Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-17
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= VEDNESDAY............JANUARY II
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Latest News. 6s-..
The United States Senate ON Monday
= confirmed B. J Spoonar as Marshal fol
.. .. the District Of Columbia.
's A new hotel, larger than the famous
e. Eindell House, 10 to be- erected in 81.
= Louis next spring. II g..
8 National currency to the amount o.
1882, ,055 was issued by the Treasury
Departments.last week. swsif ~ ss~ ~.
- A. S. Haskins, 3 member Of the Ohio
Legislature, died suddenly at Logans.
port, Indiana, last Friday night 4f.-
The Legislature Of Virginia has ap.
propriatsd $4,000 for the relief Of the
relist of Stonswall jackson. w
Mra long, an old resident of Adams
county, Ind, bled to death last Friday
from The effects Of g cancer. -
+ ExsAlderman Ryan, Of Vicksburg,
was murdered in that city by negroes
Ten shots we're lodged in his body.
Dispatches from all parts of the
:. country represent Monday as one Of
the most dissgrssabIs days of the sea-
E. son. .---.''. -..a 6
Delegations from Canada and Nova
Scotia have arrived at Washington to
negoiiats for renewal Of the reciprocity
treaty - 5ssi
MIRA Clay, the wife Of Hon. @. G. Clay,
sr., and mptLsr of ex-senator Clay, Of
Alabama, died at Huntsville on the I'd
inst. -
Ttis stated thatthe Senate Committee
on contested elections has prepared q
report adverse to Senator Stockton, of
New Jersey. This does not surprise MS
any. ss''s'. s''.a 81 81
Governor Stone, of Iowa, was inaugu-
rated his second term last Thursday.
lie approves Of the Presidents policy,
and connssls his fellow citizens to suss
tain him. e e,sa est
The remarkable fact in stated that
the perpetrators of every robbery Of the
Adams Express Company have been
arrested and punished. None have ever
escaped. g.
IS Gen. r. ". Scott. OF Ohio, has been
ordered 10 South Carolins TO relieve Gen
saxton. The President has mustered
Ont Saxton, not having any further use
for him. 80.
Daniel 0'Conner, q private Of Co. Z,
!. Sd U. 8. Infantry, was murdered on Sat-
nrday night in st. Louis, BY Sergeant
: James Corcoran, Of Company b, same.
regiment s
The House COMMITTEES on I'll ections
have agreed to report in favor Of Mr..
Gofroth, Democrat, from the Tenth Dis
ttict, Pennsslsania. s.
The steamboat James Christopher,
with two hundred aud City bales Of cot
.kon. was burned near Savannah, Ga, lcn
f Thursday last. s1
The Fenian Senate intend to try the
three Senator'S who joined o. 'Mahoney
-. = to-day; they are charged with violating
their oath OF office. s & asf.,~.
(. The Platte county, Mo-, railroad 10 to
be sold at public auction 10 st, Joseph,
Z on the 2lst day of April next By order
~. a n -. UrIm8 ~ "a I ..
KThe widow OF Che late Senator Doug
!. las is 70 be married on the s0sh inst, to
Brevet Brigadier Williams, who is now
!. ON duty o. the War Department.
By direction Of the President, the
Twsnty-fflh Army Corps is to be dis
continued as an organization. This
corps is at present serving in the De-
partment of Texas and is composed Of
Z negro troops. IS 6 g..
..'.s The total loss sustained by steam.
boats, wharf boats and lbarges at 81.
Louis, this season, by the breaking up
.os the ice in the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers is estinstsd by the Republican
: at &697 500. os =.
- The road from Vera Cruz to the City.
of Mexico is lined with the blackened
oorpasa Of guerrillas. A suspicious
looking man has scarcely chance with
tie. French, under their instructions
: from Maximiiian. Is :.
- Ashland, the homestead of Henry
i Clay, was sold on Friday last by Mrs. J.
B. Clay to John B. Bowman, Regent OF
kentucky University, for $4,000. Its
designed 10 transform ii into the Agri-
= culturai College Of Kentucky al.
---.I ''..i On Thursday last Miss Harriet Lane,
che accomplished niece Of ex-President
Buchanan, wac united in wedlock to.
Henry E. Johnston, Esq, Of Baltimore.
The ceremony took place at Wheatland,
+ Pennsylvania, the residences Of Mr.. Buch-
anRn. s~s ssa1sr afr
The Secretary of the Treasury has In
structed cotton agents to make no more
sales &c captured cotton for the present,
che Secretary believing that delay win
be advantageous to the Government in
bringing higher prices than can be o5-
tanned now.Aaa4 esmfaeH
F.. The effort 10 empeneI o jury, Mon
dav. In Brooklyn, in ths case Of Coma.
= les. charged With the murder Of otero. o
Cubnn, was unsuccessful Out Of Eve
hundred and eighty Jurors Summoned,
not one could be found who had not
formed an opinion. ~
There % rumor 10 circulation in
washington and New York thasau early
- xsconstruction of the Cabinet win take
place. and that Of the present members