Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-26

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chosen United States Senator by the AL.
abama Legislature.
A negro insarreetion 10 reported in
eastern part of the Island Of Jamaica,
and the l7th regiment and field bate.
ry OF the Royal Artillery have been Or
dered to suppress IL. IL is 10 be hoped
that the United States will maintain a
strict neutrality in this fight. ''-a
The HeraldS Washington special 90 ys
there is great rivalry to obtain the 6rst
bonds Of the Irish Republic, which are
allsold at q good premium. 1t Is proba,
BILE that paragraph in the Heralds sps-
cial cost somebody 500 at least
The ring which was stolen from the
body Of Colonel Ulrich DahIgren has
been fecovered. II was found in pos.
session Of DR.. Saunders, OF Essex couu-
~, Va.
A brute named Levi FarnelI, In Wash
ingtop, chlorofermsd woman named
Harriet Wells, bis parAmour, and then
strangled and robbed her.
An order has been issued from the
War Departmsnt directing that no drsfs
sneaks ssalI hereafter be arrested for
desertion. This will be good news to
the Democracy Of Indiana.
The Nebraska Territory election on
the 10Th, resulted in handsome Re-
publican victory. Gillespie 10 elected
Treasurer by 200, and Konntze, Audi
tor, BY 400 majority, and the Republi-
cans have bottf branches Of the Legis-
lature.
Hnr .siilggaefa .5qs7tB HlaH 81
There. are rnmors at Havana that
several cases Of cholera have occurred
In that city, but the reports are doubtful.
The freedmen in Mississippi refuse to
make contracts for employment extend
ing beyond next Christmas, q story b ~.
ing been circulated among them that,
on that day, the Government will give
each Of them q tract Of land, fgT
The Richmond Whie says that parties
are in negotiation Tor the pnrchase Of
the Dutch Gap Canal, l,for the purpose Of
widening and deepening il, and making
1t available for tho passage Of steamers
and vessels toll to Be exaeisd in con.
sidsration Of the seven miles Of travel
which II cuts of.
Mr.. Grau has effected an engagement
with the celebrated trasedienne, Nine.
Adelaide Rstori, for series Of hun
dred ard twenty Representations in the
United States and Cuba during the seas.
on Of ls66-'67. This lady will make
her first appearance In New York on the
lst OF oetpber, 1865, being supported
by the members Of her own company,
consisting Of forty-eight persons.
Returns have been received In ell but
ten counties in Iowa, and Governor
stones majority thus far is $4,000
The indiana son the plains are com.
mitting fresh acts Of hostility. On the
10th instant they captured train and
killed one man, just the other side of
Julesburg; and on tue 22d they killed
three men and wounded several others,
fifty miles this side of that point.
The Franklin (Tennessee) Reviep of
the l4th instant says: "Many of our
farmers have begun 10 gather their corn,
which does not yield an average crop.
Within the next two weeks the cotton
will all be picked, which will also fall
rather short The Tennessee farmers
are sowing as largely as possible TO
wheat, and the prospect is that, with a
good season, the wheat crop of next
year will be large one.
The rival candidates for Governor in
Alabama, are Hon. r. NJ Patton, of
LAuderdale, Col. Michael J. Bulger, of
Tallapoosa, William r. Smith, of Tus-
csloosa, and A. b. Cooper, of Wilcox.
Smith was member Of tho rebel Con-
gress, and Bulgsr rebel officer who is
recommended by the Montgomery Muil,
because, when past the military age,
"he entered the army, endured the Sc
vsrest campaigns, the most trying i'm
prisonnept, and most painful words.
To this superlatise recommendation 10
added the fact that Col. Bulger has
started whisky dissillery in Tallaroosa,
famous as the home and stamping
groundoof Simon SGggs We presume
Bulger will be elected SA4e-
The people of New York are astonish.
ed and not a little excited By the result
of the census Of that city, just completed
The entire population Of the metropolis
is ascertaiued to be 10, $50. Iu 1860 1t
was slS,669. The decrea in Eve years
10 el,lo0ls The World, NssOs and En-.
press insisnthat foul play has been prac-
ticed BY the csnsus.sakers for the pur-
pose of reducing the city's representa-
tion in the Legislature. But this in
stoutly denied BY the Tribune, TImss
and Post, and the Cosnter charge i.
made that when the national census OF
1850 was taken BY the bowery boys and
plug-uglies under Fernando Wood and
RyndeFs, that large frauds were perpetrs.
ted for the purpose of adding two or
three Copperhead Congressional Dis,
tricts to the city, and to secure o con-
troll for their party in the Legislature.
The reported increase in the city of New
York between 1850 and 1860 has ever
STAGE been matter Of astonishmeut 10
the uninitiated. 1t was an astounding
increase, and foul play was suspected at