The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-11
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The New Haven Register relates that an
actor at one of the theatres was called out
four times in one evening not long ago
twice by sheriff, once by tailor, and
once by an irresistible desire to take drink
A statement was made at late Conven-
ton of the Congregational clergymen OF
New Hampshire, that not one pastor in the
,chole Convention used tobacco.
In Pittsburg movement has been set on
foot TO prosecute the drivers Of private car
riaees which carry persons to church ,on
Sundays. The driver of the carriage of a
clergyman has been arrested among others
II appears from the accounts Of Messrs
Phillips, Sampson & Co, that they have ex-
pended S75, 900 in establishing the Atldntt
Monthly, and that the maximum profits oi
that periodical in any one year have been
$4,000.
The extent Of the importation of Chinese
laborers into Cuba, and the mortality among
them, is greater than is usually supposed
From l847 TO 1859, 50,l23 were embarked
in China, only AZ, sol of whom were landed
"a loss of 1922, or 1920 per cent.
NJ. Emile de Girardin has come forth with
new pamphlet, entitled lie Desdrmep,en
Europeen. The only chances of preserving
peace, according to the author, lie in a gen.
eral and immediate disarmament of all tine
nations of Europe. But how this is to bs
brought about he abstains from saying.
There has been considerable excitement
created at Havre -de-G Grace, Nd, recently
by report that gold had been found neal
that place in small stream, and in mill
race at Swan creek, but so far the diggers
who have been in search Of it have me
with but poor success.
A brother and nephew of Moses Y. Beacl
of the New York Sun are located in the fal
southwestern part of Kansas. on the Ar.
kansas River and the Santa Fe road, and are
making fortunes i'm curing buffalo hams anG
trading with the overland emigrants. Some
times the herds of buffalo are miles in ex
tent.
Cornelius Wood, the New York bully
who struck Mr.. Stryker, the chairman o
the late Democratic State Convention o
New York, has made an affidavit setting
forth that he sympathised with the party {,
which Stryker belonged, but being deter
mined to knock the opposing chairman of
| the platform, aimed his blows by mistake a
Mr.. Stryker, instead Of Mr.. Alvord.
Mr.. Layard has gone to Italy to resum,
his lsbors among the frescoes, he loves 81
well, and knows better than any English
man. He is as much at home in the out-of
the-way churches and converts of the littl
hill towns of Umbria and the Apprentices, a
among the mounds of Nimrod and Kouy
unjik. E-s --3 ItF-- -Ie c- :
A deplorable accident recently happene,
to Justus Liebig. The great chemist VIII
has been travelling in the interior of Bavari
was unfortunate enough, yhile passin
through small village, to fall down an
break his kneecap. He was at once con
veyed to the town Of Passau, where two Q
the most eminent physicians of Munich ar
attending him.
a lively discussion is going on in tn
Charleston journals on the question, whetl
er Mr.. Simms writes good English. A Ion
article in the Courier maintains the negs
tive, and cites from a series of clever literar
criticisms, which Mr.. Simms is pnblshin
in the Mercury, by way Of evidence. W
must say, however, that the case is by n
means made out.
Since the meeting of the American Cor
ventiou of New York, at Utica, four acce.
sions have been made to the Repablica
press of the State, the AuJura Union, Keei
Vile Republican, and Johnstown Hdepeno
ent, all Americas, and the Granville Regi
ter, formerly neutral. This new polite;
dodge of selling out whole party pr0mis,
to lie as profitable as the Democratic NOV,
ment of running Gerrit Smith for Governt
last year.
The Norwalk CARTE, of October AL
says that, up to Saturday night inclusiv
upwards of 250, 900 bushels of oysters ha
been taken of in smacks, sch0oners, an
other crafts, from the newly discOyert
oyster bed, on Long Island Sound. A
through the week, from two to three huna
red sail Of vessels were engaged in dred,
. ing; and again, on Sunday, over a hundre
sails could be counted on the spot, from d
Connecticut highlands. gentleman, con
! petent To Judge who has been upon II
ground, gives it as his opinion, that the e
tire bed cannot be exhausted in five year
: The average earnings OF every man who h
worked upon the spot, is stated in the No
walk paper TO be. at the lowest figure a,
7 missable, $40 per day. The discovery
more remunerative and valuable than ar
= gold mine ever discovered in California
The excitement all along the Sound contil
ues.