Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-27
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Coll closed yesterday at I46f
Reinforcsments for Macmillan have
recently been sent from Algeria to
Mexico.
Caleb Gushing 10 said TO he going 10
Europe on a very important and delicate
commission, intrusted 10 him BY the
State Department.
The Philadelphia Ledger Ia informed
by correspondent who has access to
the fgures,. that the receipts of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company In
round numbers the current year, are two
millions Of dollars ahead Of last year at
corresponding time, and will reach at
least eighteen millions Of dollars this
year.
A man who gave bis name AZ Charles
Grey, from New York, attempted 10
pass $500 Of splendidly exscnted conn-
terfeit bank notes at the counter cf q
National bank Ia Springfield, Massa-
ehusetts, Wednesday. He was arrested
Ex.President Pierce has purchased q
snug little place Of forty acres, called
the Brown Farm, ia North Hampton, NJ
H., north side Of Little Boar's Head,
and about mile south Of the Atlantic
House, at Rye.
In the last four weeks, since the pro.
hibition was removed, there have been
shipped from New York to the South,
9l,036 pounds Ruppowder, 670, ,4s7
pounds small shot, 1884, ,649 percussion
caps, aud 37l guns.
A statement has been published 10
come eastern papers that Governor Nor
ton has had an attach Of paralysis.
such 10 not the case. He has bean suf
tering from neuralgia in the chest, but
10 now better.
A quantity Of human bones have been
found while excavating for cellar in
one Of the streets Of Lawrence, Kansas
A building was burned there at the time
of the Quantrell raid, and these bones are
doubtless relics Of that massacre.
The Piilsburg Chronicle continues to
record the atrocities perpetrated by Mar
tha Grinder, AT the present rate, all
the cases Of sickness that have occurred
in Pittsberg and vicinity for the last
twenty years are likely to be CD harged 10
the account Of this American Borgia."
The deaths in New York during lasr
week we're All, decrease of % from
the mortality Of the previous week, and
an increase Of l07 as compared With the
mortality Of the corresponding week Of
1864. or ,hs>deceased, 226 we're chill.
dren under Eve years Of age.
The GEORGIA State CansAniian ..A. ..
mInvugeville, on Wednesday. Herschel
v. Johnson was elected President by
large majority. Gov johnson message
recommends the abolition of slavery,
Reputation of the rebel State debt and
various measures of local interest.
The carriage in which President Lin
coin rode TO Ford's Theatre on the night
Of the assassin alton, 10 now on exhibition
on Broadway, New York, and is visited
by crowds Of people. The Sun says; A
war worn veteran with wooden leg,
while examining 1t shed tears. He
stood and looked at il for some time,
then went over and kissed the cloth
which hung from the drivers seat
Heaven rest his souli" exclaimed the
poor fellow. His lips then moved as If
in silent prayer for some moments, and
after imprinting kiss on the cloth, be
hobbled away. The incident was very
affecting, as the crippled soldier was
once the recipient of personal favor at
the hands of the Martyr President
Z. will be remembered that Professor
Agassiz left New York for Brazil last
spring on a scientific missi on, sailing in
the steamship Colorado, then newly
BuAh iNk hhu hCAhC uAAiA 0teh1Suip
Company, his outfit being furnished by o
rich and liberal merchant Of Boston, aud
transportation to Rio Janeiro for himself
and his numerous party provided BY the
owner of the steamer. Our late advices
state that be has been most cordially re-
ceived by the Imperial Government, and
every facility given him for the prosecu-
tion of his researches. The work which
Professor AgassiE went orr to perform
10 being vigorously pushed. His party
has been divided, and the several sec
tions dispersed to the various parts OF
the vast empire, the one under the i'm.
mediate direction of Professor Agassiz
being occupied, at last accounts, in the
ascent TO the headwaters Of the Amazon
IN steamer furnished by the govern
menE
n@r Last Thursday the homestead Of
the late Edward Everett, in Boston, to-