Northern News.
The New York
Herald of the 11th instant, received in
Petersburg, contains very little news.
A very large meeting for
McClellan was held in New York on Wednesday.
The chief point, in a very long and nonsensical report of it in the
Herald, seems to have been the firing of a cannon when "the
McClellan flag was seen slowly to rise."
The
Indians are again very troublesome in the
Northwest.
Washington correspondence says that
Grant wants
Meade removed, and that
Butler will be
Secretary of War if
Stanton resigns.
Lincoln is said to favor
McClellan's return to the army.
The
Washington Chronicle of the 11th says that
General Smith had left
Memphis another expedition.