Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-12
News Items.

AIbill providing for the permanent To-
cation Of the Capitol Of West Virginia
at Rachhannon, passed ths lower branch
of the Legislature Of that State day Be7
fore yesterday. rEiesasH
Lieutenant Gushing, the captor of
the sAlbamarle, while ashore recently
on the Sandwich Islands, fell from q
horse he was riding, and broke his
collar bone. 5ssia = siisiasssfss x .ile -
TIE Cleveland Herald, Of the 9th,
ssys that Frederick Cher, q well known
gardener and market man, living in
Rockpcrt, q village near Cleveland,
murdered his wife on the night Of
the 8tb, splitting open her head with
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A dispatch from New York says g.
report prevails in that city to the effect
that Archy Hughes, the we'll known min
strel, was shot by South American
rebel refugee, in Moutreal, Canada East,
on Wednesday night.laa iiI~
The alliance between Peru and Chill
against Spain, which has been fore
ahadowsd since the change of Govern
menfs In the former country, has been
made by. treaty. and the Peruyian war
vessels have sailed TO join the Chilian
heet. ~ - sgliA .2sSsa aald iipoat3 q ssss &
atEI Its..f.a HaI1 7tF
correspondent at Austin, Texas,
telegraphs that Major Throckmortou has
been elected permanent President of the
State Convention in session there, and
that seventy members are in attendance.
Throckmorton was member Of the
secession convention in 1861, bat OPP
posed separation. During the war he
was Major of Texas regiment. A.
The Madrid Epoca, Of Jan. 20, says
of the Chilian war: "The whole coun.
try viii side with the Government, urg.
ing il te spare no sacrifice by which it
may give 70 understand to that weak, NO
less than proud, Republic by which wa
ara ;nsultsd, that the days of Acauya-
cho ate past, and we have means, viii
snd energy more than sufficient 10 force
her 10 give us the fuIlest satisfaction, af-
ter having wreaked upon her the mos,
terrible vengeance. as s5a4a' b sasz zis isi
The Dayton Journal of the 9th says:
"The engineer on the Dayton 4 Micbi
gan Railroad, yesterday, learned, al
Wapakonets, that twenty-seven children
were drowned in the reservoir, at Cell
na, on Wednesday. They were attend
ing school In the vicinity of the reser,
voir, and at noon all the scholars but
two--tVensy-ssven in number--went on
the ice to slide, when it broke with
them, the whole party drowning before
help could reach them. Our informant
says his information is reliable, and
there ID little doubt that this terrible ca
lamisy occurred" ff
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Herald says Of the opening of the
French Legislature The ceremony
was remarkabis from the fact that for
ths first time the Prince Imperial, in-
stead of coming in with the Empress as
3 child, and remaining with her in the
Tribune, occupied . place Atthe right OF
the Emperor, as heir TO the throne Of
France. ahsHFrince Napolson Occupying
che seat on his left. The Emperor wAs
evidently very anxious 70, know the i'm,
preston his speech created among the
American community in Paris. This
morning, in conversation with an Amer
ican professional gentleman who ],
greatly in his confidence, he asked him
what was the feeling among the Amer
cans relative. to that portion of hi
speech relating to the United States and
Msxico.o Upon being informed il wa
highly. favorable bis. Majesty replied b,
was very glad Of il, as it was his inten,
ton and desire, in the preparation o
his discourse, to assure the Unite,
States Government that his feelings to
ward it were Of the most amicable ns
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