The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-02
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Gold was excited yesterday in New York
and reached l4l. .sfAv~r~rr
Three hundred Fenfans arrived at Saint
Adams yesterday morning.
\, An arrival from Rio Janeiro gives inter-
esting information of our Gulf Squadron.
General G. o. Loomis has been appointed
Assessor of Internal Revenue at Detroit.
Troops have been sent from Boston to
look after the Fenians on the border.
az The river at Cincinnati had risen four
inches up to noon yesterday. -
geo Considerable excitement connected with
the Fenian movement prevailed yesterday
in Syracuse, N. Y.
The President has returned their exequa-
tors to the Consuls of Norway and Sweden
at New York and New Orleans.
The Toronto press are issuing special
every hour, and notes of warlike prepare
tiOns are heard on every hand.
Mrs. JEFF. Davis has returned to Fort Mon
roe, having secured for her husband the
freedom OF the Fortress.
Fitz Hugh Lee, late of the rebel army,
it issaid, Commands the Fenian cavalry in
the present expedition.
Three hundred Fenians arrived at st. AL
bans yesterday, and are quietly scattered
about the town.
Fenian Cavalry Regiment and a Reg
iment of Infantry, 200 strong, left Boston
yesterday for Canada.
The monitor Miantanomah will proceed
to Russia, conveyed by the steamer Au-
gusta.
ON the 18Th of April, 1900 Paraguayans
attacked the Brazilian batteries on an
island opposite Ittapiru, and were repulsed
with fearful slaughter. eHo go g.
The reported capture ofSarnia and Wind
sor is contrdicted. The military authori-
ties at Toronto are on the alert, and troops
are being sent to exposed points.
A committee of the municipal authori-
ties of New York. and the members of the
National Guard, went to West Point yester-
day to attend to the funeral of Lieutenant
Generals Scott 5NAH- 4@Gl
Ten thousand Brazilians carried the
Parana on the 10th, without opposition,
defeated the Paraguayan forces next
morning and occupied the town, capturing
four guns and flag.
The Freedmen's Bureau business has
been placed in the hands of the military
commandants of the various divisions, ex-
cept in Texas and Kansas, at the request of
General Howard.
Brigadier General Dodge, who rendered
himself famous by disembarking and en-
barking the troops at Fort Fisher without
the loss of man or a dollars worth of
property, has been appointed Consul to
Bremen.
Contracts have been concluded by the
Government with the Adams Express for
exclusive transportation of all treasure be-
longing to the United States, ON very. ia
vofable terms. leE s11 Gk flE
Large quantities of arms and ammunition |
have been shipped during the last few |
days from Columbus to Buffalo, Chicago
and other points, supposed to be for Fenian |
use.
Governor Cox of Ohio has issued an or
der mastering out all companies of the |
National Guard that will not reorganize |
under the new militia law.
The heads of departments, it is said, are |
seriously embarrassed by the number of
Union soldiers seeking clerkships that are
now flocking to Washington. All the de-
partments are full, and these men, after
being at the expense of going to Washing
ton, are necessarily disappointed in their
expectations.
President Johnson has been invited to
visit New York city in June, by promi-
nent merchants and business men of that
city. This is said not to be political
movement, and the invitation will prob
ably be accepted.
The largest equestrian portrait in the
world is that of General Scott, painted by
Trari, a native of Switzerland, and now in
the Capitol at Washington. 1t was ordered
by the State of Virginia, but refused by
that State when General Scott refused to
become a traitor in 1861.
The movements of the Fenians is becom-
ing interesting if not serious. Several
regiments crossed over into Canada on
Thursday night, in canal boats, from Buff
faio, drawn by tugs, and when near the
Canadian shore they sent up wild Irish
cheers, and flung the green flag to the
breeze. Col. O'Nen, of Nashville, is in
command.