Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-10-04

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furnish two batteries of six guns each.
Grant not having carried out the agree
ment, Governor Swan has purchased q
single battery of six guns.
Revenue inspectors Mobbed in Attempt-
ing to Seize nlioit Whisky Stills.
PHILADELPHIA, October 3.
The Revenue Inspectors made a raid
on the unlicensed whisky stills in the
part of the city Saturday last,
but were driven off by the people in the
vicinity. To-day they made another
raid with an increased force, but Jared
worse than on Saturday, having seven
Of their party badly wounded by bricks
and pistol shots. They seized several
stills.
Annual Meetins Of the American Bible
Union.
NEW YORK, October 8.
A meeting of the American Bible
Union was held to-day. The receipts
for the year were $55, 900. Expenses,
$4,000. Six hundred thousand bibles
have been issued, and a million and
three-quarters tracts and quarterlies.
Dickens to Commence His Readings In
America the First Of December.
BosroN, October 3.
Charles Dickens telegraphs that he
will come to this country and give n
series of readings, commencing the first
of December.
The Cotton Crop-Union Pacific Railroad.
WASHINGTON, October 3.
The statistical bureau estimates the
cotton crop in Alabama, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi and Florida at 937 ,653 bales.
The Union Pacific Railroad is COM
pleted- 455 miles west Of Omaha.
Heavy Failure Congressman Danger
ously Ill.
ST. LOUIS, October 3.-Lamb & Quin-
Ian, a heavy -four and commission house
have suspended.
Thos. E. Neill, Congressman from
Missouri, dangerously i'll.
WASHINGTON News.
WASHINGTON, October 3.-Henry How
ard, an attache of the British Legation,
was married to-day to Miss Cecilia
Riggs.
Postage to Schleswig and Laneburg
by Prussian close mail has been reduced
to the same rate as to Prussia.
Grant, in a conversation with two Re-
publican Congressman, in reply to n di-
rect question, said if it should appear
to. be the will Of Providence and the de-
sire of the American people that he
should be President, he would not feel
at liberty to resist the n nor disap-
point the other.
General Mower telegraphs to Grant
that q Convention has been called in
Louisiana by a small majority.
A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala,
says a hundred thousand votes have
been cast, nearly all by negroes, and nil
in favor Of o Convention.
The Branch Mint at Charlotte, North
Carolina, will soon be put in operation
for assaying purposes only. 1t is rep
resented that the receipts ofgold at this
mint ore on the increase from North
Carolina and contiguous States.
Specials TO the New York Press.
New YORK, October "a Times spe-
cial says the nteligeneer officially de-
MES the statement that Judge Under
wood and District Attorney Chandler
have consulted Government relative to
the trial of jeff. Davis. Government
has takan NO action in--tho matter and
contemplates none.
Secretary Browningh as returned and
emphatically c%ontradicts the story that
he is about to resign.
The President has pardoned Alexan-
der II. Stephens and R. NJ. T. Hunter.
The Cabinet to-day sustained the po-
sition of Secretary Wells relative to the
conflict Of authority at Philadelphia.
The Cabinet had a spicy debate on
the question Of making uniform hours
for clerical service in all the Depart
ments. McCulloch and Grant favored
eight hours. Seward and Wells bitter
" opposed it. McCulloch produced o
law passed thirty years ago, which has
not been repealed, providing for eight
hours service from October to April.
The law has been openly violated for
fifteen years.
A Herald special says a report is cur
rent of a conspiracy in the Cabinet to
drop johnson and 60 for'Chase as the
Presidential candidate, using the Inter-
nal Revenue Department for that pnr-
pose.
Commissioner Rollins says that by
act of Congress all afidavits are released
from stamp duty.
A Times special says the President
thinks the amnesty proclamation would
disrupt the Radical party if properly
managed. If the Courts decide, as he
thinks they will, those pardoned will
be restored to full citizenship, and if
Congress persists in its refusal to allow
them to vote, the people would flock to
the support Of the Judiciary.
Rumors of a change in the. War Office
are again circulating. 1t is stated that
either General Blair or Thomas Ewing
will be appointed inside Of a week.
The case of jeff. Davis has not been
considered in the Cabinet, as stated.
Edward Cooper, who was defeated
for Congress in Tennessee, will be ap-
pointed as the Presidents Private Sec
rotary.
There is good authority for believing
that the resignation of Chandler, Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury, will be
accepted and @. E. Creery will be APP
pointed to succeed him.
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TIE Marysville Appeal intimatos that
the Sacramento. Union, in 1852, was.a