The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-09
LATEST NEWS.

Gold closed M New York on Saturday at
1881.
We have q few further details of the
Portland fire among our Geographic news
this morning.
From San Francisco We have q report
that the Republicans had taken the City of
Santiago and were threatening Topic
Senator Morrill, is quite i'll.
The receipts from Internal revenue on
Friday were 81, I3S,0OO.
The thermometer in the office of the AS
ISOLATED Press, in New York, stood at ga in
the shade.
The call for Convention of the Union
men of the South to meet at Washington
City this summer, has been postponed.
Congress will not take any action to pre-
vent the President appointing to offices
during vacation.
There was considerable demand on Sat
urday, in New York, for gold bearing
Government securities Gold is plentier
and easy. The loan market was easy at
5 per cent.
At meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, of New York, on Monday, a COM
mittee of twenty-five were appointed to
collect money for the sufferers by the Port
land fire. Captain Noyes annouced that
5000 had already been collected. and for
warded.
A party engaged in getting up danger
GUS counterfeit plate on the Highland
National Bank of New York, have been
arrested in Baltimore,
A large meeting, to take measures to re-
lieve the Portland sufferers, was held in
Boston, on Saturday, and committee of
eighty prominent citizens appointed to
carry out the purposes of the meeting.
j. Minor Bolts, of Virginia, viii publish
in the Baltimore american, this week, a
refntat1on of the pamphlet published by
]. B. Baldwin of Virginia, relative to his
interview Lincoln
Seven th6usdhS five hundred dollars
were subscribed for the ralief of the Port
land sufferers b the citizens of Bangor,
Me-, on Friday night, and it was voted to
send $4,000 at once. lsfe
A writ of hdbeas corpus having been is
sued at Charleston for the release of the
murderers convicted by court martial,
Gen. Sickles refused to obey the writ and
an attachment has been issued against
him for contempt of court.
Meetings have been held in Buffalo
Providence, Philadelphia and elsewhere
to raise money for the relief of the Port
land sufferers.
A letter from Maximilian's Minister at
Paris, intimates the financial committee
refuses to honor his drafts, and that his
household arrangements are becoming
disordered in consequence. m
1t is reported from Washington that
Paymaster Paulding has been sentenced to
be cashiered, fined 5000 and imprisoned
one year.
The Committee on Agriculture have re-
ceived samples of California cotton grown
from Sea Island seed. The quantity grown
in 1865 was 100000 pounds, in addition to
$4,000 pounds of upland cotton grown in
San Angles County.
A vigorous effort is being made to post
pone the Tariff bill until next December,
but it is not likely to prove successful.
Senator Wilson will soon call up his bill
10 equalize soldiers bounties, but it is not
probable that it will pass the Senate. A
strong effort is being made in it's favor by
claim agents, who, under the bill, would
be likely to get nine-tenths of the money
so appropriated.
The President has signed the hill allow
ing the Kansas branch of the Pacific Rail-
road to run up the Smoky Hfu route to
Denver City, and to allow the California
end TO be built eastward to the same not,,t
A heavy pressure was brought to bear ON
the President to have him veto if. lint
without success.