The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-10-26
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs.

EDITORIAL BREV1TIES.
~ The Governor of Nebraska, Mr.. lizard.
has rendered his resignation, and requested
the President to relieve him Immediately.
- There are eleven persons in the Jail of
Allegheny county, Pa, awaiting their trial
for murder.
~ A DR.. Williams, who lost $40 900 by
the Ohio Life and Trust Company, has CON-
mitted suicide by hanging himself.
~ Richard Taylor, only son of the late
President Taylor, is the Democratic candi-
date for the Senate of Louisiana in the st.
Charles District.
~ The citizens of Paducah held meet
ing on Friday week, and passed resolutions
advising the banks to suspend.
- The expose of Gen. Pillow has Gre
ated great excitement in Mexico, Santa Anna
being posted as the traitor who sold his
country for "million of dollars, receiving
10000 down." Many prominent citizens
have been arrested for completely.
- The work on the Niagara Hydraulic
Canal is suspended. 1t is hoped, however,
that it will soon be resumed with larger
force Of laborcrs.
~ The Boston Journal has seen spec
linen of wrapping paper made from the fibre
of the Chinese Sugar Cane. 1t says the
specimen proves conclusively that paper can
be made from that plant.
.B- The pupils of the public schools of
| Cincinnati have contributed 5000 to the
Herndon fund for the benefit of his family.
~ The Governor of Maryland has ap-
piled TO the President for troops to protect
the polls in Baltimore during the State cleo
| ton.
~ In Cincinnati, a few nights since, a
Mr.. Barnes was knocked down and had his
pockets rifed by two miscreants who made
good their escape. Night attacks are becom-
ing frequent in the "Queen City,
.y- The Lake Superior Republican says
that any amount of female help is wanted
there, and that girls can command from S12
to $50 per month.
~ The Parkersburg (va.,) News COM
| plains that there is u great scarcity of me-
chanics in that town.
~ Winter schools are t. be established
in Philadelphia for the benefit of the colored
population.
~ 1t is stated that Lewis Cass, jr., has
positively resigned his position at Rome.
sB-It is proposed in Illinois to amend
the marriage law, so as to require the pros
pective husband and wife, to enter, on record
a written declaration of intention to marry.
sB-The Boston papers speak Indignantly
of the "horrible state ofmorals" in Baltimore.
At the same time they publish the details of
three cold blooded murders, and number
of other crimes recently committed in their
own city.
B-"Astounding developementsn are
threatened respecting delinquencies of the
Merchants and Manufacturer's Bank of Pitts
burgh.
~" There was a revolt among the priso-
ners in the Missouri penitentiary on the 2lst
inst, in which nearly 800 prisoners armed
themselves with stones and missiles and as
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fired upon the rebels, killing one and wound
ing several.
~ James o. Brayman, the Chicago edi-
tor who stole money from the post-office, has
confessed the crime and waived trial. He
is middle aged man in comfortable circum-
stances, held good social position, and was
a deacon or elder in one of the Baptist
churches of Chicago.
- Collins new steamship Adriatic can
not get to sea; there is still difficulty with
her machinery; it will not work.
20 1t is found that cases of delirium ire
mems have increased ten fold in number in
two years at the hospital in Cincinnati. The
increase is attributed to the poisonous ingre-
dients used in liquor and lager beer.
~ The Governors of New York and
Pennsylvania have each appointed the seth
of November as day of thanksgiving.
~ Hon. Edward Everett announces his
, intention to make a winter tour through the
South and Southwest, accepting various in
vitations to deliver his address on Wishing
, ton.
} ~ As winter approaches accidents to
| crinoline from fire become numerous. A
young lady in Maryland last week lost her
life by her clothes taking fire. The warning
} should be needed.
So The panic is seriously affecting the
business of newspapers. Many will 60 out
{ of existence. In Chicago the publishers pro-
pose to reduce the size of their papers. Adj
vertising is lighter chan it would have been
but for the financial troubles, and the pub
} fishers are not disposed to provide larger
space for advertisers than they rquire.
N-The Police in New York arres ted
Joseph F. Perry with $4,000 in counterfeit
money in his pocket.
Perry is the bail of Mrs. Bogus Burdell
Cunningham. The Supreme Court have re-
, versed the decision of the Lower Court ad-
, hitting Mrs. c to bail and she will be Or
dered into custody.