The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-11-07
EVANSVILLE, IND. MONDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 7, 1850
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Watty Morrison, Scotch clergyman,
was a man of great wit and humor. On one
occasion he entreated an officer at Fort
George to pardon a poor fellow that was
sent to the halberls. The officer offered to
grant his request if he would, in return,
grant him the first favor he would ask
Mr.. Morrison agreed to this, and the officer
immediately demanded that ceremony of
baptism should be performed on puppy.
| The clergyman agreed to it, and q party OF
many gentlemen assembled to witness the
novel baptism. Mr.. Morrison desired the
officer to hold up the dog, as was necessary
| in the baptism of children, and said: g. As ]
| am minister of the Church of Scotland, /
| must proceed according to the ceremony OF
that Church" "Certainly," said the ma
jor, +" l expect all the ceremony" "Well,
then, major, l begin with the usual ques-
tion-Do you acknowledge yourself the
father of this puppy3" A roar of laughter
burst from the crowd, and the officer threw
the candidate for baptism away.
The new steam gunboat Mohican, which
the Navy Department has just detailed to
reinforce the African squadron, is nearly
completed. She is an elegant little ship,
| 994 tons burden. 233 feet long, 33 feet wide,
| l6 feet deep. Her machinery consists of
one direct engine, with cylinders 81 inches
| in diameter, and 80 inches stroke. She has
two of Martins patent boilers that hold
| l6,S0o gallons of water, and composition
propeller feet inches in diameter and 10
feet pitch, which is expected to make 80
revolutions per minute. Her armament
will be formidable one, consisting of two
IL inch pivot guns, fear 32 FOUNDERS and
one boat howitzer, for which she carries as
ammunition $50 eleven inch shells, 800 thirty
two pounds solid shot, 80 stands OF grape
for the thirty-twos, and sixteen stands for
the shell guns.
A letter from Rio Janiero to the New
York Courier. says: A few days ago the
royal mail steamer Tyne, left for Southamp-
ton, having no less than seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars worth of diamonds,
collected within very brief period from the
exhaustlesS treasures of Brazil.
A French paper prescribes most simple
remedy for those troublesome pests-car-
buncles-with which some people are attic
ted. This is Burgundy pitch, applied on
linen cloth to the tumor.
A schoolmaster in Connecticut was, on
one occasion, examining a boy from Rhode
1SluuQ III uiS CdlcCulSSaIl, duu hSACO LhC AOA-
lowing question:
How many Gods are there?"
The Providence plantation subject
scratched his head for while, and then re-
piled
81 don't know how many you've got in
Connecticut, but we have none in Rhode
Island" r
The New York Express thinks that the
lctters of Col. Forbes TO several prominent
men in the North were written after the oc-
currences at Harper's Ferry, and are pro-
mulgated only with the view of notoriety to
the writer. This is not impossible; but it
| is of no sort of consequence whether they
were written at one time OF another. 1t
would be a strange kind of law under which
men could be held responsible not for what
they write themselves, but for what is writ
ten to them by an intrusive correspond
ent, who has no right whatever 20 address
them.
Au Irish advertisement says: "a re-
ward of 30 is offered for the apprehension
of Patrick O'Flaherty, who last week stole
Il jackass, which same had ON pair of cor
| duroy breeches, with blue eyes, and smokes
a short pipe; n.uch given to squirting, and
likewise his shoes let down at the heel"
| The Montreal Pilot has it ON authority
that His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, accompanied by the colonial secre-
| tary, and other distinguished personages
will visit Canada in the end of May or the
beginning of June next. The formal OPEN
| ing of the Victoria Bridge will then take
place.
1t is not generally known that railroad
transportation destroys the vitality Of
eggs. Pack them as you will, if they are
carried to any distance, say 100 miles, the
continual shaking will shake the life out of
them. 5l1
The progress of the manufacturing system
| in The Southern States would seem, from
some statistical returns recently published,
to be much more rapid than is generally
supposed. South Carolina, Alabama, Louis
lana, Kentucky and Tennessee, are now
manufacturing cotton and wollen goods to a
| large extent.
MALT IS stated in the Memphis Enquirer that
tue census of 1850 reported upwards of IT,
900 native free white persons in Tennessee
who had acknowledged to the census takers
that they were unable to read, which is in
the proportion of nearly one in four of the
whole number.
Mr.. Jenkins playfully remarked to his
wife that in her he possessed four fulls.
g Name them my love-
{" You are beautiful, dutiful, youthful, and
an armful."
g You have the advantage of me, my
dear"
How so, my precious %
al have but one foolt ~
Mr.. Jenkins made no further enquiries.
A gigantic ditch is being constructed in
the Kansas gold region, running distance
~ al .ItE Al,
depth of two feet. Its cost will be S23, 900,
and it is inten led to supply water for min
ing purposes.
We see it stated that official inspections
have proved that the wheat crop of 1859 is
the largest in Virginia that the State has
ever produced.
Little Tommy = is 1--WE years old.
He was in a musing mood the other day,
and his mother asked him what he was
thinking about. "Oh," said he, al was
thinking of old times "