The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-04
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A PRUDENT REsoLvE-It is said to be the
intention of Mr. Sickles, in the case of his
acquittal, to leave this country for extensive
travel in foreigml lands. 1tf fs+4
"The greatest wonder in the world" now
announced, is new bank lock, without any
key or key-hole-the invention of man
named Bacon, of New Haven, Connect
cut. rl H-i.s eai4Z- ss.-t
nsa. The price OF storage passage via
Panama to California on the Star of the
West which sailed from New York, on Mon
day, was $50. ..--.----
Us "A daily religious paper is to be start
ed soon in New York city. 1t will fail, I'M
less it contains accounts of great deal that
is irreligious. a s
rsa. Every taste may be corrupted by
habit. Perhaps man may get SO accus-
toned to an offensive atmosphere, that he
will stop his nose in passing garden of jes-
samines and violets.
RE1 The amount of coal now in the DIFF
ferent yards in Cincinnati is larger than has
been known for years.
By@ A fashionably dressed lady was re-
Gently attacked by a fierce dog, on Seventh
street, Cincinnati, which completely ruined
a fire silk dress before relief could arrive.
g% Ii is said that some babies are so
small they can creep into quart measures
But the way some adults can walk into such
a measure is quite astonishing.
gl~An American gentleman, residing
temporarily in Italy, received, a: few days
ago, disastrous news from his home in the
United States In fit of desperation he
threw himself into the lava of Vesuvius.-
The liquid fire Immediately consumed him.
Z EY@A poem in the last number of Cooley s
Ladys Book, entitled " Why do we Love?'
by "Robt. G.. Barnwell," is plagiarism
The poem was written by the wife of the
editor of a religious newspaper, twenty
years ago. al @
Esa. A man ina Cincinnati fellfrom the
second story of a house to the cellar, and
singularly enough, head formost into a lard
barrel with the, head out, thereby saved his
life. exon. lGla
DY% The Pittsburg papers say that on
Tuesday the Hon. Arnold Plumer was rob-
bed of hand trunk containing, in paper
money, ETC., over $4,000. A man named
Flanagan was suspected. his house search
ed, and the stoled property recovered.
CONVERSATION WITH JOHN c. CALHOUN
Mr. Grattan in his Civilized America, relates
the following conversation with Mr.. Cal
houn: Now let me,ask you" said l. "what
were the feelings of the last slave you liber-
ated p 81 liberate a slave p he exclaimed;
q God forbid that should be guilty Of satck
crime All, you know little of my char
acter, if you believe me capable of doing SC
much wrong to fellow creature
Postmaster General Holt has dismiss
ed thirty-one agents, and, as the Depart
ment can get along without them, the nj.
erance is thst they never could have been O
any use. A contemporary enquiries What
their business vast Itlwas the pleasure!
of spending $1,000 year each.
nsnz, 1t is stated that the. Russian wsr fol
single year cost over $3.50, 900, 900. Rath
er big sum for such wholesale piece o.
slaughter 1Hasze ,sl1A D. 4ysso8g SO a'ss
gGy The people of Evansville, who haya
as bad streets as-as-as are haye--yes
worse---are taking measures to iimproy'
| them. The favorite plan seems to be, t.
boulder them in the fall, commencing thu
work, temporarily, this spring by graveling
They need some kind of Improvement
badly enough-Indiandpot Citizen.
We DO NOT BELIEVE ITl--We are prepared
to beliese almost anything nowadays, hu
we cannot credit the story that Charlie
Dickens, Bayard Taylor, Thackeray, tn,
novelist and Sala (the editor of Dickens
"Household Words ~, have contracted t.
write, in company, and exclusively, a whole
year, for the New York Mercury, in consid
Grafton of receiving one-half the net profits
of that journal, estimated at fifty Thousand
! dollars. Dickens is intelt on turning stag
| manager. and, if the Mercury were theatre
might be caught Bayard Taylor has open
| ly avowed, weadmit, that the Mercury woult
| be his choice, if he wrote exclusively TO
any paper at all. Thackeray and 1Sala ar
mercurial f" enough, perhaps, to be be
| wildered by Yankee enterprise. But fifty
thousand dollars year, and barley to il
| lustrateI Phewl New York is the onl1
"gold diggings worth talking about, ant
Mercury is the only thing to separate TIL
precious metal from the dross that encom
| passes it,. fa '..f'.t -f- e.. -
Gale and Overflow az Buffalo.
| A violent gale of wind and rain sprung
up yesterday forenoon, and continued
throughout the day, driving the water bacl
into the creeks and slips of the canal, ant
inundating a large portion of the city be
tween Exchange street and the creek Thu
water has not been near as high at any tim
since the great food of December 1914
when all the. docks and first floor of tn,
warehouses were submerged. The Waite
was at its highest yesterday about o'clo"l
when it reached the top of the dock on Cen
trail Wharf The Michigan dock and pier
were submerged, and several buildings ant
sheds were washed off into the Erie Basin
The cellars of all the buildings on Prime
Commercial, Lloyd, Erie, Canal and waite
streets, were inundated. In the stores ant
saloons on the canal, from Erie street up t
Commercial the water was from four to fv
feet deep, and all the inmates were OF course
obliged to leave, and seek shelter else
| where.
The track of the Central Railroad, nea
the Round House ON the Niagara Falls Road
was washed away for several hundred yards
so that no trains could pass throughout 4