Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-24
Paragraph Savings and Doings

eighty-six emigrants landed in New
York the first eleven days of January. j
Sixty-three soldiers, confined in the
penitentiary at Columb bus, Ohio, have
been released from prison and mustered
out of the service Of the United States.
The Treasury Department has recent
Iy destroyed by fire $48, 000, 900 worth of
mutilated and cancelled currency. The
Department has recently discovered
new counterfeit treasury note.
The Louisville Journal says the pork
packing season in that vicinity is virtual
ly closed. During the season 1926
have been slaughtered at Louisville, T.
l31 at Jacksonville, and 10000 at New
Albany. rf@Bf@E etaa4 p
The Nashville Christian ADVOCATE
says tho next session of the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, will be held at New Or
leans, commencing on the first Wednes-
day in April next.
The Nepado of Japan has given for
NAL sanction to a ratification of a treaty
for opening the ports Of Assaca and
Rego, and they will be opened on the lst
of January upon the terms of the exist.
ing tariff with other ports.
Hiram Powers, the American sculp-
tor,Eis now engaged, at his famous studio
in Florence, in modelling an ideal bust,
which promises to be one of his most
brilliant efforts. He has selected for his
subject "Clyte," ~ tH+ ssii
Ruins Choate, the only son of the late
distinguished lawyer of that name, died
near Boston, day or two since.A He
had served in the army as q Lieutenant,
but was compelled to resign from broken
health. He was thirty-one years of
age. woe 3 WHEaAW
A London servant girl recently hung
herself. Beside her body, after death,
was found a sensation novel" narrat-
ing murders and suicides. a
1t is considered as nearly certain that
there will be meeting next spring, on
the Queen City Race Course, between
Kentucky, Asteroid and Norfolk-the
three most noted running horses in
America. @@ - = .aadt
There is strike among the employees
of the Michigan Southern railroad, and,
there being apprehensions- of difficulty,
squad of United States troops is to be
dispatched from Detroit to the scene of
disturbance. 4
The Hougbton (Mich. Gazette of the
9th inst /, says thatthe St. Mary's Mineral
Land Company is about to dispose of all
its lands on Lake Superior to company
of French capitalists, who are to pay
therefor 100000 in gold. -
Over $4,000 hogs were received at
Cincinnati last week. The total receipts
for the season were $4,000.
Mr.. John Stuart Mill, M. P, has &C
eepted the Office of Rector of the Uni-
versity of St. Andrews, to which he
was recently elected 1t will be remem-
bered that at the time of the election,
it was said Mr.. Mill would not accept
the honor.
The Hon. B. B. French, Commission
er of Public Buildings, examined the
apartments of the White House, on
Monday, preliminary to purchasing new
carpets, tapestry and furniture, and it
is expected that the Executive Mansion
will be placed in respectable condition
before the end of the m onth. uaE
The arrangements are nearly com.
pleted for Gen. Grants removal from
Georgetown to the residence he recently
purchased in what is known as the
douglas Block, Washington. The
furniture from his Philadelphia mansion
has been transferred to this~o one, and
the General and family expect to be
comfortably settled BY the last of this
week. a st'A-,' 4 -,.e.
A correspondent of the London Tab
let, writing from Rome on the 10Th of
December, says that an Irish priest who
was admitted to an audience of the Pope
few days before, asked whether he was
to condemn the Fenians, of whom his
parish was full "CertainIy," replied
the Pope, condemn them as you must
do all other secret societies, and say l
authorize you to do So" q 81
The Mobile Register has made the re-
markable discovery that the officers of
the rebel army are rightfully called by
tnelr bhtles. IL says the OOnIeOerAcy mas
indeed passed away, but a great Con-
federate army was paroled, the members
OF which are still prisoners of war,
and until exchanged or otherwised dis
posed OF, will remain Generals, Colouels,
&c.
Four boys from Stafford, Conn, got
on a spree in New Haven night or two
ago, and when to ken to the station house,
their pockets contained one painted |
trumpet, four painted toy houses, one
doll, full dress, one dolls bust--China,
three papers ladies' buttons, nine coarse
combs, one old table knife, coarse linen
thread, half pound, three papers of pins,
two toy boo.ks-paper covers: two corni-
copias-little ones, one broken heart
sugar, one old thimble. : ~
The fashionable circles of Washing. |
ington, says the Star, are ;nst now very
much interested and excited over the |
soon.to-take-plaee wedding Of Mrs. |
Stephen A. Douglas to Major Robert |
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