The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-05
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Mr. Lincoln told friend of ours that :
General Fitzpatrick $ coming to our
r;o.o,,s CITY was not on account OF MS +
pame.-N. Y Independent
Prof E. D. Mansfield estimates that. !
Obio nroduced, in 1862, three mittto" 81 I
GALLONS of sorghum molasses. At %
cents gallon it would amount to ST.
100000.
Governor Curtin has bit upon the nap
py thought Of buying some ten or twelEe
acres of the great and glorious oat1,e
+ field of Gettysburg as cemetery LOT 'he
heroes who there laid down their hVes
that the nation might live.
The Charleston Courier says that the
bodv of Colonel Shaw, Of the negro o4tn
Massachusetts regiment, was also Sent
for during Sunday, bnt he had been ouri-
ed in a nit. under a layer or two OF MS
own dead negroes" The telegraph re-
norted that his body had been burned.
The Tullahoma correspondent OF the
Mobile Register, writinSson the Z'tn Oh
Nav. and praising Vallandigham as "a
| great chamvion of constitutional rights,
Re said of him: = He expressed an
earnest desire to have an interview with
Gem Breckenridge. He ought to have
S seen Breckenridge, as they are co-work-
ers
= evacuation of jackson by Johnson, the
rebels used explosive musket balls OF the
;, most destructive and barbarous charac-
II ter. These balls are of the MIME pat
h tern, sixty-nine callbre, hollow and filled
IS with Illuminating powder, covered at the
:. base with cap. On striking any object
they explode with terrible effect. One
of these terrible missiles struck one OF
ID our men in the leg SCATTERING the bone
re into nineteen pieces. The effect OF the
8 wound of simple Mimic ball is always
:. considered of a dangerous character, but
ia the new ball above described is posi-
tx lively barbarous. The new balls are OF
ut English fabrication, and have been re-
n Gently furnished to Johnston S army.
I'd According to statement from the Bal
h timore correspondent of the New York
CdmmerciaE Ex-Governor Aiken of 5.
c.. has been incarcerated in the Libby
"a Prison at Richmond, for refusing to sub
nd nit to the traitor tyranny OF Jeff> DAVIS.
tn Gov. Aiken was one of the most wealthy
" men and the largest slaveht lders In South
- Carolia, and according to this writer ha'
nc laid 'his three thousand slaves on the
he altar of his country as slaves no longer
ID but as free men, and adheres TO the star
he spangled banner.
ed The New York Express establishment
on has been placed in the hands OF recelv
er; one It's editors and proprietors Mr.
ne Clark being utterly and lrrepressbly
IN dissatisfied with its disloyal tone and at
,as ttude, and insisting on partition OF IN
Ter terests.
ha The steamer Bermuda, built in Eng
land for the purpose OF running tn
an blockade, and subsequently captured b
by the Federal fleet, has gone to Charles
ton harbor to participate in the attac
ors upon Fort Sumter. She now carrie
=. some heavy guns, and her decks AM
VII hold are filled with cargo destine
de- mainly for Charleston and Sumter, to b
Dahigreen from his 10 inch guns.
Is A private letter of the latest date fror
ry- Liverpool, says:
On. One of the iron-clad rams building b
rms the Messrs. Lairds, at Birkenhead 60
H. the rebels, was launched on the 4th ms
They are fitting her out with as much e,
d., petition as possible. She is to have tw
ng turrets; has ram on the stern, and
ant plated with iron plates Al inches thiel
Their speed will be from II to Is knot
per hour No pains or expense ha
an been spared to make them the most PEI
OPP feet and Invaluable ships afoat.
val John Bull will wake up soon to
ms sense of his folly in this ship buildin
ho arrangement.