The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-26
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: DoUeLAs e sim riding his hobby horse

-. DOgeIAs q still riding BIS hobby horse
about the country, but we expect TO hear 1t
is struck will. The poll evil about the 9th Of
Novenh Seymour Times.
HoE WILIIlM L. DAYros, the Republi-
can candidate for Vice President four years
ago, is doing effective service OH the stump
in New Jersey and New York He is one
Of the ablest of our conservative statesmen.
The Minnesota election does not occur in
October this year, as has been generally
published, but like that of California, is
postponed every fourth year 20 the day of
the Presidential election.
THE Albany New York; Statesman is
confident that seventy-fve thousand Ame-
ricans in that State, who have never before
voted the Republican ticket, will vote for
Abraham Lincoln in November next
CHEAP ENoUGH.-The grand Perry cele-
bration at Cleveland was got up at an ex-
pense to the city treasury of only $4,000.
The trihing balance was subscribed by pri-
vate citizens. ...t .f -. t,-sG -.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says there are
| now about thousand orphans in that city,
rendered so by the Lady Figin calamity.
| Many of these children are thrown upon the
charity of the community, .. .rs
" THE Journal Of Commerce despairs of de-
| feating Lincoln in New York. If the
other States" it says, "cannot avert the
/ catastrophe of sectional domination, we
| may make up our minds to submit to it
with the best grace we can. ~.
Eas- Bayard Taylor, in farewell letter
to the New York Mercury, thus sums up his
labors for the past sixteen months: " Two
hundred and fifty lectures, thirty thousand
miles travel, forty-eight Mercury articles,
/ hon l1, I,,,J
As a proof of the fact that girls
are useful articles, and that the world
could not get along very well without them,
a late writer states it as a fact, that if all
the girls were driven out of the world, in
one generation the boys would go out after
| them L1.@
A CHIME-eonsisting of four bells-has
been placed on st. Mary's Church (Catho-
lic) in Madison. There is a chime atSouth
Bend on one of the Catholic religious
edifices there, which, with that in Madison
and the one on the Episcopal church here,
comprise all there are IN the State, we be-
lieve.-Ind. Jour. ....a -9
IT IS stated that T. D. Rice, Familiarity
known to two generation of play-goers as
+" Jim Crow has become so far Frustrated
by old age as to be incapacitated from pur-
suing the labors of his vocation. Mr.. Rice
has been connected with the American stage
during the last thirty years, and may fairly
be considered as the father of the colored
opera. ---.-t %. --- -. -
TIE Richmond Wing is of the opinion
that the instruction stories from Texas are
electioneering lodges. It says: "We
have no doubt that the Breckenridge dis
unioniSts would readily aid the impression
that invaders and insurrectionists abound in
the Southern States. The object is to in
crease the enmity between the sections, in
order to bring about dissolution of the
Union. Let the people receive with eau
ton instruction stories" - -
In THE late Mississippi Douglas State
Convention only seven counties were rep
resented. An Electoral ticket was put IN
nomination, but it is doubtful if the nomi-
nees will accept. John Calhoun was nomi-
mated for Elector IN the flourish District, but
it appears that no person OF that name
lives ia the district. The nominee for the
Fifth District announces In a card that he
is for Breckenridge. This is the second at
tempt Of the squatters of that State 70 get
up Electoral ticket
ANOTHER important accession 10 the Re-
publican ranks in New York City is ex al
derman Brisley. He announces bis change
lished. He says be has been Democrat
for more than q quarter of a century; but
the corruption of the Buchanan administra-
ton, the position of Mr. Breckenridge and
the demagogical character of Mr.. Douglas,
have determined him TO vote for Lincoln
and HamlIn. .......
The MIss1ssIEf4.-A gentlem&a named
Thomassy has published an essay on hydrol-
ogy, by which term he means the science of
the waters in the bowels OF the earth. In
an appendix he treats especially of the hy-
drology of the Mississippi, studying in sue
cession the absorbing functions of the river,
the influence of its subterrancan streams on
the formation of its delta, and its cooling
eject on the climate of Louisiana. NJ. Bab-
met, in the preface to this book, insists upon
this apparently paradoxical statement, that
rivers are fed less by their aff1uents than by
the fountains at the bottom of their bed.
! INGENIOUS HAMMER-Reinbol BoekIen,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, has just obtained pat
ent for an exceedingly ingenious and very
useful invention, which consists in so mag
netizing or applying magnetism in connec-
ton with hammer, that it shall be capable
Of picking up tacks or nails and enabling
when so picked up, to be knocked into wood
or other material, without the necessity of
handling them, thereby a&ording great con-
venience in the application of tacks or nails
in laying down carpets or in upholstery,
joinery or other kinds of work.
nsA4 We made little trip up in the south
hwest part of Jasper county this week, where
we noticed the corn crop was much better
than it has been generally understood to be.
The drouth has affected it some, but not to
the extent many supposed. The greatest
reason for short crops may be attributable
to the manner of cultivation. Where corn
was planted early and properly worked, it
is as good as need be. Too many overdo
the matter by planting more than they are
able to do justice by, then they are too apt
to reflect upon the season. If man will use
the means Providence has put into his
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