The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-09
LATEST NEWS.

Senator Dixon goes home to Connecticut
to recuperate. His health is gradually i'm
proving.
The President has signed the bill incor-
porating the international Telegraph COM
pany between the United States and Cuba.
The War Department has Suspended the
pay OF over 100 discharged officers, who
have failed to make the proper returns.
Further acts of malfeasence,on the part
of agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, are
said to have beer deyelopedsin North Caro-
lima.
The Senate Committee on Public Lands
have several important measures before
them which viii be reportea within few
days.
Tie Commissioner of Internal Revenue
dissents rom the recent rule laid down by
Judge smalley, of Vermont, relative 20 as
sessments.
An additional twenty-five miles of the
Union Pacific Railroad has. been COM
pleted, and the superintendent is in WASH
fngton to draw pay for the same. The road
is now completed sixty-five miles west
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Nearly all of the claimants OF the cotton
captured by Gen. sherman at Savannah,
have brought suits against Simon Draper,
the agent for its sale, in the United States
District Court. The cases number Id.
General Sickles had an interview with
General Grant, en- Monday. General
Siczles' report shows a gradual improve
ment in the State Of South Carolina. The
labor question is settled, and lawlessness is
diminishing. The General has declined
the mission to The Hague, and will proba-
bly, return to South Carolina.
An exciting scene took place in St. Louis
on Monday. A man and a married woman
were convicted of adultery. and were pay
ing their fines of 500 each, when the
, woman's husband rushed in and fired
twice at his wife with pistol. One shot
took effect in her cheek, wounding her se-
verely, if not dangerously. Hethen unsuc-
cessfully attempted to shoot himself. He
has been locked up.
Washington specials state that the sub
ject of Chief Justice Chase's interview with
the President, ON Saturday, was the trial
of JET. Davis. PherEhief Justice does not
wish to try the case until all possibility Of
military interference with the Court is
guarded against. Hethinks the Presidents
Late proclamation is not sufficient guar
anty, and urges some additional step, at
least with regard to Virginia.
The senateson Monday spent the entire
day on the motion TO reconsider the vote
by which Judge Trumbull's amendment
in regard to the power of the President in
removals and appointments, was passed
The motion to reconsider was finally car
ried by a vote of q to is,
A large Convention Of eminent physf-
clans recently assembled in Baltimore to
interchange views on the subject of
cholera. Notwithstanding they were all
of the regular school," no two Of them
agreed as to the cause Of cholera or the
best remedies for its cure. DIR. Rayne, of
New York, at the head of Committee ap-
pointed by this Convention, had an inter
view with the Senate Committee on Cons
merce, on Monday, relative to devising
some legislation to prevent the introduce
ton Of cholera into the United States. In
response, the Committee instructed their
Chairman to introduce joint resolution
to the effect that the Secretaries of War,
the Navy, and Treasury shall establish a
uniform and efficient system of quaran-
tine to keep the cholera out.