The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-03

[ IN CInclnlaJl, made rOunu Trip 10 New
! Orleans in five days, under the following
circumstances :: After his arrival in New
Orleans his friends warned him ,hat city
was not safe place for Northern men will
anti-slavery notions, and if some malignant
4 person were to point him out and hiss 6
crowd upon him he would be subjected &c
! indignities and perhaps murdered. There
/ being no personal liberty law in Louisiana
Mr.. Glenn came home, making the round
/ trip, as stated, in five days, the quickest
/ time on record.
| MONETARY AFFAIRs.-The members oi
the Chamber of Commerce, comprising our
principal merchants, were to have held a
meeting last evening to pass views in regard
to the existing state of affairs in the fnan-
cial world, but after consultation with
some of our banks, it was agreed to post
pOne the meeting till Monday. Monetary
matters begin to look scually, and some
thing will have to be done, and that short
ly, TO avert the threatened ruin which stares
every business man in the tace.-MeBs. AZ
aI0nche, 24th.
DURING the exhibition Of Dan Rices cir
Gus at Memphis, on the night of the 10Th
inst, it was proposed to show that the hide
of the rhinoceros was ball proof. Capt.
Travis, the celebrated pistol shot, then fred
a bulet-at the animal, which fell hatteuel
to the floor not breaking the skin, nor
even causing the animal to vince when
struck.
FROM THE WRECK OF THE PAcIFIo.-Cap-
tain J. b. Archer, of the Mariner, has re-
ceived letter from Mr.. Richard Lamb, son
Of the late Capt. Lamb, the son being en-
~ 10 (,
father near Uniontown. While dragging
male, apparently thai Of a deck passenger,
was recovered, and was subsequently, inter
red. They had obtained no trace Of Capt.
Lambs body, but the most yigilaut search
has been kept -np.-Lou. Jour.
EWA meeting was held at r. ,lyille a
few days since, and $4,000 g" ,tocil sab
scrlbed to the " Lake Eric i Pacific Rail
road" This is tho prcj ecjod iino running
from SanGlsky through Fremont OHIO, and
Winchester, Newcastle, and other towns \
Indiana, TO connect at She!byvilIa with the
lateral branches of the Jeffersouvil.e & Madl-
son and Indianapolis Roads
TAXABLE Property or KNox CoUKrY.-
We learn from our accommodating friend,
Il. A. Faulks, Esq Deputy Auditor, that
by the returns just made, the value of the
taxable property of this county, for 1860, is
IS, ,945, ,64O-of which 81 ,025,l75 is in the
city limits
There are 1920 polls in the county y Vin.
Sun.
ILLINOIS MoNEY.-Most of our merchants
and business men are receiving Illinois
money as usual. They do not like to change
for it, but will receive ii for goods and in
the payment of debts. The panic here is
subsiding somewhat, and the indications
are, that in few days the currency qucs-
tion will be all right Yin. San.
The Philadelphia Press douglas organ,)
says:
/" Why do you not attack the Republican
party ?" asks an anonymous correspondent
Our answer is, that the Republican party is
sufficiently assailed by the enemies of the
Union, and we are quite willing to try aud
to trust Mr.. Lincoln in the management of
the new exigencies that await him n
THE last Iowa Legislature, in repeating
whole section of the revised statues mad
vertently swept away every provision for
she payment of public officers, county and
State, who receive their salaries in fees.
Witnesses, jurors, county officers and
State functionares, suffer alike, aud the
courts have just decided that there is no
remedy for them until the Legislature
(Which does not meet until 1902 passes
a curative act.
THE naturalized citizens of Fall River
held meeting last evening to consider the
propriety of testing the legality of the two
years amendment act before the Supreme
JOur.
s A LATE letter from the United States
Of Pensions SAYS that there
are now but eighty mine survivors of the
Army of the Revolution whose names were
placed upon the roll of pensions.
an Oregon paper, in commenting on the
Senatorial election in that State, says
" Lane had Nesmith turned out of the office
of Indian Superintendent, and now Mes
mith takes the place of Lane in the L. S.
Senate.
Bas@ Judge Larrabee, II. G. from Wis
conSin, died few days since from injuries
received by fall on his farm, as stated by
an exchange.
THE Washington correspondent o; the
Louisville Journal says that Mr.. Holt, Post
Master General, and Gov Floyd, Secretary
of War, are openly and frankly opposed to
the Secession movement and in favor of the
n intenance of the Union.
PUNISHMENT OF NEWSPAPERS THIEF-
John Glen of Springfield, Massachusetts,, for
stealing several copies of the Springfield
had to take his choice Of pay
ing fifteen dollars for ine and costs or take
three months of penitential session IL pris
on. He concluded to pay up.
THE Boston Post says, We hear OF sew
eral furniture orders, this week, from the
6a1
ton-and more than that, accompanied by
In the piano forte trade, also,
the southern orders seem uninterrupted"
THERE were thirteen trotting horses lost
on the Tecumsch, which sunk on Sunday, tie
18th, at the head OF the canal, at Louisville.
The fast PAGER John C. Heenan was also
drowned. The lot was valued at So, ,00c
IT IS said that Judge W L. Harris, OF
Mississippi, will be appointed by the Prosi-
dent to fill the vacancy in the Supreme
Court Of the United States occasioned hy
the death Of Judge Daniel
THE Morgan county Gazette saws a rcy-