The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-19

AEA- Zen. henderson, cnlei OF tne v. ..
Marine Corps, is dead.
-@ FG Weymus, a celebrated come.
dian, died in New York on the 9Th inst.
nag The Government of Venezuela has
granted an amnesty to all political offenders
B~ A very destructive fire occurred in
Charleston, s. Co. on the 9th. -
ssA. The work on the Virginia and Ken
lucky Railroad has been suspended for the
present. Fff
BG- A project is entertained of Crystal
Palace in Boston.
bST Gov. Banks, of Massachusetts,,
makes no aIusion to national politics IN his
late message.
RyA Grace Greenwood Mrs. Sarah Lip
pincott) is lecturing upon "The Life and
Character of Joan of Arc"
E6F- The cost of mail transportation by
the overland route to San Francisco is sixty
five dollars for each letter.
RSs% The statue of Gen. Jackson was
inaugurated at Memphis on the 9Th instant.
An Grafton was delivered by the Hon.
Andrew Erving.
| RaEAt Townsend, Mass, on Tuesday, the
| thermometer stood forty-five degrees below
| zero.
Reg Gen. G. w. Bowman, Superintend-
ent of the Public Printing, states that the
printing of the Pacific Railroad report will
cost over one millio2 of dollars.
WINTER AT THE SoUTH-At St. Helena,
South Carolina, last week, the orange trees
| were budding, and corn, sprung from vast
ed seed, was from FIVE to six inches in
height.
asa. The statue of Webster, by Powers,
is to be placed in the vestibule of the new
| United States Court House, Boston, fremont
| street. -
1 Ra- 1t will be interesting to the Ma
sonic fraternity to learn that the two Grand
Lodges of Canada have been recognized by
the Grand Lodge of England.
BGs- A body of ladies, in the name of the
women in Indiana, were to have presented 8
petition in person to the Legislature yester,
day, upon the subject of "woman's rights
pg The Mortara family have left the
Papal States, being prevented from seeing
) the child, and having received, in reply tt
r their memorial, the definite answer, tina
, baptism once administered cannot be re
voked."
Dsg The House of the Bishops Of thu
Episcopal Church of the United States, hav
: issued pastoral letter in favor of congrega
: tional singing, and a new Episcopal hymn
| book for that purpose is soon to be prepared
, DGF The rush to the newly discovers
gold fields in Western Kansas and Nebraska
o in the spring, will be immense. The West
| ern.papers TEEN with accounts from the au
e riferous regions
If neA,, Vice-President Breckenridge recent
ly built splendid mansion in Washington
but it is said he does not occupy it in con
sequence OF pecuniary embarrassment
caused by heavy losses by the failure of tn
Is Ohio Life and Trust Company, where h
had all of his wealth invested.
HSF When Rothschild was asked whethG
. he would not like to become tempors
III King of the Jews in Palestine, "Oh, no,
r said he, " would rather be Jew of ii
b. Kings than King of the Jews.
,e --1--.~ ersrProy~u r7rng Drug PrIsun
trimming hats. The forger, Huntington
in the same institution, is employed as bool
I'd keeper in the cabinet-shop.
CT BROKE JAIL.-The murderer who has bee
s. confined in Jail at Vincennes for the murd,
D. of the servant girl some time age, broke OF
and escaped last night. A dispatch came
Sheriff Hall this morning. giving INTEL
/ gence of the fact. Five hundred dollars
a offered for his apprehension Enquirer
n beg Geo. W. Jones, for many years tt
agent of the old United States Bank
30 Cincinnati died in that city few daj
since. He was once the richest man in tt
le Queen City, but subsequently heavy storm
Mt of adversely and domestic Affections boz
heavily upon him, from which he ne,
er recovered
. A CHICAGO YoUSG LADY FALLS HEIR I
: $45, 000,o o0.--We hear that a young lad
le of Chicago, who has hitherto followed ii
/; humble vocation of sewing girl, an
rs whose name is Mary Schooey, received
J. letter yesterday from an uncle residin
in New York, stating that herself, in cor
'e nection with the writer of the letter an
RS another uncle, also residing in New Yorl
tn had fallen equal heirs to the comfortab
re sum of G27 ,o00,o 900, or about $I35, 600, oO
by the recent death of an uncle at Calcutt
- India, where he had accumulated his in
III mense fortune in mercantile pursuits
in The Railroad West from SIT. Carme
at This railroad, in which the city of K,