The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-08
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The Liverpool cotton market was dull,
with s. slight decline.
y tits said that Austria has determiHesi on
energetic military measures IL yeaitia.
The Reform bill passed the House of
Commons by q majority. of 5 votes.
A bad break has occurred in the Erie
Canal, thirteen miles west OF Rochester.
4. The steamer China, from Liverpool on
the 18th, has arrived at Halifax with two
days later news.
The Propontes arrived at Liverpool ON
the 9th, with the passengers of the city OF
Washington. The latter had damaged her
pachinery, and would proceed under sail.
There is much uneasiness in regard to
the purposes of Austria and Italy, but Italy
denies having any hostile intentions.
The President has ordered ex-senator
Gwin, confined in one of the forts below
New Orleans, to be released on parole.
Cholera is reported to prevail on the
Rhine and in some portions of Spain.
MajorG General Sickles arrived i'll Wash
ington from Charleston with portion of
his staff on Sunday having been summoned
TO confer about his appointment TO the
Hague.
AS there has not been single ease of
cholera in England, the American Consul
concludes that the cases on the steamer
England were not the result OF contagion.
The actual receipts OF the Treasury for
the current year 10 the lst of April. were
sslO.o4l ,2a2, and at the same rate, for the
next three months win amount for the
year to SAC, 0O0O00
The Tribune thinks the President will
sign the Colorado bill. Another CORE
spOndent, however, believes he will veto
non the ground Of inadequate population.
The United States District Court conven-
ed at Norfolk yesterday, Judge Underwood
presiding, Chief Justice Chase declining to
preside until he is assured that martial
law is abrogated in Virginia.
2 1t is not yet fully understood how the
President interprets his Proclamation, al
though a wise correspondent processes to
know all about it. 1t is said the President
win soon issue declaratory proclamation
pm the subject.
The Ways and Means Committee, it is
said, have lately done an immense amount
of work, and the new tax bill was to be re-
ported yesterday. Very many material
changes have been made.
In a great cotton case in New Orleans.
wherein there was conflict of authority
between the civil and military, the Presi--
dent has directed that Gen. Canby's oder be
rescinded and the case turned over to the
civil authorities.
The fruits of the Memphis outbreak are
beginning to be seen in other parts of the
South. On Saturday night the Freedmen's
Bureau buildings at Meridian. Miss, were
set on fire and burned
The National Cemetery at Cold Harbor,
Virginia, was completed on the LIST of May.
and dedicated by a formal raising of the
Stars and Stripes on the staff in the center
of the ground, and the singing of the Star
Spangled Banner by those present.
O'Mahony attributes the failure of the
Fenians at Campo Bello Island to the too
great publicity given to the movements of
the expedition, and to the delay in the
launching of an iron-clad, until it was too
late for the valiant Brotherhood to use it,
For the comfort of young men who are
seeking appointments in the navy, it is
vice as to get in, and the Secretary of War
has recently declined the resignation of a
.k Young man, aying the Government does
not wish. to educate young men at her ex-
penSe, and let them quit the service with
out rendering any adequate return for the
benefit conferred.