Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-10
General News Items.

unanimously for Col. Hawkins, and 1t is
said that Etheridge did not get single
vote IN the District, except from open
rebels.
The Secretary Of the Interior has or.
dered the Commissioners Of Public
Buildings to secure temporary resi-
denee on high ground for the use Of the
President, owing to the unhealthy situa-
ton Of the Executive Mansion.
There we're issued BY the Government,
TO the destitute Of Richmond, rations to
from s,312 to s,955Jpersous per week,
during the month of July, aud the whole
number Of rations thus issued Amounted
TO lis, ,45S. g t 1
Oar reports Of the crop prospects in
the Northwest are favorable. The dam.
age from the rains il proving less seri-
Gus thar was apprshended. som s
Gen. Steadnan is severe on the rebel
papers He bas suspended ths Macon
Journal and Messenger, and the Augusta
TyGaseyipk
Three thousand dollars in silver and
two thousand in gold, the remnant OF
the specie taken BY JEFF Davis on his
late Southern tour, have been found aud
taken TO Savannah.
A Montreal disp4tch says that John
b. Surrait is now secreted near that
city. He has been in Canada for some
time, hArbored by secession sympathiz-
ers. Beverly Tucker is getting short of
funds, and is preparing to leave. George
N. Sanders dissipates, and, is fast wear
ing out s, - a~
Gen Pope has been hrevetted Major
General in the regular army for gallant
services. 4r-l ..-.....-
Last Saturday, q refugee from Texas,
visiting relative in Dayton, Ohio, com.
mitted suicide BY taking poison. Hay-
ing declared for the Union when the war
brcke out, the rebels Of Texas confs-
Gated his property, treatad him out
rageonsly, and, on attempting to escape
into oar lines, he was arrested on q
charge Of being q rebel spy, on which
he narrowly escaped conviction. Since
his arrival in the North be has been ex.
ceedingly low-spirited, and had threat
eDed to destroy himself he was about
thirty-fve years Of age, and widower,
leaving one child.
A number Of gentlemen in Philadel-
phia, by private Subscription, have col
leeted sufficient funds to procure q
statue Of Mr.. Lincoln for Jefferson
Square. The figure is to be of bronze,
six feet high, and when in position will
be on q granite base of the same height
A riot occurred at Camp Butler,
| Springfield, Illinois, on Friday, which
was participated in by large number
Of soldiers, in which revolvers, muskets,
sahres, &c, were freely used. Fortu.
nately no one was injured. The riot
was followed by an ARRAY between two
soldiers, in which one was morsally
wounded.
i The countFy lying between the Missis-
sippi Central and the Noodle and Ohio
railroads is infected BY a gang Of des-
peradoes, who Feb aud murder at their
pleasure. in that section, fes days
sgo, man named Alridge formerly
sheriff Of McNary county, IBnnessse, Z
killed three men in cold blood--one oi
them aged 60, and the other 70 years
The crimes we're perpetrated to CRAFTY
some private grudge. 1aasa at 81
Captain Robert Sedden, one Of th,
Oldest residents Of New Orleans, dice
in that city on the 2lst Of Jnly. II,
was the hero Of the memorable 6ght o
the gunboats, under Captain Ap Catesbl
. Jones, against the British fotilla, neai
the entrance Of Lake Borgne, on th,
l4th Of December, 1874 He was ID,
last known survivor of that bloody en-
gsgement t7f
The lstsst adyices from the Grsa
Eastern are dated July 2Sth. She hac
then paid ont fEs hundred miles Of thi
cable The circuit was perfect, apt
| everything was progressing f&vorably
| Her arrival may be momentarily ex
pecte6. There was no communication
With Hearts Content after 7 o'clock las
: evening Within twenty foar hours VI
> shall doubtless knox the result Of th
great experiment. Oar dispatches fur
nish interesting particulars Of the lay
ing of the shore end Of the cable, an
} the dspArtars Of ths feet.
: The London correspondent of III
New York Times says that in lei
0 crowded districts of thai city, Eher
!. there we're but 80 square yards to eac
person, the death rate was 27 to th
1000 while in ten districts where ih
spaeevs lO2 square yards, the deaf
rate was "a 4; and again, in ten Others
where the space was 202 square yard
: the rate was hardly 20 per 1000
Liverpool there are districts where th
space is bat from to 9 square yard
70 each person, and the death rate
from 30 to so per 900. As compare
, With the country, where one person ha
, the space allotted TO fourteen in the cit]
: the death rate is as 100 TO l47.
Z The report of the New Yor
9 Superintendent of Police for th
= three past months gives the total numbe
) of 20, ,46T arrests for the qusrter, {
= which IA ,3T2 were males, and 6,095 e
males. For the quarter ending Apr
% Both, the total was IL, ,592, showing q
increase for the last quarter Of 1875, q
an increase of about 65 per cent Th
complaint of the alarming increase
crime is almost universal throughoJ
the country. u tlsae
i The only news from the Tennesse
election is, that DR.. Leftwich is probabl
elected TO Congress over B1Ilock, in Ii
!. Memphis district. In many counties,
is stated, no votes at all we're cast
The rebel Gen. B. @. Hill was arres
ed in Washington recestly for bein
: drunk and disorderiy, and, being unah
to pay the 6ne imposed, was on saturds
sentenced to thirty days term in th
Z workhouse.
= On Monday last 12,450 tons Of be
were contracted for By the G0verDmer
b at st. Paul, at rates varying from - Z
,s to $lI IS per t-7,s according TO the IL
cality where it Is to be furnished
a schooner arrived at New YORK yel
terdsy from Port Huron, Michigan, VI
z. the ST. Lawrence. The time occupie