The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-19
1ELEeRAPaI sUmMARY.


Gold closed in New York, yesterday. at
1871.
4 steamer fron Cadiz arrived at Havana
with two generals and i've hundred regn-
lars.
Maurice Roberts. the newly-appointed
Minister OF spain 10 the United States, has
arrived at Havana.
six hundred Insurgents in Cuba are sur
rounded by troops in the Cochino swamps,
aud are endeavoring TO escape In detail.
The second Cuba telegraphic cable, the
end OF which was lost last Summer, has
been picked up and IS now working.
Counterfeit twos on the Union National
Bank oil Kinderhook are in circulation in
New York.
The Legislature OF Massachusetts, visited
the 5 aie Agricultural college, en- masse.
on the 18th.
weaver. the Baltimore undertaken, says
no crowds were allowed 10 see the remains
of Booth, 10 blankets were cut 10 pieces by
curiosity hunters, and no demonstrations
were attempted.
CabIs. ads ices from Havana state that an
arrival from Kingston, Jamaica, reports
that the American steamer EstrelIa had
been seized for money advanced for re-
pains,
1t is stated that nearly all the Trade
lotions in new York are organizing for n
combined strike this Spring for eight
hours and fun pay.
James Grant. Of Richmond, Va. who
had been out on bail since the murder
Of Pollard, has been committed to await
tial.
letter Phillips, under sentence Of death,
whose case Involves tue legality of the
Virginia Courts, and is TO be heard in the
United states Supreme Court, has been re-
spited by the Governor until March 10Th.
The Wisconsin Senate has adopted a
resolution to submit to the people a con-
stituttOnal amendment recognizing the
supreme Court, ,fncreaseing.the number of
Judges to fiye, instead of three, and ex-
tending the term to ten years.
r. Leonard. of st. Joseph, Missouri, has
accomplished tie feat of walking one hun
dred miles In twenty-four consecutive
hours. He walked OF brick pavement q
half mile long. The last mile was made
IN eleven minutes.
A Rio Janeiro letter of the Sth says that
Lopez had been formally called upon to
lay down his arms, but Indignantly re-
fused United States Minister MeMahon,
it is said, advises Lopez to continue to
fight.
The trial of Collector Thorne and his
sureties atTrenton, New Jersey, for alleged
frauds on the revenue, was concluded on
tile nth. Averdict for $4,000 was rendered
Tor the Government.
The Louisiana Legislature, on the nth,
issued a bill loanlng State bonds to the
amount OF X hundred thousand dollars
to the Mexican Gulf Canal, taking the
first mortgage.
John W. Coleman is under arrest, in
Bost n charged with absconding from
Baton Rouge. louisiana, with funds be-
longing to the Freedmen's Bureau, with
which he was formerly connected at that
place. He denies his guilt, but the proof
Is said to bestrong against him.
Capt. Pierce, late master of the ship
Southern Esgl was arrested in Portland,
Maine, on the I7Ah, on a charge of swim
ding the owners out of twenty thousand
dollars, while IN the Japan Sea.
a statement published in Quebec. Cana
da, shows that the fall of snow in Canada
tins Winter, so far, is about 1IS inches.
which exceeds by 3s inches the total fall in
any year for twenty -eight years.
Quebec advlces state that the Legislature
adjourned on the 10th instant, for want of
Il quorum, only twelve members being
present.. A snow storm prevented the
members from reaching the capital. The
snow in the streets there is eight feet deep,
and some streets are almost impassabIe.
Trains from the East and West are very
much delayed.
The Delaware. Iackawana q Western
Railroad Company, of Pennsylvania, have
purchased the Morris Il Essex and the
syracuse & Binghampton Railroads, ana
have obtained perpetual lease of the Os-
wcgo ~ Syracuse Railroad, thus forming
an independent and direct route by rail
from the seaboard 10 Lake Ontario.