The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-08
VARIETIES.

their crops of tobacco to buyers on Green
river-some at S. round, and some as high
as Sc so for good and Tugs, with trash
thrown in. The present crop of tobacco, at
these rates, will go far to relieve the county
of its present indebtedness.-Ma dison01fte
(Ky.) Register.
The entire crop of ice saved at Phlladel-
phia this season amounts to about SV'ooo
tons. 80 Icf al - - " = -
Sneaker Newman, of the Tennessee Sen
ate has been presented by the members of
the LEGISLATURE of that State who were on
the recent excursion, with a splendid gold
mounted cane. 1 arr a1.
LIFE.-The first half of life is passed in
longing for the second the second in re-
GREETING the first. as.sa. ,J
SLAVES IN MIssoURI.-There are about
lo3, 712 slaves in Missouri, which at an av-
erage of $500 each, are worth $92, 969, 600.
| A resolution has been introduced into the
Virginia House of Delegates, inquiring into
the propriety of taking bachelors past thir-
ty years of age, $40 per, annnm, for the
education of poor children. "a
We see that some of the telegraph lines
are getting up competition in prices. If
they undertake to make the lightning work
too cheap, it may strike.
The Jamaica sugar crop of the present
year is favorable, and there is reason to ex-
pect that the exports of 1860 will largely
exceed those of 1859. Business, in conse-
quence, is reviving.
A young lady Of Boston, who INDUCED
in an afternoons sport on Jamaica Pond,
during the extremely cold weather, had her
skates strapped on SO tightly that the cir
eulation of the blood in her feet was stopped.
Both of them, in consequence, were frozen,
and it was found necessary, a short time
ago, to amputate one in order to safe her
life. ..-.
The Columbia South Carolinian is inform
ed that an Abolitionist was discovered in
the Clarendon District by Vigilance Com
mittee, and hung. er '.l--
MULES FOR THE INDIEs.-Several droves
of these long-earned animals have been Ia
ken hence to the Indies, via New Haven,
Conn, during the past week.--I'aris Flag.
The Oswego Commercial and Times state
ment of the commerce of the Lakes now
being prepared, shows that by converting
-four into wheat, the total amount Of grain
shipped from the lake regions eastward
over Lake Ontario in 1859, was IA, 800 900
bushels against 2l,sOo,ooO bushels in 1858.
The Governor of South Carolina has par
doned Michael Porter, of the steamer Marion,
who was sentenced to be hung for aiding in
the escape of slaves.
The Detroit Daily Tribune has published
full and important commercial and statis-
teal statement of MICHIGAN. 1t estimates
the products of pine lumber at last year at
400, 900, 900 feet. In the manufacture of
pine lumber $S,0O0,000 are invested; full
capacity of the mills, 900, O0O, 900. The yield
of the fisheries last year the chain of
lakes above Sandusky is placed at 5000, 600,
of which 100000 pertains TO Michigan.
Value of Lake Superior exports, $4,000, 900 !;
imports, about So, $50, 900.
The Norfolk Herald says: From I'M
mistakable indications we feel sure that the
Virginia delegation to Charleston will be n
unit for Wise. .lt.
The Italian hand organ grinders of Bos-
ton have subscribed $50 in aid of the Law
renee sufferers. -'.
The New York Herald, the personal organ
of President Buchanan, is writing elaborate
articles in favor of his nomination at Charles
ton. r..7 Il. .g.ff-Fas.,4
A correspondent ofthe indianapolis Jour
nal, urges the nomination of the Hon. Henry
S. Lane, for President, by the Chicago con-
vention. e'f
The birthday of Tom Paine was celebra-
ted in Cincinnati on Sunday the goth nit.
A portion of the audience were much dis
gusted because one of the speakers avowed
atheistical sentiments, they contending that
Paine was no atheist, but a firm believer in
a Supreme Being, though rejecting revealed
religion. Some ofythe sentiments aYowed at
the celebration were disgusting, and such as
Paine himself bad as he was, would have
recoiled from were he alive.--M Il. Ledger.
A letter writer from Rome says the Eter-
nal City is soon to be evacuated by the
French troops. H- .h7
Il. s. Bacon, proprietor of Bacon's Com
mercial College, Cincinnati, died at Jackson
vile, Florida, a few days since.
Lysander G.. Gordon, a prominent law
yer of Madisonville,a KY, died of consump-
ton on the oath of January. ..'
The Legislature Of Kentucky has passed
a law fixing the charges for the inspection
of tobacco in the Louisville warehouses, at
$3.50 per hogshead-$l.5o to be pail by
the buyer, and $500 by the seller.
The friends of Gov. Chase fred 90 guns
in honor of his election to the U. S. Senate,
in Cincinnati, on the I'd, -l-t FL.
Henry D. Gilpin, United States Attor-
ney General under President Van Buren,,
and ex-Mayor of Philadelphia, died in that
city on the 9 9th nit.