The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-02-23

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pI- The Legislature of Illinois is about
to adjourn without accomplishing anything.
The Democrats have majority in both
branches of that body. They insist on re-
apportioning the State in order to throw
Senator Trumbull out of his seat, to which
the Republicans will not submit, and be-
tween the two business is blocked.
DY~It is currently reported that there is
more than one fair and frail' female Wash
ingtonian whom distinguished diplomat
has exercised his peculiar and fascinating
powers upon, and whose intimacy with his
lordship has not only placed them in an eqi-
vocal position, but has materially lowered
him in the opinion of " our best society"
AA. Scarlet fever is committing fearful
ravages among the children in Cincinnati.
Judge Stanley Matthews buried three f,his
children within as many days, and fourth
child is not expected to recover. Gin
cinnati paper says: "The fever has never
committed such ravagas in the city before,
scores of families having been compelled of
late to mourn their departod offspring and
feel their vacant places answered in their
heart"
BsS"A man named John Berry has just
returned to Detroit, Mich, from Van Die
mans Land, whittier he was banished in
1897, for his connection with the Canadian
patriots" He was torty-two when he
was banished, and is now sixty four--a sad
chasm in life. He was lieutenant, and
joined the "patriots" at Oswego.
BG5@ An indianapolis correspondent, who
witnessed the fight between Heffren and
Gooding, writes us that it afforded terrific
realization of the lines of Watts (his name y
slightly altered;
land Horace lie pitched into hym
And hym pit he'd into he
The way they fytt it a sin,
s.aa And horrybell to see,
Beg~ An artist painted cannon so natu-
rally the other day that when he finished
the touch hole it went off.
A friend accounts for it by saying it was
taken by the Sheriff.
neA., The Kansas City Journal Of COM
merce says that both bitumnous and canal
coal have been discovered in large quanti-
| ties within eight miles of that city in the
bluffs of the Kansas River.
R@- The Hudson Wis., Star says that
one of the effects of the revival in that place
is, that several begin to pay their debts, who
were considered hopeless cases before.
BsF A sable preacher in the South, re-
Gently offered an earnest prayer for ode white
element in our population
BI- In demolishing an old dwelling
house at Deep River, Conn, short time
since, Mrs. Williams requested her son to
look for twenty-five cent piece that she
lost more than sixty years ago, describing
the circumstances and the location. The
money was accordingly found, none the
worse for its long deposit. ...-
Hees Recent agricultural statistics show
that the yearly wheat crop in New England
| is rapidly declining in amount. In the Mid
die States it is about stationary, while the
Northwest is yearly becoming more and
more the wheat supplying portion of the
| Union. @zf .--- ts-
Mr.. Yancey, the American minister to
the Argentine Republic, had reached his des-
tination, and had been hatteringly received.
AN INTERESTING CoUNTRY.-The Postmas-
ter at Tampico has given notice, says the
New Orleans Pieayuns, that persons who
wish to write to Mexico can do so now, pro-
vided they send theirletters open," as only
so are they delivered in the capitol. This
interesting state of things has existed ever
since the 9Th ult Before that time they
could not be sent at all, and now they have
got to take their chance by the diligence
/ from Vera Cruz. I'll F.. -.s
gentleman who has recently spent some time
in Cuba writes to the New Orleans Picayane
that forty times the thirty millions asked for
/ by the President would not much facilitate
the purchase of Cuba under present circum-
stances. He doubts, moreover, whether any
portion of this country, except the Northern
commercial States is greatly interested in
| its acquisition, and that it would be injuri-
Gus rather than beneficial to the South
From his own observation he says he is
satisfied that, with the exception of Ameri-
can residents in Cuba and exiles or political
malcontents in this country, the people of
the Island are decidedly opposed TO annexa-
ton to the United States.
E5g. Mr.. Partons researches in Nashville
for materials for his biography of jackson,
are, says the Banner, very successful. In
two or three days he discovered such mass
of matter that the mere copying involved
an expenditure oil one hundred and fifty
dollars.