The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-19
Yteu1a of Interest.


aGr The American party of St. Louis re-
Gently held convention, and put the follow
ing ticket in nomination for the city officers
| For Mayor, Edward Wyman; Comptrol-
Ter, Marshall Brotherton; Treasurer, Peter
G. Camden Recorder, Chas. F. Cady Reg
lister, A. F. Pach; Auditor, Cyrus G.. Hoyt;
City Attorney, John B. Higdon; Harbor
Master, Geo. W. Sparhawk. az ~
gS~ Both of the political parties in Gin
cinnati seem afraid to make a nomination.
The opposition put off selecting candidates
until within one week of the election. The
Democrats hold their convention the day
following that of the opposition. This will
make the canvass exceedingly short, and af-
ford but little time for the people to investi-
gate the merits of the different candidates.
RsA 1t is supposed that the walls of the
Court House at Madison will do to rebuild
upon. The loss to the county will be about
$4,000, and the use of the building, which
will be considerable. The Court House ORR
ginally cost $4,000.
BSS Slavery in Cuba exists in a mitigated
form. The slave can buy himself or an I'M
divided portion of himself, whenever he de-
mands it, making tender of the money
| If he acquires fractional independence, be
become entitled to a proportionate share of
his time and earnings. If his master NAL
treats him, he is allowed certain number
of days in each year to find new purchaser.
He can have his children legally declared
free by paying twenty-five dollars, in court,
at the Birth of each.
psz, The Paris correspondent of the
New York Herald says notwithstanding
sundry fattering rumors to the contrary,
the greater part, of which, however, are by
the Boarse, the tide seems fairly setting IN
for acar. s,- ,-g ,..-.s ..-r-.-. ~.
Ha~ Emanual Gerard whose wife COM
mitted suicide in Cincinnati lately, has be-
come raving maniac in consequence. He
suspected his wife of infdelity, and accused
her of it, when she deliberately applied a
pistol to her mouth, and blew the top of her
head completely off. -
30 The Illinois Legislature has passed
a law that ..effectuallly SPOTS the business
of the professional jurors. No person in
that State will be permitted to serve on a
jury hereafter for more than one year The
Grand Jury for the United States Courts
ought to be regulated under similar law
Hsa. At meeting of the great ship COM
pany, which now owns the Great Eastern
steamship, held in London on the 18th ult,
when Mr.. Herbert Ingram, proprietor of the
London Illustrated Ne,cs, was proposed as a
director, an attempt was made to reject him,
but it was put down by large majority
Mr.. Ingram has lately been implicated in
some doubtful peculiarly tranactions.
Rea- James Buchanan demanded $780,
100000 for the purchase of Cuba, and ve-
toes the bill appropriating $4,000 to deep
en- the channel of the st. Clair Flats. The
people of the North West will bear these
things in mind in 1860.
NDrA mass meeting of the Tammany Hall
Democrats took place on Monday evening,
the l4th inst. The object of the meeting
was to "give expression to the popular senti-
ment on the subject of the acquisition of
Cuba Senators Benjamin of Louisiana,
Pugh of Ohio, and Brown of Mississippi,
and Messrs. Bocock of Virginia, valIand-
ingham of Ohio, and Cavanaugh of Mime
sofa, members of Congress, were expected
to furnish speeches on the occasion.
HeA- Two young gents being moved with
an Unsuitable desire to explore the subterra-
mean mysteries of the tunnel now being con-
structed by the Erie Railroad Company,
through Bergen Hill, made the atte mpt, and
came very near loosing their lives. In de-
scending one of the ladders, down the prin-
cipal shaft, it broke and they were precipi-
tated to the bottom, landing in pool of wa
ter some twenty feet deep. After severe
struggle they succeeded in recovering them
selves, and elinging to one of the ladders
which seemed providentially poised, one end
resting upon the bottom of the tunnel, the
other extending a little above the surface of
the water, and nearly touching the arch
They remained in the water, it being at
very cold temperature, over twenty minutes.
fearing to stir lest the ladder should lose
its slight support and their only hope be
lost, but continuing the most agonizing cry
of q MurderI" They were finally rescued
from their perilous situation by an employee
on the tunnel who lived only few rods
from the Shaft and happened to overhear
! their cries.
gag As sagacious men predicted when
the deed was consummated, the South now
begins to lament over the folly il committed
in repeating the Missouri Compromise 1t
will yet repent of its blindness and OBJ
stinacy in that act, in deeper self-accusing
regrets than the following from the Rich
mond Wing;
We went for the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, because we then honestly be-
lieved il would rebound to the advantage of
the South. But like many other men,
Wings and Democrats, we have had ample
reason to change our opinion, and we have
not hesitated to avew that change, privately