The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-26


Brennan ~ Advance In Mining
Stocks-MlIItary Parade Man
shOt-The Ship Mercury and the
ChOIera--Sentence or Eugene Fer
gus.
New YoRK, Nov. 24.-She effect of
the late hurricane in the. Bahama Is
landa. arc set forth bY Che Governor
WI AH NIlNNh WY l'iie lAAel@la1Nna l0
shys have lost ID time Ii collect
ing and making public, correct infor-
nation as TO the ravages Of the late
storm ON this island Suffice ii here
10 say, that upwards of six hundred
dwellings have been destroyed, and
there are an equal number injured
that scarcely public building has es-
capped injury; that many places Of
worship and school houses have been
blown down, and have all been dam
aged; that majority Of the principal
warehouses and stores in this city
have been thrown down or severely
injured; that of the 2i2 vessels and
boats which hoated in the harbor on
the morning Of the first Of October, all
but one had been sunk or driven
ashore before the next day had dawn
ed, and that lS9 of them have been
broken up or were injured; that the
standing crops ofprovisions and fruit
have been destroyed, the orchards
partially uprooted, and the fields and
gardens to n great extent laid bare,
and the out islands generally exhibit
similar spectacle. "
The sum of seyenty-fve thousand
dollars was voted by the Legislature
TO repair the damages. The work of
4 restoration is progressing rapidly.
New York, Nov N--Eugene
Fergus, who was tried in the Kings
4 County Court Of Oyer and Terminer
during the latter portion Of the week
for killing Patrick McGuann. by
shooting, which occurred in an affray
on the evening of the 9th Of August
last, was this morning sentenced to
State prison for term Of three years.
The police Of this city made total
of 41S arrests during the past week.
Mayor Hoffman sent 10. the Beard
Of Aldermen, this'P. M, the name of
Fl John f. Aenew AZ his second nomi-
""tff6g "tff6gg feo5 e,SIsest HsEses &c. commissioner
respondent says General Meigs has on
baud TO the credit Of the Quarter
masters Department, funds enough
with what will be derived from sales
Of property to pay his bills during tht
: coming fiscal year, and has not made
any estimate of appropriations de
sired. Two years past this depart
ment has cost hundreds OF millions 0
!. The nth of 100000 by Mr. Lorenl
Andrews to the University of the Cit,
of New York, which was announce,
recently, was made, itwas understood
with the following purposes; For
s professorship of logic and intellectual
! and moral sciences, $25, 900; for pro
Q fessorship of the evidences of re
S yealed religion and evangelical theol
: ogy, $25 ,OO0i to complete a aGreek pro
o fessorship, $4,000; for a professor
n ship of political science, embodyln
10 political economy, municipal, constl
: tutional and international law, SO
J. 900; for medals and premiums to b
awarded for proficiency in the variou
10 branches. the income Of $4,000; to
le apparatus to be equally divided b'
p tween the chemical and philosophlci
p departments, the income of $1,000
4 NEW YoRK, Nov. N.-The Atlant
h Mail Steamship Company Directo
re held a meeting yesterday, at whiC
Il the following officers were unanimou
to " elected Allen McLane, Preslden
Francis w. G. Bellows, Vice Pres
Is dent; Thco, II. johnson, Secretar
Chas. S. Abercrombie, Treasurer.
IN The steamer to-day took out S69,
n 652 in specie.
~ New York, Nov. 24.-The Cha
Ia ber. of Insurance yesterday resolv
~ = that the people ought TO be protect
c;s - as .effeetually as possible from all I
=. safe and fraudulent schemes of insl
'"' ance, and to this end should seek
80. enactment Of Congress applying
oc proper test annually of the sufhcieI
"a Of the assets Of the Company.
len New YoRK, Nov. 24.-The Cent
the Pacific Railroad excursionists arri'
here this morning, and will leave
avs the East on Monday. The Cham
ion of Commerce yesterday appointed
aIa- committee to receive the excursl
of lists and show to them the vari
een points Of interest in the city.
New YoRK, Nov. N-The W
lent closes up quietly, with but little n
.nc- out of the usual course from
~ quarter. The feverish excitemen
j. ttT n e, - a.