The Evansville daily journal., 1859-01-12

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BJ The Legislature of Maine, now in
session, will, no doubt, re-elect Hon. VIM.
! Pitt Fessenden to the United States Senate,
his present term expiring on the 4th of
| March next Z g Z Il ~
4 RsA. Mrs. iElonar Vandyke,s a married
lady with family of six children, hung
4 herself with skein Of thread, in Canaan,
| Athens county, Ohio, ON Thursday last
while laboring under a fit of insanity.
u.s., Prof. Torrey, of the New York es-
say Office having tested the value of the
Gila river gold dust, fixes it at SO GO per
ounce, which is finer than the best Califor-
Mag dust, and at least So per ounce finer
/ than the best Fraser river dust -i
r. BGE- The Florida Legislature has re-
pealed the law providing for the incarcera-
! tion of free colored sailors while their yes
/ sells are in port. South Corolina we be-
/ lieve, is now the only State that has such
an enactment on her statute book. aF
4 nsA Mr.. H. K. Brown, who disigned the
bronze statue of Washington in Union
square, has just finished a alife-sized bust Of
Gen. Scott He will pass his winter in
Washington where he is engaged on bust
of Mr.. Breckenridge. fag
EaEeFrom the lst of January TO the 25th
December, 1858, forty-nine murders have
been committed in the city of New York,
and sseventy-nine persons have committed
suicide. The number of murderers hanged
during the same period amounted to one.
HHThe Deseret Ne,0s of the oath of
November, contains an account of riot in
Great Salt Lake City, between the police
and a party of peace breakers in which one
or more officers of the US. army were in
Ijured. DR.. Covey, q. S. A, received q ball
from a pistol. u
BSThe late London papers contain the
following from Rome: " At the consistory
to be holden on the Goth it is probable that
two new cardinals will be rnade~--eHe--for
Rome and another for America. Should this
news be true, America viii possess a .cardi-
nal for the first time. = The Archbishop of
Baltimore isspokeni of as likely to be the
first wearer of a red hat in the United
States. ~ ss 80, .f,ss - s.s 4, .i.aIs h
Bsg%Neal Dow writes to the Montreal
| Witness in correction of statements made
abroad by the Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, of
New York, to the effect that the Maine Law
had proved Intellectual in Maine. Mr. Dow
insists that drunkenness has decreased
more than one-half since the enactment OF
that law. "a - - ,5lt5 s.ls5 slzga
BSe Ara Van 0rman, postmaster at
Lima, Lagrange county, Indiana, ives appre-
hended on the 3rd inst charged with secret
iRg and embezzling a letter containing a
ten dollar gold piece from the post office,
and required tosgive bail forshis appearance
at the next term of the q. S, District
Court. -, +, yt...5-., l.,.. ...s-sss.E ia
sga, Mr. Reed. American Minister to
China, has the high distinction Of being the
first to obtain by the open stipulations o.
treaty an honorable mention of the benef-
cent character Of the Christian religion, and
a renewed pledge of universal toleration for
native converts throughout the Chinese EN-
pire." ass4-i'2i a'i" 'H5is'a'a' beg
asn-The game law is now in full force
l. and every person shooting partridge be
t fore the 1st of Oct. is liable to fine. 81.
d pEA.The Omaha Republican estimates the
:. cost at that place OF, an outfit for four men
with provisions and supplies for six months
in the West Nebraska Gold Mines at S5l7
25. gj-ss-l -iat .sifssss14
B1g@The Greencastle Banner, Republican
e paper, is in favor of either Schuyler Colta1
o or John G, Davis for the next Governor o
= this State aalsr-a ..ss. eE- iatls @
: B@%The Governor of Jamaica has recon
e mended to the Legislature of that island
n measures for the promotion of moro regular
lie and frequent intercourse with the Unitet
70 States.7 " ass qS tssF. 3, - H3s a.. = -
pSH The statistics of 1853 are being pub
: lished. The number Of persons killed il
y the United States last year, by railway ac
y cidents, was lO3; injured 229 The loss o
N life by steamboat accidents was 364 Th,
loss by FIRE in 1858, was S16,454 600 The
= vessels and cargoes lost in the storms O
ID the year now gone, are valued at S4,471,
at 900. .s.... va
a HEA A correspondent of a New Yorl
paper says that he made a brief tour of in
, spection in the Bowery on Sunday evening
TO At the VolKs Garden he was assured by on
Ut of the proprietors that fifteen THOUSAND
=. glasses of lager beer had been sold Itha
= evening at the single bar where he stood
u and that the number of glasses sold in th
oy establishment, up to ten o'clock, was no
of less than fifty thousand. -.s.6 ..-5 SIS
:, RsgH The question of the cultivation
u cotton in Cuba receives much attention
lo Some fields upon which experiments hav
as been made have produced well, and Civ
much promise of this staple becoming
on profitable crop. The lands best adapted t
Il cotton are described and a contrast is draw
Ies up between it and coffee production. TIL
- movement is pressed by an association o.
ad ganized in Cuba, and aided IN its action b
10 the Manchester Association of England
:. asa. The Senate of Illinois consists
IL twenty-five members, all but four of who
are over 35 years of age The younge
member 80, and the oldest 40 years of ag
. Itiscompesed of "A lawyers, farmers,
lr- physicians, 2 merchants, / printer j m
mt chanic, trader, / miller, manufacture
|. Places of nativity New York y, kentucl
vas A., Massachusetts, 2, Ohio 2, Virginia
On Pennsylvania l, Vermont /, Indiana l, III
ers nois 1, Tennessee l, Maryland l, ireland
of District Columbia l.. sosj f7.'' :
- 1a7" The New Haven JoerRa5aad COuri
sinio says "that a statement made in the IIal
Ter ford Times and copied into other papers j
lay specting the will of the Hon. II. L. Ell
-.t worth, is premature. The will has not be-
- approved, or offeredfor probate. No dire
Le- legacy has been made TO Yale College,
:. Whatever of this kind exists is residuaI
VI and is contingent on the settlement of (;
ldl- estate lying to great extent in wild Ian,
be Hence no just estimate can be put on t
han value, and the one given in the Times
Ra certainly very good exaggeration. 'a
Bls@ A Vienna letter recently receive
lia2 states that an important drain of specie "
vas going on throughout the continent of E
= | rome Tho circumstance at first nrodur