The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-29
Late News items.
Gold closed In New York. yesterday, at

Gold closed In New York, yesterday, q
1879.
Gee. @. Graham arrived at San Francis
CO. on The 2sth inst, and met with an en-
tlrustastfc reception from his friends.
The barque General cobb went ashore
at Blossom Rock, while beating ont of th'
harbor, on the evening OF the 9th.
Gov. Height. OF California. has received
from France a silver medal. awarded L
California, by the Paris World Exposition
for a display Of cereals.
A Cincinnati dispatch, OF date the 2sth
says the r. publicans of the Third Obi,
District have nominated General schench
for Congress by acclamation.
The store OF Leon Bloome, at Wapakon-
eta, Ohio, was robbed of twenty-five hun
dTed dollars worth Of dry goods,on the 27tt
inst.
President Juarez writes to Consul Gen.
eraI Day, st San francisco, emphaticaHy
denying any negotiations for the sale OF
sonora aud Senaloa, or any part there
oJ to the United states. as reported.
4 New York dispatch of the osth says
a disease has brozen out among the
Brooklyn Street car horses, and ten out ol
thirty-three have died since Monday. IL
y supposed to be a spinal disease, not con-
tageo1s.
4 Boston dispatch of date oath says: A
fre in Beverly Street this morning de-
stroyed the carriage factory OF g. III. Dodd,
the stable OF Daniel Dougherty, the nail
faetory-o Of IA. @. Sknlly, and damaged other
property. The loss Is estimated at $50 900 !;
partly insured.
ia New York dispatch OF date 18th says:
Harrison Young, negro, was hung Tues
day at Warwick Court House, Virginia. In
the presence OF 200 spectators, and !. COM
pa1y Of soldiers from Fortress Monroe
Three others, connected with him in the
murder of MIR. Wooster, have been SEN
fenced to prison for fifteen years.
A New York dispatch of date 28th saws
Extensive robberies are reported at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard on the part OF work
1ngmen employed therein. II appears that
for some time large quantities OF copper
Ripe and other articles have been missing
50 large became the losses that the author.
tiles get q watch upon certain inspected
parties, and Interesting developments re-
suited. aEae .Es st er.e Era
Adviees fIom Laguayara are to the 7th
The blockade. at Puerto Csbeilo IS con-
tinuer, and the rational man of-war had
captured a few co sting vessels. Puerto
Cabsi.o Is still Invested, but the mos E.
meuts Of tile beseigers were desultory and
had made little impression on the town.
TIE government troops had captured arms
and am muult ton sent fiom Puerto CabeIlo
10 IA. reactonists of Sierra.
a New YORK spatch OF date. the 2Sih.
sa' sthatat Greenport, Long Island. dis
tant about q miles from this city, ON FRI
day last, at IN dnight. a party of Disguised
men. Ave or six IN number, took Lieuten-
ait Colonel Andrew Harrison from his
house and covered him with tar and feath-
ers, threatening his life the same Time.
This a was committed because Colonel
HARRISON was a supporter of Grant.
ID tsstated thai Gen. Rosecrans addressed
letter to Gen Lee on the affairs of the
country, and requested written express
sion OF the latters views OF the best plan
et restoring good feeling. Lee respond ded, +,
expressing reverence for the Constltu.
ton, and desire for the com pIete union
Of the States as OF old, and a belief that his
desire was shared by the mass OF rejecting
z peop or the South. The South, Lee says,
H. anxious for pea ee and the peaceful ad-
mintslation OF the Government. They
long for the privilege of government,
and that the Southern people viii treat
the coiored people kindly and humanely
II left to themselves. @et
a Denver dispatch of the 2Sth says: The
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians con-
tt'nue their depredations, and are murder
ing tno1fensive settlers in Central and
Eastern Colorado. On Tuesday they at
tackled Riowa station, oh the Smoky Hill
route, capturing thirty horses, belonging z
- tle stage Company, and carrying off
one woman and child, whose remains
Were found, yesterday, shoekingly nIutil-
ated, and brought here for burial. Another
banU killed three men, yesterday, at Lat
ham. forty miles below, on the Platte
Stage route- They chased the Smoky Hill
coach several miles, yesterday, keeping up
s. running fire, but without damage.