Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-09


m expressed themselves highly pleased with
the lecture. We regret that other en-.
sgagements prevented our being present
Latest News. .,aas Z.
M Gold closed in New York on Saturday
II etsl 80. @ Is +
IL 10 reported that over eighty gene
raj officers will be mustered out before
the 18th inst. 8
1t is reported that General Webb,
Minister to Brazil, viii soon Vreeeive a
frst-ciass mission. Il
Esa Ex-Governor Allen, of Louisiana,
writes from Mexico that he is anxious
y TO return home. ai 'ils
,1,liasA destructive FIRE has occurred at Ply.
.ssmouth Indiana. The loss is estimated
<. at $1,000 I.,.s..,s ssisi 3
Rev Jeremiah Cummings, D D, an
= eminent Catholic divine, died in New
York, last Thursday. taa
The Pension Bureau at Raleigh, North
Carolina, has been reopened and an
agent appointed. -
1t will require two hundred thousand
dollars to re-esiablish tbe lighthouses
on the Southern coast, destroyed by the
rebels. @
The name of Gen. s c. Baker, the mo-
torious detective, is said to be on the
forthcoming muster.out roll. u
The Governor of Maine estimates the
war expenditures of that State at between
fourteen and fifteen millions. a4 %
Telegraph dispatches from Northern
and Eastern cities represent yesterday
as the coldest day of the season. IS
az The citizens of Rusbville, Illinois,
have subscribed 100000 for the sup.
preston of the liquor traffic in that
=. State.
The quarters of Captain Semmes have
been changed from the Navy Yard to
Marine Barracks, to insure greater
safety. mo
The commanders of thirty vessels de-
atroyed by the Alabama have been sum.
~ moned as witnesses in the Semmes case
Wa The Cherokee delegation, headed by
Chief John Ross, arrived at Washington
on Saturday, for the purpose of srrang-
ing treaties OF all the tribes which
sided with the rebels, the Cherokee is the
only one not reconstructed.
The freedmen in the interior Of Lou
Nisiana positively refuse to make new
contracts to go to work or leave the
plantations They alloge as reason
that they expect q new proclamation,
which viii materially benefit their con-
4liition. EL 8 ~ As1 K-ss@ S
A Sorghum Convention was held at
Warren, Illinois, last Friday. A large
number of delegates were present, six
States being represented. s.
Three hundred Government employees
were discharged at Washington on Sat.
urday. More viii be discharged before
. the month 10 out. "a
The safe Of Adams Express Com-
pany, on the train between New York
and New Haven was opened on Satur-
day nigh: last and robbed of $5O000O,
A large deficiency has been discover
ed in the Auditors Office, at Brooklyn.
The sum is statsd at from Fifty to one
: hundred and fty thousand dollars.
One of the latest rumored Cabinet
g 1chAnges is the retirement of Mr.. Welles
from the Navy Department and the ap-
pointment of Senator Dixon in his
stead. q
@ An immense Meeting was held at
Leavenworth, on Saturday last, ct which
resolutions endorsing President john
sons plan of reconstruction were
adopted.
At adistrict meeting of Fenians held
in Chicago on Friday night, pledge
was, made to furnish two regiments fully
equipped subject to Gen. sweeney's or
ders
s14@Sghe Colorado Legislaturehas deter.
mined to send no man to Cthe Senate
WIN 70 hot III iaNor oA AtteEluB tne pres
ant Pacific railroad routes, so as to
make one Of them pass through Denver
City. .u
General Sweeney has issued card
in which he states that upon visiting, by
invitation, the Fenian Congress, he was
insulted BY some of the members. There
are spirits, in that body, he thinks, who
will do all in their power to prevent the
truth being disseminated, and who will
always be an element Of discord.
,xa Ex-senator A. o. p. Nicholson has
recently made application for compen.
Il. sation as Senator from the time he lef,
the Senate in 1861 up to the time of hi,
=. expulsion. The Secretary Of the Ssnal
refused to comply with the power Of tn
petitioner. sa
A Miss Watt, aged seventy years, wa
murdered in Germantown (6ye mile
from Philadelphia) on Saturday. Thi
is the first murder that ever occurre