The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-10
NEW- ORK.
Late Foreign -MiscalIaRe0u
Mat oFs. talar


NEW YoRK, August S.-The Pa
c,f fc Mail C1mpany's new steamer
Alaskl sailed this morning for As
p nwall with full eemplement of
passengers. including 351 Soldiers for
the First Regiment United States
Cavalry, in California. Her freight
amounts to 1,061 tons, of which a
large quantity is railroad iron for the
Pacific Railroad. ~ u.ae A'f
The cloudy weather to-day culmin-
a'ed this afternoon with one of the
heaviest thunder, lightning, and rain
storms of the season. 1t has cleared
off since. aud is fine this. evening.
2 A wealthy sock broker OF this city
is about TO erect a mammoth art gal-
lery For the use OF the public, at an
expense of nearly two million dollars
The body Of a res oeetable appear
ing man has been found floating in
East River. near Navy Street. Brook
lyn. with his pocket turned inside
out. He had been robbed omurdered,
and thrown into the4riyeryol
.gunboat Kenosha was success
fully launched at the Brooklyn Navy
yard this noon 10y
Secretary Nells is expected here on
Tuesday. eae @
The deaths during the week here
were 75. aa a.aa1 5ae.
Owing to the refusal of the Prcsi-
dent Of the Brick ayers Union to
sanction the compromise with the
master masons. the strike is still said
to continue. although the most of the
| jourueymeu are ut work on their
terms The la ter have lost over fifty
thousand dollars, and the master ma
sons twice as much. , go
/ Three Germans were sent to prison
to day in Brooklyn for ihhumanly
teating a man named Nelson, who is
not expected to live.
A private cable dispatch announces
the death of Edwin A. Stevens, the
millionaire of Hoboken. He died in
Paris yesterday. He was CommO-
i dore Of the New York Yacht Club,
was one of the principal owners Of
the Camden & Amboy Railroad
and owned nearly all of Hobokeu aud
the principal works of public Ina
provement there. The flags of the Ho.
boken Ferry, and the flags on public
and private buildings there, are all al
half mast. He was engag ged In Paris IN
neg eg1tiating for the formation OF. a
great railway company to extend tic
the Western States, whose eastern
{ rminus should be at the Elysiar
Fields. Hoboken.
A Washington dispatch states that
favOrite negro servant of JuGge
Chase was held to bail yesterday tol
raping a Elulatto girl, whom he~in.
veigled into the judges library anC
7 @~aotad fo tha TudCaie vino F.
Gen. Rosecranz arrived at Wash,
ington to-day, and held a long inter.
view with the. President Subse-
ouentIy he received his instruction:
from Secretary Seward relative to the
American claims and the new treaty
with that country. The General leaves
soon for the City of Mexico. -
NEW York, August S.-Europear
mil adyices to the 18th have beer
received by the steamship Union
French official jouruals contradic
the reDort that that Government ha
an intention Of aboIishing the seconC
: voting when the first has not given al
absolute majority In elections. --.4
The eossips of Paris are reporting
that in September the Emperor Wi
publish two nanifestos OF hIghl
important character; one will be
: letter to the VI mister of Foreign Al
q fairs, which will d ubtless be vindI
9 cation IF the foreign policy OF tn
{ Empire, and the other a proclamatio
d 70 the French people, appealing t
: them Tor a continuance Of their conf
/. dence. s 81 -..al 4H
i A memorial has been forwarded {
e Esrl Mayo, praying fer the release {
n Nlgott, editor-of the Irishnsq7e. no,
undergoing sentence for seditiou
libel elAi 8l Is e881
s The meeting of the German RiH
. Associations was in progress IN Wien
: ma. The Hungarian lower House ha