The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-06-17

meet in Convention at Bloomfield, on the
Goth inst, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for county officers, to be voted
for at the October election.
On Monday last the enrolment of the
militia under the Conscript act, was com
menced in every Township in Greene
county.
The Worthington Gazette says in JEFF
ferson Township, Sullivan county, not
man can be obtained to enroll the militia
under the CONSUMPTION act. We suppose
the " law-abidiug" democracy must be in
the majority in that Township.
The Lafayette Courier has reliable in
formation that Gov. Morton, after a
careful survey of the whole ground, has
determined that the interest and honor
of the State alike forbid an extra session
of the Legislature. He will therefore
issue no proclamation calling that body
together.
1t has been stated that Messrs. Hen
bricks, Perkins, and other leading Dem
ocrats, would issue an address to the
members of their party, advising them
to make no resistance to the enrolment
or the draft. A dispatch to the Cincin-
natl Commercial, corrects the report
These very honorable gentlemen posi-
lively declined to keep their promise
made to that effect. They fear they will
lose influence with their party by so do
ing.
The Lafayette Courier reports that
six newly married couple reached that
city on Thursday last on the same train,
on the L., n. A. & C. R. R. 1t says the
billing and cooling was overpowering.
Six newly married couples on one train!
/ Pnewi
Capt. Atkinson, State Sanitary agent,
has been doing good business in his
line, in the northern part of the State.
At Lafayette, he collected $3.50 in cash
and $3.50 worth of stores. At Delphi,
he received 5000 in money and $3.50 in
stores. At Burlington, the cash collec-
ton was 1913, and the amount in stores
$500.
| The same paper contains an account
of another wood procession" composed
of ifty-four wagons, containing about
one hundred and seventy-fve dollars
worth of wood as donation from the
farmers to the soldiers families
A man named Longnecker, an old res
ident of West indianapolis, was poisoned
by his wife on Friday evening last and
died the same night. He had been SICK
some days and his wife, with whom il
appears he did not live happily, took oc
casion to administer some mineral poison
under pretense of giving him medicine
The wife was put in Jail to await hel
trial
The New Albany Ledger boastingl,
mentions the fact that Edward Carter
son of Geo. W. Carter, of that city, com
manded company of blacks in the Is
Louisiana infantry in the late assault OIL
Port Hudson. Young Carter went int
the fight with ninety-one men and cam
out with only twenty. Hannibal, an
other son, is Captain in the I'd Louis
ana (colored) regiment.
One hundred men were sent from In
dianapolis on Saturday last, under til
command of Captain Farquhar, to quie
d disturbance in Fulton county Tn
Butternuts in that section seized the er
rolling commissioners paper, and de
stroyed them. Some time ago the sam
individuals opened the grave of soldie
and broke into his coffin TO see if
didn't contain concealed arms
The Newcastle Courier says that
young man by the name of Crandall, re
siding in that vicinity, was bit on tn
finger on Monday of last week, by
young gent of the Butternut persuasion
and BY Friday evening gangrene ha
supervened and the flesh was droppin
from the bone; the finger has since bee