The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-07
News Summary.

the manner of warming the rooms IN the
State House. Hot air furnaces are to take
the place of stoves. There are three of
them-two for coal and one for woodland
they will be ready blythe sitting of the Leg
stature. The halls of the two houses, the
library, and the Supreme Court rooms will
be warmed in this way.
B9F The Washington States reluctantly
admits that the acquisition of Cuba by pur-
chase or any other means, is entirely hope
less, and thinks that Mr.. Buchanan viii
abandon his scheme of annexation, as ex-
ploded and futile. Ga
BSE The President is greatly troubled by
the opinion which many leading members
of Congress have expressed, that it is not
probable that new tariff can be agreed
upon this session. He has informed several
members, within few days, that if this
Congress does not so modify the tariff as to
furnish more revenue, he will convene the
next Congress in an extra session early in
the Summer. He has expressly notified Mr..
Phelps, the Chairman of the Committe on
Ways and Means of this determination.
HGA, There is a movement on foot in
Philadelphia in favor of building an i'm
mense hall, on the of The leading avenues
in central part of the city, which is meet
ing with great encouragement. The esti-
mated means required for such an enter
prize-from $150,000 to $500. 000-seem TO
interpose no obstacle, nor in any way to
dampen the sangnine expectations of those
who have the subject at heart. The hall
is designed for the Young Mems Christian
Union. 1 <f
asA Capt. Townsend, of the slave bIig
Echo, has been taken to Key West for trial,
| that being the port to which he was first
taken after capture. @ @
Hea, There probably will come time
when originality will give ont, and nothing
| new VIII be invented ~FHF- carriers are the
latest agony-we say "garters right
out, after long mental conflict as to its
propriety.
B- Advices from Naples state that
Mount Nesuvius is again in full eruption,
and presents a most magnificent spectacle
each night. 81 at @ fat
sea. The wife of Mortimer Thompson
| {" Doesticks died at Brooklyn, N. Y, on
Wednesday last.
HsA.. 1t is said that the Senate will proba-
bly, adopt The Recommendation of the
Postmaster-G General for the abolition of the
-franking privilege of members of Congress,
substituting for the same a number of
stamps. 8H ~
B~ From recent report of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, made to the Senate, it
appears that the entire cost of Government
buildings in Washington, including stat
uary and paintings has been Sl4, 709, 339.
NsE~ The Charleston Courier. CALAMITY
declares that " every mother and daughter
among the ladies of Cuba, alike hate Spain
and the Spaniards. Did | think, said a
young Cuban girl, few evenings since,
there was single drop of Spanish blood
flowing in my veins, l would open them and
let it out = This remark was greeted with
long-continued applause"
Dey~ Col. Fuller, formerly of the N. Y
Mirror, is preparing to start I" conservative
national, free trade" newspaper, in New
York city next fall.
Beg~ Col Abraham Van Buren,, son of
the ex-President has sold his entire plan
tation of slaves, 21o in number, for $147,-
gGS Seven states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota,
poll l,26s,000 ..votes, or 100, 900 more than
the fifteen Southern States, three times as
many as New England, and nearly a third
of the whole vote of the Union.
BBF A rather spicy passage of words oc-
CURED in Congress, tn e other day, between
Mr. " ashburne of Wisconsin, and Mr.
Shorter of Alabama, rather noted Fl re-
eater. Mr.. s. took offence at the terms EN-.
ployed by Mr.. w in opposing an Alabama
Indian claim bill, and denounced a given
remark as false and slanderous, upon the
assumption that it was intended to be ap-
piled to the people of Alabama Mr. Wash
burne explained that he intended to desig-
nate and describe only the member, to-wit
Mr.. Shorter Mr.. Shorter hasn't been heard
from since. 90
HEAL There are now lying in Atlantic Dock
Basin, at Brooklyn, n. Y, twenty Canal
boats, loaded with forty-two thousand bush
els of potatoes, which are sold at 81 % pei
bushel. - 3
HEa.A San Francisco letter SAYS q Fra
ger river is almost unheard of. Every
steamer brings downas many as can get away
, and nearly all the Adventures ththerward
have got back, looking considerably the
worse for wear. 1t is only necessary to APP
pearin shocking bad hat, Tnd dilapidat-
ed and well ventilated garments, to be hail
ed with a hollow how's Frazer Every
shabby, woe-hegone looking chap is suppos-
ed to be one of en- --f 81
asA Cheap and abundant as money is in
this country, ie is much cheaper in Europe
In London the Bank of England rate of dis
count is only D per cent. At Paris the rate
is per cent at Hamburg, 2; Frankfort, 4;
at Amsterdam, J, and at Brussels, 3 pen
: cent. -
BG~ During the past year &c murders
were committed in the city of New York
and only one man was hung.
DGs7There are / POO grog-shops in New
York city, and 700 in Williamsburg and
Brooklyn. 81
AFRICAN ELoQuENeE.--MiS Missionaries art
. bringing to light many interesting facts in
regard to the mental characteristics of the
people of Africa. Mr.. Maffaty, who has
seen much of the southern part of this con
tinent, gives the following narrative related
t tohim by man from Bornou Central Africa
1t is perhaps without parallel in literature
for simplicity: - -,s... .~-...@.
'My years eighteen. There was war
At that time my mother died My father
died. I buried them had DONE The
t Foulahs caught me. They sold me. The
Housa people bought us They brought us
to Tomba We got up. To a white man
they sold u.s. We had no shirts We had
} no trowers. We were naked Into the
/ midst of the water-into the midst of a shin