Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-08-20
TELEGRAMS. &c.

A dispatch from Augusta, Ga. says Consid-
erable feeling is caused by General Pope's or
der No. ~, ana hie letter TO General Gram
Tne press are agitating call for q State con-
ixeo snort In opposition 10 reorganiztng under
the military bill Quite 8 number of papers
favor the calling of the convention. Ooanty
meetings are being held in Alabama TO elect
delegates TO Conservative Con yeption to he
beld At Montgomery on the Attn Of Sep,ember
Republican organizations have been estas.
South, preparatory TO conducting a yigo,ops
campaign in favor Of reoonstru ction under
the military bills.
In Bowling Green, Kentucky, last weer an
old citizen named Hiram A. Dor naldson s.ahhea
his son Thomas. aged twenty-one, to the hear.
killing him instantly. The wife OF the mpr
derer left him last week on account OF erns,
treatment, but returned with her son on ne
day OF the tragedy to take away her personal
property. While engaged thus the fatal a,rs'r
occurred The murderer was unmoved by mis-
awful deed, and only said, when arrested IN al
he wished Ii had been any other OF his boys
as he always liked Thomas the best'
So far as heard from the recent rain. have
done no serious damage to the crops In the
South. The corn and cotton crops i'm Alabama
are better than they have been for many years
The yield of corn is immense and the cotton
prospect very fiattering. the worm as vet ex-
citing bnt little apprehension. Accounts from
Texas, Louisiana. and the southern Missls-
ippi are disastrous. The worms and over
flows have destroyed half the crops.
Ihe first instalment OF Hon. ID Arav McCfee's
account Of the attempts 10 establish Fenianism
Montreal appears IN Saturday morn,ne,s
papers ia that city, and occupy six columns.
The second portion Of the memoirs is promised
Today. He states that he only uses Informs
tion IN bis own possession, and not documents
obtained from the Government.
Registration in Columbi s. C. yesterd.v
60 whites and Il colorsd. There were regis.
tered IN charleston yesterday fS1, OF whom
go are whites and 272 blacks In Wilmino,on
N G., the registration in the fret ward yeetsr
day SHOWS Sc whites and 2l3 iacks-the board
OF registration refusing to allow LAWYER. and
many others to register.
During an excursion on Sunday OF the en-
ployees Of the Hartford & New Haven rail-
ford, little sen Of Thomas Hanlon while in
bathing got beyond MS depth. and began TO
sink. His father, in trying to rescue HIM, was
drowned. The boy, however, was saved
Judge j. w. q. Horne, prominent citizen
OF Sumter county, Georgia, was murdered by
party of freedmen. Five were arrested by
the military, and have been imprisoned At Ma
con, tour OF whom confessed participation in
the crime.
Correspondence from Havana contains an
account of the suicide OF a young American
girl by shooting herself with a revolver while
at supper with some friends No cause is as.
signed except that her lover had left her
The Athle ic Base Ball Club, OF Phila adelpnia.
played match game with the Union, of Nor.
Ilsania, New YORK, yesterday, In which the
former were victorious by score of o TO TO-
Emgrsnts are pouring into Honduras from
the Southern States OF America A newspaper
mas already been started by refugees.
The sum Of Sl50.0OO was received in Rich
mond yesterday TO pay the expenses OF regis
tration in Virginia.
The submarine cable to Cuba is expected 10
work complete change in commercial trans.
actions there.
A free academy for the musical education OF
Cubans has been established in Havana.
1t is asserted that at the recent riot al Matan
Zas many seditious voices were heard