Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-12-01
Mall Gleanings.

was recently suppressed by the censor
Of the press. The next day five columns
5f the Journal (the space il wonld have
oeeupied) we're left blank. leaving only
tbe heading, Whittier are ws Goiagf
and The signature Of the author at the
foot Of the vacancy.
The Detroit Advertiser says the low
sfuge of water in the Western lakes is
sogsetbing remarkable. A fall Of tvo
feet has recently taken place, and the
sater is nov four feet lower than In
1861 AT soue Of the ports Of Lake
Huron II is diticnlt TO make g landing,
where formerly there vas water 10
spare. Bslslxa
When Frederick Douglass delivered
hia recent address in Baltimore. be met
sith bis sister, freed Maryland slave,
shom be bad not seen since be made
his escape from his master, thirty years
ago
A paFsimonious sea captain answering
the complaints OF bis meh that the bread
was bad, exclaimed, "Whall complain
Of your bread that Is made from h0ur 2
What do you think Of the Apostlesl they
ate j'shew, bread made from old boots
and shoes"
The mortality among Copperhead pa
papers 10 all parts Of the counsry, since
the election, is very great. Ia Ohio,
among others, the Union County Demo
eraf, the Ottawa Demoeraf, the Gallon
Democrat, and the SleubenyiiIa Courier,
have suspended The Aigh price OF pa.
per ana ink is The sscribed cause, bat it
is little remarkable that this Cause
should be chiefly fatal 70 papers OF the
Democratic persuasion.
A Maine officer recently applied for
farloash, stating that IL Il vas not
gEAnted be should loss fifty thousand
dollars. This attracted atsentioa At
haadq and the ofieer vas de.
sired toforward q statement Of how he
should loss il He Gid 30, 20 the effect
that be had been 10 the army without a
leave sf absence for two years; that be
was engaged to young lady worth fifty
thousand dollars; that there was an
other ieIiow sitter her, and that shs had
.ssriiteu - hin that II hs did not come
home and marry ber right away she
gould have the other man. He got his
1 fsFlough
An old Connecticut newspaper CON
/ taina this annoancement; " Married, in
/ the public highway At Green Hollow, 10
volantown, Connecticut. on Sunday, the
9Th inst, about one o'clock pm, the
rain pouring IN torrents from the clouda,
With high winds from The southeast, by
Elder Charles Weaver, while on the way
| to attend The funeral Of Mrs ANY r
Gallup, wife Of Beujamin Gallup, ID, Of
1 Volnniown, who died Nov 6. aged %
years, Mr.. John Tanner OF the iormer
place. to Miss Mary Hopkinson, county
/ Washington aud State Of Rhode fslSnd !"
A Portland paper relates that gen
tlsmsu goiHg 10 that cay on the train
from Boston aday or two since, was de-
lighted TO share his seat with an sasc.
tionsie, pretty, and ohA,ty young femin.
iae. who seated herself in manner 10
spread her dgess well over him. Much
% his regret his agreeable eornpanion
left at the hrst station, and greatly 10 biz
ehagrin be discovered, shortly after. thai
she bad cot open his pockst and ftaker
therefrom his wallet
A correspondent from Hoods army
writing to the Columbia, Ga, Snn, from
near CORTLAND, Ala, SAYS. You nsvel
saw q body Of men 90 anxious for peac,
"a is this army" and he som nesimel
thiaks they would sacri6es almos
everything short Of honor TO secura Il.
The iron IS beginning 10 enter the rebe
soul.
The Union prisoners sent from Sa
vannah to Annapolis are ia a1horribl,
condition 1t really seems as If th
rebels had been eudeasoFing to rende
them use.eas TO the country before thei
exchange was Effected
We regard Bosson as big city, witl
its l64. 7Ss inhabitants, but Il is dwarfe,
, by the New York World showinR it q
be about equal 10 the population Of Ia
Seventeenth and Twelfth Wards Of tia
city. z
Lieutenant General Winfield SEQ,
presented copy sof bic aatobioeraph
80 Lieutenant General Grant, With ID
. inscription From the oldest to th'
ables, General in the world (" Thr
Tribune suggests that Fredsrick ID,
Great once sent q sword to Washingto
with the inscription: .sFrom the oIdes
General in the world 10 the greatest. :.