The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-27
LATEST NEWS.


1875 .AA
Horace Greeley lectured in st. Louis last
night. r- atEZJI
Gen. sedgwick has been ordered under
arrest, and Col Brown placed in command.
A case has been made up in Maryland to
test the constitutionality of the Civil
Rights Bill. 4-t&
The Central House, at San Francisco
was burned on the oath. Four men per-
ished in the flames. 9.slaA.12 hat
Col. r. A. Wainwright, of the United
States Ordinance Corps, committed sui
eide at the Benecia barracks, California,
last Sunday. a.ebt 4pf
Late news from Matamoras confirms the
reported hanging of Escobedo by Canales.
1t is believed that ortega instigated the
murder.
Particulars of an infamous attempt to
swindle a life insurance company will be
found in our telegraphic columns uuder
the head of Lebanon, Ohio.
The steamer Allemania, from Southamp-
ton, has arrived at New York. Her news
has been anticipated by Cable dispatches.
"A lease of the New Orleans and BaIize
OcIcSIdpn llnC AOI ID VI OStIo has OOcA
executed to the United States and Euro
pean Telegraphic News Association, and
the line will pass into the hands of the les
sees on the first of January.
Jesse Murphy, proprietor of the Jackson
Park, Richmond, Virginia, was killed at
the Chesterfield races on the 18th inst. by
Joseph Kelly. The parties are well known
in sporting circles.
WalIace's kerosene works, in Brooklyn,
N. Y, were burned on the 18th, including
$500 barrels of oil, three frame buildings,
machinery, &c. 1t is stated that the loss
Is about 500, OOo.Ah 1,Ihl5E43 4A-1 4
Secretary Seward received dispatch on
the 5th of December from Napoleon, as
surfing the United States Of the good faith
of France, stating the time when the
French troops will leave Mexico, express
sing satisfaction at the Campbell-Sherman
mission, and proposing the cooperation of
France and the United States in re-estab-
fishing a republican government in Mex
leo. .FA-lAJhAA 1i---te5ibA
On the Goth, near Fort Phil. Kearney,
Brevet Colonel Fetterman, Capt. Brown,
and Lieut. Grammond, of the 18th, In-
fantry, with ninety enlisted men of the I'd
Cavalry and 18th Infantry, were surround
ed by Indians, and every officer and man
killed. ~, -rt ..,er 4v.v,eter.
President Johnson, in a recent interview
with the Editor of the s. c. Statesman, gave
it as his deliberate opinion that the
Southern States should reject the Constitu-
tional Amendment, but in such terms as
not to give offence to those who are urging
it upon The South.
Immense quantities of rain have fallen
in California within the last two months,
raising the rivers to an unprecedented
height, and doing great damage to roads,
bridges. fences and fields. as Ioi E-...li~
The nett profits of the Empire Mills
Mining Company, of Nevada, during the
fiscal year ending December LIST, was SlO1,-
600. The Ophir Company, i'm the same
period, disbursed $4,000 for extracting,
and $4,000 for reducing ore 2 d .Is.
The trestle work over Elk Creek, near
Middleton, ON the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railroad, broke down, on the
18th, carrying with it the engine of the
passenger train going south. Three men
were injured, two seriously.
The City Council of Washington are
nearly unanimously in favor of the revo-
cation OF the city charter and the substitu-
ton of government by a Board of Com
missioners to be appointed by Congress-
Our lines being down on the night of the
24th, we failed to obtain q dispatch from
Vicksburg, giving an account of terrible
confiagration in that city. 1t broke out on
the corner ofClay and Front-Levee streets,
at p. M, and destroyed the entire block of
thirty houses; thence to the block bounded
blythe dray 1evee and Clay, Mulberry and
Crawford streets, containing about thirty
three houses; thence out of Mulberry be-
tween Crawford and Clay, to Washington,
thirteen houses; thence to the corner of
Washington and Crawford, four three
story brick stores. 1t then spread to the
corner of Mulberry and Crawford, destroy
ing ten houses, besides shanties, &c. in all
about one hundred buildings, thirty EIGHT
of which were large brick stores. Two
white children and four negroes persisted
in the flames. Six negroes were killed by
accident. One hundred families are hone-
less. The origin of the fire was the result
OF carelessness.e Great credit is due Gems.
Wood, Dudley and their men for their
superhuman effort to subdue the flames
and prevent pillage. Six buildings were
blown up toarrest the flames. Three build
ings, the Cathedral, City Bank and Tele-
graph office, escaped damage. The loss Is
estimated at 100000; about one-fourth
1hsureA-1 p I'D 51.f sra aIB3G
Concentrations between the Italian
and Papal Governments continue in
critical conditions Little progress is made
in negotiations The report of the Ital-
ian Minister OF Finance shows heavy de-
felt in receipts, compared with expendf-
tures.........The English Trades Unions will
work with the, reform party in the ap-
preaching political con tests, ,..,--.. The EN-
press Eugene willlnot go to Rome Gen.
Dix was INTRODUCED TO the Emperor by Mr.. 4
Bsgeiow, on the sd. ! The Aorfteur denies
thatthe dispatch of Seward, dated Novem-
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