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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20
from W.ASHINGTON.
A Judge Advocate II Philndeiplian.
DeGiaL Despatch to The Epellinn Telearnph

'DptttNe DeoptStC'e fSOo'tttU
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-Major Henry Good
fellow, U. S. A., is announced as having entered
on his duties as Judge Advocate of the Depart
ment of the South. Major Goodfelow is a ma
tive of Philadelphia, an attorney-at-law of the
courts of that city, and entered the army as
Second Lieutenant, 26th Regiment Pennsylva-
MIA Volunteers, U. S. A., on April 10, 1851. He
was formerly clerk in the United States Dis
trict Court of Philadelphia, and served with Dr.
Kane in his celebrated Arctic Expedition.
Army ResignatiOns Accepted.
Second Lieutenant Samuel Purdy, Jr., 14th In
fantry, U. s. A., has resigned, with pay to
February 1, 1870. Second Lieutenant Samuel
r. Crumbaugh, I'd Infantry, us. A., has re-
signed, with pay to January l, 1870. First Lieu
tenant William w. Tompkins, Sd Artillery, L.
s. A., has resigned, with pay TO April "a, 1870.
Captain Abraham Bassford Sth Cavalry, L. s.
A., has resigned, with pay to November g. 1862
Second Lieutenant William II. Sloane, 18th Ia
fantgy, U. S. A., has resigned. with pay to No
vember 80, 1869.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20
-NARR LADNER, Bankers report this mornings
philadelphia Trade Report.

SATURDAY, Nov. 20.--The Flour market is ex-
ceedingly quiet, and in the absence of any demand
for shipment, only few hundred barrels
were taken in lots by the local trade at 500
b'25 for supernne; s6S7H9669H for extras; s5'T5@
6'25 for Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota extra IA
mily; 3575@625 for Pennsylvania do do. Soc
G'7b for Ohio and Indiana do. do, and S1@7'5O for
fancy brands, according to quality. Rye Flour sells
at SO per barrel
The Wheat market is without essential change.
Sales OF 1000 bushels Pennsylvania red at 49, and
$50 bushels Delaware do at s1'37. Rye sells at
SlO6@1Os per bushel for Pennsylvania ana
Western Corn Is firm at former quotations. Sales or
Pennsylvania yellow at tlOl@1Qs; new do at 900
9Sc and 2500 bushels Western mixed at 81 '03@1 O5
oats are without change Sales OF Pennsylvania ana
Western at go cents, and Delaware at 81 Cents
In Barley and Malt no sales were reported
Bark-In the absence OF sales we quote No &,
Quercitron at S82 80 per ton. '
Seeds-Cloyerseed is steady with sales OF Oood
and prime at S6'I5@I. Timothy Is dull and nomInsI
FIaXseed "a is IN demand at s29s@24Oand 2lOO bushels
bound. " IVA "Vp'
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE..
GnIlnnAa.n N.rr


The local Money market OF the current week closes
active and strong, with all the features indicative OF
a stringent and unsettled feeling. Borrowers who
may not have provided for their wants early in the
fall are entirely at the mercy OF the "money
changers" and the efiete usury laws are "a dead
letter., falling to aiford the slightest protection,
though enacted expressly for the Contingencies now
upon us. A large amount OF uneXceptionable paper
is being daily hawked about the Streets and though
there Is apparently more disposition to buy than
heretofore, the rates current are usurious that
time contracts are almost synonymous with financial
ruin.
Call loans continue easy at 6s7 per cent, but dis
counts range between IL ana 20 per cent
Gold is quiet and weak, opening at 126L Pre-
MUM at noon i262a.
In Government bonds there are not sales sufh-
cient here to fix quotations In New FORK the mar
Ret is reported strong.
There was considerable activity in the Stock
market this morning, and prices generally had an
upward tendency Pennsylvania 6s, first SERIES sold
at lO21E. City Is were firm, with sales OF the new
issues at 10l 81.
There was lively speculative demand for Read
ing Railroad, and prices advanced Is. selling at 4S5S
Ca49 b. o. Philadelphia and Erie Railroad improved
3S, selling at 2SS@2S2s Little Schuylkill Railroad
changed hands at ~, and Pennsylvania Railroad at
532s 35l was bid for Caawlssa preferred, and 1l9N
for Camden and AmbOy.
Canal shares were quiet, with sales OF Lehigh
Navigation at 81.
In Coal Bank, and Passenger Railway shares no
sales were reported. 40IE offered for Second
and Third; GO for West Philadelphia, and IL for Hes
tOnville
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
ID No Iav Z u M .
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FROM BALTIMORE.
Jones' Falls Risen.

Special Despatch 10 The Eoenirg Telegraph.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 20-Rain fell in torrents
nearly all last night, and Jones Falls and other
streams are considerably swollen.
The Bremen steamer.
The steamer Ohio, of the Bremen line is now
reported coming up the bay.
Verdict Against Railway COMPANY
In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday Mar
garet Trainer and her children got $1,000 damages
against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany for killing her husband. Juries now seem
determined TO make examples in all such eases,
but the impression is they are going too far in
some recent instances
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yirginia Granite Going West,

The schooner Lucy D., Captain Higgins, win leave
this port tomorrow wlth;a cargo o. 800 tons OF Viz
Company for New Orleans. IL will be shipped thence
to ST. Louis and win be used in the construction OF
the famous suspension bridge crossing the Missis-
sippi at that point. We have hitherto chronicled
the use of this granite Rast and North where 1t is
regarded as the best for many purposes. There is
reason to believe that it will soon be equally in de-
mand at the West.-RichmOad Dispatch.
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notes, as new and as crisp as though lust made
Cul1ans claims that he has taken these notes nj
snndry times In change. He has certainly passed
different butchers, three on Sheriff Richardson in
settling costs in an indictment against him for the
Illegal sale OF liquor, and one on huckster woman
IN Market street. He may have passed Others but
tnese are all the officers have yet heard or
u. ,. commissioner Harman held him to bail in
mitted, and is now in the city cells.-Wtilntngton
Commercial Non
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20
COUNTERFETING.
Seizure of COunterfe Money-Arrest of Ber.
nard Curruns.

ON Wednesday evening, 10th instant, O. s. Mar
shal John Dunn and Ofiicer omstead, OF the City
Police, arrested Bernard Currans, man who keeps
a drinking saloon on Orange street, between Fourth
and Fifth streets, on charge OF passing counterfeit
postal currency. At the time OF making the arrest
back OF the bar they found, wrapped up in news.
paper covered up by about tive dozen eggs pack
age OF twenty-nine counterfeit twenty-five cent
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20
FROM NEW YORK.
The storm and rhe Telegraph Wires.

Despatch 10 The EDentng Telegraph.
New YORK, Nov. 2O.-The heavy gale of last
night has interrupted communication with the
cables East and no European advices have yet
been received Dispatches will probably come
to hand before night. The European steamer
City of London sails to-day but takes no specie
New York Money and Stock Markets.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Stocks steady. Money
GOT per cent. Gold, 1868. Five 'twentles, 1862
coupon, 1885, do. 1864, do, 11ss6; do
1885, do 1885; do do, new, l1G]s: do.
1861 1863; do. 1868, ll5zS; Ten-forties, iO7g6 (;
Virginia skies, new 54H; Missouri sixes 90 /;
Canton Company SO; Cumberland preferred
2SN; New York Central, 1881; Erie. 2sI6;
Central 119K; Michigan Southern, So; illinois
Central 1873; Cleveland and Pittsburg s2q(; Chi
cago and Rock Island, lO31G; Plttsburg and Fort
Wayne, S5% Western Union Telegraph, 8GA.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20

Western Union Tele. s69S
Tol. and Wab. II. r.. bsIS
Mil. and st. Paul II. G 6s%
Mil. and st. Paul pr. s8E
Adams Express. 80. IS
Wells, Fargo. o......... 10
United States........ b29l
Gold. old................,126sa
Market steady.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20
stocIx Quotations by TeIeGraph-I r. M gW
aisndlnning, Davis q Co. report through their New

York house the following
N, Y. Central X. 1929
N. Y. and Erie R.. 2s4
Pm. and Rea. r. 49,. 9I96
Mich. s. and N. !. r.. s91
Cle. and Pitt. R..... S2A
Chi. and N. w. CON-. n16
chi. and N. w. pref. s6
Chi. and II. !. II. ......l03H
Pitt, 1T. Wsy, A Ch. s5}9
Pacihc N. 3. ....".... DO
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20

The Falling Building Accident in St.
Louis-Army Resignations-Ver-
dict for $4,000 Against
Railway Company.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20
SECOND EDITION
LATEST Bx wELMaRAPH.

The Stonewall Disaster-Captain Wash
ington Censured-Grain Trans
portation in the West-A
Heavy Libel Suit
Effects of the
Great Storm.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01
ST. CLOUD HOTEL.

Also, twenty-five feet Of Lot number
seventeen, az, In Lower or McGray's Eu-
largement or The city OF Evansville,
bounded as follows; BEGINNING at the
Ave feet from the BOutheasterly corner OF
said Lot, running theuce along said front
line ives tWardIy twenty two feet, thence
at right angles with said front line 10 the
alley In the rear Of said Lot, thence along
said alley towards Division Street twenty
two feet, thence 20 the place Of beginning.
Subject to the life estate OF Martha Irwin
in one undivided third thereof.
This part OF Lot fronts on First Street,
between Elm and Pine Streets; is 70 by li8
feet, and has upon 40 q GOOD BRICK DWELL
ING HOUSE.
Also. Lots six and eight, in the 5ubdI-
vision OF the Northwest quarter of Section
number twenty, In Township number Six
In range ten est as made by Conrad
Baker, Administrator OF the C1tabe OF Will
liam Wood, IN his report 10 the Probate
Court of Vanderburgh County state OF
Indiana, at It's February term, 1850.
The said Lot six containing four 76-l00
acres, and fronts on the state road, from
Evansville to Princeton; and Lot eight
contains five acres. Both Of said Lots are
near the north boundary line Of Evans
vile.
Applications Of purchasers win DO re-
ceived at my law Office on Third Street.
between Main and Locust Streets, I'm the
City of Evansville, until
SATURDAY, the thirtieth (30th) day Of
October, 1869.
TERMS OF SALE: One-bhird cash, and the
residue in equal payments 40 one and two
years the purchaser giving notes viii lu
terest. without Keller from valuation OF
appraisement laws, and With approved
freehCld surety.
JESSE w. WALKER, Commissioner,
BLYTHE HYNEs. Attorney ae10LuN
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01

have had abort the most disaareeabte
/ weather experienced the present year. III
commenced raining early on Monday
Algnt and continued with ont little fnGar-
mission UP to nightfau last evening, and
Deatuea being dis greeaDie- sc out sUOu tO
Du9A nsss on the landing, there being sew
tfsti Ehchels advertised 20 leave yesterday
Whlch hAd 70 defer their departure until
to-uay. But mOtWithstandlu "a few coast
packets, one Red River packet and q So
L0uls packet managed 10 get off
The regular Tuesday United STATES Mail
packet X. - Lee Cap uiu.-J ohm Smoker.
was uuavOidabiy detained lass evening.
on account of the deck crew Jumping. We
did not learn the cause, but supuose 81 TO
be in consequence Of the wages. TO used tO
be, in by-gOne days, that q crew could be
brought together in haif an hours notice,
and not cause detention but now oar COLI
Ored American citizens OF African descent
(notWIthstanCtng good wages given them),
jump ashore from a boat just as she i8
ready TO leave, aud want a hundre4 or
two per month. We called all our river
friends attention TO this state OF affairs q
few days since. and hope that they viii
act at once 4 n this matter, aud the way 20
break up drawbacks to labor i8 for our
western bOatmen coming south 20 secure
labor there and bring 10 down here We
have already advices from Memphis
where over one hundred white laDOrers
arrived there 20 take the place OF the me-
groes, who refused to work, or ~ other
words, wanted too much recon p5nsc for
theirlabor. The same will have % be 1u-
aueurated here sooner or later and the
Sooner 10 Is done the bet ers
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01

The following described Real Estate, HIl-
uated in Vanderburgh County, state OF
Indiana, tO-WtL:
Lot number six, (6), In Su 0uivisiOu OF Lot
number one hundred and nine, 0O9). IN
the Original Plan OF the City OF EVANS
vile. This lot fronts upon Second Street,
between Main and Sycamore Streets As "a
BY Is feet, and has upon 10 a frame house.
Also, Lot number tWenty-three, OBJ, in
the Original Plan Of the cry OF Evansville.
This Lot fronts on Water Street, between
Vine and Division Streets; Is IS by 100
feet, and has upon 10 O large Hotel build
ing. kn1TV as the
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01
=. G.. MARSHALL, President.

"a GENTS WANTED.-S75 to $1,000 per
A month to sell the original aud I'M
proved COMMON SENSE FAMILY SEWING
MAcHUNE. All complete for $40. 1t will
hem, fell, stitch, bind, braid and embroi-
der in a most superior manner, making
this celebrated :" Lock Stitch" CAUTION
Do not buy Machines under the same name
rs ours from any one except those having
certificate of Agency, signed by US, as they
ss-a worthless cast-tron Machines. For cir
culars and terms, address or apply to q.
BOWERS & Co, 436 Spruce street, Phila-
delphIa, Pa.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01
COMMISSIONERS SALE
REAL EsTATE

NOTICE rs HERERK GIVEN
IN that the undersigned Commissioner
appointed by the Court Of Common Pleas,
OF Vanderburgh County, State OF Indiana,
by virtue of an order OF said court, made
al its September term, 1859, will sell 40
PRIVATE SALE
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01

90 eOO A YEAR guaranteed to Agents.
VOSOVOAddreSs ]. AHEARN, 5P. o. Ave
nue., Baltimore, Nd.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01
THE CHuRCHMAM.
Ill Fulton St., New York.
Beware of limitations. Established 1885.

a TLANTIC SEWING MACHINE
-. COMPANY. We sell our machine,
with table and treadle compete Ca nelO
naGcbfnel, for SIS. which win stitch, hem,
Tell, tuck, corus ofalo' 9udlIs ana efnDroIQer
as perfectly as any $50 machine. War
ranted for five years. Every third stitch
can be cut and viii not rip. Liberal in
ducements offered to general and local
agents. Also, a q perfect RGad Machine,
as above, for $40. Feller, tucker, and
cOrder attached to either, So. agents are
making $50 TO SIOO per day. Sample ma
chine with full instructiOns) sent to any
address COD. Address ATLANTIC SEWING
MACHINE COMPANY, No. 81 Buffalo Street,
Rochester, New YORK.
:. G.. MARSHALL, President.
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NV ER EW s
= = - - 8se Eolsr.I &c.
Wenaher I'D VRnfar


( The weather on Saturday was mode
rately cool, with the mercury at AZ at A
NJ and 6O0 at neon. Dry clouds prevailed
during the day, and rain or rise prospects
are SIS remote as ever. The river durins
the q hours ending at 3 p. n. Saturday
had fallen two'inches, but the cutting out
process is rendering the channel rather
better than worse.
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to PM
Saturday, include the Burksville, Cairo to
return Fayette, TO Henderson and return
Leonidas, Cincinnati to New Orleans; Pc
trolia No. ?, TO Cannelton; Mountain Belle,
Cincinnati.
BOATS Due Here.
Among the first boats due here are the
Clara Scott, from Cairo; Rose Hite,
from Louisville; Spray, for Mem
pills.; Kate Robinson, for st. Louis /;
Altoona, from 81. Louis; Robert Moore,
from Memphis; J. H. Groesbeclz, from New
Orleans; Rs pidan No. 2, from Eastport;
Evansville from Green River; Fanny
Brandeis and Ida Rees. from Memphis.
miscellaneous.
Business was by no means active on the
levee Saturday morning, and the arrivals
we're few........TheB urksville brought up O
fair trip, including portion of the cargo
of the Inflated Cora S..-....-The Leonidas
arrived at 10 A. n, after a pretty rough
time en- French Island Bar, in her tussle
with which she broke some of the pinions
of the capstan machinery. She ordered
new one cast by Chris. Kratz, TO be for
warded to her to-day by the q uickstep..,....-
The PetrOlIa left with moderate trip..........
The Mountain Belle got all the freight she
wanted, and had fair passenger list. .......
The Fayette had a crowd OF people up and
considerable felGht.........The little To-be-
Hurt. but by whom we don't know, was
still at the wharf Saturday, and did not
seem to be receiving much encouragement
from our merchants. Where she is bound
to or what is her mission, we did not learn
.........The Rose H1te may be positively ex-
pected this morning for Louisville ana all
way ports.-..--The Louisville and Hem
derson Mail Line Company will have a
boat here every day until the river dries
entirely up-... The Lewelllin had not ar
rived at 3 P. II. Saturday.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01

REAL ESPATE.
6OHHNSON'S


Real Estate q Patent Agency
r HAVE a VARIETY OF nUsE.
- NESS and DWELLING HOUSES,
and a large number OF BUILDING LOTS,
In almost every part OF Evansville. also, q
aumber OF Farms and several thousand
acres Of TIMBERED LANDS, an OF which
1 will sell on EASY TERMS. Ihave some
very DESIRABLE and very q III EA 4
lots, tDithf1 ten nlftAfag' lCNlk on Che Court
House. Persons wishing TO buy viii save
money by purchasing at my ONCE. Those
having property 70 sell VIII please bring
me the description and price.
4 shall soon advertise for public sale
some valuable property In the UPPER part
of the city, near the proposed track OF the
street railroad, where nice building sites
can be had on VERY REASONABLE TERMS.
have also opened an Office for SOLICIT
ING PATENTS. Persons desiring 20 OBJ
tain Patents can make application nt once
and by calling at my ONCE, on
THIRD ST, bet. Main and Locust,
EVANSVILLE, IND.
ALVAH JOHNSON,
oclS Real Estate and Patent Agent.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-01

GSOLOMON's CHILDREN'S UNDER
- CLOTHES SUPPORTER is the most
perfect article of the kind ever offered to
The public; made prettily, fits nicely, gives
ease and comfort, and is just what every
Miss wants. Mothers interested In the
comfort and health OF their daughters
should examine its merits. For sale by
MILLER, GARDNER & CO.,
Evansville, Ind.
Manufactured by ID. 3. SAUNDERS &
CO., 90 Summer street, Boston, Mass.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-04-16
Hints on Horse Feeding.

Al horses. SAYS 4 French authority,
should not receive the same amount of
food. without any consideration Of age,
constitution, etc Small fodder Is better
than hay for old horses, - it i more
easily mastica,ed and swallowed When
a horse is working hard, his main feed
should be oats. If he works but little,
hav alone will answer. For saddle or
light carriage horse. half quart of good
oats and thirteen pounds If good hay Is
sufficient. Hay should be wet with salt
water-a teaspoouiul Of salt 70 4 bucket
of water Il is not economy TO use bad
hay because i; can be purchased at low
price Oats possess more nutritious
matter for making flesh than any other
Lind of food. They should DC pounded
Tor old horses, but not tor young Moved
grasses should always be given in the
spring TO horses not kept IN pasture. \
horse should have riyer-water, rather
than well or spring water. as the latter Is
cold and hard, while the former is sweet
and comparatively warm. One bucket
morning and evening, or, what is better
q half bucket four different times during
the day, is the proper quantity. If 4
horse refuses food after drinkinghe should
l., allowed 10 rest. rs the refusal i:
ALWAYS evidence If exhaustion.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-04-16
What a Half 4cre rW DO.

4 shoemaker over in Jersey bought u
half acre lot. lie was fond of fruit and
read lbe papers. The soil was wet clay
and he selected fruit to the climate. He
built house and put his land in a condi-
ton TO produce fruit lie had no manure
but the droppings OF street cattle. In
his leisure. he brought from the woods,
bark. rotten wood, moss and leaf mould,
which he mixed with the soil three feet
deep. This was done by degrees, and As
last aS the ground was prepared he plant
"a fruit. He became so Interested and
successful that he retired from the cob
bier, bench. was his neiyhhor and
kaew him intimately. His half acre sup
ported himself and wife comfortably
almo,, in elegance. She had no servants.
and had plenty Of time 10 cultivate
flowers. Strangers eaqUjrci Hbou; their
beautiful home Isabella grapes anil
common curc1nts formed the hu'S of hiS
auit. With better selection his in
.ome would have been larger. Others
had the same success on small pieces Of
ground. One knew who supported his
family on an acre. Half was in grapes,
the crop OF which in one season, sold for
$500; and he had no bills 70 pay. II con
reutration will give success, let Us know
i; and practice it.-LDr. Peek, inthe New
York Tribune.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-04-16

The editor of the NewburypOrt Herald,
who has travelled some in this State,
writes thus of its advantages and future {:
Maine is the largest and best Of the New
England States, and equal to all others,
estimate a. We will, apart from popula-
ton and accumulated wealth. The best
soil of New England Is in Maine. I'm
less Vermont viii equal it, the AroOStook
has more good soil for cultivation than
any New England State Ii is true that
much of Maine i rough, but almost any
section will produce more grass, more
grain, and more potatoes to the acre, than
he average of this section. Then Maine
has more sea coast than all the rest, and
il is indented with bays and harbors fitting
il for commerce the interior is brought
near by IT. numerous long and navigable
rivers, and by railway it is in communi-
cation with broader interior county
For manufactures Maine has more water
power than all the rest of the States,
enough to run ali the machinery OF the
country to-day. She holds in her bosom
natural wealth. that viii some day attract
population of ten millions of people.