The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-25

| the Iallf BILL, to make official pro-
lection OF their interests. Strange to
say, the facts and figures thus far
furnished have come from the hands
OF q man who is an American, indeed,
but he turns out to be an agent of
birmingham and Sheffield manufac-
turers. Our hardware makers should
hurry up. 5 ah g
The special Treasury agent at Mo-
bile, who was under the sentence of
the military commission and fined
$25O,O00, has been discharged by the
President. M - e
Lit is in contemplation to build a
new and costly Executive mansion on
the high grounds east of the Capitol,
and turn the White House into build
ing for the State Department. Tt was
for this purpose that permission was
asked, day or two ago, to bring In
joint resolution directing the proper
committee to make survey for site.
Specimens of tin ore from Califor-
MIA were exhibited at the General
Land Ohce, recently, of extraordi-
nary richness and purity, This ore is
found about eighty miles south of the
quicksilver mines of California, and
is " per cent. pure metal.
Second Lieutenant Jas. A. Sladen,
18th United States infantry, who has
served for several years on the staff of
Major General Howard, has been as
signed TO duty as Private Secretary of
that General 5i
General Order No. 32 from the
Adjutant Generals Office Of the War
Department, abolishes the military
department of North and South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Alabama. BY order
of the President North and South
Carolina will hereafter constitute a
new district, under Major General
Samuel Sickles, head quarters at COL
umbus, South Carolina. The States of
Georgia and Alabama viii be new
district, under Brevet Major General
G. r. Ward, headquarters Macon,
Georgia sf
The following members of General
Santa Anna S suite arrived in this city
by the late train: a. Baise, Colonel
Maziura, Colonel Vidoly Rio, Gen
eral Suere and TsTaluna.
Dispatches were received at the De-
partment of State, by the last steamer
which arrived at New York, from Eu4
rope, from our Ministers in London
ard Paris, that the indications were
that a general war was inevitable.
English ministers would do all in
their power to avert it, but that
Napoleon was contributing to 1t and
adding fuel to the fame, rendering it
pretty certain that there was no hope
of averting it. 4
Itappears, from last adyices, that
Austria has determined net to send
any more troops at present to Mexico
90 supply the place 3f soldiers who
were to be withdraw The represen
ear
afeneH 60 i osepf
Inc l1anss LoMsaas f1.zsrssfttee
to-day reported the Senate an4s n
ment to the House DILL fer a reform
system of quarantine against cholera.
Letters from boards of health to the
Committee, urge immediate action in
this matter so that necessary measures
can be adopted at once.
The Military Comissioners who
have been engaged for some days
making a preliminary examination
into the conduct of Lieut.. Colonel
Paulding, after a fair and thorough
hearing Of the facts, are of the opinion
that he ought to be tried by military
court for placing the Government
bonds in the Merchants National
Bank, and accordingly have sent their
decision to the Secretary of War, who
will probably convene court at once
for the trial. t5H@e 0
New YoRK, May 24.-Mr. Thomas
w. Birdsall, President of the Securi-
ty Insurance Company, of this city,
committed suicide yesterday after
noon by taking strychnine.
New YORK, May 2f.-A dispatch
from St. Johns, New Brunswick,
says the Fenians are again collecting
at Calais, and are provided with arms.
1t is feared they intend making a dis
turbance. in New Brunswick during
Il The Paris correspondent Of the
| London Times asserts that the dec
larations in the public speech of the
Emperor were not uttered at Auxon,
| but that he subsequently wrote and
had them published in the papers as
his speech, and also had them pla7
carded throughout the large towns
FROM MEMPHIS.
/ MEMPHIS, M~y 24-A card, yester-
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