The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-13

Gold closed in New York yesterday at
1897.
Numerous families from Southern States
nave arrived at British Honduras, and are
settling on lands purchased of the govern
ment. E4tNl
The distiIlery of Englehart & Co.. New
York, was burned on the night of the 1lth
inst. Loss $50 600. One of the watchmen
was badly injured. s@zTtE fAH
But or the exertions of the American
and British Ministers, the city of Vera
Cruz would nave been sacked by the for
eign troops when 1t was understood they
were to e~vacuate. ~mauF~n
1t is reported that the President will at
once veto the new reconstruction bill. 1t
will be passed by the two-third vote.
1t is now supposed that Congress viii ad-
journ next Tuesday, though the Mexican
question. which the Northwest appears
determined to push hard, may detain it a
day or two. " *1nHg sHTs
The Judiciary Committee have COM
menced investigating the charges of dis
loyalty against Ex-Governor Thomas, of
Maryland, claiming a seat in the Senate.
1t now seems definitely settled that the
President will not revoke any orders of
AAAA4to IL
jans.
Another expedition has returned to San
Francisco from an unsuccessful search for
a new island in the Pacific.
Several bIood-thirsty attempts at rob-
berry have been lately perpetrated in the
vicinity of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.
At Laconia, Indiana, the other day, two
brothers named Kingsley fought each
other with knives and other weapons I'M
til both were fatally injured.
A young man by the name of Hopkins,
who vas engaged in boating wood on the
river at Peru, Illinois, was married on the
3rd of the present month, and himself and
wife were drowned together on the 7th.
Mr.. Samuel Akin, of Laramie township,
Shelby County, Ohio, while filling a burn
ing lamp, Sunday evening last, was so
badly burned by the explosion of the oil
in the lamp or can, that he died the next
day from its effects.
On Monday last a man named Kemper,
together with his wife, two daughters and
three sons, living in Harrison county, In
diana, killed a man named John BODY, by
hurting stones at him. They had a diff
Guilty about a law suit. A portion of the
party a been arrested.
An old coin was found at the waters
edge of the Ohio, in Marietta, the other
day. 1t proved to be an English guinea of
the reign of George II, and bearing the
date of 1870. 1t was probably lost from a
fatboat in the earlier days of the settle
ments in that region, and must have been
a pretty old coin then, being fifty -eight
years oder than Marietta.
Charles F. Meister, a matchmaker, who
had a store under Barnum's Hotel, in st.
Louis, went on board the steamer Missis-
sippi, on Tuesday, tool off his coat and
vest, plunged into the river, and was
drowned. He was in prosperous circum-
stances, but his IniAd had been deranged
for some time past, by dwelling upon the
idea of constructing some marvellous sort
OF clock, wh~ich-should immortalize his
name.
The Salt Lake. Psastte states that a cor.
spiracy exists in Southern Utah to throw
off the yoke of Brigham Young. His an
athemas and favoritism are some of the
causes. The Mormon people are tired or
they deem abuses. Rumor says the
break between Orsen Pratt and others and
Brigham is financial, and not doctrinal.
The church fund in the Bank of England
had been subjectsfo Pratt's orders, and
Brigham shut down on Pratt, hence the
dirficulty. Pratt FASTENED home TO con-
suit the Saints.