The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-28
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Gold closed in New York ON Saturday
at 1873. ,1d90n HEiA "a
The cholera is increasing in Liverpool.
The volunteer troops for Mexico ohave
disbanded.n THp a 81 saH e.
Prussia has declined the last proposition
of Austria. -. .s1-
France, England and Russia, it is said,
are negotiating for conference.
The rinderpest has made its appearance
in Ireland.
Several French papers have received
warning for representing that the Govern
ment was provoking war.
The Bank of England has increased its
rates ofinterest to II per cent. for advances
on Stocks.
All soldiers in the I'd category of 1874
have been ordered to be Immediately in
corporated in the regular army.
Austria is making the most active war
like preparations and Italy is also moving.
Troops are being stationed in Venice and
gunboats are being prepared. Torpedoes
are sunk in the harbor and other prepare
lions made
Contourments have been erected at Lech-
neldt and Nuremburg for the Bavarian
army.
The greater portion of the Austrian
troops destined for Mexico have been en-
rolled in the regular army of the. North"
The panic in London seems to have SUBJ
sided. and no more failures are reported.
Consols were s16@S6s4iy French Rentes,
83f S5c, -.
The question of Congress is again
mooted, and tits said that France will join,
it with perfect disinterestedness, and with.
out raising any complication. n ?"
The army of Darmstadt has been placed
on war footing. Military preparations
continue, and war is considered imminent
The Prussian Ambassador threatened to
leave Immediately in consequence of the
occupation of the Bohemian and Silician
frontiers. 96DTO O GO 6bb& 5100D
Prussia, it is reported, had summoned
Hanover for making war-like preparations,
and announced her intention of occupying
her military roads.
The cotton crop in Texas looks unfavora-
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Calvin Fletcher, of Indianapolis, died ON
Saturday.
A fire in st. Louis on Friday night de-
stroyedproperty to the amount of sl5O,OOO
The contractors propose. to finish forty
five miles of che South Pacific Railroad in
two months.
Private letters from Indiana to persons
in Washington represent Gov. Morton's
health in an unfavorable light.
Some interesting proceedings of the New
School General Assembly will be found
among our dispatches this morning.
Eight or ten buildings, including the
Cosmopolitan Hotel, were burned at ST.
Paul ON Friday. Loss $4,000.
The Tennessee Senate confirmed one of
Governor Brownlow's nomination for
Metropolitan police, and rejected two
The feeling in the Senate is to appoint ma
tive Tennesseans. m
Over a thousand dollars in Fenian bonds
were sold in Nashville on Friday night.
Several Fenians have left that place for
the Northern frontier, in the belief that
further demonstrations viii soon be made.
The saxonias financial news has had a
good effect in financial circles in New
York, and gold has slightly declined and
securities have gone up.
The London cotton market was un-'
changed. Sales, on the 18th, amounted to
le,VO0 bales. There was demand for all
gades The Liverpool cotton market, on
the l4th, was unchanged. Sales, 5000 bales.
u >. Five-Twenty bonds, Csc. Latest adj
vices from Vienna show active prepare
tdons for war goinglon. ayr
The London Times in its Money article
on the 18th, says great anxiety still exists
but NO fresh failures have occurred which
is deemed highly favorable under the. con ;
tinued pressure for money and the biob
rates paid. The Globe reports a decided
improvement in Stock Exchange. and for.
eign Stocks are especially buoyant. Gro
tian troops continue to arrive at Milan
en- route to Venitia.
Austrian troops occupied the Bohemian
and Silfcian frontiers, en- the 18TH. The re-
ply of Prussia-to the Austrian note, on the
question of the Duchies, was presented, on
the llth, in Vienna The Austrian propo-
sition is declined, and Prussia makes no
other proposal, but intimates thatshe may
dose. Some still entertain hopes of peace,
believing that Austria will make conces.