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

ing the franking privilege He hes also re-
ported bill regulating the payment of
postage on newspapers aad periodicals 1t
provides that periodical dealers may receive
their bundles on paying postage at the rate
of one cent per ounce, or the fraction of an
ounce. I
Rea. A Southern paper thinks that the
neutrality of the Atlantic cable, which was
so earnestly begged for by President Bu-
chanan, has been fully established 1t hasn't
a word to say on either side.
HssS" The rent of the Girard real estate in
Philadelphia amounts yearly to 81 l5, $50.
nsa- Mr.. Sibley, the librarian of Harvard
College, suggests the importance of a col
lection of school books of the past and pre-
sent, as means of comparing the means of
education at present with those of former
times. The American antiquary Drake
once made such a collection, but Harvard
would not buy it, and it was-sold to the
British museum, where it now is.
BG- A body of a small dog has been sent
from Boston and buried by the side of its
former mistress at Mount Hope cemetery,
Portland, Me- 1t is said to have grieved it
self to death at her loss.
BSy- The New York Legislature a-e after
the g fancy" The Senate has passed an act
in which the Assembly will doubtless con-
cur, for the punishment not only of princi-
Piles and seconds, but all who may bet on, or
in any way forward priZe-fght.
GgA A man who was engaged in supply
ing the Jail in Portland, Me-, with new
heating apparatus, left his horse and sleigh
tied in one of the streets. A boy stole the
horse and started for ride, when the horse,
as was his daily duty, drew straight line
for the Jail, and landed the boy safely in the
yard The jailor shut up the boy and kept
the horse for its owner.
BEs5- Mr.. Buchanan, says a letter writer
| from Washington, has taken occasion very
recently to say, in the most positive man.
ner, that he would under no circumstances
be q candidate for nomination at the Charles
ton Convention, and would not accept it If
rendered him He was also candid enough
to admit that he saw no prospect for a nom
ination even if he desired it. ~
Rea, 1t appears that Col. Fremont figures
in the Mariposa delinquent tax-list for $4,-
428, as assessments upon forty-four thous-
and three hundred and seventy acres of land,
valued at 5000, 900, and $4,000 improve
ments upon the same.
Messrs. T. j. Mackey, C.. P. Holly and
| J. B. Bennett have arrived in Washington, as
! delegates from the people of Nebraska Ter
! ritory south of the Platte river with
| memorial to the Senate and House of Rep
! resentatives, praying that southern Nebras-
! ka may be embraced within the boundaries
of the proposed State of Kansas.
EGs~ Already fault is found with the new
| United States Senate Chamber. Mr.. Hale,
on Friday, plead for extension of the
room to the wall of the building on the end
and one or both sides, so as to have the ad-
vantage of windows and fresh air. He also
! said that another defect had been developed,
and that was " if shower beats upon the
| roof we cannot hear. That is, said he,
the case at this moment. | think it the
most unhealthy, uncomfortable, ill-contrived
| place | was ever in in my life, and my
| health is suffering daily from the atmes-
| phere." -t..-
ER An Indian has been discovered in
! California, five feet and half high, and
weighing only sixteen pounds, being mere
skeleton, but in good health and lively
| This is supposed to be the veritable ''Lo,' y
the "poor Indian" Isl
n@- A gentleman who has "kept the
| run" of the weather, says last Thursday
was the ninth Thursday in succession which
was characterized by falling rain. The first
regular rainy Thursday was on the 23d
of November
B<s5> The Postmaster and other Buchanan
officials of New York city are in Washing
ton settling with the President the private
and local quarrels of Tammany Hail.
nA- On Saturday evening last, as Mr..
| and Mrs. Justis Francis, of Hartford, Conn,
were about to retire for the night, Mrs. F.
said she believed she should faint away, as
| everything looked dark; she lay down npoa
the bed and died instantly.
| GRAPE CULTURE IN MIssoURI-The St
! Louis Evening News says Prof. Swallow,
who has thoroughly examined the different
soils in that State, showed in a speech re-
Gently that e = e.+
q Southern aud Southwestern Missouri
was one of the best grape-growing regions
! i'll the world. There were at least 5, 100000
acres of land in Missouri, now counted al
most worthless better adapted to successful
grape culture than any land in the world
not excepting France. He showed by The
constituents OF the soil, that every element
was possessed which the grape requiree.
BsS- a correspondent of the New YORK
Times, writing from Washington, says:
There are abundant rumors ahoat that the
| President is to lead to the hymenial altar al
! accomplished and estimablc widow lady o
Georgia. Perhaps this accounts for the es
i peeial care and elegance of our bachelor
/ Presidents dress. 1t is a matter of frequen
remark, that Mr.. Buchanan, in his hand
some brown frock coat, white vest and era
vat, and patent leather pumps, is one of th'
most elegantly dressed young men in tn
capitol.
BY The harbor police of Boston, OIL
Saturday evening arrested one Jacob. B
Jones, until recently a preacher of the Meth
odist persuasion in the State of Maine, 70
carrying on rig which nearly out herod
Herod- 1t is said that not finding preach
ing very profitable, he left the connection
and came to this city, where he commenced
the business of keeping bowling alley an,
a rat pit, and soon after added to his busi
4 ness that of keeping house for lady board
ers. AT the time of his arrest he was tn
conductor of two houses of ill-fame in Clarl
stree t, besides his other business. Jones i
about thirty-five years Of age, of good ad
dress, and when preacher had reputation
for .piety and eloquence.
p9T A correspondent of the Boston I'D
rer5 iser, repeating the account of the Doug
lex and Fitch difficulty in the Senate say