The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-07
Mail Items.

Quicksilver, for mining purposes, is in de-
mand at $40 a pound.
aa. The Senate has attached to the di-
plomatic appropriation bill, which has just
passed that body, provision forbidding the
appointment by the President of any more
ministers without the previous consent of
Congress.
BSg~ During the past year Ms. A. E. Flint
raised on her plantation in Louisiana, one
thousand eight hundred hogsheads sugar,
four thousand barrels of molasses, and four
hundred bales of cotton. This is said to be
the largest crop ever produced en- single
plantation in louisiana.
A little daughter of John 0. Cochran, Esq,
of Louisville, made narrow escape with
her life. A day or two ago she was leaning
over the railing of the piazza, in the third
story of the family residence, when she lost
her balance and fell down on the pavement
Il distance of thirty feet. She had no limbs
broken and was doing well on Saturday.
kES- 1t seems that the officious individual
who wrote the anonymous letter to Sickles,
also wrote to Key, warning him to desist-
He must feel comfortable over the result of
his mode of terminating such matters.
Bag The " Phillips House at MartinsvAle
Ind, was destroyed by fire on Saturday last.
No insurance.
Bay~ Letters received in New York from
France advise Of heavy losses on cotton and
and probable protest of numerous bills drawn
by American houses,
BGJ" The Pennsylvania delegation in Con-
gresS have in cancns agreed to vote against
all appropriation bills till the tariff is amend
ed.
Beg A married lady on East nearly broke
her neck, Il few days since, while learning
to skate since then, there has been an ex-
traordinary demand for skates by married
men.
Blg" A correspondent of the Cleveland
ReUieW says one of the Berlin Free Lovers
embraced religion at the recent revival at
that place, and many others were serious lis
| teners The correspondent adds that these
deludcd people " are few in number, own
but little property, are improvident each is
self-sovereign, which means supreme ego
tist and all are therefore, in antagonism-
hence they will soon seperate and die out.
! If of nothing else, they will die of mutual
hideousness, disease with which they are
| fearfully afflicted already"
! BEs5~ 1t is stated that in Newark there are
more than 1900 operatives in the hating
business, and nearly Sl,0O0,000 invested.
| Bsag- In 1922, a citizen of Columbia, s. c.,
! loaned to a student of the South Carolina
| College the small sum of ten dollars, which
remained unpaid for thirty-two years, when
he received through the Post-office the sum
of thirty dollars from an unknown hand.
SET The Kansas gold mines at Cherry
! Greek have fallen into evil ways. Recent
reports state that they are fighting among
themselves, and that pistols are frequently
used. The principal amusements are drink
ing and card playing. Whisky is $40 a
gallon.
BE- Forty-seyen thousand bushels of corn
were sold few days ago, from the HClay-
pool Farm " near Chillicothe, Ohio, to En-
NETS distillery in that town for II bushel.
By Capt. Lewis Bigelow, of Worcester
Mass, hung himself Wednesday night in his
room. His age was seventy-one.
8ea-, A call for State Emancipation
Convention in Connecticut signed by Elihu
Burrit and Others, appears in the New Ha-
ven papers.
nA- A youthful prophecies but l3 years
old is turning the heads of the superstitious
folks of Cincinnati by her marvellous pre-
dictions.
seA. lad nine years DID, in Carthagenia
n. Y, drowned himself in the canal because
| his papa chaStlsed him.
EsaS 3Sarah Mallory, slave belonging to
the estate of the late Capt. James Gilbert,
died in Norfolk on the 22d inst, in the 28th
year of her age. Her youngest child, who
is the last of the family, attended her funer-
al. He is 81 years of age. The old woman
$50 says the Day Book) was disbeliever
of the Scriptures until her lllth year. when
she became converted, and was baptised
neA- The friends of the Rev. Mr.. Parker
will be glad to learn that he bore the voy-
age we'll to the West Indies, and was on
deck every day duri-g the passage, cheerful
and apparently strong. He landed at Ha-
vana, instead of going on Immediately to
Nassau, n. P.
asa George Phillips Bond has been chosen
Director of the Cambridge observatory
He was for several years assistant to his ia.
thcr, to whose Office he has succeeded.
pSag~ The author of "Childe Harold,
,, while in Italy, had helmet made for hi;
i own use in the battlefield of Greece Tha
identical article, never worn as originally
intended, but which must have covered the
brain of the great poet "many time anC
4 of" is now the ornament OF house il
South Boston. 1t is so small that nine head
:, out of ten trying it on would more than fiji
= it. But flesh is not brain, however
l. Social LIFE IN WAsHINGToN.-Ift the fol
lowing intense paragraph, taken from tn
Washington States, truly represents tn,
character of the private entertainments il
the capital of our country, 1t is not strang
that members ofCongress neglect their gray
duties and become enervated with luxur,
as their political opponents charge then
with doing:
"Let others, then, reader, burn incense a
the feet of the gOlden caif, in gilded halls
where the sculptor chiseI and the painter
art and the upholsteIel's skill have bee
brought into requisition in order to gratif
vanity, and dazzle and delight the eye
where the caterer has, for the 'palate's pas
time, spread out on gorgeous tables, delica
cies from all the zones; where the fragranc
of sweet flowers and the light from golde
lamps, and the various incenses import
ed from the shores of Araby the blest, an
soft words of fattery, and beams bright an
burning from many an excited eye, and th
thrilling touch of fairy fingers, and a ve;
deal of magnificent humbug, are all mike
up together.
BST The Cleveland Herald states that
:. disease called by some the hoof ALL an