The Evansville daily journal., 1859-11-28
Interesffng Items.


&" During the present week number of
clerks and others holding minor positions in
the custom-house and post-office in Phila-
delphia have been removed for an alleged
violation of some rule or other, laid down
by somebody or other, for the government
of the Democratic party. We are not ia
miliar with the mysterious workings of the
political machinery in Philadelphia, but it
strikes us that the controlling powers there
are making the slaughter too iudiscrimi-
nate. If a second Procrustean bed has been
erected; and every man is to be Topped off
or stretched out until he fits it, we imagine
that the Democracy of the Quaker City will
soon be 'whittlcd down to a point y
The call of the State Committee of the
Peoples party of Pennsylvania, for the
next State Convention, designates February
22d, 1860, as the day upon which it is to be
held, and it is " to indicate their choice for
the next Presidency, nominate candidate
for Governor, form an electoral ticket, ap-
point Senatorial, and to designate the time
and mode of electing District delegates to
the National Convention, and to transact
such other business as may be deemed
necessary to insure success at the general
election"
The expenditures of the police department
of New York city, for the past year, amounts
to the respectable aggregate of 81 ,167,336
The total number of men connected with
the force, including superintendents, cap
tains, officers, surgeons, detectives, and pa
trolmen, is 699 1t is stSted that the rela-
tive number of convictions to arrests is
steadily increasing, and that the long terms
of imprisonment imposed by the courts have
tended materially to diminish crime against
property.
At the late election in Maryland, there
were several remarkable cases of close vo-
ting. In Calvert county there is a tie for
commissioners, and in Dorchester a tie for
Sheriff. In the latter county, the Democrats
lose delegate by votes, and in Somerset,
the American candidate is elected Sheriff by
a majority off. Purnell's majority in Dor
chester is l, in Cecil 2, and in Caroline four
votes. In Carroll county, Webster, Ameri-
can, is elected States attorney by 4 votes,
and in several other cases, there are similar
results.
NJ. De Montalembert, who was prosecuted
a year ago, in France, for writing politi-
cal article offensive to the Emperor, has
again Incurred the imperial displeasure, by
writing an article on Italian affairs, in which
he freely criticises the conduct of the Ital-
ians, and of France and England. 1t was
proposed to prosecute him again, but on re-
Election, it was decided to issue g warn
ing" to the journals which publish his arti-
Gle. NJ. De Montalmbert condens the war,
and the encouragement which it has given
to insurrection.
The Democratic Governor and State Off
GERS are elected in Louisiana by from 1000
to 1e, 900 majority. Their majority in the
State Senate will be eight and in the House
twenty-five, insuring the election of a U. S.
Senator. 1t is supposed that Senator Sill
dell will be reelected.
desperate design to break out OF the
Cuyahoga County Jail, at Cleveland, was
discovered and frustrated on Tuesday. The
plot was for one of the prisoners, of whom
ninety were under confinement, to throw
pepper into the jailor's eyes as he entered
the hall to lock up the prisoners for the
night, get possession of his keys and then
rush out. -
pickpocket in Buffalo, who has not
proiited by the moral inculcations of Presi-
dent Buchanan's Fort Duquesne letter, stole
| $lOO from Mr. Roth at the polls, last Tues
day week; I" use of money at elections
which will cause the eyes OF the patriot oc-
cupant of the White House to suffuse with
| tears.
. Three little girls were nearly killed in
Randolph, VT, a few days ssago by a ram
The animal butted them down, one after
| the other, and then pursued them to the
house, where he battered down two of the
doors before he was captured. II was a
good specimen of the Z" "battering ram"
A young man who IS being educated, or
/ starved rather, for the ministry, by one of
the wealthiest churches in New York, on
being asked how much aid he received per
annum, replied, One hundred dollars and the
prayers of the ehareht ."s
General Thomas Thumb, who, although
"barely knee-high to grasshopper,n made
| a large fortune for p. 7. Barnum and a snug
one for himself, is reported to be about to
unite himself in wediock with a lady OF
youth and beauty.
Elias Howe, the original patentee of the
| lock-stitch which enters into the cOnstruc-
ton of nearly all the various sewing ma
chimes manufactured, receives about $780,
| 600 a year in commissions on machines
sold, without manufacturing or taking any
risk himself.
Three thousand inebriates have applied
for admission into the New York Inebri-
ate Asylum. Among the number are thirty
clergymen, in whom the spirit appears tc
be stronger than the flesh.
i One of the louisville merchants, a few
days since, received from Barren county,
| KY, a lot of ginSang, in most of the roots
of which nails were driven to give addi-
itonal weight to the article.
The Bardens, who solidify milk, up in
Litchiield, Ct, have also succeeded in solid
flying sweet cider, so that five quarts are
reduced to one, which becomes jellyist
i substance, and can always be made swee
and liquid cider again by adding water.
A new Democratic paper is, it is stated
about 70 be started in New York, with the
name of the Daily Leader; its editorial man
agement 10 be under the direction of Johr
Clancy. %