The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-23
Varieties.


paper published at Fort Wayne, has been
added to the list of things that were.
A LADY, describing an ill-tempered man,
saws, ale never smiles but he feels ashamed
of it."
ADVICE is like snow: the softer it falls,
.and the longer it dwells upon, the deeper it
sinks into the mind.
THE Legislature of Pennsylvania, in 1894,
passed the following:
RcSolved That no member of the Legis-
lnture will be allowed to come in the house
barefooted.
Those must have been "the days that tried
mems seIes."-NeV Bedford Times.
DOUGLAS SoUTH.-Hon. Thomas Green
Davidson of Louisiana, publishes long
letter in the Washington Constitution, re-
fnting the doctrine that Douglas is the strong
man for the Presidency. He says it is ridi-
culous to suppose for moment that he can
get the united Southern vote, and that every
rumor of his popularity either North or
South is a part of the game of Brag" now
being so eagerly played by his friends and
partisans
The Sous OF MALTA.-The Sons of Malta
are, as an organization, a national institu-
ton. The Delegates of Convention from
Ill the HCL1tcSg Ou dbNCnuCu at Itlo
Presidential mansion, and through their
orator, Judge Carter, addressed the Chief
Executive of tie nation, who responded in
patriotic speech. The next meeting will
be in New York city on the 18th February,
1861.
BANK STATEMENT.-NEwY YORK, Feb. 90.
Increase in Loans ......S69, 402
decrease in specie 622
naaraaoo in ri of 12E mo
Increase in deposits. 1854, 1856
COMMERCIAL BANK BILL.-The Kentucky
Senate reconsidered its vote on the CONNER
cial Bank bill, and then passed it over the
Governors veto by decided majority. 1t
is now law. The bill increases the CAPT
| tai of the bank 100000, and authorizes
three additional branches. Several other
bank measures are before the Legislature
The Democratic majority in that State, if
they keep on, will provide banking facilities
enough for the people of Kentucky and Ohio
both.-CIn Gdz.
"ToPsY," mare belonging to DR.. Rick
etts and DR.. Crothers, valued at 5000, died
in Jacksonville last week. 1t had trotted
a mile in 2:26 with only four months train
ing. The animal was young, and would no
doubt have made extraordinary time had it
lived.
GLOW is it, " said gentleman to Sher-
idan, "that your name has not an o attach
ed to it2 Your family is Irish, and no
doubt illustrious. "No family had a bet
| ter right to o than our family" said Sher-
idan, "for we owe everybody.
THE New York Herald has carefully
prepared article on the census of 1860, in
which, by using the figures found by the
fo1- h.
work since 1850, and an intelligent en-
ployment of analogies and elaborate conlpu-
tations, the popula ion of tho country at
this time is ascertained to be about thirty
six millions
PIGEoNs.-Large Gocks of pigeons have
been passing to and fro for the last forty
eight hours, and the woods west of the city
| are said to be full of them. From tho re-
ports of firearms we heard yesterday, we
judged war was being made upon them by
the sportsmen of the city.-T H. Express.
SUICIDE OF WELL-KNowN FARHER.-
Aaron Baker, q well-known farmer of this
county, committed suicide at his residence
in this vicinity last week by cutting his
| throat from ear to ear. The jugular vein
was not severed, and he fingered until last
/ night, when he expired.-Ldf. C0Mr.
EAST TENNESSEE WHEAT CRoPs.-Infor-
nation from all parts of Tennessee is to the
| effect that the prospective wheat crop is
very unpromising. The winter has been
unfavorable for the production of wheat, and
| the discouraging prospect of the next year s
| crop is having decided influence upon the
ruling prices of grain now in the market in
that end of the State. Wheat is now worth
one dollar and twenty-five cents, and corn,
the naked grain, without sacks, is worth
seventy-five cents, although there is a
| quantity of it in the country.
a sTRoLLIKG vocalist writes to US from
the North, asking whether he can " sing
anti-slavery songs in the South" Oh yes,
and as he will be tarred and feathered, he
will be sure to get exactly the right pitch.
Lou. Jour.
| THE passengers who left New York on
the Goth of December, 1859, in the Attain
tic, connecting at Panama with the Golden
Gate, made the through trip in twenty days
and six hours, being the shortest time ever
made from New York to San Francisco.
Das- The gap in the Mississippi Central
Railroad was closed on the 30th ult. By
| tho completion of the link there is now a
continuous Railroad from Bangor, Me-, to
New Orleans, except four short ferries, at
| Hudson River, the Susquehanna, the Po-
tomac, and James River. This vast chain
of railways is composed of eighteen indie
pendent roads, costing in the aggregate, for
| 1894 miles of road, Ss2, 7s4, O84, OF nearly
one-tenth of the whole railway system OF
the United States, of which 1896 miles are
! used i'll this continuous line.
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