The Evansville daily journal., 1856-11-15
A CHAPTER OF NEWS.

road.
0I7-At Oswego, New York, on the 1st inst,
the snow was eighteen inches deep, and rail
road trains were delayed, and one train was
six hours going thirty miles.
CEF 1t is penal offence for any bank to is
sue, and for any person to circulate, small notes
less than $5, after this date, in Tennessee, ex-
cept it be notes of the State Bank.
Or TIE three brothers Washburne, mem
bers of the present Congress, and all Republi-
cans, are reelected. One halls from Maine,
another from Illinois, and the third from Wis
consin
0FThe Wabash Valley Road, from Toledo
across Indiana to the connection with the
Great Western, and thence over the Terre
Haute and Alton to st. Louis, was opened ON
the 10th instant.
Ex-senator Douglas term does not expire
till 1859, and the triumph of the Republicans
in electing majority of their party to the
Legislature Of Illinois, does not effect him.
0EFThe St. Paul (NIinnesota) Pioneer esti-
mates the population of that city at L, 600,
and Of the territory at nearly 100000. In
1849, st, Paul did not contain 500 inhabitants
0ET tits proposed to lay submarine tele-
graph from the Cape of Florida, via Key West,
to the Island of Cuba, and thus bring Havana
in connection with the great telegraphic world.
A petition is to be presented to the Legisla-
ture of Florida, to incorporate the company.
0F The Presidential Electors meet on the
first Wednesday in December in all the States
to cast their votes for President. Our State
law requires them to meet on the first Mon
day, but the law of Congress is paramount,
and is the one to be observed.
6FWithin the few days past quite large
number of British soldiers, recently engaged in
the Russian war, have enlisted in the U. S..
service on Governors Island. Many of them
have the Crimean medal bestowed by the Brit
ish government, which they are still permitted
to wear.
" The New York Herald announces that
the following worthy gentlemen will be candi-
dates for U. S. Senator, next winter, at Alba
ny: Horace Greely, James Watson Webb.
VIM. G. Bryant, Henry j. Raymond and Jas.
Gordon Bennett. The Herald will support the
latter, we presume.
OF It is said that the Irregularities of the
Emperor Napoleon's private life, have not only
affected his bodily health but his brain His
long visit to the seashore has been prolonged
by orders of his physicians, to keep him from
the temptations of female society in Paris.
These things are the talk, it is said, of Paris.
OF A plan is on foot to purchase the entire
salt property in the Kanawha, Va, Salines,
and to place all the furnaces under the man.
agement of one company. They yield 300 COO
bushels of salt per annum. The purchasers
are Eastern Virginians, and will raise $1,000,
600. If this succeeds we shall have to pay
dear for our salt, and be at the mercy of mo-
nopolists.
Of There are, it is said, now more than
100000 worth of furniture at the large
factories in Cincinnati, waiting for water, fol
shipment Mitchell, Rammelsburg & Co., in
that city, are the largest manufacturers of fur
niture in the world Their sales amount to
near 100000 per annum. We have dealt
with this large house, and can recommend
them.
" Bits of the old Charter Oak, at Hart
ford, are in great demand to be made into
cases, boxes, and various fancy articles as me-
mentoes of the old tree. A gentleman from
Canada. recently applied for a limb to send tc
Queen Victoria. The roots of the tree still
live, and young sprouts are flourishing round
the old stump which has been enclosed with
high picket fence, to defend it from depre-
dations.
i EFMr. Fillmore did not carry the vote in hi;
own city, Buffalo. Mr. Buchanan failed ia
get the vote of Lancaster, his own county
Mr.. Fremont did not carry the city nor county
: of New York where he resides. Neither did
either of the candidates for the Vice Presi
dency carry the votes of their own neighbor.
hoods, as far as heard. I his is verifcatior
of the old proYerb. that prophet is not with.
out honor.
= 0EFA wager of a thousand dollars has beer
made in N. York, by Brougham, the actor, thai
he and his company will perform play in
Philadelphia, and one in New York, on ths
same night. The arrangement to win it, is tc
play farce early in Philadelphia and close
there by eight O'Clock; then, by an express
train travelling fifty miles per hour, they viii
reach New York at 10 O'Clock, and play an
extravaganza at the Circus To prevent acci
dents the whole length of the road IS To be IL