The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-29
CONDENSED TELEgBAMs.
WEDNESDAY. December @.


The steamer La France from Liverpool,
arrived at Boston yesterday
Commodore McDougaII has been ordered
to the command OF the South Pacific
Squadron.
Rev. Father Dunn, Of st. Johns Cathe-
draI, Philadeiphia. died yes sterday morn
ing, aged sixty-One years.
Track laying onthe louisville branch OF
the Ohio and Mississippi RaBI.odu ~, ,a va
completed Monday night, tAIU IL ISSoiat rs Si
trains VIII commence running 10 Slncln-
natl by this route to-n0rroW'
Prominent members OF the Union
League Club of New York City, have
taEen measure % Iaise some money 70
able pecupfary condition.
Ma xfnnfIIian steh1er, one of a gang who
has been perpetratingi heavy rObDeries
a1ong the line of the Erie and New York
Central Railroads, for many months, was
arrested on Monday and large amounts OF
goods were found IN mis- possession.
q 10 has transplred that a mum mber or the
sherifs appointed BY General Candy, an
rare defauIters TO the State. in sums rang
ing from S5,J 600 to $50, ZOO, which they col.
Iected, but are unable to pay into the
Treasury. r1e
On Thursday night, Steve Bennett was
brntally murdered, in an alteration, by
Tom Judson, at Bells Station, on the
Louisville & Memphis Railroad. Both
were colored. On Monday night q party
tody OF the officers to the woods and shot
him.
A rumor was IN circulation on Monday
aa,,teInoon tna9 irrsgnla5ties haxe aye beea
National Bank. on Broadway, in Rich
moBd. The officers neither admit nor
deny the truth OF the report, but say that
q mmittee is examining The accounts,
aud IL IL iould be discovered that defal-
cation has been committed. Information
of the fact VIII be given to the public.
Portland, Maine, to orange for the recep-
tion OF the remains Of George Peabody, I,
met on Monday night and consulted over
the affair. Is was determine edS that the
| OF Peabody until ten deys after the arrival
of the remains there. When the steamer
Monarch arrives, the civil authorities will
take charge OF the body.
The New York Court of Appeals, on
Monday, decided that a broker who. sells
out his customers stock after his margin is
| the time and place OF sale, is liable to his
customers for the highest price OF stock
down to the time OF the trial, because the
customer owns the siocR, and the act OF
| the broker is q wrongful commission. This
/ was q test case selected by the Broker
! Board.
Alice Lingard Duuning, of the Grand
\ Opera House, New York, on MOnday. ap-
pied 10 Judge Dodge Tor q warrant for
/ her husband, william Needham, alias
| William Horace Lfngard, the well kno II
/ comic bln&EE ana u1AIlAc. allGRlnE tnAb nGE
husband habituaiiy abuses her, and that
on Monday he threatened to blow out her
brains with pistol, Justice Dodge Issued
the warrant, but both parties sang, as
usual, Monday night. AZ
The New York Sun of yesterday morn
| ing, says an American Annexati on League
/ has rrecentiy been formed IN New o. k
city, with the avowed purpose of procur-
| ing. every person or force III favor of tine
| annexation TO the United States OF All the
countries and provinces of North America
Il I lam fr
motto Is: "The National safety of the
| United states demands the acquisition OF
all of North America ana the West
India Islands," Prominent citizens
are memhsrs OF this League, and
Is otfcers are the folloSwIng we'll
PIeSidents Gen. A. l.. Quincy, Vlce-Prest-
dent; GeR- George ~. Cox, Secretary
Gen. James f. Kerugan, Fl Iaucial SecTe-
tary Gen. James Il. Colt, Treasurer. The
organization IS preparing an expedition
for active service for participation in the
hoStli1ties going on III the Red River coun.
| try against the representative OF the Can
adian Government. Tue expedition thai
Il they are preparing IS to consist of fifteer
hundIed nen,of Whornelght hupdIed have
alieady been enroued. Twenty five guides
have been hired, who are familiar With tho
a Red River country, and VINO Will conduc
the troops from the last railroad station
/ Spenrer rifles have been Stored avrsS
ready for use. Ammunition and ether sup
piles are also at hand, and no further grea
, expense IS anticipated. a prOminent ut rail
ROAD AlaAls u AASkAAGf "a tue Il BnES liza
promised troops free CT transit to within
200 mites of tue border line, and from tina
point TO tue place of operations tn
nllibusters Will make their wy by iorcet
MAJ cues. Z hey. viii depart I ON New
YORK in squads of from IO0 to 30 men
and vii leave as quietly s possible, s.
| as to avOi q de ectiOn or delay. The hrs
| squad Will start before the 10Th o. January
, perha ps early as the 9th of tue month
| aud II last detach ment, it is expected
viii have IeIt tie city before the beginnin
OF February. -Four bod es, numbering Ia
gether $50 men. have started Tor the Re
Z River county, already, from the foa
eitIes-Ohicago, Buffalo, Detroit. and -
Louis they have probably crossed tn
border line already, sut no news has ye
been. received from them.ss