The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-08
News Summary.

\ gagged in choir practices inside, and carried
| off forty umbrellas belonging to the party.
RsF In New York, it is stated, there are
in the course of a single year at least three
hundred persons picked up in the streets
and rivers, dead, who are unknown, and
who are never identified by their friends.
ReA., During the recent election for U. S.
| Senators in South Carolina, one for the long
term and the other for the unexpired term
of Judge Evans there were many ballotings
and much excitement. A gay, dashing
young widow, was in Columbia at the time,
and the nephew of one Of the contestants
| became so confused between the calls of
! love and the lobby that he actually declared
| himself to the lady as "a candidate for the
unexpired term of her late husband +" We
are pleased to say he was elected to the va
| cancy on the first ballot.
BSyHAt the celebration of Pilgrims Day
in Charleston, Massachusetts and South
Carolina were feelingly and patriotically
toasted together. How this circumstance
contrasts with the follies of partisan &C
| ton.
nm. Woods Theatre, in Cincinnati, was
sold by the Sheriff, on Saturday, for $780,
50O Miss Eliza Logan, the actress, and
| Mr.. J. Ii. Logan, were the purchasers
gGF~ With the restlessness and love of
adventure which characterize the American
people, an expedition is now fitting out in
New York by number of enterprising
| young men, of various trades and profess
| sions for the settlement of one of the Pa
puan Islands in Central Oceanica. They
propose to go into the cultivation of sugar,
cotton, coffee and other tropical products,
and to establish a free port for the supply
and re6tting of American whaling ships in
| the Pacific, and for a general trade. The
island which the colonists have fixed upon
| is said to be very fertile and beautiful and
| is not claimed by any European power, a
| few powerless and inoffensive natives occu-
plying il, who will welcome peaceful Adven-
| turers The enterprise is a novel one, and
its progress will be watched with interest.
asa The question of the cultivation of
cotton in Cuba receives much attention.
Some fields upon which experiments have
been made have produced well, and give
much promise of this staple becoming pro-
| fitable crop. The lands best adapted to
cotton are described and a contrast is drawn
up between it and coffee production. This
movement is pressed by an association Or
ganized in Cuba, and aided in its action by
the Manchester Association of England.
! B&y-A correspondent of the New York
Herald, on board the United States steam
frigate Merrimac, states that since that YES
sci has been commissioned there have been
fifty conference.-the held in her, and that in
every instance, the accused parties have lost
three months of their pay, and been sentenc-
ed to solitary confinement in double irons
in the sweet box" If this statement be
/ correct, there must be a screw lose in the
discipline of the ship.
gsa On Christmas night, Jack Miller, a
free colored man, and his wife, living near
Halifax, N. c., while indulging in strong
drink, had quarrel, after which the man
lay down AID went to sleep His wife then
took an axe and deliberately chopped his
head off. The deed was witnessed by a boy
who gave the alarm, and the woman was
arrested and lodged in Halifax Jail.
AEH New York has had IS Governors
since she became State, nine of whom are
still living, viz: Seward, Van Buren,, Throop,
Bonck, Fish, Hunt Seymour Clark, and
King.
Bzss AT a meeting of the Stockholders Of
the Banch at Vincennes of the Bank of the
! State, held at their banking house on Tues
day, January 4th, 1858 the following off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year
John Ross, President; John F. Bayard,
Cashier VIM. Burtch, John Ross, VIM. j
Wise, L. L. Watson and John +. Bayard
: Directors
J Hsa.The Vincennes Gazette says, we learn
RI upon good authority, that the financial con-
, dition of the Evansville and Charlottesville
Railoard is improving, and strong hopes are
) entertained that cash dividends will be de-
! clared upon the stock ut no distant day
t Under the Management of the present Presi-
. dent and Superintendent it cannot be other
wise.
GEAz schoolmaster wishing his pupils
f to have a clear idea of faith, illustrated il
} thus Here is an apple-you see it. and
therefore know it is there; but when place
it under this tea-cup, you have faith that il
is there, though you no longer see it." The
I lads seemed to understand perfectly, and the
: next time the master asked then, What
is faitl2" they answered with enc accord
"An apple under tea-cup."
= S@y"A sweet little girl was looking at th,
!. twilight sky wherein the stars were fas
overcoming the daylight Suddenly she dis
covered a constellation Frightening glori
, ously out of the blue and exclaimed witt
delight; "Oh mother, mother, SEE, see Goo
. is making boquet of the starsW
Bsk"l In many parts OF New York city, Ii
quors are adulterated to fearful extent
The Erening Post says that a few weeks age
a man drank three cents worth of brandy
which proved fatal in four hours.
gaE- Prof Neumann, the Orientalist O
q Munich, writes to the Illinois Stats Zeitang
, that he is Disguised with European govern
o ments, under which an Independent maj
g can neither speak, write, nor act as h
pleases ; and that but for his advances
!, years (6l) he should emigrate to the Unite
q States. He adds: Even arts and scienc
v form only part of our slavery. They ar
: supported to draw US away from life, from
politics for only that dare make its ap
peaIauce which pleases our mighty patrons
our protectors AS our officiating mag
: istrates and doctors call them-and which
|, advance their despotic inclinations Yo
9 may easily imagine that with such drift
of our ideas, | often curse the life that W
, have to lead, and wish to be in America"
Hes' Prof Torrey, of the New York as
i say Office, having tested the value of th
It ella River gold dust, fixes it at $l9 so pc
If ounce, which is finer than the best Califol