The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-28
NEWS ITEM ="

Gold closed in New York, Saturday, at
1si1l.
The report that Gen. Grant is going to
Europe in the Spring, is contradicted.
Gov. Swami was unanimously elected
Senator on the 18th, for SIX years
The Cretan war has ended, and the vol
unteers have gone back TO Greece.
The Gold Bill still meets with opposition
in the Senate Finance Committee.
The Picket Guard of the Grand Army of
the Republic, is the title of a new paper
published at Davenport, Iowa.
Speaker Colfax is suffering from a sore
throat, and did not occupy the chair dur
ing the night session of the House.
The workingmen of Madrid are becom-
ing riotous. Their clamor is for bread. A
serious outbreak is anticipated.
THE fractional currency received for the
week ending the Goth, at the Treasury De-
partment, was S4O7, 600.
A fire at Chicago, on the night of the
a5th, destroyed a block of buildings valued
Mt $4,000.
A large meeting in aid of the Cretans
was held in New York, at the Cooper In
stitute, on the night of the 18th.
Bills have been introduced in. the Wis
censin Legislature to disqualify liquor
sellers from holding the office of Justice of
the Peace, and forbidding the holding of
sOarts where liquors are sold.
=, Secretary McCulloch contradicts the
story that he has ceased, under the law,
tie continue tocontract the currency at The
rate of 100000 per month.
Gov Cummings, of Colorado, now in
washington, opposes the admission of the
Territory as a State at present. 4ycs' o.
A number of pictures and other pro-
perty have been attached at New York, by
LEW. Cox, who claims that Crosby is in
debted to him to the amount of $1,000
A large mum Der of Freedmen are being
registered in Georgetown, d. c., under the
suffrage act, and it is not improbable that
the Radicals will carry the election.
Horace Greedy, the negro murderer, has
been sentenced to be hung on the LIST Of
March.
1t is reported that General Heintzelman
will be assigned the office of Assistant
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau
mt Galveston, Texas.
The receipts for customs in New Orleans,
for the week ending the 26th, amounted to
$ae2, 800 in gold.
An official letter from Florida says
that the Indians in the Everglades are de-
termined to keep negroes in their tribes as
slaves. The negroes claim their liberty,
and have applied to the military for as
sistance.
In Brooklyn N. Y, Mrs. Mary 8. John
son has obtained damages in the sum of
81 $50, against q man for breach of promise
ct marriage.
There has been a large emigration of
freedmen from North Carolina and Vir-
qnia. for the purpose of obtaining work
or'colonizing on the st. Johns River, on
the south side thereof.
The large cotton warehouse of James NJ.
Doty, in New York City, was destroyed by
fire on the night ofthe 26th. Ten thousand
bales of cotton were destroyed Loss,
100000.
The indian delegations from Kansas ar
rived at st. Louis the 18th, ON their way to
Washington.
A carpenter named Schroeder attempted
to shoot his wife in Chicago, on the night
ef the 18th. Being unsuccessful, he fed,
andihas probably committed suicide. {
Rev. ]. w. Alverd has been appointed
General Superintendent Of schools under
the Freedmen 81 Bureau. -,.si ~. a.I@.!
Several prominent citizens of Brooklyn,
N. Y, have projected an excursion In a
hrst-class steamer, the coming Summer to
Palestine, Egypt, Crimea. Greece, &c.
A fire in Chicago destroyed new brick
block of six buildings, owned by ]. r.
Jackson, of South Adams, Massachusetts,.
Loss $4,000. insured for Sl20,eOO. si&sT
An accident occurred ON the Morrison
and Essex Railroad, New Jersey, on Sat
arday, between Mflburn and Orange. by
which the conductor and engineer were
badly injured, and number Of passengers
more or less bruised.
w. H.sCrosby, on Saturday, bought the
opera House of A. H. Lee. the lucky tick
et-holder in the late lottery, for two hun
dred thousand dollars.
"A man named Thomas j. Silcott was run
ever and killed by locomotive at Louis
willie last Saturday.
"A New Orleans dispatch says that ac-
counts from various Mexican quarters in
dicate that the city OF Mexico is clocely be-
sieged by Liberals, with indications of an
carly evacuation by Bazine.
bs - STATE ITEMS.
Gov. Morton and lady are now in Wayne
County on a visit to their relations.
A man named Madden was frozen to
death near Ridgeville recently. He was
intoxicated.
There are now confined within the walls
Of tie Jacksonville State Prison three
hundred and twenty-five prisoners.
ALT. Burnett is now in Terre Haute. He
has made some important additions to his