Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-18
MAIL GATHERINGS is.


mon settlement at Council Bluffs.
A stone resembling back flint, and weighing
ID pounds, fell on Wednesday night, near
Carthage, in Ohio 1t is supposed to have
been discharged from the volcanoes in the
moon,
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in America, will convene in annual SEES
sion in Baltimore on the 18th inst.
It's said that the county judges of Alabama
are sending in their designations by scores
Cause-A reduction by the last legislature,
whichrenders the office beggarly one.
There is man in Wisconsin by the name
of Atherton, who, in one week in January
last, thrashed four hundred bushels of wheat,
three constables and forty deputy sherifs
The Pensacola Gazette describes the Arcadia
Cotton Factory, which is now in successful
operation. 1t is worked entirely by slave la
Dor, runs twenty-four looms, and turns out
1000 yards cotton per day.
A ToAsT.-Subscribers who cheat the Prin-
ter; t'May they have an everlasting ITCH, and
never be allowed to SCRATCH"
Remember" said trading quaker to his
son, Sin making thy way through the world
that a spoonful of oil will go farther than a
quart of vinegar"
An intelligent person once sent note to a
waggish friend, requesting the loan of his
'snoose paper" and received in return his
friends marriage certificate.
O~FThere are in France "a millions of Ro
man Catholics, aad only some few thousand o
Protestants. So says Mr.. Cheever, delegatt
from the Paris Tract Society.
The New York Sun says "Any one whC
looks at Horace Greeley's boots and breaches
could have no doubt that he is in favor of cLA'
and no friend of TAYLOR.
Mrs Fantading says she never received bu
one synonymous letter in her life, and tina
shoke paragorically of all her acquaintance
We once heard of young lady who sal
there were but two things, which, in lookin
over her past life she regretted: and one of thes
was, that she didn't eat more cake when he
sister Fanny was married.
James S. Rollins, of Boone county, Mo-, ha
been nominated as the wing candidate for Go,
ernor Of that's State.
! ELoPEMENT AND AMALeAMATIoN.-T \
Il Y. papers mention an elopement case in tn;
city of a beautiful white girl, only II, with
colored man.
The returns of the Virginia elections con'ir
4 ue tocome in but slowly. The Washingto
Union makes out thus far Locofoco gain {
4 IL members Of the Legislature, and VIII
/ gain OF ), making the nett Wing loss =
4 Doubles the majority in the Legislature wi
be Loco. -
LIcENsEs.-On Tuesday of last week, the al
4 thorities Of New York renewed $3.50 taver
4 licen ses, for which the city received the SUI
of S37, 800. The Sons should be up and doir
in that quarter.
4 ~ Mrs. Julia Webster Appleton, onl
daughter of DANIEL WEBSTER. died in Boston
on Friday week On the afternoon of the san
day, the barque Chief, from Vera Cruz. arrive
at Boston with the remains Of Major EDwAE
WEBSTER, who had died recently near the cit
of Mexico. M Is
BANKS IN THE UNITED STATEs.-The aggr
gate number Of banks in the United States
753; capital 208,2l6,00o dollars; circulate
sll6,7 38000; supposed specie in their vaul
944, 783 900. a
Q~sI It is said company have it it confer
plation to establish sheet tin mandatory
.Pittsburg. Block tin is principally imports
from Peru, and forms only about one-tenth
the composition of which sheet tin is compo
ed. The other ingredient is iron. We are n
aware that there is, at the present time,
sheet tin mandatory in the United States.
0~EThe Louisville Journal asks-Why h
the President withheld Gen. Pillows nomin
etion from the Senate during the whole fl
months that body has been In session? "
20 presume the reason is plain enough. He know
chat the nomination when submitted, will
dismissed without division, and SO he
fpostponing it for the purpose of afording
; infamous pet the pay and emoluments of a N
jor general as long as possible.
+ Father Mathew, the Irish Apostle of Tel
e perance, has written letter to Captain Knigl
of the packet ship New World, in which
/ says:
CHOW that am, thank God, recovered, / s
l. no difficulty to my intended departure in A
o gust, and shall with the divine Blessing /;
if suredly take passage under your command,
IS the 2lst of that month.
n MORTALITY OF GEoRGIANs IN MEXICO
Of letter in the Columbus (Ga.) Times, from
st officer in the Georgia infantry battalion, dat
at the city of Mexico says:
OF nearly four hundred men who left Colul
bus in the five companies we have not me
1t than forty for duty. About thirty five are
n hospital in Jalapa, and the remainder in that
S Perote.
3 England's moral and mental greatness is {
a silly accounted for from the fact that among t
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