Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-19
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According to the Houston Telegraph
more than half the spsllf1g-books sold
in that city 20 into the hands Of negroea
The young African idea sin Texas il
telching itself how to shoot at an alarm.
ing rate.
A terrible IRE occurred IN. Chicago
Monday evening, BY which property 70
the amount of$l50,0G9 was destroyed
At Government sale OF Sea ISLAND
cotton in New York Monday, middIing
fair bro1gbt 444c, gold rates.
Major General HoFsyip 4owiu Wash.
iDgton, receiving his final instructions,
A force Of 1000 AuslriaDs which leit
Jalapa and Psfoss, 70 sarprfak Afforce Of
Liberal MexicaHs under Gen. Aiatone,
we're themselves sgrpFised, cpd, badly
beaten, With q LOGS Of SIX hundred pris-
oners, and the balance either killed or
scattered.
A meeting (6f IeadinR JKentuckiana,
at Lexington, held for the purpose o
mutual felicitstion over the .zemoval Of
martial fa@, wound up BY indorsing
President Johnson's reconstruction
policy. .@AIWLEf-
Alexander H. Stephens, late rebel
Vice President, was .spiertained at the
Revere H5uSe, 10 Bost6n, Cd Monday
last, BY gentleman OF Chelsea, and IN
g post ptaPdipI yonsTsejop announced
his intention of doiog ! IN bis power TO
help President Johnson with bis recon
aair6e'io1 hohand) IN 1lSfh Od +
SGhhl RfaAaohs sBraff t66D tSs bah a
allegiance at, the Mayors ofEise, in New
Orleans, on Tie o. preparatory 70
applying TO President johnson for par.
don.
n "A noSeT1laim waG settlfdlby thelWar 4
Department yesterday. In 1868 Gener!
Granger ordered all women oil ilI.fama
70 leave Nashville, and l73 were blaced
ID noharss of an officer, win orders %
leave the cargo at Louisvi 10 or Cincin-
matt. The authorities refused 10 ALLOW
them to land, and the officer was kept on
thefissr about q month sat, on expense
Of about 5000, the Government de.
oIining TO furnish provisions. This
claim has. Just been ordssfdpaid.
Tbs Nortbern Ohio Grape GrowsrsI
Association is now in session At San
dasky, Ohio, and is largely attended,
nearly oil Of the Weaterp land many Of
the Eastern States being represented
One Of the principal features Of the
Conventseassill be the discussion upon
the healthineas, Of the vines, and the rot
which has prevailed 30 extensively. The
samples Of grapes and wines exhibited,
largely from Kelly's Island, ard AbuA
dant both 10 p'quantity add vafisty.I
Ths Postmaster Genafal danieS that
when the Southern mail service is fully
resumed there will be deficit of
$S,0O0000a He says contracts ore nov
being let 30 per cent lows. than before
,ho war, and. that the service viii be
sslf'sustaining p a lafi ssiaits@g srsA -
Gen. Brisbin, commanding at Lexiug.
ton, KY has ordered that @sWhpppavsr
shall beat with n lash,, or capAe any ope
TO be beaten, within the limits Of this
district, except in the case Of children,
shall be arrssied audlcon6hed ,st hard
labor. THE inAlIenableriEhtnof slave
ry in Kentucky arsfaat iadinassay
Mr., u. 7, Patterson, sonin,law to
President johnson and Senator elect
from Tennessee to the United States
Senate, he'd the Office Of Circuit Judge
under the sebel ralslih Tennessee, and
consequently took the oath 10 support
the sodtherht onfeddrAcy 1 This makes
him ineligible. -
Charles Forsyth, a clerk on the steam
sr Mcclellan, and a son OF the Captain
of the steamer Fayorife, bss- been At;
rested for robhins the mali from Lss
Crosse to 81 Paul = : A1s.ss ~s-., Z -. !, Z
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jeDEAooRAric PHoFa1EctEas AIt is Re.
freshing since the election Of Goyernol
sssns BY nearly 20, o0o ma jority, 10 fsasd
tie 4olIowins Demoerarc prophecies
which we Snd 10 the Aobils 3Fmss We
hope the Copperheads will derive sreai
c5mrest from the hypothesis here. hs.
slmed, combined with the respItJ Y - -
1Tbeseoutest lbesween Governor Stone
and Governors Benton for the Governor
ship, is becomiug altogether a one aided
affair, and il is eveE asser,ed that Stone
haa Withdrawn from the canvass. A
Des Moines correspondent says
Tbs daily Scoat newspaper is publish
ing in each issue certificates and Afida
Wits from officers aud solaiers of Stone
old command. They are very damaging
to his character as man and an officer
proving upon him cowardioe, inhumanity
and rascalty,, e. 4aerwevEg
II 10 kn0wn to our readers that willis
Stone 10 endorsing all the wild notion,
of the radieala iabodtl be 9snHfage
Benton is supporting the President
policy, and rallying around him the in
telligencs, the courage and wealth o
the State - eSOtI&9H E1EdAd
Na &sa&
PRcGKEss--In soho0l disGict, in III,