Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-25
important Intelligence from Mexico
Liberal Army sim Near Matamoras
Government Building Burned Down
Message of the Governor Of Alabama
miacelIaneous Items.

New YoRK, Nov. "A -Ex- Governor
/ Cummings, Buehanan's Territorial Ex-
ecutive of Utah, was at the Treasury
Department yesterday for the purpose OF
drawing the balance of the salary due
him. He has taken ell the oaths, been
pardoned, and to-day expects to draw
all his greenbacks and leave for Georgia.
| The forthcoming Treasurer's report
will show more encouraging condition
of the national finances than hitherto
anticipated
! The Worlds Washington dispatch
says: a
The contract was concluded yesterday
by Gen. Sodador, Minister of the Colnm-
bian Government, by which Col s. A.
Gilbert and Preston G. West, two officers
of the Uuited States Coast Survey, enter
the service of the Columbian Govern.
ment for the purpose of making sur
vey of Magdalena river, stream empty
ing into the Columbian Sea, 400 miles
east of Aspinwall The object of the
Columbian government is to deepen the
channel at the mouth of the river, and
also to overcome two falls, some dis
tanee, by which $50 miles of navigation
VIII De saved. c1tt
The Tfibune's special says:
A naval official document wasreceived
at the Indian Bureau to-day. 1t is a
tabular analysis of the cost per head to
the Government of killing Indians or
squaws on the Western plains. The
average cost of killing an Indian has
been about half million dollars, while
for squaw the cost was nearly two mil.
lion dollars. ~
The War Department has disposed Of
nearly all its sea going transports, and
is now unable to furnish the transporta.
ton to refugees and others as it has
done heretofore. "a n
The HerGtds Washington dispatch
says Mrs. Bishop, daughter of the ex-
Secretary of the rebel navy, is in Wash
ington, intereeding for her fathers re-
lease on parole.
Two white men named John M. Brown
and Christopher c. Rean, having been
convicted by the military commission of
the murder of negress named Nellie
West in Taliaferro county, Va, were
sentenced to be hanged. The President
has approved the sentence, and ordered
the execution to take place on the frst
Friday in January next. ~
Many well-informed persons hazard
the opinion that Mr.. and Mrs. Cobb,
plaintiffs against Gen. Baker, will not
appear against him when he is brought
to trial Gen. Baker threatens to pro-
duce in court history Of their several
years in Washington.
Theodore Martinez Bellecer, a Cuban.
was arrested last evening on board
steamer just about to sail for Havana,
on suspicion of being implicated in the
murder of Otero Circumstantial evi-
dence against him is strong. Jose Con-
zales, the man who left the hotel with
the murdered man, has not yet been |
found. The authorities are making |
every effort to discover him, as well aa
others upon whom suspicion rests.
The HerGtGs Washington dispatch
says emigration companies are forming |
in many sections of the Nerth to fur
nish the West with the labor and capi-
tai necessary to produce their accus-
toned crops, and also to substantially
Sene6t the emigration. The United |
States Mutual Protection Company of |
this city, with the first Assistant Post
master General at its head, have already |
leased many valuable plantations in |
northern and central Mississippi, and |
have many applications from Louisiana
planters for tenants and laborers Some
five hundred families are preparing to
move South in the month of January,
under the auspices of this association.
The Times Washington dispatch SAYS
Gen. Winfield Scott will spend the win
ter in voyage to Key West and New
Orleans.
Major Hogue, of Newbern, is in the
city. He says the people of his, State
look upon the recent election there as a
complete farce. None of the Congress-
men elected can take the oath. r. f.
Leahman, the only candidate in the
State who could do so, was defeated by
large majority.
The. English capitalists who sailed
from this port on the lst inst, had q
pleasant passage home Sir Morton
Pito, in letter to friend in this city,
says taat his visit was an exceedingly
happy one, and that he cannot but hope
that it will be of some little use in dis.
pelling the clouds, which, with more
perfect knowledge of thu sentiments
and feelings really existing between the
two countries, would never have ap.
peared. 80