The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-28
NEWS VIA NEW YORK.

bune's Leavenworth dispatch says the
Indians have been committing depre-
dations on the Smoky Hill route.
Men were murdered eighty miles
from junction City, Kansas. The
Governor is taking active measures
for the defence Of the Kansas from
tier. Great excitement exists among
the border settlers. The time set for
the Indian attack was when the corn
was ripe.
New YORK, July 27.-It is pro-
posed to close all districts affected by
the cholera, and the subject will pro-
badly be discussed at the meeting of
the Board to-day.
On Governors Island hopes were
entertained that the cholera had
reached its maxium. There were no
new cases yesterday and the elder
ones were considered hopeful. The
cholera on Devils Island was increas-
ing, there were fifteen new cases and
three deaths. In Brooklyn the chol-
era is still on the increase, there being
eight cases reported on the Board of
Health bulletin, and one death at the
hospital.
Five men and women were arrested
yesterday, for completely of the rob-
bing of the bonnet warehouse on
Cunard Pier, Jersey City, and an
attempt at the robbing of another in
Greenwich Street, in this city. The
parties were committed.
Generals Steadman and Fullerton
were among the arrivals in this city
yesterday. s-t1.ftef
The Portland Relief Committee has
received FIVE hundred and forty-fye
dollars, making one hundred and
three thousand, three hundred and
eighty dollars and sixty cents in all
The work on the monster ram
Dunderburg is being pushed to COM
pletion to the utmost possible rapid.
| ity. A trial trip may be expected in
| the course of few weeks.
Advices from the Treaty Commis.
sioners to the upper Missouri, with
the Sioux and other tribes, to the
date of June 25th, have been received
by the Commissioners of Indian AT.
fairs. The commissioners report tha
they have met with entire success IL
securing the assent of the Indians no
represented last fall to the treatie
that were made both at Fort Selb!
and Fort Rice. Large numbers o
the people of the tribe were there, ant
appeared to be fully satisfied with the
action of their chiefs.
NEW YORK, July 27.-The Her
AIDS special says In the Canadian
Parliament the Militia Law was dis
cussed yesterday. A stormy debat,
ensued on the propriety of taking pat
tern after the Militia Law of thu
United States.
The Montreal special says: TIL
Hon, Arthur Gordon, for some tim
past Lieut.. Governor of the provinc
) of New Brunswick, has been mad
Governor and Commander in Chic
OF the Island of Trinidad, and its so
called dependencies.
New YORK, July 27.-Morning pa
pers contain the following speoia
2 from Washington: Gen. Dix is re
ported here to be exceedingly indie
nant at his nomination for the Hague
which he AYERS was without hi
knowledge or interest, and one thai
in view of his present prominenc
y and public service, he cannot accep
in self-respect.
NEW YORK, July 27.-Seven case
and four deaths by cholera in thi
city are reported this morning, an
nine cases and five deaths in Brook
lyn.
G Several teachers from Sea islam,
llee South Carolina, passed through Il
h city to-day, en- route for the Nortl
L L They represent the island as vel
& healthy, and say that the crops
$. cotton and corn will exceed any f
Il Il the past four years. The Shoals ha'
- all done well, and the freedmen we
never in better spirits, or workC
better.
m Ambrose A. Stewart is named