Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-21
Late news items.

Late News Items.
The receipts for internal revenue
Thursday we're $954,753e6
The coarse of General Palmer ia
Kentucky is fully approved at Washing
ton. 9 efaa
The notorious General JEFF. Thompson
has gone into 9 business irm IN New
Orleans oat TAG
/ James Boyd & Bros, brokers Of Chi
eago. have suspended in consequence of
the ketchnm frauds. e,
The New York Tribune says that
Canada ranks next 10 illinois in the
number Of cattle sent to that market
Il is reported that Moses f. Odell has
been appointed naval officer At New
York. -, as ps4,,1 Fio~
St Louis friends Of General Sherman
have raised $4,000 for the purpose Of
purchasing him 3 residence in that city.
It is reported from Newbern that
Northern people ara pouring into North
Carolina By thousands.
Horatia N. Conger has been appoint
ed acting assistant Secretary OF State
during the illness Of Frederick W. Sew
ard. Te7dE 5sg- ls-slssfs
Colonel Lister, of the Alb coIored in
tsntry, has been appointed AssistsI
Com missioner Of freedmen for East
Tennessee. ,..t. .sa....,.
The Government is clearing out the
rolling stock of the military railroads
During the next month nearly one hun
dred locomotives aud about twelve hun
drsd cars viii be sold in Virginia alone
The great Democratic State conven-
ton Of Maine comprising 5T4 delegates,
agreed that bat ssr President Johnson
State sovereignty you'd have been de-
stroyed At ell hAzarda .ft-.-..
Newton Edwards has been appointed
Governor of Dakota territory, and Ed
ward b. Taylor superintendent of Indian
7hairs for the northern sapeFintendeney.
Generals Curtis and Sibley, H. w. Reed
and Oran Guernsey have been appoint
ed commissioners to negotiate treaties
with the Sioax and Cheyennes Of the
upper Missouri aH&o lw a
The President is reported to have de.
elaFed that General Candy, ''if he did
not behave better, would be ordered to
report at Washington for an investiga-
ton into bis conduct ssvibe. .a1s,-ls
The Herald says that thu Presidens is
determined to have an immediate trial
Of JEFF. Davis for treason before civil
tribunal, while Q portion of the Cabinet
are opposed to it. Chief Justice Chase
will soon be in Washington to give his
opinion in the matter, and the ablest
counsel in the country are also being
consulted. NJ a7s b.ad s.
Faystts McMuller, Of Virginia, for.
merry Governor OF Washington Terri
tory, and lately 9 rebel Congressman,
will shortly leave IN company. with the
present Governor Of that Territory, 10
charge of 700 women enigrating west
ward. z ~
The steam marine of New York has
been Immensely increased since the close
Of the war. It nov consists of $40
steam vessels, registered at that pert,
representing 4l5,055 tuns, OF which
10000 are employed in the ooasting
trade. 80 .rl
The Agricultural Department at Wash
ington estimate the deficiency in the
wheat crop, as compared with last year,
ct 26, "a, 6o8 bu shsls--nearly all in the
West Other crops very good, except
tobacco, which is short
Major Thomas G. Hsrrod, Of the Oh
Illinois cavalry, who was sentenced 70 be
hung by military court martial, for the
murder Of Lieutenant Colonel LOOMS,
has had his sentence commuted by the
President, to ten years. Imprisonment At
Albany Penitentisry.
The convention Of pilots, in session al
Louisville, have adopted q memorial TO
the inspectors, suggesting more care ia
the appointment OF pilots, and also that
no license be Issued uunless the eaBdi.
datea were known TO be eompetent aud
we're recommended By st least two known
and trusty pilota
/ The Philadelphia IHqHirsr, having
pronounced znfounded the report of the
Toronto Globe, that General Grant had
distinctly stated ut Quebec that the
French must leave Mexico, peacesbly il
they would, but forcibly il they refused,
the Globe reiterates Il, and insists that
I its Quebec correspondent is entirely re-
liable and the verscity Of his report is
confirmed by the testimony of several
persons to whom General Grant did de-
clare il to be his purpose and that of his
Government, 10 drive the French out Of
Mexico. a1Eba
The Minnesota Copperhsad Conven.
ton assent led ct st. Paul on Tuesday,
and proved to be in every respect q very
slim affair. But twelve counties were
represented 81 all, and but one fully so.
They adopted platform which sustains
the restoration policy of President John
son; fayors the Monroe doctrine; op
poses protective tariff denounces the
suspension of the writ Of babeas corpus
declares against negro suffrage; objects
to the administration of affairs in Ten.
nessee and Kentucky, &c. No candi.
dates have bean nominated 81 last ed
vices, and an attempt was made to post.
pons further action till October.
The PennsyIvania Union State
, Convention met at Harrisburg on
Thursdsy last, and nominated Gen.
Hsrtrauft for Auditor, and Col Jacob
II. Campbell for Surveyor General The
resolutions passed express confidence in
the Administratiou Of President John
: son, and endorse his reconstrnction pol
icy; compliment Governor Cartin- and
: Secretary Stanton; recommend the con-
Gscation of the property Of Southern
rebels amounting in value to over
$40, 900, for the purpose Of paying pen.
sions; ask revision Of the revenue
laws, 70 insure protection to American
/ Industry; endorse the Monroe doctrine.