Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-11
General News Items,

vliieJ Tor July amounted to <6lS, ,O96 50.
Morton MeMichael, editor of the
Philadelphis NORTH 4merieaH, is spoken
Of as the Union candidate for GoTerhCr
Of PennsylTanis, to succeed GOYsrner
Curtin.
One hundred Government horses we're
sold at Philsdelphis last Friday, at
prices ranging from $50 to Sl75-ayer-
aging about SO each. slfsa @
The English election returns are com.
plete, sRd the result is the election Of
367 Liberals, and 290 Conservatives.
The net Liberal gain is q. .asa
Dat Of {, 400 voters registered in
Nashville, bat 2, AIS cast their ballots at
the recent election. ~. s -rs gr-ss
The planters in The interior portions
Of the South insist in still maintaining
slavery. The Freedmen's Buresu finds
its hands fan in its endeavors to extend
protection and establish justice towards
the freed colored race sfu adi vaif.a
Col Wood, Of the 18TH Illinois, late
commandant ofs the post at Nashville,
died in that city on Sunday. His wife
and child arrived before be died.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
made 10 induce Gen. Grant to recon.
mend for pardon numerous officers in
Virginia, late Of the rebel army, 10 en-
able themlto participate in civil affairs.
It in said that an order has been is
sued reducing those regular officers who
have served in the volunteer forces to
their rank in the regular army. This
viii make large reduction in the cur
rent expenses of the Government. s'
The clarksviIle CAyoniele learns that
an order has been issued to The effect
that, after the 10Th inst, no more ra.
tons viii be given cut 70 the contra
bands; also that some disposition will
be made Of the refugees in that city.
l Gen. Gregg, commanding at Lynch.
burg Va, has decided that the parole
given 10 Lees officers and. soldiers con
tinues valid only so long as they behave
! themselves. II such paroled prisoner
insults cur Governmenb be forieits ail
the bene6ts be is entitled to By bis pa
role. .,,,.i, g-
The auGntily Of ale And beer manu-
fsctured in Chicago, ON the LIST Of 0e-
tober, 1864, to the 1st Of August, 1865,
was 13S, ITS barrels, which, at the same
rates would give l65, ,S04 barrels year.
MsmpbiS with 10000 inhsbitSnts and
only 5000 registered votes, cast bui
l,347 ballots for Congressmen al ihe
late election, of which Saunders got l53,
Bullock 555, Dunlap 100. Leftwich 4S4,
and Houston 5e- Bullock and Leftwich
being the Conservative candidates e
Last Friday three men ana two women
we're arrested in Albany, N T., for a.
tempting to food the city <ith counter-
felt fifty cent postal notes They got
their supply, from New York City.
The Secretary of the Treasury h&s
more than enough money on hand to
pay every dollar Ode the soldiers. Five
millions 20 to New Orleans By the next
steamer to pay the Texas troops. 'aa
The total number of Indians who are
on the warspath against the whites il
the fer West il estimated at $4,000
Gen. Dodge, who commands our forcei
In that region, left Fort Leavenwortt
for Forts Kearney and Laramie on The
Sd instant The General has determined
TO pot Q stop TO Indian uahostihties upor
! the plains, and is eon6dent that with th'
! forces now under bis command he car
accomplish his purpose,
"A man named Walden, who q yea
/. ago killed his neighbor, named Pen
dell, in Tennessee, and then escaped Il
Forests command, has recently re
: turned, and is Indicted for muFder b,
: the Grand Jury Of Gibson County Tenn
Dispatches from al parts Of the Soutl
, state that the soldiers Of the late rcbe
! ! armies, who, for few weeks after thei
parole, behaved so weli, are now, inhu
/, enced by the leaders who have been tb'
recipients Of mistaken clemeney, com
! hitting outrsges of q grave character
a and attempting to prevent Unioa mer
! from being fairly represented in th
: State conventions soon 70 be held. ~ Z
) Gov. Perry, of South Carolina, 6xe
4 the first Monday in September next a
the day for eleeting delegates to Stat
!. Convention to be held at Columbia, OF
4 the 18th Of that month, the purpose Of th
4 Convention being the q altering o
E amending the present Constitution o
!. South Carolina, or re-modsling, or max
I ing 9 new one, which will conform 4
: the great changes that have taken plac
! in that State, and be mors IN accord
ance with republican principles as 4
!. equality Of representationPsll t.
i The receipts Of internal revenue fror
Il / Is.lv 1ze kk4I A.~ -
!. So, ,000, 600. The receipts from incom
taxes have been heavy for several day
and viii continue 70 be 80 for some tim
:. '~ " o0 .asca 0SI dggols5 ,tssi z.l
!. The earnings Of the Western Unio
q Telegraph Company for the six month
> ending June 80 were 81 ,497, $50 TO-
!. The Chattauoogs Gazette of the ii
i inst says: I" We have been informs
D. that, during the month of July, thsr
a were two hundred and sixty-eight desel
It tons from the regular brigade on LoOl
le ont Mountain One battalion Of tw
r hundred and seveniy men has lost on
70 hundred Of them By desertion since lAI
. Payday.i's .5nwuaoL s5osswDiaA
Q At spiritual picnic near Weebav
= ken, the other day, seven women wei
p brutslly outraged, two men killed, fI
y wounded, and fourteen robbed not onl
Z. oftheir watches and porte-monnaies bt
~ of their clothes, so that they were con
a. PEELED to hide 10 the woods all nigh
In the morning they contrived to con
: tmunicate With certain persons passir
- IN the vicinity, who furnished them VII
? raiment enough to get home No doul
these individuals are more than evI
? sensible to the ecstatic emotions engel
- dered by attending picnic in the neigl
- borhood Of New York.
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