Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-06-16
LATE KILOGRAMS, &c.

Gen. Buchanan has relieved the New Orleans
Gas Company nom an order Of Gen. Banks,
Issued - March. 1854, requiring said company
g uansfst to the Qnartermasters' Department
al stock handing On its books in the name of
persona in the ssfyice of the rebel eovernmsnt.
All secA eeeks wiA unpaid dividends sccro.
s H. q "a order sSs is relieved from the
At Jesonf park, New York, yesterday, the
FIRST race-fer sweepstakes-was won by Rap
ture, In l:C6&.. Betting was three TO one onl
lnvereauA. lxho oecond race was won by Ian
Trbana, and the fIf,h race BY Nemesis. .TSs
races appear to hASs been unusually spirited
and exciting. There was a large attendance,
and conssderabie money changed hands.
Further particulars from the disastrous fire
in Marquette, Michigan; on Lake Superior
state that every business house IN the Plaee,
without solitary exception, was burned to
the ground. Several very large ana costly
docks We're Destroyed. .ess fs.,.s -. :,
". w. Holden, Governor elect OF North
Carolina, will issue a proclamation to-day
converting the General Assembly on the LIST Of
July next state omeers are to be Installed as
The base ball match At Niagara Falls yester-
day, between the Atlantic Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
and Canadian club, was closed at the end of
the fifth inning by rain. The score stood 20 to
II, in favor Of the Atlantic.
An examination of the case of Isaac H. Davis,
Collector OF the Fourth District N. Y. charged
with perjury BY one Davis, resulted in the
has been arrested and held In one thousand
dollars bail on the charge Of perjury.
The British bark Istria was wrecked on the
10th instant OF Cape Hatteras. and out of q
crew Of twenty-six only three lives were
saved. She was laden with 1000 bales of cot.
ton, from New Orleans to Liverpool.
General Crawford, commanding at Louis
willie, repudiates the use of his name as q sup.
porter OF Judge Chase for the Presidency He
says he is earnestly in favor Of the election of
General Grant
The Allies have been repulsed in an attempt
to carry Humaita by storm, after a desperate
engagement The siege is still maintained and
the frontier closely invested by land and sea.
1t was announced in the English Parliament
last night that the Egyptian Government thinks
OF establishing Courts of law, for the protec-
ton Of foreign residents in that country
The Northern Railroad freight house and the
storehouse of Dodge, Davis & Williams at En-
held, New Hampshire, were burned yesterday.
Loss S20,O0O.
The blood-stained planks taken from the SPOT
In Ottawa where Darcy McCiee fell, have been
burnt, and the ashes sent to Montreal, TO be de-
posted in his grave.
Chicago court has decided that a telegraph
company is responsible for errors in the trans.
mission of dispatch, even if the dispatch is
not repeated.
No attempt was made yesterday in Louisiana
to inaugurate State officials, as called for in
Packard's two orders.
Reports Were prevalent in Mazatlan at last
advices, of a scheme for the secession of the
Northern Mexican States.
The North German Parliament has passed
bill authorizing loan for the enlargement and
improvement OF the Federal navy.
The nephew of Prince Michael has been de.
clared his successor, under the title of Milan
the Fourth.
OF Fire Underwriters will meet in Baltimore
to-day.