The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-06-17
News Items.

~ company iu IA 'poo. 10 Cuu>
structins two ir, % s'camers -scvon hun
bred feet long, for two Of Tie principal
rivers inIndi4. rhs aim is TO obtain
light draft aud large capacity.
Jos. l.. Josepbs. once great
banker and broker o. Wall street, New
York and au agent Of tho Rothschilds,
died in pceuniary want in that city .
Few days since. itsf
NIcaKaoUA RoUTE-Tbe Times |
correspondent tslegraphs from Wash.
in2top that The Government has notified |
President Marincz thai the Yrisssri
treaty will be insist, d upon, notwiih
standing his refusal TO sign the ratifica
ton, and that the transit will be pro.
tecied by the army and navy OF the
United States, if necessary,
KAssAs.-Ex sec ftary Stanton ar
rived at Leavenworth on the 9Th irst
and opened the canvas against the Eng.
fish bill, by an eloquent and powerful
spe, cb to the cit zens. Il Is understood
he will visit every part Of ;hs territory
and arouse The people to give full OK
preston 10 their condemnation Of the
swindlc. %
OF Il Is estimated that the floods
this year will destroy larger amount OF
prope ty, than the whole amount Of debt
lost by the panic Of last year. That was
only an apparent luss, Of what was ficti-
iious in value, The disasters of this
season are actual losses of substantial
properly.
SENATORS iIoUsros And HExpEEsox
The Tribune's correspondent says
that Senator Houston, who paid such
glowing tribute to the me.its OF the late
Senator Henderson, had not spoken TO
the deceased for ten years, owing TO a
eud u long Standing.
NAVAL NoMEKcLATURE.-A resoin
tion was offered in the Senals on Mon.
day by Mr.. Criuenden. of Kentucky,
providing that war steamers uf forty
guns shall be called after the States: oi
twenty guns after the rivers and cities,
aud under twenty, as the President may
decide, and was adopted. How will thi
resolution work in cases where States
and rivers are Synonymous, as Missis-
sippi, Missouri, Ohio. Connecticut!
- The emancipation movement is
gaining strength in Missouri. The.nom
iuations made BY the American party ut
| ST. Louis, OF some Of the IN ost sLb,tan-
tiul aud worthy men in the city, for va.
ri1us posts Of honor, were all declined by
the nominees because they were dis:n-
Glued 70 run against the free labor par.
~. A friend, long residen, in the State
aud well acqusisied with thspopular feel
ing and who is hims, II pro slavery man
writes that i, will beLdifficult, in a short
time, to resist the free soil party.
Or The New York Genital snd the
Eis railroads. lately got into difficulty
about crossing at Basvis. Which re-
suited IN a suit. The E,ie road, in retail
ialion for the encro,chments Of the Cen
trail, put the fare for passengers from Buff
falo to New York down to SIS. The
Central, TO keep even with it's rival did
the same, and both roads are carrying
passengers for half price. In this war
fare the roads are destroying each Other
and Il is very doubtful il. the public
will eaio.any in the end by these rum
ously low prices.
FATAL ACCIDENTS As the train OF
the H.. & e. railroad ras coming into
the city on Saturday night, near Hsub-
stadt, it run over g man lying drunk by
the side of the track, and cut of bis arm
near the shoulder, and gave him severe
wound in the head. II was severa
hours before a physician conld be got Il
him. and he was not expected 70 recover
On Monday hight, the descendin.
train. run over another drunken fellow
near tho same place, lying asleep be
tween the rails. The COW catcher frs
struck him in the head, and dushed on
his brains, and the trains passed owe
him. leaving but mass of muiilared aesl
and bones. The poor iDcbriate passe,
So suddenly from existence. he probabl
had no Consciousness Of what hurt hun
There must be a grocery in that vicinit,
doing a good business to send two vic
Tins. to eternity by two successiv,
trains.