The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-16
PersOnaI and PoIItIeaI Items.

Tho Grand Army OF the Republic,
which has reached "a membership 10
the West Of upwards Of FIVE hundred
thousand mcmbers, Ia being rapidly
,propagated in the East. 9a.
The news Of the success Of the Re
publican party at the election last
Tuesday oecasioned great rejoicing in
San Francisco Two hundred guns
were fred there night before last over
the victory. NJ 4
II is believed in Washington that.
one Of the officers Of the Post Office
Department is responsible for the
hoax telegrapbed tothe Philadelphia
Ledger, concerning the President
Governor Brpwplow and staff ar
rived Ia Nashville Friday on their re-
turn from the North. The Governors
health is improved, hoas 80
james w, Eldridge has been ap.
pointed, by the President, Assessor of
the Ninth Collection District Of In
diana. 9itiefH"st a'f3 it'i'
!. Ex-Governor Seymour, Of New
York, is reported TO have renopnced
his party association and announced
himself in favor Of the Constitutional
Amendment. He Is furthermore re-
ported to have said that were he liy-
ing IN the South he would favor negro
suffrage
1t is said that James Gordon Ben
nett, jr,, is to marry the daughter Of
Gen, John a. Dix sometime this
Ball, II - regarded ~ q big thing
all round. naafa.
A correspondent Of the Brooklyn
Union announces that Heary Ward
Beecher will speak in Brooklyn this
week, making an argument and APP
peal from his own gronndslin favor of
the Republican party In the pending
election. sa.a.i3s.s nasa 81.
Is Win I. Sullivan, son of Rev John
.'Wi Sullivan, died Of cholera at
Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th ult.
The deceased was, during the war,
the army correspondent Of the Cha
cinnati Commercial and the Madison
Ionrter,d a. 9nO gsigan) seiHi1 ~
Z Hon. John II Hoffman, the Cop
perhead candidate for Governor of
New York lies seriously i'll at the
Clarendon Hotel, in New York His
nervous system ii reported TO be very
much Frustrated. h3islfHoo fi
The Nashville (Tenn.) Dispatch
says that John Napier, Esq, bro
Their Of Sir Charles Napier, has ar
rived at that city, aud is preparing to
settle permently in Tennessee. He
proposes purchasing considerable
tract of land, and will devote his
time and attention to the work of
sheep-raising on very extensive
hchle. s. tffA#H ittN tfff
Ohio may we'll feel proud Of her
Union Representatives in Congress
Egglestdn, Hayes Schenck, Law
renee. Clarke, Shellabarger, Hamil-
ton, Buckland, Ashley, Wilson, We'll
ker, Plants, Bingham, Ecdley, Spal-
ding, and Garfield. - t'iH'''4
On the 22d inst, Col. J. r Herrick,
late of the 18th Ohio Cavalry, and
now of Cleveland was married at
Whitehall, near Richmond, Madison
County, Kentucky, to Miss Mary Clay,
daughter OF Hon. Cassius NJ, Clay, our
Minister t" Russia. The happy
pail" have reached their home in
CJayaIand dl "" t34# it
N '~'''e - taf.8naa sai 1au aepaI
The English papers announce that
agift of one hundred thousand dol.
lars has been promised by a lady to
Mr. SpuFgeon, to found an orphanage
in connection with his Tabernacle
and rumor adds that the lady is the
Duchess of .Sutherlandaom p iaah
Vermont, the first State admitted
into the Union under the Constitu-
ton, and always noted for its public
men, has had but one member of
Cabinet, and he held the office for
only short time. 'a.
The Constitutional Amendment has
SO far been ratified by the States of
Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New Jersey, and Tennessee. Oregon
ratified the amendment and then re-
considered, and gave it the go-by. in