The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-21
Mail GIeanings.

At Columbia, s. c., on Saturday week,
John /. Crawford, foT gaming, was sentenced
TO three years imprisonment and 81 500 fine.
john Br,sseur was ordered fifty lashes for
stealing a mule, and Henry Shaver, for petit
larceny, had his back striped. ...s --.,.
The total population of the State of Iowa,
rs shown by the census of this year, is six
hundred and thirty-three thousand five hum
dred and iorty-nine, (633, ,549.) A few
small counties not in will swell the aggre-
aate to 636, OOO.-IoWa Gtizen.
Senator Broderick is the second member
OF Congress in California whose life has been
terminated in a duel. One Of the first mem
bers elect from that State, Edward Gilbert,
was thus killed; Joseph McKibben, the late
member, was Challenged, but the difficulty
was adjusted by friends; Herbert killed
waiter at Wizards Hotel, in Washington
City, and Senator Gwin has been in no:
water for long time back. .sr.-s g.
Among the distinguished arrivals at New
York by one of the recent steamers from
Europe, is Madame Omar Pacha, wife of the
celebrated Turkish commander who won so
many laurels in Siistria. She comes to
make this country her residence.
There is plant in the Island of Sumatra,
tile circumference of whose fully expanded
flower is nine feet; its uectarium is calcuia-
tel TO hold nine pints; the pistils are as
large as a cows horns, and the whole weight
of the blossom is computed TO he fifteen
pounds. 49, Pc
The track laying on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad will, with good weather,
he finished in AL, next week. 1t is expected
that the passenger and freight trains he
tween the two cities will be regularly run
ming on and after the first Of November.
There is a we'll authenticated rumor that
Thomas +. Meagher, has gone to Costa Ric;i
as an agent of President Mora, and will make
an effort to assist him with his Irish cOun-
trynen in regaining supreme power. His
scheme may not be utterly abortive, as
Government availed itself of his offer to
take dispatches to Mr.. Dimitry, which will
afford him the protection of diplomatic
character.
| A case in which the sum OF fifteen cents
is involved, WAS rccea,ly brought before the
| Police Court of Claremont n. H., and after
learned and able arguments on both sides,
the case was decided against the plaintiff
| An appeal was taken To the Supreme Judi
| cial Court. The action was brought to re-
cover the value of braiding nine woodchuck
skin whipstocks.
Mr.. Mott, the Hartford constable, who
| was mulcted in heavy damages for seizing a
stock of liquor in a manner not exactly in
accordance with the statnte, has opened a
store for the sale of the liquor which was
left upon his hands. 1t is supposed that
those who objected TO paying from the town
treasury the expense TO which he has in this
matter been subjected, will be willing to
to assist him in purchasing his rum.
The Lafayette Journal says that a party
of ladies in that place turned out on Tues
day night to chiraviri" young married
pair, but instead of the Calathumpian hor-
rors which men employ on such occasions,
they took accordeons, guitars, and tea bells
The ladies always do their work better than
| men.
A planters convention was held in Nash.
tSille, on the 10th inst. The object of the
meeting is TO afford opportunity for u gcner.
nj discussion of agricultural and planting
l,iuteresis, and free and fall interchange o.
views and feelings in regard to the interest!
of those engaged in planting in the South
ern States. .t.tr ....
Mr. A. W. Wellington, OF East Braintree
Wednesday, while digging up a hill of po
taioes ncar. his house, dug up "a pine ire,
Shilling, dated 1862, the first year after an
ia Driiy WAS given tn Massachusetts Bay Il
? tr0iu money The coin is almost as brich
] and as perfect as new piece, Mr.. Yelling
ton contrInplates sending it to the Antigua
! rian Society. H ElsBEE
.
The Richmond Eaqairfr learns that or
Tuesday. Mr. Lctchcr, the Governor elect q
Virginia, was in n dangerous condition
fiom an attack of erysipelas, disease b
which, for some time back, he has been sub
. iect, but which now is more formidable thai
; usual Mr. Letcher Was at his hsme il
( Lexington.
: We learn that Mr. d. McIavan, ESQ
proprietor of " Dan Rice's Great Show,
has purchased from Mr. L. p. Christy th
: extensive property on Walnut street, Phila
. tlelpha, known rs Welch " National Thea
tire, with ali its scenery wardrobe, and ap
pointmentS, for the sunrOf S2J, 900, IN i'th;l
y the aGrcat Show will locate there per
y manenuy, forthwith.
Leavcnworth city is TO be lighted wit
: gas, on or about the lst of November. Til
charter OF the company restricts the pric
y of gas 10 tnirty-hye cents per hundred fee
Henry Ward Beeciler lectured Ia a yer.
meagre audience in Providence, recent,
only IA few people attending, becarse every
body expected 10 be crowded out. a' 1 -