The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-31
Ofhcial correspondence.
Hon. Asa Packes'B Letter
of Acceptance.
News by Atlantic Cable.
FROM NEW YORK.
Pollard on the Vlrginla EIeetlop.

Pollard on the Virginia Election.
New YORK, July 30.-E. A. Pol
lard, IN letter to the San on the
Virginia election, says: Paradoxical
as 1t may appear, it is nevertheless
accurately true that an intelligent
party in the South regards the Vir-
ginia election as unfavorable TO the
interests of their cause, for the very
reason that the best men In the South
have thus been called into Office and
assumed the exercise of power. 1t
is the very respectability Of the sue
cessful candidate that is fatal blow
to the aspiration that, since the war.
has fingered In the South, preserving
something Of political school and
public sentiment distinctiyely South
ern. 1t means the disintegration
Of anything like peculiar
Southern civilization. The aban-
donment at last by the intelligence
and respectability of the South Of the
hope of rescuing anything consider
able from the runs of its old institu-
tions, and of position to the course
of reconstruction looking for a reac,
tion, or designing to let reconstruction
to the most exaggerating extremity,
hoping that it might be damned up
by the difficulties it would acoumu-
late for itself. The Virginia election
is the first instance in which the best
men of the South have come forward
to participate In reconstruction, and
it means an acceptance of the situa-
ton" In a sense much broader than
acquiesence in the demands of any
mere political party, counting all its
moral effects on the South, it is an
event in history, the date of a new
departure in the whole moral, social
and political organization of the
South.
Cabinet Meeting - Charges Against
collector Casey, or New Orleans.
The HerdlFs Washington dispatch
states that the Cabinet was in session
in Washington yesterday, the Presi
dent and all the members being pres
ent except Postmaster General Cress-
well, who is still suffering from his
broken arm. The business which had
accumulated during the Presidents
absence was disposed of. 1t is known
that the question of the iron-clad
oath in Virginia was not discussed.
Numerous charges of fraud upon
the Customs revenue have recently
been preferred against the Collector
of New Orleans. AS the Collector,
Mr.. Casey, is the Presidents brother
in law, the subject becomes some
what delicate to handle, but Secretary
Boutwell, says the charges shall be
impartiafly investigated, and Collector
Casey dealt with accordingly.
Victims OF Fire Works.
Thomas Kelly, one of the boys in
iured by the explosion of fire works,
in Printing House Square, Wednes-
day night, died yesterday. Richard
Muleahy, who was terribly burned,
lies in a critical condition at the New
York Hospital; and it is a question
whether Michael Barrett, whose eyes
were destroyed. and who received
other severe injuries, will recover.
The rest of the wounded are doing
well,
Temperance - Fire - Murder Trial.
Five delegates were appointed by
the New Jersey Temperance Alliance
yesterday, to represent the State IN
the National Temperance Convention
at Chicago, on the Ist OF SepteTber.
KashoW Il Carr's iron works IN
- 6IoGy OAi94 Was UuA ACA Aacb hA5Ae3
loss $4,000.
The trial of Policeman Matthew
Campbell, for the murder of Morris
Long, on the night Of July Sd, termi-
mated to-day in his acquittaL. Cheers
greeted the announcement.
Accidents and Grimes.
Mr.. Meyer, of this city, his wife,
and a young lady whose name could
not be aseertained. employed as gov
erness in che family, were drowned
last evening while surfing at South
ampton, L. l. Their bodies were
picked up on shore this morning.
Mrs. Caratine Hamlin and infant
were fatally burned last evening by
the explosion of a kerosene lamp.
Her husband was also badly burned
in endeavoring to save his family.
The citizens of South Orange, New
Jersey, are engaged in search for
David Bryan, negro who attempted
an outrage, Wednesday, on a five
year old daughter of Jas. Kively. He
will be hung if caught.