The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-27
LATEST NEWS.


Col. G. S. Rose has received his commits
sion as Postmaster of Indianapolis.
Cholera has broken out at Leavenworth,
Kansas.
The Japaneseare sending goods for exhi-
bition at Napoleons big show.
Two deaths from cholera were reported
in Memphis Friday.
The report that counterfeit IS National
Bank notes are in circulation is denied at
Washington.
Receipts from internal revenue Friday
81 ,S44, 79I 6S.
Ten cases Z" supposed to be cholera" were
reported IN Chicago Friday, three of them
fatal.
Charles Monroe, said to have been a
rebel sympathizer during the war, has
been appointed United States District At
torney at st. Louis.
The Presidents friends in New York are
not satisfied Within management of the
new Collector of that port, and demand
his removal 81 s. Ek-&4
Judge Dewey, of the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts,, died on Wednesday at
Northampton, Massachusetts, aged seven
ty-three years. -.t-- ~. --.... .lts..tF
1t is reported that the Governors of Mich
igan, Wisconsin and Indiana, viii attend
the Convention of Southern Loyalists at
FhlladeiphlaoB ao99 XI4 8IaHT "
Havana letters of the 18th state that the
slave trade is on the increase Seven hun
dred Africans had been landed at one.
time, 'lien iff1 tleI cfiw hue ,e~onfs4u stii
The New York Tribune reports that Gen.
Phil. Sheridan has been relieved from his
command, and Gen. ]. B. Steedman APP
pointed to take his place.
A Washington special renews the report
that JEFF. Davis will be released on bail or
parole soon, holding himself amepable to
the process ofthe court which is to dispose
ofhis case in October next. -7-..-t5.
The indianapolis Gazette reports that
Mrs. HI. B, Darlington has been massacred
by Indians on the plains. She. was ON the
way to join her husband, Gen. Darlington,
who is in command of his regiment, the
18th Regulars. in the far West.
1t is reported that the Masons of Illinois
demand that the corner stone of the Doug
las Monument shall be laid by the Grand
Master of the State, instead of by President
Johnson-otherwise they will take no part
in the ceremony. n fr
Treaties of peace between Austria and
Prussia, and between Prussia, Bavaria and
Hesse Darmstadt, are concluded. Bavaria
pays a war indemnity of 30,0OO.OOO forms.
and cedes to Prussia the territory of Upper
Franconia. From Darmstadt Prussia re-
ceives the Longgravate of Hesse and the
Lordship of Meisenhelm. Napoleon is TO
cede Venetia directly to Italy. Victor EN-
manuel has proclaimed an amnesty to all
political exiles and prisoners, including
Mazzini. The Emperor ofAustria is about
10 appoint separate ministry for Hunga-
~, and the Diet is to be convened at Pesth
In September. The Turkish authorities in
Gambia have commenced active hostilities
againstthe insurrectionary Christians of
the Island, of whom $1,000 are reported
in arms. Secretary Fox is still having a
good time in st. Petersburg, Russia.
Our dispatches contain a portion of Gen
Sheridan's reply to President Johnson in
regard to the New Orleans riots. It will
be seen that the General denies that there
was any riot; the whole affair was pre-
concerted massacre, equal in atrocity to
that of Fort Pillow. Mayor Monroe was
responsible for it.