The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-10-27
EDITORIAL BREyITIES.

~ Capt. Van vliet, recently arrived from
Utah, has travelled over 2400 miles by land |
since the LIST Of August. He passed week
in Salt Lake city, and was treated with much
distinction and hospitality. But the Nor
mons, in all their public declarations, and in
their private conversations, boldly avowed
their determination to oppose the entrance of
the troops, and the officers appointed by the
Government, and to destroy the city, if nee
essary, before they will submit to the Gov.
eminent.
They say they have provisions sufficient
for three or four years, and that they will re-
sist to the last. DR.. Bernhisel, Delegate to
Congress from Utah, arrived in company
with Capt. Van Vliet.
20 An accident occurred to the passenger
train on the Covington and Lexington Rail-
road on Thursday last, near Paris. The
train was thrown from the track, but the
only injury sustained was by Col. Thomp.
son, the Adams Express Messenger who had
several of his teeth knocked out.
~ The present force at the Newport Bar
racks amounts to two hundred and twenty
five men. Applications for enlistment are
more numerous at present than at any time
previous for several years.
~ The Eagle and Enquirer office at
Memphis was set on fire on Friday night, but
was extinguished without much damage.
IL The Secretary of War accompanied
by Gen. Scott and others, inspected the va
rious forts in the harbor of New York on
Friday last.
~ The propeller Reindeer, running be-
tween Chicago and Montreal went to pieces
at Point au Sable on the 18th inst. and oil
hands except two were lost.
~ A stern wheeled steamboat was con
sumed by fire at Louisville on Saturday
morning.
~ Crime and contempt of law prevail to
q fearful extent in many of our cities and
towns, arising out of the loose manner in
which the law is administered in criminal
cases. Nine times in ten the guilty escape
after going through the usual farce styled
a trial, the result Of which is moblaw and
individual impunity.
~ Over $4,000 pupils attend the public
schools in New York city daily.
~ The Rev. John Pierpont has an.
nounced his conversion to Spiritualism.
sN The mechanics and laborers of Da-
venport, Iowa, appear TO be in better circum
stances than those in most other towns. A
gentleman states that he finds it almost i'm
possible to procure wood sawyer, and paic
the last he employed 81 so a cord. Laborer
demand 81 % per diem, while teams are q
high as 80 so.
~ All the available vessels of the Uni
ted States Navy are employed in watchin;
the fillibusters in the Gulf of Mexico anc
Caribbean Sea.
sE A treaty recently concluded with tn
Pawnee Indians secures to the United State,
ten or twelve millions Of acres of land
These Indians pledge themselves to remain
!, at peace with the United States, and to us
their influence with the neighboring tribes t.
the same end.
cy- Lord Napier is daily receiving hun
dreds of applications from American citizen
for employment in the British Army in In
dia.
~ The amount Of specie now in tn
country is estimated at s2s9, 345,54,74.
- 1t is stated that from the Methods
Book Concern in New York there have beef
men discharged who had grown old in it
, employ, and three women who are sevent,
years Of age. The concern retains onl
eighty Of its three hundred hands.
H Tho property of the late Mr.. Thayer
, of Boston is estimated at three and hal
I millions.
3 tB A man recently died in New York
from the effects of injuries received by swal
> lowing set Of false teeth.
\ ~ The belligerent editor of tho Nov
3 York Herald says, ''let any of the govern
o ments of Europe give us at this time but hal
r a chance, and We will overrun Cuba like
q tornado. Before three months are ont, on
q people will be ready and anxious for revolu
, ton or revolt anywhere"
- The various charitable associations G
Philadelphia are preparing to commence op
n erations the present winter ut much earle
; period than usual. One association alon
has for.several years contributed some $50 90
annually to assist the needy.
.B- The U. S. Government is taking meas
J. ures to ascertain the effects of the revulsio
Il upon the foreign commerce Of the country
h and upon the consumption of imported good:
81 A letter from Tunis announces tn
proclamation of constitution containin
u many important reforms, political and re
It liglous, brought about by the British Consu
l. General, whose arguments were backed by
n fleet of eight French ships of war.
S 20 A serious riot recently occurre
q among the salt boilers of Onondaga, n. Y
=. in consequence of several manufactures
shipping salt contrary to the regulations {
5 the Salt Dealers Association. Over 800 bar
j rels were thrown into the canal by mot
o Several salt blocks were demolished, and tw
# canal beats scuttled.
~ A woman cowhided a school teache
in Cincinnati last week, for having chas
tised her son.
st ~ The mania for self-destruction con
N t;puac 70 pravail in C;poippot; 70 al 49,,