The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-12-17
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
The News.

Our Geographic dispatches will prove uni
versally interesting this morning By the
arrival of the Anglo Saxon, we have Euro
pean advices to tie 3Oth ult. battle had
been fought by the Moors and Spanlards,
with loss to the latter Of 500 killed and
400 wounded.
The Harper's Ferry insurgents paid the
penalty of their crimes yesterday--the ne
groes in the forenoon, and the whites in the
afternoon 1t is stated that Cook and Cop
pic attempted TO escape by cutting II hole
through the walls of the Jail. They were
discovered by the guard and fired upon
In Congress, the same anarchcal state
continues. Plenty of speeches and no bal
loting. How long this state of affairs viii
continue, is uncomfortable.
John Kahn, who has been on trial in Gin
cinnati for several days, for the murder of
Richard Singleton. the seducer of his daugh-
ter, was acquitted on Wednesday last
Kahn was tried for the ohense about
two years ago, and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life. a writ Of error was granted
by the Supreme Court, and a second trial
obtained which resulted as above.
4 man named Thomas Sheedy lost bis
life in Lafayette 10y the falling of en-
bankment. He was engaged in loading his
wagon with earth, while several men were
picking at the overhanging mass, when it
suddenly gave way, burying Sheedy COM
pIetely.
Forty children, twenty-seven boys, and
thirteen girls, under the auspices of the New
York Juvenile Asylum, passed through La
tayette Wednesday morning, e1, route for
Southern Illinois.
The third Aud itor has nearly completed
his report Of the Oregon war debt; he will
recommend heavy deduction from the
amount allow ed Ly the Commissioner. This
will be violently opposed by Senator Lane
and Gov. Stevens.
Mr.. Wade, Republican Senator from Ohio,
got himself in pretty tight place in his
debate in the Senate, with Mr.. Clay of Ala.
We think Mr.. Clay had decidedly the best
of the controversy.
Wigfall, the regular Democratic candi-
date for United States Senator from Texas
has been elected by the Legislature of that
State by two majority.
The mysterious murder Of young Leon
ard, of Norfolk, Va, proves to have been
case of accidental shooting. The young
man endeavored to take n loaded gun from
Il H.,
discharged, the load entering his neck and
head. When discovered, his body was "
ing some distance from the cupboard, the
gun remaining in its place.
Mr.. McRae, of Mississippi, in his speech
before the House of Representatives, declar-
ed himself in favor of re-openina: the slave
trade
1t is crcditable to South Carolina to an
nounce that on Saturday last, a resolution
in favor of re-opening the slave trade was
voted down in the Senate by vote of "a
to 10.
The parties in Washington whom we
mentioned yesterday as likely to fight duel
are Hon. Il. w. johnson, of Arkansas, and
Col. Hindman, a member of the House from
the same State. The difficulty originated
from a letter write by Johnson, in which
he pronounces Hin oman bully and I'M
poster.
The Democracy OF Sullivan coHnty, at
their recent Convention, respectfully presen-
ted the name of II. X. Wilson as a suitable
delegate to the Charleston Convention from
that District,
The Madison Courier says the proprietor
of the Star Mills in that city have, in their
mills, warehouses, and in the hands of their
agents, from $4,000 to $4,000 bushels of
wheat. The Courier thinks that is more
than is held by any other mill in the world.