The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-15

E. W. Tracy, ESQ., prominent lawyer of
that city.
THE Missouri State Convention, to select
delegates to the Chicago Convention, is to
be held in st. Louis on the 10th of March.
"A MORMON advertisement reads as fol-
lows To be Let-Rooms for two gentle
men and four wives, or rooms for one gent
leman and six wives"
CHANGE OF NAME.-The name of the
United States steamer, now being rebuilt
at the Portsmouth navy-yard, has been
changed from g Dispatch to )" Pocahontas."
The Mayor of ST. Louis has vetoed reso-
luton passed by the City Council, appropri-
ating eight thousand dollars to aid in re-
moving by legal measures the Rock Island
bridge.
THE Brown FUND.-The Boston publish
ers of the Life OF Captain John Brown sent
to Mrs. Brown last week a check for $1,000,
as her share of the profits of that book thus
far. >,-
THE Great Eastern steamship cost nearly
$5,0oO,00O; the company that built her got
tired Of expanding nsol GRd sEld her, for
less than half her cost, to a new company
and the stock of the new company is now
selling for so cents on the dollar. aE A-
THE Mobile T1ribune learns that the Hon.
]. A. Stallworth, Representative of the Mo-
bile District in Congress, has recovered
sufficiently frora his illness to be able to
proceed to Washington, and is now on his
way thither.
THE first car through from Chicago to
Boston, No. 1000, the Michigan Central
Railroad combination freight car, reached
Boston lately with its cargo of Illinois pork
the first ever sent through without tran
shipment.
MAJOR DowLING, Superintendent of the
Canal South, informed us, yesterday, that it
is being put in the most thorough repair, in
anticipation of an early spring navigation.
The Major says, and we hope it may be so,
that the canal is yet to be one of the greatest
thoroughfares for trade leading to this city.
-Terre Haute Journal.
THE New York correspondent of the New
Orleans Courier, says that number of
the first class citizens ofNew YoTk-gentle-
men of the ben ton-are associating togeth-
er for the purpose of forming a society, the
objects of which shall be to extend hospitali-
ty to distinguished men from all parts of the
Union on their arr riVal in New York;
JOHN L. ROBINSON, in the last Rushville
Jacksonian, reviews the history of the late
Democratic Convention in Indiana, and after
giving the Charleston Delegation a close
analysis says: "These, then, comprise the
delegation from this State to Charleston.
There are twenty-six in all; nine Democrats
and seventeen Douglas men,"
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY CONTRIBUTIONS.
During the month of last December, there
was contributed to the American Tract So
ciety, from Churches, life members, individ-
uals and other sources, the sum of $57, $685.
Is. Of this sum, there were sent from New
York s., 4,202 25; Pennsylvania, 81, 166 Sc;
Maryland, 1899 10; Virginia, $1,272; Ohio,
1904; Missouri, $685., and smaller sums
from other States. Two legacies, one of
$5,733, from Seth Grosvenor, New York,
and one of $2,252, from E. c.. Reed, of
Spencertown, New York, were made during
that period.
A TENNESSEE correspondent of Harper's
Magazine says: William H. Polk, the
brother of the late President, was until
few days prior to our recent election, an in
dependent candidate for Congress. 1t seems
that Mr.. Thomas (the successor of George
w. Jones) habitually in his discussions
charged Polk with inconsistency. He said
on one occasion to Mr.. Polk, 81 Sir, in 1880
81 you were q compromise man since that
time you have been fire-eater and you
were again a quasi American and then
you again were soft on the niger question:;
and now, sir, how are you to-day, Mr.
Polk 2" In an instant Polk was on his feet,
and with bow and his hand extended, re
piled, "pretty we'll, 1 thank you, Col.
Thomas how do you do yourself2
CHEAP FARMs.-Horace Greeley, who is on
lecturng tour in the Northwest, writes the
New York Tribune letter on times in
that section. He says:
al say emphatically to the industrious
and frugal who contemplate migration from
the East to the West; If you can bring
moderate amount of ready means with you,
the inducements for such migration were
never greater than now. judge that, in
good hands, $500 will to-day buy more land
or quarter section with better improve
ments than 81, 900 would have bought two
or three years ago. With $1,000 cash in
nand, you can buy pretty fair farm in any
State west ofOhio. There is great abund-
ance of land still held at absurd prices, but
there is enough that will be sold-indeed
much of 1T must be sold-at reasonable rates.
Go little way from the railroads and the
villages, and you can buy good quarter sect
ions in almost any county for the fair value
of the improvements already made on them.
No reasonable man ought to wish them
lower.
,l>es s,o Sc