, 1872-08-22

PORTLAND, Me-, August 14.-Horace
Greeley arrived here this afternoon, aud
was received at the City Hall.
NEW York, August 15-Twenty-three
cases of sun-stroke occurred in this city
yesterday. five of which were fatal.
Seven cases occurred in Brooklyn.
The Sun says the report that Cuban
filibustering expedition is forming in
Canada is false.
CHICAGO, August 15-White & Wa
ver's menagerie exhibiting at Red Bud,
Monroe county, made an experimental
exhibition of rhinoceros IN the ring,
which resulted disastrously. The an
imal broke away, stampeded the audi
ence, killed two men, wounded sew
en- others, demolished the museum,
knocked down the center pole, and
rushed out of the tent and bolted into
an unoccupied house, where he was
captured. The damages was about
$1,000.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, August 16-The
Democratic and Liberal State Exe,u-
tive Committees were in conference at
Taladega. They agreed upon ticket,
consisting of two Liberals and two
Democrats, for Electors. The Liberals
are pledged to support the Democratic
State Ticket. which was nominated
prior to the Baltimore Convention.
Hartford. Conn, August 16-David
lark. of this city has written lett, r
i'll reply to dispatch of Gen. Howard
to Secretary Belknap, containing Clark s
reported conversation with Gen. How
ard. in regard to the court martial for
the trial of colored Cadet Smith, in
which Howard is alleged TO have stated
that the Secretary of War told him that
the President, i'll sparkling of the court
martial, expressed hope that the Sec
utary would so make up the Court as
to Smiths removal, as he ha / received
several letters from his son Fred, who
stated that Smith was very objection
able. Clark aflirms the correctness of
his statements, and says he could not
convince Gen. Howard of his forgetful-
ness in the matter. and in the absence
of Howard, calls upon the Secretary of
War to publish his -(Ciark's) letter to
Gen. Howard. written by agreement
soon after the conversation refered to,
with the request that he would hand it
to the President and Secretary of War,
apd copies of which he subsequently
informed Clark were placed in the
hands of those officials.
BosroN. August Greeley has
written the following lett to one of
his friends i'll this city:
DEARJUDGE: Yours Of the Sd finds me
here. News from North Carolina did
not Justify first reports; but if we work
hard, lam sure We will carry it in No
vember. We shall carry New Haml,-
shire, Connecticut, New York and New
Jersey This is the extent of our work
in the East. The rest will have to be
done in the South and West.
BosroN, August 17-Greeley arrived
here this afternoon, and left for New
York this evening.
1t is stated that a meeting held here
today, it was resolved to ask Charles
Francis Adams to be a. candidate for
Governor of Massachusetts. A telegram
on the subject is S lid 10 have been des-
patched to Geneva.
NASHVILLE, August 17--Andrew John
son spoke here to about three thousand
people; the speech was mainly against
the policy of placing military men in
civil Offices, and in favor of amnesty
Speaking of amnesty, he asked amnes-
ty for himself; it is inferred from this
that he desires a nomination for Con-
gressman at large.
CHICAGO, Aug. II Thirty-one Sta ties
have already organized and sent as
surance of full delegations.
MEMPHIS, August 17-Early this
morning a fisherman discovered the
steamer Helen Brooks afoat down the
river some ten miles above here, appar-
entity abandoned. Rowing out to her
he made line fast to his skiff and
started for land; before landing, how
ever. he disco .ered a negro sitting as
leep on the lower deck, with shot gun
in his lap. When the boat struck the
bank. the negro started up, jumped
ashore and ran into the woods. The
fisherman, on boarding the boat, found
traces Of desperate struggle. and the
decks covered with blood. He came to
the city at once, and reported what he
had done. Subsequently the Grand
Tower from st. Louis arrived here. the
officers bringing message from the
Magistrate at Bradley's Landing, Is
miles above, where the crew of the Hell
en- Brooks and proprietors. and the
family of trading boat which the Hell
en- Brooks had towed up. had been mur
dered, and the ship plundered. Assis-
tance was at once dispatched; the re-
port is that Capt. W. H. Pratt and broth