The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-01
Personal and Political Items.

| OcCIebdTyt -DeWaru, III Is Sa1U, mas
prepared dispatch, which will soon
be promulgated, demanding restitu7
ton from England for injuries in
ficted by rebel pirates during the
war.
| It is said the ex-King of Naples is
coming to this country. He is trying
70 sell his private property to Louis
Napoleon. -
Il Henry Ward Beecher having been
announced as chaplain of the johnson
Soldiers Convention, the Soldier and
| Sailors League Of this city have re-
quested General Moody to- remain in
thersame capacity at the Union Sol
diersn Convention B 5ael d9iaa 300 e..
The Union men of Pennsylvania are
confident of carrying the State by a
large majority3 Judge Kelley, mem
Der of Congress from Philadelphia,
thinks the Union party will gain three
members of Congress from that State
this Fall, - .aIliVsnBT
David G. Burnett and O. M, Rob,
erts have been elected United States
Senators by the Texas Legislature!
Burnett was, atone time, President Of
the Republic, before annexation, and
Roberts was President of the Seces-
sion Convention of 1861.
1t was recently reportede that JEFF.
Davis would be released on parole,
and such, an impression is gaining
ground rapidly in Fortress Monroe,
lThe pressure brought to bear upon
the President by Charles o. Conor and
Davis's Tfriends,9 has, it is thought.
forced him to yield, and that he, will
shortly grant "a conditional parole
similar to that granted to Clement c.
Clay. Davis physician states now
that the healthgef the priscneris not
so precarious as his friends represent.
The Frankfort Commonwealth has
planted itself on the unconditional
r epUH Rst2 Gs Bread aa 5a B Bss Sa
ty. It's editor attended the loyal Con-
vention held at Lexington, on Satur7
day, to- elect delegates to Philadel-
phia, and gives his unqualified ap-
prOval to its proceedings.
Official information has been re-
ceived from Madrid Of the confirma-
ton of the royal order granting to
Major General William j. A. Smith,
President of the International Ocean
Telegraph Company, the right to es-
tablish lines of submarine telegraph |
between the United States and the |
West India Islands. by way of Cuba.
e Judge Samuel Thacher, ninety years |
old, is the oldest member of the Cum
berland County (Maine) bar, the old
est living graduate of Harvard Col
lege, where he graduated seventy |
three years ago in the class of 1898, |
and the Oldest surviving member of |
Congress, to which he was elected, In |
1902. 80! .d2G.G .........dJoI al WISH Il
1t will be recollected that Gen.
Sheridan's dispatch from New Or
leans to the President was first pub |
lished I'M a3mhtilafed FORM n The
Was ington correspondent. of, that |
paper now says it was transmitted as |
it came from the Presidents. oaogs hand. |
Comments unnecessary. SCI gAAk, 4
The Memphis Bulletin, whose editor
NE NE Jo6nsoh,f ieafns thSt tbe Pre- PFesi.
dent is not very hopeful of entire
success in the, Northern .electionsa33 1t |
adds that he expects 1sssomes linroads /
will be made upon the dominant |
party this Fall, but. it is to future
elections that he looks for complete |
success00 99HBTDsGi 9niTGM BnG
The body of John Brown lies in,
tered beside a granite bowlder near
the dwelling he formerly. oocupiedlinl
North Elba, N. Y, among the Adj !
rondacks. His widow and the suryiv-
ing membersof his family emigrateda6
California two years ago, ndzhis farm
and buildings passed into the hands
OF stranger. The present owner
keeps a register Of the numerous tour
lists who visit the grave. Frequently /
parties gather together there on the /
rock, which j. his ealytembstonesa9dit
unIte IN slnglngngqHD9 99laTHg
Gen. Sickles writes from Charles
ton, 5. c." Even at the risk Of is
olatlonn my impression islthat Presi-l
dent j Johnson. does not so much need /
at the out-posts as "a
General in or near the White House.
The Philadelphia Convention seems
to be as full of peril as of promise to 4
the Administration. 1T NAV and I
probably wla, place the Copperheads
IN position to control the Democrat |
&c party. lfsoSitfollows4Tthe masses
between the reactionary
policy of those who would sacrifice
war Leaders, or take the radicals, who 1
would prolong inconveniently the pro
cess OF reorganization. / fear the 1
most serious check the Presidents
policy will receive is coming from the
South itself. The South makes Rad
icals faster than the President can I
make Conservatives"