The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-04

! How UNCLE SANS MONEY GoEs.-lt is
| instructive to the people of the United
States to know how il is that the Govern
ment costs 80 much when they acknowledge
! that il is worth SO little. One OF the causes
! of this vast increase may bc found in the
| fact that the taste Of the Government Dig
| nitaries for amusements in the style Of Eu-
ropean royalty, mas decidedly improved un-
| der Mr.. Buchanan'S Administration. As
| an illustration of this fact. give the fol-
lowing item, which briefly describes little
pleasure trip and its costs, which was in
| duIged in short time ago:
The Cabinet officers, foreign ministers,
and other notables, have lately taken a
| pleasure excursion in the new cutter Harriet
| Lane Miss Lane, the Presidents niece,
went, and there was on board II large band
OF music The cost of the frolic was some
! $4,000, which Uncle Sam paid. Surprising
John Quincy Adams had done it, what II
howl the Democratic party would have
raised.
rIa- Some weeks since, Mr.. Stalter, of
Sloatsburg, Rockland county, n. Y, killed
large rattlesnake which he carefully
IDENTIFY cut his thumb with the knife he had
used for this purpose, when his hand and
arm began to swell. Mr. Stalter daily be.
came worse, when the physician was sent
! for, but found the unfortunate man beyond
| ali medical aid. Before he died, his body
was covered with livid spots, resembling
those on the snake he had killed.
miss Florence Nightingale, who read
a paper on the Management of Hospitals
at the last meeting OF the Social Science
| Association in Liverpool, has presented the
| MSS. or the paper to the corporation of
that town. At the meeting of the Liver
pool Town Council recently, the Mayor was
requested to acknowledge Miss NightingaleS'
gift, and to inform her that il would be
carefully preserved among the corporate
archives.
! ILLINOIS STATE PoLITIcs.-The Republi-
cans Of the Sixth Congressional District of
Illinois have nominated John a. Palmer TO
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of
Col. Harris.
The National Democratic State Central
Committee of Illinois has called Conven-
ton to be held at Springfield, on the 10th
of January next, to choose delegates TO the
Charleston Convention.
asa.. So exuberant was the wit of Sydney
Smith that il broke out even the most
solemn occasions. When bidding farewell
to clergyman, who was just starting OH a
! Christian mission To one of the Cannbal
Islands, the Reverend purster sqeezing his
hands, said: "My friend, hope you will
agree with the man who eats you"
am, The Providence Journal asked a
Young man, who had been taking most
toilsome mountain tramp, what he found TO
] compensate him. " The fatigue" he an-
swered, and wisely too. We have no doubt
an old man would have answered the same
question in the same manner.
my The ladies and dressmakers Of Paris
are positively now taking their fashions
from England. The French women are
wearing the red striped petticOat of Wales,
and the plumed transformation of the wide
awake, which so charmingly sdorns the
heads of the London Amazons in Rotten
Row.
Bishop OXpERDOyKs CAsE.--The excite
ment in the New York Protestant Episcopal
Convention, in regard to the recommend.
ing the restoration of Bishop Onderdonk, is
: intense. His diocese, aS n whole, desires
$ that he should resume ecclesiastical duties
. and the Convention which numbers about
! three hundred members, stands four TO on,
p in his favor.
NATIONAL FAR.-The receip of tn,
. United States Fair, in Chicago, was S33,
600 AT Richmond, Va, last year, the,
7 were S7,4G4. In 1857, at Louisville the
run up to $22,O
' pes. The Nashua (Me.) Telegraph, doesn
plblish births, but thus gives broad hin
that something has happened in that line
"The man who carries the babies round
must have tipped his basket over in on
neighborhood Such shower of babies a
we have had up here! The minister. an,
the lawyer, aud the doctor are all in for il
: not TO mention ether parties not pertainin,
to the learned profession"
}, HYThe rope which supported Blondin
while walking across Niagara river, ha
: been cut up into small pieces, to be distribu
!. ted among the wonder mongers, and seen
to beregarded with as much favor as a sec
ton Of the submerged cable"
D. BH-The failure of the great Boston puL
fishing house of Phillips, Sampson l. Co.,
a bad one, and still unexplainable. Man
?. of the paper manufacturers are their credit
ors, and they will be glad to take fifty cent
on the dollar for their claims