The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-19
Personal and Political Items.

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Horace Greedy has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans Of
the Fourth New York District. bpa,a
George S, Hilliard has been APP
pointed United States District At
torney for the District of Massachu-
sets. 74'. aa.t 500 iaf ha
| General Banks has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of
the Sixth Massachusetts, District.
Colyille, one of the bread and but
ter candidates for Congress In Minne-
sofa, was SO deeply affect by the result
of the October elections that he pro-
poses to stump his district in favor of
the Constitutional Amendment. ~
| The official returns from Nebraska
Territory nearly complete show a
Republican majority of about seven
hundred. The Legislature is two
thirds Republican. w5y
Horace Greedy is said to have all
ready made a hundred thousand dol
lars out of his History of the rebel
lion, and will probably make a still
larger fortune ont of il. ada3ai
A New Orleans correspondent Of
the New York Herald says, he is as
sured that there are in that city sew
eral secret societies, including the
knights of the Golden Circle, Knights
of Arabia, &c.
Gen. Logan is sweeping through
the political campaign in Illinois, with
the same tremendous Impulse that of
old made him at home in the front of
the battle. We hear from him in
every direction, speaking to immense
audiences, and everywhere carrying
the Copperhead works by storm, His
herculean labors win result in such
cleaning out of the Democracy of his
State as has never before been wit
messed. .la t0a aam9,H3- a,
Hon. L. Weldon, United States
District Attorney for Southern Hi
'nois, has rendered his resignation,
affording another opportunity fer a
bread and butter starveling. ~
Queen Victoria has conferred the
order of knighthood upon several Of
the gentlemen prominently connected
with the Atlantic telegraph cable.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton an
nounces herself as an independent,
women's rights, free suffrage, and
free trade, candidate in the Eight
District of New York, being that me-
tropolitan District from which Mr..
James Brooks was busted to give
place to Mr.. Dodge.
! Charles S. Spencer has been nomin-
ated for Congress in the Sixth Gray
mond's) District ia New York. MIR.
Spencer is emphatically Radical.
Miss Julia Bryant, a daughter of
William Cullen Bryant, has been
lately travelling in Switzerland with a
party offriends, including Gen Payne,
The French Minister at Washing
ton will give brilliant receptions in
the latteT part of next winter. Mad
anne Montholon will again be assisted,
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in doing the honors of the legation,
by her niece, Miss Chouteau, Of st.
Louis. .As8f W3f
Aaron P. Miller, formerly of the
Scioto Gazette, has purchased an in
terest in the Ohio State Journal, at
Columbus, and it is now published by.
Cowley, Miller & Smith. : o ~ .1t-rat
j. d. B. Debow, of the Repie,o, has
accepted the Presidency of the Great
Central Railroad of Tennessee, char.
tered by recent act Of the Legisla-
ture. 4ft as 48H - .
Miss Anna Dickinson has been en-
gagged to lecture at Lafayette on the
24th and 18th, 1 my
Gen. r. L. Kimberly, for year or
more past associate editor of the
Cleveland Herald, and Mr.. j. Il,
Foote, the book-keeper of that es-
adjustment, have dissolved their
connection Herewith, to assume new
duties in connection with the Saginaw
(Miohigan) Enterprise.
Hon. JEFF. Q. Davis, Commissioner
for the Freedmen's Bureau, for the
State of Kentucky, reports that a
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