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


Commissioners are preparing report on
the causes of the late rebellion in Jamaica.
Its publication is anxiously awaited.
One hundred thousand letters are de-
livered by the postoffie at Washington
monthly.
A private residence was burned at Cliff
ton, near Cincinnati, yesterday morning.
Loss $4,000. Supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary.
We publish this morning letter from
Commodore Rodgers to the Secretary of
War, giving further details of the bonn
bardment of Valparaiso. 1t is highly in
teresting Fx 80 ms
The riot in Memphis was renewed on
Wednesday, and the negroes were general
iy driven from the city. The widest and
most & improbable rumors n prevailed
throughout the city. s 5eRa eds -a&s
A fatal case of cholera occurred in the
city of New York, on Tuesday. The vic
tim was an Irish woman, who Inhabited a
filthy howell.
Gen. Meade, with all his TROOPS has left
EastpOrt, for Boston. We may therefore
conjecture that the Fenian war is over,
anu AAO-fNAASA AOSSeCA 1AOAAi oAAbASAA y.
Statistics published yesterday show that
the cost of living in San Francisco has di-
unfinished one-half within the last year
We wish We could say so Of Evansville.
: A portion of Col. Buckley's expedition
has sailed for the Russian coast of North
America,
A dispatch from Cincinnati says nine
persons were killed by the explosion of the
Nick Hughes, among whom were Captain
Van Dorm, Head Engineer and his wife.
The receipts OF internal revenue for the
first three days of May were 81, s73, 1888,
which shows good beginning. The ma
tional>debt was reduced during the last
-aaanta over SIS. 600 000.
+. Mr.. Shermans thirty-year five per cent.
loan is being freely discussed in all quar-
tiers, and is rapidly growing in favor. 1t is
highly probable the bill will pass
Judge Underwood, of Virginia, now in
Washington, says the grand jury, which
meets in Norfolk next Monday, will bring
a true bill of Indictment against JEFF Davis
for treason.
Petroleum, of not less than 1852 Fahren-
heit, is not Included in the prohibition as
to transportation set forth in the order of
April It'll. Crude petroleum can be carried
on barges towed by passenger boats with
out the license required by the circular
above named.
Gen. Hancock's committee on breeeh-
loading rifles are about drawing their
labors to a close. Thus far, nearly fifty
different patents have been examined, and
the best of these are now being tested. No
more samples will be received after the 2lst
inst. The report of the committee is ex
pected by the LIST of June.
The reports of the Intelligence Office for
Freedmen, in Alexandria, show that dur
ing April, 2n applications were made for
servants, 146 freed persons have applied for
employment, and l64 were furnished with
employment. The fees for making con-
tracts we're s aS III ehsE aflH1 ling
Four commissioners appointed by the
late State Convention in Texas have ar
rived in Washington, to lay before the
President the result of the deliberations of
the Convention. They have laid before
the President official copies of the ordi-
nances adopted by the Convention.
AS we expected, the fury of the Fenians
in New York is turned upon the leaders.
O'Mahoney has been arrested, tried, made
to -disgorge, and has been deposed, and it
is intended to arrest and try Stephens,
upon his arrival in New York, which is
expected to be on the 9Th. He is accused
of completely in the acts for which O'Ma-
honey was tried. N4 ts--~
An injunction has been granted an ap-
plication of several Stockholders of the Pa
cific Mail Steam Ship Company, restrain
ing the Directors from disposing of certain
vessels of the Company, on the ground of
fraud in the sale ofone of them. The trial
was set for yesterday.
The President, in response to a resolu-
ton of the House of Representatives, is
preparing statement of the number and
names of all persons to whom he has
granted amnesty and pardon, and a par
ticular statement of all the confiscated
property that has been restored to the ORR
ginal owners. The value of the property is
not stated, but the number pardoned ex-
oeeds seven thousand. ls % aaaiss
The Convention called for organizing a
separate government for East Tennessee,
met in Knoxville, on Thursday, and organ
lied by electing Judge Samuel Rodgers
President. who, on taking his seat, made
short speech, setting forth the objects of
the Convention. n An address was read by
the Chairman of the Committee on Reso-
buttons, setting forth the causes that infiu-
enced this movement. A resolution to
postpone the subject until Congress decides
Tennessee a State, was almost unanimously
voted down. A committee was appointed
TO bring the subject before the Legislature,
and TO prepare an address to the people.