The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-10

pointed to examine into the present
Telegraph System, have called upon
the Postmaster General for a report
In regard to the expediency of com
Meeting it with the Postal System.
The Postmaster General is now en-
gagged on his report, and viii have it
ready to submit to the Committee in
a few days. Until it is received, no
action will be taken by the Committee.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs to-day unanimously agreed to
report General Sickles as Minister to
The Hague, and all reports as to any
adverse action are unqualifedly false.
General Siekles to-day made an official
Edeclination of this position. He de
| sires to return to his present COM
mand, and was to-day notified by both
the Secretary of War and General
Grant that he could do so.
The President to1day pardoned
Stewart j. Moffat, convicted of having
counterfeited, with the intention of
passing it.
+ Gen. Ingalls, has been ordered on an
inspection tour of military posts
Throughout Kansas, Colorado, Utah,
Oregon, Montana and California.
The Special Committee on the Pro-
vost Marshal Bureau have passed the
Resolution that their proceedings shall
| be kept a secret. The statement that
the matter was likely to be dropped,
circulated by the friends of Mr.. Fry,
is slightly incorrect. The matter will
be thoroughly probed.
+. It should be known that the Re-
l nsxvses~r 20 he VfS.0n 1v-xy
will receive mutilated National cur
srency in sums amounting to over three
dollars. So many packages of that
sum are received, that it is thought by
the people that sum is the limit.
The 50th jubilee, anniversary of the
New York Sunday School Union, was
Eheld here yesterday p. NJ, in the Lu-
theran Church, corner of 18th Street
and Sixth Avenue. The anniversary
was celebrated last evening at the
Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Rev DIR. Ferris, presiding.
The annual anniversary of the
American Foreign Bureau, took place
last evening at the Presbyterian
Church, corner of Fifth Avenue and
18th Street. Several missionaries and
prominent divines addressed the audi
ence. The progress of Protestant
Sunday Schools jim foreign lands was
freely discussed.
The anniversary of the American
Observation-Disclosures celebrated
for the first time, in thisscity, yester-
day morning. Addresses were deliv7
cred by Major General Howard and
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
j The 15tR anpiEefsaFE. ef the 51elrq
STaffd Yesterday by the examination
| gf over three hundred children IN
FioIres. Grammar and Geography.
THE Boston Tract Society held their
fftv-second anniversary meeting at
Irving Hall, beforesa very respectable
audience. Addresses were delivered
by Rev. DIR. Hunniby and other eler-
/ eymen on the occasion. Maj sGen
, Howard made asspeech which calico
forth muchl applause. 1t Is co9tem
Mated that the Boston.and New Yorl
: Fract Societies will ere long be united
The firstgeneral missionary meeting
: of the Universalist Society ofENey
i York was held last evening az IN
I Bleecker Street Church, at which tn
Rev. j. H. Hartsell, OF Buffalo, de
It livered an address on Denomlnsa
) tional Advance, alluding to the rapl
/ progress of Universalism in the I'm
ted States. Short, addresses wer
y made by e. Ell. Cromwell and Il; Mt
@ Adams. after which the Rev. Q. Ton
4 limson, Financial Agent, read his r
IS port, showing the total receipts OF II
J. Society to be Sc, 1855.
= New YORK, May 9-The steamt
Columbia, from Havana on the 5tl
Of has arrived.
a. The French steamer La Franc
=, arrived at Havana on the 9th, +
!" Vera Cruz, with troops. - /.
= = Five men were killed by the expI'
~ ~ sion of the floating dock at Havana
4. Gen. Dulce Isl still at the Isle
eE Pirus. s
- arrived from Philadelphia.
,ee The heat was excessive at HavaH
;e The news of the bembardmentts
~ VALPARAISO and the sailing of the tic
TO- to destroy Callao<produced consldt
1st able excitement.
lys New YoRK, May 9s4-The Comm.
'on cial says that the Secretary OF {
Treasury has ordered Gen. Terry
ary regard the Presidents, peace proc
or nation as adoing away with mart
ere law in Virginia. =,
on Judge Barnard granted an sinnlul
ess tion to restrain the Health 30;
ith from removing stands in and arou
of Washington Market. ~
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