Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-12-17

OVERLAND DISPATCHES
GeorGin News.

nAhAHIht bVSs AEs"AA
fiance Of the Relief Ordinance passed
by the Convention, on Thursday the
Sheriff seized q store and closed it.
Gen. Pope was appealed to, and de-
clined to interfere, the ordinance mere
ly. saying that levies should be sus-
pended, but this does not prevent them
from being made.
A collision between o party OF ne
groes and the civil authorities is re-
ported in Ebert county, in which the
Sheriff and several whites and blacks
were killed. The difficulty originated
at o ball.
Toxus-Pcoplc In LoulsInna MT tho Point
OF starvation.
New YORK, Dec. IA New Orleans
special says Hancock is about to issue
an order for electing members of the
Reconstruction Convention in Texas to
occur within GO days.
Reports received at headquarters say
that three thousand whites and six
thousand blacks are at the point of star
walton in Louisiana. Hancock will ask
n Congressional appropriation for their
relief.
Commodore Russell's account of the
disaster to the Monongahela has been
published. Only FIVE lives were lost.
Tho vessel was ashore OF st. Croix, and
can perhaps be raised.
Wnshington Nows.
New YORK, Dec. IA Washington
special reports o conversation between
Sumner and three delegates of tho last
council of the Union League. Sumner
denounced the conservative Republicans
of Congress as the bane Of the party.
He said the great mistake of tho party
was the failure to impeach The President
and pass the Political Rights Bill. He
considered Grant q good soldier and
nothing more. He opposed the endors-
ing Of him for q Presidential candidate.
Report says the Austrian mission has
been offered to Montgomery Blair.
CHICAGO, Dec. l6.-A Times special
says a bill is about to be introduced re-
organizing the Patent Office, abolishing
the Office of Commissioners and Great
ing q Board of Commissioners, to be
appointed by the President, similar to
the method of France and England.
From this Board there will be no appeal
except to the Supreme Court.
Some of the Presidents friends are
urging the removal Of Gen. Pope and
the appointment of Meade, on the
ground that Pope has recklessly re-
moved civil and judicial officers merely
to subserve psrtizan purposes.
Destitution In the sonth-Rumorcd Ont
break In Mississippi.
New YORK, December l6.-The Her
AIDS Washington special says severe
distress is expected among tho whites
and negroes Of the south during the
Winter. In many instances starvation
is actually at the door.
Governor Humphreys, Of Mississippi,
has received such information of an in
tended outbreak among the negroes in
January that he has deemed it necessary
to issue q proclamation of warning
against such combination.
Fire in Brooklyn.
New YORK, December l6.-A fro yes
terday on Oxford street, Brooklyn,
burned four houses. Mrs. Boone and
four children were found in the ruins
alive, but with no hopes of saving their
lives.
Destructive Fire ut Fall River, Mass.
FALL RIVER, MASS, December l6-The
American Print Works were burned this
morning with all the machinery and q
large stock of calico. Five hundred
hands are thus thrown out of work.
Tho loss is q million and q half, being
the finest structure Of tho kind in the
country, and will probably occasion the
stoppage of many cotton mills.
Observation-Disclosures
WASHINGTON, December l6.-After the
introduction Of a number Of bills and
resolutions, House bill, repeating the
taxation on cotton, was considered.
Senate amendments were offered and o
long discussion ensued.
HoUsE.-A largo number of bills and
resolutions were introduced, several Of
which contained various financial prop
ositions looking to tho resumption of
special payment.
A resolution was offered reciting the
Presidents recommendation for the re-
peal of the Reconstruction laws, and
declaring Congress will never take q
retrograde step nor deviate from the
expressed purpose of protecting all men
equally before the law, and that there
is no reason to doubt tho restoration Of
the rebellious States being successfully
accomplished, and consequently no good
reason for the repeal of the Reconstruc-
- - NIL z.zI. -.a,aI H., a
strict party yote-ayes Ill, nays 80.