The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-11

Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at
1857.
The Queen of the Sandwich Islands is to
become the guest of the Government.
General Baird has been superseded by
General Stoneman in New Orleans.
The President and Secretary Seward go
TO Chicago to attend the Douglas Monu-
ment ceremonies, by the way of New York.
Our Religious Items, local and selected,
will be found this morning on the sixth
page. &EM
Lieut.. Butts, of the Freedmen's Bureau,
has been murdered in Jackson Parish,
Louisiana, by the Reconstructed.
The steamers Adams and Saratoga were
burned at New Orleans yesterday. Loss
$4,000
Great preparations are being made for
the meeting of the Confederate Convention
at Philadelphia. GesE
News from Mississippi represents a terri
BILE condition of affairs there. Union men
are forced to abandon their plantations
TO save their lives. X
Brevet Major General A. Humphreys
has been appointed to succeed Brigadier
General Delafield as Chief Engineer of the
army.
Dispatches from Europe by the Cable on
Thursday evening, report that the rela-
tions between Austria, and Italy, are as
suming a threatening attitude.
Theship Danube which sailed from Bris-
tol, on the 9th ult., for New York, burned
at sea. Her passengers and crew were
saved by the ship Compear from Mobile.
The cholera is still on the decrease in
New York, but is rapidly increasing in
Cincinnati, no less than forty-nine
cases occurring there on Thursday.
The usual batch of contradictory Next
can news copied from the columns of the
New York Herald, will be found in our
telegraph columns.
An arrival of Fenian officers in New
York, direct from Ireland, is announced
in the dispatches. They report the order
in the Green Isle as in excellent fighting
condition and spirits ~ ~ 50
The Queen of the Sandwich Islands is
being nonized in New York, during the
present week. How the distinguished
Cops of that city can pay such attention to-
lady of color without arousing the in
dignation of their constituents, is a mys-
The New Orleans Zri5use's correspond
emit estimates the number Of rebels killed
and wounded in the recent riot, at five,
and the number of Union men, whites and
blacks, at over four hundred. He also in
sists that General Sheridan's telegram was
perverted for political purposes.
1t seems that radical candidates have
been elected to the Texas Legislature from
Ell Paso contrary to law, through the
influence of the military. 1t is unlawful,
it seems, to elect radicals in Texas. The
military will, no doubt, be promptly sup
pressed.
VIM. P. Brannan, poet and artist of
some celebrity in Cincinnati, died in that
city on Thursday last of Inflammation of
the brain. He was the author of book
entitled "The Vagaries of Vandyke
Brown rew G
Two men broke jail in Princeton on Sat
nrday night last, one named Peter Carwick
and the other Lewis Burlington, both con-
victed of larceny. They succeeded with
aman iron rod in removing a number of
bricks from the wall of the building, MAX
ang hole sufficiently large to permit of
their egress, and then "sloped. Search
was 1mmeQfaLeiy lnSIlbuIeu, Out IRON last
accounts they are still at large.
We give up much of our space this
morning to the statement of Gov. Wells,
of Louisiana, giving the cause and history
OF the recent fiendish murders in New Or
leans. Gov. Wells was for long time
greatly admired by the Copperheads and
President Johnson, who now seem dis
posed to repudiate him.
The New Orleans Thugs express sorrow
that their operations during the riot were
checked by the military, and boast that
they will yet finish their work. Union
men are afraid to be found in the streets
after night, and baFricade their doors to
keep out the police.
The Court Martials instituted in North
carolina, at the instance of the Prosicent's
rowing, smelling Committee, have finished
The trial of army officers. The civilian
agents are next to be arraigned.
Gems, Fullerton and Steadman's report
on their Southern tour is published. 1t is
not very favorable to the Freedmen's Bu-
reau. The President did not intend it
should be, before he sent the Commission
ers. 1t was simply missive to nanufac-
ture public opinion.
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