Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-09-05
TELEGRAMS. &c.

The chairman OF the committee OF arrange.
Inents for the dedication OF the ational GENE.
te.y. which is to take place at ARtietaya. on
the 18th instant, announces that tbs progr am me
OF invitation warrant the expectation .kat
there will be in attendance, In addition to the
President OF the United States xnd several
members oil his Cabin ct, including Mr. Seward.
Chief Justice Chase and other Sisting isbed
officers OF the national capital, q large rropor.
ton OF the Governors of loyal STATES having
dead on the field. inclVding Governor Fen ton,
and some OF those, including Major Genera
burnside, OF Rhode Island, Maie7 General
FafCcnild, OF Maine and others VITO were in
thai battle.
The school imbroglio is drawing TO focus
IN New Orleans. The schools opsned on Mon
DAY, the day specified by law. under the au.
spices OF the old board Of directors The
directory appointed by the Coun Gil is restrained
from acton by writ quo Uarraato, returnah,e
on the 9th, befoee Judge Ruplsntier The
Council adopted resou.iou suspending the
schools until the lst Of October, on account of
heepidemic- The resolution amounts to MOTH
ing lf galIy, as the board OF school directors
exercise authority under State laws. The
RePHtiscGa has suggested cutting off supplies
from the schools as means Of overcoming che
diffcufty.
The final meeting OF the executive committee
of the Southern Relief Association was held in
New York Tuesday. The total cash receipts
have been s250,566 all of which has been ex.
pended. The amount Of corn purchased has
i
i'll aid of the South have been very nearly
three millions. This includes S573,Oao or
dered Oy Congress and expended tn ron gh the
sgency Of the Freedmeu's Bureau under Gen.
Howard.
The Republican (Michigan) State Convea.
ton met yesterday, and organized by electir.
Edward Raymore, president, who made an
appropriate speech on taking the char Res
oluttons We're unanimously adopted compli-
meDtary 20 Stanton and Sheridan and ia yor-
proRt ho
convention then nominated the following tick.
81: Lucius Fairchild for Governor; Secretary
OF State. Ihos. A: Allen; Treasurer. VIM. E.
Smith; Attorney General, Col. e. r. Gill.
The.North Carolina State Republican Con.
vention assembled at Raleigh yesterday. Six.
Iy-six counties were represented. Several O.
them by proxy. The proceedings were har-
mohious. A permanent organization was ef-
president. Gen. Alfred Dockery and Hon
Robert P Dick are among the vice presidents.
"A committee to draw up platform was Sc
iecNo "A mass meeting was held last night.
The Fenian Congress at Cleveland, Ohio, is
conducted strictly with closed doors. Tues.
session In the absence OF James Gibbons
president Of the Senate. Hon. ]. W. Fitzgerald.
speaker OF the House, presided. President
Gibbons arrived Tuesday evening. Preaident
Roberts read his annual message, which was
able and interesting, giving full and accurare
account or the dolngs OF the FenIans during
A sad catastrophe occurred Tuesday on
Lake Ontario, twenty rods from The iron forks
docks, in the town of Ontario, Wayne county.
a pleasant party of fourteen young persons
were taking sail on Lake Ontarle. and ON at.
tempting to turn the boat toward snere it was
capsizsd, and nine or the party, SIX girls and
three boys, Were drowned. None Of the bodies
have been recovered
The British bark George Fl. jenkins. at Sa
yaDnah. from New York, reports that when
off Barnegat she passed q wreck of vessel
with the miZZen mast and stern above water
The name was washed of. She hailed from
Nova Scotia, and was apparently about three
hundred tons burden.
II is not true, as stated in the Northern
papers. that General Pope has suppressed the
Albany Ncacs. 1t is also denied that private
instructions nave been issued forbiddinp
negroes from running for The convention
General Pope has issued his order for the eiec-
uun OF delegates to a State convention In ala.
bana, October 1st
Deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans
Tuesday, -. The Board of Health has declared
the fever epidemic. but describes il as being OF
mild type. communication was sent to
the Board OF Health announcing the reorgani-
Zs'ion OF the Howard Association, but that it
was entirely without funds.
Gen Sickies has appointed Beverly Nash, a
prominent negro in Columbia, ). g., to be 8
police magistrate.
merchants exchange was organized in Sa.
vaB nah yesterday