The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-21
VARIETIES.

ginia in defraying the expense of suppress
ing the Harpers Ferry disturbance, were
laid on the table in the House.
LAST Friday was great day in these
parts" for slaughtering wild pigeons. Sew
erai nimrods came in on the evening OF that
day loaded down with them.-Rush. Rep.
THE Kirghises of Siberia have signified to
the Russian Minister of the Interior their
willingness to emancipate all their slaves
Immediately. sE -- rr 81
THE New York Central Park is estimated
to cost $2,334,02i. 1t includes seven
hundred and two acres of land. The cost
of maintaining the park is supposed to be
100000, exclusive of gate keepers, police,
etc -tJ
DIRECT TRADE.-Two influential commit
tees have been formed at Galveston and
Houston, Texas, to carry out the proposition
from the newly-formed trading company at
Brussels, to establish direct trade between
Belgium ana the Southern States.
THE New York firemen, at their triennial
election of Chief Engineer, on Tuesday
evening, chose Jno. Decker by 302 majority
out of a total of 1892 votes. The office is
worth So, 900 year and a furnished house,
and is the ambition of fremen as the Presi-
dency is of national politicians.
THE New York Herald has undertaken to
start Gen. John E. Wool for the Presidency.
The General eyes have been fixed longiugly
upon the White House for a good many
years. If we are to have General as the
next President, we guess that most sensible
people would prefer Scott or Houston.-Lou.
Journal e la..
A call has been made upon the Illinois
banks whose issues are based on Missouri
stocks to deposit additional securities, OF,
what would be the same thing, to withdraw
a corresponding amount of bills. The call
puts Missouri down to so cents-abeut their
present value in New York. We learn that
no more Missouri stocks will be received by
the State officers upon any term as security
for bank issues. tiH'
THE FREE NEGRO BILL DEFEATED IN MIS-
sIssIPPI.-The bill for the expulsion of free
negroes from the State, which passed the
Mississippi House of Representatives, was
defeated in the Senate. Governor Pettus
has appointed Peter B. Stark commissioners
to Virginia, in pursuance of resolutions on
Federal Relations adopted by the Legisla-
ture. The Legislature adjourned SINE die on
the l 1th. l. .eauH
A BILL has passed the Tennessee Senate
and been ordered to third reading in the
House fixing the rate of interest at 10 per
cent.
IT viii be seen from our special Frank
fort dispatch that the vote on the CONNER
cial Bank bill was reconsidered and the bill
then passed by the Senate over the Cover
nor's veto. passed the House on Wednes-
day, and is therefore now a law.-LoU. Jour.
A SACRAMENTO letter writer describes the
winter in California thus ~"Lilies are in
bloom together with the thrysauthemurn,
the geranium, and the climbing plants
which adorn the porches. Here and there,
too, you will see the white rose vieing with
the lily, and the red dropping in the pres
ence of the harder flowers, under the cool
moisture of the nights. The buds of the
passion flower are swelling, and the green
pointed heads of the hyacinth and crocus
and the daffodils have broken the ground"
FIRE FLY DREss.-From an English pa
per's correspondence we learn that, at CAL
cutta, at the Governor Generals ball,
beauty appeared who was not "put out"
though apparently on fire. In countless
diminutive bags of gauze she had imprison-
ed fire flies, and these tackled on to her dress
far outshone the diamonds of the Oriental
ladies' AS she walked in the more dimly
lighted alleys of the garden grounds, she
was indeed a most brilliant belle
THE Schools OF NEW YoRK.-The annual
report OF the Superintendent of public in
struction of the State Of New York has Just
been submitted to the Legislature. The
whole number, of school districts in the
State, exclusive of the cities, is reported to
be eleven thousand three hundred and fifty
eight, being an increase of forty-nine during
the past year. The average number attend
ing school in each district is fifty-three.-
The number of school houses is eleven
thousand three hundred and eighteen being
an increase of forty-three during the year.
During two years and nine months past, up
wards of two millions of dollars have been
raised by taxes, voluntarily imposed, and
expended for sites, building hiring, pur-
chasing, repairing, and insuring school
houses, out houses, furniture, sc. ...,--.
WHILE on a recent visit to the old chap
ter house of the Cheshire Cathedral, En-
gland, the Hon. Robert @. Winthrop of
Boston, saw two standards somewhat latter
ed and torn, suspended over the doors. On
| inquiry he was told that they were the
| standards of the Cheshire regiment, and
] that they were used in America at q certain
! battle called Bunker Hill, where, it was
said only three of the regiment escaped
without injury of some sort. The keeper
! said that it was understood that the Ameri-
cans got behind some sort of fence or ledge,
where they could shoot others without being
! hit themselves.
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