The evening Argus., 1869-06-04
Exaggerated Reports from
The Frontier.
GRANT AND DELANO
FRATERNAL.
SIX MILLIONS GOVERNMENT
COIN AT San FRANCISCO.
CONVENTION OF UyITERsALISTS.
Crop Reports from Virginia.

READING, Pa, June 3.--Ihe thirty eighth
annual state con yentOn Of the | Uniyersalst
denomination convened here yesterday after
noon. Seven cleTgymeu and twelve lay
delegates we're in attendance. A number Of
associations were represented. Rev. Moses
Ballou, Of Ohio, was re elected president of
the convention. The main business is to
secure a more permanent organization, and
steps we're taken to secure the appointment
Of q financial secretary to exercise general
business supervision over the affairs of all
the churches connected with the OrganI1a-
tion. Rev. DR.. Brooks, Hon Henry Moore
and Lewis Brine were elected delegates to
the United States general convention to be
held at Buffalo, the third Wednesdayin Sep.
tcmber.
BosToN, June A. p. Lorring, the
Captain Of the Harvard University Boat
Club, has sent an acceptance Of the chal.
ienge Of the Cambridge University Club, Of
England, to row four Dared race this sum.
mer.
New YORK, June 1T is stated that the
steamer Hero, which sailed yesterday for st.
Thomas, had full cargo Of provisions and
ammunition for Cuba. An expedition Of
2j0 men is announced to sail from here next
Monday for Cuba.
Mr.. Fisk has decided to close the grand
Opera House in this city which be purchas.
ed Of Mr. Pike Mr.. Fisk states that his
losses have been so heavy in his theatrical
adventures elsewhere that in spite Of the
fact that the opera house is filled every
night he is compelled to close, and Satur.
day night will witness the last performance
therein.
1t ia stated that the Spanish minister in
Washington has become unoasy about the
slow progress Of the Peruvian monitors 20.
ward home, especially since he has learned
that Peru has recognized the belligerents in
Cuba, and that Cuban envoy has arrived
in Lima to ask the loan Of the monitors
lie accordingly called Secretary Flsh's At.
tenton to these matters, and said he thought
the monitors were lying among the India
Islands longer than necessary. The Peru
Wan minister informed Secretary Fish in
answer to their complaints that monitors
could remain in the West Indies till late in
the summer, as winter was the most Iagora.
bic weather for their passage through the
straits of MagcIlon. This explanation being
given by Mr. Fish to the Spanish minister
with the information that Peru had given
bonds not to use the monitors to aid the
Cubans appeared to modify his uneaslneSs
1t is stated that the subject Of the recent
Indian outrages on the Smokey Hill, Saline
and Republican rivers aud on the line ofthe
Kansas Pacific railroad in Kansas, has
been very earnestly considered by the presi.
dent, Secretary Of War, Gen. Sherman
and the Commissioners Of Indian affairs,
and the western congressman have urged
immediate action for the protection OF the
frontier from predatory bands of Cheyennes
and SciouX, Senator Ross called upon the
President and recommended the propriety
Of statiouiug military garrisoHs along the
frontier at proper points and OF furnishing
additional troops for that purpose. The
President stated be was fully determined to
take steps for the suppression Of future depre
dations, and would follow his recommends
tons. He also said the necessary orders
would be dispatched to General Schohed at
once All bands absent from reservations,
will be treated o. out laws, aud presden.
tial proclamation to that effect will soon be
promulgated.
RICHMOND, Va, June "A committee
appointed by the colored state convention,
waited upon Gen. Candy to-day with pc
tition that he should issue an order giving
coIored people equal rights in cars and
steamboats,. Gen. Candy declined to inter,
fere in the matter aud referred them to the
courts as the proper place for redress If any
grievance existed.
Rust has appeared 10 the wheat in this
vicinity and the crops about here will be re.
duced one half
Gen. Lee has expressed himself in favor
Of the adoption Of the expurgated consti.
tuition and the election Of Mr.. Walker, the
| candidate Of the conservative republicans
for governor.
WAsHINGToE, June 4-The Indian bu'
reau has received no official information
whatever Concerning the recent Indian dis.
turbancesf accounts Of which are published
in newspapers. The comwl lsslOneTs, there
fore, think they are eKaggersslons.
There is authority for saying the rumors
circulating about disagreement between the