned his appointment in the Bureau,
being afraid Of the chief outlaw named
Grist. The colored people flee to the
woods IN his approach. He was once
arrested, but escaped. In Steering,
Robinson county, the colored church
was assaulted and W men and one
woman killed. Captain Randall, the
Bureau Agent, raised one hundred freed
men and arrested two of the ringleaders.
The surrnrt Trial.
WASHINGTON, July 22.-In the Surratt
trial, Rev. Charles Boucher said the
prisoner was at St. Lebaire, Canada,
about the 22d Of April. The prisoner
remained in my house three months,
and after that went to Montreal; saw
him from time to time until he went to
Europe; did not for some time know it
was Surratt; when I learned that was
his name l did not report to the author
i.ies because | believed him innocent.
Maurice Drahan testified to having fer
ried the prisoner across the river at
Elmira on the l4th of April, 1865.
A Reported Indian Massacre Contra
dicted.
ST.. LOUIS, July ga telegram from
General A. j. Smith, dated Fort Harker,
July Goth, to General Sherman, at head
quarters, states that reliable information
has been received that the Bishop Lar
ney party, recently reported attacked by
| the Indians neal Fort Larned, the meu
killed and women taken captiyes, passed
Fort Dodge, ifty-fve miles west of Fort
Larned, in company with a large train,
on the 10th instant. The reported mas.
sacre must therefore be false.
FROM MEXICO.