The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-20
News Summary.

scented petitions To the Commissioners of
Harrison for that purpose, but their petitions
have been rejected. A
B% The news boat of the Associated .
Press was run over by the steamship City
of Washington, at New York and swamped. .
Through the exertons of Captain Bennett |
and his bargemen, the news collector and !
his men were rescued from drowning. { 1
E9P A safe has been invented which |
locks On the inside, and leaves no key hole !
or other opening. A clock work within
opens it at an hour regulated by being set
before the door is shut. i
BSE@Twenty-one canal boats, laden with
grain and produce, are frozen in at Fulton
vile, New York Further efforts to reach the
tide-water this season have been abandoned.
BGa, Two men in Cincinnati have made
match to eat mush and milk for $40 and
the championship The one who bursts
first loses.
Ga The citizens of Hanover, Pa, are
about to organize a gas company, as pre-
liminary measure for lighting up the town
in the absence of moonlight.
Bag@ The Mississippi Legislature has
passed law granting divorces to all parties
who have lived separate three years. A
g tide of emigration may be expected to
about going out of the business
HORRIBLE AccIDENT.-Mr. John McKen-
zie, of Jacksonville, in trying to shift some
betting from one pully to another, his coat
sleeve was caught on the fastenings on the
shaft, and before the machinery Of the mill
could be stopped he was dreadfully mangled.
His brain was dashed upon the floor, and
one arm was torn from its socket, and all
the clothes torn off his BODY
HsAz The New York journal Of Commerce
says that "a gentleman who attended at
the Academy of Music last Sunday evening,
was so much impressed by what he saw and
heard, as to the pre-eminent usefulness of
the undertaking, that he declared to us his
readiness to give $4,000 toward the cree
ton or purchase of building for the per
manent establishment of such services"
Day- John Henderson, one of the Oldest
and most respected of the Sandy Hook
| pilots, was crushed to death, on Thursday
| last between a schooner and a brig. He
was one of the owners of the pilot boat sent
out to England to notify American mer-
| chant ships of the declaration OF war in
! 1912.
Beg Mr.. Foster Hale, the inventor of
raised letters for the use Of the blind, fell
| down dead on the pavement in Selma, Ala,
on the 26th ult
| Bay~ Meetings of scientific gentlemen
and merchants have been held in New York
city, to talk over the project OF erecting an
| Observatory in New York 1t is confidently
believed that money enough can be raised
to carry ont the enterprise and make the
| New York Observatory one of the best in
the world. The location will probably be
! or TIE high ground of the Central Park.
BesE- The publication of the Turner's So
ciety organ has been removed from Cincn-
natl to Dubuque, Iowa. The National Cen
trail COMMITTEES resides in that city, and the
Society is said to be very fourishing there.
BSy~ The Geographic announcement of
the safe arrival, at Broad Haven, of the
steamer Indian Empire, viii be received
with great gladness by those whose anxieties
/ were so aroused in regard to her safety.
BgS- The army of Peru appears to be Off
cered much on the principle of the Virginia
militia. The rank and file consist of less
than 1900 men, to command whom there
are grand marshals, generals of division,
% brigadier-generals, l43 colonies, 1873
lieutenant colonies, 200 majors, 404 cap
tains, 456 lieutenants and 4l8 second lieu
tenants, or about one commissioned officer
to every two privates. The navy, which
consists of six steamers, a brigantiue and
three transports, mounting together about n
hundred guns, is Differed on the same lib
eral scale. There are 3 admirals, 40 post
captains, 80 lieutenants 40 midshipmen, 20
officers of marines, and 81 purser's clerks.
BTSy@ Three persons said to be implicated
in the alleged slave operations of the yacht
Wanderer have been committed to prison at
Savannah on charge of piracy The Wan
derer is reported to have had three hundred
and fifty negroes on board, which were
8 landed on Jekyl Island, and that a steamer
took one hundred and fifty of them to the
river plantations, from whence they were
scattered through the country. The Wan
derer halls from st. Helena, is withoutregu-
lar papers, but has informal ones from ma
tive officials, without any seals being at
tached. She remains at Brunswick, Ga,
and Is said to present no appearance of hav-
ing had slaves on board.
B@s5"Mr. John Fl. Brownson Of ST. Paul,
a son of Orestes a. Brownson, of Brown
: sons Rerietc, was found dead on the 4th
inst, on the sidewalk in front of his bed
: room window, out of which he had leapt
probably in state of somnambulism. The
leap was distance of between 80 and 90
. feet. s.-.rs .-.f 1855
, gsA- The Opposition of Virginia, with
out a solitary exception, so far as they have
yet given expression to their views and
wishes, are all earnestly and zeaIously in
favor of an Opposition candidate against
0 DR.. Letchsr. Eight or ten opposition jour
3 nails contain an eloquent appeal for an OPP
!, position ticket. The Abingdon Virginiar
says: rfs-
e 1--WE really believe thai a majority O
If the people of Virginia are opposed 10 the
II bogus Democracy of the day. and that ma
jority, with proper effort, could be united
upon strong and able ticket. The thing
II called Democracy has been shorn of it,
d greatest strength in the utter confusion O
the Kansas and niger humbugs Now
therefore, is the time to strike, IN view o
the glorious struggle we intend, by the
grace of God, to make in 1862 r e..
IS B1@ The following table of the duration
n of life in certain animals is translated from
a an old German work: The cricket, II
- years spider carp, 100 to $50; pike
40 crocodile, 100; tortoise, 100; hen, 10
!. peacock "a nightingale and lack, l6 to Is
" canary Of it does not couple, "a; canary
:, (if it breeds annually, 10 /; sparrow-hawk
er 40; goose so; swan, 100; eagle, 100
70 parrot, 10; rabbit, from 8 to 9; goat
10; sheep, 10; hog, 20; cat 10 squirrel
= = hare, from to 8 dog, from % to %
in wolf, 20; bear, 20; fox, Is; lion, 60