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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

Bg-It is much to be desired that our
county be allowed two representatives and
a senator in the new apportionment for leg
islative purposes, the present winter. We
think our population (2o,627) will entitle
US to that represen tation in the General
Assembly. We rate IN the same class with
Clark, Elkhart, Floyd, Henry, Montgomery
and Putnam, each of these having between
20, 600 and .21 900 inhabitants. For such
an important county as this, CONNER
cially, geographically, and politically, we
are confident our Legislature will do all
they can to give US the above representation.
All our people are alike interested in get
ting the whole representation we are enti-
tied to. No party in the county is going
to object to any honest effort to increase
our representation to the number the
importance of the county demands.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29
oRIruARY-

Tho untimely decease of Mrs. EDNA ANN oLsI
STEAD, wife Of S. L. 0lmstead, Esq, Of this coun
ty has already been announced in these columns
The following additional obituary notice is furnish
ed by friend of the deceased:
Mrs. EDsA ANN 0LNsTEAD was bern in Pittsford
Monroe County, New York, September 4th, 1926
and with her mother, Mrs. John Clark of Mechan-
icsville, and her brother, Mr.. e. Ii. DeGarmo Of
this city, emigrated to this county in the year 1884
She made profession Of religion, and united with
the Church Of Christ in 1s45. She was constant
Christian, and though she suffered much, she bore
her sufIerings with Christian fortitude and for
bearance. Her last hours were spent in trying TO
console her afflicted husband, and counseling him
relative to the management of his affairs after her
decease. "My work is done all is WE'LL" were
among her last expressions. She sweotiy sank TO
rest without struggle or a groan.
Mrs OImstead was beloved by all who knew her,
and was loved most by those who knew her best.
She was an affcctionats wife and parent, a tender
daughter, a kind sister, and a faithful friend. A
husband mourns children sorrow, mother and a
brother grieve and friends MISS yet all rejoice that
though having lost her earth, they have tho
privilege Of meeting her in Heaven. NJ. G. II.
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Dec. 29-1td

NEW CONCERN. Mr.. R. E. ORiley, son
of our energetic fellow citizen, Capt. P. G.
O'Riley, has opened produce and commits
sion house, butter and cheese agency, at
No. 2 Sycamore street. He will buy and
sell produce, and deal in butter and cheese,
at wholesale. He has just returned from
the Western Reserve where he has made ar
rangements to have regular consignments of
butter and cheese. He now has 400 pack
ages of cheese and 40 packages of butter,
which he is prepared to sell on the right
terms. His butter is put up in different
sized packages, so as to accommodate all.
Such an establishment here, to supply our
retailers with butter and cheese right at
home as they want it, will be great con
venience. We wish our friend O'Rney great
success in his undertaking, and hope he may
be encouraged.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

CANAL TRUsrEE.-The proposal of the
name of Mr.. PHILIP DECKER OF this city
for the above office gives great satisfaction
amongst the Republicans of this county
His competency, his claims, and his locality
all combine to render him very strong for
the position. An earnest voice will go up
from Vanderburgh in his behalf.
Aside from the fitness of this selection
for the important Office named, the question
of Locality, and the relation this county
bears to the W. & E. Canal, ought to be
conlusive in favor of the person whom she
will present to the General Assembly for
the place 1t is highly important for the
Trustee to come from some county through
which the Canal runs, and which has an
interest in having it kept up instead of an
interest directly the other way-in favor Of
it being closed. And inasmuch as there
is already a trustee at the Northern end,
and one midway between the two extremes,
the third ought TO come from the lower
end. This the counties down here have a
right to ask as right of the Legislature
and it is right that all disinterested per-
sons viii say ought to be granted cheerfully.
The business men of Evansville have, by
their Ii berality, been the means OF keeping
the Canal in navigable order during the
past two years When it was about being
entirely abandoned they rallied to its AID,
subscribed funds towards keeping it in nav
igable order, and led the way for others up
the Canal to follow in support of the work.
Without the persistent enterprise OF our
business men, exercised under great dis
coura agenlents, the Canal would bave been
dry for the past two years. Therefore If
there is any advantage now to accrue
through the office in question to any coun-
ty on the lower end of the Canal, Wander
burgh certainly merits its enjoyment. We
think the other counties along the line of
the lower division will cheerfully concede
the trusteeshp to Vanderburgh. we believe
none of them offer candidates.
Let Mr. Decker's friends, then, go to
work, and he can be elected, as he ought
to be. fany man can resuscitate the work
and make it useful he can, as he has the
business knowledge, the viii, and the
credit necessary to do all for it that can be
done by auv one in its present situation.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

We are told that two or three gentlemen
of this city, who are intensely Southern in
their feelings and politics, have ordered each
a blue cockade from the South We may
expect to see this disuniou cockade on our
streets in a few days l-Tsrrs Hauts Jour.
We certainly did not suppose that treason
existed in Indiana. We have thought that
this State, if any, was clear of it. AL
though We deprecate such measures, we
must say that any man who will mount the
emblem of treason on Northern soil, Ge-
serves to be tarred and feathered. If there
are any traitors amongst US, let them sc
where that crime is fashionable. Here in
Indiana il is hateful and infamous.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

South CAROLINA IN THE ARMY.-A gen
tleman perfectly posted in the matter, has
made up the following list of South Caro-
linians now in the army of the United
States:
Captain A. C. Myers, Quartermaster' S
Department; Major T. G. Rhett, Pay De-
partment; Major Ben 'Huger, Brevet Colo
mel, baving been brevetted three times for
distinguished services in the Mexican war ;
Captains L. B. Northrop and J. II. Ander-
son; Lieutenants J. B. Villepigue, S. w.
Ferguson and Benjamin F. Sloan, of the
Dragons Captains w. D. DeSaussure, n.
G. Evans and W. II. Gibbes, of Cavalry /;
Lieutenants L. D. Lee, G. S. James and
]. B. Hallouquist, of the Artillery; Cap
tains Bernard E. Bee, C. s. Lowell and John
Duno 5ant; Lieutenants L. w. O'Bannon, 4,
j. L. Corley, E. D. Blake and P. J. Quattle-
baum of the Infantry. There are also ten
Surge ons from this State in the army, who
rank IS majors, captains and first lieuten-
ants. 1t is said there are fully an equal
number of Carolinians in the navy.
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The PresIdemt's Fast Day PrOcIama-
tIOn.--TO the People of the Unites
StaGes--A RecOmm nd alton.

The Presidents Fast Day PrOcIama-
tIOn.--TO the People OF the Unttec
StaTes--A RecOmme
Numerous appeals have been made to me
by pious and patriotic associations and citi-
zens, in view of the present distracted and
dangerous condition of our country, to re-
commend that day be set apart for HU-
MILIATION, Fasting AND PRAYER through
out the Union.
In compliance with their request and my
own sense of duty, designate FRIDAY, THE
4THs DAY OF JANUARY, 1861, for this pur-
pose, and recommend that the People assem-
ble on that day, according to their several
forms of worship, to keep it as solemn
Fast.
The Union of the States is at the present
moment threatened with alarming and i'm
mediate danger; panic and distress of n
fearful character prevails throughout the
land our labOring population are without
employment, and consequently deprived of
the means of earning their bread. Indeed,
hope seems to have deserted the minds of
men. All classes are in state of confusion,
and dismay, and the wisest counsels of our
best and purest men are wholly disre-
garded.
In this the hour of our calamity and
peril, to whom shall we resort forsrelef but
to the God of our fathers His omnipO-
tent arm only can save us from the awful
effects of our own crimes and follies-our
own ingratitude and guilt towards our
Heavenly Father.
Let us, then, with deep contrition and
penitent sorrow, unite in humbling our
selves before the Most High, in cOnfessIng g
our individual and national sins, and in ac-
knowledging the injustice of our punish
I II tn from
our hearts that false pride of opinion which
would impel us to persevere in wrong for
the sake of consistency, rather than yield a
lust submission to the unforeseen exigencies
bv which we are now surrounded. Let US
with deep reverence beseech him to restore
the friendship and good will which prevail
ed in former days among the people of the
several States and, above all, to save US
| from the horrors of civil war and " blood
| outlines" Let our tervent prayers ascend
| to His Throne that He would not desert US
| in this hour of extreme peril, but remember
/ us as he did our fathers in the darkest days
| of the revolution and preserve our Consti-
| tuition and our Union, the work of their
| hands, for ages yet to come
An Omnipotent Providence may overrule
existing evils for permanent good. He can
make the wrath of man to praise Him, and
the remainder of wrath he can restrain. =
Let me invoke every individual, in what
ever sphere of life he may be placed, to feel
a personal responsibility to God and his
country for keeping this day holy, and for
contri uting all in his power to remove ouE
actual ..hd impending calamities.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
WAsmNGToS, Dec, IA, 1860
! dec2 d and wtd.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

Bay A dispatch from Washington says
that there are rumors of other frauds besides
the ono in the Interior Department. We
believe that the people don't know half the
iniquities of this vile administration. When
all its acts of commission, omission and neg
ative evil become known, we doubt not the
Nation will stand aghast at the contempla-
ton. We are expecting to hear that the
Northern arsenals and forts are scant Of ma
terials of war and the Southern ones full /;
and that while the Northern sub-treasuries
are depleted the Southern ones are plethoric.
Cobb, Thompson and Floyd have no doubt
fixed things" right into the hands Of the
Secessionists.
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+ A STARTLING LETTER.-In the Cincinna-
ii Gazette of the 9th inst. appears portion
of letter sent by citizen of Alabama to a
gentleman of Cincinnati The genuineness
of the letter is vouched for by the Gazette
We give some of the most striking ex-
tracts from the letter, to show the frightful
state Of things which now exists in the far
I South
/ have always regarded the threats of Sc
| cessiOu as the mere rantings of demagOgues
and fanatics but within the last ten days
/ everything here has assumed a most posi-
tive shape and now can say secession and
| revolution are inevitable, with all the hor-
rors that must inevitably follow.
Reason has left her throne, and madness
now rules the day.
= Business is nearly suspended, and the
raising of military companies, the rafting
f-of drums, and gathering of arms, and daily
drilling, is the principal business in all the
Cotton States. There is not one man in
hundred, including ministers of the gospel,
but is for immediate secession. | am the
only man in all this country that dares to
stand up boldly, and plead for our glorious
Union, and I am told that nothing but my
grey hairs saves me- Is it possible, then,
that our Union, the pride and glory of The
whole earth, is thus to be rent to atoms,
and blotted out from the map of nations,
s0ithom the shadoao Of cause ? May the
God of Israel avert the calamity and restore
peace to our once happy and prosperous
Union.
South Carolina has taken the step; Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana and Texas are sure to follow. How
they expect to get along cannot see. The
four first of these States are deeply in debt
and without money or provisions. There
are not provisions enough in those States to
keep their people from starvation for four
months, and no money, no arms munitions
of war, and no organized military force.
Their only hope is that the General Govern
ment will not interfere to force them into
submission.
But there is an internal element that at
this moment threatens our destruction
A negro insurrectiOn is expected at Christ
mas Two white men and several negroes
were hung the other day, and they
said that general rising was to take place
all through those States on Christmas, and
the whole country is turning pale in fear
Every town and plantation is under patrol
night and day. My family are frightened
out Of their wits. Human life is of but lit
tie value here, and no one feels safe "a
moment. There is also Il plot laid to
put both Lincoln and Uamiin out of the
way before the 4th of March. This you
may rely upon.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

RELate advices represent that Governor
Hicks of Maryland again refuses to call the
Legislature of that State together, declaring
that it is his purpose to await the action
OF Virginia, Missouri, and Kentucky. Gc~.
Letcher of Virginia has completed his mes
sage to the Legislature, which meets on the
7th of January. He is reported as being in
favor of Central Confederacy if the Cot
ton States secede, and against State Con-
vention.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

Ba9@The Nashville Banner (Opposition)
noticing the recent burning in efigy of
Hon Andrew johnson, says:
Nothing could have been done to better
suit Andy. He will make the last one of
them ashamed of themselves before twelve
month, and we venture in that time not
leader among them can be identified.
We understand there was a Coroner
Inquest made, up in the Post Office in
this city, in session upon the remains of
Andy We did not hear their verdict
We imagine it win be drawn very mild
The Democratic leaders about here know
their man too well to attempt to deal very
Blmmarily with him.
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B7s~ We are gratihed TO be enabled on the
authority Of the Evansville Journal, of the
10th inst, to say "That ReAp the state
ment in some of the public journals, that
$40, 900 of paper was protested in Evans
willie in one day, in the early part of De-
cember," is not true We make this an
nouncement in justice to the business men
of Evansville, aud not as n retraction of any
thing that has appeared in the columns of
this paper No such statement as referred
to above, has ever found its way into the
columns of the Boonville Democrat; and if
the editor of the Journal, in his article of
the 10Th inst, intended to charge us with
publishing the statement referred to by him,
we hope in Justice to us, he will say he was
mistaken.
We can assure the editor of the Journal, that
we have known for months that the q City is
/ paving its debts 20 and is in as sound a con-
| dition as any city in the West, we then
/ learned from the most reliable authority
/ that the City Orders were worth their face,
and further, we have the utmost confidence
! in the business men OF Evansville, and be-
| lieve that they are as able and as willing to
paw their liabilities, as the business men OF
any other "city in the West."-BOonoiLte
Democrat.
We were doubtless led into an error by
the similarity of the names " BOonville
Democrat and " Warrck Democrat. =
The latter paper, according to our present
| recollection, was one of the papers that
copied the unjust item in relation to our
city.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Gen'l Scott de-
clares that Col. Anderson's movements at
Charleston had been made without consulta-
ton with him, and whether in accordance
with instructions from the President he
could not say. lie considered that in n strate-
getical point ofview Maj. Anderson had done
perfectly right, as he was now in position
which he could maintain, which was not
the case at Fort Moultrie, where his small
force could have been overcome in a short
time. 1t remains to be seen whether Maj
Anderson has acted under orders or upon
his own responsibility. It has been ascer-
tanned with certainty that majority of the
Republican members of Congress are ready
TO guarantee the repeal of the personal lber-
ty bills. If the South is indisposed to meet
the concession proposed, the Republicans
contend that it can only be through a de-
termination to reject all compromises. 1t
is understood that Gov. Brown of Georgia
has solicited from the Secretary of War and
has obtained years leave of absence for
Col. Pardee, late commandant at West Point,
to go TO Europe to purchase guns and mu-
nitions of war for the State of Georgia.
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Reading matter on every pa


EG~ Remember that the Bodiam Mining
Company is delivering to any part of the
city a grade of their coal at 8 cents per
bushel. See advertisement.
Dec. 29-1td
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

BA@On account of the great interest felt
in everything pertaining to the Charleston
harbor forts, we print to-day sketch Of
their position, armament, structure, etc
which will be read with avidity.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

Bay~The following interesting items we
clip from the Philadelphia Press of the 25th.
They form part of its Washington CORES
pondence
No adjustment can be reached unless the
SoHthern States formally agree TO abandon
all pretensions, for all time to come, 20 Sc
cede from, and break up this Union. They
must recognize the Government as a Gov
ernment capable of preserving itself. How
can they propose to reconstruct a Govern
ment while claiming the right at any time
to secede from and destroy it. Senator
Wade, of Ohio, made the overwhelming point
in the Senate Committee of Thirteen this
morning, when he said that he had no idea
of making bargain with men who might
carry their State out and join the common
enemy at any time, or turn the forts of the
Federal Government against the Govern
ment itself Here, then, is the only plat
form upon which the Union can be preserv-
ed. No concession to secession, and when
secession is abandoned all the rest is plain.
1t is said that Mr.. Bailey, the agent W ho
engin eered the new Galpin Gardner claim
the Bond Swindle) under Mr.. Buchanan,
was born in South Carolina, and that
q good deal of the money resulting fro N
the transaction was used to effect the disso-
luton of the Union. So, South Carolina
goes out of the Union under the most
agreeable auspices.
Lieut. General Scott is here on official
business. He is greatly concerned about
the condition of the country, and this morn
ing spoke of it with tears in his eyes. He
said be was three years old when the Con-
stitution was adopted, and was now, there
fore, on the verge of eighty. He did not
wish to survive the downfall of the Union.
The great artice in La Presse a news
paper in Paris, said to represent Louis Ma
poleOn, has excited much interest here, be-
cause of the cold comfort it offers to the
Disunionists. l hear from high authority
that Louis Napoleon will never give any
aid or &C. >ct to these men. He has a re-
cord and crown to save.
One of the most dismal signs of the times,
SO far as the Seceders are concerned, is the
rapid decline in the value of negroes. A
gentleman who lately returned from Vir-
ginia assures me that the greatest conster-
nation prevails in that State on this account,
and that many of the richest Shareholders
talk of selling out and moving TO the
North.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

rsa-The official proceedings of the Union
Mass Meeting held at Mt. Vernon, on the
26th inst, is published to-day. Tomorrow
we shall publish a communication giving a
fuller account of the meeting.
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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
BY THE Z. W. LINE.
Exclusively for the Journal.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The proposals for
the S. 100000 in treasury notes under the
recent act of Congress were opened to-day
at the treasury department. The bids were
for less than $2,500,00O, at an average oi
II per cent. interest. The following were
the bids:
Thos. ]. Warner of New York and others
take 100000, at 25 per cent? Field & Nc
Lane of New York $25, 600 at Is per cent;
F. & NJ. Crane of New York $4,000 at 80
per cent; John Daiue of Washington $685.
600 at 6 per cent; John F. Wright of
New York $4,000 at per cent; John F.
Langdon of Vermont $4,000 at % per cent;
Amos Townsend, cashier New Haven bank,
$4,000 at s per cent; ditto $4,000 at 8
per cent. ditto So 600 at 81 per cent; Wn.
E. Brown Of New York $1,000 at per
cent; ditto $500 at per cent; J. F. Hunt
ington Of New York $50, 900 at l 8 per cent;
ditto $4,000 at "a per cent;
Bank of Commerce of New York
for self and others 81, 500, 900 at 2 per cent;
L. NJ. Swan, New York, $40, 900, at Is per
cent; Farmers Bank, Lancaster, Pa, $1,000 at
per cent. ditto S. 900 at 3 per cent; ditto
$40, 600 at 9 per cent; ditto $40, 900 at 10 per
cent; .. L. & A. Stewart, New York, Sll6,-
900 at u per cent; ditto $50, 900 at I 2 per
cent; ditto 800 900 at z per cent; Edward
J. King, New York SIS, 600 at 10 per cent.
ditto 5000 at u per cent; Field & Co,
New York $4,000 at SO per cent; ditto
$4,000 at "a per cent; F. Carlton, New
York. $4,000 at d per cent; G. S. Bishop,
New York, 81 G, 600 at o per cent; ditto $780,
600 at 90 per cent; ditto 100000 at 10 per
cent; F. P. James, New York, $25, 900 at -
per cent; ditto $25, 900 at l ) per cent; ditto
q Of I of .
per cent; ditto 100000 at "A per cent.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

PERsoNAL.-We are pleased to learn that
DR.. Fl. G. Merriweather, the distinguished
East India Physician, has arrived in this
city, and opened an Office on Third street
between Main and Locust, where he will
pay special attention to the treatment Of
Chronic diseases. The afflicted might do
well to give him call
Dec, 29-ltd.
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R9-On account of the wet weather yes
terday, and "ground connections caused
thereby, our telegraphic reports are not ss
full to-day as usual.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-29

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The South Caro-
lima Commissioners were in conference with
the Cabinet to- day. The Commissioners
demand that the troops be withdrawn imme-
diately OF this shall be their last interview,
and they Will prepare for the worst.
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RELIGIOUS NoTIcR.-.There will be no ser
vice at the First Baptist Chuch tomorrow
morning. Preaching in the evening at 7
O'Clock, by Rev. VIM. Il. McCarer
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CHARLESTON, Dec. 27.-The Governor has
to-day been rendered the services of troops
from Georgia, Alabama, and different por-
tions of Carolina, and many companies may
be expected here tomorrow.