The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-22
LATEST NEWS.

Two hundred troops have left st. Thomas
to join the foreign legion in Mexico.
Seventy buildings were burned at the
late fire at Sayaguez, Porto Rico.
A violent hurricane visited Bazarno on
the 9Th.
Twenty-three houses we're burned in
Regla, opposite Havana, on the evening of
the 18th inst.
Gaudaloupe had been fearfully decimat-
ed by cholera.
All the evidence has been taken in the
Fry-Conklin case.
The policy of the new administration in
Cuba, is said to be repressive and restric-
tive, and very obnoxious to the Cubans
Most of the English and American resi-
dents were leaving Hayti on account of
the disorder, produced in Port Au Prince,
by the late fire in that city.
President Baez is said to be about played
ont in st. Domingo. The reyolutionists
are pressing him so closely that it is sup
posed he will flee the country very soon.
The receipts from internal revenue for
The present yearup to the 9th instant are
S2990ll, 4S6. 1t is believed the receipts for
the fiscal year win reach 1905, 600, 900 from
internal revenue alone.
The Iron clause of the Tariff Bill is trou-
bling the Ways and Means Committee.
Interested parties are urging tax of $50
per ton.
Two or three members of the Judiciary
Committee resolved TO remodel the wholes
judiciary of the country and have one less
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
but the balance of the Committee have
since overruled it.
All postmasters in the rebel States who
stand indebted to the United States are
being sued by the Post ONCE Department,
The claim for relief by the contractors of
the iron-clads still sleeps, and is expected
to sleep for some time, in the room of the
Committee on Claims.
The bounty money for the destruction of
the rebel navy, before Memphis, is now
ready for payment to the officers and
crews of the following boats: Benton, Ca
rondelet, Cairo, Louisville, St. Louis,
Monarch, and Queen of the West.
The prize money for those who fought in
Mobile Bay, in 1864, will be ready for pay
ment in about two months, The amount
is 1857 ,098 80.
The Steadman-Fullerton Commission
have gone to Mississippi, and Will conclude
their investigations in Texas.
The Bankrupt bill will soon be reported,
but will probably be postponed until De-
cember.
Judge Thomas, of the Circuit Court of
Virginia, has been indicted by the United
states Grand Jury, in Judge Underwood's
Court, at Richmond, Virginia, for refusing
to take negro testimony in a case where
white men alone were concerned on the
ground that he must be governed by the
statutes of Virginia instead of the laws of
the United States, but no steps have been
taken to arrest him. tfe
1t is limited that there are several screws
loose among Federal ohice-holders I'm New
York, and the Presidents Private Secre-
tary, Colonel Cooper, has gone 70 look
after the matter.
The high protective tariff men, II u
said, are getting alarmed lest the Ways
and Means committee will not care prop
erIy for their interests. The pressure
against such policy is strong.
Gen. Hovey was given grand reception
by the government of Peru, upon present
ing his credentials. The General made q
speech, in which he expressed the strong
sympathy entertained by the Government
Of the United states towards the Repub-
lies of South America, 10 which the Pro-
visional Dictator replied.