The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-06
Interesting Items.


BI- President Buchanan was 6s years
old on the 23d ult.
ea. There are eight hundred and thirty
three students now at 0berlin College.
nA. The National Medical Convention
meets in Louisville on the 10th inst.
Ia Billy Birch and troupe opened in
st. Louis, last Monday evening, for the sea-
son.
n1r The new statue of the discoyersr OF
the new world, soon to be erected at Carde-
mas Cuba, will cost $4,000, most of which
has been subscribed.
ga Jerome Bonaparte, the survivor OF
all the brothers and sisters of Napoleon J.,
still lives, at the age of rs. He was the
youngest Of the family.
n9. Hawthorne has just completed =
work, the title of which no one knows, not
even his best friends. 1t will not be pub
lished until he returns to America.
n@- A lady in Leeds, England, died
lately, from strangulation, in consequence
of having swallowed four false teeth while
asleep.
BH- The Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune says President Bu-
chanan viii save $4,000 year out of bis
salary.
De- The enterprise OF Cincinnati news-
papers is astonishing. One of them publish
ed, as an exclusive dispatch" on Saturday
the result Of a cock fight at Detroit
ET There is an apple tree near Louis
vile, Ky, which bears apples both sweet
and sour-that is to say, one half of each
apple is sweet and the other half sour.
E1- Nature is the only universal Ian
guage-can speak. without tongue-pain,
without pencil or brush. The frost bites
without teeth. The wind cuts without q
tool, whistles without mouth.
EV The New York Herald states that
few days since a Western man was feeced
by gamblers Of 1000, on a North river
steamboat The passengers, however, or
ganiLed vigilance committee and forced q
return of the victims money
HJ- Mr.. Greeley announce: that be will
leave New York about the 10th of May for
a trip through Kansas to the alleged gold
region Mt Pixies Peak, thence through Utah
and the Great Basin to California, returning
across the continent or by the Isthmus, as
circumstances may dictate, against the 25th
of September
H@. Ginseng root is said to be largely
exported from Wisconsin to the China mar
ket. II is alleged that it formed a chief re-
source of Adams and Juneau counties. in
the time Of the threatened famine las. year.
and a member of the Legislation from Rich
mond county estimated the last years ex-
ports thence alone at from $40, 900 TO s40,-
600.
neA, Polly Boston, another OF that i'm
mense family of colored people who were in
timately acquainted with General Washing
ton and his family, died in Baltimore on
Monday, at the age of one hundred and nine
years-as she guessed, probably. Not one
in a hundred of the old slaves has any real
knowledge of his or her age. II is all
guess-work.
GAY "OLD BoYs." The New York cor
respondent of the Boston Journal says il is a
remarkable fact that macy of the fast men
who drive on the avenues in New York are
gray-headed. Some of the fastest and most
expensive teams are owned and driven by
men full up to sixty, whose solemn visage
and years would seem TO indicate that their
blood must be cool by this time. Horses
are driven that cost from 81, 800 10 $4,000,
and some turn outs could not he purchased
at any price. CommodoreS book men,
merchants, short-boys, clergymen, all may
be seen OH the same road, in the full exhil-
Grafton of the sport that attends the PAGES
of "A noble and fleet horse
ksy- The New York Express, Of the 29th
ult., contains the following announcement:
''Oh! what a shadow Ger the heart is flowing
When peals the requium for the lOy'd and young y
la the midst OF life We are in death =
Yesterday one of our editorial associates in
the Express Office followed 10 the grave the
charred remains OF All estimable young lady,
whom he was about 10 lead TO the altar
but a heart rending accident the night be-
fore. with crushing suddenness turned tue
bridal into a burial On the evening ot the
same day, another OF our associates, in the
buSineS, department, was called upon to
mourn the loss of a Son---a promising lad oi
sixteen years-by death quite as sudden
aud almost as horrible. The tale is sad
one, AMI we leaye il 10 the coroners inques,
10 tell.
icy HaYannR correspondents, OF the New
York Herald writing on the H5th state
that there was not the slightest chance OF
any revolutionary movement taking Blace
on the island The creoles could not meet
in any number or communicate with Amer
, lean hllibusters without the knowledge o,
the police. Ii is said that the fllibusier
leaders who visit the harbor Of Havana on
hoard the United States mail Steamships
will find Hoprotecuon from our flag III pro-
ved to be engaged in circulating incendiury
printed matter, of which they are suspected
at present. y Spanish war steamer had
been sent to Hondaras, and forcibly brought
away the brig Franco, detained at Omao for
breach of the custom house rules. Some
fires had occurred in the cane fields near
Sagua ia G:ande. the health OF Havana
was good, hut business was not yet resumed
LATE FROM kansas.-Advices from Leay-
worth, received st 81. Louis on the 10th
inst, state that portion OF the locating
party which was dispatched ny the Over
land Express Company, returned, bringing
intelligence to The sih 0f April from Den-
srr City They report that the route is in
every NAY adapted 10 the requirement OF
travel Grass. wood, and water are abun
dant. The stages which left there on tho