The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-26
LATEST NEWS.


Presidents late nominations. 3EE Il
1t is said Governor Curtin has been ten
dered the mission to Italy.
Senator Wright is reported as much
better. @f
A fire occurred on Broadway, N. Y, ON
Thursday night.
The bids for plates and engravings for
the Patent Office reports were openedyes
terday, but no awards were made.
Yucatan Indians have made raid on
the logwood cutters of Honduras, on the
Rio Priaro, and plundered all they found.
Mrs. JEFF. Davis is in Washington to ask
that her husband may be removed to some
Northern fort or prison.
General Blair, Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Southwestern La,
reports that he is furnishing the inhabi-
tants of the overlooked districts with food.
The freight department of the Hudson
River r. r., at New York was destroyed by
fire yesterday morning Loss, $4,000 to
$4,000
The discovery that a clerk in the Irving
Bank, N. Y, had committed an embezzle-
ment to the amount of S45, 900, created some
excitement ON Wall Street, New York, on
Thursday. The culprit was arrested, and
confesses his guilt.
The Senate has not reconsidered the
vote rejecting Frank p. Blair. No such re-
consideration is allowable under the rules,
unless the motion is made within two
Executive sessions after the vote is taken.
The Commission in the case of Colonel
Paulding found him guilty of a technical
violation of the Paymaster Generals Cir
cular, but acquit him of any corrupt mo-
tive 1t is said he desires court-martial,
which will probably be granted.
The Judiciary Committee are still enga-
ged in taking testimony relative to the
completely Of JEFF. Davis and G. G. Clay in
the conspiracy to assassinate President
Lincoln, and many of the members enter
tain no doubt of their guilt. Z sJ0
The contract for carrying the mail from
Portland, Oregon, to the Falls, has been
awarded to the Oregon Transportation
Company, at $4,000 per annum. Service,
six times per week. o. G Y sN&M GDQQ3 q
A portion of Santa Annals suite had a
long interview, on Thursday, with Senior
Romero, the Mexican Minister, the nature
oS which has not transpired. They will
call on the President when Mr.. Seward re-
turns to formally present them. cA4c ALL
The New York Herald says The Davis
trial will be postponed until August, in
consequence of the strong feeling on the
subject prevailing in Richmond There is
much luminosity manifested towards the
jury that indicted him. The counsel for
the Government will be Attorney General
Speed, j. H. Clifford, w. II. Evarts, and
Major General Rousseau, the latter repre-
senting the army.
A case involving the constitutionality of
the Civil Rights Bill has just been decided
adversely by Judge Thomas, in the Circuit
Court at Alexandria, Va, the Judge de-
Gliding that negro testimony, in a case be-
tween two white men, was not admissible,
as the laws of Virginia forbid it, and that
no Congressional legislation could impair
her right to declare what class of persons
were competent to testify in her Courts.
A Venice letter says Austria has been
making very extensive preparations for
war, both with Italy and Prussia, since the
inception of the German difficulty, and is
now well prepared for a bloody defence OF
her positions on the frontier. The writer
saws the venitianiI Italians are not particu-
larly excited, Dut look Ior a sharp ana de-
cisiye struggle, and expect a speedy settle
ment OF the Austria-Italian trouble as the
RESULT bseEl egia $500 aAa s'
Mr.. Gilbreth, who was sent by General
Howard to investigate the Memphis riots
has made a. partial report. He says the
civil authorities have not taken the slight
est notice of those terrible riots, and seem
IN regard 1t as simply a skirmisE
between the police and the negroes
His testimony shows that no resistance
was made by the negroes after the frs
night, and the people of Memphis neg
lected or refused to hold meeting an'
denounce the mob, though advised-to q
so. He blames the Memphis people as oe
ing the root of the whole trouble, by writ
ing incenciary and infiamatory article
against the negroes E,E1IF aisAF&
NNrr Ed;for IF tho GoIr,r M hua IlhIO