The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-12

Seward by Sir Frederick Bruce, while
| the two were fishing at Auburn dur
| ing the summer, consents to arbitra-
ton, provided two distinct tribunals
are tablisheG one to decide the
responsibility incurred by the British
Government in the depredations COM
mitted by rebel privateers, and the
other to adjudicate the war claims on
both Sides ~
To this Mr. Seward, in a dispatch
dated August IL, objects as unneces-
sary, claiming that there should be
two tribunals; that they should be
clothed with the same powers 81.
The excitement in Brooklyn is con-
siderable over the fraudulent opera
tions among high Revenue officials.
Deputy Collector Allen has published
a card declaring the whole charge as
malicious, but Withholding further
developments on his side of the con-
troversey until his principal, Mr..
Collicott, returns from Washington.
Dispatches from Washington state
that the Secretary of the Treasury
does not feel authorized to suspend
Collicott on the report of the Metro
politan Board He has directed that
all the papers In reference to the mat
ter in possession Of the Board be sent
to him.
NEW YORK, September 1.-The
ship IEvincible, of the California
trade, took fire at an early hour this
morning. 1t was probable she would
be destroyed. She was valued at
from $75, 900 to $40 1000.
The Herold's' special says: The
fever is reported as very bad at Key
West, Florida. Two more of the Gulf
cable hands died in hospitals, and
the third assistant engineer Of the
telegraph had also died His body
was refused burial on shore, and was,
necessarily, buried at sea- There
were forty two deaths in New Or
leans yesterday.
The Herdds Montreal special says
Earl Moyo succeeds Lord Monck as
Governor General of the Dominion
next June.
General Chase Wyndham, known
as Redon Wyndham, replaces Michael
as Commander-in-C Chief of the army
The Times special says: The fol-
lowing is list of persons either
named or now being pressed by their
friends for Cabinet positions:
Secretary of State-Reverdy John
son, Charles Francis Adams, Jerry |
Black. s-7-f 4
Secretary of War-Gen. Stcednlan,
Gen. Mcclellan, Judge Hughes Of |
Indiana, ex-senator Cowan and Tom |
Florence
7 Postmaster General - Old Blair, |
young Blair, Ward Lam an, johnny
Coyle. @ ~
Secretary of the Navy-A man
named HaHsiom, from Boston.
Secretary of the Treasury-John J. |
Cisco, Robert j. Walker, Pierce of !
Boston, and w. H. Groesbeck of Gin
cinnati.
Currency Printing-Clarke.
Attorney General-Mr. Binckley, if |
Stanberry continues indisposed.
A claim involving one million
FIVE hundred thousand dollars has re-
Gently been rejected by the State De-
partment. and presented by the Bal
timore Company, through Messrs.
Black, Lamon 4 Co., of this city. who
were to have twenty-five per cent.
proceeds, if successful. The claim, it
is said, was for an island in
the South Pacific Coast, which the
Company claimed by right of discov-
cry, but of which our naval vessels
subsequently took possession. Per-
sons here are inquiring whether the
rejection of this claim has anything to
do with desire certain parties have
for change in the State Department.
The statement is freely circulated to-
night among Cabinet matters.
Francis Adams has been telegraph
ed to, to know. if he will accept the
position of Secretary of State. This
is as probable as any of the other pes
tiferOus rumors which are flying about
here.
The Worlds Bangor, Me, special /
says the result of the election yester-
day, in Maine, astonished both parties.
The immense Republican majority
last year which was $4,000, has been |
nearly, if not entirely overcome, and
it will take some days to decide
whether the Radical candidates for
Governor are elected. The counties of
York, Knox, Lincoln, Washington
and Aroestock have certainly been
gained by Democrats. and others in
doubt. e@
NEW YORK, September 1.-THE
Committee appointed to make inves
tigation in the Pay Department, met
Yesterday afternoon at the Astor
House, and organized preparatory to
proceeding with the examination.
The He'ald's special says the Com.
mlttee investigating the treatment of
Union prisoners in rebel prisons. are
daily receiving large numbers of let
ters from intelligent men who have
partaken of the hospitalities of rebel
prisons, all of which are being ar
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