The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-15

the British Government to allow no
more news of the Fenian rising to be
forwarded over the cable.
The Senate of the Brotherhood
(Roberts party) has heen called to-
gether by the Vice President, James
Gibbons. aT4T
The Brooklyn navy yard has been
reduced to a peace footing, and all of
the departments have been put in or
der. The naval officers. say that the
Dunderberg is not as formidable as
our turreted monitors, and point to
the capture of the Atlanta, which is
type of the Dunderberg, as proof
of their assertion.
Alta meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Board of Fire In
surance Companies, it was resolved,
that where the doors and windows of
| buiidings1ocated IN streets less than
eighty feet in width, were so con-
structedn as to admit of their being
| opened from the outside in case of
emergency, deduction of ten cents
may(be made. from the standard rate
All stores which have .hoistways,
dummies, &c, inside of the building,
| without iron coverings, shall be
charged ten cents in addition to the
standard rate. (, s 1asst 5..124gy m9-ng.
r Z The Herozds s Atlanta, Ga.,a CORES
pondent reports that the prejudice
against negro suffrage in Georgia, is
gradually giving way. The paople
were anxious to have the reconstruc-
ton question settled, so that North
ern. capital could flow into the State,
and uevelope its mineral and other in
terests.
A match was made yesterday be-
tween Sam Collier and Barney Aaron
to fight in June next, for the cham
pionship and $3,000
The Times special says the famous
suit of Russell, Major & Waddell,
creditors, against the United States,
known as the Floyd Acceptances
Suit, is shortly to come up again In
the Supreme Court.
General Fullerton and H. NJ Flint
| (knoWn as g Druid = of the New York
Ne,os) have been examined by the
Judiciary Committee regarding their
knowledge of the charges of impeach-
ment The former testified regarding
the Steedman- Fullerton Bureau in
vestigation.
r. tColonel l.. G. Turner long known
as Judge Advocate of q the War De-
partment, is lying dangerously i'll from
a jstroke 3 of .apoplexy, and he may not
Tive until morning. .sg 80. fas
The 1aibune's special corrects the
Statement that the name of Gen. Her
ron had been, sent ito the Senate as
Marshal for New Orleans. No nomi7
nation for that position has yet been
made. There is a great rivalship for
the Marshalship in Louisiana, incrcas-
| ed, no doubt, by the fact thattheemol- +
uments of the Office are increased to
$25, 900 per ;annum by the passage of
the bankrupt act, with the fees at
tendant.
gs 1t is possible that the gold claimed
by the Richmond banks belonged
originally to the General Government,
and was captured in the early part of
the rebellion by the rebels while in
the mints. 41a
Col Taylor, a member of Congress
i from Tennessee. has been nominated
as Indian Commissioner, in place of
Bogy. rejected. 1t is thought he also
| will be rejected. H II Il.
i The Herald's special says the expe-
i dition against the hostile Indians of
| Kansas and Nebraska, under COM
| mand of Major General Hancock, is
| fully equipped and supplied, and will
start from Fort LeavenWorth on the
10th inst.
| Gen. Hancock orders that all the
trains must be organized for defense,
by electing Captain and other Off
GERS, and organizing the, teamsters,
employees and all others belonging to
the train into one or more companies.
No trains are to be allowed TO pass
into the Indian country which num-
bers less than twenty wagons and
thirty armed men. Whenever an at
tack is made by the Indians upon any
train pursuing the overland. routes,
the commanding officer of the nearest
military post is directed to furnish
prompt assistance. ta3ls
New YORK, March 1.-THE Eg-
press states that determined attempt
was made last night, by a lawyer
, named Daniel Mcfarland, to murder
Albert u. Richardson, the we'll known
Tribune correspondent. + 1t is said
that Nc Farland was jealous of Rich
ardson's attention to his wife, who
is an actress belonging to the Winter
Garden Company. Richardson has,
for five or six weeks, occupied a room
in McFarland's house, in Amity
, Street, between Eleventh and
Twelfth. Last night, as Richardson
and the lady were walking down Am
!, ity Street, the irate husband came uI
, behind them, and fred three shots at
Richardson from revolver, one OF
, which hit him, lodging in his groin.
, A police officer seized Mcfarland anC
took him to a station house. Rich.
ardson was taken to his room, where
, the ball was extracted, but he has sub
! sequently been removed to the resi-