The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-08
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81 to August 81 last, were Is, S,43I, against
l7,l3S during the same time last year.
ny A farmer up in Belpre township,
Washington county, Ohio, lost twenty-five
head of fine cattle few days since, by turn
ing them into a field of raked oats.
ESfy~ An election is to be held in Louis
vile on the 4th of October, to fill the va
cany in the office of Mayor, caused by the
demise of Gen. Pitcher.
BSy~ Hon. John VI. Bolts, of Virginia,
says he found during his travels in Europe,
that I" the Germans were the best ordered,
and most intellectually peaceable people of
modern Europe"
WHAT SOME CIGARS ARE MADE oF.-An
extensive German importing house, recently
admitted, under oath, to the U. ). Custom
House officials that :" not particle of to-
bacco entered into the composition of the
said cigars, but they were wholly composed
of oak and other leaves soaked in strong to-
bacco lye."
Efs5n The Charleston Mercury declares that
% the evils of pardoning and supporting
Douglas will be the absolute destruction of
the democratic party, inasmuch as the party
which " is now weak at the north, will be
divided and repudiated at the south, and be-
tween the sections, fall hopelessly to the
earth"
ks5S~ y Congress of authors and publish
crs will convene at Brussels during the
coming autumn, to take into consideration
the subject of international copyright, or
of some adequate protection to authors in
their literary property in foreign countries.
Mr.. Frederic ;. COzZins, the author OF
the SparrowgraSS Papers, will probably rep
resent the interests OF American authors at
the Congress.
PREACHING TO SLAvEs.-A Presbyterian
minister lately removed from one of the
Northern to one of the Southern States,
writes to the Christian Observer, ut Phla-
delphia, that he thinks he is now likely to
do the slaves much more good than could be
done by all the abolitonism he could posi-
bly, have commanded at the North.
B1y" The proprietors Of the Ohio Female
College, have elected to its presidency, a
Rev. Henry n. Day, formerly of New iia-
ven, Conn. Mr.. Day was for many years
a professor in Western Reserve College, and
stands in the foremost rank among the
scholars and educators of our country.
gzyrn Mr.. Soulc is in New York, the
Times says, in consultation with Walker,
after having seen the President at Wash
ington. That the fIuit is ripe--that there
is next to no Government nj all now in Me
aragua, is conceded ON all hands. The point
appears To be, who is to furnish the means
of placing Walker back, and thereby secure
the Transit route.
DB" The deepest coal pit in England, and
probably in the world, has, after twelve
years labor, been completed and opened at
Dukenfield, Cheshire. The depth of the
shaft is 1850 feet, and the sinking of it cost
nearly half million of dollars. At this
immense depth fine seam of coal was found
nearly five feet thick, and calculated to last
thirty years, at the rate of five hundred tuns
per day.
GREAT WHALING VoYAGE.-The barGue
Laurens, of New London, arrived home on
the 10th ultimo, after an absence of only
one year. with a cargo of 4, 400 barrels OF
sea elephant oil. Between August Ii, 1857,
and August l6, 1858, she has sailed more
than 10000 miles, and obtained nearly s.
900 barrels of oil. Less than four and a
half months of the time was occupied in
whaling or taking oil. the balance of the
year having been required TO make the pas
sages. The Star thinks this the greatest
voyage on record.
GSy" y few cases Of yellow fever arc
daily reported in the city of New York
All of them, so far as we have observed,
are directly traceahIe TO the shipping; and
we have no intimation that any cases
have originated in the city itself The
cool weather of the past week, and the
speedy coming autumnal frosts will prevent
any serious ravages of this dreadful disease
in Northern cities. That the city of New
York has escaped fearful epidemic, we be-
leve TO have been due to the stringent quar-.
antine regulations. These have been a great
annoyance to ship-ownerS, but their pr,i-
dcncc and necessity can hardly bc ques-
toned.
Bay~ \ Philadelphia paper gives the fol-
lowing . first rate notice of the Legislators
Of that city:
In the main, the representatives of Phila-
delphia in the Legislature, for the last ter
wears, have consis. ed Of men who cannot
spell the most ordinary word Of four letters;
! lit is said one of the members of the last
/ Legislature could not write his own name
I and was but few months citiZen) O
corner loungers, the boon companions o
I ballot-box suffers and common blacklcgS, o
/ lawyers without practice, of young fellows
I of twcnty-onc or Whereabouts, too lazy tc
! learn or work at an honorable trade, anC
! who live, nobody knows how.
/ BSS5" The editor of the Fredericksburg
/ Ne,rs. writing one of his lively letters from
I .lAe-G Grecnbrior White sulphur SnrinaS
draws the following Pictufc:
Here we are, a community of seventeen
hundred. nobody working all well dressed
with nothing to do but TO enjoy themSelve
ali rich. apparently, and by reputation =
/ Would YOU believe that a man came here t.
find poor girl for awife and couldn't fin
one? They are all wealthy aristocrats.-
One ltdy was here for two weeks, who wor'
three different dresses every day, and left be
cause her trunks had not arrived, and sh
would have to wear dress second time
To see $4,000 worth of diamonds, lace, &c
on one lady at ball is not considered re
markable.
The FoRr SMELLING SwINDLE.-Thc Mis-
souri Democrat gives a new item regardin;
the sale of Fort Smelling. 1t will be re
! merobcred that the sale was a clandeStin