The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-27
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Foreign and Miscellaneous News
Gen. Mcclellan TO Have a ReCep-
tiOn.
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NEW York, August ga Vera
Cruz letter of August 18th, says Gen
| eral Allaterre, who had been defeated
! In the Puebla Sierra, was retreating
towards Vera Cruz, where he was
daily expected. Romero has arrived
at the Capital with his wife and moth.
erin law, and resumed the position of
Minister of Finanee. 1T was thought
he would succeed Dc jutda as Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
Gen. ROmen LabFa, second iuvcema
mand to sMarquszA IN the seiges has.
been imprisoned in the Convent of
Santa Teresa.
Advices from Hayti state that Sal
nave was forcing loan of two huns
dred thousand dollars from the mer-
chants of Port au Prince. Most Of
the merchants are Englishmen, and
refused to pay this quota; but afteIsa
few hours Imprisonment agreed to
his demands. The money, it is re.
ported, is wanted to replace his losses
by the capture of the situation. Sew
eral re respectabfe Epersons haFq been
shot while prisoners IN MS hands.
The merchants of Port au Prince
were required to reopen their stores
on penalty of being, considered eaer
mics OF the Cove rnment.A 4 ASAAN
A number of officers and privates
who served under General Mcclellan
during the late war met at Masonic
Hall last evening, aud formed them
selves into a permanent organization
BY adopting a Constitution and By
Laws and electing officers. { They also
made arrang sments for giving General
Mcclellan a reception on his arrival
in this city.
Edward Anthony. forETuanYyears
President OF the Ton1ara Fife 4hsuT-
'anee Company, of this city, died yes
terday, in the 61st year of his age.
Chief Justice Chase is visiting Sem
ator Sprague in sProvidence, Rhdde
Island.
Rev. H. P. Tore, of Vergennes.
has accepted his appointment to the
\ Chair of Intellectual and Moral
Philosophy in t .e University of Yer
mont, aud will enter on his duties at
| the opening of next term.
The Citizens Association recently
sent letters to. the Governors. of the
Western States, asking the State atl-
| thorities to cooperate with the Labor
Bureau of the Commissioners of
Charities in the collec6ono in this
city for sending laborers to the West.
The reply of Governor Fletcher, of
Missouri, is as follows ',s.Sa far
as L can perfect arrangements at st.
Louis, and establish a system for ob-
tanning information from the interior,
so as t0 know at all times where they
are wanted and how many are wanted,
L will get an agent in New York and
go to work in sending out. To
do this will require some four or five
weeks, and L hope at the expiration
of that time to be able to go TO New
York in person, an | assist the agent
[ may appoint.
I'VE want all the laborsin Missouri
that we possibly can obtain, and will
heartily join in every effort made to
send us labor, and to benefit the poor
/ laboring people. by sending them to a
i place where labor is wanted and liv-
; ing is cheap, and where each Of them
having any industry and frugality
may have a farm for themselves in a
very short time There are lands now
subject to be taken under the home
stead law in this State. and these peo-
pie only want to be able TO live VIII le
they make a farm of their own.
There is work enough for all the
unemployed of your city, in our grain
fields, and among the farmers who
are extending their farms. There is
no destitution, hunger aud suffering
among the poorest people of MissouFi
outside of our cities. We can en-
ploy 0,000 of your unemployed peo-
pie" ~fE EhEarb