The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-21
xsgIATESTI NEWS.

zHqLATESTu NEWS.
1t is sai6 that Quantrell, the butcher
depd, has gone to Mexico. Ii
One thousand of the Foreign Legion had
arrived in Mexico from Toulon.
Five thousand French troops are to leave
Mexico, it is said, during this month- n
stephens and Others delivered addresses
at Tammany Hall on Friday night. y
The steamers for Europe, which left New
"a York on Saturday, took s., $4,000.
Mason, the rebel Commissioner to Eng
land, is at Quebec.
Gen. Sol. Meredith has been nominated
for Assessor of Internal Revenue in the
Fifth District of Indiana,
sbrs The President, on Saturday, made APP
pOintments to NIL the board of vacancies
at West Point. +
A terribly destructive tornado and hail
storm visited Clark County, Mississippi,
last week.
$50 Twenty-sixg soldiers of the regular army
I0ihave been committed to the Ohio Peniten-
s-,stiary for desertion and Standardization.
8 r. Generals Magruder, shelby and Price are
at Cordona, Mexico, with about twenty
other ex-rebels.
Forty-seven thousand coolies, from Cali
cutta, have been landed in British Guinea
during the month of April.
Gen. Sweeney publishes extracts from
the Irish Nation, of Dublin, favoring his
war policy.
The Fenians in the United States, accord
ing to Head Executive Stephens, have sent
e2SO, $50 to Ireland
Tl,a Tr,,;,,,, ec,,,ora ToIoca hos hta,i hand
ed over to the Manhattan Committee for
disposal.
There were no deaths or admissions at
the lower quarantine. New York, on Fri
day. W
The number eliminates in the institutions
of charity and correction, in New York, is
1872. .,sss f.-a .issfs III
The Ways and Means Committee have
determined to levy a tax of ten per cent.
ON lotteries. &s EEa8#a8M
An agent has been sent to New York to
make thorough examination of the re-
ported frauds in the Kentucky lotteries.
The French practice ship Jean Bart, with
over one hundred midshipmen, is at An
napolis to witness the examination of the
cadets in the naval school.
The American vessel John L. Stephens,
seized, some time since, by the Liberals,
was found to contain goods contraband of
war, destined for the Imperialists,
The gold miners in Mexico have been
unusually successful in the MetaltlAqxa
country. Desultory and irsdecisive fighting
between the Liberals and Imperialists still
continues, and forced loans are being
taken.
General Howard receives reports from
all parts of the South that the freedmen
are getting along well and are conducting
themselves well, notwithstanding the i'm
pediments that are placed in their way.
The master ship builders had a meeting
on Friday, and declared their purpose to
oppose the eight hour system. The work
men also met and pledged themselves not
to giveIn until they were successful Both
sides took as their battle-cry--" No conces-
sion.''
The Grant House, in Franklin Tennes-
see, was burned Saturday morning at
o'clock. One woman jumped from the
fourth story and has since died. Two SER
want girls are missing and it is feared they
persisted in the flames
A thief knocked a messenger boy down
in Philadelphia, on Saturday, and robbed
him of So 900, and was himself Immediately
knocked down and relieved of the money
and sent to jail. esFR
1t is said that Quantrel, with a number
of companions had planned to seize the
John L. Stephens and make a piratical
excursion; but the plan leaked out, and of
course failed. y.s3 ss 49, &
General Santa Anna has been rendered
the Inequalities of the city of Elizabeth,
New Jersey. Next week he goes to New
York city,. aqh aefle saf
1t is reported that the Government will
loose heavily by operations and specula-
lions in cotton, at Memphis. We know
private parties who lost money that same
way.
The Episcopal Convention in session at
Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday resolved
by a large majority, to.return to the Epis-
eopai organization of the United States.
OF the one hundred and sixty clerks i'm
the Post-O ONCE Department.. there are forty
Union soldiers and no rebels, and none but
Union soldiers are now being appointed.
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