Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-06
0yOLUMR XVII.

nIisnnIlnneous Items.

NEW York. Dee. 5.-The 1rfbpae'l
Washington special says:
4 The payment of the January coupons
will be anticipated, owing 70 large accu
mutations of coin in the Treasury.
/ Disabled soldiers IN the various De
partments Of the Government viii peti
ton Congress to allow them the same
| bounties paid others Of their class, not
in Government employ.
4 Quite a sensation was occasioned In
Washington yesterday, by a report Of
/ the prevalence of yellow fever on boari
i the Stonewall. She has been towed into
the stream and is being thoroughly
cleaned, preparatory to the admission OF
visitors.
1 The Commissioner of Customs is con-
/ yinced, from the character of the re-
ports which he is daily receiving from
4 the Canadian frontier, that his action
in employing female detectives there
was indicious, and will be Of great
benefit in the exposure and arrest of the
female smugglers who have recently
| been SO extenslvely engaged in the con-
| traband trade between Canada and the
| United States. Not one female SNUG
gler now crosses the line where twenty
crossed before, and merchants along the
border, suspected of having formerly
been engaged in the contraband trade,
are closing their stores and selling out.
Another smuggling dodge has just
been detected An unusual number of
coffins have been brought across the
line of late for interment on the Ameri-
i r TT...t.l
Revenue officer insisted upon seeing the
corpse after the coffin was landed,
against the earnest protest Of the strick-
en- reyatives, when, instead of defunct
body, the coffin was found filed with
costly silks.
Two per cent of all the fractional
currency received ct the Treasury is
counterfeit This comes to the Depart
ment from bankers aud other experts
in Judging money. Two per cent. es-
Gaping the diligence Of such parties
gives some idea of the extent of this
counterfeiting. H8ax
The Supreme Court met at IL o'clock
to-day all the judges being present
They proceeded in q body to the White
House, and after paying their respects
to the President adjourned until to-
morrow when they will enter upon the |
business of the term.
L. G. Durand, the Vice President and |
General Manager of the Union Pacific |
Railroad, is now in Washington making
arrangements for the examination and |
acceptance by the Government Com |
missloners Of the first forty miles of the
main line west of Omaha. Since the |
decision of the President approving the
amended location of the line the work /
has progressed very rapidly.
The Times Washington special con-
iains the followingaa A motion has
been filed in the United States Supreme
Court by A. w. Garland, of Arkansas,
to be permitted to practice in the Court
without taking the oath, as prescribed
by Act of Congress OF July End, 1864,
and January 24sh, 1865 The motion
will be argued probably on Wednesday.
Directly after the adjournment of the
supreme Court, yesterday, meeting of
the members Of the bar Of the Court
was eonvened,feF the purpose of paying
proper respecs to the memory of the
late Judge Catron, who died since the
of the Court last Spring.
Judge Black, formerly Attorney Gem
sral, presided. Eloquent. speeches were
made by the Hon. Caleb Cushing. Hon.
Blair and others. A Com
mittee was appointed to draft resolu-
tions expressive of tbs sense of the
The resolutions were pre-
pared and adopted, and the Committee
decided to present copy of them to the
Court, to-day, to spread upon the Jour
nal - II. E-a. ~ 80