The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-10-21
New. Items.
ssss Seventy counties IN Ohio have been
heard from which give Tod ~, 94s uaajority.

EssS Seventy counties IN Ohio have been
heard from which give Tod ~, 94s majority.
BY The second regiment OF Minnesots
volunteers passed through Chicago On Tees
day on their way to Washington.
sgrThe Chicago papers announce re-
bearing of II 8 Burch case st the October
term Of the Du Page eircuit. One of the
parties interested (Stuart1 has gone to the
wars as Lieutenant Colonel.
RE~The railroads are charging extrava-
gantly high rates of freight on produce sent
east. On Tuesday the rates were advanced
zoe per barrel on -four from Chicago to N.
York aad Boston.
gGH Gold has been discovered at Belvi-
sdere, Vt.s and a man has worked what is
known az the South Branch eince last spring,
and is supposed to have succeeded well. The
gold found is known as grain gold, W r'h
some $50 per ounce.
HEAVY ARMY CoNTRACr.-T The Nashua
Manufacturing Company have contracted
With the Government to furnish $4,000
cotton flannel drawers. This will furnish
good employment for large numbers. They
sre all to be sewed By hand.
sy-A correspondents of the PhiIadelphia
Gazette states that the payments of The past
month, not including navy and civil list,
amounted to over S28 o0o, 900. From this
fact, it is evident there must be solitary
days now and then, when the total eXpen-
SEES are not much short Of $2,ooo,0oo. H4
E-A fight occurred in Chicago on Fri
day in a billiard saloon, which grew out of
an attempt to cowhide J. W. Sheahan, edi-
tor OF the Post by Col. Phillips, of the Obi
cago brigade. Sheahan had published Sc
we're article upon Phillips election as Cole
mel, which be refused to retract in such form
as Phillips dictated The latter attacked
Sheahan in the streets with raw hide,
when he was knocked down by one Of the
Post employees. This led to a Eight shortly
after Ia a billiard saloon, In which twenty
or thirty persons participated, and in which
| Phillips was seriously Injured.
So 4 Tennessee paper says that Andy
johnson is very bitter against the secession
b isls. Whether he is so or not be has
/ certainly had enough to make him bitter.
i A band of the rebels went to bis house In
/ East Tennessee with the avowed intention
OF hanging him, and, not finding him at
! home, they cut hickory withe in the
( woods and scourged with it the body of bis
wife. Who could wonder If the outraged
! husband were to raise his cleuched right
hand towards Gods armament aud swear
to wage war of exterminatIon against the
Internal miscresnts - LoutssiHe Journal
sALE Of RAlLaoAn The Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and chicago railroad, four
hupdred and sixty miles 10 length, from
Pittaburg to Chicago, will be sold on the
z4th OF this mouth. The several States
through which the road passes have enacted
Laws authorizing lts sale. tia said that J.
Edgar Thompson, S4muel J. Tilden, !. F.
I D. Lainer. samuel Hanna and L. e. Meyers
will become the purchasers. The lowest
price for which the property can be bought
Is $Soo,Ooo
i PREDICTION OF CoGToH MILLzNIuM.-
Capt. r q. Kendall, formerly of the O. s
Coast Survey, who is the discoverer Of the
perennial cotton tree that will flourish liz
cold climates, predicts that "tbe period Il
not very remote when hedges, most efficient
as fences, SHAH yield annual dividends oil
b, eottonj ornamental trees, BLENDING the use.
fni with the beautiful, shall repay tenfoid
lights OF the TFddson, The pIaI5s or Ne VI
jersey, the ieri,e valleys OF the KeyslonC
State, and tie ludalating pralries Of The
great West, Fall CLEAN in thS sunlight
white as the winter drifts, with generous
pods of democratic cotton.