The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-10
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


The Republican Postmaster at
Mitchell has been removed, and the
Office given to aCopperhead.f -
G The News Albany Ledger says the
Copperhead majority in Martin Coun-
| ty, will not be less than from four to
FIVE hundred We shall see. 5I5
The Frankfort Commonwealth says
Kentucky is agood State for Union
men to emigrate FROM We should
think 40. t129at # ~, y. ~. .,.i
The notorious Son of Liberty. Lave
.Dea7lin, and a fabid Butternut named
Eli Higman, have been selected to
represent therFirst District in the
Philadelphia johnson Convention
James Russell Lowell is said to
have been for some years engaged on
a novel which is to be kind Of Amer
lean Wethetna MeiSter. .raknzIoI "A
Mr.. Froude, Che historian; is named
as Goodwin Smiths suecessor'as Pro-
fessor Of Modern History af EORford,
and Mr. Ruskin for MatthewArnold's
chair of poetry a9 .ls ,2s.a ,a 81 -
q The Boston Transcript says: Har-
ward having shown itself superior to
Vale in SOULS, had now better try to
be superior to it in brains ai .as,K
In London, kid gloves are sold for
thirty.fve to forty cents, good broad
cloth coat for ten or twelve, dollars,
and a fuIIsuit of travelling clothes for
eight dollars.
2 The iron-elad frigate Re d'Italia,
which was sunk by the Austrians, was
one of the first vessels oftthatg class
built in New York. On her trial trip
in December, 1868, she ran on the
Jersey shore, and had to throw over
board her armament. 4 t.a.s,ar
Rear Admiral Charles Stewart, on
Saturday last, completed the 80th year
of his age He was born in Phila-
delphia, July %, ITS. The veteran
sailor and hero is still active and
hearty
The Nashville Press and Tines says
it gives up the advertising of con
demned mules for the Quartermaster's
Department, rather than renounce its
political integrity. carnly, majestic
ally and seriously as a young cherub
plucking flowers in the Garden of
Eden.
The Richmond telegram says that
w. G. Moreauay blowing, frothy dema-
gogue that generally makes an ass of
himself, at every political gathering
of any Importance in the State, has
gone to Washington to take charge of
the Philadelphia Convention. 1t will
be heavy Convention if Moreau
manipulates it.
In a Berlin military hospital they
perform some amputations with cir
cular saws. A fne- toothed saw, run
ming at a high velocity, would sever a
limb instantly, without making rag
ged cut; but we presume the +" flaps =
are made first with the knife, as it
could hardly be done with knife.
Gov. Cox, of Ohio, goes into the
campaign with his whole heart, and
is already posted for large number
of places. His first speech will be
made at the capital, unless some new
arrangement with regard to Cincin-
natl shall become necessary, in order
to supply Senator Sherman's place.
The Mobile Register. says that Mr..
Stewards fling at the South and at
Great Britain, in his dispatch to Mr.,
Field, at the opening of the Atlantic
telegraph, is Enthusiastically
small Poor William! asK
The New York World says that its
reporter has ascertained that in New
York City alone there are $50 whisky
stills keptin constant operation, which
supply, on an average, z 500 barrels
\ daily, and d6ty is not paid on more
than 900 barrels, If upon so much.
! SO the Government is swindled out OF
! $14,0O dailysor nearly $5,0O0,OOO an
i nuallyg slaas etlnilaa baa beos5
lt1tHz 5Ng - g&HttfT Dos EHo5 .Tft9 kHatsa
~ The Paymaster General is not yet
paying bounties under the Act Of Ju-
" p. but is awaiting the action of the
\ board of officers appointed by the
Secretary of War to define the pro
visions Of the act. and draw up regu-
latlons for carrying them into effect
I A special from Washington to the
/ Cincinnati Enquirer says that Gen,
! Sheridan telegraphed from New Or
leans, advising the removal of Mon
roe, the Mayor, whom he styles ''tbo,
bad man. He might, have added
who was pardoned by President
johnson. that he might take the
othee OF Mayor Of New Orleans
% Murder was rampant in Kentucky
ON election day lThrnn Irn;o, noI