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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20
LEROY PLACE.

GsTOsN.E.--B " ST BLUR LIME
~ stons.-To Builders, PAYERS, and others
Applications will be received by the Undersigned,
at the Bodam Mines Coal Office, for the best kind
of Limestone, to be delivered either in the boat
the wharf, or at any part of the city.
julyl7-lw VIM. KERSTEMAN.
RSOTKCE TO COJS"TR.9CTORS.-
a. . Sealed Proposals will be received at the En-
gineer's Office in the southern railroad depot, in
day of July, I8G0 for the Grubbing, clearing, and
grading, also the small bridging, of the Evansville
& Charlottesville Railroad from Terre Haute to
Rockville
Fer plans and specifications and all information
required, apply at the Engin Office for four
days before the letting.
By order of the President.
juIyl7 I'd b. EBBITT, Engineer.
@NELLEJN"Gf OFF 1T COST.--DE.
- string to close out my present stock of Teas,
Tobacco, and Candies, 1 offer the same from this
bargains should call soon.
Choice Imperial Tea at only so cents per h.
90 Gunpowder at 70675
I" Young Hysop at 5OG)65
90 Black Tea at 70m75
JAMES L. SPALDING,
july13 Cor Main and
" ESSOJH'S K.N" yHUSKL.--TMK U.Nr
zZ dersigned would respectfully inform the cit
Zens OF the city that he is prepared to give lessons
in music, on the Piano other instruments, to
/ all who may favor him with their patronage.
instruments of all kinds tuned and put IN order
He will also select instruments for those who are
not judges themse Ives and desire to purchase On
reasonable terms.
Residence on Sycamore street, between Second
and Third streets
iuly11 CHRISTIAN MATTHIAS.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20

Ea5-A formal and explicit denial of the
charge by A Guest from Mt. Vernon of
bad behavior On the Antocrat the 4th of
July-appears in to-day's Journal The
names signed to the denial give ample as
surance Of the injustice of the charge made
by our correspondent. number of ad-
ditional names might have been procured if
other passengers on the boat could have
been seen.
We are told that this paper has been
blamed for publishing the original commu-
nication. We have had some experience in
such matters, and have always observed that
where a communication is rejected, it is
pretty sure to be published elsewhere, and
great fuss made over the refusal to publish
If we bad declined to publish this one, 1t
would have been published in Mt Vernon,
with the statement that the Evansville Jour
nal had rejected it. In that case, it would
have been hard to dea. with. We published
it with the understanding that our citizens
interested should have full liberty to reply.
They have done so here at home, in an et-
fectual manner. Unless A Guest can
bring proof positive of the truth of his
charges, our people are vindicated. The
weight of testimony SO far preponderates
conclusively against the maker of the charge.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20

~ Misses and Masters.-PR0F. KEMMERER,
from Philadelphia, Pa, will give lessons in Vocal
Music and Musical Elocution, every day at O'Clock
NJ, at the Crescent City Hall Tuition Is cents
for II lessons. concert to be given at the close
of the term.
N.B.-He will insure all to learn to sing that
will attend. julylS
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20
Communicated.

Communicated
EDITORS OF THE EVANSVILLE JOURNAL
In your paper of last Wednesday there was
an article upon our Fourth of July celebra-
ton, signed GA Guest" and written by
the Rev. CHARLES FITCH of Mt. Vernon, con-
tanning assertions and insinuations that
were unworthy of the writer and without
any foundation in truth We speak for
ourselves and the ladies from Evansville
when we say that there was nothing in our
conduct or theirs to justify Mr.. Fitch in
what he has written. That we danced and
enjoyed ourselves generally, as young peo-
pie do on such occasions, we freely admit,
but that any of US were guilty of unbecom-
ing conduct in any way, we most positive
ly deny. The Reverend gentleman should
have learned in his profession higher re-
gard for candor and truth than he has
shown in his communication, and not have
diSgraced his cloth by turninp Slanderer
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20

WASHINGTON, July l9th.-Owing to GER
tain misrepresentation of the public con-
duct of Gen. DeGolkdo, the Liberal Chief
which have recently appeared in the newspa-
pers, several gentlemen sojourning here and
thoroughly acquainted with Mexican affairs,
have prepared brief history of events since
January, 1858, which relieves him from all
uucharitabIe imputations, and shows him to
be true patriot constantly striving amid
accumulated difficulties, for the welfare of
his distracted country.
There were Ia, $40 orders in the post
office department for postage stamps for the
End quarter of 1859, amounting to $1,366,-
982 and II, 4S6, for the End quarter of 1860,
amounted to 81, 1913, ,359 decrease in orders
1l60 being about II per, cent increase in
the value of the postage stamps issued
3,O63,O OF being about II per cent. This
reduction in the amount of labor, or large
ly increased issue, has been effected by fur
nishing each Office with the full amount re-
qured for the quarterly supply as nearly as
it can be calculated, and forbidding post
masters from making several orders in the
same quarters.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20
COME AND SETTLE.

IEHE U.VDERSKGyV-ED HA T"E
M concluded to 20 out of business, and wish to
settle up their partnership affairs. All persons who
indebted to U.S. will please call and settle, and
those to whom we are indebted will present their
claims Immediately for adjustment. We may be
found at our late place of business, No. Second
street. SPECK d FELDHACkER.
iuiyI9- 2wd
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

'RArIFIcATIoN' AT ST.. LoUIs.-The Doug
lasites of St. Louis to the number of one
thousand had ratification" in that city on
Tuesday evening Of last week. What they
ratified does not fully appear, for it is com
monty understood that the "land of pukes"
did not give the Little Giant any support at
Charleston that was worth talking about,
while three Of her delegates actually seeded
and joined his deadliest enemies. 1t is
matter of recent history too that the Democ-
racy of Missouri, in their State Convention,
adopted platform utterly at variance with
Mr.. Douglas creed on the only point where
he can be said to differ from Yancy and his
cohort of fire-eaters. Nevertheless, they rat
fled. Mr.. Garesche, of the Committee on
Resolutions, reported tolerably emphatic
endorsement of Douglas, which was adopted
by the meeting. After which the sovereigns
adjourned. The Democrat says there was
considerable merriment, but no rowdyism or
excitement, or even enthusiasm manifested.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

ILLINOIS STATE CoNvENTIoN.-The Repub-
lican Convention at Decatur have nominated
Richard Yates, of Morgan county, for Gov
ernor, and Francis A. Hoffman, of Du Page
county, for 1t. Governor; VIM. Butler, of
Sangamon county, for State Treasurer Jesse
R. Dubois, of Lawrence, for Auditor of State;
Mr.. Hatch, of Pike, for Secretary Of State !;
and Newton Bateman, of Morgan, for Super.
intsndent Of Schools. A resolution was
unanimously adopted that Abraham Lincoln
is the choice of the Republican party of
Illinois for the Presidency, and that the
delegates to the Chicago Convention be
instructed to use all honorable means to
secure his nomination, and to cast the vote as
a unit for him. The Committee on delegates
to the National Convention reported as dele
gates at large Gustavus Romer, N. B. Judd,
David Davis, a. II. Browning.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18
FullnygraDlls.

GIThey have kind of butter down
East which they call "Heenan butter,' it is
SO strong.
A MEDICAL JoKE-Ihe dead are never
sick. Consequently oil diseases may be
Query FOR TnEoLoGIANs. - ssOan it be
said with truth that we all are children OF
forefathers, when Moses plainly tells us
that Joshua was the son of Nun ?"
w A company in Lynn, Mass, has
amas.ed immense wealth from the manu-
facture OF slippers. In this case the road
to fortune has been slippery one.-Louis-
giLle Journal. ..
1t is said ssStenm annihiates both Time
and Space" 1t is thousand pities, for our
comfort IN railway travelling, that its ami
hilating powers will sometimes extend, also,
to human beings.
Lunatics live proverbially to good old
age, and one of the proverbs, upon which
the fact is founded, is, we suppose, house
hold truism, that ''cracked vessels last the
longest. r-,.-r -..... -.... a...
A melancholy case Of an apopleptic Lon
don baker, falling, in fit, into his large
English papers. He probably wasn't
kneaded here below, or he would have risen.
A person asked Grecan philosopher
what he thought was the proper time to
dine. Sir" said the ancient, ''the proper
time of dinner with the opulent is when they
choose; with the poor men when they cam"
There is more truth than poetry in that.
C~ A young lady was waltzing in Paris,
and her guardian standing near. During a
momentary pause, he said to her: 81 saw
them, they are blue" Now, the young lady
has blue rozetts in her slippers, and also
blue garters. Though uncertain as to which
her guardian referred, she concluded to stop
waltzing in the expanded crinoline she then
wore. .s -..t=.e III
PoL1TlcAL LPARADox.-A Hunter opposed
to Chase.
"Seven up."-The Pleiades. e..
Adage for Artesian Borers.-'sLet well
enough alone" Fereasas
The Northwest Passage to the White
House-Via Chicago. sgs
Question and answer for a new Catechism.
%. Will you go to Heaven if you can 3
A. III die first. ..-.r-.
~ Persian merchant, complaining
very heavily of some unjust sentence, was
told by the Judge to appeal to the Oadi.
"But the Cadi is your uncle - urged thu
plaintiff. 7sga ANA zgs Er 9a
'sThen you can 60 to the Grand Vizier.'
''But his secretary is your cousin ?"
"Tben you may appeal to the Sultan" z
s'But his favorite Sultana is your niece =
swell, then :, go to the devil" :" s&a.1 .
"Ah! that is still closer connection,
said the merchant as he left the court il
despair. G vaN .1Eoa Ta-
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

Q DEATH OF PETER PARLEY.-Samu uel Girls.
wold Goodrich, better known as .Peter Par.
ley,' died in New York on the 1lth. in the
9th year of his age. He had been in feeble
health for some time, and his disease was
not unexpected. MIR. Goodrich was born
in kidge6eld, Conn.,, on the 10Th of August,
1898. His famous Peter Farley series Of
juveniles book was begun soon after his re.
moval to Boston, and finally reached more
than forty volumes, comprising Biographies.
histories. biographies, travels, stories, and
various illustrations Of the arts and sscien.
ces. q He was United States Consul to Paris
during the administration of P, e,ident Fill.
I more, and while there published a French
treatise on American history ard geography.
Ars Goodrich was a, man of genial manners,
o. strict integrity, and never failed to make
friends with all with whom he came in con-.
tact 'SoF Few men will leave a more attractive
history. iro - - ', -
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18
Bell Nominated for president.

Bell Nominated for President.
y From the Davenport Gazette Of this morn
ing we condense the proceedings ofyesterday
Q0th), in the National Union Convention at
Baltimore, by which it will be seen that John
Bell, Of Tennessee, had been nominated for
President on the second ballot. '' 80 80.
The Convention met at 10 o'clock. J.. r.
lngersol reported from the Committee on
Business the result of their deliberations,
which he said was characterized by great
uunanimity and patriotism. The report says:
WHEREAS, Experience has demonstrated
that all platforms adopted by oil political
parties have the effect to mislead and to cause
political disunion by increasing geographical
sectional parties; therefore, S,. 20.
Resolved, That both patriotism and duty
require tina: they should recognize no policy
or principles but those resting on the broad
foundation of the Constitution of the country,
the union of the States and the enforcement
of the laws, [great applause and cheers] and
that as representatives of the Constitutional
Union Party and of the country, they pledge
themselves to maintain, protect and defend
these principles, thus affording security at
home and abroad and securing the blessings
of liberty to themselves and posterity. ~ 0I
Adopted by acclamation, They reported
another resolution that each State should
determine for itselfthe mode of voting, either
by unit or otherwise This excited consider
able discussion. The minorities of delegations
that its adoption would place
them at the mercy of the majerlties, and stihe
the expression of heirindividual preference
After some debate upon preliminary ques-
tions, the Convention proceeded to ballot, with
the following result: ...f
First ballot--Houston, 80; Bell, 6s3 Ev-
erett, 25 Mclean, %; Graham. %; Sharkey,
s.; Crittenden, %; Goggin, 3; Bolts, o.;
lsives, 8. ,... ..-s.
q Second ballot-Bell nominated. ..t.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

Hon. WIN. VANDEvRR--A rumor has
bQen somewhat prevalent in this District
that Hon. VIM. Vandever would not resume
his permanent residence in this State after
the expiration of the present session of
Congress, aud would not therefore accept q
re.nomination. We are authorised to state on
the authority Of Mr.. V. himself that he in
tends to continue his residence in Iowa, and
if the Republicans of his District should see
fit to honor him with denomination, he
would do his best to labor for the cause
in the canvass, and to serve the District
acceptaoly in Congress if reelected. He is
certainly in position to be of more service
during second term than during first,
and should by all means be returned.-Du.
buque Times. .. --- . ...-.-- e. e. ..
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18
COllgresS.


In the Senate, on the 10th, the House bill
to furnish additional mail facilities was
was passed, The Homestead bill Of Mr..
Johnston was passed by vote Of a ayes
to nays. 80, - .. s...,.F uggaIv
In the House, Mr.. Grow reported bill
for the organization of the territory of Ida
ho (the Pixies Peak region.) On this an
exciting discussion arose, in reference to
the clause prohibiting slavery IN the said
territory, to which the Democracy were op-
posed. During the discussion, an angry
passage took place between Messrs. Kellogg
and Morris, of Illinois, the sharp points OF
which We're lost in the general noise and
confusion. The House passed Morrill's
Tariff bill, by a vote Of 1O5 to 54.i This bill
is understood to be acceptable to the Penn
sylvania delegates. sil sagg5
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

FATAL BALLOON .AsoEvsr y. Mr. Connor
was advertised to nake-5a second balloon
ascension from Palace Garden, New York
city, on the 10th. Despite the violent gusts
Of wind Which now and then sp-ang up,
and the "Reminiscences ssh his friends, lie
persisted IN at empting the assensioa, but no
sooner had the balloon left .ise,grsund than
it was dashed against, the q CeyStert Saloon
which faces the Garden O'Fhe ba-ket caught
for a moment on the caves of the buidin e,
and then was hurled against skylight with
great force, Tie balloon instan,ly collapsed.
Nj. sConnor was found on the, ref Of ,hs
building, and the physicians, WIN were i'm
,mediately summoned, ascert led th,t his
injuries were principally interfal.' During
The evening he remained insensibF. and exs
pired at Ii Pm His wife witi;e<se,h tie
casually, and would probably lave share
her husbands fate had the ascension power
of the ba loen been found suf1i lent to carry
up two persons, as it was her intention 3 to
attempt the voyage. s-shsgss Sd
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18


MEssRs. DAVIS AND BRowN-In the Sen.
ate, on the 7th, JEFF. Davis made an extreme
Southern Slave Code speech to crowded
auditory. His rival, Mr.. Brown, who is sus-
pected ofsecrety favoring Mr.. Douglas before
any Southerner except himself, took excep-
tions to some points. Mr.. Davis endorses the
secession of his friends from the Charleston
Convention. 1t is not generally known that
lie owes his first seat in the Senate to Mr.
Browns appointment, when the latter was
Governor of Mississippi. Mr.. Davis ignores
this fact in all his speeches. Of course, Mr..
Brown naturally thinks such conduct little
ungrateful. Both are squirting at Richmond,
in the hope of getting elected in the House.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18
nHr The Committee on Emigration hav

~ The Committee on Emigration have
made report TO the Canadian Parliament,
reviewing the facilities and aids afforded to
foreign immigration by the United States and
Australia, and proposing plan by which a
portion of the tide may be drawn to Canada,
and the immigrant assisted after his arrival.
The plan proposes the establishment of a
Board of Emigration at Quebec, to be COM
posed of the Presidents for the time being Of
the St. Georges, St. Patrick's and st. An
drew's Societies, the Mayor of Quebec and the
Chief Agent, and the formation of similar
Board at Toronto; the erection of suitable
landing places, with necessary appurtenances
in the port of Quebec - say on the Island
of Orleans the abolition of the capitation
tax, and judicious expenditure of pecuniary
aid to extreme cases, and the giving to each
actual settler so acres of laud. .,-.sr.g l.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

OREGON. - By the papers from Oregon,
received by the last mail, it appears that the
Republicans there are fully aroused. Meetings
are called in various counties to prepare for
the Congressional election in June.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18


TIE NJ. E. GENERAL CoNFERENcE.-A Gen.
eral Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North commenced Its session in Buf.
falo, last week. In the course of its deliber-
ations, the Conference had to deal with the
inevitable question Of Slavery. 1t seems that
after the division of the Church into geo.
graphical fragments, some sixteen years
since, several Southern Conferences remained
in union with the Northern Church, notwith-
standing its Discipline held that the ''buying
and selling ofmen, women, and children, with
the intention Of ensaving them," is prohibited
by the Bible. The General Rules of the
Church, however, did not absolutely prohibit
slaveholding, but simply declared that no
owner of a slave should be eligible to any
official station in the Church, when the laws
of the State in which he lived would admit Of
emancipation and that, if any travelling
preacher should become an owner of slaves,
he should forfeit his ministerial character
Church members were enjoined to teach their
slaves to read the Bible, and allow them time
to attend upon the public worship of God on
regular days of Divine service. A portion of
the Northern section of the Church objected
to a continuance of the General Rules which
permit at all slaveholding, and within the past
year the subject has been acted upon in the
Annual Conferences. The subject was refer
red to a Committee of one from each State in
the Union, and in consideration of the subject
they sat with closed DOORS T. E. Corkhill
was a member of the Committee from the
State of Iowa.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

sY' DR.. Wrangles, Republican, has been
elected Mayor of Kansas City, Mo-, by 115
majority. This is the Kansas City that was
once the hot bed of border ruffianism.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

The GERMANS AT CliICAGo.-Itisa announced
that deputation of three German Republi-
cans from each Free State, and perhaps from
some of the Slave States, will be present at
Chicago to advise and confer with their Re-
publican brethren as to the selection of our
National candidates. We need not say that
they will be heartily welcome.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

aaALU. s. MARSHAL IN L1MBo.-The Madi
son Journal of ths'o 9th says: az, s Mar.
shal Lewis was before the Milwaukee Mu
nicipal Court, yesterday, on charge of lille
gal voting at the recent charter election. +.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

The recent food was disastrous beyond
measure at and around Pittsburg, Pa. The
papers report great destruction Of property
coal and cansl boats lost, manufacturers
stopped, and dead bodies floating down the
stream.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

~ The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press says that serious fears are
entertained lest the venerable head of the
Supreme Court Of the United States, Justice
Taney, may never again take his seat on the
Bench. He fell from sheer exhaustion few
days ago, and had to be borne to his chamber.
Another of the aged members of this high
tribunal is also in very enfeebled condition.
LETTER FROM Hon. A. II. STEPHENS. Hon.
A. H. Stephens has written letter in reply
to several gentlemen Of Macon, (Ga,) in
which he sustains the principles of non-inter.
vention; disappearing the secession from the
Charleston Convention, and recommending
that delegates be sent to Baltimore.
CLAGErT HEARD FRoM.-The Mt. Pleasant
Journal says people were surprised that Cla
gett was not heard from. He was expected
to make forty-seven or eight speeches al
Charleston, which would be telegraphed ir
full all over the country. Instead of that
he seems to have concluded to have his life
written, as the following fragment of a sketch
of the Iowa delegation, from the New Yorl
Herald, which was probably dictated by him
will show: .ff ~
S. Thomas W. Clagett, native of Virginia
lawyer; has been Judge ofthe District Court
of the Lee county district, for the past eigh
years member Of the Legislature one of tn
ablest men in the State; old line whig; frien,
of Douglas. s'4~ ''.''.
/ It has already been calculated, according t
| Clagett's own account of the number an
length of the times he has held Office, that h
1 is l47 years old adding now the eight year
he has served on the Bench in this district,
makes him l55 years old.-Gate City. !
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

The largest circulation of any one bank in
the United States is that of the Citizens
Bank, New Orleans, viz 81, ,535, 900. Others
in that city have large issues - the Bank Of
Louisiana 81 ,065 900, State Bank So, $685.
600, and the Canal Bank 81 ,628 900. l'2la