Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-14
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Gen. Howard ia addressing the freed
men in various parts of Mississippi
An extra session of the Louisiana
Legislature has been called to meet on
the 23d inst.
Thanksgiving in Illinois will be OBJ
served, as in most of the States, on the
7tk of December. -
The total amount of import duties for
October was $l7, 100000 in gold--about
So, 100000 more than was calculated in
the estimates.
Gen. Candy is gradually restoring to
the civil authorities in Louisiana the
direction Of affairs, for the last three
years managed by the military.
The free use of alcohol having been
recommended in France as cure for
cholera, several persons have drunk so
excessivelylthat severe'inhammation haa
ensued, and two parties well known in
the upper ranks of Partisan society have
died.
The bill Of rights as reportef to the
Florida Convention, contains twenty
six clauses, most of which are probably
common to the Constitutions of all the
States in tbr /nion. The sixteenth
alone is = seable: That no sOhite per-
SON r -Oe put to answer any criminal
cP> >6eybut by presentment. i"@'-' cent
or Improvement
The search of vessels at New York by
two reputed revenue officers, for arms
and munitions destined for the Liberal
facticn in Mexico, was entirely unau-
thorized, and it is suspected that the
two officious revenue officers were
French spies.
Cholera broke ont on the ship Young
Mechanic, from Calcutta for Boston, on
the 9Th of September. The captain,
second mate, and three sailors died, and
the remainder of the crew were sent to
hospital.
The City Bank of Trenton, New Jsr-
sey, has suspended, but its notes are re-
deemed at the Merchants National
Bank.
Ten thousand persons Witnessed a
game of base ball in Philadelphia, on
Saturday, between the Athletics and
the Keystones The Athletics beat the
Keystones, in game of seven innings,
40 to
Turner, formerly of the Confederate
Congress, has been elected to the Fed
eral Congress from the Raleigh District
OF North Carolina Gov. Holden is
authorized to administer the duties of
Governor until further orders, notwith-
standing the election of Worth.
The insurrection in Jamaica seems to
have arisen out of difficulty between
the negroes and the authorities, in re-
gard to the payment of taxes.
Gen. Sickles, who has just gone South
on secret mission of great Importance,
has peremptorily declined being can
didate for Mayor of New York, ON the
Copperhead ticket, saying that his SYM
pathies are ell for the Union, and against
the Democratic party.
President Juarez is still at El Paso,
but it is thought he will cross the Rio
Grarde into Texas, and, dropping down
below, recross, joining the forces under
Escobedo, Nueva Leon and Coahuila.
A story published in the New York
papers of Saturday, and quoted in our
dispatches of that date, to the effect
that Wirz's wife .unsuccessfullY en-
deayored to furnish him with strychnine,
with which to kill himself, is contradict
ed in last nights kilograms. Mr.. Schade,
Wirz's counsel, brings proof to show
that Mrs. Wirz was in kentucky at the
time that she was charged with attempt
ing to convey poison to her husband.
Several of our prominent Generals
have received diplomatic appointments.
Gen. Logan has been offered the com.
missionership to Japan; Gen. Sickles
will be sent to one of the South Ameri-
can States; while Gen. Fitzpatrick, after
having been brevetted Brigadier and
Major General in the regular army, has
been appointed Minister to Chilli. His
successful management of the New Jer-
sey campaign, as well as his services in
the field, have gained for him these dis
.tinctions. The Secretary of War has
also changed the ALE of Fort Runyan to
Fort Fitzpatrick. This substitution o.
designation is the more significant from
the fact that the fort bore the name Of
the defeated candidate for Governor oi
New Jersey.