The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-12-11
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We are inclined to believe that the |
"BrownIow victory" is another of those |
abomiuable lies concocted by newspaper |
correspondents and disseminated by the |
telegraph. The Louisville Bulletin of Mon |
day evening says that letter appeared in |
the Memphis Avalanche of the Both ult, |
from BrownlOw, in which he says that he |
Ton the 23rd ult,) was at home in Knox |
vile, and had signed document counsel |
ling peace and acquiescence on the part of
the Union men of East Tennessee.
The 18th Indiana Regiment moved from
Louisville, southwark, yesterday III
The Kentucky Legislature has voted to
instruct the Senators and request their Re-
presentatives in Congress to give their in
ffuence and votes for appropriate aid to the
famishing Of leland.
The number ST Union soldiers now on
the list in the various hospitals of the coun-
try is estimated at sixty thousand, which is
in itself a great army but the per centage
is not large, being only about twelve in
each hundred. The sanitary regulations of
the army are pronounced very defective and
behind the age.
Massachusetts is entering with gusto
into the colonization of South Carolina
She would be happy 10 take the contract at
ninety days to close out that entire State
| IN the recent expedition that left Boston on
| the Constitution, houses ready made were
| taken cut IN parts, to be set up at short
/ notice. The Ship King Fisher is taking IN
a cargo at Boston to follow the Constitution.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
/ are building eleven miles of corn-cribs
along the line Of their road, twelve miles
south Of Chicago. This is a very large game
of cribbage The capacity of this modern
granery is 5000 600 bushels.
I The celebrated battering-ram, or turtle"
from New Orleans, passed Memphis on the
Alb inst, for Columbus, Ky.
Carl 5churz does not find Madrid a very
pleasant place Of residence. There is little
| of social life there, and the environs of
Madrid destitute of a tree or even a bush
to relieve their mouotouy, afford no very
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Two kinds Of felons-one at the end of
the finger, the other at the end of rope,
both different in their compilations.
"a man who'll maliciousIy set fire to a
barn, said Mr.. Slow, "and burn I'D twenty
cows, ought to be kicked TO death by n
jackass, and I'd like to doitp Slow is very
severe sometimes.
The elements of human happiness are
love to God and man, love to one woman,
and the possession of a good hired girl.
Major Terrell, Paymaster in the United
States Army, is engaged in paying the
troops stationed at Camp Nevin, Kentucky
There are now about five hundred men
in the Indiana Railroad Regiment, at Camp
! Morton, Indianapolis
The Governor has authorized the for
nation of two additional artillery regiments
styled the Gath and 65th Indiana, and has
already made some appointments connected
with the same.
General Dumont arrived in Cincinnati on
Wednesday, on his way to assume command
of bis Brigade in Kentucky. His column
will consist of the Sd, 9Th and oath Ohio
and the 10th and 18th Indiana
The Senate of Mississippi have adopted a
preamble and resolution, proposing the
passage of reflective laws preventing the
growing of another (eotton) crop until the
| present is disposed Of"
Captain J. II. Green, known everywhere
as tie "Reformed Gambler" has recruited
a company for Colonel Walkers Regiment.
! the 35th, and went into Camp Morton with
his men on Monday last. The company
was raised in Dearborn county, and is the
twelfth company that that county has sent
into the feld-a fact that speaks volumes
| in praise of the patriotism of the southern
| corner of the State.