The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-23

The LINCOLN Coat OF ARMs.-A gentle
man of this city, who reached home from
the Upper Mississippi river yesterday morn
lug, states that last week the boat on which
he was passenger, the Doctor Kane, pass
e. an enormous raft, slowly floating down
the stream, on which appeared to be lodged
about twenty hands all '.jolly raftsmen," no
doubt An immense staff, fifty feet high,
shot up from the middle Of the raft from
which foated the American colors. Imme-
diately on the bow Of the raft was planted
huge rail, about twenty feet high, near the
top of which appeared an axe and maui,
crossed, forming an excellent representation
of the Lincoln Coat 0: Arms.
This raft, its men and devices were loudly
cheered along the shore and by passing
boats.-St. Ions Democrat, 18Th.
gsA., The Caricaturists are making the
most of the recent Chicago Convention
Under the title of the g Impending Crisis"
a Autograph, with excellent likenesses has
been issued in New York, representing
Senator Seward as struggling in the water,
and about sinking from fatigue. Mr.. Ray
mOnd, standing upon the dock i'll the garb
of a policeman, has just grasped Greeley,
charging him with having pushed Senator
Seward over; Mr.. Greeley, trembling with
fright, calculates: "Oh no. sir, l didn't;
he went too near the edge and fell off,"
while Mr.. J. W. Webb stands behind, urg-
ing Mr.. Raymond To secure his prisoner,
and asserting that he saw him push the
Senator off.
APPOINTMENTS FOR MEssRs. MORTON AND
TURPIE.-Mr Morton and Mr.. Turpie, the
candidates for Lieutenant Governor, will
speak at the following places, at one o'clock
P. NJ. of the days named:
Bloomington, Thursday, June 81.
bedford Friday, June %.
Salem, Saturday, June %.
Paoli, Monday, June 25.
DOverhill, Tuesday, June &c.
Washington, Wednesday, June 27.
Vincennes, Thursday, June %.
4 Sullivan, Friday, June %.
BENJAMIN HARRlsoNs APPoINTMENTs.-
Benjamin Harrison, candidate for Reporter
of the Supreme Court, will address the pub
lie ut the following places
Spencer, June %, 2 o'clock;
Bloomfield, 25th,
Sullivan, 26th, /"
Vincennes, 9th,
Petersburgh, 28th, %
Princeton, 29th. :"
Evansville, Both, at night.
THE following is said to be the private re-
Hpe OF WeIl-kuoWn Democratic editor:
Take one pint of whisky; stir it well with
)ne spoonful of whisky; then add another
lint of whisky beat carefully with q spoon
ind keep pouring in whisky. Fill n large
BOWL with water, and make the servant set
out of your reach Take a small tumbler
pour in two spoOnfuls of water; pour out the
water, and fill up with whisky, and add to
he above. Flavor with whisky to your
:aste - Erchangs
Gay The Nashville Patriot says: The
zane of Preston S. Brooks when it branded
he seal of Southern opposition to " free
speech by the North, upon the brow Iof
Charles Sumner, accomplished more for the
eause of Abolitionism than Sumner himself
could have achieved in a lifetime If we
wish to subdue the conflagration which
threatens the destruction of our dwelling,
we must not deluge it with OIL nor attempt
to smother it with gunpowder.
LUxURIOUs-A vast aquarium is being
made for the Philadelphia Continental Ho-
lei. Its area is twenty feet square, its
lepth ten feet 1t is to be divided into two
compartments, and its object is to afford a
receptacle in which turtles, Holsters, terra
pins, ct ii 0mne genus, can be fattened for
the table. 1t is the biggest affair of the
kind now eXtant.
LITTLE boy, at Jackson Michigan, was
bitten by rattle-snake, and would have
died last week. had not an elder boy sucked
ont the poison from the wound.