The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-03

w~E. Late News IfeIms.
Gold closed in New York. Saturday, al
1451491455S.
Chief Justice Chase has returned tc
Washington.
The mum Der OF deaths In New York City
last week was 730.
A case of highway robbery occurred in
Hackensaclx on Wednesday last.
A warrant for the payment of 81 .2C0OOt
for the purchase of Alaska has been sign
ed BY. the Secretary of the Treasury.
Real Admiral Dahlgren has arrived in
Washington, and viii take active com
mand of the Ordnance Bureau at once Y
Secretary schofeId has left Washington
for Newport He Will be absent few
days.
The patent to A. C. WIIlIeh for making
paper from wood and straw has been ex-
Ca tended for seven years.
few nights ago an old man named
hewitt was brutaIly beaten and robbed of
1925 on his own doorstep in New York.
1t Is stated that about 800 removals will
be made in the Treasury Department this
week.
ss In the Alabama Senate the Militia Bill
has passed. IL authorizes the Governor to
organize the militia when he thinks best.
go Samuel Bowles, Of the Springfield Repub-
Ifcan, has started on his second trip to the
Rocky Mountains. He VIII join Speaker
C9lfax at South Bend.
The nrst mortgage bonds OF the Pacific
Railroad of Missouri, were offered for sale
in New York on Friday last and sold at
s716.
Patrolman Mace, of the New York police
fI who. at the peril of his life, pursued and
Il,
ediek, has been p omoted by the Police
Commissioners.
HAt Princeton, New Jersey, on Tuesday, a
cprriage containing Rev. Alfred Baker and
wife, Rev. Lewis Baker and Rev. DR..
Stub5s, was pIecipitated down steep en-
bankment- Lewis Baker had arm
fractured, and the party We're all more or
i- less injured.
uf The Secretary OF War has granted the
request of General Dyer, Chief of Ord
nance, and directed the Judge Advocate
General 70 prepare charges for mis- trial.
The Prussian Government has instructed
ats officials not to indict, pr Tosecute, or
punish any nsturalizsd German AmerI-
can who emigrated without permission.
Hon. Reveldy Johnson, Minister to
Great Britain. and family, sailed on the
steamer Baltimore on the Ist, for south.
"a ampton- Mrs. Lincoln was taken sud-
deh1y last night; this morning she was
able to sit mp, but too much indisposed to
undertake a voyage across the Atlantic at
present.
The amount OF fractional currency is
sued last week was sS90OOO; amount ship
ped, "a S,77S. United states notes shipped
60 NATIONAL Banks, Sis. .4s6; National Bank
notes issued, Sl22, 500; amount in circula-
ton, $3.50 9907 ,2lS. Fractional currency de-
stroyed, S56s,l5s.
aaSi a young girl named Mary Ann Broad
well was arrested in New York on the 1st
for attempting to poison u young girl
named Hattie Ball.
aAt An accident befen the diving apparatus
employed the supposed wreck of the
Br tish frigate Hussar on Friday, by the
purchase to the bell suddenly breaking,
but the divers were rescued uninjured.
In New York Colonel Fred Wood, nomi-
Tally an Internal Revenue Detective, but
supposed TO be confidence operator, has
been committed for trial on charge or lar
s, cany for obtaining a diamond ring valued
at $1,000 belonging to Mrs. Harris
The President has appointed Ex-Gov-
ernor Bigler, Of California, United States
Commissioner to examine the Central Pa
ci1c Railroad, vice L. D. smith resigned.
The Postmaster General is having an
official statement prepared, to show that
the actual defiicieneyin his Department.
for the year is less than four millions of
dollars. NJ n
A dispatch dated Boston, LIST, says: A
misplaced switch seat a gravel train
through the engine housa ut Beverly yes
terday, demolishing the building and Sc
verely iEjuring ten men, one of whom =
Richard Barrett-had eight ribs broken.
The number of deaths in Boston last week
was l5s of whom lO7 were Ave years old
and under, showing an unusual mortality
among children.
A Nashville dispatch, dated the list, says
that Generals Cheatham. Forrest, QuarIes
Palmers and others hada a. conference to-
day with a committee of the Legislature
upon the political troubles ia Tennessee.
The result has not transpired. Chances of
a satisfactory solution of the difficulties
are good. The inclination to call out the
militia is abating, though strong efforts
win be made by some of the Radical mem
bers to push the measure through the
Legislature.
A Leavenworth dispatch OF date the lst
says: Gen. Sheridan was arrested here
to-day, on com plaint of Mr.. Dunn, for as
sault and battery. Dunn is postmaster at
Fort beavenworth, but was ordered offthe
reserve few days ago for alleged mis-
conduct, and refusing to obey the order,
was fercibly elected hence the action for
assault" rs 1855
A Buffalo IN. " dispatch of the lst
says: Charles Pickering, formerly a bank
In this c ty, was arrested to-day and
confined in Jaii on requisitlon from The
Govern or of Michigan, charged with grand
larceny in relation to the sale Of cattle
taken from an island In the upper lakes. lie
will be removed to Michigan for trial.
In New York, on the 1st list, Judge Cor
doza rendered a decision in the Supreme
Court that the Fernando Wood leases
must be executed by the city This in
- wolves a early rental of Sls,0oO for build
A1ngs nun Der ll5and III Nassau Stree
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aaFa In long article in the Courier OF
Saturday, a pretended comparison is
made between the printing bills
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