The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-30
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cession in Louisville, on "Wednesday night
last.
Hon. William c. Rives is about to take
the stump in favor of the election of Cog
gin, the Opposition candidate for Governor
of Virginia.
A note from Paris, dated April S, states
that Senator Sumner has left Montpelier for
Rome. He was, at last accounts, in very
bad condition of health.
Magnificent Strawberries, the growth OF
this season, are now served up in Memphis.
A FIRE company, numbering about sixty
men, Of Augusta Ca, are making arrange
ments TO visit Philadelphia They expect
to arrive in that city in June, and spend the
4th of July there
A decree has been granted for the sale of
the Cincinnati, Wilmington, and GAINESVILLE
railroad, by the first and second bondhold-
ere. 1t provides for the foreclosure and sale
in three years and half. The first mort
gage amounts to Sl,30O,oO0, upon which
S294,0 900 interest is due, aud the second
mortgage to 100000 upon which about
S23o,0oo interest remains unpaid.
By an odd circumstance the Italian Pre-
mier Count Cayour, and the American Min
lister, W, B. Reed, were shut up together for
two hours in a small railway station on this
side of Mount Gents, without either of them
discovering who the other was.
During a recent storm, a coffee-house sit
uated on Ross Hill, near Cincinnati, was
struck by lightning. Large cracks were
made in the walls of one side, the windows
smashed, the chairs, tables, and other flu j.
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mired disorder" The building was also set
on fire, but the flames were speedily extin-
guished. Although there were two or three
persons in the house at the time, they all
escaped without injury.
The receipts and sales of leaf tobacco at
Louisville continue large, at prices ranging
from SO 05 to Sic 20 per 100 pounds, ac-
cording to grade and condition.
One avowsd object of the proposed or
ganization ola new State out of the South
ern counties of California, is to unite the
sauna with Arizona, bringing the whole into
the Union as State, at an early day.
A curious case has justtranspired at Mon
ticello, Mo- Two boys were arrested for
stealing $50 gold piece. The one who
did not steal it was put upon trial first, and
the other was used rs a witness, and his in
nocence was established. The other boy
was then placed on trial, when the one Just
acquitted came forward and swore that he
had stolen the money himseifl
A youth, Is years ofage, by tie name of
G. Langdon Davies, is creating great sen
sation in the provincial towns of England.
To Judge from the enthusiasm he seems TO
create, the mantle of Father Mathew appears
to have fallen upon him. Mr.. Davies has
jdst delivered two orations in Wigan. He
spoke in such a way that alternately the
tears ran down the cheeks of his young
audience, or their merry laughter drowned
his voice. He poured forth arguments, IL.
lustrations, metaphors, allegories, and pc
roriations, speaking as if he were those of
whom he spoke, and working up his audi
ence 10 an intensity of sympathy rarely
equalled. One hundred and fifty signed
the pledge of abstinence in the two evening"
Rev. DR.. Richards, recently deceased at
Hanover, left manuscript sketches of nearly
all the graduates ofDartmouth College
WEATHER oS THE PLAINs--0n the 22d,
there was n severe snow storm on the plains
north and west of Westport A letter from
that place says:
"On Wednesday it was uncomfortably
warm, and the next day it showed I'm tor
rents. This morning it is clear and bright,
but the ground is frozen hard.
Emigrants 10 Pixies Peak are having a
hard time of it. Many of them are ill-clad
and worse fed, and how they will get
through such spells as yesterday out on the
open prairie is mystery, unless, 10 use a
phrase of tue Indians to whose country they
are bound, many of them "go under -
something not At ali improbable The news
from the mines is so-So--not very encourag-
ing, and yet not entirely disheartening.
BETWEEN THREE AND ForR THOUSAND
MoRMoSs CoMING--We are informed that a
Mormon Elder has been in this city, and
made arrangements with II. W. Love TO have
between so and 100 hand carts made as
soon as possible, 10 be used in crossing the
Plains the coming summer. Between three
and fonr thousand of the faithful followers
/ ofPrince Brigham are expected here betw cen
| the LIST and tenth of next month, They
| purchase their wagons in Chicago, but
/ they are to come here and lay in stock of
provisions, and necessary outfit for the trip.
/ The Mormons are mostly English. Welsh,
and Danes, and viii most probably 60 bet
| ter prepared to endure the hardships of the
| journey than did those who went out in the
summer of ls56.-Io,od City Republican
April 10.
nEu The town OF F rankin, Massachusetts,,
is said to have the identical library that DIR.
Franklin gave it for adopting his name.
lie was asked to give bell for the meeting
house he preferred to give library as a
bell has more sound than sense. Most OF
the hundred or two books he gave are still
preserved, and are among the best standard
works in the English language.
THE MEMOIRS or TALLEYRAYD.-We hear
from Paris: at is well-known fact, that
the Memoirs of VI. de Talleyrand, according
TO his disposition, are to appear only thirty
years after his death, which will be in 1868
But the heirs have already began negotia-
tons with the publishers, who of course,
have had glance at these papers, allowing
others to have peep over their shoulders
1t is known now, that these curious Memoirs
contain very secret history of the house o.
Austria, and throw lights upon Maria LouiSa