The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-11-05


"Occasional" writes to the Press, that the
defeat of the Democracy in Minnesota, was
brought about through the fundamentally
q Mr.. Buchanan, who managed TO corrupt
and demoralize many of the leaders of the
party. The vote of Minnesota gives to the
Republicans one hundred and thirteen MEM
bers of the new House of Representatives.
The same writer says the meeting of the
National Democratic Committee will be held
in Washington on the 7th of December, and
he predicts the time for the session of the
Charleston Convention, will be fixed at an
early period of the year-about the middle
of April.
A letter from Bedford county, Tennessee,
states there is girl II years old held as a
slave in that vicinity who claims to be the
daughter of Peter McGregory, St. Louis
merchant She says that she was at board
ing school, when man came and told her
that her father had sent for her. Instead of
taking her home, however, he carried her
to Memphis and sold her as slave, threat
ening to kill her if she said she was free.
While repairing the break in Croto1
water pipes in New York, it was discovered
that the pipes all the way from Croton Lake
to the city, have been a swimming pond for
the fish. Numbers of white and yellow
bass were found, and as fast as found were
roasted by the laborers at the great rosin
fires kept up during the night, and eaten
with avidity. Ono of the fish thus caught
was nine inches in length.
The Chicago Democrat says the feeling
among hog buyers and packers in that city,
is very much depressed, and prices will,
without doubt, rule low for some days to
come. Not more than S. 50@3 IS was
offered yesterday, and there appeared
but very little disposition to buy at those
figures.
On Sunday evening woman named
Margaret Donald livingin Gansevoort street,
New York, obtained a glass of liquor at
one of the Ninth-ward portef-houses, which
proved to contain more than the usual por-
ton of strychnine- spasm ensued short
ly afterwards she fell from her bed to the
floor and expired in sgony.
The cranberry fever is up on Cape Cod.
The Yarmouth Register mentions several
cases where parties have made from $4,000
TO So, 600 from their crops. A piece of bog
land that FIVE years ago was not valued at
500, cannot now be purchased for $40, 900.
A letter from the South says, if Douglas
was as sure of the vote of New Jersey he
as Of the vOte Of South Carolina his election
as President OF the United States would be
placed beyond doubt.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that the in
dividual who wrote the anonymous letter
from that city to Secretary Floyd, limiting
at the plan of Brown to excite au insurrec-
ton at Harper's Ferry, is supposed to be the
same who betrayed the negroes whom Dom
nelly had secreted in his room.
The Chicago Democrat estimates that
there were over 900 arrivals at the hotels
of that city, during one day of the present
very dull season.
Six of the Irish laborers engaged in the
recent Bergen tunnel riots, in which the
United States mails were stopped, were, on
Monday, convicted and sentenced to two
years Imprisonment, each, in the State
Prison
A letter from Cuba says the African
slave trade hourishes amazingly. 1t re-
ports the landing of four more cargoes of
these unhappy creatures.
The trial of the illibusters at New Or
leans resulted in their acquittal. Fillibus-
tering is criminal according to where it
takes place.
Pigeon shooting is said to be fine in the
Eastern part of the State. Numbers leaving
Cincinnati are engaged in bagging this
game.
1t is stated that numbers of the Baltimore
rioters, at the recent election, were armed
with Sharpe's rifles, obtained from the stores
of the insurrectionists, during the melee at
Harper's Ferry.