The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-06
News Summary.

the United States have noticed the recent
trial of Count Montaembert in France, and
a strong and very general interest is felt in
him on account of the supposed liberality OF
his opinions, and the impression that while
he is honest in the expression of those opin-
ions, he has been made the victim of perse
cution for opinions sake but no commenta-
tor OH him, or his political opinions, has re-
ferred to the probable influence Of his wife,
in giving tone to his sentiments. | became
personally acquainted with the Countess
Montalembert in 1891. She is 4 woman
of distinguished grace of figure and manner,
and possessed of considerable beauty-that
superior kind of beauty which consists of
intelligence and expreSsion-and lisa woman
of intelligence, accomplishment, and infer
nation; talks freely and well; speaks Eng
lish huently, but with decided foreign
accent. Altogether, she is a woman who
would exert strong influence over sensible
man who loved her. But the point in her
character, which write to particularly men,
ten, is, that she is a niece of General La
fayette, and reveres the memory and adj
mires the principles of that statesman and
soldier, whose name is so intimately associat-
ed with that of our own Washington.
asa. The Erie canal contains more water,
and floats more vessels than any canal in
Europe, and has 5, 568 vessels on its register,
of which l,446 are larger than the one on
which Columbus discovered America. The
total value of cargoes carried on the Erie
and Oswego canals in the year just closed.
was $l66, s07, 945 !. the yearly afnount which
the canals can at present carry is six million
tons.a
BA.A letter received by the Memphis,
Tar,, cfofa that TOcrpb
wife and son, formerly ofthat city, had been
robbed and then murdered at their rancho,
near Saltillo, Mexico, short time since, by
band of Mexican banditti. Mr.. Ferguson
was well known in that city as member of
the flrm OF Ferguson & Eeill, and ramnved to
the place of his date residence about year
since.
B-The editor of the Columbus (Georgia)
| Enquirer, described bed offossils in the cut
| through a hill in the Chunnenuggee Ridge,
on the Girard and Mobile Railroad He
found the teeth of sharks the shells of oysters,
&C., and the scales of fish in q perfect state.
| The rocks seemed composed entirely of
these organic remains.
Beg The Rev Theodore Parker in his
recent lecture on Washington, told the fol-
| lowing anecdote
AT Cambridge, Gen. Washington had
heard that the colored soldiers were not to
| be depended upon for sentries. So one
night, when the password was Cambridge,
he went outside the camp, put on an over
coat, and then approached colored senti-
mel Who goes there cried the senti-
mel "A friend, replied Washington
Friend advance unarmed and give the
countersign,' said the coored man. Wash
ington came up and said Roxbury.' No,
sar,' was the response. Medford, said
Washington No sarP returned the col
ored soldier. Charleston, said Washing
ton. The colored man Immediately ex-
claimed, Il tell you, Massa Washington, no
man go by here unless he say Cambridge
Washington said Cambridge, and went by
and the next day the colored gentleman
was relieved of all further necessity for at
tending to that particular branch of mill
tary duty"
Aea=, Thirty thousand dollars have been
expended on drudging the AppomattoX, and
depth of nine feet has been Obtained. IT
will require $3O0,0 900 to finish the work as
originally proposed.
B9s~ John Minor Bolts is said TO be bust
ly engaged in preparing great speech for
the American-Whig convention to be held
in Richmond in February.
Bglgr Negro men, for factory hands, are
hiring in Lynchburg, for from $3.50 to $3.50.
Railroad contractors are Offering rs high as
$500 for strong-bodied men, and women,
for cooks, command from $50 to $75.
Hgg~ Prof. J. G. HOyt, of Exeter, has ac-
cepted the appointment OF Chancellor to the
University of Missouri, at ST. Louis, and
Withdrawn his name as a candidate for the
nomination for Congress in the first Con-
4 g NJ,
ggH At the Christmas exercise in the
NJ Z. Church, Brooklyn, n. Y. the pastor
Rev. Mr. Mllburne, was presented with &
monster pear, which, for time, excited
some curiosity. 1t was finally opened, an6
: in the centre was found a check on the
specie-paying bank for $Gl5, payable to the
order of the pastor.
Bss- A young man named Henry Lane
= was suffocated at Toronto, c. W, on Christ
mas Eve, by his bed taking fire, when i
} had tumbled into it after a drunken orgie
the lamp dropping from his hand
|, ne The number of students AT presen
= connected with the University of Michigan
) is, in the Medical Department 1873; and il
! the Department of Literature, Science, ant
the Arts, 300, making total of 428 sta
+ dents at present connected with the Uni
9 versity- ~ s.---..-.
:. Nsg@ The Colonization Office at Balti
|, more, has letters from Monrova which cor
n roborates the statement that another attcmp
u has been made by the French to secure
/, load of emigrants, and thus prosecute th
new slave trade.
u.s. \ FIRE recently took place at Valpa
e raise, which destroyed property to tn
amount of three millions OF dollare. 6ev
eral firemen were killed, and thirty person
wege injured.
:, Bay The friends of Douglas in San Fran
lie cisco ard Sacramento, fred salutes in homo
l. of his success in Illinois, on the arrival {
= the steamer bringing the news
g nE, President Buchanan has determine
st to make a tour through North Carolin
g next Summer, aud 10 attend the commence
at ment at Chapel Hill College
lg BGy~ Spencer Hiatt, of indianapolis, be
re been granted a patent for burglar proc
= lock The advantages of this lock are, tbs
0. it is neat and cheap Of construction; that
g. is rendered entirely burglar proof by havip
30 no aperture in the key-hole where gunpov
s. der may he used for exploding the same
81 and that it is susceptible of many thousan
IN changes.
Tho adifor Of tho x aDssc (1Iss NAYS