Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-20
News Items.


HORRIBLE ACcIDENT.-Martin Gun
ningham was run over by train of cars
at Indianapolis, ON Friday last, and lit
terally cut to pieces, portions of his body
and the top of his head being scattered
several feet apart
A large black bear, kept for exhibition
at Indianapolis, escaped from his cage
one day last week, and created great ex-
element by his perambulations through
the streets.
Several thousand people, men, women
and children, joined in the chase, and
he was ultimately secured and taken
back to his den
Capt VIM. A McClelland, of Detroit
has been authorized to recruit and or
ganize two companies of colored men
at Indianapolis, for the 1st Michigan
colcred regiment
Not less than 1000 coIored troops
have been taken from this State to fill ND
the quotas of other States, and white
men will have to make up the deficit
in the next call, should one be made.
-Four additional companies of the In
valid Corps have Joined the camp at In
dianapolis, mainly from the Army of the
Cumberland
There are now ten companies of this
corps at Burnside Barracks
Over 600 car loads of war material
have passed through Indianapolis within
the last three weeks.
Work in the arsenal at indianapolis
has been suspended for want of materi-
al. It viii be resumed about the 1st of
November
"PATIENcE on A MONUMENT" val
landigham sitting on the dock at Wind
sor, waiting for dispatches from the
American side, and sadly whistling-
''DO they miss ne at home,
Do they miss me,
'Twould be an assurance most dear,
10 know that this moment some loved ones
We're saying Il wish he were here "
A peace Democrat is a Democrat who
prefers piece of the Union to the whole
of it-General Scherck
The Cincinnati papers state that re-
port was brought to Covington, on Thurs
day, by gentleman from Falmouth,
that squad of soldiers, who had been
sent into Owen county in pursuit of the
murderers of Major Wileman, of the
Eighteenth Kentucky Volunteers, had
returned with a couple of men, who were
identified as the parties who took Major
Wileman from his home They were
taken to the very spot where the body of
the lamented Wileman was found, and
shot. One of them escaped, after being
wounded. He was tracked by his blood,
for several miles The other man was
killed
The Louisville Journal of Saturday
says:
The report so industriously circulated
about the streets yesterday that a large
rebel force had crossed the Cumberland
river at Salina, and was marching into
this State, is not true. Some seven days
ago, Wheeler attempted the passage of
the river at the point indicated but his
signal discontinue by the gallant Wilder
has become a part of the history of the
war. We have the best of reasons for
asserting that at the present time there
is no considerable body of rebel troops
in Kentucky. Even the struggling bands
of guerrillas,'. whose depredations some
ten days ago were so bold are being
daily depleted by death, wounding, and
capture, and steps have been taken by
our military authorities to prevent any
more of their predatory incursions
A correspondent of the St. Louis Dem
OorGt declares that General F. P. Blair s
repugnanee to the restrictions upon the
Mississippi river trade arises from the
fact that lot of choice liquors he had
ordered shipped to his camp was inter-
cepted by the aforesaid restrictions, to
the great and continued drouth of the
aforesaid Blair.
No wonder the Confederate Democ-
racy sympathize with Frank P. They
have been dry themselves
At the Louisville Warehouse, the TO-
bacco crop of Buck Bradford, one among
the most enterprising planters in Chris
tan county, KY, was sold at an average
of $50 SO per hundred pounds. At the
same house hogshead raised by Thos.
Brames sold al. $50 per hundred pounds.
Capt. Latshaw, the Post Quartermas-
ter at Lexington, KY, has been tried by
court martial, and fined 100000 and
sentenced to three years Imprisonment
for defrauding the Government Lat
shaw is a Canadian by birth, and enlist
ed in the Eleventh Illinois cavalry, from
Fulton county, in that State. He acted
as Battalion Quartermaster in the Eley-
enth until that Office was abolished,
when he received the appointment of
Post Quartermaster at: Lexington. At
tention was first called to his pecula-
tons BY the heavy amount of his depos-
its in banks in this city. Some say they
reached as high as 100000 Whatever
the amount may have been, the Govern
ment has it safely in its possession.