Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-23
News Items.


Gen. w. J. Hardee has be en- elected
President of the Selma Gala. and Meri.
dian Railroad.
Miss Annie Surratt has entered con-
vent. Her brother John is believed to
be secluded in monastery.
The High Court of Errors and kp.
peals of Mississippi have decided that
the stay law is unconstitutional.
A grand mass meeting was to have
been held at Nashville, yesterday, to
endorse President Johnson's administra-
fion. "a
1t is stated that Mr.. Doolittle will in
troduce Freedmen Bureau bill ineor-
porAting the Presidents views.
Col. Roberts has resigned the Presis
dency of the Fenian Senate Organiza-
ton. Gen. Sweeney will, probably, be
his successor.
A rich gold region has been discoy-
cred about eighteen miles from Panama,
and California miners pronounce the
developments exceedingly rich.
II is stated the Senate Committee on
the District of GolumOia, has decided to
report the House Negro Suffrage bill,
and ask its immediate passage by the
Senate, ts e.
f By request of the Emperor Napoleon,
the French Legation will, during the
Lenten season, give four grand recep-
tons. @
The Cincinnati police have in custo-
dg man supposed to be one of the
robbers of the bank of Liberty, Nilsson
ii, of $4,000. 3 s'' "a
Two hundred persons are believed to
have perished from the cold, who were
on their way to Montana, travelling over
3 the Plains. AaA
A resolution indorsing Presiden,
Johnson's veto was unanimously adopt
ed by the New York Board of Alder
men Wednesday.
p. 7. Dawson, an alleged defaultei
from Jacksonville, Illinois, was yester
day arrested on board the Californi,
steamer at New York. He was super
gieor and collector at that place, an'
the amount he is charged with appro
pTisting to his own use is 81 ,0O0 81 QQ(
Of which was found upon his person.
Chill and Uruguay have had di
pIomatic quarrel, and the offended Uru
gusyan Government has revoked tn
exequateur of the Chilian minister, an
issued decree prohibiting the arriva
and sale OF prizes In her ports
The New York Express, of Wednes
day, states that Gen. B. +. Butler ha
paid to the Smith brothers, of New q
leans, the $4,000 in gold, which the
allege he distracted from their vaults
together with interest, all the costs, an
sherifs poundage, making an aggregat
of over sl50,000. ?
The Tennessee Legislature has com
to hitch on the franchise bill--a sui
fcent number CT members persisting
absenting themselves so as to prevent
quorum. 0
Martin Finn, citizen of Cincinnat
who was arrested for voting in the la
election in Covington, has been di
charged by Mayor Preston, there beir
no law in Kentucky to punish non-re
ident for voting.
Il is now definitely ascertsined III
Harlan, Stanton and Speed opposed Il
veto. while Seward, Welles and McCr
Loeb approved it. No designations
Cabinet ministers have as yet been sc
in. nor is il likely there will be an
TrnmbulPs speech on the veto is said
have been one of the ablest efforts
his life, and an enormous number "
be printed for circulation. ltseems th
the vote on the veto is to be consider
q test of the position of the nembe
and for that reason the Republicans Q
crowding the vote, SO that they m
know on whom to depend. Sevel
Senators record ed their votes on b'
sides.