The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-25
LATEST NEWS -.

Eighteen deaths from cholera were re-
ported in Cincinnati on Thursday.
An extensive fire occurred in Richmond,
Virginia, on Thursday night. Loss $4,000
Judge Dewey of the Massachusetts SUI
preme Court, died on Wednesday morning
We have news from Europe of the 3d.
Particulars found in the dispatches. . 81, 81,
Reports of the cotton crop about Mem
phis are said to bevery unfavorable. .
General Dix has not yet signifed his ac-
ceptance of the mission to the Hague -
A grand soldiers encampment is to be
held on Rock Island, Illinois, ON the 18th
and 9th inst. I'fEfa I.L
A Washington special states that Gen.
Grant will not ACCOMPANY the President
in his electioneering tour to Chicago.
Hon. A. NJ. Clapp, Union postmaster at
Buffalo, has been superseded by Joseph
Camden, supporter of "my policy"
The Union men OF Louisiana have petit
toned Congress to afford them protection.
setting forth at length their grievances.
1t is rumored in Washington that Gen.
Phil. Sheridan has been superseded in
New Orleans by Gen. ]. B. Steadman.
A great fire is raging in the forests of the
Dismal Swamp, destroying much valuable
timber.
A California dispatch furnishes us with
some grain items, and the latest news
from Japan. 2 LE0FT9F
A large fire occurred in st. Louis on
Thursday night, destroying property val
ued at fifty thousand dollars.
Samuel Covert, the murderer of the
Rosa family, was hung at Lebanon, Ohio,
on Thursday, protesting his innocence.
A vessel recently arrived at New Orleans
from Boston, and reports twenty-three
cholera deaths on board.
Boston Corbett has received one thous-
and six hundred dollars as his share in the
capture of Booth.
Thirteen cemeteries in st. Louis report
one hundred and thirty-one burials of
cholera cases on "Wednesday Six cemete-
ries reported Thursday, giving fffty-two
deaths. Fifteen cemeteries failed to re-
port. -
James NJ. Scoyile, the New Jersey men,
Der of the Legislature that occasioned so
much trouble lastawinter, has repented his
foolIshness, and now proposes to put the
Constitutional Amendment through at an
extra session of the Legislature.
The report comes unofficially that U. S.
District Attorney Hanna has been remov-
ed, and that Alfred Kilgore. of Delaware
County, has been appointed to fill the
position made vacant by his removal. s..
Gen. Howard has received Presidential
notice that his resignation of the Freed
mems Bureau will be acceptable. The
General proposes to make the President
remove him, by refusing to resign.
An order has been issued stopping the
issue of rations to refugees and freed men.
except such as are sick in regular hospitals
and TO the Orphan Asylums.
The National Union Convention in West
Virginia, Thursday, nominated one of the
Smith family for Governor. One hundred
and sixty delegates were present The
Philadelphia Convention was Endorsed by
the resolutions.
A terrible ARRAY took place in Edgefield
Tenn, Monday evening, in which a Mr.
Kelly, interfering between a Mr.. mccarthy
and his wife, had his shoulder and left
arm hewed into with an axe, previous to
which he had stabbed McCarty severely
with knife. Kelly will die. McCarty
was arrested.
We learn from New York that Messrs.
Seward, Raymond, and Weed are very
anxious that Mr.. Stanton should remain
in the Cabinet. These gentlemen seem to
be apprehensive that the President is go
ing too far in his work of decapitation.
Perhaps they realize that as it was in the
days of the French Revolution, those in
Office to-day may lose their heads to-nor-.
row, if a stop is not put to the Presidential
fury. edI d aa 1Gltt saige.