The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-16
LATEST NEWS.

Secretary Seward has gone to Auburn,
and will be absent about a week.
The President has approved an act re-
lating to hGbeds corpus.
Gems Almonte and Heron had sailed
from ST. Thomas to Europe.
Trinidad, it is said, languishes in all its
interests under its present system of gov
eminent.
Coz. Jaquess was acquitted atgIouisyilIe
yesterday. The jury did not leave their
seats.
It is said the Senate, like the House, viii
present solid column on the reconstrue-
ton plan avs it passed the House.
The Philadelphia Ledger of yesterday
gives what purports to be the text of the
indictment against JEFF. Davis.
The Indictment against Jeff. Davis is the
same in substance as that found against
him last year.
The idea of annexation to the United
States is said to be extending in all the
West India Islands.
The Mexican Legation at Washington
profess to regard Santa Anne as French
spy. ~
Z Officers of National Banks are asking for
Congressional legislation to protect them
from local taxes. Poor creatures, they
ought to have protection.
Advices from Rio Janeiro say that the
Brazilian feet has reached Presbocas, on
the Paraguay, and was in a line extending
to Paso de La Patria, on the Parana.
Our Geographic dispatches contain
long list of the names of officers who are
designated TO be mustered cut of service
Immediately.
The Secretary of the Navy mas just APP
pointed large number of distinguished
officers as a Board of Visitors to the navy
schools. The names will be found among
our dispatches.
Secretary McCulloch has sent to the Sem
ate Finance Committee the draft of a new
bill for funding the National debt into five
per cent consolidated loan. The Secretary
has decided to recall all outstanding GER
tif1cates of Indebtedness, and to issue no
more in future.
The steamer Dorothea, .captured by the
Peruvian monitor Hurrican, having been
refused to enter the port of Rio Janeiro,
was burned at sea. A dinner on board the
American steamer South America, to the
distinguished gentlemen in the city, was
given, at which great cordially and SYM
pathy towards the United States prevailed.
The Times correspondent has it from high
authority that JEFF. Davis will be tried in
Richmond, in June, upon the Indictment
recently found by the grand jury at Nor
folk, providing Chief Justice Chase will
consent to preside i'll the Circuit Court there
to be convened. The Attorney General has
not received a copy of the indictment, as
has been reported by some of the papers.
Chief-Justice Chase, it is said has signi-
fled his willingness to preside over court
in Virginia, provided The President will
issue a proclamation abrogating martial
law in the State, Sc far as the United States
are concerned. The Chief-Justice had an
interview with the President on the SUBJ
ject, and it is probable the matter will be
arranged. The House Committee is pre-
pairing report favoring his trial by mill
tary commission, for various violations of
the Articles of War, and completely in the
assassination of President Lincoln.
A New York paper of yesterday pub
fishes the address of Gen. T. G. De Mosques,
the new President of the United States of
Columbia, to the people of the Republic,
in which he strongly denounces the last
fnsurrectionary movements and gives as
surances of protection to every citizen in
the enjoyment of his rights. President De
Mosque has just returned from Europe, and
before leaving, he concluded treaty of
friendship and commerce with England,
and also one relative to postal affairs. He
also came to an agreement with the Papal
Government relative to the administration
of ecclesiastical affairs, which has long
been subject of dispute between the po-
litical and ecclesiastical authorities. r.