The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-17
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

God closed In New York Saturday a
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Mr.. R5se uburgh's naturalization cas-,
is again postponed until the 24th.
Mayor Roffman sent his resignation a
Mayor to the New YORK Council on Mon
day. a-ss
Fires in New York and Brooklyn, OF
Monday. destroyed property otne amoun
ofsIs,OlO.
A i've thousand dollar burglary wa
committed Ia New York on Saturday
night.
Bishop stevens fell on the sidewalk, IN
South Bethlehem. Pennsylvania, Sntvr
day, and broke an arm and a leg. -e 4t5N
A skiff containing three men eapsized on
the Falls, at Louisville, Sunday, and one
oflhe men, Henry Smith, was drowned.
Bailey, Collector OF Internal Revenue in
New YorE, testified before the Congress
ional Committee, on saturday, and Judge
Fullerton has expressed desire to testify.
Burglars and highway robbers are be
coming unusually bold in New York, and
sommit depredations nightly.
Fitzgerald, who was taken from New
York to Philadelphia on a charge OF
fraudulent voting in the latter city, has
forfeited his bail. =
Thomas Armstrong, one of the oldest
and most active merchants of Baltimore,
died ia that city on saturday, aged seven
ty-nine years.
DIR. Paul NJ. Brennan was arrested in
Springfield. Massachusetts,, on Monday, on
C iarge Grape and murder, committed In
New Haven. to where he was taken.
The testimony before the Congressional
Committee develops the fact that from
one-third to one-haIf of all the whisky
manufactured escapes taxation.
Joe. Coburn, the bruiser, sailed for Car-
fornia on Monday. He was accompanied
L Sandy Hook by crowd OF thieves and
scoundrefs, VINO chartered a tug for that
purpose.
General Grant, after inspecting the Ca
det Corps at West Point, returned with
his wife and suite to New York, on Sa ur-
cay. de was warmly received all along
the route.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on Sunday
night preached from the text, ,"Abhor that
which is evii," and took occasion to de-
nounce bitterly the whisky and other
frauds, and tine wholesale corruption in
office that lists.
Impori ant Information has been found
respecting the death of young Nugent
found insensible in the street of Jersey
City, OF the night OF a Democratic proees-
sion just be ore the eleG tion.
James Barron, a resident of Troy, N. Y,
was crushed to death, sunday evening, be
tween the ter yboat and bridge, at Bar
clay street Ferry, New York.
Mariarre, ihe favorlte OF Queen Isabel a.
has been dism sSed. His place is now oc
eupied by Count Espilai belonging to
one of ~. n,st ia9nIiis- of Nav'rre.
The ztr has issued a ukase, IN virtue
of wnicn nIne enths OF the drinking
salo,os now in tn Russian empire re to
oe suppressed.
sIneen thousand wo'kmen a now in
? Masirid without means OF ge ting a living,
"a &c reg. wing pa, from the Govern
n ut.
Switzerland, Austria. and Norway have
recognized the Spanish Government,
unuer the conviction that 1t will receive
the sanction OF the Cortes.
MaJor Pauline cushman, who was ar
rested at New York at the instance of her
former agent, A. Il Newcombe, and incar-
ctrated al night in the station-house en- a
charge Of larceny, was discharged on Sat
uYdny, after hearing before Justice
Dud1e, no evidence appearing against her.
81 e. aver that the proceedings were lnsti-
tutt through malice and jealousy.
The Guy Of London arrived from Europe
on sunday morning. The Prussia Pasto-
raj Conference, composed OF l2O clergyme eu
from ali parts of Prussia, has issued the
following declaration: Considering the
pretensious Of the Roman Pontif. in the
recent invitation TO the PrOtestants. ii
would be desirable, not only for the Prot
estant Church of Prussia, but for all the
Evangelical Churches OF Germany, to re
new, before God and man, by the mouths
Of their ecclesiastical laBoTS, their unani
nous adherence of that Gin drch to the
confession Of Augsburg.
The supervising Architect on Govern
ment buildings, In his report for the yea
1855 condemns the eight-hour system, and
att ibutes to IL much of TIN q embarrass
ment and delay that attends the com pie
tion OF the buildings, besides greatly en-
hancing their cost. He recommends tn
tpurc hase OF II portion of the Battery IL
New York as site for appraisers stores
and ultimately for. a new Custom
House. the present one being owe
crowded and the increasing busines
rendering more room indispensable
lie al recommends that some restriC
tIon be placed on lndiscriminate biddin
ror Government contracts, as under tn
present system the most worthless an
Incompetent has a right to insist upo
the acceptance of his proposal, eve
though the Department may be confiden
that the conditions of the contract wi
not he complied with. All attempts
co.icc damages for breach of coutra'
have here ofore failed.
His estimates for the balance OF tn
present and the next fiscal year 1nclud
slIa,'0J for tae custom-house at CaicC
siI5031 for tae custom house at st. Pau
Si500OO Tor the custom-house at Madison
Wisconsin, $500 for the cnstom-bouse
Sprlnl ii i'd, Illinois, sl5O,0OO for the Marir
Ho-pilaI at Chicago, $4,000 for the custom
house at Des MOInes, Iowa, S75 600 for tt
b anch mint at sau Franc SEQ, S. 0 900 f
the new post. office, Boston, and $4,000 f
ta Treasury guilding. Washington.
EUR2 NON klOE.