The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-18
A CHAPTER OF NEWS.

OF The agent of the Nicaragua Govern
ment offers donation of Land, and free I
passage to all emigrants.
PeRK-On Friday, pork was selling at Gin
cinnati at SIS. Lard at 1OH green meat ~ !
for shoulders; o14 for sides; IL for hams.
GTDr McWorkman of Boone county, has
been elected Superintendent of the State Blind
Institution at Indianapolis, in place of Prof
Larrabee, resigned
81 A company has been formed in Boston
to buy up all the Delaware reserve Lands, to be
sold by the Government around the city of
Leavenworth in Kansas, on the list inst
GA barrel and half of apples were sold
in Nashville, at auction for one hundred and
eleven dollars. The were choice specimens,
and were sold in lots of half a dozen, for five
and six dollars per lot.
o. The French government have postpon-
ed the reduction of the tariff till 1861, to give
the manufacturers five years to prepare them
selves for the introduction of free trade princi
pies.
~ Gen. John H. Eaton former Secretary
Of War under Gen. jackson, and the hus-
band of the famous Mrs. Eaton who ruptured
the Jackson unit, has suffered from paralysis
and is not expected to survive.
~ The American State Council of Massa-
chusetts met on the 18th, and recognized
and adopted new platform. They declare
their future objects to be opposition to eccle-
siastical influence of all sects in political af-
fairs-an open bible-free schools-a registry
law in all the States, and mo obligation of
the naturalization laws.
OF A large train of Mormons during the
summer travelled from Missouri to Salt Lake,
carrying all their plumber in hand carts, with
out teams. Each man was harnessed to his
cart, and the women and children made the
journey on foot. They travelled 20 and 80
miles per day, and arrived in advance of the
cattle wagons. They were received by Brig
ham and the faithful, with public welcome.
| o. 1t is said that according to the terms of
the Bulwer treaty, the United States have
guaranteed the transit of the mails across the
Isthmus from seizure and confiiscation, conse-
quently the Government is bound to reinstate
the Transit company whose line was broken
up by Walker and their property coniscated
by Nicaragua, or pay the damages the company
have suffered. This will create claim for
gress.
! " At the last dates money was growing
more and more stringent in London and Par
is. In England hopes were entertained that
the crisis would be passed there, without a
general explosion. There was division oil
opinion in regard to the ultimate fate of the
Bank of France. Some had lost confidence in
her ability to sustain herself others believed she
would weather the crisis. The bubble credit
Mobilier, it was thought by all, must explode
and leave widespread ruin and misery be-
hind, almost as disastrous as the South Sea
: Bubble Of the last century.
i " The great unconquered competitor in
steamship navigation, Commodore Wander
bilt is building two steamships to run down
the Harris and Morgan line, which has had fol
more than twenty years the entire monopoly
on the route from New Orleans to Galveston
and who, by their exactions and gross imposi.
tons, have caused immense retardation to the
growth and trade of Texas. Their large cap
ital and position have hitherto preserved theil
monopoly unassalable. The public will re-
joice to hear they are to have an opposition
hot hos VII JoI q lit
CEFThe treaty between the United States
and England, for the adjustment of mutua
, understanding between the two countries, il
regard to Central America, which has beer
negotiated by Mr.. Dallas has been received a
Washington. This treaty is to supercede the
Bulwer and Clayton treaty so far as it relate.
to the interests of the parties in Contra
, American affairs. 1t is said this negotiation
has been urged to conclusion by Mr.. Piercc
| and Secretary Marcy, to relieve Mr.. Buchanan
from the difficulty of managing an affair a
r President in which he exhibited so mucl
E gaucAere as Negotiator
o. England is about to be drawn into an
expensive and vexatious contest with Persia, t,
defend her Eastern possessions against the Sc
cret intrigues, as she supposes, of the Rus
slams operating through Persia. The fortres
and town of Herat is the key to India from
the North; it commands the only road, ant
passes from the Caspian Sea to the river In
L dus. 1t belongs to the Affghans, and by
treaty made by England with them in 1858
l she guaranteed the possession of Herat t.