The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-11
TELEGKAPH1C News.

Gold closed in New York, Saturday, at
1850 '4OA.
Our dispatches contain accounts Of an
other great wager made by Weston, the
pedestrian.
Thomas ]. Harvey, charged with pass
ing spurious CHECKS to the amount OF
s2ss00O, is unde examination by the courts.
Great Brita n has concluded TO tx the
tax on American vessels fishing IN Cana.
dian waters, AT two dollars per ton.
The New York; eraLdss Abyssinian cor
respondent, gives a fleming account OF the
battle Of Magdala, and the death Of King
Theodore.
The Virginia Conservative Convention
did not adopt any platform. They are GO
ing TO o centrate their efforts TO defeat
the Constitution.
A New York dispatch says Florida has
adopted the new Constitution and elected
a Republican Legislature. 80.
A dispatch to the New York Herald says
eight Republican Senators are now count
ed certain 10 vote Tor acquitting the Presi-
dent.
a duelw with an Gtache Of the Prussian lega-
tion. left New York on the 9th inst, for his
Costa Rican mission. y
The corporators Of the Southwest Pacific
Railroad met in 81. Louis on Friday, suo-
scribed additional stock and elected a
Board OF Directors. The meeting ADJOURN
ed to be held again in New York on the
18th inst.
ON Friday afternoon a band Of indians
made an attack upon the Union Pacific
Railroad. They stopped a freight train
and buFned about three car loads Of con-
-struction material. Two companies OF
cavalry had been ordered TO pursue the
Indians.
A special to the New York Telegram,
says a project is OF foot IN case Johnson is
removed, to arrest and try General Lee
for treason and murder. The arrest is to
be made by Wade's friends, for the pur-
pose Of defeating Grants nomination at
Chicago, as 1t is well known he win oppose
the whole movement.
Weston, the pedestrian, is baeked for a,
5000 mile walk, from Bangor, Maine, to 81.
Paal, and to Buffalo. The wager is
$4,000 a side, and the time one hundred
days. He is not to travel Sundays, which
is included in the one hundred days. He
starts about August 18th. and win be ac-
companied by six sworn judges.
Walter and Melton Perkey, and John
CrOlty, aged respectively nine, eleven and
ten years, while playing in Mill Creek bot
tom, below Cincinnad Il on the 9th inst ran
into q deep sink filled with stagnant water,
and were drowned before assistance could
reach them.
A dispatch from General Meade, dated
Atlanta sth, says: "Col. sprague tele-
graphs that the elections II Florida passed
of without disorder. judging from par
tial returns. the Constitution was ratified
by about 5000 majority, and the Reed
ticket (Repubiican) elected by a small
majority"
The result of the election in Georgia, as
appears from official returns of all but one
county. shows that the Constitution Is
ratified by II ,923 majority. Bullock, Re-
publican, was elected Governor by 1923
majority. The Senate stands q Republi-
cans, 10 Democrats and one doubtful b
House stands So Republicans, "A Democrats
and six doubtful.
A duel was fought on the morning Of
the eth between Colonel P. X. Green, of
Missouri, and Daniel G.. Virgin, of Balti-
more. Both parties were wounded on the
first shot, Green in the shoulder and
Wright in the leg, neither very seriously.
A second shot was insisted on by one of
the parties, but was objected to by his
second, and the affair nded.
The Supreme COURT at Richmond, Vir-
has decided that, for debts cont act
in Confederate money, the amount shall
be commuted at IA value Of she money
when the deb matured, and not
contracted.