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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-27
19I1HURCN or THE .assU.MPTT ~

y SECOND SFREET.-The interior of this
church has been lately finished and supplied With
many more pews than required by the congrega-
ton; consequently strangers TO the congregation
informed that the pews will be in.iiscriminately
rented the I'd day of January, 1859, between two
and o'clock p. NJ, The church is warmed by
furnace and lighted by gas. -f..aG ~ tilii
Fort the future until contrary notice, the vespers
will be at O'Clock p 1f. :, and there will be a short
lecture betykeeu Darts dac3l -.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-27

III A great variety of new projects were
preached in the form of bills and resolu-
lions, but none of them are of much interest
or have very little chance of becoming laws.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-27
D Tex z - .nOsS-a5- B.4LRs,

Ep.GBCOCH BROTHERS WILL RE-
A9 MOVE their large stock of Groceries to their
new store on the same lot they occupied previous
the fire, next week, where they will be pleased to
greet their old customers and as many new ones
as possible with extra good bargains to begin. the
year with. +l--fs $50, g jap4
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-27

NAO OR SPRE.H.GS-SO.MET
1 LIZ new and Just The thing. Just opened at
dec13 + 1850 CHARLES s. WELLS.
@s7HER. a .EE.z CE.RRL.4.v.DR ESPECTL
VZA fully announces to the citizens of Evansville
that he has leased the above Hall for short seasn
only. for the purpose Of giving series of first ca,s
Dramatic Entertainments ssis9'ss ss'tsfss fs5fa
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-27
ED.RRT.s.ERsHff, .voTIcR.-LouIs

Al and GEORGE BITTROLFF having purchased
the interest of Il. Bttrolf, Sr, in the firm of Btt
rolf d Son, have entered into partnership under
the style of. BITTROLFF BROTHERS, and will
CONTINUES the Watch and Jewelry business at the
old stand, No. 4s Main street, between First ara
Second.sa9sFa ( l.'f'' 2 -a4ss 'ss 20
I Having combined the stocks of both Houses into
one, we have now on hand the finest, largest and
best selected stock Of Gold and Silver Watches Jew
elry Silver Ware, Clocks, Spectacles, &c. ever seen
in this city, and which we are selling off at prices
very little above the cost. Those who wish to buy
fine Jewelry at veryiow figures, are invited to cali
at No. As Main street. ----.---
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-27
LII THE NEWS

81 CHAIR MANUFAcTURER, Market0
Va street, Evansville, Ind, will keep on W
fT~T hand and make to order every variety ff57
4 I tofcane and Wood Seat CHAIRs. The
Trade supplied at lowest rates. Hotels, Steamboats,
and Halls furnished promptly to order. Being
prepared with all the improvements in Machinery,
&c, and cheap lumber, can offer to dealers In the
West or South as good Chair, and at lower rates,
than Gun be had in Cincinnati or elsewhere. Chair
plank and timber for chair stuff wanted -
Terms cash, or approved paper AN work war
rantetl. rssa sllltasa&--- - ianl.Iv.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-27
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

KVSHg FISH, . r..4 81.
-K 500 bbls, Us, Ms. and kits new Mackerel.
800 boxes No. Herring,
20 drums Goldfish.
just reesived aud for sale low by d..
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

SOun0k0B Oh 4l0k0 &0R1os
doctors Estes and Woodwork, and Alb
ner Dwelle, ESQ.," says the Lake City TaI-
6une, "started out on Tuesday, the 18th, for
the purpose of sounding the Lake opposite
this place. The sounding commenced exactly
opposite the Warehouse Point, and continued
scross the Lake. The facts ascertained differ
far from the opinions heretofore entertained,
and will forever set at rest the wild stories
about the unfathomable depths of Lake Pepin.
Steamboat men, and others, have heretofore
contended that the channel was near the Wis
consin side. 1t will be seen that is FAR from
being the case, the deepest water and the only
channel being within five rods of our own
shore. The bottom is, from within sixteen
rods Of the shore composed of =. fine blush
mari without single pebble or grain of sand.
The distance across the Lake at this point, is
one and half miles, and in this distance
twenty mine soundings were made. The deep
est water found was only thirty.six feet, the
average about thirty feet. The party started
out again on Wednesday, and sounded the
Lake between Lake City and North Pepin,
Wisconsin, the widest place in the whole
Lake. The deepest water found was only
thirty feet, and this was found exactly in
range Of the Warehouse Point, three rods
from it, and the point Of the bluffs .s the
mouth of the Lake, just this sids Of Reeds
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

- The Charleston Mercury, in publish
ing extracts from Senator Browns late Cuba
speech at Tammany, accompanied by the
comments Of the N. Y. Journa! Of Commerce
and the Washington Union, states its chief
reason, like Mr.. Browns, for desiring the &C
QUESTION Of the Island to be the strengthen
ing of the institution of Slavery. The Nor
curry adds:
Both the Journal and the Union advocate
Cuba as damaging to slavery. This is the
Northern or National Democracy interpreta-
ton of the proposition. Black Republicanism
opposes the acquisition because it may
strengthen slavery, however desirable in 9TH
er respects. If persuaded that the position
of the Northern Democracy in this respect is
is correct, and that it would tend directly to
iniure the institution, they would probably
supportany rational project for obtaining Cuba.
Let the people of the South understand their
position. .-.-....
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

Terrible SteRns on the Susqueha0na-~
A Bridge Carried Avsay..-ApprehsAA.
"a Less Of Life.
Yssm the Hsrrisbursh Telegraph Of the 10Th.
A gentleman Who arrived here this morning
from Clark's Ferry, having left there at three
o'clock, informs us that about seven o'clock
last evening five spans of the bridge of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and Canal Company,
at that place, were blown down., Three spans
were left standing in the middle of the river;
and three men, supposed to be watermen,
were on those at the time the others fell. Such
was the violence of the storm that people on
the other side Of the river feared to 60 to their
rescue, and the men, were left In this perilous
position, cut off from al communication with
the land, and with gloomy prospect before
them.
LArEI.-Before going to press this after
noon, we received intelligence to the effect
that three more spans were swept away this
forenoon. The men above allu led to are still
ON the standing spans, the spectators on
shore fearing to venture to their rescue, owing
to the continued violence Of the storm, sand
the fear that the spans occupied by them would
fall at any moment
The bridges across the Juniata are al safe.
The high water at Sherman's Greek has stop
ped the Duncannon Iron Works, belonging to
Fisher, Morgan & Co., but no damage has
been done, and the dam and bridges are re.
garded as safe. The Juniata is very high and
rising, and so is the Susquehanna.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

W Elections for members of Congress
are to be held in the course of this year as
follows Connecticut and Rhode Island elect
early in April; in Virginia on the fourth
Thursday of May; on the first Monday Of
August in Alabama, Kentucky and Texas /;
on first Thursday of August in Tennessee
on second Thursday of August in North Car
DINA on first Monday of October in Georgia
and Mississippi; on second Thursday of o.
tober in Minnesota on first Monday of o.
tober in Louisiana, and on the first Wednes-
day of November in Maryland. Nearly all
these States were represented in the last
House by Democrats.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

brought about or moi, We cannot say, but some
Of the arguments adduced in it's favor are GER
taiiy oogent. The present Post Office system
il vast means Of corruption. Party favor
ties secure costly and unnecessary contracts,
and get the officers, to act - plant and obe-
dent tools and spies to an Administration that
appointed them. If this great source of cor
ruption were broken up, the people ought to
willingly suffer the inconvsnience attendant
on change of system for awhile, that ulti-
mate good may flow from it. Something must
be done soon, or the Department goes down,
and tho plsn mentioned above is receiving f.
vor everywhere. .ssL-..- EE-2a-.s, 80
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

Landing. Each side Of the line ID water did
not exceed twenty-five feet, and To widest
place ia the Lske it did not exceed twenty net
save in the channel.
"These gentlemen proved beyond doubt
that the course of the channel Is from the
bend above Westervelt to place about one
mile above Maiden Rock; thence passing
Maiden Rock, about twenty rods from the
shore; thence across the Lake within dis
lance of Central Point; thence to within i've
rods Of the Point at Lake City; and thence
in straight line to the channel at the mouth
of the Lake. 1t is farther proved that the
entire bottom of the Lake is, except tho little
difference in the channel, a level plain free
from rocks, pebbles, and even sand, except
near the shore" r .r... o..
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

Jim Cavenaugh Telling tho Truth!
Our worthy Ex-Congressman from the Vi
cinity of the Chatfield Land Office appears to
be progressing. Awhile ago he 'hesitated and
faltered" in his devotion to Southern Demo
cracy. Now, "our JIM is telling the truth
about the moccasin democracy! We clip the
following from the New York Tribune:
Jim Cavanaugh, M. .. from Minnesota,
who has free tongue in his head, said of the
selection of his fellow Democrat Rice to the
United States Senate from the same State,
that:
1t was id outrage that the people of
Minnesota should be required to take the
moccasins off an Indian trader to send him to
the United States Senate; and furthermore,
that he did not believe the United States Sem
ate required such extraordinary talent In any
Of its members, as must necessarily be devel-
oped in one who for years has been noted for
driving sharp bargains with cute squaws in
the way of beads, plug tobacco and sixpenny
Calico"
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

~ The divorce law of Indiana, IS amend
ed, requires, according to the lafayette Cossr-
Ter, first, that the applicant shall have been .
bona ide resident of the State for one year !;
second, abandonment for one year; third,
service ten days, or publication thirty days
instead of fourteen; fourth, if the defendant
files cross petition, the suit cannot be with
drawn by the withdrawal Of the original pet-
ton; fifth, the Court to decree such alimony
as circumstances shall render just and pro-
per; sixth, divorce on account Of the mis-
conduct of the wife gives the husband the
same title to her property as if she were dead.
A new section authorizes the opening up Of
DEGREES in certain cases within two years, Is
to custody of children and allowance of ali
mony, but not so as to marry the divorced
narentS.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02
why there 10 TO be no Extra Session.

Why there is to be no Extra Session.
The N. Y. Evening Post is of the opinion
that the real stumbling block in the way of an
extra session of Congress is the Presidents
recollection that the States which would not
be represented in the event of calling an ex-
ira session, would be Democratic. The Post
adds:
The Union was silly enough to blurt this
fact few days ago, and it proceeds to argue
the inaptitude of the present administration
for public business, remarking that the Presi
dent.was lately decidedly in favor Of an ex-
ira session, and allowed it to be summoned,
but since then he has changed his mind, at
the dictation of certain members of the Cabi-
net, and decided that no such session should
be called, but we cannot suppose that this
determines the matter. as some other inhueE-
ces before the end of the summer may exert
a directly opposite effect upon the will of the
Chief Magistrate. ... g..
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

~ A letter from Mr.. Morphy, by the last
steamer, states that he will probably return
to this country by the middle Of April. 1.-THE
result of the half dozen spirited skirmishes
which came off between Mosphy and Ander-
sen, after their match was over" says the
London Field, "was even more in favor Of
the youthful American master than that Of
their set encounter OF these six sparkling
games, Aorphy won Ave and lost only one.
Therefore, the entire score between these re-
markable players stands thus: Mr.. MGphy
70; NJ. Andersen, 4; drawn, 2. Probably
no encounter between any two players was
ever more chivalrous, more brilliant or more
interesting" ..1..
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

Hon. Oliver H. Smith, who died at Indian
apolis on Saturday, the 10th inst, in the cath
year of his aga was horn in Bucks county,
Penn, and early emigrated to Indiana In
1922, he was elected to its Legislature, and in
1926. to Congress; he rode on horseback to
Washington, to take his seat, which journey
occupied seventeen days. On the LIST of March,
1887, he took his seat in the United States
Senate, and served the whole term Of six years.
He was in public Wing, persevering, self
reliant, irreproachable, and for the last forty
years had not touched drop of spirituous
liquor.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

Tho New U. 8. Senator from N. Jersey.
The Chicago Journal thus describes John
G. TEN yck recently elected to represent New
Jersey in the U. s. Senate:
Mr.. Ten Eyck is prominent lawyer in Bur-
lington, and one of the leading Republicans
Of New Jersey, having been a most ardent
supporter of Fremont and Dayton in the last
Presidential campaign. He is man of talent
and influence, and will no doubt occupy q
place in the front rank of liberal statesmen in
the Federal Senate. He is Republican of
the old Wing School.
On the assembling of the next Congress,
there will be at least taoenty: four reliable and
earnest Republicans in the Senate-four more
than there was in the Senate of the last Con-
OreSs
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

AAO F010&Aoy 1~oUbOBAAOs
Our Government is represented to have re-
ceived official advices from our Minister at
Brazil, and from other sources, to the effect
that the difficulty between the United States
and President Lopez, Of Paraguay, to settle
which. either by force or by diplomacy, .
naval expedition is now in South American
waters, is in fair way Of amicable adjust
ment.
The Emperor of Brazil, the most powerful
and influential parsonage in South America,
who is said to be very anxious to prevent the
threatened collision between our Government
and Paraguay, has, it is represented, consen-
ted to act as mediator, and is now CO operat.
ing with our Commissioner to bring Lopez to
terms. ~
At the same time, Lopez is represented as
very anxious to arrange matters amicably, if
he can do 80 without dishonorable or humili-
ating concessions. So, there is probability,
that this Paraguay war;" like that with the
Aormons, will end even without smoke.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02
Pike,s PEAK Humbag.

The Chicago Journal says: We saw gen.
tleman yesterday, who had recently conversed
with one of the proprietors Of line Of stages
in Nebraska, which is profiting greatly by the
travel to Pixies Peak. The latter stated to
our informant that the Pixies Peak excitement
is essentially hsm6ug; that although there is
gold to be found, miners cannot, on the aver.
age, make more than dollar day.
This is the testimony of man whose Pc
cuniary interests are promoted by encour-
aging the humbug.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

~ Ex-President Pierce takes the pains to
write to the Boston Post, that ''under no pos
sible circumstances can he consent to the use
of his name in . manner calculated to disturb
the TRANQUIL pursuits which alone pertain to
the life Of private citizen" This is like the
declaration Of the scar and yellow spinster,
who under no possi5s circumstances could
consent to be married.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

az An effort is making in Philadelphia
to raise money to purchase Ellen Mitchell and
her five children, held rs slaves at Fredericks-
burgh, Va. Her father,was white man and
her mother quadroon, and she and her chill
dren are as white as the average Of Virginia
white folks. She was manumitted by the
will of Mrs. Judge Coulter, but the heirs
broke the will-always an easy process in
such cases land she and her children were
remnaded to slavery. To those who think
slavery not so good for white folks as for ne
groes this case makes strong appeal.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

E Wendell Phillips, of Boston, Is re-
ported as saying in recent lecture some very
hard things upon dram drinking in general,
illustrated with pointed illusions to the dinner
given, not long since, to Lowell, the Poet, by
his friends, Holmes, Emerson, Longfellow and
9th
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02
No. 4...The Election OF Congressmen..
Mr.. Sibley's Reasons for Disfranchis-
ing Minnesota.

No. 4...The Election OF Congressmen..
Mr.. Sibley's Reasons for Disfranchis.
ing Minnesota.
One reason assigned by Mr.. S1BLEY, for his
disfranchising Minnssota Of her representa-
ton in the neat Congress, through his veto of
the "Act Regulating General Elections" was
the alleged unconsitutonality of section IS.
This is what Mr.. s. says about it in his veto
filed August 16:
at prescribes that in case of tie in the
number of votes cast for executive officers,
the two Houses shall forthwith proceed to
elect one Of said persons to the Office A8F
which he received said tie vote. The consti-
tuition contains no provision for transferring
the right of suffrage from the people to the
Legislature, but says expressly that the exec
utive officers referred to ''shall be chosen by
the electors of the State" shall leave that
right of suffrage where the Constitution leaves
it-with the electors of the State"
Now, we do not intend to argue whether
the section in question was or was not consti-
tutional. Granting that Mr.. S1BLEY is correct
in his position, and that the section was wrong,
it was not reason sufficient for Minnesota
being deprived by him of her representation
in Congress-
The contingency of tie occurring in the
election of executive officers was remote and
improbable one. If it should occur even, Mr..
SHELLEY knew the Supreme Court was ready
and competent to set it aside, If It was clearly
unconstitutional. No harm, therefore, would
have been done had he signed the bill-signed
it for the sake Of its other important provisions
even though he had accompanied his sigma
ture with protest, as he did in the case of
other bills which he signed but did not wholly
approve Of
It win not do for Mr.. SHELLEY or his friends
to plead, that he bad no right to sdopt such .
middle course; and that it was sufficient for
him to believe the tie clause of the bill uncon-
s6tutonal, for him to be obliged persmpterily
to veto the whole blu. He did net set 20 h
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

az The war in Virginia between tho
Letcher and Goggin parties RACES with in
creased fury. The Norfolk Arg" puts in
mourning . part Of its sheet containing an
extract from the Norfolk Herald in which
the editor said that Virginia would one
day be Free State, land the sooner the
better"
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

~ A young man named Sparks called at
the house of Miss Polly Tucker, Newcastle,
Va, on the 14th inst. She denied him ad-
mission, and he then put his head through the
window, whereupon she took up an axe and
struck him on the head killing him. She is
under arrest
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02
The Pioneer Oh the Economy of "Dem.
Ocratic Policy.r

Ocratic Policy"
The Pioneer of Tuesday morning contained
a leading article, in which that paper sought to
make a point of defence for SIBLEY's veto of
the Congressional election bill, by claiming
merit for him and the Democratic party in
not allowing any session of the Legislature to
be held last winter. We copy the heading of
its article:
I, was through the Democratic policy this Senate
In the day Extra Session OF the u s. Senate
early ia this month.-Mtnnesottdn.
We acknowledge the truth of the above. 1t soas
through Democratic policy that Minnesota was only
half represented Numerically at the late extra
session of the u S. Senate, but that policy saved
to the tax payers of Minnesota one hundred thou
sand dOllars.-FtonSer.
The sheer uttered by the Pioneer at Gen.
SHIELDS in that parenthetic Numerically"
we commend to the gratitude of the Irish
Democracy; but to the People at large we
commend the admission made by the organ of
the State administration, that 1T pds through
Democratic policy Minnesota was deprived
of her representation in the next United States
Senate, as well as her representation in the
lower house of the next Congress.
But, says the Pioneer, "that policy saved
to the tax payers Of Minnesota one hundred
thousand dollars"
To what extent political rights-the signs
of freedom and the badges Of State Sove-
reignty-may be sacrificed for pecuniary and
economical reasons, we are not prepared to
determine. Economy is good thing: and
we are in favor of it but consider, neverthe-
less, there is limit to dollar-saving in gov
ernmental affairs as there is in private life.-
Money is not an abstract good; but is only a
means to good and desirable ends. Our faith
ers in the revolution sacrificed millions of mo-
ney, and blood in plenty, to maintain abstract
principles of freedom. And their sons, in our
opinion, would not surrender one of those
principles, for many hundreds of thousand
dollars.
Our contemporary would seem to differ
from us. To elect Legislature, but the State
Executive not to allow it to meet: to be emit.
tied to U. S. Senator, but not permit him
to be elected; to have the right to two mem.
bers on the floor of Congress, but the Execr,.
tive of the State not consent to either being
chosen; would seem the Roneer's beau-ideal
Of Democratic policy, for which the allegal
saving thereby Of 1900, 900 to the tax.psy.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

~ The food at the East has been very
severe, and many bridges have been swept
away on the Connecticut river, which is high
or than the great food of 1854. The damage
to the track on the Hudson River Railroad is
repaired, and communication is restored
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

az Official and private letters from Para
quay agree in representing the result Of the
expedition as dependent upon the inclination
of Gen. Lopez, or upon such impression -
the neighboring States can make in favor Of
peace. If negotiations arc delayed without
reaching solution, the squadron must return
or wait till It can be re-enforced. The Ad-
ministration is just beginning to realize its
rash undertaking.