The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-01
TELEGRAPEE sUmSIARY.

Gold closed in New York. yesterday, at
I8l5l.
The Dutchess & Columbia Railroad has
suffered severely from the recent storm.
All the piers between Hudson and /
bany are submerged.
The steamship Peruvian, from Portland,
has arrived at Londonderry.
The city # New York. from Liverpool,
has arrived at New York.
The Democrats carried the town of Sing
Sing, New York. on Tuesday, for the first
time in SIX years.
Judge S W. Broekaway. prominent
Iawy and politician of California, died
on Monday.
Two miles OF track were laid, Tuesday,
on the Union P e1fic Railroad eachlng a
point more than 20 miles west of gden.
The Central Pacific Railroad is reported
Obstructed by snow. and the work of con-
suuction suspended.
A break fifty ieet in deptk and two hun
dred feet in length, has occurred IN the
Ds aware Hudson Canal, in o ange
Couuiy, N y.
The zee IN the Hudson River was ex-
Pected to move out on Tuesday night
Fear are entertained of extraordinary
hign water.
Julia Ward Howe, Lucy stone and Wen
dell Phillips, on Tuesday addressed the
special committee of the Massachusetts,
legislature on female suffrage.
= The flood in Northern and Western New
YORK is general, and much damage has
been done IN the vicinity of Buffalo. Two
men have been drowned.
At Albany, New York, the water is ten
fset on tue piers, and the river is blocked
with fce below. No trains had arrived
from the West since Tuesday noon. The
track is generally submerged, and portions
OF 1t washed away.
At last accounts Weston was forty min
utes ahead of Payne, having walked fifty
eight miles. Both expected 10 make the
hundred miles inside oftwenty-four hours.
tIye-1reight cars o a train of thirty Ean
Nlrsne track of the New York Central Rail-
road, on Tuesday night, the locomotive
and three cars UpsettiBg into the river.
Only one track of the Hudson Railroad
IS being used and the - clI in many places
Is under water. Three trains due from the
west, on the New York Central. were due
on Wednesday at ushkeepsie, being de-
tanned somewhere by the floods.
The Pennsylvania Legislature having
failed - make appropriations for the ne
cessary expense, the dedication of the
Gettsburg monument has beea Indefinite
Iypostooned.
A Cleveland dispatch of the 3lst says
VIM. Samson Carr, of the firm of wood
son, Carr * Hitchcock, shot himself
through the heart al Ii An. to-d5y. en-
pOrary arrangement is supposed 10 be the
cause.
The annual book trade sale commenced
in New York on Tuesday. Tie catalogue
is arranged TO occupy four days. Sc eraI
Western traders were present, and made
liberal purchases.
\ Nlantzrzas letter states that BODY of
Cuban p,stliots near there have raised the
American flag, and that a large expe ition
villa arms, ammunition, sc, has safely
landed al Cochine.
Virgil a. Krepps, the young man who
attempted 10 kill Miss Cassie King, in
Brooklyn, in February, was sentenced in
the Brooklyn COart OF Sessions, on Tues
day, 10 eight years and seven months i'm
prisonment in Sing sing.
Govern Agents inspecting the CeI :
tral Pacific Railroad report it much fnfe-
rior in construction to the Union Pacific
Railroad, and their buildings and equiv =
ments not at all adequate for the business
anticipated, or in accordance with the re
quiren ents OF the Govern ment.
Edward Best, bookke per IN Fl NJ. aig-
gins piano forte warehouse, Chicago, COM
1nIttea suicide on ue>day. The discovery
OF fraudulent transac ions, by tn exami-
nation of his books, was the cause.
a boat contain ng two soldiers aud a boy
was capsized in New York ht Dor on
Tuesday. the soldiers were rescued by
Miss ida Lewis, daughter of the Light
hou-e seeper, but The boys We're drowned
Mss Lewis mad previously savel Iif,. un
der similar circums stances.
The nody of Montague Dean, the con-
vicf, who died under the effects Of ii shower
baJh ,lt tie hands OF the eeper, Bu9king
ham, at Sing S3ug. has been Il istnterred t,y
Coroner Ne ter, OF New York. for he
p .rpose OF examination By Il clroner's
jury a car load of convicts have been re
lnOvel from sing sing 10 Canton prison.
Ia the Union Pacific Railroad litigation
u fore the Supreme Court Of New York
Tuesday, Judge Barnard directed the
Receiver 10 break open the Company
This he attempted to do, assisted by
ONE la borers and others, but Mr. Barlow
a member of the Company, warned the
whole pa ty of, as tire passers, and they
went The case was then adjourned until
Thursday.
On Monday evening, ]. Il. ewkirls, o
Pa1nesvilIe, Peoria County, Illinois, made
mnri-rous assaulton his father-fu law
J. Pa eli, with a large eorn-Enife-uftel el
havue threatened to Kill the who e lam
lIy-anJ wounded him seriously Lcd tC
desf,t 10y the. entreaties of the fami " ht
took ala he money ia the house and
horse from the stable and fed. He was ar
lesled .t Peoria and lodged IN Jail
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