The Evansville daily journal., 1860-12-07

Tbs Presidential Electors ceive fee OF
$500 per day and mileage from their place
of residence to the capital of the State, in
payment for their services.
Tue Secoud Congressional District OF
Wisconsin, &. G. WaShburne's, gave Han
chett, the Republican candidate, l5,O22
majority
Stephen Calhoun, Republican, has been
elected To serve out the term in Congress Of
Hon. Israel Washhnrne who has been elect
ed Governor Of Maine
A HEAVY BUSINESS. train from
Rockville, yesterday evening, brought down
eight car loads of hogs This road is al
ready doing a heavy husiness.-T. H. Et-
press.
BAPTIZED Lewis Bradford, who is con
fined in our county Jail under sentence Of
death, was baptized in the river yesterday
evening, he having professed to have obtain
ed religion.--T II. Express, Dec. 81.
0F the nearly two hundred electoral votes
to given for Mr.. Abraham Lincoln two will
he cast by the distinguished American poets
William Cn!len Bryant ana John Greenleaf
Whittier.
Is South Carolina, by her Legislature or
her neglect to legislate shall cut off all the
Northern creditors of her citizens the means
of collecting their debts, she will be no bet
ter than robber or thief lou Jour.
asa-The Albany Evening Journal has
proposed that those counties in which
fugitive slaves are rescued by violence from
officers who have them in charge, shall be
liable for the valne Of the slave thus res
cued
Nas-The year 1861 will be the first Of the
66Gth Olympiad. There will be an annular
eclipse of the sun on the lth of January,
another on the 7th of July, and total
eclipse on the 3lst of December There
will also be partial eclipse of the moon on
the 9TH of December.
Gen. LANE OPPOSED TO SkcEss1ox-A
dispatch from Washington, in the New
York Times, says Gen. Lane characterizes
the movement for secession, for present
canses, as unwise and uncalled for, and that
all the weight of his influence will be thrown
in the opposite scale.
Gay South Carolina ayows that she. by
her single action will force Kentucky Y, Ten
nessee, Virginia, and Maryland, to 90 ont of
the Union whether they will or not Then
what right would she have to complain if
they were to force her to stay in the Union
whether she would or not.-Lou. Jour.
Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press gives the following rumor i:
Gov Corwin, who is here continues un-
wearied in his efforts to pour Oil upor the
troubled waters. He alleges that Lincoln's
Administration will command, by its adhc-
renee TO the Constitution, the respect OF con-
servatlve men Of all sections It is proba-
BILE that he will take the floor of the House
at an early day next week, for the purpose
OF alaying, as far as may be, the agitation
now prevailing in the Southern mind.
TUE ELEcroRs-T Electors Of this
state met yesterday 1T the State House, and
organized 10y electne Samuel A. Huff of the |
Eighth District President, and Cyrus NJ. AL |
len of the First Secretary. The certified |
lists OF Il e electors, which tue statute re- |
quires the Governor to furnish, were sent in,
and the Board adjourned to meet Wednesday !
when the vote for President aud Vice Pres.
iden will be cast Only eight of the Elect |
ors were present yesterday. Will Cumback |
for the State at large, Johu w. Ray of the |
Second, John Hanna of the Seventh, Nelson |
Trusler of the Fifth, and John II. FArquhar |
of the Fourth were ahsent.-IHd. Jour-, Sd |
A NOVELTY IN RAILROAD TRAvELING.-
According to a correspondence which we |
find iu a French provincial paper, the rail-
road companies in France are about to put
into operation plan which cannot fail of
being received with favor by the public. 1t |
is proposed to run, each week, a train of |
cars between distant points, for which tick
cts can be obtained in advance, and to
which the companies will guarantee to ad- |
nit only limited number of passengers,
four hundred, for example. All the places |
being occupied the engine not carrying any
'tdead weight TO use q technical express
sion, the traveller can be transported at the
price of merchandise; and the companies, |
not only without any loss, but even with |
certain and calculable profit, will apply to |
these special trains a tariff, the great cheap |
ness of which cannot fail of producing an
immense business. By this arrangement
the fare is about one-ffth the usual price,
Cannot some such plan be perfected by our
railroad companies
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