The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-05
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

Gold closed in New York yesterday a.
1881.
Two employees at Ways Brewery, a
Syracuse. New York, were suffocated h5
gas on the 4th inst. W
The Theatre Comique in New York wa
damaged by Ore on the 4th to the amour
OF ab ut $4,000.
The New York Times warns the people
az sinst invessisg money in alleged newly
d .scoyere gold fields In Duchess County
New York fo
4 New YORK dispatch Of the Attn, says:
X. D. BoIhrs, a pavmaster's clerk in the
Navy Yard. has aDsconded with $4,000. 1t
seems he has lost the money in gambling
Ina NeF YORK Herald says it was off r
e. the Report Of Secretary McCulloch aud
the forthcoming Presidents mess age Tor a
coBsideraiion recently, but declined bay
ing g receiver. Of stolen goods.
The Boston JolsrYl u thinks the Speaker
ship or the next House of Representatives
should be an Eastern man. Its principal
reason is, tae West has got about every-
thing
Il IS stated that President johnson hes
refused TO give advanced copies of his IN es-
sage 70 the press, buI viii arrange it SO that
copies shall be issued from the Internal
Revenue offices at noon of the day of its
delivery.
General Reynolds's report shows Texas
to be almost in as unsettled state as DUR
ipg the war. He says the murders Of me-
Groes are so frequent as to excite little at
tention, and he thinks years will be re-
quired to secure tranquility.
The New York Tribune says the recon-
mendati0n by the Electoral College of
Tennessee of Hon. Horace Maynard, as q
1t member of Grants Cabinet was unwise
and ind scorous.
A Boston dispatch of the 4th says: Gen.
Grant went to Lowell this forenoon with
q COMMITTEES from that city. He holds q
levee at the St James from three 10 five
o'clock this afternoon, TO afford the cIti-
zens an opportunity to pay their respects
An Albany dispatch of the 4th says
Judge Hogeboom charged the jury In the
case of Gen. Cole, for the murder of L. H.
Hitehcock, this morning, occupying two
hours. The jury has been out oae hour
and no verdict yet.
Letters from. Por5 au Prince confirm the
capture OF an American schooner BIZ Sal
nave, and he conflscatiou Or the car 90,
Notwithstanding the protest OF the Ameri-
can COHsuI.- An English vessel was also
seized, aud British aud French frlgates
had gone there to protect the foreign in
terests. There was some excitement in
consequences.
The New York TINS says Gen. Howard's
refusal to be a party to a movement for
extending the operations of the Freed
mems Bureau is couched In terms which
Vg.ii commend themselves to the Judgment
n fFrrfr, lFrFo
with which he justifes the Withdrawal of
the Bureau from states not yet restored.
viii surely be fulfilled under the coming
administration os General Grant.
A Cleveland dispatch of the 4th inst,
says passenger train ran into a ireight
train last night, on the Cleveland & Tole-
do Railroad, near Townsend Stauon, kill
ing Bar ley Patton, head brakeman, and
a passenger, whose name IS not known.
Severa other persons were injured. The
csuse of the &C ident was misplaced
switch.
4 C7icago dispatch OF the 4tn instant
says: Yes erdag Heory Schaeffer, an em-
ployee at HuboArd's packing house, on
tue 30 th branch of the Ithicago KIver,
fel into a lard vat filed with boiling lard.
He wa Immediately dra ged out by his
fellow workman, aud .ken to his home,
h I died L few hours alter. =sa
y 81. Louis dispatch of the 4th says: A
h=ayy snow storm commenced here last
evening, aud continued until nine O'Clock
this morning. From SIX to eight inches of
81 ~ fell, but Il is melting fast. The storm
extended west to Kansas, where from two
- six inches OF snow fell at different
points. At 81. Joseph, Missouri, the storm
wa. very heavy, more snow falling than
Tor many years.
4 Harrisourgh. Pennsylvania. dispatch
or the ith says: a comm1tteeof ladies from
New Work called upon the Governor this
morning to urge him TO pardon Hester
Vaughn The ladies were courteously re-
celv Il, and informed tn 1t their action
nod long since been quietly anticipated by
thousands of humane and phiianthropic
CT Z ms, mostly ladies' of Penn sylvanIa,
and that any urther agitation ofthe sub
Ieet wCald Ds unneces sary, as the case was
thoroughly understood, and the Cover
nOTs's action determined on.
\ sp etal telegram says the Secretary of
the Treasury opposes a forced resumption
OF specie payments. Up TO December 1st,
sSZ7 6-945O OF 80 notes have been ealledfn.
OF til : amount there have been funded
oEthe first series, sos, $50, ,7OO; OF the second
serie- $780, lSS, 300; OF the third series, SIe7,-
g75,450. This leaves outstanding OF this
class of securities, but 1886, 80. The inter-
est on the public debt for the next year
Will be one hundred and forty millions Or
douars. oc ten millions of dollars less than
last year.