The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-22
LATEST NEWS.

Beverly Tucker while en- route TO the City
of Mexico was plundered by guerrillas.
The Emperor will send commissioners to
the greatFair at Paris. 80 ~
The Arizona from Aspinwall, with San
Francisco dates to the 18th inst, arrived at
New York yesterday.
There is said to be unusual mortality in
the City of Mexico on account of the de-
fective sewerage sos xaAga
Hon. Lewis d. Campbell, Minister to
Mexico, is in Washington City to secure his
final instructions.
The report of the Reconstruction Conn.,
mittee was to be taken up yesterday in the
Senate. Il was exciting but little interest,
TheUnitsd states Flag ship Vanderbilt
and the monitor Monadnock arrived at
Panama on the 18th, having sailed from
Callao on the Sd. .. $780, -.
An American engineer has contracted to
drain the Valley of Mexico. Another in
nundation is feared, thewaters of the Tex
uaco being within few inches ofthe Cap
ital.
The Emperor had ordered important re-
ductions In his family expenses, and had
his own allowance reduced to 5000 per
year.
A rumor is current in Washington City
that Gen. Howard is considering the pro-
priety of resigning his position as head of
the Freedmen's Bureau. ~
The proposed appropriation of sl1,OOO,OOO
or S12, 000, 900 for the Freedmen's Bureau, is
exciting some stir amongC opperhead econ
omists
President Johnson, it is said, is preparing
a proclamation explanatory of his Peace
Proclamation, which, he decides, does alb
rogate martial law throughout the South.
The recent discharges of clerks in the
Treasury Department takes effect on the
30th of June. The number 10 go out is very
large. 1atfee9 1lt
A number of ex-Confederates had an in
terview with Macmillan, and were
warmly walaansad -hsr4 him, but were adj
vised not to NEEDLE with the politics of the
country.
An effort to have the coffin of the late
Ex-Governor Allen, of Louisiana, borne to
the grave covered with the Confederate
flag, was overruled by the firfnness of the
American Consul.
The remains of Coll Quaclzenbush, of the
5th Michigan, have been identified and
sent to his friends in Michigan. He fell in
the seven days. fight before Richmond.
Over 1900 have been disinterred and placed
in the National Cemetery at Seven Pines,
over 1000 of whom are unknown.
Gen. Grant has ordered the muster out Of
six more negro regiments, while 1900 viii
be retained in the service, a number of
whom viii be sent to the far West,
All the papers and testimony relative te
the MERCHANTS National Bank, of Wash
ington, have been turned over to the House
Committee. The Committee will soon
make an expose of the whole affair, which
Will develope some startling frauds.
The Spanish fleet had bonrbarded Callao,
but did not find 1t SO g soft snap = as was
Valparaiso, and were finally forced to re-
tire, their vessels being badly crippled, and
Admiral Mendez; reported badly wounded
But little damage was done to Callao. The
Peruvian Secretary of War, Senior Gulvez,
is reported killed. Ten Peruyians We're
killed and twenty wounded exclusive of
casualties at the batteries. The Spanish
loss was not ascertained. It is not known
whether or not the Spaniards will renew
the attack, but it is thought they will not.
The news of the Spanish defeat was reeeiv-
ed with greatenthusiasm by the people of
Panama The blockade of Valparaiso has
been raised.
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