The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-05
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The celebration of the introduction OF
water into Brooklyn, y. T., on the 28th nit,
was an imposing affair. The procession
marched over the route designated in the
programme, and reached the City Hall about
halfpast three o'clock, extending distance
of nearly eight miles. The route OF the pro-
cession was ten miles in extent. On arriv-
ing at the City Hall they were dismissed
The day was closed by a general illnmina-
ton, FIRE works, and calcium lights. which
were witnessed by about 10000 people.
The consuls of Britain, Spain, Prussia,
and Belgium have issued the following pro-
test against the arrest of Count Mejan, the
French Consul az New Orleans charged
with assisting in the escape Of slave:-
" We, the undersigned foreign Consuls, resi-
dent in New Orleans, have read the inclosed
protest of Count Mejan, Consul of France,
against his arrest by the Hon. II. NJ. Sum
mer, Recorder, and agree that it is in viola
tion of the rights and privileges Of Consuls,
OF the Constitution of the United States, and
of the treaties with foreign nations, and is
also contradictory to the confirmation of
Consuls by the President of the United
States.
The Rev. Theodore Parker, who IS re-
cruiting his health in the West India
Islands, says the thermometer at Santa Cruz
stands at 760 above zero in the morning
500 at noon, and 700 at sunset, and does
not vary far from that at all this season.
lie speaks Of the air as So dry and clear that
be can easily see Porto Rico from Santa
Cruz, although il is 72 miles distant.
The number of admissions to the city hos
piral of st. Louis during the week ending
Saturday last were 81, of which "a were
from Ireland; Ii from the United States I;
from Germany; from England; from
Scotland, and from Switzerland. Within
tue last ten months, over 5000 patients have
been admitted and treated within its walls.
Thomas Ryan was sent to jailin ST. Louis
on the lst inst, for stealing two wagon
wheel tires from blacksmith OF that city.
Thomas, we fear, will find it will prove a
Gresome business before he is through
with il,
Mad dogs are said to be running at large
in St. Louis.
The account of the massacre OF the whole
of Capt. Ford's company Of Texas Rangers
by the Comanche Indians, 10 pronounced by
the Austin State Gazette; of the 18th nit,
to be false.
The New York ff.baSs says that the NOR
ais of the Sicklss case is vengeance on the
ibertiue who assails the virtue Of a woman
who has masculine protectors-Impunity
for those who prey upon the friendless and
unshielded"
The Brooklyn Yeung Mems Christian As
sociation have decided that women may be
admitted to all the privileges of mepbership.
Mr.. f Farience, a French gentleman OF
talent and cultivation, is about to commence
in New York a weekly journal Of Republi-
can principles. Its name will be L Epoque
The illibuster expedition into Arizonia
and Sonora, headed by Walker, Henningsop
& Co., seems animated by desire to avenge
the death of Count Raousset de Bourbon
and Henry A. Crabbe, who lost their lives
in similar expedition some time ago, more
than by anything else. Desperate efforts
are being made to enlist strong force, in
California and at the Pixies Peak diggings,
to invade the Territory of Arizona
The number OF commitments to the coun-
ty Jail of st. Louis during the last month,
was So. For larceny, 2s; forgery, 6 safe
keeping, q; residing in the State without
license, S embezzlement, 3 assault and
battery, illegal voting, peace warrants, mur.
der, each, 2 burglary, assault to kill, fine
and costs, robbing, manslaughter, perjury
each, | prisoners were sent TO the peni-
tentiary and l6 discharged. There are now
in Jail li9