The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-11

The Israelites of Charleston have held .
a meeting and denounced the abduction OF
the Mortara boy.
nA.The New York Aldermen, who were !
indicted for malfeasance in Office, voted |
$500 from the City Treasury todefend them |
selves.
Ne. An unexceptionable school for liter
AZURE for the South and Southwest, is the |
object of a convention of Southern Baptists |
now in session at Memphis.
RSg~It is rumored that the Executive in
tends Immediately to concentrate as large a
naval force as possible upon the Gulf OF
Mexico, and the coast of Central America.
Hea.T The Jesuits have sent eight mission
aries to China, five to Syria, and others to
South America and Madagascar. Several
of the brethren of the Ecoles Chretinnes
have also gone to ConstantinOple.
RAs The steamer E. Howard struck a
snag at Gaines Landing, in the Mississippi,
on Friday last, and Immediately SINK. She
was loaded with groceries for Cumberland
| river.
Asa, A number of the citizens of New
Orleans are advocating the establishment by
! the city, of sluices, by which the water of
the Mississippi may be used for the extin-
gushing of fires, cleaning the streets, sc.
1T is stated that the ten appointments
for cadetship at West Point, within the gift
of the President will not be made until Feb
ruary. Already applications crowd the files
of the War Department, and five hundred
| arc known to be registered.
Hsa. 1t appears that the claims of the
British bondholders are recognized by the
amt OF Nara ftr,,u A Lont
S35, 900 have already been collected for them
at the Vera Cruz custom house.
B5gH Philadelphia is not such a moral
city, after all, According to the official sta
| tistics we observe there are no fewer than
taoenty-tVo hundred and ttirty-eight arrests
by the police, for various olfenses, during
the month. 'N
asa. The Norfolk (va) Argus ridicules
the statement going the rounds of the press,
that the recent high tides have greatly in
| jured the oysters in the bays and rivers. 1t
says the very reverse is the fact--high tides
invariably improve the quality of these
shell-fsh.
Hsa A rumor is afoat that the Democrats
of the New Jersey Legislature, in their des-
pair, intend to resort to the revolutionary
step of refusing to go into a joint meeting of
the Legislature, for the election of Senator
of the United States, in the place of Mr..
Wright.
nsA- Mrs. Everhard, of Albany, who had
a rheumatic affection in her arms was adj
vised to rub them with camphene While
engaged in doing so on Thursday night, a
few drops fell on the stove and caught FIRE !;
in moment she was enveloped Ii, flames.
She was burned severely, but will probably
|, survive.
AsA.. Lieut.. Maury, in featuring recently
on the meteorology of the lakes, spoke of
the vast works of evaporation going on in
the great chain of lakes of the North Amer
lean continent He estimates that by the
process of evaporation, the lakes were re-
{ lieved of five or six times the quantity of
, water that passes over the Falls of Niagara,
boiled so as to pass away into the air, and
you have a condensation of lake evapora-
| ton.
gEF" An extraordinary trial has opened
in the first civil chamber in Paris. Twelve
HOMEOPATHIC doctors have commenced an
action for $4,000 francs damages hUm an
allopathic medical Journal, for an attack
upon their system OF medicine. 1t is the
virtues of that system which they desire to
establish, and not pecuniary claim, for
they promise to give the money to the poor.
SoRGHo CoNvENTIoN-There will be q
Convention ofthe growers Of Chinese Sugar
Cane in Indianapolis, at the usual meeting
of the State Board of Agriculture, in Jan
uary. The object is to compare notes, and
aid in the development of the culture of the
cane. All interested in the subject should
: endeavor to be present.
The PosTMARKING OF ENvELoPED LETTERS
. The Mense of Leige, states that a chemist Of
. tt at city has invented apaper for making the
envelopes of letters, which has the property
o of reproducing on the paper inclosed
the postmark which is stamped on the out
, side. One great inconvenience of the pre-
sent envelope will be thus removed, as every
Enclosure will hear the official date of it.
transmission.
be-, A girl named Jane Anderson, ha.
been arrested in Cincinnati for wearing
n mems clothes; she says she has worn then
for three years, in which time she has trav
eled considerable-been cook on an Fri,
y canal boat, &c. and declares if they forct
- her to throw away her male attire, they
must furnish her with a female wardrobe
3 and she won't have hoops, as she wouldn'
v know how to navigate in them. The Police
: Judge was in predidament to know VIA
Ii to do with her.
= Hea- Our neighbor, the Newburgh Demo
l. crat, has the following local item:
IS A complete "smash up" took place a
9s the "Pond House." one night last week
e Three married ladies, living in that vicin
1t ity, regarding said house as an insufferabl
p nuisance, made descent upon the premises
or breaking windows, looking-glasses, furni
Sc ture, &C., and moving things generally
s. When through, the house and its content
presented a sad spectacle.
10 COUNTERFEIT VIRGINIA BANK NOTES.
is number of counterfeit FIVE dollar bills on tn
North Western Bank of Virginia have re
Gently appeared in Pittsburg. The Pitts
- burg Chronicle says:
~ The general appearance of the bill is ex
cellent, and many of our oldest and most eX
ed perienced merchants have been deceived b
of them. The conductors upon some of tn
d, railroads have been very badly bitten. Th
it counterfeit can be easily detected thus
m upon the right hand upper corner in tn
Id genuine the word five is repeated around th
re figure 5, so that those above and below ca
ar be read without turning the note in tn
is hand, while in the counterfeit the bill has I
he be turned up side down in order to pla6
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