Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-29
TO-DAY's ADVERTISEMENTS.
The Latest News.

Gen. Grant started on Monday from
Washington, on his Southern tour.
Gen. Brisbin's coIored brigade left
Louisville on Monday for Helena, Ark
80 Commodore Palmer has been appoint.
ed to the command of the West India
squadron.
A recent letter from Concord an
nounces that Ex-President Pierce is
slowly recovering. ~
General Duncan is to assume com
mani Of all the negro troops in the
vicinity Of Washington.
The Twenty-eighth Indiana colored
infantry, from Corpus Christi, have ar
rived at Galveston. ss
General Elliott, the officer who de-
Tended Fort Sumter against General
Gilmore, has been psrdoned.
Up to the present time prize claims
to the amount Of $4,000, 900 have been
adjudicated, and 90, 100000 paid.
At the charter election in Hartford,
Conn, Monday, the Republican ticket
was elected BY small ma sority.
An effort win be made in the next
Congress to reduce the Government
taxes full one hundred million dollars.
II is reported that Maximihan's Cab
met are considering the subject of de-
claring war against the United States
The Canadians, having somew what re- I
covered from their Fenian scarss, the
Provincial Confederation scheme will
again be agitated.
1t is announced that ell commissioned
volunteer officers not in command or
assigned to active duty will be imme.
diately mustered out
The regular annual convention of the
Ohio State Sorgo Association will be
held in Cincinnati, commencing Tues
day evening, December 9th, 1865.
A man named Ship Porter was killed
in Logan county, Kentucky, on Friday
last, BY Mr.. Turner. Business differ.
ences was the cause.
Freedmen in Savannah who have
: been occupying lands which have been
restored to their owners are notified to
remove before the Goth of December
The passengers on the steamer Alta
lanta, whose destination is the West, it
is stated, viii be allowed to leave quar-
antine at Staten Island to-day. -
Hefernan, attacked by highwaymen
near Nashville last week, died on Sun
day afternoon. His wife has become
raving maniac, and is not expected to
recover
The Government has received no in
telligence confrmatory of the exciting
reports involving our troops in difficult
les with the French troops on the Rio
Grande.
The widow of Lewis Washington, q
rebel officer, has received from the Gov
ernment 81, 100 in compensation for
household property seized and sold dur
ing the war. aes g
Orders have been received at the
Headquarters of the East for the re-
lease of all volunteer soldiers imprison-
ed for desertion in that Department
This will releass about $50 men.
A mutiny occurred few days ago in
negro regiment at Jacksonville, Flori-
da, in the quelling of which the Lieut.
Colonel was shot in the hand and several
mutineers wounded.
Officers of the Treasury Department
have seized a counterfeit plate of the
10-40 bonds of the denomination oi
$1,000, so well executed that the spurious
notes would have been very difficult OF
detection. @
Robert Heth, committed to the Old
Capitol Prison, some time since, for ep.
propriating to his own use $4,000 in
specie belonging to the rebel govern
ment, was yesterday released by the Sec
retary Of War.
The Secretary Of the Treasury, it is
stated, makes no secret of the fact that
his forthcoming report on the finances
will be merely an enlargement of the
views recently promulgated in his For
Wayne speech.
The North Carolina Legislature con
yened Monday The House organized
by the election of c. F. Phillips, Esq
Speaker. No organization was affected
in the Senate.
The following gentlemen have beer
elected to Congress in Georgia; Firs
District, Solomon Cohen; Second, Philip
Cook; Third, Joseph Buchanan; Fourth
E. G. Cabanirs; Fifth, J. D. Matthews
Sixth, j. q. Chrisly; Seventh, W. I
Woford.
Col Bravo, late Of the Liberal army
arrived at Kansas City last Friday, anc
left Immediately for Washington. H
10 bearer of dispatches from Juarez. H
states the Liberals have $4,000 men un
der arms, and $1,000 more can be pu
in the field as soon as sufficient mean
are raised.
R6r Wade Hampton has left th
country, "for a time," it is said. /
would be a public blessing if he an,
those like him would "leavs their coun
try for their country's good" forever