The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-22
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

Gold closed In New York on Saturday
at 1857.
A Washington dispatch OF the Goth says
The President has approved the bill Civ
ing cannon Itr the erection Of monument
to Gen. Kearney.
The Senate bill. providing that any Su-
preme Court Judge, seventy years of age,
may resign and receive his salary there
after till death, was referred to the Judi.
ciary Committee.
A Rutland (vermonD dispatch of the
2oth inst. says: A boiler at the Marble
WORKS exploded on Saturday last, killing
Amos Powers, an engineer, and badly
injurtng four workmen.
A Providence (Rhode Island) dispatch,
dated the 2Oth inst, says the Reverend
William o'ReilIey, Ytcar-GenezaI of Hart
ford diocese, died suddenly yesterday
morning.
A Washington dispatch OF date the 2Oth
instant says: The Committee on Recon-
s ruetion to-day examined additional wit
nesses in the Georgia cases, and Without
a decision adjourned to January 5th. The
Supreme Court will adjourn from the 24th
inst. TO the 4th of January.
The President, on the 2Otn inst, nomi-
mated TO the Senate w. o. Tabt as Collector
ofInternaI Revenue for the First District,
and Adoiphus Bernhard Collector, and
James Hart as Asses ssor OF the ThiId Dis
trict OF Louisiana.
A -sp-ina field, Mass, dispatch of the
10Th says: Orders We're received at the US.
Armory in this city to pay the workmen
four fifths OF the usual rate per day for all
work done since August 10Th, when the
eigut hour law went into operation.
Work Y be resumed next week upon the
ten-hO1-s system.
The New York Tribune has a three-coI-
umn letter TO Senator Morton on his re-
cent speech on the resumption of specie
payments. Greeley differs from Morton in
that the former believes that a prompt re-
sumption is pi aoticable, and argues upon
that point Al length.
IN his speech at the banquet at Phila-
delphla. Saturday night, Speaker Colfax
said. relative to the incoming aiministra-
tion, tnat the most searching retrencn-
ments honesty, efficiency and high charac-
ter in all connected with the public ser
vice, would be adhered to, with rigid
guardianship Of the Treasury against the
unw4se and extravagant schemes. 1t Will
q have finance poliey.w hich shall maintain
our credit untarnished, appreciate our cur
reney, and place as on the firm rock OF
specie payments.
a Washington dispatch OF the goth says
there was a great hustle apparent in the
state Department yesterday, nothwIth
standing Its being the Sabbath Day. The
cause of this unusual stir Is supposed to
have been the preparation of dispatches
for Minister Johnson. 1t is thought by
members of Congress that the firm of
Laird q Co., builders of the Alabama, are
trying to obtain the proceeds of the sale
of the bloc cxade runner Wren, which they
are supposed to have built, and which
was captured during the war and sold.
a CLERK IN the Register Office of the Treas
cry Department Is missing, and his ac-
counts show deficit of several thousand
dollars.
Van Wyck's Report of the Committee
on Retrenchnen on the subject OF Reve-
nue. frauds is printed. 1t says that in con-
tinuing the investigation, commenced
more than a year ago, this committee
ind nany frauds yet existing In the Reve-
nue. Department, In kind as heretofore,
but not 70 the same extent, by reason of
the reduction of the tax on whisky, and
making estimated capacity ons of the
tests of production. When the capacity
system shall be improved and modified as
experience has already demonstrated to
be necessary, frauds will be lessened and
the revenu ue Increased. The greatest want
Is undoubtedly of honest officials, but no
Improvement can be hoped for in that di-
r+ciion under the present Executive. a fact
which Congress should have realized and
acted upon long ago